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HE RE OPENING OF THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE )N THE PERIOD FROM 3TABILIZATION AND !SSOCIATION UNTIL WHEN THESE COUNTRIES WERE ON THEIR %5 INTEGRA !GREEMENT 3!! NEGOTIA TION PATH THEIR PRODUCTION GRADUALLY SHIFTED FROM RESOURCE AND TIONS ON TH *UNE IS IN MY VIEW LABOUR INTENSIVE PRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITAL INTENSIVE ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE STEPS PRODUCTION WHICH RESEMBLES THE PRODUCTION TRENDS OF OTHER %5 FORWARD ) AM CONFIDENT THAT THE COUNTRIES NEGOTIATIONS CAN BE CONCLUDED IN !NOTHER BENEFIT THAT CAN BE GAINED DURING THE ACCESSION PROC A SWIFT TIMEFRAME BUT FULL COOP ESS IS THE QUALIFICATION FOR THE SO CALLED j7HITE 3CHENGEN ,ISTk ,ET ERATION FOR THE EXTRADITION OF THE ME PUT IT CLEARLY ) AM ALSO NOT HAPPY TO SEE LONG QUEUES IN FRONT OF REMAINING FOUR INDICTED PERSONS OUR %MBASSY 4HE .ETHERLANDS IS IN FAVOUR OF VISA FACILITATION AND REMAINS A CRUCIAL CONDITION FOR LIBERALISATION AND WANTS TO TAKE FURTHER STEPS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THE SIGNING OF THE AGREEMENT 4HIS &OR ME IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO OPEN %UROPE TO THE CITIZENS OF WILL ALSO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS CLI 3ERBIA ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGER GENERATION SO THEY CAN EXPERIENCE MATE AND IT WILL HELP ATTRACT NEW %UROPE AND SEE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT 4HEREFORE WE FOREIGN INVESTMENT )T IS AN IMPOR NEED TO INCREASE OUR COOPERATION IN THE FIELDS OF JUSTICE ASYLUM

"Y ( % 2ON * 0 - VAN $ARTEL TANT STIMULUS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CRIME FIGHTING AND BORDER CONTROL 4HE ACCESSION PROCESS BETWEEN !MBASSADOR OF THE +INGDOM POSITION OF 3ERBIA FOR THE RECON 3ERBIA AND THE %5 WILL SPEED UP THIS PROCESS AND ) WELCOME THIS OF THE .ETHERLANDS CILIATION IN THE REGION AND FOR THE WHOLEHEARTEDLY 3ERBIAN SOCIETY ITSELF 7ITH ALL THESE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS THEIR REMAINS ONE 4HE 3!! WILL HAVE DIRECT IMPORTANT EFFECTS FOR THE 3ERBIAN IMPORTANT PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED 4HE RESOLUTION OF THE STATUS OF ECONOMY 4HE 3ERBIAN PEOPLE WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE +OSOVO CREATES A HEAVY BURDEN ON 3ERBIAiS FUTURE AND ON RELATIONS ACCESSION DAY TO NOTICE POSITIVE RESULTS 4HE %5 WILL PROVIDE CONCRETE FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH THE FRAMEWORK OF THE )NSTRUMENT FOR 0RE !CCESSION !SSISTANCE )0! AND BILATERAL z ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê INITIATIVES OF %UROPEAN MEMBER STATES /N 7EDNESDAY TH ê ê ­êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ *UNE THE %UROPEAN #OMMISSION IN "RUSSELS ADOPTED A FINAN ê êz ê ê êl ê ê ¾ CIAL SUPPORT STRATEGY FOR 3ERBIA WITH AID TO THE AMOUNT OF _ MILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS !N ADDITIONAL BUDGET ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê OF _ MILLION HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR JOINT PROJECTS IN THE êz ê ê ­ REGION .EVERTHELESS EVEN WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE %5 AND THE MEMBER STATES THE TRANSITION PROCESS OF THE STATE STRUCTURES AND IN THE REGION .OW THE PROCESS IS BEING UNFOLDED IN .EW 9ORK THE ECONOMY WILL NOT ALWAYS BE EASY )T INVOLVES DIVERGENCE FROM AND ONCE AGAIN IT IS A MIX OF MOVEMENT AND BLOCKAGES !T THIS EXISTING PATTERNS ADOPTING A NEW FRAMEWORK AND A NEW MIND SET MOMENT ) WOULD LIKE TO LIMIT MYSELF TO EXPRESSING THE HOPE FOR A "UT THE GAIN CLEARLY OUTWEIGHS THE PAIN 0RACTICE HAS SHOWN THAT SOLUTION THROUGH THE 5NITED .ATIONS THAT WILL SUSTAIN STABILITY IN COUNTRIES IN THE PROCESS TOWARDS MEMBERSHIP OF THE %UROPEAN THE REGION 5NION HAVE ALREADY GAINED A LOT IN ECONOMIC TERMS IN THE YEARS 3ERBIA HAS NOT ONLY SEEN POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE POLITICAL PRIOR TO ACCESSION FIELD ) HAVE ALSO NOTICED A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM AFTER 3ERBIA WINNING ,ETiS LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOURS "ECAUSE OF THEIR CLEAR %5 PER THE %UROVISION SONG CONTEST AND FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF THE SPECTIVE 2OMANIA AND "ULGARIA EXPERIENCED VERY HIGH FOREIGN NEW GENERATION OF 3ERBIAN TENNIS PLAYERS 4HESE RESULTS WERE AN INVESTMENT GROWTH RATES IN THE YEARS PRIOR TO ACCESSION !FTER IMPRESSIVE BOOST FOR THE 3ERBIAN SPIRIT !ND ) FEEL AN jAPOLOGYk IS

BOTH COUNTRIES DOUBLED THEIR FOREIGN INVESTMENT REVENUES IN ORDER HERE FOR STOPPING 3ERBIAiS jLITTLE EAGLESk IN THE FINALS OF THE 4HE SAME HAPPENED BEFORE I E WITH #ZECH 2EPUBLIC m WHERE IN %UROPEAN &OOTBALL #HAMPIONSHIP FOR PLAYERS UNDER (OWEVER

ALONE FOREIGN INVESTMENT SHOT UP TO _ BILLION AFTER AT LEAST ) CAN T HIDE THE FACT THAT WE WERE PLEASED WHEN THE .ETHERLANDS TWO YEARS OF ALREADY STRONG GROWTH 3LOVAKIA ALMOST DOUBLED ITS TEAM WON AGAINST YOUR EXCELLENT TEAM 9OUR PLAYERS ONCE AGAIN GREENFIELD PROJECTS FROM UNTIL AND BECAME THE COUNTRY SHOWED THAT 3ERBIA IS FULL OF TALENT AND HAS AN ENORMOUS POTENTIAL WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF CARS MANUFACTURED PER CAPITA IN THE AMONGST ITS YOUNG GENERATION ,ET S GIVE THIS YOUTH A FUTURE IN WORLD !LL THESE DEVELOPMENTS ALLOWED CREATION OF EMPLOYMENT %UROPE THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE AND NO TIME TO WASTE

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HILE THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE :AGREB %NERGY 3UMMIT STILL HAVE STRONG FEELINGS AND ARE SUMMARISING THE RESULTS ONLY ONE THING IS FOR SURE MOST OF THE WESTERN MEDIA MISSED THE POINT IN THEIR ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE CONVENTION AND THE ANALYSTS FROM THE 7EST FAILED IN THEIR PREDICTIONS DURING THE SUMMIT .AMELY THEY LOUDLY DECLARED THAT 0UTIN WOULDNiT BE GREETED WITH FRIENDLINESS IN :AGREB BECAUSE THE "ALKAN LANDS DO NOT LOVE HIM THAT MUCH BECAUSE OF THE BAD MEMORIES OF 5332 AND THE MONOPOLISTIC POSITIONS CONTROL LED BY 2USSIAiS POWERFUL ENERGY COMPANIES 4HEY CLAIMED THAT POLITI CIANS AND ENERGY SPECIALISTS FROM THE "ALKANS WERE RUSHING TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR THE DIVERSIFICATION OF ENERGY SUPPLIERS BECAUSE THE MEN FROM ö'ASPROMö CAN STOP THE GAS ANY TIME THEY LIKE ö4HE COUNTRIES OF %ASTERN %UROPE AND THE "ALKANS MOSTLY RELY ON 2USSIAN SUPPLIES OF OIL AND GAS SO THEY ARE VERY MUCH AWARE OF THE NEED TO FIND ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY ö SAID -ATTHEW "RIZZA $EPUTY 5 3 3ECRETARY OF 3TATE ö0OLITICAL AUTHORITIES IN THESE COUNTRIES URGENTLY NEED TO DIVERSIFY THEIR ENERGY SUPPLIERS BECAUSE OF THE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RELY ON COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS ö "RIZZA CONCLUDED 4HE 7ESTERN MEDIA AND ANALYSTS BLINDLY BELIEVED "RIZZAiS WORDS AND ANNOUNCED THAT THE %NERGY 3UMMIT OF 3OUTH %AST %UROPE IN :AGREB WOULD BE A CONVENTION WHERE THE SPECIAL GUEST 6LADIMIR 0UTIN WOULD GET WHAT HE DESERVES WHEN IT COMES TO 2USSIAN ENERGY COMPANIES )T

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WAS EXPECTED BY 4HE 7EST THAT THE "ALKAN REPRESENTATIVES WOULD CRITI CISE 0UTIN FOR ALLOWING HIS COUNTRYiS ENERGY COMPANIES TO BLACKMAIL THE "ALKAN STATES INTO SIGNING LONG TERM CONTRACTS TO BUY 2USSIAN GAS AND OIL BECAUSE THEY LACK ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AND THAT THEY WOULD JOINTLY ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WOULD COUNTER THEIR 3LAVIC COUSINS BY CONSTRUCTING LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS TERMINALS AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS !CCORDING TO "LOOMBERGiS REPORT PRIOR TO THE CONVENTION j#ROATIA AND "ULGARIA ARE AMONG EASTERN %UROPEAN NATIONS STUDYING LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS TERMINALS AND NUCLEAR POWER AFTER CUTOFFS OF 2USSIAN OIL AND GAS SPURRED THE COUNTRIES TO SEEK ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY #ROATIA WILL SIGN AN ACCORD TO BUILD AN MILLION EURO BILLION ,.' TERMINAL ALONG ITS !DRIATIC SEASHORE WITHIN WEEKS 'ORDANA -ODRUSAN (ORVAT A SPOKESWOMAN FOR #ROATIA S BIGGEST OIL COMPANY

SAID YESTERDAY "ULGARIA S STATE RUN POWER UTILITY LAST MONTH INVITED INVESTORS TO BID FOR STAKES IN A PLANNED NUCLEAR REACTOR ö /THER WESTERN MEDIA CLAIMED THAT ö0UTIN WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SIZEö QUOTING THEIR STORY ABOUT THE ö.ABUKOö GAS PIPELINE WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO TRANSPORT GAS FROM #ENTRAL !SIA THROUGH THE "ALKANS TO THE %UROPEAN MARKET (OWEVER THE SUMMIT WENT IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION THAN WAS EXPECTED BY 7ESTERN EXPERTS 0UTIN WISELY USED THE OPPOR TUNITY TO PROMOTE 2USSIAN COMPANIES DESCRIBING THEM AS jTRUSTWOR THY SUPPLIERS WHO NEVER INTEND TO LEAVE ANY "ALKAN COUNTRY WITHOUT GAS OR OIL k

lย ย ย ย ย รชpย ย ย ย ย รถ2USSIA AS A WORLD LEADER IN OIL AND GAS FILLED CAPACITOR GENERA TION IS READY TO DO ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO SOLVE THE ENERGY PROBLEMS OF THIS REGION BASED OF COURSE ON A BALANCE OF INTERESTS AND EQUAL RESPONSIBILITY OF SUPPLIERS TRANSIT AREAS AND CONSUMERS รถ 0UTIN SAID

ADDING รถ) UNDERLINE THAT CONSISTENCY IS ONE OF OUR MAIN PRINCIPLES OF ENERGY CO OPERATION 7E BELIEVE IT IS AN ADDITIONAL STIMULUS FOR STRONGER RELATIONS FIRSTLY WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTING รถ2USSIAN COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED IN SEVERAL MAJOR PROJECTS IN THE REGIONรถ 0UTIN REMINDED รถ&OR EXAMPLE AN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED IN !THENS LAST -ARCH BETWEEN 2USSIA 'REECE AND "ULGARIA

ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION AND UTILISATION OF THE "URGASm!LEXANDROPOLIS OIL PIPELINE THUS ENSURING SOME ADDITIONAL POSSIBILITIES FOR OIL TRANS PORT FROM THE "LACK 3EA TO THE -EDITERRANEAN 4HE CAPACITY OF THAT OIL PIPELINE WILL BE MILLION CUBIC TONNES WHICH COULD BE ENLARGED BY UP TO A FURTHER MILLIONS TONNES 7HEN IT COMES TO THE COUNTRIES OF 3OUTHEAST AND 3OUTHERN %UROPE GAS SUPPLY STANDS AT BILLIONS CUBIC METRES OF GAS PER YEAR WHICH IS ALMOST HALF OF THE QUANTITY WE DELIVER TO THE COUNTRIES OF THE %UROPEAN 5NION รถ THE 2USSIAN PRESIDENT SAID

ihsrhuรชnhzรชwpwlspulยฎรช zthssรชypzrยฑรชnylh{รชyl~hyk 4HE REPRESENTATIVES OF "ALKAN COUNTRIES WERE THRILLED BY CERTAIN PARTS OF 0UTINiS SPEECH WHICH IMPLIED THAT THE "ALKANS WILL ALSO GET THEIR รถPIECE OF THE 2USSIAN ENERGY CAKEรถ .UMEROUS GAS AND OIL PIPELINES WILL GO THROUGH THEIR TERRITORY AND THEY WILL GENERATE LARGE INCOMES FROM TRANSIT TAXES 0UTIN ADDED THAT THESE PROJECTS WOULD ALSO BOOST THE LOCAL ECONOMIES AND EMPLOY THE LOCAL INDUSTRY AND LABOUR FORCE 4HESE WORDS PERSUADED EVERY ONE OF THE "ALKAN DELEGATES THAT THE REGIONAL ENERGY TRANSPORT INTERSECTION TOWARDS %UROPE WOULD BE IN THEIR COUNTRY S INTERESTS 4HAT SAID WE MUST NOTE THAT 0UTINiS jPLANSk WERE ALL THE EASIER TO SWALLOW BECAUSE THE DAY BEFORE THE SUMMIT 2USSIAiS รถ'ASPROMรถ AND )TALYiS รถ%NIรถ HAD SIGNED AN AGREEMENT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE รถ3OUTH #REEKรถ GAS PIPELINE WHICH IS PLANNED TO TRAVEL FROM THE 2USSIAN "LACK 3EA COAST THROUGH KM OF UNDERSEA PIPES TO THE "ULGARIAN COAST BEFORE GOING ON THROUGH TWO LINES ONE TOWARDS !USTRIA AND THE OTHER TOWARDS 3OUTHERN )TALY AND FURTHER TO %UROPE m THUS GOING THROUGH ALMOST EVERY SINGLE "ALKAN COUNTRY 4HE FIRST "ALKAN DELEGATE TO REACT WAS 2UMEN /Vร AROV THE SOON TO BE FORMER "ULGARIAN %NERGY -INISTER WHO TOLD "ULGARIAN .ATIONAL 2ADIO THAT "ULGARIA COULD EARN BETWEEN AND MILLION DOLLARS FROM TRANSIT TAXES ALONE รถ #ONSTRUCTING THE GAS PIPELINE รถ3OUTH #REEKรถ WOULD COST AROUND BILLION AND IT SHOULD BE FINISHED IN THREE YEARS )TS ANNUAL CAPACITY WILL BE MILLION CUBIC METRES OF GAS "ULGARIAN MEDIA SPECULATED THAT /Vร AROV WILL KEEP HIS PLACE BECAUSE OF THIS PIPELINE BEING THE ONLY ONE รถ'ASPROMรถ TRUSTS IN "ULGARIA )F A CERTAIN COUNTRY PARTICIPATES IN GAS TRANSIT IT EARNS A TIDY INCOME WITHOUT SHOULDERING ANY OF THE RISK m THIS IS HOW ,Aร EZAR "OGDANOV ECONOMIST OF MARKET RESEARCH AGENCY รถ)NDUSTRY 7ATCHรถ

DESCRIBED THE SITUATION IN AN INTERVIEW FOR "ULGARIAN AGENCY รถ&OCUSรถ

sunรช{lytpuhsยฎรชov~รช{vรช mypno{luรชhรชilhyรช~p{oรชhรชjhwรชn|u !T THE :AGREB SUMMIT THAT WAS hEXPECTEDi TO PUT THE FEAR OF THE ENERGY GODS INTO 0UTIN THE .ABUKO GAS PIPELINE WAS PRESENTED 6ALENTIN +ANJEV CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE "LACK 3EA 'AS /IL !SSOCIATION SHARED THE INFORMATION THAT GAS DEPOSITS IN !ZERBAIJAN HAVE BEEN FOUND TO CONTAIN FOUR TIMES MORE GAS THAN PREVIOUSLY ESTIMATED WHICH MEANS THAT THE .ABUKO GAS PIPELINE WILL WORK PROPERLY EVEN IF IT USES ONLY THE GAS FROM THESE LOCATIONS 4HESE GAS DEPOSITS COULD PROVIDE ABOUT MILLION CUBIC METRES OF GAS 4HE .ABUKO PROJECT INVOLVES "ULGARIA 4URKEY 2OMANIA (UNGARY AND !USTRIA AND IS SUPPOSED TO FENCE OFF 2USSIAN GAS SYSTEMS .ABUKO NOW EXISTS ONLY ON PAPER BECAUSE CLIENTS ARE YET TO BE FOUND 4HE ,.'

4ERMINAL OR A STORAGE FACILITY FOR LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS WHICH WILL BE BUILT ON THE !DRIATIC COAST WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE FAVOURITE TOPICS OF THE SUMMIT 4HE !DRIATIC COAST PROJECT m LED JOINTLY BY #ROATIA AND A CON SORTIUM OF WESTERN COMPANIES m IS AIMED AT LESSENING %UROPEiS DEPEND ENCY ON 2USSIAN GAS !CCORDING TO THE PLAN TANKERS WITH LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS WOULD COME FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO THE TERMINAL )N THE HARBOUR THE GAS WOULD BE RETURNED INTO ITS GASEOUS FORM INJECTED INTO A #ROATIAN GAS PIPELINE AND TRANSPORTED TO THE %5 MARKET (OWEVER THE AMBITIOUS .ABUKO PROJECT REMAINED IN THE SHADOW OF รถ3OUTH #REEKรถ )T IS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE THAT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE AGAIN IN THE DEVELOPMENT PLANS OF MANY %UROPEAN ENERGY COMPANIES PARTLY BECAUSE THEY ARE SEEN AS A MEANS OF COUNTERING THE 2USSIAN ENERGY INVASION (OWEVER -OSCOW NEWSPAPER nย ย ย ย ย REPORTING FROM THE ENERGY SUMMIT IN :AGREB ACCENTUATED 6LADIMIR 0UTINiS DECLARATION THAT 2USSIA WOULD PROVIDE NUCLEAR FUEL FOR ALL %UROPEAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS BUILT ON SOVIET TECHNOLOGY

w|{puรชklmlh{zรชl|yvwlรช |zpunรชp{zรชv~uรช~lhwvuz )N NEXT FIVE YEARS THE MAJOR ENERGY ISSUE FOR THE "ALKANS WILL BE HOW TO PROVIDE ENOUGH RELATIVELY CHEAP ELECTRIC POWER !FTER TURN ING DOWN THE THIRD AND FOURTH REACTORS OF "ULGARIAN POWER PLANT

iย ย ย ย รช{ย ย ย 9รชย ย ย รช}ย ย ย ย ย ย ย รชwย ย ย ย รถ+OZLODUJรถ BECAUSE THE %5 INSISTED ON IT THE "ALKANS ARE LEFT WITHOUT THEIR MAIN SUPPLIER 4HIS SITUATION COULD BECOME MORE DRASTIC IF TWO PARTS OF THE "ULGARIAN THERMAL PLANT รถ-ARICA )STOKรถ ARE SHUT DOWN BECAUSE OF THE ECOLOGICAL STANDARDS UPON WHICH THE %5 INSISTS )T IS EXPECTED THAT THE QUESTION OF ENERGY DIVERSIFICATION ON THE "ALKANS WILL COME TO LIFE IN FIVE YEARS WHEN THE NEW "ULGARIAN POWER PLANT รถ"ELENEรถ STARTS WORKING AND SEES THE BIGGEST GAINS GO TO 2USSIA

WHICH WILL BECOME THE ONLY LONG TERM GAS SUPPLIER OF THE REGION .EVERTHELESS EVEN THOUGH 2USSIA DOES INSIST ON CONTRACTS WHICH OBLIGE A OR YEAR COMMITMENT UNACCEPTABLE IN รถHEALTHYรถ ECONO MIES THE "ULGARIAN EXAMPLE SHOWS THAT THEY ARE MORE THAN WELCOME $ESPITE THE FACT THAT THE "ULGARIAN PUBLIC HAS STARTED COMPLAINING THAT THEIR COUNTRY IS BECOMING A 2USSIAN ENERGY SLAVE THE GOVERNMENT IN 3OFIA STILL SIGNED A YEAR CO OPERATION CONTRACT WITH รถ'ASPROMรถ "Y COMING TO :AGREB 0UTIN SHOWED OPENLY THAT HE IS STARTING TO CONQUER THE %UROPEAN ENERGY MARKET THROUGH THE "ALKANS &ROM THE ENERGY POINT OF VIEW IT IS CLEAR THAT 0UTIN AND 2USSIA WILL CONQUER THE %UROPEAN MARKET VIA THE "ALKANS BECAUSE THE %5 IS NOW TOO LATE TO SLOW THE 2USSIAN ENERGY INVASION DOWN !S SUCH THE %5 SHOULD CHANGE ITS POSITION TOWARDS 2USSIAN ENERGY AND CREATE AN OPEN MAR KET FOR 2USSIAN COMPETITORS THAT WILL ALLOW IT TO GAIN ACCESS TO 2USSIAN RESOURCES AND LAUNCH JOINT ENTERPRISES WITH 2USSIAN COMPANIES 0UT SIMPLY %UROPEAN COMPANIES SHOULD FOLLOW THE LEAD OF )TALIAN COMPA NIES รถ%NELรถ AND รถ%NIรถ WHICH HAVE WISELY STARTED TO CO OPERATE WITH THE 2USSIANS TO THE MUTUAL PLEASURE OF BOTH SIDES CorD \ *ULY

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ITH PLENTY OF CATCHING UP TO DO THE 3ERBIAN 'OVERNMENT SEEMS TO HAVE DULY TURNED ITS ATTENTION TO THE TASKS AT HAND )N THE ENERGY SECTOR THAT HAS MEANT THE COMMENCE MENT OF WORK ON THE GASIFICATION OF 5ÝICE .Ip AND OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AS PART OF THE NATIONAL PLAN TO PIPE GAS ACROSS THE WHOLE OF 3ERBIA IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS THE HOLDING OF TALKS WITH NEIGHBOUR ING REPUBLICS ON CO OPERATION AND THE OPENING OF A NEWLY UPGRADED NATIONAL DISPATCHING CENTRE FOR ELECTRICAL TRANSMITTER ENTERPRISE %LEKTROMREZA 3RBIJE %-3 m PAID FOR BY A 3WISS 'OVERNMENT LOAN WORTH _ MILLION "UT THERE IS STILL MUCH TO BE DONE FOR 3ERBIAiS LATEST %NERGY -INING -INISTER $R !LEKSANDAR 0OPOVIÌ )N ADDITION TO THOSE NOW SEEMINGLY FAR OFF PLANS ENVISAGING THE CREATION OF A REGIONAL ELECTRICITY MARKET THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE .Ip 3OPHIA GAS PIPELINE IS ALSO A TOP PRIORITY PROJECT FOR THE 3ERBIAN 'OVERNMENT AS ARE PLANS TO JOINTLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH 2EPUBLIKA 3RPSKA EXPLOIT HYDRO ENERGY IN THE 2IVER $RINA 0ERHAPS FIRSTLY THOUGH 3ERBIA STILL HAS SEVERAL MAJOR STATE RUN ASSETS THAT IT HAS TO RECONSTRUCT AND SELL IN THE ENERGY AND MINING SECTORS 4HESE INCLUDE THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRYiS TWO OIL REFINERIES m IN .OVI 3AD AND 0ANÍEVO m AND THE "OR #OPPER -INING AND 3MELTING COMPLEX AS WELL AS THE PRIVATISATION OF THE PETROLEUM COMPANY .)3 .AFTNA )NDUSTRIJA 3RBIJE THE COUNTRYiS SOLE PRO DUCER AND ITS MAJOR RETAILER OF OIL AND OIL DERIVATIVES

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l êp 4HIS MONTH #OR$ SPEAKS TO -INISTER 0OPOVIÌ ABOUT THE CHALLENG ING TASKS OF TRANSFORMING THESE STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES AND THUS ADDRESSING THE NEED TO MAKE 3ERBIA MORE PRODUCTIVE AND EFFICIENT )N A COUNTRY THAT BOASTS NATURAL SUPPLIES OF OIL COAL AND NATURAL GAS IT IS PERHAPS NOT SURPRISING THAT THE ENERGY SECTOR IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL SECTORS OF THE 3ERBIAN ECONOMY 7ITH OVERALL CAPACI TIES INCLUDING ELECTRICAL POWER COAL PRODUCTION DISTRICT HEATING OIL GAS PRODUCTION AND IMPORT THE SECTOR ACCOUNTS FOR MORE THAN A TENTH OF 3ERBIAiS '$0 "UT AS WITH ELSEWHERE 3ERBIAiS FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES ARE IN INCREASINGLY SHORT SUPPLY !ND NOW THE HUNT IS ON FOR VIABLE ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE RESOURCES 7HAT KIND OF STRATEGY DO YOU THINK THE STATE NEEDS TO DEVELOP IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES BECOME A REGU LATED AND FUNCTIONING BUSINESS A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN 3ERBIA (ERE IS AN EXAMPLE 9OU HAVE MONEY AND YOU WANT TO INVEST 7HY WOULD YOU INVEST 9OU WOULD ONLY INVEST IF YOU BELIEVED THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY THAT YOU COULD EARN A PROFIT WITHOUT BEING OVER WHELMED BY A MASS OF REQUIRED PERMITS AND PAPERWORK 3O THESE ARE THE TWO BASIC ISSUES THE 3TATE CAN ADDRESS !ND BY THE END OF THE SUMMER WE WILL HAVE FORMULATED A COMPLETE STRATEGY ON HOW TO MIN IMISE BUREAUCRACY AND DEVELOP A SYSTEM IN WHICH IT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR INVESTORS TO COMPLETE A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PAPERWORK THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS AND ACQUIRE IN A QUICK AND SIMPLE MANNER 4HATiS JUST ONE SIDE OF THAT STRATEGY 4HE OTHER SIDE ACTUALLY RELATES TO AN ESSENTIAL PROBLEM HOW TO MAKE SUCH A BUSINESS PROFITABLE )F YOU INVEST EFFORTS INTO DEVELOPING A MEANS OF GENERATING ELECTRIC ITY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY OR GENERATE THAT ENERGY FROM SOME OTHER SOURCES YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER THAT THE PRICE OF THAT ENERGY IS HIGHER THAN THE PRICE OF THE ELECTRICAL ENERGY SUPPLIED BY THE STATE 4HEN YOU HAVE TO ASK HOW YOU CAN POSSIBLY GENERATE A PROFIT OUT OF THAT

z z{lth{pjêzvs|{pvu 3O WHAT THEN IS THE GREATEST BENEFIT THAT THE STATE AND THE NATION CAN GAIN FROM SUCH EXPLOITS 7ELL THE REMEDY IS TO DEVELOP THE SORT OF SYSTEM WHEREBY THE MANUFACTURER IS INITIALLY OBLIGED TO OFFER THE ELECTRICITY IT PRODUCES TO %03 BUT IF THE STATE FIRM REJECTS THEIR OFFER THEN THAT COMPANY SHOULD BE FREE TO EXPORT THE ELECTRICITY IT PRODUCES )N SUCH A SITUATION IT WILL BE EXPORTING ITS ENERGY TO A COUNTRY OR AREA WHERE THE PRICE OF ELECTRI CAL ENERGY IS HIGHER THAN IN 3ERBIA &OCUSING DIRECTLY ON THE MATTER AT HAND WE HAVE TO DEVELOP THE

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ACCORDING TO THE SUMMER PLAN THE STRATEGIC INVESTOR WOULD PURCHASE SHARES FROM THE STATE IN THE SECONDARY SECURITIES MARKET TO ARRIVE AT PER CENT OWNERSHIP .OW WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT FIRMLY IN PLACE .)3iS PRIVATISA TION IS AGAIN ON THE TABLE !ND ONCE A LAW HAS BEEN PASSED TO DEFINE THE PRECISE DYNAMICS OF .)3iS SALE IT COULD COME UP FOR SALE BY THE AUTUMN (OW EXACTLY WILL THE PRIVATISATION PROCESS FOR .)3 BE FINAL ISED ) DONiT THINK THERE WILL BE ANY STRATEGIC CHANGES CONCERNING THE CONCEPT OF IT !ND THAT BASIC CONCEPT IS THAT THE STRATEGIC PARTNER WILL GAIN A MINOR SHARE OF THE OWNERSHIP BUT WILL BE REQUIRED TO INVEST A LOT MORE INTO THE COMPANY ) THINK THAT IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES TO THE MODEL THEN THEY WILL BE MINOR AMENDMENTS THAT WONiT DIFFER FROM THE EXISTING OVERALL STRATEGY

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(OW MUCH CAN 3ERBIA LEARN FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF NEIGH BOURING #ROATIA DURING THEIR ).! PRIVATISATION ! LOT ) WOULD SAY 7E COULD LEARN PRECISELY WHAT SHOULD AND SHOULDNiT BE DONE THOUGH ) REALLY DONiT THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO REP LICATE THAT SITUATION ).! AND .)3 ARE NOT THE SAME THINGS AND THE REASONS FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE PRIVATISATIONS OR OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE

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)F YOU ALLOW ME ) WOULD JUST CLARIFY THAT 'REECE IS NOT ONLY ONE OF THE TOP INVESTORS IN 3ERBIA RIGHT NOW IT IS NUMBER ONEb 4O DATE DIRECT INVESTMENT FROM MY COUNTRY IN 3ERBIA AMOUNTS TO NO LESS THAN TWO BILLION EUROS AND WE ARE PRESENT IN EVERY STRA TEGIC SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY m FROM THE BANKING SECTOR TELECOM MUNICATIONS AND ENERGY TO SERVICES TRADE AND MANUFACTURING /NLY YESTERDAY ; TH *UNE= ) HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A RECEPTION OF THE 'REEK SUPERMARKET CHAIN 3UPER 6ERO AT THE (YATT 6ERO WHO WERE CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF THEIR THIRD SUPERMARKET IN "ELGRADE HAVE PROVEN VERY SUCCESSFUL HERE AND ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND YET FURTHER 3UPER 6ERO ALONE AND )iM NOT INTENDING TO ADVERTISE 6ERO BUT IT IS FRESH IN MY MIND HAS INVEST ED BETWEEN _ AND _ MILLION IN THE COUNTRY AND PROVIDED JOBS

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WITH CONFIDENCE FOR LOCAL STAFF 3PEAKING OF EMPLOYMENT 'REEK COMPANIES HERE EMPLOY AS MANY AS OF OUR 3ERBIAN FRIENDS !S FOR THE TREND CONTINUING MY JUDGEMENT BASED ON THE FACTS IS THAT THIS hTRENDi IS A STRATEGIC MOVE BY 'REEK INVESTORS AND IT WILL CONTINUEb ,AST WEEK ) ACCOMPANIED THE NEW &OREIGN -INISTER 6UK *EREMIÌ ON HIS OFFICIAL VISIT TO !THENS !T THAT TIME THE PRESIDENT OF THE 'RECO 3ERBIAN "USINESS #HAMBER ORGANISED A BUSINESS FORUM AT WHICH LEADING 'REEK BUSINESSMEN EXPRESSED THEIR INTEREST AND WILLINGNESS TO INVEST HERE IN 3ERBIA

THE ENTREPRENEURS THAT HAVE ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES HERE $O YOU THINK WE ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING THAT OPTIMISM IF 3ERBIA FAILS TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT %URO !TLANTIC INTEGRATION PROGRESS THIS YEAR ) WOULD AGREE THAT INVESTORS FROM 'REECE AND BY THE SAME TOKEN INVESTORS FROM ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD ARE NOT CHURCH BRANCHES I E THEY COME HERE BECAUSE OF MUTUAL INTERESTS AND WHEN THEY INVEST THEIR MONEY THEY EXPECT TO GET SOMETHING BACK "UT IT DOES SEEM THAT THE 3ERBIAN ECONOMY DESPITE ITS CURRENT PROBLEMS HAS GREAT POTENTIAL IN CERTAIN SECTORS 4HIS IS SOME THING )iVE GLEANED FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH BOTH 'REEK BUSINESS MEN AND INVESTORS FROM ELSEWHERE !S FOR WHETHER 3ERBIA WILL LOSE ITS MOMENTUM AND OPTI MISM THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A DEEPER ANALYSIS .EVERTHELESS WHEN IT COMES TO ECONOMICS AND INVESTMENTS

CONFIDENCE PLAYS A HUGE ROLE AND ) CAN SAY THAT 3ERBIA LACKS INVESTMENTS FROM SOME COUNTRIES WHOSE BUSINESSMEN DONiT COME HERE BECAUSE THEY THINK THE RISK IS VERY HIGH AND THE SITUA TION IS NOT YET FULLY CLEAR 'REEK BUSINESSMEN ON THE OTHER HAND

WEATHER THESE DOUBTS WELL 4HEY COME HERE ASSUME THE RISK AND DO BUSINESS .EEDLESS TO SAY 3ERBIA HAS MADE GREAT PROGRESS BUT THERE ARE STILL THINGS TO DO m REFORMS NEED TO PROGRESS MORE RAPIDLY AND THE

7HAT SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE IS THE 'REEK 'OVERNMENT OFFERING 'REECEiS INVESTORS CURRENTLY AND ARE THERE SPECIFIC PLANS TO SUPPORT FURTHER INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE 9OU KNOW VERY WELL THAT THE TIME OF THE DIRECTED ECONOMY HAS LONG PASSED BUT WHAT THE TWO GOVERNMENTS ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO DO IS PROVIDE A HEALTHY ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH BUSINESSMEN AND INVESTORS FEEL SECURE ENOUGH TO GO AHEAD AND REALISE THEIR PLANS 3O THIS IS THE ROLE OF A MODERN GOVERNMENT !LL WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS CREATE A SAFE AND ATTRACTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR BUSINESSES TO OPERATE IN AND IT SEEMS WEiRE PROVING QUITE SUCCESSFUL m JUDGING BY THE VOLUME OF INVESTMENT AND TRADE WHICH ARE CONSTANTLY GOING UP /N OUR PART WE ALSO HAVE THE (ELLENIC 0LAN AS IT IS CALLED HERE WHICH PROVIDES FOR DIRECT FINANCING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE pê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ PROJECTS THE MAIN ISSUE COVERED BY THE ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê (ELLENIC 0LAN OF COURSE IS THE STRATEGIC n ê ê ê ê ê Àê ê ê #ORRIDOR ROUTE (ERE WE HAVE MARKED ê ê êz ê ±ê ±ê ê³ Øê ê ¾ VERY POSITIVE RESULTS AND NOW SEE THE TEN DERS CLOSING AND THE WORK WE HOPE VERY ê ê ­ MUCH TO BEGIN VERY SOON BOTH PARTIES AGREE FULLY ON THIS )N ADDITION TO #ORRIDOR THE (ELLENIC 0LAN ALSO HAS SOME MAJOR ISSUE OF +OSOVO IS SOMETHING ON THE MINDS OF EVERYBODY _ MILLION TO FINANCE BUSINESS PROJECTS m ONLY AROUND TEN PER COMING HERE TO POTENTIALLY INVEST 3TILL JUDGING BY THE CURRENT CENT OF WHICH HAS BEEN USED TO DATE SITUATION ) WOULD NOT SAY THAT 'REEK BUSINESSMENiS OPTIMISM IN 3ERBIA IS WANING ) THINK THIS IS PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE RENEWED )N YOUR OPINION ARE THE 3ERBIAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND %UROPEAN PERSPECTIVE OF 3ERBIA AND IN THIS CONTEXT ) WOULD SAY THE GOVERNMENT THROUGH DIPLOMACY SUFFICIENTLY PROACTIVE THAT THE DECISION OF THE %UROPEAN #OMMISSION TO RESUME THE WHEN IT COMES TO SEEKING TO ATTRACT FURTHER 'REEK INVESTMENTS 3!! ;3TABILISATION AND !SSOCIATION !GREEMENT= TALKS IS GOING TO HERE PROVIDE A BIG BOOST TO BUSINESS CONFIDENCE IN 3ERBIA 4HIS HOW )T IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY ARE !T ALMOST EVERY MEET EVER IS BY NO MEANS THE END OF THE ROAD ING ) HAVE HAD HERE OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS m WITH THE LIKES OF !S YOU KNOW "ELGRADE AND !THENS AGREE FULLY THAT 3ERBIA IS 0RESIDENT 4ADIÌ 0RIME -INISTER +OpTUNICA AND VARIOUS MINISTERS PART OF %UROPE AND THAT AT THE APPROPRIATE POINT 3ERBIA SHOULD TO DIPLOMATIC CADRE AND BUSINESSMEN m ) HAVE BEEN ASKED TO HELP TAKE ITS PLACE AS A FULL MEMBER OF THE %UROPEAN 5NION 4HIS IS CONTINUE AND EVER ENHANCE OUR INVESTMENT PLANS HERE 3O THIS THE GOAL AND IT IS A GOAL THAT WILL REMEDY ALL THE CONCERNS WE HAVE DISCUSSED HAS SHOWN A CONSTANT DESIRE BY 3ERBIA WHICH IS VERY WELL UNDER STOOD NOW m AT A TIME WHEN 3ERBIA IS GOING THROUGH A DIFFICULT

)N ADDITION TO THE WELL KNOWN FACTS THAT 3ERBIA AND 'REECE CRITICAL REFORM PERIOD WHERE ITS ECONOMY NEEDS FOREIGN CAPITAL IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO ADJUST TO MODERN TIMESb !ND MY COUNTRY ARE TRADITIONAL FRIENDS WHO HAVE ALWAYS HAD VERY GOOD RELA AND MY COUNTRYiS BUSINESSMEN HAVE BEEN PROVIDING THAT CAPITAL TIONS AND THAT 'REEK BUSINESSMEN UNDERSTAND THE MENTALITY CONSISTENTLY )N THE PAST WE HAVE BEEN VERY ACTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BETTER THAN OTHERS DO YOU THINK THAT AFTER THE DIFFICULT PERIOD OF 'REECE PROVIDED HUMANITARIAN PERHAPS ANOTHER FACTOR INFLUENCING THE 'REEK INVESTORS HERE AIDb AND OF COURSE ALL INVESTMENTS DO HELP 3ERBIA A LOT DURING IS THAT MANY OF THEM FORMED THEIR OWN BUSINESSES BACK HOME DURING SIMILARLY TURBULENT TIMES OF TRANSITION IN 'REECE THIS DIFFICULT TRANSITION PERIOD -Y PERSONAL OPINION IS THAT THAT FACTOR PLAYS SOME ROLE

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p AND MONEY IN MY COUNTRY FOR INVEST MENT AND MUCH OF IT IS DIRECTED HERE BECAUSE 'REEK BUSINESSMEN FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE m REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT 3ERBIA IS UNFORTU NATELY STILL hFIGHTINGi TO OVERCOME MAJOR PROBLEMS 4HAT MERELY PROVES WHAT YOU SAY THAT THERE ARE SPECIAL FACTORS THAT COUNT MORE THAN THE PROBLEMS AT HAND WHICH IS PROBABLY WHY THE PREVAILING OPINION AMONG THE 'REEK ENTERPRISES OPERATING IN 3ERBIA IS ONE OF OPTIMISM 4HE (ELLENIC 0ETROLEUM #OMPANYiS #%/ 0ANAGIOTIS +AVOULAKOS VISITED "ELGRADE LATE LAST YEAR 7HAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE CHANCES THAT THIS COMPANY WILL BE INVOLVED IN THE UPCOMING PRIVA TISATION OF .)3 ) CANNOT SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE (ELLENIC 0ETROLEUM #OMPANY OF COURSE BUT ) CAN TELL YOU FROM MY OWN CONTACTS THAT THERE IS GREAT INTER EST COMING FROM (ELLENIC 0ETROLEUM FOR THE .)3 PRIVATISATION PROCESS BUT IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW SERIOUS THE 3ERBIAN SIDE IS AND WHAT PRICE AND CONDITIONS THEY SEEK

SEEMS THAT WE HAVE BEEN RIGHT )T IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE A COMPROMISED APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM AND FIND A COMMON DENOMINATOR WITH A VIEW TO STABILISING THE WHOLE AREA

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7ITH TALKS OF GAS PIPELINES AND PETROLEUM EXPANSION RIFE HOW COMMITTED WOULD YOU SAY 'REECE IS TO BECOMING A LEADING ENERGY PLAYER IN THE REGION 7E ARE PRETTY SERIOUS /UR -INISTER OF $EVELOPMENT WHO HAS THE PORTFOLIO FOR ENERGY HAS LAUNCHED REPEATED INITIATIVES AND SIGNED A 3OUTH %ASTERN %UROPE ENERGY PROTO COL WITH OTHER "ALKAN COUNTERPARTS

AND THEREiS A LOT OF ACTIVITY THERE /NLY YESTERDAY IN )STANBUL MY PRIME MINISTER 2USSIAN 0RESIDENT 0UTIN AND OTHER LEADERS MET TO DISCUSS THIS VERY ISSUE (ERE THERE ARE LOTS OF ACTIVITIES AND WE ARE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON DEVELOPMENTS !S YOU KNOW 'REECE IS ALREADY ON THE ENERGY MAP IN TERMS OF PIPELINES AND ENERGY TRANSPORT ROUTES BUT OUR GOAL IS TO CREATE A 3OUTH %ASTERN %UROPEAN NETWORK THAT WILL HELP US COST EFFEC TIVELY PROVIDE FOR ALL OUR ENERGY NEEDS IN THE NEXT DECADE 4HIS CO OPERATION WILL ULTIMATELY PROVIDE THE AVERAGE CITIZEN WITH RELI ABLE ENERGY AT REASONABLE PRICES

!S AN %5 COUNTRY 'REECE MAY BE COMPELLED TO SUPPORT THE !HTISAARI PLAN FOR +OSOVO BUT DO YOU THINK THAT AN INDEPEND ENT +OSOVO COULD MOTIVATE MINORITY POPULATIONS ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION TO SEEK SIMILAR SOLUTIONS &ROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE +OSOVO ISSUE MY COUNTRY HAS BEEN PROJECTING CERTAIN PRINCIPLES REGARDING THE FINAL SOLUTION 4O SUMMARISE THESE ARE ONE STABILITY OF THE REGION TWO THE %UROPEAN INTEGRATION PERSPECTIVE OF THE WHOLE REGION AND THREE

THE WELLBEING OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA AND OF COURSE THE PROTECTION OF MINORITIES AND THE CULTURAL HERITAGE )N THIS CONTEXT

WE HAVE CONTINUALLY SOUGHT FOR THESE PRINCIPLES TO BE APPLIED TO +OSOVO AND FOR STRICT TIMETABLES WHICH ARE OFTEN UNPRODUC TIVE NOT TO BE IMPOSED !CCORDING TO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IT

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7OULDNiT IT HAVE MADE MORE SENSE FOR THIS SO CALLED #ONTACT 'ROUP TO HAVE INCLUDED THE LIKES OF 'REECE 4URKEY (UNGARY

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THE REGIONAL PLAYERS WHO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND AND WILL ULTIMATELY HAVE TO LIVE WITH WHATEVER SOLUTION IS REACHED 4HATiS A GREAT IDEA AND WEiVE BEEN ARGUING FOR THIS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING 4HERE WAS AN INITIAL IDEA TO INVOLVE THE REGIONAL POWERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION OF THE 5NITED .ATIONS WHICH ALSO CALLS FOR MORE INVOLVEMENT FROM LOCAL POWERS m THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES

NO MATTER HOW PERFECT THEY ARE 5NFORTUNATELY THAT IDEA HAS NOT BEEN REALISED .EVERTHELESS DESPITE NOT BEING IN THE #ONTACT 'ROUP WE ARE VERY ACTIVE ON THE +OSOVO ISSUE AND MAINTAIN EXCELLENT RELATIONS WITH ALL THE PARTIES INVOLVED AND AS FULL MEMBERS OF THE %5 AND .!4/

WE ARE ABLE TO RELAY OUR IDEAS ON +OSOVO FAR AND WIDE

7EiLL END ON A LIGHTER SUBJECT TOURISM !CCORDING TO LOCAL TOUR OPERATOR STATISTICS THIS SUMMER 'REECE IS ONCE AGAIN hTHE HIT DES TINATIONi FOR 3ERBIAN TOURISTS 7HY DO YOU THINK 3ERBS WOULD RATHER PAY MORE TO HOLIDAY IN 'REECE

WHEN "ULGARIA -ONTENEGRO AND 4URKEY ARE ALL CHEAPER AND WHEN CAN THE PEOPLE OF 3ERBIA EXPECT THE VISA REGIME WITH 'REECE TO BECOME MORE LAX 4RADITIONALLY FOR MANY DECADES THE PEOPLE OF 9UGOSLAVIA

3ERBIA MADE 'REECE A VERY POPULAR DESTINATION !ND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CHERISH 4HIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY MY COLLEAGUES AND ) ARE TAKING PAINS TO FACILITATE THE VISA PROCEDURE THAT WE ARE OBLIGED TO FOLLOW !S YOU WILL NOTE THERE ARE NO QUEUES OUTSIDE THE EMBASSY LIKE THERE WERE IN PAST YEARS 4HIS IS BECAUSE WE HAVE INTRODUCED A TELEPHONE CALL CENTRE THAT ALLOWS APPLICANTS TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW AND NOT COME HERE AND WAIT IN THE STREET FOR HOURS UNDER THE SUN !S FOR PRICES )iM NOT SURE THAT 3ERBS TRAVELLING TO 'REECE WILL PAY MORE THAN IN -ONTENEGRO OR 4URKEY BUT REGARDLESS MY COUNTRY IS A LEADING POWER IN TOURISM 7E HAVE A WELL DEVELOPED TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE AND ARE BLESSED BY A UNIQUE NATURAL ENVI RONMENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH OUR FRIENDS FIRST OF ALL OUR 3ERBIAN FRIENDS 7E WANT TO PRESERVE THIS NATURAL ENVIRON MENT AS WELL AS THE HISTORICAL TREASURES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES THAT MAKE 'REECE SO VERY UNIQUE AND THAT COMES AT A PRICE &INALLY ) WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK OUR 3ERBIAN FRIENDS ONCE AGAIN FOR CHOOSING 'REECE AS THEIR HOLIDAY DESTINATION AND ASSURE THEM THAT WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO FACILITATE THE VISA PRO CEDURE AND HELP THEM OVERCOME THE DIFFICULTIES THEY MAY FACE

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REGIONAL SECURITY CO OPERATION AND THE FUTURE OF +OSOVO (OW DID THIS CONFERENCE PASS AND DID IT RESULT IN ANY TAN GIBLE AGREEMENTS ON CO OPERATION !LL IN ALL THE CONFERENCE HAD AN AMBIANCE CREATED WITH THE GOAL OF TAKING SEVERAL STEPS 4HE FIRST STEP WAS TO DRAW ATTEN

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TION TO THE ISSUE OF COUNTER TERRORISM AND ORGANISED CRIME IN "ELGRADE AND WE WORKED TOWARDS THAT DIRECTION 4HE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THE CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT ALL AND THAT WE MADE A QUALITATIVE IMPROVEMENT IN TERMS OF EXCHANGING EXPERIENCES INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL DETAILS IMPORTANT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ALL FORMS OF TERRORISM CYBER TERROR ISM TERRORISM IN THE FIELD IN GENERAL ETC 4HE CONFERENCE HELPED TO FACILITATE NEIGHBOURING STATESi EXCHANGES OF THEIR EXPERIENCES ON HOW TO PREVENT AND DECREASE THE EFFECTS OF TERRORISM HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN A POSITIVE WAY WITH TERRORISM AS A SOCIAL DISAS TER %XPERTS FROM 3ERBIA !MERICA AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

z ê EXCHANGED EXPERIENCES ON HOW TO FIND SOME NEW SOLUTIONS FOR THE TERRORISM THREATS 7HAT IS IMPORTANT IS THE FACT THAT WE MADE THE FIRST STEP OF ESTABLISHING THE DIRECTION AND METHODS WE SECURED HIGH LEVEL PARTICIPATION AND REALISED THE INITIAL GOAL OF ESTABLISHING CO OPER ATION AND PROMOTING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE %UROPEAN REGION AND THE WIDER WORLD 4HE FIRST STEP OF AGREEING ON THAT CO OPERATION IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST AND ALL THAT COMES LATER IS MUCH EASIER ) AM VERY SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE $O YOU THINK THAT ATTENDEESi ATTITUDES REGARDING THE 3ERBIAN SECURITY ORGANS WAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER AS A RESULT OF THIS CONFERENCE DID THEY GAIN A BETTER APPRECIATION OF THE POSSIBILITIES AND CAPABILITIES OF SUCH ORGANISATIONS HERE )T IS QUITE CERTAIN THAT THE POLICE HAVE GOOD QUALITIES AND CAPAC ITIES m HERE ) MEAN THE )NTERIOR -INISTRY AND ITS SEGMENTS PARTICU LARLY ")! ;SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AGENCY= 4HESE PROFESSIONALS ARE FIGHTERS AND HAVE A LOT OF PRACTICAL AND NOT MERELY THEORETICAL

EXPERIENCE -OST OF THE ATTENDEES UNDOUBTEDLY APPRECIATED THAT EVEN BEFORE THE CONFERENCE AND THE OTHERS APPRECIATE IT NOW 7HAT SPECIFIC ISSUES WERE DISCUSSED 7E DISCUSSED JOINT CAPABILITIES AND EXPERIENCES BEFORE GOING ON TO DEFINE WHAT TERRORISM IS AND WHAT ITS AIMS ARE 4HERE ARE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE UNIVERSAL TERROR ISM IS ANY ACTION OF AN ORGANISED GROUP THAT WANTS TO VIOLENTLY IMPOSE ITS WILL m BE THAT POLITICAL IDEOLOGICAL OR OTHERWISE m ON A NATION OR A STATE 4HIS IS A UNIVERSAL DEFINITION THAT CANNOT BE REFUTED 3O ITiS ALL ABOUT VIOLENT DESTRUCTION OF ALL VALUES OF THE SOCIETY AND VIOLENT IMPOSING SELF INTEREST 4HERE ARE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF THIS AND +OSOVO -ETOHIJA IS A CLASSIC ONE $O YOU FEEL THAT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL PROBLEM OF ORGANISED CRIME AND TERRORISM IN +OSOVO AND THE WIDER 7ESTERN "ALKAN REGION 0ROFESSIONALS DEFINITELY ARE )T IS A QUESTION OF WHETHER THE WORLDiS PUBLIC IS AWARE OF THAT 4HOSE DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE m PRO FESSIONALS POLICE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES m KNOW THE SITUATION IN THE FIELD VERY WELL &OR EXAMPLE THE 5NITED .ATIONS AGENCY THAT DEALS WITH DRUGS AND CRIME ISSUED A REPORT STATING THAT FROM !FGHANISTAN THROUGH THE SOUTHERN COAST OF 2USSIA AND STATES THAT SURROUND THE "ALKANS 4URKEY !LBANIA "ULGARIA AND 3ERBIA ;+OSOVO= THERE IS AN ORGANISED CIRCULATION OF NARCOTICS 4HE QUANTITY OF NARCOTICS TRANSPORTED IS WORTH AN ESTIMATED BILLION )F YOU THINK THAT BILLION WORTH OF ANYTHING CAN BE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT ANY OF THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES KNOWING ABOUT IT THEN YOU ARE MISTAKEN 4HE QUESTION IS HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT THE SECURITY SERVICES RESPOND TO THAT 4HE "ALKANS IS THE LINK BETWEEN THE -IDDLE %AST AND 7ESTERN %UROPE LARGE QUANTITIES OF DRUGS ARE TRANSPORTED THROUGH 4URKEY !LBANIA "ULGARIA AND +OSOVO TO 7ESTERN %UROPE WHERE THEY GET TO THE STREETS AND THE CHILDREN WHO EVENTUALLY USE THEM 3OMEONE HAS GOT TO TAKE CARE OF THIS )N THIS CONTEXT THE 7EST HAS NOT GIVEN MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM $EFINITELY 3ERBIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES SHOULD CO OPER ATE MORE CLOSELY TO TACKLE THIS BUT IT IS MORE IN THE INTEREST OF THE 7EST THAN IN THE INTEREST OF 3ERBIA 3ERBIA IS MERELY A TRANSIT COUNTRY WITH A LIMITED MARKET OF OPIATE CONSUMERS $O YOU THINK THOSE TRAFFICKING HUMANS DRUGS AND WEAPONS ARE MORE INTERCONNECTED THAN THE SECURITY ORGANS IN THE REGION 0EOPLE IN ORGANISED CRIME ARE VERY WELL CONNECTED 4HEIR CONNECTION IS BORN OF A COMMON INTEREST IN AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY AND AVOIDING APPREHENSION !LL THESE ARE ELEMENTS FOR THE QUALITY OF ORGANISING SOMEONE IN THE JOB THAT SHOULD BE WELL ORGANISED AND PROTECTED AND THEY ARE PROTECTED AND THEY TAKE GOOD CARE OF EACH OTHER /N THE OTHER HAND WE HAVE A FORMAL ENGAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES SECRET POLICE AND INTELLIGENCE 4HEY DO IT ON AN ENTIRELY

DIFFERENT LEVEL BASED ON THE STATE PRINCIPLES INTERNATIONAL TREA TIES AND ACTIVITIES 4HEIR ACTIVITY IS CURRENTLY NOT QUICK THOROUGH OR EFFICIENT AND THOSE ARE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS TO REMEDY )F WEiVE GOT SUCH A SITUATION THEN WEiVE ALSO GOT A PROBLEM IN THE FIELD 4HE MAFIA ARE MORE EFFICIENT MORE THOROUGH BETTER ORGANISED AND CANNOT BE CONTROLLED )F THE CO OPERATION OF THE POLICE AND OTHER COUNTRIES WAS BETTER THIS WOULD NOT BE THE CASE 3ERBIAiS STATE SECURITY FORCES HAVE CONSIDERABLE EXPERI ENCE ALBEIT OFT MISGUIDED EXPERIENCE IN THE PAST IN FIGHTING ORGANISED CRIME AND TERROR (OW CAN THAT EXPERIENCE BE USED IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR 4HE ROLE OF 3ERBIA IN THAT FIGHT IS CERTAINLY IMPORTANT 4HE FUTURE ROLE OF 3ERBIA IN THAT FIGHT IS EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT 4HE EXPERIENCE OF THE POLICE FORCES AND THE MILITARY STRUCTURES IS VERY IMPORTANT 4HEY ARE VERY EXPERIENCED AND THEIR RECENT ACTIONS IN 2ApKA ARE TESTIMONY TO THE EFFICIENCY OF THESE SERVICES )T IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE POSITION OF 3ERBIA BE MODIFIED IN THE RIGHT WAY -ANY PEOPLE WHO ARE OF IMPORTANCE TO TERRORISM AND ORGANISED CRIME HAVE PASSED THROUGH THIS TERRITORY 3HAKAL THE &RENCH TERRORIST WHO WAS FINALLY CAUGHT IN !FRICA SPENT TIME IN THE REGION IN 3ERBIA AND "ULGARIA AS WELL 4WO WORLD TERRORIST LEADERS /SAMA "IN ,ADEN AND !YMAN !L :AWAHIRI WERE BOTH IN

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êh êp 9­êh ¾ ê FREEDOM QUALITY OF LIFE AND SPIRITUAL )T IS NOT THE TERRITORY OF +OSOVO ê ê ê THAT IS CREATING THE NEGATIVE ENVIRON DEVELOPMENT WILL DEPEND MENT BUT THE PEOPLE PEOPLE EDU 3ERBIA MUST ACCEPT THE IDEA OF ê ê ê ê ê CATE THEMSELVES AND ADAPT ACCORDING LOBBYING ,OBBYING IS USED BY COUN ê ê ê ê ¾ TO THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT THEY ARE TRIES THAT HAVENiT GOT ONE PERCENT OF ê ê êr ê êi ­ THE PROBLEM 3ERBIA HAS GOT 3ERBIA IN &OR INSTANCE AN !FRICAN LIVING MUST PAY FOR THE LOBBYING IN THE IN A HOT !FRICAN COUNTRY WILL WALK AROUND IN SCANT CLOTHING BECAUSE OF RIGHT MANNER FOR THE PROPAGANDA OF IDEAS PRINCIPLES AND EVERYTHING THAT IS USEFUL FOR THE SOCIETY THE HEAT BUT IF THAT !FRICAN GUY MOVES TO 3CANDINAVIA HE WILL NO LONGER DRESS LIKE THAT HE WILL PROTECT HIMSELF AND GET GOOD WARM 4HATiS THE NAME OF THE GAME HAPPENING NOW TODAY )N THESE CIR CUMSTANCES THIS IS A RULE )T WASNiT SO THIRTY YEARS AGO %VEN LESS CLOTHES -Y POINT )F YOUiVE GOT A POSITIVE SPIRIT IT WILL SPREAD )T SO FIFTY YEARS AGO ) AM NOT SAYING IT WILL BE THE CASE IN FIFTY YEARSi CANNOT BE CREATED BY TERRORISTS IN THEIR POLITICAL DISGUISE )T CAN BE TIME AND IN THE FUTURE BUT TODAY IT IS THE RULE ON THE GROUND CREATED ONLY BY PEOPLE WHO DONiT CARRY THE BURDEN OF WAR CRIMES 3ERBIA MUST ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY AND HIRE AGAINST CIVILIANS AND EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN +OSOVO PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING 4HE COST DOESNiT MATTER OVER RECENT DECADES 4HOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO BEAR NO BURDEN WITH COMMON SENSE AND SOUND LOGICS 4HEY HAVE GOT THEIR PERSONAL -ONEY SHOULDNiT BE AN ISSUE WEIGHT INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL 3TILL THE )NTERNATIONAL #OMMUNITY MUST NOW RESOLVE THE (OW CAN A HEALTHY SPIRIT OF RECONCILIATION AND REINTEGRA ISSUE OF +OSOVO AND WITH OR WITHOUT 3ERBIAiS HELP THE PROB TION FROM 3ERBIA EVER GET TO THE PUBLIC OF +OSOVO SURELY THEY LEMS OF ORGANISED CRIME IN +OSOVO NEED TO BE ADDRESSED ) WONiT GO INTO THE HISTORY TOO MUCH BUT WE ALL KNOW WHOSE LAND WONiT LISTEN TO ANYTHING "ELGRADE TRIES TO TELL THEM )F THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF EXCHANGING PEOPLE GOODS AND +OSOVO IS WHOSE CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES ARE THERE 7E KNOW THIS AS WELL AS WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE NOW A GREAT MAJORITY OF !LBANIANS CULTURES THEN THAT MESSAGE CAN GET THROUGH "UT IF YOU PUT UP IN +OSOVO )N THERE WERE NO BOUNDARIES OF THE !UTONOMOUS BORDERS EFFECTIVELY BUILD A WALL BETWEEN 3ERBIA AND +OSOVO AND 0ROVINCE OF 6OJVODINA OR THE !UTONOMOUS 0ROVINCE OF +OSOVO 4HE CLOSE THE MEDIA TOWARDS ALL THAT IS 3ERBIAN IF YOU BANISH THE COMMUNISTS OF *OSIP "ROZ CREATED THESE AUTONOMOUS PROVINCES PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE FOR CENTURIES AND ALLOW THE NEGATIVE )N THE 3ERBS WERE THE MAJORITYb)N "ROZ DIED AND THEN IMAGE CREATED BY THE LIKES OF 2UDER &INN TO ENDURE THEN RELAYING POSITIVE MESSAGE IS IMPOSSIBLE (OWEVER IF YOU OPEN EVERYTHING THE !LBANIANS WERE READY TO REBEL DISSATISFACTIONS THE MINES STU DENTS ALL OF IT COVERED IN MIST 9OU REMEMBER THOUSANDS OF UP AND TAKE DOWN THE WALLS THEN THE PEOPLE WILL ENTWINE ECO POISONED !LBANIANS TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITALS BUT NOT 3ERBS ONLY NOMICALLY AND CULTURALLY IF THE MEDIA LET CULTURE LIVE PEOPLE !LBANIANS 4HEY SHOULD GIVE THEM A .OBEL 0RIZE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC WILL ENRICH EACH OTHER AND EXCHANGE WHAT IS POSITIVE AND THIS IS POISONING 4HEN 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÌ ANNULLED THE FREEDOMS OF ALL THE ONLY WAY RECONCILIATION CAN BE ACHIEVED

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DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE ECONOMY AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITY OF BETTER AND FASTER IMPROVEMENT OF INSTITUTIONS AND COMPANIES 3EVERAL LARGER COMPANIES IN 3ERBIA HAVE FELT THIS NEED THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A BIGGER STEP FORWARD TOWARDS BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT CORPORATE MANAGEMENT ON ONE SIDE AND THE NEED FOR PROGRESS IN CORPORATE STANDARDS ON THE OTHER ) BELIEVE THAT 3ERBIA WILL BE RECOGNISED AS A COUNTRY WHICH IS IDEAL FOR INVESTMENT AND THAT ITS FOREIGN INVESTMENT RATING WILL BE INCREASED 4HIS IS PARTICULARLY BECAUSE OF THE EXISTENCE OF AN INSTITUTION WHICH SPECIFICALLY SUPPORTS AND ADVANCES THE LEVEL OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT 4HAT WAS THE BASIC IDEA 4HE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS WHO THINK THAT AS BIG ENTREPRENEURS THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO SOCIETY TO IMPROVE IT /N THE OTHER SIDE WE HAVE ALSO NOTICED THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO RAISE THE

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AND TRY TO IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT THROUGH VARIOUS SEMINARS LECTURES AND ROUNDTABLES 7E WILL ALSO ISSUE CERTIFICATES TO ALL FOUNDING AND ASSOCI ATE MEMBERS ON THE CONDITION THAT THEY ARE PRESENT AT SEMI NARS WHICH WILL COVER ALL SUBJECTS FROM THE FIELD OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT FINANCE ACCOUNTING SALES MARKETING AND OTHER FIELDS INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY OPERATIONS 3EMINARS WILL INCLUDE TOP EXPERTS FROM THE FIELDS WHO WILL ALSO BE PRESENT AT REGULAR ECONOMIC CONGRESSES 4HE ASSOCIATION DOES NOT ONLY CONSIDER DIRECTORS TO BE WORTHY OF BEING ITS MEMBERS 2ATHER WE ARE ALSO OPEN TO MEMBERS OF MANAGING AND SUPERVISORY BOARDS

AS WELL AS PARTNERS IN CONSULTING AND AUDITING HOUSES AND LAW OFFICES 7HAT ARE THE MAIN REASONS FOR FOUNDING THIS ASSOCIA TION /%#$ DIRECTIVES DATING BACK TO WERE THE MAIN INSPIRATION $URING ITS ESTABLISHMENT THE /%#$ GAVE MANY INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING CORPORATE MANAGEMENT AND IN THESE INSTRUCTIONS WERE FORMED INTO POSTULATES AND DIRECTIVES THAT APPLY TO ALL /%#$ COUNTRY MEMBERS AND WHICH SOME NON MEMBER COUNTRIES ALSO IMPLEMENTED 4HE /%#$ IS A SERIOUS AND RESPECTED INSTITUTION AND IF A COUNTRY ACCEPTS ITS CORPORATE MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES THAT MEANS THAT THE INVEST MENT CLIMATE IN THAT COUNTRY IS FAVOURABLE 7E ARE DOING THIS FOR BOTH THE SOCIETY AS A WHOLE AND FOR OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES .AMELY THE IDEA WAS TO HELP OURSELVES AND TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT THE

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OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH WE ARE ALREADY DOING BUT ALSO THE LOGISTICS BANKING ENERGY HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS TRADING TRAINING OF MANPOWER IN ORDER TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF BOTH METALS TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND AGRICULTURE 7E HAVE BECOME FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INVESTORS INVOLVED IN INVESTMENT FUNDS STARTED A PRIVATE PENSION FUND

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THE %UROPEAN -OVEMENT IN 3ERBIA STOOD FOR RECON CILIATION AND NOT FOR WAR FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND NOT ANTAGONISM FOR INTEGRATION INTO THE %UROPEAN 5NION AND NOT FOR ISOLATION AND SELF ISOLATION OF THE COUNTRY SAYS *ELICA -INIÌ A SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR AT THE )NSTITUTE OF %CONOMIC 3CIENCES AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE MOVEMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF HER CONVERSATION WITH #OR$ MAGAZINE -INIÌ STRESSES THAT THE MOVEMENT WAS ONE OF A SELECT NUMBER OF NON GOVERNMENTAL ANTIWAR ORGANISATIONS FOUNDED IN 3ERBIA AFTER THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM WAS INTRODUCED AND THE COUNTRY FELL APART 4ODAY THE %UROPEAN MOVEMENT HAS OVER LOCAL COUNCILS POSITIONED IN CITIES ALL OVER 3ERBIA IT HAS SUPPORTED THE FOUNDING OF APPROXIMATELY NEW .'/S UNDER ITS WING AND HAS ISSUED AN EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF PUBLICA TIONS DURING YEARS OF WORK IN VARIOUS WORKSHOPS SEMINARS

CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL COURSES -INIÌ SAYS THAT THE ANALYSIS MADE BY THE &ORUM FOR )NTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HAS THOROUGHLY REVISED FOREIGN POLICIES CONCERNING PRIMARILY YOUNG PEOPLE WOMEN LOCAL COMMU

p NITIES BUSINESSES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS WELL AS PUBLIC EXPERTS 4HE %UROPEAN MOVEMENT HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES SINCE THE h S AND TODAY THIS PARTNER SHIP m COUPLED WITH CO OPERATION THE ORGANISATION ENJOYS WITH %5 MEMBERS THE 5 3 #ANADA .ORWAY 3WITZERLAND ET AL m REPRESENTS ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS OF INTEREST j4HE JOINT PUBLICATION h2EGIONAL #O OPERATION FOR $EVELOPMENT AND %UROPEAN )NTEGRATIONi WHICH WAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY PARTNERS IN ALL REGIONAL LANGUAGES REPRESENTS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR PROMOTING REGIONAL CO OPERATION 4HE PREVIOUS PUBLICATION WHICH HAS ALSO JUST BEEN ISSUED m )0! THE )NSTRUMENT FOR 0RE ACCESSION !SSISTANCE FOR THE %5 DURING m INTRODUCES THE BASIC GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF THE FINANCIAL AID OFFERED BY THE %5 WHILST DEMON STRATING THE CRITERIA AND MECHANISMS OF ITS APPLICATION IN A NUMBER OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES k SAYS OUR INTERLOCUTOR /F COURSE SHE CONTINUES jSOME OF THE PROJECTS ARE MORE POPULAR WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC LIKE ,ETS 4RAVEL TO %UROPE

A PROJECT WHICH ENABLES EXCELLENT STUDENTS FROM 3ERBIAN 5NIVERSITIES TO TRAVEL FOR THREE YEARS STARTING WITH THIS ONE

THROUGH THE 3CHENGEN COUNTRIES OF THE %5 WITH THE HELP OF COMPLEMENTARY VISAS PROVIDED BY THE !USTRIAN GOVERNMENT

OR THE &EMALE 'OVERNMENT PROJECT WHICH AIMS TO PROMOTE THE EXPERT POTENTIAL OF WOMEN j7E SHOULD ALSO MENTION THE TRADE PROJECTS MIGRATION

ENERGY TRANSPORT ETC WHICH HAVE JUST BEEN COMPLETED OR ARE CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE +OSOVO )NSTITUTE FOR 0OLITICAL 2ESEARCH AND $EVELOPMENT !S YOU CAN SEE THE VARIETY OF PROJECTS WHICH ARE BEING DEVELOPED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE %UROPEAN 5NION IS EXTENSIVE

AND THE ORGANISATION ITSELF IS AN UNAVOIDABLE COUNTERPART IN THE POLITICAL AND PUBLIC LIFE OF 3ERBIA WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO OPEN DIALOGUE COLLABORATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE COUNTRY INTO REGIONAL %UROPEAN %URO !TLANTIC AND GLOBAL STRUCTURES k UNDERLINES -INIÌ ! YEAR AFTER THE CANCELLING OF 3!! NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE %5 ACCESSION TALKS BETWEEN "ELGRADE AND "RUSSELS HAVE NOW BEEN RESUMED (OW MUCH GROUND HAS 3ERBIA LOST ON ITS PATH TOWARDS %UROPEAN AND %URO !TLANTIC INTEGRATIONS DURING THIS PERIOD 3ERBIAiS PRELIMINARY NEGOTIATIONS WERE INTERRUPTED TWICE WHILE IT WAS IN THE FEDERATION WITH -ONTENEGRO AND THE SAME THING KEPT HAPPENING TO THE %5 TALKS AT A YEARSi INTERVAL FROM UNTIL 6ALUABLE TIME WAS LOST WITH EACH INTERRUPTION

AND THE ENERGY INVESTED DIDNiT PROVIDE SATISFACTORY RESULTS THE PRO REFORM AND PRO %UROPEAN FORCES IN THE COUNTRY WERE JEOPARDISED THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE NEGOTIATION TEAM DWINDLED THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT WERE AT RISK THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT WAS LESS FAVOURABLE ETC 7ITH THE TERMINATION OF THE NEGOTIATIONS 3ERBIA AS A NEW FOUNDED STATE FOLLOWING THE BREAK WITH -ONTENEGRO IN -AY ALLOWED ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE ITS IMAGE AS A TOLERANT PRO %UROPEAN MINDED COUNTRY SLIP THROUGH ITS FINGERS 4HAT IS TO SAY THE EFFECTS OF THE BREAK UP WERE NEGA TIVE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE 4HE DAMAGE IS FAR GREATER SINCE STATEMENTS FROM OFFICIALS IN "RUSSELS INDICATE THAT AN AGREE MENT ON STABILISATION AND ASSOCIATION WAS IMMINENT AS STATED DURING THE -ARCH SIGNING OF THE -ONTENEGRIN AGREEMENT m A COUNTRY WHICH CONTINUED THE NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT 3ERBIA 4HE PROBLEM WASNiT THE ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY OF 3ERBIA TO GET THE JOB DONE IT WAS EXCLUSIVELY BASED ON THE REFUSAL OF 3ERBIA TO CO OPERATE PROPERLY WITH 4HE (AGUE TRIBUNAL %VEN THOUGH MOST CITIZENS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO JOIN ING THE %5 THE POLITICAL ELITE DONiT SEEM TO BE PROMOTING %UROPEAN VALUES DESPITE OFFICIALLY DECLARING THEMSELVES AS

PRO %UROPEAN 7HAT IS THE MAIN OBSTACLE FOR THE DEVELOP MENT OF THIS PROCESS !CCORDING TO PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN -AY OF THIS YEAR ò OF THE CITIZENS WERE IN FAVOUR OF JOINING THE %5 IF A REFERENDUM WOULD BE ANNOUNCED "UT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THE FAITH THEY HAVE IN THE %5 ITSELF IS BEYOND QUESTION -OST OF THEM CITE THE MAIN REASON AS QUITE RIGHTLY GIVING YOUNG PEO PLE BETTER OPPORTUNITIES 4HIS MEANS THAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT SEE THEMSELVES BENEFITING DIRECTLY FROM INTEGRATION /RDINARY CITIZENS IN OTHER WORDS DEMONSTRATE A MORE REALISTIC AND MATURE VIEW THAN THE POLITICAL ELITE ! CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE PAST IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE %UROPEANISATION OF 3ERBIA WHICH IMPLIES A DENUNCIATION OF -ILOpEVIÐiS POLITICS OF WAR (OW IMPORTANT IS FACING THE PAST PARTICULARLY THE CONDEMNATION OF WAR CRIMES AND THEIR PERPETRATORS FOR THE POSITIONS OF THE MAIN POLITICAL FIGURES 3ERBIA HAS TO FACE THE FUTURE AND GET RID OF THE PRECONCEP TION OF THE "ALKANS AS A REGION LOST WITHIN AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF REVENGE AND RECURRING VIOLENCE "ULGARIA AND 2OMANIA HAVE

{ ê Ø ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ê p ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ HAPPILY ENTERED THE %5 7E ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED WITH MEMBER COUNTRIES 7AR CRIMES AND VIOLENCE WERENiT THE OBVI OUS CHOICE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IT WONiT BE DIFFICULT TO CONVINCE THEM THAT PEACE AND PROSPERITY ARE A MUCH BETTER IDEA 4HE SAME GOES FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE ENTIRE REGION 4HE MORE hRESPONSIBLEi MEMBERS OF SOCIETY THE ELITE CLASSES WERE THE ONES WHO WERE ACTUALLY TO BLAME FOR CREATING NATIONALISTIC IDEOLOGIES WHICH PROPELLED THE COUNTRY INTO WAR 4HE GREATER THE NEED IS FOR THEM TO NOW TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO GET OUR SOCIETY AND OUR DIVIDED REGION BACK ON TRACK 2EGIONAL CO OPERATION AND %UROPEAN INTEGRATION ARE LITER

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4HE BATTLE AGAINST CORRUP AS WELL AS AN INSURANCE POLICY THAT TION IS ONE OF THE MAIN QUES CITIZENS ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG

TIONS ON THE %UROPEAN AGENDA OF WONiT ABANDON THEIR COUNTRIES IN 3ERBIA #AN EXAMPLES OFFERED BY SEARCH OF A BETTER FUTURE THE MORE EXPERIENCED COUNTRIES +OSOVO IS CURRENTLY THE MAIN OF THE REGION HELP US WITH OUR TOPIC ON THE 3ERBIAN POLITICAL TRANSITION SCENE (OW CREDIBLE IS THE CLAIM 7E ALREADY USE TRIED AND TEST THAT 2USSIA WILL KEEP THE BREAKA ED METHODS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WAY PROVINCE IN 3ERBIA DESPITE CORRUPTION THE FACT THAT IT HAS NO JURISDICTION 2OMANIA ISNiT THAT REPRESENT OVER THE TERRITORY ATIVE BUT LARGE INVESTMENTS IN #ONTRARY TO THE PREVAILING PRO ANTICORRUPTION PROGRAMMES HAVE %UROPEAN CLIMATE IT IS A DISTURB PROVED SUCCESSFUL AND AS A RESULT

ING FACT THAT ò OF THE POPULA THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN TION WOULD ACCEPT ISOLATION AND A THE %5 KIND OF STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY 4HE MORE ECONOMIC INTERESTS WHEN +OSOVO IS AT STAKE AND ò THAT CORRESPOND WITH THE NEED TO OF RESPONDENTS WOULD EVEN GO TO DEVELOP A LEGAL STATE AND ALLEVI WAR )N OTHER WORDS A PART OF THE ATE THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENC POPULATION HAS CONTRADICTORY ASPI ES OF CORRUPTION THE GREATER THE RATIONS AND A %UROPEAN OPTION FOR PRESSURE THAT WILL COME FOR GOV THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE PROMOTED ERNMENT INSTITUTIONS TO CONFRONT MORE PERSISTENTLY TO REDUCE THE THESE ISSUES AS WELL AS SOCIETY IN POTENTIAL FOR CONFLICT GENERAL TO CONDEMN THEM -AYBE 2USSIA WILL FOLLOW HER OWN SOME SMALL CITIES LIKE )NðIJA !RILJE

INTERESTS AND THE STAKES ARE HIGH ETC HAVE ALREADY MADE A STEP IN { ê ê ê ê IN RELATION TO BOTH THE %5 AND THE THE RIGHT DIRECTION UTILISING NEW 5 3 +OSOVO IS OUR BIGGEST PROB INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ê ê ê ê ê ê LEM BUT IT IS COMPARATIVELY SMALL TECHNOLOGIES TO ACHIEVE A GREATER ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL -AYBE TRANSPARENCY OF PROCEDURES WHICH ê ê ê ¾ 2USSIA WILL INCREASE HER INFLUENCE ENCOURAGES INVESTORS TO SET UP NEW IN THE REGION THROUGH +OSOVO BUT COMPANIES -AYBE WE DONiT NEED ê ê ±ê ê ê ê THIS IS NOT A FULLY ROUNDED POLITICAL TO LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR INSPIRATION ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ALTERNATIVE FOR 3ERBIA AND ) DOUBT

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%VERY POLITICIAN UNDERSTANDS IN 3ERBIA THAT THERE ARE INDEPEND ENT MEDIA CRITICAL MEDIA OR FREE MEDIA mWHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT .ONE OF THEM CAN SAY THAT THEY WILL ONLY GIVE STATEMENTS FOR CERTAIN NEWSPAPERS 4HEY ARE AWARE THAT THE MEDIA IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN 3ERBIA SO WE RARELY COME ACROSS THE KIND OF CLOSED DOORS WE CONFRONTED BEFORE /F COURSE WE SOMETIMES DONiT GET AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE WOULD LIKE TO BUT NO MORE PHONES ARE SLAMMING DOWN ON US !ND THATiS GOOD BECAUSE WE CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC IN 3ERBIA 0OLITICIANS HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT ANY OTHER SORT OF BEHAVIOUR SIMPLY ISNiT TO THEIR ADVANTAGE AND WHAT IS OF ADVANTAGE TO THEM IS TO SAY WHAT THEY CAN ABOUT A CERTAIN MATTER WHILE OUR JOB AS JOURNALISTS IS TO GET AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN SO THAT WE CAN GIVE IT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC (OW DO YOU THINK INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM CAN BE BEST STIMULATED /UR POLITICIANS AND EDITORS LIKE TO MYSTIFY THINGS 4AKE THE FORMING OF THE 'OVERNMENT FOR INSTANCE IT TOOK THREE MONTHS AND DURING THE STALEMATE SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED SPECULA TIVE STORIES SURROUNDING MINISTERIAL POSTINGS ETC .OT ONCE DID OUR NEWSPAPER PUBLISH THOSE RUMOURS DESPITE US HAVING AT LEAST DIFFERENT SOURCES 4HAT WAS BECAUSE THOSE SOURCES ALWAYS INFORMED US THAT NOTHING HAD BEEN DECIDED COMPLETELY SO WE DECIDED NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT CHARADE "UT WE DID PARTICIPATE IN CRITICISM OF THE PROLONGING OF THE FORMING OF THE 'OVERNMENT 3TILL

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WE IMAGINE HERE WOULD BE A TOY SYSTEMISED STATE WHERE IT IS VERY OF THE LOCAL TYCOONS -Y COLLEAGUE ALSO WORKS IN A DAILY NEWSPAPER LIKE ) DO AND HE STILL MANAGES CLEAR WHAT EVERY STATE SERVICE SHOULD DO 7HEN THE GRENADE WAS TO ACCOMPLISH ALL OF THAT WITH HIS OWN WORK IN HIS OWN COUNTRY THROWN AT THE WINDOW OF THE JOURNALIST !NASTASIJEVIÌ THE PRESIDENT 4HIS IS THE TYPE OF LIFESTYLE THAT EVERY JOURNALIST IN 3ERBIA CAN ONLY CALLED HIM THAT VERY MORNING AND PROMISED THAT THE AUTHORITIES WISH FOR "UT IN A STATE WHERE THE AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY IS _ WOULD DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO FIND THE PEOPLE WHO DID IT A JOURNALIST CANiT HAVE A HOUSE AND A CAR OR A DECENT LIFE FOR THAT !ND OF COURSE ) DONiT MEAN THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD RUN AROUND MATTER )N OTHER COUNTRIES JOURNALIST ARE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS THEY AND TRY TO FIND THOSE PEOPLE BUT HE SHOULD INSIST THAT THE STATE ARE EQUAL MEMBERS OF A SOCIETY WHO CAN GO OUT AND COMMUNICATE SECURITY SERVICES ANNOUNCE WHAT THEY HAVE ACHIEVED WITH LAWYERS OR PROFESSORS 4HEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO GROVEL AND BEG )S THERE ANY OTHER FORM OF SOLIDARITY BETWEEN JOURNALISTS THAT FOR EVERY STATEMENT THEY NEED )N THAT RESPECT ) THINK WE ARE A LONG YOU THINK COULD HELP GIVE THIS ISSUE THE ATTENTION IT NEEDS WAY AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD 7E SPOKE TO SOME OF THE OTHER PRESS MEMBERS AND CAME TO THE AGREEMENT THAT WE WOULDNiT TO STOP ASKING QUESTIONS REGARDING THE (OW DO YOU FEEL AS A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST AND EDI TOR WHEN YOU HEAR THE CONSTANTLY REPEATED BUT UNFULFILLED ATTACK ON !NASTASIJEVIÌ )T IS FORTUNATE THAT NOTHING HAPPENED TO PROMISE THAT THE MURDERS OF YOUR FELLOW MEDIA FIGURES WILL BE HIM OR HIS FAMILY BUT WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN MORE THAN THAT (IS RESOLVED m A PROMISE REGULARLY UTTERED BY POLITICIANS PRIOR TO AN FAMILY CANiT SLEEP PEACEFULLY BECAUSE THE PERPETRATORS HAVE STILL ELECTION CAMPAIGN NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED AND BROUGHT TO JUSTICE 7E ALSO CAME TO THE ) FEEL UTMOST HUMILIATION ) STILL DONiT UNDERSTAND HOW COME AGREEMENT THAT IF THERE IS NO RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATION WE WILL START THE MURDER OF ¨URUVIJA ;JOURNALIST AND NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER OUR OWN AND TRY TO FIND AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN 7E WILL 3LAVKO ¨URUVIJA MURDERED IN = HASNiT BEEN RESOLVED )T HAS NOT BE INVESTIGATING LIKE THE POLICE DO BUT WHEN WE GET TO SOME BEEN SO MANY YEARS THAT THREE MINISTERS OF POLICE HAVE CHANGED RELEVANT INFORMATION ALL OF US WILL PUBLISH IT ON THE SAME DAY 3O SINCE IT HAPPENED AND THEY STILL SAY THE SAME OLD THING jTHAT THE AFTER THAT WE WILL LEAVE IT UP TO THE POLICE TO PURSUE IT OR RETRACT IT INVESTIGATION IS PROGRESSINGk (OW MUCH SHOULD IT BE PROGRESSING ) KNOW THAT THE 7HITE PAGE ISNiT ENOUGH THAT THE PROTESTS WITH CANDLES ARENiT ENOUGH BUT WE MUST DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN AND WE IN ORDER FOR US TO GET SOME INFORMATION ABOUT IT &OR THE UNRESOLVED MURDER OF JOURNALIST 0ANTIC ;*AGODINA CANiT LET THOSE MURDERS STAY UNRESOLVED FOR OUR SAKE AND THE SAKE JOURNALIST -ILAN 0ANTIÌ MURDERED IN *UNE = THEY SAY THEY OF FUTURE JOURNALISTS

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j êÆêq 4HE TRIAL ITSELF HAS LEFT SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS UNANSWERED FROM QUESTION MARKS OVER WHETHER THERE WAS ANY VISIBLE OBSTRUCTION TO THE TRIAL PROCESS TO THE UNEXPLAINED CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE SURRENDER OF 5LEMEK AND THE POLITICAL ELEMENT OF îINðIÌiS ASSAS SINATION $URING THE MAMMOTH TRIAL TWO WITNESSES WERE KILLED EYEWIT NESS TO îINðIÌiS MURDER +UJO +RIJEpTORAC AND AFOREMENTIONED PRO TECTED WITNESS :ORAN 6UKOJEVIÌ NUMEROUS PROSECUTION ATTORNEYS WERE BROUGHT IN AND REPLACED AND THE CASEi S ORIGINAL PRESIDING JUDGE *UDGE -ARKO +LJAJEVIÌ RESIGNED IN 3EPTEMBER AFTER ALMOST THREE YEARS ON THE CASE CITING jPOLITICAL PRESSUREk /NE OF THOSE SUBJECTED TO PROSECUTION CHANGES WAS *OVAN 0RIJIÌ 4HE 2EPUBLICiS 3PECIAL 0ROSECUTOR AT THE TIME THE INITIAL INDICTMENT WAS ISSUED 0RIJIÌiS MANDATE WAS LATER NOT EXTENDED AND HE ENDED THE TRIAL AS A DEPUTY PROSECUTOR !NOTHER PROSECUTOR IN THE CASE .EBOJpA -ARAp REQUESTED A DISCHARGE FOR REASONS UNKNOWN AND DEPUTY PROSECUTOR -ILAN 2ADOVANOVIÌ WAS ACCUSED AND SUBSEQUENTLY ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED CORRUPTION HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARREST 4HE CASE SAW WITNESSES BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT TO TESTIFY

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4HE AWARD OF THE #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE OF "ELGRADE HAS SERVED TO CONFIRM YOUR PROWESS AS A HIGHLY CAPABLE MANAGER 9ES "ESIDES THAT UNTIL NOW IT WASNiT CONSIDERED THAT MANAG ERS OF 0UBLIC )NSTITUTIONS ARE PROPER MANAGERS 2ATHER THEY WERE CONSIDERED AS POLITICAL FIGURES 0RACTICALLY UNTIL THE CHANGE OF HE LAW THIS WAS CLEARLY A POLITICAL APPOINTMENT !S SUCH TO RECEIVE AN AWARD FOR MANAGING SUCH A PUBLIC INSTITUTION IS A TRUE STIMULUS FOR ME TO CONTINUE THAT WAY IN THE FUTURE AND IT MEANS A LOT TO ME (OW DID YOU SUCCEED IN BRINGING THE &UND OUT OF ITS DEFICIT 4HE "UREAU IS A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION AND LAST YEAR IT HAD 23$ BILLION ) SAY TO EVERYBODY WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT THE INTRO DUCTION OF NEW DRUGS OR NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY THAT ARE NECES SARY THAT WE PRIMARILY HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF A SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WHICH IS OPERATING PROPORTIONATELY WITH LITTLE MONEY IN RELATION TO THE NEEDS OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM BUT IT STILL OPERATES IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY HAS NO DEBTS PAYS EVERYTHING ON TIME AND EVERYBODY IN THE SYSTEM KNOWS WHAT THEY CAN EXPECT FROM THE "UREAU AND WHEN THEY CAN EXPECT IT )N WHAT STATE DID YOU FIND THE "UREAU WHEN YOU TOOK UP THE POSITION 4HE GREATEST CHARACTERISTIC WAS THAT NO CONTRACTS HAD BEEN MADE WITH THE HEALTH INSTITUTIONS 4HAT IS THE HEALTH INSTITUTION FINANCED FROM THE "UREAU DIDNiT KNOW WHAT ITS RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS WERE )T COULDNiT KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY IT SHOULD HAVE BY THE END OF THE YEAR DEPENDING ON INFLOW OF CASH )T DIDNiT HAVE ANY GUARANTEED REVENUE THAT WOULD ENABLE THE MANAGER OF THAT HEALTH INSTITUTION TO DEVISE A WORKING PLAN AND KNOW WHAT COULD BE PLANNED BY THE END OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO THE FUNDS THAT WERE CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGED TO BE PAID 0LANS OF OPERATIONS FOR HEALTH INSTITUTIONS WERE NOT FOL LOWED ONLY RE WRITTEN YEAR AFTER YEAR 4HE SECOND THING ) FOUND WAS A TWO PAGE LIST OF DRUGS BASED ON WHICH THE "UREAU PAID FOR THE SAME DRUG AT THREE TIMES THE PRICE

DEPENDING ON THE MANUFACTURER 4HEN WE FOUND UNREGULATED DRUG PRICES THAT SAW PRICES OF FOREIGN DRUGS UP TO PER CENT HIGHER THAN WHAT IS PAID BY NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES 4HERE WAS NO CONTROL AT ALL .O ONE DEALT WITH THOSE REAL PROBLEMS WHERE THE MONEY WAS SPENT

WHAT WAS PAID FOR AND WHETHER THAT COULD BE RATIONALISED OR IF WE COULD MAKE SAVINGS IN ORDER TO REDIRECT FUNDS 4HEN WE REALISED THAT AROUND PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE WERE DEALING WITH FIVE PER CENT OF THE PROBLEM CITIZENS SUBMITTED REFUND REQUESTS AMOUNTING TO 23$ BILLION IN FOR MEDICINE THEYiD BOUGHT THEMSELVES AS IT WAS UNAVAILABLE IN THE HEALTH INSTITUTION AND THE WHOLE ADMINISTRATION WAS DEALING WITH THE HUGE QUANTITY OF REQUESTS FOR REFUNDS INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH BET TER ORGANISATION AND CONTROL OF THE SYSTEM )N THE END YOU HAVE EVEN SUCCEEDED IN BROADENING THE LIST OF DRUGS !T THE BEGINNING THE SITUATION WAS SUCH THAT THE MAJORITY OF NEW DRUGS NECESSARY FOR TREATMENT WERENiT ON THE LIST BASICALLY BECAUSE THE LIST HADNiT BEEN UPDATED FOR YEARS /N THE OTHER HAND

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FOR INSTANCE ON THE LEVEL OF THE "RITISH ONES WHEN WE HAVE JUST TWO MILLION PEOPLE WORKING AND PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE AND ALL THE OTHERS ARE TREATED ON THE BASIS OF THAT 7E HAVE THE LEAST FUNDS IN %UROPE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF !LBANIA _ PER CAPITA 4HAT IS PRACTICALLY FOUR TIMES LESS THAN IN #ROATIA AND TEN TIMES LESS THAN IN 3LOVENIA (UNGARY IS SPENDING THE WHOLE OF OUR HEALTH BUDGET JUST FOR DRUGS BUT THEY CAN AFFORD IT 7E HAVENiT EARMARKED SO MUCH MONEY BECAUSE WE DONiT HAVE THE ECONOMIC POWER TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD GREATER SPENDING "UT MUCH MORE IS EARMARKED FOR HEALTH PROTECTION THAN BEFORE )N RELATION TO THE PREVIOUS YEARS MUCH MORE HAS BEEN SET ASIDE 7E ALSO HAVE A GROWTH OF REVENUE WHICH IS A REFLECTION OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE COUNTRY OUR '$0 HAS GROWN FOLD SINCE IN 23$INARS AND THE &UNDiS REVENUE HAS DOUBLED IN DINARS BUT IN REALITY IT HAS ONLY INCREASED BY SOME PER CENT !S SUCH WE HAVE INCREASED REVENUES BUT ALSO INTRODUCED MORE RATIONAL SPENDING AND DIFFERENT ALLOCATIONS WITHIN THAT SPENDING

I E IF IN MORE THAN PER CENT WAS SPENT ON THE SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR THEN REALISTICALLY SPEAKING VERY LITTLE REMAINED FOR OTHER NEEDS AND OF COURSE WE THEN INCURRED DEFICITS .OW LESS THAN PER CENT IS ALLOCATED FOR SALARIES SO THAT THIS ALLOCATION IS MORE RATIONAL AND THERE IS MUCH MORE FOR OTHER PURPOSES 4HE SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR AND THEIR AMOUNT ARE ALSO A QUESTION OF FINANCIAL CAPABILITY )N THE HEALTH SECTOR THERE ARE EMPLOYEES )F THOSE SALARIES INCREASED BY FIVE PER CENT IT WOULD MEAN VERY LITTLE TO AN INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE

BUT THE PRESSURE ON THE &UNDiS BUDGET WOULD BE ENORMOUS 4HE SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR ARE RELATIVELY GOOD IN RELATION TO OUR SITUATION IN THE SECTOR AND ALSO IN RELATION TO THE ECONOMY AS A WHOLE 4HEY ARE MUCH BETTER OFF THAN THEY USED TO BE AND JUST LAST YEAR THEY SAW GROWTH OF AROUND PER CENT 7E HAVE TRIED TO MAKE A REALISTIC RATIO OF THUS THE MINIMUM A NURSE SHOULD BE PAID IS TWICE THE SALARY OF A PHYSICAL WORKER AND THE PHYSICIAN SHOULD BE PAID DOUBLE THE SALARY OF THE NURSE "Y THE END OF THE YEAR A PLAN WAS ADOPTED ACCORDING TO WHICH THE GROSS MONTHLY SALARY OF A SPECIALIST PHYSICIAN SHOULD BE 23$

AROUND _ &OR INSTANCE IN THE NET SALARY OF A PHYSI CIAN WAS AROUND 23$

WHICH WAS OUTRAGEOUS 4HAT HAS BEEN CHANGED 7HAT IS THE SITUATION IN THE OTHER COUNTRIES IN %UROPE 4HE THING WE DO NOT KNOW IS THAT THE CITIZENS IN %UROPE ARE ALSO FACING MANY PROBLEMS )N %NGLISH NEWSPAPERS THEY VERY OFTEN WRITE ABOUT THE PROBLEMS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR m AND THE %NGLISH SPEND OVER _ PER CAPITA COMPARED TO OUR _ m AND YOU CAN READ HOW PEOPLE IN %NGLAND ARE WAITING TWO YEARS FOR A HIP OPERATION OR THAT %NGLISH CITIZENS GO TO )NDIA BECAUSE IT IS CHEAPER FOR THEM

7OULD THE ANNOUNCED CAPITALISATION CHANGE SOMETHING 7HENEVER YOU START A REFORM OF ANY KIND YOU CANNOT BE SURE WHAT THE END RESULTS WILL BE m PARTICULARLY BECAUSE %UROPE SPECIFICAL LY HAS VERY LITTLE EXPERIENCE WITH CAPITALISATION 4HE REASONS WHY THE %5 HAS STARTED THINKING ABOUT CAPITALISATION ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE REASONS WE HAVE )N %UROPE PAYMENT IS DONE PER SERVICES )T HAPPENS THAT MANY MORE SERVICES ARE MADE THAN ARE REALLY NEC ESSARY ! CONSEQUENCE OF THAT IS INFLATED COSTS WHICH THEIR HEALTH

SYSTEMS CANNOT PAY FOR 4HEYiVE SEEN CAPITALISATION AS A WAY OF DECREASING THOSE COSTS THAT IS THEY UTILISE CERTAIN FUNDS TO EACH PHY SICIAN PER PATIENT IN ORDER THAT THE DOCTOR USE THOSE FUNDS RATIONALLY AND IS UNABLE TO REQUEST MORE "ECAUSE WE HAVE A DIFFERENT METHOD OF FINANCING BECAUSE WE GIVE A WAGE TO THE PHYSICIAN AND WE HAVE A CERTAIN FUND FOR DRUGS WE HAVE ALREADY IN THAT WAY LIMITED THE CONSUMPTION AND THEREFORE WE HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GOAL )T IS OUR INTENTION TO STIMULATE THOSE WHO WORK MORE WITH HIGHER SALA RIES IN RELATION TO THOSE PHYSICIANS WHO DO NOT HAVE PATIENTS !T THIS MOMENT THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE TO REFORMS IS THE 3ALARIESi !CT WHICH GUARANTEES EMPLOYEES IN PUBLIC SERVICES RECEIVE THE SAME SALARY 3O THE LAW HAS TO CHANGE IF WE HAVE A REFORM STRATEGY

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CUSTOMS OFFICES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS TO BE LEFT WITH NO DILEMMA IF THEY SUSPECT A TRANSACTION REPRESENTS MONEY LAUNDERING -ONTENEGROiS LEADERS HAVE ALSO EXERTED CONSIDERABLE EFFORTS ON THE FOREIGN RELATIONS FRONT AND MUCH HAS BEEN DONE TO CHANGE GLOBAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE COUNTRY )N TERMS OF PRACTICAL ADVANCES -ONTENEGRO ohyhskêopyzjoovmly JOINED THE )-& AND THE 7ORLD "ANK AT THE START OF THE YEAR WHILE THE %5 µ° ê ê ê ê ê ê ê 3TABILISATION AND !SSOCIATION !GREEMENT ê ê ê ê ê ­êi ê ¾ 3!! HAS ALREADY BEEN INITIALLED AND IS ê ê ±ê ê ¾ EXPECTED TO BE SIGNED THIS /CTOBER 4HE ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ¾ %UROPEAN 5NION HAS EXTENDED SO CALLED ê ê ê ê ­ê{ ê ê ê jPRE ACCESSION ASSISTANCEk FUNDS IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACI ê ê ê ê ê ¾ TIES OF THE COUNTRY DURING THE PROCESS OF ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê INTEGRATING INTO THE UNION ê ê ê ­´ 4HE FIGHT FOR LONG TERM ECONOMIC VIA BILITY IN -ONTENEGRO HOWEVER MUST BE AL 2EPUBLIC !ND INDEED SIGNIFICANT TOURIST INDUSTRY ADVANCES WON IN THE TINY COASTAL REPUBLIC ITSELF /NE OF THE FIRST hFRONTSi LIES IN THE DOMAIN OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AN AREA WHERE -ONTENEGRO HAVE BEEN MADE IN -ONTENEGRO IN RECENT YEARS HAS PLENTY OF CATCHING UP TO DO "UT HERE AT LEAST STEPS APPEAR /THER ADVANCES IN -ONTENEGRO HAVE BEEN MADE IN AGRICUL TURAL DIVERSIFICATION FOR THE EXPORT MARKET STEEL AND ALUMINIUM POSITIVE m EARLY THIS YEAR THE -ONTENEGRIN 'OVERNMENT APPEALED PROCESSING CAPACITIES INCREASES IN DRINKING WATER EXPORTS FOR PROSPECTIVE CONSULTANTS TO UNDERTAKE A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON AND GREATER UTILISATION OF THE COUNTRYiS HYDROELECTRIC POTENTIAL TWO HIGHWAYS ACROSS -ONTENEGRO SECTIONS OF THE !DRIATIC )ONIAN m EXPERTS CONSIDER -ONTENEGRO AS BEING PARTICULARLY hBLESSEDi AND "AR "ELGRADE ROUTES AND THE FINAL SELECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE FORTHCOMING THIS SUMMER )N THE MEANTIME THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WHEN IT COMES TO THESE TWO FINAL ELEMENTS 4HE PICTURE OF -ONTENEGROiS DEVELOPING ECONOMY APPEARS TUNNELS AND UPGRADING OF THE RAILWAY FROM THE PORT OF "AR TOWARDS BRIGHT AND POSITIVE BUT ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS REMAIN SOMEWHAT THE 3ERBIAN BORDER HAS COMMENCED WHILE THE MODERNISATION OF OF AN ENIGMA &OR INSTANCE &ABRIS RECENTLY ADMITTED THAT THE 0ODGORICA .IKpIÌ RAILROAD IS ALSO ADVANCING !NOTHER IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF -ONTENEGROiS ECONOMIC VIA -ONTENEGRO HAS NEVER HAD AS MUCH MONEY AS IT HAS NOW AT YEARiS END CASH IN CIRCULATION IN -ONTENEGRO TOTALLED BILITY IS THE PRODUCTIVITY OF -ONTENEGRINS THEMSELVES /BSERVING _ BILLION m AN PER CENT RISE ON THE PREVIOUS YEAR !ND THIS THE STREETS OF -ONTENEGROiS TOWNS AND CITIES DURING THE WORKING FIGURE IS SET TO RISE m IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE AS WELL AS BEING A WEEK ONE WILL FIND CAFES FULL OF YOUNG PEOPLE m UNEMPLOYED BUT REFLECTION OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS PRIVATISATION REVENUES AND THE CURRENTLY INTENSE REAL ESTATE TRADE IT IS ALSO A pnvyês|r p REFLECTION OF CREDITS OBTAINED BY DOMESTIC BANKS FROM THEIR FOREIGN PARTNERS µ êt ê ê ê ê 4HIS ALARMS &ABRIS WHO INSISTS THAT THE VERY HIGH ê ê ±ê ê GROWTH RATE OF FOREIGN CREDITS IS RISKY FOR BANKS THAT COULD ê ê ê ê ê OPT TO APPROVE LOANS TO BAD CLIENTS ­êz ê êÄz ê !N IMPORTANT FACTOR RELATING TO LOANS IS WHERE THE Æêw Ø Åê ê ê ê ¾ FUNDS IN QUESTION ARE SPENT I E ARE THEY USED FOR EXPAN ê ê ê ê ±ê ê SION OF PRODUCTION OR MERELY TO SATISFY CONSUMER DESIRES *UDGING BY THE NUMBER OF CARS VILLAS AND jPALACESk THAT ±êz ±êi ê ARE CONSTRUCTED IT APPEARS THAT MOST OF THE MONEY IS NOT ês ­´ BEING SPENT ON PRODUCTION CAPACITIES .EVERTHELESS THE DRASTIC INCREASE IN CONSUMER LOANS

AND LENDING IN GENERAL HAS NOT LED TO FOREIGN BANKS QUESTION APPARENTLY ABLE TO BOAST THE LATEST MOBILE PHONE MODELS AND ING THEIR FAITH IN -ONTENEGRO /N THE CONTRARY THIS -ARCH SAW FASHIONABLE ATTIRE BOUGHT WITH MONEY THEY DIDNiT EARN 3TANDARD 0OOR S 2ATINGS 3ERVICES RAISE ITS LONG TERM RATINGS 4HE SEEMING ABUNDANCE OF MONEY FOR -ONTENEGROiS YOUTH ON THE 2EPUBLIC OF -ONTENEGRO TO "" FROM "" ENSURES THAT THERE IS LITTLE ENTHUSIASM TO SEEK SEASONAL JOBS %XPLAINING 3TANDARD 0OORiS DECISION -ONTENEGRIN &INANCE IN THE TOURISM AGRICULTURE AND CONSTRUCTION SECTORS )NDEED

-INISTER )GOR ,UKpIÌ DREW UPON THE RESULTS OF THE CREDIT RATING THESE JOBS TEND TO BE FILLED BY SEASONAL MIGRANT WORKERS WHO PROVIDER ITSELF WHEN HE SAID jIN -ONTENEGRO THERE IS A STRONG COME MOSTLY FROM 3ERBIA BUT ALSO FROM AS FAR AFIELD AS 5KRAINE INVESTMENT TREND AND THE PUBLIC FINANCES HAVE BEEN IMPROVED AND ELSEWHERE 3OME SEASONAL WORKERS ARE TRAVELLING TO 3UCH A CREDIT RATING IS BETTER THAN THAT ENJOYED BY FOR INSTANCE -ONTENEGRO TO WORK WHILE YOUNG UNEMPLOYED -ONTENEGRINS 3LOVAKIA "ULGARIA AND ,ATVIA k hCHILL OUTi IN CAF S FILLED WITH TOURISTS )N ORDER TO FURTHER IMPROVE HER ECONOMIC STATUS IN THE 4HIS PROBLEM AND THOSE OF QUANDARIES RELATING TO CURB WORLD HOWEVER -ONTENEGRO WILL HAVE TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE THE ING EXCESSIVE SPENDING AND MATCHING IT WITH PRODUCTION AND GREY ECONOMY WHICH CURRENTLY CONTRIBUTES BETWEEN AND SERVICE LEVELS REMAIN THE KEY ISSUES NEEDING TO BE REMEDIED PER CENT TO THE COUNTRYiS OVERALL ECONOMY IN ORDER FOR THE -ONTENEGRIN ECONOMY TO ENSURE ITS LONG TERM 4HE AUTHORITIES WILL ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF HEALTH AND STABILITY ING TEMPORARY DEFICITS k &ABRIS INSISTED THAT THE STRENGTHENING OF THE -ONTENEGRIN ECONOMY REQUIRES THE COMPLETION OF THE PRIVATISATION PROCESS CURRENTLY MORE THAN PER CENT OF THE ECONOMY IS PRIVATELY OWNED FOLLOWED BY THE RESTRUCTURING OF LARGE COMPANIES

FURTHER LIBERALISATION OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT MARKED PROGRESS IN COMBATING THE GREY ECONOMY AND EFFECTIVELY IMPLE MENTING ANTIMONOPOLY REGULATIONS %XPERTS BELIEVE THAT -ONTENEGROiS STRONGEST ECONOMIC PROS PECTS LIE IN THE RICH TOURIST OFFER NATURALLY PROVIDED IN THE COAST

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AT ISSUE IS NOT THE 0ALME Di/R BUT THE PRIZE "EST OF THE "EST THAT $AIMLER#HRYSLER #OMPANY AWARDS FOR THE BEST RESULTS ACHIEVED IN A BUSINESS YEAR !S #ANNES WOULD NOT BE #ANNES WITHOUT STARS SO $AIMLER#HRYSLER WOULD NOT BE WHAT IT IS WITHOUT ITS OWN STARS THAT CONFIRMED THE REPUTATION OF THEIR COMPANY THROUGH THEIR OWN TALENTS QUALITY OF WORK

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SIGNED A THREE YEAR CONTRACT ON EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO DISTRIBUTE +NJAZ -ILOp PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET OF "( 4HIS CO OPERATION WILL IMPROVE THE DISTRIBUTION THROUGH DISTRI BUTION CHANNELS DEVELOPED BY #ARLSBERG IN "OSNIA (ERZEGOVINA

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/UR CUSTOMERiS SATISFAC TION AND THE TRUST THEY PUT IN OUR BRANDS MAKE THE MOVING FORCE AND ENDLESS MOTIVATION FOR FURTHER CREATION OF AUTHEN TIC VALUES INTENDED PRECISELY FOR THEM /WING TO THE UNIQUE ATTITUDE OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND THEIR DEDICATION TO CUSTOMERS

WE SUCCEED IN UNDERSTAND ING THEIR NEEDS AND SATISFYING THEIR REQUIREMENTS STATED -R 3TAVROS 0ARASKEVAIDES #HIEF %XECUTIVE OF $AIMLER#HRYSLER 3ERBIA AND -ONTENEGRO AT THE AWARD PRESENTATION

SALES AND UPGRADE THEIR COMPETI TIVENESS

PREPAID PACKAGES MOBILE OPERA TOR 4ELENOR HAS LAUNCHED SUM MER ROAMING CAMPAIGN 4HE NEW SUMMER PRICES WILL BE EFFECTIVE FROM *ULY TO !UGUST 4ELENOR USERS WHO TRAVEL TO 'REECE

"ULGARIA 4URKEY 4UNISIA 3PAIN OR %GYPT WILL USE MOBILE SERV ICES AT PRICES ò LOWER THAN BEFORE 4HE PRICE OF 3-3 MESSAG ES REMAINS UNCHANGED &OR USERS IN -ONTENEGRO THE PRICE OF TEL EPHONE CALLS WILL BE THE SAME AS IN THE COUNTRY WHILE INCOME CALLS WILL BE FREE OF CHARGE 5SERS WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO ACTIVATE 0ROMONTE VOUCHERS TO REFILL THEIR PRE PAID MOBILE ACCOUNTS

OF LOCAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL FINAN CIAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISA TIONS DEDICATED TO THE COUN TRYiS DEVELOPMENT 4HE "!# 3%% FULLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE BUSINESS CLIMATE AND LURE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS

WHICH WILL BOOST EMPLOYMENT RATES AND BRING IN NEW CAPITAL

TECHNOLOGY AND PROFESSIONALISM IN MANAGEMENT 4HE PROGRESS OF THE PRIVATISATION PROCESS HAD A POSITIVE TREND BUT IT NEEDS TO BE FURTHER DEVELOPED BY MEANS OF PLANNED POLICY OF ATTRACT ING GREENFIELD INVESTMENTS !CCORDING TO THE "!# 3%%

INFRASTRUCTURE CALLS FOR URGENT INVESTMENTS 4HE INTENSITY OF INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT CAN BE INCREASED WITH AN EVEN CLOSER CO OPERATION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS ON CREATING THE POLICY SELECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS #O ORDINATION BETWEEN ALL LEVELS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO BE PROMOTED AS WELL ACCORD ING TO THE "!# 3%%

k ên êÆêh 4HE FIRST INSURANCE BUSINESS CONTACT CENTRE IN 3ERBIA WILL PRO VIDE CLIENTS WITH ALL INFORMATION ON $ELTA 'ENERALI /SIGURANJE AND THE COMPANYiS SERVICES BY MEANS OF A TELEPHONE CALL E MAIL WEB CHAT OR FAX 4HE PROGRESS MADE IN THE INSURANCE COMPANYiS COM MUNICATION SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE FASTER EASIER AND MORE ACCESSI BLE SERVICE FOR OVER HALF A MILLION CLIENTS 4HE NEW COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED BY !LGOTECH

THE FIRST REGIONAL PROVIDER OF SOLU TIONS FOR CONTACT CENTRES IN #ENTRAL AND %ASTERN %UROPE &OR THE FIRST TIME IN 3ERBIA ENSURED CLIENTS ARE PROVIDED WITH EASY ACCESS TO INFOR MATION ON THE STATUS OF THEIR INSUR ANCE POLICY ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OR PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

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p ê ê ê ê êê 4HE "USINESS !DVISORY #OUNCIL FOR 3OUTHEASTERN %UROPE "!# 3%% HELD A SESSION ON *UNE AND IN "ELGRADE 4HE SESSION FOCUSED ON DISCUS SIONS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 3ERBIAN GOVERNMENT FOR EIGN INVESTORS REPRESENTATIVES

o êh 4HE SECOND CYCLE OF (OLCIM !WARDS COMPETITION FOR SUS TAINABLE CONSTRUCTION IS OPEN FOR ENTRIES AS OF *UNE AND ALL THOSE INTERESTED CAN SUBMIT THEIR PROJECTS BY &EBRUARY

4HE TOTAL FUND OF (OLCIM !WARDS COMPETITION IS 53 MILLION AND ITS AIM IS TO PROMOTE INNOVA TIONS IN SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION THROUGH A SERIES OF REGIONAL AND GLOBAL COMPETITIONS

{ êz ê ê €¦¤¦ ê ê{ ê z 3ERBIAN STATE RUN TELECOM MUNICATIONS OPERATOR 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA HAS PAID THE WHOLE AMOUNT OF _ MILLION FOR THE TAKEOVER OF A ò SHARE IN 2EPUBLIKA 3RPSKA TELECOM PROVIDER 4ELEKOM 3RPSKE !CCORDING TO A STATE MENT .OVA ,JUBLJANSKA "ANKA

IN WHICH TEMPORARY ACCOUNT FOR PRIVATISATION OF 4ELEKOM 3RPSKE HAS BEEN OPENED CONFIRMED

i êw ꢪª§ {oyllêh~hykzêmvyê kls{hêovskpun $ELTA (OLDING WAS THE RECIP IENT OF THREE SPECIAL AWARDS AT THIS YEAR S "USINESS 0ARTNERS AWARD WINNING CELEBRATION IN "ELGRADE 4HE SPECIAL "EST 0ARTNER AWARD WAS PRESENTED TO $ELTA (OLDING AS THE ONLY COM PANY TO RECEIVE SUCH RECOGNI TION WHICH WAS ELECTED FROM THE WINNERS OF ALL OTHER CATEGORIES

ul~êjvuzvy{p|tê mvyêjvuz{y|j{pvuêvmê |up}lyzp{ êzl{{sltlu{êê ! CONSORTIUM WHICH CON SISTS OF $ELTA - 'ROUP AND (YPO 'ROUP AS EQUAL PARTNERS

HAS TAKEN OVER THE PROJECT OF CONSTRUCTING THE 5NIVERSITY

TO THE 0RIVATISATION $IRECTORATE THAT THE WHOLE SUM OF _ MIL LION HAS BEEN PAID /N *UNE

WHICH WAS SET AS THE CLOS ING DATE 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA HANDED OVER TO THE 2EPUBLIKA 3RPSKA 0RIVATISATION $IRECTORATE A _ MIL LION GUARANTEE WHICH EQUALS THE AGREED ON OBLIGATION TO INVEST IN THE COMPANY DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF OWNERSHIP 4HE 0RIVATISATION $IRECTORATE WILL DELIVER 4ELEKOM 3RBIJE A CERTIFICATE ON 4ELEKOM 3RPSKE SHARE OWNERSHIP WHEN THE MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE TEMPORARY ACCOUNT TO THE ACCOUNT OF THE 2EPUBLIKA 3RPSKA GOVERNMENT 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA PROVIDED THE FUNDS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF 4ELEKOM 3RPSKE FROM A _ MILLION LOAN GRANTED BY 53 #ITIBANK

¢ªª§ê ê ê 3ERBIAN PARLIAMENT ADOPT ED THE BUDGET LAW ENVISAGING 23$ BILLION IN REVENUES AND 23$ BILLION IN EXPENDITURES FOR 0LANNED BUDGET EXPEN

DITURES FOR THIS YEAR ARE BY ò HIGHER FROM LAST YEARiS WHILST BUDGET DEFICIT WILL AMOUNT TO 23$ BILLION OR ò OF '$0 IN THE BUDGET RECORDED A SURPLUS OF 23$ BILLION )N TOTAL BUDGETARY REVENUES THE LARGEST SHARE IS FROM COLLECTION OF TAXES

WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO BRING IN 23$ BILLION )NDIVIDUALLY

6!4 IS EXPECTED TO BRING LARGEST REVENUE OF _ BILLION

2USSIAN CAPITAL IN PRIVA TISATION OF NATIONAL AIR CARRIER *AT !IRWAYS STATE OIL COMPANY .AFTNA )NDUSTRIJA 3RBIJE .)3

CONSTRUCTION OF GAS PIPELINES AND UNDERGROUND STORAGES OF GAS IN "ANATSKI $VOR IS WELCOMED

3ERBIAN -INISTER OF 4RADE AND 3ERVICES 0REDRAG "UBALO SAID ADDING THAT TRADE BETWEEN 3ERBIA AND 2USSIA IN FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER YEARS REACHED A RECORD HIGH OF 53 BILLION

WHICH REFLECTS THE UPWARD TREND OF ECONOMIC CO OPERATION

BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES 4HE -INISTER HOWEVER POINTED OUT THAT jTHE ONLY PROBLEM IN THE TRADE IS THE HUGE IMBALANCEk AS THE EXPORT IMPORT RATIO IN TRADE BETWEEN 2USSIA AND 3ERBIA WAS ONLY ò IN AND DUE TO THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO WORK ON REDUCING THE TRADE DEFICIT WHICH COULD BECOME A THREAT TO 3ERBIAiS MACRO ECONOMIC STABILI TY 4HE 2USSIAN SIDE IS INTERESTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN THE AREAS OF AGRICUL TURE ENERGY PHARMACEUTICALS AND CONSTRUCTION AND 2USSIAN FIRMS WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PRIVATISATION OF .)3 TRANSPOR TATION COMPANIES INVESTMENTS IN THE MINING AND METALLURGICAL COMPLEX 24" "OR BANKING AND TOURISM j/N THE OTHER HAND

WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN WIDER INVESTMENTS BY 3ERBIA 4HE VOL UME OF INVESTMENTS BY 3ERBIA IN 2USSIA IN ROSE THRICE WHEN COMPARED WITH k 2USSIAN -INISTER OF %MERGENCIES AND #ALAMITY 2ELIEF 3ERGEI 3HOIGU 3OURCE 4ANJUG

PROJECT "EARING IN MIND THAT THE JOB DIDNiT PROGRESS ACCORDING TO THE DESIRED DYNAMICS $ELTA - RETREATED FROM THE PROJECT AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS !CCORDING TO THE SIGNED #ONTRACT $ELTA - 'ROUP AND (YPO 'ROUP ARE ENTERING THE PROJECT OF 5NIVERSITY SETTLEMENT AS INVESTORS ON AN EQUAL BASIS #ONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT HAS BEEN ALREADY TAKEN OVER BY $ELTA

)NVEST AS A COMPANY SPECIALISED IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT !T THIS MOMENT THE CONCLU SION OF #ONTRACTS WITH SUB CON TRACTORS IS UNDER WAY 4ECHNICAL AND OTHER PROBLEMS RELATED TOTHE LOCATION IN "LOCK HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED SO THAT ALL JOBS CAN BE DONE IN TIME FOLLOWING THE DYNAMICS DEMANDED BY AN ORGANISATION OF MAJOR SPORTING EVENT LIKE 5NIVERSIADE

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$ELTA (OLDING ALSO RECEIVED THE "USINESS 0ARTNER 0LUS AWARD IN RECOGNITION OF THE COMPANY S HIGHEST LEVEL OF COR PORATE RESPONSIBILITIES AND CARE FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES &INALLY $ELTA -AXI!KCIJA WAS AMONG THE COMPANIES AWARDED WITH THE "USINESS 0ARTNER AWARD 4HE "USINESS 0ARTNER !WARD WAS PRESENTED TH TIMES THIS YEAR WITH THE AIM TO PROMOTE COMPANIES AND ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ACHIEVING THE HIGH EST PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND BUSINESS ETHICS IN 3ERBIA

SETTLEMENT IN "ELGRADE 4HE #ONTRACT CONFIRMING THE PROJECT WAS SIGNED ON TH *UNE IN +LAGENFURT /NE YEAR AGO $ELTA -

ENTERED THE CONSORTIUM WITH !USTRIAN COMPANY #%% )NVESTMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE SETTLEMENT FOR 5NIVERSIADE IN "ELGRADE AS A MINOR ITY PARTNER (YPO !LPE !DRIA "ANK GAVE ITS GUARANTEE FOR THAT

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z ê ê ê r ê 3MALL 3LOVENIAN &AKTOR "ANKA PURCHASED ò OF SHARES IN +OSOVOiS INTERNET PROVIDER )PKO .ET FOR _ MILLION 4HE SHARES WERE MAINLY PURCHASED FROM 4ELEKOM 3LOVENIJE MAJOR ITY OWNER OF )PKO .ET WHICH TOOK OVER A ò SHARE IN -AY FOR _ MILLION AND NOW IT WILL KEEP ò OF THE INTER NET PROVIDER "Y SELLING SHARES TO &AKTOR "ANKA )PKO .ET GOT ITSELF AN jEXPERIENCED PARTNERk THAT HAS BEEN PRESENT ON THE +OSOVO MARKET FOR OVER SIX YEARS AND CO OPERATION OF THE TWO SIDES WILL INFLUENCE THE INCREASE OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN +OSOVO ACCORDING TO A STATE MENT AS REPORTED BY 34!

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ZINES IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE &INANCIAL 4IMES 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL %UROPE

(ANDELSBLATT ,ES %CHOS OR -ILANO &INANZA )N %"0 BEGAN PRESENT ING THE AWARD TO TOP %UROPEAN MANAGERS ENTREPRENEURS OR COMPANIES !MONG THE RECIPI ENTS WERE )NGVAR +AMPRAD OF )KEA *ORMA /LLILA OF .OKIA AND "ERND 0ISCHETSRIEDER FORMER #%/ OF "-7 AND 6OLKSWAGEN (ERBERT 3TEPIC RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR HIS OUTSTANDING DEVEL OPMENT OF HIS COMPANY INTO ONE OF THE MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN %UROPEAN BANKING WORLD &OLLOWING HIS VISION HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR FORMING A UNIQUE GRID OF SUB SIDIARIES FOR 2:" AND 2AIFFEISEN )NTERNATIONAL FAR BEYOND THE !USTRIAN BORDERS 4ODAY HE STEERS BANKS AND LEASING COMPA NIES IN MARKETS OF THE REGION WITH AROUND OFFICES AND MORE THAN EMPLOYEES 3INCE ITS )0/ IN !PRIL THE PRICE OF 2AIFFEISEN )NTERNATIONAL SHARES HAS MORE THAN TRIPLED (ERBERT 3TEPIC JOINED 2:" IN

WHERE HE STARTED TO DEVELOP THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OF THE BANK )N HE BECAME #%/ OF 2AIFFEISEN )NTERNATIONAL -R 3TEPIC IS YEARS OLD MARRIED AND THE FATHER OF TWO SONS

{ ê ê ê} ê êêê !LEXANDER 3PERL #%/ OF MOBILE COMPANY 6IP -OBILE

MEMBER OF -OBILKOM !USTRIA 'ROUP SAID THAT THIS MOBILE OPERATOR WILL START WORKING DUR ING *UNE WHEN IT WILL MAKE PUB

LIC ITS PRICES AND ANNOUNCED THAT 6IP WILL USE DIALLING NUMBERS AND 3PERL SAID THAT THE NEW OPERATOR WILL OFFER BETTER PRICES AND BETTER QUALITY SERV ICE POINTING OUT THAT 3ERBIA IS THE SECOND IN %UROPE BY THE PRICE OF CONVERSATION PER MINUTE WHEN COMPARED WITH CITIZENSi PURCHASE POWER j6IP PROVIDED FOR THE FIRST USERS TO GET A PRE PAID 3)- CARD WITH 23$

FOR 23$ k 3PERL STRESSED AND

4HE !TLANTIC 'ROUP AS PART OF WHICH #EDEVITA OPERATES

PURCHASED 3ERBIAiS LEADING PRODUCER OF VITAMIN INSTANT DRINKS IN GRANULES AND EFFER VESCENTS THAT WAS ONCE PART OF (EMOFARM #ONCERN FOR A TOTAL OF _ MILLION 4HE !TLANTIC 'ROUP STRESSED THAT BY PUR CHASING -ULTIVITA BRAND IT STRENGTHENS ITS LEADERSHIP POSI TION IN THE PRODUCTION OF VITA MIN DRINKS ON THE 3OUTHEAST

NOTED THAT BY BUYING THE PRE PAID 3)- CARD USERS WILL AUTO MATICALLY PARTICIPATE IN THE PRIZE GAME WHERE THEY MIGHT WIN ONE THOUSAND .OKIA AND 3AMSUNG MOBILE PHONES 6IP IS GOING TO HAVE TOTAL SIGNAL COVERAGE ON THE WHOLE TERRITORY OF 3ERBIA 3PERL SAID AND ANNOUNCED INVESTMENT OF _ MILLION IN THE NETWORKiS DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS 4HE LICENCE FOR THIRD MOBILE OPERATOR IN 3ERBIA WAS PAID _ MILLION PLUS ONE EURO ON $ECEMBER

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%UROPEAN MARKET AT THE SAME TIME ENRICHING ITS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO WITH NEW EFFERVES CENT PRODUCTS (EMOFARM )NÝENJERING WILL BUILD A FACTORY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MULTIVI TAMIN EFFERVESCENTS WITHIN THE 4ECHNOLOGY 0ARK IN 6RpAC FOR THE !TLANTIC 'ROUP NEXT YEAR

AND BY THAT TIME MULTIVITAMIN PREPARATIONS WILL BE PRODUCED IN (EMOFARMiS PLANT #ROATIAN NEWS AGENCY (INA REPORTED 4HE !TLANTIC 'ROUP GUARANTEES THAT THE STATUS OF EMPLOYEES IN -ULTIVITA WILL NOT BE CHANGED IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS AND THAT TO NEW JOBS WILL BE CREATED WITH THE CONSTRUC TION OF THE NEW PLANT WITHIN THE 4ECHNOLOGY 0ARK 5NDER THE ,ETTER OF )NTENT THAT THE !TLANTIC 'ROUP AND (EMOFARM #ONCERN SIGNED !TLANTIC 'ROUP WILL SUPPORT THE SALES OF (EMOFARMiS /4# PREPARATIONS IN THE #ROATIAN MARKET 3OURCE "

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WHO WILL AS OF *ULY HOLD THE POSITION OF VICE PRESIDENT FOR FOOD PRODUCTION 2OBERT &ERKO HAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE IN FOOD INDUSTRY BUSINESS AND UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO HE WAS #%/ OF 3LOVENIAiS LARGEST FOOD COMPANY $ROGA +OLINSKA 4HE JOB OF $ELTA (OLDING VICE PRESI DENT WILL BE TO FURTHER DEVELOP PROJECTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY MEAT PLANT 9UHOR AND FLOUR AND PASTRY PLANT $ANUBIUS AS WELL AS TO START NEW BUSINESSES IN $ELTA (OLDING WATER BOT TLING AND PRODUCTION OF COFFEE AND CONFECTIONERIES

l ê ꀣ­¥ êê %LOPAK 3RBIJA PART OF %LOPAK .ORWAY HAS INVESTED AROUND _ MILLION IN MOD ERNISATION OF PRODUCTION FACILI TIES OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS %LOPAK PLANS TO INCREASE THIS YEARiS SALE WHICH LAST YEAR STOOD AT 23$ MILLION BY BETWEEN ò AND ò AS WELL AS TO INCREASE EXPORT IN THE SAME PERCENTAGE 4HE COM

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PANY EXPORTS AROUND ò OF TOTAL PRODUCTION TO 'REECE

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5+ "OSNIA (ERZEGOVINA AND EXPORT TO #ROATIA AND 3LOVENIA IS EXPECTED SOON 3OURCE "ETA

k êw ê êz ¸ê êêêê 3ERBIAN -INISTER OF 4RADE AND 3ERVICES 0REDRAG "UBALO SPOKE WITH CHAIRMAN AND MAJORITY SHAREHOLDER OF THE 0LAZA #ENTRE 'ROUP FROM THE .ETHERLANDS -OTI :ISSER ON THE OPENING OF A CHAIN OF COM MERCIAL CENTRES IN 3ERBIA 4HE 0LAZA #ENTRE 'ROUP IS ONE OF THE LARGEST GROUPS WHICH DEALS WITH CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOP MENT OF COMMERCIAL CENTRES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN %UROPE )T OWNS AND MANAGES OVER COMMERCIAL CENTRES COVERING A BUSINESS SPACE OF MORE THAN MILLION SQUARE METRES IN 'REECE )SRAEL (UNGARY THE #ZECH 2EPUBLIC 0OLAND AND 2OMANIA 3OURCE 4ANJUG

AS WELL AS ALL OTHER "ELGRADE CITI ZENS CAN NOW TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE EVEN GREATER NUMBER OF BUSINESS UNITS TO USE 0IRAEUS "ANK PRODUCTS AND MODERN AND QUALITY SERVICES SUCH AS CURRENT ACCOUNT PACKAGES AND MONEY TRANSFER OPTIONS AS WELL AS REVOLVING CREDIT CARDS WITH

THE LOWEST MINIMUM MONTH LY REPAYMENT ON THE MARKET

AMOUNTING TO THREE PER CENT 0IRAEUS "ANK !$ "ELGRADE CURRENTLY OPERATES THROUGH BUSINESS UNITS ON THE TERRITO RY OF 3ERBIA AND EMPLOYS BANKING EXPERTS !CCORDING TO ITS STRATEGIC PLAN

BY YEARiS END

0IRAEUS "ANK WILL HAVE OPENED BUSINESS UNITS IN TOTAL I E NEW BRANCHES PER YEAR BY THE END OF 4HUS

WITH THE NETWORK OF BUSINESS UNITS 0IRAEUS "ANK WILL COVER THE ENTIRE DOMESTIC MARKET IN THE COURSE OF ITS FIFTH YEAR OF OPERATIONS

/VER THE RECENT ERIOD 0IRAEUS "ANK !$ "ELGRADE HAS CONTIN UED ITS EXPANSION BY OPENING SEVERAL NEW BUSINESS UNITS 4HE LAST ONE WAS OPENED ON TH *UNE ON THE PREMISES OF "ELGRADE 5NVERSITYiS ,AW &ACULTY AT "LVD +RALJA !LEKSANDRA (AVING ALSO OPENED NEW SUB BRANCHES IN -EKENZIJEVA 3TREET AND #ARA $UpANA 3TREET

0IRAEUS "ANK HAS EXPANDED ITS BUSINESS NETWORK IN "ELGRADE TO INCLUDE BUSINESS UNITS )N THE FORTHCOMING PERIOD THE BRANCH NETWORK WILL BE FURTHER EXPAND ED WITH THE OPENING OF NEW SUB BRANCHES AT +RALJICE -ARIJE 3TREET 6OJVODE 3TEPE 3TREET AND "RAÌE *ERKOVIÌ 3TREET 3TUDENTS OF THE ,AW &ACULTY

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hswohêihurêhukê {lslrvtêzyipqh® êhênylh{êm|{|ylê {vnl{oly !LPHA "ANK A REGIONAL BANKING LEADER RECOGNISED THE BUSINESS DETERMINATION OF 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA TO GROW AND DEVELOP ITS BUSINESS OUTSIDE OF THE LOCAL BORDERS THUS BECOM ING A REGIONAL PLAYER THEMSELVES 4OGETHER WITH OTHER INTERNA TIONALLY RENOWNED BANKS !LPHA "ANK RECOGNIZED THE POTENTIAL AND GAVE A STAMP OF TRUST TO ONE OF THE BIGGEST DEALS CONCLUDED

BY A 3ERBIAN PUBLIC COMPANY INVESTING IN THE REGION 7ITH A _ MILLION TRANCHE

!LPHA "ANK WAS ONE OF THE LEAD ARRANGERS IN THE _ MIL LION #ITI'ROUP ARRANGED SYNDI CATED LOAN WHICH PROVIDED THE

FINANCIAL BACKING FOR 4ELEKOM 3RBIJA FOR THE RECENT TAKE OVER OF THE ò MAJORITY PACKAGE OF 4ELEKOM 3RPSKA "UT ALSO IT IS IMPORTANT TO STRESS THAT IT THIS HUGE UNDERTAKING COULD NOT BE ACHIEVED BY ONLY ONE

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ITS CORE ACTIVITY m INVESTIGATION

PRODUCTION AND SALE OF MEDI CINES FOR HUMAN USE ACCORD ING TO A STATEMENT OF THE 6RpAC

PRODUCTION SALE AND DISTRIBU TION OF VETERINARY PRODUCTS TO 6ETERINARSKI :AVOD 3UBOTICA

MEMBER OF 6ICTORIA 'ROUP 7ITH THE DECISION TO SELL 3IMBIOFARM (EMOFARM CONTIN UES THE TREND OF FOCUSING ON

COMPANY THAT ALREADY SOLD TWO SUCCESSFUL DAUGHTER COMPANIES

-ULTIVITA AND (EMOVET 6ICTORIA 'ROUP INCLUDES SOYBEAN PLANT 3OYAPROTEIN BIO DIESEL PLANT 6ICTORIA /IL FROM fID AND FERTI LIZER PLANT &ERTIL

"ELGIAN FINANCIAL GROUP +"# HAS STATED THAT IT TOOK OVER ALL OF 3ERBIAN ! "ANKA FROM "ELGRADE FOR A TOTAL OF _ MILLION -IROLJUB !LEKSIÌ

FOUNDER AND FORMER OWNER OF ! "ANKA SAID THAT jBEING INTE GRATED INTO A LEADING FINANCIAL GROUP LIKE +"# ALSO GUARANTEES THE FUTURE AND THE CAREER PROS PECTS OF ! "ANKAiS EMPLOYEESk !CCORDING TO A STATEMENT THE SHARES OF ! "ANKA WERE PUR CHASED ON THE BASIS OF PUBLIC OFFER WITHIN WHICH 23$

_ WAS OFFERED PER SHARED OR FIVE TIMES OVER THE NOMINAL AND MARKET VALUE OF SHARES 3OURCE "

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4ARKETT COMPANY HAVE INKED THE CREDIT INSURANCE CONTRACT WITH 3-%#! STARTING ON ST -AY OF THIS YEAR ,AST YEAR 4ARKETT REACHED THE EXPORT VOLUME OF _ MILLION

AND THEY PLAN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THIS YEAR 3-%#! SIGNED THE DEAL WITH THE ONE OF THE BIGGEST MANUFACTURERS OF CARDBOARD AND PAPER PACKAGING IN 3ERBIA #ARDBOARD

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&ACTORY 5-+! IS A PART OF A LARGER BUSINESS GROUP THAT HAS A DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT IN EXPANDING PRODUCTION LINES AND INCREASING SALES VOLUMES WITH THE EXPORT HAVING ALL THE BIGGER SHARE IN THAT VOLUME 5-+! AT THIS MOMENT IS EXPORTING AROUND _ MILLION WORTH OF GOODS TO COUNTRIES WHERE THERE ARE ABOUT BUYERS 4HE MOST IMPORTANT MARKETS ARE )TALY 'REECE AND (UNGARY

ztljhêwvzp{pvuê puêwyhn|lêjs|i 3-%#! REPRESENTATIVES ATTENDED REGU LAR SPRING MEETING OF 0RAGUE #LUB "ERNE 5NION THAT WAS HELD THIS YEAR IN 3OFIA

BANK )T WAS THE JOINT EFFORT AND JOINT VISION OF CONSOR TIUM OF BANKS THAT PROVIDED THE FINANCIAL PLATFORM FOR THIS STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT UNDER TAKING "OTH CORPORATE MOTTOS !LPHA "ANKiS j4/'%4(%2 7% (!6% ! '2%!4% &5452%k AND 4ELEKOMiS j). #/..%#4)/.

7)4( 9/5k ARE IN MANY WAYS SIMILAR AND COMPLEMENTARY "OTH INSTITUTIONS THROUGH THEIR DAILY BUSINESS OPERATIONS ARE DEMONSTRATING A STRONG ASPIRA TION TO KEEP THE GOOD RELATION SHIPS WITH EXISTING CLIENTS AND MAKE THE STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH THE NEW ONES OFFERING THEM MORE BETTER AND EFFICIENT PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

p ê ê êz ê 3ERBIAN -INISTER OF 4RADE AND 3ERVICES 0REDRAG "UBALO AND #HAIRMAN OF 3WEDISH )KEA 'ROUP (ANS '¡RAN 3TENNERT ANNOUNCED PLANS OF THIS 3WEDISH COMPANY TO OPEN A LARGE RETAIL CENTRE IN "ELGRADE AS WELL AS TO SPREAD THE COM PANYiS RETAIL CHAIN NETWORK TO OTHER MAJOR CITIES IN 3ERBIA 4HE TWO PARTIES AGREED AT A MEETING HELD IN THE -INISTRY OF 4RADE THAT THERE ARE REALIS TIC CONDITIONS FOR THIS SIZEABLE INVESTMENT IN 3ERBIA AND THAT THE ARRIVAL OF )KEA WOULD CON FIRM 3ERBIAiS STATUS OF AN INVEST MENT TARGET BUT ALSO LURE OTHER LARGE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES TO 3ERBIA 3OURCE "ETA

"ULGARIA IN ORGANIZATION OF "ULGARIAN %XPORT #REDIT !GENCY m "!%: 4HE MEETING ATTENDED REPRESENTATIVES OF %XPORT #REDIT !GENCIES )N COMPARISON OF RESULTS WITH OTHER EXPORT CREDIT AGENCIES 3-%#! CAME TH AFTER ONLY TWO YEARS IN FULL OPERATION 4HAT REPRESENTS A GREAT SUCCESS THAT DREW 3-%#!

CLOSER TO THE RESULTS OF THE !GENCIES THAT ARE FOR YEARS IN OPERATION )T IS REAL TO EXPECT BASED ON THE OUTCOME OF FIRST SIX MONTHS OF AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES THAT ARE IN FINAL FAZE 3-%#! WILL SOON REACH MILLION %52 IN INSURANCE PREMIUM INCOME 7ITH THAT 3-%#! WILL ENTER THE j4OP 4ENk AMONG THE 0RAGUE #LUB m "ERNE 5NION MEMBERS

hijêh|kp{êmvyê hssêw|ispjh{pvuzê i ê lhyØzêluk 4HE RECENT MEETING OF !"# 3ERBIAiS "OARD OF $IRECTORS SAW THE !"# /PERATING 0ROGRAMME UNTIL THE END OF DETERMINED )N ADDITION TO OTHER AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE "OARD AN AGREE MENT WAS REACHED FOR ALL OF THE STRONGEST ADVERTISERS AND AGEN CIES IN 3ERBIA TO RECOMMEND THAT ALL PRINT MEDIA SUBJECT THEM SELVES TO A COMPREHENSIVE AUDIT OF THEIR CIRCULATION BY THE END OF 4HE OBJECTIVE OF THIS ACTION IS TO ENSURE THAT AL PLAYERS

z ê ê ê êl ê ê pttvjlu{hy¾êzovwwpunê ~p{oêz{ slê )MMOCENTAR OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EXCLUSIVE PURCHASE AND HIGH STANDARD OF SERVICE )T IS LOCATED IN 'ANDIJEVA IN "LOCK IN .EW "ELGRADE )T IS ALREADY ONE OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY VISITED SHOPPING CENTRES IN U "ELGRADE )MMOCENTAR HAS BEEN ENVIS AGED TO BE MODELLED UPON A MODEL ALREADY EXISTING IN THE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF %UROPE

BASED ON WHICH BESIDES THE POS SIBILITY OF GOOD SHOPPING ONE EXPECTS FROM THE SHOPPING CEN TRE TO ANIMATE THE VISITORS ALSO WITH ADDITIONAL ENTERTAINING AND PROMOTIONAL OFFERS 4HERE ARE ALSO THE MOST VARIEGATED MANIFESTATIONS LIKE FASHION SHOWS CHILDREN THEATRE PLAYS

PROMOTIONS OF NEW BOOKS WITH THE PRESENCE OF AUTHOR PROMO TION OF THE LATEST AUTOMOBILE MODELS SO THAT THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE WHOLE AREA IS VERY MUCH COLOURED ALSO BY THOSE ENTER TAINMENTS )MMOCENTAR IS WELL VISITED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE DAY AND SUPREMELY EQUIPPED SHOPS OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REST WITH EXCELLENT ESPRESSO AND SPECIALLY SELECTED MUSIC

CAN ENTER PROCESS OF NEGOTIAT ING ADVERTISING CONTRACTS IN WITH CLEAN ACCOUNTS AND VERIFIED CIRCULATIONS 4HIS PARTICULARLY PERTAINS TO THOSE PRINT MEDIA PUBLICATIONS THAT EARN THE MAJORITY OF THEIR TOTAL REVENUE FROM ADVERTISING 4HE !"# "OARD ALSO CON CLUDED THAT FUTURE AUDITS ENSURE A DEEPER AND STRONGER CONTROL OF THE PRINT MEDIA SCENE IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES OF )&!"# IN THEIR ENTIRETY !"# 3ERBIA IS ALSO PLANNING TO EXPAND ITS OFFER BY THE END OF THE YEAR WHICH IS NOW LIMITED TO DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF CIRCULATION OF MAGAZINES THAT HAVE REACHED THEIR PUBLIC IN ORDER TO DETERMINE READERSHIP

DEMOGRAPHICS AND CARRY OUT OTHER NECESSARY RESEARCH &INALLY THE !"# "OARD DECIDED TO ORGANIZE A SERIES OF SEMINARS FOR ADVERTISERS FROM

3EPTEMBER IN ORDER TO BECOME MORE CLOSELY ACQUAINT ED WITH THE ESSENCE OF AUDITING AND THE BENEFITS FOR ALL THREE SIDES IN THIS INDUSTRY

)N )MMOCENTAR YOU CAN FIND FAMOUS WORLD TRADEMARKS -ANGO 3PRINGFIELD 2EFLEX

-ISS 3IXTY 2EPLAY #ESARE 0ACIOTTI 4IMBERLAND /i.EILL

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BUT AS WELL THE OPTICAL HOUSE j$IOPTAk &ROM THE RICH OFFER OF CUR RENT HAPPENINGS ORGANIZED IN )MMOCENTAR EACH 3ATURDAY WE SET ASIDE FASHION SHOWS THAT HAVE TRIGGERED SPECIAL ATTENTION OF VISITORS $URING MATRICULA

FUME SHOP j$IVAk PRODUCTS OF ALL RENOWNED WORLD BRANDS HAVE BEEN REPRESENTED AND THERE IS ALSO COSMETICS SHOP j,ILLYk j4URBO LIMAÍk OFFERS BIG CHOICE OF TOYS FOR THE YOUNG EST AND j/KAIDIk AS A WORLD FAMOUS BRAND FOR CHILDREN GAR MENTS OFFERS PARENTS QUALITA TIVE AND AFFORDABLE PURCHASE %XCEPT j%LTIMk AND j&LAMINGOk WITH RICH OFFER OF TECHNIQUE

TION CELEBRATIONS A &ASHION SHOW HAS BEEN HELD OF MATRIC ULATION MODELS AND ON TH *UNE A FASHION SHOW OF BATHING SUITS 4HE UNUSUAL THING FOR THOSE FASHION SHOWS IS NOT ONLY THAT THEY ARE HELD ON ESCALATORS INSTEAD ON A RED CARPET BUT MEDIA REPRESENTA TIVES ARE ALSO PARTICIPATING IN THEM IN VARIOUS WAYS IN THE ROLE OF JURISTS FOR THE SELECTION

OF TOP MODEL OR AS PROGRAMME MODERATORS &OR THOSE PRESENT

THE MOST APPEALING FACT IS THAT ALL DESIGNS PROMOTED AT FASHION SHOWS CAN BE IMMEDIATELY PUR CHASED IN )MMOCENTAR SHOPS %SPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE CON TENT OF )MMOCENTAR IS 3UMMER 3HOPPING -ARATHON WHICH SHALL BE THIS SEASON HELD IN )MMOCENTAR ON 3ATURDAY TH *ULY 7ORKING HOURS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED TO MIDNIGHT ALL SHOPS GIVE DISCOUNT ENTERTAIN MENT WITH MUSIC OF POPULAR BAND AS WELL AS ABUNDANCE OF PROMOTIONAL GIFTS FOR VISITORS ARE A PART OF THE OFFER MOD ELLED UPON THE BIG %UROPEAN SHOPPING MALLS THAT HAS BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THE 3ERBIAN MARKET THROUGH )MMOCENTAR

ALREADY LAST YEAR %SPECIALLY IMPORTANT SEGMENT OF THOSE OFFERS IS A POSSIBILITY TO BUY AN ASSORTMENT OF PRODUCTS AT VERY AFFORDABLE PRICES WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN ANY SIMILAR CENTRE IN %UROPE 7ITH A WIDE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS OFFERED FOR SALE CON STANT ENTERTAINING PROMOTIONAL OFFERS AS WELL AS THE OPPORTU NITY TO HAVE NICE SOCIALISING TIME IN ONE OF THE TOP EQUIPPED SHOPS )MMOCENTAR WILL BE THE PLACE WHERE YOU WOULD ALWAYS READILY RETURN A PLACE THAT CAN ALWAYS OFFER YOU MUCH MORE THAN CLASSIC SHOPPING

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~lsjvtlê{vê{olêjs|iê Àêwvyzjolêilsnyhklê hkhêsv hs{ êjs|i 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA IS ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AUTO CENTRES JUDGING BY THE OFFER OF CARS AND SERVICES OFFERED

,OYALTY 0ROGRAMME ,OYALTY PROGRAMME IS AN

LEADING %UROPEAN AUTO BRANDS 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA SHALL THROUGH ,OYALTY PROGRAMME REALLY VALUABLY AWARD ITS CLI ENTS AND ALSO MAKE THEM PROUD THAT THEY BELONG TO THE BIG AND STRONG AUTO FAMILY ,OYALTY #LUB 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA MADE SURE TO PROVIDE SOMETHING MORE FOR ITS CLIENTS AND THAT IS 6)0 STA TUS "ENEFITS AWAITING THE MEM

SERVICING OF AUTOMOBILES OR PUR CHASE OF PARTS THE MEMBERS OF THE #LUB CAN ALSO WIN ATTRACTIVE PRESENTS AND TRAVEL "UT

6)0 STATUS FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE ,OYALTY 0ROGRAMME 3TARTING FROM THE IDEA WHICH IS A MANIFESTATION OF REALITY THAT ENJOYING QUALITY AUTOMOBILES REQUIRES ENJOYING OUTSIDE THEM

0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA HAS SECURED FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE #LUB DISCOUNT FOR AIRPLANE TICK ETS ACCOMMODATION IN LUXURY HOTELS DISCOUNT ON MEMBER SHIP TICKETS OF PRESTIGIOUS SPORTS AND FITNESS CENTRES RESTAURANTS AND CAF BARS OF COURSE WITH PRIVILEGED STATUS 4OP QUAL ITY AUDIO DEVICES APPARELS OF RENOWNED FASHION HOUSES ARE AVAILABLE WITH DISCOUNT

TO DRIVERS 3ALON AND SERVICE

OF WHICH THEY ARE ESPECIALLY PROUD IS COMPLETELY UNIQUE IN

EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE TO ALL LOYAL CLIENTS SHOWING THEIR LOY ALTY BY CHOICE OF ONE OF THE

BERS OF THE ,OYALTY #LUB ARE REALLY WORTHY AND VARIEGATED "ESIDES PROBABLY EXPECTED BONUSES FOR

0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA ,OYALTY 0ROGRAMME IS REALLY MORE THAN 4HANK YOU )F YOU WANT MORE INFORMA TION ABOUT THE ,OYALTY PRO GRAMME CALL OR VISIT 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA

2ADNIÍKA "ELGRADE ACROSS THE ROAD TO !DA #IGANLIJA

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MADE IN THIS FACTORY WILL SUP PLY NOT ONLY THE 3ERBIAN MARKET BUT THE WHOLE REGION 2EGIONAL -ANAGING $IRECTOR OF (ENKEL #ENTRAL AND %ASTERN %UROPE (ERMANN $EITZER SAID

THAT (ENKEL HAS SOLD TWO MIL LION TONNES OF ITS BUILDING POW DER PRODUCTS SUCH AS BRANDS #ERESIT AND 4HOMSIT IN ON THE GLOBAL LEVEL $EITZER SAID THAT THE TOTAL PRODUCTION IN

(ENKELiS TWO ADHESIVE PLANTS IN 3ERBIA WILL REACH

TONNES OF WHICH TONNES IN (ENKEL -ERIMA IN +RUpEVAC AND TONNES IN (ENKEL #ERESIT PLANT IN )NðIJA

*UNE SAW CHEMICAL COMPA NY (ENKEL 3ERBIA OPEN ITS NEW (ENKEL #ERESIT FACTORY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ADHESIVES IN )NðIJA

IN THE PRESENCE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS RESPECT ED PUBLIC AND POLITICAL GUESTS

REPRESENTATIVES OF (ENKEL HEAD QUARTERS IN 6IENNA AND NUMER OUS BUSINESS PARTNERS )T WAS THREE YEARS AGO THAT THE (ENKEL #OMPANY LAUNCHED THE SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION OF ADHESIVES IN ITS +RUpEVAC PLANT

(ENKEL -ERIMA AND THE NEW FACTORY WORTH OVER _ MILLION

IS THE COMPANYiS FIRST GREENFIELD INVESTMENT IN 3ERBIA #%/ OF (ENKEL FOR !DRIA 2EGION AND 3ERBIA .ENAD 6UÍINIÌ SAID THAT THIS PLANT WILL PRODUCE TONNES OF ADHESIVES ANNUALLY AND WILL EMPLOY PEOPLE 6UÍINIÌ ADDED THAT THE PLANT WAS BUILT ACCORDING TO LATEST TECHNICAL

TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND THAT PRODUCTS

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THIS REGION 4HEY ARE SURE IN THE QUALITY OF THEIR OFFER AND INTO PLEASURE THAT DRIVING OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS %UROPEAN AUTO BRANDS OFFERS AND WISHING THAT THE DRIVERS SHOULD ENJOY THE DRIVING IN THE WAY MATCHING %UROPEAN AND WORLD STANDARDS

THEY SHALL START FROM *UNE THE ST ,OYALTY 0ROGRAMME

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4HE TENDER COMMISSION IN CHARGE OF SELLING THE -ELJINE MILITARY AND MEDICAL INSTI TUTIONS STATED THAT THE BID OF "RITISH COMPANY IS QUALI FIED 4HE COMMISSION OFFI CIALLY RANKED BIDS OF "ELFAIRS -ANAGEMENT 'ROUP FROM ,ONDON AND A CONSORTIUM OF )NVEST "ANKA !TLASMONT "ANKA

SPECIAL HOSPITAL FOR INTERNAL DISEASES 3VETI .IKOLA FROM +RALJEVO AND !TLAS #!0 FROM 0ODGORICA AND RANKED THE CON SORTIUM FROM 0ODGORICA FIRST 4HE COMPLEX IN -ELJINE WAS BUILT ON THE AREA OF

SQUARE METRES AND THE VALUE OF THE WHOLE COMPLEX IS ESTI MATED AT _ MILLION 3OURCE 6IJESTI

3LOVENIAN INSURANCE COM PANY 4RIGLAV AND -ACEDONIAN 6ARDAR /SIGURANJE SIGNED A TAKE OVER AGREEMENT IN 4RIGLAViS MOVE TO BECOME LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANY IN 3OUTHEAST %UROPE 4HANKS TO ACQUISITION OF 6ARDAR /SIGURANJE 4RIGLAV AQUIRED A ò SHARE IN THE -ACEDONIAN INSURANCE MARKET 4HE AGREE MENT WAS SIGNED IN "ELGRADE BY PRESIDENT OF 4RIGLAViS SUPERVISO RY BOARD $AMNJAN -IHEVC AND 4RIGLAV #%/ !NDREJ +OTIÍ WHILE THE -ACEDONIAN SIDE WAS REP RESENTED BY 'ENERAL -ANAGER OF 6ARDAR /SIGURANJE 3TOJAN +LOPÍESKI !SKED BY REPORT ERS TO REVEAL THE VALUE OF THE TAKEOVER CONTRACT +OTIÍ REJECTED TO GIVE A PRECISE ANSWER SAY ING THAT FINANCIAL DATA ON THE PURCHASE jWILL BE MADE PUBLIC WHEN THE AGREEMENT IS FULLY COMPLETEDk !LSO VYING FOR 6ARDAR /SIGURANJE WERE #ROATIA /SIGURANJE AND 'ENERALI AND AMOUNTS RANGING FROM _ MIL LION TO _ MILLION WERE MEN TIONED )N 4RIGLAV PLANS TO REACH A _ BILLION MARKET SHARE IN 3OUTHEAST %UROPE 3OURCE "

y ê ê y êz ê j7ITHIN BANKING DAYS FROM THE MOMENT OF OPEN ING LETTER OF CREDIT THE BUYER

2USSIAN .EFTE'AZ)N+OR IS OBLIGED TO PAY THE OIL REFINER IES 2AFINERIJA .AFTE IN "ROD

2AFINERIJA 5LJA -ODRIÍA AND "ANJA ,UKA BASED 0ETROL )T CAN BE EXPECTED THAT THE BUYER WILL BECOME OWNER OF THESE COM PANIES IN *ULY OR IN !UGUST AT THE LATEST k 2EPUBLIKA 3RPSKA 0RIME -INISTER -ILORAD $ODIK SAID 3OURCE .EZAVISNE .OVINE

h|{vê{ylukêhukê jol}yvsl{êshjl{{p )N THE LAST EDITION WE ANNOUNCED THE NEW MODEL OF %PICE DIESEL HIGH CLASS CAR

OF ELEGANT AND DELICATE LINES

WHICH PLEASES EVEN THE MOST CRITICAL EYE BY ALL STANDARDS AND POSSIBILITIES "UT NOT TO THINK THAT #HEVROLET DOESNiT HAVE A MODEL IN ITS OFFER WHICH IS MORE AFFORD ABLE )T ALWAYS RESPONDS TO THE

z ê êp{ê ê êu O 3WEDISH )4 COMPANY 3EAVUS IS OPENING AN INVESTI GATION AND DEVELOPMENT CEN TRE 4HE CENTRE WILL EMPLOY

LAWS AND REQUESTS FROM THE MAR KET SO IT HAS RECENTLY PRESENTED TO %UROPE MODEL ,ACETTI WITH DIESEL MOTOR WHICH IS WHILE YOU READ THIS NUMBER OF #OR$

ALREADY IN OUR PLACE IN !UTO 4REND #ARA $USANA 3TREET NO

:EMUN 7HEN YOU VISIT US YOU SHALL ASSURE YOURSELF THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS SMILING AND KIND SALES STAFF WHO ARE ABOVE ALL WELL INFORMED !T THE SPOT YOU CAN SEE TEST AND CHOOSE EXACTLY THE MODEL YOU LIKE THE MOST 7ITHIN THE AIR CONDITIONED SALON WE HAVE A SERVICE AND A COFFEE SHOP SO WHILE YOU WAIT FOR SERVICING OF YOUR CAR

PROGRAMMERS FROM 3ERBIA AND WILL BE INVESTMENT WORTH _ !FTER -ICROSOFTiS AND 2ED (ATiS THIS IS THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL )4 DEVELOPMENT CENTRE OPENED IN 3ERBIA AND THERE ARE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NEW INVESTMENTS IN )4 SECTOR FROM THE 3ERBIAN )NVESTMENT AND %XPORT 0ROMOTION !GENCY 3)%0! 4HE COMPANY PRO DUCES ADVANCED SOFTWARE SOLU TIONS FOR EFFICIENT OFFICE MAN AGEMENT COMMUNICATION CON TROL OF SALES OF GOODS DESIGN AND PARKING SERVICE 3EAVUS HAS THE STATUS OF jGOLDEN PART NERk OF WORLDiS LARGEST SOFTWARE COMPANY -ICROSOFT 3OURCE "

shêmhu{huhê nl{zêul~êv~ulyê )NVESTMENT FUND /RESA 6ENTURES FORMER MAJORITY SHAREHOLDER OF ,A &ANTANA HAS SOLD ITS SHARES TO INVESTMENT FUND )NNOVA #APITAL 7ITH A CONSIDERABLE MARKET SHARE ESTI MATED AT ò IN 2OMANIA AND SOME ò IN 3ERBIA ,A &ANTANA IS LEADER IN THE FIELD OF BOTTLING

~ ê ê ê êêê 4HE 'ERMAN /RGANISATION FOR 4ECHNICAL #OOPERATION '4: WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE 6OJVODINA %XECUTIVE #OUNCIL

ORGANISED THE &IRST INTERNATION AL WOMEN IN BUSINESS CONFER ENCE IN .OVI 3AD ON *UNE AND UNDER THE TITLE j"USINESS 0OWERED BY 7OMENk 4HE AIM OF THE CONFERENCE WAS TO GATHER WOMEN FROM THE %5 COUNTRIES IN THE !UTONOMOUS 0ROVINCE OF 6OJVODINA AND THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA AS WELL AS TO PROMOTE OUR COUNTRY AS BUSINESS FRIEND LY ENVIRONMENT A COUNTRY OF DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LARGE POTENTIALS FOR DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3OURCE "

YOU CAN REFRESH YOURSELF WITH A DRINK /N WORKING DAYS WEiRE THERE

AND DISTRIBUTION OF WATER PACKED IN LITRE BOTTLE FOR WATER COOLER DEVICES )NNOVA #APITAL IS ONE OF LEADING INVESTMENT FUNDS IN #ENTRAL %UROPE AND HAS SO FAR INVESTED OVER MILLION IN COMPANIES j7E DECIDED TO INVEST IN ,A &ANTANA 'ROUP AS WE BELIEVE THAT THIS COMPANY WILL CONSIDERABLY CONTRIBUTE TO FURTHER POPULARISATION OF WATER COOLER CONCEPT AND GENERAL ECO NOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN 2OMANIA AND 3ERBIA k SAID +RZYSZTOF +RAWCZYK PARTNER IN CHARGE OF THE TRANSACTION REPRESENTING )NNOVA #APITAL FUND

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BUSH STANDS FIRM ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE 4)2!.! !LBANIA m 5 3 0RESIDENT 'EORGE 7 "USH SAID TODAY THE 5NITED .ATIONS SHOULD GRANT INDEPENDENCE QUICKLY TO THE BREAKAWAY 3ERBIAN PROVINCE OF +OSOVO AND THAT IF 2USSIA CON TINUED TO BLOCK IT THE 7EST WOULD ACT "USH S INSISTENCE ON A DEADLINE FOR A 5 . 3ECURITY #OUNCIL RESOLUTION TO GIVE INDEPENDENCE TO +OSOVO WAS THE LATEST SIGN OF HEIGHTENED TENSIONS BETWEEN -OSCOW AND 7ASHINGTON 2USSIA HAS THREATENED TO VETO THE +OSOVO PROPOSAL "Y 4ABASSUM :AKARIA %LLIE 4ZORTZI 2EUTERS 0UBLISHED TH *UNE !T SOME POINT IN TIME SOONER RATHER THAN LATER YOU VE GOT TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH +OSOVO IS INDEPENDENT HE TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE IN THE FIRST VISIT BY A 5 3 PRESIDENT TO !LBANIA "USH ADDED HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT EXPECTATIONS NOT BEING MET IN +OSOVO WHERE PER CENT OF THE POPULATION ARE ETHNIC !LBANIANS DEMANDING INDEPENDENCE FROM 3ERBIA AND WHERE

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CONSENSUS ON THE 3ERBIAN PROVINCE S FUTURE "USH SAID 7ASHINGTON WOULD CONTINUE TO SEEK A SOLUTION THROUGH THE 5NITED .ATIONS BUT IF IT IS APPARENT THAT AN AGREE MENT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN A RELATIVELY QUICK PERIOD OF TIME

IN MY JUDGEMENT WE NEED TO PUT FORWARD THE RESOLUTION (ENCE

DEADLINE +OSOVO HAS BEEN RUN BY THE 5NITED .ATIONS AND .!4/ SINCE WHEN THE 7EST BOMBED 3ERBIA FOR WEEKS TO HALT ITS BRUTAL CRACKDOWN ON AN ETHNIC !LBANIAN INSURGENCY IN WHICH 3ERB FORCES KILLED SOME CIVILIANS AND DROVE OUT NEARLY A MILLION 3ERBIA STRONGLY OPPOSES THE LOSS OF +OSOVO ITS SPIRITUAL HEART LAND DATING BACK YEARS 2USSIA BACKING 3ERBIA LAST &RIDAY REBUFFED THE 7EST S BID TO PUT +OSOVO INDEPENDENCE TO A 5 . 3ECURITY #OUNCIL VOTE 2USSIA HAS THE POWER TO VETO THE RESOLUTION AND 0UTIN INFORMED VISITING 3ERB PREMIER 6OJISLAV +OSTUNICA WITH PLEASURE AT THE WEEKEND THAT HE HAD THWARTED 7ESTERN PLANS AT THE ' SUM MIT IN 'ERMANY LAST WEEK )N -OSCOW A SENIOR OFFICIAL SAID "USH S COMMENTS IN !LBANIA HAD NOT CHANGED THAT POSITION "USH SAID 3ECRETARY OF 3TATE #ONDOLEEZZA 2ICE WOULD PURSUE THE DISPUTE THROUGH DIPLOMATIC MEANS ALONG WITH %UROPEAN ALLIES

ALL OF WHOM BACK THE PLAN BY 5 . ENVOY -ARTTI !HTISAARI TO MAKE +OSOVO INDEPENDENT UNDER %UROPEAN 5NION SUPERVISION +OSOVO 0RIME -INISTER !GIM #EKU HAILED "USH S CLEAR AND STRONG MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF +OSOVO THAT INDEPENDENCE WILL COME VERY SOON AND THEIR LONG HELD WISH WILL BE FULFILLED "USH URGED 3ERBIA TO RECONSIDER ITS ADAMANT OPPOSITION AND THINK OF ITS FUTURE AS PART OF THE 7EST 7E WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT 3ERBIA HEARS THAT THE 5NITED 3TATES SUPPORTS THEIR ASPIRATIONS FOR CLOSER INTEGRATION WITH THE 7EST 4HAT MEANS WORKING WITH THE 5NITED 3TATES IN A BILATERAL FASHION )T ALSO MEANS POTENTIAL MEMBERSHIP OF .!4/ FOR EXAMPLE 4HE 4ORONTO 3TAR

.!4/ LEADS A PEACEKEEPING FORCE OF TROOPS -AKING THE PENULTIMATE STOP OF AN DAY %UROPEAN TOUR "USH WAS WARMLY WELCOMED IN !LBANIA ONCE THE WORLD S ONLY OFFICIALLY ATHEIST STATE UNDER THE LATE 3TALINIST DICTATOR %NVER (OXHA &OLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN !LBANIA EMBRACED 7ESTERN VALUES "USH PAID TRIBUTE TO A SOCIETY THAT HAD KNOWN TYRANNY AND OVERCOME IT 4HE CAPITAL 4IRANA WAS FESTOONED WITH 5 3 FLAGS AND A STREET WAS NAMED AFTER "USH (E WAS SPARED THE HOSTILITY OF PROTESTERS THAT MARKED HIS VISITS TO 'ERMANY AND )TALY ! CANNON BOOMED A GUN SALUTE PORTRAITS OF A SMILING "USH DRAPED BUILDINGS AND !LBANIANS SPORTED 5NCLE 3AM TOP HATS IN RED WHITE AND BLUE (IGHLY UNPOPULAR IN MUCH OF %UROPE "USH WAS HAILED BY !LBANIAN 0RIME -INISTER 3ALI "ERISHA AS THE GREATEST AND MOST DISTINGUISHED GUEST WE HAVE EVER HAD 4HANKING !LBANIA FOR SUPPORT IN )RAQ AND !FGHANISTAN "USH ALSO GAVE STRONG BACKING TO THE COUNTRY S BID TO JOIN .!4/ (E OFFERED HIS REASSURANCES ABOUT +OSOVO JUST DAYS AFTER 7ESTERN LEADERS AND 2USSIA AT THEIR ' SUMMIT FAILED TO REACH

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FEAR OF REVENGE KEEPS MANY SERBS IN REFUGEE LIMBO 0!.#%6/ 3ERBIA 4WELVE SQUARE METERS SQ FT OF CRACKED LINOLEUM PEELING PAINT AND WORN WOODCHIP FURNITURE HAVE BEEN HOME TO -ILKA $JELALIJA HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS FOR MORE THAN YEARS !N ETHNIC 3ERB BORN IN #ROATIA SHE FLED HER TOWN ON THE FRONTLINE OF THE WAR BETWEEN NEWLY INDEPENDENT #ROATIA AND ITS "ELGRADE BACKED REBEL 3ERB MINORITY IN "Y 2%54%23 0UBLISHED TH *UNE

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KM MILES NORTH OF "ELGRADE ONE OF A HALF MILLION PEOPLE IN WHAT USED TO BE 9UGOSLAVIA WHO STILL COUNT AS REFUGEES AND DISPLACED ) HAD PLANNED TO RETURN BUT IT WOULDN T WORK $JELALIJA SAID 4HERE ) D SLEEP IN FEAR 3ERBIA IS HOST TO MOSTLY ETHNIC 3ERB REFUGEES FROM #ROATIA "OSNIA AND +OSOVO %UROPE S LARGEST REFUGEE POPULATION 4HERE USED TO BE TWICE AS MANY BUT NUMBERS HAVE FALLEN SLOWLY AS SOME TOOK 3ERBIAN CITIZENSHIP AND SOME WENT HOME /THERS SIMPLY MELTED INTO A BUREAUCRACY THAT MAKES REFUGEE STATUS BOTH A BLESSING AND CURSE A GUARANTEE OF AID AND A SENTENCE TO LIFE IN TRANSIT $JELALIJA

BOASTS WITH A SMILE THAT SHE S AN OLD TIMER COMPARED TO OTHERS IN HER BUILDING A YELLOW BRICK SCHOOLHOUSE CONVERTED TO TINY ONE FAMILY ROOMS 7ORN LAUNDRY IS PUT OUT TO DRY IN CORRIDORS THAT REEK OF AMMONIA "ATHROOMS AND KITCHENS ARE SHARED AND PEOPLE DO THEIR CHORES IN SHORTS OR HOUSECOATS WITH TIRED FAMILIARITY 3HE CONSIDERS HERSELF LUCKY 3HE HAS A JOB AND A PLACE IN THE QUEUE FOR AN APARTMENT BUILT WITH AID MONEY ,IKE MANY SHE DIS MISSES TALK OF RETURN 4HERE ARE NO PROSPECTS SHE SAYS A LOT OF RED TAPE AND WORST OF ALL THERE IS LINGERING BAD BLOOD (UNDREDS OF #ROATS -USLIMS AND OTHER NON 3ERBS WERE MUR DERED IN THE PARTS OF #ROATIA CONTROLLED BY 3ERB REBELS 7HEN THE AREA WAS RETAKEN IN A #ROAT OFFENSIVE IN SOME

ETHNIC 3ERBS FLED IN A CONVOY OF TRACTORS AND OLD CARS

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PEOPLE WERE KILLED MOSTLY CIVILIANS FROM +OSOVO S PERCENT !LBANIAN MAJORITY 3ERBS AND OTHER MINORITIES THEN FLED THE PROV INCE TO ESCAPE REVENGE ATTACKS THAT FOLLOWED 5NLIKE "OSNIAN AND #ROATIAN 3ERBS WHO VISIT THEIR HOMETOWNS

+OSOVO 3ERBS ARE WARY ABOUT RETURNING 4HOSE WHO STAYED AND THE FEW WHO RETURNED LIVE IN GHETTOES PROTECTED BY 5 . TROOPS KEENLY FOLLOWING 5 . LED NEGOTIATIONS LIKELY TO RESULT IN SUPERVISED INDEPENDENCE FOR THE PROVINCE 2ETURNS TO +OSOVO ARE OBVIOUSLY HAMPERED BECAUSE THERE S NO POLITICAL SOLUTION IN SIGHT +OTSALAINEN SAID -ANY OF THE DISPLACED WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME OF THE +OSOVO NEGOTIATIONS BEFORE THEY MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER TO RETURN OR NOT

)N +OSOVO AS IN #ROATIA THE 7EST IS PUTTING PRESSURE ON AUTHORITIES TO REBUILD MINORITY HOMES TO ENCOURAGE REFUGEES TO RETURN "UT FEW PLAN TO USE THEM 7E PLANNED A BIG HOUSE SO THE FAMILY COULD LIVE TOGETHER

$JELALIJA SAYS SHOWING A PICTURE OF HER REBUILT UNPLASTERED EMPTY HOUSE "UT THAT WAS A PLAN FROM ANOTHER LIFE .OW WE LL SELL IT OR KEEP IT TO SHOW TO OUR KIDS LIKE A SOUVENIR THIS IS WHERE WE USED TO LIVE 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES

OFFICIAL: SERBIA 'FOCUSED' ON ARREST OF WAR CRIME SUSPECT MLADIC "%,'2!$% 3ERBIA 3ERBIA IS FOCUSED ON ARRESTING 'EN 2ATKO -LADIC AND TWO OTHER KEY WAR CRIMES FUGITIVES WHILE THE WHEREABOUTS OF WARTIME OF "OSNIAN 3ERB LEADER 2ADOVAN +ARADZIC ARE UNCLEAR AN OFFICIAL SAID 4UESDAY !UTHORITIES HAVE NO OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE THAT +ARADZIC WAS HIDING IN 3ERBIA SAID 2ASIM ,JAJIC 3ERBIA S GOVERNMENT MINISTER IN CHARGE OF COOPERATION WITH THE 5 . WAR CRIMES TRIBU NAL FOR FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA IN 4HE (AGUE .ETHERLANDS 4HE !SSOCIATED 0RESS 0UBLISHED TH *UNE (E SAID IT IS LOGICAL THAT -LADIC THE WARTIME "OSNIAN 3ERB MIL ITARY COMMANDER 'ORAN (ADZIC FORMER LEADER OF THE REBEL #ROATIAN 3ERBS AND 3TOJAN :UPLJANIN A WARTIME COMMANDER OF "OSNIAN 3ERB POLICE COULD BE HIDING IN 3ERBIA 7E HAVE PROOF THAT -LADIC ENTERED 3ERBIA IN AND THAT HE FOR CERTAIN LIVED HERE UNTIL ,JAJIC SAID &OR +ARADZIC WE DON T HAVE SUCH INFORMATION -LADIC AND +ARADZIC HAVE BEEN CHARGED BY THE 5 . TRIBUNAL WITH ORCHESTRATING THE MASSACRE OF -USLIM BOYS AND MEN FROM 3REBRENICA n %UROPE S WORST SINGLE ATROCITY SINCE 7ORLD 7AR )) n AND LAYING SIEGE TO THE "OSNIAN CAPITAL OF 3ARAJEVO DURING THE WAR THERE 4HEY ARE AMONG THE FOUR REMAINING WAR CRIMES FUGITIVES STILL SOUGHT BY 4HE (AGUE COURT 4HE 5 . WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR FOR THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA

#ARLA $EL 0ONTE IN HER FIRST POSITIVE ASSESSMENT OF 3ERBIA S ATTEMPTS TO CATCH THE WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS TOLD THE 5 . 3ECURITY #OUNCIL ON -ONDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN GENERAL PROGRESS IN 3ERBIA S LEVEL OF COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL SINCE A NEW PRO DEMOCRACY GOVERNMENT WAS FORMED LAST MONTH 3HE CITED 3ERBIA S ROLE IN HELPING TO ARREST WARTIME "OSNIAN 3ERB 'EN :DRAVKO 4OLIMIR A CLOSE -LADIC AIDE ON *UNE AND FORMER 3ERBIAN POLICE GENERAL 6LASTIMIR $JORDJEVIC ON 3UNDAY "UT $EL 0ONTE WHO STEPS DOWN IN 3EPTEMBER TOLD THE COUNCIL THE FACT THAT FOUR PERSONS REMAIN AT LARGE IN PARTICULAR 2ADOVAN +ARADZIC AND 2ATKO -LADIC IS A PERMANENT STAIN ON OUR WORK 7E BELIEVE THAT THESE FUGITIVES ARE CURRENTLY IN 3ERBIA OR WITHIN 3ERBIA S REACH SHE SAID )T IS TROUBLING THAT 2ADOVAN +ARADZIC HAS DISAPPEARED FROM THE RADAR SCREENS OF THE RELEVANT SERVICES AND IT SEEMS THAT NO ONE IS ACTIVELY SEARCHING FOR HIM ,JAJIC SAID THAT 3ERBIA S SECURITY FORCES ARE NOW FOCUSED ON THE LOCATION OF -LADIC (ADZIC AND :UPLJANIN (E REFUSED TO SPECIFY WHETHER THE AUTHORITIES ARE CLOSE TO ARRESTING -LADIC CITING OPERA TIONAL REASONS 4HE SEARCH FOR WAR CRIMES FUGITIVES IS MORE INTENSE THAN THREE MONTHS AGO ,JAJIC SAID 7E ARE MAKING STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND COMING CLOSER TO FULFILLING OUR OBLIGATIONS TOWARD 4RIBUNAL CorD \ *ULY

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BY OUR MUSIC TEACHER 3HE USED TO BRING IN A RECORD PLAYER AND PLAY THE "EATLES AND 3TONES IN CLASS 4HAT IS HOW MY FASCINATION STARTED AND IT HAS LASTED UNTIL TODAY m SAID 3IMIC IN AN INTERVIEW FOR #OR$ EXPLAINING THAT HIS GREATEST MOVING FORCE IN ROCK WAS HIS REACTION TO THAT MUSIC m 4HAT WAS A COMPLETELY NEW EMOTIONAL AND SEDUCTIVE EXPERIENCE )T AROUSED IN ME A DIFFERENT UNTIL THEN UNKNOWN EMO TION WHICH WAS VERY INTERESTING TO ME "ECAUSE OF THAT

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THING THAT CRITICS WRITE ABOUT HIS SONGS IS WRONG BUT IT IS GOOD SINCE IT GIVES IT SOME NEW DIMENSION 2OCK CRITICISM DOES NOT HAVE MUCH CONNECTION WITH ROCK AND ROLL BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING SUPPLEMENT TO ALL THAT *EFF 4WEEDY THE FRONT MAN FOR THE 7ILCO BAND SAID THAT HE LIKED ,ESTER "ANGSi ARTICLES ABOUT THE #LASH MORE THAN THEIR MUSIC BUT WHEN WE ADD ALL THAT UP WE GET AN INTERESTING ENTIRETY "Y WRIT ING ABOUT THINGS ) LIKE ) AFFIRM THEM BUT ) AM ALSO TRYING TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO SEE WHAT ) DISCOVER IN THAT MUSIC WHAT IT IS THAT THAT COM MUNICATES WITH ME IN THAT MUSIC AND IN WHICH WAY m EXPLAINED THIS ROCK VETERAN WHO AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE RECEPTION OF HIS BOOK

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Serbian President Boris Tadić, Defence Minister Dragan Šutanovac, and Army Chief of Staff General Ponoš, pictured among senior military officers during a visit to the Ground Forces Command in Niš on 6th June.

Right-to-left: Slovenian Ambassador H.E. Miroslav Luci, Mrs. Irena Luci, Colonel and Mrs. Franc Ošljak, pictured awaiting guests at Belgrade's exclusive Koling Club on 20th June, during the celebration of the Republic of Slovenia's National Day and Army Day.

Crown Princess Katherine and Crown Prince Alexander Karađorđevic (centre), pictured alongside representatives of the press at a 25th May Beli Dvor reception in honour of the media.

Swedish Ambassador, H.E. Krister Bringéus, opens the exhibition 'Scandinavian Design: Beyond the Myth' on 6th May at Belgrade's 25th May Museum on the occasion of Swedish National Day.

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Italian Ambassador to Serbia, H.E. Alessandro Merola, welcomes Ambassador and Mrs. Michael Polt to the festive annual reception marking Italian National Day at the Italian Ambassadorial Residence on 4th June.

H.E. Hans Ola Urstad, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and the British International School's Principal, Aleksandra Keserović, pictured at BIS's 10th brithday celebrations at Belgrade City Hall on 13th June.

H.E Stephen Wordsworth, British Ambassador in Belgrade, chats with Professor Vladeta Janković, former FRY/SCG Ambassador to London and a senior advisor to Prime Minister Koštunica, at a 21st May reception marking Queen Elizabeth II's birthday.

H.E. Alexander Alekseev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Belgrade, welcomes former Serbian justice minister, MP Vladan Batić, to a 14th June reception marking the National Day of the Russian Federation.

Deputy Belgrade Mayor, Radmila Hrustmanović, pictured addressing representatives of the media at a 7th June press conference held by the Tourist Organisation of Belgrade and the City Council's Information Department to promote the city as a potential congress venue.

Serbian President Boris Tadić, pictured giving blood at Belgrade's Republic Square on 14th June, World Blood Donor Day.

Up & coming stars of Serbian tennis, Ana Ivanović, Novak Đoković and Jelena janković, pictured at Belgrade City Hall upon their return from the French Tennis Open at Roland Garos on 10th June.

Jean-Marc Tonti, Regional Director of Visa International, presents the Erste Bank and Visa International 'Klub 27' Award for young, talented, creative and humane people to winner in the domain of Social Sciences and Humanitarian Work, Ana Ušćumlić, at Belgrade's Jevrem Restaurant on 21st June.

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H.E. & Mrs. Gerhard Landl (centre), bid a fond farewell to outgoing Austrian Airways Country Manager Ana Ilijić (left) and a warm welcome to her successor, Lukas Negedly (right), at Belgrade's Koling Club on 19th June.

H.E. Tadashi Nagai, Japanese Ambassador in Belgrade, Dr. Dušan Stanojević, director of the Narodni Front Gynaecological and Maternity Clinic (far left), and other NF staff members, pictured on 11th June for the formal handover of a biochemical analysing machine donated to the clinic by the Government of Japan.

Stanko Bašić, President of the Municipality of Palilula, and Nikos Veropoulos, owner of retail chain Super Vero, pictured cutting the ribbon on Belgrade's latest Super Vero supermarket in downtown Belgrade

Greek actresses Ana Vagena (left) and Jasmine Kilaidonis (right), pictured alongside Belgrade Drama Theatre (BDP) director Nebojša Bradić at a 7th June press conference to announce the BDP guest performance of the Athens-based Metaxourgeio Theatre with the play Angela Papyoglu.

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Dr. Isaac Sheps, Carlsberg General Director for Southeast Europe, and his translator, pictured at Belgrade's Kristal Restaurant on 28th May, for a conference to mark the commencement of a joint action of Carlsberg and mineral water company Knjaz Miloš on the B&H market.

Svetlana Jovičić, director of the Film Festival of Serbia, and Bojan Pajtić, President of the Vojvodina Provincial Government, pictured on 5th June at a press conference to announce the upcoming inaugural Film Festival of Serbia, to be held in Novi Sad from 3rd to 8th July.

Singer Lepa Brena, tennis legend Boba Živojinović, and Economy Minister Mlađen Dinkić, pictured on 31st May at the grand opening of the new Grand Motors business centre and mutli-brand dealership in New Belgrade

Graduating opera singer, Tijana Đuričić, sings at the 'Road to Belcanta' evening of arias and choirs for the graduates of the class of Professor Nikola Kitanovski at Belgrade's Dom Armija on 21st June.

Italian Trade Commissioner, Enrico Barbieri, chats with guests at his farewell celebration, which took place at Belgrade's Palazzo Italia on 6th June

Roderick Moore, First Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, pictured opening the 'New York, New York' exhibition at the Adapted Gallery of the Niš Tobacco Factory in Zemun on 7th June.

H.E. Paulo Tiago Jeronimo da Silva, Portuguese Ambassador in Belgrade, welcomes Egyptian Ambassador, H.E. Adel Ahmed Mohamed Naguib, to the celebration of Portuguese National Day on 11th June

Young Down's Syndrome sufferers pictured at the French Ambassadorial Residence at a goodwill reception in June, organised by The French Ambassador's wife, Mrs. Terral, and the First Lady of Serbia, Mrs. Tatjana Tadić.

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4HE LARGEST AND MOST IMPRESSIVE STAGES AND THE ONES THAT DRAW THE BIGGEST CROWDS HOWEVER ARE THE -AIN 3TAGE WHICH THIS YEAR PLAYS HOST TO ACTS LIKE 'ROOVE !RMADA "ASEMENT *AXX AND THE 7U 4ANG #LAN AND THE $ANCE !RENA WITH PERFORMANCES FROM ELEC TRONIC MUSICiS HEAVY HITTERS LIKE *OHN $IGWEED AND 2OGER 3ANCHEZ !S EASY AS IT WOULD BE TO SPEND THE FESTIVAL BOUNCING BETWEEN THESE TWO STAGES THE ATMOSPHERE CREATED BY THE HUGE CROWDS IS ALMOST REASON ENOUGH MAKE SURE YOU DO AT LEAST ONE TOUR AROUND ALL THE SPACES TO ORIENTATE YOURSELF AND GET A REAL IDEA OF WHAT THE FESTIVAL IS LIKE !SIDE FROM THE TWO JUST MENTIONED THIS YEAR THERE ARE FIVE OTHER STAGES THE &UTURE 3HOCK WHICH SHOWCASES UP AND COMING 3ERBIAN BANDS %LEKTRANA A SMALLER ELECTRONIC MUSIC STAGE FEATURING LARGELY $*S FROM THE "ALKANS &USION A MISHMASH OF STYLES CHOSEN FOR BEING ACCORDING TO THE %8)4 WEBSITE THE BEST

MOST EXTREME AND COLOURFUL SOUNDS %XPLOSIVE A STAGE FOR LOVERS OF METAL PUNK AND HARD ROCK AND THE 7ORLD STAGE PLAYING WORLD AND ETHNO MUSIC 7(%2% 4/ 34!9 6ISITORS TO THE FESTIVAL HAVE BASICALLY TWO OPTIONS TO FIND AND RENT A HOTEL ROOM OR APARTMENT IN .OVI 3AD ITSELF AND MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE FESTIVAL EACH DAY TO PITCH TENT IN ONE OF THE DESIGNATED CAMP ING AREAS "E AWARE THAT SAVVY LANDLORDS IN .OVI 3AD HAVE GOT WISE TO THIS INFLUX OF FOREIGNERS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR AND WILL ADJUST THEIR PRICES ACCORDINGLY AND ASSUMING YOU AVOID THE OBVIOUS MISTAKE OF PITCHING YOUR TENT ON AN ANTHILL WHICH ) FOUND LAST YEAR WAS EASIER TO DO THAN YOU MIGHT IMAGINE CAMPING IS THE BETTER WAY OF REALLY GETTING THE TRUE FESTIVAL FEEL .OT ONLY IS IT CHEAPER BUT IN PRACTICAL TERMS IT ALSO PUTS YOU MUCH CLOSER TO THE FESTIVAL THAN A PLACE IN THE

TOWN AND WITH PARTY GOERS COMING OUT FROM THE 5+ THIS YEAR

AND MANY MORE EXPECTED TO ARRIVE FROM )RELAND 'ERMANY AND ELSE WHERE THEREiS A GOOD CHANCE THAT YOUiLL MEET LOTS OF PEOPLE TO CHAT WITH AND MORE IMPORTANTLY PEOPLE WHO CAN SHOW YOU AROUND WHILE YOU GET YOUR BEARINGS 3TAYING IN TOWN ALSO MEANS YOU MISS OUT ON THE BEACH PARTIES THAT HAPPEN AT THE CAMPSITES ON THE $ANUBE

WHERE $*S PLAY WHILE YOU TAN SWIM OR SIP A BEER AND RECHARGE FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE !S A FINAL POINT ITiS ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT CAMPING AT %8)4 IS PRETTY FAR REMOVED FROM CAMPING AT FESTIVALS OF EQUIVALENT SIZE IN THE 5+ 6ISITORS TURNING UP IN THEIR 'LASTONBURY WELLINGTONS AND FROG MAN SUITS WILL BE DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THE GROUND AROUND THE CAMP SITE QUITE FIRM AND DRY BUT WILL BE COMFORTED THAT INCIDENTS OF THEFT AT THE FESTIVAL HAVE BEEN MERCIFULLY LOW IN PAST YEARS 4HE CAMPSITE ALSO OFFERS A RANGE OF AMENITIES LIKE HOT SHOWERS AN ABUNDANCE OF PORTA CABINS AND PLACES TO LEAVE VALUABLES AND CHARGE PHONES IPODS )F YOUiRE WILLING TO QUEUE A BIT THEREiS EVEN A FREE INTERNET POINT WITH OR SO COMPUTERS AND TEAMS OF MEDICS ON STANDBY WHO WE SAW LAST YEAR TREATING A GIRL FOR CONCUSSION AFTER SHE FELL OUT OF A PORTACABIN 7(!4 4/ %!4 !.$ $2).+ "OTH THE FESTIVAL AND THE CAMPSITE ARE FULL OF STALLS OFFERING FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS -OST OF THE THINGS YOUiLL FIND WILL BE TYPI CALLY 3ERBIAN FAST FOOD PLJESKAVICA AND SLICES OF PIZZA WITH KETCHUP SQUIRTED ON THE TOP BUT IF YOU CRAVE SOMETHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL OR SOMETHING THAT DOESNiT COME ON A PAPER PLATE .OVI 3AD PROPER IS FULL OF CAF S AND RESTAURANTS WHICH ALL APPRECIATE THE INCREASE IN TRADE DURING THE FESTIVAL )N TRUE FESTIVAL SPIRIT YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO MAKE A TRIP TO ONE OF THE LOCAL SUPERMARKETS SO YOUiRE WELL STOCKED WITH SUP PLIES AFTER A HARD NIGHT OF DANCING AND THERE ARE NO RESTRICTIONS ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT BRING BACK TO THE CAMPSITES 4HERE ARE

HOWEVER LIMITATIONS ON WHAT YOU CAN DRINK INSIDE THE FESTIVAL 4HE BARS AT %8)4 SELL ALCOHOL BUT ONLY BEER AND WINE IN PLASTIC CUPS AND BOXES RESPECTIVELY IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT EXCESSIVE DRUNKENNESS

SO ANY SHOTS OF TEQUILA YOU MAY WISH TO SHARE WITH YOUR NEW FRIENDS WILL HAVE TO BE ENJOYED AT THE CAMPSITE BEFOREHAND /F COURSE THE OTHER OPTION IS TO MAKE LIKE A 3ERB AND COMPENSATE FOR THE LACK OF SPIRITS WITH THE SURPLUS OF ENERGY DRINKS ON OFFER IN THE FORTRESS THEYiRE BY AND LARGE STRONGER THAN THEIR 5+ COUNTERPARTS AND GIVE A PERFECT BUZZ FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DANCE hTILL DAWN

7(!4 4/ 3%% -ANY PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTED THIS YEAR THAT WITH BANDS LIKE THE 2ED (OT #HILI 0EPPERS AND THE +AISER CHIEFS OPTING TO PLAY THEIR OWN GIGS OUTSIDE OF THE FESTIVAL THIS YEARiS %8)4 HAS A DISTINCT LEANING TOWARDS DANCE AND HIP HOP PERFORMERS 4HEYiRE NOT WRONG 7HILE THE %XPLOSIVE STAGE WILL GIVE THE ROCK INCLINED THEIR FIX OF DISTORTED GUITARS AND THUNDERING DRUM SOLOS THE ACTS REALLY NOT TO MISS THIS YEAR ARE THE RAPPERS AND THE $*iS !T THE MAIN STAGE THIS YEAR DANCE LOVERS CAN HEADBANG ALONG TO 4HE 0RODIGY AND LEAP ABOUT TO $RUM Ni "ASS SENSATIONS 0ENDULUM WHILE HIP HOPPERS HAVE PERFORMANCES FROM THE "EASTIE "OYS THE 7U 4ANG #LAN AND PERHAPS MOST EXCITINGLY 3NOOP $OGG WHO HAS BEEN BANNED FROM EVER PLAYING THE 5+ AGAIN AFTER A RUN IN BETWEEN POLICE AND HIS ENTOURAGE AT (EATHROW AIRPORT 7(!4 4/ %80%#4 %8)4 IS MORE THAN A FESTIVAL )T IS TO INDULGE IN A CLICH AN EXPE RIENCE 4O TRY AND PUT A FINGER ON WHAT MAKES IT SO SPECIAL IS FUTILE

BECAUSE THE LIST OF POSSIBILITIES IS SO LONG IS IT THE SPECTACULAR SETTING THE FRIENDLY SMILEY PEOPLE OR THE MUSIC 0ERHAPS ITiS THE INHERENT PRIDE OF THE LOCALS IN THEIR FESTIVAL THE TRADITION AND THE HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL WHICH HELPED TOPPLE A DICTATOR OR THE NOVELTY OF SEEING HOW PEOPLE UNWIND AND PARTY IN A DIFFERENT CULTURE 7HATEVER THE REASON ITiS AN EYE OPENING ADVENTURE FOR THE FIRST TIMER AND THE ONLY WAY TO USHER IN A SUMMER OF LAZY DAYS AND STEAMY NIGHTS IN A COUNTRY THAT PULSES MORE AND MORE WITH MUSIC AND LIFE WITH EACH PASSING YEAR 'ET INVOLVED

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CULTURE NEWS :/2!. ยฉ)6+/6)ร ,!52%!4% /& h)3)$/2! 3%+5,)ร i !7!2$ 7RITER :ORAN ยปIVKOVIร FROM "ELGRADE AUTHOR OF PROSE TEXTS IN FANTASY GENRE WHOSE ALL NOVELS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED AND PUB LISHED IN THE %NGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES HAS BEEN AWARDED SIGNIFI CANT DOMESTIC LITERAL AWARD i)SIDORA 3EKULIร i 4HE AWARD CARRIES THE NAME OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 3ERBIAN LADY WRITERS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE TH CENTURY ยปIVKOVIร WON THE AWARD FOR SHORT NOVEL i-OSTi "RIDGE AND THE OFFICIAL HANDOVER OF THE AWARD HAS BEEN HELD ON *UNE TH IN THE #ITY !SSEMBLY !FTER HANDOVER OF THE AWARD THAT HAS BEEN AWARDED TO HIM FOR HIS NOVEL j-OSTk "RIDGE :IVKOVIC SAID THAT IT SEEMS AS THOUGH TRANSITION TIME HAS CONSPIRED AGAINST THE WRITERS !CCORDING TO HIS WORDS A NEW CLASS OF PUBLISHERS IN THE SPIRIT OF WILD CAPITALISM IS LITTLE INTERESTED IN SOMETHING ELSE EXCEPT IN THE BARE MONEY EARNING BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY EVADE DOMESTIC AUTHORS BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT PROFIT ON THEM

/N THE OTHER HAND THERE IS NO SUPPORT FROM THE INSTITUTIONS IN CHARGE LIKE THE -INISTRY OF #ULTURE :IVKOVIC REMARKED THAT ALL WRITERS COULD LIVE FOR A YEAR FROM THE FUNDS THAT ARE EARMARKED FROM THE BUDGET OF EVEN THE MOST MODEST FILM :IVKOVIC HAS BEEN HANDED OVER THE j)SIDORA 3EKULICk AWARD

ESTABLISHED BY THE -UNICIPAL !SSEMBLY OF 3AVSKI 6ENAC BY THE #HAIR ,ADY j)SIDORA 3EKULICk &UND !SSEMBLY -RS 6IDA /GNJENOVIC ALSO A RENOWNED WRITER !WARD j)SIDORA 3EKULICk ESTABLISHED ACCORDING TO THE WISH OF THAT GREAT 3ERBIAN WRITER CONSISTS FROM $IPLOMA MEDALLION AND CASH "RITISH ISSUE OF THE BOOK j-OSTk "RIDGE IS EXPECTED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR PUBLISHED BY 03 0UBLISHER 4HE SAME PUBLISHING HOUSE HAS RECENTLY IN -AY PUBLISHED ยปIVKOVIร iS BOOK i4WELVE #OLLECTIONS AND THE 4EASHOPi %8)4 4)-% &IRST HELD IN .OVI 3ADiS ANNUAL %8)4 &ESTIVAL HAS GROWN INTO THE GREATEST POP MUSIC FESTIVAL IN THE REGION AND AN IMPORTANT DATE ON %UROPEiS SUMMER CULTURE MAP %8)4 WHICH TAKES PLACE AT THE MEDIEVAL 0ETROVARADIN &ORTRESS HAS GROWN MASSIVELY IN TERMS OF BOTH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POPULARITY BY STAGING A VARIETY OF PERFORMANCES OF VARIOUS MUSIC GENRES AND WORLD FAMOUS MUSIC STARS LAST YEARiS CONCERT INCLUDED PERFORMANCES BY &RANZ &ERDINAND -ORRISSEY THE 0ET 3HOP "OYS AND THE #ARDIGANS

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AMONGST MANY OTHERS /RGANISERS 3TATE OF %XIT HAVE CREATED A USER FRIENDLY CONCEPT AND BESIDES CHECKING OUT THE LINE UP ONE CAN ACCESS ALL INFORMA TION REGARDING ACCOMMODATION IN .OVI 3AD TRANSPORT IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND METHODS FOR WATCHING THE &ESTIVAL AT WWW EXITFEST ORG 4HIS YEAR HAS SEEN 3TATE OF %XIT EXPAND ITS CULTURAL OFFER BEYOND THE FESTIVAL ITSELF BY ORGANISING NUMEROUS CONCERTS IN DIFFERENT VENUES BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONCERT AS WELL AS THE 3ERBIAN &ILM &ESTIVAL DETAILED BELOW 4HE STARS OF %8)4iS -AIN 3TAGE AT THIS YEARiS FESTIVAL ARE MOSTLY RAP MUSICIANS m INCLUDING 3NOOP $OGG THE 7U 4ANG #LAN AND THE "EASTIE "OYS &ORMER &UGEES SINGER (IP HOP AND SOUL DIVA ,AURYN (ILL IS ALSO SET TO PERFORM AS IS FAMOUS SINGER 2OBERT 0LANT m FORMER ,ED :EPPELIN FRONTMAN WHO HAS DEVELOPED LONG AND PROMINENT SOLO CAREER "ESIDES THE -AIN 3TAGE 0ETROVARADIN &ORTRESS WILL ALSO HOUSE %8)4iS $ANCE !RENA %XPLOSION &USION %LECTRONIC AND 7ORLD -USIC STAGES 4HIS YEARiS %8)4 WILL TAKE PLACE FROM TH m TH *ULY 3%2")!. 0!6),)/. ). 6%.%4)!. ")%..!,% 4HE ND )NTERNATIONAL !RT %XHIBITION FROM ,A "IENNALE DI 6ENEZIA ENTITLED 4HINK WITH THE 3ENSES m &EEL WITH THE -IND !RT IN THE 0RESENT 4ENSE WAS OPENED ON TH *UNE 4WO DAYS PRIOR

3ERBIAN 0RESIDENT "ORIS 4ADIร OPENED THE 3ERBIAN EXHIBITION 2ESET m A WORK OF SCULPTOR -RรฐAN "AJIร AT THE NATIONAL PAVILIONS AT THE 'IARDINI 4HIS EXHIBITION WILL INDEPENDENTLY PRESENTS 3ERBIA FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE ND "IENNALE OF 6ISUAL !RTS IN 6ENICE

WHICH WILL RUN UNTIL ST .OVEMBER 0RESENTATION OF 3ERBIA ON THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS %UROPEAN CON TEMPORARY ART PARADE HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN THE LAST MOMENT

THANKS TO SPONSORSHIP BY THE 0RESIDENT OF 3ERBIA -RรฐAN "AJIร HAS DIVIDED THE PRESENTATION IN THREE WHOLES 4HE &IRST EXHIBITION SEGMENT NAMED *UGOMUZEJ 9UGOSLAV -USEUM REPRESENTS FILM GLIMPSE TO THE NATIONAL CULTURAL HERIT AGE 4HE SECOND PART "EKAP "ACKUP SHOULD BRING CLOSER TO THE PUBLIC THE INTERNAL WORLD OF THE ARTIST AND THE THIRD 2ESET

SHOULD PRESENT LANDSCAPES OF NEW 3ERBIA BY SIX SPECIALLY MADE SCULPTURES FOR THIS OCCASION 4HE EXHIBITION IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE TOP QUALITY CATALOGUE WITH TEXTS IN 3ERBIAN %NGLISH AND )TALIAN LANGUAGE WITH THE INTRO DUCTION BY 6LADIMIR 6ELIร KOVIร PAINTER WHO HAS AS THE %XHIBITION #OMMISSIONER SELECTED "AJIร TO REPRESENT 3ERBIA AT THE 6ENETIAN "IENNALE 4(% 3%#/.$ ).4%2.!4)/.!, 345$%.4 7%%+ ). "%,'2!$% )37" IS BEING HELD FROM *UNE TILL *ULY IN "ELGRADE (EADING MOTTO OF THIS YEARiS MEETING IS 5PDATE ,OCAL TO 'ET 'LOBAL 4HE FESTIVAL IS ORIENTED TOWARDS STUDENT POPULATION AND YOUNG PEOPLE BOTH IN %UROPE AND 3ERBIA -ORE THAN STUDENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL AROUND %UROPE WILL GATHER IN ORDER TO TAKE PART IN VARIOUS INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS AND DISCUSSIONS AND ALSO TO HEAR INTERESTING LECTURES ON SOME OF THE CURRENT ISSUES )NTERACTIVE LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS GROUP WORKING AND DISCUS SIONS PRACTICAL WORK EXCURSIONS AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES ARE MEANT TO LINK PARTICIPANTS TOGETHER 9OUNG PEOPLE

BY BEING BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH OTHER CULTURE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM EACH OTHER THEY CAN DISCOVER AND EXPLORE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEIR CULTURES AND REALIZE THAT DIFFERENCES ARE NOT SOMETHING WHAT WE SHOULD BE AFRAID OF BUT SOMETHING WHAT COULD ENRICH OUR LIFE WAS WRITTEN IN THE INVITATION 4HE PROJECT WILL EMBRACE STUDENTS FROM %UROPE WHO WILL HAVE A CHANCE WITHIN THE FRAME OF )37)" TO SPEND A WHOLE WEEK IN OUR CAPITAL TO MEET ITS CITIZENS 3ERBIAN CULTURE CUSTOMS

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HE 3ERBIAN &ILM &ESTIVAL WILL HOST THE DOMESTIC PREMIERE OF CELEBRATED DIRECTOR %MIR +USTURICAiS LATEST FILM :AVET 0ROMISE -E 4HIS WHICH WAS MET WITH STANDING OVATIONS AT THE #ANNES &ILM &ESTIVAL THIS -AY -EANWHILE 'ERMAN DIRECTOR &ATIH !KIN WILL SIT ON THE JURY AND HAVE A RETROSPECTIVE OF HIS FILMS AS PART OF A WIDER PROGRAMME OF FILM CYCLES AND GENRE PRESENTA TIONS &OR FIVE DAYS IN *UNE THE 3ERBIAN FILM COMMUNITY WILL TRANS PLANT ITSELF TO .OVI 3AD IN A PROJECT THAT HAS MUCH HIGHER ASPIRA TIONS FOR THE FUTURE 4HROUGH A COMBINATION OF SPECTACLE AND PROJECTION OF THE COUNTRYiS BEST FILMS THE 3ERBIAN &ILM &ESTIVAL WILL ATTEMPT TO ELEVATE THE DOMESTIC FILM INDUSTRY BRINGING DIGNITY BACK TO THE STRONG FILM TRADITION IN THE COUNTRY AND FOR THOSE WORKERS WHO TOILED THROUGH THE FILM PRODUCTION DROUGHT OF THE h S 4HE FESTIVAL WILL GATHER THE COUNTRYiS BEST IN A COMPETITION THAT ALSO INCLUDES A PROGRAMME LAUNCHING A REGIONAL CO PRODUCTION FILM FUND WORKSHOPS THAT FOSTER INTERACTION BETWEEN THE DOMESTIC INDUSTRY AND INTERNATIONAL GUESTS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PUTTING

ON A FESTIVAL THAT WILL ENTERTAIN THE MASSES AND SERVE AS A PLATFORM FOR IMPORTANT DOMESTIC PREMIERES AND A COMPETITIVE PORTION SEV ERAL CATEGORIES DEEP 4O ACHIEVE THE LATTER OBJECTIVE THAT IS CREATING A FESTIVAL ATMOS PHERE OF GALA SCREENINGS OUTDOOR PROJECTIONS AND MUSICAL INTER LUDES SPREAD OUT OVER A LARGE AREA THE &ILM #ENTRE OF 3ERBIA AND THE -INISTRY OF #ULTURE TURNED TO THE MOST LOGICAL CHOICE THE 3TATE OF %XIT WHO OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS HAVE MANAGED TO TURN THE %XIT &ESTIVAL INTO AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON 4RANSFORMATION OF THE 0ETROVARADIN &ORTRESS INTO A FOUR DAY ALL NIGHT MUSIC FESTIVAL THAT GATHERS OVER PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE DOESNiT NECESSARILY GUARANTEE SUCCESS IN CREATING #INEMA #ITY THE NAME THE ORGANISERS ARE GIVING TO THE COUNTRYiS INITIAL RUN OF A NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN .OVI 3AD FROM RD TO TH *ULY BUT WITH %XITiS HISTORY OF SOLID PERFORMANCES THE LIKELIHOOD OF A GOOD TIME TO BE HAD IS OF LITTLE DOUBT

j&OR 3TATE OF %XIT THE &ILM &ESTIVAL OF 3ERBIA REPRESENTS A NEW CHALLENGE AND WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE THE INVITATION FROM &ILM #ENTRE OF 3ERBIA WHICH IS DELEGATED BY THE -INISTRY OF #ULTURE REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CINEMATOGRAPHY IN 3ERBIA k SAYS 3AGOR -EpKOVIÌ THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR DIRECTING 3TATE OF %XITiS

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YOU SEE THAT &#3 IS SPECIALISED IN LOCAL CINEMATOGRAPHY AND ON THE OTHER SIDE %XIT IS MOSTLY KNOWN FOR STAGING A GOOD SHOW AND GOOD PRODUCTION OF FESTIVALS AND WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT GIVING A GOOD IMAGE OF 3ERBIA INTERNATIONALLY 3O THIS FESTIVAL HAS SIMILAR GOALS TO ACHIEVE AS THE %XIT &ESTIVAL IT NEEDS TO BOOST THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND IT NEEDS TO ACHIEVE A BETTER IMAGE 3ERBIA ACROSS %UROPE )F %XIT CAN HELP BOOST THE WHOLE CREATIVE INDUSTRY IN 3ERBIA WE WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE AND DO WHAT WE DO BEST WHICH IS PRODUCTION OF FESTIVALS AND MAKING A GOOD IMAGE OF 3ERBIAN FILM AND THE FESTIVAL k ADDS -EpKOVIÌ .OVI 3AD WAS A NATURAL FIT FOR BOTH PARTICIPANTS IN THE FESTIVAL

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A LOT OF GUESTS MOVIES AND COCKTAILS AFTERWARDS 7E DECIDED TO MAKE A REAL FUSION OF %XIT &ESTIVAL AND TO APPLY THAT TO THE FILM FESTIVAL AND ATTRACT A WIDER AUDIENCE 4HIS FUSION OF ENTERTAINMENT

PREMIERES AND A LOT OF FILMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE CAN REALLY CREATE A NEW CLIMATE FOR FILM DIRECTED TOWARDS GETTING PEOPLE BACK TO THE CINEMA HALLS GETTING PEO PLEiS ATTENTION ON MOVIES ESPECIALLY THOSE MADE IN 3ERBIA k SAYS -EpKOVIÌ OF THE FESTIVAL CONCEPT (OWEVER THE SPECTACLE OF THE FES TIVAL IS ONLY PART OF THE PROJECT )T WILL ALSO SERVE AS AN IMPORTANT STARTING POINT FOR BUILDING THE BACKBONE OF THE 3ERBIAN FILM INDUSTRY WHERE FILMS CAN BE SCREENED AND PROFESSIONALS CAN INTER ACT 3VEBOR -IDÝIÌ DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MONTH OLD &ILM #ENTRE OF 3ERBIA

WHICH WAS SET UP AS THE MAIN GATHERING POINT AIMED AT REGENERATING THE DOMES TIC FILM INDUSTRY POINTED OUT THAT THE INDUSTRY WAS ONCE AGAIN RETURNING TO LEVELS IT ONCE ENJOYED j MOVIES WERE PRODUCED IN 3ERBIA LAST YEAR WHICH IS A HUGE NUMBER 4HIS BRINGS US BACK TO THE NUMBER WE HAD IN THE h S 7E ARE NOW CATCHING STEP AGAIN AFTER A YEAR PAUSE IN PRODUCTION k -IDÝIÌ SAYS 3PEAKING ABOUT THE ESTABLISHING OF THE FESTIVAL THE &ILM #ENTREiS DEPUTY

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DIRECTOR ADDS j7E HAVE A PLATFORM NOT JUST A FESTIVAL BUT A PLATFORM A FESTIVAL LIKE A BACKBONE THAT SHOULD PROP UP THE WHOLE INDUSTRY )T IS NOT ONLY A PLACE TO MEET BUT A PLACE TO MEET EXCHANGE IDEAS AND DEVELOP FUR THER PROJECTS k ! CENTRAL FACET OF THIS IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE $ANUBIUS FILM FUND A FUND INFUSED WITH A _

INVESTMENT FROM 3ERBIA AND WHICH WILL BE DESIGNED TO FOSTER CO OPERATION BETWEEN COUNTRIES IN THE $ANUBE REGION AND ONE DAY BE AN IMPORTANT CLEARING HOUSE FOR CO PRODUCTIONS -IDÝIÌ ADDS

j7E ARE GOING INTO THIS FUND VERY AMBI TIOUSLY 7E WANT TWO SESSIONS A YEAR

AND ONE SESSION THAT WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF THE FESTIVAL 7E ARE INVITING PEO PLE FROM %UROPE TO SHARE IDEAS 4HIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US k 7ITH THE %XIT PRODUCTION TEAM AT THE HELM FILM FANS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WILL CERTAINLY BE ENTERTAINED IN .OVI 3AD AND THE FIRST .ATIONAL &ILM &ESTIVAL OF 3ERBIA WILL MAKE AN IMPORTANT STEP IN THE DIRECTION OF INJECTING ENERGY INTO THE COUNTRYiS FILM INDUSTRY !DDRESSING THE NOTION OF DEVELOPING AN EVENT THAT IS BOTH ENTERTAINING AND USEFUL FOR THE INDUSTRY -IDÝIÌ SAYS j4HE SPECTACLE IS A NECESSARY PART OF THIS BUT WE WOULDNiT BE DOING THIS IF IT WAS JUST A SPECTACLE 4HE SPECTACLE CAN BE USED AS A MEANS TO CRITICALLY REPOSI TION 3ERBIAN CINEMA 7E WANT TO CRITI CALLY REPOSITION 3ERBIAN CINEMA SO THAT IT WILL BE RE EVALUATED BY THE 7ESTERN STANDARDS 7HEN WE USE THE SPECTACLE

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BUT IT WAS NOT DIFFICULT TO WORK OUT THAT A CROSS MEANT SEX WITH -ASHA AND A HEAVY DOT MEANT MASTURBATION WHICH WAS ALSO SOMETIMES REFERRED TO DIRECTLY AS hADDITIONAL EXERCISEi /F GREATER INTEREST AND DEEPER RELEVANCE WAS THE DISCOVERY OF A HARD COVERED NOTEBOOK IN WHICH !NDREW HAD COPIED OUT IN HIS IMMACULATE HANDWRITING A NUMBER OF POEMS AND QUOTATIONS THAT HAD STRUCK HIM AS BEING RELEVANT TO HIS LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY (E HAD ENTITLED HIS ANTHOLOGY 4OO DEEP FOR TEARS AND INSCRIBED INSIDE THE FRONT COVER WERE THE FINAL FOUR LINES OF !NDREWiS FAVOURITE POEM 7ORDSWORTHiS )NTIMATIONS OF )MMORTALITY FROM 2ECOLLECTIONS OF %ARLY #HILDHOOD 4HANKS TO THE HUMAN HEART BY WHICH WE LIVE

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4O ME THE MEANEST FLOWER THAT BLOWS CAN GIVE 4HOUGHTS THAT DO OFTEN LIE TOO DEEP FOR TEARS 4HE IMPORTANCE HE ATTACHED TO HIS INDIVIDUALITY IS CONFIRMED BY THE SUBSEQUENT QUOTATION FROM 4HOREAUiS 7ALDEN )F A MAN DOES NOT KEEP PACE WITH HIS COMPANIONS PER HAPS IT IS BECAUSE HE HEARS A DIFFERENT DRUMMER ,ET HIM STEP TO THE MUSIC WHICH HE HEARS HOWEVER MEASURED OR FAR AWAY !RISTOTLE WAS THERE WITH (E WHO HAS FEWEST WANTS IS NEAR EST TO THE GODS 'OETHE WITH .OTHING IS WORTH MORE THAN THIS DAY !N !RABIAN MYSTIC CALLED )BN h!RABI WAS REPRESENTED BY ) DRANK GLASS AFTER GLASS OF LOVE NEITHER DID THE WINE FINISH NOR MY THIRST AND 'ANDHI BY ) LIKE THE #HRIST OF THE GOSPELS BUT ) DO NOT OFTEN SEE HIM IN HIS FOLLOWERS 4HE QUOTATION FROM ONE OF 7ILLAM 'OLDINGiS ESSAYS SHOULD BE NAILED TO THE DOOR OF THE 3ERBIAN 0ARLIAMENT BUILDING AND REGULARLY FLASHED ACROSS THE ELECTRONIC TICKER TAPE AT 2EPUBLIC 3QUARE 7ITH BAD PEOPLE HATING UNCOOPERATIVE SELFISH PEOPLE NO SOCIAL SYSTEM WILL WORK 7ITH GOOD PEOPLE LOVING CO OPERA

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THE ANTHOLOGY ITSELF OR !NDREWiS PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE (AD HE SIMPLY JOTTED DOWN THINGS THAT COINCIDED WITH HIS OWN VIEW OF LIFE OR HAD HIS OWN VIEW OF LIFE BEEN MOULDED BY OTHER PEOPLEiS ELOQUENT MAXIMS ) DECIDED THAT THIS WAS IRRELEVANT m AN UNANSWERABLE CHICKEN AND EGG CONUNDRUM AND PLACED THE NOTEBOOK BESIDE MY BED AND TREATED MYSELF TO A NIGHTLY INTELLECTUAL ORGASM ) DISCOVERED A SIDE OF !NDREW ) HAD ONLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE OF DURING OUR TWO YEARS TOGETHER !NDREW AND ) HAD TALKED ABOUT ADOPTING A CHILD BUT HAD DECIDED THAT WE DID NOT WANT TO INFLICT ON IT THE EMBARRASSING AND TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE OF HIS OR HER SCHOOLMATES SAYING h9OUR GRANDPAiS WAITING FOR YOU i WHEN !NDREW COLLECTED HIM OR HER FROM SCHOOL 7E HAD NOT SEEN EYE TO EYE ABOUT HAV ING A DOG OR A CAT AS COMPENSATION !NDREW HAD SUGGESTED A GOLDFISH WHICH ) HAD REJECTED AS DENIGRATING CYNICISM AND MY BRILLIANT IDEA TO BUY A BUDGERIGAR WAS DISMISSED WITH j"IRDS FOR ME ARE THE VERY PERSONIFICATION OF FREEDOM AND ) COULD NEVER WILFULLY KEEP ONE BEHIND BARS k ) HAD MISSED !NDREWiS hAVIAN PERIODi BY A GOOD TEN YEARS PROBABLY FORTUNATELY AS HIS BIRD WATCHING DIARIES INDICATED THAT HE WAS NOTHING SHORT OF OBSESSED BY THEM &ROM VARIOUS FILES AND FOLDERS FROM THAT TIME ) DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD BEEN AT VARIOUS PERIODS OF HIS h3AVE THE 7ORLDi MANIA A MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ENVI RONMENTAL MOVEMENTS SUCH AS 'REENPEACE &RIENDS OF THE %ARTH AND THE 7ORLD 7ILDLIFE &UND AND HAD CONSORTED WITH A NUMBER OF LIKE MINDED hGREENSi FROM THE "ELGRADE .ATURAL (ISTORY -USEUM AND THE LOCAL 3OCIETY FOR THE 0ROTECTION OF THE %NVIRONMENT )T BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A MENOPAUSAL RELI GIOUS UPHEAVAL AND REMEMBERING !NDREWiS AUTOBIOGRAPHI CAL ACCOUNT OF HIS PUBERTAL FLIRTATION WITH 'OD AFTER MUTUALLY MASTURBATING WITH A SCHOOLMATE ) BEGAN TO WONDER WHAT DELIGHTFUL SIN HE HAD COMMITTED IN MIDDLE AGE THAT HAD SENT HIM INTO THE ARMS OF 'AIA A LOVE AFFAIR ) LIKE TO THINK HE HAD CONSUMMATED THAT MORNING HE MASTURBATED AT SUNRISE WHILE ROLLING IN THE WILD THYME AT THE TOP OF A MOUNTAINb !LL ROADS IN !NDREWiS LIFE SEEM TO LEAD TO SEX EVEN DESERT ED MOUNTAIN TRACKS "UT !NDREWiS RELATIONSHIP WITH 'AIA HAD BEEN SOMETHING ETHEREAL AND CANNOT BE INCLUDED ON HIS LIST OF THE TEN WOMEN HE HAD SLEPT WITH BEFORE MEETING ME 4O RECAP HE LOST HIS VIRGINITY TO 4ERRY AND THEN GOT HIS OWN BACK BY DEFLOWERING FELLOW DRAMA STUDENT *UDY (E WAS THEN DEVOURED BY OLDER ACTRESS *ULIE UNTIL SHE FELL OVER A #ORNISH CLIFF ON THEIR HONEYMOON AND ALMOST BEFORE SHE WAS COLD HE SLEPT WITH *UDYiS FORMER FLAT MATE #AROLINE WHOM HE DISCOV ERED AT THE ""# 7E HAD DECIDED NOT TO COUNT 3USANNAH IN )RELAND AS !NDREW HAD DRUNK TOO MUCH 'UINNESS TO REMEM BER WHETHER HE HAD FUCKED HER OR NOT !FTER A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH A BLONDE EXTRA CALLED &IONA !NDREW TOUCHED &ELICITYiS LEFT BREAST ON THE #ENTRAL ,INE AND WOULD HAVE MARRIED HER IF HE HAD NOT DRAWN THE NAME 9UGOSLAVIA OUT OF THE HAT AND ENDED UP BY TRAVELLING TO "ELGRADE INTO THE ARMS OF A CERTAIN -ASHA )T WAS NOT LONG BEFORE HE FELL IN LOVE WITH AND SEDUCED HER MOTHER -ARIJA AND AFTER AN EXCESS OF PLUM BRANDY HE WAS SWALLOWED WHOLE BY AN ELDERLY NYMPHOMANIAC ACTRESS 7HICH BRINGS THE TALLY UP TO NINE 4HE LOVER !NDREW WAS ALWAYS MOST RETICENT TO TALK ABOUT WAS HIS TENTH AN )TALIAN WOMAN CALLED 'IOVANNA "IONDI WHO DATES FROM NEARLY TWEN TY YEARS BEFORE ) BECAME HIS ELEVENTH 4HIS RETICENCE ALWAYS BUGGED ME AND THE REASON ) AM BRINGING IT UP AGAIN NOW IS BECAUSE OF A POSTCARD ) DISCOVERED WHICH !NDREW HAD USED AS A BOOKMARK IN ONE OF HIS ECOLOGY BOOKS 4HE 3TATE OF THE !RK 4HE PICTURE IS A REPRODUCTION OF A PICTURE BY .ICHOLAS 2OERICH FROM THE MUSEUM IN .EW 9ORK DEVOTED TO HIS WORKS )T DEPICTS A MAN ON HORSEBACK LEAVING A MOUNTAIN CHALET HIGH UP IN THE (IMALAYAS AND TURNING BACK NOSTALGICALLY FOR ONE

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SO IT WAS QUITE NATURAL THAT WHEN WRITING FROM .APLES SHE SHOULD CALL !NDREW HER hDEAR FRIEND WHOSE KINDNESS AND EVERYTHING ELSE ) AM MISSING SO MUCHi h%VERYTHING ELSEi INDEED ) WOULD HAVE WRITTEN hWHOSE KINDNESS AND SENSUAL BODY ) MISS SO MUCHi "UT THEN IT WAS A POSTCARD AND HAD TO BE -ASHA PROOF 0ERHAPS HER LAWYER HUSBAND #ARLO WAS MUCH OLDER THAN SHE WAS 0ERHAPS HE WAS EVEN IMPOTENT .O

THIS HAD ALL HAPPENED NEARLY TWENTY YEARS BEFORE !NDREW MET ME !T LEAST THAT WAS WHAT !NDREW HAD TOLD ME AND !NDREW WAS AN HONOURABLE MAN ) WOULD HAVE HAD NO REASON WHAT SOEVER TO BE JEALOUS OF 'IOVANNA IF ) HAD NOT NOTICED THE DATE AT THE TOP OF THE POSTCARD 3IXTEEN YEARS AFTER THEY HAD FIRST MET AND LESS THAN A YEAR BEFORE !NDREW MET ME )F !NDREW HAD NOT ACTUALLY LIED TO ME ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH 'IOVANNA HE HAD CERTAINLY BEEN ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH )T WAS TURNING OUT THAT THE JIG SAW HAD MORE PIECES THAN ) HAD IMAGINED AND SOME OF THE KEY PIECES WERE APPARENTLY MISSING 4HE SECRET THAT !NDREW HAD KEPT FROM ME HAD DISSOLVED WITH HIM IN THE WATERS OF THE (AMPSHIRE !VON AND WAS NOW SAFELY OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND SOMEWHERE IN THE SEVEN SEAS /R SO !NDREW HAD THOUGHT )F HE AND 'IOVANNA HAD BEEN IN TOUCH IN THERE WAS NO REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT THEY HAD NOT REMAINED IN TOUCH )T WAS UNLIKELY THAT HE HAD SEEN HER AS HE HAD NOT BEEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY WITHOUT ME SINCE WE MET 7ITH THE EXCEPTION OF A COUPLE OF FAMILY VISITS TO %NGLAND 'IOVANNA EVIDENTLY STILL LIVED IN .APLES m AT LEAST

SHE HAD LIVED THERE FIVE YEARS AGO m HER ADDRESS WAS ON THE POSTCARD "UT SUPPOSING SHE HAD COME TO "ELGRADE 3HE AND !NDREW COULD HAVE MET IN A HOTEL AND ) WOULD HAVE BEEN NONE THE WISER )T WOULD EXPLAIN THOSE TIMES HE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET AN ERECTION 4HEY HAD BEEN FEW AND FAR BETWEEN

ADMITTEDLY BUT SHE OBVIOUSLY COULD NOT HAVE COME ALL THAT FREQUENTLY 4HOUGH WHEN SHE HAD COME THEY WOULD HAVE OBVIOUSLY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF EVERY MOMENT TOGETHER (AD THEY LIVED IT UP IN THE (YATT OR )NTERCONTINENTAL OR LAIN LOW IN A SEEDY ANONYMOUS HOTEL LIKE THE "EOGRAD NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION /R WAS ) SIMPLY SUFFERING FROM AN ATTACK OF PARANOIA OF /THELLO PROPORTIONS ) DECIDED ) WOULD RUN AWAY ) WOULD RUN AWAY TO .APLES )F ) DID NOT EXORCISE THIS FINAL GHOST IT WOULD HAUNT ME FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS

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'UTOVIÌ SPENT THREE YEARS STUDYING AT THE PRESTIGIOUS 2OSELLA (IGHTOWER "ALLET !CADEMY IN #ANNES GRADUATING BEFORE SHE MOVED ON TO STUDY ACTING IN 0ARIS 3HE RETURNED TO TAKE UP WORKING LIFE AS AN ACTRESS WITH ROLES IN VARIOUS TELEVISION COMEDIES STAGE PLAYS AND FEATURE FILMS (ER CAREER BURGEONING WITH OFFERS 'UTOVIÌ CHANNELLED HER PASSION ONCE AGAIN ON THE STAGE WITH THE FORMATION OF THE !RIADNA TROUPE 7ITH THIS LATEST PROJECT SHE IS CHARTING NEW WATERS IN LIVE PERFORMANCE FUSING AND TRANSFORMING THE ARTS WITH PLAYS MARKED BY MINIMALISM IN THE SPOKEN WORD 'UTOVIÌ SAT DOWN WITH #OR$iS #ELLULOID 0OPCORN TO DISCUSS HER WORKLOAD EXPERIENCES INFLUENCES AND THE POWER TO PUSH THE ISSUE OF FEMALE EMANCIPATION THROUGH !RIADNA SHEDDING LIGHT ON WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN ACTRESS WORKING IN "ELGRADE TODAY 7HAT INSPIRES YOU IN YOUR ACTING ) FIND MY INSPIRATION IN LIFE AND THE PEOPLE SURROUNDING ME ) THINK THAT FOR THE RIGHT ARTIST THE PAIN HE OR SHE EXPERIENCES IS VALUABLE )F WE LEARN THAT BAD THINGS ARE NOT ACTUALLY BAD BUT ARE A CONSTITUENT PART OF

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GROWING UP WEiLL DRAW STRENGTH FROM EVERY FAILURE %VERY ARTIST MUST HAVE IN THEIR WORK SOMETHING THAT COMES FROM THEIR OWN LIFE AND EXPERI ENCE SO THAT THEIR WORK CAN LEAVE AN IMPRESSION ON PEOPLE ) DO NOT RUN AWAY FROM THIS ) CONFRONT IT DIRECTLY 4IME WILL TELL HOW MUCH OF THIS IS GOOD OR BAD BUT ) THINK IT LEAVES A POSITIVE IMPACT ON MY WORK ,IFE IS MY INSPIRATION

(OW DIFFICULT IS IT FOR A YOUNG ACTRESS TO GET A BREAK IN THIS CITY ) CANNOT SAY THAT ) HAVE HAD PROBLEMS FINDING WORK ) ORGANISE MY JOBS MYSELF BECAUSE ) HAVE MY OWN THEATRE GROUP ) BELONG TO A GROUP THAT HAS A DIFFICULT TIME WITH AUTHORITIES ) DISLIKE THE FEELING OF DEPEND ENCE ON SOMETHING OR SOMEONE ) DISLIKE IT IF SOMEONE ELSE DECIDES WHETHER AND HOW MUCH ) WORK 3O WITH SUCH A MAKE UP IN MY PERSON ALITY ) WAS FORCED TO TAKE MATTERS INTO MY OWN HANDS ) HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT THE FEELING IS GREAT

$O YOU PREFER FILM OR THEATRE WORK ) CANNOT SAY THAT ) LOVE THEATRE MORE THAN ) LOVE FILM 4HOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT ART FORMS ) DEAL IN &ILM IN MY OPINION IS MUCH MORE INTEREST ING TO WATCH AS A FINAL PRODUCT $URING DIRECTING IT MIGHT NOT GIVE THE ACTOR THE SAME EXCITEMENT AS PLAYING IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC WHICH FORCES THEM TO BELIEVE IN THAT MOMENT THAT REAL LIFE IS PASSING IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES !NYWAY BOTH THEATRE AND FILM HAVE GREAT POWER OVER PEOPLE m THEY ARE BOTH MORE POWERFUL MEANS OF MANIPULATION THAN POLITICS BECAUSE THEY CAN CHANGE THE WAY OF THINKING IN AN INDIRECT AND EASY WAY THEY CAN CHANGE LIFE AND EVEN HUMAN RELATIONS

$OES THE ARRIVAL OF MORE INTERNATIONAL FILM PROJECTS TO "ELGRADE MAKE YOU MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT YOUR FUTURE PROSPECTS

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BOTH IN BUSINESS AND IN LIFE

$O YOU CONSIDER YOURS TO BE A DEMANDING OR EASY GOING PROFES SION /N THE WHOLE THIS IS A WONDERFUL PROFESSION )T REQUIRES ME TO RELAX AND TO CONSTANTLY LISTEN TO MYSELF )T REQUIRES THAT FROM EVERY ACTOR 7E HAVE TO BE IN PERFECT PEACE AND COMMUNICATION WITH OURSELVES TO ENJOY THIS JOB 5NFORTUNATELY WHEN WE PUT OUR LIFE AND EVEN OUR JOBS IN THE HANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE OR WHEN WE LET SOMEONE ELSE DECIDE ABOUT WHAT WE DO WHEN AND HOW THIS PROFESSION BECOMES TRYING AND DEMANDING 4HE ART IS IN ITSELF FREE AND IT CANiT STAND STRICT RULES AND LIMITS 4HEREFORE ) SUPPORT EVERY NEW IDEA AND EACH YOUNG PERSON WHO DECIDES TO MAKE

WITH HIS OR HER OWN WILL THIS WONDERFUL JOB EASY GOING AND RELAXED

7HAT SPECIFICALLY DRAWS YOU TO A PROJECT POPOSAL THE SCRIPT DIREC TOR TOPIC ACTING TEAM ETC 0RIMARILY THE SCENARIO STORY AND TEXT ARE CRUCIAL )MMEDIATELY FOLLOWING IN IMPORTANCE IS THE DIRECTOR AND OF COURSE TEAM AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH ) WORK )T IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SURROUND MYSELF WITH REAL ENERGY .OTHING CAN MAKE ME TENSE OR IRRITATED BECAUSE THEN ) CANNOT GIVE MY BEST 4RUST AMONGST CO WORKERS IS ALSO IMPORTANT WHICH ) TRY TO BUILD UP )T IS IMPORTANT IN ANY JOB BUT ESPECIALLY IN ACTING 4RUST IN YOUR PARTNER IS A BIG PART OF A FINISHED JOB (OW DO YOU COPE WITH GAPS BETWEEN PROJECTS %ARLIER ON ) FOUND THOSE PAUSES DIFFICULT ) WAS ALWAYS EXTREMELY UNSURE WHEN ) WOULD HAVE THE NEXT ENGAGEMENT )N *ULY LAST YEAR ) CAME TO AN INTERESTING IDEA ) FOUNDED THE THEATRE GROUP !RIADNA /UR FIRST SHOW WAS 2UÍNI RAD (ANDICRAFT WHICH WAS EXCELLENTLY RECEIVED BY THE PUBLIC 4HAT GAVE ME STIMULUS AND ASSURED ME THAT SUCH AN IDEA COULD FUNCTION AND THAT THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO DETERMINE THE BREAKS BETWEEN TWO PROJECTS MYSELF &OR MORE THAN A YEAR ) HAVE NOT HAD A PROBLEM OF SUCH WORRIES OF WAITING FOR A NEW JOB

$O YOU PLAN TO REMAIN IN "ELGRADE OR ARE YOU WAITING FOR THE CHANCE TO PURSUE YOUR CAREER ELSEWHERE ) HAVE SPENT THE GREATER PART OF MY EDUCATION ABROAD !FTER THE "ALLET 3CHOOL ,UJO $AVIÍO IN "ELGRADE ) CONTINUED MY BALLET EDUCATION IN #ANNES AT THE 2OSELLA (IGHTOWER "ALLET !CADEMY ) STAYED THERE FOR THREE YEARS 4HEN ) ENROLLED IN ACTING SCHOOL IN 0ARIS $URING THAT TIME ) CAME TO KNOW MYSELF AND ) KNEW WHAT ) WANTED TO BECOME ) AM NOT A PERSON WHO ATTACHES ONESELF TOO MUCH TO THE CITIES AND PLACES WHERE ) WORK ) NEED CHANGE !ND THOSE CHANGES ARE THE SOURCE OF MY INSPIRATION ) COULD WORK ANYWHERE ) COULD FEEL REALISED AND HAPPY 4HE GROUP !RIADNA WAS FOUNDED IN ORDER FOR US TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD ) HAVE STARTED TO IMPLEMENT THIS IDEA ALREADY THIS SUMMER 7ITH THE NEW SHOW +ONCERT PO NARUDÝBINI #ONCERT ! LA #ARTE WE HAD A GUEST PERFORMANCE IN 0RAGUE !T THE &ESTIVAL /TVERNO IN (OMOTOVO ) PLAYED THIS MELODRAMA AS A PREMIERE 4HE #ZECH PUBLIC UNDERSTOOD THE WORK OF MY GROUP IN THE RIGHT WAY 7E ACHIEVED GREAT SUCCESS AND WE ALREADY HAVE INVITATIONS FOR OTHER GUEST APPEARANCES ALL AROUND THE

WORLD !S EARLY AS *ULY WE WILL BE GUESTS IN #ROATIA IN (VAR IN 6EÍERI !NTUNA $OBRONIÌA .IGHTS OF !NTUN $ORONIÌ

(OW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAL PROJECT &IRST THE THINGS ) AM DOING NOW ARE IDEAL PROJECTS FOR ME 7ITH THE #ONCERT ! LA #ARTE SHOW ) STARTED A NEW CYCLE OF CREATION )T IS MONO DRAMA WITHOUT WORDS IT IS NOT A PANTOMIME PLAY OR BALLET )T IS A DRAMA PLAY WITH THE STORY HAVING A PLOT TWIST AND AN END &OR THE FIRST TIME

THE AUDIENCE WILL SEE A PLAY WHERE ONLY TWO WORDS ARE SPOKEN WITH A

pê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ²êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê êpê ­êz ±ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ±êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê êÄ ê ê ê ê êh Å­êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ COMPLETELY CLEAR MESSAGE 7E PLAN TWO MORE PLAYS THAT ) WOULD ORGANISE IN A SIMILAR WAY

7HAT ARE YOUR IMMEDIATE PLANS DO YOU HAVE ANY EXCITING PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE )T NOT VERY WELL KNOWN THAT THE GROUP !RIADNA WAS FORMED WITH ONE GOAL AND THAT IS TO FIGHT FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN !LL PLAYS ) WORK ON ARE COVERING THAT TOPIC 7HERE HAS THE DISTURBED BALANCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN BROUGHT US ) DO NOT THINK THAT A WOMAN CAN SIT AT HOME AND COOK LUNCH WHILE THE MAN MAKES MONEY ) DO NOT THINK THAT SHE SHOULD BE QUIET AND BASHFULLY LOOK AT THE FLOOR WHILE HE SPEAKS TO HER )T IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE FEELS LIKE A WOMAN IN EVERYTHING SHE DOES 7OMEN IN THE ROLE OF MEN ARE NOT HAPPY 4HIS TOPIC IS VERY INSPIRING TO ME 4HE OTHER TOPIC ) WOULD LIKE TO DEAL WITH IN FUTURE PROJECTS IS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORDS IN THEATRE PLAYS ) BELONG TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE PROBLEMS CONCENTRATING ON LISTENING AND FOLLOWING A SPEAKER /NCE ) THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A PROBLEM AND ) TRIED TO WORK ON MY CONCENTRA TION ) DONiT DO THAT ANY MORE ) ALWAYS THOUGHT IT MORE INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THE WAY PEOPLE TALK THEIR MOVES AND MIMICS "ASED ON SUCH DETAILS

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4HE LAST DAY OF *UNE IS RESERVED FOR j7EDDINGS 4HEN AND .OWk )N THE $UNðERSKI #ASTLE IN +ULPIN WEDDING TRADITIONS FROM ALL OVER 3ERBIA WILL BE PRESENTED 4HE EVENT WILL INCLUDE A FASHION SHOW OF WEDDING DRESSES AS WELL AS A COMPETITION FOR THE BEST WEDDING CAKE AN EXHIBITION OF TRADITIONAL WEDDING MEALS AND A PARADE OF CEREMONIAL COACHES 4HE FIRST OF *ULY +OVILJ S TRADITIONAL j2AKIJADA $IRGE TO -ULBERRYk WILL BE HELD AT THE LOCAL MONETARY ! RAKIJADA IS OF COURSE A FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO 3ERBIAiS NATIONAL DRINK RAKIJA

s 4HIS RAKIJADA WILL FEATURE A MYRIAD OF 3ERBIAN BARBECUE OR ROpTILJ RAKIJA AND KUVANA RAKIJA A DRINK MADE BY COOKING RAKIJA WITH SUGAR AND WATER 4HERE WILL ALSO BE A PAPRIKASH COOKING AND A CARRIAGE COMPETITION 4HIS FESTIVAL IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET FINE 3ERBIAN RAKIJA AT A REASONABLE PRICE 4HIS YEAR WILL ALSO FEATURE THE FIRST &ILM &ESTIVAL OF 3ERBIA

ORGANISED BY THE &ILM #ENTRE OF 3ERBIA &#3 !S 0RESIDENT OF THE -ANAGING "OARD OF &#3 $RAGAN "JELOGRLIÌ STATED j4HIS FESTIVAL IS INTENDED TO BECOME ONE OF THE BASIC PILLARS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THE REGION k 4HE FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD FROM *ULY THIRD THROUGH THE EIGHTH IN THE 3ERBIAN .ATIONAL 4HEATRE OF .OVI 3AD AND OTHER LOCATIONS AROUND THE CITY 0ROGRAMME DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL $RAGAN *ELIÍIÌ ANNOUNCED THAT FILMS WILL BE IN THE NATIONAL RUNNING FOR THE )BIS AWARD

WHILE WORKS BY %MIR +USTURICA :AVET AND 'ORAN 0ASKALKEVIÌ /PTIMISTS WILL BE SHOWN OUT OF COMPETITION 3EVERAL FILMS WILL PREMIERE AT THE FESTIVAL WHILE EIGHT FILMS WILL BE SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 3ERBIA 4HE &ILM &ESTIVAL OF 3ERBIA WILL NOT BE THE ONLY CHANCE TO SEE WORLD CLASS FILMS IN 6OJVODINA THIS SUMMER 4HE TH ANNUAL %UROPEAN &ILM &ESTIVAL OF 0ALIÌ WILL RUN FROM *ULY TH THROUGH THE ND 4HIS FESTIVAL HAS ALREADY BECOME A TRADITION AND IMPROVES GREATLY FROM YEAR TO YEAR SO WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT 4HE ORGAN IZER OF THIS YEARiS COMPETITION PROGRAMME IS .IKOLAJ .IKITIN EDI TOR IN CHIEF OF THE 'ERMAN FILM MAGAZINE $ER 3CHNITT AND CONVOY OF THE "ERLINAR FOR SOUTHEAST %UROPE 4HE FESTIVAL WILL HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES AND WILL CONTINUE THE CONCEPT STARTED IN .ORWEGIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY WILL BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT THIS YEAR AND THE AUDIENCE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE .ORWAYiS THE NEWEST PRODUCTIONS IN THE .EW .ORWEGIAN &ILM PROGRAMME

WHICH WILL BE ORGANISED BY THE 0ALIÌ &ESTIVAL IN COOPERATION WITH THE .ORWEGIAN &ILM )NSTITUTE .ORSK &ILMINSTITUTT 4HE 9OUNG %UROPEAN &ILM -AKERS PROGRAMME WILL PRESENT THE MODERN FLOWS OF %UROPEAN FILM PRODUCTION WITH THE PROJECTION OF SHORTS FILMS

AS WELL AS SERIES OF CONCERTS BY INVENTIVE ALTERNATIVE GROUPS FROM THE REGION AND ALL OVER %UROPE )N ADDITION TO THE FILMS THEM SELVES FESTIVAL ORGANISERS HAVE ANNOUNCED NUMEROUS EVENTS TO BE HELD IN 0ALIÌ TO MAKE FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE 'UESTS CAN FIND INFORMATION REGARDING ACCOMMODATION WITH THE 4OURIST )NFORMATION #ENTRE IN 3UBOTICA OR AT THE CITYiS WEB SITE WWW PALIC CO YU 6OJVODINA IS ALSO THE HOME TO THE TENTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FOLKLORE j6RpAC S #ORONET RUNNING FROM *ULY TH THROUGH THE TH $URING ITS FESTIVAL 6RpAC IS TRANSFORMED INTO A CITY OF DANCE SONG AND FRIENDSHIP 'ROUPS FROM THE REGION WILL PRESENT THE FOLKLORE OF %AST %UROPE GIVING PARTICIPANTS THE OPPOR TUNITY TO LEARN FOLK SONGS DANCES "ANAT S WEFT NEEDLEWORK AND EVEN BAGPIPES 4HE FESTIVAL WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AN EXHIBITION OF WEAPONS AND LOCAL ETHNIC CULTURE AT THE -UNICIPAL -USEUM 4HAT IS SURELY THE BEST PLACE TO LEARN ABOUT LOCAL CUSTOMS FOR ANY VISITOR TO THE "ALKANS 3/-%4().' &/2 %6%29/.% /F COURSE THERE ARE STILL MANY SMALLER FESTIVALS IN 6OJVODINA /NE SUCH EVENT THE j$ANUBE "ALLk COMBINES CULTURE AND SPORTS 4HE FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD IN "AÍKA 0ALANKA THIS YEAR AND HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED TO START AT THE BEGINNING OF *ULY /N THE PLATEAU IN FRONT OF THE (ALL OF 3PORTS WILL BE A FISH SOUP COMPETITION WHILE THE CENTRAL STAGE WILL HOLD AN ASSEMBLY ON FOLKLORE IN WHICH MANY CULTURAL GROUPS FROM "AÍKA 0ALANKA WILL PARTICIPATE &ROM THE SECOND HALF OF *ULY UNTIL THE END OF !UGUST

"UNJEVO S j$UÝIJANCAk WILL INCLUDE DIFFERENT EVENTS HIGHLIGHT ING "UNJEVOiS CULTURE FOLKLORE AND SPIRITUAL CHARACTER 4HE MAIN ATTRACTION IS PLANNED FOR THE !UGUST EIGHTH WHEN 4AMBOURINE .IGHT WILL BE HELD IN THE CENTRE OF THE CITY 4HERE IS ALSO AN AGRI CULTURAL FESTIVAL )N "AÍKO 0ETROVO 3ELO NEAR "EÍEJ DURING THE TH AND TH OF !UGUST #UCUMBER $AYS WILL BE HELD 4HESE DAYS ARE DEDICATED

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CHILDREN S PAINTING LITERATURE WORKS SPORTS AND GAMES AND COOK ING 4HIS EVENT HAS BECOME QUITE POPULAR OVER THE YEARS AND NOW ATTRACTS A LARGE NUMBER OF GUESTS BOTH FROM 3ERBIA AND ABROAD )N *ULY TWO BOSTANIJADA MELON FESTIVAL WILL RUN IN HONOUR OF THE WATERMELON 4HE FIRST WILL BE IN fApINCI ON *ULY TH WHILE THE SECOND IN îURðEVO WILL RUN THROUGHOUT THE MONTH %ACH YEAR AT THE BOSTANIJADA THERE ARE COMPETITIONS FOR THE BEST MELON MAN HE WHO GREW THE BIGGEST AND SWEETEST MELON 4HERE WILL ALSO BE COMPETITIONS OF SHACK BUILDING BEÌAR PAPRIKASH COOKING WHIP HANDLING AND SCARECROW MAKING /THER EVENTS OF INTEREST INCLUDE THE MAKING LANTERNS FROM PUMPKINS AS WELL AS STRUDEL WITH POPPY SEEDS OR WALNUTS WHICH HARD WORKING HOUSEWIVES BRING TO MELON MEN FROM TIME TO TIME *ULY AND !UGUST WILL SEE AN ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL HELD IN 0ETROVARADIN A MUNICIPALITY OF .OVI 3AD 4HE TWO MONTH FESTIVAL WILL BE ORGANISED BY THE YOUTH ATRIUM OF THE #HURCH OF 3T *URIJ AND WILL COMPRISE MANY CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS 4HE SECOND j2EGATTA OF #APTAINS OF THE $ANUBEk WILL START ON FOURTH AND WILL LAST UNTIL THE TENTH OF !UGUST 4HIS FESTIVAL PROMOTES TOURISM ON THE $ANUBE AND ITS BANKS 3HIPS WILL CRUISE THE RIVER FROM .OVI 3AD TO "EZDAN VIA &UTOG "AÍKA 0ALANKA AND 0LAVNA !NOTHER IMPORTANT TOURIST ATTRACTION IS "ELA #RKVAiS ANNUAL CONTEST TO CATCH ITS LEGENDARY CATFISH j"ESIk 4HE EVENT IS KNOWN

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ANY OF US BE WE LONG TIME RESIDENTS OR NEWCOMERS TO "ELGRADE FAVOUR SHOPPING AT +ALENIÌ MARKET FOR ITS VARIETY OF FRESH PRODUCE VAST SELECTION OF CHEESES AND HONEY HANDICRAFTS AND IMPORTED GOODIES 3TROLLING ALONG OR BEING JOSTLED ALONG THROUGH THE MARKET DEPENDING ON THE DAY AND TIME WE SHOP IS AN ADVENTURE AND SERENDIPITY WAITS AT NEARLY EVERY TURN "UT THE ADVENTURE DOESNiT STOP AT THE MARKET FOR THE SUR ROUNDING AREA IS STILL HOST TO FAST DISAPPEARING ARTISAN SHOPS

WHICH ARE SOON TO BE RAZED TO MAKE WAY FOR HIGH RISE APARTMENTS

OFFICE BUILDINGS OR GARAGES 4HE NEXT TIME YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THIS PART OF TOWN WANDER A LITTLE FURTHER AWAY FROM THE MARKET DOWN THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CONSTANTLY BUSY -AXIM 'ORKY 3TREET AND KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR !LEKSANDAR fTERIÌiS CANDLE SHOP JUST ACROSS FROM A SMALL PARK )F YOU CANiT READ THE jБОСКАРk CANDLE MAKER SIGNS YOUiLL RECOGNISE IT BY THE MANY CANDLES DISPLAYED IN THE WINDOW $ONiT BE PUT OFF BY THE DRAB EXTERIOR YOUiLL BE DAZZLED BY THE ARRAY AND VARIETY OF COLOURFUL CANDLES INSIDE RANGING FROM THREE INCH BIRTHDAY CANDLES TO METRE LONG WEDDING CANDLES !ND LADIES HE EVEN PRODUCES AN ALL NATURAL DEPILATORY WAX ,IKE MANY REMAINING CRAFTSMEN OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY IN THE 3ERBIAN CAPITAL !LEKSANDARiS OLD "ELGRADE FAMILY HAS BEEN IN THE BUSINESS FOR OVER SEVENTY YEARS (IS GRANDFATHERiS CANDLE MASTER DIPLOMA PROUDLY HANGS ON ONE WALL A MEMENTO TO AN ERA WHEN SUCH PROFESSIONALS HAD TO PASS RIGOROUS EXAMS TO CALL THEMSELVES MASTER CRAFTSMEN j-Y FATHER ACTUALLY FINISHED VOCATIONAL SCHOOL TO BE AN ELEC TRICIAN BUT THEN DECIDED TO SAVE GRANDPAiS SHOP AND TOOK IT OVER k EXPLAINS !LEKSANDAR SIPPING HIS 4URKISH COFFEE j4HE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME )iM LICENSED TO WORK AS A VETERINARY ASSISTANT

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ESPECIALLY DURING OUR BUSIEST TIMES k !LEKSANDAR POINTS TO A SELECTION OF LARGE BEESWAX CANDLES AND THEIR FRILLY PAPER CUFFED HOLDERS j4HESE ARE SOME OF OUR SLAVA SAINTiS DAY CANDLES j-OST SAINTSi DAYS FALL IN THE WINTER MONTHS SO THATiS WHEN WEiRE REALLY BUSY 7E START TO MAKE THE CANDLES IN 3EPTEMBER OR /CTOBER WHEN THE WEATHER GETS A BIT COOLER 7E MAKE ENOUGH TO LAST THE WHOLE SEASON !CTUALLY WE DO OTHER CANDLES THEN TOO AND MAKE MORE LATER ON ACCORDING TO NEED k ) FINISH MY COFFEE AND ASK THE OBVIOUS QUESTION j*UST WHY SHOULD SOMEONE BUY A CRAFTSMANiS CANDLES RATHER THAN THE MASS PRODUCED TYPE k j&OR THE MOST PART AT LEAST HERE IN 3ERBIA ITiS A QUESTION OF PRIDE AND QUALITY ) USE ONLY THE FINEST INGREDIENTS REAL

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HIS SELECTION j) HAVE TO COMPLIMENT YOU ON YOUR CANDLES k HE SAYS TO !LEKSANDAR ON HIS WAY OUT j-Y FATHER USED TO BRING ME HERE WHEN ) WAS SMALL TO BUY BIRTHDAY CANDLES (E WAS ALWAYS SATISFIED AND SO AM ) k j)TiS FAITHFUL CUSTOMERS LIKE THAT WHO KEEP ME GOING k COM MENTS !LEKSANDAR j4HIS WHOLE BLOCK IS SCHEDULED FOR DEMOLI TION AND BUSINESS OWNERS UNLIKE APARTMENT DWELLERS ARE NOT GUARANTEED A NEW LOCATION )iM NOT SURE WHAT )iLL DO k HE SIGHS j!ND THEREiS THE FACT THAT SINCE THE EARLY h S BUSINESS HAS BEEN DWINDLING ANYWAY -OST PEOPLE WILL JUST BUY WHATiS CHEAPER MOST DONiT CARE SO MUCH ANYMORE FOR QUALITY 4HE INFLUX OF #HINESE MERCHANDISE HAS REALLY HURT TOO )N THE LATE h S THERE WERE TEN CANDLE SHOPS LIKE MINE .OW THERE ARE ONLY THREE 9OU KNOW JUST ACROSS THE PARK LIES WHAT "ELGRADERS CALL 0EYTON 0LACE

A LITTLE ASSEMBLY OF SHOPS WHERE OTHER CRAFTSMEN AND SMALL BUSI NESSES ARE LOCATED 4HAT TOO IS TO BE TORN DOWN DESPITE THE CRAFTS MENiS PROTESTS AND AN OUTCRY FROM OTHER CITIZENS 7HY CANiT THE CITY JUST RENOVATE THAT AREA TO MAKE A REAL ARTISAN CENTRE k 7ITH A WRY SMILE HE JESTS j)T SEEMS LIKE CANDLE MAKERS ARENiT THE ONLY ONES BEING hSNUFFED OUTi k ) TAKE LEAVE OF !LEKSANDAR WHO HAS GRACIOUSLY GIVEN ME A CANDLE OF MY CHOICE A YELLOW DUCK MODELLED AFTER AN OLD FASH IONED CHILDRENiS TOY HEiD ONCE HAD !T THE CORNER ) TURN AROUND AND TRY TO ENVISION THE HIGH RISES THAT MAY SOON ENGULF THIS ENTIRE BLOCK ALONG WITH 0EYTON 0LACE AND HOPE THAT SOMEHOW FATE WILL INTERVENE SO THAT "ELGRADEiS CITIZENS WONiT HAVE TO HOLD A CANDLE LIT VIGIL TO MOURN THE DEMISE OF A PIECE OF LOCAL HISTORY

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Painter and designer Jelena Blečić was born in 1974. She is member of ULUS and a scholarship graduate of Mexico. To date she has staged 10 independent exhibitions and this month CorD presents her latest works.

World famous cosmetics company Avon engaged Jelena to design a fashion collection for them, which was presented this year during the Avon fashion show.

Mercedes-Benz organised a Life Style campaign for their A Class cars, and was among others commissioning Jelena to present new paintings and signed furniture. Wallpaper, tables, bench, shelves…even the A class Mercedes-Benz covered in foil with a tracing from Jelena’s paintings. This exhibition will visit other cities, beginning with Novi Sad on 5th July.

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4HIS EMPHASIS WAS PARTICULARLY EVIDENT WHEN HE SPOKE OF HIS YEAR LONG APPRENTICESHIP WITH A *APANESE CHEF +ABASAWA WHILST AT )KKI 5NDER HIS TUTELAGE +AMENAROVIÌ LEARNT MANY OF THE PRES ENTATIONAL TRICKS AND TECHNIQUES THAT HE APPLIES TO HIS COOKING NOWADAYS +ABASAWA TAUGHT HIM TO hDOODLE ON THE PLATEi AND IT IS THIS ARTISTIC ELEMENT TO THE CUISINE WHICH HE AIMS TO hACHIEVE WITH EVERY DISHi THAT SO FASCINATES HIM AND RAISES SUSHI TO THE LEVEL OF AN ART FORM 3!#2)&)#%3 &/2 !. !24 +AMENAROVIC ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE BECAME A CHEF BY CHANCE

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IMPRESSED BY THE PASSION AND COMMITMENT OF THE YOUNG INEXPERIENCED 3ERBIAN PLAYERS THEY CAME UP AGAINST )N AN EFFORT TO PROMOTE RUGBY LEAGUE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FURTHER IN 3ERBIA LAW COMPANY (ARRISONS 3OLICITORS HAS ESTABLISHED THE (ARRISONS 2UGBY ,EAGUE #HALLENGE 4ROPHY WHICH WILL BE COMPETED FOR ANNUALLY BY YOUNG RUGBY LEAGUE TEAMS FROM 3ERBIA AND THE 5+ 4HE WINNERS OF THIS YEARiS INAUGURAL TROPHY WERE THE (ILLSBOROUGH (AWKS 3PEAKING TO #OR$ ABOUT THE DECISION TO ESTABLISH THE TROPHY -ARK (ARRISON 0RINCIPAL OF (ARRISONS 3OLICITORS IN "ELGRADE SAYS j7E ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP ANYTHING WHICH ENCOURAGES SPORTING RELATIONS BETWEEN 3ERBIA AND %NGLAND AND DELIGHTED THAT THIS TROPHY WILL ADDITION ALLY ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUGBY LEAGUE IN 3ERBIA k

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HAS WON THE TITLE FIVE TIMES .OW OUR PRIORITY IS TO DEVELOP YOUTH RUGBY LEAGUE HERE 4HIS YEAR WE HAVE ESTABLISHED TWO NEW TEAMS m 2ED 3TAR "ELGRADE AND 0ODBARA .OVI 3AD m AND EARLIER THIS YEAR WE HELD A MINI TOUR NAMENT IN "ELGRADE THAT SAW SOME YOUNGSTERS COMPETE 2IGHT NOW WE ARE HOSTING THE FIRST 5NDER %UROPEAN .ATIONiS #UP WITH TEAMS INCLUD ING 3ERBIA 3COTLAND %NGLAND 2USSIA &RANCE AND THE %URO #ELTS j7E ARE VERY THANKFUL FOR THE SUPPORT CURRENTLY BEING OFFERED BY (ARRISONS 3OLICITORS AND ) WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ANY OTHER COMPANIES INTER ESTED IN FURTHER SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUGBY LEAGUE IN 3ERBIA

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TANT PART IN INTERNATIONAL SPORTS 3ERBIA CONTRIBUTED TO THIS PHE NOMENON BY ENSURING THE LONG TERM SUCCESS OF A SMALL COUNTRY IN TEAM SPORTS m SUCCESS WHICH LED TO GOLD MEDALS WON AT %UROPEAN AND 7ORLD #HAMPIONSHIPS AS WELL AS THE /LYMPIC 'AMES AND TURNED THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA INTO A SUPERPOWER OF SPORTS LIKE BASKETBALL VOLLEYBALL HANDBALL AND WATER POLO 4HE COLLAPSE OF 9UGOSLAVIA MERELY SERVED TO CONFIRM THE THEORY THAT ATHLETIC EXCELLENCE CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED IN PROSPEROUS WELL ORGANISED SOCIETIES 3ERBIA HAS BEEN RESTING ON ITS LAURELS FOR QUITE A WHILE WITH AN OCCASIONAL VICTORY HERE AND THERE BUT THIS WASNiT ENOUGH FOR IT TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS OF A SPORTING SUPERPOWER THAT THE COUNTRYiS SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN ONCE ENJOYED

p Ø êl &AILURES KEPT ACCUMULATING AND THE FINAL BLOW TO THE SELF CONFIDENCE OF THE NATION WAS STRUCK BY THE BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE VERY CENTRE OF "ELGRADE NO LESS 4HE TEAM WAS DEVASTATED AS HOST OF THE %UROPEAN #HAMPIONSHIP AND THIS WAS REGARDED AS A TRAGEDY OF NATIONAL PROPORTIONS 4HE FANS SUNK INTO DEPRESSION AS THEY WATCHED A TEAM WHICH HAD BEEN THE PRIDE OF THE NATION FOR SEVERAL DECADES SUDDENLY DETHRONED IN THE MOST HUMILIATING WAY !S IF THIS WASNiT ENOUGH THE HANDBALL TEAM ALSO FAILED TO RECLAIM ITS INTERNATIONAL TITLES AND THUS IT WAS LEFT TO THE VOLLEYBALL AND WATER POLO TEAMS TO DEFEND THE HONOUR OF 3ERBIAN TEAM SPORTS

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WELCOME TO CAPITALISM 4HIS MEANT THE END OF AN ERA FOR 3ERBIAN PLAYERS NO MORE FREE TRAININGS NO MORE STATE FUNDING NO MORE POLITICAL SELECTION YOU HAD TO MAKE YOUR OWN WAY TO THE INTER NATIONAL MARKET AND SHOW EVERYONE THAT YOU ARE MADE OF GETTING THERE /F COURSE ITiS EASY TO CELEBRATE THEIR CURRENT SUCCESSES

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ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ ELITE SPORTS -AYBE WE COULD EXPECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OTHER SPORTS WHICH 7HEN DISAPPOINTMENT HAD REACHED THE HIGHEST LEVEL RELIEF DONiT NEED THAT MUCH FINANCING BUT THAT MAKES THE TENNIS VIC CAME FROM AN ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED SOURCE 3ERBIAN ATHLETES BEGAN TORIES ALL THE MORE MYSTERIOUS AND SIGNIFICANT *ELENA *ANKOVIÌ WINNING IN INDIVIDUAL SPORTS )T WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY RECENTLY SAID THAT SHE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACHIEVED AS MUCH IF SHEiD THAT NO ONE EXPECTED THIS SINCE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF INDIVIDUAL HAD IDEAL TRAINING CONDITIONS !NA )VANOVIÌ ADDED THAT SHE USED PLAYERS HAVE BEEN MORE OF AN EXCEPTION THAN A RULE HERE )N FACT TO PRACTICE IN AN EMPTY POOL DURING WINTER BECAUSE THERE WAS NO THE EXPECTATIONS WERE SO LOW THAT SPORTS COMMENTATORS IN AN BALLOON !NYHOW WHEN FACING THEIR OPPONENTS THE ONLY THING THAT EFFORT NOT TO SOUND PATHETIC BEGAN HAILING EVERY SMALL VICTORY AS IF MATTERS IS WHO CAN HIT THE BALL HARDEST )F YOU MAKE A MISTAKE NO IT WAS AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT *OKES ON THE SUBJECT RAN FOR YEARS

OR TEAM MEMBERS WILL SUPPORT YOU AND YOU CANiT BLAME jTHE AMAZING TH PLACE OF OUR CONTESTANT THE INCREDIBLE ACHIEVE SHODDY TEAMWORK FOR YOUR LOSS MENT OF OUR CONTESTANT WHO MANAGED TO SECURE TH PLACEk m AND HAVE BECOME A PART OF 3ERBIAN SOCIAL HUMOUR INDIVIDUAL SPORTS HAD BECOME MORE OF AN OBJECT OF RIDICULE THAN A TRIUMPHANT SPORT ING ACTIVITY !LTHOUGH THEY WERE SOMEWHAT UNEXPECTED THE GREAT VICTORIES OF 3ERBIAiS YOUNG TENNIS STARS CHAMPION SWIMMERS EVEN THE GUYS WHO FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE THRESHOLD OF &ORMULA MAY HAVE A RATIONAL EXPLANATION 4HE PERIOD OF DOMINANCE OF THE TEAM SPORTS TOOK PLACE IN A DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEM WHICH WAS BASED ON THE IDEA OF BUILDING TEAM SPIRIT AND ALL RESOURCES WERE POURED INTO SPORTING CLUBS AND UNIONS !FTER THE POLITICAL CHANGES TOOK PLACE THE ENTIRE SPORTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FELL APART AND THIS IS WHERE WE SHOULD SEARCH FOR THE REASON FOR THE FAILURE OF TEAM SPORTS 3PORTING UNIONS WERE GOVERNED BY POLITICIANS FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME DURING THE STRICT COMMUNIST PERIOD THEY MANAGED TO TAKE CARE OF THE SECTOR WHICH WAS ENTRUSTED TO THEM AND THIS LED TO SOME POSITIVE RESULTS SIMI LAR EX COMMUNIST COUNTRIES ALSO PROFITED IN THIS MANNER !FTER -ILOpEVIÌ CAME TO POWER POLITICIANS TOOK CONTROL OF SPORTS ONCE AGAIN BUT THIS TIME THE MANAGEMENT WAS LESS QUALI FIED AND UNSKILLED CORRUPTION AND GREED TOOK ITS TOLL ON SPORT ING ORGANISATIONS AND THE DECLINE OF TEAM SPORTS SUBSEQUENTLY BEGAN 4HE 'ENERATION COMING OF AGE AT THE TIME DIDNiT HAVE MUCH CHOICE 4HEY COULD EITHER DEPEND ON THEIR OWN RESOURCES OR TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN AN ENVIRONMENT GOVERNED BY CARELESSNESS AND GREED 4HE GENERATION OF TENNIS PLAYERS .OVAK îOKOVIÌ *ELENA *ANKOVIÌ !NA )VANOVIÌ OR THE SWIMMER -ILORAD ©AVIÌ WERE MOSTLY LEFT TO THEIR OWN RESOURCES BECAUSE THE STATE HAD OTHER

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