OHR RTRS News Summary, 17 June 2000

News Headlines

  • Dragan Kostic elected president of newly-established Democratic National Union (DNS), which was established by ex-SNS members
  • Montenegrin police decline to announce details concerning Thursday’s attempted murder of Vuk Draskovic in Budva, Montenegro
  • RS Education Minister Nenad Suzic says there are forces that want to destroy the RS
  • SPRS senior official Gligoric requests DPS President Radic to clarify his statement regarding connection between car-bomb attack on RS Education Minister Suzic and current situation in SPRS
  • Petritsch says that BiH presidential elections will be held on 2002, and not this November
  • Stability Pact for Southeast Europe session on Initiative to Combat Organized Crime ends in Vienna
  • International Crisis Group (ICG) Director James Lyon warns that BiH is already divided into three entities, adding that the institutions of BiH Croat Herceg-Bosna (HZ-HB) are still functioning
  • Croatian State Commission for Revisions claims that broadcasting of HRT program to foreign countries must be regulated through contract with Croatian Government
  • Russian KFOR soldiers attacked near Pristina airport
  • KFOR finds two bunkers in Klecka with weapons cache
  • KFOR did not permit visit to local cemetery in Staro Gacko due to landmine danger
  • Serbian National Council (SNV) of Kosovo President Bishop Artemije assesses visit of SNV delegation to UN Security Council as very useful
  • NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea says that NATO does not support Kosovo independence
  • Yugoslav Foreign Ministry announces that ICTY Prosecutor Carla del Ponte cannot visit Yugoslavia
  • Serbian opposition prepares joint election list during meeting in Belgrade
  • World news
  • Serb assemblymen in Srebrenica Municipality demand financial aid for reconstruction of municipal infrastructure
  • RS High school entry exams scheduled for end of June
  • 150-180 tons of high-quality cigarettes imported to RS each month – RS Trade Minister Kragulj
  • Most successful participants of Fourth Annual Furniture Fair in Banja Luka announced
  • Sports and weather

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