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Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 98-03-23Srpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.orgMAR. 23, 1998 DAYNEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKASREBRENICA - In accordance with OSCE decision, a inaugural session of the Srebrenica Municipal Assembly will be held tomorrow at 10.00 am - it has been confirmed from the Regional OSCE office in Zvornik. The verification of delegates' mandates, taking an oath, adopting of amendments and changes of the Statute and Rule Book in accordance with arbiter's decision, and appointing of the Municipal officials are on the agenda also.AMSTERDAM - A collective hesitation of Serbs between overly saturation with war and national connection with Kosovo is the reason why Serbia is beginning to show a political disharmony - western media reported. As a good example, western media cited a statement of Curubija, the editor-in- chief of Belgrade's "Dnevni telegraf", who called on America, at a press- conference to continue with constant pressures on official Belgrade in order to solve the Kosovo problem. PODGORICA - A Parliamentary delegation of Montenegro National Assembly headed by the President of the Assembly Svetozar Marovic went to the U.S. on the invitation of the American Congress. The delegation will have talks in Washington with representatives of the American Congress at the highest level. SREBRENICA - Humanitarian organisations "Farmaceuti bez granica" and "Equilibre" stopped to deliver medicines to humanitarian pharmacy in Srebrenica - stated for SRNA the director of Srebrenica's Health Centre Milomir Milosevic. " ICRD is the only one left that deliver medicines in this pharmacy, in the small amounts, which jeopardises its existence, although it is necessary - said Milosevic. BIJELJINA - The RS President Biljana Plavsic said in Bijeljina that difficult circumstances , in which Air Bureau "Orao" was operating until now, were overcome. "A strange things were happening in this firm, in the last few months, not caused by international community but because of our misunderstandings" - said Biljana Plavsic. The RS President Biljana Plavsic had talks with chief of staff of the RS Army (VRS), lieutenant general Momir Talic and RS Defence Minister Manojlo Milovanovic. SARAJEVO - The Police station in Sarajevo fully cooperates with relevant IPTF station which representatives are in touch with investigation against a detained Serb Milomir Tepes, who is at the moment in the Central prison in Sarajevo. Criminal charges are being brought against him by FB&H , because of alleged suspicion that he committed war crimes. SARAJEVO - The UN spokesman Liam McDawall said that a Serb Milomir Tepes, who has been arrested in Vraca on Saturday, was in the Central prison in Sarajevo. The IPTF found out about arresting just 24 hours after the arresting took place. According to him that was very poor arresting. Yesterday, Tepes was visited by the IPTF officers. He did not have any complaints about his treatment in the prison. A doctor might visit him some time this afternoon. SARAJEVO - The investigative judge in Sokolac Gordana Turuntas stated for SRNA that parts of the electric cables, which probably caused the fire in building of Lumber Camp in Pale, were sent to analysis in Banjaluka.The fire broke out in the attic because of a short circuit. BANJALUKA - The vice-president of Serbian Party of Krajina and Posavina Aleksandar Iliskovic said that he will urge for representative of the Coalition for Whole and Democratic B&H Nedzad Sasivarevic to permanently be forbidden to come or go out in Banjaluka. Sasivarevic was offending Serbian people on the Saturday's session of the Republic Assembly. Iliskovic also called on RS police to forbid Nenad Bastinac to enter in Cabinets of the RS President and Prime Minister because of his duties in alternative B&H Council of Ministers. BELGRADE - The Association of Serbs from B&H demand for the Dayton peace accord to be fully respected and for Brcko to be finally rewarded to RS. Every other solution would first mean jeopardising of RS integrity, and after that the complete disappearance of RS, the most important issue of the agreement - is said in an announcement of the Association. The Association insists for the decision to be made a soon as possible, because RS authorities have fulfilled all obligations imposed by the international community since signing of the Dayton agreement. BRCKO - Muslim and Croatian officials in Brcko since this morning, after one-week break, are again on their jobs. President of Brcko Municipal Assembly Mirsad Djapo, deputy mayor Mirsad Islamovic and members of Executive Board Sulejman Kusturica and Ivan Krndelj have not been in Brcko in RS since March 12, the day before the arbitration decision was to be made. ROME - The International Organisation for Migration (OIM) prepared a programme for return of refugees from B&H who are in Italy and informs them about state of their houses, possibilities of employment and everything that is necessary for reintegration in these communities - Italian agency Adji reports. The OIM give financial help for visiting of the places of their previous residence. It provides them with visas and pays for transport from Italy to B&H and back and organises their temporary housing while they are in B&H. BELGRADE - The president of Serbia's SDS Dragoljub Kojcic stated that the fact they are disputed by the seven most important parties is the prove for illegitimacy and illegality of yesterday's Albanian's elections in Kosovo. "The biggest Albanian parties deny the idea of Ibrahim Rugova who supports those elections, among whom Adem Demaci is the leading one" - said Kojcic at a press conference. According to him, " disputing of illegal elections is one of rare, positive moments for the Serbian side". PRISTINA - Representatives of the Serbia's Government have signed an agreement on realisation of an agreement on education in Pristina with representatives of Albanians from Kosovo, which has been signed by the Yugoslav president Milosevic and leader of Democratic Union of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova. It is anticipated that the Working Group "three + three" will held a press-conference at which the details of the agreement will be clarified - SRNA correspondent reported from Pristina. PARIS - From illegal elections in Kosovo, which are not being officially recognised not even by the international community, it is expected to secure legitimacy to Ibrahim Rugova, leader of Albanian separatists, on the eve of negotiations with Belgrade - French media reports. Along with Albanian elections, media comment canton and regional elections in France. Albanians from Kosovo "did not boycott elections, but voted for Rugova in a large number". Some correspondents assess that illegal elections in Kosovo even took "forms of plebiscite", although Rugova's stance has obviously been imposed on voters. BRUSSELS - Illegal elections of Albanians in Kosovo held yesterday are not approved by neither Serbia not the international community, but there is a surprising fact that still a great number of people voted on the elections - Belgium media comment. Brussels press said that Serbia's police did not interrupt the elections and there are some anticipations that Rugova will finally agree on having conversation, because, now, he has support of the majority. MOSCOW - Russian President Boris Yelcin appointed in Moscow previous Minister of Energetic Sergei Kiriyenko as the Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister, just few hours after complete transfer of the Russian Government took place - Reuters reports, citing Kremlin spokesman Sergei Jastrzembski. He said that Kiriyenko was close associate of Boris Nemtsov, the first deputy prime minister. Yelcin had announced previously that he would soon replace previous prime minister Cernomirdin, and appoint a new man. MAR. 23, 1998 EVENINGNEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKABIJELJINA - The President of Republika Srpska (RS) Biljana Plavsic thinks that Bijeljina should fulfil all assigned conditions in order to make it to the list of municipalities where the international arbiter would define organisation of the authority. Mrs. Plavsic said this after a joint meeting with presidents of Municipal Assembly and Executive Board of Bijeljina Dragomir Savic and Vlado Simic, and before the session at which, according to OSCE's preconditions for verification, one member of the Executive Board should be elected from Coalition for Whole and Democratic B&H. The RS President had talks also with the head of RS Army's headquarters lieutenant general Momir Talic, Defence Minister Manojlo Milovanovic, representatives of Air Bureau "Orao" and RS parliamentary parties' representatives. Mrs. Plavsic had talks with his Holiness bishop of Zvornik and Tuzla Mr. Vasilije as well.SARAJEVO - Researching team headed by the Sokolac Municipal Court's judge Gordan Turuntas estimates that nothing of the important documentation of the Public fund of disability - oldage pensions insurance burnt in the fire which broke out in the premises of this fund's Office - is being emphasised in a statement of the police station of Sarajevo. Reminding that the fire occurred on March 21 at 3,15 pm in the office building of the Lumber Camp Jahorina in Pale, it is said in the statement that the fire probably broke out because of short circuit in electrical system in the Fund's premises. It is underlined that the real cause of the fire will be known only after examination of the samples sent to Criminal-technical centre of RS Ministry of Internal Affairs in Banjaluka. SARAJEVO - Operators of Police Station in Sarajevo found out that the federal police arrested RS citizens - Milomir Tepes and Dragan Lukic from Pale near the Council Hall in Bascarsija, together with a taxi driver from the Muslim-Croat federation Adzem Inasa. In a statement of the police station it is said that they had been arrested on March 21 around 3,00 am, and three hours Lukic and Inas were released, but Tepes was taken to the Central Prison in Sarajevo. SARAJEVO - The Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok arrives in a one-day visit to B&H, where he is supposed to visit Dutch troops in SFOR, stationed in the central Bosnia. Before visiting soldiers in Busovaca, Novi Travnik and Sisava, Kok is due to have talks with the B&H Presidency's chairman Alija Izetbegovic, the Netherlands Embassy in Sarajevo announced. PRISTINA - Representatives of Serbia's Government and Albanians from Serbia came to an agreement in Pristina about measures for implementation of the Agreement on education, signed by that-time Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic and leader of Democratic Union of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova on September 1 of 1996. Explaining details of the Agreement, the Minister in the Yugoslav Government Ratomir Vico reminded that the Working Group "three + three" reached an agreement on economic measures for implementation of the Agreement on normalisation of education system for Albanian children and youth in Kosovo and Metohija, anticipating their return to schools. But scientific-educational council of the Pristina University unanimously made a decision not to except the Agreement, assessing that the Agreement from 1996 was "not just illegal and unconstitutional, but was also a prerequisite for realisation of the basic separatist goal - Kosovo the Republic". NOVI GRAD - The president of Fighters' Organisation of Novi Grad Municipality Milorad Agbaba awarded families of 12 killed Serbian soldiers of 43th Brigade of Prijedor with decorations, by which the RS President decorated their killed members. He emphasised it was just one more prove that RS did not forget Serbian heroes who built their lives into foundation of our country. DOBOJ - Serbian refugees from Zavidovici, Lukavac and Maglaj now inhabited in Doboj asked from leadership of Doboj municipality to issue resolution for previous accommodations, urgent dislodging of illegal users of abandoned housing buildings as well priority allotting of agricultural land. The refugees are also requiring forming of Commission for solving refugees issues at the level of Municipal Assembly, in which their representatives would participate as well. BELGRADE - The Helsinki Board for Human Rights in Serbia (HOPS) launched a project "I want to go home", in the framework of which 40 refugee families should return to Knin before the winter. They talked with about 120 families interested in return. The goal of the project is to encourage more numerous and dignified return of refugees to Croatia and B&H. DOBOJ - On the occasion of the second anniversary when Serbian prisoners of war got out from Muslim prisons, the Inaugural Assembly of Association of RS Camp Inmates has been scheduled for tomorrow in Doboj. On that day 109 members of RS Army, captured in Ozren and Vozuca on September 10 of 1996, got out from the District Prison in Tuzla. Former camp intimates will try to solve many status issues through this Association, in order to find their place in the society and forget hard days in the prison to a certain point. BUGOJNO - The president of Bugojno's Municipal Board of Croatian Democratic Union (OO HDZ), Ante Mustafic, called the Croats exiled from this town to register for return as soon as possible, no matter what state their houses are in. After a meeting of refugees from Bugojno held in Livno, Mustafic called the international community to help for return Croats from Bugojno to be more numerous. The representative of OHR for the middle Bosnia Lars John Lomback called the Croats to show the will for return and in that way exert pressure on local Muslim authorities in Bugojno to make it possible for them. DOBOJ - Soldiers of Finn Battalion in SFOR gave part of technique equipment to the City Plumbing in Doboj, so the planned reconstruction of water network could begin. The Government of Finland intends to invest 500,000 DM in this project, and construction works will be started by engineers from the Finn Battalion until end of the months. SARAJEVO - The president of the B&H Presidency from RS Momcilo Krajisnik forwarded a letter to the International Community High Representative Carlos Westendorp and SFOR commander General Eric Schinseky expressing concern with more and more frequent cases of disappearance and arresting of RS citizens in the Muslim-Croat federation's territory. Emphasising that all arrested person believed in "the right of movement in both entities", he says in the letter that cases of disappearance of two Serbs, after their contact with persons from the Muslim-Croat federation, have been recorded recently - Budimir Stanisic (born in 1950) from Pale and Ranko Radovic (born in 1961) from Srpsko Sarajevo. Warning that the public is "upset" and that there is "danger of revenge", Krajisnik says that everything got complicated two days ago with arresting of Milomir Tepes and Dragan Lukic, both from Pale. SARAJEVO - The federal police arrested on IEBL between federal and Serbian Sarajevo two RS citizens - Dragan (Samojko) Pejic (1959) from the village of Cusevci, Sokolac, employed in a state enterprise "Sipad" Sokolac, and Dragan (Vlado) Dragic (1953), an employee in the same enterprise. Commander of the police station of Pale Jovan Skobo said that Pejic and Dragic were arrested near Lapisnica, and ten federal policemen with four official vehicles performed the action. The arrested were taken in the police station in Logavina. Dragic was released after a short inquiry, while Pejic is still detained. BANJALUKA - The chairman of Serbian Democratic Party's Presidency Aleksa Buha announced in Banjaluka that the party would clean its ranks and become a national democratic party before coming elections in September. "The basic criterion of our work and conduct until the following general elections in RS and at the level of B&H will be free will of citizens" - Buha emphasised at an irregular Electoral Session of Banjaluka SDS City Organisation. A member of the Working Presidency and one of SDS vice- presidents Dragan Avic announced that with election of a new city board of SDS and its leadership in Banjaluka a signal that SDS had not forgotten neither own national dignity nor Dayton's obligations, would be sent. BIJELJINA - At the third regular session of Municipal Assembly of Bijeljina, scheduled for 11.00 am tomorrow, besides personnel issues, election of a member of Coalition for Whole and Democratic B&H in the Executive Board, change of Municipal Assembly's Statute and introduction of one more vice- president's seat which would belong to a member of the Coalition too, would be on the agenda. These two points are prerequisites for OSCE to finally verify the local authority in Bijeljina. BELGRADE - Representatives of the Yugoslav Government's Committee for gathering data on crimes against humanity is in several days' visit to the International war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where there will have talks with the Court's delegation about concentration camps in which Serbs were being killed during war in the former Yugoslavia. The main prosecutor of the Tribunal was proposed to have talks about camps in Sarajevo, Tarcin among them, Lora in Split and Dretelj in Capljina, then those in the region of Srpski Brod, Brcko, Samac, Orasje, Gorazde and Mrkonjic Grad, controlled by the Muslims and Croats. ZAGREB - Current Croat authority is not giving up ethnic cleansing and imposing of collective guilt over whole Serbian nation, Milan Djukic, president of Serbian National Union (SNS) warned in Zagreb. He documented his stance with the list of Serbian citizens who have been amnestied. Reminding that most of the Serbs from the list were from the region of Srem and Baranja, he asked what happened with the rest of the Serbs. He called the national board for establishing trust a farce, and stated that "the Serbs will never have trust in the current authority". NOVI SAD - Registration of the refugees willing to voluntarily repatriate in Croatia and B&H began in Vojvodina. The goal of this action of the UNHCR and Commiserate for Refugees in Serbia is to learn the real number of those who want to go back and to undertake adequate measures with authorities in these countries. The chief of UNHCR Mission for Yugoslavia and chief of its Belgrade's office Mans Nyberg and Mary Jane Majerdircks - Popovic emphasised that the registration was completely voluntarily. According to UNHCR's official data, 280,000 of refugees and displaced persons have been registered in Vojvodina, from whom 11,000 is in 150 collective shelters. KOZARSKA DUBICA - Construction works on roof of sports hall in Kozarska Dubica, estimated to 100,000 DM, have been completed in the presence of representatives of British Humanitarian Organisation DIFID, SFOR and the Municipal Assembly. The means for the work were provided by DIFID (30, 000DM) and the Municipal Assembly of Kozarska Dubica (15,000DM). /end/Copyright © Srpska Novinska Agencija - SRNA Republika SrpskaFrom the Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.orgSrpska Republica News Agency (SRNA) Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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