08.06.1998

OHR SRT News Summary, 8 June 1998

Headlines

  • European Union Decided to Ban Investments in Serbia Due to Situation in Kosmet
  • Albanian Terrorists Attacked Serb Villages at Srbica
  • Air Traffic Between RS and Montenegro Established
  • New Electoral Coalition in RS: SPRS, SNS and SNSD

A meeting of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board is scheduled for tomorrow. The delegation of the RS includes Vice-President, Dragoljub Mirjanic, the RS PM Milorad Dodik, and the RS Member of BiH Presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik who will also attend the meeting.
0:15

Ministers of Defense of 16 NATO member countries will hold a two-day meeting in Brussels and the main issue of discussion will be the situation at Kosovo.
1:10

Air traffic between the RS and Montenegro was established with today’s flight of a Montenegro Airlines plane. The RS Minister of Traffic and Communications, Pavic, announced opening of the first international airline to the RS, which will happen tomorrow. A plane from Vienna will land at the Mahovljani airport.
0:45

There is a new coalition appearing for the forthcoming elections. The press release from today’s meeting of the SPRS, SNS and the SNSD states that they agreed on suggesting to their bodies that they should establish a coalition. The parties agreed that the future coalition would propose joint candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of RS, member of the BiH Presidency and the list of representatives for the House of Representatives of the BiH parliament. All three parties will have independent lists of candidates for the RS NA, with an obligation to establish a joint Government.
1:05

The Speaker of the RS NA, Dragan Kalinic, stated that he has no intention to “resign under pressure”. He said that his resignation is possible only if he decides to do so, or if the current coalition of the SDS and Radicals requests him to do so. Kalinic denied the thesis of the HR that the work of the RS NA is illegitimate and that the SRS and the SDS obliged themselves on a high party level to provide a seat of one Deputy Speaker in the RS NA for the Coalition for Single and Democratic BiH.
0:45

The annual meeting of the SDS started in Pale today. Mr. Buha emphasized that the SDS remained consistent to the idea of national – religious unity, with mutual respect to general human standards.
0:30

The newly elected HDZ BiH leadership accused the Croat member of BiH Presidency, Kresimir Zubak, of an attempt to tear apart the HDZ and to establish a new party, in order to drag the Bosnian Croats into the unitary BiH.
0:40