OHR RTRS News Summary, 23 October 1999

News Headlines

  • Nezavisne Novine Director Zeljko Kopanja slightly improved but still in critical condition – Dr. Radmila Dujakovic
  • Klein sharply condemns car bomb attack on Kopanja
  • This criminal act is act against media freedom – Klein
  • Holbrooke condemns attack on Kopanja
  • Attack on Kopanja sickening crime – SNS
  • Attack on Kopanja one more message from anti-democratic and fascist forces in BiH – Izetbegovic adviser Ademir Jerkovic
  • Assassination attempt against Kopanja is act of organized crime – Yugoslav SPO
  • International Conference for Employment and Social Policy in southeast Europe concludes in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Sofia conference was successful – RS Deputy Prime Minister Gligoric
  • Japanese Government gives KM 140,000 for reconstruction of Han Pijesak Hospital
  • Serbs start to return in Ivanica village, between Trebinje and Dubrovnik
  • 20 citizens return to Ivanica
  • Kosovska Mitrovica Serb National Council denies Executive Council President Ivanovic involved in several explosions that occurred in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • KFOR soldiers find three bodies in Klina
  • KFOR finds body of elderly woman in Besinje near Klina
  • KFOR confiscates 12 mines and several grenades in Klina
  • Roma exposed to genocide – Roma envoys in Kosovo
  • Group of Kosovo Albanians attack several houses in Prizren
  • Bishop Artemije meets with KFOR Commander Reinhardt in Gracanica to discuss cooperation between Serb national community and KFOR
  • Milosevic far from losing power in Serbia – anonymous NATO official for Reuters
  • Albanian Pristina newspapers give much coverage of Robertson visit to Kosovo
  • Every day of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia meant more credits from US to Russia – Former Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Koziryev
  • Radio Drvar to resume broadcasting – IMC
  • Seven Serb police officers stationed in Drvar and one in Bosansko Grahovo – UN and IPTF spokesperson Alun Roberts
  • Stjepan Kljuic says dismissed from function of president of criminal investigation commission
  • Croat Demo-Christians issue press release
  • Tudjman got support from somewhere to request third, Croat entity in BiH – former President of Liberal Bosniak Organization Muhamed Filipovic
  • Tudjman policy is division of BiH – Filipovic
  • World news
  • RS customs workers and RS police confiscate illegal cigarettes near Bijeljina
  • Bent Jensen no longer OHR envoy in Srebrenica – OHR spokesperson Alexandra Stiglmayer
  • Serb National Council Kosovo envoys meet with Kouchner and KFOR Commander Reinhardt
  • Montenegrin President Djukanovic announces Montenegro to establish monetary sovereignty soon
  • RS tourism
  • Culture
  • Sports and weather

News Summary

Radio Drvar to resume broadcasting – IMC

IMC General Director Krister Thelin has decided that Radio Drvar can resume broadcasting. An IMC press release states that on 30 September, the IMC suspended the operation of Radio Drvar for 90 days. The IMC decision states that Radio Drvar received permission to continue working after agreeing to change its programming. These changes include holding regular joint interviews with the Mayor and Deputy of Mayor of Drvar, interviews with guests from foreign countries and a weekly report on two-way returns.

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Croat Demo-Christians issue press release

The Croat Demo-Christians issued a press release on Croatian President Franjo Tudjman’s demand for a third, Croat entity in BiH. The Croat Demo-Christians said that they regard Tudjman’s statement as support to their struggle for a Croatian republic in the reconstruction of national communities in BiH. The Dayton Agreement is a total defeat of civilization, freedom, peace and justice and it has become a new prison for the Croat people in BiH, according to the release.

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