24.06.1999

OHR SRT News Summary, 24 June 1999

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Headlines

  • Dodik, Hand (British Ambassador to BiH) talks: Significant investments of the British Government to the Eastern part of the RS;
  • BiH Presidency meets with Westendorp and Rehn to discuss customs issues;
  • New victims in Kosovo;
  • Extraordinary session of Yugoslav Parliament on lifting the state of war;
  • Local elections in BiH on 8th of April, 2000;
  • Entrance exams in Grammar School in Banja Luka scheduled for 29th of June;

Westendorp, Rehn, BiH Presidency talks: customs issues and reconstruction of border police force.

Talks Djokic, Graham Hand: economic and political issues and issues pertaining to Brcko award.

Talks Dodik, Hand: economic issues and reconstruction;

Andy Bearpark visits Prijedor and Sanski Most to discuss refuge return issues.

KOSOVO NEWS

SRT correspondent (Radmila Urosevic) reports on: murder of three staff of School of Economics of the Pristina University (followed by APTN footage of bodies taken out from the building), murders and attempted rapes of Serb civilians in Pristina, 30-40 Albanians trying to enter the building of Radio Pristina were stopped by K-for, new convoy of Serb refugees arrives in Kragujevac. The second part of the SRT correspondent report is dedicated to issue of the lifting of the state of war. She quoted the statements of Gorica Gajevic (SPS), SRS, DSS, ND and Vojvodina Coalition; Attention was given to the Vojvodina coalition criticism of state policy. The second part of the item is accompanied by RTS footage, sources were not mentioned. Sources used in the first part of the report are: Belgrade media and BETA.

Leader of the International Action Center from New York, Ramsay Clark announced pressing charges against US top officials for aggression of Yugoslavia.- BETA

Talks between General Jackson and Archbishop Amfilohije on possibility for evacuation of 150 Serbs gathered in the Patriarchy in Pec;

SRT carried the statements of Momir Bulatovic, Djukanovic, P.Drecun, V.Obradovic, M.Minic statements on current political situation in FRY.

A large group of FRY Army reservists blocked the road near Kraljevo, demanding the payment of their wages for the time spent in Kosovo;

UNHCR press conference: UNHCR spokesman, Dennis Mc Nammara expressed his doubts about the voluntary character of Serb returns to Kosovo. -BBC footage

US ambassador for War Crimes, Sheffer demanded French SFOR to arrest Radovan Karadzic.

Head of OSCE Mission to BiH, Robert Barry says that local elections in BiH will be held on April 8. Barry explained the reasons for postponement of the elections.

SRT carried the news on international organisations press conference in Sarajevo.