Media monitoring reports

Herceg Bosna Radio, Oslobodjenje cover page, pgs 4-5 ‘BiH has great chances to join EU’, Dnevni Avaz cover page ‘2005 will be a year of opportunity and challenge’, pg 2 ‘2005 will be a year of huge challenge’, Dnevni List, pg 8, mentioned on front ‘Structure of authority in BiH is untenable’, by N. Bise, Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘Nobody is abolishing [...]

BH Radio 1 By Brana Markovic - EUFOR in Banja Luka announced soon to conclude with the inspections of the military premises in BiH. They also stated that only in North Bosnia, EUFOR troops have inspected 158 unused and 35 used military premises. The inspection report will be soon finalized, and EUFOR will together with the local authorities decide [...]

SRNA - RS President Dragan Cavic today informed the Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to BiH, Michael Humphreys, on the attempts of the RS political parties to find a way out of the crisis in RS and BiH in order not to threaten the reform process. A press release from the Office of the RS President says that Humphreys believed it was ver [...]

BH Radio 1, RS Radio, SRNA - RS Interior Minister Darko Matijasevic told SRNA that the wartime documents of the Drina Corps of the RS Army this morning was shipped off to The Hague. "This is about 16 cases of documents, weighing 1.5 tonnes, which the Defence and Internal Affairs Ministries discovered in the middle of December," said the police mini [...]

RS Radio - RSNA Speaker, Dusan Stojicic, stated that it was possible that SDS would support Milorad Dodik as RS PM designate.He also said that SDS was ready to be a part of opposition, since its members are of the view that RS should get new Government as soon as possible.

SRNA - Dragan Cavic, Milorad Dodik, Mladen Ivanic , Milanko Mihajlica, Petar Djokic and Marko Pavic - leaders of the SDS, SNSD, PDP, SRS, SPRS and DNS respectively - met in Banja Luka on Saturday and signed the Agreement on Principles of Coordinated Political Activity. According to the agreement, the political factors will respond to all initiative [...]

FTV, Oslobodjenje pg 2, mentioned on cover ‘Milorad Dodik to be appointed new RS Prime Minister designate?!’ - Instead of announced meeting of BiH Presidency and ruling BiH political parties’ representatives, which was postponed, the meeting of ruling RS parties leaders was held in Banja Luka on Friday. The participants at the meeting discussed the [...]

FENA - This morning, NATO detained Dusan Tesic, an alleged PIFWC supporter, for questioning with regard to activities contrary to the Dayton Peace Agreement. Tesic is being held at a secure facility for further investigation into his PIFWC links.

RHB at 12.00 - British Deputy Foreign Minister Denis McShane supports the actions taken by the HR last week. He underlined that the measures were designed to uphold the Dayton in the face of systematic non-compliance by RS with their obligations to cooperate with the ICTY, and not about the abolition of RS or imposing changes to the Constitution.

BH Radio 1, RTRS, RHB at 12.00 - The BiH House of Representatives is holding its session in Sarajevo. The House requested CoM Chairman Adnan Terzic to prepare a report on status of ongoing reforms following recent resignations by certain Ministers. The deputies accepted CoM proposal to consider the draft Law on Sale Taxes in urgent procedure.