Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-13

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

From: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>

CONTENTS

[01] ROMANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS BELGRADE

The statement said the visit would continue dialogue at the top and strengthen the atmosphere of understanding, not only between Yugoslavia and Romania, but in the region.

Lilic and Iliescu will sign an Accord onFfriendship, Good-Neighborly Relations and Bilateral Cooperation.

[02] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT WANTS URGENT RESUMPTION OF TALKS WITH IMF, WB

Jovan Zebic, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinator of all activities aimed at normalizing relations, was instructed to invite the IMF and the WB to resume talks, prefarably in Belgrade.

The Government session, chaired by Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, focused on the normalization of relations with the IMF, the WB and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and discussed a report on Yugoslavia's relations with the European Union.

The cabinet decided to intensify activities aimed at Yugoslavia's full integration into those international institutions. The Government said that the stands and commitments assumed so far provided a good framework for a pragmatic approach to the normalization of relations with international financial organizations.

It also heard a report on current activities and initiatives concerning Yugoslavia's membership to the WTO and decided that the Prime Minister should at once propose to the WTO Director-General to start talks on normalizing relations.

The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry was instructed to prepare a platform for initiating talks on institutionalizing relations with the European Union, with a recommendation that Yugoslavia join the financial assistance programme Phare and programmes for scientific and other cooperation. This would help create preconditions for starting a process of Yugoslavia's broad integration into the European Union.

[03] DEPUTY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER IN ANGOLA

Bulajic was also received by Minister of Public Works and Urban Planning Mateus Morais de Brito Junior and Secretary of State for Urban Planning Miguel Corea. In all these talks, it was noted that both sides wanted the traditionally successful cooperation of these two countries to be further promoted.

[04] NAMBIAR ON BOSNIAN MUSLIM PRETENSIONS

He said he believed that some pressure on Sarajevo authorities would probably be needed because Muslims had agreed to the Dayton agreement very unwillingly. Speaking about the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation, Nambiar said that it was very superficial and that he knew for sure that the two entities did not trust each other.

[05] WASHINGTON POST: IRAN WAS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY TO ARM BOSNIAN MUSLIMS

The Washington Post quoted US sources as saying that a decision to that effect had not been made by Clinton because arms shipments had started back in the autumn of 1992, i.e. at a time before Clinton's appointment as President.

The paper said that the arms shipments had been agreed between Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and Iranian officials and that it had all been arranged with the help of Croatia, which kept one third of the arms shipments for itself.

The first Iranian Boing 747 brought weapons to Zagreb on September 4, 1992, while Turkish and Iranian planes carrying arms mostly flew at night to the airfield at the Croatian island of Krk, The Washington Post said. From there, Croatian helicopter carried the arms to Bosnia.