Yugoslav Daily Survey, 96-10-16

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO TANZANIA CONFIRMS TRADITIONALLY GOOD RELATIONS

[02] YUGOSLAVIA INTERESTED IN RETURNING TO INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

[03] YUGOSLAVIA, UKRAINE WISH TO DEVELOP ALL-ROUND COOPERATION

[04] FRY, ISRAEL SIGN ACCORD ON COOPERATION IN HEALTH CARE

[05] FIRST-ROUND ECONOMIC SUCCESSION TALKS ON FORMER YUGOSLAVIA OVER

[06] MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT WANTS YUGOSLAVIA TO REJOIN WORLD FINANCE BODIES

[07] GERMANY DOES NOT SUPPORT SECESSION OF SERBIA'S SOUTHERN PROVINCE

[08] KRAJISNIK: I WILL URGE SETTING UP OF JOINT BOSNIA AUTHORITIES

[09] CROATS PREVENT SERB REFUGEES FROM VISITING HOMES IN WESTERN BOSNIA

[10] PEOPLE OF BELGRADE AND SARAJEVO LINKED BY A BUS LINE

[11] U.N. ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN BOSNIA, CROATIA AND FRY

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO TANZANIA CONFIRMS TRADITIONALLY GOOD RELATIONS

Lilic arrived in Dar-es-Salaam with a Yugoslav delegation, from where he leaves on Wednesday for an official visit to Zimbabwe, at the invitation of President Robert Mugabe.

Kikwete said he was happy to welcome the President of a country that is linked with Tanzania with bonds of understanding, and mutually beneficial economic ties, with all the prerequisites for speedy prosperity.

Lilic expressed satisfaction that his African tour began with the country to which Yugoslavia was linked with traditional ties of friendship that stood the test of adversity, when Yugoslavia backed Africa's struggle for independence and when Tanzania was one of the five African countries that voted against the exclusion of Yugoslavia from the U.N. General Assembly in 1992.

Lilic and Kikwete said they wished the dialogue would give impetus to economic cooperation and partnership, motived by mutual interests and benefits.

[02] YUGOSLAVIA INTERESTED IN RETURNING TO INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Deputy Prime Minister Zebic, who heads a Yugoslav state and economic delegation on a Latin American tour, made the statement in a talk with Brazilian Vice President Marco Antonio Maciel.

Zabic told Maciel that Yugoslavia expected of Brazil to extend the validity of inter-state agreements signed with the former Yugoslav Federation.

He said Yugoslavia, as a country with state continuity in relation to the former Yugoslav Federation, had proposed in meetings with Brazilian Government members corrections in and the validation of the existing inter-state agreements and the signing of new ones.

The Yugoslav official informed Maciel about Yugoslavia's contribution to the implementation of the peace accords and the stabilization of the overall situation in the Balkans.

He thanked the Brazilian Government for its assistance and objective stand during the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.

Vice President Maciel underscored the need for the intensification of political and economic contacts, and said great possibilities existed for cooperation in technology, culture, education and other domains.

During the earlier held talks in the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, the Yugoslav delegation presented draft inter-state agreements on the stimulation of investments and on the avoiding of double taxation.

The representatives of the two countries agreed that it was necessary to set up a joint inter-state business council, with a view to furthering the mutual cooperation.

[03] YUGOSLAVIA, UKRAINE WISH TO DEVELOP ALL-ROUND COOPERATION

Kuchma was meeting with a delegation of the Yugoslav Parliament, which is paying an official visit to Kiev, headed by Chamber of Citizens (Lower House) Speaker Radoman Bozovic.

The two sides agreed that bilateral relations were good and stable and that there was mutual interest in an all-round development of cooperation.

Kuchma welcomed the positive development of the peace process in former Yugoslavia, stressing that peace and stability were a basis for further cooperation in the Balkans and in Europe as a whole.

The Kuchma-Bozovic talk brought to light support for the integration processes in Europe and for the establishment of a stable system of security that presupposed equal respect for the interests of big and small states alike.

The Yugoslav parliamentary delegation met also with Ukraine's First Vice Premier Vassily Turgenits. The two sides said that the good and friendly relations between the two nations and states should be accompanied by a higher level of economic ties.The legal framework for this cooperation should be defined as soon as possible, and inter-governmental commissions should attend to it in the near future, it was noted.

[04] FRY, ISRAEL SIGN ACCORD ON COOPERATION IN HEALTH CARE

Levy stated on the occasion that Israel will open an Embassy in Belgrade in the near future. This is considered to be of special importance in view of the interest of business circles from both countries for promoting cooperation, notably in the economic sphere.

The accord, Minister Ivanisevic said, will promote cooperation in the field of health of the two countries on the basis of equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit.

[05] FIRST-ROUND ECONOMIC SUCCESSION TALKS ON FORMER YUGOSLAVIA OVER

A Yugoslav proposal was submitted two days earlier and Watts' working group said it was consistent, on a high professional level and very flexible since it offers possibility of different kinds of compromises.

Yugoslav delegation insisted on finding compromises and expressed readiness to accept other proposals if they paid equal respect to interests of all sides.

This approach was not welcomed by other sides, said Kosta Manojlovic, head of the Yugoslav delegation.

Representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia insisted on former proposals put forward by the succession group which are basically the conclusion of Badinter's Commission on the breakdown of Yugoslavia and proposals on the distribution of Yugoslav assets in such a way that interests all the sides are not equally respected.

According to the Yugoslav delegation, differences in the interpretation of these attitudes arose among representatives of the delegations.

Mihajlovic said that expectations of the other four states to impose their solutions with the consent given by the international community had not realized. He also expressed hope that the talks would be resumed in Brussels in November in a more favourable atmosphere.

[06] MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT WANTS YUGOSLAVIA TO REJOIN WORLD FINANCE BODIES

In an interview carried by the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti in its issue for Wednesday, Bulatovic says that 'we are obviously at a stage where they (world financial bodies) should make a political decision.'

He insists that Yugoslavia must have equal rights in the entire region, adding that Yugoslav officials who have had talks with foreign states, especially those that directly make decisions in those bodies, 'stressed that we expect them to behave consistently.'

'On the one hand, they are encouraging us to cooperate with the former Yugoslav republics, as a necessary precondition for a normalisation in the region,' says Bulatovic. 'On the other hand,' he adds, 'they are actually preventing us from developing this cooperation, because cooperation is impossible without reactivating our membership in international organisations, including financial bodies.'

Bulatovic stresses that the political system and economic potentials of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia make it open and ready for cooperation with all former Yugoslav republics.

When the breakaway republics get at their helms people 'inclined to make money rather than war', it will become clear that the biggest losers were 'those who want to stress their individuality in its most extreme form in times of general integration', he says. 'The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia can wait for this time, only all future relations will then naturally be based on purely economic calculations and interests that will no longer have their roots in some pretence of brotherhood and unity,' Bulatovic adds.

Speaking about NATO's expansion and Yugoslavia's chances of joining it, he says that Yugoslavia 'is still not in a position to take any decisions on this score, although it must recognise the fact that no state can stay an island among its neighbours.'

The minimum condition for considering this new security defence structure is for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to be treated as an equal in the international community, Bulatovic says.

About inter-ethnic relations, he says that 'the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is today practically the only country of former Yugoslavia to have retained a significant proportion of minority groups in the population structure and truly wants their equality.'

On the other hand, the position of Serbs in Croatia shows how regimes until recently hailed by the world as democratic are not truly democratic and how unjust the punishment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been, Bulatovic stresses.

[07] GERMANY DOES NOT SUPPORT SECESSION OF SERBIA'S SOUTHERN PROVINCE

In an open and cordial meeting, Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic and Ambassador Gruber discussed the need for upgrading bilateral cooperation and strengthening regional security, the Yugoslav Defence Ministry said in a statement.

Yugoslavia's primary goal is a reintegration into international political organizations and financial institutions, where the support of German political circles is expected, Bulatovic told Gruber, who added that a pragmatic and cooperative policy led Yugoslavia towards this goal.

Bulatovic and Gruber agreed that there existed conditions for and mutual interest in the promotion of the military and economic and scientific and technical cooperation in the field of defence, the statement said.

[08] KRAJISNIK: I WILL URGE SETTING UP OF JOINT BOSNIA AUTHORITIES

Krajisnik told the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA that Muslims were the ones who were boycotting the consolidation of the joint authorities with a view to themselves alone continuing to represent all of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

'That it is so was confirmed in our recent talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Kornblum and German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel,' Krajisnik said.

He told SRNA that he had attempted unsuccessfully more than once in the past few days to meet with Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Alija Izetbegovic.

[09] CROATS PREVENT SERB REFUGEES FROM VISITING HOMES IN WESTERN BOSNIA

The refugees, escorted from Banjaluka by IFOR and IPTF representatives, were met near Drvar by Croat police and 150 civilians who did not allow them to proceed. The refugees and Croats argued until 10 p.m., when the refugees had to return to Banjaluka.

[10] PEOPLE OF BELGRADE AND SARAJEVO LINKED BY A BUS LINE

Ganic announced that an air line would reopen soon and expressed optimism that the cooperation between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia would continue in the future, as the officials of the two states agreed at their recent meetings.

Two Sarajevo Centrotrans buses and one Lasta bus from Belgrade were on a joint inaugural ride to Belgrade on Tuesday.

About a hundred Centrotrans and Lasta representatives, guests and journalists were travelling from Sarajevo via Tuzla to Belgrade.

The Sarajevo media covered prominently the first Monday Sarajevo-Belgrade tour and stressed that there had not been any problems.

The Sarajevo newspapers highlighted a welcome accorded the Lasta bus passengers by Centrotrans in Sarajevo. Many Yugoslav and foreign journalists and Sarajevans were also present.

[11] U.N. ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN BOSNIA, CROATIA AND FRY

This is the key conclusion and essence of the latest report of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Jose Ayala Laso, devoted to human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Croatia, with special chapters on Eastern Slavonia and the F.R.Y.

The document, not yet made public, is based on reports of representatives of U.N. Centers in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, on the reports of the U.N. Special Rapporteur Elisabeth Rehn, and on some other analysis and reports.

In the part of the report on human rights in F.R.Y, special importance is attached to the agreement between the F.R.Y. and Croatia on the normalization of relations and to the agreement signed on September 1 by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Ibrahim Rugova on the return of Albanian children to 'official schools at all levels'.

The agreement on the education of Albanians, the report said, will help normalize the situation in education in that southern (Serbian) province.

Regarding human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the report said there was cause for a lot of concern and specified that there were problems in both entities.

The report said such a human rights situation was the main reason preventing the return of displaced persons.

In the chapter devoted to Croatia, the report said that Croatian authorities have not yet created conditions for the security of Serbs in Krajina who are today victims of lawlessness, murder and looting.

In Eastern Slavonia, the report said, there are no more drastic examples of human rights violations, as torture or mass executions, but there was concern in connection with the return of displaced persons to their homes, both Croats and Serbs.

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