10/30/2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 30 October 2000

TV BiH News Headlines:

  • Large-scale privatisation begins in BiH Federation Monday; 547 state-run enterprises worth more than three billion KM for sale
  • Employees of Bihac-based Trgovina chain continue hunger strike for unpaid wages
  • Una-Sana Canton Prime Minister Amir Avdic tells TV BiH that hunger strike is not way to resolve problems
  • Sarajevo Canton Prime Minister Beriz Belkic tells 557 Sarajevo TP Marketi workers who have gone without wages for 18 months that Sarajevo Canton Government will provide 300,000 KM as partial resolution of the issue
  • BiH Federation President Ejup Ganic interviews candidates for BiH Federation Supreme Court and Constitutional Court judges
  • First post-war reconstructed mosque in RS opens in village of Kozarusa near Prijedor
  • BiH Commission for Missing Persons starts exhumation of 34 Bosniaks killed in 1992 in village of Grabska near Doboj
  • War-crime trial of Bosnian Serb Milorad Krnojelac, Director of Foca Correction Home during the war, begins in The Hague
  • World news: EU/Russian summit opens in Paris
  • Turkish Ambassador Ahmed Erozan prepares reception for BiH and international officials Monday in Sarajevo on occasion of 77th anniversary of Republic of Turkey’s establishment
  • One-hundred and sixty-four kilos of cocaine, seized by RS police officers one month ago, were destroyed in Banja Luka in accordance with order issued by Banja Luka Municipal Court on 26 October
  • BiH Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic, representing BiH Council of Ministers, expected to visit Sweden and sign protocol on protection of investments
  • BiH Federation and RS Red Cross representatives continue activities to harmonise statutes in accordance with BiH Council of Ministers’ decision on establishment of Red Cross organisation at BiH level
  • Chief of Brcko District Police Administration says inquiry launched against 34 persons suspected of involvement in recent nationalist incidents in Brcko
  • BiH Democratic Party of Disabled Persons congratulates BiH Sitting Volleyball National Team for winning silver medal at Para-Olympic Games in Sydney

TV BiH News Election Chronicle:

  • SDP BiH Vice President Gradimir Gojer assesses participation of top BiH Catholic Church officials in All-Croat National Congress last Saturday in Travnik as manifestation of Church’s direct political support of HDZ BiH
  • NHI BiH says no space for Croats from Central Bosnia and BiH Posavina in so-called BiH Croat entity called for by HDZ BiH at Saturday’s All-Croat Congress (00:37)
  • HDZ BiH denies claims of NHI, HSS and OHR that All-Croat Congress part of HDZ BiH election campaign (00:40)
  • Party for BiH President Haris Silajdzic tells election rally in Breza that entities are retarding development of BiH economy (00:50)
  • DNZ BiH candidate for BiH House of Representatives Ibrahim Djedovic says at election rally in Kalesija that DNZ supports co-existence of different ethnic groups in BiH (00:20)
  • SDP Una-Sana Canton Board officials present SDP initiatives for social reforms at press conference in Bihac (00:45)
  • SDA Central Podrinje Board holds election rally in refugee settlement of Mihatovici near Tuzla to present election program and candidates running in November elections at all levels (00:21)
  • SDA Central Bosnian Canton Board officials tell press conference in Travnik that SDA BiH will do its best to educate citizens how to invest their privatisation vouchers (00:21)
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