YDS 11/22

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

22. NOVEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

C O N T E N T S:

DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT - PEACE AGREEMENT ON BOSNIA INITIALED - MILOSEVIC: WAR FINALLY ENDS - MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT: DAYTON ACCORD MARKS NEW STAGE IN DEVELOPMENT - LILIC CONGRATULATES MILOSEVIC ON REACHING AGREEMENT IN DAYTON - YUGOSLAV PREMIER: TRIUMPH OF REASON AND STATESMANSHIP - SERBIAN GOVERNMENT: PEACE ACCORD AS DOCUMENT OF HISTORIC VALUE - SATISFACTION, RELIEF IN YUGOSLAV ARMY AT DAYTON ACCORD - BOSNIAN SERB GEN. GVERO WELCOMES PEACE AS VALUABLE - BOSNIAN SERBS CELEBRATE END OF WAR

SREM-BARANJA REGION - ANNAN: GOOD WILL OF BOTH SIDES MOST ESSENTIAL IN IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT

FRENCH PILOTS - BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL: PILOTS ARE SAFE

DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT

PEACE AGREEMENT ON BOSNIA INITIALED

D a y t o n, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - The presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnian Muslims, Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic initialed a peace agreement, ending the four-year civil war in that former Yugoslav republic. At an official ceremony at the Wright-Patterson air base in Dayton, Ohio, after three weeks of difficult negotiations, an agreement was formulated which organizes Bosnia-Herzegovina as a single state composed of two equal entities, the Muslim-Croat federation and the Bosnian Serb state, Republika Srpska. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was the first to speak at the ceremony. The leaders of the delegations to the talks 'have come a long way in the past 20 days, and today they will signal their determination to stay on the path of peace,' he said. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who headed the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and represented Bosnian Serbs, said 'this day will enter into history as the date of the end of the war in the area of the former Yugoslavia.' 'In a civil war like this one in Bosnia there could be no winners...all are losers. Only peace is a victory,' Milosevic said. The solutions found required painful concessions by all sides, but 'no party should regret the concessions which were given,' because peace would not have been possible without them, he said. As of today, war in Bosnia is a thing of the past, the Serbian President said. Milosevic said the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would continue to cooperate with the peoples and states in the region in the interests of all, with the same determination with which it had fought for peace in the past years. In closing, Milosevic thanked Warren Christopher, the United States, the Russian federation, and the European Union for the efforts made for peace to return to the territory of former Yugoslavia. The Bosnian Muslim President addressed his people from Dayton, telling them that the peace agreed there might not be just, but that it was more just than war. In such a situation in the world, nothing better could have been achieved, Izetbegovic said. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said he was confident the agreement would contribute to strengthening the Muslim-Croat federation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the complete normalization of relations between all countries of the former Yugoslavia on the basis of mutual recognitions.

MILOSEVIC: WAR FINALLY ENDS

D a y t o n, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - War finally ended today, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said. War ended not because of the agreement reached concerning all elements of the peace plan but because a border is finally determined between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska in Bosnia, so that any military action aimed at changing it would be considered as an act of terrorism. It is high time everybody turned to peace, economic development and prosperity, Milosevic said. He said that the map agreed in Dayton was incomparably better than the earlier one proposed by the international Contact Group. Compared to the Contact Group plan, the Republika Srpska will again include the municipalities of Mrkonjic Grad and Sipovo and, in the direction of Central Bosnia, mount Ozren and the towns of Doboj, Modrica, Derventa, Brod, Samac and Brcko, and Visegrad, Srebrenica and Zepa in Eastern Bosnia, Milosevic said. He said he believed such a map was a fair solution. All sides had to make some serious concessions but it is certain that the concessions made cannot be compared to the result achieved, which is peace not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina but in the entire region as well, Milosevic said, adding that the whole region now had a chance of turning to its own development. Finally, I want to say to you that a United Nations Security Council resolution has just entered a procedure and that it is halting all economic sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It means that the sanctions are to be suspended at once and formally lifted after a while. However, there is no difference in the character of the solution between a suspension and the lifting of the sanctions. It is only a procedure that is linked to the calming of tension and conflicts in Bosnia, Milosevic said. I expect that our country, freed from the restraints that have greatly undermined its economic and social development as a whole, will now embark upon a road of major economic recovery and development, Milosevic said. Our next goal is a successful economic and cultural development, integration in Europe and the world as a whole, and equality of peoples and individuals in the region, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said.

MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT: DAYTON ACCORD MARKS NEW STAGE IN DEVELO PMENT

P o d g o r i c a, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic said that the conclusion of the peace accord on Bosnia at Dayton, opened the door to a normalisation of relations among the former Yugoslav republics. Bulatovic was speaking for Montenegrin Television from Dayton, where he was attending the Bosnia talks as a member of the Yugoslav negotiating team. He said that, in the past 72 hours, the talks had been balancing on a razor's edge, with the problem that needed to be solved being unprecedented in the history of diplomacy. 'We have managed to find a compromise solution and have during this time written practically a volume of mutual agreements and devoted great attention to their implementation,' Bulatovic said. Asked about the problem of the strategic Prevlaka peninsula, situated on the border between Montenegro and Croatia, he said that the Yugoslav delegation had had a series of constructive discussions with the Croatian delegation and President Tudjman on the subject. 'What it involves is giving the Republika Srpska its legitimate right to have access to the sea and solving the problem of Prevlaka in the process,' Bulatovic explained. 'We have fully coordinated the entire package arrangement, which is to be implemented in the resumption of the peace conference in Paris, i.e., at the time of the formal signing of the peace accord,' he added.

LILIC CONGRATULATES MILOSEVIC ON REACHING AGREEMENT IN DAYTON

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic congratulated Serbian President and head of the Yugoslav delegation Slobodan Milosevic on reaching agreement on peace. 'At this important moment, when through your decisive and essential contribution - with the backing of the U.S. administration and President Clinton, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the entire international community - peace was restored in Europe and when prospects were created for fresh integrations in Europe and the world, I want to present assurances that I share the view of all our citizens who have rightly entrusted you with this historic mandate and whose confidence and expectations you have fully fulfilled,' the message said. This act has scored a great triumph for our consistent endeavours for peace and equality of the Serb people with other peoples of the former Yugoslavia, Lilic set out.

YUGOSLAV PREMIER: TRIUMPH OF REASON AND STATESMANSHIP

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - A peace agreement accepted in Dayton represents the final triumph of reason and statesmanship over the human mind's forces of dark and destruction, Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic said. 'In accepting the Dayton agreement in entirety, the Yugoslav Government assesses that it has the substantial significance for peace, stability and normalization of relations not only in the areas of former Yugoslavia but also beyond, in the areas of the Balkans and Europe,' said Kontic. Kontic added that the Federal Government has since the beginning of its mandate been insisting on a peaceful settlement of the crisis in former Yugoslavia's territory, with a just and equal treatment to all the parties involved. One may take pride in the fact that it was precisely thanks to the Yugoslav delegation, headed by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, that the peace talks in Dayton had been brought to their successful ending and that the Serb people outside the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were warranted the right to their own identity and equality, said Kontic.

SERBIAN GOVERNMENT: PEACE ACCORD AS DOCUMENT OF HISTORIC VALUE

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - The Government of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia assessed that a peace agreement achieved in Dayton reflects respect for the principle of equality and observance of the legitimate interests of all parties to the conflict as a prerequisite to achieve a lasting and just peace. In its announcement, the Serbian Government acknowledges head of the Yugoslav delegation Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic who 'has defended in entirety the national, state, political and economic interests of the state and the entire Serbian people.' The announcement says that the suspension and lifting of the sanctions against the F.R.Y. as one of the elements of the successful outcome of the talks, would enable the F.R.Y. and Serbia to reintegrate themselves in the processes of international exchange and to speed up the country's economic growth and development. Citizens of the F.R.Y. in the period now ended had sustained huge sacrifices and had been exposed to blockades, pressures, isolation and unparalleled media campaign, but - guided with the consistent policy of peace which was persistently and with wisdom backed up by President Milosevic - they had succeeded in preserving dignity, trust in themselves and the ability to defend peace, stability and development pillars even in such conditions. 'The Government of Serbia in the immediate future will do all to have the favourable political and economic environment - created by the achieved peace agreement - transformed into the measures that will provide for a quick economic growth and development, for the promotion of international economic relations and for the reaffirmation of the country in international proportions,' the Government announced said in conclusion.

SATISFACTION, RELIEF IN YUGOSLAV ARMY AT DAYTON ACCORD

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Chief of Staff Gen. Momcilo Perisic expressed the Yugoslav Army's great satisfaction and relief that a peace agreement has been reached at Dayton. We are happy that reason has finally prevailed among people in the lands of former Yugoslavia, and I sincerely hope that the brutality of four years of civil war is enough of a warning for anything like this never to happen again, Gen. Perisic said. Our people have made great sacrifices in this war, suffered destruction, loss of ancestral homes... but have managed to preserve and defend their national entity, he added. The Yugoslav Army welcomes the great contribution made by our negotiating team in the peace talks in Dayton, and expresses its commitment and readiness actively to contribute, in keeping with the state leadership's decisions, to the implementation of the agreement.

BOSNIAN SERB GEN. GVERO WELCOMES PEACE AS VALUABLE

B a nj a l u k a, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - Assistant Commander of the Republika Srpska Army Lt.-Gen. Milan Gvero said that 'peace is something very valuable and should be welcomed as such.' The important thing at this time is 'to do everything for this peace to really take root,' Gen. Gvero said. He congratulated and paid tribute to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for his 'determination to reach peace and his principled approach in the quest for a final settlement.'

BOSNIAN SERBS CELEBRATE END OF WAR

B a nj a l u k a, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - The first news that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina was agreed at the Wright-Patterson air base in Dayton, triggered spontaneous celebrations in the town of Banjaluka in the Republika Srpska. 'After the agreement in Dayton, I am happy because this bloodshed will end and our young (people) will return,' Banjaluka Mayor Predrag Radic said on that occasion. He warned that the period that was to begin would be very difficult and that this was why all citizens of the Republika Srpska should do their best toward forming a union with Serbia. 'My greatest wish is to return, together with my parents, my wife and two children, from exile to my (village of) Crni Lug near Grahovo, and that everyone return to their homes,' policeman Milos Ivetic told Tanjug, commenting the report that peace had been reached. 'Although I am left with two children, although we are all true martyrs, I rejoice, rejoice...mostly because of my own children, but also because of all orphaned children,' Jela Rogic said. A soldier who only gave his name as Milovan, said: 'I have been on the front since the beginning of the war, I have been wounded three times. I know that all soldiers think as I do - we never wanted war, but we had to fight. We had no choice. I am going home to bed, to make up for all the sleepless nights.' At the news that the peace agreement had been reached, the citizens of Doboj celebrated peace in the streets of the town of Doboj. Shots echoed in the streets, but this time to announce a happy event.

SREM-BARANJA REGION

ANNAN: GOOD WILL OF BOTH SIDES MOST ESSENTIAL IN IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT

E r d u t, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - U.N. Secretary General's Special Envoy for the former Yugoslavia Kofi Annan said the good will of the Serb and Croatian sides would be most essential for the implementation of the agreement on Sector East (Srem-Baranja region) signed on October 12. Following talks with the negotiating team for the Srem-Baranja region here on Tuesday, Annan added that he presented to the Serb side full guarantees the United Nations and the international community are prepared to give when the implementation of the agreement takes place. Head of the Serb negotiating team Milan Milanovic expressed hope that a resolution to be adopted by the U.N. Security Council would be in the spirit of the agreement and that after the adoption of a resolution the Security Council would turn to the definition of annexes for certain articles.

FRENCH PILOTS

BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL: PILOTS ARE SAFE

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 21 (Tanjug) - Two French pilots of a NATO plane downed on Aug. 30 near the Bosnian Serb administrative center of Pale are in a safe place, Bosnian Serb Army Gen. Dragomir Milosevic said. For the first time, a Bosnian Serb official thus confirmed that Cap. Frederic Chiffot and lt. Jose Sauvignet are alive. The downed plane was participating in NATO's air strikes against military and civilian targets throughout the Republika Srpska.