OHR RTRS News Summary, 27 February 2000

News Headlines

  • Five SPRS members leave SPRS Executive Board
  • Some members of SPRS Executive Board did not receive support of party Main Board – SPRS Vice-president Nedjo Djuric
  • SPRS Main Board issues press release confirming withdrawal from Sloga
  • RS December pensions to be paid mid March – RS Pension Fund Director Mihajlovic
  • Prlic denies possibility of political dispute with Turkey
  • Croat authorities in west Mostar refuse to implement International Labor Organization decisions on returning 1,500 workers to Aluminij and Soko factories
  • Police chief Slavisa Dimitrijevic killed in Albanian attacks near Bujanovac
  • Albanian killed in attacks on Serbian police
  • Reinhardt visit to northern Kosovska Mitrovica delayed
  • Gnjilane doctor and Serb National Council member Vasic dies from gunshot wound – KFOR spokesperson Anido
  • Europe must form international police corps – Solana
  • Sandzak Muslim party leaders request ICTY investigation into Strpce case (kidnapping of 20 bus passengers seven years ago)
  • Serbian Democratic Party elects new president and vice-presidents
  • We expect new Croatian Government to return property to Serb returnees in Croatia – Serb People’s Council President Pupovac
  • World news
  • New RS law on road traffic
  • Number of car accidents higher in 1999 – RS Interior Ministry Department for Safety in traffic
  • RS Education Ministry and Banja Luka University grant scholarships
  • Seminar on suicide concludes in Banja Luka
  • RS Serb Patriotic Party Main Board holds session
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Conference on Democracy and Stability in Southeast Europe held in Salonica 25-26 February
  • Gracanica residents protest murder of police officer
  • Explosion in front of Serb church in Vitina, Kosovo

News Summary

Five SPRS members leave party Executive Board

At the SPRS Main Board session on 26 February, party members did not vote to support Nebojsa Radmanovic and Igor Radojicic of Banja Luka, Momir Malic of Prnjavor, Mile Sokolovic of Rogatica or Mirko Nozica of Derventa. After a secret ballot, Igor Radojicic and Zeljka Krpic resigned from their posts in the Executive Board and returned their mandates, while Radojicic is also leaving the party. RS Health Minister Zeljko Rodic and Slobodan Bucma also resigned. SPRS members voted to support the previous Vice-presidents Nedjo Djuric, Dragutin Ilic and Dragoljub Trivanovic. Savo Loncar and Borislav Obradovic, who announced their resignations from the Executive Board, demonstratively left the session before it ended.

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