26.08.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 26 August 2000

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News Headlines:

  • RS National Assembly adopts rebalance of budget, which is increased by 57.7 million KM
  • RS National Assembly to hold continuation of sixth special session on 31 August
  • RS National Assembly supports draft law on RS Pension-Insurance Fund (PIO)
  • All necessary measures should be adopted so RS is legitimate to foreign investors – RS National Assembly speaker Djokic
  • Economic measures decided on by RS National Assembly are not enough to meet conditions set by IMF and World Bank – RS Finance Minister Novak Kondic
  • Fire on Kraljica, Mount Ozren, destroys over 800 hectares of pine forest
  • Fires around Trebinje under control
  • Several fires burning in Herzegovina
  • No one attempting to dowse fire in Glamoc due to inaccessibility of field
  • Seven car accidents reported in Banja Luka, three persons injured
  • Two car accidents reported in Laktasi Municipality, RS
  • Stambolic not found yet, no further information made public concerning case
  • Dienstbier addresses letter to Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic concerning Stambolic disappearance
  • Serbian opposition parties condemn Stambolic disappearance
  • Act of terrorism and kidnapping (referring to Stambolic case) – Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO)
  • Djindjic hopes that Stambolic kidnapping is not politically motivated
  • Serbia is swimming in sea of violence and torture – Democratic Alternative
  • Montenegrin State Information Service to prohibit election campaign through state media – BETA
  • Election Commission for Montenegro Electoral Unit verifies four of ten parties for upcoming state elections
  • BiH citizens must first own their property before they can exchange it (or dispose of it in any other manner) – OHR
  • First mosque since end of war opens in Kozarusa, Prijedor Municipality
  • Hamdija Zeric fires shot from 7.62 mm handgun 300m from Kozarusa mosque and is disarmed and arrested by Prijedor police
  • DSP negotiates with Dodik and coalition parties on appointment of new RS refugee minister – DSP General Secretary Igor Radojicic
  • RS politicians comment on new OSCE rule concerning financing pre-elections campaigns, defined as KM 1 per registered voter, and majority agree with it
  • Granting independence to Kosovo could destabilize Macedonia because Albanians living there would demand independence, as well – ICG
  • World News
  • US KFOR presses charges against US soldier Nicholas Young for injuring and then murdering six-year-old Albanian on 10 July near Kosovska Vitina
  • ‘Kocicevi zbor’ (cultural festival) continues in Banja Luka
  • Sports
  • Weather