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SLOVENIAN-SERBIAN TALKS IN JANUARY '91
About the peacefull process of disassociation
Joint communique
Beograd, 23 January 1991
TRANSLATION
COMMUNIQUE
Talks were held today in Belgrade between a Serbian delegation headed by the President of the Republic of Serbia, Slobodan Miloševic, and a Slovene delegation headed by the President of the Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia, Milan Kucan. The Serbian delegation comprised: Dr Slobodan Unkovic, President of the National Assembly, Dr Dragutin Zelenovic, leader-elect of the new government of the Republic of Serbia, and Dr Stanko Radmilovic, President of the Executive Council of the Serbian Assembly, while the Slovene delegation comprised: Dr France Bucar, President of the Assembly, Dr Dusan Plut, member of the Presidency, and Dr Joze Mencinger, Deputy President of the Executive Council of the Republic of Slovenia.
The extended and open talks dealt with the issues of Yugoslavia’s future and the resolving of the Yugoslav crisis, along with mutual relations and cooperation between the two republics. Both sides agreed that relations between the two republics should be improved and developed.
The delegations were united in confirming that the starting point for resolving the Yugoslav crisis must be the right of nations to self-determination, which cannot be limited by anything other than the equal rights of other nations. Both sides were of the opinion that the fulfilment of this right involves consideration of specifics and differences in interests, and cannot damage other nations.
Serbia respects the interest of Slovenia, on the basis of the right of nations to self-determination and through a process of reaching agreement on the future relations between the republics, in securing the unimpeded fulfilment of the right of the Slovene nation and the Republic of Slovenia to their own path and their own stance regarding the form of future ties with other Yugoslav nations or republics. Slovenia respects the interest of the Serbian people in living in one state and in ensuring that the future Yugoslav agreement must give proper consideration to this interest.
The talks established that it is not possible to define in the same way the mutual relations of all the nations and republics of Yugoslavia. For this reason the new Yugoslav agreement must respect the differences and interests of all the Yugoslav peoples and republics in the efforts to resolve the Yugoslav crisis in a peaceful way and in a democratic process of agreement on the future of Yugoslavia.
The talks also touched upon the question of mutual cooperation. The governments of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Slovenia agreed to study the open questions in mutual economic relations, in the interest of developing economic cooperation.
23 January 1991
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