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MILS NEWS 02/07/96Macedonian Information Liaison Service Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: "Macedonian Information Liaison Service" <mils@mils.spic.org.mk>CONTENTS
MILS SUPPLEMENTMILS NEWSSkopje, 02 July 1996[01] MACEDONIAN-SLOVENIAN AGREEMENT ON FREE TRADE SIGNEDVice Prime Ministers of Macedonia, Bekjir Zuta, and of Slovenia, Janko Dezelak, yesterday in Skopje signed the Agreement on Free Trade, which will offer better possibilities for economic cooperation between the two countries. The Agreement anticipates abolishing of customs duties and keeping only the 1% expenses for customs evidence in the year of 2000, and gradually reducing of duties beginning from September this year. As Macedonian media reported, the Agreement refers to two lists of products: industrial and agricultural ones. Macedonian industrial products will be released from paying customs duties immediately after the Agreement comes into effect, while this will be the case with 60% of the Slovenian products.The rest of products of Slovenia have been divided in four groups and the customs duties will be differently reduced. Free trade exchange of agricultural products will start in December this year, according to the established quotas. For the additionally imported products, the customs will be paid regularly. Macedonian list of agricultural products has 33 products, and the Slovenian over 20. Current economic exchange of $280-290 million is a good basis for increasing the economic cooperation between the two countries, was said at yesterday's press conference. [02] GLIGOROV'S STATEMENT - WORRYING'Makfax' agency reported of the great attention the Greek media had paid to Gligorov's visit to Turkey, and especially of the request made by Macedonian President and his Turkish counterpart Demirel for immediate start of a dialogue on Kosovo. Greek media had characterized as disturbing that statement of Gligorov that both countries were worried about the situation in the region, especially in Kosovo.[03] RADIO TIRANA: 'PDP ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR DISCRIMINATION OF ALBANIANS IN MACEDONIA''Macedonia is continuing the discrimination of Albanians, and the Party for Democratic Prosperity (PDP), which is participating in the government, is very much responsible for that,' said yesterday's comment of Radio Tirana.According to 'Makfax', this national Albanian radio supported the claims for discrimination with the verified imprisonment of the leaders of 'Tetovo university', and with alleged mistreating of some Albanian media reporters. [04] HIGH NATO OFFICIAL IN MACEDONIA TOMORROWMacedonian Television reported that Deputy Allied Commander for Europe General Jeremy McKenzie will arrive tomorrow for a two-days visit to Macedonia. He will meet Macedonian officials and have talks in Macedonian Ministry of Defense.[05] CONGRATULATIONS ON CANADIAN NATIONAL HOLIDAYMacedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski sent his congratulations to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Tretienne for the national holiday of his country, 1 July. Crvenkovski expressed his hope for a soon establishing of diplomatic relations between Macedonia and Canada, by which the two countries would strengthen their cooperation and friendship.Foreign Minister Frchkovski also sent his congratulations to his Canadian counterpart Lloyd Asworthy. [06] MEASURES AGAINST SPREADING THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASEMacedonian media yesterday reported about the measures that are being taken by experts and police to prevent spreading of the foot-and-mouth disease among livestock, that appeared in several villages near Skopje and in one near Titov Veles.The infected cattle is being isolated and destroyed, the stables are being cleaned, and people and vehicles at the exits of villages are being controlled and disinfected. Some people have resisted to the taking away of their infected cattle. Mihailo Zoric, the General Manager of Macedonian Veterinary Administration, said that 600-1,000 animals would have to be destroyed in the Republic. Macedonian Minister of Agriculture Nikola Parakeov stated for Macedonian Television that the Government had decided to compensate the damage to the citizens whose cattle would be destroyed. Daily 'Dnevnik' reads that the compensation will be about DM 2,000 for an animal, which is in accordance with the market price. The Government yesterday decided that all the activities needed to prevent the spreading of the disease should be taken, i.e. all the livestock infected should be destroyed, and Army could be engaged to help in full isolation of the locations where the disease had appeared. Macedonian Customs Administration reported that FR Yugoslavia had closed the border crossing Blace-General Jankovic for all kinds of goods transport, while transport of people has been going on with minor holdups. Tabanovce- Preshevo border crossing is opened for all transports, but with major holdups, especially of trucks. Meanwhile, 'Makfax' agency yesterday reported that Greek Ministry of Agriculture had banned the import of all meat products, livestock and animal feed from Macedonia following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The Ministry also sent a circular to border posts to bar Greek shepherds from allowing their herds to graze closer than three kilometres from the Macedonian-Greek border. According to Macedonian Radio, the disease has been provoked by an A-22 virus and has, so far, affected only cows. The virus could affect other animals and the man, but it provokes only mild symptoms, and the person infected can spread the disease. This national radio station reported that the disease has been brought to Macedonia by the illegally brought infected cattle from Albania. [07] LEGAL GOVERNMENT DEFINITELY CONSTITUTEDYesterday, at the Macedonian Parliament, 477 newly appointed judges of Courts of Original Jurisdiction and 88 of Appellate Courts took an oath. Simultaneously, the new 27 Courts of Original Jurisdiction, 2 Appellate and one Supreme Court began to function. Minister of Justice Vlado Popovski, Supreme Court President Dimitrie Dimishkovski and Court Council President Tihomir Velovski stated that with this the legal government of Macedonia had been constituted, which should guarantee the freedom and human rights of the citizens and support the democratic relations in the country. The process of its constitution lasted five years and was intensified by the Law on Courts, which realized the Constitutional entries about an independent judiciary.Minister Popovski said the new judiciary of Macedonia was not only of a new personnel, but also of a new way of work, which should follow the examples of democratic countries. [08] GOSHEV: 'LAW ON LOCAL ELECTIONS ALLOWS FORGERY''The newly proposed Law on Local Elections in Macedonia will allow another forgery of elections,' said Democratic Party leader Petar Goshev at a press conference yesterday.According to him, the Law is not a new one, but old with minor modifications. 'Also, the ruling parties want to have the organs that should carry out the elections made only of their members,' said Goshev, pointing out the rights and obligations of electoral commissions, i.e. the fact that those commissions members appointed by the government have more rights. Goshev also underlined the electoral lists without defined number of voters, lack of entries about abolishing of elections, and the unsatisfactory solution for identifying of voters. The possibility for those candidates for mayors with over 7% of votes won to enter the second voting round was estimated by Goshev as a separation of the majority principle of voting, and he said the proposing of candidates for mayors with 100 signatures would inevitably bring to a chaos. Saying the new Law was completely catastrophic, Goshev concluded that its being created and passed in a rush was aiming in forced local elections. MILS SUPPLEMENT[09] 'Cartographers Are on The Road Again!'('Dnevnik', 29 June 1996)Serbian-Albanian dividing of Kosovo is not a local issue. It is even less exclusively Serbian or Albanian. It inevitably concerns Macedonia and determines its destiny. To this we have to add the notifications of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts - the mother of the Great-Serbian Memorandum, and the European cartographers, who are impatient to give it a face and a body. And we must not forget that it was exactly a Memorandum and a group of confused cartographers that brought to such a mess in the Balkans. It is about, if possible at all, harmonizing and separating the Serbian and Albanian issue on the Balkans. Both Europe and America understand these two problems as very significant ones. And, following the same old-fashioned way of thinking, which once ended in the Berlin Congress, they expect the dividing of what is Serbian and what is Albanian to put an end to the (rest of?) Balkan wars. The dividing will certainly never satisfy either of the parties, but will make Europe think that the solution is good. It should block the Russians and Americans, divide the French and British and, together with the Germans, return the Italians. Serbia has always been and will always be an important factor in the Balkans, either negative or positive one. Just like in the last war: first it was a factor of war, now it is of peace. The internal political situation of a country, in this case of Serbia, is irrelevant for the geo-politics and geo-strategy, except when it is a direct obstacle for the strategic goals. Americans and Russians have confirmed this rule several times already, in South America, in the Near and Far East. Taking this into account, cartographers of different origins are on the road again, rushing to catch up with Serbia. Some of them in order not to lose control on it, others to attract it towards them. Albania had been intentionally created in the European Imperialistic Kitchen, not spontaneously, or as a realization of the ideas and goals of the Prizren League in its first shape. Europe made it a tribal country which should play the role of a defending bridge at the Slovene Balkans, the latter always suspected of pan-Slovene intentions (i.e. of a breakthrough of Russia which is and will remain an imperialistic force). But Albania is also in service of American controlling its European allies that have specialized in provoking wars in the Balkans. As if this is the only part of the continent where a pan-European Peace had not been signed. Or maybe the European Union is functioning only where it is impossible otherwise, while the Balkans is considered The Twilight Zone where anything is possible. The chemist and a President of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts Aleksandar Despic is a wise man. Although some Serbian politicians proclaim themselves as having nothing to do with him, he is not a fool to talk about demographic explosions and their political consequences for the country - i.e. losing it from the Albanians. Or to talk that Serbian Nation has to decide: Kosovo or Serbia. He is not senile at all, although the senility is a post-Yugoslav specialty, when he says that Serbia can be saved only if it gives up Kosovo in time (i.e. now!). Despic cunningly and argumentatively intercedes for diving of the Albanians and Serbs. Otherwise, the Albanians, with their explosive population growth rate, will overcome the Serbs and take the whole Serbia. Neither Despic, nor the cartographers (of whom the Italians were the fastest) do not say what precisely they mean with the suggested dividing: whether it a dividing of Kosovo, followed by a sovereignty of the Albanian part and its consequently joining the 'mother' (Albania), or making Kosovo a republic, a constitutional part of FR Yugoslavia? (to be continued)mils news 02 July, 1996Macedonian Information Liaison Service Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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