31.05.1998

OHR SRT News Summary, 31 May 1998

Headlines

  • RS Government delegation, led by Prime Minister Dodik, in a working visit to the municipalities of Podrinje
  • Elections in Montenegro of crucial importance for the political future of Montenegro and Yugoslavia
  • The most successful exhibitor today, Cajavec from Banja Luka, closed the INOST 98 fair
  • More than 5,000 dead and over 1,000 injured is the total of the catastrophic earthquake in the north of Afghanistan

An RS Government delegation, led by Prime Minister Dodik, is on a two-day visit to the municipalities of Podrinje. Members of the Government delegation talked today with representatives of the municipality of Visegrad about the current political and economic situation in the RS.
1:45

The citizens of Montenegro are today electing representatives to the Republic and municipal assemblies in the fourth parliamentary elections.
1:55

A U.S. Congress delegation completed its tour, including Israeli, Jordan and Italy, by visiting BiH. Led by the president of the House of Representatives of the American Congress, they visited Brcko and Tuzla. They talked with the local population in these municipalities and visited the American troops stationed there.
2:35

The councillor in the Croatian assembly, Veselin Pejnovic, assessed negatively that the trend of Serbs moving out from Eastern Slavonia would continue and that, in the following two weeks, it would assume even more drastic measures.
0:55

All the police administration departments in the municipalities under Croatian control in the FBiH continued issuing registration cards whose titles were not in accordance with the arbitration decision of the HR Carlos Westendorp, the federal radio SA reported. Not one Bosnian Croat accepted the common licence plate for BiH, in spite of the order given by the HR Carlos Westendorp that no one would be able to leave BiH without the new licence plate as from June 1st, 1998. The radio in the federal part of SA doubts whether the Croatian authorities will stop vehicles without single licence plates from entering and leaving Croatia, because it is difficult to say where the border between the Herzeg-Bosnia and Croatia is.
0:30