Media monitoring reports

PINK by Svjetlana Todorovic – BiH Presidency member, Sulejman Tihic, proposes BiH Constitution to be changed. Tihic has presented this proposal in Milan, where the first day of the conference “The Way to European Future” took place on Saturday. HDZ Chair, Barisa Colak and PDP Chair, Mladen Ivanic, also attend the conference organized by German foun [...]

BHT 1 by Damir Simic – According to BHT’s source from the OHR, the High Representative Paddy Ashdown will dismiss the BiH Presidency member Dragan Covic if he doesn’t resign. Covic has been accused of abuse of power, organized crime and receiving a bribe. BHT’s source also confirmed that the stance of the international representatives is not to mee [...]

BH Radio 1, RS Radio - EUFOR raided the house of Branislav Maunaga, nearby Sarajevo this morning. The Public Security Center East Sarajevo confirmed that the action went without any incidents. EUFOR troops confiscated a box containing unknown information, which could be related to the ICTY suspects at large.

BH Radio 1, RS Radio - Former RS Interior Minister, Mico Stanisic, will surrender to the ICTY, confirmed the Serbian Government to Beta news agency. Government said that Stanisic has decided to so following the talk he held with the Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Governance, Zoran Loncar, and RS Interior Minister Darko Matijase [...]

RHB, TV Pink, BHT, TV Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Oslobodjenje pg 5, mentioned on cover ‘Changes to the Entities’ Constitutions necessary’, Dnevni Avaz pg 4, mentioned on cover ‘Constitutions of the entities should be changed’, Dnevni List pg 2 ‘Ashdown: Abolishment of entities is not goal of police restructuring’ by NINA, Slobodna Dalmacija last pg ‘Change [...]

RS Radio – HR Paddy Ashdown, today in Banja Luka has commenced with the meetings on police reform with Heads of Caucuses at the RS NA. The meeting with representatives of SDS is ongoing. Representatives of political parties from RS have announced they would remain faithful to positions on police reform adopted at RS NA at the latest session, which [...]

RHB at 12.00 - The Speaker of the Danish Parliament, Christian Mejdahl, is on a three-day visit to BiH. He is today scheduled to meet both Speakers of the BiH House of Peoples and House of Representatives, and Chairman of BiH CoM, Adnan Terzic.

Oslobodjenje pg 7, mentioned on cover ‘I am expecting attacks from all sides’ – In an interview for Oslobodjenje following his announcement to review some decisions on removals of officials in BiH, High Representative Paddy Ashdown explained that he had no intention to allow return to BiH political scene to those who still might represent a threat [...]

RHB, TV Pink, BHT, Hayat, FTV, RTRS, AFP, Oslobodjenje cover page, pgs 4-5 ‘OHR to ‘pardon’ those removed over obstructions’ Alda Omeragic, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Review of decisions on removal of 100 officials starts’, mentioned on cover ‘’Review of decisions on removal of 100 officials’, Dnevni List pg 3, mentioned on cover ‘Paddy Ashdown returns (to [...]

SRNA news agency – Paddy Ashdown held press conference today announcing the possibility of annulling the decision on removals of about 100 officials made by OHR since 1998 to date. “This doesn’t mean they will all be returned, but that it will be estimated whether those officials or the circumstances under which they were removed from public functi [...]