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Serbia Today, 96-10-16

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

Serbia Today

16 October 1996


CONTENTS

  • [01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LILIC VISITING AFRICA
  • [02] THE FIRST ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SUCCESSION COMPLETED
  • [03] UKRAINE FAVOURS THE INTENSIFYING OF RELATIONS WITH FRY
  • [04] MUTUAL INTEREST OF BRAZIL AND YUGOSLAVIA
  • [05] AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND ISRAEL SIGNED
  • [06] 60.000 MOBILE PHONES TILL THE END OF THE YEAR
  • [07] REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA INTEREST - MUTUAL STATE BODIES SHOULD BE ACTIVATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
  • [08] CROATS ROUGHLY PREVENTED SERBS TO VISIT DRVAR
  • [09] ABDIC ACCUSES IZETBEGOVIC FOR " UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN OF TERRORIZING"
  • [10] ANARCHY IN KRAJINA

  • [01] YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LILIC VISITING AFRICA

    The President of the FR Yugoslavia, Mr. Zoran Lilic left yesterday for an official visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe, accepting the invitation of the President Robert Mugabe. Mr. Lilic will also visit the Republic of Guinea, invited by the President Lansane Conte. On his way, President Lilic will stop in the United Republic of Tanzania and pay a working visit to the Republic of Ghana. (Borba, Oct. 16,1996)

    [02] THE FIRST ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS ON SUCCESSION COMPLETED

    The first round of negotiations on the economic succession of Former Yugoslavia was completed in Brussels. It was agreed that the discussion will continue by the middle of next month.

    During the negotiation, the debate prevailed on the definition and categorization of the state property that should be divided between the states-successors. According to Academician Mr. Kosta Mihajlovic, head of the Yugoslav delegation, our experts had the first opportunity to fully present their approach to the whole problem of succession. The insisted upon finding compromising solutions and equal respect of interest of all sides. The remaining four States insisted on the previous suggestions, based on the conclusions of the Badinter Committee on the disintegration of SFRJ, that do not provide the respect of equal interest of all the concerned sides. Their strategy aims to press forward the division of common property. without the definitive founding of division principles, our delegation insists upon. According to Mr. Mihajlovic, the expectations of the representatives of the other four states were not fulfilled, that their solutions will be applied by force, helped by the pressure of the international community. (Politika, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [03] UKRAINE FAVOURS THE INTENSIFYING OF RELATIONS WITH FRY

    Ukrainian President, Mr. Leonid Kuchma and the member of the Yugoslav Parliament delegation, officially visiting Kiev and headed by the Citizens' Chamber, Mr. Radovan Bozovic, during their yesterday talks concluded that the relationships between the two countries are favorable and stable and that there is a mutual interest for the more versatile growth of cooperation. It was also emphasized that it is necessary to prepare the legal basis and signing of the agreement on cooperation and friendship between FR Yugoslavia and Ukraine. President Kuchma acclaimed the positive development of the peace process in Former Yugoslavia, stressing the fact that peace and stabilization are of basic significance for the further cooperation in the Balkans and Europe. Mr. Bozovic underlined that FR Yugoslavia greatly values the objective and impartial position of Ukraine towards the Former Yugoslavia crisis and added that Ukraine was an important factor of stability in all the phases of the peace process. (Borba, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [04] MUTUAL INTEREST OF BRAZIL AND YUGOSLAVIA

    Yugoslav Government Deputy President, Mr. Jovan Zebic, heading the Yugoslav business delegation during their visit to the South American countries, met the Deputy President of the Federal Republic of Brasil. Mr. Marc Antonio Masiel, and expressed the gratitude of the Yugoslav Government for the help and objective stands taken by Brasil during the Former Yugoslavia crisis/ The delegation of FR Yugoslavia, representing the country which has the international and legal continuity to the former SFRY, suggested to the member of the Brazilian Government the correction and endorsement of the existing and concluding new bilateral agreements, said Mr. Zebic. Deputy President Masiel stressed the need for further intensifying of volatile contacts, adding that beside the political and business interest, there are many opportunities of cooperation in technology, culture, education and other fields. (Borba, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [05] AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND ISRAEL SIGNED

    Yesterday, Yugoslav Minister of Work, Health and Social policy, Mr. Miroslav Ivanisevic and the Israel Foreign Secretary, Mr. David Levy signed the agreement on cooperation in the field of health and medicine between FR Yugoslavia and Israel. This cooperation envisages the exchange of experience, information and experts as well as the direct contacts between the institutions and organizations of both States, and the exchange of information on new equipment, pharmaceutical products and technological achievements, said Ivanisevic.

    He also said that it is expected that Israel support SR Yugoslavia in its full reintegration into the international bodies and organizations. Mr. David Levy stated that very soon Israel will open its embassy in Belgrade. (Politika, Oct. 16,1996)

    [06] 60.000 MOBILE PHONES TILL THE END OF THE YEAR

    At the telecommunication center of the Public Enterprise PTT "Srbija" in Belgrade, yesterday the GSM main telephone exchange was put into operation, representing a new phase in developing of the Mobile Telephony in Serbia. This unit was manufactured by the word renowned firm ERICSON from Sweden, and the mounting was carried out in cooperation with PTT 'Srbija' experts, i.e., The Serbian Mobile Telephony. Six months ago in Belgrade the mobile telephony and the main telephone exchange were put into trial operation. By the end of the year in Serbia, 60.000 mobile phones will operate, and the plan is to increase the number of subscribers for 10.000 more mobile phones till the end of January 1997. (Vecernje novosti, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [07] REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA INTEREST - MUTUAL STATE BODIES SHOULD BE ACTIVATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

    Mr. Momcilo Krajisnik, Republic of Srpska B&H Presidency Member, yesterday said that he will insist on establishing the mutual state bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina as soon as possible, for this is the interest of Republic of Srpska and the interest of Serbian people that they should operate as soon as possible. In his statement to SRNA news agency, Mr. Krajisnik said that he tried several times to talk to the three-member B&H Presidency member Alija Izetbegovic, but, he pointed out, unsuccessfully. Krajisnik added that after his meeting US Deputy Foreign Secretary, Mr. John Cornbloom and the German Foreign Minister Mr. Claus Kinkel, the international community understands that the Moslems and not the Serbs are sabotaging the consolidation of the mutual bodies, to be the only representatives of whole Bosnia. (Politika Ekspres, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [08] CROATS ROUGHLY PREVENTED SERBS TO VISIT DRVAR

    UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNCHR) speaker, Mr. Ron Redmon, talking to the press in Geneva on refugees' and displaced persons' requests to return to their homesteads in Bosnia. stated that "according to rough estimates" about 240.000 people returned to their homes. But, those are mainly the ones whose houses are on the territories of their entities, said Redman and quoted two most recent examples of preventing the refugees to fulfill their rights. As he said, UNHCR organized a visit of 435 Serbs to their houses in Drvar. They arrived to Drvar in buses, but the Croatian Town Authorities violently prevented them. A similar incident occurred in Bosnian village of Grahovo, and Mr. Redmon says that the UNHCR stand on this incident is that it represents a drastic breach not only of the refugees' basis rights, but of the Dayton Agreement as well. (Politika, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [09] ABDIC ACCUSES IZETBEGOVIC FOR " UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN OF TERRORIZING"

    The ex-leader of Moslems from the western Bosnia, Mr. Fikret Abdic yesterday accused the President of the three-memebr Bosnian Presidency, Alija Izetbegovic for continuing "the unprecedented campaign of terrorizing" against his followers in the Bihac region, reports AFP. The Agency reminds that in Velika Kladusa 18 Abdic's followers were arrested, five of them being accused of "war crimes" and kept in prison. " The everyday repression against my followers is not pleasing Izetbegovic, he now started a new for of terrorizing, ordering arrests', stated Mr. Abdic and added that only the International Tribunal in the Hague can allow the arrests for the commitment of war crimes (Borba, Oct. 16, 1996)

    [10] ANARCHY IN KRAJINA

    In his newest report, not yet made public the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Jose Ayale Lasoa, on the basis of the existing reports estimates the situation on the human rights in FR Yugoslavia, B&H and Croatia.

    In the part of the report regarding human rights in FR Yugoslavia, especially underlined is the significance of the Agreement between FRY and Croatia on the normalization of relations and the Agreement signed by the Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Ibrahim Rugova on the return of Albanian student to " official schools on all levels". Speaking of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is concluded that the present situation provides many reasons for serious concern. In the chapter regarding Croatia, Mr. Jose Ayala quotes UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali and UN Special Reporter Ms. Elisabeth Renn that" the Croatian authorities have not yet provided adequate security got the population of the former sectors North and South." Those are the territories populated by Serbs in Krajina, where, as reported, still the anarchy prevails. Among numerous examples. the young married couple from the village of Bukovica is mentioned, for they were killed only because of their mixed marriage, i.e. their being a Serbian-Croatian pair. As this was not enough, their house was burned down to the foundation. (Politika, Oct. 16, 1996)9


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