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PANCEVO - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic said Tuesday, putting into operation the Pancevo refinery;
"Refinery workers, workers of the Serbian Oil Industry, participants and construction workers in the rebuilding of the country, allow me to first of all to greet you cordially. Today is a big day not only for the refinery, but also for the entire country.
This refinery was bombed seven times. Those who bombed it seven times will hardly believe that it is working and that today will start the production of the first hundreds and thousands of tons of oil for harvesting fields of sunflower and sugar beet, for cars, for the industry and that this refinery will continue production in the same way as in any other modern country and in any modern enterprise of that kind.
For that I wish to congratulate first of all the construction workers, the enterprises that took part in it and at the same time to emphasize that our reconstruction is characterized by very short and difficult deadlines, but that almost each one is realized ahead of schedule. Some fewer and some more days, but mostly ahead of schedule.
That testifies not only to the great creative capabilties of our construction workers, but also to the great unity of our country and our people that is expressed in reconstruction as a way of defense of our country from continued the pressures to which it is exposed.
The reconstruction of our country is victorious, as victorious as is the heroic defense of our country.
With this pace of reconstruction, about which our public is informed every day by the media about every bridge that is built, about every completed building, about every project that is started, we will prove in what measure and how we can and how fast we can recover all the vital fuctions which they wanted to take away and make it impossible for us to continue our development and to live as a modern, contemporary society.
All those who took part in it deserve the highest credit and I congratulate them from my heart. I wish them new successes confident that our program of reconstruction will be completed successfully.
We are aware that there are many more difficulties, of the hardships of a large number of citizens. We have defined our priorities and we first have to resolve the issue of vital power, road and other infrastructure. We must have by winter conditions that are the same as in previous winters, despite the war, and also at the same time resolve problems of increasing industrial production which since May to this month has risen as much as 50 percent.
I am confident that on all those fronts on which battles are fought for the reconstruction of our country we will pass the test successfully in the interest of our people, in the interest of all the citizens living in our country", President Milosevic said.