21.11.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 21 November 2000

RT RS News Headlines:

  • OSCE publishes final preliminary results of BiH general election; in RS presidential race, SDS candidates have 49.8%, SNSD 25.8% and PDP 8.6%; candidates go to preferential run off;
  • In election race for RS National Assembly, SDS has 36%, SNSD 13%, PDP 12.2%, SDA 7.6%, Party for BiH 5.2%, SDP BiH 5.1%, SPRS 4.9%, DSP 4.2%, DNS 3.5%, SNS 2.3% and RS Pensioners Party 1.3%;
  • In election race for BiH House of Representatives (from RS), SDS has 39.5%, PDP 15.3% and SNSD-DSP Coalition 10.7%;
  • In election race for Srebrenica Municipal Assembly, SDA has 41.7%, SDS 20.1%, Party for BiH 9.1% and SNSD 6%;
  • In election race for BiH House of Representatives (from BiH Federation), SDP BiH 27.3%, SDA 27.1%, HDZ BiH 19.3% and Party for BiH 15.6%;
  • In election race for BiH Federation Parliament, SDA has 26.8% of the vote, SDP BiH 26.1%, HDZ BiH 17.5% and Party for BiH 14.9% – OSCE
  • No nationalist party is absolute winner of elections and therefore cannot establish authority alone – Zivko Radisic
  • Radisic and RS legal expert Petar Kunic hold press conference on Dayton anniversary conference; Radisic says fifth anniversary conference to be stimulation for implementation of Dayton Agreement; Kunic says NATO officials did not insist on joint BiH army during Dayton anniversary conference
  • PDP President Mladen Ivanic and Radisic’s Special Envoy to Dayton Conference Miroslav Mikes hold press conference in Banja Luka; they comment on Dayton anniversary conference; Ivanic says conference was gathering of economic and legal experts
  • OHR press conference in Sarajevo; spokesperson Stiglmayer says 21 November 2000 is fifth anniversary Dayton Agreement
  • Radisic meets with OHR Political Department Head Michael Gallagher and OHR Banja Luka Office Head Peter Hancock to discuss election results and implementation of Dayton Agreement
  • Dodik meets with French ambassador to BiH Bernard Beaujolais to discuss current situation in RS and BiH
  • Bernard Beaujolais meets with senior SDS leaders Goran Popovic and Dragan Cavic
  • BiH common institutions Treasury Minister Spasoje Tusevljak congratulates RS police on its patron-saint’s day, the Archangel St. Mihailo
  • RS Interior Ministry and RS police celebrate police’s patron-saint’s day, Archangel St. Mihailo
  • Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic participates in session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Berlin
  • German Chancellor Schroeder and NATO Secretary-General George Robertson congratulate Yugoslavia on process of democratisation
  • Yugoslav and Croatian Commissions for Missing Persons hold meeting in Belgrade on Tuesday
  • SPS Main Board nominates Slobodan Milosevic for SPS president; SPS Election Convention to be held on 25 November
  • Milosevic must go to prison because he conducted wars, transferred funds from Yugoslavia to private bank accounts around the world, committed election fraud and is responsible for disappearance and replacement of many people – DOS officials Zoran Djindjic
  • Vojislav Kostunica has agreed to be first candidate on DOS election list for early Serbian parliamentary election – DOS official Dragoljub Micunovic
  • One Kosovo Albanian injured and one killed in conflict between two Kosovo Albanians in Perane, Kosovo
  • World news
  • RS Institute for Urban Planning awarded gold medal at Brussels Eureka 2000
  • Results announced by OSCE for RS presidential election come as unpleasant result for SDS – SDS press release
  • SNS press conference in Banja Luka; Dayton Peace Agreement cannot be changed and must be implemented consistently – SNS spokesperson Mira Lolic-Mocevic
  • Citing OSCE election results, SDA declares its election victory; SDA Vice President Sulejman Tihic says SDA has largest number of ballots in BiH Federation Parliament House of Representatives and is strongest non-Serb party in RS National Assembly
  • HDZ Presidency assesses that decision of EASC on removal of 13 HDZ mandates contravenes all international laws
  • Radical forces in BiH have not fallen yet but knelt – SDP BiH President Zlatko Lagumdzija comments on November election results
  • RS Ombudsman Office to officially begin working on 30 November
  • Refugee and displaced children celebrate fifth anniversary of Dayton Agreement in Srebrenica – Children’s Embassy, OHR and UN co-organise this gathering
  • Serb Orthodox Church celebrates St. Archangel Mihailo on 21 November, patron saint of all RS police officers