News of the day

Thursday, 26 November: Colonel-General Momcilo Perisic, the former head of the Yugoslav Army General Staff, says he was sacked in an "inappropriate and illegal manner".
"I have refused the offered imaginary post in the federal government. I remain at the disposal of the army, the people and the state", Perisic said.

Friday, November 27: Nebojsa Radosevic, 32, and Vladimir Dobricic, 50, were released from KLA captivity with the mediation of international organizations. The two reporters of the Tanjug news agency were abducted by the illegal Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on October 18. Radosevic and Dobricic were met by William Walker, the head of the OSCE verifying mission in Kosovo.

Saturday, November 28: Retail prices in Yugoslavia have increased by 41.3 percent since the beginning of the year, the federal statistics bureau said last Friday.

Sunday, November 29: Yugoslavia won the silver medal at the 14th World Volleyball Championship in Japan.

Tuesday, December 1: The national independence day of the former Yugoslavia and the country's 80th anniversary were marked in Belgrade at the Sava Center

Wednesday, December 2: Nenad Djordjevic, the former JUL vice-president and director of the Serbian Health Insurance Fund, is sentenced to two years of imprisonment.
 
 

Quotes

THE STATEMENT OF THE WEEK:
"The state of health in our country is on a much higher level than we expected."
Leposava Milicevic, the positively surprised Minister of Health (for 'Radio Yugoslavia')

LJUBISA RISTIC, President of the Yugoslav Left, explained to listeners of 'Radio Beograd' why we escaped the air strikes: "They realized that they could not make any progress by bombing, and therefore, did not attack us. They would have definitely done so, if only they had thought it would have contributed to their own interests." (the show, 'An argument more')

ZIVORAD IGIC, member of the Head Committee of SPS (The Socialist Party of Serbia), speaking of Kosovo: "There is no such country in the world which kneels before its citizens and prays for their own contribution to the government, to vote and to be voted, to suggest and to have influence on others' suggestions." (Jagodina television station, 'Palma Plus')

SMILJA AVRAMOV, professor of International Law at the School of Law: "The celebration of November 29th has no legitimacy at all - it is only an absurdity for compromising ourselves before the entire world association. It is actually an attempt of a group to impose on this country the old, 'Brozian' identity - which ought to be fought against energetically - since it is, apart from other things, a hindrance for returning into the world." ('Novosti')