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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local legal figures
with Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic in the chair.
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Vojvodina parliament speaker Nenad Canak and
provincial premier Djordje Djukic on Thursday held separate meetings with
Ukraine's Ambassador Anatoly Shostak.
A statement received by the Vojvodina parliament speaker's office said that
Shostak "welcomed a long tradition of observation of national minority
rights in Vojvodina and called for support for a speedier inclusion of
ethnic Ukrainians and Ruthenians in modern social processes."
In his meeting with the Vojvodina premier, Shostak voiced special interest
in cooperation in the field of agriculture, according to a statement issued
by the Vojvodina government
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - In Vojvodina, Serbia's northern province,
privatization has been initiated in 30 firms in keeping with the provisions
of the new law, Vojvodina Executive Council President Djordjc Djukic said
on Thursday.
Djukic said that the Serbian Economy and Privatization Ministry has
initiated privatization, via a public bid, in nine firms, in 15 cases the
firms themselves launched the privatization process, while six firms were
stimulated to start privatization by potential buyers.
The aquisition value of these firms, which employ a total of 13.762
workers, has been estimated at 216.8 million euros, while the capital put
up for sale amounts to 144.6 million euros, Djukic set out.
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BUJANOVAC, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Hundreds of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines
and 221 kg of explosives planted by the terrorist "LIberation Army of
Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja" have been found and destroyed in the
Bujanovac municipality in southern Serbia, the Bujanovac press center said
Thursday.
There were 304 anti-tank and 584 anti-personnel mines, it was noted at a
meeting attended by members of the Yugoslav and Serbian governments'
Coordinating Team Milovan Coguric and Mica Markovic and representatives of
the Yugoslav Army, European Union, UNHCR, UNICEF and Red Cross Regional
Committee.
The danger has, however, not yet been removed, as an estimated 1,000 mines
or explosive devices are still around, Coguric said, adding that the
people, especially children, should be warned of the danger.
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The 30th Belgrade international film festival,
will begin on Feb. 1 at the Sava centre with the screening of the Italian
movie "The Son's Room", directed by Nanni Moretti, 75 movies grouped into
eight programs will be presented.
FEST 2002 organizers did not want to disclose who would open the festival
before the Moretti movie was screened. The movie was awarded the FIPRESCI
prize in Cannes.
The organizers told a press conference that the arrival of 19 guests has
been confirmed up to now, including Danijel Hocevar from Slovenia. Also in
attendance are the producers of the movies "An Ode to Presern" and "Bread
and Milk," as well the directors of the movies, Martin Srebotnjak and Jan
Cvitkovic, the producer of "Apocalypse Now", Kim Auberey, director and the
script writer of "Der Chinesische Markt", Zoran Solomun from Germany, and
the director and script writer of "Firefly Dreams", John Williams, from
Great Britain.
Film premieres will be held in the Sava centre, Dvorana kulturnog centra
(DKC) and Dom Omladine (DOB) and second screenings in the Yugoslav
cinematheque, DKC and DOB.
The vast number are co-productions (24), as well as 11 American, 7 German,
4 French and 4 Japanese, 2 Austrian, 2 Iranian, 2 Italian, 2 Canadian, 2
Slovenian and 2 Swiss movies, and one movie a piece from a further 13
countries.
Serbian distributors secured 20 movies, whilst the remainder were secured
with the help of foreign cultural centers in Belgrade and certain embassies.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
PRISTINA, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - United Nations Kosovo-Metohija administration
UNMIK deputy chief Charles Brayshaw said in Pristina on Thursday that the
arrests of three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) are not
in any way connected with the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC).
The arrested persons have been charged with grave crimes committed during
the period from September 1998 until June 1999. These were personal actions
and a sufficient number of testimonies have been taken from witnesses, so
that it is up to the court to decide whether they are gulty or not,
Brayshaw said during a visit to the KPC.
An international judge in the province yesterday set an additional 30 days
of detention and ordered the opening of an investigation on war crimes for
the three Kosovo Albanians who were arrested in Pristina and Podujevo on
Monday, an UNMIK spokesman said.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested against these arrests in Pristina
and Podujevo these days.
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
BERLIN, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - It is necessary that Brussels deals with the issue
of a long-term political solution for Kosovo and Metohija, which will not
be realized without a European perspective, a source close to new United
Nations envoy in the southern Serbian province
Michael Steiner has said.
The source said on Thursday that it was important for Brussels to do this
in order to quell nationalistic tendencies in the region and to assess
relativistically the issue of the independence of this territory.
The unnamed UN representative said one of Steiner's main tasks would be to
establish stable authorities in the province.
The period until the autonomy of the province is defined cannot be
specified, so that the two-year postponement asked by Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic is unrealistic, the official said.
The international community will not withdraw from the province if Kosovo
is not given a European perspective, the source said.
Steiner will begin his term in office in Pristina in mid-February. He has
completed consultations with European Union foreign policy commissioner
Chris Patten in Brussels.
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) The Democratic Party of Kosovo this evening
accused International civilian and military authorities in the province
that they were endangering safety and the political situation in Kosovo by
arresting former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Party president Hashim Thaqi is a former leader of the Liberation Army,
which was disbanded after the arrival of international peacekeepers in 1999.
The party claimed that by arresting the three, UNMIK and KFOR were
destabilising the situation in Kosovo.
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) More than two thousand Albanian demonstrators have
blocked the centre of Pristina for the second consecutive day protesting at
the arrest of former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
UN police and KFOR troops arrested the three Kosovo Albanians on Tuesday,
charging them with war crimes committed in 1998 and 1999.
They are accused of abductions assaults and murders of Albanians from the
Podujevo area who did not agree with Kosovo Liberation Army policies.
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Members of Kosovo police arrested two Kosovo
Albanians suspected of having fired at pupils of a Serbian school in
Plemetina, KFOR announced on Jan. 31.
It was reported that the school in Plemetina, attended by some 100 Serbian
children, had been fired at on Jan. 31 at around noon, from a car carrying
four passengers.
The incident was probably provoked by a conflict between local Serb and
Albanian children who had thrown stones at each other, reads the KFOR
statement, adding that one of the arrested Albanians was the father of one
of the boys who threw stones. A gun was found in the arrested persons' car.
KFOR added that some 70 Serbs gathered in front of the school afterwards,
but were dispersed by KFOR in a bid to "quell disturbances."
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
STRPCE, Kosovo, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - KFOR will provide an escort only for the
so-called humanitarian convoys going to Strpce, the Serb enclave in Kosovo,
US KFOR Colonel Larry Saul told Tanjug on Thursday.
Since last week, when there were problems, peace was violated and the radio
and television described it as violence, Col. Saul set out adding that KFOR
then halted escorts for some convoys out of security reasons, but would
continue providing the same for humanitarian convoys and medical cases.
Strpce, the biggest Serb enclave in Kosovo with 12,000 Serb inhabitants,
has practically been sealed off from the rest of the world for the past
nine days after regular convoys were halted due to incidents and KFOR
violence.
Serb sources in Strpce confirmed to Tanjug today that on Tuesday KFOR took
Jelica Andjelkovic, 60, to the US Bondsteel base where this elderly woman
was interrogated for three hours, after which she was returned to Strpce.
On Jan 22, during Serb demonstarations in Strpce, Jelica was in the front
lines expressing her pain for the loss of her husband, son and son-in-law,
kidnapped by the ethnic Albanian terrorists two years ago and who were
never seen again.
In Bondsteel, Jelica was interrogated by a woman officer who was very rough
and threatened her not to appear at protests ever again.
The KFOR and UNMIK police photographed all the people in the front ranks of
the Jan 22 protest in Strpce, and now many fear new arrests.
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Zorica Velic was appointed on Jan. 31 as
Pristina municipality vice-president. It is the first time following a two
year boycott that a Serb has beed appointed to a managerial position in the
municipality.
After the appointment, Velic told the press in Pristina "I am happy to
become vice-president of a municipality and a town in which I was born."
In the Pristina municipality, Zorica Velic will represent Serbs who, after
the 1999 war in Kosovo, mostly live in near-by villages. She announced she
would engage in the democratization of civic life in the municipality.
Last year, UNMIK appointed three Serbs for MPs to the Pristina city
council. At the constitutive session, Albanian MPs alleged that Serbian
representative Slavko Trajkovic had committed war crimes in Kosovo, leading
to Serb representatives ending their attendance at sessions.
Data:
01/02/2002 15:36
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Oggetto:
I D S, Feb. 1
sposta nella cartella:
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local
01/02/2002 15:36
Da:
YugoEmb-Ottawa
A:
Oggetto:
I D S, Feb. 1
sposta nella cartella:
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local legal figures
with Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic in the chair.
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Vojvodina parliament speaker Nenad Canak and
provincial premier Djordje Djukic on Thursday held separate meetings with
Ukraine's Ambassador Anatoly Shostak.
A statement received by the Vojvodina parliament speaker's office said that
Shostak "welcomed a long tradition of observation of national minority
rights in Vojvodina and called for support for a speedier inclusion of
ethnic Ukrainians and Ruthenians in modern social processes."
In his meeting with the Vojvodina premier, Shostak voiced special interest
in cooperation in the field of agriculture, according to a statement issued
by the Vojvodina government
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - In Vojvodina, Serbia's northern province,
privatization has been initiated in 30 firms in keeping with the provisions
of the new law, Vojvodina Executive Council President Djordjc Djukic said
on Thursday.
Djukic said that the Serbian Economy and Privatization Ministry has
initiated privatization, via a public bid, in nine firms, in 15 cases the
firms themselves launched the privatization process, while six firms were
stimulated to start privatization by potential buyers.
The aquisition value of these firms, which employ a total of 13.762
workers, has been estimated at 216.8 million euros, while the capital put
up for sale amounts to 144.6 million euros, Djukic set out.
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BUJANOVAC, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Hundreds of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines
and 221 kg of explosives planted by the terrorist "LIberation Army of
Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja" have been found and destroyed in the
Bujanovac municipality in southern Serbia, the Bujanovac press center said
Thursday.
There were 304 anti-tank and 584 anti-personnel mines, it was noted at a
meeting attended by members of the Yugoslav and Serbian governments'
Coordinating Team Milovan Coguric and Mica Markovic and representatives of
the Yugoslav Army, European Union, UNHCR, UNICEF and Red Cross Regional
Committee.
The danger has, however, not yet been removed, as an estimated 1,000 mines
or explosive devices are still around, Coguric said, adding that the
people, especially children, should be warned of the danger.
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The 30th Belgrade international film festival,
will begin on Feb. 1 at the Sava centre with the screening of the Italian
movie "The Son's Room", directed by Nanni Moretti, 75 movies grouped into
eight programs will be presented.
FEST 2002 organizers did not want to disclose who would open the festival
before the Moretti movie was screened. The movie was awarded the FIPRESCI
prize in Cannes.
The organizers told a press conference that the arrival of 19 guests has
been confirmed up to now, including Danijel Hocevar from Slovenia. Also in
attendance are the producers of the movies "An Ode to Presern" and "Bread
and Milk," as well the directors of the movies, Martin Srebotnjak and Jan
Cvitkovic, the producer of "Apocalypse Now", Kim Auberey, director and the
script writer of "Der Chinesische Markt", Zoran Solomun from Germany, and
the director and script writer of "Firefly Dreams", John Williams, from
Great Britain.
Film premieres will be held in the Sava centre, Dvorana kulturnog centra
(DKC) and Dom Omladine (DOB) and second screenings in the Yugoslav
cinematheque, DKC and DOB.
The vast number are co-productions (24), as well as 11 American, 7 German,
4 French and 4 Japanese, 2 Austrian, 2 Iranian, 2 Italian, 2 Canadian, 2
Slovenian and 2 Swiss movies, and one movie a piece from a further 13
countries.
Serbian distributors secured 20 movies, whilst the remainder were secured
with the help of foreign cultural centers in Belgrade and certain embassies.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
PRISTINA, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - United Nations Kosovo-Metohija administration
UNMIK deputy chief Charles Brayshaw said in Pristina on Thursday that the
arrests of three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) are not
in any way connected with the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC).
The arrested persons have been charged with grave crimes committed during
the period from September 1998 until June 1999. These were personal actions
and a sufficient number of testimonies have been taken from witnesses, so
that it is up to the court to decide whether they are gulty or not,
Brayshaw said during a visit to the KPC.
An international judge in the province yesterday set an additional 30 days
of detention and ordered the opening of an investigation on war crimes for
the three Kosovo Albanians who were arrested in Pristina and Podujevo on
Monday, an UNMIK spokesman said.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested against these arrests in Pristina
and Podujevo these days.
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
BERLIN, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - It is necessary that Brussels deals with the issue
of a long-term political solution for Kosovo and Metohija, which will not
be realized without a European perspective, a source close to new United
Nations envoy in the southern Serbian province
Michael Steiner has said.
The source said on Thursday that it was important for Brussels to do this
in order to quell nationalistic tendencies in the region and to assess
relativistically the issue of the independence of this territory.
The unnamed UN representative said one of Steiner's main tasks would be to
establish stable authorities in the province.
The period until the autonomy of the province is defined cannot be
specified, so that the two-year postponement asked by Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic is unrealistic, the official said.
The international community will not withdraw from the province if Kosovo
is not given a European perspective, the source said.
Steiner will begin his term in office in Pristina in mid-February. He has
completed consultations with European Union foreign policy commissioner
Chris Patten in Brussels.
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) The Democratic Party of Kosovo this evening
accused International civilian and military authorities in the province
that they were endangering safety and the political situation in Kosovo by
arresting former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Party president Hashim Thaqi is a former leader of the Liberation Army,
which was disbanded after the arrival of international peacekeepers in 1999.
The party claimed that by arresting the three, UNMIK and KFOR were
destabilising the situation in Kosovo.
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) More than two thousand Albanian demonstrators have
blocked the centre of Pristina for the second consecutive day protesting at
the arrest of former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
UN police and KFOR troops arrested the three Kosovo Albanians on Tuesday,
charging them with war crimes committed in 1998 and 1999.
They are accused of abductions assaults and murders of Albanians from the
Podujevo area who did not agree with Kosovo Liberation Army policies.
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Members of Kosovo police arrested two Kosovo
Albanians suspected of having fired at pupils of a Serbian school in
Plemetina, KFOR announced on Jan. 31.
It was reported that the school in Plemetina, attended by some 100 Serbian
children, had been fired at on Jan. 31 at around noon, from a car carrying
four passengers.
The incident was probably provoked by a conflict between local Serb and
Albanian children who had thrown stones at each other, reads the KFOR
statement, adding that one of the arrested Albanians was the father of one
of the boys who threw stones. A gun was found in the arrested persons' car.
KFOR added that some 70 Serbs gathered in front of the school afterwards,
but were dispersed by KFOR in a bid to "quell disturbances."
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
STRPCE, Kosovo, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - KFOR will provide an escort only for the
so-called humanitarian convoys going to Strpce, the Serb enclave in Kosovo,
US KFOR Colonel Larry Saul told Tanjug on Thursday.
Since last week, when there were problems, peace was violated and the radio
and television described it as violence, Col. Saul set out adding that KFOR
then halted escorts for some convoys out of security reasons, but would
continue providing the same for humanitarian convoys and medical cases.
Strpce, the biggest Serb enclave in Kosovo with 12,000 Serb inhabitants,
has practically been sealed off from the rest of the world for the past
nine days after regular convoys were halted due to incidents and KFOR
violence.
Serb sources in Strpce confirmed to Tanjug today that on Tuesday KFOR took
Jelica Andjelkovic, 60, to the US Bondsteel base where this elderly woman
was interrogated for three hours, after which she was returned to Strpce.
On Jan 22, during Serb demonstarations in Strpce, Jelica was in the front
lines expressing her pain for the loss of her husband, son and son-in-law,
kidnapped by the ethnic Albanian terrorists two years ago and who were
never seen again.
In Bondsteel, Jelica was interrogated by a woman officer who was very rough
and threatened her not to appear at protests ever again.
The KFOR and UNMIK police photographed all the people in the front ranks of
the Jan 22 protest in Strpce, and now many fear new arrests.
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Zorica Velic was appointed on Jan. 31 as
Pristina municipality vice-president. It is the first time following a two
year boycott that a Serb has beed appointed to a managerial position in the
municipality.
After the appointment, Velic told the press in Pristina "I am happy to
become vice-president of a municipality and a town in which I was born."
In the Pristina municipality, Zorica Velic will represent Serbs who, after
the 1999 war in Kosovo, mostly live in near-by villages. She announced she
would engage in the democratization of civic life in the municipality.
Last year, UNMIK appointed three Serbs for MPs to the Pristina city
council. At the constitutive session, Albanian MPs alleged that Serbian
representative Slavko Trajkovic had committed war crimes in Kosovo, leading
to Serb representatives ending their attendance at sessions.
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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local