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Serbia Today, 97-06-10Serbia Today Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>Serbia TodayCONTENTS
[01] SERBIAN GOVERNMENT SESSIONSerbia Today, 1997-06-10Yesterday's Government session chaired by Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic, approved the contracts for foreign investments concluded by the Serbia PTT public company and the Italian state telecommunication companies STET and OTE. The contracts approved by the Government constitute an important strategic investment and the first major foreign investment in our country. It also represents one of the major investments in this part of Europe in general. The cooperation with foreign partners - ranked among the most important world companies in this sector for their technological level and financial assets, will introduce the latest telecommunication technology with higher quality services for companies and individual users - as well a whole range of new products. At the same time, this transaction will ensure a major impulse for the overall development of our industry and the economy in general. It has been stressed during the Government session that the contract constitutes the best confirmation of the fact that Serbia and Yugoslavia are a dependable investment partner in view of legal safety and political stability, and that our country has material and staff potentials that are highly attractive to foreign investors. [02] MINISTER OF EDUCATION JOVO TODOROVIC RECEIVED THE PARTICIPANTS OF INTERNATIONAL OLYMPICS IN MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND INFORMATICSSerbia Today, 1997-06-10Minister of Education Prof. Dr. Jovo Todorovic received yesterday the members of our "national team" - high school students that will represent our country in international competitions in mathematics, physics and informatics. Like in the previous years, our young experts in mathematics, physics and informatics, will compete in knowledge against teenagers from numerous countries. Our high-school students have regularly achieved good results in these top competitions. The best results were achieved by the ones from the Mathematics High School from Belgrade, but other schools were quite successful too. The ministry of Education and all public schools dedicate great attention to gifted teenagers in various disciplines, and numerous first, second and third prizes in world-class competitions in mathematics, physics and informatics (since recently) stem from dedicated and professional pedagogic work and stimulation of the gifted youths. It is also the result of the work of numerous professors that unselfishly helped their talented students. Minister Todorovic congratulated all of them, and 15 most deserving "Olympians" have been awarded 2.000 dinars prizes by the Ministry. Even though qualifying and competing in such eminent international competitions represents a significant accomplishment in itself, Minister Todorovic underscored that our students will keep up the traditional success in mathematics, physics and informatics and newly achieve top results. [03] SESSION OF THE SERBIAN GOVERNMENT SHIPBUILDING COORDINATING TEAMSerbia Today, 1997-06-10The Serbian Government Coordinating Team for the shipbuilding sector convened yesterday to discuss the involvement of this industry branch in the Government Program for financing exports. The Team concluded that Serbian shipbuilding represents one of the major export potentials, with an annual net hard currency revenue in the range of 250-300 million German marks. The representatives of all shipyards in Serbia, fully endorsed the Government Program for financing exports, stressing that this industrial sector meets all the requirements for export financing, and that with this kind of support, already signed deals should bring about 100 million DEM this year. At the meeting, Coordinating Team future activities have been defined, focused on the nomination of export projects to be covered by the Serbian Government Program for financing exports. It has been also observed that our shipbuilding companies have been admitted (on June 6th) into Association of European Shipbuilders and Shiprepairers (AWES), which will greatly alleviate the cooperation with foreign partners and the definition and completion of export deals. [04] MINISTERS RADMILA MILENTIJEVIC AND SVETOLIK KOSTADINOVIC VISITED SMEDEREVOSerbia Today, 1997-06-10Today's dailies report that Serbian Minister of Information Ms. Radmila Milentijevic, the Minister of Communications Svetolik Kostandinovic and Head of the Serbian Road Directorate Predrag Krkic visited the town of Smederevo yesterday. During the talks with municipal and Danube County officials, they discussed problems concerning railway, road and PTT traffic. During the meeting, Minister Milentijevic stated that the Serbian Government approved the project for the construction of a turnpike near Kolari on the Belgrade-Nis highway, because many local communities in the municipalities of Smederevo and Mladenovac have presented such a demand. The works will be initiated quite soon, to allow project completion by the end of summer - in view of the great importance it has for the local industry and population. [05]Serbia Today, 1997-06-10the conditions and the number of exams that can be transferred to the following school year. Reiterating the measures that the Serbian Government adopted recently, Mr. Todorovic remarked that major efforts are being made to improve the dynamics of wage payments, and to cover all its current liabilities to the professors, giving them precedence over all budget-financed expenditures. According to Mr. Todorovic, during the summer vacation, the wages will be paid every ten days. The Government will also harmonize the work-conditions coefficients for all public education personnel. The Minister repeated that by the beginning of the next school year, all liabilities to faculties will be covered, adding that numerous compensating arrangements are already available, greatly alleviating the position of the university institutions in Serbia. [06] MINISTER OF EDUCATION JOVA TODOROVIC'S STATEMENT FOR TANJUGSerbia Today, 1997-06-10The proposed tuition fees for the academic year 1997/98, applicable to students in state colleges, are far to high and must be reduced - stated the Serbian Minister of Education in an interview for TANJUG news agency. "In view of the fact that this year, classes were held with great difficulties - due to a number of circumstances - the Ministry of Education has reached the conclusion that more favorable tuition fees should be accorded to students at the beginning of the academic year." Stressed Minister Todorovic. The Minister of Education also added that the faculties, as well as junior colleges will have to react to the suggestion made by the Ministry, and define [07] STATEMENT MADE BY SERBIAN DEPUTY PREMIER RATKO MARKOVIC AT THE SESSION OF THE SPS BELGRADE MUNICIPAL BOARDSerbia Today, 1997-06-10Commenting the Law on Local Self-Government, Deputy Premier Ratko Markovic said amongst other things: "...it is a comprehensive, systematically fundamental and constitutional law that creates the groundwork for organizing local self-government, setting the limits for state involvement and outlining the self-government. Instead of the provisions regulating this argument - contained in various documents, we will now have a single legal document. This law covers all the open questions in our society, such as the emigration of Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo, the protection of state interests but without breaching any of the basic democratic principles - reads a "Politika" article published on June 10th. [08] PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC RECEIVED THE DELEGATIONS OF STET, OTE AND PTT SERBIASerbia Today, 1997-06-10Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic received yesterday the delegations of three telecommunication companies - STET (Italy), OTE (Greece) and PTT Serbia, headed by General STET Director General Tomaso Tomasi, OTE Chairman Dimitrios Papuqas and PTT Serbia General Manager Aleksa Jokic. [09] PRIME MINISTER MARJANOVIC'S INTERVIEW FOR "POLITIKA" AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE INVESTMENT CONTRACT WITH STET AND OTESerbia Today, 1997-06-10In an interview published by "Politika" daily on June 10th, Prime Minister Marjanovic observed, among other things, that this is a strategic investment in "Serbia Telecom" worth 1.568 billion German marks. Thanks to this investment which involves the financial strength and the know-how of the partners, "Serbia Telecom" will quickly assimilate foreign technology and increase its efficiency. The most important aspect of foreign investment, such as the one that has been signed, lies in the fact that Serbia and Yugoslavia are making a major step forward in internationalizing the national economy and will quickly join the global development processes. "I would like to stress that the Serbian Government, together with the other bodies involved in the implementation of the economic policy," Mr. Marjanovic stressed "is strongly focused on the market reform and has consequently introduced a number of laws and system regulations allowing a comprehensive ownership transformation, incentivating foreign investments and creating a favorable environment for the evolution of entrepreneurship." It should also be stressed that complete currency and price stability has been achieved in the country, together with the growth of production and exports. These positive trends have been realized thanks to the strict monetary and fiscal policy, but even more due to Government efforts to ensure the necessary balance between economic and social stability on the one hand and dynamic industrial growth on the other. The funds raised with the contract, will be strictly used for the promotion of key reform objectives: faster growth of production and exports, development of new companies, further promotion of modern world-oriented market economy, creation of new jobs and the consequent increase of wages and living standard. Serbia Today Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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