06.06.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 6 June 2000

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News Headlines

  • Spasoje Tusevljak elected new BiH Council of Ministers Chairman
  • BiH Border Service officially inaugurated in ceremony at Sarajevo Airport
  • RS Government states that even if there is no inflation in the RS, the Finance Ministry has prepared a program of preventive measures to stop the future appearance of inflation
  • RS Agriculture and Forestry Minister Savic dismissed in accordance with OSCE Rule on Incompatibility and Conflict of Interest
  • Sarovic returns from The Hague
  • RS Government to discuss housing problems of war veterans at session on 16 June
  • Dodik meets with delegation of RS Branch Syndicates
  • Construction of 148 houses for war invalids and war veterans stopped due to OHR decision disallowing use of state-owned land
  • German and BiH representatives sign contract on financial assistance to BiH
  • US Government to give $80 million for refugee return – US Ambassador Thomas Miller
  • UNHCR Head of Mission to BiH Werner Blatter says that UNHCR is satisfied with minority returns in first four month of 2000
  • OHR satisfied with refugee returns to Srebrenica – OHR spokesman Milisic
  • Milo Djukanovic’s brother detained by police
  • Yugoslav Information Minister Matic accuses US intelligence service and Montenegrin Interior Minister Maras for murder of Goran Zugic, Milo Djukanovic’s National Security Advisor
  • Consultative council of political parties holds session to discuss new election rules
  • Biljana Plavsic says that her dismissal as SNS President was illegal
  • Dragan Kostic says that his election as SNS President was legal
  • SNS to resolve the party’s problems in accordance with the SNS Statute – SNSD General Secretary Slavko Mitrovic
  • 12 Serbs injured in bomb attack and clashes with KFOR in Gracanica, Kosovo
  • US condemns Kosovo Albanian violence against Serbs – BETA
  • Two trials of Serbs indicted of war crimes to be held in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Japan to give $3.5 million for BiH de-mining
  • Fuad Pulisevic elected BiH Federation Minister for War Veterans
  • Bicakcic asks Petritsch for intensification of cooperation in drafting new law on freedom of information
  • IMC organizes two-day Forum within Bosnia Infrastructure Rebuild Exhibition (BIRE), which started in Sarajevo on Tuesday
  • Sports and weather
  • Petritsch not satisfied with the procedure appointing Tusevljak as Chairman of BiH Council of Ministers, saying it was too slow, unprofessional and done non-transparently – OHR spokesman Milisic tells press conference
  • Izetbegovic announces retirement at the end of his mandate as Chairman of the BiH Presidency
  • Husein Zivalj departs for Sofia to attend informal meeting of regional representatives
  • US rejects Yugoslav Information Minister Matic’s accusations regarding CIA involvement in Zugic murder
  • Amnesty International claims that NATO violated the rules and customs of war a number of times during its air campaign against Yugoslavia

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