News Headlines:
- OSCE Chairperson-in-office and Austrian Foreign Minister Ferrero-Waldner arrives to BiH; calls on BiH citizens to vote for change; meets with Barry, Petritsch and Klein to discuss situation in BiH (01:59)
- Ferrero-Waldner and BiH Foreign Trade Minister Kurtovic sign agreement on protection of investments
- Del Ponte and Blewitt meet with representatives of BiH Commission for Missing Persons and reach agreement on new models of mutual co-operation
00:18
- DOS-called general strike of all services in Yugoslavia commences
- Milosevic addresses Yugoslav nation on Serbian state television RTS and assesses DOS wants to sell Serbia to west
- Putin invites Milosevic and Kostunica to visit Moscow in order to reach agreement on ending Yugoslav post-election crisis
- Milosevic has to go – British Foreign Secretary Cook
- Bus traffic between Bijeljina and Yugoslavia stopped due to blockades throughout Serbia
- Tuzla Canton Government must make urgent revision of beneficiaries using apartments built with funds donated by Holland Government (02:00)
- RS Government dissatisfied with investments of vouchers in privatization funds, and assesses that privatisation process must be sped up
01:39
- Representatives of Zenica-Doboj Canton Trade Unions meet with Bicakcic to discuss position of workers, they announce possible strike if demands not met (01:48)
- International Week of the Child, the first week in October, denoted throughout the world
- Una-Sana Canton faced with increasing problem of narcotics use by youth
- Bicakcic and Spain Agency for International Cooperation sign agreement on reconstruction of electric network in Central Bosnia (00:31)
- Association of Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves address open letter to Petritsch demanding him to do same in kind for Bosniak refugees in BiH Federation if he allocates land to Serb refugees in RS (00:19)
- Association of BiH Writers protests over increased taxes for book publication
- Circle 99 Association of Independent Intellectuals protest increased taxes for book publication
- First International TV Festival opens in Sarajevo
- System of preferential voting allows RS citizens to vote for more than one candidate during vote for RS presidential candidates (00:23)
- Citizens polled on preferential system of voting, if they are familiar with it, the majority have no clue (01:10)
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- Ferrero-Waldner supports politicians implementing needed reforms in order to secure continuation of BiH integration with rest of IC (00:55)
- NGOs OKO and Center of Civic Initiatives organise training of 20 field supervisors in Tuzla in frame of “Citizens Supervise Elections’ Campaign (00:28)
- LDS BiH press conference in Sarajevo focusing on problem of youth
00:35
- HDZ candidate for BiH parliament Ante Zelic explains basic guidelines for HDZ political actions (00:38)
- Party for BiH elects Livno municipal advisory board during election assembly in that municipality (00:27)
- SDP Stari Grad opposes concepts of secretaries of local communities (MZ) presiding over local election commissions because they were not elected according to abilities but membership in SDA (00:19)
- SDA Gorazde Canton Board holds press conference to discuss Annex 7 implementation (00:24)
News Summary:
HDZ candidate for BiH parliament Ante Zelic explains basic guidelines for HDZ political actions (00:38)
HDZ candidate for the BiH parliament Ante Zelic explained HDZ basic guidelines for the party’s political actions during a press conference in Sarajevo. According to Zelic, the guidelines include efforts directed toward a unified BiH, the organization of Sarajevo into district comprising 10 municipalities, including Pale, and the return of citizens to Sarajevo regardless of their nationality, as well as equal returns to both BiH entities. He stated that the results of refugee return are not satisfactory, but assessed that Sarajevo is leading the way in comparison to other regions and town. Vencel Lasic, a member of the HDZ BiH Directive Board, said, “The HDZ is not satisfied with the division of Sarajevo into two electoral units because this solution is not optimal.