YDS 12/14

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)

14 December 1995 YDS-1038

C O N T E N T S :

PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE - SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC MEETS WITH HOLBROOKE, IZETBEGOVIC - HOLBROOKE: SARAJEVO SERB REFERENDUM MEANINGLESS - MINISTERS ADOPT DECLARATION ON STABILITY IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - YUGOSLAV-SLOVAK TALKS ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION - SUPPORT TO YUGOSLAVIA'S RETURN TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS - CZECH POLITICIANS, BUSINESSMEN VISIT BELGRADE - HOLLAND ABOUT TO RECOGNIZE F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - YUGOSLAVIA-WHO - PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE COOPERATION

SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA IS PART OF SERBIA AND YUGOSLAVIA, SAYS DIPLOMAT - BRITAIN BACKS UP TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF F.R. YUGOSLAVIA

FRENCH PILOTS RELEASED - PERRY: FRENCH PILOTS' RELEASE PROVES PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S AUTHORITY - BOSNIAN SERBS HAVE CORRECTLY TREATED FRENCH PILOTS

BOSNIA - NATO - SECTORS - COMMAND OF BOSNIA PEACE FORCE TO BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR SECTORS

REBUILDING OF BOSNIA - KINKEL CALLS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO HELP IN REBUILDING BOSNIA

SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC MEETS WITH HOLBROOKE, IZETBEGOVIC Paris, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - Serbian and Montenegrin Presidents Slobodan Milosevic and Momir Bulatovic met here on Wednesday with the U.S. negotiating team led by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke to discuss the last details of the Bosnia agreement that is to be officially signed at the Elysee Palace on Thursday. The talks focused on the remaining territorial issues and guarantees that need to be given to the population in some territories. The Yugoslav delegation later met with Bosnian Muslim officials and their leader Alija Izetbegovic to finalize preparations for tomorrow's signing of the agreement.

HOLBROOKE: SARAJEVO SERB REFERENDUM MEANINGLESS Belgrade, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and chief mediator for the former Yugoslavia Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday that the results of a referendum organized in the Serb part of Sarajevo would bear no effect on the implementation of the Dayton peace agreement for Bosnia. Reuters quoted Holbrooke as telling reporters in Paris that the Dayton plan 'will go ahead unchanged.' The U.S. mediator is in the French capital to attend Thursday's ceremony of official signing of the Bosnian agreement.

MINISTERS ADOPT DECLARATION ON STABILITY IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE Paris, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - The Foreign Ministers of about 30 countries meeting in Royaumont near Paris on Wednesday adopted a Declaration on the process of building stability and good-neighborly relations in southeastern Europe. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of the newly-emerged countries in the territory of the former Yugoslavia (the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), the 15 European Union member-states, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia and the United States. The participants discussed possibilities for stimulating lasting and stable good-neighborly relations in the southeastern parts of Europe, said the Declaration, proposing that a regional round-table talk be organized in the near future to discuss it. The signing of the Bosnia peace agreement and prospects for mutual recognition of the states formed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia entail permanent and joint efforts in improving and gradually restoring dialogue and trust, preventing tension and crisis, resuming regional cooperation and good-neighborly relations and organizing economic reconstruction, the Declaration said. Commenting on Wednesday's meeting, French Foreign Minister Herve De Charette said that the signing of the peace agreement for Bosnia gave a new push to the strengthening of trust, stability and security in Europe. He repeated that there were chances for a mutual recognition of some republics of the former Yugoslavia in the near future. Whether it will take place on Thursday or in a few weeks is not so very imporant, said De Charette, adding his confidence that this question will certainly soon be settled in a satisfactory way. De Charette assessed Thursday's official signing of the Bosnian agreement at the Elysee Palace as a 'historic moment' that would mark the beginning of a new era for Bosnia-Herzegovina and the entire region. This is only the beginning of a process that will primarily depend on the three ethnic communities in Bosnia, but also on international efforts in the military, political, social and economic fields, De Charette said.

FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

YUGOSLAV-SLOVAK TALKS ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION Prague, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic conferred in Prague on Wednesday with Slovak Vice-Premier Jozef Kalman on the renewal and development of bilateral cooperation. It was confirmed during the talks that Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Mecijar would visit Yugoslavia in late January, at the invitation of Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic. Bulajic, who is on a two-day visit to Slovakia since Tuesday, conferred on Wednesday also with Slovak Chamber of Commerce President Petr Mihok on economic agreements which should be signed by the two Governments during Mecijar's forthcoming visit to Belgrade. Bulajic also discussed concrete modalities and possibilities for renewing economic cooperation with Secretary of State with the Slovak Economic Ministry Pavel Hrma.

SUPPORT TO YUGOSLAVIA'S RETURN TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Prague, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - Slovakia will in future even more strongly support Yugoslavia's return to international organizations, Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Schenk told Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic on Wednesday. During the talks, Schenk said that Slovakia was planning to appoint an ambassador to Yugoslavia at the earliest possible time and raise the level of its diplomatic office in Belgrade, which is currently headed by a charge d'affaires. Schenk pointed out that Slovakia would chair the Central European Free Trade Association (CEFTA) as of Jan. 1, 1996. Bulajic pointed out that Yugoslavia was interested in cooperation with this association and in joining it. The CEFTA members are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.

CZECH POLITICIANS, BUSINESSMEN VISIT BELGRADE Belgrade, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - Assistant Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic and a delegation of Czech political and business figures have upheld consistent enforcement of the peace agreement for Bosnia and normalization of relations in the region. The delegation, which comprises also economists and journalists, is headed by Czech Foreign Ministry Director Petr Gandalovic and Prague Mayor Jan Koulkal. Mutual readiness was expressed to intensify efforts for cooperation in all, especially economic domains to receive a stronger impetus and shortly to reach the earlier volume. In a talk between Minister Coordinator in the Government of the Republic of Serbia Dragan Tomic and the Czech delegation, mutual interest of Serb and Czech businessmen was noted in reviving the good previous economic contacts at the soonest and through the strengthening of cooperation not only in the field of trade but also in joint capital investment projects.

HOLLAND ABOUT TO RECOGNIZE F.R. YUGOSLAVIA Belgrade, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - The Netherlands will soon recognize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (F.R.Y.), it was announced on Wednesday by Charge d'affaires of the Dutch Embassy in Belgrade Johanes Sizo. Sizo, who announced the recognition in a talk with Yugoslav Trade Minister Djordje Siradovic, pointed out that enterprises of the two countries' should immediately start establishing business contacts. As was made public by the Yugoslav Secretariat for Information, voiced at the talk was keen interest in the soonest possible establishment of overall and particularly economic cooperation at the pre-embargo level. Accord was reached that to this end it would be necessary to organize presentations of the Yugoslav economy and economic regulations in the Netherlands and the other way around. Siradovic pointed to the F.R. Yugoslavia's concern about the renewal of economic cooperation also with other members of the E.U. and about the need to regain its special status it had enjoyed as a partner before the embargo was imposed.

YUGOSLAVIA-WHO - PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE COOPERATION Geneva, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - It is essential that Yugoslavia reintegrate as soon as possible the U.N. and other international organizations, as only this can pave the way for greater and more diverse cooperation, the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization Hu Chin Lee said Wednesday in Geneva. Hu Ching Lee told a Yugoslav delegation that Yugoslavia should put forward as soon as possible a concrete program for the recovery of its health sector and list its priorities, so that the WHO can then decide how much it can invest in the implementation of this program. Head of the Yugoslav delegation Tomica Raicevic expressed gratitude to the WHO for its very correct attitude towards the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He also especially expressed gratitude to WHO Director-General Hiroshi Nakajima who had several times appealed to the Security Council to lift anti-Yugoslav sanctions in the humanitarian field. Yugoslav delegation, which Tuesday initiated a visit to Geneva, has asked international organizations to definitely determine the number of refugees in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Some humanitarian organizations have officially accepted the figure of over 650,000 refugees, whereas the UNHCR still speaks of 330,000 refugees in Yugoslav territory. At a meeting with representatives of the World Food Program, Raicevic noted that the number of refugees was the basis for calculating the amount of humanitarian aid needed. The Yugoslav delegation was told that UNHCR had agreed to correct the figure, i.e. to determine the exact number of refugees as soon as possible. After two days of intensive consultations in Geneva, Yugoslav delegation noted that the attitude of international organizations towards the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had changed.

SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA

KOSOVO-METOHIJA IS PART OF SERBIA AND YUGOSLAVIA, SAYS DIPLOMAT Pristina, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - The British Charge d'affaires in Belgrade has stated that the Province of Kosovo-Metohija is part of Serbia and Yugoslavia and consequently their internal problem. In an interview with the Pristina Albanian-language weekly Koha published on Wednesday, Ivor Roberts reiterated the position of Great Britain and the international community that Kosovo is part of Serbia and that Serbian borders cannot be changed. Roberts suggested to ethnic Albanians to seek solutions for their problems in the Serbian and Yugoslav Parliaments, and said that boycotting the institutions and structures of the Serbian state was counterproductive.

BRITAIN BACKS UP TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF F.R. YUGOSLAVIA Pristina, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - Great Britain and other international community countries support the stand about the inviolability of boundaries in the territory of former Yugoslavia, and ethnic Albanians in the Serbian Province of Kosovo-Metohija should be informed about this stand, said on Wednesday First Secretary of the British Embassy in Belgrade Nat Daubari. In Pristina, capital of Kosovo and Metohija, Daubari held a talk with Provincial Information Secretary Bosko Drobnjak about informing the Albanian national minority and about other questions. The British diplomat raised what he called the question of the quality and truthfulness of information presented by independent Albanian papers to their readers, the Information Secretariat announced. Drobnjak explained that great many members of the Albanian minority in Kosovo and Metohija were tuning in to state media Albanian-language programs and that they were receiving true and impartial information. At this moment, in Kosovo and Metohija 20 independent Albanian-language papers or periodicals are published. Abiding by the law on the freedom of the press, Serbia or Yugoslavia do not have any influence upon their editorial policies, said Drobnjak. He added that 'therefore, the state does not have any responsibility for the quality of information being presented in these independent Albanian-language papers.' Drobnjak was content with the British Government's reiterated stand on the inviolability of territorial integrity of Serbia and Yugoslavia.

FRENCH PILOTS RELEASED

PERRY: FRENCH PILOTS' RELEASE PROVES PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S AUTHORITY Belgrade, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - U.S. Defence Secretary William Perry was quoted on Wednesday as saying that the Tuesday release of two captured French pilots was evidence of the authority of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Speaking for the CNN Television network, Perry described the development as a very positive confirmation of the influence that President Milosevic has on the Bosnian Serbs, according to the Agence France Presse.

BOSNIAN SERBS HAVE CORRECTLY TREATED FRENCH PILOTS Paris, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - French Pilots Frederic Chiffot and Jose Souvignet, who were in August downed and captured by the Bosnian Serbs, told French journalists immeidately after arriving in Paris that they had been treated well. We were treated correctly and were attended by three Serb doctors, Chiffot said. Asked how their days passed, Chiffot said: 'The closer we were to going home, the more pleasant it was. We were allowed sports activities, took walks in the garden ...' The two pilots on Wednesday underwent a medical checkup at the military hospital Val De Grace in Paris.

BOSNIA - NATO - SECTORS

COMMAND OF BOSNIA PEACE FORCE TO BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR SECTORS Belgrade, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - Command of the Peace Implementation Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be divided into four sectors: U.S., French, British and a NATO Special Operations Unit. Each of the sectors will encompass territory in both Bosnian entities - the (Bosnian Serb State) Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation, AP said on Wednesday. The U.S. will control northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina and will be based in Tuzla. Apart from the 20,000 U.S. troops, the Sector will be patrolled also by a Nordic brigade, comprising troops from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Latvia and Estonia, as well as about 1,500 Russian troops. The French Zone will cover southeastern Bosnia that includes Sarajevo, Gorazde and Mostar, and will extend all the way to Bosnia's 20-km long adriatic coastline. The zone will be patrolled by 10,000 French troops, as well as troops from Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ukraine. Britain's 13,000 troops, together with troops from the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, will control western Bosnia that includes the biggest Bosnian Serb city of Banjaluka. The European Quick-Response Force will patrol a narrow belt on the western edge of Bosnia that includes Bihac.

REBUILDING OF BOSNIA

KINKEL CALLS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO HELP IN REBUILDING BOSNIA Bonn, Dec. 13 (Tanjug) - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel on Wednesday asked the Islamic nations to offer financial aid for the reconstruction of Bosnia. A statement released by the Foreign Ministry in Bonn quoted Kinkel as saying that Bosnia now needed the whole world's help. He said Europe, the U.S., and Japan should also offer aid in rebuilding areas devastated by the war. Kinkel asked the Islamic nations also to offer technical assistance and practically to support a civilian reconstruction of the region. Kinkel had been charged with establishing contact with Islamic nations in the closing stage of the peace process. He initiated as many as five joint sessions of the international Contact Group and the Organization of the Islamic Conference's Bosnia 'Contact Group.'