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Serbia Today 96-09-18

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From: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>

Serbia Today

18 September 1996


CONTENTS

  • [01] YUGOSLAVIA HAS FULLY COMPLIED WITH ITS DAYTON CONDITIONS
  • [02] ACCELERATED REVIVAL OF PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS
  • [03] DEBT REPAYMENT - IN THE INTEREST OF BOTH YUGOSLAVIA AND ITS CREDITORS
  • [04] FULL REINTEGRATION INTO THE DEVELOPED WORLD
  • [05] SIX GOLD MEDALS FOR YUGOSLAVS
  • [06] PRELIMINARY ELECTIONS RESULTS ANNOUNCED
  • [07] POLISH PRESS ACCUSES THREATS BY ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC
  • [08] TOO MANY DANGEROUS EXCEPTIONS

  • [01] YUGOSLAVIA HAS FULLY COMPLIED WITH ITS DAYTON CONDITIONS

    Yugoslav representatives at the 96th Conference of the Interparliamentary Union which is being held in Beijing, called upon the participants of this gathering to help in lifting of sanctions against our country. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has in full complied with all of its conditions from the Dayton Agreement, is continuing to strive for its full implementation and is rightfully expecting concrete support of the international community for final lifting of sanctions against it, without any delay and additional conditions, as well as its return to the international organizations - said the President of the Chamber of Republics of the Federal Parliament (Assembly), Dr. Milos Radulovic at the plenary session. He and the other member of the Yugoslav delegation Miodrag Vukovic, have also pointed out at the grave effect of sanctions, especially in the field of human rights, to which this gathering of deputies from 133 countries of the world is devoted. Starting with the thesis that peace and development are mutually conditioned, Yugoslav representatives called upon the international community to give its contribution to the economic recovery of the entire area of former Yugoslavia. (Borba, September 18, 1996)

    [02] ACCELERATED REVIVAL OF PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS

    The central coordination team for economic recovery in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, analyzed economic trends over the past period and the anticipated trend until the end of this year. It was concluded that during the first eight months of this year positive economic trends were achieved, with the tendency of an accelerated revival of production and exports during the last months. Almost on half of the industrial branches has marked a two-figure production growth rate in respect to the last year, with extremely high growth rates in heavy metallurgy (326 percent), production of basic chemical products (67 percent), caoutchouc processing (43 percent), ship-building (42 percent) and production of light metals (23 percent). The central team is estimating that the strategic orientation on a radical increase of exports is the crucial task of the economy over the forthcoming period. To this end, all the available measures in enterprises must be undertaken in order to utilize internal reserves, through a rational organization and management, and in this way in all the fields and production phases to achieve the world level of quality and price of products. (Politika, September 18, 1996)

    [03] DEBT REPAYMENT - IN THE INTEREST OF BOTH YUGOSLAVIA AND ITS CREDITORS

    Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its creditors have the interest for the external debt to amount to as much as can be supported by the economic capacities of the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, stated the member of the Yugoslav delegation at the negotiations with the Paris and the London Club, Prof. Dr. Dragana Gnjatovic. In the talks about restructuring of our foreign debt which is forthcoming through the regulation of the membership of the FR of Yugoslavia in the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and in the negotiations with the Paris Club and the London Club, it is clear that Yugoslavia, because of enormous losses incurred by its economy during the sanctions, would not be able to support the burden of debt servicing under the same conditions under which debt was repaid before the eruption of crisis. The rearrangement of the debt, for which our country is striving, means also coordination of the burden of repayment with the capabilities of the country at the same time to service its imports, says this distinguished expert. According to the internationally accepted standards, for the foreign debt repayment not more than 18 to 20 percent of the foreign exchange inflow from the planned exports should be allocated. Any greater burden of repayment would bring us in debtors trap in which the SRF of Yugoslavia was finding itself from 1983 until 1989. Representatives of the commercial banks of the London Club in the negotiations so far with the Yugoslav delegation have actually respected this rule - that the economic capacity of the territory is the basis and guarantee of repayment of the state debt, says Dr. Dragana Gnjatovic. (TANJUG, September 18, 1996)

    [04] FULL REINTEGRATION INTO THE DEVELOPED WORLD

    President of the Executive Council of Vojvodina Bosko Perocevic inaugurated yesterday in Novi Sad the 33rd International Autumn Fair within which are also held the four fair exhibition: fair of food and mechanization, fair of mill and bakery industries and the fair of water management and fair of enterpreneurship. At these manifestations, over 500 exhibitors are talking part form the country and 40 companies from Austria, USA, Canada, France, Macedonia and 22 firms form Slovenia. "It is our basic orientation to have a continuous opening towards the world and integration in the international economic and financial trends, and it is our wish and intention to absorb all the positive achievements of the developed world in production, science, technology and to use the experiences of the developed countries", said Perocevic and added that full integration with the developed world is the basic prerequisite for further development of our country. (Politika, September 18, 1996)

    [05] SIX GOLD MEDALS FOR YUGOSLAVS

    Yugoslav inventors have won six gold medals at the Salon of Inventions East-West Intellect in Sofia. Further to the inventors from Belgrade, Novi Sad and other cities, at the Salon also took part firms "Knjaz Milos" from Arandjelovac, Belgrade "Srbolek" and Kragujevac ZIM. Mineral water "Knjaz Milos" was awarded a gold medal for quality and mark of origin. Gold medals were also awarded to Prof. Dr. Berislav Dimitrijevic for his medicinal-ergonomic pillow, engineer Ljubisa Mirkovic for the device against theft of cars, Dr. Dragutin Radovanovic for the device for drying of fruit, vegetable and medicinal plants and Predrag Pesovic for a perfected nautilus shower. (Politika, September 18, 1996)

    [06] PRELIMINARY ELECTIONS RESULTS ANNOUNCED

    Chief of the OSCE mission Robert Frowick announced yesterday in Sarajevo the preliminary election results for the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Alija Izetbegovic obtained slightly below 700.000 votes, Momcilo Krajisnik slightly above 500.000 votes and Kresimir Zubak 245.000 votes, according to the ballot papers counted so far. Frowick specified that until now some 80 percent of votes in the Federation have been counted and 79 percent of votes in the Republic of Srpska, from the total number of those who appeared at the polling stations. The final results, said Frowick, will be known today and less than three days from now a decision may be expected from the preliminary electoral commission which will proclaim elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina valid. (Politika ekspres, September 18, 1996)

    [07] POLISH PRESS ACCUSES THREATS BY ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC

    Polish press is expressing surprise at the threats by the Muslim Party of Democratic Action and its leader Alija Izetbegovic that, because of irregulations and some other generally known political reasons, they will not accept the electoral results in the Republic of Srpska. These threats and complaints, it is commented, are calculated at maintaining as long as possible the one-sided and one-party rule in the entire area and over all of the three peoples. The distinguished newspaper Gazette Viborcheg is stating that it clear that under these and such conditions neither Serbs nor Croats will live with the Muslim in Bosnia. The news paper is warning that Serbs and Croats will completely separate from Bosnia if the SDA and Izetbegovic are to have such an attitude towards the electoral results. After that for the Muslims in Bosnia the only thing left will be a spit of land, writes the newspaper. (Vecernje novosti, September 18, 1996)

    [08] TOO MANY DANGEROUS EXCEPTIONS

    Parliamentary deputy Milorad Pupovac at a press conference held yesterday in Zagreb, supported the adoption of the Law on General Amnesty in Croatia, but not the concrete text of the draft law which will be the subject of voting today in the House of Representatives. He recalled that the previous passing of this law was on of the significant conditions for the realization of the agreement on normalization of the relations between the FR of Yugoslavia and Croatia, but that such a proposed law is fact is a revision of the signed agreement. While the agreement specifically states the obligation for proclaiming amnesty for all crimes committed in respect to the armed conflicts, expect the war crimes, in the proposed law such a large maunder of crimes is being excepted from amnesty, that the very notion of the war crime is becoming completely relative and its true sense is being lost. Pupovac further states that also there is no foreseen revision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the War Crimes. The law on general amnesty as it is now proposed is narrowing down and revising the agreement on normalization and will not contribute to the mutual confidence building and elimination of effaces of the war, said Pupovac. (Politika, September 18, 1996)
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