"Alternativa" rejects help

Sarajevo Aug 6, 1997

Doboj

Doboj, 4 August, 1997 (AIM) - Mr. Milovan Stankovic, the owner of the independent newspaper "Alternativa", rejected 400 DEM of aid which was offered to them by IWPR-a (Institute for War and Peace Reporting) from London.

After the disagreement with USAID organization and refusing to accept approved donation worth 10.000 DEM from the Soros Foundation, the newspaper "Alternativa" currently comes out every fifteen days, instead of weekly. The owner of the only opposition newspaper in Doboj explains his moves saying that "international organization are not interested in helping the "Alternative" and that they consciously help only alternative media in Banjaluka and Bijeljina."(end)