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Following the meeting Dinkic said that leading exporters and bankers, who joined the programme and started granting favourable loans with subsidised interest rates to businesses and citizens, welcomed the government’s latest measures, including the reduction of public administration staff, adding that they asked for lower rates on loans to exporters and simplification of business red tape.
Dinkic announced that this week the government will pass a decree enabling privatised companies to re-programme their debts to the state by transforming them into capital.
The Deputy Prime Minister explained that privatised companies which pay out salaries and other obligations from the sales contract on a regular basis, but have liquidity problems, will be able to ask the state to temporarily transform a portion of their debts, which were due before December 31, 2008, into state capital.
He said that decisions will be made individually for each case, adding that when the crisis passes, the company owners or new investors will be able to buy off this capital.
Dinkic also announced that before the end of the month the government will form an action team for settling mutual debts, that is, for multilateral compensation.
After the decrees on government subsidies to the amount of RSD 162 billion were passed, the busieness sector drew nearly RSD 20 billion, he said, noting that the remaining RSD 142 billion will be used by the end of the year.
The Serbian government is negotiating an investment loan of nearly €200 million with the government of China for the construction of the Zemun-Borca bridge over the Danube, he said.
A delegation of the Serbian government should travel to Moscow to discuss Russian law for the construction of the Belgrade tube system, he added.
Dinkic announced that the government will adopt a bill next week decreasing all salaries in public administration higher than RSD 40,000.
The document is expected to be confirmed by parliament by the end of April and should come into effect on May 1, he said.
Dinkic also said he will suggest no bonuses for the public sector in 2009.