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Serbia Today, 96-10-01
Serbia Today
1 October 1996
CONTENTS
[01] REVIVAL OF COOPERATION BETWEEN USA AND YUGOSLAVIA
[02] SANCTIONS ARE FALLING
[03] FINANCING OF CHURCH PROJECTS
[04] TREPCA ACCUMULATORS IN RUSSIAN CARS
[05] BUNJEVCI - TO BE GRANTED STATUS OF PEOPLE
[06] JOINT INSTITUTIONS
[07] MUSLIMS MUST LEAVE
[08] "JOY OF EUROPE"
[09] LITIGATION INSTEAD OF AGREEMENT
[10] MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE OF THE AIESEC
[01] REVIVAL OF COOPERATION BETWEEN USA AND YUGOSLAVIA
For the first time after the disintegration of former
Yugoslavia, talks are being conducted at the high level on an
accelerated normalization of the relations between the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and the United States of America. Over the
last years cooperation between the two countries, especially in
the field of economy was almost dormant. The dialogue which
started last week with Warren Christopher was continued yesterday
by Milan Milutinovic with the Deputy Secretary of State Strob
Talbot and the second ranking official in the National Security
Council of the White House Samuel Berger. Milutinovic also had
a meeting with the distinguished senator from Indiana Richard
Lugan. (Politika, October 1, 1996)
[02] SANCTIONS ARE FALLING
The official spokesman of the State Department, Nicholas
Burns announced yesterday that the sanctions against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia , which were suspended last year, will be
very soon and formally lifted. Burns also said that "lifting of
sanctions is a question of days", underlining that the United
States will vote for such a decision at the session of the UN
Security Council, because "the conditions agreed in Dayton have
already been fulfilled".
(Politika, October 1, 1996)
[03] FINANCING OF CHURCH PROJECTS
Serbian Patriarch Pavle, within his several-day visit to
Cyprus, visited yesterday "Beogradska banka" together with the
Archbishop of Cyprus, His Excellency Chrisostom. On that
occasion, Patriarch Pavle especially thanked the Yugoslav-Cyprian
humanitarian fund established by the Beogradska banka COBY and
which had gathered over the past several years significant money
funds, besides material items, food and clothing for the refugees
from Krajina, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These moneys are
being distributed every months and also now as aid for children
who have lost their parents.
(Politika, October 1, 1996)
[04] TREPCA ACCUMULATORS IN RUSSIAN CARS
An agreement was signed in Moscow on the import of
accumulators manufactured in the "Trepca" Combine in the southern
Serbia. The value of this deal amounts to 4.3 million US dollars.
The total five-year export of accumulators from "Trepca" to
Russia with this agreement, has reached the amount of some 65
million dollars.
(Politika, October 1, 1996)
[05] BUNJEVCI - TO BE GRANTED STATUS OF PEOPLE
In the Republic of Serbia, Bunjevci will be granted the
status of people, because they are a people whose homeland is
Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, stated yesterday
in Subotica Dr. Ratko Markovic, Deputy Prime Minister of the
Republic of Serbia. Dr. Markovic underlined that the agreement
was reached putting a stop to all the past manipulations and
claims of the name and identity of Bunjevci and as a prevention
to all the attempts at assimilation and denial of their national
identity.
(Politika, October 1, 1996)
[06] JOINT INSTITUTIONS
Members of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina elected at
the elections of September 14, 1996, Alija Izetbegovic, Momcilo
Krajisnik and Kresimir Zubak had a meeting yesterday for the
first time and talked for the full three hours. The joint
institutions of Bosnia-Herzegovina will be formed and officially
inaugurated next Saturday in Sarajevo.
(Politika, October 1, 1996)
[07] MUSLIMS MUST LEAVE
The Commander of the Second American Brigade of the IFOR,
Colonel John Batista stated yesterday that Muslims who have on
September 20, 1996 illegally entered the village of Jusici near
Zvornik, must leave and return to the Muslim-Croat Federation.
"This is a violation of the Dayton Accords", said Batista during
his visit to the Public Security Center in Zvornik, confirming
that this group of Muslims is still armed.
According to the Reuters reports, however, maybe this is
just a cover for military activities, warned yesterday NATO. The
NATO source is saying: "I do not think that this is just by
chance that the return is being recorded near strategically
important areas...it is not a question of a direct military
action, which is forthcoming, but of something that will happen
in the future", he explains.
(Politika ekspres and Nasa borba, October 1, 1996)
[08] "JOY OF EUROPE"
Traditional children's event "Joy of Europe", after four
years, is again starting tomorrow. This gathering of youngsters
from Europe, which is being held for the 23rd time, is organized
on the occasion of the World Day of the Child. Children from 15
European countries will take part in the event.
(Vecernje novosti, October 1, 1996)
[09] LITIGATION INSTEAD OF AGREEMENT
With a lot of cynicism and hypocrisy, representatives of
Slovenia will appear this week at the session of the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. While
preparations are still going on for the conference on succession
- inheritance of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
Slovenia is not giving up on its lobbying against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and is by all means trying to get its
hands on the foreign exchange funds of the former Yugoslavia. To
this end, it has started litigation proceedings this summer
before the court of law in Cyprus, demanding the blockade of 146
million US dollars which are allegedly on the bank accounts of
the Belgrade Bank (Beogradska banka), and which allegedly again
belong to the fund of joint assets of the former National Bank
of the SFR of Yugoslavia. Similar request is also filed with the
French court for the blockade of assets of funds of the Franco-Yugoslav
Bank in Paris. Thus, instead of patience and an honest
agreement on succession, Slovenia is hectically filing charges
around the world, because it is clear to it that it will have to
pay its debt for the breaking down of former Yugoslavia.
(Vecernje novosti, October 1, 1996)
[10] MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE OF THE AIESEC
The Yugoslav organization of the International Association
of the Students of Economy and Management (AIESEC) will organize
from October 16 to 21, 1996 in Belgrade and on the Kopaonik
Mount, the International Conference on the achievements in the
field of economy, management and environment protection. It is
expected that the conference will be attended by over 100
students from 14 Mediterranean countries.
(Borba, October 1, 1996)
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