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BOSNEWS digest 458 - 06/11/95
BOSNEWS Digest 458
CONTENTS
[01] Croatian President Tudjman: ``I do not know the details but I do know...''
[02] ``In my opinion, (the meeting) goes very well,'' said Izetbegovic.
[03] "STICK AND CARROT" IN DAYTON
[04] KOSCHNIK ON REASONS FOR FAILURE OF EU IN MOSTAR
[05] MASSACRE NEAR SANSKI MOST CONFIRMED
[06] UN DEPLOYS MONITORS
[01] Croatian President Tudjman: ``I do not know the details but I do know...''
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman denied Saturday that nationalist Bosnian
Croat forces were preventing Jajce residents to return for prayers: ``I do
not know the details but I do know ... that in the region of Jajce liberated
by Croatian forces, five to six thousand Muslims have already been allowed
to return... That is not the case (for Croat refugees) in other towns which
are under the control of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina... It is also not
true that Croats are putting up resistance. There are, of course, extremists
on both sides who are not contributing to the implementation of the
(Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia)...''
``But it is generally known and is known to those people who are involved in
the international arena that there is greater resistance on the Muslim side,''
President Tudjman claimed, despite statements by the EU representatives in
Mostar to the contrary.
Other Western analysts say Tudjman-backed Croat nationalists in Bosnia
are more to blame for the shaky status of the federation than the Bosnian
government.
[02] ``In my opinion, (the meeting) goes very well,'' said Izetbegovic.
The Bosnian leaders took a break to watch a football game between Louisville
and Tulane, the New Orleans university where Sacirbey attended in the 1970s
on a football scholarship. Muhammed - Mo Sacirbey's father, Nedzib a political
adviser to the Bosnian president, also attended the event.
[03] "STICK AND CARROT" IN DAYTON
Dayton, Washington, nov 2, 1995 (Press TWRA) - Negotiations
between Tudjman, Izetbegovic and Milosevic have continued today
in the Wright Patterson air base. The talks are held behind the
closed doors and it will remain so until likely political
agreement is reached. Franjo Tudjman arrived in his, presidential
jet, Slobodan Milosevic in a jet of Serb airline JAT, Alija
Izetbegovic in the US jet provided by Clinton Administration for
this purpose. It is reported that president Tudjman will fly back
to Croatia today and when needed fly again to the USA. The others
remain in Dayton.
US mediators offered "stick and carrot" to the guests in
Dayton. Although the White House and State Department deny their
connection with or influence on the work of the International
Tribunal in the Hague regarding it as independent on the views of
the Washington govt. Still it is obvious that the USA is willing
to hand over a lot of documents on direct involvement of
Milosevic and his government (ministers Radmilo Bogdanovic and
Mihalj Kertes and the head of the Yugoslav military HQ Momcilo
Perisic) in the crimes committed by Karadzic's Serbs in Bosnia
including Srebrenica. It might happen if Milosevic is not
"cooperative". Otherwise, sanctions against FR Yugoslavia, i.e.
Serbia and Montenegro are likely to be lifted. Belgrade would
receive aid from the West as Moscow is not able to provide
sufficient economic help. The Belgrade govt. might be also spared
of war reparations it owes to Sarajevo as the blame would be put
on Karadzic's Serbs in B-H. The word is in Washington that a
director's post of a US bank in Greek capital is open for ex-
banker to the USA, Milosevic.
On the other side, Croatian president Tudjman is also
expected to be "cooperative" as he is offered a financial support
and link to western integrations. Otherwise, some irregularities
at just held elections, bad position of Serb minority to Crate
would be referred to, including ban for hundreds of thousands
Serbs who fled from Croatia, human right violations of other
citizens of Croatia including the lack of freedom of media like
recent beating up of the papers "Bemiring" editor in chief Goran
Flauder from Osijek. Yet, within the context, the accent is on
Croatian restraint from launching offensive in eastern part of
the state (for a while at least) and relation towards B-H which
Washington holds as dubious and insincere. Tense relations with
Bosniaks and the Sarajevo govt., undermining Bosnia's integrity
and continuation of the policy of ethnic segregation in the B-H
Federation cause discomfort and rage of the USA in relation to
Croatia being still regarded as an ally by the USA.
Contrary to the examples of the US "stick" everyone is
offered a "carrot" in the form of abundant financial assistance
in the first place for reconstruction and development of B-H but
well informed source in Washington claims that it has not been
decided yet how the US dollars secured for the purpose will be
directed.
[04] KOSCHNIK ON REASONS FOR FAILURE OF EU IN MOSTAR
Mostar, Nov.2,1995 (Press TWRA) - At the meeting of Foreign
Ministers of countries members of EU, H. Koschnik, EU
Administrator in Mostar received full support for the
implementation of "Memorandum on tolerance" which defines two
years' EU mandate in Mostar. The EU Administration in Mostar
issued a press release with the parts of Koschnik's speech on the
ministerial meeting where he talked about the reasons why EU
failed to "unite again the national groups in Mostar". "The
reason for that was not the lack of good will among the Mostar
citizens but Herzegovinian Croats' head officials significant
refusal of the solution", said Koschnik and accused Croatian side
that denies freedom of movement, obstructs the implementation of
the second faze of joint police units and is against the return
of refugees to their homes. "When I speak of Croatian side I
think of Herzegovinian Croats", emphasized Koschnik and added
that Government of Republic Croatia firmly promised its support
and that it used every occasion to express its support to B-H
Federation.
[05] MASSACRE NEAR SANSKI MOST CONFIRMED
London, Nov. 2,1995 (Press TWRA) - According to the statements of
civilians whom Karadjic's Serbs exchanged this week near Sanski
Most Serbian forces during withdrawal from that city killed
Muslim population massively, reported "The Guardian". These
prisoners where part of the group of 3O3 Muslim civilians and 21
soldiers who were exchanged for 136 Serbian soldiers and 2
civilians. They stated that members of Serbian paramilitary units
on October 11, killed 11 detainee before they withdrew and took
the rest with them. "The Guardian" also stressed that B-H
authorities and foreign monitors who arrived several days latter
after the town was liberated found 11 bodies and another 11O
bodies in a town and surrounding villages. (end) S.K.
[06] UN DEPLOYS MONITORS
Sarajevo, Nov. 2,1995 (Press TWRA) - UN today started to deploy
military monitors in all headquarters of Bosnian Serbs Corps in
B-H, reported today the UNPROFOR headquarters in Sarajevo. This
decision was made by Generals R. Smith and B.Janvier in order to
more efficiently monitor the situation on the ground and respect
of cease fire. In the first faze 15 UNPROFOR officers will be
deployed on Bosnian Serbs forces commanding posts, and in the
next two weeks another 12 monitors. The UNPROFOR representatives
estimated that "in the last two months the situation in B-H
changed so much that, at the moment, the military monitors are
secure although Serbs earlier took them as hostages".
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