Yugoslav Daily Survey, 97-10-06

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED NEW CANADIAN AMBASSADOR

[02] SRT DECIDED NOT TO TRANSMIT PROGRAMMES FROM BANJA LUKA STUDIO

[03] YUGOSLAVIA AND EGYPT NEGOTIATE COOPERATION IN AIR TRANSPORTATION

[04] AGREEMENT SIGNED ON FOUNDING MIXED LEASING COMPANY

[05] MEMORANDUM ON UNDERSTANDING WITH IAE AIRCRAFT COMPANY SIGNED

[06] MORINA: WORLD WILL CONTINUE PROVIDING AID TO REFUGEES IN YUGOSLAVIA

[07] YUGOSLAVIA IS A FACTOR OF CLOSER INTERNATIONAL TIES

[08] RUSSIA ON SEIZING OF TRANSMITTERS IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

[09] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED NEW EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR

[10] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED MEASURES TO ELIMINATE GREY ECONOMY

[11] RS GOVERNMENT ON SFOR ACTION

[12] POLICE PREVENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN PRISTINA

[13] BONN RESERVED ABOUT EXTENSION OF SFOR MANDATE

[14] MILUTINOVIC SENDS FELICITATIONS TO CASSOULIDES

[15] SERBIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN PRISTINA

[16] RAISING TENSIONS AND DISTURBING THE PUBLIC

[17] SERBIAN GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN KOSOVO

[18] RESULTS OF LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FOUR BOSNIAN MUNICIPALITIES ANNOUNCED

[19] BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY MEMBER KRAJISNIK CONDEMNS SFOR ACTION

[20] SFOR BLOCKED THREE TRANSMITTERS OF SERBIAN RADIO-TELEVISION

[01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED NEW CANADIAN AMBASSADOR

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday received the credentials of the newly appointed extraordinary and plenipotentiary Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Raphael Gerard.

After touring the Guard of Honour, the Canadian Ambassador was presented to President Slobodan Milosevic.

Presenting the credentials of the Governor General of Canada Romeo Leblanc, Ambassador Gerard expressed hope that bilateral relations between the two countries would continue to develop successfully on the bases of equality and the realization of common interests. He said he was ready personally to contribute, with his engagement, to the intensification of comprehensive cooperation between Canada and Yugoslavia.

Accepting the credentials, President Milosevic pointed out Yugoslavia's interest in promoting relations and understanding with Canada, whose population includes about 200,000 Yugoslav emigrants.

President Milosevic said he expected that the developed contacts and ties between citizens and their families, and especially the close relations between the economic partners of the two countries, would enable mutual cooperation again to reach a satisfactory level.

After accepting the credentials, President Milosevic had a brief and open talk with Ambassador Gerard.

[02] SRT DECIDED NOT TO TRANSMIT PROGRAMMES FROM BANJA LUKA STUDIO

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

The Pale studio of Srpska Radio Television (SRT) has decided not to join the programme which is being broadcast from Banja Luka until the latest developments are resolved.

The decision was carried after the programme schedule was disrupted. Under the schedule envisaged under the Belgrade agreement of September 24, the programme was to have been broadcast alternately from the Banja Luka and Pale studios.

The agreement was reached in Belgrade by Republika Srpska President Biljana Plavsic and Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency President from Republika Srpska Momcilo Krajisnik, in the presence of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

The programme schedule of the SRT was disrupted following an=0D action by the international force SFOR on Wednesday. SFOR troops seized control of SRT transmitters.

The SFOR troops prevented broadcasting from Pale, and the programme is being broadcast from Banja Luka as of Wednesday afternoon.

[03] YUGOSLAVIA AND EGYPT NEGOTIATE COOPERATION IN AIR TRANSPORTATION

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

Yugoslav Deputy Transportation Minister Budimir Saranovic received on Thursday the Deputy Director of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority Mohammed Nedim Riyad, who heads the Egyptian delegation to two-day talks on cooperation between the two countries in air transportation.

The two sides set out that the Agreement on air transportation, which is to be signed, would reflect the interest of the two economies and populations in as quick as possible transportation links, a Government statement said.

Yugoslav and Egyptian experts have been working for two days in Belgrade on adjusting the drafts of the future agreement which is to enable the interested Yugoslav and Egyptian airlines to introduce links between destinations in the two countries.

Since there have been no disputed issues in the work to date, the two sides expect to initial the agreement on Friday.

The Yugoslav delegation to the talks is headed by Secretary in the Yugoslav Transportation Ministry Zoran Karaicic.

[04] AGREEMENT SIGNED ON FOUNDING MIXED LEASING COMPANY

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

The multinational company LeaseHolding, based in the Netherlands, bank Vojvodjanska Banka of Novi Sad, and the Belgrade insurance company Dunav Osiguranje signed an agreement at the Institute of Economics in Belgrade on Thursday on work on a development project and founding a Yugoslav company for leasing equipment, in the presence of Yugoslav Deputy Premier Danko Djunic.

The future company will lease commercial and industrial equipment to medium- sized Yugoslav companies, it was heard at a press conference.

LeaseHolding Director Pierre Biraben said the future Yugoslav leasing company, based in Belgrade, would be called JugoLizing and that it should begin work some time next year.

Biraben said the Netherlands firm, which was owned by leading financial, insurance and trade companies, was already guiding similar firms in Hungary, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria and Romania. The multinational company also develops leasing companies in Ukraine and Russia, he said.

The starting capital of the company will be about 20 million dollars, with the Netherlands partner having an 80-percent majority at the start.

Welcoming the signing of the agreement and expressing support with his presence to this deal, which has taken place also partly thanks to the mediation of the Institute of Economics, Djunic pointed out that this was the way to replace old equipment with the most modern installations.

[05] MEMORANDUM ON UNDERSTANDING WITH IAE AIRCRAFT COMPANY SIGNED

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

The President of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce, Mihailo Milojevic, and the Sales Director of the multinational consortium the International Aero Engines (IAE), Bernhard Vater, signed on Thursday at the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce the Memorandum on Understanding which paves the way for cooperation between the Yugoslav aircraft industry with this world-renown company.

IAE was founded in 1984 by the world's leading aircraft manufacturers: Britain's Rolls Royce, the U.S. Pratt and Whitney, Japan's Aero Engines and German Daimler Benz.

The signing of the memorandum was attended by the top officials of Lola- Utva, Prva Petoletka, DMB and the foundry of Ada - all companies interested and capable of entering industrial cooperation with IAE.

IAE manufactures sophisticated engines for the Airbus A319, A320 and A321 airplanes with a capacity of 120-180 passengers, as well as engines for smaller aircraft.

Introducing IAE, Vater set out that the consortium is worth more than 100 billion dollars and that its management had investigated the Yugoslav economic and industrial potentials and assessed them positively.

Vater said that on offer are wide possibilities for cooperation with the Yugoslav aircraft industry and that the Memorandum on Understanding would contribute to faster cooperation.

Vater underscored that the Memorandum also represents the beginning of activities which will become prominent after the establishing of cooperation with the Yugoslav airlines JAT.

[06] MORINA: WORLD WILL CONTINUE PROVIDING AID TO REFUGEES IN YUGOSLAVIA

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

Serbian Minister for Family Care and Refugee Commissioner Bratislava Morina said on Thursday that the world community would continue providing aid to refugees in Yugoslavia because of a large number of them sheltering in the country.

Morina discussed the matter in a meeting with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sadako Ogata, UNICEF director for Europe John Donahue and Assistant Director General of the International Organisation for Migrations Narcis Escaler, in Geneva last week.

Morina said she had informed Ogata about the gravity of the humanitarian situation in Yugoslavia not only because of a failure to start the repatriation of 700,000 refugees to Bosnia and Croatia but also because of continual cuts in international relief aid since last year.

She said if the problem were ignored, there could be long-term consequences that would be felt even outside the region, saying it was impermissible that political or other reasons be set as a condition for the realisation of Yugoslavia's humanitarian programmes.

Morina quoted Ogata as saying that caring for refugees in Yugoslavia would require the international community's engagement also in the future.

UNHCR would continue providing aid but would have to reduce it, while part of it would be provided in a different manner and would be used to finance integration projects.

She said Ogata had reassured her that UNHCR would try to secure the return of refugees to the Srem and Baranya region on the principle of reciprocity and would speed up programmes for the repatriation of refugees to Bosnia- Herzegovina.

Morina quoted Ogata as saying that, as regards Serbs in Croatia, she believed the Croatian Government opposed a tripartite agreement and did not want UNHCR to help Serbs return to their homes outside the Srem and Baranya region.

Morina said, "As regards the return of refugees to the Republika Srpska, I informed Mrs. Ogata that my impression is that the Belgrade-based UNHCR office is passive and is delaying with the signing of an agreement on the return of 60,000 Serb refugees, on which issue the relevant Serbian and the Republika Srpska commissioners reached agreement several months ago."

In the meeting with Ogata, Morina backed the UNHCR move for declaring some towns in the Moslem-Croat Federation open towns, but said such a status should be also granted to Drvar, Petrovac, Glamoc and other towns that had been exclusively Serb-populated before Croats had completed ethnic cleansing in them.

Morina conveyed to Ogata her dissatisfaction with the inefficiency of the Belgrade-based UNHCR office in solving basic refugee issues including the support for Serbs return to Croatia and Bosnia and their integration into local communities.

She said the meeting had been held at the right time because she had pointed out the key problems in bringing about the repatriation of refugees to which, under the Dayton Peace Agreement, these agencies should contribute.

[07] YUGOSLAVIA IS A FACTOR OF CLOSER INTERNATIONAL TIES

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

The importance of Yugoslavia's role in the current altered international conditions is on a steady rise both in terms of the country's geostrategic location and its economic and human potentials, Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic said in an interview published in the Novi Sad weekly 'Nedeljni Dnevnik'.

"If Yugoslavia had in the past been a buffer zone which separated the blocs, and if it had been the 'West's showcase towards the East', it is today, in the conditions of the integration and globalization of economic processes, a factor of closer ties," Jovanovic set out.

Despite having gone through a period of isolation and unprecedented sanctions in international relations, Yugoslavia is in growing demand as an equal partner at the economic, scientific, technological and other levels, according to the Yugoslav diplomat.

Jovanovic set out that Yugoslavia was an important market for businessmen in the most highly developed countries, especially members of the European Union.

The Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister said that Yugoslavia made it possible for Europe to save by using the most rational transportation routes and telecommunications, and singled out in that context the importance of Danube as the European economy's major artery.

Jovanovic emphasised that Yugoslavia rightly expected partners in the European Union to invest increasingly in its economy.

Turning to Yugoslavia's position in the region, Jovanovic said it was of the greatest importance to preserve peace.

"A new quality is doubtlessly being created and a new impulse imparted to the stabilization of the peace process through the normalization of relations with former Yugoslav republics, and new prospects are being opened for the renewal of ties in the region, primarily economic but also cultural and other," Jovanovic told Nedeljni Dnevnik.

Jovanovic stressed that it was vital to secure an equal treatment of both entities in Bosnia-Herzegovina * Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation * as a basis of the Dayton/Paris agreement, without which he said it would be hard to expect the peace process to continue.

[08] RUSSIA ON SEIZING OF TRANSMITTERS IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

Russia said on Thursday that the seizing of four radio and TV transmitters in Republika Srpska by U.S., Italian, and Spanish troops within the SFOR, presents a repeated inadequate implementation of violent methods in regard to mass media means.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Valeri Nyesterushkin told a regular press conference that it was regretful the operation had been carried out in conditions when consolidation in Republika Srpska had begun.

Similar actions can jeopardize the realization of the Belgrade agreement of September 24 this year on overcoming the crisis in Republika Srpska and cause a new wave of confrontations among Bosnian Serbs, he said.

We urge all sides to show restraint and reason and to resolve the problems solely through constructive dialogue, in the spirit of the peace accords, the Spokesman said.

[09] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED NEW EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday received credentials presented by Egyptian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia Hani Abdel Kalaf.

Ambassador Kalaf conveyed to President Milosevic Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's wishes for the prosperity of Yugoslavia and welfare of its citizens.

Kalaf said he believed that the relations between the two countries, which are linked by long-term friendship between their peoples, would grow stronger to mutual satisfaction.

He stressed that he was determined to do all in his power to help achieve mutual interests, especially in the field of economic and cultural cooperation, joint investment and trade.

President Milosevic asked Kalaf to convey the Yugoslav people's appreciation and friendship to the Egyptian President and people.

President Milosevic stressed Yugoslavia's interest in a stable development and expansion of bilateral relations with Egypt and said that the two countries, as the founders of the Non-Aligned policy, could continue contributing to peace and strengthening the integration processes, stability and understanding among the peoples and states in the world through their dynamic mutual relations.

Afterwards, President Milosevic held cordial and friendly talks with Ambassador Kalaf.

[10] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED MEASURES TO ELIMINATE GREY ECONOMY

Tanjug, 1997-10-02

The Yugoslav Government at its Thursday session reviewed a study of causes and incidence of the illegal parallel economy and established measures to eliminate it, the Yugoslav Information Secretariat said in a statement.

It was heard at the session, chaired by Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, that the irregular economic activity - the illegal parallel economy - had reached such a level as to become a serious threat to the country's economic and even political system.

The Government also said that the priority in the domain of internal policy was to urgently remove the illegal parallel economy and bring the economy back to regular trends. The scope of illegal parallel economy calls for an energetic and synchronized action by all competent state bodies, said the statement.

The measures, passed at the session, relate to reforms in the entire fiscal system, more specifically the system of taxation, and financial discipline, which would considerably eliminate an economic motive for the illegal parallel economy. The Government also expects that the Penal Code will be strictly enforced and priority given to prosecuting those involved in the illegal parallel economy, the statement said.

The Government adopted a report on Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic's September 25-29 official visit to China.

The Government also approved an Agreement with the Russian Government in the area of construction, established a draft framework Agreement on cooperation with the Romanian Government in the area of health care and medicine.

The Government also defined a Platform for a Yugoslav delegation's participation at the 30th session of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) European Commission to be held in Nitra, Slovakia, from October 8 through 11, the statement said.

[11] RS GOVERNMENT ON SFOR ACTION

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

The Republika Srpska Government strongly denounced on Wednesday morning's SFOR action of siezing the Serbian Radio and Television transmittors. The RS Government said that a planned action is in question to put the RS media under the control of Biljana Plavsic, who has already violated the Belgrade Agreement.

The RS Government said it would inform the public about actions which it plans to take.

[12] POLICE PREVENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN PRISTINA

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

An energetic action by members of the Serbian Interior Ministry in Pristina at noon on Wednesday prevented an attempt at allegedly student demonstrations by members of the Albanian minority which had not been registered with the local organs.

The attempted demonstrations in this town in Serbia's southern Province of Kosovo and Metohija were staged by students of the outlawed Albanian university, but there were also many citizens and secondary school students.

The organizers of the protest had gone ahead with preparations for the demonstrations in spite of numerous warnings from the international community.

Attempting to hold the protest, several thousand ethnic Albanians rallied in the Velanija District and just before 11 a.m. local time, students and a group of professors and other ethnic Albanian citizens headed for central Pristina.

Police were lined across an intersection leading downtown and stopped the protesters in their march. Police repeatedly warned them to break up, but they refused to comply, and just before noon, police dispersed them with a quick action.

A number of organizers of the alleged student protest were detained, including self-proclaimed chancellor of the outlawed university Ejup Statovci.

Groups of citizens had been formed in certain other districts of Pristina as well, which were to have joined the protesters, but police prevented them from rallying further and disturbing law and order.

The situation in Pristina is quiet following the police action, under control, and traffic is proceeding normally.

The presence of large numbers of foreign correspondents, TV crews and diplomats is evident in Pristina.

There have been attempts to organize demonstrations also in other towns in Kosovo and Metohija, in Pec, Djakovica, Gnjilane, Kosovska Mitrovica, Urosevac, and Prizren. A certain number of older ethnic Albanians also joined the alleged students in these places, but the protesters broke up after warnings from the police.

Albanian-language classes were suspended at the University of Pristina in 1991, after ethnic Albanian students and teachers refused to recognize Serbia and Yugoslavia and work under its curriculums, but placed themselves as the main driving force for the separatist ambitions for Kosovo's secession.

Under orders from the ethnic Albanian separatist leadership, a scenario such as today's failed attempt to organize demonstrations in Pristina has been seen on several occasions in other parts of the Balkans as well, where Albanian minorities live.

Thus, in order to realize its goals, the Albanian separatist movement used the issue of education in Macedonia as well, where demonstrators were killed or injured in a clash between Macedonian police and ethnic Albanian demonstrators in Tetovo in 1995 over the Albanian university.

In July this year, there was a bloody conflict between Macedonian police and ethnic Albanian protesters in Gostivar. Ethnic Albanians, helped by ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija and from Albania prevented police from removing Albanian flags from the city halls of Gostivar and Tetovo. Two protesters were killed and there were dozens of injured in these clashes.

The official stand of all international organizations and the most influential countries is that Kosovo and Metohija is an internal affair of Serbia and that this territory is an inseparable part of Serbia and Yugoslavia.

[13] BONN RESERVED ABOUT EXTENSION OF SFOR MANDATE

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

German Defence Minister Volker Ruehe has expressed reserve about the extention of mandate of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) for Bosnia on the eve of a two-day informal meeting of NATO defence ministers in Maastricht.

Ruehe told German media in Bonn that NATO's engagement in Bosnia would remain a joint task of Europe and the United States. He said that was how it was going to be once SFOR mandate had expired in June 1998, saying one should not speculate at this point as to what was going to happen next summer. In this connection, he said the SFOR mission would be placed on agenda next spring.

Commenting on Ruehe's reserve, German commentators said his experience had taught him to behave in such a manner because of Washington's unpredictable attitude just before the expiry of the mandate of the Implementation Force (IFOR).

Reports on Bosnia from Washington are still contradictory, prompting Ruehe to take a reserved stand on the extension of SFOR mandate although quite a number of reports indicate that foreign military presence in Bosnia will continue after the expiry of SFOR mandate.

[14] MILUTINOVIC SENDS FELICITATIONS TO CASSOULIDES

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

On the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Cyprus, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic on Wednesday sent sincere felicitations and hearty wishes for the comprehensive development and prosperity of the friendly Cypriot people to Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides.

Yugoslavia places great importance on the further promotion of bilateral relations and cooperation to the benefit of the peoples of the two countries, better understanding and peace in the region, said the telegram.

[15] SERBIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN PRISTINA

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

Undoubtedly acting under the orders of ethnic Albanian separatist leaders, several groups of students on Wednesday tried to organise unauthorised demonstrations in Pristina and five other towns in Serbia's southern Province of Kosovo and Metohija, the Serbian Interior Ministry said in a statement.

After a public warning, Interior Ministry representatives dispersed the demonstrators in keeping with the relevant laws, the statement said.

[16] RAISING TENSIONS AND DISTURBING THE PUBLIC

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

Srpska Radio Television (SRT) Director General Miroslav Toholj and TV and radio editors-in-chief Drago Vukovic and Milivoje Tutnjevic held a press conference at the SRT offices in Pale on Wednesday on the occasion of the action by the Implementation Force SFOR members who seized control of SRT transmitters.

Toholj presented the chronology of events. He said SFOR troops had ordered employees on the transmitters to turn them off and also the communication links between SRT and Serbian Radio Television (RTS). The SFOR troops acted correctly toward the employees stationed at the transmitter stations, he said.

He further said he had been in communication with SFOR representatives in Pale during the day, but not with the Sarajevo office of the High Representative of the international community for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Toholj said the SRT signal had been released following a meeting with U.S. Gen. Digels and Pale SFOR office Maj. Rogers, so that the programme was being broadcast from the studio in Banja Luka, which, according to the plan accepted under the Belgrade Agreement, today broadcasts for all of Republika Srpska. Toholj said he hoped the programme would be broadcast from the Pale studios on Thursday, as envisaged under the Belgrade Agreement.

The meeting with SFOR representatives was also attended by Republika Srpska National Assembly President Dragan Kalinic, Toholj said. The representatives had presented a SFOR statement saying the action was carried out in keeping with the Sintra meeting conclusions and NATO approval that the entire system be passed on to the new leadership, in fact to Biljana Plavsic.

Toholj said the SRT was a Government company and that the Republika Srpska Government had the right to interfere in staff politics and have insight into any other business of the SRT.

Toholj said SRT employees would write to Elizabeth Rehn to complain against human rights violations.

Srpska TV editor-in-chief Vukovic said the office of the High Representative had insisted on Sunday that the SRT broadcast a press conference by Luis Arbour in Sarajevo last week, to which the SRT had not been invited. We agreed to broadcast 10 of the 30 minutes of material on the press conference, Vukovic said. However, due to a misinterpretation by a SRT reporter, an apology was broadcast and a new statement by Arbour, at the reuqest of the High Representative, he said.

We agreed that the entire press conference would be broadcast, which was done late Tuesday, said Vukovic.

Lately, especially following the Agreement signed in Udrigovo between Krajisnik and Shinseki, the SRT has maintained good relations with the international community and the office of the High Representative had praised its cooperativity, he said.

The recent developments have cast doubts on the good cooperation with representatives of the international community, Vukovic said.

Srpska Radio editor-in-chief Tutnjevic said the SRT was consistent in implementing the Dayton Accords and that he did not understand the moves made by the international community to raise tensions and disturb the public.

[17] SERBIAN GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN KOSOVO

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

The Government of Serbia issued a statement on Wednesday about demonstrations by Albanian students in Kosovo and Metohija saying that the demonstrations of students-separatists are presented to the domestic and world public as a protest against the alleged violation of the human rights of the Kosovo Albanians, especially their right to education.

The statement, carried by the Information Ministry is as follows: "The demonstrations of separatist students are being presented to the world and domestic public as a protest against the alleged violation of the rights of Albanians in Kosovo, especially their right to education. In this way the public is being deceived, because in question is a separatist orientation for a separate state of Kosovo and, in keeping with this, a separate university. This is the basic motive of those who inspired and instigated the organization of the demonstrations. This is the basic reason for the failure of the implementation of the Agreement on the normalization of the education system for Albanian children and youth in Kosovo and Metohija.

Albanian pupils and students are entiteled, as all other pupils and students in Kosovo, Serbia and Yugoslavia, to study and attend classes under the same conditions and in their own language. The Serbian Government is resolute that the Agreement, which should secure this, is implemented consistently and fully. The sole obstacle for this is separatism. Serbia will never allow the existence of a separate Albanian state of Kosovo with a separate education system and university.

The governments of almost all countries of the international community came out against the idea of an independent Kosovo with the clear warning that Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia. It is time for all Albanians in Serbia to realize that separatist ideas are unrealistic and harmful to them, all in the interest of a joint and equal life in Serbia and Yugoslavia.

[18] RESULTS OF LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FOUR BOSNIAN MUNICIPALITIES ANNOUNCED

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

The Provisional Electoral Commission announced late on Wednesday the first results of municipal elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The results are for only four municipalities - Tuzla, Bosanski Brod, Rogatica and Hadzici.

The Commission has only just completed the technical processing of the returns for the elections held on September 13-14, while final results are not expected before December 31, Sarajevo Radio and Television said on Wednesday evening.

According to the published data for Tuzla, the Joint Ticket '97, which is a bloc of democratic parties, won the largest number of seats in the Town Council - 16. The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) for Bosnia-Herzegovina secured 3 seats each. The Coalition for an Integral and Democratic Bosnia-Herzegovina, led by the Democratic Action Party (SDA), won 8 seats.

In Bosanski Brod, the Serb Democratic Party was the most successful, securing 17 seats in the Town Council, followed by the HDZ for Bosnia- Herzegovina with 13 seats. The Coalition took 5 seats, the Socialist Party of the Republika Srpska, 4 seats, and the Croat Peasants' Party and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) for the Republika Srpska, 3 seats each.

In Rogatica, the Coalition took 21 seats in the local Council, and the so- far governing Serb Democratic Party, 16 seats. The SRS for the Republika Srpska took 9 seats, and the Socialist Party for the Republika Srpska, 3 seats.

In Hadzici, the largest number of seats in the local Council (20) went to the Coalition, followed by the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia- Herzegovina with 4 seats and the Joint Ticket '97 with one seat.

[19] BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY MEMBER KRAJISNIK CONDEMNS SFOR ACTION

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

Bosnian Presidency member from Republika Srpska Momcilo Krajisnik has condemned the taking over of Serb Radio and Television transmitters by SFOR on Wednesday morning.

Krajisnik described the action as detrimental and added it might provoke uncontrollable reactions by the Serb people.

[20] SFOR BLOCKED THREE TRANSMITTERS OF SERBIAN RADIO-TELEVISION

Tanjug, 1997-10-01

Members of the International Military Forces (SFOR) on Wednesday morning blocked three transmitters of the Republika Srpska Radio-Television (SRT), Pale and the SFOR command confirmed today.

SFOR representatives said that the transimitters in question are located on Mt.Trebevic, in Udrogovo and Duge Njiva, near Modrica.

NATO and SFOR spokesmen said that the SFOR action was launched at the demand of the High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina Carlos Westendorp and was provoked by violations of the September 2. Agreement on reporting on the activities of SFOR and the representatives of the international community, and even the Dayton Agreement.

Reuters quoted Westendorp as saying that his demand was officially motivated by a program showing footage of a press conference of the chief U.N. Prosecutor in the Hague, Louise Arbour.

Westendorp said that technical interventions had violated the authenticity of the tape of the press conference and that the program was spiced with, as he said, "anti-Dayton language."

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