OHR RTRS News Summary, 2 March 2000

News Headlines

  • Petritsch participates in session of OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, says Belgrade authorities trying to destabilize RS Government
  • Proclamation of Brcko District to be held on 8 March – Farrand
  • Petritsch extends mandate of RTRS Administrative Board – Stiglmayer
  • OSCE informs all authorities in BiH that officials cannot participate in administrative boards of firms that are 25% state-owned – Domi
  • BiH House of Representatives adopts law on changes and amendments to Law on BiH Council of Ministers – House Deputy Speaker Mirko Banjac
  • New Speaker of BiH House of Peoples is Drago Ljubicic
  • Radisic meets with US Ambassador to BiH Thomas Miller
  • Dodik meets with new Dutch Ambassador to BiH
  • Chines Ambassador to BiH meets with Dodik, Djokic and RS Science Minister Zivojin Eric
  • RS Government and BiH Federation Government agree on new taxes
  • BiH Public Railroad Corporation Managerial Board holds session in Banja Luka
  • Sarovic meets with Association of Refugees and Displaced Persons Ostanak
  • RS Deputy Minister for War Veteran Issues and Invalids of Labor and War Milenko Djakovic meets with RS war veteran organization envoys
  • Some Bosniaks also committed war crimes – Izetbegovic
  • SDA will not support any RS Government without Bosniak envoys – Jahic
  • Jelavic to request cancellation of BiH Federation without consensus and parity
  • BiH Federation Government supports Bicakcic move to extend deadline for purchasing apartments by 60 days
  • BiH Federation House of Peoples holds session in Sarajevo
  • 2,000 refugees have returned to village of Prekaja, near Drvar – ONASA
  • Tihomir Begic statement
  • NATO watching situation in Kosovo and south Serbia – Clark
  • SPS Executive Council member Nikola Sainovic accuses NATO and western countries of destabilizing situation in southern Serbia
  • Serb National Council ready to participate in international administration in Kosovo – Albright
  • KFOR places pontoon bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Serbs block US KFOR forces in village of Gornja Husica, near Gnjilanje
  • 150 Serbs attack Kosovo Albanian in village of Lesak – KFOR
  • Russian KFOR soldier dies
  • Yugoslav Government sends UN Security Council memorandum with examples of violations of UN resolution on Kosovo
  • Petritsch criticizes IC for momentary situation in Kosovo
  • UNHCR disturbed with situation in Presevo
  • Mate Granic and Vesna Skare-Ozbolt leave HDZ and establish new party called Croatian Democratic Center
  • World news
  • Banja Luka Executive Council on project of making Banja Luka fair city
  • RS Interior Ministry ready for elections – Novic
  • SPRS holds press conference in Banja Luka and says if RS ministers do not return their mandates to SPRS, they will be expelled from party – party Vice-president Nedjo Djuric
  • SNSD criticizes Djuric statements
  • Kalinic denies claims that SDS members met with Dodik
  • Democratic Patriotic Party holds press conference in Banja Luka and says cantonization is not good for BiH – DPS President Predrag Radic
  • SDP BiH holds public discussion with Banja Luka citizens on development of Banja Luka and its economy
  • Sports and weather
  • Dodik announces construction of 10,000 flats for refugees
  • SPRS Executive Council to discuss status of four members/ministers in RS Government on Friday
  • Germany to give credit of 40 million DM to Montenegro
  • Explosion in Lipljan, no injuries
  • KFOR confirms that some illegal Kosovo Albanian forces exist in Bujanovac, Medveda and Presevo
  • Russia requests session of UN Security Council to discuss current situation in Kosovo
  • Albright comments on respect of minority rights in Kosovo
  • Extremists threaten security situation in Kosovo – Kouchner
  • Reinhardt worried by limited forces of US and other countries in Kosovo
  • Kosovo Transitional Administrative Council forms secretariat
  • World news
  • Tuta can be extradited with adequate treatment to The Hague – Durch medical experts
  • Tourism news

News Summary

Tihomir Begic statement

Media Adviser to the Croat BiH Presidency Member Tihomir Begic sharply condemned the broadcast of the UK movie Warriors, a BBC production, by TV BiH. Begic sent a letter to IMC General Director Krister Thelin, requesting that TV BiH be punished for showing the film, which slanders the Croat people in BiH.

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