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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-21
CONTENTS
[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES BILDT
[02] PLAVSIC: DAYTON AGREEMENT MUST BE HONOURED
[03] REFUGEE SITUATION IN TEN MUNICIPALITIES IN BOSNIA
[04] ASSOCIATION OF SERBS FROM CROATIA DISSATISFIED WITH PARTIAL AMNESTY
[05] GALBRAITH URGES PRESERVATION OF JASENOVAC MEMORIAL SITE
[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES BILDT
B e l g r a d e, May 20 (Tanjug) - Serbin President Slobodan Milosevic received the international
community's High Representative to Bosnia Carl Bildt. The talks was devoted mainly to the
implementation of the peace agreement and steps undertaken with the aim of the successful realisation of its
civilian and political aspects.
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
[02] PLAVSIC: DAYTON AGREEMENT MUST BE HONOURED
B a nj a l u k a, May 20 (tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Parliament has accepted the Dayton agreement
as a document which must be honoured without exceptions, Vice-President of the Republika Srpska Biljana
Plavsic said on Monday.
She said that the Bosnian Serb Parliament deputies were aware of the significance of the agreement
and respected it, and that it would be the basis of their future activities. 'The agreement is invaluable to us
and we must not give it up easily,' Plavsic said, adding that it had to be implemented.
She said that the Bosnian Serb leadership could not accept anybody's attempt to implement the
peace agreement to the detriment of the Serb people, or to change its elements to the detriment of any side
in Bosnia.
Plavsic said that, after the latest changes in Republika Srpska, she was entrusted with maintaining
contacts with the international community. The objective is to promote Republika Srpska in keeping with
the peace agreement and decisions of the Bosnian Serb Parliament which have been presented to High
Representative of the international community for Bosnia Carl Bildt.
ON REFUGEE SITUATION IN BOSNIA
[03] REFUGEE SITUATION IN TEN MUNICIPALITIES IN BOSNIA
B e l g r a d e, May 20 (Tanjug) - The Office of the UNHCR has completed reports on possibilities
for the return of refugees and displaced persons to ten municipalities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The ten
municipalities are Brcko, Breza, Celinac, Konjic, Laktasi, Livno, Olovo, Sanski Most, Visoko and
Zavidovici.
According to the 1991 census, Brcko had a population of 87,000, of whom 44% were Muslims and
the remainder Serbs and Croats. The UNHCR report covers only the part of the Brcko municipality which is
now in the Muslim-Croat Federation and where close to 60,000 Muslims and 4,000 Croats live.
The municipality of Breza now has 20,000-odd inhabitants, mostly Muslims and about 500 Croats
and 236 Serbs.
Before the war, Muslims made up 50% of Konjic's population of 43,000, Croats 26% and Serbs
15.2%. Konjic has roughly just as many inhabitants now, but only a hundred or so Croats and 14 Serbs.
The Olovo municipalities had 16,900 inhabitants before the war, of whom 75% were Muslims, 195
Serbs and 4% Croats. Olovo now has a population of 15,150, of whom 550 Croats and only 45 Serbs.
There are only 800 Serbs and 500 Croats in the Visoko municipality.
In the Zavidovici area, which used to have a population of 57,000, of whom 20% Serbs, 60%
Muslims and 13% Croats, there are now 930 Croats and 380 Serbs.
The municipality Laktasi had 29,910 inhabitants, predominantly Serbs, before the war and now has
nearly 45,000. Nearly 70% of Laktasi's population fall in the category of the needy.
Serbs used to comprise 42% of Sanski Most's population but none have been living there since a
Croat-Muslim offensive in the autumn of last year.
ON CROATIA AMNESTY LOW
[04] ASSOCIATION OF SERBS FROM CROATIA DISSATISFIED WITH PARTIAL AMNESTY
B e l g r a d e, May 20 (Tanjug) - The association of Serbs from the Republic of Croatia and the
Republic of Serb Krajina condemned Monday the Croatian amnesty law which, it said, sows division
among the Serb people in Croatia.
Croatian Parliament Friday passed an amnesty law applying only to citizens (Serbs) from the
region of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srem who had taken part in armed conflict against Croatia,
but excluding those from the other parts of the RSK state that Serbs had proclaimed in 1991 in their ethnic
areas in Croatia.
The association said that the amnesty law denied fundamental human rights to the majority of the
Serb population of Krajina, and that Croatia was thus evading compliance with the Dayton accord provision
on mandatory general amnesty.
About 250,000 Serbs were expelled from the western, southern and northern parts of RSK in
Croatian offensives last May and August. Croatia thus paractically makes it impossible for the expelled
Serbs to return, and the 'amnesty' also violates the Erdut agreement, as the Serbs from other parts of RSK
who had found shelter in eastern Slavonija, Baranja and western Srem are still subject to severe Croatian
laws on rebellion.
FROM FOREIGN PRESS
[05] GALBRAITH URGES PRESERVATION OF JASENOVAC MEMORIAL SITE
Z a g r e b, May 20 (Tanjug) - US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith told the Split daily
Slobodna Dalmacija that Jasenovac must be preserved as a memorial to the victims of evil and that the
United States could not accept the retailoring of history. Galbraith said Jasenovac had been the site of
holocaust where Jews had been exterminated because of their religion, Serbs because of their ethnic origin
and Croats because of their political positions.
The holocaust was part of the nazi as well as the ustasha system that represents the biggest evil that
has ever appeared on our planet, he said.
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