Ten primary tasks awaiting Slobodan Milosevic as president of the FR of Yugoslavia

1. Successor: The choice of a successor for the position of president of Serbia. A difficult task as the massive power of the president of Serbia needs to be bestowed upon a dependable and weak man who will not turn his back upon his mentor tomorrow. An even better solution would be to adapt the constitution of Serbia to the federal one.

2. Strengthening the federation: The unstable position of president of the federal state needs to be stabilized by Milosevic, and in that sense a change in the constitution has already been proposed. In order to rule in the manner he had become accustomed to, he needs to change the civil servant system to the presidential one. To establish the stability of his power and evade all traps and dangers which arise from the elements of a confederal order! To discipline Montenegro.

3. The left coalition: Strengthening SPS and regulating the relations inside the left coalition. The problem is - how to satisfy the aspirations of his coalition partners and prevent clashes between the partners at the same time clipping the establishment of fractions inside SPS at the root.

4. Privatization: Privatization of the public companies shall be put on the agenda as re-allocation of economic power inside the state, and it is inevitable that the new managers shall demonstrate political aspirations as well.

5. Dayton agreement: To become legitimate in the eyes of the entire world as the only guarantor of peace, to discipline the Serbs in Bosnia, to resolve relations with the Serbian Republic, i.e. Bosnian Serbs, problem of collaboration with The Hague tribunal.

6. Army and police: Installing confidential people in key positions, professionalizing the Army of Yugoslavia and strengthening the authorities of the federal Ministry of Internal Affairs.

7. Criminal activities: Combating one type of pathology, also a chance to expropriate the capital of the nouveau riche.

8. Media: Monopoly of the electronic media shall be strengthened by clamping down local television stations, however as freedom of speech is a civilizational achievement without which Yugoslavia is doomed to remain isolated, we can expect a gradual weakening of repression over the media.

9. Normalization: Establishing normal relations with our neighbors, former republics of the joint state. Primarily normalization with Croatia and regulating the status of the Serbs in that country, i.e. resolving the issues of more than half a million refugees.

10. Money: Integration into the international financial and political institutions. Procuring access to the international financial markets as a pre-condition without which there is no economic recovery. To find a way out of the diplomatic isolation in which the current Yugoslavia has found itself and its inclusion in the international community (OUN, OSCE...).

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