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Serbia Today 96-07-18Serbia Today Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>Serbia Today18 July 1996CONTENTS
[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES HOLBROOKPresident of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic received yesterday Richard Holbrook, special envoy of the U.S. President Clinton and Secretary of State Christopher, who together with their associates, within the visit to the region, arrived in Belgrade. The talks were focused on actual issues of implementation of the Dayton Agreement.After the talks with President Milosevic, Holbrook said that he did not wish to state anything in particular about the course of the dialogue, except that the talks will continue. He explained that the negotiations are in a sensitive phase and that he will speak in more detail about them after his discussions tonight in Zagreb and consultations with Washington D.C. Then the U.S. team will return again to Belgrade. (TANJUG, July 17, 1996) [02] BILDT SUBMITS SIX-MONTH REPORTHigh representative of the international community for Bosnia Carl Bildt submitted yesterday the six-month report to the UN Security Council stating that the results of implementation of the Dayton Agreement are both good and bad and that a lot of problems yet remain to be resolved.He specified that in Bosnia there is forthcoming implementation of the three major tasks - reconstruction of the country, reintegration of the economy and execution of the reform towards a modern and open market. Bildt underlined that one of the basic targets of the Dayton Agreement was not achieved - the right of refugees to return to their homes. According to Bildt, some 70% of complaints for violation of human rights pertains to the freedom of exercise of right to property, and among 100,000 and 200,000 persons during the war have lost their property. (TANJUG, July 18, 1996) [03] RENEWAL OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA AND SLOVENIAPresident of Slovenia Milan Kucan had talks last night in Ljubljana with the President of New Democracy party Dusan Mihajlovic about the initiatives and possibilities for renewal of economic cooperation between Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."Slovenia has a clear interest for normalization of relations with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", stated on this occasion Milan Kucan and added that "the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should have an access to the European Community under the same conditions as the other states". Mihajlovic is the first representative of the political life of Yugoslavia to visit officially Slovenia and to meet with its president. (Politika, July 18, 1996) [04] GREAT INTEREST FOR INVESTMENT IN THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMYPrime Minister of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic received yesterday Kemal Zejnel Zade, proprietor of the renown international company IMEG with the seat in Switzerland, which is engaged in engineering and financing of construction and production in a number of countries.Zade expressed readiness to credit or in the form of a joint venture to enter in the deals with the Yugoslav businessmen, underlining that he came not only to state formally his proposals for cooperation, but to agree on them and realize concrete deals. Prime Minister Marjanovic underlined that the Government of the Republic of Serbia is supporting all the projects based on foreign investments which will facilitate movement of economic activities and will bring mutual profit. He pointed out that our new regulations in this field are harmonized with the legislature of the developed market countries and that they are stimulating investment of foreign capital into our economy. (TANJUG, July 18, 1996) [05] FOR BROADER COOPERATIONDeputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government Jovan Zebic had talks yesterday with the general manager of the American corporation "Mobil Oil" Brian Williams Third about the possibilities of cooperation between this world renown petroleum company and the Yugoslav enterprises, especially about investments in oil explorations in the Montenegrin coastal area and in Vojvodina. (Borba, July 18, 1996)[06] UN ACCUSE MUSLIMS FOR TERROR OVER SERBSThe United Nations have again yesterday accused the Muslim government for not undertaking any measures in order to stop the terror over Serbs who have remained in the Sarajevo suburbs, after these areas have passed under the control of this government in March this year - the news agencies report.The UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko stated at the press conference that the Serbian property is being burnt down, families harassed and frightened by gun shots, so that Serbs are still escaping from this terror. "Serbs are being beaten on regular basis and from time to time there are assassinations", said Ivanko, stating the example when a 37 year old Serbian woman was recently found dead in her apartment in Ilidza. (Politika ekspres, July 18, 1996) [07] MUSLIM PRIME MINISTER BANNED FROM MOVEMENT THROUGH HERZEG-BOSNIAPrime Minister of the Muslim Sarajevo government Hasan Muratovic qualified last night in the program "Voice of America" the political situation in the Muslim-Croat Federation as very serious, because in some Croat areas war criminals are in power."How serious the situation is it is enough for me to tell you that I myself, as a Prime Minister, can not go to Kiseljak or, for example, to the western part of Mostar", said Muratovic. (Politika, July 18, 1996) [08] 46 BODIES OF DEAD SERBS EXHUMEDExhumation of some 60 bodies of killed Serbian fighters and civilians buried in a mass grave in the village of Kamen, three kilometers to the east of Glamoc towards Livno, which started yesterday, was not continued. So far 46 bodies were exhumed.Exhumation was stopped because of a misunderstanding with the Croat representatives along the separation line in the village of Mliniste. It is estimated that this is the exhumation of the first of some forty mass graves of Serbs which have remained in the territory of the Muslim-Croat Federation. (Politika, July 18, 1996) [09] HORDES IN KRAJINAEvery single remaining Serb in Krajina is exposed to terror and plunder.This statement, from the latest report of the English humanitarian organization "Oxsfam" from Knin is the best illustration of the situation in Krajina, on the eve of anniversary of the Serbian persecution during "The Storm", the action of the Croat Army and police. The activists of this organization have visited 270 settlements in which a total of 1,700 Serbs are living, between the age of 60 and 95. All the property of Serbs in this area is looted, houses mined or burnt down. "Hordes of plunderers in uniforms or civilian clothes are roaming these villages, in cars without registration plates, taking away everything that has remained, even the humanitarian aid which the remaining Serbs are receiving. All this is obviously being done with the support of authorities", underlines the report of "Oxsfam", stating also the cases of discrimination on national basis. (Vecernje novosti, July 18, 1996) [10] PUBLICLY ABOUT CRIMESSerbian deputy in the Croat Parliament (Sabor) Veselin Pejnovic, yesterday has sent a letter to the President of the Croat Parliament, Academician Vlatko Pavletic, in which he is raising the deputy question for the Minister of Interior Affairs, asking for public declaration about the killing of Mihajlo Zec and his family. The assassination of this family took place at the beginning of war, in the autumn of 1991. The assassins were questioned and released, and the Croat President even decorated some of them with high state medals. The question - why the assassins of Zec family are still freely walking around Croatia, was raised several times already, but there were no public declarations to that effect at all. Only the former president of Sabor, Dr. Nedeljko Mihanovic at the time of his office, claimed that this family should have been liquidated and even their children, because Mihajlo Zec was financing Chetnicks!The entire truth, however, consists of the following elements: Mihajlo Zec in the summer of 1990 gave as a gift to the HDZ (Croat Democratic Community) the amount of 300,000 DEM. He also donated the same amount to the Serbian Democratic Party, which was at that time cooperating with the HDZ, in the attempt to abolish the rule of Communists in Croatia. HDZ was demanding another half a million DEM, and Zec refused. About all this there are diaries which are now kept in Banja Luka, in a private safe. Deputy question of Veselin Pejnovic about the crime in which many are implicated, has the importance of a very unpleasant political demonstration. Covering up of the crime and criminals must be brought to the public, because in the case of contrary, as Pejnovic has already announced, he will expose the arguments to the international public. (Vecernje novosti, July 18, 1996) Serbia Today Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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