21.10.1999

OHR RTRS News Summary, 21 October 1999

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News Headlines

  • Petritsch and Barry present BiH draft Permanent Election Law to BiH Parliament
  • Petritsch and Barry present draft of Permanent Election Law to BiH Presidency
  • BiH Presidency expresses dissatisfaction with formal procedure and preparation of Permanent Election Law – Hajric
  • Petritsch hopes Permanent Election Law will be adopted by February 2000
  • BiH Presidency members meet with European Council
  • BiH Presidency members meet with NATO Secretary General George Robertson and envoys of NATO member countries
  • Political directors of Steering Board of Peace Implementation Council support draft BiH Permanent Election Law – Stiglmayer
  • Prlic meets with European Council delegation
  • Sarovic visits Srpski Brod Municipality
  • Brod and Modrica Oil Refineries most important companies in RS – Sarovic
  • RS Government envoys meet with Swiss Ambassador to BiH William Smith, Swiss to give one million Swiss francs toward RS budget
  • Momir Talic defense counsel holds press conference in Banja Luka
  • Talic defense counsel and other representatives demand ICTY drop charges against Talic
  • RS Education Ministry holds press conference
  • RS cannot adopt suggestions by persons from BiH Federation for joint education – RS Education Minister Nenad Suzic
  • Stiglmayer condemns Kopaci incident, near Srpska Gorazde, group of Serbs block Bosniaks refugee from visiting homes, carrying out fall harvest
  • Norwegian Government to grant 100,000 KM for seminar Women that Can – OSCE spokesperson Alexander Nitsche
  • BiH Foreign Minister Deputies Dragan Bozanic and Husein Zivalj meet with Norwegian Foreign Minister
  • Kozarac local community center opens
  • RS Finance Minister Kondic does not want to give interview to RT RS regarding public statement that RS companies do not have to accept Yugoslav dinars
  • Serb Party of RS press release
  • SPRS holds press conference in Banja Luka
  • Due to daily political interests of certain political parties and leaders serious blows are carried out against Dayton Agreement – SPRS Vice-president Nebojsa Radmanovic
  • SPRS says Tudjman demand for third, Croat entity in BiH and charges against Yugoslavia at The Hague are against Dayton Agreement
  • UNHCR organizes visit of 152 Bosniaks to homes in villages near Visegrad
  • Two-day session of BiH Federation House of Representative does not bring anything new, House due to discuss education curricula in BiH Federation – Sarajevo media
  • HDZ BiH neither rejects nor condemns Tudjman demand for third, Croat entity in BiH – Sarajevo media
  • HDZ BiH supports Dayton Agreement, democratic dialogue and due procedure
  • Sanski Most Court completes investigative procedure against former Sanski Most Mayor Mehmed Alagic
  • 600 families returned to Sarajevo in last month – Sarajevo media
  • UN Mission to Kosovo interpreter injured in Gnjilanje
  • Kouchner condemns attack on UN interpreter
  • KFOR must take decisive measures against persons who attacked and killed civilians – Kosovo Interim Executive Council Head Zoran Andjelkovic
  • KFOR attempt to open Pristina airport for civilian flights, Yugoslav officials obstruct opening – KFOR spokesperson
  • Serb Resistance Movement Kosovo Head Momcilo Trajkovic says that Kosovska Mitrovica Serbs will join National Council
  • Inaugural session of Kosovo Serb National Council to be held on 24 October at Gracanica monastery
  • Kosovo Serb demand for cantonization of Kosovo and establishment of Serb Protection Force will lead to new confrontation – Koha Ditore Editor-in-Chief Veton Suroi
  • SFOR Belgian Battalion to join KFOR force by February 2000
  • World news
  • Sports and weather
  • BiH Presidency members to visit Germany on 28 October – Hajric
  • Congress on Employment and Social Policies in Southeast Europe held in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • RS Minister Gligoric participates at Sofia Congress
  • Stabilization of situation in Yugoslavia is key to entire region – Stability Pact Coordinator Bodo Hombach
  • Ten bodies exhumed from Sarajevo Lav Cemetery
  • Mihajlovic and Tomic participate in Regional Conference in Bled, Slovenia
  • Srebrenica Deputy Mayor Jeftic and Head of Executive Council condemn behavior of Bosniak representatives in Srebrenica Assembly
  • SDA requests SFOR and IPTF permanently deploy units to Srebrenica until establishment of Srebrenica multiethnic police
  • Montenegrin platform for reconstruction of Yugoslav Federal relations is final offer to Serbia – Montenegrin Foreign Minister Branko Perovic
  • ICTY Chief Prosecutor lodges complaint at ICTY against decision to drop charges Goran Jelisic for genocide
  • Kosovo Albanians attack three Serb homes in Prizren
  • Mogile Church National Council denies UN Mission to Kosovo, confirming incidents in Mogile on 19 October, when several Kosovo Albanians attacked Serb homes
  • German KFOR arrests Kosovar Albanians who participated in bank robbery in northern Albanian town of Kukes
  • Yugoslav Government decides to supply Yugoslav dinars as assistance for refugees from former Yugoslav republics now living in Yugoslavia
  • OSCE should support strengthening of preventive diplomacy – OSCE Chair-in-Office Knut Vollebaek

News Summary

Serb Party of RS press release

The Serb Party of the RS issued a press release. The party, like a sincerely democratic party, sent its party institutions demands of the OHR and OSCE for the dismissal of party President Predrag Lazarevic from all managerial functions in the party. The party unanimously decided not to accept the demand at an unscheduled session on 20 October. The President of the Serb Party of the RS did not participate in the session. The Serb Party of the RS will explore all legal ways of rejecting the demand, which they consider to have no legal basis in the first place.

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