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Serbia Today 96-06-27
Serbia Today
27 June 1996
CONTENTS
[01] FOR THE CONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PEACE AGREEMENT
[02] MILOSEVIC ATTEND FUNERAL CEREMONIES OF ANDREAS PAPANDREU
[03] REQUEST OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA TOWARDS THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA IS
LEGITIMATE AND LEGAL
[04] GOOD FOUNDATION FOR AN OVERALL COOPERATION
[05] THE VISIT OF YUGOSLAV BUSINESSMEN IN BELGIUM SUCCESSFULLY
ACCOMPLISHED
[06] RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN YUGOSLAVIA IS PRESERVED
[07] TURKEY IS STILL BLOCKING THE YUGOSLAV BANK ACCOUNTS
[08] LAWLESSNESS TOWARDS SERBS
[09] NEW DETERIORATION BETWEEN LJUBLJANA AND ZAGREB
[01] FOR THE CONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PEACE AGREEMENT
President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic
received the American team with the Deputy Secretary of State John
Cornblum at the head. The talks were focused on the actual matters
of the implementation of the peace plan for Bosnia, with a special
emphasis on the preparations for the forthcoming elections. The
importance was underlined for a consistent implementation of the
peace agreement as the best way for normalization of the situation
and relations and for stabilization of peace in the areas ravaged
by the civil war. A joint expectation was expressed that the
scheduling of the elections for September 14, 1996 will make
possible successful venture into the final phase of implementation
of the peace agreement. (Politika, June 27, 1996)
[02] MILOSEVIC ATTEND FUNERAL CEREMONIES OF ANDREAS PAPANDREU
"We are sorry to be here on an occasion like this, but we wish
to express our profound condolences for the demise of our great
friend and a great politician of Europe, Andreas Papandreu". With
these words President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic, upon his
arrival at the Athens airport, expressed the feelings of both
Serbia and Yugoslavia about the demise of the former Greek Prime
Minister and leader of PASOK Andreas Papandreu. President Milosevic
attended the reception offered for statesmen and dignitaries from
all over the world, hosted by the Prime Minister of Greece Kostis
Simitis and Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos. Further to evoking
memories on the deceased Papandreu, President Milosevic on this
occasion talked with the President of Cyprus Glaphcos Kleridis and
Foreign Minister of Germany Klaus Kinkel. President Milosevic was
greeted by the citizens gathered in the streets in front of the
Athens Metropolitan Church with extreme warmth and with the
applause of : "Long Live Milosevic", and "Long Live Serbia". The
local media on several occasions have quoted the words by President
Milosevic who arrived to pay his respects and express the deepest
condolences because of the loss of a great friend Andreas
Papandreu. (Politika, June 27, 1996)
[03] REQUEST OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA TOWARDS THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA IS
LEGITIMATE AND LEGAL
"Republic of Srpska asked the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
to negotiate in its name and to undertake international guarantees
which was demanded for the implementation of the obligations from
the peace agreement. In this way, the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia has undertaken an extreme responsibility in front of the
international community", said the Montenegrin President Momir
Bulatovic at the press conference held yesterday in Podgorica.
While commenting on the request of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia to the Republic of Srpska, sent by the Presidents of
Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulatovic said that it is a
legitimate and a legal request. "I would not like to add anything
special to our publicly announced stand, except to underline the
belief that every decision to the contrary by the Assembly of the
Republic of Srpska can be an introduction into a broader
destabilization in the region. Introduction of sanctions again
against the Republic of Srpska would not have only its economic and
social impact on its citizens, but also would profoundly jeopardize
the very existence of the Republic of Srpska, legitimity of its
representatives and consolidation of the overall situation in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. The risk would be extremely increased of the
new and absurd war conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina", said President
of Montenegro Momir Bulatovic. (Politika, June 27, 1996)
[04] GOOD FOUNDATION FOR AN OVERALL COOPERATION
President of the Republic of Macedonia Kiro Gligorov received
yesterday in Skopje the extraordinary and plenipotentiary
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Janackovic,
who presented his letters of accreditation. Gligorov especially
expressed his pleasure at having received the first ambassador of
the FR of Yugoslavia, "the state that we consider and feel as a
friendly neighboring country". The agreement on regulating
relations and promotion of cooperation signed in April this year
has resolved many questions related to the mutual relations and
good foundations were made for establishing of an overall
cooperation, said President Gligorov. "Construction of good and
friendly relations and an overall cooperation between our two
countries is the best framework for mutual efforts in the
preservation and promotion of protection of national rights of
Serbs in the Republic of Macedonia and of Macedonians in the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", underlined, among others, the
Yugoslav Ambassador Janackovic. (Vecernje novosti, June 27, 1996)
[05] THE VISIT OF YUGOSLAV BUSINESSMEN IN BELGIUM SUCCESSFULLY
ACCOMPLISHED
A three-day visit of the Yugoslav economic delegation to
Belgium was successfully accomplished and a significant step was
made towards new mastering of the market of one of the most
important European partners, said the Federal Minister of Trade
Djordje Siradovic, who was heading our delegation. Some doubts have
been removed about the vitality of the Yugoslav economy after the
sanctions and a significant support secured in further efforts for
rapprocheman and the return of the FR of Yugoslavia into the
international institutions and systems. Yugoslav businessmen had
numerous contacts, and their concrete results will be manifested
already over the next weeks and months. In the opinion of Minister
Siradovic, the greatest success of this visit is the fact that they
were received in Belgium as equitable partners. (Borba, June 27, 1996)
[06] RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN YUGOSLAVIA IS PRESERVED
Minister of Religion in the Government of the Republic of
Serbia Dragan Dragojlovic, received yesterday the newly-appointed
pronuncio of the Holy See in Yugoslavia, Santosa Abrille Kastello.
Pointing out at the difficult historical heritage in the relations
between the largest Christian and non-Christian confessions in
these areas, Dragojlovic underlined the importance of overcoming of
this state of facts. For this process special responsibility rests
with the most important confessions in the area, said Dragojlovic
and informed Kastello that the religious tolerance was preserved in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, although the war was wagged in
its immediate vicinity. The proof of such a stand of the state
authorities is also the fact that the refugees of different
confessions were accommodated in the same way as the Serbian
refugees from the war thorn areas. (Politika, June 27, 1996)
[07] TURKEY IS STILL BLOCKING THE YUGOSLAV BANK ACCOUNTS
Turkey is still holding under blockade the assets of the
Yugoslav firms and banks, although the UN Security Council even
seven months ago had suspended the sanctions against our country.
The Embassy of the FR of Yugoslavia in Ankara has requested from
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey an explanation as to why
the assets of our firms are still under the blockade. Turkish
officials are for the moment avoiding answer to that question,
although their government has already in mid-January following the
UN Security Council resolution, suspended the economic sanctions
against our country. The stand of the Turkish authorities is one of
the main barriers towards normalization of the bilateral goods
exchange and economic cooperation. (Politika ekspres, June 27, 1996)
[08] LAWLESSNESS TOWARDS SERBS
Four months have passed since the serious warning given by the
UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali to the UN Security Council that
Croatia is not respecting the rights of Serbian refugees to return
to their homes and is neither punishing the perpetrators of many
crimes committed against Serbs. After this warning, Zagreb received
only mild criticism in the text of an informal presidential
communique. Yesterday, Ghali submitted a new report in which there
are no nice words for the actions of the Croat authorities. Ghali
is observing that over the past months in Krajina and Western
Slavonia there is an accelerated settling of Croats from Eastern
Slavonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and even from Kosovo and Vojvodina in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Such a possession of ownership
of the Croatian Serbs is seriously jeopardizing the ethnic balance
and is raising the question whether there are real possibilities
for the return of Serbs. In the report there is an extremely open
and concrete statement of many recent examples of gross harassment
and physical liquidation of Serbian population in the region of
Knin, which is qualified as "the climate of lawlessness". Foreign
observers have recorded also many cases when the police officers
have joined in with the perpetrators of criminal acts. In Ghali's
report killing is stated of 150 Serbs and some 5,000 cases of arson
and plunder. A special part of an unusually extensive and detailed
Ghali's report is devoted to the fate of some 200,000 Serbs from
Croatia, who are prevented in different ways by the government in
Zagreb from returning to their homes and from claiming their
property. In the conclusions it is said that Zagreb did not fulfil
the explicit demands of the international community. Will Ghali's
report cool some overheated heads among the diplomates and
journalists in the UN, or will it be commented upon only through a
luke-warm presidential communique of the Security Council?
(Politika, June 27, 1996)
[09] NEW DETERIORATION BETWEEN LJUBLJANA AND ZAGREB
Relations of Slovenia and Croatia have entered a phase of new
deterioration, which was caused by the latest decision of Zagreb to
"draw" its state border in the Adriatic Sea with Slovenia in the
middle of the Piran Bay, as stated in the Rule Book on Sea Fishing
in the Adriatic. The fishing area of Slovenian fishermen in this
way has been substantially reduced. Cutting through the Piran Bay,
although Slovenia and Croatia have not as yet reached an agreement
on the final territorial separation, has caused today in Slovenia
a surprise and dissatisfaction. Namely, Slovenia is demanding the
larger part of the Bay of Piran, on the basis of the former
republican frontiers, which is categorically being refused by
Croatia. (Politika, June 27, 1996)
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