OHR RTRS News Summary, 1 November 2000

RT RS News Headlines:

  • RS health workers start general strike on Wednesday even if agreement reached with RS Government
  • RS Government holds session in Banja Luka; ministers discuss implementation of RS budget 2000 and RS external debt
  • Sarovic visits Petrovo Municipality and holds talks with officials on economic and political situation in Petrovo
  • Premier Minister Dodik visits Novi Grad company Japra; makes tour of production facilities
  • Premier Minister Dodik meets with DOS Youth Organization in Banja Luka on Wednesday to discuss current political situation; DOS officials to meet with other RS officials to discuss RS political situation as well
  • BiH Treasury Minister Spasoje Tusevljak meets with representatives of German companies in sector of telecommunication and water management
  • Three-member Stankovic family evicted from home in Banja Luka on Monday, now living on street; Radoslavka Stankovic requests assistance from RS ministries for War Veterans or refugees, Banja Luka authorities, Center for Social Care; however, all institutions state not competent for Stankovic family because they are domicile residents
  • Srbinje police and RS Interior Ministry raise charges against four workers of Maglic sawmill for negligence that led to fire which destroyed sawmill
  • RS Government will assist Maglic sawmill with KM 200,000
  • Brcko police charge 36 Serbs for vandalism committed during student protests in Brcko – UN Tuzla office
  • DNS official Borko Reljic denies he was one of organizers of Brcko student protests
  • ICTY raises indictments against Sredoja Lukic and Milan Lukic, suspected in war crimes in Visegrad during BiH war
  • UN General Assembly to discuss Yugoslavia’s membership in UN
  • Great day for Democracy in Balkans and Europe – Holbrooke [commenting on UN General Assembly session on Yugoslav membership in UN]
  • Yugoslav Supreme Defense Council holds session in Podgorica
  • Serb Orthodox Church Sveti Arhijerejski Congress holds special session in Belgrade
  • (Yugoslav) Fund for Humanitarian Rights raises criminal charges in Belgrade County Court against Rade Markovic, chief of Serbian intelligence service, for murder of Slavko Curuvija
  • Milosevic sent list with 50 names of persons to Yugoslav Army HQ that should have been liquidated on night of 5 October; list includes Kostunica – Belgrade weekly Nedeljni Telegraf
  • Yugoslav authorities release Kosovo Albanian poet Flora Brovina
  • Vladimir Kuzancev new commander of Russian contingent in KFOR
  • World news
  • RS Interior Minister Sredoja Novic opens new police station in Berkovici
  • UN/IPTF praise operation of RS police and judicial officials that ended in destruction of 164 kilograms of cocaine – UN spokesperson Alun Roberts
  • RS Elektroprivreda power utility General Director Marko Asanin finds funds to pay August salaries of utility’s employees
  • Culture
  • 1 November is catholic holiday of All Saints Day
  • Sports and weather