WE INHERITED...

An isolated state under sanctions

• A state under sanctions whose government was prohibited from going out of the country and with whom almost no one in the democratic world wanted to co-operate.

A State without a part of its territory

• Under the Kumanovo agreement former government accepted foreign troops and administration in Kosovo and Metohija and in the form of the "Ground Safety Zone" ceded further 2,380 square kilometres of the territory of Serbia.

A State failing to fulfil obligations to its citizens

• Children's allowances had not been paid for full 2 years
• Family benefits: for 26 months
• Care and aid benefits: for 32 months
• Farmers' pensions: for 3 years
• Student hostel-accommodation allowances: for 5.5 months
• Foster family subsidies: for 2.5 years
• Veteran-invalid pensions: 7.5 months
• Over 60-day sickness allowances: for 12 months (this debt alone exceeds 750 million dinars)
• The total debt under unpaid pensions and other social welfare benefits amounted about 460 million German marks

One of the poorest states in Europe

• Average salary: DEM 83.5 (7.7 times below the 1990 level)
• Average pension: Din 2,048 (DEM 69), or 18% of the 1990 average
• 735,000 unemployed and approximately 770,000 "covertly" unemployed on forced leave
• 65% of the families in Serbia with an income per member below the subsistence level
• 400,000 refugees
• 200,000 displaced persons from the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

A State of ruined economy

• Inter-company claims and debts amounting Din 843 billion, or DEM 28 billion
• For majority of the employed in our country former authorities were not paying pension contributions for years, thereby additionally plundering pensioners and reducing future pensions
• We came upon monopolistic enterprises and individuals close to authorities who were using privileges from the state funds and Republic budget and getting rich at the expense of the people
• Unsettled credits under the Loan for Serbia's Economic Revival and Fund for the Republic Development
• A country where passenger trains travel at a speed of 60-70 km per hour and cargo trains do 25-30 km per hour, and where almost 66% of the railroads have not been overhauled

A State of organised crime

• State and police leadership was closely linked with the maffia, which has led to a full criminalisation of the society, repressions and political assassinations
• Budgetary control of ten ministries exposed the following financial abuses:       
        
  • Din 1,281,693,506 from Serbia budget was spent for a purpose other than specified       
  • Din 373,533,565 from Serbia budget was spent illegally       
  • DEM 2,635,650 was not paid in Serbia budget       
  • Din 1,067,056,894 from solidarity resources designated for constructing flats for the poorest was spent illegally, for party and personal needs of the former authorities       
  • Din 40,631,380 in the name of taxes and contributions was not paid in Serbia's budget       
  • Internationally isolated former government, although travelling nowhere and co-operating with no one, spent on its own expenses and privileges in the last year alone almost DEM 1,650,000, or more than DEM 137,000 per month       
  • Former government gave out 1,264 flats, including a great number to ministers and SPS, JUL and SRS party officials       

A State violating basic human rights

• Autonomy of universities was abolished, and professors reduced to government clerks
• The Draconian Law on public information penalised free media and journalists with high fines going as far as seizing journalists' home furniture
• Municipalities were deprived of all competencies and made unable to do anything towards improving the quality of life of their co-citizens
• We were one from among the ten world's countries known for violating human rights of its citizens, suppressing freedom of the press, persecuting and assassinating political opponents
• Following Nigeria, we were the most corrupted country in the world

WE INHERITED...
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SO FAR WE HAVE DONE... - Part 1
SO FAR WE HAVE DONE... - Part 2
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