08.04.2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 8 April 2000

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News Headlines

  • OSCE extends voting until 20:00 because of problems with voter registers
  • Majority of objections due to fact that large number of citizens omitted from voter registers
  • 40.53% voters participated in elections by 18:00 – Banja Luka City Election Commission President Boskovic
  • Report on voting process in East Herzegovina municipalities
  • There were problems with voter registers – Trebinje Local Election Commission President Milan Bosic
  • Regular voting process in Bijeljina Municipality
  • Report on voting process in Prijedor region
  • Report on voting process in Brcko District, as well as Pelagicevo and Srpsko Orasje municipalities
  • Regular voting process in Kotor Varos Municipality
  • There were no incidents during the elections – RT RS presenter comments on BiH local elections
  • Bomb explodes in Islamic Community building in Glamoc Municipality
  • Report on voting process in BiH Federation
  • Foreign media report on elections in BiH
  • Kosovo Albanians did not get support for independence bid at meeting on Kosovo held in Budapest
  • KFOR stops assistance to Serb village Sevci after recent clash between Serbs and KFOR – KFOR spokesperson Berg
  • 1,000 Serbs protest in Strpci against KFOR decision to stop convoy of Serbs returnees from Serbia
  • KFOR Commander, German General Reinhardt meets with Yugoslav General Marjanovic to discuss Military-Technical Agreement and situation on administrative border
  • Unexploded ordnance in Kosovo represents danger to children – The Independent
  • Albright meets with eight Serbian opposition party mayors
  • World News
  • Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle is appointed Head of Jovan Ducic Commemorative Council
  • Sports and Weather
  • Croatian voters in Zepce and Gornji Vakuf boycott elections while fraud attempts in eastern parts of RS were also recorded – OSCE Mission to BiH press conference
  • Local elections are step toward BiH democratization – Petritsch
  • Bomb thrown in front of polling station in Pale, no casualties reported in incident
  • First preliminary election results expected in the morning – Banja Luka municipal election commission
  • Voting process in Semberija and Majevica regions
  • Voting process in Prijedor region
  • Voting process in Trebinje region
  • Voting process in Srpsko Sarajevo region
  • Voting process in Mrkonjic Grad Municipality where problems occurred with voter registers
  • Voting process in Modrica Municipality, armed SFOR patrol enters a polling station
  • Voting process in Herzegovina region
  • Kosovo Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic calls on Ibrahim Rugova to have dialogue on Kosovo issue
  • World News
  • Weather

News Summary

Bomb explodes in Islamic Community building in Glamoc Municipality

Tonight, a bomb exploded in the Islamic Community building in Glamoc, Glamoc police report. No injuries were reported in this explosion. The representatives of political parties in protests today assessed that this act further marks the deterioration the situation for Glamoc Bosniaks and other honest citizens.

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