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Serbia Today 96-06-14
Serbia Today
14 June 1996
CONTENTS
[01] STRONG FRIENDSHIP AND TRADITIONALLY CLOSE RELATIONS
[02] ITALIAN PARTNERS ARE WELCOME
[03] OUR STRIVES FOR PEACE ARE EXPERIENCING INTERNATIONAL AFFIRMATION
[04] ABOUT STATUS OF THE FRY IN THE IMF - WITHOUT POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS
[05] MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA BEGINS
[06] MUSLIMS ARE TO BLAME FOR OSLO FAILURE
[07] AMERICANS ARE SUPPLYING MUSLIMS WITH INTELLIGENCE DATA
[08] A TORRENT OF ACCUSATIONS AND THREATS
[09] SLOVENIA ADMITS SMUGGLING OF ARMS
[01] STRONG FRIENDSHIP AND TRADITIONALLY CLOSE RELATIONS
President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic and
President of Zimbabwe Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who is on an official
visit to our country, had talks yesterday about the most important
issues of further development of bilateral relations and
cooperation between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe
and about the actual international situation. The two countries are
linked with strong, friendly and traditionally close relations. The
liberation struggle of the people of Zimbabwe had a decisive
support of our country, considering it to be an example of the just
strives for achieving affirmation of equality among nations and
states. On the other hand, principled stand of Zimbabwe towards the
crisis in former Yugoslavia and an objective attitude towards the
role of our country in the peace process in the best way have
confirmed the high reputation which friendly Zimbabwe and its
President are enjoying among the citizens of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia. The two presidents have expressed their agreement
that through the successful development of political relations,
through dialogue and bilateral cooperation, as well as through
their principled stands in the international organizations,
positive results can be reached in the interest of a more just
order in the relations in the world. There was special discussion
of the possibilities for intensifying of the economic cooperation,
on which topics the businessmen of the two countries, it was
stressed, will agree these days in Belgrade. (Politika, June 14,
1996)
[02] ITALIAN PARTNERS ARE WELCOME
President Milosevic received yesterday Caesar Geronci,
President of "Banco di Roma", one of the leading world banks, whose
visit to Belgrade is beyond any doubt manifesting the interest of
the business partners in Italy for intensifying Yugoslav-Italian
economic cooperation. President Milosevic underlined during the
talks that the Italian partners are welcome to the Yugoslav market,
not only because of traditionally good relations with our country,
but also because of the great importance of Italy in the overall
regional development. (Politika, June 14, 1996)
[03] OUR STRIVES FOR PEACE ARE EXPERIENCING INTERNATIONAL AFFIRMATION
On the occasion of June 16th, Day of the Army of Yugoslavia,
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Lilic
received delegation of the Yugoslav Army and its members and
congratulated them on their celebration. "Army of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, under the circumstances of an extremely
complex military and political climate and significantly reduced
economic capabilities of the country, in cooperation with the other
state institutions, has successfully achieved its strategic
objectives and tasks", said President Lilic. "In spite of all the
difficulties burdening our country both internationally and
internally, during the past year our priority task was achieved -
peace was established in former Yugoslavia and necessary conditions
created for the economic recovery, for cultural development and
international affirmation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The consistent strives of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for
the peaceful solution of the problems in the region is now
experiencing full international affirmation and an unreserved
recognition of a growing number of countries in the world",
concluded President Lilic. (Borba, June 14, 1996)
[04] ABOUT STATUS OF THE FRY IN THE IMF - WITHOUT POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS
Yugoslavia and the International Monetary Fund have started
yesterday in Geneva a new round of talks about legal and economic
modalities for regulating mutual relations. The essence is to
regulate the relations in a way which would be concordant both with
the Yugoslav legislature and with the IMF rules. Regulating of its
relations with the International Monetary Fund for Yugoslav also
means regulating its relations with the World Bank and its venture
on the world market of capital. During the preliminary talks so far
the stand of the Yugoslav side was that separation of economic and
legal matters from the political questions of continuity of the FR
of Yugoslavia should bring about optimum solutions for the
normalization of the relations. Regarding the International
Monetary Fund, it is clear that this financial institution deems
important to regulate relations with the country which is one of
its founders. (Borba, June 14, 1996)
[05] MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA BEGINS
At the Ministerial Conference on Bosnia which has started work
yesterday in Florence, foreign ministers and diplomates from 45
countries have gathered and from 14 international organizations.
High representative for civilian affairs and reconstruction Carl
Bildt stated that during half of this year improvement was achieved
in the standard of life in Bosnia, but he also warned that there
are forces "of ethnic separatism" who are prevailing over the
forces of unification. Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, who is
heading the delegation of the FR of Yugoslavia, said that positive
results in Bosnia were possible thanks to the realism and good
sense of all the sides, as well as to a great assistance by the
influential international factors. Underlining that peace,
stability, good neighborly relations, an overall cooperation and
development in the region are a strategic orientation of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Milutinovic said that our country
is making a lot of efforts in the aim of full normalization of the
relations with the former Yugoslav republics, where a significant
progress has already been achieved. In this context, Yugoslavia
will continue in future to fulfil obligations from the Dayton
Agreement and will continue to cooperate constructively, said the
Yugoslav chief of diplomacy. (Borba, June 14, 1996)
[06] MUSLIMS ARE TO BLAME FOR OSLO FAILURE
German newspapers were accusing yesterday only Alija
Izetbegovic for the failed attempt to sign in Oslo the agreement
on reduction of armament in former Yugoslavia. Liberal Munich daily
"Die Deutsche Zeitung" writes that Muslim leader is to be blamed
for not respecting the agreed upon time-table in the peace process,
which is actually something that his own allies the Americans are
insisting upon. The fact that government in Sarajevo has refused to
sign the agreement because of an equitable treatment of the
Republic of Srpska with the other signatories, the newspaper is
qualifying as obstruction of the already operative time schedule of
moves in the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The
conservative "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", however, is trying
to defend the Muslim leader by the already well-known tricks,
claiming allegedly that Republic of Srpska was created by mistake
in Dayton. Otherwise, the official Bonn, even during the meeting in
Oslo, appealed on Izetbegovic to sign the agreement on disarmament,
which was drafted for several months in Vienna. (Politika ekspres,
June 14, 1996)
[07] AMERICANS ARE SUPPLYING MUSLIMS WITH INTELLIGENCE DATA
Within the international forces in Bosnia a serious conflict
is threatening to erupt between Britain and France on the one side,
and the United States on the other, because of suspicion that the
American officers are supplying intelligence data to the Muslim
government, claims yesterday the London "Guardian". American
officers, writes this newspaper, are sending to the Muslim
government the data obtained by the intelligence service of the
overall IFOR mission, which is bringing under a question mark its
basic peace mission and the agreed upon impartial team work.
(Vecernje novosti, June 14, 1996)
[08] A TORRENT OF ACCUSATIONS AND THREATS
Presidency of the Croat Helsinki Board (HHO) announced that
it is postponing until this autumn the international gathering
entitled "Serbs in Croatia", which was scheduled to take place in
Zagreb on June 20 and 21, 1996. The reasons for this postponement
are an extremely fierce pressure, a real campaign against the
organizers, who it is stated in the announcement, can not guarantee
safety to either their own members or the other guests "at the time
when in the newspaper of the Society of Croat Writers on the front
page it is called for formation of firing squads for certain
participants of this round table". Members of the Croat Helsinki
Board are especially "surprised by the silence and boycott of those
social, political but also spiritual factors who are verbally
striving for human rights, while in practice they are making
possible ethnic cleansing, by creating an atmosphere of sweet
patriotic oblivion of what is really happening to the citizens of
other nationalities - especially of the Serbian one". Therefore,
the Croat Helsinki Board "is claiming with full responsibility that
politicians and spiritual masters are working day and night on
stabilizing of non-freedom and national exclusivity, which is
bringing about the incapacitation of the citizens of Croatia for
the life in Europe". In their invitation to the gathering about
Serbs in Croatia, sent to some 300 addresses, the following is
said: "The exodus of Serbs from Croatia during the year 1995 did
not resolve the essence of the Croat-Serbian relations. On the
contrary, without the return of Serbs and full affirmation of the
civil and national rights of the present-day Serbian minority in
Croatia, there can be no perspective democratic affirmation of the
Republic of Croatia." Such a formulated topic obviously did not
suit those who in Croatia are striving for a country ethnically
cleansed of Serbs, and thus the torrent of accusations and attacks
on organizers is understandable. (Politika, June 14, 1996)
[09] SLOVENIA ADMITS SMUGGLING OF ARMS
Slovenia, through its defense ministry and police, with the
knowledge of the government, ever since the year 1991 started
supplying Croatia and later on Bosnian Muslims, with armament from
the international smuggling channels, writes yesterday the
Ljubljana newspaper "Delo". The data on indirect participation of
Slovenia in the escalation of war in former Yugoslavia, in which
the leadership in Ljubljana was achieving first of all its
secessionist objectives, but also financial interests, the
newspaper is quoting from the documents of the Slovenian civilian
and military intelligence services. The mediator between suppliers
and buyers of arms was Nicholas Oman, a Slovenian citizen, against
whom the Italian judiciary have recently filed an international
search because of involvement in the international smuggling of
arms. "Delo" is warning that Oman, if he should decide to talk,
could with arguments incriminate certain important Slovenian
politicians. (Politika, June 14, 1996)
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