Slovenia/SFRJ (italiano / english)
SLOVENIA: PARLAMENTO APPROVA REINTEGRO 18.000 'CANCELLATI'
(ANSA) - LUBIANA, 30 OTT - Il parlamento sloveno ha approvato oggi il
reintegro dei cosiddetti 'cancellati', quelle 18.000 persone
originarie di altre repubbliche ex jugoslave che, seppur residenti a
tutti gli effetti in Slovenia al momento dell'indipendenza, nel 1991,
vennero eliminate dai registri anagrafici perche' non avevano chiesto
la cittadinanza o regolato il proprio status nei tempi e nei modi
richiesti. La norma votata dal parlamento prevede anche il
riconoscimento retroattivo della residenza dei 'cancellati', come
stabilito da una sentenza della Corte costituzionale, che nell'aprile
scorso ha dichiarato ileggittima la cancellazione imponendo il
ripristino dei diritti perduti. La sanatoria dara' modo di
regolarizzare la propria posizione solo a coloro che potranno
dimostrare di aver risieduto ininterrottamente in Slovenia dal 1992 ad
oggi. Per gli altri, circa 4.000 persone, e' in preparazione una nuova
legge. Contro l'approvazione della norma si e' espressa
l'opposizione di centro destra che giudica il reintegro pericoloso dal
punto di vista sociale e finanziario, a causa in particolare degli
indenizzi miliardari rivendicati dai cittadini cancellati. (ANSA)
COR*VD
30/10/2003 14:05
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Slovenian parliament passes law on "erased" former Yugoslav citizens
Thu Oct 30, 1:02 PM ET
LJUBLJANA (AFP) - The Slovenian parliament has granted permanent
residency to thousands of so-called "erased" citizens from other former
Yugoslav republics who lost the right to reside in Slovenia 11 years
ago.
The legislation was passed by 45 votes to 19, weathering strong
objections from the right-wing opposition.
It pledged "to give back permanent residency to all those citizens who
were illegally erased from the state registers in 1992, depriving them
of their rights," according to the draft text.
The legislative move followed a ruling by the Constitutional Court,
which in April declared that taking several thousand former Yugoslav
citizens living in Slovenia in 1991 and 1992 off the the registers of
permanent residents in the tiny Alpine state was illegal.
Slovenia, the most prosperous former constituent republic of
Yugoslavia, declared independence in June 1991 and hopes to join the
European Union (news - web sites) and NATO (news - web sites) next year.
The breakup of Yugoslavia, from which five new states emerged
(Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro), left
many citizens stateless, among them many Serbs, Bosnians and Kosovo
Albanians who had come to work to Slovenia.
Over 30,000 former Yugoslav citizens living in Slovenia were "erased"
from the registers of permanent residents in year 1992, according to
the Slovenian Interior ministry.
About 11,000 left the country but over 18,000 remained in Slovenia,
among them some 2,500 who obtained temporary residency and 4,200 who
remained without status, leaving them without identity cards or any
legal Slovenian documents, according to the ministry.
Slovenia's influential newspaper Delo said Thursday that the new law
was a belated acknowledgment of the damage the state had caused some of
its citizens during the process of breaking from the former Yugoslav
federation and building an independent state.
"Then our only goal and only concern was getting a state of our own. We
had no time to think about the fundamental rights of the individuals...
and that hurt many," Delo said.
Opposition parties criticized the bill, saying it would lead to a
number of compensation lawsuits from those affected.
"We are passing a law without having any knowledge of the financial
consequences it will have for the state," said Saso Pece of the
right-wing Slovenian National Party during the debate in parliament.
"Every society has scum and usually society tries to reduce the
percentage (of scum). This law will only increase that number, which is
horrible," Pece said.
The law was also criticized by the center-right Slovenian Democratic
Party as "an attack against the Slovenian taxpayers' pockets."
But former constitutional judge Mateuz Krivic, who is a member of a
group that works to protect the rights of the "erased," denied that
compensation claims would be high.
He told AFP there would be only a few claims from people who had lost
their rights to pensions.
Krivic said the law against foreigners passed at the time of
independence was largely based on anti-Serb feelings.
"Nationalism remains high" in Slovenia, he said.
SLOVENIA: PARLAMENTO APPROVA REINTEGRO 18.000 'CANCELLATI'
(ANSA) - LUBIANA, 30 OTT - Il parlamento sloveno ha approvato oggi il
reintegro dei cosiddetti 'cancellati', quelle 18.000 persone
originarie di altre repubbliche ex jugoslave che, seppur residenti a
tutti gli effetti in Slovenia al momento dell'indipendenza, nel 1991,
vennero eliminate dai registri anagrafici perche' non avevano chiesto
la cittadinanza o regolato il proprio status nei tempi e nei modi
richiesti. La norma votata dal parlamento prevede anche il
riconoscimento retroattivo della residenza dei 'cancellati', come
stabilito da una sentenza della Corte costituzionale, che nell'aprile
scorso ha dichiarato ileggittima la cancellazione imponendo il
ripristino dei diritti perduti. La sanatoria dara' modo di
regolarizzare la propria posizione solo a coloro che potranno
dimostrare di aver risieduto ininterrottamente in Slovenia dal 1992 ad
oggi. Per gli altri, circa 4.000 persone, e' in preparazione una nuova
legge. Contro l'approvazione della norma si e' espressa
l'opposizione di centro destra che giudica il reintegro pericoloso dal
punto di vista sociale e finanziario, a causa in particolare degli
indenizzi miliardari rivendicati dai cittadini cancellati. (ANSA)
COR*VD
30/10/2003 14:05
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/slovenia/20031030140532738772.html
---
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1512&u=/afp/20031030/wl_afp/
slovenia_minorities_031030180249&printer=1
Slovenian parliament passes law on "erased" former Yugoslav citizens
Thu Oct 30, 1:02 PM ET
LJUBLJANA (AFP) - The Slovenian parliament has granted permanent
residency to thousands of so-called "erased" citizens from other former
Yugoslav republics who lost the right to reside in Slovenia 11 years
ago.
The legislation was passed by 45 votes to 19, weathering strong
objections from the right-wing opposition.
It pledged "to give back permanent residency to all those citizens who
were illegally erased from the state registers in 1992, depriving them
of their rights," according to the draft text.
The legislative move followed a ruling by the Constitutional Court,
which in April declared that taking several thousand former Yugoslav
citizens living in Slovenia in 1991 and 1992 off the the registers of
permanent residents in the tiny Alpine state was illegal.
Slovenia, the most prosperous former constituent republic of
Yugoslavia, declared independence in June 1991 and hopes to join the
European Union (news - web sites) and NATO (news - web sites) next year.
The breakup of Yugoslavia, from which five new states emerged
(Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro), left
many citizens stateless, among them many Serbs, Bosnians and Kosovo
Albanians who had come to work to Slovenia.
Over 30,000 former Yugoslav citizens living in Slovenia were "erased"
from the registers of permanent residents in year 1992, according to
the Slovenian Interior ministry.
About 11,000 left the country but over 18,000 remained in Slovenia,
among them some 2,500 who obtained temporary residency and 4,200 who
remained without status, leaving them without identity cards or any
legal Slovenian documents, according to the ministry.
Slovenia's influential newspaper Delo said Thursday that the new law
was a belated acknowledgment of the damage the state had caused some of
its citizens during the process of breaking from the former Yugoslav
federation and building an independent state.
"Then our only goal and only concern was getting a state of our own. We
had no time to think about the fundamental rights of the individuals...
and that hurt many," Delo said.
Opposition parties criticized the bill, saying it would lead to a
number of compensation lawsuits from those affected.
"We are passing a law without having any knowledge of the financial
consequences it will have for the state," said Saso Pece of the
right-wing Slovenian National Party during the debate in parliament.
"Every society has scum and usually society tries to reduce the
percentage (of scum). This law will only increase that number, which is
horrible," Pece said.
The law was also criticized by the center-right Slovenian Democratic
Party as "an attack against the Slovenian taxpayers' pockets."
But former constitutional judge Mateuz Krivic, who is a member of a
group that works to protect the rights of the "erased," denied that
compensation claims would be high.
He told AFP there would be only a few claims from people who had lost
their rights to pensions.
Krivic said the law against foreigners passed at the time of
independence was largely based on anti-Serb feelings.
"Nationalism remains high" in Slovenia, he said.