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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-24
CONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAVIA WILL HONOUR DAYTON ACCORDS
[02] PRIMAKOV WILL VISIT YUGOSLAVIA MAY 29-30
[03] SERBS WILL NOT FORGET GREEKS' HELP IN NEED
[04] JOVANOVIC CONFERS WITH LAMENTOVIC
[05] PROTOCOLS ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT
[06] CROATIAN AMNESTY LAW IS FLAWED
[07] ARGENTINA EXPORTED ARMS TO CROATIA
[01] YUGOSLAVIA WILL HONOUR DAYTON ACCORDS
B e l g r a d e, May 23 (Tanjug) - President of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro Momir
Bulatovic has said in an interview that Yugoslavia would cooperate with the Hague War Crimes Tribunal in
line with the constitution and the commitments stemming from the dayton accords.
Bulatovic told Belgrade weekly Nedeljni Telegraf that it was evident that 'all three sides in Bosnia
had blood on their hands.'
Commenting on the Prevlaka issue (the strategically important peninsula at the Montenegrin-
Croatian border), Bulatovic said that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had attempted to annul the accords
reached in Dayton. The Prevlaka issue and the question of the Republika Srpska access to the Adriatic Sea
would be dealt with in a long-term process, he said. 'The Yugoslav flag will eventually fly on Prevlaka,'
said Bulatovic.
He said that the ruling Montenegrin party, the Democratic Party of Socialists, which he belonged
to, viewed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as its own state and that political forces which advocated
Montenegro's independence were marginally important.
'All reasonable people know that such a state (Yugoslavia) should not be destroyed, but built and
enlarged,' said Bulatovic. Bulatovic said it was necessary that Yugoslavia, as a whole, adopted and
implemented a market economy and the privatization process. Montenegro was 'giving a good example' to
this end in order 'to help it become the Yugoslav option,' he said.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
[02] PRIMAKOV WILL VISIT YUGOSLAVIA MAY 29-30
B e l g r a d e, May 23 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government adopted Thursday a platform for
Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic's talks with his Russian counterpart, Yevgeni Primakov, during the
latter's visit to Yugoslavia on May 29-30.
The Federal Government said the visit, which would take place at Russia's initiative, would be an
opportunity for exchanges of views on issues of mutual interest, a government statement said.
The Government also adopted a report on Milutinovic's talks with Romanian Foreign Minister
Teodor Malescanu in Budapest on April 22.
The Government decided that the Interior Ministry initiate in cooperation with the Foreign
Ministry talks with Romania with a view to defining possibilities for the opening of new border crossings
between the two countries and the modernizing of the existing ones.
YUGOSLAVIA - GREECE
[03] SERBS WILL NOT FORGET GREEKS' HELP IN NEED
C o r f u, Greece, May 23 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic said in Corfu on Thursday
that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Greece had a long tradition as allies in times of need, which
was a guarantee of their future prosperity and friendship.
Marjanovic was speaking at a formal function on Thursday evening commemorating the 80th
anniversary of the Serbian Army's retreat across Albania to Corfu before the attacking German and Austro-
Hungarian armies in World War I.
He said that the Serbian people would never forget the helping hand given them by their Greek
friends in their hour of need in hard battle.
Conceived during World War I, the profound friendship between the Greek and Serbian peoples
has for decades been the foundation for developing all-round relations and cooperation between the two
countries, the Serbian Premier said.
Speaking about great battles and heroic deeds, he said that 218,000 Serbian soldiers had perished
during the retreat across Albania, to leave 155,000 to land on Corfu and find refuge with their Greek
brothers.
Marjanovic said that the Serbs cherished as priceless and holy their memory of the Corfu episode
in their history. This memory, he added, is inseparably linked to their gratitude to the Greeks who gave
them shelter, helped heal their wounds, recover and strengthen and then go on to the Salonika front to win
the final victory and liberate Serbia.
YUGOSLAVIA - POLAND
[04] JOVANOVIC CONFERS WITH LAMENTOVIC
B e l g r a d e, May 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic
conferred on Thursday with Wojciech Lamentovic, State Under-Secretary in the office of the Polish
President.
Their meeting dealt with an intensification of the political dialogue, future visits and the two
countries' activities in 1996 for upgrading cooperation in the field of industry, transport, tourism, culture
and other spheres, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said.
YUGOSLAVIA - MACEDONIA
[05] PROTOCOLS ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT
B e l g r a d e, May 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia signed Thursday
protocols on telecommunications, radio links, air, road and rail transport.
The draft texts of the relevant inter-state agreements were nearly adjusted during visit to
Yugoslavia of Macedonian Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Branko Petkovski, a
government statement said. Yugoslav Minister Zoran Vujovic said cooperation between Yugoslavia and
Macedonia in transportation and communications would help promote the overall economic relations
between the two countries, the statement said.
CROATIA - SERBS
[06] CROATIAN AMNESTY LAW IS FLAWED
E r d u t, May 23 (Tanjug) - Russia's Special Ambassador to the region of Eastern Slavonia,
Barania and West Srem said on Thursday that Croatia's amnesty law for Serbs was full of negative
elements.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with the Serb region's President Goran Hadzic, Ambassador
Alexander Axenyonock said that the U.N. transitional authority in the region had the duty to intercede with
the Croatian Government to amend the law.
The Croatian Parliament has recently passed the law granting amnesty only to Serbs in the region
of Eastern Slavonia, Barania and West Srem, with the exception of war criminals. Serb deputies in the
Croatian Parliament asked at the time that the law be enlarged to apply to all areas whence Serbs have fled.
In a reaction to the wording of the law, the U.N. Security Council adopted a presidential statement
on Wednesday asking the Government in Zagreb to declare general amnesty for all Serbs in former U.N.
protected areas.
FROM FOREIGN PRESS
[07] ARGENTINA EXPORTED ARMS TO CROATIA
P a r i s, May 23 (Tanjug) - In 1993 and 1994, Argentina exported to Croatia via Panama 25,000
rifles and hundreds of cannons worth 20,545,600 dollars in a violation of the United Nations arms ban, the
French daily Le Figaro said Thursday.
In an article headlined 'Argentina's Double Game,' the paper, which is close to the French
Government, said that the truth had come to surface despite efforts to put everything under the carpet and
prevent a scandal involving some Argentinean Government members.
Argentina President Carlos Menem said that 'some Government members may be implicated in the
arms smuggling scandal' and the statement was seen as pointing a finger primarily at Gen. Oscar Camilion.
The paper said its reporter Xavier Gautier, while reporting from Bosnia, had discovered that trade
in heavy guns had been going on and that the weapons were intended for the Croatian army and the Bosnian
Muslim army of Alija Izetbegovic.
Gotier was later found dead in a rented house in a balearic resort and there was an inscription on
the wall of the house reading in Italian and Spanish 'traitor, red devil,' Le Figaro said.
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