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| Action for Srebrenica | Savo Todovic surrendered | Savo Todovic surrendered | Savo Todovic surrendered |
| Interview with Silajdzic | ICTY on Gotovina | Explosion in Mostar | Mladic not in |
| Finci vs. Alispahic | Slovenian troops in BIH | Shooting in | POW Association in 2005 |
| Meholjic vs. Malkic | RS Govt on PRC report | | RS Govt on PRC report |
| Oslobodjenje | Will tax on luxury be introduced in BiH? |
| Dnevni Avaz | Terzic on police reform: The best organization is five regions; Mostar: Explosive device activated under ‘golf’ vehicle owned by Zdenka Stojkic; Mladen Bosic candidate for Minister? |
| Dnevni List | Mostar: Bombs are disturbing citiznes of Mostar this year as well |
| Vecernji List | Features Croatia related headlines |
| Slobodna Dalmacija | Features |
| Nezavisne Novine | |
| EuroBlic | Features Serbian related topics |
| Vecernje novosti | Biljana Plavsic wrote a book “I testify”: Karadzic forged minutes |
Cooperation with ICTY / Police reform / Security | |
| ICTY indictee, Savo Todovic, voluntarily surrenders to RS MoI
| BHT1, Dnevni Avaz pg 3 ‘Savo Todovic had been deciding who will out of Foca prison inmates be killed, beaten or exchanged’ by A.M.,, Dnevni List pg 2 ‘Savo Todovic turned himself in’ by De.L., Nezavisne Novine cover and pg 3 ‘Savo Todovic extradited to The Hague’ by D. Bojanic – ICTY indictee for war crimes, Savo Todovic on Saturday voluntarily surrendered to the RS Interior Ministry, confirmed RS MoI. Todovic has been charged with breach violations of the Geneva Convention, violations of laws and customs of war and crimes against humanity committed at the Correction Centre in Foca, where he was Deputy Chief during the war. FTV – According to Matias Hellman, ICTY Registry Liaison Officer for BIH, Todovic has been transferred to Hague in the evening. RS MoI confirmed that Todovic received guarantees of RS Government. RS Prime Minister Spokesperson, Goran Radivojac, stated that RS Government is pleased by Todovic’s brave and patriotic act. NTV Hayat, RTRS – RS Interior Minister in resignation, Darko Matijasevic, personally took Todovic to the ICTY in Oslobodjenje pg 4 ‘Todovic voluntary in |
| RS Govt on PRC report: ‘Keeping entities MoI is a wise decision’
| RTRS, BHT 1, Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘It is not necessary to abolish entities MoIs’ by Fena, Oslobodjenje pg 5 ‘Negotiations and compromises’, Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘Keeping of entities’ MoI is a wise decision’ by D.B. , Dnevni List pg 5 ‘Without abolishment of entity MoIs’ not signed – The RS Government press release says that they have not received yet an official text of the report that Chairman of the Police Reform Commission Wilfred Martens submitted to High Representative Paddy Ashdown and Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Adnan Terzic, however, the RS Government is encouraged by the fact that abolishment of entity Ministries of Interior is not necessary. The press release also says that statements given by Martens show political wisdom and orientation for respecting of the BiH Constitution, laws and equality of BiH constituent peoples. |
| Terzic on PRC report: Organization in five regions is the best
| Dnevni Avaz cover splash ‘The best organization is of five regions’, pg 2 ‘Police in BiH should be organized in five regions’ by A. Malagic – The Chair of BiH Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, states for DA that there is a lot of work left to be done before the final model of the police organization is adopted. “Reform of police structures cannot be expected in 10 days… I am glad that [Chair of Police Reform Commission, Wilfred] Martens completed its part of the work and now we have clear guidelines as to how BiH can achieve police structure in accordance to the European standards… I believe that police structure should be organized in five regions,” says Terzic adding that this concept has won support of the EU. He underlines that now a number of talks will be held in order to reach the consensus on the proposed solution. Commenting to the statement by HR Paddy Ashdown that entities MoIs do not have to be abolished, Terzic says: “[Police] organization should be such to have state manage and adopts the laws in that field. Thus, the proposal for police structure doesn’t include cantonal or entities MoIs. But when it comes to some internal affairs, than entities decide whether they will have MoIs without authorities or not. That is a matter for each entity to decide.” |
| Explosion in Mostar
| BHT1, FTV, Dnevni List front pg splash and pg 33 ‘Bombs are disturbing citizens of Mostar this year as well’ by N. Dedic, Vecernji List ‘They blew car to pieces by remote control’ by rs, Slobodna Dalmacija pg 12 ‘Explosive device planted under car’ by A.V.– An unknown explosive device destroyed a car owned by Zdenko Stojkic in Mostar on Saturday morning. None was injured in this explosion. The police investigation on this case has been underway. Also reported by |
Political issues | |
| SNSD: Bukejlovic’s Govt would push RS back in complete isolation
| RTRS, Oslobodjenje pg 4 ‘Returning RS back to isolation’ by Fena, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Bukejlovic’s Government would push RS in complete isolation’ by Srna, Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘SNSD: Cavic and SDS are leading RS in isolation’ by D. Bojanic-M.Kremenovic, Dnevni List pg 4 ‘RS goes back to complete isolation’ not signed – The SNSD press release says that by coming of Pero Bukejlovic to the position of the RS Prime Minister designate and by possible Bukejlovic’ s Government, the RS goes back to the time when SDS was holding all authority mechanisms and when the RS was pushed in complete isolation. The press release also says that they believe that SDS and RS President Dragan Cavic are directly responsible for deepening of the RS crisis and raising tensions among political subjects. |
| Comments on Kadric’s statement: RS CoP to raise issue of vital national interests?
| Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘RS Government in resignation will still function for a long time’ by J. Stojanovic – Following the statement by the Speaker of RS Council of Peoples, Ramzija Kadric, that the Council may block the appointment of the new RS Government, DA brings several reactions. The Deputy Speaker of the Council, Momir Malic, says that if issue of protection of vital national interests is raised the current RS Government in resignation will have to continue working for a long time. He explains that this issue would have to be solved before the |
| Tomljenovic: Cavic has not consulted RS Vice Presidents on new Govt
| Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Cavic has not consulted me or Osmanovic on election of new RS Government’ by J.S. – RS Vice President, Ivan Tomljenovic, stated for DA that both him and RS Vice President Adil Osmanovic, are just mere observers of the election of new RS Government. He explains that RS President, Dragan Cavic, has never consulted on this issue or when nominating Pero Bukejlovic to the position of RS Prime Minister-designate. “Constituent peoples should have influence over the election of the Government’s members and therefore I am not surprised with the stance of RS Council of Peoples’ Speaker, Ramzija Kadric, who said that issue of protection of vital national interests must be launched after the election of new Government at the RSNA. Bosniaks and Croats must be consulted, and not just observers in such important process,” said Tomljenovic. |
| Mladen Bosic new BiH Foreign Minister?
| Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘Mladen Bosic candidate for BiH Foreign Minister?’, mentioned on cover, by E.R. – DA learns from the source close to the international community that SDS may nominate Mladen Bosic, leader of this party in Brcko, for the position of BiH Foreign Affairs Minister. “Nobody contact me so far in relation to my candidacy for the position of Foreign Minister… I believe that talks on that have not yet been started, thus I think these are speculations,” comments Bosic for DA. |
| NN: Ivanic demands from SDS to return him to
| Nezavisne Novine pg 7 ‘Ivanic demands from SDS to return him to |
| NN op-ed on Bukejlovic/Cavic
| Nezavisne Novine op-ed pg 5 ‘Cosa nostra” from Kostajnica Gornja’ by A.S. – The author is critical of nepotism aspect regarding the process of nomination of RS-PM-designate, stressing that this nomination reveals the level of Dragan Cavic’s concern for RS and Pero Bukejlovic’s abilities. The author emphasises Cavic and Bukejlovic are not above RS citizens, since one of them is elected by the electorate. |
| NN on HR Ashdown
| Nezavisne Novine pg 8 ‘Paddy Ashdown – Lord of |
Economic issues | |
| Hayat says Dokic blocks Vc corridor construction
| NTV Hayat –NTV Hayat says that Bosmal company gave a promise that construction of Vc corridor would start until January 2005 if the company is elected, however nothing has been done on that issue. Hayat says that reason is that BiH Minister of Transport and Communications in resignation, Branko Dokic, pursues with construction of the highway |
| Law on luxurious goods to be introduced in BiH?
| Oslobodjenje cover splash, pgs 4-5 ‘Will law on luxury be introduced in BiH?’ by A. Omeragic – At the end of the last year, the BiH Parliament tasked the Council of Ministers to prepare changes to the new regulations on excise, which should protect domestic production of the high-tariff goods and increase the tax on luxurious goods, by the end of January. Daily reads that CoM will not be able to meet this deadline. Members of the BiH Parliament’s Commission for Finances and Budget, Seada Palavric [SDA] and Beriz Belkic [Party for BiH], said that if CoM doesn’t change the law increasing taxes on planes, yachts, expensive watches, mobiles or diamantes, the Commission itself will prepare changes. |
| Belkic says fears of domestic producers re Excise Law grounded
| Dnevni List pg 3, mentioned on front ‘Fears of domestic producers are grounded’ by D. Polovina-Mandic– SBiH representative in the BiH House of Representatives Beriz Belkic stated that fear of BiH producers that domestic production will be shut down due to application of a new Law on Excise is completely grounded. He added that almost all legal projects in BiH are being passed under pressure of deadlines and that he has been referring for a long time to the fact that BiH does not have a commanding room from which reforms are being run. Belkic also said he was hoping that the OHR is capable of doing it, however, he has got convinced that the OHR does not run the reforms and that everything is being done partly and in an unsynchronized manner. Belkic concludes that for this reason it is quite normal that bad results are being achieved. |
| Hayat feature on
| NTV Hayat – Following the text published in Croatian magazine Nacional, which said that there the lobbies in BiH, lead by Haris Silajdzic, Bakir Izetbegovic, Ahmet Hadzipasic and mufti Mustafa Effendi Ceric, working against Croatian companies, Hayat spoke to Hido Biscevic, official of the Croatian Foreign Affairs Ministry. Biscevic commented that this is not a stance of the Croatian Government, and stressed that it is a mutual interest of both countries is to work together on economic development. Haris Silajdzic commented that media from neighbouring countries regularly make accusations against BiH authorities, who protect BiH interests, treating them as the ‘junior partner’ who cannot do thing on its own. Silajdzic added that he would continue to draw attention to Aluminij company, saying that it is still a state company, owned by FBiH Government, where people are being discriminated on ethnic grounds. Aluminij, says Silajdzic, was privatized improperly and not even a single financial inspection has managed to get inside. He added that the State must not allow this to continue, stressing that he is surprised by the stand of International Community which hasn’t adequately reacted to this. |