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Serbia Today, 97-04-04

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

Serbia Today


CONTENTS

  • [01] PRIME MINISTER MARJANOVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF THE STUDENTS ALLIANCE
  • [02] WHY SILENCE ABOUT THE AGGRESSION OF THE CROAT ARMY ON BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA?
  • [03] ATTACKS ON SERBS IN ZAGREB AND KOSTAJNICA
  • [04] NO CONDITIONS FOR THE ELECTIONS
  • [05] "SERBIAN KNIGHTHOOD" DECORATIONS AWARDED
  • [06] DECISION WILL BE PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY
  • [07] SINCERE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN SERBS AND JEWS
  • [08] NEW DAILY IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE
  • [09] DONOR EXHIBITION FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN
  • [10] KOSOVO CAN BE DISCUSSED ONLY IN OUR COUNTRY
  • [11] SECOND DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON INFORMATION TO BE PRESENTED TODAY

  • [01] PRIME MINISTER MARJANOVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF THE STUDENTS ALLIANCE

    Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic, received yesterday on the occasion of April 4th, Day of Students of Belgrade, the delegation of the Students' Alliance of Belgrade. While congratulating students their holiday, which is having a long tradition at the Belgrade University, Prime Minister especially underlined that over the past three years the Government of the Republic of Serbia has allocated over 200 million dinars for the improvement of conditions for the studies and standard of living, so that today in over 80 percent of the accommodation buildings in which students are housed, has the level of a B category hotel. Marjanovic also said that the Government in this academic year has granted 16,000 grants, 1,300 scholarships and over another 600 scholarships for specially talented students. Government will continue with the policy of further improvement of the quality of work and life of students, but at the same time it will insist on the improvement of results during the studies.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Borba, 1997-04-04

    [02] WHY SILENCE ABOUT THE AGGRESSION OF THE CROAT ARMY ON BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA?

    The former commander of the Muslim Army Sefer Halilovic stated yesterday that he does not understand why the documents are still being concealed about the aggression of the regular army of the Republic of Croatia on Bosnia-Herzegovina. In his statement for the independent Sarajevo electronic media, he added that he does not understand why it is concealed from the public what were the intentions of the aggression and secession of the Croat Community of Herzeg-Bosnia. Halilovic recalled that the commander of the Croat Defense Council Ante Gotovina in early April 1992 issued an order according to which the units of the Croat Defense Council are the only legal units in Herzeg-Bosnia, and that the Muslim units and illegal and para-military. Halilovic was dismissed from the post of the commander by the end of 1993 because he was supporting the stand that frontiers and territorial size of 33 percent would be the area for which the Muslim army is to fight, and not for the entire territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-04-04

    [03] ATTACKS ON SERBS IN ZAGREB AND KOSTAJNICA

    During the past two days in Croatia two serious incidents have occurred in which citizens of Serbian nationality were attacked. On Tuesday evening in the very center of Zagreb, in front of the railway station, a group of the young members of the Serbian cultural society "Prosvjeta" was attacked while they were preparing to board the bus on route to Prague. The bus was demolished, two young men were seriously injured and are in the hospital, while the Zagreb mass media did not report this with a single word. President of the Alliance of Serbian Organizations in Zagreb, Dr. Milorad Pupovac is stating that the attack on the members of the "Prosvjeta" society occurred after the Croat Television broadcasted the program "Motrista" creating a false picture about the work of this society and negative attitude towards it. On the following day after this incident, Milorad Pupovac with associates visited several towns in Banija and at the end of his visit in Kostajnica, was attacked with eggs. "The Alliance of Serbian Organizations is most strongly condemning the attempts for the incidents to spread into the other parts of Croatia and in the form of revanchism to be aimed against Serbian organizations, and exactly those which are through their activities doing their maximum for the peaceful reintegration of Eastern Slavonia", stated Pupovac.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Politika, 1997-04-04

    [04] NO CONDITIONS FOR THE ELECTIONS

    President of the Srem and Baranja Region Goran Hadzic requested from the United Nations to postpone the elections in Eastern Slavonia for the County Chamber of the Sabor (Parliament), which are scheduled to take place, like in the entire Croatia, on April 13, 1997. According to the reports by the Croat Radio Television, Hadzic in his letter to the UN Secretary General Koffee Annan stated that all conditions have not been fulfilled for the elections in the Region. Hadzic recalls that there is no political decision for the participation of the Serbian people at the elections in the Region and adds that the decision in this respect will be passed by its assembly at the end of this week.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Politika ekspres, 1997-04-04

    [05] "SERBIAN KNIGHTHOOD" DECORATIONS AWARDED

    Council of the World Serbian Community, for whose president the academician Dejan Medakovic was elected yesterday, and for vice-presidents the writer Antonije Isakovic and mayor of Vukovar Miroslav Keravice, announced that among eighty candidates seven were selected for the award "Serbian Knight" decoration for the last year. This decoration was introduced five years ago as an instigation and gratitude to those who have "performed outstanding deeds for the well being of the Serbia people". Decoration was this time awarded to the American Major Richard Felmann, who was the pilot during World War Two and had crushed down in Serbia and who "for over 50 years now is doing everything humanly possible to thank Serbian people for his salvation". "The Knight" for the year 1996 was also awarded to Nadezda Radovic from Austria ("who is on regular basis aiding both in money and in other ways 20 war orphans from the Republic of Srpska"), Radisav Zivaljevic from Austria ("for collecting humanitarian aid throughout Austria, in which work he had incorporated many Austrian citizens and institutions"), and Nikola Kusovac of Belgrade ("the organizer of salvation of the Serbian national treasure from the war thorn areas in Croatia"). The high decoration was also awarded to Bratislava Beba Bjelopetrovic from the United States, who has brought to her old home country the aid for wounded and refugees in the value of several hundred thousands US dollars, Snezana Vitorovic from Canada, one of the founding members of the Association of Serbian Women in Toronto, for "disseminating the truth about the Serbian question in the Canadian public". Vukica Popovic from Zrenjanin deserved the award because of engaging in preservation of cultural treasure of Serbs in Romania and "contribution to the preservation of records of our presence in these areas". While stating at the press conference that "the status of Serbs in Croatia is a priority task this year for the World Serbian Community", Dr. Misa Milosevic, secretary general of the Community, said that in June this year a discussion on this topic will be organized in the Institute of Serbian People in Sremski Karlovci.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Politika, 1997-04-04

    [06] DECISION WILL BE PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY

    "This Region should be the core of preservation of Serbian interests in Croatia. We shall be the picture of what is happening to Serbs in Croatia further on", stated at the promotional press conference in Vukovar president of the Independent Democratic Serbian Party Dr. Vojislav Stanimirovic. He underlined that the forthcoming elections, if the regional assembly and the assembly of the party shall pass the decision to join the elections, for Serbian national corpus will mean "further political struggle", but "exclusively with political means". Stanimirovic pointed out that it is still hard to say whether Serbs from this Region with their party will appear at the elections, because there are many irregularities and problems with the issue of Croat documents and compiling of the voting lists. "People is expecting guarantees from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia on the dual citizenship, soft frontiers, de-militarization and monitoring", emphasized Stanimirovic.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Politika, 1997-04-04

    [07] SINCERE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN SERBS AND JEWS

    "In Israel there is a warm and friendly feeling towards Serbs who are one of the few European people towards whom such feelings are nurtured in the Jewish state", said the newly appointed Ambassador of Israel in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, H.E. David Sason, in his interview for the Novi Sad newspaper "Nedeljni dnevnik". He added that Serbs are also having very warm feelings towards Jews and underlined: "The very fact that it is a feeling of friendship between Serbs and Jews as entire peoples is giving a much greater dimension to these relations". Ambassador Sason recalled that in Israel very little was known about Yugoslavia and the life of the local Jewish community here. "Like the rest of the world, we in Israel were learning about Yugoslavia and these areas on the basis of the broadcasts of the TV networks like the CNN", said Sason and underlined that people in Israel could not believe when he started reporting from Belgrade. "Just because of that other image of Yugoslavia, from the one presented by the electronic media, my mission is not only a diplomatic one but a moral one as well", said Ambassador Sason. While commenting on the media demonization of Serbs, in which also certain Jewish intellectuals in the world were taking part, as for example Henry Levy who had openly supported fundamentalist Alija Izetbegovic, Sason pointed out that it is important that Israel, when Serbs are concerned, publicly pronounced its stands at the moments which were the most critical for the Serbia people.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Tanjug, 1997-04-04

    [08] NEW DAILY IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE

    In Prishtina, a new daily newspaper has appeared in the Albanian language "Koha ditore". It is said that this is "an independent informative daily" whose publisher is Veton Suroi who had started several years ago the weekly "Koha". After the newspaper "Bujku" this is the second daily newspaper in the Albanian language in Kosovo and Metohija. In the Albanian language in Prishtina there is a free and devoid of any censorship and control publishing of some twenty newspapers, weeklies and monthly magazines and other occasional informative printed media, which fact is denying the constant thesis of the separatist circles that Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija are allegedly deprived of all the rights to receive information in their mother tongue.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Tanjug, 1997-04-04

    [09] DONOR EXHIBITION FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN

    Radmila Milentijevic, Republican Minister of Information, opened yesterday evening at the Club of the Army of Yugoslavia the exhibition of the Yugoslav painters, donors for the future foundation "Drina" for aid to the orphan children. All the earnings from the auction sale of the exhibited works of 38 renown painters will be used for the most endangered talented children. "According to the official records, in Yugoslavia there are some 34,000 children without parents, which is a great obligation both of the state and of the people. Yugoslavia has done a lot until now in helping these children, at the national and at the international level, and we shall continue to do so in future and cooperate with all the factors in the country and abroad", said Minister Milentijevic. Nevenka Novakovic- Anastasijevic, president of the Yugoslav humanitarian society "Drina" said that over the last six years Yugoslav artists have donated some 40 thousand works of art for humanitarian purposes.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Vecernje novosti, 1997-04-04

    [10] KOSOVO CAN BE DISCUSSED ONLY IN OUR COUNTRY

    Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) will not participate at the so-called "round table on Serbian-Albanian relations in Kosovo and Metohija", which is to be held in New York, at the proposal of the American organization "Project for National Relations", with the presence of some representatives of the Albanian national minority and representatives of some political parties from Belgrade. SPS is of the view that the talks about the exercise of rights, freedoms and responsibilities which the Albanian national minority is enjoying in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, can be conducted only in our country, with full respect of its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, stated the SPS spokesman Ivica Dacic. He specified that Kosovo and Metohija are an unalienable part of Serbia, and that all these matters of the achievements of rights of national minorities in this province must be treated as an internal affair of our country. Socialist Party of Serbia is of the view that any internationalization of this problem is both unnecessary and detrimental, because it will not contribute to the normalization of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, where it is not a question of the non- existence but of un-exercise of all the rights and freedoms of the Albanian national minority, under the influence of the separatist leaders, specified Dacic. The essence of our politics in Kosovo and Metohija, as in fact in the entire Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, is the full civil and national equality, in accordance with the principles of peaceful life together of all the citizens, and development within Serbia and Yugoslavia, and against all forms of secession, said the SPS spokesman Ivica Dacic.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Tanjug, 1997-04-04

    [11] SECOND DRAFT VERSION OF THE LAW ON INFORMATION TO BE PRESENTED TODAY

    Republican Minister of Information, Prof.Dr. Radmila Milentijevic, will present today in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, at the press conference for local and foreign journalists, the second draft version of the republican Law on Public Information. The first draft version of the Law was presented one month ago, and two panel discussions were held on this subject in the republican parliament and several public debates of professional associations and political organizations. Minister of Information while presenting the first draft of the Law underlined that the provisions of the Law will be supplemented and suggestions and proposals from the public debate respected.
    Serbia Today, 1997-04-04 ; Politika, 1997-04-04

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