Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-08-20

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV SUPREME DEFENCE COUNCIL ON IMPLEMENTING DAYTON ACCORDS

[02] YUGOSLAV MINISTER ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH ZIMBABWE

[03] OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON ACCIDENT OF RUSSIAN CARGO AIRCRAFT NEAR BELGRADE

[04] PLANE CRASH DID NOT INTERRUPT INTERNATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC

[05] WHO IS MAKING SERBIA'S KOSOVO-METOHIJA PROVINCE A HELL-HOLE

[06] YUGOSLAV GUARANTEES FOR BOSNIAN ELECTIONS

[07] FROWICK: OSCE IS EMPOWERED TO ANNUL BOSNIA ELECTION RESULTS

[08] VRS SEEKS SUSPENSION OF OPERATION OF DESTROYING MUNITIONS

[09] NATO BEGINS DESTRUCTION OF AMMUNITION FROM BOSNIAN SERB DUMP

[10] SERBS EXPELLED FROM CROATIA SEND APPEAL TO THE WEST

[01] YUGOSLAV SUPREME DEFENCE COUNCIL ON IMPLEMENTING DAYTON ACCORDS

The Council pointed out Yugoslavia's consistency in the realization of the assumed obligations in the peace process in former Yugoslavia.

A statement released by the Presidential Military Office after the session said the Council reviewed current military and political situation in the region, the basic model of organization of the Yugoslav Army by the year 2005, the current financing of the Yugoslav Defence Ministry and the Army. The Council adopted a decision on some personnel solutions in the Army.

The statement said the Council also reviewed other issues from its constitutional competence.

In addition to the members of the Council, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic, those participating in the session were Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic, Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Momcilo Perisic and Council's Secretary, Maj.-Gen. Slavoljub Susic.

[02] YUGOSLAV MINISTER ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH ZIMBABWE

Bingulac is scheduled to meet several Zimbabwean Ministers and businessmen, including Foreign Minister Stan Mudenga who chairs the Zimbabwean delegation to the Joint Cooperation Committee. Bingulac, who chairs the Yugoslav delegation to the Committee, told Tanjug's correspondent in Harare that the Committee should meet as soon as possible to discuss economic cooperation.

This was agreed during the recent visit of Zimabwean President Robert Mugabe to Belgrade, where he met Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic and several state officials and businessmen.

[03] OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON ACCIDENT OF RUSSIAN CARGO AIRCRAFT NEAR BELGRADE

After navigation equipment on board and radio communications failed, the aircraft could no longer be guided from the ground, the statement says and adds that flight control and other airport services tried in vain to help the crew.

After several attempts at landing in bad weather, the plane flew in circles over the city several times, the statement says.

B e l g r a d e, Aug. 19 (Tanjug) - Members of the Yugoslav Commission for investigating the crash of a Russian Illyushin-76-m transport plane near Belgrade airport early Monday believe, for now, that the plane crashed because it lost all electrical power.

The Illyushin-76, ownership of Spair Airlines, lost radio-contact with the airport flight control immediately upon take-off from Belgrade for Malta (flight PAR 3601) at 00:10 hrs local time Monday, the statement said. The plane circled low above the airport until 03:16 hrs and then crashed three and a half kilometers northwest of the airport, between the runway and the Belgrade-Zagreb highway.

In spite of all the efforts of the airport flight control, no radio-contact was established with the plane, the statement said.

Wather conditions early monday were low clouds and 5-km visibility.

The Commission has begun investigating the crash and it will make a detailed examination of the circumstance which led to the accident, the statement said.

[04] PLANE CRASH DID NOT INTERRUPT INTERNATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC

Airport services and officials did their best to avoid having to interrupt traffic in this, the biggest airport in Yugoslavia. There were no flight changes in international or domestic air traffic.

[05] WHO IS MAKING SERBIA'S KOSOVO-METOHIJA PROVINCE A HELL-HOLE

Without offering any evidence to substantiate its charges, it has accused a sovereign and democratic state of systematically practicing the worst of crimes - murder, ethnic cleansing, racialdiscrimination and torture - against part of its population.

The Resolution was tabled by Belgium's expert, obviously quoting to the letter the charges voiced at the session by representatives of ethnic Albanian separatists from Kosovo-Metohija and by the Albanian regime.

What is surprising, however, is that such a resolution should have been upheld by experts from some western European states at a time when these states are working to repatriate ethnic Albanians to Kosovo-Metohija, refusing to give them political asylum.

Judging from the Resolution, Kosovo-Metohija is no better than a hell-hole. It is to be wondered at how these western European states will explain to the world why ethnic Albanians must return to the Province, while adopting a paper which makes it clear to one and all that there is no returning to the 'hell-hole'.

It is also strange that the Resolution has been adopted at a time when nearly the whole world is admitting that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is making efforts to open dialogue with the Province's Albanians, and is being rebuffed.

Instead of bearing this in mind, the Resolution was adopted out of inertia, on the basis of old stories put about at the time of anti-Yugoslav and anti-Serbian hysteria.

As different from a similar resolution adopted by the Sub-Commission last year virtually without opposition, the monday Resolution was carried with 11 nayes or abstentions out of 26 votes cast.

A member, speaking privately after the session, said that it was becoming increasingly difficult to pass resolutions alleging human and minority rights violations in Yugoslavia.

The Resolution has brought to light a potential danger to all U.N. members.

Viz., although the Sub-Commission members are experts and not official representatives of their countries, they have strayed dangerously deep into the political and politicking waters, and are propagating their states' official policy.

[06] YUGOSLAV GUARANTEES FOR BOSNIAN ELECTIONS

The guarantees were given on behalf of the Yugoslav Government by Serbian Commissioner for Refugees Bratislava Morina, who also chairs the Yugoslav Commission for Assistance to Refugees in the exercise of their voting rights, during a meeting Monday with OSCE representatives Adam Amberg and Jerome Leyraud.

Amberg and Leyraud will head the team of OSCE monitors who will arrive in Yugoslavia on Tuesday to supervise the voting of refugees in Bosnian elections which is scheduled for August 28 to September 3 in all third countries, including Yugoslavia.

Morina told OSCE officials that the majority of refugees in Yugislavia eligible to vote in Bosnian elections had chosen to send their ballots by mail and that many had decided to vote in person. She underlined that all measures had been taken to organize the transport of voters to Bosnia in mid-September.

Morina also told OSCE officials that the problem of 25,000 elderly, sick or disabled refugees unable to travel to Bosnia and wishing to vote at a location different from their 1991 place of residence had not been resolved yet. She once again urged OSCE to show understanding for these people and enable them to vote in absentia.

[07] FROWICK: OSCE IS EMPOWERED TO ANNUL BOSNIA ELECTION RESULTS

He said that the OSCE was concerned about the situation in Sapljina, Bugojno, Sanski Most and Stolac in the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation and in Doboj, Lopar, Prijedor, Teslic and Zvornik in Republika Srpska.

[08] VRS SEEKS SUSPENSION OF OPERATION OF DESTROYING MUNITIONS

We ask you to inform the U.N. Security Council, the sides which signed the Dayton Agreement and the countries witnesses, about your decision and reasons for using force, and to get them engaged, in keeping with your peace mission, to resolve all the emergent problems without using force, the letter said.

[09] NATO BEGINS DESTRUCTION OF AMMUNITION FROM BOSNIAN SERB DUMP

The IFOR has undertaken this action because the munitions dump in Margetici had allegedly contained contraband arms and ammunition.

The Republika Srpska Army General Staff on Friday issued a statement, warning that this IFOR action was a very dangerous provocation and that it would cause unnecessary incidents and jeopardize the further implementatiuon of the Dayton Accords. The munitions dump was legitimately registered, the General Staff statement said. Only defensive arms were stored there, whose quantity is not limited under the Dayton Accords and which does not pose any threat to IFOR or the other side.

[10] SERBS EXPELLED FROM CROATIA SEND APPEAL TO THE WEST

The Committee said that 'this murder is an expression of the rightlessness, arbitrariness, chaos, cynicism and double standards of the current Croatian policy which tolerates such incidents, disseminating fears amongst members of the Serb nationality.' The Committee added that such phenomena had been calculated at preventing the escaped Serbs from returning to Croatia in large numbers.

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