Дневни медијски извјештаји

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 [...]

Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 7 ‘Mlaco and Handzic want to hide evidence on the crime’ – Former Chief of the Bugojno Police Enis Sijamija told the newspaper that the bodies of once apprehended Croats Vinko Ivkovic, Nikica Milos and Jadranko Gvozden, who were then declared missing were actually burnt in an earth-cabin near the village of Vrbanja. How [...]

Oslobodjenje pg. 1, 4 and 5 by S. Sehercehajic – on yesterday’s extraordinary session of the SDA during which it was decided to ‘sacrifice’, as the daily puts it, Muhamed Ibrahimovic, the current FBiH HoR Chair, in order to proceed with the appointment of Ahmed Hadzipasic as the new Federation PM. This means that Ibrahimovic will step down from his [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 by F. Mandal and H. Orahovac– the biggest story in the daily reporting that after Amir Jaganjac was appointed by the HJPC for president of the FBiH Supreme Court, a Bosniak could not be appointed Federation PM. According to lawyer Kasim Trnka the FBiH Constitution, Amendment 49, regulates the distribution of key posts in the Federa [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 – OHR yesterday announced the economic analysis on BiH. “BiH registered a trade deficit in the first six months of the last year amounting to 5,2 billion KM. That indicates the need for an urgent development of a competing exporting sector and the speeding up of business and economic reforms.” In the document, the OHR warned the Bi [...]

Avaz pg. 1 and 2 – yesterday’s special conference by HR Ashdown where he announced that this week crucial events were to take place in the process of the VAT and single customs introduction. He recalled that February 19 was the final deadline for local politicians to agree on basic principles of single customs and VAT. Also announced his Deputy Don [...]