OHR RTRS News Summary, 28 April 2000

News Headlines

  • SDA Executive Board votes against Ganic and supports Bicakcic
  • European Council delegation meets with BiH Parliamentary delegation to discuss conditions for BiH membership
  • Orthodox Christians celebrate Good Friday
  • Sarovic sends Easter greetings to Orthodox Christians and Serb Orthodox Church
  • Traffic during Easter holidays at crossings and on RS roads
  • Prlic participates in celebration of 50th anniversary of Shuman Declaration in Zagreb
  • Dragan Nikolic pleads not guilty at ICTY
  • Main witness refuses to testify at ICTY because ICTY temporarily released Zaric and Tadic – Del Ponte
  • Remains of 80 people found near Srebrenica and Bratunac – BiH Federation Commission for Missing Persons Head Amor Masovic
  • US Ambassador to BiH Thomas Miller meets with Central Bosnia Canton Governor Adnan Terzic to discuss refugee returns and privatization process
  • Emir Kreco buys Mostar Hotel Ruza for 2.3 million DM
  • Civilian injured in Gnjilanje
  • KFOR finds body in Gnjilanje
  • KFOR arrests four people for illegal possession of weapons in Lipljan
  • Serb cemetery vandalized in village of Ajvalija, near Gracanica
  • Orthodox church vandalized in village of Grncar, near Pristina
  • UN Security Council delegation visits Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Kosovo Albanians end protest rally in Pristina
  • IC will not permit conflicts in area of Presevo – KFOR Commander Juan Ortuno
  • One worker killed in house of Serbian Finance Minister Borislav Milacic
  • Trial against seven people accused of conspiring to assassinate Milosevic in Nis
  • World news
  • Economic news
  • Weather
  • Ganic, Sarajevo Canton, Tuzla Canton and Bosansko-Podrinja Canton Presidents lose out in SDA Main Board vote of confidence – SDA Vice-president Halid Genjac
  • Scharping to visit BiH and Kosovo on Saturday
  • Four civilians injured in attack on UN bus carrying Kosovo Serbs
  • UNMIK Regional Office in Kosovska Mitrovica condemns attack on UN bus
  • Kosovska Mitrovica Serb National Council Executive Board President Oliver Ivanovic meets with UN Security Council delegation to discuss return of Kosovo Serbs and registration of Kosovo citizens for vote
  • Kosovo Albanian envoy Bairam Redzepi expects UN Security Council to help UNMIK
  • Swedish expert team to join to UN expert team and assist exhumations in Kosovo
  • International Federation of Journalists calls on Kouchner to examine introduction of new Law on Media in Kosovo
  • Annan, Mary Robinson and UNESCO appeal for protection of freedom media
  • Croatian Parliament adopts plan to amend constitutional Law on Human Rights and Law on Minority Rights
  • World news
  • Sports and weather
  • One worker killed in house of Serbian Finance Minister Borislav Milacic, Belgrade police inform public of arrest of Dimitrije Djakovic, suspected of murdering worker