YDS 11/23

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

23. NOVEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

AFTER DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT - MILOSEVIC SAYS PEACE SUCCESSFULLY REALIZED

S A N C T I O N S - ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS SUSPENDED

YUGOSLAVIA - GREAT BRITAIN - MONTENEGRIN PREMIER ENDS VISIT TO BRITAIN

YUGOSLAVIA - LIBYA - YUGOSLAV ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES LIBYAN DELEGATION

FROM DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PRESS - LE FIGARO CONDEMNS 'MEDIA LYNCHING' OF SERBIA - MUSLIM ENCLAVE COMMANDER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF OVER 1,000 SERBS

AFTER DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT

MILOSEVIC SAYS PEACE SUCCESSFULLY REALIZED

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 22 (Tanjug) - Head of the Yugoslav delegation to the Dayton peace talks Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said on Wednesday that the forces of peace in the former Yugoslavia and those of the present-day world, with the decisive role of the United States, had succeeded in stopping the long, tragic war in Bosnia. Speaking at Belgrade Airport upon arrival from Dayton, Milosevic said that all documents comprising the future peace accord had been defined and adopted. He said that in deciding on a large number of documents, the Yugoslav delegation, which also included representatives of the Republika Srpska, had divided and taken a majority vote only in two cases. 'In all other cases, including the new constitution, we reached decisions unanimously,' Milosevic said. He said he believed that the Yugoslav delegation, together with the other sides, had doubtless succeeded in determining all chief elements that should define future relations, and, above all, to establish comprehensive, definite and complete peace. 'It is time now for our entire country and entire region to turn to economic recovery, raising the standards, cultural development, opening on and integrating into Europe and the world,' Milosevic said.

S A N C T I O N S

ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS SUSPENDED

N e w Y o r k, Nov. 22 (Tanjug) - The U.N. Security Council suspended on Wednesday the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, effective immediately. Yugoslav Ambassador to the United Nations Vladislav Jovanovic addressed the Council welcoming the decision. It was high time the burden of the sanctions, which has caused so much suffering to the civilian population and crippled the country's economy, was removed definitively and immediately, Jovanovic said. He said that practice had shown that, far from ending the war, the sanctions had in fact deepened it and encouraged its prolongation. Jovanovic stressed that Belgrade had clearly been committed to solving the crisis and ending the Bosnian civil war, and would continue to work with determination for the implementation of the Dayton peace accord. We are convinced that the Republika Srpska will follow the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in its constructive approach to the peace accord, he said. Yugoslavia hopes that the other parties to the accord, too, will take the same approach and refrain from any attempts to sabotage or delay its implementation, he added. The international community should prevent any further demonisation of the Serbian and Montenegrin people and make sure that all sides to the conflict receive equal treatment, said Jovanovic. This principle of equality was an essential element of the peace accord, and is equally important for its true implementation by all parties, he added. Jovanovic stressed that the ending of the Bosnian war was the most important step towards surmounting the crisis in former Yugoslavia. This step is not enough by itself, however, he added. It is necessary, too, to put an immediate stop to all other forms of warfare that have accompanied the crisis in former Yugoslavia and that have been directed against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Serbian people as a whole, said Jovanovic. The media, propaganda, economic and psychological warfare that have accompanied the crisis in Bosnia should be eliminated, too, with the end of the war in that former Yugoslav republic, Jovanovic stressed. He said that the Dayton peace accord was a victory against war, which did not mean, however, that the battle for its implementation had been won. It will take a lot of determination and true will to breathe life into the accord and establish mutual trust and political stability in the Balkans, said Jovanovic. He reminded the members of the Security Council that Yugoslavia had supported the Cutilheiro peace plan for Bosnia so long ago, and had shown a readiness to recognise Bosnia as an independent state once the plan was implemented. This fact refutes all subsequent allegations about Yugoslavia's territorial aspirations in that former Yugoslav republic, Jovanovic said in conclusion.

YUGOSLAVIA - GREAT BRITAIN

MONTENEGRIN PREMIER ENDS VISIT TO BRITAIN

L o n d o n, Nov. 22 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Premier Milo Djukanovic said at the end of a two-day official visit to Great Britain he had very useful, cordial and diverse talks. Djukanovic had talks at the Defense Ministry first with Armed Forces Secretary Nicholas Soames. The peace agreement on Bosnia, and especially, the international force for its implementation, were discussed in the meeting. The possibility to use in this operation of NATO forces also the port in Bar was discussed as well. Britain, said Djukanovic, backed this idea, while its definitive formulation would be defined with other NATO members. Djukanovic said his British hosts at the Trade and Industry Ministry were especially interested in the process of privatization in Montenegro and the possibility of investing in its economy. As regards concrete projects, regional water supply on the Montenegrin littoral was discussed for which British businessmen were very interested. The Trade and Industry Ministry especially supported the idea for Montenegro to open its trade office in London, said Djukanovic. Djukanovic also toured the British Council, where professional exchange and training of experts in business was agreed on. The Montenegrin premier arrived in Britain on Tuesday and first met with assistant Foreign Secretary in charge of affairs in the Former Yugoslavia Nicholas Bonsor. Part of these talks were also attended by British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind. According to Djukanovic, for the most part the talks in a very cordial atmosphere dwelled on British assistance for Montenegro, as part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to be re-integrated into the world community and Europe.

YUGOSLAVIA - LIBYA

ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES LIBYAN DELEGATION

B e l g r a d e, Nov 22 (Tanjug) - Assistant Yugoslav Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic received on Wednesday a delegation of the Libyan Foreign Ministry, headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Abdel Ati El-Obeidi. The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Bulajic and Abdel Ati had had a lengthy friendly talk, exchanging views on the situation in and prospects for developing bilateral relations, and on topical international problems. Both sides said there was mutual interest in and wish for further developing relations, especially economic, between the two friendly countries.

FROM DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PRESS

LE FIGARO CONDEMNS 'MEDIA LYNCHING' OF SERBIA

P a r i s, Nov. 22 (Tanjug) - Paris daily Le Figaro criticized western 'media lynching' of Serbia, pointing to the slighting of the sufferings of the Serb people and exaggerating the troubles of Muslims and Croats. French writer Frederic Dutourd terms it a 'strange machiavellism' whereby the Serbs are labelled 'executioners' as against the 'victims' on all the other sides. 'Three months ago, Serbs had been massively expelled from Krajina - by force of Croatian arms, by brutality and cruelty hard to imagine.' Dutourd points to the fate of hundreds of thousand refugees in Serbia, 'the state which should fight unemployment which is far greater than that in France' and the country 'impoverished by the sanctions, while humanitarian organizations turn their head to the other side.'

MUSLIM ENCLAVE COMMANDER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF OVER 1,000 SERBS

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 22 (Tanjug) - Former Commander of the Eastern Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica Naser Oric will be the first Muslim to be indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Belgrade weekly Telegraf said. The weekly quoted survivors' testimonies, collected in the book 'the chronicle of our graveyard' by Milivoje Ivanisevic, as saying that Oric's troops brutally killed more than 1,000 Serbs in the region of Srebrenica. Rajko Jovanovic from the village of Jazestica near Srebrenica said that in his village on August 8, 1992 Oric's soldiers broke Dragan Mladenovic' skull with an axe, beheaded Andjelko Mladenovic, killed another five people and torched 55 houses. Milojka Marinkovic said that on September 24, 1992, Oric's soldiers killed 30 inhabitants of the Serb village of Podravanje, including her father, two brothers, mother and five other relatives. Dozens of Serbs were killed in Srebrenica prisons controlled by Oric and according to the survivors' testimonies, the guards inscribed crosses on Serbs' bodies with sharp implements and poured salt over them. Muslim civilians who last year moved to the northwestern Bosnian town of Tuzla under U.N. protection say that each of them had to pay 100 German marks to Oric in order to leave Srebrenica.