OHR RTRS News Summary, 3 June 2000

News Headlines

  • SPRS holds second congress in Banja Luka, SPRS members re-elect Radisic president and Djokic Vice-president
  • SNS holds Special Assembly in Banja Luka
  • Sarovic to visit ICTY on 5 June
  • Several hundred Bosniaks have returned to 29 villages in Srbinje Municipality, while return of Serbs to Ustikolina will start on 5 June – conclusion of meeting between Serb and Bosniak refugee-return associations
  • 60 Bosniaks return to village near Srebrenica
  • International Mediator for BiH Schwartz-Schilling warns that IC is less willing to invest in BiH
  • Montenegrin President Djukanovic meets with Madeleine Albright in Berlin
  • Elections for Yugoslav Parliament to be held this year – Yugoslav Prime Minister and Montenegrin Socialist National Party President Momir Bulatovic
  • Milosevic will certainly visit Montenegro – SPS official Ivica Dacic
  • Arrival of new contingent of recruits from Podgorica and Herceg-Novi to Yugoslav Army postponed due to local elections in Podgorica and Herceg-Novi – Yugoslav Army HQ Chief of Staff General Nebojsa Pavkovic
  • KFOR Commander Ortuno meets with members of Kosovo Serb National Council
  • KFOR finds weapons in village of Dobrotin near Lipljan, Kosovo – KFOR
  • UN and KFOR close newspaper Dita in accordance with Kouchner’s order
  • President of Turkish national minority in Kosovo says that this group will not participate in Kosovo registration
  • Croatia to send police brigade to Kosovo – Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula
  • NATO Secretary-General Robertson not surprised by decision of ICTY to not raise charges against NATO for bombing Yugoslavia
  • Russian Foreign Ministry criticizes decision of ICTY to not raise charges against NATO for bombing civilian targets in Yugoslavia
  • US to give $5 million in aid for return of Serbs to Croatia
  • World news
  • Dragan Elcic’s documentary film receives award at Moscow Film Festival
  • Pittsburgh University and Banja Luka University organize discussion in Banja Luka on history of south Slaves in this region
  • SDS denies that it supported postponement of 11th session of RS National Assembly
  • Sports and weather
  • 129 of 234 delegates at SNS Assembly vote against Biljana Plavsic’s remainder as SNS President, 105 support her
  • Sarovic to meet with representatives of Serb clubs in Germany
  • European Parliamentary Commission for Relation with Southeast Europe Head Doris Pack condemns violence in Kosovo
  • World news
  • Sports and weather

(This excerpt is taken from the daily report of the IMC-led Joint Media Monitoring Group (JMMG)).