Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-09-25

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CONTENTS

[01] NO MORE REASONS FOR MAINTAINING SANCTIONS

[02] LIFTING OF SANCTIONS A CONDITION FOR PEACE IN BOSNIA

[03] BRITAIN SUPPORTS EARLIER AGREEMENT ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

[04] MILUTINOVIC TO MEET WITH CHRISTOPHER

[05] YUGOSLAVIA PLAYS IMPORTANT ROLE IN PRESERVING STABILITY

[06] OSCE WOULD CHECK INTO SERB COMPLAINTS

[07] ATTEMPT TO FORCIBLY SEIZE R.S. TERRITORIES

[08] IFOR CRITICIZES MUSLIM OCCUPATION OF JUSICI

[09] CROATIA AMENDS LAW ON AMNESTY FOR SERBS

[01] NO MORE REASONS FOR MAINTAINING SANCTIONS

Kontic was speaking while inaugurating six international fair exhibitions in Belgrade.

He said that a large number of foreign participants was a sign that Yugoslavia's international position was being strengthened and that foreign partners were determined not only to renew severed business ties with Yugoslav firms but also to upgrade them through new projects and in new spheres.

[02] LIFTING OF SANCTIONS A CONDITION FOR PEACE IN BOSNIA

Primakov demanded in the U.N. General Assembly that Yugoslavia be quickely readmitted to the General Assembly, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international organizations, news agencies said.

[03] BRITAIN SUPPORTS EARLIER AGREEMENT ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

The Spokesman said that Britain would support the consistent implementation of last December's resolution.

The Spokesman underscored that, irrespective of different reports about the elections in Bosnia, the Security Council will have the final say. He said that Great Britain believes that the previous resolution would be respected and that the sanctions would thus automatically and formally be lifted.

The Financial Times said on Tuesday that Britain and the United States differ about the ways of implementing the U.N. resolution on the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia.

According to the Financial Times, London has certain reserves towards some U.S. ideas that last year's conditions for the automatic lifting of the sanctions be supplemented. London believes that these changes would be contrary to the international community's basic stabilization demands.

[04] MILUTINOVIC TO MEET WITH CHRISTOPHER

It is expected that talks between Milutinovic and Christopher will focus on current issues of the peace process in the Balkans in the light of recently-held election in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the announced lifting of sanctions against the F.R.Y.

Within his activities in New York, Milutinovic met Monday evening with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa. Milutinovic said following the meeting that a mutual readiness was expressed for relations between the F.R.Y. and Egypt to return to their previous level of cooperation.

Milutinovic should meet separately on Wednesday with his counterparts from France, Great Britain, Spain and Greece.

[05] YUGOSLAVIA PLAYS IMPORTANT ROLE IN PRESERVING STABILITY

During a meeting in New York on Monday with Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, Qian spoke highly of Belgrade's role in preserving peace and stability in the region of the former Yugoslavia.

Now, that the Bosnian elections have been held as planned, we hope that the international community will honour its promise and remove the sanctions against Yugoslavia, the paper quoted Qian as saying.

[06] OSCE WOULD CHECK INTO SERB COMPLAINTS

Frowick met Bosnian Serb Parliament Speaker Momcilo Krajisnik, Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha and Provisional Elections Commission member Slobodan Kovac in the Republika Srpska administrative centre of Pale. Talks focused on irregularities in the counting of votes.

Buha said R.S. had protested the counting of about 230,000 votes that arrived in sacks without proper documentation after the polls had closed. He said there had been manipulations as a result of which there was a difference of 130,000 between the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast.

Buha said R.S. would not recognize the results of the elections unless the OSCE made the necessary corrections.

[07] ATTEMPT TO FORCIBLY SEIZE R.S. TERRITORIES

The head of the Zvornik Security Centre, Col. Dragomir Vasic, said that the multinational force had failed to bring about the realization of an agreement under which the Muslims were supposed to leave the village of Jusici by Monday at 17:00 hours. Jusici is located in eastern R.S., on the border between the Serb entity and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

Representatives of the IFOR and the International Police Task Force (IPTF) called on Bosnian Serbs Monday evening to refrain from any action in the following 48 hours.

The Commander of the Russian Brigade with IFOR, Sergei Generalov, said that there were about 100 Muslims in the village and that at least ten of them had automatic and semi-automatic rifles and large quantities of explosives.

Over the past few days, a large group of Muslims has been seen digging trenches at the inter-entity border, near R.S. villages, and provoking Serb population, Vasic said.

[08] IFOR CRITICIZES MUSLIM OCCUPATION OF JUSICI

IFOR Ground Forces Commander Gen. Michael Walker on Tuesday presented more than ten pieces of weaponry IFOR had confiscated from the Muslims on Sunday and Monday, the AFP said.

These are clearly no tools for mending houses, Walker told reporters after a meeting with Muslim Prime Minister Hasan Muratovic. Walker said the situation was very delicate and should be settled at a high level.

The Muslims said they were sent to Jusici by the Government. One of them admitted being a member of the Muslim army.

Bildt said such incidents threatened the return of refugees. U.N. Spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko on Tuesday congratulated the Bosnian Serb Police for showing restraint in the situation.

[09] CROATIA AMENDS LAW ON AMNESTY FOR SERBS

Vojin Susa, Justice Secretary of the Serb region of East Slavonia, Baranya and West Srem, said that the 'amnesty law is not a classic law, but rather a political decision, and in this sense it may be said to have served its purpose.'

Stressing that Croatia passed the new law under obvious international pressure, Susa said that among the positive features of the law was that it amnestied also those sentenced in Croatian courts, mostly in absentia, in the past years.

He said, however, that in defining war crimes, the amnesty law 'retains many offences that are not war crimes according to international standards.'

Susa stressed that, in addition to passing the amnesty law, Croatia 'will have to do much more to convince the Serbs that they will be safe it they stay in the state.'

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