Latest radio news broadcast at 12.00 on 7 October
| RADIO HERCEG-BOSNA (12,00hrs) | BH Radio 1(12,00 hrs) |
| UHSP on 3rd Croat channel in BiH | Int arrest warrant against Jelavic |
| Paravac on 3rd entity [TV BN] | |
| HDZ Main Board, Presidency meet | Cavic on |
TV news broadcast on 6 October
| RADIO HERCEG-BOSNA(18,00hrs) | TV PINK (18,00 hrs) | BHT 1 (19,00 hrs) |
| Jelavic sentenced | Jelavic sentenced | Jelavic at Large, sentence for Jelavic |
| HDZ on verdict to Jelavic | Cengic’s case update | New trial for Hasan Cengic? |
| Prosecutor on Cengic case | Reactions on RSNA’s decision | |
| | OHR welcomes RSNA’s decision | Reactions to police reform adoption |
| NTV Hayat (19,00 hrs) | FTV (19,30 hrs) | RTRS (19,30 hrs) |
| Jelavic sentenced | Jelavic at Large, sentence for Jelavic | Del Ponte on Mladic and Karadzic |
| SIPA searches for Jelavic | New trial for Hasan Cengic? | |
| HDZ to elect new Leader? | BiH CoM in session | Reactions on new police concept |
| Cengic’s case update | | Issues on banking system |
| Oslobodjenje | Ante Jelavic run away after he had been sentenced to 10 years in prison?! |
| Dnevni Avaz | Police in search after Jelavic |
| Dnevni List | State agents in search after Jelavic |
| Vecernji List | Jelavic on the run |
| Slobodna Dalmacija | Jelavic sentenced to 10 years and disappeared’ |
| Nezavisne Novine | Ante Jelavic on the run |
| Glas Srpske | They are both mother and father to themselves [feature story on four minor who live alone, without any supervision of adults] |
| EuroBlic | Ten years of prison for Jelavic |
| Vecernje novosti | Features Serbian related titles |
| Srpski Nacional | Features Serbian related titles |
LATEST NEWS OF TODAY | |
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| FENA – Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Adnan Terzic addressed |
| HDZ Presidency/Main Board to hold session
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Judicial issues: trials | |
| 10 years imprisonment to Jelavic / Jelavic has ran away?; McNair issues arrest warrant after Jelavic
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| SIPA is looking after Jelavic/VL: Jelavic hides in
| FTV, Hayat, BHT 1 by Boris Grubesic – Herzegovian Neretva MoI spokeswomen Lejla Trivun stated that Jelavic had contacted police on Wednesday, but she couldn’t give any more information about him. SIPA is now searching for Jelavic. State Border Service has been instructed to increase control of border crossings. Dnevni List pg 3 ‘SIPA only took part in search’ not signed – SIPA’s spokesperson Admir Katica said that SIPA does everything in order to find Jelavic. Vecernji List pg 4 ‘Jelavic hides in Croatia?!’ by Z. Kresic carries that according to unofficial information, Jelavic has gone to Croatia in order ‘to hide from a new lynch that he has been exposed to since last year’s arrest’. |
| Relota: Jelavic should not be punished for fighting for Croats; HDZ: Verdict against Jelavic is monstrous
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| Comments on Jelavic’s verdict by Muselimovic, Vrankic, Tadic; VL op-ed: Verdict agst Jelavic is revenge for politics he symbolized
| Vecernji List, pgs 2-3 ‘Muselimovic: Commemoration to judiciary’, by Z. K. – Former Jelavic’s attorney and President of FBiH Bar Association, Josip Muselimovic, calls a verdic a commemoration for the BiH judiciary. Vecernji List pg 3 (no headline) FBiH Finance Minister, Dragan Vrankic: “It is a big punishment. I head the prosecutor saying that somebody must be held accountable so the citizenry could see that ‘big ones’ are accountable too”. President of HSS, Marko Tadic: “I am not entirely convinced that our judiciary is independent and that its decisions are based on facts”. Vecernji List pg 2 ‘Revenge and not struggle against corruption by P. Grubisic condemns a verdict pronounced against Ante Jelavic and the author claims that this verdict is more revenge for disobeying politics that Jelavic was implementing and symbolized than a showdown with corruption and organized crime. |
| Prosecutors ass for renewal of trial of Hasan Cengic | |
Police reform | |
| Bukejlovic: agreement undefined, will be problem to implement it; Terzic: Bukejlovic is irrelevant in interpreting police reform
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| Comments: Tihic: some dilemmas left; HDZ: nothing disputable in proposal;
| Oslobodjenje pgs 4-5, mentioned on cover ‘Only OHR firmly trusts Cavic’, mentioned on cover – Daily carries reactions after the RSNA adoption of the police reform concept proposed by Dragan Cavic. SDA present Sulejman Tihic says that proposal poses some dilemmas and that it should be more clear, announcing SDA Presidency is yet to take an official stance. As for HDZ, there is nothing disputable in this report, said the spokesperson for the party Miso Relota. |
| RS Press feature analysts: great IC pressure; how come police reform now acceptable?
| EuroBlic pg RS2 ‘Bukejlovic is angry’, announced on cover ‘Bukejlovic is angry at Cavic’ by Rajna Radosavljevic – Inset ‘Pressure’ – political analyst Tanja Topic thinks the pressure IC had exerted was too great and resulted in no other choice for RS authorities but to adopt the reform. She expressed regret that BiH missed its chance to launch |
| Cavic confirms he and Dodik presented agreement to IC
| Glas Srpske pg 5 ‘We rejected changes’ by Beta, Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘Dodik an I have submitted the text on police reform’ by Beta, Vecernje Novosti pg 4 ‘The end of Srpska?’ inset ‘Crucial meeting’ by E. V. N., EuroBlic pg RS2 ‘Bukejlovic is angry’, announced on cover ‘Bukejlovic is angry at Cavic’, inset ‘Cavic and Dodik decided in Sarajevo’ by Rajna Radosavljevic – RS President Dragan Cavic had confirmed that he and SNSD leader Milorad Dodik offered the text of the agreement to IC representatives for a consideration, demanding from them to accept it without any changes. |
| Jovicic: Betrayal of RS
| EuroBlic pgRS2 ‘Jovicic: RS parliament’s decision is equal to a betrayal’ by D. S., Vecernje Novosti pg 4 ‘The end of Srpska?’ inset ‘Cavic as Ribicic’ by E. V. N. – Spokesperson of HQ for protection of RS Constitutional Position Slavko Jovicic said the decision on police reform agreement was equal to a betrayal since it will abolish RS MoI and lead to creation of a unitary BiH. |
| Terzic on future activities regarding
| Dnevni Avaz, pg 2 ‘Dedication of all in BiH for European path has won’, by E. Sarac – In a statement for Avaz, the Chairman of BiH CoM, Adnan Terzic, says it is very good the RSNA adopted the basic European principles regarding the police reform, however he notes that the procedure is not over yet, since the BiH and FBiH parliaments have to adopt the agreement proposed by Dragan Cavic, still Terzic sees no reason why the agreement would not be adopted. Terzic says that the next step is to get the green light from the EC for the start of the |
| OHR welcomes RSNA adoption of the police reform
| PINK by Ljubisa Davidovic – OHR welcomed the BiH House of Peoples and the RSNA decisions on adopted police reform principles and PBS law. OHR Spokesperson Ljiljana Radetic said that EC has confirmed that adopted proposal meets the conditions EC has set and which would enable the EC to recommend the launch of |
| NN int with HR: BiH will get a single police structure in five years
| Nezavisne Novine pg 5 ‘BiH will get a single police’ announced on cover ‘Police in BiH will be unified in five years’ by M. Cubro – In an interview to NN, HR Paddy Ashdown claims RS, by adopting the police reform, avoided severe sanctions that should have been decided upon at |
| McElhaney: There is much left to be done [for
| RTRS, Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘There is much left to be done’ – US Ambassador to BiH, Douglas McElhaney, commented there is a lot left to be done in regard to the |
| Rycroft:
| Oslobodenje pg 5 ‘negotiations can start this year’ – The UK Ambassador in BiH, Matthew Rycroft, welcomed the RSNA decision on police reform. In a statement to daily he added that this will enable the |
| Rehn, Solana welcomed the police agreement
| PINK, Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘A large step towards EU’ by A. Sekulic – EU Enlargement Commissioner Ollie Rehn and EU High Representative Javier Solana welcomed the RSNA’s adoption of the police reform proposal based on three EC principles. He said that BIH now met the conditions EC has set for the launch of |
| EC’s official Priebe: We’ll continue to monitor situation on police, PBS before recommending
| BHT 1 late news edition featured Reinhard Priebe, EC Director for the Western Balkans, who commented that the adoption of police agreement by the RSNA has been a very positive step and added EC is to continue monitoring developments in course of this and PBS reforms in the next several weeks. If the progress continues, EC will give its recommendation for start of negotiations on |
| PINK, RTRS wonder why RSNA found police reform acceptable now?
| PINK by Dragica Tojagic –Reporter noted that RS citizens still do not understand why RS was utterly rejecting police reform principles for more than a year and than suddenly changed their opinion adding that they wonder if any of the adopted principals differ at all from the originally proposed ones. RTRS by Biljana Knezevic– Reporter stressed this sudden change of the stance, is a result of a secret meeting in |
| NN op-ed welcomes adoption of agreement
| Nezavisne Novine op-ed pg 7 ‘Historical “yes”’ by Dragan Risojevic – NN editorial welcomes the adoption of the agreement on police reform and says this event sends out the message to the world that things here are not after all always black. |
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| Dnevni Avaz, pg 3 ‘It turn for |
| DL on background of Cavic’s proposal on police reform
| Dnevni List pg 5 ‘Subsequent decision on police regions’ by Z. Jukic comments on the police reform proposal by RS President Dragan Cavic and the author says that by temporary giving up one out of 3 EC principles, the EC has made a sort of concession to Cavic and |
| VL on police reform: Ashdown and Cavic deceived public
| Vecernji List, pg 6 ‘Ashdown and Cavic deceived public’, by Miroslav Vasilj – Commenting on the police reform proposal adopted by the RSNA, the author says it does not specifically say that the future police regions will be crossing the IEBL, which was, according to Vasilj, one of major EC pre-requisites. VL goes on to say Paddy Ashdown however stated on Thursday that the police regions will cross the IEBL, but was denied by Serb politicians, who called upon the (Cavic) proposal saying that it does not specifically state that. Moreover, Vasilj argues that the five-year period for the implementation of the agreement will buy additional time for the Serb side, arguing that agreement between the RS and OHR saves mandates of RS President Dragan Cavic and HR Ashdown. |
| VL on RSNA’s decision: Minimum compromise to approve start of
| Vecernji List, pg 23 ‘Compromise for RS’, by Dejan Jazvic – Commenting on the police reform proposal adopted by the RSNA, Jazvic argues that the RS authorities, by adopting it, escaped one of scenarios according to which the IC was ready to abolish the RS. Still, the author says the agreement does not provide some important answers, namely what the future police regions will look like and what the competences of the entities are. Jazvic concludes that the agreement is obviously a compromise, which is a minimum of what the EC requested to approve the start of the |
| Feral op-ed on police reform:
| Feral pgs 32 and 33 ‘Hostages of Serb batons’ by I. Lovrenovic – Commenting police reform implementation and general BiH political situation, author implies that |
Other political and economic issues | |
| RSNA in session: launch of initiative to amend RS Const.; Law on Amnesty adopted; Ceko’s mandate extended
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| RSNA rejects transfer of banking supervision authority to Central Bank
| RTRS By Nada Arlov – RS Government discussed the information on BiH Central Bank’s initiative for transfer of banking supervision authority to Central Bank. RS Government decided against this initiative, since, as in accordance with the Constitution, the banking system in under authority of RS. RS Government has sent a letter to PDHR Lawrence Butler and confirmed it on Thursday’s session, stressing that this demand is unconstitutional and instead of the abolishment of the RS Banking Agency it suggested expansion of the authorities to surveillance of other financial institutions in RS. “Banking sector is singular, but we can’t merge institutions over night and hope that it will certainly contribute to better work,” said RS Minister of Finances Svetlana Cenic. However, experts, such as Borislav Bijelic, claim that centralisation of surveillance over Banks is indisputable and that without it there can be no association with the EU. OHR Spokesperson Ljiljana Radetic said: “This is not a political issue, it is about finding most functional banking system that would better protect interests of users”. Cenic said that she doesn’t believe in the statement by the PDHR Larry Butler that centralised system would contribute to decrease of interest rates. “That simple merge of the agencies will bring decrease of interest rate. I am economist and I would like if some one with more expertise then me would explain how,” stated Cenic. While Ministry of Finances see the solution in better coordination of existing agencies with the Central Bank, experts are wondering why this much struggle for Banks which were sold out a while ago. Nezavisne novine pg 6 ‘Banking system under jurisdiction of entities’ by P. Klincov – also covered. |
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| BHT 1, Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Dnevni List pg 4 ‘BiH on way approaching EU and NATO’ by I. Glibusic– Political Directors of Peace Implementation Council’s Steering Board are meeting in Sarajevo on Thursday and Friday to discuss BiH progress in reform processes, especially after passing of defence and police reform and of Law on PBS. During the meeting, Directors will discuss revitalization of BiH economy, implementation of arbitrage decision on Brcko, success of Srebrenica Working Group and issues in education reform. Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘Patijn instead of Ashdown’ by VOA – the article speculates that a possible successor of HR Ashdown might be Dutch Michel Patijn. Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘Election of new HR postponed’ – DA learns that |
| Avaz: Martens wants annulment of election of Covic
| Dnevni Avaz, pg 3 ‘Martens wants annulment of election of Covic’, mentioned on front ‘Dragan Covic illegally at helm of HDZ’, by S. Numanovic – Avaz claims to be in possession of a letter that the President of European People’s Party (EPP), Wilfried Martens, sent to the Presidency of HDZ BiH, in which he notes that the election of Dragan Covic for the HDZ President was irregular, demanding from the HDZ Presidency to organize new elections that would be free of irregularities. Inset ‘Covic: There is no repetition of Congress’ carries Covic as saying that he does not think about repetition of the HDZ Congress, arguing that pre-requisites are not met since the Congress is held every two years. Regarding EPP’s position, Covic says it is an attempt to destabilize the HDZ and hush up the Croats’ efforts to initiate constitutional reforms. Other inset ‘Surplus of votes in ballot boxes’ carries a member of HDZ Presidency, Vinko Zoric, who says the elections should be repeated, claiming that 541 people were eligible for voting for the HDZ President, however there were 544 votes in the ballot boxes. Dnevni List pg 5 ‘New elections for President demanded’, mentioned on cover ‘To organize new elections for HDZ President’ by M. Batarello also covered the EPP letter to HDZ and DL says that EPP expects that HDZ would reply to this letter by November 7, 2005 when the meting of the EPP political department should take place. DL says that the HDZ Presidency session takes place on Friday (today) and it has been expected that the EPP demand would be discussed at this session. |
| Covic on verdict agst Jelavic, const. changes, police, Martens’ letter
| Vecernji List pg 5 ‘Verdict against Jelavic is bed message to Croats’, mentioned on cover ‘3 Federal units solution for BiH’ by Z. Kresic carries an interview with HDZ President Dragan Covic who condemns verdict pronounced against Ante Jelavic and says that the Jelavic’s justified struggle for equal position of the Croats people could not have been a subject to the trial. Talking about the constitutional changes Covic says that he is afraid that a compromise between the Serb and Bosniak people might damage Croats permanently and he added: ‘This would mean elimination of Cantons and survival of entities and this is absolutely unacceptable for us. For this reason we want to say that the middle authority level cannot be anything less then 3 Federal units.’ Asked to comment on the agreement on the police reform, Covic says that they are satisfied if this agreement is good for the EU and if it opens the way for the European integration. VL inset ‘Convention can take place in 2 years’ carries Covic commenting on European People’s Party demand for new HDZ President elections and he says that the Convention can take place in 2 years or earlier if some HDZ members would demand it according to the regular procedure. He added: ‘This is obviously about the scenario for de-stabilization of Croats and HDZ so that we do not take part in the process of constitutional changes but be occupied with ourselves instead.’ |
| HDZ Presidency, HDZ Central Board to hold sessions today
| Dnevni List pg 5 ‘Finally discussion on Bozo Ljubic’s appeal’ not signed announces the HDZ Presidency session that is to take place on Friday (today) and DL says that they will discuss constitutional changes. After this session the session of the HDZ Central Board would take place in order to discuss Bozo Ljubic’s appeal on regularity of the elections for the HDZ President and adoption of the Law on public RTV system as well as steps that representatives would take in order to protect interests of the Croat people. |
| BN TV int with Paravac: big const. changes could destabilize BiH
| TV BN ‘Puls’ current affairs – Serb member of BiH Presidency, Borislav Paravac, stated last night (Thursday) in an interview to Bijeljina based TV BN that big constitutional changes could de-stabilize BiH and that the current constitutional organization must be observed. On situation regarding the BiH Council of Ministers, Paravac says since the |
| SDHR: Pecelj must remove Radomir Lukic by October 10’; Students defend Lukic
| Dnevni Avaz pg 12 ‘Pecelj must remove Radomir Lukic by October 10’, Nezavisne Novine pg 2 ‘Possible measures against Minister Pecelj’ by G. Maunaga– SDHR Martin Ney sent a letter to RS Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic in which he warned him that OHR will be forced to take serious measures against most responsible for breach of the High Representative’s decision on replacement of the Dean of faculty of Law in Eastern Sarajevo Radomir Lukic, if it is not carried out by October 10th. In his latter, SDHR Ney has marked RS Education Minister Milovan Pecelj as most responsible; stressing that Pecelj has enabled Lukic to perform his duties on the Faculty. Glas Srpske pg 3 ‘Students defend professor’ not signed – Students and professors of ES Faculty of Laws think the decision on removal of Lukic was null and void and they sent a letter to Pecelj noting that the professor’s position was protected by the University’s autonomy and was also guaranteed by the Bologna Declaration. |
| Oslobodjenje: ‘Withdrawal of lawsuit against | Oslobodjenje, pg 7, mentioned on front ‘Withdrawal of lawsuit against |