19.09.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 19 Septemb 2000

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News Headlines:

  • RS National Assembly supports draft laws on labour and labour inspection
  • RS National Assembly adopts draft law on RS pension-disability insurance (PIO)
  • Sarovic and Djokic discuss current position of RS pensioners with RS Pensioners’ Association
  • RS Government economic measures allow for fourth revision of IMF stand-by arrangement – RS Minister for Foreign Economic Relations Savo Loncar and IMF Director Bruno de Schatzen
  • World Bank and IMF delegation meet with RS Finance Minister Novak Kondic
  • RS Law on Supplements and Amendments to Law on Turnover Tax in effect as of 19 September – Finance Ministry
  • Ivica Racan says war crimes were committed against more than 120 people in Gospic, Croatia, in 1991 – BETA
  • Families of POWs and Missing Civilians and International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) discuss progress in identification of bodies
  • RS Defence Ministry has been informed of ICTY activities on Srebrenica case – RT RS corrects its 18 September report that Defence Ministry was unawareness of ICTY investigation into Srebrenica case
  • Brcko District authorities and Matthews meet with RS and Federation Government delegations to discuss cooperation of entities with District
  • Kretschmer and Head of Credit Bank for Development of BiH Frank Belone explain results of BiH credit program accomplished since 1998 at press conference held in Sarajevo
  • OHR reminds occupancy right holders of second deadline for purchase of flats in BiH
  • One-month detention measures pronounced on Zeljko Cosic, BiH Border Police member arrested by Federation police on 17 September – Sarajevo County Court
  • Suada Selimovic appointed BiH Federation Supreme Court President
  • Free elections in Yugoslavia would have positive impact on BiH – Petritsch
  • Kostunica says he will do his best to improve Yugoslav relations with RS if he wins forthcoming elections
  • Montenegrin SNP confirms Milosevic will attend SNP rally in Berane, Montenegro, on 20 September
  • Montenegrin opposition parties disagree with plan on Milosevic arrival at SNP rally in Berane
  • SPS-JUL Coalition will win elections – Serbian President Milan Milutinovic
  • Hilandar Monastery Brotherhood appeals to Serbs not to believe that those who betrayed people in BiH and Krajina can save people in Kosovo
  • Serbian Orthodox Church disassociates itself from statement made by Milesevo Bishop Filater who said that only Milosevic can be Yugoslav President
  • Followers of Sandzak Coalition and Sulejman Ugljanin clash in Serbia, several injured, no reason for clash given
  • Duma to send election observers to Yugoslavia on 20-27 September; Bundestag plans same
  • NATO trial for last year’s air strikes against Yugoslavia continues at Belgrade court house
  • KFOR arrests members of special Yugoslav unit in central Kosovo, finds explosives and weapons
  • Montenegrin Monetary Fund modifies dinar-DM exchange rate, pegs 1 DM at 33 dinars
  • KFOR arrests six Serbs in action of confiscation of illegal weaponry in Gracanica
  • Ivanov slams KFOR for keeping Russian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Valery Yeguskin at Kosovo-Serbia border on 18 September
  • World news
  • Individual donations to political parties cannot exceed sum of KM 3,656 – PEC
  • All RS National Assembly sessions scheduled by Djokic until forthcoming elections will only serve to promote pre-election illusions – SNSD Main Board member Slavko Mitrovic
  • SPRS expects establishment of normal relations between Assembly and executive authorities as soon as possible
  • SNS supports RS National Assembly efforts to reactivate work of Assembly and Government – SNS member Ljiljana Markovic Elez
  • Every effort do dissolve RS Government leads to destabilisation of RS – SNS
  • RS branch syndicates believe that reorganisation of Syndicate Union is only solution to workers’ problems
  • IC representatives lay wreaths in memory of international officials who died in helicopter crash in Fojnica area five years ago
  • Fifth International Book Fair opens in Banja Luka
  • Sports
  • Weather