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Serbia Today 96-04-05

Serbia Today Directory

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

5 April 1996

In This Edition

MAJOR SUPPORT FOR THE UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS

INVESTIGATION OF WAR CRIMES LAUNCHED


CONTENTS

[01] GREATER SUPPORT FOR THE UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS

[02] GREEK REPORTERS VISITING YUGOSLAVIA

[03] CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EASTER

[04] INVESTIGATION OF WAR CRIMES LAUNCHED

[05] THE SECURITY COUNCIL IS SATISFIED WITH MILITARY SOLUTIONS

[06] MOSLEMS DEMAND THE URGENT LIFTING OF THE ARMS EMBARGO

[07] THE SLOVENIAN-CROATIAN BORDER IS TO BE ALTERED


[01] GREATER SUPPORT FOR THE UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS

In spite of the extreme reduction of development potentials, the Serbian Government has been making efforts to prevent any further deepening of inter- regional differences, and in future it plans to stimulate even more the under- developed regions, in accordance with the policy of regional development of Serbia - said Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic during his meeting yesterday with the managers of the Serbian Development Institute. Stressing that the Government followed an active development policy right from the start and that it has shown by implementing the program for the revitalization of the national economy without foreign aid that it can incite production and increase the living standard, Mr. Marjanovic observed that his cabinet based such strategy on expert analyses and projects. The Government has instructed the Institute to draft development projects for 24 most underdeveloped counties in Serbia, as well as for other such regions that show interest for these plans. This will complete the system of incentives, mechanisms and measures intended to stimulate investments in these regions, and harmonize the living and working conditions in Serbia. (Politika, April 5, 1996)

[02] GREEK REPORTERS VISITING YUGOSLAVIA

Serbian Minister of Information - Mr. Ratomir Vico met with a group of reputable Greek journalists who are visiting our country as part of the campaign preparing the Yugoslav exposition due to take place in Athens at the end of April. Mr. Vico informed the reporters about the current political and economic situation in Serbia as well as about the media pluralism and freedom of the press in the Republic. He also judged highly the reporting of the Greek media during the international blockade characterized by false representation of the events in former Yugoslavia.

The Greek reporters were also received by the Chairman of the Yugoslav Chamber of Economy - Mr. Mihailo Milojevic, who stressed that the Yugoslav exhibition in Athens constitutes an important chance to present the potentials of the national economy to the Greek partners. The Greek journalist - who are returning the visit of Yugoslav reporters to Athens - and who will tour Belgrade and Novi Sad , showed particular interest for the measures taken to urge foreign financiers to invest in the Yugoslav economy. (Politika, April 5, 1996)

[03] CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EASTER

His Holiness - the Serbian Patriarch addressed a traditional felicitations message for the great Christian holiday of Easter to Dr. France Perko - Catholic Archbishop of Belgrade. Expressing hope that "men will answer with love to God's love", Patriarch Pavle sent his congratulations to the Archbishop of Belgrade and to all Roman Catholics in our country. Congratulating Easter to the believers and the clergy of the Catholic, Christian Reformist and Slovak Evangelist Church, Serbian Minister of Religious Affairs - Mr. Dragan Dragojlovic - stressed the importance of "persevering in religious tolerance, inter-ethnic confidence and promoting all those things that bring us together and are common to all of us." (Politika, April 5, 1996)

[04] INVESTIGATION OF WAR CRIMES LAUNCHED

Captain Borisa Ilic - Investigative Judge of the Banjaluka Military Court, submitted a request to the investigative bodies to gather data on the state of the family homes of all those whose remains have been identified after being exhumed from the mass grave at the Orthodox cemetery in Mrkonjic Grad. There are justified suspicions that the homes have been destroyed and that this along with the massacre constitutes a crime of war against civilian population, said Cap. Ilic. From the two mass graves, 181 corpses have been exhumed. They were all victims of the Moslem-Croatian terror during their offensive on western parts of the Republic of Srpska last autumn when Mrkonjic grad was occupied. Many of them were civilians, prevalently women and elderly persons - said the head of the team of pathologists - Prof. Dr. Zorana Stankovic, adding that most of them have been brutally killed - usually with a blow of a blunt object in the head. There are indications that a certain number of victims were mental patients - and such individuals are protected by international laws. (Politika, April 5, 1996)

[05] THE SECURITY COUNCIL IS SATISFIED WITH MILITARY SOLUTIONS

The UN Security Council is pleased with the military solutions achieved until now, and the international communities and the sides in conflict should now turn to the "civilian aspects of the agreement". The Presidential Statement issued yesterday by the Security Council, instructed all sides to immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners, ensure the freedom of movement of all civilians, cooperate with the Hague Tribunal and become involved in the repatriation of refugees and the respect of human rights. Criticizing and giving out instructions to all the Security Council did not mention in particular any of the sides, except at the end of the statement where it invited all three nations to fight against populism and divisions and to rebuild a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Sarajevo, ensuring a safe life for all in the city. A single polite sentence at the end of the document indicates "deep concern" for the recent events in the Sarajevo region which forced "thousands of Serbian civilians to abandon their homes". The Council did not quote the figure of 60.000 Serbs that have been ethnically cleansed from this area. (Vecernje Novosti, April 5, 1996)

[06] MOSLEMS DEMAND THE URGENT LIFTING OF THE ARMS EMBARGO

General Rassim Delic - Chief of Staff of the Moslem-Croatian Federation Army, endorsed the urgent arming of the Bosnian Army, in spite of the fact that negotiations on disarmament in the region are in course in Vienna. In an interview for the Istanbul newspaper "Zaman", general Delic admitted that he is in a rush and that the arms embargo should be lifted completely and urgently, and not gradually and in phases. Delic justified his demand with the need to balance the power of the Serbs in Bosnia - i.e. to allow the Moslems to defend themselves from an imaginary aggressor, once the NATO troops leave Bosnia. (Borba, April 5, 1996)

[07] THE SLOVENIAN-CROATIAN BORDER IS TO BE ALTERED

Mr. Zmago Jelincic - President of the Slovenian National Party, stated that the border between Slovenia and Croatia should be moved in favor of Slovenia. Stressing that the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire border between Slovenia and Croatia should be kept in mind - which went southward all the way to the coastal town of Rijeka - Jelincic accused Croatia of altering the maps in school books at the expense of Slovenia. "Ever since 1949, Croatia has been deliberately moving the border. Each new geography book showed a larger Croatia and a smaller Slovenia. According to the latest map, presented at the tourism fair in Berlin, Croatia and Italy are neighboring countries with no Slovenia between them." - said Jelincic. (Politika, April 5, 1996) .
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