YDS 11/7

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)

7. NOVEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

BILATERAL TALKS - YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PREMIER SAINOVIC IN TEL AVIV - MONTENEGRIN PREMIER HAS TALKS AT WORLD BANK - ROMANIA SUPPORTS YUGOSLAVIA'S POLICY OF PEACE - YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA TALKS

SREM-BARANJA REGION - KRAJINA DELEGATION SAYS TALKS WERE NOT INTERRUPTED

REPORT OF U.N. RAPPORTEUR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - REHN ACCUSES CROATIA OF VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS OF SERBS IN KRAJINA

FROM FOREIGN PRESS - MUJAHEDDIN CONTINUE TO MENACE U.N. PEACEKEEPERS IN BOSNIA

BILATERAL TALKS

YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PREMIER SAINOVIC IN TEL AVIV

T e l A v i v, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Premier Nikola Sainovic, who headed the Yugoslav delegation to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's funeral on Monday, met in Tel Aviv with representatives of the Community of Jews of Yugoslav origin and local businessmen. The Yugoslav delegation laid a wreath on Rabin's grave in mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on behalf of the Yugoslav Government. Representatives of the Israeli Government expressed gratitude to Yugoslavia for sending a high-ranking delegation to Rabin's funeral at this tragic time for the Israeli people. Before returning to Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav delegation met also with Israeli ministers and assembly members and with representatives of some countries who were also in Israel to attend the funeral of the late Prime Minister and Defense Minister.

MONTENEGRIN PREMIER HAS TALKS AT WORLD BANK

N e w Y o r k, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic conferred on Monday with World Bank Director for Europe Christian Poortman about bilateral cooperation after the lifting of anti-Yugoslav sanctions. Djukanovic is heading a delegation of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro that arrived in Washington on Sunday at the invitation of a group of U.S. congressmen. On Monday morning, the delegation, which includes also Parliament Speaker Svetozar Marovic and Vice Premier Asim Telacevic, discussed bilateral cooperation also at the State Department with Assistant Secretary of State John Kornblum. The talks were followed by a visit to the U.S. Atlantic Council and talks with Director David Acheson and foreign policy studies programme coordinator Helmut Sonnenfeld.

ROMANIA SUPPORTS YUGOSLAVIA'S POLICY OF PEACE

B u c h a r e s t, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav assembly official Borisav Jovic said Monday his talks with Romanian officials had confirmed that country held Yugoslavia in high esteem and supported its policy of peace and condemned the U.N. sanctions against it as unjust and untenable. Jovic, who chairs the Foreign Policy Committee of the Yugoslav Assembly's Chamber of Citizens, heads a multi-party parliamentary delegation on a visit to Romania at the invitation of its parliament. The Yugoslav delegation on Monday evening met with Romanian Parliament House of Representatives President Andriana Nastase, and in the afternoon with members of the Foreign Policy Committee and parliamentary group for Romanian-Yugoslav friendship. Talks focused on three groups of questions: the peace process in former Yugoslavia, the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, and preparations for the normalization of Romanian-Yugoslav relations and future inter-parliamentary cooperation.

YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA TALKS

P e k i n g, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Representatives of Chinese Ministry of Culture said Monday that Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's legitimate membership in international organizations must not be made dependent on resolving its internal problems, as some countries wish to impose. A Yugoslav delegation headed by Serbian Minister of Culture Nada Popovic Perisic and Montenegrin Deputy Minister of Culture Zoran Soskic held a meeting in Peking with Chinese Deputy Minister of Culture Chen Changben. China supports Yugoslavia's reintegration in international organizations and institutions from which it was unjustly excluded for its alleged involvement in the war in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The two delegations discussed the promotion and expansion of cultural cooperation, which did not cease even under sanctions.

SREM-BARANJA REGION

KRAJINA DELEGATION SAYS TALKS WERE NOT INTERRUPTED

E r d u t, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Serb negotiators from Eastern Krajina said Monday that talks for a peaceful solution to the region have not been interrupted despite the fact that the Serbs had refused a draft agreement with Croatia offered by international mediators. Head of the Serb negotiating team Milan Milanovic said in a letter to U.S. Ambassador to Zagreb Peter Galbraith and U.N. mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg that the draft did not guarantee peace and survival for the population of the Srem-Baranja region. Milanovic said he hoped the proposals of the Serb delegation, submitted to the mediators on Sunday, would be respected.

REPORT OF U.N. RAPPORTEUR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

REHN ACCUSES CROATIA OF VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS OF SERBS

G e n e v a, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Special U.N. Rapporteur for Human Rights in the former Yugoslavia Elisabeth Rehn accused the Croatian authorities of drastic violations of the human rights of Serbs in sectors 'North' and 'South' in Serb Krajina during and after Croatia's August aggression on the territory. Rehn placed the accusations, substantiated by comprehensive solid evidence, at the beginning of her first report, in her capacity of U.N. special rapporteur, to U.N. Secretary General Boutros Ghali and the General Assembly, Tanjug learnt on Monday. Faced with the Croatian aggression on sectors 'North' and 'South' of Serb Krajina, called 'storm', about 200,000 Serbs were forced to flee and only 5,000 of them have stayed in their homes, Rehn said. She cited the main segments of Croatian practice during and after the 'storm': brutal treatment, by Croatian troops and civilians, of the Serbian people on their way out of Croatia, shelling during the offensive of Serb cities and villages without any military importance (for example Knin and Glina), murdering of Serbs who stayed in Krajina, plundering of Serb property, and the setting ablaze and ruthless destruction of Serb houses. Although the Croatian authorities claim that they will allow Serb refugees to return to their homes, Rehn concludes that, unfortunately, reality was different. Many Serb houses are burnt and destroyed and the Croatian authorities are posing bureaucratic obstacles to prevent the return of Serb refugees, Rehn said in her report. The report of the new Special U.N. Rapporteur, which is not yet available for the public, is completely different from the 17 reports filed by her predecessor Tadeush Mazowietski, who always blamed Serbs for all the crimes and human rights violations in the former Yugoslavia. Rehn wrote her 37-page report after her first mission to the former Yugoslavia last month during which she visited Zagreb, Sarajevo, Pale, Belgrade and other places in Serb Krajina. In the part of her report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rehn said that the all the parties to the conflict - Muslims, Croats and Serbs were violating human rights. The part of the report on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Rehn starts with the observation that the Yugoslav authorities have been fully supportive of her mission and that they are ready and open for talks about all aspects of human rights. Rehn said that the problems the F.R.Y. is facing are first of all humanitarian, due to the negative effects of U.N. sanctions against the F.R.Y. and the difficulties that arise in finding accommodation for approximately 700,000 refugees.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS

MUJAHEDDIN CONTINUE TO MENACE U.N. PEACEKEEPERS

L o n d o n, Nov. 6 (Tanjug) - Islamic warriors, the mujaheddin, continue to menace U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the London Daily Telegraph warned on Monday. The targets are primarily British soldiers but other U.N. troops have also experienced the growing aggressiveness of islamic volunteers and foreign mercenaries fighting in Bosnia. Afghan war veterans constitute two-thirds of the shock troops of about 800 mujaheddin that are currently active in Bosnia while the rest have been recruited gradually among Bosnian Muslims and trained in Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and the Sudan. Reacting to the mujaheddin threats, Britain has withdrawn all its nationals from humanitarian missions in the Bosnian Muslim territory, except in Sarajevo, while British troops move through central Bosnia exclusively in convoys and groups. Moreover, British flags and car register plates are often removed to avoid attacks. Cap. Colin Armstrong Bell has said that the problem has become even greater now that fighting on the frontlines has stopped and the mujaheddin are wandering through the entire Muslim-controlled territory looking for trouble. British troops have been target of mujaheddin threats since the beginning of war but their hostility escalated after Oct. 5, when a British soldier killed a mujaheddin fighter in self-defense. The Daily Telegraph said that the incident had been merely a pretext for intensifying threats and that it was not longer possible to hide this from public eyes.