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Serbia Today, 96-09-23

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From: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>

Serbia Today

23 September 1996


CONTENTS

  • [01] FEDERAL MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK
  • [02] SPS IS OFFERING CONCRETE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  • [03] SERGEY LAVROW ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
  • [04] YUGOSLAV FIRMS AGAIN AT THE FAIR IN PLODVIV
  • [05] INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC GATHERINGS IN BELGRADE
  • [06] MUNICIPAL (LOCAL) ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA FROM NOVEMBER 22 TO 24, 1996
  • [07] RUSSIAN CREDIT FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
  • [08] WEST IS PREPARING AN ACTION FOR CLEANSING OF MUJAHEDINS FROM BOSNIA
  • [09] THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF BOSNIA
  • [10] NEW CRIME IN KRAJINA

  • [01] FEDERAL MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK

    Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Milutinovic arrived in New York where he will over the next week, when the UN General Assembly is to be held, have numerous contacts and political talks with the distinguished diplomats and officials about the Yugoslav integration in the international organizations, most of all in the UN and its bodies. Minister Milutinovic is visiting New York at the time when it is announced and expected to have the final and formal lifting of the economic sanctions against Yugoslavia. This decision the UN Security Council should pass on the basis of the Resolution No. 1022, adopted one day after the initialing of the Dayton Agreement. Chief of the Yugoslav diplomacy will also have a separate meeting with the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali. (Borba, September 23, 1996)

    [02] SPS IS OFFERING CONCRETE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS

    The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) will present to its voters and citizens the program containing concrete solutions for the social problems. SPS is consistently conducting the policy of peace, democracy, civil equality, social justice and solidarity. This was stated at the session of the leadership of the Main Committee of the SPS with the presidents of the municipal committees of the SPS of Vojvodina. The need was emphasized for the revival and maximum utilization of all the economic potentials, for a faster, safer and a more stable development of agriculture and agrarian field in general, especially on the farming households. Starting from the specific features of Vojvodina, SPS will strive not only for the preservation of the good inter-ethnic relations and the achieved values of life together, which may serve as an example in the contemporary world, but also for their constant promotion. (Politika, September 21, 1996)

    [03] SERGEY LAVROW ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

    Chief of the Russian Mission at the UN, Ambassador Sergey Lavrow, stated on Saturday for the second time during the last week, that the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will be finally lifted ten days after the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, therefore within the time prescribed in the Dayton Agreement and in the Security Council Resolution. "This date is on September 24, 1996", said Lavrow, having in mind the date when the General Assembly of the United Nations will be addressed by the U.S. President Bill Clinton. According to Lavrow, lifting of sanctions against Yugoslavia is almost a routine thing. (Borba, September 23, 1996)

    [04] YUGOSLAV FIRMS AGAIN AT THE FAIR IN PLODVIV

    More than 50 Yugoslav firms will take part at the forthcoming International Autumn Fair in Plodviv, stated the director of the representative office of the Chamber of Economy of Yugoslavia in Bulgaria, Radivoje Andonovic. For the full four years the Yugoslav companies did not participate at this fair, one of the most important economic exhibitions in this part of Europe. During the Fair, Bulgarian and Yugoslav businessmen will discuss also the business and technical cooperation. (Politika, September 22, 1996)

    [05] INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC GATHERINGS IN BELGRADE

    The most distinguished world names in the field of emergency surgery and traumatology as well as many experts in this field from our country will gather between September 25 and 28, 1996 in Belgrade at The First International Conference on Emergency Surgery and Traumatology. The Yugoslav association in this field of medicine will gather more than 200 experts from Europe, America, Japan and our country.

    On September 22, 1996 the Fifth Congress of Ecologists will be opened in Belgrade, devoted to the ecology and the environment protection. For the first time after eight years all the ecologists of Yugoslavia will gather again. The Congress was initially conceived as a national one, but because of a great interest from abroad it has grown into an international conference and will gather over 700 exhibitors. "The main concept of the Congress is to join together fundamental and applied ecology at one and the same place", says Dr. Dmitar Lakusic. (Politika, September 21, 1996)

    [06] MUNICIPAL (LOCAL) ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA FROM NOVEMBER 22 TO 24, 1996

    Deputy chief of the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Kenneth Scott stated that the municipal (local) elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be held from November 22 to 24, 1996. The agreement on this was reached between the Acting President of the Republic of Srpska Biljana Plavsic, President of the Muslim-Croat Federation Kresimir Zubak and the Prime Minister in Sarajevo Hasan Muratovic. Scott announced that because of the local elections, the mission of the O.S.C.E. in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be extended until the end of this year. (Politika, September 22, 1996)

    [07] RUSSIAN CREDIT FOR THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

    Russia intends to grant to the Republic of Srpska a credit in the amount of 50 million for the economic recovery. According to the information of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, the money from this credit Republic of Srpska would use for supplying from Russia machines and equipment for the reconstruction of the power plants and renewal of its industrial infrastructure in general, as well as for the exploitation of the bauxite ore and modernization of the alumina factory near Zvornik. The credit would be repaid through the deliveries of the industrial products. (TANJUG, September 22, 1996)

    [08] WEST IS PREPARING AN ACTION FOR CLEANSING OF MUJAHEDINS FROM BOSNIA

    Western allies are discussing the possibilities for a military action in order to eliminate foreign Islamic warriors, mujjahedins from Bosnia, claims the British BBC radio. In the NATO and the IFOR command headquarters it is confirmed that in Bosnia there are still at least 200 foreign Islamic warriors and that a pressure has been increased on the Muslim government in Sarajevo to fulfil its promise and expel all the mujjahedins. At the same time, BBC radio recalls, this is the confirmation that the Muslim government did not fulfill all of its obligations undertaken by the Dayton Agreement. Admiral Joseph Lopes, the IFOR Commander, stated that he did not receive yet the request to undertake the action of "mujjahedin cleansing", but that it shall certainly be undertaken if any "coordinated activities" by the mujjahedins are to be observed. (Politika ekspres, September 23, 1996)

    [09] THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF BOSNIA

    The elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina also served to deny some of the illusions on which the international community most often construed its image of the Bosnian crisis. The fact that the Party of Democratic Action in the Republic of Srpska obtained 23.51 percent of votes for the House of Representatives, in the most convincing way refutes the opinion and the estimates of the international community that Serbs from this area have expelled members of other religions and peoples. Over one fifth of the population of the Republic of Srpska are the Muslims. Probably a lot of them did escape, but certainly and in no case in the way claimed by the official Sarajevo or as is being reiterated by the foreign politicians and reporters - that Serbs have ethnically cleansed their territory. Many will not be happy with this truth, because they have already "convinced" the world public of the crimes of the Serbian army in Bosnia. On the other hand, in the statistics of these elections, in the area of the Muslim-Croat Federation there is not even a trace of Serbs. They are not to be found in Sarajevo, and neither in Drvar, Glamoc, Grahovo or Kupres, where the Croat Democratic Community party has won with more than eighty percent of votes, although it is a question of the towns which have for centuries belonged to Serbs. (Vecernje novosti, September 21, 1996)

    [10] NEW CRIME IN KRAJINA

    In the village of Bukovica near Vrginmost, on September 11, 1996 Marija Zimonja (67) of Serbian nationality and Mile Milovac (68) of Croat nationality who were living together, were killed. After the assassination, their house was set on fire, and they were left in the corridor to burn down together with the house. According to the investigation findings, as reported by the Croat Helsinki Board for Human Rights (HHO), the victims were killed by fire arms. The two victims had spent the entire time of the past war in this village, and Mile, after the Croat offensive on Krajina, had a lot of problems and suffered harassment because he was reproached of "living with a Chetnick woman". The Croat Helsinki Board expresses its surprise at the silence of the Croat Ministry of Interior Affairs, and also because of the behavior "of the other segments of authorities". Namely, according to the claims by the Croat Helsinki Board, the local veterinarian organized taking away of cattle owned by the assassinated victims, with the explanation that through the sale of this cattle the funeral expenses will be covered. (Vecernje novosti, September 21, 1996)
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