News Headlines
- Dodik concludes visit to Moscow
- Ivanov satisfied with Dayton Agreement implementation – Dodik
- Agreement on employing people from RS in Russia to be agreed in near future – Dodik
- BiH Parliamentary Assembly adopts agenda
- BiH Presidency to discuss inaugural session of Stability Pact on 6 October
- Radisic meets with Una-Sana Canton parliamentary delegation
- SRS must re-register for elections – OHR
- Sloga-SDS talks on presidential function intensify – SNS Vice-president Stanic
- Extraordinary elections in RS would solve crisis – SNSD
- Annan to visit BiH on 11 October – UN
- KFOR removes barricades from Bresje near Kosovo Polje
- KFOR removed barricades from Kosovo Polje because it blocked main Kosovo route – Jackson
- KFOR arrests 27 Serbs based on anonymous information – Kosovska Mitrovica Serb National Council
- Necessary to establish dialogue with Serbs in Kosovo – French KFOR
- Dienstbier visits refugee camp in Mataruska Banja
- 65,000 Serbian citizens protest demanding changes and resignation of Milosevic
- Montenegro will wait for response from Serbia on platform for redefinition of relations – Djukanovic
- Montenegro will have its own currency if Yugoslav Dinar devaluates – Montenegrin Government President Vujanovic
- Special regulation for vehicles conducted at Montenegrin border crossing
- KM 1 = 14 Yugoslav Dinars – RS Government
- RS and BiH Pensioners and Mostar Pensioners discuss status and rights of
- Jelavic and Tudjman discuss return of national identity to Croats in BiH – ONASA
- BiH Federation House of Representatives adopts law on DPs and returnees to BiH
- Investigation against former Sanski Most Mayor Alagic in progress – BiH Federation press
- Violation of human rights in Sanski Most frequent – Helsinki Board
- HDZ Livno accepts resignations of HDZ Board members
- Zenica Metal Factory workers on hold
- IMC grants experimental broadcast license to BiH Federation RTV
- High Representative to sanction Zepce and Maglaj due to violation of housing law – Ferguson
- Deadline for applications for housing rights in BiH Federation expired 4 October – Ferguson
- Sakic case
- World News
- Serbia and Montenegro must be included in European courses – Pravoslavlje Press
- Construction of Church of Christ the Savior to be continued in Banja Luka
- Tesla Fest 99 – exhibition of innovators to be held in Novi Sad 12-16 October
- 5 October, World Children’s Day marked in Banja Luka
- Sports
- Clinton proposes US State Department allow emigration of 27,000 citizens from former Yugoslavia to US
- Albanians kill one Serb and injure 17 in south Kosovska Mitrovica – BETA
- US creates bases in Kosovo worth tens millions of US Dollars – Washington Post
- Weather
News Summary
SRS must re-register for elections – OHR
The OHR has ordered the SRS to re-register and apply for the next municipal elections with a court in the RS, but the list must exclude Nikola Poplasen, Mirko Blagojevic and Ognjen Tadic as members of the party. OSCE Head of Mission Robert Barry and Deputy High Representative Ralph Johnson have instructed the SRS on how to provide new documentation to the PEC before 22 October. The three SRS officials have been excluded due to obstruction of implementation of the last election results, the Dayton Agreement and use of inflammatory language.
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IMC grants experimental broadcast license to BiH Federation RTV
On the basis of the decision dated 1 October, the IMC has permitted the temporary experimental broadcast of BiH Federation RTV on the previous second channel of RTV BiH, states the IMC announcement.
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Sakic case
Croatian Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic and Simon Wiesenthal Center representative Efraim Zurof discussed the sentence against the former Jasenovac concentration camp commander Dinko Sakic. Zurof expressed satisfaction with the manner in which the Croatian Judiciary tried Sakic. They also discussed the potential continuation of the trial against Nada Sakic and Mirko Eterovic. Separovic said that the Croatian Judiciary would decide on these cases. HDZ spokesperson Ivica Ropus stated that the party has no official position on the sentence because the HDZ never intervened in the work of the judiciary. After the sentence was pronounced, a former Ustasha movement member physically attacked President of the Citizens’ Board for Human Rights, Zoran Pusic, reports SRNA. Pusic stated that the atmosphere during the pronunciation of the sentence was worrying because the people hailed the Nazi salute and shouted chauvinist slogans. As the Guardian commented, despite the trial, the Croatian Government still has an unclear relation towards its Nazi period. The Independent writes that crimes committed in Jasenovac shocked even SS soldiers. The German Frankfurter Rundschau writes that Croatia has missed a chance to settle accounts with its fascist past.
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