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Serbia Today 96-06-25
Serbia Today
25 June 1996
CONTENTS
[01] FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR A STABLE COOPERATION BETWEEN FRY
AND FINLAND
[02] EQUALITY AND PROTECTION OF ALL YUGOSLAV CITIZENS
[03] MILOSEVIC RECEIVED CHINESE BUSINESSMEN
[04] CONSULATES INSTEAD OF BUREAUS
[05] LETTER OF THE ZAGREB ORTHODOX COMMUNITY TO CARDINAL KUHARIC
[06] JASENOVAC MUST BE PROTECTED
[01] FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR A STABLE COOPERATION BETWEEN FRY
AND FINLAND
The cordial and open talks Serbian President Milosevic
had with Finnish Prime Minister Ms. Taryu Halonnen - who
came to Yugoslavia with her assistants for an official
visit - stressed the positive development of the bilateral
relations, and the good prospective for a continued and
stable cooperation. The talks also indicated that the
policy of peace and equitable cooperation among countries
and nations, constitutes the most dependable foundation
for their comprehensive enhancement and incorporation, as
well as an incentive for the integration process in Europe
and the world over. FR Yugoslavia is actively contributing
to the realization of these objectives, endorsing above all
the consolidation of the political situation in the Balkan
region, convinced that the future of the states and nations
has to be built on the grounds of full equality. This is
why FRY expects its constant and persistent involvement to
become integral part of the international efforts, which
includes its equal treatment and participation in all
international organizations and forums.
Federal Prime Minister Dr. Radoje Kontic and Federal
Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic also had talks with the
Finnish Premier. In those meetings prime importance was
given to the possibilities and ways of improving bilateral
relations. The Yugoslav side indicated expectations that
Finland - a country that played a constructive role in the
Balkan peace process - will endorse the reintegration of
FRY into the international institutions. The Finnish Prime
Minister said that her Government highly appreciates the
role and the contribution of FRY in reaching and preserving
peace in the region. (Politika, June 25, 1996)
[02] EQUALITY AND PROTECTION OF ALL YUGOSLAV CITIZENS
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, received
yesterday the Special UN Reporter on Hunan Rights - Ms.
Elisabeth Renn and her associates. During the talks
opinions and information were exchanged about issues
related to the implementation of human rights in the area
of former Yugoslavia. The implementation of constitutional
freedoms and rights of the Yugoslav citizens based on the
full equality and equal protection by state bodies and
institutions, has also been discussed.
The UN Special Reporter has also been received by the
Federal Minister for Human and Minority Rights - Ms. Margit
Savovic. During the talks issues concerning the organized
protection of children in FRY, the territorial
concentration of refugees, and the position of ethnic
minorities in the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo and
Metohija. Faced with international sanctions and the
pauperization of its own population, Yugoslavia decided to
organize the deployment of refugees according to the
financial potential of given regions. Special attention was
given to the status of ethnic minorities that are warranted
all civil and specific rights. (Politika, June 25, 1996)
[03] MILOSEVIC RECEIVED CHINESE BUSINESSMEN
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic received
yesterday a delegation of the Cinochem Group from PR China.
The delegation was headed by Zeng Danhoun, Chairman of
Board of the large chemical group which has close business
relations with the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS). The guests
informed the President about the business transactions
between the two companies, principally about the major
barter agreement. The arrangement which will ensure the
import of Chinese crude oil and the export of Yugoslav
industrial products is estimated at some 300 million
dollars. Both sides agreed that there is a major interest
to expand the cooperation between the two economies.
(Politika, June 25, 1996)
[04] CONSULATES INSTEAD OF BUREAUS
Yugoslav and Croatian expert groups comprising foreign
ministry and customs officials agreed yesterday in Zagreb
that the Yugoslav Bureau in Zagreb and the Croatian Office
in Belgrade shall assume consular duties as well. The
delegations, headed by Yugoslav Foreign Ministry Official -
Radomir Bogdanovic and the Croatian Foreign Ministry
Secretary Zoran Piculja, signed a protocol specifying that
the Croatian Office in Belgrade will assume consular duties
on July 8. The Yugoslav Bureau in Zagreb assumed the same
duties on June 15. In accordance with the latest agreement,
Yugoslav citizens that plan to go to Croatia will no longer
have to go to the Croatian embassies in the neighboring
countries to obtain the documents needed to enter Croatia.
(Borba, June 25, 1996)
[05] LETTER OF THE ZAGREB ORTHODOX COMMUNITY TO CARDINAL KUHARIC
The recent statement made by the Archbishop of Zagreb
at the 16 plenary session of the Chairmen of the Episcopal
Conferences held in Mariacell, caused negative reactions of
the remaining Serbs in Croatia. In fact, cardinal Kuharic
reaffirmed some falsities and made offensive statements
regarding the Serbs in Croatia. Justifying the current
ethnic cleansing policy directed against the Serbs,
cardinal Kuharic remarked that the exodus of the Serbs
after the aggression of the Croatian Army was caused by the
fact that "...the Serbs fled from Croatia because they did
not want it." Speaking on behalf of the Serbian Orthodox
community in Zagreb, Rev. Milenko Popovic addressed an open
letter to cardinal Kuharic, containing the following basic
message "Serbs fled from Croatia because it did not want
them." "I should like to remind you that an army of 200.000
soldiers full of hatred invaded Krayina, and I wonder if
any reasonable man would wait for such liberators." - reads
rev. Popovic's letter. He also expressed amazement for the
fact that cardinal Kuharic "...has no information about the
destruction of Orthodox churches in the recent war" because
he personally sent him the book "Spiritual Genocide 1993-
94", containing detailed data for all ten Orthodox
eparchies in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Numerous
Orthodox churches have been razed to the ground: in the
village of Stupovaca near Kutina, in the village of
Tresnjevka near Bjelovar, two near Grubisino Polje, as well
as those in Nova Gradiska, Vinkovci, and Gospic (back in
1991); the one in Slavonski Brod was demolished after the
war stopped, and three of the four seats of Orthodox
bishops have been blown up or burned, and the church in
Veliki Zdenci recently disappeared. The protection of
Orthodox temples after the aggression is nothing but a
propaganda move. Allegedly the churches are preserve, but
no one admits that they have all been desecrated and robbed
and that the settlements around them have been burned.
(Politika, June 25, 1996)
[06] JASENOVAC MUST BE PROTECTED
The participants of the International Resistance
Federation Congress, which ended yesterday in Vienna,
endorsed the coherent implementation of the Dayton
Agreement and proposed the equal treatment of the two
internationally recognized entities in Bosnia and
Herzegovina: the Republic of Srpska and the Moslem-Croatian
Federation. The congress delegates dedicated particular
attention to issues regarding European cooperation,
suppression of neo-Nazism and revanchism, and elimination
of negative tendencies undermining the relations between
states. With a resolution on the international protection
of the Jasenovac concentration camp - drafted by the
Yugoslav Resistance Association (SUBNOR), the Congress
raised a protest against the intentions of the Croatian
regime to bury together the victims of the WW II genocide -
Serbs, Jews and Romany - and their assassins, thus
desecrating the graves of the martyrs of Jasenovac. (Borba,
June 25, 1996)
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