SUPETAR, June 4 (Hina) - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro should cooperate to help throw the Belgrade regime, as there will be no peace in south eastern Europe without the
removal of Slobodan Milosevic's totalitarian regime. This was the conclusion of a two-day international symposium on strategies of NGOs' work, which ended in Supetar on the Croatian island of Brac on Sunday. The replacement of Milosevic's totalitarian regime with a new system that can initiate a process of democratisation in Serbia is the basic pre-condition for peace and progress also in neighbouring countries, said representatives of NGO at a news conference after the end of the symposium. Representatives of Serbia's NGOs - "Resistance (Otpor") and Belgrade's Circle ("Beogradski Krug") - Bosnian "Circle 99" and Croatia's association for research of transition
SUPETAR, June 4 (Hina) - Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro should
cooperate to help throw the Belgrade regime, as there will be no
peace in south eastern Europe without the removal of Slobodan
Milosevic's totalitarian regime.
This was the conclusion of a two-day international symposium on
strategies of NGOs' work, which ended in Supetar on the Croatian
island of Brac on Sunday.
The replacement of Milosevic's totalitarian regime with a new
system that can initiate a process of democratisation in Serbia is
the basic pre-condition for peace and progress also in neighbouring
countries, said representatives of NGO at a news conference after
the end of the symposium.
Representatives of Serbia's NGOs - "Resistance (Otpor") and
Belgrade's Circle ("Beogradski Krug") - Bosnian "Circle 99" and
Croatia's association for research of transition towards democracy
(ToD), held the news conference.
The leader of Belgrade's Circle, Obrad Savic asserted that NGOs
must organise "a front against the current Serbian state what it
looks like now ".
We must undermine the sovereignty of that police state and launch
the rebellion of the civil society so that Serbia can begin the
process of democratisation and reintegrate into Europe, he added.
Dean Randjic, an activist of the Resistance that has been calling on
citizens to exercise civil disobedience since the autumn 1998,
informed that the movement grew stronger despite the regime's
boosted repression. The Resistance is in favour of non-violent
methods and is trying to educate citizens to take more resolute
actions, he explained.
The ToD president, Bogdan Denic said the NGO, convened in Supetar,
advocated the idea of the scandinavisation of the Balkans, which
implies that sovereign states will have unchangeable but soft
borders. Denic urged the Croatian Government to help the democratic
opposition in Serbia by liberalising entry visas for opposition
intellectuals and politicians who would like to visit Croatia and
by promoting stronger cultural cooperation.
The Circle 99 head, Esad Bajtal, appealed on Bosnian NGOs to
cooperate and oppose nationalists who cooperate among themselves
in order to maintain their rule in Bosnia.
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