12.03.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 12 March 2000

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News Headlines

  • SPRS Main Board discusses exclusion of party officials
  • Dodik signs investment contracts for RS infrastructure
  • RS Government should change some laws in order to meet IMF conditions for new loans – RS Finance Minister Kondic
  • EU Commissioner Patten comments on conditions for BiH cooperation with international financial institutions
  • World Bank project of crediting small and medium enterprises to start soon -Head of World Bank Coordination Office Labovic
  • Situation with minority returns is unsatisfactory – Schwarz-Schilling
  • Butcher owned by Bosniak returnee in Prnjavor bombed
  • Banja Luka Public Security Center denies CD Coalition claims that attacks on Bosniak and Croat returnees are aimed at deterioration of situation
  • 40 Bosniaks return to two houses in Serb Gorazde, one house bombed without casualties
  • OSCE official Waldner to visit BiH
  • Mostar UN office accuses Neretva Canton Interior Ministry of separating police into Bosniaks and Croats
  • BiH Steel company signs contracts with German enterprises
  • Jiri Dienstbier visits Serbian town of Vranje
  • Kosovo Albanians write letter of support to Milosevic – Tanjug
  • Protest held after murder of Serb in Donja Brujica
  • Explosion in Kosovska Mitrovica on 11 March – KFOR
  • Albanian returnees to Kosovska Mitrovica live in three skyscrapers protected by KFOR – KFOR
  • US Special Envoy to Balkans Hill and US State Department spokesperson Rubin meet with Albanian politicians Rugova and Cosja
  • Rally against Albanian terrorism and separatism held in Paris
  • Banja Luka Public Security Center raises charges against Incel enterprise union activist Orasanin for illegal road blocks
  • Sports
  • RS Serb Party criticizes Dodik’s agreements made in Cyprus
  • SPRS requests OSCE not remove SPRS candidate Salapura from lists
  • RTRS announces that presentation of candidates will start on 13 March and campaign material will be shown in special program
  • NATO Secretary-General Robertson to visit Sarajevo on 13 March – SFOR
  • Serbian Orthodox Church Montenegro Episcopate expresses concern over clash between regimes in Belgrade and Podgorica
  • New Kosovska Mitrovica Administrator is retired US Army General Nash
  • New attacks on Serbs and Roma in Orahovac, Kosovo
  • One Serb injured near Gnjilane, Kosovo