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)).