BELGRADE, Jan 19 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has said the transfer of authority on the federal level would take place in February but that it is questionable whether decision-makers in Belgrade and Podgorica will be
interested in the survival of the joint state at all.
BELGRADE, Jan 19 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has
said the transfer of authority on the federal level would take place
in February but that it is questionable whether decision-makers in
Belgrade and Podgorica will be interested in the survival of the
joint state at all. #L#
In an interview with Belgrade's "Vecernje novosti" daily of Sunday,
Kostunica pointed to the fact that the status of the Yugoslav Army's
property would not be defined by a constitutional law on the
implementation of a constitutional charter regulating relations in
the future state community but by laws that would be passed later.
He remarked that "everything is beginning to look like a marriage
that is being entered for the sake of divorce," as the joint
property "is already being divided". The constitutional charter
and the law on its implementation already include an agreement on
succession which former Yugoslav republics have not yet resolved,
Kostunica said.
The Yugoslav president also commented on a statement by the
president of the Vojvodina Assembly, Nenad Canak, who stated that
Kostunica's and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's support
for writer Dobrica Cosic not to testify in the trial of former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague was
"scandalous".
Kostunica accused what he described as "so-called liberal circles
in the country, media and non-government organisations" of "having
campaigned for years to prove what cannot be proved - that there is
no difference between Serbia and Nazi Germany".
"Attempts are therefore made to identify and make up the creator of
'Serbian Nazism'. The Bible of 'Serbian Nazism' has already been
found in, as is known, the so-called Memorandum of the SANU (Serbian
Academy of Science and Art). As Canak has already shown - it was also
necessary to proclaim Milosevic Cosic's 'best student'," Kostunica
said.
Cosic is a great writer who at the time he was at the helm of the state
tried to act in a democratic manner and initiated many peace
campaigns, said Kostunica.
(hina) rml