YDS 11/20

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

20. NOVEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY

CONTENTS:

DAYTON - TALKS - U.S. SPOKESMAN BURNS: DECISION ON ACCORD FOR BOSNIA ON MONDAY - DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS

YUGOSLAVIA - DPR KOREA - YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES NORTH KOREAN DELEGATION

YUGOSLAVIA - OSCE - TALKS ON PROSPECTS FOR YUGOSLAVIA TO RETURN TO OSCE

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - U.N. SAYS MUSLIMS DIG TRENCHES AROUND SARAJEVO - MUJAHEDEEN COMMANDER IN BOSNIA THREATENS TO FIGHT ON

GERMANY - MAZOWIETCKI - MEDAL FOR BIAS

DAYTON - TALKS

DECISION ON ACCORD FOR BOSNIA ON MONDAY

D a y t o n, Nov. 20 (Tanjug) - The talks on Bosnia have entered the final, twentieth day, and an announcement is expected whether the Yugoslav, Croatian and Bosnian Muslim delegations have managed to reach agreement ending the three and a half years of civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said on Sunday that a decision on an agreement on Bosnia would be taken at Dayton, by 10 a.m. local time on Monday. The Dayton talks continue with undiminished intensity, in order that it might be possible to announce at 10 a.m. on Monday whether or not the negotiators have reached agreement, Burns told a news briefing. He said that the heads of delegation truly wanted an agreement and were making maximum efforts in the talks. Burns said that differences among the delegations on major issues, which had existed at the outset of the talks, were still in evidence. On Sunday morning, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic discussed with Christopher the remaining territorial issues and constitutional arrangements for Bosnia. The three delegations and the mediating teams have announced they will be leaving Dayton on Monday evening.

DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS

New York, Nov. 20 (Tanjug) - An urgent session of the United Nations Security Council has been called to discuss a resolution suspending the sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia in May 1992, after the out-break of the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A resolution is expected to be adopted if a peace agreement is struck at the peace talks on Bosnia at Dayton. Russian U.N. mission head Ambassador Sergei Lavrov told Tanjug that the Council was only awaiting news from Ohio to enter a draft resolution on the suspension into the Security Council official procedure.

YUGOSLAVIA - DPR KOREA

DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES NORTH KOREAN DELEGATION

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 17 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Radoslav Bulajic received on Friday a delegation of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Bulajic and DPR Korean Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of European issues Kim Chang Ryong conferred about the situation and prospects of promoting bilateral relations and about international topical issues. Both sides agreed that additional efforts should be made for a further promotion of bilateral cooperation in the fields of joint interest and especially in the field of economy. Kim said that the DPR Korea was closely following developments in the crisis in former Yugoslavia and the situation in the Balkans, adding that there was no reason for further maintaining the U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia and urging their lifting. He said that the DPR Korea took the view that Yugoslavia should be restored to its place in international organizations, such as the United Nations and the non-aligned movement.

YUGOSLAVIA - OSCE

TALKS ON PROSPECTS FOR YUGOSLAVIA TO RETURN TO OSCE

V i e n n a, Nov. 17 (Tanjug) - Charge d'Affaires of the Yugoslav Embassy in Vienna Dobrosav Veizovic met on Friday with Secretary-General Wilchelm Hoeynck of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe about the modalities and prospects for Yugoslavia's return to the organization. Yugoslavia's membership in the OSCE was frozen after international sanctions were imposed against Yugoslavia in May 1992. Veizovic and Hoeynck also spoke about current preparations for the engagement and participation of the OSCE in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the completion of the Dayton talks and the expected signing of the definite peace settlement. Veizovic spoke about Yugoslavia's occasional difficulties in circulating official material for the delegations and missions to the OSCE.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

U.N. SAYS MUSLIMS DIG TRENCHES AROUND SARAJEVO

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 19 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslims troops on Saturday dug trenches and fortified positions around Sarajevo in violation of the six-week-old ceasefire agreement and other accords, U.N. officials in Sarajevo have said. The UPI news agency said U.N. observers had warned Muslim forces that the trench-digging could violate the Bosnia truce, which took effect on Oct. 12. Bosnian Serb and Muslim authorities on Thursday agreed to stop digging trenches south and north of Sarajevo and to fill in the newly dug ones. U.N. spokesman Chris Vernon said that the Muslim government army was not observing the agreement. Vernon said that the digging of trenches and the fortifying of positions were considered not only ceasefire agreement violations, but also hostile acts according to the Geneva Convention.

MUJAHEDEEN COMMANDER IN BOSNIA THREATENS TO FIGHT ON

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 17 (Tanjug) - Mujahedeen commander in Bosnia Abu el Ma'ali of Algeria is quoted on Friday as threatening to fight on against Bosnia's Serbs and Croats if the Dayton peace talks collapse. Speaking for the Croatian weekly Nedjeljna Dalmacija, published on Friday, Ma'ali said that, if the peace talks fail, the mujahedeen, who are fighting on the side of the Bosnian Muslims, will very soon attack Doboj in northern Bosnia, according to Associated Press. 'Bosnia is the country conquered by islam,' said the commander of the 800-strong mujahedeen who form part of the Zenica-based third corps of the Bosnian Muslim army.

GERMANY - MAZOWIETCKI

MEDAL FOR BIAS by Nevena Marcic

B e l g r a d e, Nov. 18 (Tanjug) - Germany will officially award former U.N. Special Human Rights Rapporteur Tadeusz Mazowietcki for his activities in the territory of the former Yugoslavia which have largely contributed to the expansion of the shameful western campaign against the Serb people. Mazowiecki, a former Polish Prime Minister, will on Nov. 20 in Munich receive the medal from the German society for the United Nations which has said that his reports on the developments in the former Yugoslavia are characterized by 'moral authority.' The presentation ceremony, organized by the Bavarian branch of the society, will be addressed by German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, thus showing that Bonn, unless it had personally initiated that the medal be given to Mazowiecki, clearly wants to underscore the importance of the event. Only two months after the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following a lengthy anti-Serb campaign in the western media, the U.N. Human Rights Committee, at the initiative from Washington, held a special session for the first time in its history. The session focused on the violation of international humanitarian and war laws in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and adopted a resolution condemning the Serbs and Belgrade, which had been prepared in advance. The session also demanded that the Committee's chairman appoints a special envoy to report on the human rights situation in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Starting from the fact that in the territory of the former Yugoslavia waged was a civil, ethnic, but also a religious war between catholics (Croats), Muslims and the orthodox (Serbs), Yugoslavia insisted that a member of a totally different religion be chosen as the envoy. However, this request was ignored. At the intervention of the United States, Germany and the Vatican, appointed was 'hardcore' catholic Mazowietcki, who is in his own country well-known as a fierce opponent of the orthodox religion, both by vocation and conviction. Only two weeks after his appointment, Mazowietcki submitted his first report - a record worth of the Guiness book of records. Stefani Grant, a prominent British lawyer and human rights expert resigned as one of the three heads of mission in the territory of the former Yugoslavia in protest against the way her reports from the field were used. A very good illustration of this is Mazowietcki's fourth report in which, without giving any proof, he literally described as tragic the position of the national minorities in Serbia's Vojvodina province. The overall impression is that he had underscored in a very biased way, and even instigated the creating of the many focuses of crises or conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. An example of Mazowietcki's unprincipled stands on the same events on different sides, is the fact in reports on the expulsion of Serbs from their ancestral homes and apartments in Croatia, he called this re-settlement, and when the Serbs did this, then he spoke about 'ethnic cleansing.' It seems that the expulsion of 500,000 Serbs from Croatia, is not 'ethnic cleansing.' When reporting about Croat or Muslim crimes against the Serbs, Mazowietcki only registered the crimes without mentioning any details, and did not speak about any political or military action which should be taken to punish the perpetrators. It is interesting that Bonn has decided to award Mazowietcki at this moment, because an objective observer must note that this coincides with the appointment of Elizabeth Rehn of Finland as the new U.N. Special Human Rights Rapporteur. Rehn has said she would cooperate with all sides in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and that she would base her conclusions solely on the basis of data she personally verified.

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