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Serbia Today 96-07-09
Serbia Today
9 July 1996
CONTENTS
[01] SUPPORT TO THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA
[02] TOGETHER INTO EUROPE
[03] DINI: GREAT CHANCES
[04] SUCCESSFUL TALKS WITH SWISS BANKERS
[05] TALKS ABOUT SUCCESSION OF YUGOSLAVIA
[06] MEETING OF THE WORK GROUP FOR MISSING PERSONS
[07] SENTENCE FOR WAR CRIMES
[08] DR. PLAVSIC HAS TAKEN OVER ALL THE FUNCTIONS
[09] RETURN TO PROFESSION
[10] IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA - LIST OF DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY
[11] HUNDREDS OF MUJJAHEDINS HAVE REMAINED
[01] SUPPORT TO THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslav Prime Minister Dr. Radoje Kontic yesterday in
Salzburg had bilateral talks with the Ukraine President Leonid
Kuchma, Prime Minister of Hungary Jula Horn, of Poland Vladimir
Zimopevich and the Austrian Chancellor France Wranicki.
Kontic who is heading the Yugoslav delegation at the three-day
economic summit of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe,
stated for the press that all of his counterparts expressed
readiness to renew, extend and promote bilateral cooperation, as
well as the willingness to assist reintegration of Yugoslavia in
the international community. (Politika ekspres, July 9, 1996)
[02] TOGETHER INTO EUROPE
Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Milutinovic
expressed positive views of the Conference of chiefs of diplomacies
of countries of the South-Eastern Europe, which was adjourned on
Sunday in Sofia.
In an interview published yesterday in the Bulgarian daily "Duma",
Milutinovic underlined that the Balkan countries must together
integrated into Europe because only in that way they can be a
strong factor.
Our delegation has proposed a formation of a Balkan Parliament,
some sort of consultative assembly of the Balkan countries which
would be in session either regularly or as need be, and would be
composed of the permanent delegations of parliaments of all the
countries in the region. (Borba, July 9, 1996)
[03] DINI: GREAT CHANCES
European Union has shown over the last months of crisis in
former Yugoslavia that it is a powerful and efficient factor and
the decades of earlier cooperation, together with strengthening of
stability after conclusion of peace in Bosnia, is opening "very
important chances for economic cooperation between Italy and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia". This was stated in Rome by the
chief of Italian diplomacy Lamberto Dini during the press
conference, when the recently adjourned six-month Italian mandate
of chairmanship over the European Union was analyzed.
"It seems to me that the perspectives for economic relations are
very great and very strong", said Dini recalling the decades of
very good cooperation and added that Italy "wishes to see
Yugoslavia continue in the direction of realization of human rights
in the entire territory of the country". (Politika, July 9, 1996)
[04] SUCCESSFUL TALKS WITH SWISS BANKERS
Yugoslav delegation headed by the deputy Prime Minister of the
Federal Government Jovan Zebic, is adjourning its two-day
successful visit to Switzerland with its visit to Zurich, where the
talks will continue with the representatives of the leading Swiss
commercial banks. Yesterday in Bern delegation of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia had talks with the Swiss Secretary of State
for Foreign Trade, France Blane Cart. (Tanjug, July 9, 1996)
[05] TALKS ABOUT SUCCESSION OF YUGOSLAVIA
In Brussels yesterday the third round was held of the
bilateral talks about the problem of economic succession of the
former Yugoslavia.
In the headquarters of Carl Bildt who is in charge of the
implementation of the civilian part of the Dayton Agreement, with
the head of the negotiating team the British professor Sir Arthur
Watts, Yugoslav representatives had talks, headed by the
Academician Kosta Mihajlovic.
According to Mihajlovic, this time a step further was made in the
clarification of our stands which pertain to the problems of
citizenship, archives, retirement pensions and re-defining of state
property. (Tanjug, July 9, 1996)
[06] MEETING OF THE WORK GROUP FOR MISSING PERSONS
Yesterday in Pale a delegation of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and of the Republic of Srpska, acting within the work
group for missing persons at the International Committee of the Red
Cross, discussed most pending issues prior to the meeting to be
held tomorrow of this work group in Sarajevo about the problems of
captured and missing persons and exhumations executed in the
territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
It was pointed out that there is a need for a continuous presence
of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at these
meetings in order to resolve faster, through a coordinated action
with the Republic of Srpska and with full cooperation of the
representatives of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the
Republic of Croatia, difficult and complex questions of captured
and missing persons in the territory of former Yugoslavia. (Tanjug,
July 7, 1996)
[07] SENTENCE FOR WAR CRIMES
After 19.5 months since the first trial for war crimes
committed in the territory of the Republic of Srpska, yesterday at
the District Court of Sabac, a sentence was pronounced. Dusan
Vuckovic was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment, counting the
time already spent in detention from November 4, 1993, while his
brother Vojin, commander of the paramilitary formation "Yellow
Stings", because of false presentation and unlawful possession of
arms, was sentenced to one year of prison and two years of
suspended sentence.
A five-member judicial council has proved that Vuckovic had on June
27 and 28, 1992 in the cooperative building in Celopek near
Zvornik, from an automatic riffle, from which he did not even fire
the full charge of 30 bullets, had killed 16 and wounded 20 Muslim
civilians. He committed this act while in the state of reduced
accountability, because at that minute pictures appeared to him
from the time of his imprisonment and torture to which he was
submitted by the Muslims, when he was captured by them as the
fighter of the unit "Yellow Sting". He barely escaped alive from
his imprisonment. (Vecernje novosti, July 9, 1996)
[08] DR. PLAVSIC HAS TAKEN OVER ALL THE FUNCTIONS
Dr. Biljana Plavsic has informed the ministers yesterday at
the session of the Government of the Republic of Srpska in Pale,
that as of June 30, 1996 she is performing all the functions of the
President of the Republic of Srpska.
She underlined that Dayton Agreement has brought peace and that in
its implementation all the resor ministries are taking part.
Regarding the elections in the Republic of Srpska, Dr. Plavsic
underlined that Republic of Srpska is ready even before the
scheduled time to make the elections, and expressed her hope that
the elections, scheduled for September this year, will be conducted
in a democratic way. (Politika, July 9, 1996)
[09] RETURN TO PROFESSION
Leader of the Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic denied that his
troops have committed crimes during the war in Bosnia, AFP reports.
He had also strongly denied mass killings of Muslim civilians in
Srebrenica in July last year.
Karadzic at the end announced that he will maybe return to his old
profession - psychiatry: "I never did like politics". (Vecernje
novosti, July 9, 1996)
[10] IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA - LIST OF DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY
For the forthcoming multi-party elections to be held on
September 14, 1996, in the Republic of Srpska, the candidatures
were submitted in the seat of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Sarajevo, also by the Muslim
Democratic Action Party headed by Alija Izetbegovic, Party for
Bosnia-Herzegovina of Haris Silajdzic and a coalition United List
from the Muslim-Croat Federation. (Politika, July 9, 1996)
[11] HUNDREDS OF MUJJAHEDINS HAVE REMAINED
Several hundreds of Islamic mujjahedins from Iran and other
countries have remained in Bosnia in spite of American demands made
even by the end of last year, requesting that they must leave the
territory under the control of the Bosnian Muslim government,
writes yesterday's "Washington Post".
This newspaper claims that the director of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Deutsch has left for Sarajevo in
order to "talk with the Muslim leaders about the safety of the
American soldiers". (Politika ekspres, July 9, 1996)
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