Subject: YDS 9/11 From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 11. SEPTEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY C O N T E N T S : THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WINS EQUALITY AND LEGALISATION - YUGOSLAV WARNING TO BONN CONCERNING STAND TOWARD SERBS THE U.N. - YUGOSLAV BORDER WITH BOSNIA - BOUTROS-GHALI: SITUATION ON YUGOSLAV BORDER WITH BOSNIA IS POSITIVE BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA - IVANOV: GEN. MLADIC READY TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO SARAJEVO NATO BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERB REPUBLIC - BOSNIAN SERB RED CROSS APPEALS TO ICRC FOR END TO NATO BOMBING - SCHOOLS CLOSED BECAUSE OF NATO ATTACKS - NATO COMMAND SAYS BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERBS CONTINUES - NATO CONTINUES BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERB REPUBLIC - NATO BOMBS AREA OF KALESIJA AND TUZLA - BROTHERS AND SISTER KILLED NEAR VOGOSCA U.S. SERBS - NATO AIR STRIKES - U.S. SERBS PROTEST OVER NATO'S INTERVENTION IN BOSNIA RUSSIA - NATO AIR STRIKES - RUSSIA URGES U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL TO STOP NATO AIR STRIKES THE REPUBLIC OF SERB KRAJINA - AGREEMENT ON REFUGEES AT U.N. BASE IN KNIN FROM FOREGN PRESS - NEW YORK TIMES: MILOSEVIC CONTRIBUTES TO SUCCESS OF GENEVA MEETING - JERUSALEM POST: SERBIA GUARANTOR FOR BOSNIAN SERBS - INDEPENDENT: NO REACTIONS TO CROATIAN CRIMES IN KRAJINA THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WINS EQUALITY AND LEGALISATION B e l g r a d e, Sept 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and Vice-President of the Bosnian Serb Republic Republika Srpska (RS) Nikola Koljevic expressed optimism after the Geneva meeting regarding further developments since Republika Srpska had won equality and legalisation before the international community. Milutinovic and Koljevic were speaking in a talk show on Radio Television Serbia Sunday with Tanjug diplomatic correspondent Zoran Jevdjevic. Minister Milutinovic said that under the Agreement on the Basic Principles of the future division of Bosnia, Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation would keep their present constitutions, meaning that each entity would be independent on its own territory. Milutinovic said that it was clear from the agreement that the Republika Srpska could establish confederal relations with Yugoslavia, considering that Muslims and Croats had established such links with Zagreb under the Washington agreement. Bombing of the Bosnian Serb Republic must immediately stop if the process is to be brought to an end and an agreement is to be reached, Milutinovic said. He said that no peace package, including the one for which the basis were established in Geneava, 'can be separated from the question of sanctions.' There can be no negotiations without the lifting of the sanctions, since they were introduced because of Yugoslavia's alleged involvment in Bosnia they must be lifted when an agreement in Bosnia is reached, Milutinovic said. Koljevic said that one of the key results of the agreement reached in geneva was the legalisation of Republika Srpska as an equal entity in Bosnia, on the basis of which guarantees exist that Bosnian Serbs will participate equally in decisions regarding the political future of Bosnia-Herzegovina. 'We shall have our territorial integrity and be protected from political domination,' Kojlevic said. He also mentioned the parallel rights to the establishment of confederal relations of the Muslim-Croat Federation with Zagreb and Republika Srpska with Belgrade. YUGOSLAV WARNING TO BONN CONCERNING STAND TOWARD SERBS B o n n, Sept. 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia has officially warned the German authorities that the 'media lynching' of Serbs and the bias of Germany's policy on the crisis in former Yugoslavia have very negative consequences on the position of Serbs who live in Germany. Charge d'affaires of the Yugoslav Embassy in Bonn Zoran Jeremic pointed out in a meeting with German Official in Charge of issues relating to foreigners Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen the displeasure of citizens of Yugoslav origin over the euphoric support of German media to NATO's bombing of Bosnian Serbs. 'Can Germany demonize such an ethnic group, disregarding its interests and feelings,' Jeremic asked, saying that about 500,000 Yugoslav citizens who live in Germany are originally from territories of the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovia. NATO planes are bombing their brothers and parents, Jeremic said. As the biggest group from the territory of former Yugoslavia, Serb citizens have not caused any incidents, or in any way violated German regulations in the past years, Jeremic said. Schmalz-Jacobson said Germany had observerd this and was very grateful. THE U.N. - YUGOSLAV BORDER WITH BOSNIA BOUTROS-GHALI: SITUATION ON YUGOSLAV BORDER WITH BOSNIA IS POSITIV E N e w Y o r k, Sept 9 (Tanjug) - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said Friday that the situation on Yugoslavia's border with Bosnia-Herzegovina, i.e. with the Bosnian Serb Republic was positive and thereby announced that a partial suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia would be extended. A special mission of the international conference on the former Yugoslavia, in its report on the situation on the border communicated by Boutros-Ghali to the U.N. Security Council on Friday, said that Yugoslavia made no serious departures from U.N. requests. On the basis of this report, the Security Council should decide not later than September 18 to extend the partial suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia for another 75 days. BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA IVANOV: GEN. MLADIC READY TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO SARAJEVO M o s c o w, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army Commander Gen.Ratko Mladic is ready for concessions to improve access to Sarajevo, but he will not withdraw heavy weapons from around the city, First Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Sunday. In a statement to Itar-Tass, Ivanov, who met with Gen. Mladic on Saturday, said the Bosnian Serb Commander had expressed readiness immediately to start talks on peace with Croatian and Muslim Commanders if NATO stopped the bombing. The Russian official said it was his impression after the meeting in Geneva that NATO member-countries were looking for a way to stop the air strikes, but did not know how to go about it. 'For this reason the proposals of Gen.Mladic give the West a chance to appropriately weight them and sit at the negotiating table,' Ivanov told Itar-Tass. NATO BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERB REPUBLIC BOSNIAN SERB RED CROSS APPEALS TO ICRC FOR END TO NATO BOMBING B a n j a l u k a, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Red Cross sent a letter to ICRC President Cornelio Sommaruga, appealing that NATO immediately stop bombing Bosnian Serb civilians, the Red Cross Office in Banjaluka said Sunday. The letter pointed out that NATO warplanes have been bombing villages and towns in Republika Srpska for ten days now, causing numerous casualties among civilians. 'We are deeply convinced as to your authority and will to help, and the renown of the ICRC, and, expecting your reaction, we hope the bombing of civilian population and objects will stop,' said the letter. SCHOOLS CLOSED BECAUSE OF NATO ATTACKS B a n j a l u k a, Sept 9 (Tanjug) - NATO on Saturday mounted several air strikes on civilian and military targets in the western part of the Republika Srpska, Tanjug correspndent reports quoting Bosnian Serb military sources. The attacks were launched at 5:00 hours local time on the wider area of Banjaluka. NATO planes also dropped bombs on Sanica, the largest suburb in the Kljuc municipality, which fell very close to the school, the kindergarten and private houses. All schools were closed in the Banjaluka area because of the bombing and all public gatherings postponed until further notice. NATO planes also bombed an area 10km west of Kljuc towards Petrovac, and several targets in the area of the municipality of Krupa na Uni. NATO COMMAND SAYS BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERBS CONTINUES R o m e, Sept. 9 (Tanjug) - Chief of air operations of NATO's Southern Command British Col.Trevor Murray said Saturday evening that attacks on Bosnian Serbs would continue. There have been no significant movements of Serb troops around Sarajevo so the bombings continue, Murray told reporters at NATO's South Wing Command in Naples. Murrey denied any responsibility of the NATO air force in the massacre at the Serb hospital in Blazuj near Sarajevo. He said he did not rule out the possibility that the hospital had been hit by howizters of the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force deployed on Mt. Igman near Sarajevo. NATO CONTINUES BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERB REPUBLIC B a n j a l u k a, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - The Information Service of the General Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army said NATO warplanes continued to attack Bosnian Serb territory during the night and on Sunday. NATO planes bombed the wider area of the northwestern town of Banjaluka. A Television relay and PTT system were the targets. Early on Sunday, NATO again bombed the wider area of Mt. Majevica in northeastern Bosnia. In parallel with the NATO bombing, Muslim artillery shelled the area from the direction of the town of Tuzla. NATO dropped cluster bombs and missiles on a refugee camp in the town of Han Pijesak. NATO also bombed the wider area of the towns of Jasenica and Krupa on the Una in western Bosnia. Krupa was also shelled by Muslim artillery units from the left bank of the Una river. Territory in the East of the Bosnian Serb Republic, in particular the free territory of Gorazde and the municipalities of Sokolac and Rogatica were again bombed by NATO, the statement said. U.N. Rapid Reaction Force units deployed on Mt. Igman shelled urban areas of Serb Sarajevo, causing even more damage to these districts. Several thousand shells fell deep inside Serb territory 'backed by NATO bombs and bombs dropped by the Croatian air force,' the Bosnian Serb Army statement said. NATO BOMBS AREA OF KALESIJA AND TUZLA Z v o r n i k, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - NATO forces on Sunday repeatedly bombed civilian and military targets in the Serb municipality of Kalesija in the northeast of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb military sources said. The exact number of civilians killed in the bombing in the area of Kalesija has yet to be determined and there are many wounded. Material damages are heavy, the sources said. A statement by the Bosnian Serb Army Drina Corps said this was direct support to a Muslim attack on Serb positions on Mt. Majevica and around Kalesija early on Sunday. Meanwhile, major buster hows, a Spokesman for the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force, said NATO planes bombed Serb targets around the town of Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday. Associated Press reported from Sarajevo that Maj. Hows said the NATO attacks were retaliation for Serb shelling of Tuzla which is a U.N. Protected Area. On Sunday Serb positions in southeastern areas of Sarajevo were also bombed. BROTHERS AND SISTER KILLED NEAR VOGOSCA B e l g r a d e, Aept 10 (Tanjug) - A sixteen-year old girl Radmila Galinac was killed in a car Saturday evening near the Sarajevo suburb Gora during a NATO attack on this part of Republika Srpska, Serb military sources in Vogosca reported Sunday. The young girl's brother Radenko Galinac died this morning from injuries sustained in the same attack in the Vogosca hospital, Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA reported. Only several days earlier, the twin brother of the unfortunate boy Radenko was killed by NATO bombs, SRNA reported. U.S. SERBS - NATO AIR STRIKES U.S. SERBS PROTEST OVER NATO'S INTERVENTION IN BOSNIA B e l g r a d e, Sept 10 (Tanjug) - Several thousand Serbs protested in downtown Washington D.C. on Saturday over a U.S. involvement in NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb targets. Serb protesters came to Washington by buses and cars from Pittsburgh, Boston and other cities on the East Coast, staging their protest outside the white house and the Holocast Memorial Museum, news agencies reported. Demonstrators protested also over the further maintaining of the sanctions against Yugoslavia and over the U.S. policy toward Croatia. Slogans and banners expressed embitterment by the U.S. policy. Some of them said that the U.S. was the destroyer of peace rather than its creator, that the U.S. was supporting genocide against the Serbs and that Croatia was a nazi state created by Hitler in 1941 and restored by the U.S. in 1991. A message to U.S. President Bill Clinton said Hitler would be proud of him. Protesters said Senator Bob Dole, who is lobbying in the Senate for Bosnian Muslims and ethnic Albanians in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo-Metohija, was a war merchant. Protesters stopped outside the Holocaust Museum, in memory of victims of nazism in World War II, and voiced a message that Serbs had fought against nazism, whereas Croats and Muslims had supported Hitler. Daniela Sremac of the Serb-U.S. Relations Council said the Serb protest outside the Holocaust Museum was aimed at drawing the Jewish Community's attention to an extremely powerful Muslim-Croat propaganda. RUSSIA - NATO AIR STRIKES RUSSIA URGES U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL TO STOP NATO AIR STRIKES N e w Y o r k, Sept 9 (Tanjug) - Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergei Lavrov at a special U.N. Security Council session on Friday urged that NATO immediately halt air strikes against Bosnian Serb positions as the raids went far beyond the authorization of Security Council resolutions. He told the Council session, convened at Russia's request, that NATO and the U.S. no longer observed the double key decision-making, although the Council had never been informed about such a decision. Lavrov quoted Russian President Boris Yeltsin as saying earlier that he urged a halt to NATO's operations in Bosnia without delay. Lavrov said bombings in Bosnia were not conducive to peace. He described NATO air operations as a punitive expedition striking not only military targets but also other ones. He said that what was achieved and agreed in Geneva took place despite the air strikes in Bosnia. THE REPUBLIC OF SERB KRAJINA AGREEMENT ON REFUGEES AT U.N. BASE IN KNIN Z a g r e b, Sept. 9 (Tanjug) - U.N. Special Envoy Yasushi Akashi said on Saturday he had reached agreement with the Croatian authorities to allow more than 700 Serb refugees to leave the U.N. base in Knin. The agreement was reached in Zagreb at a meeting between Akashi and Head of Croatia's Presidential Cabinet Hrvoje Sarinic. Akashi said he believed the refugees would be able to leave for Yugoslavia in the next few days. Among the refugees are 62 persons accused by the Croatian authorities of alleged war crimes. Akashi said investigations would be carried out according to international legal standards and procedures. U.N. preacekeepers will negotiate the details of implementing the agreement with Croatian Commander for Knin Gen. Ivan Cermak. Akashi also said there was progress in stabilizing the situation in eastern Slavonija. He said representatives from both sides, Gen.Djuro Decak and Dusan Lonar, would in the next few days meet to discuss the lines of separation and the withdrawal of weapons. FROM FOREGN 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. JERUSALEM POST: SERBIA GUARANTOR FOR BOSNIAN SERBS T e l A v i v, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - Serbia is the force that will guarantee that the Bosnian Serbs will fulfil the demands of a future final peace agreement for Bosnia, Israel's Jerusalem Post wrote in its editorial Sunday. Welcoming the Geneva tripartite agreement, the daily largely attributed to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic the credit for the moderate optimism inspired by the latest peace initative. The paper lists among diplomatic points scored by Milosevic the recognition of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb Republic, by the international community. The editorial also said that the West had to quickly return Moscow to the Contact Group negotiating table as an equal partner, because, as a friend of the Serbs, Russia had justified interests in the Balkans. INDEPENDENT: NO REACTIONS TO CROATIAN CRIMES IN KRAJINA L o n d o n, Sept. 10 (Tanjug) - The Croatian army and police continue to plunder and destroy Serb property in Krajina and kill the remaining Serbs, without any reactions from the international community, said the London Independent on Sunday. The U.S. and British Embassies in Zagreb have been informed in detail of the brutalities in Krajina, but have sent no reprimand or condemnation to the Croatian authorities, said the daily. On the contrary, Croatia is a partner in the U.S. 'peace' plan for the former Yugoslavia, said the daily. An investigating team of the Hague-based War Crimes Tribunal arrives in Krajina next week, said Independent. Accompanying a U.N. investigating team, the daily's reporter witnessed much of what the Croatian Army and police were doing after the war operations in Krajina, formerly a U.N.-Protected Area. The reporter said first they pillaged property, then set fire to the house and killed whoever remained, mainly elderly people who were unable to leave with the 250,000 Serbs who fled Krajina. Humanitarian workers visited an 80-year-old woman in the village of Babici near Knin and gave her food. When they returned after a few days, together with the reporter, they found her decapitated. Eight Serbs aged 62-91 were killed in the village of Gosic. Then They were burned together with their homes. U.N. peacekeepers warned of unselective bombings and the striking of civilian targets immediately after Croatia's attack on Krajina on Aug. 4. Reports of crimes committed by Croatian Army and police subequently multiplied, but Zagreb kept denying the charges. According to a report by the Croatian Helsinki Committee, about 80 percent of serb property had been destroyed around Knin. The Committee said in late August that it contained a list of 107 Serb civilians killed in Knin, and 80 Serb civilians killed in Glina. The Committee said there was evidence of mass graves and that one of them was located in the municipality of Slunj. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================