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Serbia Today, 97-01-06
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] LETTER OF MILAN MILUTINOVIC TO THE OSCE CHAIRMAN
[02] STOP BREAKING-DOWN OF THE FEDERATION
[03] SHAMEFUL MESS IN THE CENTER OF ZAGREB
[04] CROATS DEMAND ONE PART OF BRCKO
[05] GREETINGS ON THE OCCASION OF THE GREATEST CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY
[06] 'TREPCA' - A LEADING EXPORT COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY
[07] PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
[08] HIGH LEVEL OF POLITICAL DIALOGUE
[01] LETTER OF MILAN MILUTINOVIC TO THE OSCE CHAIRMAN
With reference to the report by Felipe Gonzales, Federal Minister of
Foreign Affairs Milan Milutinovic has sent a letter to the chief of Danish
diplomacy and Chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (O.S.C.E.) Nils Petersen, in which he says, among others, that the
Yugoslav side especially appreciates the clear stand by Gonzales that he is
not an arbiter and that he does not wish to arbitrate. "As a sovereign
country which is independently solving its interior affairs, we could not
have understood any other stand". In our opinion it is important, further
reads the letter, that the O.S.C.E. delegation established in its report
that the elections for local self-management bodies in general have made
possible the expression of the majoritarian will of the citizens of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Delegation has also determined that at the
elections in Serbia the candidates from the joint list of the Socialist
Party of Serbia, JUL (Yugoslav United Left) and New Democracy have obtained
the majority of people's votes at these elections. This has denied the
claims by some of the opposition parties, but also by one part of the
international public and media, that the elections for the bodies of the
local self-management in Serbia were annulled because, allegedly, these
opposition parties have won the elections". Minister Milutinovic further in
his letter states that the free multi-party elections in Serbia are most
fully confirming the strong democratic tradition and long experience in
construction of the stable democratic institutions in Serbia. "In our
opinion, the approach of Mr. Gonzales deserves support most of all because
in a constructive way it directs all the factors towards a tolerant
dialogue, a transparent discussion and solution of problems in a democratic
manner - for problems to be resolved within the institutions of the system",
states the Foreign Minister.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Borba, 1997-01-05
[02] STOP BREAKING-DOWN OF THE FEDERATION
Muslim presidency of the Municipality of Stolac requested from the leaders
of the Muslim-Croat Federation to finally undertake concrete steps in order
to stop immediately all those who are breaking down the Federation, reports
the Muslim Radio Sarajevo. In the area of Stolac Croats have continued to
demolish by mines houses and are burning down the abandoned Muslim houses,
which is brought in connection with the announced return soon of the exiled
owners, claims the same source. President of the Muslim Municipality of
Stolac, who is now in exile in the eastern part of Mostar, Mehmed Dizar,
states that such vandalous acts by the federal partners - Croats, are aimed
at intimidating the remaining 30 Muslim families whose houses have been
reconstructed and are ready for their moving in. He also accused both the
secular and spiritual leaders of the Bosnian Croats - Kresimir Zubak, Bozo
Rajic and Cardinal Vinko Puljic of saying one thing while allowing
something completely different to actually happen on the ground.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-01-06
[03] SHAMEFUL MESS IN THE CENTER OF ZAGREB
This what is today unthinkable in any country of Europe, did happen on the
New Year's Eve celebration in the very center of Zagreb - in the Catholic
church at Ban Jelacic Square - the service in memory and glory of "the
chief of the Independent State of Croatia Dr. Ante Pavelic", as announced
in the newspaper ads. Service was officiated by the Dominican priest
Vjekoslav Lasic, who was manifesting his devotion to the Ustashi movement
and its criminal leader Pavelic openly during his long years of emigration.
Fra Lasic was glorifying actually "on the Holy feast of innocent children"
the children's assassin Pavelic as "a great man who embodied life into the
Croat state". He also said, among other things, that the will for statehood
of the Croats came to the fore "under the holy name of the head of the
Ustashi movement", claiming also that if there had been no Independent
State of Croatia (NDH) there would neither be the present-day Croatia. This
political and cultural scandal of glorifying a criminal from the altar of
the church caused the reactions of many anti-Fascists who, not just by
chance, are pushed into the background in today's Croatia.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-01-04
[04] CROATS DEMAND ONE PART OF BRCKO
Croats do not intend to renounce on their demand to obtain one part of
Brcko, writes the Zagreb daily "Vjesnik" and quotes the chief of the
Municipality Ravne-Brcko, Mija Anic, who is underlining that for all
Bosnian Croats it is extremely important to obtain one part of this town in
the north of Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to him, the Croat side was
proposing for this city to be divided into three zones and that all the
three peoples obtain each one its own part. And while the representatives
of the Serbian side are recalling the Dayton Accords which are not
stipulating any division of Brcko and are warning that any international
arbitration having such an aim is out of the question, the Croats are more
and more fiercely and loudly demanding what does not belong to them.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Politika, 1997-01-06
[05] GREETINGS ON THE OCCASION OF THE GREATEST CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY
On the occasion of Christmas, the greatest Christian holiday, many
Christmas greetings were sent to His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle, to
the Holy Archierarcal Synod, to the clergy and faithful of the Serbian
Orthodox Church. Federal Prime Minister Dr. Radoje Kontic, Prime Minister
of the Republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic, Minister of Religion in the
Government of Serbia Dragan Dragojlovic, Federal Minister and Chairman of
the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities Zoran Bingulac and
others, have wished a Merry Christmas, and that this greatest family
holiday of joy and good will, a symbol of peace and understanding among
people, should bring into our homes and lives happiness, peace, harmony and
peace of mind. Serbia, as a democratic and prosperous country, that is what
we all need. We must all make efforts to construct it as such in peace,
understanding and tolerance, with the respect of political, ethnic and
religious differences among its citizens, state the Christmas greetings.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Politika, 1997-01-05
[06] 'TREPCA' - A LEADING EXPORT COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY
When the new management of the "Trepca" Company in February 1995 adopted
the program of revitalization of "Trepca", in which all the production
plants, except for the accumulator factory, were literally at a stand-still,
no one could believe that this industrial giant for production of lead and
zinc could so quickly start along the path of recovery and succeed in
becoming the leading exporter in the country. In September last year
production started also in the last of "Trepca's" organizational units -
the fertilizer factory, thus placing all the production plants in full
operation. From the commencement of the revitalization program, 1.5 percent
more of ore was excavated than planned. Otherwise, "Trepca" has merged all
the lead and zinc mines in Serbia and Montenegro, purchased the most modern
mining equipment from Sweden in the value of five million US dollars, and
in this year it is expected to have the second delivery of the mining
equipment in the value of some 15 million US dollars. Last year "Trepca"
exported on the foreign market its products in the value of 100 million US
dollars, thus becoming the biggest exporting company in the country.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Politika, 1997-01-05
[07] PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Program of economic policy of the Federal Government for this year, having
as priorities maintaining of the stability of the exchange rate of the
dinar and prices, growth of production, exports and standard of living of
population and structural-ownership transformation, is oriented towards the
creation of an open and export oriented economy. According to the
Government estimates, it is expected in this year that the growth of social
product of the country reaches up to 13 percent, which includes the
designed growth of industrial production up to 13.9 percent, agriculture of
6 percent and other activities of 15.7 percent. According to the Government
economic program estimates, the participation of public consumption will be
47.5 percent and the average real net incomes and retirement pensions
should be increased for 12 percent. These targets and quantitative
projections were conceived under the assumption that after lifting of
sanction, through an active policy and undertaking of concrete measures at
the international political and economic level, the status of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia will be regulated in the United Nations and in the
other international political, financial and trade organizations.
Furthermore, the support for increase of production and exports the
Government perceives also in the normalization of the economic and
political relations with the former Yugoslav republics, in strengthening of
the bilateral and multilateral relations and cooperation, in a stronger
venture into the radical reform processes, structural adjustment of economy,
privatization and sanation of banks.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-01-04
[08] HIGH LEVEL OF POLITICAL DIALOGUE
Deputy Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Zivadin Jovanovic, submitted on
Friday to the Chairman of the Permanent Council of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) Lars Vising the letter of the
chief of the Yugoslav diplomacy Milan Milutinovic, in which he is stating
the stands of the Yugoslav Government regarding the report by Felipe
Gonzales. Milutinovic's letter was submitted to the ambassadors of all the
O.S.C.E. member-countries as an official document. During the talks with
the high representatives of the O.S.C.E. not only the efficiency of the
Yugoslav response was praised, but also its constructive contents and
openness for a broader cooperation. At the meeting of Jovanovic in Vienna,
where the Permanent Council of the O.S.C.E. is in session, it was specially
emphasized that there is a practical implementation of the political
dialogue at the high level and a break-through in the relations between the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the O.S.C.E. Full mutual support and
interest were expressed for this dialogue to continue and it was pointed
out at the great contribution and the important role which Yugoslavia has
in the peace process and stabilization and development of cooperation in
the region, along the principles and targets of the O.S.C.E. Jovanovic
underlined the view of the Yugoslav authorities that the Gonzales report
succeeded on the international scene in "clarifying the situation", i.e. in
determining the truth about the part of results of the local elections in
Serbia. The need was underlined, parallel with consideration of the report
by Gonzales, to consider also the stands of the Yugoslav side. In this,
every possibility of arbitration or mediation on the interior Yugoslav
affairs is excluded, which can only be correctly and democratically solved
within the institutions of Serbia. Such an approach is guaranteeing full
respect of the expressed will of citizens.
Serbia Today, 1997-01-06 ; Borba, 1997-01-05
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