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Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 98-04-22

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From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org


APRIL 22, 1998 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA - The Banjaluka City Board of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) is utterly against the announcement of Muslim radicals and the international community representatives that they will build a mosque Ferhadija in Banjaluka. In a statement of the Serb radicals is stressed that possible building of the mosque would open old Serb wounds and slow down normalisation of total relations in these regions.

SREBRENICA - A member of the Main board of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), Radovan Markov Karadzic, announced that the SDS would soon hold the Inaugural Assembly where they would choose new leadership with young and capable people. "With experience of the older ones the SDS will come out on forthcoming elections significantly stronger" - said Karadzic in Srebrenica.

ROME - The Italian media paid a special attention to replacement of the chief of police in Drvar Ivan Jurisic, for whom the UN spokesman in Sarajevo Aleksandar Ivanko said that he had been replaced because of "his absolute incapability to prevent nationalistic Croatian violence against Serbs" in the city, which was mainly inhabited with Serbs before the war. The ANSA agency reported that Jurisic was replaced after a brutal murder of a Serb couple Trninic, returnees to Drvar.

JASENOVAC - The RS President Biljana Plavsic, Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and Minister of Veteran's Affairs Tihomir Gligoric visited Jasenovac, former concentration camp in Croatia where they paid tribute to the victims of the ustasha's camp and all killed in the Second World War. Referring to anniversary of prisoners' breaking out of Jasenovac in 1945, Biljana Plavsic said that she came to Jasenovac "in order to take a bow to all killed in the Second World War".

BELGRADE - His Holiness Serbian patriarch Mr. Pavle left for Chicago where in the Nova Gracanica monastery with all bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada he will have a discussion about new Constitution of the Serbian orthodox Church episcopacy in the U.S. and Canada.

SARAJEVO - The President of the RS National Assembly Dragan Kalinic scheduled with vice-presidents and the secretary general of the Parliament a consultative meeting with presidents of the delegates' clubs for April 29 in Bijeljina at 11:00 a.m.

BIJELJINA - The vice-president of the Serbian people Union (SNS) and a chief of delegate's club of this party in the RS National Assembly Svetozar Mihajlovic announced in Banjaluka a possibility for the regular session of the Parliament to be held on May 12 and 13. At a press-conference he called yesterday's meeting of delegates' clubs and representatives of political parties in Bijeljina as informal gathering at which an agreement had been reached on the agenda of the next Assembly's session.

BANJALUKA - The RS Socialist Party President (SPRS) Zivko Radisic denied in Banjaluka all pressures and speculations regarding this party adding that the SPRS was not a copy of any party. At a press-conference he said that the SPRS became a key factor in stabilisation of current situation in the country. The SPRS aimed their effort toward unblocking of work of the RS National Assembly and preparations for the forthcoming elections.

BANJALUKA - An international science gathering titled "Challenges of reconstruction and transition in RS" at which 60 representatives of the economic-political structures in RS and FB&H and international organisations will participate, will be held on April 24 and 25. This is confirmed at a press-conference in Banjaluka by members of the Committee for Economic Affairs with the UN Programme (UNDP), Rajko Tomas and Mladen Ivanic.

BRCKO - The first international train since the war, on the relation Tuzla - Brcko - Vinkovci - Budapest passed through the Brcko railway station - confirmed for SRNA Ljubomir Todorovic from the Department for development at the local railway station.

BANJALUKA - With paying tribute to killed soldiers in the Second World War and the last war a Day of liberation of Banjaluka has been marked. Delegations from Banjaluka, Veterans Association, RS Socialist Party, Serbian Party for Krajina and Association of Women from Banjalukam, have attended the occasion.

GOSTIVAR - Albanians in Makedonija will be pleased with Kosovo as a protectorate, said on the meeting in Gostivar a leader of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) Alben Dzaferi.

APRIL 22, 1998 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA- The OSCE Chief Of Mission Special Representative in B&H Vladimir Kuznecov informed in Banjaluka the Republika Srpska (RS) National Assembly vice-president Nikola Poplasen that "in May all election rules and regulations will be prepared and it wont be changed until the end of the September elections". Kuznjecov said that the OSCE organised and supervised the elections because "until now no party made a suggestion of election rules and regulations in accordance with the Dayton Peace Accord". After the meeting Poplasen said that the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in the next few days would submit its suggestions to the OSCE on rules and regulations for the forthcoming elections.

BANJALUKA - The OSCE chief of mission and chairman of the Provisional Election Commission (PIK) Robert Barry denied in Banjaluka information about alleged changes of the election rules and regulations related to the obligatory participation of party's candidates according to the ethnical principle. At a press-conference Barry said that the PIK did not take into consideration establishing of percentage participation of ethnic members of any nation in the elections for the RS and FB&H Parliaments. He confirmed that in Banjaluka with the vice-president of the RS Government Ostoja Kremenovic and representatives of political parties had talks about preparations for the forthcoming general elections on September 12 and 13.

BANJALUKA - The president of the RS Alternative Government Dubravko Prstojevic assessed in Banjaluka the OSCE new election regulations as "confused and represent an experiment applied nowhere in the world. "The international community did not fulfil its promises about financial help to RS. It only deceived Serbian people what is unacceptable when it is well known that RS is the only part that implements totally Peace Agreement in B&H", said Prstojevic.

BELGRADE - The UNHCR spokesman in Belgrade Mons Nuberg said that return of refugees form FRY to Drvar was continued in spite of murder of a Serbian couple Trninic. Emphasising that the UNHCR strongly supports return, although it is conducted without its participation, Nuberg said that "around 100 refugees return to Drvar every week and only on April 22, 39 men came from Backa Palanka to Drvar."

SARAJEVO - An memorandum on understanding has been signed in Sarajevo about arrangements for establishing of transportation of interentity mail - the Croatian Radio reported. With this agreement it was anticipated the undisturbed transport of the mail within B&H, with no control on the IEBL.

SARAJEVO - The Hague War Crimes Tribunal attorney general Louis Arbour stated at a press-conference in Sarajevo that she entirely supported voluntarily surrenders of the accused of alleged war crimes and urged on the RS authority to support it too. She said that she got a promise from RS about establishing of cooperation between the Tribunal adding that she was encouraged with the talks.

BANJALUKA - Second international fair of food and drinks "HIP Banjaluka '98" was opened in Banjaluka at which around 100 firms from RS, FB&H, FRY, Slovenia and Netherlands displayed their products. A fair was open by the RS Minister of Trade and Tourism Nikola Kragulj who assessed that the manifestation would contribute to development of production of food and drinks in RS, including faster access to the world.

BANJALUKA - The RS Union of Syndicates fights for economic -social rights based on Collective Agreement - said in Banjaluka a President of the RS Branch Syndicate for Information Sekul Popovic. Popovic said at a press- conference that current situation in that sector was difficult especially in the RS state media, where the lowest price of labour was 40 DM.

STRASBOURG - A member of the B&H Parliamentary Assembly Presidency of the House of Commons Momir Tosic, who had participated in a work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, stated for SRNA that with admission of FRY to the Council of Europe a problem of Kosovo would be solved. "I suggested for the procedure to be launched as soon as possible what will bring legal and political framework for solving the crisis in Kosovo, and situation in the Balkans and Southeast of Europe", said Tosic.

NOVI SAD - President of the SRS County board for the South of Banat and Minister in Serbian Government for Relations with Serbs out of Serbia Milorad Mircic stated in Novi Sad that referendum on foreign interfering in internal matters of Serbia "is connected very strongly to RS". At a press- conference in Novi Sad he said that people in RS "know very well how good the intentions of the international community are".

VIENNA - The OSCE Council will consider on April 23 in Vienna current situation in Kosovo and Metohija - confirmed to SRNA the OSCE spokesman Walter Camp. "Representatives of 54 countries of the OSCE Council will submit their reports and propositions for solving the crisis in Kosovo, what will be taken into consideration in the report of current, former and future 'chairman' (Poland, Norway, and Netherlands) which will be delivered to the Contact Group until the next session on April 29 in Rome", said Camp.

APRIL 22, 1998 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

LONDON - From mass graves in the region of Petrovac, on Monday, started exhumation of Serbs who were slaughtered by Muslim - is said in the London "Times". The paper says that great number of international experts are engaged on this job. Excavating of mass graves in B&H is under a supervision of the International Community High Representative Carlos Westendorp, and it is conducted by the International Committee for Missing Persons, ICRC and organisation Internists for Human Rights.

BANJALUKA - Murder of Serbian refugees - returnees, Vojin and Milena Trninic in Drvar will launch sanctions of the West against Croatia - says Banjaluka's "Reporter" citing high official of the international community in B&H. This unnamed official said that Croatia was "being watched" before this crime and that something must be done about its disrespect of the Dayton Accord and other agreements adding that murder of Trninic couple "represents the last straw"!

STOCKHOLM - Disagreements between representatives of the B&H Council of Ministers are still significant, and reflects mainly in return of refugees problem - is said in "Swenska taglabet", a Swedish paper. At yesterday's press-conference a cochairmen of the Council Boro Bosic and Haris Silajdzic shown such a great intolerance and disagreement that almost a quarrel broke out. "While Silajdzic was complaining about delay in return of refugees and bad communication between some parts of B&H, Bosic positively assessed development of peaceful process and investing of Sweden in economy of B&H. He thanked for humanitarian aid and support in economic renewal ", is said in the "Svenska tagbladet".

PRISTINA - A group of armed Albanians from Kosovo in the village of Ljumbarde in Decani, had kidnapped Novak Stijovic, Sinisa Radosevic and his mother Rosa and took them away in the village of Glodjane, where according to some information is one of the Albanians' bases. Stijovic and Radosevic have been beaten and questioned for 6 hours while Rosa Radosevic have not. Albanians terrorists took the arrested Serbs to the village of Prilip from where they made it to Decani - Media centre from Pristina reported.

PRISTINA - The President of the Serbian Renewal Movement - democratic movement (SPO-DP) Momcilo Trajkovic had talks in Pristina with the vice- president of the International Congress of Russian Municipalities and Assistant Deputy President of the Committee for National Affairs in Duma, Mihail Vasiljevic Nuzdinov, about situation in Kosovo. As Media centre from Pristina reported, Nuzdinov arrived in Pristina on the invitation of the SPO-DP Presidency.

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