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Serbia Today, 96-09-25
Serbia Today
25 September 1996
CONTENTS
[01] LONDON SUPPORTS PREVIOUS AGREEMENT ON THE FORMAL LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
[02] PRIMAKOV: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA - A PRECONDITION FOR SUCCESS IN BOSNIA
[03] AHEAD OF US IS NOW AN ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION OF THE ECONOMY
[04] FROWICK: O.S.C.E. WILL CHECK THE OBJECTIONS
[05] SERBIAN FAMILY MASSACRED IN ZENICA
[06] MUSLIMS CAME TO JUSICI TO MAKE PROVOCATIONS
[07] MONEY DESIGNATED FOR RECONSTRUCTION USED FOR ARMAMENT
[08] LAW ON AMNESTY IS A POLITICAL DECISION
[09] SUFFERINGS OF SERBS IN IMOTSKA KRAJINA
[01] LONDON SUPPORTS PREVIOUS AGREEMENT ON THE FORMAL LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
Great Britain is giving its full support to the previously adopted UN
Resolution on a formal and automatic lifting of sanctions against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, after the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, stated the
spokesman of the Foreign Office in London. He recalled that the discussions
about lifting of sanctions have already started in the Security Council and that
Britain will support a consistent implementation of the Resolution from December
last. "The Financial Times" in its yesterday's issue learns that between Britain
and the United States there are certain differences about the manner of
implementation of the UN Resolution and the lifting of sanctions. The official
London is having certain reservations, specifies the newspaper, towards some of
the ideas of the United States to supplement the conditions formulated last year
for an automatic and formal lifting of sanctions, and is of the view that these
changes would not be in the function of the basic stabilization requirements of
the international community.
(Politika, September 25, 1996)
[02] PRIMAKOV: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA - A PRECONDITION FOR SUCCESS IN BOSNIA
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Yevgeny Primakov stated yesterday at
the UN General Assembly in New York that lifting of sanctions against the FR of
Yugoslavia is a precondition for the success of the peace process in Bosnia. He
again requested for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to be promptly returned
to the General Assembly, to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe and to all the other organizations.
(Politika, September 25, 1996)
[03] AHEAD OF US IS NOW AN ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION OF THE ECONOMY
The Federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, at the Belgrade Fair yesterday
inaugurated five economic events: The 25th International Exhibition "Protection"
and the 18th International Fair "Solar", The 18th International Fair of Leather
Goods, Footwear and Equipment, The 4th Fair of Plastics, Rubber and Equipment
"Beoplast", The 2nd Fair of "Welding" and The First International Fair "Oil and
Gas". "Extensive participation by the foreign exhibitors is a sure sign of
strengthening of the international position of Yugoslavia, but also of the
determination of the foreign partners for the renewal of the broken ties with
our firms and their expanding on to the new projects", said the Prime Minister.
He underlined that ahead of us is the period of an accelerated development,
modernization and integration of our economy in the world market of goods and
capital. "Economic trends over the past nine months may be qualified as
encouraging, the stable exchange rate of dinar was maintained, with elimination
of the "black" foreign exchange market, and a special contribution to the
overall stability is given by the firm determination for the budgetary
consumption to be financed exclusively from the real sources", stated Prime
Minister Radoje Kontic.
(Vecernje novosti, September 25, 1996)
[04] FROWICK: O.S.C.E. WILL CHECK THE OBJECTIONS
Chief of the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (O.S.C.E.) and president of the temporary electoral mission, Robert
Frowick, stated last night in Pale that the O.S.C.E. will check whether the
Serbian objections regarding the elections of September 14, 1996 are justified,
and this "as soon as possible". According to him, the topic of talks with
Momcilo Krajisnik, President of the Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, Aleksa
Buha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Slobodan Kovac, member of the temporary
electoral commission from the Republic of Srpska, was the situation connected
with the counting of votes, because of which the Serbian side has submitted its
objections to the O.S.C.E., Aleksa Buha stated that, according to the first
unofficial data reported by the O.S.C.E., additionally in the bags some 230,000
voting papers arrived from abroad without valid documentation, and this was
pointed out and a protest made by Serbs even before the counting started. In
this way, there was a manipulation with the voting papers, and the number of
persons who have voted for this reason is "varying" for more than 130,000, said
Buha and added that the Republic of Srpska will declare invalid the electoral
results if the O.S.C.E. should fail to rectify the mistakes pertaining to the
voting papers which arrived from abroad.
(Politika, September 25, 1996)
[05] SERBIAN FAMILY MASSACRED IN ZENICA
Muslim extremists are continuing with persecution and killing of the
remaining Serbs in Central Bosnia, and the Croat Radio Uskopolje reported on the
latest crime yesterday. Bosko Davidovic, his wife Ljiljana and a five-year old
daughter Ivana were murdered and in a bestial way massacred in their apartment
in the very center of Zenica city. Members of the special police force of the
Third Corps of the Muslim Army on several occasions were coming and threatening
Davidovic family ordering them to leave their apartment. In support of the
claims by anonymous and frightened witnesses that the members of this unit have
committed the crime, stands the fact that one day after the massacre, an officer
of this Corps was installed in the apartment of the Davidovic family, a certain
Hajdar Pasic. The same source reports that harassment of the remaining Serbian
and Croat population by the extreme military formations of the Muslim army is
continuing also in Travnik, Bugojno, Tesanj and Zavidovici. Radio called upon
all the international organization to offer their urgent help to this
population, because in the case of contrary they are threatened with the same
fate as the Davidovic family.
(Dnevni telegraf, September 24, 1996)
[06] MUSLIMS CAME TO JUSICI TO MAKE PROVOCATIONS
Chief of the Center for Public Security in Zvornik, Colonel Dragomir Vasic
stated that the eruption of Muslims into the frontier village of Jusici is yet
another attempt at forcible seizure of territory of the Republic of Srpska.
Vasic expressed dissatisfaction with inert behavior of the international
representatives who did not undertake anything to insure the respect of the
agreement according to which Muslims were to leave Jusici until Monday at 17.00
hours. The commander of the Russian brigade of IFOR, Sergey Generalov confirmed
that in the village of Jusici there are still some one hundred of them, and that
at least ten of these Muslims are being armed with automatic and semi-automatic
guns and in possession of large quantities of explosive devices.
(Borba, September 25, 1996)
[07] MONEY DESIGNATED FOR RECONSTRUCTION USED FOR ARMAMENT
Federal partners in Bosnia have become the main actors of the multi-ethnic
scandalous crime. Almost one hundred million US dollars designated for the
reconstruction of houses and "promotion of the multi-ethnic life together", in
the area where in the year 1993 there was the fiercest Croat-Muslim war raging,
was used for armament of the police forces of the signatories of the Dayton
Peace Accords. Yesterday's "Feral Tribune" specifies that the condition for
obtaining funds was to reconstruct the houses for certain refugee families, but
the amount of this first tranche of the World Bank loan, which amount to the
total of 2.5 billion US dollars, was spent on purchase of war material. In spite
of the well known facts, the world bankers have even further opened up their
funds and have thus, decided to pay directly for the reconstruction of one small
provincial Bosnian town. For the pilot project was selected the small town of
Gornji Vakuf, having the total of barely ten thousand inhabitants, but with two
names, two lord mayors, two police stations, and a street which separates people
and coffee shops. The result of the new monetary injection by the foreign donors
soon became visible: houses were built by day and destroyed by night. Some of
the buildings, constructed up to the roof, would disappear in mysterious
night-time explosions and, this, it is being understood, on both sides of the
street. With the remark that "the first half of the money allocated for the
reconstruction of houses has ended up for the needs of the police forces of the
neighboring and ethnically already cleansed municipalities, with the other half
of the money houses were constructed which are already erased to the ground",
concludes the Split daily newspaper and adds that "instead of the conceived
reconstruction of the pre-war demographic structure in this area, what is
actually being done is cementing the picture of war gains and losses".
(Politika ekspres, September 25, 1996)
[08] LAW ON AMNESTY IS A POLITICAL DECISION
Secretary for Justice of the Serbian Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja
and Western Srem, Vojin Susa, stated yesterday in Vukovar that the new Croat Law
on Amnesty has brought certain improvements and has shown that Croatia, at least
in this first phase, intends to place Serbs in an equitable position.
Underlining that Croatia accepted this under an obvious pressure by the
international community, Susa emphasized as one of the positive provisions of
this Law the fact that it excepts from responsibility also those who were
during the past years mostly tried in absentia. "While speaking of the
qualification of the war crimes, still a lot of crimes remain which according to
the international standards do not have the character of the war crime", states
Susa and adds: "The Law on Amnesty in fact, does not have the character of a
classic law, it is rather a political decision."
(Borba, September 25, 1996)
[09] SUFFERINGS OF SERBS IN IMOTSKA KRAJINA
Although in the area of Imotska Krajina there were no combat actions, and
neither any organized resistance of the few inhabitants of Serbian nationality,
the new authorities of the Croat Democratic Community in this region have
committed serious crimes over the innocent Serbian civilians. At the annual
assembly of the Motherland Club of Serbs from Imotska Krajina, held in Sremski
Karlovci, data was stated that in Imotsko and several surrounding villages 66
houses have been erased to the ground, and 155 Serbian houses plundered and
mined. The church of Transfiguration of the Holy Virgin in Glavina, constructed
in 1730, was heavily damaged in 1991, while the church of Saint Vasilije
Ostroski was erased to the ground by explosives in the village of Crnogorci. In
this area there were also killings, harassments and physical assaults against
Serbs, so that today, as the consequence of such a behavior of the Tudjman's
authorities, in Imotska Krajina there are no more Serbs. An extensive material
on the Croat crimes was submitted to the Commission for Human Rights of the OUN,
where it was accepted as an official document. A file was also made with the
names of 46 Croats, perpetrators of crimes, which will be these days submitted
to the offices of The Hague Criminal Tribunal in Belgrade.
(Vecernje novosti, September 25, 1996)
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