Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-09-10

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CONTENTS

[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES IFOR COMMANDER

[02] TALKS ON DAYTON ACCORDS, PREVLAKA PENINSULA

[03] WASHINGTON TALKS VERY SUCCESSFUL

[04] BOSNIAN MUSLIMS SET ON FIRE AND MINE BODIES OF SERB SOLDIERS

[05] HAMAS AND ISLAMIC JIHAD TERRORIST CENTERS IN BOSNIA

[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES IFOR COMMANDER

Milosevic and Lopez discussed issues vital for the implementation of the Dayton peace accords for Bosnia-Herzegovina. They stressed that IFOR had met all its obligations successfully in the implementation of the agreement to date and had largely helped to strengthen speedily overall security of citizens, and stability in former war zones. Milosevic said he was confident that IFOR would continue to cooperate successfully with the parties to the agreement, which he said was in the interest of the successful and full implementation of the Dayton accords.

The talks were attended also by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, Chief of the Yugoslav Army General Staff Lt. Gen. Momcilo Perisic and U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Belgrade Richard Miles.

[02] TALKS ON DAYTON ACCORDS, PREVLAKA PENINSULA

The first day of the New York visit was spent in reviewing the scope of the Dayton peace accords and in questing for a solution to the problem of Prevlaka. The talks had focused on Montenegro's firm commitment to protect its interests by peaceful means, through dialogue, taking heed of the interests of others, and in presenting documents and arguments in support of this option.

Bulatovic submitted to his partners in talks Montenegro's Aide-memoire on Prevlaka. The document shows Montenegro's continued option to deal with the problem without the use of force, by the strength of argument and in conformity with the norms of international law.

The talks are seen here as heralding the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's greater appearance on the international scene. Special attention was devoted to the implementation of the Dayton accords, especially in the light of Bosnia's Sept. 14 elections and the final lifting of the sanctions against the FRY that should follow. Also discussed was the matter of reintegrating the FRY in the international community, with special emphasis on reviving Yugoslavia's activity in the United Nations. NO ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS

N o v i S a d, Sept. 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Premier Uros Klikovac said no conditions had been stipulated officially for the lifting of the sanctions on Yugoslavia.

The deadlines and pledges for lifting the U.N. sanctions are linked to the elections in Bosnia next weekend, said Klikovac in an interview to Sunday's issue of the Novi Sad daily Dnevnik. The terms 'outside wall of the sanctions,' used widely in media, is vague, said Klikovac and added that the terms were new to international law.

Speaking of Yugoslavia's reintegration into international financial and other institutions and organizations, above all the United Nations, Klikovac said that depended least upon Yugoslavia.

However, he added, Yugoslavia was open to bilateral accords with all countries in business, finance, science and technology, to which end the Yugoslav Parliament had recently adopted regulations.

Asked about cooperation with the Hague Tribunal for War Crimes in former Yugoslavia, Klikovac said Yugoslavia was dissatisfied with the way in which the Court was founded and the way it worked, its lack of objectivity, and its politicization.

Yugoslavia has also submitted evidence of crimes committed against Serbs, which hadn't been properly considered, said Klikovac. We hope our cooperation now, through the activities of the Tribunal's Office recently opened in Belgrade, will alter the situation, and that much more will be done for the protection of the rights of citizens who had been damaged by the war in Bosnia, said Klikovac.

However, 'the sovereignty, territorial integrity and legislation of Yugoslavia must be respected,' he said and added that the Yugoslav Constitution did not provide for the extradition of Yugoslav citizens to the Hague Tribunal. This, however, does mean that perpetrators of war crimes should escape responsibility for violating international humanitarian law, said Klikovac.

[03] WASHINGTON TALKS VERY SUCCESSFUL

Minister Tomica Raicevic was speaking for Serbian Radio and Television's prime-time news program on returning from a several-day visit to Washington, where he had met with officials of the IMF, the World Bank and the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury.

Raicevic said practical steps had been negotiated at the World Bank and the institution's experts would be visiting the FRY to prepare further talks on regulating future relations.

'Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury David Lipton showed great interest in the Yugoslav economic trends and economic system, especially in regulations in the fields of foreign investment and privatization,' said Raicevic.

All meetings in Washington were held at high level, Raicevic said, adding that the Yugoslav delegation was very pleased on the whole with the treatment it had met with and talks it had held in Washington. It was especially happy with establishing ties for future talks on very important political and economic issues, he added.

[04] BOSNIAN MUSLIMS SET ON FIRE AND MINE BODIES OF SERB SOLDIERS

'We found the bodies of the Serb soldiers and civilians who were to be transported from Paljenik,' Brana Marusic, a member of the RS Commission for Prisoner Exchange in the area, told Tanjug. 'We have never seen something like that before. Some of the bodies were put to fire and others were mined and therefore we could not evacuate them,' Marusic said.

[05] HAMAS AND ISLAMIC JIHAD TERRORIST CENTERS IN BOSNIA

Referring to statements made by NATO officials and western diplomats, the daily said that reports about the existence of such centers ran counter U.S. administration statements that Bosnia and Herzegovina had severed intelligence and military connections with Iran.

Three Islamic fundamentalist organizations, along with the Bosnian secret police, were directly involved in the implementation of political terror tactics over the political opponents of the ruling Islamic party (SDA) and Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic had knowledge of those activities, the Israeli correspondent said quoting statements made by NATO officials and western diplomats.

The daily gave the example of several attacks to that end in the vicinity of Bihac. The attackers came from a Hamas camp near the city. There are up to several hundred instructors or 'terror experts' in such camps, the Israeli Globs said.

The report from Washington said many foreigners had been granted Bosnian citizenship, thanks to forced marriages with Bosnian women, and they are no longer considered as members of a 'foreign force', as defined in the Dayton Agreement. The money for Islamic fundamentalist actions has been coming from Iran, transferred by a Sudanese doctor living in Vienna, the daily said.

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