
From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)
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Subject: YDS 11/2
Date: 3 Nov 1995 03:22:10 GMT
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02. NOVEMBER 1995.

                     YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



C O N T E N T S :



PEACE CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA IN DAYTON

- TALKS ON BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA OPEN AT DAYTON

- MILOSEVIC EXPRESSES OPTIMISM ABOUT SUCCESS OF BOSNIA TALKS

- MILOSEVIC MEETS CHRISTOPHER IN DAYTON

- MILOSEVIC AND TUDJMAN ON NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN

  SERBIA AND CROATIA

- CROATIAN TV: MILOSEVIC ALONE MENTIONED BY NAME ON ARRIVAL TO

  DAYTON



THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

- YUGOSLAV PREMIER ASKS U.N. FOR PERMISSION TO IMPORT GAS

- YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT: YUGOSLAV ARMY DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN BOSNIA WAR



SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

- MOSCOW FAVOURS LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA



BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA

- ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SERBS TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH DAYTON TALKS,

  SAYS BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL

- BRIDGE LINKING SERB AND MUSLIM PARTS OF SARAJEVO OPEN



ICRC - REFUGEES

- ICRC: OVER 7,000 OLD AND FEEBLE PEOPLE REMAIN IN SERB KRAJINA



THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL FOR WAR CRIMES

- BOSNIAN SERBS SUBMIT EVIDENCE OF MUSLIM, CROAT CRIMES AT THE HAGUE



ELECTIONS IN CROATIA

- OSCE OBSERVER FINDS IRREGULARITIES GALORE IN CROATIAN ELECTIONS









               PEACE CONFERENCE ON BOSNIA IN DAYTON



            TALKS ON BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA OPEN AT DAYTON

     D a y t o n, Ohio, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - U.S. State Secretary

Warren  Christopher stressed Wednesday that the  goal  of  the

talks on Bosnia-Herzegovina was to secure peace in this former

Yugoslav republic and thus prevent the war in the Balkans from

spreading.  He  opened the peace talks at the Wright-Patterson

air  force  base near Dayton, Ohio, with the participation  of

Serbian   President  Slobodan  Milosevic,  Croatian  President

Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic.

      'We are here to give Bosnia and Herzegovina a chance  to

be  a country at peace, not a killing field... we are here  to

prevent  a  wider war that could undermine European security,'

Christopher said. Addressing the three heads of delegation, he

said: 'Only you can ensure that this process will succeed.' He

said  that  the U.S., the E.U. and Russia, indeed  the  entire

international community, would help them achieve this end.  'I

do  know that negotiations can work when people persevere  and

are  determined to make them work,' Christopher said and added

that the talks would go on until agreement was reached.

      Christopher set out that Bosnia-Herzegovina  within  its

internationally-recognized borders must remain a single  state

with a democratic order, on the basis of the principles agreed

on  in  the  negotiations so far. He underlined  the  need  to

respect  human rights and to return displaced persons as  well

as  to  hold elections under international control as soon  as

possible.

     The U.S. State Secretary noted also the need to normalize

by  peaceful means the situation in eastern Slavonia, that is,

the Srem-Baranja region, the so-called U.N. Sector East.

      Christopher  said  U.S. engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina

was  necessary  because the crisis in this region  jeopardized

stability in the world.

      He  concluded  that NATO was the only organization  that

could   secure  peace  in  Bosnia-Herzegovina  and  that   its

re-building  must  be carried out with the assistance  of  the

E.U.

      E.U.  mediator Carl Bildt set out that the international

community was doing all it could to secure peace in Bosnia and

also  that  it expected normalization of relations  throughout

the territory of former Yugoslavia.

      Head of the Russian negotiating team Igor Ivanov pointed

out  that  this  was  a decisive meeting  that  should  enable

reaching  accord as the four years of war have only served  to

bring  suffering  and destruction in a conflict  that  has  no

winner.



   MILOSEVIC EXPRESSES OPTIMISM ABOUT SUCCESS OF BOSNIA TALKS

     D a y t o n, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan

Milosevic said on arriving at Wright-Patterson air force  base

outside Dayton, Ohio, late on Tuesday local time that  he  was

optimistic about the outcome of Bosnia peace talks opening  on

Wednesday. 'I believe the talks will succeed. We attach  great

importance to the peace initiative of the U.S. ... and we  are

here  to  join  the  effort to bring peace  to  the  Balkans,'

Milosevic said.

      Milosevic,  who  heads the Yugoslav  delegation  to  the

talks,  was  met at the airport near Dayton by U.S.  Assistant

Secretary  of  State Richard Holbrooke and  a  number  of  his

associates as well as by E.U. mediator Carl Bildt.



              MILOSEVIC MEETS CHRISTOPHER IN DAYTON

     D a y t o n, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan

Milosevic held a meeting Wednesday with the U.S. Secretary  of

State  Warren Christopher. During the meeting held in a  frank

atmosphere,  Milosevic  and  Christopher  discussed  the  most

important  issues  regarding peace in the Balkans,  especially

the steps to be taken for the progress of the peace process.

      The  meeting  was attended by Yugoslav Foreign  Minister

Milan  Milutinovic,  the  Assistant U.S.  Secretary  of  State

Richard  Holbrooke  and  the Charge  d'affaires  of  the  U.S.

Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Rudolf Perina.



       MILOSEVIC AND TUDJMAN ON NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS

                    BETWEEN SERBIA AND CROATIA

      D  a  y  t  o  n, Nov. 2 (Tanjug) - Presidents  Slobodan

Milosevic  of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia  agreed  on

Wednesday  to  work  on  the full normalization  of  relations

between  their  countries. Milosevic and Tudjman  met  at  the

Wright-Patterson  air  force base near Dayton,  Ohio,  at  the

request of U.S. Secretar of State Warren Christopher.

      The two Presidents support a peaceful settlement of  the

problem of eastern Slavonija, Baranja and western Srem (Sector

East,  or  the  Srem-Baranja region), on the  basis  of  talks

between  the  Croatian Government and representatives  of  the

Serb people of that region.

     Milosevic and Tudjman asked international mediators, U.N.

representatives  Thorvald Stoltenberg and U.S.  Ambassador  in

Zagreb Peter Galbraith to return to that region on Thursday to

continue their mediation even more intensely.

      Milosevic  and Tudjman agreed that the normalization  of

relations  between the two States be based on full respect  of

internationally  recognized human rights for all  citizens  of

their respective countries.

      The  two Presidents agreed, also, that the normalization

be  based  also  on  the right of all refugees  and  displaced

persons in the two countries to return to their homes, recover

their property, or begiven just compensation.

      The  Milosevic-Tudjman meeting was  attended  by  Warren

Christopher and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic.



CROATIAN TV: MILOSEVIC ALONE MENTIONED BY NAME ON ARRIVAL TO DAYTO

N

      Z  a  g  r  e  b, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - Croatian  Television

Wednesday  night  with a dose of outrage complained  that  the

Dayton  talks'  hosts singled out and welcomed  by  name  only

Serbian  President Slobodan Milosevic. When the delegation  of

the  Federal  Republic of Yugoslavia, headed  by  the  Serbian

President,  landed  at  the Wright-Patterson  Tuesday  evening

local  time the big electronic display wrote out a welcome  to

Milosevic.

      However,  the  display failed to  light  up  with  their

respective names when the leaders of Croatia - Franjo  Tudjman

and Bosnian Muslims - Alija Izetbegovic arrived.

     Croatian Television for this reason rebuked Americans for

'unequal treatment' of the talks' participants.



                THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA



     YUGOSLAV PREMIER ASKS U.N. FOR PERMISSION TO IMPORT GAS

      B  e  l  g  r a d e, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav  Premier

Radoje  Kontic  has asked the U.N. Security Council  Sanctions

Committee  to  allow  the Federal Republic  of  Yugoslavia  to

import fuels from Russia.

      In  a  letter  presented  to Committee  Chairman  Emilio

Cardenas   by  Yugoslav  Ambassador  to  the  U.N.   Vladislav

Jovanovic, Kontic once again said that the U.N. sanctions  had

caused  a difficult situation in Yugoslavia. Kontic also  said

in his letter that he had already appealed on August 12 to the

U.N  Security Council Chairman to bring about a lifting of the

sanctions.

      A  maintaining of the sanctions will cause unforeseeable

economic,   demographic,   health,  social   and   development

consequences in Yugoslavia, Kontic said.

      The humanitrian situation in Yugoslavia has further been

aggravated by an influx of 200,000 refugees from the  Republic

of  Serb  Krajina  which  has  brought  the  total  number  of

registered refugees in Yugoslavia to 640,000, Kontic  said  in

his letter.

      Yugoslav premier said that the sanctions had forced  his

country  to  find  ways to meet minimum  needs  in  medicines,

energy  and food because its own resources were not sufficient

for overcoming the humanitarian tragedy.

      Kontic underscored that Yugoslavia was forced to pay the

import  by exporting wheat and corn to Russia and that he  had

already asked the U.N. Security Council to allow the export.

      I  am  convinced, Excellency, that you are aware of  the

responsibility  lying  with the U.N. Sanctions  Committee  and

that  you  will do everything to approve our demand  for  fuel

imports, Kontic said in his letter to Cardenas.



YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT: YUGOSLAV ARMY DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN BOSNIA W

AR

      B  e  l  g  r  a  d  e, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) -  The  Yugoslav

Government   on  Wednesday  denied  claims  by  some   western

countries that the Yugoslav Army had participated in  military

operations in the former Yugoslav republic Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Claims   that  the  Yugoslav  Army  had  either  directly   or

indirectly taken part in the operations for the liberation  of

the  Muslim military stronghold Srebrenica in July  1995,  are

completely unfounded, the Yugoslav Government said  and  added

that  such lies aim to pressure the Serb side during the peace

talks in Dayton, Ohio.

      The Yugoslav Government said that not a single member of

the   Yugoslav  Army  had  participated  in  the  battles  for

Srebrenica  and that such untrue accusations and false  claims

about  the  existence of powcamps for Muslims in the territory

of   the  Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia,  are  a  part  of

well-known  campaigns  which are always  launched  at  crucial

moments  for reaching a peace in the war-torn regions  of  the

former Yugoslavia.

       Yugoslavia   urges  and  supports  the  discovery   and

punishment of all war crimes and criminals wherever  they  may

be  and  regardless of which side they belong to, the Yugoslav

Information Ministry said in a statement.

      The  latest  campaign by some western  media  which  are

accusing only the Serbs without any proof, does not contribute

to  this aim and transparently aims to wage a propoganda  war,

which  is  hardly  necessary for the peace  talks  in  Dayton.

Lacking  the opportunity to stage a third Merkale, the  powers

which  clearly  do  not  want  a  peace  are  spreading   this

disinformation  with the aim of drawing the attention  of  the

world  public  from  Yugoslavia's  constructive  and  peaceful

policy and thus reducing the chances for a positive outcome of

the talks, the statement said.

      Yugoslavia once again wants to draw the attention of the

international  public to the drama of the remaining  Serbs  in

the  Republic  of  Serb Krajina who have for months  paid  for

their  nationality with their own lives every day.  We  expect

the  international  community to react to the  biggest  ethnic

cleansing  carried out so far in the territory of  the  former

Yugoslavia  following  Croatia's  brutal  aggression  on  Serb

Krajina  and  after joint Muslim-Croat attacks on  traditional

Serb  ethnic  territories in western and northwestern  Bosnia,

even after a ceasefire was signed, the statement said.

       Testimonies   and  proof  about  this  tragedy,   which

continues, cannot be compared to the untrue claims by  certain

intelligence  and propaganda centres which  want  the  war  to

continue, the statement said.



                   SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA



      MOSCOW FAVOURS LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

      M  o s c o w, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - Russian diplomats favour

the  earliest possible lifting of the international  sanctions

against  the  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Russian  Foreign

Ministry  Spokesman Grigory Karasin said on  Wednesday.  In  a

statement  to Itar-Tass, Karasin said that Russia was  willing

immediately after a lifting of the sanctions, which have  been

in  force  over  three  years and  a  half,  to  move  towards

full-scale   cooperation   with  the   Federal   Republic   of

Yugoslavia.

     Karasin warned against attempts to edge Russia out of the

Balkans  and  said  that  the attempts 'make  themselves  felt

already  now'  while  preparation are made  for  the  economic

restoration in the region. 'They won't be able to  do  without

Russia  there because this will involve a priority restoration

of areas in which our country has been traditionally present -

gas    supplies   and   the   modernization   of   the   power

infrastructure,' he said.

      'Our  partners  in  that region are also  interested  in

military  cooperation,' Karasin said and added  that  specific

steps would be taken only after the international arms embargo

is lifted.



                       BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA



 ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SERBS TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH DAYTON TALKS,

                    SAYS BOSNIAN SERB GENERAL

      B  a  n j a l u k a, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army

Assistant  Commander-in-Chief Lt.-Gen.  Milan  Gvero  said  on

Wednesday  that the latest allegations of ethnic cleansing  of

Srebrenica  from  Muslims had been calculated  to  weaken  the

position of the joint negotiating team of the Federal Republic

of  Yugoslavia  and  Republika Srpska  (Bosnian  Serb  State),

headed  by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, at the Dayton

talks.

      Gen.  Gvero  told Tanjug that the Dayton  talks  were  a

comprehensive   attempt  on  the  part  of  the  international

community to help reach peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

      In  the absence of arguments for new accusations against

the  Serbs, some international power-wielders are still trying

to  impose  something  that, according to  their  assessments,

might be harmful to Serb positions, he said. This would not be

the  first  time  for some powerful international  factors  to

fabricate  a  new  'case'  ahead  of  important  meetings  and

decisions on peace in Bosnia to lay the blame on Bosnian Serbs

and hamper their negotiating position or influence the outcome

of  the  peace  process,  like it  was  done  this  time  with

Srebrenica.

      The massacre in Vaso Miskin street and two explosions at

the  Markale market in Sarajevo had been originally blamed  on

the Serbs without any proof, but it was subsequently confirmed

that they had been committed by Bosnian Muslims, Gvero said.

     Gvero said that the issue of Srebrenica, like the eastern

Bosnian  town  of  Zepa,  had  been  resolved  militarily  and

everything that the RS Army was doing at the time was done  in

the  presence and in the sight of many international arbitres.

Even  Muslim  commanders themselves have  denied  the  present

accusations  against  the RS Army in their  statements,  Gvero

said.



      BRIDGE LINKING SERB AND MUSLIM PARTS OF SARAJEVO OPEN

      B  e  l g r a d e, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - A bridge in central

Sarajevo linking the Serb and Muslim parts in the capital  was

opened on Wednesday. The bridge had been closed since May  16.

its  opening  is in keeping with article eight of a  ceasefire

agreement which came into effect on October 12.

      Only  five civilians from both sides crossed the bridge,

instead of 16 civilians as previously agreed, the news  agency

of  the  Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb State). Muslim  police

could process only five crossing applications per day.

      The  AFP news agency quoted U.N. sources as saying  that

everything  had been ready for the opening of  the  bridge  on

Saturday but that the Muslim side had not presented a list  of

civilians who had obtained permission to cross the bridge.



                         ICRC - REFUGEES



  ICRC: OVER 7,000 OLD AND FEEBLE PEOPLE REMAIN IN SERB KRAJINA

      B  e  l  g r a d e, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - After the Croatian

Army's  August offensive on the Republic of Serb  Krajina,  in

the  region  of  Banija,  Kordun, Lika and  Dalmacija  (former

Sectors  North  and  South)  there  remain  7,339  Serbs,  the

majority  of whom are old and feeble, the Belgrade  Bureau  of

the  ICRC  said  on Wednesday. ICRC is the only  international

humanitarian organization operating in this region where it is

visiting more than 470 villages to determine how many  of  the

remaining Serbs there need aid.

      ICRC representatives have so far visited 4,787 people in

the  most  remote  villages and hamlets in Serb  Krajina,  and

mobile  ICRC teams have daily toured the region bringing  food

and  necessary  aid  and  Red Cross  messages  to  enable  the

remaining old people to contact their families who fled before

the Croat offensive.

      ICRC  in  Zagreb  said  that  the  situation  among  the

remaining Serb population in Serb Krajina is critical  because

these  people are completely isolated in remote villages.  The

majority  of  them are extremely poor without  any  means  for

survival, and they are sufferring badly because they have been

separated from their families.

       The  head  of  the  ICRC  delegation  in  Zagreb,  Alex

Brownvalder,  said  that  his  people  were  'shocked  by  the

dramatic situation' and that the need for speedy and efficient

action  should  not  be ignored because it  is  'necessary  to

prevent these people from dying this winter.'

      Lists  with  the  names of these old  people  have  been

presented  to  the  Croatian Red Cross and  the  International

Federation  of  the Red Cross and Red Crescent socities  which

will,  under  the auspices of ICRC, carry out the  winter  aid

program, the Belgrade ICRC Bureau said.



                THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL FOR WAR CRIMES



BOSNIAN SERBS SUBMIT EVIDENCE OF MUSLIM, CROAT CRIMES AT THE HAGUE

      B  e  l  g r a d e, Nov. 1 (Tanjug) - A group of Bosnian

Serbs  presented  on Wednesday to the Hague Tribunal  for  War

Crimes  committed  in  former Yugoslavia  evidence  of  crimes

perpetrated by Muslims and Croats. The documents submitted  to

the  Chief  Prosecutor contain evidence of the  murder  of  60

Serbs  and numerous cases of torture, as well as the names  of

between 10 and 20 perpetrators, including high-ranking  Muslim

and Croat officials, news agencies reported.

      Most of the crimes were committed between 1992 and 1994,

according to the AP.

      The  evidence  was submitted by Serbs  who  were  either

victims or witnesses of crimes committed in Croat - and Muslim

- run camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

     The Association of Camp Inmates 1991 said that there were

about 500 camps for Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, mostly in its

central parts and in the areas of Mostar, Zenica and Tuzla.

     A statement released in the Hague quotes Chief Prosecutor

Richard Goldstone as saying he would study the evidence  which

he  felt would facilitate investigations into crimes committed

against   Serbs.  He  welcomed  cooperation  with   the   Serb

Association as a positive step which would broaden  the  scope

of his operations.

      'Nobody's  hands  are  clean in the  Yugoslav  conflict.

Muslims  and Croats are not the only victims,' the AFP  quotes

the  Association's President as saying. 'It  is  necessary  to

give  the  world  a more realistic picture of  the  conflict,'

Association  President  Slavko  Sibalija  said  at   a   press

conference in the Hague.

       The   Belgrade-based  apolitical  and  non-governmental

association has 500 members, 'mostly, but not only Serbs'  who

were  detained  in  camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina  and  are  now

refugees in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.



                       ELECTIONS IN CROATIA



 OSCE OBSERVER FINDS IRREGULARITIES GALORE IN CROATIAN ELECTIONS

      P  r  a  g  u  e,  Nov.  1  (Tanjug)  -  Sunday's  early

parliamentary elections in Croatia abounded in irregularities,

an  observer from the OSCE said on Wednesday. Czech m.p. Josef

Jezek  told  the  National CTK news agency that  the  Croatian

Constitution  provides  for  a secret  ballot,  but  that  the

provision  was  wholy  ignored,  with  no  booths  or  screens

provided to give privacy to the voters. Jezek said that  those

who  wanted to vote for a Serb minority candidate had  had  to

fill  out a special questionnaire, thus providing the Croatian

state  with  information about all Serbs  who  voted  fortheir

minority candidates.

      Jezek said that information given in the electoral rolls

differed  substantially from the actual state of  affairs.  In

illustration,  he  said  that in Korenica,  for  instance,  in

former  Sector North of the UNPA, the electoral  rolls  listed

3,500  voters,  only 19 of whom were actually  there  to  cast

their votes, and another five who were not listed at all.

      Jezek,  who  monitored the elections in Sibenik,  Split,

Knin and Korenica, said that Croatia has no law regulating the

disposal  of  unused  ballots after an election,  which  opens

scope for abuse.

     Everything in the elections indicated an intention on the

part  of  Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and the  governing

Croatian  Democratic Union (HDZ) to win a two-thirds  majority

as  soon as possible after the invasion of Serb Krajina, Jezek

said.

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       -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me --

  D. D. Chukurov                     ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com

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From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna,soc.culture.croatia,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Yugoslav Daily Survey 11/6
Date: 7 Nov 1995 01:11:11 GMT
Organization: Bellcore
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6. NOVEMBER 1995.


                     YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY





CONTENTS:





RABIN - ASSASSINATION


- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT, PREMIER SHARPLY CONDEMN ASSASSINATION OF RABIN





PEACE PROCESS


- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT BELIEVES IN GOOD NEWS FROM DAYTON


- DELEGATIONS IN DAYTON GIVE OBJECTIONS TO DRAFT AGREEMENT


- SERBS IN SREM-BARANJA REGION REJECT GALBRAITH-STOLTENBERG PLAN





YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.A.


- MONTENEGRO DELEGATION ARRIVES ON VISIT TO U.S.





FROM FOREIGN PRESS


- THE ECONOMIST: PEACE AGREEMENT SHOULD REMOVE CAUSES OF WAR


- BRITISH PRESS SAYS THAT UNITED STATES INVOLVED IN  BOSNIAN WAR





U.S. REPORTER HELD BY BOSNIAN SERBS


- U.N. SAYS REPORTER IS IN 'SOUND HEALTH'











                    RABIN - ASSASSINATION





YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT, PREMIER SHARPLY CONDEMN ASSASSINATION OF R


ABIN





      B  e  l  g r a d e, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President


Zoran Lilic most sharply condemned on Sunday the assassination


of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.


      Lilic  said  in  a  telegram of condolences  to  Israeli


President  Ezer Weizman that Israel and the world had  lost  a


brave statesman of outstanding capabilities. He said Rabin had


acted  on the international stage with much success and  would


be  remembered  as an indefatigable champion  of  a  political


solution to the extremely complex Mid-East problem.


      Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic sent a telegram to


acting  Israeli Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres,


expressing shock and indignation at the assassination.


     Kontic said Rabin had bravely chosen a path of peace with


the  Palestinian people and all Arab neighbours, for which  he


had rightly received international community's recognition and


the Nobel peace prize.


     Kontic expressed the conviction that Rabin's tragic death


would  not  be able to halt the march to peace in  the  Middle


East   and   that  peace,  good-neighbourhood  relations   and


cooperation would finally prevail in the entire region.


      Yugoslav  Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic said  in  a


telegram  of  condolences to his Israeli  counterpart,  Shimon


Peres,  that  the criminal act had truly shaken  all  who  had


viewed Rabin's policy as opening prospects for a better future


of all peoples in the Middle East.


      Milutinovic  said he was convinced that  the  policy  of


peace   bravely  urged  by  Rabin  would  be  crowned   by   a


comprehensive  peace, confidence and progress  of  the  entire


Mid-East region.


     The Yugoslav delegation at Rabin's funeral on Monday will


be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic.





                          PEACE PROCESS





       YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT BELIEVES IN GOOD NEWS FROM DAYTON





      P  o  d g o r i c a, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - President of  the


Federal  Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Lilic  has  stated  that


accords and readiness exist on all sides for the Bosnia  peace


talks to end successfully. He was confident we would very soon


hear good news from Dayton.


      'It  is difficult to speak about the final looks of  the


peace plan after only three days of negotiations,' Lilic  told


the  Podgorica  daily  Pobjeda in an  interview  published  on


Saturday.


      'One thing is certain: there is not only accord but also


readiness  on  the  one, another and still another  side,  and


apparently also on the side of those to take over the role  of


guarantors of the implementation of the peace process once the


talks  were brought to their successful ending,' the  head  of


the Yugoslav state said.


      As  for announcements that certain compromises in Dayton


are  expected  from all the three parties to the talks,  Lilic


said   that  'without  compromises,  certainly  there  is   no


possibility  of  arriving at final peace and signing  a  peace


package.'


      Lilic voiced confidence that this time no side would  be


urged to make as drastic concessions as would result in broken


talks.   This   time,  he  said,  the  compromises   'may   be


proportionally small concessions' to any of the  three  sides,


but  they would certainly in the first place mean improvements


regarding the 'quality and quantity of territories.'





     DELEGATIONS IN DAYTON GIVE OBJECTIONS TO DRAFT AGREEMENT





     D a y t o n, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - The negotiating parties at


the  Bosnia talks in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday continued to give


their objections to the proposed draft agreement for Bosnia, a


document   that  is  expected  to  create  a  ground   for   a


comprehensive solution.


      Tanjug  learned from unofficial sources that the  Muslim


delegation  is trying to include in the proposed documents  as


many   new   details  as  possible,  but  that  the   Yugoslav


negotiating  teams  is rejecting such attempts.  The  Yugoslav


delegation,  headed  by Serbian President Slobodan  Milosevic,


adheres  to  the framework that had been agreed  in  the  five


earlier  missions  of U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke  in  the


territory of the former Yugoslavia, the sources said.


      The  Yugoslav  delegation spent the weekend  in  working


meetings with officials of the European Union, Russia and  the


Muslim negotiating team.





  SERBS IN SREM-BARANJA REGION REJECT GALBRAITH-STOLTENBERG PLAN





     E r d u t, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - The Serb side rejected a new


draft  agreement on peaceful settling of the  problem  of  the


Srem-Baranja   region  that  international   mediators   Peter


Galbraith and Thorvald Stoltenberg had proposed, Chief of  the


Serb  negotiating team Milan Milanovic said in Erdut on Sunday


evening.


      The  document was discussed behind closed door for  more


than  seven  hours, and Galbraith and Stoltenberg  interrupted


the  meeting three times to go to a nearby U.N. base  to  make


consultations with Dayton and Zagreb. After the talks, the two


mediators  left  Erdut without making any statements  for  the


press.


      Milanovic also declined to explain the reasons  for  the


rejection, saying only that the talks were not over as far  as


the Serb side was concerned.


     Milanovic said the Serb side had presented its objections


to  the international mediators, offering its own document for


a peaceful settlement of the dispute.


      The  proposal provides for a transition period of  three


years,   during   which  the  region  would  be   under   U.N.


administration, the deployment of international forces  there,


a  permanent  demilitarization  of  the  region  under  strong


guarantees  by the United Nations, United States  and  Russia,


and  a  referendum  at the end of the transition  period  that


would  allow the population to decide about the region's final


status.


      The document also proposes that all refugees, regardless


of  their  nationality, be allowed to return to  their  homes,


that   the  local  ethnic  structure  be  reflected   in   the


composition  of  the police force, and that human  rights  and


freedoms be strictly respected.


     The mediators are expected to give their reply on Monday,


Milanovic  said  but added that he did not expect  a  positive


response to the Serb proposal.


      The Council of the Srem-Baranja region on Sunday evening


sent  a  letter to U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher,


asking  that a full U.N. administration be introduced  in  the


region  on the ground of Croatia's disrespect of human rights.


The  letter listed many examples of such Croatian attitude  in


the near and more distant past, and particularly in the period


since Croatia's aggression on Western Slavonija last May 1.


      The  Council  welcomed the agreement reached  in  Dayton


between  Serbian  President Slobodan  Milosevic  and  Croatian


President  Franjo  Tudjman and expressed readiness  to  resume


talks.





                       YUGOSLAVIA - U.S.A.





          MONTENEGRO DELEGATION ARRIVES ON VISIT TO U.S.





      W  a s h i n g t o n, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - Montenegro Prime


Minister Milo Djukanovic and Assembly Speaker Svetozar Marovic


arrived on a visit to the U.S. Sunday, at the invitation of  a


group of congressmen.


     During the several-day visit, Djukanovic and Marovic will


have  talks  on Capitol Hill and with ranking State Department


officials.


      The  talks are expected to be primarily devoted  to  the


completion of the peace process in the Balkans. They will also


cover possibilities for economic cooperation between the  U.S.


and   Yugoslavia,   and   within  it  Montenegro,   once   the


international  sanctions against the Yugoslav  federation  are


lifted.


       The   guests   will  meet  in  Washington   also   with


representatives  of  the  World  Bank  and  the  International


Monetary  Fund,  with  whom  they  are  expected  to   discuss


development plans and concrete economic projects in Yugoslavia


after  the  lifting of the sanctions. The Montenegro officials


will   visit  California  to  meet  with  a  group   of   U.S.


businessmen.





                        FROM FOREIGN PRESS





    THE ECONOMIST: PEACE AGREEMENT SHOULD REMOVE CAUSES OF WAR





      L o n d o n, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - The peace talks on Bosnia


should  primarily  remove the basic causes of  the  civil  war


there, British weekly the Economist said on Saturday.


      The Economist said that everyone should be aware that no


peace  solution  will  be able to fully  satisfy  all  parties


(Serbs, Muslims and Croats), but that the most important thing


is  to  end the almost three-and-a-half year war and the human


suffering.


      Dilemmas over the so-called single Bosnia have lost  all


sense  because, the Economist said, the years-long  civil  war


has  created a new reality. The weekly underscored  the  equal


rights  of all peoples and, in that context, the right of  the


Bosnian Serbs to choose where and with whom they want to live.





       BRITISH PRESS SAYS THAT U.S. INVOLVED IN BOSNIAN WAR





      L  o  n d o n, Nov. 5 (Tanjug) - The involvement of  the


United  States in the civil war in Bosnia on the side  of  the


Muslims and Croats questions Washington's credibility  at  the


Dayton  talks  which  represent the equality  of  all  warring


parties in this ex-Yugoslav republic, London weekly the Sunday


Telegraph said.


      The  U.S. position in the peace process in the territory


of  the  former Yugoslavia is completely controversial,  which


could threaten the efficiency of the talks, the weekly said.


      The  Sunday  Telegraph, together with the  other  London


weekly,  the Observer, said that the United States is secretly


arming the Bosnian Muslims and Croats.


      The Sunday Telegraph said that thus the United States is


arming the Muslims and Croats for the continuation of the war,


instead  of  preparing  them  for  a  peaceful  solution.  The


Observer  said  that  these moves are not  aimed  at  a  peace


solution,  but at defeating the Bosnian Serbs,  all  of  which


renders the entire situation more complex than represented  by


Washington's peace initiative.


      Britain's  independent television Channel 4 on  Oct.  27


quoted a confidential report as saying that the Bosnian Croats


and  Muslims, with the knowledge and aid of the United  States


and  the  United  Nations,  during  the  summer  had  secretly


received  military  equipment  and  additional  shipments   of


state-of-the-art   weapons  -  anti-tank   and   anti-aircraft


systems.  Intelligence sources show the direct involvement  of


the  United  States  and  NATO in these  summer  actions,  the


television said.





               U.S. REPORTER HELD BY BOSNIAN SERBS





             U.N. SAYS REPORTER IS IN 'SOUND HEALTH'





      B  e  l  g  r a d e, Nov. 4 (Tanjug) - Republika  Srpska


authorities  confirmed on Saturday that reporter of  the  U.S.


newspaper Christian Science Monitor David Rohde, 28, whom they


were  holding,  was  in 'sound health,'  U.N.  spokesman  Yuri


Chizhik has said.


      The U.N. - Republika Srpska talks about Rhode's fate are


being  held  in  Republika  Srpska  territory,  Chizhik  said,


without  specifying  the  exact site,  Reuters  reported  from


Sarajevo.


       The  Republika  Srpska  Interior  Ministry  said  in  a


statement  on  Friday  that Rhode had  been  arrested  in  the


eastern  Bosnian  Serb  town of Zvornik  for  'illegal  border


crossing and staying on the territory of the Republika  Srpska


and for falsifying documents.'


      Rhode  has  been charged with a mandatory  offence,  the


Ministry said.





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 DAYTON - TALKS

 MILOSEVIC SAYS TALKS GOING WELL



 D a y t o n, Nov. 8 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan

 Milosevic, who heads the Yugoslav delegation to the peace

 talks on Bosnia in Dayton, Ohio, said on Tuesday evening that

 the talks were going well.

 'It's going well,' he told briefly journalists as he

 arrived to a local restaurant at which U.S. Assistant State

 Secretary Richard Holbrooke offered dinner to leaders of the

 participating delegations, Reuters reported.



MONTENEGRIN DELEGATION HAS TALKS WITH STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIA LS



 N e w Y o r k, Nov. 7 (Tanjug) - A Montenegrin

 delegation, headed by Premier Milo Djukanovic, had talks with

 U.S. State Department officials in charge of Balkan affairs on

 Tuesday.

 The delegation arrived in the United States two days ago

 at the invitation of a group of congressmen who had earlier

 visited the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, and includes also

 Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Svetozar Marovic.

 On Tuesday, Djukanovic gave a lecture at George

 Washington University in the U.S. capital on the subject of

 political and economic trends in the Balkans, with special

 emphasis on the current phase of the peace process for former

 Yugoslavia.



 KARADZIC CONSIDERS PARDON FOR ARRESTED U.S. REPORTER



 B e l g r a d e, Nov. 7 (Tanjug) - President of the

 Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic is considering granting a

 pardon to arrested U.S. reporter David Rohde, the Republika

 Srpska news agency Srna said late on Tuesday. The move should

 be taken as a gesture of good will and as a contribution to

 the peace talks that are being held at the Wright-Patterson

 air force base in Dayton, Ohio, Srna said, quoting reliable

 sources.

 An appeal to pardon Rohde has been made by his father

 Harvey Lee Rohde directly to Karadzic.

 Rohde, 28, Zagreb-based correspondent for the U.S.

 Christian Science Monitor, was arrested on Oct. 29 in the

 Republika Srpska which he entered illegally on a false

 passport, and is serving a 15-day sentence for the offence.



 MUSLIMS AVOID EXCHANGING ALL PRISONERS - SERBS



 B e l g r a d e, Nov. 7 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serbs filed a

 protest on Tuesday with U.S. chief negotiator Richard

 Holbrooke over the Muslim sides' refusal to implement in full

 article 5 of the ceasefire accord that calls for exchanging

 all prisoners of war.

 The Republika Srpska's news agency Srna said that the

 letter of protest had been sent by Dragan Bulajic, who chairs

 the Republika Srpska's Prisoner Exchange Commission.

 Bulajic said that a meeting of the Joint Prisoner

 Exchange Committee, organised by the UNPROFOR and the ICRC to

 discuss the

 matter, had been cancelled at the request of the Muslim side.

 The letter added that, since the agreement was signed, the

 Croat side had not shown any readiness, either, of getting

 down to implementating its article 5.

 Bulajic said that the most surprising thing of all was

 the passive attitude of the international community, primarily

 the relevant bodies of UNPROFOR and the ICRC.



BAKER SAYS BONN BROKE RANKS WITH CSCE IN 1991 OVER YUGOSLAVIA



 B e l g r a d e, Nov. 7 (Tanjug) - Former U.S. Secretary

 of State James Baker said on Tuesday that Bonn had gone

 against the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

 in 1991, at the outset of the Yugoslav war, and insisted on

 recognising Croatia and Slovenia.

 Baker is quoted by Reuters as saying for German Radio

 that the CSCE had agreed at a meeting in Berlin in June 1991

 that all its members should respect the principle of unity and

 territorial integrity of the then Yugoslav federation.

 He said that the United States had been against

 supporting those of the Yugoslav republics that wanted to

 secede, but that Washington had probably not opposed Germany

 enough when it insisted otherwise.

 'The result is clear,' he added.



 UNHCR: POSITION OF SERB REFUGEES AT BANJA LUKA CRITICAL



 G e n e v a, Nov. 7 (Tanjug) - U.N. High Commissioner for

 Refugees spokesman Ron Redmond said Tuesday that Serb refugees

 in northwestern Bosnia were facing a humanitarian catastrophe.

 Speaking at a news conference in Geneva, Redmond said

 snow and low temperatures caused serious problems to some

 170,000 Serb refugees sheltering in the Banja Luka area.

 UNHCR is extremely concerned about the fate of these

 people who were forced to flee their homes last month before

 an offensive by joint Bosnian Moslem, Croat and Croatian

 regular army troops in western and central Bosnia, he said.

 Asked whether UNHCR was concerned about 200,000 Serb

 Krajina refugees sheltering in Yugoslavia who also have to

 face winter, Redmond said they were in a slightly better

 position which, however, was far from being good.

 He said about 60,000 Serb refugees in collective centres

 throughout Yugoslavia were in the most difficult position.



 REFUGEES' HEALTH THREATENED IN MANY WAYS



 B e l g r a d e, Nov. 7 (Tanjug) - Refugees in Yugoslavia

 should not only receive medical help, they should also be

 approached from the humane and social sides because their

 expulsion from their ancestral homes was an act of disgrace to

 the human civilisation, and especially

 European, said psychiatrist Ivan Dimitrijevic.

 Dimitrijevic, who works at the Serbian Clinical Centre,

 told Tanjug that the hard experiences of the refugees in this

 latest war were too much to bear in a human life-time,

 especially because many of them still remembered the fascist

 terror in World War II.

 He said that psychiatrists were encountering elements of

 post-traumatic stress syndrome in most of the refugees they

 met.

 Even small problems seem unsolvable to the refugees, who

 suffer from a lack of support from the people around them and

 whose friends and families are often dispersed or killed, said

 Dimitrijevic.

 He said that many refugees were taking the score of their

 lives, hesitating both to seek expert help or to accept it.

 Their behaviour is characterized by anxiety, depression and

 other psychotic decompensations, addiction to alcohol and even

 suicide attempts.

 Dimitrijevic said that refugee centres in Yugoslavia

 accommodated mostly women and children, whom the locals

 generally accepted well.

 Medical treatments, including psychiatric help, have been

 made available to all inmates of refugee centres, said

 Dimitrijevic and added that doctors found medical problems of

 female patients of all age groups particularly complex.





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YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES STATEMENT ON SREM-BARANJA REGION
AGREEM

ENT

      B  e l g r a d e, Nov. 13 (Tanjug) - The Government of  the

Federal  Republic  of Yugoslavia said on Monday  that  the  basic

agreement  on  the region of eastern Slavonia, Baranja  and  West

Srem   was   of   prime  importance  for  peace,  stability   and

normalization  of  the  situation and  relations  in  the  former

Yugoslavia and this part of Europe.

      The Yugoslav Information Secretariat in Belgrade said in  a

statement  that Prime Minister Radoje Kontic and his Cabinet  had

described  the agreement signed in Erdut and Zagreb on Sunday  as

an  important  contribution to the establishing  of  a  just  and

lasting peace in the former Yugoslavia.

      The  agreement is a result of talks between the leaders  of

the   mostly  Serb-populated  Srem-Baranja  region  and  Croatian

Government representatives as well as a great engagement  of  the

U.N. and U.S. mediators.

     The Government said that the agreement represented a victory

on  the part of the forces of peace and reason and efforts to use

political  means  and  compromise  to  solve  extremely   complex

problems  created  after Croatia carried  out  a  unilateral  and

forcible secession from the former Yugoslavia in mid-1991.

      The  Yugoslav  Government believes that as an international

document,  the  agreement represents a solid  basis  for  a  full

honouring   and  protection  of  rights  of  the  region's   Serb

population,  by  ensuring them peace, freedom and  equality,  the

statement said.

      The Federal Government especially pointed out the fact that

the U.N. Security Council was taking the responsibility for peace

and  stability  in  the region and safety  and  equality  of  its

citizens, including refugees who fled there and repatriates.

      According to the statement, the Yugoslav Government expects

that  the  U.N. Security Council pass a resolution and constantly

monitor  the  implementation  of  the  agreement  to  ensure  all

conditions for lasting security and free development of the  Serb

people  and  all  the  region's citizens in  peace,  freedom  and

democracy.

      A  transitional U.N. Administration and international force

will certainly have a decisive role in this and they are expected

to  be  principled, because this is a basic precondition for  the

citizens'trust and support, the statement said.



             ALL NEGOTIATORS GIVE UP MAXIMUM DEMANDS

      E  r  d  u t, Nov. 13 (Tanjug) - An agreement on a peaceful

solution to the problem of the Srem-Baranja region was signed  on

Sunday  as  all negotiating sides had backed down  and  given  up

their  maximum demands, head of the Serb negotiating  team  Milan

Milanovic said here on Monday.

     Milanovic said the Serb side had not insisted on immediately

becoming  part  of Serbia and Yugoslavia, while the international

community had given up its explicit demand that Serbs agree to  a

peaceful reintegration into Croatia without any delay.

      Although  its  media are celebrating  the  signing  of  the

agreement as a historic victory, Croatia actually gave up two  of

its  demands - that reintegration be carried out immediately  and

that  its  police  and  customs officers be deployed  immediately

along  the  border  with  the  Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia,

Milanovic  said.  He said that the principal  goal  of  the  Serb

people  in  the  Srem-Baranja region,  i.e.  that  they  live  in

Yugoslavia,   remained,  but  'because  of  strong  international

pressure, this goal could not be achieved at this moment.'

      'With this agreement, we got the most of what can be got at

this  moment. The agreement does not prejudice a final  political

solution,  and  there are no Croatian official signposts  on  the

borders or in theregion,' Milanovic said.

      In  practice,  a U.N.-administrated 'blue  zone'  would  be

established  and  it  would last for two years,  Milanovic  said.

According to him, these two years should be used wisely  and  the

goal  should be reached with political means, 'because  there  is

always time for war.'

     Milanovic said that by reaching a decision about the signing

of  the  agreement,  the  members of the  Serb  negotiating  team

primarily  had  in  mind the interests of the population  of  the

area,  as  well as the 'interests of the citizens of the  Federal

Republic  of  Yugoslavia  and  Republika  Srpska  (Bosnian   Serb

State).'

      Commenting on the contents of the agreement, Milanovic said

that  it  contained many provisions that were still to be  worked

out   in   detail,   such  as  the  structure   of   an   interim

administration, structure and authorization of the  international

force and modalities for the return of refugees. 'This should all

be  defined  in  annexes to the agreement, with our  consent,  of

course,'  he  said. It is very important that the agreement  take

effect  only after the U.N. Security Council adopts a  resolution

to  this  end, Milanovic said and added that this meant that  its

'permanent  members - the U.S., Russia, China, France  and  Great

Britain  -  will be the guarantors of safety of the  Srem-Baranja

region, peace and tranquility of the people.'



 CROATIAN OPPOSITION CRITICIZES AGREEMENT ON SREM-BARANJA REGION

      Z  a  g  r  e b, Nov. 13 (Tanjug) - As different  from  the

Croatian  Government,  which  has hailed  the  agreement  on  the

Srem-Baranja  region  as  a  step  in  the  direction  of  peace,

opposition leaders have their reservations, saying it falls short

of the people's expectations.

      Secretary-General  of  Croatia's  ruling  Democratic  Union

Zlatko Canjuga told Croatian Radio on Monday that the accord  was

a  'good  way  to achieve the neccessary dialogue.' The  Croatian

Democratic  Union will therefore support the Government's  effort

to  enable  as  painless  a return of the refugees  as  possible,

Canjuga said.

     Drazen Budisa, who heads Croatia's biggest opposition Social

Liberal  Party,  said that the agreement 'has not  fulfilled  the

expectations of the Croatian public.' 'While preventing a war and

saving  human  lives,' the agreement, from its very title,  shows

that  it  is not a document on 'principles of reintegration,  but

one   that   places  the  region  under  temporary  international

protection,' Budisa said.

      Ivica Racan, leader of the Social Democratic Party, said he

supported the agreement, and objected to the part that allows the

Serb  settlers  from other parts of Serb Krajina and  Croatia  to

remain in the Srem-Baranja region. Racan believes that this 'will

substantially  change the ethnic structure (of  the  region)  and

make the Croatians a minority.'

      This  view  is supported by Zlatko Tomicic of the  Croatian

Peasants' Party, who demands that electoral rolls in future local

government elections be based on the 1991 census.

      The  biggeest  reservations about the agreement  have  been

expressed  by  the  Croatian Party of Law,  whose  leaders  still

believe that the war option is 'the best.'



        TOP BOSNIAN OFFICER MAY BE INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES



      D  a  y  t  o  n,  Nov. 13 (Reuter) - A Bosnian  government

commander of military operations in an eastern Moslem enclave  is

expected to be indicted for war crimes, an official close to  the

Balkan peace talks in Dayton, Ohio said on Monday.

     The source said that Naser Oric, commander of the Srebrenica

enclave,  could  be  indicted  "within  a  day  or  two"  by  the

International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague in connection with

killings of Serb civilians in the area during 1993.



U.N. CONTINUES TO WORK WITH BOSNIAN CROATS CHARGED WITH WAR
CRIMES

      B  e  l  g  r  a d e, Nov. 13 (Tanjug) - The UNPROFOR  will

continue  to  work  with Bosnian Croat leaders charged  with  war

crimes  against  Muslims in central Bosnia-Herzegovina  and  with

crimes  against  humanity, U.N. Spokesman in  Sarajevo  Alexander

Ivanko  said  Monday. The stand of the U.N.  is  that  it  should

continue to work with leaders of the sides to the conflict so  as

to secure a stabilization of the situation on the ground, the AFP

news agency in Sarajevo quoted Ivanko as saying.

     Ivanko was commenting on an indictment brought Monday by the

International  War  Crime  Tribunal  against  six  military   and

political officials of Herceg-Bosna, the Bosnian Croats' state in

the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

      The  group  includes  current  president  of  the  Croatian

Democratic  Union Party (HDZ) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Dario  Kordic

and  head  of the Bosnian Croat Army General Staff, Gen.  Tihofil

Blaskic.

      Foreign  news agencies said that at the time of the  crimes

and  a  systematic  ethnic cleansing of  Muslims  in  the  period

between  May 1992 and May 1993, Kordic had been Deputy  President

of  the  HDZ  for  Bosnia, a party sponsored by Croatia's  ruling

party  of  the  same  name whose President is Croatian  President

Franjo Tudjman.

      So  long as Kordic and Blaskic represent the Croat minority

in Bosnia-Herzegovina, we will continue to deal with them, Ivanko

said.



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