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HE FIRST THREAT IS +OpTUNICAiS iTHREATi OF THE 2ADICALS HIS ELECTION OF 4OMISLAV .IKOLIÌ AS 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT 3PEAKER INDI CATED THAT HE CAN CO OPERATE WITH THE 2ADICALS m SOMETHING HE MADE NO MENTION OF DURING THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN EVEN THOUGH THE 0RIME -INISTERiS SOLDIERS FROM THE POPULIST BLOC WERE MAKING EFFORTS TO WHIS PER CONFIDENTIALLY TO EVERY JOURNAL IST THEY MET THAT j6OJA HAS ALREADY MADE A DEAL WITH THE 2ADICALSk 4HE SECOND iTHREATi WAS ACTU ALLY .IKOLIÌiS THREAT m FACILITATED $RAGAN "UJOpEVIÐ BY +OpTUNICAiS THREAT m THAT AS %DITOR IN #HIEF OF 0ARLIAMENTARY 3PEAKER HE COULD MAGAZINE .). INTRODUCE A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND

THUS PREVENT 0RESIDENT "ORIS 4ADIÌ FROM SCHEDULING REPEATED ELECTIONS 4HESE TWO THREATS PROVED MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR 4ADIÌiS $EMOCRATS TO BE GRIPPED BY A PARALYSING FEAR )N MY ARTICLE ADDRESSING THE OUTCOME OF *ANUARYiS ELECTIONS #OR$ CITED THE SHORT RESPONSE OF ONE OF "ORIS 4ADIÌiS MOST INFLUENTIAL ASSO CIATES TO THE QUESTION OF WHAT THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY $3 WOULD DO IF +OpTUNICA FORMED A 'OVERNMENT WITH THE 2ADICALS 4HE ANSWER WAS

jWE WILL EMIGRATEk 4HE FEAR OF A 'OVERNMENT COMPRISING THE 2ADICALS AND $33 WAS THE MOST DOMINATE DIRECTOR OF $3 POLICY m PERHAPS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ADVICE AND jTHE ADVICEk THEY WERE OFFERED BY "RUSSELS AND 7ASHINGTON 4HIS FEAR WAS ENOUGH TO PROMPT THE CAPITULATION OF 4ADIÌiS DEMOCRATS TO +OpTUNICAiS DEMOCRATS $3 TRIED TO JUSTIFY THIS WITH THEIR CONCERN THAT 3ERBIA TURNING TO THE RIGHT %UROPEAN WAY "UT THE $EMOCRATSi VOTERS ARE AS LIKELY TO BELIEVE THIS AS THEY ARE TO BELIEVE +OpTUNICAiS ASSURANCES THAT THE DEMOCRATIC BLOC PARTIES GAVE UP THEIR INTERESTS FOR THE SAKE OF THE CITIZENS THE NATION AND THE STATE )N TRADING WITH +OpTUNICA 4ADIÌ GAVE AWAY EVERYTHING AND GAINED m WELL NOTHING &IRSTLY HE GAVE UP THE POSITION OF PRIME MINISTER WHICH

ACCORDING TO THE ELECTORAL RESULTS UNDOUBTEDLY BELONGED TO $3 4HEN HE GAVE +OpTUNICA THE POSITION OF INTERIOR MINISTER WITH $RAGAN *OÍIÌ IN THE ROLE OF THE OLD NEW MINISTER &OR THE TIME BEING AND NOBODY KNOWS HOW LONG THAT hTIME BEINGi WILL LAST THE HEAD OF THE SECRET POLICE 2ADE "ULATOVIÌ WILL ALSO REMAIN IN HIS POSITION *OÍIÌ AND "ULATOVIÌ CAN BOTH BE CONSIDERED AS THE INDIRECT CULPRITS FOR THE DELAY OF 3ERBIAiS TRIP TO %UROPE

BUT $3 HAVE SEEMINGLY FORGIVEN THEM )N RETURN FOR ALL THIS 4ADIÌ RECEIVED THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT OF THE .ATIONAL 3ECURITY #OUNCIL 4HE #OUNCIL IS STILL NOT DEFINED THUS THE COM PETENCES OF ITS PRESIDENT ARE NOT KNOWN AND SINCE THOSE COMPETENCES WILL BE ESTABLISHED AFTER THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN 4ADIÌ AND +OpTUNICA AND ON THE BASIS OF PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IT COULD BE ASSUMED THAT THE 0RESIDENT WILL NOT HAVE HIS HANDS TOO FULL 4ADIÌiS $EMOCRATS EXPOSED THEMSELVES TO THE COMPLETELY UNNECES

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SARY HUMILIATION OF VOTING FOR $EJAN -IHAJLOV TO REMAIN THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE 'OVERNMENT 4HIS IS A MAN WHO DURING THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN ACCUSED THE $3 LEADERSHIP THEREFORE 4ADIÌ TOO OF KNOWING WHO ORDERED AND ORGANISED THE MURDER OF :ORAN îINðIÌ AND WHO REALLY KILLED HIM THEREFORE NOT THOSE RECENTLY CONVICTED

BY THE 3PECIAL #OURT 4ADIÌ WHO -IHAJLOV ESSENTIALLY ACCUSED OF BEING AN ACCOMPLICE IN THE MURDER SHOWED THE KIND OF GENEROSITY THAT WILL ONLY BE SEEN AS WEAKNESS +OpTUNICA IN CONTRAST HAS CONTINUED TO SHOW WHO WILL BE THE BOSS IN THE HOUSE !S SOON AS 4ADIÌiS PEOPLE APPOINTED THEIR MAN TO THE POSI TION OF CHIEF OF THE 'OVERNMENT "UREAU FOR 0UBLIC 2ELATIONS +OpTUNICA DECLARED THE PREVIOUS CHIEF WOULD BE HIS ADVISOR 4HERE IS NO DOUBT THAT 3RðAN îURIÌ WILL REMAIN IN CHARGE OF +OpTUNICAiS 02 CONTACTS AND THAT THE NEW CHIEF -IHAJLOVIÌ WILL BE AVOIDED BY THE 0RIME -INISTER AND -INISTERS FROM $33 +OpTUNICAiS TENDENCY TO RELY ON HIS OWN PARALLEL STRUCTURES m FORMAL AND INFORMAL m WILL SOON BE FELT BY NEW &OREIGN -INISTER 6UK *EREMIÌ )NDEED

r O Ø ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ êÀê ê ê êÀê ê ê ê ê ê ê m ê t ê } ê q 9­ê p ±ê ê ê ê ±ê p ê } : 9ê Àê z ê h ê ê ê|­z­êÀê ê ê ê ê ê ê êr O ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ®êz êt O 9Ø ê ê ­ HIS OWN PARTY COLLEAGUE )VAN 6UJAÍIÌ m 3ERBIAN !MBASSADOR TO THE 5 3 m WILL BE ABLE TO TELL HIM HOW +OpTUNICA HAS BYPASSED HIM AND LED HIS POLICY THROUGH HIS OWN MAN OF TRUST 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÌiS FORMER DIPLOMAT 7ITH THE SELECTION OF ITS OWN MINISTERS $3 HAS SHOWN THAT ITS TEAM IN THE #ABINET WILL NOT BE UNITED -ORE PRECISELY SOME OF THE RICHEST 3ERBIAN TYCOONS MANAGED TO INSERT PEOPLE WHO WILL BE MORE LOYAL TO THEM THAN TO 4ADIÌ +OpTUNICAiS POWER WILL BE INCREASED BY THE FACT THAT HE NOW PRACTICALLY CONTROLS TWO THIRDS OF THE MAJORITY IN THE 0ARLIAMENT /NE THIRD IS THE SO CALLED DEMOCRATIC BLOC AND THE SECOND IS THE 2ADICALS 4HE FORMER GOVERNMENT SURVIVED BECAUSE AMONG OTHER THINGS THE 2ADICALS SUPPORTED EVERY THEFT OF DEPUTY MANDATES WHICH SUITED +OpTUNICA 4HERE IS NO REASON FOR THEM NOT TO ASK FOR SUPPORT IN THE FUTURE AGAIN 3IMILARLY ANALYSTS WHO HAVE SAID A POSSIBLE $33 323 GOVERNMENT IS jPOSSIBLE BUT UNLIKELYk WILL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT +OpTUNICA WOULD WORK WITH 6OJISLAV fEpELJiS PARTY IF THE 0- FELT HIS REMAINING IN POWER DEPENDED ON IT !S SUCH THE POLICY OF THIS 'OVERNMENT WILL BE THE POLICY OF 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA !ND BECAUSE OF THAT THIS 'OVERNMENT WILL LAST AS LONG AS +OpTUNICA WANTS IT TO 4HE $EMOCRATS WILL SUFFER HUMILIATION OUT OF THEIR FEAR OF A COALITION BETWEEN THE TWO 6OJISLAVS (AD $3 NOT HARBOURED SUCH FEARS HAD THEY LEFT +OpTUNICA IN THE 2ADICALSi ARMS 3ERBIA WOULD HAVE OBTAINED A 'OVERNMENT WHICH WOULD HAVE FALLEN AFTER SIX MONTHS ONE YEAR AT THE MOST !ND THEN $33 AND THE 2ADICALS WOULD HAVE FADED AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL SCENE IN 3ERBIA 4HAT CHANCE WAS MISSED

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T SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING IN 3ERBIA GROUND TO A HALT AFTER THE ELEC TIONS IN *ANUARY 3PEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW FOR THE 'UIDE TO THE 3ERBIAN BANKING 3ECTOR 6ESNA -UKAETOVA !CTING $IRECTOR 3ERBIA %"2$ CLAIMED THAT CERTAIN INVESTORS HAD WITHDRAWN AFTER WAITING FOR THE FORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT &OR FOREIGN INVESTORS

ACCORDING TO -UKAETOVA THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT FORMED BETWEEN *ANUARY AND THE BEGINNING OF -AY SIMPLY WASNiT A jNORMAL SITUATIONk 4HE BIGGEST COLLAPSES m AND NOT JUST ON THE STOCK MARKET m WERE MARKED AFTER THE TH -AY ELECTION OF 3ERBIAN 2ADICAL 0ARTY 323 NUMBER TWO 4OMISLAV .IKOLIÌ TO THE POST OF 3PEAKER OF THE 0ARLIAMENT OF 3ERBIA 4HE FIRST TO REACT TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF .IKOLIÌiS ELECTION WAS THE %UROPEAN #OMMISSION WHO CANCELLED THE PLANNED TRIP OF %5 REP RESENTATIVES TO "ELGRADE TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT ON THE VISA EXEMPTIONS

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4HE NEXT MOVE WAS MADE BY THE #OUNCIL OF %UROPE WHO FOR THE SAME REASON CANCELLED THE FLAG RAISING CEREMONY SCHEDULED TO MARK THE COMMENCEMENT OF 3ERBIAiS PRESIDENCY OF THE #OMMITTEE OF -INISTERS OF THE #OUNCIL OF %UROPE ON TH -AY $ANIEL 3ERVER DIRECTOR OF THE "ALKAN )NITIATIVE IN THE !MERICAN 0EACE )NSTITUTE STATED AT THAT MOMENT THAT THE ELECTION OF 4OMISLAV .IKOLIÌ jREPRESENTS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY IN 3ERBIA %LECTING HIM DOES NOT SURPRISE ME BUT ) AM AFRAID THAT IT MIGHT HAVE CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES FOR 3ERBIA k !ND REALLY ECONOMIC EXPERTS EVALUATED THAT THE ELECTION OF .IKOLIÌ BY 0- 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICAiS $33 -0S AND 303 MEMBERS

ENDED UP COSTING THE 3ERBIAN ECONOMY HALF A BILLION EUROS IN JUST ONE DAY )NDEED THE TH -AY SAW THE BIGGEST FALL OF SHARE PRICES EVER RECORDED IN "ELGRADE THE "ELEX )NDEX SUFFERED ITS GREATEST ONE DAY FALL SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED WHEN IT FELL BY ò !CCORDING TO THE BROKERS THE STOCK MARKET AND SHARE TRADING IS EXTREMELY FRAGILE AND SENSITIVE TO ALL THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGES IN THE COUNTRY

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3TABLE SHOP 4HE PLUMMETING TRADING TREND CONTINUED THE NEXT DAY WITH THE UNFAVOURABLE POLITICAL MOVEMENTS SPEEDING UP THE jCORRECTIONk OF MARKET PRICES ON THE "ELGRADE STOCK EXCHANGE 4HE -AJORITY OF MOST LIQUID ASSETS NOTED A SIGNIFICANT FALL WHILE SOME STOCKS COULD NOT MAKE A MENTIONABLE TRAFFIC EVEN WITH THE CURRENT PRICES 4HE MOST ALARMING THING AT THAT MOMENT WAS THE FALL OF BANK SHARE PRICES

WHICH HAD BEEN RISING CONSTANTLY AND STEADILY UNTIL THAT VERY DAY 4HE RECORD FALL OF THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK %XCHANGE CAME ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE h.IKOLIÌi CRISIS m TH -AY m WHEN THE "%,%8 RECORDED A FALL OF ò /N THAT DAY THE SHARE PRICES OF COMPANIES DECREASED WITH ONLY RECORDING RISES -OREOVER THE PARTICIPATION OF FOREIGN INVESTORS FELL FROM TO PER CENT %VEN THE MOST LIQUID STOCKS IN THE BANK SECTOR HAD A FALLING TREND 4HE REAL SECTOR SUFFERED EVEN GREATER LOSSES &ROM TH !PRIL TO RD -AY THE INDEX ROSE BY AROUND PER CENT BUT FROM TH TO TH -AY IT RECORDED A CUMULATIVE FALL OF ò 3TOCK MARKET OFFICIALS AND BROKERS ATTEMPTED TO LESSEN THE BLOW j4HE POLITICAL SITUATION ITSELF WOULD NOT PROVOKE SUCH A DRASTIC FALL OF STOCK PRICES IF THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK -ARKET HAD NOT HAD A BIG RISE SHORTLY BEFORE k SAID !# "ROKERAGEiS BROKER .ENAD 'UJANIÍIÌ !CCORDING TO 'UJANIÍIÌ MAJOR FOREIGN INVESTORS WERE ABSTAINING AND IF THEY HAD STARTED TO SELL THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK -ARKET INDEX COULD HAVE FALLEN BY PER CENT A DAY !T THE SAME TIME THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK -ARKET ISSUED A STATEMENT IN WHICH THEY jPOINT OUT TO INVESTORS AND THE WHOLE PUBLIC THE NEED FOR CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF COMMENTS ESPE CIALLY BECAUSE OF THEIR INFLUENCE ON INVESTING DECISIONSk (OWEVER

THEY ALSO ADMITTED THAT ON TH -AY THE DAILY FALL OF THE "%,%8 AND "%,%8LINE STOCK PRICE INDEX WAS jSIGNIFICANTk !T THE SAME TIME THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK %XCHANGE ANNOUNCED THAT THE CHANGES OF THE INDEX VALUE AND THE STOCK PRICES SO CALLED jMARKET CORRECTIONSk ARE THE MOST COMMON THINGS ON THE MARKET "ELEX OFFICIALS ALSO UNDERLINED THAT IT HAS BEEN PROVEN ON THE 3ERBIAN MARKET IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT THE MENTIONED MARKET CORRECTIONS START WITH THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND QUARTER OF A YEAR &URTHERMORE THEY CLAIMED jMOVE MENTS ON CAPITAL MARKETS ARE BEING STRENGTHENED AND SPED UP BY THE EVENTS ON THE MACROECONOMIC AND POLITICAL LEVEL OF THEIR NATIONAL MARKETSk AND THAT jMARKETS REPRESENT THE MOST SENSITIVE INDICATOR OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HAPPENINGS IN THE COUNTRYk 4HE EXCHANGE RATE OF THE DINAR ALSO TOOK A NOSEDIVE AS A RESULT OF .IKOLIÌiS ELECTION /N TH -AY BUREAU DE CHANGE OFFICES IN "ELGRADE WERE OFFERING A %URO FOR DINARS THE NEXT DAY A %URO COST DINARS #URRENCY TRADERS ASSESSED THAT THE INCREASE OF PRICES WAS A NORMAL REACTION TO THE POLITICAL EVENTS 4HE DEMAND FOR THE EURO GREW BY ò AND SO 3ERBIAiS CENTRAL BANK THE .ATIONAL "ANK OF 3ERBIA ."3 WAS FORCED TO REACT ON THE MARKET WITH _ MILLION TO DEFEND THE DINAR .EVERTHELESS THE %URO CONTINUED TO RISE AND THE .ATIONAL "ANK ONCE AGAIN REACTED WITH ANOTHER SUM OF _ MILLION $IANA $RAGUTINOVIÌ ."3 VICE PRESIDENT STATED THAT THE DINARiS FALL WAS A CONSEQUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OR THE UNPLEASANT EXPECTATIONS BY THE FINANCIAL SECTOR ECONOMY AND CITIZENS %CONOMIC ANALYST 3ASA îOKOVIÌ AGREED AND ADDED THAT THE RISE OF THE %URO $INAR EXCHANGE RATE jDOES NOT HAVE AN ACTUAL FOUNDATION AND THAT THE STRONGER FLUCTUATIONS WHICH ARE PRESENT ARE SIMPLY THE CONSEQUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FEVER WHICH WAS PROVOKED BY THE SUD DEN POLITICAL INSTABILITYk (E UNDERLINED THAT A GREATER POLITICAL RISK

COULD HAVE LOGICALLY CAUSED A SUSPICION OF THE INVESTORS AND CAUSED A BIGGER DEMAND FOR FOREIGN CASH 6UK îOKOVIÌ DIRECTOR OF THE #ENTRE FOR (IGHER %CONOMIC 3TUDIES THINKS THAT POLITICAL INSTABILITY CAUSES DISTURBANCES ON THE STOCK MARKET AND CURRENCY EXCHANGE FLUCTUATION ALL OVER THE WORLD j! SECTION OF INVESTORS REACTED TO .IKOLIÌiS ELECTIONS BY SIMPLY hRUN NING INTO EUROi AND THAT IS WHY THE DEMAND FOR FOREIGN CURRENCIES GREW k îOKOVIÌ TOLD MEDIA !SSOCIATES OF THE %CONOMIC )NSTITUTE ALSO WARNED THAT POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN 3ERBIA CAN CAUSE INFLATION /N THE PROMOTION OF THE NEW ISSUE OF THE BULLETIN -ACROECONOMIC !NALYSIS AND 4RENDS AND )NDICATOR OF -ARKET #ONDITIONS THE %CONOMIC )NSTITUTEiS 3TOJAN 3TAMENKOVIÌ SAID THAT THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN 3ERBIA IS NOT GOOD

ALTHOUGH THE STATISTICS ARE NOT ALARMING AT THE MOMENT j)N THE FIRST THREE MONTH PERIOD OF THIS YEAR ECONOMIC GROWTH HAS CONTINUED

INFLATION IS LOWER THAN IT WAS PREDICTED AND EXPORTS ARE HIGHER BUT THE REAL DANGER LIES IN OVERSIZED IMPORT AND THE SALARY RISE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR BECAUSE THEY CAUSE HIGHER PRICES k 3TAMENKOVIÌ SAID !CCORDING TO HIS CALCULATIONS THE FOREIGN TRADE DEFICIT AT THE END OF THIS YEAR WILL BE BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE BILLION EUROS IF THE CURRENT EXPORT IMPORT RATIO IS MAINTAINED ! NEW WAVE OF INFLATION AS THE ASSOCIATES OF THE %CONOMIC )NSTITUTE CLAIM WOULD PUT 3ERBIA m AND PARTICULAR ENTREPRENEURS AND INDEBTED CITIZENS m A FEW YEARS BACK 0OLITICAL INSTABILITY HAS ALSO INFLUENCED FOREIGN DIRECT INVEST MENTS !LEKSANDAR -ILORADOVIÌ FROM THE 3ERBIAN )NVESTMENT AND %XPORT 0ROMOTION !GENCY 3)%0!

STATED THAT POLITICAL PROBLEMS ARE NEGATIVELY AFFECTING INVESTORS !S AN EXAMPLE HE NOTED THAT LAST YEAR THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAILY INQUIRIES WAS AROUND WHILE AT THIS MOMENT THEY HAD ONLY THREE OR FOUR INQUIRIES FOR THE WHOLE DAY j4HE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS PERIOD LACKING FOREIGN INVESTMENTS WILL BE VIS

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w êÆêl IBLE IN AUTUMN AND AT THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR k SAID -ILORADOVIÌ )N HIS OPINION IF THE GOVERNMENT HAD NOT BEEN FORMED AND THE POLITI CAL SITUATION DID NOT STABILISE THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR 3ERBIA WOULD HAVE BEEN CATASTROPHIC -ILORADOVIÌ ALSO NOTED THAT LAST YEAR 3ERBIA HAD A VERY GOOD RHYTHM AND RECEIVED POSITIVE EVALUATIONS FROM SPECIALIST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WORLDWIDE WHOSE ONLY NEGA TIVE REMARK THEY HAD RELATED TO POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE COUNTRY j&OREIGN INVESTMENTS FOR THE YEAR BEHIND US WERE FOUR BILLIONS AND MILLION EUROS (OWEVER THIS YEAR m BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT CRISIS m WE DO NOT EVEN HAVE SERIOUS PLANS THOUGH WEiD BE HAPPY IF WE COULD GAIN A THIRD OF THAT SUM k

4HE FORMING OF GOVERNMENT PROVIDED A POSITIVE SIGN FOR INVES TORS j4HE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IS TO BE FORMED SHOULD INCREASE THE NUMBER OF INTERESTED FOREIGN INVESTORS IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS (OWEVER IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO SAY WHETHER THE PLANNED FOREIGN INVESTMENTS WHICH ON OCCASION HAVE REACHED SEV ERAL BILLION EUROS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE END OF THE YEAR k SAID INCUMBENT 3)%0! DIRECTOR *ASNA -ATIÌ )F THE NEW GOVERNMENT IMMEDIATELY COMES OUT WITH AN EFFICIENT ECONOMIC PLAN AND PROGRAMME -ATIÌ COMMENTS THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR WILL ONLY BE A TEMPORARY STEP BACKWARDS IN TERMS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS -ATIÌ POINTED OUT THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO URGENTLY SET

{ êu 9® ê ê êy ê ê ê{ êu 9±ê êwtê} êr O Ø êkzzêtw ê ê zwzê ±ê ê ê ê êz ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­êp ±ê ê¨ êt ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê êi ®ê êi êp ê¡¥ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ꥭ¢Ü­êh 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 !S -ILORADOVIÌ NOTED THIS SHORT PERIOD IN EARLY -AY ONCE AGAIN PROVIDED PROOF THAT POLITICAL STABILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONDITION FOR POTENTIAL BUSINESS AND THAT INVESTORS DO NOT LIKE CHANGES THAT DRASTICALLY CHANGE THE COURSE OF SOLID REFORMS AND PREDICTABILITY OF POLICY ! DIRECT EXAMPLE OF THE PROFIT LOST A RESULT OF THE FAILURE TO FORM A GOVERNMENT ON TIME OCCURRED IN :RENJANIN WHERE THE (UNGARIAN !MERICAN CONSORTIUM POSTPONED CONSTRUCTION OF ITS BIOETHANOL PLANT WORTH AROUND _ MILLION BY SIX MONTHS #ONSTRUCTION SHOULD HAVE STARTED ON ST -ARCH THIS YEAR SAID :RENJANIN -UNICIPLE 0RESIDENT 'ORAN +NEÝEVIÌ POINTING OUT THAT POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND THE LACK OF A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THAT KIND OF BIOLOGICAL FUEL ARE THE REASONS FOR THE POSTPONING OF OPERATIONS 4HE INVESTOR ACCORDING TO +NEÝEVIÌ DID NOT WANT TO START INVESTING UNTIL HE RESOLVES AT LEAST TWO CONFLICTING ISSUES ;REGARDING RAW MATERIALS AND STANDARDISATION ACCORDING TO %5 RULES= WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA +NEÝEVIÌ SAID THAT UNSTABLE POLITICAL SITUATION WAS A KEY REASON WHY THE BEGINNING OF THE CONSTRUCTION HAS BEEN DELAYED BY HALF A YEAR ADDING THAT FOR POTENTIAL INVESTORS SAFETY IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT

THE PRIORITIES OF THE COUNTRY AND TO ENERGETICALLY FULFIL THE COUNTRYiS INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS IN ORDER TO CONTINUE INTEGRATION INTO THE %UROPEAN 5NION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 3ERBIA IS RECOGNISED BY THE FOREIGN INVESTORS AS A COUNTRY WITH GREAT UNEXPLOITED POTENTIALS IN WHICH THEY SHOULD INVEST NOTED -ATIÌ 4HE REAL CONCLUSION OF HOW IMPORTANT POLITICAL STABILITY IS IF A COUNTRY IS TO ADVANCE ITS ECONOMIC SITUATION WAS PROVIDED BY THE 5 3 #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE IN 3ERBIA !M#HAM !M#HAM WELCOMED THE FORMING OF THE NEW DEMOCRATIC GOVERN MENT IN 3ERBIA AND EXPRESSED HOPE THAT THE NEW ADMINISTRATION WILL BE FULLY OPERATIONAL AT SHORT NOTICE SO THAT IT COULD IMMEDIATELY START SOLVING THE MAIN CHALLENGES IMPERATIVE TO ECONOMIC STABILITY AND THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN THE COUNTRY -EMBERS OF THE CHAMBER EXPRESSED THEIR EXPECTATION THAT NEW GOVERNMENT WILL STICK TO THE COURSE OF MACROECONOMIC STABILITY AND PROCEED WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ECONOMIC REFORMS 0OLITICAL END ECONOMIC STABILITY PREDICTABILITY OF INVESTING CLIMATE AND THE CONTINUANCE OR REFORM PROCESSES REPRESENT THE MOST IMPORTANT FAC TORS FOR INVESTORS IN 3ERBIA 4HIS ORGANISATION BELIEVES THAT THE BEST LAWS AND THE MOST EFFICIENT REGULATIONS ARE THE RESULT OF OPEN AND

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The Players Vojislav Koštunica, DSS - Prime Minister "ORN IN "ELGRADE +OpTUNICA GRADUATED FROM THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF ,AW IN BEFORE GOING ON TO GAIN HIS ,AW -ASTERS FROM THE SAME FACULTY IN )N THE SAME YEAR HE TOOK UP THE POSITION OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF ,AW

AND IN HE GAINED HIS ,AW $OCTORATE &ROM HE BEGAN WORK WITH THE )NSTITUTE FOR 3OCIAL 3CIENCES AND FROM HE BEGAN WORKING FOR THE )NSTITUTE FOR 0HILOSOPHY AND 3OCIAL 4HEORY AS A HIGHER SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT AND AT ONE POINT DIRECTOR (E HAS PUBLISHED WORKS IN THE DOMAIN OF CONSTI TUTIONAL LAW POLITICAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY +OpTUNICA WAS AMONG THE FOUNDERS OF THE REFORMED $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY $3 IN AND WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY OF 3ERBIA $33 WHOSE PRESIDENT HE HAS BEEN SINCE &ROM TO HE SERVED AS A NATIONAL OPPOSITION REPRESENTATIVE IN THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT !S THE CANDIDATE OF THE $EMOCRATIC /PPOSITION OF 3ERBIA $/3 HE DEFEATED 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÌ AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF TH 3EPTEMBER AND HE HELD THE POST OF 0RESIDENT OF &2 9UGOSLAVIA UNTIL &EBRUARY (E WAS FIRST APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER OF 3ERBIA ON RD -ARCH +OpTUNICA IS MARRIED AND SPEAKS %NGLISH +OpTUNICA SUCCEEDS HIMSELF

Božidar Ðelić, DS - Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Integration "ORN IN "ELGRADE îELIÌ HOLDS A DOUBLE MASTERiS DEGREE IN ECONOMICS GAINED AT THE %COLE DES (AUTES %TUDES EN 3CIENCES 3OCIALES AND IS A -ASTER OF "USINESS !DMINISTRATION (ARVARD "USINESS 3CHOOL (E ALSO SPECIALISED IN MACROECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT (ARVARD S +ENNEDY 3CHOOL OF 'OVERNMENT îELIÌ WHO IS A BANKER BY PROFESSION AND IS CURRENTLY DIRECTOR OF &RENCH BANKING GROUP #REDIT !GRICOLE FOR 3OUTHEAST %UROPE

HAS BEEN AN EXPERT ADVISOR ON PRIVATISATION BANKING REFORM AND MACROECONOMIC REFORM TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 2USSIAN &EDERATION THE PRIME MINISTER OF 2OMANIA AND THE 'OVERNMENT OF 0OLAND îELIÌ SERVED AS "ELGRADEiS MAIN NEGOTIATOR WITH THE )-& 0ARIS #LUB AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND FROM TO HE HELD THE POST OF FINANCE MINISTER IN THE $/3 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA $URING HIS MINISTERIAL MANDATE HE HELD THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNOR FOR 3ERBIA BEFORE THE %UROPEAN "ANK FOR 2ECONSTRUCTION AND $EVELOPMENT AND VICE GOVERNOR OF THE 7ORLD "ANK )N /CTOBER THE 7ORLD %CONOMIC &ORUM OF $AVOS NAMED HIM A 9OUNG 'LOBAL ,EADER FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS îELIÌ WHO HAS TWO DAUGHTERS m -ILENA AND !LMA IS A MEMBER OF THE 0RESIDENTIAL "OARD AND 0OLITICAL #OUNCIL OF THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY $3 (E SPEAKS %NGLISH &RENCH 'ERMAN 2USSIAN AND 0OLISH ÅELIÐ SUCCEEDS )VANA $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌ *UNE TO ST /CTOBER m PRECEDED BY -IROLJUB ,ABUS RESIGNED RD -AY $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌ PLANS TO REMAIN IN POLITICS WITH ' 0LUS BUT ALSO TO RETURN TO HER PROFESSIONAL FIELD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGY

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w ®ê Ø ê ¸ Dejan Mihajlov, DSS - Secretary-General $EJAN -IHAJLOV IS 3ECRETARY 'ENERAL OF THE 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA "ORN IN 0ANÍEVO -IHAJLOV IS A GRADUATE OF THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF ,AW "ETWEEN AND -IHAJLOV WAS PRESIDENT OF THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY OF 3ERBIA S CAUCUS IN THE 3ERBIAN PARLIAMENT (E HAS HELD THE POST OF 3ECRETARY 'ENERAL OF THE 3ERBIAN GOVERNMENT SINCE !S PRESIDENT OF $RAGAN -ARpIÌANIN S CAMPAIGN FOR THE 3ERBIAN PRESIDENCY IN THE ELECTIONS OF HE STATED THAT HIS PARTY KNEW WHO THE REAL KILLERS OF :ORAN îINðIÌ WERE 4HE DAY AFTER THAT STATEMENT HE SAID THAT IT WAS THE JOB OF THE POLICE TO FIND CRIMINALS

AND NOT HIS AND THAT HE WOULD NOT IDENTIFY THE ASSASSINS ! YEAR LATER HE WAS FORCED TO CONFESS THAT HE LIED )N HIS TESTIMONY IN FRONT OF THE 3PECIAL #OURT FOR /RGANISED CRIME HE SAID THAT HIS STATEMENT WAS JUST A WEAPON IN A POLITICAL FIGHT AND THAT HE DIDN T HAVE ANY IDEA WHO KILLED THE 0- (E REFUSED TO SAY WHO ELSE HELPED HIM WRITE THAT PRESS RELEASE SAYING THAT HE D FORGOT /N .OVEMBER

3ERBIAN POLICE ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR -IHAJLOV FOR FAILING TO APPEAR BEFORE THE #OURT IN A CASE PRESENTED AGAINST HIM BUT ONLY AFTER THE COURT HAD SENT TWENTY SIX NOTICES REQUESTING HIS PRESENCE -IHAJLOV SUCCEEDS HIMSELF

Vuk Jeremić, DS - Minister of Foreign Affairs "ORN IN "ELGRADE *EREMIÌ GRADUATED THEORETICAL PHYSICS FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF #AMBRIDGE BEFORE GOING ON TO WORK FOR A NUMBER OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE #ITY OF ,ONDON (E LATER BECAME A -ASTER OF 0UBLIC !DMINISTRATION AT (ARVARD 5NIVERSITYiS +ENNEDY 3CHOOL OF 'OVERNMENT AND WAS A FOUNDER AND THE FINANCIAL MANAGER OF THE /RGANISATION OF 3ERBIAN 3TUDENTS !BROAD /33! m THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OF 3ERBIAN STUDENTS WHICH AT THE TIME HAD SEVERAL THOUSAND MEMBERS &OLLOWING THE TH /CTOBER UPRISING *EREMIÌ WORKED AS AN ADVISOR TO THE -INISTER OF 4ELECOMMUNICATIONS OF THE &2 9UGOSLAVIA AND THEN IN *UNE JOINED THE 3#' -INISTRY OF $EFENCE AS 3PECIAL %NVOY FOR %URO !TLANTIC !FFAIRS &ROM *ULY TO -AY HE SERVED AS 3ENIOR &OREIGN 0OLICY !DVISOR TO 3ERBIAN 0RESIDENT "ORIS 4ADIÌ )N &EBRUARY HE WAS APPOINTED #HAIRMAN OF THE &OREIGN !FFAIRS #OMMITTEE OF THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY AND IN &EBRUARY HE JOINED THE $3 -AIN "OARD *EREMIÌ IS MARRIED AND SPEAKS %NGLISH AND 'ERMAN *EREMIÐ SUCCEEDS 6UK $RApKOVIÌ WHO PLANS TO CONTINUE HIS POLITICAL BATTLE TO CREATE A BETTER 3ERBIA

Dragan Jočić, DSS - Minister of the Interior "ORN IN "ELGRADE *OÍIÌ IS A QUALIFIED LEGAL PRACTITIONER AND HAS WORKED AS A LAWYER (E WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF $33 IN AND IS NOW DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE PARTY $URING TWO MANDATES FROM TO HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT AND A "ELGRADE #ITY #OUNCIL BOARD MEMBER &ROM HE SERVED AS A "ELGRADE #ITY #OUNCIL BOARD MEMBER AND A MEMBER OF THE 0ARLIAMENT OF 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO *OÍIÌ WHO IS MARRIED HAS SERVED AS 3ERBIAN INTERIOR -INISTER SINCE *OÑIÐ SUCCEEDS HIMSELF

Dragan Šutanovac, DS - Minister of Defence "ORN IN "ELGRADE fUTANOVAC GRADUATED FROM THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF -ECHANICAL %NGINEERING #ONTINUING HIS STUDIES BY SPECIALISING IN SECURITY COURSES IN THE FIELD OF LAW ENFORCEMENT fUTANOVAC GAINED A DIPLOMA FOR SECURITY ISSUES AND OVERSIGHT AND IS ALSO A HOLDER OF THE DIPLOMA OF THE -ARSHALL #ENTRE FOR 3ECURITY 3TUDIES IN 'ARMISCH 0ARTENKIRCHEN &ROM !PRIL TO -AY HE SERVED IN THE %UROPEAN 0ARLIAMENT IN 3TRASBOURG AND "RUSSELS AND IN 3EPTEMBER HE WAS APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVISOR AT THE &EDERAL -INISTRY OF THE )NTERIOR WHERE HE BECAME !SSISTANT &EDERAL -INISTER IN (E SECURED PARLIAMENTARY -0 MANDATES FOLLOWING THE AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND FROM TO HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENTiS COMMITTEE FOR DEFENCE AND SECURITY )N LOCAL ELECTIONS IN AND HE WAS VOTED DEPUTY IN THE "ELGRADE #ITY !SSEMBLY fUTANOVAC IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO (E SPEAKS %NGLISH fUTANOVAC SUCCEEDS :ORAN 3TANKOVIÌ WHO INTENDS TO CONTINUE LECTURING ON THE TOPIC OF CRIMINAL MEDICINE

Mlađan Dinkić, G17 Plus - Minister of Economy and Regional Development "ORN IN "ELGRADE $INKIÌ HOLDS A BACHELORiS AND MASTERiS DEGREE IN ECONOMICS FROM THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF %CONOMICS &ROM TO HE WAS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF %CONOMICS WHERE HE WORKED ON THE SUBJECT OF THEORIES AND PLANNING OF COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT (E WAS A FOUNDER OF THE EXPERT h'ROUP OF i IN AND CO ORDINATED ITS ACTIVITIES UNTIL BEFORE GOING ON TO SERVE AS DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE THEN NEWLY FOUNDED ' 0LUS PARTY $INKIÌ BECAME PRESIDENT OF ' 0LUS IN FOLLOWING THE RESIGNATION OF THE PARTYiS THEN LEADER -IROLJUB ,ABUS &ROM TO $INKIÌ HELD THE POST OF GOVERNOR OF 3ERBIAiS CENTRAL BANK THE .ATIONAL "ANK OF 9UGOSLAVIA ;3ERBIA=

AND FROM RD -ARCH HE HELD THE POST OF FINANCE MINISTER IN THE GOVERNMENT OF 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA $INKIÌ VACATED THAT POST IN /CTOBER WHEN HIS PARTY OPTED OUT OF THE GOVERNING COALITION $INKIÌ IS MARRIED AND SPEAKS %NGLISH $INKIÐ SUCCEEDS 0REDRAG "UBALO NEW 4RADE 3ERVICES -INISTER

Dušan Petrović, DS - Minister of Justice "ORN IN fABAC 0ETROVIÌ IS A GRADUATE OF THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF ,AW &ROM TO HE WORKED AS A LAWYER AND FROM TO HE WAS THE -AYOR OF fABAC AND AN -0 IN THE 0ARLIAMENT OF THE THEN &2 9UGOSLAVIA (E HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY $3 SINCE AND HE PROGRESSED FROM THE POSITION OF ITS LOCAL COUNCIL IN fABAC

MEMBER OF THE PARTYiS 0RESIDENCY ONE OF ITS DEPUTY PRESIDENTS SINCE TH &EBRUARY AND DEPUTY PRESIDENT TO PARTY CHAIRMAN "ORIS 4ADIÌ SINCE TH -ARCH &ROM ONWARDS HE HELD THE POST OF CHIEF OF THE $3 DEPUTY GROUP IN THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIEMENT AND WAS ALSO THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE !SSEMBLY 0ETROVIÐ SUCCEEDS :ORAN 3TOJKOVIÌ WHO PLANS TO RETURN TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND OPEN A NEW LEGAL OFFICE

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w ®ê Ø ê ¸ Mirko Cvetković, DS - Minister of Finance "ORN IN :AJEÍAR #VETKOVIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF %CONOMICS WHERE HE ALSO WENT ON TO COMPLETE HIS POST GRAD -! AND 0H$ (E WORKED AT THE -INING )NSTITUTE FOR TEN YEARS BEFORE GOING ON TO WORK AT THE %CONOMICS )NSTITUTE FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS AND COMPLETING A SEVEN YEAR STINT AS A CONSULTANT AT THE ADVISORY AND RESEARCH FIRM #%3 -%#/. &ROM TO HE WAS EMPLOYED AS ADVISOR FOR ECONOMIC ISSUES AT THE -INING )NSTITUTE AND FROM *ANUARY HE WORKED AS $EPUTY %CONOMY AND 0RIVATISATION -INISTER &ROM TO #VETKOVIÌ WAS $IRECTOR OF THE 0RIVATISATION !GENCY AND IN HE BECAME 3PECIAL !DVISOR TO THE #%/ OF )NTERCOM #ONSULTING #%3 -%#/. )N THE S HE WAS EXTERIOR CONSULTANT FOR THE 7ORLD "ANK ON A NUMBER OF PROJECTS IN 0AKISTAN )NDIA AND 4URKEY #VETKOVIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO (E SPEAKS %NGLISH #VETKOVIÐ SUCCEEDS -LAðAN $INKIÌ RESIGNED ON ST /CTOBER NEW ECONOMY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTER

Milan Marković, DS - Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government "ORN IN "ELGRADE -ARKOVIÌ IS A QUALIFIED LAWYER (E WAS PRESIDENT OF THE 0ALILULA MUNICIPALITY FROM TO AND HAS BEEN AN -0 IN THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT SINCE &ROM TO HE SERVED AS DEPUTY SPEAKER IN THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT AND HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE MANAGING BOARDS IN 0+" AND 0RVA 0ETOLETKA COMPANIES (E WAS CITY DEPUTY FROM UNTIL (E TEACHES AT THE "ELGRADE 5NIVERSITY &ACULTY OF 3ECURITY AND IS AN ASSOCIATE IN RESEARCH PROJECTS -ARKOVIÌ SPEAKS %NGLISH -ARKOVIÐ SUCCEEDS :ORAN ,ONÍAR NEW -INISTER OF %DUCATION

Slobodan St. Milosavljević, DS - Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management "ORN IN "ELGRADE -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE "ELGRADE %CONOMICS &ACULTY IN BEFORE GOING ON TO RECEIVE HIS MASTERiS DEGREE AND 0H$ IN MACROECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT ALSO AT THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF %CONOMICS "ETWEEN AND HE SERVED AS 3ERBIAN -INISTER OF 4RADE 4OURISM AND 3ERVICES IN THE $/3 'OVERNMENT AFTER WHICH HE WAS APPOINTED 0RESIDENT OF THE 3ERBIAN #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ IS ALSO 0RESIDENT OF THE .ATIONAL #OMMITTEE OF THE )NTERNATIONAL #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE 6ICE 0RESIDENT OF THE %URO -EDITERRANEAN ASSOCIATION %URO -ED 4$3 MEMBER OF THE !3#!-% %XECUTIVE "OARD AND MEMBER OF THE -ANAGING "OARD OF THE #HAMBER OF )TALIAN 3ERBIAN AND -ONTENEGRIN "USINESSMEN (E HAS PUBLISHED OVER SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH WORKS IN VARIOUS JOURNALS PUBLICATIONS AND MONOGRAPHS OF NATIONAL AND INTER NATIONAL IMPORTANCE -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO (E SPEAKS %NGLISH -ILOSAVLJEVIÐ SUCCEEDS 'ORAN »IVKOV *UNE TO ST /CTOBER m PRECEDED BY )VANA $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌ RESIGNED TH *UNE »IVKOV IS CURRENTLY A CONSULTANT AT THE !GRICULTURE -INISTRY OF 'EORGIA AND A CONSULTANT ON 5.$0 PROJECTS (E ALSO LECTURES ON AGRICULTURE

Aleksandar Popović, DSS - Minister of Energy and Mining "ORN IN "ELGRADE 0OPOVIÌ COMPLETED SENIOR SCHOOL IN -OSCOW BEFORE GOING ON TO STUDY CHEMISTRY IN "ELGRADE (E EARNED HIS MASTERiS AT &LORIDA 3TATE 5NIVERSITY AND IN HE GAINED HIS DOCTORATE AT THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF #HEMISTRY WHERE HE WORKS AS A DEPUTY PROFESSOR DOCENT 0OPOVIÌ IS A DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF $33 AND IN THE LAST GOVERNMENT HE SERVED AS SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTER (E REPRESENTED THE 9UGOSLAV !THLETICS &EDERATION IN NUMEROUS TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS AND IS A TITLEHOLDER AND RECORD HOLDER OF VARIOUS IMPORTANT SPORTING COMPETITIONS 0OPOVIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF ONE (E SPEAKS %NGLISH AND 2USSIAN 0OPOVIÐ SUCCEEDS 2ADOMIR .AUMOV NEW -INISTER OF 2ELIGION

Velimir Ilić, NS (New Serbia) - Minister of Infrastructure "ORN IN ©AÍAK )LIÌ IS A GRADUATE OF THE ©AÍAK 4ECHNOLOGY &ACULTY DEPARTMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS (E EARNED HIS MASTERiS DEGREE IN )LIÌ WORKED FOR SEVERAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES BEFORE TURNING HIS ATTENTIONS TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY FROM ONWARDS )N HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE 3ERBIAN 2ENEWAL -OVEMENT 30/ AND HE SERVED TWO TERMS AS -AYOR OF ©AÍAK FROM )N )LIÌ FORMED THE PARTY .OVA 3RBIJA .EW 3ERBIA OF WHICH HE IS PARTY PRESIDENT (E WAS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL PAR LIAMENT FROM AND IN THE FORMER GOVERNMENT OF 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA HE SERVED AS MINISTER FOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS )LIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF FIVE )LIÐ SUCCEEDS NEW MINISTERIAL POSITION REPLACING )LIÌiS FORMER POST OF -INISTER FOR #APITAL )NVESTMENTS

Snežana Samardžić-Marković, G17 Plus - Minister of Youth and Sports "ORN IN "ELGRADE 3AMARDÝIÌ -ARKOVIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE &ACULTY OF 0HILOLOGY AND IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON HER -! THESIS AT THE &ACULTY OF $RAMATIC !RTS &ROM TO SHE SERVED AS !SSISTANT -INISTER OF $EFENCE AND WAS IN CHARGE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING INTERNATIONAL MILITARY CO OPERATION AND THE 6ERIFICATION #ENTRE AS WELL AS BEING #O 0RESIDENT OF THE 3ERBIA .!4/ $EFENCE 2EFORM 'ROUP &ROM TO SHE WORKED IN THE BILATERAL DEPARTMENT AT THE -INISTRY OF &OREIGN !FFAIRS AS $EPUTY $IRECTOR FOR .EIGHBOURING #OUNTRIES $EPUTY (EAD OF -ISSION AND !DVISOR AT THE 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRIN EMBASSY IN /SLO AND !DVISOR AT THE $IRECTORATE FOR %UROPE 3AMARDÝIÌ -ARKOVIÌ IS A MARRIED MOTHER OF TWO 3HE IS FLUENT IN %NGLISH AND .ORWEGIAN AND HAS A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF 2USSIAN 3AMARD­IÐ -ARKOVIC SUCCEEDS 3LOBODAN 6UKSANOVIÌ FORMER -INISTER OF %DUCATION AND 3PORT

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w ®ê Ø ê ¸ Rasim Ljajić, Sandžak Democratic Party (DS list) - Minister of Labour and Social Policy "ORN IN .OVI 0AZAR ,JAJIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE -EDICAL &ACULTY IN 3ARAJEVO BEFOREMOVING INTO POLITICS IN WHEN HE WAS ELECTED SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE 0ARTY FOR $EMOCRATIC !CTION OF 3ANDÝAK )N HE FORMED THE #OALITION OF 3ANDÝAK m RENAMED AS THE 3ANDÝAK $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY IN ,JAJAIÌ REMAINS PRESIDENT OF THE 3ANDÝAK $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY TO THIS DAY (E WAS APPOINTED MINISTER FOR NATIONAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES OF &2 9UGOSLAVIA FOLLOWING THE TH /CTOBER UPRISING AND IN THE SAME YEAR HE BECAME A VICE PRESIDENT OF THE #O ORDINATION "ODY TASKED WITH OVERCOMING THE CRISIS IN SOUTH 3ERBIA AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE #O ORDINATION #ENTRE FOR +OSOVO AND -ETOHIJA )N HE WAS APPOINTED -INISTER OF (UMAN AND -INORITY 2IGHTS WITHIN THE #OUNCIL OF -INISTERS OF 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO AND IN *ULY HE BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE .ATIONAL #OUNCIL FOR #O OPERATION WITH 4HE (AGUE 4RIBUNAL AND IN *ULY HE WAS APPOINTED #O ORDINATOR OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE !CTION 0LAN FOR )#49 #O OPERATION )N ,JAJIÌ WAS APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE #O ORDINATION "ODY FOR 0REpEVO "UJANOVAC AND -EDVEðA ,JAJIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO AND HAS A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF %NGLISH AND 2USSIAN (E IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN ,JAJIÐ SUCCEEDS 3LOBODAN ,ALOVIÌ WHO WILL REMAIN IN POLITICS AS 0- +OpTUNICAiS LABOUR RELATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT ADVISOR

Saša Dragin, DS - Minister of Environmental Protection "ORN IN 3OMBOR $RAGIN GRADUATED FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF .OVI 3ADiS &ACULTY OF !GRICULTURE IN WHERE HE ALSO EARNED HIS -3C AND DOCTORATE 0H$ (E HAS WORKED IN LABORATORIES FOR DOMESTIC ANIMAL MOLECULAR GENETICS IN )LLINOIS 5 3 AND AT THE !NIMAL 0RODUCTION 2ESEARCH )NSTITUTE IN .ITRA THE 3LOVAK 2EPUBLIC WHERE HE UNDERTOOK THE PRACTICAL WORK FOR HIS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION )N HE BECAME 6OJVODINA 5NDER 3ECRETARY OF !GRICULTURE 7ATER -ANAGEMENT AND &ORESTRY (E IS A FOUNDER OF THE )NTERNATIONAL /RGANISATION OF !GRICULTURE 3TUDENTS AND A FOUNDER AND 0RESIDENT OF THE .OVI 3AD 9OUTH #HAMBER $RAGIN IS MARRIED AND SPEAKS %NGLISH 3LOVAKIAN AND 'ERMAN $RAGIN SUCCEEDS !LEKSANDAR 0OPOVIÌ NEW %NERGY -ININING -INISTER FORMER 3CIENCE AND %NVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MINISTER

Aleksandra Smiljanić - Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society "ORN IN "ELGRADE 3MILJANIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF "ELGRADEiS &ACULTY OF %LECTRICAL %NGINEERING AFTER WHICH SHE RECEIVED HER -! AND 0H$ AT 0RINCETON 5NIVERSITY IN AND RESPECTIVELY 3HE TEACHES AT THE &ACULTY OF %LECTRICAL %NGINEERING IN "ELGRADE AND IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE 0OLYTECHNIC 5NIVERSITY OF .EW 9ORK AND 3TONY "ROOK 5NIVERSITY .9# (ER AREA OF RESEARCH IS THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE INTERNAL CONTROL FOR HIGH CAPACITY PACKET SWITCHES 3HE HAS ALSO WORKED ON THE SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS FOR PACKET SWITCHED RING NETWORKS 3HE HAS AUTHORED NUMEROUS CONFERENCE AND JOURNAL PAPERS IN THE AREA OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SWITCHING AND ROUTING 3HE IS THE HOLDER OF SEVEN 5 3 PATENTS AND HAS TWO PATENTS PENDING 3HE HAS THE EDITOR OF THE /3! *OURNAL ON /PTICAL .ETWORKING SINCE AND OF )%%% #OMMUNICATION ,ETTERS SINCE 3MILJANIÐ SUCCEEDS NEW MINISTERIAL POSITION

Predrag Bubalo, DSS - Minister of Trade and Services "ORN IN 6LADIÍIN (AN "UBALO HOLDS A DOCTORATE IN LAW FROM THE .OVI 3AD &ACULTY OF ,AW )N HE TOOK UP EMPLOYMENT AT THE +IKINDA &OUNDRY WHERE HE SERVED AS COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE REPRESENTA TIVE OFFICE IN "EIJING )N HE WAS APPOINTED GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDRY (E IS DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE 6OJVODINA PROVINCIAL BOARD OF $33 )N THE FORMER GOVERNMENT OF 6OJISLAV +OpTUNICA HE INITIALLY SERVED AS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS MINISTER BEFORE REPLACING $RAGAN -ARpIÌANIN AS ECONOMY MINISTER &OLLOWING THE DEPARTURE OF ' 0LUS FROM THE GOVERNING COALITION IN /CTOBER "UBALO ASSUMED CO ORDINATION RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FORESTRY AND WATER MANAGEMENT "UBALO IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO "UBALO SUCCEEDS "OJAN $IMITRIJEVIÌ WHO INTENDS TO CONTINUE HIS PROFESSORIAL WORK AT THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF %CONOMICS

Ana Pešikan, G17 Plus - Minister of Science "ORN IN &EKETIÌ 0EpIKAN GRADUATED FROM THE &ACULTY OF 0HILOSOPHYiS $EPARTMENT OF 0HYSIOLOGY IN 3HE WENT ON TO RECEIVE HER MASTERiS AND 0H$ S IN AND RESPECTIVELY 3HE HAS PARTICIPATED IN OVER PROJECTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND WAS 5.)#%&iS CONSULTANT FOR EDUCA TION MEMBER OF EXPERT TEAM FOR TEXT BOOKS MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE &UND FOR 9OUNG 4ALENTS 3HE IS A LECTURER OF DOCTORAL STUDIES AT THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF 0HILOSOPHY AND &ACULTY OF #HEMISTRY AND HAS BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF NUMEROUS AWARDS IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY 0EpIKAN SUCCEEDS !LEKSANDAR 0OPOVIÌ NEW %NERGY -ININING -INISTER FORMER 3CIENCE AND %NVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MINISTER

Radomir Naumov, DSS - Minister of Religion "ORN IN ©OKA 6OJVODINA .AUMOV IS A GRADUATE OF THE "ELGRADE %LECTRICAL %NGINEERING &ACULTYiS ENERGY DEPARTMENT )N HE TOOK UP EMPLOYMENT WITH THE .IKOLA 4ESLA %LECTRICAL %NGINEERING )NSTITUTE AND FROM TO HE SERVED AS GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE (E HAS PRESENTED MORE THAN OF HIS EXPERT AND SCIENTIFIC WORKS AT CONFERENCES AND WITHIN BOTH DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN SPECIALIST PUBLICATIONS .AUMOV HAS LECTURED AT THE 4ECHNICAL &ACULTY IN "OR AND HELD THE POSTS OF CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF *AVNO 0REDUZECE %LEKTRO 0RIVREDA 3RBIJE ;0UBLIC #OMPANY %LECTRO %CONOMY OF 3ERBIA= AND *AVNO 0REDUZECE "EOGRADSKE %LEKTRANE ;0UBLIC #OMPANY "ELGRADE %LECTRCI= (E HAS ALSO SERVED AS A $33 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT IN THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT &ROM TO HE HELD THE POST OF 3ERBIAN -INISTER FOR -INING AND %NERGY .AUMOV IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO AND HE SPEAKS 'ERMAN AND %NGLISH .AUMOV SUCCEEDS -ILAN 2ADULOVIÌ WHO IS SET TO TURN HIS ATTENTION TO RESEARCH AND LECTURING

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Vojislav Brajović, DS - Minister of Culture "ORN IN "ELGRADE 6OJISLAV 6OJA "RAJOVIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF $RAMATIC !RTS IN !S ONE OF 3ERBIAiS MOST ESTEEMED AND PROLIFIC ACTORS HE HAS BEEN A RESIDENT MEMBER OF THE 9UGOSLAV $RAMA 4HEATRE SINCE

WHERE HE IS CURRENTLY PLAYING THE LEAD ROLE IN SIX PLAYS (E HAS PERFORMED IN OVER FILMS AND A NUMBER OF 46 SERIES AND DRAMAS "RAJOVIÌ HAS BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF ALMOST ALL RELEVANT DOMESTIC THEATRE AWARDS INCLUDING THREE 3TERIJA AWARDS FOR ACTING AN ANNUAL AWARD OF THE 3ERBIAN .ATIONAL 4HEATRE IN .OVI 3AD AN ANNUAL AWARD OF #.0 FROM 0ODGORICA AND EIGHT ANNUAL AWARDS OF THE 9UGOSLAV $RAMA 4HEATRE IN "ELGRADE AMONGST OTHERS "RAJOVIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF THREE (E SPEAKS %NGLISH "RAJOVIÐ SUCCEEDS $RAGAN +OJADINOVIÌ WHO INTENDS TO TAKE A LONG HOLIDAY BEFORE RETURNING TO TELEVISION MEDIA

Tomica Milosavljević, G17 Plus - Minister of Health "ORN IN +RUpEVAC -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ GRADUATED FROM THE "ELGRADE -EDICAL &ACULTY IN 4HERE HE ALSO EARNED HIS MASTERiS DEGREE AND DOCTORATE &ROM -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ SERVED AS ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE #LINICAL #ENTRE OF 3ERBIA AND DIRECTOR OF THE 'ASTROENTEROLOGY #LINIC (E IS DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF ' 0LUS -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ WAS INITIALLY APPOINTED TO THE POST OF HEALTH MINISTER AS A NON PARTY OFFICIAL DURING THE GOVERNMENT RECONSTRUCTION OF (E TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION IN BUT WAS REAPPOINTED IN THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT OF 6OJSIALV +OpTUNICA (E HELD THE POST OF HEALTH MINISTER UNTIL /CTOBER WHEN HE RESIGNED ALONG WITH HIS ' 0LUS COLLEAGUES -ILOSAVLJEVIÌ IS A MARRIED FATHER OF THREE (E SPEAKS %NGLISH AND 2USSIAN -ILOSAVLJEVIÐ SUCCEEDS HIMSELF

Zoran Lončar, DSS - Minister of Education "ORN IN .OVI 3AD ,ONÍAR IS A DOCTOR OF LEGAL SCIENCE AND A DEPUTY PROFESSOR DOCENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AT THE .OVI 3AD ,AW &ACULTY (E HAS BEEN A $33 PARTY MEMBER AND MEMBER OF THE MAIN BOARD OF $33 SINCE 3INCE ,ONÍAR HAS HELD THE POST OF PRESIDENT OF THE 6OJVODINA PROVINCIAL BOARD OF $33 (E WAS LEGAL ADVISOR TO THE COMMITTEE TASKED WITH CREATING THE #ONSTITUTIONAL #HARTER OF 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO AND IN THE PREVI OUS GOVERNMENT HE HELD THE POST OF MINISTER FOR STATE ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT ,ONÍAR IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO AND HE SPEAKS %NGLISH AND &RENCH ,ONÑAR SUCCEEDS 3LOBODAN 6UKSANOVIÌ FORMER -INISTER OF %DUCATION AND 3PORT

Milica Čubrilo, DS - Diaspora Minister "ORN IN #ARTHAGE 4UNISIA ©UBRILO GRADUATED FROM THE ,AW 3CHOOL OF THE 5NIVERSITY OF 0ARIS )) 0ANTH ON !SSAS IN

AND A YEAR LATER SHE RECEIVED HER MASTERiS DEGREE IN !NTHROPOLOGY AND ,AW AT THE 3ORBONNE )N PRIOR TO TAKING UP HER MINISTERIAL POST ©UBRILO WORKED AS A CO ORDINATOR OF THE WORLD CONGRESS OF THE )NTERNATIONAL 0RESS )NSTITUTE )0) SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN "ELGRADE IN *UNE )N SHE WAS A CONSULTANT FOR THE 53!)$ 2EGIONAL #OMPETITIVENESS )NITIATIVE ON THE STRATEGY AND PROMOTION OF TOURISM IN THE "ALKANS &ROM TO SHE HELD THE POST OF DIRECTOR OF THE 4OURIST /RGANISATION OF 3ERBIA 4/3 &ROM TO SHE WORKED AS A CORRESPONDENT FOR ,E &IGARO ,A #ROIX AND 2ADIO &RANCE )NTERNATIONALE 3HE IS FLUENT IN &RENCH AND %NGLISH AND HAS A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF )TALIAN AND 3PANISH ÁUBRILO SUCCEEDS 6OJISLAV 6UKÍEVIÌ WHO PLANS TO REVIVE HIS LEGAL CAREER

Dragan Ðilas, DS - Minister without Portfolio in charge of co-ordinating the National Investment Plan "ORN IN "ELGRADE îILAS GRADUATED FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF "ELGRADEiS &ACULTY OF -ECHANICAL %NGINEERING BEFORE MOVING INTO MEDIA (E WAS A JOURNALIST OF 2ADIO )NDEX AND WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF 2ADIO " WHERE HE LATER BECAME EDITOR OF INFORMA TIVE PROGRAMMING (E WAS ACTIVE IN OPPOSITION ACTIVITIES AGAINST THE REGIME OF 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÌ AND LED THE STUDENT PROTEST IN AND (E ACTIVELY OPPOSED THE REGIME IN RALLIES îILAS JOINED $3 IN AND ON ST /CTOBER THAT YEAR HE BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE 0EOPLEiS /FFICE OF THE 0RESIDENT OF 3ERBIA (E CO OWNS MEDIA BUSINESS COMPANY AND MEDIA BUYER $IRECT -EDIA IS A FOUNDER AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE .ApA 3RBIJA HUMANI TARIAN ORGANISATION FOR CHILDREN WHO LOST A PARENT S IN THE WARS OF THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA îILAS WHO SPEAKS %NGLISH HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE $3 PRESIDENTIAL BOARD SINCE (E IS A MARRIED FATHER OF TWO ÅILAS SUCCEEDS NEW MINISTERIAL POSITION

Slobodan Samardžić, DSS - Minister for Kosovo-Metohija "ORN IN "ELGRADE 3AMARDÝIÌ GAINED HIS BACHELORiS DEGREE AND DOCTORATE FROM THE "ELGRADE &ACULTY OF 0OLITICAL 3CIENCE

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THE FOREIGN INVESTOR AUTHORS FEEL THAT THE NEW 'OVERNMENTiS CEN TRAL FOCUS SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THE ECONOMY AND THE WELL BEING OF THE NATION 4HAT IMPLIES THE RAPID RESUMPTION OF ECONOMIC REFORMS THE ACCELERATION AND COMPLETION OF THE PRIVATISATION PROCESS AND DEVELOPMENT OF PLANS FOR THE PRIVATISATION RESTRUC TURING FOR MAJOR PUBLIC COMPANIES LIKE .)3 *!4 !IRWAYS AND OTHERS 4HE 'OVERNMENT SHOULD FOCUS ON MAINTAINING MACROECO NOMIC STABILITY EXERCISING PRUDENT PUBLIC SPENDING AND PROMOT ING POLICY THAT WILL ENCOURAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY WHICH WILL PROMOTE GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT STIMULATE RAPID AND STABLE GROWTH AND IMPROVE THE COUNTRYiS CURRENT UNFA VOURABLE COMPETITIVE POSITION ON THE GLOBAL MARKET 4HE &)# CALLS FOR MORE ATTENTION TO BE FOCUSED ON ADOPTING LEGISLATION THAT WILL COMPLETE THE INSTITUTIONAL MATRIX FOR THE MAR KET ECONOMY FOR THE NEW CONSTITUTION TO BE COMPLEMENTED BY APPROPRIATE LAWS AND BY LAWS FORTHWITH -OREOVER THEY SAT THAT

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u ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ê u ±ê ê ê ê ê ê êm ê ê ê ê~ ê ­ê u ±êm 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 ê ê ê ê ê ê êi ­ LANGUAGE WAS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF "ELGIUM !LSO BEFORE THAT IT WAS VERY HARD TO FIND A &RENCH SPEAKING MINISTER THAT COULD ALSO SPEAK GOOD &LEMISH BUT NOW THERE ARE MANY &LEMISH SPEAKING MINISTERS 4HE PEOPLE CONCLUDED THAT IT WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE TO NOT HAVE A 0RIME MINISTER THAT IS BILINGUAL 4HE USE OF THE LANGUAGE IS FREE HOWEVER AND NO ONE CAN OBLIGE ME TO SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE OTHER THAN MY OWN "UT FOR OFFICIAL USE YOU WOULD HAVE TO USE &LEMISH LANGUAGE IN &LANDERS AND &RENCH IN THE &RENCH SPEAKING REGION "UT IN "RUSSELS BOTH LANGUAGES ARE OFFICIAL 4HAT WOULD MEAN THAT IF YOU ARE A &RENCH SPEAKING CITI ZEN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO TO ANY OFFICIAL INSTITUTION IN "RUSSELS AND BE ADDRESSED IN &RENCH !S ) UNDERSTAND IT "RUSSELS HAS A SPECIAL STATUS BETWEEN THE #OMMUNITIES AS THE CAPITAL "RUSSELS IS ACTUALLY MADE OUT OF COMMUNITIES AND IT HAS A SPECIAL STATUTE AS A REGION %VEN THOUGH ITiS A PART OF &LANDERS AND THE 'OVERNMENT WAS ALWAYS THERE YOU STILL HAVE MANY &RENCH SPEAKING PEOPLE THERE !CTUALLY IN THE TH CENTURY IT WAS DESCRIBED AS A &RENCH SPEAKING TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF &LANDERS "RUSSELS IS BILINGUAL AND IT FALLS GEOGRAPHICALLY IN THE &LEMISH COMMUNITY "UT WHEN A DECISION IS MADE IN FOR EXAMPLE A CULTURAL MATTER IT WOULD AFFECT ALSO &RENCH SPEAKING PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH "RUSSELS IS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE &LEMISH COMMUNITY )T LOOKS COMPLICATED BUT IT IS VERY SIMPLE 4HE COMPLEXITY OF THE "ELGIAN STRUCTURE IS THAT IT IS QUITE SIMPLE WITH A LOT OF EXCEP TIONS 4HATiS WHY IT IS SO FLEXIBLE AND WE CAN KEEP THIS BALANCE GOING ON )N THE CONSTITUTION IT IS FORESEEN THAT THE REGIONS AND THE COMMUNITIES CAN DELEGATE PART OF THEIR OWN POWER TO SOME BODY ELSE FOR EXAMPLE THE &RENCH SPEAKING COMMUNITY CAN

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WHERE YOU CAN DECIDE ON SUCH ISSUES BUT THE DECISION WILL BE ON A COMMUNITY LEVEL WITHIN THEIR COMPETENCIES (OW DID THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF "ELGIUM PREVIOUSLY INFLUENCE ITS RELATIONS WITH ITS COLONIES SUCH AS THE #ONGO

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CAN BE BEST DESCRIBED THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF FAMILY THAT IS THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS HAVE BIG FIGHTS WITHIN IT

BUT YOU WILL ALSO MAINTAIN CLOSE TIES REGARDLESS OF THAT 4HERE WERE TIMES WHEN THE RELATIONSHIP WAS QUITE DIS TURBED AND THE CO OPERATION HALTED OR WAS AT A VERY LOW LEVEL "UT LATELY THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING WELL SINCE +ABILA TOOK POWER WE HAVE REALLY TRIED TO HELP THEM TO GET THROUGH THE DEMOCRATISATION PROCESS AS PAINLESS LY AS POSSIBLE 4HIS IS A COUNTRY THAT IS EIGHTY TIMES BIGGER THAN "ELGIUM

ONE OF THE RICHEST COUNTRIES IN NATU RAL WEALTH IN THE WORLD 7E ARE ALSO TRYING TO HELP THEM CREATE A TRANSPAR ENT ECONOMIC STRUCTURE TO HELP THEM TO FIGHT ILLEGAL EXPLOITATION OF THE MINES DIAMONDS AND COPPER

$ESPITE THE FACT THAT 2WANDA AND "URUNDI WERE INHERITED COLO NIES AFTER 77) IN WHAT WAY DID ~ ê ê ê ê "ELGIUM MAINTAIN THE BALANCE i ê ê ê ê|uê BETWEEN THOSE TWO COLONIES AND THE ê ê ê ORIGINAL ONE #ONGO CONSIDERING êy ±ê ê ê ê THAT A LOT OF FIGHTING HAPPENED ALSO ON THE BORDERS OF THOSE COUNTRIES ê ê ê ê ê 7E HAVE HAD VERY BAD EXPERI ê ê ­ê~ ê ê ENCES IN 2WANDA !T THE BEGINNING ê ±ê ê ê ê ê OF THE h S WHEN THE 2WANDAN ê ±ê ês ±ê PRESIDENTiS PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN

THEY ALSO KILLED "ELGIAN SOLDIERS h ê êr m A FACT THAT LIVES ON EVEN NOW WITH THE "ELGIUM PEOPLE 4HATiS WHY WE ARE SO CAREFUL NOW AND WE REALLY CONSIDER VERY CAREFULLY WHAT THE MISSION AND THE MANDATE IS LIKE BEFORE WE SEND OUR SOLDIERS 7E HAD HUNDREDS OF "ELGIAN $ID "ELGIUM PARTICIPATE OR ASSIST IN SOME WAY WHEN THE SOLDIERS IN THE 5. PEACEKEEPING FORCE FRAMEWORK IN 2WANDA

ELECTIONS IN #ONGO TOOK PLACE IN .OVEMBER BECAUSE WE ALWAYS SEND SOLDIERS ONLY ON THOSE SORTS OF MISSIONS &OR A LONG TIME WE HAVE BEEN INSISTING ON HOW IMPORTANT IT 7E ARE NOW PRESENT ALBEIT IN A VERY LIMITED CAPACITY IN ,EBANON

IS TO HAVE A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT AND HOW IMPORTANT !FGHANISTAN AND +OSOVO IT WAS TO HAVE GOOD GOVERNANCE WITH ECONOMICALLY TRANSPAR ENT MANAGEMENT OF THE COUNTRY AS WELL 7E ALWAYS TRIED TO GET 7HEN CONFLICTS HAPPEN AND A LOT OF CIVILIANS DIE AS WAS THROUGH TO THE LEADERS AND THE PEOPLE AND WE HELPED THEM BY THE CASE IN #ONGO AND 2WANDA DOES "ELGIUM TRY TO HELP EVEN REVISING THE CONSTITUTION /F COURSE WE MONITORED THE ELECTIONS MORE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE YOUR COLONIES 4HE SAME DAY THAT THE FIGHTING STARTED IN #ONGO WE SENT IN .OVEMBER AND AFTERWARDS WHEN EVERYTHING WENT BAD /UR MINISTER WENT TO +INSHASA IN !PRIL AND HE HAS CONDEMNED THE DIPLOMATS TO HELP THEM PASS THE RIVER BECAUSE IT WAS A STRATEGI FACT THAT THE OPPOSITION HAS PARAMILITARY FORCES BECAUSE THIS IS CALLY IMPORTANT SECURITY LINE AFTER WHICH THOSE PEOPLE WERE SAFE AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY STANDS FOR /NLY THE 7E HELPED PEOPLE IN THOSE MOMENTS WE PUT MANY 2WANDAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE MILITARY POWER OR POWER TO REINFORCE REFUGEES ON A PLANE TO "ELGIUM DURING THOSE CONFLICTS %VEN IN THE RULE OF LAW AND THIS CANiT HAPPEN IF YOU HAVE PARAMILITARY MY TOWN THERE IS A FAMILY FROM 2WANDA THAT CAME AFTER THOSE FORCES IN ONE STATE "UT AT THE SAME TIME HE CRITICISED THE OVER CONFLICTS HAPPENED ) THINK THAT WE DID WHAT WE COULD AND THAT IS WHY OUR MILITARY PRESENCE IS GOOD THERE BECAUSE WE HAVE PLANES REACTION OF +ABILA AND HIS PEOPLE 7E ALWAYS TRY TO KEEP THE BALANCE AND TO GET THE DIALOGUE AND THAT CAN ALWAYS HELP IN TRANSPORTATION OF PEOPLE WHEN IT IS NECESSARY GOING ON /NE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THIS POLICY IS NOT TO TALK NON SENSE WE SAY WHAT WE MEAN TO THEM AND WE DONiT USE DOUBLE 4HE 2WANDAN 'OVERNMENTiS EFFORTS TO PROCESS WAR CRIMES TALK 4HIS SOMETIMES HAS LED TO ANGRY REACTIONS FROM THE LEADERS

BECAUSE THEY DONiT LIKE WHAT THE "ELGIAN MINISTER HAS SAID "UT CASES HAVE NOT YET BEEN SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE THEY LACK THE AFTERWARDS THEY AGREED THAT WHAT WE SAID WAS TRUE AND THAT THEY MEANS AND THE CADRE TO DO SO (AS "ELGIUM OFFERED ASSIST IN KNOW THAT WE DONiT HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA WHICH IS IMPORTANT IF THIS REGARD TO THE 2WANDAN JUDICIARY #ONSIDERING THAT THE REFUGEES AND VICTIMS WERE IN "ELGIUM

YOU WANT TO WORK TOWARDS THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY THERE HAS BEEN AN EXCHANGE AND AN EFFORT TO TRY TO GET THIS COURT STARTED AND TO GET IT FUNCTIONING 4HE SITUATION IN 2WANDA CANNOT (OW DIFFICULT WAS IT FOR "ELGIUM TO MAINTAIN GOOD RELA GO ON WITHOUT SENTENCING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GUILTY AND PARTICI TIONS WITH #ONGO IN THE TURBULENT TIMES OF THAT COUNTRY 4HE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT MY COUNTRY HAS WITH #ONGO PATED IN THE CONFLICTS

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!LBANIAiS MODERN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION STARTED IN 7HAT ARE THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE REFORM PROCESS OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST YEARS !LBANIA HAS MADE A REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION OVER THE LAST YEARS /NCE ONE OF THE MOST TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES WITH COERCED ATHEISM EXTREME COLLECTIVISM AND FORBIDDEN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP !LBANIA IS TODAY A COUNTRY WITH CONSOLIDATED POLITICAL PLURALISM FREEDOM OF RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE A LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK THAT IS BEING HARMONIZED EVERY DAY WITH THAT OF THE %UROPEAN 5NION A VERY DYNAMIC PRIVATE SECTOR THAT CONTRIBUTES TO MORE THAN PER CENT OF THE DOMESTIC PRODUCT AND A PER CAPITA INCOME THAT HAS GROWN TIMES $URING THESE YEARS !LBANIA HAS BECOME A MEMBER OF THE #3#% /3#% #O% AND 74/ IT HAS ESTABLISHED CLOSED CO OPERATION WITH THE "RETTON 7OODS )NSTITUTIONS AND IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF ALL REGIONAL FORA !LBANIA BECAME A MEMBER OF THE .!4/ 0F0 0ROGRAMME IN AND IS NOW CO OPERATING WITH .!4/ WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE MOST ADVANCED MECHANISM WITH WHICH THE !LLIANCE IS CO OPERATING WITH NON MEMBER COUNTRIES THE -EMBERSHIP !CTION 0LAN !LBANIA STRONGLY BELIEVES IT WILL RECEIVE AN INVITATION FOR .!4/ MEMBERSHIP AT THE .!4/

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UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE %5 IN !FGHANISTAN IN THE .!4/ FRAMEWORK

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4HANKS TO THE ABOVE ACHIEVEMENTS !LBANIA SIGNED THE 3TABILISATION AND !SSOCIATION !GREEMENT WITH THE %UROPEAN 5NION ON TH *UNE !N INTERIM !GREEMENT ENTERED INTO FORCE ON ST $ECEMBER LAST YEAR

WHICH INCLUDES ALL THE TRADE PROVISIONS OF THE 3!! 4HE 3!! IS ALREADY RATIFIED BY THE %UROPEAN 0ARLIAMENT AND A NUMBER OF OTHER %5 MEMBER COUNTRIESi 0ARLIAMENTS 4HIS HAS MAJOR SIGNIFICANCE BECAUSE IT MARKS THE FULFILMENT OF THE !LBANIANSi DREAM OF RETURNING TO AND REUNITING WITH

THEIR %UROPEAN FAMILY !LBANIAiS MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN IMPRESSIVE SINCE 7ITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS !LBANIA DURING THE LAST EIGHT YEARS HAS ENJOYED RAPID GROWTH /VER THE LAST YEARS THE GROWTH HAS BEEN CLOSE TO SIX PER CENT 4HE EVALUATIONS FOR REVEAL ò GROWTH $URING THIS PERIOD !LBANIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH HAS BEEN HIGHER THAN THE GROWTH OF OTHER 3%% COUNTRIES 4HE ECONOMIC GROWTH OVER THIS PERIOD IS ACCOMPANIED AND SUP PORTED BY THE ONGOING CONSOLIDATION OF A MACROECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM AS EVIDENCED IN OVERALL STABLE MONETARY INDICATORS OUR LOW AND STABLE INFLA TION RATES AS WELL IN THE REDUCTION OF THE BUDGET DEFICIT AND PUBLIC DEBT -OREOVER THE INFLATION RATE DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN ANCHORED TO THE TO ò TARGET RANGE

&ROM YOU HEADED UP THE !LBANIAN -&!iS $EPARTMENT OF %URO !TLANTIC )NTEGRATION AND -ULTILATERAL #O OPERATION AND )NTERNATIONAL /RGANISATIONS AS $IRECTOR AND $IRECTOR 'ENERAL "ASED ON YOUR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE WHEN DO YOU PREDICT THAT !LBANIA WILL ACHIEVE FULL %URO !TLANTIC INTEGRATION !S ) HAVE MENTIONED !LBANIA HAS ALREADY SIGNED THE 3!! WITH THE %5 AND IS REVIEWING IN CO OPERATION WITH .!4/ ITS TH CYCLE IN THE FRAME WORK OF THE -EMBERSHIP !CTION 0LAN 4HE 'OVERNMENT IS TAKING ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS TO FULLY ACCOMPLISH ALL THE OBLIGATIONS WE HAVE IN THESE PROCESSES 4HIS IS A TOP PRIORITY FOR ALL THE !LBANIAN POLITICAL FORCES )N MY VIEW ) SEE BOTH PROCESSES NAMELY %5 INTEGRATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE 3TABILIZATION AND !SSOCIATION PROCESS AND .!4/ MEMBERSHIP AS BEING COMPLEMENTARY 4HERE ARE CERTAIN CRITERIA TO BE

ACHIEVED 7E HAVE DRAFTED DETAILED PROGRAMMES DETAILED TIMETABLES AND WE ARE ASSISTED BY BOTH /RGANISATIONS IN ACHIEVING THESE CRITERIA /F COURSE WE WOULD LIKE TO BECOME MEMBERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE "UT ) THINK WE SHOULD NOT SET ARTIFICIAL DEADLINES 4HE MOST IMPORTANT FACT IS THAT WE ARE INVOLVED IN THESE PROCESSES !ND THE CRITERIA AND OBLIGA TIONS WE HAVE TO FULFIL COINCIDES FULLY WITH THE OBJECTIVES AND GOALS OF THE 'OVERNMENT IN IMPROVING THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF !LBANIAN CITIZENS )S !LBANIAN MARKET SUFFICIENTLY DEVELOPED AND STRUCTURED TO ATTRACT FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS AND IF SO WHICH MULTINATIONAL COM PANIES HAVE OPTED TO INVEST IN !LBANIA SO FAR 7ITH ITS DEVELOPING MARKET ECONOMY !LBANIA OFFERS MANY OPPORTUNI TIES FOR INVESTORS PROPERTY AND LABOUR COSTS ARE LOW THE YOUNG AND EDUCATED POPULA TION IS READY TO WORK TARIFFS AND OTHER LEGAL REGISTRATION FEES ARE LOW 3OME OTHER TARIFFS AND PROCEDURES ARE BEING ELIMINATED ALL TOGETHER !LBANIAiS LOCATION OFFERS GREAT TRADE POTENTIAL ESPECIALLY WITH %5 MARKETS ! NUMBER OF COMPANIES HAVE APPROACHED THE !LBANIAN MARKET IN THE LAST YEAR TACKING ADVANTAGE OF THE GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE OF THE LAST YEAR

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COPPER CHROME WATER AND HYDROELECTRIC POTENTIALS 4HE !LBANIAN COAST IS BEAUTI FUL AND YET TO BE FULLY EXPLOITED 4HE MOUNTAINS ARE ALMOST VIRGIN !LBANIA HAS A YOUNG AND EDUCATED POPULATION /N THE OTHER SIDE 0ROTECTION OF 0ROPERTY 2IGHTS ARE GUARANTEED BY LAW THERE ARE EXCELLENT 0RIVATISATION /PPORTUNITIES AND )NVESTMENTS )NCENTIVES 4HE LAW j/N &OREIGN )NVESTMENTSk OFFERS GUARANTEES TO ALL FOREIGNERS WILLING TO INVEST IN BUSINESS IN !LBANIA 3UCH PROVISIONS INCLUDE .O PRIOR GOVERNMENT AUTHORISATION IS NEEDED AND NO SECTOR IS CLOSED TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT THERE IS NO LIMITATION ON THE PERCENTAGE SHARE OF FOREIGN PARTICIPATION IN COMPANIES PER CENT OWNERSHIP IS POSSIBLE FOREIGN INVESTMENT MAY NOT BE EXPROPRIATED OR NATIONALISED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY EXCEPT FOR SPECIAL CASES IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC USE DEFINED BY THE LAW FOREIGN INVESTORS HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPATRIATE ALL FUNDS AND CONTRIBUTION IN ALL KINDS OF INVESTMENTS MOST FAVOURABLE TREATMENT ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS IS ALSO PROVIDED &INALLY NO DISTINCTION IS MADE BETWEEN FOR EIGN AND DOMESTIC INVESTORS AND !LBANIAiS TAX SYSTEM DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST FOREIGN INVESTORS

PROPOSAL AS A VERY GOOD AND COMPREHEN SIVE ONE ADDRESSING IN A VERY BALANCED WAY THE DEMANDS OF THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF +OSOVO ON ONE SIDE AND PRO TECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE 3ERBIAN AND OTHER MINORITIESi RIGHTS ON THE OTHER 4HE COUNTRIES OF THIS REGION HAVE ALL THE SAME DESTINY %UROPEAN 5NION (AVING THIS IN MIND WORKING EVERY DAY TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE WILL RELIEVE ALL OF US OF THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST FROM THE DOUBTS

WOUNDS AND ALL THE PREJUDICES THAT UNFOR TUNATELY STILL EXIST

,ARGE ETHNIC !LBANIAN MINORI TIES ARE RESIDENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE REGION MOST NOTABLY 'REECE

-ACEDONIA AND -ONTENEGRO DOES THE 'OVERNMENT OF !LBANIA ALSO SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF THESE MINORITY POPULATIONS TO SELF DETERMINATIONS 4HERE ARE !LBANIAN MINORITIES LIVING IN THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES "UT WE DO h â ê ê ê NOT DRAW PARALLELS BETWEEN +OSOVO AND ê ê ê ê ê ê THE SITUATION IN OTHER COUNTRIES )T DOES NOT l ê ê ê ê ê MAKE SENSE 4HERE IS NOT A SINGLE RELEVANT FACTOR IN THE !LBANIAN POLITICS CLAIMING ê ê ê ê ê ê THE SAME SOLUTIONS ê ðê ê ê ê ê 7E SEE THE NATIONAL MINORITIES AS ê ê ê ê ê BRIDGES SERVING TO STRENGTHEN OUR BILAT ê ê ê ê ­ê ERAL RELATIONS 4HEY ARE ADDED VALUES FOR THE COUNTRIES THEY LIVE IN 7E SUPPORT THE { ê ê ê ê ê IMPLEMENTATION OF THE %UROPEAN STAND ê ê ꡧê ARDS REGARDING THEIR RIGHTS AS NATIONAL ê ê Ãê MINORITIES 7E STRONGLY SUPPORT THE FULL ê ê ê ê ê IMPLEMENTATION OF THE /HRID !GREEMENT

WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE ê ê ­ !LBANIAN POPULATION IN -ACEDONIA 4HERE ARE ALSO ETHNIC !LBANIANS LIVING HERE IN 3ERBIA IN THE 0REpEVO VALLEY 4HE MESSAGE WE HAVE SENT TO THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS IS THAT THEY SHOULD WORK FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR (OW IMPORTANT ARE RELATIONS WITH 3ERBIA TO !LBANIA !LBANIA ATTACHES GREAT IMPORTANCE TO RELATIONS WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS RIGHTS AS A NATIONAL MINORITY AND SHOULD RAISE THEIR CONCERNS WITHIN THE AND 3ERBIA IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT NEIGHBOUR 4HERE IS GREAT INTEREST IN BOTH INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA 7E STRONGLY ENCOUR COUNTRIES IN FURTHER IMPROVING OUR BILATERAL RELATIONS IN EVERY FIELD /N AGED THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 3ERBIAN ELECTIONS OF ST *ANUARY AND WILL THE OTHER HAND GOOD NEIGHBOURLY RELATIONS ARE PRECONDITIONS TO THE INTE DO THE SAME IN THE FUTURE GRATION OF OUR REGION INTO THE %URO !TLANTIC STRUCTURES !ND HERE WE HAVE AGAIN COMMON INTEREST AND COMMON GOALS )S !LBANIA ACTIVELY SEEKING TO CREATE A jGREATERk OR SO CALLED jNATU RALk !LBANIAN STATE 4HE GOOD RELATIONS AMONG OUR COUNTRIES AND NATIONS ARE VERY IMPOR TANT FOR THE STABILITY AND SECURITY IN THE REGION ) THINK THAT GRADUALLY AND ) WILL BE STRAIGHTFORWARD .OT AT ALL ,ET ME REPEAT ONCE AGAIN !LBANIA CONSTANTLY IMPROVED RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES IN THE LAST YEARS HAS PLAYED AND IS PLAYING A VERY CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN THE REGION IS CON HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR REGION DUCTING A POLICY OF MODERATION 4HIS POLICY OF MODERATION HAS BEEN RECOG !LBANIA IS FULLY COMMITTED IN FURTHER STRENGTHENING OUR RELATIONS NISED AND MUCH APPRECIATED ALWAYS BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 9OU IN THE FUTURE -Y 'OVERNMENT IS READY TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE NEW WILL FIND THIS APPRECIATION IN ALL THE REPORTS OF THE %UROPEAN #OMMISSION 3ERBIAN 'OVERNMENT IN SUCH A DIRECTION 7E WILL DO OUR UTMOST TO ENSURE ON !LBANIAiS PROGRESS ! DEMONSTRATION OF THE WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION OF THAT THE FUTURE EXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS DO NOT HAVE ANY NEGATIVE IMPACT ITS STABILISING ROLE IN THE REGION IS THE UPCOMING VISIT TO 4IRANA ON TH ON OUR RELATIONS *UNE OF THE 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES 'EORGE 7 "USH

4HE 2EPUBLIC OF !LBANIA CONSIDERS +OSOVO AS A FUTURE NEIGHBOUR !RE THE MAJORITY POPULATION OF +OSOVO AND THE PEOPLE OF 2EPUBLIC ING COUNTRY 4HERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HIDDEN IN ITS AGENDA !LBANIAiS OF !LBANIA ONE AND THE SAME NATION AND IF SO WHAT ARE THE MERITS OF AGENDA !LBANIAiS GOAL AS ALL OTHER 7ESTERN "ALKAN COUNTRIES 3ERBIA HAVING TWO NEIGHBOURING STATES REPRESENTING THE SAME NATION INCLUDED IS THE INTEGRATION INTO THE %UROPEAN 5NION AND MEMBERSHIP TO !LBANIANS IN THE REGION CONSTITUTE THE SAME NATION WITH DIFFERENT HIS .!4/ )N OUR JOURNEY TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THESE )NSTITUTIONS WE HAVE TORIES OF DEVELOPMENTS MAINLY DURING THE TH CENTURY 4HE SAME APPLIES CERTAIN CRITERIA TO FULFIL AND WE ARE TOTALLY DEVOTED TO THEM .OT ONLY THE 'OVERNMENT BUT THERE IS NOT A SINGLE POLITICAL PARTY IN FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE 2EPUBLIC OF !LBANIA AND THE !LBANIANS OF +OSOVO 7E STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT BOTH THE #ONTACT 'ROUP GUIDING PRINCIPLES !LBANIA WHO HAVE A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE AND DIFFERENT POLITICAL PROGRAMME VIS VIS THE BORDERS AND -ARTTI !HTISAARIiS PROPOSAL FOR THE SUPERVISED VIS VIS THE STRATEGIC GOALS OF THE COUNTRY 9OU ARE KINDLY INVITED TO VISIT INDEPENDENCE OF +OSOVO ARE THE BEST APPROACHES SERVING THE STABILITY !LBANIA TO TALK TO !LBANIANS OF EVERY AGE PROFESSION OR POLITICAL CONVIC AND FUTURE PROSPERITY OF THE ENTIRE REGION TION AND YOU WILL REALISE THAT 'REAT !LBANIA IS ONLY A RHETORIC USED BY !S MOST OF THE )NTERNATIONAL !CTORS !LBANIA HAS CONSIDERED !HTISAARIiS CERTAIN CIRCLES AT CERTAIN MOMENTS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS

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THOUGH ) DO STILL BELIEVE THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK ) RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS DIRECTLY FROM "USH OVER THE PHONE "UT THEREiS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP PEOPLE FROM THINKING THAT 4HE IMPORTANT THING FOR " IS THAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED STRENGTH AND STABILITY FOR YEARS 7E ACHIEVED OUR STABILITY BECAUSE WE HAVE BUILT OUR INDEPENDENCE IN RELATION TO EVERYTHING NOT ONLY IN RELATION TO THE REGIME BUT ALSO IN RELATION TO DONORS $ID THE DONORS TRY TO INTERFERE WITH YOUR OPERATIONS 7HENEVER WE HAD A DONOR CONFERENCE WE WOULD SAY TO THE POTEN TIAL DONORS j/KAY THESE ARE OUR PROJECTS AND OUR CONDITION IS THAT IF YOU DONATE TO US THEN YOU GIVE US COMPLETE AUTONOMY IN DECIDING HOW WE WILL USE THOSE FUNDS k 4HE DONORS ALL ACCEPTED THAT SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY SUPPORTED OUR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME 4HIS INDEPENDENCE BROUGHT US MUCH UNPLEASANTNESS BUT ALSO A LOT OF CREDIBILITY

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4HE LAST TIME YOU SPOKE TO #OR$ MAGAZINE #OR$ /CTOBER YOU HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO THREATS AGAINST YOUR LIFE "UT THIS WAS BY NO MEANS THE FIRST TIME YOU HAD BEEN THE VICTIM OF SUCH ATTACKS (OW HAVE YOU COPED WITH THESE THREATS OVER THE YEARS AND HAVE THEY EVER EFFECTED YOUR PROFESSIONAL DECISIONS 4HREATS HAVE NEVER INFLUENCED OUR DECISIONS 7E WERE PERMA NENTLY UNDER THREAT AT ONE POINT AND IF WE ALLOWED IT TO INFLUENCE US ONCE THEN WE WOULD EVENTUALLY REACH THE POINT WHERE WE WOULDNiT DARE COVER ANYTHING PROVOCATIVE OR CONTROVERSIAL !S A RECENT EXAMPLE NOT LONG AGO WE BROADCAST FOOTAGE OF THE MAN NOW CONVICTED OF THE MURDER OF :ORAN îINðIÌ WHO ALL BUT ADMITTED A MURDER ON &RUpKA 'ORA ON SCREEN ! FEW DAYS PRIOR TO THE AIRING WE WERE WARNED BY THE AUTHORITIES AND THE #ITY NOT TO BROADCAST IT THAT IT COULD PROVE DANGEROUS "UT WE AIRED IT ANYWAY BECAUSE IT IS OUR JOB TO ENSURE THAT THE PUBLIC SEE AND KNOW WHATiS GOING ON /NE OF OUR PROBLEMS IS THAT WE ARE A RARE EXAMPLE OF MEDIA DEALING WITH TABOO AND CONTROVERSY HERE AND THAT MAKES US AN EASY TARGET A POINT OF FOCUS FOR THOSE WISHING TO CAUSE CONTROVERSY 4HATiS WHY THOSE POSTERS DECLARING "ULEVAR !VNOJ AS 2ATKO -LADIÌ "OULEVARD WERE PLAS TERED TO THE WALLS OF OUR BUILDING 4HIS SORT OF THING IS OBVIOUSLY UNPLEAS ANT FOR US BUT WE HAVE LIVED WITH IT FOR YEARS AND HAVE DEVELOPED NATURAL DEFENCE MECHANISMS .OW IT IS JUST A PART OF OUR IDENTITY &INALLY WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE NEW GOVERNMENT FOCUS ON IN THE MEDIA DOMAIN 4HE NEW GOVERNMENT SHOULD LOOK AT THE MANY MISTAKES MADE BY THE PREVIOUS TWO GOVERNMENTS IN THE AREA OF MEDIA RELATIONS m AN AREA WHERE 'OVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE BEHAVED LIKE THEY BELONG TO THE TAB LOIDS AND THUS REFLECTED A TABLOID IMAGE ON EVERYTHING 4HE NEW 'OVERNMENT OUGHT TO REINSTATE THAT CERTAIN DIGNITY THEY HAD IMMEDIATELY AFTER TH /CTOBER WHILST SHOWING A NEW QUALITY BY NOT LINKING VARIOUS MINISTERS TO EVERY AFFAIR 4HEY NEED TO FIND A NEW METHOD OF WORKING AND COMMUNICATING WITH THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC AS WELL AS BEING TRANSPARENT BY ORGANISING PUBLIC SESSIONS 4HESE STEPS WILL INCREASE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT 2EGARDLESS OF WHAT THE 'OVERNMENT DOES IF IT DOESNiT EXTRADITE 2ATKO -LADIÌ NOTHING WILL SUCCEED 4HE %UROPEAN INTEGRATION PROC ESS WILL FALL FURTHER OFF TRACK THE COUNTRY WILL STAGNATE AND CONFLICT WILL ARISE )N TERMS OF THE SPHERE OF JOURNALISM THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESOLVE THE THREE OUTSTANDING MURDER CASES AT ONCE THEREBY SHOWING THAT THE POLITICAL LEADERS AND THE SOCIETY THEY REPRESENT CARE ABOUT THE DESTINY OF MEDIA PROFESSIONALS 5NTIL THAT HAPPENS WE WILL REMAIN A SOCIETY WHERE BOMBS EXPLODING ON JOURNALISTSi WINDOWSILLS ARE TOLERATED

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WELL BUT PROBABLY OUR BIGGEST SUCCESS HAS BEEN IN OUR WORK WITH REF UGEES (ERE WE MANAGED TO OPEN THE QUESTION OF RETURNEES AND THE LIST WE PUT TOGETHER OF OVER SIGNATURES OF THOSE WHO WANTED TO RETURN TO #ROATIA WAS THE FIRST ORGANISED ATTEMPT AT SECURING RETURN 3IMULTANEOUSLY THAT OPENED THE QUESTION OF RETURN IN $AYTON AS WELL !NNEX 6)) WAS A DIRECT SUCCESS OF THAT PARTICULAR WORK k 9OU ARE PERSONALLY EXPOSED TO HARSH CRITICISM AND ARE VERBALLY ATTACKED BY LOCAL NATIONALISTIC CIRCLES (OW WOULD YOU ASSESS THE GENERAL POSITION OF THE .'/ SECTOR IN OUR SOCIETY CONSIDERING THAT ONE GROUP OF THE .'/ SECTOR HAS PROFILED THEMSELVES AS THE TRUE OPPOSITION TO THE GOVERNMENT 9OU COULD SAY THAT A DICTATORSHIP OF OPINIONS RULES IN 3ERBIA AND THAT .'/S ARE HELD TO THE WHIMS OF VARIOUS 3TATE CENTRES OF POWER

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THAT SUCH AN ASSOCIATION COULD ONLY BE LED BY A PERSON LIKE .INO IT IS ARGUED AN ATMOSPHERE OF PUBLIC PRESSURE TANTAMOUNT TO THAT "RAJOVIÌ 4HERE IS NOTHING TO HOLD AGAINST HIM 4HE CRITICISM SHOULD FELT IN THE MEDIA DURING THE WAR YEARS WAS CREATED AN INTOLERABLE BE ADDRESSED TO A SOCIETY WHICH IS NOT WILLING TO LUSTRATE AND MOST POLITICALLY MOTIVATED PRESSURE EVEN THOUGH NO POLITICAL PARTY MAY OF ALL TO OUR jCOLLEAGUESk FROM .5.3 WHO AS ) WROTE IN THE BLOG HAVE CAUSED IT DIRECTLY k POST ARE EITHER BEING IRRESPONSIBLE OR NA VE OR SIMPLY PRAGMATIC

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TO REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO TAKE OVER THE CHURCH HOLDINGS WE WILL REQUEST PROTECTION FROM INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SAID $IOCESE "ISHOP $IOKLIJSKI *OVAN ABBOT OF /STROG -ONASTERY INVITED -ONTENEGRIN PEOPLE NOT TO ATTACK CHURCHES AND TEMPLES OF 30# S -ONTENEGRIN COASTAL $IOCESE AND INVITED THE STATE NOT TO ALLOW FRATRICIDAL WAR AND TAKING WITH FORCE CHURCH S PROPERTIES 4HE MAIN ESSENTIAL REQUEST FROM PROPONENTS OF AUTHEN TICATION OF -ONTENEGRIN /RTHODOX #HURCH IS THAT IN THE NEW -ONTENEGRIN CONSTITUTION EXPLICITLY HAS TO BE INDUCED ITS NAME

WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF STATEHOOD OF -ONTENEGRO AND NATIONAL IDENTITY OF -ONTENEGRINS 0ROPONENTS OF -ONTENEGRIN /RTHODOX #HURCH REMIND THAT -ONTENEGRIN COASTAL $IOCESE WHICH HAS BEEN RENAMED INTO -ONTENEGRIN /RTHODOX #HURCH IN THE FIRST -ONTENEGRIN CONSTITU TION IN WITH A STATUS OF AUTOCEPHALY WAS AN INDEPENDENT EVEN BEFORE THAT TIME AND ESPECIALLY AFTER CANCELLATION OF 0EÌKA 0ATRIJARpIJA !CCORDING TO EVALUATIONS OF THE #0# DISCIPLES THAT CHURCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY DECREE OF KING !LEXANDER IN YEAR

HE STEALTHY STYLE OF 6UJANOVIÌ AND -IHAILOiS MEETING ILLUSTRATES HOW MUCH THE GOVERNMENT CARES ABOUT TWO THINGS FIRST TO MAINTAIN PEACE IN THE HOUSE BECAUSE THE -ONTENEGRIN /RTHODOX #HURCH WANTS TO TAKE BACK ORTHODOX TEMPLES WHICH ARE INHABITED BY THE 3ERBIAN /RTHODOX #HURCH 30# AND SECOND TO CONTINUE CONSTRUCTIVE RELATIONS WITH 30# WHICH WAS MORE OR LESS ESTABLISHED AFTER REFERENDUM FOR INDE PENDENCE .AMELY THE PRIESTS AND GRAND SEIGNIORS OF THE 3ERBIAN /RTHODOX #HURCH DURING THE PRE REFERENDUM S CAMPAIGN WERE TRANSPARENT IN THEIR EFFORT FOR THE 3TATE 5NION WITH 3ERBIA BY SUP PORTING PRO 3ERBIAN OPPOSITIONAL PARTIES REGARDING THAT MATTER (OWEVER TO MAKE THINGS IN SOME DEGREE BE EVEN WITHIN RELATIONSHIP 'OVERNMENT 30# SINCE -ONTENEGRIN INDEPENDENCE TILL NOW WITNESSING AMONG OTHER THINGS A BEHAVIOUR OF MET ROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP -ONTENEGRIN COASTAL !MFILOHIJE WHO IN CONTRARY TO PRO 3ERBIAN POLITICIANS MORE THEN ONCE SAID THAT HE RESPECTS -ONTENEGRIN NATIONAL SYMBOLS /N THE OTHER SIDE A MORE THAN ENERGETIC REACTION WAS SEEN RECENTLY FROM THE -ONTENEGRIN SPECIAL t ê ê ê ê ê ê POLICE WHEN THEY STOPPED SUPPORTERS OF THE ê ê t ê v ê j ±ê ê ê ¾ -ONTENEGRIN /RTHODOX #HURCH LED BY METRO POLITAN ARCHBISHOP -IHAILO FROM ENTERING THE ê êt ±ê ê ê ê ê ê MONASTERY ON #ETINJE TO HAVE A LITURGY #0# j ê ê ê ê ­êjwjê Ë ê ê ê ±ê ê ê WON T GIVE UP ON HOW THEY CALL IT TAKING OVER ê ±ê ê ê êÌ Ìê ±ê êzwjê ê OF OUR CHURCHES WHILE 30# ANNOUNCES THAT IT WILL DEFEND OUR CHURCH HOLDINGS NO MATTER ê ê êÌ ê ê ê ê ê ê Ì­ WHAT /THERWISE JUST BEFORE MENTIONED EVENT

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6OJISLAV "RAJOVIÐ A GREAT 3ERBIAN ACTOR AND THE LEAD CHARACTER IN YOUR PLAY j3KAKAVCIk 'RASSHOPPERS HAS BECOME THE -INISTER OF #ULTURE $O YOU THINK THAT HE IS NOW IN A POSITION TO CHANGE SOME THING 6OJA "RAJOVIÌ IS A GREAT ARTIST AND ) HOPE THAT HE WILL CLEARLY DETERMINE THE PRIORITIES OF THIS -INISTRY WHICH IS NOT JUST REGULATING ARTISTS ) THINK WE ARE LACKING A MULTITUDE OF SYSTEMATIC LAWS WHICH WERE DRAFTED DURING THE îINðIÌ 'OVERNMENT BUT WERE NEVER ADOPTED OR IMPLEMENTED )T SEEMS TO ME THAT THE NEW -INISTER OF #ULTURE SHOULD PAY PRIMARY ATTENTION TO THAT ! COUNTRY THAT HAS UNREGULATED SYSTEMS FOR THE FUNDING OF CULTURE AND THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY m AND A COUNTRY THAT LACKS THE FRAMEWORK TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ARTISTS AND THOSE EMPLOYED IN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS m CANNOT CLAIM TO HAVE A SERIOUS CULTURAL POLICY "ESIDES THAT THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL MONUMENTS OF +OSOVO RELI GIOUS CENTRES ALSO LARGELY FALLS UNDER THE COMPETENCY OF THAT -INISTRY AND REGARDLESS OF THE UNDOUBTED SORT OF SEPARATION OF +OSOVO FROM 3ERBIA A STRATEGY REGARDING THE PROTECTION OF 3ERBIAiS CULTURAL HERITAGE THAT WILL REMAIN THERE MUST BE A PRIORITY

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WHO ALSO DIRECTED THAT PLAY LONG AGO ) REALISE THAT ) AM SURROUNDED BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHOSE POLITICO THEATRICAL ATTITUDE TO THE WORLD AND ARTISTIC PROWESS FASCINATED ME AS A CHILD ) ALWAYS LIKED THOSE TALES OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE CRUSHED BY THE MAEL STROM OF TIME !ND AS OUR TIMES HAVE ALWAYS STUMBLED UNDER THE BURDEN OF MISTAKEN POLITICAL MOVES ) FEEL THAT ) AM A TRUE 3ERBIAN WRITER AND THAT ) HAVE BEEN AWARDED BOTH FOR THE CULTURE AND THE THEATRE OF MY ORIGINS $OES YOUR NEW DRAMA ALSO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF LITTLE PEOPLE CRUSHED BY THE MAELSTROM OF TIME 4HIS IS A PLAY ABOUT ME ABOUT A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION AND PEOPLE IN TRANSITION ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVE DECIDED TO STEP ASIDE AND SURVIVE ON THE MARGINS WAITING FOR THE END DURING TIMES WHEN IT WAS SHAMEFUL NOT TO SUCCEED 4HE PLAY IS CALLED j"ARBELO O PSIMA I DECIk "ARBELLO ABOUT $OGS AND #HILDREN AND ) HAVE JUST FINISHED IT ) EXCEEDED THE DEADLINE SET FOR ME BY 3CHAUSPIELHAUS %SSEN 4HEATRE WHO ORDERED THE PLAY jBLINDk BY ALMOST A YEAR 4HE MORE TIME PASSES THE HARDER AND LENGTHIER MY WRITING BECOMES $URING THE PAST TEN YEARS m AS LONG AS ) HAVE BEEN PROFESSIONALLY ENGAGED IN WRITING m ) HAVE WRITTEN EIGHT DRAMAS AND AROUND A THOUSAND MEDIA COLUMNS )F YOU PUT THOSE WORKS ONE BESIDE THE OTHER MAYBE IT DOES NOT REPRESENT A HUGE PILE OF PAPER BUT ) TAKE MY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE THINGS ) WRITE AND SAY EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY ) DESPISE THAT HORRIBLE RACE FOR SUCCESS ) AM NOT AMBITIOUS AND ) DISLIKE AMBITIOUS PEOPLE ) DONiT THINK THE IMAGE OF HAPPINESS IN A COUNTRY IS TO HAVE A PILE OF -C$ONALDiS RESTAURANTS AND UNIFORMLY OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN ON THE VERGE OF DIABETES AS A RESULT OF BAD BUT AFFORDABLE INDUSTRIAL FOOD THAT GLOBAL CORPORATIONS GET RICH SELLING .OR DO ) THINK THAT MY IDEAL SOCIETY IS ONE THAT IS CRUELLY DIVIDED WHERE MEDICATIONS ARE PAID FOR BY BLOOD LESS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE DESPISED AND IT IS A SOCIAL MUST TO BE HUNGRY FOR SUCCESS 4HE PLAY TALKS ABOUT THAT AND ABOUT CHILDREN AND DOGS AND ABOUT MY DREADFUL WISH TO LOSE MYSELF SOMEWHERE IN "ARBELLO !RE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE WAY THE 3ERBIAN MEDIA TREATS YOU ) DONiT GIVE ANY THOUGHT TO MY TREATMENT IN THE 3ERBIAN MEDIA AT ALL 4HE SITUATION IN THE MAJORITY OF PRINT MEDIA HOUSES IS THAT THEY SERVE CERTAIN INTERESTS POLITICAL FINANCIAL AND EVEN CRIMINAL GROUPS 2ADIO 4ELEVISION 3ERBIA IS A SERVICE OF A FEW POLITICAL HEADS AND THE MEDIA EVEN WHEN THEY FIGHT AGAINST PRESSURE OF THIS KIND DO NOT ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CRUEL MARKET LAWS IN THE COUNTRY WHERE MANAGERS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN SURGEONS AND 02S THINK THAT THEY ARE MORE IMPOR TANT THAN ARTISTS 4HERE ARE RARE MEDIA THAT ) REALLY VALUE EVERYTHING ELSE IS A PART OF THE 3ERBIAN TRANSITION CIRCUS )N EVERYTHING THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS NOT TO PAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO ONEiS OWN PICTURE IN THE MEDIA WHICH CAN SPIN YOUR MIND

7HAT IS PATRIOTISM FOR YOU 0ATRIOTISM MEANS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY IN THE MOST CRITICAL POLITICAL MOMENTS FOR ONEiS STATE AND NEVER LYING TO ONEiS CITIZENS &OR ME IN THIS MOMENT A SUPREME PATRIOTIC ACT WOULD BE PUBLISHING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF +OSOVOiS DIVISION FROM 3ERBIA &OR ME PATRIOTISM MEANS LOOKING INTO THE EYE OF TRUTH AND TELLING THAT TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE

RATHER THAN LYING FOR PERSONAL POLITICAL PROFITING &OR ME PATRIOTISM MEANS DEALING WITH THE TINIEST DETAIL OF THE FUTURE DESTINY OF OUR CITIZENS AND OUR ESTATES IN +OSOVO WHEN IT CEASES TO BE EVEN DE JURE WITHIN 3ERBIA 0ATRIOTISM DOES NOT CONSIST OF GREAT WORDS THEY COST NOTHING TO THE ONE WHO UTTERS THEM BUT CAN COST THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THEM 0ATRIOTISM IS THE PERSISTENT CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MODERN SOCIETY A SOCI ETY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE JUST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT %UROPEAN INTEGRATION

PURIFICATION AND SELF CONFRONTATION WITH THE PAST 3ERBIA NOW HAS A NEW 'OVERNMENT "UT JUST BEFORE ITS FORMA TION WE ENDURED GENUINE THEATRICS IN THE PARLIAMENT WITH A hSHOWi THAT INSULTED THE INTELLIGENCE OF ALL NORMAL PEOPLE (OW DO YOU AS A WOMAN WHO CAREFULLY WATCHES POLITICAL HAPPENINGS AND PARTICIPATES IN THEM AS MUCH AS YOU CAN SEE ALL THAT FROM THE OUTSIDE ) SEE THE RECONSTRUCTION OF +OpTUNICAiS 'OVERNMENT AS A GREAT DEFEAT OF FRAGILE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS IN OUR SOCIETY AS THE ANNULMENT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTIONS AND OF THE WILL OF THE VOTING PUBLIC ) SEE IT AS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE 'OVERNMENT OF THE ONE WHO LOST THE ELEC TIONS AND ) ALSO SEE IT AS MY PERSONAL DEFEAT ) CONSIDER THAT ) HAVE AS ALL THE OTHER CITIZENS OF 3ERBIA IRREVERSIBLY LOST ANOTHER YEAR IN ABSOLUTE BLOCKADE OF POLITICAL PROCESSES IN BREACH OF %UROPEAN 5NION !CCESSION NEGOTIATIONS ALL DUE TO THE REGROUPING OF THIS POLITICAL CADRE AND THE NEW FINANCIAL ELITE #ITIZENS DID NOT VOTE FOR THAT THEY DIDNiT VOTE THAT THOSE HIDING WAR CRIMINALS SHOULD STILL REMAIN IN THE POWER CENTRES AROUND THE -INISTRY OF 0OLICE AND SECRET SERVICES 4HE CITIZENS VOTED FOR A CHANGE OF 'OVERNMENT

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MY AMBITIONS TO jCHANGE THE WORLDk ARE LIMITED TO 3ERBIA m THE PLACE THAT ) REALLY FEEL AS MY COUNTRY )N TERMS OF RELATIONS WITH &RANCE A VERY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT IS THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW !MBASSADOR TO "ELGRADE (E IS A SERIOUS AND COMPE TENT MAN WITH GREAT DIPLOMATIC EXPERIENCE AND ) THINK THE PATIENCE THAT IS NECESSARY IN CONTACTS WITH OUR SHAKY REGION ) THINK THE APPOINTMENT OF !MBASSADOR 4ERRAL IS A GREAT TRIBUTE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND THAT WITH HIM WE HAVE A CHANCE TO BE BETTER POSITIONED IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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TIAL AND TO MOTIVATE YOUNG AUTHORS TO PARTICIPATE MORE ACTIVELY IN THE CREATION OF OUR CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC REALITY )NITIALLY IMAGINED AS A PLATFORM FOR DISCLOSING THE IDEAL OF THE LATEST GENERATION OF 3ERBIAN DESIGNERS THE 'HOST 0ROJECT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GROW INTO A DYNAMIC DATABASE OF DOMESTIC TALENTS ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC

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AND WE ARE OPEN FROM AM TO PM WEEKDAYS AND FROM AM TO PM ON 3ATURDAYS /UR AMIABLE SKILFUL AND WELL INFORMED SALES STAFF ARE ALWAYS PRESENT SO DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK THEM ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU

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WHICH WOULD LEAD TO INCREASED

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FULLY EQUIPPED IDEAL FOR EVERY OCCASION LOCAL OR LONG DISTANCE DRIVING AND FOR BOTH FAMILIES AND BUSINESS PEOPLE !PART FROM THE %PICE WE ALSO OFFER THE 3PARK !VEO ,ACETTI AND #APTIVA MODELS WITH DIS COUNTS 7HAT IS UNAVOIDABLE IS OUR SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR DIP LOMATS )N ORDER TO PURCHASE A CAR AND FEEL ASSURED OF ITS QUALITIES YOU HAVE TO TEST IT FIRST 4HAT AT LEAST DOES NOT COST ANYTHING SO THERE

COMPETITIVENESS GROWTH OF ECO NOMIC FREEDOM AND THE DECLINE OF CORRUPTION 4HE NEW INSTI TUTION RENDERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTRODUCTION OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CORPORATE MANAGERS MEMBERS OF -ANAGEMENT AND 3UPERVISORY "OARDS OF SUCCESS FULLY PRIVATISED COMPANIES AND BANKS NEW QUICKLY GROWING ORGANISATIONS AS WELL AS OF OTHER CORPORATE TYPE ORGANISATIONS -EMBERS OF THE *OINT 3TOCK #OMPANY !SSOCIATION WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN IN ORDER TO PERFORM TRANSFER OF KNOWL EDGE AND OF THE BEST PRACTICES IN

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!DA PROVIDES MEMBERS OF THE #LUB WITH DISCOUNTS ON AERO PLANE TICKETS LUXURIOUS HOTELS

MEMBERSHIP IN PRESTIGIOUS SPORT AND FITNESS CENTRES RESTAURANTS AND CAF BARS WITH PRIVILEGED STA TUS OF COURSE 4HE HIGHEST QUAL ITY AUDIO DEVICES AND CLOTHING FROM RENOWNED FASHION HOUSES ALSO OFFER A DISCOUNT

TRES IN TERMS OF BOTH THE OFFER OF CARS AND THE SERVICES WHICH THEY PROVIDE TO CUSTOMERS 4HE SALON AND SERVICE CENTRE WHICH THEY ARE VERY PROUD OF IS UNIQUE IN THIS AREA 3ECURE IN THE QUALITY OF THEIR OFFER AND IN THE PLEASURE WHICH DRIVING THE MOST PRESTIG

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WITH ACHIEVED MARKET SHARE OF ò #OMPANY PLANS FOR ARE MAINTAINING LEADING POSITION IN THE FINANCIAL LEASING MARKET

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PREMISES IN THE MOST ATTRAC TIVE LOCATIONS IN "ELGRADE .OVI 3AD 6ALJEVO 'ORNJI -ILANOVAC AND .OVI 0AZAR "ESIDES BRANCH OFFICES 3!6! HAS BUSINESS UNITS IN 0RIBOJ AND AT BORDER CROSS ING POINTS "ATROVCI 'RADINA

(ORGOp AND +ELEBIJA 4HE BASIC GOALS OF 3!6! INSURANCE ARE SATISFYING THE NEEDS OF IT CLI ENTS AS WELL AS CONSTANT EXPAN SION OF THE INSURANCE SERVICES ASSORTMENT LONG TERM INCREASE OF MARKET SHARE INCREASING THE QUALITY OF INSURANCE SERV ICES QUALITY REINSURANCE OF SUR PLUS RISK STABLE PROFIT GROWTH

MAINTAINING FINANCIAL LIQUID ITY EXPANSION OF SALES NETWORK

SELECTION AND EXPERT TRAINING OF EMPLOYEES ETC )N OUT OF

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DAMAGES IN PROCESS

DAMAGES HAVE BEEN RESOLVED ò /UT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POSI TIVELY RESOLVED DAMAGES

DAMAGES HAVE BEEN PAID ò

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AND DURING *ANUARY THAT PERCENTAGE WAS INCREASED TO ò 3IMULTANEOUSLY THE COMPANY REGISTERED ON TH *ANUARY UNDER NEW NAME 3!6! )NSURANCE 4HIS COMPANY BASED ON ITS FIXED CAPITAL WHERE SHARE CAPITAL IS AROUND _ MILLION

FALLS INTO THE LINE OF THE LEAD ING INSURANCE HOUSES IN 3ERBIA 7ARRANTY RESERVES AMOUNT ING TO CCA _ MILLION PROVIDE VERY GOOD PROTECTION OF ASSETS AND INSURED INDIVIDUALS 3!6!

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-ATTHEWS !MERICAN #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE AND ITS MEM BERS CONTINUE TO WILL CONTINUE INTENSIFY ITS ACTIVITIES AIMED AT REMOVING ANY BARRIERS TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN 3ERBIA SEEKING TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS CLIMATE AND TO CRE ATE ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR

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BY EXPORTERS )NSURANCE POLICES FROM COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE "/.$3 )N 3-%#! ISSUED BONDS OUT OF THIS WERE FOR ADVANCE PAYMENT PERFORM ANCE BONDS AND PAYMENT GUAR ANTEES /VERALL VALUE OF ISSUED GUARANTEES WAS %52 WHICH FACILITATED EXPORT WORTH %52 &!#4/2).'

4HIS TYPE OF EXPORT FINANCING VERIFIED ITSELF THROUGH THE RESULTS AND ENTIRELY SUPERSEDED WORK ING CAPITAL FINANCING PROGRAM

AND CONFIRMED THAT FACTORING IS VERY ACCEPTABLE FOR DOMESTIC

EXPORTERS THAT ARE USUALLY CON FRONTED WITH NON LIQUIDITY AND UNSTABLE FUNDS 4OTAL AMOUNT OF EXPORTS THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY FACTORING IN WAS %52 WHEREWITH PLAN FOR HAS BEEN EXCEEDED FOR MORE THAN ò ORIGINALLY %52 MIL HAS BEEN PLANED )N *UNE DURING &ACTOR #HAIN )NTERNATIONALiS REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING &#) m INTERNA TIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FACTOR ING COMPANIES FROM COUN TRIES 3-%#! HAS BEEN ADMIT TED AS A FIRST MEMBER COMPANY FROM 3ERBIA

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PRESENTED THE 0ROJECT h"EOÍIN "USINESS 0ARKi IN ORDER TO ATTRACT FOREIGN INVESTMENTS 3PEAKERS AT THE 3EMINAR WERE THE REPRESENTA TIVES OF THE !MERICAN #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE THE %MBASSY OF 3PAIN THE &RANCE #OMMERCE "USINESS #LUB AND THE (UNGARIAN !GENCY FOR $EVELOPMENT OF

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3KIP "ORNHUETTER HAS BEEN APPOINTED A NEW MEMBER OF THE -ANAGING "OARD REPLACING THE OUTGOING %UGENIO 3IDOLI "ORNHUETTER IS 3ENIOR -ANAGER OF 0HILIP -ORRIS )NTERNATIONAL WHO HAS WITH NUMEROUS ACHIEVEMENTS DUR ING HIS YEAR CAREER SIGNIFI CANTLY CONTRIBUTED TO ENHANCING THE COMPANIES OPERATIONS /N THE SAME SESSION THE 'ENERAL -EETING HAS PASSED A $ECISION ON 0ROFIT !LLOCATION 4HIS DECI SION SHALL ENABLE PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 0HILLIP -ORRIS TOOK OVER $). &ROM THE TOTAL NET PROFIT AMOUNT ING TO BILLION DINARS COM PANY HAS PASSED A DECISION TO DIRECT AROUND BILLION DINARS TO COVER LOSSES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS AND THAT THE REMAINING AMOUNT OF BILLION DINARS SHOULD BE ALLOCATED TO DIVI

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0IRAEUS "ANK ACHIEVED EXCEL LENT RESULTS ON THE 3ERBIAN MAR KET IN +EY INDICATORS OF SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OPERATIONS DURING THE LAST YEAR ARE THE INCREASE IN TOTAL ASSETS WHICH REPRESENTS A GROWTH RATE OF EVEN PERCENTS AGAINST THE END

YEAR 4HESE RESULTS PROVIDE A SOLID BASE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE "ANKiS THREE YEAR PLAN WHICH ENVISAGES THE TOTAL CAPITAL INCREASE OF _ MILLION "Y THE END OF THE PERIOD

0IRAEUS "ANK PLANS TO INCREASE ITS RETAIL AND 3-% LOAN PORTFOLIO TO _ MILLION WHICH IS THE GROWTH OF PERCENTS AS WELL AS TO ENLARGE THE CORPORATE PLACE MENTS TO _ MILLION I E THE GROWTH OF PERCENTS 7ITH AN AIM TO IMPROVE OVER ALL BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN THE EARLY NEW LEASING AND REAL ESTATE COMPANIES HAVE BEEN FOUNDED "Y THE END OF THE "ANK PLANS TO EXPAND ITS BRANCH NET WORK TO BUSINESS UNITS AND

BY THE END OF TO BUSI NESS UNITS IN TOTAL

#OMPANY AND (OTEL (YATT IN .EW "ELGRADE "LOCK AND IT SHALL HAVE FLOORS AND ROOMS "ESIDES THE HOTEL

$ELTA - SHALL ALSO ON THAT LOCA TION CONSTRUCT THE BUSINESS BUILDING WITH FLOORS SHOP PING CENTRE COVERING AN AREA OF SQUARE METERS WITH UNDERGROUND GARAGE ON THREE FLOORS 4OTAL INVESTMENT IN THIS PROJECT IS AROUND MILLION EUROS OUT OF WHICH THE HOTEL ITSELF SHALL NECESSITATE AROUND MILLIONS 4HE START OF CON STRUCTION HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR THE START OF THE NEXT YEAR AND THE OPENING SHOULD BE IN THE FIRST HALF OF !CCORDING TO THE #ONTRACT $ELTA - SHALL CONSTRUCT A BUILDING

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RATE OF PERCENTS ANNU ALLY AND DEPOSIT UP TO PER CENTS !N INSTALMENT MUST NOT EXCEED PERCENT OF MONTHLY EARNINGS a-INIMUM AMOUNT OF CREDIT IS EUROS AND FOR CREDIT MIGHT APPLY PERSONS

BETWEEN AND YEARS OF AGE

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THE NEWSPAPER STATES THAT IN THE CASE OF SALES INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE AIRPORTS SHALL REMAIN IN THE OWNERSHIP OF THE STATE AND THE MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE GIVEN AS CONCESSION AS WELL AS CERTAIN PRIVATISED AIRPORT FUNC

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BUT THEY CAN NOT HAVE THE CRED ITS INSURED WITH THE .ATIONAL #ORPORATION BECAUSE THOSE ARE INTENDED ONLY FOR THE NATION ALS 4HAT PRACTICALLY MEANS THAT THE INTEREST RATE FOR THOSE CREDITS WOULD BE PERCENTS HIGHER IN RELATION TO THE CRED ITS INSURED WITH THE .ATIONAL #ORPORATION AND THAT CREDITS WOULD BE APPROVED FOR THE TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH THE FOREIGN NATIONAL WOULD WORK IN 3ERBIA

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AND IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES ONE CAN NOT BUILD 4HE REASON FOR DESISTING OF THE !USTRIAN PART NER FROM THIS JOB IS ALSO A LET TER WITH SIGNATURES OF AROUND EX LAND OWNERS IN THIS AREA

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#OMPANY $ONCAFE SHALL OPEN UP IN 3EPTEMBER A NEW FAC TORY IN fIMANOVCI WHERE THEY HAVE INVESTED AROUND TEN MILLION EUROS &ACTORY CAPACITY SHALL BE AROUND TONS OF COFFEE )N THE NEXT DEVELOPMENT PHASES

EVEN THOUSAND TONS COULD BE PROCESSED 4HE FACTORY IN fIMANOVCI SHALL BE THE MOST MODERN COFFEE FACTORY IN #ENTRAL AND %ASTERN %UROPE WITHIN WHICH SHALL BE #OFFEE -USEUM AND (ALL FOR 0ROJECTIONS SALES EXHIBITION CENTRE AND COFFEE ROOM AS WELL AS A GLASS BRIDGE OVER THE PRODUCTION PLANT THAT SHALL ENABLE THE VISITORS TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE PRODUCTION PROCESS SAID -ILAN 0ETROVIÌ

3ALES -ANAGER OF $ONCAFE

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0RO#REDIT "ANK HAS INVESTED MORE THAN MILLION EUROS OF CREDITS INTO INDIVIDUAL FARM ERS AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES AND COMPANIES #URRENTLY CIR CULATING ARE MILLION EUROS OF CREDITS INTENDED FOR AGRICULTURE

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2USSIAN BILLIONAIRE 2OMAN !BRAMOVICH WANTS TO PURCHASE 5LCINJiS 'REAT "EACH WHERE HE WOULD BUILD EXCLUSIVE TOURIST SETTLEMENT 4HE INTEREST FOR THE 'REAT "EACH AND !DA "OJANA

REPRESENTING THE MOST ATTRACTIVE LOCATIONS IN -ONTENEGRO HAS

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BEEN ALREADY EXPRESSED BY THE (UNGARIAN COMPANY 4RIGRANITE AND )NVESTMENT #OMPANY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY FROM 5NITED !RABIAN %MIRATES 4HE (UNGARIAN COM PANY 4RIGRANIT STATED THAT IT IS INTERESTED TO INVEST MODELLING UPON $UBAI THREE BILLION EUROS IN CONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTRAVA GANT TOURIST SETTLEMENT ON "IG "EACH AND AT THE MOUTH OF "OJANA NEAR 5LCINJ 4HE COM PANY OF THE ROYAL !RABIAN FAMILY IN %MIRATES HAS ANNOUNCED ITS

COMPANY -ONSANTO FOR %ASTERN %UROPE 'ERHARD 2OSA %XCEPT FOR THE LEADING WORLD TRADEMARKS OF CORN SUNFLOWER SOY RAPESEED

VEGETABLES AND CROP PROTECTION AGENTS THIS !MERICAN COMPANY IS ALSO KNOWN FOR ITS MANUFAC TURE AND EXPORT OF THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS OF PLANTS 2OSA STRESSED THAT -ONSANTO RESPECTS LOCAL LAWS AND IF THEY DO NOT ALLOW PRODUCTION AND USE OF '-/ WE SHALL NOT EVEN BRING SUCH PROD UCTS INTO THOSE COUNTRIES

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REPRESENTATIVES OF MUNICI PALITIES AND THREE SPECIALISED AGENCIES FOR ATTRACTING INVEST MENTS !T THE LAST YEAR &AIR

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i êrijê êhêi ê "ELGIUM +"# 'ROUP ANNOUNCED THAT IT SHALL ACQUIRE THE MAJORITY SHARE PACKAGE OF ! "ANK ON PUBLIC TENDER +"# HAS BEEN ALREADY GRANTED PER MISSION BY THE .ATIONAL "ANK OF 3ERBIA AND !NTIMONOPOLY #OMMITTEE AND IT SHALL ALSO ASK THE PERMISSION FROM THE 3ECURITIES #OMMISSION FOR INI TIATING THE PUBLIC TENDERING IN ORDER TO FINISH THE ACQUISITION PROCEDURE BY MID *UNE )N THE STATEMENT IT SAYS THAT +"# CONSIDERS a! "ANK AS IDEAL PLATFORM FOR FURTHER DEVELOP MENT OF THE BANKING INSURANCE CONCEPT IN 3ERBIAj WHICH IS FOR THAT 'ROUP aKEY FINANCIAL MARKET OF THE "ALKANS AND IN THAT CONTEXT THE GOAL OF +"# 'ROUP IS TO HAVE THE LEADING ROLE IN DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF THE FINANCIAL MARKET OF 3ERBIAj 3OURCE "

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'ALAXY &ORD %UROPE NOW OFFERS FIVE VEHICLES TO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF CONSUMERS LOOKING FOR ALLERGY FRIENDLY PRODUCTS &ORD VEHICLES ARE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE PASSED THE STRINGENT 4 6 STANDARDS 4HE NEW -ONDEO WENT ON SALE LAST MONTH 7E ARE VERY PROUD TO RECEIVE THIS 4 6 APPROVAL AND CONSIDER IT CONFIRMATION FROM A

HIGHLY RESPECTED ORGANISATION OF THE HIGH QUALITY STANDARDS OF OUR VEHICLES SAID $R 7OLFGANG 3CHNEIDER VICE PRESIDENT GOV ERNMENTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS &ORD %UROPE 4HE 4 6 CERTIFICATION ASSURES THAT THE CAR S INTERI OR MATERIALS WERE SELECTED IN ORDER TO MINIMISE THE ALLERGY RISK TO THE LOWEST POSSIBLE LEVEL 4HE 4 6 IS AN INDEPEND

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ERS OF EUROS FOR EACH YEAR OF WORK SPENT IN THE COMPANY

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TONS OF TOBACCO WAS A STATE MENT ON OPENING OF THE PLANT 4ADASHI .AGAI !MBASSADOR OF *APAN IN 3ERBIA SAID THAT THIS IS THE FIRST *APANESE INVESTMENT IN 3ERBIA AND ADDED THAT CIGA RETTES MANUFACTURING SHALL HAVE A HUGE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON 3ENTA 6OJVODINA BUT ALSO ON THE WHOLE 3ERBIA 3OURCE "ETA

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WHERE #ZECH COMPANY FROM 6IZOVICA SHALL HAVE PERCENT SHARE IS CONSTRUCTION OF CAPACI TIES THAT IS DISTILLERY FOR MANU FACTURING THE RAW MATERIAL FOR PLUM BRANDY *ELINEK IS OTHER WISE MANUFACTURER OF THE MOST FAMOUS WORLD PLUM BRANDY FOR WHICH THERE IS A HUGE DEMAND IN THE WORLD ESPECIALLY IN 53! ,ACK OF RAW MATERIAL IS THE MAIN MOTIVE FOR EXPANSION OF THAT COMPANY TO THE "ALKANS 3OURCE &O.ET

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AND SHALL BE USED ALSO BY THE MUNICIPALITIES ¨UPRIJA AND 2EKOVAC 4HE FOREIGN INVESTOR IS INTERESTED TO INVEST IN THE LANDFILL BECAUSE THEY SHALL USE THE WASTE FOR RECYCLING 3OURCE "ETA

4HE 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA HAS APPROVED COOPERATION OF :ASTAVA !UTOMOBILES AND 'ENERAL -OTORS FOR ASSEM BLY OF TWO /PEL CAR MODELS IN +RAGUJEVAC &ROM THE NEXT YEAR

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4HE LIST OF LECTURERS AT THE #HANGE #ONFERENCE INCLUDED (ELLA THEIR HORIZONS BUT ESPECIALLY IN THE POLITICAL SITUATION WHICH WE HAD *UNGERIOUS 0ATRICIA 5RGIOLA 7INKA $UBELDAM 3TEPHEN $AVIS AND HERE WAS IN SOME WAY LIMITED AND IMPRISONED HERE MANY OTHER WORLD EXPERTS j!S SUCH k 6IDAKOVIÌ ENTHUSES jTHE SIGNIFICANCE LIES IN THE j%ACH OF THEM IS VERY IMPORTANT .OT ONLY ARE THEY SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL OPENING CONNECTING WITH THE WORLD AND THE DESTRUCTION INDIVIDUALLY BUT THEY ARE ALSO IMPORTANT IN SOME CORRELATIONS 4HEY OF THAT FEELING OF ISOLATION AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT YOU

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TECHNOLOGICAL FINANCIAL AND EVERY OTHER WAY BUT IS APPROACHABLE TO US ONLY NOWb 4HE GUESTS AT THE "$7 WERE j"ECAUSE OF THAT WE ADDRESSED THE VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUAL NOW TODAY AND HERE PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT PUBLIC BECAUSE EVERYBODY SHOULD PLAY A PART IN STIMULATING THOSE THE AVANT GARDE EVEN IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND ARE AMONG THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN ORDER FOR SOME RESULTS TO BE ACHIEVED AT ALL PROGRESSIVE FORCES (OWEVER WE WERE RECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM %XAMPLES ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE WATCHED THEM IN A CONTEXTUAL PEOPLE DESIGNERS WHO WERE SAYING m THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY OF WAY m THEY ALL HAVE SOME STRING WHICH IS IMPORTANT FOR A SITUATION SUCH AN EDUCATION AND MEETING THOSE PEOPLE k SUCH AS OURS 7HETHER IT IS THE REGION OF )STRA WITH ITS EXAMPLE OF 3PEAKING ABOUT THE TRANSTIONAL EFFECT OF THE NATION OVER EVENTS HOW REGIONS ARE BRANDED OR THE STORY PRO VIDED BY 2EM +OOLHAS WHO IS AN ARCHITECT BUT ALSO AN ANALYST SOCIOLOGIST AND EVEN µ{ ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê A MODERN PHILOSOPHER SOMEBODY WHO ê ê ê ê ê ­ê { ê ê ±ê DEALS WITH THE ISSUES OF IDENTITY THE STRAT EGIST SELECTED EXPERT ETC 7E WANTED TO ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê SHOW WHICH ASPECTS WE CAN APPROACH THE ê ê ­êh ê Ø ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê PROBLEM FROM BECAUSE WE NEED THAT k ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê !SKED WHAT HER PERSONAL "$7 HIGHLIGHTS WERE 6IDAKOVIÌ UNDERLINED THE ê ê êi ±êz ±ê ê ê ­´ hFEMALE DAYi WHEN (ELLA *ONGERIUS 'AYA #EVIKEL FROM THE COMPANY 'AIA AND 'INO

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KILLERS OF SERBIA'S FIRST ELECTED PM JAILED FOR 40 YEARS 4WO PARAMILITARY COMMANDERS HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO MAXI MUM YEAR JAIL TERMS FOR ASSASSINATING 3ERBIA S FIRST DEMOCRATI CALLY ELECTED PRIME MINISTER :ORAN $JINDJIC /NE OF THEM IS THE SNIPER WHO TOOK HIS LIFE WITH A SINGLE BULLET "Y 6ESNA 0ERIÐ :IMONJIÐ IN "ELGRADE 0UBLISHED -AY 4HIS WAS NOT A SIMPLE KILLING BUT A POLITICAL KILLING WITH THE AIM OF DESTABILISING THE COUNTRY PRESIDING JUDGE .ATA -ESAROVIC TOLD THE "ELGRADE COURT AT THE END OF THE LANDMARK TRIAL YESTERDAY )T S THE HARDEST THING TO KNOW THAT WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE PRIME MINISTER CAN BE KILLED BY ORGANISED CRIME SHE ADDED !NOTHER NINE CONSPIRATORS ACCUSED OF THE ASSASSINATION

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WHILE *OVANOVIC EVEN REFUSED TO SPEAK IN THE COURT (OWEVER HIS WRITTEN AND SIGNED STATEMENT FROM THE INVESTIGA TION WAS DEFINED AS ENOUGH EVIDENCE )T SAID ) LIQUIDATED :ORAN $JINDJIC PERSONALLY ) WAS NOT INTERESTED IN MONEY ) DID IT TO PRE VENT EXTRADITION OF OUR PEOPLE TO 4HE (AGUE !S THE VERDICTS WERE PRONOUNCED IN THE PACKED SPECIAL COURT

.EITHER *OVANOVIC NOR 5LEMEK SHOWED ANY EMOTION 4HE SECRET PARAMILITARY FORCE UNDER THE COMMAND OF 5LEMEK

COMMITTED NUMEROUS WAR CRIMES AGAINST NON 3ERBS IN "OSNIA AND #ROATIA (E WAS KNOWN UNDER THE NOM DE GUERRE ,EGIJA DUE TO HIS SERVICE IN THE &RENCH &OREIGN ,EGION UNTIL THE EARLY S *OVANOVIC HIS DEPUTY WAS DESCRIBED AS MASTER OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE TOWN OF "OSANSKI 3AMAC IN A RECENT INTERVIEW WITH A TOP "OSNIAN OFFICIAL 3ULEJMAN 4IHIC 4HE TOWN WAS ETHNICALLY CLEANSED OF -USLIMS BY 3ERBS DURING THE WAR !CCORDING TO THE JUDGEMENT READ BY -RS -ESAROVIC THE GROUP CONSPIRED TO KILL $JINDJIC TO HALT HIS PRO 7ESTERN REFORMS BRING -ILOSEVIC S LOYALISTS BACK TO POWER AND STOP FURTHER EXTRADITIONS OF WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA IN 4HE (AGUE $JINDJIC MASTERMINDED THE DOWNFALL OF -ILOSEVIC IN AND HANDED HIM OVER TO THE TRIBUNAL IN -ILOSEVIC DIED OF A HEART ATTACK IN THE DETENTION UNIT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT IN -ARCH $JINDJIC SYMPATHISERS WHO WAITED FOR NEWS OUTSIDE THE COURT ALMOST CLASHED WITH FAMILY MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS OF 5LEMEK 3HOUTS OF KILLERS AND TRAITORS WERE EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS &ORTY YEARS IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE LOSS OF A YOUNG MAN WITH GREAT IDEAS WHO WANTED TO PULL 3ERBIA FAST FORWARD

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STANDOFF OVER KOSOVO'S FUTURE IS REGION'S BIGGEST PROBLEM, 15 PRESIDENTS SAY +OSOVO n AND THE QUESTION OF THE FUTURE OF THE 3ERBIAN PROVINCE n IS THE REGION S BIGGEST DILEMMA PRESIDENTS FROM %UROPEAN NATIONS SAID AS THEY WRAPPED UP A SUMMIT 3ATURDAY "Y THE !SSOCIATED 0RESS 0UBLISHED TH -AY

"UT THE LEADERS n FROM CENTRAL SOUTHERN AND EASTERN %UROPE n CAME TO NO CONCLUSION ON HOW TO RESOLVE THE DEBATE OVER

From the World Press +OSOVO SHOULD BE GRANTED INTERNATIONALLY SUPERVISED INDEPEND ENCE AS AN 5 . ENVOY HAS PROPOSED OR SIMPLY BROAD AUTONOMY AS 3ERBIA WANTS )T APPEARS THAT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM OF THE REGION IS THE PROBLEM OF +OSOVO #ZECH 0RESIDENT 6ACLAV +LAUS SAID "UT IT S FAIR TO SAY THAT WE DON T HAVE A COMMON VIEW ON HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

HE SAID AT THE CLOSE OF THE GATHERING IN "RNO THE #ZECH 2EPUBLIC S SECOND LARGEST CITY +OSOVO n A PROVINCE THAT IS PERCENT ETHNIC !LBANIAN n HAS BEEN UNDER 5 . ADMINISTRATION SINCE .!4/ AIRSTRIKES IN TO END A 3ERBIAN CRACKDOWN ON ETHNIC !LBANIAN SEPARATISTS IN THE PROVINCE %ARLIER THIS YEAR 5 . ENVOY -ARTTI !HTISAARI PRESENTED A PRO POSAL TO GRANT +OSOVO INTERNATIONALLY SUPERVISED INDEPENDENCE

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

{ êj ê êw ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê|­z­ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê êy ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê l ê ê ê ê ê ê uh{vê ê ê ê ­ r ê ê ê ê ê ¡¥ê ê ê ê ê l ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ RESOLUTION BEFORE THE 5 . 3ECURITY #OUNCIL AND HAS SAID IT MIGHT USE ITS VETO IF THE PLAN IS PUT TO A VOTE 7ESTERN LEADERS HAVE WARNED HOWEVER THAT DELAYING THE VOTE COULD PROVOKE VIOLENCE IN THE RESTIVE PROVINCE ,EADERS AT THREE DAY SUMMIT ALSO DISCUSSED A 5 3 PLAN TO PLACE PARTS OF A NEW MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM IN THE #ZECH 2EPUBLIC AND 0OLAND 4HE #ZECH AND 0OLISH GOVERNMENTS BOTH ARE RECEPTIVE TO THE 5 3 PLAN BUT THE PROPOSAL HAS RUN INTO STRONG OPPOSITION FROM 2USSIA

WHICH SAYS IT COULD TRIGGER A NEW ARMS RACE AND FROM SOME WESTERN %UROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT WANT A BIGGER .!4/ ROLE IN THE PROJECT +LAUS SAID ONE OF THE LEADERS SUGGESTED THAT OTHER %UROPEAN COUNTRIES ALSO SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN THE ISSUE 4HE LEADERS ALSO DISCUSSED RELATIONS WITH 2USSIA 4HE PRESIDENTS OF !LBANIA !USTRIA "ULGARIA "OSNIA (ERZEGOVINA

#ROATIA (UNGARY )TALY -ACEDONIA -OLDOVA -ONTENEGRO 2OMANIA AND 3LOVAKIA ALSO ATTENDED THE SUMMIT SOUTHEAST OF 0RAGUE IN ADDI TION TO THE LEADERS OF 3ERBIA 0OLAND AND HOST #ZECH 2EPUBLIC 5KRAINIAN 0RESIDENT 6IKTOR 9USHCHENKO CANCELED HIS TRIP TO THE SUMMIT DUE TO THE DEEPENING POLITICAL TURMOIL IN HIS COUNTRY AND THE PRESIDENTS OF 'ERMANY AND 3LOVENIA ALSO BOWED OUT THIS YEAR 4HE ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL SUMMITS BEGAN IN AS A MEETING OF FIVE FORMER EASTERN BLOC NATIONS AND 'ERMANY AND !USTRIA )T HAS SINCE GROWN INTO BROADER REGIONAL SUMMIT -ACEDONIA WILL HOST NEXT YEAR S SUMMIT 4HE )NTERNATIONAL (ERALD 4RIBUNE

SERBIA WARNS OVER KOSOVO 6UK *EREMIC 3ERBIA S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS ANY MOVE

BY THE COALITION FORMED LAST WEEK TO GIVE UP +OSOVO WOULD BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT "UT HE VOWED THAT THE NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED AFTER MORE THAN THREE MONTHS OF BARGAINING TO KEEP HARDLINE 3ERB NATIONAL ISTS OUT OF POWER WOULD NEVER LET THE COUNTRY SLIP BACK INTO THE TRAUMATIC ISOLATION OF THE S DESPITE MOUNTING PRESSURE AT THE 5NITED .ATIONS 3ECURITY #OUNCIL TO MAKE THE MOSTLY ETHNIC !LBANIAN PROVINCE INDEPENDENT 7HOEVER GIVES UP +OSOVO IMPLICITLY OR EXPLICITLY WILL INSTANTANEOUSLY AND FOREVER LOSE THE CAPACITY TO GOVERN THIS COUNTRY WITH A DEMOCRATIC MANDATE -R *EREMIC TOLD THE &INANCIAL 4IMES (OWEVER THE YEAR OLD MINISTER FORMERLY FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER TO "ORIS 4ADIC 3ERBIA S STRONGLY PRO %UROPEAN 5NION

Ì~ ê ê ê r ê ¾ê ê ê ê ¾ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ±Ìê t êq ê ê êm ê{ ­ PRESIDENT HELD OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT 'ENERAL 2ATKO -LADIC MIGHT AT LAST BE HANDED OVER TO THE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL (E SAID THE PRESIDENT S CENTRE LEFT PARTY HAD SECURED AN ABSOLUTELY IRON CLAD COMMITMENT FROM 6OJISLAV +OSTUNICA THE NATIONALIST LEANING PRIME MINISTER THAT HE WOULD MEET THE %5 S CONDITIONS ON CO OPERATION WITH THE TRIBUNAL )N THE GRAND COALITION -R 4ADIC SHOULD HAVE POWER TO OVERSEE THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES WHICH WOULD MAXIMISE THE LIKELIHOOD OF 'EN -LADIC S ARREST -R *EREMIC SAID -R *EREMIC SAID HE HOPED FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STABILITY WHICH 3ERBIA HAS NOT SEEN SINCE -ONTENEGRO WON INDEPENDENCE IN A PEACEFUL REFERENDUM TO END THE UNION A YEAR AGO TODAY 4HE 3UNDEY -ORNING (ERALD

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h !CCORDING TO THE FIRST DEMOGRAPHY RESULTS OF THOSE WHO FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE NEW STATE AFTER CENTURIES OF IMPERIAL RULE ò OF THE POPULATION LIVED FROM AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES BUT YEARS LATER AND YEARS LATER ò "ACK THEN 9UGOSLAVIA WAS A COUNTRY OF

SMALL VILLAGE HOUSEHOLDS !CCORDING TO THE OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE ò OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS WORKED AND LIVED ON FIVE HECTARES OF LAND

BUT THEY OWNED ONLY ò OF THE TOTAL TILLABLE LAND !LMOST THE SAME PERCENTAGE WERE HOLDERS OF FIVE TO HECTARES WHO OWNED ALMOST HALF OF THEIR TILLABLE LAND AND ONLY ò OF HOUSEHOLDS HAD MORE THAN HECTARES !GRARIAN REFORM WHICH THE 'OVERNMENT STARTED IN

WAS A LONG INCONSISTENT INCOMPLETE COMPROMISED AND COMPLICATED PROCESS m PRINCIPALLY BECAUSE OF ITS DISCRIMINATORY REGULATIONS )N THE SECOND PHASE OF THE REFORM BETWEEN AND THE 3TATE POLICY WAS TO REPURCHASE LAND AND TO ALLOW VILLAGERS WHO HAD THE MONEY TO BUY THE LAND WHICH HAD BEEN TEMPORARILY RENTED PRO VIDED IT WAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF AGRARIAN REFORM &ROM ONWARDS

THE LAND WHICH WAS GIVEN TO VILLAGERS WAS ACKNOWLEDGED AS THEIR PROPERTY !GRARIAN MAXIMISATION GREW HIGHER AND HIGHER WITH FROM AN INITIAL HECTARES TO HECTARES !FTER THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR AND THE FORCED DEPORTATION OF 6OJVODINA S 'ERMANS AGRICULTURE SUFFERED THROUGH SIGNIFICANT CHANG ES BECAUSE OF WORKFORCE SHORTAGES 4HE AGRARIAN REFORM PLANS SAW THE RELOCATION OF OVER FAMILIES FROM "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA

-ONTENEGRO AND #ROATIA WHO WERE BEING COMPENSATED FOR THEIR WAR LOSSES $URING THE FIRST POST WAR YEAR MILLION HECTARES WAS TILLED m RESTORING THE LEVEL .EVERTHELESS THE FOLLOWING DECADE SAW FARMERS AND FARMHANDS BROUGHT TO THE BRINK OF DISASTER IN 6OJVODINA 7ITH SMALLHOLDERS FORCED TO RANSOM LAND AND THE 3TATEiS HOLDINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY ENLARGED AT THE EXPENSE AND WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF RURAL 6OJVODINANS THE PROVINCEiS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION LEVELS PLUMMETED .OWADAYS THINGS HAVE CHANGED !CCORDING TO THE DECLARED INTEN TIONS OF THE CURRENT PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF 6OJVODINA ITS AGRARIAN REFORM AIMS AMOUNT TO THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF THE REFORMS CARRIED OUT BY THE FORMER COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT

lhz{¾~lz{êkp}pkl 4ODAY THE SIZE OF LAND AVAILABLE TO BE PRIVATELY OWNED IS UNLIM ITED AND THE MODERN STATE RECOGNISES THAT IT IS IN ITS OWN INTERESTS TO SUPPORT THE AGRICULTURISTS WHO WILL BE ABLE TO CONSTANTLY PROVIDE A WIDE RANGE AND LARGE AMOUNT OF PRODUCTS TO THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD !ND A KEY STEP TOWARDS THAT GOAL SAYS THE PROVINCIAL GOVERN MENT IS THE CONSOLIDATION OF LAND /F LAND REGISTRY MUNICIPALITIES A THIRD HAVE YET TO BE INCLUDED IN LAND CONSOLIDATION 4HE LARGEST PLANNED AREAS FOR CONSOLIDATION ARE IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF !LIBUNAR 6RpAC :RENJANIN 3EÍANJ +ANJIÝA

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CHANNEL S WEBS FOR PROLIFERATION OF INCREMENT IN PRIMARY AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE LAND FROM EROSION ! FEW YEARS BACK THE 3ERBIAN 'OVERNMENT DECIDED TO HELP THE ENLARGEMENT OF VILLAGERSi HOLDINGS BY PROVIDING _ MILLION TO FINANCE EACH THIRD HECTARE BOUGHT -ANY SUPPORTED THAT INITIATIVE JUST AS MANY SUPPORTED THE 'OVERNMENT S STANCE THAT THIS WAY OF FINANCING THE CONSOLIDATION OF HOLDINGS SHOULD BE CANCELLED BECAUSE OF ALLEGED CORRUPTION AND MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS (OWEVER THE BIGGEST PROBLEM CONFRONTING THE POLICY OF LAND CONSOLIDATION AS A METHOD OF ENLARGING RURAL HOLDINGS IS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF LAND REGISTRIES AND THE CLEARING OF LEGAL RELATIONS /NLY THEN CAN A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO THE LAND POLICY BE COMMENCED ,AND CONSOLIDATION IN PRACTISE MEANS THAT A FARMER WHO OWNS

THREE SMALL PLOTS OF LAND AT THE START OF THE PROCESS WILL END UP GETTING ONE LARGER PIECE OF TILLABLE LAND (OWEVER THE PROFESSIONAL

AND PERHAPS MORE PRECISE DEFINITION SAYS THAT LAND CONSOLIDATION IS ACTUALLY ABOUT COLLECTING PIECES OF LAND INTO A LAND CONSOLIDATION MASS IN A CERTAIN AREA WHICH IS USUALLY THE LAND REGISTER MUNICIPAL ITY IN ORDER TO SPLIT THE OWNERSHIP OF SMALL PLOTS OF LAND THAT ARE INSUFFICIENTLY PREPARED FOR CULTIVATION WITH LARGE PLOTS OF LAND THAT ARE COMPLETELY UNPREPARED FOR CULTIVATION !CCORDING TO THE DATA OF THE 2EPUBLIC 'EODESY )NSTITUTION AND THE 0ROVINCIAL 3ECRETARIAT FOR !GRICULTURE 6OJVODINA HAS AROUND MILLION HECTARES SUITABLE FOR LAND CONSOLIDATION AND WITHIN THAT IS ALSO AGRICULTURAL AND NON AGRICULTURAL LAND !LL THAT HAS BEEN DONE MOSTLY WAS DONE UNTIL WHILE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE h S THEY WERE IN FINISH BY LAND CONSOLIDATION WHICH HAD BEEN STARTED 4HE MOST PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN THE "AÍKA REGION FOLLOWED BY 3REM

WHILE THE REGION OF "ANAT HAS THE LEAST CONSOLIDATED LAND 0ARTIALLY BECAUSE OF LACK OF THE MONEY AND PARTIALLY BECAUSE OF LACK OF CARE OF THE AUTHORITY LAND CONSOLIDATION WAS PRACTICALLY STOPPED YEARS AGO WHILE TODAY IT HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY FORGOTTEN DESPITE THE MANY ADVANTAGES OF EXPLOITING ARABLE LAND )N MUNICIPALITIES WHERE LAND CONSOLIDATION WAS NOT FINISHED

AVERAGE SURFACE OF ONE PIECE OF LAND IS A LITTLE BIG BIGGER THAN

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GIFTS AND OTHER LEGAL OWNERSHIP ACTIONS 4HE OCCUPIED SOCIAL LAND IS DISCOVERED WHICH ACCORDING TO SO FAR EXPERIENCES WHERE LAND CONSOLIDATION HAS BEEN DONE ARE BETWEEN ò OF A TOTAL ARE WHICH IS TO BE CONSOLIDATED !LSO A NEW ORGANISATIONS OF ATTARS IS TO BE CRE ATED WHICH SHOULD REFLECT IN A NEW PROJECTED ROAD NETWORK ADJUSTED TO EDUCATION OF NEW PROPER BOARDS DIRECTED TO EAST WEST AND LONGER SIDES OF PIECES OF LAND NORTH SOUTH 7ITH PIECES OF LAND ORIENTATION LIKE THIS BECAUSE OF BETTER SUN THROUGH BIGGER INCREMENT OF ALL CUL TURES ARE GOING TO BE ACHIEVED 2OADS ARE BECOMING WIDER AND MORE FUNCTIONAL ADJUSTED TO MODERN AGRICULTURE MACHINES !PPROACH TO EACH FURROW IS SECURED AND WITH REGULATION AND EXPENDING OF EXIST ING CHANNELS DIGGING A NEW ONES DIGGING DRAINAGE CHANNELS BY BUILDING A DIKE TOTALLY WILL BE SOLVED IRRIGATION AND PROTECTION OF THE LAND (AVING IN MIND A IMPORTANCE OF LAND CONSOLIDATION THE STATE SHOULD CONSIDER POSSIBILITIES TO SECURE MONEY FOR ARABLE LANDS WITHIN A NEXT YEAR AGRARIAN BUDGET BUT NOT TO BUY THEM AGAIN AND INCREASE HOUSE HOLDINGS BUT TO ENLARGE NUMBER OF PIECES OF LAND j4O COMPLETE THE CONSOLIDATION OF HECTARES OF UNCULTI VATED LAND IN 6OJVODINA IT IS NECESSARY TO SECURE _ MILLION &OR CONSOLIDATION OF PLOTS OF LAND ALONE THE PROCESS WOULD COST AROUND _ PER HECTARE OR IF ALL THAT GOES WITH THIS WORK IS TO BE DONE SUCH AS PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTING WIND PROOF BELTS OR BY LEAVING CORRI DORS FOR THE ROADS THEN THE WHOLE PROCESS WOULD COST MUCH MORE k ANNOUNCED THE )NSPECTORATE FOR ,AND #ONSOLIDATION OF THE 2EPUBLIC 'EODESY INSTITUTE IN .OVI 3AD CorD \ *UNE

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3ERBIA IS A NATION OF SELF PROCLAIMED PUNDITS !S SUCH PEOPLE HERE WILL BE QUICK TO TELL YOU WITH EXPERT ASSUREDNESS THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF 3ERBIA WINNING THE 7ORLD 7ATER POLO #HAMPIONSHIPS ARE HIGH BUT THE CHANCES OF 3ERBIA BECOMING FOOTBALL WORLD CHAMPIONS ARE VIRTUALLY NONEXISTENT 5NTIL VERY RECENTLY THE CHANCES OF 3ERBIA PROVING VICTORIOUS AT THE %UROVISION 3ONG #ONTEST WERE IN THE SAME REALMS OF POSSIBILITY AS THOSE OF THE COUNTRY WINNING THE FOOTBALL 7ORLD #UP I E SLIM TO NONE $ESPITE THE FACT THAT »ELJKO *OKSIMOVIÌ SECURED RUNNER UP SPOT FOR THE THEN 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO 3TATE 5NION AT THE %UROVISION WITH THE SONG j,ANE MOJEk -Y FAWN OPTIMISM REGARDING %UROVISION WAS NOT HIGH IN 3ERBIA $ESPITE THE FACT THAT THE REAL EXPERTS HAD PREDICTED 3ERBIA WOULD DO WELL AT %UROVISION THIS YEAR

3ERBIAiS AMATEUR PUNDITS WERE READY TO ACCEPT DEFEAT BEGRUDGINGLY AND BLAME GLOBAL CONSPIRACIES AND UNFAIR VOTING TACTICS FOR THE COUNTRYiS CERTAIN FAILURE TO WIN AT %UROVISION 4HE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE HOWEVER

CAN AND DOES BECOME REALITY -ARIJA fERIFOVIÌ AND THE SONG j-OLITVAk 0RAYER ARE WINNERS OF THE %UROVISION 3ONG #ONTEST m THUS MARKING 3ERBIAiS FIRST SOLO VICTORY AT THE FIRST %UROVISION THE COUNTRY HAS CONTESTED IN ON ITS OWN 4HE VICTORY ENSURED THAT THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES FAILED TO HOLD WATER AND THAT WISE GAMBLERS MADE WINNINGS BY BETTING ON j-OLITVAk WITH THE BOOKMAKERS /THER MYTHS OF 3ERBIAN MUSIC WERE ALSO SHATTERED 0ERHAPS THE MOST INTERESTING ELEMENT TO OBSERVE IN THE WAKE OF 3ERBIAiS %UROVISION VICTORY IS HOW THE IMAGE OF %UROVISION HAS ITSELF EXPERIENCED A WHOLESALE TURNAROUND /VER RECENT YEARS THE %UROVISION 3ONG #ONTEST HAS BEEN LABELLED BY PEOPLE IN 3ERBIA AS THE GREATEST 46 KITSCH PARADE A HAPPENING IN WHICH EVERYTHING ELSE BUT MUSIC MATTERS MORE A POLITICAL THAN MUSICAL EVENT %UROVISION HAS BEEN VIEWED AS A HAPPENING THAT WISE PEOPLE AND INTELLIGENT NATIONS SHOULD AVOID ALTO GETHER (OWEVER AFTER fERIFOVIÌiS VICTORY EVERYTHING HAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN ALL OF A SUDDEN %UROVISION HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSIC COMPETITIONS IN THE WORLD 4HE ETERNAL INJUSTICES HAVE BEEN QUICK LY FORGOTTEN AS %UROVISION HAS GROWN TO BECOME OF PRIME IMPORTANCE TO THE GLOBAL IMAGE OF THE COUNTRY )NDEED THE VICTORY OF -ARIJA fERIFOVIÌ HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED AS PROOF POSITIVE OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE ART OF MUSIC OVER DIFFERENT CALCULATIONS !LSO WHOLEHEARTEDLY FORGIVEN AFTER YEARS OF LOCAL OBJECTIONS IS THE VOTING METHOD THAT SEES VOTING ARRANGED SO AS TO PERMIT REGIONAL SUPPORT AND THUS MAKE THE REGULARITY OF THE WHOLE VOTING SUSPICIOUS !LL THIS SIMPLY SHOWS THAT WHEN YOU FINALLY WIN THE %UROVISION 3ONG #ONTEST NO LONGER SEEMS SO STUPID $ESPITE 3ERBIAiS WIN SCEPTICAL THEORIES PERSIST m ALBEIT AMONG THE LOSING NATIONS )NDEED THOSE WHO FAILED TO WIN %UROVISION ARE EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO BE BITTER BUT ALSO THEIR RIGHT TO HYPOTHESISE ABOUT WHY AND HOW fERIFOVIÌ WON 7HILE -ARIJA AND 3ERBIA CELEBRATE %UROPEiS LOSING NATIONS HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THEIR OWN CONSPIRACY THEORIES %UROPEiS MEDIA HOUSES AND E FORUMS HAVE SEEN SEVERAL IDEAS FLOATED m THE MOST OUTLANDISH BEING THAT 3ERBIA WAS GIFTED THE %UROVISION VICTORY AS COM PENSATION OVER THE UPCOMING LOSS OF +OSOVO WITH THE MOST PREDICTABLE BEING THE OLD FAVOURITE ACCUSATION THAT NEIGHBOURLY VOTING HAS ONCE AGAIN JEOPARDISED THE ENTIRE COMPETITION )T APPEARS THAT THE STRONGEST NEGATIVE REACTIONS TO -OLITVAiS VIC TORY ARE THOSE COMING FROM NEIGHBOURING #ROATIA $ESPITE THE FORMER 9UGOSLAV REPUBLIC GIVING THE MAXIMUM POINTS TO 3ERBIAiS ENTRANT THE POST %UROVISION REACTIONS IN #ROATIA HAVE BEEN EXTREME AND IN SOME INSTANCES DISTINCTLY NATIONALIST #ROATIAN )NTERNET FORUMS SIZZLED FOR DAYS AFTER THE %UROVISION 3ONG #ONTEST 4HERE WERE THOSE WHO OFFERED GENU INE CONGRATULATIONS TO 3ERBIA ON THE VICTORY BUT THERE WAS ALSO MANY WHO SEVERELY CRITICISED THOSE CITIZENS OF #ROATIA WHO VOTED FOR THE j3ERB

AGGRESSORSk THERE WERE ALSO THOSE IN #ROATIA WHO RUDELY COMMENTED ON THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND ALLEGED SEXUAL PREFERENCES OF THIS YEARiS WINNER 9ES IT SEEMS THAT POLITICAL REPERCUSSIONS COULDNiT BE AVOIDED AT THIS YEARiS %UROVISION %UROPEAN OFFICIALS WELCOMED THE FACT THAT THE #ROATS "OSNIANS 3ERBS -ACEDONIANS AND 3LOVENIANS MOSTLY GAVE THEIR MAXIMUM POINTS TO THEIR FORMER COUNTRYMEN AND IN ALL FAIRNESS

THE FRUSTRATION OF THE #ROATIAN PUBLIC IS EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE 4HIS IS BECAUSE #ROATIA WAS THE LEADING REPUBLIC WHEN IT CAME TO POPULAR MUSIC DURING THE TIME OF THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA AND PERFORMERS FROM #ROATIA TRADITIONALLY REPRESENTED 9UGOSLAVIA AT %UROVISION !S AN INDEPENDENT STATE THOUGH #ROATIA HAS STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN ITS REPUTATION AS A MUSI CAL NATION IN THE %UROVISION COMMUNITY AND YEARS OF FRUITLESS %UROVISION PARTICIPATION PEAKED THIS YEAR WHEN #ROATIAiS ENTRANT FAILED EVEN TO REACH THE FINALS 3ERBIA ON THE OTHER HAND HAS OUTDONE ITSELF 7IDELY PER CEIVED AS A COUNTRY OF TACKY TURBO FOLK AND SILICON SINGERS 3ERBIA SHOWED A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACE AT THIS YEARiS %UROVISION )NSTEAD OF ARTIFICIALLY CULTIVATED LONG LEGGED SINGERS FIGHTING WITH THE SIMPLEST OF MUSICAL NOTA TIONS 3ERBIA OFFERED A GIRL WHO FEW WOULD DESCRIBE AS A hBEAUTYi BUT WHO CAN ACTUALLY SING INSTEAD OF A VAMPED SCREAMER A SHORT GIRL IN MANiS OVERCOAT STEPPED ON THE STAGE IN (ELSINKI AND WENT ON TO PROVE THAT TALENT ITSELF CAN BE ENOUGH TO ENSURE SUCCESS -ARIJA fERIFOVIÌiS VICTORY WAS ONE IN THE EYE FOR THOSE WHO ARE QUICK TO CRITICISE THE GENERALLY PERCEIVED 3ERBIAN MUSIC SCENE THOSE WHO CLAIM THAT

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ul~sې hjjylkp{lk H.E. Jean-François Terral, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France Born 25th January 1948 in Bordeaux, Ambassador Terral graduated from the Institute for political studies IEP in Bordeaux with an MBA in public law, before going on to graduate from the college of administration (Ecole nationale d’administration) in 1975. At that time he became a public service ofďŹ cer, and between 1975 and 1980 he served with the French Transport Ministry (Civil aviation). Ambassador Terral joined the French Foreign Ministry in 1980 and went on to serve as First Secretary of the French Mission to the UN in Geneva (‘81–’85), First Secretary of the French Embassy in Algeria (‘85–’88), Second Counsellor to the French Ambassador in Warsaw (‘88–’89) and First Counsellor to the French Ambassador in Warsaw (‘89–’92). In 1992 he returned to France, where he was assigned to the Central Directorate for French citizens abroad and foreign citizens in France, as Chief of the Foreign Residents in France Sector.

Between 1996 and 2000 he held the post of Director of OFPRA (OfďŹ ce français pour la protection des rĂŠfugiĂŠs et apatrides) the French OfďŹ ce for the Protection of Refugees and asylum seekers.

In 2000 he was accredited as the Ambassador of France in Skopje, FYR Macedonia, and between 2003 and 2007 he was Director for Continental Europe within the French foreign ministry.

H.E. Krister BringĂŠus, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden in Belgrade Born 1954 in Lund, Sweden, Ambassador BringĂŠus attended the ‘UniversitĂŠ d'Aix Marseille III’ from 1973–74, and graduated with Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Uppsala in 1976 and LL.B. University of Stockholm in 1979. He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Military Sciences since 2000, and he earned a Dr h.c. (political science), from Almaty State University, Kazakhstan, in 2003. During his military service he attended the Armed Forces Language School, the Parachute Rangers Regiment.

After joining the Swedish MFA in 1979, he went on to serve as Second Secretary, Pyongyang (1980), Second Secretary, London (1981) and First Secretary, Moscow (1984).

Returning home in 1987 to head up the Swedish MFA’s Personnel Section, he was again posted abroad in 1990: First Secretary in Bonn.

He then served as Political Counsellor, Washington (1992), Director, the Division for European Security Policy, MFA Stockholm (1997), Deputy Director General, and Head of the Division for European Security Policy, MFA Stockholm (from 1998). In 2002 he was appointed Permanent Representative of Sweden to the OSCE. Ambassador BringĂŠus, who has published numerous articles and essays on Foreign & Security Policy, is the father of three sons and one daughter. He is also accredited as the new Ambassador of Sweden to Montenegro.

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WAS A VIOLINIST WHO WAS THE FOUNDER AND CONDUCTOR OF THE "OMBAY 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA !T THE AGE OF AFTER CONSIDERING A CAREER IN MEDICINE :UBIN ENTERED THE 6IENNA !CADEMY OF -USIC LEARNED TO PLAY THE DOUBLE BASS IN ORDER TO JOIN THE !CADEMY S ORCHESTRA AND TOOK CONDUCTING LESSONS FROM (ANS 3WAROWSKY (E GRADUATED FROM THE !CADEMY IN AND MADE HIS PROFESSIONAL DEBUT IN 6IENNA

GUEST CONDUCTING THE 4ONKยคNSTLER /RCHESTRA )N A ,ONDON APPEARANCE IN -EHTA BECAME THE FIRST )NDIAN TO CONDUCT A MAJOR "RITISH ORCHESTRA ! VICTORY IN THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTORS COMPETI TION ORGANISED BY THE 2OYAL ,IVERPOOL 0HILHARMONIC /RCHESTRA LED TO A ONE YEAR APPOINTMENT AS THEIR ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR !FTER COMPLET ING HIS YEAR LONG TENURE -EHTA WAS ENGAGED TO CONDUCT THE 6IENNA 0HILHARMONIC /RCHESTRA AND MADE ANOTHER IMPORTANT AND SUCCESS FUL GUEST CONDUCTING POSITION WITH THE 0HILADELPHIA /RCHESTRA )N -EHTA WAS ASKED TO CONDUCT THE FIRST OF THE NOW LEGENDARY 4HREE 4ENORS CONCERTS -EHTA PROVED A HIGHLY APPROPRIATE CHOICE

BEING ONE OF THE FEW CONDUCTORS WITH THE CHARISMA TO MATCH THE WELL PRACTICED STAGECRAFT OF THE THREE STAR TENORS 4HE CONCERT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS WITH A WORLDWIDE TELEVISION AUDIENCE AND ENORMOUS RECORD SALES 7HEN THE PHENOMENON WAS REPEATED IN FROM ,OS !NGELES -EHTA AGAIN CONDUCTED 3INCE -EHTA HAS BEEN MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE "AVARIAN 3TATE /PERA IN -UNICH (E MADE SEVERAL TOURS WITH THE "AVARIAN 3TATE /PERA AND MAINTAINED A BUSY SCHEDULE OF GUEST CONDUCTING APPEAR ANCES IN THE NEW CENTURY

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INSTITUTIONS REACH A LEVEL OF INTER INSTITUTIONAL CO OPERATION THAT RESULTED IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS 3UCH PROJECTS ARE NOT ACHIEVED THROUGH PERSONAL CONTACTS INSTITUTIONS ARE NECESSARY TO SUPPORT THEM IN ORDER TO HARMO NISE THEIR JOINT INTERESTS REGARDING THE SAME THING )N ORDER TO ACHIEVE THAT IT TAKES THREE TO FOUR YEARS 3O IT TAKES TIME m NOT ONLY GOODWILL AND MONEY m AND OF COURSE THE INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY 4HIS SPRING IT SEEMS ALL THOSE ELEMENTS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TOGETHER k 4HE EXHIBITION j0ARALLEL STORIESk WAS INITIATED BY THE #ULTURAL #ENTRE OF "ELGRADE WHICH CELEBRATED ITS TH BIRTHDAY AT THE END OF !PRIL AND THE 3AINT %TIENNE #ONTEMPORARY !RT -USEUM 4HE #ULTURAL #ENTRE OF "ELGRADE CONTRIBUTES TO THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE CAPITAL CITY EVERY DAY WITH PAINTINGS MUSIC AND LITERARY PROGRAMMES IT ORGANISES THE POPULAR /CTOBER 3ALON m ARGUABLY THE GREATEST INTERNATIONAL PAINTING EVENT IN OUR COUNTRY m AND SIGNIFICANT FESTIVALS AND EVENTS MAKING "ELGRADE A PART OF %UROPE 4HE #ONTEMPORARY !RT -USEUM IN 3AINT %TIENNE HAS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN &RANCE 4HE #O OPERATION OF THESE TWO INSTITUTIONS STARTED LAST SUMMER BUT NOT BECAUSE OF THE EXHIBITION j0ARALLEL STORIESk *OVOVIÌ 0RODANOVIÌ EXPLAINS THAT -R ,ORAN (EGI -ANAGER OF THE 3AINT %TIENNE #ONTEMPORARY !RT -USEUM WAS HERE LAST SPRING IN "ELGRADE AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE PROGRAMME OF THE ORGANISATION 0RO !RT /RG j(E HELD A COUPLE OF LECTURES AND ONE OF THEM WAS IN THE #ULTURAL #ENTRE OF "ELGRADE 4HEN HE SAID THAT HIS -USEUM HAS A TRAVELLING EXHIBITION THAT THEY WERE ALREADY IN "RATISLAVA 0ARMA "UDAPEST AND

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SPECIALISATION AND EXPERIMENTING WITH MATTER !MONGST THE ARTISTS CHO SEN BY EXHIBITION CUSTODIAN 2ENATO -IRACCO FOR ILLUSTRATING THIS STORY ARE !FRO "ALLA #APOGROSSI #ARRA &ONTANA AND 6EDOVA "REAKING 3TEP 5 RASKORAKU m ORGANISED BY THE "RITISH #OUNCIL AND THE -USEUM OF #ONTEMPORARY !RT IN "ELGRADE IS THE FIRST MAJOR EXHIBI TION OF "RITISH CONTEMPORARY ART IN 3ERBIA FOR YEARS 4HE EXHIBITION FEATURES WORKS OF IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIVES OF "RITISH STAGE ARTISTS OF HIGH INTERNATIONAL RENOWN !MONGST THEM ARE 4URNER 0RIZE WINNERS *EREMY $ELLER AND 'ILLIAN 7EARING AS WELL AS FAMOUS -IKE .ELSON AND 0HIL #OLLINS %XHIBITION CUSTODIAN IS "RANISLAV $IMITRIJEVIร WITH #AROLINE $OUGLAS 3INIpA -ITROVIร AND *ELENA 6ESIร )T IS INDEED UNUSUAL THAT THE CUSTODIAN OF AN EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY THE "RITISH #OUNCIL IS NOT A "RIT THE CHOICE OF "ELGRADE CUSTODIANS FOR THE j"REAKING STEPk EXHIBITION IS

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THAT ARTISTS FROM VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTS HAVE HAD IN THEIR WORK MANY SIMILARITIES AND j0ARALLEL STORIES PROVE THAT WITH THE EXAMPLES OFFERED BY &RENCH AND !MERICAN AUTHORS 4HE OTHER TWO MAJOR EXHIBITIONS MARKING THIS SPRING IN "ELGRADE m )TALIAN !BSTRACT !RT AND "REAKING 3TEP m AN EXHIBITION OF THE "RITISH MODERN ARTk INCLUDE WORKS FROM THE TH CENTURY THAT MARKED THE MOD ERN AND ABSTRACT FIELDS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES 4HESE EXHIBITIONS m ALSO A RESULT OF CROSS INSTITUTIONAL CO OPERATION m ALLOWED "ELGRADERS TO SEE A BROAD CROSS SECTION OF THE MAJOR ACCENTS OF GLOBAL MODERN ART DURING JUST A SINGLE STROLL THROUGH THE CITYiS MAJOR GALLERIES 4HE )TALIAN ABSTRACT ART EXHIBITION WAS A RESULT OF CO OPERATION BETWEEN THE -INISTRY OF &OREIGN !FFAIRS OF THE 2EPUBLIC OF )TALY THE )TALIAN %MBASSY IN "ELGRADE THE )TALIAN #ULTURE )NSTITUTE IN "ELGRADE

AND THE 'ALLERY OF THE 3ERBIAN !CADEMY OF 3CIENCE AND !RTS 0RIOR TO ITS ARRIVAL IN "ELGRADE THE EXHIBITION WAS PRESENTED IN ,ONDON AND "UCHAREST 4HE EXHIBITION DOCUMENTS APPEARANCE OF ABSTRACT ART IN )TALY IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE TH CENTURY AND THE PROCESS OF ITS DEVELOP MENT OVER THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS 3EVENTY EXHIBITED WORKS ILLUSTRATE DIF FERENT PHASES OF )TALIAN ABSTRACT ART FROM CREATIONS OF FUTURISTS TO THE PERIOD CHARACTERISED BY jCONCRETISM TO THE ART OF THE SEVENTH DECADE

A GREAT EXCEPTION AND A SIGN OF THE GREAT TRUST PLACED IN THEIR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE .AMELY AS WE KNOW THE "RITISH #OUNCIL PRODUCES PROJECTS ON ITS OWN AND SHOWS THEM IN CITIES OF VARIOUS STATES IN THE FORM OF TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS !LMOST FOUR YEARS AGO #AROLINE $OUGLAS SUG GESTED A PROJECT LIKE THIS TO THE #ONTEMPORARY !RT -USEUM (OWEVER

THE TENDENCY OF THE #ONTEMPORARY !RT -USEUM IS THAT THE EXHIBITIONS IT SHOWS BE ORGANISED EXACTLY FOR THEIR SPACE AND FOR "ELGRADE IN ORDER TO ENSURE EXCLUSIVITY WHILST ALSO ATTRACTING THEATREGOERS FROM ELSEWHERE 2ECOGNISING IN THE #ONTEMPORARY !RT -USEUM A REGIONAL CENTRE THE "RITISH #OUNCIL AGREED TO SET A PRECEDENT AND THE IDEA ABOUT THE LOCAL CUSTODIAN THAT WOULD ARRANGE THE EXHIBITION OF "RITISH ART BASED ON THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE SEEMED INTERESTING TO THEM BECAUSE THEIR CREATION IS RENDERING VIEW FROM THE OTHER ENVIRONMENT "RANISLAV $IMITRIJEVIร TOOK CARE THAT HIS CHOICE SHOULD BE AS HE SAYS jSOMETHING THAT WOULD IN THIS OR IN THAT WAY PERTAIN TO OUR LOCAL SITUATION 4HEREFORE THE EXHIBITION SHOWS MANY NEW WORKS MADE FOR THIS INSTANCE AND REINSTALLATION OF OLD WORKS ADAPTED TO OUR SPACE k "ELGRADE IS NOW IN A POSITION OF EQUAL PARTNER TO FOREIGN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS TO RECEIVE FOREIGN BUT ALSO TO OFFER ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE AND WORK !N EXCELLENT SIGN FOR THE FUTURE IS THE FACT THE NEXT STEP IN THE CREA TIVE CO OPERATION PROCESS HAS ALREADY BEEN ANNOUNCED IN A YEAR OR TWO EXHIBITIONS OF 3ERBIAN AND &RENCH ARTISTS BASED ON THE CHOICE OF 3AINT %TIENNE -USEUM WILL BE OPENED CorD \ *UNE

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NEVER HAD ANY FORMAL TRAINING EVERYTHING ) DO WAS LEARNT THROUGH MY CHILDHOOD ) FIRST STARTED TO PAINT WHEN ) WAS ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OLD AND AS ) GOT OLDER ) STARTED TO HANG OUT WITH OLDER ARTISTS WATCHING HOW THEY WORKED 4HEN ) WOULD GO HOME AND PRACTICE ) USE TO SPEND HOURS TRYING TO GET THE COLOUR AND SHADES JUST THE WAY ) WANTED BUT MY FORTE WAS ALWAYS DRAW ING AND SKETCHING IN COLOUR AND BLACK PENCIL m SO SAYS ICON FRESCO AND PORTRAIT ARTIST .ENAD (UBER WHO HAS SPENT MORE THAN YEARS PAINTING AND WHOSE LATEST EXHIBITION j)CONS AND PAINTINGS ON WOODk RECENTLY OPENED AT ,UKOILiS .EW "ELGRADE HEADQUARTERS

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9OU PAINTED THE FRESCOS IN THE CHURCH HALL IN "ELANOVICA 7HAT INSPIRED YOU TO WORK THERE ) HAVE WORKED ON A LARGE NUMBER OF &RESCOS AND ICONS IN DIF FERENT CHURCHES AND EVEN A MONASTERY 4HE CHURCH IN "ELANOVICA WAS BUILT IN AND THE HALL WAS CONSTRUCTED IN ABOUT 7E ARE CURRENTLY PREPARING TO COMPLETE THE FRESCO AND ICON PAINTINGS OF THE INSIDE OF THE CHURCH 4HE HALL IS ABOUT PER CENT COMPLETE ) AM CLOSELY TIED TO BOTH THE COMMUNITY AND THE LOCAL PARISH IN "ELANOVICA !LL THE WORK ) DO THERE IS MY GIFT TO THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN AND THE NEXT GENERATION )N THE "ELANOVICA CHURCH BUILDINGS ) HAVE HAD THREE LARGE CULTURAL EVENTS LASTING ABOUT DAYS EACH 4HESE INCLUDED ART ISTS SINGERS CHEFS SPIRITUAL LEADERS FILM DIRECTORS AND ACTORS "UT

9OU SAY THAT YOU HAD NO FORMAL ARTISTIC TRAINING BUT YOU HAVE STUDIED AT UNIVERSITY HAVE YOU NOT ) WENT TO SCHOOL IN "ELGRADE AND STUDIED THREE DIFFERENT PROFES SIONS AT UNIVERSITY BUT NONE OF THEM HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE ARTS 4HIS WAS A CLASSIC CASE OF j) DID FOR THE PARENTSk -Y FATHER SAID jPAINTING IS GREAT BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO LIVE ON k ) HAVE NOW BEEN MAKING A LIVING FROM MY ART FOR OVER YEARS AND HAVE RAISED TWO SONS AND STILL LIVE WITH THE SOME WOMEN ) MARRIED OVER YEARS AGO m A WOMAN ) STILL LOVE JUST LIKE ) DID WHEN WE FIRST MET

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9OU WERE BORN IN .OVI 3AD AND RAISED IN "ELGRADE BUT YOU NO LONGER CALL THE CITY HOME ) MOVED TO "ELANOVICA ABOUT YEARS AGO ) FOUND A SPECIAL CONNECTION TO NATURE SPECIFICALLY TO WOOD m WHICH ) USE EXTEN SIVELY IN MY WORK ) ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL CONNECTION WHEN ) PAINT THE )CONS THERE IS A SPECIAL PEACE BETWEEN MYSELF AND A GREATER POWER WHICH GUIDES ME "ELANOVICA IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE FOR ME AND IT HAS A LONG AND RICH HISTORY AND CULTURE 4HEIR SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED IN AND IT IS STILL GOING STRONG TODAY ) WOULD RECOM MEND THAT EVERYONE COME AND HAVE A LOOK AND ENJOY %VERYONE IS ALWAYS WELCOME IN "ELANOVICA

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9OU PAINT YOUR )CONS ON OLD WOOD AND STONE 7HAT INSPIRED YOU TO OPT TO WORK ON SUCH UNUSUAL MATERIALS /NE OF MY FRIENDS TOLD ME ONCE THAT ALTHOUGH GOLD SILVER AND PLATINUM ARE RARE MATERIALS WOOD IS THE MOST PRECIOUS ) THINK THAT WOOD IS THE ONLY MATERIAL THAT REALLY STARTS TO HAVE A LIFE OF ITS OWN AND REALLY STARTS TO LIVE ONCE IT STOPS LIVING

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jย ย ย ย ย ย -OST OF THE WOOD ) USE IS FOUND ON THE FOREST FLOOR IN MY LOCAL AREA 7HEN ) FIND THE WOOD ) REWORK IT IN A VERY BASIC WAY AND AS ) LIKE TO KEEP THE NATURAL TEXTURE IN MY WORK THE WOOD IS SELECTED BY ITS NATURAL SHAPE YOU WILL NOTICE THAT NONE OF MY WORK IS SQUARE 4HE WOOD TALKS TO ME THROUGH ITS SHAPE COLOUR AND AGE )N THAT WAY THE SELECTION IS MADE BY NATURE FOR ME AND ) JUST USE WHAT ) AM GIVEN ) ALSO USE A LOT OF OLD EVERYDAY ITEMS WHICH ) FIND IN OLD HOUSES m SUCH AS DOORS TABLES BED HEADS CHAIRS WINE BARRELS AND OTHER ITEMS WE TAKE FOR GRANTED BUT ARE FOUND AROUND US EVERYDAY 4HE STONE ) WORK ON IS ALSO FOUND LOCALLY ) TRY TO USE FLAT BED STONES AND COMBINE BOTH THE STONE AND WOOD TOGETHER 4HE ICONS ARE MADE TO BE DISPLAYED IN DIFFERENT WAYS IT CAN BE AN ICON THAT IS USED AS A WALL HANGING IN SOMEONEiS HOUSE OR IT COULD ALSO BE USED FOR SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE WHICH IS A VERY OLD 3ERBIAN TRADITION ) EVEN USE THE WOOD AND STONE TO MAKE CANDLESTICK HOLDERS WHICH IS MY TRADEMARK 7HEN ) USE AN ITEM OF WOOD OR STONE ) LET IT TELL ME WHAT TO PAINT ON IT ) DONiT KNOW WHAT ) AM PAINTING UNTIL ) START WORKING ON IT 3OMETIMES ) CAN START WORK ON AN ITEM THAT VERY SECOND

WHEREAS OTHER TIMES ) WILL PLACE IT IN FRONT OF ME AND WAIT UNTIL ) GET A FEELING ABOUT WHAT TO TRANSLATE ONTO IT !T OTHER TIMES ) WILL PLACE IT TO ONE SIDE AND WAIT UNTIL IT TELLS ME ITiS READY TO BE WORKED ON 9OU ARE THE ONLY ARTIST WORKING FOR THE EXCLUSIVE !LEKSANDROVIร VINEYARD AND YOUR WORK APPEARS ON THEIR HAND MADE WINE BOXES (OW DIFFICULT IS THIS WORK ) AM THE ONLY !RTIST THAT PAINTS FOR THEM 9OU MUST REMEMBER THAT THERE WINE IS VERY LIMITED AND CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED FROM THE WINERY ITSELF 4HEY ARE ONE OF THE BEST WINE PRODUCERS IN THE REGION AND AS ) LOVE TO WORK WITH WOOD ) WAS CONTACTED BY THEM TO DO A ONE OFF HAND PAINTED WOODEN WINE BOX FOR THE EXCLUSIVE LIMITED HANDMADE RANG OF WINES 4HEY ARE SPECIAL EDITION WINES AND THE WINERY GIVES ME COM PLETE FREEDOM TO PAINT WHAT ) FEEL FROM THE WOOD )N THAT WAY THEY BECOME VERY PERSONAL ITEMS AND ONCE THE WINE HAS BEEN ENJOYED YOU ARE LEFT WITH THE BOX WHICH YOU CAN USE IN A NUMBER OF WAYS SOME PEOPLE HAVE EVEN USED THEIR BOXES AS A WALL HANGING

) REVIVED THE OFFICIAL CREST OF THE CITY OF "ELGRADE AND RECEIVED A SPECIAL THANK YOU FOR MY HUMANITARIAN WORK FROM 4HE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA 7HY DO YOU THINK FRESCO AND )CON PAINTING ARE LOSING POPU LARITY AS ART FORMS $UE TO THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA THE #HURCH WAS PUT TO ONE SIDE AND SO THE ART FORM STARTED TO DIE OUT 7ITH THE CHANGES IN 3ERBIA THE #HURCH HAS COME BACK TO THE FORE AND THE ART OF FRESCO ICON PAINTING HAS SLOWLY STARTED RETURNING *UST LIKE WHEN ) WAS A CHILD ) NOW HAVE THE GOOD FORTUNE TO BE ABLE TO START PASSING ON MY WORK TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS

7HERE DO YOU DRAW THE INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WORK !S ) MENTIONED BEFORE MY INSPIRATION COMES FROM THE NATURAL STRUCTURE AND FORM OF THE WOOD OR STONE ) NEVER KNOW WHAT ) AM GOING TO FIND AND WHERE 7HEN ) START WORK ON A ICON ) FIRST READ ABOUT THE 3AINT ) AM PAINTING AND HIS LIFE OR HER LIFE ) THEN LET THEM GUIDE ME ) ALWAYS LIGHT A CANDLE SAY A PRAYER AND ASK THE SAINT FOR FORGIVENESS JUST BEFORE ) START PAINTING ) MEAN THIS IN AN ARTISTIC WAY IN THE HOPE THAT THE SAINT TO BE PAINTED WILL GUIDE ME INTO CREATING A SUCCESSFUL IMAGE OF THEM 7HO ELSE HAVE YOU WORKED FOR AS A PRIVATE ARTIST AND WHERE CAN WE FIND YOUR WORK ) AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON AN EXPOSITION FOR 2USSIAN COMPANY ,5+/),iS TH SOLO EXPO AND THE WORK ) PRODUCE WILL BE USED IN THEIR WORLDWIDE CALENDAR -Y WORK CAN BE FOUND EVEN AS FAR AWAY AS !USTRALIA #ANADA

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hê{}ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê °êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê êpê Ø ê ê ­ê "ECAUSE ) REALLY LOVE MY JOB THE MOST ) DONiT FIND THE WORK DIFFICULT AT ALL ) MEAN HOW COULD YOU FIND DIFFICULT SOMETHING THAT YOU ENJOY DOING )TiS ONLY WHEN )iM BETWEEN PROJECTS AND )iM NOT WORKING THAT ) FIND THINGS DIFFICULT ) DONiT LIKE FREE TIME ) EVEN PILE OBLIGATIONS UP DURING MY FREE TIME ) DONiT LIKE IT WHEN ) HEAR SOMEONE COMPLAINING THAT THEIR JOB IS DIFFICULT BUT THEY LIKE IT THE THINGS YOU LIKE SHOULDNiT BE DIFFICULT FOR YOU )T IS NEVER AN EFFORT TO ME TO ACT OR WORK AS A PRESENTER ON MORNING 46 ) DONiT KNOW HOW TO BE TIRED OR CROSS OR MOODY BECAUSE ) RELAX WHEN ) WORK 9OU GRADUATED ACTING AT THE "+ !#!$%-9 IN 7HAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO FOLLOW IN YOUR FAMOUS FATHERiS FOOTSTEPS BY BECOMING AN ACTRESS ) GREW UP IN AN ARTISTIC FAMILY AND THAT FACT HAS CERTAINLY INFLU ENCED MY CHOICE OF PROFESSION "UT MY PARENTS NEVER INSISTED THAT ) SHOULD BE AN ACTRESS WHEN ) GREW UP !CTUALLY IF THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO CHOOSE MY PROFESSION FOR ME ) WOULD MAYBE HAVE ENDED UP AN ASTRONAUT OR A AUTO MECHANIC OR A PILOT m ANYTHING BUT AN ACTRESS -Y MOTHER IS A BALLERINA BUT ) AM NOT -AYBE THIS IS BECAUSE ) WAS CHUBBY WHEN ) WAS LITTLE SO IT WAS A BIT DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE SUCH A CHUBBY LITTLE BALLERINA ) JEST 9ES ) WAS CONTAMINATED WITH

THAT VIRUS AT HOME BUT ) ALSO WANTED TO BE CONTAMINATED !ND )iM HAPPY THAT ) WASNiT IMMUNE TO IT $O YOU THINK THAT YOUR FATHERiS FAME HAS HELPED OR HIN DERED YOU IN YOUR CAREER )T HELPED ME ONLY BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE MORE EASILY REMEM BERED MY NAME THAT IS MY SURNAME )T IS ONLY IN THAT WAY THAT MY FATHERiS FAME HAS HELPED ME ) WAS NEVER GIVEN ANY ROLE BECAUSE OF MY FATHER )F ) HAVE LOST A ROLE BECAUSE OF HIM THEN YOU D BETTER ASK THOSE WHO THOUGHT THAT THIS IS A SUFFICIENT REASON TO SHUT ME OUT FROM SOMETHING 9OU HAVE APPEARED IN SOME OF 3ERBIAiS MOST POPULAR CONTEM PORARY 46 SERIES WHICH ONE DID YOU ENJOY WORKING ON THE MOST AND WHY ) SIMPLY LOVE WORKING ON 46 SO EACH ROLE WAS A JOY FOR ME 2EALLY EACH ROLE 4HE MOST IMPORTANT ONE WAS 4ATJANA IN THE SERIES j*ELENA BECAUSE IT WAS A BIG ROLE AND BECAUSE IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF MY CAREER AND IT PROVIDED ME WITH A SERIOUS OPPOR TUNITY TO BE REMEMBERED BY THE PEOPLE AND TO HAVE THEM LOVE ME

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9OU jSTARREDk IN THE VERY SUCCESSFUL ,OTO TELEVISION COM MERCIAL (OW WOULD YOU RESPOND TO THOSE WHO CLAIM THAT ACTORS ARE SELLING OUT BY DOING 46 ADVERTISEMENTS ) AM GLAD THAT ) APPEARED IN THE COMMERCIAL FOR ,OTTO LOT TERY !ND ) AM EVEN HAPPIER AND LOVED THE JOB EVEN MORE BECAUSE IT WAS AN ACTING ROLE ! 46 COMMERCIAL IS JUST A SWEET LIT TLE ALTERNATIVE FORMAT THROUGH WHICH YOU CAN ALSO SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW ) HAVE TRIED TO SHOW IT AND )iM HAPPY THAT PEOPLE LOVE IT )T ALSO WON THE JOURNALISTSi AWARD FOR THE BEST COMMERCIAL ) KNOW THAT THERE ARE THOSE WITH PREJUDICES REGARDING COMMERCIALS BUT ) DONiT HAVE THEM ) CONSIDER EVERYTHING ) WORK ON AS BEING IMPORTANT REGARDLESS OF THE FORM ) DO IT QUALITATIVELY ) NEVER DO ANYTHING HALF HEARTEDLY

BUT ALWAYS GIVE ò OF MYSELF AND )iM GLAD ABOUT THAT -ORE AND MORE INTERNATIONAL FILMS PROJECTS ARE BEING FILMED IN 3ERBIA $O YOU PREFER !RT (OUSE OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK IN (OLLYWOOD ) LIKE "OTH ) WOULD LOVE (OLLYWOOD TO HAPPEN TO ME BUT ) WOULD NEVER NEGLECT THE JOB ) HAVE HERE /F COURSE (OLLYWOOD IS MY DREAM AND BECAUSE ) BELIEVE IN DREAMS ) THINK THAT THEY WILL START BELIEVING IN ME AND WILL COME TRUE 7HAT DO YOU THINK THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR 3ERBIAN FILM ) LOVE DOMESTIC MOVIE 4HERE ARE SOME EXCELLENT DIRECTORS AND ACTORS HERE AND ) HOPE THAT THE FUTURE SHALL OFFER A CHANCE FOR EVE RYONE WHO IS REALLY WORTHY 7HAT DO YOU HAVE IN STORE FOR THE FUTURE DO YOU PLAN TO CONCENTRATE ON ACTING OR YOUR FLEDGLING TELEVISION CAREER "OTH ACTING AND MY 46 PRESENTING WORK ) NEVER GIVE UP ON THE PROFESSIONS ) LOVE OR THE PEOPLE ) LOVE )TiS SIMPLY ME CorD \ *UNE

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UGUST IN "ELGRADE &ORTY DEGREES IN THE SHADE 5NCLE 'EORGE IN HOSPI TAL WITH MILD CONCUSSION AFTER FALLING IN HIS KITCHEN AND KNOCKING HIS HEAD ON THE MICROWAVE 0OSTBOX BRIMFUL OF LETTERS AND PIZZA DELIVERY SERVICE ADVERTISEMENTS !MONG THE LETTERS THREE IDENTICAL LOOKING OFFICIAL ONES 4HE SORT OF LETTERS THAT WILL PERHAPS ONE DAY HAVE / ( - 3 AT THE TOP IF WE REALLY DECIDE TO RETURN THAT !NGLO WIMP 0RINCE !LEKSANDER +ARADJORDJE TO THE THRONE )F HE WANTS MY SUPPORT HE WILL HAVE TO TAKE A FEW INTENSIVE COURSES IN 3ERBIAN FIRST TO GET HIS GRAMMAR SORTED OUT 4HE THREE OFFICIAL LETTERS WERE THREE INVITATIONS TO REPORT TO MY LOCAL POLICE STATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE EACH ONE SLIGHTLY MORE INSISTENT THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE ALTHOUGH BY THE THIRD THEY SEEMED TO HAVE DISCOVERED THAT ) WAS AWAY ON HOLIDAY -Y CONSCIENCE WAS CLEAR AND ANYWAY ) REASONED IF ) WAS ACCUSED OF SOME HEINOUS CRIME THEY WOULD HAVE HAD )NTERPOL AFTER ME AND ALSO THAT UNLESS THEY ALREADY HAD SOMEONE WATCHING THE BUILDING THEY WOULD NOT KNOW ) HAD RETURNED .O 5NCLE 'EORGE WAS DEFINITELY MY FIRST PRIORITY !FTER ALL HE WAS NINETY ONE !GE BEFORE BEAUTY j4HE POLICE WANT TO SEE YOU IN CONNECTION WITH .EBOJpAiS ACCIDENT ) DIDNiT TELL THEM ANYTHING REALLY k -Y CONSCIENCE SUDDENLY FOUND ITSELF ENSHROUDED IN MIST 7HAT COULD THEY HAVE DISCOVERED j/F COURSE YOU DIDNiT 5NCLE 'EORGE $ONiT WORRY ABOUT THAT ITiS JUST A FORMALITY *UST GET BETTER AND COME HOME k ) LET HIM KISS MY NOSE THOUGH THE MEAL HE MADE OF THE OPPORTUNITY HAD ME WONDERING WHETHER HE HAD HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES "UT ) DREW THE LINE AT LETTING HIM SEE MY NAVEL SOMETHING HE HAD BEEN BEGGING ME TO LET HIM DO FOR AGES j5NCLE 'EORGE PLEASE 7HAT WILL THAT MAN IN THE NEXT BED THINK k j/H IT WILL GIVE HIM A THRILL (EiS ONLY SEVENTY FIVE (E CAN STILL m YOU KNOW WHATbk 9ES ) KNEW PERFECTLY WELL WHAT HE COULD STILL DO AND MAKING AN INSTANT AND SILLY EXCUSE ABOUT HAVING LEFT THE OVEN ON FLED FROM THE WARD ) LOVE OLD PEOPLE BUT NOT THE SMELL OF EIGHT SICK ONES IN ONE ROOM )T COULD HARDLY BE DESCRIBED AS A FITTING FAREWELL VISIT 5NCLE 'EORGE HAD A STROKE DURING THE NIGHT AND DIED AT FIVE THIRTY IN THE MORNING 4HEY TELEPHONED ME AT SEVEN AND ) WENT TO SEE HIM ) LET HIM KISS MY NOSE JUST ONE LAST TIME WITH HIS ICE COLD PUCKERED LIPS 4HEY COULD HAVE HAD THE DECENCY TO REPLACE HIS TEETH BEFORE ) ARRIVED )T OCCURRED TO ME THAT IF ) HAD LET HIM SEE MY NAVEL HE MIGHT HAVE GONE TO SLEEP SATISFIED AND NOT HAD A STROKE 0ERHAPS ) WOULD NEVER

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KNOW "UT WHEREVER ) WENT ) SEEMED TO SOW DEATH ) SHOULD JOIN SOME TER RORIST ORGANISATION AND MAKE A FORTUNE MYSTERIOUSLY LIQUIDATING UNPOPULAR POLITICIANS AND WORLD LEADERS SIMPLY BY MY IMMEDIATE PRESENCE 4ONY "LAIR COLLAPSED AND DIED TODAY DURING A WALKABOUT IN HIS CONSTITUENCY OF 3EDGEFIELD (E WAS SHAKING HANDS WITH A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN IN THE CROWD WHEN HE WAS SEEN TO CLUTCH AT HIS CHEST WITH HIS LEFT HAND HIS FACE CONTORTED IN AGONY AND HE FELL TO THE GROUND BEFORE HIS BODYGUARDS COULD GRAB HOLD OF HIM (E WAS RUSHED TO 3EDGEFIELD 'ENERAL (OSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL 4HE 0RIME -INISTERiS MYSTERIOUS DEATH WAS APPARENTLY DUE TO SUDDEN HEART FAILURE

ALTHOUGH -R "LAIRiS HEALTH HAD BEEN DECLARED TO BE ! AT A RECENT ROU TINE MEDICAL CHECK UP 4HE LAST PERSON TO TOUCH THE 0RIME -INISTER ALIVE HAS BEEN NAMED AS 3LAVICA "ERESFORD A 9UGOSLAV CITIZEN WHOSE "RITISH HUSBAND DIED LAST YEAR IN A ,ONDON FIRE -RS "ERESFORD IS AT PRESENT UNDER SEDATION SUF FERING FROM SEVERE SHOCKb -IND YOU IF ) WAS GOING TO USE MY POWERS OF WITCHCRAFT TO ELIMINATE A POLITICIAN IT WOULD NOT BE 4ONY "LAIR (E IS RATHER ATTRACTIVE IN A SQUARE hBOY NEXT DOORi SORT OF WAY ) NEVER GOT ANYWHERE NEAR CLOSE ENOUGH TO 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÌ TO SHAKE HIM BY THE HAND AND +OpTUNICA IS FAR TOO hNICEi AND ANYWAY HE HAS 'OD ON HIS SIDE )N FACT IF ONE THINKS ABOUT IT THERE IS NO ONE ON THE 3ERBIAN POLITICAL SCENE WORTH ELIMINATING ) SNAPPED MYSELF OUT OF MY DAYDREAMING AND REMEMBERED THAT ) WAS WANTED BY THE POLICE 7HY ) COULD NOT IMAGINE 3OMEONE MUST HAVE BEEN TELLING LIES ABOUT 3LAVICA + FOR WITHOUT HAVING DONE ANYTHING WRONG SHE WAS ARRESTED ONE FINE MORNING !FTER SPEAKING TO THE INSPECTOR ON DUTY ) BEGAN TO WISH THAT SOMEONE HAD BEEN TELLING LIES ABOUT ME )T TURNED OUT THAT MY TELEPHONE NUMBER WAS THE LAST ONE RECORDED ON .EBOJpAiS MOBILE PHONE BEFORE HE CRASHED HIS CAR AND HIS WIFE WANTED TO SPEAK WITH ME j!S YOU KNOW WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU FOR SOME TIME BUT YOU LEFT THE COUNTRY SOON AFTER -R /RLOVIÌiS DEATH AND NOBODY SEEMED TO KNOW WHEN YOU WOULD BE RETURNING 9OU WERE PROBABLY THE LAST PERSON TO SPEAK TO HIM ALIVE -RS /RLOVIÌ IS STILL VERY DISTRAUGHT )T COULD MEAN A LOT TO HER TO HEAR HER HUSBANDiS LAST WORDS k &OR hTO HERi READ hTO USi 4HE POLICE SUSPECTED ) MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH .EBOJpAiS DEATH 4HEY WERE BEING UNCHARACTERISTICALLY SUBTLE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION FROM ME BY APPEALING TO MY EMOTIONS !LWAYS ASSUMING ) HAD ANY WHERE .EBOJpA WAS CONCERNED ) SHOULD HAVE TO TREAD CAREFULLY

j9ES OF COURSE k j7ERE YOU CLOSE TO -R /RLOVIร -RS "ERESFORD (IS WIFE ASSUMED YOU MUST BE A BUSINESS ASSOCIATE AS SHE DID NOT RECOGNISE YOUR NAME k ) SWEAR THAT ) WILL TELL THE TRUTH THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHb j.O ) WAS NOT A BUSINESS ASSOCIATE k j3O YOU WERE A CLOSE FRIEND k j)S THIS AN OFFICIAL INTERROGATION (AVE ) DONE SOMETHING WRONG k j.O -RS "ERESFORD OF COURSE NOT 7E HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT -R /RLOVIร iS DEATH WAS ANYTHING ELSE BUT AN ACCIDENT )TiS JUST THAT -R /RLOVIร iS MOBILE PHONE WAS OUT OF ORDER AFTER THE ACCIDENT AND WE HAD NO REASON TO THINK IT HAD ANY RELEVANCE "UT WHEN -RS /RLOVIร HAD IT REPAIRED SHE DISCOVERED THE MEMORY WAS STILL FUNCTIONING AND YOUR NUMBER WAS THE LAST ONE HE DIALLED $O YOU REMEMBER THE CONVERSATION !PPROXIMATELY WHAT TIME WAS IT WHEN -R /RLOVIร CALLED YOU k j3O THIS IS AN OFFICIAL INTERROGATION k j.O YOU DONiT HAVE TO ANSWER ANYTHING IF YOU DONiT WANT TO "UT IF HE WAS TELEPHONING FROM HIS CARbk j,OOK ) HAD KNOWN -R /RLOVIร SINCE WE WERE STUDENTS TOGETHER 7E DID HAVE A RELATIONSHIP BUT IT ENDED BEFORE ) MET MY HUSBAND !FTER MY HUSBAND DIED -R /RLOVIร STARTED TO PESTER ME ) SHOOK HIM OFF BUT ) COULDNiT STOP HIM TELEPHONING ME ) CANiT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT TIME IT WAS WHEN HE PHONED ME THAT EVENING BUT AS SOON AS ) REALISED IT WAS HIM ) PUT DOWN THE RECEIVER m AS ) HAD DONE DOZENS OF TIMES BEFOREbk 4HAT WAS QUITE TRUE ) HAD PUT THE RECEIVER DOWN BUT ON THE BED .OBODY COULD POSSIBLY FIND OUT ABOUT MY CONVINCING LOVE MAKING PERFORMANCE j3O YOU DIDNiT SAY ANYTHING TO -R /RLOVIร THAT MIGHT HAVE UPSET HIM k j.O AS ) SAID JUST NOW ) DIDNiT SAY ANYTHING AT ALL TO -R /RLOVIร k j7HAT DID HE SAY TO YOU k j!S FAR AS ) REMEMBER IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE h3LAVICA ITiS ME m ) LOVE YOU PLEASE DONiT RING OFFbi 4HATiS WHAT HE USUALLY SAID ) NEVER GAVE HIM THE CHANCE TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE ) SOMEHOW THINK THAT HEARING HER HUSBANDiS LAST WORDS IS NOT GOING TO BE OF MUCH COMFORT TO -RS /RLOVIร k j-AYBE YOUiRE RIGHT BUT WEiLL HAVE TO INFORM HER OF THIS CONVERSATION 3HE MAY OR MAY NOT BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU k j)S THAT ALL k j9ES THATiS ALL k "UT IT WAS NOT ALL ) SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT 3EATON 0ARK AFTER ALL /N THE OTHER HAND THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNEW WHAT ) HAD DONE WAS ME !S LONG AS ) KEPT QUIET THE ONLY PUNISHMENT ) COULD EXPECT WAS AN UNEASY CONSCIENCE ) HAD MADE ,IDIJA /RLOVIร A WIDOW AND HER TWO CHILDREN ORPHANS m WELL SEMI ORPHANS 4HAT WAS QUITE ENOUGH WITHOUT HAVING TO CONFRONT THE WIDOW AND TRY TO PRETEND THAT .EBOJpA AND ) HAD BEEN hJUST GOOD FRIENDSi j4HANK YOU FOR COMING 3LAVICA 9OUiRE YOUNGER THAN ) EXPECTED k j)iM OLDER THAN ) LOOK .EBOJpA AND ) WERE AT UNIVERSITY TOGETHER k j&UNNY HE NEVER TALKED TO ME ABOUT YOU k .O ) COULD NOT DO IT ) COULD NOT LEAVE THIS SILLY NA VE WOMAN IN IGNO RANCE ) HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE ONE THING ) DID REALLY WELL WAS LYING BUT THIS TIME ) COULD HEAR !NDREWiS VOICE j)iVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO LIE 0EOPLE CAN SEE IN MY FACE WHAT )iM REALLY THINKING k 0ERHAPS ALL THIS TIME ) HAD NEVER BEEN A CONVINCING LIAR EITHER 0ERHAPS PEOPLE HAD ALWAYS SEEN THROUGH MY LIES AND HAD EITHER HUMOURED ME OR AVOIDED ME !NYWAY ) DECIDED THAT NOW WAS AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF j,OOK ,IDIJA THEREiS NO POINT IN BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH .EBOJpA AND ) WERE MORE THAN JUST FRIENDS k j3O YOU WERE LOVERS k j9ES k j(E SLEPT WITH YOU k 'OD WHAT DID ) HAVE TO SAY TO MAKE IT SINK IN j9ES HE SLEPT WITH ME ON AND OFF FROM SOON AFTER HE MARRIED YOU UNTIL ) MARRIED !NDREW k j3O YOUiRE MARRIED k j) WAS MARRIED !NDREW DIED LAST YEAR k j)iM SORRY k j!ND )iM SORRY ABOUT .EBOJpA k j)iM NOT k

4HIS COMPLETELY TOOK THE WIND OUT OF MY SAILS !ND THEN TO CONFUSE ME EVEN MORE ,IDIJA STARTED LAUGHING j4HEREiS NO NEED TO LOOK SO BAFFLED ) DIDNiT LOVE HIM ) DID AT THE START

BUT AS SOON AS ) REALISED HE WAS SLEEPING AROUND ) CHANNELLED ALL MY LOVE INTO OUR CHILDREN AND JUST ACTED THE DEVOTED WIFE 4O KEEP .EBOJpA AT BAY ) PRETENDED TO BE FRIGID BUT )iVE HAD MY FAIR SHARE OF MEN )iVE SLEPT WITH TWO MEN SINCE .EBOJpAiS DEATH $OES THAT SHOCK YOU k j.O NOT AT ALL 7HY SHOULD IT %XCEPT THE POLICE TOLD ME YOU WERE STILL VERY DISTRAUGHT ABOUT .EBOJpAiS DEATH k j/F COURSE )iM DISTRAUGHT (E LEFT ME ALMOST PENNILESS (IS BUSINESS WAS PROPPED UP BY LOANS AND HE HAD AN OVERDRAFT IN THE BANK &ORTUNATELY HE HADNiT CASHED IN HIS LIFE INSURANCE !ND WHEN ) SELL THIS FLAT AND BUY A SMALLER ONE )iLL HAVE ENOUGH TO GET BY "UT TELL ME ABOUT YOU AND .EBOJpA k j) DONiT THINK YOUiD FIND IT PARTICULARLY INTERESTING m AND CERTAINLY NOT ROMANTIC k j"UT YOU WERE THE LAST PERSON TO SPEAK TO HIM BEFORE HE DIED 4HATiS ROMANTIC k j) DIDNiT SPEAK TO HIM (E PHONED ME AND ) RANG OFF k )T OCCURRED TO ME THAT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES ,IDIJA MIGHT APPRECIATE THE DETAILS OF MY METHOD ACTING ON THE BED IN FRONT OF THE TELEPHONE RECEIVER

BUT ) DECIDED NOT TO RISK IT j7HEN DID HE LAST FUCK YOU k j)S THAT IMPORTANT k j9ES IT IS (E WAS VERY DIFFERENT DURING THE FEW WEEKS BEFORE HE DIED 4ENSE AND NERVOUS !S IF SOMETHING WAS BUGGING HIM k j,OOK AS ) TOLD YOU ) STOPPED SEEING HIM WHEN ) MARRIED !NDREW (E TRIED TO INFLICT HIMSELF ON ME BUT ) SUCCEEDED IN KEEPING HIM AT ARMiS LENGTH UNTIL !NDREW DIED 4HEN HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME k 4HAT WAS HARDLY THE WHOLE TRUTH BUT ) COULD HARDLY TELL ,IDIJA THAT ) HAD WELCOMED .EBOJpAiS ATTENTIONS WITH OPEN LEGS j$ID YOU FIND HIM A GOOD LOVER k $URING OUR CONVERSATION THE EXPRESSION ON ,IDIJAiS FACE HAD BEEN SLOWLY CHANGING AND ) SUDDENLY REALISED THAT HER INSISTENCE THAT SHE HAD NOT LOVED .EBOJpA AND HER STORIES OF SLEEPING WITH OTHER MEN WERE PROBABLY NOTHING MORE THAN PROTECTIVE ARMOUR AND THAT SHE WAS INDEED DEVASTATED .OW SHE APPEARED TO BE TAKING MASOCHISTIC DELIGHT IN DISCUSSING .EBOJpAiS COMPE TENCE AS A LOVER WITH A COMPLETE STRANGER j)iD RATHER NOT DISCUSS IT IF YOU DONiT MIND k j)F ) DONiT MIND 9OU FUCK MY HUSBAND FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AND )iM SUPPOSED NOT TO MIND !ND THEN YOU SUDDENLY SLAM YOUR LEGS TIGHT SHUT AND TURN HIM INTO A NERVOUS WRECK 7HAT WAS IT YOU SAID TO HIM THAT MADE AN EXCELLENT DRIVER INTO A MANIAC k j)iVE TOLD YOU m ) DIDNiT SAY ANYTHING (E PHONED ME AND ) HUNG UP k j7ELL WHATEVER YOU DID OR DIDNiT DO YOU KILLED HIM AND ) HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL k 4HIS WOULD HAVE CARRIED MORE WEIGHT IF ,IDIJA HAD NOT KNOCKED OVER HER CUP OF COFFEE AS SHE THUMPED HER FIST HEAVILY ON THE TABLE "UT ) COULD NOT DENY IT 7OMENiS INTUITION IS INFALLIBLE )T IS FORTUNATE THAT WOMENiS INTUI TION CANNOT BE CALLED AS EVIDENCE IN A COURT OF LAW ) PROBABLY WOULD ROT IN HELL EVENTUALLY BUT FOR THE TIME BEING ) WOULD LIVE PEACEFULLY ON THIS EARTH

UNHAMPERED BY .EBOJpA j)iM SORRY YOU FEEL LIKE THAT ) DIDNiT HAVE TO COME HERE AND ) CERTAINLY HAVE NO INTENTION OF STAYING TO BE INSULTED .EBOJpA PROBABLY HAD HIS REA SONS FOR NOT LOVING YOU AND ANYWAY HE LOVED ME BEFORE HE EVEN KNEW YOU EXISTED ) THOUGHT WHEN ) FIRST ARRIVED THAT WE COULD PERHAPS BE FRIENDS .OW ) SEE THAT YOU WILL PROBABLY BE STICKING PINS INTO A WAX MODEL OF ME AS SOON AS ) LEAVE ) WOULD JUST LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT ) BEAR NO GRUDGE AGAINST YOU AT ALL /N THE CONTRARY ) FEEL NOTHING BUT PITY FOR YOU !ND NOW AS THEY SAY IN %NGLISH PERIOD DRAMAS ) WISH YOU GOOD DAY MADAM k !ND OVERCOME BY MY OWN ELOQUENCE ) SWEPT OUT OF ,IDIJAiS FLAT LEAV ING HER TRYING TO MOP UP HER COFFEE WITH SEVERAL MINT IMPREGNATED PAPER HANDKERCHIEFS TO BE CONTINUED

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TEMPERATURE IS DURING BATHING SEASON FROM }# TO }# ,AKE IS RICH IN FISH )N A DIAMETER OF ONLY ONE KILOMETRE THERE ARE ATTRACTIVE BEACH ES 7OMEN BEACH -ALE BEACH AND 3ANDY BEACH WITH SHOWERS

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0ALIÌ BOASTS WAS IS SURELY ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL :OOS IN THIS PART OF %UROPE FAMOUS FOR ITS HUMANE WAY OF KEEPING THE ANI MALS ADDITIONAL ENTERTAINMENT BATHING OF ELEPHANTS FEEDING THE SEALS ETC AND EDUCATIONAL OFFERS SUMMER CAMPS WORKSHOPS

ETC 4HE :OO WAS FOUNDED IN IN THE VICINITY OF THE LAKE )T ACCOMMODATES AROUND FIFTY ANIMAL SPECIES WITH SPECIMEN OF ANIMALS HOUSED IN FORTY CAGES OR FACILITIES 4HE BOTANICAL HERITAGE OF THE :OO REPRESENTS A COLLECTION OF MANY AUTOCHTHONOUS SPECIES

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MUNITY k *EpIÌ NOTES OF THE IMPRESSIVE RECORD HIS MUNICIPALITY HAS HAD IN ATTRACTING INVESTMENT j4HERE IS CURRENTLY A HOUSING BOOM IN THE CITY THE JOB MARKET IS BUBBLING AND THE ENTIRE MARKET IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING 4HE TOWN IS ALSO INVESTING IN THE EDUCATION OF BOTH THE YOUNG POPULACE AND OLDER OR UNEMPLOYED CITIZENS 7E ARE PLANNING TO BUILD A 4ECHNOLOGY #ENTRE AND A 5NIVERSITY AS WELL AS AN ELITE DISTRICT FOR YOUNG EXPERTS WHO WILL BE PROMPTED TO MOVE OUT OF THE BIG CITIES TO LIVE IN )NðIJA !LL THESE DEVELOPMENTS HAVE EARNED )NðIJA THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN ORGANISING THE 5NIVERSIAD ;7ORLD 3TUDENT 'AMES= IN FOR WHICH PURPOSE THE TOWN NEEDS TO BUILD A NEW SPORTS CENTRE AND FOOTBALL STADIUM 4HESE ARE PROJECTS THAT WE WILL START TO DEAL WITH RIGHT AFTER THE 2(#0 EVENT k

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The gala opening of this most glamorous fashion event was designed in the spirit of black and white, and this month CorD brings you a selection of designs that shone at the 2007 21st Becks Belgrade Fashion Week.

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Hugo Boss - one of the most attractive and well known world brands present on the Serbian market is fashion giant Hugo Boss. This year, Boss held its fashion show in one of the most exclusive showrooms of its own sales premises in Belgrade.

With its latest mixed collection, Hugo Boss reaffirmed its fashion philosophy – a philosophy that has helped establish the company as one of the world’s most well known fashion brands. Hugo Boss is “unconventional but still high class”, progressive but at the same stylishly casual. This is a collection that breathes cosmopolitan and is focused on success topped with a sporting consensus.

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