10.06.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 10 June 2000

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News Headlines

  • 54 Serb pre-war residents of Stari Grad Municipality, Sarajevo, visit their homes
  • UN Security Council extends UN Kosovo mission mandate one year
  • KFOR should remain in Kosovo ten years more – Kouchner
  • Kouchner report contains incomplete information on situation in Kosovo – Serb National Council of Kosovo
  • Irrational to expect Kosovo Serb participation in work of Interim Kosovo Administrative Council until they are accorded equal rights in Kosovo – Serbian Orthodox Bishop Artemije
  • KFOR to remain in Kosovo – NATO
  • First anniversary marking end of NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia denoted in Serbia
  • Wreaths placed at graves of victims of NATO air strikes in Aleksinac village, Serbia
  • Yugoslav citizens living in Russia hold rally in Moscow on first anniversary of end of NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia
  • Conference ‘NATO, Yugoslavia and the New World Order’ held in London
  • There cannot be democratic elections in Serbia until terror is stopped – Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO)
  • Media election silence in Montenegro in run up to local elections in Podgorica and Herceg Novi
  • Serbian Education Minister Milivoj Simonovic dies in car accident
  • Macedonian Army raises combat readiness of troops at border with Kosovo – BETA
  • World news
  • RS Academy of Arts and Science members make presentation of works carried out in Srbinje (Foca)
  • UNHCR and RS Pedagogy Institute conducting project on assistance to adolescents in post-war period
  • SDS ready to accept distribution of seats (power sharing) in Banja Luka City Assembly between it, the SNSD and PDP
  • SNS President Dragan Kostic calls on Dodik to schedule Sloga Coalition session before holding of 12 June RS National Assembly session
  • Goran Zmijanac elected acting RS Radical Party (RS RS) President – RS RS Main Board decision
  • Ugljevik Thermal Power Station stops operations due to regular annual technical overhaul
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Spiritual gathering dedicated to Kosovo and its people held at Belgrade main square Republika
  • Five Serbian court justices responsible for draconian measures against Serbian independent media added to official visa blacklist for EU countries – EU in Brussels
  • It is necessary to ensure protection of human rights in Kosovo to end the violence there – German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
  • Gorky’s play ‘On Summer Holidays’ performed at Banja Luka Children’s Theater
  • Sestic Colony of Painters held on 11 June in Banja Luka

(This excerpt is taken from the daily report of the IMC-led Joint Media Monitoring Group (JMMG)).