Law on the RTV Service

OHR welcomes the adoption of the Law on the RTV Service by the BiH House of
Representatives. The EC has made it clear that the adoption of the legislation
on public broadcasting is a requirement for Stabilization and Association
Agreement. The law in its current form will create one common system made up of
three multiethnic services, broadcasting in all three languages.

Transfer of Hague cases

The High Representative welcomes the Decision of the Referral Bench
of ICTY  to transfer the case of Radovan Stankovic to the  BiH
Court War Crimes Chamber . Mr Stankovic  stands accused
 for crimes committed against the citizens of Foca in 1992. 

This is a significant achievement.

Bosnia and
Herzegovina

is the first country in the region
to meet  the  international standards  necessary to
try people indicted by the ICTY in the territory where those crimes were
committed. It shows that the ICTY has confidence that BiH’s judiciary is
able to try the most serious and notorious crimes within its own
institutions.  

It means that BiH can now be a full partner with the ICTY in trying Hague
indictees under entirely domestic auspices. In doing so, BiH is taking
on its international obligations as required by the UN Security
Council.