09/13/2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 13 September 2000

News Headlines:

  • Saudi Prince Selman Bin Abdel Aziz arrives on visit to Sarajevo
  • One of five Mostar Croats indicted for war crimes, Zoran Soldo, surrenders to police
  • BiH Federation police arrest action on Monday in west Mostar was in accordance with law and was not aimed against Croat people in general – UN spokesman Stefo Lehmann
  • Only one of 12 persons arrested in Croatia on Tuesday was arrested at request of The Hague Tribunal – ICTY spokesman Paul Risley
  • Workers of Livno-Trans transport company block all roads in and out of Livno for three hours early on Wednesday
  • Coal mine ‘Abid Lolic’ in Bila to resume work on Thursday after giving guarantee to returnees in Grahovcici village that their houses will not be threatened by future mine exploitation
  • 350 workers of Sarajevo shoe company ‘Industrija Obuce’ start strike because they have not received salaries since May
  • BiH Postal Service (PTT) to be divided into two parts, while BiH power utility Elektroprivreda into three separate companies before large-scale privatisation of them is carried out
  • Adoption of BiH permanent election law is final precondition BiH has to fulfil for admittance to Council of Europe – Special Envoy of Council of Europe General Secretary Sonja Mousier Starrach
  • Stability Pact Parliamentary Summit concludes session in Zagreb
  • World news
  • Brcko District Government to build 60 apartments for Serb refugees in Grbavica suburb what will enable return of 60 Croat and Bosniak families to city center
  • Zenica-Doboj Canton Interior Ministry issues photograph of man who is suspected of murder in Zenica on Monday
  • OSCE announces that pre-election campaign for BiH General Elections to start on 27 September
  • SDA Presidency adopts campaign plan and strategy for upcoming elections in BiH – party press conference in Sarajevo
  • Eviction process in Vogosca, Sarajevo suburb, going slowly because municipality lacks funding to reconstruct housing fund – Head of Vogosca Municipality Abdulah Ovcina tells SDP BiH press conference
  • IC must develop plan to ensure that essential change takes place after November elections, instead of allowing obstructionist forces to control events – Party for BiH press conference
  • Croat Demo-Christians (HDK) demand resignation of BiH Federation Interior Minister Mehmed Zilic
  • Japanese Government donates DM 7.9 million for development of Mostar public transportation system
  • BiH Islamic Community (IZ) expresses discontent over slow pace of returning IZ property, reconstruction of mosques and safety of its imams (Islamic priests) in eastern BiH, as well as failure of IC to react to all of these issues
  • Sarajevo University students of literature meet with poets from several countries during Day of Sarajevo Poetry festival
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