Dnevni medijski izvještaji

“If the BiH House of Representatives adopted the Law on PBS when it was supposed to do so – in July this year, the official Brussels (EU Presidency) would have before collective summer holidays in August given a green light for making a study to start the negotiations on the Stabilization and Association Agreement,” an European ex [...]

Oslobodjenje reports on the front page (continued on p 10) that, following Saturday’s soccer game between Borac (Banja Luka) and Celik (Zenica) in Zenica, a group of Celik funs stoned buses of the guests from Banja Luka at the M-17 highway. According to the newspaper, they were provoked by a nationalist behavior of the Banja Luka funs, who we [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, warned that only with the common defense structures at the state level BiH might be admitted in the NATO Partnership for Peace program. Ashdown told journalists in Sarajevo on Thursday, following his working meeting with the BiH Presidency members, that there were opposite opinions about a common defense stru [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Wednesday issued a Decision amending the RS Law on Urban Planning enabling the RS to meet in an efficient and speedy manner its obligations under Annex 8 of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which covers the preservation and reconstruction of national monuments. The amendments to the law will ensure that monumen [...]

All roads to and from Celebici (eastern Bosnia) from the direction of Srbinje/Foca have been blocked since this morning, SRNA's correspondent from Srbinje reports on Wednesday. A long column of vehicles including 70 SFOR armed personal carriers and military equipment passed through Srbinje at 0700 this morning on the way to Celebici, a village east [...]

BiH will not be a country at which the US President George Bush will test his alleged threat of cutting the military assistance to those joining the International Criminal Court without providing guarantees they will not on any occasion had over any US citizen to the Court, reads an Oslobodjenje front page story (continued on p 6). The newspaper go [...]

Dnevni List (front and page 3) carries full-page article based on conversation with Zeljko Topalovic, president of the Central Headquarters for protection of retired members of HVO, of Federation BiH Army. According to Topalovic, 750 former soldiers started protesting after they accidentally found out, in December 2001, that they are not on pension [...]

“The High Representative will on Friday at the Office of the High Representative open a working meeting with senior Entity officials, including Federation Acting Finance Minister Sefika Hafizovic and the Republika Srpska Finance Minister Simeun Vilendecic. The aim of the meeting is to resolve important issues with regard the single economic space [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Wednesday issued a Decision to reform the justice system in BiH by appointing members to the three High Judicial and Prosecutorial Councils at the BiH and entity level. These councils will be responsible for strengthening the integrity and independence of the judicial system. List of the appointees compris [...]

“The authorities in the RS are not doing enough to apprehend Radovan Karadzic,” the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said in an interview for the Vienna Die Presse. “I am convinced NATO will use all of its potentials to arrest Karadzic. However, problem is in the RS authorities, which are not doing their best in order for that job to be complete [...]