YUGOSLAVIA-CRISIS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- MINISTER SAYS SERBIA, MONTENEGRO SHOULD SPLIT FEDERAL CABINET IN HALF
- DJINDJIC URGES MONTENEGRO TO MAKE UP ITS MIND
- BATIC: MAJORITY IN DOS AGREE WITH SERBIAN PREMIER ON FEDERAL ELECTIONS
- DOS ALL EARS ON GOVERNMENT SEATS
- SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY TO PARTICIPATE IN NEW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- YUGOSLAV CONSTITUTION REQUIRES RADICAL CHANGES SAYS BULATOVIC
- MONTENEGRO TO ASK FOR FEDERAL TALKS NEXT WEEK
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
- YUGOSLAVIA SAYS UNHAPPY ABOUT HUNGARIAN BILL
- BATIC SAYS THACI TO BE INDICTED BEFORE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS
- YUGOSLAVIRAQI COOPERATION COMMITTEE MEETS IN BAGHDAD
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
- KOSOVOMETOHIJA SERBS WILL VOTE IF THEY GET SECURITY GUARANTEES
- KFOR ARRESTS NLA MEMBERS SMUGGLING WEAPONS
YUGOSLAVIA-CRISIS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
MINISTER SAYS SERBIA, MONTENEGRO SHOULD SPLIT FEDERAL CABINET IN HALF
BELGRADE, July 9 ( Beta) - Yugoslav Information Minister Slobodan
Orlic said the new Yugoslav cabinet should consist of an equal number of
ministers from Serbia and Montenegro, "because we have had enough of
majority voting."
The July 8 issue of the Podgorica Dan paper quoted him as saying
that, in the event of such an outcome, the prime minister should lose his
right to cast a vote to break any tied votes.
Orlic added that former Yugoslav PM Zoran Zizic would probably be
re-elected, adding, "The Socialist People's Party is holding its leader,
Predrag Bulatovic, back for more important confrontations."
DJINDJIC URGES MONTENEGRO TO MAKE UP ITS MIND
BELGRADE, July 8 (B92/Reuters) - Relations within the Yugoslav
federation should be settled by the end of the year, "not a day longer,"
the Serbian prime minister said today.
"I am tired of Montenegrin tactics," Zoran Djindjic added during
an interview with Belgrade television station BK.
It is obvious that the majority of Montenegrin citizens want an
independence referendum, Djindjic said, and he urged the divided republic
to get on with it.
"They should decide what state they want and then on the basis of
that decision we will sit down and draft a solution," he said.
Foot-dragging and politicking should cease, Djindjic said. The two
republics must either reform the federation in a timely manner or "separate
in a civilised way," he concluded.
BATIC: MAJORITY IN DOS AGREE WITH SERBIAN PREMIER ON FEDERAL ELECTIONS
PODGORICA, July 8 (Tanjug) The majority in the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) share the view of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic
on federal elections, Serbian Minister of Justice Vladan Batic said in an
interview to the Podgorica daily Dan.
Djindjic had recently said that any new federal elections without
the participation of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) of
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic would mean a separation of Serbia and
Montenegro.
New federal elections with the same participants as before would
make no sense, Batic said.
DOS ALL EARS ON GOVERNMENT SEATS
BELGRADE, July 9 ( Srna) - The Democratic Opposition of Serbia
will not get picky over the share of seats in the new federal government,
Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic said today.
Montenegro's Socialist People's Party last week agreed to
participate in forming a new federal government on condition the
Montenegrin coalition be allocated the same number of seats as their
Serbian partner.
In an interview with Belgrade daily Blic, Batic said the issue had
not yet been addressed but that DOS had nothing against the idea.
"Anyway," he said, "this government would be of limited duration
and would have a limited range."
The government's only tasks are to prepare a new constitutional
basis for Yugoslavia and "to continue improving our country's relations
with foreign countries," he explained.
One thing DOS would insist on, said the justice minister, would be
that the Socialist People's Party refuses to back the opposition bill
condemning cooperation with The Hague.
The bill, put forward by the Yugoslav Left, the Serbian Radical
Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia, comes before the federal
parliament on Wednesday.
"This declaration discredits the Serbian Government, and has found
a place on the agenda thanks to votes of the Socialist People's Party,"
argued Batic.
SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY TO PARTICIPATE IN NEW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
BELGRADE, July 9 ( Beta) - The Socialist People's Party will
participate in the forming of a new federal cabinet, the party's executive
committee decided on July 6.
The committee authorized the party vice president, Srdja Bozovic,
to work together with representatives of the People's Party and the Serb
People's Party on analyzing the flaws of the existing coalition agreement
with the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), and define the elements of
a new one, which should be based on the coalition partners' full equality
in the federal government and other state bodies.
The Socialist People's Party executive committee also pointed out
that "having in mind the events at the federal level," early federal
elections should be scheduled. The party added that the People's Socialists
are the only member of the Together for Yugoslavia coalition who insist on
the early vote.
YUGOSLAV CONSTITUTION REQUIRES RADICAL CHANGES SAYS BULATOVIC
BELGRADE, July 9 ( Beta) - The Socialist People's Party leader,
Predrag Bulatovic, said in an interview with the Podgorica-based Pobjeda
newspaper, published on July 8, that the common state of Montenegro and
Serbia would survive, but that "thorough changes of the Yugoslav
constitution are a necessity," which his party would insist on.
"We have announced such constitutional changes, and the crisis in
the federal coalition between the Socialist People's Party and the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), sparked over cooperation with the
Hague tribunal, made it crystal clear that the federation, as it is, should
be restructured," said Bulatovic.
Bulatovic said that the consequences of the "Serbian government's
unconstitutional decision" to hand over Slobodan Milosevic to the
Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia "are
yet to be felt."
"Those who resorted to such measures will have to assume political
responsibility for their move rather soon. And that is not going to be the
only kind of responsibility some of them will have to face, because the
extradition was an illegal act," warned Bulatovic.
The Montenegrin party leader announced a new coalition agreement
with the DOS bloc, which would guarantee Montenegro full formal and
effective equality in the Yugoslav government and other federal state bodies.
MONTENEGRO TO ASK FOR FEDERAL TALKS NEXT WEEK
PODGORICA, July 8 ( Srna) - Montenegro will ask Serbia next week
to begin discussions about relations between the two republics, Montenegrin
prime minister Filip Vujanovic said today.
Simultaneously, Vujanovic said, the government will invite the
Montenegrin opposition to begin negotiations on decreasing the political
tension in the republic.
Opposition talks are aimed at forestalling the internal
polarisation so the government can more effectively negotiate a new federal
framework with Serbia, Vujanovic said.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAVIA SAYS UNHAPPY ABOUT HUNGARIAN BILL
BELGRADE, July 9 ( Beta) - Goran Svilanovic, the Yugoslav foreign
minister, conveyed to Hungary's top officials the federal government's
objections concerning a Hungarian bill on Hungarians in neighbouring
countries, soon after Hungarian parliament passed it.
A Yugoslav foreign ministry statement said Yugoslav-Hungarian
consultations would be held before the bill takes effect on Jan. 1, 2002.
Svilanovic said the two country's experts needed to meet as soon
as possible to review the bill's aspects in detail, the statement said.
BATIC SAYS THACI TO BE INDICTED BEFORE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS
BELGRADE, July 9 ( Beta) - Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic
expressed on July 7 the conviction that the Democratic Party of Kosovo
president and political leader of the self-styled Kosovo Liberation Army,
Hashim Thaci, "will be called to account very soon" by the international
war crimes court.
"Thaci and the KLA's separatism is obvious and the international
community has no sympathies for it. This is why I am convinced that the
Albanian leader will be indicted for war crimes against the Serb population
in Kosovo before elections in November," Batic told a press conference in
Mali Zvornik.
He said "the international war crimes tribunal must not cater to
public opinion by applying selective justice or do this for reasons of war
compensation or the international community's credibility," adding that,
"all who participated in war experiments, regardless of whether they are
Croats, Muslims, Albanians or individuals who assumed the right to commit
crimes in the name of the Serb people," would answer for their crimes.
Batic, the leader of the Democratic Christian Party of Serbia said
he did not know what the Republika Srpska leadership intended to do with
Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, adding that "there's no use being
pigheaded with the world."
YUGOSLAVIRAQI COOPERATION COMMITTEE MEETS IN BAGHDAD
BELGRADE, July 6 (Tanjug) A YugoslavIraqi committee for economic
and technical cooperation held its 19th session on July 25 in Baghdad to
review economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the
two countries, as well as readiness and prospects for continuing it in the
forthcoming period, a government statement said.
At the end of the meeting, the committee signed a protocol on
bilateral activities aimed at continuing and expanding cooperation within
the Oil for Food programme, in view of the numerous references Yugoslav
organizations have in Iraq.
The Yugoslav delegation at the meeting was headed by Momcilo
Vucetic, Yugoslav minister of economy and internal commerce, and its Iraqi
equivalent by Iraq's Minister of Trade Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, the statement
said.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
KOSOVOMETOHIJA SERBS WILL VOTE IF THEY GET SECURITY GUARANTEES
BELGRADE, July 9 (Tanjug) Serbs in KosovoMetohija will go to the
polls if their basic problems are taken care of, a Serb official in that
UNruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province is quoted on Monday as saying.
Among these, Rada Trajkovic of the Kosovo Provisional
Administrative Council listed life in safety, freedom of movement and the
return of displaced persons, guaranteed by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
and the international Kosovo force (KFor).
Trajkovic told the Politika newspaper these should be provided
within a reasonable time.
She added that a way to a democratic development would be paved by
annexes or amendments to the UNMIKadopted Constitutional Framework which
should provide for respect for the rights of all ethnic communities and
prevent an ethnic Albanian domination.
According to her, the Serbs and ethnic Albanians should negotiate
directly about their future in KosovoMetohija.
KFOR ARRESTS NLA MEMBERS SMUGGLING WEAPONS
BELGRADE, July 8 (Tanjug) KFor multinational brigade East troops
have arrested near the KosovoMacedonian border a uniformed member of the
ethnic Albanian armed group "national liberation army" (NLA) and seized a
large quantity of weapons, a statement issued at the US Bondsteel base near
Urosevac said Sunday.
The weapons, including 23 antitank grenades, 6 rocket launchers,
25 automatic rifles AK47, 43 mortar shells, 51 flares and a large quantity
of ammunition, were carried on pack animals early Friday, Kfor said.
A KFor patrol intercepted five men on a remote mountain track
usually used for smuggling, but succeeded in capturing only one, the
statement says.
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