Yugoslav Daily Survey, 96-10-15

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LILIC ON AFRICAN TOUR

[02] GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER WILL VISIT YUGOSLAVIA

[03] UKRAINE PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RECEIVES YUGOSLAV DELEGATION

[04] YUGOSLAVIA PLAYS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE ACCORDS

[05] ELISABETH REHN DISCONTENTED WITH SPEED OF SERBS' RETURN TO CROATIA

[06] FORMER UNPROFOR OFFICIAL: THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL IS PARTIAL

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LILIC ON AFRICAN TOUR

The goal of the tour is to promote bilateral economic cooperation with the African states.

[02] GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER WILL VISIT YUGOSLAVIA

Continuing the political dialogue between the two friendly countries, the two ministers will discuss the future development of bilateral relations and all-round cooperation, the situation in the region and other international issues of mutual concern, the Ministry said.

[03] UKRAINE PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RECEIVES YUGOSLAV DELEGATION

The Yugoslav delegation, headed by Lower House Speaker Radoman Bozovic, and the Ukrainian, headed by Speaker Olexander Moroz, noted that the value of bilateral trade to be aimed at should be two billion dollars.

They pointed out a need for a speedy signing of a bilateral friendship and cooperation treaty, for several reasons - the two nations' historic friendship, geographic proximity, economic compatibility, the shared river Danube, transport reasons, etc.

Moroz said he was happy that the international community had finally lifted the anti-Yugoslav sanctions, which had cost Ukraine five billion dollars.

The two delegations stressed a need for further strengthening inter-parliamentary cooperation and the two parliaments' roles in the democratisation of society.

[04] YUGOSLAVIA PLAYS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE ACCORDS

The OSCE coordinator for the implementation of the Florence agreement on sub-regional arms control made the statement in a talk with Chairman of the Yugoslav Government Commission for the Florence Agreement, Gen. Radojica Kadijevic, the Yugoslav Defense Ministry said.

The OSCE official expressed confidence and hope that the implementation of the Florence agreement was a way to a definitive victory of peace and cooperation in the Balkans, a Defense Ministry statement said.

[05] ELISABETH REHN DISCONTENTED WITH SPEED OF SERBS' RETURN TO CROATIA

Rehn warned that the Serbs who had remained in Croatia and the repatriates were still in danger.

In an interview for the Split Feral Tribune newspaper, Elisabeth Rehn discounted the Croat government's figure of 12,000 Serb returners so far.

About 250,000 Serbs were displaced from Serb Krajina and thousands of others were killed during the Croatian army's offensives against the territory in May and August 1995.

Elisabeth Rehn said she had travelled all through the region and had seen few Serb returners. She said that the number of repatriates was closer to one or two thousand, a view shared by other international observers.

She said she had seen evidence of plundering and dynamiting of Serb dwellings, and the authorities seemed to show little interest in protecting the local population.

Unless the Serbs return to Serb Krajina, Croat refugees' return to the Serb region of East Slavonija, Baranja and West Srem would be that much more difficult, Rehn said.

Elisabeth Rehn stressed that it was very important that those who wished to return to their homes should be allowed to do so.

[06] FORMER UNPROFOR OFFICIAL: THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL IS PARTIAL

Cedric Thornberry said in the latest issue of the New York Foreign Policy Magazine that unless some of those responsible for stirring up ethnic hatred faced the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague together with their political bosses, justice would not have been done.

The Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti on Saturday carried the article in the magazine.

Thornberry said if (Bosnian Serb leader) Karadzic had been indicted, then Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban should be indicted as well.

Analyzing the work of the Tribunal over the past three years, Thornberry said he had noticed serious anomalies.

Serb commanders, he said, who had ordered the bombardment of Sarajevo, had been indicted, but not the Croat commanders responsible for the shelling of the Muslim part of Mostar.

Thornberry said the Bosnian Serb leader in Krajina, Milan Martic, had been justly charged, as his troops had rocketed civilian areas in Zagreb. He asked if the Croatian commanders who approved the bombardment of Knin and other Serb towns, the killing of unarmed people and the scorched-earth policy, would also be indicted.

Thornberry said the Tribunal had with its inconsistent diplomatic realism deviated from justice, by targeting only Serb leaders in Bosnia and Krajina and leaving out the rest.

Thornberry also attacked the President of the Tribunal, Antonio Cassese, who at one point threatened Yugoslavia with sanctions, on the grounds that no judge could call for political action against any one.

Calling for action and judging someone are different and mutually incompatible tasks, said Thornberry.

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