03/08/2000

OHR RTRS News Summary, 8 March 2000

News Headlines

  • Ceremonious inauguration of Brcko District
  • Albright meets with members of BiH Presidency
  • BiH Presidency members adopt basic principles and organization of BiH Border Service
  • RS Finance Minister Novak Kondic say that IMF decided to postpone discussion on prolongation of BiH stand-by arrangements
  • Petritsch holds press conference in Banja Luka, says he supports Dodik Government
  • Petritsch presents program on protection of journalistic profession and media freedom
  • BiH Federation TV Managerial Board holds session in Sarajevo
  • Mostar Association of Refugees and DPs requests IC to stop extremist policies of HDZ Mostar and for IC to assist returns to Mostar
  • 10,000 people hold protest rally in Kiseljak on ICTY sentence against Blaskic
  • Calm situation in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Kosovo Albanians from Gusevac attack Kosovo Serbs in Suvi Do
  • NATO‘s Robertson strongly condemns violence in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • NATO and KFOR protecting peace in Kosovo, especially in Kosovska Mitrovica and Presevo
  • Kouchner condemns Kosovo Serb and Kosovo Albanian extremists for violence in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Members of outlawed KLA still active – International Center for Research of Worldwide Crisis Regions
  • Yugoslav Army will not return to Kosovo using force – Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff General Pavkovic
  • UNHCR to assist Croatian Government refugee return plan
  • Croatia to reduce assistance to BiH Croats by KM 76 million
  • ICTY prepares transport of Tuta to The Hague – ICTY spokesman
  • World news
  • Croatian air force and US Navy hold joint maneuvers in Adriatic Sea
  • SPRS member Tihomir Gligoric rejects Dodik allegations concerning abuse in program to construction 2,000 houses
  • Poplasen adviser Mirjana Sainovic rejects Dodik allegations
  • SNS issues press release on its election campaign
  • SPRS Vice-president Dragutin Ilic presents SPRS election program in Srbinje
  • SNSD supports work of RS Government to regulate cooperation with ICTY
  • Party of Democratic Progress holds public debate in Banja Luka
  • SDP BiH holds press conference in Banja Luka, says problems between SPRS and Sloga Coalition must not have influence over work of RS Government and National Assembly
  • SPO holds press conference in Trebinje, Vice-president Zdravko Mrkonja comments on Mesic’s visit to Banja Luka and return of Serbs in Croatia
  • Party of Banja Luka Center holds press conference in Banja Luka
  • Djokic and RS Union of Syndicates send greetings to women in RS
  • Barry and Petritsch send greetings to women in BiH
  • International Day of Women
  • Sports and weather
  • Albright and Patten press conference, US supports Petritsch in implementation of Dayton Agreement – Albright
  • Albright to meet with Dodik, Prlic, Plavsic and Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula in Banja Luka on Wednesday
  • Christian Schwartz-Shilling meets with RS Refugee Minister Miladin Dragicevic to discuss evictions and return of refugees
  • Schwartz-Schilling meets with Banja Luka Assembly deputy speaker Mihajlo Crnadak to discuss return of refugees and evictions in Banja Luka
  • BiH Federation TV Council elects Vladimir Bilic as first General Director and Fahrudin Balvanovic as Deputy General Director
  • Strike of workers in Han Pijesak firm Planinsko
  • NATO Permanent Council discusses situation in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • France condemns violence in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday when 16 French KFOR soldiers were injured
  • Greek Defense Minister comments on situation in Kosovo
  • Serb National Assembly in Strpce condemns attack on three buses carrying Serbs
  • ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte says that ICTY will investigate 300 mass graves in Kosovo
  • NATO warns Milosevic, if he attacks Montenegro, NATO will answer attack with attack – unnamed NATO source
  • World news
  • Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan says in Berlin that trial against Mladen Naletilic Tuta will probably be held in Croatia
  • Culture
  • Sports and weather

News Summary

Poplasen adviser Mirjana Sainovic rejects Dodik allegations

Adviser to former RS President Nikola Poplasen, Mirjana Sainovic resolutely denied allegations Milorad Dodik made on Tuesday during a talkshow on RTRS. According to Sainovic, Dodik said that Poplasen had requested the mobilization of RS citizens and ordered attacks on SFOR at the time of NATO‘s air campaign against Yugoslavia. Sainovic confirmed that the RS Supreme Defense Council never discussed, at anytime, the mobilization or armed resistance of the RS people against the NATO-led SFOR.

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