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Oslobodjenje front page, pgs. 4-5 ‘Revision of the employees in the civil service to be conducted soon - Civil servants appointed illegally’ – Fuad Sabeta and Bakir Dautbasic, the new secretaries of the BiH Foreign Ministry and the BiH Ministry for Security are the first but not the only civil servants who have been appointed illegally by the new a [...]

Avaz pg. 2 ‘VAT to be collected at the point of mass purchase and production until the VAT introduction’ by E.D. – a daily’s source stated that IC reps almost reached an agreement to collect the sales tax at the points of mass purchase, import and production until the VAT is introduced. This would eliminate the current collection of taxes at the po [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 3 – the new FBiH government, led by PM Ahmet Hadzipasic, was inaugurated yesterday. Hadzipasic first held a consulting meeting with former Federation PM Alija Behmen. He informed Hadzipasic with strategic responsibilities, especially in relation with the IC and projects by the IMPF, WB, GTZ and USAID. Hadzipasic stated that certain p [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 5 – an interview with a Bosniak Presidency member Sulejman Tihic. He said the new government could not take over responsibility for the functioning of judiciary, internal and intelligence affairs because the overall personnel politics were in the hands of the IC. Commenting on the FOSS, Tihic said it was not in the service of people [...]

BiH electronic media, Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 3 ‘Burial of Srebrenica victims to start on March 31’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 3, mentioned on the front page - The first burials of the bodily remains of 582 Srebrenica inhabitants killed in July 1995 will start on 31 March, the OHR has said. A total of 10m convertible marks is needed for the construction [...]

Dnevni Avaz front page, pg. 3 ‘A large-scale riot in the Zenica Prison’, Oslobodjenje front page, pgs. 4-5 ‘Rioting inmates set the Zenica Prison on fire’ – Some 350 inmates in the Zenica Prison ended on Wednesday afternoon a 17-hour riot started in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday following talks with the BiH Federation Justice Minister, Zv [...]

Dnevni Avaz pg. 5, mentioned on the front page ‘Unemployed Bosniaks and Serbs hope the carpet factory will be re-started” – The return of the refugees to Trnovo is going well, inter-ethnic relations are good, but the life in the municipality divided on a Federation and a RS part is extremely difficult since the Trnovo economic entities have been fr [...]

Vecernji List (front and page 3, by Dejan Jazvic, “Sarajevo not with Bush”) reads that the BiH Presidency reached a common position on the Iraqi crisis at a session held yesterday. The journalists were addressed by the Chair of BiH Presidency, Mirko Sarovic, who apart from stating that the crisis need to be solved peacefully, also said that the Pre [...]