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.EVER %NOUGH m MARKET p ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­êt ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ê 4HIS POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE SHOULD BE APPLIED WHEN LOOKING AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT 3ERBIA WILL SOON RECEIVE A THIRD MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR -OBILE TELEPHONY IN 3ERBIA WAS VERY EXPENSIVE UNTIL RECENTLY BUT WITH ADDED COMPETI TION IMPULSES WILL BECOME LOWER AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF SERVICES WILL ALSO BECOME AVAILABLE m THE KIND OF PRICES AND SERVICES THAT CELL PHONE OWNERS HERE HAVE TO DATE ONLY BEEN ABLE TO HEAR ABOUT AS EXISTING SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD 0ROBABLY FROM THE FIRST DAY OF -IpA "RKIÐ

$EPUTY %DITOR )N #HIEF OF NEXT YEAR THREE MOBILE OPERATORS %KONOMIST MAGAZINE WILL COMPETE TO MAKE THE BIGGEST POSSIBLE PROFIT AND THEY WILL SUC CEED IN THAT ONLY IF THEY ATTRACT AS MANY CLIENTS AS POSSIBLE -OREOVER THEY WILL ATTRACT THEM ONLY WITH GOOD SERVICES AND PRICES THAT CAN BEAT THOSE OF THE COMPETITION 4HAT IS HOW THE MARKET FUNCTIONS !ND FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW

THE DECISION TO ANNOUNCE A TENDER FOR A THIRD MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR SHOULD BE APPLAUDED 4HE STATE WILL ALSO MAKE SOME GAINS FROM THE ENTRY OF A THIRD PLAYER 4HE STARTING PRICE FOR THE SALE OF THE LICENSE IS _ MILLION

BUT THAT IS NOT ALL OF THE USE FOR THE STATE %STIMATES ARE SUCH THAT THE TENDER WINNER WILL HAVE TO INVEST AT LEAST ANOTHER _ MILLION IN EQUIPMENT AND THAT IT WILL GENERATE NO FEWER THAN PEOPLE .EWS ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TENDER DID NOT SURPRISE ANYONE )T WAS ALREADY AS IT COULD BE SAID jCALCULATEDk DURING THE SALE OF THE SECOND LICENSE !PPARENTLY IT WAS THEN THAT THE GOVERN MENT ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD ALSO SELL THE THIRD LICENSE PRIOR TO THE END OF THE YEAR m AS IF THE ANNOUNCEMENT HAD COME AS SOME KIND OF A PROMISE TO FORMER CO OWNER OF THE SECOND LICENSE -OBI

!USTRIAN BUSINESSMAN -ARTIN 3CHLAFF AND THE COMPANY j-OBILCOMk AS IF IT WAS EXACTLY FOR THEM THE TENDER FOR THE THIRD LICENSE BECAUSE THEY WERE LEFT jHANGINGk AT THE SECOND WILL BE SCHEDULED )F THIS CONSTRUCTION WITH WHICH MANY "ELGRADE CONSULTANTS OPER ATE SHOWS ITSELF AS CORRECT THEN THIS IS EVIDENCE OF HOW THE MARKET DOES NOT OPERATE %VIDENCE THAT EVERYTHING IS NOT ALRIGHT IN THIS OPERATION BUT NOT IN THE GENERAL INTENTION IS OFFERED BY A PUBLICLY LEAKED ESTIMATE THAT APPARENTLY SUGGESTS THAT THE 'OVERNMENT NOT TO SELL THE THIRD LICENSE

BUT RATHER THE FIRST LICENSE HELD BY STATE OWNED LOCAL MARKET LEADER 4ELEKOM BECAUSE IT COULD GAIN AT LEAST AS MUCH REVENUE AS IT GOT FOR THE SECOND LICENSE ABOUT _ BILLION !CCORDING TO THIS SCENARIO

THE STATE COULD BECOME A PARTNER OF THE THIRD OPERATOR WITH A FEW DOMESTIC COMPANIES THAT ARE INTERESTED 7HETHER THE STATE HAS CONDUCTED ITSELF CLEVERLY IN THIS CASE AND IN THE INTEREST OF TAXPAYERS REMAINS TO BE SEEN b AND VERY QUICKLY

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7HAT CAN ALREADY BE SEEN THOUGH IS THAT THE STATE IS NOT BEHAV ING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NEEDS OF ITS CITIZENS WHEN TELECOMMU NICATIONS THE DOMAIN OF FIXED TELEPHONY m IS IN QUESTION 4HUS IF IT IS USEFUL AND CHEAP FOR CITIZENS TO CHOOSE ONE OF THE THREE MOBILE PHONE OPERATORS THEN A QUESTION IS POSED m WHY DOES THIS SAME RULE NOT APPLY TO FIXED TELEPHONY AS WELL !CCORDING TO CREDIBLE ANALYSES 3ERBIA IS THE STATE IN THE REGION THAT HAS THE LEAST QUALITY FIXED TELEPHONE SERVICES AND WHOSE CITIZENS PAY THE MOST FOR LANDLINE CALLS (OW THEN IS IT A NATIONAL INTEREST FOR 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA TO HOLD A MONOPOLY OVER FIXED TELEPHONY AND WHY HAS THE STATE DECIDED THAT 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA SHOULD MAINTAIN THIS MONOPOLY UNTIL THE YEAR 3ERBIA TODAY IS PROBABLY THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE REGION THAT STILL HAS THE CONSUMER LANDLINE CATEGORY KNOWN AS jDOUBLEk AND MEAN ING THAT TWO INDIVIDUAL PHONE NUMBERS SHARE THE SAME LINE !ND THIS

o ê ê ê ê ê ê ê{ êz ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ²ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ꢪ¡ª¸ SHARED LINE PHENOMENON IS BY NO MEANS A RARITY THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SUCH jDOUBLEk LANDLINES IN "ELGRADE ALONE 4ELEKOM 3RBIJAiS MONOPOLY IS THE ONLY CULPRIT FOR jDOUBLESk

BAD LINES AND HIGH BILLS )F THE GOVERNMENT OR MORE PRECISE LY THE INDEPENDENT REGULATORY BODY KNOWN AS THE !GENCY FOR 4ELECOMMUNICATIONS WERE TO DECIDE TO SCHEDULE A TENDER FOR TWO ADDITIONAL FIXED LINE OPERATORS THEN THE CITIZENS OF 3ERBIA WOULD BE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE BEST AND CHEAPEST FIRM THAT OFFERS THESE SERVICES 4HIS WOULD CERTAINLY BE REFLECTED ON THEIR HOME BUDGETS AS WELL &OR THREE YEARS THE )NTERNATIONAL -ONETARY &UND TRIED TO CON VINCE THE 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA TO PRIVATISE 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA AND OPEN THE MARKET TO COMPETITION BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS 4HERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS A jHIGHER NATIONAL INTERESTk BUT THE 'OVERNMENT WILL NOT SAY WHAT THAT IS !ND THE CITIZENS OF 3ERBIA STILL WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN BEHIND SUCH A SIGNIFICANT PHRASE IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED )NTERNATIONAL -ONETARY &UND WHICH OPENLY STATED THAT THE MONOPOLY OF 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA IS SUSTAINED BECAUSE THAT PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN THE OWNERSHIP OF THE STATE SERVES AS A PIGGY BANK FOR ADDITIONAL FINANCING OF POLITICAL PARTIES !T A RECENT ROUNDTABLE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS IT WAS CONFIRMED THAT THE MONOPOLY OF 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA IMPLIES THAT THIS STATE FIRM IS EXCLUDED FROM THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND THAT THOSE EMPLOYED WITHIN IT WILL NOT SEE THEIR SALARY LEVELS RESTRICTED -ONOPOLIES ARE SLOW OLD FASHIONED AND EXPENSIVE 4HEY HINDER FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACCELERATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION LOWER ING OF EXPENSES INCREASING DIVERSITY AND BUDGET INCOME !ND ALL OF THEIR WEAKNESSES AND FAULTS ARE PAID FOR BY THE CITIZENS 7HY

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)S h4HE 5NITi PARTLY A RESULT OF THE FACT THAT YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN +ORENICA #ROATIA IN THE AREA THAT THE 2ED "ERETS THEMSELVES WERE FIRST FOUNDED )T IS NOT A CONSEQUENCE OF THAT "UT IT IS A FACT THAT ) WAS BORN IN +ORENICI AND THAT CO SCENARIST 2ADOSLAV ¨EBIÌ WAS BORN IN 3ARAJEVO !S A JOURNALIST ) WROTE ABOUT THE 2ED "ERETS FOR TEN YEARS AND ) PERSONALLY KNEW MANY OF THOSE BASED AT THE 'OLUBIÌ CAMP OF #APTAIN $RAGAN ) ALSO KNEW PEOPLE WHO WERE IN !RKANiS ;»ELJKO

p 2AÝNATOVIÌ= CAMP IN %RDUT ;%ASTERN 3LAVONIJA #ROATIA= -Y NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR WHO FLED AFTER THE #ROATIAN !RMYiS /PERATION 3TORM IN A SECOND HAND CAR WAS ARRESTED AT "ELGRADEiS +ALENIÌ -ARKET AND SENT TO !RKANiS CAMP WHERE HE AND OTHERS LIKE HIM WERE HUMILIATED AND DEGRADED ;AND FORCED TO SERVE= 4HEN AGAIN MY COLLEAGUE ¨EBIÌ WAS KEPT WAITING AT THE BORDER FOR HOURS WHEN GOING ON HOLIDAY TO 'REECE SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS BORN IN 3ARAJEVO %VERYTHING IS ALWAYS PERSONAL $ID YOU GET TO KNOW THE STORY ABOUT THE 2ED "ERETS FIRSTLY AS A HUMAN STORY AND THEN LATER AS A JOURNALISTIC STORY /NE OF THE WAYS TO AVOID GOING INSANE DURING THOSE h S WAS FOR US TO PRETEND THAT ALL OF THE MAYHEM WAS HAPPENING TO SOMEONE ELSE AND NOT TO US THAT IS TO TRY TO BE OBJECTIVE AND TO STAY BEHIND EVERY WRITTEN WORD 4HAT TIME HAS PASSED IT IS FINISHED WITH FOREVER 4HE 5NIT IS ALSO GONE BUT SOME OF ITS REMNANTS ARE STILL DRAGGING ON !ND THEN YOU REMEMBER SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE AND WONDER WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THEM AND THEN YOU CONFRONT YOURSELF WITH THE STORIES OF THESE PEOPLE ) KNEW MANY TERRIBLE FACTS BUT ©EBINA CO SCENARIST 2ADOSLAV ¨EBIÌ MUST GET THE CREDIT FOR THE INSPIRATION TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAP PENED TO PEOPLE TO TELL THIS STORY AS SOMETHING THAT DID NOT HAPPEN TO SOMEONE ELSE BUT TO ALL OF US BECAUSE ALL OF US KNEW AT LEAST SOMETHING DURING THE h S $O YOU KNOW ANYONE PERSONALLY WHO WAS PART OF THE 5NIT .ONE OF MY FRIENDS WERE IN IT -Y COLLEAGUE -ILAN 4URUDIÌ HAD A VERY GOOD FRIEND m A "OSNIAN 3ERB m WHO WENT TO JOIN !RKAN AND ULTIMATELY LOST HIS LIFE IN BATTLE (E DIDNiT GO BECAUSE HE BOUGHT INTO THE MYTH OF !RKAN )NSTEAD HE REASONED jIF ) HAVE TO GO TO THE ARMY ANYWAY THEN )iLL GO INTO A SKILLED UNIT SO THAT ) DONiT GET KILLED IN A DRUNKEN STUPORk )N THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF THE SERIES SHOT IN "OROVO 3ELO

#ROATIA !RKANiS UNIT ;4HE 4IGERS= SEEMS LIKE AN EXTREMELY SERI OUS ARMY AT LEAST COMPARED TO THE APPARENTLY NEGLECTED DRUNK ARDS OF 6OJISLAV fEpELJiS ÁETNIKS 7AS IT THE DEGREE OF ORDER AND DISCIPLINE THAT ATTRACTED PEOPLE TO TRY OUT FOR THE "ERETS OR WERE THEY GENERALLY FORCEFULLY MOBILISED LIKE YOUR NEIGHBOUR /NE CAME TO !RKAN EXPLICITLY BY ONEiS OWN FREE WILL "UT GETTING TO IT COULD BE HARD BECAUSE THERE WERE MANY UNITS m SUCH AS fEpELJiS CARICATURES OF ©ETNIKS THE -IÌANI *OVICEiS $UpAN THE 0OWERFUL m WHO TRIED TO CONFUSE THE WOOD FROM THE TREES IN ORDER TO PREVENT YOU FROM SEEING THE 2ED "ERETS 4HEY ;THE "ERETS= WERE UNITS OF 3ERBIAiS STATE SECURITY UNITS WHICH m SHIELDED FROM THE MYRIAD PARAMILITARY GROUPS m DID THE SERIOUS JOBS )T WAS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO THE "ERETS THAT THEY ACT IN SECRE CY 4HEIR TWO AIMS WERE TO PERFORM AS ACTIVELY ENGAGED EFFICIENT FIGHTING UNITS TO PROVIDE COMBAT TRAINING FOR THE LOCAL CITIZENS AND HELP THEM ESTABLISH A UNIT OF THEIR OWN 4HAT UNIT WAS THEN GIVEN A NAME THE MEMBERS WERE GIVEN RED BERETS AND THE NEW OFFICERS WERE TOLD jNOW YOUiRE A SPECIAL UNITk ,OOKING BACK ALL THOSE UNITS m THE 0ANTHERS 4IGERS +NINJAS

7OLVES ETC m ALL WORE RED BERETS AND WERE ALL ;MILITARILY= COMPAT IBLE 9OU COULD TAKE !RKANiS PLATOON A DOZEN h0ANTHERSi A DETACH MENT OF h7OLVESi A SQUAD OR TWO OF h+NINJASi AND MAKE A SINGLE FIGHTING FORCE THAT WOULD FIT TOGETHER AS PERFECTLY AS ,EGO PIECES WHEN PERFORMING ON THE BATTLEFIELD )N THE FIRST EPISODE YOU STATE THAT THE 5NIT WAS FORMED AT THE WISH OF 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÐ -ORE PRECISELY FOLLOWING -ILOpEVIÐiS jAGREEMENTk WITH #ROATIAN 0RESIDENT &RANJO 4UÕMAN BOTH LEADERS NEEDED SPECIAL UNITS TO ACT ON THE TERRITORY OF OTHER REPUBLICS OF THE THEN 9UGOSLAVIA 4HE KEY HAPPENINGS WERE THE FIRST BIG DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE OPPOSITION IN "ELGRADE ON TH -ARCH ; = )T WAS SEVEN DAYS LATER THAT -ILOpEVIÌ FIRST TALKED ABOUT THE FORMING OF SUCH A UNIT (E NEEDED TO CARRY THE GAME OVER ONTO ANOTHER FIELD

-ILAN "ABIÌ ;WHO LATER COMMITTED SUICIDE WHILST IN CUSTODY AT 4HE (AGUE= ONE OF THE LEADERS OF 3ERBS IN #ROATIA CAME TO -ILOpEVIÌ AND THE TWO OF THEM SAT WITH A LARGE MAP IN FRONT OF THEM -ILOpEVIÌ CIRCLED SOME TERRITORY WITH HIS NAIL AND SAID j) HAVE TO GIVE THIS TO &RANJO (E NEEDS IT FOR SOME KIND OF A ROADk (OWEVER IN AN EFFORT TO SHOW THE CITIZENS OF 3ERBIA AND 3ERBS IN #ROATIA THAT HE WAS A SERI OUS THINKER -ILOpEVIÌ WAS COMPELLED TO SEND A GIFT OF ARMS INSTEAD OF FLOUR ESPECIALLY WHEN #ROATIANS ROUTED A UNIT POLICEMEN FROM +NIN AT 0LITVIÍKA LAKES !ND THAT IS HOW #APTAIN $RAGAN ENTERED THE SCENE BROUGHT IN BY &RANKO 3IMATOVIÌ j&RENKIk ONE OF THE KEY MEMBERS OF 3ERBIAiS 3TATE 3ECURITY (E CAME TO 'OLUBIÌ AND ESTABLISHED THE FIRST TRAIN ING CAMP FOR FUTURE RED BERETS (E HAD ENORMOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND EVEN ONE OF MY OWN GRANDMOTHERS SAYS j!LL OF THEM WOULD HAVE KILLED US IF IT WERENiT FOR HIMk /THERS REALLY BELIEVED THAT #APTAIN $RAGAN COULD SQUEEZE HIMSELF THROUGH A FIVE CENTIMETRE BARREL -ILOpEVIÐ FORMED THE RED BERET UNITS PURELY FOR HIS NEEDS BEYOND 3ERBIAiS BORDERS 4HEY WERE DENIABLE m THAT WAS THE BIGGEST CREATION OF 3ERBIAiS STATE SECURITY CHIEF *OVICE 3TANIpIÌ 7HAT DOES THAT MEAN 7ELL IF #APTAIN $RAGAN PROGRESSED WELL THEN 3TANIpIÌ WOULD TELL -ILOpEVIÌ THAT THAT HAD BEEN HIS HANDY WORK BUT IF #APTAIN $RAGANiS BOYS PER FORMED POORLY THE SECURITY CHIEF COULD SIMPLY SAY THAT HE HAD NOTH ING TO DO WITH THEM BECAUSE THE UNIT WASNiT REGISTERED ANYWHERE IT DIDNiT EXIST ON PAPER )N THE FILM YOU STATE THAT &RENKI WANTED TO MAKE THE 5NIT OFFICIAL A LONG TIME AGO TO REGISTER IT "UT #HIEF 3TANIpIÐ WAS OPPOSED &RENKI WAS A FIELD OPERATIVE #OMBATANTS IN THE FIELD STARTED ASKING HIM WHAT THEIR RIGHTS WERE AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN IF THEY WERE KILLED 3TANIpIÌ REFUSED REQUESTED FOR THE REGISTRATION OF THE 5NIT IN 3ERBIA "UT WHEN THE HOSTAGE CRISIS

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4HE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS

EVEN THOSE WHO VOTE FOR THE 2ADICALS KNOW THAT WHAT WE ARE SHOWING IS THE TRUTH 4HIS IS WHY ) THINK THERE ARE NO PRESSURES RISKS THREATS )F ) BELIEVED THAT îINðIÌ DIED WITH OUT A REASON ) WOULD HAVE LEFT 3ERBIA

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.ONE OF THE THREE EPISODES SHOW THE 5NIT PERPETRATING CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIANS )S THAT BECAUSE THERE WERE NO SUCH CRIMES OR BECAUSE YOU DONiT HAVE PROOF 4HERE WERE NONE 4HERE ARE NONE EVEN IN THE DOCUMENTS OF 4HE (AGUE 4RIBUNAL THAT WE LOOKED AT 7E GAVE WHAT WE HAD ABOUT THEM ) HAVE NO DOUBT THAT SOMEWHERE THEY BLOODIED THEIR HANDS BUT WE DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING CONCRETE

4HERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF THE SERIES ABOUT DETAILS THAT THE RED BERETS SOLD AMMUNITION AND ARMS TO THEIR ENEMIES m TO THE 0ETI +ORPUS OF THE "OSNIAN !RMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF !TIF $UDAKOVIÐ #OMBATANT 3ERBS FROM 3PLIT $RNIp AND +NIN WHO WERE AS THEY WOULD SAY jGOING TO WAR AGAINST THE 5STApAk WERE SUDDENLY CLAIMING THAT THEY WOULD RATHER KILL !RKAN AND ,EGIJA 3OME KNEW THAT !T THE WEBSITE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN EXILE OF THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3RPSKA +RAJINA WHERE ARGUMENT ABOUT 4HE 5NIT WAS LEAD WE WERE PROTECTED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE IN IT 4HEY SAY THAT PER CENT OF WHAT WE SAID IN THE FIRST TWO PARTS IS ONE HUNDRED PER CENT CORRECT 4HERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF THE SERIES ABOUT DETAILS THAT THE RED BERETS SOLD AMMUNITION AND ARMS TO THEIR ENEMIES m TO THE 0ETI +ORPUS OF THE "OSNIAN !RMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF !TIF $UDAKOVIÐ m WHICH RESULTED IN 3ERB COMBATANTS FROM 3PLIT $RNIp AND +NIN CLAIMING THAT THEY WOULD RATHER KILL !RKAN AND ,EGIJA THAN THE 5STApA #ROATS !RE YOU AWARE OF THE RISK YOU ARE EXPOSING YOURSELF TO BY SAYING THAT !RKAN AND ,EGIJA ALSO LOOKED A LOT AT HOW TO GET RICH WHILST THEIR FRIENDS WERE GETTING KILLED NEXT TO THEM ) BELIEVE IN THE END OF THE FILM THE STATEMENT THAT 3ERBIA FINALLY OPENED ITS EYES AFTER THE MURDER OF 0- îINðIÌ *UST NOW ) RECEIVED AN 3-3 FROM A COLLEAGUE ASKING HOW ) COULD SAY THAT 3ERBIA OPENED ITS EYES 9ES IT OPENED THEM 4HIS FILM HAS TO END OPTIMISTICALLY 4HE PROOF THAT 3ERBIA OPENED ITS EYES LIES IN THE VERY FACT THAT WE MADE THIS FILM AND THAT IT IS VIEWED TO THAT EXTENT THAT IT IS TALKED ABOUT FOR AS LONG AS IT IS 4HERE WILL BE MAFIA THERE WILL BE ARMED GROUPS BUT 4HE 5NIT WILL NEVER BE AGAIN

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!ND WITH THAT YOU OPEN UP THE ISSUES OF THE THIRD AND FINAL PART OF 4HE 5NIT )F THE FIRST TWO ACT AS SERIOUS HISTORY

THE THIRD LOOKS LIKE A SHARP

RESOLUTE ESSAY WITHOUT COM PROMISE FOR THE 5NIT :ORAN ÅINÕIÐ OR 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA AFTER TH /CTOBERb -ANY PEOPLE IN 3ERBIA DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN %ASTERN 3LAVONIJA AND "OSANSKA +RAJINA (ERE WE WERE ALL WIT NESSES ) DO NOT KNOW ANYONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHERE THEY WERE ON TH /CTOBER WHAT THEY WERE DOING WHEN îINðIÌ WAS KILLED %VERYONEiS HEARD SOME STORY 7E COULD NOT MAKE THIS IN A STERILE WAY 7E HAD TO CALL SOME THINGS BY THEIR REAL NAMES 7E DID THAT IN THE FIRST AND SEC OND PARTS AS WELL "UT PEOPLE KNOW A LOT ABOUT TH /CTOBER 4HEY HAVE ALSO READ YOURS AND

)VANiS BOOK ABOUT TH /CTOBER )N THE FILM ÁEDOMIR *OVANOVIÐ DIVULGES FOUR NEW DETAILS FOR THE FIRST TIME "UT YOU HAVE FORMULATIONS THAT DO NOT EXIST IN -IpA 6ASIÐiS BOOK ABOUT THE MURDER OF :ORAN ÅINÕIÐ 7E ARE NOT THE FIRST ONES WHO ARE TELLING THIS STORY /UR STORY IS ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF TWO DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS +OpTUNICA AND îINðIÌ WHOSE CONFLICT WAS USED BY ,EGIJA !ND WE CALLED THAT ITS REAL NAME 9OU ARE SO CLEAR IN THE THIRD PART WHICH PERHAPS CAUSES MORE EMOTIONS WITH US THAN THE FIRST TWO *UST BEFORE THE END YOU HAVE TWO VERY CLEAR SHOTS WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE 0REMIER USING IT TO SETTLE THEORIES ABOUT THE THIRD OR hICE BUL LETi OR THE hMULTICOLOURED BULLETi 4HAT IS A THING THAT HAS TO BE CLEAR 7HAT DO WE GET IF WE START THE STORY ABOUT THE THIRD BULLET ) CANNOT BELIEVE THAT IN THE CASE OF THE MURDER OF 0REMIER îINðIÌ THE COURT CAN MAKE ANY KIND OF DECISION EXCEPT THE CONVICTION OF THE ACCUSED m ,EGIJA :VEZDAN *OVANOVIÌ ET AL )N THE THIRD PART YOU ALSO MAKE MENTION OF THE STORY THAT :ORAN ÅINÕIÐ AND ÁEDOMIR *OVANOVIÐ WERE IN LOVE WITH 4HE 5NIT AND THAT THEY EXECUTED ,EGIJAiS WISHES BLINDLY 4HAT SAME PICTURE WAS CREATED BY THE TABLOIDS AND EVEN SUPPORTED BY SOME SERIOUS PAPERS )T IS CLEAR THAT THEY WERE NOT IN LOVE WITH 4HE 5NIT BUT THEY DID RESPECT IT TOO MUCH îINðIÌ BOUGHT BOTH ,EGIJA AND 4HE 5NIT ON THE PRINCIPLE OF KEY IN HAND BOUGHT AS IS AN AGREEMENET THAT :ORAN »IVKOVIÌ îINðIÌiS SUCCESSOR AS 0- DESCRIBED AS A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL îINðIÌ QUICKLY REALISED WHO THEY WERE BUT KNOWING THAT THE 0REMIER WAS STARTING MOVES AGAINST THEM THE 5NIT SIMPLY DECIDED TO KILL HIM

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7HERE DO YOU SEE UNEXPLORED POSSIBILITIES FOR INVESTMENT AND TRADE DEVELOPMENTS 4HIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH NOW 7E HAVE A NEW BUT OLD ECONOMY IN 3LOVAKIA !FTER TRADITION AND THE EXIT FROM THE OLD SYSTEM THAT IS NOT THE SAME ECONOMY 7E HAD TO CREATE A NEW ECONOMY 7HAT WE HAVE NOW AND THE RESULTS THAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED ARE THE RESULT OF THAT NEW TRANSFORMED ECONOMY 4HE ECONOMY HAS TO ADJUST ITSELF AND TO GROW TO THE POINT THAT IT IS READY TO GO BEYOND THE TERRITORY OF 3LOVAKIA .OW WE ARE REACHING THAT POINT )T IS TRUE THAT UNTIL NOW WE HAVE NOT HAD BIG INVEST MENTS IN 3ERBIA 7E HAD MANY SMALL AND MEDIUM ACTIVITIES BUT NOW IN 3LOVAKIA WE HAVE INVESTMENT GROUPS THAT ARE INTERESTED AND ) THINK THAT WE WILL FIND SOMETHING OVER THE NEXT PERIOD IN THIS SENSE 4HAT WOULD BE INTERESTING FOR 3LOVAKIAN INVESTORS AND USEFUL FOR 3ERBIA 7E ARE PREPARING A VISIT OF 3ERBIAN 0RIME -INISTER +OSTUNICA TO 3LOVAKIA AND ONE OF THE THEMES OF THE VISIT WILL BE WORKING TO FIND A COMMON LANGUAGE CONCERNING THESE QUESTIONS /N THE OTHER HAND IT SHOULD BE SAID THAT THE ECONOMY IN 3LOVAKIA IS NOT TIED TO THE STATE 4HIS IS A THING OF THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE OWNERS

WHO ARE FREE TO DECIDE WHERE THEY WILL INVEST 7E WILL HOWEVER m AS THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT m OFFER THE POSSIBILITY OF SUPPORT AND ACTIVITY IN 3ERBIA

7E SUPPORT THE INTENTIONS OF THE 3ERBIAN GOVERNMENT TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE %5 AND .!4/ WE ARE TRYING TO HELP 3ERBIA SOLVE THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE NECESSARY IN ORDER TO SPEED UP THAT DEVELOP MENT AND THE COUNTRYiS APPROACH TO THE %5 AND .!4/ 0ROOF THAT RELATIONS ARE GOOD WAS PROVIDED BY THE RECENT VISIT OF OUR &OREIGN -INISTER -R * N +UBIp ON ST !UGUST (IS VISIT HAD A LOT OF CONTENT AND ) THINK THAT WE HAVE PROVED AGAIN THAT WE ARE READY TO CO OPERATE WITH 3ERBIA AND HELP IT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF 7ESTERN "ALKANS TOGETHER !LTHOUGH WE ARE NOT NEIGHBOURS WE

/NE INVESTOR BOTH COUNTRIES SHARE IS 5 3 3TEEL (OW MUCH HAS AND IS THIS KEY INDUSTRIAL SECTOR HELPING TO REGENERATE 3LOVAKIA ECONOMICALLY 4HIS IS A VERY GOOD QUESTION BECAUSE 5 3 3TEEL WAS THE FIRST 5 3 INVESTOR IN 3LOVAKIA 4HIS IS WHY WE KNOW AND RESPECT THIS FIRM VERY WELL AS THIS BEGAN THE ENTRANCE OF !MERICAN INVESTORS IN 3LOVAKIA AND THE BEGINNING OF THESE ACTIVITIES IN 3LOVAKIA )T IS INTERESTING THAT 5 3 3TEEL ALSO CAME AND GOT ENGAGED IN AN INDUSTRY THAT WAS IN A VERY HARD SITUATION IN 3LOVAKIA AS WELL .OW ) NOTE THAT THESE TWO FIRMS m RATHER THIS ONE FIRM WITH TWO

ITH 3ERBIAiS AMBITIONS AND 3LOVAKIAiS SUCCESSES IN MIND

THIS MONTH #OR$ SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY TO !MBASSADOR OF THE 3LOVAK 2EPUBLIC IN "ELGRADE ( % )GOR &URDIK

(OW WOULD YOU DEFINE THE PRESENT QUALITY OF BILATERAL RELA TIONS BETWEEN "ELGRADE AND "RATISLAVA 7E DID NOT START IN AN EMPTY SPACE WITH 3ERBIA WE HAVE A LONG TRADITION OF RELATIONS WITH THIS COUNTRY WITH THIS PEOPLE AND HERE WE HAVE PLENTY OF hCAPITALi SO TO SAY )N THAT SENSE AS WE WERE VIS IBLY PRESENT AND ENGAGED IN CO OPERATION WITH 3ERBIA EVEN IN HARD TIMES THAT 3ERBIA HAD TO GO THROUGH 0RIOR TO THE MILLENNIUM 3LOVAKIAN NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISA TIONS WERE ENGAGED HERE HELPING THE SOCIETY AWAKEN !S SUCH ) THINK WE HAD SOME INFLUENCE ON THAT AWAKENING TAKING PLACE HERE .OWADAYS OUR POLITICAL RELATIONS ARE GOOD CORRECT 3ERBIA HAS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT AND WE CO OPERATE WITH THAT GOVERNMENT

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o­l­êp êm ±êh ê ê êz êy ê êi ENTERPRISES IN 3LOVAKIA AND HERE m HAVE VERY GOOD CO OPERATION 4HEY OFTEN CONTACT US FOR VISAS AND THAT IS ONE OF THE STRUCTURES OF CO OPERATION THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO PROMPT AS IT HAPPENS BY ITSELF 4HAT IS NORMAL AND IT NEEDS TO BE LIKE THAT )T WAS VERY IMPORTANT WHEN 5 3 3TEEL CAME TO 3LOVAKIA WHICH WAS AROUND TO 4HAT WAS A SIGNAL THAT 3LOVAKIA IS A STATE WITH A PERSPECTIVE 7E ACHIEVED AN IMPORTANT RESULT IN THAT TRANSI TION AFTER WHEN THE TRANSITION WENT VERY WELL AND SINCE THEN WE HAVE POSITIVE EXPERIENCES WITH FOREIGN INVESTORS )N THE AUTO INDUSTRY IN PARTICULAR 3LOVAKIA WILL SOON BE ONE OF THE GREAT POWERS BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST PRODUCTION OF CARS PER CAPITA IN THE WORLD ONE MILLION AUTOMOBILES WILL BE PRODUCED IN 3LOVAKIA (ERE 5 3 3TEEL IS A VERY PROSPEROUS FIRM BECAUSE STEEL MATERIALS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY )N TERMS OF THE %5 DOES 3LOVAKIA PLAY A MENTORING BIG BROTHER ROLE FOR COUNTRIES LIKE 3ERBIA ) WOULD PREFER NOT TO BE A hBIG BROTHERi PARTNER BUT RATHER AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO BETTER 4HE FACT THAT WE OFFER THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR EXPERIENCE MEANS THAT WE THINK THAT THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN 7E WENT THROUGH TOUGH EXPERIENCES IN THE TRANSITION PERI OD 7E HAVE SHOWN THAT IT CAN BE DONE IF THE PEOPLE ARE SHOWN THAT THERE ARE PROSPECTS EVEN HARD STEPS CAN BE TAKENb

7E THOUGHT THAT BY USING THAT PHASE OF SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION IN THIS PERIOD WE COULD TURN MORE TOWARDS SOCIAL QUESTIONS ) DO NOT THINK THAT WE ARE IDEAL IN TRANSITION THERE IS NO IDEAL FORM OF TRANSI TION m A PHENOMENON THAT IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING (EREBY ) THINK THAT 3ERBIA HAS USED THE EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS PERIOD BEFORE 3OME THINGS THEY HAVE DONE VERY VERY SMARTLY USING LESSONS FROM OUR EXPERIENCES OR THE EXPERIENCES OF 3LOVENIA FOR INSTANCE 7ILL 3LOVAKIA OPEN A FULL EMBASSY IN 0ODGORICA ) HOPE THE OFFICE IN 0ODGORICA WILL BE OPENED IN THE NEXT YEAR *UST NOW WE ARE IN THE SITUATION THAT OUR EMBASSY IN "ELGRADE IS STILL DOING BUSINESS WITH 0ODOGORICA !LMOST ETHNIC 3LOVAKS CALL 3ERBIA HOME (OW WOULD YOU ASSESS THEIR LIVING STANDARDS AND LEVELS OF INTEGRATION WITHIN 6OJVODINA 3LOVAKS HAVE LIVED HERE IN 6OJVODINA FOR YEARS AND NOW THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE AT HOME HERE 4HEY HAVE BEEN INTEGRATED INTO THIS AREA 4HE NOTION OF LEAVING THIS AREA DOES NOT EXIST WITH THEM 4HEY HAVE INTEGRATED AND MADE THEMSELVES AT HOME HERE IN THEIR OWN INTERESTS AND IN THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE OF 3ERBIA IT IS LINKED TO THE PERSPECTIVE OF THIS COUNTRY 4RANSITION IN 3ERBIA IS ALSO CHANGING THE SOCIAL SITUATION IN CorD \ /CTOBER

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p 6OJVODINA AND THIS CANNOT BE AVOIDED IN THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF ALL THE MINORITIES AND REFUGEES WHO LIVE THERE !ND THAT HAS SPECIFIC CONSEQUENCES ON WHAT IS HAPPEN ING 2EGARDLESS OF THIS ) WILL SAY THAT THERE IS NOTHING THAT COULD POSE A BIG PROBLEM IN THAT SENSE BECAUSE

AS ) SAID EARLIER THEY ARE AT HOME HERE THEY LIVE HERE ) THINK THAT THEY SHOULD BE QUESTIONED ABOUT THEIR LIVES HERE BUT ) AM VERY OFTEN IN CONTACT WITH THEM AND THEY ARE LOYAL 3ERBIAN CITIZENS 4HIS IS HOW THEY FEEL THAT IS HOW THEY SEE THEIR SITUATION AND THEY ARE INTERESTED IN THE PROSPECTS OF THIS COUNTRY 4HE ONLY REMOTELY NEGATIVE THING THAT IS HAPPENING IS A NATURAL PROCESS OF INTEGRATION OR MAYBE ASSIMILATION 4HIS IS A VERY SMALL MINORITY 4HERE ARE OF THEM AND EVERY YEAR THERE ARE A

LESS ON AVERAGE "UT WE WILL SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN REGARDING THIS ) THINK THAT THE %UROPEAN PER SPECTIVE WILL ALSO BE ONE OF THE MAIN ELEMENTS IN THE STATUS OF MINORITIES IN 3ERBIA .EW FRAME WORKS ARE BEING CREATED FOR THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH MINORITIES ARE LIVING AND THE SOONER THE %5 THINKS ABOUT THIS TEE BETTER IT WILL BE FOR MINORITIES

COALITION IS PLAYING OVER THERE .OW WE HAVE SOMETHING FUN DAMENTALLY NEW AND THERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS FOR 3LOVAKIA WHETHER SOMETHING WILL CHANGE ) THINK THAT IT CANNOT HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IN PRINCIPLE OWNERSHIP RELA TIONS CANNOT CHANGE 9OU CANNOT CHANGE THE STATE FUNCTIONALITY THE BANKING SYSTEM 4HAT WILL STAY AND YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM A LITTLE BIT 4HAT IS NOT A SYSTEMATIC CHANGE

THAT IS jFINE TUNINGk OR THE REFLECTION OF POLITICAL STANCES OF GIVEN POLITICAL SIDES AND THAT IS NORMAL 4HE PARTIES THAT ARE NOW IN POWER IN 3LOVAKIA ARE NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN 3LOVAKIA BECOMING A NON MARKET ECONOMY BUT RATHER A .!4/ MEMBER ) THINK THAT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE GO THROUGH THIS PERIOD OF THE COUNTRYiS DEVELOP pê ê ê ê MENT IN ORDER TO REALISE THAT POLITI CAL PARTIES IN POWER CAN CHANGE ê ê ê êz ­êpê ê WITHOUT CHANGING THE SYSTEM AS ê ê ê ê ê ê ê SUCH )T IS BETTER TO HAVE CHANGES ê ê ê ±ê ê pê 4HAT IS NORMAL ) HOPE THAT WE WILL ê ê ê ê ê ²ê ê HAVE LESS AND LESS OF THIS m IN THE ê ê ê ê ê ê ê END WE WILL DISCUSS WHETHER WE PREFER THE COLOUR SCHEME TO BE BLUE

ê ê ê ê ­ê GREEN OR BROWNb { ê ê ê ê ­ 4HE %5 IN 3LOVAKIA IS NOT THE KIND OF SUBJECT WHETHER IT IS jYESk 4HE 6OJVODINA REGION WHERE OR jNOk 4HAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNQUES 3ERBIAiS 3LOVAK COMMUNITY LIVE IS PROBABLY THE MOST MULTI TIONABLE 4HE %5 IS UNDERSTOOD AS SOMETHING THAT IS OURS SOME ETHNIC PROVINCE ANYWHERE ON THE "ALKANS A TRUE EXAMPLE OF THING THAT WE ARE A PART OF AND SOMETHING THAT WE ARE HELPING TO HOW DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS CAN LIVE AT PEACE IN SHARED COM DEVELOP IN A WAY THAT WOULD SUIT US 7E HAVE A SPECIAL SITUATION OF MUNITIES INTEREST WHICH DIFFERS TO THAT OF 3ERBIA 4HAT IS VERY IMPORTANT 7E ) THINK THAT EVEN IN %UROPE THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT WERE NOT CLOSED TOWARDS THAT UNION 4HIS COUNTRY ON THE OTHER HAND WAS ALREADY OPEN WESTERN 6OJVODINA IS 7HEN WE LOOK AT IT ETHNICALLY IT IS A UNIQUE REGION 4HERE IS NO OTHER REGION LIKE THIS IN %UROPE -ULTI ETHNICITY IS TENDENCIES WERE ALWAYS THERE 7E GREW WE WERE RISING "UT 9UGOSLAVIA HAD ALREADY PASSED THAT STAGE 7E WERE SURPRISED THAT CONSTANTLY PRESENT THERE IT WAS CREATED IN HISTORY ) THINK THAT EVE RYONE IN %UROPE SHOULD PLEAD TO KEEP THIS SPECIAL AREA 4HAT IS A 9UGOSLAVIA HAD SUCH RELATIONS WITH THE 7ESTERN WORLD AND THEY UNIQUE FUNCTIONING SYSTEM )T PROVIDES US WITH AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WERE NOW IN THE EXITING STAGE IN RELATIONS TO LIVE IN SUCH A MULTI ETHNIC ENVIRONMENT !BOUT THOUSAND YOUNG 3LOVAKIANS LIVE ABROAD WORK ING IN 'ERMANY &RANCE %NGLAND ETC 7E FEEL THAT THAT HAS OTHER 3LOVAKIAiS SUCCESSFUL REFORMS DRASTICALLY IMPROVED THE CONSEQUENCES AS WELL )T CAN BE SAID THAT YOUNG AND CAPABLE PEO COUNTRYiS ECONOMIC CLIMATE BUT ALSO COST THE GOVERNMENT THAT PLE ARE LEAVING 7E ARE LACKING THOSE TAKEN BY THE jBRAIN DRAINk

BUT IF WE CREATE A STRONG ECONOMY THEN THE jBRAINk WILL COME BACK SPEARHEADED THOSE REFORMS AT THIS YEARiS ELECTIONS )S IT INEVITA BLE FOR A SUCCESSFUL REFORMIST GOVERNMENT TO LOSE THE SUPPORT OF 4HAT IS AGAIN A THING FOR THE POLITICIANS HOW THEY WILL THINK WHAT THEY WILL SUGGEST WHICH CONDITIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THE NATION AS A RESULT OF THE PAINFUL PROCESSES THAT IT IS NECES WILL FACILITATE THIS TO HAPPEN SARY FOR THE PUBLIC TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF ) WOULD NOT LINK ONE DIMENSIONALLY WHAT YOU HAVE JUST MEN &INALLY ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF 3ERBIA TIONED WITH THE NECESSITY OF CHANGING POLITICAL STRUCTURES THAT IT IS ALL BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO MAKE SOME STEPS THAT WERE ) AM ABSOLUTELY OPTIMISTIC ) DO NOT HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL IN WHICH NOT PAINLESS 4HE NATURE OF CHANGE ALSO EXISTS 3OME GOVERNMENT EVERYTHING CAN BE SEEN BUT ) THINK THAT IT WILL BE SOLVED THAT A WOULD BE THE BEST AND IT WOULD BE THE ONE SUFFICIENT FOR ALL IN THE SOLUTION THAT WILL BE USEFUL FOR THE PERSPECTIVE WILL BE FOUND 4HAT END 4HAT IS THE WAY IT IS 4HERE IS A NATURAL PROCESS OF CHANGE AND IS THE MOST IMPORTANT -OREOVER WE CANNOT CREATE THE SITUATIONS IN WHICH WE ARE CUR THE NECESSITY FOR CHANGE IS GOOD -OREOVER IN 3LOVAKIA NOW WE HAVE ENTERED A PERIOD WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS CHANGING WITHOUT RENTLY LIVING -LADIÌ AND +OSOVO ARE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO SOLVE DRAMATIC POLITICAL OR SOCIAL CONTEXTS 7HEN WE FORMED THE STATE IN NOW BECAUSE IF WE SOLVE THESE NOW THAT WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR

ELECTIONS FOLLOWED %VERY TIME WE HAD A PROBLEM OF WHETHER A VERY LONG TIME 7E HAVE TO CREATE CONDITIONS BECAUSE THAT IS IN THE THE SYSTEM WILL CHANGE 3OMETHING NON REVOLUTIONARY HAPPENS INTEREST OF ALL OF US IN THE %5 4HEN IN THE FUTURE WE WILL NOT HAVE TO COME BACK TO THESE HARD QUESTIONS 4HAT IS TO SOLVE SOMETHING IN AND REVOLUTIONARY EVEN THIS CHANGE THAT HAPPENED IS NOW IMPOR TANT FOR US 4HAT GOES OVER INTO THIS PERIOD OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE SUCH A WAY NOW THAT IT WILL CREATE PROBLEMS IN THE FUTURE ) AM NOT OF GOVERNMENT FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE OF THE POLITICAL SECTOR ! REAL SURE WHAT THE SOLUTION WILL BE BUT ) AM SURE THAT WE WILL FIND IT

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XPLAINING THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PAST YEARS OF DIPLO MATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN "ELGRADE AND -EXICO -R -OGUEL &LORES SAYS jTHE GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES DURING THIS PERIOD HAVE BEEN ENORMOUS AND OF COURSE THAT MEANS THAT YEARS AGO THE KIND OF RELATIONS AND ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES WE ENJOYED WERE MUCH HIGHER 4HEY HAVE SHRUNK MARKEDLY -OREOVER NOWADAYS WE DO NOT FOR INSTANCE HAVE ANYWHERE NEAR THE SAME LEVELS OF COMMERCIAL TRADE EXCHANGES WITH THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA AS WE HAD WITH THE THEN 3OCIALIST 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA DUR ING THE TIME OF 9UGOSLAVIA 7E WOULD LIKE AT LEAST TO GO BACK TO HAVING THOSE SAME PREVIOUS LEVELS OF COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE WITH THE MODERN 3ERBIA 7HERE DO YOU SEE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MORE COMMERCIAL TRADE EXCHANGES AND INVESTMENT HERE 4HIS PLACE IS A NICHE FOR MANY THINGS &IRST OF ALL THOUGH 3ERBIA IS A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY THAT HAS MANAGED TO MOVE AHEAD WELL ON THE PATH OF DEMOCRACY 4HIS OPENS THE WAY FOR PEOPLE TO THINK OF 3ERBIA AS A PLACE WHERE IT IS POSSIBLE TO INVEST (ERE THERE IS A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY TO INVEST IN FOR INSTANCE AGRICULTURE 4HIS REPRESENTS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FIRMS OR ENTERPRISES THAT ARE KEEN TO ENTER THE "ALKAN SCENE /THER FACTORS THAT POTENTIAL INVESTORS FROM -EXICO SHOULD CONSIDER ARE THE INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES HELPING FOREIGN INVESTORS SUCH AS THE 0RIVATISATION !GENCY AND 3)%0! ;4HE 3ERBIAN )NVESTMENT AND %XPORT 0ROMOTION !GENCY= &OLLOWING THE DEMISE OF THE 3TATE 5NION IS -EXICO PLANNING TO OPEN A FULL EMBASSY IN 0ODGORICA .O WE ARE NOT 7E HAVE OF COURSE RECOGNISED THE INDEPENDENCE OF -ONTENEGRO BUT SO FAR WE HAVE NOT ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THEM m THOUGH THIS IS JUST A MATTER OF TIMEb 7E DONiT PLAN TO OPEN AN EMBASSY IN 0ODGORICA NOT ONLY FOR ECO NOMIC REASONS BUT ALSO BECAUSE "ELGRADE IS NOT SO FAR FROM 0ODGORICA m IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT IS NOT SO FAR FROM 3ARAJEVO OR 3KOPJE BOTH "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA AND THE 2EPUBLIC OF -ACEDONIA ARE COVERED

BY THE JURISDICTION OF THIS EMBASSY $ID THE 77)) INFLUX OF 9UGOSLAVS INTO -EXICO PROMPT THE ESTAB LISHING OF DIRECT RELATIONS BETWEEN "ELGRADE AND -EXICO #ITY .OT REALLY /F COURSE THERE WAS AN INFLUX OF 9UGOSLAVS INTO -EXICO

BUT IT WAS NOT A LARGE FIGURE AND MANY OF THEM ACTUALLY ARRIVED BY MIS TAKE AND UPON REALISING THEIR ERROR PROMPTLY RELOCATED TO THE 5NITED 3TATES 3OME FAMILIES THOUGH DID STAY IN -EXICO 4HE REASONS BEHIND THE ESTABLISHING OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WERE THE SIMILARITIES IN FOREIGN POLICIES BETWEEN THE THEN 9UGOSLAVIA AND THE -EXICAN GOVERNMENT SIMILARITIES THAT REMAINED UNTIL THE COLLAPSE OF 9UGOSLAVIA m THE FIGHT FOR DISARMAMENT NOTIONS OF SELF DETERMINATION

RESPECT OF SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE AND OUR JOINT RESPECT FOR THE NORMS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW !DDING TO SIMILARITIES IS THE FACT THAT -EXICO BECAME A VERY DEMO CRATIC COUNTRY IN THE YEAR AFTER ALMOST YEARS OF SINGLE PARTY RULE 4HE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES WAS THAT 9UGOSLAVIA WAS A MEMBER m INDEED A FOUNDING MEMBER m OF THE .ON !LIGNED -OVEMENT WHILE -EXICO ON THE OTHER HAND WAS NON ALIGNED EVEN TO THE h.ON !LIGNEDi COUNTRIES 4HEN -EXICO DID NOT ADHERED TO THE COM MUNIST CENTRALISED ECONOMIC SYSTEM NEITHER FULLY FOLLOWED THE OPEN

ECONOMIC MARKET SYSTEM OF THE CAPITALIST WORLD 4HIS WAS A MATTER OF OPPORTUNITY AND CONVENIENCE !S YOU KNOW

-EXICO SHARES A KILOMETRE BORDER WITH ONE OF THE WORLDiS SUPER POWERS AND SO IT WAS PRACTICAL FOR US TO AVOID BEING ASSIMILATED WITH !MERICA AND ALSO TO REMAIN SOMEHOW NEUTRALb )T WAS DURING THE SO CALLED jCOLD WARk DURING THIS ATMOSPHERE DURING THE TIME OF 4ITO THAT RELATIONS BETWEEN -EXICO AND 9UGOSLAVIA BEGAN $URING THE PAST YEARS FOUR PRESIDENTS OF -EXICO HAVE VISITED "ELGRADE WHILE SIX HIGH OFFICIALS OF 9UGOSLAVIA VISITED -EXICO m 4ITO CAME HIMSELF ON TWO OCCASIONS AND WAS A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF 0RESIDENT , PEZ -ATEOS ONE OF -EXICOiS MOST BELOVED LEADERS -EXICO HAS ITSELF SUCCESSFULLY TRAVERSED ITS OWN TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY (OW COULD YOUR EXPERIENCES ASSIST COUNTRIES HERE &IRST OF ALL THE ISSUE OF NATIONALISM IS IMPORTANT !S A NATION

-EXICANS HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT BEING A NATIONAL IST IS ! -EXICAN NATIONALIST IS ESSENTIALLY A PATRIOT )F YOU ASK A -EXICAN WHERE THEY COME FROM THEY WILL ALWAYS SAY SIMPLY -EXICO ONLY MEN TIONING THE PRECISE NAME OF ONE OF THE ENTITIES THAT MAKE UP THE -EXICAN &EDERATION IF SPECIFICALLY ASKED &ROM THAT WE LEARN THAT A

z ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ­ê{ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê z ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ -EXICAN NATIONAL LOVES ITS COUNTRY AND DOES NOT USE THAT NATIONALITY TO MARK DIFFERENCES WITH OTHER NATIONS (ERE NATIONALISM HAS ANOTHER CON NOTATION AND IS LOOK AT AS BEING NEGATIVE m CALLING SOMEONE A NATIONALIST IN 3ERBIA IS TANTAMOUNT TO INSULTING THEM -EXICO HAS PASSED THROUGH MORE OR LESS THE SAME PROCESS AS PRESENT 3ERBIA 7E DURING THE 8)8 CENTURY OF COURSE LOST TERRITORY AND NOW HAVE MANY PEOPLE OF -EXICAN ORIGIN WHO FIND THEMSELVES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER 4HESE PEOPLE FEEL -EXICAN EVEN THOUGH THEIR FAMILIES HAVE SPENT MORE THAN YEARS LIVING IN THE 5NITED 3TATES 4HE LESSON SHOWN BY WHAT HAPPENED IN -EXICO AND WHAT CONTINUES TO HAP PEN HERE IS THAT IT IS A FACT THAT BORDERS MOVE AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE CAN NOT m AND USUALLY DO NOT m MOVE WITH THOSE BORDERS MEANING THAT YOU HAVE MINORITIES HERE AND THERE WHO ARE MINORITIES BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELONG TO THE NATION THAT HAS BECOME THE hOWNERi OF THE LAND ON WHICH THEY LIVE 4HAT PHENOMENON IS SO COMMON HERE THAT WHEN IT HAPPENS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IT IS REFERRED TO AS "ALKANISATION 7E HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE WITH OUR NEIGHBOURS INCREASE THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR COMMON TRAITS AND NOT THE GAP OF OUR DIFFERENCES 7E HAVE TO ACHIEVE THAT TO FORGIVE SOME HISTORICAL INJUSTICES BUT NOT ENTIRELY TO FORGET THEM 0RESIDENT &OXiS !DMINISTRATION WILL END IN A FEW MORE MONTHS ST $ECEMBER HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE HIS FOREIGN POLICY PARTICU LARLY TOWARDS THE "ALKANS ) THINK HIS POLICY HAS BEEN A GOOD ONE /F COURSE -EXICOiS POLICY TOWARDS THE "ALKAN COUNTRIES HAS BEEN LED AT THE LEVEL OF THE -INISTRY OF &OREIGN !FFAIRS AND HAS BEEN IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO ARE SPECIALISTS IN MATTERS OF %UROPEAN COUNTRIES 3O ) WOULD SAY THAT THE POLICY IS GOOD AND IS IN DIRECT RELATION WITH -EXICOiS NEEDS IN THE "ALKAN REGION (OWEVER AS THE "ALKAN REGION IS A LARGE AND VARIED REGION OUR NEEDS DIFFER FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY &OR INSTANCE WE CURRENTLY HAVE CorD \ /CTOBER

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p MANY MORE TRADE INTERESTS IN 'REECE AND 4URKEY THAN IN 3ERBIA OR -ONTENEGRO 3O WE STILL NEED TO WORK HARDER TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING IN ORDER TO INCREASE OUR TRADE AND IMPROVE OUR BALANCE OF TRADE WITH THE COUNTRIES OF THE REGION ) KNOW THAT DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS WE HAVE BEEN PASSIVE AND THE LEVEL OF CO OPERATION BETWEEN BOTH OF OUR ECONO MIES NEEDS IMPROVEMENT 3O WE HAVE TAKEN JUST SMALL STEPS "UT ) AM SURE THAT WE CAN WORK MORE TOGETHER AND HAVE A BETTER EXCHANGE 4HAT IS THE TASK OF BOTH SIDES NOWADAYS )T IS POSSIBLE

9ES ) THINK THAT IT IS ALSO A MATTER OF POLITICS 9ES OF COURSE -EXICO IS INDE PENDENT IT IS SELF SUFFICIENT SOMETIMES

BUT -EXICO IS NOT SO SELF SUFFICIENT AS IT WOULD BE ABLE TO DO WITHOUT HAVING COMMUNICATION WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD .O COUNTRY CAN DO THAT 9OU CAN NOT ISOLATE YOU NEED THE HELP OF YOUR NEIGHBOURS IN ORDER TO HAVE THAT POWER TO SUCCEED ECONOMICALLY

(OW OPTIMISTIC ARE YOU THAT TRADE RELATIONS AND INVESTMENTS BETWEEN -EXICO AND 3ERBIA ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION &IRST OF ALL THERE ARE NO INVESTMENTS (OW STRONG IS -EXICO AS A BRAND OF -EXICO HERE IN 3ERBIAbYET "UT THERE ) THINK THAT -EXICOiS IMAGE IS VERY IS INVESTMENT OF 3ERBIA IN -EXICO FOR GOOD ) KNOW THAT -EXICO IS ONE OF THE INSTANCE IN HOTELS AND OTHER SERVICES )T TEN BEST TOURIST LOCATIONS IN THE WORLD

IS A VERY INTERESTING SITUATION /F COURSE

BECAUSE -EXICOiS MAIN FEATURE IS NOT ONLY ) KNOW PEOPLE FROM -EXICO WHO HAVE TWO MILLION SQUARE KILOMETRES OF TERRITORY

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.EVERTHELESS DONiT YOU THINK THAT THIS CAMPAIGN WAS BRAVE CONSIDERING CITIZENSi EXPERIENCES WITH BANKS FROM THE iS #REDIT !GRICOLE IS THE SECOND BIGGEST BANK IN THE WORLD AND EMPLOYS PEOPLE IN COUNTRIES 4HE NET RESULT FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS IS _ BILLION AFTER TAX 4HE "ANKiS RATING IS ABOVE THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIAiS RATING AND CITIZENS CAN HAVE ABSOLUTE TRUST IN US 4O REMIND YOU LAST .OVEMBER DURING THE jSAVINGS WEEKk A TOTAL OF ò OF CITIZENS WHO STARTED TO SAVE CHOSE OUR BANK 4HUS HALF OF THE SAVINGS COLLECTED IN THAT WEEK IN 3ERBIA jWENTk TO -ERIDIAN "ANK 7HICH LOANS ATTRACTED CITIZENSi GREATEST INTEREST )T IS CLEAR THAT LOANS HAVE BECOME A LIFE NEED 4HE CONSUMER LOANS CYCLE IN 3ERBIA HAS ALREADY EXCEEDED A BILLION EUROS THE BIGGEST RETAIL LOAN CYCLE IN THE HISTORY OF 3ERBIA AT A SINGLE STROKE &IFTEEN YEARS AFTER ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE THE MIDDLE CLASS IS NOW BEING RESTORED

SLOWLY BUT SURELY j)NSTANT CASHk LOANS ARE THE MOST POPULAR 4HE CENTRAL BANKiS GOVERNOR ACCUSED -ERIDIAN "ANK OF MIS

p CALCULATING THE INTEREST RATES FOR DEPOSITS AND LOANS STATING THAT THE BANK DID NOT INCLUDE THE INSURANCE EXPENSES IN THE INSTANT CASH LOANS AND IMPLEMENTED PONDERING AND INEFFECTIVE INTEREST RATES m A CLAIM YOU DENIED $O YOU EXPECT ANY CONSEQUENCES ,ETiS BE SERIOUS FOR A SECOND $O YOU REALLY THINK THAT THE SECOND BIGGEST BANK IN THE WORLD WANTS TO LIE TO ITS CLIENTS 7E ARE IN 3ERBIA FOREVER NOT ONLY TO MAKE A FAST PROFIT 4HEN WHY DID THE ."3 MAKE SUCH CLAIMS )T IS INTERESTING THAT THE CENTRAL BANK INITIALLY PUBLISHED SOME TEMPORARY FINDINGS OF SOME FIELD CONTROL 4HAT IS A UNIQUE CASE WHERE THE ."3 CAME OUT TO PUBLICLY WITH CONTROL FINDINGS INSTEAD OF DISCUSSING AND EXCHANGING ARGUMENTS FIRST ) DON T EXACTLY KNOW WHAT MOTIVATED THEM ) ASKED THE GOVERNOR BUT DID NOT GET AN ANSWER !S A BANKER ) WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE FINDINGS FROM OTHER BANKS WERE THEN THEY CAN BE PUBLISHED TOO !S REGARDS THE INTER EST ) RESPONSIBLY CLAIM THAT OUR CLIENTS WERE NOT CHARGED A SINGLE DINAR MORE 4HE GOVERNORiS OBJECTIONS WERE MORE OF A FORMAL NATURE (E DEMANDED THAT WE PRESENT THE REQUIRED INFORMATION WITHIN THE FRAME OF ONE PRESENTATION AND NOT ON A SECOND PAGE OF THE PAPER 7ILL YOU DO THAT 6ERY GLADLY BUT DURING THAT CONTROL WE INFORMED OUR CLIENTS AND HAVE ALREADY CHANGED EVERYTHING ) DO NOT KNOW WHAT EFFECT THE GOVERNOR HOPED FOR ) WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT ON ONE SIDE

THE #ENTRAL "ANKiS DECISION REGARDING THE EFFECTIVE INTEREST RATE WAS CHANGED MANY TIMES AND ON THE OTHER YOU CAN SEE THAT THE MOST UNSTABLE MONETARY POLICY IN %UROPE WAS CARRIED OUT EXACTLY IN 3ERBIA 3UDDENLY WITHIN SIX MONTHS OBLIGATORY RESERVES WERE RAISED FOUR TIME )T IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ANY PLANS IN SUCH CONDITIONS ) AM AWARE THAT 'OVERNOR *ELApIÌ DOES NOT ENJOY THE SUPPORT OF THE 'OVERNMENT AND THE #ENTRAL "ANK OFTEN COMPLAINS ABOUT THAT 4HE .ATIONAL "ANK WAS LEFT TO FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION BY ITSELF 4HE PROPOSAL FOR THE STATE BUDGET REBALANCE IS A STRIKING EXAMPLE THAT PUBLIC SPENDING IS STILL HIGH AND HAS A DIRECT INFLATIONARY EFFECT AND THAT THE ."3 HAS TO OPERATE WITH INCREASINGLY STRONGER COUNTER PRODUCTIVE MONETARY POLICY MEASURES -ERIDIAN "ANK WILL ABIDE BY ALL DECISIONS MADE BY THE ."3 BUT WE DO EXPECT PROFESSIONAL RELA TIONS TOWARDS US AND AN EQUAL APPROACH TO ALL BANKS 7HAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE IDEA OF THE "ANKS !SSOCIATION SIGNING AN ETHICAL CODEX )TiS A GOOD IDEA BUT YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE CAREFUL REGARDING POP ULISM 4HERE WAS NO MONEY BEFORE THUS PEOPLE WERE NOT SATISFIED

NOW THEY DO HAVE MONEY BUT THEY SAY jTHEY ARE TRYING TO CAPTIVATE US WITH LOANSk 2ISK EXISTS IN THE LIFE AND IN THE END EVERYBODY IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS /F COURSE THE 3ERBIAN .ATIONAL "ANK AND THE #OMMISSION FOR #OMPETITION 0ROTECTION THE SAME AS THE "ANKS !SSOCIATION SHOULD ENSURE HONOURABLE AND STRONG COMPE TITION 7E ARE PREPARED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DESIGNING OF THE ETHICAL CODE BUT SOMETIMES ) AM UNABLE TO RID MYSELF OF THE IMPRESSION THAT SOME OF THOSE ATTACKS ON US WERE LAUNCHED BECAUSE WE HAD CONVINC INGLY THE BIGGEST GROWTH ON THIS MARKET IN THE LAST YEAR $OES YOU INTEND TO OFFER MORTGAGES APART FROM THE CREDITING PROGRAMME YOU AND SOME OTHER BANKS SIGNED WITH THE &INANCE -INISTRY AND THE .ATIONAL #ORPORATION FOR $EPOSIT )NSURANCE 7E ARE CURRENTLY PREPARING AN ORIGINAL OFFER FOR THE CITIZENS

OF COURSE ) CANNOT REVEAL ALL OF THE ELEMENTS BUT WE WILL ADAPT THE INSTALMENTS TO THE CITIZENSi REAL CAPABILITIES 4HAT MEANS THAT IT WILL BE MORE FLEXIBLE THAN THE CURRENT ONE ) HOPE THE #ENTRAL "ANK WILL NOT BE SURPRISED BECAUSE THY MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND THAT 7E EXPECT THIS PROGRAM TO START BY THE END OF THIS YEAR PROBABLY IN .OVEMBER 7HAT IS HAPPENING WITH LOANS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND AGRI CULTURE SECTORS WHICH YOU ANNOUNCED ! LARGE NUMBER OF FLATS ARE BEING PURCHASED IN THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE THUS THE CONSTRUCTORS OFTEN NEED LOAN SUPPORT TO COMPLETE

THE BUILDINGS 7E ALREADY FINANCE THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR TO A GREAT EXTENT ) THINK THAT APART FROM THE CURRENT PROJECTS WHICH RELATE TO AGRICULTURAL COMBINES AND THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR WE WILL HAVE A SPECIF IC APPROACH IN THE SENSE OF SERVICES TO FARMERS AND A BIGGER PACKAGE OF SERVICES BUT WE WILL LEAVE THIS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR 4HE IMPRESSION IS THAT CITIZEN RETAIL BANKING HAS PRIMARY FOCUS FOR -ERIDIAN "ANK 4WO THIRDS OF OUR BUSINESS IS WITH RETAIL AND ONE THIRD IS CON NECTED WITH ENTERPRISES 7E HAVE A SIMILAR STRATEGY IN &RANCE AND EVERYWHERE IN WORLD 7E ARE ALREADY FINANCING SOME BIG DOMESTIC CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES SUCH AS %NERGOPROJEKT AND -OSTOGRADNJE 7E SUPPORTED THE CONSORTIUM FOR THE "ESKA BRIDGE AND WE ALSO PROVIDED THE GUARANTEES FOR OUR CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES WORKING ABROAD FOR INSTANCE 0LANUM IN -OROCCO 4HE BIGGEST PROBLEM OF OUR EXPORTERS IS THAT THEY COULD NOT HAVE A BANK PARTNER TO SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR PROJECTS ABROAD -ERIDIJAN "ANK WILL PROVIDE SUCH SUPPORT IN ALL THE REMAINING COUNTRIES IN WHICH WE HAVE #REDIT !GRICOLE BRANCHES AND WE WILL DO THAT INCREASINGLY MORE ACTIVELY !RE THE ESTIMATIONS THAT THE REFORM OF THE BANKING SECTOR IN 3ERBIA HAS BEEN COMPLETED CORRECT ) WOULD NOT AGREE FAR FROM THAT 7HAT WAS DONE WELL WAS THE CLOSURE OF THE SUSPICIOUS BANKS AT THE TIME WHEN THE GOVERNOR WAS -LADJAN $INKIC 4HAT CREATED THE BASE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HEALTHY BANKING SECTOR .OW IS INCONCEIVABLE FOR A MINISTER TO RING A BANK DIRECTOR AND TELL HIM jGIVE THE LOAN TO THAT COMPANYk BECAUSE

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WITH THE LAUNCH OF A SPECIAL *UBILEE "EER 4WO AND A HALF CENTURIES OF TRADITION LOVE AND SKILL IN THE MAKING OF HIGH QUALITY BEER WAS INVESTED IN THE CREATION OF THIS EXTRAOR DINARY BEER WHICH WITH ITS SPECIFIC AROMA

! ONE MONTH PRIZE DRAW ORGANIZED BY 6ISA )NTERNATIONAL AND 2AIFFEISENBANK A D "EOGRAD

ENDED BY THE FINAL WINNERSi DRAW ON 3EPTEMBER &IVE LUCKY 2AIFFEISENBANK 6ISA REVOLV ING CREDIT CARD HOLDERS FROM "ELGRADE 'ORNJI -ILANOVAC

6ELIKA 0LANA AND 3UBOTICA WILL HAVE A UNIQUE CHANCE TO TAKE THEIR FAMILIES TO A j-AGICAL 7EEKENDk IN 0ARIS WHERE THEY WILL ENJOY THREE FABULOUS DAYS IN j$ISNEYLAND| 2ESORT 0ARISj j6ISA )NTERNATIONAL AND 2AIFFEISENBANK ARE LONG TERM STRATEGIC PARTNERS AND ) AM DELIGHTED THAT THE BANK IS PARTNERING WITH US AGAIN FOR THIS $ISNEY CAMPAIGN WHICH WILL ALLOW CARDHOLDERS TO WIN A UNIQUE TRIP TO j$ISNEYLAND| 2ESORT 0ARISk 4HE 6ISA REVOLVING CREDIT CARD IS THE IDEAL SOLUTION FOR FAMILY SHOPPING AND WITH A TOTAL OF MILLION 6ISA CARDS IN 3ERBIA PEOPLE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF USING 6ISA PAYMENT CARDS FOR EVERYDAY PURCHASESk AS *EAN -ARC 4ONTI 6ISA )NTERNATIONALiS REGIONAL MANAGER POINTED OUT 2AIFFEISENBANK A D "EOGRAD IS THE LEADING BANK IN PAYMENT CARD BUSINESS BOTH ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF ISSUED CREDIT CARDS AND THE VOLUME OF ISSUED CARD SALES TRANSACTIONS -ORE THAN ò OF PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTIONS IN 3ERBIA ARE DONE BY 2AIFFEISENBANKiS CLIENTS 4HE BANK STARTED ISSUING THE 6ISA REVOLVING CREDIT CARD IN $ECEMBER 3O FAR THE BANK HAS ISSUED 6ISA REVOLVING CREDIT CARDS 4HE TOTAL NUMBER OF ISSUED 6ISA PAYMENT CARDS REACHED

BITTERNESS AND STRENGTH SATISFIES THE TASTES OF EVEN THE MOST PICKY BEER DRINKERS 4HE *UBILEE "EER WAS PRODUCED IN LIMITED QUAN TITIES WHICH MAKES IT VERY VALUABLE )N HONOUR OF YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL WORK AND EXISTENCE THE #HAMBER #OMMERCE OF 3ERBIA HANDED !PATINSKA 0IVARA A SPECIAL *UBILEE AWARD

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BUILT ACCORDING TO THE LATEST %UROPEAN STANDARDS OF THE 67 CON CERN WAS STARTED IN 2ADNIÍKA 3TREET ON ©UKARIÍKA PADINA ACROSS THE ROAD FROM !DA #IGANLIJA )T IS WORTH EIGHT MILLION %UROS 7ITH SELLING SALONS OF !UDI 0ORSCHE AND 3EAT COVERING THE SURFACE OF MORE THAN M SERVICE CENTRE OF M THERMO LACQUERING WORKSHOP OF M AS WELL AS A STORAGE OF SPARE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT OF M A PARKING ON THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING WITH A CAPACITY OF SPACES FOR PARKING CARS 0ORSCHE "EOGRAD !DA IS THE BIGGEST AND THE MOST MODERN SELLING SERVICE CENTRE IN 3ERBIA AND THE "ALKANS 4HE SALONS WILL CONSTANTLY EXHIBIT ABOUT VEHICLES THAT ARE ON OFFER IN THE SPECIAL EXHIBITION SPACE 7ITH THE SELECTION OF NEW VEHICLES IN SERVICING IN MAINTE NANCE AND REPAIRS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF SERVICE AT YOUR DISPOSAL IS THE FRIENDLY BUT MOST OF ALL EXPERT AND EDUCATED STAFF THAT STANDS BEHIND THE NAME OF 0ORSCHE

#ARLSBERG 3ERBIA STRONGLY BELIEVES IN THE CARE OF THE TOTAL SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AS AN ETHIC OF ITS BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 4HE COMPANY PRESENTS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PRIVATISATIONS IN 3ERBIA AND IS AMONG THE BIGGEST FOREIGN INVESTORS IN THE COUNTRY )N JUST THREE YEARS #ARLSBERG 3ERBIA HAS INVESTED AROUND _ MILLION AND STRONGLY POSITIONED ITSELF IN SECOND PLACE ON THE BEER MARKET IT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST EMPLOYERS IN THE REGION AND IS CONSTANTLY CREATING NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES #ARLSBERG 3ERBIA IS COMMITTED TO RESPONSIBLE PRIVATISATION AND DIRECT INVESTMENTS THAT SUPPORT VERY CLEAR AND ACTIVE POLICIES OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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$ESPITE POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY 3ERBIA MUST MOVE FORWARD &IFTH "USINESS 2OUNDTABLE WITH THE 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA -AINTAINING MOMENTUM STABILITY AND GROWTH /CTOBER TH TH (YATT 2EGENCY "ELGRADE 3ERBIA HAS ACCOMPLISHED MUCH IN RECENT YEARS AND CORPORATE EXECUTIVES ARE SEEING THE BENEFITS OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE OPERAT ING ENVIRONMENT &AST PROGRESS ON REFORM AND THE COMPLETION OF A THREE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE )-& ALL SEND POSITIVE SIGNALS TO FOREIGN INVESTORS "EYOND THE HEADLINES THOUGH BUSINESS HAS REA SON TO BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT 3ERBIA 4HE OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE BUT GOVERNMENT STILL HAS MUCH TO DO TO ENSURE THE RIGHT CONDITIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH $O YOU BELIEVE 3ERBIA CAN CONTINUE TO OUTPERFORM ITS REGIONAL NEIGHBOURS AS A GROWTH CENTRE FOR BUSINESS 9OU CAN DEBATE THE WAY FORWARD FOR 3ERBIA AT THE COUNTRYiS PREMIER BUSINESS EVENT %CONOMIST #ONFERENCESi &IFTH "USINESS 2OUNDTABLE WITH THE 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA SPONSORED BY (0 /RGACHIM 6)3! AND 7OLF 4HEISS SUPPORTED BY #/2$ -AGAZINE ! STRATEGIC AGENDA FROM PROGRESS ON REFORM TO THE OUTLOOK FOR PRIVATISATION 4HE AGENDA FOR THE 2OUNDTABLE WILL DELIVER CRITICAL BUSINESS INSIGHTS ON SOME OF THE MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES FOR YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS IN 3ERBIA 7ILL TIGHT FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICIES SQUEEZE GOOD BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 7HAT IS THE OUTLOOK FOR POLITICAL STABILITY AND FURTHER PROGRESS ON REFORM (OW DOES 3ERBIA MEASURE UP AS AN INVESTMENT DESTINATION )F THESE ARE THE TYPES OF QUESTIONS THAT INTEREST YOU PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ATTEND THIS EXCEPTIONAL EVENT !MONG THOSE INVITED TO SPEAK WE HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA 0RIME

-INISTER )VANA $ULIร -ARKOVIร $EPUTY 0RIME -INISTER -LAรฐAN $INKIร -INISTER OF &INANCE AND 2ADOVAN *ELApIร 'OVERNOR OF THE .ATIONAL "ANK /THER SPEAKERS INCLUDE 0REDRAG "UBALO -INISTER OF %CONOMY AND 0RIVATISATION AND -ILAN 0ARIVODIร -INISTER OF )NTERNATIONAL %CONOMIC 2ELATIONS 9OU WILL ALSO HEAR FROM EXPERIENCED CORPO RATE EXECUTIVES INCLUDING 3IMON 3MITH 'ENERAL -ANAGER .ESTLย !DRIATIC AND 0ETER !NDERSSON -ANAGING $IRECTOR 6OLVO 4RUCKS 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO AND -ACEDONIA &OR THE FULL LIST OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS THEY WILL BE DISCUSSING PLEASE VISIT WWW ECONOMISTCONFERENCES COM !N OPPORTUNITY FOR OFF THE RECORD DEBATE AND NETWORKING !WAY FROM THE PRESSURES OF RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS YOU WILL HAVE AMPLE TIME TO CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF THE ISSUES DISCUSSED AS YOU QUESTION THE GOVERNMENTiS PLANS AND NETWORK WITH YOUR PEERS IN THE RELAXING SURROUNDINGS OF THE (YATT 2EGENCY (OTEL 4HIS IS A UNIQUE FORUM IN WHICH TO MEET THOSE SHAPING 3ERBIAN POLICY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND VOICE YOUR CONCERNS DIRECTLY TO THOSE WITH THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS 4O RESERVE YOUR PLACE OR FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT ,IANA 4RAUGOTT (AZLIE AT OR AT LIANAHAZLIE ECONOMIST COM #/2$ AND %CONOMIST #ONFERENCES LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOM ING YOU AT 3ERBIAiS PREMIER EVENT

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ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLDS CROSS BORDER FACTORING VOLUME )T IS ESTIMATED THAT SOME BUSINESSES ARE CURRENTLY USING FACTORING IN OVER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

!S IS CUSTOM 4REND #AR NEVER FAILS TO MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND ALWAYS HAS SOMETHING NEW AND INTERESTING TO OFFER 7E ARE EXPECTING THE NEW /PEL MODEL m NEW #ORSA WHOSE PRESENTATION WAS HELD IN ,ONDON DURING THE SUMMER )TS APPEAR ANCE CAUSED WIDE INTEREST BOTH FOR ITS IMPECCABLE QUALITY AND ITS VERY NOTICED AND IMPRESSIVE PRESENTATION 4HUS IT IS WITH SPECIAL PLEASURE THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE HONOUR TO PRESENT THIS MODEL IN OUR SALON 7E EXPECT THAT THIS MOST ATTRACTIVE '- MODEL FOR THE YEAR WILL APPEAR HERE IN THE FIRST HALF OF /CTOBER 7E HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO SHOWCASE IT IN OUR SALON PRIOR TO ITS OFFICIAL LAUNCH AT THE .OVI 3AD &AIR ON 3EPTEMBER /UR ORGANIZATION WILL OFFER FREE TESTING FOR POTENTIAL BUYERS

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MALLY COMPRISED QUALITY AND EFFICIENT BANKING SERVICES COMPETI TIVE AND AFFORDABLE TO ALL CLIENTS 4HE ORGANIZATION OF THE "ANK IS DEFINED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT CLEARLY SUPPORTS AN ACTIVE APPROACH AND FOCUS TOWARDS THE CLIENTS 4HE SERVICING OF CLIENTS WILL PRIMA RILY BE DEVELOPED THROUGH ELECTRONIC BANKING AND OTHER SERVICES OF MODERN %UROPEAN BANKING +OMERCIJALNA "ANKA A D "ANJA ,UKA WILL OFFER ITS CLIENTS SERV ICES OF DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PAYING TRANSACTIONS EXCHANGE JOBS RECEIVERSHIP OF MONEY DEPOSITS AND OTHER MONEY RESOURCES

GIVING ALL FORMS OF GUARANTEES ISSUING AND MANAGING OF MEANS OF PAYMENT INCLUDING CREDIT CARDS TRAVEL AND BANKING CHEQUES

PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF BONDS AND OTHER VALUABLES PUR CHASING AND SELLING BONDS SERVICES OF THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY BANKING SERVICES 0OTENTIAL CLIENTS CAN EXPECT THAT +OMERCIJALNA BANKA A D "ANJA ,UKA WHOSE SLOGAN WILL BE j)T IS EASIER WITH USk WILL OFFER THE BEST QUALITY BANKING SERVICE AND EASIER REALIZATION OF THEIR BUSINESS OR INDIVIDUAL AIMS )N OTHER WORDS TO MAKE THEIR LIVES EASIER AS WELL AS NICER

OF THE #OR$ #LUB FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE HUMANITARIAN ACTION TO PROVIDE THE CITY CENTRE CLINIC WITH AIR CONDITIONING UNITS #OR$iS ACTION PROMPTED BY THE CAMPAIGN OF "ELGRADE DAILY "LIC AT THE HEIGHT OF THE SUM MER HEAT WAVE RAISED A TOTAL OF UNITS

ALL OF WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN INSTALLED IN THE MOTHER BABY ROOMS OF THE HOSPITAL

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)N EARLY 3EPTEMBER 0IRAEUS "ANK 3ERBIA INCLUDED IN ITS OFFER THE PRODUCT NAMED j2ELAX ,OANSj A LOAN FOR REFINANCING OF ALL BORROWINGS LOANS AND CARDS OF CITIZENS IN THE AMOUNT UP TO %52 WITH THE THREE MONTH GRACE PERIOD )N THE AIM OF REDUCING INDEBTEDNESS OF CITIZENS 0IRAEUS "ANK LOWERS INTEREST RATES AND EXTENDS THE REPAYMENT PERIOD TO YEARS j2ELAX ,OANSk ARE APPROVED WITH THE NOMINAL INTEREST RATE FROM ò AND THE EFFECTIVE INTEREST RATE FROM ò j)N THIS MANNER CITIZENS ARE CHARGED WITH LOWER INTEREST RATES THUS HAV ING SMALLER LOAN INSTALLMENTS 0IRAEUS "ANK HAS ALWAYS BEEN TAK

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PROTECTION AND ADVANCED MANAGEMENT j4HE QUALITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT IS MEASURED NOT ONLY BY THE AMOUNT OF POLLUTED RIVERS AND SMALLER STREAMS AND THE SEVERITY OF THIS POLLUTION BUT ALSO BY THE MANAGEMENT COL LECTION RECYCLING AND THE QUALITY OF DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE 3ERBIA IS POORLY DEVELOPED IN THAT RESPECT k -AKSIMOVIÌ SAYS

ADDING jIN TERMS OF WATER POLLUTION THE SITUATION IS MUCH BET TER THAT BEFORE THE WAR (OWEVER THIS IS NOT DUE TO ORGANISED EFFORTS TO PROTECT OUR WATER RESOURCES BUT RATHER BECAUSE OF REDUCED INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY AND THE RESULTING DECREASE IN WATER

AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION .ONETHELESS THE LACK OF BASIC PROTEC TION MAKES THE SITUATION BAD AND IS FURTHER DETERIORATING 4HIS PRIMARILY REFERS TO WASTE WATER POLLUTION FROM URBAN AREAS AND THOSE PARTS OF THE INDUSTRY THAT CONTINUED PRODUCTION WITH ILL EQUIPPED FACILITIES WHICH MEANS THAT THEIR PRODUCTION PROCESS DOES NOT MINIMISE WASTE PRODUCTS AND RECYCLE THEM k 4HINGS DO NOT CHANGE OVERNIGHT IN THIS DOMAIN ! CHANGE OF ATTITUDE TOWARD THE ENVIRONMENT CAN ONLY COME WITH PROGRES SIVE AWARENESS AT MANY LEVELS STARTING WITH THOSE WHO RUN THE STATE DOWN TO THE COMMON CITIZEN -AKSIMOVIÌ CLAIMS THAT THE PROBLEM WITH 3ERBIA THE OTHER STATES OF THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE REGION IS THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE A CULTURE OF QUALITY STRATEGIC PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING PLANS j4WO BASIC CONDITIONS HAVE TO BE MET FOR THIS $ECISION MAKERS AT ALL LEVELS HAVE TO OPT TO MAKE A LONG TERM BASIC MATRIX FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SPECIFIC SMALLER PROJECTS IN VARIOUS DOMAINS THAT WOULD REQUIRE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINA BILITY AND SECURE A CRITICAL MASS OF EXPERTS OF ALL PROFILES AND AT ALL LEVELS WHO THINK DIFFERENTLY HAVE A WIDER OUTLOOK AND CAN DO THEIR JOB PROPERLY 3UCCESS IS GUARANTEED WHEN IMPROVE MENT TO THE CONDITION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IS NOT VIEWED AS AN EXPENSE BUT AS PART OF A NEW MODE OF PRODUCTION WHERE ENVIRONMENTAL CARE IS BUILT INTO A PROCESS BASED ON RECYCLING RESOURCES EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY AND A MORE SOPHISTICATED APPROACH TO A PICKY WORLD MARKET )N ADDITION TO THIS THE TRADITIONAL BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY HAVE TO BE REFITTED TO SATISFY THE STANDARDS SET BY THIS MODE OF PRODUCTION k -AKSIMOVIÌ SAYS GOING ON TO NOTE THAT THE PEOPLE OF 3ERBIA WERE DELUDED IN BELIEVING THAT THEY HAD CLEAN RIVERS j)N 3ERBIA A SMALL NUMBER OF FACILITIES FOR TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND URBAN WASTE WATER WERE BUILT A LONG TIME AGO ! LARGE PART OF THESE ARE ALREADY OUT OF OPERATION AND THE ONES THAT STILL WORK ARE OBSOLETE DO NOT OPERATE AT FULL CAPACITY AND ARE INEFFICIENT #ITIES SUCH AS "ELGRADE AND .OVI 3AD RELY ON THE SELF CLEANING CAPACITY OF THE BIG RIVERS THE $ANUBE AND THE 3AVA BUT THESE ARE DELUSIONS SINCE THERE ARE SOME LIMITS TO THIS AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS THAT HAVE TO BE RESPECTED )N 3ERBIA HOWEVER AS IN A GREAT NUMBER OF OTHER COUNTRIES THERE ARE CLEAN AND UNPOLLUTED RIVERS IN AREAS THAT ARE INACCESSIBLE AND LESS SUITABLE FOR ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION

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4RANSITION GYPSY OR OLD TOWN MUSIC 4HIS KIND OF MUSIC WAS PLAYED AT WED DINGS AND FAREWELL PARTIES OF THOSE DRAFTED TO REGULAR SERVICE IN THE ARMY AS WELL AS VILLAGE FESTIVALS AND AMONG A NUMBER EMIGRANT COMMUNITIES 4HE NUMEROUS POPULATION THAT HAD EMIGRATED TO WORK IN 7ESTERN %UROPE WAS ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING FOLK MUSICIANS AFLOAT 4HE URBAN CULTURE PARTICULARLY IN "ELGRADE WAS SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT THAT TODAY SINCE IT WAS QUITE DEROGATORY ON ONESELF TO ADMIT BEING A FAN OF FOLK MUSIC ! PRIVATE ANECDOTE PRO VIDES AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE 4HE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE WAS ONCE THE OWNER OF THREE ALBUMS BY fABAN "AJRAMOVIร AN UNAPPRECIAT ED GYPSY SINGER AT THE TIME WHO IS TODAY HERALDED AS THE j3ERBIAN *AMES "ROWNk -OST OF MY FRIENDS LOOKED WITH DISBELIEF AT THESE INTRUDERS IN MY COLLECTION OF RECORDS AND SOME OF MY AMITIES HAD BEEN UNDER SERIOUS STRAIN DUE TO THIS APPARENTLY TRIVIAL DETAIL ) NEVER HELD ANY GRUDGES OVER THIS NOR DID ) REMINISCE THESE EVENTS WHEN ) RECORDED MY PERSON j"EST OF fABAN "AJRAMOVIร j COMPILA TION FOR THEM AND THEIR FRIENDS FROM ABROAD ! DRAMATIC TURNAROUND CAME WHEN 246 " IN THE MIDST OF A WORLDWIDE EUPHORIA OVER ETHNIC MUSIC STARTED TO PUBLISH RECORDS FOR MUSICIANS OF WHOM SOME WERE STARS OF THE 'Uร A FES TIVAL TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THE URBAN STREAK OF 3ERBIA WHO CON SIDERED THESE jOUTRIGHT FOLK TRASHk !T THIS POINT FOLK MUSIC HAD BECOME ETHNO OR EVEN BETTER WORLD MUSIC GYPSIES HAVE BECOME 2OMA IN THE SPIRIT OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THIS KIND OF MUSIC BECAME COOL %VERYTHING WAS SET FOR THE POLITICIANS TO TAKE OVER

GLUTTONY GUNFIRE AND FIGHTING AND CALAMITOUS AND UNARTICULATED MUSIC 4HE OTHER CAMPS HOWEVER FEEL ALL THIS IS CUTE AND THAT FOREIGNERS WILL GET THE BEST POSSIBLE IMAGE OF 3ERBS AND THEIR MENTALITY AT THE 'Uร A &ESTIVAL &OREIGNERS HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE KEY ARGUMENTS IN EVERY DEBATE WHENEVER SOMEONE CRITICISED THIS YEARiS EDITION OF THE &ESTIVAL OR THE WHOLE EVENT GENERALLY THE ADVOCATES OF 'Uร A ARGUED THAT jTHE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LOVED ITk AND THIS WAS REASON ENOUGH TO CONTINUE THE TRADITION 4HIS ATTI TUDE SHOWS THAT ANY BAD HABIT CAN BE PROMOTED INTO A NATIONAL INTEREST IF IT APPEALS TO A TOURIST FROM THE 7EST (ENCE APPEALS FOR A MORE iCIVILISEDi ACTIVITY TO REPRESENT 3ERBIAN CULTURE TO THE WORLD ONE THAT IS NOT RELATED TO POPULAR MUSIC HAVE BEEN FUTILE

SINCE THE POLITICAL ELITE WANTS 'Uร A TO BE THE FACE OF 3ERBIA )F ONE ANALYSES THE CURRENT MAKEUP OF THE POLITICAL SCENE

'Uร A CAN BE VIEWED AS A MUSICAL OR CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE jFOLK BLOCk !LTHOUGH 0- +OpTUNICAiS $33 HAS ALSO ALIGNED ITSELF WITH THIS BLOC ITS MOST VIBRANT REPRESENTATIVE IS BY ALL MEANS #APITAL )NVESTMENTS -INISTER 6ELIMIR )LIร WHO HELPED THE 0RIME -INISTER OPEN 'Uร A (IS PUBLIC APPEARANCES VULGAR VOCABULARY VERBAL AND PHYSICAL ASSAULTS ON JOURNALISTS HAVE

IN HIS OPINION BLENDED THE MINISTER WELL INTO THE MILIEU OF THE GATHERING IN 'Uร A TO THE AGREEMENT OF ALL THOSE WHO SEE IT AS THE IMAGE OF A PRIMITIVE AND NOT %UROPEAN 3ERBIA )T SEEMS THOUGH

THAT THE CRITICS HAVE OVERDONE IT AS WELL 4HE ARGUMENT THAT FOR EIGN TOURISTS ADORE 'Uร A BECAUSE THEY ARE FREE AND UNBRIDLED TO

THE &ESTIVAL IN 'Uร A AND HERALD IT AS A 3ERBIAN BRAND 'Uร A WAS LARGELY FINANCED BY THE 3ERBIAN 'OVERNMENT

WHILE 3ERBIAN 0RIME -INISTER 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA CULMINATED HIS SPEECH BEFORE THE AUDIENCE AT THE &ESTIVAL WITH THE WORDS jTHOSE WHO DONiT UNDERSTAND 'Uร A DONiT UNDERSTAND 3ERBIAk 4HIS HAD FIRED UP SOME OLDER ANIMOSITIES 3ERBIA WAS AT ONCE DIVIDED INTO THOSE WHO FEEL THAT THE IMAGE OF 'Uร A WAS A NATIONAL DISGRACE FOR 3ERBIA ARGUING THAT THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SHOULD NOT RECOGNISE US BY SCENES OF ALCOHOLIC SLUR UNRESTRAINED

DO THINGS THEY NORMALLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO AT HOME IS ONLY TRUE IN PART .AMELY WHOEVER SCRUTINISED SIMILAR EVENTS ABROAD

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j) REMEMBER THAT ONE OF OUR FIRST CONCERTS ATTENDED BY MAYBE PEOPLE DID RECEIVE A REVIEW ON SOME OF THE SERIOUS TERMS ON 2ADIO "ELGRADE ,ATELY 2ADIO "ELGRADE HARDLY NOTICES WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE DOMESTIC SCENE NOT TO MENTION GIVING REVIEWS OF THE ALBUMS OR CONCERTS OF COMPLETELY UNKNOWN BANDS k REMEMBERS -LADENOVIÌ ADDING jTHESE DAYS THE PROMOTION OF POP CULTURE COMES DOWN TO THE PROGRAMME ,OUD #LEAR " WHICH IS AT LEAST FOOLING AROUND WITH MUSIC AND NOT MAKING A SERIOUS OPINION )N THAT SENSE THE CURRENT SITUATION IS MUCH WORSE THAN IT WAS THEN .OW WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE APPARENTLY THERE IS SOME TALK AND WRITING ABOUT SOME THINGS BUT THE MUSIC ITSELF IS SLIPPING AWAY FROM THAT 4HE SCENE DOES EXIST BUT IT CANNOT BE SEEN ON THE MEDIA AND THAT IS A FACT k "ECAUSE OF ALL THIS THE ACTION OF THE WEB MAGAZINE FOR POP CULTURE 0OPBOKSiS ORGANISATION OF THREE TRIBUNES ON THE SUBJECT j$IAGNOSIS OF THE DOMESTIC MUSIC SCENEk CAME AS A GENUINE SUR PRISE !LL THOSE INTERESTED COULD HEAR WHAT MUSICIANS MANAGERS

PRODUCERS PUBLISHERS AND FINALLY MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES HAD TO SAY ON THIS SUBJECT !LL SORTS OF THINGS COULD BE HEARD THERE FROM SERI OUS DISCUSSIONS TO PLACING THE BLAME ON ONE ANOTHER 4HE IDEOLOGICAL CREATOR OF THIS PROJECT 0OPBOKSiS EDITOR IN CHIEF 'ORAN 4ARLAC SAYS THAT WITH THIS MOVE HE MANAGED TO PUB LICLY RAISE SOME RATIONAL QUESTIONS SUCH AS WHAT IS THE REAL AUTHOR POTENTIAL OF DOMESTIC BANDS DO THEY MEET WITH SUPPORT FROM PUB LISHERS AND THE MEDIA HOW CAN YOUNG BANDS PUBLISH THEIR DEBUT ALBUMS DO WE HAVE REAL PRODUCERS WHAT IS THE SITUATION WITH SPACE FOR CONCERTS IN "ELGRADEb j4HE PERIOD OF THE GENERAL SOCIAL CRISIS WHICH IS BEHIND US

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DECLARED A PRIORITY STATE PROJECT 0ROGRAMMES ABOUT ROCK SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING ;243= !LSO PEOPLE SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE HEAD OF 3/+/* THAT CARCINOGENIC TISSUE OF THE 3ERBIAN SCENE WHICH REALLY DEALS WITH MUSIC AND WILL SERVICE THE MUSICIANS INSTEAD OF BEING PARASITES ON THEM LUSTRA TION SHOULD BE INTRODUCED IN 0'0 A SERIOUS CONCERT AGENCY SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED WHICH WOULD REPRESENT WHO AND HOW TO ORGANISE CONCERTS IN 3ERBIA THE LEGAL OF PIRACY IN THE SHAPE OF WRETCHED KIOSK #$S SOLD FOR DINARS SHOULD BE STOPPED THE PUBLISHING HOUSES FOR RECORDS SHOULD BE SEPARATED FROM THE 246 STATIONS A PUBLIC RADIO SERVICE WHICH WOULD DEAL WITH THE PROMOTION OF ALTER NATIVE AND NON COMMERCIAL MUSIC GENRES SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED AND OLDER EXPERIENCED MUSICIANS WHO WOULD THROUGH PRODUCING WORK MANAGE BANDS IN THE FULL SENSE OF THAT WORD SHOULD BE EMPLOYED IN THE LOCAL OR STATE MINISTRIES OF CULTURE AND BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS REGARDING GRANTING MONEY TO PERIODICAL COMPETITIONS k 4HE ISSUE OF THE DOMESTIC MUSIC SCENE IN 3ERBIA TODAY IS VERY COMPLEX 0OPBOKSiS ACTION CANNOT RESOLVE THIS SITUATION BUT CAN RAISE THE CONSCIENCE THAT PROBLEMS DO EXIST THAT THEY NEED SOLV ING AND CAN AWAKE THE INTEREST NOT ONLY OF MUSICIANS BUT OF THE CULTURAL SCENE IN GENERAL 0OPBOKS HAVE OFFERED A HAND TO YOUNG

NON ANIMATED BANDS BY ESTABLISHING THE PART CALLED 3CENA ON ITS WEB PAGE WHERE IT IS POSSIBLE TO HEAR THEIR SONGS AND TO READ BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT MUSICIANS 4HIS SHOULD SET AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER MEDIA TO START NOTICING DOMESTIC MUSICIANS TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW BANDS AND NOT TO FOR INSTANCE REFER TO BANDS WHICH HAVE ALREADY EXISTED FOR YEARS AS jYOUNG ONESk !LL THIS SEEMS AS THOUGH WE AT ONE MOMENT FORGOT THAT MUSIC IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF SOCIETY AND THAT IT NOT ONLY SAYS SOME THING ABOUT OUR AFFINITY BUT ALSO ABOUT OUR RELATIONS TOWARDS OUR OWN CULTURAL INHERITANCE TO WHICH THE URBAN MUSIC SCENE INDEED BELONGS

!T THE TIME OF THE BIG PRE TH /CTOBER CAMPAIGN THE OPPOSI TION ORGANISED NUMEROUS ROCK CONCERTS AROUND 3ERBIA IN ORDER TO AWAKEN YOUNG PEOPLE AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO VOTE "UT AFTER -ILOpEVIÌiS FALL ALL ENERGY AGAINST HIM DISPERSED POLITICIANS DID NOT NEED BANDS ANYMORE AND EVERYTHING WAS PUT ASIDE -USIC BECAME SILENT j4HESE DAYS OUR ROCK MUSICIANS WITHDRAW INTO THEMSELVES

AND PARTIALLY JUSTIFIABLY AND DISAPPOINTEDLY IGNORE THE NEW REAL ITY m SINGING IN %NGLISH FOR INSTANCE 4HAT CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A NATIONAL FRUSTRATION THEY DO NOT ACCEPT THE LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY WHICH STEP MOTHERLY DEPRIVED THEM OF SO MUCH AS THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE BUT IN SPITE OF ALL WARNINGS FROM THEIR OLDER WELL INTENDED COLLEAGUES THEY OPT FOR THE %NGLISH mGLOBAL COSMOPOLITAN LANGUAGEk SAYS 4ARLAC !CCORDING TO THE OPINION OF 4ARLAC AND SEEMINGLY THE MAJOR ITY OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE TRIBUNE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS ARE THAT THE CIRCULATION IS SMALL THAT BANDS OPERATE ON THE PRINCIPLE j) LIVE FROM CONCERT TO CONCERTk INSTEAD OF COLLECTING MONEY FROM THEIR AUTHORSi RIGHTS OR AT LEAST FROM ROYALTIES !CCORDING TO 3/+/*iS CALCULATIONS BANDS WHICH ARE PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE YEAR ON RADIO STATIONS RECEIVE A GRAND TOTAL OF DINARS j4HERE ARE TOO FEW CIRCULATIONS WHICH MAKE MONEY SOLD OUT CONCERTS HIT SONGS GROUPS WHICH ARE AT THE SAME TIME jCULTk AND jULTRA POPULARk BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO FEW OF THOSE TO HEAR THAT !ND THE MEDIA ARE EVEN DEAFER THAN EVER 4HE CULT BAND $ISCIPLINA +ITHCHME HELD A CONCERT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE AT LAST YEARiS %XIT AND ONE OF THREE BEST ROCK MAGAZINES REPORTED ABOUT THAT 7HEN THE $6$ OF THAT CONCERT WAS RECENTLY PRODUCED ) SAW ONLY ONE REVIEW OF THAT ON THE DOMESTIC MEDIA k SAYS 4ARLAC ADDING THAT THEY SHOULD URGENTLY MOVE INTO ACTION j4HIS SCENE WAS ALWAYS ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY AND IN ORDER TO PUT IT BACK ON ITS FEET IT SHOULD BE CorD \ /CTOBER

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OHN (ASSELL *OHN 3CHOFIELD AND "ENNY 'OLSON ARE ONLY THREE OF THE GREATS OF THE WORLD JAZZ THAT THE "ELGRADE PUBLIC WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE AT THE ND *AZZ &ESTIVAL m SET TO RUN FROM TH TO TH /CTOBER /RGANISERS OF THE ANNUAL JAZZ FESTIVAL HAVE OPTED TO ADD TO THEIR LIST OF CONCERT SITES THIS YEAR IN AN EFFORT TO TAKE JAZZ TO THE CITY !S SUCH "ELGRADEiS YOUTH HALL m $OM /MLADINE m IS TO SHARE HOSTING ACTIVITIES WITH THREE OTHER POPULAR "ELGRADE VENUES )LIJA +OLARAC &OUNDATION (ALL $OM 3INDIKATA AND "ITEF !RT #AF !CCORDING TO "ELGRADE *AZZ &ESTIVAL !RT $IRECTOR 6OJISLAV 0ANTIÌ

THE BASIC IDEA FOR THIS YEAR IS THAT THE &ESTIVAL IS TO BE RUN UNDER MOTTO "ELGRADE THE #ITY OF *AZZ AND AS SUCH IT SHOULD STRETCH BEYOND $OM /MLADINE IN ORDER TO ALLOW JAZZ TO BE HEARD IN AS MANY CONCERT HALLS IN THE CITY AS POSSIBLE j7E HAVE PREPARED AN INTERESTING PROGRAMME THAT WILL BE TOPI CALLY DIVIDED IN SIX DAYS WITHIN WHICH WE SHALL HAVE THE EVENING AND MIDNIGHT PROGRAMME !LSO IF NECESSARY m THAT IS IF THE PUBLIC SHOWS INTEREST m WE WILL ORGANISE A *AM 3ESSION k EXPLAINS 0ANTIÌ ADDING jWE HAVE TWO CONCERTS IN THE MAIN PROGRAMME EVERY EVENING ONE OF WORLD RENOWNED MUSICIANS AND ANOTHER BY MUSICIANS OF A YOUNG ER GENERATION THAT ARE MOSTLY UNKNOWNS TO OUR PUBLIC BUT ARE GREAT NAMES IN THE WORLD OF JAZZ IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES k 4HE #LUB -IDNIGHT 0ROGRAMME SHOULD REPRESENT LESSER KNOWN BUT INTERESTING BENDS REPRESENTING THE TOP OF THE %UROPEAN *AZZ STAGE TODAY 4HE *AZZ &ESTIVAL IS TO BE OPENED IN )LIJA +OLARAC &OUNDATION (ALL BY GREAT JAZZ STANDARD SETTER AND LEGENDARY SAXOPHONIST "ENNY 'OLSON WITH THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE 2ADIO 4ELEVISION 3ERBIA "IG "AND AND THE PRESTIGIOUS %UROPEAN *AZZ #RITICSi !WARD WINNER FOR THE BEST BAND IN m 3WEDENiS %SBJ¡RN 3VENSON 4RIO 4HOSE WISHING TO BE SERENADED INTO THE WEE HOURS TO THE SOUNDS OF SWEET JAZZ IN A CLUB ATMOSPHERE WILL BE ATTRACTED TO THE h!ROUND -IDNIGHTi PROGRAMME WHICH IS TO WELCOME &ABIAN +ALLERDAHL CUR RENTLY THE MOST PROMISING YOUNG MUSICIAN IN 3WEDEN j4HE CENTRAL CONCERT OF THE &ESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE ON TH /CTOBER IN $OM 3INDIKATA (ALL /N THAT EVENING THE BIGGEST STAR OF THE &ESTIVAL THE *OHN 3CHOFIELD 4RIO FROM THE 5 3 SHALL PLAY

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3CHOFIELD IS CONSIDERED A GENUINE LEGEND OF JAZZ GUITAR m A TITLE HE HAS SHARED AND SWAPPED FOR YEARS WITH THE EQUALLY LEGENDARY 0AT -ETHENY $URING HIS YEAR CAREER 3CHOFIELD HAS PLAYED WITH THE GREAT MEN OF JAZZ THE LIKES OF THE -ILES $AVIS "AND (ERBIE (ANCOCK "ILL &RISELL #HARLES -INGUS "ILLY #OBHAM AND 0AT -ETHENY k SAYS 0ANTIÌ "UT 3CHOFIELD IS NOT THE ONLY LEGEND SET TO VISIT "ELGRADE THIS AUTUMN ON TH /CTOBER IN $OM OMLADINE LOVERS OF AVANT GARDE AND FREE JAZZ WILL ENJOY THE PERFORMANCE OF *OHN (ASSEL m AN INSPIR ING JAZZ STAR WHO HAS PLAYED WITH MANY FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS 4HE &ESTIVAL PROGRAMME ALSO INCLUDES THE $AVE $OUGLAS 1UINTET AND TWO BANDS THAT WILL PERFORM AS PART OF THE j2OOTSk NIGHT DEALING IN JAZZ MUSIC ROOTS m THE *AMES "LOOD 5LMER "AND AND THE #HARLES 'AYLE 4RIO !S THE CHERRY ON TOP COMES THE &RENCH %NSEMBLE #ARAVAN DE 0AS WHOSE MUSIC HAS ELEMENTS OF 'YPSY MUSIC j/F THE DOMESTIC MUSICIANS TO PERFORM THERE IS *OVAN -ALJOKOVIÌ PLAYING WITH THE YOUNG JAZZ SINGER )VANA +OTOV AND FROM 0ARIS COMES "OJAN :ULFIKARPApIÌ WHO ALONG WITH HIS INTERNATIONAL BAND THIS TIME PRESENTS THE MOST PROMINENT AND ARGUABLY THE BEST JAZZ GROUP IN %UROPE m ACCORDING TO THE CRITICSi CHOICE FOR k SAYS 0ANTIÌ 4HE *AZZ &ESTIVAL ART DIRECTOR PROUDLY ADDS THAT IN AGREEMENT WITH JAZZ MUSICIANS FROM fABAC 0ANÍEVO .Ip AND )NðIJA THEY HAVE ARRANGED FOR THE GUEST PERFORMERS OF THE "ELGRADE STAGE TO PLAY IN THE &ESTIVALS OF THOSE CITIES WHICH START A DAY OR TWO EARLIER 4HE "ELGRADE *AZZ &ESTIVAL m REVIVED LAST YEAR AFTER A YEAR PAUSE m IS BEING ORGANISED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE "ELGRADE !SSEMBLY BUT ALSO THANKS TO THE GREAT ASSISTANCE OF %MBASSIES AND #ULTURAL #ENTRES OF $ENMARK 3WEDEN &RANCE AND THE 5 3

AND THANKS TO THE ORGANISATIONS j0ROMUSICAL LINKSk OF THE 3WEDISH 0ROJECT FOR #ULTURAL %XCHANGE BETWEEN THE 3CANDINAVIAN AND "ALKAN COUNTRIES AND j0ROHELVETIAk !RT #OUNCIL OF 3WITZERLAND FOR %AST m 7EST #ULTURAL %XCHANGE 0ANTIÌ NOTES jIN THE BEST YEARS OF THE &ESTIVAL SOME TEN THOU SAND PEOPLE VISITED 4HIS YEAR WE EXPECT MORE PUBLIC b THE *AZZ &ESTIVAL IS SLOWLY ADVANCING TO THE LEVEL OF ITS GOLDEN AGE WHEN IN THE 3ERBIAN CAPITAL CITY IT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN EVENTS FOR WHICH AN EXTRA TICKET WAS ALWAYS SOUGHT k

CULTURE NEWS #ONFUCIUSi #ENTRE /PENED !T THE BEGINNING OF 3EPTEMBER AT THE &ACULTY OF 0HILOLOGY IN "ELGRADE

#HINESE #ULTURE %DUCATIONAL #ENTRE i#ONFUCIUSi WAS OPENED 4HE #ENTRE WAS FORMALLY OPENED BY -R 4ANG îIASJEN MEMBER OF THE 3TATE #OUNCIL OF #HINA AND DEPUTY 3ERBIAN 0- )VANA $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌ $EAN OF THE &ACULTY OF 0HILOLOGY -R 2ATKO .EpKOVIÌ NOTED THAT THE OPENING OF THE #ENTRE FOLLOWED THE SIGNING OF A #O OPERATION !GREEMENT BETWEEN THE &ACULTY OF 0HILOLOGY AND THE 5NIVERSITY IN .ANCHING SIGNED IN !PRIL THIS YEAR BASED ON WHICH THAT 5NIVERSITY HAS OBLIGED ITSELF TO PROVIDE NECESSARY WORK EQUIPMENT FOR THE FUTURE #ENTRE AND THE &ACULTY OF 0HILOLOGY CONFIRMED THAT IT WOULD PROVIDE OFFICES 4HE NEWLY OPENING #HINESE %DUCATIONAL #ULTURE #ENTRE SHALL BESIDES ORGANIZING LEARNING OF #HINESE LANGUAGE ALSO ORGANIZE DIFFERENT CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS m LECTURES IN #HINESE PHILOSOPHY

RELIGION MYTHOLOGY ARCHITECTURE AS WELL AS COURSES IN #HINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY )NTERNATIONAL "OOK &AIR IN "ELGRADE 4HE )NTERNATIONAL "OOK &AIR TO BE HELD THIS YEAR IN "ELGRADE FROM TH TH /CTOBER IS SET TO GATHER EXHIBITORS FROM THE COUNTRY AND ABROAD

THAT SHALL PRESENT THEIR EDITIONS IN HALLS ) AND 8)6 AT M (ONORARY 'UEST FOR THIS YEARiS ST "OOK &AIR SHALL BE 53!

AND AMONGST THE &AIR PARTICIPANTS ARE THE PUBLISHERS FROM #ANADA 'REECE *APAN &RANCE 'REAT "RITAIN )TALY 3PAIN )SRAEL 0ORTUGAL "RAZIL !NGOLA "ELARUS )RAN AND 3WITZERLAND #OUNTRIES COMING FOR THE FIRST TIME TO THE &AIR ARE )NDONESIA AND 0AKISTAN )N HIS ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 53! VISIT IN THE CAPACITY OF (ONORARY 'UEST OF THIS &AIR -R $ON *OHNSON #ULTURAL !TTACH OF 53! %MBASSY IN "ELGRADE POINTED OUT THAT THE 53! HAVE PREPARED A RICH PROGRAM INCLUDING VISITS OF SEVEN WRITERS 3O THE GUESTS OF THE &AIR SHALL BE #HARLES 3IMIÌ !MERICAN

POET OF 3ERBIAN ORIGIN 'ISH *ANE !MERICAN LADY WRITER OF #ROATIAN ORIGIN AND 3LAVIST %NDRU "AREK 6AHLEK !T THIS YEARiS "OOK &AIR &ORUM OF ,IBRARY /PERATORS AND 0UBLICISTS SHALL BE ORGANIZED AND PUBLIC DEBATES ABOUT THE CULTURAL POLICY OF 3ERBIA REGARDING PUBLISHING UNIQUE PRICE OF A BOOK

DEVELOPMENT OF BOOK STORE SYSTEM IN 3ERBIA AND OTHER TOPICS j3CHOOL $AYk SHALL BE ORGANIZED AGAIN THAT DURING THE LAST YEAR HAS ATTRACTED VISI TORS AND HAS BEEN NOTED AS THE MOST VISITED DAY OF THE MANIFESTATION /N THE LAST DAY OF THIS YEARiS &AIR THE HONORARY GUEST 53!

SHALL SIGN THE /PEN "OOK WITH )TALY (ONORARY 'UEST OF THE NEXT ND "OOK &AIR %UROPEAN (ERITAGE $AYS 4HIS 3EPTEMBER AGAIN IN CITIES OF %UROPE A MANIFESTATION i%UROPEAN (ERITAGE $AYSi INITIATED BY THE #OUNCIL OF %UROPE AND WHICH SINCE PROMOTES %UROPEAN TRADITION AND REMINDS OF ALL CULTURAL HISTORICAL AND NATURAL AMENITIES OF THE /LD #ONTINENT HAS BEEN HELD )N 3ERBIA BESIDES IN "ELGRADE THIS MANIFESTATION HAS BEEN HELD IN SOME MORE TWENTY TOWNS

FROM THE TH TH 3EPTEMBER i%UROPEAN (ERITAGE $AYSi HAVE BEEN OPENED

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BY THE FESTIVE PROGRAM IN 4OPÍIDER 0ARK 4HIS YEARiS TOPIC WAS i7OODi AND IN THE +ONAK +NEZA -ILOpA $UKE -ILOpiS #ASTLE THE VISITORS HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE EXHIBITION i-AINTENANCE AND 0ROCESSING OF 7OODi WHERE THE OLDEST CONSERVED WOODEN ARTEFACTS IN 3ERBIA HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED 4HE VISITORS HAD A CHANCE WITHIN THE FREE PROGRAM TO VISIT A LARGE NUMBER OF MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS AMONGST WHICH THE .ATIONAL !SSEMBLY OF 3ERBIA

/LD AND .EW 2OYAL 0ALACE 2OYAL AND 7HITE #OURT .ATIONAL "ANK OF 3ERBIA &OR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR THE VISITORS COULD VISIT THE i(OME OF *EVREM 'RUJIÌi IN 3VETOGORSKA STREET (OME OF FAMILY 6ELJKOVIÌ IN "IRÍANINOVA STREET

-USEUMS OF *OVAN #VIJIÌ 4OMA 2OSANDIÌ )VO !NDRIÌ +ONAK OF +NEGINJA ,JUBICA $UCHESS ,JUBICAiS #ASTLE )N THE -USIC 3CHOOL i3TANKOVIÌi EXHIBITION HAS BEEN HELD OF OLD ARTISTIC INSTRUMENTS AND A WORKSHOP FOR MANUFACTURING AND RESTAURATION AND VISITS OF PARK i-ANJEÝi "ELGRADE i2ATNO OSTRVOi 7AR )SLAND "OTANICAL 'ARDEN i*EVREMOVACi HAVE ALSO BEEN ORGANIZED )T IS ESTIMATED THAT THE i%UROPEAN (ERITAGE $AYSi IN "ELGRADE HAVE BEEN VISITED BY OVER PEOPLE "%,'2!$% '!,,%29 ). 6%.)#% i0ROJECT "ELGRADEi HAS BEEN OPENED AT 6ENICE !RCHITECTURAL "IENNALE ON THE TH 3EPTEMBER

BY AN EXHIBITION UNDER THE TITLE 4RANSITION ISMi 4HE EXHIBITION IN 6ENICE HAS BEEN OPENED BY -R .ENAD "OGDANOVIÌ "ELGRADE -AYOR AND !RCHITECT !LEKSANDAR *ANKOVIÌ

'ALLERY #USTODIAN "ELGRADE 'ALLERY IN WHICH IN THE EXHIBITION i4RANSITION ISMi THE IDEA OF THE FUTURE DYNAMICAL DEVELOP MENT OF "ELGRADE HAS BEEN PRESENTED SHALL BE OPENED UNTIL .OVEMBER TH AND THERE SHALL BE ORGANIZED DISCUSSIONS SPEAKERiS PLATFORMS WORKSHOPS LECTURES $URING "IENNALE A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS SHALL ALSO BE HELD i"ELGRADE 0ASSING 4HROUGH #HANGESi AND THE FOLLOWING SPEAKERSi PLATFORMS SHALL BE ALSO ORGANIZED i"ELGRADE #ITY OF )NVESTMENTSi TH 3EPTEMBER i"ELGRADE #ITY OF 3ERVICESi TH /CTOBER i"ELGRADE 6ISION FOR THE &UTUREi TH /CTOBER i"ELGRADE #ITY OF +NOWLEDGEi TH .OVEMBER 039#(/!.!,93)3 !3 !. !44)45$% /N THE OCCASION OF YEARS FROM THE BIRTH OF 3IGMUND &REUD FOUNDER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS THE #ULTURE #ENTRE OF "ELGRADE AND "ELGRADE 0SYCHOANALYTIC 3OCIETY HAVE ORGANIZED THE CYCLE OF SPEAKERiS PLATFORMS i0SYCHOANALYSIS AS AN !TTITUDE TO ,IFEi 4HE 0ROGRAM STARTED IN -AY AND THE ORGANIZERiS WISH WAS TO ILLUSTRATE CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSES IN THIS ENVIRONMENT AND IN THE WORLD )N 3EPTEMBER A MOVIE SERIAL HAS BEEN HELD i7ITH &REUD AT .OONi AND IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT THE SERIAL SHALL BE ALSO HELD IN $ECEMBER &OR .OVEMBER AND $ECEMBER LECTURES PERTAINING TO PSYCHOANAL YSIS AND LITERATURE HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT IS PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MUSIC 4HE FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED IN 3EPTEMBER IN THE $VORANA KULTURNOG CENTRA #ULTURE #ENTRE (ALL WERE i&ACE TO &ACEi )NGMAR "ERGMAN

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-USEUM OF 9UGOSLAV &ILM ,IBRARY "RITISH #OUNCIL ")4%& &ESTIVAL AND !RT 5NIVERSITY 4HE "IENNALE GAINED ITS INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER BY INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION /)34!4 WITH ITS ANNUAL CONFERENCE WHERE DOMESTIC EXPERTS

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HE -USEUM OF !FRICAN !RT IN "ELGRADE IS UNIQUE IN THIS PART OF %UROPE IT HAS THE BIGGEST COLLECTION OF OBJECTS FROM THE CONTINENT AND IN CONTRAST TO OTHER MUSEUMS THAT KEEP EXPONENTS FROM !FRICA TOGETHER WITH OTHER COLLEC TIONS IT IS THE ONLY MUSEUM COMPLETELY DEDICATED TO !FRICA 4HE MUSEUM HAS ABOUT AUTHENTIC OBJECTS FROM THE COUNTRIES OF 7ESTERN !FRICA -ALI 3ENEGAL 'UINEA "URKINA &ASO "ENIN 'HANA )VORY #OAST .IGERIA 4OGO #AMEROON

AND #ONGO !MONG THEM ARE NUMEROUS WOODEN MASKS AND SCULPTURES m THE CLASSICAL EXPRESSION OF 7EST !FRICAN ART AS WELL AS VARIOUS WOODEN AND BRONZE CULT MAGIC DECORATIVE AND USABLE OBJECTS 4HE COLLECTION ALSO BOASTS MATERIALS

CERAMICS SOFT STONE FIGURES AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 4HE OBJECTS ARE DIVIDED IN COLLECTIONS ACCORDING TO THE MATERIAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL HERITAGE 4HEY BELONG TO THE ARTISTIC TRADI TIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF "AMAN $OGON +ISI "AGA -ARKA

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IS NOT VERY BIG BUT EXTREMELY INSPIRATIONAL FOR EXHIBITION AUTHORS ESPECIALLY DUE TO ITS UPPER LEVEL COVERED WITH A BIG DOME MADE OF A COMBINATION OF GLASS AND WOOD 4HE -USEUM WAS CREATED IN A SPECIFIC AND RARE WAY ITS COLLECTION IS ALL PART OF A GIFT THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE CITY OF "ELGRADE BY 6EDA AND $R :DRAVKO 0EÍAR IN 4HE COUPLE SPENT MORE THAN YEARS IN !FRICA AND 6EDA :AGORAC 0EÍAR WAS THE !DVISOR FOR #ULTURE OF THE 9UGOSLAVIAN EMBASSY IN 4UNIS WHILST :DRAVKO 0EÍAR FIRST TRAVELLED AROUND !FRICA A FEW TIMES AS A JOURNALIST AND THEN WAS A 9UGOSLAV AMBAS SADOR FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS 4HE 0EÍARS ARE BIG LOVERS OF !FRICA AND BY DONATING THEIR COLLECTION THEY WANTED TO CARRY OVER THAT LOVE TO "ELGRADERS AS WELL AS TO ENABLE THEM TO GET TO KNOW AT LEAST A SMALL PART OF THE RICHNESS OF THE CONTINENT OF !FRICA %XPRESSING HIS OWN FASCINATION WITH !FRICA $R :DRAVKO 0EÍAR WROTE IN THE PREAMBLE OF THE EXTENSIVE MONOGRAPH OF THE -USEUM j.OTHING WAS MORE NATURAL DURING LONG DAYS OF 3UDANESE SAVANNAH LONELINESS THAN FOR US TO BECOME SLAVES OF THE RARELY APPROACHABLE BEAUTIES OF !FRICA &ASCINATED BY THEM

THEIR STRENGTH WE REALISED THAT EVEN THE SMALLEST SCULPTURE OR MASK ARE MONUMENTAL 1UICKLY AFTER JUST THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF OUR STAY AND IN SPITE OF ALL THE DIFFICULTIES WE DECIDED TO COLLECT A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF OBJECTS WHOSE BEAUTY WE WERE GOING TO SHARE WITH OTHERS k

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!FRICAN 'IFT 4HAT GIFT WAS THE 0EÍARiS CONTRIBUTION TO ATTEMPTS TO HELP NON !FRICANS UNDERSTAND !FRICA $R :DRAVKO 0EÍAR QUOTED THE FAMOUS !FRICAN THINKER !LIUN $IOP WHO CRITICISED %UROPEANS THAT THEY BROUGHT TO THEIR CABINETS AND -USEUMS OBJECTS THAT THEY UPROOTED FROM THE LIFE OF !FRICA BUT THAT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THEM j9OU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEM BECAUSE YOU CALL THEM BLACK ART !CCORDING TO WHAT IS THE COLOUR OF EPIDERMIS MEASUREMENT OF ONE ART k ASKED $IOP $R 0EÍAR AGREED WITH HIM (E EXPLAINS THAT jTHESE EXPRESSIONS IN WOOD BRONZE CERAMICS STONE AS WELL AS DRAWINGS ON TEXTILE FOR US PERSISTENT !FRICAN WANDERERS

BEAUTIFUL CLOSE AND UNDERSTANDABLE ALWAYS SEEN EXPE RIENCED AT THE SCENE AS PART OF NATURE AND US OURSELVES (ENCE THE IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE TO TAKE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND IN THAT WAY RETAIN A MOMENT OF LIFE IN WHICH THE NATURE AND WORLD AROUND US WAS EXPERIENCED DIFFERENTLY "URNT WOOD

A STUMP AN ANIMAL LYING IN THIN SHADE OF A SAVANNAH TREE OR BUSH GOING AWAY FROM US IF WE APPROACH IT TOO CLOSELY A NOMAD WITH HIS BENT ASURA ON HIS SHOULDER OR IN HIS HAND A GIRL WITH A KALABAS ON HER HEAD A YOUNG MAN RIDING A BICY CLE A FARMER WITH A SHORT HOE DABO OR A HUNTER WITH FLINT AND A KILLED ANTELOPE ALL OF THAT IS LIFE OF THE !FRICAN SAVANNAH

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ACCORDING TO THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE "AMBAR ANTELOPES TAUGHT THEM ABOUT AGRICULTURE HOW TO CLEAR A FOREST HOLD A TOOL SOW SEEDS AND DANCE IN ORDER TO INCREASE A HARVEST AND MULTIPLY THE TRIBES NUMBER 4HE PURPOSE OF THE MASK IS TO ACT INSIDE THE COMMUNITY

TO ARRANGE IT IT HAD THE FUNCTION OF REPRESENTING LAW )T WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BE KNOWN WHO IS THE MAN WHO WEARS THE MASK BECAUSE HE DID NOT SHOW HIMSELF BUT THE HIGHER BEING WHO WOULD HELP THE PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE WHAT IT NEEDS 4HE MASK RETAINS ITS POWER FOR CENTURIES SO THAT IF IN ANY WAY IT WERE HARMED THE CHIEF OF ELDERS WOULD ASK AN ARTIST TO MAKE ONE THAT IS THE SAME TO REPLACE THE DAMAGED ONE WITH THE NEW ONE 4HE FORMS OF THE MASKS ARE EITHER GEOMETRICAL OR FIGURAL AND IN THE PALETTE THE DOMINANT IS THE BLACK

RED AND WHITE COLOUR &ROM THE EXHIBITED SCULP TURES WHICH ARE LIKE MASKS SYN ONYMOUS TO THE !FRICAN ART IT IS HARD TO CHOOSE A PRETTY ONE FROM THAT WHICH IS LESS PRETTY -AYBE HOWEVER THE CULT FIGURE OF A WOMAN FROM THE "AMBAR TRIBE FROM -ALI MADE OF BLACK WOOD POLISHED TO SHINE WITH A BODY IN WHICH FOUR PERFECT WOMAN FIGURES HAVE BEEN CONNECTED ALL DECO RATED WITH PEARLS AND MANY SHELLS m A SIGN THAT IT WAS USED FOR RITUAL PURPOSES .AMELY THESE DECORA TIONS INCREASE THE VALUE OF THE FIGURE AND IN THAT WAY IT INCREASES CHANCES FOR A GHOST TO COME IN IT AND TO HELP PEOPLE $ESPITE ITS FABULOUS SETTING AND EXQUISITE PIECES THE !FRICAN -USEUM ONLY BECOME POPULAR WITH THE WIDER "ELGRADE BECAUSE OF THE CITYiS j!FRO &ESTIVALk &OR SEVERAL YEARS NOW DURING THE LAST WEEK OF *UNE LECTURES FILM PROJECTIONS ART AND MUSIC PRO GRAMMES ARE ORGANISED AS PART OF THE !FRICAN "AZAAR A SELLING EXHIBITION OF ETHNIC OBJECTS FROM

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TEXTILES APPLIED ARTS AND TRADI TIONAL FOODS !T THIS TIME VISITOR FIGURES ARE EXTREMELY HIGH AT THE MUSEUM AND MANY OF THE VISI TORS ARE ATTRACTED BY THE POSSIBIL ITY THAT THEY CAN GET GOODS FROM !FRICA IN THE CENTRE OF "ELGRADE !FTER THE "AZAAR MANY OF THE FESTIVAL VISITORS BECOME REGULAR PATRONS OF THE -USEUM AND ITS PROGRAMMES -ANY EXHIBITIONS OF THE !FRICAN -USEUM LEFT A VISIBLE TRAIL ON "ELGRADEiS CULT LIFE 2ECENTLY

THE j4RANSITSk EXHIBITION CULMI NATED WITH THE VISIT OF "ARTELEM 4OGO A #AMEROON ARTIST WHO RE EXAMINED THE PREJUDICES ABOUT !FRICA IN THE ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL SENSE )N -ARCH THIS YEAR THE EXHI BITION j!FRICA ART AND SIGNIFI CANCEk WAS HELD !LSO THIS YEAR

DURING "ELGRADEiS j&RANCOPHONE -ONTHk -USEUM EXPONENTS WERE EXHIBITED IN THE WINDOWS OF THE &RENCH #ULTURAL #ENTRE

AND THUS BECAME A PART OF THE AMBIENT OF THE CITY CENTRE -ANY EXHIBITIONS ARE HELD PERIODICALLY AT THE !FRICAN -USEUM 4HEY COVER THE SPECTRUM OF !FRICAN ART AND ONLY IN RECENT YEARS HAVE INCLUDED j%THIOPIA m THE SHINE OF THE KINGSk j!FRICAN -URALSk

j!SHANTIk j"LACK BODY WHITE MASKSk AND MANY MORE .EXT YEAR THE -USEUM OF !FRICAN !RT WILL CELEBRATE THREE YEARS SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED ! NEW SETTING IS EVEN PLANNED

WITH WHICH IT WILL BE ATTEMPTED TO MORE PRECISELY THAN NOW FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF DONATORS 6EDA AND :DRAVKO 0EÍAR j!FRICAN ART CAN BE KNOWN ONLY WHEN THE LIFE OF !FRICAN PEOPLES THEIR HISTORY AND TRADI TIONS IS KNOWN $URING MY OWN STAY IN 7ESTERN !FRICA DURING TWO DECADES AND THROUGH SOCIALISING WITH !FRICAN PEOPLES ) BECAME AWARE HOW MUCH NOT ONLY EFFORT BUT ALSO LOVE IS NEEDED TO UNDER STAND THE MIRACULOUS HAPPENINGS UNDERNEATH THE !FRICAN SKIES !ND ALTHOUGH ) AM AWARE THAT OBJECTS PLACED IN THE CABINETS OF OUR -USEUM CANNOT COMPLETELY BRING ABOUT THEIR MEANING AND BEAUTY BECAUSE THEY RADIATE FULLY ON !FRICAN GROUND ALONE ) AM

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M ,UXURIOUS BUILDINGS MADE OF FIRM MATERIAL WITH PILLARS WERE DECORATED WITH MOSAICS AND FRESCOS "Y THE END OF TH CENTURY -EDIANA HAS BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE AND IT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED DURING THE INVASION OF THE (UNS IN 4HE SETTLEMENT HOWEVER WAS SOON REBUILT m THOUGH WITHOUT ITS PREVIOUS GRANDEUR $URING THE SECOND HALF OF THE TH CENTURY AND THROUGH THE TH CENTURY A LARGER NUMBER OF BUILDINGS WERE ERECTED BUT OF MODEST DIMENSIONS AND CONSTRUCTED OF POOR MATERIAL "Y THE BEGINNING OF THE TH CENTURY DURING PENETRATION OF !VARS AND 3LAVS

-EDIANA FINALLY BECAME DESOLATED 4ODAY REMAINS OF FOUNDATIONS MOSAICS AND SCULPTURES MADE OF MARBLE ARE VISIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS ARE KEPT IN THE .ATIONAL -USEUM IN .Ip AND IN THE -USEUM OF -EDIANA IN "RZI "ROD m A VILLAGE KM SOUTH EAST OF .Ip 53%&5, ).&/2-!4)/.

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NUMBERS LANDSCAPES !RCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS HAVE DISCOVERED A TOTAL OF OBJECTS AT ,EPENSKI VIR )N ORDER TO PREVENT THE ARTEFACTS FROM BEING SUBMERGED BY WATER AS A RESULT OF OPERATIONS AT THE NEARBY HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER PLANT îERDAP ) THE ,EPENSKI 6IR SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO A HIGHER ALTITUDE

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6INÍA WAS FIRST INHABITED DURING THE -ESOLITHIC PERIOD AROUND " # 4HOSE FIRST STONE AGE INHABITANTS LIVED IN SEMI BURIED HUTS THAT LOOKED LIKE TENTS FIRST HORIZON SETTLEMENTS AND THEY PRO DUCED CLAY POTTERY WHICH HAS BEEN JUST SLIGHTLY BAKED STONE TOOLS AND WEAPONS )N THE OTHER EIGHT HORIZONS LARGE HOUSES OF RECTANGULAR SHAPE HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED IN STRAIGHT STREETS MADE OF WOOD AND MUD )N THE BACKGROUND OF THE SETTLEMENTS CONDITIONS WERE EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL FOR CATTLE BREEDING AND AGRICULTURE !T THAT TIME TO " # 6INÍA BECAME A MAJOR ECONOMIC CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS CENTRE THAT DECISIVELY INFLUENCED THE CULTURES OF ALL AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES IN #ENTRAL AND 3OUTHEAST %UROPE !ROUND M DEEP IN THE CULTURAL REMAINS LAYER OF 6INÍA ONE CAN SEE REMNANTS OF HOUSES DESTROYED BY FIRE AND ARTEFACTS REVEALING THAT 6INÍA LOST ITS IMPORTANCE AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF COPPER 4HERE REMAINED A SMALL SETTLEMENT IN 6INÍA THOUGH RIGHT UP UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED HISTORY AND BEYOND )N THAT AREA TRACES OF AN OLD 3ERBIAN CEM ETERY DATING FROM THE TH TO TH CENTURIES HAS BEEN DISCOVERED &ROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS CHARACTERISTIC FINDINGS ARE TOOLS AND WEAPONS MADE OF STONE HORN AND BONE KITCHEN UTENSILS LUXURIOUS VASES JEWELLERY MADE OF FOSSIL SHELLS AND A SPECIAL VALUE IS REPRESENTED

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)S THERE ANY TRUTH TO SPECULATION THAT YOU WERE OFFERED THE POST OF -ONTENEGROiS -INISTER OF #ULTURE 4HATiS NOT TRUE THOUGH ) HAVE HEARD THAT STORY MYSELF ) AM -ONTENEGRIN m MY FATHER WAS BORN IN -ONTENEGRO AND ) AM VERY STRONGLY CONNECTED TO -ONTENEGRO BUT ) AM A 3ERBIAN CITIZEN AND AM BUILDING MY FUTURE IN 3ERBIA 9OUR FIRST FEATURE FILM !PSOLUTNIH STO !BSOLUTE (UNDRED m WON A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 7HAT DO YOU THINK THE PUBLIC WILL EXPECT FROM YOUR SECOND FEATURE FILM +LOPKA 4HE 4RAP ) HONESTLY DONiT KNOW ) THINK THAT WITH !BSOLUTE (UNDRED WE BUILT SOME SORT OF PUBLIC PROFILE HERE ! LOT OF PEOPLE SEEMED TO LIKE THAT KIND OF STORY TELLING AND THAT KIND OF STYLE AND ) THINK WE GAINED SOME VERY STRONG PUBLIC SUPPORT BOTH HERE AND ESPECIALLY ABROAD IN &RANCE AND 'ERMANY ) DONiT KNOW WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT OF THIS FILM BUT ) THINK IT IS IN MANY WAYS SUPERIOR TO THE FIRST ONE AS WELL AS BEING A MORE SERI OUS STORY AND AN EVEN MORE DIFFERENT CONCEPT

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PEOPLE IS SOMETHING LIKE AN EVERYDAY INFUSION AND A CHANCE TO EXCHANGE IDEAS WITH SOME FRESH PEOPLE ) THING ITiS VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY STIMULATING FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WORKING AT THE FACULTY ) THINK WE ARE ALL LIKE VAMPIRES WHO NEED FRESH BLOOD AND YOU CAN FIND THAT FRESH BLOOD AT THE FACULTY ) THINK ) LEARN MORE FROM THE STUDENTS THAN THEY DO FROM ME m THOUGH IT IS IN SOME WAY AN EQUAL EXCHANGE OF ENERGIES 7HEN ) STARTED SHOOTING 4HE 4RAP ) TOOK A YEARiS BREAK FROM THE FACULTY OF DRAMATIC ARTS BECAUSE ) COULD NOT DO BOTH THINGS AT THE SAME TIME 9OU DO A LOT OF COMMERCIAL WORK IN -ONTENEGRO (OW DO YOU COMPARE THIS TO YOU WORK HERE IN 3ERBIA PARTICULARLY NOW THAT -ONTENEGRO IS INDEPENDENT ) THINK THERE IS NO REAL CHANGE AS A RESULT OF -ONTENEGRO BECOMING INDEPENDENT &OR ME m AS A 3ERBIAN CITIZEN WHO IS -ONTENEGRIN m ) SIMPLY NOW HAVE TWO COUNTRIES MY HEART IS BOTH HERE IN 3ERBIA AND IN -ONTENEGRO AS IT WAS BEFORE ) SEE NOTHING DRAMATIC IN THE CHANGE &ROM A PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE WORK IN -ONTENEGRO IS VERY SIMILAR TO WORK IN 3ERBIA THE DIFFERENCE IS SIMPLY THAT 3ERBIA IS ONE BIG MARKET )N 3ERBIA YOU HAVE A LOT OF FILMMAKERS YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF COMMERCIAL FILM INDUSTRY AND THATiS THE DIFFERENT "UT AS ) SAID FOR ME -ONTENEGRIN INDEPENDENCE IS NOT A PROBLEM AND MY HEART IS ON BOTH SIDES AS IT ALWAYS WAS 7HAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN THE 3ERBIAN AND -ONTENEGRIN FILM INDUSTRIES ) DONiT LIKE THIS WORD hINDUSTRYi ) DONiT BELIEVE WE CAN MAKE AN INDUSTRY OUT OF FILM IN 3ERBIA BECAUSE ) LIKE TO TALK ABOUT FILM LIKE ART LIKE A CULTURAL PROFESSION AND NOT AN INDUSTRY ) THINK THAT IN A SMALL COUNTRY LIKE 3ERBIA YOU CANiT TALK ABOUT INDUSTRY BECAUSE YOU CANiT MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO BE ON ZERO POINTS AFTER MAKING A MOVIE 4HIS MEANS ITiS NOT AN INDUSTRY BUT RATHER AN ART FORM WITH A LIFE STYLE 0ERHAPS IT WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE FUTURE TO TALK ABOUT A FILM INDUSTRY IN 3ERBIA WHEN WE BUILD SOME FACILITIES AND SOME STUDIOS

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Motorola SLVR

www.motorola.com/uk Cynical hacks that we are,and as little as we can stomach rock plonker Bono, we’ve found it difficult not to become tearyeyed at the kindness of the mega-corps involved in the Product RED initiative.It’s a Bono-instigated attempt to eliminate AIDS in Africa-all we need do is buy special-edition items and we inadvertently contribute to the Global Fund to fight the disease.Motorola, for example,delved into its deep pockets,took out a paintbrush and inked several of its Slvr mobiles a glossy red.Each time someone purchases a red Slvr, £10 goes to the charity.Better still,your chosen mobile operator contributes 5 percent of all future mobile bills generated by the Slvr towards the Global Fund.During a year,an average user will contribute enough to buy 180 treatments capable of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Motorola and,begrudgingly,Bono: we salute you.l Ÿ

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Saab Aero-X

url: www.saab.co.yu Saab seems to be nostalgic for its original plane-making days:the stunning Aero-X is littered with plane-isms, such as the turbine alloys and a lifting cockpit that also allows for uninterrupted 180° vision.In line with emerging automobile technologies, this concept has a 9 %LR3RZHU HQJLQH UXQQLQJ RQ SHUFHQW ELRHWKDQRO DQG all-wheel drive. And in a tribute to stolid Scandinavians, the $HUR ; KDV D FRPSXWHU VLPXODWHG RI VHFV DQG ¾D top speed limited to 155 mph’. Safety first-even in the virtual world. As hot as a gas-turbine hairdryer.l Price: tba

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Intempo Digital KTM

With its hippyish, retro-chic, Matthew Williamson-designed cladding, this radio must belong to a person who glories in standing out from the crowd and has a passion for fashion.

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LAVICA "ERESFORD HAS RETURNED TO "ELGRADE AFTER HER HUSBAND !NDREWiS FUNERAL IN %NGLAND AND HAVING SPOKEN WITH A FEMALE STUDENT HE HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY FOND OF SHE DECIDES TO INVESTIGATE ANOTHER ASPECT OF !NDREWiS LIFE

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IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT THE FILM ITSELF WAS OF ONLY SECONDARY INTER EST TO THE MAJORITY OF THE AUDIENCE WHICH HAD NOW INCREASED TO AROUND TWENTY FIVE 4HE MAN THREE SEATS FROM ME WAS LOOKING AT ME MORE THAN AT THE SCREEN AND AT THE END OF THE ROW A MAN WAS HOLDING A LIGHTED CIGARETTE IN HIS RIGHT HAND AND FROM THE REGULAR AND SPEEDY UP AND DOWN MOVEMENT OF THE RED GLOW IT WAS CLEAR WHAT THE RIGHT HAND WAS DOING 4HE CREAKING OF THE WOODEN SEATS BEHIND ME WAS ENOUGH TO CONFIRM WHAT !NDREW HAD TOLD ME ABOUT THE BACK ROW 4HE FILM WAS WORSE THAN ANY ) HAD SEEN ON TELEVISION 4HE hISLANDi WAS ON A LAKE AND THE hTREASUREi CONSISTED OF CERTAIN PARTS OF THE BODY OF A NUMBER OF RELATIVELY ATTRACTIVE AND OVERZEALOUSLY WILLING YOUNG LADIES 4HE PLOT m SURPRISE SURPRISE m CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF SCENES OF HASTY UNDRESSING FOLLOWED BY SOME BLOWJOB FOREPLAY FOLLOWED BY SEX m VAGINAL AND ANAL m IN A NUMBER OF FAIRLY PREDICTABLE POSITIONS FOLLOWED BY EJACULATION ONTO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE ANATOMY 4HERE WAS A PASSABLE LESBIAN SCENE AND ONE OF THE MALE CHARACTERS WAS A MIDDLE AGED VOYEUR WHO THROUGH OUT THE FILM HAD A BOTTLE OF WHISKY IN ONE HAND AND HIS PRICK IN THE OTHER 4HE BEST PART OF THE FILM WAS WHEN AFTER EJACULATING

HE POURED THE REMAINS OF THE WHISKY BOTTLE OVER HIS PRICK "UT ) WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY PERSON IN THE AUDITORIUM WHO AT THE END OF THE FILM COULD HAVE GIVEN SUCH A DETAILED R SUM 4HE MAN THREE SEATS AWAY FROM ME WAS VERY SOON ONLY ONE SEAT AWAY AND OPENLY MASTURBATING (E SEEMED VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT ) SEEMED TO HAVE NO INTENTION OF JOINING HIM !S FAR AS ) COULD MAKE OUT MOST OF THE MEN IN THE BACK ROW WERE MASTURBATING

EITHER SOLO OR MUTUALLY 3EVERAL MORE OF THE MEN SITTING IN THE ROWS IN FRONT MOVED TOWARDS THE BACK DURING THE PERFORMANCE

SOME OF THEM NOT EVEN ADJUSTING THEIR DRESS BEFORE THEY DID SO )T WAS CONSIDERABLY MORE ACTIVE THAN !NDREW HAD LED ME TO BELIEVE 7HEN ) SUDDENLY FOUND MYSELF HEMMED IN BY TWO MEN WITH THROBBING PRICKS ALTHOUGH ) MUST CONFESS ) WAS QUITE AROUSED MYSELF ) DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO GO BEFORE IT WAS DISCOV ERED THAT ) WAS A SPY ,EAVING MEANT DISTURBING TWO WANKERS ON THE WAY TO THE AISLE BUT ) FELT ) HAD NO OPTION !S ) PASSED ONE OF THEM ) PAUSED BRIEFLY AND IN A MOMENT OF IMPULSE PUT MY HAND ON HIS PRICK .O ) MUST BE HONEST ) BRIEFLY HELD HIS PRICK AND HASTILY RUBBED IT UP AND DOWN A COUPLE OF TIMES (IS HAND WENT STRAIGHT FOR MY CRUTCH AND ) BOLTED PUSHING PAST A PAIR OF YOUNG MEN MASTURBATING EACH OTHER JUST INSIDE THE ENTRANCE "UT ) HAD DONE IT !T LEAST NO ONE COULD BRAND ME AS A COWARD %VEN SO ) REMEMBER BEING CONSCIOUS OF A FEELING OF GUILT ENGULFING ME AS ) LEFT THE CINEMA AS IF WHAT ) HAD DONE HAD BEEN CHEAP BENEATH ME 0ERHAPS THAT WAS HOW !NDREW USED TO FEEL (E ONCE TOLD ME HE HAD NEVER BEEN ABLE TO TOTALLY FREE HIMSELF FROM THE FEELING OF SELF REPROACH HE HAD ALWAYS EXPERIENCED IMMEDIATELY AFTER MASTURBATING "UT BY THE TIME ) GOT HOME THE FEELING HAD TOTALLY DISAPPEARED -Y ONE AND ONLY VISIT TO A PORNOGRAPHIC CINEMA WAS AN EXPERIENCE ) SHALL NEVER FORGET

AND ) DISAGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH /SCAR 7ILDE WHO HELD THAT EXPERIENCE IS SIMPLY THE NAME WE GIVE TO OUR MISTAKES ) HAVE NO REGRETS AT ALL ) THINK ) UNDERSTAND !NDREW A LITTLE BETTER AND FEEL CLOSER TO HIM THAN EVER TO BE CONTINUED

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ITS -ON #HERI ALTERNATIVELY -R (YDE .ORMALLY WITH MY APPALLING SENSE OF DIRECTION ) WOULDNiT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT THE NAME OF A RESTAURANT FAR LESS ITS ADDRESS BUT -ON #HERI HAD LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION FROM A PREVIOUS VISIT AN INGRATIATING WAITER

EXORBITANT PRICES AND POOR QUALITY FARE ) AM RELIEVED TO SAY THIS VISIT SHOWED OFF THE MORE PLEASING TRAITS OF THIS $R *EKYLL EATERY 4HE RESTAURANT SITS ON THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN 3TRAHINJICA "ANA AND $OBRAÍINA )T USUALLY HAS A DESPONDENTLY DESERTED STREET SIDE TER RACE WHILE ITS NEIGHBOURS SEEM TO THRIVE IN THE GLORIES OF "ELGRADEiS SUNSHINE ) AM UNSURE HOW LONG -ON #HERI HAS BEEN THERE BUT ) AM COMING TO THE CONCLUSION IT MUST BE FINANCED FROM DUBIOUS SOURCES OR BE ON THE VERGE OF HITTING THE WALL )N RELATIVE TERMS IT IS A VAST PIECE OF REAL ESTATE THAT HAS BEEN VIOLATED BY AN INTERIOR DECORATOR WHO MUST HAVE EITHER BEEN RELATED TO THE OWNER OR SEEKING REVENGE FOR A SERIOUS VENDETTA THE COLOURS ON THE INTERNAL DEMI TERRACE ARE PEACH MELBA AND THE MAIN RESTAU RANT DEEP RASPBERRY 4HE FRONTAGE SHOWS OFF A LESS OFFENSIVE BROWN AND CREAM D COR SO ) CAN ONLY ASSUME IT IS THE GAUDY NEON SIGN THAT PUTS OFF INNOCENT CUSTOMERS FROM ENTERING /R MAYBE FOOTFALL DOESNiT EQUATE TO CUSTOM WHEN CONFRONTED BY FRUIT SORBET COLOURINGS -Y COMPANION DESCRIBED THE ATMOSPHERE AS THAT OF A HOTELiS RESTAURANT APPARENTLY PLAYING )TALIAN MUSIC IN A &RENCH RESTAURANT AN UNPER CEIVABLE IRRELEVANCE TO MY TONE DEAF EARS 7E WERE WELCOMED BY GENUINELY CHARMING YOUNG STAFF BUT CYNICAL ME NOTED THAT THEY HAD HAD PRIOR WARNING OF OUR VISIT OR PERHAPS THE DIFFERENCES WERE AUTHENTIC -R 3MARMY WAITER HAD BEEN GIVEN THE HOOF 4HE FOOD WAS INCOMPARABLE SUGGESTING A VISIT FROM 'ORDON 2AMSEY 4HE D COR REMAINED THE SAME BUT ) SUPPOSE IT WAS ASKING TOO MUCH TO HAVE EXPECTED AN ALTERATION TO THE ICE CREAM COLOURED INTERIOR &EELING LIKE WE HAD A PART IN *AMES AND THE 'IANT 0EACH WE SAT ON THE DEMI TERRACE WHERE WE WERE JOINED BY A DELEGATION OF #HINESE WHO SEEMED TO BE ENJOYING THEMSELVES !GAIN CYNICALLY ) REMEM BERED AS A STUDENT BEING GIVEN A FREE MEAL TO FILL A RESTAURANT WHEN THEY HAD BEEN TIPPED OFF A REVIEWER WAS VISITING ) ALSO THOUGHT WE WERE SHARING THE TERRACE WITH ANOTHER COUPLE BUT DISCOVERED THEY WERE THE PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR THIS ARTICLE "EING NOSEY AND A BIT OF A SWINE ON THE WAY TO THE LOO ) THOUGHT ) WOULD MAKE A DIVERSION TO THE KITCHEN SO ) COULD DECIDE WHETHER IT WAS TOO GREAT A RISK TO EAT FISH OR MAYBE EVEN TO EAT AT ALL -Y 3TEVEN 3EGALL STYLE hBURST INTO THE GALLEY i ) AM DELIGHTED TO SAY WAS MET BY CHEFS MAKING HOME MADE DISHES IN A VERY CLEAN ENVIRONMENT WITH NOT A MICROWAVE IN SIGHT ) WAS IMPRESSED BY THE TASTY LOOKING DISHES

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WITH EXCELLENT BAKED POTATOES 4HE STEAK WAS AS GOOD AS IT COULD BE WHEN IT COMES FROM A COUNTRY THAT ONLY BREEDS DAIRY AND NOT BEEF CATTLE )T FAR OUT RATED THE OVERDONE STEAK ) ATE ON MY PRIOR VISIT WHICH WAS LIKE WORN OUT SHOE LEATHER #REDIT IS DUE THOUGH BECAUSE DESPITE VERBALLY STATING THEY COULD NOT MEET MY #ELTIC REQUIREMENT FOR MEAT VEG AND TWO TYPES OF POTATO ) THEN RECEIVED MY CARBOHYDRATE OVERLOAD EVEN IF THE CHIPS WERENiT HOMEMADE 4HIS DID AT LEAST FILL THE DECENT SIZED PLATE

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AVING A 3ERBIAN NAME THE READER IS PROBABLY EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM SOMEONE BROUGHT UP IN 3ERBIA OR AT LEAST IN THE 3ERBIAN WAY "UT DESPITE THE FACT THAT MY FATHER WAS BORN IN "ELGRADE ) WAS BORN AND RAISED IN %NGLAND !S A RESULT 3ERBIA

THROUGHOUT MY CHILDHOOD AND EARLY ADULTHOOD HELD NO PARTICULAR ATTRACTION BEYOND VISITING MY EXTENDED FAMILY ) DID VISIT POST 4ITOiS 9UGOSLAVIA DURING INTERESTING TIMES WHICH INCLUDED MASSIVE INFLA TION BUT ) WAS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF HOLDING A BN $INAR NOTE AND SENDING CASH FROM %NGLAND IN AN ENVELOPE TO MY 3ERBIAN FAMILY DURING THE iS AND iS (OWEVER IN SPITE OF MY EXCITING CHILDHOOD TRIPS TO VISITS COUS INS THERE WAS NEVER ENOUGH TIME TO SPEND PROLONGED PERIODS LIVING AND ABSORBING 3ERBIAN CULTURE FIRST HAND -Y ONLY ACCESS TO IT WAS THROUGH MY FATHER IN %NGLAND )T WAS THIS LACK OF BOTH EXPERIENCE OF THE "ALKANS AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE THAT WERE THE MAIN DRIV ERS IN ME DECIDING TO TAKE A CAREER BREAK AND LIVE IN "ELGRADE FOR SIX MONTHS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COUNTRY FIRST HAND 7HEN ) ARRIVED IN "ELGRADE ) TOOK LANGUAGE LESSONS AND AS WAS WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT WORKED AS A VOLUNTEER 7ANTING TO SPEAK 3ERBIAN AND FINDING A SUITABLE JOB WERE DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE IN THE BEGINNING &OR THE FIRST FEW MONTHS ) WAS VOLUNTEERING IN ORDER TO FAMILIARISE MYSELF WITH THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND WITH JOB OPENINGS OF WHICH THERE WERE FEW 0EOPLE WERE NATURALLY VERY KIND WELCOMING AND RELAXED "ALKAN QUALITIES CLOSE TO MY HEART (OWEVER MY EXPERI ENCE OF THE h"ALKAN EASY GOING STYLEi WAS NOT ALWAYS WHAT ) EXPECTED 7HEN ) ONCE VISITED THE hDOM ZDRAVLJEi AND WAS ASKED TO REMOVE SOME CLOTHING FOR AN EXAMINATION ) GLANCED OUT OF THE CLEAR WINDOW PANE AND FOUND MYSELF MEETING PEDESTRIANS EYE TO EYE AS THEY PASSED THE CLINIC ) ASKED THE NURSE IF SHE THOUGHT WE WOULD EMBARRASS THE POOR PASSERS BY BUT SHE DIDNiT SEE IT AS UNUSUAL /N ANOTHER OCCASION ) WAS TRAVELLING BACK FROM -ONTENEGRO BY PLANE SITTING IN THE JUMP SEAT BETWEEN THE PILOT AND CO PILOT AS IT WAS THE hONLY SEAT AVAILABLEi )T WAS AN EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE WITH THE CO PILOT EXPLAINING WEATHER PATTERNS AND INFLUENCES ON THE AIRCRAFTiS STABILITY CAUSED BY RECENT FLOODING IN BETWEEN COMMUNICATING WITH THE FLIGHT TOWERS !S WE WERE COMING IN TO LAND THERE WAS HEAVY FOG AND THE CAPTAIN TURNED TO ASK ME IF ) COULD SEE THE RUNWAY AS THEY WERE HAVING TROUBLE LOCATING IT m OF COURSE ) TOOK HIM SERIOUSLY LOOKING LEFT AND RIGHT THROUGH THE FOG (E SAID IT WAS hBIG WITH LOTS OF LIGHTSi -INUTES LATER WE CAME THROUGH THE FOG AND LANDED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THEY BOTH STARTED LAUGHING AND THEN EXPLAINED THE AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE SYSTEM 6ERY AMUSING (AVING INTENDED TO STAY ONLY SIX MONTHS ) WAS ALMOST AT THE END OF MY TIME IN "ELGRADE AND HAD NOT FOUND ANY SUITABLE WORK "UT ) WAS ENJOYING "ELGRADE ENORMOUSLY ) COULD SEE NEW OPPORTUNITIES OPENING UP ALL THE TIME AND DIDNiT FEEL IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE ) WOULD MEET PEOPLE WHO WOULD KINDLY OFFER WORK AT THEIR FRIENDiS COMPANY m OF COURSE hPREKO VEZEi IS THE ONLY ROUTE IN 3ERBIA AS EVERYONE WILL CONFIRM 3OON ) WAS OFFERED A POSITION WITH AN !MERICAN .'/ AND WAS FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE STRONG GUIDANCE FROM A PROFESSIONAL AND SUPPORTIVE CHIEF OF PARTY ) HAD INTENDED TO GET EXPERIENCE IN

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THIS PROVED INVALUABLE )N A FLASH THE CONTRACT WAS NEARING ITS END ) HAD BEEN IN "ELGRADE FOR ALMOST MONTHS AND IT STILL WASNiT ENOUGH 4HANKFULLY ) RECEIVED AN EXTEN SION AND REMAIN IN "ELGRADE "ECAUSE "ELGRADE IS SO BEAUTIFULLY SMALL AND MANAGEABLE IT IS AN EASIER CITY TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH THAN ,ONDON WHERE ) SPENT EIGHT YEARS PRIOR TO COMING HERE )N THIS NEW ADVENTURE ) COULD EXPLORE ALL OVER AGAIN NEW BARS CLUBS CULTURE ACTIVITIES AND RIGHT FROM THE GET GO TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE ! YEAR AND A HALF AFTER ARRIVING ) AM STILL IN 3ERBIA )T IS A COUNTRY THAT HAS OPENED SOME ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES AND MY STAY HAS ENA BLED ME TO GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE "ALKAN TEMPERAMENT 4HIS HAS BEEN HELPED IN PART

BY MY FATHER ) CAN NOW UNDERSTAND

i êi ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ês ±ê êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­êp ê ê ê êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ TRAITS IN HIM THAT ARE DISTINCTLY 3ERBIAN ALTHOUGH LIKE A TYPICAL HEAD STRONG MALE 3ERB HEiLL NEVER ADMIT TO THEM ) HAVE RECEIVED SOME VALUABLE EXPERIENCE IN A TRANSITION ECONOMY AND IN THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF ) HAVE SEEN HUGE CHANGES IN "ELGRADE IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT INWARD INVESTMENT AVAILABILITY OF CON SUMER PRODUCTS AND NOW LOW COST AIRLINES ) THINK WE ARE REACHING THE MOST EXCITING PERIOD YET 3OME FRIENDS HAVENiT NOTICED CHANGES

BUT ) AM CERTAIN THAT A WHOLE RAFT OF THE POPULATION WILL JUST REALISE hOVERNIGHTi THE CHANGES AND BECOME ENTHUSIASTIC FOR CHANGE ) HOPE THEY WILL ALTHOUGH ) REMAIN SOMEWHAT CONCERNED AND NOSTALGIC AS 3ERBIA TRANSITIONS TO A MARKET ECONOMY AND THE ROMANTIC COMMUNIST INFLUENCES WILL BE EVER MORE DIFFICULT TO FEEL .ATURALLY BEING HERE HAS CREATED A GREATER INTEREST IN "ALKAN POLI TICS AND HISTORY FOR ME ) HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO MEET SOME PEO PLE OF INCREDIBLE RESOLVE AND CHARACTER HERE PEOPLE WHO IN WESTERN COUNTRIES WITH NORMAL OPPORTUNITIES WOULD BE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL

BUT WHO STRUGGLE TO MAKE A LIVING IN 3ERBIA ) HAVE WANTED FROM THE BEGINNING TO HELP SUPPORT COMPANIES EXPAND INTERNATIONALISE AND TAKE ON NEW EMPLOYEES BY WAY OF HELPING PEOPLE IN 3ERBIA REALISE CAREER GOALS 3INCE ) HAVE BEEN HERE THERE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN OPPORTUNITIES AND ) AM GRATEFUL TO HELP SUPPORT THIS AIM 3OON IT WILL BE TIME TO RETURN TO THE 5+ ALTHOUGH ) PLAN TO REGU LARLY VISIT "ELGRADE "ELGRADE HAS ADDED A NEW DIMENSION TO MY LIFE AND ACQUAINTED ME WITH SOME GREAT FAMILY MEMBERS ) NEVER KNEW ) HAD AND SUPER FRIENDS