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Serbia Today, 96-12-04
CONTENTS
[01] ANALYSIS OF DAYTON ACCORDS RESULTS
[02] RETURN OF SERBS TO CROATIA MADE IMPOSSIBLE
[03] THE HAGUE INVESTIGATION OF THE CROAT CRIMES IN VUKOVAR
[04] NEW EXPULSION OF REFUGEES IN MOSTAR
[05] KLICKOVIC: ANY PROTECTORATE IS OUT OF THE QUESTION
[06] PRESENTATION OF THE ITALIAN ECONOMY IN BELGRADE
[01] ANALYSIS OF DAYTON ACCORDS RESULTS
Today and tomorrow in London the fourth international conference will be
held devoted to former Yugoslavia and the second - after the one of exactly one
year ago - which will be dealing with the implementation of the peace accords on
Bosnia. From Bosnia-Herzegovina the participants at the conference will be Alija
Izetbegovic, Momcilo Krajisnik, Kresimir Zubak, Biljana Plavsic, Ejup Ganic and
Jadranko Prlic, with the presence of the ministers of foreign affairs of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia, chiefs of
diplomacies of the countries of the European Union and the United States, states
present in the peace forces in Bosnia and some Arab countries engaged in the aid
for reconstruction of Bosnia. Present will also be the representatives of the
United Nations, World Bank, Council of Europe and Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe. At the conference there will be discussion of the
implementation so far of the Dayton Accords and further steps for strengthening
of peace and stability in Bosnia.
Serbia Today, 1996-12-04 ; Politika, 1996-12-04
[02] RETURN OF SERBS TO CROATIA MADE IMPOSSIBLE
The UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR) lodged a protest to the Croat
government because of the Law on Amnesty and the laws making possible
confiscation of the property of exiled Serbs, recently adopted in the Croat
Parliament (Sabor). In the opinion of the UNHCR, they are making impossible mass
return of refugees to Croatia, scheduled to take place in spring next year. The
spokesman of the Belgrade offices of the UNHCR Maruan El Kuri, who recently
visited Krajina and also passed through Kistanje says the following: "There are
now Croats living there, the ones exiled from Bosnia and the settlers from
Kosovo. The Croat government is planning reconstruction of the completely
destroyed place, but the UNHCR is demanding that Kistanje be also reconstructed
for Serbs, not only for Croats". Serbs are not returning to Croatia also because
no one is guaranteeing their safety, says El Kuri, and adds that the male
returnees to Croatia are awaiting "beating and plunder", and that the UNHCR
knows also of two murders that were committed. In spite of the Law on Amnesty,
Croat authorities are still making arrests.
Serbia Today, 1996-12-04 ; Politika ekspres, 1996-12-04
[03] THE HAGUE INVESTIGATION OF THE CROAT CRIMES IN VUKOVAR
The Hague Tribunal will file an indictment soon against 90 Croats guilty of
the crimes committed against Serbs in Vukovar and the vicinity. This was stated
in Vukovar by Prof. Vojin Dabic, director of the Information Center of the
Serbian Alliance. The indictments to be filed are the result of several years of
investigation and visits of the teams of The Hague Tribunal to Vukovar. The
investigation is in an advanced phase, and a list is made of the graves in the
territory of Croatia which will be exhumed. Regardless of the intentions of the
Croat authorities to conceal the crimes committed against Serbs, the graves can
never be hidden, said Dabic.
Serbia Today, 1996-12-04 ; Vecernje novosti, 1996-12-04
[04] NEW EXPULSION OF REFUGEES IN MOSTAR
The UN High Commissariat for Refugees announced that Croats during this
year have expelled 67 Muslim families from their own houses and apartments in
Mostar, reported yesterday the Muslim Radio Sarajevo. Muslim police public
security station announced the fact that only during the past week seven brutal
evictions of Muslims from their apartments were recorded. The same source claims
that ethnic cleansing of the non-Croat population from the western part of the
city is continuing and that in that part still 800 Serbs are living and 3,000
Muslims. They are denied the right to work and are living daily in fear from the
armed and uniformed Croats who are forcing the entry into their homes, taking
them to the separation line and expelling them to the eastern part of the city
of Mostar.
Serbia Today, 1996-12-04 ; Politika, 1996-12-04
[05] KLICKOVIC: ANY PROTECTORATE IS OUT OF THE QUESTION
Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska Gojko Klickovic stated at Pale
that the Government had to withdraw its member from the arbitration commission
for Brcko Vitomir Popovic, because of the pressure of the American
Administration on the chairman of the commission Robert Owen, to carry out
arbitration outside of the foreseen rules. "Brcko is the city of the Republic of
Srpska and any protectorate of the international community is out of the
question", said Klickovic and added that "the price of such a decision would be
war". He also recalled that the Dayton Accords prescribe that the subject of the
dispute is one part of the inter-ethnic line near Brcko, and it is now being
extended to the entire region. "This is the work of those who wish to see war in
these areas", said the Prime Minister and pointed out at the policy of double
standards of the American Administration, which was striving for peace, but is
now creating new incident which may destroy what is prescribed in the Dayton
Accords.
Serbia Today, 1996-12-04 ; Vecernje novosti, 1996-12-04
[06] PRESENTATION OF THE ITALIAN ECONOMY IN BELGRADE
At the Belgrade Fair, at the exhibition entitled "To Live a Modern Life",
120 firms from Italy are presented, and a dozen from Sweden, Germany,
Yugoslavia, Greece and France. This attractive and affluent exhibition, whose
title is a skillfully created marketing and communication metaphor, is one of
the first and largest economic actions in Belgrade after lifting of sanctions,
stated at the opening ceremony President of the Chamber of Economy of Serbia
Vlajko Stojiljkovic. The exhibition presents Italy, with which during ten months
of this year the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has achieved the volume of goods
exchange of almost half a million US dollars. Stojiljkovic said that in the
period after the lifting of sanctions, some 400 mixed companies have been
established between our and Italian firms. The largest number of contracts on
industrial cooperation was concluded in the field of metal and wood processing
industries and furniture manufacture. "We are expecting the support of the
Italian businessmen and government for the European Union to return to
Yugoslavia the contingent and transport permits, as well as customs facilities
which we had before the embargo", said Stojiljkovic.
Serbia Today, 1996-12-04 ; Politika, 1996-12-04
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