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Wednesday, February 5, 2003
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Yugoslavia erased from ma|
By Misha Savic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELGRADE, Serbia-
Montenegro — Erasing
Yugoslavia from the map of
Europe, lawmakers all but dis
solved the troubled Balkan fed
eration Tuesday and gave birth
to a new country with a new
name: Serbia and Montenegro.
Under a European Union-
brokered accord approved by
parliament, the two republics
stick together in a loose unipn
that gives each greater autono
my and the trappings of state
hood. The final breakup of the
former Yugoslavia — outright
independence for both — could
come as soon as 2006.
Widely seen as a compro
mise solution amid conflicting
demands within both republics
that Serbia and Montenegro be
either firmly tied or completely
separated, the accord preserves
the alliance but allows each
member state to hold an inde
pendence referendum after three
years.
The deal offers the republics
near-total sovereignty, although
they will remain linked by a
small joint administration in
charge of defense and foreign
affairs. Yugoslavia, the federa
tion’s name for nearly three
quarters of a century, is relegat
ed to the history books.
“This is a new beginning, but
we should not be euphoric,”
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic said after both cham
bers of parliament approved the
overhaul.
“This new country is based
on a minimum of common inter
est between Serbia and
Montenegro, and we should give
it a chance,” he said.
Yugoslavia, founded in 1918
as the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes, com
prised six republics until the
early 1990s, when Slobodan
Milosevic presided over a
bloody breakup that saw
Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia
and Slovenia secede.
Serbia and Montenegro,
tightly knitted for centuries,
opted to stay together as a rump
Yugoslav federation. But the
relations between the republics
soured, prompting the EU to
mediate the accord last year in
an effort to keep the two togeth
er and prevent fresh upheaval in
the volatile region.
The latest arrangement is
meant to accommodate a
strong independence move
ment in Montenegro, the small
er republic. Montenegro’s lead
ership began boycotting federal
institutions in 1998, prompting
some Serbs to demand separa
tion.
Srdja Bozovic, a pro-Serbia
official from Montenegro,
hailed Tuesday’s reform as “a
fresh start for Serbia and
Montenegro — an opportunity
to have a stable state.”
But the new arrangement left
many dissatisfied, including
staunchly separatist leaders in
both republics.
“This new country is still
born,” said Vladan Batic of
Serbia’s Christian Democrats,
who serves as justice minister in
the Serbian government. He pre
dicted the two republics would
go their separate ways in three
years.
Equally unhappy were
staunchly separatist
Montenegrin politicians like
Miodrag Zivkovic of the Liberal
Alliance, who contended that
Montenegro was being “cheated
with this reform.”
“Full independence is our
true interest,” he said.
Moderate politicians from
both republics gave their crucial
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Key characteristics of Serbian
Montenegro, the new county
set to replace Yugoslavia:
Administration and status
► Will have one seat in the UnW
Nations and other international
organizations.
► Will have a joint administration
consisting of a 126-seat pariiamat
(91 deputies from Serbia; 35 from
Montenegro) and a shared
government called the Council ol
Ministers.
► Will have a joint armed force tot
the Yugoslav Army.
► Will each have separate currenof
and economies.
► Kosovo, currently administered?
NATO and the United Nations,^
part of the new country.
Whafs in store
► Republics’ constitutions will be
amended in six months to cpnforr
with provisions defining the new
union.
► After three years, each repubk
may hold a referendum on full
independence.
SOURCES: World Almanac and
Book of Facts, 2003; CIA World
Fact Book; Associated Press
backing to the EU plan an
pledged to establish a nt
administration for the new
by gradually downsizing si
reforming existing federal ba
ies in the coming weeks.
“The new state has a realist
chance of becoming a model
and plrosperous country,” sa
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minister, Dragisa Pesic,
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the nation’s only plant that enriches uranium for
commercial nuclear power walked off the job
Tuesday ’ in a protest over
wages, health care and pension
issues.
About 620 workers went on
strike at the Paducah Gaseous
Diffusion Plant in this western
Kentucky city. The facility’s
operator said it would keep the
plant running with manage
ment taking over some of the
tasks.
United States Enrichment
Corp., which operates the plant
for the Energy Department,
will meet customer demands
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willingness for the last
eight weeks that this has
been going on to reach a
mutually acceptable
resolution.
plant’s enrichment operations in 1993. The
strike at the plant was in 1979, when it was
Union Carbide Corp.
Hourly workers in Local
550 of the Paper, i
Industrial, Chemical
Energy Workers Intematid
went on strike after rejeci
USEC’s latest offer for a
year contract.
“We have expressedawi
ingness for the last eight wet
that this has been going on
reach a mutually acce]
resolution,” said Leon Owei?
the local president. “Theprf
lem has been the compan)
unwillingness to addressi
issues.”
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Union president
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“We will continue all essential work at the
plant,” Stuckle said.
Kevin Choate, a 15-year worker at the plant,
said he wonders how that will be possible if the
strike continues more than a few days.
“You have 600 people maintaining it — with
them gone, you can figure it out,” Choate said.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors
will be at plant for the first 72 hours of the strike
to ensure the plant operates safely, commission
spokesman Jan Strasma said. Extra inspections
“made a very fair and competitive offer,
company has offered to meet with a federal n#
ator and is willing to work with the union,
said.
Owens said the union and management are^
far apart for a mediator to be useful. Union
ers seek better pension benefits and say the
pany’s proposed salary increases will not i
increases in health care costs.
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., said he supportsi*
union’s decision to strike, though he wants
dispute settled quickly.
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