01.02.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 1 February 2000

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News Headlines

  • RS Government holds session, dismisses Dragutin Ilic, the Director of the RS Health Insurance Fund
  • SPRS Executive Board issues press release, requests Dodik to annul decisions dismissing RS Deputy Prime Minister Tihomir Gligoric and Dragutin Ilic
  • Dodik, RS Health Minister Rodic comment on Ilic, while Ilic also comments on his own dismissal
  • RS momentarily not in political crisis – Robert Barry
  • Barry meets with Sloga Coalition envoys and envoys of PDP and SDS
  • SNS holds press conference in Banja Luka, they say Ilic and Gligoric dismissals legal – SNS spokesperson Ostoja Barasin
  • SNSD holds press conference in Banja Luka, problems in Sloga Coalition created by attacks on current RS Government – SNSD member Slavko Mitrovic
  • High Representative supports decision of BiH Constitutional Court on BiH Council of Ministers – OHR spokesperson Oleg Milisic
  • BiH Parliament House of Representative do not accept SDP-proposed draft law on BiH Council of Ministers
  • IPTF station in Pale attacked with hand grenade on Monday at 21:00 – Srpsko Sarajevo police
  • IPTF station in Pale attacked with grenade, IPTF requests RS police to find perpetrators – IPTF/UN spokesperson Douglas Coffman
  • OSCE removes two SDA candidates from lists for local election – OSCE spokesperson Tanya Domi
  • Workers of BiH Federation Railway Company strike
  • Nine persons injured in bomb attack in Kalesija
  • Three Serb police officers begin work in Gorazde police station
  • Croat officials in Livno Canton comment on Petritsch decision concerning Croat symbols
  • 346 new houses to be built in Bugojno Municipality
  • Donor countries give KM 80 million for reconstruction and development of agriculture in BiH Federation
  • Former IC official in Central Bosnia Martin Garrod testifies in the ICTY that Dario Kordic was top leader in Central Bosnia during the war
  • Eurocorps to take command of KFOR – French Defense Minister Alain Richard
  • Session of Kosovo Interim Administrative Council interrupted
  • EU Parliament to approve DM 64.5 million for UNMIK work
  • Two million USD for reconstruction of infrastructure in Kosovo
  • Hatred reigns between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo – former commander of Czech contingent KFOR comments
  • Problem in relations between Serbia and Montenegro in Yugoslav federation should be resolved through the Constitution
  • Education workers strike in Belgrade
  • Private bus operators strike in Belgrade
  • World news
  • RS Chamber of Commerce President Nedeljko Suzic meets with Deputy High Representative Ralph Johnson
  • Central Heating in Banja Luka
  • Sports and weather
  • BiH Constitutional Court cannot work without all nine justices – BiH Constitutional Court justices Marko Arsovic and Vitomir Popovic
  • Croatian component of BiH Federation Army will not give any additional information to SFOR – Deputy BiH Federation Defense Minister Miroslav Prce
  • OSCE will resolve 6,000 complaints of refugees now living in Yugoslavia because they cannot vote in upcoming BiH local election
  • Euro to replace DM in Montenegro
  • ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte meets with UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Del Ponte says that she does not have any evidence that NATO violated international conventions during Kosovo bombing
  • US against independent Kosovo – US official
  • Kosovo Albanians continue to attack Serb homes in Kosovska Mitrovica region – Tanjug
  • Orthodox church burned in Orahovac
  • UN Police arrest two Serbs in Orahovac
  • Violence and anarchy rule in Kosovo – Democratic Reform Party of Albanians
  • World news