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Serbia Today, 97-02-06
Serbia Today
CONTENTS
[01] GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S INITIATIVE
[02] OPPOSITION DOUBTS THE INTENTIONS OF THE RULING PARTIES
[03] MIKELIC: CROATIA IS VIOLATING ITS OBLIGATIONS
[04] EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE REGIONAL ASSEMBLY IN VUKOVAR
[05] FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR QUALITY ESTABLISHED
[06] REACTIONS IN THE WORLD: "A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT"
[07] IVANOV: DE-STABILIZATION OF YUGOSLAVIA WOULD HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON
THE BALKANS AND EUROPE
[01] GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S INITIATIVE
Government of the Republic of Serbia, at its yesterday's session chaired by
Mirko Marjanovic, gave its full support to the proposals of the President
of the Republic Slobodan Milosevic, contained in his letter submitted
yesterday to the Prime Minister. These proposals have the aim to overcome
urgently electoral disputes regarding the part of local elections,
especially in Belgrade. While adopting the stands that the state interest
for promotion of the relations between our country and the O.S.C.E. and the
international community surpasses the importance of any electoral dispute
in some cities of the Republic, Government of the Republic of Serbia has
determined and submitted for adoption to the National Assembly of Serbia
the Draft Law on proclamation as final of the temporary electoral results
for the deputies in the municipal assemblies and city assemblies, as stated
in the report of the O.S.C.E. Mission. Convinced that this law will provide
for the solution of the existing electoral crisis, Government has submitted
a request to the Assembly to debate the law at its extraordinary session.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Politika, 1997-02-06
[02] OPPOSITION DOUBTS THE INTENTIONS OF THE RULING PARTIES
Opposition parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina have expressed their doubts in the
sincerity of intentions of the ruling parties: the Muslim Party of
Democratic Action (SDA) and the Croat Democratic Community (HDZ), to bring
into life the conclusions from the latest session of the forum of the
Muslim-Croat Federation, report the independent Sarajevo media. At this
session of the forum, chaired by the Deputy U.S. Secretary of State for
Europe John Cornblum, federal partners agreed to establish the cantonal
police force and the city council in Sarajevo, to make possible freedom of
movement and return of refugees and to adopt the law on municipalities. "If
it is to be judged by the hundreds of adopted conclusions after the
Washington Agreement which were not implemented, I am not an optimist even
now", said the president of the Social Democratic Party Nijaz Durakovic and
added that "the federal partners in the form of the ruling national parties
can agree only under the pressure of the American mediators". Also the vice-
president of the Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina Social Democrats Sejfudin
Tokic is of the view that the latest conclusions will change nothing
significantly, because they are the result of the pressure by the American
mediator, and not the expression of the will of leaders of the two national
parties.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-02-06
[03] MIKELIC: CROATIA IS VIOLATING ITS OBLIGATIONS
President of the Committee for Protection of Rights and Obligations of
Displaced Persons Borislav Mikelic, submitted yesterday a letter to the UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan and the officials of the other international
organizations, with the request to start urgently resolving of the fate and
status matters of the enormous number of refugees and exiled persons now
located in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Mikelic is warning of the
great problems which have arisen in the realization of the Erdut Agreement,
especially pointing out at the lack of cooperation from the Croat side. He
also accused the UN Administrator for the Srem and Baranja Region, General
Jacques Klein, of his "one-side supporting attitude". Mikelic recalls that
according to the provisions of the Erdut Agreement, the area of the Srem
and Baranja Region was designated as a wholesome entity, and that this is
now being brought under a question mark. The dialogue between Serbs in the
Srem and Baranja Region and the Croat authorities should be continued with
the assistance of the representatives of the international community,
including the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, states Mikelic.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-02-06
[04] EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE REGIONAL ASSEMBLY IN VUKOVAR
At the yesterday's session of the Assembly of the Serbian Region of Eastern
Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, President of the regional Executive
Council Vojislav Stanimirovic, first of all pointed out at the positive
sides of the latest presidential communique of the UN Security Council.
According to Stanimirovic, in this communique the possibility remains for a
lasting demilitarization of the region, then the stand was stated that the
elections should take place only when Croatia creates for them all the
conditions, and it was determined that the final date for the elections
will be set by the UN Administrator Jacques Klein, which Croatia will be
bound to accept. The positive side in the communique is also the fact that
the Erdut Agreement has been re-affirmed and that the Croat obligations
were pointed out in respect to the amnesty of Serbs. Stanimirovic and the
other participants in the debate pointed out that in the forthcoming period
the Serbian side must struggle for the postponement of the elections, for
the extension of the UN mandate for another half a year period, for a clear
definition of the status of the Alliance of Serbian Municipalities and for
the stay of population in this region.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-02-06
[05] FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR QUALITY ESTABLISHED
Our economy through its exports even at the time of sanctions, and
especially after the sanctions, proved that it is capable of producing good
quality goods, but this does not at all mean that we are satisfied with
what has been achieved. This was stated yesterday at the constitutive
session of the Council for Quality of the Federal Government, by the Deputy
Prime Minister and President of this Council Nikola Sainovic. "The main
task of the Council", said Sainovic, "will be the promotion of work and
quality in our economy, but also in the other fields of life. Quality of
our products must reach the requirements of the modern market economy and
proper quality control maintained of everything that will be offered and
sold in our shops. According to the latest data, in Yugoslavia there are
some 8,600 mandatory standards and 311 technical regulations, regulating
almost all the pores of the economic life, and all this after lifting of
sanctions, must be re-examined. Therefore, one of the primary tasks of the
Council will be the establishment of the information basis on the actual
problems of quality in the country".
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Politika, 1997-02-06
[06] REACTIONS IN THE WORLD: "A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT"
Chief of the Greek diplomacy Teodoros Pangalos qualified the initiative of
President Milosevic as a courageous one and as "a very positive
development". He underlined that there should be a stop put to the constant
attempts "by some of the international factors to find new excuses in order
to postpone integration of Yugoslavia into the international life".
Representative of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized the
principled Chinese stand that the local elections in Serbia are the
interior affair, and then expressed hope that the decision of President
Milosevic will be useful for easing of the present situation. "We believe
that the interested parties in Yugoslavia will be able to resolve the
internal problems in the right way", said the representative of the Chinese
Foreign Ministry and expressed hope that normalization of the situation in
Belgrade and in Serbia will help a faster return of Yugoslavia into the
international institutions.
In the reaction to the initiative of President Milosevic, the spokesman of
the State Department Nicholas Burns stated that "the United States welcome
such a step which is leading in the right direction". He recalled that the
United States are of the view that the solution of the crisis must be found
on the basis of the O.S.C.E. recommendations and said that now the
realization is to be expected of the decisions made.
In the diplomatic circles in the O.S.C.E. headquarters, the letter by
President Milosevic is welcomed with the comment that the final solution of
this problem is on the horizon. At the same time it is underlined that
"further steps are expected in the direction of the democratization and the
dialogue between the Government and the opposition in Serbia".
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Tanjug, 1997-02-06
[07] IVANOV: DE-STABILIZATION OF YUGOSLAVIA WOULD HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON
THE BALKANS AND EUROPE
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Igor Ivanov stated in his
interview for the Moscow daily "Nezavisimaja gazeta" that the Yugoslav-
Russian relations "on long-term basis are being maintained at a very high
level". While reiterating that he was not in Belgrade on a mediating
mission, because it is a question of an interior affair of a sovereign
country, and that Gonzales also did not have a mediating mandate, Ivanov
said that "not every one has read the Gonzales report and his commentary
carefully". In this connection he pointed out that everyone was focusing
attention on the item which speaks of the disputable municipalities, not
bearing in mind the Gonzales qualification that the elections in Serbia
"made possible expressing of the will of the majority of citizens".
Furthermore, warns Ivanov, Gonzales is also writing that the way out of the
present situation can only be found by Serbs themselves. Ivanov remarked
that politicians of some western countries are trying to earn for
themselves the political points from the situation in Yugoslavia. "It would
be counter productive to increase artificially the tensions about
Yugoslavia, because any de-stabilization in this country would have
negative effect on the Balkans and on Europe in general", said Ivanov.
Serbia Today, 1997-02-06 ; Borba, 1997-02-06
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