14.03.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 14 March 2000

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News Headlines

  • RS pensioners to receive December 1999 pensions on 15 March
  • Ambassadors and envoys of 22 countries, Petritsch, UNHCR Head and SFOR Commander visit eight key areas of return in BiH
  • Refugees and DPs living in Ugljevik Municipality to receive 300 land plots over next 30 days
  • Deputy High Representative for Return and Reconstruction Andy Bearpark disappointed with implementation of property laws in Banja Luka and RS
  • Japanese Government donation to Banja Luka firms Kozara Putevi and Mrkonjic Grad Putevi
  • Radisic to nominate Chairman of BiH Council of Ministers on 21 March – Radisic Adviser Zeljko Samardzic
  • Election Appeals Sub-Commission forbids three local officials in Srebrenica to do anything if they win in elections
  • OSCE Head Waldner to visit BiH on 17 March
  • OSCE spokesperson comments on proposed Law on Freedom of Information and Law on Slander
  • SFOR to inspect bridges in BiH
  • Two Kosovo Albanians dead in Glogovac – KFOR
  • Kosovo Albanian injured in Prizren – KFOR
  • Solana meets with Kosovo Serb envoys, Bishop Artemije and Momcilo Trajkovic, in Gracanica
  • Italy refuses to participate in NATO maneuvers in Kosovo
  • UK Foreign Minister Cook comments on possibility of holding referendum in Kosovo
  • Voter registration in Kosovo – OSCE
  • French Defense Ministry on violating human rights in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • UNMiK issues new stamps in Kosovo
  • Basic interest of US in Balkans is regional stability – Pardew
  • TV Studio B pays 11 million dinars to Yugoslav Government for use of frequency
  • World news
  • Economic cooperation between RS and Montenegro and Serbia
  • Public auction of five firms in Bijeljina
  • Reconstruction of phone service in RS
  • Fourth Fair of Construction Industry in Banja Luka
  • Yugoslav Air Transport firm reopens air route between Belgrade and Banja Luka
  • Concert of Children’s Chorus of RTRS in Banja Luka
  • Sports and weather
  • Mihajlovic meets with ICRC Mission to BiH Head to discuss organization of Red Cross Red Crescent in BiH
  • BiH Ombudsman Greta Haller on her five years of work
  • Secure Zone in Kosovska Mitrovica, near bridge over Ibar River
  • Solana meets with envoys of Kosovo Serbs, Albanians and IC in Kosovo
  • James Rubin and Christopher Hill visit US base in Gnjilanje
  • Russia to use right to veto if KFOR does not protect southern Serbia from extremists – Duma Board for Foreign Affairs envoy Aleksandar Shalomov
  • IC will not leave Kosovo while Milosevic is in power – Cook
  • Trial against General Radislav Krstic continues in The Hague
  • World news
  • Culture
  • Weather
  • SNS holds public debate in Serb Sarajevo
  • SPRS has 500 more members and SPRS Main Board 15 more – SPRS Main Board member Gojko Milinkovic
  • SNSD Main Board member Krstan Simic comments on program and activities of SNSD
  • Serb Patriotic Party supports workers of Banja Luka firm Incel
  • Party of Democratic Progress of RS holds public debate in Novi Grad
  • SPO RS General Secretary Nikola Sekulovic comments on attacks on SPO activists and members in three cities in RS
  • RS Labor Party supports workers of Incel