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Serbia Today, 97-02-07
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO STABILITY IN THE COUNTRY
[02] NO END TO THE SLOVENIAN-CROAT DISPUTES
[03] RETURN OF EXILED SERBS ONLY SYMBOLIC
[04] THERE WILL BE NO ELECTIONS WITHOUT ALL THE CONDITIONS
[05] PROMOTION OF YUGOSLAV TOURISM IN ISRAEL
[06] NINE YUGOSLAV FIRMS IN THE JOINT STOCK COMPANY "KUBAN-JUPRED"
[07] PROPOSAL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MINISTRY FOR ECONOMIC AND OWNERSHIP
TRANSFORMATION
[08] SUPPORT OF MOSCOW
[01] GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO STABILITY IN THE COUNTRY
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and of the Supreme Defense
Council Zoran Lilic, accompanied by the Chief of the General Headquarters
of the Army of Yugoslavia Colonel-General Momcilo Perisic, within the
regular activities, visited yesterday the units of the Third Army District
in Nis and Prishtina and had talks with the most competent military
superior officers. President was informed of the results achieved in the
creation of combat readiness, of the organizational and formation changes
and realization of tasks in securing the state borders. Stating that the
Army of Yugoslavia had a significant role in preservation of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, its peace and its human and economic potentials,
that it was and indisputably is the basic factor of stability of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, President Lilic underlined the following:
"Our main target is strengthening of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
creation of the conditions for successful return into the international
community and normalization of the relations with the international
institutions. We must focus all our forces on the creation of the
conditions for decent life of man. In order to respond to all these complex
tasks, we must have stable conditions of earning, we must again become a
country without political tensions, a country with a small level of risk".
President Lilic in Prishtina called the leaders of the Albanian political
parties to open talks for purpose of establishing a dialogue and resolving
of eventually disputable issues, in the manner appropriate to the most
democratic countries. "Our aim must be first of all, a strong civil state,
with a high degree of human and democratic rights, and not an impossible
wish for all the members of peoples and national minorities who are living
in the FR of Yugoslavia to have some minute states of their own. In Kosmet
there simply must be peace, and this is certainly in the best of interest
of all those living in these areas", said Lilic.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Borba, 1997-02-07
[02] NO END TO THE SLOVENIAN-CROAT DISPUTES
When they were destroying Yugoslavia and were creating their independent
states, both Slovenia and Croatia were swearing that they shall have good
neighborly relations. However, for five years now between Ljubljana and
Zagreb continuous squabbles are taking place, these countries have not yet
concluded any major agreement, and numerous unresolved disputes are
suggesting new distancing between Slovenia and Croatia. For the latest
scandal the most arduous ones were the Croat media, to be followed by the
experts, accusing Slovenes that they have stolen from them the famous
"Atomic Spa" (Atomske toplice) in Podcetrtak, the pearl of Slovenian
tourism, situated at the very Slovenian-Croat border. In Zagreb they are
claiming that the Slovenian experts have "cut-off" the source and medicinal
waters, directing it towards the Slovenian side. Slovenes reacted fiercely,
scientifically refuted all the Croat claims and dispatched the message to
their neighbors that there are probably medicinal waters also on their side,
only it is necessary to discover where they are. The new "slap on the face"
of Slovenian tourism is coming from Zagreb in the announcement that the
radioactive waste from the nuclear power plant "Krsko" will begin to be
stored along the river Sutla, i.e. along the very border and just beside
the "Atomic Spa". In panic, tourist experts in Slovenia are demanding from
their government to prevent the latest Croat provocation.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-02-07
[03] RETURN OF EXILED SERBS ONLY SYMBOLIC
Zagreb branch of the UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) reported
that in Croatia, within the program for family reunion, until now only 549
Serbs returned, who were exiled by the Croat army and police under the
threat of death, during the armed aggression on Western Slavonia and Knin
Krajina. This project of the UNHCR, which is entitled "Extremely Sensitive
Persons", covers the return of the exiled members of families, whose
closest of kin, mostly aged and sick persons, have remained uncared for in
Croatia. According to the data of the international organizations, in the
areas from which Serbs were in masses expelled from Croatia, there are
still over 3,000 of such persons. With the announcement of return in mid-
February of the latest group of some twenty Serbs, international
humanitarian organizations are warning the public that Serbs, returnees to
Croatia, are still the victims of various pressures and discrimination both
by the authorities and the majoritarian Croat population.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Politika, 1997-02-07
[04] THERE WILL BE NO ELECTIONS WITHOUT ALL THE CONDITIONS
"All of us, ambassadors and charge d'affaires of a certain number of
countries, have gathered here today in order to show the unity of purpose
of the international community, i.e. to show that the Croat Letter of
Intent, which was supported also in the presidential communique of the
Security Council is in our opinion, a solid basis for conducting the
elections and for a peaceful reintegration of this region. However, there
is a number of conditions which the Croat side must fulfil in order for the
elections to take place at all", stated yesterday in the headquarters of
the UNTAES in Vukovar, the British Ambassador in Croatia Gavin Hewitt, in
the name of the ambassadors and charge d'affaires of thirteen countries,
after the meeting with the leadership of the Region of Eastern Slavonia,
Baranja and Western Srem. He said that in Zagreb they have made a demarche
with the Croat Government, in order to emphasize that it is necessary for
Croatia to fulfil its undertaken obligations. Otherwise, if it should fail
to do so, then there will be no elections held the way they are expecting,
warned Hewitt. "The international community is very serious and we shall
continue to make very serious pressure on the Croat authorities, not only
in connection with the elections, but also after that", underlined British
Ambassador Hewitt.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Politika, 1997-02-07
[05] PROMOTION OF YUGOSLAV TOURISM IN ISRAEL
At the Mediterranean Fair of Tourism and Peace opened this week in Tel Aviv,
among 120 participants from eighteen countries, tourist organizations from
Serbia and Belgrade have also presented their offer. Yugoslav tourist
experts at this fair have offered tourists the visit to Belgrade, Kopaonic
Mount, sojourn in many spas in Serbia, Montenegrin seacoast resorts and
hunting grounds, which has all met with great interest of both tourist
agencies and individuals. It was agreed with the Director General of the
Ministry of Tourism of Israel David Litvak, that the delegation of the
Israeli tourist experts shall visit Yugoslavia soon and that on that
occasion a protocol will be signed on the cooperation between the two
countries in the field of tourism. Last year Yugoslavia was visited by over
3,500 tourists from Israel, which is giving hope that the next tourist
season will be an even more successful one.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Borba, 1997-02-07
[06] NINE YUGOSLAV FIRMS IN THE JOINT STOCK COMPANY "KUBAN-JUPRED"
By signing the agreement on establishment of the joint stock company "Kuban-
Jupred" yesterday in the Chamber of Economy of Yugoslavia, nine local
companies have become the members of this joint Russian-Yugoslav
consortium. This is a joint stock company of an open type with the
headquarters in Krasnodar, in the Kuban region in the Russian Federation,
which was already joined by some ten Russian firms. From the Yugoslav side,
the agreement was signed by Novi Sad "Agrovojvodina", "Gosa" from
Smederevska Palanka, Belgrade firms "Ratko Mitrovic", "Investbiro", Lola
Corporation, "Montaza", Montinvest and Montavio and "Putevi" from Uzice.
The basic activities of the company will be a joint production of
medicaments, leather goods, footwear and textile products. The company will
mostly operate with the Yugoslav technology and it is expected that it will
have a special advantages in procuring business deals. President of the
Chamber of Economy Mihailo Milojevic underlined that this will be a
continuation, instigation and expansion of the already good business
cooperation between the Yugoslav and the Russian enterprises.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Borba, 1997-02-07
[07] PROPOSAL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MINISTRY FOR ECONOMIC AND OWNERSHIP
TRANSFORMATION
Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted and submitted to the
republican Parliament amendments and supplements to the Law on Ministries,
which envisages the establishment of a separate ministry for economic and
ownership transformation. Last week Prime Minister of the Republic of
Serbia Mirko Marjanovic, while stating that a great task is facing us in
the ownership transformation, announced also some new legislative solutions
in this field - a model and practical instructions on the conditions for
transformation of the social ownership. This will not be the end of the
Government's work because the Government, as the Prime Minister has
announced, will have a very active part in this process, through the
preparation of a wholesome social program and program of financial,
organizational and ownership restructuring of the largest companies.
According to this announcement, the new ministry would actually be engaged
in these matters: it shall propose the final formulation of the law on
ownership transformation, keep a follow-up on its implementation in
practice, coordinate work of all the participants in this job, work on
drafting of the social programs, verify the evaluated value of the social
capital and instigate development of small and medium-size enterprises.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Politika, 1997-02-07
[08] SUPPORT OF MOSCOW
Russia has officially stated yesterday that the proposal of the President
of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic for overcoming of the
electoral disputes is offering "a real chance for coming out of the
political crisis", and called upon all the political forces in Serbia to
show responsibility and not to make new demands. In the statement read by
the official spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Michael
Demurin at the regular press conference, it is underlined that Russia
"received with hope" the proposal of President Milosevic to the republican
Government and submission to the Parliament of the proposal of the special
law. It is emphasized that "Serbian authorities have shown readiness for
the political solution and recognition of the requests of the O.S.C.E.
Mission", and it is warned that "the opportunity should not be missed for
an immediate de-blocking of the situation in Yugoslavia, important for the
entire region".
Serbia Today, 1997-02-07 ; Politika, 1997-02-07
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