Дневни медијски извјештаји

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has once again called on the BiH politicians and citizens to support the economic and judicial reforms from the agreement signed by the representatives of the current BiH authorities and the PIC Steering Board members more than two months ago. ON Monday, OHR for the first time published the text of the agreem [...]

“The international community will not forge election results given that we are not controlling the election process, and even if we control it, we would not do something like that. And even if the international community would have wanted at some point to interfere in the election process, which I believe might not happen in these elections, [...]

BiH Minister of Foreign Affairs Zlatko Lagumdzija and EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana on Thursday stressed the importance of the October 5 elections in BiH and BiH’s integration in the European institutions. Lagumdzija, Solana and High Representative Paddy Ashdown met to discuss implementation of re [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, visited on Wednesday Bosanski Brod and Prijedor and hosted a live broadcast at the Radio Prijedor, where he responded to numerous questions of ordinary citizens inquiring mostly about the implementation of property laws. During his stay, Ashdown also visited the editor in chief of Kozarski vjesnik, Zoran Sovi [...]

Following a two-day session of the PIC Steering Board in Sarajevo, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, announced that, immediately following the October 5 elections, he will present a set of measures aimed at purging politics of crime and criminals. “Our aim is to turn BiH into a most attractive space in the region for foreign investors [...]

BHTV 1 reported that the Federation Ministry of Justice has not yet officially been informed about the details of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly's commission in connection with the situation in the Zenica prison, and the alleged abuse and forceful conversation of Croat inmates. The Federation Justice Minister, Zvonko Mijan, did not want to comment [...]

The People's Forum of Srebrenica sent on Sunday an open letter to the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, urging him to grant returnee status to Serbs in Srebrenica. “The forum wants to know why the Serbs have not been granted the status when they returned to Srebrenica after the 1995 events and after spending three years as refugees. The Sre [...]

BiH has pretty much met the conditions from the EU Road Maps. Parallel to the reforms which must continue, the European Commission will propose to the Council of Europe a timely drafting of a feasibility study on the opening of talks on the Stabilization and Association Agreement. This can begin after 5 October, once a new Council of Ministers has [...]

BiH and international legal experts concluded at Wednesday’s round table in Sarajevo that immunity in BiH is a wide concept in terms of the persons it concerns and the acts for which the persons in question invoke immunity. In his opening remarks, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said that “the politics must be an area which ther [...]

Oslobodjenje (front page story) learns that, during a common dinner in the framework of the European Economic Forum in Salzburg two days ago, an unusual and one would say an incident discussion developed between the BiH Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Djindjic reiterated his thesis about “an unst [...]