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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.