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Bosnia Press Review - November 4
Sarajevo | 04 November 2009 |
Here are the top stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina's main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
OSLOBODJENJE
The EU and US are strongly backing a reform package for Bosnia presented to the country’s political leaders in meetings during October with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. European and American senior technical experts returned to Bosnia for separate meetings with political leaders of the country’s Muslim, Croat and Serb communities in an attempt to win their acceptance of the package. If the talks fail, international community has a “plan B”, president of the strongest Bosniak Muslim Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic was told during the meeting with experts on Tuesday.
DNEVNI AVAZ
Radovan Karadzic finally appeared before the UN war crimes tribunal on Tuesday for a procedural hearing on how to proceed with his genocide trial which he has been boycotting since it started last week. Presiding Judge o-Gon Kwon adjourned the trial, saying he would rule later this week on how it will proceed.
NEZAVISNE NOVINE
Six more people in Bosnia had been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, bringing the total number of infected in the country to 53. Among the newly infected are three students of the Secondary Music School in the northeastern town of Tuzla. They are believed to have contracted the virus on a recent school trip to Austria and Slovakia. Another 18 students and several professors who also went on the trip will also be tested.
DNEVNI LIST
Bosnia will be ready in the case of a new gas row between Russia and Ukraine as it has secured agreements with an alternative gas supplier from Germany. Bosnia, which imports all of its gas from Russia and does not have gas reserves, was heavily hit by the interruption of gas supply to Europe by Russia last winter as thousands of households in the country were left without heat.
The EU and US are strongly backing a reform package for Bosnia presented to the country’s political leaders in meetings during October with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. European and American senior technical experts returned to Bosnia for separate meetings with political leaders of the country’s Muslim, Croat and Serb communities in an attempt to win their acceptance of the package. If the talks fail, international community has a “plan B”, president of the strongest Bosniak Muslim Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic was told during the meeting with experts on Tuesday.
DNEVNI AVAZ
Radovan Karadzic finally appeared before the UN war crimes tribunal on Tuesday for a procedural hearing on how to proceed with his genocide trial which he has been boycotting since it started last week. Presiding Judge o-Gon Kwon adjourned the trial, saying he would rule later this week on how it will proceed.
NEZAVISNE NOVINE
Six more people in Bosnia had been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, bringing the total number of infected in the country to 53. Among the newly infected are three students of the Secondary Music School in the northeastern town of Tuzla. They are believed to have contracted the virus on a recent school trip to Austria and Slovakia. Another 18 students and several professors who also went on the trip will also be tested.
DNEVNI LIST
Bosnia will be ready in the case of a new gas row between Russia and Ukraine as it has secured agreements with an alternative gas supplier from Germany. Bosnia, which imports all of its gas from Russia and does not have gas reserves, was heavily hit by the interruption of gas supply to Europe by Russia last winter as thousands of households in the country were left without heat.
