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Serbia Today, 97-03-26

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From: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>

Serbia Today


CONTENTS

  • [01] SOON THE SECOND DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON INFORMATION
  • [02] NEW TESTIMONIES ON MUSLIM CRIMES
  • [03] 8,000 BOSNIAN CROATS RELOCATED TO KNIN
  • [04] AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ON THE SITUATION IN CROATIA
  • [05] PATRIARCH PAVLE SENDS MESSAGE TO SERBS IN SREM AND BARANJA REGION
  • [06] NO DECISION ABOUT TAKING PART AT THE ELECTIONS
  • [07] IVKOVIC: EVERYONE WHO WANTS PROFIT CAN INVEST HERE
  • [08] ASSEMBLY OF HUMANITARIANS - IMMIGRANTS AND OUR CITIZENS ABROAD
  • [09] THE LAW IS JUST AND COMPREHENSIVE
  • [10] IN THE GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA CONSULTATIONS BEGIN WITH POLITICAL PARTIES ABOUT THE DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION

  • [01] SOON THE SECOND DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON INFORMATION

    The role of media in the electoral process was the topic of the fifth session of the panel which was held last night in the National Assembly within the framework of the public debate on the first draft version of the Law on Information. The debate was attended by the representatives of the Socialist Party of Serbia, of the New Democracy, Democratic Community of Vojvodina Hungarians and the deputy club December 1st. It was concluded that the past debate should be the working platform for further discussions about this topic, and it was said that the second draft version of the proposed Law on Public Information will appear soon. From the session the invitation was sent to the representatives of the parliamentary opposition parties to join in the work of the panel.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26

    [02] NEW TESTIMONIES ON MUSLIM CRIMES

    Before the grand jury (judicial council) of the Municipal Court of Banja Luka, Slavko Jovicic was testifying yesterday, one of the crown witnesses in the trial against the Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic, who is charged with the indictment for war crimes against Serbian people, prisoners of war, sick and wounded. Jovicic, who had spent 1,334 days in Muslim prisons, for over two hours was speaking of the crimes of Muslims committed against the detained Serbs. He said that he knew Izetbegovic as the author of the Islamic Declaration since the year 1983 and that he considers him the most responsible for the eruption of the blood-spilling civil war with an enormous number of victims. Immediately after he was brought into the prison camp Silos, Jovicic, just like all the other prisoners, was subjected to torture and further on every day to harassment which was carried out by the Muslim soldiers, and even civilians from the surrounding villages, who were at all times free to enter the prison camp. "Alija Izetbegovic visited the prison camp of Tarcin four times, two times before we the prisoners constructed the command building for the command of the 14th Division of the Muslim army and twice in March 1995 when he was escorted by a large helicopter security of the then-UNPROFOR", specifies Jovicic.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Tanjug, 1997-03-26

    [03] 8,000 BOSNIAN CROATS RELOCATED TO KNIN

    Eight thousand Bosnian Croats were relocated to Knin until now in an organized way, claims Sarajevo newspaper "Slobodna Bosna". In Knin at the moment, there are some ten thousand inhabitants, 80 percent of them Croats, claims the newspaper in its report from this city. All of them have come to Knin at the invitation of the municipal assembly, or in the organization of the community of refugees and exiled Croats from Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is organizing the relocation of Bosnian Croats to Croatia, to the areas abandoned by Serbs. The newspaper is calling this community a tourist agency for relocation of peoples, which in its brochures is advertizing among Bosnian Croats, encouraging them to relocate to Croatia, where, according to the newspaper, a real paradise on earth awaits them. The newspaper further writes that Bosnian Croats have taken possession of the best houses, farming households and working posts.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Tanjug, 1997-03-26

    [04] AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ON THE SITUATION IN CROATIA

    The United States Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbright, in his interview for "Globus" magazine stated that certain cooling of relations has occurred between the United States and Croatia, most of all because Croatia is refusing the cooperation with The Hague Tribunal. The second reason, according to Ambassador Galbright, is the attitude of Croat authorities towards Serbs. "We are especially concerned over the fact that people who wish to return to their homes are prevented from doing that because the Croat government did not provide safe conditions for their return", says Galbright. After his talk with the President of the Executive Council of the Srem and Baranja Region Vojislav Stanimirovic, Galbright was speaking at the press conference in Vukovar about a great importance of having Serbs participate at the local elections, which could bring them in a very good negotiating position. Galbright stated that after the UN transitional administration in Eastern Slavonia, UNTAES, in this region a very strong UN mission will remain which will be succeeded by the observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-26

    [05] PATRIARCH PAVLE SENDS MESSAGE TO SERBS IN SREM AND BARANJA REGION

    In the church of Saint Dimitry Grand Martyr in Dalj, Serbian Patriarch Pavle has sent yesterday a message to Serbs in the Srem and Baranja Region to remain in the homesteads of their great-grandfathers and to take part at the forthcoming elections. "I am asking you all, brothers and sisters, in these decisive moments, when voting is to be done, to remain in your homesteads", appeals the Patriarch. "You should know that this is now the state of Croatia and this should be respected, as well as the fact that Serbs have been living here for many centuries. Do not ever forget your ancestors, do not ever forget who you are and have strong faith in God", said in his message Patriarch Pavle. Addressing of the local Serbs was preceded by the regular session of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Patriarchate of Dalj, which was also attended by the president of the Regional Government Vojislav Stanimirovic.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-03-26

    [06] NO DECISION ABOUT TAKING PART AT THE ELECTIONS

    Session of the Assembly of the Serbian Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem was adjourned yesterday in Vukovar without the final decision about taking part at the elections, scheduled for April 13, 1997. The earlier stand was reiterated that preparations should continue, and that Serbs will appear at the polling stations only when all the citizens obtain Croat documents, i.e. when the present many irregularities in the process of issuing of these documents are rectified. Warning was also given at irregularities in compiling of the electoral lists, and especially it was pointed out that separate voting lists are being made for the refugees from the other parts of Croatia, and separately for the domicil population.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26

    [07] IVKOVIC: EVERYONE WHO WANTS PROFIT CAN INVEST HERE

    Minister of Civil Engineering in the Government of the Republic of Serbia Dr. Branislav Ivkovic inaugurated yesterday in Novi Sad the fair exhibitions - The Sixth International Fair of Furniture, Equipment and Interior Design - AMBIANCE, The 13th International Fair of Civil Engineering, Ceramics and Equipment, and the 5th International Exhibition of Rubber and Plastics - Gumaplast. "Within the framework of changes which will increase as much as possible the efficiency of our economy", said Minister Ivkovic on this occasion, "the Government of Serbia has prepares a number of new legal projects which are leading towards transformation of the social capital. Further to the Law on Ownership Transformation which was a few days ago presented to the public and invitation given for public debate, Government of the Republic of Serbia has prepared yet a number of other laws which will be presented within the Law on Foreign Investments. Thus the Law on Concessions will make possible and stimulate a larger foreign investment in these areas, but also investments by domestic entities. The Law on Concessions is not making any difference between the foreign and the local investor. In these areas it will be made possible to make investments to all those who in a fair deal can make and want to make profit, to the extent to which this is convenient for this country and to the extent to which it is instigating its development, said Minister Ivkovic.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26

    [08] ASSEMBLY OF HUMANITARIANS - IMMIGRANTS AND OUR CITIZENS ABROAD

    The fourth Assembly of our citizens living abroad and immigrants who were gathering humanitarian aid and sending it to the motherland will be held on March 31st and April 1st in Belgrade. Participants of the Assembly will be informed of the humanitarian situation of refugees and exiled persons in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in the areas which were devastated by war, and especially of the difficult state in which are children, sick and serious invalids, in view of the exhausted stocks and reduced aid from abroad. At the Assembly it will be discussed how to promote cooperation between the associations of our citizens abroad, both their mutual cooperation and cooperation with the Federal Coordination Board for Humanitarian Aid and the other competent institutions in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Borba, 1997-03-26

    [09] THE LAW IS JUST AND COMPREHENSIVE

    The Law on Ownership Transformation is one of the capital reform laws which is profoundly penetrating the tissue of our economy and whose adoption is the component part of the overall social reforms announced by President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic. This was stated by the chairman of the Belgrade Committee of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Dragan Tomic. At the meeting devoted to the draft of this law, Tomic underlined that the very important fact for the SPS is that the law is offering priority and privileges in obtaining stocks of companies to the workers employed in these firms, but also to the retired persons who were creating these companies and have acquired the right to one part of the social property on the basis of their past employment. Judging the law in its essence, to be just and comprehensive, Tomic said that in the other counties in the period of transition, because of the solution of problems of ownership transforation, many workers found themselves in the streets but that this law is absolutely not allowing for such cases to happen.
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-03-26

    [10] IN THE GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA CONSULTATIONS BEGIN WITH POLITICAL PARTIES ABOUT THE DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION

    Minister for Economic and Ownership Transformation Milan Beko and representatives of the Serbian Radical Party, its president Vojislav Seselj and chief of the deputy group of radicals in the Parliament Tomislav Nikolic, had talks yesterday which is the beginning of the consultations with political parties about the draft version of the Law on Ownership Transformation. Invitation to take part in the public debate was sent by Minister Beko also to the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia, Citizens Alliance of Serbia and Serbian Renewal Movement. "Serbian Radical Party was the first one to accept the invitation and has thus shown its constructive approach and accepted to talk about the basic principles of the Law and its motivational mechanisms, in which respect we have reached full agreement", stated Minister Beko. Vojislav Seselj stated that the draft version of the Law on Ownership Transformation is the best and the most serious legal project which the Government has offered and added: "It is our wish, regardless of the ideological and political differences with the government, for this Law to be good and to be applied as soon as possible, because without privatization there is no way out of the crisis".
    Serbia Today, 1997-03-26 ; Politika, 1997-03-26

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