Monitoring medijskih izvještavanja

Hayat, RTRS, Dnevni Avaz pg 2 ‘Ashdown announces transfer of certain powers to BiH authorities’, Nezavisne Novine pg 4 ‘OHR: Transfer of powers to BiH authorities’, FENA - This week marks three years since Paddy Ashdown took on the mandate of the High Representative. On his first day as High Representative Paddy Ashdown identified his primary aim a [...]

RHB - NATO spokesman in BiH Derek Chappel told FENA news agency that the raids into houses of the Karadzic family in Pale from previous two days were successful. Chappel says that vast quantities of materials that had been seized, will be investigated into starting today, believing that information will give a better insight into movements of Radov [...]

RHB, FENA - The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) this morning in Sarajevo opened its fourth party congress by playing the BiH national anthem. Tributes were paid to the late chairman and founder of the party, Alija Izetbegovic, fallen and deceased members of the party, shehids and all soldiers who died during the 1991-1995 war in BiH. The congress [...]

RHB, RS Radio, SRNA, FENA - Since this morning, NATO forces have been conducting a search in the house of Radovan Karadzic's wife Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic in Pale. They are searching for information and evidence about Radovan Karadzic, other war crimes indictees and persons who are helping them, NATO spokesman Derek Chappell has said for SRNA. "The [...]

RS Radio, FENA - The RSNA Speaker, Dusan Stojicic, said today that the police reform in BiH could be implemented on the basis of EC's principles and within framework of the BiH Constitution. He said that the RS accepted European principles and that the principles could be incorporated into the police reform without changes to the Constitution. Stoj [...]

BH Radio 1, RHB, RS Radio - A delegation of the Croatian Parliament’s Foreign Policy Commission arrived in a three-day officials visit to BiH. The delegation members met with the members of the BiH House of Representative’s Commission for Foreign Affairs. The participants at the meeting concluded that regardless of unresolved issues the relations b [...]

RTRS - Meeting of position and opposition was held on Friday night in Banja Luka on the initiative of SNSD member Nikola Spiric. Meeting was not announced to the media. Spiric stated that the meeting was held so it could be seen in which way RS National Assembly can define its position towards police reform. RS President Dragan Cavic had the same [...]

Nezavisne Novine pg 5, announced on cover ‘Decision on path towards EU is in the hands of RS politicians’ by A.Sekulic – In a half-page interview to NN, Javier Solana, EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policies, says that RS NA must decide whether it would implement police reform, which would open the door to EU.

FENA - SDS Vice President Mladen Bosic stated for the Bijeljina-based BN TV last night that the public opinion in the RS was against the proposed concept of police reform in BiH. “This is more than reforms and it represents the Dayton Peace Agreement change,” said Bosic. He believes that the international community wants a silent/quiet change to th [...]

Dnevni Avaz cover pg splash ‘RS must understand that it is not state’ and pg 5 ‘RS must understand that it is entity and not state’ by E. Sarac carries an interview with high Representative Paddy Ashdown. Commenting on the interruption of the talks on the police reform, the HR says that, perhaps, now it is time for a break in the whole process sinc [...]