OHR RTRS News Summary, 5 June 2000

News Headlines

  • Sarovic meets with ICTY officials to discuss relations between the RS and ICTY
  • RS and BiH Federation Interior and Refugee Ministries, Asanin and Prlic sign agreement on return of refugees and DPs who have problems with ID cards
  • 21st session of BiH House of Representatives to be held in Sarajevo on Tuesday
  • Brcko District Transitional Government adopts June budget
  • New Brcko Supervisor Gary Matthews holds first press conference in Brcko
  • Formative session of Banja Luka City Assembly postponed at recommendation of Provisional Election Commission (PEC) due to problem with the verification of SNS mandates
  • Serb Sarajevo Mayor Predrag Lasica meets with Sarajevo Canton Prime Minister Beriz Belkic to discuss bilateral cooperation
  • RS Chamber of Commerce delegation visits Croatian Chamber of Commerce in Zagreb
  • If RS Government does not meet our demands in five days, we will organize general strike – Banja Luka Cajavec Company Trade Union
  • Information concerning the privatization process in the RS, vouchers will be issued starting from 9 October
  • Commission for Monitoring the BiH Privatization Process abolished in May
  • OHR and OSCE condemn 1 June statement of RS Information Minister Rajko Vasic, who said that false information concerning events was being disseminated by certain RS media (a petition of SNS assemblymen on Plavsic’s dismissal and SFOR soldiers entering Plavsic’s building to arrest her)
  • Plavsic confidence vote was not on agenda of Saturday’s SNS Special Congress – unsigned but official SNS press release
  • 10 of 11 SNS delegates in RS National Assembly do not support Plavsic – SNS member Milica Markovic-Elez
  • SDA Vice-president and RS National Assembly delegate Sulejman Tihic says he knew that Plavsic’s report would not receive majority at SNS Special Assembly
  • ICTY prosecutor requests sentencing of Zejnil Delalic for war crimes committed in Celebici concentration camp
  • HN Canton Interior Ministry to investigate conflict between Croats and Bosniaks in Stolac cafe
  • Kouchner concerned over decision of Kosovo Serb envoys to freeze participation in Interim Kosovo Administrative Council
  • Kosovo Serbs hold protest rally near Pristina
  • Yugoslav banks Jugobanka and Beobanka start payment of old foreign currency accounts to Yugoslav citizens, 150 DM to each citizens for now – Yugoslav Government decision
  • Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic meets with Portuguese Prime Minister
  • Vietnam will give priority to Yugoslav companies in modernization works of their country
  • 300 damaged Serb houses in east Gospic, Croatia, were supposedly totally destroyed because they represented health hazard
  • World news
  • New oil prices in RS gas stations
  • Reconstruction of bridge over Una River at Novi Grad
  • Sports and weather
  • BiH Deputy Foreign Minister Zivalj to head BiH delegation at meeting of regional groups of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe in Salonica, Greece
  • NATO‘s Robertson concerned and disappointed by decision of Kosovo Serbs to abandon Interim Kosovo Administrative Council
  • UN Kosovo Administration preparing draft law on stopping the dissemination of ethnic hatred in Kosovo media
  • Nine persons killed in Kosovo over the past several days – UN police in Kosovo
  • World news
  • culture

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