04.04.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 4 April 2000

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News Headlines

  • RT RS issues press release on decision of RS Telecom, saying they will have no resources because of decision to stop collection of TV subscriptions through phone bill
  • RS Telecom will not continue to collect TV subscription for RTRS
  • Krajisnik to enter plea at ICTY on Friday
  • Del Ponte supports SFOR action and requests arrest of Karadzic
  • SPRS worried over consequences of Krajisnik arrest, saying that Krajisnik was one of the signatories of the Dayton Agreement
  • SDS Presidency condemns arrest of Krajisnik
  • SFOR arrest operation performed in collusion with one part of SDS – SRS General Secretary Ognjen Tadic
  • SNS dissatisfied with the fact that blame is placed on more Serb side than other
  • After Krajisnik arrest, Izetbegovic has the most to fear – SNSD
  • NATO Secretary- General Robertson calls on Karadzic to surrender
  • 4 April is Day of RS Police
  • PEC disqualifies two candidates, SDS and SPRS, for local elections in Sekovici Municipality
  • Dodik visits Srpska Kostajnica and Kozarska Dubica
  • 750 supervisors from 54 countries to observe local elections in BiH – OSCE
  • Radisic expects general elections in BiH to be held this October
  • IMF approves new funding for BiH budget
  • Peace Implementation Council Steering Board holds session attended by RS and BiH Federation finance ministers and World Bank and IMF envoys
  • BiH Border Commission holds session
  • BiH Minister for Civilian Affairs and Communication Marko Asanin proposes establishment of Property Fund for Refugees and DPs at BiH Central Bank in accordance with Dayton Agreement
  • 400 citizens have returned to settlements of Kozja Luka and Jelac in Srbinje Municipality – UNHCR
  • Strong explosion in Modrica, RS police investigating
  • International Commission for Missing Persons holds session in Sarajevo, Klein attends
  • BiH Federation Government adopts reports on work of prosecutor’s offices and bank privatization process
  • Six children injured in Resnik, near Klina
  • Kosovo Administrative Council supports decision of Kosovo Serb National Council
  • 1,000 students hold rally in Belgrade
  • EU postpones stronger financial sanctions against Belgrade regime
  • World news
  • RS education workers to receive salaries for March
  • RS Electrical Industry Main Headquarters to stay in Trebinje
  • RS Telecom has monopoly on telecommunication in RS
  • Sports and weather
  • Ceremony of RS Police Day is held in Banja Luka
  • Dodik visits Gradiska Municipality
  • Yugoslav Army officials reject possibility of communication with Montenegrin authority through Djukanovic’s advisers, who are Yugoslav Army pensioners
  • Kosovo Serbs block road near Strpci and Jazinac
  • Serb civilian killed by NATO bomb in Nis
  • ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte meets with Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel to discuss on mutual relations
  • World news
  • Reconstructed bridge in Brod to be opened on 5 April
  • RS Railroad Management Board issues new time-table
  • Seminar on Religious Tolerance held in Brcko
  • Sports and weather
  • RS People’s Party has candidates in 15 RS municipalities
  • SDP BiH holds final pre-election rally in Banja Luka
  • Local BiH elections will be signal to IC: Is BiH ready for democratic change? SDP BiH Zlatko Lagumdzija states during press conference in Banja Luka
  • Serb Patriotic Party holds public forum in Banja Luka
  • Municipality administrations are ineffective – Independent September Party
  • Democratic Patriotic Party satisfied with its campaign, but not satisfied with coverage of its pre-election campaign in the print media
  • RS Democratic Party Doboj Municipal Board supports concept of coalition of all Serb parties
  • SPO Vice-president Zdravko Mrkonja says that we have to give youth a change to keep them from leaving BiH
  • SPO holds press conference in Doboj
  • SNS holds public forums in Ostra Luka and Prijedor, SNS President Biljana Plavsic says that the SNS is a democratic and people party with real goals
  • SNS holds press conference, member Ostoja Barasin says that RT RS gave the following airtimes to the following parties: SDS, 25:00; SNSD, 24:15; PDP RS, 22:54; SPRS, 21:30; while SNS only received 19:44
  • Serb Fatherland Movement holds public forum in Srbinje
  • SPRS holds final public forum in Prijedor pre-election campaign, says that danger to RS is coming from inside the RS – Radisic
  • SNSD holds public forums in Gornji Podgradci, Dregelji and Gradiska villages
  • SNSD press conference in Banja Luka
  • SDS holds public forum in Gradiska in which several thousand citizens participate, says the work of the RS Government has been catastrophic
  • SDS holds public forums in Banja Luka suburb Centar, Lopare and Bijeljina, calls on all citizens to participate in upcoming local election
  • PDP RS holds its central rally in Banja Luka’s Borik Sports Hall