Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-08-06

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAV SPORTSMEN

[02] KRAJISNIK: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WANTS NO COMPLICATIONS TO MAR ELECTIONS

[03] WASHINGTON DENIES REPORT OF PLAN TO SEIZE KARADZIC

[04] ITALIAN IFOR TROOPS BREAK INTO REPUBLIKA SRPSKA MUNITIONS DUMP

[05] STILL NO AGREEMENT BETWEEN CROATS AND MUSLIMS IN MOSTAR

[06] DECLARATION ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF SERBS FROM CROATIA

[07] CROATIA MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON SERB KRAJINA

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAV SPORTSMEN

In these times of joy, when our people rejoice in the victories of Yugoslavia's youth, I would like to thank You, and Yugoslavia's Sports Mission in Atlanta and the Committee for the dauntless spirit and fortitude that ensured the success of our sportsmen at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, said the President in his message.

Lilic expressed special gratitude to medal-winner - marksman Aleksandra Ivosev for her gold and bronze, the Basketball Team for its silver and the Volleyball players for bronze.

BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

[02] KRAJISNIK: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WANTS NO COMPLICATIONS TO MAR ELECTIONS

Krajisnik received Jeff Baumont, the Head of the Liaison Office with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General installed in Pale.

Republika Srpska wants the holding of elections and elimination of the 'traditional policy of international mediators or our enemies of blaming the Serb side,' Krajisnik said.

Krajisnik told Baumont he was concerned over the deadlines for the voting of Bosnian refugees abroad. He said there were proposals that elections in certain countries be held even 10-14 days before the planned election date of September 14. This fact makes room for doubts that certain voters could travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina and cast their votes again on the spot.

Expressing concern over developments in the Muslim-Croat Federation, the other Bosnian entity, Krajisnik said the situation there could not be settled and that it would also reflect on Republika Srpska. Krajisnik told Baumont that the Serb side would not interfere in relations within the Federation, because he did not want such an atmosphere to be created where war or conflicts and political duels could be transferred from the Federation to Republika Srpska as they had, at one point, spilled from Croatia into Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He said it was his country's option to be as separate from the other Bosnian entity as possible under the Dayton Accords. The Dayton Peace Accords view Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Union of Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

[03] WASHINGTON DENIES REPORT OF PLAN TO SEIZE KARADZIC

White House Spokesman Mike Mccurry said the U.S. were not planning any unilateral action relating to either Karadzic or Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladic, adding he believed they should be delivered to the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. Sunday Times quoted U.S. and British Intelligence sources to the effect that U.S. troops were planning an airborne raid to seize Karadzic.

British Defense Secretary Michael Portillo denied any misunderstanding with Washington over policy toward Bosnia, adding that the arrest of Karadzic at this moment could be counter-productive.

His U.S. counterpart William Perry expressed the same opinion in an interview on Friday.

State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns told reporters on Monday that he was unaware of any such operation.

[04] ITALIAN IFOR TROOPS BREAK INTO REPUBLIKA SRPSKA MUNITIONS DUMP

A representative of the Republika Srpska Army General Staff, who wished to remain anonymous, said the munitions dump had been validly registered with the representatives of the IFOR.

[05] STILL NO AGREEMENT BETWEEN CROATS AND MUSLIMS IN MOSTAR

E.U. Spokesman in Mostar Dragan Gasic said the Muslim side had signed the proposed agreement, but that the Croats were still claiming they would not do so.

Leader of the Croatian Democratic Union in Mostar Bozo Reljic said some progress had been made at the talks last night.

CROATIA - SERBS

[06] DECLARATION ON PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF SERBS FROM CROATIA

'The current humanitarian, economic and political position of the expelled and escaped is tragic and uncertain,' which is the reason why this Declaration was made. It is added that the Association holds that the full autonomy of Serbs must be instituted in the ethnic Serb space in Croatia.

The Association demands that the international community, especially the Hague Tribunal, should ascertain individual guilt for the crimes committed against the Serb people from 1990 to this date.

'In the cities of Croatia in which, until six years earlier, the Serbs were a majority, we demand the opening of Information Centres and Offices for Human Rights of the European Union, modelled after an Information Centre that has been opened by the USA in Pristina, Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohija,' the Association pointed out.

At the same time, the Association addressed on Monday an acute protest against the Croatian Government's decision to settle the Croats from Janjevo, a locality in Kosovo and Metohija, in Kistanje, a locality not far from Knin in the RSK. The populating of Kistanje, plundered and devastated during the Croatian armed operation 'Storm', with the Croats from Janjevo 'about whom lies are disseminated that they had been ousted by the Yugoslav Authorities, have been understood by refugees and expelled from Kistanje as one more cynical example of how the Croatian Authorities are doing their utmost to render impossible the return of the refugees and the expelled to their homes,' it is said in the announcement by the Association.

[07] CROATIA MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON SERB KRAJINA

'Croatia appeared out of nowhere...to resolve strategic relations in the Balkans,' Tudjman said during a troops inspection in Zadar, reiterating his thesis on Croatia as a 'key military factor' in the Region.

Troop inspections were also held on Monday in other towns in Croatia.

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