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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-28
CONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAV PREMIER KONTIC RECEIVES NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR
[02] YUGOSLAV VICE PREMIER RECEIVES UKRAINIAN DELEGATION
[03] YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO ITALIAN PRESIDENT
[04] SERBIAN PREMIER SEES SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA AS LARGE, LUCRATIVE MARKET
[05] UNHCR SPOKESMAN: PARTIAL AMNESTY PREVENTS RETURN OF ALL REFUGEE SERBS
[01] YUGOSLAV PREMIER KONTIC RECEIVES NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR
B e l g r a d e, May 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, meeting on Monday
with Norwegian Ambassador in Belgrade Jon Gorder, stressed the need for normalizing relations between
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the European Union. Kontic stressed also the need for Yugoslavia's
reintegration in international political, financial and commercial organizations and institutions.
Both sides welcomed Norway's decision to be among the first to establish diplomatic relations
with Yugoslavia at ambassadorial level, and expressed a readiness for developing cooperation between the
two traditionally friendly countries.
[02] YUGOSLAV VICE PREMIER RECEIVES UKRAINIAN DELEGATION
B e l g r a d e, May 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Vice Premier and Economy Minister Nikola Sainovic
received Monday a Ukrainian delegation, headed by Cabinet member Valery Pustovoytenko.
Sainovic and Pustovoytenko discussed economic problems and concrete programmes. They said
that these purposes would best be served by cooperating in metallurgy and the agricultural machinery
industry, both bilaterally and regionally, which would best prepare both Yugoslavia and Ukraine for
European integration.
[03] YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO ITALIAN PRESIDENT
R o m e, May 27 (Tanjug) - Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro received Monday Yugoslav
Ambassador to Italy Miodrag Lekic, who presented his credentials. Scalfaro and Lekic agreed that all
conditions existed for promoting versatile bilateral cooperation, especially in the economic and cultural
spheres.
Scalfaro said that Italy and Yugoslavia had maintained their dialogue during the crisis in former
Yugoslavia.
This, he said, reflected positively on the peace process and on traditionally good relations between
the Italian and the Serbian and Montenegrin peoples, which is another element in favour of promoting
comprehensive cooperation.
They stressed the importance of the forthcoming conference on Bosnia-Herzegovina, called for
next month in Florence, which should sum up the results of the first six months of the Dayton accords
implementation.
[04] SERBIAN PREMIER SEES SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA AS LARGE, LUCRATIVE MARKET
B e l g r a d e, May 27 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic said on Monday that Serbia
and its parent Yugoslavia were a good and large market and that investors should be advised to invest here
because of numerous inducements. Serbia is fully committed to privatisation which will be carried out on
the true market principles and with the firms having the freedom to decide how and in what areas to apply
these principles, Marjanovic told foreign reporters in Belgrade. Marjanovic was meeting reporters from 24
countries who had taken part in a traditional international meeting of journalists.
He stressed that foreign nationals here could own a firm fully or in part and that there was no
obstacle to the flow of capital.He said that talks with the International Monetary Fund and other financial
institutions would be resumed in early June.
Marjanovic said thatSserbia was fully committed to the implementation of the Dayton accords and
would fully cooperate with the Hague war crimes tribunal in conformity with the country's laws.
He stressed that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was fully determined to see the peace accords
implemented and the anti-Yugoslav sanctions, which were now only suspended, fully lifted and the country
integrated in the international community. He stressed that none of the war criminals in Bosnia-
Herzegovina could remain on the political scene.
Asked about the attitude to Bosnian Serb Army Commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, Marjanovic said
that nobody had raised the point of the other two sides in Bosnia - the Croats and the Muslims - although
none of the three sides in the Bosnian war was blameless.
Kosovo-Metohija is Yugoslavia's internal affair, which is also the position of the international
community, he said.
He stressed that nowhere in Europe and the world did ethnic minorities have greater rights and that
there was therefore no reason for ethnic Albanians' dissatisfaction and refusal to exercise their legal
prerogatives to the full.
U N H C R
[05] UNHCR SPOKESMAN: PARTIAL AMNESTY PREVENTS RETURN OF ALL REFUGEE SERBS
B e l g r a d e, May 27 (Tanjug) - UNHCR Belgrade office Spokesman Marwan Elkhoury said on
Monday that the Croatian Parliament's amnesty only for Serbs in eastern Slavonija, Baranja and west Srem,
directly prevented the return of all Serbs to their homes. Elkhoury said that this law on partial amnesty was
a grave reason for the concern of Serbs who wanted to return to their homes.
That is why the UNHCR has already sent a letter to Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, Elkhoury
said, to consider passing a law on a general amnesty because the current one directly prevents the return of
Serbs to other parts of Croatia, especially Krajina. Elkhoury gave as another reason for the concern of Serbs
that Croatia was still not providing security to Serb refugees. They would like to return, but they are afraid
to do so, he said.
The international community is exerting great pressure on Croatia and this is one of the reasons
why it was not admitted to the Council of Europe, Elkhoury said.
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