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Serbia Today 96-01-09
Serbia Today
9 January 1996
In This Edition
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION - "TESLA - THE THIRD MILLENNIUM"
CROATIA CONDEMNED FOR BREACHING THE RIGHTS OF THE SERBS
MOSLEM-CROATIAN RELATIONS ARE ABOUT TO EXPLODE
CONTENTS
[01] PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S FELICITATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF RS
[02] INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION - "TESLA - THE THIRD MILLENNIUM"
[03] JUGOAGENT IS OFFERING ITS CARRIER SERVICES
[04] CROATIA CONDEMNED FOR BREACHING THE RIGHTS OF THE SERBS
[05] ARRIVAL OF THE RELEASED SERBS FROM CROATIA
[06] MASS FOR PAVELIC
[07] MOSLEM-CROATIAN RELATIONS ARE ABOUT TO EXPLODE
[08] PARIS ANTICIPATES A BREAK-UP
[09] KRAJISNIK-SMITH TALKS
[10] IFOR FORCES ARE PREPARED TO OPEN FIRE
[01] PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S FELICITATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF RS
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic sent his felicitations
to the people of the Republic of Srpska for January 9th -
Republic Day. The message states: "I offer my congratulations
to the people of the Republic of Srpska for their national
holiday - Republic Day - the first one they are celebrating
in peace, and I hereby wish them a full economic and cultural
revival and a comprehensive progress of the Republic of
Srpska." On January 9, 1992, the Republic of Srpska was
solemnly proclaimed, crowning the struggle for
self-determination and freedom of the Serbian people in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Politika, January 9, 1996)
[02] INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION - "TESLA - THE THIRD MILLENNIUM"
At a press conference held yesterday it has been announced
that the fifth international convention "Tesla - the Third
Millennium", commemorating the 140th anniversary of the birth
of the great Serbian scientists will be held in Belgrade on
October 15-18. The venue which will gather over a thousand
participants from Yugoslavia and abroad will be organized by
the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Nikola Tesla
Institute, the Nikola Tesla Society, Foundation and Museum in
Belgrade, and the Tesla Societies in the United States.
According to the Deputy Minister for Science and Technology -
Dr. Ratko Uzunovic, the objective of the conference will be
to critically analyze the scientific and creative work of
Nikola Tesla in the various fields he was involved in, and to
evaluate the present level and the future development of
these fields of science in the light of Tesla's ideas. 1996
is a jubilee year and various other manifestations will be
held, and the Nikola Tesla Foundation launched a competition
for the traditional Tesla Award for creativity in natural and
technical sciences. (Politika, January 9, 1996)
[03] JUGOAGENT IS OFFERING ITS CARRIER SERVICES
After a pause that lasted three and a half years, the
"Jugoagent" river and maritime agency is prepared to offer
its services to domestic and foreign companies - said company
General Manager Miroslav Pavlicic. He also stressed that
"Jugoagent" managed to preserve its personnel, representative
offices abroad and it membership in international
associations of shipping agents. "The suspension of the
sanctions allows the use of Yugoslav fluvial network, and
this will directly reduce the costs of goods and
raw-materials. Our agency has been contacted by numerous
companies who offered cooperation. We maintained particularly
good business relations with the Ukrainian, Bulgarian,
Slovak, Russian and Czech fleet." (Politika, January 9, 1996)
[04] CROATIA CONDEMNED FOR BREACHING THE RIGHTS OF THE SERBS
Yesterday, the UN Security Council strongly condemned Croatia
for breaching the human rights of the Serbs and asked the
authorities in Zagreb to take concrete measures by February
15th, to improve the situation. The Security Council
"...strongly condemned the infringement of the international
humanitarian rights and the rights of the people of Krajina
that took place in the past several months, especially the
massacre of several hundred civilians, the robberies, the
systematic burning and other forms of destruction of
property." France Press reports that the Security Council
asked the UN Secretary General - Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali to
prepare a new report on the issue and warned that it will
intervene should no progress be made by the set term. (Borba,
January 9, 1996)
[05] ARRIVAL OF THE RELEASED SERBS FROM CROATIA
The first group of 120 Serbs, pardoned for Christmas by
Croatian President Tu|man, will arrive in the Srem-Baranja
Region on Thursday and not on Wednesday as it had been
announced previously. The delay is due to the fact that the
representatives of the International Committee of the Red
Cross did not complete the interviews of the 349 pardoned
Serbs, who are waiting to be released in the Gasinci refugee
camp. The pardoned Serbs are to state whether they want to
stay in Croatia, cross-over to the Srem-Baranja Region or go
to FR Yugoslavia. It has been announced that the second group
of 120 prisoners will be transferred to the Srem-Baranja
territory on January 13. (Politika, January 9, 1996)
[06] MASS FOR PAVELIC
"Feral Tribune" an opposition newspaper published in Split
(Croatia) revealed in its latest edition that in a Franciscan
Church in Zagreb mass has been served for one of the biggest
war criminals in World War II - Ante Pavelic. The newspaper
stresses that "...those that asked for the requiem to Ante
Pavelic, the chief engineer of the genocide against the
Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies in NDH, were very much involved in
promoting the rehabilitation of NDH and the Ustashi
movement." Along with the relatives of the Ustashi Fuhrer,
the service was attended by members of the Croatian
Liberation Movement - the organization founded by Pavelic.
The organization - now headed by Pavelic's son-in-law has
been officially registered in Croatia and it took part in the
recent elections. (Vecernje novosti, January 9, 1996)
[07] MOSLEM-CROATIAN RELATIONS ARE ABOUT TO EXPLODE
In the past several days, the European Commission in Brussels
received numerous unfavorable reports from Bosnia and
Herzegovina and especially from the town of Mostar - where
the relations between the Moslems and the Croats have become
incandescent. According to the report submitted by Hans
Koschnik - the EU administrator in Mostar, the danger is
evident because the tension between the two ethnic
communities - Moslems and Croats - has not been reduced after
the signing of the Paris Agreement on Bosnia, but is in fact
growing. Mr. Koschnik repeatedly warned the European
institutions that a more determined position must be used in
confront of the Croatian and Moslem authorities in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and is now stressing that the survival of the
Bosnian Federation might depend on the example given in
Mostar. At the same time, EU institutions in Brussels
underscored that the program for the reconstruction of Bosnia
- destroyed by the war - is now jeopardized, because the
funds accumulated with difficulties to launch the program
should not be wasted as long as there is a minimum threat of
new destruction. (Politika, January 9, 1996)
[08] PARIS ANTICIPATES A BREAK-UP
Paris headlines are carefully monitoring the escalation of
conflicts between Moslems and Croats in Mostar, and are
frequently using the term "edge of a cliff". Le Figaro and
Liberation quote the statement made by the EU Administrator
Hans Koschnik that "...the situation in Mostar is on the
verge of civil war." "The Croats are secessionists and are
jealous of the Republic of Srpska. They are now refusing to
recall the institutions of their Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia."
- remarks Le Figaro. Unlike the French media, CBS news
programs do not mention the situation in Mostar. The
situation in Mostar has been presented to the American public
as a "fist-fight between two sides". (Vecernje novosti,
January 9, 1996)
[09] KRAJISNIK-SMITH TALKS
Mr. Momcilo Krajisnik - Speaker of the Parliament of the
Republic of Srpska agreed yesterday in Pale with IFOR
Commander - Admiral Leighton Smith, that the road between
Kiseljak and Sarajevo - across the Serbian quarter of Ilid`a
- be opened for regular traffic. "The abuse of this road for
illicit activities will be prevented with the help of IFOR."
- Said Mr. Krajisnik. He newly informed Admiral Smith about
the concern of the Serbian side due to the fact that the
international community is ignoring the problem of Serbian
Sarajevo. "The Serbs want a political solution because they
refuse the Moslem authority, and they want to stay and live
in their town." - stressed Krajisnik. He also reminded that
the international community protected the Moslems in Sarajevo
for three and a half years, and that now that the Serbs need
protection "there is no one we can submit our demands to".
Admiral Smith promised that should the Serbs decide to leave
Sarajevo, the international forces will allow them to take
their property out of the city even after the 90 day deadline
after the signing of the Dayton Agreement expires. He said
that he has limited authority regarding the extension of the
deadlines defined by the Agreement , because "...these are
political issues and not military ones." (Ekspres, January 9,
1996)
[10] IFOR FORCES ARE PREPARED TO OPEN FIRE
The soldiers of the forces for the implementation of the
peace agreement on Bosnia (IFOR) will respond to any
provocation by the local armed groups - stated London in
reaction to the frequent attacks on the IFOR patrols. The
responsibility for the shooting has not been officially
attributed, but British correspondents in Bosnia suggest that
most of the shots came from the Moslem and Croatian side.
IFOR press representative in Sarajevo said that fire will be
returned and that it will be deadly. In view of the alleged
incident near the town of Sanski Most, a joint committee
comprising officers of the Republic of Srpska Army (VRS) and
IFOR established that VRS soldiers did not open fire on IFOR
members and that any possibility of threats to their safety
is to be excluded. (Borba, January 9, 1996)
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