OHR RTRS News Summary, 24 April 2000

News Headlines

  • RS National Assembly continues 10th session
  • RT RS denies Dodik’s claim that the RS Government deposited KM 250,000 on the RT RS account, as part of its legal obligations to this media
  • Bosniak Municipal Board members are presented with two houses in Srebrenica
  • Secretary of the RS Organization of Veterans Ostoja Trubajic supports Srbinje families of fallen soldiers and missing persons request to suspend inhabitation of newly-built apartment buildings in that town
  • Srpsko Sarajevo Mayor Predrag Lasica and Sarajevo Canton Prime Minister Beriz Belkic discuss two-way return, economic relations and infrastructure issues
  • Prijedor hospital reduces number of people it is treating due to lack of medical supplies
  • Bratunac Medical Center workers continue general strike
  • 97.26% of people registered for RS privatization process by 21 April in Banja Luka, Tuzla and Sarajevo
  • Brcko District Syndicate withdraws from RS General Syndicate because it is the only way to protect workers – Brcko Syndicate officials
  • Bosniak returnee association ‘Povratak’ demands that High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch influences the OHR into advancing refugee returns to Brcko
  • Problems with former foreign savings account resolved – Edhem Bicakcic meets with Association for Protection of Former Foreign Savings Account Holders
  • KFOR police find four bodies in Vitina, Kosovo
  • Forty Serb and Romany prisoners on Day 14 of hunger strike in Kosovska Mitrovica prison
  • KFOR temporarily delayed Serb National Council member Oliver Ivanovic on 23 April because his ID had expired
  • KFOR confiscates truckload of weapons in Kosovo
  • Trial of seven persons accused of planning assassination of Milosevic and Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff Nebojsa Pavkovic convenes in Nis
  • Albanian Foreign Minister Pascal Milo visits Montenegro
  • World News
  • US and UK books presented in Banja Luka University Law Faculty
  • Sarajevo pop band Indexi holds concert in Belgrade
  • Weather
  • Banja Luka-Jajce roadway closed due to bridge reconstruction
  • RS National Assembly in the process of electing the second National Assembly vice-president (deputy speaker)
  • RS Government deposited KM 250,000 on the RT RS bank account on 21 April – Dodik
  • Serbs imprisoned in Kosovska Mitrovica demand trials immediately