Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-07-02

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CONTENTS

[01] DERYCKE ON BELGRADE'S MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE PROCESS

[02] TERRORISTS CHEERED IN CROATIA

[01] DERYCKE ON BELGRADE'S MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE PROCESS

Their meeting particularly dealt with upcoming elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, scheduled for September 14. they agreed on the need for all international factors to intensify preparations an deliminate certain difficulties, promote the freedom of movement, free access to media and speedier inflow of funds dor the reconstruction of that former Yugoslav republic.

Derycke pointed to a positive role played by F.R. Yugoslavia in the peace process, its contribution to a consistent and comprehensive implementation of the Dayton Accords, a normalization of relations with Macedonia and progress in the process of normalization of relations with other newly-created states in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Derycke also hailed the signing of a sub-regional arms control agreement. He said that it had to a great extent positively affected the evolution in the stand of the European Union and other international factors towards F.R. Yugoslavia.

Jovanovic is expected to address the Belgian Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.

FROM DOMESTIC PRESS

[02] TERRORISTS CHEERED IN CROATIA

The latest examples are the monument erected near adriatic town of Omis to members of the ustashi terrorist group that was infiltrated into yugoslavia in 1972, and the bulding of a memorial center to Miro Baresic, ustashi terrorist and murderor of the Yugoslav Ambassador to Sweden.

These activities, Politika said, are going on with the support of Croatian Defense Minister Gojko Susak, who also boasted about his ustashi roots.

The Parliament of the Republic of Croatia suggested the adoption of a declaration that the 19 ustashi terrorists from 1972 were the 'first Croatian volunteers in the war for the homeland.' The proposal, made in the name of the Croatian People's Movement - Free Croatia - by Mp Ivan Gabelica, has not been accepted for the time being. It should be noted that part of the terrorist story had taken place in another state, even though the current regime incroatia considers it as its own, Politika said.

It is interesting, Politika said, that the initiative is openly supported by the daily Vjesnik, which portrayed the terrorist group as 'Croatian idealists' who 'came 20 years too early to organize an uprising', but only 'hurried to die for Croatia.' After saying that the group 'bore witness to the never forgotten and never interrupted striving of Croats to establish their own state', Vjesnik noted that 'now, that it is a reality we must not allow that their names in news documentation and on official state documents be filed under 'terrorist action in Bosnia and Herzegovina-1972.'

Of the 19 infiltarted terrorists, Politika recalled, 15 were killed in clashes with Yugoslav police and army forces, and four were caught and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on three of them, while the youngest Ludvig Pavlovic from western Herzegovina was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and was released at the end of 1990. He immediately enlisted into the Croatian Defense Council (HVO - Bosnian Croat military formaiton) and in September 1991 was killed ina clash with members of Yugoslav People's Army.

A HVO barracks in Herzeg-Bosnia, state of Croats in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was named after this ustashi terrorist.

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