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Serbia Today, 97-03-14
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] TALKS BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE SLOVAK AMBASSADOR
[02] MUSLIMS HAVE KILLED SLAVKO SUBOTIC
[03] CROATS PUBLISH THE LIST OF MASS GRAVES OF SERBS
[04] NOT ALL CONDITIONS ARE FULFILLED FOR THE ELECTIONS
[05] TOURIST PERMIT FOR SERBIA
[06] YET ANOTHER ADMISSION OF THE EMBARGO VIOLATION
[07] PRIMARY INTEREST OF YUGOSLAVIA IS THE RETURN OF REFUGEES
[08] PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION OF KOSMET ECONOMY
[09] TALKS ON INVESTMENTS BY 'BALI' COMPANY IN OUR ECONOMY
[10] REFORMS ARE GETTING SERBIA CLOSER TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
[11] DIALOGUE FOR THE START
[01] TALKS BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE SLOVAK AMBASSADOR
Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic received
yesterday the Ambassador of Slovakia in Yugoslavia, H.E. Miroslav Mojcita.
During the talks on cooperation between Slovakia and Serbia, it was jointly
stated that contracting of deals should start as soon as possible between
the two economies. Prime Minister Marjanovic underlined that the initiative
of the Chambers of Economy of Serbia and Slovakia is very useful for having
as soon as possible the visit of the Slovak businessmen to Serbia, which is
now being prepared, in order to conclude concrete deals and business
arrangements. Special attention during the talks was devoted to the
experiences from the process of privatization in Slovakia. Prime Minister
Marjanovic and Ambassador Mojcita agreed that the cooperation between
Slovakia and Serbia is also extremely good in the fields of culture,
science and education and stated that the Slovak minority in Yugoslavia
always represented a bridge of mutual understanding and cooperation.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Politika, 1997-03-14
[02] MUSLIMS HAVE KILLED SLAVKO SUBOTIC
The UN press officer in Tuzla Andre Annelli, announced yesterday in Doboj
that a group of 30 Bosnian Muslims on March 1, 1997 "with sticks and other
solid objects beat up a Serb Slavko Subotic, 80 years old from the village
of Porjecani near Visoko, who died of the injuries so caused last Thursday
in a Sarajevo hospital". The deceased Slavko with his wife Marica went from
his village to the cemetery in the village of Crkrcice, and on the road was
met by a group of Muslims. Annelli stated that among the attackers were
also women and children. The group of Muslim extremists, states Annelli,
last Friday in the Ozren village of Krtovo in the separation zone between
the Republic of Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation set on fire three
houses of Serbs who were intending to return to this village, which after
the Dayton Accords, in one part remained in the Federation.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Politika, 1997-03-14
[03] CROATS PUBLISH THE LIST OF MASS GRAVES OF SERBS
The result of the meeting between the Yugoslav and Croat commission for
missing persons, held in Zagreb on March 6 and 7, 1997 is the arrival of
the lists of locations where Serbs are buried, who have perished in the
military actions "The Storm" and "The Lightening". Lists of identified
Serbian victims have been known to families even earlier, but this time
documentation submitted designates where the identified and where the
unidentified persons are buried. Serbian victims in "The Lightening" are
buried in 18, and those killed in "The Storm" in 38 mass graves. According
to this report, most of them are in Knin (208) and Gracac (144).
Documentation and information center of Krajina "Veritas" in Belgrade
obtained 38 new protocols on Serbs killed in the area of Western Slavonia
in the aggression "The Lightening" (with photographs of bodies,
dactyloscopy, description of clothes, footwear and personal items found
with the deceased). Serbs are buried in several places. Most of them are
buried in Okucani, and three new Serbian graves have appeared also at the
largest Serbian execution ground of the World War Two in Jasenovac.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-14
[04] NOT ALL CONDITIONS ARE FULFILLED FOR THE ELECTIONS
President of the joint committee for the elections in Eastern Slavonia,
Onophri Dos Santos stated that for voting at the forthcoming elections on
April 13, 1997 until now one third of persons applied with the voting
right. He announced that over 60,000 Croats who had escaped from the region
into other parts of Croatia, has already registered for voting and warned
that by refusing to register in the voting lists Serbs in the region are
missing the chance to make possible for some Serbian party to win in those
municipalities where Serbs are majoritarian population. Vice President of
the Executive Council of the Srem and Baranja region Milos Vojinovic stated
that the regional assembly will give its opinion about participating at the
elections when it is estimated that all the conditions have been fulfilled
for these elections. Great dissatisfaction is being caused by the fact that
the question of voting of Serbs from Croatia has not been resolved for
those Serbs who have found refuge in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
the Republic of Srpska, then with the way in which electoral units were
designated in the region and the Croat Government was accused of
selectively issuing documents.
The decision to participate at the election will depend on how much and
what kind of guarantees are given to Serbs by the international community
after the expiry of the UNTAES mandate, stated President of the Executive
Council Vojislav Stanimirovic. He called upon Serbs from this region not to
abandon their homes, because "all the struggles make sense only if Serbs
are to stay".
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Politika, 1997-03-14
[05] TOURIST PERMIT FOR SERBIA
At the just adjourned International Tourist Exchange in Berlin, the
greatest world exhibition of tourism, at which over six and a half thousand
exhibitors were present from 177 countries, there was a successful
presentation of the tourist organizations from Yugoslavia and Serbia. "We
can be satisfied with what we have shown and achieved at this fair", says
Dr. Jovan Popesku, Director of the Tourist Organization of Serbia, which
was the organizer of our stand in Berlin. German visitors were especially
interested in the so-called tourist permit for Serbia, i.e. a special
document which the foreign tourist can obtain at the Yugoslav border
crossing. This permit is valid for 30 days and refers to the transit
through Serbia, but also allows its holder a one-month stay in the country
and its user does not need a visa for entry into the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, says Popesku. Further to the Tourist Organization, also the
other organizations from the country took part at this tourist fair(JAT,
Putnik, Tourist Organization of Belgrade and others), which are satisfied
with many contacts and their venture in Berlin and are awaiting good
results.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Borba, 1997-03-14
[06] YET ANOTHER ADMISSION OF THE EMBARGO VIOLATION
The U.S. Administration has silently approved supply of Iranian armament
for the Muslims in Bosnia in 1994, when the UN embargo on the arms sales in
the territory of former Yugoslavia was in force, so that the "shaky" Muslim-
Croat federation would be saved. The latest in the series of similar
admissions arrives these days from the candidate for the director of the
American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Antony Lake. It is to be
expected that at least Lake's admission should have some broader
repercussions.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Borba, 1997-03-14
[07] PRIMARY INTEREST OF YUGOSLAVIA IS THE RETURN OF REFUGEES
Primary interest of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is the return of
refugees to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and integration in this area
can be done only to the extent to which the financial aid will be arriving
from the world. This was stated by the spokesman of the Commissariat for
Refugees of Serbia Aleksandar Radovanovic. According to him, such a stand
will be taken by the Yugoslav delegation at the forthcoming regional
meeting of the commissioners and ministers of refugees from Croatia, from
both entities of Bosnia-Herzegovina and from the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, which is to be held in Geneva on March 19, 1997. "Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia has accepted the regional approach in finding of
lasting solutions for refugees from the region of former Yugoslavia.
Primary lasting solution is the return of refugees, then the departure into
the third countries of those who are not having the place to return to and
only at the end integration of the refugees and exiled persons in the local
environment", said Radovanovic. He underlined that it is unacceptable for
certain international humanitarian organizations (World Food Bureau or
Humanitarian Bureau of the European Union) to announce termination of their
programs in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, when the realization of the
lasting solutions in the FR of Yugoslavia has not even started. Yugoslav
side will especially insist for the UN High Commissariat for Refugees
(UNHCR) which was after Dayton given the primary role in repatriation of
refugees, to be much more agile in the return of Serbs to Croatia.
Regarding the repatriation to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Yugoslav side is of
the view that financial investments in the reconstruction of the Republic
of Srpska are the necessary prerequisites for the return of refugees.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-03-14
[08] PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION OF KOSMET ECONOMY
Although the economy of Kosovo and Metohija lately is showing a certain
progress in development, nevertheless it may be stated that the situation
in this region is still burdened by problems which are very difficult to
solve. This conclusion was made by the experts of the Republican Institute
for Development who were entrusted by the Government of the Republic of
Serbia with the task of drafting the program of economic and financial
consolidation of the Kosmet economy. There was a detailed evaluation of the
state of facts in 47 of the largest Kosmet companies, with the exception of
the public enterprises which are not covered by this analysis. Kosmet is
rich in many natural resources, it has a broad range of various industrial
capacities which are capable, with certain support, of achieving a high
level of production. Priority in receiving assistance should be given most
of all to those export oriented enterprises which can easily place their
products and in this way rather quickly make a return on the invested funds,
says Nebojsa Backovic, member of the Presidency of the Chamber of Economy
of Kosovo and Metohija. The importance of economic and financial
consolidation of the economy of Kosmet is in the creation of the new
structure of economy of this area, but also of the entire republic. This
also means one step closer to the rounding up of the entire economic system
of Serbia. In this direction in the Republican Institute programs are
drafted for the faster development of the 15 least developed municipalities
in the republic, eight of them located in Kosmet.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Borba, 1997-03-14
[09] TALKS ON INVESTMENTS BY 'BALI' COMPANY IN OUR ECONOMY
Minister of Health Care in the Government of the Republic of Serbia
Leposava Milicevic received yesterday delegation of the British company
"Bali", one of the major trading houses engaged in trade of steel, light
metal, minerals, raw materials and chemicals. During the talks with the
delegation headed by the President Vahid Alaghband, there was talk of the
investments of this firm which is the business partner of the Smederevo
"Sartid", into the health care of Serbia. Minister Milicevic informed the
guests of the problems with which our country was faced during the time and
after lifting of the UN sanctions and expressed her satisfaction for the
engagement of this company in assisting our health care and our country.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-03-14
[10] REFORMS ARE GETTING SERBIA CLOSER TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
The forthcoming economic reforms in Serbia, and especially the new law on
ownership transformation of the social capital will get the economy of our
Republic closer to the economic trends of European Union and will
facilitate access to the financial institutions. This was stated during the
talks between the republican Minister for Economic and Ownership
Transformation Milan Beko and the British Ambassador in Belgrade Ivor
Roberts. There was talk of the technical, financial and professional
assistance of the British Government in the preparation for the economic
reforms in Serbia, in view of the rich experience of the English
consultative houses in the realization of similar jobs in several of the
European countries in transition. Ambassador Roberts especially expressed
interest in the basic principles of privatization which will be applied in
the new law.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Politika, 1997-03-14
[11] DIALOGUE FOR THE START
The first draft of the Law on Public Information elaborated by the
republican Ministry of Information, is a good basis for making a good and
lasting law, by incorporating joint forces and through the debate that will
involve the entire Serbia. This is the main comment of all the participants
in the panel discussion (representatives of the Government of the Republic
of Serbia, deputy clubs of the Socialist Party of Serbia, New Democracy,
Democratic Community of Vojvodina Hungarians and "December 1st"), held last
night in the National Assembly of Serbia. While elaborating on the draft
version of the law, Minister of Information Prof.Dr. Radmila Milentijevic
said that in the new law achievements of the same laws from the countries
of Western Europe have been incorporated, and that this is yet another
attempt at getting closer to the world. Three basic elements which served
as the point of departure while drafting the law, according to Minister
Milentijevic, are the Constitution of Serbia and its basic assumption on
the freedom of speech and opinion, stands of the Ministerial Conference in
Prague on the policy of media and, finally, assumptions on privatization,
"where we have taken as the model France and Italy". This law is an
important step towards de-regulation, providing freedom of press without
censorship, abolishing monopoly, and giving the right to journalists to
pass themselves their code of journalistic ethics. In the call upon all the
citizens to take part in the dialogue about the new law, Minister
Milentijevic said: "We want the final version of the law to be our
collective thought - the mirror of Serbia". The next session devoted to the
new law on information is scheduled for next Thursday.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-14 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-14
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