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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-29
CONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT SAYS IT PURSUES CONSISTENT 1996 ECONOMIC POLICY
[02] LIBERALIZATION OF YUGOSLAVIA'S TRADE
[03] TUDJMAN REJECTS DEMANDS FOR NEW LAW ON AMNESTY FOR SERBS
[04] HELSINKI COMMITTEE SAYS CROATIA STILL HARASSES SERBS IN SERB KRAJINA
[05] JEWS OF YUGOSLAV DESCENT PROTEST WITH TUDJMAN OVER JASENOVAC DEATH CAMP
[06] FIRST BUS ROUTE LINKING SERB BANJA LUKA AND MUSLIM ZENICA
[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT SAYS IT PURSUES CONSISTENT 1996 ECONOMIC POLICY
B e l g r a d e, May 28 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Federal Government and the Governments of its
Republics of Serbia and Montenegro stand firm on the defined concept and aims of the economic policy for
1996, their premiers said on Tuesday.
This means maintaining the stability of the national currency, the dinar, stable prices, increasing
production and export and raising the domestic product at federal level by the planned 12.5%.
Federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic and the Premiers of Serbia and Montenegro stressed the
common position that fresh money can be printed only with hard-currency backing and must depend
completely on production growth and export results. The National Bank of Yugoslavia must take measures
that should take into consideration the economic policy objectives and maintain the stable exchange rate of
the dinar (3.3 dinars to one German mark) and stimulate production and export, they said. They said there
were big problems in obtaining the working capital vital for increasing production and export.
They also said that the Federal Finance Ministry and the central bank should revise the interest
rates policy, i.e., offer more adequate solutions in the interest rate policy on the basis of the actual economic
trends.
[02] LIBERALIZATION OF YUGOSLAVIA'S TRADE
B e l g r a d e, May 28 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Trade Djordje Siradovic said on Monday
that Yugoslavia had nearly restored the conditions from the period of 1990-1991 when the country had the
highest level of liberalized foreign trade.
At a meeting of directors of manufacturing and foreign trade companies at the Serbian Chamber of
Commerce on Monday, Siradovic pointed to the need to adequately regulate the protection of domestic
production in the process of liberalization.
Siradovic said that the Yugoslav Government was negotiating with the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization on its status in these organizations.
C R O A T I A
[03] TUDJMAN REJECTS DEMANDS FOR NEW LAW ON AMNESTY FOR SERBS
Z a g r e b, May 28 (Tanjug) - Croatian President Franjo Rudjman said Tuesday he had rejected
requests by the international community that Croatia pass a new law declaring general amnesty for all
Serbs.
Speaking at a reception he gave to mark Croatian armed forces day, Tudjman said that an amnesty
law had been passed for eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srem, and that he would not accept any new
dictates.
Tudjman also said that Croatia must continue ensuring the combat readiness of its armed forces as
the situation was uncertain.
[04] HELSINKI COMMITTEE SAYS CROATIA STILL HARASSES SERBS IN SERB KRAJINA
B e l g r a d e, May 28 (Tanjug) - The Helsinki Human Rights Committee in Croatia said on
Tuesday that the Zagreb regime was continuing to harass Serbs remaining in Serb Krajina. Dragutin Hlad of
the Committee is quoted by news agencies as saying at a press conference in Zagreb that terrible things
were still happening to Serbs in Croatia after Croatia's violent secession from former Yugoslavia.
Hlad said that there were villages in Serb Krajina where gangs were nightly raiding Serb homes,
beating up the residents and stealing their food, and that some of the Serbs had succumbed to the brutalities.
Chairman of the Helsinki Committee in Croatia Ivan Zvonimir Cicak said that a report on the
position of the remaining Serbs in Croatia would soon be published. The report will be terrible, because the
number of those murdered since the end of the August 1995 military operation is very high, Cicak said.
Cicak criticised numerous administrative obstacles erected by the Croatian Government in the way
of the Serb refugees' return. The Helsinki Committee describes the position of Serbs in Croatia as alarming.
ON JASENOVAC DEATH CAMP
[05] JEWS OF YUGOSLAV DESCENT PROTEST WITH TUDJMAN OVER JASENOVAC DEATH CAMP
T e l A v i v, May 28 (Tanjug) - An Israeli association of Jews of Yugoslav descent has
condemned Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's decision to bury Croatian fascists ustasha near their
victims at Jasenovac, the site of World War II extermination camp. In a letter sent to Tudjman, the
association said Tudjman's decision was no less cynical than an idea to build a supermarket at the site of the
Auschwitz death camp. The letter said tudjman had not even responded to the association's protest.Jews
who were born in various parts of the former Yugoslavia and who have survived the holocaust do not want
to light candles for their dead and the victims' executioners at the same time, the letter said.
RS - MUSLIM-CROAT FEDERATION
[06] FIRST BUS ROUTE LINKING SERB BANJA LUKA AND MUSLIM ZENICA
B a nj a L u k a, May 28 (Tanjug) - The first bus route linking the city of Banja Luka, Republika
Srpska, and the city of Zenica, Muslim-Croat Federation, was opened on Tuesday in the organization of the
Office of the UNHCR.
Eight passangers embarked on the journey. The bus will run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays.
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