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Serbia Today, 96-11-22Serbia Today Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>Serbia Today22 November 1996CONTENTS
[01] NINE BILLIONS INTO FEDERAL TREASURYAt the session presided by the Prime Minister Dr. Radoje Kontic. the Federal Government verified proposed law for the 1997 Federal Budget , totaling nine billions and 238 millions of dinars. This is 8,94 percent of the gross national product. By this proposition the partaking of the federal budget in the gross national product is reduced by 0,84 percent as compared to this year.The proposed federal budget for 1997 is based on firm resoluteness to continue the financing of public expenditure out of factual sources exclusively, thus being a major stabilizing contribution to the economic and industrial processes in our country. As during the last three years, the Government persist that the federal budget should have a stabilizing function. (Borba, Nov. 22, 1996.) [02] PEACE AND TRUST - FIRST TASKYesterday, in Belgrade, the session of the Supreme Defense Council was held, presided by Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic attended the session.According to the Supreme Defense Council, FR Yugoslavia will continue to make all the efforts to strengthen the peace, security and mutual trust among the nations in the region of Former Yugoslavia and the Balkans. The Supreme Defense Council supported the projection of the military budget for 1997, established by the Federal Government, conforming with the proposition of the Federal Defense Ministry and Yugoslav Army General Staff. (Borba, Nov. 22, 1996) [03] MORE SUBSTANTIATE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID IN 1997Serbian Commissary for Refugees, Ms. Bratislava Morina in her statement to TANJUG said that FR Yugoslavia will have a more notable treatment of the international community in providing humanitarian aid for the sheltering of refugees. The most important humanitarian organizations will continue to send humanitarian aid to FRY in the next year, surely not less than in this year , and also the numerous programs of sheltering more than 600000 refugees in FRY will be accomplished. This is the central point of the three-day talks of Ms. Morina with the representatives of the most important international humanitarian organizations in Geneva. (TANJUG, Nov. 22, 1996.)[04] CONSTITUTIVE SESSIONS TO BE HELD SOONIn municipalities, where there were no objections or complaints on the regularity of elections, the preparations for holding the constitutive sessions of municipal assemblies have begun. But, yesterday, in some places, the municipal party leaders held press conferences, explaining mainly the contents of objections and complaints addressed to the electoral commissions and courts of law. (Politika, Nov. 22, 1996.)[05] RESULTS OF DAYTON AGREEMENT POSITIVEMr. Momcilo Krajisnik, member of the Tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that " Serbs in Bosnia insist upon strict implementation of the Dayton Agreement, because this is the first rule all the sides must follow if they want to reach a settlement and avoid war".In his exclusive interview to Frankfurt newspapers VESTI, designed for the Yugoslav population in Diaspora, emphasized that " the Serbian population in Republic of Srpska has a most positive balance" regarding to the Dayton Agreement. Commenting on the relations between Republic of Srpska and FR Yugoslavia, Mr. Krajisnik stressed the most effective cooperation in sheltering refugees, rebuilding of Sarajevo and other fields. (Vecernje novosti, Nov. 22, 1996.) [06] SERBS INSIST ON CURRICULUM IN SERBIAN LANGUAGE"This platform is the basis upon which we want to maintain the political, national, cultural and historical identity. Serbian population has its schools in the region of Krajina since the end of the 18. century, and the education was performed in Serbian language. We have been living in these regions for centuries and we are of opinion that we have the right to bring up and educate our youth in the Serbian language. We do not want to have anything more or less than other nations in this region, meaning being able to attend schools in our own language, the same we enabled all the nations living here with us", said yesterday Borivoje Zivanovic, Chairman of the Eastern Slavonia, Baranya and Srem Assembly, presenting the platform on the basis of educational policy for the Serbian population in the region to the Representative of the European Union for Education and Culture, Mr. Gabrielle Maza, Chair of the Common Committee for Education and the Chief of UNTAES Committee for Education Mandiar Kishor.According to Borivoje Zivkovic, the platform is established upon all the declarations and documents acknowledged by the UN General Assembly and the contemporaneous Europe. (Politika, Nov. 22, 1996.) [07] PREVIOUS SPLENDOR RESTOREDSerbian Patriarch Pavle consecrated the renewed building of the Orthodox Church in Belgrade on St. Archangel Michael's Day. For more than three years a team of the most renowned experts of the National Museum, Faculty of Fine Arts and the University of Construction has been restoring its interior.The Patriarch expressed his thanks to the Serbian Government, Belgrade's Government, Institute for the Protection of the Cultural Treasures, the Federal Customs Administration and to all the donators who helped the renovation of the Belgrade Orthodox Church. (Politika ekspres, Nov. 22, 1996.) Serbia Today Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |