12.04.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 12 April 2000

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News Headlines

  • OSCE holds press conference in Sarajevo to announce election results
  • Election results update: SDS leading in 51 RS municipalities, SNSD in three and SNS in two
  • SDP BiH leading in 17 BiH Federation municipalities, SDA in 24 and CD Coalition in seven
  • SPRS partially satisfied with election results – General Secretary Tihomir Gligoric
  • It is untrue that SPRS Banja Luka City Board decided on 10 April to join Democratic Socialist Party – interim leadership of SPRS Banja Luka City Board
  • SDS will prepare platform for the implementation of election results – SDS Chairman Kalinic
  • Local elections in BiH conducted without incident – UN IPTF
  • BiH House of Representatives adopts Law on BiH Council of Ministers
  • RTRS is the subject of brutal manipulation by two ruling parties in the RS – Democratic Patriotic Party
  • 46 Bosniak families return to Janjari village while 36 return to pre-war homes in Akmacici village, near Ugljevik
  • 21 families of fallen soldiers receive certificates for construction land in Prnjavor Municipality, 25 more to receive certificates in two days – RS Government announcement
  • CD Coalition Caucus Leader in RS National Assembly Safet Bico letter to Petritsch and RS Privatization Agency demanding they extend deadline for RS privatization registration
  • BiH Federation Privatization Agency undertakes measures to stop abuse of privatization certificates – Ejup Ganic and Ivo Andric-Luzanski
  • HDZ parliamentarians reject amendment to Law on Suspension of Interior Ministry Competencies in BiH Federation Cantons
  • Livno Canton Justice Minister suspends Livno Chief Prosecutor – ONASA
  • Situation in Kosovo is calm, NATO‘s priority is enabling return of 25,000 Serbs – NATO Council
  • Serb Kosovo officials participate in work of Kosovo Interim Administrative Council
  • Fire in Orahovac destroys four Serb houses
  • Exhumations in Kosovo to continue next week – ICTY spokesperson Paul Risley
  • 90 Kosovo Albanian refugees consent to repatriation – Australia Government
  • Kouchner calls on Australia not to force repatriation of Kosovo Albanian refugees
  • Explosive device thrown in front of SPS office in Belgrade on 11 April, no injuries reported
  • Robertson decorates Clark for commanding Yugoslav bombing operation
  • World News
  • Writer Ranko Risojevic receives award at Days of Serb Poetry Festival
  • Yugoslav Air Transport (JAT) renews Belgrade-Banja Luka route
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • NATO expresses satisfaction with political maturity of people in BiH
  • Deputy High Representative Hoffman meets with RS and BiH Federation Education Ministers Suzic and Rizvanbegovic to discuss BiH school reforms
  • BiH religious officials arrive in Pristina to meet with Kosovo counterparts
  • Orahovac Serbs in Kosovo break contact with IC organizations and announce collective abandonment of that town
  • Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica to go on hunger strike to protest prison release of Kosovo Albanian charged with bomb attack in this town in March
  • ICTY convenes trial of Dragoljub Prcac
  • Culture