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Pristina, - Yugoslav Minister of Police Vukasin Jokanovic, has said that Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Serbias southern province of Kosovo and Metohija share a common past and have a common future.
In a statement published in the latest issue of the Albanian-language magazine Koha, published in the provincial centre of Pristina, Jokanovic said ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija should and must live together.
‘We live in the restive Balkans and will continue to live there amid numerous interlaced relations, understandings and misunderstandings, respect and ire’, Jokanovic told the magazine.
‘We must build together relations so that we will live better and will secure freedom, human and national dignity, the
MONTENEGRO
security of each individual, and integration into Europe’, he noted.
Jokanovic told the magazine that the revision of the 1974 Constitution of the former Yugoslav federation, at a time when he was speaker of the Kosovo and Metohija legislature, was legal and legitimate. The 1974 Constitution started directly bein overturned with the 1981 demonstrations of ethnicAlbanian nationalists in Kosovo and Metohija, whose ultimate goal was to create their own republic and join it to neighbouring Albania; Jokanovic
said.
The high level of the province’s autonomy did not suit the separatists, who maintained that conditions were ripe after the death of Josip Broz Tito for the fulfillment of their ultimate secessionist goal, he noted.
Tara - Moraca Hydro Power System
Podgorica, - Montenegro’s government is soon to decide about the realization of the Tara-Moraca hydro-power system project within which the Kostanica hydro-electric power plant and a hydro-power plant system on the river Moraca are to be constructed.
The project envisages that the power of the Kostanica power plant be about 600 megawatts and that its annual capacity be 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours.
To achieve this it is necessary to use the hydropotential in the best way possible, because of which 22.2 cubic metres of water will be redistributed from the river Tara to the river Moraca each second.
Another hydro-electric power plant will be constructed on the river Tara as part of the Tara-Moraca hydro-power system that should play an important role in the Yugoslav water resources management.
The importance of the Kostanica power plant will be even greater once
a system of hydro-electric power plants has been construcetd on the river Moraca, at Andrijevo, Re-
slovici, Milunovici and Zlatica. The plant’s annual capacity should be about 750 million kilowatthours of electric power.
Montenegrin Power Industry Minister Miodrag Gomilanovic has said that the construction of the Tara-Moraca system is justified from the technical point of view as well as from the point of power supply and economy.
The Yugoslav government is expected to soon adopt a strategy for the power industry development that will not in any way restrict the construction of hydro-electric power plants in Montenegro.
The government will not be able to provide all the funds needed for. the construction of plants (about 480 million dollars will be needed only for the construction of the Kostanica power plant) because of which regulations will soon be adopted enabling the granting of concessions to foreign partners that want to invest in the construction of hydro-electric power plants.
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Serbs and Ethnic Albanians Have Common Future
A strong secessionist movement has been active in Kosovo and Metohija for decades. Its goals has been for Kosovo and Metohija to seceded from Serbia and Yugoslavia and join neighbouring Albania. The 1989 constitutional changes were passed on the basis of the stands taken by the then highest state and party bodies and other socio-political organizations, Jokanovic told the magazine.
He said the constitutional changes had been endorsed by all political bodies of Kosovo and Metohija, which were predominantly made up of ethnic Albanians.
It was thanks to the constitutional changes
that a war in Kosovo and Metohija was avoided and human lives and proprerty spared, Jokanovic said in the interview to the Albanian-language Koha.
PANCEVO
Export of Petr
Pancevo, - The Petrohemija company of Pancevo, nothern Serbian
province of Vojvodina, is |
likely to increase produc-
tion to one million tones ©
of specific petrochemicals and export goods worth 170 million dollars, the
‘company’s director gene-
ral told Tanjug.
Petrohemija was out of
operation for four years due to the economic sanctions but 90 percent of its
N ENGLISH
( BORBAI
NEWYORK Renewed Mandate of Previaka Mission —
New york, - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution renewing the mandate of its observer mission on the disputed Adriatic peninsula of Prevlaka for another | six months, until July 15.
The resolution was passed a day before the mission’s mandate was due to expire on Jan. 15; under a resolution of: July ‘15, 1996.
The United Nations has 28 unarmed military observers on Prevlaka, which straddles the border between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia.
The Tuesday resolution says that the situation in the demilitarized zone on the strategic peninsula, claimed by both Yugoslavia and Croatia, is basically stable, despite constant tension. i
It says that further efforts must be made to stabilize the situation in the area, whose stability is of the utmost importance for stability and peace in the entire region.
The document reaffirms the importance of the normalization accord signed between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia for regional peace and stability.
The resolution was formulated on the basis of a report and recommendations made by Boutros Boutros-Ghali before he left the post of U.N. Secretary General at the end of 1996. | The resolution instructs his successor, Kofi Annan, to work out} by April 15, 1997 ‘another
report on the demilitarization process and. the overall situation on Previaka. oe ae
production facilities were activated in the first year after the lifting of sanctions, Director General Slobodan Tresac said. |
He added that Petrohemija produced 360 tones of petrochemicals last year, with constant monthly exports worth about 1-7 million German TAATKS. os LO IV _ Petrohemija used its financial means and foreign credits to purchase raw
FINANCE
Dinar Stability is Priority
Belgrade, - Serbian Minister Coordinator Dragan Tomic told Tanjug that the maintaining of a stable dinar and lowering of prices, would. be chief economic policy priorities in 1997, coupled with production. and export growths.
The four priorities are very important for the Yugoslav Economy’s re-
Minister Coordinator Dragan Tomic
integration into the .international division of labour, Tomic said and pointed up that the Yugoslav, Serbian and Montenegrin go-
vernments had reached.
; Belgrade, - The Belgra-. .
de Institute for Maize Zemun Polje will prepare sufficient amounts of dif-
ferent varieties of hybrid... ner: E . maize seed eXport Will to-
maize seed for next spring,
sowie Institute Director . vanovic has told |
Mile Tanjug. · : The Zemun Polje Insti-
tute has registered over.
300 varieties of hybrid | ‘face all over the world, he
maize in Yugoslavia and the world, and annually produces 25,000 to:30,000 tones of ‘maize seed, half of which:is. exported, Iva; novic said. | The Institute has contracted deals on export to artners in Russia, Greece, ulgaria, ‘Macedonia, Slovenia, and Italy for 1997, and a deal on export of maize seed to Albania for the first
time after World War , Iva-.
novic noted.
¥ \
ochemicals |
oil, gas and spare parts to
start production in all ten factories, Petrohemija is the only
Yugoslav producer of this
kind of chemicals. Petrohemija, with its 2,700 workers, plans to earn 270 million dollars in 1997. This company has exported, goods to Israel, Egypt, China, India, and
plans to ‘appear on the.
E.U. market, Tresac said.
Poland, Hun ,gary
consensus on the economic program for 1997.
: Although high. growth rates have been envisaged for production and exports, they are realistic, Tomic stressed, and noted that the situation created on the black market early this year was primarily due to the effect’ of psychological factors.
He noted that the memory of the period of international sanctions was still fresh and the dinar’s exchange rate could be ‘destabilized by a very few people and with a little money’.
There is no reason whatsoever for any deviation from the defined economic policy, Tomic said and pointed out that the government had decided to maintain the national currency’s stability. strictly through economic. and not administrative measures. According to Tomic, the National Bank. of
> Yugoslavia Council has
taken measures to further tighten “the restrtictive
‘monetary policy in 1997.
i Spring Sowing
The deal's worth is 6 million dolars, and new
‘ deals are being negotiatied «with other foreign
artners. The expected 1997 tal about 15 million dollars, Ivanovic said. = The Institute’s hybrids are grown on over one million hectares in, Yugoslavia and on an equal sur-
noted.
Beside standard hybrids which have, been grown successfully for years, the
‘markets in Yugoslavia and
abroad in 1997 will be offerred several new highyield and draught-resistant varieties, dr Ivanovic announced. The Zemun Polje Institute was elected coordina-
» tor of the plant gene bank for maize in May 1996 in, | | Stria and Italy.
Rome.
(day in
ECONOMY
ltalian Builders in Yugoslavia
Belgrade, - The representatives of prominent Italian firms from the sphere of investment building, Studio Legale Financiario Valutario of Bologna and Torno of Milan, are ready to participate in
the building and financing, in cooperation with some international banks, of, infrastructure facilities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The representatives of these firms announced their orientation on Tuesthe Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce (PKJ), where they met with the representatives of some 15 Yugoslav firms operating in the sphere of transport, power and other infrastructure. They said that the:aim of their visit is to determine in which Yugoslav ~ infrastructure facilities they would engage their.technology and funds. , .
During our former visit in September 1996, we concluded that there is work in Yugoslavia and that it is possible to coo- perate with your firms which are well-known in the world, the Bologna re-
Claudio |
presentative Murgano said.
The Italian partners were informed about the projects for the construction of the railway lines lin king Podgorica and Nik- sic (cities in the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro), Valjevo and Loznica (Yugoslav Republic ol Serbia), the planned furt her construction and €X tension of the Belgrade port - the biggest port on the Danube river which !s being developped as 4 80° ods and transport cent the further construction of the road network in Yugo slavia, and other projects:
KIKIND.
‘Toza Markovic’ on European Market
Kikinda, - Yugoslavia’s biggest construction materials producer and the biggest European roof tile producer Toza Markovic plans this year to export materials worth 10 million German marks.
Bricks, tiles and other construction materials will go mostly to. Russia, Germany, Hungary, Au-
General Director Da tar Segrt said from five i eight million marks wou in the next four yeals 5 invested in the faci modemization and rece struction. oth
Kikinda's mami: was created in 1866. | ring the 4-1/2 years sanctions, Toza Marko aI managed to work in most full capacity: