20.08.1998

OHR SRT News Summary, 20 August 1998

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Headlines

  • The payment of pensions for July to start tomorrow
  • The RS Government about the measures of economic policy
  • Infrastructure projects completed in Celinac, Banja Luka and Knezevo
  • Monetary crisis in Russia continues

The payment of pensions for the month of July will start tomorrow with an allowance of 100 dinar to each pensioner.
0:30

The RS Government, at today’s session, adopted the Decree on measures of economic policy and other decisions relating to the revival of the economy.
1:45

The completion of the works on infrastructure projects in Celinac, Banja Luka and Knezevo was officially celebrated today. The American agency for development, USAID, provided DM 765,000 for the projects. The ceremony was attended by the RS President Biljana Plavsic, Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and other dignitaries from the RS, as well as representatives of the American Government.
2:55

The CoM BiH held a session in Sarajevo today. Several draft laws were on the agenda. The BiH CoM adopted, inter alia, the draft text on the founding of the statistics agency, which had been offered by the OHR. WB projects would enable private companies in the RS to receive 130 credits with a maximum value of DM 250,000, according to the Head of the RS Government’s office for coordination of WB reconstruction projects, Ranko Lebovic, at a press conference held in Banja Luka today.
02:01

Elections

  • SNS – a public meeting in Gradiska
  • SNSD – a meeting in Celinac
  • SNS – a meeting in Celinac
  • SDS – a meeting dubbed “With all heart for the RS” in Visegrad
  • Social liberal party – a press conference
  • Radical party of RS – a press conference
  • Party for Yugoslavia – a press conference
  • Milosava Jakovljevic (independent candidate) – a press conference