Subject: YDS 9/4 From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 04. SEPTEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY CONTENTS: FROM THE F.R. OF YUGOSLAVIA - MILOSEVIC RECEIVES U.S. NEGOTIATING TEAM FOR TALKS - MONTENEGRO WELCOMES AMERICAN PEACE EFFORTS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA THE MASSACRE ON SARAJEVO MARKET - SEVERAL REPORTS QUESTION U.N. FINDINGS ON SARAJEVO MASSACRE - RUSSIAN COLONEL DEMURENKO REFUTES OFFICIAL VERSION OF RECENT BLAST IN SARAJEVO AS FORGERY - U.N. CZECH OFFICERS SAY SARAJEVO MASSACRE GUILT UNDETERMINABLE - UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL: BARBARIC NATO ACTION AFTER MUSLIM PROVOCATION BOSNIA - SERBS - SERB REPUBLIC APPROVES OF REOPENING OF 'BLUE ROUTES' - SERB ARMY NEAR NEVESINJE DOWN UNMANNED NATO PLANE KRAJINA - CROATIA - AKASHI SAYS REALISTIC PEACE PROSPECTS EXIST IN 'SECTOR EAST' FROM FOREIGN PRESS - CROATIAN NARCOTIC DRUG UNITS UNDERGO TREATMENT IN ITALY - KUNA: THOUSANDS OF INDIAN VOLUNTEERS ARE READY FOR WAR IN BOSNIA FROM THE F.R. OF YUGOSLAVIA MILOSEVIC RECEIVES U.S. NEGOTIATING TEAM FOR TALKS B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on Sunday had talks with a U.S. negotiating team headed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke on a settlement of the crisis in Bosnia. The officials exchanged views on preparations for an international conference on peace in the region at which a definitive settlement for peace in Bosnia should be reached and conditions set for lasting peace and stability in the region. A preliminary meeting to be held in Geneva later this week should accelerate the negotiating process. Attending the talks was Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic. MONTENEGRO WELCOMES AMERICAN PEACE EFFORTS P o d g o r i c a, Sept. 2 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic said Saturday that this Yugoslav republic was highly appraising the American diplomatic efforts towards finding a quick and peaceful resolution in the territory of former Yugoslavia. In addressing the visiting U.S. congressmen, Scotty Baesler and Mark Neuemen, Bulatovic stressed that with the arrival of peace the conditions would be generated for the further development of relations upon the principles of equality and mutual respect of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or Montenegro, and the United States of America. The Montenegrin Information Secretariat said in an announcement that Montenegro was welcoming the strengthened negotiating activity and American diplomacy's resolved inclusion into the settlement of the crisis in former Yugoslavia, just as the tenor and essence of the offered peace plan. The announcement said this was backing up Yugoslavia's continuing stand that a quick and peaceful solution was basically contingent upon an equal relationship towards all the parties involved in the conflict in the territory of former Yugoslavia. The American congressmen became familiarized with the difficult humanitarian situation in Montenegro and the republic's requests for its Adriatic port of Bar to be allowed to open for humanitarian aid shipments. THE MASSACRE ON SARAJEVO MARKET SEVERAL REPORTS QUESTION U.N. FINDINGS ON SARAJEVO MASSACRE B e l g r a d e, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - Several reports questioning the official U.N. findings that Bosnian Serbs are to blame for the massacre on the Sarajevo market of Markale have been sent to the U.N. headquarters in New York, Reuters quoted a U.N. official as saying. Reuters quoted on Saturday evening Colonel-Lieutenant Chris Vernon as saying that Russian Colonel Andrei Demurenko was not the only person to contradict the U.N. findings. 'Several reports critical of our findings have made their way to the U.N. headquarters in New York, including one from an officer here in Sarajevo and two which originated in the United States,' Vernon said and pointed out that the United Nations was still standing by its original findings and refuting any counter-allegations. DEMURENKO REFUTES OFFICIAL VERSION OF BLAST IN SARAJEVO AS FOR GERY M o s c o w, Sept. 2 (Tanjug) - Chief of the United Nations peace force staff in 'Sector Sarajevo' Russian Colonel Andrei Demurenko said on Saturday that the results of the U.N. commission's inquiry into the August 28 blast in Sarajevo were - falsified. Fire had not been opened from those positions indicated in the official document on the causes of the tragedy in Sarajevo's central market place where over one hundred people were killed or injured on August 28, said Demurenko. He told Russian journalists in Zagreb that, relying upon the calculated paths of the mortar shell and the configuration of the ground, he had still earlier doubted the official version according to which shells were fired on Sarajevo's market by Serbs. Now no one in the world can prove that the United Nations commission's findings are exact, Demurenko reaffirmed. Russian reporters from Zagreb said that Demurenko's assertions were based on his own investigation. Despite disproval by U.N. representatives, Demurenko and one assistant were searching those points which were noted in the official report as the 'probable positions' from which fire was opened. The photographs of these points and the corresponding calculations now are in my hands. Their most important part is in a secure place, so that in case of my arrest nothing will change, said Demurenko. Demurenko's conclusion was that the political decision that allowed NATO air strikes and Rapid Reaction Force's attacks against Bosnian Serb targets had been made on the basis of fabricated data. MASSACRE GUILT UNDETERMINABLE P r a g u e, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - Commander of the U.N. Czech observers for former Yugoslavia Colonel Jozef Ocenas said on TV Sunday it was impossible to exactly specify the place from which came the shell that killed 37 people in Sarajevo on August 28. Taking part in the same TV program, Czech General Karel Kuba said that as a soldier he was sceptical about who had fired the shell. The shell could come from the Serb side direction, but it could be fired from a light mortar by someone who had sneaked closer to Serb positions in order to fire the mortar from that direction, said General Kuba. BARBARIC NATO ACTION AFTER MUSLIM PROVOCATION K i e v, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - The President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet, Boris Oleinik, said that the August 28 explosion in Sarajevo, which served as pretext for NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, had been a calculated Muslim provocation. Oleinik said that the provocation had been calculated to justify by all means a barbaric NATO action. Oleinik, who was speaking on prime-time news on the first channel of the state-run Ukrainian television on Saturday night, said that there had previously been similar provocations by the Muslims and their sponsors with the aim to kill peaceful citizens and unjustly blame the Bosnian Serbs for these crimes. It is illogical for the Serbs to perpetrate such a crime because just before the tragedy they had opted for negotiations and their leaders were in Belgrade at the time of the incident, Oleinik said. He said that the tragedy was in the interest of those major powers and forces in NATO which wanted above all to restore the alliance's role in cold war era. BOSNIA - SERBS SERB REPUBLIC APPROVES OF REOPENING OF 'BLUE ROUTES' B e l g r a d e, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - President of the National Assembly of the Bosnian Serb Republic Momcilo Krajisnik welcomed on Sunday the reopening of 'blue routes' across Sarajevo airport, maintaining that the moves like this were making it difficult for the Bosnian Muslim authorities to break the peace process. We approve of the reopening of blue routes, said Krajisnik and added that the Serb side had warned the U.N. peace force Commander for former Bosnia-Herzegovina General Rupert Smith that the U.N. should safeguard the operation of the routes so that the Muslim side would not use them for some new massacre. Krajisnik said that an early announcement received from the United Nations said that the U.N. would take care of this and would soon organize a meeting at which certain things from an earlier agreement would be specified so that its implementation would develop normally. In the next two days, some technical problems would be resolved so that the reopening of blue routes could not be used for an escalation of conflicts in Sarajevo, said Krajisnik. SERB ARMY DOWN UNMANNED NATO PLANE Nevesinje, Belgrade, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - Military sources of the Bosnian Serb Republic stated on Sunday that anti-aircraft defense units of the Bosnian Serb Army Herzegovina Corps downed Saturday evening an unmanned plane which, according to the signs on the equipment and on the plane itself, certainly belonged to NATO. The unmanned plane was downed in the Mostar-Nevesinje part of the battlefield during a reconnaissance-spy mission, a Bosnian Serb military source said. In the area where the plane was downed, NATO planes bombed in three waves Serb civilian and military targets, dropping over 200 destructive rockets and bombs, of which some were heavy over 2,000 kilograms. The plane, with a wing span of 16 meters and 12 meters long, was equipped with two cameras and other most sophisticated electronic equipment intended for reconnaissance-spy purposes, Bosnian Serb Republic military sources also said. KRAJINA - CROATIA REALISTIC PEACE PROSPECTS EXIST IN 'SECTOR EAST' Z a g r e b, Sept. 2 (Tanjug) - U.N. Special Envoy for former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi said on Saturday that realistic prospects existed for peace in 'Sector East'. Akashi had talks with representatives of the Republic of Serb Krajina (R.S.K.) in Erdut in Eastern R.S.K. on Saturday, who had accepted his proposal for a new mandate of the U.N. peace force in this sector. The U.N. force's new mandate in what is called 'Sector East' comprises among other things a ceasefire based on the March 1994 agreement, Akashi made it clear in Zagreb on Saturday following his talk with Hrvoje Sarinic, head of the Croatian Presidential Office. Akashi said that military commanders on the ground had confirmed that the situation was stable and the ceasefire accord was observed. Akashi announced that Serb General Loncar and Croatian General Decak would meet together on Monday. He expected favourable conclusions from their talk to serve as the basis for the further political and economic negotiations. FROM FOREIGN PRESS CROATIAN NARCOTIC DRUG UNITS UNDERGO TREATMENT IN ITALY Lj u b lj a n a, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - A group of Croatian soldiers, members of special outfits who have been given narcotics regularly before combat actions, have recently arrived for treatment at a centre for drug addicts outside the Italian town of Rimini, the Ljubljana Slovenske Novice daily has said in its latest issue. The paper said that all these soldiers, before recruitment into the Croatian army, had been normal young men. Once in special units, they were given heroin before going out into armed actions. One of the soldiers, Davor, 29, told Italian TV-radio that he was systematically addicted to heroin in the Croatian army. He said he had not earlier known anything about narcotic drugs, but in Bosnia, he and other soldiers were at first given heroin only periodically before they began to receive it every day right ahead of going into action. All of us, he said, were receiving heroin daily to be able to hold out stress and stifle fear of combat. Italian reporters have been showing interest in the drug addicted soldiers who arrived in their country for medical treatment. The Rimini authorities fear that hosting Croatian soldiers could provoke a scandal, the Slovenian paper said in conclusion. INDIAN VOLUNTEERS ARE READY FOR WAR IN BOSNIA B e l g r a d e, Sept. 3 (Tanjug) - Several thousand Indian Muslims are ready to leave for Bosnia where they are to join jihad fighters against Serbs, dr Shaz, President of the New Delhi-based organization of young Muslims 'Milli Parliament', told the Kuwaiti news agency. Dr Shaz specified that on the list for departure for Bosnia are over six thousand Muslims, including women, and two thousand Indians. Several centers in Europe, specialized in transferring jihad fighters to Bosnia, has already brought three groups from India, who arrived with humanitarian convoys. Dr Shaz said that departure for Bosnia is simple. They need return tickets and visas for a European country, where passengers are picked up by one of the mentioned centers. They are first sent to training sites for two months, after what they are sent to the battlefield. Dr Shaz did not reveal to the Kuwaiti agency where those training sites were, but he specified that around two thousand registered volunteers have already acquired visas. Trips to Bosnia are financed by rich Indians. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================