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Serbia Today, 96-10-16
Serbia Today
16 October 1996
CONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LILIC VISITING AFRICA
[02] THE FIRST ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SUCCESSION COMPLETED
[03] UKRAINE FAVOURS THE INTENSIFYING OF RELATIONS WITH FRY
[04] MUTUAL INTEREST OF BRAZIL AND YUGOSLAVIA
[05] AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND ISRAEL SIGNED
[06] 60.000 MOBILE PHONES TILL THE END OF THE YEAR
[07] REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA INTEREST - MUTUAL STATE BODIES SHOULD BE
ACTIVATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
[08] CROATS ROUGHLY PREVENTED SERBS TO VISIT DRVAR
[09] ABDIC ACCUSES IZETBEGOVIC FOR " UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN OF
TERRORIZING"
[10] ANARCHY IN KRAJINA
[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LILIC VISITING AFRICA
The President of the FR Yugoslavia, Mr. Zoran Lilic left
yesterday for an official visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe,
accepting the invitation of the President Robert Mugabe. Mr. Lilic
will also visit the Republic of Guinea, invited by the President
Lansane Conte. On his way, President Lilic will stop in the United
Republic of Tanzania and pay a working visit to the Republic of
Ghana.
(Borba, Oct. 16,1996)
[02] THE FIRST ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SUCCESSION COMPLETED
The first round of negotiations on the economic succession of
Former Yugoslavia was completed in Brussels. It was agreed that the
discussion will continue by the middle of next month.
During the negotiation, the debate prevailed on the
definition and categorization of the state property that should
be divided between the states-successors. According to Academician
Mr. Kosta Mihajlovic, head of the Yugoslav delegation, our experts
had the first opportunity to fully present their approach to the
whole problem of succession. The insisted upon finding compromising
solutions and equal respect of interest of all sides. The remaining
four States insisted on the previous suggestions, based on the
conclusions of the Badinter Committee on the disintegration of
SFRJ, that do not provide the respect of equal interest of all the
concerned sides. Their strategy aims to press forward the division
of common property. without the definitive founding of division
principles, our delegation insists upon. According to Mr.
Mihajlovic, the expectations of the representatives of the other
four states were not fulfilled, that their solutions will be
applied by force, helped by the pressure of the international
community.
(Politika, Oct. 16, 1996)
[03] UKRAINE FAVOURS THE INTENSIFYING OF RELATIONS WITH FRY
Ukrainian President, Mr. Leonid Kuchma and the member of the
Yugoslav Parliament delegation, officially visiting Kiev and headed
by the Citizens' Chamber, Mr. Radovan Bozovic, during their
yesterday talks concluded that the relationships between the two
countries are favorable and stable and that there is a mutual
interest for the more versatile growth of cooperation. It was also
emphasized that it is necessary to prepare the legal basis and
signing of the agreement on cooperation and friendship between FR
Yugoslavia and Ukraine. President Kuchma acclaimed the positive
development of the peace process in Former Yugoslavia, stressing
the fact that peace and stabilization are of basic significance for
the further cooperation in the Balkans and Europe. Mr. Bozovic
underlined that FR Yugoslavia greatly values the objective and
impartial position of Ukraine towards the Former Yugoslavia crisis
and added that Ukraine was an important factor of stability in all
the phases of the peace process.
(Borba, Oct. 16, 1996)
[04] MUTUAL INTEREST OF BRAZIL AND YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslav Government Deputy President, Mr. Jovan Zebic, heading
the Yugoslav business delegation during their visit to the South
American countries, met the Deputy President of the Federal
Republic of Brasil. Mr. Marc Antonio Masiel, and expressed the
gratitude of the Yugoslav Government for the help and objective
stands taken by Brasil during the Former Yugoslavia crisis/ The
delegation of FR Yugoslavia, representing the country which has the
international and legal continuity to the former SFRY, suggested
to the member of the Brazilian Government the correction and
endorsement of the existing and concluding new bilateral
agreements, said Mr. Zebic. Deputy President Masiel stressed the
need for further intensifying of volatile contacts, adding that
beside the political and business interest, there are many
opportunities of cooperation in technology, culture, education and
other fields.
(Borba, Oct. 16, 1996)
[05] AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND ISRAEL SIGNED
Yesterday, Yugoslav Minister of Work, Health and Social
policy, Mr. Miroslav Ivanisevic and the Israel Foreign Secretary,
Mr. David Levy signed the agreement on cooperation in the field of
health and medicine between FR Yugoslavia and Israel. This
cooperation envisages the exchange of experience, information and
experts as well as the direct contacts between the institutions and
organizations of both States, and the exchange of information on
new equipment, pharmaceutical products and technological
achievements, said Ivanisevic.
He also said that it is expected that Israel support SR
Yugoslavia in its full reintegration into the international bodies
and organizations. Mr. David Levy stated that very soon Israel will
open its embassy in Belgrade.
(Politika, Oct. 16,1996)
[06] 60.000 MOBILE PHONES TILL THE END OF THE YEAR
At the telecommunication center of the Public Enterprise PTT
"Srbija" in Belgrade, yesterday the GSM main telephone exchange was
put into operation, representing a new phase in developing of the
Mobile Telephony in Serbia. This unit was manufactured by the word
renowned firm ERICSON from Sweden, and the mounting was carried out
in cooperation with PTT 'Srbija' experts, i.e., The Serbian Mobile
Telephony. Six months ago in Belgrade the mobile telephony and the
main telephone exchange were put into trial operation. By the end
of the year in Serbia, 60.000 mobile phones will operate, and the
plan is to increase the number of subscribers for 10.000 more
mobile phones till the end of January 1997.
(Vecernje novosti, Oct. 16, 1996)
[07] REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA INTEREST - MUTUAL STATE BODIES SHOULD BE
ACTIVATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Mr. Momcilo Krajisnik, Republic of Srpska B&H Presidency
Member, yesterday said that he will insist on establishing the
mutual state bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina as soon as possible,
for this is the interest of Republic of Srpska and the interest
of Serbian people that they should operate as soon as possible. In
his statement to SRNA news agency, Mr. Krajisnik said that he tried
several times to talk to the three-member B&H Presidency member
Alija Izetbegovic, but, he pointed out, unsuccessfully. Krajisnik
added that after his meeting US Deputy Foreign Secretary, Mr. John
Cornbloom and the German Foreign Minister Mr. Claus Kinkel, the
international community understands that the Moslems and not the
Serbs are sabotaging the consolidation of the mutual bodies, to be
the only representatives of whole Bosnia.
(Politika Ekspres, Oct. 16, 1996)
[08] CROATS ROUGHLY PREVENTED SERBS TO VISIT DRVAR
UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNCHR) speaker, Mr. Ron
Redmon, talking to the press in Geneva on refugees' and displaced
persons' requests to return to their homesteads in Bosnia. stated
that "according to rough estimates" about 240.000 people returned
to their homes. But, those are mainly the ones whose houses are on
the territories of their entities, said Redman and quoted two most
recent examples of preventing the refugees to fulfill their rights.
As he said, UNHCR organized a visit of 435 Serbs to their houses
in Drvar. They arrived to Drvar in buses, but the Croatian Town
Authorities violently prevented them. A similar incident occurred
in Bosnian village of Grahovo, and Mr. Redmon says that the UNHCR
stand on this incident is that it represents a drastic breach not
only of the refugees' basis rights, but of the Dayton Agreement as
well.
(Politika, Oct. 16, 1996)
[09] ABDIC ACCUSES IZETBEGOVIC FOR " UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN OF
TERRORIZING"
The ex-leader of Moslems from the western Bosnia, Mr. Fikret
Abdic yesterday accused the President of the three-memebr Bosnian
Presidency, Alija Izetbegovic for continuing "the unprecedented
campaign of terrorizing" against his followers in the Bihac region,
reports AFP. The Agency reminds that in Velika Kladusa 18 Abdic's
followers were arrested, five of them being accused of "war crimes"
and kept in prison. " The everyday repression against my followers
is not pleasing Izetbegovic, he now started a new for of
terrorizing, ordering arrests', stated Mr. Abdic and added that
only the International Tribunal in the Hague can allow the arrests
for the commitment of war crimes
(Borba, Oct. 16, 1996)
[10] ANARCHY IN KRAJINA
In his newest report, not yet made public the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Jose Ayale Lasoa, on the basis
of the existing reports estimates the situation on the human
rights in FR Yugoslavia, B&H and Croatia.
In the part of the report regarding human rights in FR
Yugoslavia, especially underlined is the significance of the
Agreement between FRY and Croatia on the normalization of relations
and the Agreement signed by the Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic and Ibrahim Rugova on the return of Albanian student to
" official schools on all levels". Speaking of human rights in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is concluded that the present situation
provides many reasons for serious concern. In the chapter regarding
Croatia, Mr. Jose Ayala quotes UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali
and UN Special Reporter Ms. Elisabeth Renn that" the Croatian
authorities have not yet provided adequate security got the
population of the former sectors North and South." Those are the
territories populated by Serbs in Krajina, where, as reported,
still the anarchy prevails. Among numerous examples. the young
married couple from the village of Bukovica is mentioned, for they
were killed only because of their mixed marriage, i.e. their being
a Serbian-Croatian pair. As this was not enough, their house was
burned down to the foundation.
(Politika, Oct. 16, 1996)9
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