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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-06-06Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>CONTENTS
[01] FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA[02] YUGOSLAVIA REITERATES READINESS TO COOPERATE WITH THE HAGUE TRIBUNALBelgrade, June 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament's Lower House Speaker Radoman Bozovic and President of the Hague-based international war-crimes Tribunal Antonio Cassese discussed here Wednesday Yugoslavia's cooperation with the Tribunal. Cassesse said the Tribunal insisted on independence and impartiality in its work and on respect for international law, the Yugoslav Parliament reported.Bozovic reiterated Yugoslavia's readiness to cooperate with the Tribunal on the basis of national and international legal norms. He said the gaining of full confidence in the Tribunal's institutions and the application of the principle of personal responsibility were the basis for Yugoslavia's further steps in the legal and institutional regulation of the mutual cooperation. Bozovic said the Tribunal's independent role, dissociation from politics, work based on respect for facts and individual responsibility were also prerequisites for the implementation of the Dayton peace accords. Bozovic and Cassese agreed that any other approach would bring into question the Tribunal's authority, give rise to mistrust and spark further disagreements between the national entities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bozovic informed Cassese that proceedings for the legal regulation of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal had not been instituted in the Yugoslav Parliament but that the cooperation no doubt had the support of legislators. Bozovic informed Cassese that criminal proceedings had been instituted by Yugoslav judicial authorities in cases of criminal responsibility for war crimes, including of persons indicted by the Hague Tribunal. [03] YUGOSLAVIA WILL CONTINUE TO COOPERATE WITH THE HAGUE TRIBUNALBelgrade, June 5 (Tanjug) - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia fully meets its obligations provided by the Dayton agreement in view of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal for war crimes, it was heard in Wednesday's talks here between Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic and the Hague Tribunal President Antonio Cassese.So far, over 1,200 crimes against Serbs have been processed and the Tribunal has access to those information. Yugoslavia will in the future cooperate with the international court in keeping with its legal provisions. A number of objections were made on the work of the Tribunal because of its failure to treat equally all suspected war criminals both in the process of bringing an indictment and in criminal proceedings, the statement said. There is no need to adopt a special law on cooperation between Yugoslavia and the Hague Tribunal, it was heard. The Yugoslav legislation has been adjusted to relevant international conventions and deals with the offenses from the competence of the Hague court on the basis of international law, it was heard. Yugoslavia is strongly committed to bring to justice all possible offenders of the international humanitarian law, which is evident from the fact that competent Yugoslav courts currently deal with requests from the Hague Tribunal, it was heard in the talks. [04] YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER MILUTINOVIC RECEIVES CASSESEBelgrade, June 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic met here on Wednesday with President of the Hague Tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia Antonio Cassese to discuss cooperation between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Tribunal.The two sides noted the fact that Yugoslav Government officials and the UN Tribunal have coordinated the text of an agreement on opening the court's liaison bureau in Belgrade, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Yugoslavia and the UN are expected to conclude the agreement formally in the near future, enabling the Tribunal to collect information and evidence on crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia, the statement said. [05] WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL PRESIDENT SAYS INDIVIDUALS COMMIT CRIMESBelgrade, June 5 (Tanjug) - President of the international criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Antonio Cassesse said on Wednesday that individuals and not nations had committed crimes in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Speaking to reporters after talks with Speaker of the Yugoslav Parliament's Lower House, Cassese said that they had fully agreed that there could be no collective, but only personal and individual responsibility. In the four-year civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, atrocities were committed by individuals, not by groups or states, Cassese said and added that the Tribunal was charging individuals, regardless of their nationality. According to Cassese, the Tribunal does not aim at accusing entire peoples.[06] PROTEST TO CROATIA OVER LIMITED AMNESTYBelgrade, June 5 (Tanjug) - The federal Committee for Humanitarian Issues and Missing Persons and the representatives of the Yugoslav Red Cross will on Thursday receive near Batrovci, on the Yugoslav-Croat border, 60 persons captured and held prisoner in Croatia following the conflict in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The federal Committee for Humanitarian Issues and Missing Persons will use the opportunity to lodge a protest with Croatia because President Franjo Tudjman had amnestied only 76 of the several hundred prisoners it is holding. The International Committee of the Red Cross said its representatives have visited 302 persons in Croat prisons.[07] PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING OF CONSULAR OFFICES IN YUGOSLAVIA, CROATIAZagreb, June 5 (Tanjug) - Head of the Yugoslav office in Zagreb Veljko Knezevic and Croatian Assistant Foreign Minister Hido Biscevic on Wednesday discussed preparations for the opening of consular sections at the Yugoslav Office in Zagreb and Croatian Office in Belgrade. A proposal was made for a meeting of Yugoslav and Croatian Foreign and Interior Ministry experts and representatives of customs administrations.[08] U.S. INFORMATION CENTRE OPENS IN PRISTINAPristina, June 5 (Tanjug) - The United States opened its Information Centre in Pristina Wednesday.Assistant US Secretary of State John Kornblum addressed the guests at a reception held at the Centre and said the Centre would be not only a place where to get information but also a place where all people living in Kosovo and Metohija could come and exchange views. Kornblum said that Kosovo and Metohija was not a US problem but a problem of the people living in the province and the region. The State Department delegation also met with Head of the Kosovo District Aleksa Jokic. Yugoslavia's contribution to the peace process and implementation of the Dayton agreement and full normalization of the Yugoslav-US relations are important parts of the Yugoslav foreign policy, it was heard in the talks. It was said that the US-Yugoslav relations have a long tradition of appreciation, understanding and friendship. Jokic and Kornblum said they expected that the Centre would play a positive role in opening a direct dialogue, restoring understanding among all Kosovo's citizens and indirectly helping spur on the region's economic development. Expectation was expressed in the talks that the Centre would further expand activities developed for decades by the US Information Service in Belgrade and that a soon reopening of the Yugoslav Cultural and Information Centre in New York would serve the same purpose. SREM-BARANIA REGION[09] HADZIC: SERBS ARE NOT AGAINST CROATS' RETURN TO EASTERN SLAVONIAErdut, June 5 (Tanjug) - Authorities in the Serb region of eastern Slavonia, Barania and western Srem do not deny the Croat refugees the right to return home providing that they live together with Serbs, the region's President Goran Hadzic said Wednesday. After meeting with Special Envoy of the UNHCR Soren Jensen Peterson, Hadzic described as unacceptable a position by President of the Association of Croatia's Refugees Mate Simic that Croats would not return to the region as long as Serbs did not leave their houses.Peterson said he would exert his influence on Croatian authorities to alter the current law on selective amnesty for Serbs, because he said this was a condition for the Serbs' return to Croatia. Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |