Issue 31 - April 27, 1992

Serbs are being prepared for evacuation, the Albanians are making food supplies

The VREME reporter witnesses the negotiations between Lord Carrington and the national leaders

A book entitled "The New Europe" was promoted last Tuesday in Belgrade. Professor Mihailo Crnobrnja, the Yugoslav ambassador to the EC was the sub-editor of the book.

At the beginning of April the acting Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Milovoje Maksic, drew up an analysis - "The International Position of Yugoslavia and Possible Directions for our Involvement". This sketch, as is written in the analysis, "has the aim of simplifying the appraisal of our actual position in a changed environment and of pointing out certain moves and directions which offer greater chances of overcoming the danger and risks we are exposed to".

Aside from the atmosphere of a lynch of Hungarians which has been stirred up, and a call for a "general mobilization of national potentials", supported by the digging of trenches along Vojvodina's northern border, an important question still remains unanswered: what do the Hungarians really want?

Announcement of a general strike in Radio Television Belgrade uncovers pathological state of the Serbian Government

Along with commerce, finance, health, education, culture, on Milosevic's list of unnecessary things was found foreign policy. It seemed to him that the army and police were sufficient to satisfy all his needs. As a matter of fact, he had no intention of occupying himself much with the outside world, but it began to occupy itself with him

Serbia is not at war, the Serbian government claims, but the fact remains that it had entered this non-existent war with "ill" finances