YDS 12/8 (2nd)

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

8 DECEMBER 1995 YDS-1034

C O N T E N T S :

LONDON CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA - YUGOSLAV DELEGATION ARRIVES TO LONDON

YUGOSLAVIA - U.S. - YUGOSLAVIA AND U.S. FOR RENEWING TIES AND COOPERATION

YUGOSLAVIA - FRANCE - YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTRY ON MISSING FRENCH PILOTS - FRY WISHES TO HELP ESTABLISH TRUTH ON FATE OF FRENCH PILOTS

YUGOSLAVIA - CROATIA - JOINT YUGOSLAV-CROATIAN MISSING PERSONS COMMISSION MEETS

YUGOSLAVIA - CZECH REPUBLIC - YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT CZECH REPUBLIC - CZECH REPUBLIC TO APPOINT AMBASSADOR TO BELGRADE

SARAJEVO SERBS - FRANCE CALLS FOR PROTECTION OF SERBS IN SARAJEVO

OPINION - IRISH JOURNALIST: YUGOSLAVIA ENTIRELY DIFFERS FROM MEDIA PICTURE

FROM FOREIGN PRESS - IRANIAN AMBASSADOR ADMITS TEHERAN ARMED BOSNIAN MUSLIMS

YUGOSLAV DELEGATION ARRIVES TO LONDON London, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia arrived to London on Thursday for the conference on implementation of the peace agreement on Bosnia. The delegation, headed by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, is to represent the interests of the Serb people. The delegation includes also Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Nikola Cicanovic and Republika Srpska Vice-President and Foreign Minister Nikola Koljevic and Aleksa Buha, respectively.

YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.

YUGOSLAVIA AND U.S. FOR RENEWING TIES Belgrade, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic said Thursday during his meeting with the visiting delegation of the New-York based Council for International Relations that there would soon be a normalisation of Yugoslav-American relations. Kontic paid tribute to the U.S. administration for its contribution to the reaching of the Dayton peace accord. In order that it should play this part to the full, Yugoslavia, as the country maintaining the continuity of former Yugoslavia, must be reinstated without delay as a member of the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organisation and other international organisations and institutions, Kontic said. The U.S. delegation is headed by Columbia University professor Topping Seymour, the chairman of the Preventive Action Center of the Southern Balkans project. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and a delegation of the American Council for International Relations discussed the mutual interest of the F.R.Y. and the U.S. to renew a dynamic development of relations and cooperation. Both sides expressed the conviction that the U.S, the international community and Yugoslavia would continue to exert concerted efforts to strengthen stability in the Balkans and promote cooperation and relations on equal footing between the peoples and states in the region. Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic received the visiting delegation.

YUGOSLAVIA - FRANCE

FOREIGN MINISTRY ON MISSING FRENCH PILOTS Belgrade, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry categorically rejected Thursday as totally unacceptable the attempts at politicizing and misusing the case of two missing French pilots. A Ministry statement said the attempts were contrary to the common interests and cooperation in the building and strengthening of peace in the respective part of Europe and were aimed at subjecting Yugoslavia to pressures and threats. It said statements of ranking French representatives and also some media commentaries in France in connection with the fate of the two French pilots whose plane was downed over Pale were absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate. The French pilots' plane was downed during NATO air strikes against targets in Republika Srpska, the statement said. Motivated by humanitarian and peace goals, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia positively reacted to France's request to provide its good offices in securing all relevant information about the downed pilots, all with a view to helping secure their release, the statement said. The fact that the efforts made to that end so far have failed to produce the desired results in no way casts doubts on the sincerity of the interest and readiness of the F.R.Y. for the full clarification of the case, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said.

YUGOSLAVIA WISHES TO HELP ESTABLISH TRUTH ON FATE OF FRENCH PILOTS Belgrade, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia wishes to help establish the truth on the fate of French pilots, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lower House of Yugoslav Parliament said at a meeting with a French parliamentary delegation Thursday in Belgrade. Yugoslav parliamentarians thanked France for its contribution so far to resolving some Serbian requests within the framework of the overall Yugoslav crisis, underlining that this help had in many cases been below Yugoslavia's expectations and often late.

YUGOSLAVIA - CROATIA

JOINT YUGOSLAV-CROATIAN MISSING PERSONS COMMISSION MEETS Zagreb, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - A joint Yugoslav-Croatian Government-level Commission for Missing Persons Thursday agreed to allow International Committee of the Red Cross representatives immediate access to all prisons in the two states. The Commission held its first session in Zagreb on Thursday. The Commission was set out on the basis of the agreement on cooperation and search for missing persons reached last month at Dayton. As set out, it proposed a meeting of experts from Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to find modalities for signing an operative accord that would enable access to all prisons and an eventual release of all prisoners. The two countries' delegations, headed by Yugoslav Federal Government Deputy Prime Minister Uros Klikovac and Croatian Deputy Prime Minster Ivica Kostovic, agreed that on the basis of submitted documentation on the missing persons replies be prepared and supplied at the next meeting, set before the new year in Belgrade.

YUGOSLAVIA - CZECH REPUBLIC

YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT CZECH REPUBLIC Belgrade, Dec. 8 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic will on Sunday leave for a three-day visit to the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Czech side. This is the first official high-level visit after the suspension of the international sanctions against the F.R. of Yugoslavia. The visit is aimed at reviving bilateral relations and resolving the issue of the implementation of new agreements between the two countries. The two sides will review the situation in the former Yugoslavia after the initialling of the Bosnia peace agreement in Dayton.

CZECH REPUBLIC TO APPOINT AMBASSADOR TO BELGRADE Prague, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - The Czech Government has decided to raise the level of its diplomatic representation in Yugoslavia and to appoint an Ambassador in Belgrade, Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus has said. Klaus told reporters Wednesday that the move came in reaction to a change in the situation in Yugoslavia. He said that the Czech Republic was at present represented at a lower level in Yugoslavia although it had an Embassy in belgrade.

SARAJEVO SERBS

FRANCE CALLS FOR PROTECTION OF SERBS Paris, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - France is doing everything it can to help restore peace in Bosnia, French Minister in charge of European affairs Michel Barnier said, briefing the National Assembly about the Government stand on a conference opening in London. Barnier said France firmly requested that the necessary agreement be reached at the conference on removing all ambiguities from a peace agreement in order to secure its consistent implementation. This primarily refers to securing international guarantees for the safety of Serbs in Sarajevo, on which point France has already been backed by the E.U. member-countries and, late Wednesday, by the United States, too, he said. In this way conditions have been created for a successful work of the London conference. Barnier described the situation in Sarajevo as critical, and said there was a risk of resumption of fighting in the city, which he said would place French troops in a very complicated position. He said it would be highly risky and dangerous to allow that Serbs massively leave Sarajevo and settle down elsewhere, and said France therefore insisted that the international guarantees for their safety in the city be secured.

O P I N I O N

YUGOSLAVIA ENTIRELY DIFFERS FROM MEDIA PICTURE Belgrade, Dec. 7 (Tanjug) - Reporter of the state-run Irish radio R.T.E. Aileen O'Meira told Tanjug on Thursday that on arriving in Belgrade she found a European environment and realized that Irish media presented a partial picture of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Serbs. O'Meira and four reporters of Dublin papers and radio arrived here, accompanying the Irish Red Cross' first convoy of humanitarian aid. Towards the end of August, as she said, she was in Croatia right after Croatia's offensive against the Serb Krajina where she was listening nothing but the ugliest things about the Serbs. O'Meira set out that the media campaign in Ireland had from the outbreak of the war in the former Yugoslavia been directed solely against the Serb side and all attempts by a Yugoslav diplomat in Dablin to point to some other facts had remained without any wider media response. She added that the Muslim campaign was especially strong, creating with TV audiences abroad, the Irish included, a false picture that the Muslims are the only and the most tragic victims. O'Meira said that a wide coverage had been given to the case of Muslim refugees from Srebrenica and Zepa (U.N. protected safe areas in Eastern Bosnia), whereas the exodus of 250,000 Krajina Serbs had not appeared on any TV programme. O'Meira pledged she and her colleagues would immediately begin sending unbiased reports of the developments here, having seen for themselves the sufferings of the people who need aid.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS

IRANIAN AMBASSADOR ADMITS TEHERAN ARMED BOSNIAN MUSLIMS Ankara, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - Iran has violated the U.N. arms embargo for the former Yugoslavia by delivering arms to Bosnian Muslim forces of Alija Izetbegovic, Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Muhammed Riza Bageri said in a statement quoted Wednesday by the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet. 'We were sending help to Bosnia, including arms,' said the Ambassador, declining to give any further details.