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ODRAZ B92, Belgrade Daily News Service
Odraz B92 vesti (by 4 PM), April 28, 1997
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NEWS BY 4 PM
SPO Blames Democrats for Novi Sad Chaos . . . . . . . . . . 25
DS: State Incapable of Solving Basic Problems . . . . . . . 39
Chance to Chat for Djukanovic and Pesic . . . . . . . . . . 47
15 Social Protest on May 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SPO Claims HDZ Expulsionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Galbraith Slams Pavelic Rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . 78
SDSS Accepts Independent Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Serbs Attack Mulims in Brcko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
20 Macedonian Signs with EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Merrill Lynch Bank Warns on Yugoslav Government . . . . . . 119
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25 SPO BLAMES DEMOCRATS FOR NOVI SAD CHAOS
The Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) said on Monday that the cause
of the dissent in the SPO branch in Novi Sad was its coalition
partner, the Democratic Party (DS), according to Beta. The SPO
statement said the party had demanded an urgent reshufle of the
30 city government in Novi Sad, sharing of power with the Vojavodina
Coalition and radical reforms in the interests of citizens of Novi
Sad. It further said that the DS, holding two thirds of the seats
in the Novi Sad city council, had practically taken over the power
and refused any serious changes, including the replacement of
35 compromised communist officials. The statement said that the DS
leader Zoran Djindjic had, in the last session of the Zajedno's
Presidential Council, agreed to a reshufle of the Novi Sad City
Council but that he had sent different instructions to Novi Sad.
DS: STATE INCAPABLE OF SOLVING BASIC PROBLEMS
40 A spokesman for the Democratic Party (DS), Slobodan Vuksanovic,
said on Monday that the government's decision to extend the list
of medical services citizens have to pay for showed that the state
was not capable of providing for the basic needs of its citizens.
He told Beta that the decision to make citizens pay if a physician
45 decides that a call for an ambulance had not been urgent was
outrageous.
CHANCE TO CHAT FOR DJUKANOVIC AND PESIC
Civic Alliance leader Vesna Pesic met Prime Minister Milo
Djukanovic in Podgorica on Saturday. According to Mrs Pesic the
50 meeting was accidental, but the two took the chance for a full and
frank exchange of political views. Mrs Pesic told Radio B92 that
Mr Djukanovic had impressed her as a pragmatic politician,
concerned with the real issues of life. She also said that she
supported his resistance to the Belgrade regime's interference
55 with internal affairs of Montenegro.
Mrs Pesic said that Mr Djukanovic believed that decisions must be
made by the institutions of the system, and not on the
instructions of a political party. She also said that they had
discussed economic issues and agreed that these were critical, as
60 there would be no funds for salaries or pensions within a year if
the present crisis was not solved. Mrs Pesic emphasised that there
had been no discussion of Zajedno or any possible liaison between
the coalition and the Montenegrin Government.
SOCIAL PROTEST ON MAY 1
65 The trade union Nezavisnost, the Student Parliament and the
Independent Association of Pensioners will jointly hold
demonstrations in Belgrade on May 1st. They will present their
program for the protests in a news conference on Tuesday.
SPO CLAIMS HDZ EXPULSIONIST
70 The Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) on Monday said that the demand
by the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ) that all extremist Serbs leave
the Ilok region showed a clear Croat intention to expel all Serbs
from Eastern Slavonia. The SPO statement expressed outrage at the
violation of the Erdut Agreement and called on Serbian President
75 Slobodan Milosevic, one of the authors of the Agreement, to give a
clear statement on this new attempt by the HDZ to prepare
contitions for yet another mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia.
GALBRAITH SLAMS PAVELIC REHABILITATION
In an interview published in the latest issue of the Croatian
80 weekly Feral Tribune, US Ambassador to Zagreb Peter Galbraith
condemned any attempt to rehabilitate Ante Pavelic, the head of
the Ustasa Independent State of Croatia in World War Two. He said
that the US government had opposed any changes to the monuments in
Jasenovac, the World War Two Croatian detention camp for Serbs. Mr
85 Galbraith said that the establishment of the Federation of Bosnia-
Herzegovina was the first great success of international diplomacy
in the Bosnia crisis and that there was such entity as Herzeg-
Bosnia [the South-Eastern region in Bosnia controlled by the
Croats].
90 SDSS ACCEPTS INDEPENDENT CROATIA
Milorad Pupovac, an MP in the Croatian Parliament and Chairman of
the Program Council of the Independent Democratic Serb Party
(SDSS), told the Croatian newspaper 'Novi List' on Monday that the
SDSS management had clearly opted for acknowledging an independent
95 Croatia. He said that this was stated in the party's program and
was also the way party members felt.
Mr. Pupovac stressed that a way for repatriating both Croat and
Serb refugees to Croatia simultaneously must be found. He stressed
that Serbs wished to live throughout the Republic of Croatia as
100 free citizens rather than in a Serb ghetto.
SERBS ATTACK MULIMS IN BRCKO
Bosnian Serbs in Brcko attacked Muslims in two separate incidents
late on Sunday. The UN police told AFP that a sixtyfive-year-old
was taken to hospital after he had been robbed and beaten up by 20
105 Serbs on the towns outskirts. His four friends managed to flee
without injuries. A few hours prior to this incident, a an
intoxicated Serb had hit a thirtyfive-year-old Muslim woman on the
head. The assailant was later arrested.
MACEDONIAN SIGNS WITH EU
110 Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski and the Chairman of
the European Union (EU), Dutch Foreign Minister Hans Van Mierlo
will sign a cooperation agreement between Macedonia and the EU in
Luxembourg on Tuesday. Because of Greece's objections to the
agreement containing the name of ``The Republic of Macedonia,''
115 the cooperation agreement will be put in place by an exchange of
letters. It will become effective on July 1st. Simultaneously with
this, negotiations on Macedonia's affiliated membership to the EU
will begin.
MERRILL LYNCH BANK WARNS ON YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT
120 The April analysis of the international investment bank Merrill
Lynch found predicts that price of the Yugoslav debt will continue
to fall from its current 49c on the secondary market unless the
Serbian Government is replaced by the end of the year.
The Merrill Lynch report says that the price of the Yugoslav debt
125 might be somewhere above 70c if there were a greater possibility
of negotiations between the FR Yugoslavia and the international
monetary institutions. but that this could not be expected in the
next 18 months or even longer.
Merrill Lynch predicted that the Yugoslav foreign debt would reach
130 $11b in 1997, which together with the $3.8b internal debt is as
much as the gross annual product.
The report says that a government formed by Zajedno would, despite
the coalition's lack of clear policy, effect the lifting of the
outer wall of the sanctions provided the policy on Kosovo changed.
135 That would as a concequence lead to Yugoslavia's return to
international monetary institutions by the end of 1998.
Merrill Lynch's analysts believe the opportunity to open
negotiations between FR Yugoslavia and international monetary
institutions would be smaller if Serbian President Slobodan
140 Milosevic remains in power. Western governments would probably
lift the outer wall of sanctions, but this could be drawn out
depending on Mr Milosevic's policy on Kosovo and Bosnia, the
report said. The political survival of the Serbian President would
imply an incrased risk of internal destabilization, in the light
145 of regional tensions in Vojvodina, Kosovo and Montenegro.
Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
Edited by: Steve Agnew
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