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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-07-29Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>CONTENTS
[01] LILIC: NORMAL RELATIONS WITH FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLICS ARE A PRIORITYB e l g r a d e (Tanjug) - One of Yugoslavia's chief objectives is full normalization of relations with the former Yugoslav Republics, in addition to fully normalizing relations with the international community. President Zoran Lilic said this on Saturday at a ceremony marking the graduation of the 48th Generation of students from the Military and Technical Academy and the 49th from the Military Academy, and their promotion to the rank of second lieutenant.Addressing the Army's youngest officers, Lilic said Yugoslavia opted for peace and did all in its power to achieve it. 'Peace, stability, good-neighborly relations, comprehensive cooperation and development in the region are Yugoslavia's strategic commitment. Considerable progress has been achieved to this end and the process continues,' said Lilic. The fact that Yugoslavia is virtually the only multi-ethnic and multi-religious state remaining from the former Yugoslavia asserts the option as a true one, he said. Lilic said that members of 24 nations and national minorities lived in Yugoslavia, enjoying the same civil, national, religious, cultural and other human rights and freedoms, in keeping with the highest European standards. [02] YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONFERS WITH MACEDONIAN BUSINESSMENB e l g r a d e (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic conferred on Friday with a Macedonian delegation of businessmen about the possibilities of promoting Yugoslav-Macedonian economic cooperation.The delegation, headed by President of the Macedonian Chamber of the Economy Dusan Petreski, is currently on a visit to Yugoslavia at the invitation of the Serbian Chamber of the Economy. Kontic said considerable headway had been made in the development of bilateral relations since the signing of the Agreement on Regulating and Promoting Relations between Yugoslavia and Macedonia. Kontic underscored Yugoslavia's readiness to establish with Macedonia the free circulation of goods, people and capital and noted that cooperation between Yugoslav and Macedonian businessmen greatly contributes to the process of integration in the Balkans. Petreski and his Serbian counterpart Vlajko Stojiljkovic urged the further liberalization of Yugoslav and Macedonian trade and economic relations, and hoped that the free trade cooperation would be established between the two countries. It was agreed that businessmen should propose to their Governments to draft an urgent agreement on Yugoslav-Macedonian economic and trade cooperation, while, pending its ratification, foreign trade measures should be reviewed by Parliaments. [03] YUGOSLAVIA, LONDON CLUB MAY REACH AGREEMENT IN SEPTEMBERL o n d o n (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia insists on the rescheduling of old debts in talks with the London Club, so that it can develop and restore its economy, Yugoslav Minister Vuk Ognjanovic, who heads the Yugoslav delegation to the talks, said on Friday.Ognjanovic said that the unblocking of Yugoslav funds in foreign banks and ensuring of new financial arrangements were necessary for the Yugoslav economy, which was hit hard by the international sanctions. Representatives of the 16 biggest banks, which comprise the London Club Coordination Committee, showed great understanding for, and interest in, this Yugoslav commitment, Ognjanovic said. Ognjanovic described as specially interesting a Yugoslav proposal that the existing debts to commercial banks should become their shares in Yugoslav companies, and in this way make the debts conducive to the economic recovery and development. The talks are unfolding with expected difficulties, but, on the whole, they can be described as successful. The London Club has for the first time given a list of principles and issues that should be part of a future agreement which Yugoslav delegation circles interpreted this as an indication that an agreement will be reached. It was agreed that the talks should serve as an initiative for procedures aimed at unblocking Yugoslav funds in the countries where they are still blocked and doing that in such a way to make them conducive to the future agreement and economic recovery. Robert Gyenge of Chase Manhattan, Head of the London Club negotiating team, described as welcome the Yugoslav delegation's presence in the London Club. Gyenge said the London Club was interested in seeing a mutually acceptable and timely resolution to the current situation. The talks are expected to resume probably in September, when an agreement between Yugoslavia and the London Club should be drawn up. [04] MONTENEGRO AND PUGLIA HOLD TALKS ON COOPERATIONP o d g o r i c a (Tanjug) - Premier Milo Djukanovic of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro conferred with Premier Salvatore Distase of the Italian Province of Puglia on Friday on the further development of political and economic cooperation.During the talks it was underscored that in addition to the agreements so far in the areas of the food, machine building, textile and furniture industries, cooperation should also be expanded to all other economic and noneconomic activities. The agreement on bilateral cooperation which was signed by the two delegations was described by both Prime Ministers as a very good platform for enhancing the cooperation and friendship which stretches over scores of years. The two Prime Ministers informed reporters that the talks had covered also the problem resulting from the introduction of Italian entry visas for Yugoslav citizens and said they were confident it would soon be substantially alleviated by the opening of an Italian Consular Office in Montenegro. Distase said he had received deep assurances in this respect from Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, with whom he will meet to discuss this issue. [05] R.S. PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CONFERS WITH U.S. AMBASSADORP a l e (Tanjug) - U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina John Menzies on Friday informed Parliament Speaker of the Republika Srpska (R.S.) Momcilo Krajisnik about the accord reached in Belgrade between Vice-President of the Muslim-Croat Federation Ejup Ganic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.After the meeting in Pale Menzies said that the accord could be beneficial to all sides in Bosnia. Krajisnik said that the R.S. would abide by and fully implement the accord. 'We shall eliminate all those who want this to be used as a motive to undermine accords and elections,' Krajisnik said. In the talks with Menzies 'we insisted on the release of all POW's taken prisoner before and after the Dayton. We asked that information be gathered on the prisoners listed as missing,' Krajisnik said. Krajisnik said he received assurances from Ambassador Menzies that these issues would be resolved. Krajisnik noted that he lodged protest against the situation in Mt. Ozren, Northern Bosnia, where authorities of the Muslim-Croat Federation do not allow a number of bodies of killed Serb combatants and civilians to be taken away. [06] KRAJISNIK CONFERS WITH STEINERPale (Tanjug) - Republika Srpska Parliament President Momcilo Krajisnik confered on Saturday with Deputy High Representative of the international community Michael Steiner on the implementation of the peace accords for Bosnia-Herzegovina. The talks covered the upcoming elections, freedom of movement, exchange of POW's, and missing persons, it was announced following the talks.Steiner described the talks as productive. He said there was away to establish clear regulations for the implementation of all the articles of the civilian part of the Dayton Peace Accords. Krajisnik said Republika Srpska would respect the agreement reached recently in Belgrade in the presence of Special U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke. He said he hoped the international community would do everything for controversial issues to be settled in a satisfactory way and for the elections to be correct. [07] RS PRIME MINISTER: PRESSURE OVER BRCKO - PART OF SPECIAL WARFAREB a n j a l u k a (Tanjug) - The Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Gojko Klickovic, said on Friday that the international community was trying to provoke an election boycott by stating that Brcko elections may be postponed. That is part of special warfare against local Serbs, most of whom have found refuge in that town, but we will not boycott the elections because we are fully ready for them, Klickovic said here.The Sarajevo Government wants to control the Brcko area although the Dayton agreement provides for special arbitration of the inter-entity boundary line in the Brcko area. Klickovic said that pressure was being exerted on the RS over Brcko and that the aim was to bring about Bosnia's reintegation but that the people of RS were firmly opposed to that. [08] R.S. WILL COOPERATE WITH ALL INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY BODIESB e l g r a d e (Tanjug) - Extradition of Republika Srpska citizens is contrary to the R.S. constitution and cannot therefore be carried out before relevant Bosnia-Herzegovina bodies start functioning in line with the Dayton Accord.R.S. Minister of Justice Marko Arsovic made this statement at a Press Conference Sunday in Belgrade on the eve of the departure of a R.S. delegation for the Hague. Arsovic pointed out that the extradition issue can be regulated only after elections in Bosnia as the Hague Tribunal is in charge of regulating the practical aspects of such proceedings. He underlined R.S. readiness to fully cooperate with all international community bodies, including the Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia. During its visit to the Hague at the Tribunal's invitation, the R.S. delegation will present the R.S. Government stance that all future forms of cooperation must be in line with the R.S. Constitution. The delegation will also discuss with Tribunal representatives the charges brought against political and military leaders of the Muslim-Croat Federation and the future activities of Tribunal investigators in R.S. territory. [09] FEDERATION POLICE EVICTS REMAINING SERBS IN SARAJEVOB e l g r a d e (Tanjug) - UNHCR Spokesman Chris Janowski said Saturday that Muslim-Croat Federation police was evicting people, mainly Serbs, from their homes so that Muslim soldiers can move in. Janowski said that people were being evicted from apartments that the former Yugoslav Army (JNA) had sold to their tenants in the eighties, and that the victims were mostly Serbs from the parts of Sarajevo given to the Muslim-Croat Federation in line with the Dayton Accord.The problem is growing, Janowski said, because it embodies wider issues such as law and order and human righs in Bosnia. The Sarajevo Government refuses to recognize ownership rights of the evicted persons, which is a violation of the Dayton Accord, Janowski said, and added that one of UNHCR interpreters had also been evicted. [10] OSIJEK-VUKOVAR ROAD OFFICIALLY REOPENEDO s i j e k (Tanjug) - UNTAES Administrator Jacques Klein, President of the Serb Area of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem Goran Hadzic and Head of the Croatian Bureau for Eastern Slavonia Ivica Vrkic officially reopened the Osijek-Vukovar road on Friday.Klein, who is the Head of the U.N. Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem (UNTAES), said that the reopening of the road was a step forward in the peace process and commended both sides for cooperation and mine clearance teams for a well done job. It should be a future of reconciliation and cooperation, Klein said at a ceremony in a Southern suburb of Osijek. The reopening of the Osijek-Vukovar road is in line with the Erdut agreement, Hadzic said adding that restoration of peace and normalization of the situation were of paramount importance. We hope that all participants in the peace process will abide by the Erdut agreement. The Serb side will fulfil all its obligations, Hadzic said. Vrkic said that the reopening of the 40-km road was the beginning of free movement in the whole of Croatia. He invited all citizens in the territory of the U.N. Transitional Administration who wish to obtain Croatian documents to apply for them, after which they may freely go to any part of Croatia. [11] SERBS STAGE 'PROTEST FOR JUST PEACE' IN VUKOVARV u k o v a r (Tanjug) - An event was organized in Vukovar in the Serb region of Eastern Slavonija, Baranja and West Srem on Sunday under the slogan 'protest for just peace.' The meeting, which rallied about 10,000 people, was organized by four regional non-governmental organizations.The participants in the rally sent a petition to the U.N. Transitional Administration for UNTAES, asking for an extention of its mandate for another year, a permanent demilitarization of the region, and special status within Croatia which would be secured 'throuogh special mechanisms and guarantees of the international community.' The petition also asks that the local population be allowed to have Yugoslav citizenship, in addition to Croatian, and insists that the principle of reciprocity be applied for the return of refugees. At the rally, a message was read from the U.N. Administrator o of Eastern Slavonija Jacques Klein. I admire your courage and wish to remain in these lands, to which you are entitled, Klein said in his message. Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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