Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 98-03-19

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MAR. 19, 1998 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

SARAJEVO - At a session in the National Museum in Sarajevo the B&H Council of Ministers should adopt, in the framework of discussion about implementation of the Law on Council of Ministers, the final texts of regulations regarding organisation of ministries and make a decision about the seat of this body. Forming of the Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Ministry, fiscal agent for International Monetary Fund (IMF) and making a decision on replacement of the B&H National bank with B&H Central Bank in business with IMF will also be on the agenda.

BRCKO - Croatian and Muslim officials in multiethnic administration of Brcko Municipal Assembly, who have not been working since March 11, did not come to work again. Muslim media report that they decided not to come as a symbol of a protest against the decision of the Arbitration Tribunal. According to the RS Law on Labour Relations, seven days' absence from work automatically will result in notice of dismissal. The President of Brcko Municipal Assembly Mirsad Djapo is among those who have been appointed in accordance with orders of the international supervisor Robert Farrand.

PALE - As a sign of a protest because of a decision of Election Sub-Appeal Commission (IAP), delegates of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) from Pale have decided to redrawn from Municipal Parliament - has been stated for SRNA from SRS Municipal Board (OO). According to Slobodan Petrovic,the secretary of Pale SRS OO, they decided to do that because " imposed election of a representative of Coalition for Whole and Democratic B&H as a member of the Executive Board SO Pale, as well as systematic obstruction of Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) from Pale, which, did not respect signed protocols on inter-party cooperation".

PRISTINA - In organisation of so-called coordination board of Albanians parties in Pristina, demonstrations have been held, gathering around 30,000 Albanians, who had been protesting , as they said, "against Serbian terror, and for freedom and independence". Albanians have been demonstrating in front of the building where representatives of the Serbia's Government, headed by the vice-president Ratko Markovic, and delegation of ethnical and national minority from Kosovo, had talks. Albanians negotiators did not come to talks again.

PRISTINA - Around 10.000 Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo protested against Albanian terrorism and separatism in Lipljan. The rally began in the court-yard of the Church Sveto Vavedenje, from where citizens went holding posters with signs "we do not give Kosovo" and " we will rather die than give Kosovo away", along the street of Petar Prvi Oslobodilac.

VIENNA - Solution of Kosovo crisis is possible to be achieved only with mediating of the international community - Max van der Stoel, the OSCE High Commissioner for minorities, stated in Vienna, adding that authorities in Belgrade were not ready to accept mediation of the third side. "Situation in Kosovo is not exclusively an internal matter of Serbia because the crisis in Kosovo can provoke destabilisation in the whole region" - Stoel stated for SRNA.

VIENNA - The Austrian Foreign Affairs Minister Wolfgang Schuessel warned the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that the dead-line for fulfilling of the Contact Group's requests, was expiring, and announced a possibility of imposing sanctions unless they did so. " The Yugoslav President has very little time left to fulfil these requests, and sanctions are the main activity of the international community which should bring Milosevic to his senses, and stop actions in Kosovo" - Schuessel said. "Belgrade must implement an Agreement on normalisation of education and health" - said Schuessel, justifying terroristic actions in Kosovo.

MARCH 19, 1998 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA - The RS President Biljana Plavsic and RS Prime Minister received in Banjaluka delegation of Russian Federation, headed by Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister. Talks have begun at 3,30 pm and are attended by Dragoljub Mirjanic, the RS vice-president. According to the protocol, the President Plavsic will deliver to Primakov and his deputy Nikolaj Afanisievsky a first grade's decoration of Njegos.

SARAJEVO - The OHR spokeswoman Aisling Byrne, informed at a press- conference in Sarajevo reporters about a meeting Carlos Westendorp had with the co-chairman of the B&H Council of Ministers, Boro Bosic, at which Westendorp expressed concerned because of lack of progress regarding problem of the seat of Council of Ministers. According to her, Westendorp had insisted for Boro Bosic to support the OHR's stance about the seat of Council of Ministers, what Bosic accepted.

BIJELJINA - During his visit to RS, Primakov visited a seat of the SFOR Russian brigade in Ugljevik. Addressing soldiers he said that peace and stability were of immense importance for that region.

CLEVELAND - In Eastern Slavonia, Croatian Government is conducting silent and administrative cleansing of remaining Serb population, and Croatia gets world what she wants before the whole world - a national state with no Serbs in it - says today's "New York Times". Almost 60,000 Serbs have left Eastern Slavonia and more and more Serbs are leaving every day.

BRESA - Near Italian city of Bresa on Tuesday afternoon, a Serb Predrag Kostic, 38-years-old, has been arrested for alleged raping of women in Omarska camp in 1992 - AFP reported citing Italian police. Kostic was, according to the indictment, one of the guards in Omarska.

BANJALUKA - The RS President Biljana Plavsic had talks in Banjaluka with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Yevgeny Primakov. They concluded that changes made in RS so far improved a position of RS and Serbian people in the world and preconditions were made for economic opening of RS. With these changes "Primakov can support RS more confidently," said Plavsic. She said that Serbian people were very grateful for Russian stance toward this part of the Balkans and expressed special plesure and honoure for having Primakov as a guest in RS. "There is a general opinion that RS is more respected now, thanks to the President Plavsic and, in interest of the Serbian people, division of RS has been avoided". Russian chief of diplomacy also had talks with the RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.

BANJALUKA - In the continuation of the 10th session, the RS Government are discussing materials for tomorrow's session of the RS National Assembly, with a conclusion that it is necessary to change order of the items on the agenda. According to these changes, after discussing the Law on the RS Banking Agency, Changes and Amendments of the Law on Arms and Munition, would be on the agenda too. Then several changes and amendments of the urgent laws and personnel issues and Drafts of laws which are in the regular Assembly's procedure, are to be discussed latter.

SARAJEVO - B&H Council of Ministers at today's session in Sarajevo postponed the final decision regarding organisation of the ministries in seven days' time, because the Rule Book on work of Foreign Affairs Ministry and Ministry for Civil Affairs and Communications was brought to concord. They did not agree on the Rule Book on work of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, because the Deputy Minister Husein Zivalj, who has objections on the Rule Book's text, was absent. Since the Rule Book on work of the Ministry for Civil Affairs and Communications was brought to concord too, seven days are left to try to make an agreement on it, and after that time the final decision must be made.

BANJALUKA - RS Minister of Information Rajko Vasic and president of the branch syndicate Sekul Popovic signed in Banjaluka a collective agreement for informing and publishing activities of RS in Banjaluka, in the presence of the president of the Republican Syndicate, Cedo Volas. A three-member commission, which will supervising implementation of the contract, has been formed and its members are journalists Branislav Bozic and Mihajlo Orlovic and David Barisic.

NEW YORK - The British text of harsh resolution on embargo on arms imposed on FRY will remain a dead letter - SRNA learns in well-informed sources in UN Security Council. The Security Council has decided not to discuss the resolution this week, since it has been published that the Serbia's President Milan Milutinovic, together with the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Yevgeny Primakov, once more proposed to Albanians from Kosovo to have a dialogue, without delay and conditioning.

PALE - The SFOR's spokesman major Peter Clark in an exclusive statement for SRNA announced today that a military exercise "Dynamic Response '98" will be performed from March 23-April 7, explaining that the goal of the NATO strategical reserves' exercise was to test NATO's resolve to deploy armed forces in B&H. "The exercises on the land will begin on March 27 and be finished by April 4, and it has also been planned for the landing operation to begin in the ports of Ploce and Split, while the main operations will be in Sokolac (RS) and in Mostar and Glamoc (the Muslim-Croat federation)" - Clark said in SRNA today. He said that 1,800 soldiers from six countries would participate in this exercise, including logistic support of armed vehicles, helicopters, aeroplanes and NATO navy.

BANJALUKA - The President of RS Serbian Patriotic Party (SPAS) Slavko Zupljanin warned that the party would not accept any solution for Brcko, except the one anticipated by the Dayton agreement and that is that the town of Brcko stays within RS.

HAMBURG - In an interview for a special edition of the highrated Munich's daily "Sueddeutche Zeitung" the former U.S. peace envoy in B&H Richard Holbrook says that in September of 1995 the State Department, on his initiative, ordered additional 14- hours of air bombing of RS. Holbrook claims that those attacks were "revenge for the letter of the former commander of RS Army general Ratko Mladic who compared previous NATO's 72- hours air attacks with Nazi bombing of Belgrade in the World War II".

THE HAGUE - The leader of British Liberal Democratic Party Paddy Ashdown stated before the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that "there was no place for B&H in the maps of Franjo Tudjman". He testified about relations of the Croatian President toward the Muslims, that was full of racist stances. Ashdown, called by prosecutor to testify in the trial to Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic, for a quite long time was retelling the conversation he had with the Croatian President Tudjman in London in May of 1995 - SRNA correspondent reports.

NOVI GRAD - The third regular session of the Municipal Assembly of Novi Grad has been cancelled today, because there was no quorum. The disputed issue was verification of Coalition for Whole and Democratic B&H new board members' mandates.

DOBOJ - An Italian state organisation "Print Project" and International Humanitarian Organisation "World Vision International" delivered today to the Regional Association of Dystrophics in Doboj equipment for printing firm and a station wagon, in amount of 77,000 DM. The Association's president Nada Jovanovic said that ten members of the Association, with adequate qualifications, would get a job in the printing firm.

DOBOJ - Revitalisation of system of signalisation and telecommunication of the Doboj railway is finished, and the solemn transfer ceremony, which will be attended by representatives of SFOR and the Ministry of Communications, will take place tomorrow at 12,00.

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