06.11.2000

OHR BiH TV News Summary, 6 November 2000

TV BiH News Headlines:

  • Jadranko Lucic, suspected of murdering BiH Federation Deputy Interior Minister Jozo Leutar, turns himself in to Sarajevo Canton Court Judge Vladimir Spoljaric
  • BiH Elektroprivreda pays compensation fee for usage of hydro-electric resources to Mostar city administration in accordance with order issued by High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch
  • BiH Federation Constitutional Court begins discussion, initiated by BiH Federation Prime Minister Edhem Bicakcic, on constitutionality of Mostar, Konjic and Jablanica Councils’ decisions on obligatory payment of compensation fee for hydro-electric resources
  • Bihac Trgovina Company employees enter 11th day of hunger strike stemming from unpaid wages
  • Tuzla Canton Government provides 120,000 KM in financial assistance to Aida shoe company workers who announced they will go on hunger strike Tuesday to protest poor economic position
  • Bosniak member of BiH Presidency Halid Genjac visits Banja Luka and meets Deputy Mayor Omer Visic to discuss Bosniak return process to the city
  • Genjac visits Bosanska Krajina municipalities of Kozarac, Prijedor, Bosanski Novi, Dubica and Gradiska and meets local officials to discuss problems of non-Serb returnees to these municipalities, particularly those still living in tent-settlements (02:04)
  • World news: approximately 200 people killed in disastrous traffic accident in Southwest Nigeria
  • Political analysts say turnout may decide 7 November US presidential election
  • Brcko International Supervisor Gary Matthews says threats delivered in recent days to certain officials and their families in Brcko by members of Ravnogorski (Chetnik) Movement will not stop democratic progress in Brcko District (00:07)
  • 60km highway, construction of which was jointly financed by Malaysian Government, Tuzla Canton and Brcko District Administration, opens in Brcko District
  • USAID promotes Zavidovici water-supply system reconstruction, worth 190,000 KM, to break ground and be completed by next spring
  • Six Turkish citizens probably drowned in Sava River Sunday night attempting to illegally enter Croatia near border town of Orasje
  • Twenty police officers, including nine women, who graduated from BiH Federation Vraca Police Academy, receive diplomas
  • Omer Maslic Health-Care Centre re-opens in Sarajevo following 2.8 million KM reconstruction
  • Oil which allegedly leaked from Bosanski Brod Oil Refinery may cause ecological disaster in Sava River – Croatian environmentalists
  • The Croatian Language and the Bosnian Franciscans, book by Zagreb Professor Ivo Pranjkovic, promoted in Sarajevo
  • OSCE Head of Mission Robert Barry says all preparations completed for 11 November elections, adding that OSCE does not expect any problems
  • OSCE’s Barry says possible holding of BiH Croat referendum will be considered serious violation of PEC Rules and Regulations (00:30)

TV BiH Election 2000 News:

  • Party for BiH President Haris Silajdzic and Brcko International Supervisor Garry Matthews open 7.5 km Brcko-Cerik road, construction of which was financed by Malaysian Government (00:23)
  • Party for BiH President Haris Silajdzic tells election rally in Gracanica that party was first to initiate adoption of essential laws at BiH state level (01:02)
  • Party for BiH General Secretary Safet Halilovic says at election rally in Livno that BiH with two entities does not resemble normal state
  • HSP opposes PDP President Mladen Ivanic’s initiative to hold referendum on RS independence (00:18)
  • Srpsko Sarajevo Mayor Predrag Lasica says SNSD presidential candidate Milorad Dodik attempted, in his capacity of RS Prime Minister, to open not yet completed local water-supply system in Pale last weekend, thereby misusing the project for election campaign purposes (00:27)
  • Iranian President Mohamed Hatemi sends best wishes to SDA leader Alija Izetbegovic to acknowledge his retirement from BiH Presidency (00:18)
  • SDA holds election rally in Buzim to present election programs and candidates running in November elections at all levels (00:57)
  • SDA Tuzla Canton Board officials tell election rally in Celic that SDA’s political priorities include strengthening of BiH state institutions, economic progress at all levels and return of refugees (00:43)
  • SDP President Zlatko Lagumdzija tells election rally in Lukavac that party offers no talk of exclusive ethnic territories and adds this is the main difference between SDP and ruling nationalist parties (01:00)
  • SDP holds main election rally for Una-Sana Canton in Bihac to present program and candidates (01:12)
  • BiH Republicans candidates for RS National Assembly hold election rally in Zepa to present programs on economic development and return of non-Serbs to RS (00:26)
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