This Week (May 20 -27, 1998)

Thursday, 21 May 1998:
Belgrade - An Air Bosnia passenger jet landed at Belgrade airport for the first time since the end of the war in Bosnia.
Belgrade - Milo Djukanovic and Svetozar Marovic met with patriarch Pavle.
Pristina - A MIG-21 jet fighter went down near Pristina. The pilot safely ejected himself from the aircraft.

Friday, May 22:
Belgrade - The Yugoslav Army General Staff wants amendments to the law on army service to bring the age limit from 21 to 19, the weekly Vojska writes.
Belgrade - The average April wage in Serbia is 1,050 dinars.

Saturday, May 23:
Belgrade - Rail traffic from Belgrade to Zurich and Munich via Zagreb and Ljubljana reopens after seven years. The first ferry since 1991 arrives from Kotor to Dubrovnik.

Sunday, May 24:
Pristina - Around 1,000 ethnic Albanians rally in the city center to protest against Serbian and Yugoslav authorities. The 45th protest walk was incident free, and no police could be seen on the streets.

Monday, May 25:
Belgrade - The Yugoslav Constitutional Court rejects an appeal by the Montenegrin Democratic Party of Socialists on a no-confidence vote to Radoje Kontic's federal government.
Belgrade - A rally called "For free media and the autonomy of Belgrade University" was held in the city center by the Democratic Party, the Civil Alliance of Serbia, the DHSS, the Serbian Liberal Party and the NRS. Some 2,000 citizens turned up.

Tuesday, May 26:
Belgrade - The ANEM asked the Yugoslav Constitutional Court to judge the regime's decision to charge extra fees for radio frequencies and television channels.

Wednesday, May 27:
Belgrade - The coach of the Yugoslav national basketball team announced the provisional squad for the Yugoslav "dream team" taking part in this summer's World Cup in Athens.
 

Words and Facts

Momir Bulatovic after being elected federal prime minister: "I shall return to Montenegro immediately to carry on with my election campaign".

The Yugoslav Constitution: "A federal government deputy can't perform any other public or professional duty".

Milan Milutinovic in Novi Sad on May 23: "We have got three times the amount of food we need".
Vojislav Stankovic, an associate of the Foreign Trade Institute, says that we have imported 214.4 million dollars' worth of food in the first four months of 1998 and exported 125.8 million dollars' worth in the same period. There is no sugar, and no oil or Yugoslav-made cigarettes in Serbian shops. Milk can be bought only early in the morning.