Press Archives
11/25/2005
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 25/11/2005
RHB, Pink, BHT, Hayat, Oslobodjenje cover page, pg 5 ‘BiH today officially starts talks with EU’, Dnevni Avaz pg 2, Dnevni List cover page, pg 3 ‘Talks to start only next year’, Nezavisne Novine cover page, pg 3 ‘BiH starts talks with EU’ - Council of Ministers Chair Adnan Terzic will be the host on Friday of official opening of negotiations on Sta [...]
11/24/2005
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 24/11/2005
BH Radio 1 - United States and European Union deem it is time for BiH to carry out the changes to the Dayton Peace Agreement in order to strengthen the central authorities. Former US Special Envoy for Balkans, Robert Gelbard, stated in an interview to Voice of America VoA that BiH needs to become more centralized state to join the EU and to become [...]
11/23/2005
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 23/11/2005
Radio 1, RS Radio - If they want to be a part of the NATO, all Balkans states must apprehend the ICTY fugitives, warned the US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice. At the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of DPA, Rice said that it is necessary to move further away from the framework that established the peace in BiH in order to ensure its future. [...]
11/22/2005
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 22/11/2005
BH Radio 1 - Leaders of eight political parties and members of the BiH Presidency on Monday evening signed the agreement confirming their readiness to carry out constitutional changes. Washington talks also concluded that the concrete changes to the BiH Constitution are to be agreed in upcoming period.
11/21/2005
Interview: Paddy Ashdown, High Representative to BiH: “A Historic Day for BiH”
The endorsement of the decision on the start of Stabilization and Association negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina , which is expected to happen today in Brussels , represents a historic day. This is a day for which many of us have been working long and hard. BiH should be proud that it has passed this road in such a short period of time. This [...]
11/21/2005
Remarks by the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown at a Conference on the Balkans and Euro-Atlantic Integration: Beyond Dayton: “At the crossroads: BiH’s journey from Dayton to Brussels”
It is no coincidence that the tenth anniversary of Dayton has been marked by a flurry of constitutional initiatives. This is not, as some of the recent media stories would have us believe, some grand new idea.
11/21/2005
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 21/11/2005
RHB, RS Radio - Official marking of the 10th anniversary starts in Washington today (Monday). Unofficial marking started on Sunday when a BiH delegation, led by Chairman of BiH Presidency, Ivo Miro Jovic, and Presidency members Borislav Paravac and Sulejman Tihic, met with US Institute for Peace and US and western diplomats engaged in the Balkans r [...]
11/21/2005
Interview: Paddy Ashdown, the High Representative for BiH:“Politicians would sign a statement, not constitutional changes!”
High Representative Paddy Ashdown confirmed exclusively for “Večernji” that BiH politicians gathered in Washington would be offered to sign a “statement” committing themselves to implementation of constitutional reforms. “Večernji” wrote about this several times, but there was no official confirmation of that.
11/21/2005
Article by Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for BiH: “10 years after Dayton II: Lessons for fixing failed states”
How do you prevent failed states from becoming launch pads for terrorism? How do you turn them into functioning democracies? How do you intervene effectively to serve the citizens of those states and the citizens of the global community? A decade of peace implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following the U.S.-brokered agreement signed at Dayt [...]
11/20/2005
Interview: Paddy Ashdown, the High Representative in BiH: “BiH cannot be pressured into a new constitution”
I believe that the Dayton agreement was an extraordinary agreement. Today BiH is acknowledged as the most successful large-scale peace mission in the world. This is how Paddy Ashdown, the High Representative in BiH, evaluates the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ten years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.