OHR RTRS News Summary, 16 October 2000

News Headlines:

  • RS Prime Minister Dodik opens reconstructed bridge over Crna Rijeka Jajce-Banja Luka road
  • RS Vice President Sarovic press conference on his meeting with Kostunica; Kostunica confirms that Yugoslavia will not deny responsibility as guarantor of Dayton Peace Agreement – Sarovic
  • Kostunica, Serbian President Milan Milutinovic, DOS, SPS and SPO sign agreement scheduling early Serbian parliamentary elections and immediate establishment of technical/expert provisional Serbian Government
  • Kostunica meets with European Parliament delegation
  • Crown Prince Aleksandar and his wife Katarina Karadjordjevic visit Kolubara and Cacak in Serbia
  • Kostunica hold talks with Montenegrin party SNP and DOS officials concerning establishment of Yugoslav Government in Belgrade
  • DOS official Zoran Djindjic will meet with Montenegrin DPS officials in Podgorica to discuss establishment of Yugoslav Government
  • SNP Vice President Predrag Bulatovic says DOS and Montenegrin ‘To Live Better’ Coalition (Milo Djukanovic’s) should participate in new Yugoslav Government
  • DOS officials Zoran Korac and Vladeta Jankovic say issue of dual Yugoslav citizenship should be discussed very carefully
  • DOS election results in Serbian parliamentary election depend on behaviour of west – Stability Pact Co-ordinator Bodo Hombach
  • Croatia will request IC to have identical requirements for Yugoslavia and Croatia and not forego certain conditions in Yugoslavia’s case – Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan
  • Milosevic has connections with organised crime – German intelligence service BND
  • Djokic convokes session of RS National Assembly in Banja Luka at 11:00 on Tuesday
  • Matthias Schonn [sic] takes over post of senior deputy High Representative from Matej Hoffman – OHR
  • New building for alternative accommodation of refugees opens in Bijeljina (104 two-bedroom apartments)
  • Stevo Prpa arrested for booby trapping apartment he illegally occupies in Car Dusan Boulevard in Banja Luka, which he booby trapped following receipt of eviction order – Banja Luka police
  • Italian General Kapicosa [sic] takes command of NATO-led KFOR from Spanish General Ortuno
  • Kosovo Serb killed by landmine near Pristina
  • DOS official Trajkovic holds talks with UN Special Balkans Envoy Eduard Kukan on current situation in Kosovo
  • World news
  • Radoslav Krstic legal representative says he will prove Krstic’s innocence of Srebrenica genocide charges during trial in The Hague Tribunal
  • EC presents privatisation plan for strategic companies in RS – RS Privatisation Agency
  • RS Principal Auditor Bosko Ceko says preparation for start of RS Auditing Service completed
  • Milos Krstic [dismissed in Petritsch decision] rejects accusation concerning work of Commission for Landmine Clearance that supposedly created crisis in process of mine clearance in BiH
  • Gas station in Bileca robbed
  • Sports and weather