Russia suspends its Participation in OHR Funding

In July 2021, the Russian Federation announced that it would no longer participate in meetings of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board, and in February 2022 it informed the Office of the High Representative (OHR) to suspend its participation in OHR funding, OHR Senior Adviser on Foreign and Media Relations Ljiljana Radetic stated.

“The money for financing the OHR is provided by the member states of the Peace Implementation Council according to a certain ratio. The budget year of the OHR lasts from July 1 this year, until June 30 next year,” she explained to Fena.

OHR budget for 2021/2022. year is 5,327,627 euros.

An overview of the contributions of individual countries to the OHR budget is as follows: European Union 47.68 percent, United States 22 percent, Japan 10 percent, United Kingdom 6.69 percent, Canada 3.03 percent, Organization of the Islamic Conference 2.5 percent, Russia 1.2 percent , the other 6.9 percent, according to the OHR website.