Serbia Today, 96-11-18

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Serbia Today

18 November 1996

CONTENTS

[01] AHEAD OF US IS THE TIME OF PROGRESS

[02] THE SECOND ROUND OF ELECTIONS COMPLETED

[03] MARJANOVIC; THERE WILL BE NO DEVALUATION OF THE DINAR

[04] INTEGRATION IN THE WORLD MARKET OF CAPITAL

[05] NORMALIZATION OF THE RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION

[06] GROWTH OF PRODUCTION

[07] NORMALIZATION OF THE VISA REGIME WITH CROATIA

[08] THE FIRST PHASE OF RETURN

[09] "BRONZE HORSE" FOR "NICE VILLAGES"

[01] AHEAD OF US IS THE TIME OF PROGRESS

President Milosevic specified that this program includes "every village, every town, and this means that the role of the local authorities has its own and very important place".

"Ahead of us is the time of progress for every citizen in his personal life and work, progress for the entire family and the country in general", underlined President Milosevic in his statement for the press after voting at a polling station in Belgrade.

"These elections will represent a very important step in the direction of the development of Serbia", said President Milosevic. (Politika, November 18, 1996)

[02] THE SECOND ROUND OF ELECTIONS COMPLETED

The spokesman of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, last night announced with pleasure that on the basis of the results obtained from 157 municipalities, the left has won in 127 municipalities. He underlined that Socialists for the provincial assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina have also won a large victory, so that from the total of 110 deputies in the Assembly of Vojvodina, the Socialist Party of Serbia, either independently or on a single list with the Yugoslav Left and New Democracy, has won 74 parliamentary seats.

According to the claims by the spokesman of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Ivan Kovacevic, at the first press conference after the closing of the polling stations, the candidates of the coalition "Together" (coalition "Zajedno") at the local elections have won the majority in 20 of the 188 municipalities of Serbia, and 6 in the 16 municipalities in the metropolitan area of the city of Belgrade.

Serbian Radical Party announced, according to the first incomplete results, that it has won majority of the deputy seats in Zemun and Temerin. (Tanjug, November 18, 1996)

[03] MARJANOVIC; THERE WILL BE NO DEVALUATION OF THE DINAR

"There are no major economic reasons whatsoever for a devaluation to take place", said Marjanovic, while answering a journalist's question asked while he was voting at a polling station in Belgrade.

Marjanovic added that, in his opinion, stories about the devaluation recently "are the fruit of speculation of some individuals". (Vecernje novosti, November 18, 1996)

[04] INTEGRATION IN THE WORLD MARKET OF CAPITAL

"We are of the opinion that the visit will be important not only from the information point of view, but most of all because of the preparations for the integration of Yugoslavia in the International Monetary Fund, and therefore the possibilities of utilizing the facilities which the World Bank is offering for financing of the development programs", stated Mr. Gazivoda, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia. (Politika, November 18, 1996)

[05] NORMALIZATION OF THE RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION

In this way the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would be placed on equal grounds with the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and for all of them this regime would be in force until the conclusion of the new individual agreements on trade and cooperation with the European Union, it was pointed out.

In the opinion of Prof.Dr. Oskar Kovac, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has no reason whatsoever of not accepting such a schedule and modalities for regulating its relations with the European Union. (Vecernje novosti, November 17, 1996)

[06] GROWTH OF PRODUCTION

[07] NORMALIZATION OF THE VISA REGIME WITH CROATIA

"The other administrative barriers have also been eliminated regarding the crossing of the state borders", stated Jokanovic while addressing the press, after the talks of the two ministers on the cooperation between the Ministries of Interior Affairs of Yugoslavia and Croatia and measures for facilitating movement of people, vehicles and goods across the common frontier.

During the talks it was stated that the tendency should be towards a passenger traffic without visas, which will, as both Ministers have stressed, depend on the overall development of the relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia. (Politika ekspres, November 16, 1996)

[08] THE FIRST PHASE OF RETURN

The project was made on the basis of the Agreement on Normalization of the Relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia of August 23, 1996.

The agreement is obliging both sides to ensure a free return of refugees and exiled persons to their homes and full safety of persons returning, as well as the return into their possession of their property i.e. its just compensation.

The Committee is insisting that the Croat authorities return to force the Constitutional Law of the year 1990, according to which ethnic and national community or a minority, participating in the population of Croatia with over 8 percent, has the right to be represented, proportionally to its share in the total population, in the Sabor (Parliament) and the government of Croatia, as well as in the supreme judiciary bodies.

The Committee is also recalling that to reinstate the Constitutional Law of the year 1990 would make possible the formation of autonomous counties or "zupanija" with the majority of Serbian population, which would have a great influence on a safe and stable life. (Politika ekspres, November 17, 1996)

[09] "BRONZE HORSE" FOR "NICE VILLAGES"

In the explanation of the jury it is stated that the film by Dragojevic on friendship and hatred between Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia "is a strong and powerful description of the madness of war". (Borba, November 18, 1996)

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