12.08.1999

OHR SRT News Summary, 12 August 1999

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News Headlines

  • Representatives of Prijedor Hospital Strike Board and RS Health Minister reach agreement, Prijedor Hospital workers end strike
  • Pontoon bridge between Gradiska and Stara Gradiska open
  • Kauzlarich opens reconstructed waterworks in Kotor Varos
  • Yugoslav Prime Minister Bulatovic dismisses Deputy Prime Minister and seven ministers in Yugoslav Government
  • Milosevic meets with new Yugoslav ministers
  • President of Movement for Democratic Serbia Perisic says goals of his party are Milosevic resignation, new Serbian and Yugoslav Governments and new elections
  • Independent Serbian Association of Pensioners holds protest rally in Belgrade against Milosevic regime
  • SPS supports restructuring of Yugoslav Government – SPS spokesperson Ivica Dacic
  • SRS to receive five ministerial seats in restructured Yugoslav Government – Seselj
  • SPO accuses Bulatovic of protecting his job
  • Serbian Democratic Party blames Yugoslav regime for restructured Yugoslav government being obstruction to peace and agreement
  • With restructured Yugoslav Government, Yugoslavia sends message it does not want to cooperate with IC – Yugoslav Democratic Party
  • Montenegrin Serb People’s Party dissatisfied with receiving only one ministerial seat in new Yugoslav Government
  • Restructured Yugoslav Government to break Yugoslav federation – SPO and Social Democracy leaders Draskovic and Obradovic
  • Serb civilian Dejan Micic found dead in Kosovo Polje
  • French KFOR General condemns attempt of Kosovo Albanians to conflict with Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • KFOR troops block Pristina-Podujevo road
  • KFOR arrests seven Kosovo Albanians – KFOR spokesperson Jan Joosten
  • Five Serbs killed in village of Dojnice, near Gnjilanje
  • Group of Kosovo Albanian terrorists attack Macedonian soldiers on Yugoslav-Macedonian border
  • There will be more conflicts between Kosovo Albanian extremists and KFOR – French Defense Minister
  • US KFOR soldiers protect Russian KFOR soldiers, who were attacked by Kosovo Albanian extremists
  • US KFOR soldiers arrest several Kosovo Albanians
  • Kosovo Serbs and gypsies will not be able to return to Kosovo soon – UNHCR envoy in Podgorica
  • Economic cooperation between Zvornik factory Glinica and Niksic economy
  • Regional Boards of SNSD in Doboj and Brcko request cancellation of RS Presidential Cabinet financing
  • SRS member Milan Lazic statement
  • Election procedure for Brcko to differ from other BiH cities – OSCE
  • Croat police officers do not participate equally in Konjic police station – UN spokesperson Kelly Moore
  • 10,200 refugees from Yugoslavia still in BiH – UNHCR spokesperson Wendy Rappaport
  • SFOR spokesperson Gordon Welsh satisfied with operation ‘Harvest’
  • Registration process of BiH citizens living outside of BiH increases by 10% – OSCE spokesperson Sanja Latunovic
  • DPs and refugees can send request to BiH Property Commission for return of property
  • Counterfeit KM banknotes in BiH
  • Serbs from Central Bosnia Canton can choose to return to Central Bosnia Canton or remain in Brcko, but not in Bosniak or Croat houses – Central Bosnia Authorities
  • Bosansko Grahovo authority does not function because of Croat obstruction – BiH Federation independent media
  • Una-Sana Canton police find large quantity of marijuana near Bihac
  • UNHCR opens two new bus lines in Drvar for Croat refugees to visit their homes
  • Marinkovic pleads not guilty to ICTY charges of war crimes against Bosniaks
  • World news
  • Sports and weather
  • New Democracy expels Cedomira Mirkovic, new minister in restructured Yugoslav Government from New Democracy Party
  • KFOR injures two Kosovo Albanians in incident in Gornja Brnjica near Pristina – Joosten
  • 2,000 Kosovo Albanians protest against Russian KFOR soldiers in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Exile of Kosovo Serbs started more than two months ago – UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond
  • SPO thanks French KFOR soldiers for behavior in Kosovska Mitrovica
  • Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini warns KLA that IC will think about financial aid for Kosovo reconstruction
  • US State Department advises US citizens not to travel in BiH, especially in RS because of reaction following NATO action against Yugoslavia
  • Book of BiH Laws promoted in Bijeljina OSCE Office
  • World news

News Summary

SRS member Milan Lazic statement

Head of the SRS Representative Club in the RS National Assembly Milan Lazic held a press conference in Bijeljina and stated that the SRS would request that the RS President dismiss the RS National Assembly because of its current crisis. The RS President has a constitutive right to dismiss the RS National Assembly, added Lazic. Dismissal of the RS National Assembly is the best decision considering its current situation. Lazic also stated that the SRS Executive Board did not bring a decision on the participation of SRS representatives in the next session of the RS National Assembly.

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