21.10.2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 21 October 2000, 19:30

TV BiH News Headlines:

  • Kostunica to visit Sarajevo on Sunday and meet with Radisic (00:21)
  • Kostunica’s visit to Sarajevo will help to improve relations between BiH and Yugoslavia – Prlic (00:21)
  • Southeastern Europe Stability Pact Gender Task Force holds roundtable on equality of sexes in politics in Sarajevo on Saturday (01:48)
  • BiH Federation will finance construction of bridge over Neretva River in Capljina (01:54)
  • World news (02:06)
  • News from Yugoslavia (01:26)
  • Interview with President of Coalition for Sandzak Rasim Ljajic, who was nominated as Minorities Minister in new Yugoslav Government (06:40)
  • Two boys wounded by as yet undetermined explosive device in Livno (00:20)
  • Una-Sana Canton Interior Ministry sacks 42 workers who had falsified school certificates (02:21)
  • BiH Elektroprivreda power utility Workers’ Syndicate concludes congress in Zenica (02:03)
  • Returnees to Srebrenica face difficulties in reconstructing their houses due to lack of building material – Head of Srebrenica Municipality Nesib Mandzic (02:13)
  • Slovene Ambassador to BiH Drago Mirosic takes members of diplomatic corps on tour of cultural and historical sites in Sarajevo (00:50)
  • Spiritual Music Festival ‘Fromafest’ takes place in Bosnian Cultural Center in Sarajevo (00:32)
  • War in BiH must be called by its real names ‘aggression’ and ‘genocide’ – Party for BiH President Haris Silajdzic (00:38)
TV BiH News Election Chronicle:
  • Women’s Party BiH protests because alleged war criminal Drago Zekic attended SDP BiH gathering in Srebrenica (00:38)
  • Tourist resorts in Sarajevo area should be sold for cash and these funds used in development projects – LDS BiH (00:22)
  • Closure of BH Press news agency was illegal – BPS (00:20)
  • SDP BiH President Lagumdzija attends roundtable ‘Rights and Values in Europe in 21st Century’ in Vienna (00:24)
  • Brcko District Government and Assembly doing everything in its power to normalise situation in Brcko – Brcko Assembly Speaker Mirsad Djapo at SDP BiH press conference (00:21)
  • HDZ BiH Board Soli asks OSCE and PEC to replace local election commissions in Tuzla Canton (00:15)
  • LDS Municipal Board Bihac congratulates all demobilised and active soldiers on 5th Corps’ anniversary (00:14)
  • Shameful OSCE decisions will not stop HDZ from winning elections – Jelavic (00:34)
  • RS Peasants Party (SSRS) is only political force in BiH protecting interests of peasants – SSRS press conference in Banja Luka (00:17)
  • BiH Republicans condemn recent events in Brcko as manipulation of youth by nationalistic forces in RS (00:22)
  • Fascist idea of Greater Serbia has not been defeated and recent events in Brcko prove this – SDA (00:13)
  • Sports
  • Weather

TV BiH News Summary:

War in BiH must be called by its real names ‘aggression’ and genocide – Party for BiH President Haris Silajdzic
(00:38)

“People use to come to BiH because of Radovan Karadzic, who was indicted for war crimes by The Hague Tribunal, today they come here for a dead poet, Party for BiH President Haris Silajdzic told a press conference in Sarajevo on Saturday. Silajdzic insisted on the use of the terms “aggression” and “genocide” instead of the term “war” because this is used to transform genocide committed in BiH into a plain ordinary ethnic conflict, he told the gathered journalists.

Shameful OSCE decisions will not stop HDZ from winning elections – Jelavic
(00:34)

In spite of the shameful OSCE decision on the election of delegates to BiH Parliament House of Peoples, the HDZ BiH will participate in November elections and is certain of its convincing victory, HDZ BiH President Ante Jelavic told an election rally in Bugojno on Saturday. Jelavic also addressed the issue of preparations for an all-Croats congress and referendum that are due to take place in November.