Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-04-24

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)

24 April 1996

CONTENTS

[A] GOVERNMENT OF THE F.R.Y.

[01] NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH IMF, A YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT PRIORITY

[B] YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.

[02] U.S. ANNOUNCES SOUTH EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INITIATIVE

[C] YUGOSLAVIA - D.P.R. KOREA

[03] FOR PROMOTION OF ALL-ROUND COOPERATION

[D] KOSMET - TERRORISM

[04] SERBIAN POLICE MOUNTS SEARCH FOR ATTACKERS

[E] EASTERN SLAVONIA

[05] PARLIAMENT ELECTS PRESIDENT

[A] GOVERNMENT OF THE F.R.Y.

[01] NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH IMF, A YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT PRIORITY

Presiding over the session was Prime Minister of the F.R.Y. Radoje Kontic, and taking part in its work was the Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia (NBJ), Dragoslav Avramovic, the Yugoslav Information Secretariat said in an announcement.

The Government reviewed a report by the Yugoslav delegation at the talks with representatives of the IMF and the World Bank held in Paris March 28 - April 2.

In noting that the Paris talks had opened a process of normalization of relations with the IMF and the World Bank, the Government assessed that these talks had enabled a useful exchange of views and data on the questions crucial to the normalization of relations between the F.R.Y. and the IMF as one of the foreign political and economic priorities of the Yugoslav Government.

The Government noted that, concerning certain points, there were motions which deviated from the basis determined for the talks, but the delegation did not take over any obligations that would contradict the platform established by this Government.

The Government named Jovan Zebic, Vice-Premier and Federal Finance Minister, as coordinator for the future activities related to the negotiations with the IMF and other international financial organizations.

The Federal Finance Ministry was assigned - in cooperation with the NBJ, the Federal Foreign Ministry and other competent organs, once an answer was received from the IMF concerning the legal aspects of the inheritance of membership - with preparing a draft platform for resumed negotiations with the IMF, the World Bank and other financial organizations.

[B] YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.

[02] U.S. ANNOUNCES SOUTH EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INITIATIVE

Djukanovic, who on Monday arrived in a working visit to Washington, had a meeting at the White House with member of the National Security Council and U.S. President Bill Clinton's special foreign policy adviser Richard Shiffer and another meeting at the State Department with Rudolf Perina, high-ranking official in charge of Europe and the Balkans.

The U.S. officials, who supported the privatization programme and Montenegrin economic development programmes, informed Djukanovic about the idea of launching a South European economic initiative, which is still in the phase of consultations and research, but with realistic chances of being put to life.

The U.S. officials said that the initiative would include all states that had emerged in the territory of the former Yugoslavia as well as Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Albania.

[C] YUGOSLAVIA - D.P.R. KOREA

[03] FOR PROMOTION OF ALL-ROUND COOPERATION

The Korean parliamentary delegation is headed by Li Mong Ho, member and General Secretary of the Korean Parliament's Standing Committee. The Korean delegation has arrived in Belgrade on a return visit to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

[D] KOSMET - TERRORISM

[04] SERBIAN POLICE MOUNTS SEARCH FOR ATTACKERS

The police of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia said that from 8:25 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on April 22, people and police had been the target of organised terrorist attacks in the province's towns of Stimlje, Pec and Decani and at Kosovska Mitrovica on the Rozaj-Pristina road.

[E] EASTERN SLAVONIA

[05] PARLIAMENT ELECTS PRESIDENT

The newly-formed parliament elected Goran Hadzic President of the Serb area.

In his address after the vote, Hadzic urged the population in the area not to leave their homes. He reiterated support to the Serb-Croatian agreement reached last November on a peaceful settlement for the area.

The deputies adopted a declaration in which they pledged to protect the interests of all citizens and their human rights and freedoms, consistently pursue peace and a peaceful settlement of all disputes and fully cooperate with the U.N. transitional administration in the best interest of the area's population.

The Executive Council of the Serb area said its priority was to deter crime which has become rampant, to prevent the departure of the local population, to provide assistance to refugees from other parts of Croatia who are currently in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and fully cooperate with the U.N. transitional administration.