Press Archives

RHB - FBiH House of Peoples is in session today. The chamber should be discussing amendments to the FBiH Constitution related to transfer of defence authorities from the entity onto the state.

RHB - German Foreign Minister, Dr. Frank Walter Steinmayer, stated in Brussels today that he was looking forward to the support of the EU ministers to the candidacy of Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling for the office of the High Representative for BiH. The PR issued by him notes that the formal approval of the candidacy will be done on December 14 an [...]

RHB, ONASA, SRNA - NATO troops this morning raided in Pale the house of Dragan Stajkic, suspected of aiding former leader of Bosnian Serbs and accused for war crimes Radovan Karadzic. The NATO Headquarters said in a statement the action was conducted in aim of disrupting the network supporting Karadzic and collecting reports on his location. Stajki [...]

RHB, Pink, BHT, Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Oslobodjenje, pg 10, mentioned on front ‘Gotovina arrived to detention unit in ICTY’, by Darjan Zadravec, Dnevni Avaz, pg 17, mentioned on front ‘Gotovina in The Hague’, not signed, Dnevni List, pg 5, mentioned on front ‘Gotovina will defend himself from outside?!’, by Ivana Roic, Vecernji List

Pink, FTV, BHT, Vecernji List, pg 4 ‘Gotovina in custody in The Hague today’, by Stojan de Prato - The ICTY suspect Ante Gotovina will be transferred to The Hague Tribunal detention unit on Saturday, informed Spanish police. Gotovina is arrested two days ago in a luxury hotel on Canary Islands and is currently detained in Madrid. Dnevni List, front [...]

RHB- US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, welcomes the arrest of Ante Gotovina, calling on the authorities in SCG and RS to honour their obligations towards the ICTY. She underlines that the US would especially like to see arrests of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.

RHB- UHSP issued a press release which says BiH: “BiH cannot be based on any entities or republics, but rather on regions that will not be based on ethnic, but rather on historic and natural borders. Such regions in BiH are: Herzegovina, Central Bosnia, Eastern Bosnia, Bosnian Border and Posavina. Besides these five regions, the city of Sarajevo wo [...]

BH Radio 1 by Sense agency - The Hague Tribunal sentenced a Bosnian Croat/ former HVO soldier who had pleaded guilty to charges including murder, rape and torture of Muslims to 20 years in jail on Wednesday. Miroslav Bralo, also known as Cicko, changed his pleas to guilty earlier this year on eight counts of war crimes and human rights abuses commi [...]

BH Radio1, RHB– Both report that the talks on the constitutional changes are to commence in Sarajevo today. RTRS - PDP press statement released today reads party would take part in talks only at the level of presidents of parties. “By avoiding talks Sulejman Tihic is holding back possible constitutional changes and blocking the European road of BiH [...]

RTRS, RHB- US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said in Ljubljana where he attends the 13th OSCE Ministerial Council meeting that the USA is against any division of Kosovo. He added: ‘We do not believe that the division would be a good solution. We are against any changes of Kosovo borders and any changes of the borders in whole [...]