Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-08-23

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES SEVERAL DRAFT LAWS

[02] YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER, NEW YORK CITY DELEGATION URGE NORMALIZATION

[03] YUGOSLAVIA, ZIMBABWE TO PROMOTE COOPERATION

[04] UKRAINE FIRMLY FOR YUGOSLAV ECONOMY'S RETURN TO INTERNATIONAL SCENE

[05] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER WILL VISIT ITALY, THE VATICAN ON AUG. 26-27

[06] OSCE SAYS SERBIA PREPARES WELL BALLOTING OF BOSNIAN REFUGEE-VOTERS

[07] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES DRAFT AGREEMENT ON NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH CROATIA

[08] NO MISSING PERSON LISTED BY CROATIA IS HELD PRISONER IN YUGOSLAVIA

[09] EAST SLAVONIA SERBS URGE NORMALIZATION OF YUGOSLAV-CROATIAN RELATIONS

[10] CROATIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN KRAJINA

[11] BOSNIAN SERBS SEEK URGENT SOLUTION TO MISSING PERSONS ISSUE

[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES SEVERAL DRAFT LAWS

A Federal Government statement said the Government had established bills on accountancy which will secure a high degree of security for parties engaged in the markets of goods, capital, money and labor under the conditions of a market economy. The proposed solutions are coordinated with the E.U. guidelines for this area, the statement said.

The Government also established a bill to ratify the Agreement between Yugoslavia and the Russian Federation in the area of preventing industrial breakdowns, natural disasters, and aleviating their effects. The ratification of this Agreement by the Yugoslav Parliament will establish a legal basis for cooperation in the area of expert training, exchange of techniques, and implementation of joint projects in this area.

The Government named Yugoslav members for a Yugoslav-Macedonian diplomatic-expert Commission and appointed Yugoslav Foreign Ministry Ambassador Rradomir Bogdanovic President of the Yugoslav part of the Commission.

The Government also established bases for talks and concluding an agreement between Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia on scientific-technical cooperation and a platform for talks on Yugoslav-Macedonian cooperation in the area of labor, employment, social security, health, and traffic of medicines, said the Yugoslav Government statement.

[02] YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER, NEW YORK CITY DELEGATION URGE NORMALIZATION

Kontic said the elimination of the so-called outer wall of sanctions against yugoslavia would be the greatest contribution to the consolidation of peace in the former Yugoslavia and beyond, a Government statement said.

Seymour drew attention to possibilities of influencing the U.S. public opinion and foreign policy and said the New York Foreign Policy Council wanted to help eliminate the outer wall of sanction sagainst Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia's international reintegration.

[03] YUGOSLAVIA, ZIMBABWE TO PROMOTE COOPERATION

Bingulac, who headed the Yugoslav delegation to the Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation which ended Thursday a several-day visit to Harare, has had intensive talks with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, his Ministers and many leading businessmen.

The talks focused on cooperation projects, the forthcoming signing of state agreements on air transports between the two countries, avoidance of double taxation and investment guarantees.

Both countries hope that their future cooperation in banking and financial fields should accompany economic cooperation projects.

The visit of the Yugoslav delegation was described as very useful for overall promotion of bilateral economic ties.

[04] UKRAINE FIRMLY FOR YUGOSLAV ECONOMY'S RETURN TO INTERNATIONAL SCENE

In talks with Serbian Deputy Premier Nedeljko Sipovac, Primachenko confirmed his country's readiness to take part in financing joint programs. He expressed the wish that Yugoslavia and Serbia at the soonest possible time realize the level of economic development which had existed before international sanctions were imposed.

Both sides expressed interest that the agricultural Ministers of Serbia and Ukraine meet soon to consider possibilities for long-term cooperation in this area.

Ambassador Primachenko was received also by Yugoslav Deputy Premier Nikola Sainovic. In these talks, it was agreed among other things that the first session of the Inter-Governmental Mixed Committee for economic cooperation be held in September.

[05] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER WILL VISIT ITALY, THE VATICAN ON AUG. 26-27

The visits will be conducive to a further affirmation of Yugoslavia's peace policy and its faster reintegration into the international community.

[06] OSCE SAYS SERBIA PREPARES WELL BALLOTING OF BOSNIAN REFUGEE-VOTERS

Morina, who chairs the Yugoslav Commission for Rights of Refugees in Bosnia-Herzegovina elections, said in the talk with 30 OSCE observers that the only thing expected of them was objectivity. She said she hoped the supervisors, who would monitor the balloting of Bosnian refugees in Yugoslavia from August 28 - September 3, would cooperate well with the hosts, which she noted would be conducive to a democratic balloting, one free of irregularities.

Tsakiris said that, in addition to international organizations, political parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina could also send observers. He specified that only authorized observers were to have access to polling stations.

NORMALIZATION OF YUGOSLAV-CROATIAN RELATIONS

[07] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES DRAFT AGREEMENT ON NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH CROATIA

The Agreement will be signed by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and Croatian Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Aug. 23 in Belgrade, a Yugoslav Government statement said Thursday.

The Agreement sets long-term bases for the development of relations and cooperation between Yugoslavia and Croatia in the interests of the peoples and citizens of both countries, and for the settling of certain issues caused by the crisis in the territory of former Yugoslavia, the statement said.

Yhe draft Agreement creates a basis for future negotiations to result in mutually acceptable solutions in connection with territorial issues. It envisages the free and safe return of refugees and displaced persons and the settling of other important issues.

The Yugoslav Government assessed the active engagement of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the negotiations to arrive at this Agreement presented yet another confirmation of its constructive contribution to strengthening peace and stabilizing the situation in the territory of former Yugoslavia.

The Government set out the importance of the due and comprehensive implementation of the agreement, with which both sides will confirm in practice the shown option for the development of stable relations and cooperation on grounds established under the agreement, the Government statement said.

[08] NO MISSING PERSON LISTED BY CROATIA IS HELD PRISONER IN YUGOSLAVIA

At a recent two-day meeting in Zagreb, the Yugoslav side presented to the Croatian Commission for Missing Persons a written statement informing it that Yugoslavia had met all the obligations assumed under the Protocol on Cooperation, Todorovic said. He noted that, although not obliged to do so, the Yugoslav side had presented to the Croatian side a list with the names of 11 persons of Croatian nationality who had been arrested on other grounds and were not on Croatia's list of missing persons.

Todorovic said a list of persons killed in the town of Vukovar in 1991 had also been presented to the Croatian side, a list which hes pecified contained data about 770 identified and 335 unidentified victims. He said information had also been provided about 11 persons from Croatia's list of missing who had earlier resided in Yugoslavia but had emigrated in the meantime.

Todorovic said Croatia was to report on 21 persons arrested in 1991 by the then local Croatian authorities in eastern Slavonia, which is now under a U.N. transitional administration (UNTAES). He said information was also to be provided about 2,500 missing persons in the former Republic of Serb Krajina, and specified that, in addition to the Yugoslav and Croatian Commissions, Croatian and Bosnian Serb Commissions would work to clarify the matters.

The Croatian side submitted at the Zagreb meeting a list with the names of 145 persons from the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska who were taken prisoner in the two large-scale Croatian military operations in 1995.

According to the Croatian side's figures, a total of 960 persons were killed in the two military operations, of whom 242 have been identified. 'The Croatian side has stated that its authorities have released 850 persons, but when asked to provide a list with their names, no answer came,' Secretary of the Yugoslav Commission Maksim Korac said.

Yugoslavia is still inquiring about the fate of 980 missing persons.

[09] EAST SLAVONIA SERBS URGE NORMALIZATION OF YUGOSLAV-CROATIAN RELATIONS

SERBS IN CROATIA

[10] CROATIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN KRAJINA

Banac said the leadership of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union viewed as its ultimate goal the creation of an ethnically pure state, not only in Croatia but also in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

[11] BOSNIAN SERBS SEEK URGENT SOLUTION TO MISSING PERSONS ISSUE

Not a single request has been resolved so far, which indicates that the ICRC must be more effective, the Prijedor Red Cross said. Most of the civilians, mainly the elder, women and children from Sanski Most and villages in the Prijedor municipality, which became part of the Muslim-Croat Federation under the Dayton Accords, have been missing since the Muslim-Croat offensive on northwestern parts of Republika Srpska in October last year.

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