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Serbia Today 96-03-25

Serbia Today Directory

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

25 March 1996

In This Edition

MILUTINOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA HAS FULFILLED ALL DAYTON OBLIGATIONS

GHALI ACCUSES MUSLIM GOVERNMENT

REN STRONGLY CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT IN CROATIA


CONTENTS

[01] MILUTINOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA HAS FULFILLED ALL DAYTON OBLIGATIONS

[02] DISSATISFACTION OF FRANCE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PEACE PROCESS

[03] AGAINST ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS

[04] GHALI ACCUSES THE MUSLIM GOVERNMENT

[05] FIRST INDICTMENTS FOR CRIMES AGAINST SERBS

[06] THE SERB IS NOT A WAR CRIMINAL

[07] REN STRONGLY CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT IN CROATIA

[08] CROATIA BLOCKS THE RETURN OF SERBS

[09] PROTEST OF SURVIVING PRISON CAMPS INMATES

[10] FALSE ACCUSATIONS BY THE SWEDISH PRESS


[01] MILUTINOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA HAS FULFILLED ALL DAYTON OBLIGATIONS

After the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Contact Group member- countries, with participation of the foreign ministers of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia and the government in Sarajevo, held on Saturday in Moscow, chief of the Yugoslav diplomacy Milan Milutinovic stated that everyone is expecting a strong impulse to the implementation of the peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Peace, stability, comprehensive development and good neighborly relations in the region are the strategic targets of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Guided by this, Yugoslavia has fulfilled all of its obligations from Dayton and is continuing with active efforts in the direction of their full implementation", said the Yugoslav foreign minister. One of the most important conditions for bringing into life of the peace agreement and for the normalization of the overall relations in Bosnia-Herzegovina is a prompt organization of the elections, on which its future will greatly depend, said Milutinovic. Reconstruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and of the other parts of former Yugoslavia, is also an important condition for establishing a stable peace. "It is beyond understanding that funds are available for import of arms and that funds are lacking for development", underlined Milutinovic. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is making efforts aimed at normalization of the relations with former Yugoslav republics, and a gradual significant progress is being made. Bearing in mind its consistent and peaceful policy in all phases of reaching and realization of the peace agreement, Yugoslavia is expecting a clear and very concrete support to its policy, underlined the Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs. (Politika, March 24, 1996)

[02] DISSATISFACTION OF FRANCE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PEACE PROCESS

France has warned again, after the meeting two days ago in Moscow, that the peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina is on a dead-end street because instead of the peace process, what is now seen is a process of ethnic separation and division of Bosnia, reported the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the communique, as very dangerous and risky is qualified the crisis of the dual federation which is called by the Paris commentators "a heel of Achilles" of the Dayton Agreement. There are strong remarks sent most of all to Zagreb, demanding that Franjo Tudjman secures the respect of all the provisions of the Peace Agreement. It is stated in Paris that the peace process in Bosnia is threatened by three main dangers: a fundamental crisis of the Croat-Muslim Federation, the determination of the United States to arm the Muslim army and the announcement by President Clinton that he will withdraw American troops from Bosnia before the end of this year regardless of the situation at hand. (Politika, March 25, 1996)

[03] AGAINST ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS

In the information on the Moscow meeting of the Contact Group and of the signatories of the Dayton Agreement, Ukraine media are underlining the importance of strict implementation of the Dayton Agreement. This was also pointed out by the chief of the Ukraine diplomacy Genady Udovenko in his talk with the Yugoslav Ambassador in the Ukraine Gojko Dapcevic. Ukraine is energetically opposed to any additional interpretations and conditions in the implementation of the peace documents signed in Dayton, said Udovenko. He also paid tribute to Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for, as he said, a great role in conceiving and practical realization of the provisions of the Dayton Peace Agreement. (Politika, March 25, 1996)

[04] GHALI ACCUSES THE MUSLIM GOVERNMENT

The UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali has accused the Muslim Government in Sarajevo because it did not undertake anything in order to protect Serbian population in the Sarajevo suburbs and offer them guarantees to remain and live there. In his report which Ghali has prepared for the Security Council, accusations are stated of the Muslim Government which by its passive role has helped the exodus of Serbs from Sarajevo. Not only have they failed to undertake any measures in order to offer safety to Serbs, but the Muslim authorities did not even protect them from bestialities of the Muslim gangs which have started harassment there during the time of transition of Serbian suburbs to the control of the Muslim-Croat Federation. As proof of these statements Ghali is quoting the behavior of television of the ruling Muslim party SDA which in these days was broadcasting Islamic and nationalistic programs instead of promoting a religious and ethnic tolerance, which was the point of departure of the Dayton Peace Agreement when it expressed itself in favor of a wholesome and multi-ethnic Bosnia. (Vecernje novosti, March 24, 1996)

[05] FIRST INDICTMENTS FOR CRIMES AGAINST SERBS

International Tribunal in The Hague has raised indictments against three Muslims and one Croat from Bosnia for crimes committed against Serbs. Zejnil Delalic, Hazim Delic and Esad Landjo, as well as a Croat Zdravko Mucic are the first accused of the Hague Tribunal for crimes against Serbs. The Tribunal has also raised an indictment against a Serb Goran Lajic recently arrested in Germany. All the five accused are charge with grave violation of the war law and laws of warfare from the Geneva Convention, as well as for crimes committed against humanity. From the total of 59 accused,47 are Serbs, eighth are Croats and only four are Muslims. (Politika, March 23, 1996)

[06] THE SERB IS NOT A WAR CRIMINAL

The newspaper "Vesti" from Frankfurt, a very widely read daily newspaper published in the Serbian language among the Yugoslavs in diaspora, is publishing today an article in which many witnesses are claiming that the 28 year old Serbs Goran Lajic from Banja Luka, is arrested by mistake and that he is not the person to whom the Tribunal in the Hague is ascribing crimes committed in the prison camp of Keraterm. In the article witnesses for the defense of Lajic's innocence are both Muslims and Croats who have shared the fate of refugees in Germany together with his family. All those who know him are claiming that a grave mistake has been made by the German authorities and that an innocent man has been arrested. According to these testimonies, Lajic was, for a brief time at the beginning of war, among the ranks of the regular military police of the Republic of Srpska Army, but was performing his duties in Nova Topola and Laktasi, and was never in his life in Prijedor, for which he is accused by the Hague Tribunal. (Politika ekspres, March 25, 1996)

[07] REN STRONGLY CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT IN CROATIA

In her second report which is to be submitted next month, the special UN envoy for human rights in former Yugoslavia Elizabeth Ren is strongly criticizing authorities in Croatia for everything that has happened and that is happening in Krajina, because of intolerance towards Serbs who have remained in this former Yugoslav republic and because of many other forms of violation of human rights. Ren is stating that killing of Serbs who have remained in Krajina "is decreased" and plunder of their homes and property. She is quoting the UN data that 5,000 Serbian houses have been destroyed, while the Croat authorities are claiming that only 757 houses were destroyed. Croat authorities are also severely reprimanded for blocking the return of Serbian refugees and especially for forcible eviction of Serbs from their apartments in Croatia. In the latest report Ren is stating that an outstanding progress has been made in cooperation with the Republic of Srpska. In the part pertaining to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, special envoy is especially thanking Yugoslav authorities for their cooperation. (Politika, March 23, 1996)

[08] CROATIA BLOCKS THE RETURN OF SERBS

President of the Croat Helsinki Board for Human Rights Ivan Zvonimir Cicak has stated that Croatia is blocking the return of exiled Serbs and that it is doing this systematically and by all means. "The exiled Serbs are Croat citizens, and they are saying here that the return will be denied to them, except individually", said Cicak in his interview for the Rijeka "Novi list". The world is insisting that Serbs should return because in the case of contrary, the results of ethnic cleansing would be legalized, warned Cicak and added that during the last year the most brutal violations of human rights have taken place, starting with the Western Slavonia and up to Krajina. According to Cicak, "Croat authorities are not only showing disrespect for the highest standards of human rights, but their political platform is the disrespect and violation of human rights". (Politika, March 24, 1996)

[09] PROTEST OF SURVIVING PRISON CAMPS INMATES

Section of prison camp inmates from World War Two and the League of Veterans of Yugoslavia have sent an appeal to the United Nations and other international organizations, demanding recognition of the largest prison camp in the Balkans, the third in rank according to the number of victims in occupied Europe, and the first according to bestialities committed there - the prison camp Jasenovac, to be proclaimed the historical monument of interest for mankind. The protest gathering of the section of inmates and veterans was organized because of the reply by the UNESCO, refusing the proposal of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to proclaim Jasenovac killing grounds the memorial under the protection of the UN, with the explanation that the Jasenovac prison camp complex is located in Croatia. Refusing to accept this explanation, veterans have underlined that from 700,000 killed Serbs, Jews and Gypsies in Jasenovac, between 300 and 400 thousand was killed in the village of Gradina which is now located in the territory of the Republic of Srpska. The efforts of Tudjman's government to reconcile now in Jasenovac executioners with their victims and such an attitude of UNESCO towards Jasenovac are the stand not adequate for the civilized world, said Dr. Ilija Vukovic, Secretary of the Federal Board of the League of Veterans. (Politika, March 23, 1996)

[10] FALSE ACCUSATIONS BY THE SWEDISH PRESS

Swedish press is continuing to satanize Serbs, accusing them of desecrating the Memorial Museum of Jasenovac, where the Ustashi during World War Two have killed 700,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews. The correspondent of the newspaper "Swenska Dagbladet" Richard Schwartz writes that the windows of the museum were broken, the book of visitors destroyed and that in the exhibition halls displaying exhibits there are empty food cans and bullet shells. He is not mentioning, however, that the museum Jasenovac was seized by Croats in May last years, during their aggression on the Republic of Serbian Krajina. Serbian side has warned the international community that Croat soldiers are desecrating the memorial complex, but all was in vain, and now the Swedish press is completely reversing the truth. (Politika ekspres, March 25, 1996)
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