17.04.2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 17 April 2000

News Headlines

  • EASC rejects SDA complaints on ballot counting process, and OSCE PEC strikes four HSP and one HDZ candidates from election lists – Domi
  • Bicakcic meets with World Bank Resident Mission to BiH Director Helen Paterson for talks on financing new projects
  • Bicakcic meets with Governor of German Rhineland Province Kurt Beck
  • World news
  • Yugoslav dinar to be withdrawn from Montenegrin monetary system
  • RS Government extends deadline for citizens to register for RS privatization process
  • Izetbegovic sends congratulation to President Hafez el-Assad on Syria’s National Day
  • Dutch Government says it is ready to finance refugee return projects in BiH Federation
  • HDZ BiH Zenica Municipal Board condemns destruction of memorial to HVO soldier in Podbrijezje, just outside Zenica
  • Recent act of vandalism in Zenica was performed by those who oppose coexistence in BiH – SDP BiH Zenica Municipal Board
  • Results of municipal election might additionally destabilize situation in BiH due to disproportion between incumbent authorities and election results at different levels of the authority – BiH Liberals
  • LBO to participate in 25 municipal assemblies independently and in 27 with its coalition partners
  • DNZ opposes current concept of privatization in BiH Federation
  • Bicakcic, as a parliamentary deputy, submits draft law on BiH ombudsmen into the procedure of the BiH House of Representatives
  • Expert jury selects logo for BiH Federation RTV
  • Ugljevik Coal-mine and Thermal Power Plant stop production after telephone lines cut
  • BiH Federation Elektroprivreda power utility assists refugee returns by reconstructing power-supply network
  • Serb refugees living in Brcko suburb Klanac prevent Bosniak returnees from rebuilding their pre-war house
  • Bosniak returnees to village of Svjetlicici, outside Doboj, feel abandonment after initial enthusiasm and euphoria of returning
  • Sarajevo city streetcar promoting ‘Britain & Bosnia Festival’ makes its maiden run
  • UN Mission to BiH and US Embassy initiate project ‘Model of the UN’ in order to inform high schools students of the work of the UN and UN Security Council
  • Car spontaneously blows up in Zenica
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Mesic meets with delegation of First Children’s Embassy Medjasi, which is organizing the first Humanitarian Olympic Games
  • Delegation of German humanitarian organizations visits Una-Sana Canton to collect information on the implementation of their home reconstruction projects
  • 250 Serb families apply for return to village of Rastasnica in the Sapna Municipality
  • Parliamentary parties point out flaws in work of District Government and the International Administration
  • All parties are losers in the BiH municipal elections – HNZ President Miljenko Brkic
  • The dispatch of BiH police officers to East Timor peace mission creates the illusion of a united BiH – BPS
  • Association of Refugees from Gorazde demands that their houses in Kopaci be vacated immediately
  • Kotor Varos police still have no information on perpetrators of attack on local Merhamet office
  • BiH House for Human Rights presents its annual report
  • 1-2 May are official non -working holidays in the BiH Federation
  • Travnik and Leipzig continue with their successful cooperation

News Summary

Parliamentary parties point out flaws in work of District Government and the International Administration

Brcko District parliamentary party representatives met with officials of the District’s Provisional Government and Assembly and pointed out irregularities in the work of the government and the international administration in the District. Party for BiH Brcko Board President Munib Jusufovic requested the collective resignation of all officials in the District’s Government and Assembly. SDP BiH Brcko Board President Zekerijah Osmic accused party colleagues and the Speaker of District Provisional Assembly Mirsad Djapo that he hesitated to schedule a regular session of the Assembly because of Brcko Supervisor Robert Farrand.

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