News Headlines
- World Bank approves new loan of $15 million for employment of demobilized BiH soldiers
- Del Ponte visits Pristina, announces Milosevic’s indictment could be widened
- The Hague Tribunal President Claude Jorda requests more court justices from the UN Security Council
- Serbian opposition asks the West for support
- 20 Serbs injured in conflict with international police in northern Kosovo
- Prlic visits Turkey and discusses international cooperation with officials there
- During two-day visit to BiH, European Parliament delegation warns that international aid will not last indefinitely, and appeals for end of obstructions to refugee return process
- RS National Assembly holds session in Banja Luka, assemblymen adopt agenda
- Explosive device goes off in Travnik Municipal Assembly building, one person injured, investigation underway
- Drvar policeman Ratko Sopic, who was recently shot to death, buried on Wednesday
- Ramiz Hurem, who purchased the Trgosirovina Company in privatization process, is in conflict with company’s workers
- International organizations hold regular weekly press conference in Mostar, officials say that local officials in Mostar have requested reopening of ‘Mostar Five’ case
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- Lagumdzija meets with group of social democratic parties in the European Parliament
- SDA requests OSCE to stop registration and voting of refugees in the municipalities or entities where they only temporarily reside by amending 103 Article of PEC Rules and Regulations
- OSCE Head of Mission to BiH Barry meets with officials of Bosniak Patriotic Party (BPS) and BiH Republican party to discuss preparations for upcoming November elections
- ‘Following IMF pressure, due to non-adoption of measures to improve pensioners’ standard, the Bosnian Party (BOSS) requests BiH Parliament to reject this negative pressure’ – BOSS press release
- BiH Federation Refugee Ministry denies allegations that IMF is putting pressure on BiH Federation Government, due to its decision to improve living standard of pensioning population
- Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz press release informs that four tax inspectors, escorted by two Federal policemen, raided daily’s building without official warrant
- BiH Helsinki Committee sharply condemns tax police raid on Dnevni Avaz building
- Monograph work ‘Zlatni Ljiljan’ promoted in Sarajevo
- Cultural festival ‘Days of Ajvatovice’ opens in Prusac village, west of Sarajevo
(This excerpt is taken from the daily report of the IMC-led Joint Media Monitoring Group (JMMG)).