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Serbia Today 96-03-26
26 March 1996
In This Edition
UNITED STATES STRIVING TO RESCUE SARAJEVO FROM IRANIAN EMBRACE
METAL WORKERS - AN EXPORT HOPE
BEGINNING OF THE MOST COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN OPERATION IN THE WORLD
CONTENTS
[01] FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - A LEGAL PREDECESSOR
[02] METAL WORKERS - OUR EXPORT HOPE
[03] BEGINNING OF THE MOST COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN OPERATION IN THE WORLD
[04] UNITED STATES STRIVING TO RESCUE SARAJEVO FROM THE IRANIAN EMBRACE
[05] MUJJAHEDINS TO REMAIN
[06] KINKEL 'GLUES TOGETHER' THE FEDERATION
[07] MUSLIMS EXPELLING CROAT REFUGEES
[08] SERBS EXPECT AN APOLOGY
[01] FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - A LEGAL PREDECESSOR
In the international community the view is increasingly gaining
support that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is the
state-predecessor, and not an equitable successor. This was
stated by the professor of the international law at the Faculty
of Law in Nis, Dr. Zoran Radivojevic. This, actually, means that
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is the continuation of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, that basically it is
the same state, only with a reduced territory and number of
inhabitants. Radivojevic who is a member of the Legal Council of
the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, underlined that certain
parts thereof have seceded and become new states, but that over
40 percent of the SFR of Yugoslavia is maintaining the
continuity under a different name. "This stand from the very
beginning had a support in the UN Secretariat for Legal Matters,
but not in the Security Council and in the General Assembly",
said Radivojevic and added that it is important that Secretariat
is still treating Yugoslavia as the signatory of all the
agreements that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had
signed. This is also confirmed by the fact that there is a
completely preserved continuity regarding diplomatic relations.
(Borba, March 26, 1996)
[02] METAL WORKERS - OUR EXPORT HOPE
Prime Minister of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic had a meeting with
representatives of the Trade Unions and Chamber of Economy
discussing conditions for the promotion of production and
exports in the metal industry of Serbia. It was stated at the
meeting that suspension of sanctions has created basic
prerequisites for greater production intensity in the metal
complex of Serbia, which before the sanctions had a significant
share in the overall social product and exports of our country.
Therefore, it is necessary through adequate measures of all the
factors in the economic policy of the country and within the
business arrangements with foreign partners as soon as possible
to find solutions for the increase of production and exports,
because only in this way both material and social security of
the work force can be provided. It was agreed within the
concluded barter arrangements amounting to a total value of 330
million US dollars, that the export priority be given to the
products of the metal complex of Serbia. (Borba, March 26, 1996)
[03] BEGINNING OF THE MOST COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN OPERATION IN THE WORLD
Today, the most complex humanitarian operation ever undertaken
in the world - the mass return of some two million refugees in
former Yugoslavia, is to begin. According to the yesterday's
communique by the International Migration Organization in
Geneva, from Hungary 53 families are to return to Bosnia, with
direct cooperation of the UN High Commissariat for Refugees
(UNHCR). Organization of transport was undertaken by the
Migration Organization, and further care, up to providing
conditions for a normal life of these families, is undertaken by
the UNHCR. Earlier beginning of repatriation, announced for
early April, is showing that everyone is in a hurry. According
to the UNHCR plan, in the first phase for this year, some
900,000 refugees and misplaced persons will return, and this
will cost between 400 and 500 million US dollars. In practice,
however, the things are completely different. Croats are not
even thinking of allowing a mass return of Serbs and are on a
large-scale taking possession of Serbian houses. (Borba, March
26, 1996)
[04] UNITED STATES STRIVING TO RESCUE SARAJEVO FROM THE IRANIAN EMBRACE
The United States Administration, as the main sponsor of the
Dayton Peace Agreement, is trying by all means to rescue
government in Sarajevo from the Iranian embrace. Judging by the
news arriving over the last few days from the ground, neither
Teheran is wishing to miss this opportunity and leave the sphere
of interest in the Balkans to the Americans. Regardless of all
the warnings and even threats sent from Washington D.C. to
Sarajevo, Iran and some other Islamic countries are not giving
up on their own program "for reconstruction and revitalization"
of Bosnia. The Italian daily "Corierre dela serra" claims that
the Islamic countries have already sent millions of dollars to
the government in Sarajevo for armament. The same bait, weapons,
is also used by the Americans in order to attract to their side
the government in Sarajevo. In the comments of the American
press, after the exodus of Serbs from Sarajevo, there is more
and more talk of perspectives for creation of a mini-Muslim
state in Bosnia. The latest criticism has arrived from the
United States special envoy for military stabilization in the
Balkans, James Pardue. he stated that Bosnian authorities must
finally choose between Iran and America in case they wish to
receive the promised armament from Washington D.C. Further to
the disruption of military ties with Teheran, the Americans are
conditioning their supplies also by the integration with Croat
military potential. (Politika, March 26, 1996)
[05] MUJJAHEDINS TO REMAIN
Leader of the Bosnian Muslims Alija Izetbegovic yesterday
confirmed that in Bosnia there are still some 60 mujjahedins and
that they are now civilians, because, as he said, their units
have been disbanded as of January this year. In his letter sent
to the U.S. senators Robert Dole and Joseph Liebermann,
Izetbegovic is saying the following: "It would not be in
accordance with our morals to expel now these men who were
fighting with us, and also because they can not return to their
countries". Reuters is recalling an earlier statement by the
government of the Bosnian Muslims that all the mujjahedins who
have remained in Bosnia are now civilians, married to local
women and have obtained citizenship of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(Politika ekspres, March 26, 1996)
[06] KINKEL 'GLUES TOGETHER' THE FEDERATION
Chief of German diplomacy Klaus Kinkel convened for Thursday
March 28, 1996 in Bonn a new round of negotiations on the fate
of the Croat-Muslim Federation in Bosnia. In an official
communique it is underlined that this will be an international
gathering, with the participation of representatives of the two
sides forming the Federation. The conference will be inaugurated
by Kinkel, on the day of the second anniversary of the
establishment of the Federation. German diplomacy has made a lot
of effort in the process of stabilization of the Federation, but
the results so far are more than modest. (Vecernje novosti,
March 26, 1996)
[07] MUSLIMS EXPELLING CROAT REFUGEES
Bosnian Croats have accused yesterday Muslim police for
expelling over one hundred Croat refugees who have recently
returned to Travnik, the AFP news agency reports. According to
the claims by the representative of Croat authorities in this
region, Muslim police has arrested a hundred Croat families in
the suburb of Travnik and ordered them to leave the area within
24 hours. According to the same source, about this incident IFOR
was informed and the international envoy Carl Bildt. Croat Radio
reported that during last night on the Croat houses along the
road from the villages of Jelah and Zabljak in northern Bosnia,
some dozen graffiti were written, of a provocative Islamic
contents, as for example "Down with Christians", "Long Live Iran
and Bosnia", Salaam Iran", etc. (Vecernje novosti, March 26,
1996)
[08] SERBS EXPECT AN APOLOGY
President of the Serbian National Party in Zagreb and a deputy
in the Croat Parliament (Sabor) Milan Djukic, has sent a letter
of protest to the U.S. Ambassador in the UN Madelain Albright,
in which he is warning that she, by her biased statements, is
imposing on Serbs a collective guilt for the war. The reason for
this letter by Djukic was the statement made by Madelain
Albright after the incident during her recent visit to Vukovar:
"It is not strange that those who have destroyed Vukovar do not
like me". This has only confirmed the bias which Madelain
Albright has shown on many occasions in her speeches, underlines
Djukic and adds that he believes that she will apologize to the
Serbian people. "When such statements are made by influential
international politicians, it is not strange that the crisis in
these areas can not be solved for such a long time", states
Milan Djukic in his letter. (Borba, March 26, 1996)
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