BELGRADE, June 1 (Hina) - A Yugoslav government commission for cooperation with the Peace Implementation Council on Friday adopted an agreement on succession to the former Yugoslav federation, initialled in Vienna last week. Deputy
Prime Minister Miroljub Labos told reporters in Belgrade he was confident the agreement "sheds new light on the difficult war damage issue... it is no longer on the agenda." The head of a Yugoslav delegation which took part in the Vienna negotiations, Dobroslav Mitrovic, said today that only five embassy buildings of the former federation had to be divided within six months of the adoption of the succession agreement. It has already been agreed as to how this will be done. Croatia will get the embassy building in Paris, Yugoslavia a residence in the French capita, while Macedonia gets a consulate. Slovenia gets the embassy building in Washington and Bosnia-Herzegovina the one in London.
BELGRADE, June 1 (Hina) - A Yugoslav government commission for
cooperation with the Peace Implementation Council on Friday
adopted an agreement on succession to the former Yugoslav
federation, initialled in Vienna last week.
Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labos told reporters in Belgrade he
was confident the agreement "sheds new light on the difficult war
damage issue... it is no longer on the agenda."
The head of a Yugoslav delegation which took part in the Vienna
negotiations, Dobroslav Mitrovic, said today that only five
embassy buildings of the former federation had to be divided within
six months of the adoption of the succession agreement. It has
already been agreed as to how this will be done.
Croatia will get the embassy building in Paris, Yugoslavia a
residence in the French capita, while Macedonia gets a consulate.
Slovenia gets the embassy building in Washington and Bosnia-
Herzegovina the one in London.
"All successor countries have priority" in the division of the
remaining 221 offices and flats," whose total value Mitrovic
estimated at $260 million.
Deputy PM Labus said Yugoslavia would get 38 percent of the former
federation's assets abroad, including $70 million in gold, $307
million in frozen assets, and about $645 million stored in mixed-
ownership banks, as well as clearing funds.
According to Mitrovic, tenancy and other acquired rights which the
former federation' citizens had on 31 Dec. 1990 must be respected
and returned to owners even if they gained citizenship or residence
in a country other than that in which the property is located after
said date.
Mitrovic singled out the case of the Jugobanka building in
Dubrovnik, Croatia, whose attempted sale he said "is contrary to
the (succession) agreement."
He said retired people would get pensions from the state they reside
in.
Speaking about the cultural heritage, Mitrovic said a demand by
some successors to be given the works of authors born on their
territory had been turned down. A list of such works will be
compiled in the next two years.
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