Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-01-14

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAVIA, ROMANIA TO PROMOTE BILATERAL COOPERATION

[02] YUGOSLAV MINISTER CONFERS WITH UNICEF DELEGATION

[03] RUSSIAN ACADEMICIAN: SAME HAND WRITES YUGOSLAV, BULGARIAN SCENARIOS

[04] MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MEETS WITH E.U. REPRESENTATIVE

[05] NO CONSEQUENCES FOR BELGRADE STUDENT PROTESTERS, SAYS CHANCELLOR

[06] CONDITIONS ENSURED FOR ESTABLISHING DEFINITE ELECTION RESULTS IN NIS

[07] REPORT ON VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL WAR AND HUMANITARIAN LAW DURING WAR IN EX-YUGOSLAVIA

[01] YUGOSLAVIA, ROMANIA TO PROMOTE BILATERAL COOPERATION

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

[02] YUGOSLAV MINISTER CONFERS WITH UNICEF DELEGATION

'Yugoslavia highly values the aid provided by UNICEF, which has never severed cooperation with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and has always been ready to come to its aid,' Savovic told the guests. She noted that Yugoslavia counted on UNICEF's assistance in the implementation of the plan for the protection of children, which presupposes Yugoslavia's reintegration into international economic processes.

It was set out in the talk that assistance was necessary since solutions were still lacking for the return of refugees, of whom there are about 700, 000 in Yugoslavia, including 300,000 children, many of whom of the school age.

The UNICEF officials promised that the information offered to them would find a place in their recommendations for UNICEF's continued aid for the well-being of children and families in Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

[03] RUSSIAN ACADEMICIAN: SAME HAND WRITES YUGOSLAV, BULGARIAN SCENARIOS

According to Volkov, behind them lies the West's aspiration to draw these countries into its sphere of influence and, at the geo-political level, stretch a tight nato belt from the Atlantic, via the Balkans and the Middle East, to the Persian Gulf. He said he was convinced that the unrest in Bulgaria was not accidental and spontaneous, adding that matters of this kind were invariably well prepared.

Volkov refused to speculate if developments in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria might spill over into the other Balkan countries, specifically Albania, but said he believed that such a possibility should not be ruled out.

The Albanian question in the Balkans had not been settled, and there were, too, the differences between Romanians and Hungarians, he said, adding that there was also a spirit of revanchism abroad in Turkey, trying to put a check on Russia's policy in the Balkans.

All these were links in the same chain, Volkov said, warning of an increasing interference from the West, especially the United States, in the internal affairs of the Balkan countries. He said that this was especially clear in the case of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where Washington was openly championing the opposition.

He said that the chief U.S. policy objective was clearly to weaken the Serbian factor in the Balkans as much as possible and draw the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and other states in the region into the West's sphere of economic interests and security system.

According to him, the continuation of the peace operation in Bosnia is part of this strategy, aimed to consolidate NATO's presence in the region.

Volkov said that the United States and its western allies were absolutely wrong to try to weaken the Serbian factor in the Balkans. This would disrupt the balance of forces in the region, which in turn would carry a threat of another explosion, he explained.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

[04] MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER MEETS WITH E.U. REPRESENTATIVE

Feada expressed interest in the resolution adopted by the Montenegrin Parliament on the latest events in Serbia. He said that Montenegro's efforts were measured, serious and decisive for the development of democracy. He also praised the transformation of Montenegro into an off- shore zone.

Marovic underscored the need for E.U.'s more extensive economic involvement in the development of Montenegro and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the statement said.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

[05] NO CONSEQUENCES FOR BELGRADE STUDENT PROTESTERS, SAYS CHANCELLOR

The demands have been upheld also by the Serbian Vice Premiers in a meeting with a student delegation two days ago.

This will make it possible to normalise classes and examinations in colleges where classes have been interrupted by the protests, University Chancellor Dragutin Velickovic told reporters after the Monday meeting. 'The discussion was exhausive and civilised, and all those present made their full contribution to the work of the Council,' Velickovic said. He added that most of the colleges, 19 in all, had had regular classes during the protests.

Velickovic said that the University Council, as the only competent body to discuss confidence in a Chancellor, would discuss the students' demands for his replacement and that of the student Vice Chancellor at a session called for Jan. 15.

Asked why he had not addressed the students once during their 50-day protest, he said that regrettably they had not sought his opinion on any matter. Velickovic said that, over the three years he had been Chancellor, he had invariably responded to the students' requests and had had understanding for their problems.

He said he respected the right of the students freely to express their will, as guaranteed under the Constitution, but regretted that they should have disrupted the academic year in the process.

'A University Chancellor has no place in manifestations that rally people wholly unconnected with students and that move in a different direction,' Velickovic explained.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

[06] CONDITIONS ENSURED FOR ESTABLISHING DEFINITE ELECTION RESULTS IN NIS

Serbian Government did not establish the election results as it is not empowered to do so, the statement says.

The Ministry of Justice reiterated that all electoral documents it had examined show that the political organization Zajedno had indisputably won the majority of seats in the Municipal Assembly, and that the City Electoral Commission is the sole body competent to establish the exact number of seats won by each political party.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

[07] REPORT ON VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL WAR AND HUMANITARIAN LAW DURING WAR IN EX-YUGOSLAVIA

Detailed are 90 cases of war crimes carried out during the operation which aimed at totally annihilating and expelling all Serbs from Croatia, a statement by the Federal Information Secretariat said. In this operation, the Croatian Army forced over 250,000 Krajina Serbs to abandon their ancestrial homes. This genocide plan has transformed the Serbs from a constitutive nation in Croatia, to a minority making up only three percent of the population of Croatia, the Report said.

Following the action, the members of the Fourth Croatian Army Guards Brigade stationed in the Adriatic city of Split, together with the Bosnian Croat Army (HVO), occuppied on Oct. 10, 1995 the region of Mrkonjic Grad in the Bosnian Serb State Republika Srpska (RS). This act included crimes against the civilian population which were positively confirmed after the exhumation of graves at the Orthodox and Muslim cementeries in Mrkonjic Grad in early April 1996 in the presence of the representatives of the International Tribunalin the Hague.

The exhumation at the Orthodox cementary revealed the remains of 181 Serbs. The oldest were a 91-year-old man and a 90-year-old woman, although the Croats claimed that in Mrkonjic Grad the victims were only 'enemy soldiers.'

The Dayton Agreement returned Mrkonjic Grad to Republika Srpska in February 1996.

The report also cantains data about the violation of the International War and Humanitarian Law in the town of Visegrad, in RS, before and during the war, crimes in a camp located in a silo in the village of Tarcin, central Bosnia, and the abuse of medical institutions in Sarajevo in military aims.

The Report will be sent to the corresponding international bodies primarily the United Nations and the Belgrade Office of the International Tribunal for war crimes committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the statement said.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-14 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-13

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