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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-09-09Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>CONTENTS
[01] STATEMENT OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSThe Deputy Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Radoslav Bulajic, presented today the Note on the establishment of diplomatic and consular relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia to the Head of the Office of the Republic of Croatia in Belgrade, Dr. Zvonimir Markovic. The present representative offices of the two Governments have thus been upgraded to the level of Embassies.One of the major provisions of the Agreement of Normalization of Relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia, signed at Belgrade on 23 August 1996, has been realized by this act. This is a contribution to the conditions for the development of cooperation between the two countries on the basis of equality, common interests and good- neighbourliness, in the interest of peace, stability and better understanding in the region. [02] AGREEMENT WITH CROATIA - YUGOSLAVIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO STRENGTHENING PEACEBelgrade, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - The Federal Government on Friday examined and adopted a report on talks between Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and Croatian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mate Granic during his official visit to Yugoslavia on August 23, 1996.The Yugoslav Government said that the agreement on a normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia was a confirmation of Yugoslavia's principled policy and its constructive contribution to reinforce peace and stability and create conditions for development and progress in the region, a Yugoslav Government statement said. The agreement is at the same time a huge step toward the further affirmation of Yugoslavia in the world and enables its reintegration into international institutions and organizations. The Government charged responsible state authorities to undertake the necessary measures for the agreement to be implemented fully and in time. [03] MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF YUGOSLAVIA, CROATIA DOES NOT APPLY TO PREVLAKAPodgorica, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said Friday that Prevlaka was not recognized as Croatian territory under the agreement on normalizing relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia.The mutual recognition of the two states does not apply to Prevlaka, described as an open issue in this agreement, Djukanovic said. The present solution to Prevlaka gives hope that the issue will be successfully settled through diplomacy, the Montenegrin Prime Minister said. YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.[04] MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT VISITS UNITED STATESPodgorica, Sept. 8 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic left Sunday on a seven-day official visit to the United States during which he is due to open Montenegro's trade representation office in Washington.The aim of the office is to intensify, through activities and cooperation with other Yugoslav offices, overall relations between Yugoslavia and Montenegro and the United States, said Montenegrin Foreign Minister Janko Jeknic. The visit is a continuation of dialogue and cooperation promoted with the United States by Montenegro, within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it was said in Podgorica. Jeknic said that Bulatovic's visit was another step in efforts to ensure Yugoslavia's full reintegration into the international community. [05] YUGOSLAV MINISTER AT U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENTWashington, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - On the initiative of the U.S. Treasury Department, Yugoslav Finance Minister Tomica Raicevic met with Deputy U.S. Finance Secretary David Lipton.The talk focused on prospects for normalising and promoting economic relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with the U.S. side showing special interest in the scope of market transformation of the Yugoslav economy. YUGOSLAVIA - WORLD BANK[06] YUGOSLAV MINISTER AT WORLD BANKWashington, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Finance Minister Tomica Raicevic met at the World Bank in Washington on Friday with World Bank Vice President Jonas Lynn to discuss prospects for resuming cooperation.They discussed the modalities and pacing of preparations that should start immediately in order that bilateral cooperation should go ahead immediately after the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's reintegration in the International Monetary Fund. YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS[07] YUGOSLAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC SIGN TRADE AGREEMENTPrague, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Trade Djordje Siradovic and Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir Dlouhy signed a trade agreement providing a legal framework for resuming and developing intensive all-round economic cooperation between the two countries. The agreement especially concerns cooperation in energy, traffic, ferrous and non-ferrous metal industries and chemical industry.[08] YUGOSLAVIA-ZIMBABWE AGREEMENT OF AIR TRAFFICBelgrade, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - An agreement on air traffic of the governments of Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe was initialled in Belgrade.Yugoslav Traffic and Communications Minister Zoran Vujovic and Deputy Secretary of State Sam Marume said the agreement on air traffic would step up and expand bilateral economic cooperation and bring the two friendly nations even closer together. [09] YUGOSLAV MINISTER URGES PROMOTION OF COOPERATION WITH ALBANIABelgrade, Sept. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Interior Minister Vukasin Jokanovic described Friday as vital good relations between Yugoslavia and Albania as well as the strengthening of confidence and promotion of bilateral relations between the two states.Jokanovic made the statement in a talk in Belgrade with an Albanian delegation attending a meeting of the Yugoslav-Albanian Commission for settling border incidents. Jokanovic and the Albanian delegation exchanged views on issues essential for the development of bilateral ties between the two states, focusing on the situation on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, the Yugoslav Information Secretariat said in a statement. OPINION[10] KISSINGER AGAINST INSISTING ON UNITARY BOSNIAWashington, Sept. 8 (Tanjug) - Former U.S. Foreign Minister Henry Kissinger said that the only reasonable and realistic approach to Bosnia and Herzegovina would be a plebiscite vote of all peoples living there if they wanted to live in a unitary, multiethnic state, or separately.Kissinger said, in an article in the Sunday issue of the Washington Post, that the persisting in a unitary, multiethnic state, ran contrary to principles of self-determination which has been the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy since the time of Woodrow Wilson. Kissinger said that the administration of President Bill Clinton should be given credit for what it has done to end the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and for sending there troops to keep the peace, but cautioned that that cannot go on forever. A unitary Bosnia and Herzegovina, he said, cannot sustain itself without the presence of U.S. and NATO troops. The insisting on a unitary Bosnia implied the danger of further 'ethnic cleansing', new conflicts and the drawing of the United States into a local civil war, Kissinger said. Kissinger recalled that Bosnia and Herzegovina never existed as a unitary state until 1992 and warned that the insisting on unity was almost always followed by bloodshed. Every ethnic group has committed many crimes, in Bosnia there are no innocent, he said. He illustrated the mutual hostility of ethnic groups in Bosnia, bordering on hatred, by the current state of affairs in the Muslim-Croat federation. Kissinger said that the reason behind the war in Bosnia was not Serb striving for domination, but the simple fact that none of the local ethnic groups wanted to be dominated by another one. Kissinger said that the establishment of a separate Muslim state could be the best solution. That solution could lead, he said, to true political stability in the region over a longer period of time. The other two ethnic groups, Serb and Croat, should also be given the same option - to have their own states, or to join their parent states, Kissinger said in an article in the Washington Post. Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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