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Serbia Today, 96-11-25
Serbia Today
25 November 1996
CONTENTS
[01] EU MINISTERS COUNCIL ON COOPERATION WITH FRY
[02] THERE WILL BE NO DEVALUATION OR REEVALUATION OF YUGOSLAV CURRENCY
[03] YUGOSLAV TOURISM WEEK IN WARSAW
[04] MS MORINA ATTENDING REGIONAL MEETING OF COMMISSARIES FOR REFUGEES
[05] THE REMAINING OF SERBS IN THE DANUBE BASIN GUARANTEES PEACE AND STABILITY
[06] MS RENN SHOCKED BY THE POSITION OF SERBS
[07] IFOR CONFISCATED MUSLIM POLICE ILLEGAL WEAPONS
[08] ANOTHER MEDAL TO A CRIMINAL
[01] EU MINISTERS COUNCIL ON COOPERATION WITH FRY
The EU Ministers Council, at its today session in Brussels
will among other question discuss the resuming cooperation with
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, namely the question of
extending the so-called positive measures of trade with the EU
members, which would for the first time after the lifting of
sanctions be applied to the FRY industry. As implied at the
European Commission in Brussels, starting with the first January
next year, FR Yugoslavia should enter the circle of countries of
the former Yugoslavia that have no agreements on cooperation with
the European Fifteen but are already applying the "autonomous
regime of preferentials".
(Borba, Nov. 25, 1996.)
[02] THERE WILL BE NO DEVALUATION OR REEVALUATION OF YUGOSLAV CURRENCY
There is no sense in even thinking let alone talk about the
change of dinars' rate. The rate is stable and realistic. The
problem is that our prices are higher than those applied
worldwide. So, the change of currency rate is not to be expected,
but the prices should conform to the world market ones. This was
stated by Mr. Slobodan Radulovic, Serbian Government Deputy
Premier, answering the Radio Kragujevac's question, whether the
Yugoslav currency might be devaluated or reevaluated. Assessing
the year drawing to a close, Mr. Radulovic pointed out the fact
that it was a hard year but that the national product could be
increased. "This year has shown that there are realistic chances
to count on a stable increase of production in 1997, as well as
of the export and GNP, thus enabling the comming of foreign
investors", said Deputy Premier Radulovic.
(Nasa Borba, Nov. 25,96.)
[03] YUGOSLAV TOURISM WEEK IN WARSAW
During the "Yugoslav Tourism Week" in Warsaw, a wide offer
of vacations in the sea-side resorts and mountain centers of our
country was presented.
The Yugoslav tourist potentials were presented under the
patronage of the Yugoslav Embassy in Warsaw, and with the help
of the Association "League Yugoslavia-Poland", Poland's Chamber
of Tourism and our firms in Warsaw. About fifty tourist firms
from Poland have shown great interest in dealing with Yugoslav
partners and already concrete arrangements have been made on the
coming of Polish tourist to the winter centers at Kopaonik,
Durmitor and Brezovica mountains.
(Politika, Nov. 24,1996.)
[04] MS MORINA ATTENDING REGIONAL MEETING OF COMMISSARIES FOR REFUGEES
Serbian Commissar for Refugees, Ms. Bratislava Morina will
today, in Sarajevo, attend the third regional meeting of
Commissaries for Refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Croatia. At this session the talks started in Budapest and
Milocer on problems of integration and repatriation of refugees
will be intensified. Since there are more than 250 thousands of
B&H refugees in FR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav party will insist
that all the three sides in Bosnia expedite the building of
conditions for the return of their citizens, as well as upon the
more effective support of the international community.
(Vecernje novosti, Nov. 25,1996.)
[05] THE REMAINING OF SERBS IN THE DANUBE BASIN GUARANTEES PEACE AND STABILITY
A stable peace and the implementation of the Dayton
Agreement require the stability in the region of Eastern
Slavonia, Baranya and Western Srem, and the stability depends,
above all, upon the strategic existence of Serbian population in
the region. That also guarantees the stability of relations
between Croatia and Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina,
i.e., Republic of Srpska, but also of the entire region. The
existence of Serbs is their vital interest, but not at all costs,
only under the UN and international community guarantees.
The failure of UN mission and the exodus of Serbs from the
region would endanger the Dayton Agreement and the stability in
the entire region. This is the essence of words of Mr. Tomislav
Kresevic, the director of the BINA Agency in Belgrade. one of the
authors of the book "UN Protection of Serbs", spoken yesterday
at the promotion of the book in the Serbian Cultural Center in
Vukovar. The publication in English and German language,
published by the Association of Serbs from the Republic of
Croatia in Belgrade and BINA is a unique collection of documents,
that should explain the position of Serbian people in the Region
and the possible future solutions.
(Politika, Nov. 24,1996.)
[06] MS RENN SHOCKED BY THE POSITION OF SERBS
Ms. Elisabeth Renn, UN Special Envoy for Human Rights, in
Banjaluka, talked to the representatives of the Association of
Serbs exiled from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Croatia about
the situation on human rights and the return of refugees to the
places they were exiled from by force. At the anniversary of the
Croatian operation against Krajina, I have stayed in these region
and am shocked by the encountered situation of the Serbs and by
all that I have seen in these devastated regions, said Ms.
Elisabeth Renn and added that she has informed the UN Security
Council about her findings. The representatives of the
Association informed MS Renn about the new problems in fulfilling
of human rights of the exiles from Croatia. The unsolved problem
of the 2.925 war prisoners and dead Serbian soldiers and
civilians was particularly stressed. as well as the hiding of the
mass entombments and the suspicions that the Croatian side is
engaged in blackmailing and trading the dead bodies. It was also
notified that Croatia does not follow the international law on
private property, regulation of the IDs, reimbursement of
property and war losses, pensions and other rights, as well as
the dubious law on amnesty.
(Borba, Nov. 25,1996.)
[07] IFOR CONFISCATED MUSLIM POLICE ILLEGAL WEAPONS
IFOR has confiscated larger quantities of weapons that the
Muslim Police has illegally kept in the Sanski Most precinct,
stated yesterday IFOR representative Major Bret Boudro. From the
Muslim police, en mortars, caliber 82 mm, 45 trombone mines and
certain quantities of light weapons and ammunitions were
confiscated. Mortars are by no means part of standard weaponry,
said Boudro.
(Ekspres, Nov. 24,1996.)
[08] ANOTHER MEDAL TO A CRIMINAL
Sinisa Rimac is one of the five criminals who admitted
murdering the Serbian family Zec in Zagreb, in 1991 and were
acquitted on the ground of a "procedural mistake". Not only was
he never punished for his abominable crime, but he was first
admitted as the member of Defense Ministry Security and then
promoted to the rank of "satnik" (captain) of the Croat Army,
given the high Croatian medal of Nikola Zrinjski Order, which is
being assigned to the ones who "performed a heroic act". Is the
act of a hero to murder the father , the mother and the child and
to burring their bodies at the garbage heap? This is not the end.
It is been announced that the criminal Rimac is at present the
member of a State President elite unit and at the proposal of the
Defense Minister, the State President awarded Rimac with the
Order of the Croatian Cross. No wonder that the same President,
after receiving the Zhukov Medal from the Russian President as
a statesman-active member of the anti fascist combat in the
Second World War, personally handed the medals to the thirteen
officers of the Pavelic's Army, then fighting the anti-fascists
(Politika, Nov. 25,1996.)
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