Yugoslav Daily Survey, 96-10-02

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CONTENTS

[01] U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL LIFTS ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS

[02] MILOSEVIC ADDRESSES PUBLIC AS U.N. LIFTS SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

[03] YUGOSLAV MINISTER SAYS LIFTING OF SANCTIONS HAS FAR-REACHING IMPORT

[04] FULCI: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE

[05] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS WORKING VISIT TO WASHINGTON

[06] GERMANY TO UPHOLD YUGOSLAVIA'S REINTEGRATION INTO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

[07] BALKAN PEACE MOVEMENTS - CONFERENCE

[08] YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN TARIFF-FREE TRADE STARTS ON OCT. 7

[09] YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN TRANSPORT AGREEMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED ON OCT.4

[10] MILOSEVIC AND IZETBEGOVIC TO MEET ON THURSDAY

[11] E.U. WILLING TO MAKE LONG-TERM EFFORT IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

[12] U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL LIFTS SANCTIONS AGAINST REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

[13] RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE ASSESSES BOSNIA PRESIDENCY MEETING

[14] EU MINISTERIAL COUNCIL: BOSNIAN ELECTIONS A GREAT STEP TOWARDS PEACE

[15] BILDT SAYS BIH PRESIDENCY MEETING MAKES HISTORY

[16] HOLBROOKE: NATO TROOPS ARE STILL NEEDED IN BOSNIA

[17] KORNBLUM TOURS BOSNIA THIS WEEK

[01] U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL LIFTS ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS

The U.N. Security Council's latest Resolution also dissolved the Sanctions Committee, which had operated all through the duration of the economic embargo against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

[02] MILOSEVIC ADDRESSES PUBLIC AS U.N. LIFTS SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

President Milosevic said, 'Today, the hardest times that have befallen our country in its recent history are finally behind us. The sanctions have been lifted. Over the past ten months, since Dayton, we have begun a successful economic recovery in the conditions of suspended sanctions.'

Now that the sanctions have been lifted, the recovery should be much faster and much more successful. From now on, our future depends on our work. Now a successful economic development and the raising of living standards are more at hand and easier to achieve, he said.

'Our country, which has great potential for a speedy economic development, will use that potential successfully and in the best possible way, and that depends on all of us. I therefore wish every success in work to every citizen, every family, every village and every town in the times ahead of us, in the times in which we expect a stable peace and a stable overall economic and social development,' he said.

[03] YUGOSLAV MINISTER SAYS LIFTING OF SANCTIONS HAS FAR-REACHING IMPORT

'This long-awaited decision about the lifting of the sanctions is of exceptional importance to us, and we are convinced that it will have a wider political significance as well,' Milutinovic said.

Speaking for Tanjug and the Yugoslav newspapers Politika and Vecernje Novosti, he said that Yugoslavia believed the decision would speed along the World Community's other positive steps towards Yugoslavia, both in the United Nations and in other forums.

'Yugoslavia's positions about the causes of the Yugoslav crisis and conflicts in parts of former Yugoslavia are well known, as is also its principled position that the sanctions, imposed four and a half years ago, were unjustified,' Milutinovic said. However, he added, 'our attention at this time is directed at other matters, at what lies ahead.'

The lifting of the sanctions is of great importance not only to Yugoslavia, but to the Region as a whole, Milutinovic said. It is important also for the future normal unfolding of the Peace Process on the basis of the Dayton/Paris Accords, he added.

This decision will give an impact to Yugoslavia's continued economic recovery, and its full and equal incorporation in the International Community, Milutinovic said. 'I hope that it will be welcomed by all countries in our neighbourhood, because it contributes to a faster normalisation of the economic processes in the broader Balkan region and Southeast Europe,' he added.

The adoption of the Resolution in keeping with the Dayton Accords and earlier decisions of the Security Council has reaffirmed the correctness of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's consistent, constructive and peaceful policy, Milutinovic said. This policy has been in evidence both at the time of negotiating and signing the Dayton Accords, and in the period of its successful implementation, and culminated in Bosnia-Herzegovina's recent first free and fair elections, he said.

'I wish to stress that Yugoslavia has urged for dealing with all problems through dialogue and by political means ever since the outbreak of the crisis in former Yugoslavia,' Milutinovic said.

Since the outbreak of Civil War, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has directed its efforts at achieving a lasting and equitable peace, with respect for the principle of equality and for the legitimate interests of all interested parties, he said. 'I am convinced that this commitment has received full international affirmation and support at this moment,' he added.

'It is well known that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has made a crucial contribution to the negotiation and successful implementation to date of the Dayton/Paris Accords on peace for Bosnia-Herzegovina,' Milutinovic said.

'Equally well known is its indispensable role in and contribution to the extensive and very complex preparations for the first free and fair elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina,' he added. These elections, he went on to say, 'marked the turning-point and a qualitatively new stage in the Peace Process and opened prospects for democracy, reconstruction and lasting stability in the Region.'

'Parallel with these efforts, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been developing and has substantially promoted relations with its neighbours on the foundations of equality, respect for territorial integrity and good-neighbourliness,' Milutinovic said. 'Within this framework, major results have been achieved to date in the normalisation of relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav republics, whose importance goes far beyond the bilateral framework,' he added.

'In view of all this, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has every right to expect that its indispensable constructive and peaceful role and its policy be recognised and the Security Council soon take the decision allowing it to take its rightful place in the United Nations,' he said.

'The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's full return to the International Community and its full inclusion in the modern integration processes in Europe and the world will certainly still further help develop all-round cooperation with the neighbours, with European and all other countries on the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual interest,' Milutinovic said.

[04] FULCI: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE

Fulci told the Italian News Agency ANSA that the Resolution marked a further headway in the process of the normalization of the situation and establishment of good inter-state relations in the Region. He said Italy was prepared to help those countries, its neighbours, return to a road of progress.

The Italian Ambassador said his country would lend full support to further steps for Yugoslavia's full participation in all international organizations, including the U.N.

[05] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS WORKING VISIT TO WASHINGTON

During the two-day visit, Milutinovic had many contacts with political personages from the White House and Congress. He visited the Washington Post on tuesday. Talks with the Editorial Board focused on the Peace Process in the former Yugoslavia, normalization of relations between the United States and Yugoslavia, and the latter's reincorporation into International Organizations.

Milutinovic on Monday met with Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and the second man in the National Security Council, Samuel Berger. Talks centred on normalization of bilateral relations, emphasizing the revival of economic cooperation that has been frozen during the sanctions. The topic was broached in New York last week in a meeting between Milutinovic and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

The meeting opened top-level dialogue for the first time in four years, when the sanctions were imposed on Yugoslavia. Both sides expressed interest in speeding up the process, the more so as relations between the two countries are not encumbered by any legacy. Quite the contrary, the two countries had been allies, and have a long tradition of diplomatic and friendly relations.

Milutinovic met on Monday with prominent senator Richard Lugar, a Republican from Indiana, who chairs the Senate's Subcommittee for European Affairs.

[06] GERMANY TO UPHOLD YUGOSLAVIA'S REINTEGRATION INTO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Gruber said this in a talk with President of the Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens Radoman Bozovic, the Parliament's Information Service announced.

Gruber expressed his country's interest in the renewal of all-round bilateral, especially economic, relations.

In pointing to the significance of solving the problem of a large number of asylum seekers from the Serb Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Kosmet) who are not entitled to residing in Germany, Gruber underscored the urgency of signing an Agreement on their return to the F.R.Y. Gruber also called for a stabilization of conditions in Kosmet through political dialogues.

Bozovic pointed out that now in progress was a stepped-up process of normalization of relations with the former Yugoslav republics, which signified that the Dayton Peace Agreement was being implemented successfully and integrally.

In assessing that the renewal of overall relations with Germany was one of the priorities in Yugoslavia's foreign policy, Bozovic pointed out the need to develop economic, scientific and technical, cultural and other cooperation between the two states.

Bozovic was confident that the continued dialogues on education and other points would make the Albanian minority members begin to exercise their rights guaranteed by the Federal and Republican Constitutions, as do the other minorities in the F.R.Y.

[07] BALKAN PEACE MOVEMENTS - CONFERENCE

The meeting at the Yugoslav Adriatic resort will be attended by all FEBANGO members and representatives of several European Peace Movements and International Organizations, the League said in a statement. The Conference will focus on the activities of Balkan non-Governmental Movements and Organizations for peace and cooperation, and on problems encountered by Balkan countries in their endeavours to cooperate and strengthen mutual relations and contribute to progress in the Region in general, the statement says.

[08] YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN TARIFF-FREE TRADE STARTS ON OCT. 7

In keeping with an Interstate Agreement on trade, goods made in the territory of Yugoslavia and Macedonia will not be subject to customs and non-customs duties, the Yugoslav Information Secretariat said after a meeting between Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic and Macedonian Transport Minister Dimitar Buzlevski.

Kontic and Buzlevski underscored the need for returning international traffic to the major European corridor on the North-South route which passes through Yugoslavia and Macedonia.

[09] YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIAN TRANSPORT AGREEMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED ON OCT.4

Vujovic said he and Buzlevski had also discussed the new concept for the development of the North-South corridor, which will provide better transport links with the world.

Buzlevski told journalists that in the next few days a Joint Committee of Transport experts would be formed and would immediately start implementing all the obligations defined in Interstate Agreements.

Buzlevski said that in the sphere of rail transport there are no problems and that under consideration is the opening of a joint border station. He said that there also exist possibilities for cooperation in the sphere of air traffic and that this would be discussed on October 12.

[10] MILOSEVIC AND IZETBEGOVIC TO MEET ON THURSDAY

After the meeting, Milosevic and Izetbegovic will have luncheon at the Elysee Palace with French President Jacques Chirac.

[11] E.U. WILLING TO MAKE LONG-TERM EFFORT IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

The Council decided that, for at least another two years, the European Union should continue effectively to participate in the consolidation of peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the wider area with which it hopes to establish regional cooperation.

The Ministers stressed the important part that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia have to play in this respect. They invited the Governments in Belgrade and Zagreb to continue to make constructive contribution and efforts to promote Regional peace and stability. Promotion of Yugoslav-Croatian relations will have a positive impact on dealing with the problem of East Slavonia, and on building the local Serbs' confidence in the authorities in Croatia, the Ministers said.

They gave positive marks to developments in Serbia's Southern Province of Kosovo-Metohija, saying that a first step had been taken towards opening all-round dialogue on the status of the Province which they stressed is a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This is a problem with international implications for the broader Region and therefore remains in the focus of the European Union's attention, the E.U. Foreign Ministers stressed.

[12] U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL LIFTS SANCTIONS AGAINST REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

The U.N. Sanctions Committee was also dissolved under Resolution 1074, which was unanimously adopted late on Tuesday.

The decision on the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska took effect through the adoption.

[13] RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE ASSESSES BOSNIA PRESIDENCY MEETING

This statement was made at a News Conference on Tuesday by Mikhail Demurin, official representative of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Moscow.

Demurin said that Moscow was hoping that the President and Members of the BIH Presidency would display what he called high responsibility in their offices and that they would contribute actively to the establishment of single Bosnia-Herzegovina in the composition of which there are two Entities and three Constituent Nations, as specified by the Paris Peace Agreement. He added that it was exceptionally important that the Presidency meeting had marked the 'beginning of the work of the first joint body of new Bosnia, contributing to the formation of other structures of authority in the BIH.' Demurin said that this fact was received in Russia with great satisfaction.

[14] EU MINISTERIAL COUNCIL: BOSNIAN ELECTIONS A GREAT STEP TOWARDS PEACE

The Foreign Ministers of the 15 Member-States made this assessment at a meeting in Luxembourg on the basis of a report by Carl Bildt, High Representative of the International Community for the implementation of the civilian aspects of the Bosnian Peace Agreement.

The Ministers promised to Bildt their full support to the consolidation of new Bosnian authorities, which has practically started with a meeting of the newly elected Presidency on Monday, described as decisive for the continuation of the Peace Process.

They pointed to the importance of holding elections for Local authorities in both Bosnian Entities (Muslim-Croat Federation and Republika Srpska), which should be held probably next November 24.

[15] BILDT SAYS BIH PRESIDENCY MEETING MAKES HISTORY

This was 'a good sign for the future,' said Bildt in a statement distributed among journalists in Geneva after the meeting between Alija Izetbegovic, Momcilo Krajisnik and Kresimir Zubak, which was held less than 24 hours after an official proclamation of the regularity of the elections.

Bildt said that the new Presidency had now taken over all duties and responsibilities embodied in the Constitution. These duties, he recalled, also comprise the joint Foreign policy. Bildt said it was very important now for the Presidency to form a Council of Ministers (Central Government) possibly by the end of this October.

[16] HOLBROOKE: NATO TROOPS ARE STILL NEEDED IN BOSNIA

Nobody in their senses can expect, much less urge, the reduction of 60,000 troops to naught, said Holbrooke, speaking in the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. That would be very dangerous, he said and added that the threat of war reigniting in Bosnia was still present. Holbrooke said a smaller contingent of troops should remain in Bosnia after the end of the year, when IFOR's one-year mandate expired. U.S. military presence will be crucial to that contingent, he said.

The Committee, chaired by Senator Richard Lugar (Rep), opened debate on the future role of the Implementation Force in Bosnia.

U.S. Envoy for the Balkans John Kornblum attended the Session. Kornblum showed restraint, saying that the issue would be dealt with by NATO planners and strategists in Brussels, and that no decision should be expected before the end of October.

[17] KORNBLUM TOURS BOSNIA THIS WEEK

Kornblum is scheduled to arrive in Paris first, and then fly to Zagreb to meet with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. He is due to attend Sessions of the Bosnian Presidency and the Parliament's Lower House in Sarajevo on Sunday.

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