Subject: YDS 9/10 From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 10. SEPTEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY C O N T E N T S: FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVES RUSSIAN ENVOY IVANOV ON GENEVA MEETING - KARADZIC SAYS DOOR OPENS TO BOSNIA PEACE NATO AIR STRIKES - TEN PEOPLE KILLED IN U.N. SHELLING OF BOSNIAN SERB HOSPITAL - U.N. EXPRESSES REGRET OVER SERB CLAIMS THAT BLAZUJ HOSPITAL WAS HIT - MANY CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN NATO ATTACKS ON BOSNIAN SERBS FROM FOREIGN PRESS - NEW YORK TIMES: MILOSEVIC CONTRIBUTES TO SUCCESS OF GENEVA MEETING FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVES RUSSIAN ENVOY IVANOV B e l g r a d e, Sept. 9 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and First Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov conferred in Belgrade on Saturday on the current developments and activities underway to secure the success of the peace process and create conditions for a general normalization of relations in the territory of former Yugoslavia. Ivanov paid tribute, on behalf of Russia, to the consistent policy of peace and principled efforts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and President Milosevic personally which are aimed at strengthening peace and stability in the Balkans and building an order of equality among states and peoples. Ivanov especially praised Yugoslavia's and Milosevic's persistent struggle to secure an end to the civil war and arrival at a political solution on which future relations in the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina would be based. This policy has been best confirmed and finally accepted with the adoption of the basic principles at the Geneva meeting, which has paved the way to the holding of an imminent international conference on peace in the territory of former Yugoslavia. That is why it is now necessary for armed actions to be stopped in the field as soon as possible, primarily the air strikes, and that a ceasefire is made possible in parallel with preparations for the conference. The two sides are confident that this major result, which has primarily secured the equality of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb state, and the Muslim-Croat federation in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the most important precondition for peace, will also enable the resolving of all remaining issues which should be covered by a comprehensive political solution, said a statement from Milosevic's cabinet. This would also help speed up preparatory activities for calling and holding an international peace conference. Yugoslavia and Russia resolutely support all efforts aimed in this direction, in their striving to see the peace process objectively brought to an end. In that sense, it was underscored that the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia would present the most important impetus to the establishment of lasting peace in the Balkans, and the definite abandoning of unilateral assessments of the causes of the Yugoslav crisis, which were the grounds for imposing sanctions against Yugoslavia in the first place. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Gennadi Shikin attended the talks. ON GENEVA MEETING KARADZIC SAYS DOOR OPENS TO BOSNIA PEACE P a l e, Sept 9 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic on Friday told Bosnian Serb TV that the Geneva accord 'opened a door' to peace in Bosnia. Karadzic said that the agreement was only verbal and more efforts were needed to achieve peace. 'In three and a half years we have achieved the first step, the door is now open to peace,' Karadzic said. NATO AIR STRIKES TEN PEOPLE KILLED IN U.N. SHELLING OF BOSNIAN SERB HOSPITAL B e l g r a d e, Sept. 9 (tanjug) - More than 10 people were killed and 22 were wounded, including 12 seriously, when a shell hit a Bosnian Serb hospital in Blazuj (10 km west of Sarajevo) on Friday, it was announced in Pale on Saturday. The shell came from Mt. Igman, southwest of Sarajevo, where the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force is deployed, but also Muslim units, although the area had been proclaimed a demilitarized zone in August last year. Bosnian Serb Health Minister Dragan Kalinic has accused the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force of having fired this shell from a cannon of the biggest calibre. In a letter to ICRC President Cornelio Sommaruga Kalinic protested over the latest brutal attacks by the NATO air force and U.N. Rapid Reaction Force on civilian objects and hospitals in the Bosnian Serb Republic. The Minister said the artillery attack on the Blazuj hospital was the biggest crime committed in Bosnian Serb territory since the beginning of the war and that it had 'most probably been perpetrated by Rapid Reaction Force cannon of the biggest calibre, therefore by armed forces of the international community, and not our direct enemies - Muslims or Croats.' Kalinic pointed out that the hospital in Kasindol street in a Serb controlled district of Sarajevo had also been hit several days ago and that it had been heavily damaged. The letter said that 'victims of NATO air strikes were again innocent civilians in Doboj (in the north) and Srbinje (in the southeast).' 'Large numbers of casualties, including many children, the sick and exhausted, gave no cause for attacks, nor were the buildings where they were hit used for military purposes, or even for defense,' Kalinic said. He specified that 'waterworks, bridges in towns, food warehouses, social and commercial buildings were targeted.' Kalinic urged Sommaruga 'to demand an immediate halt to this bombing...in the name of international humanitarian principles.' 'The escalation of the bombing and new civilian casualties cannot in any way contribute to settling the situation, nor will that create conditions for the fighting and war madness finally to give way to peace and reason,' Kalinic concluded. U.N. EXPRESSES REGRET OVER SERB CLAIMS THAT BLAZUJ HOSPITAL WAS HI T B e l g r a d e, Sept. 9 (Tanjug) - The United Nations on Saturday expressed regret over the incident, after Bosnian Serbs said the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force had shelled the hospital in Sarajevo's serb district of Blazuj.U.N. Spokesman Chris Vernon said the U.N. sincerely regretted any incidental damages, agencies reported. 'It does appear that we missed our target and civilians were killed,' U.N. Spokesman Guy Vinet was quoted by AP as saying from Sarajevo. MANY CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN NATO ATTACKS ON BOSNIAN SERBS B a nj a l u k a, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb command said in a statement on Sunday that NATO's air strikes had resulted in many civilians dead and heavy material damage throughout the Republika Srpska.NATO planes on Saturday bombed settlements around Banjaluka in western Bosnia, Srbinje and Nevesinje, southeastern Bosnia, serb-held parts of Sarajevo and Mts Kozara, western Bosnia, Jahorina, central Bosnia, and Majevica, eastern Bosnia, said the statement. The Sarajevo suburb of Pavlovac was hit on Saturday, and more material damage was done. A heart patient died on the way to hospital because a bridge was blasted over the Semizovac-Srednje road. The Bosnian Serb command said NATO jets continued with unselective and surprise attacks on military and civilian targets throughout the Republika Srpska. NATO warplanes on Saturday night again launched several series of air strikes against Bosnian Serb civilian and military targets in the wider region of Banja Luka, especially around Prnjavor and Teslic. The air raids caused casualties and wrought extensive material damage, the Bosnian Serb information center said. The Bosnian Serb Army 1st Krajina corps command based in Banja Luka said that four Serb houses had been destroyed in a NATO air raid against the village of Ratonja near Teslic on Saturday night. The command said at least two people had been buried by the rubble. NATO on Saturday targeted also the areas of Gradiska, Sanski Most, Kljuc, Petrovac, Krupa-on-the-Una and Drvar. Fierce attacks were carried out on the radio-television tower and postal transmitter at Mt Kozara, northwestern Bosnia. NATO jets hit settlements and refugee camps near Srbinje, in which civilians were killed and wounded.The statement said many of the casualties could not be transported to hospitals, as the bridges over the Ilova and Sutjeska rivers were blasted. NATO jets on Saturday morning struck the radio and television tower near Nevesinje, killing two persons and wounding several. Initial reports said cattle farms on Mts Jahorina and Igman had been destroyed and civilians killed and wounded. FROM FOREIGN PRESS NEW YORK TIMES: MILOSEVIC CONTRIBUTES TO SUCCESS OF GENEVA MEETING N e w Y o r k, Sept 9 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic considerably contributed to the success of the Geneva meeting, The New York Times wrote on Saturday. The paper said that Milosevic's part was being recognised in the U.S. and pointed to the 'transformation' of the U.S. position towards Milosevic who had once been relentlessly accused and criticised. On Saturday American media praised Clinton's plan for Bosnia but also stressed the importance of Belgrade's peacemaking activities. They particularly emphasized Milosevic's role, stating that he not only avoided involving Serbia in the war but became the mainstay of all peace initiatives in the Balkans. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================