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     LIFTING OF SANCTIONS WARRANTS PEACE



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Vladislav Jovanovic on Saturday said that the lifting of
sanctions against the F.R. of Yugoslavia was warranting the
success of peace initiatives. Jovanovic told Radio Belgrade that
the first condition for the success of any peace initiative in
areas of the former Yugoslavia was an absolutely equal status of
all participants.  'The F.R. of Yugoslavia does not have that
status so long as it is under the sanctions. He who genuinely
wishes the success of a peace initiative should in the first
place struggle out the establishment of an equal position of
Yugoslavia. This is to say that he should commit himself
immediately and in an absolute way for the removal of the
sanctions, because this is also a guarantee for the success of
such initiatives,' Jovanovic specified.  'We have always
supported all initiatives that have been or could be conducive
to a political settlement of the crisis, to the return of peace
and to the return of stability in our region,' said Jovanovic. 
Pressures on the F.R. of Yugoslavia to recognize the seceded
republics of the former Yugoslavia as the condition for having
the sanctions lifted, were assessed by Jovanovic as
non-principled and contrary to international law that vests a
sovereign right with every country to recognize or not to
recognize some other country. Such pressures, explained
Jovanovic, also are in contradiction with the U.N. Security
Council resolution that had imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia. 
Recognition does not represent a one-way process because it
presumes, first, a settlement of the problems created by
unilateral secessions of the ex-Yugoslav republics, and, then
also a correction of the international community's stand toward
Yugoslavia's right to exist in a continuity, Jovanovic said. 
Jovanovic said that during his talks in Salonika on Friday with
his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias it was reaffirmed that
both Greece and Yugoslavia were firmly committed to peace policy
and to a political resolution of all the aspects of the crisis
in former Yugoslavia.  Jovanovic had accepted Papoulias' remark
that there still existed foreign factors capable of diverting
the regional crisis into an unfavourable direction. 'Many
foreign factors are profiting from the Yugoslav crisis so as to
strengthen their political, military and other influence and so
as to materialize some of their goals they could not have
materialized under conditions of the Balkan balance and
stability,' said Jovanovic. This is one of the key reasons why
the peace efforts so far could not have come to fruition,
Jovanovic said.



    UNPROFOR MUST STAY AS GUARANTOR OF PEACE



  N o v i S a d, Feb. 11 (tanjug) - Serb Krajina Prime Minister
Borislav Mikelic has said that the international community
should pressure Croatia to change its decision on UNPROFOR's
mandate. The U.N. Protection Force is a guarantor of peace and
must stay, Mikelic said in an interview published by the Novi
Sad daily Dnevnik on Saturday, commenting on Zagreb's decision
to deny further hospitality to the U.N. peacekeepers beyond
March 31.  Mikelic said Zagreb should be interested in peace
because all peace options would fail if the Vance plan fell
through. He said a possible new war between Croatia and the
Republic of Serb Krajina would spill over into other parts of
the former Yugoslavia.  He said the Serb Krajina Parliament was
therefore forced to declare the state of immediate threat of
war. 'We will not be the first to use military force but, if
need be, we will respond in kind,' Mikelic said. He warned that
Croatia and 'its sponsors' would in that case be responsible for
a possible resumption of war.  Croatia wants to forcibly keep
what does not belong to it, Mikelic said and added that the
territory in which the Republic of Serb Krajina was formed 'has
never belonged to the Croats because the Serbs have lived there
for centuries.'  Mikelic said the so-called 'Mini Contact
Group,' which has drafted the Z-4 plan for Croatia-Krajina
relations, had 'assumed a great responsibility by offering a
plan that is in contradiction with the Vance plan because it
prejudices a political solution.' Serb Krajina is not
considering the Z-4 plan and will not discuss it until Croatia
has changed its stand and given up hope for solving the problem
by military means, Mikelic said and added that Krajina would not
accept any imposed solutions.



  BOSNIAN SERBS TO HELP SERB KRAJINA REPEL CROATIAN ATTACK



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 12 (Tanjug) - Speaker of the Bosnian
Serb Parliament Momcilo Krajisnik on Saturday said the Croats
must expect the entire Serb bloc to oppose its possible attack
on Serb Krajina. In an interview with Bosnian Serb TV-Radio, he
said this was especially the duty of the Bosnian Serb Republic. 
Krajisnik expressed confidence that the F.R. of Yugoslavia would
not recognize the former Yugoslav republics of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, although other countries have
made it a condition for lifting the sanctions against
Yugoslavia. Krajisnik said such a move would cause 'incalculable
damage both to peace and to the F.R. of Yugoslavia.'  The
Bosnian Serb news agency Srna quoted him as saying in a comment
on the Bosnian Muslim announcement of a spring offensive that
'the Muslims have plans known to them alone, but the (Bosnian)
Serb Republic will do everything in its power to secure peace.'



    U.S. UNMANNED SPY AIRCRAFT FLY OVER BOSNIA



  L o n d o n, Feb. 11 (Tanjug) - The London Daily Telegraph on
Saturday said that U.S. unmanned aircraft launched from a base
on the Croatian island of Brac were watching the frontlines in
Bosnia-Herzegovina. The paper said the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency was probably behind the action.  The operation,
officially named 'lofty view,' has aroused fresh suspicion that
the CIA has continued to provide intelligence to the Bosnian
Muslims, the paper said.  Unmanned aircraft are able to fly
48-hour sorties at an altitude of 8,500 meters and collect
information about artillery positions, communication lines and
movement of troops. On the basis of such information, British
military expert David Fulghum told the paper, it is possible to
predict an offensive and concentration of armament and troops. 
The Brac base, where some Americans are stationed, is guarded by
the Croatian army and police and civilians have no access to it.
When the Americans appear in civilian clothes in public places
outside the base, they refuse to talk to the locals, the paper
said. The inhabitants of the town of Bol in the island of Brac
noticed their presence in November last year, one day after the
signing of an agreement on military cooperation between the U.S.
and Croatia, the Daily Telegraph said.



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    UNTRUE U.S. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 14 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister Margit
Savovic Tuesday said the annual U.S. global human rights review
contained a number of completely untrue accusations against
Yugoslavia.  Savovic, who is Federal Minister for Human Rights
and Minorities, told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti that the
State Department report again accused the Yugoslav authorities
of allegedly abusing ethnic Albanians in Serbia's southern
Kosovo and Metohija province.  Savovic said it was impossible to
describe as abuse the bringing to trial of Albanians who had
committed the most brutal felonies, and who were caught in the
possession of huge quantities of arms and drugs. These people
are being tried in the presence of international observers and
for activities aimed at the secession of parts of Yugoslavia,
she said.  Savovic said no country in the world would tolerate
such activities and that none had reacted when France recently
arrested Muslim terrorists and fundamentalists for the same
criminal activities.  Savovic said the State Department report
described as aggressors only the Serbs in the territories of the
breakaway former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and persisted in naming as victims the
Muslims and Croats living there.  She said that in this case the
U.S. had substituted the thesis.  She described as untrue the
State Department's claims that the setting up of a tribunal for
war crimes committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia
was allegedly a major contribution to the protection of human
rights in the world. This would have been true only if a
permanent, not ad hoc war crimes tribunal had been formed and
only for some countries, Savovic said. Savovic said that in that
case, on trial would be the perpetrators of crimes in Vietnam,
Cambodia and other countries, since war crimes do not have a
statute of limitations. This, however, is not in the interest of
the big powers, Savovic said.



    SERB PROTEST AGAINST MUSLIM OFFENSIVE IN BIHAC



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 14 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army
Commander gen. Ratko Mladic Tuesday strongly protested with U.N.
Bosnia Commander gen. Rupert Smith against a new Sarajevo's
Muslim army offensive in the Bihac area.  The Bosnian Serb news
agency Srna quoted Mladic as saying in a letter to Smith that
Muslim Bihac-based troops were 'brutally destroying serb
settlements, plundering and touching houses and expelling
civilians from occupied villages.' In this onslaught from an
allegedly safe area in western Bosnia, which began three days
ago, the Muslims are using all available arms, Mladic said. 
Mladic said this latest offensive from the U.N. - Protected Area
of Bihac, the daily violations of the truce else where in
Bosnia, and the negative attitude of the Muslim side were
directly undermining the peace process. Mladic said this was the
second time the Muslim Sarajevo Government troops launched an
offensive from Bihac since the four-month truce had taken effect
on Jan. 1.  Mladic said he expected Smith to take urgent
measures to force the Muslim side to observe the truce and
retreat to the lines of separation at the time of the signing of
the truce.



    SLOVENIA SUPPLIED BOSNIAN MUSLIMS WITH ARMS



  Lj u b lj a n a, Feb. 14 (Tanjug) - Former Slovenian
Intelligence Chief Miha Brejc has accused the Slovenian Defense
Ministry of supplying arms to Bosnian Muslims last year,
Ljubljana papers said Tuesday.  Brejc said Slovenia had sent
huge quantities of weaponry to Bosnia and accused Slovenian
President Milan Kucan of involvement in these deals. He demanded
an investigation. Slovenian officials continued to sell weaponry
to Bosnian Muslims after they hushed up the scandal in 1993 when
about 120 tonnes of arms and ammunition for the Bosnian Muslim
army were seized at Maribor Airport, Brejc said.  Brejc even
said he suspected these weapons had reached the Muslims
eventually, in early July last year.  Brejc was removed from the
post of head of Slovenian Counterintelligence after the Maribor
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 YUGOSLAVIA'S SCEPTICISM ABOUT HAGUE TRIBUNAL'S IMPARTIALITY
CONFIRMED



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 15 (tanjug) - The fact that the
Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia has put only Serbs on its list of suspects, confirms
Yugoslavia's scepticism about its impartiality and doubts that
it was set up under political pressure. Speaking for Belgrade
dailies on Wednesday, Zoran Stojanovic, head of the Yugoslav War
Crimes Committee, said that by filing charges only against 21
Serbs on Feb. 13, the Hague tribunal had not taken into
consideration documented evidence on war crimes committed
against Serbs by other peoples (Muslims and Croats). In an
interview to the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, Stojanovic
said, 'the evidence submitted to the U.N. by the Yugoslav War
Crimes Committee and other Yugoslav non-governmental
organizations was not sufficient for the Hague tribunal to
enlarge the list (of war criminals).' Moreover, by raising
charges only against Serbs, the Hague tribunal had also failed
to take into consideration a 129-page document with 390
photographs testifying that the Croatian army had committed war
crimes in the Republic of Serb Krajina. The document, launched
by the Krajina-based non-governmental organization veritas,
includes evidence on Croatian war crimes on which U.N
peacekeepers have also reported. Yugoslav political leaders and
relevant court bodies have agreed to some form of cooperation
with the tribunal, believing that it will try all war criminals
from the former Yugoslavia regardless of their ethnic origin, as
repeatedly stated by tribunal officials. The form of cooperation
in question should have included a submission of evidence to the
tribunal in cases where it proved to be justified. In a
statement to the Belgrade daily Politika Ekspres, Stojanovic
said, however, this did not mean a recognition of the tribunal's
authority. Stojanovic said Yugoslavia would not hand over
citizens charged with war crimes by the tribunal, not only
because it was contrary to the Yugoslav constitution, but also
because the handing over of foreign citizens took place only
under certain conditions. The Yugoslav Federal Court said Monday
that Yugoslav citizens who had committed crimes against humanity
and international law must be tried, but said these trials would
be exclusively in charge of Yugoslav courts.



  MUSLIMS PREVENT NATO INSPECTION AT TUZLA AIRFIELD



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 15 (tanjug) - The Bosnian Muslim Army has
forbidden access to hangars to a NATO team which arrived at
Tuzla airfield on Tuesday. The task of the NATO team is to
determine what happened to three aeroplanes which U.N. observers
said landed at this airfield in northeastern Bosnia last
weekend, but have not been seen since. UNPROFOR spokesman in
Sarajevo Gary Coward was quoted by the French news agency AFP on
Wednesday assaying the incident involving these aeroplanes
remained a mystery. Bosnian Serbs warned that the Tuzla airfield
would be used for shipping weaponry to the Muslim side already
when they approved its opening for humanitarian flights.
UNPROFOR observers reported from the spot that three planes
landed at Tuzla airfield on the night of Feb. 10, one hercules
c-130 cargo plane and two smaller fighter planes. The U.N.
immediately sent two vehicles with observers out to investigate,
but the vehicles were immediately surrounded by about 30 armed
Muslim troops who prevented them from reaching the runway. One
vehicle managed to pass through and reach the runway, but
discovered that the planes were nowhere to be seen. Coward said
it was believed they had been taken to hangars. Two days later,
at 20:15 hrs local time on Feb. 12, U.N. observers saw three
planes cruising over Tuzla and said they heard many fighter
planes flying over. NATO, however, said it did not register any
such flights. The authorities of the Bosnian Serb Republic
lodged a sharp protest with UNPROFOR concerning the incident of
Feb. 10. after the incident of Feb. 12, they said they would be
forced to take certain measures, Coward said. Serbs in Bosnia
believe this should not have happened since a no-fly zone is in
force, Coward said, and they made it clear that they would take
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                  LIFTING OF SANCTIONS VITAL FOR PEACE



      B  e  l  g  r a d e, Feb. 16 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin
President  Momir Bulatovic  said  Thursday  the question of the
lifting  of  the  sanctions against Yugoslavia was 'a key
element which absolutely contributes to  the return of peace to
the territory of former Yugoslavia.'     With the sanctions,
'everyone is waiting for Serbia and Montenegro to become
economically exhausted, so that they can pick up their share of
the cake,' Bulatovic said in a live broadcast of Belgrade's TV
Politika.      Bulatovic  said  that  the 'recognition of
Croatia  by  the  Federal Republic  of Yugoslavia does not solve
anything.' He said that  Yugoslavia had made it clear that it
had no territorial aspirations.      Those  who  propose  this
recognition have hidden  political  goals, Bulatovic  said,
explaining that the goals were based on the misconception that 
the  problem of Zagreb-Knin relations can be resolved without 
Knin, which he said was impossible.      Bulatovic said there
was no need or sense in resolving that  problem militarily.  He
said the continued presence of the UNPROFOR was  necessary and 
that  he  believed  the international community  would  get 
Croatian President  Franjo  Tudjman to rescind the decision  to 
cancel  UNPROFOR's mandate after March 31.      Bulatovic said
interests of Serbs in former Bosnia-Herzegovina might have  been
realized more successfully by accepting the Contact Group  plan
as a basis for talks.      Speaking  about  the question of the
U.N.- controlled  peninsula  of Prevlaka on the Yugoslav border
with Croatia, Bulatovic said there had  to be  a  just 
delineation  and that the right way lay  only  in  diplomatic
negotiations.       Speaking  about  the  Hague  Tribunal  for 
War  Crimes  in  former Yugoslavia,  Bulatovic  said  he feared
the trials  might  be  politically coloured.



                           ANTI-SERB TRIBUNAL                 
(by diplomatic editor Stevan Cordas)



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 16 (Tanjug) - The worst doubts
about the bias of  the  Hague International War Crimes tribunal
have come true,  Yugoslav jurists are unanimous after the recent
indictment of 21 persons for crimes committed in civil war in
the former Yugoslavia.     The 21 names on the bill of
indictment are all Serb names.      The  indictment has been
received with surprise also at the Yugoslav Foreign  Ministry.
Yugoslav diplomatic circles are repeating that Belgrade is 
willing to seek out and prosecute war criminals in Yugoslav 
territory regardless of nationality.      However,  the
indictment by the Hague tribunal, in view of  whom  it charges, 
will  only  hamper the tribunal's cooperation  with  Yugoslavia,
officials at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry say.     The Yugoslav
Government had serious reservations about the setting up of the
tribunal in the first place, but has nevertheless been seeking
ways and  means  of  cooperating  with it for the common  good 
of  prosecuting offenses against international humanitarian law.
     The  readiness for cooperation is still there, the Yugoslav
 Foreign Ministry says.     One of the Yugoslav Government's
basic reservations about the setting up  of the tribunal lay in
the fact that the Security Council had not been authorized by
the U.N. General Assembly to form it in the first place. The
Security  Council's  decision  was  contrary  also  to  the 
principle  of universality,  since  the tribunal has been set 
up  to  try  only  crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.   
  Another reservation had to do with the express intention of
some  of the initiators of the tribunal that it should be the
medium of prosecuting Serbs alone.      Tribunal  officials and
Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone  have  on several  occasions
given assurances to the Yugoslav Government and  public that 
Belgrade's  fears  and reservations are  exaggerated  and  that 
the tribunal will be impartial.      The  recent  indictment has
proven the assurances to be  false.   In fact,  there is a clear
impression that an effort is being made  to  prove that which
many in Yugoslavia have feared - that the tribunal has been set
up with the sole purpose of trying Serbs.      The action of the
tribunal is all the more surprising in view of the fact that
neither unbiased international jurists nor the world public  any
longer  doubt, on the strength of evidence presented in world
media,  that Croats  and  Muslims, too, have been guilty of war
crimes  in  the  former Yugoslavia.     Yugoslav Foreign
Ministry officials say that the practice of accusing Serbs alone
is not unique to the tribunal. They say that the situation  is
no  better in some countries - such as Austria, Germany and
Switzerland  where  national courts have started proceedings,
like the Hague  tribunal, only against Serbs.







                 SERB REPUBLIC ONLY AS SOVEREIGN STATE



     B a nj a  L u k a, Feb. 16 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Republic
President Radovan  Karadzic on Thursday said that at worst the
Bosnian Serb Republic could agree to join a certain union of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, but only  as  a sovereign state.     
Karadzic said: 'Our aim is to be part of Serbia, and if that is 
not possible,  then  along with the Republic of Serb Krajina  to
 be  part  of Yugoslavia as a federal unit.'      Karadzic
reiterated that the Bosnian Serb Republic would not  accept the 
'Contact  Group' plan to resume talks, rather it would  resume 
talks with the plan serving as a basis.      Karadzic  said that
it was not late even now for all serb  lands  to unite in order
to prevent the destruction of the Serb national being.



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 MILOSEVIC, KOZYREV: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS FIRST, UNAVOIDABLE STEP



  B e l g r a d e, Feb 19 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev view the
lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia as the first and
unavoidable step which needs to be taken on the way to a
definitive solution to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.  It
was set out in the talks held between Milosevic and Kozyrev over
the weekend at Karadjordjevo, that a continued implementation of
the sanctions would directly threaten peace efforts and enable
the prolongation of the crisis and its further complication, a
statement released by the Presidential Office said.  Minister
Kozyrev said in the talks that the Russian side held in high
regard the consistent peaceful policy pursued by Yugoslavia and
the key role played by it in the current peace efforts and
processes, the statement said.  It said the common view was
expressed that the situation required of the international
community to base its upcoming efforts for the strengthening of
the peace process primarily on an equal acknowledgement and
treatment of all subjects of the crisis in the former
Yugoslavia.  The two sides expressed satisfaction with the
positive dynamic development of the bilateral cooperation
between Yugoslavia and Russia in all fields, and underscored a
long-term common interest in the further promotion and expansion
of that cooperation.  The two sides established that great
possibilities and the mutual readiness existed for the promotion
of economic ties and cooperation between Serbia and Russia, and
said the current positive development of that cooperation
forcefully contributed to the consolidation of peace and
stability in the region.



  YUGOSLAVIA HOPES FOR ADEQUATE VALUATION OF ITS PEACE POLICY



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Vladislav Jovanovic set out Sunday that the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia remained committed to the policy of peace, regardless
of the fact that the international community was treating it
inadequately.The response to the policy of peace on the part of
Yugoslavia was nowhere close to being adequate, but we remain
convinced that the significant factors of the international
community, especially those in the 'Contact Group', would soon
come realize this, said Jovanovic.  These factors should,
according to Jovanovic, help the negotiating process and thereby
achieve peace instead of adhering to an 'outdated, absurd and
counterproductive policy of maintaining sanctions at any cost.' 
The question of further maintaining of sanctions was a vital
question for the peace process and the key question in terms of
whether peace would come immediately, soon or much later,
Jovanovic told news reporters as he was seeing off Russian
Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev at Belgrade's Batajnica airport.
 Jovanovic said Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Kozyrev
have in the talks on topical international events and the
resolution of the Yugoslav crisis established a high degree of
accord in views.  Both policies, he said, urged peace and a
political resolution of issues on the basis of equal respect for
all the subjects in the Yugoslav crisis and on the basis of
equal treatment of their respective positions.  'In this context
we have underlined that to further maintain sanctions directly
upset and threatened the peace process because it was an
important obstacle in the way of achieving both peace and
Yugoslavia's equality-based status within this process,' said
Jovanovic.  The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as the key member
to the peace process could not simultaneously be treated as key
and as unequal, but as a partner which has an equal and
recognized status, Jovanovic said.  Speaking about the
possibility for Yugoslavia to soon recognize the former Yugoslav
republics within the borders they had in the former Yugoslavia,
Jovanovic said that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had from
the outset of the Yugoslav crisis said it was prepared to
recognize the 'breakaway republics as independent states at such
a time as a political solution is found for the problems
stemming from the unilateral and illegal manner in which they
left Yugoslavia.'  Noting that mutual recognition did not mean
the same for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and for others,
Jovanovic set out that the breakaway republics 'had the need for
us to recognize them, while we have no need to recognize them,
but they must recognize the same rights to us as those they used
- they used the right to leave Yugoslavia, while we pledged our
loyalty to Yugoslavia and we remain in it as in a state which
has not ceased to exist.'



  KOZYREV UNDERSCORES YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP'S COMMITMENT TO PEACE



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 19 (Tajug) - Russian Foreign Minister
Andrei Kozyrev on Sunday said he was confident of the Yugoslav
leadership's commitment to peace. Kozyrev made the statement at
Belgrade airport before leaving for Moscow after his talks with
Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic over the weekend at
Karadjordjevo.  'All recent developments have again pointed up
the central role of President Milosevic, Serbia and Yugoslavia
as factors of the political process since the decision to accept
the plan of the Contact Group for Bosnia was taken,' Kozyrev
told journalists.  He regretted the fact that 'the Contact Group
has reacted inadequately - a resolution on a symbolic suspension
of the sanctions (against Yugoslavia) was adopted in September
and that was all.'  'I have found out one thing for sure that
the Yugoslav leadership is committed to peace and will continue
to work in the interest of peace,' Kozyrev said.  'Peace is not
an object of trade, it is a principled policy,' he said and
added that official Belgrade's efforts would be more effective
if the Contact Group was to assist the activities aimed at the
lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia.  Asked whether the
key to peace was in Milosevic's hands, as it was often set out,
Kozyrev replied, 'it is a very important fact that Belgrade has
accepted the peace plan, but the issue is not being resolved
here. It depends on the Bosnian Serbs.'  'In order for Belgrade
to be able energetically to influence (Bosnian Serbs) to accept
a peaceful solution, we must help Belgrade by lifting the
sanctions,' the Russian Foreign Minister said.  'If we recognize
Milosevic as a key factor, we must help him,' Kozyrev told
journalists.  Commenting the approach according to which
pressure on Belgrade should in fact be stepped up because it is
a key factor, Kozyrev said, 'that logic will lead nowhere and it
favours those who are against a solution to the crisis.'  'The
international community's refusal to follow the path of the
easing of sanctions against Belgrade in return for the latter's
positive reactions is counter-productive in my opinion,' Kozyrev
told the press and said the respective approach did not
contribute to peace but weakened peace.  Kozyrev said Russia's
position that steps needed to be taken to ease the sanctions
against Belgrade regrettably met with the opposition of some of
Moscow's partners.  He said Russia would tell its western
partners in the Contact Group what he, himself, had said in
Belgrade - that positive reaction to Belgrade's peace policy was
necessary.  Kozyrev said it was unusual not to lend support to a
chief power which urged peace and noted that there was no
justification for that.  Kozyrev assessed as positive the French
initiative for a new international conference on the former
Yugoslavia but said that 'the process is somehow starting
backwards, i.e. it is talked about the mutual recognition' of
Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.  The Russian Foreign
Minister said that it was not possible only to make demands in a
complex process of a resolution of a crisis but that attention
had to be paid to how acceptable those demands were.



  U.N. SANCTIONS COMMITTEE APPROVES GAS DELIVERIES TO YUGOSLAVIA



  N e w Y o r k, Feb. 17 (Tanjug) - The U.N. Sanctions
Committee, after several delays, late on Friday approved Russian
gas exports to Yugoslavia for humanitarian purposes.  The
Sanctions Committee met Russia's request that monthly deliveries
of 132.4 million cubic meters of gas to the Yugoslav federation
of Serbia and Montenegro should be completed by April 30. 
Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.N. Dragomir Djokic said that the
decision was welcome although it was rather belated, because it
would facilitate the grave humanitarian situation in Yugoslavia.
Djokic said this was a sign of the Sanctions Committee's more
objective approach and was certainly a sign of respect of
Yugoslavia peacemaking policy.  Gas deliveries to Yugoslavia
have been made conditional on unhampered gas deliveries to
Sarajevo, to which Yugoslav authorities have not objected since
Russia submitted its request.  The Sanctions Committee is to
consider the functioning of the gas deliveries to Yugoslavia and
Sarajevo on a monthly basis and if all sides observe their
duties, the permission will automatically be extended.  If needs
for gas imports have not entirely been met by April 30, the
interested parties should submit another request for the
extension of the deliveries.  The Sanctions Committee decided
that gas deliveries to Yugoslavia would be monitored by the WHO
and the Italian company ENI, while those to Sarajevo would be
monitored by U.N. representatives.



 YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE REPORTS GOOD COOPERATION WITH U.N.
PEACEKEEPERS



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 17 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government's
Committee for Cooperation with the UNPROFOR said Friday that
Yugoslavia had been maintaining good cooperation with UNPROFOR.
Yugoslavia has been providing services and various facilities to
UNPROFOR which have considerably contributed to UNPROFOR's
mission to the former Yugoslavia, it was heard at the session,
chaired by Prime Minister Radoje Kontic.  A Government statement
said the Committee had discussed UNPROFOR's financial
obligations to the Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro,
and taken steps in connection with renting out office space to
UNPROFOR.  Special attention was paid to damage to Yugoslav
roads by UNPROFOR vehicles and convoys. More than 30,000
UNPROFOR vehicles used Yugoslav roads in the period from
UNPROFOR's arrival in Yugoslavia in April 1992 until December
1994. The Committee upheld an initiative by the competent
Government bodies for billing UNPROFOR for the damage, in
keeping with the practice in other regions where UNPROFOR is
stationed.



     MUSLIMS OPEN FIRE ON U.N. OBSERVERS



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 18 (Tanjug) - Muslim snipers opened fire
Saturday on U.N. observers in the souther western Sarajevo area.
Bosnian Serb Republic news agency SRNA quoted Serb Army sources
reporting that Muslims attacked a U.N. observer team from the
direction of the allegedly demilitarized zone of Mt Igman, south
of Sarajevo. The attack was to discourage U.N. inspection in
Sarajevo's Vojkovici section where Muslims earlier killed a Serb
civilian and wounded another one.  The presence of Muslim units
inside the demilitarized zone on Mt Igman was confirmed Saturday
by U.N. Spokesman in Sarajevo lt.-col. Gary Coward, who said the
U.N. had driven out 7 Muslim soldiers from the demilitarized
zone.



 U.N., NATO SEND REPORT ON TUZLA AIRPORT INCIDENT TO
BOUTROS-GHALI



  B e l g r a d e, Feb. 18 (Tanjug) - U.N. Protection Force
Spokesman Alexander Ivanko on Saturday said UNPROFOR and NATO
representatives had sent a report on the recent incident at
Tuzla airport to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali.The Spokesman said in a statement to the Bosnian
Serb news agency SRNA that the report had been sent after an
UNPROFOR-NATO commission had subsequently, on Wednesday and
Thursday, carried out an investigation into the landing of
aircraft at the airport near the town of Tuzla in northeastern
Bosnia.  Ivankov said UNPROFOR and NATO had recorded the landing
of one transport plane and two fighters but U.N. peacekeepers
had been prevented from carrying out an on-the-spot
investigation by Muslim troops who had threatened to use their
weapons if necessary.



   MUJAHEDDIN EXPANDING THEIR BASES IN CENTRAL BOSNIA



  L o n d o n, Feb. 18 (Tanjug) - Mujaheddin from the Middle
East and northern African countries were expanding their bases
in central Bosnia and continuing to introduce Islamic law, wrote
London's Daily Telegraph on Saturday.  The mujaheddin fighting
on the side of Bosnian Muslims have expanded their base in the
central Bosnian town of Zenica to include also the town of
Tesanj, the paper said.  It went on to say that the 'jihad
warriors' conducted training of Bosnian Muslims on the front
lines toward the Serbs, but at the same time worked towards
introduction of Islamic law in the area.  This has caused
particular concern to Bosnian Croats, because they were now
fully isolated in Tesanj, said the paper and set out that the
Muslim Army had absolute control there.



  U.S. DAILY REPORTS MUJAHEDIN TERRORIZING CROATS IN BOSNIA



  N e w Y o r k, Feb. 18 (tanjug) - Mujahedin from Islamic
countries are terrorizing the Croats in the central Bosnian town
of Zenica, forcing them to leave and thus rocking the
Muslim-Croat federation.  U.S. daily The New York Times said
about 800 Croats in Zenica's suburb of Podbrezje were exposed to
everyday terror by about 500 mujahedin in the town. The Croats
there complain that the mujahedin, fighting on the side of the
Muslims in the three-year war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, demanded
that all the lights be put out on the Christmas trees, hurling
insults at them on the street and coming to their houses with
the local extremists inquiring whether their houses were for
sale and when they would move out of them.  The New York Times
said the situation in Zenica borders explosion, as the
mujahedeen have no sympathy even for the Turkish U.N. troops
patrolling this town section.  'Either the mujahedin... would
leave or we will have to leave,' cited The New York Times a
Croat, identifying him only as Zeljko, who was quoted as also
saying: 'If Zenica is to be entirely Muslim, then Mostar will be
entirely Croatian.'  The Muslims in Mostar, southern
Bosnia-Herzegovina, were virtually surrounded by Croats, as were
the Croats in central Bosnia in Muslim encirclement, said the
paper. It went on to say that the Muslim-Croat Federation hung
in a balance of terror. In the case of Podbrezje, the entire
concept of the Muslim-Croat Federation could fall apart and
result in wide divisions, said the paper.  'We can no longer
accept these mujahedin terrorizing a Croatian neighbourhood,'
the daily quoted Jadranko Prlic, the Muslim-Croat Federation
Defense Minister as saying. Prlic is also Premier of the Croat
state in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Herzeg-Bosnia.  The mujahedin
'mainly come from Iran, Egypt, Sudan and the Persian gulf,' the
paper said.  'There is no question that President Alija
Izetbegovic has turned increasingly to the Islamic world for
financial and military support as he has seen that a west
military intervention to save Bosnia was not forthcoming,' The
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   LIFTING OF SANCTIONS MUST COME FIRST    by Stevan Cordas



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - Russian Foreign Minister
Andrei Kozyrev confirmed after the talks with Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic that the maximum degree of cooperation shown
by Belgrade in the quest of a solution to the crisis in the
former Yugoslavia had not met with adequate responses in the
world. Yugoslavia has upheld all the peace plans proposed by the
international community for the resolution of the conflict in
Bosnia-Herzegovina and of the overall crisis in the former
Yugoslavia. A fact nobody in the world can deny is that
Yugoslavia has upheld the Cutileiro, Vance-Owen,
Owen-Stoltenberg, European Union and 'Contact Group' plans for
Bosnia-Herzegovina in the given order. Yugoslavia has also
upheld the Vance plan for a three-stage solution to the conflict
between Krajina and Croatia. The plan calls for the cessation of
hostilities, the normalization of economic ties and an accord on
a political solution to relations between the Republic of Serb
Krajina and Croatia. Nobody can either dispute the fact that
Belgrade has met all the set conditions for the lifting of the
sanctions introduced against it under U.N. Security Council
resolution 757, because of alleged Yugoslav involvement in the
civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. At a time when the lifting of
the sanctions against Yugoslavia definitely appeared to be a
logical step, a new initiative was launched in an attempt to
impose the recognition of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and the
acknowledgement of the 'Zagreb four' plan for a solution to
Krajina-Croatia relations as additional conditions for the
lifting of the sanctions. The reply to the question by world
media on the Milosevic-Kozyrev talks - whether Belgrade would
accept the proposal on recognition of the breakaway republics -
was supplied by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic:
'As far as we are concerned, this question has not been in
dispute from the outset of the Yugoslav crisis, because we
adopted a clear stand in our constitutional declaration - we
harbour no territorial pretensions. We are prepared to recognize
the breakaway republics as independent states when a political
solution is found for the problems which emerged as a result of
the unilateral and illegal manner in which they left
Yugoslavia.' The detail which attracts the attention of world
media in the context of the talks is the dilemma in whose name
did Kozyrev hold talks with Milosevic. At the time of his
arrival to Belgrade, it was set out that he would conduct the
talks on behalf of the 'Contact Group'. After his statements,
which, according to the initial reactions, Washington failed to
appreciate, it is now assessed that he conducted the talks in
his own name. The talks resolved the key dilemma, which clearly
so far existed only in the Contact Group - in what order should
the moves be taken so as to find an acceptable solution to both
the Bosnia conflict and the conflict between Zagreb and Knin.
Belgrade is categorical - first the lifting of sanctions, and
then everything else. The lifting of sanctions would restore to
it a position of equality with other protagonists in the peace
process, because the problem of the Yugoslav crisis cannot be
resolved as long as the sanctions are maintained. Judging from
Kozyrev's statements before and after the talks with Milosevic,
Moscow endorsed such a stand. The Russians also oppose imposing
new conditions for the lifting of sanctions. So, whoever indeed
wants peace on the territory of the former Yugoslavia must also
take this into account. The Russians have practically already
taken a stand on this. It is now the remaining four's (U.S.,
Great Britain, France and Germany) turn.



  BOSNIAN AND KRAJINA SERBS SET UP JOINT DEFENSE COUNCIL



 B a nj a l u k a, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Republic
and the Republic of Serb Krajina on Monday set up a joint
defense council. A decision to that effect was adopted at a
meeting of the two delegations headed by Bosnian Serb President
Radovan Karadzic and Serb Krajina President Milan Martic. The
joint defense council will comprise the Bosnian Serb and Serb
Krajina Presidents, Parliament Speakers, Prime Ministers,
Defense and Interior Ministers and Army Commanders. Karadzic
told reporters that 'times are such as to make it necessary to
set up such a council,' and that the joint body 'will discuss
all aspects of defense activities.' Karadzic said that 'joint
Bosnian Serb and Krajina Serb defense is not aimed against
anybody, and will serve only to defend and protect the
territories of the two states.' Martic said that the setting up
of the council was a 'normal process of continued cooperation
between the two young Serb states.'Martic said that 'the setting
up of the council is not a threat to anybody. On the contrary,
we hope that joint defense will contribute to peace, as it will
create the necessary balance of power.' 'If the Croats and
Muslims have formed a federation at the dictates of the United
States and Germany after so much bloodshed in mutual fighting,
then we, as one nation, can defend ourselves from the common
threat,' said Martic.



  U.N. CONCERNED OVER MUSLIM VIOLATION OF NO-FLY ZONE



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - United Nations officials on
Monday expressed concern over Muslim violations of the no-fly
zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina and a belief that the Muslim
Government had used some of the flights for transporting troops
and equipment. The Reuter news agency quoted UNPROFOR Spokesman
Herve Gourmelon as expressing concern on the part of the U.N.
over an increased number of flights by Muslim Government
aircraft, which constitutes a violation of the no-fly zone over
Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to the UPI news agency, Gourmelon
said U.N. observers had registered 17 helicopter sorties and one
plane flight in the night between Friday and Saturday in the
area of the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla, which is
controlled by the Bosnian Muslim Government forces. He said
another Mi-8 helicopter had been discovered west of Tuzla on
Sunday. At least two helicopters were spotted on Saturday over
the Muslim-controlled central Bosnian town of Zenica. Reuters
said reports were arriving from Bihac, a Muslim-controlled town
in western Bosnia, that helicopters were again bringing in
supplies to the fifth corps of the Muslim army loyal to the
Government in Sarajevo.



  MUSLIMS STILL KEEP SERB UNHCR EMPLOYEE IN JAIL



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - Svetlana Boskovic, an
employee of the UNHCR, is still in a Sarajevo prison waiting for
investigation by Muslim authorities, the UNHCR Belgrade office
told Tanjug on Monday. The Bosnian Muslims are still refusing to
release Boskovic, who was arrested on Feb. 9, and the UNHCR
office in Belgrade said the Muslim authorities had offered as an
explanation the fact that 'investigation is under way.'
Boskovic, who works as a translator for the UNHCR, is accused of
spying for the Bosnian Serb Republic. She was arrested while on
her way with a Croat colleague to the U.N. hospital in Sarajevo,
where she was to undergo medical examination. Their car was
stopped by Muslim troops and the two were taken to prison. The
Croat colleague was immediately released.



   CROATIAN PLANES FLY OVER SERB KRAJINA



 O k u c a n i, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - Croatian planes on Monday
twice flew over the region of western Slavonia in the Republic
of Serb Krajina, in a violation of the ceasefire agreement, Serb
Krajina sources said. The local Serb Krajina Army Command said
the objective of the action was believed to be aerial
photographing and reconnaissance inside the Serb-controlled part
of the UNPA.



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 ALL BOSNIA'S WARRING SIDES MANIPULATE TRUTH



 N e w Y o r k, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - All warring sides in the
civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina manipulate truth and facts, U.N.
Spokesman for Peace Operations Fred Eckhard has told Tanjug.
Eckhard, who has just returned from Bosnia, listed as one such
example an article by the Oslobodjenje newspaper, published in
the Muslim-held part of Sarajevo, saying that 47 children have
died in the Bihac hospital because of intolerable conditions. A
BBC team, which has visited the hospital in this northwestern
Bosnian town, has established that it is in quite good
condition, although it occasionally has to grapple with
shortages of certain medicine, said Eckhard, who during his
three-week stay in Bosnia visited Bihac, Sarajevo and Mostar.
Referring to Muslim allegations that Bosnian Serbs had destroyed
Bihac, Eckhard said considerable damage was visible in villages
around Bihac, but said the town itself had not sustained much
damage. Relations between Bosnian Muslims and Croats have lately
again deteriorated, with tensions becoming increasingly evident,
he said. He said he did not believe there was an imminent danger
of new Muslim-Croat clashes. Eckhard said a powerful
international hand that wanted to salvage the Muslim-Croat
Federation in Bosnia-Herzegovina that was conceived in
Washington - was in action. What we have here are strained
relations in an unnatural marriage rather than a danger of a
forced divorce, he said.



 UNPROFOR CONFIRMS HELICOPTER FLIGHTS OVER TUZLA AIRPORT



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - A helicopter flight over
Tuzla airport was sighted on Sunday evening by observers of the
U.N. Protection Force, an UNPROFOR Spokesman said on Tuesday.
Belgrade-based UNPROFOR Information Department Head Yuri Chizhek
said observers had noted the flight of an Mi-8 helicopter above
the airport in the Muslim-controlled northern Bosnian town of
Tuzla. Chizhek said at a news conference that the army to which
the Mi-8 helicopter belongs was not identified. He added that
UNPROFOR planned to set up a new observation system at Tuzla
airport to facilitate the identifying of 'no-fly' ban violators.



 UNPROFOR BANNED ACCESS TO PART OF TUZLA AIRFIELD



 N e w Y o r k, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - U.N. Spokesman for Peace
Operations Fred Eckhard confirmed on Tuesday that the UNPROFOR
have been banned access to part of Tuzla airfield by Muslim
forces for several weeks now. In connection with press reports
about landings of cargo planes and helicopters on part of this
Muslim-controlled airfield in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Eckhard said incidents of violations of the no-fly zone over
Bosnia have been stepped up in the recent weeks, but that the
U.N. did not have reliable evidence about any arrivals of arms
shipments. Reports by agencies and some U.S. papers said
sophisticated weaponry was being shipped to Muslims via Tuzla
airfield under cover of the night, indicating that an offensive
was being prepared on the corridor in northern
Bosnia-Herzegovina along the Sava river.



SARAJEVO ARCHBISHOP: MUSLIMS ARE KILLING AND EXPELLING CATHOLICS
FROM BO SNIA



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 21 (tanjug) - Of the 510,000 Catholics in
Sarajevo, only one third have managed to survive while the
reminder have been exterminated or forced out of their homes by
the Muslims, Sarajevo Archbishop Vinko Puljic has told Radio
Vatican. Cardinal Puljic said that in Sarajevo three Franciscan
priests had disappeared. 'Two were killed by the Muslims, and
the third by a 'criminal',' Puljic said. Cardinal Puljic charged
the Muslims of 'strongly pressuring Catholics' in
Muslim-controlled areas, but also blamed the 'Croats who share
the power with them, of neither sincerely nor sufficiently
defending the Catholics.' 'Sarajevo is a city-prison where
extreme radicalism is practised,' Puljic said in the first
version of the program and added that this is why the number of
Catholics in the city is dropping. Puljic said an example of
this was a Sarajevo Catholic parish where 350 Catholics had been
forced out of their homes by Muslims. He said this was 'a
typical example of how Catholics are treated.'





 MARTIC: TALKS WITH CROATIA TO RESUME ONLY IF UNPROFOR STAYS



 K n i n, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - The Republic of Serb Krajina is
prepared to begin political and continue economic negotiations
with Zagreb only if the U.N. peacekeepers stay, Krajina
President Milan Martic said on Tuesday. 'The very minute we get
the guarantees that the peacekeepers are staying in the area, in
keeping with the Vance plan, we are ready to open political
talks and resume economic negotiations,' Martic told journalists
after talks with the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy
Yasushi Akashi. UNPROFOR Commander in the former Yugoslavia,
gen. Bertrand de Lapresle and the Director of UNPROFOR's
civilian component also attended the talks in Knin. Martic
repeated Krajina's firm commitment to peaceful settling of
disputes with Croatia. He said an extension of UNPROFOR's
mandate, together with the competences it currently has, would
be a guarantee for that. Martic said Krajina would, in that
case, not be opposed to a reduction in the number of
peacekeepers, as Akashi suggested. Akashi said he was satisfied
with the talks with Krajina leaders and described them as
valuable. He said the situation in the region had reached a
crucial point. Akashi said he today encountered will and
readiness for opening a new phase. He declined to elaborate and
said he would have to consult New York and the other concerned
party, Croatia. Akashi said the two sides had secured a positive
basis for cooperation in the future. Serb Krajina Foreign
Minister Milan Babic told reporters that UNPROFOR's departure
would create an 'abyss in the peace process' and reverse the
situation to the state of affairs four years ago. 'We support
and will continue to support all international actions leading
to a peaceful settlement of the Krajina-Croatia conflict,' Babic
said.



 REHABILITATION OF FASCISM IN CROATIA by Nikola Stanojevic



 Z a g r e b, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - The Croatian authorities and
media close to them are increasingly frequently reaffirming a
fascist creation during the second world war, the so-called
Independent State of Croatia (NDH), and paying tribute to the
then ustashas - Croatian fascists who had committed a genocide
of Serbs, Jews and Romanies. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
has recently personally conferred a decoration on the ustasha
Chief of Staff during the NDH and signatory to the 1941 racist
order, Ivo Rojnica, who told the local press: 'I would do again
all what I had done in 1941.' In the NDH, the third Reich's
puppet state, ustashas had killed about 700,000 Jews, Serbs and
Romanies in the Jasenovac concentration camp alone. Mirko
Mirkovic, writer and translator, longtime member of the
Zagreb-based Jewish Community Council again warned in the latest
issue of the independent weekly Feral Tribune that the current
Croatian authorities are encouraging fascism. Mirkovic said that
Tudjman appointed prominent official in the NDH Government Vinko
Nikolic, 'the man with the ustasha heart' who participated in
the genocide committed against Jews, Serbs and Romanies to be
member of Croatian Parliament's Upper House. Mirkovic recalled
that Nikolic wrote in 1941 that literature should help the
ustasha movement in 'creating the new man' whose main
characteristics must be: 'nationalist soul,' 'ustasha heart,'
'head of state thought,' and 'ustasha creed.' Those who have
already paraded on TV screens in Croatia are, first, Danijel
Crljan who had said in the days of the NDH: 'Croatia radically
resolved the Jewish question,' and, secondly, the warden of
Jasenovac concentration camp Dinko Sakic who said he was 'proud
of everything' he 'had done for Croatia.' While the 'old
ustashas' tell the 'truth' about the NDH, in Croatia today, the
Croatian Army units and barracks have been named after NDH war
criminals, like Maks Luburic, Rafael Boban and Jure Francetic,
commander of the notorious black legions. In addition to the
Hrvatski Vijesnik of Vinkovci, the paper known for its slogan
'Serbs damn you - wherever you are', recently emerged the
Hrvatski Vitez, the paper whose intention is to 'humiliate the
Serbo-chetniks to the utmost.' To forget would mean to kill the
victims one more time. We were unable to prevent their first
death, and we must not let them be killed again - Nobel prize
winner Elie Wiesel has warned.



 NATO IS ARMING BOSNIAN MUSLIMS



 R o m e, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - NATO is supplying the Bosnian
Muslim Army with large quantities of most sophisticated weapons,
the Italian news agency ADN Cronos said Tuesday quoting UNPROFOR
sources in Sarajevo. ADN Cronos said that the U.N. ban on arms
deliveries to the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia was
being violated by the huge U.S. military C-130 cargo planes
which, escorted by several fighter planes and under cover of
AWACS aircraft, bring war supplies usually under cover of the
night to the airport of the Muslim-held town of Tuzla in
northern Bosnia. ADN Cronos said that the peacekeepers had
several times tried to verify the reports at the airport which
they formally control, but had been prevented from doing so by
the Muslim Army, which had seized the Tuzla airport and opened
fire on them. Analysts believe that only a general agreement
between the western allies could have enabled the U.S. mission
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 BOSNIAN MUSLIMS EVADE MOBILIZATION, FLEE TO YUGOSLAVIA



 U z i c e, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslims are fleeing from
the eastern Bosnian Muslim enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa to
Yugoslavia to avoid forcible mobilization, Muslim refugees
confirmed to reporters Wednesday. Bosnian Muslims started to
arrive in the Serbian town of Uzice on Feb. 3. there are
currently 36 of them in Uzice. They told reporters that they had
decided to flee to Yugoslavia following severe food shortages
and because of the cruel stand of the local population toward
Muslims from elsewhere in Bosnia who had arrived in the
enclaves. Sulejman Macanovic, 25, a Muslim from Bratunac, who
spent the past two years in Srebrenica, said that the Bosnian
Serb Army was not attacking the U.N. 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.
He said that Srebrenica, however, had not been demilitarized.
Macanovic said that 80% of Srebrenica's current population of
about 40,000 were refugees. 'The Muslim Army has no regular
units but the population is armed,' he said. He said that men
fit for military service were being enlisted in Srebrenica so he
had decided to 'run away from the hell there.' Nedzad Nukic,
said that humanitarian aid for the U.N. 'safe havens' had been
often sold in shops and open markets by wealthy locals and
officials in Zepa and Srebrenica. The Muslims in Uzice claim
that large numbers of U.N. peacekeepers were also involved in
the smuggling. Most of the Muslims said they wanted to leave
Yugoslavia for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and
then to proceed further to the west. The Muslims crossed the
Yugoslav border at the Drina river in groups- in boats, on rafts
and inflated inner tubes of automobile tyres. They had to pay
several hundreds German marks to fellow Muslims 'organizers' of
such trips for services rendered.



  UNPROFOR EXHIBITION OPENS IN BELGRADE



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - UNPROFOR Civil
Administration Head Michel Moussolli opened an exhibition of
UNPROFOR photographs in Belgrade late Wednesday. Opening the
exhibition at Belgrade's Museum of Applied Arts, Moussolli said
it was important that it be seen through this exhibition as well
what the U.N. was doing to end the conflicts in former
Yugoslavia. Moussolli said UNPROFOR was successful, although to
a limited degree, in establishing ceasefire agreements,
mediating in talks, securing humanitarian and medical aid, and
aid for refugees and displaced persons.



 IZETBEGOVIC'S UNITS TERRORIZE MUSLIM POPULATION IN WESTERN
BOSNIA



 D r v a r, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - Military police of the Muslim
Army 5th corps loyal to Alija Izetbegovic 'terrorize the people'
in western Bosnia border areas, Velika Kladusa Velkaton Radio
said Wednesday. The 5th corps military police from Bihac in
western Bosnia are forcibly establishing order in Buzim and
Cazin, because locals refuse to fight against their own people.
This is why people increasingly frequently escape to Velika
Kladusa, the headquarters of moderate Muslim politician Fikret
Abdic, Izetbegovic's rival. Members of the 5th corps are looting
houses of their fellow Muslims and taking to assembly camps all
those who refuse to join them, Radio Velkaton reported. The
looters especially attack the civilians who have fled war zones,
robbing them of foreign currency and personal valuables.



 'NEW CROATIAN RIGHT' PROPOSES OPENING OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS



 Z a g r e b, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - The leader of the New Croatian
Right, a Croatian party in formation, on Wednesday proposed that
concentration camps be opened for Croatia's enemies, primarily
Serbs, but possibly also for Jews. Mladen Svarc, who presides
over the founding committee, said at a round-table talk in
Zagreb that his followers 'do not plan to open concentration
camps for extermination of Jews, Gypsies and Serbs,' but that
'it would not be a bad thing to open some relatively decent
concentration camp.' Svarc accused Vice-President of the Serbian
People's Party Veselin Pejanovic of pursuing an anti-Croatian
policy, adding that 'such an animal should be put in a cultured
version of the camp.' He was of the opinion that President of
the Independent Serbian Party Milorad Pupovac also belongs to
such an institution. In a crowded hall, the leader of the party
which rallies Croatian ustasha (fascists) also made some threats
against Jews in Croatia. 'If one is constantly feigning to be
endangered while there is in fact nothing wrong with him, he
may, at one point, really become endangered,' he said. 'The Jews
have a passion for fostering their victim-cult... in their view,
the Germans are absolutely responsible and, what is even worse,
they have accepted the role,' said Svarc. In his opinion, the
ultimate result of such 'Jewish necrophilia' is that the
environment is putting them off. Svarc said he expected his
party to win between 10 and 30% of the vote in the next
elections. The strong points of his party, he said, will be its
'combatant youth' and a rehabilitation of the so-called
Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state formed under nazi
Germany's protection during World War Two.



 THE WASHINGTON TIMES: BOSNIAN MUSLIMS STAGE-MANAGE MASSACRES



 W a s h i n g t o n, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslim
authorities in Sarajevo have been accused by the U.S. daily The
Washington Times of killing their own people for the sake of
winning world media over to their side. Washington Times Editor
Andrew Borowiec said in a report from Geneva, published on
Tuesday, that Bosnian Muslims had been accused by a U.N.
official of even faking victims. Borowiec's report is based on
the book 'Helpless Blue Helmets - What I Have Seen in Bosnia' of
a 'mysterious' author who goes under the pen name 'Major
Franchet.' 'Major Franchet' said in his book that the
bread-queue massacre in Vase Miskin street in Sarajevo on May
27, 1992 had been carefully planned by the Muslim Government -
that the streets had been blocked before the incident so that
Muslim Government crews could immediately get to the scene of
the massacre and film it. Muslim authorities in Sarajevo
reported at the time that 17 civilians were killed and 150
wounded. According to the figures of the Bosnian Serb side, 14
civilians were killed and about 70 wounded. Alija Izetbegovic,
leader of only a part of the Bosnian Muslims, wrote in the book
of condolences in Sarajevo, 'I hope this was not for nothing'.
The Washington Times said 'Major Franchet' disclosed in the book
that the U.N. had rejected in an unpublished report the claim of
the Sarajevo-based Muslim Government that the explosion at the
city's Markale open-air market on Feb. 4, 1994 had been caused
by a Serb shell. The U.N. report said it was believed that the
explosion had been caused by a bomb activated by remote control
from Muslim-held territory, according to 'Major Franchet.' Four
days later and after a NATO ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs to
withdraw heavy arms from the Sarajevo area, U.N. observers
reported that they had seen Muslim snipers opening fire on
Muslims near the U.N. Headquarters in Sarajevo, 'Major Franchet'
disclosed. Borowiec recalled in the report from Geneva that the
French press had quoted a ranking French Intelligence Service
official as saying the facts disclosed in 'Major Franchet's'
book had been known to his intelligence service but it appeared
that nobody was pressing for any further investigation. Borowiec
said it was rumoured at the Geneva U.N. Headquarters that the
French Defense Ministry was carefully investigating the identity
of 'Major Franchet' for violating the rules on classified
information.



 CIA SENT TO CROATIA TO ACT AS NATO ADVANCE PARTY



 R o m e, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - The U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) has installed a base on the Croatian Adriatic
island of Brac with the aim of 'aiding' preparations for the
withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers from the territory of the
former Yugoslavia. The Italian daily La Voce has said that 'the
NATO has not come to Croatia, instead CIA has been sent in as an
advance party and NATO personnel will be in charge of covering
the U.N. pullout.' La Voce said that the withdrawal of the U.N.
troops would most certainly mean the renewal of the fighting in
the territory of the former Yugoslavia, thus rendering the
mission on Brac especially important. The Zagreb Government is
silent, but it is believed the operation was agreed during a
meeting in April in Zagreb between U.S. Defence Secretary
William Perry and his Croatian counterpart Gojko Susak, La Voce
said. La Voce quoted Susak as saying at the time that it would
be useful for Croatia if NATO used its islands Vis and Lastovo
as bases. The new civilian airport on Brac, intended for
tourism, has been transformed into a platform for U.S. spy
pilotless aircraft, La Voce said. Flying at altitudes of 8,500
metres and remaining in the air up to 48 hours (The Daily
Telegraph said last week), these aircraft control the airspace
over Bosnia and Serb Krajina and try to penetrate the airspace
east of the river Drina (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), all in
an attempt to 'prepare' as well as possible something 'which
will soon happen.' This 'near future,' the Italian public
claims, includes the withdrawal of the UNPROFOR from Croatia and
Bosnia, i.e. an 'unnamed' new 'largescale war' in that region.
Catholic daily Avenire has warned about CIA's imminent arrival
to Croatia's peninsula Istria. The paper said that the remaining
Italians and the majority of the other 'traditionally peaceful'
and non-nationalistic inhabitants of Istria are specially
threatened by forceful mobilization. Avenire said that
mobilization was specially being 'thoroughly' conducted in
Istria which politically does not support the nationalist regime
of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union. Avenire said that the
fear of mobilization has over the past three years forced 60,000
people to emigrate from Istria. According to Zagreb's already
formulated proposal, these people should be replaced by
politically 'inclined' Croats from western Herzegovina. Instead
of preparing for the tourist season, the Croats are preparing
for war, Avenire said.



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