First meeting of commission for succession of property of former Yugoslavia in September?

If the information available to Al Jazeera Balkans that the official Belgrade has recently invited representatives of all ex-Yugoslav states to gather in September at a meeting of the mixed commission for succession proves to be true, it will be the first such meeting on this occasion, Split-based daily Slobodna Dalmacija writes.

This is the Mixed Commission for the Succession of Movable and Immovable Property of the Former Yugoslavia from Annex A, and as reported, the topic is especially interesting considering that over 80% of the former state's movable and immovable property within the annex consists of the property of the Yugoslav People's Army.

The daily writes that the Croatian side has not yet received an official invitation from Belgrade, but also that the informing of the successor states through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia is allegedly in progress.

As they say, Serbia is a logical place to host the meeting for several reasons – because it has acquired the majority of the former federal army's property, and also because the archives containing the lists of the pieces of property, which are to be used for evaluation, are located in Belgrade.

A source from the Ministry of Defense of Croatia, however, claims that the Croatian side made its own evaluation of the larger pieces of property a long time ago, based on the reconstruction of the entire system of the former Yugoslav people's Army, its infantry, real estate, movable property, arms, tools and technology.

The total value is around USD 70 billion, of which Croatia claims more than USD 10 billion.

USD 2 billion is owed to Croatia by Montenegro, whereas Serbia owes around USD 8 billion, the source claims.

The daily reminds that 27 years have passed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, but that the property of the former state has not yet been distributed among the successors, despite the signed succession agreement.

The biggest progress has been made in the distribution of the diplomatic-consular property, that is, the real estate housing the former state's embassies, whereas the distribution of other items, from gold and finances, through archives, to private and common property, has barely got off the ground, the daily writes.

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