04.12.1999

OHR RTRS News Summary, 4 December 1999

News Headlines

  • SPRS Election Conference in Brcko
  • Next goal of SPRS is to aid refugees and displaced persons – Djokic
  • Dragicevic statement
  • Politicians living in flats that belong to someone who has brought request for return cannot participate in local elections
  • 16th day of strike of Incel workers in Banja Luka
  • Economic problems at Banja Luka transport firm Autoprevoz
  • KFOR finds two bodies in Pristina
  • Serb killed by explosive in village of Cernica, near Gnjilanje
  • KFOR finds two Serb bodies in village of Velika Hoca, near Orahovac
  • Milosevic hurts his own people by stopping EU oil aid to Nis and Pirot on border – James Rubin
  • Leaders of Alliance for Changes meet with EU and US envoys in Budva, Montenegro
  • Former president of SDA Muhamed Cengic requests Izetbegovic and SDA Main and Executive Boards allow him to again be party member
  • Deputy to US Special Envoy for Implementation of Dayton Agreement Robert Frowick meets with HN Canton opposition coordination board
  • IC officials threaten Prskalo and Orucevic with dismissal if they do not achieve progress in return of refugees
  • Bosniak authorities in Bugojno reject Croat request to give Croat returnees in Bugojno one school building for Croat pupils
  • European Commission to finance reconstruction of Sarajevo City Hall
  • World news
  • Economy
  • Sports and weather
  • IC has new project for protection of cemetery in Kosovska Mitrovica – UNMiK spokesperson Beatrice Lacoste
  • Conditions in Kosovska Mitrovica prison are good – Lacoste
  • Serbian telecommunications company accuses Kosovo Albanians of attacking post office in Kosovo Polje
  • New crises in Southeast Europe can pull all of Europe into war – Stability Pact Coordinator Bodo Hombach
  • World news
  • OSCE Department for Democratization organizes two-day seminar entitled ‘Women Can Do It’ in Banja Luka
  • RS economic news
  • Sports and weather

News Summary

SPRS Election Conference in Brcko

The SPRS held an election conference in Brcko, at which RS National Assembly Speaker and member of the SPRS Main Board Petar Djokic stated that the next goal of the SPRS is to aid refugees and displaced persons. Djokic promised the distribution of several hundred land plots will begin for refugees and displaced persons. The RS must not ignore its right and obligation to protect its interests in Brcko, although the RS did not accept the political decision of the arbitration tribunal, added Djokic. Djokic stated that Brcko is equally in the RS and BiH Federation, but that the RS has more have a claim on Brcko, which belongs to the RS in accordance with the distribution of BiH territory on the 51%:49% principle.

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Dragicevic statement

RS Minister for Refugees and Displaced Persons Miladin Dragicevic stated that the new law on refugees and displaced persons strengthened obligations to the revisions of the displaced and refugee status. The new law also strengthened the right of refugees and displaced persons to register themselves with competent bodies to obtain returnee documents and IDs, added Dragicevic.

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