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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-08-06

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From: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>


CONTENTS

  • [01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAV SPORTSMEN
  • [02] KRAJISNIK: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WANTS NO COMPLICATIONS TO MAR ELECTIONS
  • [03] WASHINGTON DENIES REPORT OF PLAN TO SEIZE KARADZIC
  • [04] ITALIAN IFOR TROOPS BREAK INTO REPUBLIKA SRPSKA MUNITIONS DUMP
  • [05] STILL NO AGREEMENT BETWEEN CROATS AND MUSLIMS IN MOSTAR
  • [06] DECLARATION ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF SERBS FROM CROATIA
  • [07] CROATIA MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON SERB KRAJINA

  • [01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAV SPORTSMEN

    Belgrade, Aug. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic sent a message of congratulations late on Sunday to Yugoslav Olympic Committee President Aleksandar Bakocevic and Yugoslavia's sportsmen at the Games in Atlanta.

    In these times of joy, when our people rejoice in the victories of Yugoslavia's youth, I would like to thank You, and Yugoslavia's Sports Mission in Atlanta and the Committee for the dauntless spirit and fortitude that ensured the success of our sportsmen at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, said the President in his message.

    Lilic expressed special gratitude to medal-winner - marksman Aleksandra Ivosev for her gold and bronze, the Basketball Team for its silver and the Volleyball players for bronze.

    BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

    [02] KRAJISNIK: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WANTS NO COMPLICATIONS TO MAR ELECTIONS

    Pale, Aug. 5 (Tanjug) - Republika Srpska Assembly Speaker Momcilo Krajisnik told a U.N. official in Pale on Monday that the international community was using great pressure, as the Republic's former enemies were also doing indirectly, to mar the Bosnian elections in some way, and perhaps even have them called off, for which Serbs would be blamed.

    Krajisnik received Jeff Baumont, the Head of the Liaison Office with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General installed in Pale.

    Republika Srpska wants the holding of elections and elimination of the 'traditional policy of international mediators or our enemies of blaming the Serb side,' Krajisnik said.

    Krajisnik told Baumont he was concerned over the deadlines for the voting of Bosnian refugees abroad. He said there were proposals that elections in certain countries be held even 10-14 days before the planned election date of September 14. This fact makes room for doubts that certain voters could travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina and cast their votes again on the spot.

    Expressing concern over developments in the Muslim-Croat Federation, the other Bosnian entity, Krajisnik said the situation there could not be settled and that it would also reflect on Republika Srpska. Krajisnik told Baumont that the Serb side would not interfere in relations within the Federation, because he did not want such an atmosphere to be created where war or conflicts and political duels could be transferred from the Federation to Republika Srpska as they had, at one point, spilled from Croatia into Bosnia-Herzegovina.

    He said it was his country's option to be as separate from the other Bosnian entity as possible under the Dayton Accords. The Dayton Peace Accords view Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Union of Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

    [03] WASHINGTON DENIES REPORT OF PLAN TO SEIZE KARADZIC

    Washington, Aug. 6 (Tanjug) - The White House on Monday dismissed as a 'complete fabrication' a report by the London Sunday Times that the U.S. were planning an airborne raid on Pale, the Bosnian Serb Administrative Center, to nab former President Radovan Karadzic.

    White House Spokesman Mike Mccurry said the U.S. were not planning any unilateral action relating to either Karadzic or Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladic, adding he believed they should be delivered to the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. Sunday Times quoted U.S. and British Intelligence sources to the effect that U.S. troops were planning an airborne raid to seize Karadzic.

    British Defense Secretary Michael Portillo denied any misunderstanding with Washington over policy toward Bosnia, adding that the arrest of Karadzic at this moment could be counter-productive.

    His U.S. counterpart William Perry expressed the same opinion in an interview on Friday.

    State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns told reporters on Monday that he was unaware of any such operation.

    [04] ITALIAN IFOR TROOPS BREAK INTO REPUBLIKA SRPSKA MUNITIONS DUMP

    Sokolac, Aug. 5 (Tanjug) - Members of the IFOR Italian Brigade late Monday force their way into a munitions dump of the Republika Srpska Army in the village of Margetici, 15 km from the town of Sokolac, east of Sarajevo, and seized the weaponry. Immediately following the break-in, about 4,000 villagers blocked the Italian troops and made them return all the weaponry and ammunition.

    A representative of the Republika Srpska Army General Staff, who wished to remain anonymous, said the munitions dump had been validly registered with the representatives of the IFOR.

    [05] STILL NO AGREEMENT BETWEEN CROATS AND MUSLIMS IN MOSTAR

    Belgrade, Aug. 5 (Tanjug) - Croats and Muslims in Mostar by late Monday, following the E.U. deadline that it will withdraw its adminstration from this Southern Bosnian ethnically-divided town unless the two sides settled their conflict, still have not reached agreement on forming a single City Council on the grounds of the results of elections held on June 30.

    E.U. Spokesman in Mostar Dragan Gasic said the Muslim side had signed the proposed agreement, but that the Croats were still claiming they would not do so.

    Leader of the Croatian Democratic Union in Mostar Bozo Reljic said some progress had been made at the talks last night.

    CROATIA - SERBS

    [06] DECLARATION ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF SERBS FROM CROATIA

    Belgrade, Aug 5 (Tanjug) - The problem of Serbs from the Republic of Croatia is a priority Serb national and state question, and consequently we demand that the Serbs in that former Yugoslav Republic should regain their political rights of which they had been deprived in a non-democratic way. This is said in a Declaration on the Defence and Protection of the National Interests and Human Rights of the Serb People in Croatia. The Declaration was made Monday by the Association of Serbs from the Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) and the Republic of Croatia in Belgrade.

    'The current humanitarian, economic and political position of the expelled and escaped is tragic and uncertain,' which is the reason why this Declaration was made. It is added that the Association holds that the full autonomy of Serbs must be instituted in the ethnic Serb space in Croatia.

    The Association demands that the international community, especially the Hague Tribunal, should ascertain individual guilt for the crimes committed against the Serb people from 1990 to this date.

    'In the cities of Croatia in which, until six years earlier, the Serbs were a majority, we demand the opening of Information Centres and Offices for Human Rights of the European Union, modelled after an Information Centre that has been opened by the USA in Pristina, Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohija,' the Association pointed out.

    At the same time, the Association addressed on Monday an acute protest against the Croatian Government's decision to settle the Croats from Janjevo, a locality in Kosovo and Metohija, in Kistanje, a locality not far from Knin in the RSK. The populating of Kistanje, plundered and devastated during the Croatian armed operation 'Storm', with the Croats from Janjevo 'about whom lies are disseminated that they had been ousted by the Yugoslav Authorities, have been understood by refugees and expelled from Kistanje as one more cynical example of how the Croatian Authorities are doing their utmost to render impossible the return of the refugees and the expelled to their homes,' it is said in the announcement by the Association.

    [07] CROATIA MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON SERB KRAJINA

    Belgrade, Aug. 5 (Tanjug) - Croatia on Monday marked the first anniversary of its aggression on the Republic of Serb Krajina, during which about 4,000 serbs were killed or went missing, and 250,000 fled from their ancestral lands. Croatia proclaimed August 5. 'Homeland Thanks Day' in memory of this perfidious attack on the local Serb population.

    'Croatia appeared out of nowhere...to resolve strategic relations in the Balkans,' Tudjman said during a troops inspection in Zadar, reiterating his thesis on Croatia as a 'key military factor' in the Region.

    Troop inspections were also held on Monday in other towns in Croatia.


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