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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-06-21
CONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES NEWLY-APPOINTED APOSTOLIC NUNCIO
[02] GREEK AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT
[03] YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT ADOPTS PROPERTY RELATIONS, ANTI-MONOPOLY LAWS
[04] NEW LAWS BRING CLOSER YUGOSLAV ECONOMY TO WORLD
[05] BULATOVIC HOPES FOR YUGOSLAVIA'S ADMISSION TO IMF BY END OF YEAR
[06] BRITISH FULL SUPPORT TO YUGOSLAVIA
[07] YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES CANADIAN OFFICIAL
[08] NO OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS IN YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN RELATIONS
[09] SERBS IN CROATIA DEMAND SPECIAL STATUS
[10] BILDT DENOUNCES MUSLIM AUTHORITIES FOR HARASSMENT OF SERBS
[11] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA: DAYTON AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTED SUCCESSFULLY
[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES NEWLY-APPOINTED APOSTOLIC NUNCIO
B e l g r a d e, June 20 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic received on Thursday the
Vatican's newly-appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia Msgr Santos Abril y Castello. Abril y Castllo
handed to Lilic his credentials by which Pope John Paul appointed him to the post.
[02] GREEK AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT
B e l g r a d e, June 20 (Tanjug) - President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Lilic
received Thursday the newly-appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Greece
Panayotis Vlassopoulos. Vlassopoulos presented his credentials to President Lilic, by which the President
of the Republic of Greece Kostis Stefanopoulos appointed him to the post.
[03] YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT ADOPTS PROPERTY RELATIONS, ANTI-MONOPOLY LAWS
B e l g r a d e, June 20 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Parliament's Lower House on Thursday adopted a
number of systemic laws, including the Law on Property Relations and the Anti-Monopoly Law.
The Law on Basic Property Relations envisages that foreigners who work in Yugoslavia may acquire
immovable property they need for their work, on condition of reciprocity. A foreigner who does not work in
Yugoslavia may get the right to own an apartment or a residential building in Yugoslavia, also on condition
of reciprocity.
The Anti-Monopoly Law defines the operations and acts of companies, which by abusing their monopoly
positions and signing monopoly contracts, violate competition and create disturbances on the market. The
law envisages the setting up of an anti-monopoly commission, which will determine criteria for establishing
the companies' dominant positions and assess the existence of monopoly contracts.
[04] NEW LAWS BRING CLOSER YUGOSLAV ECONOMY TO WORLD
B e l g r a d e, June 20 (Tanjug) - A series of laws in the economy, adopted by the federal
Parliament, brings closer the Yugoslav economy to the world, federal Deputy Prime Minister Jovan Zebic told
Radio Yugoslavia thursday.
Laws on Firms, Privatization and Foreign Investments will secure market conditions and equality of
all forms of ownership, he added. Zebic stressed that it has been made possible for the economy now to
organize itself on economic principles, and the free movement of foreign capital in the country.
He assessed that, with the already adopted Laws on Free Zones and Stock Exchanges, the new series
of economic laws is complete and compatible with laws in European Union member countries. The bringing of
these laws comes within the economic strategy of the federal Government, for whom the return of yYgoslavia
into international financial and trade organizations is one of the priority objectives, Zebic said.
Talks with the International Monetary Fund and the Paris Club of creditors have already started,
and talks will be held these days with the London Club and the World Trade Organization, Zebic specified.
At the same time, direct talks are held with foreign banks on the establishment of payment operations and
unfreezing of our assets, he specified.
[05] BULATOVIC HOPES FOR YUGOSLAVIA'S ADMISSION TO IMF BY END OF YEAR
M i l o c e r, June 20 (Tanjug) - The return of Yugoslavia to the International Monetary Fund can
be expected realistically by the end of the year, Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic said on Thursday.
Speaking at an annual Conference of Yugoslav Economists, Bulatovic said a positive outcome of
political events would enable the Yugoslavia to return to international financial organizations. 'Our entire
diplomatic activity is directed at the return of Yugoslavia to international institutions and
organizations,' he said.
Bulatovic answered in the negative when asked whether the lifting of the sanctions against
Yugoslavia were conditioned on the turning over of Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic and Army Commander Mladic
to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague. He said the only condition for the lifting of the sanctions was
an end to elections in Bosnia.
[06] BRITISH FULL SUPPORT TO YUGOSLAVIA
L o n d o n, June 20 (Tanjug) - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has full British support for its
reintegration into international economic and financial trends and Great Britain is ready to extend its
support through direct cooperation between the two countries, federal Trade Minister Djorcje Siradovic said
Thursday.
He said that the reception of the Yugoslav delegation in London was extremely friendly.
The organization of the visit, Siradovic said, went beyond the usual protocol, affirming British
interest that economic relations with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia transcend usual economic ties.
Siradovic especially pointed to the seminar on the economic possibilities of Serbia and Montenegro
and to meetings with Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Oppenheim, and with State Minister in the
Foreign Office Sir Nicholas Bonsor.
London, Siradovic said, was chosen to be the first within the diplomatic and economic offensive of
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in European Union.
[07] YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES CANADIAN OFFICIAL
B e l g r a d e, June 20 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic on Thursday
received Canadian Deputy Minister for Immigration Janice Cochrane. Bulajic and Cochrane discussed some
concrete issues in the field of bilateral relations and expressed interest in their further promotion.
[08] NO OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS IN YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN RELATIONS
S k o p j e, June 20 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Macedonia Zoran Janackovic said Thursday
that there were no outstanding problems in relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the
Republic of Macedonia, and that he hoped it would remain so.
After arriving, Janackovic said that he was coming to macedonia with 'determination to develop the
two countries's relations in peace and cooperation, in accordance with the universal principles of equality,
non-interference, respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity, on the basis of mutual interests, as
close and friendly peoples, good neighbours and equal states.'
Janackovic said that the two sides would work in the coming period on a package of legal and other
documents, as envisaged under the cooperation agreement that the two countries signed last April.
SREM - BARANJA REGION
[09] SERBS IN CROATIA DEMAND SPECIAL STATUS
D a lj, June 20 (Tanjug) - The Assembly of the Serb area of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western
Srem adopted on Thursday a declaration asking the international community to secure a special status for
the area within Croatia and to extend the mandate of the UNTAES for another year. The text of the
declaration has been sent to UNTAES.
The Assembly said the move was prompted by objective, historical, geographic and ethnic motives and
that Croatia's statement that it would respect obligations on a special status for certain parts of its
territory with absolute or relative Serb majority had been decisive for the EU recognition of Croatia.
The declaration said that the area should be demilitarized indefinitely and that its citizens should
be exempted from military service.
In the declaration, the Serbs asked the right to adopt laws regulating crucial issues for their life
in the territory. The area should have the right to have local and municipal self-rule, to have its own
flag, anthem and symbols. Citizens should have double nationality. The area should collect local taxes and
have its own budget. The area should participate in local police in line with the national structure of the
population. The Serbs seek the right to have schools with languages used by local peoples and to adopt human
rights laws in keeping with international norms. The declaration said that the area should have its own
local media.
The declaration said that the UNTAES mandate should be prolonged because of the vindictive stand
visible in everyday statements made by Croatian leaders and materialized in the selective Croatian amnesty
law for Serbs which was adopted in contravention of internatinal standards.
ON SARAJEVO
[10] BILDT DENOUNCES MUSLIM AUTHORITIES FOR HARASSMENT OF SERBS
B e l g r a d e, June 20 (Tanjug) - International community's High Representative for Bosnia Carl
Bildt criticized on Thursday Muslim authorities in Sarajevo for the harassment of the few remaining Serbs
in the city.
'We condemn the beating and harassment of Serbs in Sarajevo suburbs,' Reuters quoted Colum Murphy,
a Spokesman for Carl Bildt, as saying to reporters. 'This must stop immediately and we think that Sarajevo
should be an example to the rest of Bosnia,' Murphy said. 'We also ask where at his moment is the official
voice of multi-ethnic Sarajevo', he added.
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
[11] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA: DAYTON AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTED SUCCESSFULLY
P al e, June 20 (Tanjug) - The Republika Srpska Government said on Thursday that it had successfully
realized all of its obligations from the Dayton agreement and decided to continue implementing it.
The Government said that the Republika Srpska interests had to be taken care of in the further
implementation of the agreement, which had to be consistent and not 'according to the free interpretation
of those who are trying to impose an even less favourable solution for the Republika Srpska.'
The Government decided that its organs and institutions assist Republika Srpska representative in
an Arbitration Commission Vitomir Popovic and his team in the arbitration in the zone of delimitation
between the two Bosnian entities near the town of Brcko on the sava river. Republika Srpska representatives
say that the subject of the arbitration is the widening of the corridor near Brcko, which links the eastern
and western Republika Srpska, and federation representatives say that the subject of the arbitration is the
town itself.
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