News Headlines
- Dodik inaugurates road near Bijeljina
- Serbian Bishop Jevrem serves mass in Banja Luka Church Svete Trojice (Holy Trinity)
- Serbian Patriarch Pavle serves liturgy in Zemun Monastery, Belgrade
- New BiH Ambassador to US Davidovic presents credentials to US President Bill Clinton
- Petritsch says that IC has already had successes in BiH refugee return
- DPS President Radic negates he linked Suzic car-bombing with situation in SPRS
- BiH Federation Defense Minister Prce assesses that, if NATO took over BiH defense umbrella, entity armies might altogether disappear
- Stability Pact for Southeast Europe and Aspen Institute Joint Conference held in Venice
- Djukanovic assesses that Belgrade authorities might be responsible for attack on Draskovic
- Belgrade and Kragujevac Mayors visit Draskovic in Budva, Montenegro
- ICTY Chief Prosecutor Del Ponte to visit Montenegro next week
- British KFOR detonates car in Pristina after anonymous tip there could be bomb planted in it
- Serbian Bishop Artemije says that Serb National Council of Kosovo will consider its participation in joint civilian institutions of authority in Kosovo
- British KFOR Commander in Kosovo says that EU is too late with its Kosovo aid
- World news
- Radical Party of RS (RS RS) Main Board confirms dismissals of General Secretary Zmijanac and Vice-president Deretic
- World Bank credits for BiH Energy System Reconstruction amount to $225 million
- On 9 December 1999, the RS Interior Ministry accepted obligation to reduce number of police officers; Interior Minister Sredoje Novic claims this obligation has been fulfilled while UN spokesman Roberts says this is not so
- Culture and Folklore Society (KUD) Mladost from Pale wins 23rd Congress of Original Serb Creations (Sabor Srpskog Izvornog Stvaralastva) in Teslic
- Sports and weather
- KFOR spokesperson Slayten says that hidden arms cache in Klecka village to be demilitarized
- Kosovo Protection Corps Commander Agim Tceku negates KFOR claim that hidden weapons in Klecka belong to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
(This excerpt is taken from the daily report of the IMC-led Joint Media Monitoring Group (JMMG)).