Yugoslav Daily Survey, 96-10-03

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CONTENTS

[01] MILOSEVIC AND IZETBEGOVIC OPEN TALKS IN PARIS

[02] YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER LEAVES FOR BRATISLAVA

[03] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN PARIS

[04] SERBIAN DEPUTY INFORMATION MINISTER VISITS BAGHDAD

[05] GOVERNMENT: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS CONFIRMS YUGOSLAVIA'S POSITIVE ROLE

[06] SERBIAN GOVERNMENT: CONDITIONS SET FOR SPEEDIER SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY

[07] MONTENEGRIN LEADERS WELCOME LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS

[08] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS IMPORTANT FOR ENTIRE REGION

[09] SWITZERLAND TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH YUGOSLAVIA

[10] LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS SEEN AS HELP TO REGIONAL STABILITY

[11] WESTON: LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA CONFIRMATION OF PEACE PROCESS

[12] LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS VITAL FOR ENTIRE BALKANS

[13] SLOVENIA WELCOMES LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

[14] WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION ENDS BLOCKADE OF THE DANUBE

[15] NAVAL BLOCKADE IN THE ADRIATIC LIFTED

[16] YUGOSLAVIA OPENS CONSULATE IN TEL AVIV

[17] YUGOSLAV AND CROATIAN COMMISSIONS FOR MISSING PERSONS MEET IN BELGRADE

[18] YUGOSLAVIA IS BULGARIA'S MAJOR ECONOMIC PARTNER

[01] MILOSEVIC AND IZETBEGOVIC OPEN TALKS IN PARIS

The talks are expected to deal with ways of stabilising the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and opening new prospects for all-round cooperation in the former Yugoslavia.

Moreover, Bosnia's legal and legitimate bodies, established in keeping with the Dayton Peace Agreement, which are to ensure equality of Bosnia's three Ethnic groups, Moslems, Serbs and Croats, are to be formalised in the talks.

After the talks, a reception will be given in Milosevic's honour at French President Jacques Chirac's residence during which promotion of overall Yugoslav-French relations will be discussed.

[02] YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER LEAVES FOR BRATISLAVA

Kontic, who left accompanied by several ministers and businessmen, told the Press at Belgrade airport that the visit would 'impart a strong impulse to the development of the bilateral relations,' especially economic. He said several Agreements, Programs and Protocols were to be signed during the visit.

Kontic told reporters he hoped Agreement would be reached on 'formalizing forty or so Inter-State Agreements signed and ratified by Slovakia and the former Yugoslavia.'

The Yugoslav Prime Minister noted that the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia had created a more favourable situation for bilateral cooperation. 'Foreign partners no longer face risks when doing business with Yugoslav firms,' Kontic said.

He noted that since relations between Belgrade and Bratislava were normalized early this year, the value of trade between the two countries had increased and some forms of long-term cooperation had been renewed.

[03] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN PARIS

Milutinovic will also attend in Paris a meeting between President Milosevic and French President Jacques Chirac.

Following successful diplomatic activities in New York crowned by the lifting of the anti-Yugoslav sanctions, the Paris meeting will confirm Yugoslavia's position in international politics.

[04] SERBIAN DEPUTY INFORMATION MINISTER VISITS BAGHDAD

The Delegation, made up of officials of the Belgrade daily Borba, the Yugoslav Tanjug News Agency and Serbian Radio and Television, will discuss at the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information the two countries' cooperation in the sphere of information.

[05] GOVERNMENT: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS CONFIRMS YUGOSLAVIA'S POSITIVE ROLE

Resolution 1074/96 on the definite lifting of economic sanctions against Yugoslavia, unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council, is very important, the Federal Government said, because it marked the decisive step toward a normalization of the situation in the entire Region, the statement said.

All Yugoslav citizens know only too well the grave consequences of the international sanctions on life, work, and the economy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (F.R.Y.).

Recalling the measures it took to help preserve the country's economic and social potentials and secure the lifting of the comprehensive and binding sanctions imposed in May 1992, the Federal Government 'can say with pleasure that the most difficult period is behind us.' 'Ahead is a period of work on general economic renewal and Yugoslavia's full reintegration into the International Community,' said the statement.

When the sanctions were suspended late last year, the statement pointed out, the Federal Government took a series of measures regarding International Organizations and Institutions, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and others aimed at restoring Yugoslavia's international position. The statement further said that the F.R.Y. had established relations with former Yugoslav republics, signed a series of bilateral agreements with neighbouring and other countries, normalizing relations in the area of economic and other forms of cooperation.

The Government said the definite lifting of the sanctions would doubtless step up progress toward economic recovery and renewal of international ties and cooperation. 'Yugoslavia rightly expects to repossess its place at the United Nations and other International Organizations as soon as possible,' the statement said.

'The Federal Government will continue with the constructive policy and support to the full and efficient implementation of the Peace Accord, with the objective further to fortify peace and achieve the full normalization and stabilization of the situation, and the successful economic and social development of the F.R.Y.,' the statement said. 'This will contribute to the development of comprehensive cooperation with neighbouring and other regional countries, and also with all European and other countries, on the grounds of mutual understanding, respect and full equality,' said the Federal Government statement in conclusion.

[06] SERBIAN GOVERNMENT: CONDITIONS SET FOR SPEEDIER SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY

The Government assessed that the sanctions had been overcome, thanks, above all, to Yugoslavia's peaceful policy and support from the citizens to the Government's economic policy and the restrictive, but realistic, measures, requiring sacrifices from all, said a statement released by the Information Ministry.

[07] MONTENEGRIN LEADERS WELCOME LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS

'Finally, our citizens will also be able to feel the concrete benefits of the peace-making policy and the truly vast efforts the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (F.R.Y.) invested even at the time when it was unjustly condemned, and its citizens were exposed to inhuman living conditions,' Bulatovic said in a statement for the media.

The President of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro said he expected all countries would soon amend their legislature to enable a fuller and normal political and economic cooperation with neighbouring countries. This would make it possible for the F.R.Y. very soon to take the place which belongs to it according to importance, renown, and policy among the family of Balkan, European and all peoples and states in the world, Bulatovic said. From the viewpoint of Montenegro, the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia presents yet another confirmation of the elementary democratic principles on which its policy is based, Bulatovic said. Bulatovic said he was satisfied that Montenegro had completed on time all preparations for a speedy democratic development and the activation of economic potentials.

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said the U.N. Security Council decision to lift the sanctions was, on the global scale, an extremely important step in the implementation of the Peace Process. It reflects the full readiness of the International Community to open wider and intense processes of Yugoslavia's reintegration, he said. 'I am certain that a new stage of cooperation and stability in the Balkans is opening up with the constituting of democratically elected organs of authority in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the lifting of the sanctions against the F.R.Y. and Republika Srpska, the Serb Entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina,' Djukanovic said. The decision on the lifting of the anti-Yugoslav sanctions is a legal-formal verification of the long-term efforts of the F.R.Y. 'to stop the civil war and normalize relations with its neighbours,' the Prime Minister said.

After the most difficult years, when the citizens of Montenegro had managed to preserve their dignity, an optimistic spirit and the idea of Yugoslavianism, 'I believe the best days are ahead for Montenegro,' Prime Minister Djukanovic concluded.

[08] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS IMPORTANT FOR ENTIRE REGION

In an interview from New York to Belgrade Radio Milutinovic underscored the contribution of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic saying that he had been the architect of the Peace Agreement which opened up the way for the lifting of the international embargo and that the Agreement would not have been possible without him. Milutinovic said that Yugoslavia had entered the Dayton Peace Process with great enthusiasm and optimism and that all activities so far had been based on the conviction that the right thing was being done.

'The world admitted this and concluded in a certain way in the Security Council Resolutions and in everything happening over the past few days that Yugoslavia had been the pillar of the Peace Process and that it would have been difficult to reach peace in these Regions had it not been for its role and principled position,' Milutinovic said.

He said that 'we have done much for our country's credibility in the world and our neighbourhood.' He said he believed that the lifting of the sanctions represents 'the victory of our country's peaceful and correct policy.' Milutinovic stated that Yugoslavia has still much to do and that a lot of efforts are needed for peace and cooperation to fully reign in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

[09] SWITZERLAND TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH YUGOSLAVIA

The Government in Bern took the decision after the U.N. Security Council ruled late on Tuesday to lift all sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Switzerland made no conditions for establishing full Diplomatic Relations, although the Foreign Ministry's statement did say that the Government expected Yugoslavia to receive back all its nationals at present living in Switzerland without a residence permit.

Switzerland was referring to ethnic Albanians from Kosovo-Metohija, the Southern Province in the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. According to Swiss Government figures, there are somewhat more than 8,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo-Metohija in Switzerland. They are seeking political asylum, which the Swiss Government is unwilling to grant, and insists instead that they go back.

[10] LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS SEEN AS HELP TO REGIONAL STABILITY

Russian President Boris Yeltsin has welcomed the lifting of the sanctions against the F.R.Y. and the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska. Yeltsin stressed a need for Russia to continue to pursue its foreign policy line that insists on equality for all parties in the Peace Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov has described the lifting of the sanctions as a well-deserved recognition of the constructive policy of the Yugoslav leadership, which had made a great contribution to ending the conflict. Primakov added that the thing to do now was to return the F.R.Y. to the United Nations, OSCE and other international bodies.

Great Britain welcomes the final lifting of the anti-Yugoslav sanctions, according to a Foreign Office functionary who spoke to Tanjug in London on Wednesday. The official added that the lifting of the sanctions had Britain's general and full support, based on the contribution made by the F.R.Y. to the Peace Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina to date.

France feels profound joy at the lifting of the sanctions, according to a French Embassy statement released in Belgrade. France will continue to work for a faster reintegration of the F.R.Y. in world bodies, especially financial institutions, the statement went on to say. The lifting of the anti-Yugoslav sanctions and the upcoming Paris summit are ushering in a new era in the return to peace and economic development in the Region, the statement added.

The Romanian Foreign Ministry welcomes the U.N. Security Council's decision and regards it as being capable of consolidating peace and stability in the Region, according to Secretary of State Lazar Comanescu, as quoted by the National Rom Press News Agency.

A Greek Foreign Ministry statement, issued in Athens on Wednesday afternoon, expressed pleasure at the Security Council's decision to lift the sanctions, stressing that the decision was in line with the Dayton Peace Accords.

[11] WESTON: LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA CONFIRMATION OF PEACE PROCESS

Weston told BBC radio that the Security Council was 'very satisfied' that conditions had been met for the formal lifting of the economic blockade against Yugoslavia. Weston recalled that basic conditions for the final lifting of sanctions had been met earlier and that only the certification of the Bosnia election results was waited for.

[12] LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS VITAL FOR ENTIRE BALKANS

Konakchiev told Tanjug's Sofia-based correspondent that Yugoslavia's full reintegration into international organisations and financial institutions would also contribute to stability in the Balkans and entire Europe. He expressed hope that the times of hostilities and the U.N. sanctions would soon become a distant past and would serve as a reminder of an attempt to isolate a European country from the International Community, he said.

[13] SLOVENIA WELCOMES LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

[14] WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION ENDS BLOCKADE OF THE DANUBE

The AFP news agency carries a statement issued in Brussels to the effect that the WEU had carried out 6,748 inspections during the blockade, discovering 422 attempts to violate the embargo.

Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania joined the WEU in monitoring the Danube.

[15] NAVAL BLOCKADE IN THE ADRIATIC LIFTED

In their joint announcement, NATO and WEU said they had intercepted 74,000 vessels since the blockade was introduced in 1993 and eased last June, when the U.N. lifted its embargo on arms deliveries to the area of former Yugoslavia. The announcement said that none of the ships had broken through the blockade otherwise attempted by no more than six vessels. NATO and WEU assessed the blockade as a successful mission.

[16] YUGOSLAVIA OPENS CONSULATE IN TEL AVIV

The Government decided also to continue the work of the Yugoslav Embassy in Jordan, said the Yugoslav Information Ministry.

[17] YUGOSLAV AND CROATIAN COMMISSIONS FOR MISSING PERSONS MEET IN BELGRADE

The Commissions will exchange figures and other information on identified and/or unidentified persons killed or missing since the outbreak of armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia, as agreed last May at a meeting in Zagreb.

The Commissions are pursuing their activities in line with the recently concluded Agreement on the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Republic of Croatia and the Protocol on joint resolving of issues regarding persons killed, captured or missing, the statement says.

[18] YUGOSLAVIA IS BULGARIA'S MAJOR ECONOMIC PARTNER

Konakchiev told Tanjug that the two countries could further improve their economic relations by putting to use all possibilities for increasing the value of the bilateral trade.

The Bulgarian official said the Bulgarian-Yugoslav Commission for economic cooperation would devote special attention to production integration of the two economies at its meeting in Belgrade on October 3-4. We will also discuss in Belgrade joint undertakings on third markets and possibilities for the value of trade both ways to reach 500 million dollars as early as in 1997.

The two Governments must take corresponding measures and provide facilities to stimulate integration and joint appearances on the world market, the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister noted.

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