OHR BiH TV News Summary, 17 October 1999

News Headlines

  • Situation in Pakistan
  • BiH Presidency Members plan to visit Slovenia at beginning of this week to establish trade exchange and discuss future economic cooperation
  • Roundtable on Stability Pact Democratization and Human Rights to begin in Geneva on Monday
  • ICTY may send doctors to check Tuta’s state of health
  • World news
  • Serbian opposition Democratic Party President Nebojsa Andric’s house in Valjevo attacked
  • Albanian Foreign Minister Pascal Milo on official visit to Kosovo
  • English Pen Center Vice-president Jasper Ridley is guest speaker at session of Circle 99 Independent Intellectuals, he discusses Balkan intellectuals and nationalism
  • Franciscan Provincial ‘Bosna Srebrena’ organizes conference on organization’s initiative for peace and ecology in Europe
  • Kuwaiti delegation participates in opening of Islamic Cultural Center in Tuzla
  • Party for BiH Zepce Municipal Organization holds election convention, elects new executive council
  • BiH Gas says increased natural gas supply will enable regular supply to citizens
  • BiH Federation Government considers that Brcko must set example for two-way refugee returns
  • 40 houses in Vares villages of Stupni Do and Borovica reconstructed for returnees
  • Pre-war inhabitants of Bosanski Samac Municipal villages of Gremnice, Brvnik, Novo Selo, Gornji Hasici and Turcinovac plan to return after reconstruction of their homes
  • 54 doctors of Sarajevo and Una-Sana Cantons examine Bosniak returnees in Prijedor area
  • Sarajevo Hospital surgeons perform tissue transplantation operation
  • Culture

News Summary

BiH Federation Government considers that Brcko must set example for two-way refugee returns

The BiH Federation Government told Brcko Supervisor Robert Farrand it would give its full support to organized and individual returns from Brcko to the BiH Federation. The Government said this should improve the two-way return situation, which is a pre-condition for implementation of the Brcko arbitration decision. The BiH Federation Government considers that Brcko must set the example for two-way refugee returns in BiH. BiH Federation Prime Minister Edhem Bicakcic stated that the Federation is ready to assist in the resolution of individual cases of persons from Brcko that want to return to the BiH Federation, in order to make room for new returns to Brcko. Bicakcic said that BiH Federation Cantons would be given the priority in resolution of Brcko returns.

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