15.06.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 15 June 2000

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News Headlines

  • BiH Presidency approves decisions on improving work of BiH Civil Aviation Directorate
  • HRH Prince Andrew and Dodik sign agreement on financial donation to Trnovo Municipality
  • Petritsch and Tusevljak meet and discuss current political situation in BiH
  • Tusevljak meets with PDP President Mladen Ivanic and Party for Banja Luka and Krajina President Nikola Spiric and discuss political situation in BiH, and reach high level of accord on these political issues
  • Position of war veterans is terrible – RS War Veterans Association
  • SNS loyal to Biljana Plavsic holds regularly scheduled Assembly and elects three new party vice-presidents, and members to SNS Main Board and SNS Executive Board
  • SNS loyal to Dragan Kostic issues press release, warning that SNS Assembly was illegal
  • SPRS official Tihomir Gligoric says that Dodik is responsible for ongoing events in SNS
  • SDS responsible for non-functioning of Office of RS President – RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik cabinet press release
  • Deputy High Representative Johnson says that entity governments must finance the District Brcko
  • Ralph Johnson and USAID Mission Director to BiH Edward Kadunc open International Ferry Service in Brcko
  • Workers of Tuzla-based soda factory block main road leading to Tuzla
  • Russian Defense Minister Sergeyev says that roots of evil in Kosovo are extremist Kosovo Albanians leaders
  • Two Serbs killed and one seriously injured by landmine
  • 300 KFOR soldiers start two-day search and seize weapons operation in Drenica, Kosovo – KFOR
  • World news
  • ‘Dani Polja Psenice (Days of Wheat Fields)’ festival takes place in Bijeljina
  • Sports and weather
  • OHR establishes Coordination Board for Higher Education in BiH
  • Workers of Gacko-based Gat Company start strike
  • KFOR Commander Ortugno and UN Head of Mission to Kosovo Kouchner mark start of de-mining operations in Pristina, Kosovo
  • World Association of Newspaper Publishers calls on Milosevic to stop repression of media in Serbia
  • Painter Bekir Micirlic holds exhibition in RS Gallery of Art in Banja Luka

(This excerpt is taken from the daily report of the IMC-led Joint Media Monitoring Group (JMMG)).