Belgrade – After Richard Holbrooke spent several hours talking with Milosevic on the political solution of Kosovo crisis, he left Milosevic’c office late afternoon through the side exit to travel to Brussels. He called the whole situation surrounding Kosovo “alarming”. It is expected that the NATO Council will, on the bases of the Holbrooke information, start discussion on the final Kosovo decision tonight at 21,00hrs. Around 22,00h Javier Solana will announce the NATO decision.
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Brcko – The BiH correspondent from Orasje informs that Ambassador Robert Farrand will leave Brcko tonight.. The representatives of the humanitarian organisations have already left the town. The members of the British and American Embassy have been evacuated from Belgrade today. Strengthened movements of the American soldiers serving with SFOR have been noticed in Brcko The International Monitors have left Kosovo, where extraordinary tensions are visible. The FRY powers are concentrating around Pristina. In the NATO base Aviano in Italy, everything is ready for action, only a signal from Brussels is expected.
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Zagreb – Political earthquakes are not stopping on the territory of our other neighbour. After Sarinic and Greguric have been moved from their functions in the intelligence service, Andrija Hebrang, Defence Minister resigned. As the reason for his withdrawal from the position of the Deputy President of the HDZ and the Head of the Medical Consilium of the Croatian President, Hebrang stated Tudjman’s loss of complete confidence in him. Without confidence it is impossible to perform these tasks, reads Hebrang’s letter to Tudjman..
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Capljina – 35 Bosniak families returned today to two Capljina municipalities: Stanojevici and Zmaglovine. The wish of the refugees to return to their burned homes seems to be stronger than all obstacles to the implementation of Annex 7 of the DPA., a presenter commented.
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Mostar – Mostar Government decided at today’s meeting to carry out a rotation of the Mayor and his Deputy as designated in the Statute of the Town, at the next session of the Town Council. Refugee return was also discussed at the meeting.
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Sarajevo – Neither we nor the IC are satisfied with the implementation of the Sarajevo Conference decisions, Mirza Hajric, Sarajevo Declaration Implementation Council’s Steering Board, told a press conference today. He added that due to many problems, there should be more understanding for the Sarajevo Declaration issue. He also stressed that the Sarajevo authorities enabled returns without incidents. He pointed out that the two way returns are a key problem in all returns in our country.
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Sarajevo – Edhem Bicakcic, Federation Prime Minister in his letter to the HR warns that the realisation of the National Bank liquidation in the way that the Liquidator Dudley suggests, would cause far reaching consequences.
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Tuzla – The Trade Union Council of the Coal Mine Tuzla, together with the Management Board decided at its extraordinary meeting that the Federal Government and the Mine Leadership must do their best to secure funding for their June and August salary and cancelled their announced strike.
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With the help of USAID the region of Zepca, Zavidovici, Maglaj and Tesanj will be provided with enough electricity. Investing a million convertible marks, USAID supports the return process to this region in the best way, Craig Back told journalists.
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Sarajevo – BiH Trade Union demanded in writing from the OSCE Head of the Mission, Robert Barry, to accelerate the constitution of the authorities on all levels according to the election results.
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There follow reports from the parties’ press conferences.