30.08.1999

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 30 August 1999

News Headlines

  • Croatia continues cooperation with ICTY
  • Poplasen allows himself to ask Dodik and Djokic to dismiss RS National Assembly
  • CD Coalition denies support to RS Government
  • OHR expects CD and Sloga Coalitions to negotiate solutions for RS Government restructuring deadlines – Ferguson
  • SDP will take stand on restructuring RS Government once it expresses itself on platform for implementation of election results in both entities – party Vice-president Mirsad Djapo
  • Demand for multiethnic government in RS justifiable and NHI will issue standpoint on issue by next Assembly session – Zubak
  • OHR declines Poplasen request for dismissal of RS National Assembly, since he is private citizen lacking any such authority
  • Poplasen initiative is catastrophic move – Dodik
  • Poplasen no longer President, that case being finished long ago – Vasic
  • Poplasen demand illegitimate and illegal – Stanko Stanic (SNS)
  • Kalinic refuses to comment on Poplasen demand
  • Lazarevic evaluates Poplasen demand as constitutional and legitimate
  • Poplasen demand legitimate – Branko Vojnic (SNS)
  • Both parliamentary houses to hold session in Sarajevo on Tuesday
  • MPRI donates $9 million for bringing BiH Army closer to NATO standards
  • Defense Ministry presents Turkish Ambassador with aid for earthquake areas
  • Death toll in turkey 14,000
  • World news
  • 25-year-old Albanian killed north of Pristina
  • Six Albanians beat up two Serbs
  • Orahovac negotiations still uncertain, Russians do not attend
  • Ivanov and Albright meet
  • Kouchner and Holbrooke joined by patrol car in tour through Pristina
  • Yugoslavia will never surrender Kosovo, UN fails to implement agreements – Srboljub Trajkovic, First Army Commander
  • ICG analysis of BiH awards Mirhunisa Komarica, President of Refugee and DP Association, and Sejfudin Tokic as heroes of human rights
  • Tuzla Canton Government allocates small convoy for returnees to Doboj
  • Returnees to north-eastern Bosnia, area with greatest return rates, wait long periods for reconstruction of their homes
  • Ganic meets with US Congress representatives
  • Kuna and DM withdrawing form circulation
  • Nicole announces that KM can be bought and sold in Slovenian bank
  • Covic speaks with US Congress delegation, suggesting formation of mixed revision committee to inspect situation in BiH
  • Delegation of BiH Electro-distribution visits Montenegro for negotiations
  • Vasic refuses implementation of decision to form public information system in BiH
  • Simplified procedure for building flat roofs resolves numerous housing issues – Sarajevo Canton President Mustafa Mujezinovic
  • Seventh year of massacre at Solidarity Square
  • Jelavic presents three candidates for public TV service establishment board
  • Mladen Paunovic funeral on Tuesday
  • Weather
  • Sports

News Summary

Jelavic presents three candidates for public TV service establishment board

Chairman of the BiH Presidency Ante Jelavic nominated Tihomir Begic, Zoran Tomic and Vlatko Meniks as members of the establishment board of the BiH public TV service. Jelavic informed new High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch of the nominations, the deadline for which expired today. Petritsch gave the BiH Presidency members the freedom to nominate three of nine board members. The rest will be complied from international representatives and domestic experts, reports BH Press as taken from HABENA.

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