Succession meeting postponed at Serbia's request

A meeting between the successor states of the former Yugoslavia scheduled for today has been postponed at Serbia's request, Beta news agency reports. The report quotes Serbia's Gasa Knezevic, representative on the Commission for Succession. Succession meeting postponed at Serbia's request He did not want to say why Serbia asked for the meeting to be postponed. Slovenia and Croatia had earlier confirmed that they would attend the meeting. This was the sixth proposed date for the meeting in Sarajevo. The commission has not met for more than a year. Zenit Kelic, assistant to the Bosnian minister of finance, said that the meeting was canceled because Serbia did not accept the proposed agenda. Kelic told Beta that Serbia did not agree to discussing Annex G which defines private and vested rights. According to earlier statements by Knezevic, the most progress made in the succession process has been in the distribution of state assets. The dividing up of diplomatic and consular properties has not been resolved and the most problematic issue is military assets. As far as diplomatic and consular properties are concerned, only five of 128 disputed properties have been partitioned to date, and the splitting of another 42 embassies has been agreed, but Serbia insists that buildings be handed over only when an overall agreement is reached on all assets. The comprehensive implementation of the Agreement on Succession was supposed to be discussed at the meeting, with special focus on the issue of mixed banks.

Succession meeting postponed at Serbia's request

He did not want to say why Serbia asked for the meeting to be postponed. Slovenia and Croatia had earlier confirmed that they would attend the meeting. This was the sixth proposed date for the meeting in Sarajevo. The commission has not met for more than a year.

Zenit Kelić, assistant to the Bosnian minister of finance, said that the meeting was canceled because Serbia did not accept the proposed agenda. Kelić told Beta that Serbia did not agree to discussing Annex G which defines private and vested rights.

According to earlier statements by Knežević, the most progress made in the succession process has been in the distribution of state assets. The dividing up of diplomatic and consular properties has not been resolved and the most problematic issue is military assets.

As far as diplomatic and consular properties are concerned, only five of 128 disputed properties have been partitioned to date, and the splitting of another 42 embassies has been agreed, but Serbia insists that buildings be handed over only when an overall agreement is reached on all assets.

The comprehensive implementation of the Agreement on Succession was supposed to be discussed at the meeting, with special focus on the issue of mixed banks.