Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-02-25

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Yugoslav Daily Survey

CONTENTS

[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES BOSNIA PRESIDENCY MEMBER KRAJISNIK

[02] HIGH DEGREE OF MEDIA FREEDOM IN KOSOVO

[03] KOSOVO AND METOHIJA IS INALIENABLE PART OF SERBIA

[04] MILENTIJEVIC AT WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

[05] GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES REPORTS OF U.N. HUMAN-RIGHTS RAPPORTEUR

[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES BOSNIA PRESIDENCY MEMBER KRAJISNIK

The talk covered issues of joint interest and the promotion of the mutual ties in keeping with the possibilities offered by the Dayton peace agreement.

It was established that a high concurrence of views exists on the joint interests in the development of the relations, and on the need for a permanent promotion of the mutual relations and joint undertaking of adequate measures and activities to that end.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-02-25 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-24

[02] HIGH DEGREE OF MEDIA FREEDOM IN KOSOVO

The US delegation said the goal of their visit was to learn about the situation regarding media, labour unions and other non-governmental organizations, the Kosovo - Metohija Information Center said in a statement.

The guests said they would in no way support any political party or its ideas, and offered help in professional training of journalists. Informing the delegation of the media situation in Serbia's southern Province of Kosovo - Metohija, provincial Information Secretary Bosko Drobnjak said that television and radio programs were broadcast in the languages of all nations and minorities, and that the first program in the world in Romany language went on air in Kosovo ten years ago.

There are 37 independent newspapers and periodicals in the Albanian language in Kosovo, which confirms that the existing law on information provides a high degree of media freedom, which will be raised even further with the proposed changes of the law, Drobnjak said.

The freedom of the press is one of the fundamental indications of full social democratization, Kosovo officials and US delegation concluded.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-02-25 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-24

[03] KOSOVO AND METOHIJA IS INALIENABLE PART OF SERBIA

The Kosovo and Metohija official stressed that all disputed issues must be resolved through dialogue, and pointed out that the national minorities in Yugoslavia had full rights in keeping with world standards. Terrorist attacks carried out on the police, ethnic Albanians loyal to the State of Serbia, and prominent Serbs were condemned in the meeting, the statement said.

It was set out that intensive work was under way on the implementation of the education agreement reached between Serbian authorities and ethnic Albanian representatives, as the first step in the normalization of relations and the situation in the province.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-02-25 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-24

[04] MILENTIJEVIC AT WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

The conference was attended by about 40 reporters from the most prominent U.S. papers and television stations, including the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the New York Times, the New York Post, Christian Science Monitor, the Associated Press News Agency, Reuters, Voice of America, and many foreign correspondents.

Milentijevic presented the key tasks of the Serbian Government in the area of the economy and the further democratization of social life.

Milentijevic singled out the devastating consequences of the sanctions and the efforts of the Republican Government to revive the severed processes as soon as possible, both in the area of privatization and in the general economic activities.

She said the Serbian Government was resolved to continue the further democratization of society. She announced a new law on information which would be modelled according to contemporary European solutions in this area.

Milentijevic gave concrete figures about the many opposition papers in Serbia, whose numbers far exceed the so-called Government papers.

To illustrate her statements, Milentijevic showed the press the latest editions of daily and weekly opposition papers. This was the best reply to a recent information printed in the Washington Post that the Belgrade opposition daily Nasa Borba was allegedly the one and only, the last, opposition paper in Serbia.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-02-25 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-25

[05] GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES REPORTS OF U.N. HUMAN-RIGHTS RAPPORTEUR

The Government adopted comments on the Rehn reports, which it will forward to the U.N. Human Rights Commission with a request that the comments be published as an official document of the Commission's 53d session, to be held in Geneva April 10-18.

The Yugoslav Government assessed that the Rehn reports pictured the situation more realistically than was the case in the earlier years.

The Government did point up, however, the presence of inadequately clearly presented facts, which it said could account for incorrect conclusions about the state of human and minority rights in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-02-25 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-24

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