09/28/1998

OHR SRT News Summary, 28 September 1998

Headlines

  • European Community will cooperate with all newly elected representatives in B&H who support the Dayton Agreement
  • National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia formed the Provisional Kosovo Council
  • German Social democrats make coalition with the Green party, conservatives in shock
  • At the elections Slovaks voted for changes

United Kingdom, German and Austrian Ambassadors reiterated in Sarajevo that newly elected RS President, Nikola Poplasen, is expected to support the Dayton Agreement if he is counting on financial aid from European Union. The UK Ambassador said that Nikola Poplasen knew perfectly well what compliance is expected from him.
0:40

Nikola Poplasen congratulated the German Social democrat’s President on his victory at the elections and expressed wishes for better cooperation between the RS and Germany in future.
0:15

The SPRS President, Zivko Radisic, today received the Luxembourg Foreign Affairs Secretary.
0:07

The RS Prime Minister also talked with Luxembourg Foreign Affairs Secretary, who announced financial aid for the RS.
0:37

The RS Prime Minister, Milorad Dodik, stated at a press conference in Bijeljina that the newly elected RS President, Nikola Poplasen, had an opportunity to propose “Sloga”‘s candidate for Prime Minister who would offer government composition. That government will be constituted of Serbs. If he does not want to accept that, he will be at a stalemate, and he will have the present government as it is. This government is legal until a new government is elected.
1:04

Newly elected B&H Presidency members will meet the President of Finland in Sarajevo.
0:10

The RS President, Biljana Plavsic, accused Western countries for her defeat at the elections, as they had insisted on fast centralisation of B&H, which was poorly accepted by the voteers in the RS. SRNA forwards extracts from the interview given to Srdjan Todorovic, her political advisor.
2:07