TV BiH News Headlines:
- Law on BiH State Border Service in accordance with BiH Constitution – BiH Constitutional Court press release issued after regular session in Banja Luka
- BiH NGO Council holds session in Sarajevo, initiates discussion on new proposal for law regulating NGOs; session sought to illuminate public on problems due to fact that law not yet adopted
- International Youth Camp opens in Vogosca Red Cross office with young people from BiH, countries in region and US; camp organised by International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC)
- Modern kindergarten and school reconstructed with donations from City of Barcelona officially open in Sarajevo district Mojmilo; Barcelona mayor says it was not only Barcelona’s assistance but that of entire Catalonian people; Sarajevo Canton and Barcelona sign protocol on fraternising
- Sarajevo Mayor Muhidin Hamamdzic not satisfied with fact that protocol signed by representatives of Sarajevo Canton and not by him; in letter to Sarajevo Canton Governor Mirsad Kebo, Hamamdzic complained that belittling of mayoral function continues with his omission
- Session of Yugoslav Federal Parliament starts in Belgrade; Yugoslav Prime Minister-designate Zoran Zizic remarked that Yugoslavia ready to initiate process of establishing diplomatic relations with Slovenia and BiH on same basis as was done with Croatia and Macedonia
- Council of Europe Ministerial Conference ends in Rome with signing of so-called 12th Protocol on General Prohibition on Discrimination; only 25 countries sign
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- BiH Presidency member Halid Genjac visits Visegrad municipality and meets representatives of multiethnic authority to discuss return of Bosniaks to RS; he also meets Bosniak returnees to villages of Kosovo Polje (Visegrad Municipality) and Brstanice (Kurtalici Municipality)
- BiH Council of Ministers Chairman Martin Raguz informs BiH Trade Union that he accepts social dialogue for resolution of social and economic position of BiH workers
- BiH Elektroprivreda power utility informs Petritsch that Monday company will pay compensation to City of Mostar for use of resources connected with hydro-electric potential; Elektroprivreda Herceg Bosna fulfilled its obligations Friday
- VKBI organises promotion of Kasim Trnka’s BiH’s Constituent Peoples, book written after BiH Constitutional Court ruling on constituent status of all three BiH peoples throughout the entire country
- 1,100 workers of Aida Shoe factory begin so-called ’24-hour warning hunger strike’
- 56 employees of Bihac Trgovina on 11th day of strike, say no let up until demands fulfilled
- Kosovo Polje one of Visegrad Municipality villages where Bosniak refugees have returned this year; no lack of will to return but returnees hope authorities will assist them in finding means to live off their own labour, especially prior to upcoming winter
- TV BiH report on Sarajevo State Hospital patient Selma Mosic who suffers from anorexia; wife of US Ambassador to BiH Bonnie Miller express interest in further treatment for Selma – feature story on risks of dieting
TV BiH Election Chronicle:
- OSCE responds to ICG recommendation on SDS election ban by stating that banning warrants extreme violation of PEC Rules and Regulations; SDS will participate in elections (00:22)
- BiH not for any particular ideological milieu, neither left nor right, but for its citizens; because of this, post-election changes must be radical – GDS President Ibrahim Spahic at public forum in Zivinice (00:53)
- Tuzla not model for BiH due to presence of Croat calvary in so-called Lagumdzija-Tuzla model of multi-ethnicity – HDZ Soli Board main rally in Tuzla (01:00)
- BiH has prospects only with multinational parties; forgiving and reconciliation necessary but all war criminals must be brought to justice – first SDP Zvornik Board public forum held in eight years (00:58)
- SDA calls Head of OHR Anti-Fraud Unit Manter Dauster’s demand addressed to Sarajevo Canton Education Ministry to suspend Prof. Nedzad Mulabegovic from Medical Faculty in Sarajevo ‘anti-civilised’ (00:46)
- Party for BiH supporters at rally in Sanski Most welcome speech by President Haris Silajdzic about veterans in which Silajdzic says he will always speak the truth, especially about fact that not all veterans are equal, as ‘one [was] attacking and the other defending’ (01:02)
- If we want to keep 62% of our young people in BiH and not to become a country of old people we need to ensure them two elementary conditions: jobs and a roof over their heads – SDP Central Bosnia Canton Board President Muazim Gerin at SDP rally in Travnik (01:45)
- SDA has thus far held five public forums in Sarajevo’s Stari Grad [Old Town] Municipality; at last one, ‘Current Position of Bosniaks in BiH,’ Bicakcic, Brankovic, Masovic and Zlatar hold addresses (00:30)
- Fight for free, safe, mass refugee return one of party’s main aims and precondition for that is abolishment of entities – Party for BiH rally in Vogosca (00:59)
- Party for BiH expresses astonishment at Mladen Ivanic’s statement in Belgrade that RS free to call for independence if BiH political instability continues to be used as excuse to revise Dayton (00:46)
- SDA rally in Hadzici to be opened by special film documenting recent SDA accomplishments in defence and reconstruction (00:47)
- Real threat in BiH today not constituency of three peoples, but individuals without jobs, salaries or pensions – SDP Vice President Bogic Bogicevic at SDP main rally in Zepce (01:10)
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