OHR BiH TV News Summary, 24 October 2000

TV BiH News Headlines:

  • BiH Federation and RS government delegations meet in Brcko and reach four agreements concerning implementation of Final Arbitration Decision on Brcko (healthcare, pensions, return of DPs, Brcko District revenues)
  • BiH Federation Prime Minister Edhem Bicakcic holds Speaker of Brcko District Assembly Mirsad Djapo responsible for that body’s lack of clear stand on recent nationalist incidents in Brcko (00:25)
  • Stability Pact Anti-corruption Initiative Team not satisfied with anti-corruption results achieved in BiH
  • BiH Federation House of Representatives adopts amendments to BiH Federation Tax Law
  • RS National Assembly adopts draft labor law and draft law on employment
  • BiH Constitutional Court admitted to Conference of European Constitutional Courts on 22 October this year – BiH Constitutional Court President Kasim Begic
  • Commenting on possible referendum on BiH Croat constitutional status, Sarajevo Law Professor Zdravko Grebo tells TV BiH that referendums can only be called by authorised legislative body
  • World news: Serbian Assembly appoints provisional government
  • Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica admits in interview with CBS Television that Yugoslav soldiers committed genocide in Kosovo
  • Situation in Middle East still tense
  • Re-trial of former Bosniak intelligence service (AID) employee Edin Garaplija and his two associates by BiH Federation Supreme Court completed; ruling to be made in several days
  • Tuzla Municipal Council discusses security situation following series of incidents and street protests
  • Around 120 Bosniak returnees to Foca village of Popov Most, still living in tent-settlement, receive assistance from Bosniaks in Scandinavian countries

TV BiH News Election Chronicle:

  • Croatian Government sends letter to OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna as well as High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch stating PEC rule on election of delegates to BiH House of Peoples not in compliance with certain BiH constitutional provisions (00:35)
  • OHR and OSCE Mission to BiH warn HDZ BiH President Ante Jelavic that his initiative to hold referendum of Croat people is illegal method of changing BiH Constitution (00:45)
  • OSCE Mission to BiH orders Mission and Local Election Commission staff not to participate in activities related to possible referendum on Croat people (00:23)
  • HDZ BiH says in press release that representatives of BiH Croat political parties will discuss constitutional status of Croats in BiH at all-Croat national congress scheduled for 28 October in Travnik (00:14)
  • SPRS senior official Biljana Obradovic-Rodic says elections may be irregular in RS due to strange atmosphere in which election campaign is taking place (00:18)
  • SNSD President Milorad Dodik says RS should establish special relations with Yugoslavia but also with Croatia in order that problems related to refugees and their properties be resolved appropriately (00:22)
  • BOSS requests BiH Federation Government to immediately draft economic and social reform program and deliver it to parliament for adoption (00:22)
  • LDS BiH warns BiH Federation Law on Pre-war Foreign Currency Accounts, defining how these monies can be used in privatization process, has not been published in Official Gazette even one month following its adoption by parliament (00:22)
  • Vitez Chief of Police Zdravko Taraba says anonymous information on explosive device allegedly placed in Vitez hotel during SDP BiH election rally late on Monday false (00:38)
  • SDP BiH Western Herzegovina Canton Board holds inaugural session Tuesday in Ljubuski; Srecko Zulj elected President of Board (00:21)
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