High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
NATO Should Replace OHR as Guarantor of Bosnia’s Stability
Bosnians, at home and among the diaspora communities in the US, Europe, and Australia, are in fact affecting change outside the political process by investing in the country's grassroots economic, cultural, civil society, and educational development. These commendable efforts will take time to develop and mature.
Mayor’s Life Offers Cautionary Tale of Bosnia’s Lost Hopes
At that time, state building reached its apogee and a thousand flowers were blooming with ideas about constitutional reform. It was not then nearly as politically radioactive a concept as it later became.
Divided World Powers Meet to Support Unified Bosnia
Representatives of some 50 world powers, including the US, Russia, EU and most EU member countries, convene in Sarajevo on Tuesday and Wednesday for a regular biannual meeting of the Peace Implementation Council, PIC, the ad hoc body overseeing the work of Bosnia and Herzegovina's once-powerful international administrator, the Office of the High Representative, OHR.
"High representative should have left Bosnia years ago"
The high representative should have left Bosnia-Herzegovina a long time ago, says the current chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mladen Ivanic.
Ivanic, who represents Serb in the tripartite body, also told Tanjug in an interview that the Office of the High Representative (OHR) is staffed by people "who have no other alternative."
Russia Repeats Call for Closure of Bosnia's OHR
Twenty years after Bosnian war ended, calls are again being heard for the closure of the Office of the High Representative, OHR, the international authority in charge of implementing aspects of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement.
In an official statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry recently demanded the closure of the Office.
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Sarajevo Protestors Keep Up Anti-Poverty Pressure
About 30 anti-poverty protestors gathered outside the Office of the High Representative, OHR, in Sarajevo on Monday to call on Valentin Inzko, who currently holds the post, to act.
The Council of BiH Citizens - a group that has hedl regular protests outside the Presidency since larger-scale demonstrations in February – displayed banners in English and Bosnian.
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