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Serbia Today, 96-09-25

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

Serbia Today

25 September 1996


CONTENTS

  • [01] LONDON SUPPORTS PREVIOUS AGREEMENT ON THE FORMAL LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
  • [02] PRIMAKOV: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA - A PRECONDITION FOR SUCCESS IN BOSNIA
  • [03] AHEAD OF US IS NOW AN ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION OF THE ECONOMY
  • [04] FROWICK: O.S.C.E. WILL CHECK THE OBJECTIONS
  • [05] SERBIAN FAMILY MASSACRED IN ZENICA
  • [06] MUSLIMS CAME TO JUSICI TO MAKE PROVOCATIONS
  • [07] MONEY DESIGNATED FOR RECONSTRUCTION USED FOR ARMAMENT
  • [08] LAW ON AMNESTY IS A POLITICAL DECISION
  • [09] SUFFERINGS OF SERBS IN IMOTSKA KRAJINA

  • [01] LONDON SUPPORTS PREVIOUS AGREEMENT ON THE FORMAL LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

    Great Britain is giving its full support to the previously adopted UN Resolution on a formal and automatic lifting of sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, after the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina, stated the spokesman of the Foreign Office in London. He recalled that the discussions about lifting of sanctions have already started in the Security Council and that Britain will support a consistent implementation of the Resolution from December last. "The Financial Times" in its yesterday's issue learns that between Britain and the United States there are certain differences about the manner of implementation of the UN Resolution and the lifting of sanctions. The official London is having certain reservations, specifies the newspaper, towards some of the ideas of the United States to supplement the conditions formulated last year for an automatic and formal lifting of sanctions, and is of the view that these changes would not be in the function of the basic stabilization requirements of the international community. (Politika, September 25, 1996)

    [02] PRIMAKOV: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA - A PRECONDITION FOR SUCCESS IN BOSNIA

    Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Yevgeny Primakov stated yesterday at the UN General Assembly in New York that lifting of sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia is a precondition for the success of the peace process in Bosnia. He again requested for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to be promptly returned to the General Assembly, to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and to all the other organizations. (Politika, September 25, 1996)

    [03] AHEAD OF US IS NOW AN ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

    The Federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, at the Belgrade Fair yesterday inaugurated five economic events: The 25th International Exhibition "Protection" and the 18th International Fair "Solar", The 18th International Fair of Leather Goods, Footwear and Equipment, The 4th Fair of Plastics, Rubber and Equipment "Beoplast", The 2nd Fair of "Welding" and The First International Fair "Oil and Gas". "Extensive participation by the foreign exhibitors is a sure sign of strengthening of the international position of Yugoslavia, but also of the determination of the foreign partners for the renewal of the broken ties with our firms and their expanding on to the new projects", said the Prime Minister. He underlined that ahead of us is the period of an accelerated development, modernization and integration of our economy in the world market of goods and capital. "Economic trends over the past nine months may be qualified as encouraging, the stable exchange rate of dinar was maintained, with elimination of the "black" foreign exchange market, and a special contribution to the overall stability is given by the firm determination for the budgetary consumption to be financed exclusively from the real sources", stated Prime Minister Radoje Kontic. (Vecernje novosti, September 25, 1996)

    [04] FROWICK: O.S.C.E. WILL CHECK THE OBJECTIONS

    Chief of the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) and president of the temporary electoral mission, Robert Frowick, stated last night in Pale that the O.S.C.E. will check whether the Serbian objections regarding the elections of September 14, 1996 are justified, and this "as soon as possible". According to him, the topic of talks with Momcilo Krajisnik, President of the Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, Aleksa Buha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Slobodan Kovac, member of the temporary electoral commission from the Republic of Srpska, was the situation connected with the counting of votes, because of which the Serbian side has submitted its objections to the O.S.C.E., Aleksa Buha stated that, according to the first unofficial data reported by the O.S.C.E., additionally in the bags some 230,000 voting papers arrived from abroad without valid documentation, and this was pointed out and a protest made by Serbs even before the counting started. In this way, there was a manipulation with the voting papers, and the number of persons who have voted for this reason is "varying" for more than 130,000, said Buha and added that the Republic of Srpska will declare invalid the electoral results if the O.S.C.E. should fail to rectify the mistakes pertaining to the voting papers which arrived from abroad. (Politika, September 25, 1996)

    [05] SERBIAN FAMILY MASSACRED IN ZENICA

    Muslim extremists are continuing with persecution and killing of the remaining Serbs in Central Bosnia, and the Croat Radio Uskopolje reported on the latest crime yesterday. Bosko Davidovic, his wife Ljiljana and a five-year old daughter Ivana were murdered and in a bestial way massacred in their apartment in the very center of Zenica city. Members of the special police force of the Third Corps of the Muslim Army on several occasions were coming and threatening Davidovic family ordering them to leave their apartment. In support of the claims by anonymous and frightened witnesses that the members of this unit have committed the crime, stands the fact that one day after the massacre, an officer of this Corps was installed in the apartment of the Davidovic family, a certain Hajdar Pasic. The same source reports that harassment of the remaining Serbian and Croat population by the extreme military formations of the Muslim army is continuing also in Travnik, Bugojno, Tesanj and Zavidovici. Radio called upon all the international organization to offer their urgent help to this population, because in the case of contrary they are threatened with the same fate as the Davidovic family. (Dnevni telegraf, September 24, 1996)

    [06] MUSLIMS CAME TO JUSICI TO MAKE PROVOCATIONS

    Chief of the Center for Public Security in Zvornik, Colonel Dragomir Vasic stated that the eruption of Muslims into the frontier village of Jusici is yet another attempt at forcible seizure of territory of the Republic of Srpska. Vasic expressed dissatisfaction with inert behavior of the international representatives who did not undertake anything to insure the respect of the agreement according to which Muslims were to leave Jusici until Monday at 17.00 hours. The commander of the Russian brigade of IFOR, Sergey Generalov confirmed that in the village of Jusici there are still some one hundred of them, and that at least ten of these Muslims are being armed with automatic and semi-automatic guns and in possession of large quantities of explosive devices. (Borba, September 25, 1996)

    [07] MONEY DESIGNATED FOR RECONSTRUCTION USED FOR ARMAMENT

    Federal partners in Bosnia have become the main actors of the multi-ethnic scandalous crime. Almost one hundred million US dollars designated for the reconstruction of houses and "promotion of the multi-ethnic life together", in the area where in the year 1993 there was the fiercest Croat-Muslim war raging, was used for armament of the police forces of the signatories of the Dayton Peace Accords. Yesterday's "Feral Tribune" specifies that the condition for obtaining funds was to reconstruct the houses for certain refugee families, but the amount of this first tranche of the World Bank loan, which amount to the total of 2.5 billion US dollars, was spent on purchase of war material. In spite of the well known facts, the world bankers have even further opened up their funds and have thus, decided to pay directly for the reconstruction of one small provincial Bosnian town. For the pilot project was selected the small town of Gornji Vakuf, having the total of barely ten thousand inhabitants, but with two names, two lord mayors, two police stations, and a street which separates people and coffee shops. The result of the new monetary injection by the foreign donors soon became visible: houses were built by day and destroyed by night. Some of the buildings, constructed up to the roof, would disappear in mysterious night-time explosions and, this, it is being understood, on both sides of the street. With the remark that "the first half of the money allocated for the reconstruction of houses has ended up for the needs of the police forces of the neighboring and ethnically already cleansed municipalities, with the other half of the money houses were constructed which are already erased to the ground", concludes the Split daily newspaper and adds that "instead of the conceived reconstruction of the pre-war demographic structure in this area, what is actually being done is cementing the picture of war gains and losses". (Politika ekspres, September 25, 1996)

    [08] LAW ON AMNESTY IS A POLITICAL DECISION

    Secretary for Justice of the Serbian Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, Vojin Susa, stated yesterday in Vukovar that the new Croat Law on Amnesty has brought certain improvements and has shown that Croatia, at least in this first phase, intends to place Serbs in an equitable position. Underlining that Croatia accepted this under an obvious pressure by the international community, Susa emphasized as one of the positive provisions of this Law the fact that it excepts from responsibility also those who were during the past years mostly tried in absentia. "While speaking of the qualification of the war crimes, still a lot of crimes remain which according to the international standards do not have the character of the war crime", states Susa and adds: "The Law on Amnesty in fact, does not have the character of a classic law, it is rather a political decision." (Borba, September 25, 1996)

    [09] SUFFERINGS OF SERBS IN IMOTSKA KRAJINA

    Although in the area of Imotska Krajina there were no combat actions, and neither any organized resistance of the few inhabitants of Serbian nationality, the new authorities of the Croat Democratic Community in this region have committed serious crimes over the innocent Serbian civilians. At the annual assembly of the Motherland Club of Serbs from Imotska Krajina, held in Sremski Karlovci, data was stated that in Imotsko and several surrounding villages 66 houses have been erased to the ground, and 155 Serbian houses plundered and mined. The church of Transfiguration of the Holy Virgin in Glavina, constructed in 1730, was heavily damaged in 1991, while the church of Saint Vasilije Ostroski was erased to the ground by explosives in the village of Crnogorci. In this area there were also killings, harassments and physical assaults against Serbs, so that today, as the consequence of such a behavior of the Tudjman's authorities, in Imotska Krajina there are no more Serbs. An extensive material on the Croat crimes was submitted to the Commission for Human Rights of the OUN, where it was accepted as an official document. A file was also made with the names of 46 Croats, perpetrators of crimes, which will be these days submitted to the offices of The Hague Criminal Tribunal in Belgrade. (Vecernje novosti, September 25, 1996)
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