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Serbia Today, 96-10-02
Serbia Today
2 October 1996
CONTENTS
[01] SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA FINALLY LIFTED
[02] MILOSEVIC: STABLE PEACE, STABLE OVERALL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
[03] MILUTINOVIC: AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT EVENT
[04] CONDITIONS STILL DO NOT EXIST FOR THE ELECTIONS
[05] UNDER THE BATON OF THE UNITED NATIONS
[06] TESLA - THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
[07] REFUGEES ARE NOT WELCOME
[08] RICHES IN THE SOIL
[01] SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA FINALLY LIFTED
The Security Council last night by adopting the Resolution 1074, finally
and formally lifted the economic sanctions against Yugoslavia. The unanimous
decision on lifting of the sanctions came into force immediately by the very act
of its adoption. Sanctions were imposed on Yugoslavia on May 30, 1992 and
suspended on November 22, 1995 in order to be last night finally lifted. By the
Security Council Resolution, the Committee for Sanctions was also dissolved
which was existing throughout this time at the United Nations.
Through the Resolution on lifting the sanctions against Yugoslavia, the
economic embargo was also finally and formally lifted on the Republic of Srpska.
(TANJUG, October 2, 1996)
[02] MILOSEVIC: STABLE PEACE, STABLE OVERALL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
On the occasion of lifting of sanctions against the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic addressed the
public with the following words: "Today, all of us together have finally come
out of the most difficult period in which our country had found itself in its
recent history. The sanctions have been lifted. Over these ten months, from
Dayton until today, under the conditions of suspended sanctions, we have started
a successful economic recovery. Today, with the lifting of sanctions, with the
final lifting of sanctions, this path should be much faster and much more
successful. As of today and onwards, our future will depend on our work. Our
targets now, of successful economic development, of elevation of the standard of
living will be both faster and easier accessible. Our country, which is having
enormous possibilities for an accelerated economic development, will utilize
these possibilities comprehensively and successfully, and this will depend on
all of us. Therefore, I wish you all success in your work, success to every
citizen, to every family and to every village and town, in the times which are
before us, in the times in which we are expecting a stable peace and a stable
overall economic and social development. Good Luck!
(TANJUG, Politika, October 2, 1996)
[03] MILUTINOVIC: AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT EVENT
In his statement for the "Politika" daily newspaper, on the occasion of the
final lifting of sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, chief of
the Yugoslav diplomacy, Milan Milutinovic especially emphasized that Yugoslavia
"from the very beginning of the eruption of crisis, was striving for solution of
all the problems through a dialogue and by political means", as well as that "it
gave the crucial contribution towards reaching of and the implementation so far
of the Dayton Peace Accords for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina". Minister
Milutinovic also added that "bearing all this in mind, the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia is rightfully expecting that its unavoidable constructive and
peaceful role and its policy will be respected and that the Security Council
will soon pass the decision for the FR of Yugoslavia to take its place in the
United Nations which rightfully belongs to it...".
(Politika, October 2, 1996)
[04] CONDITIONS STILL DO NOT EXIST FOR THE ELECTIONS
Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia Ivica Kostovic claims that from the Croat
side everything is ready for the elections in the Slavonia and Baranja Region to
be held on December 15, 1996, supporting this claim by the fact that also "in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the situation was rather ambiguous and complicated,
the elections were held". Kostovic says that the right of vote will have only
the Croat citizens and this in accordance with the census of eligible voters
from the year 1991. Nothing is, however, being said about the manner in which
the citizenship is to be proven. If for this purpose only the documents will
serve, which are at a very slow pace being issued by the Croat officials, in
December tens of thousands of Serbs will remain without the right of vote,
because, regardless of the fact that they are listed on the eligible voters
lists, they will not be able to prove by Croat documents their Croat
citizenship. Simply speaking, they will not have them, and the documents that
they now possess, Croat authorities do not recognize.
(Politika, October 2, 1996)
[05] UNDER THE BATON OF THE UNITED NATIONS
The elections in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem will be
conducted, in accordance with the Erdut Agreement, by the UN transitional
administration. This was stated yesterday in Vukovar by the main spokesman of
the UNTAS Philip Arnold. While commenting of the declaration by the Croat Sabor
(Parliament) which is requesting that the UNTAS mandate be terminated on January
15, 1997, he said that "the UN transitional administration has informed of this
as well as of the Serbia request for the extension of the mandate for another
year, the Security Council which is to pass the final decision".
(Borba, October 2, 1996)
[06] TESLA - THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic received yesterday
representatives of the organizers of the International Conference "Tesla - The
Third Millennium", which is to be held this month in Belgrade, on the occasion
of the 140th anniversary of birth of Nikola Tesla. President Milosevic is the
sponsor of this great event in the honor of the scientist who through his
inventions has marked our contemporary times. There was talk of the further
development of science in our country and its successful integration in the
world scientific trends.
(Vecernje novosti, October 2, 1996)
[07] REFUGEES ARE NOT WELCOME
The authorities in Berlin have announced yesterday that they have started
informing refuges from Bosnia that they are no longer welcome in Germany and
that they have the deadline of four weeks to leave the country. The
spokes-person of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin said that 1,500
persons, among them single men and women and couples without children, as well
as 350 refugees who arrived to Germany after signing of the Dayton Accords, must
leave the country by the end of October.
(Nasa Borba, October 2, 1996)
[08] RICHES IN THE SOIL
Mineral and thermal water sources in Serbia correspond to the quantity of
550 million tons of liquid fuel. Total yield of these natural sources is some
4,000 liters per second. Our thermal waters, in some 60 spas - medical and
tourist resorts, are being used for balneologic, sports, recreative and tourist
purposes. These waters will be the topic of discussions at the scientific
gathering to be held in Arandjelovac (Serbia) on October 3 and 4, 1996.
(Politika ekspres, October 2, 1996)
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