TV News Broadcasted on July 29
| RADIO HERCEG-BOSNA (18,00 hrs) | TV PINK (18,00 hrs) | BHT 1 (19,00 hrs) |
| Church consecrated in Balegovac | Carla Del Ponte on Ratko Mladic | RS opposes 2 new CoM Ministries |
| | | Agrokomerc under |
| Del Ponte on Action Plan | Meeting in Brioni | SE Presidents at meeting in Brijuni |
| | BiH Trade Chamber on CEFTA | Del Ponte on Mladic |
| NTV Hayat (19,00 hrs) | FTV (19,30 hrs) | RTRS (19,30 hrs) |
| Car accident in | Humanitarian action for ill boy | Corp destroyed in Ostra Luka |
| Search in river Bosna ongoing | Feature on political parties | Changes to Law on BiH citizenship |
| Appeal to help V. Tomasevic | Publishing Found. allocates loans | SA-Romanija Ass. on SA Commission |
| Tomasevic’s birthday celebrated | Jumps manifestation in Mostar | Carla Del Ponte on Ratko Mladic |
Press news from July 30
| Oslobodjenje | State would return what was given to it [law on restitution] |
| Dnevni Avaz | |
| Dnevni List | With shotguns to returnees [EUFOR action] |
| Vecernji List | Racket systems searched for in septic tank [EUFOR action] |
| Nezavisne Novine | |
Political Developments | |
| New ministries in CoM; while RS politicians claim that this cannot be done before constitutional changes, FBiH politicians say that parity has to be provided
| BHT1 By Boris Gagic – Decision of Council of Ministers to pass amendments to the Law on CoM, which foresee establishment of two new ministries [Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, and Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment], which was passed without votes of Serb Ministers in CoM caused new verbal conflicts between BIH politicians. RS politicians feel that the new Ministries can be established only after the passing of constitutional amendments; whilst FBIH politicians stress that these 2 processes are divided. RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik called upon Serb representatives in BIH parliament to vote against this CoM decision. “[CoM Chair Adnan] Terzic who is at the end of his political career is trying to do something because he doesn’t know whet else to do”, says Dodik. BIH House of Representatives Deputy Chair Sefik Dzaferovic stated that the establishing of 2 new Ministries would help BIH on its European path. He also reminded that there is an outstanding obligation in CoM, which says that the number of Ministries has to be divisible with three i.e. that there must be same number of ministers from each constituent people. PDP leader Mladen Ivanic says that the key problem is whether the ministries will have a central role or merely have a coordination role i.e. coordinate activities between already existent entity ministries. Ivanic stated that decision is more or less a done deal, but that authorities of new ministries would have to wait after the election. Reporter concludes that it seems that yet another matter will have to wait until after elections. |
| CoM Chair Terzic: RS doesn’t want BiH to sign
| Dnevni Avaz pg 5 ‘Politicians from RS do not want BiH to sign |
| RS PM Dodik: all who dares to ask for RS abolition will get referendum as answer
| Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘All who are asking abolishment of the RS would get referendum as answer’ by Srna– During his Saturday’s visit to Skender Vakuf, RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik stated that this Government, in last three months did much on strengthening of the RS, which only few month ago was “facing the total plunge”. “Everyone who dares to ask abolishment of the RS we will respond in appropriate manner,” said Dodik, stressing that all those “would get referendum as the answer”. Underlining that RS is a permanent category, Dodik said that they have responded adequately to all pressures. “Under pressure of politics we have lead, BiH Presidency Chair Sulejman Tihic had to withdraw his demand for abolishing of the RS’ name,” said Dodik. Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘RS is permanent category’ by P.K.– also covered. |
| SNSD’’s Vasic: long-term goal of
| Nezavisne Novine cover splash, pgs 8-9 ‘ |
| DL: Cavic and Dodik are consciously working on postponing of
| Dnevni List pg 2 ‘Referendum on every 30 seconds’ op-ed by Resad Dautefendic– Reminding to warning of High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling that police reform would enable BiH authorities to fight crime [Friday’s op-ed by HR], Dautefendic comments how only day after RS President Dragan Cavic has announced referendum on police reform. “Cavic told the HR that as soon as his |
| DA: October report of the EC would be negative for BiH; signing of
| Dnevni Avaz cover splash ‘Brussels preparing negative evaluation for BiH?’, pg 4 ‘Evaluations from Brussels would be negative’ by T.Lazovic- As DA learns EC’s report on progress of reforms in BiH, which would affect signing of Stabilization and Association Agreement, would be finished in September and published in mid October. Report would refer to all countries in transition period. When it comes to BiH, as DA learns from anonymous source in the EC, EC is skeptic, especially after recent events regarding the police reform and |
| CoM Chair Terzic:
| Dnevni Avaz pg 5 ‘Politicians from RS do not want BiH to sign |
| BiH Civil Affairs Ministry prepares amendments to the Law on Citizenship, which would ban people deprived of citizenship during the audit to gain it again in five years
| RTRS By Branka Kusmuk – While BiH Commission audit of citizenships issued in period of April 6 of 1992 till the end of 1995, BiH Ministry of Civil Affairs has prepared changes to the existing law. Changes ban persons who are to be deprived of the citizenship to be reissued another one in 5 years time. “I think that these changes should be passed as soon as possible, but I also think that due to the nature of a violation these persons made, it is of extreme importance to discuss amendment which foresees permanent ban on citizenship”, says Assistant to BiH Minister of Civil Affairs, Zoran Tesanovic. SDA and SBiH representatives support the changes, proposed by the BiH Council of Ministers. “While deciding on the final solution, BiH should not, through its actions, endanger human rights, on one hand and it should establish efficient protection mechanisms for those who have gained BiH citizenship illegally, on other”, says SDA’s Mirsad Ceman. “I support such activities, bearing in mind fact that they are completely depoliticized”, says SBiH’s Beriz Belkic. |
| SDA’ Mehmedovic: Croat MPs in FBiH HoR are to be blamed for non passing of Law on Pardon, because Minister Kristo insisted on allowing FBiH to pardon those sentenced by
| Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Borjana Kristo is to be blamed for non passing of law on pardon’ by M.K.– Embittered by failure to pass the FBiH Law on Pardon, Head of SDA Caucus in FBiH House of Representatives, Semsudin Mehmedovic told DA that Croat MPs are to be blamed. “The Law was originally proposed by the FBiH Government, but Justice Minister Borjana Kristo insist on passing of the regulation, according to which FBiH President and his Deputies would have authorities to pardon persons sentenced by |
| EUFOR action near Mostar: VL, DL- ‘arrows’ rackets searched for in septic tank | Vecernji List cover splash, pg 3 ‘Racket systems searched for in septic tank’ by Robert Soldo– On early Saturday monrning EUFOR members have “broke into the house” of returnee family Hujundzija in Mostar settlement Zalik. “They came trough unlocked doors and directed long barrows toward 11 members of this returnee family, among which there was three children,” reads the article. Spokesperson of Multinational Division South-West Stefan Keip, said that they were looking for racket system, so called “arrows”. He added that action was announced to local police day before. VL unofficial data say that “these smart rackets with guidance system were allegedly, recently located by the satellite”, and should have been found in septic tank. Dnevni List cover splash, pgs 2-3 ‘With shotguns to returnees’ by Sanja Bijelica- DL carries on the same action, except they reported that EUFOR searched the premises of returnee Milan Kulidzan and they mainly carriy statements of Kulidzan and his family members on how frighten they were. EUFOR Spokesperson Natalija Milusic told DL that EUFOR was informed “from several different sources” that that are rockets “arrows” buried on that location. Milusic confirmed that nothing was found. |
War Crimes Issues | |
| ICTY Chief Prosecutor Del Ponte: for the first time
| PINK- Chief ICTY Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, said for Belgrade based ‘Vecernje Novosti’ that, by adopting the Action Plan, Serbia for the first time has political will to arrest war crime suspect, Ratko Mladic, but that the way of implementation of Serbian Government’s action plan would show whether Serbian authorities were really determined to arrest him. Del Ponte pointed out that she submitted Serbian authorities with Mladic’s whereabouts in past year. Hayat- Del Ponte stated that she has offered all the evidence to Serbian authorities adding that it is up to them to arrest Mladic. She deems that Mladic will not voluntarily surrender based on his military past in the war and all the horrible things he had done. Del Ponte noted that it is very important to arrest Mladic and Radovan Karadzic in 2006 otherwise ICTY will not be closed as planned. |
| ICTY’s Del Ponte: verdict to Oric is unacceptable
| Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘Verdict to Naser Oric is unacceptable’ by N.N.– ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte told Serbian press that she will appeal to “unacceptable verdict” to Naser Oric [former Srebrenica Commander sentenced to two years for crimes over Serbs]. “I agree that sentence to Naser Oric is unacceptable. But, I will appeal to it. Every body of the ICTY has to take over its responsibility,” said Del Ponte. NOTE: further on article carries same pieces as in other media, but NN haven’t stated that this is the interview for |
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| PINK– According to ‘Blic’, USA authorities have asked Serbian authorities to, in terms of search for ICTY suspect, Ratko Mladic, bring in custody and interrogate former Chief of Military-Security Agency, Aco Tomic, former Head of Serbian-Montenegro Army HQ, Branko Krga and Mladic’s son, Darko Mladic. According to this document, Serbian Prime Minister, Vojislav Kostunica should warn all Serbian officials that they would be dismissed if obstruct Mladic’s arrestment. Hayat- It was stressed that |
| Families of Missing Persons from Sarajevo-Romanija region dissatisfied with appointments in Sarajevo Commission
| RTRS- Association of families of missing persons from Sarajevo-Romanija region warns that the Commission for investigating of Sufferings of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Jews and Others in Sarajevo in period 1992- 1995, should investigate proportion of crimes, persons who ordered and executed them. Association furthermore states that it is dissatisfied with election of Miroslav Jankovic and Cvetko Savic as Commission members. BHT1- also carried. Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘Association of Families of missing persons dissatisfied with the Commission’ by Srna– also carried. |
| CoM: we asked OHR for stance on Savic appointment because he was removed by ex HR in 2004
| Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘It is not about vengeance toward OHR’ by M.Rener– On Saturday, Council of Ministers stated that considering that Commission for investigating of Sufferings of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Jews and Others in Sarajevo Cvjetko Savic was nominated of member of Commission for investigating of Sufferings of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Jews and Others in Sarajevo, CoM has asked OHR to give legal interpretation of the decision, by which Savic is banned from performing of any executive functions. “And this is not any kind of retribution of Andan Terzic [CoM Chair] toward OHR”, stated CoM. This statement followed accusation of RS president Dragan Cavic, who stated at Friday’s press conference that failure to appoint Savic is vendetta of Chair Terzic toward OHR, which doesn’t support him as former HR Paddy Ashdown did. Terzic didn’t want to comment and OHR Spokesperson |
| Oslob: If | Oslobodjenje pg 9 ‘Trading with victims’ op-ed by Danijel Omeragic– Commenting the Friday’s statement of RS President Dragan Cavic who said that Commission for investigating of Sufferings of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Jews and Others in Sarajevo is “political pamphlet”, Omeragic reminds how strong he fought for establishment of this Commission. However, Omeragic underlines that Cavic is right when he says that FBiH authorities have never investigated sufferings of Serb, but author adds they haven’t investigated sufferings of anyone in |
Economy/ CEFTA, telecoms, Elektroprivredas | |
| BiH Foreign Trade Chamber believes that CEFTA would provide easier approach to European market
| PINK By Zeljko Mandic – BiH Foreign-Trade Chamber’s members from agriculture and food industry sector believe that Central Europe Free Trade Agreement [CEFTA], which should be signed by the end of 2006, would provide its future members easier approach to all South European markets and that it would really create single free trade zone between South European states. “It is good that through CEFTA we are going to improve BiH’s economy, especially some of its branches”, says Director to Macroeconomic Sector within the Foreign-Trade Chamber, Dusan Bogdanovic. Director to Association organizing sector within the Chamber, Savo Marjanac, claims that free trade agreements BiH has signed with neighboring states are pretty much liberal; BiH’s economy is pretty much opened, customs and non-customs protections are low, as well as technical barriers in terms of goods which are being imported to BiH, but adds that while exporting its goods, BiH is often faced with customs and non-customs barriers, thus being discriminated. BiH Foreign-Trade Chamber’s members believe that in terms of agriculture products, a detailed analysis should be made and a political stance, according to which BiH economy branches should be made more able, should be taken. |
| CoM Chair Terzic: at meeting in
| Dnevni Avaz pg 5 ‘Politicians from RS do not want BiH to sign |
| Entities authorities determined: no sale of Elektroprivredas
| PINK By Ljubisa Davidovic – Action plan on privatization of electro-energetic sector in BiH foresees Elektroprivreda privatization in 2009 says the reporter and adds that despite international financial institutions’ insisting to have the sector privatized, state and entity authorities believe that this domain should stay under state’s control. The RS Government believes that entity Elektroprivredas could be strengthened through their own forces by establishing joint companies with foreign investors or by taking loans; anyhow, says the reporter, it is in all BiH’s citizens interest for the state to remain main stock-holder in elector-energetic sector. RS Government points out that the FBiH Government has the same stance. “No EU declarations read that privatization has to be carried out; it is said that regulation has to be carried out; namely basic services have to be separated”, says Milorad Zivkovic from RS Ministry of Energy, Industry and Development. |
| RS Economy Minister Jelic: sale of refinery shouldn’t be arranged by SDA leader Tihic
| Dnevni Avaz pg 8 ‘Sale of the Refinery should not be arranged by SDA leader’ by Srna– RS Economy, Energy and Development Minister Milan Jelic stated on Saturday that sale of Oil Refinery in Bosanski Brod shouldn’t be arranged by SDA leader and BiH presidency Chair Sulejman Tihic. Reacting to Tihic’s statement upon returning from Libya and saying that businessmen there are interested for buying of the Refinery, Jelic said: “I have nothing against the buyer of the Refinery to be from any country in the world, understandably with the best offer, but we cannot agree with the Refinery being sold by someone who is not competent,” said Jelic. Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘Tihic shouldn’t be arranging the sale of Refinery’ by Srna– also carried. |
| FBiH Government returns Agrocomers to
| BHT1 By Amra Mujagic – FBIH Government has returned the company ‘Agrokomerc’ into the jurisdiction of Unsko- Sanski Canton after 5 years. It is to assume that |
| Session of FBiH Parliament dedicated to telecoms by end of August
| Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘Parliament on privatization of telecoms at end of August’ by A.Hadziarapovic– Cahirs of both FBiH Parliament’s Houses, Muhamed Ibrahimovic and Slavko Matic have discussed the issue of special session, dedicated to privatization of telecoms with FBiH Prime Minister Ahmet Hadzipasic. Both, Ibrahimovic and Matic said that MPs are very dedicated to this issue, but holding of the session depends on how soon the FBiH Government will submit FBiH parliament with necessary documents. It is evident that this wouldn’t be possible to do in fifteen days. FBiH HoR Chair Ibrahimovic said that most likely the session would be scheduled for the end of next month. Both Chairs, agreed that it is also necessary to provide “quality of quorum”, which would allow both Houses to be able to vote. |
| FBiH telecoms not to be sold in package; HT Mostar needs to be restructured first
| Oslobodjenje pg 2 ‘Details on privatization of telecoms on Monday’ by A.Avdic– Method of privatization, which would be used in privatizing of FBiH telecoms, should be known on Monday. Namely, SDA leadership, at beginning of the week, would pass guidelines for privatization. Unnamed representative of SDA told daily that they still haven’t taken the stance, since are waiting to consult with FBiH Prime Minister Ahmet Hadzipasic and Chair of SDA Caucus in FBiH House of Representatives Semsudin Mehmedovic. FBiH Communications and Transport Minister Nedzad Brankovic stated that most likely two telecoms i.e. BH Telecom and HT Mostar, wouldn’t be privatized in the package, since HT Mostar needs to be restructured, before the sale. “It is necessary to conduct merging of Eronet, meaning HT Mobile, considering that HT Mostar is the carrier of the GSM license,” explained Brankovic. |
| According the Restitution Law, BiH would return assets to Cultural Societies | Oslobodjenje cover splash, pgs 4-5 ‘State would return what was given to it’ by Aldijana Omeragic– Ethnic Cultural Societies are impatiently waiting for passing of the Law on Restitution, hoping that they would get back their asset, which were “given away” about 60 years ago. Recently Economy Institute Sarajevo has drafted a Study on restitution, which recommends returning of nationalized assets, whose value is about 86 billion KM. Author of the Study Stiepo Andrijic said that assets of Cultural Societies wasn’t nationalized, but that these Societies have had to “give it up”, therefore he recommended the returning. Chair of BiH Commission for Restitution Mustafa Begic said that this regulation is already incorporated into the Law, which should soon be presented to the Council of Ministers. “It was incorporated into the Law on Restitution that assets should be returned to ethnic cultural societies who are the legal adherents of the old ones,” said Begic. Further on, article carries statements of representatives of cultural societies, such as Napredak, La Benevolencija, Prosvjeta and Pereporod, who talked about the assets that belong to them. |
Elections 2006/ pre-election campaigns to start | |
| BiH politicians hard to work with in pre-election campaigns, agencies reluctant to manage their campaigns
| Hayat By Snjezana Mulic – Reporter noted that pre-election campaign has already started although it still hasn’t been officially announced, ironically adding that politicians rush to launch or open the smallest road in BiH or a shop and unjustifiably take all credits for themselves. In addition, some of the political parties have asked for the services of Agencies and experts for preparation of their pre-election campaign. According to Mulic, SDA’s Halid Genjac confirmed that the party has engaged Agency that has been organizing the pre-election campaign to German CDU. “We have prepared the political campaign. It is also very important to professionally prepare the advertising material. We still haven’t finished that part but we plan to engage domestic agencies” said Genjac. |
| BiH public preparing for elections; TV stations to organize special showes, but citizens claim that their vote will not depend on TV debates
| Hayat By Zumra Arnautovic – Report features the survey carried in |
| FTV: BiH parties ‘earned’ 15 million from the budget; to pre-election campaign they can spend 2.7 million | FTV By Arijana Saracevic-Helac – Helac says that 15 million KM of state budget was paid in 2005 to BIH political parties, and adds that the practice of financing of political parties is common but wonders can poor BIH afford 15 million KM. She also says that according to available information SDA was allocated with 3.5 million KM, 2 million went to SBIH, HDZ, |
Miscellaneous | |
| Citizens of | Hayat By Mirela Frankovic – Report features Viktor Tomasevic who suffers from cancer. Tomasevic is in the hospital and he is awaiting a surgery that could save his life. Reporter called on all people of good hart to help the boy criticizing the FBiH Fund “Solidarity” which has the money for financing children with cancer. Namely, the fund in 2005 spent only 8000 KM while in its account “there is a lot of money” added reporter. Novka Agic, Director of the Fund, said that three clinics in FBIH send the requests for financing and then “Commission is in session discussing the requests and the approved requests are forwarded to us i.e. the Fund”. Agic added that the fund couldn’t finance any surgery without prior Commission’s consent. Reporter ironically added that the commission allegedly works under the world standards while no one knows who is in the commission. At the same time, citizens of |