Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 98-03-05

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

MARCH 05, 1998 EVENING

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

SARAJEVO - The OHR spokeswoman Aisling Byrne stated for SRNA that the International Community High Representative for B&H Carlos Westendorp would receive the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister in Sarajevo in order to make an agreement on concrete and urgent Canadian Government's help for RS. According to her, means, intended for overcoming the crisis in RS, would be delivered to the Prime Minister Milorad Dodik soon. At a regular press- conference in Sarajevo she stated that Westendorp had forwarded a letter to the mayor of Stolac Pero Raguz, asking him to resign and warning that he would have no other alternative than to use his authorisations obtained in Bonn.

SARAJEVO -B&H Parliamentary Assembly's House of Representatives began the seventh session in Srpsko Sarajevo with discussion about the agenda. After a short break the Deputy International Community High Representative Hans Schumacher addressed the representatives, stating his opinion on the Bill of policy of direct foreign investments in B&H. Though this item has not been included on the agenda yet, Schumacher suggested it should be adopted, for it was of a great importance considering the fact that the next year the international community will stop providing help for B&H. Schumacher assessed this proposal as a good law which provided everything that foreign investors expect, and his only remark on the offered text was it did not secure tax reliefs, i.e. special discounts for the investors.

SARAJEVO - If Croatia wants to enter Europe, she has to allow the Serbs to stay in Eastern Slavonia and make possible for them to return in West Slavonia, assessed the Deputy International Community High Representative Jacques Klein. "If that does not happen", warned Klein, "these regions will become the biggest reservations - national parks in Europe, since no one will want to live there". The Croatian Ministers, and not the President Franjo Tudjman, are the first to blame for this.

PRISTINA - The Branch office of the Serbian Press Agency (SRNA) in Brcko denied information of the Alternative Informative Network (AIM), with a seat in Banjaluka, that employees in the head office of the state agency received their salaries, while field workers were not paid, even for November. "The news about SRNA reporters from Brcko going on strike because salaries for last four months had not been paid was misapplied by the colleges from AIM for the purpose of politicising, though it was just a social factor", is said in the denial from Brcko.

PRISTINA - A clash between the Serbian police and Albanian demonstrators began near the village of Bukos in the municipality of Vucitrn, is learned from sources close to the police in Pristina. Unofficial sources say that about ten thousands of Albanian demonstrators have blocked the road Pristina-Krusevac in the village of Luzani, municipality of Podujevo. It has been announced that traffic in this part of the road would be normalised in an hour.

BELGRADE - The British Foreign Affairs Minister and chairman of EU Council of Ministers Robin Cook assessed that solution of the situation in Kosovo can be found only in political way, which would provide more significant degree of autonomy for Kosovo. After talks with Yugoslav Foreign Affairs Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, Cook said that "the point of departure for solving the Kosovo crisis should be implementation of the agreement on education, i.e. making possible for schools and colleges to normally operate".

SARAJEVO - The Expert Staff of the Police Station in Sarajevo called all media representatives to respect the Law of public informing and journalists' ethics and not to disturb establishing of an unique RS Ministry of Internal Affairs by publishing false and unconfirmed information.

SARAJEVO - B&H Parliamentary Assembly's House of Representatives did not adopt the Bill of B&H flag at the seventh session in Srpsko Sarajevo, while the Bill of policy of direct foreign investments in B&H was not even included on the agenda. In a short discussion on the Bill of B&H flag representatives of Serbian Democratic Party said the temporary solution of the flag's design, made by OHR, did not have symbols of the three constitutive nations in B&H and therefore was not acceptable. This Bill did not obtain the necessary majority, i.e. one third of votes of an entity's representatives, so the Staff of the House's Presidency, as the Rule Book anticipates, will make a new bill in three days and presented it to the representatives at the next session.

PRISTINA - The clashes between the police and Albanian terrorists, which began with an attack of the terrorists on a patrol of Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) when two policemen were wounded, are still continuing, SRNA learns. Official organs are not releasing the new details on this clash, and Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic Union of Kosovo says in three announcements and calls for intervention forwarded to the international community that three villages in region of Srbica are on fire.

DOBOJ - Board members of Municipal Assembly of Doboj adopted at an irregular session changes of the Municipality's Statute, which made possible for minority parties to participate in power. With 42 votes for, 10 against and 4 abstained, the function of the second vice-president has been introduced, as well as of one more member of the Executive Board. Those functions went to Coalition for Complete and Democratic B&H.

TESLIC - Board members of the Municipal Assembly of Teslic accepted all five items of obligatory proposition of the State Board for implementation of election results at an irregular session. In that way all prerequisites of the international community for the final verification of local election results have been fulfilled.

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