OHR RTRS News Summary, 28 March 2000

News Headlines

  • Gacko Municipality should be assisted in refugee accommodation – Djokic
  • Dodik visits Zvornik-based Birac factory for aluminum oxides
  • RS Finance Minister Kondic departs for Brussels finance conference
  • Barry opens political resource center in Zvornik, RS
  • OSCE calls on BiH citizens to check candidate lists for potential violators of PEC rule on illegal property use – OSCE spokeswoman Tanya Domi
  • International organizations hold press conference in Sarajevo
  • RS Justice Minister Trbojevic protests to Del Ponte due to SFOR use of excessive force during arrests of ICTY indictees in RS
  • Izetbegovic visits Brcko District
  • Serb Gorazde, Gorazde authorities and UNHCR agree that Bosniaks who were granted right to return can cultivate their land in Serb Gorazde
  • US Ambassador Miller concerned over privatization process in BiH Federation and questionable sale of hotel Holiday Inn in Sarajevo – ONASA
  • Ganic proposes that BiH Federation Privatization Agency undertakes measures to prevent manipulation in privatization process
  • German Heidlberg-based Zement Company interested in buying Kakanj cement factory
  • Livno Canton Interior Minister Barisic resigns – BiH Federation media
  • First Bosniak returns to Srebrenica take place
  • Contact Group holds session in Paris
  • KFOR confiscates weapons in Kosovo
  • Explosion heard in Pristina – KFOR
  • Serb convoy stoned on Bujanovac-Gnjilane road
  • House of former Serbian Interior Ministry official destroyed in Dragas, Kosovo – Goranic ethnic community accuses KLA of attack
  • Kosovo Serb representatives close to decision on joining Interim Kosovo Administrative Council as observers – Serb National Council member Rada Trajkovic
  • French Colonel Jean-Michel Mechaint charged with handing secret KFOR documents to French media on French KFOR dissatisfaction with Kouchner’s pro-Albanian attitude in Kosovo – BETA
  • Milosevic sends greetings to President Milutinovic on Serbian Statehood Day
  • Serbian opposition parties form commission to organize joint rally on 14 April
  • World news
  • Poplasen book ‘The Truth Against Treason’ promoted in Banja Luka
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Dodik opens police station in Sekovici
  • Elections in Kosovo cannot be held without agreement of Yugoslav authorities – Yugoslav Committee for Cooperation with UN President Vukicevic
  • Serb National Council sends letters to Kouchner and Reinhardt protesting bomb attacks on Serb houses in Gnjilane
  • World wants reason and SNS offers it – Plavsic
  • SNS requests IC remove Izetbegovic family from BiH politics – SNS spokesperson Barasin
  • RS Pensioners’ Party invites supporters to express their trust in them
  • PDP invites citizens to realize true offers in elections
  • Mesic statement on constitutionality of BiH nations aimed at raising political tensions – RS Radical Party General Secretary Deretic
  • SNDS presents its candidates in Sokolac
  • SNSD priority is allotment of construction sites for refugees – SNSD member Kragulj
  • SDS supports preservation of RS according to Dayton Agreement – SDS Vice-president Cavic
  • Economic renewal must prevent exodus of young citizens – Democratic Patriotic Party
  • HSS BiH protests against attempts at changing ethnographic picture of BiH
  • SPRS holds press conference in Serb Sarajevo
  • Serb Patriotic Party celebrates seventh anniversary SDP BiH presents candidates for Gradiska in Nova Topola