"Un milione di posti di lavoro". Lo promette oggi il governo serbo,
mentre assicura la prossima entrata nella NATO. Nel frattempo, i
rappresentanti dell'ONU dichiarano esplicitamente che il protettorato
del Kosovo "non fara' mai piu' parte della Serbia". In Montenegro, il
nuovo presidente secessionista viene "eletto" con IL 63 PER CENTO DEL
48 PER CENTO dei votanti, cioe' circa il 25 per cento dei voti.
Subject: DS 12.Maj
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:44:23 -0400
From: YugoEmb-Ottawa <diplomat@...>
DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 12.5. 2003. No. 4112
C O N T E N T S :
Serbia & Montenegro - HARMONIZATION
- EU will understand our economic interests, Nurkovic
- Governments achieve huge success in harmonization
of customs duties
SERBIA
- ONE MILLION OF NEW JOBS IN SERBIA IN
NEXT FIVE YEARS
KOSOVO METOHIJA
- SVILANOVIC FAVORS INSTITUTIONAL
PROTECTION FOR SERBS IN KOSOVO
- LAMBSDORF: KOSOVO NEVER AGAIN TO BE
PART OF SERBIA
- COVIC: UNMIK SWITCHING THESES
CONCERNING SITUATION IN KOSOVO
- UNMIK: KOSOVO NOT SERBIAN PROVINCE
ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION 1244
- KFOR BELIEVES MORE EXTREMISTS IN
KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
MONTENEGRO
- NGOs: VUJANOVIC WINS WITH 63.3 PERCENT
- I will be the president of all citizens of Montenegro -
Vujanovic
Serbia & Montenegro HARMONIZATION
EU will understand our economic interests, Nurkovic
BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - If the governments
of Serbia and Montenegro fail to agree the remaining 20
percent customs duties, a plan should be made to
harmonize this sphere over the next three years, instead of
now, Interior Economic Relations Minister Amir Nurkovic
has said. "In question are not political disputes, but a
clearcut economic forecast according to which
harmonization by force of all customs duties would disrupt
the economies of the member states, and the governments
of the member states and the organs of the state union
should inform the European Union about this," Nurkovic
told Sunday's issue of Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.
He underscored that this is not merely his own view, but
also the conclusion of the Council of Ministers which
believes that the EU will understand our economic
interests.
Governments achieve huge success in harmonization of
customs duties
PODGORICA, May 11 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin
Premier Milo Djukanovic said Sunday that the
governments of Serbia and Montenegro have achieved
much success in the harmonization of customs duties, but
that it is certain that at this moment this process will not be
fully completed. "The harmonization of customs duties
between Serbia and Montenegro is being conducted in a
very constructive manner, in an atmosphere of revived
trust between the two governments. Very competent
groups of ministers from both cabinets are engaged on this
and I believe that so far they have done all that has been
possible," Djukanovic told Tanjug. What we have done so
far is a great success which should be appreciated by the
European Union, because thus we will create conditions for
starting the drafting of the feasibility study, Djukanovic
added.
SERBIA
ONE MILLION OF NEW JOBS IN SERBIA IN NEXT
FIVE YEARS
BELGRADE,May 11 (Beta)-Serbian Economy and
Privatization Minister Aleksandar Vlahovic has announced
that the number of small and medium companies in the
next five years would grow from the current 270,000 to
400,000 and that one million of new jobs would be created
in those firms.
Presenting the strategy of development of small and
mediumsized companies to the representatives of local
selfgovernments, Vlahovic said that the strengthening of
the private sector was one of the Serbian government's
priorities.
"Small and medium companies are the driving force in
all European states, securing economic development and a
better living standard for all the citizens. These small
companies account for 99 percent of the total number of
companies in the European Union and they employ 75
percent of all working people," Vlahovic said, adding that
the intention of the Ministry of Economy and Privatization
was to create a legal and institutional framework for
transferring businesses from the grey economy into the
legal channels.
On its own, privatization would not be able to solve
the unemployment problem and therefore the conditions
need to be created for private initiative and the
simplification of the procedure for setting up private
businesses, he said.
Within the campaign entitled "Company May Be
Small, But It Propels All," the representatives of the
Ministry of Economy and Privatization would visit all the
regional centers in the following months in order to remove
all the obstacles for the development of small and medium
companies as efficiently as possible.
KOSOVO METOHIJA
SVILANOVIC FAVORS INSTITUTIONAL
PROTECTION FOR SERBS IN KOSOVO
BELGRADE,May 11 (Beta)-SerbiaMontenegro
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic has said that the
survival of Serbs in Kosovo was vital to securing a Serbian
presence in the province.
In a statement to the May 11 issue of the Belgrade
Blic, he said that this meant securing "a system of
guarantees for the survival of Serbs" in northern Kosovo
and in other parts of the province.
"It is necessary to decentralize Kosovo. Some in the
international community speak of a need to guarantee
functional autonomy for Serbs," Svilanovic said, adding
that there was enough room to find a model that would
secure Serb survival in Kosovo between the model
implemented in Bosnia Republika Srpska, and the
Macedonian model established by the Ohrid Agreement.
He said that the EU had decided to introduce "a
mechanism of monitoring stabilization and association for
Kosovo," in Kosovo's association with the EU.
"As the process of SerbiaMontenegro's association
with the EU will take years, I don't believe that any
decision concerning Kosovo will be brought quickly,"
Svilanovic said, adding reports that the province's status
will be solved in June this year, were unfounded and
incorrect.
LAMBSDORF: KOSOVO NEVER AGAIN TO BE
PART OF SERBIA
VIENNA,May 11 (Beta)-Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorf,
head of the office of the U.N. special representative in
Kosovo, said in Vienna on May 9 that "Kosovo will never
again be a part of Serbia."
"The present discussion of the status of Kosovo was
initiated by the constitution of SerbiaMontenegro, which
states that Kosovo is a part of Serbia. Even though it is
unclear what status Kosovo will have in the future, one
thing is certain and that is that it will never again be a part
of Serbia," said Lambsdorf at a conference called "The
Future of Kosovo Economic and Political Prospects."
COVIC: UNMIK SWITCHING THESES
CONCERNING SITUATION IN KOSOVO
BELGRADE,May 11 (Beta)-Coordinating Center for
Kosovo and Metohija chief Nebojsa Covic said on May 9
that statements by UNMIK officials at an OSCE meeting in
Vienna on the province's future, were a classic case of
switching theses and an attempt to put the blame on
Belgrade for the special envoy's failures in the province.
Commenting on a statement by the head of the
UNMIK chief's office Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorf that
Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic had started a discussion on
the division of Kosovo before being killed and that his
assassination had left UNMIK without a partner for talks in
Belgrade, Covic said that Belgrade had been open for
dialog and debate since the change of government in 2000.
"This statement is a classic case of abuse of premier
Djindjic's death," Covic said, adding that all action taken
on Belgrade's part had been a joint endeavor.
"From the EU and U.S. ambassadors' expositions at
the OSCE summit in Vienna, it is clear that the
international community fully and clearly understands that
the U.N. special envoy in Kosovo has not done his job, that
he said one thing and did another, leaving him without any
credibility," Covic said.
UNMIK: KOSOVO NOT SERBIAN PROVINCE
ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION 1244
PRISTINA,May 11 (Beta)- UNMIK Chief Michael
Steiner has clearly said that Kosovo is not a Serbian
province according to U.N. Security Council resolution
1244, UNMIK spokeswoman Isabelle Karlovic said on
May 9.
"The secretary general's special envoy (for Kosovo
Michael Steiner) said in (Vienna on May 8) that resolution
1244 leaves the issue of status open. The special envoy has
clearly said that Kosovo is not a province of Serbia
according to Resolution 1244," she said.
Steiner, SerbiaMontenegro ambassador Branislav
Milinkovic and representatives of the council's member
countries addressed an OSCE Permanent Council sitting on
Kosovo on May 8.
KFOR BELIEVES MORE EXTREMISTS IN
KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
PRISTINA,May 11 (Beta)-KFOR has announced that
it will suspend the training of members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps aboard, until it is satisfied that there are
no terrorists in that organization.
A May 11 statement released by KFOR added that it
had reason to believe that there were more members of the
Corps involved in terrorist activities.
"The Kosovo Protection Corps and Kosovo risk being
put to shame if, during an official exercise, it is revealed
that one of its member belongs to a terrorist organization,"
the statement said.
MONTENEGRO
NGOs: VUJANOVIC WINS WITH 63.3 PERCENT
PODGORICA,May 11 (Beta)-Ruling coalition
candidate Filip Vujanovic received 63.3 percent of the vote
in Montenegro's May 11 presidential election, according to
NGOs monitoring the election.
According to Belgrade's Center for Free Elections and
Democracy and the Center for Monitoring Elections, based
in Podgorica, Vujanovic, nominated by the Democratic
Party of Socialists and Social Democratic Party, was
supported by more than 140,000 voters.
Runnerup Miodrag Zivkovic of the opposition Liberal
Alliance took 30.8 percent, or 68,000 votes.
Just 3.9 percent backed independent candidate Dragan
Hajdukovic.
About two percent of ballots were invalid. Voter
turnout was 48.5 percent.
I will be the president of all citizens of Montenegro -
Vujanovic
PODGORICA, May 12 (Tanjug) - Newly elected
Montenegro's president Filip Vujanovic said on Sunday
evening that he will be the president of all citizens of the
Republic and that he will lead Montenegro to Europe
taking easy steps and in a co-operative way in order for
Montenegro to become part of Europe as soon as possible.
Vujanovic assessed that with his victory the coalition of
the Democratic Party of Socialists and the Social
Democratic Party has shown for the fifth time over the
past year that the citizens' orientation is a European
Montenegro.
In his statement to the press following the
announcement of the preliminary results, according to
which he won 65 percent of the votes, the new president
said that the priority of his policy would be "all activities
that would lead Montenegro to a speedier accession to the
European Union".
===
VUJANOVIC: I WILL CALL REFERENDUM ON INDEPENDENCE IN
THREE YEARS
PODGORICA,May 4 (Beta)-The Montenegrin ruling coalition's presidential
candidate, Filip Vujanovic, said on May 4 that there was an obligation
to hold a referendum on the future status of Montenegro in three
years.
"In three years, as a president of the Republic, I will demand that a
referendum on independence be organized so that the citizens of
Montenegro be offered an opportunity to state their minds regarding
their future," Vujanovic told BETA.
Responding to a statement of his rival Miodrag Zivkovic, from the
Liberal Alliance of Montenegro that the referendum was not
"automatically" obligatory, Vujanovic said that Zivkovic had
"obviously failed to read the text of the Belgrade Agreement and the
Constitutional Charter."
mentre assicura la prossima entrata nella NATO. Nel frattempo, i
rappresentanti dell'ONU dichiarano esplicitamente che il protettorato
del Kosovo "non fara' mai piu' parte della Serbia". In Montenegro, il
nuovo presidente secessionista viene "eletto" con IL 63 PER CENTO DEL
48 PER CENTO dei votanti, cioe' circa il 25 per cento dei voti.
Subject: DS 12.Maj
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:44:23 -0400
From: YugoEmb-Ottawa <diplomat@...>
DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 12.5. 2003. No. 4112
C O N T E N T S :
Serbia & Montenegro - HARMONIZATION
- EU will understand our economic interests, Nurkovic
- Governments achieve huge success in harmonization
of customs duties
SERBIA
- ONE MILLION OF NEW JOBS IN SERBIA IN
NEXT FIVE YEARS
KOSOVO METOHIJA
- SVILANOVIC FAVORS INSTITUTIONAL
PROTECTION FOR SERBS IN KOSOVO
- LAMBSDORF: KOSOVO NEVER AGAIN TO BE
PART OF SERBIA
- COVIC: UNMIK SWITCHING THESES
CONCERNING SITUATION IN KOSOVO
- UNMIK: KOSOVO NOT SERBIAN PROVINCE
ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION 1244
- KFOR BELIEVES MORE EXTREMISTS IN
KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
MONTENEGRO
- NGOs: VUJANOVIC WINS WITH 63.3 PERCENT
- I will be the president of all citizens of Montenegro -
Vujanovic
Serbia & Montenegro HARMONIZATION
EU will understand our economic interests, Nurkovic
BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - If the governments
of Serbia and Montenegro fail to agree the remaining 20
percent customs duties, a plan should be made to
harmonize this sphere over the next three years, instead of
now, Interior Economic Relations Minister Amir Nurkovic
has said. "In question are not political disputes, but a
clearcut economic forecast according to which
harmonization by force of all customs duties would disrupt
the economies of the member states, and the governments
of the member states and the organs of the state union
should inform the European Union about this," Nurkovic
told Sunday's issue of Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.
He underscored that this is not merely his own view, but
also the conclusion of the Council of Ministers which
believes that the EU will understand our economic
interests.
Governments achieve huge success in harmonization of
customs duties
PODGORICA, May 11 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin
Premier Milo Djukanovic said Sunday that the
governments of Serbia and Montenegro have achieved
much success in the harmonization of customs duties, but
that it is certain that at this moment this process will not be
fully completed. "The harmonization of customs duties
between Serbia and Montenegro is being conducted in a
very constructive manner, in an atmosphere of revived
trust between the two governments. Very competent
groups of ministers from both cabinets are engaged on this
and I believe that so far they have done all that has been
possible," Djukanovic told Tanjug. What we have done so
far is a great success which should be appreciated by the
European Union, because thus we will create conditions for
starting the drafting of the feasibility study, Djukanovic
added.
SERBIA
ONE MILLION OF NEW JOBS IN SERBIA IN NEXT
FIVE YEARS
BELGRADE,May 11 (Beta)-Serbian Economy and
Privatization Minister Aleksandar Vlahovic has announced
that the number of small and medium companies in the
next five years would grow from the current 270,000 to
400,000 and that one million of new jobs would be created
in those firms.
Presenting the strategy of development of small and
mediumsized companies to the representatives of local
selfgovernments, Vlahovic said that the strengthening of
the private sector was one of the Serbian government's
priorities.
"Small and medium companies are the driving force in
all European states, securing economic development and a
better living standard for all the citizens. These small
companies account for 99 percent of the total number of
companies in the European Union and they employ 75
percent of all working people," Vlahovic said, adding that
the intention of the Ministry of Economy and Privatization
was to create a legal and institutional framework for
transferring businesses from the grey economy into the
legal channels.
On its own, privatization would not be able to solve
the unemployment problem and therefore the conditions
need to be created for private initiative and the
simplification of the procedure for setting up private
businesses, he said.
Within the campaign entitled "Company May Be
Small, But It Propels All," the representatives of the
Ministry of Economy and Privatization would visit all the
regional centers in the following months in order to remove
all the obstacles for the development of small and medium
companies as efficiently as possible.
KOSOVO METOHIJA
SVILANOVIC FAVORS INSTITUTIONAL
PROTECTION FOR SERBS IN KOSOVO
BELGRADE,May 11 (Beta)-SerbiaMontenegro
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic has said that the
survival of Serbs in Kosovo was vital to securing a Serbian
presence in the province.
In a statement to the May 11 issue of the Belgrade
Blic, he said that this meant securing "a system of
guarantees for the survival of Serbs" in northern Kosovo
and in other parts of the province.
"It is necessary to decentralize Kosovo. Some in the
international community speak of a need to guarantee
functional autonomy for Serbs," Svilanovic said, adding
that there was enough room to find a model that would
secure Serb survival in Kosovo between the model
implemented in Bosnia Republika Srpska, and the
Macedonian model established by the Ohrid Agreement.
He said that the EU had decided to introduce "a
mechanism of monitoring stabilization and association for
Kosovo," in Kosovo's association with the EU.
"As the process of SerbiaMontenegro's association
with the EU will take years, I don't believe that any
decision concerning Kosovo will be brought quickly,"
Svilanovic said, adding reports that the province's status
will be solved in June this year, were unfounded and
incorrect.
LAMBSDORF: KOSOVO NEVER AGAIN TO BE
PART OF SERBIA
VIENNA,May 11 (Beta)-Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorf,
head of the office of the U.N. special representative in
Kosovo, said in Vienna on May 9 that "Kosovo will never
again be a part of Serbia."
"The present discussion of the status of Kosovo was
initiated by the constitution of SerbiaMontenegro, which
states that Kosovo is a part of Serbia. Even though it is
unclear what status Kosovo will have in the future, one
thing is certain and that is that it will never again be a part
of Serbia," said Lambsdorf at a conference called "The
Future of Kosovo Economic and Political Prospects."
COVIC: UNMIK SWITCHING THESES
CONCERNING SITUATION IN KOSOVO
BELGRADE,May 11 (Beta)-Coordinating Center for
Kosovo and Metohija chief Nebojsa Covic said on May 9
that statements by UNMIK officials at an OSCE meeting in
Vienna on the province's future, were a classic case of
switching theses and an attempt to put the blame on
Belgrade for the special envoy's failures in the province.
Commenting on a statement by the head of the
UNMIK chief's office Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorf that
Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic had started a discussion on
the division of Kosovo before being killed and that his
assassination had left UNMIK without a partner for talks in
Belgrade, Covic said that Belgrade had been open for
dialog and debate since the change of government in 2000.
"This statement is a classic case of abuse of premier
Djindjic's death," Covic said, adding that all action taken
on Belgrade's part had been a joint endeavor.
"From the EU and U.S. ambassadors' expositions at
the OSCE summit in Vienna, it is clear that the
international community fully and clearly understands that
the U.N. special envoy in Kosovo has not done his job, that
he said one thing and did another, leaving him without any
credibility," Covic said.
UNMIK: KOSOVO NOT SERBIAN PROVINCE
ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION 1244
PRISTINA,May 11 (Beta)- UNMIK Chief Michael
Steiner has clearly said that Kosovo is not a Serbian
province according to U.N. Security Council resolution
1244, UNMIK spokeswoman Isabelle Karlovic said on
May 9.
"The secretary general's special envoy (for Kosovo
Michael Steiner) said in (Vienna on May 8) that resolution
1244 leaves the issue of status open. The special envoy has
clearly said that Kosovo is not a province of Serbia
according to Resolution 1244," she said.
Steiner, SerbiaMontenegro ambassador Branislav
Milinkovic and representatives of the council's member
countries addressed an OSCE Permanent Council sitting on
Kosovo on May 8.
KFOR BELIEVES MORE EXTREMISTS IN
KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
PRISTINA,May 11 (Beta)-KFOR has announced that
it will suspend the training of members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps aboard, until it is satisfied that there are
no terrorists in that organization.
A May 11 statement released by KFOR added that it
had reason to believe that there were more members of the
Corps involved in terrorist activities.
"The Kosovo Protection Corps and Kosovo risk being
put to shame if, during an official exercise, it is revealed
that one of its member belongs to a terrorist organization,"
the statement said.
MONTENEGRO
NGOs: VUJANOVIC WINS WITH 63.3 PERCENT
PODGORICA,May 11 (Beta)-Ruling coalition
candidate Filip Vujanovic received 63.3 percent of the vote
in Montenegro's May 11 presidential election, according to
NGOs monitoring the election.
According to Belgrade's Center for Free Elections and
Democracy and the Center for Monitoring Elections, based
in Podgorica, Vujanovic, nominated by the Democratic
Party of Socialists and Social Democratic Party, was
supported by more than 140,000 voters.
Runnerup Miodrag Zivkovic of the opposition Liberal
Alliance took 30.8 percent, or 68,000 votes.
Just 3.9 percent backed independent candidate Dragan
Hajdukovic.
About two percent of ballots were invalid. Voter
turnout was 48.5 percent.
I will be the president of all citizens of Montenegro -
Vujanovic
PODGORICA, May 12 (Tanjug) - Newly elected
Montenegro's president Filip Vujanovic said on Sunday
evening that he will be the president of all citizens of the
Republic and that he will lead Montenegro to Europe
taking easy steps and in a co-operative way in order for
Montenegro to become part of Europe as soon as possible.
Vujanovic assessed that with his victory the coalition of
the Democratic Party of Socialists and the Social
Democratic Party has shown for the fifth time over the
past year that the citizens' orientation is a European
Montenegro.
In his statement to the press following the
announcement of the preliminary results, according to
which he won 65 percent of the votes, the new president
said that the priority of his policy would be "all activities
that would lead Montenegro to a speedier accession to the
European Union".
===
VUJANOVIC: I WILL CALL REFERENDUM ON INDEPENDENCE IN
THREE YEARS
PODGORICA,May 4 (Beta)-The Montenegrin ruling coalition's presidential
candidate, Filip Vujanovic, said on May 4 that there was an obligation
to hold a referendum on the future status of Montenegro in three
years.
"In three years, as a president of the Republic, I will demand that a
referendum on independence be organized so that the citizens of
Montenegro be offered an opportunity to state their minds regarding
their future," Vujanovic told BETA.
Responding to a statement of his rival Miodrag Zivkovic, from the
Liberal Alliance of Montenegro that the referendum was not
"automatically" obligatory, Vujanovic said that Zivkovic had
"obviously failed to read the text of the Belgrade Agreement and the
Constitutional Charter."