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Yugoslav Daily Survey, 96-11-05Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>CONTENTS
[01] BULATOVIC ABOUT DPS OVERWHELMING VICTORY AT MONTENEGRIN ELECTIONSP o d g o r i c a, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin President and leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Momir Bulatovic on Monday expressed satisfaction that his party won an overwhelming majority in the Montenegrin Parliament at Sunday's elections.Commenting preliminary results of Parliamentary elections in Montenegro and Serbia, according to which ruling socialists are in the lead in both Federal units of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bulatovic expressed conviction that they would closely cooperate in the Federal Parliament in the future. It enables both parties to continue to decisively contribute towards democratic development and stabilization in our common state, Bulatovic told Montenegrin state-run Television. [02] SOCIALISTS EXPECT MORE THAN 60 SEATS IN THE PARLIAMENTB e l g r a d e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - The Serbian Socialist Party's Spokesman said late on Monday he was certain that the Leftist Coalition would garner in more than 60% of seats in the Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens (Lower House). The Coalition contested the November 3. elections on a joint list of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the Yugoslav Left (JUL) Movement, the New Democracy (ND) Party, Slobodan Milosevic.Spokesman Ivica Dacic told a news conference that the estimate was based on three-fourths of votes counted thus far. He said that, of the 3,353,090 votes counted, the United Left had secured 1,601,438, the 'Together' Coalition, 813,447, and the Serbian Radical Party, 610,293. The results prove that the Leftist Coalition has won a convincing victory and will have an absolute majority of seats from the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia in the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he added. [03] YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL RECEIVES CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY DELEGATIONB e l g r a d e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic and Chinese Foreign Ministry official Liu Guchang discussed here on Monday cooperation between the two countries at the international level.Liu heads a Chinese Delegation paying a several-day visit to Yugoslavia. The Delegation is to hold political consultations with Yugoslav Foreign Ministry officials. The talks dealt also with issues concerning the promotion of Yugoslav-Chinese bilateral cooperation in the political, economic, cultural, scientific and technological sphere, in the spirit of traditional understanding and friendship characterising the two countries' relations. [04] RS READY TO COOPERATE IN IMPLEMENTING PEACE ACCORDSP a l e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - Republika Srpska's representative in the three-member Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Momcilo Krajisnik said on Monday that the RS authorities and institutions were ready to cooperate on all issues of the implementation of the Peace Accords, within the RS Law and Constitution.Krajisnik made the statement in Pale, RS administrative centre, after talks with Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for human rights John Shattuck. Shattuck said his talks with Krajisnik on RS commitments under the Dayton Accords covered media freedom in RS and setting up of joint institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. [05] BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY WILL MEET TUESDAYS a r a j e v o, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - The three-member Presidency of the Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina will meet on Tuesday in a Serb suburb of Sarajevo. This will be the fifth working Session, the second in Serb territory, focusing on the Constitution of joint institutions.Presidency members Alija Izetbegovic (Muslim, President), Momcilo Krajisnik (Serb) and Kresimir Zubak (Croat) are expected to reach agreement on the composition of the Council of Ministers, comprised by five ministers and a president. According to unofficial reports, the Prime Minister's portfolio is to be assigned to a Serb, while the Foreign Ministry portfolio to a Croat. The agenda will include other issues such as the Presidency's activities in preparing International Conferences on Bosnia to be held in November in Paris and in December in London. [06] SOLANA: NATO SHOULD REMAIN IN BOSNIAB e l g r a d e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana on Monday expressed hope that NATO would remain in Bosnia-Herzegovina after its one-year mandate ends to provide assistance in economic recovery. After meeting Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini in Rome, Solana said the exact length of Multinational Force's stay in Bosnia had not been defined yet, Associated Press reports.[07] U.N. BLASTS CROAT MEDIA FOR SPREADING DISINFORMATIONB e l g r a d e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - The United Nations on Monday blasted the Croat media for spreading disinformation about alleged murders of five Croats by Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.The Bosnian Croat news agency 'Habena' alleged on Saturday that Serbs had killed five Croats who came to visit the graveyard in a village near Gradacac in the northeast of the Republika Srpska on All Souls' Day. The report was picked up by news agencies and went round the world. The report was completely untrue, according to Spokesman for the International Police Training Force (IPTF) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Patrick Svensson, as quoted by Agence France Presse. Svensson told a news briefing in Sarajevo that the report had been checked, that nobody could confirm that such an incident had taken place, and that nobody had reported any deaths or woundings. He said that the United Nations condemned the spreading of such rumours that could have provoked serious tension. AFP noted that it had taken the United Nations three days to disprove the false report, adding that disinformation of this kind had played a large part in starting the Bosnian war in the first place. [08] SERBS IN EAST SLAVONIJA WANT THEIR OWN EDUCATION PROGRAMD a l j, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - The Assembly of the Serb Region of East Slavonija, Baranja and West Srem defined on Monday an education program to be applied in the Region after its reintegration into Croatia.The Serb Region is predominantly Serb populated and located between Croatia and Yugoslavia. After an agreement was reached between the local Serbs and Croatian authorities late last year, the Region was placed under a Transitional U.N. Administration (UNTAES) for one year or two at the most. Serbs insist that all subjects important for the preservation of their mother tongue and national identity be taught in Serbian and the relevant text books published in the Region. The implied subjects include the Serbian Language and literature, history and geography, while Serbs are ready to agree that natural sciences be taught on the basis of Croatian curriculums. Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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