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MILS NEWS 23/04/96From: "M.I.L.S." <mils@MILS.SPIC.ORG.MK>Macedonian Information Liaison Service DirectoryCONTENTS[01] MACEDONIA AND CHECHIA WILL JOIN NATO NEXT YEAR[02] TO THE EUROPEAN FAMILY WITH FREE AND INDEPENDENT UNION[03] MACEDONIAN CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN THE REGION HIGHLY ESTIMATED[04] FRCHKOVSKI-'ELASTIC FORUM OF POLITICIANS' BEFORE THE SOFIA CONFERENCE[05] MACEDONIAN-ALBANIAN AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENTS PROTECTION AND SUPPORT[06] HIGH US OFFICIAL IN MACEDONIA TODAY[07] REGIONAL APPROACH DISCUSSED AT THE EU MEETING[08] AIR SPACE LIMITING BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND FRY POSTPONED[09] NEW REAL ESTATE REGISTRY OF MACEDONIA[10] PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FOR PUBLIC ROADS[11] MOST VOTES FOR RIZVAN SULEIMANI OF PDP[12] POLICE PURSUES THE DIALERS OF 'DNEVNIK'MILS SUPPLEMENT[13] 'Macedonian Foreign Debt - $1.25 billion' ('Dnevnik', 23 April 1996)MILS NEWSSkopje, 23 April 1996[01] MACEDONIA AND CHECHIA WILL JOIN NATO NEXT YEARAlthough the relations between Macedonia and the Czech Republic are improving daily, they could develop even more, especially in the avoiding of double taxation and in the regulation of Macedonian succession to the agreements signed between former SFRY and Czechia. This was one of the conclusions in the talks of the Czech Foreign Minister Jozef Zielenec with Macedonian officials, during which the current situation in the countries in transition and their European integrating were also discussed, informed Macedonian media.After the talks, Macedonian Foreign Minister Ljubomir Frchkovski said it would be very significant for Macedonia to know the Czech experiences in the finance and banking system reforms. Emphasizing the equal priorities of both countries regarding the European integrations, the Czech Foreign Minister said the intentions of his country and of Macedonia to join NATO would be solved at the summit of the Alliance member countries next year. Jozef Zielenec met with President Gligorov, Parliament President Tito Petkovski, Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski and Foreign Affairs Minister Ljubomir Frchkovski. He also attended the premiere of a play written by the Czech President Vatslav Havel, and played in the Macedonian Drama Theatre the day before yesterday. [02] TO THE EUROPEAN FAMILY WITH FREE AND INDEPENDENT UNION'The Macedonian Trade Union must be independent and free to become a full member of the European Confederation of Trade Unions. Macedonian government also has its part in it, i.e. it should take care of the social aspects of the transformation,' said the European Confederation of Trade Unions Secretary-General Emilio Gabalio yesterday in Skopje, after he talked to Macedonian Trade Union representatives and Macedonian officials. Gabalio said that was a process neither easy nor simple, but he was satisfied that the Macedonian Trade Union was given an equal social partner treatment in the transformation. He also said it was good that the Collective Bargaining with the government and the privatisation agreement had been signed in Macedonia, and that the initiative to form a European Social Council had been accepted.Macedonian Trade Union is a full member of the Forum for Cooperation with Eastern and Central European Countries and is included in the European Confederation Programme. According to Macedonian media, Gabalio said the Macedonian Trade Union would join the European family after Macedonia is politicaly incorporated into the European structures. [03] MACEDONIAN CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN THE REGION HIGHLY ESTIMATEDThe Japanese Ambassador to Macedonia Liushi Tagashimi yesterday handed the credentials to Macedonian President Gligorov. The mutual wish to improve the relations between the two countries was expressed, and Tagashimi said Japan highly respects the constructive role of Macedonia for the peace and stability in the region.The Japanese Ambassador was also received by Macedonian Parliament President Tito Petkovski and Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski. [04] FRCHKOVSKI-'ELASTIC FORUM OF POLITICIANS' BEFORE THE SOFIA CONFERENCEA-1 Television reported the writing of the Bulgarian daily 'Continent' that Macedonia was reserved for the Bulgarian initiative to organise a meeting of Balkan countries foreign ministers in Sofia. The paper cited parts of an interview Macedonian Foreign Minister Frchkovski gave for the Russian paper 'Semovja', according to which he expressed his suspicion that some countries might refuse such high level negotiations. As alleged, that was why Macedonia suggested the meeting to be preceded by an 'elastic forum of politicians', on which the Conference project would be discussed. According to 'Continent', this would be discussed at the forthcoming Frchkovski-Pirinski meeting.Meanwhile, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Gjorgji Pirinski, who was supposed to arrive in Skopje tomorrow, had postponed the meeting. As A-1 Television informed, according to Macedonian Foreign Ministry, the new term will be fixed additionally. [05] MACEDONIAN-ALBANIAN AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENTS PROTECTION AND SUPPORTAlbanian government yesterday passed the Agreement on Protection and Support of Investments between Albania and Macedonia, informed 'Makfax' agency. The government in Tirana expects this move to intensify the economic cooperation between the two countries.[06] HIGH US OFFICIAL IN MACEDONIA TODAYUnited States Information Service in Skopje announced that Timothy Wirth, the Global Affairs Under-Secretary in the US State Department, will arrive in Macedonia today, to meet President Kiro Gligorov, Minister of Internal Affairs Tomislav Chokrevski and of Science Aslan Selmani, as well as Macedonian Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary, Victor Gaber.[07] REGIONAL APPROACH DISCUSSED AT THE EU MEETINGThe so-called regional approach, as one of the conditions for the former Yugoslav republics to join the EU, is one of the subjects discussed at the meeting of EU member countries foreign ministers in Luxembourg. The FRY recognition process and its consequences to the former SFRY succession will also be talked about. The EU Chairman and Italian Foreign Minister Susanna Agnelli will soon pay another visit to the former Yugoslav republics, to present the conclusions from the meeting and explain the regional approach aspects.'Makpress' agency informed, in the meantime, that Slovenian and Croatian representatives left for Brussels yesterday to discuss the succession issue with Carl Bilt. These two countries representatives expressed concern because of the insisting of Belgrade to have its continuity recognized, despite the European governments stand to recognize FRY as one of SFRY successors. [08] AIR SPACE LIMITING BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND FRY POSTPONEDFR Yugoslav Civil Air Transport representatives, who had initiated a meeting with their Macedonian colleagues and were supposed to come to Skopje yesterday, did not arrive.The main goal of the meeting was to be setting the air space limits and transferring of the airplanes. According to Macedonian media, the reason for the postponing was the lack of a co-relation between the Yugoslav Federal Control and Transport Ministry. A-1 Television informed that this matter should be discussed at the next-week meeting of Macedonian and FR Yugoslav Transport Ministers in Skopje. Macedonia has already signed such agreements with the other three neighbours. [09] NEW REAL ESTATE REGISTRY OF MACEDONIAThe recording for DZPS-Euro F, MAK-96 campaign, which is a re-recording of the basic trigonometry net of Macedonia, will begin from August 9-12 this year, due to the making of new real estate measures. The recording will enable vertical connecting of the land, which would include 34 basic geodesic points in the country, and the most convenient 7 of them will be included in the World Association of DZPS Campaign. Macedonian trigonometry net will thus have European and international continuity.According to Macedonian Television, this is the first such project made in Macedonia after 1918, with which the current real estate registry will be modernised and the ownership rights for the real estate will be defined. [10] PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FOR PUBLIC ROADSMacedonian government yesterday passed the Draft Law on Public Roads, which sets the issues of construction, reconstruction, maintaining, protection, use and financing of public roads. The Draft Law predicts a public enterprise to be established for the maintaining of roads, as well as an introduction of home and foreign legal subjects concession.Regarding the Proposal to adopt a Law on Territorial Dividing of Macedonia, it was suggested 104 local self- governing units to be set. The government also talked about some anomalies in the Law on Forced Bankrupt and Liquidation, and about the Law on Denationalisation. [11] MOST VOTES FOR RIZVAN SULEIMANI OF PDPAt the additional elections in 102 electoral unit, the candidate of PDP, Rizvan Suleimani, won most of the votes - 5 076, i.e. 679 more than Sabahudin Mahmudi, the candidate of PDPA-NDP coalition. The State Electoral Commission officially, but not finally, informed that the voting will be repeated on May 5 at two polling places in the villages of Rashce and Semenishte, where more leaflets were found than the number of voters recorded was. Mahmudi announced that he would submit an objection, due to the alleged entering of the police in some polling places during the voting.[12] POLICE PURSUES THE DIALERS OF 'DNEVNIK'Today's 'Dnevnik' has published a request to the Macedonian police to stop pursuing the dialers who are selling this paper. According to it, the police had confiscated the paper from some of the dialers, forbidding to sell it to the others, and one was even arrested.'Dnevnik' reminds the Internal Minister Tomislav Chokrevski of his democratic determination and of his former function in the Human Rights Forum, asking him to make the police officers stop pursuing the dialers. MILS SUPPLEMENT[13] 'Macedonian Foreign Debt - $1.25 billion'('Dnevnik', 23 April 1996)'The total foreign debt of the Republic of Macedonia has reached the amount of $1.25 billion,' says Tome Nenovski, the Vice Governor of Macedonian National Bank. The debt includes those to the Paris Club and the International Monetary Fund, but not the one to the Zurich Club, which members are the foreign commercial banks. Also, the total amount does not include the remaining former SFRY debt of about $4 billion.'The new credits agreed by the government and certain business banks with foreign finance institutions have favourable interest rates. The good projects of the private, mostly export oriented enterprises, should alleviate our current economy situation,' says Nenovski. A governmental delegation, led by the Agriculture Minister, agreed on a credit with the World Bank in Washington last month, intended for two projects. The first is the development of private farming, for which $7.9 million are planned, and will be used for the agriculture infrastructure development, i.e. for opening research and veterinary centres, health care institutions, etc. This credit was given by the International Development Agency for a 35 years period, with 0.75% annual interest rate, and a 10 years grace period. The second project is the private sector development. The credit given for it is of DM18 million, with a 20 years payment period and a 5 years grace period. It will be mainly used for financing all kind of private enterprises, but with greatest attention to the exporters. At least DM 4 million, of the total 18, will again be given for the private farming. The interested private companies will be given a credit for a period of 3 to 10 years, with a 1 to 3 years grace period, depending on the project. 'The credit holder of the Agreement with the World Bank is the Macedonian government, and the activities will be carried out by the National Bank. It will give the credits to the interested business banks, and they will direct them to the interested end-users, which will have profitable projects.' (end)mils news 23 April, 1996 |
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