OHR RTRS News Summary, 19 December 1999

News Headlines

  • Storm hits Venezuela
  • Electricity supply in RS stabilized and situation on roads improving
  • Hydroelectric plant Trebisnjica has problems with heavy snowfall
  • Report on RS power network and problems with payment of electric energy
  • RS Government discusses financial aid and social programs for disabled RS veterans
  • Parliamentary elections in Russia
  • World news
  • Envoy of Serb minority in Hungary Lastic comments on position of Serb minority in Hungary
  • Montenegrin Government sends request to Yugoslav Communication Ministry for construction of hangar in Podgorica airport – Yugoslav Prime Minister Bulatovic
  • Alliance for Changes ends protest rally in Belgrade
  • Serbs of northern Kosovo condemn KFOR for not protecting them
  • Relatively calm situation in Kosovo – KFOR spokesperson
  • Croatia will turn to Europe after Tudjman’s death – Klein interview for Sarajevo magazine Dani
  • Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS) rejects SFOR allegations of its involvement in BiH
  • BiH HDZ Presidency supports all laws and decisions by High Representative Petritsch that are in accordance to BiH Constitution
  • 2,000 Serb and Bosniak workers must return to jobs in Mostar Aluminij and Soko companies – International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva
  • 3,113 houses in reconstruction phase in Bugojno Municipality – ONASA
  • 276 claims for property return in Livno Canton
  • Serb Patriarch Pavle officiates mass in Belgrade
  • Celebration of St. Nicholas Day
  • Banja Luka-Belgrade air route restarts
  • Sports and weather
  • 120,000 houses damaged during Kosovo conflict, IC organizations have only rebuilt 60,000 to-date – UNHCR