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Serbia Today 96-04-23
23 April 1996
In This Edition
NEW FRAMEWORK FOR OLD FRIENDSHIP
JIHAD, BUT A DIPLOMATIC ONE
DRAMA OF APATRIDES IN LJUBLJANA
CONTENTS
[01] NEW FRAMEWPRK FOR OLD FRIENDSHIP
[02] 'BELGRADE ON SAVA RIVER' PROJECT IS ATTRACTIVE FOR THE WORLD TOWN PLANNERS AND FINANCIERS
[03] GREAT DEVELOPMENT POSSIBILITIES OF THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMY
[04] DELEGATION OF THE CITY OF BELGRADE LEAVES FOR JAPAN
[05] NO STAND ON SUCCESSION OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
[06] 'SPIEGEL': KINKEL TO VISIT BELGRADE IN MAY
[07] JIHAD, BUT A DIPLOMATIC ONE
[08] TUDJMAN DOES NOT GIVE UP
[09] DRAMA OF APATRIDES IN LJUBLJANA
[01] NEW FRAMEWPRK FOR OLD FRIENDSHIP
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia and Romania, Milan
Milutinovic and Teodor Maleshkanu have initialed yesterday in
Bucharest a twenty-year global international agreement on
friendship, good neighborly relations and cooperation between
the two countries. At the end of a one-day visit to Romania,
Minister Milutinovic stated that the talks were open, very
substantial and constructive. "We have stated that permanent
friendship and good neighborly relations are a powerful basis
for a further successful development of Yugoslav-Rumanian
relations and cooperation. We have agreed on a great importance
of continuous political dialogue at all the levels and have
agreed for this dialogue to be intensified", said the Yugoslav
Minister. In the joint wish for the relations of our two
countries to develop and be promoted on permanent basis and in
the spirit of traditional friendship and joint interests, we
have agreed upon and initialed the agreement on friendship,
added Minister Milutinovic and specified: "This is a
comprehensive and very substantial long-term agreement in which
basis are placed for a large-scale cooperation in all the
fields, starting with security, through economy, up to
environment and culture. In this way our countries are giving
yet another major contribution to the strengthening of peace,
stability and confidence in the region". Milutinovic emphasized
with special meaning the substantial and friendly talk with the
President of Romania Jon Iliesku who expressed his readiness to
come soon to visit the FR of Yugoslavia. (Politika, April 23,
1996)
[02] 'BELGRADE ON SAVA RIVER' PROJECT IS ATTRACTIVE FOR THE WORLD TOWN PLANNERS AND FINANCIERS
Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic
received yesterday Billy Lacy, the Dean of the "Purchase
College" of the New York University, a renown consultant to the
most important world architectural projects. Mr. Lacy is
visiting our country as the guest of the organizational
committee for preparation of the international competition for
the project "Belgrade on Sava River - EVROPOLIS". Prime Minister
Marjanovic underlined that Government of the Republic of Serbia
has supported the project "Belgrade on Sava River" and has
placed it among its development priorities because of its great
importance for our economy and its linking with the world. In
the elaboration of this project also the best local and
international experts will take part, and Serbia by its legal
regulations has offered a maximum of stimulation for foreign
investments. Mr. Lacy stated that "Belgrade on Sava River" in
even in the international proportions a large investment project
which will attract not only the renown world architects and town
planners, but also the financiers. (Politika, April 23, 1996)
[03] GREAT DEVELOPMENT POSSIBILITIES OF THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMY
Delegation of the "Hanva" group from the Republic of Korea has
visited yesterday the Chamber of Economy of Yugoslavia in order
to meet with the representatives of this economic association
and businessmen from the individual branches and discuss
possibilities of future cooperation. Tai In Song, manager for
the international business planning of "Hanva" group presented
his firm as one of the 500 largest companies in the world and
among the ten largest in Korea, with over 30 branch offices in
the world. Yugoslav economy, he said, is having great
development possibilities and therefore we have come in order to
agree on concrete deals. Further to the goods exchange, Song
spoke of the opportunities in hotel building, of the office and
residential buildings, construction of roads, electric power
plants and infrastructure in general. (Politika, April 23, 1996)
[04] DELEGATION OF THE CITY OF BELGRADE LEAVES FOR JAPAN
Belgrade will be represented at the International Conference of
Major Cities "Metropolis 96" which is to be held from April 23
to 26, 1996 in Japan. "Metropolis" is the network of world
capitals and major cities from 41 countries, with 70 associated
members, among them also the large world corporations and
distinguished personalities in the field of architecture,
transport, sociology and other sciences important for the
metropolitan life. The conference is offering the possibility
for comparison of ones own with the experiences of others and
for coordination of strategies for city development. Delegation
of the city of Belgrade, headed by its Lord Mayor (President of
the City Assembly) Nebojsa Covic, will have meetings with
Japanese personalities and representatives of certain
institutions of this country. (Borba, April 23, 1996)
[05] NO STAND ON SUCCESSION OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Foreign Ministers of the European Union did not pass yesterday
at their meeting in Luxembourg any declaration which would
determine their stand on the succession of former Yugoslavia, as
it was announced prior to the meeting, but they did discuss this
issue. Ministers have underlined the need to find a joint stand
on the promotion of the relations between the EU and the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and have asked of the EU Political
Committee to pass as soon as possible recommendations to that
effect. This is one of the conclusions of the yesterday's debate
conducted at the Council of Ministers of the European Union,
after the recent decision of the EU to normalize the relations
with our country. Otherwise, the ministerial meeting took place
under the shadow of the demonstrations by several hundreds of
members of the aggressive Skipetary emigration from Kosmet, who
have made a big noise while voicing their demands regarding the
status of this Serbian province. Although this is not mentioned
in the conclusions, representative of the European Council
informed the press that EU remains firmly of the stand on Kosovo
as a part of the FR of Yugoslavia, with the recommendation that
all the disputes be resolved through dialogue. (Politika, April
23, 1996)
[06] 'SPIEGEL': KINKEL TO VISIT BELGRADE IN MAY
Chief of German diplomacy Klaus Kinkel is to visit Belgrade in
mid-May, announces the weekly "Spiegel" in the presentation of
the present state of facts of the German-Yugoslav relations.
Kinkel is striving for the actual German policy in the Balkans
to obtain the status of "an honorable mediator", writes the
weekly. In the article with a slightly cynical title of
"Courageous in the Convoy", German diplomacy is reproached for
having been in the front lines by the end of 1991 in recognizing
Slovenia and Croatia, while now it is "somewhere in the golden
middle", among the countries which have normalized the relations
with the FR of Yugoslavia. German magazine is writing also about
tens of thousands (estimates range from 90 to 130 thousand) of
the rejected asylum seekers, mostly Albanians from Kosmet. At
the recent Government session in Bonn, when the decision was
adopted on normalization of the relation with the FR of
Yugoslavia, minister of police Manfred Kanter demanded that the
question of establishment of full diplomatic relations be
conditioned by an unconditional acceptance of the rejected
asylum seekers. Kinkel opposed this, and Chancellor Kohl 'cut
short' the debate by saying that the decision on normalization
of the relations with FR of Yugoslavia has "first of all a
political dimension". "Spiegel" also quotes the statement by the
charge d'affaires of the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn Zoran Jeremic,
that the asylum seekers can not be accepted just like that,
without social security, in the situation when in Yugoslavia
there are already some 700,000 refugees. The weekly adds to this
reasonable comment by our diplomate its own conclusion that a
large number of Albanians do not wish to return to their
country. (Vecernje novosti, April 23, 1996)
[07] JIHAD, BUT A DIPLOMATIC ONE
In the first decade of December last, in the area of Zenica,
Islamic and Sudanese analysts have defined a post-Dayton
strategy for "Islamic Bosnia", reveals the Split magazine "Feral
Tribune" and reports that it is a question "of a precisely
elaborated strategy of the Islamic venture on Europe, with a
broadly branching logistic network for terrorist operations in
Bosnia- Herzegovina but also in the wider region". Split weekly
is writing that the Iranian Ambassador in Zagreb Mohammed Dzavad
Asajec "is the main organizer of the intelligence and terrorist
activities of Teheran in the Balkans and in Europe". From
Zagreb, cooperation is taking place and coordination with the
local representatives of the Iranian intelligence service and
the Hezballah, who are operating on the European soil under the
cover of humanitarian activities. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, without
counting the mujjahedins incorporated in the regular composition
of the Muslim army, where they have obtained uniforms and a
Bosnian citizenship and are not subject to the Dayton
provisions, according to the sources of "Feral Tribune" there
are between 4,000 and 6,000 active Islamic fanatics, under the
direct command of the Iranian diplomate in Zagreb. The magazine
is stating the estimates of the Islamic analysts and of the
Washington experts that "the war in Bosnia- Herzegovina could be
renewed in late winter or early spring next year, and by the
offensive of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Army on the Serbian entity".
According to the creators of the "Islamic Platform", Dayton
Agreement is irreparably anti-Muslim, and therefore, as the only
option for the establishment of the Shariat law in
Bosnia-Herzegovina remains a hundred-year holy war - Jihad.
(Politika ekspres, April 23, 1996)
[08] TUDJMAN DOES NOT GIVE UP
In spite of many protests arriving from all over the world, even
from the U.S. Congress, the Croat President Franjo Tudjman
stated that he upholds his idea for Jasenovac to be transformed
into a memorial complex for all the Croat war victims and that
this is also a component part of the policy of "reconciliation
of the Croat people". In his interview for the Croat media,
broadcasted by the Croat Television, Tudjman said that in
Jasenovac there are not only victims of Fascism but that "there
are also there victims of Communism" from 1945 to 1948. (Tanjug,
April 23, 1996)
[09] DRAMA OF APATRIDES IN LJUBLJANA
After five years of life as an apatride - a stateless persons
without any citizenship documents - a 42 years old Budimir
Vukovic decided to go on a hunger strike to death in Slovenia.
It is already the 55th day that he is not taking any food and he
is now in agony. Organization for the protection of human rights
- the Slovenian Helsinki Monitor, stated the case of Vukovic to
the European Tribunal, and while the reply is awaited from the
Hague, Slovenian bureaucracy is not paying any attention to
Vukovic's sufferings. After 17 years of life in Slovenia, all
the personal documents of Vukovic were taken away and destroyed,
he was prevented from continuing in his job as a taxi-driver and
was finally placed in the so-called "transition home for
aliens". Vukovic, originating from Niksic, where he is not
living for decades now, has no permanent address, and the young
Slovenian democracy is depriving him of the Ljubljana address
and granting of documents, because it has previously deleted him
from the register of permanent inhabitants of Slovenia when he
went on a six-month training course in Vrsac. Authorities are
still attacking Vukovic, and after the medical examination it
was announced that the reason for the hunger strike is of a
psychiatric nature. "Psychiatric methods again in the service of
repressive authorities. The method known from the totalitarian
and the bolshevik systems, now the Slovenian police wishes to
apply", said Neva Miklavcic-Predan, head of the Slovenian
"Helsinki Monitor". Further to Budimir Vukovic, there are
another 11,000 unfortunates from the former Yugoslav republics
who are for years in vain trying to solve their status in
Slovenia and obtain the documents necessary for a normal life.
(Vecernje novosti, April 23, 1996) .
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