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Serbia Today, 97-04-25
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] PROMOTION OF ENERGY SAVING
[02] MOSLEMS CAN NOT RETURN TO JAJCE
[03] VUKOVAR IS NEITHER SERBIAN NOR CROATIAN
[04] UNFULFILLED OBLIGATIONS
[05] EASTER GREETINGS TO PATRIARCH PAVLE
[06] TORLAK - SUCCESSFUL EXPORTER
[07] APPEAL TO ALL PATRIOTS
[08] DECLARATION AGAINST GENOCIDE OVER THE SERBS
[01] PROMOTION OF ENERGY SAVING
The Serbian Government Council for the Rational use of Energy presented
yesterday the draft program and corresponding financial plan for its
activities this year. The republican Minister and the Council Chairman
remarked that this year's various programs, projects and activities will
require more than 6 million dinars. The basic objectives are the same as
last year's. Education of pre-school and school children concerning the
importance of energy and the various ways of preserving it, the creation of
rational energy use centers at universities and scientific institutions.
The program also comprises the introduction of special tax alleviation for
the construction of houses and business offices using technical solutions
that reduce heating demands. Minister Babic also said that most of the
funds will be allocated for loans that will incite companies to formulate
and realize energy saving projects.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Vecernje Novosti, 1997-04-25
[02] MOSLEMS CAN NOT RETURN TO JAJCE
Croatian local authorities in Jajce prevented all attempts made until bow
by more than 500 Moslem families to into this Bosnian town even though
their homes are empty and undamaged - Moslem Radio Sarajevo reports.
According to the same source, in the zone of Jajce County, 19 Moslem homes
have been set fire to in the past month. Since regular troops of the
Croatian Army and Bosnian Croat troops entered Jajce in 1995, some 11.000
Croats returned there and a little less than 100 Moslems. "The poor
realization of the return of the Moslems is not due to technical but purely
political reasons." - said Enver Sabic, Chairman of the Jajce County
Assembly in Exile, operating in Zenica. Most of the Moslems exiled from
Jajce lives in difficult conditions in collective camps in central Bosnia,
added Mr. Sabic and criticizing the work of international representatives
in Jajce, and especially the International Police which did not react to
the latest incidents.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Vecernje Novosti, 1997-04-25
[03] VUKOVAR IS NEITHER SERBIAN NOR CROATIAN
Commenting the recent elections in an interview for the Rijeka daily "Novi
List", Mr. Milos Vojnovic - the representative of the Serbs from the UNTAES
zone in the Croatian Elections State Committee - said: "The Croats have no
reason to object, and they should be very pleased with the elections,
because the Serbs have won the elections only where they could not loose
them. The results in Vukovar do not reflect the true state of things and
the true balance of forces, and this will soon become evident. The Croats
will rule a city which has a Serbian majority. The Croats can have the
majority in Vukovar only if we leave. Even in 1991, they were not a
majority there". Mr. Vojnovic also remarked that Vukovar is neither Serbian
nor Croatian, but a common town, and stressed that the territorial
demarcation of municipalities introduced by the Croatian side marks the
foundation for the defeat of the Serbs. "The penetration of Croatian
administration into the Danube valley area will not be so simple and this
problem is being underestimated. I am afraid that the Croatian majority in
Vukovar will not be so tolerant and peaceful. It will inevitably perpetrate
the "high" Croatian policy, which is something that will not hardly succeed
here." - observed Mr. Vojnovic.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Politika, 1997-04-25
[04] UNFULFILLED OBLIGATIONS
At its session held yesterday, the Executive Council of Eastern Slavonia,
Baranja and Western Srem decided to send a letter to the UN Transition
Administrator Jacques Klein and to the Croatian Government, indicating all
the obligations that UNTAES and the Croatian Government have not met, even
though they are defined by international and other types of signed
agreements. Among the numerous unfulfilled obligations the Regional
Government particularly stressed the undefined status of the Joint Council
of Municipalities. As it has been remarked at the session, except for one
concrete proposal made by the Serbian side and several informal promises
that came from various centers, no other concrete activity has been
launched concerning this issue. The Executive Council believes that in
order to promptly secure a definition of the mandate and purpose of the
Joint Council of Municipalities, the Croatian side should adopt a specific
legal document regulating the matter. In discussing the report on the
elections, the Executive Council agreed that major irregularities were
registered at the poling stations, greatly affecting the final results of
the elections. The precedent which occurred in electoral unit 4. for the
election of members of the Vukovar Municipal Council has been particularly
stressed. In fact 800 ballots were found there which did not belong to that
particular electoral unit. When the irregularity was discovered, those
ballots were annulled, and 800 votes was exactly what the candidate of the
Independent Democratic Serbian Party (SDSS) needed to win in that
constituency. The SDSS Main Board filed a complaint to the Transitional
Administrator Klein objecting to the regularity of the elections for the
Vukovar Municipal Council in this and another electoral unit, demanding
that the voting be repeated.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Politika, 1997-04-25
[05] EASTER GREETINGS TO PATRIARCH PAVLE
On the occasion of the greatest Christian holiday - Easter - His Holiness
Serbian Patriarch Pavle received numerous greetings and messages. I wish
that the Easter holidays be celebrated in the spirit of the supreme
Christian values - in peace, well-being and blessing, on understanding and
the cultivation of honesty in the relations among men, reads the letter of
greetings sent by the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Mr.
Zoran Lilic. Offering his warmest greetings to Patriarch Pavle, the Holy
Episcopal Synod, the prelates of our Orthodox Church, the monks, the
priests, professors and students of the Theological Faculty, institutes and
theological schools, ecclesiastical officials, and the religious Serbs
living in the country and abroad, Federal Minister and Chairman of the
Federal Government Committee for Liaisons with Religious Communities - Dr.
Zoran Bingulac stressed: "I expect, Your Holiness, that this Christian
holiday - which we are celebrating this year under more favorable
conditions than the previous years - will be a stimulus to all of us to
contribute with even greater determination to the comprehensive development
and prosperity of our country. In the time that lies ahead we must join
efforts to affirm perennial spiritual, Christian and moral values and bring
our youth even closer to them, which is something we are obliged to do in
view of our the centuries old spirituality, culture and tradition of the
Serbian people that gave a precious contribution to the European
civilization. In his greetings to Patriarch Pavle, the Serbian Minister of
Religious Affairs - Mr. Dragan Dragojlovic - says that the eternal divine
principles of love, peace, forgiveness and understanding, represent values
that make men human, and the national and state community an environment
providing security and hope for a better life and a happier future for all.
"It is a holy duty of all religions and all religious people to seek in
their teachings - regardless of the times - those elements that bring
people together and that are common to all men." - reads the message of
greetings sent by Mr. Dragojlovic.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Politika, 1997-04-25
[06] TORLAK - SUCCESSFUL EXPORTER
The "Torlak" Immunology and Virology Institute, our largest producer of
vaccines and sera, has become a major exporter. The Institute recently
signed a 7 million dollars contract with a large Indian vaccine company,
representing only one of its latest successful business arrangements. The
various deals with India now total about 11,5 million dollars, said Dr.
Tomislav Jankovic - Director of the "Torlak" Institute. He also remarked
that even during the strictest sanctions India maintained a friendly
attitude towards our country, and that such an atmosphere along with the
Indian needs open the possibility for many Yugoslav companies to sell their
products in India. "We have sold vaccines and sera to India in spite of a
tight international competition, and thanks to the quality of our products
and the competitive price we have come ahead of Italian, French, Russian
and Chinese firms. This is all due to our perseverance and know-how that
helped us produce - during the sanctions - what we did not make before.
After a four year pause we have re-established the production of polio
vaccine, increasing the production rate from 60 million to 300 million
doses per year." - Dr. Jankovic said. Many countries are interested in
"Torlak" vaccines and sera, which are now being sold throughout the world:
in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Borba, 1997-04-25
[07] APPEAL TO ALL PATRIOTS
In the past several years, Serbia and Yugoslavia went through one of the
most difficult periods in our recent history, reads the statement issued
after the session of the Main Board of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).
The same document reiterates the serious effects produced by the break-up
of former Yugoslavia, the near-by war, the struggle for the equality of the
Serbian people, unprecedented sanctions imposed by the international
community, and by the presence of the enormous number of refugees that were
wholeheartedly given shelter by our country. According to the SPS Head
Board, these were the principal causes of the problems that surfaced in
numerous spheres of life. "This is why it is indispensable to promote - as
a response and a solution to the problems we are facing - a major activity
and broad mobilization enabling the approval and implementation of a
comprehensive program for the material and spiritual renewal of our
society. This set of reforms that are to allow the renewal and progress of
the society, must concern all areas - from structural and ownership
transformation in national economy, to the reforms in the political system,
science, education, health care, social policy, culture, foreign policy and
information. These changes should produce a better life and higher standard
for all citizens and the prosperity of the country as a whole, in order to
create a modern, democratic, free, economically and spiritually opulent
society and a socially righteous state", reads the SPS communique. Such a
program of reforms should rally all left-oriented, democratic, progressive
and patriotic forces in our society, says the SPS Main Board document
underscoring that: "This idea of an alliance of all forces that wish Serbia
well has always been harbored by the Socialist Party of Serbia. SPS always
kept in mind the interests of citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia, and not
sheer party interests, including its own. It has demonstrated this with
President Milosevic's initiative for the forming of the national unity
government in 1994, which was joined by representatives of various parties
and movements who are determined to act in the interest of Serbia and all
its citizens." Therefore the Socialist Party of Serbia invites once again
all parties, movements and individual citizens who hold dear the
sovereignty, dignity and prosperity of the country, to combine their
efforts in achieving these goals.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Tanjug, 1997-04-25
[08] DECLARATION AGAINST GENOCIDE OVER THE SERBS
Recently the Declaration against the Genocide over the Serbs has been made
public after being blessed and signed by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch
Pavle. In this appeal to stop all genocides and exoduses of nations, which
have become a global problem, the genocide against the Serbs is
particularly treated, because "he history of the Serbian lands as part of
the Balkan Peninsula and Europe is full of examples of genocide over the
Serbs and the exoduses they were forced upon". "The Serbs were not a
wandering tribe in the regions from which contemporary promoters of
genocide actions and policy would like to purge them", reads the appeal
published in nine languages (Serbian, English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Russian, Greek and Arabic). The appeal to international public,
all the states of the world and global institutions, has been signed not
only by Patriarch Pavle but also by four Orthodox Church Bishops, 21
members of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, illustrious professors
of the Belgrade University, lawyers, artists, the Supreme Rabbi of
Yugoslavia and many other personalities.
Serbia Today, 1997-04-25 ; Vecernje Novosti, 1997-04-25
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