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The "INTERVJU" Magazine Interview with Sinisa Vucinic, leader of the Radical Party "Nikola Pasic," by Tatjana Djordjevic AGAINST STREET DEMOCRACY What is the importance of the ratification of the Agreement on Speical Parallel Relations between FR Yugoslavia and Republika Srpska? The ratification of the Agreement is the greatest achievement for the Serb people in its recent history. This Agreement accomplishes Serb national interests and also affirms the Dayton accords. Namely, all the positive points in the Dayton accords have been included and used by the Agreement. The Dayton proved to be in the interests of the Serb people at the time of its signing. President Milosevic deserves the most credits for that. What's your comment of the local political parties' reaction to the Agreement? To put it simply, all patriotic forces and the absolute majority of the citizens of both Republika Srpska (RS) and FR Yugoslavia (FRY) have supported the Agreement and any man in his senses has supported this centuries' old dream of the Serb people come true. The fifth column, personified in the coalition Zajedno and some other parties criticized and rejected the Agreement, as we had expected. The coalition Zajedno is incapable of supporting anything that can lead to the fulfilment of the Serb national interests. We must stress that this coalition is committed to the accomplishment of the American and German national interests. Their reaction was no surprise for us. They have once again confirmed their anti-democratic and anti-patriotic committments and their service to the US and Germany. They have proved that they are in favour of a subject/subservient and humiliated Serbia, while the patriotic forces on the other hand are committed to independent and free Serbia and a dignified Serb people that is always willing to cooperate with all countries of the international community, but on an equal footing. What's your comment on some political leaders' frequent trips abroad? Leaders of this coalition simply compete in slurring, libelling and making up foul stories about their own people and state during these visits of theirs. What is your opinion on the current media situation in Serbia? The media situation in Serbia has always been objective and good as regards the state media. We can produce firm evidence of this. However, some so-called independent media in Serbia are targeted against the interests of the Serb nation. They are instruments for a sort of a special war waged from the US and Germany, aimed at breaking the FRY and Serbia. The most supportive in this war are [the daily] 'Blic,' 'Dnevni Telegraf,' 'Radio B92,' 'Nasa Borba' and especially in the daily ['Demokratija'] owned by the notorious German agent Zoran Djindjic. That daily has of late made itself prominent by unobjective information and lies. That daily is treasonous and anti-patriotic, introducing various personalities to offend on the behalf of Zajedno all the patriotic forces and dissalowing reply or correction or anything else. What is your opinion on the new Law on Information? We hope that this law will make some things clear. The first working version my party absolutely supports represents an extremely good basis which could, with certain corrections, become a true law proper for all progressive countries in the world. The current law on information is not bad either. It's bad bad point is that it allows too much liberty, allowing anybody to set up a medium. It gives too much freedom to the press that promote breaking-up of Serbia, to the anti-patriotic papers and those promoting violence. Take the recent demonstrations. The fiercest promnoter of violence and destruction was Radio B92, who reported on the demonstrations as football matches. We therefore hope that the new law would sanction such media. The most important for us is that media funded from abroad should be obliged to state who funds them and in what amounts. That is essential. Nevertheless, we are a bit sceptical, since the CIA will never admit it is the CIA, but will rather dream up some businesman, even of Serbian origin. GERMAN RADIO HUMILIATES CITIZENS OF KRAGUJEVAC What do you think about the struggle for power in the streets? My party is notable for its democratic principles and promoting democracy not only among its own ranks but also in general. We oppose any sort of political engagement in the streets and we support parliamentary work and dialogue. Zajedno is not committed to parliamentary democracy as it has shown by boycotting the Yugoslav and Serbian Parliament. They know only of street democracy. These are politicians who want to get into power some other states and nations in their own country. These are people prone to violence, as the demonstrations have shown. Just look at the RTS and Politika [builings], and some other buildings in Belgrade. The situation is the same in all other cities where the demonstrations took place. They simply know no better than lead the dialogue in the streets. They claim to want a dialogue, but on their conditions, which is again unacceptable and unrealistic. Why is a part of the opposition boycotting the Yugoslav and Serbian parliamentary sessions? By boycotting of the parliamentary sessions they have boycotted their own voters. We believe that those who have voted for them have simply wasted their polling lists, since they have cast their votes for representatives who are supposed to go to the parliaments and represent their voters there. They do that in the streets instead. Look at what they're doing in the municipalities where they have assumed power. They have introduced terror and torture against those who do not share their opinions. They have forbidden the citizens to listen to or view the domestic media. Kragujevac is a good example. Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Deutsche Welle are imposed on the unwilling citizens, and the city government is allegedly struggling against the information darkness in Serbia. They have clearly shown that they will not let the citizens obtain timely information on the developments in their own country. It is enough to mention that the Deutsche Welle was founded and is funded by the German police. That is an unspeakable humiliation for us, although my party is not in the least surprised by it. Zoran Djindjic, one of the Zajedno leaders, is a German agent, while Vuk Draskovic is a US agent. They simply continue with a forgotten and ugly past. Zoran Djindjic continues the policy of Milan Nedic, the notorious Serb traitor and collaborationist, only Djindjic is doing in keeping with the times. Vuk Draskovic is a collaborationist of the Draza Mihajlovic type. What is your view of the independence of the Student Protest? The Student Protest has never been independent. From the very outset, it has had a political connotation. It is politically coloured because the members of the so-called Main Board are prominent members of the Zajedno coalition. For instance, a certain Misa Gavrilovic is the son of Slobodan Gavrilovic, the Vice-President of the Democratic Party (DS) and one of the leaders of the Protests and the DS MP in the Uzice City Council. That is practically an open secret. After the alleged termination of the protest, Zajedno gave them the jeep, which implies that they persevere in teh continuation of the demonstrations tension. There are the other leaders, like Cedomir Jovanovic, known among his friends as "Ceda who-fails-his-school-years," since he has changed several University schools and on none of them managed to get through the first year. You can recognize him by several ear-rings he wears. That is a bunch of anarchists that has no idea but simply wishes to have fun. They reduced the protest to a sort of partying. It is important to note that those students who participated in the protest do not deserve to be called academic citizens. Just remember that they looked for the Chancellor in the Zoo. Thay was scandalous. We condemn it. We do not need such students and citizens in no for of public social life. Luckily, a vast majority of the students has preserved the autonomy of the University, preserved the image students should have and turned to work althogh the protest had denied them that possibility. What is your comment on the moves by Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic? We predicted his fall as soon as he started promoting separatism in Montenegro and american style of privatization in Montenegro which implies a prosperous Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and a small group of the ministers around him, and on the other hand a poverty-stricken population. He endeavoured at breaking FRY. He had anti-patriotically struggled to achieve US interests. He is a close fried of Milan Panic's, the constant aspirant to the presidential post. Djukanovic wanted to make him Serbian President. However, Montenegrin people very promptly saw through his intentions and condemnded him, as did he majority of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). That was confirmed when a majority vote accepted his resignation. We expect that he would resign as Montengrin Prime Minister and to all other posts he holds. The DPS has confirmed its committment to democracy and patriotism. We whole-heartedly congratulate them on having so promptly removed such negative elements form their ranks, and once again confimred the committment of the Montenegrin people to a life in a union with the Serbian people. In what points does your party's agenda differ from other parties'? We are a democratic party. That is our hallmark. We are a patriotic party that wishes to promote the national feelings of the Serb people, but to achieve this at a disadvantage of the other nations. As opposed to Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party, our party believes that the presence of many national minorities in Serbia is a wealth. The variety of cultures and customs is a wealth for us. Nevertheless, we oppose any option urging for broad autonomies, special statuses, no matter whether the case of Vojvodina, Kosovo or the Raska region. We oppose all those who promote separatism. We are a party that does not wish street dialogues, we are fully aware of the reasons for the existance of political parties and what are their fundamental meanings. We respect people's will. We are notable for put state and national interests above everything else and cherish them as stronger than all party and narrow-ideological interests. --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de