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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-05-13Yugoslav Daily Survey DirectoryFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>CONTENTS[01] ROMANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS BELGRADE[02] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT WANTS URGENT RESUMPTION OF TALKS WITH IMF, WB[03] DEPUTY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER IN ANGOLA[04] NAMBIAR ON BOSNIAN MUSLIM PRETENSIONS[05] WASHINGTON POST: IRAN WAS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY TO ARM BOSNIAN MUSLIMS[01] ROMANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS BELGRADEBelgrade, May 13 (Tanjug) - Romanian President Ion Iliescu will be paying an official visit to Yugoslavia from May 16-18 at the invitation of Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic, a statement released by the President's office said on Monday. The return visit of Iliescu will enhance the traditionlly friendly relations between Yugoslavia and Romania and boost neighborly cooperation, said the statement and added that the visit would contribute to overall cooperation in the Balkans.The statement said the visit would continue dialogue at the top and strengthen the atmosphere of understanding, not only between Yugoslavia and Romania, but in the region. Lilic and Iliescu will sign an Accord onFfriendship, Good-Neighborly Relations and Bilateral Cooperation. [02] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT WANTS URGENT RESUMPTION OF TALKS WITH IMF, WBBelgrade, May 11 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government decided at a session on Saturday that talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and other foreign creditos should be urgently resumed.Jovan Zebic, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinator of all activities aimed at normalizing relations, was instructed to invite the IMF and the WB to resume talks, prefarably in Belgrade. The Government session, chaired by Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, focused on the normalization of relations with the IMF, the WB and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and discussed a report on Yugoslavia's relations with the European Union. The cabinet decided to intensify activities aimed at Yugoslavia's full integration into those international institutions. The Government said that the stands and commitments assumed so far provided a good framework for a pragmatic approach to the normalization of relations with international financial organizations. It also heard a report on current activities and initiatives concerning Yugoslavia's membership to the WTO and decided that the Prime Minister should at once propose to the WTO Director-General to start talks on normalizing relations. The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry was instructed to prepare a platform for initiating talks on institutionalizing relations with the European Union, with a recommendation that Yugoslavia join the financial assistance programme Phare and programmes for scientific and other cooperation. This would help create preconditions for starting a process of Yugoslavia's broad integration into the European Union. [03] DEPUTY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER IN ANGOLALuanda, May 10 (Tanjug) - Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic, who is visiting the Republic of Angola, conferred on Friday with ranking Angolan officials on topical issues in bilateral relations and prospects for their promotion. Bulajic delivered to Minister Joao Leitau Costa Silva a message from Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic to Angolan President Jose Edoardo Dos Santos.Bulajic was also received by Minister of Public Works and Urban Planning Mateus Morais de Brito Junior and Secretary of State for Urban Planning Miguel Corea. In all these talks, it was noted that both sides wanted the traditionally successful cooperation of these two countries to be further promoted. [04] NAMBIAR ON BOSNIAN MUSLIM PRETENSIONSNew Delhi, May 11 (Tanjug) - First UNPROFOR Commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina Satish Nambiar has said that Bosnian Muslims may try to gain by force what they have not achieved in the battlefield and through the Dayton peace agreement. Nambiar was speaking to the Indian daily Statesman in the first interview since he left Sarajevo in 1993.He said he believed that some pressure on Sarajevo authorities would probably be needed because Muslims had agreed to the Dayton agreement very unwillingly. Speaking about the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation, Nambiar said that it was very superficial and that he knew for sure that the two entities did not trust each other. [05] WASHINGTON POST: IRAN WAS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY TO ARM BOSNIAN MUSLIMSWashington, May 12 (Tanjug) - Iran was not the only country arming the Muslim side in the Bosnian war - Turkey, Croatia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Brunei and Argentina did the same. The US daily Washington Post said this in the latest edition, which dealt extensively with the scandal involving secret shipments of Iranian arms to the Bosnian Muslims.The Washington Post quoted US sources as saying that a decision to that effect had not been made by Clinton because arms shipments had started back in the autumn of 1992, i.e. at a time before Clinton's appointment as President. The paper said that the arms shipments had been agreed between Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and Iranian officials and that it had all been arranged with the help of Croatia, which kept one third of the arms shipments for itself. The first Iranian Boing 747 brought weapons to Zagreb on September 4, 1992, while Turkish and Iranian planes carrying arms mostly flew at night to the airfield at the Croatian island of Krk, The Washington Post said. From there, Croatian helicopter carried the arms to Bosnia. |
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