22.05.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 22 May 2000

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News Headlines

  • Spasoje Tusevljak new candidate for BiH Council of Ministers Chairman
  • Radisic comments on Dodik statement regarding consultative meeting for nomination of candidate for BiH Council of Ministers Chairman, says he nominated three candidates
  • General elections to be held in BiH on 11 November – Barry
  • Deadline for voter registration in BiH is 10 July – PEC
  • Dodik to participate in session of Peace Implementation Council in Brussels
  • Petritsch tells Wall Street Journal withdrawal of IC from BiH would be catastrophe
  • BiH did not use enough programs suggested by EU-UK Foreign Minister Cook
  • Russia will not participate in session in Brussels because Yugoslavia was not invited
  • Drazen Erdemovic testifies in ICTY process against RS Army General Krstic
  • Three police officers injured in attempted bank robbery in Pale, robber committed suicide – Serb Sarajevo police
  • RS Education Ministry publishes Declaration on Education in BiH
  • Registration for RS privatization process ends, 1,420,498 RS citizens registered
  • Belgrade Assembly delegation not allowed to visit citizens and students arrested during protest rally in Belgrade
  • Formative Otpor meeting held in Belgrade
  • Serbian opposition holds protest rally in Belgrade
  • Studio B Managerial Board requests Serbian Government cancel its takeover
  • Pec Municipal Court (now in Serbia) sentences 143 Kosovo Albanians
  • Two houses destroyed in village of Mogila, near Kosovska Vitina
  • Polish KFOR soldier dies in Kosovska Mitrovica – KFOR
  • KFOR arrests seven Kosovo Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Kouchner meets with 42 prisoners in Kosovska Mitrovica – UNMIK
  • Party of Democratic Progress of Kosovo changes name to Democratic Party of Kosovo- Hashim Thaci
  • EU condemns repression of media, students and citizens in Serbia
  • World news
  • Democratic Socialist Party becomes member of Sloga Coalition
  • Transportation of body of Serb poet Jovan Ducic from Chicago to Trebinje
  • Sports and weather
  • UK Foreign Minister Cook says he is not satisfied with process of democratization in BiH
  • Orucevic is new Mostar Mayor and Neven Tomic is his deputy – Mostar Municipal Council
  • 10,000 Kosovo Albanians hold protest rally against decision of Pec Court to sentence 143 Kosovo Albanians
  • KFOR Commander Ortugno sends condolences to family of seven-year-old boy killed by unexploded NATO bomb
  • Ortugno congratulates Hashim Thaci on his election as President of Democratic Party of Kosovo
  • Registration of political parties to begin in Kosovo on Tuesday – UNMIK
  • 210,000 non-Albanian refugees from Kosovo registered in Serbia and Montenegro – UNHCR
  • World news
  • RS and BiH Federation Health Ministries organize seminar Reform in Financing of Health Services in BiH to be held in Banja Luka
  • Third International Fair of Tourism to be held in Banja Luka from 24 to 27 May
  • Culture
  • Sports and weather

News Summary

Dodik to participate in session of Peace Implementation Council in Brussels

RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik will participate in the upcoming session of the Peace Implementation Council in Brussels. Dodik stated that he will emphasize the Dayton position of the RS and suggest the need to strengthen the Dayton contents regarding total relations in BiH as a stabile framework for the functioning of all BiH institutions. He added that he would request members of the Council create equal conditions for returns and realization of the right to property for refugees and DPs throughout BiH.

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