YDS 10/9

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

BROJ: 1-799 9. OCTOBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

S A N C T I O N S - YUGOSLAV MINISTER: SANCTIONS BOOST CRIME AND CORRUPTION

CENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVE - CZECH PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES RETURN OF YUGOSLAVIA TO CEI

R E F U G E E S - YUGOSLAV RED CROSS PROVIDES FOR ABOUT 400,000 REFUGEES

CROATIA - SECTOR EAST - CROATIA IS NOT GIVING UP IDEA TO RESOLVE ISSUE THROUGH MILITARY ACTION

WAR IN BOSNIA - CROATIA CONTINUES AGGRESSION ON REPUBLIKA SRPSKA - PREPARATIONS IN THE FIELD FOR START OF CEASEFIRE

FROM DOMESTIC PRESS - CROATIA SEES TOTALLY DESTROYED SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AS 'SLIGHTLY DAMAGED'

S A N C T I O N S

SANCTIONS BOOST CRIME AND CORRUPTION

P e k i n g, Oct. 7 (Tanjug) - Uros Klikovac, Yugoslav Vice-Prime Minister and Justice Minister, on Saturday called on the participants of the 7th international anti-corruption conference to urge the lifting of the international sanctions against Yugoslavia because they have, along with the nearby war regions, contributed to the spread of crime and corruption. Klikovac told the conference that the crime in Yugoslavia was on the rise and that the most concerning are certain forms of crime linked to the current situation in the country and caused by the unjust sanctions and the closeness of the war regions. Klikovac said that Yugoslavia's contribution would be much greater after the sanctions are lifted and the country resumes its role as an equal member of the international community and after it is able to increase its participation in the work of international anti-crime and anti-corruption institutions.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVE

CZECH PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES RETURN OF YUGOSLAVIA TO CEI

P r a g u e, Oct. 8 (Tanjug) - Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus has expressed satisfaction that the final document adopted by the prime ministers and foreign ministers of the members of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Warsaw signals that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would be admitted to this grouping. The Czech news agency CTK quoted Klaus as saying on Saturday evening that Yugoslavia could become a CEI member as soon as the crisis in the territory of the former Yugoslavia is resolved.

R E F U G E E S

YUGOSLAV RED CROSS PROVIDES FOR ABOUT 400,000 REFUGEES

N o v i S a d, Oct. 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Red Cross Secretary-General Rade Dubajic said Saturday that his organization had continuously been providing for about 400,000 refugees from war-affected territories of the former Yugoslavia. 'These include about 180,000 refugees who have been receiving humanitarian aid since 1991. however, the newly arrived refugees from the Republic of Serb Krajina, of whom there are more than 200,000, are no doubt in the most difficult position,' Dubajic said. He said Serbs expelled from the Republic of Serb Krajina, mostly old and ailing persons and children, were in the greatest need of aid. The Yugoslav Red Cross' possibilities to provide aid have regrettably been significantly reduced due to the economic sanctions and the impact of the sanctions on the family budgets over the years, Dubajic said. Referring to the significant international humanitarian aid due to start arriving in mid-October, he said the UN Sanctions Committee's red tape required much time, was complicated and slow.

CROATIA - SECTOR EAST

CROATIA IS NOT GIVING UP IDEA TO RESOLVE ISSUE THROUGH MILITAR Y ACTION

Z a g r e b, Oct. 7 (Tanjug) - Croatia is not giving up the intention of resolving the issue of Sector East through military action although the status of this region is being discussed at the Serb-Croat talks, which are described by international observers as a huge advancement towards a political solution. 'If we fail to resolve in a peaceful way the problem of Eastern Slavonija, Baranja and Western Srem, I am certain that the Croatian army will do this very successfully,' Croatian army Chief of General Staff General Zvonimir Chervenko said at a military event in the town of Osijek, in Western Croatia.

WAR IN BOSNIA

CROATIA CONTINUES AGGRESSION ON REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

B a nj a l u k a, Oct. 8 (Tanjug) - Croatia is continuing the aggression on the Republika Srpska despite warnings by the international community and demands by the UN Security Council that regular croatian army troops withdraw from this region, the Bosnian Serb Army Command said on Sunday. The Bosnian Serb Army said that on Oct. 6-7 about 8,000 Croatian troops had been deployed in the regions of Mrkonjic Grad, Petrovac and Bihac, towns in central and western Bosnia. The Bosnian Serb Army said that the reinforcing of the already deployed regular croatian army troops directly threatens the signed ceasefire which becomes effective at midnight on Oct. 10. The United Nations in Zagreb has informed the international community about the movements of the regular Croatian army. One woman was killed and three civilians were injured Monday in an artillery attack of the regular Croat army on Mrkonjic Grad. The attacks were launched early in the morning from different directions in which over 200 destructive projectiles fell on the town in a few hours alone. The President of the town's War Presidency Dragan Celic said that huge material damage was caused and that the water supply system and electricity network were damaged. The Bosnian Serb Army said it would do everything to stop the aggression on Republika Srpska and protect its population.

PREPARATIONS IN THE FIELD FOR START OF CEASEFIRE

B e l g r a d e, Oct. 8 (Tanjug) - Preparing the field for the start of the agreed ceasefire in Bosnia, troops of all three warring sides Sunday began to clear mines from around pylons of power lines on mt. Kokoska west of Sarajevo so that engineers could restore the city's electric power supply. UN force members supervised the operation on this mountain which is the place where frontlines of Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats meet, the British news agency Reuters said.

FROM DOMESTIC PRESS

CROATIA SEES TOTALLY DESTROYED SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AS 'SLI GHTLY DAMAGED'

B e l g r a d e, Oct. 9 (Tanjug) - The Belgrade daily "Politika" on Monday published a photograph of a totally destroyed Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Spiridon in the town of Petrinja southeast of Zagreb which Croatian authorities have described in their latest report as 'slightly damaged.' Croatian police have recently toured Serbian Orthodox Bishoprics in the North and South of the Republic of Serb Krajina and informed the public that of the total of 91 orthodox churches, 'only two have been destroyed and 16 others were slightly damaged' in Croatia's war of secession from the former Yugoslavia. The photograph published in "Politika", showing the rubble of the Orthodox Church in Petrinja, and figures released by manager of the Belgrade-based Serbian Orthodox Church Museum Slobodan Mileusnic denied Croatia's official reports and said that 18 orthodox churches had been destroyed in these bishoprics in the first two years of the war alone, while 33 others had been damaged. Mileusnic said the world public also had these information and added that bishops of both Gornji Karlovac and Dalmatian dioceses had fled the areas along with the local population after Croatia's aggressions on these parts of Krajina last summer. Mileusnic said that 'bias reports' served no purpose and were not conducive in any way to peace because the truth was bound to come out sooner or later about destruction of either Serbian Orthodox Churches or Roman catholic cathedrals or Muslim mosques in the former Yugoslavia. The daily said the St. Sprirdon Church was first built in 1787 only to be destroyed by Croatia's Ustasha authorities at the outbreak of World War II. It was re-built in 1976 only to be razed to the ground by Croatian troops on August 12, 1991.