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CRHB at 18:00 hrs by Zana Rebo – the BiH Presidency discussed at yesterday’s session a final report on the liquidation of the BiH Narodna Banka and an act on the internal organisation of the agency for protection of national monuments. Presidency member, Sulejman Tihic, said the Presidency’s stand on the EU letter related to the bilateral agreement [...]

BHTV 19: 00 hrs by Laura Bosnjak - as the introduction to the interview, HR Paddy Ashdown was quoted as saying that BiH joining the EU by 2009 was possible if the reforms were implemented fast. During the interview, the HR stressed that the cost of the BiH government was an economic issue. “Two thirds of the taxes the citizens pay are spent on the [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 – the biggest front-page story in today’s issue is a reaction by Alija Izetbegovic following the publishing of a transcript of talks between Alibabic and two Herzeg-Bosna lawyers during which Bosniaks officials were denounced. Izetbegovic recalls that in 1983 Alibabic also constructed a lawsuit against him for’ conspiracy against p [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 – in the light of HR Ashdown’s first anniversary in BiH he wrote an open letter to BiH citizens. He said that in the past year a lot has been achieved, but there is yet more to be done. He emphasized that in the past year many mechanisms have been established to combat crime, the BiH Court is soon to start processing its first tria [...]

Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 3 ‘Annual income of foreign experts amounting up to 250,000 KM’ – Federation of BiH Prime Minister Ahmet Hadzipasic said on Thursday that “the time has come for the Federation Government to have bigger influence and control over the projects of the international financial institutions in BiH, and particularly of those b [...]

Oslobodjenje pg. 8 ‘Four disputed principles for new GSM licence’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 2 ‘Principles agreed for issuance of the third GSM liecence’ - The BiH Council of Ministers (CoM) adopted on Wednesday the report on the situation in the telecommunications sector in light of the third GSM licence issuance, which was prepared by the BiH Communication [...]

Osloboodjenje front page, pgs. 4-5 ‘Carla Del Ponte urges Karadzic to ssurrender’, Dnevni Avaz front page, pg. 2 ‘Carla Del Ponte in Sarajevo: I expect Karadzic to come to The Hague’ - The chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal, Carla Del Ponte, said in Sarajevo on Tuesday that the tribunal wants the authorities and police of the former Yugoslav st [...]

Oslobodjenje front page, pg 3 ‘Paravac: RS created in civil war’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 4 - Republika Srpska is an unchangeable constant, guaranteed by the Dayton Agreement, which cannot give as a present to anyone, a statement issued by the office of the chairman of the BiH Presidency, Borislav Paravac, says. "The RS was not created by Serbia-Montenegro [...]

Dnevni List (page 10, unsigned, “Secession of Kosovo – ‘accession of Republika Srpska to fatherland’”) reports that the Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Zivkovic, told a German weekly “Der Spiegel” that Kosovo was a part of Serbia and that there was not a single international-legal document that “can justify independence of Kosovo”. According to DL, w [...]

Avaz pg. 2 ‘BiH is a natural candidate for the EU’ – HR Paddy Ashdown yesterday met in Paris with French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dominique de Villepin, French officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from the PM’s cabinet. They talked about a program of reform in BiH, the role of the EU in BiH and the forthcoming summit in Solun. Ash [...]