Media monitoring reports

RTRS by Stela Jungic- RS President Dragan Cavic said that he will ask from Serbian and Montenegrin authorities on Monday to extradite RS citizens indicted for war crimes by ICTY. Cavic reiterated determination of the RS to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal, and underlined that RS MoI understands that it is its duty to meet legal obligations. Commen [...]

Dnevni Avaz cover splash, pg 8 ‘Pakistani threatened state Prosecutors’ by M. Kukan, Oslobodjenje pgs 4-5 ‘Pakistani obtained visas to group threatening prosecutor Schmidt’ by Az. Kalamujic – E. Beslic - The FBiH Police announced it arrested on Thursday A.I., a Pakistani national with permanent residence in Zenica, on suspicion that he committed th [...]

BH Radio 1 News at 1200 - Chairman of the BiH Presidency Borislav Paravac said today in Banja Luka he hoped that the issue of the police restructuring in BiH would be resolved in a way that would satisfy all parties in the country. He emphasized that setting the European standards and establishment of a more efficient police was in the interest of [...]

BH Radio 1 News at 1200, FENA - The FBiH Parliament's House of Representatives adopted the Draft changes and amendments to the FBiH budget for 2004 at its session held today (Thursday). The draft re-balance of the 2004 FBiH budget was adopted under condition that the FBiH Government submits the FBiH Parliament the proposal of re-balance of 2004 bud [...]

FENA - Presidents of the NHI and HSS, Kresimir Zubak and Marko Tadic respectively, signed in Sarajevo on Wednesday the Protocol on establishment of Croat alliance NHI-HSS, which outlines basic principles with the aim to go together in the next general elections in 2006.

BH Radio 1, Herceg Bosna Radio News at 1200 - Greek President Konstantin Ostefanopopulos is paying a one-day visit to BiH. He has already met with the BiH Presidency members and the BiH CoM Chair Adnan Terzic. In the course of the day, the Greek President is also expected to meet with a delegation of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly.

RS Radio News at 1200 - RTRS has just learnt from unofficial sources that several persons indicted for war crimes have been arrested in Foca this morning. More information will be made available later on after RTRS gets statements from RTRS correspondent and RS police officials from the spot.

BHT, FTV, Oslobodjenje pg 2 ‘BiH’s lawsuit against SCG will be hard to prove’, Dnevni Avaz pg 8, ONASA - Croat member of the BIH Presidency Dragan Covic said that BiH's lawsuit against Serbia and Montenegro for aggression and genocide before the International Court of Justice in The Hague would be "hard to prove." Speaking in a program of the Repub [...]

Herceg Bosna Radio, BHT, FTV, RTRS, Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘Some persons from RS, after whom ICTY is searching, are in Serbia’ by V. Popovic; EuroBlic RSpg 3 ‘RS to face punishments’ by T. Veselinovic; Glas Srpske pg 5 ‘The Hague is directing – drama’ by G. Dakic, ONASA - Republika Srpska President Dragan Cavic called on all the persons indicted for [...]

BH Radio 1 News at 1200, RS Radio, SRNA - SFOR members launched an unannounced search of facilities located within the Famos Company compound in Pale this morning, at around 09:00 hrs. This was confirmed to SRNA news agency by Radovan Pejic, the Spokesperson for the EastSarajevoPublicSecurityCenter. Pejic added that SFOR had informed the PSC about [...]