YDS 12/7

Yugoslav Daily Survey Directory

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

7 DECEMBER 1995 YDS-1033

C O N T E N T S :

YUGOSLAVIA - DAYTON AGREEMENT - YUGOSLAVIA WILL FULLY HONOUR OBLIGATIONS FROM DAYTON AGREEMENT

YUGOSLAVIA - SREM-BARANJA REGION - YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH LEADERS OF REGION

YUGOSLAVIA - UNHCR - MILOSEVIC HAS TALK WITH OGATA - OGATA: MAXIMUM AID FOR REFUGEES IN YUGOSLAVIA

BOSNIA - DESTRUCTION - CROATS, MUSLIMS CONTINUE TO TORCH TOWNS OF MRKONJIC GRAD, SIPOVO

YUGOSLAVIA - NATO - YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES SOLANA FOR ELECTION AS NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL

U.N. - YUGOSLAV FILM ON VUKOVAR - YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR INDIGNANT AT NO SCREENING OF FILM

YUGOSLAVIA WILL FULLY HONOUR OBLIGATIONS FROM AGREEMENT Belgrade, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Supreme Defence Council said on Wednesday that the country would fully honour the obligations stemming from the Bosnia peace agreement. The military office of the Yugoslav President issued a statement saying that the Supreme Defence Council met in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss the Dayton agreement. The session was attended by the three council members - Presidents of Yugoslavia and its Republics of Serbia and Montenegro, the Federal Prime Minister and Foreign and Defence Ministers, and the Chief of the Yugoslav Army General Staff. The army, navy, air force and air defence commanders were also present.

YUGOSLAVIA - SREM-BARANJA REGION

FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH LEADERS OF REGION Belgrade, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and leaders of the Srem-Baranja region agreed in Belgrade on Wednesday that the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia represented the most important factor of stability in the Balkans. The leaders of the Srem-Baranja region informed the Yugoslav side about the talks with Croatian and international representatives, which had resulted in the Erdut agreement on Nov. 12. Satisfaction was expressed with the reaching of a peaceful settlement of the conflict and the guests thanked Yugoslavia for its assistance and support over the past years, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The signing of the basic agreement on solving the problem of the Srem-Baranja region, under which the unalienable rights of the Serb people and all citizens in the territory are being observed and protected to the greatest possible extent, is a major contribution to the overall peace process, settling of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia and normalization of the Serb-Croatian relations. The representatives of the Srem-Baranja region said that the normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and Croatia would be especially important for the population of the region and would ensure a final restoration of peace in the former Yugoslavia.

YUGOSLAVIA - UNHCR

MILOSEVIC HAS TALK WITH OGATA Belgrade, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - In a talk between President of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata in Belgrade on Wednesday, it was said that, with the establishment of peace in the areas of Bosnia, also created should be the conditions for the expelled and refugees' unimpeded return to their homes. The role of the UNHCR was pointed out for its indispensable support and material assistance in improving the living conditions of more than 600,000 displaced sheltered in the F.R. of Yugoslavia, it is stressed in an announcement by Milosevic's office. It was indicated that the F.R.Y. citizens and state bodies had invested huge efforts in adequately accommodating the displaced, securing their basic material existence and medical care, schooling their children, and providing other forms of security necessary for free and dignified life. In this reference, all the displaced in the F.R.Y. have been enjoying equal treatment irrespective of their national, religious or other affiliation, because, in the first place, an account has been taken of the humane aspect of this problem, the announcement pointed out. Voiced at the talk was mutual confidence that the international community would extend the necessary material contribution to the creation of the best possible conditions for the life of the displaced and for their unimpeded return to their homes. In this domain, the UNHCR's understanding, support and direct engagement are of particular importance.

OGATA: MAXIMUM AID FOR REFUGEES IN YUGOSLAVIA Belgrade, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata has promised that UNHCR will provide maximum aid to refugees in the F.R. of Yugoslavia. At a meeting with Yugoslav Minister and head of the Yugoslav Government headquarters for humanitarian aid Tomica Raicevic, Ogata was informed that 470,000 refugees and about 200,000 displaced persons from the war-torn regions of the former Yugoslavia had found shelter in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Among the refugees are about 100,000 Muslims who had fled from the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, it was noted during the meeting. Speaking at a press conference in Belgrade, Ogata underscored that she had come to Yugoslavia to thank the people and Government for everything they had done in taking care of close to half a million refugees.

BOSNIA - DESTRUCTION

CROATS, MUSLIMS CONTINUE TO TORCH TOWNS New York, Belgrade, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - U.N. Secretary-General's spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said Wednesday Muslim and Croat forces in Western Bosnia were continuing to torch and plunder places which are to be part of the Bosnian Serb republic under the Dayton peace accords. The western town of Mrkonjic Grad has been razed, Fawzi said in a talk with reporters. U.N. representatives have reported from Bosnia that the situation is similar in the neighbouring town of Sipovo, Fawzi said. Fawzi pointed out that the Security Council had on two occasions warned Croat and Muslim authorities to stop this torching and looting, but that the calls had not been heeded. Croats are currently systematically pillaging and burning on a large scale homes in the territories which are to be returned to Serbs, U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Chris Vernon was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying.

YUGOSLAVIA - NATO

FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES SOLANA Belgrade, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic has expressed conviction that by electing Javier Solana as its Secretary-General, NATO would successfully accomplish its mission of implementing the peace accords for Bosnia-Herzegovina. In a message of congratulations addressed to Solana Wednesday on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Milutinovic pointed out this would be NATO's largest scale operation ever, and expressed conviction that NATO would carry out its mission impartially towards all sides to the recent conflict, thus making the best possible contribution to stabilizing peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Minister expects that the F.R. of Yugoslavia and NATO will continue their cooperation and dialogue.

U.N. - YUGOSLAV FILM ON VUKOVAR

YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR INDIGNANT AT NO SCREENING OF FILM New York, Dec. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav U.N. Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic wrote to Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Wednesday expressing surprise and displeasure at the cancellation of the scheduled screening of a Yugoslav film about Vukovar. The film 'Vukovar - Poste Restante' by Yugoslav film director Boro Draskovic was to be screened in the U.N. palace on Monday night, and was cancelled by the competent U.N. service 20 minutes before it was due to begin. Ambassador jovanovic expressed indignation at this unusual proceeding and said that the film had an emphatic anti-war message that nobody could find offensive. The U.N. Secretary General's spokesman Ahmed Fawzi has said that the screening was stopped by the Croatian mission. The Croats said they did not like the film and prevented its screening, said Fawzi.