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Serbia Today 96-02-19
From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)
19 February 1996
In This Edition
CONSENT ON THE SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
SOCIALISTS SUPPORT TRADE, OPEN ECONOMY WITH VARIETY TYPES OF OWNERSHIP
AMERICANS EMBITTERED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MOSLEM GOVERNMENT IN SARAJEVO
CONTENTS
[01] THE DAYTON AGREEMENT CAN NOT BE JEOPARDIZED
[02] CONSENT ON THE SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
[03] PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC MET WITH THE ITALIAN PRESIDENT
[04] SOCIALISTS SUPPORT TRADE, OPEN ECONOMY WITH VARIETY TYPES OF OWNERSHIP
[05] NEW FORMS OF COOPERATION
[06] INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AT THE SPS CONGRESS
[07] FRY IS NOT PROTECTING WAR CRIMINALS
[08] AMERICANS EMBITTERED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MOSLEM GOVERNMENT IN SARAJEVO
[09] ISLAMIC TERRORIST BASE IN BOSNIA
[10] STARTLED BY THE TRUTH
[11] RUSSIAN DUMA: NO MORE PRECEDENTS
[01] THE DAYTON AGREEMENT CAN NOT BE JEOPARDIZED
The two-day mini summit between presidents Milosevic,
Tudjman and Izetbegovic, and their talks with
international negotiators have been concluded in Rome
with general but also specific agreements which should
help the growing tensions in Bosnia, the lifting of the
sanctions against the Republic of Srpska and offer new
guarantees for safe life. A document has been approved
at the end of the meeting, with which all sides reaffirm
the three-month old principles outlined by the Dayton
Agreement. "The agreement can not be questioned" - Said
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. "There will
obviously be incidents, they have to be settled, but
none of them must be allowed to jeopardize the
implementation of involving three million people."
(Politika, February 19, 1996)
[02] CONSENT ON THE SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
Evaluating the results of the meeting in Rome, which
dealt with the implementation of the Dayton Agreement,
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic stressed that the
threat of misunderstandings among the formerly warring
sides involved has been removed. "In the talks with the
American team and with the representatives of the
Contact Group member countries, consent has been reached
to suspend the sanctions against the Republic of Srpska
and the relative procedure will be initiated this week."
- President Milosevic told the reporters, stressing that
no events could obstruct the suspension of the
sanctions. "Except for breaches of the peace plan -
exclusively by the Bosnian Serb side, which is highly
improbable bearing in mind the fact that the RS
authorities have been respecting the peace agreement."
said Mr. Milosevic. Asked about additional guarantees
for Serbs living in those parts of Sarajevo that are to
pass under the jurisdiction of the Moslem-Croatian
Federation, Mr. Milosevic listed a number of important
and comprehensive measures which should remove any
doubts on possible discrimination against the Serbs, and
stressed that there is no reason for fear in the Serbian
quarters in Sarajevo and that the population should not
emigrate. (Politika, February 19, 1996)
[03] PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC MET WITH THE ITALIAN PRESIDENT
Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Serbian
President Milosevic met in Rome and had a comprehensive
meeting during which both sides expressed major interest
to improve the relations between the two countries. Full
support has been given to the positive role played by
Yugoslavia in the settlement of the crisis, and
especially for its peace-making stands. The Yugoslav
side thanked Italy for its constructive attitude and the
efforts to help the solution of the crisis in former
Yugoslavia. The Italian President gladly accepted the
invitation to visit Yugoslavia soon.(Politika, February
19, 1996)
[04] SOCIALISTS SUPPORT TRADE, OPEN ECONOMY WITH VARIETY TYPES OF OWNERSHIP
Speaking at the third conference of the Socialist Party
Organization, in Belgrade, Serbian Prime Minister
presented the "Serbia 2000" project and said that the
beginning of the new century will be met with clear and
coherent stands and plans. "We might synthesize this
objective as a drive towards a maximum level of
individual and social well-being, including the broadest
possible civil and human rights, growth of consumption
and living standard, increased health and social care,
as well as broadening of cultural and education. We want
to live in a society where everyone will be offered
equal conditions to take part in the market race, and
which will not obstruct the individual initiative with
egalitarian or populist norms." Reiterating the effects
of the secessionist break-up of former Yugoslavia, Prime
Minister Marjanovic stressed that future development
must primarily warrant the equality and juridical
protection of social, state, private, cooperative forms
of property, including Constitutional endorsement. "The
Socialists support trade open economy with varied types
of ownership, which have to be based on sound companies
determined to realize profit and increase the value of
their capital", said Mr. Marjanovic. (Politika, February
18, 1996)
[05] NEW FORMS OF COOPERATION
Invited by the Israeli Minister of Agriculture - Mr.
Jacob Tzur, a Serbian delegation headed by Minister of
Agriculture, Waters and Forestry - Mr. Ivko Djonovic -
left today for Israel. A number of Israeli firms has
shown interest to establish contacts with Yugoslav
representatives and to conclude business arrangements
which will prove mutually fruitful. The Serbian
delegation will be informed about the Israeli
achievements in the field of agriculture and the
possibilities for marketing Yugoslav agricultural
products on the Israeli market. (Politika, February 19,
1996)
[06] INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE AT THE SPS CONGRESS
Mr. Vladimir Krsljanin - member of the Socialist Party
Executive Board - in charge of international relations,
revealed that the highest representatives of all 12
members of the Euro-Asian Socialist Congress will be
present at the forthcoming 3rd Congress of the Socialist
Party of Serbia. The guest list will include the highest
figures of the left-oriented parties from the
Commonwealth of Independent States. Taking part in a
meeting of the Euro-Asian Socialist Congress Executive
Council, Mr. Krsljanin informed the participants about
the current political situation in former Yugoslavia, as
well as about the implementation of the Dayton Peace
Agreement and the preparations for the 3rd Congress of
SPS. (Politika Ekspres, February 19, 1996)
[07] FRY IS NOT PROTECTING WAR CRIMINALS
Yugoslav Minister of Defense - Mr. Pavle Bulatovic -
stated that "FRY is not protecting war criminals and is
not refusing to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal", but
that it is "...merely respecting its Constitution and
laws which prohibit the extradition of Yugoslav
citizens." In an interview for "Vecernje Novosti", Mr.
Bulatovic added that FRY is more than prepared to
cooperate with the Hague tribunal, but in the sphere of
gathering of evidence and information etc. This is the
prospective in which the Bureau of the Hague Tribunal is
to be opened in Belgrade - remarked the Yugoslav Defense
Minister.(Vecernje Novosti, February 19, 1996)
[08] AMERICANS EMBITTERED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MOSLEM GOVERNMENT IN SARAJEVO
American officials are embittered and deluded by the
attitude of its principal prot=82g=82 in Bosnia. Although
its highest representative sighed the documents in
Dayton and Paris, the Moslem Government is training
terrorist groups. Faced with a heap of automatic rifles
and pistols, along with explosive devices shaped like
toys, discovered in a secret school for terrorists in a
mountain villa near the town of Fojnica, Admiral
Leighton Smith did not hide his disdain: "One need not
be a genius to realize that we have discovered something
disgusting. Terrorist activities took place with the
direct involvement of government officials." After the
terrorist school was taken, 11 persons have been
arrested, three of them Iranians. One of them has been
released because he had a diplomatic passport. The
newspapers in Sarajevo quote the statement made by Mirza
Hajric - spokesman of the Moslem Foreign Ministry, who
reminded Washington that "... the Bosnian Government is
internationally reputed as a victim of war, and
therefore it is very harmful to accuse it of terrorism."
However, rage and pressures from Washington and NATO,
forced the Sarajevo Government to promise that it will
initiate an investigation, and then government
representatives took over the arrested individuals.
Americans confirmed that five of the 11 arrested
soldiers were Iranian citizens that planned attacks on
NATO troops. "We will not tollerate foreign soldiers
which are a possible threat to our soldiers." - said the
State Department representative adding that the incident
represents a clear breach of the Dayton Agreement.
(Politika, Vecernje Novosti, February 18, 1996)
[09] ISLAMIC TERRORIST BASE IN BOSNIA
The Moslem part of Bosnia and Sarajevo are becoming a
strong base for Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in
Europe - remarks the London newspaper Sunday Telegraph,
in a commentary concerning the discovery of a Sarajevo
Government terrorist center managed by three Iranians.
According to this same magazine, Bosnia might become a
training ground for much broader terrorist actions in
eastern and southern Mediterranean. Official Iran is
involved in the organization of terrorist centers in
Bosnia, and the center of it all is not in Sarajevo but
in Zagreb where the biggest Iranian embassy in Europe is
located - says The Sunday Telegraph. The article also
affirms that this embassy is used by Iran as a central
for dispatching terrorist actions throughout Europe.
(Politika, February 19, 1996)
[10] STARTLED BY THE TRUTH
Just before the Milosevic, Tudjman, Izetbegovic meeting
in Rome, the French national television taught the first
serious media lesson to the Bosnian Moslems. A prime
time news broadcast having an audience of many millions
revealed the existence of a terrorist camp near the town
of Fojnica set up four years ago by the Alija
Izetbegovic government. The commentary stressed that
IFOR now faces an arduous task, because some 2.500
Mujahedins are still active in former Bosnia and
Herzegovina. (Vecernje Novosti, 18.2.)
[11] RUSSIAN DUMA: NO MORE PRECEDENTS
In a special statement the Russian Duma (Lower House of
the Parliament)indicated that the arrest Bosnian Serb
Army officers - Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa
Krsmanovic is a "...provocative action which might
destabilize the process of peaceful settlement of the
situation in former Yugoslavia" and asked that the be
"immediately released". The same statement includes a
protest against the arbitrary behavior of the Moslem
authorities against Bosnian Serb officers observing that
NATO "...is practically encouraging the Bosnian Moslems
to use illegal expedients and actions." The Duma
deputies also underscore that it is inadmissible to
allow the transformation of the peace forces into a
"punitive contingent" and demand of the international
community to ensure an objective investigation of the
war crimes, taking into account the principle of equal
responsibility of all sides. (Vecernje Novosti, February
17, 1996)
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