News Headlines:
- Election silence period begins Friday at 7:00 am
- Head of OSCE Mission to BiH Barry holds pre-election press conference and calls on all citizens, especially young people, to vote stating that “[n]ewly elected officials must take BiH into Europe”; on HDZ-organised referendum, Barry said if it takes place it would be breach of PEC Rules and Regulations (00:46)
- RS Government concludes preparations for fair and democratic elections have been completed
- BiH Presidency members meet Solana and discuss elections concluding that prosperity must be built upon future not past (02:13)
- “Stable security situation in RS can be expected both during and after elections”- RS Interior Ministry
- UN spokesperson for Banja Luka and Bihac Alun Roberts announced that local police stations have delivered contingency plans for election security to IPTF (01:27)
- Border police to add reinforcements for elections
- BiH Presidency holds session to discuss BiH-Croatian trade agreement
- Radisic meets outgoing Slovenian Ambassador to BiH Mirosic (00:29)
- International Mediator for BiH Shilling says BiH entering difficult economic period
- Shilling meets Radisic to discuss refugee returns and economic development
- Yugoslavia’s OSCE membership approved – News from Yugoslavia
- Outcome of US presidential elections still uncertain – World News
- RS pensioners continue strike over unpaid pensions
- RS Commission for Missing Persons interrupts exhumations from Sarajevo’s Lav cemetery because Sarajevo Cemeteries Oversight Committee refuses to disturb 50 [Muslim] graves underneath which lie remains of Sarajevo Serbs
- High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch‘s car damaged in accident on Zenica-Sarajevo highway; no injuries reported