Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-07-11

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CONTENTS

[01] SFOR KILLS ONE SERB, ARRESTS THREE

[02] YUGOS TO BE SOLD IN POLAND

[03] YUGOSLAV BUILDERS SIGN NEW CONTRACTS WITH FOREIGN PARTNERS

[04] SERBIAN PARLIAMENT OPENS DEBATE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN RS

[05] RS LEADERS MEET SENATORS, SERBIAN ORTHODOX OFFICIALS

[06] RS GOVERNMENT CRITICISES SFOR OPERATION IN PRIJEDOR

[07] KRAJISNIK CONDEMNS SFOR ACTIONS

[08] JOULWAN CONFIRMS SFOR ACTION - PLAVSIC PROTESTS

[01] SFOR KILLS ONE SERB, ARRESTS THREE

Tanjug, 1997-07-10

The Security Center in Prijedor said that SFOR troops killed Thursday morning the former chief of that center Simo Drljaca, and arrested his son and brother-in-law. The statement specified that the armed action, in which SFOR used helicopters and armoured cars, was carried out in the village of Gradina, near Prijedor. Drljaca,= it was said, was brutally killed, and his body was taken by SFOR troops in an unknown direction. SFOR arrested Drljaca's son and brother-in-law.

The Security Center in Prijedor also said that SFOR troops arrested Thursday, at his work place, the director of the hospital in that town Milan Mica Kovacevic and took him away in an unknown direction.

[02] YUGOS TO BE SOLD IN POLAND

Tanjug, 1997-07-10

The Yugoslav car producer Zastava is returning to the Polish market.

The company has contracted the export of 1,000 Yugo vehicles in parts, which will be assembled through the Davismotor company in a factory in Lodz. The Polish partner is interested in buying larger quantities of vehicles, but the realisation depends on Zastava's abilities. Zastava will produce 20,000 cars this year and plans to export half of this quantity. Most of its exports, or 7,680 Zastava 128 cars, will go to Egypt. The factory has already delivered 2,880 of these vehicles. Other buyers of Zastava cars this year include the Czech Republic (800), Ecuador (500), Greece, Macedonia, Slovenia. The factory's exports should total 210 million dollars this year.

[03] YUGOSLAV BUILDERS SIGN NEW CONTRACTS WITH FOREIGN PARTNERS

Tanjug, 1997-07-09

Construction companies in Serbia concluded 15 new contracts with foreign partners in the first four months of 1997, according to the latest Serbian Chamber of Commerce figures.

The total value of the new contracts, the renewed arrangements with foreign partners and those already being carried out total 453 million dollars. The 12 biggest companies which specialize in complex construction undertakings abroad contracted in the first six months of 1997 alone work abroad worth a total of 134 million dollars, according to a poll conducted by the Construction Industry Committee of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. Builders set out that they could significantly increase their activities abroad if they were to receive bigger financial backing from the state and commercial banks, especially for guarantees.

[04] SERBIAN PARLIAMENT OPENS DEBATE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN RS

Tanjug, 1997-07-10

The Serbian parliament opened a debate on Thursday afternoon on an action that the Stabilisation Force carried out in Prijedor, the Republika Srpska, earlier in the day. Head of the parliament Committee for ties with Serbs living outside Serbia, Radmilo Bogdanovic, called Thursday's incident a tragedy because a man was killed, saying it was vital at this point to request a thorough investigation into the incident. Bogdanovic said the U.N. Security Council should be called on to determine whether SFOR actions were coordinated with RS authorities. Parliament Speaker Dragan Tomic proposed that the Committee for ties with Serbs outside Serbia adopt conclusions on the issue in its next meeting.

[05] RS LEADERS MEET SENATORS, SERBIAN ORTHODOX OFFICIALS

Tanjug, 1997-07-11

The Republika Srpska leadership met late on Thursday with senators, Serbian Orthodox Church officials and intellectuals from the Republika Srpska and Yugoslavia.

The statement released after the session expressed concern over the current conflict in the Republika Srpska, which some international factors are using to undermine the Republika Srpska. The need was stressed for settling the situation as soon as possible.

The participants in the session appealed on the sides to the conflict to stop with recriminations and rallies and find a compromise in order to settle the political and constitutional crisis in the Republika Srpska.

The statement supported the stand that the Republika Srpska Constitutional Court had to have the last say which must be binding for all parties.

The participants condemned the Thursday Stabilisation Force operation in Prijedor as an impermissible act of brutality, which clashes with the Dayton accords and can only hamper the peace process.

The meeting was attended by Bosnian Serb member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Momcilo Krajisnik, Republika Srpska Parliament Speaker Dragan Kalinic, Prime Minister Gojko Klickovic, Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha and Serbian Democratic Party Whip at the Republika Srpska Parliament Vojislav Maksimovic. Republika Srpska President Biljana Plavsic was not in attendance.

[06] RS GOVERNMENT CRITICISES SFOR OPERATION IN PRIJEDOR

Tanjug, 1997-07-11

The Republika Srpska Government has expressed its astonishment at and embitterment with a multinational Stabilisation Force operation in Prijedor.

The Government, chaired by Vice Premier Velibor Ostojic in the Prime Minister's absence, said that the operation had marked a change in the peacekeepers' policy in the region and their giving up of the Dayton accords implementation.

The Government said it would take all necessary measures to preserve law and order and all institutions in the Republika Srpska and appealed to the citizens to remain calm and to trust their authorities and institutions.

The Government said that the international community had demonstrated its hypocrisy, made another division to the good and bad guys and started again to satanise the Serbs.

By killing innocent civilians, whose names are on some secret lists, the international factor wishes to deprive the Republika Srpska and Serbs of the right won through their fight and the universal right to self- determination, Ostojic said. He said that the Republika Srpska would not agree to violence, blackmail and occupation, or the unscrupulous and brutal killing of innocent civilians in its territory. The Government said that the Republika Srpska Constitutional Court decision, stopping the implementation of Republika Srpska President Biljana Plavsic's decisions, had preserved the Republika Srpska institutions, which are constantly in session. The Republika Srpska government expects Plavsic to propose a topic for a government session to be held in the Republika Srpska centre.

[07] KRAJISNIK CONDEMNS SFOR ACTIONS

Tanjug, 1997-07-10

Republika Srpska member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Momcilo Krajisnik has condemned the SFOR action Thursday in Prijedor and described it as a crime by the international force. A s= tatement issued by Krajisnik's cabinet says that the persons responsible for the crime must be identified immediately so that their commanding officers can punish them and prevent a repetition of such actions. This is the only way that the consequences of such irresponsible adventures can be brought under control and that peace in the region and consequently the Dayton agreement can be saved, Krajisnik said. It is dangerous and unethical to take advantage of the internal political crisis in Republika Srpska and undertake actions jeopardising everything that has been achieved so far, he said. Krajisnik appealed to all states guaranteeing the Dayton agreement, above all the United States, to curb the ambitious and irresponsible behaviour of their field commanders and to give up once and for all the idea of arresting people in their own country in order to have them put on trial elsewhere. Republika Srpska is ready to put on trial before the international public any of its citizens form whom evidence of crimes can be presented, Krajisnik said. He appealed to Republika Srpska citizens to refrain from any retaliation in which innocent young foreign soldiers or officials could be hurt, and to maintain law and order. The international community must choose its priorities: peace or suspect adventurism and unfounded harassment of people, kidnapping of children and killing of suspects, Krajisnik said, adding that peace concluded after a civil war must be followed by full amnesty, and that each side must as a rule try its own suspects of violations of the war law.

[08] JOULWAN CONFIRMS SFOR ACTION - PLAVSIC PROTESTS

Tanjug, 1997-07-10

NATO supreme allied commander for Europe General George Joulwan confirmed Thursday that SFOR forces had taken action in the region of Prijedor and that they shot dead Simo Drljaca, former police chief in that town and arrested Prijedor hospital director Mica Kovacevic.

Republika Srpska President Biljana PLavsic sent a strongly-worded protest to SFOR commander General Crouch. Such action by SFOR cannot remain without consequences for relations between the leaderships of Republika Srpska and SFOR, Plavsic said in her protest and demanded the release of innocent people who have been arrested. Biljana Plavsic told SFOR commander that it seemed that SFOR's activities were intended to deteriorate further the situation in RS. It is interesting, however, that Plavsic has remembered now to warn of the danger of destabilization in RS. The= degree of her responsibility and lack of knowledge of the situation, which she has refused to calm down, is clear.

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