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Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-07-03Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>Yugoslav Daily SurveyCONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MONETARY POLICIESTanjug, 1998-07-02The Yugoslav Government, which reviewed on Thursday the implementati on of a programme of operational measures for macro-economic balance and stabil ity, termed as totally unfounded speculations about the national currency's devaluation, a government statement said. The government established tha t there was no economic reason for a change in the dinar's exchange rate, and tha t the trends on the parallel foreign-currency market were primarily due to psychological and non-economic factors. It established a continued produc tion growth. According to statistical indicators, production is to record a gr owth rate of 12% for the first half of the year. The market supply in basic pr oducts and especially fuels is satisfactory, and the government defined measures to sustain the positive trend. The Yugoslav Government, in cooperation with the National Bank of Yugoslavia and in coordination with the governments of t he two republics, will define concrete measures for the stimulation of exports. The Yugoslav Government gave consent for the opening of a Greek Consulate in the town of Nis, central Serbia. It appointed Deputy Prime Minister Zoran Lilic C hairman of the Committee for Cooperation with U.N. Peace Missions and SFOR, and D efense Minister Pavle Bulatovic Deputy Chairman of the Committee. The Federal Government relieved of duty acting Director of the Tanjug news agency Zor an Jevdjovic and Radio Yugoslavia Director Nikola Ivanovic, and appointed Ed itor in Chief of Radio Belgrade Programme One Dusan Djordjevic acting Director of the national news agency. [02] OVER 86,000 REFUGEES IN YUGOSLAVIA REGISTER FOR BOSNIA'S ELECTIONTanjug, 1998-07-02More than 86,000 refugees sheltering in Yugoslavia registered for Bo snia's general election between June 2-27, Serbian Refugee Commissioner Bratisla va Morina told a news conference on Thursday. Morina, who is also head of t he Yugoslav Commission for refugee assistance said that, last year, 75,249 p ersons had registered for elections, while this year another 13,556 persons had registered. This means that 60% of Bosnian refugees with the right to vot e have decided to register for the election to be held in September, she said. The newly-registered voters include 2,600 persons who were not registered in the 1991 Census despite the fact that they are Bosnia's citizens as well as 10,956 persons who have acquired the right to register. Morina said that 3,903 persons had decided to vote in Bosnia in line with regulations set by the Provisional Electoral Commission. She said no problems had been encountered in regis tering voters in Yugoslavia, saying cooperation with supervisors of the Organisa tion for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had been highly professional. "OSCE officials have again praised our work and I hope that cooperation with th e provisional OSCE office is yet another step towards Yugoslavia's full mem bership in that organisation, our country being one of its founders, as well as i n other international organisations," she said. Head of the Belgrade-based provi sional OSCE office Carol Conregan said that OSCE supervisors, who had returned f rom their assignments in the field several days ago, had submitted favourable reports on cooperation with local teams having no objections to the way in which the registration had proceeded. She said all voters who had registered would be able to check provisional electoral rolls by the second week of August. She sa id 73 polling stations would open in Yugoslavia, saying that 80 supervisors wou ld monitor the ballot to be held on September 12-13. She said the 2,600 per sons who had not been registered in the 1991 Census had now filled in special form s that had been sent to Sarajevo. On the strength of these forms, lists will be drawn and sent to their towns in Bosnia. If the OSCE supervisors establish that these persons lived in these towns in 1991, their names will be put on provisio nal electoral rolls. [03] TOTH: TRADE WITH YUGOSLAVIA WILL INCREASE BY THE YEAR 2000Tanjug, 1998-07-02Hungarian Trade and Industry Chamber President Imre Toth told Tanjug on Thursday that by the end of the century trade with Yugoslavia was expecte d to reach the volume from 1990 when it was 350 million dollars. That was the year when the largest volume of trade was registered between Hungary and Yugos lavia, Toth said, adding that trade reached last year 218 million dollars. Asse ssing his visit to Belgrade as successful, Toth said that the main goal was to promote economic cooperation between Belgrade and Budapest. In contacts with bus inessmen in Belgrade, cooperation has been agreed in the metal industry, and in th e exchange of experience in the field of privatization. [04] YUGOSLAV AND HUNGARIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC COOPERATIONTanjug, 1998-07-02Serbia Chamber of Commerce President Momir Pavlicevic and President of the Budapest Chamber of Trade and Industry Imre Toth discussed the promotion of economic cooperation on Thursday. Pavlicevic and Toth stressed the need for the revival of old business ties and the setting up of new ones. They urged t he settling of mutual claims, primarily through trade. Pavlicevic said that enterprises in Serbia were interested and ready to cooperate with Hungari an partners, especially in the agriculture, food industry, transportation, a nd tourism. He said good cooperation could be established between Hungarian and Serbian partners in the production of railway cars, especially those for high-speed trains manufactured by the Serbian Gosa factory of Smederevska Palanka. [05] DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER RECEIVES THE IRANIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRESTanjug, 1998-07-02Yugoslav Deputy Finance Minister Mileva-Lola Radovic received on Thu rsday the Charge d'Affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Belgrade Javad Moradkhan, at the beginning of his diplomatic mandate in FR Yugoslavia. A mutual readiness was underlined to further promote economic cooperati on, particularly financial relations, between the two countries, the Yugoslav Information Secretariat said. [06] SERBIAN HEALTH MINISTER RECEIVES THE GUINEAN AMBASSADORTanjug, 1998-07-02Serbian Health Minister Dr. Leposava Milicevic met on Thursday with Guinean Ambassador Milimono Fara to discuss possibilities for cooperation between the two countries in the health sphere. The Republican Information Ministry said that Fara expressed interest for all types of cooperation in this sphere - ran ging from education of health personnel, exchange of experts, delivery of medi cal supplies and equipment, to cooperation in the sphere of prevention in the struggle against contagious diseases. The needs of Guinea are large, as illustrated by the fact that one doctor treats 500- 1000 people and that m any Guinean health workers were educated in Yugoslavia, Fara said. Milicevic said that Yugoslavia has the experts, possibilities and interest for cooperati on with health institutions in Guinea, and that it is trying to attain the previo us cooperation levels. She extended an invitation to the Guinean Health Mini ster to visit Yugoslavia to agree concrete cooperation through contacts, the stat ement said. [07] YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENTARY OFFICIAL RECEIVES THE MEXICAN AMBASSADORTanjug, 1998-07-02Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Yugoslav Parliame nt's Lower House Ljubisa Ristic received on Thursday the Mexican Ambassador in Belgrade Carlos Ignatio Gonzalez. The meeting followed a visit to Mexico of a Yugoslav parliamentary delegation, headed by Ristic. The Yugoslav parlia mentary official and the Mexican Ambassador focused their attention on the promot ion of economic and some other forms of cooperation between the two countries, a statement released by the Assembly of Yugoslavia said. Ristic and Ignati o Gonzalez pointed up the traditionally good relations between the two coun tries, and said that possibilities existed for Yugoslavia to play a positive rol e in Mexico's foreign trade strategy. Ristic stressed that the visit to be pa id to Mexico in late August by a Yugoslav economic delegation would be used to discuss and define concrete forms of cooperation. He pointed out that a Mexican exposition was to open in Belgrade in late September, when the Yugoslav-M exican Economic Committee was to hold its first session. The Yugoslav official informed the Mexican Ambassador about some asp ects of the Danube project, as part of which customs-free zones are to be set up to stimulate trade. [08] KOSMET VILLAGE OF KIJEVO DEBLOCKEDTanjug, 1998-07-03Serbian police early on Friday deblocked the village of Kijevo on th e road Pristina-Pec, which had been kept under seige by ethnic Albanian terroris ts. About 100 Serb and Montenegrin families live in Kijevo. Klina municipal official Sveto Dabisljevic told Tanjug that Kijevo had immediately received aid in basic food items, articles for personal hygiene, and medicines through the Red Cross and municipal organs. [09] ALL NINE ABDUCTED WORKERS OF KOSOVO-OBILIC STRIP MINE ARE ALIVETanjug, 1998-07-02All nine workers of the Kosovo-Obilic strip mine who were abducted by ethnic-Albanian terrorists on June 22 of this year are alive, according t o what the Union of the Electrical Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) knows, Union o fficial Milenko Gostojic told a news conference on Thursday. Political Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade Nicholas Hill promised at a meeting with represe ntatives of the EPS Union on June 29 that, in contacts with representatives of ethnic-Albanian political parties who have links with the terrorist organ ization "Kosovo Liberation Army," he would do his best for the abducted workers t o be released and all workers to be enabled to exercise their right to work, a ccording to a statement released by the EPS Union. EPS Union official Gostojic to ld the press that one of the nine Serbs who were abducted on June 22 was Bozidar Alimpic, who was not a worker of the Kosovo-Obilic mine. Gostojic said t hat the EPS Union had no information about Zarko Spasic of the Belacevac coal min e since he was abducted on May 14 of this year. [10] NEW TERRORIST ATTACKS IN KLINATanjug, 1998-07-02A large group of armed ethnic Albanian terrorists attacked on Wednes day night the villages Dolovo, Grabanica, Grabac and Kijevo, in the municipal ity of Klina. After several hours of shooting, the villagers repelled the attac ks and there were no casualties on their side, Tanjug has learned from the munic ipal authorities in Klina. In the early morning hours terrorists attacked aga in Kijevo which has been cut off for days. The villagers repulsed the attack. [11] POLICE OFFICER IS WOUNDED BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTSTanjug, 1998-07-02Police officer Mica Mikic was wounded on Thursday in the Dolovo vill age, Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, which was attacked by ethnic Albanian terrorists twice in the past 24 hours. Mikic was taken to a Pec hospital where he underwent surgery, the Pristina-based Media Centre said. His lif e is not in danger, the doctors said. Terrorists carried out several attacks on Thursday on Serb houses in Drenovac, Kijevo and Grabanica villages in the Klina municipality, using automatic weapons. The inhabitants returned fire and defended their homes. [12] ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND A POLICEMAN IN PRILIPTanjug, 1998-07-02Thursday morning, around 10:00, ethnic Albanian terrorists attacked a police checkpoint in the village of Prilip near Decani, Tanjug has learne d from the local authorities. In the attack, policeman Dragan Terzin was wounde d in the stomach. He was operated on in Pec hospital and is out of danger, doctors said. [13] RUSSIA OPPOSES TALKS WITH "KLA"Tanjug, 1998-07-02Russia said clearly on Thursday that it opposed talks with Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija. "The so-called Kosovo Liberation Army cannot be considered a political organization," said at a press conference Russi an Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vladimir Rakhmanin. He said that there are sev eral, other uncoordinated, groups undertaking terrorist actions in the territor y of Kosovo. Russia, Rakhmanin said, considers that the main course of action at this stage should be talks with representatives of political parties grouped a round Ibrahim Rugova. Russia's stand on the settling of the Kosovo problem was formed at the Moscow meeting between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Yugosla v President Slobodan Milosevic and consists of opening, as soon as possible , of a process of negotiations between Belgrade and representatives of political parties of Kosovo Albanians, the Russian diplomat said. Russia, he said, considers that only these talks can result in a rel iable, authentic and, what is particularly important, a lasting settlement in Ko sovo and Metohija. Commenting the demands of some Western countries for the withd rawal of security forces from Kosovo and Metohija, Rakhmanin said that the most important thing now was to focus on the cessation of armed actions. "The latest escalation of violence in Kosovo, according to the reports of observers, represents a reaction of Serbian security forces to the provocations of K osovo Albanians," the Spokesman said. Recalling that under the agreement of the presidents of Russian Fede ration and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia security forces will withdraw i n the measure that terrorist actions cease in the territory of Kosovo and Metoh ija, Rakhmanin said: "That fact should be realized by the other participants in the efforts of the international community for settling the situation in Koso vo." Rakhmanin also said that the preparing of a group of observers, by t he embassies of Russia, the United States and the European Union in Yugoslav ia, represented a significant joint action of Contact Group members. The Russ ian Foreign Ministry Spokesman assessed that the action for the political set tlement of the situation was bearing fruit. [14] SOLANA URGES DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO THE KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ISSUETanjug, 1998-07-02NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana urged in Sarajevo on Thursday t hat the Kosovo and Metohija issue be resolved by diplomatic means. Solana told a news conference that NATO continued making preparations for the eventuality it s help was needed "to back up the international effort." He called for the res umption of the talks on Kosovo and Metohija, and said NATO would not allow a reru n of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Solana denied rumours that Bosnia-Herzegovi na territory would be used for possible NATO air strikes. [15] GOVERNOR VLATKOVIC VISITS SLOVAKIATanjug, 1998-07-02National Bank of Yugoslavia (NBJ) Governor Dusan Vlatkovic is in Slo vakia on a working visit to the Governor of the Slovak National Bank, Vladimir Masar, at his invitation, NBJ has said. With the aim of continuing good coopera tion between their two countries, Vlatkovic and Masar will exchange experience s in the work of the two central banks, discuss support for the Yugoslav and Slova k economic policies and consider possibilities for promoting cooperation be tween Slovak and Yugoslav commercial banks. [16] PRIME MINISTER: NATIONAL CURRENCY WILL NOT BE DEVALUATEDTanjug, 1998-07-02Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic said after a government sess ion on Thursday that the national currency would not be devaluated. Bulatovic s aid in a statement to Serbian Radio and Television that some of the so- called independent media had published articles about the country's economic pli ght and clandestine plans for a devaluation of the dinar. Bulatovic said the gov ernment had during the session examined implementation of a program of macro-econ omic balance and stability. The program was framed by the previous government, said Bulatovic, adding that the government he was no heading was investing a l ot of effort in its realization. We have serious economic problems in Yugoslav ia, but we also have a well-devised plan that enables us to maintain monetary sta bility, he said. We are not planning to devaluate the dinar. Moreso, industrial production has grown, and we have a number of activities aimed at stabili zing macro-economic circumstances, said Bulatovic, adding that a stable curren cy was the pivot of state policy. Asked if measures had been taken to improve the balance of payments, Bulatovic said the government and central bank had worked out a plan to s tep up hard currency reserves. This means stimulating experts, restricting impor ts, checking the grey economy, and generally settling relations in the econom y, activating agreements with neighbouring states, creating free trade zones , all towards securing long-term macro-economic stability and development, said Bulatovic. Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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