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             PRESIDENT KARADZIC ORDERS CEASEFIRE



      B  a nj a l u k a, Oct. 11 (Tanjug) - 'In line with  the

ceasefire  agreement of Oct. 5, 1995, and today's confirmation

by  the  sides to the conflict that the agreement is  to  take

effect,'  said a statement released by the office of President

of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic.

      Head  of  the  UN mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina  Antonio

Pedauye  earlier  said the warring sides had agreed  that  the

ceasefire  take effect one minute after midnight of Wednesday.

Pedauye  specified  the ceasefire would  be  effective  for  a

period of 60 days.

      An  official statement by the Muslim Presidency said the

Muslim army would 'cease all other activities except defensive

ones' one minute after midnight of Wednesday.



      MUSLIM ARMY MISUSES U.N. - DESIGNATED 'SAFE AREAS'



      B  e l g r a d e, Oct. 11 (Tanjug) - Outgoing head of UN

operations  in  the former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi  conceded

Wednesday  that  UN - designated 'safe areas'  in  Bosnia  had

never been fully demilitarized and had been used by the Muslim

army for training and massing troops.

      Associated  Press  quoted  Akashi  as  accusing  the  UN

Security  Council in a statement to reporters for  failing  to

give the peacekeepers the resources to carry out their mission

in the Balkans.

      Akashi said the Council 'should not give to peacekeeping

operations  a  mission which peacekeepers are not  capable  of

undertaking.'  He  gave the example of  the  'safe  areas'  in

Bosnia-Herzegovina  and specified that  UN  'Secretary-General

Boutros  Boutros-Ghali asked for an additional 34,000 troops,'

when  the  'safe  areas' were declared in  1993.  The  council

'approved only 7,000, most of whom were lightly armed,' Akashi

told the press.



   YUGOSLAVIA, RUSSIA SIGN ACCORD ON INVESTMENT PROTECTION



      M  o  s  c o w, Oct. 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia and Russia

signed   Wednesday   in   Moscow  an   agreement   on   mutual

encouragement and protection of investments.

      The  agreement  was  signed  by  Yugoslav  Deputy  Prime

Minister  Jovan  Zebic and Russian Deputy Prime  Minister  and

Minister  for  Economic Relations with Foreign Countries  Oleg

Davidov.

      Zebic and Davidov, as set out in Moscow, exchanged views

on  the  situation  in  the Balkans and  considered  bilateral

economic relations and their prospects after sanctions against

the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were lifted.



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   FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA IN URGENT NEED OF HEATING GAS



     B e l g r a d e, Oct 13 (Tanjug) - Federal Prime Minister
Radoje

Kontic warned on Friday that with the onset of the winter the
country

was dangerously close to a 'huge humanitarian catastrophe' if
the  UN

do not allow the importing of Russian naural gas for heating.

      In  a  letter  sent  to  the  Prime  Minister  of  the 
Russian

Federation, Victor Chernomyrdin, Kontic called on Russia to take
 the

necessray  steps  to  secure  the  approval  of  the  U.N. 
Sanctions

Committee  for  exporting to the Federal Republic of  Yugoslavia
 1,3

million cubic meters of natural gas.

     Out country under sanctions cannot resolve the huge
humanitarian

tragedy.  Difficulties are especially marked in the field  of 
energy

supplies,  especially gas, the letter of the Federal  Prime 
Minister

said.

      The  letter said that the monthy needs of Yugoslavia are 
132.4

million cubic meters of gas for the 1995/96 heating season.

      Another  54.1 million cubic meteres of gas are needed  for
 the

production  of food, medicine and for other humanitarian needs, 
then

201,374 tonnes of masout, 237,167 tonnes of fuel oil and 3,527
tonnes

of  liquid  gas for the heating of hospitals, kindergardens, 
schools

and refugee centers.

      Kontic  said  that the disastrous effects of comprehensive
 and

mandatory  U.N. sanctions on the population and economy of
Yugoslavia

had  been  further  aggravated, and that the  country's 
humanitarian

needs  had  further increased with the arrival of about 200,000 
Serb

refugees  who  fled the Croatian aggression on the Republic  of 
Serb

Krajina this summer.

      Kontic  said  that  international  humanitarian 
organizations,

including the UNHCR, the WHO and the International Federation of
 the

Red  Cross and Red Crescent Societies had been fully acquainted 
with

the  dramatic humanitarian situation in Yugoslavia and the 
country's

emergency needs for fuels.

       I  draw  your attention to the need for an urgent
granting  of

Yugoslavia's demand in order to avoid the situation that had
happened

in  the past when we received the necessary clearances too late,
when

the winter was over, said Kontic.



                U.N. OBSERVERS ARRIVE IN BANJALUKA



      K  r  a  g  u j e v a c, Oct. 15 (Tanjug) - Bosnian  Serb 
Vice

President Nikola Koljevic said on Sunday that six U.N. observers
 had

arrived in Banjaluka to monitor the ceasefire in the region.

      In  an  interview to the local radio in Kragujevac  in 
central

Serbia, Koljevic said the observers had arrived at the demand of
 the

Serb  side submitted in writing to the U.N. commander in Bosnia,
Gen.

Rupert Smith.

      'The observers will monitor the situation on the ground,
but we

will monitor their actions to prevent any impartial report from
being

released,  because  we  have  reason to  believe  that  this 
too  is

possible,' said Koljevic.

     He said the Bosnian Serbs would lodge a written demand with
Gen.

Smith on Sunday asking him to prevent ceasefire violations, and 
that

a similar demand would be addressed to the U.N.
Secretary-General.

      'After  this, we will decide whether to continue observing
 the

ceasefire  or  take action which, as i explained to  Gen. 
Smith,  we

would simply be forced to resort to, given the situation in
which  we

would be left with no other choice,' said Koljevic.



        GENERAL FORAND CONFIRMS CROATIAN CRIMES IN KRAJINA



      B  e l g r a d e, Oct, 13 (Tanjug) - Outgoing U.N.
Commander of

the former Sector South Gen. Alain Forand stated that from
August  5,

when the Croatian authorities took control of Krajina, until
Oct.  6,

the U.N. civilian police found 128 bodies of murdered Serb
civilians.

Forand  said  this  at  his  last press briefing  held  at  the 
U.N.

headquarters in Knin.

      Forand  spoke  in Knin about the consequences of  the 
Croatian

aggression on the Republic of Serb Krajina.

     Indicating that the U.N. have not yet received the required
data

about investigations of these crimes, Gen. Forand stressed that 
'the

most  disturbing  trend  of  all  is the  on-going  killing  of 
Serb

civilians  who  have remained, the majority of them elderly'. 
Forand

recalled  that  the Croatian army started by the bombardment  of
 all

main   Serb  communities  in  the  former  sector  South  with 
heavy

artillery, and added that during the August offensive on that 
sector

and the former Sector North, a total of 185,000 people were
forced to

leave their homes.

      Estimates by U.N. agencies, place the Serb population
remaining

in  the Krajina at around 1,500 in the former sector South and 
about

2,200 in the former sector North, Forand said.

      The  U.N.  official  said that 'under  its  monitoring  of
 the

humanitarian situation in former Sector South, patrols by U.N. 
human

rights teams, military observers and civilian police have
regrettably

reported  a  disturbing  trend of activity, which  began 
immediately

after the 4-5 August offensive and has continued since'.

       He  specified  that  there  had  been  widespread 
killing  of

civilians,  arson of Serb houses, looting of their property  and
 the

neglect  of  the  mainly elderly Serb community  living  in 
isolated

villages.

      'A  recent  survey report by U.N. military observers 
based  on

visits  to  389  hamlets and villages showed that  of  21,744 
houses

observed,  over  16,578 were destroyed by fire  or  severly 
damaged,

Forand said.

      He specified that most of these villages were formerly
majority

Serb  communities and that from this report it is estimated that
 73%

of  all  property  is presently un-inhabitable in the  former 
sector

South  area.  Forand pointed out that 'there have  been  no 
observed

attempts  to stop the destruction and killing, and indications 
point

to a scorched earth campaign'.



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        MILOSEVIC MEETS WITH HOLBROOKE, IVANOV, BILDT



      B  e  l  g r a d e, Oct. 18 (Tanjug) - Serbian President

Slobodan  Milosevic on Wednesday met with  U.S.,  Russian  and

European Union officials to discuss some most important issues

relating  to  preparations  for the forthcoming  bosnia  peace

conference in Washington at the end of October. The U.S.  team

is  headed  by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke,

while the Russian delegation is led by Deputy Foreign Minister

Igor Ivanov. The European Union is represented in the talks by

Carl Bildt and his associates.

      The participants expressed confidence that joint efforts

would  bring  about  a definitive peace in  the  territory  of

Bosnia-Herzegovina and guarantees to all citizens and  peoples

living  in  those  regions that their  legitimate  rights  and

interests,  above  all  peace and freedom,  would  be  equally

protected, said a statement released from Milosevic's cabinet.

      The  principles  adopted  at the  Geneva  and  New  York

meetings constitute a solid basis for defining a comprehensive

peace package, the participants stressed out.

       Yugoslav   Foreign  Minister  Milan  Milutinovic   also

participated in the talks.



MILOSEVIC, HOLBROOKE SAY BOSNIA TRUCE SHOULD TURN INTO STABLE
PEACE



      B  e  l  g r a d e, Oct. 18 (Tanjug) - Serbian President

Slobodan  Milosevic  and U.S. Envoy Richard  Holbrooke  agreed

late  Tuesday  that the current peace efforts  were  aimed  at

turning the truce, which went into effect on Oct. 12,  into  a

stable peace.

      The  aim  is also to find political solutions that  will

normalise  life  and  relations so  as  to  primarily  protect

freedom and equality of all citizens, said a statement  issued

by  the  President's office. The talks focused on preparations

for    the   final   stage   of   the   peace   process    for

Bosnia-Herzegovina.

      Milosevic  and  the U.S. team agreed that  a  consistent

respect  of  the Bosnia agreement on an overall ceasefire  was

vital for further headway in the peace process.

      Accordingly, the remaining outstanding issues, including

the  territorial  division  of Bosnia-Herzegovina,  should  be

solved at the conference table rather than on the battlefront.

     The statement stressed Yugoslavia's firm position that an

end to the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina must mean an end to

the sanctions against the country.



              YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT REVIEWS RELATIONS

            WITH INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONS



      B  e  l  g  r  a  d  e, Oct 17 (Tanjug) -  The  Yugoslav

Government  assessed on Tuesday that the lifting of  sanctions

against  Yugoslavia,  which is expected  soon,  furnishes  the

necessary conditions for a normalization of relations with the

International Monetary Fund (IMF). This will enable the access

to  world  capital without which there is no stabilization  of

economic currents in Yugoslavia and no development of society,

it  was  assessed  at  a  Yugoslav  Government  session  which

reviewed  the basic aspects of the normalization of  relations

with international financial organizations, above all with the

IMF and the World Bank.

      The  session  reviewed also the first  versions  of  the

documents   necessary  for  negotiations  with   international

financial organizations. At the session the Government gave  a

preliminary  consideration  also  to  the  documents  on   the

1996-1998   program   of   economic  stabilization,   on   the

restructuring of the economy, the financial rehabilitation  of

the  banks,  the consolidation and repayment of  the  external

debt, and on the social welfare program.

     It was noted that the enforcement of these programs would

enable  the  further  development of  the  market  economy  in

Yugoslavia  and  its reintegration into the  world  market  of

goods and capital.

      The  Yugoslav  government decided to send  around  1,300

tonnes  of  additional assistance in food and fuel, valued  at

1.6 million dinars (1.6 million marks, at the official rate of

exchange),  through  the Yugoslav Red  Cross  to  the  refugee

population of the Republika Srpska and of the Republic of Serb

Krajina.



   CROATIA REFUSES TO RESUME TALKS WITH SERBS FROM SREM-BARANJA



      Z  a g r e b, Oct 17 (Tanjug) - Negotiations between the

Croatian authorities and representatives of the Serbs from the

Srem-Baranja  region, scheduled in Osijek on  Wednesday,  will

not  be  held, chief of the Croatian negotiating  team  Hrvoje

Sarinic stated on Tuesday.

     Following talks with American Ambassador to Croatia Peter

Galbraith  and Co-Chairman of the peace conference  on  former

Yugoslavia Thorvald Stoltenberg, Sarinic stressed that Croatia

'will not give in' and added that Zagreb, in case negotiations

were  unfeasible,  would 'apply other means to  bring  eastern

Slavonija, baranja and western Srem under its sovereignty.'

      Stoltenberg and Galbraith, in talks with Sarinic in  the

Croatian seaside city of Rijeka, tried to win Croats' approval

for  resuming the dialogue with Serbs in Osijek, the  city  in

the east of Croatia where the U.N. base is located.

     Stoltenberg assessed that the negotiations between Croats

and Serbs in Erdut - the town in the Srem-Baranja region which

is the only part of the Republic of Serb Krajina) not occupied

by the Croats - have had a good start and now too much time is

being wasted on procedural questions.



U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL - FEARS OF CROATIA'S AGRESSION AGAINST
SREM-BARANJA REGION



      N e w  Y o r k, Oct. 17 (Tanjug) - U.N. Security Council

Tuesday asked U.N. officials on the spot to urgently inform it

about the movement and re-grouping of Croatia's troops towards

the  Srem-Baranja region of the Republic of Serb Krajina after

some of Council members stated fears Croatia was preparing for

aggression against Serb Krajina.

     Current Council President Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria said

reports have reached the council about such a possibility  and

the  Council would consider this at its Wednesday  session  on

receiving complete and reliable information from the field.

      Gambari specified that this question was raised  at  the

request of some Council members who expressed fears that  this

could  mean  Croatia was preparing for a military intervention

in  the  Srem-Baranja region, something that would  definitely

undermine the peace process.



         U.S. WARNS CROATIA NOT TO ATTACK KRAJINA REGION



      N  e w  Y o r k, Oct. 17 (Tanjug) - U.S. State Secretary

Warren Christopher Tuesday warned Croatia to refrain from  any

thought  of committing attack against the Srem-Baranja  region

as  this  could  gave  a  serious  bearing  on  the  Croatia's

intentions to integrate into western institutions.

     'We've made it absolutely clear to President Tudjman that

we think that area should not be conquered or taken by force,'

Christopher told the Senate Armed Forces Committee.

      Underlining that Croatia was told that a possible attack

on  the Srem-Baranja region would be 'very costly' to Croatia,

he added: 'It would be a serious mistake for them to do this.'



BOSNIAN SERB VICE-PRESIDENT: SERBS WILL NOT VIOLATE CEASEFIRE
AGREEMENT



     B e l g r a d e, Oct. 17 (Tanjug) - Vice-President Nikola

Koljevic  of  Republika Srpska said Tuesday  Serbs  would  not

violate   the   ceasefire  agreement.  The  recently   reached

ceasefire   agreement   between   the   warring    sides    in

Bosnia-Herzegovina  must be respected,  Koljevic  warned,  and

added that 'anyone who violates the ceasefire will be severely

and mercilessly punished,' Serb Radio said.

      Koljevic  specified that Serbs had the right  to  return

fire  if  attacked, but pointed out that U.N. observers  would

have to be informed beforehand.

      Koljevic,  who  also chairs the Republika  Srpska  State

Commission for Cooperation with the U.N., said he had received

a letter from UNPROFOR Commander for former Bosnia-Herzegovina

Gen.  Rupert Smith, expressing gratitude to the Serb  side  in

Bosnia-Herzegovina  for  the  assistance  provided   to   U.N.

observers deployed in the West of the republic.

     Gen. Smith specified that the task of the U.N. observers,

deployed  on both warring sides, was to evaluate the  military

situation in a balanced and objective manner.

     'A precondition for further peace talks will be return to

positions  held on Oct. 12, and the basic stand  of  the  Serb

side  will be that all Serb territory captured after Sept.  8,

when  the basic principles for working out a future map  in  a

49-51% ratio were accepted, be annuled,' Koljevic was adamant.

      Koljevic  said in Banja Luka, as quoted by  the  Bosnian

Serb  news  agency  SRNA, that he was confident  that  'not  a

single bullet more will be fired at western parts of Republika

Srpska'  and that this had been promised to him by  U.S.  Gen.

John Shalikashvili in a telephone conversation.





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 FRENCH MINISTER: RENEWED FRIENDSHIP - BASIS FOR CLOSER RELATIONS



      B  e  l g r a d e, Oct 18 (Tanjug) - French Foreign
Minister

Herve de Charette said on Wednesday that one of the two chief
aims

of  his current visit to Belgrade was to lay down a foundation
for

developing  friendly relations between France and  Yugoslavia. 
De

Charette  was  speaking at a press conference after  meeting 
with

Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslav Foreign
Minister

Milan Milutinovic.

      The  other  aim  of  the Belgrade visit is  to  discuss 
all

questions of importance to establishing peace, de Charette said.

       He   said   that  agreement  had  been  reached  to  
begin

strengthening  relations immediately, equally  in  the 
political,

economic and cultural fields.

      According  to de Charette, France has decided to double 
its

cultural  cooperation with Yugoslavia   which  is  clear 
evidence

that   France  wants  to  establish  very  close  relations  
with

Yugoslavia in the future.

      He  explained  that  the two sides would  continue  to 
work

together for peace, in keeping with the agreed calendar,  and 
was

optimistic  about  further developments,  despite  the  fact 
that

problems were still complex.

     De Charette said he was basing his optimism on the
conviction

that  there was no alternative to a political settlement  for 
all

problems  in  Bosnia, and that respect for the  ceasefire  was 
an

essential element.

      The same is true about a settlement for eastern Slavonia,
he

added.

      De Charette said that the question of U.N. sanctions
against

the  Federal  Republic of Yugoslavia was directly  linked  to 
the

peace  process and that their lifting should go parallel with 
the

peace process.

      Asked if the right of the refugees to return to their 
homes

belonged  also  to the Serbs from Serb Krajina, de  Charette 
said

that the law must be the same for all.

     He said he had mentioned to President Milosevic the matter
of

release of French airmen shot down over Bosnia, which was of
great

importance to France, but had nothing new to report.

       Yugoslav  Foreign  Minister  Milan  Milutinovic  said 
that

relations   between  Yugoslavia  and  france  had   been  
greatly

intensified.  He  described the talks  with  his  French 
opposite

number  as in-depth discussions of bilateral questions and of 
the

overall peace process that was under way. The talks were
important

to  both sides and, particularly, to the establishment of peace
in

Bosnia and in the region as a whole, Milutinovic said.



     U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL ISSUES ANOTHER WARNING TO CROATIA



      N  e  w   Y o r k, Oct. 18 (Tanjug) - U.N. Security 
Council

Wednesday  issued  another warning to Zagreb over  its 
systematic

human rights violations of Serbs and its renewed threats to
attack

eastern Slavonia.

      Current  Council President Ibrahim Gambari told newsmen 
the

Council  had  again discussed Croatia's violent behavior  
towards

the  Serbs in Krajina and Croatian threats to the Serbs in 
sector

East (the Srem-Baranja region, as Serbs there officially call
it).

The discussion was initiated Tuesday by the Russian delegation
and

the  reason behind it was to be found in the reports on 
Croatia's

troops'  movements towards the Srem-Baranja region and the
threats

made  by  Croatian President Franjo Tudjman that his troops 
would

capture the region.

      Gambari said he was authorized by the Council and called 
in

Croatian  U.N.  Ambassador Mario Nobilo and  conveyed   to  him 
a

serious warning.

      He  underlined  attention has been  drawn  to  Croatia 
over

systematic and persistent human rights violations of, as  he 
said

Serb, minority and demanded on behalf of the Council that this 
be

stopped forthwith.

      Gambari warned the Croatian authorities to refrain from 
any

action  against eastern Slavonia as this could bring into
question

the peace process which was on good course to end successfully.

      The Council drew attention to Croatia that it was inviting
a

climate  of  insecurity, even panic, among the Serb population 
in

the region with its policy of threats and pressures.



        TUDJMAN THREATENS AGAIN TO SEIZE SREM-BARANJA AREA



      Z  a  g  r e b, Oct 18 (Tanjug) - Croatian President 
Franjo

Tudjman  threatened on Wednesday again to seize  the 
Srem-Baranja

area  (sector East), the only part of the Republic of Serb
Krajina

which is not under Croatian occupation.

      During a meeting with visiting Hungarian Premier Gyula
Horn,

Tudjman said that he wanted the Srem-Baranja area to be
peacefully

reintegrated  to avoid new human losses and a new  flight  of 
the

civilian population but said that if that was not possible
Croatia

would be forced to take all necessary steps.



          UN: BRUTAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN KRAJINA



     G e n e v a, Oct 18 (Tanjug) - U.N. representatives
announced

here Wednesday that Croatia has been ignoring all warnings by 
the

international community and that it went on, after the invasion
of

its  troops at the beginning of August on North and South
Krajina,

with brutal human rights violations in those territories.

      The  U.N.,  the  statement said,  assessed  that  after 
the

Croatian aggression less than 3,000 Serbs remained in the 
Krajina

sector 'North', which is only 3% of the total Serb population
that

lived  in the region before the Croatian aggression, and  that 
of

the  90,000  inhabitants in the sector 'South'  only  1,500 
Serbs

remained.

      According to U.N. reports, most of them are elderly 
people,

who stayed in the villages, but the Croatian authorities
obviously

could not tolerate even them.

      U.N.  representatives claim that Croats  are 
systematically

practicing  the worst kind of terror over the remaining  Serbs 
in

those parts of the Republic of Serb Krajina where looting of 
Serb

prperty and torching of Serb houses is rampant.

      In a show of force, Croatian troops are beating, looting
and

murdering  innocent  old people, the statement  said  and  that 
a

typical  example of such behaviour was the massacre  of  nine 
old

people on Sept. 28 in the village of Varivode.

      That  crime was proved, and not even Croats denied  it, 
but

nobody has been arrested yet to answer for the crime.



      CROATIAN ARMY HAS COMMITTED NUMEROUS CRIMES IN KRAJINA



      Lj u b lj a n a, Oct. 18 (Tanjug) - In its aggression on
the

Republic  of  Serb  Krajina  in early  August  the  Croatian 
army

committed numerous crimes against Serb civilians and organized
the

destruction of their property, the Slovenian branch of  the 
human

rights organization Amnesty International has said.

      A  delegation of the Slovenian Amnesty International, 
which

recently  made a several-day visit to Krajina, issued a report 
on

the  situation in this region seriously warning about the
Croatian

army's  crimes, the killing of civilians, massacres, lootings 
and

systematic harrassment of the Serbs.

     The Slovenian Amnesty International said it had seen
examples

of  executions  without  court decisions, cases  where  masses 
of

people had disappeared, various drastic forms of pressure on 
Serb

civilians  and  the  systematic destruction of  their  homes. 
The

Slovenian  Amnesty International determined that  Croatian 
troops

were tormenting Serb old people, women and children.



            SERB REPORTERS KILLED IN MUSLIM CAPTIVITY



      B  e l g r a d e, Oct. 18 (Tanjug) - Reporters Sasa
Kolevski

and  Goran  Pejcinovic of Republika Srpska's Banja Luka TV 
studio

have been killed in Muslim captivity, the Bosnian Serb news
agency

SRNA said.

      The agency said this was confirmed by representatives of
the

Muslim  side  at  a  meeting of commissions for  the  exchange 
of

prisoners held at Sarajevo airport on Tuesday.

      Kolevski  and Pejcinovic were captured on Sept.  23  on 
Mt.

Ozren  in  the  northeast of Bosnia-Herzegovina  during  a 
Muslim

offensive. The Muslim authorities had claimed all along that 
they

were  alive,  but  they failed to react to appeals  from 
reporter

organizations   from  the  Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia  
and

Republika Srpska to free the two reporters.





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 HOLBROOKE: END OF FINAL STAGE OF TALKS AHEAD OF PEACE CONFERENCE



      B  e l g r a d e, Oct. 19 (Tanjug) - U.S. negotiator
Richard

Holbrooke on Thursday announced an end of the final stage  of 
the

talks  during which the U.S. negotiating team had shuttled
several

times between Belgrade, Zagreb and Sarajevo.

      Following  talks with Serbian President Slobodan 
Milosevic,

Holbrooke  said  that the talks would continue  in  Dayton, 
Ohio,

unless something unexpected happened in the coming period.

      Holbrooke said that the issue of eastern Slavonija had 
been

discussed  on  Zagreb and Belgrade on Thursday, and  that 
further

talks about this would be conducted between the representatives
of

the Serbs from that region and Zagreb.



BOSANIAN SERBS DEMAND SENDING OF U.N. OBSERVERS TO CROAT-MUSLIM
SIDE



      B  j  e  lj i n a, Oct. 19 (Tanjug) - The Vice-President 
of

Republika Srpska, Nikola Koljevic, said he had demanded  from 
the

UNPROFOR  on  Thursday that U.N. observers be sent to the 
Bosnian

Croat and Muslim side within 24 hours.

      Koljevic  said  that  the  U.N.  observers  should  be 
sent

primarily  to Sanski Most and the region of the Vrbas  canyon, 
in

western Bosnia, as well as to the region of Trnovo, Orasje  and
to

several other areas where there were armed provocations.

      'Combined with reports from our observers, this would
secure

a  complete ceasefire as early as Friday, which would be
important

for the peace process,' Koljevic said.



GENERAL CEASEFIRE IN BOSNIA TO TAKE EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT ON
THURSDAY



      B  a  nj  a  L u k a, Oct 19 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian 
warring

parties have agreed a general ceasefire that should take effect
at

midnight  local time (2300 gmt) on Thursday. The Republika 
Srpska

Army  Command  said in a statement on Thursday  that  the 
warring

parties had agreed that a total ceasefire should go into force 
at

midnight  throughout  the  territory  of  Bosnia-Herzegovina, 
and

specifically in the West.

      The statement said that the agreement had been reached in 
a

meeting  at  Sarajevo  airport earlier  on  Thursday  of  a 
joint

commission representing the warring parties and the UNPROFOR. 
The

commission  has  been  set up to oversee the implementation  of 
a

ceasefire  accord emplaced at 0001 hours local  time  on  Oct. 
12

(2301 gmt Oct. 11).

      It  was  also  agreed that regional ceasefire
implementation

commissions  meet on the lines of separation at Mrkonjic-Grad 
and

Sanski Most at noon on Oct. 20.



     MORE THAN 120,000 NEW SERB REFUGEES ARRIVE IN BANJA LUKA



      B  e  l g r a d e, Oct. 19 (Tanjug) - More than 120,000
Serb

refugees  have arrived in the Banja Luka region over the past 
ten

days,  the  humanitarian  oprganization Medicines  sans 
Frontiers

(MSF) said on Thursday quoting the UNHCR.

      The AFP quoted MSF Spokeswoman Francoise Wallemacq as
saying

that  the  number of Serb refugees who fled before the Muslim 
and

Croat  offensives to the region of Banja Luka and the 
neighboring

communes in the northwest of Republika Srpska, now totals
285,000.

      'At this moment, the biggest problem for MSF is the
shortage

of  personal hygiene items for the refugees in view of the 
coming

winter. It is necessary to secure heating and clothing for all 
of

them,' Wallemacq said.

      The  local  office  of  the Bosnian  Serb  Commessariat 
for

Refugees in the town of Prijedor, 50 km to the west of Banja
Luka,

said that currently in this area there are about 45,000 refugees.

      The situation is extremely difficult, and in the nearby
town

of  Omarska, it is even alarming, the local official for 
refugees

Ilija Bojanic said.

     In Omarska currently there are about 25,000 refugees from
the

region  of  Sanski  Most. The majority of  them  have  been 
given

accomodation  in  the industrial zone which barely  satisfies 
the

minimum living conditions.



             MUSLIMS DENY UNHCR ACCESS TO SANSKI MOST



      B  e  l g r a d e, Oct 19 (Tanjug) - UNHCR official in
Banja

Luka  Vladimir  Curko said on Thursday that the  UNHCR  was 
being

denied  access to Sanski Most, western Bosnia, where Muslims 
were

holding thousands of Serb civilians captive.

      According  to  the most recent reports, the  Serb 
civilians

captured  in the latest Muslim operations and held in Sanski 
Most

are  subjected to all kinds of indignity and ill treatment at 
the

hands  of  Muslim troops that have recently occupied that 
Bosnian

Serb town.





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          RED CROSS LETTER TO HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS



      B  a  nj a l u k a, Oct. 21 (Tanjug) - Republika Srpska 
Red

Cross   appealed,  on  Saturday,  to  international  
humanitarian

organizations and the world public for more aid to refugees.

      The  letter  sent  to UNHCR and Red Cross and  Red 
Crescent

Federation  officials says that in the last  three  months 
alone,

more than 200,000 refugees from the south-west of Republika
Srpska

found refuge in the Banjaluka area.

      Accommodation conditions are very difficult.  Food, 
hygiene

items,  medicine,  sufficient accommodation,  clothing, 
footwear,

heating fuel are in short supply.

      The  letter  to the officials of humanitarian 
organizations

pointed to the plight of civilians who did not manage to flee 
the

area occupied by Muslims and Croats.



              8,500 REFUGEES STILL WITHOUT SHELTERS



      B  a  nj  a  l  u k a, Oct. 22 (Tanjug) - About  8,500 
Serb

refugees who have fled to Prijedor and Banjaluka before the
latest

Muslim  and Croatian offensive are still without shelters, said 
a

local Serb official.

      Nedeljko  Rasula of the Sanski Most Crisis Staff  said 
that

over

10,000 persons were accommodated in makeshift shelters without
any

sanitary  facilities and that another 1,500 refugees  remained 
in

their  horse-driven  carts on the road  between  Sanski  Most 
and

Banjaluka.

       An  estimated  40,000  Serbs,  mostly  elderly  people 
and

children,  became  refugees  after the  intrusion  of  Muslim 
and

Croatian  troops into the Sanski Most and Prijedor  areas 
shortly

before the Bosnia ceasefire took effect on October 12.



          CROATIAN AUTHORITIES ORDERED CRIMES IN KRAJINA



      Z a g r e b, Oct. 21 (Tanjug) - The Croatian authorities
are

'completely aware' of the crimes against Serbs in Krajina,
Amnesty

International researcher Paul Miller said.

      In  an  interview  to  the independent  Split  weekly 
Feral

Tribune,  Miller  said that Amnesty International researchers 
can

state  with  certainty that the Croatian authorities  ordered 
the

torching of Serb houses.

      Amnesty international has knowledge that the killing of
Serb

civilians and the torching of their homes took place in  the 
zone

of  operation of special Croatian forces, who were either
directly

responsible for the murders and arson, or were looking on while
it

happened, Miller said.

     There have been numerous cases of executions, for which
there

are strong indications that they were carried out without
previous

trials, Miller said, pointing out that bodies have been found
with

bullet wounds in the back of the head and with slit throats.

      Miller  said  that Amnesty International has abundant 
clear

evidence  that  certain  civilians had  been  taken  away  by 
the

Croatian  armed forces and that these civilians are feared  to 
be

buried  at  the  Knin cemetery, were there are a large  number 
of

fresh unidentified graves.



     LORD CARRINGTON SPEAKS ABOUT CAUSES OF BOSNIA CIVIL WAR



      B  e l g r a d e, Oct. 20 (Tanjug) - The Belgrade weekly
NIN

published in its latest edition an interview with former 
Chairman

of  the  Conference on the Former Yugoslavia Lord Peter
Carrington

who,  after  a  long silence, described the situation  and 
hidden

moves that had led to his stepping down.

      Those moves, Lord Carrington believes, have also led  to 
an

escalation of fighting in Bosnia.

      He  said  he  had  been  shocked  when  the  European 
Union

recognized  Croatia and offered recognition to Bosnia because, 
in

his opinion, it was clearly leading to a civil war.

      He  said  that  the Kutilheiro plan, drafted  upon  his 
own

instructions, had been rejected by the United States on the
ground

that  it  would  imply acceptance of ethnic cleansing  (which 
had

hardly  begun  at the time) and forcible territorial gains 
(which

had been at a minimum).

      People simply did not understood that it was a civil war
and

did  not  pay much attention to its causes, primarily the 
complex

history of Serbian-Croatian relations, Carrington said.

      He said Croatia had been recognized at the height of a
peace

conference at which he had managed to persuade Croatian 
President

Franjo  Tudjman and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to
accept

Krajina's autonomy within Croatia.

     Among other things, Krajina's autonomy was planned to
include

separate  police  forces, and only after that Croatia  was  to 
be

recognized, Carrington said.

      As croatia was recognized before these problems were
solved,

it  lost  all  interest in negotiations at this stage because 
its

independence was not in any way made conditional, he said.

      Another  unfortunate consequence of the move at that 
moment

was  that,  after offering recognition to one of the republics 
of

the  disintegrating  country, you had to offer  the  same  to 
the

others, he said.

      However, to make such an offer to Bosnia before an 
internal

agreement  was  reached was contrary to the Bosnian 
constitution,

which  demanded that all three constituent peoples in the
republic

agree  on  that, Carrington said, adding that Muslim leader 
Alija

Izetbegovic had naturally been aware of the danger.

      During talks, Izetbegovic once told Carrington: 'If you 
ask

me  whether  I  want independence, I will have to  answer  in 
the

affirmative.'

     However, Carrington said he had been under an impression
that

Izetbegovic,  although with some hesitation, would have 
preferred

to  stay  in  a  union with Serbia and enjoy a certain  degree 
of

autonomy.

      And  he was right. If anyone really believes that after 
all

that's happened Bosnia can survive as an integral country
governed

from  Sarajevo  then he lives in a world of fantasies, 
Carrington

said.

      He  said he hoped the war would stop because there were
fair

chances for it.

     However, he said he found it hard to believe that after
three

years of war Muslims would really be ready to cooperate with
Serbs

and  vice verse. He said he believed that after some time the
Serb

part  of Bosnia would join Serbia, then the Croat part would 
join

Croatia,  while  the  Muslim part would  be  left  in  an 
awkward

position.



      KISSINGER: UNITED BOSNIAN STATE WOULD MEAN ENDLESS WAR



      B  o  n n, Oct. 22 (Tanjug) - Former U.S. Secretary of
State

Henry Kissinger, in a commentary carried exclusively by the
German

paper Welt Am Sonntag, said that a united Bosnian state would
mean

endless war in the Balkans.

      Analyzing  the  present  situation  and  the  still 
unclear

strategic plans of the U.S. government in connection with the
role

of  international forces for monitoring peace in Bosnia,
Kissinger

said  in conclusion there were too many undefined duties for
these

troops in the field. In that context Kissinger raised the issue
of

what  the  international forces will be protecting in Bosnia: 
the

current  separation lines between warring sides  or  the 
external

border of a united Bosnia.

      In  the first case, Kissinger said, the U.S. has shown 
that

the  division of Bosnia was its political objective,  and  in 
the

second it would be drawn into an endless brutal war.

      If the U.S. want a united, multiethnic Bosnia, it would
have

to  be  ready to accept the price of such a decision. U.S. 
troops

would  not  be peacekeeping troops, but they would be siding 
with

one of the parties to the conflict, Kissinger said.

      Kissinger  said he was afraid mistakes would be likely 
once

Russian troops are included into international forces, because,
if

Russian  troops  are deployed on the Serb side  and  NATO  on 
the

Croat-Muslim side, that could mean renewed divisions  between 
the

East and West.



          WORLD TO BLAME TOO FOR WAR IN EX-YUGOSLAVIA



      B  u  d  a  p  e s t, Oct. 21 (Tanjug) - Former U.N. 
Bosnia

Commander  Philippe  Morillon has stated  that  the 
international

community shares the blame for the war in the former Yugoslavia.

      In  an  interview  to the Budapest daily  Nepszabadsag, 
the

French   General  was  particularly  critical  of  the  
premature

recognition    of    former    Yugoslav   republics,   
especially

Bosnia-Herzegovina.

      General  Morillon, who came to Hungary for a  NATO 
military

exercise, said now was the time to rectify the error made  by 
the

international  community  and help  the  warring  sides  bury 
the

hatchet

once and for all.





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 AKASHI: MILOSEVIC'S CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE PROCESS IS SIGNIFICANT



 B e l g r a d e, Oct. 23 (Tanjug) - U.N. Special Envoy

Yasushi Akashi paid tribute to Belgrade and President of

Serbia Slobodan Milosevic for the endeavors towards a just

peace in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

 In a special appearance on Serbia's television Monday

night, Akashi said President Milosevic is a very intelligent,

very competent and brilliant leader, who has taken a very

active role in the peace process over the past two years.

 Noting that he has during his mission had a number of

opportunities to work together with the Serbian President,

Akashi pointed out this had been a privilege for him. Summing

up his impressions about Milosevic, Akashi also said that some

Serb leaders should listen to his counsel much closer.



 MEMBERS OF RS DELEGATION TO PEACE TALKS



 B i j e lj i n a, Oct. 23 (Tanjug) - Parliament of the

Republika Srpska decided on Monday that the RS delegation to

the peace talks in the U.S. on October 31 would comprise RS

Vice President Nikola Koljevic, Assembly President Momcilo

Krajisnik and Foreign Minister Aleksa Buha.

 The RS delegation would in fact be included into a

six-member delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to

be headed at the peace talks in the U.S. by President of

Serbia Slobodan Milosevic.



 MUSLIMS, CROATS VIOLATE CEASEFIRE



 B a nj a L u k a, Oct. 23 (Tanjug) - The Republika

Srpska Army General Staff said late Monday the Croatian army

and Muslim forces had violated the ceasefire in the Manjaca

sector of the front south of Banja Luka in western bosnia. The

General Staff's Information Service said Muslims and Croats

had violated the ceasefire also in the area of mt. Ozren and

the town of Doboj on northern Bosnia.

 The ceasefire was respected on other parts of the front,

said the statement.



 NO TANGIBLE RESULTS OF SERB-CROATIAN TALKS



 O s i j e k, Oct. 23 (Tanjug) - Talks between delegations

of the Council of the region of Srem and Baranja and the

Croatian Government held in the Croatian town of Osijek on

Monday did not result in any tangible results, except for

setting a date for a new meeting.

 The talks in Osijek were mediated by Co-Chairman of the

International Conference on former Yugoslavia Thorvald

Stoltenberg and the U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter

Galbraith. The talks were also attended by European Union

Ambassador Geerd Ahrens, but representatives of the Russian

Federation failed to appear.

 At the beginning of the negotiations, Stoltenberg and

Galbraith offered both delegations a draft agreement on the

future of the Srem-Baranja region. The draft was accepted only

as a working document, according to Serb negotiating team head

Milan Milanovic. During the five-hour meeting, there were

concrete talks on the length of the planned period of

transition under U.N. administration, guarantees for human

rights protection, and conditions for a demilitarization of

the region.

 Milanovic said the Serb side had remained firm in its

stand that the period of transition should be five years,

while Galbraith had proposed a two-year period. The U.S.

proposal has practically eliminated the Croatian demand that

the period of transition last one year or 18 months, Milanovic

explained.

 He especially underscored that nothing had definitely

been agreed yet, or signed, thus denying a statement by

Croatian delegation head Hrvoje Sarinic that the Serb side had

agreed on Monday to a 'peaceful reintegration'. 'Sarinic's

statement is just part of the election campaign of the

Croatian Democratic Union,' Milanovic assessed.

 The next round of Serb-Croatian talks has been scheduled

for Wednesday in Serb-held Erdut.





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     YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT: IT IS ONLY A STEP TO FINAL PEACE



      L e s k o v a c, Yugoslavia, Oct. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav

President  Zoran Lilic said on Thursday that  final  peace  in

former  Yugoslavia was only a step away. 'We are only  a  step

from the goal, a step from final peace and the affirmation  of

the  policy we have pursued continually since the outbreak  of

civil  war  in  former Yugoslavia,' Lilic said, meeting  local

officials in southeastern Serbia.

      Lilic  said  that it had been the policy of the  Federal

Republic of Yugoslavia that solutions should be sought through

dialogue  and  political methods. Yugoslavia has  been  making

active  and agile efforts for a peaceful end of the civil  war

in  former Yugoslavia, investing all its strength and enjoying

overwhelming support from its people, he added.

      Lilic said that Yugoslavia had constantly striven for  a

peace  settlement,  from the 1992 plan of Portuguese  diplomat

Jose  Cutilheiro, to the present day and the latest  plan  put

forth  by  the United States. 'This has been our  position  in

dealings  with both the international community and some  Serb

leaders  who  thought that different solutions were  possible,

that  a solution could be found through war, which I am deeply

convinced is not in the best interest of the Serbian  people,'

he  said.  'On our road, the most important part has certainly

been  played by (Serbian President) Slobodan Milosevic  and  I

think  that  this contribution of Serbia should be  recognised

loud and clear,' Lilic said.

     The most important thing now, he added, is not to give in

to  outside  pressure  or pressure from  any  of  the  warring

parties,  and  to stand firm on the principles agreed  at  the

Geneva  and  New  York  conferences. Lilic  said  it  was  the

obligation  of  the  international community  and  the  United

States  to  be  the  guarantors of the implementation  of  the

principles agreed at Geneva and New York, to be the  true  and

just   implementers  of  the  peace  accords  based  on  those

principles.

      Anything  else would be immoral, to put it  mildly,  and

would lead to a wider war, he added.

      Lilic described Croatia's threats addressed to the Serbs

'as  irrational and highly risky, to say the least,' and added

that Yugoslavia could accept only talks held between Serbs and

Croats  to settle territorial and property disputes.  He  said

that  the  Croatian government had set an incredible precedent

when  it  appropriated  absolutely the entire  Serb  property,

taking a course of action previously unknown in the world.

      Lilic  stressed that the Federal Republic of  Yugoslavia

had  every right to expect its active role in the peace effort

to  be  awarded  by  the  lifting of  the  sanctions  and  the

country's reintegration in international institutions.

      This  should  give Yugoslavia a chance 'to  wage  a  new

battle,  this  time  for  work and  prosperity  at  home,  and

certainly for a higher standard of living for its people  and,

most importantly, for a safer and better future for the coming

generations,' he said.



  KARADZIC CONFIDENT AT LEAST 49 PERCENT OF BOSNIA WILL BE SERB



      B  a  nj  a   L  u k a, Oct. 26 (Tanjug) - Bosnian  Serb

President Radovan Karadzic said Thursday he was confident that

the  Republika  Srpska  would cover at  least  49  percent  of

Bosnia.

      Speaking  to  Serb Democratic Party officials  in  Banja

Luka,  Karadzic said he believed the negotiating team for  the

Dayton  talks  headed by Serbian President Slobodan  Milosevic

would  bring  the  Republika Srpska as much  independence  and

state attributes as possible.

     This would create conditions for continuing the political

struggle and the struggle for independence and unification  of

the Republika Srpska with other Serb lands, namely the Federal

Republic of Yugoslavia, he said.

      Karadzic  also said the Bosnian Muslim and Croat  armies

and  the army of neighbouring Croatia would have to give  back

the  western  parts  of  the Republika Srpska  captured  after

September  8,  when  the  three  warring  sides  agreed  basic

principles of future organisation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.



        GOVERNMENT FORMS COMMISSION FOR RELATIONS WITH IMF



      B  e  l  g  r  a  d e, Oct. 26 (Tanjug) -  The  Yugoslav

Government  set  up  a  Commission  for  Relations  with   the

International Monetary Fund and other international  financial

institutions on Thursday, a Federal Government statement said.

     The newly formed Commission will coordinate activities in

the  drawing up of documents on relations and cooperation with

the  IMF,  the  World  Bank and other international  financial

institutions.

      The  Federal  Government decided that the Commission  be

chaired by Federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic.



       SERBS LIVE IN FEAR PRIOR TO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS



      Z a g r e b, Oct. 26 (Tanjug) - A Serb party leader said

on  Thursday  that  Serbs  in  Croatia  were  alarmed  on  the

threshold   of  parliamentary  elections  by  allegations   of

involvement in a bombing attack and arrests for espionage.

     Milorad Pupovac, leader of the Independent Serb Party and

its  candidate in the October 29 parliamentary election,  said

that  the allegation by the Croatian Interior Minister of Serb

involvement  in  the Rijeka bombing attack had only  increased

anxiety among the Serbs.

      A car bomb exploded recently outside a police station in

the  Croatian Adriatic port of Rijeka, killing one person  and

wounding dozens of others.

      An  Egyptian islamic terrorist organisation has  claimed

responsibility  for  the  attack,  but  not  before  Croatia's

Interior Minister had alleged without a shred of evidence that

the  attack  might have been the work of Serbs.  Elsewhere  in

Croatia,  police  has  arrested 14 people,  mostly  Serbs,  on

suspicion of anti-state activity.

      Pupavac  said  that dozens of Serbs had  been  held  for

questioning  by  police for hours, 14 of whom were  eventually

charged  with anti-state activities and remanded  in  custody.

'All  this comes at a time when the remaining Serbs in Croatia

are  preparing to elect their representatives to the  Croatian

parliament  for  the first time,' he said. Pupavac  said  that

this  kind  of  behaviour on the part of the  authorities  was

poisoning the pre-election climate and heightening the fear of

the already intimidated Serbs in Croatia.



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