Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-06-24

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT GIVES POSITIVE ASSESSMENT TO TALKS WITH IMF

[02] YUGOSLAV TELEGRAMS OF CONDOLENCES ON DEATH OF ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

[03] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES HEAD OF IFOR HEADQUARTERS

[04] 48 PARTIES, 33 INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES REGISTER FOR BOSNIA ELECTIONS

[05] RS PRIME MINISTER: NO REASON TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA

[06] U.N.: SERBS ARE LEAVING SARAJEVO BECAUSE OF HARASSMENT

[07] DEMILITARIZATION OF SERB REGION COMPLETED, SAYS U.N. ADMINISTRATOR

[08] SUZAN MANUEL: PARTITION OF BOSNIA INTO THREE PARTS MOST PROBABLE

[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT GIVES POSITIVE ASSESSMENT TO TALKS WITH IMF

A delegation, headed by professor Oskar Kovac, met with the International Monetary Fund in Geneva on June 13-14. Another delegation, headed by Yugoslav Deputy Finance Minister Dragutin Vucinic, met with the Paris Club in Paris on June 4.

The Government said that the talks with the IMF had been held in a constructive atmosphere and that significant progress had been made in the talks on legal and other issues connected with the regulation of Yugoslavia's relations with the IMF. The Government said that intensive contacts and talks with IMF representatives should continue in order to prepare for talks on coordinating acts which are needed in order to normalize bilateral relations.

The Government also said that the talks with the Paris Club represented a good step in the mutual informing and preparation of talks on the contractual regulation of the consolidation of Yugoslavia's debt with creditor governments. The Government described as important that Yugoslavia's stand to divide the resolution of economic from political issues was supported in the talks.

The Government also adopted a report on talks which Yugoslav Assistant Trade Minister Borislav Vukovic had in Geneva, where he delivered Kontic's letter on the regulation of Yugoslavia's membership in the World Trade Organization to the WTO Director General. The Government said that competent ministries should intensify diplomatic and political action in order to secure support to this demand.

[02] YUGOSLAV TELEGRAMS OF CONDOLENCES ON DEATH OF ANDREAS PAPANDREOU

Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic offered condolences to Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos.

Lilic said that Papandreou's death had robbed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of a great friend who had made an invaluable personal contribution to the consolidation of traditional friendship and the development of cooperation between Yugoslavia and Greece. The people of Yugoslavia will for ever remember the great understanding, support and help given them by the Greek people, under the leadership of Andreas Papandreou, when they were needed most, Lilic added.

Prime Minister Radoje Kontic extended condolences to Greek Prime Minister Constantine Simitis.

Kontic said that Papandreou had had the respect and sympathy of the Yugoslav people as a fighter for democracy and all-round development of Greece and for his personal vigilance over the development of friendly bilateral relations and cooperation.

Similar telegrams were sent by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to President Costis Stephanopoulos and Prime Minister Constantine Simitis, and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic to Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos and to Papandreou's family.

[03] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES HEAD OF IFOR HEADQUARTERS

ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

[04] 48 PARTIES, 33 INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES REGISTER FOR BOSNIA ELECTIONS

Scott was presided a meeting of the Consultative Council of Bosnia's political parties.

The meeting was attended by representatives of parties and media from the Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

[05] RS PRIME MINISTER: NO REASON TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA

We are fully prepared. We have created a democratic atmosphere in the Republika Srpska. All parties will be given access to media under equal conditions. We will allow foreign media to follow the elections. We hope that observers will come and see the preparations made for the elections and witness that nothing will be done surreptitiously, Klickovic said in an interview with Radio Kragujevac.

We ask the Muslim-Croat Federation not to make any additional conditions but to take part in the elections instead, since it is the only way for them to show that they want to cooperate in the implementation of the Dayton agreement, Klickovic said.

It is important to hold the elections in order to set up joint bodies - Parliament, Presidency, Constitutional Court and everything else stipulated by the Dayton accords, he added.

In that way we may resolve some matters which will have to be resolved jointly, Klickovic said.

SARAJEVO

[06] U.N.: SERBS ARE LEAVING SARAJEVO BECAUSE OF HARASSMENT

Alexander Ivanko said that there was tension in the parts of the city that have until recently been under Serb control, and are now controlled by the Muslims. He said that 2 Serbs have moved out of the city's Blazuj district, 50 have fled Vogosca and many others are getting ready to leave Ilidza unless something is changed soon.

Ivanko criticised the Muslim authorities for not having done much to improve the situation, and urged them to do their utmost to protect the Serbs. He said that the police of the Muslim-Croat Federation would not find it hard to put a stop to the rampage of wild gangs sowing terror and disorder in the Serb districts. The Serbs have accused the Federation's police of involvement in the violence, Ivanko said.

He added that the members of the Democratic Initiative of Sarajevo, the only organisation that protects the rights of the Serbs in the city, are also being harassed.

SREM - BARANJA REGION

[07] DEMILITARIZATION OF SERB REGION COMPLETED, SAYS U.N. ADMINISTRATOR

Talking at a press conference for more than 60 Serb and Croat journalists, Klein specified that all tanks, artillery and multiple-rocket launchers had been removed. Praizing representatives of the Serb and Croat armies, Generals Dusan Loncar and Djuro Decak, Klein said that control in the demilitarized zone will last until June 27, when the Commander of the military component of the UNTAES Gen. Joseph Schoups, will sign a document on the definite ending of the process.

INTERVIEWS

[08] SUZAN MANUEL: PARTITION OF BOSNIA INTO THREE PARTS MOST PROBABLE

In an interview carried by the paper on Thursday, Manuel said that basic human rights, such as freedom of movement, free media and right to assembly were being violated in Bosnia. I think that a division of Bosnia into three parts is most probable, although the leaders of the peoples signed something else, Manuel said.

Manuel said that Serbs in Croatia had raised the issue of their autonomy because of flagrant violations of human rights by Croatian authorities in Krajina, witnessed by international observers. It is not likely that Croatian authorities will grant autonomy to Serbs in Croatia, Manuel said, adding that she did not know what the alternative was.

She said that the situation was further complicated by the obvious opposition of Croatian authorities to having Serb majority population in any part of its territory.

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