Serbia Today 96-07-24

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Serbia Today

24 July 1996

CONTENTS

[01] ECONOMIC COOPERATION OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR AN OVERALL NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS

[02] SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS TALKS BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

[03] AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND RUSSIA

[04] NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN WITH THE LONDON CLUB

[05] YUGOSLAV GOODS AND PAPERS OF VALUE ON THE WORLD MARKET

[06] TERROR PERSISTS

[07] BANDITISM ON 'NO-MAN'S-LAND'

[08] 'PRAVO': KARADZIC IS NOT THE ONLY CULPRIT

[01] ECONOMIC COOPERATION OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR AN OVERALL NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS

President Milosevic during the talks, emphasized that establishment of economic cooperation between many enterprises on both sides is of great importance for an overall normalization of the relations and stabilization of the situation in the region.

Ministers Milutinovic and Prlic agreed that citizens are free to travel with passenger documents issued by their respective competent authorities without additional formalities.

It was pointed out that the competent Yugoslav authorities have undertaken all measures for the refugees from Bosnia to be able to vote here on September 14, 1996 at the general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

From the Yugoslav side it was especially underlined that there is a need for the respect of continuity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and adequate behavior of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the international fora. (Politika, July 24, 1996)

[02] SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS TALKS BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

In the press release read after the Council session by the French Ambassador at the UN Alain de Gamme, it is underlined that Security Council is supporting establishment of cooperation between Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which, it is said, will contribute to the building and revival of mutual confidence.

Security Council has once again underlined the importance of full implementation of the Paris peace agreement, as well as of all the relevant resolutions which it had adopted, especially emphasizing the cooperation with the International Tribunal for War Crimes Committed in the Former Yugoslavia. (TANJUG, July 24, 1996)

[03] AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND RUSSIA

During the day, the Agreement was signed between the governments of the two countries on cooperation in the field of prevention of industrial accidents, elementary catastrophes and their consequences.

Delegation of the Russian Federation was also received by the Federal Prime Minister Dr. Radoje Kontic, who received the invitation from the Prime Minister Chernomirdin to visit Russia. (Politika, July 24, 1996)

[04] NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN WITH THE LONDON CLUB

[05] YUGOSLAV GOODS AND PAPERS OF VALUE ON THE WORLD MARKET

Joining of the Belgrade Stock Exchange is of great importance for our companies and banks because, according to Christian Smith, regional manager for the Balkans, they can have at all times full data from the world stock exchanges and at the very moment the deals are made. (Politika, July 24, 1996)

[06] TERROR PERSISTS

In the report by the Board, whose copy was sent to the France Press news agency, it is underlined that in parts of the above territories "criminal acts continue, seizure of property and plunder".

After the description of six cases of plunder and seizure of property, Helsinki Board states that "all this is continuously taking place ever since the termination of military operations and testifies about the incapability of Croat authorities to control the situation... This also proves that the authorities are not able to provide safety of people living in these territories", reads the report.

Croat Board of the Helsinki Committee has so far published several reports stating the cases of violence against some 3,000 Serbs, those that have remained in Croatia after the military intervention. (Politika ekspres, July 24, 1996)

[07] BANDITISM ON 'NO-MAN'S-LAND'

Saric was accompanying his wife and children who were, with Croat documents, travelling to visit their grand-mother and grand-father in Knin. With the intention of helping the family with carrying the luggage towards the Croat border, Zeljko entered the space between two borders with the Yugoslav passport.

On that 'no-man's-land', which is at this border crossing controlled by the UNTAS, a Croat customs officer approached him and suggested that he may 'freely' escort his family to the frontier-guard tower on the Croat side. Zeljko accepted and when he was returning back to the Yugoslav side, Croat policemen came to him and arrested him. Saric was immediately taken to Osijek for informative talk, and from there to Zadar, because there, allegedly, there are criminal proceedings filed against him. The family returned his wife and children to Belgrade.

On the occasion of such increasingly frequent acts by the Croat authorities towards Serbs, former citizens of that state, the documentation and information center of Krajina in Belgrade "Veritas" has sent protests: to the UN office in Belgrade, to the UN Commission for Human Rights, to the observer mission of the European Union, to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Belgrade, to the Commission for Missing Persons and Humanitarian Affairs of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia and to the Ministry for Relations with Serbs Outside of Serbia. (Vecernje novosti, July 24, 1996)

[08] 'PRAVO': KARADZIC IS NOT THE ONLY CULPRIT

"If we are to accept the thesis that those responsible for the crimes of Serbian soldiers are Karadzic and Mladic, it is impossible not to ask who is responsible for the crimes of the other two sides. The UN Prosecutor Goldstone is rightfully afraid for the credibility of the world organization.

It will really be in jeopardy if he and his colleagues are to continue to search for war criminals only in one direction", warns the Czech newspaper. (Borba, July 24, 1996)

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