YDS 11/10

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

10. NOVEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

DAYTON - TALKS - AGREEMENT REACHED TO ALLOW GAS SUPPLIES TO YUGOSLAVIA FROM RUSSIA

YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR ON NEW U.N. RESOLUTION - SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD BACK DAYTON TALKS

CROATIA - SERBS - U.N. REGISTERS MOVEMENT OF CROATIAN TROOPS - HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS WARN ABOUT PLIGHT OF KRAJINA SERBS - ELIZABETH RHEN: PROOF ABOUT CROATIAN CRIMES IN KRAJINA - SERBIAN, CROATIAN CHURCH DIGNITARIES HOPE FOR PEACE AFTER DAYTON

ECONOMY - SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN FRY

FROM FOREIGN PRESS - ILLICIT ARMS DELIVERIES TO SLOVENIA, BULK SOLD TO BOSNIAN MUSLIMS

DAYTON - TALKS

AGREEMENT REACHED TO ALLOW GAS SUPPLIES TO YUGOSLAVIA

N e w Y o r k, Nov. 9 (Tanjug) - Agreement was reached late Thursday at the Bosnia peace talks in Dayton to partially lift the trade embargo against Yugoslavia to allow natural gas supplies from Russia. The U.N. Sanctions Committee is to meet later in the day to consider the issue, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said in Washington. Burns said a request to this effects had been made by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who heads the Yugoslav delegation at the Dayton talks. Head of the Moslem delegation at the talks, Bosnian Moslem leader Alija Izetbegovic has made a similar request because the gas pipeline passes through Serbia into Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sarajevo.

YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR ON NEW U.N. RESOLUTION

SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD BACK DAYTON TALKS

N e w Y o r k, Nov. 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav U.N. Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic said Thursday evening that it would be better for the U.N. Security Council to extend resolute support to the talks in Dayton than to concern itself with individual questions that certain negotiating sides could use as additional pressure (in the talks). He commented the adoption of the latest resolution by saying that he thought it could be counter-productive that the Council at this time, as peace talks were under way in Ohio, dealt with such questions. The resolution demands the Bosnian Serbs immediately release non-Serbs detained in the regions of Srebrenica and Banja Luka, and demanded Croatia stop violating Serbs' human rights. Jovanovic said that in his view it would be better if, as regards peace and the world, at this time to extend resolute support to the talks in Dayton and not for the Council to dwell on such individual questions thereby affording some negotiating sides to use them as a pretext for further straining and new pressures. This could ultimately prompt them to try a new to postpone peace solution, said Jovanovic. As an example of such partial approach, Jovanovic cited the case of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which was given full support in the resolution, and the respective countries asked for full cooperation with this institution. Yugoslavia, he said, condemned all crimes committed against people and their property regardless of who the victims were just as it favoured the culprits be tried regardless of who they were. It was hard, however, to believe in impartiality of this tribunal because of the 46 persons indicted so far, 44 were serbs, said Jovanovic and asked did the tribunal in the Hague in this way want to demonstrate that the Serbs in Bosnia were 44 times more guilty than the other two sides in the civil war there.

CROATIA - SERBS

U.N. REGISTERS MOVEMENT OF CROATIAN TROOPS

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 9 (Tanjug) - U.N. observers on Thursday noted movement of Croatia's troops in the region of eastern Slavonija, and U.N. Commander in this sector Gen. Freddie van der Weghe said he did not believe these movements meant Croatia would attack the Serbs. He said the situation was tense as it had been over the past few days, but that it was also stable. He at the same time accused the Croatian side of undertaking recently provocative actions as its mig 21 planes on several occasions overflew the separation zone with one plane violating the air space of the Serbs in the Srem-Baranja region. U.N. spokesman Douglas Coffman said Thursday afternoon that the elite Croatian first brigade known as the Tigers had arrived to the town Vinkovci. He said the Croatians have also brought in there heavy artillery and hundreds of troops. U.N. observers in the town of Novska, on the major road for eastern Slavonija, registered Wednesday at least five 105 mm guns and six military trucks moving eastwards, confirmed U.N. representative Leah Melnick.

HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS WARN ABOUT PLIGHT OF SERBS

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 9 (Tanjug) - International humanitarian organizations have warned that the remaining Serbs in Krajina will not survive the coming winter unless they are helped. 'Croatian authorities must find a solution, if there is a wish to save those people,' spokesman of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Knin Carmen Burger told the AFP news agency. U.N. spokesman in Knin Andy Burridge said local Serbs had even been robbed of blankets and firewood. The robbers did not go so far to kill them, they left it to the winter to finish them, he said. If the U.N. observers leave the area at the end of November, when their mandate will expire, the situation will surely deteriorate, the AFP said. United Nations Belgrade spokeswoman Susan Manuel said that the situation in the former U.N. sectors North and South was dangerous and varying widely since the Croatian government was blocking the work of the humanitarian organizations in the field, while croatian hospitals were refusing to admit Serb patients for treatment. Those remaining in the Banija and Kordun areas are around 800 elderly people who may survive only if the U.N. helps them, she said.

RHEN: PROOF ABOUT CROATIAN CRIMES IN KRAJINA

G e n e v a, Nov. 8 (Tanjug) - The first report by the new Special U.N. Envoy for Human Rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Rhen of Finland, contains extensive evidence charging Croatia of crimes against the Serbs committed during and after the invasion on Krajina. The report's general conclusion is that human rights are being more or less violated in all parts of the former Yugoslavia, but that the activities of the Croatian authorities, especially in Krajina, exceed everything. Rhen quoted a large number of cases, ranging from mass killings of the few remaining Serbs in Krajina, to burnings and the destruction of Serb property. A separate part of Rhen's report focuses on attempts by the Croatian authorities to prevent the return of Serb refugees to their homes, which is currently under discussion at the peace talks in Dayton, Ohio. Rhen expressed much concern about the fate of the Serb refugees on the basis of numerous facts, ranging from burned and demolished Serb houses, villages and cities, to the new Croatian laws which enabled Croatia to practically confiscate the remaining Serb property. Rhen underscored the drama of several thousand Serb refugees in Hungary who are waiting to return to their burned homes.

SERBIAN, CROATIAN CHURCH DIGNITARIES HOPE FOR PEACE

Z a g r e b, Nov. 9 (Tanjug) - Dignitaries of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Croatian Roman Catholic Church on Thursday expressed hope that the current peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, would restore peace in the former Yugoslavia. Serbian metropolitan Jovan of Zagreb, Ljubljana and all Italy, and archbishop of Zagreb and cardinal Franjo Kuharic met in Zagreb to discuss efforts to build mutual trust and restore life together between the catholic and orthodox christians in Croatia, said a statement released by the catholic church news agency Ika. Cardinal Kuharic expressed a wish for the return of orthodox priests to their parishes in Croatia, while metropolitan Jovan said that the matter would be possible to discuss in detail after a complete restoration of peace, said the statement. The two church dignitaries condemned the destruction of churches in the war in the former Yugoslavia and discussed the problem of Serbian orthodox churches in Croatia that have remained devoid of congregation.

E C O N O M Y

SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN FRY

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 9 (Tanjug) - Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic said Thursday his government was looking forward with optimism to the signing of a peace agreement at the talks in Dayton and to the lifting of the sanctions imposed by the international community on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In an interview to Tanjug, Marjanovic said the fundamental objective under sanctions was to preserve industrial and other production installations and manpower, and expressed conviction that the endeavors to this end had been successful and that reintegration in world economy would be faster than expected. Marjanovic said he was aware that many companies had undertaken extensive preparations for that moment and that ties with many foreign partners had in fact never been broken off, and noted that potential foreign investors had already expressed interest in taking part in Yugoslavia's economic recovery with their capital, technology and programs. 'As a state, we shall offer the best possible conditions to foreign investors and, at the same time, by continuous implementation of market economy rules create an appropriate atmosphere for easier integration in international economic trends', the Prime Minister said. There can be no doubts regarding the need for ownership transformation. As for concrete measures, the advantages and defects of all proposals are being studied and appropriate legislation can be expected relatively quickly, he noted. 'On the basis of the experience of others as well as our own, we shall try to avoid all negative aspects of the change of ownership that were experienced by other countries undergoing transition, while striving to the utmost for greater economic efficiency, greater motivation of employees and a greater degree of justice', the Prime Minister said.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS

ILLICIT ARMS DELIVERIES TO SLOVENIA, BULK SOLD TO BOSNIAN MUSL IMS

Lj u b lj a n a, Nov. 9 (Tanjug) - Several scores of tonnes of various munitions were delivered to Slovenia from early 1993 through Aug. 10 this year, according to Slovenian firm Poroko representatives. An employee of the Jesenice firm, which handled Ljubljana Airport security until recently, has quoted Bosnian Muslim Embassy sources as saying there were quite a few signs that a very large quantity of U.S. and German arms landed at the Airport in the specified period. The employee, who asked to remain anonymous, said the deals were most likely carried out in agreement with ranking U.S. military representatives. According to the documents to which Poroko's employee has had access - disclosed on Slovenian TV Wednesday evening and Thursday morning - munitions were flown into Slovenia by helicopters and planes mostly from Czechoslovakia, despite a U.N. arms embargo. The Poroko firm has handed over to the public prosecutor's office a part of the documentation on the delivery of arms to Slovenia from the early 1993 through Aug. 10 this year and called for a sweeping investigation. The arms deliveries were regularly supervised by the police and a defense ministry representative, which confirms the allegations of lucrative state deals being involved. According to some figures, provided by still unnamed sources, it is not known precisely where the huge quantities of munitions were transported to. It is assumed that a smaller part was intended for Slovenia, while the bulk was sold to the Bosnian Muslim units or Croatia's army. The arms deliveries to Slovenia were concealed so far 'for reasons of Slovenia's state interests,' head of Poroko's Trade Union Ivo Smid has said.