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epresentatives, economic sanctions and the capacity to restrict or defer any<br />

media set-up which contradicts with the Dayton agreement. 10<br />

Later, at the Bonn meeting of the PIC the High Representative’s powers<br />

further extended. The High Representative was empowered to choose the time,<br />

place and chair of vital meetings; to pass provisional procedures when the<br />

Bosnian representatives fail; and to take measures against any non-compliant<br />

elected or appointed official. 11 At present, executive and legislative powers lies in<br />

the hand of OHR who has the power to directly impose legislation, to veto political<br />

candidates, and remove obstructionist officials or dismiss uncooperative elected<br />

members of Bosnian governing bodies.<br />

Moreover, the mandates of leading international organizations have been<br />

either regularly extended as it was the case with SFOR, or redefined after a period of<br />

extension as it is with OSCE’s mandate. Election managing role of the OSCE was<br />

regularly extended from 1996 to 2002; later its task was shifted to the educational<br />

reforms. In addition to the regular extension of mandates, institutions or their<br />

mandates have been replaced by another as the European Police Mission (EUPM)<br />

took over the International Police Task Force (IPTF). In case of the UN Mission in<br />

BiH (UNMBH), it transferred the responsibility to the UN Development Program<br />

(UNDP) after its mandate was over. Recently, SFOR is replaced with European<br />

Force (EUFOR).<br />

The extension of mandates, replacements and creation of new mandates for<br />

the major international organizations have been justified with the assertion to<br />

stimulate and solidify the peace building process. As a consequence since the signing<br />

of Dayton Accords in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina has become the most advanced<br />

international experiment of peace building.<br />

10 ‘PIC Communique: Political Declaration from Ministerial Meeting of the Steering Board of the<br />

Peace Implementation Council’, Sintra, 30 May, http://www.ohr.int/docu/d970530a.htm. Cited in<br />

David Chandler, Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayton, p. 54.<br />

11 ‘Bonn PIC Decleration’, 10 December 1997, Article XI, para 2. Cited in David Chandler, Bosnia:<br />

Faking Democracy After Dayton, p. 54.<br />

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