Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-03-13

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Yugoslav Daily Survey

13 March 1996

CONTENTS

[A] YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.A.

[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES KORNBLUM

[B] YUGOSLAVIA - BULGARIA

[02]YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER RECEIVE BULGARIAN MPS

[03] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES PARLIAMENT DELEGATION

[C] MOLDOVA - YUGOSLAVIA

[04] MOLDOVA WILL URGE LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

[D] YUGOSLAVIA - THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

[05] FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES DELEGATION OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

[E] ZAGREB MEETING - REACTIONS

[06] NORMALIZING RELATIONS OF INTEREST TO ZAGREB AND BELGRADE

[07] PARIS WELCOMES YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO ZAGREB

[F] SARAJEVO SERBS

[08] U.N. SPOKESMAN: MUSLIMS TERRORISE REMAINING SERBS IN SARAJEVO

[A] YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.A.

[01] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES KORNBLUM

Views were exchanged on the implementation of the peace accords for Bosnia, and it was assessed that positive results have been achieved so far, results conducive to final peace and the return of life back to normal as soon as possible, a released statement said.

Accent was placed on the need to step up the implementation of the civilian accords, with focus on preparations for the upcoming elections for new authorities, the statement said.

It said the inauguration of the newly elected authorities would mark the most important step towards the consolidation of peace and all-round resolution of problems, both in Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat federation.

A number of other issues of importance for the successful implementation of the peace accords were raised in the talk.

Both sides showed a willingness for the normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and the U.S.

Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic also took part in the talk.

[B] YUGOSLAVIA - BULGARIA

[02]YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER RECEIVE BULGARIAN MPS

The two neighbours' cooperation has been on the ascent, said President of the Bulgarian Assembly and academician Blagovest Sendovta who heads the Bulgarian parliamentary delegation, it was announced by the F.R.Y. presidential office.

The fundamental act on friendship and cooperation would soon be signed, and deriving from it there would be a number of new agreements in a variety of domains, from the economy to culture.

President Lilic and the Bulgarian Assembly President fully agreed that time has come for the two countries to take advantage of their geographical position, as regards transport and telecommunications, to the benefit of their peoples, instead of having problems in this field as did happen in the past.

Members of the Bulgarian national minority in the F.R.Y., the Yugoslav President said, account for a pledge of Yugoslavia's friendliness towards Bulgaria because the F.R.Y. guarantees them all the rights according to the highest international standards.

Lilic stressed that Yugoslavia was striving for good relations and for the Balkans as a zone of peace and overall cooperation amongst the Balkan nations, which was also in the best interests of Europe. He added that the F.R.Y. was upholding the Bulgarian Prime Minister Zhan Videnov's initiative to restore Balkan cooperation with calling a conference of the Balkan foreign ministers in Sofia this year.

Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic on Tuesday received Bulgarian parliamentary delegation. In a friendly talk of some length the two sides positively assessed the relations between the two countries, stressing that there existed exceptional conditions for and mutual interest in their further development.

Kontic very favourably assessed the intensity and results of the Yugoslav-Bulgarian -level contacts over the past year, pointing out their significance not only for the development of mutual relations but also for the stability of the Balkans as a whole.

[03] MILOSEVIC RECEIVES PARLIAMENT DELEGATION

In the talk, they noted the positive development of relations and cooperation between the Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, which is especially facilitated by regular contacts between the two countries' representatives on the political plane, it was announced by the office of President Milosevic.

It was emphasized that the two countries have special interest in strengthening the stability in the Balkan region, because of which the support is indispensable to the diversified streams of linking together the Balkan states and nations, and especially of consolidating their economic cooperation and cultural ties.

[C] MOLDOVA - YUGOSLAVIA

[04] MOLDOVA WILL URGE LIFTING OF SANCTIONS

President Snegur paid recognition to Yugoslavia's peace policy during a meeting with the Yugoslav parliamentarians, headed by Federal Parliament's Lower House Speaker Radoman Bozovic.

Snegur said wide possibilities existed for Moldova - Yugoslavia cooperation through the associations of the Black Sea, Danubian and Balkan countries, whose active members he said his country was.

The Moldova President urged that the two countries promote their mutual economic relations through joint enterprises.

Bozovic conferred also with Moldova Prime Minister Andrei Segeli and Parliament President Peter Luchinsky.

[D] YUGOSLAVIA - THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

[05] FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES DELEGATION OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

The Foreign Ministry said that the talks had focused on cooperation between Yugoslavia and the Tribunal based in the Hague. The delegation is expected to meet with representatives of the Yugoslav judiciary during its visit to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

[E] ZAGREB MEETING - REACTIONS

[06] NORMALIZING RELATIONS OF INTEREST TO ZAGREB AND BELGRADE

The Belgrade daily Borba in Tuesday's editions quoted Galbraith as saying he hoped the meeting had set the foundations toward full normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia, including the establishing of full diplomatic relations. Galbraith said it was evident that normalization was to the interest of both countries.

Galbraith said the U.S. maintained that all Serbs who had left Croatia, since 1991, especially after Croatia's blitz aggressions last year, had the right to live in Croatia.

They are Croatian citizens, he said, and have to have the same rights as other citizens of Croatia. We strongly support the return of Croatian Serbs to their homes. It is not only their right, it is the obligation of the Croatian state to create safe conditions for all this, said Galbraith.

[07] PARIS WELCOMES YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO ZAGREB

Paris dailies said in their reports that Yugoslavia and Croatia were on the way to normalizing the mutual relations.

French newspapers said it was the French government's position that the normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia was essential for the success of the peace process in the region and stability in the Balkans as a whole.

The normalization of relations between Zagreb and Belgrade is crucial for the success of the pact for stability and good-neighbourly relations in southeastern Europe, signed here in December at French President Jacques Chirac's initiative.

[F] SARAJEVO SERBS

[08] U.N. SPOKESMAN: MUSLIMS TERRORISE REMAINING SERBS IN SARAJEVO

'It's extremely sad', Kris Janowski, spokesman for the UNHCR, said and added that people who had found the courage to stay on were now being intimidated.

Janowski described the situation in the Ilidza district as bad, and said in illustration that a Muslim youth had threatened an elderly Serb woman with a hand grenade, while another woman watched helplessly as her car was being stolen from in front of her home.

Ilidza passed into the hands of the Muslim-Croat federal authorities on Tuesday, in keeping with the Dayton peace accord for Bosnia.

U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko said late on Tuesday that Muslims in Ilidza were looting Serb houses and intimidating Serb residents.

'We have received over 60 complaints and they are coming in at the rate of one every five minutes,' Ivanko said, as quoted by Reuters.

Both Janowski and Ivanko said that the international force and the federal police were dispatching patrols to deal with the complaints immediately, but that they were short of manpower and could not respond to all the incidents.

According to U.N. estimates, there are barely 2,000 Serbs remaining in Ilidza of an original 26,000-strong Serb community. Thousands of Muslims flooded into the district after Serb police pulled out on Tuesday, Reuters added.

Ilidza is the fourth of Sarajevo's five Serb districts to be handed over to the Muslim-Croat federation by March 19, under the Dayton accord.