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17. March 2003 - Monday |
Parliament approves temporary financing of the new union
BELGRADE – Today’s session of the Serbia-Montenegro parliament began with a minute of silence for Djindjic, before adopting proposals for temporary financing of the state union.
Parliamentarians honored the appeal of Parliamentary Speaker Draguljub Micunovic to behave in accordance with the current situation in the state.
At the start of the brief, 30-minute session, Micunovic said that war had been declared on peace and democracy in the country, urging MPs to make efforts to preserve and defend peace, the state and democracy.
The Speaker also said: “Today we must not combine verbal and physical violence, physical violence will be investigated, but the excessive used of verbal violence threatens to turn into physical violence. Any verbal violence in the parliament can be fought against with the deputies' words of wisdom.”
MPs of the Serbian Radical Party did not attend the session, but MPs for the Serbian opposition parties: Zoran Sami of the Democratic Party of Serbia, Ivica Dacic of Milosevic’s Socialist Party of Serbia and Borislav Pelevic of the Serbian Unity Party, all offered condolences to Zoran Djindjic’s family and said that they would back the draft decision on temporary financing of the state union.
The proposals were adopted with a favorable vote of 108 – 18, with 78 Serbian and 30 Montenegrin MPs voting in favor. No one abstained.
A second session of the day is to be held this afternoon, at which the state union’s Council of Ministers is to be elected.
Meanwhile, in the Serbian Parliament, acting Serbian President Natasa Micic nominated first vice-president of the Democratic Party Zoran Zivkovic as the Serbian Prime Minister.
A statement issued by the Serbian Parliament said that Micic had nominated Zivkovic after having heard the opinions of the representatives of the majority in the Serbian Parliament.
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