02.05.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 2 May 2000

News Headlines

  • High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch discusses work of BiH common institutions with members of the BiH Presidency
  • RS Finance Minister Novak Kondic meets with IMF delegation from its Resident Mission Office to BiH
  • Payment of February 2000 pensions expected in one month’s time – RS Pension Fund Director Svetozar Mihajlovic
  • Continuation of 10th session of RS Assembly to be held in Banja Luka on 3 May
  • Brcko District Government adopts 2000 budget
  • OSCE supports decision of 34 officials to resign from positions in public enterprises
  • OHR and UNHCR support extension of deadline for submission of apartment return claims in BiH Federation
  • BiH would have received significantly more funding at recent Brussels Donors Conference if it had common project with Croatia – Prlic
  • Children of Bosniak returnees to Stolac Municipal attend school together with Croat children – OHR
  • OHR opens office in Livno due to the slow implementation of Dayton Peace Agreement in that municipality
  • Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija will not participate in population census unless displaced Serbs return – Kosovska Mitrovica Serb Nation Council President Oliver Ivanovic at meeting with OSCE delegation
  • KFOR wounds Zoran Milic, a Kosovo Serb, who was drunk and refused to stop at a KFOR checkpoint
  • Shots taken at KFOR Greek military bus near Decani village, Kosovo
  • Bomb thrown at offices of Yugoslav Committee for Cooperation with UN Civilian Mission to Kosovo and Metohija in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • KFOR arrests three Telekom Srbije engineers
  • German Lower Saxony Interior Minister Bartling says that Kosovo Albanian refugees in Germany must return to Kosovo
  • Three Orthodox churches in western Macedonia demolished over the Easter holidays
  • 87 journalists killed throughout the world, including 25 in Yugoslavia, 16 of them during NATO air-strike on RTS building in Belgrade – International Institute for Media
  • Senior UN officials announce Charter on Press Freedom on occasion of International Free Press Day
  • World news
  • Healthcare center in Bratunac on strike
  • Sports and weather
  • With IMF assistance, we should reform the RS tax system by the end of the year – RS Finance Minister Kondic
  • Armed Albanians throw bomb from car at children in Crnici village, Kosovo
  • Sports