Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-06-11

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAVIA ADOPTS PLATFORM FOR FLORENCE CONFERENCE

[02] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADOPTS PLATFORM FOR TALKS WITH IMF

[03] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER IN OSLO, TRADE MINISTER IN POZNAN, LONDON

[04] ABOUT 19,000 REFUGEES REGISTERED IN SERBIA'S KOSOVO-METOHIJA PROVINCE

[05] BOSNIAN MUSLIM-CROAT FEDERATION, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA HOLD TLAKS

[06] TENSIONS RUN HIGH ALONG ETHNIC LINES IN BOSNIA AND CROATIA

[07] HUNGARIAN DAILY: BOSNIA'S ALL THREE PEOPLES ORGANISED ON ETHNIC BASIS

[01] YUGOSLAVIA ADOPTS PLATFORM FOR FLORENCE CONFERENCE

The Conference participants will focus attention, among other things, on elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the return of refugees and regional arms control. Special attention will be devoted to the full freedom of movement, as a condition for the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Yugoslav delegation will insist, in keeping with the country's peace policy, on a comprehensive implementation of the Dayton Accords and an equal treatment of all sides in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Yugoslav delegation to the Florence Conference will be headed by Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic.

[02] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADOPTS PLATFORM FOR TALKS WITH IMF

The Yugoslav delegation will be headed by Oskar Kovac, who teaches at Belgrade's Faculty of Economics. The delegation will act in line with the Government's stands, which clearly affirm Yugoslavia's principled policy.

The expert talks will also deal with legal and economic issues in regulating Yugoslavia's IMF membership.

The Yugoslav Government has stated its readiness to find optimal ways to normalize relations with the IMF and pointed out that it would strive to resolve the issue in a pragmatic and realistic way. The Government said that the platform for the Geneva talks was based on previous Government documents and bases for Yugoslavia's stabilization and development.

[03] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER IN OSLO, TRADE MINISTER IN POZNAN, LONDON

The Government endorsed a platform for Trade Minister Djordje Siradovic's talks with Polish Minister of Foreign Economic Cooperation Jacek Buchacz in Poznan, June 15-16. The Poznan talks will cover possibilities for economic cooperation and the drawing up of relevant documents. Special attention will be devoted to the promotion of relations in finance and banking, as a basis for all-round economic cooperation between Yugoslavia and Poland.

The Yugoslav Government adopted also a platform for Minister Siradovic's visit to Great Britain, June 17-20, where he will participate in a seminar on Yugoslavia to be attended by more than 100 Yugoslav and British business people.

YUGOSLAVIA - REFUGEES

[04] ABOUT 19,000 REFUGEES REGISTERED IN SERBIA'S KOSOVO-METOHIJA PROVINCE

The Province, where ethnic Albanians account for about 90 percent of the population, has given shelter mostly to Serb refugees from the Republic of Serb Krajina, who fled before Croatia's aggression on August 1995 which displaced more than 250,000 Serbs.

The largest number of them have found refuge in the Provincial centre of Pristina - about 5,500 of them, and in Pec and Kosovo Polje - about 1,200 each, and have mostly been accommodated in 130 collection centres.

Initial analyses of the census returns show that a large number of refugees would like to remain in Kosovo-Metohija, where they hope to solve their vital problems - find work and make their homes.

There is a number of those, too, who have expressed a desire to return to their places of birth, but only if the Croatian authorities fully guaranteed their safety and security.

BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

[05] BOSNIAN MUSLIM-CROAT FEDERATION, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA HOLD TLAKS

After the meeting, Krajisnik said that important information had been exchanged and that the central topic had been delimitation between the two entities, especially in areas populated by Serbs and Croats. He said that the proposals had come from the field and had had to be discussed, and added that an answer would be known next week, but did not specify what proposals had been made and for what territories.

Zubak, for his part, confirmed the subjects of discussion and stressed that the two sides had examined relations between the Republika Srpska and the Federation, and the problem of prisoners.

THE RED CROSS AND FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

[06] TENSIONS RUN HIGH ALONG ETHNIC LINES IN BOSNIA AND CROATIA

Developments in February 1996, when the Serbs fled all the Sarajevo suburbs which were taken over the Muslims, have shown that a transfer of power, even when agreed, can lead to a new displacement of population.

The report warned that the future of the Serb people in the area of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, which will be under Croatian rule after the U.N. transitional administration, was a particular source of concern. The ICRC will strive to obtain assurances that security and dignity of the endangered local Serbs and return of Croats will be respected, the reported added.

In the period to come, the ICRC will focus its activities on the creation of a climate which will guarantee security and freedom of movement for all in Bosnia-Herzegovina, collection of data on all unaccounted persons and visits to the still detained persons in Bosnia and Croatia, the report said.

The Red Cross warned that food and medical assistance was most needed in the Republika Srpska and Eastern Slavonia.

The Red Cross will continue to work on projects of reconstruction of social institutions (health centres, centres for the old and handicapped, orphanages) and rehabilitation of buildings and warm water and heating systems, the report said.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS

[07] HUNGARIAN DAILY: BOSNIA'S ALL THREE PEOPLES ORGANISED ON ETHNIC BASIS

Separatism prevailed in Bosnia-Herzegovina even before the world new about Karadzic or before Gen. Mladic arrived in its territory, the paper said.

After the disintegration of Titoist Yugoslavia, a multiethnic parliament was set up in Bosnia-Herzegovina that did not take a single decision after 18 months of activity, because one of the parties would always block decisions, the daily said. Moreoever, the war deepened antagonism among Moslems, Croats and Serbs to the extreme, the paper said.

Nepszabadsag said September's elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina would doubtless be free and democratic, but said Moslems would vote for Moslem candidates, Croats for the Croat and Serbs for the Serb.

The paper said those who thought that liberal tendencies would prevail in Bosnia-Herzegovina if Karadzic and Mladic were removed from its political scene lived in a fool's paradise.

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