YDS 11/6

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)

6. NOVEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

RABIN - ASSASSINATION - YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT, PREMIER SHARPLY CONDEMN ASSASSINATION OF RABIN

PEACE PROCESS - YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT BELIEVES IN GOOD NEWS FROM DAYTON - DELEGATIONS IN DAYTON GIVE OBJECTIONS TO DRAFT AGREEMENT - SERBS IN SREM-BARANJA REGION REJECT GALBRAITH-STOLTENBERG PLAN

YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.A. - MONTENEGRO DELEGATION ARRIVES ON VISIT TO U.S.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS - THE ECONOMIST: PEACE AGREEMENT SHOULD REMOVE CAUSES OF WAR - BRITISH PRESS SAYS THAT UNITED STATES INVOLVED IN BOSNIAN WAR

U.S. REPORTER HELD BY BOSNIAN SERBS - U.N. SAYS REPORTER IS IN 'SOUND HEALTH'

RABIN - ASSASSINATION

YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT, PREMIER SHARPLY CONDEMN ASSASSINATION OF R ABIN

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic most sharply condemned on Sunday the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Lilic said in a telegram of condolences to Israeli President Ezer Weizman that Israel and the world had lost a brave statesman of outstanding capabilities. He said Rabin had acted on the international stage with much success and would be remembered as an indefatigable champion of a political solution to the extremely complex Mid-East problem. Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic sent a telegram to acting Israeli Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, expressing shock and indignation at the assassination. Kontic said Rabin had bravely chosen a path of peace with the Palestinian people and all Arab neighbours, for which he had rightly received international community's recognition and the Nobel peace prize. Kontic expressed the conviction that Rabin's tragic death would not be able to halt the march to peace in the Middle East and that peace, good-neighbourhood relations and cooperation would finally prevail in the entire region. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic said in a telegram of condolences to his Israeli counterpart, Shimon Peres, that the criminal act had truly shaken all who had viewed Rabin's policy as opening prospects for a better future of all peoples in the Middle East. Milutinovic said he was convinced that the policy of peace bravely urged by Rabin would be crowned by a comprehensive peace, confidence and progress of the entire Mid-East region. The Yugoslav delegation at Rabin's funeral on Monday will be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic.

PEACE PROCESS

YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT BELIEVES IN GOOD NEWS FROM DAYTON

P o d g o r i c a, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Lilic has stated that accords and readiness exist on all sides for the Bosnia peace talks to end successfully. He was confident we would very soon hear good news from Dayton. 'It is difficult to speak about the final looks of the peace plan after only three days of negotiations,' Lilic told the Podgorica daily Pobjeda in an interview published on Saturday. 'One thing is certain: there is not only accord but also readiness on the one, another and still another side, and apparently also on the side of those to take over the role of guarantors of the implementation of the peace process once the talks were brought to their successful ending,' the head of the Yugoslav state said. As for announcements that certain compromises in Dayton are expected from all the three parties to the talks, Lilic said that 'without compromises, certainly there is no possibility of arriving at final peace and signing a peace package.' Lilic voiced confidence that this time no side would be urged to make as drastic concessions as would result in broken talks. This time, he said, the compromises 'may be proportionally small concessions' to any of the three sides, but they would certainly in the first place mean improvements regarding the 'quality and quantity of territories.'

DELEGATIONS IN DAYTON GIVE OBJECTIONS TO DRAFT AGREEMENT

D a y t o n, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - The negotiating parties at the Bosnia talks in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday continued to give their objections to the proposed draft agreement for Bosnia, a document that is expected to create a ground for a comprehensive solution. Tanjug learned from unofficial sources that the Muslim delegation is trying to include in the proposed documents as many new details as possible, but that the Yugoslav negotiating teams is rejecting such attempts. The Yugoslav delegation, headed by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, adheres to the framework that had been agreed in the five earlier missions of U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the sources said. The Yugoslav delegation spent the weekend in working meetings with officials of the European Union, Russia and the Muslim negotiating team.

SERBS IN SREM-BARANJA REGION REJECT GALBRAITH-STOLTENBERG PLAN

E r d u t, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - The Serb side rejected a new draft agreement on peaceful settling of the problem of the Srem-Baranja region that international mediators Peter Galbraith and Thorvald Stoltenberg had proposed, Chief of the Serb negotiating team Milan Milanovic said in Erdut on Sunday evening. The document was discussed behind closed door for more than seven hours, and Galbraith and Stoltenberg interrupted the meeting three times to go to a nearby U.N. base to make consultations with Dayton and Zagreb. After the talks, the two mediators left Erdut without making any statements for the press. Milanovic also declined to explain the reasons for the rejection, saying only that the talks were not over as far as the Serb side was concerned. Milanovic said the Serb side had presented its objections to the international mediators, offering its own document for a peaceful settlement of the dispute. The proposal provides for a transition period of three years, during which the region would be under U.N. administration, the deployment of international forces there, a permanent demilitarization of the region under strong guarantees by the United Nations, United States and Russia, and a referendum at the end of the transition period that would allow the population to decide about the region's final status. The document also proposes that all refugees, regardless of their nationality, be allowed to return to their homes, that the local ethnic structure be reflected in the composition of the police force, and that human rights and freedoms be strictly respected. The mediators are expected to give their reply on Monday, Milanovic said but added that he did not expect a positive response to the Serb proposal. The Council of the Srem-Baranja region on Sunday evening sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, asking that a full U.N. administration be introduced in the region on the ground of Croatia's disrespect of human rights. The letter listed many examples of such Croatian attitude in the near and more distant past, and particularly in the period since Croatia's aggression on Western Slavonija last May 1. The Council welcomed the agreement reached in Dayton between Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and expressed readiness to resume talks.

YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.A.

MONTENEGRO DELEGATION ARRIVES ON VISIT TO U.S.

W a s h i n g t o n, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - Montenegro Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and Assembly Speaker Svetozar Marovic arrived on a visit to the U.S. Sunday, at the invitation of a group of congressmen. During the several-day visit, Djukanovic and Marovic will have talks on Capitol Hill and with ranking State Department officials. The talks are expected to be primarily devoted to the completion of the peace process in the Balkans. They will also cover possibilities for economic cooperation between the U.S. and Yugoslavia, and within it Montenegro, once the international sanctions against the Yugoslav federation are lifted. The guests will meet in Washington also with representatives of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, with whom they are expected to discuss development plans and concrete economic projects in Yugoslavia after the lifting of the sanctions. The Montenegro officials will visit California to meet with a group of U.S. businessmen.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS

THE ECONOMIST: PEACE AGREEMENT SHOULD REMOVE CAUSES OF WAR

L o n d o n, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - The peace talks on Bosnia should primarily remove the basic causes of the civil war there, British weekly the Economist said on Saturday. The Economist said that everyone should be aware that no peace solution will be able to fully satisfy all parties (Serbs, Muslims and Croats), but that the most important thing is to end the almost three-and-a-half year war and the human suffering. Dilemmas over the so-called single Bosnia have lost all sense because, the Economist said, the years-long civil war has created a new reality. The weekly underscored the equal rights of all peoples and, in that context, the right of the Bosnian Serbs to choose where and with whom they want to live.

BRITISH PRESS SAYS THAT U.S. INVOLVED IN BOSNIAN WAR

L o n d o n, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - The involvement of the United States in the civil war in Bosnia on the side of the Muslims and Croats questions Washington's credibility at the Dayton talks which represent the equality of all warring parties in this ex-Yugoslav republic, London weekly the Sunday Telegraph said. The U.S. position in the peace process in the territory of the former Yugoslavia is completely controversial, which could threaten the efficiency of the talks, the weekly said. The Sunday Telegraph, together with the other London weekly, the Observer, said that the United States is secretly arming the Bosnian Muslims and Croats. The Sunday Telegraph said that thus the United States is arming the Muslims and Croats for the continuation of the war, instead of preparing them for a peaceful solution. The Observer said that these moves are not aimed at a peace solution, but at defeating the Bosnian Serbs, all of which renders the entire situation more complex than represented by Washington's peace initiative. Britain's independent television Channel 4 on Oct. 27 quoted a confidential report as saying that the Bosnian Croats and Muslims, with the knowledge and aid of the United States and the United Nations, during the summer had secretly received military equipment and additional shipments of state-of-the-art weapons - anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems. Intelligence sources show the direct involvement of the United States and NATO in these summer actions, the television said.

U.S. REPORTER HELD BY BOSNIAN SERBS

U.N. SAYS REPORTER IS IN 'SOUND HEALTH'

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - Republika Srpska authorities confirmed on Saturday that reporter of the U.S. newspaper Christian Science Monitor David Rohde, 28, whom they were holding, was in 'sound health,' U.N. spokesman Yuri Chizhik has said. The U.N. - Republika Srpska talks about Rhode's fate are being held in Republika Srpska territory, Chizhik said, without specifying the exact site, Reuters reported from Sarajevo. The Republika Srpska Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday that Rhode had been arrested in the eastern Bosnian Serb town of Zvornik for 'illegal border crossing and staying on the territory of the Republika Srpska and for falsifying documents.' Rhode has been charged with a mandatory offence, the Ministry said.