OHR RTRS News Summary, 11 November 2000

RT RS News Headlines:

  • 172 people dead in Austrian Alps
  • Banja Luka’s Centar 1 polling station reports 65% turnout by 7:00 pm close
  • 42,5% of Banja Luka’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:30 pm at 156 polling stations – Banja Luka Election Commission President Vukasin Boskovic
  • 98-year-old Nikola Loncar votes in Ramici near Banja Luka
  • Unofficial results: 47,4% of Banja Luka’s registered voters cast ballots by 6:00 pm – Boskovic
  • 50% of Trebinje’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:00 pm
  • 43% of Bileca’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:00 pm
  • 60% of Gacko’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:00 pm
  • 38% of Ljubinje’s and 28% of Nevesinje’s registered voters cast ballots by 3:00 pm
  • Serb Sarajevo citizens vote without incident
  • 43% of Bijeljina’s, 57% of Lopare’s and 52% of Ugljevik’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:00 pm
  • 70% of Serb Sanski Most’s, 54% of Kozarska Dubica’s, 55% of Novi Grad’s and 54.4% of Srpska Kostajnica’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:00 pm
  • Brcko voters citizens can cast ballots in 53 polling stations
  • BiH Presidency Chairman and SPRS President Zivko Radisic votes in Banja Luka; he expects that new authority in RS and BiH will support further stabilisation in the two entities
  • RS Vice President and SDS candidate for RS president Mirko Sarovic votes in Lukavica
  • RS Prime Minister and SNSD candidate for RS president Milorad Dodik votes in Laktasi; “[t]his election is election for future” – Dodik
  • SDP BiH candidate for RS president Slobodan Popovic votes in Banja Luka and states he expects changes after election
  • RS National Assembly Speaker Djokic votes in Brcko District; “[t]his election will demonstrate RS’s democratic orientation – Djokic
  • PDP RS President Ivanic expects good election results
  • DSP President Nebojsa Radmanovic votes in Banja Luka, says BiH citizens will decide who will lead them into 21st century
  • People will determine their destiny with this election – SNS President Biljana Plavsic
  • DNS President Kostic expects DNS will gain parliamentary seats
  • SDS President Dragan Kalinic expects better days for RS and BiH
  • RTRS did not record PDP, BOSS and GDS BiH presidential candidates because station did not have information on where they will vote and when
  • BiH Presidency member Halid Genjac votes in Sarajevo and states he expects pro-Bosnian parties will do well
  • BiH Presidency member Jelavic states he expects HDZ BiH election victory after voting in Mostar
  • SDP BiH President Zlatko Lagumdzija expects SDP victory
  • SDA President Izetbegovic votes in Sarajevo
  • BiH Federation Prime Minister Edhem Bicakcic expects SDA victory
  • Haris Silajdzic votes in Sarajevo
  • 50% of BiH Federation registered voters cast ballots by 4:00 pm
  • Petritsch and Barry visit polling stations in Lukavica
  • “It is time for change” – UN General-Secretary Special Envoy Jacques Klein
  • 35% of BiH registered voters cast ballots by 2:00 pm; Barry to hold press conference in Sarajevo’s OSCE Press Centre at 9:00 Saturday
  • PEC prolongs Out of Country Voting deadline until 17 November; former deadline was 11 November
  • OSCE Belgrade Envoy Zivota De Luka states all ballots dated 11 November will be accepted
  • 54.2% of Srebrenica’s registered voters cast ballots by 5:00 pm; Senior Deputy of High Representative to BiH, Ralph Johnston, visits Srebrenica
  • Around 600 poling stations for All-Croat Referendum open at 7:00 am in [some areas of] BiH; Jelavic states he expects referendum to succeed and is not afraid of eventual OSCE sanctions
  • Referendum unnecessary and demeaning – President of Croatia, Stjepan Mesic
  • Prison guards in Nis and Pozarevac organise strike, demanding better living conditions
  • Kosovska Mitrovica Association of Families of Missing and Kidnapped Kosovo Serbs requests Kostunica stop freeing Kosovo Albanians [from Serbian prisons] until question of kidnapped Kosovo Serbs resolved
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