OHR BiH TV News Summary, 19 May 1999

News Headlines

  • Chernomyrdin meets with Talbott to discuss solution for Kosovo crisis
  • Talbott participates in G8 meeting
  • Chernomyrdin meets with Milosevic and expresses hope for agreement
  • NATO bombs Gnjilane and Cacak
  • KLA increases number of soldiers on Albanian border
  • Albanian Government orders soldiers not to respond to provocation by Serbian forces
  • Clinton does not exclude sending ground troops
  • Milosevic’s next step would be Vojvodina, and after that probably Montenegro – Robertson
  • Tensions increasing between Montenegrin authorities and Yugoslav Army
  • Annan visits Kosovo Albanian refugees in Macedonia and meets with high officials
  • Annan to visit Albania
  • Schroeder meets with Solana, Germany opposes interruption of NATO strikes
  • Political delegations from both BiH entities arrive in Brussels to participate in Donors’ Conference
  • BiH House of Peoples session interrupted after discussing laws on labor, workers’ rights and sale of apartments
  • Dutch Government close to collapse
  • Duma elects new Prime Minister
  • Izetbegovic meets newly nominated Croatian Minister for BiH Relations Kovac, dual citizenship and other issues discussed
  • Luzanski meets with Kovac
  • Eight Bosniaks accused of terrorism in Bugojno to be sentenced next Monday
  • International organizations accuse HDZ Mostar of blocking reconstruction of Croat houses in west Mostar area
  • Zenica and Busovaca Mayors sign Memorandum of Understanding on repatriation
  • Rehn participates in Bosnian-Swedish conference on refugee return to Tuzla
  • Cardinal Puljic visits Tuzla and participates in refugee return conference
  • Report on two-way refugee return to Livno
  • Elektroprivreda plans to build three hydropower plants on Neretva River
  • SDP considers reasons and responsibility for incorrect issuance of half a million incorrect privatization certificates
  • Party for BiH press conference
  • Citizens Party holds roundtable on electoral law in Sarajevo
  • Bosnian Party calls for resignation of Tuzla Mayor Beslagic over illegal eviction of veteran’s family
  • Report from Cannes Film Festival