Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-01-28

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Yugoslav Daily Survey

CONTENTS

[01] MILUTINOVIC AND IVANOV CONFIRM CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE RELATIONS AND COOPERATION

[02] UNTAES WILL OPEN OFFICES THROUGHOUT EAST SLAVONIA

[03] ZUBAK SAYS MOSLEMS FAIL TO CLOSE DOWN MUJAHEDDIN CAMPS

[04] ACCORD REACHED TO HONOUR PROCEDURE IN ZONES OF SEPARATION IN BOSNIA

[05] YUGOSLAVIA EXPORTS GOODS WORTH 1.8 BILLION DOLLARS IN 1996

[06] YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ DISCUSS BUSINESS COOPERATION

[01] MILUTINOVIC AND IVANOV CONFIRM CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE RELATIONS AND COOPERATION

Milutinovic and Ivanov concluded that the issue of municipal elections in the Republic of Serbia was an internal affair of the FRY and that the recommendations contained in the Gonzalez report implied that all these issues should be resolved through dialogue and within the institutions of the system.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-28 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-28

[02] UNTAES WILL OPEN OFFICES THROUGHOUT EAST SLAVONIA

UNTAES spokesman Philip Arnolds told a news conference on Monday that about 35,000 people had so far obtained citizenship certificates and identity cards through the UNTAES.

Asked about the international community's obligations after the region comes under Croatia's rule, Arnolds said the Erdut Agreement envisaged the presence of international observers for a long number of years after the termination of the UNTAES.

The spokesman said the return of Serbs to West Slavonia and other parts of Croatia was the most difficult issue and should primarily be the concern of the UNHCR, which has launched a pilot project for the return of Serbs to West Slavonia and of Croats to East Slavonia.

Arnolds stressed that Serbs could live anywhere in Croatia provided they were Croatian citizens, and noted that the UNHCR, the international community and the Erdut Agreement were very clear on that point.

About 60,000-70,000 people who lived in the region before 1991 have the right to return, the UNTAES official said. He noted that only a hundred people had returned to West Slavonia due to housing problems.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-28 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-27

[03] ZUBAK SAYS MOSLEMS FAIL TO CLOSE DOWN MUJAHEDDIN CAMPS

Speaking for the independent Sarajevo magazine 'Slobodna Bosna', Zubak said he knew for certain that there were Mujaheddin camps in Bosnia, which he said showed that Moslems had failed to meet the obligation to close down all camps with foreign combatants. Zubak said he knew where the camps were located and was ready to support his claim with documents.

He denied the allegation that there were secret military camps also in Croat-held territories.

Commenting on his position on Moslems' ruling Party of Democratic Action (SDA) voiced in an interview with the Zagreb daily 'Vjesnik', Zubak said he still believed that the SDA wanted to create an Islamic state in Bosnia- Herzegovina. In this connection, he said the SDA was not a civic party but a religious and nationalist party.

He said it was enough to analyze the Moslems' flag which he said had religious symbols as well as statements by Moslem officials, both senior and junior, and requests that the SDA programme include also a programme for Moslem youth - to see that he was right.

Asked on which occasion Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian Moslem leader and Chairman of Bosnia's three-man Presidency, had stated that Croats and Serbs would be granted no greater rights than those granted to Algerians in France, Zubak said, 'he (Izetbegovic) stated that in an interview with the local television in Zenica (central Bosnia),' adding that he had the entire interview recorded.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-28 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-27

[04] ACCORD REACHED TO HONOUR PROCEDURE IN ZONES OF SEPARATION IN BOSNIA

President Biljana Plavsic was meeting with the International Community's High Representative Carl Bildt, Multinational Stabilisation Force (SFOR) Commander William Crouch and International Police Training Force (IPTF) Commander Peter Fitzgerald.

The meeting was convened following Sunday's incident in the village of Gajevi south of Brcko. The incident was triggered when a group of Muslims tried to bring building materials into the village and start building, although most of them had not lived in the village before the war.

A statement issued from the Presidential Cabinet said the Serb side condemned every form of violence and disregard for the procedure for the return of refugees that might cause incidents in the zones of separation, regardless of who might provoke the incidents.

The statement again warned of Muslims' unlawful entries into the territory of the Republika Srpska and increasingly frequent arrests of Serbs, adding that the Republika Srpska police had been instructed to investigate the latest incident and establish responsibility.

After the meeting, Bildt said it had been agreed that those responsible be called to account, adding it had been agreed that joint patrols begin at once. He said that it had also been agreed to take other measures so as to ensure respect for the agreed procedure in the inter-entity zones of separation.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-28 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-27

[05] YUGOSLAVIA EXPORTS GOODS WORTH 1.8 BILLION DOLLARS IN 1996

Yugoslavia's 1996 imports were worth 4.102 billion dollars, the Belgrade daily 'Borba' said on Monday.

'Borba' assessed the Yugoslav exports in 1996 as favourable and added that the appearance of Yugoslav goods on world markets was limited by this country's unresolved status in the most important international economic and financial organizations.

The majority of Yugoslav exports went to Macedonia (212 million dollars). Products worth 181 million dollars were exported to Italy, goods worth 156 million dollars were exported to the Russian Federation and Germany imported Yugoslav goods worth 146 million dollars, said the daily.

Yugoslavia's imports from Germany were worth 524 million dollars, from Italy 435 million dollars, from the Russian Federation 225 million dollars and from Macedonia 213 million dollars.

Yugoslavia mostly imported raw materials and intermediates for production. The Yugoslav Bureau of Statistics forecasts better production and export results for 1997.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-28 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-27

[06] YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ DISCUSS BUSINESS COOPERATION

Saleh and the Yugoslav delegation reviewed the possibility of the participation of Yugoslav companies' in a U.N. project enabling Iraq to export oil in exchange for food and medicine.

Under U.N. Security Council resolution 986, Iraq was allowed to export a 2 billion dollars' worth of oil every six months in order to buy food and medicine for its population, worn down by years of U.N. sanctions.

Yugoslav Daily Survey, 1997-01-28 ; Tanjug, 1997-01-27

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