YDS 10/6

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

06. OCTOBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

C O N T E N T S :

TEXT OF CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT FOR BOSNIA

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT BACKS BOSNIA PEACE EFFORTS, URGES LIFTING OF SANCTIONS - YUGOSLAV PREMIER: IT IS TIME TO END BOSNIA CONFLICT, LIFT ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS - YUGOSLAV PREMIER: ECONOMY SHOULD BE ADAPTED TO ECOLOGICAL STANDARDS

FORMER BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES AGREEMENT - KARADZIC: CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES, STEP TOWARDS PEACE - REPUBLIKA SRPSKA VICE PRESIDENT SEES CEASEFIRE AS CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE PROCESS - BOSNIAN MUSLIM LEADER: MILITARY OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE - BOUTROS-GHALI WELCOMES BOSNIA TRUCE - YELTSIN WELCOMES BOSNIA CEASEFIRE ACCORD, DEMANDS LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA CRITICIZES NATO POLICY IN BOSNIA - IVANOV SAYS SERBS FROM BOSNIA FAVOUR CEASEFIRE

FILE CROATIA - CROATIA'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: MASSIVE RETURN OF SERBS NOT POSSIBLE - SERB PARTY IN CROATIAN CONDEMNS MASSACRE IN VARIVODE - U.N. ACCUSES CROATIA OF NOT INVESTIGATING MASSACRE OF SERBS - U.N. SPOKESWOMAN SAYS CROATS HARASS REMAINING SERBS IN KRAJINA - FRANCE SAYS IT WILL ACT IN CONNECTION WITH VARIVODE MASSACRE OF SERBS - CROATIA SHOULD BE DENIED AID IF IT FAILS TO STOP CRIMES AGAINST SERBS

DOCUMENT ON BOSNIAN MOSLEM'S CRIMES IN GORAZDE - BOSNIAN MUSLIMS KILL MORE THAN 200 SERBS IN GORAZDE AREA

FROM DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PRESS - SERBIAN TELEVISION: MILOSEVIC, HOLBROOKE BROKERED CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT - MUSLIM HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION DELIVERED ARMS TO BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, by Goran Bradic

TEXT OF CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT FOR BOSNIA

B e l g r a d e, Oct 5. (Tanjug) - The U.S. Embassy in Zagreb released late on Thursday the text of the ceasefire agreement for Bosnia announced by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The following is the text of the agreement: 1. Commencing on the effective date defined in Paragraph 2 below, the parties will implement a ceasefire throughout all territory within the borders of Bosnia-Herzegovina by terminating all hostile military activities and by implementing the other provisions of this agreement. 2. The ceasefire will become effective at 0001 hours on October 10, provided that at that time full gas and electrical utility service shall have been restored in the city of Sarajevo. Otherwise, the ceasefire will become effective at 0001 hours of the day following such restoration. 3. In order to allow for the negotiation and the commencement of the implementation of a peace agreement, the ceasefire will last for 60 days or until completion of proximity peace talks and a peace conference, whichever is later. 4. Pursuant to the ceasefire obligation on the effective date all parties will immediately assure that all military commanders issue and compel compliance with clear orders precluding: (a) all offensive operations, (b) control and reconnaissance activities forward of friendly positions, (c) all offensive weapons' firing including sniper fire, (d) the laying of additional mines, and (e) the creation of additional barriers or obstacles. 5. Upon the effective date all parties will immediately ensure (a) that all civilians and prisoners will be treated humanely and (b) that all prisoners of war will be exchanged under UNPROFOR supervision. 6. Commencing on the effective date the parties will cooperate with the ceasefire monitoring activities of UNPROFOR and will immediately report violations to appropriate UNPROFOR authorities. 7. Commencing on the effective date all parties will provide free passage and unimpeded road access between Sarajevo and Gorazde along two primary routes (Sarajevo-Rogatica-Gorazde, Belgrade-Gorazde) forall non-military and UNPROFOR traffic. 8. During the period of the ceasefire, the undersigned will fully honour the obligations undertaken through the Geneva agreed basic principles of September 8, 1995, and the framework agreement of September 14, 1995, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the obligation to afford all persons freedom of movement and all displaced persons the right to return home and repossess their property.

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT BACKS BOSNIA PEACE EFFORTS, URGES LIFTING OF S ANCTIONS B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - The Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on Thursday called for stepping up efforts for achieving peace in Bosnia and urged an immediate lifting of U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Government said the international community and all the forces involved in the peace process should exert more efforts to help promptly reach a final political settlement and lasting peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Yugoslav Information Ministry said in a statement. The Government said the peace package could not be separated from the issue of the sanctions against Yugoslavia and stressed that the sanctions should be completely lifted as soon as possible.

YUGOSLAV PREMIER: IT IS TIME TO END BOSNIA CONFLICT, LIFT ANTI-YUG OSLAV SANCTIONS B u d v a, Yugoslavia, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic said in Budva on Thursday that the time was coming when the conflict in Bosnia would be stopped and sanctions against Yugoslavia lifted. Speaking at a conference on environmental management, held in Montenegro's Adriatic resort of Budva, Kontic said that 'results and progress have been made in the negotiating process, urging that a peace settlement of the crisis in Bosnia be in line with strategic commitments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its policy.' 'Belgrade has become a capital of peace, Yugoslavia has been accepted as an indispensable factor of stability and cooperation, and this has considerably strengthened the country's position and opened the road to its further re-affirmation on the world scene,' said Kontic. Kontic said Yugoslavia's stand that peace could be achieved through an equal treatment of all three peoples in Bosnia alone was finally observed. He said that beside the Muslim-Croat Federation, the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb state, was officially mentioned for the first time after the Geneva meeting. 'The New York agreement guaranteed a complete equality of the Republika Srpska' with the other entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, said Kontic and stressed that the adopted solutions virtually secured for the Serb side an implementation of its fundamental interests. 'The Yugoslav Government assesses that the Geneva and New York documents have created basic conditions for a political settlement of the crisis,' said Kontic. He stressed that an achievement of an immediate agreement on a lasting ceasefire in Bosnia would ensure talks on territorial division and maps in far more favorable conditions.

YUGOSLAV PREMIER: ECONOMY SHOULD BE ADAPTED TO ECOLOGICAL STANDARD S B u d v a, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Radoje Kontic, said in Budva on Thursday that the Yugoslav economy should be adapted to ecological demands, regardless of possible serious problems and shortages. 'Awareness that ecological protection is a moral and legal imperative should prevail among all economic factors and citizens because the previous omnipresent motive - profit, as high as possible and as soon as possible, should be replaced by the motive - moderate and long-term profit but with a more positive, heal thier and certain future,' Kontic said in a speech delivered at the opening of an ecomanagement seminar. Kontic said that the Yugoslav Government should adjust regulations to ecological standards, which was a prerequsite for expanding cooperation with the world. We would thus avoid the possibility of facing an ecological blockade after the economic one, he said.

FORMER BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES AGREEMENT

KARADZIC: CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES, STEP TOWARDS PEACE B a n j a l u k a, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Republic President Radovan Karadzic said Thursday in Banjaluka that the ceasefire agreement in Bosnia which comes into force on Oct. 10 was another big step towards peace. Speaking to reporters, Karadzic assessed that this truce, if it holds, would be a true indication of an end to the war. He stated the hope that the international community this time would not allow violations of obligations to go unpunished. The international community has instruments for punishment, which it had so far applied only against the Serbs, he said and added that it was time the other parties as well felt the consequences of failing to adhere to what has been agreed. He set out that the Serb side was prepared to immediately open the routes to Gorazde, both ways: Sarajevo-Gorazde and Belgrade-Gorazde.

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA VICE PRESIDENT SEES CEASEFIRE AS CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE PROCESS S a m a c, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Vice President of the Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb state, Nikola Koljevic on Thursday confirmed that Bosnian warring sides had reached a ceasefire and said this would certainly contribute to a dynamics of the entire peace process. Koljevic told Radio Samac that the ceasefire would take effect at midnight on October 10 if 'other circumstances have been met.' He said that under the agreement, the Serbs would open a road to Gorazde and that regular water, power and gas supplies would be restored to Sarajevo. He said an agreement on this issues was due to be signed at Sarajevo airport on Friday. Koljevic said no guarantor of the ceasefire had been envisaged, but that five major powers comprising the 'Contact Group' would undoubtedly be one.

BOSNIAN MUSLIM LEADER: MILITARY OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic said military operations in Bosnia would be continued until ceasefire agreement comes into force on Oct. 10. The situation remains unchanged through Oct. 9, he told a press conference in Sarajevo on Thursday, AFP reported. Izetbegovic indirectly confirmed that, in conetction with his call for demilitarization of Banjaluka (the largest city in western Bosnian Serb Republic, the state of serbs in bosnia), it was impossible to reach an accord as regards his demand to introduce civil authorities in Banjaluka. He said noting that this question would be consideed later in the talks. The ceasefire agreement is serious and would be respected, stressed Izetbegovic. Elaborating on the agreement, reached Thursday through the mediation of U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke, Izetbegovic said there could be no talk of any kind of trading with the Serb sections of Sarajevo.

BOUTROS-GHALI WELCOMES BOSNIA TRUCE N e w Y o r k, Oct. 5 (tanjug) - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali Thursday welcomed the agreement on cessation of hostilities and ceasefire in Bosnia as a good sign that the war in this former Yugoslav republic was nearing its end. His Spokesman Joe Sills said that things were unfolding very favorably concerning Bosnia and that the U.N. welcomed the latest developments. He noted that the U.N. Secretary-General believes truce would mark a turning point in the peace process and speed up the conclusion of a definitive agreement. He also said that the U.N. Secretary-General has taken the advice of his military commanders to cut UNPROFOR by another 9,000 troops.

YELTSIN WELCOMES BOSNIA CEASEFIRE ACCORD, DEMANDS LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA M o s c o w, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin Thursday welcomed the ceasefire agreement in Bosnia, describing it as a 'major step towards peace' and demanded the international community lift sanctions against Yugoslavia. 'Now that a truce has been reached, the most important thing is to strictly observe it,' a Presidential statement said. In Yeltsin's view, the ceasefire must be 'followed by the lifting of sanctions and the resumption of trade and economic contacts' between Yugoslavia and foreign countries, 'which would promote at the the soonest possible date' a settlement in the entire Yugoslav area.

RUSSIA CRITICIZES NATO POLICY IN BOSNIA B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Russia Thursday accused the West of double standards policy in Bosnia - after NATO carried out airstrikes against the Serbs in Bosnia - as it failed to react when Bosnian Muslims attacked Serbs from the Sarajevo 'safe area'. The absence of adequate reaction to the Muslim attacks could have serious effects on the peace process as the Serbs have on several occasions set out they would take decisive action in case of attack from Sarajevo, said Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Grigory Karasin, as carried by Reuters. We condemn this and demand it be stopped right away, said Karasin and added that Russia has frequently drawn attention to the open attempt by Bosnian Muslim authorities to profit from the so-called neutral operations towards preserving peace, and especially from NATO strikes.

IVANOV SAYS SERBS FROM BOSNIA FAVOUR CEASEFIRE B e l g r a d e, Oct 5 (Tanjug) - First Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has stated that the leadership of the Republika Srpska (RS, the state of Bosnian Serbs) reaffirmed its readiness for a ceasefire and its resolve for settling the question of opening the roads around Sarajevo and out of Gorazde. Having met with RS President Radovan Karadzic in Bijeljina on Wednesday evening, Ivanov assessed that the RS leadership's statements were important and acting in the direction of establishing peace and of the further peace process as a whole, the RS news agency SRNA reported. Ivanov said that views were exchanged with the RS leadership about a series of questions related to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in former Bosnia, among other things, the question of a ceasefire. It was concluded, said he, that we should come out to a peace conference as soon as possible. Ivanov stressed that a major job has been done in seeking a peaceful solution with all the parties to the conflict. What was now necessary, said he, is to cover the rest of this path, so that in the shortest time possible, at all events before the winter, peace should be achieved together with a just peace conference.

FILE CROATIA

CROATIA'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: MASSIVE RETURN OF SERBS NOT POSSI BLE Z a g r e b, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Kostovic has said that a massive return of the Serbs who have fled from Croatia is not possible because Croatia and Yugoslavia 'have no agreement on refugees.' The number of returnees could be increased 'only for humanitarian reasons...the reunification of families,' Kostovic said in Zagreb Wednesday in a talk with head of the German Foreign Ministry Division for Southern Europe Gottfrid Hass. 'Serbia is only provoking Croatia with the issue of the return of refugees...since the Serbs who have left Krajina are not very interested in returning to Croatia.' Hass stressed, however, that the European Union's and Germany' said for the reconstruction of Croatia would 'directly depend on whether Zagreb would enable all Serb refugees who want to return to Croatia.'

SERB PARTY IN CROATIAN CONDEMNS MASSACRE IN VARIVODE Z a g r e b, Oct 5 (Tanjug) - Serb National Party President, Milan Djukic, said in Zagreb that the crimes committed against Serbs in Varivode, near Knin, had shown that all Serbs should have left Krajina after the August offensive of the Croatian Army on Krajina. If they had believed President Tudjman's invitation to stay in Krajina their fate could have been the same as that of the Varivode Serbs, Djukic said Wednesday evening at a press conference in Zagreb. Djukic said that the looting and killing after the 'storm', as Zagreb named the August attack on southern and northern parts of Krajina, are intended to destroy all trace of Serbs ever living there and to prevent their return by all means.

U.N. ACCUSES CROATIA OF NOT INVESTIGATING MASSACRE OF SERBS B e l g r a d e, Oct 5 (Tanjug) - The U.N. accused Croatia on Thursday of not honouring its undertaking to carry out an immediate investigation into a massacre of old people in the (Serb) village of Varivode near Knin. The AFP quoted U.N. Spokesman Chris Gunness in Zagreb as saying that there was doubt about local Croatian authorities' claim that hundreds of people had been arrested for crimes in Serb Krajina. Gunness was quoted as saying that Croatian authorities had not honoured their promise to furnish additional information about the investigation into this case.

U.N. SPOKESWOMAN SAYS CROATS HARASS REMAINING SERBS IN KRAJINA B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Spokeswoman for the U.N. Force Office in Belgrade Susan Manuel said Thursday that Croatian Army, police and civilians were harassing the remaining Serbs in Krajina, seized by Croatian troops in their August aggression on the region. Manuel said that those harassed were also ethnic Croats who stayed with the Serbs in Krajina. She said that the situation was extremely grave in the former Sector North (Kordun and Banija regions) where between 2,500 and 3,000 Serbs, mostly the elderly, have remained lacking food, medicine, water and power supplies. Manuel said two women were murdered a week ago in Glina and in the village of Donji Zirovac and that the looting continued of Serb agricultural machinery and crops. Manuel said U.N. civilian police was trying to monitor Croatian police investigation into a massacre of at least nine civilians in the village of Varivode near Knin.

FRANCE SAYS IT WILL ACT IN CONNECTION WITH VARIVODE MASSACRE OF SE RBS B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - France will convey to Croatia its extreme concern over the massacre of Serb civilians in the village of Varivode in Serb Krajina, a French Government Spokesman said on Thursday. The Croatian Government will be informed that its conduct in respect of human and minority rights is one of the conditions for negotiating a trade and cooperation agreement with the E.U., French Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jacques Rumelhardt said.

CROATIA SHOULD BE DENIED AID IF IT FAILS TO STOP CRIMES AGAINST SE RBS L o n d o n, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Croatia should be told it should not expect any political services and economic aid from the E.U. unless it stops the crimes, plunder and torching of Serb homes in Serb Krajina, London daily The Independent said on Thursday. In an editorial on the crimes committed by the Croats in the territory of the Republic of Serb Krajina during and after the Aug. 4 aggression, The Independent said that 'now it is clear that during the looting and torching of Serb homes, the Croat forces killed a number of old people.' The E.U. and the U.N. have gathered 'strong proof of the Croat crimes,' the daily said. The Independent said that 'apart from noting that 12 Serb civilians between the ages 60-85 had been killed in a village near Knin (the crime in Varivode, committed on Sept. 28), the human rights organization - Helsinki Watch, shows to what extent the Croatian authorities are involved in these crimes.' The paper said that 'it is no longer convincing when Croatia's Ministers explain to their European collegues that these actions were carried out by isolated elements.' 'The crimes in Krajina cannot be justified by statements that the Serbs and Mulsims are also guilty of war crimes,' The Independent said and added that 'it is not true that Europe is unable to do anything.' 'We cannot pile up bitterness on the Serbs and simultaneously allow the Croats to kill. In this instance, Europe can and should do something,' The Independent said.

DOCUMENT ON BOSNIAN MOSLEM'S CRIMES IN GORAZDE

BOSNIAN MUSLIMS KILL MORE THAN 200 SERBS IN GORAZDE AREA B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslims have killed more than 200 Serb civilians in the area of Gorazde (Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia) in the 1992-94 period, Tanjug learned in the Yugoslav Government's War Crimes Committee. Based on statements by eyewitnesses and witnesses, the Committee compiled a detailed document which contains the names of the victims, the dates of the executions, the manner of the crimes and the names of the executors. The document will be sent to the Hague-based International War Crimes tribunal for the territory of the former Yugoslavia. According to the document, the executions were carried out in places where the Serbs were found or taken - at home, in the street, or in prison and in camps. All these crimes were carried out by the Muslim war Presidentcy of Gorazde headed from May 1992 - February 1993 by Dzafo Efendic, who is now the Muslim Government's Ambassador in Austria. The crimes against the Serbs could also have been carried out by Muslim civilians, even children, without opposition by anyone, the document said. According to the 1991 census, there were 9,844 Serbs in the region of Gorazde, while today there are less than one hundred. Of the 33 villages solely populated by Serbs in the region of Gorazde, only a single one, Sasici, has not been set ablaze. Based on testimonies by Serb refugees, estiamtes are that in Gorazde and the nearby villages about 1,500 Serb homes and apartments have been torched. Numerous witnesses testified that in Gorazde the Muslims made systematic efforts to exterminate and destroy the Serbs living in this region - they broke into their homes, siezed their property, insulted, physically and mentally tortured them, arrested them without any grounds, expelled them from their homes, took them to camps where they were tortured by hunger and murdered. The Muslim soldiers forced Serbs to lie down on the ground on their stomachs and 'eat' dust, they drove nails through the Serbs' ears, beat them senseless, carved the crescent and star on their foreheads and SDA (Party of Democratic Action) on their backs, fed them only once a day with nettle stew mixed with hair and ground glass. The local Muslim authorities have failed to spare from desecration and destruction Serb churches, graveyards and cultural and historic monuments. Apart from the Serb church in Gorazde, the Muslim Army in the first half of September 1992 burned to the ground the church of St.George in the village of Donja Sopotnica, built in 1446. According to the Yugoslav Government's War Crimes Committee, the systemtic phsychological extermination and the numerous killings of Serb civilians in Gorazde can be explained 'only by the genocide aspirations of the Muslim Government and army.'

FROM DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PRESS

SERBIAN TELEVISION: MILOSEVIC, HOLBROOKE BROKERED CEASEFIRE AGREEM ENT B e l g r a d e, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian ceasefire agreement is the result of consultations between Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and U.S. Chief Negotiator for former Yugoslavia Richard Holbrooke, Serbian Radio and Television said on Thursday. The talks were held in the night between Wednesday and Thursday, and President Milosevic, as a guarantor, was the first to put his signature to the historic document, the State Television said in the evening prime-time news programme. Holbrooke then left for Bosnia, where he obtained the signature of the Bosnian Serb leadership. The last to sign the accord was Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic, acting on behalf of the Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia, who affixed his signature on the document on Thursday. The peacemaking policy of Belgrade and especially of President Milosevic was of crucial importance throughout the negotiations, the station said and added that this was the best chance yet for a just peace settlement for former Yugoslavia after four years of war. Belgrade has accepted all constructive peace initiatives to date, warning the warring parties of the disastrous consequences of continuing the conflict and insisting on seeking a solution to the crisis in former Yugoslavia at the conference table rather than in the battlefield, Serbian Television said. In the final phase of negotiating the ceasefire accord, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia once again reaffirmed its strong commitment to peace, the Serbian Television news programme said.

MUSLIM HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION DELIVERED ARMS TO BOSNIA-HERZEGOV INA by Goran Bradic V i e n n a, Oct. 5 (Tanjug) - Vienna-based third world relief agency (TWRA) has sent over the past three years, in addition to humanitarian aid, also large quantities of arms to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austrian economic journal Wirtschafts Woche wrote Thursday. Following a request by the public prosecutor's office from Munich, the Austrian Police on September 5 searched the premises in Vienna and confiscated TWRA's documentation. There is reasonable suspicion that TWRA had bought arms out of Islamic countries' donations and sent arms to Muslim co-religionists in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This 'humanitarian' organization was run by former Sudanese diplomat Elfatih Ali Hassanein who had studied in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and who is considered to be a great fundamentalist. Among persons who have given big contributions to this organization are Sultan of Brunei and the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia. Key figures of the affair are also former Zagreb Imam Hasan Cengic and Austrian citizen Dieter Hofmann, the Wirtschafts Woche said in its latest issue. The first concrete trace of TWRA's dirty jobs had been discovered in June 1993, when a large quantity of arms, which arrived there from Sudan had been uncovered at the Maribor aiport. The 'humanitarian' cargo has been intended for the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and involved in this action were members of the secret service of the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. The affair is very unpleasant also for the Austrian Interior Ministry, which allowed that the embargo on arms deliveries to the warring sides in the former Yugoslavia be violated before its eyes and the sending of humanitarian aid be abused.

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