Monitoring medijskih izvještavanja

RS Radio - The SiCG Justice Minister, Zoran Stojkovic, stated that this Ministry holds no information into possible signals Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic have sent out regarding their voluntary surrenders. In a statement to Podgorica daily “Dan”, Stojkovic said Ministry holds no information regarding possible attempts of those two ICTY indictee [...]

Oslobodjenje cover pg splash, pg 3 ‘Ashdown to abolish pardon to Prce’ by R.I., Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘A great concern of OHR’, Vecernji List pg 2 ‘OHR: Such pardons should be prevented’ by ra,RHB, TV PINK, BH TV 1, NTV Hayat, RTRS

Nezavisne Novine cover pg splash, pg 3 ‘Lozancic reduced sentence to Prce for a year’ by R.Cengic – NN learnt from several sources that Niko Lozancic, F BiH President, has altered the BiH Court verdict, which sentenced Miroslav Prce, former F BiH Defence Minister, to five years imprisonment, and reduced it for one year.

RS Radio, BH Radio 1, RHB - Rasim Ljajic, President of the SiCG Council for cooperation with the ICTY has today stated that at the beginning of next week, the request for extradition of Milan Lukic will be forwarded to the Argentinean authorities. He stated that the request must be filed within 30 days deadline.

RHB - Justice Minister in the (Alternative) Government of BiH, Hasan Balic, is asking from the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and other relevant bodies to investigate into wartime pasts of all employees working in judicial, legislative and executive authorities at all levels in BiH

RHB - ICTY outreach in BiH Mathias Hellman stated that there was no new information as to when Milan Lukic would be extradited to the ICTY. On the other hand, Lukic agrees that he gets extradited to the ICTY, but in the same time he denied charges filed against him.

BHT, Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Dnevni Avaz cover splash ‘Heated correspondence between Ashdown and Tihic’, pg 2 ‘Stop with inappropriate interfering into appointment of civil servants’, Oslobodjenje pg 7, mentioned on cover ‘The time of communism has passed’, Dnevni List pg 5 ‘Nationality is not relevant for selection of civil servants’ not signed, Slobodn [...]

BH Radio Sanija Saljihi - UNDP sponsored demining project has been launched today in Vogosca, Sarajevo. The analysis estimates that there are about 1.3 million unexploded devices in BiH occupying about 4% of the territory.

RHB - SCG Minister for human and minority rights, Rasim Ljajic, stated in an interview for Nezavisne Novine (see OHR Media Round-up, August 6, 2005) that Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic might be in ICTY by the end of the year. He also stated that other ICTY indictees Dragan Zelenovic and Vlastimir Djordjevic are hiding in Russia.

RHB, Pink, FTV, RTRS, Oslobodjenje, pg 3 ‘High Representative announces his solution’, by Fena, Dnevni List, pg 2 ‘Appointments for State Border Service announced’, by NINA, Vecernji List, pg 8 ‘Concerns with appointment of SBS director’, by f, Nezavisne Novine, pg 3 ‘Ashdown concerned with lack of appointment of SBS director’,