Dnevna medijska izvješća

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 – in the light of HR Ashdown’s first anniversary in BiH he wrote an open letter to BiH citizens. He said that in the past year a lot has been achieved, but there is yet more to be done. He emphasized that in the past year many mechanisms have been established to combat crime, the BiH Court is soon to start processing its first tria [...]

Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 3 ‘Annual income of foreign experts amounting up to 250,000 KM’ – Federation of BiH Prime Minister Ahmet Hadzipasic said on Thursday that “the time has come for the Federation Government to have bigger influence and control over the projects of the international financial institutions in BiH, and particularly of those b [...]

Oslobodjenje pg. 8 ‘Four disputed principles for new GSM licence’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 2 ‘Principles agreed for issuance of the third GSM liecence’ - The BiH Council of Ministers (CoM) adopted on Wednesday the report on the situation in the telecommunications sector in light of the third GSM licence issuance, which was prepared by the BiH Communication [...]

Osloboodjenje front page, pgs. 4-5 ‘Carla Del Ponte urges Karadzic to ssurrender’, Dnevni Avaz front page, pg. 2 ‘Carla Del Ponte in Sarajevo: I expect Karadzic to come to The Hague’ - The chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal, Carla Del Ponte, said in Sarajevo on Tuesday that the tribunal wants the authorities and police of the former Yugoslav st [...]

Oslobodjenje front page, pg 3 ‘Paravac: RS created in civil war’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 4 - Republika Srpska is an unchangeable constant, guaranteed by the Dayton Agreement, which cannot give as a present to anyone, a statement issued by the office of the chairman of the BiH Presidency, Borislav Paravac, says. "The RS was not created by Serbia-Montenegro [...]

Dnevni List (page 10, unsigned, “Secession of Kosovo – ‘accession of Republika Srpska to fatherland’”) reports that the Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Zivkovic, told a German weekly “Der Spiegel” that Kosovo was a part of Serbia and that there was not a single international-legal document that “can justify independence of Kosovo”. According to DL, w [...]

Avaz pg. 2 ‘BiH is a natural candidate for the EU’ – HR Paddy Ashdown yesterday met in Paris with French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dominique de Villepin, French officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from the PM’s cabinet. They talked about a program of reform in BiH, the role of the EU in BiH and the forthcoming summit in Solun. Ash [...]

Avaz pg. 2 ‘Ashdown will lobby for BiH to get a status of the EU candidate’ – the main reason behind HR Paddy Ashdown’s trip to France is to lobby for BiH to get the status of a candidate for the entry to the EU. He will speak to French officials on the possibility that BiH and southeast Europe get a certain statement of intent from the EU at the S [...]

Avaz pg. 2 ‘Direct foreign investments could get BiH out of crisis’ – Irish Foreign Minister, Brian Cowan, yesterday in Sarajevo met with members of the BiH Presidency. The Irish FM stated his country would contribute to issues relevant for the sustainable political path of BiH and its joining to the EU. An insert ‘Meeting with Ashdown’ – the Irish [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 3 – HR Paddy Ashdown yesterday visited ‘Bosnalijek’. “I came here to remind all of us that we have successful stories in BiH, and ‘Bosnalijek’ is one of them,” stated HR. He was informed of problems that the company encounters with the export of their products, and HR Ashdown stated that obstacles of such sort are in the process of b [...]