OHR RTRS News Summary, 29 March 2000

News Headlines

  • Dodik accepts resignation of RS Justice Minister Milan Trbojevic, SNS requests Trbojevic to return his mandate to party and Cedo Vrzina appointed new RS Justice Minister
  • RS Supreme Defense Council holds session in Banja Luka
  • Stability Pact Donors’ Conference begins in Brussels, delegations from RS, BiH Federation and Serbian opposition parties attend
  • EU gives 20 million euros to Montenegro – Chris Patten
  • Dodik meets with US Ambassador to BiH Thomas Miller
  • Dodik visits Banja Luka University, discusses improving living standard of professors and students
  • Djokic visits Srbac Municipality
  • Bijeljina Municipality parcels out 46 lots to refugees and military invalids
  • BiH Joint Military Commission holds session in Ortijes, near Mostar, discusses downsizing military forces in BiH
  • ICTY Judicial Chamber acquits Milan Simic and his lawyer, Branislav Avramovic, for attempting to influence witnesses
  • Croatia sends 50 of the most incriminating dossiers on the Oluja and Bljesak military operations to the ICTY – Croatian Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic
  • Spanish Ambassador to the Netherlands signs agreement with ICTY on use of Spanish prisons to house ICTY convicts
  • IPTF Regional Commander Kevin Smith delivers Scotland Yard’s report on Kopanja car-bombing to RS Interior Ministry – IPTF spokesperson Roberts
  • Refugee association Sveti Djordje’s members visit pre-war houses in Gorazde
  • Bicakcic comments concerning problem of Association of Former Foreign Bank Account Holders
  • UN Mostar condemns attack on Lijanovici Company in Siroki Brijeg
  • BiH Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic interview to Nezavisne Novine, says he is now ready to sign agreement to establish diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia
  • Former Russian special envoy for Kosovo Chernomyrdin supports idea of Milosevic’s involvement in resolving Kosovo crisis
  • UN Security Council to send special fact-finding delegation to examine work of KFOR and UNMIK
  • Kosovo Interim Administrative Council discusses establishment of Office of Kosovo Ombudsman
  • KFOR Sector North French Commander calls on citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica to be tolerant
  • ICRC and KFOR deny that concentration camps for Serbs exist in Kosovo
  • Yugoslav Army would never attack legally elected Montenegrin Government – Yugoslav Prime Minister Bulatovic
  • International Social Tribunal for Researching NATO Crimes against Yugoslavia ends session in Belgrade
  • World news
  • Six CD-ROMS on Serb culture presented
  • Sports and weather
  • ICTY investigators question witnesses and suspected Srebrenica war criminals – RS Defense Minister Milovanovic
  • UNDP to give $2 million to Brcko
  • Kouchner confirms that local election in Kosovo will be held in the fall
  • Association of German Officers and Soldiers protests to Defense Minister Scharping concerning danger to German KFOR troops due to presence of uranium shells in Kosovo
  • Trial of Serbian opposition leaders to begin in Belgrade on Thursday
  • Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov condemns western media war against Russia
  • World news
  • Croatian Defense Minister Jozo Rados says that all persons who participated in secret service’s operation Chameleon (eavesdropping on IC and NGOs in Croatia) to be punished
  • Culture
  • Sports and weather
  • SDS holds public debate in Novi Grad and Mrkonjic Grad, Kalinic says that Sloga Coalition is confronting eastern and western parts of RS both economically and politically
  • Businessmen financing the SNSD pre-election campaign – Milorad Dodik
  • SNSD holds public debate in Banja Luka settlement Obilicevo
  • League of BiH Communists holds press conference, says it is Euro-Communist left-wing oriented – President Mico Carevic
  • SPRS holds public debate in Derventa, Djokic, Radisic participate and explain SPRS withdrawal from Sloga Coalition
  • SPRS holds press conference in Doboj, General Secretary Gligoric says that RS does not have clearly defined economic policy
  • SNS holds public debate in Bijeljina, Plavsic says that local elections are very important
  • RS Democratic Patriotic Party discusses privatization process, trade and refugee issues
  • Independent September Party established to combat criminality in officialdom
  • Party of Banja Luka Center holds press conference in Banja Luka, says that promises of certain parties are not real – President Vojislav Erceg
  • SDP BiH holds public debate in Banja Luka settlement Kocicev Vijenac, discusses economic development and privatization process
  • IMC Enforcement Panel issues official warnings to Radio Serb Sarajevo and Croat Radio Postaja Mostar, while NTV Studio 99 fined 500 KM