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The BiH House of Representatives confirmed the appointment of the chairman of the Council of Ministers, the ministers and deputy ministers in the Council of Ministers at Monday's session in Sarajevo. Beforehand, Chairman Adnan Terzic had submitted a report on the future work of the Council of Ministers. The priorities are improving living standards [...]

Seven days following similar statement given to the German Der Spiegel magazine, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic delivered a new message through the US Wall Street Journal, which will probably have echo in the entire Balkans and particularly in the areas that have still not given up ideas on new territorial arrangements in the region, reports [...]

Oslobodjenje pg. 1 and 3, Avaz pg. 11 ‘Mehmedic requested holding of an extraordinary FBiH government session’ – reactions to the decision by Toby Robinson to sell certain Eronet shares to the Grude municipality. “This proves that BiH is going towards three-parts division,” stated Besim Mehmedic, FBiH Urbanism and Communication Minister. He said th [...]

Avaz pg. 1, 2 and 3, Oslobodjenje pg. 3 (three articles) ‘Attack on BiH’s sovereignty’, ‘Zoran Djindjic had Kosovo problem in mind’, ‘OHR – there should be no argument about borders’. Reactions to Djindjic’s statement to ‘Der Spiegel’ that in case Kosovo was granted independence the lost territory should be made up for by annexing parts of BiH. S [...]

Avaz pg. 4 ‘RS citizens lose most due to divided customs’, Oslobodjenje pg. 1 and 7, Dnevni List pg. 5 ‘The establishment of unified customs administration a first test for new authority’ – Kevin Sullivan, OHR Spokesperson, told a press conference yesterday that HR Paddy Ashdown agreed with analysis and recommendations from a report on BiH customs [...]

Avaz pg. 1, 4 and 5 – Deputy Federation Defence Minister, Ferid Buljubasic, stated that ‘he could not wait to see a document which proves that FBiH companies breached the embargo’. Buljubasic stated that even after repeated extraordinary inspection of companies that trade weapons they did not uncover any illegal trade with countries under the UN em [...]

Avaz pg. 1, 2 and 3 – the ‘Orao’ report has so far only been forwarded to the BiH presidency Chair, Mirko Sarovic, but not to other two Presidency members – Covic and Tihic. “We are expecting to have it on our desks today. I will make a comment once I’ve read the report,” stated Tihic. Avaz commented on the report saying that Covic managed to avoid [...]

The mandator for the Republika Srpska government, Dragan Mikerevic, said on Thursday he had gained support from High Representative Paddy Ashdown for a new government concept. The new government should be formed by 16 January. Mikerevic told reporters after meeting with Ashdown in Banja Luka he presented the concept to the High Representative that [...]