Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-01-17

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Yugoslav Daily Survey

CONTENTS

[01] PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC, PREMIER MARJANOVIC DISCUSS ECONOMIC CHANGES

[02] ATTACK ON PRISTINA UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR WAS ACT OF TERRORISM - JUDGE

[03] OSCE FOR DIALOGUE WITH FRY

[04] PROMOTION OF COOPERATION BETWEEN FRY AND BULGARIA

[05] MONTENEGRO PRESIDENT BULATOVIC CONFERS WITH RANKING GERMAN OFFICIAL

[06] YUGOSLAVIA WANTS TO REGULATE STATUS IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

[01] PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC, PREMIER MARJANOVIC DISCUSS ECONOMIC CHANGES

The Serbian Government and other institutions are working on adjusting economic legislation to the needs of effective economic activity and a speedy integration of the Yugoslav economy into world economic processes, and on defining solutions for structural and ownership changes. The Serbian Government has prepared a bill on ownership transformation.

The economic policy for 1997 is also based on reforms, just as a new package of labour legislation, it was set out in the talk, and noted that a reform of the banking system was a priority task.

Premier Marjanovic said talks were under way with a number of leading European and other foreign companies on them joining as partners major developmental and capital investment projects whose realization is at an advanced stage.

President Milosevic underscored the great importance of the up coming changes, and said the reforms would step up economic recovery and open prospects for stepped-up development, as major conditions of the country's stability.

Milosevic said the success the over all economic policy greatly depended on those responsible for the policy's implementation, at both the State, economic and financial levels, and called for an adequate reconstruction of the Government.

The safe guarding and strengthening of the country's political stability is of immense importance for Serbia, since confrontations effected by political differences inflict both political and great economic damage on the country and impede the attainment of developmental, economic and social goals, Milosevic said.

Political differences should not be the cause of any blockade in the economic and over all life, and political and party disputes should be resolved in a constructive and democratic fashion, in which the Government and its Ministries have a special role, Milosevic said in the meeting with Premier Marjanovic.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-16

[02] ATTACK ON PRISTINA UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR WAS ACT OF TERRORISM - JUDGE

Chancellor Radivoje Papovic and his driver Nikola Lalic were injured when a car bomb went off just as they were driving by in their official Audi car.

Pristina Magistrate Danica Maksimovic said that the explosion had taken place at 8:45 a.m. in a side-street in the Province's Capital Pristina, and that the bomb had been activated from a distance.

Papovic and Lalic have been seriously injured and both cars were wrecked. The blast damaged buildings in a 200-metre radius. The bomb left a crater 1.3 metres long and 0.7 m wide, and parts of the car bomb were scattered for metres in all directions, Maksimovic said. Investigation is in progress, she added.

Papovic has sustained an eye injury and has been flown to a Belgrade eye Clinic in the afternoon, after he and Lalic had been treated for head and body injuries and burns, Pristina surgical Clinic Administrator Andrija Tomanovic said in the evening.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-16

[03] OSCE FOR DIALOGUE WITH FRY

Petersen said in a speech in the OSCE Council that their door was wide open for dialogue, and that a dialogue was necessary between OSCE and the FRY.

He did not wish to speak about the letter sent by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, except that he exhorted the authorities and the opposition in the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia to start a dialogue.

The Danish Minister assessed at a press briefing in the afternoon, after the first part of the Council session, that Felipe Gonzales's report about municipal elections in Serbia represented 'OSCE's policy.'

Petersen pointed out that 'those who have won at the elections should obtain mandates.'

Asked by Tanjug's correspondent what the dialogue will be like with the FRY before it regains OSCE membership, which has been 'frozen' since June 1992, Petersen said that that issue will be reviewed later, but that it was not an obstacle for contacts and dialogue.

An OSCE statement issued Thursday evening and expressing the personal views of permanent Council Chairman Danish Ambassador Larsvissing hails the stance of Serbian Government.

Vissing's statement says that the permanent Council accepts there commendations of Gonzales's report.

The Permanent Council also underlined the importance of peaceful democratization process in Yugoslavia and reiterated the offer of dialogue.

The Council did not adopt any decision in Vienna. The statement only contains vissing's personal views. The Permanent Council adopts its decisions by consensus and its chairman usually issues his own conclusions if member-states fail or do not wish to reach consesus.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-16

[04] PROMOTION OF COOPERATION BETWEEN FRY AND BULGARIA

It was pointed out at the talks that parliametary links should constitute in the future the foundation stone and guarantee for the establishment of all forms of cooperation. It was assessed that relations between FR of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were important for comprehensive relations in the region.

Bozovic pointed out that the two countries, 'despite all current systemic and practical weeknesses,' have the conditions for more intense cooperation in all fields of the economy.

He said that the FRY was creating legal-institutional propositions for carrying out the process of transition in the economy and society as soon as possible and as fairly as possible and stressed that in the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro there were already direct benefits from privatization.

According to Bozovic, systemic regulations have been approved at the federal level - laws about ownership transformation, about firms and the tax system, and the Government of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia has announced intense privatization that will, he added, help intensify cooperation with neighbouring Bulgaria.

Ambassador Ispekov stressed that the building of a new society in Yugoslavia and in Bulgaria was possible only in conformity with international standards. Bulgaria, he said, is a country in transition towards a market economy.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-16

[05] MONTENEGRO PRESIDENT BULATOVIC CONFERS WITH RANKING GERMAN OFFICIAL

It was set out in the talk that the stabilization of the political situation in Serbia had given rise to optimism in the past few days and was an encouraging sign for further steps in the normalization of economic and overall Yugoslav-German relations.

Hass and Gruber were received also by Montenegro Premier Milo Djukanovic.

Both sides pointed up the mutual interest in the revival of mutual economic ties, especially in tourism and the realization of infrastructure projects.

The guests stressed Germany's interest in regaining its place as a leading foreign economic partner of Montenegro, within Yugoslavia.

They said the nature and pace of reforms in Monteegro and Montenegro's political stability were an incentive for the fulfillment of that goal.

The German side invited the Motenegro Premier soon to visit Bonn to that end.

The ranking German diplomats were received in separate visits also by Montenegro Foreign Minister Janko Jeknic and Minister of Science and Education Dragan Kujovic.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-16

[06] YUGOSLAVIA WANTS TO REGULATE STATUS IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

The Yugoslav Government took the decision at its session Thursday, at which it also defined a platform for the participation of Yugoslav experts in a plenary meeting of the Working Group for Succession of the Peace Implementation Council to be held in Brussels Jan. 22-23.

The Government defined the basic principles for consultations of experts on the preparing of an agreement on friendship and cooperation between Yugoslavia and Ukraine.

It approved platforms for negotiations with France and Slovakia on social insurance, with Greece on the avoidance of dual taxation, and with Cyprus on cooperation in the customs domain and on mutual assistance.

The Yugoslav Government approved a Bill on State Archives, which envisages that documents kept in the archives be made accessible to the public after specifieid periods, not longer than 30 years, begining with the year of the founding of the Archives.

The specified period can be up to 50 years long only if so envisaged under special regulations.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-17 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-16

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