Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-07-04

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CONTENTS

[01] MILOSEVIC, BILDT DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS

[02] MILOSEVIC, KLEIN DISCUSS SREM-BARANJA REGION

[03] YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER SAYS SANCTIONS MUST BE LIFTED

[04] MILUTINOVIC CONFERS WITH DANGALOS

[05] PLAVSIC NAMED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF SERB DEMOCRATS

[06] ANDRIC: NO ILLUSIONS THAT SERBS CAN CHANGE ANYTHING IN MOSTAR

[07] SERBS' SUFFERING REMAINED UNNOTICED

[01] MILOSEVIC, BILDT DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS

Special attention was devoted to issues discussed in a meeting between acting Republika Srpska President Biljana Plavsic and Bildt and relating to a further all-round and successful implementation of the accords, a released statement said.

Milosevic and Bildt said the efforts to date had enabled the process of an all-round normalization of relations and fulfilment of assumed obligations in Bosnia-Herzegovina to unfold in a positive direction, the statement released by the presidential office said.

Milosevic and Bildt said that the full freedom of movement and the unimpeded campaigning of political forces were indispensable as part of preparations for the elections in the two entities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

[02] MILOSEVIC, KLEIN DISCUSS SREM-BARANJA REGION

Klein said that the demilitarization of this region was successfully performed on schedule, that a joint police force began to operate, while key attention was being paid to the revitalization of economic life, the Serbian presidential office announced.

Klein assessed that the parties to the agreement (Croatia and the Serbs from the Srem-Baranja region) were displaying necessary readiness to cooperate with his team, significantly facilitating an uninterrupted progress in the process of stabilization of conditions in these areas and simultaneously strengthening the prospects for future peaceful and free life of all citizens.

The announcement said that the need to step up activities in economic recovery was pronounced at the talk.

YUGOSLAVIA - GREECE

[03] YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER SAYS SANCTIONS MUST BE LIFTED

Yugoslavia unreservedly supports the E.U. declaration on good-neighbourly relations and regional cooperation in the Balkans, but it must be enabled to return to international political and financial institutions and organizations, without any political conditions, Kontic told Greek Ambassador in Belgrade Panayotos Vlassopoulos.

Kontic pointed up Greece's efforts for the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, a peaceful resolution of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia's reintegration into international political and financial institutions and organizations, a government statement said.

Kontic and Vlassopoulos said that possibilities existed for the promotion of Yugoslav-Greek relations, which had always been at an enviable level, but that that presupposed Yugoslavia's reintegration into the international community, the statement said.

Kontic invited Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis to visit Yugoslavia soon.

[04] MILUTINOVIC CONFERS WITH DANGALOS

Reviewed in the talk were the questions of bilateral cooperation. The two ministers also exchanged views on the forthcoming meeting of the Balkan foreign ministers in Sofia over the weekend.

THE REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

[05] PLAVSIC NAMED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF SERB DEMOCRATS

Biljana Plavsic is acting President of the Republika Srpska.

The ruling party in the Republika Srpska nominated Banja Luka University professor Dragoljub Mirjanic as its candidate for Republika Srpska Vice-President, and Momcilo Krajisnik for a member of the Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Presidency.

Republika Srpska Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha will head the party's list for the election of the Republika Srspka's Parliament, and Slobodan Bijelic will head the list for the Union's Parliament, the statement said.

MOSTAR - ELECTIONS

[06] ANDRIC: NO ILLUSIONS THAT SERBS CAN CHANGE ANYTHING IN MOSTAR

They are 'clearly nationalist forces, especially those on the right bank of the Neretva river,' Andric told Tanjug and added that Serb refugees in Yugoslavia had no illusion that their votes would change anything.

Of the 40,000 Serbs who were expelled from Mostar after the outbreak of the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, only 160 returned to Mostar on Sunday to cast their votes, while a mere several hundred remained in the city itself.

The Serb refugees from Mostar, who found refuge in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska, did not have the right to vote in the places where they were staying, as opposed to the Croats and Muslims who could do this even abroad.

'We have told the European Union's Administrator of Mostar, Perez Casado, and Deputy High Representative for Bosnia Michael Steiner that our position is that the Serbs have suffered a huge injustice at these elections because polling booths have not been opened in Belgrade and Podgorica, nor were they allowed to vote by post,' Andric said.

SERBS - ICRC REPORT

[07] SERBS' SUFFERING REMAINED UNNOTICED

This is the first time since the outbreak of the conflict in former Yugoslavia that a report by the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies on world disasters caused by natural calamities, wars and conflicts recognised the Serbs' suffering. The report on the Serbs' suffering, which has just appeared at Geneva, says that some problems in former Yugoslavia have been watched with indifference.

The conclusion is supported by facts about the Serbs' exodus from Western Slavonija and Serb Krajina, regions overran by the Croatian army in May and August 1995 although they were nominally under the protection of the United Nations.

World media recorded the beginning of the Serbs' exodus from Western Slavonija and Serb Krajina, but their further fate seemed to concern nobody in the world, the report says.

An exodus on this scale has been unknown in Europe since the end of World War II, the authors say, adding that the Serbs from the regions have been uprooted and have lost everything. About 200,000 people left their homes at the outset of the Croatian offensive, the report says.

It adds that the Serbs set off for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was labouring under international sanctions at the time, receiving limited foreign relief aid and creating a situation that told on the economy. In these circumstances, Yugoslavia had to give hospitality to hundreds of thousands of refugees, the report says.

The hypocrisy and injustice of the international community and world media to the suffering of the Serbs is supported by quotes from individual newspapers in the United States and Europe.

The Los Angeles Times, for instance, wrote that when Muslims were being expelled from their homes or killed, the world cried buckets. However, it added, when the same thing happened to the Serbs, when Serbs were being found with their throats slit and their eyes put out, the world shed no tears.

When Serbs practised 'ethnic cleansing', that was genocide, but when Serbs were at the receiving end of the 'ethnic cleansing' practised by others, the world had nothing to say, the Los Angeles Times said.

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