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Serbia Today, 96-09-26
Serbia Today
26 September 1996
CONTENTS
[01] THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER TALKED WITH CONTACT GROUP MEMBERS
[02] THE SECURITY COUNCIL STANDS ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF THE SANCTIONS
[03] THE YUGOSLAV - BULGARIAN RELATIONS ARE AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL BALKANS
[04] REAL CHANCES OF REJOINING THE WORLD
[05] RETURN OF YUGOSLAV MEDICINE TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT
[06] WE MUST PRESENT THE TRUTH ABOUT JASENOVAC TO THE WORLD
[07] 111% OF THE ELECTORS VOTED FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
[08] "BOSNIAN" LANGUAGE BANNED IN LIVNO
[01] THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER TALKED WITH CONTACT GROUP MEMBERS
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, already in New York for three
days, is continuing his intense diplomatic activity at the United Nations,
focused on the reintegration of FRY in the international organizations and the
abolition of international sanctions. Mr. Milutinovic had separate talks with
the heads of diplomacy from France, Great Britain, Spain and Greece. According
to various sources these talks were dominated by issues concerning the peace
process in the Balkans, with particular attention to the abolition of sanctions
against our country. These talks concluded the contacts that the Yugoslav
Foreign Minister had with the ministers of all Contact Group member countries in
charge of promoting the peace process in former Yugoslavia. Various sources
indicate that the political climate has ripened and the preconditions have been
met for the immediate lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia. The Contact
Group and the Security Council are awaiting the official report on the elections
in Bosnia so that they might take actions in this sense.
(Borba, September 26, 1996)
[02] THE SECURITY COUNCIL STANDS ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF THE SANCTIONS
On Monday - September 24th, Russia asked that a Security Council session be
called in order to abolish - without any additional conditions - the sanctions
against Yugoslavia. However, the US representative asked that such a decision be
postponed because the official verification of the regularity of the Bosnian
elections still has to arrive. China insists that the sanctions be lifted
immediately - without any conditions, Great Britain - just like Russia stresses
that all the preconditions for the elimination of economic sanctions against FR
Yugoslavia have been met and that this is merely a technical issue. The French
representative stated that no further conditions should be put forth and that
the sanctions against Yugoslavia should be removed immediately.
(Vecernje Novosti, September 26, 1996)
[03] THE YUGOSLAV - BULGARIAN RELATIONS ARE AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL BALKANS
The President of the Bulgarian National Assembly - academician Blagove
Sendov, and the Chairman of the Yugoslav Parliament Chamber of Citizens - Mr.
Radoman Bozovic agreed yesterday in Sofia that the relations between the two
neighboring countries are very friendly and on a constant rise. Such cooperation
will become even more intense and fruitful when the sanctions against Yugoslavia
are definitely, since they have immense losses not only for Serbia and
Montenegro but for Bulgaria and all the Balkan countries as well. Mr. Sendov
remarked that the Bulgarian Parliament and Government will do everything
possible within the framework of the European Parliament, the UN and other
international organizations and financial institutions to help the immediate
abolition of sanctions and the complete reintegration of Yugoslavia in the
international organizations and financial institutions. According to Mr. Radoman
Bozovic, the turn of FRY in the international community is a precondition for a
complete stabilization of the region and is extremely important for the
stability in the Balkans. Our Government, Parliament and public greatly
appreciate the position that the Bulgarian Government and people assumed during
the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, especially their consideration for the great
contribution given by FRY and President Slobodan Milosevic in the settlement of
the Bosnian crisis - Mr. Bozovic stressed.
(Politika, September 26, 1996)
[04] REAL CHANCES OF REJOINING THE WORLD
Our chances of rejoining the world are quite realistic, said Federal Deputy
Minister Nikola Sainovic in an interview broadcast yesterday by Radio Valjevo.
"The policy we pursued for the whole time was aimed at re-acquirement our seat
at the UN, and the in the international financial institutions. I am therefore
convinced that it will soon yield results. Along with these efforts, within the
economic restrictions that remained even after the suspension of the sanctions,
we have tried to activate all our potentials that had the basic operating
conditions. We have managed to preserve the vital structure of our economy, and
this is a major asset now. In the past several years, our industry, was
developed almost exclusively in cooperation with western partners, and this
gives us a competitive edge compared to numerous countries in the region, once
we return on the world market", said Deputy Premier Sainovic.
(Borba, September 26, 1996.)
[05] RETURN OF YUGOSLAV MEDICINE TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT
The first international Urgent Surgery Conference opened in Belgrade
yesterday. More than 300 medical experts from Yugoslavia and some 200 renown
surgeons from 25 countries are attending the venue. The conference rallied
internationally acknowledged and reputable experts in this field and constitutes
an important step in the reintegration of Yugoslav medical profession and
science in European and global trends - said Federal Prime Minister Radoje
Kontic during the opening ceremony. "We are quite pleased that the sanctions
have been suspended, and we expect that the will be definitively eliminated in
the coming week, which will broaden the horizons in medicine as well, in
accordance with the spirit of the Dayton Agreement.", stressed the Federal Prime
Minister.
(Politika, September 26, 1996)
[06] WE MUST PRESENT THE TRUTH ABOUT JASENOVAC TO THE WORLD
"We must make the world realize the truth about Jasenovac, because this is
the key to understanding the latest war and the genocide that Tudjman's Croatia
perpetrated against the Serbs in Croatia and Krajina", said Dr. Milan Bulajic -
Director of the Museum Of Genocide Victims in Belgrade. Speaking about the 5th
International Holocaust Conference he has been invited to attend in Jerusalem in
January, Dr. Bulajic stressed that this will be "the first great chance to
inform the international public about the truth and crimes committed not only in
the ill-famed Ustashi-run concentration camp, but about the suffering faced by
Serbs, Jews, Romany and other nations throughout former Yugoslavia". It is quite
alarming that the UN War Crimes Archives in New York have not included the
Ustashi camp of Jasenovac in the registers of concentration camps in occupied
Europe in World War II - Dr. Bulajic stressed. He also reminded that that last
year he proposed to UNESCO that the Jasenovac concentration camp complex be
placed under international protection as a world heritage, just like the Nazi
camp Auschwitz, but that "the positive response from UNESCO has not yet been put
into practice".
(Borba, September 26, 1996)
[07] 111% OF THE ELECTORS VOTED FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Judging by the response of the voters, the recent elections in Bosnia,
might beat the records set by the most totalitarian regimes in the world. After
a partial count of the votes, which is not challenged by OSCE, independent
observers and certain diplomats formulated some new figures - which are quite
unbelievable. For example, the International Crisis Group (ICG) was the first to
discover that the response of the voters was 103, 9 per cent, and that as much
as 111% of the electorate has voted for the Presidency of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. "The comparison of figures reveals that the response of the voters
on September 14th was mathematically impossible. We have no evidence that might
suggest foul play, nut the discrepancies justify serious doubts about the
regularity of the elections", says the ICG report. Whilst independent observers
have identified only three cases of irregular ballots, a western official, that
wished to remain anonymous, affirmed categorically that local election
committees added at least 200.000 votes, because 70 per cent of the voting
centers was left without OSCE supervision at closing time. On Monday, Ms.
Biljana Plavsic presented a protest to OSCE Mission Head - Mr. Robert Frowick,
against the "preliminary final results". In her letter, she informed the OSCE
official that such estimates are based on voting tickets that arrived six days
after the voting centers had been closed. Election results were tuned to meet
someone's political needs, and the Serbian entity can not accept the current
revision of election results based on mysterious and illegal tickets - warned
the acting President of the Republic of Srpska.
(Vecernje Novosti, September 26, 1996)
[08] "BOSNIAN" LANGUAGE BANNED IN LIVNO
Moslem teachers and professors, working in elementary and high schools in
Livno, that refused to hold classes in Croatian have been fired - Moslem Radio
Sarajevo reported yesterday. The Moslem-Croatian Federation Teachers and
Professors Union addressed a letter of protest to Federation President Kresimir
Zubak, demanding that he stand up in the defense of the rights of the remaining
Moslems in Livno. Radio Sarajevo previously revealed that practically all
Moslems in Livno working in socially owned and state companies and institutions
have been fired. The same radio station affirms that before the war there were
some 6.500 Moslems in this town, but less than a half have remained and they are
now denied the basic human rights and the right to perform religious rites.
(Politika, September 26, 1996)
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