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MILS NEWS 23/05/96Macedonian Information Liaison Service Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: "Macedonian Information Liaison Service" <mils@mils.spic.org.mk>CONTENTS
MILS SUPPLEMENTMILS NEWSSkopje, 23 May 1996[01] GLIGOROV: 'PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY EXPERIENCES OF MACEDONIA SHOULD BE APPLIED IN KOSOVO''UN Security Council should bring effective and prompt solutions in advance to prevent current development of the situation in Kosovo, as it might jeopardize the peace and stability of this sensitive region,' said Macedonian President Gligorov yesterday, visiting the UNPREDEP headquarters and their observation positions at the Macedonia-FR Yugoslavia border. During the visit President Gligorov was informed about the peaceful situation at the border region, and that no incidents were registered .Macedonian President, giving the peace forces credit for the successful preventive mission, reaffirmed the interest of Macedonia for having the UNPREDEP mandate extended. He supported this need with the implementation of military and civil obligations of the Dayton Accord and with the global political and security situation in the region, especially the de-stabilizing trends in Kosovo. 'The stands of the parties interested in a solution of Kosovo problem, instead of becoming closer through a dialogue, are radicalizing and are reducing the possibilities to reach a satisfactory agreement between the FRY authorities and the Albanian political subject in Kosovo. In such circumstances, it would be better to use the preventive diplomacy experiences, confirmed by the UNPREDEP role in Macedonia, than to analyze the possibilities afterwards,' stressed President Gligorov. [02] RUGOVA: DIALOGUE MEDIATED BY A THIRD PARTY ONLYPresident of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova said that Albanians were being persistent in their fight without using force and were doing everything to solve the Kosovo issue with peaceful means, on basis of their outstanding political will for independence. At the session of the Alliance, A-1 Television reported, Rugova confirmed the readiness for a dialogue of the Albanian party, but only if mediated by a third party which would guarantee the results of the negotiations. He also required greater presence of the international community in Kosovo due to the extremely difficult situation in the province. He said the full normalisation of EU - FR Yugoslavia relations had to be conditioned by the solution of Kosovo issue and fulfillment of Dayton Agreement obligations.[03] LIBERALIZATION OF ROAD TRAFFIC AND AIR SPACE CONTROL STRESSEDRepresentatives of Macedonian and FR Yugoslav Transport Ministries are discussing the regulations of mutual transport relations in Belgrade since yesterday. They are expected to agree on these relations until the official agreements come in force, despite opposite opinions about the road traffic. Namely, Macedonian party is asking for its maximum liberalization, while Yugoslav party is asking for introduction of quotas of licenses. The air space limitation between the two countries is being paid a special attention, as well as the preparations for the air control to be taken over by the Skopje flight control on 7 November.Unofficially, the greatest problems will appear at settling the accounts of the current mutual control of the Macedonian sky, which started on 14 September last year. [04] GERMAN FINANCIAL AID FOR MACEDONIA DISCUSSEDMacedonian Minister of Development Abdulmenaf Bedzeti and German Secretary of State Mithardt Hemtel discussed the realisation of the DM 30 million German financial aid for Macedonia yesterday at the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation. According to Macedonian Television, the help after the year 2000 had been also discussed, and projects of greatest priority for Macedonia were set, which include the financial support of the private enterprises.Bedzeti also had talks with German Crediting Institute for Reconstruction representatives, about the activities of this Bank in future realisation of the financial aid for Macedonia. [05] 'NOVA MAKEDONIJA' UNWANTED IN TIRANAToday's edition of 'Nova Makedonija' daily reads that Press Administration of the Albanian Foreign Ministry informed the Editorial Staff of this paper that their journalist Panta Dzambazovski could not be accredited a permanent reporter from Tirana. The staff of the daily is surprised by the fact that Dzambazovski has been reporting from Tirana for 15 months already, during which time there were no regulations at all. Now, after the Law which regulates the work of foreign correspondents in Albania is passed, the application of 'Nova Makedonija' is rejected without an explanation.'Nova Makedonija' also states that the idea of appointing a regular correspondent of 'Nova Makedonija' in Albania was supported by Sali Berisha himself, during his talks with the Editor in Chief of the paper in 1992. [06] MPs - ALBANIANS ASK FOR A COMPROMISE IN THE USAGE OF LANGUAGES IN THE PARLIAMENTAt yesterday's session of the Macedonian Parliament Commission on Statutory and Mandate-Immunity Issues, the MPs of Albanian nationality said that, unless the Statutory Article about the use of nationalities' languages is changed, they would either leave the next Parliament session or talk in Albanian language there. MPs Mevlem Tahiri and Rami Tuda asked for a further discussion on this issue and finding a compromise solution.Today's edition of 'Dnevnik' reports on certain remarks to the Parliament Statute made by the expert group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and by the American Bar Association Office in Skopje. It was said at yesterday's session that these remarks had been mostly included in the suggested Statutory text. [07] STATISTICS ON MACEDONIAN SALARIESMacedonian average salary in March was 8,581 denars, and 19.6% of the employed have still not received their payments, according to the latest data of the Statistics Institute. The average Macedonian salary at the non- production enterprises was 9,353 denars and 8,582 denars at the production ones.[08] REDUCING THE DISCOUNT RATEThe discount rate in the Republic of Macedonia will be reduced for 2% since 1 June, which will create conditions to reduce the bank interest rates.This was decided yesterday by the Macedonian National Bank Council, reported 'Makpress', and the Governor Borko Stanoevski said that other decisions were also made to lessen the monetary limitations and to raise the bank credit limits. The Council yesterday rejected the complaints of the Executive Board of Komercijalna Bank and of this Bank former General Manager Aleksandar Manevski for his suspension. [09] CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECIDED TO RAISE PENSIONS 20%Macedonian Constitutional Court yesterday decided to have the pensions increased for 20%, Macedonian media reported.Pensions Fund will also have to pay additional money to the pensioners, due to the illegally reduced pensions they had been receiving for a year. The Court had, in fact, abolished the decision for using valorized coefficients in the calculation of former years' salaries to the level of 1994. The decision made by the General Manager of the Fund had reduced the pensions for about 20%, which is not in accordance with the Laws and the Constitution. [10] COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ON PUBLIC SECTOR EXTENDEDZivko Tolevski, President of Macedonian Trade Unions, and Labour and Social Security Minister Naser Ziberi, yesterday signed the Agreement on Extending the Validity of the Global Collective Bargaining Treaty for the next four years.Tolevski stated that the applying of the Treaty showed positive results during the last two years, and Ziberi emphasized his hope to have the governmental proposal to form an Economic-Social Council soon adopted. The Minister also said that he was looking forward to the establishing of the lowest labour price. [11] ABOUT THE PRIVATIZATION OF STATE CAPITALMacedonian government decided at its last session that the sale of the state capital is made by public calls and through the Stock Exchange of long term securities. In case no interest is showed after two public calls, it will be possible to make a direct agreement. A-1 Television yesterday informed about the aspects of the draft Law: in the sale through public call, there will be 50% discount for prompt paying in denars, 10% discount for prompt paying with foreign currency savings, 30% discount for paying in installments during one year and 20 % for paying in installments during two years. The draft Law gives possibilities for domestic and foreign legal and physical subjects to buy shares, and the money earned from the sale will go to the national Budget.[12] SKOPJE CITY SHOPPING CENTRE FOR SALE SOONThe sale of Skopje City Shopping Centre will start on 29 May. Its shares are currently a property of the Public Company of Housing. The total value of the Centre was estimated to about DM 192 million, and the nominal value of each share will be DM 100. Brokers authorized to sell the Centre are Stopanska Banka, Invest Banka and Makedonska Banka. The paying will be in cash in denars, and transfer of stocks will be free and without limitations.[13] VLACHS IN MACEDONIA SATISFIED WITH THEIR RIGHTS'Studying our mother tongue, having radio and TV programmes and papers in Vlach language are all results of the democracy in the Republic of Macedonia,' told representatives of Vlach League in Macedonia to the President of Macedonian Parliament Tito Petkovski, yesterday. At the meeting, organized on the occasion of the national day of Vlachs, they expressed satisfaction with the status and possibilities to affirm the cultural and other values of Vlachs in Macedonia.MILS SUPPLEMENT[14] 'Privatisation Going On, Denationalization at Standstill'('Dnevnik', 23 May 1996)'We are asking Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski to tell us why is the government being silent about the Law on Denationalization, which has entered the governmental procedure; if it has been stopped, to explain us why, and if it hasn't, when it will enter the parliamentarian procedure,' says Vasiliki Vikentievic, President of the Association for Protecting the Interests of Owners of Taken Away Properties. The Association finds this Law more mysterious than any other in the country. 'We sent a letter to the Prime Minister yesterday, asking him to receive us and personally inform us about the Law. We had been asking to be received at the Ministries of Justice and Finances for a year already, without any success. Let's hope that Mr. Crvenkovski will find time for us,' says Vikentievic. Minister Jane Miljovski said, on December 8 last year, that the Law on Denationalization should be passed in three phases, by adopting every next phase after two months. 'We know that we are not partners to the government, but one of our biggest remarks is the usurping of the nationalized properties. I don't know if there is a lack of experts to carry out the denationalization or lack of wish to do it,' states Vikentievic. The second phase of the denationalization was to be accomplished in mid March, but it did not happen. 'The denationalization will be postponed until the privatization process is ended in Macedonia. Returning the nationalized properties reminds those who are usurping it that it can happen to them after several years, which is why it will be postponed endlessly. As for the financial aspect of the returning of taken away properties, even the developed countries do not apply the market economy principle, but a political, non-economic principle,' says Trajko Slaveski, a Professor at the Economy Faculty in Skopje. 'Denationalization might cost about DM 1,5 billion, and the figure is not definite,' told us Kosta Dojcinovski, a Director of the Property - Legal Department of the Finance Ministry. Meanwhile, privatisation of some properties had started. 'I informed the Institute of Economy Development that it should not do any construction work on the property which is supposed to be returned to me,' says Victoria Vasova Dameska, inheritor of the 'house of Vasovs' in Skopje. 'I also asked the court to protect my interests. I asked them to send competent people there to determine the factual situation of the object and to stop the renovation. Of course, nothing of this happened. I wonder whether the Institute authorities think that the state will leave them somebody else's property if they invest in it. Or maybe they expect me to give them my shop to return them what they had invested, if I get the property back,' says Vasova Dameska. The government obliged itself to the World Bank to adopt the Laws on Denationalization and on Trade Companies in a package, as well as to begin the auction of the Skopje City Shopping Centre till the end of next month. In case the obligation is fulfilled, the second installment of the FESAK credit will be realized. And the World Bank representative Charles Woodrow emphasized last week that the condition was still in force. (end)mils news 23 May, 1996Macedonian Information Liaison Service Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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