Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-07-31

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CONTENTS

[01] SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER: NO HAGGLING OVER KOSMET

[02] LONDON IMPORTANT PLACE FOR PRESENTING YUGOSLAV ECONOMY

[03] PROTESTS OVER GROUNDING OF 'JAT' PLANES IN ISTANBUL

[04] SERBS RECEIVE UNEQUAL TREATMENT AHEAD OF BOSNIA ELECTIONS

[05] YUGOSLAVIA-REFUGEES-BOSNIA LISTS INCLUDE 38,000 REFUGEE-VOTERS IN YUGOSLAVIA

[06] BILDT: MILITARY PRESENCE IN BOSNIA SHOULD CONTINUE AFTER ELECTIONS

[07] UNITED NATIONS DEMANDS REPLACEMENT OF CROAT, MUSLIM POLICE OFFICIALS

[08] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA OFFICIAL: EXHUMATION BASED ON RECIPROCITY IN FUTURE

[09] KRAJINA REFUGEES FILE COMPLAINT WITH OSCE APPEALS ELECTION SUBCOMMISSION

[10] EXTRADITION OF RS CITIZENS MOST DIFFICULT TOPIC AT HAGUE TALKS

[11] KEY WITNESS SAYS HE NEVER SAW ACCUSED SERB AT BOSNIA'S OMARSKA CAMP

[01] SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER: NO HAGGLING OVER KOSMET

He said that the international community shared this stand.

All political and other issues will be continue to be resolved through the country's legal institutions. Fortunately, ethnic Albanians in Kosmet have realized that by pursuing a policy of isolationism, their separatistic leaders had plunged them into a difficult situation and endangered their interests, Marjanovic said.

Peace in these lands, equality and joint interests are creating conditions for ethnic Albanians to take part in Kosmet's and Serbia's political and business life and to participate in business, educational, cultural and other activities through legal institutions.

I am confident that in the period to come Kosovo and Metohija will be a region of accelerated economic growth, peace, co-existence, strengthened ties and cooperation between all citizens and national minorities living there, Marjanovic said.

[02] LONDON IMPORTANT PLACE FOR PRESENTING YUGOSLAV ECONOMY

During the talks between Milojevic and Radulovic at the Chamber of Commerce, it was underscored that priority had been given to activities on Yugoslavia's reintegration into international financial institutions and the promotion of bilateral relations with all countries, especially those of importance to Yugoslavia, such as Great Britain.

Belgrade bank Jugobanka representative in London and member of the Yugoslav team for talks with the London Club Milos Mirkovic said that, regardless of the correct relations during the period of international sanctions, banking circles in Great Britain believed Yugoslavia's reintegration into the International Monetary Fund was a precondition for getting on with cooperation and its promotion.

[03] PROTESTS OVER GROUNDING OF 'JAT' PLANES IN ISTANBUL

The Yugoslav Embassy in Ankara has filed a demarche with the Turkish Foreign Ministry along with a demand to unblock the aircraft, while Yugoslav Diplomacy has lodged two notes on the political level. The Yugoslav Transport Ministry demanded an official explanation from its Turkish counterpart about the steps taken in this regrad.

Turkey, apart from political damage being done to the opened process of promoting the two countries' relations, also brings indirect jeopardy to business operations of JAT - a foreign commercial enterprise which in that way acquires the right to the definite material compensation, said the Yugoslav Transport Ministry.

Hence a reaction by the International Association of Air Carriers would be only logical to expect.

As JAT commercial director Branko Premak explained, the four-year contracts on leasing two Boeing 737 planes to the private Turkish Bosphorus Airways Company had expired last Spring. Then the Turkish Aviation Administration notified the Yugoslav Transport Ministry that Yugoslav planes, in conformity with Turkish regulations, were erased on June 21 from the Turkish Registry of aircraft. The two planes were flying under foreign administration only for a brief period of time because the 1992 imposition of international blockade of Yugoslav property had grounded one plane in Istanbul and another in Dublin.

When the blockade was lifted, the Turkish Embassy in Belgrade issued to JAT the operation visas and relevant permits, while the Turkish authorities isssued permission for 'a technical flight' on July 27 to bring the plane to its airport of registry. The ex-lessee of the Boeing, however, brought to court the Turkish Transport Ministry and the Aviation Administration. The latter changed its original decision and notified the Yugoslav Transport Ministry that, abiding by a ruling of the Ankara Administrative Court, it suspended on July 19 the procedure of deleting the aircraft from the Registry.

In keeping with the changed stand of the Turkish authorities, the Bosphorus Airways owner marked the plane with national symbols and his company sign.

JAT said that the 'act by the Turkish Transport Ministry is illegal and, in addition to contradicting the national regulations of the two countries, it also contradicts the Chicago Convention's forbidding that an aircraft be registered at one time in two places.'

BOSNIA - ELECTIONS

[04] SERBS RECEIVE UNEQUAL TREATMENT AHEAD OF BOSNIA ELECTIONS

The OSCE that is in charge of Bosnia's elections has rejected the Serb side's request that all Serbs in third countries be enabled to register elsewhere and not only in Embassies of the Moslem-Croat Federation.

Kovac also stressed the issue arising from a request by Bosnian Croats sheltering in Croatia who hold dual citizenship to be allowed to vote in municipalities situated near the border with the Republika Srpska. He said no one could prevent them from doing so if they had been registered as citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1991 census.

He said he expected the world community, which he said had been informed about the unequal treatment of Krajina Serbs sheltering in the R.S. and Serbs who were R.S. citizens but were not registered in the 1991 census, to find soon a solution also for this category of people.

Referring to municipalities that were divided under the Dayton Peace Accords, Kovac made reference to the eastern Bosnian town of Gorazde where he said the ballot would take place in both sections of the town - the Moslem as well as the Serb. As regards Brcko, northeastern Bosnia, there is no reason why the elections in the town should be held at a later stage because they do not prejudge the resolution of any territorial issues, he said. Only authorities in the town will be elected according to the voters' free will and under equal conditions, he said.

[05] YUGOSLAVIA-REFUGEES-BOSNIA LISTS INCLUDE 38,000 REFUGEE-VOTERS IN YUGOSLAVIA

The Yugoslav Government Commission for assisting refugees in the realization of their rights at the Bosnia elections on Tuesday appealed to all those who still have not been registered to apply by Aug. 2. The Commission will ask the OSCE to enable the wounded (about 20,000 of them), the ill and elderly to vote in absentia, because it is the usual practice in all countries for such voters to cast their ballot wherever they reside, it was concluded on Tuesday.

The Commission warned that there was discrimination against Serb refugees in certain countries, which placed them in an unequal position in comparison with Muslim and Croat refugees in the preparations for the elections. That is why the Commission maintains that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as a signatory of the Dayton Accords and a party interested in the implementation of all aspects of the civilian part of the Accords, should react to such incidents and urge equal treatment which will enable the complete legality of the first elections since the outbreak of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

After the registration of refugee-voters, the Commission will get on to preparations for carrying out the voting in absentia on Aug. 24, and the organization of taking a large number of refugees to cast their votes in Bosnia on Sept. 14, said a statement released by the Yugoslav Secretariat of Information.

BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

[06] BILDT: MILITARY PRESENCE IN BOSNIA SHOULD CONTINUE AFTER ELECTIONS

He said, however, that he did not see this presence as a continuation of the IFOR mission, the agencies said.

Bildt said the Committee fully supported the E.U. stand on Mostar, where Croats are refusing to accept the results of the recent municipal elections.

[07] UNITED NATIONS DEMANDS REPLACEMENT OF CROAT, MUSLIM POLICE OFFICIALS

IPTF Spokesman Alexander Ivanko said in Sarajevo on Tuesday that stronger action would be launched against those who try to obstruct the work of the International Police in Bosnia, which is there to prevent lawlessness, the British news agency Reuter said. Ivanko said the IPTF had asked the Croat authorities in west Mostar to replace Chief of Police Vjekoslav Cutura, as he is believed to be responsible for the arrest of Muslim Emin Zebic, the Chief of police of Jablanica. The replacement of Cutura is also demanded because of threats that he would prevent Muslim refugees from voting in the Croat part of the town during the Mostar elections on June 30, Reuter said.

IPTF Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald has asked Federal Interior Minister Avdo Hebib, a Muslim, to replace police officials in the Muslim-controlled central Bosnian town of Bugojno.

[08] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA OFFICIAL: EXHUMATION BASED ON RECIPROCITY IN FUTURE

This decision came after Croat authorities in the area of the southwestern Bosnian town of Glamoc four times postponed the exhumation of the remaining 65 bodies of Serbs from a mass grave in the village of Kamen, 3 km south of Glamoc, who were killed during a Muslim-Croat offensive on Republika Srpska last year.

CROATIA - SERBS

[09] KRAJINA REFUGEES FILE COMPLAINT WITH OSCE APPEALS ELECTION SUBCOMMISSION

The Association warned that the actions and decisions of the interim elections commission and other OSCE bodies which are in charge of the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina are an act of mass discrimination and a gross violation of civil rights.

THE HAGUE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL

[10] EXTRADITION OF RS CITIZENS MOST DIFFICULT TOPIC AT HAGUE TALKS

Arsovic said Republika Srpska would prefer to try its own citizens accused of war crimes. He said he had come to the Hague with his Assistant Goran Neskovic, presented as a Liaison Office with the Tribunal, and Belgrade lawyer Igor Pantelic, the agency said.

Arsovic confirmed he had said during the talks with Tribunal representatives that Republika Srpska wanted the Tribunal to indict Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic for his responsibility in crimes against Serbs in the Muslim camp of Celebici in 1992.

[11] KEY WITNESS SAYS HE NEVER SAW ACCUSED SERB AT BOSNIA'S OMARSKA CAMP

The Hague Tribunal has so far raised a total of 75 indictments for war crimes - 54 against Serbs, 18 against Croats, and three against Muslims.

The Court so far has not presented a single piece of evidence against the indicted Serbs.

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