05.11.2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 5 November 2000

TV BiH News Headlines:

  • Workers of Tuzla shoe factory Aida cancel general hunger strike they scheduled for this Thursday
  • Head of Rudo Municipality Milko Colakovic and Sarajevo Canton Governor Mirsad Kebo discuss how to improve returns to Rudo Municipality
  • 15 Croat families return to Gornji Vakuf Municipality through realisation of UMCOR reconstruction project (02:49)
  • New RS Criminal Code prescribes penalties for evictees that devastate property they are leaving (01:57)
  • BiH Presidency reached agreement on official BiH national holidays but draft law is still bogged down in BiH Parliamentary House of Representatives (02:52)
  • Withdrawal of US troops from Balkans would not make too much sense – Richard Holbrooke for Le Mond (00:15)
  • Yugoslavia appoints new government on Saturday
  • World news
  • Culture

TV BiH Election Chronicle:

  • We have reached point where change in BiH is unavoidable – LDS BiH rally in Bihac (01:09)
  • LDS BiH candidates visit Vrelo Bosne, a park west of Sarajevo, to present party’s platform (00:22)
  • LDS candidates meet with citizens on streets of Sarajevo to discuss city’s traffic and infrastructure problems (00:16)
  • BOSS to lodge complaint with IC institutions concerning OSCE shielding of SDP – BOSS press conference in Tuzla (00:52)
  • BiH has chance if it carries out restitution, then full privatisation, followed by implementation of European laws and establishment of economy based on small businesses – BiH Republicans main rally for Zenica and Kljuc areas (01:08)
  • Haris Silajdzic promotes Party for BiH platform at rallies in municipalities of Gorazde and Sarajevo’s Novi Grad (00:32)
  • Party for BiH to initiate establishment of development fund financed by cantonal budgets in BiH Federation – Haris Silajdzic at election campaign rally in Gorazde (00:45)
  • DNZ declares victory at its final election campaign rally in Velika Kladusa, stating reconciliation among local people is still party’s first imperative (01:03)
  • SDP hold rallies in Una-Sana Canton at which SDP President Zlatko Lagumdzija declares SDP victory in upcoming November General Election
  • There can be no economic restructuring without new education system, unified in both entities, free of ideological, cultural and nationalist characteristics – SDA Tuzla Canton Board roundtable on education (00:48)
  • SDA Gornje Podrinje Board holds rally in Sarajevo’s Novi Grad Municipality, SDA official Sulejman Tihic says SDA strategic goal is to return everyone to their pre-war homes
  • Constituents of people in BiH has been won through political fight and Alija Izetbegovic’s initiative, which will obligate RS to become multiethnic entity in accordance with Dayton agreement and international charters – Sulejman Tihic at Sarajevo rally (01:02)
  • SDA achieved great deal in realisation of Dayton peace agreement’s Annex 7 – SDA rallies in Bosanska Krupa and Kljuc (00:52)
  • SDA assisted in returns to Teocak and Ugljevik municipalities, and will continue to work in this regard – SDA rallies in Teocak and Ugljevik municipalities (00:58)
  • It is good when positive changes happen with or without us, but then ruling parties become aware of this and things like Brcko demonstrations, Croat referendum and dirty business with posters begin to happen – NHI official Ivo Lozancic during open forum Nova Bila (01:12)
  • GDS President Ibrahim Spahic holds rallies throughout nine Sarajevo municipalities to present GDS initiative on establishing Sarajevo as European centre of culture, economy and other (00:25)
  • Regardless of possible IC sanctions against HDZ, Croat referendum will be held as planned – HDZ President Ante Jelavic at rally in Orasje, adding that, if it is necessary, Presidency of All-Croat National Congress can act in capacity of Presidency for BiH Croats (00:16)
  • Weather
  • Sports

TV BiH News Summary:

BOSS to lodge complaint with IC institutions concerning OSCE shielding of SDP – BOSS press conference in Tuzla (00:52)

The Bosnian Party (BOSS) held a press conference in Tuzla to stress that the party is right when it claims the OSCE Mission to BiH is shielding the unstable SDP political option. The OSCE’s undemocratic conduct can also be proven by sanctions it has taken against BOSS President Mirnes Ajanovic due to his allegedly offensive statements even if it was SDP officials who violated PEC rules with false statements and insults directed at Ajanovic. That is why BOSS will report this OSCE conduct and the entire matter to the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, Council of Europe, Peace Implementation Council and other relevant IC institutions. The BOSS will demand the revision of all decisions by the OSCE favoring SDP and of detriment to opposition candidates and parties.