10.09.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 10 September 2000

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News Headlines:

  • Serb Orthodox Church celebrates 100 years of Banja Luka Eparchy, proclaims Banja Luka Bishop Platon, killed by Ustasha in 1941, to be martyr
  • Celebration of ninth anniversary of RS Army 16th Brigade held in Masici village near Gradiska
  • BiH delegation to participate in UNHCR Annual Conference in Geneva
  • BiH still has not received any money from Stability Pact program; Stability Pact envisions DM 525 million for BiH – Minister for European Integration Bisera Turkovic
  • DOS holds election rally in Pozarevac
  • 83% citizens will participate in Yugoslav election, 45% will vote for Kostunica, 38% for Milosevic, and 10% for SRS’s Tomislav Nikolic – Strategic Marketing Agency using sample of 2,000 citizens of Serbia, without Kosovo
  • Movement for Democratic Serbia President Momcilo Perisic says if opposition cannot implement election results democratically, it may take over its share of power using force
  • Yugoslav Election Commission rejects DOS request to prolong by 48 hours deadline for checking signatures supporting Milosevic candidacy
  • JUL brings criminal charges against Montenegrin Interior Ministry for arresting two JUL members in Podgorica
  • Podgorica Police Chief says JUL members were arrested for writing graffiti in Podgorica
  • Nis Police confiscates election material belonging to OTPOR resistance movement
  • Cacak Police prevents OTPOR from disseminating election material
  • Croatian President Stjepan Mesic comments on Yugoslavia elections and possibility of political end of Milosevic
  • NHI President Kresimir Zubak says BiH Croats do not feel any difference between Tudjman policy and policy of incumbent Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan
  • Seven year old girl shot in head in Kosovo – KFOR South Sector
  • Group of Kosovo Serbs attacked near Kosovska Vitina
  • KFOR confiscates weapons in Perane village fired by drunken Albanians – KFOR Center Sector
  • OPEC decides to increase oil production
  • White House supports OPEC decision to increase oil production
  • Croatia to extradite Ante Sliskovic and Tomislav Vlajic, recently arrested on war crimes charges, to ICTY
  • World news
  • Conflicts erupt between two Albanian parties in local elections in Macedonia, voting interrupted in several polling stations
  • SPO Presidency Chairman Niko Perkovic resigns from all party duties, saying party leadership does not support his vote of no-confidence in RS Government
  • Report on Mobile Telephony system in RS
  • RTRS receives two awards in Belgrade Film Festival of Ethno-Film
  • Sports and weather