17.08.1998

OHR SRT News Summary, 17 August 1998

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Headlines

  • At today’s session, the RS Government gave a positive assessment of the Interior Ministry’s engagement in revealing details relating to the recent murder in Pale
  • RS President Biljana Plavsic in a visit to “Lignosper” from Novi Grad
  • Liberation of the village of Junik a step towards dialogue on Kosovo
  • Fires in Srpska Herzegovina; all eyes fixed on the sky
  • 2 million people endangered by floods in China

The RS Government, at today’s session held in Banja Luka, concluded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs did its part of the job regarding the revelation of the perpetrators of the criminal act of murder of Deputy Head of the Srpsko Sarajevo Public Security Centre, Srdjan Knezevic. At the same time, the Government made a decision to allocate 200 parcels for housing construction to refugees and DPs in Brcko.
2:05

Today, in the late afternoon, the RS President Biljana Plavsic visited Novi Grad, where she visited two leading companies of the town and of the RS as a whole: the “Lignosper” company and the “Sana” corporation.
2:00

The RS NA Speaker, Petar Djokic, received the Spanish Ambassador to BiH and the head of OHR office, Miguel Arias, in a protocol visit in Banja Luka today. The Spanish Ambassador was interested in the activities of the RS Parliament prior to the elections. Djokic presented Miguel Arias with activities of the caucuses and the parliamentary parties aimed at the creation of the conditions for holding fair and democratic elections.
0:45

Two people died in an explosion that took place in the centre of Sarajevo this morning at around 9 a.m.
0:39

The RS Prime Minister visited Srpska Kostajnica today, when he visited and familiarised himself with the situation in the biggest economic firm in Kostajnica, “Famo”.
1:00

Elections

  • The president of the SNSD Milorad Dodik – a press conference in Banja Luka
  • The president of SNS Biljana Plavsic – a public meeting in Srbac
  • SDS – a public meeting in Mrkonjic Grad dubbed “Srpska put to the test”, attended by the members of the presidency and the main board of the party
  • DS – a statement
  • HDZ BiH – a press conference in Banja Luka attended by the president of the party, Ante Jelavic