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International Forum on Business Ethical Conduct (IFBEC) CHARTER Policy _ Page 1 of 7 Originator IFBEC TASK FORCE Orig. date December 2011 Rev. _ 1 Approved by : IFBEC TASK FORCE Date approved Release date Revised by Rev date: December 20, 2011 Chapter 1: Presentation of the organization Article I. Name The name of the organization shall be the “International Forum on Business Ethical Conduct for the Aerospace and Defense Industry,” hereinafter referred to as “IFBEC.

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MEMORANDUM
OF THE SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
ANSWERS TO CRITICISMSSERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
PRESIDENCY
Kosta Mihailovic
Vasilije Krestic
MEMORANDUM
OF THE SERBIAN ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES AND ARTS
ANSWERS TO CRITICISMS
Published on the decision of the Presidency of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
of April 23, 1993
Editor
Academician
MIROSLAV PANTIC
Secretary General
of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
BELGRADE
1995Published
by
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Translated
by
Margot and Bosko Milosavljevic
Layout
Zlatibor Brankovic
Edition: 1000 copies
Printed
by
GIP ‘‘Kultura’’
Belgrade, Marsala Birjuzova 28
YU ISBN 86-7025-216-3CONTENTS
FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................ ............. 7
WHY THE MEMORANDUM WAS WRITTEN ........................................................................ 9
THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE MEMORANDUM COMMITTEE’S WORK ........ 13
THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST THE MEMORANDUM ........................................................ 16
- The Serbian Academy and Political Establishment at Daggers Drawn .................................... 16
- The Campaign against the Memorandum in Serbia .................................................................... 20
- Croatian Criticism of the Memorandum ....................................................................................... 24
- Slovenian Insinuations and Sympathy .......................................................................................... 35
- Support from Other Countries ....................................................................................................... 37
THE WITCH HUNT DIES DOWN .............................................................................................. 39
A NEW WAVE OF ATTACKS ON THE MEMORANDUM .................................................... 42
- Old and New Tones in Serbia ........................................................................................................ 43
- Croatian Propaganda True to Itself ............................................................................................... 50
-Slovenian Manipulation of the Memorandum .............................................................................. 56
DENIAL THAT SERBIA WAS ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED ............................ 60
- The Voice of the Croatian Academic Community ....................................................................... 61
PRINCIPAL MYTHS ABOUT THE MEMORANDUM ........................................................... 76
- Collusion between the Serbian Academy and Serbia’s Official Policy ....................................... 78
- The Memorandum and Slobodan Milosevic ................................................................................ 80
- Where Is the Nationalism of the Memorandum? ......................................................................... 81
- Neither a Political nor a National Programme ............................................................................. 82
- The Thesis of a Greater Serbia ....................................................................................................... 85
- Criticism Abroad ........................................................................................................................ ..... 86
MEMORANDUM ..... 95
- The Crisis in the Yugoslav Economy and Society ....................................................................... 95
- The Status of Serbia and the Serbian Nation ............................................................................... 119
INDEX ....................... 141FOREWORD
Readers might well ask why the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts has
kept silent for so long and why it has not responded earlier to all the criticism
voiced against it and the Memorandum, both at home and abroad. People must
be wondering why to this day the Memorandum has not become generally
available, and why it has not been translated into any of the world languages.
There is one short answer to all these questions: the work on writing the
Memorandum, which was leaked to the public before times, was never completed.
Not a single body of the Serbian Academy has yet approved the Memorandum.
In its uncompleted, draft version, the Serbian Academy could not endorse it as a
document which it could stand behind and defend. Therefore, the Academy felt
that there was no reason to enter into premature polemics with those quarters
which have incessantly and unjustly attacked it and the Memorandum as part of
the general assault on Serbia and the entire Serbian nation. The Serbian Academy
bided its time, carefully noting down everything said and written about it and the
Memorandum, waiting for the right moment to make itself heard in a manner
befitting its prestige and place in Serbian society.
Now that all those who have been moved or obliged to pass judgement on
the Serbian Academy and the Memorandum have had their say, the Serbian
Academy has decided to speak out.
The Academy believes that the best answer to all those who have attacked
it over the Memorandum is to publish the complete document, not just in the
original Serbian language, but also in English, German and French. The objective
reader having some background knowledge of political conditions in Yugoslavia
and the Memorandum affair can now see for himself how unwarranted and
malicious the accusations were that the Academy destroyed Yugoslavia and was
a war-monger.
A commentary is provided along with the unabridged text of the Memo -
randum, whose task is not to defend what was written in it but rather to inform
the reader when, how and why this document came about. The commentary has
provided answers only to the most serious criticisms levelled against the Serbian
7Academy and the Memorandum but not to that litany of criticism which has
sought to convince by sheer force of repetition. In the selection of which criticism
to be rebutted, the deciding factor was the actual criticism made and not who made
it. The aim was not to let a single serious objection made to the Serbian Academy
and Memorandum go by without a response.
The authors of the commentary did not take their cue from the critics of
the Serbian Academy and Memorandum who, in the absence of hard evidence,
resorted to slander and insults against the highest learned institution of the
Serbian nation, its members, and the entire Serbian people. Ever mindful of the
dignity of the Serbian Academy and in possession of facts which are incontrovert -
ible, the writers of the commentary took great pains to respond to the broadside
attacks in a manner and language befitting academic scholarship.
The commentary was not written with the intention of entering into
polemics with the critics of the Serbian Academy and Memorandum; its purpose
was rather to draw attention to all the political machinations and fabrications.
Nor is the publication of the unabridged text of the Memorandum and the
commentary intended only for the contemporary reader. There is no doubt that
history will give its verdict, and that it will be more fair than the judgement
pronounced by present-day politics. In this conviction, the Serbian Academy is
putting its case to the public.
Academician Kosta Mihailovic
Academician Vasilije Krestic
8WHY THE MEMORANDUM WAS WRITTEN
When they first started thinking about writing a document which would put
forward their view of the state of society, the members of the Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts were already well acquainted with the extent and nature of the
Yugoslav crisis. In 1985, the economic crisis was already in its sixth year, without
any outlook for improvement. The Serbian Academy had by that time already
organized a number of well received symposia to discuss the country’s economic ills.
The suggestions of experts, which were duly communicated to the authorities, fell on
deaf ears, for the principles of economic rationality were being sacrificed to vested
interests and ideological dogma. To make matters worse, the political establishment
itself was in the throes of a profound crisis and on the verge of collapse. Lumbered
with an anachronistic ideology and organizationally splintered, the Communist Party
was less and less capable of responding effectively to mounting political problems.
The 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, with its confederal bias, threw the system of
decision-making into a state of paralysis, all the more hopeless as the conflict of
interests between the republics had become irreconcilable. Not a single important
decision which might have remedied the situation could be taken. The constitutional
crisis which inevitably ensued acted as a signal to Slovenia and Croatia to formalize
their already strongly expressed separatist leanings by insisting on a confederation.
The separatism of these two republics gave the political crisis dramatic tones. The
already considerable social and moral difficulties of the country, where traditional
society was rapidly being replaced by an industrial society, were further exacerbated
by the economic slump and political stalemate.
The members of the Serbian Academy were particularly alarmed