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Serbia Today, 96-09-24
Serbia Today
24 September 1996
CONTENTS
[01] INTENSIVE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY
[02] A TWO-FIGURE ECONOMIC GROWTH POSSIBLE
[03] FRUITFUL COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES
[04] DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES FROM RECOGNIZED
[05] OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW IDEAS AND FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
[06] IFOR CONFISCATED ARMS FROM MUSLIMS
[07] "TUDJMAN TO BE PLACED UNDER CONTROL"
[08] AFTER THE MILITARY OPERATION - OVER ONE THOUSAND SERBS ASSASSINATED
[09] SERBS - MEMBERS OF THE CROAT PEOPLE
[10] GERMAN "NEUTRALITY"
[11] THE ONLY THING GOLDSTONE IS LACKING IS - EVIDENCE
[01] INTENSIVE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY
Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Milutinovic had meetings
yesterday in New York with the chiefs of diplomacies of Germany Klaus Kinkel, of
China Chi Chichen, of Italy Lamberto Dini, of Egypt Amr Musa and of Belgium Eric
Deric. During this week which is the main week of this year's session of the UN
General Assembly, Minister Milutinovic will also have meetings and talks with
the chiefs of diplomacies of a large number of countries, among them the
majority of the Security Council members. It is expected that Minister
Milutinovic will also meet these days with the UN Secretary General Boutros
Boutros Ghali.
(Borba, September 24, 1996)
[02] A TWO-FIGURE ECONOMIC GROWTH POSSIBLE
Through complete lifting of sanctions, Yugoslavia will appear again in the
international statistics and will again be rated in various international
institutions which are evaluating how attractive a country is from the point of
view of investment opportunities for the foreign capital, stated the chief of
the expert team of the Government of Serbia Prof.Dr. Jurij Bajec. Only then we
will be able to officially compare with the other countries in transition and
thus it is very important what will be out starting position on these lists,
underlined Bajec. He pointed out that, while speaking of the basic
macro-economic indicators, Yugoslavia according to the international standards,
in respect to the other countries in transition, has a high growth rate of six
to seven percent. If this tempo of growth is to be maintained over the next ten
years, the present social product per capita could be doubled and would amount
to 3,000 US dollars, as it was before the disintegration of the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, said Bajec.
(Politika, September 24, 1996)
[03] FRUITFUL COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES
President of the Executive Council of Vojvodina Bosko Perosevic received in
Novi Sad the Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary in our country, Janosh Tot,
at his request. In the cordial talk Perosevic underlined that the cooperation
between our two countries was maintained even under the most difficult
conditions of sanctions, and that now, after their final lifting, revival of
mutual links between the economic counterparts is expected. Ambassador Tot
informed his host of the orientation of the Government of Hungary to work on the
renewal of the traditionally well developed links with Yugoslavia and Serbia.
While speaking of the status of the Serbian minority in Hungary, he said that in
Budapest soon the Serbian primary and secondary school will be opened and that
cultural links are being maintained with the national cultural institutions in
Serbia.
(Politika, September 24, 1996)
[04] DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES FROM RECOGNIZED
In the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia the refuge have found 646,166
refugees. However, even this number is not final because for the census
organized in the country from May to June this year, not all of the refugees
appeared. These results of the census of refugees, announced yesterday by
Bratislava Morina, Republican Commissioner for Refugees and Margaret O'Keefe,
chief of the Belgrade office of the UNHCR, have shown most of all how the
international community was unjust towards Yugoslavia. In spite of the data of
our humanitarian workers, representatives of the international humanitarian
organizations and institutions were insisting in their claims that the number of
refugees is only half that number. Thus, in our country the humanitarian aid
which was arriving was sufficient for only some 300,000 persons. The latest
census is making possible for this error to be rectified and the international
community will be able to distribute its aid more justly, said Morina.
(Vecernje novosti, September 24, 1996)
[05] OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW IDEAS AND FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Scientists, experts and businessmen from nine Danube basin countries will
gather in Belgrade from October 26 to 29, 1996 at The Eighth International Forum
"Danube - River of Cooperation", which is continuously being held from the year
1989 as an informal way of regional economic, scientific and cultural
cooperation in this part of Europe. According to the organizer and president of
the Forum, Dr. Edita Stojic Karanovic, the discussions on the topic of tourist,
traffic and ecologic significance of Danube will be at the same time an
opportunity on the scientific basis, to establish better bilateral and
multilateral relations between Yugoslavia and the countries of this region, but
also of the Western Europe. Further to the representatives from the Danube
countries, it is expected that the meeting will be attended also by the experts
from Great Britain, Greece and Italy, Japan and South Korea. One of the most
important highlights of the gathering will be the talks with the German experts
and businessmen, whose experiences on construction of the Rhein-Maine-Danube
canal could be very useful for the realization of the national project of the
Morava-Vardar canal construction, which would thus link Danube with the Aegean
Sea.
(Politika, September 24, 1996)
[06] IFOR CONFISCATED ARMS FROM MUSLIMS
Soldiers of the IFOR confiscated arms from Muslims who have returned to the
village of Jusici near Zvornik, within the composition of the Republic of
Srpska, reported the IFOR Major Simon Haselock. Another IFOR officer, asking to
remain anonymous, stated for the Associated Press agency that a group of 100
Muslims came to the village, wishing to return to their homes, but that among
them there were armed men. Muslims were armed with light automatic armament and
started digging trenches in the village, which was an obvious provocation,
concluded this IFOR officer.
(Politika ekspres, September 24, 1996)
[07] "TUDJMAN TO BE PLACED UNDER CONTROL"
The U.S. daily newspaper "The Washington Post" writes that the Croat
President Franjo Tudjman "is the most dangerous person for the future of
Bosnia", warning that he could annex Western Herzegovina and proposes to
Washington D.C. "to place him under control". In the commentary entitled just
that - "Tudjman Should Be Kept Under Control", the newspaper is dealing with the
topic which the American media were 'avoiding' so far, and is in this context
quoting the Muslim leader Izetbegovic, that "the danger for Bosnia is no longer
coming from Serbs, but from Croats". "If the United States and Europe wish to
stop Tudjman in instigating the disintegration of Bosnia, as well as in further
dangerous and provocative violation of human rights of the Serbian people in
Croatia, then they must define the joint strategy where Zagreb would see what it
would get if it gives up and what it risks if it is to continue such policies",
concludes "The Washington Post".
(Borba, September 24, 1996)
[08] AFTER THE MILITARY OPERATION - OVER ONE THOUSAND SERBS ASSASSINATED
Over one thousand Serbs were assassinate in Croatia after the military
operation "The Storm" in the territories which were controlled by Serbs. This
was stated yesterday by the president of the Croat Branch of the Helsinki Board
for Human Rights, Zvonimir Cicak, in his interview for the France Press news
agency. This accusation was stated after the latest criticism pronounced on
Friday by the UN Security Council to Croatia because of continued harassment,
plunder and assassination of Serbs and violation of their human and national
rights.
(Borba, September 24, 1996)
[09] SERBS - MEMBERS OF THE CROAT PEOPLE
"The best thing that these people can do here is to take the Croat
documents", was the message sent last week by Peter Galbright, the U.S.
Ambassador in Zagreb, to the population of the Srem and Baranja Region. In the
talk with the members of the regional government, he underlined that the
possession of the Croat passport is necessary to the exercise of the basic
rights, most of all for payment of retirement pensions and taking part at the
elections. The identical stand is also having the UN administrator Jacques
Klein. However, the regional secretary for justice and administration, Vojin
Susa, is warning that no haste should be made with the Croat passport. That he
has good reasons for such a warning is also showing the series of form and
statements which are to be filled and signed in order for a person to obtain
Croat documents. In one of these forms it is written: "I hereby declare that I
am a member of the Croat people and that I consider myself a Croat citizen." In
the heading of this form it is written that it is composed in accordance with
Article 30, para. 2 of the Law on Croat Citizenship, which reads: "Croat citizen
shall be consider the member of the Croat people who on the day of coming into
force of this Law is not in possession of the Croat citizenship, and on that
same day has his residence recorded in Croatia, if he gives a written statement
that he considers himself a Croat citizen". Therefore, Serbs can obtain a Croat
passport if they are - Croats.
(Borba, September 24, 1996)
[10] GERMAN "NEUTRALITY"
The abuse of the observer mission of the European Union for spying
activities and illegal supply of armament to the Bosnian Muslims by the German
intelligence service (END) represents an unscrupulous violation of neutrality,
stated yesterday Claudia Roth, deputy of the Alliance 90/Green and member of the
German Parliament. This party is demanding urgent parliamentary investigation in
connection with the discovery by the reporters of the West German TV station VDR
that the chief of German delegation at the EU observer mission in Bosnia,
Christopher von Beckold, is actually a low-ranking official of the German
intelligence service. The headquarters of the German mission at the UN in Zagreb
is designated as "the lair of spying activities", and its top man, who is
otherwise enjoying a diplomatic immunity, is being charged with illegal
supplying of armament to the Muslims in Bosnia, under the cover of humanitarian
aid. Foreign political deputy of the Greens, Gerd Dope says: "This is not only a
shameful violation of the UN embargo under the flag of neutrality of the
European Union, but also a violation of the explicit principles of the mission,
an unforgivable scandal for Germany".
(Vecernje novosti, September 24, 1996)
[11] THE ONLY THING GOLDSTONE IS LACKING IS - EVIDENCE
While leaving his function of the Chief Prosecutor of The Hague Tribunal,
Richard Goldstone, in his interview for the Dutch daily "Volkscrant" mostly
reproached the international community for not having arrested Radovan Karadzic
and Ratko Mladic. The way to evidence is very difficult, admitted Goldstone, and
stated as an example the trial of the Serb Dusan Tadic. "Even after testimonies
by seventy witnesses of the prosecution, it is still not clear what the accused
was in this hierarchy", laments Goldstone. He is not hiding that trial of Tadic
he is experiencing in the function of the indictment of the leadership in Pale,
which, as he himself admits, is the main task of this Tribunal. It is obvious
that for this task the only thing that is lacking is - the evidence.
(Vecernje novosti, September 24, 1996)
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