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31.01.2005 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights sent an Open letter to Prime Minister of Serbia about the announced surrender of General Vladimir Lazarevic and violations of the Law by top state officials.

31.01.2005 The ruling of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro that the membership of public officials on the boards of public companies is unconstitutional puts a question mark on the legality of the privatization processes in Montenegro, says the Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector – MANS.

31.01.2005 The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, accepted to sponsor the international Sarajevo Winter 2005 Festival.

28.01.2005 More than 130 young persons of different profiles from BiH and diasphora have applied to taka part in the project “Model of BiH Council of Ministers. After the applications are examinaed, the best candidates will be enabled to attend three month internship in BiH state-level ministries.

28.01.2005 The Commission for Preparation of Legislation of the B&H Ministry of Civil Affairs, together with the representatives of the World Bank, the Office of the High Representative (OHR), OSCE and the Council of Europe, works on the preparation of the text of a National Law on Higher Education.

27.01.2005 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights YIHR conducted a survey “Reporting on Kosovo in Serbian Print Media”. The survey included the most influential daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Belgrade and Novi Sad.

27.01.2005 Members of the first contingent of peacekeeping police officers from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) finished their basic training last month and joined the operation of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

25.01.2005 Srdjan Dizdarevic, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H, said that 2004 was marked by the verbal commitment by B&H authorities to the Euro-Atlantic integrations. On the other hand, Bosnia and Herzegovina visibly lags behind the neighbouring countries.

24.01.2005 The “Friends of Kopacki Rit” environmental association, condemned the refusal by the Government of Croatia to proclaim the Kopacki Rit nature park into a National Park. They said at the press conference held last Friday that the Government “decided on the bases of misinfomration”.

21.01.2005 UNMIK and the PISG began the drafting of a report under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. This follows from the Technical Agreement signed last summer between the SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen and the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.