11/02/2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 2 November 2000

RT RS News Headlines:

  • EBRD credit agreement on 50 million euros for BiH energy network signed in Sarajevo
  • BiH Council of Ministers discusses draft 2001 budget for BiH common institutions and draft law on BiH courts of law
  • BiH Treasury Minister Spasoje Tusevljak tells US delegation that economic reforms must be absolute priority in future BiH development (00:40)
  • RS healthcare workers continuing general strike started on 1 November until demands fulfilled
  • RS railway workers end strike following fulfilment of demands, however, RS rail engineers still on strike because demands not met
  • RS Deputy Premier Djuradj Banjac promises government assistance to Maglic sawmill following its devastating fire
  • Victory of nationalist parties would isolate BiH from rest of the world- Petritsch tells Circle 99 roundtable in Sarajevo (00:43)
  • Barry calls on BiH citizens to vote and hopes upcoming BiH General Elections will pass in fair and democratic atmosphere (01:25)
  • ICG recommends banning SDS from participating in General Elections; latest ICG report contains names of 75 persons from RS, claiming they participated in torture, ethnic murder and rape during war in Bosnia; ICTY spokesperson Florence Hartman tells SRNA that ICTY has nothing to do with ICG report (00:36)
  • ICG has negative position on RS and it is well-known who its lobbying for – Sarovic reaction to latest ICG report (00:15)
  • OHR will not and cannot forbid SDS participation in elections – spokesman Milisic (00:26)
  • SPRS says it will endorse SDS presidential candidates, adding SPRS decided not to support Dodik and other candidates because they are not well-established politicians (00:35)
  • DPS President Predrag Radic says DPS will support SDS presidential candidates Sarovic and Cavic in upcoming BiH General Elections (00:20)
  • PDP President Mladen Ivanic meets with Head of Duma Committee for Foreign Relations Dimitry Rogozyn and asks Russia to remain firm guarantor of Dayton peace agreement (00:46)
  • Djokic meets with Slovene ambassador to BiH Drago Mirosic and thanks him for successful co-operation between RS and Slovenia he initiated (00:18)
  • Dodik meets with outgoing Slovene ambassador to BiH Mirosic in farewell visit (00:10)
  • Djokic visits Srpski Brod Municipality and oil refinery there, he says refinery has great potential (00:46)
  • Dodik opens central road through Sipovo Municipality (00:21)
  • RS Prime Minister Dodik and Banja Luka Mayor Davidovic lay cornerstone for centre for mentally handicapped children in Banja Luka
  • 56 Bosniak families have returned to Zvornik Municipality’s Kula Grad village since return process started there
  • Commenting on Sarajevo press reports on Bocinja mujahedins buying 40 Serb houses in Srebrenik at dirt cheap prices, UN spokesman Douglas Coffman makes correction, saying mujahedins bought only seven Serb houses (00:18)
  • Unknown perpetrators break into Serb Orthodox Church in Sarajevo – Sarajevo Orthodox church leadership
  • Yugoslavia renews membership in UN (00:15)
  • Holbrooke welcomes Yugoslav membership in UN (00:10)
  • Important step forward for Yugoslavia – SPO Serbia and DOS
  • Yugoslavia’s UN membership is great event for Serbia and Montenegro – Montenegro SNP-party
  • Serbia, using name of Yugoslavia, accepted into UN – Montenegro SDP
  • Zivko Radisic hopes all sanctions against Yugoslavia will be lifted very soon (00:08)
  • Martin Raguz, Mirko Sarovic and OHR welcome Yugoslav membership in UN (00:28)
  • Leaders of Serbian provisional government due to meet late on Thursday to discuss dismissal of head of Yugoslav state security service
  • Yugoslav state security document on murder of Slavko Curuvija, editor-in-chief of Belgrade daily Dnevni Telegraf, is not authentic – Serbian Interior Minister Bozo Prelevic
  • Djindjic meets delegation of Bulgarian ruling party; Djindjic says SE European countries now have opportunity to enact mutual co-operation
  • Kosovo Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic asks Kouchner to support scheduling of Serb local elections in Kosovo as soon as possible
  • No one0should insist on talks on Kosovo independence soon because it would lead to new tension – Bernard Kouchner
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  • RS Telecom and Yugoslav Postal Service representatives discuss future co-operation
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