21.11.1999

OHR RTRS News Summary, 21 November 1999

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News Headlines

  • Anniversary of Dayton Agreement
  • 21 November proclaimed state holiday by decision of BiH Presidency
  • Petritsch, Klein, Adams and Barry give joint statement
  • Clinton meets with UK, German, Italian and French Prime Ministers in Florence, Italy
  • Bad weather in France, Austria, Hungary and Germany
  • Only free and honest elections in Serbia can cancel sanctions against Yugoslavia – Clinton
  • European Council organizes meeting on future of Yugoslavia
  • Opposition parties, NGOs, independent media from Serbia and Montenegro participate in meeting on future of Yugoslavia
  • IC suspends all flights from Pristina airport
  • Kosovo Albanians have destroyed and burned 77 Serb Orthodox churches and monasteries in Kosovo – Serbian Institute for Protection of Monuments
  • 6,000 Serbs have left Kosovo Polje since arrival of KFOR – Serb leader from Kosovo Polje Svetislav Grujic
  • Patriarch Pavle gives medal to family of dead SPO member Veselin Boskovic for his help to Serb Orthodox Church
  • World news
  • Rough weather in RS
  • Eight dead from AIDS in RS
  • RS economy
  • Sports and weather
  • Two Serbian police officers killed by mine near administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo in village of Merdari
  • UN police bomb squad dismantles explosive in vehicle of UN police in Pristina
  • Serb refugees from Bugojno sold 180 houses, Croat refugees sold 110 because of local authority pressure on them – Association of Serb Refugees and DPs in Banja Luka and Association of Croat Refugees and DPs in Zenica

News Summary

Petritsch, Klein, Adams and Barry give joint statement

High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH Robert Barry, SFOR Commander General Roland Adams and UN Special Envoy to BiH Jacques Klein gave a joint statement in Sarajevo on Saturday. The formation of a sovereign state that will unite all nations is necessary for permanent peace in BiH. Also, economic development through political influence, anti-corruption and the acceleration of refugee returns are necessary in BiH, reads the statement.

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