09/04/2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 4 Septembe 2000

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News Headlines:

  • RS Minister Jovo Basic buried in Banja Luka, commemoration held at Banski Dvor
  • New school year begins in RS
  • Director of RS Buffer Stock Agency Mirko Nozica says Serbian police did not allow him to cross into Serbia without stating reason for his visit
  • Radisic calls on Petritsch to withdraw decision annulling restitution laws
  • BiH Minister for Civil Affairs and Communication Gligoric meets with Swedish Ambassador to BiH Nils Eliasson
  • PDP RS tells press conference in Banja Luka that if incumbent officials remain in power in RS, two political blocs will again engage in conflict – PDP RS President Mladen Ivanic
  • RS Ministry for Refugees and Displaced Persons reopens Janja office
  • Public Broadcasting Service should be structured in accordance with principle of three channels for three nations – Jelavic adviser Tihomir Begic
  • Ivan Bacak confirms resignation from post of Federation Deputy Interior Minister in protest over last week’s arrest of Croat indicted war criminal Dominik Ilijasevic
  • Patriarch Pavle appeals to all political subjects in Serbia and Montenegro to do everything to prevent war in Montenegro
  • EU foreign ministers decide to maintain Yugoslavia sanctions until 24 September (election day in Yugoslavia); they say, if opposition wins elections they will reexamine possibility of lifting sanctions against Yugoslavia
  • Five presidential candidates officially registered for Yugoslav elections are Milosevic (SPS-JUL-SNP), Vojislav Kostunica (DOS), Vojislav Mihailovic (SPO), Tomislav Nikolic (SRS), and Miodrag Vidojkovic (Group of Citizens)
  • ‘Revival of Serbia Party’ supports DOS and its presidential candidate Vojislav Kostunica – Revival of Serbia President Predrag Drecun
  • Kostunica comments on pre-election situation in Serbia and impact of ICTY indictment against Milosevic on Serbian opposition
  • Serbian police confiscate OTPOR election material and equipment in Belgrade
  • Stambolic attorney Nikola Barovic says he has no information of possible kidnapping of his client
  • UNMIK will not prevent holding of Yugoslav elections in Kosovo – Kouchner
  • Escape of Serb convicts from Kosovska Mitrovica prison damages IC reputation in Kosovo – UNMIK spokesperson Susan Manuel
  • Five escapees from Kosovska Mitrovica prison are hiding in Serbia – Kosovska Mitrovica Serb National Council President Oliver Ivanovic
  • Kosovo Albanians dynamite 14th-Century Serb Orthodox church in Mustikovo village near Prizren
  • ICRC calls for moratorium on global use of cluster bombs
  • Izetbegovic to lead BiH delegation to UN Millennium Summit in New York
  • World news
  • Banja Luka Clinical Center workers announce general strike for 11 September in protest against poor economic situation
  • Workers of Energoinvest Division Company for Air-conditioning Equipment announced general strike for 11 September
  • RS Privatization Agency accepts registration of three new investment funds: InvestNova, BLBFondAD, and Kristal Invest AD BL
  • Kristal Invest AD BL holds press conference in Banja Luka to invite citizens to invest vouchers
  • New telephone area codes in use in both entities in BiH
  • Pre-payment system for RS Mobile Telecom Company starts on 4 September
  • Sports and weather