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Serbia Today 96-04-23

Serbia Today Directory

From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)

23 April 1996

In This Edition

NEW FRAMEWORK FOR OLD FRIENDSHIP

JIHAD, BUT A DIPLOMATIC ONE

DRAMA OF APATRIDES IN LJUBLJANA


CONTENTS

[01] NEW FRAMEWPRK FOR OLD FRIENDSHIP

[02] 'BELGRADE ON SAVA RIVER' PROJECT IS ATTRACTIVE FOR THE WORLD TOWN PLANNERS AND FINANCIERS

[03] GREAT DEVELOPMENT POSSIBILITIES OF THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMY

[04] DELEGATION OF THE CITY OF BELGRADE LEAVES FOR JAPAN

[05] NO STAND ON SUCCESSION OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

[06] 'SPIEGEL': KINKEL TO VISIT BELGRADE IN MAY

[07] JIHAD, BUT A DIPLOMATIC ONE

[08] TUDJMAN DOES NOT GIVE UP

[09] DRAMA OF APATRIDES IN LJUBLJANA


[01] NEW FRAMEWPRK FOR OLD FRIENDSHIP

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia and Romania, Milan Milutinovic and Teodor Maleshkanu have initialed yesterday in Bucharest a twenty-year global international agreement on friendship, good neighborly relations and cooperation between the two countries. At the end of a one-day visit to Romania, Minister Milutinovic stated that the talks were open, very substantial and constructive. "We have stated that permanent friendship and good neighborly relations are a powerful basis for a further successful development of Yugoslav-Rumanian relations and cooperation. We have agreed on a great importance of continuous political dialogue at all the levels and have agreed for this dialogue to be intensified", said the Yugoslav Minister. In the joint wish for the relations of our two countries to develop and be promoted on permanent basis and in the spirit of traditional friendship and joint interests, we have agreed upon and initialed the agreement on friendship, added Minister Milutinovic and specified: "This is a comprehensive and very substantial long-term agreement in which basis are placed for a large-scale cooperation in all the fields, starting with security, through economy, up to environment and culture. In this way our countries are giving yet another major contribution to the strengthening of peace, stability and confidence in the region". Milutinovic emphasized with special meaning the substantial and friendly talk with the President of Romania Jon Iliesku who expressed his readiness to come soon to visit the FR of Yugoslavia. (Politika, April 23, 1996)

[02] 'BELGRADE ON SAVA RIVER' PROJECT IS ATTRACTIVE FOR THE WORLD TOWN PLANNERS AND FINANCIERS

Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic received yesterday Billy Lacy, the Dean of the "Purchase College" of the New York University, a renown consultant to the most important world architectural projects. Mr. Lacy is visiting our country as the guest of the organizational committee for preparation of the international competition for the project "Belgrade on Sava River - EVROPOLIS". Prime Minister Marjanovic underlined that Government of the Republic of Serbia has supported the project "Belgrade on Sava River" and has placed it among its development priorities because of its great importance for our economy and its linking with the world. In the elaboration of this project also the best local and international experts will take part, and Serbia by its legal regulations has offered a maximum of stimulation for foreign investments. Mr. Lacy stated that "Belgrade on Sava River" in even in the international proportions a large investment project which will attract not only the renown world architects and town planners, but also the financiers. (Politika, April 23, 1996)

[03] GREAT DEVELOPMENT POSSIBILITIES OF THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMY

Delegation of the "Hanva" group from the Republic of Korea has visited yesterday the Chamber of Economy of Yugoslavia in order to meet with the representatives of this economic association and businessmen from the individual branches and discuss possibilities of future cooperation. Tai In Song, manager for the international business planning of "Hanva" group presented his firm as one of the 500 largest companies in the world and among the ten largest in Korea, with over 30 branch offices in the world. Yugoslav economy, he said, is having great development possibilities and therefore we have come in order to agree on concrete deals. Further to the goods exchange, Song spoke of the opportunities in hotel building, of the office and residential buildings, construction of roads, electric power plants and infrastructure in general. (Politika, April 23, 1996)

[04] DELEGATION OF THE CITY OF BELGRADE LEAVES FOR JAPAN

Belgrade will be represented at the International Conference of Major Cities "Metropolis 96" which is to be held from April 23 to 26, 1996 in Japan. "Metropolis" is the network of world capitals and major cities from 41 countries, with 70 associated members, among them also the large world corporations and distinguished personalities in the field of architecture, transport, sociology and other sciences important for the metropolitan life. The conference is offering the possibility for comparison of ones own with the experiences of others and for coordination of strategies for city development. Delegation of the city of Belgrade, headed by its Lord Mayor (President of the City Assembly) Nebojsa Covic, will have meetings with Japanese personalities and representatives of certain institutions of this country. (Borba, April 23, 1996)

[05] NO STAND ON SUCCESSION OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

Foreign Ministers of the European Union did not pass yesterday at their meeting in Luxembourg any declaration which would determine their stand on the succession of former Yugoslavia, as it was announced prior to the meeting, but they did discuss this issue. Ministers have underlined the need to find a joint stand on the promotion of the relations between the EU and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and have asked of the EU Political Committee to pass as soon as possible recommendations to that effect. This is one of the conclusions of the yesterday's debate conducted at the Council of Ministers of the European Union, after the recent decision of the EU to normalize the relations with our country. Otherwise, the ministerial meeting took place under the shadow of the demonstrations by several hundreds of members of the aggressive Skipetary emigration from Kosmet, who have made a big noise while voicing their demands regarding the status of this Serbian province. Although this is not mentioned in the conclusions, representative of the European Council informed the press that EU remains firmly of the stand on Kosovo as a part of the FR of Yugoslavia, with the recommendation that all the disputes be resolved through dialogue. (Politika, April 23, 1996)

[06] 'SPIEGEL': KINKEL TO VISIT BELGRADE IN MAY

Chief of German diplomacy Klaus Kinkel is to visit Belgrade in mid-May, announces the weekly "Spiegel" in the presentation of the present state of facts of the German-Yugoslav relations. Kinkel is striving for the actual German policy in the Balkans to obtain the status of "an honorable mediator", writes the weekly. In the article with a slightly cynical title of "Courageous in the Convoy", German diplomacy is reproached for having been in the front lines by the end of 1991 in recognizing Slovenia and Croatia, while now it is "somewhere in the golden middle", among the countries which have normalized the relations with the FR of Yugoslavia. German magazine is writing also about tens of thousands (estimates range from 90 to 130 thousand) of the rejected asylum seekers, mostly Albanians from Kosmet. At the recent Government session in Bonn, when the decision was adopted on normalization of the relation with the FR of Yugoslavia, minister of police Manfred Kanter demanded that the question of establishment of full diplomatic relations be conditioned by an unconditional acceptance of the rejected asylum seekers. Kinkel opposed this, and Chancellor Kohl 'cut short' the debate by saying that the decision on normalization of the relations with FR of Yugoslavia has "first of all a political dimension". "Spiegel" also quotes the statement by the charge d'affaires of the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn Zoran Jeremic, that the asylum seekers can not be accepted just like that, without social security, in the situation when in Yugoslavia there are already some 700,000 refugees. The weekly adds to this reasonable comment by our diplomate its own conclusion that a large number of Albanians do not wish to return to their country. (Vecernje novosti, April 23, 1996)

[07] JIHAD, BUT A DIPLOMATIC ONE

In the first decade of December last, in the area of Zenica, Islamic and Sudanese analysts have defined a post-Dayton strategy for "Islamic Bosnia", reveals the Split magazine "Feral Tribune" and reports that it is a question "of a precisely elaborated strategy of the Islamic venture on Europe, with a broadly branching logistic network for terrorist operations in Bosnia- Herzegovina but also in the wider region". Split weekly is writing that the Iranian Ambassador in Zagreb Mohammed Dzavad Asajec "is the main organizer of the intelligence and terrorist activities of Teheran in the Balkans and in Europe". From Zagreb, cooperation is taking place and coordination with the local representatives of the Iranian intelligence service and the Hezballah, who are operating on the European soil under the cover of humanitarian activities. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, without counting the mujjahedins incorporated in the regular composition of the Muslim army, where they have obtained uniforms and a Bosnian citizenship and are not subject to the Dayton provisions, according to the sources of "Feral Tribune" there are between 4,000 and 6,000 active Islamic fanatics, under the direct command of the Iranian diplomate in Zagreb. The magazine is stating the estimates of the Islamic analysts and of the Washington experts that "the war in Bosnia- Herzegovina could be renewed in late winter or early spring next year, and by the offensive of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Army on the Serbian entity". According to the creators of the "Islamic Platform", Dayton Agreement is irreparably anti-Muslim, and therefore, as the only option for the establishment of the Shariat law in Bosnia-Herzegovina remains a hundred-year holy war - Jihad. (Politika ekspres, April 23, 1996)

[08] TUDJMAN DOES NOT GIVE UP

In spite of many protests arriving from all over the world, even from the U.S. Congress, the Croat President Franjo Tudjman stated that he upholds his idea for Jasenovac to be transformed into a memorial complex for all the Croat war victims and that this is also a component part of the policy of "reconciliation of the Croat people". In his interview for the Croat media, broadcasted by the Croat Television, Tudjman said that in Jasenovac there are not only victims of Fascism but that "there are also there victims of Communism" from 1945 to 1948. (Tanjug, April 23, 1996)

[09] DRAMA OF APATRIDES IN LJUBLJANA

After five years of life as an apatride - a stateless persons without any citizenship documents - a 42 years old Budimir Vukovic decided to go on a hunger strike to death in Slovenia. It is already the 55th day that he is not taking any food and he is now in agony. Organization for the protection of human rights - the Slovenian Helsinki Monitor, stated the case of Vukovic to the European Tribunal, and while the reply is awaited from the Hague, Slovenian bureaucracy is not paying any attention to Vukovic's sufferings. After 17 years of life in Slovenia, all the personal documents of Vukovic were taken away and destroyed, he was prevented from continuing in his job as a taxi-driver and was finally placed in the so-called "transition home for aliens". Vukovic, originating from Niksic, where he is not living for decades now, has no permanent address, and the young Slovenian democracy is depriving him of the Ljubljana address and granting of documents, because it has previously deleted him from the register of permanent inhabitants of Slovenia when he went on a six-month training course in Vrsac. Authorities are still attacking Vukovic, and after the medical examination it was announced that the reason for the hunger strike is of a psychiatric nature. "Psychiatric methods again in the service of repressive authorities. The method known from the totalitarian and the bolshevik systems, now the Slovenian police wishes to apply", said Neva Miklavcic-Predan, head of the Slovenian "Helsinki Monitor". Further to Budimir Vukovic, there are another 11,000 unfortunates from the former Yugoslav republics who are for years in vain trying to solve their status in Slovenia and obtain the documents necessary for a normal life. (Vecernje novosti, April 23, 1996) .
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