Press Archives

RHB - Following the decision of the ICTY from September 1 to transfer the case against Radovan Stankovic to the BiH judiciary, arrival of Stankovic to Sarajevo can be expected in early October, FENA learns from the BiH Court. The ICTY’s Appeals Chamber rejected Stankovic’s appeal, therefore the indictment, the documentation and the indictee will be [...]

Oslobodjenje cover pg splash and pgs 4 and 5 ‘Regions Tuzla-Bijeljina, Gorazde-Foca and Sarajevo would be crossing inter-entity line’ by A. Kalamujic – Osl. learns that the BiH Council of Ministers’ proposal of the agreement on the police reform has hardly manage to receive a green light of the EC, while the RS proposal is not acceptable for the EC [...]

RHB, TV Pink, BHT 1, NTV Hayat, FTV, RTRS, Dnevni Avaz pg 4 ‘Stankovic is first one that ICTY cedes to BiH Court’, mentioned on cover ‘The Hague cedes Stankovic to BiH Court’ not signed, Oslobodjenje pg 3 ‘Radovan Stankovic’s case returns to BiH’ not signed, Nezavisne Novine pg 2 ‘Stankovic will stand trial in Sarajevo’ not signed, Dnevni List pg 4 [...]

RHB - The RSNA Speaker, Dusan Stojicic, stated last night that the police reform is politically much more sensitive than the defence reform suggesting that the IC should be aware of it. Stojicic was speaking at a show called ‘Aktualni razgovori’, which was broadcast by ‘K3 TV’, and he noted that the police reform is of crucial importance for the RS [...]

RS Radio - Negotiations on police reform have commenced at Bjelasnica meeting under organisation of the BiH CoM. Pero Bukejlovic, RS Premier, expressed optimism, noting that disputable issues in entities and cantons (such as maps) should be left for some other occasion, adding: “Talks on these issues should be run at the time when talks on SAA comm [...]

BH Radio 1 Sanija Saljihi - BiH House of Representatives is in session today. They have rejected the request by the Council of Ministers to discuss the draft Law on Customs’ Offences in the urgent procedure. Representatives returned the law into the regular parliamentary procedure.

BH Radio 1 By Brana Markovic – RS National Assembly has commenced the extraordinary session this morning which focuses at the defence reform. Representatives were already addressed by the outgoing NATO Commander, Steven Schook, and Co-Chair of the Defence Reform Commission, Raffi Gregorian.

BH Radio 1, RHB - The outgoing NATO Commander in BiH, general Steven Schook stated at his farewell press conference that he was optimistic Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic “chapter” will be ended soon.

BHT Zorica Lolic – At Friday’s meeting of SDS Main Board, this political party decided to support the defence reform platform. This means that the transfer of defence authorities from entity to state level could be approved by RS National Assembly, where SDS is the majority party. At Saturday’s press conference, SDS stated, regarding the police ref [...]

BHT Boris Grubesic – At Friday’s session, SDS’s Main Board (MB) stated that SDS will give its support to abolishment of Entities’ Ministries of Defence (MoD) and transfer of authorities to the State level as suggested by Defence Reform Commission (DRC). SDS requested the national balance before the transfer of authorities to state level and placing [...]