TV news broadcast on
| RADIO HERCEG-BOSNA (18,00 hrs) | TV PINK (18,00 hrs) | BHT 1 (19,00 hrs) |
| | BiH HoR passed police agreement | Jovic addresses Croatian Summit |
| Jovic on 3rd entity | Jovic on reforms in BiH | BIH HoR on police reform |
| Bird flu prevention | Ivanic on | OHR/UK Embassy on Airport’s name |
| BIH HoR session | OHR on renaming of Airport | 442 exhumed from Liplje gravesite |
| NTV Hayat (19,00 hrs) | FTV (19,30 hrs) | RTRS (19,30 hrs) |
| HR banned renaming of Airport | BIH HoR on police reform | HR suspends renaming of airport |
| BiH HoR passed police agreement | Jovic addresses Croatian Summit | RS politicians on renaming airport |
| On Terzic’s visit to Refinery | Energopetrol recovery update | BIH HoR session |
| FBiH Government on “Energopetrol” | Underground garage affair update | Cavic on police reform agreement |
| Oslobodjenje | Dragan Covic: We do not need in BiH small states based on ethnic principle |
| Dnevni Avaz | Ashdown: I have not changed opinion about Izetbegovic |
| Dnevni List | Abolish double citizenship, prevent running away of criminals |
| Vecernji List | Before he died Tito wanted to see priest |
| Nezavisne Novine | Fake blank forms of all BiH institutions found |
On renaming of | |
| HR suspends decision on renaming
| BHT 1, Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Dnevni Avaz cover pg splash ‘Ashdown: I have not changed opinion about Izetebegovic’ and pg 2 ‘It is too early to name airport after Izetbegovic’ by S. Numanovic, Oslobodjenje pg 3, mentioned on cover ‘Ashdown annulled decision on renaming of airport’ by A.O., Nezavisne Novine pg 5, mentioned on cover ‘Airport cannot be named after Alija Izetbegovic’ by S. Gojkovic, Dnevni List pg 5, mentioned on cover; Decision on renaming suspended’ not signed – The High Representative Paddy Ashdown today announced a Decision to suspend the decision renaming Sarajevo International Airport. At the same time, he sharply condemned as “offensive” a letter released by Presidency Member Borislav Paravac today to the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the EU Javier Solana. Following the Decision, the HR made the statement, which, among the other things said: ‘It is one of the most difficult Decisions I have taken in my time here, for as everyone knows, and as I said at his funeral in October 2003, I have great respect for Alija Izetbegovic, whom I regarded as a friend and whom I acknowledged as the father of his people and recognized as a brave and resourceful leader of his country… In the next ten days I will be announcing a new procedure to ensure that all of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international airports can only be renamed in a transparent manner, with genuine consultation and with the approval of a competent BiH institution at state level that includes representatives from all constituent peoples across Bosnia and Herzegovina.’ |
| Hayat: HR explaining his decision on
| Hayat By Lejla Hadzifejzovic – High Representative Paddy Ashdown was the guest of the Hayat Central News regarding his decision to ban renaming of the |
| OHR’s statement on
| Pink, BHT 1, FTV, Vecernji List pg 3 ‘OHR does not allow to name airport after Izetbegovic’ mentioned on cover ‘Diplomats against airport Alija Izetbegovic’ by D. Jazvic carries the OHR statement given on the Sarajevo airport issue before the HR Paddy Ashdown passed the decision on this issue. Reports carry OHR spokesperson Mario Brkic as saying that the OHR does not consider wise the plans to rename the |
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| Tihic on
| BHT 1, FTV, Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘Obviously there are double standards’ not signed, carry a reaction of Bosniak member of the BiH Presidency Sulejman Tihic to the HR’s decision to suspend renaming of Sarajevo airport after Alija Izetbegovic. Tihic says that he is surprised by such stand of the International Community representatives, first of all, since they have not reacted with regard to the names of streets, squares and institutions named after war criminals and chetnik Commanders. Tihic added that, obviously, ‘there are double standards, ones for Bosniaks Moslems and other for all the others’. BHT 1 also carries that Seada Palavric, delegate at the BiH HoR agreed with the statement issued by Tihic. She added that this decision was approved and adopted by all three peoples in BiH, disagreeing that renaming of the airport wouldn’t have contributed to the process of reconciliation. Krstan Simic, deputy Chairman of SNSD, welcomed the HR’s decision adding that SNSD expected this kind of reaction. He stated that Alija Izetbegovic was a controversial person adding that he was on the ICTY list as a war crime indictee and two of his closest generals, charged with ordering and committing war crimes have been processed before the ICTY. He agreed that monuments to cetniks and fascists should be removed. |
| Serb politicians’ letter opposing renaming of
| Pink, RTRS, Dnevni Avaz pg 3 ‘Provocative message to Serb people’ not signed, Oslobodjenje pg 3 ‘Name of Alija Izetbegovic inappropriate for airport and Square of Liberty’ not signed, Nezavisne Novine pg 5, mentioned on cover ‘Airport cannot be named after Alija Izetbegovic’ by S. Gojkovic, Dnevni List pg 5 ‘Sarajevo is sending provocative message’ not signedcarry a letter issued by Serb politicians (Borislav Paravac, Dragan Cavic, Pero Bukejlovic, Dusan Stojicic, Nikola Spiric, Mladen Ivanic, Milorad Dodik, Milanko Mihajlica etc.) in which they condemned the decision to rename the Sarajevo airport after Alija Izetbegovic. They qualified this decision as a very impudent and provocative message to the Serb people ‘coming from the BiH capital which should be a symbol of tolerance and mutual respect of all 3 peoples’. Reports also carry that Paravac sent a letter on the same issue to High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the EU Javier Solana and Head of the EC delegation in BiH Michael Humphreys. |
| Milojevic and Spiric on attempts to rename
| Nezavisne Novine pg 5, mentioned on cover ‘Airport cannot be named after Alija Izetbegovic’ by S. Gojkovic carries Deputy Chairman of the BiH House of Peoples Goran Milojevic strongly opposing an attempt to name the Sarajevo airport after Alija Izetbegovic. Chairman of the BiH HoR Nikola Spiric believes that this is an open provocation that one should respond to in the same manner. He added: ‘According to this logic we should name streets and squares after Radovan Karadzic and Mate Boban.’ |
| Orthodox Church to lodge appeal before BiH CC opposing renaming of Square of Liberation after A. Izetbegovic | Dnevni List pg 5 ‘Orthodox Church to sue Canton’ by E. Mackic carries that the decision to rename Square of Liberation in Sarajevo after Alija Izetbegovic will end up before the Constitutional Court since the Serb Orthodox Church is going to file an appeal before this court and in this way they would oppose the Sarajevo Canton Assembly. They beleve that such decision was passed on purpose since the Orthodox Church is Sarajevo is placed on this location. |
Police reform/Constitutional changes/Other political issues | |
| BiH HoR adopted police reform agreement
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| Cavic, Palavric and Simic on police reform
| RTRS – RS President Dragan Cavic stated that agreement on police reform was a critical and difficult step towards the EU. He also stated that the agreement was the only possible compromise at the moment and added that other suggestions would have been impossible to accept by all negotiating sides. Cavic also stated that BHT 1 – Seada Palavric, delegate in the BiH HoR stated that the adopted agreement on police reform is not consistent adding that at the moment the issue of Inter-Entity Boundary Lines (IEBL) is more important. She said that fighting the crime should not end before the boundary line and that a body of 18 Ministries of Interior, that are not cooperating, presents inadequacy to fight the crime. BHT 1 – Krstan Simic, deputy Chairman of SNSD, stated that BiH has made a big step forward by adopting the police reform agreement that endorses 3 EC principles. Simic added that it is too early to anticipate the process and outcome of the implementation of the police reform agreement. Simic evaluated that the entire story relating to the police reform has been politically manipulated adding that the issue of IEBL is less relevant when it comes to the establishing uncorrupted and professional police. |
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| Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘They expect de-blockade of account’ by V.P. – At its session held on Friday the |
| Interview with HR/HR on measures taken against
| Oslobodjenje pg 28 of its Saturday’s addition ‘NATO helicopters are not angels of justice to land down and arrest Karadzic’ by A. Omeragic carries an interview with HR Paddy Ashdown. Asked to comment on the measures taken against |
| OHR: Unified police in BiH in 5 years’
| Nezavisne Novine pg 2 ‘Unified police in BiH in 5 years’ by Srna carries OHR spokesperson Mario Brkic as saying that in 5 years BiH will have a unified and integrated police structure under competence of the Security Ministry and there will be no Ministries at lower levels. He added that Cantonal and entity Ministries of Interior will have the same destiny in the police reform. |
| HNC MoI on Mostar mtg of police officials/EUPM: We were not invited at meeting
| Dnevni Avaz pg 10 ‘EUPM representatives were not invited at meeting’ by E.S. carries a reaction of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Ministry of Interior against the article published in DA under headline ‘Matijasevic and Andan undermine FBiH MoI’ regarding the police officials meeting held in Mostar a few days ago. The reaction says that the only motive of the meeting was the current security situation in the areas where these police units are acting and efficient struggle against the crime. The press release also says that EUPM representatives attended the meeting. Commenting on this statement EUPM spokesperson Zinaida Ilarija stated that EUPM was not invited at the meeting and it was not informed that the meeting would take place, however, since EUPM representatives were in the HNC MoI building (where the meeting was held) at that moment they attended the meeting and therefore it was a coincidence that EUPM was present at the meeting. |
| Interview with D. Covic on const. changes, third entity
| Oslobodjenje cover pg splash and pgs 4 and 5 ‘We do not need in BiH small states based on ethnic principle’ by A. Omeragic carries an interview with HDZ President Dragan Covic who says that HDZ stands for 3 authority levels and says that in this way the administration in BiH would be reduced by 50 %. Explaining the HDZ view on the middle authority level, Covic says that for instance |
| Jovic at Zagreb Summit: ‘With Dayton Constitution we are not welcome in
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| British Ambassador Rycroft on const. changes
| Nezavisne Novine pg 2 ‘BiH Constitution must be changed’ by new agencies, Dnevni List pg 16, mentioned on cover ‘UK supports constitutional changes in BiH’ by S. Djuderija carry that British Ambassador to BiH Matthew Rycroft met with students and pupils in Mostar on Friday within the Nansen Dialogue Centre program called ‘Two-way street’. On this occasion Rycroft stated that by the beginning of negotiations with the EU, the BiH Constitution will have to changed and he added: ‘However, these changes will not depend on the IC and the IC would not be imposing radical solutions. It is up to BiH politicians to reach an agreement and meet EU pre-requisites.’ |
| M. Ivanic: ‘BiH will meet conditions for EU’
| Pink, Nezavisne Novine pg 6 ‘BiH will meet conditions for EU’ by Srna – At the Friday’s meeting of Southeast Europe Foreign Ministers in Greece, BiH Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic stated that the beginning of the BiH’s negotiations on |
| Martens will not meet with Covic/EPS does not give up new elections in HDZ | Dnevni List pg 2, mentioned on cover ‘Martens does not give up new elections in HDZ’ by M. Karacic – The European People’s Party (EPS) denied that its President Wilfred Martens is going to meet with HDZ President Dragan Covic as some media reported. A DL source also said that EPS keeps insisting on organizing new HDZ elections. |
| HR on ceremony in ‘Omarska’
| Hayat – Being a guest at Hayat, where the HR Paddy Ashdown was mostly explaining his decision on the Sarajevo airport (pls see the report above), he was also asked about the Saturday’s ceremony in former PoWs camp “Omarska” where Serbs will celebrate liberation of Prijedor the HR said: “I wasn’t aware of this and I will have to look at this. I have visited some of the camps, during the war, I gave evidence against the perpetrators, including Slobodan Milosevic and I expect that when Radovan Karadzic is in Hague, I will be giving evidence against him”. |
Economy | |
| FBiH Government decided: INA/MOL best strategic partner for co-capitalization of Energopetrol | |
Judicial issues/Crime | |
| DA speculates that upon McNair’s order FBiH MoI, SIPA would arrest Jelavic in
| Dnevni Avaz pg 5 ‘Barbaric claims that he is not in contact with Jelavic’ by F.V. carries Ante Jelavic’s lawyer, Dragan Brabaric, as saying that he is not in contact with Jelavic, however, he also confirmed that Jelavic is in Croatia. DA also says that it has been speculated within the BiH intelligence circles that Prosecutor John McNair might order the FBiH Ministry of Interior, SIPA and other intelligence agencies to arrest Jelavic on the territory of Croatia. Allegedly, the Croatian authorities would be aware of this action and they would give their tacit consent to such scenario for the sake of their own interests. Spokesperson of the Croatian Ministry of Interior Zlatko Mehun did not want to comment on this possibility, however, he stressed that it is not realistic since sovereignty of other state would be affected in this way. |
| Chief BiH Prosecutor M. Jurcevic: Problem of extradition of BiH citizens with double citizenships should be resolved as soon as possible with SCiG and
| Dnevni List cover pg splash and pg 3 ‘Abolish double citizenship, prevent running away of criminals’ by M. Zorlak says that according to SCiG and Croatian Constitutions these two countries are not obliged to extradite their citizens and this creates a problem for BiH when extradition of BiH citizens who also have citizenship of one of these countries is in question. Chief BiH Prosecutor Marinko Jurcevic stated this is completely unacceptable and he added that this issue should be resolved as soon as possible. He believes that this issue is not a legal issue any longer but a legal-political issue. According to Jurcevic, the EC should also involve in resolving of this issue and he believes that bilateral agreements with these 2 countries are the only solution. N.B. the headline is misleading, Jurcevic did not give statement from headline in the interview itself. |
| Illegal printing house revealed in centre of
| RTRS, Nezavisne Novine cover pg splash ‘Fake blank forms of all institutions in BiH found’ and pg 3 ‘ They were printing fake blank forms of all institutions in BiH’ by B. Risojevic – A secret printing house for falsifying documents of all BiH bodies and even the ones from the EU countries was revealed on Friday morning in a very centre of Banja Luka. 3 persons were arrested and the investigation on this case has been underway. |