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Serbia Today, 96-09-26

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

Serbia Today

26 September 1996


CONTENTS

  • [01] THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER TALKED WITH CONTACT GROUP MEMBERS
  • [02] THE SECURITY COUNCIL STANDS ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF THE SANCTIONS
  • [03] THE YUGOSLAV - BULGARIAN RELATIONS ARE AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL BALKANS
  • [04] REAL CHANCES OF REJOINING THE WORLD
  • [05] RETURN OF YUGOSLAV MEDICINE TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT
  • [06] WE MUST PRESENT THE TRUTH ABOUT JASENOVAC TO THE WORLD
  • [07] 111% OF THE ELECTORS VOTED FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
  • [08] "BOSNIAN" LANGUAGE BANNED IN LIVNO

  • [01] THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER TALKED WITH CONTACT GROUP MEMBERS

    Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, already in New York for three days, is continuing his intense diplomatic activity at the United Nations, focused on the reintegration of FRY in the international organizations and the abolition of international sanctions. Mr. Milutinovic had separate talks with the heads of diplomacy from France, Great Britain, Spain and Greece. According to various sources these talks were dominated by issues concerning the peace process in the Balkans, with particular attention to the abolition of sanctions against our country. These talks concluded the contacts that the Yugoslav Foreign Minister had with the ministers of all Contact Group member countries in charge of promoting the peace process in former Yugoslavia. Various sources indicate that the political climate has ripened and the preconditions have been met for the immediate lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia. The Contact Group and the Security Council are awaiting the official report on the elections in Bosnia so that they might take actions in this sense. (Borba, September 26, 1996)

    [02] THE SECURITY COUNCIL STANDS ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF THE SANCTIONS

    On Monday - September 24th, Russia asked that a Security Council session be called in order to abolish - without any additional conditions - the sanctions against Yugoslavia. However, the US representative asked that such a decision be postponed because the official verification of the regularity of the Bosnian elections still has to arrive. China insists that the sanctions be lifted immediately - without any conditions, Great Britain - just like Russia stresses that all the preconditions for the elimination of economic sanctions against FR Yugoslavia have been met and that this is merely a technical issue. The French representative stated that no further conditions should be put forth and that the sanctions against Yugoslavia should be removed immediately. (Vecernje Novosti, September 26, 1996)

    [03] THE YUGOSLAV - BULGARIAN RELATIONS ARE AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL BALKANS

    The President of the Bulgarian National Assembly - academician Blagove Sendov, and the Chairman of the Yugoslav Parliament Chamber of Citizens - Mr. Radoman Bozovic agreed yesterday in Sofia that the relations between the two neighboring countries are very friendly and on a constant rise. Such cooperation will become even more intense and fruitful when the sanctions against Yugoslavia are definitely, since they have immense losses not only for Serbia and Montenegro but for Bulgaria and all the Balkan countries as well. Mr. Sendov remarked that the Bulgarian Parliament and Government will do everything possible within the framework of the European Parliament, the UN and other international organizations and financial institutions to help the immediate abolition of sanctions and the complete reintegration of Yugoslavia in the international organizations and financial institutions. According to Mr. Radoman Bozovic, the turn of FRY in the international community is a precondition for a complete stabilization of the region and is extremely important for the stability in the Balkans. Our Government, Parliament and public greatly appreciate the position that the Bulgarian Government and people assumed during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, especially their consideration for the great contribution given by FRY and President Slobodan Milosevic in the settlement of the Bosnian crisis - Mr. Bozovic stressed. (Politika, September 26, 1996)

    [04] REAL CHANCES OF REJOINING THE WORLD

    Our chances of rejoining the world are quite realistic, said Federal Deputy Minister Nikola Sainovic in an interview broadcast yesterday by Radio Valjevo. "The policy we pursued for the whole time was aimed at re-acquirement our seat at the UN, and the in the international financial institutions. I am therefore convinced that it will soon yield results. Along with these efforts, within the economic restrictions that remained even after the suspension of the sanctions, we have tried to activate all our potentials that had the basic operating conditions. We have managed to preserve the vital structure of our economy, and this is a major asset now. In the past several years, our industry, was developed almost exclusively in cooperation with western partners, and this gives us a competitive edge compared to numerous countries in the region, once we return on the world market", said Deputy Premier Sainovic. (Borba, September 26, 1996.)

    [05] RETURN OF YUGOSLAV MEDICINE TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT

    The first international Urgent Surgery Conference opened in Belgrade yesterday. More than 300 medical experts from Yugoslavia and some 200 renown surgeons from 25 countries are attending the venue. The conference rallied internationally acknowledged and reputable experts in this field and constitutes an important step in the reintegration of Yugoslav medical profession and science in European and global trends - said Federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic during the opening ceremony. "We are quite pleased that the sanctions have been suspended, and we expect that the will be definitively eliminated in the coming week, which will broaden the horizons in medicine as well, in accordance with the spirit of the Dayton Agreement.", stressed the Federal Prime Minister. (Politika, September 26, 1996)

    [06] WE MUST PRESENT THE TRUTH ABOUT JASENOVAC TO THE WORLD

    "We must make the world realize the truth about Jasenovac, because this is the key to understanding the latest war and the genocide that Tudjman's Croatia perpetrated against the Serbs in Croatia and Krajina", said Dr. Milan Bulajic - Director of the Museum Of Genocide Victims in Belgrade. Speaking about the 5th International Holocaust Conference he has been invited to attend in Jerusalem in January, Dr. Bulajic stressed that this will be "the first great chance to inform the international public about the truth and crimes committed not only in the ill-famed Ustashi-run concentration camp, but about the suffering faced by Serbs, Jews, Romany and other nations throughout former Yugoslavia". It is quite alarming that the UN War Crimes Archives in New York have not included the Ustashi camp of Jasenovac in the registers of concentration camps in occupied Europe in World War II - Dr. Bulajic stressed. He also reminded that that last year he proposed to UNESCO that the Jasenovac concentration camp complex be placed under international protection as a world heritage, just like the Nazi camp Auschwitz, but that "the positive response from UNESCO has not yet been put into practice". (Borba, September 26, 1996)

    [07] 111% OF THE ELECTORS VOTED FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

    Judging by the response of the voters, the recent elections in Bosnia, might beat the records set by the most totalitarian regimes in the world. After a partial count of the votes, which is not challenged by OSCE, independent observers and certain diplomats formulated some new figures - which are quite unbelievable. For example, the International Crisis Group (ICG) was the first to discover that the response of the voters was 103, 9 per cent, and that as much as 111% of the electorate has voted for the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. "The comparison of figures reveals that the response of the voters on September 14th was mathematically impossible. We have no evidence that might suggest foul play, nut the discrepancies justify serious doubts about the regularity of the elections", says the ICG report. Whilst independent observers have identified only three cases of irregular ballots, a western official, that wished to remain anonymous, affirmed categorically that local election committees added at least 200.000 votes, because 70 per cent of the voting centers was left without OSCE supervision at closing time. On Monday, Ms. Biljana Plavsic presented a protest to OSCE Mission Head - Mr. Robert Frowick, against the "preliminary final results". In her letter, she informed the OSCE official that such estimates are based on voting tickets that arrived six days after the voting centers had been closed. Election results were tuned to meet someone's political needs, and the Serbian entity can not accept the current revision of election results based on mysterious and illegal tickets - warned the acting President of the Republic of Srpska. (Vecernje Novosti, September 26, 1996)

    [08] "BOSNIAN" LANGUAGE BANNED IN LIVNO

    Moslem teachers and professors, working in elementary and high schools in Livno, that refused to hold classes in Croatian have been fired - Moslem Radio Sarajevo reported yesterday. The Moslem-Croatian Federation Teachers and Professors Union addressed a letter of protest to Federation President Kresimir Zubak, demanding that he stand up in the defense of the rights of the remaining Moslems in Livno. Radio Sarajevo previously revealed that practically all Moslems in Livno working in socially owned and state companies and institutions have been fired. The same radio station affirms that before the war there were some 6.500 Moslems in this town, but less than a half have remained and they are now denied the basic human rights and the right to perform religious rites. (Politika, September 26, 1996)
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