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Serbia Today, 96-10-18
Serbia Today
18 October 1996
CONTENTS
[01] CONFIRMATION OF MUTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND TRUST
[02] MUTUAL RELATIONS WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED
[03] BEFORE THE MEETING "THE SERBS IN CROATIA" IN ZAGREB
[04] YUGOSLAV STATE BUSINESS DELEGATION IN ARGENTINA
[05] SERBIA AGAIN PARTICIPATING IN THE DANUBE BASIN COUNTRIES COMMUNITY
[06] CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SDA AND HDZ ON GOVERNING SARAJEVO
[07] INNOCENT RELEASED FROM CROATIAN PRISONS
[01] CONFIRMATION OF MUTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND TRUST
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic received yesterday Mr.
Theodoros Pangalos, Greece Foreign Secretary, paying an official
visit to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. During cordial and
friendly talks, it was underlined that Greece and FR Yugoslavia
are developing a versatile, successful and continued cooperation,
based on the firm, traditionally friendly relations between the
two countries and their people, on equality, mutual understanding
as well great mutual interests, specially in the field of
economy. The accent was put on significance of the coherent
endeavors of FRY and Greece to strengthen the peace and stability
in the region , and the achieved bilateral relations and bonds
between the two countries give an example and stimulate the
intensifying of cooperation and linking the states and the
people.. Special attention was paid to the question of
stimulating the business cooperation and speed up the formulating
of legal and other conditions for such development.
(Politika, 18.10.1996.)
[02] MUTUAL RELATIONS WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCED
State Foreign Secretaries of FR Yugoslavia and Greece, Milan
Milutinovic and Thedoros Pangalos talked yesterday about the
further advancing of relations and all inclusive cooperation of
two friendly countries and the new courses in the region of the
Balkans. Special attention was paid to the liberalization of
entry visa regime for the Yugoslav citizens, relations with the
newly founded countries in the region of Former Yugoslavia and
the participation of FR Yugoslavia in the European integration
process. Finally, the Ministers signed the Protocol on
collaboration of Greece and Yugoslav Ministries of Foreign
Affairs. "We have agreed that the further intensifying of
political contacts and dialogues on all levels is essential,
corresponding the high level of our relations and the need for
their further strengthening and advancing, said Yugoslav Foreign
Secretary Milutinovic. He stated precisely that the negotiations
on concluding corresponding agreements for the creation of
long-term cooperation and stimulating Greece' investments in FR
Yugoslavia, as well as adopting the program of cooperation in
the fields of science,technics, culture and educational.
(Politika, Oct. 18,1996)
[03] BEFORE THE MEETING "THE SERBS IN CROATIA" IN ZAGREB
From the 18th to the 20th October, in Zagreb, a panel
discussion will be held on "The Serbs in Croatia", organized by
the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, and presided
by Professor Ivo Banac. It is the same meeting that should have
been held last spring, but had to be postponed under hard
pressure. The Helsinki Committee's main and most difficult
problems in its activities lie in the fact that they represent
the conscience of the Croat society regarding the Serbian
population, especially after the exodus from Krajina. Those ones,
justifying the ethnic purge of the Serbian people, name the
activists and the leaders of the Helsinki Committee "Serb lovers"
and " enemies of Croatia". The euphoria of intolerance, hate and
hysterical chauvinist rage was especially stressed in "Hrvatsko
slovo" , the newspaper of the Croatian writers Association. For
the organizers of the panel discussion and the invited guests the
firing squad was even recommended. This time, the target of their
attacks was Rade Bulat, one of the few Serbs Partisans, still
active in the politics. "Anti - Croat" attitude is ascribed to
him, all the more because he used to and still discloses the
facts that Serbs were the backbone of the anti fascist struggle
during the Second World War in Croatia. Those ones, hiding the
fact on that are hiding also the facts on rebirth of fascism in
Croatia now and the mass crimes on the Serbian civil population
in Krajina. It is no wonder that they oppose any public
discussion of the position of Serbs in Croatia, since it mostly
compromises " the young Croatian democracy".
(Politika, Oct. 18, 1996)
[04] YUGOSLAV STATE BUSINESS DELEGATION IN ARGENTINA
Yugoslav Federal Government Deputy President Jovan Zebic,
heading the Yugoslav state - business delegation visiting the
South American countries, spoke yesterday at the meeting of
representatives of the most important business structures in the
Argentinean capital on the possibilities of Yugoslav industry.
By his expose, Mr. Zebic opened the seminar for introducing the
situation in FR Yugoslavia and the business potential of
cooperation between the Yugoslav and Argentinean firms to the
Argentinean executives. Today and tomorrow great many separate
meetings are planned in search of possible concrete business
cooperation.
(Borba, Oct. 18,1996)
[05] SERBIA AGAIN PARTICIPATING IN THE DANUBE BASIN COUNTRIES COMMUNITY
The Republic of Serbia, after the formal lifting of
sanctions against FR Yugoslavia, since yesterday officially
continued its active and equal participation in the Danube basin
countries Community(RZ). That was an unanimous decision of all
the members of Community at its seventh conference. This decision
is historical, said the Chairman of RZ, the Lower Austria region
President, Mr. Ervin Prel, and in the name of all participants,
expressed the pleasure that Serbia, one of the founders of this
Organization. after a four-year pause, will continue to take part
in the activities of The Danube Basin Countries Working
Community. This is the result of the peace policy, led by Serbia
and the policy of good neighbour relations, development and
advancement of cooperation in the interest of all the citizens
of the Danube basin region, said the Serbian Government Deputy
President Slobodan Babic, heading the Serbian delegation at this
meeting.
(Vecernje novosti, Oct. 18,1996)
[06] CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SDA AND HDZ ON GOVERNING SARAJEVO
After Mostar, Sarajevo will become the new focus of
controversy in the Moslem-Croat Federation. Analyzing the
yesterday meeting the leaders of Democratic Action Party and the
Croatian Democratic Union confirm that the agreement of the
federal partners on the functioning of ruling the Federation
failed because of the difference in opinions on the Sarajevo
Canton system. HDZ demands that the governmental bodies of
Sarajevo should be constituted on the equal rights of the people,
without considering their number. The background of the Croatian
pressure upon SDA is simple, show the analysis, since Croats do
not want Sarajevo, as main city of the Federation, to be a
single-national Moslem canton.
(Vecernje novosti, Oct. 18, 1996)
[07] INNOCENT RELEASED FROM CROATIAN PRISONS
The group of 45 pardoned prisoners from Krajina, arrested
last year by the Croat Authorities during the military action
"Storm", arrived yesterday to FR Yugoslavia. The released men
from Krajina were imprisoned in Split, Remetinec and Lepoglava
since August 1995. According to the Chairman of the Federal
Committee of humanitarian issues and missing persons, Dr. Pavle
Todorovic, who met the released men at the border, together with
the representatives of the Commissariat for Refugees, Yugoslav
Red Cross and the International Red Cross Committee. this last
amnesty fulfills the terms of the Dayton Agreement and the
recently signed Agreement between FR Yugoslavia and Croatia. Mr.
Todorovic reminded that there are 120 more Serbs - prisoners in
Croatian prisons and that FR Yugoslavia will continue its efforts
for these people to be released soon. For none of the pardoned
prisoners, arriving last evening in Belgrade, the Croatian
authorities did submit proofs of the alleged guilt, for which
they were imprisoned in the last months.
(Ekspres, Oct. 18,199)
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