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Serbia Today, 96-09-23
Serbia Today
23 September 1996
CONTENTS
[01] FEDERAL MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK
[02] SPS IS OFFERING CONCRETE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS
[03] SERGEY LAVROW ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
[04] YUGOSLAV FIRMS AGAIN AT THE FAIR IN PLODVIV
[05] INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC GATHERINGS IN BELGRADE
[06] MUNICIPAL (LOCAL) ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA FROM NOVEMBER
22 TO 24, 1996
[07] RUSSIAN CREDIT FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
[08] WEST IS PREPARING AN ACTION FOR CLEANSING OF MUJAHEDINS FROM BOSNIA
[09] THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF BOSNIA
[10] NEW CRIME IN KRAJINA
[01] FEDERAL MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK
Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Milutinovic arrived
in New York where he will over the next week, when the UN General
Assembly is to be held, have numerous contacts and political talks
with the distinguished diplomats and officials about the Yugoslav
integration in the international organizations, most of all in the
UN and its bodies. Minister Milutinovic is visiting New York at the
time when it is announced and expected to have the final and formal
lifting of the economic sanctions against Yugoslavia. This decision
the UN Security Council should pass on the basis of the Resolution
No. 1022, adopted one day after the initialing of the Dayton
Agreement. Chief of the Yugoslav diplomacy will also have a
separate meeting with the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros
Ghali.
(Borba, September 23, 1996)
[02] SPS IS OFFERING CONCRETE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS
The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) will present to its voters
and citizens the program containing concrete solutions for the
social problems. SPS is consistently conducting the policy of
peace, democracy, civil equality, social justice and solidarity.
This was stated at the session of the leadership of the Main
Committee of the SPS with the presidents of the municipal
committees of the SPS of Vojvodina. The need was emphasized for the
revival and maximum utilization of all the economic potentials, for
a faster, safer and a more stable development of agriculture and
agrarian field in general, especially on the farming households.
Starting from the specific features of Vojvodina, SPS will strive
not only for the preservation of the good inter-ethnic relations
and the achieved values of life together, which may serve as an
example in the contemporary world, but also for their constant
promotion.
(Politika, September 21, 1996)
[03] SERGEY LAVROW ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
Chief of the Russian Mission at the UN, Ambassador Sergey
Lavrow, stated on Saturday for the second time during the last
week, that the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
will be finally lifted ten days after the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
therefore within the time prescribed in the Dayton
Agreement and in the Security Council Resolution. "This date is on
September 24, 1996", said Lavrow, having in mind the date when the
General Assembly of the United Nations will be addressed by the
U.S. President Bill Clinton. According to Lavrow, lifting of
sanctions against Yugoslavia is almost a routine thing.
(Borba, September 23, 1996)
[04] YUGOSLAV FIRMS AGAIN AT THE FAIR IN PLODVIV
More than 50 Yugoslav firms will take part at the forthcoming
International Autumn Fair in Plodviv, stated the director of the
representative office of the Chamber of Economy of Yugoslavia in
Bulgaria, Radivoje Andonovic. For the full four years the Yugoslav
companies did not participate at this fair, one of the most
important economic exhibitions in this part of Europe. During the
Fair, Bulgarian and Yugoslav businessmen will discuss also the
business and technical cooperation.
(Politika, September 22, 1996)
[05] INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC GATHERINGS IN BELGRADE
The most distinguished world names in the field of emergency
surgery and traumatology as well as many experts in this field from
our country will gather between September 25 and 28, 1996 in
Belgrade at The First International Conference on Emergency Surgery
and Traumatology. The Yugoslav association in this field of
medicine will gather more than 200 experts from Europe, America,
Japan and our country.
On September 22, 1996 the Fifth Congress of Ecologists will be
opened in Belgrade, devoted to the ecology and the environment
protection. For the first time after eight years all the ecologists
of Yugoslavia will gather again. The Congress was initially
conceived as a national one, but because of a great interest from
abroad it has grown into an international conference and will
gather over 700 exhibitors. "The main concept of the Congress is
to join together fundamental and applied ecology at one and the
same place", says Dr. Dmitar Lakusic.
(Politika, September 21, 1996)
[06] MUNICIPAL (LOCAL) ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA FROM NOVEMBER
22 TO 24, 1996
Deputy chief of the mission of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Kenneth
Scott stated that the municipal (local) elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina
will be held from November 22 to 24, 1996. The
agreement on this was reached between the Acting President of the
Republic of Srpska Biljana Plavsic, President of the Muslim-Croat
Federation Kresimir Zubak and the Prime Minister in Sarajevo Hasan
Muratovic. Scott announced that because of the local elections, the
mission of the O.S.C.E. in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be extended
until the end of this year.
(Politika, September 22, 1996)
[07] RUSSIAN CREDIT FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
Russia intends to grant to the Republic of Srpska a credit in
the amount of 50 million for the economic recovery. According to
the information of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Economic
Relations, the money from this credit Republic of Srpska would use
for supplying from Russia machines and equipment for the
reconstruction of the power plants and renewal of its industrial
infrastructure in general, as well as for the exploitation of the
bauxite ore and modernization of the alumina factory near Zvornik.
The credit would be repaid through the deliveries of the industrial
products.
(TANJUG, September 22, 1996)
[08] WEST IS PREPARING AN ACTION FOR CLEANSING OF MUJAHEDINS FROM BOSNIA
Western allies are discussing the possibilities for a military
action in order to eliminate foreign Islamic warriors, mujjahedins
from Bosnia, claims the British BBC radio. In the NATO and the IFOR
command headquarters it is confirmed that in Bosnia there are still
at least 200 foreign Islamic warriors and that a pressure has been
increased on the Muslim government in Sarajevo to fulfil its
promise and expel all the mujjahedins. At the same time, BBC radio
recalls, this is the confirmation that the Muslim government did
not fulfill all of its obligations undertaken by the Dayton
Agreement. Admiral Joseph Lopes, the IFOR Commander, stated that
he did not receive yet the request to undertake the action of
"mujjahedin cleansing", but that it shall certainly be undertaken
if any "coordinated activities" by the mujjahedins are to be
observed.
(Politika ekspres, September 23, 1996)
[09] THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF BOSNIA
The elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina also served to deny some of
the illusions on which the international community most often
construed its image of the Bosnian crisis. The fact that the Party
of Democratic Action in the Republic of Srpska obtained 23.51
percent of votes for the House of Representatives, in the most
convincing way refutes the opinion and the estimates of the
international community that Serbs from this area have expelled
members of other religions and peoples. Over one fifth of the
population of the Republic of Srpska are the Muslims. Probably a
lot of them did escape, but certainly and in no case in the way
claimed by the official Sarajevo or as is being reiterated by the
foreign politicians and reporters - that Serbs have ethnically
cleansed their territory. Many will not be happy with this truth,
because they have already "convinced" the world public of the
crimes of the Serbian army in Bosnia. On the other hand, in the
statistics of these elections, in the area of the Muslim-Croat
Federation there is not even a trace of Serbs. They are not to be
found in Sarajevo, and neither in Drvar, Glamoc, Grahovo or Kupres,
where the Croat Democratic Community party has won with more than
eighty percent of votes, although it is a question of the towns
which have for centuries belonged to Serbs.
(Vecernje novosti, September 21, 1996)
[10] NEW CRIME IN KRAJINA
In the village of Bukovica near Vrginmost, on September 11, 1996
Marija Zimonja (67) of Serbian nationality and Mile Milovac (68)
of Croat nationality who were living together, were killed. After
the assassination, their house was set on fire, and they were left
in the corridor to burn down together with the house. According to
the investigation findings, as reported by the Croat Helsinki Board
for Human Rights (HHO), the victims were killed by fire arms. The
two victims had spent the entire time of the past war in this
village, and Mile, after the Croat offensive on Krajina, had a lot
of problems and suffered harassment because he was reproached of
"living with a Chetnick woman". The Croat Helsinki Board expresses
its surprise at the silence of the Croat Ministry of Interior
Affairs, and also because of the behavior "of the other segments
of authorities". Namely, according to the claims by the Croat
Helsinki Board, the local veterinarian organized taking away of
cattle owned by the assassinated victims, with the explanation that
through the sale of this cattle the funeral expenses will be
covered.
(Vecernje novosti, September 21, 1996)
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