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
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- 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
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