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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-01-24Yugoslav Daily Survey DirectoryFrom: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)24 January 1996CONTENTS[A] FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA[01] MILOSEVIC AND GELBARD ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE AGREEMENT FOR BOSNIA[02] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL[03] BULATOVIC-HILL: SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS[04] IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS CONTRIBUTES TO DEVELOPMENT OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA[05] POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND CYPRUS[B] SREM BARANJA REGION[06] NO CONDITIONS FOR SAFE RETURN OF SERB REFUGEES TO CROATIA[C] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA[07] SERB OFFICIAL: CROAT FORCES SACKED AND BURNED SERB TOWNS IN BOSNIA[08] CROATS WANT TO REMAIN IN AREA TO BE GIVEN TO REPUBLIKA SRPSKA[A] FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA[01] MILOSEVIC AND GELBARD ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE AGREEMENT FOR BOSNIABelgrade, Jan 23 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Robert Gelbard discussed in Belgrade on Tuesday the implementation of the peace agreement for Bosnia, Milosevic's Cabinet said in a statement. The statement said that the peace accords provide for the setting up of special police forces to protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation, particularly in the Sarajevo area.The meeting was also attended by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Belgrade Rudolf Perina, the statement said. [02] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNALBelgrade, Jan 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and the President of the Hague international tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia Antonio Cassese discussed Tuesday in Belgrade the principal issues regarding tribunal activities. Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said Cassese informed Milutinovic of tribunal activities so far and they also discussed future cooperation. Milutinovic informed Cassese of Yugoslavia's stances on these issues, the Ministry statement says.[03] BULATOVIC-HILL: SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDSPodgorica, Jan 23 (Tanjug) - The President of Montenegro, Momir Bulatovic, and the U.S. State Department Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Christopher Hill, expressed satisfaction with the successful implementation of the provisions in the Dayton accords concerning the deployment of the IFOR.The two officials stressed the commitment to implement the other elements in the peace agreement, particularly those concerning civilian issues, Bulatovic's Cabinet said in a statement. Bulatovic stressed the importance to guarantee the security and civil rights of Serbs in Sarajevo and to provide urgent aid to alleviate the difficult humanitarian situation in Republika Srpska and to revive its economy. Bulatovic and Hill also discussed other issues of importance for strengthening lasting peace in the Balkans. [04] IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON ACCORDS CONTRIBUTES TO DEVELOPMENT OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKABelgrade, Jan 23 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and a delegation of prominent politicians and figures from Republika Srpska agreed in Belgrade Tuesday that positive changes brought about by the implementation of the Dayton accords for Bosnia contributed to the global development of Republika Srpska.Milosevic's Cabinet said in a statement that the participants in the meeting agreed that these positive changes further strengthened vital ties between citizens in Republika Srpska and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the path of development of Republika Srpska as a republic of equal citizens, committed to peace, cooperation and economic and cultural progress. [05] POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND CYPRUSBelgrade, Jan 23 (Tanjug) - Political consultations were held in Belgrade between delegations of Foreign Ministries of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Cyprus, Yugoslav Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.The delegations were headed by Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic and the Director of the Political Department of Cypriot Foreign Ministry Sotos Zakeos. They pointed to the joint interest and wide possibilities for promoting bilateral cooperation. Cooperation can be intensified both in political and economic fields, especially trade, transport, investments, banking, tourism, health, culture and education, they said. [B] SREM BARANJA REGION[06] NO CONDITIONS FOR SAFE RETURN OF SERB REFUGEES TO CROATIAErdut, Jan. 23 (Tanjug) - There are no conditions for now for the safe return of Serbs expelled from Krajina to their homes, Special Envoy of the UNHCR for former Yugoslavia Soren Jensen Petersen said in Erdut on Tuesday.In a statement after talks with representatives of Serbs from the Srem-Baranja region, Petersen said that in Croatia, as in all other parts of former Yugoslavia, conditions should be made for the safe and dignified return of refugees and exilees. He underscored that much time would have to pass before the refugees returned, and said the UNHCR had decided to start mini pilot-projects in order to speed up this process. Places where smaller numbers of people should start returning are already being identified, he said. The UNHCR was informed by the Croatian Government on Monday that it had approved the return of the first small group of Serbs to Krajina, Petersen said. President of the Council of the Srem-Baranja Region Slavko Dokmanovic said the peace accord had 'obliged Croatia to create conditions for the return of 500,000-600,000 expelled Serbs or to secure just compensation for the property they lost, or to enable them to settle in the Srem-Baranja Region.' [C] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA[07] SERB OFFICIAL: CROAT FORCES SACKED AND BURNED SERB TOWNS IN BOSNIABanjaluka, Jan. 23 (Tanjug) - Croatian forces and Bosnian Croat troops have pillaged all private and public property in the central Bosnian towns of Mrkonjic Grad and Sipovo, a municipal official of Mrkonjic Grad has said.The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA quoted Slavko Kopuz as saying that the towns were demolished, and most of the buildings burned. Kopuz said there was extensive damage at the waterworks and sewers, and added that water was leaking everywhere, causing further damage. Industrial facilities were partly burned, and partly dismantled and transported to Croatia, said Kopuz. [08] CROATS WANT TO REMAIN IN AREA TO BE GIVEN TO REPUBLIKA SRPSKABelgrade, Jan. 23 (Tanjug) - Croats in the village of Majdan near Mrkonjic-Grad that is to be returned to the Republika Srpska under the Dayton peace accord, want to remain in their village where they say they shared good and evil with Serbs in the three and a half years of civil war, the Belgrade daily Politika said Tuesday.The paper quoted Luka Culic, a Serb official, as saying the Croats' refusal to move to Glamoc or Kupres despite the Croat side's prolonged pressure on them had been the reason to call for a meeting between Serb officials in Mrkonjic-Grad and those of the Bosnian Croat republic of Herceg-Bosna. The meeting, approved by the IFOR and brokered by the UNHCR, was held in Sipovo, also in the west, on Saturday, the paper said. Politika quoted Culic as saying Herceg-Bosna officials were dissatisfied with the attitude of the 288 Croats because of which they had requested that Majdan and the Serb villages of Ocune and Jezero be attached to Jajce which he said was to be handed over to the Moslem-Croat Federation. |
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