Subject: YDS 8/30 (2nd) From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 30. AUGUST 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY CONTENTS: - BOSNIAN SERBS AGREE TO PURSUE PEACE POLICY OF BELGRADE (AGREEMENT) - MILOSEVIC - HOLBROOKE TALKS BOSNIAN SERBS AGREE TO PURSUE PEACE POLICY OF BELGRADE B e l g r a d e, Aug. 30 (Tanjug) - At a joint meeting of the leaderships of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Bosnian Serb Republic held on Tuesday, Aug. 29, an agreement was reached in which Bosnian Serbs accept the peace policy pursued by Yugoslavia, that is, that the leadership of the Bosnian Serb Republic agrees to harmonize completely their approach to the peace process with the Yugoslav leadership in the best interest of peace. The peace talks on resolving the crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be conducted by a delegation of six members (three members each) and headed by the President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic. The joint meeting was attended for the Yugoslav side by President Zoran Lilic, President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic, President of Montenegro Momir Bulatovic, Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic and Chief of the Supreme headquarters of the Army Gen. Momcilo Perisic and for the Bosnian Serbs by President Radovan Karadzic, Vice Presidents Nikola Koljevic and Biljana Plavsic, Parliament President Momcilo Krajisnik, Prime Minister Dusan Kozic, Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha, Commander of the Supreme headquarters Gen. Ratko Mladic with generals Zdravko Tolimir, Milan Gvero and Djordje Djukic. The meeting was also attended by the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Pavle and Bishop Irinej Bulovic. At the meeting, the following agreement was reached: 1. The leadership of the Republika Srpska agrees to harmonize completely their approach to the peace process with the leadership of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in the best interest of peace. 2. Therefore, the Republika Srpska shall delegate three members into one single delegation of six members, headed by the President of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, who will negotiate about the entire peace process for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as follows: the President of the Republika Srpska dr Radovan Karadzic the President of the Parliament of the Republika Srpska dr Momcilo Krajisnik, and, the Commander of the Supreme headquarters of the Army of the Republika Srpska, General Ratko Mladic. The delegation is authorized to sign, on behalf of the Republika Srpska, the part of the peace plan concerning the Republika Srpska, with the obligation to implement the agreement that is reached strictly and consequently. 3. The leadership of the Republika Srpska agrees by this document to adopt the binding decisions of the delegation, regarding the peace plan, in plenary sessions, by simple majority. In case of divided votes, the vote of the President, Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, shall be decisive. 4. The Government of the F.R. of Yugoslavia shall nominate the delegates of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 5. Possible changes of the composition of the unified delegation, during the work of the delegation, concerning the members from the F.R.Y. (a total of 3) shall be made according to the decision of President Slobodan Milosevic, while the changes of the composition of the delegation of the Republika Srpska (a total of 3) shall be decided by President Radovan Karadzic. However, such changes have no influence on the provisions of this agreement. The agreement was signed by all parties present. MILOSEVIC - HOLBROOKE TALKS B e l g r a d e, Aug. 30 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic asked on Wednesday that all military operations, especially NATO operations, be avoided in the former Yugoslavia in the interest of promoting the peace process. Milosevic was speaking in a meeting with a senior U.S. Government delegation, headed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who arrived in Belgrade on Wednesday, the Presidential Cabinet said in a statement. Milosevic said he was sure that peace in the war zones in the former Yugoslavia would be restored soon if the world took an impartial attitude which would ensure equal protection for the legitimate rights and interests of all parties to the conflict. He said that another important prerequisite was that the international community decide to make it impossible to resort to the war option to settle the crisis. During the lengthy meeting, the two sides put forth their positions on the most important issues concerning the political effort to resolve the Yugoslav crisis, and the further course of the peace process. The two sides noted that there had been significant progress in bringing closer together their positions on how to deal with the crisis and on taking firm steps to intensify the efforts to resume negotiations between the Bosnian warring sides. This would create the necessary preconditions for defusing tension and normalizing the political situation in the Balkans, the Serbian Presidential Cabinet said in the statement. The U.S. peace initiative creates real prospects for peace and contains the necessary elements for defining a political settlement which would guarantee peace and equal protection of the interests of all warring sides, it was heard in the talks. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================