YDS 12/6

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

6 DECEMBER 1995 YDS-1032

C O N T E N T S :

ON THE EVE OF LONDON, PARIS CONFERENCES - YUGOSLAVIA DECIDES ON DELEGATIONS

YUGOSLAVIA - TURKEY - PRESIDENT DEMIREL'S MESSAGE FOR PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC - IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON AGREEMENT VITAL FOR STABILITY IN BALKANS

YUGOSLAVIA - GHANA - YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION OF GHANA

YUGOSLAVIA - OSCE - HUNGARY'S KOVACS URGES YUGOSLAVIA'S RETURN TO OSCE - RUSSIA WANTS OSCE TO RENEW YUGOSLAVIA'S MEMBERSHIP

BILATERAL AGREEMENTS - YUGOSLAV-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT ON SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION - MONTENEGRO SIGNS PROTOCOL ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH ALBANIA

SARAJEVO SERBS - SARAJEVO SERBS APPEAL TO WORLD, YUGOSLAV LEADERS FOR HELP - UNHCR TO OPEN TWO OFFICES IN SERB PART OF SARAJEVO - AGNELLI: SERBS IN SARAJEVO ARE LEGITIMATELY WORRIED

FROM FOREIGN PRESS - UNITED STATES CONCERNED OVER IRANIANS IN BOSNIA

YUGOSLAVIA DECIDES ON DELEGATIONS Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia will be represented at the peace conference in Paris by the Presidents of its two federal units - Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Momir Bulatovic of Montenegro, and will include also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, a Yugoslav Government statement said on Tuesday. The statement said the Government had also established the Yugoslav platform for the peace conference in Paris on Dec. 13 and 14, and the one in London on Dec. 8 and 9. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic will represent Yugoslavia at the London conference, which will determine the modalities of the implementation of the Dayton accords. An official representative of the Republika Srpska will also be on the Yugoslav delegation to the London conference.

YUGOSLAVIA - TURKEY

PRESIDENT DEMIREL'S MESSAGE FOR PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - A message from Turkish President Suleiman Demirel for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was handed on Tuesday to the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic by Turkish Assistant Foreign Minister, Ali Tuigan. A Turkish delegation headed by Tuigan arrived in Belgrade to conduct political consultations with the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry. At the talks with Milutinovic, the Turkish side expressed its appreciation and recognition for the constructive contribution of the F.R.Y. and President Milosevic to the successful conclusion of the peace talks in Dayton. The Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said that support for the consistent, impartial enforcement of the peace agreement in Bosnia- Herzegovina was also expressed. Ankara has an interest in the normalization of relations between the F.R.Y. and Turkey, in cooperation in all fields of joint interest, and the renewal of cooperation with Balkan countries. Milutinovic said he expected that the position of Turkey, so far unilateral and partial on the crisis in the former Yugoslavia and the F.R. of Yugoslavia, will in the future be more balanced, respecting the principles of noninterference, territorial integrity and sovereignty, and in that way contribute to peace and stability in the region. Now that peace has been established in the former Yugoslavia and international sanctions against the F.R. of Yugoslavia lifted, there are favourable conditions for the rapid renewal of cooperation in fields of joint interest, especially in the economy, in culture, in education and in sports.

IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON AGREEMENT VITAL FOR STABILITY IN BALKANS Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - The implementation of the peace agreement for Bosnia will be vitally important for the Balkans, Yugoslav and Turkish diplomatic representatives said Tuesday. Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic and his Turkish colleague Ali Tuigan held political consultations, a Foreign Ministry statement said. The two sides underscored the need for a more balanced and unbiased approach of international factors to all parties in the process of the implementation of the peace agreement and the reconstruction of the region as a whole, the statement said. Both sides said the peace agreement and the suspension of sanctions against Yugoslavia had created prospects for the renewal and development of the bilateral relations and cooperation, according to the statement. They set out that relations and cooperation had to be developed on the basis of equality and respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs. The two sides agreed to stimulate direct contacts between businessmen, corresponding ministries and scientific institutions and to draw up new and renew the earlier signed inter-state agreements.

YUGOSLAVIA - GHANA

YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION OF GHANA Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic on Tuesday underscored Ghana's principled conduct regarding the Yugoslav crisis and expressed Yugoslavia's readiness to renew political and economic ties with this African country. During talks with a parliamentary delegation of Ghana, headed by Mike Gizo, Kontic said that after the initialling of the Dayton agreement and the suspension of the sanctions on Yugoslavia, there exist conditions for renewing cooperation between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Ghana. Kontic expressed satisfaction that the economic links between the two countries were not severed during the embargo, the Federal Information Secretariat said. The parliamentary delegation of Ghana praised Yugoslavia's peace policy and expressed full support to the Dayton agreement. Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic received on Tuesday a Ghanaian parliamentary delegation. During an ensuing cordial and friendly talk, both sides expressed a wish for a further promotion of relations, especially in the economic sphere, between the two friendly countries.

YUGOSLAVIA - OSCE

HUNGARY'S KOVACS URGES YUGOSLAVIA'S RETURN TO OSCE Budapest, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs who presides over the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Tuesday it would be good for both the world and Yugoslavia if Belgrade returned to the OSCE. Speaking ahead of an OSCE meeting of foreign ministers opening in Budapest in two days, Kovacs said the coming meeting would be a good opportunity to take a decision to this effect.

RUSSIA WANTS OSCE TO RENEW YUGOSLAVIA'S MEMBERSHIP Moscow, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Moscow Tuesday announced that Russian diplomacy has taken steps towards renewal of Yugoslavia's membership in the Organization for European Security and Cooperation. Yugoslavia's further absence from the work of the OSCE was politically unjustified and counter-productive since there was need to establish lasting peace and security in the Balkans, said Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in messages to his colleagues in the Contact Group. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Demurin said Russia's delegation at the Vienna-based OSCE was holding discussions with partners in the Contact Group and representatives of other countries so as to come up with a harmonized position on renewing Yugoslavia's membership in the OSCE suspended since 1992.

BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

AGREEMENT ON SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Science, Development and Environment Janko Radulovic and Russian Deputy Minister for Science and Technology Andrei Fonotov signed Tuesday in Belgrade an agreement on bilateral scientific and technical cooperation. Minister Radulovic pointed out that the agreement provides better conditions for cooperation between universities and for the exchange of scientific cooperation and represents a basis for the promotion of cooperation in science and technology and for joint activities of Yugoslav and Russian scientists in third countries. Fonotov said that in drawing up the agreement aimed at further development and continuation of successful scientific cooperation between Yugoslavia and Russia, both governments expressed great political will to this effect.

MONTENEGRO SIGNS PROTOCOL ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH ALBANIA Podgorica, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining Miodrag Gomilanovic and Albanian Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Abdul Xhaja signed a protocol on economic cooperation on Tuesday. The document envisages for intensifying cooperation, especially in the electric power industry, the oil industry, trade and geological research, said a statement released after the meeting.

SARAJEVO SERBS

SARAJEVO SERBS APPEAL TO WORLD, YUGOSLAV LEADERS FOR HELP Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - The city Assembly of Serb Sarajevo appealed to Yugoslav and world leaders on Tuesday to urge for giving a just status to the parts of Sarajevo populated and administered by Bosnian Serbs. The city Assembly thanked the leaders for the efforts they have made for bringing peace to the territory of former Bosnia-Herzegovina. It explained, however, that the decision on the status of the Serb parts of the city meant taking away by force the Serbs' territory and property and depriving them of their basic human rights. The Assembly deputies said they hoped that the leaders shared their sincere wish for peace, and appealed to them to make the peace complete and just also for the citizens of Serb Sarajevo.

UNHCR OFFICES IN SERB PART OF SARAJEVO Geneva, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Ron Redmond, said Tuesday that the UNHCR will open two offices in the Serb part of Sarajevo, to encourage by its presence the Serb population to stay in Sarajevo. Redmond specified that one office will be opened in Ilidza, and the other in Grbavica. UNHCR spokesman said that some of the recent statements of the Muslim authorities have discouraged Serbs from staying in Sarajevo. He expressed hope that, in the future, the Muslim government will be more responsible in its statements. Redmond referred to the situation in the area of Mrkonjic Grad and Sipovo, cities which are to be returned to Serbs under the Dayton agreement. UNHCR representatives are barred by Croats from entering the two cities, but the High Commissioner has precise information about what is going on, Redmond said. He said that Croatian forces are destroying and setting ablaze everything they can in Mrkonjic Grad and in Sipovo. The cities are in total chaos, Redmond said.

AGNELLI: SERBS ARE LEGITIMATELY WORRIED Rome, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - Italian Foreign Minister Susanna Agnelli described as legitimate the concern expressed by Serbs in Sarajevo. This is why means have to be found to provide safety to the Serbs, Agnelli said Monday in Brussels at a European Union ministerial meeting. Agnelli believes that an exodus of Serbs from Sarajevo due to Muslim reprisals must be prevented, and proposed that international police force in the city be increased.

FROM FOREIGN PRESS

U.S. CONCERNED OVER IRANIANS IN BOSNIA Belgrade, Dec. 5 (Tanjug) - The United States is very concerned over the presence of more than 200 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Bosnia, the Los Angeles Times said on Tuesday. Reuters quoted the paper as saying that Washington views them as as a big threat to U.S. troops, despite guarantees by the Bosnian government. The Los Angeles Times quoted senior U.S. officials as saying that the Iranians played a prominent role in training Bosnian Muslim troops and volunteers from islamic countries fighting in Bosnia. Teheran had also supplied the Bosnian Muslims with over 5,000 tonnes of mainly light arms, the paper said.