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Tadic's office denies claims he negotiated sale of Telekom

05. March 2010. | 12:26

Source: Beta

The office of Serbian President Boris Tadic on March 4 dismissed claims that Tadic discussed the sale of Telekom Srbija during his visit last week to Berlin.

The office of Serbian President Boris Tadic on March 4 dismissed claims that Tadic discussed the sale of Telekom Srbija during his visit last week to Berlin.

"President Tadic had talks at the Bundestag with the speaker of the German Parliament and had no meeting with any representative of Deutsche Telekom," BETA was told by the office of the Serbian president.

The Belgrade weekly NIN reported in its latest issue that the state-owned package of shares in Telekom Srbija would be sold at a tender in October this year and, among other things, that the agreement in principle on the sale of Telekom at the tender in autumn was finally confirmed last week, during the visit of Serbian President Boris Tadic to Berlin.

The weekly claimed, without quoting a source, that the Serbian state helm had made this decision after negotiations with the most serious buyer, the German Deutsche Telekom, which already owns 20 percent of the Serbian company through Greece's OTE, of which it is the co-owner.

BETA was told by the Serbian Ministry for Telecommunications that the Serbian government had not discussed the sale of Telekom and that they could not comment on the claims of NIN.

Telekom Srbija has stated that neither the PTT Srbije public enterprise, nor the Greek OTE, as the owners of the Serbian telecommunications company, had informed Telekom about the intention to sell some of their shares. "Accordingly, we are not carrying out any activities in connection with this," it was said by Telekom Srbija.

Telekom Srbija is expected to transform from a closed to an open stock company by June 30, so that the citizens can obtain 15 percent of shares of this company, and the former and current employees 12 percent. The Serbian government currently holds 80 percent of Telekom Srbija through the PTT Srbije public enterprise, while Greece's OTE owns 20 percent.

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