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12:03 2001-07-04
WHAT AFTER
THE HAGUE?
Developments around former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic’s handover to the Hague Tribunal stay in the
spotlight of Yugoslavia’s media. The press’s overall stance towards the
Cabinet’s controversial decision of June 28th seems rather positive (which may
not necessarily reflect the general popular feeling, though).
“What after the
Hague?,” the Belgrade newspaper Danas asks. After Milosevic handover, there have
been, at least, 3 significant events seriously affecting the country’s political
situation, the pare says. First of all, there has been a conference of donor
countries resulting in Yugoslavia getting the total of $1.28bn in loans. The
message was that Yugoslavia’s breaking up with its previous regime could secure
a “favourable reaction and the needed financial support from the West.” The
second important development, according to the Danas, was resignation of Zoran
Jijic, the federal prime minister, and a “dissolution of an unnatural coalition”
between the Democratic Opposition of Serbia and the “pro-Milosevic” Socialist
People’s Party of Montenegro at the federal level. And, thirdly, there has been
a restructuring within the ruling DOS bloc. So, if the country sees an election
held in the nearest future, it can, at last, get a democratic power and a
democratic opposition which are now missing.
On the whole, Milosevic handover
came as a logical completion of the processes started as early as October 5th,
2000, when Vojislav Kostunica was elected the country’s president, the Danas
concludes.
The Novij Express newspaper analyzes the latest changes on
Yugoslavia’s political scene. Currently, a conflict of 2 concepts of reform has
started to show. The first concept may be called “sprinter” – it is personified
by Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and the majority of the ruling DOS bloc
who think they are “not entitled to a resit.” The second concept is “marathon,”
supported by Yugoslavia’s President Vojislav Kostunica and based on the
“protection of national and state interests, on the one hand, and the exhausting
negotiations on all fronts – from Nato to Montenegran separatists, on the
other.”
The political situation in Yugoslavia is changing in a direction
which few expected it would. Mr. Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia and the
Montenegran “Together for Yugoslavia” bloc is opposed by the “Victory is
Montenegro’s” headed by the republic’s President Milo Djukanovic and the
majority of the DOS federal ruling coalition. The former are supported by the
majority of the electorate, while the latter have taken control of the political
and state machinery.
“Instead of starting to move forward, into a better
future, using help from the international community, the current events feel
more and more like a return to the past,” a Novij Express commentator
concludes.
compiled using the materials of «Radio Jugoslavija»
by
SERGEI STEPHANOV
PRAVDA.Ru
Miroslav
Antic,
http://www.antic.org/
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