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FTER READING THE ABOVE IT CAME TO MY MIND THAT IT WAS INEVITABLE FOR ME TO MAKE AN EVALUATION OF THE ALMOST TWO YEARS OF MY LIFE IN "ELGRADE

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WHILST OCCUPYING MYSELF WITH THAT PROCESS ) SOON REALISED THAT ) HAD TO FACE CERTAIN LIMITATIONS "EING A DIPLOMAT IN "ELGRADE IS DEFINITELY NOT AN EASY GOING OCCUPATION /NEiS DAILY OBLIGA TIONS AND DUTIES MANAGE TO KEEP #HARIS -ORITSIS ONE EXTREMELY BUSY AND MAKE #HARGE D !FFAIRES OF THE 2E IT QUITE DIFFICULT TO APPROACH THE PUBLIC OF #YPRUS S DIPLOMATIC SOCIETY OF THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT MISSION IN "ELGRADE THE PROTECTIVE GLASS THAT SOME TIMES GIVES ACCESS BUT IN MOST CASES HINDERS DIPLOMATS FROM THE jOTHERk REALITY THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO EXPERIENCE &OREIGN DIPLOMATS EXPERIENCE MANY THINGS ON THE BASIS OF NUM BERS CHARTS AND PERCENTAGES AND OF COURSE POLITICAL STATEMENTS &OR EXAMPLE NO ONE DENIES THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN PREVENTED FROM TRAVELLING ABROAD THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS .OT TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD THIS PREVENTION IS NOT MERELY A RESULT OF THE VISA REGIME IMPOSED BY OTHER COUNTRIES BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY BY THE ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES THAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY ARE FACING ,ETiS CONSIDER WHAT THE jOTHERk REALITY THAT ONE FOREIGNER COULD EXPERIENCE HERE MIGHT BE AND FROM WHENCE IT COMES "EARING IN MIND THE AFOREMENTIONED ELEMENTS VISA REGIME ECO NOMIC SITUATION ONE COULD SAY THAT 3ERBIA IS jISOLATEDk (OWEVER MY REALITY IS QUITE OPPOSED TO THIS NOTION "Y BREAKING THE PROTECTIVE GLASS SURROUNDING FOREIGNERS AND LIFTING THE HEAD FROM THE PAPERS WITH THE CHARTS AND NUMBERS ONE COULD IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE OF FERTILE MINDS IN THIS COUNTRY MANAGING TO CREATE PRODUCE AND MIX UNIQUE ELE MENTS THAT REPRESENT HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL INHERITANCE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL CIVILIZATION IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD THE WORD CIVILIZATION HAS NO PLURAL /NE COULD IDENTIFY THE OUTCOME OF MIXTURES OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THAT HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY AND WHOSE VALUE CANNOT BE FULLY APPRECIATED &OREIGNERS EXPERIENCE A COSMOPOLITAN ACCEPTANCE BY THE LOCALS

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,ETiS TAKE AS AN EXAMPLE THE TH )NTERNATIONAL %XHIBITION OF !RCHAEOLOGICAL -OVIE WHICH WAS ORGANISED BY THE .ATIONAL -USEUM IN "ELGRADE %VEN THOUGH THE -USEUM IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A LONG LAST ING RENOVATION THE AUTHORITIES THERE FOUND THE COURAGE TO ORGANISE A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVENT WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF TEN COUNTRIES $URING ELEVEN DAYS THE MAIN HALL OF THE MUSEUM WAS FULL OF PEOPLE INTER ESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORY AND THE CULTURE OF COUNTRIES THAT THEY HAVE PROBABLY NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT &URTHERMORE LAST YEAR A FAMOUS TENOR HELD A CONCERT IN "ELGRADE 4HE ENTRANCE FEE FOR THE EVENT WAS NEARLY THE AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY AS STATISTICS SAY BUT AGAIN THE CONCERT HALL WAS FULL TO BURSTING WITH AN AUDIENCE THAT CONSIDERED THEMSELVES AS PARTICIPANTS IN SOMETHING GREATER RATHER THAN BEING MERE LISTENERS 7HAT IS A NORMAL HAPPENING FOR OTHER %UROPEANS SUCH AS ATTENDING A MAJOR CONCERT REQUIRES YET AN EXTRA EFFORT HERE AND THUS THE PROPORTIONAL APPRECIATION OF SUCH AN EXPERIENCE IS EVEN GREATER 4O GET THE ESSENCE OF THE REAL CHARACTER A CITY LIKE "ELGRADE ALL ONE NEEDS TO DO IS JUST FOLLOW THE PERIMETER FROM 2EPUBLIC 3QUARE TO +ALEMEGDAN 4HIS IS THE EPICENTRE OF DAILY LIFE )T IS AN INTRICATE AND INTERESTING WORLD OF SMALL CAFES GALLERIES AND SHOPS !T THE

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LADIMIR 6UKÍEVIÌ HAS JUST ADDED ANOTHER FUNCTION TO HIS EXISTING JOB AS WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR m THAT OF CO ORDINATOR OF THE !CTION 0LAN FOR ARRESTING THOSE INDICTED BY THE )#49 IN 4HE (AGUE 6UKÍEVIÌ IS NOT ONE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT HIS PROBLEMS 9OU WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT FROM HIS ASSOCIATES THAT NUMER OUS PASSERS BY ON THE STREET AND IN SHOPPING CENTRES HAVE SHOUTED RUDE WORDS AT HIM CALLED HIS HOME SHOUTING j&IRE

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)S 'ORAN 2ADOSAVLJEVIÐ AMONG THE INDICTEES TOO /N TH /CTOBER 2ADOSAVLJEVIÐ REFUSED TO CARRY OUT 3LOBODAN -ILOpEVIÐiS ORDER TO THROW TEAR GAS CONTAINERS ONTO THE DEMONSTRATORS FROM A HELICOPTER (AS HE ALSO DISAPPEARED "ECAUSE OF THE CREDIBILITY OF THIS INSTITUTION THE 0ROSECUTORiS /FFICE DOES NOT COMMENT ON CONJECTURE PUB LISHED IN CERTAIN MEDIA NOR ON RUOMOURS RECEIVED FROM UNNAMED SOURCES 2ADOSAVLJEVIÐ WAS THE COMMANDER OF THE 3ERBIAN SPECIAL POLICE FORCES IN +OSOVO WHOSE TWO MEMBERS ARE ACCUSED OF THE MURDER OF THE ARRESTED ONES WASNiT HE 4HAT IS TRUE 9OU HAVE BEEN CRITICISED THAT THIS ARREST HAS ONLY COME AS A CONSEQUENCE OF PRESSURE FROM THE 5 3 3TATE $EPARTMENT 4HE INTERESTS OF THE !MERICAN 'OVERNMENT AND THIS 0ROSECUTORiS /FFICE ARE COMPLETELY THE SAME TO BRING ALL THOSE INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES TO JUSTICE TO SATISFY JUSTICE

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WAR CRIMES 4HE REASONS ARE LOGICAL )N MANY CASES THEY COME ACROSS THEIR COLLEAGUES AND FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW OF A POLICEMAN IS NOT LIKELY TO ENJOY HIS WORK AND IF THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT STIMULATED SUFFICIENTLY THEY WORK IN BAD CONDITIONS 4HE SECOND DIMENSION IS ONE WHICH CONCERNS THE POLICE AUTHORITIES WHICH CLEARLY PRESCRIBES WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO ! BIGGER PROBLEM IS THE OBSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN CASES SUCH AS THE "ATICI CASE )S IT KNOWN AT ALL WHO ORDERED THE TRANSPORTATION OF THOSE CORPSES FROM +OSOVO TO "ATAJNICA AND 0ETROVO 3ELO

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j ê ê w ê ê ê pê ê ê ¾ ­ê { ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê êt ­ê êw ­ HE SAID THAT WITHOUT +OpTUNICAiS KNOWLEDGE 4HAT IS AN OLD AND WELL KNOW STORY 0OLITICS HAS A HABIT OF TREATING JUDICIARY BODIES AS THEIR EXTENDED HAND ) RESISTED THAT WHICH ) BELIEVE INFURIATED -INISTER 3TOJKOVIÌ 4HE INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY INSTITUTIONS IS ESSENTIAL FOR ME AND THERE IS NO COMPROMISE REGARDING THAT REGARDLESS OF THE COST (OWEVER ) MUST EMPHASISE THAT ALL THOSE ANTAGO NISMS HAVE BEEN OVERCOME THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED PUBLIC SUP PORT FROM +OpTUNICA AND 3TOJKOVIÌ FOR OUR WORK AND THAT WE HAVE CONCRETE CO OPERATION WITH THE -INISTRY OF *USTICE $ID YOU BRING ANGER ON YOURSELF WHEN YOU STATED THAT THE POLICE AND SECRET SERVICES KNOW WHO IS HIDING 2ATKO -LADIÐ !LL THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID OF 3ERBIA FULFILLING ITS INTERNATION AL OBLIGATIONS CAN BE ANGRY CAN MAKE THREATS AND OBSTRUCT THE WORK OF THE 0ROSECUTORiS /FFICE "UT THOSE WHO DO THAT ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAW AND DO THAT TO THE DETRIMENT OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY ) DO NOT HAVE ANY DILEMMAS 4HE ARREST AND EXTRADITION OF (AGUE SUSPECTS IS THE STATEiS NUMBER ONE JOB ) WILL DO EVERYTHING ) CAN TO ENSURE THAT WE COMPLETE THAT JOB CORRECTLY ) DO NOT CARE ABOUT ENEMIES )iVE ALWAYS HAD THEM THEY WILL ALWAYS EXIST "Y OFFERING AN EXPLANATION OF THE STATEMENT IN WHICH YOU THREATENED THOSE WHO WERE HIDING 2ATKO -LADIÐ WITH

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4HERE ARE NO REPORTS OR ARTICLES RELATING TO 3REBRENICA IN "ELGRADEiS MEDIA ) THINK THAT THIS IS A GREAT INJUSTICE TOWARD THE VICTIMS OF 3REBRENICA !T THE MOMENT THE DIVISIONS BETWEEN jUS AND THEMk STOP AND WHEN A CRIME BECOMES A CRIME ) WILL KNOW THAT SOCIETY HAS FULLY OVERCOME ITS CATHARSIS

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AROUND AND THUS COVERS QUITE A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES !S FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE REFERENDUM FOR US THE MAIN ONE AS )iVE ALREADY MENTIONED IS THAT WE WERE IMMEDIATELY SPLIT INTO TWO DIF FERENT MISSIONS THE /3#% -ISSION TO 3ERBIA AND THE /3#% -ISSION TO -ONTENEGRO 7ITH THAT OF COURSE

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THEN WE HAVE THE RULE OF LAW SECTOR m WORKING MORE WITH THE JUDI CIAL SYSTEM THEN WE HAVE THE DEMOCRATISATION DEPARTMENT MEDIA TO HELP AND ASSIST THEM IN DOING PROGRAMMES AS WELL AS DOING PRO GRAMMES OF OUR OWNb DEPARTMENT AND AN ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT 7E PUT A LOT OF WEIGHT ON THE RULE OF LAW AND ON THE LAW ENFORCE )N RECENT NEWS YOUR MISSION RECENTLY CALLED FOR THE WITH MENT SECTOR AND ARE WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE RELEVANT MINIS TRIES (OWEVER RATHER LIMITED PUBLIC ATTENTION IS BEING PAID TO THIS DRAWAL OF AMENDMENTS TO THE "ROADCASTING ,AW CITING BREACHES PART OF OUR WORK 4HIS SHOWS THAT A LARGE PART OF OUR WORK GOES ON TO MEDIA FREEDOM RIGHTS (AS YOUR CALL LED TO ACTION AS YET ) WOULD SAY BOTH YES AND NO WE HAVE ACHIEVED A FEW THINGS RATHER QUIETLY WITH THE GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS INSTITUTIONS AND SO ON "UT SOME OF THE ISSUES WEiRE WORKING ON CERTAINLY DRAW MORE HERE 7E HAVE CERTAINLY STIRRED UP A DEBATE AND BROUGHT THE ISSUE INTO THE PUBLIC EYE TO AN EXTENT THOUGH WE WISH MORE OF IT WILL BE ATTENTION THAN OTHERS FORTHCOMING 7E NOW HAVE HOPES THAT THIS WILL NOT AS WE RECOM

9OUiVE SPENT OVER SIX MONTHS &EB i HEADING UP THE /3#% MENDED BE UNDER URGENT PROCEDURE IN THE PARLIAMENT BUT RATHER HANDLED IN A NORMAL WAY SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SOME TIME TO IMPROVE MISSION HERE (OW PLEASED ARE YOU WITH THE WAY THE SEPARA TION OF THE 3TATE 5NION PARTNERS WAS HANDLED IN BOTH 3ERBIA THESE AMENDMENTS AND ALSO HAVE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION THE -ONTENEGRO AND WHAT CONSEQUENCES DID THE SECESSION HAVE ON AMENDMENTS COMING FROM THE -INISTRY OF #ULTURE m AMENDMENTS THE DYNAMICS OF AND WORK WITHIN YOUR MISSION THAT WERE FORMULATED IN CO OPERATION WITH US 3O WE ARE HOPING THAT 7ELL OF COURSE THE BACKGROUND OF THE CHANGE WAS THE WISH OF THAT WILL BE ABLE TO BECOME ONE PACKAGE

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)T HAS BECOME SOMETHING OF A TREND IN "ELGRADE TO APPOINT AMBASSADORS FROM THE MEDIA ACADEMIA AND EVEN ENTERTAIN MENT CIRCLES m AS OPPOSED TO CLASSICALLY TRAINED DIPLOMATS (OW DO YOU THINK THAT TREND WILL DEVELOP )MMEDIATELY AFTER THE TH /CTOBER CHANGES IT MADE A LOT OF SENSE TO DO THIS SIMPLY BECAUSE UNDER -ILOpEVIÌ THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE HAD BEEN DISCREDITED TO A GREAT EXTENT !ND SO AT LEAST FOR THE KEY POSTS IT BECAME VERY IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO APPOINT PUBLIC FIGURES WHO WERE UNTARNISHED AND CAME FROM ACADEMIA MEDIA AND THE LIKE 4HAT DID HELP .OW SIX YEARS HAVE ELAPSED AND THINGS ARE BEGINNING TO RETURN TO NORMAL .EVERTHELESS THERE STILL WILL BE A NUMBER OF POLITICAL POSTINGS m IN THE SENSE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT CAREER DIPLOMATS WILL GO TO SOME OF THE VERY IMPORTANT CAPITALS "Y AND LARGE THOUGH THE WHOLE SERVICE IS BEING DE PARTY POLITICISED AND DIPLOMACY IS GRADU ALLY GOING BACK TO DIPLOMATS AS IT SHOULD

TO JUSTIFY THE BOMBING OF AND IN ORDER TO DO SO AN INAPPROPRI ATELY DARK PICTURE OF 3ERBIA WAS CREATED BY THE MEDIA ) TOOK EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO REPAIR THE IMAGE OF MY COUNTRY

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4HE DEMISE OF THE 3TATE 5NION HAS BROUGHT FORTH THE NEED FOR A CABINET RESHUFFLE IN 3ERBIA AND YOU HAVE BEEN MENTIONED AS ONE OF THE PRIME CANDIDATES FOR THE POST OF FOREIGN MINISTER ) CERTAINLY HOPE THAT MINISTER $RApKOVIÌ WILL REMAIN THE COUN TRYiS FOREIGN MINISTER 4HIS IS A MATTER OF PARLIAMENTARY MATHEMATICS )F THE MINORITY 'OVERNMENT SUCCEEDS IN SECURING SUFFICIENT SUPPORT FOR THE CURRENT FOREIGN MINISTER THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE ) AM CONVINCED THAT THIS GOVERNMENT WILL TRY EVERYTHING TO KEEP 6UK $RApKOVIÌ IN HIS POSI TION )N THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT THIS EFFORT FAILS THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT ) WILL BECOME ONE OF THE CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED HIM ALBEIT A VERY RELUCTANT ONE

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THE SO CALLED POLICY OF APPEASEMENT !ND WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT POLICY OF ATTEMPTING TO AVOID WAR TURNED OUTb 3O YOU THINK THAT THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE FOR +OSOVO WOULD LEAD ETHNIC !LBANIANS TO SEEK SIMILAR hSOVEREIGNTYi ELSE WHERE m IN -ACEDONIA AND -ONTENEGRO FOR EXAMPLE *UST A FEW DAYS AGO THERE WAS A STATEMENT EXACTLY TO THAT EFFECT /N THAT OCCASION A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF +OCO $ANAJ ALLEGEDLY THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISOR TO !LBANIAN 0- "ERISHA GAVE AN INTER VIEW FOR !LBANIAN DAILY +OHA E RE AND SAID IN SO MANY WORDS THAT THE BORDERS OF FOUR COUNTRIES SURROUNDING !LBANIA -ONTENEGRO

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THE POSSIBLE PRECEDENT OF GIVING INDEPENDENCE TO +OSOVO IS BOUND TO BE QUOTED IN MANY OTHER CASES OF ETHNICALLY BASED TERRITORIAL CLAIMS IN FUTURE ALL OVER THE WORLD 9OU CURRENTLY HOLD THE FUNCTION OF 0- +OpTUNICAiS !DVISOR FOR &OREIGN 0OLICY #O OPERATION (OW DO YOU THINK THE 0- IS RECEIVED ABROAD AND HOW DO YOU THINK HEiS MANAGING TO hSELLi THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS 'OVERNMENT 4HE RELUCTANCE TO SELL GOOD NEWS WAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED TO BE A POLITICAL SHORTCOMING OF 0- +OpTUNICA "UT THEN AGAIN HE ALWAYS MAINTAINED m AND STILL DOES m THAT PUBLIC IMAGE IS NOT TO BE CREATED

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! CONSIDERABLE PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION OF 3ERBIA AS YOU &INALLY WHEN DO YOU THINK THE FORTUNES OF 3ERBIA WILL REALLY KNOW ARE OF NATIONALITIES OTHER THAN 3ERB AND NONE OF THEM HAVE TURN FOR THE BETTER ANY SERIOUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE WAY THEY ARE TREATED BY THIS GOV ) THINK THAT THE TURNING POINT IS NEARER THAN IT MIGHT APPEAR )N A ERNMENT 7E HAVE A NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES WHERE ALL ETHNIC GROUPS ARE REPRESENTED THE NEW ELECTORAL LAW GUARANTEES VERY SIMPLIFIED PROJECTION THERE ARE TWO POSSIBLE SCENARIOS )N THE MOST OPTIMISTIC ONE WHEN THE +OSOVO SITUATION IS REM POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION FOR MINORITIES ETHNICALLY MOTIVATED INCI DENTS ARE NOW VERY FEW EDIED AND THE REMAINING )#49 OBLIGATIONS ARE FULFILLED WHICH HAS %VEN THE MOST BIASED FOREIGN CRITICS HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THE POSI TO HAPPEN VERY SOON 3ERBIA WILL SWIFTLY MOVE TOWARD THE %5

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THE WHOLE REGION WOULD BE SERIOUSLY DESTABILISED AND 3ERBIA WOULD !FTER TH /CTOBER WE FOUND THE COUNTRY IN A VERY DRAMATIC SITU ATION AND SO MANY THINGS HAD TO BE DONE QUICKLY PERHAPS AT THE FIND ITSELF IN ISOLATION FACING A VERY GLOOMY FUTURE INDEED -Y ONLY PERSONAL MOTIVATION TO CONTINUE IN POLITICS IS TO CON COST OF CUTTING SOME LEGAL CORNERS +OpTUNICAiS GOVERNMENT COULD AFFORD TO MOVE MORE CAUTIOUSLY AND WAS SOMETIMES PERCEIVED AS TRIBUTE AS MUCH AS ) CAN TO THE MATERIALISATION OF THE FIRST OF THE TWO SLOW WHICH WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO THE 0RIME -INISTERiS UNRESERVED SCENARIOS

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OMANIA WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN REGIONAL CO OPERATION 0REVIOUSLY MORE ATTENTION WAS PAID TO RELATIONS IN THE "ALKANS BUT AFTER IT BECAME CLEAR THAT ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE REGION WANT TO ACCESS TO THE %UROPEAN 5NION ONE DAY THE PER CEPTION OF THE REGION BECOME WIDER 4HEREFORE 2OMANIAN REGIONAL POLICY TODAY IS MOVING IN THE WIDER FRAME OF 3OUTH %ASTERN %UROPE

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(OW MUCH ATTENTION DOES 2OMANIA PAY TO RELATIONS WITH 7ESTERN "ALKAN STATES )T IS IN THE INTERESTS OF 2OMANIA WHICH WILL SOON BECOME AN %5 MEMBER TO HAVE ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE 7ESTERN "ALKANS ALSO BECOME MEMBERS OF THE BLOC ) THINK THAT CO OPERATION m THE AIM OF WHICH IS %UROPEAN INTEGRATION m IS GOING WELL EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE SOME PROBLEMS SUCH AS VISA POLICIES )T IS KNOWN THAT AFTER 2OMANIA INTRODUCED VISAS FOR 3ERBIAN CITIZENS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PREPARATIONS FOR INTEGRATION TO THE %5 3ERBIA INTRODUCED VISAS FOR THE CITIZENS OF 2OMANIA 7E ARE WORKING ON A NEW SOLUTION ACCORDING TO WHICH 2OMANIA WOULD INTRODUCE VISAS FOR 3ERBS FREE OF CHARGE AND IN RETURN 2OMANIAN CITIZENS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL TO 3ERBIA WITHOUT VISAS 3ERBIA IMPLEMENTS THE SAME SOLUTION IN RELATIONS WITH %5 STATE MEMBERS (OW WOULD YOU APPRAISE THE TRADE EXCHANGE BETWEEN 2OMANIA AND 3ERBIA AND THE OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WIDER REGION 4HE TRADE EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES IS ON THE INCREASE AND LAST YEAR REACHED A TOTAL VALUE OF MILLION !S REGARDS THE COUNTRIES OF THE REGION 2OMANIA HAS THE BIGGEST EXCHANGE WITH 4URKEY AND 'REECE WHILE 3ERBIA COMES STRAIGHT AFTERWARDS #O OPERATION WITH 3ERBIA HOWEVER IS NOT FOCUSED MERELY ON TRADE 7E PAY BIG ATTENTION TO THE STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF ENERGY !PART FROM THE îERDAP HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC FORM OF CO OPERATION BETWEEN 3ERBIA AND 2OMANIA WE PLAN THE BUILD ING OF NEW PROJECTS SUCH AS THE #ONSTANTA m 4RIESTE OIL PIPELINE #URRENTLY THERE IS A DELAY IN THAT PROJECT BECAUSE THE 3LOVENIAN 0ARLIAMENT IS SUPPOSED TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE PART OR NOT 4HE CONSTRUCTION OF THE -OKRIN m !RAD GAS PIPELINE IS

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0LANS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AND PREPARATORY TALKS ARE WELL 3ERBIA HAS A CONSIDERABLE ETHNIC 2OMANIAN MINORITY (OW UNDERWAY FOR THE FORMATION OF A REGIONAL FREE TRADE ZONE BASED WOULD YOU EVALUATE THE POSITION OF 2OMANIANS IN 3ERBIA ON #ENTRAL %UROPEiS #%&4! $O YOU EXPECT THE SIGNING OF THE 4HE POSITION OF 2OMANIANS IN 3ERBIA IS THE SUBJECT OF BILATERAL REGIONAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT TO TAKE PLACE BY THE END OF THE TALKS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL )T IS NORMAL THAT 3ERBIA PROVIDES PROTEC YEAR ) AM NOT THAT GREAT AN OPTIMIST EVEN p ê ê ê ê ê êy ±ê ê ê ê ê ê THOUGH THE 2OMANIAN 'OVERNMENT IS MAK ING EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE THAT BY THE END OF THE l|ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê~ êi ê YEAR m BECAUSE FOR 2OMANIA AS A #%&4!

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BY THE END OF .OVEMBER BUT THERE ARE SERIOUS OBSTACLES m REGARD TION FOR MINORITIES THROUGH LEGISLATION 7E ARE AWARE OF ALL OF THE LESS OF THE FACT THAT THERE IS GENUINE POLITICAL WILL ON ALL SIDES AND DIFFICULTIES 3ERBIA IS EXPERIENCING BUT NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO THE STATES INVOLVED ARE PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE THINK THAT 2OMANIA SHOULD NOT BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE POSITION OF /BSTACLES HINDERING THE FORMATION OF THE LOCAL &4! ARE NOT ONLY THE 2OMANIAN MINORITY IN 3ERBIA )N 6OJVODINA THE 2OMANIANS WHO LIVE THERE HAVE THEIR IN THE FIELD OF LEGISLATION BUT COMPETITION TOO 3UCH PROBLEMS REMIND SCHOOLS MEDIA AND CHURCH WHICH ARE SADLY NOT RECOGNISED 4HEY

US OF PREVIOUS QUARRELS BETWEEN CERTAIN COUNTRIES IN THE REGION HOWEVER ARE IN AN INCOMPARABLY BETTER POSITION THAN 2OMANIANS 2OMANIA ALONG WITH "ULGARIA IS SCHEDULED TO JOIN THE %5 IN THE 4IMOK 6ALLEY ) THINK THAT 2OMANIANS IN 3ERBIA SHOULD ENJOY THE SAME RIGHTS NEXT YEAR (OW WILL THE COUNTRYiS ACCESSION TO THE 5NION EFFECT THAT 3ERBS HAVE IN 2OMANIA 4HE POSITION OF 3ERBS IN 2OMANIA IS YOUR REGIONAL POLICY 2OMANIAN REGIONAL POLICY WILL NOT BE STOPPED REGARDLESS OF EXCELLENT 4HEY HAVE EVERYTHING 7E DO NOT DEMAND TERRITORIES THE ACCESSION TO THE %5 4HE FACT THAT 3ERBIAN 0RESIDENT "ORIS m THAT WAS RESOLVED AFTER THE &IRST 7ORLD 7AR m AND WE THINK THAT 4ADIÌ HAS VISITED 2OMANIA TWICE IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME COUPLED MINORITIES SHOULD BE LOYAL TO THE STATES IN WHICH THEY LIVE WITH THE RECIPROCAL VISITS OF 2OMANIAN 0RESIDENT 4RAIAN "ASESCU

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PEAKING TO #OR$ THIS MONTH ABOUT REGIONAL RELATIONS AND THE WORK GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES TO IMPROVE THE MUTUAL PER CEPTIONS OF THE COUNTRIES OF 3OUTH %AST %UROPE !LEKSANDAR 0OPOV DIRECTOR OF THE .OVI 3AD BASED #ENTRE FOR 2EGIONALISM AND CO PRESIDENT OF THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE SAYS j) THINK THAT MORE AND MORE CITIZENS OF 3ERBIA ARE AWARE THAT THEIR COUNTRY IS NOT AN ISO LATED ISLAND AND THAT WE HAVE TO CO OPERATE WITH OUR NEIGHBOURS k )T WAS IN THE BLOODY !PRIL OF THAT INTELLECTUAL ANTI WAR ACTIVISTS FROM THE THEN &2 9UGOSLAVIA SET OUT ON A PERILOUS JOURNEY VIA (UNGARY AND #ROATIA TO THE BESIEGED CITY OF 3ARAJEVO TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL SESSION OF THE 3ERBIAN #IVIC )NITIATIVE 4HE GROUP DETERMINED TO DEFY THOSE WAGING WAR AROUND THEM AND MAKE IT 3ARAJEVO IN A SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE SUFFERING CITIZENS OF 3ARAJEVO PASSED THROUGH THE )GMAN -OUNTAIN WHICH WAS ALIVE WITH "OSNIAN 3ERB ARTILLERY AND SNIPER FIRE 4HE NAME )GMAN THUS

BECAME SYMBOLIC OF THE RISKS THE GROUP TOOK TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST WAR IN THE "OSNIAN CAPITAL TO THE BENEFIT OF ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA 4ODAY ONE OF THE GOALS OF THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE IS THE SUPERVI SION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF POSITIVE PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE $AYTON QUADRANGLE "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA #ROATIA

3ERBIA AND -ONTENEGRO TO WORK ON FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF ITS RELATIONSHIPS 5NDER THE AUSPICES OF THE )NITIATIVE A SERIES OF SUM MITS BETWEEN THE LEADERS OF THOSE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN ORGANISED m AND HAVE ULTIMATELY CULMINATED IN THE PASSING OF NUMEROUS MUTUAL RESOLUTIONS 4HOUGH THE )NITIATIVE IS STRUGGLING TO OVERCOME THE MUTUAL DISTRUST AND NEGATIVE POST WAR SENTIMENT OF THE FORMER ENEMIES

0OPOV IS CONFIDENT THAT THE TIDE IS SLOWLY TURNING j"UILDING GOOD NEIGHBOURLY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES WHICH MADE UP THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA IS BURDENED BY THE INHER ITANCE OF WARS DESTRUCTION AND VICTIMS (OWEVER ) THINK THAT m ESPECIALLY WITH THE BEGINNING OF 3ERBIAiS ACCESSION NEGOTIA TIONS WITH THE %UROPEAN 5NION m THE AWARENESS OF THE NECESSITY FOR CO OPERATION HAS GROWN )F YOU ARE UNABLE TO CO OPERATE WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS HOW WILL YOU THEN FIND A MUTUAL LANGUAGE WITH "RUSSELS k ASKS 0OPOV

Healing Open Wounds 4RUTH AND RECONCILIATION ARE CRUCIAL ELEMENTS OF ANY POST WAR PROCESS AIMED AT HEALING WOUNDS INFLICTED DURING CONFLICT 4HIS PROCESS IS A JOURNEY THAT IS MUCH LONGER AND MORE ARDUOUS THAN THAT FATEFUL TRIP TO 3ARAJEVO YEARS AGO AND SETBACKS ARE INEVITABLE (OWEVER 0OPOV STILL DOES NOT THINK THAT THE OPENING OF WOUNDS FROM THE PAST SUCH AS THE RECENT PRESENTATION OF VIDEO EVIDENCE OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY MEMBERS OF THE #ROATIAN !RMY AGAINST #ROATIAN 3ERBS DURING /PERATION 3TORM CAN JEOPARDIZE THE LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES OF THE $AYTON QUADRANGLE j4HE )GMAN )NITIATIVE ALWAYS INSISTED ON THE FACT THAT FACING THE PAST IS IN THE INTERESTS OF THOSE COUNTRIES WHOSE CITIZENS COM MITTED CRIMES "RINGING CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE IS CERTAINLY THE STATEiS INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATION (OWEVER IT IS ALSO m AND PERHAPS PRINCI PALLY m NECESSARY TO ENSURE THE NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF OUR SOCIE TIES 7ITH A CRIME BALLAST THERE IS NO IMPROVEMENT OF DEMOCRACY WITHIN THE COUNTRY k (E CONTINUES EXPLAINING THAT jDURING POLICE /PERATION 3ABRE

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IT WAS ONCE AGAIN PROVED THAT THOSE WHO COMMITTED CRIMES OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY WERE ALSO PREPARED TO COMMITTEE THE SAME CRIMES AGAINST THEIR OWN CITIZENS k SAYS 0OPOV .ONETHELESS 0OPOV ARGUES THAT PUBLICLY LAUNCHING STORIES ABOUT jWHAT OTHERS DID TO USk IN THE PAST IS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF REC ONCILIATION PRINCIPALLY BECAUSE EVERY COUNTRY SHOULD CONFRONT ITS OWN CRIMINALS j/F COURSE WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT OUR SUFFERING BUT NOT IN A KIND OF CAMPAIGNING WAY AND WE SHOULD NOT INSIST ONLY ON THE CRIMES OF OTHERS ) THINK THAT THE PERIODICAL REOPENING OF WOUNDS FROM THE PAST CAN LEAD TO THE COOLING OF RELATIONS ) DONiT THINK THAT SUCH STORIES WILL HAVE MAJOR LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES

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AND THEY HAVE MEET TWICE FOLLOWING A PROPOSAL FROM THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE k $ESPITE SETBACKS AND NEGATIVE RESPONSES THE WORK OF THE ORGANISATION GOES ON !T THE END OF /CTOBER THIS YEAR THE TH SESSION OF THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN 0ODGORICA 4HE EVENT WILL BE CROWNED WITH A JOINT STATEMENT SIMILAR TO ONE FROM *UNE UNDER THE NAME jA 4RIPARTITE VIEW OF THE JOINT FUTUREk 0OPOV EXPLAINS THAT THIS MEETING WILL PROVIDE A NEW IMPULSE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE FOUR COUNTRIES 4HE IMPROVEMENT OF 3ERBIAiS RELATIONSHIPS WITH ITS NEIGHBOUR ING COUNTRIES IS ALSO CARRIED OUT THROUGH BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

WHICH THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE SUPPORTS "UT 0OPOV IS NOT SATISFIED WITH WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED TO DATE j3MALL BILATERAL CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN SIGNED 3ERBIA HAS SIGNED THE MOST CONTRACTS WITH "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA AROUND AND ) THINK THAT "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA AND #ROATIA HAVE SIGNED THE MOST CONTRACTS BETWEEN THEMSELVES "UT THAT IS NOT SUFFICIENT BECAUSE IN THE RELATION SHIPS BETWEEN NORMAL COUNTRIES THE AVERAGE IS AROUND A HUNDRED

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4HE "ALKAN REGION IS NO STRANGER TO BLIND NATIONALISM AND HAS SUFFERED MARKEDLY AS A RESULT OF NARROW MINDED POWER HUNGRY REGIMES BENT ON EXERTING THEIR WILL OVER OTHER NATIONAL GROUPS THAT SHARE THE TERRITORY OF THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA 4HOUGH LESSONS µi ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê HAVE UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN LEARNT ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê IN THE RECENT PAST NATIONALIST POLITICAL OPTIONS REMAIN POPULAR ±ê ê ê ­êo ±êpê ê ê ê ê ê VOTE WINNERS ACROSS THE TERRITORY OF THE FORMER COUNTRY AND THE ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ­´ POSSIBILITY THAT THE POLITICAL PAR TIES WHICH WERE IN POWER DURING BILATERAL CONTRACTS ) THINK THAT THE REASONS FOR THE POOR OUTCOME THE S COULD RETURN TO POWER AND SERIOUSLY DISRUPT NEIGHBOURLY ARE A LACK OF POLITICAL WILL AND A SHORTAGE OF CAPACITIES IN CERTAIN RELATIONS IS A GENUINE THREAT !CCORDING TO 0OPOV THE DANGER OF THE jDRAMATIC RETURN OF NATIONALISTIC POLITICAL PARTIES TO POWER IS -INISTRIES k SAYS 0OPOV REALISTICk 4HE )GMAN )NITIATIVE CO PRESIDENT ALSO MENTIONS THE EMER GENCE OF ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS THE ADOPTION OF A SERIES OF )GMAN (E EXPLAINS FURTHER jSUCH CHANGES COULD LEAD TO THE FREEZ )NITIATIVE LEGAL PROPOSALS FOR INSTANCE THE PROPOSAL OF INTER STATE ING OF RELATIONS 4HE EXAMPLE IS THE CURRENT KIND OF CO OPERATION CONTRACTS FOR DIPLOMA RECOGNITION THEN SOME FROM THE FIELDS OF BETWEEN .OVI 3AD 3ERBIA /SIJEK #ROATIA AND 4UZLA "OSNIA SPORT TOURISM CONSULAR RELATIONSHIPS AND CO OPERATION IN CASE OF AND (ERZEGOVINA 3EVERAL YEARS AGO UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE CATASTROPHE WHICH WERE PREVENTED BY THE PARALYSIS OF THE ORGANS )GMAN )NITIATIVE THE HEADS OF THOSE CITIES SIGNED THE $ECLARATION OF THE FORMER 3TATE 5NION OF 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO !PART FROM ON )NTER %THNIC 4OLERANCE AND AFTER THAT STARTED CO OPERATION IN THAT A CERTAIN NUMBER OF AGREEMENTS WHICH WERE SIGNED HAVE NOT A NUMBER OF FIELDS (OWEVER AFTER THE 3ERBIA 2ADICAL 0ARTY CAME BEEN RATIFIED OR BROUGHT INTO EFFECT TO POWER AND THE PARTYiS -AJA 'OJKOVIÌ WAS ELECTED CITY MAYOR

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t êj ¾ 4HE )GMAN )NITIATIVE INSISTS ON COOPERATION BETWEEN CITIES IN THE REGION j-ICRO CO OPERATION IS EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT )N THE END WHO CAN BE MORE INTERESTED IN THE OPENNESS OF BORDERS THAN CITIZENS TOWNS AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION 4HESE ACTORS ARE ALWAYS MORE FLEXIBLE IN COMPARISON WITH THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION AS REGARDS BREAKING DOWN VARIOUS BARRIERS !T LOCAL LEVELS THE CON CRETE FORMS OF REGIONAL CO OPERATION ARE FULLY EXPRESSED WHICH CREATES A BETTER ATMOSPHERE IN PUBLIC "ECAUSE OF THAT THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE HAS STARTED TO LAUNCH NEW FORMS OF CO OPERATION BETWEEN CITIES k SAYS 0OPOV /NE OF THE INITIATIVES FOR CO OPERATION BETWEEN CITIES IS IN THE (ERCEG .OVI -ONTNEGRO m 4REBINJE "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA m $UBROVNIK #ROATIA TRIANGLE 4HE MAIN MOTIVATION FOR STARTING CO OPERATION BETWEEN THE THREE CITIES BESIDES PURE RECONCILIATION

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m ê êy /UTLINING ANOTHER SHINING EXAMPLE OF A RECONCILIATORY INITIA TIVE BETWEEN TWO CITIES THAT WERE BITTERLY DIVIDED DURING THE WAR YEARS 0OPOV NOTES jTHE EXAMPLE OF THE RENEWED CO OPERATION BETWEEN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF "AJNA "ApTA 3ERBIA AND 3REBRENICA "OSNIA AND (ERZEGOVINA j4HIS IS INTERESTING BECAUSE BEFORE THE WAR THOSE TWO TOWNS ON OPPOSITE BANKS OF THE 2IVER $RINA ENJOYED EXCELLENT CO OPERATION ! FEW YEARS AGO THAT CO OPERATION WAS RENEWED AT THE PROPOSAL OF THE )GMAN )NITIATIVE $ESPITE BEING BEATEN UP IN THE POLICE STA TION IN "AJNA "ApTA DURING THE WAR THE -AYOR OF 3REBRENICA

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HE PRE ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS UNDERWAY BUT WITHOUT THE GREAT TENSION PASSION AND UNCERTAINTY WHICH CHARACTERISED THE ATMOSPHERE BEFORE THE REFERENDUM BETWEEN TWO OPPOSING BLOCS THE hSOVEREIGNISTSi AND THE hUNIONISTSi !CCORDING TO ALL PRE ELECTORAL ANALYSES AND THE ESTIMATIONS OF SPECIALISED AGENCIES AND INDEPEND ENT ANALYSTS THE SOVEREIGN BLOC HAVE THE ADVANTAGE AND ARE RELAXED AFTER WINNING THEIR FIRST HISTORIC VICTORY CROWNED BY THE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF -ONTENEGRO AND ITS MEMBERSHIP IN THE 5. AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS 4HE UNIONISTS MEANWHILE ARE HEAVILY BURDENED BY THEIR DEFEAT AND HAVING FAILED TO SURVIVE AS THE BLOC OF THE OPPOSITION PRO 3ERBIAN POLITICAL PARTIES EVEN THOUGH IT WAS STRONGLY SUPPORTED BY "ELGRADE THEY ARE CURRENTLY THREATENED AND DIVIDED ! CHANGE OF TACTIC COULD WELL BE RECOMMENDED FOR THE PRO 3ERBIA GROUP 3TILL IT SEEMS THEIR FOCUS REMAINS AND THEY ARE STILL PLAYING ON THE CARD OF SUPPORTER SENTIMENT REGARDING THE COLLAPSE OF THE JOINT COUNTRY WITH 3ERBIA 4HE OPPOSITION NOT ONLY STILL DOES NOT RECOGNISE THE RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM BUT ALSO jDREAMSk ABOUT SOME NEW REFERENDUM WHICH WOULD TURN BACK THE WHEEL OF HISTORY AND jRECU PERATEk THE 3#' 3TATE 5NION *UST HOW FAR THAT POLITICAL BLINDNESS AND AUTISM CAN GO IS ILLUSTRATED BY ONE DETAIL THE PRESIDENT OF THE STRONGEST OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTY THE 3OCIALIST .ATIONAL 0ARTY 3.0 0REDRAG "ULATOVIÌ

DEMANDED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN THE STATE INSTITUTION THAT THE OFFI CIAL -ONTENEGRIN FLAG BE REMOVED m NOT TO MENTION THAT THAT SAME FLAG HAS BEEN FLYING ON THE %AST 2IVER IN .EW 9ORK SINCE TH *UNE m WHEN -ONTENEGRO BECAME A MEMBER OF THE 5NITED .ATIONS 0RO 3ERBIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES WHICH BEGRUDGINGLY hSWALLOWEDi THEIR h3ERBIANi PREFIX FOR THE NEEDS OF THE REFERENDUM ARE ALONG WITH THE 3.0 LINING UP WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT 3ERBS IN -ONTENEGRO ARE hENDANGEREDi BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION OR BELIEVE THAT THE REF ERENDUM WAS ILLEGITIMATE IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE 5. WERE INVOLVED IN ITS ORGANISATION AND REALISATION FROM START TO FINISH .EVERTHELESS

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CIAL jSMOKE SCREENk IS THE FACT THAT THEY ARE SIMPLY FIGHTING FOR THE SAME VOTERS WHO VOTED AGAINST INDEPENDENCE IN THE REFERENDUM 4HUS IT APPEARS THE PRO 3ERBIAN PARTIES ARE FEEDING THEMSELVES WITH THE REFERENDUM DEFEAT PLAYING FOR ALL OR NOTHING AND NOT OFFER ING THEIR VOTERS DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE OF THE REFERENDUM FIASCO ANY NEW IDEAS OR PROGRAMMES )N FACT AFTER THE REFERENDUM DEBACLE ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS IMPLEMENTING THE MATRIX WHICH WILL HELP THEM TO MAINTAIN THE ELECTORAL BODY IN A STATE OF EXTENDED FLUX BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF THE STATE UNION WITH 3ERBIA IN ORDER TO WIN AS MANY VOTES AS

m êt ê¾êl POSSIBLE IN THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION ON THE NOW IMMATERIAL STORY OF THE STATE UNION )T COULD FURTHER BE ARGUED THAT THE TACTICS OF THE FLOUNDERING OPPOSITION COLLECTIVE ARE GIVING THEM AN INITIAL NEGATIVE BALANCE SIMPLY BECAUSE THE FEAR WHICH THEY WERE SPREADING BEFORE THE ELEC TIONS ABOUT VISAS PASSPORTS TAXES FOR STUDENTS AND THE SICK AS WELL AS OTHER APOCALYPTIC PREDICTIONS SIMPLY DID NOT MATERIALISE !LL THAT WAS A POLITICAL jPAPER TIGERk REFUTED BY PRACTICE AND LIFE ITSELF SINCE -ONTENEGRO HAS BECOME AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY 4HE VICTORIOUS SOVEREIGN COLLECTIVE INCLUDING 0RIME -INISTER -ILO îUKANOVIÌ AND HIS $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY OF 3OCIALISTS $03 AND ITS GOVERNING COALITION PARTNER m THE 3OCIAL $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY 3$0 m WITH WHOM $03 WILL APPEAR JOINTLY IN THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

DOES NOT HAVE TO MAKE TOO MUCH EFFORT AT LEAST FOR THESE FIRST ELECTIONS IN THE INDEPENDENT COUNTRY NOR TO CHANGE ITS RHETORIC THEIR ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN AS WITH THE REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN IS FOCUSED ON RAPID %URO !TLANTIC INTEGRATIONS &OR THEM THE FACT THAT THE ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED AT ALL COULD BE ENOUGH TO SECURE SWEEPING VICTORIES 4HOSE CITIZENS WHO VOTED FOR INDEPENDENCE A RESPECTABLE MAJOR ITY WILL WANT TO DEFEND THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED STATE FROM THOSE WHO WOULD TEST IT AGAIN IN SOME OTHER REFERENDUM 4HE FRAGMENTATION OF THE UNIONIST BLOCK CAUSED BY THE 3ERBIAN .ATIONAL 0ARTY 3.3 WHICH WANTED TO IMPOSE ITSELF AS THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENDER OF 3ERBIAN INTERESTS IN -ONTENEGRO ALSO SUITS THE RULING PARTIES 4HE 3.3 DESPITE BEING MUCH LESS INFLUENTIAL THAN THE 3OCIAL .ATIONAL 0ARTY 3.0 IS STRUGGLING FOR THE BEST POSITION IN AN INDE PENDENT -ONTENEGRO BY ARGUING THAT 3ERBS IN -ONTENEGRO NEED TO BE PROTECTED AS THEIR VERY WAY OF LIFE IS ENDANGERED 7ITH THIS IN MIND

THE PARTY HAS ESTABLISHED ITS SO CALLED h3ERBIAN ,ISTi FOR THE PARLIAMEN TARY ELECTIONS AND HAS LAUNCHED AN INITIATIVE TO SIGN A PETITION TO SECURE THE RIGHT FOR 3ERBS FROM -ONTENEGRO TO BE GRANTED 3ERBIAN CITIZENSHIP 3ADLY FOR THE 3.3 NO OTHER PRO 3ERB PARTY IS PREPARED TO BACK THEM THE OPPOSITION LEADER THE 3.0 WILL REFUSE SUCH AN INITIATIVE BECAUSE IT HAS DECLARED ITSELF AS A CIVIL PARTY THAT DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE ANY

AND THEREFORE 3ERBS IN -ONTENEGRO ARE A NATIONAL MINORITY ! SIMILAR REACTION TO THE 2ADICALSi INCLUSION CAME FROM THE 3.0

WHO EXPLANATION THAT j3ERBS ARE NOT A NATIONAL MINORITY IN -ONTENEGRO

AS .IKOLIÌ CLAIMS NOR IS 3ERBIA THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGINk 4HE 'OVERNMENTiS RESPONSE TO .IKOLIÌiS VISIT BECAME CLEAR WHEN THE $03 STATED IT WAS PROOF THAT jPART OF POLITICAL 3ERBIA IS DIRECTLY INTERFERING IN THE -ONTENEGRIN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN WHICH IS FURTHER QUALIFIED AS THE PROOF THAT THERE ARE STILL THOSE IN 3ERBIA WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE TIME OF 3ERBIAN PATERNALISM OVER THE PROCESSES IN -ONTENEGRO HAS GONE k 4HE PUBLIC QUESTION WAS ALSO POSED BY $03 WHEN THEY ASKED jWHAT WOULD IT MEAN IF SOMEBODY FROM -ONTENEGRO SUGGESTED TO THE PARTIES IN 3ERBIA HOW TO BEHAVE IN THE SITUATION IN WHICH 3ERBIA IS NOW IN /R HOW WOULD THOSE PEOPLE COMMENT IF SOMEBODY FROM :AGREB SUGGESTED TO jTHEIR ONESi IN -ONTENEGRO TO GET THEMSELVES ORGANISED IN ORDER TO BRING THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION DOWN k ,IKE THE FAILED ATTEMPT TO ENLARGE THE PRO 3ERBIAN BLOC BEFORE THE

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{ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾z ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ NATIONAL PREFIX WHILE THE OTHER PRO 3ERBIAN POLITICAL PARTIES m THE 0EOPLES 0ARTY .3 AND THE $EMOCRATIC 3ERBIAN 0ARTY $33 m HAVE ALSO REFUSED TO JOIN THE h3ERBIAN ,ISTi .3 THINK THAT THE 3ERBIAN ,IST AS WITH OTHER INITIATIVES EMANATING FROM THE CHAMBERS OF THE 3.3 SUCH AS THE ONE ABOUT THE ESTABLISH MENT OF THE BICAMERAL PARLIAMENT IN -ONTENEGRO WILL ONLY LEAD TO THE DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY AND EMPHASISE THAT THE /RTHODOX NATION IS BASED ON jENROOTED -ONTENEGRIN DUALISM WHICH SEPARATES ITSELF INTO 3ERBS AND -ONTENEGRINSk 4HE $33 -ONTENEGRIN IS THE SMALLEST PARTY AND WAS ESTABLISHED

BY A SCHISM IN THE 3.3 )TS LEADERS ARGUE THAT THE 3.3 PLAN WOULD BE AN EXPERIMENT THAT WOULD MERELY OPEN SPACE FOR îUKANOVIÌ TO REMAIN IN POWER WITH THE CRUCIAL REASON BEING REJECTION OF THE 3ERBIAN ,IST /NE PARTY HOWEVER HAS CHOSEN TO THROW ITS HAT IN WITH THE 3.3 7HO 7HY THE 3ERBIAN 2ADICAL 0ARTY !ND THE RECENT ARRIVAL IN 0ODOGORICA OF ACTING 2ADICAL LEADER 4OMISLAV .IKOLIÌ COUPLED WITH THE LEADING 3ERBIAN OPPOSITION PARTYiS PARTICIPATION IN THE FORTHCOM ING ELECTIONS HAS UNSURPRISINGLY LED TO NEW DIVISIONS AMONG PRO 3ERBIAN PARTIES .3 PARTY REPRESENTATIVES HAVE DESCRIBED THE 3ERBIAN 2ADICALS INCLUSION IN LOCAL -ONTENEGRIN ELECTIONS AS BEING jDANGEROUS FOR THE 3ERBIAN NATION IN -ONTENEGROk m LARGELY BECAUSE .IKOLIÌ IS OF THE BELIEF THAT 3ERBS AND -ONTENEGRINS ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLES AND

THUS -ONTENEGRO IS NOT THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF -ONTENEGRIN 3ERBS

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS THERE WERE SIMILAR ATTEMPTS WITHIN THE NON GOVERNING PARTIES OF THE SOVEREIGN BLOC m OFTEN DUBBED THE LIBERAL BLOC ON THE -ONTENEGRIN POLITICAL SCENE .AMELY THE ,IBERAL 0ARTY ,0 OFFERED THE #IVIL 0ARTY '0 THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN TOGETHER

SINCE THEY BOTH ORIGINATE FROM THE FORMER ,IBERAL !LLIANCE 4HE #IVIL 0ARTY REJECTED THAT BY DEMANDING A PRE REFERENDUM COALITION WHICH WAS AGAINST THE ,IBERAL 0ARTYiS PROGRAMME 4HE RECENTLY ESTABLISHED 0ARTY FOR #HANGE 0:0 WHICH ORIGINATES FROM THE NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION THE 'ROUP FOR #HANGE WILL ALSO RUN ALONE IN THESE ELEC TIONS 4HIS PARTY HAS STRUGGLED SINCE THE REFERENDUM IN THE LEAD UP TO WHICH ONE OF ITS LEADING FIGURES .EBOJpA -EDOJEVIÌ FAILED TO OPENLY CALL ON MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE REFERENDUM EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SUPPORTING -ONTENEGRIN INDEPENDENCE )T REMAINS TO BE SEEN EXACTLY WHAT THESE ELECTIONS WILL BRING (OWEVER IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE SOVEREIGN BLOC m IN PARTICULARLY $03 AND 3$0 HAS A MAJOR PRE ELECTION ADVANTAGE SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS RID ING ON THE CREST OF ITS REFERENDUM WINNING WAVE /N THE OTHER SIDE

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7ITH -ONTENEGROiS TRANSFORMATION INTO AN INDEPENDENT NATION PROGRESSING STEADILY A FEW OF THE COASTAL REPUBLICiS FORMER CONSULATES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONVERTED INTO FULL EMBASSIES 3LOVENIA AND #HINA WERE THE FIRST COUNTRIES TO OFFICIALLY SET UP FULL EMBASSIES WITHIN THEIR DIPLOMATIC OFFICES SINCE THE FORMER 3#' 3TATE 5NION PARTNER GAINED INDEPENDENCE

)T SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY THAT THE DISTINCTIVELY PROVINCIAL FORMER 4ITOGRAD BEGAN ITS DEVELOPMENT INTO AN URBAN CAPITAL AND IT IS ONLY OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT 0ODGORICA BEGAN GROW ING ACCUSTOMED TO STRANGERS ON ITS STREETS m STRANGERS WHO MORE OFTEN THAN NOT ENJOY THE DIPLOMATIC STATUS OF THEIR COUNTRIES

4HE FIRST INAUGURAL DIPLOMATIC RECEPTIONS HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO BE STAGED IN THE -ONTENEGRIN CAPITAL AND THE REPUBLICiS -&!

HAS ALREADY ANNOUNCED ITS OWN ORGANISATIONAL AND PROTOCOL PROCEDURE CHANGES IN LINE WITH THE READJUSTMENTS TO THE NEEDS OF A SOVEREIGN STATE )NDEED MEMBERS OF THE STATE PROTOCOL DEPARTMENT ALREADY PASSED THEIR FIRST TEST WITH FLYING COLOURS DURING THE OFFICIAL VISIT OF 3ERBIAN 0RESIDENT "ORIS 4ADIÌ TO 0ODGORICA IN LATE *UNE

7HEN 0RESIDENT 4ADIÌ ARRIVED AT THE COMPLETELY MODERNISED 0ODGORICA !IRPORT EVERYTHING WAS AS IT IS IN ANY OTHER METROPOLIS DUR ING THE ARRIVAL OF HIGH OFFICIAL GUESTS THE RED CARPET WAS ROLLED OUT THE HONORARY GUARD WERE PRISTINELY PRESENTED AND ATTENTIVE AND GLEAMING BLACK LIMOUSINES ADORNING THE STATE FLAGS OF 3ERBIA AND -ONTENEGRO WERE THEN TO WHISK 4ADIÌ HIS ENTOURAGE AND HIS HOSTS AWAY TO #ETINJE WHERE IN FRONT OF THE 0RESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE 4ADIC WAS AGAIN OFFICIALLY

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WELCOMED WITH A SUBTLE PROTOCOL STYLE -ONTENEGRIN STATE SERVICE PROTOCOL WILL BE STRENGTHENED YET FUR THER #HIEF 3IMEUN 2AONIC ANNOUNCED NOTING THAT THE DUTY OF THE PROTOCOL DEPARTMENT IS NOT ONLY THE RECEPTION OF FOREIGN STATESMEN

BUT ALSO THEIR ACCOMMODATION THE PREPARATION OF THE PROGRAMME FOR FREE TIME DURING THEIR VISIT AND ALL OTHER DETAILS RIGHT DOWN TO KNOWING THE MENUS IN THE RESTAURANTS IN WHICH VISITING DIGNITARIES ARE TO EAT #URRENTLY 0ODOGIRCAiS FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS m CONSULATES AND EMBASSIES m ARE LOCATED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY IN SPECIAL BUILDINGS OR IN RESIDENTIAL BUSINESS COMPLEXES 4HE 3LOVENIAN EMBAS SY FOR EXAMPLE IS LOCATED IN A NEW RESIDENTIAL BUSINESS BUILDING IN THE DISTRICT LYING ALONG THE RIGHT BANK OF THE -ORAÍA 2IVER "ELOW THE EMBASSY ON THE FIRST FLOOR ARE CAFES AND A PASTRY SHOP WHILST LEGAL FIRMS AND OTHER OFFICES ARE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 4HE #HINESE EMBASSY IS IN A NEW HOUSE PROBABLY RENTED IN THE SUBURB OF :ABJELO 2USSIANS HAVE OPENED THEIR DIPLOMATIC OFFICE IN THE :AGORIC SUBURB WHILST !MERICANS TOOK ONE OF THE BEST LOCATIONS CLOSE TO THE #ASTLE OF +ING .IKOLA NEAR THE BRIDGE OVER THE -ORAÍA 4HE !MERICAN CONSULATE EMBASSY HAS A NICELY PREPARED MAIN BUILDING AND AUXILIARY PREMISES WITH A SPACIOUS COURTYARD 4HE "ULGRAIANS HAVE FOR NOW LOCATED THEMSELVES UNDER THE 'ORICA (ILL

NEAR THE STATE VILLA NAMED AFTER THE HILL -ACEDONIAiS DIPLOMATS ARE IN (ERCEGOVAÍKA 3TREET IN THE CENTRE OF 0ODGORICA WHILE THE )TALIANS ARE IN A NEW BUILDING ON THE 2OMAN SQUARE )NTERESTINGLY THE CONSULATES OF (UNGARY AND !USTRIA SHARE A BUILDING &OR THE NEEDS OF FUTURE AMBASSADORS PLANS ARE IN PLACE TO SEE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC VILLAGE IN 0ODOGIRCA 0REDICTING

m êt ê THAT THIS VERY NEED WOULD ARISE THE -ONTENEGRIN 'OVERNMENT TASKED AND VEGETABLES COULD MEAN THAT THE DAYS OF THE OPEN GREEN MARKETS ARE NUMBERED IN THE -ONTENEGRIN CAPITAL 0ODGORICAiS !SSEMBLY WITH THE TASK OF CO ORDINATING THE VILLAGEiS CON !S FOR FAITH MOST OF THE DIPLOMATS BASED IN BOTH 0ODGORICA AND STRUCTION SOME THREE YEARS AGO 4HE DIPLOMATIC QUARTER WILL MOST LIKELY BE UNDER 'ORICA HILL ON #ETINJE WILL BE ABLE TO SATISFY THEIR RELIGIOUS NEEDS 0ODGORICA BOASTS A SITE THAT ONCE BELONGED TO THE NURSERY OF THE #ITY GREENERY 4HAT IS /RTHODOX #ATHOLIC AND )SLAMIC HOUSES OF WORSHIP WHILE #ETINJE OFFERS THE BEST LOCATION IN 0ODGORICA WITH DENSE GREENERY WHERE DURING THE CHURCHES OF /RTHODOX AND #ATHOLIC DENOMINATION /NE THING IS FOR SURE WITH ALL THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE IN LAST HALF OF THE CENTURY IN APARTMENT BUILDINGS OR SPECIAL HOUSES THE 0ODGORICA FOREIGNERS ARE CERTAIN NOT TO BE BORED m NOT TO MENTION THE HIGHEST -ONTENEGRIN STATE OFFICIALS HAVE RESIDED 4HIS 0ODGORICA j$EDINJEk IS ALSO HOME TO MANY OF -ONTENEGROiS FACT THAT STRANGERS FIND EVERYTHING INTERESTING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY !ND ON THE OFF CHANCE THAT 0ODGORICA LOSES ITS APPEAL TO THOSE RESI CURRENT GOVERNING ELITE 4HE MULTI PURPOSE BUILDING OF 0REMIER -ILO îUKANOVIÌ LIES NEAR 6ILLA j'ORICAk AS DOES THE HOME OF FORMER DENT THERE THE MAJESTIC !DRIATIC COAST IS A STONEiS THROW AWAY AS ARE SOME STUNNING MOUNTAIN RESORTS AND 3KADARSKA ,AKE THE 2IVER 4ARA -ONTENEGRIN 0RESIDENT -OMIR "ULATOVIÌ "ESIDES OPTING TO LOCATE THEMSELVES IN 0ODGORICAiS DIPLOMATIC VILLAGE SOME COUNTRIES ARE EXPECTED TO UTILISE THE BUILDINGS OF THEIR FORMER w ±ê ê ±ê ê³ Øê ±ê ê ê ê ê ¾ EMBASSIES IN THE TRADITIONAL -ONTENEGRIN CAPITAL OF ê ê ê ê ­êo ±ê ê ¾ #ETINJE WHERE DIPLOMATS FIRST TOOK UP RESIDENCE IN THE LATE TH CENTURY "Y THE BEGINNING OF THE TH ê Àê ê ê Àê ê ê ê ê CENTURY SOME NATIONS HAD OPENED EMBASSIES ê ê ê ê êw ê ê ê ­ IN #ETINJE 2USSIA &RANCE AND THE 5NITED +INGDOM BUILT THEIR BUILDINGS WHILST THE OTHER COUNTRIES BOUGHT OR RENTED THE BEST CIVILIAN HOUSES IN #ETINJE FOR THE NEEDS OF m OFFERING OODLES OF WATER SPORT FUN m IS JUST A FEW HOURSi DRIVE AWAY -ONTENEGRO IS A SMALL COUNTRY !ND NOW IT HAS BETTER ROADS THEN THEIR EMBASSIES !LL OF #ETINJEiS AMBASSADORIAL BUILDINGS SOME OF WHICH ARE GENUINE PALACES ARE WELL MAINTAINED ! FEW YEARS AGO DUE EVER MEANING THAT THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS JUST A SHORT COMFORTABLE TO THE ACTIONS OF LOCAL ORGANISATIONS IN #ETINJE PLATES WITH THE SIGNS DRIVE AWAY &OREIGNERS WHO HAVE SPENT TIME IN -ONTENEGRO m ALMOST WITHOUT AND STATE ORNAMENTS OF THE COUNTRIES THAT OPENED THEM WERE PLACED EXCEPTION m PRAISE THE STUNNING NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMOST BACK ON THE BUILDINGS OF THE EMBASSIES !CCORDING TO LOCAL LEGEND ONE OF THE #ETINJE DIPLOMATIC BUILDING AS MUCH AS THEY PRAISE THE SINCERE HOSPITALITY OF -ONTENEGRINS !S PROJECTS m THAT OF THE &RENCH %MBASSY m WAS MISTAKENLY CONSTRUCTED SUCH PERHAPS 0ODGORICA WILL INDEED PROVE TO BE AN EXCELLENT HOME IN #ETINJE INSTEAD OF #AIRO WITH #AIRO GETTING THE BUILDING THAT THE FROM HOME FOR ALL OF THE DIPLOMATS WHO ARE SET TO TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN THE CITY &RENCH ARCHITECTS HAD DESIGNED FOR THE -ONTENEGRIN CAPITAL 4HIS LEG END IS A RESULT OF THE FACT THAT THE HEAVILY MOSAIC ADORNED FA ADE OF THE &RENCH EMBASSY IN #ETINJE HAS A DISTINCTLY !RABIC LOOK 4HOUGH DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO RETURN TO THE !DRIATIC REPUBLIC IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN HOW COMFORTABLE DIPLOMATS WILL FEEL IN THE SMALLEST OF THE FORMER 9UGOSLAV REPUBLICS m THOUGH THE DIPLOMATS CONSULS AND MISSION REPRESENTATIVES WHO HAVE SPENT THE PAST FEW YEARS RESIDING IN 0ODGORICA ARE NOT COMPLAINING AND IT COULD BE SAID THAT THE BUSINESS OF DIPLOMATIC COURTESY IS NOT IN QUESTION &UTURE AMBASSADORS CONSULS ATTACHES AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES DO NOT LIVE ALONE BUT WITH THEIR FAMILIES OF COURSE AND THEY ALSO HAVE FREE TIME OUTSIDE THE GATES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES !S SUCH THE QUESTION OF THE QUALITY OF THEIR PRIVATE LIVES IN 0ODGORICA MUST ALSO BE RAISED )N TERMS OF CLIMATE 0ODGORICA MAY NOT BE THE MOST COMFORTABLE PLACE TO LIVE AT LEAST FOR .ORTHERN %UROPEANS WITH RAINY AUTUMNS AND MILD WINTERS SHORT SPRINGS AND LONG STIFLING HOT SUMMERS 4HE -ONTENEGRIN CAPITAL HAS ITS OWN DYNAMISM BOASTS MANY FINE EATERIES CLUBS AND OTHER LEISURE VENUES m SOME OF WHICH ARE OF AN ELITE NATURE 0ODGORICA OF COURSE BOASTS hAi THEATRE AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER CULTURAL VENUES (OWEVER FASTIDIOUS FOREIGNERS m PRINCI PALLY DIPLOMATS m MAY BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE WEAK CULTURAL OFFER OF 0ODGORICA AS A WHOLE &OR EXAMPLE THE CITY LACKS A BESPOKE CONCERT

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5 3 /FFICIALLY %STABLISHES 4IES 6UKOVIC "ELGRADE 2ADICALS 3HOULD BE "ANNED 3ENIOR OFFICIAL OF -ONTENEGRIN $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY OF 3OCIALISTS -IO DRAG 6UKOVIÌ HAS ASSESSED THAT THE WORK OF 3ERB 2ADICAL 0ARTY 323 IN -ONTENEGRO SHOULD BE BANNED IF THEY ARE ACTING AS THE BRANCH OF FICE OF THE "ELGRADE HEADQUARTERS ) HAVE HEARD THAT THE !DMINISTRATIVE #OURT SHALL RE CONSIDER HOW AND UNDER WHICH NAME 2ADICALS ARE ACTING IN -ON TENEGRO )F IT IS ONLY THE BRANCH OFFICE OF THE 323 "ELGRADE HEADQUARTERS THEN THEY SHOULD BE BANNED 6UKOVIC TOLD -ON TENEGRIN DAILY $!. !CCORDING TO HIM IT WAS AN AUTHENTIC POLITICAL SUBJECT IN -ON TENEGRO THAN WE SHALL HAVE NO PROBLEMS IN DEFEATING THEM AGAIN 6UKOVIC SAID THAT THOSE WHO INVITED 4OMISLAV .IKOLIC WERE POLITICAL INVALIDS SO THEY NEED THE INFUSION FROM ASIDE .IKOLIC GOT SEVERELY COMPROMISED AND GOT DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF AN INDEPENDENT STATE 6UKOVIC ASSESSED 3OURCE -..%73

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,AJÍAK TOLD -ONTENEGRIN DAILY $!. THAT THE PARTIES SHOULD PROVIDE AT LEAST PART OF THE MONEY FOR THE CAMPAIGN "OTH THE AUTHORITIES AND THE OPPOSITION KNEW THAT THE REFERENDUM WOULD EMPTY THE BUDGET AND THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE COUNTING ON THE ASSISTANCE OF THE %5

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5 3 3TATE $EPARTMENT SPOKESMAN 3EAN -C#ORMACK ANNOUNCED ON TH !UGUST THAT THE 5NITED 3TATES AND -ONTENEGRO HAVE OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC TIES 4HE PROCEDURE WAS COMPLETED AFTER THE EXCHANGE OF FORMAL LETTERS BETWEEN 5 3 0RESIDENT 'EORGE 7 "USH AND -ONTENEGRIN COUNTERPART &ILIP 6UJANOVIÌ -C#ORMACK EXPRESSED 7ASHINGTON S DESIRE FOR CONTINUED CO OPERATION WITH 0ODGORICA AND PRAISED THE LEVEL OF COLLABORATION DEMONSTRATED BY -ONTENEGRO AND 3ERBIA SINCE THE BREAK UP OF THEIR FORMER UNION 3OURCE 53 3TATE $EPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE

%5 #ANDIDATE 3TATUS BY -ONTENEGRIN -INISTER FOR %UROPEAN )NTEGRATIONS 'ORDANA îUROVIÌ SAID IN LATE !UGUST THAT -ONTENEGRO MIGHT BE GRANTED THE STATUS OF %5 CANDIDATE COUNTRY BY îUROVIÌ DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THE ASSESSMENT OF *AMES ,YON OF THE )NTERNATIONAL #RISIS 'ROUP THAT -ONTENEGRO MIGHT BECOME A FULLY FLEDGED MEMBER OF THE %UROPEAN 5NION AS SOON AS !CCORDING TO îUROVIÌ THE TIMELINE OF -ONTENEGRO S ENTRY IN TO THE %5 WILL DEPEND ON THE COUNTRY ITSELF 3OURCE SEEUROPE NET

2USSIA $ISCOURAGES .!4/ -EMBERSHIP #HIEF !DVISOR OF THE -INISTRY OF &OREIGN !FFAIRS OF 2USSIA 9URI "ICHKOV SAID HE WAS SURPRISED AT -ONTENEGRO S INTENTION TO JOIN THE .!4/ SINCE IT WOULD LIMIT THE COUNTRYiS SOVEREIGNTY AND ENSURE THAT MANY HIGH PRIORITY FOREIGN ISSUES WOULD BE SOLVED IN "RUSSELS AND 7ASHINGTON

INSTEAD OF IN 0ODGORICA )T SHALL LIMIT THE SOVEREIGNTY THAT -ONTE NEGRO HAS JUST BEEN GAINED AFTER SO MUCH EFFORT )S THERE ANY SENSE IN ESCAPING FROM "ELGRADE S GUARDIANSHIP !ND WHO IS -ONTENEGRO TO PROTECT ITSELF UN DER THE .!4/ UMBRELLA "ICHKOV TOLD -ONTENEGRIN DAILY 6IJESTI (E IS OF THE OPINION THAT -ONTENEGRO HAS A UNIQUE ALTERNATIVE SINCE IT SHALL HAVE A NEW CONSTITUTION IN SIX MONTHS )F THE #ONSTITUTION INCLUDED AN ARTICLE ON THE NEUTRAL STATUS OF -ONTENEGRO IT WOULD RE ALLY MAKE IT INDEPENDENT AND INFLUENTIAL ENTITY IN THE WORLD POLITICS

"ICHKOV SAID (E SAID THAT STATEMENTS THAT 2USSIA INTENDED TO BUILD NAVAL BASES IN -ONTENEGRO WERE GROUNDLESS /NE SHOULD REMEMBER THE RECENT HISTORY 7HILE THE 3OVIET 5NION HAD BEEN THE LEADER OF THE COMMUNIST BLOC AND 3&2 9UGOSLAVIA THE LEADER OF THE .ON ALIGNED -OVEMENT IT DID NOT PREVENT DOZENS OF 3OVIET TRADE AND MILITARY SHIPS FROM BEING OVERHAULED IN "IJELA AND 4IVAT TO THE SATISFACTION OF BOTH COUNTRIES 3UCH CO OPERATION IS WELL WORTH CONSIDERING "ICHKOV CONCLUDED 3OURCE 6IJESTI

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AND RECEIVED THE EXPECTED REPLY %UROPEiS DOOR IS WIDE OPEN FOR 3ERBIA JUST AS SOON AS 2ATKO -LADIÌ RESIDES IN THE 3CHEVENINGEN DETENTION CENTRE 3TRAIGHT AFTER MEETING THE 3ERBIAN POLITICAL DUO %5 %NLARGEMENT #OMMISSIONER /LLI 2EHN TOLD PRESS THAT THE 0ACKET 0LUS WAS HEADED IN A jGOOD DIRECTIONk BECAUSE IT IS FOCUSED ON INVEST MENTS AND EDUCATION (E WAS ALSO SATISFIED BECAUSE A SIGNIFICANT INFLOW OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT HAD COME TO 3ERBIA AND BECAUSE THE 'OVERNMENT WAS TAKING CO OPERATION WITH 4HE (AGUE 4RIBUNAL jVERY SERIOUSLYk AND HAD STARTED TO IMPLEMENT THE !CTION 0LAN 2EHN EMPHASIZED THAT THE MEETING WITH $INKIÌ AND $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌ HAD BEEN jVERY CONSTRUCTIVEk j4HE 0ACKET 0LUS AS THEY CALL IT IN THE 3ERBIA PRESS WAS EXPLAINED TO ME ) THINK IT IS IMPOR TANT THAT 3ERBIA IS PREPARING THE .ATIONAL )NVESTMENT 0LAN AND IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THAT PLAN IF IT CONTINUES TO DEVELOP

WILL BECOME THE 'OVERNMENTiS PLAN TOO k 2EHN EMPHASISED JUST HOURS BEFORE THE 3ERBIAN 'OVERNMENT DID INDEED MAKE 0ACKET 0LUS THEIR OWN PLAN 0ACKET 0LUS CONSISTS OF THE PROPOSAL FOR THE CONDITIONAL WRITE OFF OF THE 53 BILLION WORTH OF DEBT TO THE 0ARIS #LUB IN RETURN FOR BUILDING #ORRIDOR THROUGH 3ERBIA WHICH WOULD NOT BE ONLY TO 3ERBIAiS BENEFIT BUT TO THAT OF NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES TOO !DDITIONALLY IT WAS REQUESTED THAT 3ERBIA RECEIVES PRE ACCESSION FUNDS THOUGH AS AN hOFFICIALi AND NOT MERELY hPOTENTIALi %5 CAN DIDATE STATE 4HE 'OVERNMENT WOULD USE THE PRE ACCESSION FUNDS TO FINANCE THE RENEWAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG THE $ANUBE AS WELL AS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ALL BORDER CROSSINGS AND HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS 4HE MAIN REQUESTS ALSO INCLUDE THE EASING OF VISA REGIMES m INITIALLY FOR STUDENTS PUPILS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE AND LATER FOR OTHER CITIZENS TOO 3PEAKING IN "RUSSELS 2EHN SAID j4HE 0LAN THAT WAS PRESENTED TO ME WAS HEADING THE RIGHT WAY BECAUSE IT IS FOCUSED ON THE INCREASE OF INVESTMENTS AND INCREASED POSSIBILITIES FOR EDUCA TIONk $ECLINING TO COMMENT ON THE DETAILS OF THE PLAN 2EHN SAID ONLY j3OME OF ITS ELEMENTS SUCH AS THE DEBT WRITE OFF ARE MORE FOR THE 0ARIS #LUB TO DECIDE I E THEY ARE NOT UNDER THE %UROPEAN #OMMISSIONiS JURISDICTIONk 2EHN WENT ON TO DESCRIBE THE IDEA OF EASING VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR 3ERBIAN CITIZENS BY AS BEING jA VERY AMBITIOUS AIMk BUT ONE THAT COULD HAPPEN EVEN QUICKER j)F 3ERBIA MANAGES TO FULFIL DEMANDS SUCH AS THE CONTROL OF THE BORDERS AND BORDER SECURITY

THEN WE WILL HAVE THE AGREEMENT ON VISA EXEMPTIONS AS EARLY AS THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEARk ESTIMATED 2EHN $INKIÌ AND $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌ WERE OPTIMISTIC BUT RESERVED AFTER THE TALKS WITH 2EHN 4HE $EPUTY 0- ADMITTED THAT THE MAJORITY OF QUESTIONS REFERRED TO THE CO OPERATION WITH THE (AGUE 4RIBUNAL AND INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE 'OVERNMENT IS DOING IN ORDER TO ARREST 2ATKO -LADIÌ $INKIÌ TOLD THE 3ERBIAN PUBLIC THAT EVERYTHING DEPENDED ON 3ERBIA AND THAT THE STATE CAN jEXPRESSLY JOIN THE %UROPEAN 5NION IF IT FIRST FULFILS ITS OBLIGATIONSk !CCORDING TO $INKIÌ THE %UROPEAN 5NION WANTS TO HELP 3ERBIA AND IT IS UP TO THE COUNTRY TO USE THAT CHANCE /THER 3ERBIAN OFFICIALS NOTICEABLY AVOIDED COMMENTING ON $INKIÌ AND $ULIÌ -ARKOVIÌiS DECLARATIONS IN "RUSSELS AS WELL AS THE REACTIONS OF THE %UROPEAN 5NION )T REMAINS UNCLEAR IF THAT

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-ORE THAN TWO YEARS INTO THE ##!3! PROJECT HOW RELIABLE AND MODERN HAS 3ERBIAiS COMMERCIAL COURT SYSTEM NOW BECOME 7ELL ITiS COME A LONG WAY AND IF YOU ASK THE -INISTER OF *USTICE THE SAME QUESTION m AS ) THINK HAS BEEN ASKED OF HIM ON A FEW OCCASIONS m ) THINK HE WOULD AGREE !S AN EXAMPLE THROUGH OUR PROJECT WE HAVE INSTALLED THE INTERNET AT ALL COURTS AND TIED THEM TOGETHER WITH A 60. 6IRTUAL 0RIVATE .ETWORK 7EiVE ALSO INSTALLED NEW COMPUTERS AND PRINTERS 7ITH THIS WE ALSO PIPED IN LEGAL RESEARCH THROUGH A SUBCONTRACTOR LEGAL RESEARCH SERVICE 0ARAGRAPH AND ALSO GAVE TRAINING ON HOW TO USE THE SYSTEM AND THE 0ARAGRAPH SOFTWARE .OW ALL JUDGES HAVE ACCESS TO THE LAWS REGULATIONS AND OFFICIAL LISTS ONLINE AND AT THEIR LEISUREb4HAT WAS THE VERY FIRST PHASE OF OUR PROJECT CONDUCTED IN THE FIRST YEAR /NCE WE HAD DEVELOPED THAT BASE ACROSS THE COURTS WE BUILT ONTO THAT A STATISTICAL GATHERING SYSTEM 4HE STATISTICS THE COURTS HAD GATHERED PRIOR TO THIS WERE GENERALLY EACH GATHERED A LITTLE BIT DIF FERENTLY OR REPORTED A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY 4HIS WASNiT CONDUCIVE TO COMPILING AND COMPARING EITHER COURT TO COURT OR PERIOD TO PERIOD 7ITH THE SYSTEM WEiVE INSTALLED HOWEVER WEiRE AUTOMATICALLY GATHER ING DATA THATiS INPUT FROM ALL COURTS AND NOW WE CAN ISSUE REPORTS m THE FIRST SUCH QUARTERLY REPORT WAS ISSUED ST -ARCH AND HAS ALL KINDS OF STATISTICS AND ALL KINDS OF MEASUREMENTS /UR SYSTEM HAS STANDARDISED THEIR METHOD OF COLLECTING STATISTICS AND AUTOMATED IT THIS IS THE #$#) #ASE $ATA #OLLECTION )NSTRUMENT THAT WE AT ##!3!

DEVELOPED TOGETHER WITH THE OFFICIAL WORKING COMMITTEE AUTHORISED BY THE 3ERBIAN 3UPREME #OURT 4HAT WAS THE SECOND PHASE OF OUR PROJECT

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A CONTRACT CLAIM CASE FROM BEGINNING TO END m LITIGATION ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO COLLECTION m WOULD TAKE DAYS IN 3ERBIA AND -ONTENEGRO 7ORLD "ANK $OING "USINESS IN 3ERBIA AND -ONTENEGRO "ASED ON ##!3!iS #$#) #ASE $ATA #OLLECTION )NSTRUMENT FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR A CONTRACT CLAIM TAKES DAYS IN 3ERBIA "ASED ON THE STATISTICS FROM THE #OMMERCIAL #OURTS IN 3ERBIA !S A RESULT OF THIS THE COURTS NOW HAVE AN OBJECTIVE AND ACCURATE MEASUREMENT THAT THEY CAN USE TO IMPROVE THEIR SYSTEMb WEiVE GIVEN THEM THE TOOLS TO DO THAT AND NOW THE BALLiS IN THEIR COURT !ND ) THINK THEYiLL TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY 7HAT OVERALL EFFECT WILL THIS PROJECT HAVE ON INVESTOR CONFIDENCE IN THE 3ERBIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM 7EiRE HOPING THAT

BY HAVING A MORE TRANSPARENT SYSTEM AND THUS A CLEARER PICTURE OF WHATiS REALLY GOING ON INVESTORS WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT AND QUANTIFY THEIR RISK 7EiRE NOT SAYING ITiS A RISK FREE ENVIRONMENT m NO TRANSITION COUNTRY IS m BUT NOW THAT THEY CAN SEE THAT THE AVERAGE IS NOT A THOUSAND DAYS AND KNOW THAT IF THEY EVER HAVE TO GO TO LITIGATION THEIR CASE IS NOT GOING TO FALL INTO A BLACK HOLE WEiRE HOP ING THAT THEYiLL FACTOR THIS IN WHEN THEY DO COME TO INVEST HERE ) ALSO THINK THAT EVEN WHAT THEYiVE SEEN SO FAR PROVIDES A BETTER PICTURE THAN WHAT THEY SAW A FEW YEARS AGO

(OW MUCH TIME WILL THE STREAMLINING AND SYSTEMATISING OF THE COMMERCIAL COURT SYSTEM SAVE IN REAL TERMS )TiS HARD TO TELL ) CAN SAY OFF THE BAT THAT ITiLL BE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME BUT THE ONLY WAY TO TELL EXACTLY HOW MUCH TIME WILL BE SAVED WILL BE TO TAKE MEASUREMENTS ONCE THE SYSTEMiS FULLY UP AND RUNNING

!CTUALLY LOGGING A CASE IN INITIALLY MIGHT ACTUALLY TAKE MORE TIME "UT ONCE A CASEiS INFORMATION IS IN THE SYSTEM IT WILL NEVER HAVE TO BE TYPED AGAIN 9OUiRE NOW MOVING ON NOW TO HEAD UP THE NEW 53!)$ FUNDED "ANKRUPTCY AND %NFORCEMENT 3TRENGTHENING !CTIVITY "%3 PROJECT (OW CONFIDENT ARE YOU THAT THE ##!3! PROJECT WILL CONCLUDE SUC CESSFULLY /VER THE PAST TWO YEARS WEiVE RUN A HIGH ENERGY PROJECT )iVE WIT NESSED THE GROWTH OF LOCAL STAFF INTO REAL PROFESSIONALS AND NOW THAT THE SYSTEM IS BLOSSOMING ) SEE THAT THEYiRE FULL OF ENTHUSIASM b3ADLY )iM MOVING ON NOW m JUST AS THE SYSTEM IS STARTING TO BEAR FRUITb"UT THE ##!3! PROJECT HAS AN EXCELLENT TRAJECTORY AND AN EXCEL LENT #HIEF OF 0ARTY IN MY SUCCESSOR .ATApA 2ApIÌ A FORMER JUDGE AND FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE *UDICIAL 4RAINING #ENTRE 3O )iM CONFIDENT THAT )iM LEAVING THE PROJECT IN VERY CAPABLE HANDS -OVING ON TO THE "%3 PROJECT AND BEARING IN MIND THAT PRIVA TISATION THROUGH LIQUIDATION IS ALWAYS A MAJOR FACTOR IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES HOW MUCH PRESSURE HAS BEEN APPLIED BY FOREIGN INVES TORS INTERESTED IN PRIVATISATION TO SEE INSOLVENCY LAWS REFORMED AND PRACTICES UPGRADED ) CANiT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT DIRECT PRESSURE BUT ) CAN SAY THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO INVEST IN 3ERBIA !ND ASIDE FROM THE USUAL FUNCTION OF A BANKRUPTCY LAW WHAT THE "ANKRUPTCY ,AW DOES IN A TRANSITION COUNTRY IS ALLOW THINGS THAT CANNOT BE PRIVATISED TO BE SOLD IN OTHER WORDS IT ALLOWS A SALE OF ASSETS WHEREBY DEBT LADEN COMPANIES CAN BE SOLD OFF m AS A WHOLE OR IN PARTS m AND ALTHOUGH THE ORIGINAL DEBTORS DONiT GET EVERYTHING THEYiRE OWED THE NEW OWNER TAKES THEIR PURCHASE AND IS FREE AND CLEAR OF THE OBLIGATION OF EXISTING DEBT )S THERE PRESSURE FOR THIS ) THINK THAT BUYERS WHO WANTED TO BUY SOMETHING AND COULDNiT DO SO THROUGH PRIVATISATION ARE PROBABLY CLAM BERING FOR SUCH A MECHANISM 4HIS IS JUST ABOUT A CLEANER MORE TRANSPARENT WAY OF SELLING THAT ALSO PROTECTS THE BUYER BY ENSURING THAT THEY DONiT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT CLAIMS ATTACHED TO THE ASSETS OR POTENTIAL LAW SUITS AGAINST THEMb

7HEN DO YOU EXPECT !MBASSADOR 0OLT TO BE ABLE TO TELL POTENTIAL 5 3 AND OTHER ° ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê FOREIGN INVESTORS THAT 3ERBIAiS COMMER Ø ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê CIAL COURT SYSTEM IS hNOW REPRESENTATIVE OF ê ê ê°êpê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê INTERNATIONAL NORMSi 4HAT IS MY DREAM AND OUR ULTIMATE GOAL

ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ AND ) THINK ITiS SAFE TO SAY THAT WEiRE MOVING TOWARD THAT 4HEREiS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO

BUT NOT AS LONG AS TWO YEARS AGO AND REFORMS ARE NOW COMING ON A !N INTEGRATED COMPUTER SYSTEM HAS AIDED TRANSPARENCY AND EFFI NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FRONTS 4HE LAWS ARE BEING REFORMED AND THEREiS A CIENCY WHILE NEW LEGISLATION HAS CLARIFIED PROCEDURES .EVERTHELESS WHOLE LIST OF NEW LAWS ADOPTED LAST YEAR BY THIS GOVERNMENT AND EARLIER ARENiT UNDERPAID COURT OFFICIALS ALWAYS GOING TO BE PRONE TO CORRUP

BY THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT THAT COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS TION )N OTHER WORDS ARE HIGHER SALARIES THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFEC AND ARE TO BE APPLAUDED TIVE WAY OF DISCOURAGING CORRUPTION AND LURING THE TOP JUDGES .OW COMES IMPLEMENTATION AND LIKE IMPLEMENTING ANY NEW LAW ) AGREE THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE A CORRELATION BETWEEN SALARIES AND IN ANY COUNTRY THERE ARE LITTLE ROUGH SPOTS THAT NEED TO BE IRONED OUT CORRUPTION )N 3INGAPORE FOR INSTANCE THE SALARIES FOR JUDGES ARE VERY 4HATiS THE PHASE THAT THEYiRE AT NOW HIGH AND THE PENALTIES FOR CORRUPTION ARE ALSO VERY SEVERE -OREOVER THE BODIES IN THE BANKRUPTCY SPHERE m THE "ANKRUPTCY 4HAT SAID IN ALMOST EVERY SECTOR EVEN IN THE 5 3 JUDICIAL PAY 3UPERVISION !GENCY AND THE "ANKRUPTCY 5NIT WITHIN THE 0RIVATISATION IS GENERALLY LOWER THAN THAT MADE BY LAWYERS (OWEVER WEiVE ALSO !GENCY m DIDNiT EVEN EXIST A YEAR AND A HALF AGO 3O WEiRE NOW SEEING RECOMMENDED THAT JUDGESi SALARIES BE RAISED HERE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE PROGRESS ON BOTH OF THOSE FRONTS m THOUGH THERE ARE BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS AND THATiS ALSO A POLITICAL &URTHERMORE 3UPREME #OURT JUDGES HAVE STARTED WRITING BOOKS FACTOR ON BANKRUPTCY AND NOW THERE ARE TWO OR THREE NEW BOOKS HERE JUST 7OULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THAT THE ##!3! PROJECT WAS ABOUT LAYING ON BANKRUPTCY ALONE 3O THE BANKRUPTCY SYSTEM HAS COME A LONG WAY THE FOUNDATIONS TO TACKLE THE PROBLEMS OF BANKRUPTCY CASES FROM BEING ONE OF THE WORST TO PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST IN THE REGION 9ES BUT ONLY ALONGSIDE ALL OTHER CASES HANDLED BY THE COMMERCIAL !ND THIS IS NOT JUST 53!)$ SPEAKING m THE %"2$ HAS SAID THAT AND THE COURTSb 7ORLD "ANK HAS ALSO SAID THAT CorD \ 3EPTEMBER

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!LL REGIONS CONTRIBUTED WITH DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH RATES TO THE BOOST IN SALES AT -ERCEDES "ENZ DURING THE FIRST HALF OF AND THIS FANTASTIC KNOWLEDGE MOTIVATED THE COMPANY FOR NEW ACTIONS AND IDEAS IN DES "ENZ CU 4HE NEW -ERCEDES "ENZ #, #LASS LUXURY COUPE WILL MAKE IS MARKET DEBUT IN THE AUTUMN OF 7ITH 02% 3!&%| PRO TECTION SYSTEM NOW INCLUDED IN THE STANDARD SAFETY EQUIPMENT

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4HE 3ERBIAN 3TATISTICS /FFICE HAS SAID THAT AVERAGE GROSS SALARY IN THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA IN *ULY AMOUNTED TO

DINARS WHICH IS LOWER BY ò IN NOMINAL TERMS AND HIGHER BY ò IN REAL TERMS IN RELATION TO THE AVERAGE *UNE SALARY *ULY S TAKE HOME SALARY STOOD AT DINARS )T IS LOWER BY ò IN NOMINAL TERMS AND HIGHER BY ò IN REAL TERMS THAN THE AVERAGE *UNE SALARY #OMPARED WITH THE SAME MONTH OF THE *ULY NET SALARY ROSE ò NOMI NALLY AND ò IN REAL TERMS 3ERBIAiS AVERAGE GROSS SALARY IN THE *ANUARY *ULY PERIOD ROSE ò AND ò IN NOMINAL AND REAL TERMS RESPECTIVELY AGAINST THE SAME PERIOD OF 4HE AVERAGE NET SALARY PAID OUT FROM *ANUARY TO *ULY NOMINALLY ROSE ò NOMINALLY AND ò IN REAL TERMS AGAINST THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR THE 3TATISTICS /FFICE HAS SAID 3OURCE 'OVERNMENT OF 3ERBIA

y ê ê µi êi ê êz ´êê 2ENOWNED "RITISH FINANCIAL MAGAZINE %UROMONEY HAS AWARDED 2AIFFEISENBANK THE TITLE OF j"EST "ANK IN 3ERBIAk FOR THE FIFTH CON SECUTIVE TIME STATING THAT ITS EXCELLENT BUSINESS RESULTS WERE THE DECISIVE FACTOR IN DETERMINING THIS DECISION 2AIFFEISENBANK IS THE LARGEST BANK LOCALLY

IN TERMS OF TOTAL ASSETS AND THE MARKET LEADER IN TERMS OF TOTAL DEPOSITS AND LOAN PORTFOLIO )N THE PAST YEAR ITS TOTAL ASSETS ALONE INCREASED BY PER CENT TO _ BILLION SO THAT 2AIFFEISENBANK WAS ONE OF THE MAIN GENERATORS OF GROWTH IN THE 3ERBIAN BANKING SECTOR IN 2ETAIL BANKING IS GAINING IMPETUS ACCORDING TO THE FIGURE OF MORE THAN CLIENTS AND A LOAN GROWTH TO _ MILLION BY THE END OF 7ITH _ MILLION APPROVED BY THE END OF 2AIFFEISENBANK CONFIRMED ITS POSITION AS THE MAIN CREDITOR OF 3ERBIAiS ECONOMY 4HE BANK WILL CONTINUE ITS FOCUS ON CORPORATE BANKING AS CON FIRMED BY #%/ -R /LIVER 2OEGL

j êh ê w ê êt êy "ELGRADE DAILY 0OLITIKA REPORTED ON ND !UGUST THAT REPRESENTATIVES OF 3ERBIAiS -ERIDIAN "ANK HAD STATED THAT &RENCH BANKING GIANT #REDIT !GRICOLE IS INTERESTED IN ACQUIR

ING THE REMAINING PER CENT OF -ERIDIANiS SHARES

SHARES FOR _ MILLION #REDIT !GRICOLE HAS OFFERED DINARS PER SHARE IN AN OFFER THAT WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL TH 3EPTEMBER

w êv êu êw 4HIS SUMMER SAW 0IRAEUS "ANK OPEN ITS LATEST SUB BRANCH AT THE FORMER SITE OF 6ERANA -OTORS ON 4AKOVSKA 3TREET B IN "ELGRADE 4HE NEW 4AKOVSKA LOCATION WILL ALSO HOUSE 0IRAEUSiS

j)N A YEARiS TIME CORPORATE CREDITS ROSE BY PER CENT AND THE FUNDS APPROVED FOR 3-%S DOUBLED m EXCEEDING _ MILLION 2ECENTLY WE INCREASED OUR CAPITAL BY _ MILLION BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN 3ERBIAiS DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE 4HE ADDITIONAL CAPI TAL WILL IN PART BE INVESTED IN CORPORATE CREDITS ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED COMPANIESk STATED 2OEGL 2OEGL CONSIDERS THE %UROMONEY AWARD AS YET MORE PROOF OF THE BANKiS APPROACH TO QUALITY j/UR SUCCESS IS A RESULT OF THE QUALITY SERVICE WE OFFER OUR CLIENTS /UR AIM IS TO DEVELOP CONSTANTLY ALL BUSINESS SEGMENTS WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DOING SUCCESSFULLY FOR FIVE YEARS ALREADY !S A RESULT OUR CLIENTS ARE SATISFIED WITH THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED BY OUR BANK /F THE BIGGEST DOMESTIC COMPANIES IN 3ERBIA ARE CLIENTS OF OUR BANK AND OF THE TOP FOREIGN INVESTORS IN 3ERBIA ARE DOING BUSINESS WITH USk 2AIFFEISEN )NTERNATIONAL THE HOLDING COMPANY RUNNING THE NETWORK OF 2AIFFEISENBANKS IN #ENTRAL AND %ASTERN %UROPE ALSO RECEIVED AN AWARD FROM %UROMONEY AS j"EST "ANK IN #ENTRAL AND %ASTERN %UROPEk !PART FROM 3ERBIA THE j"EST "ANKk AWARDS WERE RECEIVED BY 2AIFFEISENBANKS IN !LBANIA "ELARUS "OSNIA (ERZEGOVINA AND 5KRAINE CorD \ 3EPTEMBER

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6OJVOðANSKA BANKA A D .OVI 3AD ENABLES ALL CLIENTS WHO ARE USERS OF THE -43 AND NETWORKS TO TOP UP THEIR CALL CREDIT ON ANY OF THEIR PREPAID NUMBERS VIA 3-3 MESSAGES !NYONE WISHING TO USE THE SERVICE NEEDS ONLY TO HAVE A 6OJVOðANSKA CURRENT ACCOUNT AND THE USER ALSO HAS THE OPTION OF USING THIS SERVICE WITH A MAXIMUM OF TWO OTHER ACCOUNTS GIVEN THAT THEY HAVE AUTHORIZATION TO HANDLE THEM 7HEN TOP UPS ARE MADE THE AMOUNT WILL SIMPLY BE DEBITED FROM THE ACCOUNTHOLD ERiS ACCOUNT WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CHARGES 4HIS SERVICE CAN BE USED AT ANY TIME AND ANYWHERE THAT THE -43 HAS NETWORK COVERAGE AND ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO ACTI VATE THE 3-3 TOP UP SERVICE IS TO FILL IN A REQUEST FORM AND ACCOM PANYING DOCUMENTATION WHICH CAN BE FOUND AT WWW VOBAN CO YU OR AT ANY BRANCH OF THE "ANK #ONFIRMATION OF APPROVAL OF THE SERVICE WILL BE SENT IN THE FORM OF AN 3-3 MESSAGE CONTAINING A UNIQUE FOUR DIGIT M0). NUMBER WHICH IS USED TO CONFIRM EVERY TOP UP REQUEST INITIATED VIA THE 3-3 SERVICE 6OJVOðANSKA BANK ALSO ENABLES ITS CLIENTS TO CHECK THEIR ACCOUNT BALANCE AT ANY TIME VIA THEIR MOBILE PHONES I E THROUGH AN 3-3 MESSAGE

0AYMENT #ARDS AND #ONSUMER ,OANS OPERATIONS 2ETAIL /PERATIONS $EPUTY 'ENERAL -ANAGER OF 0IRAEUS "ANK -R +ONSTANTINOS 6AGIOTIS OFFICIALLY OPENED THE SUB BRANCH IN 3T 4AKOVSKA AND STAT ED THAT THIS WAS JUST ANOTHER STEP TOWARD NETWORK EXTENSION OF 0IRAEUS BANK NETWORK PRECISELY "ELGRADE NETWORK j4ODAY 0IRAEUS "ANK HAS OPENED ITS TH SUB BRANCH IN THE TERRITORY OF 3ERBIA

MORE PRECISELY "ELGRADE !CCORDING TO OUR PLAN

BY THE END OF THE YEAR WE SHOULD HAVE SUB BRANCHES WHILE PRE CISELY A YEAR AGO THE "ANK HAD ONLY SUB BRANCHESk

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z êp ê ê êz êk !UGUST SAW 3UBOTICA $AIRY ANNOUNCE PLANS TO INVEST _ MILLION FOR THE PURCHASE OF RAW MILK AS WELL AS BOOST ING PRODUCTION AND BUYING EQUIPMENT TO PRODUCE FETA STYLE CHEESE 4HIS WILL MARK THE HIGHEST INVEST MENT FOR 3ALFORD &UND SINCE WHEN _ MILLION WAS INVESTED IN DAIRY PLANT DEVELOPMENT $AIRY SPOKESMEN STATED THAT _ MIL LION WILL BE INVESTED IN THE NEW PRODUC TION LINE FOR FETA CHEESE DUE TO COM MENCE DISTRIBUTION IN /CTOBER 4HE DAIRY ALSO HOPES TO BE ABLE TO FACILITATE EXPORTS TO %5 COUNTRIES BY BECOMING "2# CERTIFIED ONCE THE FETA PRODUCTION LINE BECOMES OPERATIONAL

y k ê 2AIFFEISENBANK "ELGRADE IS CONTINU ING TO BRING JOY TO THE LIVES OF THE CHIL DREN OF 3ERBIA WITH ITS PROGRAMME OF EQUIPPING PARKS WITH THE BANKiS SPECIAL j9ELLOW 0LAYGROUNDSk 4O DATE THE MARKET LEADING !USTRIAN BANK HAS DONATED 9ELLOW 0LAYGROUNDS ACROSS 3ERBIA AND THIS MONTH 3EPTEMBER WILL SEE FOUR MORE SUCH PLAYGROUNDS INSTALLED !LL THE EQUIPMENT FOUND IN THE 9ELLOW 0LAYGROUNDS IS A GIFT OF 2AIFFEISENBANK TO THE CHILDREN OF 3ERBIA 4HE BANK PLANS TO CONTINUE TO DONATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUC TION OF CHILDRENiS PLAYGROUNDS IN ALL CIT IES WHERE IT HAS ITS BRANCH OFFICES

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} êq êp ê ê êy ê êl !T ITS ANNUAL ASSEMBLY HELD IN 3ALZBURG !USTRIA THE )NSTITUTE OF THE 2EGIONS OF %UROPE )2% ACCEPTED 6OJVODINA AS ITS NEWEST MEMBER 4HE

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,JUBIpA *OVANOVIÌ SAID ON ST !UGUST THAT THE BANK WILL ALLOCATE _ MILLION FOR DIVIDEND PAYOUTS *OVANOVIÌ ALSO STATED THAT THE BANK

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-INISTER )VANA $ULIร -ARKOVIร $EPUTY 0RIME -INISTER -LAรฐAN $INKIร -INISTER OF &INANCE AND 2ADOVAN *ELApIร 'OVERNOR OF THE .ATIONAL "ANK /THER SPEAKERS INCLUDE 0REDRAG "UBALO -INISTER OF %CONOMY AND 0RIVATISATION AND -ILAN 0ARIVODIร -INISTER OF )NTERNATIONAL %CONOMIC 2ELATIONS 9OU WILL ALSO HEAR FROM EXPERIENCED CORPO RATE EXECUTIVES INCLUDING 3IMON 3MITH 'ENERAL -ANAGER .ESTLย !DRIATIC AND 0ETER !NDERSSON -ANAGING $IRECTOR 6OLVO 4RUCKS 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRO AND -ACEDONIA &OR THE FULL LIST OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS THEY WILL BE DISCUSSING PLEASE VISIT WWW ECONOMISTCONFERENCES COM !N OPPORTUNITY FOR OFF THE RECORD DEBATE AND NETWORKING !WAY FROM THE PRESSURES OF RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS YOU WILL HAVE AMPLE TIME TO CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF THE ISSUES DISCUSSED AS YOU QUESTION THE GOVERNMENTiS PLANS AND NETWORK WITH YOUR PEERS IN THE RELAXING SURROUNDINGS OF THE (YATT 2EGENCY (OTEL 4HIS IS A UNIQUE FORUM IN WHICH TO MEET THOSE SHAPING 3ERBIAN POLICY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND VOICE YOUR CONCERNS DIRECTLY TO THOSE WITH THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS 4O RESERVE YOUR PLACE OR FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT ,IANA 4RAUGOTT (AZLIE AT OR AT LIANAHAZLIE ECONOMIST COM #/2$ AND %CONOMIST #ONFERENCES LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOM ING YOU AT 3ERBIAiS PREMIER EVENT

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&OLLOWING COMPLETION OF THE *UNE SHARE PURCHASE CONTRACT THAT SAW THE %"2$ BUY A ò PACKAGE OF CONTROLLING SHARES IN 3ERBIAiS +OMERCIJALNA "ANKA FOR A PRICE OF _ MILLION DIRECTORS OF 3ERBIAiS LARGEST DOMESTIC BANK OPTED TO LIST ITS SHARES ON THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK %XCHANGE "ELEX 4HE TOTAL AMOUNT OF +OMERCIJALNA SHARES LISTED

SHAREHOLDERS REGARDLESS OF THEIR SIZE AND STRUCTURE 4HE "ANK HAS REGULARLY PAID ITS ESTABLISHED DIVIDEND TO ALL OWNERS OF PRIORITY ACTIONS WHICH IS CERTAINLY A SIGNIFICANT ELEMENT IN THE FORMATION OF SHARE PRICES ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE &OLLOWING THE DECISION OF THE $IRECTOR OF THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK %XCHANGE REGARDING THE INTRODUCTION OF SHARES TO THE FREE STOCK EXCHANGE MARKET m AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 2ULE OF 3TOCK -ARKET 4RADING m THE FIRST AUCTION WAS HELD ON TH !UGUST "Y THE END OF THE FIRST DAYiS TRADING +OMERCIJALNA "ANKA SHARES HAD BEEN SOLD FOR A TOTAL OF $INARS m ò GREATER THAN THE INDEX PRICE AT WHICH TRADING HAD BEGUN m WITH THE TOTAL OFFER OF +OMERCIJALNA "ANKA SHARES STANDING AT SHARES AND

IS m OF WHICH ARE REGULAR GOVERNING SHARES AND

OF WHICH ARE PRIORITY SHARES #ONSIDERING THAT +OMERCIJALNAiS IS MAJORITY OWNED BY THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA AND THAT ò IS OWNED BY THE %"2$ WHOSE SHARES ARE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE FOR TRADING SHARES WILL BE TRADED BY SO CALLED jMINORITY SHAREHOLDERSk "Y LISTING ITS SHARES ON "ELEX +OMERCIJALNA "ANKA HAS HOPED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IT EQUALLY RESPECTS AND TAKES CARE OF ALL OF ITS

DEMAND TOTALLING SHARES 4OTAL INCOME THROUGH THE TURNOVER OF +OMERCIJALNA SHARES IS MILLION DINARS 4HE INDEX PRICE WITH WHICH THE TRADING OF +OMERCIJALNA BANK SHARES COMMENCED ON THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK %XCHANGE WAS $INARS !LL DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE VIA THE WEBSITE OF THE "ELGRADE 3TOCK %XCHANGE WWW BELEX CO YU AND THE WEBSITE OF +OMERCIJALNA BANK A D "EOGRAD WWW KOMBANK COM

IS TO OPEN TEN NEW BRANCHES IN "ELGRADE m INCLUDING .EW "ELGRADE AND :EMUN 3OURCE 0OLITIKA

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6ELIMIR )LIÌ ANNOUNCED IN LATE !UGUST THAT CONSTRUCTION WORKS HAD BEEN RESUMED ON THE "ELGRADE RING ROAD FROM /STRUZNICA "RIDGE TO THE )BAR HIGHWAY 4HE WORKS ARE SET TO COST A TOTAL OF _ MILLION 3PEAKING TO GATHERED PRESS )LIÌ SAID THAT _ MILLION HAD BEEN SECURED FROM THE .ATIONAL )NVESTMENT 0LAN

_ MILLION FROM A LOAN PROVIDED BY THE %UROPEAN )NVESTMENT "ANK AND THE %UROPEAN !GENCY FOR 2ECONSTRUCTION (E EXPLAINED THAT THE WORKS WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY A NATIONAL CONSORTIUM LED

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BY j-OSTOGRADNJAk AND j0LANUMk ACCORD ING TO CONTRACTS SIGNED A FEW YEARS AGO

u êh ê z êv !GROBANKA OFFICIALS STATED ON TH !UGUST THAT THE BANK WILL COMMENCE SALES OF ITS NEW ISSUE OF SHARES FOR A TOTAL OF MILLION DINARS 0RESENT SHAREHOLD ERS OF THE BANK HAVE A PRE EMPTION RIGHT IN THE AMOUNT OF MILLION DINARS OF THE TOTAL A RIGHT OF PURCHASE THAT REMAINED VALID ONLY UNTIL TH 3OURCE 4ANJUG

j êi êw ê #ARLSBERG 3RBIJA D O O IS SET TO ADD TO

THE _ MILLION IT HAS ALREADY INVESTED IN THE ACQUISITION AND UPGRADE PROGRAMMES OF ITS BREWERIES IN 3ERBIA !CCORDING TO A #ARLSBERG 3RIBJA PRESS RELEASE THE COM PANY IS SET TO INCREASE ANNUAL PRODUCTION CAPACITIES TO MILLION HECTOLITRES AS WELL AS INCREASING THE QUALITIES OF ITS PRODUCTS

u ê t êz 4HE SAGA SURROUNDING THE SALE OF THE MINOR SHAREHOLDER PACKAGE OF "ELGRADE DAILY 6EÍERNJE NOVOSTI CAME TO A CLOSE ON TH !UGUST WHEN IT WAS CONFIRMED THAT THE PER CENT OF THE NEWSPAPERiS SHARES OWNED BY EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES HAD BEEN SOLD TO "ELGRADE BUSINESSMEN 4HE REMAINING PER CENT OF NOVOSTI SHARES OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT HAVE YET TO BECOME AVAILABLE TO BUY 4HE SALE OF NOVOSTIiS MAJORITY CAPITAL FOLLOWS THE SIGN ING OF A h0ROSPECTUSi BY THE DAILYiS MANAGING DIRECTOR AND EDITOR IN CHIEF -ANOJLO 6UKOTIÌ 3PEAKING ON TH !UGUST

JUST DAYS BEFORE THE SALE 6UKOTIÌ SAID THAT THE BUYERS WERE jA GROUP OF PROMINENT "ELGRADE TYCOONSk 4HE SHARES WERE REPORTEDLY SOLD FOR A VALUE OF

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NURSERIES SCHOOLS FACULTIES CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND CITY PARKS 4HE HEART OF THE ! CLASS OBJECT IS COMPRISED OF AN ATRIUM AND A COVERED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY THAT LINKS THE WHOLE COMPLEX AND PROVIDES A SIMPLE ENTRY TO ALL PARTS OF THE BUILDING /N THE

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GROUND FLOOR THERE ARE SHOPS PROJECTED TOTALLY FOR THE NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS ! SPECIAL ADVANTAGE OF THE COMPLEX IS PROVIDED BY ADDITIONAL CONTENTS ADAPTED TO ALL OF THOSE WHO DEMAND SPACE FOR RECREATION AND RELAXATION WITH THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY !T THE DISPOSAL OF RESIDENTS ARE A POOL AND FITNESS CENTRE AS WELL AS A RELAXING GARDEN AREA ENRICHED WITH GREENERY 4HE MAIN COMPLEX BUILDING CONSTRUCTED WITH THE BEST QUAL ITY MATERIALS AND FULLY EQUIPPED TO MEET THE HIGHEST DEMANDS OF RESIDENTS COMPRISES LUXURIOUSLY EQUIPPED APARTMENTS OF LARGE PROPORTIONS DIRECTLY LINKED WITH THE UNDERGROUND GARAGE AND ATRIUM 7HAT MAKES j/AZAk STAND OUT EVEN MORE IN THE REAL ESTATE MAR KET PLACE IN THE CITY IS ITS EXCEPTIONAL SAFETY 4HE CENTRAL RECEPTION AT THE ENTRANCE BOASTS NON STOP SURVEILLANCE AND HOUR A DAY SECURITY VISUAL IDENTIFICATION OF EVERY VISITOR AND A VIDEO INTER PHONE SYSTEM THAT ENABLES A DIRECT LINK WITH SERVICES OF SURVEIL LANCE ENABLING j/AZAk RESIDENTS TO FEEL AS SAFE AS THEY ARE /NLY PER CENT OF /AZAiS RESIDENTIAL SPACE REMAINS AVAILABLE AT PRESENT SO IF YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE LUXURY SAFETY AND COMFORT

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/NE OF %UROPEiS LARGEST DISTRIBUTORS IN THE VEHICLE INDUSTRY m 0ORSCHE m IS NOW PRESENT IN 3ERBIA IN THE WAY THAT IS ALREADY STANDARD FOR %UROPE WITH ITS OWN BESPOKE OUTLET 4HE COMPANYiS NEW SALES SERVICE CENTRE 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA

STARTED WORKING ON TH !UGUST THIS YEAR AT 2ADNIÍKA 3TREET "ELGRADE

ON ©UKARIÍKA PADINA NEAR THE POPULA !DA #IGNALIJA ,AKE "EGINNINGS 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE AUTHORISED DISTRIBUTOR AND SERVICE PROVIDER FOR VEHICLE BRANDS !UDI AND 3EAT STARTED WORKING IN !PRIL WITHIN RENTED PREMISES AT /ZRENSKA 3TREET )N JUST A SHORT SPACE OF TIME THE COMPANY ACQUIRED A SIGNIFICANT MARKET SHARE IN THE VEHICLE INDUSTRY /VER THE NEXT TWO YEARS 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE HAS WORKED TIRE LESSLY TO TRAIN EMPLOYEES IN ORDER TO OFFER THE BEST POSSIBLE SERVICE

MENT WILL BE HELD THIS YEAR IN "ELGRADE FROM TH TO ST !UGUST 4HE ORGANISER OF THIS YEARiS CONFER ENCE WAS THE .ATIONAL #OMMITTEE FOR THE )NTERNATIONAL (YDROLOGICAL 0ROGRAMME OF 5.%3#/ OF THE 2EPUBLIC OF 3ERBIA IN

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TO OUR BUYERS AND OWNERS OF !UDI AND 3EAT VEHICLES AND WITH THE AIM OF RAISING THE QUALITY OF SERVICES TO THE MAXIMUM 7ITH NEW WAYS OF SELLING AND SERVICING AS WELL AS CONTINUAL PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES WE UPGRADED SALES OF !UDI AND 3EAT VEHI CLES 4HUS 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE JOINED THE LEADING VEHICLE HOUSES ON THE 3ERBIAN MARKET #ONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW 0ORSCHE "ELGRADE !DA SALES SERVICE CENTRE WHICH HAS A PROPERTY VALUE OF A FEW MILLION EUROS COM MENCED IN 4HE !DA CENTRE IS EQUIPPED WITH NEW HIGH QUALITY CRANES

THE LATEST DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES AND SPECIALISED TOOLS FOR !UDI 3EAT AND 0ORSCHE VEHICLES AS WELL AS PROVIDING COMPLETE TECHNICAL VEHI CLE SAFETY INSPECTIONS COURTESY OF 'ERMANYiS -!(! PRODUCERS !5$) m 0REMIUM #LASS 'AINS 7ITH A PER CENT INCREASE IN SALES IN AND A PROJECTED PER CENT GROWTH IN SALES THIS YEAR !UDI IS SLOWLY TAKING OVER THE LEADING POSITION IN THE hPREMIUM CLASSi VEHICLE MARKET )N ADDITION TO THE RENOWNED SUPERIOR QUALITY OF !UDI VEHICLES

THE OPENING OF THE NEW SALES SERVICE CENTRE ONE OF THE BIGGEST IN 3OUTH %AST %UROPE HAS PROVIDED AN ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGE OVER !UDIS RIVALS 4HE !UDI CENTRE COMPLEX HAS A SALON AREA OF AROUND M

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WHERE ALL 3EAT 'AMMA VEHICLES WILL BE EXHIBITED &OLLOWING AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL THAT SAW SALES INCREASE

BY AN INCREDIBLE PER CENT SEES THE COMPANY CONTINUING ITS AMBITIOUS PLANS TO INCREASE SALES BY A FURTH PER CENT 4HE OPENING OF THE SHOWROOM AND SERVICE CENTRE ALSO ENSURES THAT CURRENT AND FUTURE 3EAT VEHICLE OWNERS WILL NO LONGER NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE OF THEIR hBABIESi AS ALL THEIR SERVICING AND REPAIR NEEDS WILL NOW BE CATERED FOR UNDER ONE ROOF

%NVIRONMENTAL 0ROTECTION THE 3ERBIAN -INISTRY OF !GRICULTURE &ORESTRY AND 7ATER -ANAGEMENT AND THE 3ERBIAN -INISTRY OF #APITAL )NVESTMENTS AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC WATER MANAGEMENT COMPA NIES j3RBIJAVODEk j6ODE 6OJVODINEk AND j(% $JERDAPk &INANCIAL BACKING WAS ALSO PRO VIDED BY THE 7ORLD -ETEOROLOGICAL /RGANISATION AND THE )NTERNATIONAL !SSOCIATION OF (YDROLOGICAL 3CIENCES

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ACTIVITIES IN 3ERBIA ON TH 3EPTEMBER AT THE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONiS NEW "ELGRADE PREMISES 4HIS RELAXED GATHERING WILL BE FOLLOWED

BY THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF A PRACTICAL EVENT ENTITLED h3ERBIA m )NVESTMENT ,OCATION OF THE &UTUREi TO BE STAGED AT !IRPORT #ITY "ELGRADE ON ST 3EPTEMBER AND ORGANISED IN CONJUNCTION WITH 3ERBIAN -INISTRY OF %CONOMY AND THE 3ERBIAN )NVESTMENT AND %XPORT 0ROMOTION !GENCY 3)%0!

4HE &)#iS TH ANNIVERSARY PERIOD WILL CULMINATE IN THE PUB LISHING OF THE OFFICIAL &)# 3PECIAL EDITION IN /CTOBER TO BE PREPARED BY THE ALLIANCEMEDIA TEAM 4HE &)# RECENTLY GAINED A NEW HEAD WHEN LONG STANDING PRESI DENT AND &)# BOARD MEMBER -IKE !HERN OF 0RICE7ATERHOUSE#OOPERS 07# RELOCATED TO 0OLAND AND WAS REPLACED BY "UDIMIR +OSTIÌ

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IT MAY SEEM THAT 3ERBIA IS NOT SEEN AS A GOOD INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY AT THE MOMENT BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THE COUNTRY HAS A GOOD PERSPECTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO THE WEATHER FORECASTING BUSINESS 7ITH A BIT OF LUCK ON OUR SIDE TO BOOT THIS THEORY PROVED TO BE CORRECT IN PRACTICE 7HAT WOULD YOU SAY IS PROVING TO BE THE SECRET OF 7EATHER 5MBRELLAiS SUCCESS &IRST AND FOREMOST OUR SUCCESS IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT WE OFFER HIGH QUALITY SERVICES THAT ARE IN DEMAND THAT WE ARE READY TO UNDER STAND AND MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR CLIENTS AND THAT EVERYONE WORKING AT 7EATHER 5MBRELLA ESTABLISHES AND MAINTAINS RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLIENTS THROUGH GOOD COMMUNICATION )N ADDITION THE COMPANY INVESTS IN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION SO THAT WE ARE ALWAYS WORKING ACCORDING TO THE LATEST STANDARDS 3ECONDLY 7EATHER 5MBRELLA IS COMPRISED OF EXPERTS IN THE FIELDS

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OF METEOROLOGY MULTIMEDIA AND SOFTWARE 4HIS MEANS THAT WE PROVIDE CLIENTS WITH THE COMPLETE PACKAGE CREDIBLE WEATHER FORECASTING INFOR MATION THAT IS jPACKAGEDk SO THAT EVERY CLIENT CAN PRESENT THE WEATHER FORECAST DATA TO THEIR AUDIENCES IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY 7EATHER 5MBRELLA IS THEREFORE A COMBINED WEATHER FORECASTING AND PROGRAMMING COMPANY THAT HAS QUALITY RESOURCES AND STAFF WHO ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO MEET AND EVEN EXCEED CLIENTSi EXPECTATIONS 9OU RECEIVE A VERITABLE PLETHORA OF VARIED ENQUIRIES ON A DAILY BASIS %NQUIRIES SUCH AS jCAN YOU PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHETHER THE WEATHER WILL REMAIN HOT AND SUNNY AS )iM PLANNING TO GO ON HOLIDAY k j7HY DO YOU STILL INCLUDE -ONTENEGRO IN YOUR WEATHER FORECAST k j#AN WE PLEASE PUT YOUR LOGO AND FORECAST ON OUR WEBSITE FOR FREE k j7HAT SHOULD ) PACK FOR MY CHILD WHOiS GOING ON A SCHOOL EXCURSION NEXT WEEK k (OW DO YOU INTERPRET THIS 4HIS CERTIFIES THAT 7EATHER 5MBRELLA HAS BECOME A HOUSEHOLD NAME THAT PEOPLE REALLY TRUST WHEN IT COMES TO WEATHER FORECASTING INFORMA TION 7E APPRECIATE THAT PEOPLE TRUST US AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER EACH AND EVERY E MAIL THAT WE RECEIVE 3O WHY DO YOU STILL INCLUDE -ONTENEGRO IN YOUR FORECASTS 3INCE THE INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM IN -ONTENEGRO 3ERBIA AND -ONTENEGRO ARE OBVIOUSLY TWO SEPARATE COUNTRIES (OWEVER WE DONiT DO POLITICS WE DO BUSINESS 4HIS IS WHY WE INCLUDE -ONTENEGROiS WEATHER FORECAST ON OUR WEBSITE "ESIDES OUR AIM IS TO PROVIDE OUR WEATHER FORE CAST TO ALL COUNTRIES IN THE REGION SO OUR NEW WEBSITE WILL BE A WEATHER FORECAST PORTAL FOR THE REGION AS A WHOLE &INALLY WE HAVE CLIENTS IN -ONTENEGRO AND IT IS COMMON SENSE THAT WE HAVE -ONTENEGROiS WEATHER FORECAST ON OUR WEBSITE ) DONiT THINK THAT ANY 3ERBIAN COMPANY HAS STOPPED DOING BUSINESS WITH -ONTENEGRIN COMPANIES SINCE ITS INDEPEND ENCE SO WHY SHOULD WE 7HEN WILL THE NEW REGIONALLY FOCUSED WEBSITE BE AVAILABLE 7E ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE NEW 7EATHER 5MBRELLA WEBSITE AND ITS NEW EDITION SHOULD BE AVAILABLE SOON !S ) SAID BEFORE THE COM PANYiS AIM IS TO PROVIDE WEATHER INFORMATION FOR THE WHOLE REGION WHICH MEANS THAT THE WEBSITE WILL NOT FEATURE ONLY 3ERBIA S FORECAST

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IN 3ERBIA WE HAVE MEDIA HOUSES AS CLIENTS BUT IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT OUR CLIENTS ARE NOT ONLY FROM THE MEDIA DOMAIN OUR CLIENT COMPANIES ARE FROM ALL SECTORS THAT DEPEND ON PRECISE WEATHER FORECASTING FOR THEIR BUSINESSES 4HUS OUR CLIENTS ARE ALSO COMPANIES FROM AGRICULTURE ROAD MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION TOURIST AGENCIES HOTELS AND OTHERS &OR EXAMPLE OUR CLIENT LIST INCLUDES )TALYiS IL-ETEO 'ERMANYiS &E-AX $ENMARKiS 6EJR #ANADAiS 3ENES #ONSULTANTS ,IMITED )N THE REGION FOR EXAMPLE WE DO BUSINESS WITH #ROATIAiS *UTARNJI LIST AND IN 3ERBIA WE HAVE " 6OJVODINA 2OADS "URDA 3ERBIA 4ELEKOM 3ERBIAiS NADLANU COM WEB PORTAL AND MANY OTHERS 7HAT ARE THE TOUGHEST ASPECTS OF DOING BUSINESS IN TRANSITION "ASICALLY IT IS THE ECONOMIC STANDARD OF THE COUNTRY THAT IS SLIGHTLY WORKING TO OUR DISADVANTAGE "UT THE BIGGEST DILEMMA IS WHEN SOME

COMPANIES SIMPLY REFUSE TO PAY OR ARE UNPROFESSIONAL 4O PUT ALL THAT ASIDE WE KNOW AND BELIEVE THAT THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY WILL GET BETTER AND WE VIEW THIS AS A TESTING PERIOD THAT WE ARE MORE THAN DETERMINED TO GET THROUGH )F ANYTHING THIS SITUATION HAS ONLY MADE US STRONGER AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COMPANY AND IT HAS SHOWN US HOW CAPABLE WE ARE TO MAINTAIN HIGH PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS IN THE FACE OF ALL THE DIFFICULTIES (AVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF GIVING UP .EVER 7E HAVE TOO MUCH ENTHUSIASM POSITIVE ENERGY AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE "ESIDES WE SEE THIS AS A TESTING TIME THAT WON T LAST FOREVER

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RATHER THAN ABOUT MYSELF $O YOU EVER REGRET THAT YOUR jFRUITFUL WINTER TIMEk WILL NOT LAST LONGER 9ES AND NO ESPECIALLY WHEN ) ENVISION ALL THAT ) STILL WANT TO ACHIEVE "UT ) ALSO FIND THAT DISSATISFACTION DUE TO THE SHORT NESS OF HUMAN LIFE REPRESENTS A SELFISHNESS WHICH DOES NOT COR RESPOND TO THE MEANING OF LIFE 7HAT IS NOT POSSIBLE NO MATTER HOW DESIRABLE IT IS SHOULD BE DISLODGED FROM CONSCIOUSNESS AND LEFT IN DREAMS !BOUT TEN YEARS AGO WHEN ) RETIRED FROM MY POST AS A PROFESSOR AT (ARVARD ) PLANNED TO PUBLISH FOUR BOOKS A THE AESTHETICS OF THE MOVING IMAGE B THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATIC PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM C 4HEONEIRIC IMPACT OF THE MOVING IMAGE AND D MY EXPERIENCE AS A LECTURER )N ORDERTO WRITE THESE BOOKS ) GATHERED AND PROCESSED MATERIAL FOR DECADES +NOWING THAT ) WRITE SLOWLY AND DIRECT LIKE THIS AS WELL ) AM CONCLUDING THAT REGARDLESS OF ALL MY EFFORTS ) COULD BARELY FINISH TWO AND A HALF MANUSCRIPTS (ERETO ) WAS INTERESTED IN ELECTRONIC ACTU ALLY DIGITAL MEDIA THE EVOLUTION OF WHICH ) HAVE BEEN STUDYING FOR TEN YEARS ALREADY ) AM EVEN MAKING A FILM j!N INTIMATE $6 ESSAYk 4HE 7ALL OF -EMORIES WHICH ) WILL WORK ON FOR ANOTHER FEW YEARS )T IS COMPLETELY CLEAR THAT THE BULK OF MY WRITING WILL REMAIN UNPUBLISHED OR HALF BAKED WHICH MOTIVATES ME EVEN MORE TO WORK AND CREATE jiTIL MY LAST BREATHk ALTHOUGH ) KNOW THAT THAT jBREATHk WILL PREVENT THE COMPLETION OF MY OEUVRE .EVERTHELESS EVEN IF SOMEONE WERE TO OFFER ME A DROP OF THE ELIXIR OF LIFE THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL YOUTH THE jHOLY GRAILk OR jCELESTIAL AMBROSIAk ) WOULD NOT PUT SUCH A SUBSTANCE TO MY LIPS AS ) AM AWARE THAT IT DOES NOT LEAD ANYWHERE AND THAT MY

ACTIVITY WOULD IMMEDIATELY DROP MAYBE EVEN VANISH )F SUCH HIGHER OFFERS WERE ALSO TO INCLUDE THE EXTENDING OF LIFE MY URGE TO jCOMPETEk WITH THE CLOCK WOULD SURELY DISAPPEAR IN TIME 4HOMAS -ANN EXPLAINED THIS INGENIOUSLY AS SUCH jTO THE QUES TION hWHAT DO ) BELIEVE IN AND WHAT DO ) PUT IN THE HIGHEST PLACE i ) ANSWER hTRANSIENCEi 4HIS IS THE SOUL OF BEING IT GIVES VALUE

DIGNITY AND INTEREST TO LIFE ITSELF AND IT FORMS TIME AND TIME AT LEAST POTENTIALLY IS THE HIGHEST AND THE MOST USEFUL GIFT COMMON

EVEN IDENTICAL WITH ALL CREATIVITY AND ACTIVITY ALL OF ITS LIFE ALL VOLITIONS AND ASPIRATIONS VARIOUS PERFECTIONISMS DIFFERENT PRO

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THE &ACULTY OF $RAMATIC !RTS IN "ELGRADE AND THE 3TERIA POZORJE THEATRE FESTIVAL IN .OVI 3AD 7HAT PROMPTED SUCH A GESTURE 7ITHOUT THE 9UGOSLAV #INEMATHEQUE ESPECIALLY ITS LIBRARY

AND "ELGRADEiS &ILM AND 4HEATRE !CADEMY WHERE ) STUDIED ) WOULD NOT HAVE BECOME WHAT ) AM NOR BEEN ABLE TO DO WHAT ) LOVE TO DO -Y WIFE WHO IS FROM .OVI 3AD ALSO FEELS INDEBTED TO THE INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE ENABLED HER TO PERFECT HERSELF AS A THEATRE AND FILM ARTIST 7E HOPE THAT OUR LEGACY WILL INSPIRE OTHER FELLOW CITIZENS TO jPAY THEIR DEBTk TO INSTITUTIONS IN WHICH THEY FORMED THEMSELVES 9OU ARE RIGHT )T IS ASTOUNDING HOW THE PRACTICE OF DONATING IS CorD \ 3EPTEMBER

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p NEGLECTED HERE 3OME OF MY FRIENDS INTELLECTUALS DID NOT EVEN KNOW THAT +OLARACiS .ATIONAL 5NIVERSITY IS THE LEGACY OF A NOBLE 3ERB FROM THE TH CENTURY )LIJA +OLARAC &OR A NUMBER OF DECADES ALREADY YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN BISECT ED IN TERMS OF SPACE AND TIME BETWEEN "OSTON #AMBRIDGE AND "ELGRADE $OES YOUR NOSTALGIA SENTIMENT THUS HAVE jTWO HOMESk )N REAL SENSE IT IS jBISECTEDk AS MY BEING IS DISSECTED m DUE TO REASONS THAT DO NOT NEED TO BE EXPLAINED -Y NATURE IS LITER ALLY jBIFOCALk THE REASON IS OBVIOUS THE FIRST FORMATIVE STAGE OF LIFE UNTIL ) WAS TOOK PLACE IN THE FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA AND THE SECOND IN THE 5NITED 3TATES WHERE ) RESIDE TO THIS DAY IN AN EXCEPTIONAL ACADEMIC SETTING /F COURSE ) FEEL NOSTALGIA WHEN ) AM IN !MERICA ) FEEL HOMESICK FOR "ELGRADE BUT WHEN ) COME HERE INSIDE ME AND AT THAT EVERY TIME FASTER APPEARS THE NEED TO GO BACK TO !MERICA ! PSYCHO PHYSICAL DISSECTION HAS jCOAGULATEDk INSIDE OF ME WITH TIME OVERGROWING IN A DISTINGUISHABLE EXPERIENCE WHOSE ESSENCE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO HAVE jSUFFEREDk ONLY A ONE WAY NOSTALGIA ALL OF THEIR LIVES 3UCH A KIND OF NOSTALGIA IF IT ESCAPES THE ROUND UP CAN EASILY INITIALISE NATIONALISTIC FEELING

ALTHOUGH jDEFINEDk SELF DELUSIONALLY AS PATRIOTISM 4O LOVE A BIRTH COUNTRY DOES NOT IN ANY WAY ENTAIL DISPARAGEMENT EVEN LESS INTOLERANCE AND AGGRESSION TOWARDS OTHER NATIONS ) TRULY FEEL THAT MY TWO jHOMELANDSk SUPPLEMENT AND AMALGAMATE EACH OTHER IN A PRODUCTIVE WAY 7HAT PARTICULARLY CAUGHT YOUR ATTENTION DURING THIS SUM MERiS STAY IN "ELGRADE IN BOTH A POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SENSE 4HERE ARE MANYb )T IS PLEASANT TO SEE THAT THE STREETS OF "ELGRADE ARE IMPROVING AND THAT SIDE WALKS ARE BEING DECORATED WITH PANELS AND DESIGNED POLES INTENDED TO PREVENT PARKING WHERE PEOPLE WALK UNFORTUNATELY CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO BREAK THEM DOWN SO THAT CARS CAN BE PARKED ON THE SIDEWALK EVEN AROUND THE .ATIONAL 4HEATRE !NOTHER EXAMPLE A MONTH OR TWO AGO ) WAS LOOKING FOR A BOOK m A REPRODUCTION OF 3ERBIAN FRESCOES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES m FOR A COLLEAGUE OF MINE FROM (ARVARD WHOiS AN EXPERT ON "YZANTINE ART ) WENT TO THE 'ALLERY

p ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ­ê z ê ê ê ê  ¾ ·Ãê ê ê ê ê ê r Ø ê u ê | ê ê ê ê ê ê ê z ê ê ê¡© ê êÂp êr í OF FRESCOES WHERE THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY DO NOT EVEN HAVE A CATALOGUE OF COPIES ON EXHIBITION AND THAT SUCH A PUBLICATION DOES NOT EXIST 4HIS WAS ALSO CONFIRMED BY THE LIBRARIANS OF THE .ATIONAL -USEUM WHO OFFERED ME MONOGRAPHS OF SELECTED MONASTERIES WITH THE EXPLANATION THAT TO THIS DAY NOT ONE SINGLE BOOK OF SELECTED REPRODUCTIONS OF THE MOST VALUABLE 3ERBIAN FRES COES HAS BEEN PRINTED )N DISBELIEF ) TRAVERSED +NEZ -IHAJLOVA 3TREET VISITING NUMEROUS BOOK SHOPS FROM 3TUBOVI KULTURE TO 0ROSVETA 0LATO THE !CADEMY OF 3CIENCE AND !RTS TO $ERETA m ) HEARD THE SAME STORY AT EVERY STOP 4HE CLIMAX OCCURED WHEN IN ONE ANTIQUE SHOP THEY OFFERED ME A BOOK OF REPRODUCTIONS OF OLD 3ERBIAN ICONS 7HEN ) TOLD THE SALES ASSISTANT THAT MY !MERICAN FRIEND NEEDED REPRODUCTIONS OF 3ERBIAN FRESCOES A jWITTYk EXPLA NATION FOLLOWED ENTAILING AN UNHIDDEN IRONY j)F AS YOU SAY AN !MERICAN IS IN QUESTION HE WILL NOT NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE k ! STRANGE PARADOX TYPICALLY 3ERBIANb &OR THAT ) USE THE TERM j3ERBIAN +EYk WITH IT OUR PEOPLE MAN AGE TO OPEN EVEN MANIFOLD CLOSED DOORS BUT WITHOUT BOTHERING

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TO WONDER WHETHER AND HOW MUCH SUCH SKILFULNESS AND PERSIST ENCE MAY COST THEM !T THE RECENT "ELGRADE )NTERNATIONAL &ESTIVAL OF $OCUMENTARIES AND 3HORT &ILMS YOU RECEIVED THE j,IFETIME !CHIEVEMENT !WARDk )S THAT SOMEHOW AN ANTICIPATION OF THE END

} ê³} Øêw 9 9OU ARE RIGHT 4HE NAME OF THE AWARD jFOREBODESk THAT MY LIFEiS JOURNEY m CREATIVE AND AS A WHOLE m IS NEARING AN END (OWEVER THAT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE FACT THAT ) HAVE BEEN LISTED AMONG FILM CREATORS ) RESPECT MANY OF WHOM ) KNEW AND THE OTHERS ) AM STILL IN CONTACT WITH !NY CONVERSATION WITH YOU WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT MENTIONING THE FILMS OF !NDREI 4ARKOVSKI YOU WROTE EXTEN SIVELY ABOUT HIS ORIGINAL AND DEEPLY PERSONAL YET AT THE SAME TIME UNIVERSAL CINEMATOGRAPHIC AESTHETICS IN YOUR jSECOND HOMELANDk ,IKE BUT A FEW CINEMATOGRAPHERS 4ARKOVSKI DOES NOT TREAT THE MOVING IMAGE AS MERELY JUST AN jOBJECTIVEk REALITY AND DRA MATIC CONFLICT BUT RATHER TRANSPOSES IT INTO ASSOCIATIVELY POETIC LUCID DREAM LIKE VISIONS %VERY SCENE IN 3TALKER 4HE -IRROR AND 2UBLJOV IS PERCIEVED AS A PAINTING WHOSE VISUAL AND AUDI TORY DYNAMICS DEEPENS WIDENS AND MAKES THE MEANING MORE COMPLEX ) AM CONVINCED THAT 4AKOVSKI WOULD ACCEPT THE DIGITAL MEDIA WITH DELIGHT AS IT WOULD ENABLE HIM TO AESTHETICALLY SHAPE HIS VISIONS DIGITAL COMPOSITING ON THE SCREEN MONITOR RIGHT DOWN TO THE FINEST SUBTLETIES AND TO MAKE THEM APPEAR SOUND AS HE FEELS m WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE FULLY ON FILM (OW DO YOU SEE THE STATE OF 3ERBIAN CONTEMPORARY ART 3ERBIA HAS A LOT OF TALENT IN ALL SECTORS OF ART BUT NOT A LOT IS INVESTED IN LAUNCHING THEM OVERSEAS ) CLAIM THIS BECAUSE ) REGU LARLY FOLLOW ALL FORMS OF ART IN THE WORLD 7E HAVE PAINTERS WHOSE WORKS CAN BE COMPARED TO TOP INTERNATIONAL MASTERS SOMETIMES EVEN SURPASSING THEM (OWEVER OUR COLLECTIVE ARTISTIC ACHIEVE MENTS ARE NOT SUFFICIENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE WORLDiS GREAT ART CENTRES 4O CHANGE THIS IT IS NECESSARY TO PROMOTE 3ERBIAN CONTEMPORARY ART ABROAD IN ORDER NOT SOLELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING THE IMAGE OF THE COUNTRY BUT ALSO TO ENHANCE 3ERBIAiS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN ART

CULTURE NEWS "%,%& %.4%24!).3 "%,'2!$% 4HE "ELGRADE 3UMMER &ESTIVAL "%,%& OFFERED NUMEROUS ATTRACTIVE PRO GRAMMES TO MOVE THE "ELGRADE PUBLIC THIS *ULY !UGUST "%,%& AGAIN SPLIT INTO THREE SEGMENTS m THEATRE MUSIC AND VISUAL ART m ENRICHED "ELGRADEiS SUMMER CULTURAL OFFERING WITH THE HELP OF WITH THE HELP OF "ELGRADE #ITY (ALL

THE MAIN FESTIVAL PATRON AND A NUMBER OF FOREIGN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 'OETHE )NSTITUTE "RITISH #OUNCIL &RENCH #ULTURAL #ENTRE #ERVANTES )NSTITUTE ETC 4HE FESTIVALiS INTENSIVE AND EXCITING THEATRE REPERTOIRE SEVERAL EXCELLENT MUSIC HAPPENINGS AND A VISUAL ART PROGRAMME BASED ON MODERN ART AND YOUNG ARTISTS MARKED "%,%& !T THE BEGINNING OF *ULY ,AURIE !NDERSON WELL KNOWN !MERICAN MUSI CIAN AND MULTIMEDIA ARTIST OPENED "%,%& ,AURIE !NDERSONiS UNIQUE MUSIC PERFORMANCE WHICH COMBINED MINIMALIST ELECTRO POPULAR MUSIC TECHNO CULTURE AND VISUAL ART WAS HELD ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF .IKOLA 4ESLA AND WAS INSPIRED BY THIS GREAT SCIENTIST WITH !NDERSON EVEN DEDICATING THE SONG h,IKE A 3TREAMi TO THE 3ERBIAN !MERICAN INVENTOR /F THE NUMEROUS OTHER MAJOR MUSICAL EVENTS MARKING "%,%&

MENTION MUST BE MADE OF THE 3AVA #ENTRE CONCERT OF "RITISH ROCK LEGENDS 2OXY -USIC m BACK ON TOUR AFTER YEARS m THE $OM 3INDIKATA CONCERT OF !NIMALS FRONT MAN %RIC "URDON THE CONCERT OF THE /RCHESTRA OF THE #HINESE 2ADIO AND 'RECKO 3PANISH GUITAR DUO -ELIS 3PAINiS 3USANNA 0ARIETRO AND 'REECEiS !LEXIS -ENACAKIS 4HE CLIMAX OF "%,%&iS MUSIC PROGRAMME m AND INDEED THE FESTIVAL IN ITS ENTIRETY m CAME IN THE FORM OF A BONANZA OF -OZART MUSIC MARKING THE TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE LEGENDARY !USTRIAN COMPOSER 4HE 2EPUBLIC 3QUARE 4RG REPUBLIKA EVENT INCLUDED SCREENINGS OF PERFORMANCES OF SOME OF -OZARTiS MOST BELOVED COMPOSITIONS AND THE AUDIENCE WERE ABLE TO ENJOY THE PERFORMANCES OF THE 6IENNA 0HILHARMONIC /RCHESTRA AND THE 0RAGUE 0HILHARMONIC /RCHESTRA "%,%&iS THEATRE PROGRAMME WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO SEGMENTS m POLIS AND MEGALOPOLIS )N THE FIRST SEGMENT NAMED AFTER ANCIENT 'REECEiS FIRST hDEMOCRATICi STATE CLASSIC 'REEK PLAYS OF %SHIL AND 3OFOLK WERE PER FORMED 7HILE IN THE -EGALOPOLIS SEGMENT THE PLAYS OF MODERN LOCAL AND %UROPEAN AUTHORS WERE PERFORMED UNDER THE THEME OF MODERN

URBAN MAN 4HE VISUAL ART PROGRAMME OF "%,%& SAW THE PRESENTATIONS OF MANY WORKS OF YOUNG LOCAL AND FOREIGN ARTISTS WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE INAUGURAL h-ANGADROMi &ESTIVAL OF *APANESE -ANGA COMIC ART %ARLY !UGUST ALSO SAW THE FINALE OF "%,%&iS VISUAL ART PROGRAMME IN "ELGRADEiS 3UPERSPACE 'ALLERY WHEN AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF THE WINNING AUTHORS OF THE 7ORLD !RT $IRECTOR #LUB WAS HELD 4HE !RT $IRECTORS #LUB WAS ESTABLISHED IN AS A NON PROFIT ORGANISATION WHICH HELPS AND INSTIGATES ARTIST FROM ALL OVER THE 7ORLD "%,%& i DREW MUCH PUBLIC ATTENTION AND AGAIN PROVED THAT IT IS AN EVENT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO "ELGRADE AND ITS SUMMER CULTURAL OFFER AS WELL AS BEING CRUCIAL TO THE WORK OF LOCAL AND FOREIGN ARTISTS

+!2!รฎ/2รฎ%6)ยจi3 "%/'2!$ &%34)6!, 4HE THIRD "%/'2!D &ESTIVAL OF NEW IDEAS WAS HELD IN "ELGRADE FROM TH TH *ULY 4HE FESTIVAL SUPPORTED BY THE %UROPEAN #OUNCIL IN 3TRASBURG THE 7ORLD CENTRE FOR NEW THOUGHT AND WITH THE HELP OF "ELGRADE #ITY (ALL WAS AGAIN ORGANISED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF #ROWN 0RINCE !LEKSANDAR )) +ARAรฐORรฐEVIร

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&OLLOWING ITS FESTIVE OPENING AT "ELGRADEiS "ELI DVOR 7HITE 0ALACE

"EOGR!$ MARCHED ON TO CULT THEATRE !TELJE WHERE IN THREE DAYS IT GATHERED A LARGE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS !MONG THE FOREIGN GUESTS WERE %DUARD $E "ONO 'ERMAN CREATIVE GURU (ERMAN 6ASKE hTHE FATHER OF CREATIVE ECONOMYi *OHN (AWKINS AS WELL AS EXPERTS OF THE %UROPEAN #OUNCIL IN CREATIVE ECONOMY m 2OBERT 0ALMER 3IMON %VANS

#HARLES ,ANDY +EVIN 2OBINSb!T THE ENDING OF THE &ESTIVAL .EW )DEAS 3YMPHONY WAS PERFORMED )T IS A FIRST SYMPHONY DEDICATED TO THE &ESTIVAL OF NEW IDEAS COMPOSED BY :ORAN 3IMJANOVIร AND PERFORMED BY THE 243 2ADIO 4ELEVISION OF 3ERBIA 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA AND INCLUDING SOLOISTS OPERA SINGER $RAGANA *UGOVIร $EL -ONAKO FLUTIST "ORA $UGIร AND ROCK MUSICIAN 2AMBO !MADEUS

6!,*!2%6)ยจ /&&)#)!,,9 !-/.' %52/0%i3 "%34 72)4%23 4HE BOOK h$AIRY OF THE SECOND WINTERi AUTHORED BY "ELGRADE WRITER 3RรฐAN 6ALJAREVIร AND PUBLISHED BY 3AMIZDAT " WAS INCLUDED ON THE LIST OF THE BEST TEN WRITINGS IN %ASTERN %UROPE THIS YEAR 4HE INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR THE 3OUTHEAST %UROPE ,ITERARY !WARD CHOSE LAUREATES AMONG CANDIDATES FROM COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL EASTERN AND SOUTHEAST %UROPE 4EODORA $IMOVA WAS AWARDED FIRST PRIZE FOR THE BOOK i-AJKITEi &LORIN ,AZARESKU WAS AWARDED SECOND PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL i4RIMISUL NOSTRU SPECIALi AND !NA :ONOVA FROM #ZECH 2EPUBLIC WAS AWARDED THIRD PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL i:A TREST A ZA ODMENUi 7RITINGS THAT WON PRIZES WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING OF IN A TWO LANGUAGE ANTHOLOGY &OUNDERS AND FINANCIERS OF THE 3OUTHEAST %UROPE ,ITERARY !WARD ARE THE "ANH !USTRIA #REDITENSTALT AND PUBLISHING COMPANY 7EISER ALSO FROM !USTRIA

"%,'2!$% 2%6)6!, 0,!. 02%3%.4%$ !T THE TENTH !RCHITECTURE "IENNIAL IN 6ENICE m TO BE HELD THIS YEAR FROM TH 3EPTEMBER TO TH .OVEMBER m A GROUP OF YOUNG EXPERTS FROM "ELGRADE WILL SHOW i0ROJECT "ELGRADEi AS AN ASSEMBLAGE OF IDEAS FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF "ELGRADE 4HE CORE PRESENTATIONS WILL CONSIST OF PROJECTS THAT CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH "ELGRADE RIPARIAN AREA AND 'REAT 7AR )SLAND THAT ARE CONSIDERED THE GREATEST UNTAPPED RESOURCES OF THE CITY i0ROJECT "ELGRADEi WILL PROVIDE SOLUTIONS ON HOW THE CITY COULD APPROACH THE RIVERS WITH THE AIM OF SHOW ING HOW "ELGRADE WILL CHANGE WITH REGARD TO ECONOMY AND SOCIAL LIFE

!4/3 %8()")4)/. ()43 (%,3).+) 7ITH THE EXHIBITION i!TOSi m OPENED ON TH !UGUST AND SCHEDULED TO RUN UNTIL ST *ANUARY m THE &INNISH CAPI TAL OF (ELSINKI IS CELEBRATING ITS YEAR AS THE YEAR AS THE HONORARY CAPITAL OF %UROPEAN CULTURE 4HE ORGANISER OF THE %XHIBITION (ELSINKI #ITY -USEUM CHOSE AUTHENTIC EXHIBITS MADE ON THE (OLY -OUNTAIN AND KEPT IN MUSEUMS THROUGHOUT IN %UROPE 4HE EXHIBITION IS TERRITORIALLY AND SPIR ITUALLY DETERMINED AND IT DEPICTS THE LIFE AND ART OF MONKS FROM THE (OLY -OUNTAIN WITH THE PRESENTATION OF WORKS OF ART ICONS SCRIPTS AND LITURGICAL ITEMS &OR THE NEEDS OF THIS EXHIBITION THE .ATIONAL -USEUM FROM "ELGRADE PROVIDED SEVERAL EXHIBITS FROM ITS COLLECTION PRECIOUS METAL PLATES DATING FROM TH AND TH CENTURY ICONS OF 3T 3AVA AND 3T 3IMEON DATE FROM THE END OF TH CENTURY

CULTURE CALENDAR September

")4%& m !NNUAL )NTERNATIONAL "ELGRADE 4HEATRE &ESTIVAL /0%.).' .)'(4 &RIDAY TH 3EPTEMBER PM 3AVA #ENTRE -AIN 3TAGE H i j"/$9?2%-)8 '/,$"%2'?6!2)!4)/.3k #OMPAGNIE -ARIE #HOUINARD -ONTR AL 1U BEC #ANADA #HOREOGRAPHY AND !RTISTIC $IRECTION -ARIE #HOUINARD #O PRODUCED BY THE .ATIONAL !RTS #ENTRE /TTAWA -ONTREAL (IGH ,IGHTS &ESTIVAL 3CHLOSSFESTSPIELE ,UDWIGSBURG 4H TRE DE LA 6ILLE 0ARIS 6ENICE "IENNALE 7HITE "IRD 0ORTLAND WITH THE SUPPORT OF )M0ULS4ANZ 6IENNA

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FESTIVAL &OR A LONG TIME NOW THERE HAS BEEN NO DOMINANT GLOBALLY TREND OR COURSE AS WAS THE CASE IN THE iS OR EARLIER )T ALL DEPENDS NOW ON AUTHORS AND THEIR POETICS AND THE THEMES THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON BEING ETERNAL &OR MANY YEARS "ITEF HAS SUCCEEDED IN THIS SENSE BY PRESENTING LOCAL AUDIENCES WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND THEIR WAYS OF THINKING ) THINK THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT "ECAUSE OF THE MANY FESTIVALS THAT SPRANG UP IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS ) THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR "ITEF TO BE MORE THEMATICALLY DEFINED AND MAKE SELECTIONS WITH A MORE PROFILED FOCUS ) BELIEVE THAT THE VERY NEXT "ITEF WILL BE DESIGNED IN THIS WAY

9OUR PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS AND PERFORM ANCES ABROAD PROVIDED YOU WITH AN EXCELLENT MEANS OF DRAWING COMPARISONS WITH THEATRES FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS /UR THEATRE FOR CHILDREN AND THE YOUNG REPRESENTS ITSELF QUITE WELL ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE ESPECIALLY SINCE IT HAS DIVERSIFIED IN ITS OWN WAY AS ALL INSTITUTIONAL THEATRES FOR CHILDREN AND THE YOUNG ARE UNIQUE AND ) CAN FREELY STATE DO NOT INTERFERE WITH EACH OTHER 3OME THEATRES CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH THE YOUNGEST AGE

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"ITEFiS h3HOWCASEi PROGRAMME FOR FOREIGNERS HAD ITS DEBUT AT LAST YEARiS FESTIVAL (OW WILL THE SECOND h3HOWCASEi BE DESIGNED 4HE SELECTORS OF THIS YEARiS h3HOWCASEi "OJAN îORðEV AND !NA 6UJANOVIÌ 4HEY MADE QUITE REALISTIC CHOICES WITH THE IDEA TO ACCENTUATE LOCAL PRODUCTIONS WHICH WERE ESTABLISHED ON THE TRAIL OF "ITEF TRADITION ,ATEST DEVELOPMENTS AT THE MOMENT ARE THAT THEY ARE PREPARING TO BRING OVER A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL THEATRE PRODUCERS 4HESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE POSITIONED IN SUCH A WAY IN THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE SYSTEM THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO PRESENT 3ERBIAN THEATRE TO THE PARTS OF THE WORLD THEY WORK IN 7E WILL ALL SEE THE RESULTS OF THIS APPROACH BUT THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO WORK ON THAT IDEA AND JUST KNOW THAT THE BARRIERS WILL HAVE TO COME DOWN SOMETIME ) AM GREATLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THAT

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CHOLIC ODE OF THE AUTHOR TO A TIME THAT HAS PASSED )T WAS SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE A LAST EFFORT TO STOP THE SPIRAL OF DEATH WHICH WAS CIRCLING ABOVE US AT THAT MOMENT 5NFORTUNATELY AS WE KNOW WE DID NOT SUCCEED #ERTAINLY THE FILMING OF THIS MOVIE IS AN EVENT THAT ) WILL REMEMBER FOREVER (OW DID YOU KEEP YOURSELF BUSY BETWEEN AND )N THE MEANTIME BECAUSE THE HARD TIMES IN FORMER 9UGOSLAVIA WERE BECOMING ALL THE MORE HARDER IT BECAME ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR A YOUNG PRODUCER TO COME TO THE FIRST FILM .OT WANTING TO LOSE TIME ON FURTHER ASSISTANT JOBS AND WITH A GROWING DESIRE TO TELL STORIES THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO ME AT THE TIME ) MAINTAINED MY CREATIVE CONDITION BY WRITING SCRIPTS ! GOOD STORY IS ALWAYS THE STARTING POINT TO EVERY FILM "Y ) HAD ALREADY FINISHED THREE SCRIPTS m SO ) CAN IMMODESTLY SAY THAT ) LEARNED VERY EARLY ON WHAT IT MEANS TO WRITE A SCRIPT AND WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE AN INTERESTING MOVIE OUT OF IT )N ADDITION TO WRITING ) ALSO WORKED ON TELEVISION BUT ONLY IN A FEW INSTANCES m JUST ENOUGH FOR ME TO GET BY IN LIFE m BUT IN REAL ITY AND IN MY HEAD ) WAS ENTERING DEEPLY INTO THE STORY THAT ) WAS PLANNING TO REALISE ONE DAY AS MY OWN AUTHOR PROJECT !ND SO ONE DAY MY SCRIPT GOT INTO THE (ANDS OF %MIR +USTURICA WHO WAS FILMING 5NDERGROUND IN "ELGRADE AT THE TIME (E LIKED THE STORY AND WANTED TO HELP ME FILM IT !ND WITH HIS HELP ) GOT THAT OPENING THOUGH IT TOOK QUIET A FEW YEARS UNTIL HE SIGNED AS THE PRODUCER AND ) AS THE DIRECTOR AND SCRIPT WRITER 3O THAT WAS YOUR FIRST FEATURE LENGTH FILM AS A WRITER DIREC TOR *AGODA U SUPERMARKETU 3TRAWBERRY IN A 3UPERMARKET 4HE WORK WAS WELL RECEIVED AND PROVED TO BE AN AWARD WINNING

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THIS IS STILL A LOVE STORY (OW DO TWO ISOLATED INDIVIDUALS PRECONDITIONED FOR FAILED LOVE

IN THE MIDST OF OUTSIDE CIRCUMSTANCES OVERCOME THESE CIRCUM STANCES AND BOND IN A PROMISING LOVE RELATIONSHIP AT THE END -Y DILEMMA WAS WHETHER THAT WAS POSSIBLE AT ALL "UT THE FILM TEACHES US SOME THINGS SO ) ALSO WANTED TO OFFER PEOPLE HOPE THAT SOME THING LIKE THIS IS ALSO POSSIBLE

(OW PLEASED WERE YOU WITH THE END PRODUCT 9OU CAN NEVER BE COMPLETELY ONE HUNDRED PER CENT SATISFIED WITH WHAT YOU GET FROM THE INITIAL THOUGHT /RSON 7ELLS SAID THAT EVERY FILM SHOULD BE FILMED THREE TIMES IN ORDER TO SATISFY ONESELF 4HUS IF ) SAY THAT ) AM PER CENT HAPPY WITH WHAT ) ENVISIONED

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AS IS THE 3ERBIAN NAME m OR $)34!.4 425-0%4 INTER NATIONALLY m IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND OF STORY COMPARED TO MY PREVIOUS FILM 4HIS IS A MUSICAL MELODRAMA WHICH LOOKS AT LOVE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF 2OMA TRUMPETER WHO IS INSECURE IN HIMSELF AND HIS ART BUT FINDS LOVE WITH A GIRL OF HIS AGE AND WITH A DIFFERENT SKIN COLOUR #ONSEQUENTLY THAT LOVE HELPS HIM TO REALISE HIS AMBITIONS AND BECOME A GREAT TRUMPETER UNDERDOG VICTORY 4HIS IS A COMMER CIAL FILM BECAUSE ) THINK THAT ONLY A MOVIE THAT COMMUNICATES WITH THE WIDEST POSSIBLE PUBLIC IS A REAL MOVIE )F IT DOESNiT COMMUNICATE

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AS WELL AS MY ACTORS IN WHOM ) HAD THE BEST POSSIBLE CO WORKERS FOR THIS JOB (OW MUCH OF AN ASSET TO 3ERBIAiS ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURAL SCENE WOULD YOU SAY THAT THE 2OMA COMMUNITY ARE 7E HAVE BEEN INTERLACED WITH EACH OTHER FOR CENTURIES -OREOVER

) CAN CLAIM THAT 'YPSIES ARE AMONG THE LAST TO EVER FEEL UNCOMFORT ABLE IN 3ERBIA 4HAT IS WHAT THEY SAY THEMSELVES TOO )T IS NOT FOR THAT REASON THAT ) CHOSE A STORY OF A RUNAWAY DAUGHTER FORM HER FAMILY WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH A 'YPSY AS THE STARTING POINT 4HAT HAPPENS

VERY OFTEN IN 3ERBIA -AYBE THAT AFFECTS PURITANS SOMETIMES BUT THAT IS THE WAY IT IS 3ERBS AND 'YPSIES LIVE A COMMON LIFE IN THE SAME AREA THEIR CULTURES INTERTWINE AND ) CANNOT THINK OF LIFE IN 3ERBIA WITHOUT THEM 4HEIR VIEWS ON LIFE HAVE IN MANY WAYS INFLUENCED 3ERBS AND WHAT 3ERBS RESPECT THE MOST OF ALL AND THAT IS FREEDOM !ND IS THERE A PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE FREE THAN 'YPSIES ON THE PLANET !ND IS THERE ANYWHERE ELSE SUCH A TRUMPET SOUND IN THE WORLD AS THAT THAT 3ERBS AND 'YPSIES HAVE LEARNED TO PLAY FORM EACH OTHER FOR DECADES (OW DO YOU EXPECT THE 3ERBIAN PUBLIC TO REACT TO A LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN A 'YPSY BOY AND A 3ERB GIRL 4HIS IS A SENSITIVE TOPIC EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IT IS SO IN 3ERBIA AS WELL )T IS EASIER TO ACCEPT WHEN HE IS WHITE AND SHE BLACK BUT TO ME THAT WAS LESS INTERESTING )T IS LESS PROVOCATIVE )T SEEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE STILL NOT OVERCOME THE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM /NE GROUP CONSIDERS ITSELF SUPERIOR TO OTHERS AND VICE VERSA )T IS THE SAME 4HERE IS ALWAYS ONE TRUTH AND IN THIS CASE IT STATES THAT WE ARE ALL PEOPLE FROM THE SAME PLANET -AYBE ONE DAY WHEN ALIENS FROM OTHER GALAXIES JOIN US IT WILL BECOME CLEAR TO US HOW MUCH THOSE OF US WHO LIVE ON THE %ARTH ARE ACTUALLY ALL THE SAME REGARDLESS OF ALL THE MINOR DIFFERENCES 7HAT DOES THE FUTURE HAVE IN STORE FOR $UpAN -ILIÐ m A NEW PROJECT OR A PERIOD OF REFLECTION ) REALLY DONiT KNOW 4HERE ARE SO MANY IDEAS BUT SO LITTLE TIME ) AM WORKING ON SEVERAL STORIES AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE ) WOULD NOT WANT TO LOSE ANOTHER THREE YEARS BEFORE MAKING MY NEXT FILM &INANCING FILMS IS ALWAYS PROBLEMATIC "IG MONEY IS NEEDED TO HAVE EVERYTHING TURN OUT RIGHT AT THE END ! LOT DEPENDS ON THE STORY IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING THATiS hHOTi MANY WILL BE INTERESTED

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IF THATiS WHAT YOUiRE GETTING AT k j.O OF COURSE )iM NOT 3ORRY "UT IT WAS HARDLY m WELL IT WASNiT EXACTLY A CONVENTIONAL PRIVATE LESSON k j-Y PARENTS HAVE ALWAYS TRUSTED ME AND ) HAVE ALWAYS TOLD THEM EVERYTHING 4HE FIRST TIME ) SLEPT WITH A BOY ) WENT STRAIGHT TO MY MOTHER AND TOLD HER m AND SHE WAS GENUINELY HAPPY FOR ME "UT ITiS TRUE THAT MY FATHER THOUGHT THAT !NDREW WAS IN LOVE WITH ME k j7AS HE k j)TiS TRAGICALLY UNFORTUNATE THAT ) CANiT SAY hASK HIMi "UT YES ) THINK HE WAS !ND ) THINK ) WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM TOO FOR A WHILE "UT IT WAS A TRULY BEAUTIFUL PLATONIC LOVE ) THINK WE BOTH KNEW BUT NEITHER OF US SAID ANYTHING /F COURSE ITiS POSSIBLE THAT WITH ME IT WAS JUST A FORM OF HERO WORSHIP 7E WROTE TO EACH OTHER FOR A FEW MONTHS WHEN !NDREW WAS IN %NGLAND (IS LETTERS WERE BEAUTIFUL FULL OF EXPRESSIONS OF SPIRITUAL LOVE #ARITAS $O YOU KNOW THE WORD !MOR IS THE ,ATIN WORD FOR PHYSICAL LOVE CARITAS FOR SPIRITUAL LOVE DEEP SELFLESS AFFECTION 7E ALWAYS ENDED OUR LETTERS WITH THE WORDS CUM CARITATE k j(AVE YOU STILL GOT HIS LETTERS k j/F COURSE k j7OULD IT BE POSSIBLE TOb j.O IT WOULDNiT !ND IF YOU EVER COME ACROSS MY LETTERS TO HIM IT WOULD MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME IF YOU DIDNiT READ THEM k 4ALK OF PUTTING ONEiS FOOT IN IT ) WAS MORTIFIED (OW COULD ) HAVE EVEN THOUGHT OF READING THEIR LOVE LETTERS ) HATED MYSELF FOR MY INSEN SITIVITY BUT WAS JUSTLY PUNISHED BY THE PANG OF JEALOUSY THAT SUDDENLY OVERCAME ME 3OFIJA AND !NDREW HAD HAD A RELATIONSHIP THAT HAD BEEN CREATED IN HEAVEN AND PERSONALLY NURTURED BY THE !LMIGHTY #UM CARITATE !NDREW HAD CERTAINLY FELT AMOR FOR ME !ND HOW (AD HE ALSO EXPERIENCED CARITAS DURING OUR TWO YEARS TOGETHER 0ERHAPS ) WOULD NEVER KNOW !ND NOW ) WOULD KNOW NO MORE OF HIS LOVE FOR 3OFIJA j)iM SORRY )T WAS THOUGHTLESS OF ME )TiS JUST THAT ) REALISE ) KNOW SO LITTLE OF THE MAN ) LOVED SO DEEPLY SO COMPLETELY FOR TWO YEARS k j$ONiT WORRY )TiS QUITE NATURAL THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO READ THEM "UT THE LETTERS WERE WRITTEN WHEN ) WAS AN INFATUATED SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD AND QUITE FRANKLY ITiS ALL PAST HISTORY )iM A DIFFERENT PERSON NOW AND AS ) SAID ) HAVENiT SEEN !NDREW FOR SIX YEARS OR SO ) THINK ABOUT HIM SOMETIMES m BUT ONLY VERY OCCASIONALLY )T WAS BEAUTIFUL WHILE IT LASTED AND THATiS HOW ) WANT TO REMEMBER IT k -Y SENTIMENTS EXACTLY 7E HAD NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TO EACH OTHER 7HEN ) GOT HOME THE FIRST THING ) DID WAS TO START GOING THROUGH !NDREWiS %NGLISH LESSON FILES ) KNEW HE HAD KEPT A RECORD OF EVERY

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PARMESAN OVEN DRY CHERRY TOMATO #OMMENTS 0ERFECT 3HORTBREAD TART BASE CREAMY CONTENTS &LAVOURS A DELIGHT ,OBSTER RAVIOLI BABY SHRIMPS SHELLFISH NAGE j ®ê z ê ê ¾ ­ê y ê ê ê ê ê ­ -AIN #OURSES 2OASTED "REAST OF $UCK CONFIT LEG POTATO BLINIS CABBAGE HONEY AND GINGER SAUCE j ®ê z ê ê ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ­êêw ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê >­êêp ­

!SSIETTE OF ,AMB SPICED AUBER GINE SALSA ROSSA #OMMENTS ,AMB PREPARED AS I CRISPY CUTLET II JUICY ROAST AND III SLICE ROLLED AROUND A SPINACH PESTO "EST EVER $ESSERTS 0OACHED 0EARS GINGER PANNA COTTA HAZELNUT SHORTBREAD j ®ê{ ê ê ê ¾ ·Ãê ê ê¾ê ê ê ê ê ê ­êê 3ELECTION OF CHEESE BISCUITS GRAPE CHUTNEY #OMMENTS .OT A LARGE ENOUGH RANGE OF CHEESE TO BE REMEDIED #HUTNEY TERRIFIC

!ND A LOCAL RED FROM THE WIDE CHOSE OF INTERNATIONAL VINES )F YOU WISH YOU CAN END IT ALL WITH A GREAT SELECTION OF CIGARS

7E WERE ALSO IMPRESSED BY THE EXCELLENT FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT OF THE RESTAURANT ,ITTLE "AYiS EXCEPTION AL KITCHEN LAYOUT PROVIDES AMPLE CLEAN WORK SPACE WITH SEPARATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT PREPARATION ELE MENTS ALLOWING EACH MEMBER OF THE TEAM TO PERFORM THEIR PART IN A LOGI CAL INTEGRATED WHOLE 4HE KITCHEN LIES BENEATH AND COURTESY OF THE DUMB WAITER CUISINE CONVENIENTLY ARRIVES NEAR THE MIDDLE OF THE RESTAU RANT ENSURING WAITING STAFF DELIVER YOUR FARE AT THE OPTIMAL TEMPERATURE &URTHER THE WELL APPOINTED BAR IS LOCATED AT THE FAR END ALLOWING THE TEAM RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DRINKS TO PERFORM THEIR TASK INDEPENDENTLY 4HE ROOMY OPERA BOOTHS ARE COSY AND DISCREET PROVIDING A UNIQUE DINING EXPERIENCE 9OU AND YOUR FRIENDS THE DIFFERENT SIZED BOOTHS SEAT BETWEEN AND GUESTS WILL REMAIN UNDISTURBED DURING YOUR MEAL UNLESS YOU DRAW UPON AN ELEGANT TASSELLED CORD THAT SILENTLY SUMMONS A WAITER TO YOUR SERVICE -USIC IS SUBTLE AND ENJOYABLE 4HE WHOLE RESTAURANT IS BENEATH A LARGE SKYLIGHT CREATING A WONDERFUL SUM MERY FEEL AND THE RESTAURANT EXPERI ENCE AT NIGHT IS EVEN MORE SPECIAL

WHEN A LOCAL OPERA SINGER MOVES AROUND THE RESTAURANT PLAYFULLY PRO VIDING ENTERTAINMENT ACCORDING TO THEIR CRAFT EXCEPT ON 3UNDAYS /VERALL THE DETAILED ATTENTION TO EVERY ELEMENT OF ,ITTLE "AYiS DIN ING AND ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE IS VERY PLEASING AND SHOULD BE EXPERI ENCED AS ) FELL THAT ONCE THE SUMMER BREAK IS OVER THE WAITING LIST WILL BE QUITE LONG ,ITTLE "AY IS EXTREMELY WELL PRICED $IN FOR A SUPERB COURSE MEAL AND MOST OF ALL FUN 9OU SIMPLY MUST SHARE AN EVENING OR THREE WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT THE ,ITTLE "AY SOON AS ,ITTLE "AY IS DESTINED TO BE ONE OF "ELGRADEiS MOST FASHION ABLE HAUNTS

,ITTLE "AY $OSITJEVA ! "ELGRADE TEL /N THE LEFT HEADING DOWN $OSITJEVA LOOK FOR A LARGE TARPAULIN DEPICTING h4HE 4OILETTEi WHICH IS EPISODE OF 7ILLIAM (OGARTHiS -ARRIAGE A LA -ODE

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PECIFIC TITLES DESIGNATE SUCH MEMBERS AS THE FATHERiS SISTERiS HUS BAND TEÌAK AND THE SISTER OF ONEiS HUSBAND ZAOVA 4HIS IS CONFUSING FOR OUTSID ERS ESPECIALLY FOR ONLY CHIL DREN LIKE ME BUT IT LEAVES NO DOUBT IN A 3ERBiS MIND WHOiS WHO "ECAUSE EVERYBODYiS SOMEHOW RELATED TO SOME BODY ELSE 3ERBS CAN EXPECT LOTS OF PEOPLE TO FEED AT HOLI DAY TIME AND MANY BIRTH DAYS TO REMEMBER &AMILIES 0AT !NÕELKOVIÐ

ARE A BUILT IN SOURCE OF VEZA INDEPENDENT AUTHORESS OR CONNECTIONS TOO MORE ABOUT THAT IN A LATER COLUMN

SINCE IF COUSIN "RANKO CANiT HELP OUT WHEN NEEDED HIS WIFE AND HER ZADRUGA PROBABLY KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN )N 3ERBIAN FAMILIES ITiS THE MEN WHO CROW THE LOUD EST BUT ITiS THE WOMEN WHO REALLY RULE THE ROOST 9OU FILM BUFFS WILL REMEMBER ,AINIE +AZANiS LINE IN -Y "IG &AT 'REEK 7EDDING j,ET ME TELL YOU SOMETHINGb 4HE MAN IS THE HEAD BUT THE WOMAN IS THE NECK !ND SHE CAN TURN THE HEAD ANY WAY SHE WANTS k 3AME THING HERE

(OUSING CONDITIONS BEING WHAT THEY ARE THE IN LAWS THAT MOST 3ERBS LIVE WITH WILL TURN INTO A BAKA AND DEDA GRANDMA AND GRANDPA ONE DAY TO TAKE CARE OF FOR QUITE SOME TIME SINCE MANY LIVE TO A RIPE OLD AGE "AKA AND DEDA MAKE THEMSELVES USEFUL AS BUILT IN BABYSIT TERS HOUSEKEEPERS AND SNOOPS ! WIFEiS MOTHER IN LAW SVEKRVA IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO BY HER DAUGHTER IN LAW AS SVE KRIVA GUILTY FOR EVERYTHING "UT NO MATTER HOW

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OBNOXIOUS BAKA AND DEDA BECOME IT WOULD BE UNTHINK ABLE TO PUT THEM IN AN OLD FOLKSi HOME WHICH ARE RESERVED FOR THE VERY SENILE OR THOSE WITH NO FAMILY AND BECAUSE OF ZADRUGA THEREiS ALWAYS SOME RELATIVE AROUND 2ETIREMENT jCOMMUNITIESk TAKE THE FORM OF EITHER THE LOCAL PARK WHERE THE ELDERLY SUN THEMSELVES ON WARM DAYS AND CHAT ABOUT WHY THEIR PENSIONS ARE LATE AGAIN OR THE DOM PENZIONERA A NEIGHBORHOOD jCLUBk WHERE THEY MEET ON RAINY DAYS TO PLAY CARDS OR CHESS AND INHALE MUCH CIGARETTE SMOKE 3ERBIAN CHILDREN ARE DEFINITELY SEEN !.$ HEARD .O SOONER IS LITTLE )VAN BORN AND IT BETTER BE )VAN NOT )VANA

AT LEAST THE FIRST TIME THAN HE IS WHISKED OUT OF MOTHER S ARMS BY BAKA TO BE CARED FOR EVEN THOUGH MOTHER HAS A ONE YEAR MATERNITY LEAVE "AKA AND TO SOME EXTENT

DEDA KNOWS ITiS HER DUTY TO CONTINUE TO RAISE I E SPOIL HER GRANDCHILDREN 'RANDPARENTS UNSELFISHLY SPEND THEIR TINY PENSIONS ON THEIR GRANDCHILDREN WHO ARE THEIR BUDUÌNOST FUTURE $EPENDING ON HOW BAKA INDULG ES THEM THEY WILL BE EITHER EXTREMELY WELL MANNERED OR INCREDIBLY UNRULY /N HIS FIRST AND SUBSEQUENT BIRTHDAYS

LITTLE )VAN IS INUNDATED WITH PRESENTS AND MONEY AT PARTIES THAT EVERY POSSIBLE FAMILY MEMBER IS INVITED TO ATTEND 4HE 3ERBS LOVE CHILDREN AND MAKE MANY SACRIFICES FOR THEM

EVEN THOUGH MANY ONLY HAVE JUST ONE 4HEY DROOL OVER BABIES AND FUSS OVER YOUNG CHILDREN WHENEVER THEY CAN

OFFERING MUCH UNSOLICITED ADVICE )T WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE TO SEND CHILDREN AWAY TO SCHOOL BUT MANY ARE SENT TO THEIR RELATIVES IN THE VILLAGE OR TO A SUMMER CAMP WHERE THEY RAISE HAVOC FOR SEVERAL WEEKS SINCE THE COUNSELORS CONSIDER THEMSELVES ON VACATION TOO

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TALY IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND BEST KNOWN WINE PRO DUCING COUNTRIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD !ND THERE IS PERHAPS NO OTHER COUNTRY ANYWHERE THAT HAS EXPERIENCED AS MUCH CHANGE IN ITS WINE INDUSTRY AS THAT UNDERGONE IN THIS -EDITERRANEAN GIANT OF THE WINE WORLD $RAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WINE INDUSTRY OF )TALY ARE NOTHING NEW AND ALTHOUGH VINTNERS WILL ALWAYS DEBATE WHETHER TRADITIONAL OR MODERN WINES ARE BETTER IT IS UNDENIABLE THAT BOTH SCHOOLS KNOW HOW TO MAKE GOOD WINE BOTH HAVE THEIR OWN TARGET MARKET AND BOTH HAVE TAKEN THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD OF GASTRONOMY )TALY HAS OVER GRAPE TYPES AND AS MANY REGIONS AND SUB REGIONS DEDICATED TO THE CULTIVATION OF THE VINE AND PRODUCTION OF WINE (OWEVER EDITORIAL RESTRICTIONS ENSURE THAT THIS MONTH WEiLL ONLY BE MENTIONING THE MOST POPULAR WINE REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY )TALYiS THREE MOST RENOWNED AND FAMOUS WINE REGIONS ARE 6ENETO 0IEDMONT AND 4USCANY !LL OF THE MANY WINE PRODUCING REGIONS THAT LIE TO THE SOUTH OF 4USCANY ARE RELATIVELY YOUNG TO THE WORLD OF WINE 4HIS BY NO MEANS IMPLIES THAT THEY DO NOT BOAST EXCELLENT VINEYARDS PRODUCING WELL CULTIVATED GRAPES AND FINE WINES BUT THESE REGIONS WILL NOT BE ADDRESSED IN GREATER DETAIL AT THIS JUNCTURE 4USCANY IS )TALYiS MOST RENOWNED AND ACCORDINGLY MOST COM MERCIAL WINE REGION )TS hBLACKi GRAPES HAVE ACHIEVED GLOBAL ACCLAIM AS A RESULT OF THE MOST POPULAR WINE THEY ARE USED TO MAKE #HIANTI #HIANTI IS ACTUALLY A REGION WITHIN 4USCANY THAT HAS ITS OWN CATEGO RISATIONS OF CONTRASTING WINES 4HESE ARE #HIANTI A YOUNG WINE THAT IS DIRECTLY FILLED INTO BOTTLES #HIANTI CLASSICO m ALLOWED TO MATURE IN THE BARREL FOR SIX MONTHS BEFORE BEING BOTTLED )N ADDITION TO THE TRADITIONALLY POPULAR #HIANTI AND 3ANGIOVESE WINES MANY OTHER WINES WORTHY OF NOTE ARE ALSO PRODUCED IN 4USCANY SUCH AS THE POPULAR "RUNELLO DI -ONTALCINO ETC 0ERHAPS MOST INTERESTINGLY THOUGH IS THE FACT THAT IN RECENT YEARS THE POSI TION OF #HIANTI AS 4USCANYiS MOST POPULAR WINE HAS COME UNDER INCREASING THREAT FROM THE TRENDY #ABERNET 3AUVIGNON m A WINE TRADITIONALLY PRODUCED FROM GRAPES GROWN IN THE "ORDEAUX REGION OF &RANCE AND EVEN #ALIFORNIA #ABERNET 3AUVIGNON A TYPICALLY BLACKCURRANT SCENTED WINE WITH A DEGREE OF WEEDINESS DEPENDING ON CLIMATIC CONDITIONS VITICULTURE

PRACTICES AND VINIFICATION TECHNIQUES HAS GIVEN RISE TO TODAYiS MOST EXPENSIVE h3UPER 4USCANi WINES SUCH AS 3ASSICAIA /RNELLAIA AND MANY OTHERS 6ENETO IS THE NORTHERNMOST REGION OF )TALY POPULAR FOR ITS CHAM PAGNE LIKE !STI WINES WHITE 0INOT 'RIGIO GREY PINOT AND THE MOST FAMOUS RED WINE 6ENETA 6ALPOLICELLA AS WELL AS YOUNG WINES !MORE DELLA 6ALPOLICELLA m A FULL BODIED WINE THAT IS MADE FROM THE SAME GRAPE TYPES AS 6ALPOLICELA I E #ORVINA 2ONDINELLA #ROATINA /SELETTA )T IS WORTHY TO NOTE THAT THESE GRAPES ARE CAREFULLY SELECTED AND THEN DRIED FOR !MORONE ALLOWING PRODUCERS TO CREATE A POWERFUL RICH WINE WITH GREAT POTENTIAL TO MATURE 4HE 0IEDMONT REGION IS FAMOUS FOR ITS POPULAR ELEGANT )TALIAN RED WINE "AROLO 4HE "AROLO IS PRODUCED FROM THE .EBBIOLO GRAPE

WHICH GIVES A VERY PECULIAR CONNECTION OF POWER AND ELEGANCE 4HE .EBBIOLO GRAPE IS ALSO USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF "ARBARESCO A

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El Barril

Wine on the House

This coupon entitles the bearer to a free bottle of wine when choosing to lunch or dine at El Barril restaurant.

Vino na Račun Kuće

Branka Krsmanovića 9 011/382-2361, 065/333-7733

Donosioc ovog kupona će dobiti besplatnu bocu vina uz ručak ili večeru kod El Barril-a

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My life in Belgrade

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Bel… Where?

By David Dowse Regional Manager, South East Europe, Mmd Corporate, Public Affairs & Public Relations Consultants

O WHERE IS "ELGRADE EXACTLY )N MY #OTSWOLDS HOME IN %NGLAND FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS WERE GATHERED AROUND THE DINING TABLE TO CELEBRATE m OR POSSIBLY COMMISERATE MY FORTHCOMING DEPARTURE TO A NEW PLACE AND A NEW JOB ! BATTERED ROAD ATLAS OF %UROPE WAS PRODUCED AND EVENTUALLY THE RIGHT PAGE FOUND j/H YEAHb 9UGOSLAVIA

) KNOWbMY PARENTS USED TO GO THERE ON HOLIDAY BEFORE THE WARbk !NOTHER FRIEND CLAIMED HIS SENTENCE FAD ING AWAY AS IF HE REALISED HE WAS TREADING ON SENSITIVE GROUND j!RE YOU SURE ITiS SAFE THERE k ADDED ANOTHER ) WAS TOUCHED BY HER CONCERN AND NOT A LITTLE BEMUSED

BY THE QUESTION 7HEN ) WAS OFFERED A CHALLENGING NEW JOB BASED IN "ELGRADE ) TOLD THE SENIOR PEOPLE AT -MD THAT ) WOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER THEIR OFFER BUT THAT ) COULDNiT FINALLY MAKE UP MY MIND UNTIL ) HAD AT LEAST SEEN THE CITY WHERE ) WOULD HAVE TO LIVE AND WORK ! SHORT RECONNAISSANCE VISIT WAS RAPIDLY ARRANGED 3O IT WAS THAT ) FOUND MYSELF IN THE 7HITE #ITY IN DEEPEST &EBRUARY !ND ACTUALLY IT WAS WHITE A HEAVY COVERING OF SNOW MAKING A STARK CONTRAST WITH THE GREY SKY AND GREYER BUILDINGS )T WAS COLD )T WAS WET !ND

THEREiS NO AVOIDING IT m IT WAS MORE THAN A LITTLE BLEAK 4HE -ETROPOL HOME FOR MY FIRST NIGHT IN "ELGRADE

SEEMED LIKE A LEFT OVER FILM SET FROM SOME #OLD 7AR MOVIE &ADED GLORY AND NOISY PLUMBING !ND HERE WE ARE ALREADY IMMERSED IN THE WONDERFUL CONTRADICTIONS THAT FOR ME HAVE QUICKLY COME TO EPITO MISE THE BEGUILING BEWILDERING CITY THAT IS "ELGRADE 4HE FRIENDLY SERVICE AT THE -ETROPOL JUXTAPOSED WITH THE BATTERED FURNITURE AND FITTINGS THE MYSTERIOUS BUREAUC RACY AND AN APPARENTLY TOTAL LACK OF HOPE 4HE APPALL ING ANONYMOUS BEVERAGE ON OFFER IN A CITY THAT IS JUSTLY PROUD OF ITS COFFEE CULTURE 4HE DIE WAS CAST ,ATER EATING GREAT hDOMESTICi FOOD AND DRINKING SUPERB 3ERBIAN WINE IN THE WARM COMPANY OF ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES TO BE ) KNEW ) WOULD COME !ND ) KNEW IT WOULD BE QUITE A RIDE 4HERE WAS NO LOOKING BACK ! FEW WEEKS LATER ) LANDED WITH A COUPLE OF SUITCASES AND A DETERMINATION TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND !FTER ALL ) HAD ALREADY BEEN VERY FORTUNATE IN MY TRAVELS MY ROLLER COASTER CAREER IN 0UBLIC 2ELATIONS TAKING ME TO OVER COUNTRIES ON EVERY CONTINENT ) HAD SEEN #HINA 3OUTH !MERICA THE -IDDLE %ASTb HOW FOREIGN COULD "ELGRADE BE SITTING HERE ON THE EDGE OF %UROPE MARKING THE ANCIENT CROSSROADS OF CULTURES RELIGIONS AND ABOVE ALL BUSINESS

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)T DIDNiT TAKE TOO LONG TO REALISE THAT THE ANSWER WAS hVERY FOREIGN INDEEDi 7EiLL LEAVE ASIDE THE STREET SIGNS IN #YRILLIC m THAT EARLY CHALLENGE WAS QUICKLY OVERCOME

BY THE SIMPLE EXPEDIENT OF ASKING A PASSING STRANGER 3 HE WOULD INVARIABLY SPEAK SLIGHTLY BETTER %NGLISH THAN SOME OF MY ACQUAINTANCES BACK HOME )TiS A TRULY HUM BLING EXPERIENCE !ROUND EVERY CORNER ) FIND CONTRAST AND CONTRADIC TION ) AM SURPRISED TO MOVE INTO AN APARTMENT IN AN OLD BUILDING WITH A CRUMBLING DECAYING ENTRANCE HALL AND AN ELEVATOR THAT OPERATES ON ALTERNATE 4UESDAYS BUT ONLY IF THE MOON IS IN A SUITABLE PHASE AND ALWAYS EXCEPTING THOSE OCCASIONS WHEN ) ARRIVE LADEN WITH LUG GAGE FROM THE AIRPORT TO FIND THE APARTMENT HAS A WASH ING MACHINE THAT WOULD BE A WELCOME ADDITION TO ANY MUSEUMb BUT ALSO HAS CABLE 46 AND INTERNET ALREADY WIRED IN 3O ) SOON FIND MYSELF IN A LONG QUEUE AT THE CABLE OPERATORiS OFFICE WAITING TO FILL IN THE INEVITABLE FORMS AND PAY TO HAVE THE SERVICE SWITCHED ON 7HEN IT IS FINALLY MY TURN ) AM SENT AWAY AGAIN TO FIND AN !4- ) MUST PAY IN PERSON AND IN CASH )T IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DO

pê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ê ê êpê ê ê ê êi ê ê ê ê ê ê êh ê ê ­êµz ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê ê êl °´êpê ê ê ê ê ­ê{ ê ê ê ê ê ê ê êt ­êo ê ê ê ê ê ê ¾ ê ê ê ê ­ê o ê ê ê ê ê ê êi ±ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ê ê ±ê ê ­ SO ON LINE OR BY PHONE OR TO USE A CREDIT CARD ) TRY IN VAIN TO REFOCUS MY EXPECTATIONS !RRIVING AT 0OLICE (EADQUARTERS TO REGISTER MY EXIST ENCE ) AM FASCINATED BY THE 3-3 PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR PARKING ) HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A SMART ADVANCED SYSTEM IN ,ONDON OR ANYWHERE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER -UCH LATER WAITING INSIDE THE BUILDING THE SOUND OF SERRIED RANKS OF TYPEWRITERS CLACKING THEIR WAY THROUGH PILES OF INDEX CARDS AND DOCUMENTATION TRANSPORTS ME BACK AT LEAST A QUARTER OF A CENTURY TO A TIME OF GREATER INNOCENCE -Y LIFE IN "ELGRADE 0ARADOXICAL NATURALLY