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| RADIO HERCEG-BOSNA (18,00 hrs) | TV PINK (18,00 hrs) | BHT 1 (19,00 hrs) |
| Pfanner juice toxic | Constitutional talks continue on Sun | New round of talks on Constitution |
| Constitutional talks on Sunday | RS politicians on constitut. changes | World News |
| McElhaney on Constitutional talks | Initiat. on rights of disabled persons | |
| OHR on Ze-Do and Podrinje PMs | Decertif. police officers go on strike | CoM on dismissed workers in |
| NTV Hayat (19,00 hrs) | FTV (19,30 hrs) | RTRS (19,30 hrs) |
| ITA on market inspection | Humphreys on VAT introduction | Constitutional talks continue on Sun |
| Tihic on constitutional reforms | ZDC Government limits prices | Cent. Bank to get better credit rating |
| OHR on Ze-Do and Podrinje PMs | VAT introduction in Posavina Cant. | VAT effects on prices |
| Decertified police officers in strike | Problems of | Orthodox New Year celebrated |
| Oslobodjenje | Bakers brought back prices [to old level] |
| Dnevni Avaz | Final goal of Dodik and Ivanic is anarchy |
| Dnevni List | Denunciations against bar owners [reports on regular action of Mostar police, denunciations filed over disturbance of public peace and order] |
| Vecernji List | Gunman wanted by |
| Nezavisne Novine | I am a professional soldier, not a politician |
Constitutional changes | |
| Constitutional talks to resume; F BiH and RS parties still have opposing stances
| TV Pink – Leaders of eight political parties will continue talks on constitutional changes on Sunday in TV Hayat – carries Tihic’s statement. FTV, RTRS – carry announcement on talks. BHT1 – carries statements of Tihic, Dodik, Lagumdzija, Halilovic and Cavic. Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘SDA and HDZ expect help from the American Ambassador’ by D. Mu., Vecernji List pgs 2-3 ‘Americans offer either their agreement or sanctions’ by Zoran Kresic, Oslobodjenje pg 2, announced on cover ‘Single state, not joint institutions’ by R. I. – also reported. |
| TV Hayat poll on const. reforms | TV Hayat – Citizens were asked to vote on question: Should BIH politicians accept the Donald Hays’ reforms? 187 answered YES, 3.371 answered NO. |
| Interview with Muhamed Filipovic on constitutional changes
| TV Hayat By Senad Hadzifejzovic – Academic Muhamed Filipovic has been elected for CD’s “Person of the Year”. He commented on the method of determining the number of victims of war in BiH. Regarding the forthcoming negotiations on Constitutional changes, Filipovic stated that BiH politicians are unstable and couldn’t be trusted because they have bluntly refused any constitutional changes but then they have changed their mind and “traded BiH for something”. Filipovic is utterly against accepting the constitutional changes that will bring no change. “Everyone knows that the obstacle in BiH is RS, and until a constitution that guarantees no RS is written, our BIH politicians must refuse to accept any other”, Filipovic said. He criticized the Owen-Stoltenberg Agreement and the fact that late Alija Izetbegovic had accepted it. Filipovic commented that the current government was elected by only 39% of voters and that it has no integrity because “it changes its opinion under the pressure of Donald Hays, High Representative or any other international official”. Filipovic stressed that it constantly adopts disastrous decisions adding that BIH has no opposition because the same is partner in the government to the ruling parties. |
| Interview: Francis Boyle on Constitutional reforms
| TV Hayat – Professor of International and Human Law at the University of Illinois, former BiH legal representative before the Hague Tribunal and the creator of BiH charges against Serbia-Montenegro for aggression and genocide, Francis Boyle, was the guest in CD via satellite. Being asked to explain his claims that the Representative of the US Institute for Peace Donald Hays’ reforms are racistic and genocidal with an aim to destroy BIH, Boyle stated that Hays’ documents themselves prove his statements. “If you read Hays’ documents presented to the BIH politicians one is joint statement that refers to RS and its full, legal status in BIH itself. That is not stated that RS is constituent unit of BIH but legal equivalent as if it were an independent state. If you read Hays’ reform package you will see that it gives more power to RS, more constitutional respectability than it has under the Dayton Agreement (note: Boyle ended this sentence with “instead of abolishing the two entities” which was not translated)”, explained Boyle. He stressed that at the end of January negotiations on status of Kosovo begin and that David Owen publicly recommended that |
Other political issues | |
| OHR: law must be abided by Municipal Assemblies re Bosna-Podrinje and Ze-Do PMs | FTV, |
| Z-D Canton Assembly Chairman Spahic: I will soon appoint acting Z-D Canton PM
| Oslobodjenje pg 5 ‘Polic’s successor will soon be appointed’ by Onasa – Chairman of Zenica-Doboj Canton Assembly Besim Spahic on Saturday confirmed the Assembly will hold a session soon to discuss and decide on the resignation of Z-D Canton Prime Minister Nedzad Polic. He also announced he would appoint acting PM after consulting two deputies. According to unofficial information, the most serious candidate for this position is Finances Minister Miralem Galijasevic. Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘Procedure is clear’ by A. Dz. – also reported. |
| CoM Chairman Terzic: Final goal of Dodik and Ivanic is anarchy
| Dnevni Avaz cover pg splash and pg 2 ‘Final goal of Dodik and Ivanic is anarchy’ by S. Numanovic – BiH CoM Chairman Adnan Terzic replied to claims that RS crisis would be transferred to the state level and he stated that this would only block BiH’s European path. He noted that he had been warning, ever since the crisis appeared, that the final goal of the crisis was not to overthrow RS Government but to create a general instability and, finally, to strike on CoM. He says it is obvious some RS parties – like Milorad Dodik’s SNSD and Mladen Ivanic’s PDP – want to stop the processes, especially with regard to talks on |
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| RS PM Bukejlovic: I am not buying votes of Assembly delegates
| Dnevni Avaz pg 5 ‘I am not buying votes of Assembly delegates’ by N. Diklic – RS Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic confirmed that he is working on creation of a new, stabile, majority at RS NA in order to get the support for the adoption of RS budget as well as to get a support of 42 delegates for preservation of the current composition of RS Government. As a reply to accusations of SNSD’s Milorad Dodik, who claimed Bukejlovic had “bought” the support of a part of RS Syndicate, Bukejlovic noted such accusations have only political, but do not have any realistic grounds. |
| Decertified police officers will go on hunger strike
| TV Pink, TV Hayat, BHT1, Oslobodjenje pg 7 ‘Dismissed policemen will go on hunger strike’ not signed, Dnevni Avaz pg 3 ‘Decertified police officers will go on hunger strike’ by S. T. – Several hundreds of decertified police officers will go on hunger strike as of Monday due to disagreement with policy of UN and OHR regarding their request for an audit on desertification process. |
| West Balkan countries as part of future EU security strategy
| TV Pink – On the unofficial meeting of Ministers of Interior and Ministers of Justice of EU and candidate countries held on Saturday in |
| Busatlija on Neum and Vc corridor
| TV Hayat By Senka Hadzovic – CD continues its action regarding the Corridor Vc and its exit in Neum, as well as on constructing of Port in Neum. Presenter ridicules the fact that Serb politicians support Vc exit in Neum while Bosniak politicians are all against that option. Reporter brings stands of geo-politician Ibrahim Busatlija who deems that Vc should have the exit in Neum because it is of strategic importance for BIH. Busatlija qualified Chairman of BIH Council of Ministers Adnan Terzic’s statement as ridiculous in which Terzic stated that it would be ridiculous to request for the Vc corridor exit in Neum. |
VAT introduction | |
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| FTV, BHT1, RTRS, Nezavisne Novine pg 2 ‘Bakers in Sarajevo reduced price of bread’ by D. Muminovic, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Humphreys: consumers should choose shops in which prices are lower’ by Z. Persic– As a sign of support to introduction of VAT, Chief of EC Delegation in BiH Michael Humphreys shopped at Sarajevo supermarket Interex. Humphreys said that the introduction of VAT has been done professionally, efficiently and without high increase of prices. According to EC research, there are many shops that didn’t change the prices after introduction of VAT. However, many small shops and pharmacies have increased the prices way too much. Therefore, Humphreys suggested that the citizens of BiH should look for shops that didn’t increase the prices significantly. There are many positive examples, such as Interex, VF, Drvopromet, Klas and Sprind companies, which didn’t increase the prices too much. Private bakeries in Sarajevo Canton have also announced decrease of bread prices starting from Monday. Market inspectors have conducted controls at over 200 shops, and the controls are going to continue in the future. BHT1, Oslobodjenje cover pg splash and pg 3 ‘Bakers brought back prices’ not signed, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Bakers brought back prices to the previous level’ by Fena – After the initial rise of prices, private bakeries in Sarajevo Canton have again reduced the prices of bread to the level of December 2005 prices. The Indirect Taxation Administration (ITA) has confirmed this information. Private bakers in |
War crimes | |
| Serbian President Tadic: actions of Serbian Government to locate and arrest war criminals not conducted systematically and often enough
| FTV – Serbian President Boris Tadic said that the actions of Serbian Government aimed to locate and arrest fugitive war crime indictees, including Ratko Mladic, are not conducted systematically enough and often enough. According to Tadic, only constant and systematic activities can lead to the arrestment of indictees or prove that they are not hiding in RTRS, BHT1, Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘Poor actions aimed to arrest Hague indictees’ by Beta– also reported. |
| Face to Face – Cekic vs. Tokaca on issue of number of killed people in period from 1992 till 1995
| TV Hayat By Senad Hadzifejzovic– Guests of Face to Face were Smail Cekic – from the Institute for research of war crimes against humanity and international law and Mirsad Tokaca – Chairman of research and documentation Centre. Cekic elaborated further his claims published in Sarajevo Daily newspaper Oslobodjenje that Tokaca based his information on the methodology that is not scientifically recognised adding that terms used in his investigation are imprecise. Tokaca replied that Cekic’s statements were attempts to discredit him in order to prove his information. He explained that his centre received the exact information on the name, date and cause of death and that up to now they have registered that 94.450 people regardless to the nationality or religion were killed in BIH during the Aggression on it. Both Cekic and Tokaca denied that the number of victims defines the term genocide adding that it cannot annul the fact that genocide happened in BIH. Tokaca stated that the number of 260.00 or 250.000 victims is just the presumption without confirmation. Cekic stated that he was at the Institute that is part of the |
Miscellaneous | |
| NN int with Head of Joint Command of BiH Armed Forces Podzic on defense reform, SDA’s critics following his attendance of RS Day reception
| Nezavisne Novine cover pg splash ‘I am a professional soldier, not a politician’ and pgs 8-9 ‘We expect to enter Partnership for Peace fast’ by Mirza Cubro – in an interview to NN, Head of Joint Command of BiH Armed Forces Sifet Podzic stated BiH Armed Forces have a unique chain of command, which is the first result of defence reform, and he noted that the non-adoption of the state budget might slow down the reform as well as joining to Partnership for Peace. He refused to comment on SDA’s critics following his attendance of the reception organised on the occasion of RS Day and he added: ‘The Defence Law forbids military officers to comment political events. As a professional soldier, I will restrain from commenting on SDA’s comments on my presence in |
| Tihic:
| Oslobodjenje pg 2 ‘Constitutional Court did not recognise St. patron’s Day of entities’ by Fena – SDA’s Sulejman Tihic on Saturday stated Head of Joint Command of BiH Armed Forces Sifet Podzic should not have attended RS Day reception from several reasons. He added SDA believes this is illegal and unconstitutional holiday, and he added: ‘I am disappointed with the stance of General Podzic, but also with the stance of OHR, which is legalising this holiday and shows it is still unfamiliar with the situation in BiH. I find the order of BiH Defence Minister to Podzic to attend RS Day was odd’. Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Podzic can visit RS, but cannot attend St. patron’s Day’, announced on cover ‘Podzic should not have attended RS Day’ by Fena – also reported. |
| BiH CoM to help illegally dismissed BiH citizens in
| BHT1 Mirela Cosic – Approximately 60.000 BiH citizens have been illegally dismissed from their jobs in |