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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-01-29Yugoslav Daily Survey DirectoryFrom: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)29 January 1996CONTENTS[A] FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA[01] PRESIDENT LILIC RECEIVES ROMANIAN DEFENCE MINISTER[02] KONTIC RECEIVES ROMANIAN DEFENCE MINISTER[03] ROMANIAN DEFENCE MINISTER'S VISIT TO YUGOSLAVIA SUCCESSFUL[04] AGREEMENT ON NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN BELGRADE AND SKOPJE[B] YUGOSLAVIA-CROATIA[05] YUGOSLAV AND CROATIAN WORKING GROUPS FOR HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS MEET[C] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA[06] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA RELEASES ALL PRISONERS-OF-WAR[07] ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WHEN CONDITIONS RIPE[08] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA OFFICIAL: ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA SHOULD NOT BE DELAYED[09] DIFFICULT SITUATION IN THE BANJA LUKA AND OTHER HOSPITALS[D] I N T E R V I E W S[10] PART OF BOSNIA IS IN GREATER CROATIA[E] FROM FOREIGN PRESS[11] NEW YORK TIMES: IZETBEGOVIC MUST DECIDE BETWEEN U.S. AND IRAN[12] SPANISH DAILY ON EXPLOSION IN SARAJEVO AND SERB CIVILIAN VICTIMS[A] FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA[01] PRESIDENT LILIC RECEIVES ROMANIAN DEFENCE MINISTERBelgrade, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic said at a meeting with Romanian Defence Minister Gheorghiu Tinca on Friday that the two countries shared the same view on the solving of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.Lilic said that political dialogue and peace had won. Yugoslavia will fulfill all committments from the Dayton agreement and it is ready to develop good relations based on mutual interest with the states that emerged in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Lilic said. Yugoslavia's goal is to join the European integration processes together with all its neighbours, Lilic said and added that such policy contributed to the stabilization and progress of the entire balkans. Lilic said that Yugoslavia's main tasks were economic restoration and further democratization, normalization of relations with the European Union, full return to all international institutions, such as the U.N. General Assembly, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and especially the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The full and precise implementation of the Dayton agreement is a precondition for the realization of these tasks, Lilic said. [02] KONTIC RECEIVES ROMANIAN DEFENCE MINISTERBelgrade, Jan 26 (Tanjug) - The Premier of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Radoje Kontic, conferred on Friday with visiting Romanian Defence Minister Gheorghe Tinka. The two sides agreed that a restoration of peace in the former Yugoslavia and the suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia had paved the way for the restoration and promotion of Yugoslav-Romanian relations. The Kontic-Tinka meeting focused on concrete issues of interest to the restoration of Yugoslav-Romanian cooperation in military, economic, scientific and technical spheres.[03] ROMANIAN DEFENCE MINISTER'S VISIT TO YUGOSLAVIA SUCCESSFULBelgrade, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic said after talks with his Romanian counterpart Gheorghiu Tinca here on Friday that this was a continuation of good neighbourly relations and top-level contacts which had not been interrupted even during the sanctions against Yugoslavia.Bulatovic said that Tinca's visit had represented an opportunity to exchange views about cooperation between the two Defence Ministries and General Staffs. The officials agreed that Yugoslavia was one of the key factors of peace and stability in the Balkans and that Europe could be stable only with a stable Balkans, Bulatovic said. He said that the talks had been dedicated to the military, technical and economic cooperation and cooperation in the field of defence and security. [04] AGREEMENT ON NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN BELGRADE AND SKOPJEBelgrade, Jan. 29 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government adopted a draft agreement normalilzing relations between Belgrade and Skopje at a session on Monday.The date for the signing of the agreement will be established later. [B] YUGOSLAVIA-CROATIA[05] YUGOSLAV AND CROATIAN WORKING GROUPS FOR HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS MEETBelgrade, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - A meeting of the working groups of the Committees for Missing Persons of the Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia, held in Belgrade on Friday, has agreed the resolution of a certain number of concrete cases whose realization is shortly expected.The working groups of the Committees for Missing Persons agreed the signing of a Protocol which would regulate mutual relations, obligations and methods of joint work. Under the Protocol, the Committees will exchange all information at their disposal about all persons being sought and which are in their power, as well as their release. The working groups also agreed the unconditional mutual delivery of the remains of all persons required by both sides, as well as the exchange of informaton regarding the identification of persons killed. The Protocal also calls for a response to all requirements by both sides regarding the conflicts in the territory of the formerYugoslavia. [C] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA[06] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA RELEASES ALL PRISONERS-OF-WARBelgrade, Jan. 28 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska on Sunday released all prisoners-of-war, while at least 260 Serbs are still being kept prisoner by the Sarajevo Moslem Government.The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA reported that Republika Srpska officials had freed at Sarajevo airport on Sunday 76 POWs from Srbinje and nine from Vlasenica. Moslems released 76 Serbs from the prison near Travnik. President of the Republika Srpska Exchange Commission Dragan Bulajic said all Moslem and Croat troops kept prisoner by Bosnian Serbs had been freed. Bulajic said the Moslem side had not fully met the provisions of the December 14peace accord for Bosnia concerning the POW release, because at least 200 Serbs were still kept prisoner in Tuzla, about 50 in Travnik, at least five in Zenica and at least four in Sarajevo. Responding to a remark by President of the Sarajevo Moslem Governmet Exchange Commission to the effect that the Serb side had to release three more POWs, Bulajic said these were war criminals and that evidence of their crimes was being gathered. [07] ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WHEN CONDITIONS RIPEBelgrade, January 28 (Tanjug) - Republika Srpska Parliament Speaker Momcilo Krajisnik said that he expected democratic elections to be organised when conditions are ripe and expressed hope that this would be soon.Krajisnik met in Pale Saturday with the Head of the Mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ambassador Robert Frowick, to discuss the organisation of the forthcoming elections in Republika Srpska. Krajisnik said that equality and fair play would be observed at the forthcoming elections and said 'let the best man win'. He said they also talked about the problem of Sarajevo for which Frowick expressed full understanding. [08] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA OFFICIAL: ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA SHOULD NOT BE DELAYEDKragujevac, Jan. 28 (Tanjug) - Vice-President of the Republika Srpska, Nikola Koljevic said Sunday that elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina should not be delayed. Speaking for the local radio in Kragujevac, Koljevic said, 'a post-war and, I should say, an anti-war atmosphere is being created daily and elections should not be delayed simply because two or three different authorities in the country as well as interior circumstances dictate adoption of legal standards and forms for cooperation in peace'.[09] DIFFICULT SITUATION IN THE BANJA LUKA AND OTHER HOSPITALSBanja Luka, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Deputy Menager of the Clinical-Medical Center of Banja Luka said Friday the hospitals in the city were in an extremely diffcult situation due to shortages of medicines.Banja Luka hospitals also lack heating fuel, and it is practically impossible to maintain working conditions in the cold facilities, Cedo Aleksic told Tanjug. [D] I N T E R V I E W S[10] PART OF BOSNIA IS IN GREATER CROATIABelgrade, Jan 27 (Tanjug) - Outgoing Prime Minister of the Sarajevo Muslim Government Haris Silajdzic said that the concpet of a greater Croatia was still strong in Bosnia-Herzegovina which is why 'part of this republic resembles Croatia'. 'If you travel from Croatia towards Mostar you will see no differences, from uniforms, flags, emblems to the currency. It all resembles a greater Croatia and it is time we spoke about this openly,' Silajdzic said in an interview to the Vreme weekly Saturday edition.Silajdzic said these facts should not be overlooked and that doing so would jeopardise the Muslim-Croat Federation. [E] FROM FOREIGN PRESS[11] NEW YORK TIMES: IZETBEGOVIC MUST DECIDE BETWEEN U.S. AND IRANNew York, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - The Clinton administration is frustrated by the behaviour of the Muslim Government in Sarajevo, The New York Times wrote in a commentary on Friday and added that the Government of Alija Izetbegovic was obviously trying to play a double play with America and Iran.Bosnia will not be able to use its historic chance, offered by Dayton, if it continues to maintain its close military ties with Iran and even less so if it harbours hopes that it will be able to receive weapons both from Iran and the west. The Government in Sarajevo must decide what it wants, the daily said. The Washington Post also reported from Bosnia that America was arming Bosnian forces who were linked with Iran. The paper's special correspondent said that there was a big Iranian flag in the office of Bosnian Muslim army General Dzemal Merdan, who is in charge of coordinating the U.S. operation of training and arming of the Bosnian army. The Iranian flag in the room of General Merdan, the daily continues, represents a problem for the United States, which intends to train the Bosnian army, which has undoubtedly turned to Islam and Iran during the war, while it is being dominated by the nationalist and Islamic party of Alija Izetbegovic. The daily quoted western sources as saying that Merdan was a liaison officer for contacts with 'Islamic volunteers' who have been in Bosnia since 1992. [12] SPANISH DAILY ON EXPLOSION IN SARAJEVO AND SERB CIVILIAN VICTIMSMadrid, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - The first casualties among NATO's troops in IFOR were killed by the same bombs NATO had showered on Bosnian Serb positions last year, the Spanish daily Diario 16 said on Friday.The daily said that Spanish troops in the Serb zone, 40 km east of Nevesinje, have begun to discover 'unknown victims of the civil war - Serb civilians in Bosnia,' so far concealed by the unprecedented bias of world media. 'These are victims of the war who are virtually unknown to the world' said the commander of the Spanish detachment, Captain Antonio Bernal Martin. 'We are not aware of the evil which the Serb population has gone through,' the daily quoted Spanish Col. Ramon Alvarez. . |
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