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24. FEBRUARY 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



 RECOGNITIONS OF BOSNIA, CROATIA ONLY AFTER SERB ISSUE IS
RESOLVED



 N e w Y o r k, Feb. 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Vladislav Jovanovic has said the mutual recognitions of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Croatia were
possible only after all outstanding issues concerning the
positions of Serbs in these two former Yugoslav republics are
resolved. The premature recognition of Bosnia by the European
Union and the United States led to the civil war and such
mistakes should not be repeated, Jovanovic said in an interview
published in The New York Times on Thursday. If someone really
wants to help speed up the peace process, then the sanctions
against Yugoslavia should immediately be lifted, and mutual
recognitions can follow only after the question of Serbs in
Croatia and Bosnia is resolved, Jovanovic said. The recognition
of Bosnia is meaningless because the country is torn apart, and
chances for recognizing Croatia are lessened through the very
undesired, harmful and inconstructive decision of Zagreb to
cancel the mandate of the U.N. Protection Force, Jovanovic said.
Jovanovic said Yugoslavia was against a new Serb-Croat war, but
added that he was not saying that the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia would not answer using all available means in the
event of an attack. Serbs in Krajina are in a position to defend
themselves alone for some time and even to teach their attacker
a lesson, he said. Speaking about the plan offered by the
international 'Contact Group' for lifting the sanctions against
Yugoslavia in exchange for the recognitions of the breakaway
republics, The New York Times said Jovanovic's statement was the
most open criticism of the plan and lately the strongest
criticism of Croatia by Belgrade. Jovanovic said Serbs in
Croatia were discriminated against, that they were being evicted
from their apartments and dismissed from work. The daily said
this had been confirmed to a certain degree also by foreign
observers. That is why the question of Krajina should be
resolved slowly, in order to secure that Serbs in Croatia are
not exposed to further harassment, Jovanovic said. He said they
should continue to be protected by the United Nations.



YUGOSLAVIA IS OPEN TO POSSIBLE MUTUAL RECOGNITION WITH
EX-YUGOSLAV REPUB LICS ONLY AFTER SERB ISSUE IS RESOLVED



 B r u s s e l s, Feb. 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Assistant Foreign
Minister Zivadin Jovanovic said Yugoslavia was open to possible
mutual recognition with the former Yugoslav republics, but not
before all problems resulting from their unilateral secession
have been settled. 'Would it be logical to recognize
Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is rejected by a significant part of
its own population.' Jovanovic asked in an interview with the
Brussels daily Soar on Thursday. Bosnian Serbs do not accept
Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent state and they have
proclaimed their own state, the Bosnian Serb Republic, while
Muslims in western Bosnia are engaged in a conflict with forces
loyal to the Muslim Government in Sarajevo, Jovanovic said. A
premature recognition would increase, rather than ease the
tension, he said, adding that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
was cautious not to repeat the mistakes made by the European
Union. Jovanovic said the peace plan drafted by the
international 'Contact Group' for Bosnia was a sound basis for
negotiations among the confronted parties in Bosnia. The
international community has come to the conclusion that
President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic is a serious and
unavoidable partner in efforts to restore peace, said Jovanovic.
He said that it was necessary to recognize Yugoslavia's right of
succession to the former Yugoslav federation. The Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, as a pillar of stability in the Balkans,
is ready to develop regional economic relations with
neighbouring countries on equal footing and to gradually include
itself in the process of European integration, Jovanovic said.
He warned that this did not mean Yugoslavia was prepared to bow
to more and more conditions set to it. Jovanovic stressed the
importance of lifting the United Nations Security Council
sanctions against Yugoslavia and said that they were putting
Yugoslavia into an awkward position. He said that, without
strict impartiality, the future international conference on the
former Yugoslavia would be condemned to failure. The European
Union was the first to impose sanctions on the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and perhaps now it has a chance to initiate a
reverse process, Jovanovic said.









 SERB KRAJINA PRESIDENT MARTIC SENDS LETTER TO U.N. SECURITY
COUNCIL



 K n i n, Feb. 23 (Tanjug) - Serb Krajina President Milan Martic
has requested of the U.N. Security Council to set up a group of
neutral experts who would make an objective in-depth analysis of
the causes and consequences of the Krajina-Croatia conflict.
Such an analysis and also other facts to be established by the
experts, historians and jurists, would be of great and vital
importance for decision-making in the Security Council, Martic
said in the letter sent to Council President. Martic said
Croatia had not been condemned for ethnic cleansing and mass
killings even in Security Council statements. He said the
Council had in that way violated all rules of international law
and the spirit of the U.N. Charter, enabled Croatia to continue
with its state terror against Serbs still living on its
territory and to carry out preparations for new aggression on
the Republic of Serb Krajina. Martic said the world community
ignored the actual state of relations between Croatia and the
Republic of Serb Krajina and pursued a wrong policy of awarding
culprits and punishing victims.





 MUSLIM AUTHORITIES IN ORCHESTRATED CAMPAIGN AGAINST UNPROFOR



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 23 (Tanjug) - UNPROFOR Spokesman in
Bosnia Alexander Ivanko on Thursday accused the Muslim
authorities in Sarajevo of conducting an organized campaign
against the peacekeepers and obstructing their mission in
Bosnia. There is an entire series of facts which indicate that
just such a campaign against UNPROFOR is underway, Ivanko said.
'What started as irritating incidents became more and more
harassing,' Ivanko said. Such a climate of constant attacks has
become unacceptable, he told reporters in Sarajevo, as quoted by
foreign agencies. UNPROFOR members are exposed to constant and
orchestrated attacks from the Muslim side, UNPROFOR
representatives said, giving several examples to substantiate
their claims. Ivanko said the Muslim authorities had prevented
two U.N. civil engineers, a Fin and a Briton, from passing to an
UNPROFOR observer point near the town of Visoko north of
Sarajevo. The U.N. members were forced to spend the night in a
military camp, Ivanko said. Muslim police in the Muslim enclave
of Gorazde in eastern Bosnia on Saturday captured UNPROFOR
translator Goran Posvandzic, Ivanko said, who still has not been
released despite UNPROFOR's efforts to step up his release.
UNPROFOR Military Spokesman Gary Coward said Muslim authorities
had limited movement to UNPROFOR members north of Tuzla and in
eastern Bosnia and were preventing them from patrolling close to
the separation lines. In parallel with such actions, Muslim
media continue their campaign against UNPROFOR, U.N. Spokesmen
said, explaining that the Sarajevo daily Vecernje Novine had
printed a series of reports during the past week, accusing
UNPROFOR of allegedly disclosing military secrets to Serbs.
Ivanko refused to speculate about the reasons behind these
actions by the Muslim authorities toward the peace force.



 NATO TRANSPORT PLANES LAND OUTSIDE TUZLA



 Z a g r e b, Feb. 23 (Tanjug) - Outside the northeastern
Bosnian town of Tuzla, NATO's large transport planes land to
deliver arms to the Bosnian Muslim Army, it has been confirmed
by eyewitness reports in a Zagreb weekly. The reporters of the
Zagreb weekly Globus, published Thursdays, said they had seen
for themselves that large-sized transport planes were landing at
an airstrip near the village of Zivinice which is not under
control of the UNPROFOR. Seen landing at Zivinice were the
American-made C-130 aircraft, otherwise possessed by NATO
countries. The 1,800-metre-long airstrip enables landings in
daytime, not by night, when military equipment is dropped by
parachutes, Globus reporters said. Globus quoted military
analysts as saying that these flights must have been either
organized or tacitly consented to by NATO. The U.S. is believed
to have begun supplying arms to the Bosnian Muslims who are
getting ready for offensives, one analyst said. Another analyst
asserted these were Turkish aircraft which, escorted by NATO
fighter planes, were bringing arms to the Bosnian Muslim Army.
Globus said that other routes had also been used via ports and
airports in Croatia to supply munitions to the Bosnian Muslims.
The weekly added that, for the use of these routes, Croatia was
charging certain percentages of arms or equipment.



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         CROATIA DECIDED A YEAR AGO TO BANISH U.N. PEACEKEEPERS



      V  u k o v a r, Feb. 24 (Tanjug) - A senior official of
the UNPROFOR on  Friday said he believed the Croatian
authorities had decided to banish the U.N. peacekeepers a year
ago.      UNPROFOR  Coordinator for Civilian Affairs in  sector
East  Phillip Corwin  said  at a regular press briefing in
Vukovar that he believed  the decision had not been made
recently.     Ever since the decision was really made, Croatia
has been producing a great  many  false information about
UNPROFOR, Corwin said and added  that not a single positive
article had been published in Croatia about UNPROFOR in the past
year. He said this was more than a mere coincidence, it was  a
strategy.      Corwin  said  the Croatian authorities' decision
was  based  on  an incorrect assumption that UNPROFOR would be
replaced by NATO forces.     Corwin said a frontal war between
Croats and Krajina Serbs was highly probable if UNPROFOR
withdrew from the zone of separation between the  two heavily
armed sides.      He  said  the final say in the matter
concerning UNPROFOR's  mandate would  be  with the U.N. Security
Council, and added that he believed  the decision  would not be
adopted earlier than a couple of days before  March 31.      It
is unthinkable for UNPROFOR to stay in the territory of a  state
that  does  not want it, he said, adding that the international
community was  therefore  exerting  pressure on Croatia to
change  the  decision  on banishing UNPROFOR.      Asked
whether  there was a possibility for UNPROFOR  to  leave  the
Croatian  territory  but  stay in Serb Krajina,  an  idea  that
has  been accepted  by  the  Serb  Krajina  leadership,  Corwin
said  that  it  was impossible  because  the  U.N. had not
recognized  the  Republic  of  Serb Krajina as an independent
state.



     RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR: SANCTIONS FOR CROATIA IF IT ATTACKS
SERBS



      B  e  l  g r a d e, Feb. 25 (Tanjug) - Russian Ambassador
to  Zagreb Leonid Kerestedijanc has said sanctions could be
imposed on Croatia if  it attacked the Krajina Serbs.
Saturday's issue of Belgrade daily Politika quoted Kerestedijanc
 as saying that Moscow would vote for sanctions against Croatia
in case of  an attack.      Kerestedijanc said that the
regulation of the Knin-Zagreb  relations 'could  continue only
in the presence of the peacekeepers.' 'We can change something
in  the  structure of the force but  someone  should  help  and
guarantee the peace process,' Kerestedijanc said.
Kerestedijanc  said it was necessary to 'return to the  Vance
plan' which, he said, has been accepted by Knin, Belgrade and
Zagreb.      Politika quoted Kerestedijanc as saying he
constantly has to correct those who 'in talks speak about the
occupied areas and the occupiers.'      'People  who have lived
here for centuries cannot occupy  their  own homes and the land
of their ancestors,' he said.



   U.N. REPORTS TENSION ALONG SERB KRAJINA-CROATIA LINE OF
SEPARATION



      K n i n, Feb. 25 (Tanjug) - A U.N. Spokesman said Friday
tension was mounting  along the line of separation between Serb
Krajina  and  Croatia. Alun  Robert,  Spokesman for the U.N.
Protection Force  in  sector  South, based  in Knin, said
Croatia was refusing to allow the deployment of  more U.N.
observers along the line of separation.      Speaking  at a
press conference, Robert said the Croatian  side  was
restricting   UNPROFOR   observers'  movement   in   the   area
 of   the Croatian-controlled town of Gospic in the Lika region
and was  intensively training troops in the area.      UNPROFOR
has also noticed Croatian troop presence in the vicinity of the
highway  through the western Slavonija region which  the  U.N.
force regards  as an obstacle to its normal work and a threat to
traffic safety, Robert said.



  SERB KRAJINA PREMIER: U.N. FORCE STATUS MUST BE SETTLED BEFORE
TALKS



      K  n  i  n,  Feb. 26 (Tanjug) - Serb Krajina Prime
Minister  Borisav Mikelic  said  Sunday that talks with Croatia
on all  questions  would  be resumed  the  moment the United
Nations settled the future status  of  the U.N. peacekeeping
force.      The  Republic of Serb Krajina wants to remain under
U.N. protection, Mikelic told Tanjug, explaining that tension
had been mounting and the war option gaining ground since
Croatia decided to deny further hospitality to the  U.N. force
after March 31. The people in the Republic of Serb Krajina want
the U.N. Protection Force to stay, because they see it as a
guarantor of the resumption of the negotiation process and the
implementation of the economic accords signed with Croatia, said
Mikelic.      If  the  United Nations wants peace, then the
organization  and  its members  must  react  at once and
discourage the war  option  rather  than encourage it (with
UNPROFOR's withdrawal), he said.     The international
community, however, has given no clear answer about renewing
UNPROFOR's mandate nor has it taken any concrete steps, although
it  is  being heard from all sides that the U.N. peacekeepers
should  stay on, said Mikelic.



    U.N. SPOKESMAN: BOSNIAN SERBS ARE IN USKOPLJE UNDER TRUCE
TERMS



     B e l g r a d e, Feb. 25 (Tanjug) - A U.N. Spokesman in
Sarajevo said Saturday  the presence of Bosnian Serb liaison
officers at the U.N.  Force Command in the central Bosnian town
of Uskoplje was legal.      Spokesman for the UNPROFOR Gary
Coward said the presence in Uskoplje of  Bosnian Serb liaison
officers was completely legal and in keeping with article  3  of
 the agreement for an absolute cessation of hostilities  in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.      The presence of the laision officers of
the Bosnian Serb Republic in Uskoplje  has prompted Muslim
troops to blockade the UNPROFOR  command  in the town since
Friday.      Coward specified that Muslims had put up four
barricades, paralyzing the UNPROFOR Command for southwestern
Bosnia in Uskoplje and demanding the surrender of the Bosnian
Serb officers before lifting the blockade.      Coward
specified that UNPROFOR had spotted helicopters over  Zenica and
 Vares  in  central Bosnia, over Ribnica, Tuzla  and  Kladanj
in  the northeast and over Coralici in the northwest.



                   BOSNIAN MUSLIMS HARASS U.N. TROOPS



      B  e  l g r a d e, Feb. 26 (Tanjug) - U.N. officials in
Bosnia  said Sunday  the Muslim Government in Sarajevo was
taking a tougher  stance  on the peacekeeping mission and
restricting the movement of U.N. troops.      The Reuter news
agency quoted U.N. Spokesman lt.-col. Gary Coward as saying
that  Bosnian Muslims 'are certainly much bolder  than  they
were before,' and that 'they apparently wish to change their
relationship  with the U.N.'      The  Muslim Sarajevo
Government Army is restricting the movement  of the
peacekeepers,  not  allowing U.N. patrols near  front  lines  in
 the northeast, Reuters said.      Quoting  numerous  examples
of Muslim harassment  of  U.N.  troops, Reuters said that
Muslims had been blocking British peacekeepers at  their base
near  the  town  of Gornji Vakuf, central Bosnia,  for  three
days, objecting to the presence of Bosnian Serbs liaison
officers.      Reuters  said that the Bosnian Serb officers were
at the  U.N.  base under the Bosnian Muslim-Serb ceasefire
agreement, effective as of Jan. 1.      The Bosnian Muslim Army
are blocking also a road outside the central Bosnian  town of
Visoko, where Canadian peacekeepers are facing increasing
harassment from the Muslims, Reuters said.      The  news
agency added that, earlier this month, a  Ukrainian  U.N.
colonel  had  been  detained for several hours in the
Muslim-held  eastern Bosnian town of Gorazde.      Reuters
quoted U.N. officials and western diplomats to  the  effect that
 the Muslim Government's tougher stance on the peacekeepers
reflected its  growing confidence in its army and a desire to
consolidate its  power in the territory under its control.



    LONDON'S GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER SAYS NATO HELPS ARM BOSNIAN
MUSLIMS



      L  o  n  d  o  n,  Feb. 25 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslims  are
 secretly receiving  arms  via Tuzla airport, with NATO's help,
the London  Guardian newspaper said Saturday, quoting U.N.
observers.      The  daily said that since Feb. 10, U.N.
observers had spotted  four clandestine flights over the
northeastern Muslim-held town of Tuzla,  made with  NATO  air
support. The NATO Command has officially denied  the  U.N.
officials' reports, saying it has no information to support
their claims.      The U.N. observers replied they were telling
the truth and would not give  in  to  pressure from NATO, but
would continue to report  everything they see, The Guardian
said.      The  daily quoted the NATO Command as saying that the
U.N. observers had  been  confused  by civilian flights in
nearby  Serbia,  and  by  NATO training flights.      The  U.N.
officials, according to The Guardian, have dismissed  the
explanation  as absurd and a smokescreen, since civilian flight
corridors were   nowhere   near  Bosnia  and  NATO  had  no
training   flights   of propeller-driven planes.      The
Guardian said that a Norwegian U.N. helicopter pilot had spotted
the  first clandestine flight over Tuzla in the night of Feb. 10
and  that it  was  made  by a hercules C-130 cargo plane.The
daily said that  Muslim troops  had fired at Norwegian U.N.
troops when they tried to inspect  the cargo  of the plane that
had landed at the Muslim-controlled part  of  the airport.
The next flights were by propeller-driven cargo planes, escorted
 by fighter  jets,  on  Feb.  12 and 17 and they were  spotted
by  a  British intelligence  officer,  The  Guardian said. The
most  recent  flight  was spotted on Feb. 23.      The  daily
said that U.N. analysts were convinced that the  flights were
secretly bringing weapons to the Bosnian Sarajevo Government
Muslim Army, with NATO's help.      This is undoubtedly the
case, a U.N. official told The Guardian, but had little hope of
a reaction from France and Great Britain, the strongest
opponents  of the exemption of the Bosnian Muslims from the
U.N.  ban  on arms deliveries to the former Yugoslavia.



 LONDON DAILY: U.S. ORGANIZES CLANDESTINE FLIGHTS TO MUSLIM-HELD
TUZLA



      L  o n d o n, Feb. 26 (Tanjug) - The London Independent
newspaper on Sunday  quoted U.N. officials as saying the United
States was  behind  the clandestine arming of the Bosnian
Muslims via Tuzla airport.      The  Independent  said the
UNPROFOR Command was  a  hundred  percent behind its observers
who had reported spotting several planes land at  the
Muslim-held part of Tuzla airport in northeastern Bosnia in the
past  two weeks.The daily said the cargo planes had been on a
clandestine mission of delivering  high-tech weaponry to the
Bosnian Muslims and  that  they  had been escorted by NATO
fighter jets.      The  Independent  said  NATO had ordered an
investigation  into  the matter, and that NATO Secretary-General
Willy Claes was expected to report the findings of the enquiry
within the next 48 hours.      British  media  had reported
three unidentified night  flights  over Tuzla  - on Feb. 10, 12
and 17, and The Independent added two more to  the list - on
Feb. 16 and 23.      The  daily quoted the UNPROFOR Command to
the effect that the United States  as  the  organizer of the
flights had not sent its own  planes  to Tuzla,  but  had
probably engaged for the purpose the services of  Turkey, also
a  NATO  member.The  daily  quoted  UNPROFOR  as  saying  that
the clandestine   arming  of  the  Muslims  was  the  result
of   the   U.S. administration's  desire to avoid having to push
for the  Muslims'  actual exemption  from  the  September 1991
U.N. ban on arms  deliveries  to  the former Yugoslavia.
The  Independent newspaper quoted analysts as saying that
Washington was trying to arm the Muslims in good time,
preparatory to another flaring up of the war after UNPROFOR's
withdrawal from Croatia.     The daily said that the clandestine
operation threatened to cause the most serious conflict within
NATO yet, pitting the United States primarily against Great
Britain and France, the countries with the largest number of
peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina.



                   CROATIAN GENERAL - FORMER USTASHA



      Z a g r e b, Feb. 26 (Tanjug) - Croatian Army general and
adviser in the  Croatian  Embassy in Sarajevo, Mate Sarlija, was
 during  the  second world  war  an officer in the army of the
so-called Independent  State  of Croatia  (NDH),  a  quisling
creation of the  nazi-fascist  occupiers  of Yugoslavia.
Zagreb weekly Panorama portrayed in its latest issue gen.
Sarlija as a hero of the 'patriotic war' and said that his real
name is Nijaz Batlak, that  he  is a Croat born in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and that he had  defended his  homeland in
the second world war with the rank of sergeant  major  in the
ustasha assault troops.      Sarlija,  who after 1945 fled
Yugoslavia and found refuge  in  south America and the Middle
East, did not want to speak for Panorama about  his experiences
as a 'soldier of fortune' during time spent outside Croatia.
 In 1991, a year after the Croatian Democratic Union party,
headed by current  Croatian  President Franjo Tudjman, came to
power  in  the  first multy-party elections, Sarlija returned to
Zagreb where he was  personally met at the airport by Defense
Minister Gojko Susak.      In  February  1992,  even before the
outbreak  of  the  fighting  in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarlija went
to Sarajevo to, as he said, 'organize the defense  of the
city.'In late October 1992, Sarlija was promoted to  first
brigadier  in the Croatian Army and not long after received  the
 rank  of general.



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  YUGOSLAV PREMIER: YUGOSLAVIA WORKS FOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF
CRISIS



      B  e  l g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime
Minister Radoje Kontic  said Monday Yugoslavia's actions and
efforts to date had shown  it was unreservedly for a peaceful
settlement of the Yugoslav crisis.      Meeting  with  outgoing
UNPROFOR Commander in the former  Yugoslavia gen.  Bertrand de
Lapresle and his successor gen. Bernard Janvier,  Kontic
deplored  the  fact  that Yugoslavia's efforts had  not
resulted  in  the lifting of sanctions. Gen. de Lapresle said
that his one-year tour of duty in  the former Yugoslavia had
convinced him that the sanctions against the Yugoslav
federation of Serbia and Montenegro had harmed the people  most.
The  sanctions,  can therefore be said, to have generated
violence  rather than peace, said de Lapresle.      The talk
brought to light the shared view that UNPROFOR's withdrawal from
 Croatia,  as  requested by the Zagreb regime, was  conducive
to  an escalation of war in a broader region.     Both sides in
the Belgrade talks agreed that the present regular rote of
UNPROFOR  Commanders was being carried out at a delicate time
in  the Yugoslav crisis.      It  was also agreed that the
feeling was gaining ground in the world community that
ultimatums, sanctions and threats could not bring peace and
freedom to the peoples in the former Yugoslav federation.
Kontic  said  that the former Yugoslavia had been the  initiator
 of UNPROFOR's  deployment, had adopted the plan devised by U.N.
 Envoy  Cyrus Vance  for  settling  the  Croatia-Serb Krajina
dispute  and  had  made  a palpable contribution to its
implementation.      The  Yugoslav federation has taken over and
carried out a number  of undertakings  from the Vance plan
although the peacekeeping  operation  is not  in  its territory,
Kontic said. He said that the Yugoslav Government, itself
grappling with economic difficulties caused by the sanctions,
had given  also  considerable  financial and  logistic  support
to  the  U.N. peacekeeping mission.



       SUCCESSFUL COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAV ARMY AND UNPROFOR



      B e l g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Deputy Chief of
General Staff of the  Yugoslav  Army,  lt.-gen. Blagoje
Kovacevic on  Monday  received  the former  and new Commanders
of the UNPROFOR lt.-gens. Bertrand de  Lapresle and Bernard
Janvier.      It  was  mutually assessed that the cooperation
between the Yugoslav Army  and UNPROFOR had been successful over
the past period. The statement said  the talks set out that the
Yugoslav Army, in keeping with the  state leadership's  policy,
had contributed remarkably to  the  efforts  for  a peaceful
settlement of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia.



   YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS CROATIAN DECISION PART OF
SCENARIO



      B  e  l  g  r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Croatia's decision
 to  deny further  hospitality  to U.N. peacekeepers threatens
peace  in  the  U.N. Protected  Area and is part of a scenario,
rather than a unilateral  move, Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Vladislav Jovanovic said Monday.      Jovanovic  told  reporters
that the Vance  plan,  under  which  U.N. Protection Force
troops have been deployed in the Republic of Serb Krajina and
Croatia, was a binding document which could not be placed in
question by  unilateral moves of its signatories, which he said
Croatia had in fact done.      'It  (Croatia) should now either
invalidate or formally  revoke  the decision,'  Jovanovic  told
the  press  during  a  recess  in  a  Federal Parliament
session.      Asked  to  comment a statement of a Croatian
general who boasted  on Sunday  that Croatia would 'pound' the
Montenegrin coastal town of  Herceg Novi from the disputed
Prevlaka peninsula, Jovanovic said he had not heard of the
statement.      He,  however, stressed that he would not advise
anyone to  test  the readiness  and  strength of Yugoslavia to
defend its  own  territory.  The issue of Prevlaka is part of
very sensitive relations and it would not  be good  for  any
side lightly and irresponsibly to play with it,  Jovanovic said.
    'I do not believe that the Croatian side will play with that
fire. It played  with  it three to four years ago, and a hot
reckoning followed.  I believe it will not happen again,' the
Yugoslav Foreign Minister said.      'Prevlaka is not the same
as Krajina. It (Prevlaka) has been  placed under  the
protection of UNPROFOR under a special U.N.  Security  Council
decision   based   on  the  well-known  Cosic-Tudjman
(Yugoslav-Croatian) agreement,' Jovanovic said.



   YUGOSLAVIA'S ROLE IN PEACE PROCESS CALLS FOR LIFTING OF
SANCTIONS



      L  o n d o n, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Assistant
Foreign Minister Zivadin  Jovanovic  stated Monday Yugoslavia's
readiness  to  continue  to further  constructively participate
in the peace  process,  but  also  the necessity  for  its
equal  treatment  as  the  international  community's recognized
partner.      Recognition  of such Yugoslavia's status means
also the  lifting  of sanctions,  said Jovanovic during talks
with assistant undersecretary  for European affairs at the
Foreign Office Anthony Richardson.      Jovanovic said his
British counter-part pointed out his Government's concern over
the slowdown in the peace process and the danger inherent  in
Croatia's decision to deny further hospitality to UNPROFOR after
March 31.      Jovanovic and Richardson agreed incentives should
be provided to the ongoing   contacts   between  the  British
and    Yugoslav   businessmen. Facilitating visa issuing and
travel for the two countries' citizens  were also discussed.



              YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT NEEDS INDEPENDENT MEDIA



      B  e  l  g  r  a  d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign
 Minister Vladislav Jovanovic said Monday the Government needs
independent media and that  such  a  stand has never been
questioned. Jovanovic told  a  federal Parliament  session  that
 as regards the daily  Borba  this  was  not  an instance  of
strangling this Belgrade newspaper, but a matter of  clearing up
an ownership dispute.



  YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL AGAINST TURNING HAGUE TRIBUNAL INTO
POLITICAL TOOL



      B  e  l  g  r  a  d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - President of the
 Yugoslav Committee  for  War Crimes, professor Zoran Stojanovic
has  condemned  the practice  of political-ideological
interpretation of the term 'war  crime' and its political
instrumentalization.      'The  countries which have given
consent in the Security Council  to form  an ad hoc
international war crimes tribunal in the territory of  the
former   Yugoslavia,  do  not  agree  that  it  shall  become  a
 standing institution  of  the  international  organization.
This  is  sufficiently indicative  of political reasons standing
behind,'  Stojanovic told  Radio Yugoslavia on Monday.
Commenting  on the work of the International War Crimes Tribunal
 in the  Hague, he said that such a beginning of the work of the
tribunal  can compromise  what  is  substantially  an
acceptable  idea  on  a  standing international court.
Perpetrators  of  war crimes should be punished most  severely,
but solely according to legal norms and criteria, said
Stojanovic.      About  the  demand that the U.N.
member-countries  should  extradite those suspected of war
crimes, Stojanovic recalled that the extradition of Yugoslav
citizens to other countries was prohibited by relevant
provisions in   the  Constitutions  of  Serbia  and  Montenegro
(federal  units   of Yugoslavia).      'This provision is
contained also in most constitutions of the other countries.
Unless the constitution is changed, the extradition  is  simply
not possible,' said Stojanovic.



   MINORITY MEMBERS IN YUGOSLAVIA HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS AS OTHER
CITIZENS



     B e l g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Members of national
minorities in Yugoslavia have equal rights as other citizens,
Yugoslav Minister  without Portfolio  Margit Savovic said
Monday.Savovic, who is in charge  of  human and  minority
rights, made the statement in a meeting with  International
Conference on the Former Yugoslavia Ambassador Kai Eide.
The minority rights in Yugoslavia are in keeping with relevant
norms of international law, Savovic said.      She  set  out
that the minorities in Yugoslavia were able  fully  to preserve
and  assert their national identity and that their  educational,
cultural and information activities were financed by the state.



  YUGOSLAV BANK TO OFFER FOREIGN INVESTORS TO FUND PROFITABLE
PROJECTS



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav National
Bank will this  spring submit to world financial institutions a
list of Yugoslavia's major  economic projects that foreign
investors might find  profitable  to invest in.     Mihailo
Nikolic, advisor to the Yugoslav National Bank Governor, told
Tanjug  on  Sunday  that the decision was mainly aimed at
'queuing'  even during   the   sanctions  against  Yugoslavia
for  investments   of   the International Monetary Fund and
other institutions that would  be  carried out after the lifting
of the sanctions.     Nikolic said the National Bank already had
at its disposal 150 expert projects  from  companies  seeking an
injection of  domestic  and  foreign capital  ranging  from
several hundred million dollars to several  billion dollars.
 Nikolic  said National Bank experts would out of this total
make  a list  of  top  priority  and  most profitable  projects,
 which  would  be submitted to foreign investors before the
lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia.     He said
National Bank experts found most interesting a project by the
Yugoslav Institute of General and Physical Chemistry on the
production  of organic mineral fertilizers based on the use of
liquid waste, whose patent has been protected and declared
classified.     He said the projects had mostly been made in
line with the world bank standards.      Nikolic  said
preparations were underway for changing  the  current
regulations on foreign investments and free zones with a view to
 boosting the capital inflow into Yugoslavia.     He said
Singapore's experience in attracting foreign capital was very
interesting because it had enabled investors to complete all the
necessary formalities  and  obtain  information about  the
degree  of  the  offered projects' profitability and risk in a
single day and at a single place.



      MORE CONDITIONS FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA

              by Tanjug's Diplomatic Editor Stevan Cordas



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Having realized that
Yugoslavia has  met  all requests made in a U.N. Security
Council resolution imposing the sanctions against it, some key
international factors are now trying to add more conditions to
the list in order to extend their duration.      Careful
reading  of  the  text of the controversial  U.N.  Security
Council resolution 757 imposing comprehensive sanctions against
Yugoslavia on  May  30, 1992, is again conducive to the crucial
conclusion  that  the Security Council did not have a single
solid argument to punish Yugoslavia as drastically as it did.
  Resolution  757  contains five conditions, or U.N. Security
Council requests:      -  that  all  sides  and  all  those
engaged  in  Bosnia-Herzegovina immediately stop fighting.
It is clear, of course, that the request did not apply to
Yugoslavia but only to the three Bosnian warring sides.     -
that all forms of external interference in Bosnia stop
immediately.      -  that  all Bosnia's neighbours take
immediate action  to  end  any interference    and    to
observe   the   territorial    integrity    of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.      As  for Yugoslavia, these two requests
are absurd, as Yugoslavia  in its Parliament's declaration of
April 27, 1992, took a very clear stand on the  territorial
integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina and on the Bosnian  civil war,
proclaiming that it 'has no territorial aspirations against
anybody in its surroundings.'      The  Yugoslav  Parliament
also declared that  it  'remains  strictly committed to the
principle of non-use of force in settling any outstanding
issues,'  respecting 'the objectives and principles of the
United  Nations and CSCE documents.'      The  U.N. Security
Council requests, if impartially considered, were in  fact
related  primarily to Croatia, which  has  so  far  not  stopped
interfering in the Bosnian conflict. Croatia has so far failed
to  observe the  territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
with its regular  troops having constantly been present on the
Bosnian battlefront.      - the fourth request is related to the
former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).      U.N. Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali has said in a report to the Security
Council that the last JNA soldier left Bosnia-Herzegovina  on
May  19,  1992, which was 11 days before the sanctions against
Yugoslavia were imposed.      -  the  fifth request refers to a
disbanding and disarmament of  all irregular forces in
Bosnia-Herzegovina.      Even  a cursory analysis of the U.N.
Security Council requests leads to  the  single  conclusion  -
the advocates  of  the  sanctions  against Yugoslavia had two
goals.      The first goal was to have Belgrade pressurize the
Bosnian Serbs  to lay  their arms down and resign themselves to
living in an Islamic Bosnia. The second goal was to use the
sanctions against Yugoslavia to cause chaos there and to use
this chaos to overthrow the legal authorities.      None  of the
goals has been accomplished and this is the sole reason why  the
 sanctions persist. They are, in fact, directly linked  with
the Bosnian war. If the war was brought to an end, there would
not be a single argument for the sanctions to remain.      The
four-month  truce,  which  is  currently  in  force  throughout
Bosnia-Herzegovina  has  shown the first signs that  it  could
grow  into lasting peace.      Under these very circumstances,
'somebody' starts to intensively arm the  Bosnian Muslims with a
clear-cut aim to prolong the war and have  the sanctions against
Yugoslavia stay.



         GANIC: BOSNIAN MUSLIMS USE TRUCE FOR WAR PREPARATIONS



      B  e l g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslims have
been using the  current truce to reinforce the army and make
preparations for resumed war, Bosnian Muslim Vice President Ejup
Ganic said on Monday.      'The army today, two months after the
signing of an agreement (on  a four-month  cessation  of
hostilities), is  still   stronger  and  better organized,'
said Ganic in an opening address at a session of  the  Muslim
Assembly in Sarajevo.     The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA
quoted Ganic as announcing that, as the  Serb side 'respects
force', there would be 'increasingly more  force' on the Muslim
side.      Ganic recalled a large number of contacts between
representatives of Bosnian  Muslims and those of Islamic
countries, Germany  and  the  United States,  and  announced an
even more aggressive appearance on the  foreign policy  scene
aimed at exempting the Bosnian Muslims from the  U.N.  arms
embargo.



     BOSNIAN MUSLIM ARMY COMMANDER ADMITS HIS TROOPS VIOLATE
TRUCE



      B  e  l  g r a d e, Feb. 27 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslim Army
Commander Rasim  Delic  publicly admitted Monday that his troops
were violating  the current four-month truce in Bosnia.Delic
said Muslims were attacking  even from  the western town of
Bihac, which has been designated a 'safe  haven' by the United
Nations.     Speaking at a session of the Muslim Parliament,
Delic said that, when asked  by  the UNPROFOR Commander in
Bosnia,  gen. Rupert Smith,  why  the Muslims were attacking, he
had replied that this was their way of fighting a war.      'I
explained that attack is a form of defense and that  the  Muslim
Army   naturally   chooses  the  most  efficacious  ways   of
fighting,' Muslim-controlled Radio Sarajevo quoted Delic as
saying.      Delic  specified that the same principle applied to
the Bihac pocket and accused UNPROFOR of not discharging its
obligations, the Radio said.





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01. MARCH 1995.

YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY



   SANCTIONS DENY RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT



 N e w Y o r k, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister
Radoje Kontic warned participants of the coming World Summit for
Development of the devastating effects of the U.N. sanctions
against Yugoslavia and of the fact that they denied the right to
development to an entire people. In a letter handed Tuesday to
U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali by Yugoslav U.N.
Ambassador Dragomir Djokic, Kontic stated regret that Yugoslavia
was being denied the right to participate in the summit to open
Monday in Copenhagen under U.N. auspices. Sanctions are highly
inhuman, especially when applied, as in the case of Yugoslavia,
to achieve certain political goals of those whose impose them,
the letter said. Kontic said that imposing sanctions has
strained further the economic crisis in Yugoslavia, invited a
drop in employment, production and living standard, and brought
a large portion of the population to the brink of starvation.
The per capita gross national income in Yugoslavia fell in 1993
to a mere 1,163 dollars. About 700,000 of the work force of 4.5
million are now registered as unemployed, while many others were
out of work as a direct result of sanctions, Kontic said. The
letter, among other things, said that in January 1994, the
average pay was only 26 dinars or the same amount in German
marks, which bought only 43 litres of milk or 1.2 kilos of pork.
The situation has somewhat improved after the introduction of
the new dinar and curbing inflation, but living standard
continued far below the level it recorded prior to the
introduction of sanctions, said Kontic. Recalling the
contribution of official Belgrade to the peace process, Kontic
set out that Yugoslavia expected its reintegration into
international life to enable it to apply the documents which
would be adopted at the summit. This, he said, would be in the
interest of not only Yugoslavia but would furthermore create
global pre-conditions for elimination of accumulated social
problems facing the world today, the letter of Yugoslav Prime
Minister.



 RUSSIA, F.R. YUGOSLAVIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON MILITARY COOPERATION



 M o s c o w, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - The Defense Ministers of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Russia, Pavle Bulatovic and
Pavel Grachev, here on Tuesday night signed an agreement on
military cooperation between the two countries. The agreement,
the details of which had not been presented to reporters, would
take effect upon the lifting of the sanctions imposed on
Yugoslavia by international community. Bulatovic and Grachev
voiced content with the signing of this agreement.



 YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT: SANCTIONS, ESPECIALLY IN SPORTS, ARE
SENSELESS



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Zoran
Lilic on Tuesday thanked the International Olympic Committee for
the support lent to the Yugoslav sports and said sanctions,
especially those in sports, were senseless. 'We take your visit
as a recognition to our peace policy and our stand that
sanctions are totally meaningless, especially in activities such
a sports,' Lilic said in a talk with IOC President Juan Antonio
Samaranch. Samaranch, who heads an IOC delegation on a visit to
Yugoslavia, said that only the lifting of the sanctions against
Yugoslavia and the normalization of relations on the territory
of the former Yugoslav federation could contribute to peace, a
statement issued by the Yugoslav President's Office said. 'The
policy of the IOC is a policy of peace and equality and our
goals in this regard are the same,' Samaranch said. He recalled
that IOC had defended the right of Yugoslav athletes to
participate in sports events despite the comprehensive
international sanctions and that it was still fighting for their
equal role on the world family of sports. 'It is our sincere
hope that we will be able to welcome a strong Yugoslav team at
the Olympic Games in Atlanta next year. We have already done
enough to this end, especially concerning team sports, in which
your country is the strongest,' Samaranch said. Lilic said he
hoped Yugoslavia would again have the opportunity to prove that
it was a successful organizer of big international sports
events, the statement said.



 MILOSEVIC THANKS SAMARANCH FOR SUPPORT LENT TO YUGOSLAV SPORTS



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - President Slobodan
Milosevic of Serbia on Tuesday thanked International Olympic
Committee Chairman Juan Antonio Samaranch on support lent to
Yugoslavia's return to the international sports stage. Milosevic
and Samaranch discussed the promotion of international
cooperation in the domain of sports and the significance of
sports for better understanding and closer ties among states and
nations and their mutual acknowledgement, a statement released
by the Presidential Office said. It was set out in the talks
that Yugoslavia's return to the international sports stage,
after an unjustified absence imposed on it by the international
sanctions, was above all in the interest of world sports.



 IOC PRESIDENT SAY BRIGHTER FUTURE AWAITS YUGOSLAV ATHLETES



B e l g r a d e, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - After easing and total
lifting of sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
soon, brighter future awaited the Yugoslav sport which lived
through two and a half years under them, said International
Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch Tuesday. IOC
had from the outset been with the Yugoslav athletes, as it
strived to prevent political manipulation in sport. We can never
accept for athletes to be banned from participating in big
international competitions, such as the Olympic Games, said
Samaranch. We were very surprised by the U.N. Security Council
decision to impose sanctions against the Yugoslav athletes, he
said and recalled that the sanctions have been eased and that he
personally believed they would, as he said, in late April be
totally lifted. It was now most important to resolve the issues
if Yugoslav football and waterpolo teams, who wish to return as
soon as possible to big international competitions, said
Samaranch. He added that in this the IOC enjoyed the support of
the international swimming federation (FINA), which is, as he
said, 100% behind the Yugoslavs. In the ensuing talk with
Yugoslav and foreign reporters, Samaranch said a good course for
Belgrade to host the olympics was that Yugoslavia was candidate
to organize the summer Universiad and the Mediterranean games at
the turn of the next century.



 U.N. OFFICIAL SAYS MUSLIM OFFENSIVE COMPELS SERB CIVILIANS TO
FLEE



 B e l g r a d e, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - A Muslim offensive in
central Bosnia has forced more than 350 Serb civilians, mostly
children, women and old people, to flee their villages northwest
of the town of Travnik, Spokesman for the UNHCR Kris Janowski
said Tuesday. Serb refugees from Sisava, Mudrik, Rakita and
other villages on Mt. Vlasic near Travnik have reached the
Serb-held town of Skender Vakuf, according to foreign news
agencies. Janowski said Serb civilians continued to flee before
the Muslim offensive mounted last week.



 FRENCH LIBERATION: U.S. AIRCRAFT DELIVER ARMS TO BOSNIAN MUSLIMS



 P a r i s, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - The 'mysterious' aircraft which
have for a month been landing in the utmost secrecy at the
airport near the town of Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia have in
all likelihood been delivering U.S. arms to the Bosnian Muslim
Army, the Paris daily Liberation said on Tuesday. The daily said
there was no other explanation for the total silence about the
'phantom' aircraft in NATO circles, in view of the fact that
NATO Awacs radar aircraft were in charge of monitoring the
'no-fly' zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. Representatives of U.N.
peacekeepers have said that U.N. military observers trained to
guide fighter planes from the ground have detected in the past
month scores of helicopters, transport and fighter planes
landing at Tuzla airport. An airman serving within the UNPROFOR
was quoted by Liberation as saying the NATO explanation that its
Awacs had been unable to confirm the U.N. reports was hardly
likely. 'The NATO silence is just as mysterious as the allegedly
unidentified aircraft,' the daily said. It said some U.N.
officials were openly saying NATO was covering the U.S.
operation of airlifting arms to the Bosnian Muslim Army.
Liberation said 'the phantom planes could reportedly be Bosnian
Muslim' since Muslims had 'twenty aircraft or so' according to
western sources. The intensive air activity over Tuzla falls at
a time of major Muslim troop movements on the ground, Liberation
said. 'Scores of trucks heading for Tuzla have been seen in the
past 15 days. The Muslim Army is totally reorganizing itself and
its units are reinforcing their positions,' the daily said.



 NORWEGIAN U.N. PILOT SAYS U.S. SMUGGLES ARMS TO BOSNIAN MUSLIMS



 O s l o, Feb. 28 (Tanjug) - A Norwegian U.N. pilot was quoted
Tuesday as saying that the United States was using Tuzla airport
in northeastern Bosnia as a conduit for smuggling arms to the
Muslims. The Norwegian daily Dagbladet quoted Major Erik Doken,
Commander of a U.N. helicopter squad in Bosnia, as saying his
trooper had been quoted in an official report as an eyewitness
to the landing at Tuzla airport of what looked like a U.S.
Hercules 130 cargo plane. The suspicious flights were first
spotted in mid-Februry but their mission was not immediately
clear. A fuller report followed from a higher place. The British
Guardian newspaper, quoted by Dagbladet, said civilians serving
with UNPROFOR were bearing up under pressure, fearing that all
their reports in the future might be doubted. A U.N. source has
confirmed that a secret U.S. mission was supplying the Bosnian
Muslims with arms. The Norwegian daily wrote also that the
United States had been insisting on exempting the Bosnian
Muslims from a September 1991 U.N. ban on arms sales to the
former Yugoslavia.