YDS 9/15

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

From: [email protected] (D.D. Chukurov)

15. SEPTEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

FROM THE F.R. OF YUGOSLAVIA - YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT: UN, NATO SHOULD EQUALLY TREAT ALL CONFLICTING SIDES IN BOSNIA - YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT APPOINTS DELEGATION FOR BOSNIA TALKS - YUGOSLAVIA TO GET ADDITIONAL 40 MILLION DOLLARS OF AID FOR REFUGEES

MUSLIM-CROAT OFFENSIVE IN BOSNIA - RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N. ON OFFENSIVE - ABOUT 55,000 SERB REFUGEES FLEE TOWARD BANJA LUKA - CROATIAN ARMY ENTERS JAJCE

KRAJINA SECTOR EAST - CROATIA - CROATS, SERBS PULLING OUT HEAVY WEAPONS

FROM THE F.R. OF YUGOSLAVIA

UN, NATO SHOULD EQUALLY TREAT ALL SIDES IN BOSNIA

B e l g r a d e, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will actively support every peace initiative, but the United Nations, the Security Council and NATO, if they wish peace, should equally treat all parties to the conflict in the former Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic said on Thursday. This concretely means that NATO's already two-week bombing should not be used as a shield for Muslim aggression and Croat offensives, Lilic said in talks with a visiting delegation of Russia's State Duma. Lilic said that NATO's bombing of military and civilian targets in the Serb republic had exceeded the mandate and all resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, endangered the entire system of the United Nations and therefore intensified a threat of a destabilization of international relations. After the acceptance of the peace plan and a decision to form a joint delegation by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska, the international community's perseverance in the policy of double standards cannot bring peace but only expand the war in the region and even beyond its boundaries, Lilic said. Only equal conditions for all sides can end the war and bring about lasting and stable peace, Lilic said. Yugoslavia is grateful to Russia for its strong opposition to attempts to impose the military option and the uncalled-for bombing of the entire Serb republic, its cities and civilian targets, Lilic said. The Russian delegation, headed by Sergei Glotovan, said that the State Duma would persevere in the implementation of three passed bills which regard Russia's lifting of the anti-Yugoslav sanctions, humanitarian assistance and a call for an end to the genocide against the Serb people. The Russian delegation also met on Thursday with Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic. They discussed steps for continuing the peace process and finding a solution acceptable to all sides in the conflict in the former Bosnia-Herzegovina.

YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT APPOINTS DELEGATION FOR BOSNIA TALKS

B e l g r a d e, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav government on Thursday appointed Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic and Federal Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic to the Yugoslav delegation for Bosnia peace talks. A statement released by the Federal Information Secretariat said that the decision was based on the August 29 agreement between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska, under which each side is to delegate three members to a joint delegation for the talks. Milutinovic briefed the government on the course of the peace process and settlement of the crisis in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The government adopted a platform for Milutinovic's official visit to France on 21 September at the invitation of French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette. It also adopted a platform for talks that the Yugoslav delegation plans to hold during the autumn session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York from 23 September to 6 October.

YUGOSLAVIA TO GET ADDITIONAL AID FOR REFUGEES

G e n e v a, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - Major international humanitarian organizations have given firm guarantees to a Yugoslav delegation in Geneva that Yugoslavia will receive an additional 40 million dollars of aid for about 170,000 Serb Krajina refugees by the end of the year. Head of the delegation, Yugoslav Minister and Government Coordinator for Humanitarian Issues Tomica Raicevic, said that the visit had been successful. He said the delegation had also received assurances from heads of international humanitarian organizations that the Yugoslav problem, which started with the first wave of about 500,000 refugees and considerably deteriorated with the latest exodus of about 170,000 Serb Krajina refugees, would be discussed in Geneva both this year and in future. Refugee problems would stay and hence we believe we have the right to request international assistance, bearing in mind the undisputable fact that Yugoslavia is under sanctions that have disastrous consequences, Raicevic said.

MUSLIM-CROAT OFFENSIVE IN BOSNIA

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N. ON OFFENSIVE

B e l g r a d e, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Sergei Lavrov has said that a new Muslim-Croat offensive is currently under way in Bosnia and that it is evident NATO's air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs are strengthening the military position of the Muslims and Croats. ITAR-TASS quoted Lavrov as saying that 'the Muslim-Croat offensive in Bosnia confirms Russia's stand about the totally unrealistic and unjust one-sided ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo to create conditions for NATO to halt the air raids.'

ABOUT 55,000 SERB REFUGEES FLEE TOWARD BANJA LUKA

B e l g r a d e, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - About 55,000 Bosnian Serb refugees are fleeing to Banja Luka in Western Bosnia, the spokesman for the Belgrade Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. Jozue Anslelmo said the ICRC was gravely concerned over the new tragedy and suffering of civilians. He said the refugees had fled their homes in great haste, carrying next to nothing, just as 250,000 Krajina Serbs took to flight in early August ahead of the Croatian aggression. Making avail of the two-week NATO air strikes on the Bosnian Serbs, Muslims and joint Croatian and Bosnian Croat forces have occupied swathes of territory in Southwestern Republika Srpska. Anselmo said 20,000 people were blocked in columns at the entrance into Banja Luka and roads were crowded. They were in urgent need of food and accommodation, and soon items of personal care will also be scarce, he said.

CROATIAN ARMY ENTERS JAJCE

B a nj a L u k a, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Army said on Thursday that Croatian forces entered the town of Jajce on Wednesday afternoon after fighting on the defence line between Jajce and Sipovo, central Bosnia. After the fall of Jajce, the Bosnian Serb Army is consolidating its defence lines and preparing to take the initiative in that part of the battlefront, the Command of the First Krajina Corps of the Bosnian Serb Army said in a statement. The statement said that Bosnian Serb forces in the areas of Doboj, Teslic and mount Ozren (Northern Bosnia) were firmly holding their lines of defence and responding to Muslim attacks.

KRAJINA SECTOR EAST - CROATIA

CROATS, SERBS PULLING OUT HEAVY WEAPONS

S a r v a s, Sept. 14 (Tanjug) - Commander of Sector East General Fredi Van De Veg announced Thursday that before long an end would be put to the withdrawal of heavy weapons from a separation zone between a Croatian force and a force of Krajina Serbs from the Srem-Baranja region. The Belgian General mediated in talks between the local commanders of Serb and Croatian forces, General Dusan Loncar and General Djura Decak, held at the Sarvas-Nemetin crossing outside Osijek. Generals Loncar and Decak agreed to take all steps for the number of truce violations to be cut to a minimum, said the Belgian General and added that the pullout of heavy weaponry was in progress and should end soon.

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