29.12.1999

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 29 December 1999

News Headlines

  • 12-year-old dies in Kakanj as result of food poisoning
  • BiH Federation House of Representatives fails to agree on Border Service Law
  • BiH Federation House of Peoples session cancelled when majority of Croat delegates fail to attend
  • World news
  • Stanislav Galic and Zoran Vukovic face ICTY for first time, both plead not guilty
  • Floods threatening all over BiH
  • Situation on Neretva River shores stabile
  • World news
  • HDZ to determine their presidential candidate on 5 January
  • 45 families return to Brcko, Farrand and Petritsch efforts welcomed
  • Bicakcic evaluates situation in BiH on annual press conference
  • SDA denies involvement in manipulating elections
  • 44 companies privatized and 28 in process – Sarajevo Canton Privatization Agency
  • Pension Fund representatives demand BiH Federation Government session to discuss their conclusion from 2 September
  • BiH institutions must have access to papers SFOR confiscated in Mostar
  • SDP expects to become number one political party after October 2000 elections – Lagumdjija
  • Zubak addresses letter to Petritsch, asking him to negotiate dispute between BiH Council of Ministers and BiH Presidency
  • HDZ candidate for 11th electoral unit Milan Kovac pleased with pre-election campaigning throughout BiH
  • Culture
  • Bosniak delegates in BiH House of Peoples review Izetbegovic decision
  • Essential computer systems in BiH safe from Y2K problem
  • Ganic meets with representatives of Brcko Municipality for talks on progress in implementation of Brcko arbitration decision
  • IPTF warns police officers in Central Bosnia Canton to wear proper insignia or face consequences
  • All achievements of IC in BiH were imposed – Society for Endangered Peoples of BiH
  • Bicakcic’s statements on Abdic extradition from Croatia aimed at stopping DNZ progress in Una-Sana Canton News Summary

BiH institutions must have access to papers SFOR confiscated in Mostar

The Party for BiH demands that central BiH institutions ask for insight into documentation confiscated by SFOR in Mostar, which contain anti-Dayton activities of the National Security Service (SNS) and its connections to the Croat information service (HIS). The party President assessed the past year as unsuccessful in regards to return, saying that there cannot be true return without security for returnees.

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All achievements of IC in BiH were imposed – Society for Endangered Peoples of BiH

“All of the achievements made by the International Community in BiH over the last four years have been forcefully implemented” concluded the Society for Endangered Peoples in BiH. In its report on human rights in BiH, the Society assessed that those who caused the death of more than 200,000 civilians were rewarded, because BiH is actually a state divided into three ethnic regions with separate armies, police forces, and judicial systems.

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Bicakcic’s statements on Abdic extradition from Croatia aimed at stopping DNZ progress in Una-Sana Canton

The Democratic People’s Community (DNZ) reacted to BiH Federation Prime Minister Edhem Bicakcic and Interior Minister Mehmed Zilic’s statements regarding the readiness of Croatia to extradite Fikret Abdic to the BiH Federation judicial system, saying the statements are nothing more than another attempt to prevent the expansion of the DNZ in Una-Sana Canton. At a press conference in Velika Kladusa on Wednesday, DNZ officials expressed their disappointment with the statements of some politicians, who helped the SDA regime in public slandering of Fikret Abdic and the DNZ.

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