05/25/1999

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 25 May 1999

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News Headlines

  • Milosevic caving in – Solana at current Brussels meeting attempts to secure refugee return
  • NATO bombs Kraljevo, Batajnica and Jagodina
  • NATO attacks radio relay transmitters near Obrenovac
  • Sabac barracks and Novi Pazar hit on Tuesday
  • Serbian electro-distribution warns of difficult situation with electricity
  • Bad weather conditions preventing NATO from increasing strikes
  • NATO reconsiders sending ground troops to Kosovo
  • New wave of 15,000 Kosovo Albanian refugees arrive at Macedonian border
  • Serbian forces open fire towards Albanian territory
  • Russia claims air operation froze its relations with NATO – Ivanov
  • Holland, Czech Republic and Russia asks for pause in NATO strikes
  • Spanish Prime Minister Aznar meets with Solana and Clark and recommends strikes be continued
  • Talbott arrives in Moscow, NATO campaign causing tensions in Russian-US relations
  • Talbott to meet with Ahtisaari
  • Djindjic informs of deserters in Yugoslav Army and assesses most of people in Serbia would be happy if Milosevic accepts peace plan
  • Clinton implements CIA for special war against Belgrade regime
  • Jovanovic calls Clinton statement ‘wishful thinking’ regarding state among Serbian people – CNN
  • BiH House of Representatives holds 6th session, BiH Federation budget, assistance to ‘poor’ cantons discussed, SDP complains ruling parties refuse to discuss youth support and corruption
  • In addition to Kosovo crisis, IC showed interest in recovery of BiH – Haselock
  • Bicakcic meets with Schilling to discuss Sarajevo Declaration implementation
  • Institute for Constitutional Rights organizes panel discussion on BiH Constitution
  • Japanese Government donates financial means for development of city transportation in Banja Luka
  • World news
  • Tuzla youth commemoration gathering held four years after massacre
  • Bicakcic and Meigs sign memorandum of understanding regarding oil distribution in BiH Federation
  • Rehn requests release of three men from Srebrenica
  • First Srebrenica Municipal Assembly session, to be chaired by Ambassador Barry, scheduled for 7 June – OSCE
  • Bosnian Party discusses electoral law at press conference
  • Democratic Pensioners Party holds press conference
  • Sloga Coalition and RS Government under pressure from opposition parties prior to Donors’ Conference
  • Opposition parties support Zenica journalists
  • Exhumation of Croat bodies from mass grave in Bugojno area continues
  • RS Missing Persons Committee conducts exhumation in Osenik
  • BiH refugees in Denmark talk of their new life and memories, young generations face dilemma of whether to return

News Summary

Sloga Coalition and RS Government under pressure from opposition parties prior to Donors’ Conference

SNS President Biljana Plavsic stated that the Sloga Coalition and the RS Government were under great pressure from opposition parties prior to the Donors’ Conference. “It was unpatriotic to create an atmosphere such as was coming from the SRS and SDS regarding the work of the RS Government prior to such an important event – the Donors’ Conference” Plavsic stated.

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Opposition parties support Zenica journalists

After publication of the open letter from Zenica journalists accusing the local government of violating freedom of the press, some opposition parties – the Workers Democratic Party, NHI, HSP, HSS, BOSS, DNZ, LSP, NBO Republican Party and Democratic Invalids Party, responded by offering their full support to all who favor freedom of the media.

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