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Serbia Today, 97-03-26
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] SOON THE SECOND DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON INFORMATION
[02] NEW TESTIMONIES ON MUSLIM CRIMES
[03] 8,000 BOSNIAN CROATS RELOCATED TO KNIN
[04] AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ON THE SITUATION IN CROATIA
[05] PATRIARCH PAVLE SENDS MESSAGE TO SERBS IN SREM AND BARANJA REGION
[06] NO DECISION ABOUT TAKING PART AT THE ELECTIONS
[07] IVKOVIC: EVERYONE WHO WANTS PROFIT CAN INVEST HERE
[08] ASSEMBLY OF HUMANITARIANS - IMMIGRANTS AND OUR CITIZENS ABROAD
[09] THE LAW IS JUST AND COMPREHENSIVE
[10] IN THE GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA CONSULTATIONS BEGIN WITH POLITICAL PARTIES
ABOUT THE DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION
[01] SOON THE SECOND DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON INFORMATION
The role of media in the electoral process was the topic of the fifth
session of the panel which was held last night in the National Assembly
within the framework of the public debate on the first draft version of the
Law on Information. The debate was attended by the representatives of the
Socialist Party of Serbia, of the New Democracy, Democratic Community of
Vojvodina Hungarians and the deputy club December 1st. It was concluded
that the past debate should be the working platform for further discussions
about this topic, and it was said that the second draft version of the
proposed Law on Public Information will appear soon. From the session the
invitation was sent to the representatives of the parliamentary opposition
parties to join in the work of the panel.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26
[02] NEW TESTIMONIES ON MUSLIM CRIMES
Before the grand jury (judicial council) of the Municipal Court of Banja
Luka, Slavko Jovicic was testifying yesterday, one of the crown witnesses
in the trial against the Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic, who is charged
with the indictment for war crimes against Serbian people, prisoners of war,
sick and wounded. Jovicic, who had spent 1,334 days in Muslim prisons, for
over two hours was speaking of the crimes of Muslims committed against the
detained Serbs. He said that he knew Izetbegovic as the author of the
Islamic Declaration since the year 1983 and that he considers him the most
responsible for the eruption of the blood-spilling civil war with an
enormous number of victims. Immediately after he was brought into the
prison camp Silos, Jovicic, just like all the other prisoners, was
subjected to torture and further on every day to harassment which was
carried out by the Muslim soldiers, and even civilians from the surrounding
villages, who were at all times free to enter the prison camp. "Alija
Izetbegovic visited the prison camp of Tarcin four times, two times before
we the prisoners constructed the command building for the command of the
14th Division of the Muslim army and twice in March 1995 when he was
escorted by a large helicopter security of the then-UNPROFOR", specifies
Jovicic.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Tanjug, 1997-03-26
[03] 8,000 BOSNIAN CROATS RELOCATED TO KNIN
Eight thousand Bosnian Croats were relocated to Knin until now in an
organized way, claims Sarajevo newspaper "Slobodna Bosna". In Knin at the
moment, there are some ten thousand inhabitants, 80 percent of them Croats,
claims the newspaper in its report from this city. All of them have come to
Knin at the invitation of the municipal assembly, or in the organization of
the community of refugees and exiled Croats from Bosnia-Herzegovina, which
is organizing the relocation of Bosnian Croats to Croatia, to the areas
abandoned by Serbs. The newspaper is calling this community a tourist
agency for relocation of peoples, which in its brochures is advertizing
among Bosnian Croats, encouraging them to relocate to Croatia, where,
according to the newspaper, a real paradise on earth awaits them. The
newspaper further writes that Bosnian Croats have taken possession of the
best houses, farming households and working posts.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Tanjug, 1997-03-26
[04] AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ON THE SITUATION IN CROATIA
The United States Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbright, in his interview
for "Globus" magazine stated that certain cooling of relations has occurred
between the United States and Croatia, most of all because Croatia is
refusing the cooperation with The Hague Tribunal. The second reason,
according to Ambassador Galbright, is the attitude of Croat authorities
towards Serbs. "We are especially concerned over the fact that people who
wish to return to their homes are prevented from doing that because the
Croat government did not provide safe conditions for their return", says
Galbright. After his talk with the President of the Executive Council of
the Srem and Baranja Region Vojislav Stanimirovic, Galbright was speaking
at the press conference in Vukovar about a great importance of having Serbs
participate at the local elections, which could bring them in a very good
negotiating position. Galbright stated that after the UN transitional
administration in Eastern Slavonia, UNTAES, in this region a very strong UN
mission will remain which will be succeeded by the observer mission of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-26
[05] PATRIARCH PAVLE SENDS MESSAGE TO SERBS IN SREM AND BARANJA REGION
In the church of Saint Dimitry Grand Martyr in Dalj, Serbian Patriarch
Pavle has sent yesterday a message to Serbs in the Srem and Baranja Region
to remain in the homesteads of their great-grandfathers and to take part at
the forthcoming elections. "I am asking you all, brothers and sisters, in
these decisive moments, when voting is to be done, to remain in your
homesteads", appeals the Patriarch. "You should know that this is now the
state of Croatia and this should be respected, as well as the fact that
Serbs have been living here for many centuries. Do not ever forget your
ancestors, do not ever forget who you are and have strong faith in God",
said in his message Patriarch Pavle. Addressing of the local Serbs was
preceded by the regular session of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox
Church in the Patriarchate of Dalj, which was also attended by the
president of the Regional Government Vojislav Stanimirovic.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-26
[06] NO DECISION ABOUT TAKING PART AT THE ELECTIONS
Session of the Assembly of the Serbian Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja
and Western Srem was adjourned yesterday in Vukovar without the final
decision about taking part at the elections, scheduled for April 13, 1997.
The earlier stand was reiterated that preparations should continue, and
that Serbs will appear at the polling stations only when all the citizens
obtain Croat documents, i.e. when the present many irregularities in the
process of issuing of these documents are rectified. Warning was also given
at irregularities in compiling of the electoral lists, and especially it
was pointed out that separate voting lists are being made for the refugees
from the other parts of Croatia, and separately for the domicil population.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26
[07] IVKOVIC: EVERYONE WHO WANTS PROFIT CAN INVEST HERE
Minister of Civil Engineering in the Government of the Republic of Serbia
Dr. Branislav Ivkovic inaugurated yesterday in Novi Sad the fair
exhibitions - The Sixth International Fair of Furniture, Equipment and
Interior Design - AMBIANCE, The 13th International Fair of Civil
Engineering, Ceramics and Equipment, and the 5th International Exhibition
of Rubber and Plastics - Gumaplast. "Within the framework of changes which
will increase as much as possible the efficiency of our economy", said
Minister Ivkovic on this occasion, "the Government of Serbia has prepares a
number of new legal projects which are leading towards transformation of
the social capital. Further to the Law on Ownership Transformation which
was a few days ago presented to the public and invitation given for public
debate, Government of the Republic of Serbia has prepared yet a number of
other laws which will be presented within the Law on Foreign Investments.
Thus the Law on Concessions will make possible and stimulate a larger
foreign investment in these areas, but also investments by domestic
entities. The Law on Concessions is not making any difference between the
foreign and the local investor. In these areas it will be made possible to
make investments to all those who in a fair deal can make and want to make
profit, to the extent to which this is convenient for this country and to
the extent to which it is instigating its development, said Minister
Ivkovic.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26
[08] ASSEMBLY OF HUMANITARIANS - IMMIGRANTS AND OUR CITIZENS ABROAD
The fourth Assembly of our citizens living abroad and immigrants who were
gathering humanitarian aid and sending it to the motherland will be held on
March 31st and April 1st in Belgrade. Participants of the Assembly will be
informed of the humanitarian situation of refugees and exiled persons in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in the areas which were devastated
by war, and especially of the difficult state in which are children, sick
and serious invalids, in view of the exhausted stocks and reduced aid from
abroad. At the Assembly it will be discussed how to promote cooperation
between the associations of our citizens abroad, both their mutual
cooperation and cooperation with the Federal Coordination Board for
Humanitarian Aid and the other competent institutions in the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Borba, 1997-03-26
[09] THE LAW IS JUST AND COMPREHENSIVE
The Law on Ownership Transformation is one of the capital reform laws which
is profoundly penetrating the tissue of our economy and whose adoption is
the component part of the overall social reforms announced by President of
Serbia Slobodan Milosevic. This was stated by the chairman of the Belgrade
Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Dragan Tomic. At the
meeting devoted to the draft of this law, Tomic underlined that the very
important fact for the SPS is that the law is offering priority and
privileges in obtaining stocks of companies to the workers employed in
these firms, but also to the retired persons who were creating these
companies and have acquired the right to one part of the social property on
the basis of their past employment. Judging the law in its essence, to be
just and comprehensive, Tomic said that in the other counties in the period
of transition, because of the solution of problems of ownership
transforation, many workers found themselves in the streets but that this
law is absolutely not allowing for such cases to happen.
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-03-26
[10] IN THE GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA CONSULTATIONS BEGIN WITH POLITICAL PARTIES
ABOUT THE DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION
Minister for Economic and Ownership Transformation Milan Beko and
representatives of the Serbian Radical Party, its president Vojislav Seselj
and chief of the deputy group of radicals in the Parliament Tomislav
Nikolic, had talks yesterday which is the beginning of the consultations
with political parties about the draft version of the Law on Ownership
Transformation. Invitation to take part in the public debate was sent by
Minister Beko also to the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia,
Citizens Alliance of Serbia and Serbian Renewal Movement. "Serbian Radical
Party was the first one to accept the invitation and has thus shown its
constructive approach and accepted to talk about the basic principles of
the Law and its motivational mechanisms, in which respect we have reached
full agreement", stated Minister Beko. Vojislav Seselj stated that the
draft version of the Law on Ownership Transformation is the best and the
most serious legal project which the Government has offered and added: "It
is our wish, regardless of the ideological and political differences with
the government, for this Law to be good and to be applied as soon as
possible, because without privatization there is no way out of the crisis".
Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26
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