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Serbia Today 96-02-26

Serbia Today Directory

From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)

26 February 1996

In This Edition

PROJECT FOR THE NEW CENTURY

THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL IS A POLITICAL, NOT A JUDICIAL BODY

NATO CLAIMS THAT MERCENARIES ARE STILL IN BOSNIA


CONTENTS

[01] DIPLOMATIC RETURN OF YUGOSLAVIA

[02] PROJECT FOR THE NEW CENTURY

[03] WITH PRIVATIZATION TOWARDS A MORE PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY

[04] SUBSTANTIAL AND USEFUL VISIT

[05] THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL IS A POLITICAL AND NOT A JUDICIAL BODY

[06] RUSSIA LIFTING SANCTIONS ON THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

[07] UNDERMINING OF A MULTI-ETHNIC BOSNIA

[08] NATO CLAIMS THAT MERCENARIES ARE STILL IN BOSNIA

[09] MUSLIM AUTHORITIES ARE ENDANGERING PEACE

[10] SERBS IN KNIN - ON THE VERGE OF SURVIVAL

[11] CROATIA HAS RACIST LAWS


[01] DIPLOMATIC RETURN OF YUGOSLAVIA

After France, Spain and Great Britain will follow. This is stated in the seat of French diplomacy in Paris about "the diplomatic return" of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the international scene. The decision of the Government in Paris to exchange extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors means the opening of the process not only of full normalization of the diplomatic relations at the highest level, but also a development of a comprehensive cooperation, including the economic one which is now having special importance. While commenting on the establishment of the Yugoslav-French cooperation at the highest level, "Le Mond" is writing that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has a very significant role in all the peace efforts. "For the implementation of the peace plan in Bosnia, a lot of gratitude is due to Belgrade", writes "Le Mond". This recognition is having a hard time in reaching the French public and therefore, the determination of France to open a new page of cooperation with Belgrade is having special importance. Germany obviously is considering normalization of the relations with Belgrade as premature, writes "Le Mond", but adds that France "will soon be followed by Spain and then Great Britain". (Borba, February 25, 1996)

[02] PROJECT FOR THE NEW CENTURY

The spokesman of the Socialist Party of Serbia Ivica Dacic, while speaking for "Politika" daily about the preparations for the Third Congress of the party which is to start in less than a week, answered the question about the stand of the Socialist Party of Serbia regarding privatization. "Socialists are striving for a market oriented, open economy with mixed forms of ownership. For a long time now the basis of our economic system is the market economy, corrected by the elements of social justice, as it is in the other modern economies, based on the respect for equality and legal protection of all the forms of ownership guaranteed by the Constitution - from social and state ownership, up to private, joint and cooperative. Enterprises can not be imposed upon with either the manner of transformation or the character of ownership. All forms of companies will independently decide on the transformation of their legal status and trading of their capital, together with the respect of the market value of capital. Socialist Party of Serbia can not allow a forcible privatization and pure looting of social capital which was created for decades, because privatization can never be an end unto itself, but only a means for the economy to become more efficient and the society to become socially more just". (Politika, February 25, 1996)

[03] WITH PRIVATIZATION TOWARDS A MORE PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY

Privatization in Serbia must make possible the improvement of general and personal standard of living and must make the economy more productive and operative. This was stated by the Republican Minister for Private Entrepreneurship Radoje Djukic. If these two requirements are taken as basis, it will not be difficult through a combination of the applied models of privatization of social-statal ownership to find a form which will be adequate for our circumstances, said Minister Djukic, and added that enterprises must be free to decide on the ownership reforms. Already now some 90 percent of the trading is done through the private sector and over one half of the social product is being created outside of the socially owned companies, said the Republican Minister. (Vecernje novosti, February 26, 1996)

[04] SUBSTANTIAL AND USEFUL VISIT

After his visit to Israel, at the invitation of his Israeli colleague, the Republican Minister of Agriculture Ivko Djonovic said that there are great possibilities and mutual interest for cooperation. During the visit, a protocol was signed on cooperation, which has opened the door for contracting concrete deals. Minister Djonovic is seeing the most concrete forms of cooperation with the Israeli agriculture in the primary agricultural production and is underlining that their companies are interested in investing in our agriculture. The opportunities for contracting concrete deals are also opened with the state company for designing irrigation systems, said the Minister. (Politika, February 26, 1996)

[05] THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL IS A POLITICAL AND NOT A JUDICIAL BODY

The Tribunal for the War Crimes Committed in Former Yugoslavia in the Hague has confirmed through its actions over the past three years that it is conducting a one-sided justice and that it is a political and not a judicial body, said the Chairman of the Committee of the Federal Government for War Crimes, Prof.Dr. Zoran Stojanovic. "It may be said that it is a quasi-tribunal which has political aims and function, because it is serving as one of the instruments of global strategy of the great powers to discipline small peoples and the insubordinate regimes. This was confirmed in the case of former Yugoslavia, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina", said Stojanovic. The arrest of officers of the Republic of Srpska Army, Stojanovic brought in connection with the problem of extradition of the persons suspected of war crimes, stating that the Tribunal has decided to overcome difficulties in this respect by the application of sheer force of the NATO military forces. Stojanovic says that for the war crimes of genocide committed over Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Krajina Muslim and Croat leaders are not prosecuted, which is making the whole thing absurd. "Obviously, the one who is cooperative like Tudjman and Izetbegovic, regardless of the fact that he has committed war crimes, will not be prosecuted", said Prof. Stojanovic. (Tanjug, February 26, 1996)

[06] RUSSIA LIFTING SANCTIONS ON THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

President of Russia Boris Yeltsin signed a decision on a one-sided suspension of sanctions against the Republic of Srpska because it has fulfilled all the conditions from the UN Security Council Resolution 1022. This decision foresees de-freezing of all the previously blocked assets. One-sided departure of Russia from the regime of sanctions against the Republic of Srpska does not mean a dispute in the Contact Group and the Security Council, said the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin. Russia has on several occasions announced the suspension of sanctions as soon as the conditions from the Resolution are fulfilled. The Russian diplomate has indirectly reproached those countries who are not agreeing with this stand of Moscow and said that he is opposed to "the politics being brought down to technical details". (Politika February 25, 1996)

[07] UNDERMINING OF A MULTI-ETHNIC BOSNIA

The United Nations have accused Bosnian government, but also the leadership of Bosnian Serbs, of undermining the efforts to preserve a multi-ethnic Bosnia, while the exodus of Serbs from Sarajevo suburbs continues with the same intensity. Thousands of Serbs who did not have confidence in the assurances of the Bosnian government that nothing will happen to them after the transfer of authority in the Sarajevo suburbs, have already left Vogosca in a chaotic exodus, using all the possible means of transport. The spokesman of the UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) Chris Janowski, said that the police of the Bosnia-Herzegovina federation is helping spread the panic among Serbian population of the city. "We are concerned because the members of the federal police are entering houses of local population, which is having a very bad effect on the already frightened people", said Janowski. The UN spokesman said that the entire future concept of Sarajevo is now brought under a question mark and added that it is not only a concept of Sarajevo, but the entire concept of a multi-ethnic Bosnia. The less Serbs remains in Sarajevo, the worse it will be for the efforts to put Bosnia together again, said Janowski and added: "The final responsibility rests with the Bosnian government". (Politika, February 26, 1996)

[08] NATO CLAIMS THAT MERCENARIES ARE STILL IN BOSNIA

In Bosnia there are still hundreds of foreign soldiers and military advisers, which is a direct violation of the Dayton Agreement. This was stated in Sarajevo by the deputy chief of the main headquarters of the IFOR for operations, plans and intelligence service, Brigade General John Silvester. This statement was made one day after the warning of the State Department and Bill Clinton's Administration that Iranian and other foreign mercenaries have not yet left Bosnia and that this will suspend until further notice the American program of military aid and training of the Muslim army in Bosnia. General Silvester said that in Bosnia there are still Muslim basis for training of terrorists and that "military actions might be undertaken for their destruction". (Borba, February 24-15, 996)

[09] MUSLIM AUTHORITIES ARE ENDANGERING PEACE

Croat Defense Minister Gojko Susak warned that the Croat Army will defend strategic interests of its country in Bosnia and that the Muslim government in Sarajevo by accelerated armament is endangering peace. While speaking at the session of the Main Committee of the Croat Democratic Community party (HDZ), Susak pointed out that at this moment "the uncontrolled armament" of the Muslim army is the greatest danger for the implementation of the Dayton Agreement and stability of the Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia. He called upon the international community to secure a balance in arming of the Muslims and Croats in Bosnia and said that heavy armament which the Muslim army is intensively procuring can be turned against Croats. (Politika, February 25, 1996)

[10] SERBS IN KNIN - ON THE VERGE OF SURVIVAL

Serbs who have remained in Banija Kostajnica and the surrounding villages after the aggression of the Croat army and police on Krajina, are deprived of all the human rights, claims the Red Cross of Slovenia. Serbs in this part of Croatia are exposed to continuous threats by expulsion, harassment by Croat authorities and terror of the local police. The entire area is transformed into a ghetto, and over 10,000 of mostly aged and exhausted Serbs the Croat authorities have isolated from the rest of the world and civilization. Their tragic destiny was revealed and documented in the filmed report about the visit of the Red Cross of Slovenia team to the Serbs in Knin Krajina, broadcasted on Friday in the central information program by the Ljubljana correspondent of the renown international television channel "Pop". (Politika ekspres, February 25, 1996)

[11] CROATIA HAS RACIST LAWS

Serbs who have remained in Croatia are living under very difficult conditions - there are practically no human rights and freedoms, but we are expecting that under the pressure of the international public this question will be opened for possible solution. Therefore, I appeal that they remain in their homes, with the hope that also those who have left us will return. This was stated by the president of the Serbian National Party in Zagreb and the deputy in the Croat Parliament (Sabor) Milan Djukic. While commenting on the package of new laws adopted by the Sabor, Djukic said that most of all they are racist laws. He described as especially dangerous the fact that the provisions pertaining to the property of Serbs and their return, are linked with the normalization of the relations between the FR of Yugoslavia and Croatia. This is yet another trap in which a question is openly raised whether Serbs in Croatia are just bargaining chips. (Politika, February 26, 1996)
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