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September 30, 1996
Web posted at: 11:45 p.m. EDTFirst Bosnian presidency meeting ends in Sarajevo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- The first meeting of Bosnia's three-person presidency ended Monday after almost four hours of talks in a motel on the outskirts of Sarajevo, International High Representative Carl Bildt said.
Presidency chairman and Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic, the Serb representative Momcilo Krajisnik and Croat Kresimir Zubak were chosen in Bosnia's first post-war general election on September 14.
According to a joint statement issued after the meeting, the leaders agreed to convene a meeting of Bosnia's House of Representatives on October 5, to release all war prisoners immediately apart from those under investigation for war crimes by The Hague, and decided to restore telecommunications links across the ethnic divide, ending one of the most sensitive technical barriers to unity.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Tribunal delays Rwanda genocide hearings
KIGALI, Rwanda (CNN) -- The United Nations' international tribunal for Rwanda has postponed until the end of October the trial for its first suspect, Jean-Paul Akayesu. Akayesu was the mayor of Taba, an area close to Rwanda's capital, at the time of the genocide of the country's Tutsi minority in 1994 by members of the Hutu majority.
The former schoolteacher will be the first of 21 suspects indicted by the tribunal -- only 11 of whom are in custody -- to stand trial.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Suspect in Australian massacre pleads innocent
SYDNEY (CNN) -- The man accused of killing 35 people in Australia's worst massacre pleaded innocent Monday.
The suspect, Martin Bryant, was formally charged with 72 counts of murder, attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, aggravated assault, wounding and arson in the shootings at Port Arthur, a popular tourist site.
Prosecutors say Bryant shot high-powered rifles at tourists, then set fire to a nearby house the following morning after a night-long standoff with police. He was arrested on April 29, the day after the shootings, and faces trial November 19.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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