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COPYRIGHT 2002 Financial Times Ltd.
(From ONASA News Agency)
March 1 SARAJEVO - Some 5,000 members of the organizations of fallen soldiers, disabled veterans and demobilized soldiers from throughout BiH organized peaceful protest in Sarajevo, at which they requested the Federation authorities to give them all the rights they had before through the new law.
GUIANA - Europe's largest and most expensive satellite has begun its voyage to monitor the health of the planet, blasting off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. March 4 MOSTAR - Members of the Associations of Croat Disabled Veterans (HVIDRA) and families of fallen soldiers protested because of the difficult social position of war victims.
PRISTINA - Kosovo's legislature elected veteran pacifist leader Ibrahim Rugova as president of the Yugoslav province in a major step toward self-rule. The Kosovo assembly also appointed a prime minister and a 10-member cabinet. Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo has the largest number of ministers in the cabinet but Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi comes from the rival Democratic Party of Kosovo. SREBRENICA - The councilors of the Srebrenica Municipal Assembly adopted on Monday the Resolution on the special status of this municipality, despite opposition expressed by the Republika Srpska government to the adoption of this act. The Resolution provides for its special status in terms of securing additional financial and other resources to support development, reconstruction, return and employment generation in the municipality. March 5 BANJA LUKA - The education ministers of the Republika Srpska and Federation Gojko Savanovic and Mujo Demirovic signed the agreement on meeting the special needs and rights of children returnees to both entities.
SARAJEVO - The BiH Federation Parliamentary House of Peoples adopted on Tuesday a decision allowing the Federation to take out a loan in order to provide the funds required for disbursing the redundancy payments to troops that would be left jobless during the announced Federation Armed Forces downsizing exercise.
SARAJEVO - The BiH Federation Parliamentary House of Peoples confirmed the appointment of six judges of the Federation Constitutional court, thus completing the new composition of the court. The House confirmed the appointments of Kasim Trnka, Mirko Boskovic, Domino Malbasic, Nedeljko Milicevic, Ranka Cvijic and Miomir Jocic. It did not support the appointments of Mehmed Dekovic, Hatidza Hadziosmanovic-Mahic, and Danice Sain.
MOSTAR - Neven Tomic has offered resignation to the position...
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