Media monitoring reports

BH Radio 1 - RS Minister of Interior Darko Matijasevic believes that HR Paddy Ashdown’s recommendations suggesting new form of police organisation in BiH do not reflect the essence of the work of Police Restructuring Commission. According to the RS MoI press release, the PRC ended its work without consensus on the issue. Therefore Ashdown’s recomme [...]

SRNA, FENA - According to a member of PDP Main Board and BiH Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs, Zoran Tesanovic, the PDP Presidency has tasked its Ministers in the BiH CoM to attend the sessions, but only during the period as stipulated for election of new RS Government (30 days).

RTRS, FTV, NTV Hayat, BHT1, Nezavisne Novine pg 3 ‘On entities’ symbols by mid March’ by N. Krsman, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Public consultations on entities symbols in mid March’ by A. Malagic, Oslobodjenje pg 2 ‘Public consultations are good solution’ by Fena - Chairman of BIH Constitutional Court Mato Tadic announced that the public debate on constitut [...]

RTRS - PM-designate Pero Bukejlovic met with SRS representativesFriday. SRS promised to give Bukejlovic their support if SDA doesn’t participate in the new RS Government. “Mr. Bukejlovic stated that he doesn’t want the support of SDA and that he doesn’t want SDA Ministers in his Government”, says SRS Chairman Radislav Kanjeric.

RHB, BH Radio 1 - BiH Constitutional Court will today (Friday) discuss constitutionality of several articles of the FBiH Law on coat of arms and flag of FBiH, RS Law on flag, coat of arms and anthem of RS and RS law on holidays. The issues have been raised by the Bosniak member of BiH Presidency, Sulejman Tihic.

BH Radio 1, RTRS, RHB - By Dragan Stegic - Snow storm in BiH still causes large traffic problems, especially in RS.

RHB, RTRS, BH Radio - BiH Parliament’s House of Peoples is holding a session today. The chamber will, among other issues, discuss Proposal of budget of BiH institutions and BiH’s international obligations for 2005 and Proposal of law on execution of the said budget. The HoP should also discuss Law on changes to the law on public procurements in BiH [...]

SRNA, RTRS, BH Radio, RHB - The Head of EC delegation to BiH, Michael Humphreys said EC would support the election of any government in RS, which has been elected in accordance with the Law and is committed to reforms. He gave the statement following today’s meeting in Banja Luka with the outgoing RS Premier, Dragan Mikerevic. He announced he would [...]

RTRS, BH Radio 1 at 12.00 – Several hundreds of Bileca citizens continue with the protests demanding the removal of persons responsible for reaching a decision on releasing 3 persons, suspected of raping 23-year-old girl. Citizens demand for the 3 persons to be arrested again. Bileca Assembly convened a special session to discuss the safety situati [...]

BHT1, FTV, RTRS by S. Mihailovic, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘RS PM-designated asked to preserve MoI and Defence Ministry’ by J.S., Nezavisne Novine, pg. 2 ‘SRS and DSS supported the designate’ by D. Bojanic - After the meeting with RS PM designate Pero Bukejlovic, which was held on Saturday, SRS and DSS stated that Bukejlovic has their support. Bukejlovic p [...]