OHR RTRS News Summary, 15 October 1999

News Headlines

  • Pensions paid for RS pensioners
  • RS National Assembly session to be held in Banja Luka on 28 October
  • Djokic holds consultative meeting with envoys of parliamentary parties
  • SDS Main Board press release
  • SPRS supports SDS Main Board position that Sarovic should take over presidential position – SPRS Main Board member Momir Malic
  • SDS Main Board attitude good path towards stabilization of political situation in RS – SNS Main Board member Jovan Mitrovic
  • Dodik meets with UK and US Ambassadors to BiH in Sarajevo to discuss implementation of Dayton Agreement and resolution of RS presidential crisis
  • Members of BiH Council of Ministers meet with US Working Group for Balkan Economy
  • Arrival of several foreign banks in RS and BiH Federation would help BiH economy – Mihajlovic
  • BiH Minister for Civil Affairs and Communication Asanin meets with IMF Mission to BiH Head to discuss BiH budget for 2000
  • RS Finance Minister Kondic meets with US Deputy Special Adviser for Implementation of Dayton Agreement to discuss RS economy and corruption
  • Farrand meets with Bicakcic in Brcko to discuss return of refugees
  • Member of IC Commission for Missing Persons Jensen visits BiH
  • RS Commission for Missing Persons Head Jovo Rosic visits Lav cemetery in Sarajevo
  • Orthodox Bishop Artemije and Serb Resistance Movement President Momcilo Trajkovic visit RS
  • Trajkovic meets with Plavsic to discuss position of Serbs in Kosovo
  • Delegation of Kosovo Serbs to meet with Dodik on Saturday
  • French and Danish KFOR soldiers prevent Kosovo Albanians attempt to enter north part of Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Two French soldiers injured in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • 10,000 Serbs were ready to stop Kosovo Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica – Kosovska Mitrovica Serb National Council spokesperson Nikola Kabasic
  • UN Mission to Kosovo to continue implementing decisions of UN Security Council in Kosovo – Kouchner
  • Annan should meet with Yugoslav officials during visit to Kosovo because Kosovo is part of Yugoslavia and Serbia – Yugoslav Envoy to UN Vladislav Jovanovic
  • German Prime Minister Schroeder concerned over position of non-Albanian citizens in Kosovo
  • UNHCR tries to help non-Albanian citizens – UNHCR spokesperson
  • Thaci establishes new political party – Party for Democratic Progress of Kosovo
  • Albanian President meets with Thaci
  • Turkish President visits Kosovo
  • RS privatization
  • Delegation of RS Interior Ministry lays wreath on grave of police officers in Doboj area
  • Some generals of entity armies to be investigated because of participation in political parties and financial discrepancies – Montgomery Meigs
  • UN holds press conference in Banja Luka
  • RS Police Academy to begin work in Banja Luka on 26 October – IPTF spokesperson Alun Roberts
  • SFOR oversteps its authorities in Thursday action in west Mostar – political leadership of Croats in BiH
  • SFOR press release on action in Mostar
  • SFOR confiscates arms, explosives and documents on work of Croat secret service in Mostar on Thursday
  • IMC General Director Krister Thelin suspends Croat Radio Postaja Mostar license for next 90 days
  • BiH issued passport to Mehrez Amdouni in accordance with former laws in BiH – BiH Deputy Minister for Civil Affairs and Communication Nudzeim Recica
  • Sarajevo Canton police officers find large cache of arms and explosives on Mt. Igman, near Sarajevo
  • Bicakcic requests Petritsch declare law on war veterans in BiH Federation
  • French firm stops economic cooperation with Maglaj firm Natron
  • German Government Envoy Hans Koschnik concludes visit to Tuzla
  • HDZ Zenica-Doboj Canton files complaint with Jelavic that Bosniak cantonal authorities discriminate against Croats
  • Four members of SDA Bihac Board admit crisis within Board because of self-will of Board president
  • World news
  • ICTY prosecutor requests 35-year sentence for Dusan Tadic
  • Karadzic, Mladic and Milosevic to be in The Hague very soon – US Envoy for Investigation into War Crimes
  • Sports and weather
  • Delegation of RS Government visits Austrian Bank in Vienna and meets with Serb Center in Vienna
  • Dodik and BiH Minister for Civil Affairs and Communications Asanin visit reconstruction work on road between Kula and Vrace in Serb Sarajevo
  • Mihajlovic considers ineffectiveness of BiH Council of Ministers to be consequence of different views in implementing Dayton Agreement
  • Artemije wants to explain situation in Kosovo to Serb people
  • Trajkovic wants to discuss experience of RS leadership in cooperation with IC
  • Kosovska Mitrovica Serb National Council envoys meet with Kouchner and KFOR Commander Klaus Reinhardt in Pristina
  • 165 refugees return to Kosovo – Nis Civil Protection Office
  • UN police to issue vehicle license plates in Kosovo
  • Non-implementation of UN resolution for Kosovo can create instability in Balkans – Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov
  • Security situation in Kosovo better – Rugova
  • French KFOR soldiers guilty for current situation in Kosovska Mitrovica – Thaci
  • Croatian Radio Postaja Mostar discontinues work on directive of IMC General Director
  • BiH Deputy Minister for Civil Affairs Recica and BiH Embassy in Croatia request official Croatian attitude on extradition of Fikret Abdic to BiH
  • World news