Subject: YDS 9/5 From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 05. SEPTEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY CONTENTS: BELGRADE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES - MILOSEVIC-BILDT: GENEVA MEETING TO GIVE AN IMPETUS TO PEACE PROCESS - MILOSEVIC TALKS WITH STOLTENBERG YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA - CHINESE OFFICIAL: CHINA OPPOSES SANCTIONS AND USE OF FORCE BOSNIA - SERBS - BOSNIAN SERB GEN. MLADIC CALLS FOR URGENT MEETING OF BOSNIA FACTIONS - FORMER U.S.PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES SERB COMPLIANCE WITH NATO DEMANDS - U.N. SAYS BOSNIAN SERBS PREPARE PULLOUT FROM AROUND SARAJEVO - BOSNIAN SERB ARMY CONFIRMS DOWNING OF SPY PLANE THE SARAJEVO MASSACRE - U.N. OFFICER DEMANDS NEW INQUIRY INTO AUG 28 SARAJEVO OUTRAGE CROATIA - KRAJINA SERBS - CROATIAN AUTHORITIES ERASING CENTURIES OF SERB PRESENCE IN KRAJINA - CONFISCATION OF SERBS' PROPERTY IN CROATIA ANNOUNCED - CROATIA IN THE EMBRACE OF CLEROFASCISM, OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SAYS - SERB KRAJINA-CROATIA CEASEFIRE HOLDS PARTIALLY FROM FOREIGN PRESS - FURTHER BOMBARDMENT OF BOSNIAN SERBS WOULD NOT SERVE PEACE - CROATIAN ARMY DESTROYING KRAJINA AND KILLING REMAINING SERBS BELGRADE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES GENEVA MEETING TO GIVE AN IMPETUS TO PEACE PROCESS B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - The President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic and the Co-President of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Carl Bildt, expressed their belief that the coming meeting of foreign ministers of Croatia, the Croatian-Muslim federation and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will give an impetus to the peace process. Talks between Milosevic and Bildt focused on efforts underway for seeking a peace settlement for the region. The two pointed out that the resolution of the crisis by political means ruled out the show of force and threat to use force. They said there was cause for optimism of reaching a comprehensive political agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina, fair for all the parties to the conflict. MILOSEVIC TALKS WITH STOLTENBERG B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic talked Monday with the Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia Thorvald Stoltenberg. The two officials talked about steps for speeding up the negotiating process and reaching peace in the region, Milosevic's Office said. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA CHINA OPPOSES SANCTIONS AND USE OF FORCE B e i j i n g, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Wu Jinghua, Deputy Chairman of the Chinese Parliament's Committee for Nationalities, said on Monday that China consistently opposes the use of sanctions in international relations and the use of force as a means for imposing solutions to conflicts. Wu was speaking during talks with Yugoslav Minister without portfolio Margit Savovic who is in Beijing as a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the U.N. fourth World Conference on Women. Wu and Savovic agreed that only the equal treatment of all the sides in the conflict and a political dialogue can lead towards the resolution of the crises in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Concerning human rights and the rights of minorities, Wu and Savovic said that minorities are often used as a method of pressuring certain countries, especially by states which do not respect the rights of national minorities themselves nor do they admit to having any minorities. BOSNIA - SERBS MLADIC CALLS FOR URGENT MEETING OF BOSNIA FACTIONS B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army Commander Gen. Ratko Mladic proposed on Monday that army leaders of the Bosnian warring parties meet urgently to sign an agreement on a complete, permanent and unconditional end of hostilities. In a letter to the U.N. force commander in former Yugoslavia, French General Bernard Janvier, Mladic announced a unilateral cessation of hostilities in the Sarajevo area until such a meeting should take place. This was Mladic's reply to Janvier's letter of Sunday informing him that NATO would resume the bombing of Bosnian Serb positions unless the Bosnian Serb Army withdrew its heavy weapons from the exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Mladic further asked that a commission of experts from the U.N. Security Council permanent member-states and the Bosnian warring parties be set up immediately to investigate the latest massacre of civilians in Sarajevo. He went on to say that the commission should investigate also the use by NATO and the Rapid Reaction Force of weapons with toxic and radioactive properties against Bosnian Serb civilian and army targets. Mladic said that ultimatums should be replaced by talks and bombings by agreements that should ensure an equal treatment of and guarantees for both Serbs and Muslims in Sarajevo. He said that the 1949 Geneva convention regulated the status of protected areas. Contrary to its provisions, however, Mladic said, the U.N. in the Sarajevo safe area was protecting units of the Muslim first corps, organised in eight brigades and five autonomous battalions, numbering about 25,000 troops and 342 heavy weapons. The Bosnian Serb Army is required to pull out of range of the Sarajevo safe area and from the Serb part of Sarajevo, he said, while no such request is made of the 17 Muslim and three Croat brigades and six battalions with 35,000 troops and 865 heavy weapons also there. It is absurd that the 60,000 Muslims troops in and around the Sarajevo safe area, armed with heavy weapons, should be protected, while the people in the Serb part of Sarajevo should have no security guarantees, said Mladic in his letter to Janvier. FORMER U.S.PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES SERB COMPLIANCE WITH NATO DEMANDS B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic informed him that the Bosnian Serbs would 'begin the process of complying fully with the conditions laid down by the United Nations, and he has indicated that other steps will follow, including the movement of heavy weapons.' In a statement released by the Carter Center, the former President said that he was encouraged by the information that doctor Karadzic had passed to him and expressed belief that Karadzic 'realises that his words will be judged by what happens on the ground at an early time', Reuters reports. Carter formerly told CCN that he had had a telephone conversation with Karadzic who informed him that the Bosnian Serbs had started opening the supply routes to Sarajevo and that they would withdraw their heavy weapons from around the city. SERBS PREPARE PULLOUT FROM AROUND SARAJEVO B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Army is collecting heavy weapons in several barracks around Sarajevo in obvious preparation for a withdrawal, a U.N. spokeswoman in Sarajevo said late on Monday. The Agence France Presse quoted spokeswoman Myrian Souchaki as saying that the movements were highly unusual and had been spotted in Bosnian Serb barracks in several Sarajevo suburbs. Another U.N. spokesman, Commander Guy Vinet, had said earlier in the day that the Bosnian Serb Army was making significant pullout movements around sarajevo, according to an AFP report from Sarajevo. SERB ARMY CONFIRMS DOWNING OF SPY PLANE B i l e c a, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army sources on Monday confirmed that its anti-aircraft defence had on Saturday downed a reconnaissance-spy 'predator' aircraft over the region between the towns of Mostar and Nevesinje, Southeastern Bosnia. The Bosnian Serb Army said that a photo of the remains of the downed aircraft would be shown on Bosnian Serb television. The sources said that the aircraft was equipped with cameras and other sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment. THE SARAJEVO MASSACRE U.N. OFFICER DEMANDS NEW INQUIRY B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Chief of U.N. Sector Sarajevo Col. Andrei Demurenko insists that an international commission should be set up to investigate the August 28 blast in Sarajevo that killed 37 people and was blamed on the Bosnian Serbs. The Russian ITAR-TASS news agency quotes Demurenko as saying in Zagreb on Monday that the report by the U.N. commission that was used as a pretext for massive NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb targets mounted on Wednesday abounded in omissions and inaccuracies. Demurenko said he was prepared to make available to the experts evidence that they lacked and that he had himself collected in the course of an independent investigation. CROATIA - KRAJINA SERBS CROATIAN AUTHORITIES ERASING CENTURIES OF SERB PRESENCE IN KRAJINA B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Croatian authorities continue to systematically destroy Serb property in the Republic of Serb Krajina, erasing centuries of Serb presence in the area, a Krajina official said Monday. The President of the Krajina documentation-information center Veritas Savo Strbac listed new cases of torched Serb villages in Krajina and said that his organisation had received reliable information about this from several sources in Western Europe. Villages Gornja Bacuga and Donja Bacuga in the Petrinja municipality, in Northern Krajina, have been burnt to the ground, the same as most of the villages in the Benkovac municipality in the south. The largest village in the Knin municipality, Plavno had the same fate, all the houses in it have been methodically destroyed. In the latest 'action' of the Croatian army and police all houses in the Hamlet of Grubori were destroyed also. Strbac said that Croatian authorities were still denying international organisations access to the Dvor-Glina road, in Northern Krajina, where the Croatian army had massacred a column of Serb refugees during the aggression which provoked the exodus of over 250,000 Krajina Serbs. CONFISCATION OF SERBS' PROPERTY IN CROATIA ANNOUNCED Z a g r e b, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Vice President of the Croatian Parliament Vladimir Seks has announced that Croatia will confiscate the property of escaped Serbs and the weekend cottages owned by Yugoslav nationals. Seks was quoted by the Zagreb Obzor weekly on Monday as saying that Croatia had already confiscated all property in Croatia owned by Serbia and Montenegro. Seks added that the private property of Serbs who had left Croatia also 'had to be entered into the final redistribution of assets and liabilities' once the inheritance proceedings, called 'succession', were instituted. In interpreting Croatia's obligation to honour private property and relevant international law, Seks said that 'there are no rules' in this domain. CROATIA IN THE EMBRACE OF CLEROFASCISM, OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SAYS Z a g r e b, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Vice-President of Croatian opposition parliamentary Social-Democratic Union Vladimir Bebic said that Croatia is in the embrace of clero-fascism, the daily Feral Tribune said on Monday. In his statement which he called a proclamation to the Croatian people, he said that the Croatian military action 'storm' and the expelling of 250,000 Serbs from their homes in Krajina at the beginning of August was 'genocide'. The politician said that the Croatian Army' action represented 'shameful political defeat for President Tudjman.' Bebic concluded that, in the efforts to create an ethnically clean Croatia, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Cardinal Franjo Kuharic were much more efficient than the Croatian naci-fascist leader Ante Pavelic from the time of the Second World War and his contemporary Cardinal Aloiz Stepinac. KRAJINA-CROATIA CEASEFIRE HOLDS PARTIALLY V u k o v a r, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - The ceasefire along the line of separation between forces of Serb Krajina and Croatia in Sector East is holding partially, the Serb Krajina Army said late on Monday. Mortars are silent, but snipers are active, the Army said in a statement released after a meeting of the two sides' ranking officers. The Serb Krajina Army Commander in Eastern Slavonija, Gen. Dusan Loncar, and local Croatian Army Commander Gen. Djuro Decak met at the Savras-Nemetin border crossing to discuss observation of the August 25 ceasefire. They established that U.N. peacekeepers had not taken over all observation posts in the zone of separation, as envisaged under the agreement. This should be done by September 8, when generals Loncar and Decak are scheduled to meet again, the statement said. FROM FOREIGN PRESS FURTHER BOMBARDMENT OF BOSNIAN SERBS WOULD NOT SERVE PEACE L o n d o n, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - British media observed on Monday that many NATO member countries are not completely sure, despite strong U.S. pressures, that further bombardment would 'serve peace'. The Times commentator pointed out that Bosnian Serbs accepted the peace initiative even before the air strikes, so the question now is why they were launched. That fact, the Times stressed, is deliberately ignored by the Western media machinery. Some London dailies agree that the attack on Serb positions were brought about by the demands of the Sarajevo government and the west's desire to motivate Muslims to attend upcoming talks in Geneva. SKY TV reporter said that Serbs wanted Muslims to also withdraw their armaments and that they viewed that condition a requisite, or else it would be admitting defeat. The BBC said that the so-called blockade of Sarajevo has already been lifted, as the land corridor over Igman and Sarajevo Airport has already been opened, with the tacit agreement of Serbs. The problem of lifting the blockade of Sarajevo, British television said, lies with the Muslim government which is afraid it will lose its propaganda joker and that the citizens of Sarajevo would simply leave the city. CROATIAN ARMY DESTROYING KRAJINA AND KILLING REMAINING SERBS L o n d o n, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - The Croatian army and police are systematically destroying Krajina Serb property and killing the elderly people who remained in their homes, the London daily Independent wrote Monday. The reporter of the daily saw completely destroyed Serb homes and property, and killed people in the villages around Knin - Kistanje, Derveske, Grubori, Orlic, Plavno and Strmica. The Croatian army leaves behind looted and torched houses, bodies of innocent elderly people and empty cans of beer, the inspiration of the so-called elite Croatian troops, the paper said. Detailed documentation on all these atrocities has been compiled by monitors of the European Union, a community that Croatia one day wishes to belong to, the paper said. The records seen by the reporter show that observers found five to six bodies a day, mostly of elderly people shot in the back or in the head or mutilated by the Croatian troops, police or citizens. Croatia enjoys the support of the U.S. in all of these crimes and its army is being trained by American experts, the paper said. It warns that despite these crimes Croatia could become part of the European Union and one day ask for loans to allegedly reconstruct Krajina and rebuild what its own army had destroyed. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================