08/15/1999

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 15 August 1999

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News Headlines

  • Cardinal Vinko Puljic holds holy mass in Osova near Zepce
  • Virgin Mary holiday brings new hope to refugees in Gorice near Brcko
  • Over 1,000 Croats attend holy mass in Zavalje Parish
  • Franciscans call for return to Koraca near Bosanki during holy day celebrations, Zubak only politician in attendance offering help
  • HDZ BiH Presidency member disputes border agreement between BiH and Croatia
  • Acting RS SRS President Mirko Blagojevic says murder of Deputy Pale Police Chief Srdjan Knezevic was organized by Radisic – ONASA
  • UNHCR registers 6,701 minority returns to Livno before 1 June
  • Former MBO leadership illegally enters BHDA premises
  • Maglaj water supply company starts disconnecting delinquent customers
  • Building of Islamic center, resisted by Croats, commences on Travnik west exit
  • Kresevo Municipality place flowers before fallen soldiers’ monument
  • Manifestation ‘Summer in Kamerni’ starts in Sarajevo Sunday
  • German SFOR attacked in Pristina
  • Former Head of Yugoslav Army HQ Momcilo Perisic refutes possibility of civil war in Serbia
  • Yugoslav Vice-president Vojislav Seselj says utilising coupons to pay pensions condemned by New Democracy
  • World news
  • 700 banished Prijedor Bosniaks return on own initiative to rebuild their homes
  • Privatization in ‘Agrokomers’ Velika Kladusa company

News Summary

HDZ BiH Presidency member disputes border agreement between BiH and Croatia

The Croatia-BiH Border Treaty, originally contested by Serb representatives, is now being contested by HDZ BiH Presidency member Ivan Bender, who told Slobodna Dalmacija that Neum municipality would not accept the agreement since it puts Croats at disadvantage.

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Former MBO leadership illegally enters BHDA premises

The BiH Democratic Alternative (BHDA) called an MBO extraordinary congress on Saturday in a last attempt to stop democratic process in the party. The BHDA reminded that the Sarajevo Canton Court confirmed a decision to change the party’s name from MBO to BHDA. The BHDA Presidency also said that former MBO leaders, along with a group of supporters, illegally entered the party premises on Marsala Tito Street on Sunday. The BHDA will demand that security force and the OSCE protect the premises.

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