RT RS News Headlines:
- OSCE announces final, PEC technically certified election results: in RS presidential race, SDS candidates Sarovic and Cavic win with 50.2% of the vote;
- In election race for RS National Assembly, SDS wins 31 seats, SNSD – 11, PDP – 11, SDA – 6, SPRS – 4, DSP – 4, SDP BiH – 4, Party for BiH – 4, DNS – 3, SNS – 2, DSRS – 1, NHI – 1 and RS Pensioner Party – 1;
- In election race for BiH House of Representatives (combined results for delegates from RS and BiH Federation), SDP has 9 seats, SDA – 8, SDS – 6, HDZ – 5, Party for BiH – 5, PDP – 2, and so on;
- In election race for BiH Federation Parliament, SDA has 38 seats, SDP – 37, HDZ – 25 and Party for BiH – 21
- Sarovic and Cavic meet with OSCE Head Barry; Barry congratulates them on election victory; they discuss implementation of election results and establishment of new authority and institutions in RS
- BiH Presidency [Croat] member Ante Jelavic meets with Barry and NATO Deputy Commander for Europe Rupert Smith to discuss implementation of election results
- BiH Presidency [Bosniak] member Halid Genjac hold talks in Sarajevo on Monday with Barry on implementation of general election results
- Radisic meets with Rupert Smith on Monday to discuss stabilisation of political situation in Yugoslavia, which will contribute to stabilisation of political situation in region
- Zivko Radisic meets with UK ambassador to BiH Graham Hand to discuss election results
- Radisic meets with delegation of International Association of Co-operatives in Sarajevo on Monday
- Presidents of three parties in BiH: Lagumdzija of SDP BiH, Silajdzic of Party of BiH and Zubak of NHI on Monday discuss establishment of joint coalition
- BiH Croats want territorial and cultural autonomy in BiH – HDZ President Ante Jelavic, adding assessment Croats are greatest losers in Dayton Agreement
- RS healthcare workers start general entity-wide strike in RS on 27 November
- RS Government should pay two pensions per month to RS pensioners, one regular and one overdue pension, until all back pensioners are paid out to pensioning population in RS – Banja Luka Association of Pensioners representative Ilija Stevancevic
- Prijedor pensioners hold protest rally on Monday
- Yugoslavia joins OSCE on Monday; Kostunica calls on OSCE observers to participate in early Serbian parliamentary election on 23 December
- Vojislav Kostunica meets with Ivanov, Albright and Wolfgang Schussel in Vienna
- Political and ethnic violence rules in Kosovo – Vojislav Kostunica
- Kostunica due to visit Bujanovac, Medvedja and Presevo regions on Monday
- More than 2,000 Albanians leave southern Serbia and cross into Kosovo in past several days – UNHCR
- Kostunica letter to Secretary-Generals of NATO George Robertson and UN Kofi Annan to stop new incidents in Kosovo and southern Serbia
- Serbian Interior Ministry’s deadline on Monday at 19:00 for Albanian extremists to leave southern Serbia expires
- Democratic League of Kosovo (DSK) President Ibrahim Rugova did not receive invitation from Kostunica for negotiations and Rugova cannot discuss future of Kosovo with Kostunica – DSK
- Serbian Deputy Premier Nebojsa Covic visits municipalities in southern Serbia due to heightening tensions
- New police units will be deployed in region [of Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja] – Serbian Interior Ministry Co-Minister Slobodan Tomovic
- Yugoslav Army will cleanse security zone of terrorists if agreement not achieved – Yugoslav Army Chief of HQ Staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovic
- World news
- RTRS reports SFOR soldiers and several civilians attempted to arrest Slobodan Sevo in village of Donja Piskavica near Prijedor on Sunday at 18:40 because SFOR soldiers though they were arresting Zeljko Mejakic, an indicted war crimes suspect; Belgrade-based BETA news agency reports attack perpetrated on Sevo by mistake
- Return of Bosniaks to Srbinje Municipality started seven months ago and 400 have returned so far; German SFOR contingent assisted this return by financing reconstruction of five Bosniak houses in Srbinje settlement Donje Polje, which refugees use for interim accommodation
- BiH Minister for Civil Affairs and Communication and representative of Japanese Development Agency sign Transport Master Plan Agreement in Sarajevo; agreement to regulate transport within entities, between entities and between BiH and other countries
- Christmas fast for Orthodox faithful to start on 28 November and continue for 40 days
- First snowfall this year in RS recorded on Mount Lisina on Monday
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