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Serbia Today 96-06-14

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From: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>

Serbia Today

14 June 1996


CONTENTS

  • [01] STRONG FRIENDSHIP AND TRADITIONALLY CLOSE RELATIONS
  • [02] ITALIAN PARTNERS ARE WELCOME
  • [03] OUR STRIVES FOR PEACE ARE EXPERIENCING INTERNATIONAL AFFIRMATION
  • [04] ABOUT STATUS OF THE FRY IN THE IMF - WITHOUT POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS
  • [05] MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA BEGINS
  • [06] MUSLIMS ARE TO BLAME FOR OSLO FAILURE
  • [07] AMERICANS ARE SUPPLYING MUSLIMS WITH INTELLIGENCE DATA
  • [08] A TORRENT OF ACCUSATIONS AND THREATS
  • [09] SLOVENIA ADMITS SMUGGLING OF ARMS

  • [01] STRONG FRIENDSHIP AND TRADITIONALLY CLOSE RELATIONS

    President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic and President of Zimbabwe Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who is on an official visit to our country, had talks yesterday about the most important issues of further development of bilateral relations and cooperation between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe and about the actual international situation. The two countries are linked with strong, friendly and traditionally close relations. The liberation struggle of the people of Zimbabwe had a decisive support of our country, considering it to be an example of the just strives for achieving affirmation of equality among nations and states. On the other hand, principled stand of Zimbabwe towards the crisis in former Yugoslavia and an objective attitude towards the role of our country in the peace process in the best way have confirmed the high reputation which friendly Zimbabwe and its President are enjoying among the citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The two presidents have expressed their agreement that through the successful development of political relations, through dialogue and bilateral cooperation, as well as through their principled stands in the international organizations, positive results can be reached in the interest of a more just order in the relations in the world. There was special discussion of the possibilities for intensifying of the economic cooperation, on which topics the businessmen of the two countries, it was stressed, will agree these days in Belgrade. (Politika, June 14, 1996)

    [02] ITALIAN PARTNERS ARE WELCOME

    President Milosevic received yesterday Caesar Geronci, President of "Banco di Roma", one of the leading world banks, whose visit to Belgrade is beyond any doubt manifesting the interest of the business partners in Italy for intensifying Yugoslav-Italian economic cooperation. President Milosevic underlined during the talks that the Italian partners are welcome to the Yugoslav market, not only because of traditionally good relations with our country, but also because of the great importance of Italy in the overall regional development. (Politika, June 14, 1996)

    [03] OUR STRIVES FOR PEACE ARE EXPERIENCING INTERNATIONAL AFFIRMATION

    On the occasion of June 16th, Day of the Army of Yugoslavia, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Lilic received delegation of the Yugoslav Army and its members and congratulated them on their celebration. "Army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, under the circumstances of an extremely complex military and political climate and significantly reduced economic capabilities of the country, in cooperation with the other state institutions, has successfully achieved its strategic objectives and tasks", said President Lilic. "In spite of all the difficulties burdening our country both internationally and internally, during the past year our priority task was achieved - peace was established in former Yugoslavia and necessary conditions created for the economic recovery, for cultural development and international affirmation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The consistent strives of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the peaceful solution of the problems in the region is now experiencing full international affirmation and an unreserved recognition of a growing number of countries in the world", concluded President Lilic. (Borba, June 14, 1996)

    [04] ABOUT STATUS OF THE FRY IN THE IMF - WITHOUT POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS

    Yugoslavia and the International Monetary Fund have started yesterday in Geneva a new round of talks about legal and economic modalities for regulating mutual relations. The essence is to regulate the relations in a way which would be concordant both with the Yugoslav legislature and with the IMF rules. Regulating of its relations with the International Monetary Fund for Yugoslav also means regulating its relations with the World Bank and its venture on the world market of capital. During the preliminary talks so far the stand of the Yugoslav side was that separation of economic and legal matters from the political questions of continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia should bring about optimum solutions for the normalization of the relations. Regarding the International Monetary Fund, it is clear that this financial institution deems important to regulate relations with the country which is one of its founders. (Borba, June 14, 1996)

    [05] MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA BEGINS

    At the Ministerial Conference on Bosnia which has started work yesterday in Florence, foreign ministers and diplomates from 45 countries have gathered and from 14 international organizations. High representative for civilian affairs and reconstruction Carl Bildt stated that during half of this year improvement was achieved in the standard of life in Bosnia, but he also warned that there are forces "of ethnic separatism" who are prevailing over the forces of unification. Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, who is heading the delegation of the FR of Yugoslavia, said that positive results in Bosnia were possible thanks to the realism and good sense of all the sides, as well as to a great assistance by the influential international factors. Underlining that peace, stability, good neighborly relations, an overall cooperation and development in the region are a strategic orientation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Milutinovic said that our country is making a lot of efforts in the aim of full normalization of the relations with the former Yugoslav republics, where a significant progress has already been achieved. In this context, Yugoslavia will continue in future to fulfil obligations from the Dayton Agreement and will continue to cooperate constructively, said the Yugoslav chief of diplomacy. (Borba, June 14, 1996)

    [06] MUSLIMS ARE TO BLAME FOR OSLO FAILURE

    German newspapers were accusing yesterday only Alija Izetbegovic for the failed attempt to sign in Oslo the agreement on reduction of armament in former Yugoslavia. Liberal Munich daily "Die Deutsche Zeitung" writes that Muslim leader is to be blamed for not respecting the agreed upon time-table in the peace process, which is actually something that his own allies the Americans are insisting upon. The fact that government in Sarajevo has refused to sign the agreement because of an equitable treatment of the Republic of Srpska with the other signatories, the newspaper is qualifying as obstruction of the already operative time schedule of moves in the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The conservative "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", however, is trying to defend the Muslim leader by the already well-known tricks, claiming allegedly that Republic of Srpska was created by mistake in Dayton. Otherwise, the official Bonn, even during the meeting in Oslo, appealed on Izetbegovic to sign the agreement on disarmament, which was drafted for several months in Vienna. (Politika ekspres, June 14, 1996)

    [07] AMERICANS ARE SUPPLYING MUSLIMS WITH INTELLIGENCE DATA

    Within the international forces in Bosnia a serious conflict is threatening to erupt between Britain and France on the one side, and the United States on the other, because of suspicion that the American officers are supplying intelligence data to the Muslim government, claims yesterday the London "Guardian". American officers, writes this newspaper, are sending to the Muslim government the data obtained by the intelligence service of the overall IFOR mission, which is bringing under a question mark its basic peace mission and the agreed upon impartial team work. (Vecernje novosti, June 14, 1996)

    [08] A TORRENT OF ACCUSATIONS AND THREATS

    Presidency of the Croat Helsinki Board (HHO) announced that it is postponing until this autumn the international gathering entitled "Serbs in Croatia", which was scheduled to take place in Zagreb on June 20 and 21, 1996. The reasons for this postponement are an extremely fierce pressure, a real campaign against the organizers, who it is stated in the announcement, can not guarantee safety to either their own members or the other guests "at the time when in the newspaper of the Society of Croat Writers on the front page it is called for formation of firing squads for certain participants of this round table". Members of the Croat Helsinki Board are especially "surprised by the silence and boycott of those social, political but also spiritual factors who are verbally striving for human rights, while in practice they are making possible ethnic cleansing, by creating an atmosphere of sweet patriotic oblivion of what is really happening to the citizens of other nationalities - especially of the Serbian one". Therefore, the Croat Helsinki Board "is claiming with full responsibility that politicians and spiritual masters are working day and night on stabilizing of non-freedom and national exclusivity, which is bringing about the incapacitation of the citizens of Croatia for the life in Europe". In their invitation to the gathering about Serbs in Croatia, sent to some 300 addresses, the following is said: "The exodus of Serbs from Croatia during the year 1995 did not resolve the essence of the Croat-Serbian relations. On the contrary, without the return of Serbs and full affirmation of the civil and national rights of the present-day Serbian minority in Croatia, there can be no perspective democratic affirmation of the Republic of Croatia." Such a formulated topic obviously did not suit those who in Croatia are striving for a country ethnically cleansed of Serbs, and thus the torrent of accusations and attacks on organizers is understandable. (Politika, June 14, 1996)

    [09] SLOVENIA ADMITS SMUGGLING OF ARMS

    Slovenia, through its defense ministry and police, with the knowledge of the government, ever since the year 1991 started supplying Croatia and later on Bosnian Muslims, with armament from the international smuggling channels, writes yesterday the Ljubljana newspaper "Delo". The data on indirect participation of Slovenia in the escalation of war in former Yugoslavia, in which the leadership in Ljubljana was achieving first of all its secessionist objectives, but also financial interests, the newspaper is quoting from the documents of the Slovenian civilian and military intelligence services. The mediator between suppliers and buyers of arms was Nicholas Oman, a Slovenian citizen, against whom the Italian judiciary have recently filed an international search because of involvement in the international smuggling of arms. "Delo" is warning that Oman, if he should decide to talk, could with arguments incriminate certain important Slovenian politicians. (Politika, June 14, 1996)
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