Media monitoring reports

FENA - Dragan Covic will remain at the position of the BiH Presidency member. He added at the press conference held in Sarajevo today that he will respected whichever decision that the international community will bring. The indictment against Covic in Lijanovic case was confirmed by the BiH Court on 10 March.

BH Radio 1 By Ljiljana Radl, RHB, RS Radio - At the session today, the FBiH House of Representatives adopted the draft Law on return, allocation and sale of unclaimed apartments. According to the law, these apartments, which served as the alternative accommodation for refugees, should be returned to the companies which owned them in 1991. In order [...]

HINA - The European Union on Sunday officially requested Dragan Covic to resign from his post as member of BiH Presidency after he was indicted for abuse of office and corruption. The EU's request was backed by the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) and the US and Canadian embassies in the country.

BHT 1 by Mirela Cosic – The office of the BiH Presidency member, Dragan Covic, stated that that last decisions of the BiH judicial institutions can cause a crisis in functioning of the authorities and political parties, which represent parliamentary majority, will do everything to avoid that crisis. This was stated after the meeting held by represe [...]

RHB, BHT 1, NTV Hayat, FTV, Dnevni Avaz pg 8 ‘Gojko Jnakovic did not understand bill of indictment’ by Sense, Oslobodjenje pg 5 ‘Gojko Jnakovic did not enter plea’ not signed, Nezavisne Novine pg 6 ‘Jankovic postponed entering his plea for one month’ by Beta - Gojko Jankovic did not enter his plea in ICTY saying that the bill of indictment is not [...]

BH Radio 1 by Brana Markovic - At an extraordinary session taking place in Banja Luka today, the RS National Assembly is discussing the continuation of defence reform in BiH. The deputies were addressed by Raffi Gregorian, the Co-chair of BiH Defence Reform Commission, who reiterated that a lack of full cooperation with ICTY remained the main obsta [...]

RHB, BH Radio 1, RTRS by Slavisa Numic - President and Prime Minister of RS Dragan Cavic and Pero Bukejlovic accompanied with RS Interior Minister Darko Matijasevic are holding a meeting behind closed doors in Belgrade with Serbian President Boris Tadic and PM Vojislav Kostunica. On the agenda is cooperation with ICTY including the procedure of ext [...]

BH Radio 1, RTRS - Former Chief of Security in the RS Army Zvornik Brigade Drago Nikolic will voluntarily turn himself in to ICTY on Thursday, the Serbian Government said today. Nikolic was indicted for war crimes committed in Srebrenica.

Herceg Bosna Radio, AFP - Serb war crimes suspect Gojko Jankovic left Bosnia on Monday to surrender to The Hague Tribunal, officials said. Jankovic, 50, left in an official plane from Banja Luka, the capital of the RS, on his way to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). A deputy commander of the military police and [...]