21.08.1998

OHR SRT News Summary, 21 August 1998

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Headlines

  • The RS President Biljana Plavsic in a visit to Knezevo
  • The RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik in the municipalities of eastern Herzegovina
  • There wonąt be common textbooks at the level of BiH, Minister of Education confirmed to the SRT
  • American revenge in the locations of Sudan and Afghanistan met approvals, especially in the western political circles

Opening of the RS towards the world and thus finding new markets for economy is the course that one should maintain, the RS President Biljana Plavsic stressed after visiting the wood and timber industry “Omar” from Knezevo.
1:10

The RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik received the head of the German Embassy office in Banja Luka today.
0:10

The resolving of the status issues of the refugees and DPs was the topic of the conversation in Brcko today between the RS NA Speaker Petar Djokic and Minister for refugees Milading Dragicevic with the representatives of refugees and DPs.
1:20

The vice president of the Government Djuradj Banjac received in Banja Luka today the representatives of the Canadian-German consortium led by the Canadian firm IMSI-Balkan. The main topic of the conversation was a new donation to the RS . The IMSI Balkan will provide financial resources , the latest technology for the housing and infrastructure construction for the accommodation of the refugees and other vulnerable categories of population.
1:10

Today in Lukavica, in the premises of the Ministry for Civil Affairs and Communications, the agreement on air-traffic between BiH and the Republic of Austria was signed by the Minister Albijanic and the Austrian Ambassador.
1:50

There are no and will not be common textbooks in the RS and FBiH, was said in the republic Ministry of Education. “We have worked with the FBiH Ministry only on removing the insulting materials from the existing textbooks. The common textbooks will not be worked on,” Minister of Education Nenad Susic said. At the initiative of OHR, the three national expert commissions reviewed the whole set of textbooks . ” After the reviews, it was established that the textbooks of the RS do not contain insulting and offensive spots,” Suzic said.
2:40

The dean of the Banja Luka university Dragoljub Mirjanic received a delegation of the California state university. The meeting discussed the possibilities of cooperation between those 2 high-education institutions.
1:03

Elections:

  • SNS – a public tribune in Kotor Varos
  • SDS – a public tribune in Srbac
  • SPRS – a public tribune in Gradiska
  • SNSD – pre-election tribune in Doboj
  • SNSD – a promotion rally in Ljubinje
  • SRS – a press conference in Brcko attended by Nikola Poplasen
  • SDS – a press conference
  • Democratic party – a press conference
  • Serb Peasantąs Party – a press conference
  • Democratic Party for Banja Luka a and Krajina – a press conference
  • Social Democratic Party of BiH – a round table discussion