02.06.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 2 June 2000

News Headlines

  • Pensioners hold protest rallies in Banja Luka, Trebinje and Pale demanding resignation of RS Pension Fund President Svetozar Mihajlovic
  • OSCE calls on candidates, parties and coalitions to register for upcoming elections, and promotes new election rules
  • Incident in Kotorsko happened after IC representatives advised Serbs not to visit Vozuca – UN/IPTF spokesperson Roberts
  • Representatives of Serbs and Bosniaks from Kotorsko and Vozuca, and IC officials meet in Doboj
  • 700 Bosniak houses reconstructed in Brcko, land is allocated for construction of 400 Serb houses – Klanac residents community in Brcko representative tells press conference
  • Request for my resignation is not serious – RS National Assembly Speaker Djokic
  • Stability Pact national coordinators hold meeting in Zagreb
  • European Transport Ministers hold conference in Prague
  • Two Serbs killed and three injured when car hits landmine near Pristina
  • Murders of Serbs in Kosovo over the past week are cold-blooded – UNMIK spokesperson
  • Delegation of European Parliament meets with Kosovo Interim Administrative Council
  • US sends telegram of condolence following murder of Djukanovic’s National Security Advisor Goran Zugic
  • Djukanovic’s National Security Advisor Zugic buried in Podgorica
  • Serbian opposition will not boycott elections even if Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) is against this decision
  • Milosevic accuses European countries of blind obedience to US
  • Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle visits Germany
  • Clinton says that south-east Europe cannot develop without democratic reforms in Serbia first
  • World news
  • US provides $5 million to support Croatia in refugees returns – US Embassy to Croatia
  • World news
  • Belgium Court rejects request of Albanians in Belgium to ban participation of Yugoslav national football team in upcoming European Championships
  • Srpsko Sarajevo University delegation meets with RS Vice-president Sarovic to discuss difficult situation at the University
  • SDS makes offer to SNSD and PDP to jointly form municipal authority in Banja Luka
  • SPRS to hold Second Congress in Banja Luka on 3 June
  • SNS Special Congress scheduled for 3 June in Banja Luka, discussions will include resignation of SNS President Biljana Plavsic
  • New bus schedules adopted during meeting of transport company officials and RS Chamber of Commerce
  • Sports and weather
  • Special French and German forces to participate in BiH disarmament process
  • RS Justice Minister Vrzina says he will visit ICTY in June
  • Belgrade city transport company Director Perusic says that Serbian Government was forced to take over control of this company
  • Yugoslav National Bank Governor Vlatkovic says that Yugoslavia needs $200 million for its reconstruction
  • Albright to meet with Djukanovic in Berlin
  • Del Ponte states there is no basis for investigation of NATO in regard to its air campaign against Yugoslavia
  • EC President Romano Prodi visits Istra
  • Joint Working Group for Landmine Removal meets in Trebinje

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