20.04.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 20 April 2000

News Headlines

  • Orthodox faithful celebrate Easter
  • Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle serves liturgy in Pec Patriarchy, Kosovo
  • Liturgy served in Banja Luka Church of the Holy Trinity
  • Holy liturgies served in Serb Sarajevo on Easter Sunday
  • Easter celebrations in Semberija
  • Easter celebrated in southern RS
  • Easter celebrated in Potkozarje
  • Liturgies served in Brcko
  • Easter liturgies served in Sarajevo and Tuzla
  • 60 Orthodox faithful mark Easter in southern Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, KFOR provides security
  • Easter celebrated in Yugoslavia
  • Easter celebrated in Montenegro
  • Djukanovic sends Easter greetings to citizens
  • Orthodox churches throughout the world celebrate Easter holiday
  • Dodik sends 1 May greetings to RS citizens
  • All refugees must return to Kosovo, regardless of their nationality – Rudolph Scharping
  • All calm in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • KFOR denies it used tear gas against Kosovo Serbs who attempted to prevent Kosovo Albanian return to northern Kosovska Mitrovica on 29 April
  • French KFOR responsible for incident in northern Kosovska Mitrovica – Serb National Council spokesman Nikola Kabasic
  • Kosovo Albanian return to northern Kosovska Mitrovica was not announced – Serb National Council Executive Board President Oliver Ivanovic
  • Situation in Kosovo is extremely difficult for non-Albanian population – Russian Ambassador to UN Sergey Lavrov
  • 36 Serbs imprisoned in Kosovska Mitrovica jail stop hunger strike due to Easter holiday
  • 44 persons go on hunger strike in Pristina demanding release of Albanians from prisons in Serbia
  • Hombach meets with representatives of international organizations, Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians
  • IC came to Kosovo with the goal of protecting Kosovo Albanians, now it finds out that it has to protect Kosovo Serbs – Kouchner
  • World News
  • Unknown assailant injures co-owner of Banja Luka Atos Discotheque Sveto Jotic
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Djokic sends 1 May greetings to RS citizens
  • Alliance for Change Coordinator Vladan Batic meets with Kouchner, Hombach and Serb National Council of Kosovo representatives
  • Batic demands more concrete projects for return of non-Albanian population to Kosovo
  • Croatia could be admitted into NATO‘s Partnership for Peace program within eight days – Prime Minister Racan