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Serbia Today 96-06-05
Serbia Today
5 June 1996
CONTENTS
[01] STABILITY OF DINAR MUST BE PRESERVED
[02] OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
[03] TALKS BETWEEN THE YUGOSLAV, GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN BUSINESSMEN
[04] 'WE ARE NOTHING ELSE BUT NEW SERBS'
[05] PROTESTS TO TUDJMAN FROM JERUSALEM
[06] REVIVAL OF THE CRUSADE WAR
[07] SERBS HARASSED AGAIN IN GRBAVICA AND ILIDZA
[08] AN ORGANIZED CHAOS IN SARAJEVO
[09] REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA IS NOT READY TO SACRIFICE ITS INDEPENDENCE
[10] CARDINAL PULJIC DEMANDS A STOP TO ISLAMIZATION
[11] 'JUSTICE FOR SERBIA' IN THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT
[01] STABILITY OF DINAR MUST BE PRESERVED
Federal Government at its yesterday's session discussed the projection of the monetary policies
until the end of this year and expressed its firm determination for the monetary policy to be in the function
of the implementation of the determined economic policies, especially regarding the preservation of the
stability of dinar (local currency) and achievement of the planed production of exports. The Government is
of the view that the monetary policy, as the main instrument for preservation of the currency stability, must
be based on the real foreign exchange coverage and that it must fully follow the growth of production and
the achievement of the export targets. The targets of monetary policy are in the function of normalization of
the relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the International Monetary Fund and with the
other international financial institutions, states the Federal Government. (Borba, June 5, 1996)
[02] OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Svetozar Krstic inaugurated yesterday the 17th
International Fair of Entrepreneurship, the Fair of ideas, business and franchising entitled "Small-Scale
Economy '96" and the First International Fair of Horticulture. This year's international stock exchange of
small-scale economy has gathered almost 200 exhibitors, among them businessmen from Italy, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Romania and Greece. "The state should give an impetus to the progress and development of
small-scale and medium firms and should provide for equitable and stable conditions for all entrepreneurs.
It is necessary to establish also an agency for re-structuring which would offer expert advice for the
assistance of entrepreneurs and for linking them with the world, while the business banks should secure
funds for financing of the programs", said the Deputy Prime Minister Krstic. (Politika, June 5, 1996)
[03] TALKS BETWEEN THE YUGOSLAV, GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN BUSINESSMEN
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belgrade Gerhard Shrembgens and the
representatives of the renown German companies "Feroshtal" from Essen and "Sauresing" from Freden have
visited the Drina and Kolubara regions and had talks with the business and political leadership there.
Representatives of "Zorka" from Sabac, "Visoka" from Loznica, "Krusik" from Valjevo and some other
major companies of this region, informed their guests of their production programs and offered concrete
forms of cooperation. German firms which already had a cooperation with the industry of that region,
expressed readiness to continue and extend cooperation. Ambassador Shrembgens underlined that it is
necessary for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to become as soon as possible an equitable member of the
European and other international economic and monetary institutions and that Germany is ready to give its
assistance in this.
In Belgrade there was a meeting yesterday of the representatives of 17 Austrian and some 50 Yugoslav
companies from the fields of industry, trade and finance, to discuss activating of the mutual cooperation.
The visit had taken place after the survey of some one thousand Austrian firms on whether they would wish
and could sell and buy in Yugoslavia and whether they are interested in cooperation. This survey indicated
a great degree of interest and showed readiness of the Austrian economy to credit joint deals. It is necessary
for the governments of the two countries to help their economies in successful cooperation, said Dr. Franz
Erchart, the trade attache of the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade. (Politika, June 5, 1996)
[04] 'WE ARE NOTHING ELSE BUT NEW SERBS'
One of the recognizable characteristics of the ruling Croat Democratic Community (HDZ) is its
unitarianism and extreme centralism, and therefore it is quite understandable that among its most dangerous
enemies it is ranking all those who are striving for de-centralization of power and for strengthening of the
regional and local self-government, otherwise known as the normal and customary democratic tendencies.
The lord mayor of the city of Rijeka and the Sabor (Croat Parliament) deputy of the SDP Slavko Linic, who
came in a clandestine way in the possession of one copy of the draft law on the local self-government, says
that what is happening now in Croatia and what is being prescribed by this law, is not in the least in
accordance with either the Constitution or with the European Charter on the local self-governmemt. "Since
we have freed ourselves of the aggressor, I was expecting that we shall discuss development, because there
are no more Serbs here. However, from the present draft of the new law it derives that we, in the local self-
government, are unnecessary and that we are serving only as a decorum for the ruling party. That is why I
have concluded that we are nothing else but the new Serbs who are feared by the ruling party and who are to
be conquered by her, enslaved and destroyed", says Linic. (Politika, June 5, 1996)
[05] PROTESTS TO TUDJMAN FROM JERUSALEM
Memorial Center of Holocaust in Jad Vashem in Jerusalem has sent a letter to the Croat President
Franjo Tudjman stressing that it is simply inconceivable that in the very place of mass assassination and
Nazi genocide of Jasenovac together with the victims, their own killers could be buried. This does not mean
only an attempt at the rehabilitation of the Fascist criminals, but also an unforgivable offense of the memory
of the killed victims, reads the letter. "Management of the Jad Vashem is addressing you with the demand
not to disturb the memories of the victims", emphasizes the message to Tudjman, with the recall that 25,000
Jews have been killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp by the Croat Ustashi. (Borba, June 5, 1996)
[06] REVIVAL OF THE CRUSADE WAR
At the European Bishops Conference, Zagreb Cardinal Franjo Kuharic stated a number of
falsehoods about the events which have taken place in the Balkans, striving to proclaim the entire Serbian
people as criminals and at the same time to wash the blood off the hands of Croat authorities. Among other
things, Cardinal Kuharic is claiming that Serbs have plundered, destroyed houses and churches belonging to
Croats, while plundering and destruction of Serbian houses after the military aggression of the Croat Army
he is ascribing to individuals and gangs. As if he does not know that 130,000 of Serbian houses could not
be destroyed by individuals alone. For this it is necessary to have an organization, experts and a large
amount of explosives which in all the states in the world are being kept by either the army or police forces.
Cardinal must be well aware of the fact that the Croat state has expropriated 51,000 of Serbian apartments
with the ownership papers. Before the European bishops, Cardinal stated that Serbs during the liberation,
were escaping for three reasons: they had the orders of their authorities and church to withdraw, they were
not psychologically ready to accept the reality of the new Croat state and, thirdly, they were escaping
because previously they have plundered and destroyed Croat property. Although Tudjman called them to
remain, by guaranteeing them safety, 120,000 Serbs had withdrawn, said Cardinal. According to him, all
Serbs are sinners, and the responsibility is a collective one. And it is well know what has happened to those
Serbs who have remained in Krajina in their homes. Five thousand of them, mostly aged, were killed.
Before this war, over 800,000 Serbs lived in Croatia, but the Croat ethnic broom had wiped out over
700,000 of them. Cardinal mentioned only 120,000 persons who have escaped. Does he know why Serbs
have escaped from larger cities? Does he know that in spring of 1991 in Zadar area alone over 500 Serbian
houses have been set on fire? Does the Cardinal know that Croat sol
ers in this century have burnt down almost all of the Serbian churches in the territory of Croatia? Does the
Cardinal know that under his own roof in the year 1946 4.5 tons of gold teeth were found, extracted from
the mouths of the killed Serbs and Jews? (Vecernje novosti, June 5, 1996)
[07] SERBS HARASSED AGAIN IN GRBAVICA AND ILIDZA
Representatives of the UN have reported yesterday that they are concerned over the growing
lawlessness, ethnic violence and harassment in Sarajevo and in northern Bosnia. "We are daily receiving the
reports about the growing crime rate in Grbavica and Ilidza", said the UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko.
The IFOR spokesman Major Simon Hayslock said that those few Serbs who have remained "are still
exposed to harassment, plunder and expropriation of their property". The spokesman of the UN High
Commissariat for Refugees Chriss Janovski mentioned the case of one aged Serb who was beaten five times
only over the last ten days. Members of the international police are disappointed with the behavior of the
federal authorities, which have undertaken the obligation to respect the rights of the Serbian minority, said
Alexander Ivanko for the press. (Politika, June 5, 1996)
[08] AN ORGANIZED CHAOS IN SARAJEVO
Many Serbs who have, in spite of all pressures and fears, nevertheless remained in their native city
of Sarajevo, immediately after the Sarajevo suburbs came under the control of the Croat-Muslim federation,
are packing their bags these days and are moving out. They have remained in the hope that they can live
together with their, until yesterday, neighbors. But today they have seen that it is a thing of times long gone.
They are leaving because the authorities and the gangs are forcing them in this way to this desperate move.
Sarajevo media are reporting that the most difficult situation is in the village of Osijek near Ilidza, whose
almost entire population remained after the change of government, but are now announcing their departure.
In a dramatic appeal to the international community by the Democratic Initiative of the Sarajevo Serbs, an
organization formed after the change of rule, for prevention of the exodus, it is specified that since the
Federation has taken over the rule, over 200 cases of plunder were registered, expropriation of property and
harassment of citizens of Serbian nationality. It is stated in the appeal that Serbs are being forced these days
to abandon their homes, and those who have returned are not being allowed to enter their own houses, that
their graves are being desecrated, churches plundered and mined and their freedom of movement restricted.
Sarajevo weekly newspaper "Slobodna Bosna" is writing that "what is happening these last weeks in
Sarajevo suburbs can be most precisely described as an organized chaos", and that "in its background stands
an organized and from the top of the pyramid conducted action". (Tanjug, June 5, 1996)
[09] REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA IS NOT READY TO SACRIFICE ITS INDEPENDENCE
Vice President of the Assembly of the Republic of Srpska Momcilo Krajisnik stated that the
Republic of Srpska is not ready to sacrifice its independence achieved by the Dayton Agreement and make
possible establishment again of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a single state. In his interview for Radio Nis he
confirmed the orientation of the Bosnian Serbs towards the implementation of the Dayton Agreement and
added that the Republic of Srpska has fulfilled all that was asked of it in the present preparations for the
elections. "The international community is approaching the peace agreement outside of the Dayton
Agreement and wishes to link us more strongly to the other entity", said Krajisnik. He added that the
international mediators are very often ascribing the blame of Muslims and Croats for the non-
implementation of the agreement to Serbs. (Vecernje novosti, June 5, 1996)
[10] CARDINAL PULJIC DEMANDS A STOP TO ISLAMIZATION
Cardinal Vinko Puljic appealed during his visit to Germany to the European Union countries not
to stand by a watch calmly the Islamization of Bosnia-Herzegovina, reported yesterday the Croat Radio. "If
Europe is to fall asleep now, the Islamic radicalism will catch roots in the European house", said Puljic and
warned that the Islamization has already far advanced in the Muslim army, education and media in the areas
under the control of the Muslim army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Borba, June 5, 1996)
[11] 'JUSTICE FOR SERBIA' IN THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT
Austrian writer Peter Handke yesterday evening read in the national Parliament the excerpts from
his essay "Justice for Serbia". The work of this Austrian writer encountered different reactions in the
international public, from approval and praises up to criticism and dispute. In his essay, as well as in the
series of public readings, Handke strongly criticized the one-sided and distorted reporting by the western
media about the conflicts in former Yugoslavia and double standards which the international community is
applying to the participants in the war in Bosnia. The invitation by the Parliament to Handke to read
publicly before the deputies and guests excerpts from his essay is being interpreted as a special kind of
recognition to the author, but also as a certain signal to Serbia. (Politika ekspres, June 5, 1996)
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