============================================

21. MARCH 1995. 

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY 



 PRESIDENT OF SERBIA: VANCE PLAN IS THE BEST B e l g r a d e,
March 20 (Tanjug) - The Vance plan is so far the most
significant and best international document, accepted in
connection with the Yugoslav crisis, President of Serbia
Slobodan Milosevic stated on Monday. This plan has enabled not
only a discontinuation of the war but also a successful
development of the peace process between Knin and Zagreb, said
Milosevic in a talk with Thorvald Stoltenberg, envoy of the U.N.
Secretary General and Co-Chairman of the International
Conference on the former Yugoslavia. Milosevic said that this
development of the peace process made it possible to reach
agreements on March 29 and December 2, 1994, on the cessation of
all hostilities and the normalization of economic relations
between Knin and Zagreb, said an announcement issued by the
Serbian President's Office. Milosevic said that it was along
this line that the remaining agreements should be continued and
completed as regards the economic package and the holding of
talks on a political settlement between Knin and Zagreb. As for
the question of the further role and responsibility of the U.N.
in the preservation of peace and materialization of a successful
course of the peace process, the announcement said, it was
mutually noted that a resumption of the negotiating process
between Knin and Zagreb was very important, and in this domain
the U.N. peacekeepers had a singular role. Milosevic stressed
that since the enforcement of the Vance plan and in keeping with
accords reached then, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has not
been a participant in this negotiating process, because all the
questions related exclusively to the Zagreb-Knin negotiations.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, although it is not a party
in the negotiations, supports and helps the negotiating process,
which it is also doing today, making it possible for Stoltenberg
and his associates to meet with Serb Krajina President Milan
Martic and his associates in Belgrade, the announcement said.
Milosevic said he considered the meeting a positive step toward
achieving an equal stand toward all sides to the conflict, which
is of crucial importance also for the success of the U.N. peace
operation. The announcement said that if the U.N. wanted to
control the agreement on an end to hostilities between Knin and
Zagreb, then it was necessary that it consult both Knin and
Zagreb about its role in connection with their bilateral
agreement. Milosevic set out that the U.N. was confirming its
peaceful role only if it had an objective and unbiased stand
toward the sides between which it was mediating, the statement
said. Milosevic said the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would
continue to contribute to the success of the peace process with
its policy of peace. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav
Jovanovic also took part in the Milosevic-Stoltenberg talks.



INTERNATIONAL MEDIATOR SAYS U.N. TROOPS IN CROATIA SHOULD BE A
SSISTED B e l g r a d e, March 20 (Tanjug) - International
mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg said Monday that the important
issue now was how to meet the needs of U.N. troops in Croatia in
the best possible way. This is the basic issue, along with the
ceasefire agreement and the agreement on economic cooperation,
Stoltenberg told reporters after a meeting with Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic. Stoltenberg said these were the
most important issues to be taken care of in order to preserve
peace in the region, which he said was the interest of all sides.



 THERE IS NO 'ALBANIAN QUESTION' IN YUGOSLAVIA N e w Y o r k,
March 20 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanians in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia have all minority rights and there is no 'Albanian
question' to be solved, the Yugoslav Government said in a
document, which Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.N. on monday handed
over the Government's pro memoria to U.N. Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The Yugoslav Government said that any
form of support to ethnic Albanian secessionists in Serbia's
southern Province of Kosovo and Metohija would encourage
violation and abuse of the important postulates of international
law. It said it would also endanger peace and stability in the
Balkans and throughout Europe. A strong separatist movement has
been active in Kosovo and Metohija in the past several decades,
aiming to secede the Province from Serbia and Yugoslavia and
join it to neighboring Albania. It is the legitimate rights of
every state to protect its territorial integrity and sovereighty
with all available means, the document said. It said about
400,000 Serbs and Montenegrins had been forcibly expelled from
Kosovo and Metohija in the past 50 years, in an ethnic cleansing
campaign conducted by ethnic Albanian separatists. Ethnic
Albanians in Yugoslavia enjoy all rights guaranteed under
relevant international documents - from education and media in
the albanian language to participation in the political life of
the country, the Yugoslav Government said. It said that a part
of the ethnic Albanian population in the Province, pressured by
their separatist leaders, were refusing to be loyal to the state
they live in and boycotting its institutions. Acting on
instructions by their separatist leaders, Kosovo Albanians have
massively abandoned their workposts and have sought asylum in
western countries so as to create an impression that they were
endangered and stripped of their rights at home, the Yugoslav
Government said in the document.



 NEW MUSLIM OFFENSIVE IN VIOLATION OF BOSNIA CEASEFIRE B a n j a
L u k a, March 20 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslim troops launched a
strong offesnive at 4 a.m. local time on Monday on Bosnian Serb
positions on the Mts. Vlasic and Majevica fronts in central and
northeastern Bosnia, Bosnian Serb military sources said.
UNPROFOR representatives in Bosnia have confirmed that the
Muslims began the offensive and triggered heavy fighting on
these fronts. Heavy fighting continues unabated in the afternoon
hours, and there is hand-to-hand fighting in some parts of the
Mt. Majevica front, the sources said. The Bosnian Serb Army
Command said Serb fighters were firmly holding their defense
lines, that there were wounded civilians, and that there was
severe material damage. The General Staff of the Bosnian Serb
Army said on Monday that the latest Muslim offensive, in
violation of the ceasefire, was jeopardizing the peace process
in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The
General Staff said the international public had duly been
informed about the preparations for the spring Muslim-Croat
offensive, 'but had turned a deaf ear to these warnings.' 'On
the contrary, the international community had provided direct
support to the mentors of the Muslim-Croat coalition in their
planned offensive,' the statement said.



U.N. SPOKESMAN: MUSLIM OFFENSIVE A TERRIBLE BLOW TO BOSNIA TRUCE
B e l g r a d e, March 20 (Tanjug) - UNPROFOR spokesman Lt.-Col.
Gary Coward described the Muslim offensive launched early on
Monday and the fighting that ensued as a terrible blow to the
peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Coward said the events
jeorpardized peace efforts, shattering the four-month ceasefire
that could crumble before it was due to expire on April 30, the
UPI reported from Sarajevo. REUTERS quoted an unnamed U.N.
source in Sarajevo as saying 'this would appear to have all the
hallmarks of a coordinated offensive action' by the Muslim army.
REUTERS quoted other U.N. officials as saying the offensive had
shattered the ceasefire and prompted a stiff Serb response. The
sources said the U.N. had monitored over 2,000 Muslim troops
advancing toward Mt Majevica on Sunday night. The officials
confirmed earlier reports of at least 25 casualties among the
Muslim Government troops in Sarajevo Monday morning.



U.N. OFFICIAL: BOSNIAN MUSLIM OFFENSIVE JEOPARDIZES TRUCE IN B
OSNIA N e w Y o r k, March 20 (Tanjug) - U.N. spokesman for
peace operations Fred Eckhard said Monday that the latest
Bosnian Muslim offensive in northeastern Bosnia, involving about
2,000 troops, was the most serious violation of the ceasefire so
far. Eckhard said the offensive threathened to cause the
ceasefire to crumble completely. Eckhard said the Bosnian Serb
Army had returned fire, shelling army facilities in the
Muslim-held town of Tuzla and wounding about 50 Bosnian Muslim
soldiers. The number of the dead was not reported, he said.
Eckhard quoted U.N. Special Envoy for the former Yugoslavia
Yasushi Akashi as saying that he feared the truce signed the
last day of December was close to crumble and appealed to the
warring sides to refrain from offensive actions.



MUSLIM ATTACKS MAKE PEACEKEEPERS LEAVE SOME POSITIONS AROUND G
ORAZDE B i l e c a, March 20 (Tanjug) - U.N. peacekeepers left
some positions around the eastern Bosnian town of Gorazde on
Monday, following increasingly frequent Muslim attacks from the
U.N.-designated 'safe area', Bosnian Serb sources said. The
sources said that the cause for the peacekeepers' withdrawal
were also mass movements of Muslim units from the Muslim-held
town of Gorazde westward, toward the strategic town of Trnovo,
south-southeast of Sarajevo.



 CROATIAN FORCES ATTACK U.N. TROOPS B e l g r a d e, March 20
(Tanjug) - A Canadian soldier received minor injuries when
Croatian forces on Sunday opened fired at a UNPROFOR unit on the
southern borders of the Republic of Serb Krajina, a U.N. Press
Spokesman said in Zagreb on Monday. Spokesman Christopher
Gunness said the incident occurred in an area which borders with
the part of Bosnia that is controlled by forces of the Croatian
Government and of the Bosnian Croat Croatian Defense Council,
agencies reported. The Spokesman specified the Croatian forces
had kept the UNPROFOR troops pinned down under machinegun and
automatic rifle fire for an hour, including the U.N. Force
Commander for Sector South, Gen. Rostislav Kotil. Gen. Kotil was
approaching an observation post when his unit came under fire
from Croat-controlled territory, 300 m away from the spot,
Gunness said. Gen. Kotil said the fire was intensified and the
Canadian soldier wounded when he tried to withdraw with his
troops. Gen. Kotil and his escort returned safely after the
attack stopped. UNPROFOR assessed the incident as a direct
attack on UNPROFOR and lodged a strong protest with the Croatian
Army. A representative of the Bosnian Croat Force in Mostar said
he had no knowledge about the incident, and a Croatian Army
representative in Zagreb denied that force was involved.



 TUDJMAN REVIVES IDEAS OF USTASHA WAR CRIMINAL LUBURIC Z a g r e
b, March 20 (Tanjug) - Prominent Zagreb publicist Slavko
Goldstajn said the idea on the 'reconciliation of all Croats,'
revived by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, gave room for yet
more suspicions that the present Croat state was fascist in
nature. The idea was launched 30 years ago by ustasha war
criminal Maks Luburic, Goldstajn said. In an interview to the
Split Feral Tribune weekly on Monday, Goldstajn warned that the
state was trying to pull ideological woolover the eyes of
Croats, launching a debate about whether the ustasha were
fascist or just 'radical nationalists.' The essential thing is
that which is not being mentioned - that the ustasha were war
criminals and that their state was a criminal state, Goldstajn
said. Accusing President Tudjman and also Defense Minister Gojko
Susak of flerting with the ustasha ideology and ustasha symbols,
Goldstajn said that 80 percent of the Jews who had lived in the
so-called Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) had been
murdered, including many members of his own family. Goldstajn
also told Feral Tribune about seeing the burned Serb village of
Prkos which was torched in December 1941 by Croatian fascists.
He said he remembered the fascists had the night before murdered
440 orthodox Serbs - elderly people, women and children.
Goldstajn also commented the announcement that the Croatian
Ministry of Science would finance the publication of a book,
memoirs of war criminal Dide Kvaternik. Goldstajn said Kvaternik
had been the chief organizer of all ratial and religious
persecutions, all mass murders and ustasha crimes against the
people - genocide - in 1941 and 1942.



CROATIAN DAILY: IZETBEGOVIC USES CROATIA FOR ARMING FOR 'HOLY
WAR' Z a g r e b, March 20 (Tanjug) - Leader of Sarajevo Muslim
Government Alija Izetbegovic is using Croatia for arming for
Islamic 'holy war' in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Croatian daily
Slobodna Dalmacija claims Monday. Writing about Izetbegovic's
recent visit to Bonn at the invitation of German Foreign
Minister Klaus Kinkel and his statements there, the daily noted
that he had not abandoned the concept about a 'Muslimania', a
Muslim state in Bosnia. The Croatian daily wrote that
Izetbegovic needed the Muslim-Croat Federation only to the
measure which would afford using Croatia and the Bosnian
Croat-held territories to enable arming for 'holy war' and for a
single Bosnia dominated by the Muslims, who were not only most
numerous and would have the main say but would also play the
only role. The Zagreb-based daily Vijesnik pointed out that the
'Federation (Muslim-Croat) was something that Izetbegovic had
problems vocalizing.' In the German Parliament's Foreign Policy
Committee 'Izetbegovic did not utter a single word about the
Federation. Furthermore, he never mentioned the Croats, either,'
the paper said. The Muslim leadership wants to retain the
existing power and to politically totally to push the Croats to
the margin, added Vjesnik. 

===============================================

22. MARCH 1995. 

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY 



YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER: GOVERNMENT NOT SUPPRESSING FREEDOM OF
PRESS B e l g r a d e, March 21 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime
Minister Radoje Kontic, addressing the Yugoslav Parliament's
Lower House in Belgrade on Tuesday, rejected allegations by
opposition parties that the Yugoslav Government was suppressing
the freedom of press. A group of 36 opposition Mps in the
Chamber of Citizens of the Yugoslav bicameral Parliament has
initiatied a no confidence vote in the Government, accusing it
of having violated the consitution in the case of the Belgrade
news publishing house Borba and of suppressing the freedom of
press. Kontic said that, in the case of the 72-year-old daily
Borba, the dispute concerned the question of ownership and that
there was an attempt to raise it to a political level. Kontic
said that the Federal Government had not violated the
constitution, but had fulfilled its obligation ensuing from its
constitutional powers and the provisions relating to the
take-over of the founder's rights in Borba, which he described
as a media house of special interest to the Yugoslav Federation.
He said the Government urged the equality of all media,
regardless of their founders and regardless of their party
affiliation.



KARADZIC URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO STOP MUSLIM OFFENSIVE
B e l g r a d e, March 21 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb President
Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday asked the international community to
stop the Muslim offensive and warned that, should it fail,
Bosnian Serbs would not accept any more ceasefires until they
ended the war themselves. Karadzic told the British news agency
REUTER that if Muslims continued to attack, that would mean that
they wanted a military and not political resolving of the
conflict. If that is so, then they will not get a single piece
of Serb land other than that which they manage to take in the
field, Karadzic said. And you may be sure that we shall defeat
them, Karadzic told REUTERS.



 MUSLIM OFFENSIVE CONTINUES ON MOUNT VLASIC IN CENTRAL BOSNIA B
a n j a l u k a, March 21 (Tanjug) - Muslims on Tuesday
afternoon renewed attacks on Bosnian Serb positions on Mount
Vlasic in central Bosnia-Herzegovina after a dawn offensive
launched on Monday. Many casualties were reported on both sides,
said the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA, quoting Serb Army
sources. SRNA said four Serb soldiers had been killed and 12
wounded from Monday to Tuesday morning in fierce fighting on the
Majevica mountain range in northeastern Bosnia for control over
the Stolice communications tower.



SERB KRAJINA PRESIDENT: WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO CHANGING SIZE OF
UNPROFOR B e l g r a d e, March 21 (Tanjug) - Serb Krajina
President Milan Martic said Tuesday that the Republic of Serb
Krajina is not opposed to changing the number of U.N.
peacekeepers in the safe areas, but he demanded that their
mandate remains the same. 'The Security Council should decide
about the optimum size of the U.N. protection force,' martic
said following the second round of talks with U.N. mediator
Thorwald Stoltenberg in Belgrade. Martic said that the 12,000
peacekeepers currently deployed in Serb Krajina and Croatia
'could be reduced to 5,000, 6,000 or 7,000.' Martic said that
UNPROFOR's size could be bigger or smaller than the current one,
but should be such to 'enable it to secure peace along the
separation lines.' Serb Krajina demands that UNPROFOR remains in
its territory, Martic said and added that he had insisted on
this during the first round of talks with Stoltenberg in
Belgrade on Monday. 'We hope that the Security Council will
objectively consider all positive aspects of the Vance plan and
that the peacekeepers will remain in the territory of Serb
Krajina with the same mandate, as a protection force,' Martic
said. Martic said he had demanded from Stoltenberg that a Serb
Krajina representative be present when the Security Council
discusses this issue. Martic said that currently the Knin-Zagreb
talks on the implementation of the Dec. 2 economic agreement had
been frozen until UNPROFOR's mandate is resolved. 'If the Serb
Krajina demand for an unchanged UNPROFOR mandate is met, i
believe the talks will resume,' Martic said. Asked to comment
the possibility of deploying UNPROFOR on the border between the
Republic of Serb Krajina and the Bosnian Serb Republic, Martic
said the Vance plan had empowered the peacekeepers to monitor
the border between the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, but underscored that 'regarding the
control (of borders) - we cannot agree.' Stoltenberg said he
would submit a report to the U.N. Secretary General about his
talks in Belgrade and Zagreb. In Zagreb Stoltenbergmet on Monday
evening with the Croatian President's Special Advisor, Hrvoje
Sarinic. 'My task is in fact to find the common denominator for
a plan which could be best implemented to the good of all the
people in the region. I am looking for all the common points
which could result in a new mandate for the U.N. troops,'
Stoltenberg said.



NEW YORK TIMES: BOSNIAN MUSLIMS BREAK TRUCE IN
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA N e w Y o r k, March 21 (Tanjug) - The New
York Times daily said Tuesday that it seemed that Muslims in
Bosnia-Herzegovina had definitely broken the truce that took
effect on Jan. 1, more than a month before it was due to run
out. The daily said Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and
Commander of the Bosnian Muslim Army Rasim Delic had announced
last week that large scale fighting was inevitable if the
Bosnian Serbs failed to accept the international 'Contact Group'
plan for Bosnia. However, regardless of the outcome of the
current offensive, it seems evident that the war in the former
Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina will enter its fourth
year, the daily said. The daily said Muslim forces had been
reinforced and rearmed during the ceasefire, despite the U.N.
arms embargo for the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia,
and considered themselves capable of regaining some of the
'lost' territory. The daily said that a coordinated Muslim-Croat
offensive was in fact being prepared, after much talk about it,
and that its objective was to sever the corridor linking Serb
territories in the former Yugoslavia's breakaway republics of
Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina with Serbia. The New York Times
said that in the light of the fact that a logic of war had
prevailed, there was a danger of the local Serbs' attempt to
capture the vulnerable Muslim eastern Bosnian enclaves of
Gorazde, Srebrenica and Zepa. 



===============================================

24. MARCH 1995.  

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY 



 LORD OWEN: SITUATION IN BOSNIA IS VERY CONCERNING B e l g r a d
e, March 23 (Tanjug) - The Co-Chairman of the International
Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, Lord David Owen, Thursday
said that the current situation in the former Yugoslav republic
of Bosnia-Herzegovina is 'very concerning.' Lord Owen described
as 'good' talks he and the other Conference Co-Chairman Thorwald
Stoltenberg had today in Belgrade with Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic on issues pertaining to the entire region and
the war in Bosnia. Owen said that in Bosnia it is necessary to
hold direct political talks, which have been suspended since
July 1994. 'It is not good that over the past three years we
have gotten used to the fact that people simultaneously wage a
war and negotiate, but it would be even worse if they just
fought and refused to talk,' Owen said. Owen said that the
proposed Russian plan for the resolution of the Bosnian conflict
and the latest French initiative represented 'a step forward,'
but that much remained to be done. Commenting some initiatives
for mutual recognition between the former Yugoslav republics,
Owen said that 'in view of the current state of affairs, this
will not happen neither fast nor easily, but this is the final
goal.' He said that the best way to achieve this is through a
dialogue. Thorwald Stoltenberg said he had sent a report to U.N.
Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali about the results of his
talks with the representatives of the Republic of Serb Krajina
and Croatia on the future mandate of the UNPROFOR and the UNPAS
in Serb Krajina. He did not give the details of his report.



SERBIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES U.S. OFFICIAL ON BOSNIA 'CONTACT GR
OUP' B e l g r a d e, March 23 (Tanjug) - Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic received Thursday the U.S.' representative to
the 'five-state' Contact Group for Bosnia Robert Frasure.
Milosevic and Frasure discussed ways and means for promoting the
peace process, said a statement released from the Serbian
President's Cabinet. An intensification of the efforts for
eliminating the chief causes of the continuation of the crisis
and the danger of the outbreak of fresh conflicts in the lands
of the former Yugoslavia were also discussed, the statement said.



CZECH REPUBLIC HOPEFUL OF SPEEDY LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANC
TIONS B e l g r a d e, March 23 (Tanjug) - The Czech Prime
Minister's Special Advisor Jiri Veigl and Deputy Minister of
Trade and Industry Radomir Sabel said Thursday they hoped that
the U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia would soon be lifted. A
Serbian Government statement quoted the Czech officials as
saying in a meeting with Serbian Minister-Coordinator Dragan
Tomic and Industry Minister Oskar Fodor that the Czech Republic
also was suffering considerable losses through the sanctions.
The two sides showed an interest in a speedy resumption of
bilateral trade at the level that existed before the sanctions
were imposed. The statement quoted the officials as saying that
both sides were interested in projects in trade and the energy,
transport, agricultural, textile, wood-processing and chemical
industries.



 YUGOSLAV NATIONAL BANK WILL NOT 'FINANCE' INFLATION, SAYS GOVE
RNOR B e l g r a d e, March 22 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav National Bank
Governor Dragoslav Avramovic has said that this year, too, the
National Bank will keep money supply under firm control.
Speaking for Belgrade Television on Tuesday, Avramovic said
restrictive measures limiting money supply had proved to be very
successful over the past three months and had consolidated the
entire Yugoslav economy. Avramovic said price rises had been
checked and the strong pressure to change the rate of the dinar
eliminited. This had resulted in a normalized situation on the
Yugoslav market and satisfactory supply. In consequence,
Avramovic said, panic of inflation had been removed as well as
distrust in the dinar, which he said was strong.



E.U. - TWO MILLION ECUS WORTH OF AID FOR REFUGEES IN YUGOSLAVIA
B e l g r a d e, March 23 (Tanjug) - The Humanitarian Bureau of
the E.U., ECHO, has earmarked two million Ecus as support to the
World Food Program (WFP) which provides aid for refugees and the
needy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Belgrade WFP
Office said on Thursday. The funds will be sufficient to secure
5,765 tons of flour, beans and high-energy and protein biscuits,
which will meet the two-month requirements of 200,000 refugees
and 75,000 needy citizens, the statement said. The food will
reach the population in late May and will be distributed
directly to these people or through soup kitchens organized by
the Yugoslav Red Cross and the International Federation of the
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.



 EVIDENCE ON TORTURE IN CROAT-MUSLIM CAMPS IN BOSNIA B e l g r a
d e, March 23 (Tanjug) - A team of experts of the Belgrade
Medical School has established that as many as 37 ways of
physical, 11 ways of psychological and 14 combined ways of
torture had been applied on the prisoners in the Croat-Muslim
camps in the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Most of those examined were civilians forced to put on uniforms
to give them the appearance of war prisoners, the Belgrade
medical experts' report said. The team, in keeping with the
existing international norms, wrote the report to be presented
as an official document to to public, and which has already been
sent to the Federal Committee for Collecting Information on
Committed Crimes Against Humanity and International Law. This
report differs significantly from the 'spectacular' discoveries
of news reporters, such as in the case of the figure used that
several scores of ten thousand of raped Muslim women, launched
at the time by the New York Times. The list of ways of torture -
physical, psychological and combined - was highly provisional,
because any torture, violence and stress it produces, leaves
lasting consequences on both physical and mental health, said Dr
Branimir Aleksandric of the Belgrade of Institute for Forensic
Medicine, and also a team member. The most serious
psycho-traumatic experience, he added, emergesas a consequence
of lasting states of anxiety, uncertainty, fear and helplessness
before violence and humiliation to which the victims in the
prison camps have been subjected.





==========================================

27. MARCH 1995.  

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



 YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL: ALL CONDITIONS FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS HAVE
BEEN MET



 M a d r i d, March 25 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia has met all the
requirements for the lifting of the sanctions, a Yugoslav
ranking Parliament official was quoted Saturday as saying. The
Spanish daily Diario 16 quoted Slobodan Jovanovic as saying that
Yugoslavia and Serbia supported the plan for Bosnia devised by
the five-state 'Contact Group'. Jovanovic said that trust in the
international community might be shaken if Belgrade's peaceful
policy were not rewarded by the lifting of the sanctions. In
such a case, the opponents of the peaceful policy might demand
more radical methods in dealing with the crisis, he said. The
crisis in the former Yugoslavia can be solved by peaceful means,
through talks, with an equal treatment of all sides, said
Jovanovic, who headed a Serbian Parliamentary delegation on a
visit to Spain last week. The chief cause of the conflict in the
former Yugoslavia was the armed secession of some Yugoslav
republics and, as has now been generally accepted, their
premature international recognition, he said. The breakaway
Yugoslav republics could have won their right to
self-determination by peaceful methods, as the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia has done, without firing a single bullet,
said Jovanovic.



 SERB KRAJINA WANTS UNPROFOR TO STAY UNDER CURRENT MANDATE



 B e l g r a d e, March 26 (Tanjug) - The Republic of Serb
Krajina accepts that the United Nation peacekeepers stay in the
region under their current mandate, Serb Krajina Parliament
Speaker Rajko Lezajic said on Sunday. The Serb Krajina insists
on implementation of the Vance Plan, Lezajic said in an
interview with a local radio station in Kragujevac. Lezajic said
the Republic of Serb Krajina wanted all issues under dispute to
be settled peacefully, and therefore insisted on completing the
two sides' economic talks and on subsequent opening of political
negotiations. If UNPROFOR's mandate remained unchanged, the
Republic of Serb Krajina would be prepared to immediately resume
with Zagreb parallel talks on economic and political issues,
Lezajic said. He said Co-Chairmen of the International
Conference on the Former Yugoslavia Lord Owen and Thorvald
Stoltenberg had been informed about Krajina's stand.



BRITISH MILITARY EXPERT: CROATIA OPENLY VIOLATES ARMS EMBARGO



 B e l g r a d e, March 24 (Tanjug) - Croatia is openly
violating the arms embargo, British military expert Paul Beaver
told Radio Free Europe. According to Beaver, proof of Croatia's
violation of the embargo was fully visible during Croatian Army
manoeuvres in Oct. 1994 because in use was 'much equipment which
did not exist in the former Yugoslavia before the embargo.' In
the manoeuvres used were, for example, Russian Mi-24 combat
helicopters, which the army of the former Yugoslav federation
did not have before the United Nations banned the delivery of
weapons to the entire territory of the former Yugoslav
federation in September 1991. Beaver said that the Croatian Army
has a 'significant number' of MIG-21 planes. The majority of
these aircraft still bear the camouflage markings of the former
East German Air Force, thus clearly showing where they came
from. Beaver said that a part of the weapons secretly imported
into Croatia also went to the Bosnian Croats. Beaver said that
the Muslim authorities in Bosnia acquired Chinese long-range
guided anti-tank weapons, U.S.-manufactured sniper machineguns
and other equipment. In a period of 18 months, until April 1994,
the Bosnian Muslims and Croats acquired 616-million-dollars
worth of weapons for which they have probably paid much more
because they had to pay black market prices, Beaver said.



 CROATIA BUYS ARGENTINIAN ARMS DESPITE U.N. BAN



 B o n n, March 26 (Tanjug) - Croatia is busily buying arms in
Argentina despite a U.N. arms ban, the Buenos Aires
correspondent for the German news agency wrote on Sunday. The
purchase is in no way affected by the fact that Argentina has
800 troops serving on the U.N. Protection Force in Croatia, the
Deutsche Presse Agentur DPA said. Last year alone, Argentina
sold Croatia 25,000 automatic rifles, grenades, mines and
munitions, falsely declaring the shipment as destined for
Panama. The deal was handled by the Argentinian Defense Ministry
under the code-name of operation Panama. Somewhat earlier, the
Foreign Ministry had managed at the eleventh hour to prevent an
arms shipment allegedly for Liberia. That shipment, too, was
meant for Croatia, the DPA said.





==============================================

28. MARCH 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



SERBS WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY TRUCE AS LONG AS DEFINITE PEACE IS
SIGNED



 B e l g r a d e, March 27 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb President
Radovan Karadzic has announced a counter-offensive against
Bosnian Muslim forces, underscoring that this time the Serbs
will not accept any truce as long as a definite peace is signed
in Bosnia. Belgrade paper Nasa Borba on Monday quoted Karadzic
as saying that the 'Serbs will go into a counter-offensive and
once they set out, it is difficult to stop them.' Karadzic said
that 'only when we threaten the Muslims that we will defeat them
utterly, does the international community begin to seek some
solution for Bosnia.'



ECKHARD DENIES CLAIMS YUGOSLAV TROOPS CROSSED INTO SERB KRAJINA



 N e w Y o r k, March 27 (Tanjug) - U.N. Spokesman for peace
operations Fred Eckhard denied Monday Croatia's claims on the
alleged crossing of troops and weapons from the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia into eastern Slavonija, part of the Republic of
Serb Krajina, which is a U.N-protected area (UNPA). Responding
to reporters' questions, he said that for now the U.N. had no
confirmation of any crossing of troops from Serbia.Voicing
accusations on the alleged crossing of Yugoslav troops and arms
to eastern Slavonija in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic
claimed that members of the U.N. Belgian battalion were
reportedly removed from the Batina border-crossing until the
troops and weapons were being transported across the bridge on
the Danube. Eckhard reminded that the Serbs in eastern Slavonija
did hold manoevers which had ended and added there were no
reports on any other troop movement.



THIRD-BIGGEST TOLL OF U.N. PEACEKEEPERS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA



 B e l g r a d e, March 27 (Tanjug) - In the past three years,
145 peacekeepers have been killed in former Yugoslavia, which is
the third-biggest toll in U.N. history, the Belgrade daily
Politika Ekspres said on Monday.The daily said 1,300 members of
the UNPROFOR had been wounded in the territory of the former
Yugoslav federation.More peacekeepers were killed in Congo, 234
of them, and in Lebanon, 170 members of the U.N, force, the
daily said.Politika Ekspres said that peacekeepers had been
deployed in Congo for almost five years and that they arrived in
Lebanon in 1978 and were still there. The gravity of the
Yugoslav conflict is best illustrated with the figures that 'a
total of 1,135 peacekeepers have been killed since 1948,' and
that about 200 U.N. troops were killed in 'Israeli-Arab
conflicts in Sinai, the Suez, Israel and Syria,' the hottest
crisis areas in the world after World War II, the daily
said.Politika Ekspres said that a record number of peacekeepers
were engaged in the territory of former Yugoslavia UNPROFOR had
a total of 44,631 members.There were 19,828 U.N. troops in Congo
from 1960-1964, and only 6,411 peacekeepers have been deployed
on Cyprus along the demarcation line for the past 30 years. The
peacekeeping operation in former yugoslavia is also the most
expensive ever, the Belgrade daily said.UNPROFOR's budget for
1994 alone amounted to 1.9 billion dollars, Politika Ekspres
said, the sum which was spent by the U.N. peace force in Lebanon
over a period of 17 years.



YUGOSLAV PORT OF BAR SUFFERS DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS



 B e l g r a d e, March 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's largest port
of Bar has suffered greater losses in the three years of
economic blockade than it suffered in the 1979 earthquake that
destroyed its vital segments.Yugoslav economists have said that
barely about 13,000 tons of cargo was reloaded in the port last
year, which was its one-day capacity before the imposition of
the United Nations Security Council sanctions against the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.The port stretches along 3.5 kms
of Adriatic coast in Montenegro and is able to reload between
eight and 12 million tons of cargo annually. It has 200 hectares
of land and includes 22 kms of railways, 120,000 square meters
of warehouses and additional 510,000 square meters of open-air
storage space.This most important economic facility in
Montenegro has so far lost at least 5.6 billion dollars as a
result of the economic sanctions.Before their imposition, the
port employed 1,867 workers, merely one third of whom are still
at work.





=================================================

29. MARCH 1995.  

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY 



UNPROFOR DENIES CROATIA'S CLAIM YUGOSLAV TROOPS ENTERED KRAJINA



 Z a g r e b, March 28 (Tanjug) - U.N. Protection Force Command
in Zagreb denied Tuesday the Croatian Government's claim that
Yugoslavia's troops crossed the Danube into eastern Slavonija,
part of the Republic of Serb Krajina, which is a U.N.-protected
area (UNPA). UNPROFOR Spokesman Christopher Gunnes told a press
conference that UNPROFOR had no evidence of an alleged crossing
of Yugoslav troops over the bridge on the Danube near a place
called Batina, northeastern Slavonija (UNPA sector East), as the
Croatian Government said Monday in a letter to the U.N.
Secretary-General.



 UNPROFOR ON CROATIAN ATTACK ON PEACEKEEPERS



 B e l g r a d e, March 28 (Tanjug) - Croatian regular army and
Bosnian Croat forces, which made an incursion from Bosnia on the
UNPA (Republic of Serb Krajina), deliberately and directly fired
on members of the U.N. Protection Force, said an UNPROFOR for
the UNPA sector South statement. The statement contains
objections UNPROFOR Commander for the UNPA sector South, gen.
Rostislav Kotil, sent to Croatia's Army whose soldiers attacked
him recently at Budim, on the western slopes of Mt Dinara, on
the separation line between the Croatian and Serb Krajina
forces. UNPROFOR Spokesman for sector South Alun Robert
confirmed in Knin on March 25 that the Croatian regular army
troops and Bosnian Croat forces attacked gen. Kotil and eight of
his officers. Two weeks ago, gen. Kotil and eight UNPROFOR
officers found themselves under direct fire of the Croatian
forces, wounding one Finnish military observer, said Robert last
Saturday.



 1,000 DAYS OF AIRLIFT TO SARAJEVO



 N e w Y o r k, March 28 (Tanjug) - During the 1,000 days of the
U.N. humanitarian airlift to Sarajevo, there have been more than
12,000 flights by planes from twenty countries. Since July 3,
1992, when the operation, the biggest of its kind in air force
history, was established, Sarajevo has received in excess of
151,000 tonnes of food, medical and other supplies necessary for
the survival of its civilians. In addition, the planes have
evacuated 1,100 sick people escorted by 1,380 relatives and
ferried thousands of reporters to and from the city, the U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday, on the eve of the
1000th day of the airlift operation on Wednesday.



 YUGOSLAV AIRLINES RESTORES FLIGHTS TO 14 EUROPEAN CITIES



 B e l g r a d e, March 28 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Airlines
(JAT) has restored flights to 14 European cities, following the
partial suspension of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, the
Belgrade daily Politika Ekspres said Tuesday. The Yugoslav
Airlines subsequently restored flights to most European centers.
It plans soon to start flying to Vienna, Kiev, Salonika,
Copenhagen and Tel Aviv. The company also plans to restore
flights to the United States and Canada, but has not yet
received approvals from the respective countries' Governments.
The Yugoslav Airlines lost 200 million dollars between May 1992,
when the sanctions were imposed on Yugoslavia, and the fall of
1994, when they were partially suspended.



 NATIONALISM IN CROATIA ACQUIRES NAZI FEATURES



 Z a g r e b, March 28 (Tanjug) - Editor-in-Chief of the
Informative Catholic Organization Zivko Kustic was quoted on
Tuesday as saying that nationalism in Croatia acquired nazi
characteristics. Kustic said in an interview with the Rijeka
paper Novi List published on Tuesday that he perceived clear
instances of nazism and racism in Croatia. Kustic said, 'some
people are trying to bring the nation to the level of the
criteria of good or evil so as to be able to sacrifice people
and trample their dignity underfoot.' 'In a Zagreb cafe, I saw a
notice saying 'No admittance for the Serbs'. It is horrible. The
existence of only one such cafe thrusts the knife into the heart
of democracy,' he said. He said Croatia published papers, which
used to say: 'Serbs, be damned wherever you are,' and which now
extended the curse to 'Serbs, Russians, Jews ...(be damned)
wherever you are.' Kustic said it was strange that the authors
of this curse were not put behind bars to serve the most severe
sentence and wondered why the one saying in public that the
Serbs belonged to an inferior race was not politically
disqualified by his own party.



======================================

30. MARCH 1995. 

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY 



 RETAIL PRICES IN YUGOSLAVIA UP BY 2.1 PERCENT IN MARCH



 B e l g r a d e, March 29 (Tanjug) - Retail prices in
Yugoslavia have gone up by 2.1 and the cost of living by 2.5% in
March in relation to the previous month, the Belgrade Federal
Statistics Office reported Wednesday. Assistant Director of the
Office Mirjana Rankovic said at a news conference that the
highest increase of 9.7% was marked in the prices of
agricultural products, but added that this was mainly due to
seasonal price hikes of new vegetables.



 U.N. OFFICIAL SAYS CROATIA CAMPAIGNS TO BRING IN NATO



 V u k o v a r, March 29 (Tanjug) - U.N. Civilian Affairs
Coordinator in sector East Philip Corwin said Wednesday that
Croatia's endless misinformation campaign was part of an effort
to prompt deployment of NATO troops to control its
internationally recognized borders. Speaking at a news
conference in Vukovar, Corwin said one such misinformation was
Zagreb's allegation that a 500-strong Yugoslav force had
recently crossed the Danube and entered eastern Slavonija, which
is part of Serb Krajina and sector East, one of the four U.N.
protected areas (UNPAs). Corwin said they understood the
Croatian people's frustration, but said Croatian officials'
irresponsible statements did not serve peace. Instead, he said,
the statements served those who believed that they would make
profit in the war. Commenting on debates over the extension of
the UNPROFOR mandate in that former Yugoslav republic, Corwin
said he did not believe the U.N. Security Council would take a
decision that would not be first approved by both Croatia and
Serb Krajina. Corwin said Croatia wanted U.N. military
observers, deployed on bridges between Serbia and sector East,
to be allowed to use force in order to prevent the crossing into
UNPAs, but said the international community was not really
willing to comply with Croatia's desire. Croatia's basic goal is
to use international forces to make its internationally
recognized borders airtight, he said. Moreover, Croatian press'
unscrupulous campaign against UNPROFOR which is offensive and
teaming with lies - goes on, he said. The campaign has stirred
up acute antagonism toward UNPROFOR so that people there simply
hate its members, he said. U.N. Information Officer in sector
East Kirsten Haupt said Serbian and Yugoslav media's attitude
toward UNPROFOR was extremely correct. Haupt said the situation
in sector East was very tense, saying violations of the Zagreb
ceasefire agreement had become increasingly frequent. Moreover,
both sides' engineering units are busy fortifying their
positions, she said.



RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS AND KRAJINA SERBS MARK VICTORY OVER FASCISM



 E r d u t, March 29 (Tanjug) - Russian federation Ambassador
Leonid Kerestedzhiyants said Wednesday that the main event
celebrating the 50th anniversary of victory over fascism in
eastern Republic of Serb Krajina would be organized by the local
authorities and Russian UNPROFOR troops on May 9. He said
victory over fascism was a joint victory of Yugoslav partisans
and Red Army troops and that this was something he would make a
special point of on May 9 during the ceremony at the monument
devoted to the killed soldiers at a place called Batina, where
Russian soldiers and Yugoslav partisans died together, said
Kerestedzhiyants, Russian Ambassador to Croatia. Yugoslav
partisans and Red Army members jointly forced the Danube at
Batina in 1994 to liberate the Baranja region from fascist
occupation forces. Kerestedzhiyants said in Erdut, where he made
a stopover during a tour of eastern Slavonija and Baranja
regions, eastern Serb Krajina, that he had toured the Memorial
Center and was very satisfied with the way the Serb authorities
of Baranja region cared for it. The Russian Ambassador said the
celebration of victory over fascism must remain something pure
and bright, quite above the present time problems, as he
responded to reporters' questions whether he feared Croatian
propaganda would abuse his presence at the celebration.
Kerestedzhiyants said the reasons for his participation at the
Batina ceremony were solemn and that all other interpretations
would have to be on the consciences of those who thought
otherwise.



AUSTRIAN COURT REOPENS TRIAL OF BOSNIAN SERB DESPITE LACK OF
EVIDENCE



 V i e n n a, March 29 (Tanjug) - The Salzburg court on
Wednesday reopened trial of a Bosnian Serb charged with 'crimes
of murder, genocide and arson' in June 1992, in which a Muslim
had died. Prosecutor Hubert Maringgele admitted there was no
direct evidence that the defendant, Dusan Cvjetkovic, aged 26,
had committed some of the crimes laid at his door, but
nevertheless demanded a conviction. The indictment is based on
statements by alleged 'witnesses'- Muslims from the village of
Kucice near Prijedor in western Bosnia, where Cvjetkovic lived.
Defense counsel Guenther Stanonik said at the Wednesday hearing
that the trial was part of a Muslim campaign and asked for an
acquittal. 'In my 24 years as defense counsel, I have never
heard so many contradictory statements. Any witness lying so
blatantly in court should be arrested,' said Stanonik. He
accused the police and the prosecution of a slip-shod
investigation. Cvjetkovic has already been tried before the
Salzburg court, in October and December 1994, when he was
acquitted at the hands of the jury for lack of evidence, but the
verdict was rescinded by judge Eckehard Ziesel. 'The jury was
wrong,' Ziesel said at the time and referred the case to the
Austrian Supreme Court. Before the first trial, a group of
Austrian intellectuals accused the National Justice Department
of bias and condemned the trial of Cvjetkovic as a 'political
trial of all Serbs.'



 SWISS PAPER: U.S. SUPPLIES BOSNIAN MUSLIMS WITH ARMS



 G e n e v a, March 29 (Tanjug) - The Swiss paper Le Nouveau
Quotidien on Wednesday said the Bosnian Muslim army had received
weapons prior to its current offensive in Bosnia. It said the
weapons had been flown in from the Croatian island of Brac in
the central Adriatic. The paper's correspondent, who had visited
Brac, said the Croatian Government had allowed the U.S. to have
a base on the island. Le Nouveau Quotidien said the Pentagon was
using the Brac airfield for sending out unmanned spying
aircraft, and had a complete insight into the situation on the
ground in Bosnia. The paper said Knat-750 planes, which are
hardly dectecable to radars, had been taking off from Brac since
last December, after originally flying from bases in Albania.



