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FOREIGN PRESS BUREAU DAILY BULLETIN

OCTOBER 8, 1995



PEACE TALKS SOON TO BE COMPLETED

The peace talks in Dayton, Ohio could be successfully

completed in a weeks time, according to sources close to

the talks.  The same sources have also stipulated that

the question of the two Bosnian Serb leaders, Radovan

Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, would also be resolved soon,

but did not mention in what manner.  The Bosnian

government is demanding that the two Bosnian Serb leaders

be handed over to the international war crimes tribunal

in the Hague.



U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, and UN

Mediator, Thorvald Stoltenberg, despite reports they

would be returning to Dayton, remain in eastern Slavonia

in an attempt to convince the Serbs from eastern Slavonia

to resume negotiations.  Croatian President, Franjo

Tudjman, is returning to Dayton today where he is

expected at the Wright-Patterson Air Base late tonight.



SERBS REJECT PEACE PLAN FOR EASTERN SLAVONIA

Peace talks for the reintegration of the occupied eastern

Croatian regions of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western

Srijem have been broken off for the time being.

Representatives of the Bosnian Serbs have sent a letter

to UN Secretary General, Bhoutros Ghali, in which the

Serbs have confirmed their non compliance to sign a draft

peace plan which had been drawn up by the U.S. and the

UN.  The main reason cited for the refusal is the 30 day

transition period offered for reintegration  into the

Croatian constitutional and legal system.



DETONATIONS SHAKE OSIJEK

A few loud detonations shook the residents of the eastern

Croatian city of Osijek last night at about 2 a.m.

According to the Osijek-Baranja county information

sources, the explosions took place in the occupied

Baranja region close to Osijek.



ORASJE-SAMAC FRONT HIT

The Orasje and Samac front was hit this morning by

Bosnian Serb anti-aircraft machine guns and small arms.

At 6:30 this morning two shells were launched from a

grenade launcher in Lepnica towards positions on the road

linking Orasje and Tuzla.  HVO defence positions have

been targeted by mortars, anti-aircraft machine guns and

small arms in the last 24 hours.



WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL

The lack of cooperation from the Serb side and the

financial standing of the UN is hindering the work of the

international war crimes tribunal for the former

Yugoslavia, explained tribunal president, Antonio

Casesse.  Speaking at the UN general assembly, he stated

that it is presumed that 43 of the 45 accused of war

crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia are now living

in the so-called federal republic of Yugoslavia or Serb-

held Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Without their presence, the

process cannot be continued, stated Casesse, adding that

if at the end of the war the perpetrators and the victims

are treated equally, then the legacy of hate, anger and

bitterness left by the war will not disappear.





RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN BOSNIAN PEACE FORCE

U.S. Defense Secretary, William Perry, is confident that

an agreement will be reached with Moscow on Russian

participation in the Bosnia peace force, reveal U.S.

diplomatic sources from Brussels.  Perry left today for

NATO's central headquarters in Brussels where he will be

meeting with his Russian counterpart, Pavel Grachov, this

afternoon.



ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN BOSNIAN PEACE FORCE

Italy will most likely be deploying 2,100 soldiers from

the "Garibaldi" brigade to Bosnia and Hercegovina,

announced Under-Secretary of Defence, Stefano Silvestri,

in a statement published in today's edition of Corriere

Dela Sera.  He explained that Italian troops would

participate in the international forces on the basis of

the peace agreement and in cooperation with NATO together

with the Americans, which alters significantly the

military prospects.  Silvestri stated that other sections

of Italy's armed forces would join the infantry, which

would include equipment such as the newest leopard tank,

their own team of engineers and communications experts.

Naval units would also be included in the operation.



WATER AND ELECTRICITY PROBLEMS IN SARAJEVO

With the onset of cold days, the humanitarian situation

in Sarajevo is again becoming worse.  There is

practically no gas, so there is an increase in

electricity consumption.  Meanwhile, the Sarajevo

electric company has warned consumers not to use

electricity for heating purposes as otherwise there will

not be enough.  If the current limit of 6 kilowatts of

electricity a day is overstepped, then the amount of

electricity needed will be cut back and Sarajevo

inhabitants will have to find there own means for heating

and cooking as in the past three years of war.



Water is also a problem as there are no water supplies to

the city.  The city water board cannot inspect what is

wrong, as the main water connections are in a Serb part

of the city.



RECONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA

In the next three years, Bosnia and Hercegovina will need

around 500 million dollars for the reconstruction of

hospitals and other health institutions as well as for

the purchase of new equipment, announced health minister,

Bozo Ljubic.  He also said that the government in

Sarajevo has reached an agreement with world bank experts

for a reconstruction plan for destroyed homes and clinics

and a plan for the purchase of medical equipment which

had been destroyed or damaged during the war.





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NOVEMBER 9, 1995



TUDJMAN BACK IN DAYTON

Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman arrived this morning

in Dayton, Ohio where he is to continue his participation

in the peace talks along with Bosnia's President, Alija

Izetbegovic and Serb President Slobodan Milosevic, and

coordinated by international mediators. Prior to his

departure for Dayton, Tudjman said that if a solution is

not found for the eastern Slavonia issue, Croatia would

not give up, but would rather liberate the occupied areas

by itself.



State Department's Spokesperson, Nicholas Burns said that

with President Tudjman's return to Dayton, high level

talks on Eastern Slavonia will continue.  Burns, denied,

however, that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic

threatened to leave Dayton regarding the pressures put on

him in connection with Bosnian Serb leaders, Karazdic and

Mladic.   Burns went on to say that the fate of the two

will be decided during the Dayton peace-talks and

reiterated America's stance regarding indicted war

criminals not being fit to keep their posts.



JNA OFFICERS CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES

A UN tribunal today charged three senior Yugoslav

People's Army's (JNA) officers, Mile Mrksic, Miroslav

Radic, and Veselin Sljivancanin,  with war crimes against

humanity related to the alleged mass killing at Vukovar.

The tribunal created by the UN Security Council in 1993,

accused the three men of being responsible for the attack

and occupation of Vukovar on the Croatian side of the

Serb Croatian border in November 1991.  The tribunal said

its investigation into the siege of Vukovar was

continuing and more related indictments were likely next

year.



U.S. JOURNALIST SET FREE

The U.S. government has expressed its satisfaction over

the freeing of the Christian Science Monitor Journalist,

David Rhode by the Bosnian Serbs.  He was released last

night at the order of Serbian President Milosevic and had

already spoken to both the U.S. President and the

Secretary of State.



FRANCE THREATENS TO CONTINUE SANCTIONS

The French government has threatened to object to the

lifting of sanctions against Belgrade if it does not

receive information on the fate of its two airmen

captured by the Bosnian Serbs.  This was stated at the

talks in Dayton by the French Foreign Minister, Herve De

Charette.



CROATIAN FAMILIES RETURN TO BOSNIA

At its meeting scheduled for the 13th of this month, the

Bosnian government will be discussing all the activities

of the relevant ministries regarding the return of

refugees to Travnik, Bugojno, Jajce and Stolac as part of

the implementation of the Tudjman-Izetbegovic agreement

reached in Dayton.  So far Travnik has seen the return of

17 Croatian families and 27 families have returned to

Bugojno.



CEASE-FIRE BEING OBSERVED

The situation in Bosnia and Hercegovina is totally quiet,

and the cease-fire is being observed in full, according

to UN  sources in Sarajevo.  The UN said that 71 reports

of shots were reported in the Sarajevo area, but said

that they were fired only into the air.  Meanwhile the

blue routes in and out of Sarajevo are open, with only

minor incidents occurring such as rock throwing by Serb

children at some Muslim passenger buses travelling to

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NOVEMBER 10, 1995



BREAKTHROUGH IN DAYTON PEACE TALKS

As the peace negotiations in Dayton stretch into their

tenth day, the first breakthrough of the talks is

expected today. Croatian and Bosnian negotiators are

close to cementing an agreement on the functioning of the

Bosnian Federation, including the status of Mostar as an

undivided city,  after striking a tentative deal on

Thursday.  The negotiating teams will be inspecting the

final draft of the agreement today.



Sources close to the talks say Serbian President Slobodan

Milosevic is in agreement with the proposed

constitutional  arrangement for Bosnia.  Milosevic also

agreed that accused  war criminals should be barred from

holding positions of power.  However, sources say that

the main stumbling blocks are territorial issues, that

is, how the two entities would be divided.  The issue of

eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and western Srijem will also

be heating up again as it returns to the negotiating

table.



UN SECURITY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLUTION

The UN Security Council passed a resolution last night

which condemns all violations of international human

rights laws in the area of former Yugoslavia and warns

all sides to fully respect international human rights

standards. The resolution demands that the Bosnian Serbs

allow access for the UN to places where mass killing were

reported to have occurred.  The Council is asking all

sides, and especially the Bosnian Serbs, to refrain from

any kind of activity which aims to destroy, alter, cover-

up or damage evidence of human rights violations, and is

demanding such evidence be preserved.



JOINT TASK FORCE TO IMPLEMENT CEASE-FIRE IN GORAZDE

Representatives of the Bosnian Army and Bosnian Serb

forces agreed Thursday in Sarajevo to from a joint

taskforce for implementing the cease-fire in the Gorazde

region.  UN Spokesman, Alexander Ivanko, stated that this

is an important step towards securing the cease-fire,

especially because there has been no cooperation between

the two sides in the Gorazde region for a long period of

time.



For the most part the cease-fire has been holding in

Bosnia; however, military observers report minor

incidents on the southern foothills of Majevica and heavy

firing at HVO positions on the Orasje-Samac front.

Convoys under UN escort are moving freely in and out of

the Bosnian capital.



INFORMATION OF COMMITTED WAR CRIMES

The United States is planning to pass on information

related to war crimes, committed in the former

Yugoslavia, to the international war crimes tribunal in

the Hague to help the chief prosecutor Richard Goldstone

with the investigations, stated Assistant Secretary of

State, Strobe Talbot.  He added that the U.S. would be

sending relevant information from informants and other

reliable sources to Goldstone as more reports come in.

According to Talbot, Goldstone said that more charges

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NOVEMBER 13, 1995



PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED FOR EASTERN CROATIA

An agreement of the peaceful reintegration of eastern

Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem, into Croatia's

legal and constitutional system was signed between the

two sides yesterday.  Croatia's chief negotiator, Hrvoye

Sarinic, signed the document on behalf of the Croatian

government in the presence of UN mediator, Thorvald

Stoltenberg, and U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Peter

Galbraith.



In a statement for Croatian television, Prime Minister

Zlatko Matesa, described the agreement as exceptionally

valuable, as it represents the very proof of the fact

that Croatia's peaceful policies had paid off and it also

opens up the prospects of resolving a number of burning

issues.  The most important of them being the return of

refugees to their homes and the rebuilding of the war-

damaged areas.



According to the Hina news agency, the Belgrade media

have described the latest agreement on eastern Slavonia

as a "peaceful resolution of the issue of the eastern

Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja region".  The local chief

Serb negotiator Milan Milanovic who signed the document

of behalf of the Serb side, said that two Serb requests

were fulfilled, those being that there be no war and that

the residents currently living in the area remain there.

Milanovic also said that the area will be under UN

administration and that human rights of both, those who

have been living there and those who are to return to the

area would, be equally observed.



REFUGEES TO RETURN TO BOSNIA

The first large groups of refugees are expected to begin

their return home to Bosnia today.  With the signing of

the agreement between President's Tudjman and Izetbegovic

in Dayton, refugees will be able to return to Bugojn,

Travnik, Jajce and Stolac.  Sarajevo media announced that

hundreds of Croat and Muslim refugees are expected to

return home immediately to Travnik and Stolac.  Travnik

county authorities confirmed last night that 77 Croatian

families registered for the return.  The local civil

defense and police units have been assigned to protect

empty homes to ensure the Croats can move in safely.





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NOVEMBER 14, 1995



REINTEGRATION OF EASTERN SLAVONIA

President Tudjman's Chief of Staff, Hrvoye Sarinic, met

today with representatives of the union of Croatian

refugees to discuss the basic agreement signed Sunday on

eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem.  Sarinic

stated that the final peace agreement will contain more

detailed provisions on issues relating to local self-

government and transitional  civil and political

administration for these areas, the return of refugees

and displaced persons, de-militarization, the return of

property, and the fate of missing persons and detainees.



UN TO ADAPT RESOLUTION

The Croatian Ambassador to the UN, Mario Nobilo, said

speaking to Croatian television last night that the UN

Security Council is to adopt a resolution detailing the

ways of implementing the points of the peaceful agreement

on the re-integration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and

western Srijem into Croatia's legal system.  The

resolution will  among other things deal with the issues

of the interim authorities, local police units in the

area, deadlines for the return of refugees and that

countries ready to send their forces to the area be

named.



TERRITORIAL ISSUES DISCUSSED AT PEACE TALKS

Sources close to the Dayton peace conference say the

talks have entered a critical phase.  The return of U.S.

Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Dayton is seen

as a push by U.S. officials to resolve territorial issues

and preserve Bosnia-Herzegovina as a single state.  Maps

and the proposed constitution for the future are

currently on the negotiating table, as well as

possibilities for preserving the unity of Sarajevo.  The

negotiations are also under way to reach an agreement on

the nomalization of relations between Croatia and Serbia.



FUTURE ROLES FOR PEACE FORCES

The UN Special Envoy, Kofi Annan, has met with the

representatives of key humanitarian agencies active in

the area of former Yugoslavia in order for them to begin

the transition operation from UN to NATO, as part of the

efforts at bringing back peace to Bosnia.  Discussing the

issue, the UN high commissioner for refugees, Sadako

Ogata, said that the ties between the two organizations

should be clearly defined.  Meanwhile, Mr. Annan said

speaking on the same subject that there were two possible

options: one being that the same forces work in both

Bosnia and in Croatia and the other that the special

multinational force be put together and deployed in

eastern Slavonia.  He stressed, however, that the UN

Security Council is yet to decide on the issue.





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NOVEMBER 15, 1995



DAYTON PEACE TALKS

At the peace talks in Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday, the U.S.

Secretary of State Warren Christopher was present, though

still none of the key questions were resolved regarding

Bosnia-Hercegovina, according to State Department

Spokesman Nicholas Burns.  The talks, said Burns, are

centered on all of the main issues including

constitutional affairs, territory, elections, the

seperation of forces and the status of Sarajevo.



APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE IN FINDING FRENCH PILOTS

French Defense Minister, Charles Millon, has confirmed

that his government is doing all it can for the release

of the two French pilots whose Mirage jet was shot down

on August 30th over Bosnian-Serb held territory.  In a

public letter to the heads of state and government

leaders of the NATO member countries, the father of pilot

Captain Frederic Chiffeau, appealed for assistance in

finding his son and his colleague, Colonel Jose Sovigne.



SERB SENTENCES PASSED

The council of the court martial in Gospic today passed

sentences for the first group of 70 persons of Serb

nationality arrested in the Lika-Senj county and accused

of armed rebellion against the Republic of Croatia.

Milan Bubanj, Nikola Banjeglav, Nikola Uzelac, Jovo Sorak

and Bogdan Ognjenovic were sentenced to four-year term

prison terms.  Radomir Cvijanovic, Milan Studen, Stevo

Rakic and Branko Stakic received sentences of three years

while Stevo Rapajic and Bozo Vlaisavljevic were sentenced

to prison terms of two years and six months.  Accused

Veljko Leka and Milan Uzelac were released from custody.



1.5 BILLION USD TO SEND U.S. TROOPS

U.S. President, Bill Clinton, in a letter to the House of

Representatives Speaker, Newt Gingrich, disclosed on

Tuesday that it would cost 1.5 billion U.S. dollars a

year to deploy U.S. forces in Bosnia.  Clinton made it

clear that he did not believe that he needed

congressional approval for a deployment and emphasized

that U.S. forces would be deployed only if a peace accord

was reached and signed by all the warring sides in

Bosnia.





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NOVEMBER 17, 1995



DAYTON PEACE TALKS

President Tudjman returned from the Dayton peace talks

last night. In a short statement to the press, the

President assessed the latest round of talks as being

highly successful from the Croatian standpoint. Tudjman

is to address the nation today in regards to the results

of the talks.



The German representative to the peace talks, Christian

Swartz Shilling, said upon his return to Bonn, that the

talks had a 50-50 chance of success.  In the case they

fall, he said the UN would have to lift the arms embargo

imposed on the Muslims and Croats.  Schilling said there

are two issues that could make or break the talks; the

internal division of Bosnian territory between two

entities and the status of Sarajevo.



SERBS ASK FOR MORE TERRITORY

Serbian negotiators at the Dayton talks have asked for an

additional 1.5 percent of the future state for the

Bosnian Serbs in return for some kind of concessions,

according to France press, citing sources close to the

talks.  Stressing how the U.S. peace package allocates 49

percent of Bosnia-Hercegovina to the Serbs and 51 percent

to the Muslim-Croat Federation, the Serb side claims that

they currently holding less that the 49 percent the plan

envisions.  The Muslims and Croat sides feel that the

Serbs should be the ones conceding territory, including

some areas in Posavina and access to Sanski Most.



EXPANDED CHARGES AGAINST KARAZDIC AND MLADIC

In Hague, the international war crimes tribunal for the

former Yugoslavia has expanded charges against Bosnian

Serb leader, Radovan Karazdic, and military commander,

Ratko Mladic.  The court filed additional charges against

the two, accusing them of genocide, war crimes and crimes

against humanity committed in Srebrenica.  Dutch Defence

Minister, Joris Vorheve, stated that the Bosnian Serbs

are trying to destroy evidence of the mass execution of

thousands of Srebrenica Muslims.  Vorheve told Dutch

television that there are reports that the Bosnian Serbs

have been exhuming the mass graves in an attempt to

destroy evidence of the killings.



CONSULTATIONS ON EASTERN SLAVONIA RESOLUTION

The UN Security Council is continuing informal

consultations for the resolution on the situation in

Croatia, which is to define the implementation of the

basic agreement of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western

Srijem, according to unofficial sources in New York.

Russia has voiced objections to part of the draft

resolution, prompting the U.S. to propose that decisions

on this document be postponed while peace talks are still

in progress in Dayton.



FIRE IN UN HEADQUARTERS

A fire was reported at the UN headquarters in Sarajevo

which had caused significant damage, though there were no

human casualties.  According to UN spokespeople, the fire

started on the second floor of a building that belonged

to the post and telecommunications company before the

war.  Besides French peacekeepers, professional Sarajevo

fire brigades assisted in putting out the blaze.





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NOVEMBER 20, 1995



OUTCOME OF PEACE TALKS TO BE ANNOUNCED

The outcome of the Dayton peace talks should be announced

today by 4 p.m. central European time today.  U.S. State

Department spokesman, Nicholas Burns, stated that at this

time there would either be a ceremony for the signing of the

accords or a news conference announcing the talk's failure.

U.S. officials, who had not set any deadlines until now,

decided that 19 day was enough for the parties to reach a

decision on a peace agreement.  Burns added that there are

still differences among the negotiating teams, especially

regarding territorial issues including the status of

Sarajevo and the question of the northern Bosnian Posavina

corridor for the Serbs.  In regards to constitutional

questions, there would supposedly be no right of succession

from Bosnia-Hercegovina for any of the ethnic entities.



POSITIVE OUTCOMES OF PEACE TALKS

One of the positive outcomes of the talks so far is that

Croatia and Yugoslavia were able to reach an agreement of

the missing persons issues.  The side-agreement was signed

by Foreign Ministers, Granic and Milutinovic.  It calls for

the formation of a task force in co-operation with the Red

Cross, the armies and other organizations.  The task force

is to establish facts on the fate of missing persons.  The

agreement also calls for the release of all POWs.   The

first meeting of the task force is to take place in Zagreb

two weeks from now and regular meetings are scheduled to

alternate between Zagreb and Belgrade.



LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AND ARMS EMBARGO REQUESTED

A meeting of the UN Security Council that was to consider

the lifting of sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia if a peace

deal is signed, was postponed last night in New York.  The

Security Council was also to consider lifting the arms

embargo against Bosnia-Hercegovina, a move requested by the

Bosnian government.  Both resolutions should be ready to be

accepted if the Dayton talks achieve their purpose.



REPUBLICANS STILL OPPOSE SENDING U.S. TROOPS

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress again voiced their

opposition to President Bill Clinton's plans to send U.S.

troops to Bosnia.  House speaker, Newt Gingrich, said he

considers sending Americans to Bosnia dangerous, especially

since the U.S. remains divided over if they should be sent

there in the first place.  He also said that it will be

difficult for Clinton to get congressional approval for the

mission.



SERBS FIRE AT ORASJE-SAMAC FRONT

HVO sources on the Orasje-Samac front report that Serbs

fired two shells toward Croat positions near Bok at six this

morning.  One hour later, one mortar shell was fired towards

Vidovci.



EU MINISTERS DISCUSS FINANCIAL AID

The foreign ministers of the European Union today, at a

meeting in Brussels, discussed the finer points of financial

aid for Bosnia and Croatia.  The EU is prepared immediately

to invest 300 million dollars, while they will look to see

how to raise the rest of an estimated 5 to 6 billion dollars

over the next three to four years.  It is estimated that

financing will also come from international organizations,

rich Islamic countries and the U.S.





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DAYTON TALKS CONTINUE

The peace talks in Dayton, Ohio are still continuing.  Last

night,  State Department spokesman, Nicholas Burns, denied

rumors that the talks had collapsed and stated that U.S.

Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, was continuing his

meetings with the leaders of the Croatian, Bosnian and

Serbian delegations on the sticking points of the peace

accord, especially the ways of resolving territorial issues

and the maps of the interior carve-up of Bosnia between the

Croat-Muslim Federation and the territory under Serb

control.  According to the White House, U.S. President Bill

Clinton had a telephone conversation with President Tudjman,

this marking his first direct involvement in the talks.



DISCUSSIONS OF SUSPENDING SANCTIONS

The UN Security Council is prepared to consider suspending

sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro if a peace deal is

reached in Dayton, according to Associated Press.  Under the

proposed resolution, economic sanctions would be suspended

immediately, but would  be re-installed if Belgrade does not

officially sign the Dayton agreement.



However, the suspension of sanctions would not effect

regions in Bosnia controlled by the Bosnian Serbs.  They

would have to withdraw their forces from certain parts of

Bosnia, as dictated in the agreement, before sanctions

against them are lifted.  The document also sees the

complete removal of sanctions imposed on Serbia and

Montenegro and areas controlled by Bosnian Serbs 10 days

following elections in Bosnia, on the condition that the

Bosnian Serbs make good on terms in the agreement calling

for the withdrawal of their forces.



LIFTING OF ARMS EMBARGO CONSIDERED

The Security Council is also to consider a request to lift

the arms embargo on Croatia, Bosnia, and Yugoslavia.

According to the proposal, if it is passed these countries

would be able to import offensive arms legally, 90 days

after signing of the peace agreement.  After 180 days, the

embargo would be lifted, but the import of arms would have

to be in accordance with the terms of a side-agreement of

arms control.





CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS

There was a marked increase in cease-fire violations in the

Sarajevo area this morning.  The UN HQ there believe the

violations to be connected to increasing tensions over the

outcome of the Dayton talks and contradictory reports on the

negotiations from the Wright-Patterson Base.



ATTACKS CONTINUE ON ORASJE-SAMAC FRONT

Despite the cease-fire and the Dayton talks, clashes

continue on the Orasje-Samac front.  Croat positions have

come under Serb fire several times in the past 24 hours.

HVO sources report Serb attacks have been a regular daily

occurrence in the past two weeks, most frequently  occurring

in the eastern sections of the front.  Defence lines,

however,  remain stable, HVO sources said.



PRISONER EXCHANGE AGREEMENT

The governmental Deputy President, Ivica Kostovic, spoke in

Zagreb on Monday with the relatives of those who either have

been missing in the war or have been detained.  Kostovic

informed them of the prisoner exchange agreement signed

between the Croatian Foreign Minister, Mate Granic, and his

Yugoslav counterpart, Milan Milutinovic.  Under this

agreement, both sides are to investigate the fates of all

missing people and all the detainees should be set free.  A

meeting of a joint commission is to take place in two weeks

time.  Kostovic also brought up the fact that in the

agreement signed with the local Serbs on the re-integration

of the still occupied section of Croatia, there is no

mention of those who are missing or have been detained.  He

said that all the facts and figures on the issues are in the

hands of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its armed

forces, as they are in possession of the Vukovar hospital

archives.





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PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN DAYTON

The Presidents of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia have put their

signatures on the general peace agreement on Bosnia and

Hercegovina in Dayton, Ohio last night.  Also attending the

ceremony were the U.S. Secretary of State, Warren

Christopher and Under Secretary, Richard Holbrooke, Russian

representative, Igor Ivanov, EU mediator, Carl Bildt, as

well as the representatives of the contact group countries.

Apart from the agreement itself, those taking part in the

talks also agreed to annexes on military issues, human

rights protection and the return of refugees and displaced

people to their homes.



The Bosnian delegation had agreed that the issue of Brcko be

resolved within a year's time by a decision of an

arbitration committee headed by an American. In other areas,

the lines of separation are nearly identical to the current

situation in the field with the Serbs still having to make

some concessions.  The Bosnian President added that the

corridor route that will be linking Sarajevo and Gorazde

will be at least 8 kilometers wide and in some areas even 4

times wider. He stressed that the best results have been

achieved in the area of constitutional principles.

Izetbegovic confirmed that Bosnia and Montenegro are to

recognize each other soon under this latest agreement.



TUDJMAN PLEASED WITH PEACE-DEAL

Addressing those present at the ceremony, President Tudjman

stressed among other things that he was pleased that a peace-

deal was finally struck after 4 years of bitter fighting in

Bosnia.  He also said that Croatia did all it could to avoid

getting entangled into a war, but once sucked in it spared

no effort in searching for a peaceful solution.  The

Croatian President said that he was now expecting a peaceful

re-integration of the still occupied sections of the country

and the full normalization of relations with all the states

that have emerged following the break-up of former

Yugoslavia.



FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR CROATIA

The most important achievement of the Dayton agreement is

peace, and for Croatia this means a new image and confidence

in the world and favorable prospects, stated Croatian

President Franjo Tudjman to reporters after returning from

Dayton.  The peace achieved is of inestimable value to

Croatia, Bosnia and the world.  He said this means no more

victims while the economy will be boosted by tourism which

should achieve up to two or three times the numbers of last

year.  He said the results of the talks will be evident as

early as next year. Commenting on Croatia's economic

prospects, he said that the opening of unlimited traffic

towards Croatia will increase revenues by at least half a

million dollars more than last year.



IZETBEGOVIC SPEAKS IN ZAGREB

Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, speaking in Zagreb

today, echoed the sentiment that peace is the most important

achievement at the Dayton conference.  He said that this was

maybe not a just peace, but it was more just than the

continuation of war.  He said the agreement brings peace and

peace will revitalize Bosnia, adding that he was relatively

happy with the agreement.  He said he was least satisfied

with the results regarding the Posavina region of Bosnia as

well as the status of Brcko. He said this issue nearly broke

down the talks but added that this problem would be

resolved.  Izetbegovic confirmed that Kreshimir will remain

the President of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Federation.  In

conclusion, he said that he was most satisfied with the fact

that Bosnian institutions will remain, enabling the

reconstruction of the country.



MILOSEVIC SPEAKS OUT TO HIS PEOPLE

Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said speaking to his

people that the war was over and it was time for all to turn

to peace and economic recovery.  Speaking about the maps

agreed to in Dayton, Milosevic said that they were far

better than those proposed by the contact group.



MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT PLEASED WITH OUTCOME OF TALKS

The Montenegrin President, Momir Bultovic, said during a

direct television link with Montenegrin TV that he was

pleased with the outcome of the talks.  He added that that

held a number of constructive meetings with President

Tudjman and added that the issue of Prevalka would be

resolved in the next phase of the talks, most probably in

Paris.



MEDIA RESPONSE TO PEACE TALKS

The Sarajevo media analyzed the Dayton talks and the

agreement which was signed, concluding that the 4 years of

suffering in Bosnia is finally at an end.  The Sarajevo

daily "Oslobodenje" wrote that peace is being given a chance

while a commentator in the paper wrote with great emotion

that the signatures at Dayton signify the end of the current

Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina.  Further, the article

asks whether the agreement gives a real chance for  Bosnia

and Hercegovina as one state based on new principles or if

it legalizes it's division.



"Vecernje Novine" ran a statement by Momcilo Krajisnik in

its front page in which he asserts that the Serbs from Pale

will not accept the peace agreement, throwing a shadow on

the results of the difficult negotiations.  Bosnian

politicians commented on the agreement without much emotion.

Member of the Bosnian Presidency and leader of the

opposition party Democratic Movement, Nijaz Durakovic, warns

that citizens do not yet have any reason to celebrate as the

only thing known for sure is that Bosnia is being divided.

The Dayton agreement received sharp criticism from the

President of the Muslim-Bosnian organization, Adil

Zulfikarpasic, a one-time close associate of Izetbegovic,

who said that the Dayton agreement is a capitulation which

makes the many victims of this war insignificant.







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<Body Text>SECURITY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLUTION 1023

<Body Text>The Security Council passed resolution 1023,
acknowledging

<Body Text>the agreement of the peaceful reintegration of eastern

<Body Text>Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem. It stressed
that the

<Body Text>Croatian government and the local Serbs will have to
co-

<Body Text>operate  fully with the basic agreement signed on
November

<Body Text>12 and called on all sides to refrain from military
or other

<Body Text>activities which might interfere with the
implementation of

<Body Text>the transitional measures described in the agreement.

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<Body Text>NOBILO WELCOMES INTL. FORCE

<Body Text>The Security Council acknowledged its role in
implementing

<Body Text>the agreement mentioned above, including to set up

<Body Text>transitional authorities and approve the deployment of

<Body Text>international forces to the area.  Croatia's
ambassador to

<Body Text>the UN, Mario Nobilo, told the Council he welcomes the

<Body Text>resolution and the force should be established as
soon as

<Body Text>possible, adding that it must have an active mandate
based

<Body Text>on chapter seven of the UN charter.  He said how the

<Body Text>Croatian government would not renew the UNCRO
mandate, which

<Body Text>expires November 30.  Russian and Belgian troops could

<Body Text>remain in the area and be reinforced by a U.S.
battalion in

<Body Text>order to demilitarize the area immediately, said
Nobilo.  He

<Body Text>also dismissed the need for a large, expensive force,
and

<Body Text>said the force should be a decisive force and take
charge of

<Body Text>the demilitarization, handing over the other elements
of the

<Body Text>mandate to civilian authorities.  Nobilo said Croatia

<Body Text>expected the U.S. to continue with its leading role
and that

<Body Text>it would support the appointment of an American to
head the

<Body Text>transitional authorities.

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<Body Text>SANCTIONS COULD BE RE-IMPOSED

<Body Text>The UN Security Council voted last night to suspend

<Body Text>sanctions against Yugoslavia, as agreed upon at the
Dayton

<Body Text>conference, and will be suspended immediately and

<Body Text>indefinitely, with the option that they could be
re-imposed

<Body Text>should Yugoslavia violate the peace accords. 
Sanctions

<Body Text>against the Bosnian Serbs will remain and their
suspension

<Body Text>will be considered only when they comply with the
terms at

<Body Text>the Dayton accords, which include withdrawing from
some

<Body Text>areas of Bosnia they currently hold.  The arms
embargo on

<Body Text>all the countries, which emerged after the collapse
of the

<Body Text>former Yugoslavia, will be lifted 180 days after the
passing

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<Body Text>CLINTON TO ADDRESS NATION

<Body Text>The Clinton administration is working hard on selling
the

<Body Text>idea of sending 20 thousand U.S. troops to Bosnia. 
It has

<Body Text>said that the possibility of American casualties in
Bosnia

<Body Text>is a risk worth taking if it will help make peace in
the

<Body Text>region.  Clinton faces major opposition in Congress
and is

<Body Text>planning to give a televised address to the nation to

<Body Text>explain to the American public why sending Americans
to

<Body Text>Bosnia is worthwhile.  Senior U.S. Envoy, Richard
Holbrooke,

<Body Text>said that the most important statement the public
needs to

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before

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added

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control

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They

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<Body Text>IVANOV SATISFIED WITH PEACE AGREEMENT

<Body Text>The Russian delegate at the Bosnia peace talks, Igor
Ivanov,

<Body Text>said he is satisfied with the Dayton agreement but
added

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Ivanov

<Body Text>explained that the most difficult problem to resolve
is that

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available

<Body Text>to him, some two million.  The Russian delegate
pointed out

<Body Text>that Russia still intends to organize a conference
for the

<Body Text>presidents of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia in Moscow,
as had

<Body Text>been planned for last month but was cancelled due to
the

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TUDJMAN MEETS WITH ANAN

President Franjo Tudjman met with the UN Secretary General's

special envoy, Mr. Kofi Anan, in Zagreb today.  Anan said

after the meeting to reporters that he had discussed with

President Tudjman the newly arisen situation in the region

after the signing of the Dayton agreement.  Special emphasis

was placed on the realization of the integration of eastern

Croatian regions back into the Croatian state system.



RETURN OF VELIKA KLADUSA REFUGEES

Turkey's Minister of the Interior, Teoman Unusan, arrived in

Zagreb yesterday.  He will be holding talks with his

Croatian and Bosnian counterparts, Ivan Jarnjak, and Bakir

Alispahic, in regards to the organization of the police

forces from the three countries in Velika Kladusa, a town at

the northern most tip of Bosnia, bordering with Croatia.

The joint police forces should guarantee safety and security

for 20,000 Bosnian Muslims to return to the town, who are

currently in a refugee camp in Kupljensko in Croatia.



AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION IN INTL PEACE FORCE

U.S. Secretary of Defense, William Perry, held talks with

Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, Foreign Minister Wolfgang

Schuessel and Defense Minister Werner Fasslabend to discuss

a transit through Austria of U.S. units joining the NATO

peace implementation force.  Units of the first armoured

division, based in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, would move by

rail through Austria and Hungary and than to Tuzla in

northern Bosnia.  Perry who arrived in Vienna last night,

said Austria's key geostrategic position could help cement

peace in Bosnia and forge closer ties between eastern and

western Europe.  Austria's  defense ministry said on

Thursday it planned to deploy some 250 soldiers and about

100 vehicles of an army transport unit to join the Bosnian

peacekeeping mission.



CANADA TO SEND TROOPS

Canada is also preparing to send its troops in NATO led

international peace forces to Bosnia, but only after it

receives assurances that the U.S. will participate with a

significant contingent of its own forces.  This was stated

by Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Cretain, after discussions

with the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali, who is

on an official visit to Canada.



US-RUSSIA DEFENSE MINISTERS MEETING NEEDED

Russia's President, Boris Yeltsin, has said that a new

meeting between the Russian and U.S. defense ministers is

needed, so as to discuss the participation of Russian troops

in the future multilateral peace forces in Bosnia.  Russian

Minister Pavel Grachov and U.S. Defense Secretary William

Perry, agreed on the 8th of November, on the sending of

1,500 Russian troops into Bosnia with the NATO alliance but

under an autonomous command.



NATO SECRETARY GENERAL ROLE TO BE FILLED

After the Dayton agreement, to which the NATO alliance will

have a leading role, the question as to who will take over

the role of the NATO Secretary General from the outgoing

Willy Claes, has become an important issue.  The foreign

ministers of the NATO alliance will meet on the 4th of

December to decided who will be Claes's successor, according

to U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry.  He told reporters

that there were several candidates for the position

including the Spaniard, Havier Solana and the Dane, Ufe

Eleman-Jensen.  The Spanish government, though, negated the

news that it had proposed its foreign minister, Havier

Solana, for the job.



CONTROVERSY ON YUGO ADMITTANCE TO CSCE

Russia has brought up the issue of readmitting the so called

Yugoslavia back into the Conference for Security and

Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), according to France press.

The issue was raised at a meeting of the CSCE ambassadors in

Vienna, to which the Slovenian and Albanian ambassadors

reacted negatively against the proposal





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CLINTON SEEKS SUPPORT TO SEND US TROOPS

The U.S. President Bill Clinton will address his nation in a

television broadcast tonight, in which he will seek support

for the plan to send some 20,000 U.S. troops to Bosnia, in

the NATO led peacekeeping forces.  Meanwhile, U.S. Defense

Secretary William Perry said yesterday for the CBS

television network, that Washington would not send its

troops to Bosnia if one of the major parties, in this case

the Bosnian Serbs, decides it is not going to honor the

peace agreement.



KARAZDIC OPPOSES INTL. PEACE FORCES

Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karazdic, has threatened that

his so called parliament will not accept the NATO presence

in Bosnia, and that he would resist western troops if they

tried to apprehend him on the basis of being an accused war

criminal.  The NATO alliance warned on Monday that any

attempt by the Bosnian Serbs to intimidate NATO led peace

forces, that are headed for Serb parts of Bosnia, will be

met by strong retaliation.



KARAZDIC DEMANDS CHANGES IN DAYTON AGREEMENT

Karazdic also sought changes to the Dayton agreement,

especially in regards to the status of Sarajevo. Holbrooke

negated any such changes to the Dayton agreement so as to

suit the Bosnian Serbs who are angry because of the

surrender of the Serb part of Sarajevo.  "Dayton was the

initialling.  Paris will be the signing.  There will be no

change between Dayton and Paris", Holbrooke said in an

interview on the NBC television network.  He also played

down the possible danger from Serb forces to the projected

60,000 strong NATO led peacekeeping force, which would

include 20,000 U.S. troops.



PROTEST RALLY

A protest rally was held in the Croatian city of Slavonski

Brod on Sunday afternoon by Bosnian Croatians from the

Bosnian Posavina region. A letter of protest was written

after the rally which stated that the peace agreement

reached in Dayton, in which the Serb aggressors were given

the Bosnian Posavina region and other non-Serb areas in

Bosnia, is illegal.  The letter continued that such an

agreement therefore annulled the efforts of the Bosnian

Croats and Muslims, the Washington accord, the Vienna

agreement, the contact group plan and other documents

previously signed.



SLOVENIAN-BOSNIAN FUTURE CO-OPERATION

Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Drnovsek, and his Bosnian

counterpart, Haris Silajdzic, held talks this morning in

Ljubljana, in regards to future economic co-operation in

industry, energy and finance, between the two countries.



BILATERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN BOSNIA AND TURKEY

The Turkish Prime Minister, Tansu Ciller, will travel to

Sarajevo tomorrow where she will be signing a document in

regards to bilateral relations between Bosnia and Turkey.

Mrs. Ciller will also meet with Bosnian President Alija

Izetbegovic.



UN HUMAN RIGHTS ENVOY VISITS FORMER YUGO. REGIONS

The UN special envoy for human rights in the former

Yugoslavia, Elizabeth Ren, has arrived in Belgrade for a

visit to the so-called Yugoslavia, after which she will

travel to Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia.  She will travel

today to the capital of the volatile Kosovo region,

Pristina, where she will meet with representatives of the

Albanian ethnic community, which make up more than 90

percent of the region's population.  In Bosnia, she will be

visiting Mostar and Banja Luka.



BOSNIAN REFUGEES CALL FOR REFERENDUM

Delegates claiming to represent 500,000 Bosnian war refugees

living in central Europe called for a referendum of all

Bosnians to approve the peace agreement signed last week in

Dayton.  The Bosnian refugees and displaced persons

assembled in the European forum for Bosnia-Hercegovina,

rejected the existence of two separate entities in Bosnia.

The refugees demanded that NATO and other peacekeeping

troops guarantee the safe return of all refugees expelled

from their homes, freedom of movement for all within

Bosnia's borders and withdrawal of all armed forces to their

barracks.  They also called for all alleged war criminals to

be handed over to the international war crimes tribunal in

Hague, and for economic aid to be withheld from areas of

Bosnia which do not establish democratic rule.  They urged

the international community to ensure free and fair

elections in Bosnia, including voting rights for refugees

living abroad.



4000 GERMAN TROOPS TO JOIN PEACE FORCE

About 4000 German troops will head off to Bosnia on the 22

of December to join the NATO led peacekeeping forces,

according to the German Defense Ministry.  An early

contingent of German officers should join their NATO

counterparts on the 8 of December, who will arrive in Bosnia

so as to plan the logistics of the peace mission.

The Germans are planning to send a mountain infantry and

engineering brigade, along with medical personnel.



HOLBROOKE TO RESIGN NEXT YEAR

The chief negotiator for the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, has

stated that he will be resigning his position from the U.S.

government next year, but added that he would be prepared to

help in the continuation of the peace process.  The main

U.S. negotiator in clinching the Dayton deal between

Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, Holbrooke said that he is

sticking to his first plan of resigning his position before

the expiration of the first Clinton mandate, because of

personal reasons.

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