Media monitoring reports

BHT 1, FTV, Dnevni List pg 7 ‘Socialists will not support new composition of Government’ by N. Bise, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Socialists rejected to participate in RS Government with nationalists’ by J.S., Oslobodjenje pg 5 ‘PM-designate lacks support of SPRS and SNSD’ by O. Vukovi, Nezavisne novine, pg. 2 ‘SNSD and SPRS will not support Bukejlovic’ by V. [...]

RHB News at 12:00 – RS Prime Minister Designate Pero Bukejlovic confirmed last night that he secured support of the majority in the entity Parliament for the election of his cabinet. He stressed that there will be no SDA Ministers in the new Government and explained that on the ground of its moves SDA excluded itself from the Government. He added t [...]

BH Radio 1 News at 12:00, RHB News at 12:00 - A US judge has ordered the extradition of BiH wartime UN ambassador Mohammed Sacirbey to face charges that he embezzled funds during his posting. Sacirbey is accused of taking nearly $2.5m of the country's money. BiH issued an arrest warrant for him four years ago, and he has been detained in the US sin [...]

RTRS at 12:00 - Pero Bukejlovic, RS-PM designate announced he would try to complete talks with parliamentary parties during the course of this week. He announced he would propose his concept before RS NA by mid February.

SRNA news agency - Serbian justice minister Zoran Stojkovic said that the Serbian Government has yet to receive any valid indication that former RS Army commander general Ratko Mladic is in Serbia. "To the contrary, there was the statement of the high representative to BiH, Paddy Ashdown, that Mladic most likely is in Bosnia," Stojkovic told report [...]

FENA news agency - At the session today, the FBiH House of Representative has taken off the agenda the draft Law on return, allocation and sale of apartments upon the request by the High Representative. OHR letter, given out to delegates before the beginning of the session, says this law prejudices the work of BiH Commission for Restitution, and t [...]

BHT1, Dnevni Avaz pg 3 ‘Savo Todovic had been deciding who will out of Foca prison inmates be killed, beaten or exchanged’ by A.M.,, Dnevni List pg 2 ‘Savo Todovic turned himself in’ by De.L., Nezavisne Novine cover and pg 3 ‘Savo Todovic extradited to The Hague’ by D. Bojanic – ICTY indictee for war crimes, Savo Todovic on Saturday voluntarily su [...]

RHB, RTRS- BiH Police Reform Commission Chair Wilfred Martens delivered to High Representative Paddy Ashdown and BiH Council of Ministers Chair Adnan Terzic the final report on police reform in BiH on Friday. The report recommends the establishment of a single police structure in BiH, state authority over laws concerning the police and its budget, [...]

BH Radio 1, RHB - The Government of the United States has decided to suspend 10 million US dollars worth assistance to Serbia and Montenegro due to lack of cooperation with the ICTY. The State Department says that the cooperation will be at the satisfactory level after all ICTY indictees in SCG territory are arrested and extradited to the Hague, es [...]

BH Radio 1 - Following the session today, the FBiH Government has submitted the draft laws on the changes to the FBiH Crime Code and the FBiH Law on Pardons. The text of the laws are the same as pronounced by the High Representative on 26 November 2004. The essential change to the Crime Code is eliminating the provision which enables a person to be [...]