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Government forwards Bill on veteran and disability protection to parliament

Belgrade, 7 April 2006

Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy Slobodan Lalovic said today that after examining once more the Bill on veterans and disability protection, the Serbian government forwarded this document to the Serbian parliament for adoption.

Slobodan Lalovic

Speaking at a press conference held after the government's session today, Lalovic said that with this law the entire field of the veterans and disability protection is being codified, because currently it is broken into at least ten regulations of different levels and from various periods.

He said that additional consultations had been carried out with associations of war veterans and disabled persons, after which an agreement on all solutions was made, as well as on the manner of adjusting their income.

The Minister said that according to this solution, in the next period the income of war veterans and the disabled persons should be adjusted quarterly, with the application of the "Swiss formula", as opposed to the current method of monthly adjustment according to salaries.

According to the Minister, the income of war veterans and invalids will be the only exception since the new law envisages that their income be adjusted 50% according to salaries and 50% according to the living costs, while all other wages paid out from the state budget will be entirely adjusted according to the living costs.

One of the solutions that has not existed so far is the formation of a separate housing fund for war veterans and invalids, and a Japanese donation will be used as the staring capital for construction of apartments, Lalovic said and added that the fund will be operational until all hosing issues of war veterans and the disabled are solved.

Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Services Bojan Dimitrijevic said that the presentation programme of the Republic of Serbia for the participation in the World Football Cup in Germany consists of activities related to four fields - sport, culture, tourism and the economy.

He specified that these will be exhibitions and special presentations of Serbian culture, art, sport, tourism and the economy, which will be held in German cities in which the games will be played. They include graphical, visual and application presentations, commercial goods and cultural programmes.

According to Dimitrijevic, the costs of the project's realisation are 25 million dinars, and the participants in the realisation are the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Services, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education and Sport, the tourist organisations of Serbia (TOS) and Belgrade (TOB), the Belgrade fair, the Serbia-Montenegrin Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Serbia-Montenegrin Embassy to Germany, and probably one marketing agency in Serbia and Germany each.

Predrag Bubalo

Serbian Minister of Economy Predrag Bubalo said that at today's government session it was concluded that industrial production in this year has recorded a positive trend. Industrial production in February this year is larger by 10% in relation to the same period last year. He added that the increase has been recorded in several industries, including the production of motor vehicles.

At today's session, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus submitted a report on the last round of negotiations on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) and announced that the next round will be held between June 8 and 10, noting that the agreement could be signed already in July this year.