23.11.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 23 November 2000

RT RS News Headlines:

  • Election results for RS National Assembly announced by OSCE: SDS – 31 seats, PDP -12, SNSD – 11, SDA – 5, SPRS – 4, DSP – 4, SDP BiH – 4, Party for BiH – 4, DNS – 3, SNS – 2, DS RS – 1, NHI – 1, RS Pensioners Party – 1; BiH House of Representatives (members from RS): SDS – 6 seats, PDP – 2, SNSD/DSP – 1, SPRS – 1, SNS – 1
  • PDP President Mladen Ivanic, SNSD Main Board member Krstan Simic, SNS Vice President Lolic, DSP Secretary General Igor Radojicic and Petar Djokic congratulate Sarovic on presidential election victory
  • SDS senior officials Kalinic, Sarovic and Cavic meet with Russian parliamentarian Genadij Ivakovic in Moscow to discuss economic and political situation in RS and BiH, and implementation of Dayton Agreement
  • SDS Presidency dissolves SDS Srebrenica Board and expels three officials from party
  • Petritsch expects newly elected BiH officials to turn to future – OHR spokesperson Oleg Milisic
  • BiH Council of Ministers and Belgian Government sign agreement on KM 5 million credit for reconstruction of industry, economy and infrastructure in BiH – BiH Minister of Foreign Trade Mirsad Kurtovic
  • Zagreb Summit is new chance for region, BiH must catch up with democratisation processes in Croatia and Yugoslavia – OHR spokesperson Oleg Milisic
  • Zagreb Summit will be important step for regional stabilization – EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten
  • Croatian President Stjepan Mesic confirms Kostunica and Djukanovic arrival at Zagreb Summit
  • Protests will be allowed in Zagreb on Friday, but not in front of building hosting Zagreb Summit – Zagreb police following announcement of protests against Kostunica arrival
  • Pensioners hold protest rally and block main road in Banja Luka criticizing Law on Pension and Disability Insurance proclaimed by Petritsch
  • RS healthcare workers striking board announces resumption of strike on 27 November
  • RS Education Ministry criticizes announced strike of RS education workers organized by RS Branch Education Syndicate
  • Deputy High Representative Ralph Johnston visits exhumation site at Sarajevo cemetery Lav, says OHR will continue to work on tracing mass graves in BiH
  • Radisic office strongly protests against mistaken and biased reporting of certain media on Radisic press conference on Dayton conference, in particular daily Nezavisne Novine, which did not cover conference at all, and RTRS, ATV and OBN, which only used three sentences of Radisic’s speech on Dayton anniversary conference
  • UN Security Council condemns attacks on Serbian police officers in Bujanovac and bomb attack in Pristina
  • Ibrahim Rugova’s adviser Djemalj Mustafa killed in front of his house in Pristina, no further details given
  • KFOR arrests ten Kosovo Albanians who attempted to cross from Serbian to Kosovo, confiscates truckload of illegal weapons
  • Council of Europe condemns attacks on Serbs in Kosovo and Bujanovac
  • US condemns bomb attack in Pristina and murder of four Serbian police officers
  • NATO is determined to guarantee security for all in Kosovo – NATO Secretary-General George Robertson
  • Kostunica visits Yugoslav Third Army near Pirot, Serbia
  • UNESCO delegation visits Belgrade; Yugoslavia to become UNESCO member
  • Popular movement Otpor announces start of campaign for early Serbian parliamentary elections and its campaign against JUL, SRS and SPS
  • SPS to hold party convention in Belgrade on 25 November; convention will be closed to media
  • Croatian Supreme Court acquits 13 Serbs from Baranja charged with committing war crimes in Croatia
  • World news
  • RS Deputy Prime Minister Ostoja Kremenovic meets with eastern Herzegovina municipal officials to discuss implementation of Law on Local Self-administration
  • Radisic congratulates winners of gold medals at Brussels Eureka 2000 Fair
  • RS Government officials and agricultural coop ‘Mladen Stojanovic’ meet to discuss government aid to this coop
  • Fourth International Presentation of Economy held in Teslic for 500 businessmen from former Yugoslavia, Ukraine and Austria
  • World Conference on Religion for Peace and German foundation Friedrich Nauman organize roundtable ‘Advantages and Faults of Catechism in Education’ in Banja Luka on Thursday
  • Sports and weather
  • Report on owls in Banja Luka trees