Finalisation of the Brcko District arbitration

"The mother of all difficulties" becomes "the mother of all hope", Robert Farrand the special superviser of Brcko stated during the launching ceremony of the Brcko District on 8 March.

The strategically situated district of Brcko, which has been contested by all parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the end of the war, has now become a special multi-ethnic district after a long process of independent arbitration and implementation. The district is not under the authority of either of the Entities - Republica Srpska and the Federation- but has an independent status within Bosnia and Herzegovina with its own autonomous, multiethnic elected government, executive board, judiciary and police force. It has also been successfully de-militarised.