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Serbia Today 96-09-04
Serbia Today
4 September 1996
CONTENTS
[01] THE SERBIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVED THE POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER
[02] THREE DOCUMENTS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF YUGOSLAV-POLISH RELATIONS HAVE BEEN SIGNED
[03] COMPLETE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REHABILITATION OF YUGOSLAVIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIN
[04] NO CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND FR YUGOSLAVIA
[05] WATTS' PROPOSAL ON SUCCESSION DOES NOT LEAD TO A SOLUTION
[06] NO REASON FOR THE DEVALUATION OF THE DINAR
[07] YUGOSLAV DAY AT THE FAIR
[08] IZETBEGOVIC'S CAMPAIGN MARKED BY ISLAMISM
[01] THE SERBIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVED THE POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic received the Polish
Foreign Minister - Mr. Dariusz Rosati, who is currently on an
offcial visit to Yugoslavia. During a cordial and open conversation
the interest for the comprehensive development of bilateral
relations has been stressed by both side,as well as the fact that
Poland and Yugoslavia have had a long tradition of stable and god
relations. It has also been stressed that a continuous political
dialogue should be established and business ties between the
companies from the two countries should be intensifed. Interest has
been expressed to renew the work of the joint committee and the
various boards for bilateral cooperation in trade, tourism,
agriculture,telecommunications, machinery industry, chemical
industry and other industrial sectors. During the talks, particular
attention has been devoted to the most important international
issues and the Yugoslav efforts to help the stabilization of the
relations and the situation in the Balkan region.
(Politika, September 4,1996)
[02] THREE DOCUMENTS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF YUGOSLAV-POLISH RELATIONS HAVE BEEN SIGNED
After the talks that Federal foreign Minister Milan
Milutinovic had with his Polish colleague - Dariusz Rosati, the
Yugoslav Foreign Ministry issued a communique indicating that prime
attention has been dedicated to the need to deepen the political
dialogue and the traditionally good bilateral cooperation between
the two countries. A concrete contribution to such efforts on
behalf of the two governments has been given by the two ministers
that signed two agreements: One on the mutual promotion and
protection of investments, a two year program on cultural and
educational cooperation, and a Protocol on the cooperation of the
two foreign ministries. The two high offcials also exchanged notes
on the liberalization of the visa regime, and indicated the
determination to accelerate the efforts to normalize air, rail and
road transports and telecommunications. Quite soon agreements on
trade cooperation, on the prevention of double taxation and the one
on the renewal of the joint committee for scientific and trade
cooperation will be also signed.
(Politika, September 4,1996)
[03] COMPLETE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REHABILITATION OF YUGOSLAVIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIN
The agreement on the return of the ethnic Albanian children
and teachers to the regular schooling system in Kosovo and
Metohija, signed by Serbian President Milosevic and Ibrahim Rugova,
is interpreted as an important step towards the final stabilization
of the situation and an anticipation of the settlement of the
years-long tension in this part of Serbia and Balkans. TANJUG
correspondents throughout the world report that this news has been
given major publicity, and that diplomatic circles remind that this
is part of the efforts to settle the internal Serbian, i.e.
Yugoslav problem. The French state radio commentator stresses that
the agreement has no political connotations, but creates the
conditions for a stronger role of Belgrade in the efforts to
stabilize the situation in the Balkans. France has indicated in a
number of offcial statements that the state of things in Kosovo
should be normalized, clearly pointing out that the definite
solution of all problems should be based on the internationally
recognized Serbian borders. The London "Financial Times" remarks
that thee initiative to normalize life in the province of Kosovo
and Metohija is part of a comprehensive political and economic
return of Yugoslavia into the international community. British
diplomatic circles underscore that Kosovo and Metohija is part of
the state territory of Serbia and FRY, and that, within this
framework, the return of ethnic Albanian students to state schools,
represents an exceptional step within the resolute efforts to
settle internal state problems with negotiations promoted by the
competent authorities. Various western diplomatic circles in Geneva
remark that by placing his signature on the document "eliminated
the last "joker" for certain international factors, that
persistently tried to use Kosovo as an argument for postponing the
final lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, in spite of all
that FRY had done during the peace process."
Commenting the agreement on the reintegration of ethnic
Albanian children into public education in Kosovo, the offcial
representative of the EU Commissioner for foreign affairs told the
TANJUG correspondent that the EU stand regarding Kosovo is that
this is an internal question for Serbia and Yugoslavia to solve.
Any rapprochement between the Yugoslav authorities and the ethnic
Albanians in FRY contributes to the reduction of the tensions in
this part of Europe - added the same EU offcial.
(TANJUG, September 4, 1996)
[04] NO CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND FR YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic and his Macedonian
colleague Branko Crvenkovski agreed that the first visit of the
Yugoslav state delegation to Skoplje opens a new chapter in the
relations between the two countries. Both sides agreed that the
relations between FR Yugoslavia and Macedonia should evolve in the
spirit of the traditional friendship between the two neighboring
nations. It has been underlined that the ties between the two
countries were not interrupted even during the period of sanctions
against FR Yugoslavia, and that this fact created the good grounds
for the prospective evolution of bilateral relations. During his
visit to Macedonia, along with offcial talks Dr. Kontic took part
in a major meeting between Yugoslav and Macedonian businessmen. He
underlined that "..there are no open issues obstructing the
cooperation between the two countries in all spheres" and announced
that during his visit six bilateral agreements will be signed, and
that thee details for the seventh agreement on trade are being
finalized.
(Borba, September 4,1996)
[05] WATTS' PROPOSAL ON SUCCESSION DOES NOT LEAD TO A SOLUTION
In view of its character and contents the Memorandum on
succession prepared by the international mediator Sir Arthur Watts
- within the framework of the Office of the international community
representative Carl Bildt - does not offer adequate solutions to
settle the relations between FR Yugoslavia and the new states from
the former Yugoslav federation, since it ignores the interests of
our country. With this basic stand about the Memorandum, the
Yugoslav delegation for succession will go to Brussels, where the
next round of negotiations between Sir Watts and the delegations
of FRY and former Yugoslav republics are due to begin tomorrow. Our
delegation remarks that the draft Memorandum prejudices the
contents of the future agreement in all the essential aspects,
although it has been anticipated as a mere negotiating phase to
defne the principles on which future activities will be based.
Prejudicing future solutions, the Memorandum ignores the principle
that what was once a joint investment should be divided
proportionally, nor does the document advocate a just distribution.
The inevitable conclusion is that the Memorandum renounces to the
option of division of assets through negotiations. The document
even envisages that a foreign central bank is to supervise and
manage the foreign currency and gold bullion reserves until the
negotiation process is completed and that the implementation of
this mechanism is to be supervised by the UN Security Council.
However, no international documents grant any authorization to the
Security Council regarding succession. On the contrary, the
Security Council Resolution on the suspension of the sanctions
against our country stresses the need to reach the settlement
through negotiations, reminds the Yugoslav delegation. Essentially,
our delegation remarks that the Memorandum ignores completely the
Yugoslav interests.
(Politika, September 4, 1996)
[06] NO REASON FOR THE DEVALUATION OF THE DINAR
There is no reason to devaluate the dinar, stated Mr. Bozidar
Gazivoda - Deputy Governor of the Yugoslav central bank, dismissing
allegations that the devaluation of the Yugoslav national currency
is being prepared. "The monetary stability that we have witnessed
in the past several months, implemented by a tight control of all
monetary parameters, and the increase of foreign currency reserves
are the prime arguments in the defense of the existing exchange
rate of the dinar." - said Deputy Governor Gazivoda. The recent
contacts our state delegations had with the World Bank, the IMF,the
London and Paris creditors' clubs, indicate that the conditions for
the return of Yugoslavia to the financial world are being
progressively improved, i.e. that our country will be allowed to
partake in international trade and financial transactions without
any limitations. Recent speculations about devaluation have no
economic justifications and are merely designed to create political
havoc - added Mr. Gazivoda.
(Politika Ekspres, September 4,1996)
[07] YUGOSLAV DAY AT THE FAIR
At the Agricultural fair in Gedelou (Hungary) - one of the
oldest and most reputable venues of this kind in Europe, the
Yugoslav products day was staged yesterday. After a fve year pause
due to international sanctions against FR Yugoslavia,
representatives of the Institute for Vegetables, Institute for
Maize, "Soja-protein", "Rubin", "Takovo", "Kosovo vino", "Aleva",
BIP, "Fidelinka" and the Yugoslav Chamber of Economy opened stands
at the fair. The visitors had the opportunity to see the potentials
of the Yugoslav agriculture and exports, even though the effects
of the sanctions are still visible. Yugoslav representatives at the
fair made preliminary business agreements with Hungarian firms, as
well as the cooperation that will allow the joint appearance on
third markets.
(Vecernje Novosti, September 4,1996)
[08] IZETBEGOVIC'S CAMPAIGN MARKED BY ISLAMISM
The elections campaign of the Bosnian Moslem leader obviously
isn't intended to remove the fear of those that believe he still
wants to establish his Islamic state in Bosnia, says the New York
Times in its yesterday's edition. Last weekend, the NYT reporter
attended one of Izetbegovic's elections rallies, staged near
Sarajevo, where verses from the Koran were read, Allah was invoked
and threats were addressed to the Republic of Srpska. "The most
explicit detail from that particular rally was the presence of the
Iranian Ambassador on the stage, next to Izetbegovic himself, says
the American reporter. "The presence of the Iranian Ambassador, the
only foreign diplomat there, gave an Islamic characteristic to the
entire venue, which is something that the American and European
friends of the Sarajevo government will not be able to ignore." -
states he article. The same daily quotes a western diplomat with
major experience in the Balkans:
"Izetbegoovic's objective is to establish an Islamic state in
Bosnia and the Bosnian Serbs and Croats understand that better than
us. If you read what Izetbegovic wrote on this issue, you will
realize that he is undoubtedly an Islamic fundamentalist."
(Vecernje Novosti, September 4,1996)
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