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Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-06-28Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Yugoslavia <http://www.yugoslavia.com>CONTENTS
[01] YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADOPTS PLATFORM FOR CONFERENCE OF BALKAN STATESBelgrade, June 27 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government on Thursday adopted a platform for Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic's participation in a Conference of Balkan Foreign Ministers in Sofia on July 6-7.The Government said it was in the mutual interest to boost cooperation in the Balkans as well as to encourage further positive trends and promote stability, security and goodneighbourly cooperation. A large number of officials of international organisations, including the European Union, the European Commission, the 'Contact Group' and others, are expected to attend the conference as observers. The Yugoslav Government adopted also a platform for talks on an agreement between Yugoslavia and Russia on cooperation in the sphere of environment, authorising Minister of Development, Science and Environment Janko Radulovic to sign an agreement to this effect. [02] BULATOVIC: KARADZIC REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH ACCORDS WHICH HE SIGNEDPrague, June 27 (Tanjug) - President of Montenegro Momir Bulatovic said in an interview to Prague-based Radio Free Europe that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was persistently refusing to do that to which he had obliged himself by accepting the Dayton peace accords. That is why we had to show our resolve that we shall try to discredit him using political means, Bulatovic said.Bulatovic was asked to say what Yugoslavia would do if Karadzic continued to refuse to step down. As you know, Yugoslavia has no army or police in Republika Srpska, so that we cannot apply any measures of repression. We have only political means in our hands and we shall use them, said Bulatovic. Karadzic can only go on deluding himself that he is the most popular politician. There are major political figures and strong political forces in Republika Srpska which could without a doubt and very clearly, with our support, slightly shake him in that belief, Bulatovic said. Asked if Belgrade and Podgorica would extradite three Yugoslav citizens, former Yugoslav People's Army officers, to the international tribunal for war crimes, Bulatovic said the issue was too sensitive to deserve a simple yes or no answer. However, he said, Yugoslavia wants its officers to be tried in a national court, with respect for procedure and Hague tribunal representatives at the trial. [03] TALKS WITH LONDON CLUB BANKS CONTINUELondon, June 28 (Tanjug) - Two-day talks between a Yugoslav delegation and representatives of the London Club, rallying nearly 400 of the world's biggest banks, continued on Friday.Yugoslav Minister Vuk Ognjanovic, who heads the Yugoslav delegation to the talks, said after the first day that the talks were being held in an atmosphere of understanding. It was agreed that economic and financial issues be separated from the political issues at the talks, which promises good results and successful talks, he said. YUGOSLAVIA - SPAIN[04] PROGRAM OF YUGOSLAV-SPANISH COOPERATION IN CULTURE BY 1998Madrid, June 27 (Tanjug) - An Educational and Cultural Program between Yugoslavia and Spain for the period between 1996-98 has been signed in Madrid. The Program was signed by Stanislav Stojanovic, Ambassador at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, and Santiago Cabanas, the General Director for Scientific and Cultural Relations in the Spanish Foreign Ministry.This is the first program of this kind that a European Union member has signed with Yugoslavia after the suspension of the international sanctions late last year. FROM FOREIGN PRESS[05] KUPRES ETHNICALLY CLEANSED BY CROATSParis, June 27 (Tanjug) - The atmosphere in Kupres is agonizing but it was not the atmosphere which forced Serbs to flee that town in southern Bosnia but an even more agonizing attack by Croats in April 1992, the Paris daily Le Figaro said.In its thursday issue, the daily carried a report on one of the most atrocious war crimes perpetrated by the Croat army in Bosnia. Le Figaro said that out of 10,000 Kupres inhabitants, 52 % were Serbs, 38% Croats and 9% Muslims. Today, the Kupres area is ethnically pure and inhabited only by Croats. The main part of the article on the Kupres tragedy is the dramatic testimony of Serbian Orthodox priest in Kupres Zoran Perkovic. 'It was a joint offensive by the commandos of the Bosnian Croat army and the troops of neighbouring Croatia. The attack was led by Bozo Rajic, today's HDZ President in Herceg Bosna, the self-proclaimed state of bosnian Croats,' the paper quoted Perkovic as saying. On 6 April 1992, Croats overran Kupres in tanks, destroying everything on their way, the daily said. Serbs could only run for their lives but some were captured. Perkovic was among them. In his lengthy testimony, the Orthodox priest said that he was forced to march tens of kilometres in a convoy of captured half-naked Serbs, while the bodies of the killed remained on the roads. The Croat commandos forced the exhaust pipes of tractors into the mouths of the captured Serbs, who begged for mercy. They would die after 20 minutes of agony. Their only sin was the fact that they were Serbs. At least 11 Serbs were killed in that brutal way, Perkovic said. He said that the captured Serbs were taken from one centre to another (in which the detained where tortured) and finally arrived in the infamous Lora camp in the Croatian port of Split. The daily said that the camp was not in the war-stricken Bosnia but in downtown Split, a tourist town in Croatia, which was internationally recognized at the time. Perkovic's agony ended when he was exchanged for captured commandos of the Croatian army. The Serbian Orthodox church priest has also testified at the UN tribunal for war crimes perpetrated in the former Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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