21.06.1999

OHR SRT News Summary, 21 June 1999

Headlines

  • Pension payment for April starts tomorrow;
  • Entrance examination for secondary schools in the RS took place in all schools except in the Grammar school in Banja Luka;
  • Rajko Vasic: RS does not need the Public Corporation TV BiH;
  • Sarajevo will host the Conference on Stability Pact for Europe;
  • Agreement on KLA disarmament;
  • Kosovo Serbs dilemma: to leave or to stay.
  • FRY Government proposed that the Yugoslav Parliament meet to lift the state of war- FRY Ministry of information release

SRT correspondent from FRY ( Radmila Urosevic) on today’s events in Yugoslavia: 200 Serb refugees from Kosovo could not hold the demonstrations in the center of Belgrade. Serb Police Force prevent them (without use of force) to say their 5 demands in front of the building of the FRY Parliament. Police prevented and the other, later attempt of demonstrators to do the same but at the different location ( at Terazije- center of Belgrade) when Svetozar Fisic, a leader of demonstrators and a refugee from Prizren tried to talk to the gathered people. They demand authorities to receive the Serb refugees representatives, to inform the public on Serb exodus from Kosovo and to be recognized as refugees but not as a temporarily displaced persons. The demonstrators demand Russian K-for troops to be deployed in Prizren. Two demands were addressed to UN SC to stop further persecutions and plunders have commited by KLA members.

FRY REACTIONS

SRT carried the statements of the following political parties : Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, SPO, Momir Bulatovic, DSS, Novak Kilibarda (Montenegrin PM Deputy), Vujica Lazovic (member of presidency of Social Democratic party of Montenegro), quotations from Seselj’s interview to “Nacional” (Zagreb based newspaper) and DS.

RS REACTIONS

SDS (Dragan Cavic): The regime in Serbia will have to take the consequences of its policy.

RS NEWS

Dodik and Kondic had separate meetings with the European Commission representatives. There were no statements after the meetings.

BiH Council of Ministers failed to define working program for 1999. The item accompanied with the footage from the session and followed by statements of Mihajlovic, Silajdzic and Tomic.

RS Minister of information Rajko Vasic said that RS did not need the Public Corporation TVBiH;

Renewed House of Miso Balaban in village Korita (Drvar municipality) was burned down during the last weekend.- BETA. Since 1995, in this municipality 200 Serb houses were burned down.