Week In Review, July 9 - July 15, 1998

Thursday, July 9
Pristina.  Patrols of diplomatic observers, made up of diplomats from USA, Russia, Holland, Belgium and Great Britain, began surveying Kosovo.  Members of the mission went on patrol in armored vehicles, while some wore bullet-proof vests.
Belgrade.  Several thousand metal workers from Rakovica blocked access to the capital, while around five thousand pensioners demonstrated in front of the parliament building of the Government of Serbia because of irregular pension payments.
Krapisnka Toplica.  The foremost exponent of the Zagreb school of cartoon films and recipient of an Oscar Award (1961) for the film Surogate, Dusan Vukotic passed away at the age of 71.

Friday, July 10
Copenhagen.  OEBS Parliamentary Assembly proposed the implementation of economic sanctions against Yugoslavia which would be in effect until repression stops in Kosovo.
Bon.  Christopher Hill, American Ambassador to Macedonia, received a mandate from the Contact Group to conduct actions in the name of all international mediators which, up to now, he only conducted for the USA.
Belgrade.  Federal Government finalized the Draft of the Agreement between Yugoslavia and Croatia on a permanent solution to the territorial question of Prevlaka.  The Government of Serbia adopted a package of measures which limit the import of widely used goods.

Saturday, July 11
Belgrade.  Patriarch Pavle gave the first order Decoration of St. Sava to representatives of Military Medical Center “Novi Sad”.  This is the first award given to a military institution by the Serbian Orthodox Church in the past fifty years.

Sunday, July 12
Paris.  France becomes world leader in soccer after beating Brazil in the final match of the World Cup in Soccer with a score of 3:0.

Monday, July 13
Belgrade.  Thirty-two percent of those questioned in a poll conducted by “Mark Plan Agency” think that Josip Broz Tito was the greatest Yugoslav statesman of the Twentieth Century.
Bruxelles.  Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union agreed that Montenegro should receive aid in the amount of five million Ecus, with the objective of supporting democratic, political, and economic reforms being implemented by the government in that republic.

Tuesday, July 14
Vrnjacka Banja.  The Community Assembly proclaimed Slobodan Milosevic as its honorary citizen.
Belgrade.  The OEBS Mission arrived in Yugoslavia on a seven-day visit with the objective of examining the possibility of Yugoslavia’s return to OEBS, of negotiating Filipe Gonzales’ visit in the nearest future, as well as of negotiating operations of permanent OEBS missions in Kosovo, Sandzak, and Vojvodina.

Wednesday, July 15
New York.  The Security Council adopted a resolution demanding that Croatia and Yugoslavia begin resolving differences without further delay.
Vojislav Seselj, Vice-President of the Government of Serbia: “After all, why would people who are retired want to go on strike?”
According to Borislav Milacic, Minister of Finance in the Government of Serbia, the reason why is that April’s pensions were not paid out even in July, “there is no money in the budget.”