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27. JANUARY 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



 YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SAYS THERE WAS NO AGGRESSION ON BOSNIA

 K r a k o w, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic
said at a peace-honouring gathering in Krakow on Thursday that
his country had not launched an aggression on
Bosnia-Herzegovina. Addressing a number of Nobel peace prize
winners and heads of foreign delegations attending the
commemoration ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the
liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Lilic said Bosnia was
being torn apart by a civil war. The civil war broke out as a
result of the international community's unequal treatment of the
warring sides, he said. The gathering, chaired by Polish
President Lech Walensa, was aimed at formulating a joint appeal
for peace and tolerance in the world. Lilic's statement was a
response to that made by a delegation of the Sarajevo Muslim
Government which used this gathering, conceived as a symbol of
understanding and tolerance, to reiterate its claims about
alleged aggression on Bosnia-Herzegovina. Taking part in the
discussion, Lilic said the Serb people had also had their
'Auschwitz', the Jasenovac death camp, in which Serbs, as well
as Jews, Gypsies and other peoples, had been exterminated.



 YUGOSLAV, SLOVAK PRESIDENTS SAY SANCTIONS SHOULD BE LIFTED SOON

 K r a k o w, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic
and his Slovak counterpart Michal Kovac said Thursday that
sanctions against Yugoslavia should be lifted as soon as
possible. Lilic is in Poland at the invitation of President Lech
Walensa and will attend the 50th anniversary of the liberation
of the world war II nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Lilic said
that yugoslavia justly expected from its friends in the world to
raise their voice against the sanctions, because it was in their
interest too. Lilic said that the partial suspension of the
sanctions was a confirmation of Yugoslavia's positive policy and
that there was no reason for keeping the U.N. Security Council
sanctions in place. The Slovak President said that preparations,
especially in the field of economy, should already be made for
the time when the sanctions were lifted. Kovac said he was
deeply confident that peace in Bosnia could be reached only on
condition that all three sides to the conflict be treated
equally.



 YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT:YUGOSLAVIA WANTS EQUALITY-BASED TREATMENT

 K r a k o w, Jan. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia expects the world to
treat it equal with the other republics of the former
Yugoslavia, Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic said Thursday. In a
talk with Israeli Knesset Speaker Shevach Weiss, Lilic set out
that Jews were compelled to acquaint the world with the full
truth on the tragedy of their people. He said Yugoslavia asked
for nothing more than the right to present the truth. Weiss said
Israel wished for peace to be restored as soon as possible. He
said the feeling of Israeli people were on the side of Serb
people. Weis set out the traditionally good relations between
the Serbs and Jews. Lilic and weiss assessed that this meeting
was a major step in strengthening two country's relations.



 MILOSEVIC, MITSOTAKIS: BALKAN STATES SHOULD DECIDE ON THEIR FATE

 B e l g r a d e, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic and former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis
said here Thursday the Balkan states should decide on their fate
on their own. A statement released by the Serbian President's
Office said Milosevic and Mitsotakis emphasized the importance
of the promotion of good neighbourly relations, mutual
understanding and respect and equality-based cooperation among
the Balkan states and peoples. They had stressed the importance
of maintaining conditions for the Balkan peoples' inalienable
right to decide themselves about their own fate. Mitsotakis said
that the policy of peace pursued by President Milosevic and his
persistent efforts to help end the crisis in the former
Yugoslavia by political means were unanimously supported by the
Greek people and Greek political parties. The statement said
that Milosevic and Mitsotakis urged upgrading closer ties and
the cooperation among states and peoples based on equality and
respect for their legitimate rights and interests. After the
talks, Mitsotakis said that Serbia and Yugoslavia had a very
important role in achieving peace in the former Yugoslavia and
called for the lifting of anti-Yugoslav sanctions. He said that
the international community was obliged to immediately begin the
lifting of sanctions against Yugoslavia, at least on a
step-by-step basis, and that Greece was advocating this stand.
He said that the decision of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
to deny hospitality to U.N. peacekeepers after March 31 was a
big mistake, but that he was confident the Croatian authorities
would not insist on the decision.



 YUGOSLAV PREMIER SAYS 1995 ECONOMIC POLICY ANTI-INFLATIONARY

 B e l g r a d e, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Premier Radoje
Kontic said Thursday Yugoslavia's economic policy would remain
anti-inflationary in 1995 and focus on securing stability of the
dinar and prices. Addressing a meeting of the Yugoslav Chamber
of Commerce Board of Managers, Kontic said the international
economic sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia in May 1992 remained
the Yugoslav economy's major problem. He said that any negative
trends in the sphere of prices would be tackled only by economic
and not administrative measures. The Yugoslav Government will
not accept a devaluation of the dinar, not considering it as an
adequate solution, Kontic said. Kontic said that the Government
would support only production for a known buyer that could be
immediately sold on the market. Economists complained about the
planned public consumption being high. Kontic said that it was
76% of the 1993 national product, and that the reduced 1994
consumption of 50.6% was financed entirely from real sources in
the last six months. Kontic said that personal consumption was
too high with incomes reaching a level of 75% of the national
product. It was beyond the realistic production results, he
said.Incomes should not exceed a level of 65% of the national
product this year, Kontic said.



 YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PREMIER: YUGOSLAVIA WILL MEET ITS OBLIGATIONS

 B e l g r a d e, Jan. 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Prime
Minister and Finance Minister Jovan Zebic has said Yugoslavia
will meet its obligations, even though the U.N. sanctions have
gravely affected its economy. Zebic said this in a talk with a
visiting delegation of the London firm Penington at the
invitation of the metallurgical combine Sartid 1913 of the town
of Smederevo. According to economists in the Government,
Yugoslav debt amounted to about four billion U.S. dollars, but
due to the total economic blockade and blocked cooperation with
international financial institutions, the manner of repayment
has not been determined.



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30. JANUARY 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



   YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR PEACE IN THE BALKANS



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran
Lilic said Friday he had asked the participants in the
commemorative meeting in Auschwitz-Birkenau to urge peace in the
Balkans.  'I had the chance to appeal to all the participants in
the commemorative ceremonies to use all their authority,
knowledge and abilities for peace finally to come to the
Balkans, having primarily in mind that the Balkans are certainly
a factor of stability for all of Europe,' Lilic told reporters
at belgrade airport.  The appeal adopted by the participants in
the meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation
of the notorious concentration camp at Auschwitz is in accord
with Yugoslavia's wish that peace reign in the former
Yugoslavia, he said.  Lilic mentioned an incident which took
place during the discussion that preceded the adoption of the
appeal. 'Unfortunately, even at such meetings which should be an
eternal reminder for the whole world, there are those who try to
abuse such a gathering, to abuse even the invitation of the
hosts, as the Bosnian Muslim delegation did,' Lilic said.
Bosnian Muslim delegates tried to take advantage of the adoption
of the appeal for peace, cooperation among peoples and
cooperation among members of all religions, to spread untruths,
saying that Bosnia had been the victim of aggression, Lilic
said.  'I am sorry, but I had to misuse the meeting as well in a
way, and deny these claims,' Lilic said.  Lilic said the
delegation was pleased with the fact that many statesmen had
praised Yugoslavia's constructive, long-term policy of peace
during their meetings.  During the visit, Lilic and the
delegation members met with the Presidents of Slovakia, Romania,
Belarus, Hungary, Ukraine, the Russian delegation head, and
other officials.



   TOO EARLY TO SAY U.S. CHANGED POLICY TOWARD BOSNIA



  K r a g u j e v a c, Jan. 29 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign
Minister Vladislav Jovanovic said Sunday it was too early to say
the U.S. had changed its Bosnia policy, despite some encouraging
signs.  Speaking for the local radio station in the city of
Kragujevac, central Serbia, Jovanovic said that the U.S., which
had so far relied exclusively on the information from and
interests of only one Bosnian side, had begun to reconsider its
one-sided position. The new attitude has been prompted by a
realization that the facts and the ratio of forces on the ground
are pointing in a different direction, he said.  'Time has shown
that nothing can be accomplished without taking a comprehensive
look at and recognizing reality,' Jovanovic said. In this case,
the reality is that Serbs in the former Yugoslav Republic of
Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Serb Krajina can be
included in the peace settlement only if they are treated as
equal with the other sides, he added.  He said this way of
thinking on the part of the U.S. was providing a new framework
which should enable the Bosnian warring sides to bring their
stands closer together and restore the peace process with
international mediation.  Jovanovic said the future of this
policy would largely depend also on the ratio of forces in the
U.S. itself, i.e., on relations between President Bill Clinton,
a democrat, and the republican-dominated Congress.  It is clear
that the U.S. administration wants to get results before
Congress as an influential force should be able to instigate
militant moves in the U.S. policy toward Bosnia, Jovanovic said.
 As to the part played by the Yugoslav federation of Serbia and
Montenegro, he said it had been consistent on two points - the
need for insisting on the truth about the Yugoslav and Bosnian
crisis and on firmly adhering to the principles of legality and
legitimity.



  KRAJINA PRESIDENT: FORMER YUGOSLAVIA BROKE UP INTO TEN STATES



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 27 (Tanjug) - Serb Krajina President
Milan Martic invited the U.N. on Friday to recognize the fact
that ten new states had emerged in the territory of the former
Yugoslavia.  In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, Martic said that decisions of the U.N. Security
Council and other U.N. bodies and the International Conference
on the former Yugoslavia had taken as their point of departure a
wrong premise.  He explained they had wrongly assumed that the
former Yugoslavia had split up into six new states, identical to
the internal administrative division that had existed in the
former Yugoslavia until 1991.  In the letter, Martic said it was
being ignored that four new entities with state attributes had
emerged in bosnia-herzegovina. These are the Muslim entity, the
Bosnian Croat state of Herceg-Bosna, the Bosnian Serb Republic
and the Muslim autonomous province of West Bosnia, he explained.
 Martic said the world was ignoring also the fact that two new
states had been set up in former Croatia - the Republic of
Croatia and the Republic of Serb Krajina.  Martic said this
situation had been due in part to the denial to constituent
nations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia of the right to
self-determination.  He said that to with hold recognition to
all new states in the lands of the former Yugoslavia was
contrary to the position of the European Community as voiced by
the Badinter commission in 1991.  Martic explained that the
Badinter arbitration commission provided for recognizing only
those states which had control on all of their territory. He
said that, contrary to this, the E.C. members, followed by other
states, had given Croatia title to the territory of Serb
Krajina, over which Croatia had no control.  Martic said the
international community had made the same mistake when it gave
the Government of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic the
right to Bosnian Serb, Bosnian Croat and Muslim West Bosnia
territories, where separate states had been set up.  Martic said
the U.N. was inconsistent, having declared support for only two
states - an integral Bosnia-Herzegovina and an integral Croatia
while cooperating within them with a total of six states. Of
these six, it is outwardly ignoring four - the Bosnian Serb
Republic, the Republic of Serb Krajina, the autonomous province
of West Bosnia and the Bosnian Croat state of Herceg-Bosna, he
said.  Martic said it was clear that the U.N. could not continue
to ignore any of the newly emerged states, and asked
Boutros-Ghali consistently to respect the reality and the
situation created in the territory of the former Yugoslavia
since 1990.



  KRAJINA PRESIDENT: CROATIAN ATTACK WOULD BE RISKY FOR PEACE



  N o v i S a d, Jan 28 (tanjug) - Republic of Serb Krajina
President Milan Martic has said that a Croatian attack on Serb
Krajina, whose territory is under U.N. protection, would be an
unreasonable and highly risky move for peace in the Balkans.
Martic said in an interview which was published in the Yugoslav
daily Dnevnik of Novi Sad on Sunday that the U.N. protection
force troops were not a strong enough dam against possible
Croatian aggression on the Republic of Serb Krajina.  He said
the Republic of Serb Krajina was very much interested in having
the U.N. troops stay because it was thanks to UNPROFOR that the
agreement on the cessation of hostilities had been reached.
Martic said he believed the U.N. troops would stay in Croatia
and the Republic of Serb Krajina because Croatian President
Franjo Tudjman's request for their withdrawal was in good part a
form of pressure on the public aimed at securing gains at the
negotiating table.  'We are ready for peace, but also for war,'
Martic said and noted that the Republic of Serb Krajina was not
passively waiting to see what Croatia would do.  Martic said
Serb Krajina had never changed its basic stand on the right of
the Serb people to self-determination. 'The Republic of Serb
Krajina and Croatia can only be good neighbours, who will
understand each other and mutually cooperate on many issues,'
Martic said.



   FRENCH AUTHOR: MUSLIMS ATTACKED UNPROFOR, OWN TARGETS



  P a r i s, Jan. 27 (Tanjug) - Muslims frequently attacked
French U.N. peacekeepers, and also their own population in order
to raise tension, a French U.N. officer wrote in his book 'what
I really saw in Bosnia.'  In the book, the author said one
should only have seen a Muslim sniper shooting at Muslims, only
several tens of meters away from the U.N. Protection Force hq to
realize that the Bosniaks (Muslims) were prepared for every kind
of provocation to induce the multi-national forces to intervene
against the Serbs.  The book which just appeared in Paris
bookshops and which gives a somewhat different view of the war
in Bosnia from what was usual in France was written under the
penname - commander Franchet.  The author had served with
UNPROFOR in Sarajevo and Bihac.  A brief review published in the
Paris daily Le Monde Friday said the author started for the
infinitely complicated Balkan region with a very simple idea: on
one side are the bad guys, i.e. Serbs and on the other, the good
guys, i.e. Bosniaks (Muslims).



  YUGOSLAVIA SELLS EIGHT SHIPS TO BE ABLE TO PAY HARBOUR DUES



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia has been forced
to sell eight of its ocean-going ships for next to nothing to be
able to pay soaring harbour dues for vessels blocked in ports
around the world.  Thirty-two Yugoslav ships have been unable to
leave various ports throughout the world for the past nearly
three years because of the U.N. economic sanctions imposed
against the F.R. of Yugoslavia.  The Belgrade daily Borba on
Friday said Yugoslavia had been forced to sell eight ships after
debts to foreign ports where they are anchored reached one-third
of the total value of each ship.  Under international rules,
this is the upper debt limit. When it is reached, the owner is
forced to sell the ship to be able to pay harbour dues.  Borba
said Yugoslavia had been forced to sell its ship Rumija in the
French port of Dunkerque for barely 700,000 dollars.  Experts
have said that between 500,000 and one million dollars at least
will have to be invested in repairing the ships once the
economic blockade is lifted. Officials of two Yugoslav companies
that own the ships- Jugooceanija and Prekookeanska plovidba -
said they had so far lost at least 200 million dollars as a
result of the economic blockade.  The figure includes only
immediate damage, while the cost of other forms of damage to the
Yugoslav ships around the world is still to be calculated,
although it is believed to be enormous.  Meanwhile, about 900
Yugoslav sailors and officers have found employment on foreign
ships.  Yugoslav experts say the Yugoslav merchant fleet is in a
grave situation and the only solution is to hire some of its
vessels to major foreign shipping companies for a period of time.





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31. JANUARY 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



  ETHNIC ALBANIANS DO NOT EXERCISE GUARANTEED MINORITY RIGHTS



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 30 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister Aleksa
Jokic has said the rights of national minorities are not
violated in Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija but ethnic
Albanians, influenced by secessionists, are not exercising their
guaranteed minority rights.  A Serbian Government statement said
Jokic, who is also head of the Kosovo district, made the point
in a meeting with Charge d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in
Belgrade Rudolf Perin on Monday.  The statement quoted Perin,
who had requested the meeting, as saying it was the U.S.
administration's position that Kosovo and Metohija was and
should remain a part of Yugoslavia and all problems should be
resolved by peaceful means.  The official statement said Perin
had expressed concern over the existing situation in Kosmet,
offered his government's good offices for the resolution of the
existing problems and said that problems should be resolved
through dialogue and not repressive measures.  Jokic said Serbia
was 'a state of all its citizens, who have the same rights and
duties regardless of nationality, faith and political
conviction.'  He said Serbia's constitution and laws 'define the
rights of citizens and the rights of national minorities based
on the highest world standards and in keeping with the
international conventions whose signatories we are.'  The
statement said Perin regretted that Serbia had denied further
hospitality to the mission of the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (now OSCE) based in Kosmet's centre of
Pristina and left the world community short of more objective
information about the situation in the province.  The statement
quoted Jokic as pointing out that Jugoslavia 'links the work of
a mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe in Kosmet to the work of Yugoslavia's mission to the
OSCE, whose co-founder Yugoslavia is.'



   SERBS REFUSE TO CONSIDER MINI CONTACT GROUP PLAN



  K n i n, Jan. 30 (Tanjug) - Republic of Serb Krajina refused
Monday night to consider the plan of the mini contact group on
resolving political relations between Serb Krajina and Croatia.
Serb Krajina President Milan Martic told newsmen that Krajina
state leadership has not been acquainted with the plan and that
it would not consider it 'until we see what will happen to the
mandate of UNPROFOR.'  After talking to the plan's authors,
Martic said Krajina Serbs sought international guarantees that
UNPROFOR would remain after March 31 on the territory of the
Republic of Serb Krajina, as a protection, and not observer,
force.  Martic said he saw no possibility for any plan to be
implemented in the absence of U.N. troops on the territory of
the Republic of Serb Krajina.  Martic told newsmen that Krajina
would continue urging a U.N. presence on its territory as well
as the realization of the economic agreement.  Citing the Vance
plan under which the U.N. forces were to remain until a
political solution was found, the Krajina President added it was
absurd to negotiate and seek a political settlement to
Krajina-Croatia relations until the second stage of economic
negotiations was completed.



   VATICAN CRITICIZES BOSNIAN MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISM

  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 30 (Tanjug) - The Vatican on Monday
openly expressed its dissatisfaction with Muslim fundamentalism
in Bosnia where Muslims hold nearly all positions of authority.
Radio Vatican said in its early Monday world service broadcast,
monitored in Belgrade, that the truce in Bosnia-Herzegovina was
holding, but said tensions between Bosnian Muslims and Croats in
Mostar, as well as northern Bosnia, were mounting.  Radio
Vatican voiced the Vatican's fear that Bosnia might become an
'Indian reservation', a ground suitable for propagating islamic
fundamentalism in all its manifestations, violence included.



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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



   GOVERNMENT ADOPTS DOCUMENT ON 1995 ECONOMIC POLICY



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Government
adopted Tuesday a document on economic policy in 1995.  The
Federal Information Secretariat also said the economic policy
fundamentally anti-inflationary - was based on last year's
monetary reconstruction and economic recovery program.  The
statement said the January 1994 program, adopted at the time
when the country's overall economic activity has come virtually
to a standstill, when prices soared to millions of dinars and
the national currency was becoming less and less so, had yielded
significant results.  With no outside financial assistance and
despite rigorous U.N.imposed sanctions, Yugoslavia managed to
curb hyperinflation and to stabilize prices and the exchange
rate of the dinar.  Market economy development, stability of
prices and of the dinar, maintaining economic activity,
improving living standard, and, coupled with ownership
transformation, creating conditions for structural changes
figured most prominently among this year's economic policy
goals. The statement said a 7-percent rise in real terms of the
social product was expected in 1995 as well as industrial
production increase - 9 percent, agricultural industry - 2
percent, construction industry - 8 percent, traffic and
communications - 10 percent, trade - 6 percent, catering and
tourist industries - 5 percent and the remaining activities, an
average 7 percent.  It went on to say that the Yugoslav
Government believed easing or full lifting of sanctions against
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, imposed on may 30, 1992,
would have produced an increased economic growth and better use
and allocation of the social product funds.  The document, the
statement said, envisaged temporary interventionist measures in
the first three-month period designed to balance the budget and
public spending with real income, without using credits from the
National Bank of Yugoslavia.  In this context, the statement
said, the federal and the republican budgetary outlays would be
cut between 10 and 25 percent in the first three months, while
wages, pensions and other social allowances would be checked
temporarily through March.  After this period, wages would be
paid solely from real income and social policy measures used to
give priority toward protecting those with lowest living
standard, the statement said.



     Z-4 PLAN ONLY ADDS FUEL TO THE FIRE



  K n i n, Jan. 31 (Tanjug) - Serb Krajina Prime Minister
Borislav Mikelic said Tuesday the latest plan for ending the
Serb Krajina-Croatia dispute was adding fuel to the fire, coming
a sit did after Croatia's order to the U.N. force to pull out.
Serb Krajina said it would consider the plan, drafted by a
four-member mediation team set up in Zagreb and known as Z-4, if
it received written guarantees from the U.N. Security Council
that UNPROFOR would stay.  Mikelic told a press conference that
the Republic of Serb Krajina would be willing to discuss any
problem if UNPROFOR's mandate were renewed, but that the U.N.
Security Council had not yet reacted to Croatia's decision.
Mikelic criticized the Russian and U.S. Ambassadors in Zagreb,
Leonid Kerestedzhiyants and Peter Galbraith, for drafting a
solution in the absence of the parties concerned at a time when
Knin-Zagreb relations were being aggravated by Croatia's
unilateral actions. This attitude on the part of the mediators
has jeopardized the ongoing three-tiered negotiation process
between Croatia and the Republic of Serb Krajina, Mikelic said.
Mikelic said the Republic of Serb Krajina had expected the
negotiation process to continue with the two sides treated as
equals.



      VIOLATION OF GENEVA ACCORD    (by Tanjug diplomatic editor
Stevan Cordas)



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 31 (Tanjug) - The rejection of the
Republic of Serb Krajina to take into consideration a plan
proposed by the group of international mediators known as the
'Zagreb Four' is a far more complex matter than it appears,
because the plan is a screen for fundamental issues which
prejudice a final political solution and violate all previous
accords on ways how to achieve such a solution.  According to
the available information, the plan of the 'Zagreb Four' is an
attempt at 'a peaceful reintegration of UNPA sectors into the
Republic of Croatia.' The plan offers to the Krajina Serbs much
less than they practically have now.  The plan of the 'Zagreb
Four' - the U.N., the E.U., the U.S. and Russia - calls for an
end to the Republic of Serb Krajina as an independent entity.
The Republic of Serb Krajina was proclaimed by the local Serbs
in 1991 after Croatia launched a war of secession from the
former Yugoslav federation and removed Serb national rights from
the Croatian constitution. Its territory has been under U.N.
protection since March 1992.  It is set out in circles close to
the Serb Krajina Government that the only plan acceptable to the
Republic of Serb Krajina is the one drawn up in Geneva on July
16, 1993, when Serb Krajina and Croatia agreed through the
mediation of the co-chairmen of the International Conference on
the former Yugoslavia on a three-phase normalization of
relations.  It is set out in the same circles that the 'Zagreb
Four' plan is in fact a violation of the Geneva accord.
Representatives of the 'Zagreb Four' visited the Serb Krajina
centre of Knin three times on Monday, trying to present the plan
to Serb Krajina representatives. To their astonishment, however,
Knin was categorical the 'Zagreb Four' could not have chosen a
worse moment to advance the plan. The Republic of Serb Krajina
rejected the plan without even seeing its copy.  The Republic of
Serb Krajina insists that the talks with Croatia resume as
envisaged under the Geneva accord, meaning that the talks on the
normalization of economic ties be concluded before the political
talks open.  The Republic of Serb Krajina insists on U.N.
guarantees that its protection force troops will remain in the
UNPA sectors after March 31 but without any change in their
mandate as defined under the Vance plan.  The representatives of
the 'Zagreb Four' on Monday tried to persuade Republic of Serb
Krajina authorities to accept the plan without having
immediately to take a stand on it. Knin declined to do so, as a
result of which only Croatia has been acquainted with the
contents of the plan.  It is set out in circles close to the
Serb Krajina Government that Croatia had earlier been acquainted
with the contents of the plan because it had been very 'active'
in the drawing up the document.



   'CONTACT GROUP' DOES NOT ACCEPT CARTER AGREEMENT



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 31 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Foreign
Minister Aleksa Buha has said the Bosnian civil war has to end
by separating the three nations and recognizing their right to
constitute their national states in the way that suits them.
Buha was speaking in an interview with the Bosnian Serb
Radio-Television.  Buha said that during last week's talks, it
had turned out that the international 'Contact Group' for Bosnia
had not accepted article two of the agreement between the
warring sides, mediated in late December by former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter.  The Belgrade daily Borba on Tuesday
quoted Buha as saying it had turned out that the Contact Group
did not have the mandate to change anything in the plan.  Buha
said that under the Carter agreement, the Bosnian Serb Republic
would be made equal with the Bosnian Muslim-Croat federation
regarding the state attributes. Buha said that the Contact Group
stands were wrong and that they could not be a basis for a
satisfactory solution.  Buha said that especially wrong was the
Contact Group insistence that the Bosnian Serbs should accept
the plan as a whole and only then negotiate, instead of
accepting the document only as a basis for talks.  Buha said
that the Bosnian Serbs could not accept the plan also because if
failed to give their state, the Bosnian Serb Republic, access to
the sea, and did not propose a solution for the division of
Sarajevo and its vicinity.



   SERBS AND MUSLIMS AGREE ON OPENING 'BLUE ROUTES'



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 31 (Tanjug) - Serbs and Muslims in
Bosnia agreed Tuesday for 'blue routes' to be opened Wednesday
across Sarajevo Airport for an approved list of international
humanitarian organizations.  Bosnian Serb Republic news agency
Srna reported Bosnian Serb National Assembly speaker Momcilo
Krajisnik making this announcement. This was also confirmed by
U.N. forces spokesman in Sarajevo lt-col. Gary Coward.



   ISLAMIC HUMANITARIANS SEND MUJAHEDDIN TO BOSNIA



  B e l g r a d e, Jan. 28 (Tanjug) - Authorities of the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have expelled 17 islamic
humanitarians for recruiting mujaheddin from refugee camps for
the war in Bosnia.  The Belgrade daily Politika Ekspres on
Saturday carried FYRM Interior Ministry figures to the effect
that between 700 and 1,000 young men had been recruited and sent
to Bosnia to defend islam in nearly two years of activity of the
well-known humanitarian organizations islamic Fakufi and El
Haramein.  The daily said the organizations, based in Saudi
Arabia's administrative capital of Jeddah, had been collecting
money from ethnic Albanians in western FYRM under the guise of
humanitarian aid, to purchase weapons for islamic
fundamentalists in Bosnia.  A search of the organizations'
premises conducted by the FYRM Interior Ministry uncovered many
forged and blank passports, as well as heaps of fundamentalist
literature.  The daily said the islamic Vakufi and El Haramein
through various dubious firms laundered huge sums of money
obtained through drug trafficking, prostitution and black
marketing in the FYRM.  The FYRM Interior Ministry said the 17
humanitarians acted chiefly among Muslim refugees from Bosnia,
to which the FYRM had lent hospitality since the outbreak of the
war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, settling them in refugee
camps in Skopje and Mavrovo.  Politika Ekspres said refugee
camps, as well as private centers for receiving refugees in
Skopje, Tetovo and Gostivar, turned out to be centers of islamic
fundamentalism where students were taught fundamentalist
literature and prepared to attend schools in fundamentalist
centers in the near east.



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             CONTACT GROUP PLAN IS BASIS FOR FURTHER TALKS



     B e l g r a d e, Feb. 1 (Tanjug) -  'Contact Group' plan
for Bosnia is not the final solution, but only a basis and
starting point for talks on  a  definitive  settlement to the
conflict,  said  Serbian  President Slobodan Milosevic
Wednesday.     The Serbian President talked to more than 100
prominent businessmen and public workers from the Bosnian Serb
Republic.      A  statement  issued  by  the Serbian
President's  Office  quoted President  Milosevic  as saying that
acceptance  of  the  plan  was  the quickest way toward
achieving peace.      The statement said the Serbian President's
guests from around  the Bosnian  Serb Republic unanimously
stated the hope that the war  in  the former  Yugoslav  republic
of Bosnia-Herzegovina be  ended  as  soon  as possible and all
production facilities used toward economic advance  and
development.     It said firm commitment was voiced unanimously
for lasting peace to be attained in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as the
prime national interest of the Serb  people  and  all  those
living in the  territory  of  the  former Yugoslavia.   In this
context, as set out, it was necessary to  continue the peace
negotiations without delay.     The statement said the ideas
about new forms and conferences, which could  be  heard  in
statements of prominent world politicians,  merited attention as
they were undoubtedly well-meant to effect a settlement  as soon
as possible despite a slowdown in the peace process.      The
statement  said  that nonetheless each new  conference  would
inevitably  have  to  reach a final stage of direct harmonizing
of  the warring  sides'  interests,  a definitive territorial
delimitation  and constitutional  arrangements, because the
peace  process  could  not  be completed  without this. For this
reason, the statement quoted President Milosevic  as  saying,
it was not a good thing  to  abandon  the  peace process  of
the  Contact Group as it has already been brought  to  this
stage.      The statement said any further delay in renewing the
peace process directly  threatened the vital interests of the
citizens of the  Bosnian Serb  Republic and questioned the
results produced in the  struggle  for their freedom and
equality Bosnia-Herzegovina, while the realization  of
legitimate  rights and interests of the Serb people in this
region  was becoming  farther still removed from being
definitively  recognized  and re-affirmed, the statement said.



            E.U. MISSION UPHOLDS DEMAND FOR ALUMINUM EXPORTS



      P  o  d  g  o  r i c a, Feb. 1 (Tanjug) - European Union
Observer Mission  in  Belgrade upheld a Montenegrin demand to
the U.N.  Sanctions Committee for aluminum exports.     The
mission's head said Wednesday in Podgorica during a talk with
Montenegrin Assistant Foreign Minister Veselin Sukovic that the
mission in Belgrade upheld also Montenegro's demand for its
ships to be released and allowed to return to home ports.



                 12.4 PERCENT PRICE INCREASE IN JANUARY



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 1 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav
Statistics Bureau has  said  prices  in  Yugoslavia were in
January  12.4  percent  up  on December 1994.      The  Bureau's
Assistant General Manager Mirjana Rankovic said  the price  rise
had been recorded before the Yugoslav Government recommended to
manufacturers  to  reduce  prices, increased  without  any
economic justification.      Yugoslav  statisticians say that
the effects of  the  Government's recommendation,  which  is
being  implemented  in  hundreds  of   firms throughout   the
country,  will  emerge  in  the  February   analysis.
Statisticians  say that in the Jan. 23-28 period prices dropped
by  2.8 percent compared to the previous week.



                YUGOSLAVIA AGREES TO ACCEPT REPATRIATES



      B  e  l  g  r a d e, Feb. 1 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia will
accept  its repatriates from western Europe in line with
international law, Yugoslav Foreign Ministry official Milorad
Ivanovic said.     The Belgrade daily Politika Ekspres on
Wednesday quoted Ivanovic as saying that the western sources'
figure of 200,000 people who should  be returned to Yugoslavia
was not realistic.      Ivanovic, who heads the Division for
Consular Affairs,  said  that many of these people were not
citizens of the F.R. of Yugoslavia, but of the republics that
seceded from the former federation.      Germany,  Switzerland,
Norway and the Netherlands in the beginning accepted  most  of
these people as refugees, although  they  were  never that,
Ivanovic said. These countries refuse to accept an agreement
with the  F.R. of Yugoslavia on the repatriation of its
citizens, since  they do not recognize this Yugoslav state,
Ivanovic explained.     'It turns out that the F.R. of
Yugoslavia does not exist when talks should  be held, but when
200,000 people should be repatriated, then  it does  exist,'
Ivanovic  said.  Ivanovic warned  that  'certain  western
European  countries, like Germany for example, are trying to
bring  into direct connection the return of false asylum-seekers
with the lifting of the international sanctions against
Yugoslavia.'     'Yugoslavia cannot negotiate under such
conditions,' Ivanovic said.      Most of the false
asylum-seekers are of Albanian nationality,  but they  are
definitely not all from Serbia's southern province of  Kosovo
and Metohija, the Belgrade daily said.



          DEUTSCHE WELLE REPORTS ON ARMING OF BOSNIAN MUSLIMS



     B e l g r a d e, Feb. 1 (Tanjug) - Islamic terrorists were
ready to act  worldwide in case Iran's arms supply routes to
Bosnian Muslims were cut.     German Deutsche Welle Radio
broadcast a report from Cairo Wednesday that  to  these  ends a
training center has operated in the  Muslim-held town of Tuzla,
northeastern Bosnia, since early 1993.      A  Serbian  language
 broadcast monitored in Belgrade  said  large quantities  of
arms as well as men from Asia's Islamic  countries  were
arriving via Croatia.      The  Radio  said  Muslims  from
Islamic  countries  are  fighting alongside   Bosnian   Muslims
 to  set   up   an   Islamic   state   in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It
said Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic  had admitted this
during his visit to Cairo.      The  Radio  said  'this
confession by the leader  of  the  Islamic republic  of  Bosnia
who spends more time travelling around the  Islamic world than
staying in Sarajevo, came as no surprise, as it had long been
known  that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's regime for a
good  price permitted  arms transit to Izetbegovic by his allies
from this  part  of the world, primarily Iran.'      The  Radio
said the deal was struck immediately after the outbreak of the
Bosnian civil war in 1992 and that arms deliveries continued
even during Bosnian Muslim-Croat fighting. The radio said that
'according  to Iranian mullahs' established practice applied
from Lebanon and Sudan  to Kashmir  and the Philippines, top
Bosnian (Muslim), Croatian and Iranian leaders meet in Teheran
every few months to arrange further action.'      The  Radio
said Iran's arms deliveries to Bosnia had been  highly risky
and  had  even  been seized at Croatian and  Slovenian
airports. Things  changed when Iranian Foreign Minister Ali
Akbar Velayati visited Sarajevo and Zagreb in May 1994.      The
radio recalled that, as early as may 4, 1994, an Iranian plane
carrying  60  tonnes of explosives and components for  arms
manufacture landed at Zagreb's Pleso Airport.      It  said
other  Iranian planes started flying to Zagreb  shortly,
bringing  in  arms  from Teheran, from Iran's bases in  Sudan
and  from eastern  European countries, which were selling arms
from  the  reserves the  former Soviet Army had left behind. The
Radio said that  'when  the U.N. mildly objected, further
flights were directed to an airport on the (Croatian northern
Adriatic) island of Krk.'      The  Radio  said  that 'in the
meantime, several  hundred  Iranian guardsmen arrived in Bosnia,
again via Croatia, in the autumn  of  1994' and  that  their
arrival had been 'organized by the Iranian  Embassy  in Zagreb.'
 The radio reported that 'they (Iranian guardsmen)  were,  just
like  arms, transported in Croatian army trucks to Central
Bosnia  where they joined their 'brothers in faith'.'



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                NO SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH FYR MACEDONIA



      B  e  l  g  r  a  d  e, Feb. 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign
 Minister Vladislav  Jovanovic  said  Thursday  there  were  no
major  problems  in relations   between  Yugoslavia  and  the
Former  Yugoslav  Republic   of Macedonia.      Jovanovic  told
a  press conference, 'We do not  have  any  serious problems
with the FYR of Macedonia, i.e. we believe that the problems  we
do have are possible of solution with the good will of the FYRM
side.'      Jovanovic  said the Yugoslav Government would, in
its contacts  with Skopje,  take  into  consideration the FYR
of  Macedonia's  readiness  to recognize  Yugoslavia as the
successor state to the former  Yugoslavia  in exchange for its
own recognition.      In this context, Jovanovic gave positive
marks to a recent visit  to Skopje  by  a delegation of the
Yugoslav and Serbian opposition Democratic Party,  led  by
party  President  Zoran  Djindjic,  and  its  talks  with
top-ranking FYRM officials.



                CROATIAN OUSTER OF U.N. TROOPS IS RISKY



      P  o d g o r i c a, Feb. 2 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin and U.S.
officials agreed Thursday that Croatia's decision to deny
further hospitality to the U.N. force was a threat to the peace
process.      Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic and U.S.
Charge d'affaires  in the  F.R.  of  Yugoslavia Rudolf Perin are
quoted as saying that  Zagreb's decision  was  one  of  high
risk and a seriously  jeopardized  the  peace process in the
former Yugoslavia.      A  statement  released from Bulatovic's
Cabinet said  the  talk  had related  to  the  efforts to find
political solutions for  the  crisis  in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Zagreb-Knin relations.      The  statement said the talk had
brought to light a high  degree  of agreement in the
interpretation of the five-state 'Contact Group' plan for Bosnia
 and the position that all sides in the conflict should open
talks with  the  plan as the basis. The statement said both
sides had  expressed concern that the Bosnia peace process was
stalled, and a readiness to make efforts  in  the quest for
solutions which would take as much as  possible the vital
interests of the warring parties into consideration.
Bulatovic  informed  Perin that Yugoslavia  fully  and
consistently supports  the efforts for reaching a lasting
political settlement  of  the crisis  in the former Yugoslavia,
the statement said. Peace in the  region is a precondition for
normalizing life and reintegrating Yugoslavia in the
international  community, which is its priority, Bulatovic  is
quoted  as saying.



  YUGOSLAV, HUNGARIAN ARMY CHIEFS FOR PEACEFUL END TO YUGOSLAV
CRISIS



      S  z  e g e d, Hungary, Feb. 2 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav and
Hungarian Chiefs  of  Staff said Thursday they were sure the
crisis  in  the  former Yugoslavia would be settled by peaceful
means.     Meeting visiting Yugoslav Army Chief Col.-Gen.
Momcilo Perisic in the southern  Hungarian town of Szeged, his
Hungarian opposite number Lt.-Gen. Sandor  Nemeth said Hungary
was interested in joint training programs  for pilots and navy
staff.     Hungary would also like to make better use of the
existing capacities of its military industry, he added.
The  two  countries  could  help  each  other  in  alleviating
the consequences of possible natural and other disasters,
stressed Nemeth.      He  distanced  himself from rumours about
Hungarian arms  smuggling, stressing that the Army was not
involved in that kind of trade.



       ICRC DOES NOT RECOGNIZE RED CROSS OF 'REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO'



      P  r  i  s  t  i n a, Feb. 2 (Tanjug) - An International
Red  Cross official  in  Belgrade  was  quoted Thursday as
saying  the  ICRC  didnot recognize the Red Cross of the
self-styled 'Republic of Kosovo'.      Head  of  the ICRC
Belgrade office Francis Bellon said he understood that  ethnic
Albanians in Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija  might not
 accept  the  Serbian Red Cross all at once, a  provincial
government statement  said. However, he said, the ICRC can and
will act only  through it, the statement added.      Bellon was
speaking with Kosovo district administrator Milos Nesovic in the
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 BOSNIAN SERBS, MUSLIMS AGREE TO REOPEN ROADS TO CIVILIANS



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 5 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb and Sarajevo
Muslim representatives on Sunday reached an agreement to reopen
roads across Sarajevo airport to civilian traffic. Quoting U.N.
military sources, the Reuter news agency reported that the two
sides agreed on letting civilians use two roads across the
airport as of Monday. The AP news agency quoted Muslim
representative Hasan Muratovic as saying that under the
agreement, civilians from the Muslim-held part of the city would
be allowed to cross the airport into the Butmir suburb on the
other side of the runway. According to the agreement, Bosnian
Serbs would be permitted to move between the Bosnian
Serb-controlled suburbs of Lukavica and Ilidza.



 LONDON DAILY SAYS RIFT IN BOSNIAN MUSLIM LEADERSHIP IN SIGHT



 L o n d o n, Feb. 4 (Tanjug) - The London daily The Guardian
wrote Saturday that a major rift in the Bosnian Muslim
leadership was in sight, because of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija
Izetbegovic's support to militant Islam. The daily, generally
well-acquainted with the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, said
that the disagreement had surfaced after Izetbegovic's recent
visit to the central Bosnian town of Zenica. Izetbegovic there
commended and thanked the 7th Muslim brigade, which The Guardian
said was known as being ethnically and religiously clean and
whose main fighters were mujaheddin from Islamic countries.
Izetbegovic told the jihad warriors they were presenting both an
answer and a message to both friends and foes. After that,
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati on Monday visited Sarajevo. Jannati is
the highest ranking Iranian religious dignitary that has ever
visited Sarajevo. On Tuesday, five of the seven members of
Izetbegovic's 'presidency' publicly protested and accused
Izetbegovic of turning the army into a party militia. The
Guardian said that the only one who stood by Izetbegovic was his
deputy, Ejup Ganic.



 NEW YORK TIMES: USE OF ISLAMIC SYMBOLS GROWING IN BOSNIAN
MUSLIM ARMY



 N e w Y o r k, Feb. 4 (Tanjug) - A growing number of Bosnian
Muslim army units have been using Islamic symbols, quotations
from the Koran and other religious insignia, The New York Times
wrote on Saturday. The daily said they have been doing this
despite the declared stands about a secular, multicultural and
multinational society. The New York Times said that such a trend
and the latest dispute in the 'Presidency of Bosnia', in which
five of its seven members opposed the islamization of the
country, would provide new arguments for the Bosnian Serbs, who
have been fighting against the Islamic fundamentalism since the
outbreak of the Bosnian civil war. The daily said that the
tension had been increasing during 1994, because Izetbegovic's
'Muslim nationalist Party of Democratic Action has gradually
tightened its hold' on the society. The New York Times quoted
the five rebel 'Presidency' members as saying in a letter 'our
position remains that the army which defends and guards the
state of Bosnia has to be secular and multinational.' The
message becomes completely clear, however, after Izetbegovic's
statement that 'those who are fighting, working and dying for
the country will decide its destiny and future,' the daily said.
It said that Muslims make up the majority in the Sarajevo
Government army. The New York Times said that the 'Presidency of
Bosnia-Herzegovina' was originally concieved as a seven-member
rotating presidency, so that each member could head it. However,
'the rotation has never occurred, and, at least until now, the
leadership of mr. Izetbegovic has been generally uncontested,'
the daily said. The New York Times said that the rift in the
'Presidency' had prompted accusations of Islamic fundamentalism
by Croatian press, 'an idea recently expressed by Croatia's
President, Franjo Tudjman.'



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     GENERAL STAFF SAYS NO YUGOSLAV ARMY TROOPS OUTSIDE
YUGOSLAVIA



      B e l g r a d e, Feb. 6 (Tanjug) - The General Staff of
the Yugoslav Army  on  Monday refuted allegations that its
troops and means  of  combat were  deployed outside Yugoslavia.
The General Staff said such a state  of affairs  complied  well
with  the state  leadership's  stands  and  peace initiatives.
   Denying reports by certain foreign media on the alleged
flights of a large  number of Yugoslav helicopters over
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the General Staff   said   primitive
fabrications  concerning  the  Yugoslav   Army's participation
in Bosnia's civil war were again in operation.      The General
Staff said the obvious imputations turned a deaf ear  to those
reports  by teams of observers and officials of the United
Nations and  NATO  which reaffirmed that the no-fly zone over
Bosnia had not  been violated.      The  imputations, said the
General Staff, insisted  upon  incomplete statements by unnamed
officers of the U.N. Peace-keeping Force.



        U.N. SAYS YUGOSLAVIA'S BORDER WITH BOSNIAN SERBS SEALED



      N e w  Y o r k, Feb. 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia continues
enforcing its decision  on  closed border with Bosnian Serbs,
the latest  report  by  an international  observer  mission
deployed on  the  border  has  said.  The report,  submitted  to
 the  U.N. Security  Council  Monday  by  the  U.N.
Secretary-General  Boutros Boutros-Ghali, said that there  were
no  major violations of such a border regime in January,
counting out minor attempts at  smuggling  fuel,  cigarettes and
spirits.   The report  said  Yugoslav customs officers
successfully blocked all such attempts.     Yugoslav authorities
continue to secure all conditions for observers' activity  and
freedom of movement, but they are nevertheless  a  frequent
target  of  passengers' insults, especially in the  Belgrade
sector,  the report said.      Customs  officers  are  aware of
this  problem  and  have  therefore requested that some of them
be allowed to carry arms, the report said.



   BBC RADIO: YUGOSLAVIA IS UNLIKELY TO HAVE SENT CHOPPERS TO
BOSNIA



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 6 (Tanjug) - BBC radio on Monday
dismissed as little likely news agency reports that Yugoslavia
had sent helicopters  to Bosnia.  The radio said it was little
likely that the Yugoslav Army  would send  15  or  20
helicopters to Bosnia at once and hope for  them  to  go
undetected. It is more likely that the report has been
circulated in order to  cause more pressure to be put on
Yugoslavia, said the radio, monitored in Belgrade.      The
radio said Awacs planes and NATO were constantly patrolling  and
monitoring  the no-fly zone over Bosnia, and added that military
 experts, too, doubted the truth of the report that Yugoslav had
sent helicopters to bosnia, as they would have been highly
visible.      News  agencies quoted Sunday an unspecified Dutch
U.N.  observer  as saying  he  had seen the helicopter squadron
over the area of the  eastern Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica,
but could not say anything about  their final  destination.  The
British radio carried also  a  statement  by  the Yugoslav  Army
command denying the allegation of helicopter  sorties  from
Serbia  to  Bosnia  as  a  rather crude fabrication  based  on
unspecific statements by unidentified officers of the U.N.
Protection Force. The  BBC said  the  information had probably
been launched in order to  provoke  an increase of pressure on
Yugoslavia to be still more cooperative at a  time when the
Bosnia peace process was deadlocked and talks between Croatia
and Serb Krajina were stalled, too.      The  BBC  further  said
that Yugoslavia's alleged violation  of  the Bosnia no-fly zone
might result in the U.N. Security Council revoking  its
suspension of the sanctions against the Yugoslav federation of
Serbia  and Montenegro.      The  BBC  said  that  at the time
the report about  the  helicopters appeared,  the  civilian
mission chief,  retired  Finnish  colonel  Tauno Nieminen, had
said in Belgrade that the situation on the border  was  very
good and that yugoslav authorities had effectively closed it.



    BRITISH PRESS: MUSLIM-CROAT FEDERATION IN BOSNIA NEARS
COLLAPSE



      L  o  n  d  o  n,  Feb. 6 (Tanjug) - Sources at the
British  Defense Ministry  have  assessed that the Muslim-Croat
Federation  in  Bosnia  was nearing  disintegration. They said
that hence the permanent threat existed of  rekindled
Muslim-Croat  fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Analysts  in
Britain  said Monday that the fragile central Bosnian federation
 depended solely  on the presence of the United Nations
peacekeeping force  and  the humanitarian aid they were
providing.The British daily Telegraph has  seen one  of  the
greatest threats to the federation in an obvious islamization of
 both  the Bosnian Muslim leadership and army, spearheaded  by
Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic.       The   London
daily  Guardian  said  Monday  that  although   U.S.
Adminstration  had  again  attempted to keep the  Muslim-Croat
Federation alive, it was still unclear whether it had any
future.      The  daily  said the differences and
misunderstandings  between  the Bosnian Muslim and the Bosnian
Croat leaderships were still wide. This was why,  the  daily
said, it was uncertain how efficient would be  an  accord
reached  in Munich on Sunday by Bosnian Muslim and Croat
officials through mediation  by  U.S. diplomat Richard
Holbrooke. The daily said  that  this accord  provided for an
international arbiter to be engaged to  deal  with problems  in
the  federation. But, despite the Bosnian Muslim  and  Croat
leaders'  promises, there were no clear guarantees or signs  how
 such  an arbitration could function at all.



         'BLUE ROUTES' AROUND SARAJEVO OPEN TO CIVILIAN TRAFFIC



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 6 (Tanjug) - 'Blue routes' around
Sarajevo on Monday opened to civilian traffic for the first time
in seven months, U.N. Protection Force Spokesman in Sarajevo
Gary Coward said. Coward  said  the route would be open to
civilian traffic every day from 08:00 to 10:00  and from  14:00
to 16:00 local time.    About 700 passengers have used  routes
across Sarajevo since they were reopened to civilian traffic
early Monday, according to Chief of U.N. civilian operations in
Bosnia Enrique Aguilar.





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 DINAR'S ONE-FOR-ONE PARITY WITH GERMAN MARK SHOULD BE PRESERVED
B e l g r a d e, Feb. 7 (Tanjug) - Serbian Finance Minister
Dusan Vlatkovic said Tuesday that the Yugoslav Government would
in 1995 try to preserve the stable exchange rate of one dinar to
one German mark. Vlatkovic said that many people now believed
the dinar is too strong. But, he said, the dinar was overrated
only under conditions of prices exceeding reasonable limits and
earnings exceeding realistic remuneration possibilities.
Vlatkovic said it was for psychological reasons that the prices
of two-thirds of all products had been raised since july, 1994,
when many people thought inflation would return. Vlatkovic
believed that the narrowing effects of the parallel economy,
major steps in the taxation policy and self-funding of the
budget would not shatter the national currency upon which, as he
put it, the stability of our daily life depended. He said that
struggling to preserve the stable prices and exchange rate was
insufficient without boosting both productivity and production.
He said the Yugoslav Federation of Serbia and Montenegro
currently had about 2,200,000 employed, a million of them in the
production sector and the rest in the administration. Vlatkovic
said that, basically, one employee worked for ten-odd others and
'in the long run, this is intolerable.'



 FINANCE MINISTER SAYS YUGOSLAVIA HAS 1.5 MILLION-TONNE WHEAT
SURPLUS B e l g r a d e, Feb. 7 (Tanjug) - Serbian Finance
Minister Dusan Vlatkovic has said that Yugoslavia has about 1.5
million tonnes of wheat surplus, worth about 150 million
dollars. He said that yugoslavia was unable to export wheat
being under total economic blockade. Vlatkovic said efforts were
being made to find ways to sell the wheat surplus on the
domestic market and use the revenues for the spring sowing.
Yugoslavia recorded a wheat crop of about 3.5 million tonnes in
1994.



 YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER PLEADS JOINT POLICY WITH BOSNIAN
SERBS V a l j e v o, Yugoslavia, Feb. 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav
Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic has urged unity of the
Serbian people and restoration of joint policy of Yugoslavia and
the Bosnian Serbs. 'Our (Serb) brothers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
should make an effort to finally come down to earth and
establish common policy with us (the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia) because it would make it easier to defend the
legitimate interests of the Serbian nation as a whole,'Jovanovic
said in an interview with Valjevo Radio on Wednesday. 'When we
become recognized and accepted as an equal partner in
negotiations, it will be possible to discuss all proposals,
including the one made by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe
and adopted by the European Union,' Jovanovic said. Juppe had
proposed that a new international conference on Bosnia be
organized and that it be attended by President of the Yugoslav
Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman and Bosnian Muslim Leader Alija Izetbegovic.





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               SERBIAN MINISTER SAYS SANCTIONS STOKE WAR     W a
s h i n g t o n, Feb. 9 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister for
Religious Affairs  Dragan  Dragojlovic  said Thursday  that  the
 sanctions  against Yugoslavia could not solve the conflict in
the former Yugoslavia. Speaking at  a  news conference in
Washington, Dragojlovic said the sanctions  were feeding
extremistic and war aspirations of the sides in the conflict.
He said  that  the Serbs would rather take sanctions than
one-sided solutions threatening their survival.      Dragojlovic
and Bishop Irinej Bulovic of Backa are on a visit to the United
States  as guests of the U.S. Administration, where they
attended the traditional prayer breakfast in Washington.
Bishop  Irinej told the press conference that since the outbreak
 of civil  war in the former Yugoslavia, the Serbian Orthodox
Church had  been condemning all crimes, especially those
committed by Serbs.      'We  have  managed to talk as civilized
people and  understand  each other,' Dragojlovic said.      He
was commenting on the meetings he and Bishop Irinej had had with
U.S. political, religious and other officials since arriving in
the United States  on Feb. 2. There are views here that the
visit by dragojlovic  and Bishop Irinej does not necessarily
mean that the United States has changed its  attitude, but might
indicate that Washington is more prepared to open dialogue with
the Yugoslav Federation of Serbia and Montenegro.



   KARADZIC WELCOMES MUSLIMS' READINESS TO NEGOTIATE PEACE IN
BOSNIA      B  e  l  g r a d e, Feb. 9 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb
President Radovan Karadzic on Thursday hailed the Sarajevo
Muslim Government's readiness  to negotiate the final settlement
of the Bosnian conflict. Speaking  for  the Bosnian  Serb News
Agency SRNA, Karadzic said the Bosnian Serbs  were  not setting
any prerequisites for the talks and were willing to resume them
in the shortest possible time.      Karadzic said the Serb
people did not have a hostile attitude toward the Muslim people,
but the time had come to find a negotiated formula that would
not  mean a domination of one people over the other and that
would secure  sovereignty and freedom of both peoples. Karadzic
said  that  the Bosnian  Serb  Republic  would  not accept
decisions  by  a  possible  new conference  on  the former
Yugoslavia, if they were to  be  taken  in  the absence of
Bosnian Serb officials. In that connection, Karadzic rejected a
possibility  of  Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic
representing  the Bosnian  Serbs  at such a conference. He said
Serbs were not  setting  any other  conditions than that all
Bosnia's warring sides be equally  treated in the talks.



     VANCE: RECOGNITION OF FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLICS WAS A
MISTAKE      N e w   Y o r k, Feb. 9 (tanjug) - One-time U.N.
Envoy to the former Yugoslavia  Cyrus  Vance  described Thursday
as  a  terrible  mistake  the premature  recognition  of
breakaway Yugoslav  republics  as  independent states. Vance was
a guest at a news conference given by U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations Madeleine Albright.      After  the  conference,
Vance  told  Yugoslav  reporters  that  the premature
recognition of Croatia and other breakaway  Yugoslav  republics
had been a terrible mistake. He said it would have been better
to stick to the  Hague  agreement of late 1991 which did not
allow for the recognition of   the   former  Yugoslav  republics
 until  a  comprehensive  political settlement  had  been found.
This was not honored, which  was  a  terrible mistake, said
Vance. He added he had written to Croatian President  Franjo
Tudjman  asking him to reconsider his decision to deny further
hospitality to  the  U.N. Protection Force at the expiry of its
current term on  March 31.      At  the  press  conference,
Vance upheld the  efforts  of  the  U.S. Administration  to
prevent Congress from passing  a  Bill  to  slash  the financing
of U.N. peacekeeping operations. The Bill is being insisted upon
by the Republicans, who have the majority in Congress.
Vance  said  U.N.  Peacekeepers had  played  an  important  part
 in neutralizing numerous conflicts in the world and preventing
new ones  from breaking  out,  and  in this context spoke of
UNPROFOR's  contribution  to containing the conflict in Croatia.