============================================= 13. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY LIFTING OF SANCTIONS WARRANTS PEACE B e l g r a d e, Feb. 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic on Saturday said that the lifting of sanctions against the F.R. of Yugoslavia was warranting the success of peace initiatives. Jovanovic told Radio Belgrade that the first condition for the success of any peace initiative in areas of the former Yugoslavia was an absolutely equal status of all participants. 'The F.R. of Yugoslavia does not have that status so long as it is under the sanctions. He who genuinely wishes the success of a peace initiative should in the first place struggle out the establishment of an equal position of Yugoslavia. This is to say that he should commit himself immediately and in an absolute way for the removal of the sanctions, because this is also a guarantee for the success of such initiatives,' Jovanovic specified. 'We have always supported all initiatives that have been or could be conducive to a political settlement of the crisis, to the return of peace and to the return of stability in our region,' said Jovanovic. Pressures on the F.R. of Yugoslavia to recognize the seceded republics of the former Yugoslavia as the condition for having the sanctions lifted, were assessed by Jovanovic as non-principled and contrary to international law that vests a sovereign right with every country to recognize or not to recognize some other country. Such pressures, explained Jovanovic, also are in contradiction with the U.N. Security Council resolution that had imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia. Recognition does not represent a one-way process because it presumes, first, a settlement of the problems created by unilateral secessions of the ex-Yugoslav republics, and, then also a correction of the international community's stand toward Yugoslavia's right to exist in a continuity, Jovanovic said. Jovanovic said that during his talks in Salonika on Friday with his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias it was reaffirmed that both Greece and Yugoslavia were firmly committed to peace policy and to a political resolution of all the aspects of the crisis in former Yugoslavia. Jovanovic had accepted Papoulias' remark that there still existed foreign factors capable of diverting the regional crisis into an unfavourable direction. 'Many foreign factors are profiting from the Yugoslav crisis so as to strengthen their political, military and other influence and so as to materialize some of their goals they could not have materialized under conditions of the Balkan balance and stability,' said Jovanovic. This is one of the key reasons why the peace efforts so far could not have come to fruition, Jovanovic said. UNPROFOR MUST STAY AS GUARANTOR OF PEACE N o v i S a d, Feb. 11 (tanjug) - Serb Krajina Prime Minister Borislav Mikelic has said that the international community should pressure Croatia to change its decision on UNPROFOR's mandate. The U.N. Protection Force is a guarantor of peace and must stay, Mikelic said in an interview published by the Novi Sad daily Dnevnik on Saturday, commenting on Zagreb's decision to deny further hospitality to the U.N. peacekeepers beyond March 31. Mikelic said Zagreb should be interested in peace because all peace options would fail if the Vance plan fell through. He said a possible new war between Croatia and the Republic of Serb Krajina would spill over into other parts of the former Yugoslavia. He said the Serb Krajina Parliament was therefore forced to declare the state of immediate threat of war. 'We will not be the first to use military force but, if need be, we will respond in kind,' Mikelic said. He warned that Croatia and 'its sponsors' would in that case be responsible for a possible resumption of war. Croatia wants to forcibly keep what does not belong to it, Mikelic said and added that the territory in which the Republic of Serb Krajina was formed 'has never belonged to the Croats because the Serbs have lived there for centuries.' Mikelic said the so-called 'Mini Contact Group,' which has drafted the Z-4 plan for Croatia-Krajina relations, had 'assumed a great responsibility by offering a plan that is in contradiction with the Vance plan because it prejudices a political solution.' Serb Krajina is not considering the Z-4 plan and will not discuss it until Croatia has changed its stand and given up hope for solving the problem by military means, Mikelic said and added that Krajina would not accept any imposed solutions. BOSNIAN SERBS TO HELP SERB KRAJINA REPEL CROATIAN ATTACK B e l g r a d e, Feb. 12 (Tanjug) - Speaker of the Bosnian Serb Parliament Momcilo Krajisnik on Saturday said the Croats must expect the entire Serb bloc to oppose its possible attack on Serb Krajina. In an interview with Bosnian Serb TV-Radio, he said this was especially the duty of the Bosnian Serb Republic. Krajisnik expressed confidence that the F.R. of Yugoslavia would not recognize the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, although other countries have made it a condition for lifting the sanctions against Yugoslavia. Krajisnik said such a move would cause 'incalculable damage both to peace and to the F.R. of Yugoslavia.' The Bosnian Serb news agency Srna quoted him as saying in a comment on the Bosnian Muslim announcement of a spring offensive that 'the Muslims have plans known to them alone, but the (Bosnian) Serb Republic will do everything in its power to secure peace.' U.S. UNMANNED SPY AIRCRAFT FLY OVER BOSNIA L o n d o n, Feb. 11 (Tanjug) - The London Daily Telegraph on Saturday said that U.S. unmanned aircraft launched from a base on the Croatian island of Brac were watching the frontlines in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The paper said the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was probably behind the action. The operation, officially named 'lofty view,' has aroused fresh suspicion that the CIA has continued to provide intelligence to the Bosnian Muslims, the paper said. Unmanned aircraft are able to fly 48-hour sorties at an altitude of 8,500 meters and collect information about artillery positions, communication lines and movement of troops. On the basis of such information, British military expert David Fulghum told the paper, it is possible to predict an offensive and concentration of armament and troops. The Brac base, where some Americans are stationed, is guarded by the Croatian army and police and civilians have no access to it. When the Americans appear in civilian clothes in public places outside the base, they refuse to talk to the locals, the paper said. The inhabitants of the town of Bol in the island of Brac noticed their presence in November last year, one day after the signing of an agreement on military cooperation between the U.S. and Croatia, the Daily Telegraph said. =========================================== 15. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY UNTRUE U.S. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA B e l g r a d e, Feb. 14 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister Margit Savovic Tuesday said the annual U.S. global human rights review contained a number of completely untrue accusations against Yugoslavia. Savovic, who is Federal Minister for Human Rights and Minorities, told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti that the State Department report again accused the Yugoslav authorities of allegedly abusing ethnic Albanians in Serbia's southern Kosovo and Metohija province. Savovic said it was impossible to describe as abuse the bringing to trial of Albanians who had committed the most brutal felonies, and who were caught in the possession of huge quantities of arms and drugs. These people are being tried in the presence of international observers and for activities aimed at the secession of parts of Yugoslavia, she said. Savovic said no country in the world would tolerate such activities and that none had reacted when France recently arrested Muslim terrorists and fundamentalists for the same criminal activities. Savovic said the State Department report described as aggressors only the Serbs in the territories of the breakaway former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and persisted in naming as victims the Muslims and Croats living there. She said that in this case the U.S. had substituted the thesis. She described as untrue the State Department's claims that the setting up of a tribunal for war crimes committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia was allegedly a major contribution to the protection of human rights in the world. This would have been true only if a permanent, not ad hoc war crimes tribunal had been formed and only for some countries, Savovic said. Savovic said that in that case, on trial would be the perpetrators of crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries, since war crimes do not have a statute of limitations. This, however, is not in the interest of the big powers, Savovic said. SERB PROTEST AGAINST MUSLIM OFFENSIVE IN BIHAC B e l g r a d e, Feb. 14 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army Commander gen. Ratko Mladic Tuesday strongly protested with U.N. Bosnia Commander gen. Rupert Smith against a new Sarajevo's Muslim army offensive in the Bihac area. The Bosnian Serb news agency Srna quoted Mladic as saying in a letter to Smith that Muslim Bihac-based troops were 'brutally destroying serb settlements, plundering and touching houses and expelling civilians from occupied villages.' In this onslaught from an allegedly safe area in western Bosnia, which began three days ago, the Muslims are using all available arms, Mladic said. Mladic said this latest offensive from the U.N. - Protected Area of Bihac, the daily violations of the truce else where in Bosnia, and the negative attitude of the Muslim side were directly undermining the peace process. Mladic said this was the second time the Muslim Sarajevo Government troops launched an offensive from Bihac since the four-month truce had taken effect on Jan. 1. Mladic said he expected Smith to take urgent measures to force the Muslim side to observe the truce and retreat to the lines of separation at the time of the signing of the truce. SLOVENIA SUPPLIED BOSNIAN MUSLIMS WITH ARMS Lj u b lj a n a, Feb. 14 (Tanjug) - Former Slovenian Intelligence Chief Miha Brejc has accused the Slovenian Defense Ministry of supplying arms to Bosnian Muslims last year, Ljubljana papers said Tuesday. Brejc said Slovenia had sent huge quantities of weaponry to Bosnia and accused Slovenian President Milan Kucan of involvement in these deals. He demanded an investigation. Slovenian officials continued to sell weaponry to Bosnian Muslims after they hushed up the scandal in 1993 when about 120 tonnes of arms and ammunition for the Bosnian Muslim army were seized at Maribor Airport, Brejc said. Brejc even said he suspected these weapons had reached the Muslims eventually, in early July last year. Brejc was removed from the post of head of Slovenian Counterintelligence after the Maribor scandal. =========================================== 16. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY YUGOSLAVIA'S SCEPTICISM ABOUT HAGUE TRIBUNAL'S IMPARTIALITY CONFIRMED B e l g r a d e, Feb. 15 (tanjug) - The fact that the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has put only Serbs on its list of suspects, confirms Yugoslavia's scepticism about its impartiality and doubts that it was set up under political pressure. Speaking for Belgrade dailies on Wednesday, Zoran Stojanovic, head of the Yugoslav War Crimes Committee, said that by filing charges only against 21 Serbs on Feb. 13, the Hague tribunal had not taken into consideration documented evidence on war crimes committed against Serbs by other peoples (Muslims and Croats). In an interview to the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, Stojanovic said, 'the evidence submitted to the U.N. by the Yugoslav War Crimes Committee and other Yugoslav non-governmental organizations was not sufficient for the Hague tribunal to enlarge the list (of war criminals).' Moreover, by raising charges only against Serbs, the Hague tribunal had also failed to take into consideration a 129-page document with 390 photographs testifying that the Croatian army had committed war crimes in the Republic of Serb Krajina. The document, launched by the Krajina-based non-governmental organization veritas, includes evidence on Croatian war crimes on which U.N peacekeepers have also reported. Yugoslav political leaders and relevant court bodies have agreed to some form of cooperation with the tribunal, believing that it will try all war criminals from the former Yugoslavia regardless of their ethnic origin, as repeatedly stated by tribunal officials. The form of cooperation in question should have included a submission of evidence to the tribunal in cases where it proved to be justified. In a statement to the Belgrade daily Politika Ekspres, Stojanovic said, however, this did not mean a recognition of the tribunal's authority. Stojanovic said Yugoslavia would not hand over citizens charged with war crimes by the tribunal, not only because it was contrary to the Yugoslav constitution, but also because the handing over of foreign citizens took place only under certain conditions. The Yugoslav Federal Court said Monday that Yugoslav citizens who had committed crimes against humanity and international law must be tried, but said these trials would be exclusively in charge of Yugoslav courts. MUSLIMS PREVENT NATO INSPECTION AT TUZLA AIRFIELD B e l g r a d e, Feb. 15 (tanjug) - The Bosnian Muslim Army has forbidden access to hangars to a NATO team which arrived at Tuzla airfield on Tuesday. The task of the NATO team is to determine what happened to three aeroplanes which U.N. observers said landed at this airfield in northeastern Bosnia last weekend, but have not been seen since. UNPROFOR spokesman in Sarajevo Gary Coward was quoted by the French news agency AFP on Wednesday assaying the incident involving these aeroplanes remained a mystery. Bosnian Serbs warned that the Tuzla airfield would be used for shipping weaponry to the Muslim side already when they approved its opening for humanitarian flights. UNPROFOR observers reported from the spot that three planes landed at Tuzla airfield on the night of Feb. 10, one hercules c-130 cargo plane and two smaller fighter planes. The U.N. immediately sent two vehicles with observers out to investigate, but the vehicles were immediately surrounded by about 30 armed Muslim troops who prevented them from reaching the runway. One vehicle managed to pass through and reach the runway, but discovered that the planes were nowhere to be seen. Coward said it was believed they had been taken to hangars. Two days later, at 20:15 hrs local time on Feb. 12, U.N. observers saw three planes cruising over Tuzla and said they heard many fighter planes flying over. NATO, however, said it did not register any such flights. The authorities of the Bosnian Serb Republic lodged a sharp protest with UNPROFOR concerning the incident of Feb. 10. after the incident of Feb. 12, they said they would be forced to take certain measures, Coward said. Serbs in Bosnia believe this should not have happened since a no-fly zone is in force, Coward said, and they made it clear that they would take measures if UNPROFOR was unable to control the situation. ======================================== 17 February 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY LIFTING OF SANCTIONS VITAL FOR PEACE B e l g r a d e, Feb. 16 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic said Thursday the question of the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia was 'a key element which absolutely contributes to the return of peace to the territory of former Yugoslavia.' With the sanctions, 'everyone is waiting for Serbia and Montenegro to become economically exhausted, so that they can pick up their share of the cake,' Bulatovic said in a live broadcast of Belgrade's TV Politika. Bulatovic said that the 'recognition of Croatia by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia does not solve anything.' He said that Yugoslavia had made it clear that it had no territorial aspirations. Those who propose this recognition have hidden political goals, Bulatovic said, explaining that the goals were based on the misconception that the problem of Zagreb-Knin relations can be resolved without Knin, which he said was impossible. Bulatovic said there was no need or sense in resolving that problem militarily. He said the continued presence of the UNPROFOR was necessary and that he believed the international community would get Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to rescind the decision to cancel UNPROFOR's mandate after March 31. Bulatovic said interests of Serbs in former Bosnia-Herzegovina might have been realized more successfully by accepting the Contact Group plan as a basis for talks. Speaking about the question of the U.N.- controlled peninsula of Prevlaka on the Yugoslav border with Croatia, Bulatovic said there had to be a just delineation and that the right way lay only in diplomatic negotiations. Speaking about the Hague Tribunal for War Crimes in former Yugoslavia, Bulatovic said he feared the trials might be politically coloured. ANTI-SERB TRIBUNAL (by diplomatic editor Stevan Cordas) B e l g r a d e, Feb. 16 (Tanjug) - The worst doubts about the bias of the Hague International War Crimes tribunal have come true, Yugoslav jurists are unanimous after the recent indictment of 21 persons for crimes committed in civil war in the former Yugoslavia. The 21 names on the bill of indictment are all Serb names. The indictment has been received with surprise also at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry. Yugoslav diplomatic circles are repeating that Belgrade is willing to seek out and prosecute war criminals in Yugoslav territory regardless of nationality. However, the indictment by the Hague tribunal, in view of whom it charges, will only hamper the tribunal's cooperation with Yugoslavia, officials at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry say. The Yugoslav Government had serious reservations about the setting up of the tribunal in the first place, but has nevertheless been seeking ways and means of cooperating with it for the common good of prosecuting offenses against international humanitarian law. The readiness for cooperation is still there, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry says. One of the Yugoslav Government's basic reservations about the setting up of the tribunal lay in the fact that the Security Council had not been authorized by the U.N. General Assembly to form it in the first place. The Security Council's decision was contrary also to the principle of universality, since the tribunal has been set up to try only crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. Another reservation had to do with the express intention of some of the initiators of the tribunal that it should be the medium of prosecuting Serbs alone. Tribunal officials and Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone have on several occasions given assurances to the Yugoslav Government and public that Belgrade's fears and reservations are exaggerated and that the tribunal will be impartial. The recent indictment has proven the assurances to be false. In fact, there is a clear impression that an effort is being made to prove that which many in Yugoslavia have feared - that the tribunal has been set up with the sole purpose of trying Serbs. The action of the tribunal is all the more surprising in view of the fact that neither unbiased international jurists nor the world public any longer doubt, on the strength of evidence presented in world media, that Croats and Muslims, too, have been guilty of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Foreign Ministry officials say that the practice of accusing Serbs alone is not unique to the tribunal. They say that the situation is no better in some countries - such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland where national courts have started proceedings, like the Hague tribunal, only against Serbs. SERB REPUBLIC ONLY AS SOVEREIGN STATE B a nj a L u k a, Feb. 16 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Republic President Radovan Karadzic on Thursday said that at worst the Bosnian Serb Republic could agree to join a certain union of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but only as a sovereign state. Karadzic said: 'Our aim is to be part of Serbia, and if that is not possible, then along with the Republic of Serb Krajina to be part of Yugoslavia as a federal unit.' Karadzic reiterated that the Bosnian Serb Republic would not accept the 'Contact Group' plan to resume talks, rather it would resume talks with the plan serving as a basis. Karadzic said that it was not late even now for all serb lands to unite in order to prevent the destruction of the Serb national being. ========================================== 20. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY MILOSEVIC, KOZYREV: LIFTING OF SANCTIONS FIRST, UNAVOIDABLE STEP B e l g r a d e, Feb 19 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev view the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia as the first and unavoidable step which needs to be taken on the way to a definitive solution to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. It was set out in the talks held between Milosevic and Kozyrev over the weekend at Karadjordjevo, that a continued implementation of the sanctions would directly threaten peace efforts and enable the prolongation of the crisis and its further complication, a statement released by the Presidential Office said. Minister Kozyrev said in the talks that the Russian side held in high regard the consistent peaceful policy pursued by Yugoslavia and the key role played by it in the current peace efforts and processes, the statement said. It said the common view was expressed that the situation required of the international community to base its upcoming efforts for the strengthening of the peace process primarily on an equal acknowledgement and treatment of all subjects of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. The two sides expressed satisfaction with the positive dynamic development of the bilateral cooperation between Yugoslavia and Russia in all fields, and underscored a long-term common interest in the further promotion and expansion of that cooperation. The two sides established that great possibilities and the mutual readiness existed for the promotion of economic ties and cooperation between Serbia and Russia, and said the current positive development of that cooperation forcefully contributed to the consolidation of peace and stability in the region. YUGOSLAVIA HOPES FOR ADEQUATE VALUATION OF ITS PEACE POLICY B e l g r a d e, Feb. 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic set out Sunday that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia remained committed to the policy of peace, regardless of the fact that the international community was treating it inadequately.The response to the policy of peace on the part of Yugoslavia was nowhere close to being adequate, but we remain convinced that the significant factors of the international community, especially those in the 'Contact Group', would soon come realize this, said Jovanovic. These factors should, according to Jovanovic, help the negotiating process and thereby achieve peace instead of adhering to an 'outdated, absurd and counterproductive policy of maintaining sanctions at any cost.' The question of further maintaining of sanctions was a vital question for the peace process and the key question in terms of whether peace would come immediately, soon or much later, Jovanovic told news reporters as he was seeing off Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev at Belgrade's Batajnica airport. Jovanovic said Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Kozyrev have in the talks on topical international events and the resolution of the Yugoslav crisis established a high degree of accord in views. Both policies, he said, urged peace and a political resolution of issues on the basis of equal respect for all the subjects in the Yugoslav crisis and on the basis of equal treatment of their respective positions. 'In this context we have underlined that to further maintain sanctions directly upset and threatened the peace process because it was an important obstacle in the way of achieving both peace and Yugoslavia's equality-based status within this process,' said Jovanovic. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as the key member to the peace process could not simultaneously be treated as key and as unequal, but as a partner which has an equal and recognized status, Jovanovic said. Speaking about the possibility for Yugoslavia to soon recognize the former Yugoslav republics within the borders they had in the former Yugoslavia, Jovanovic said that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had from the outset of the Yugoslav crisis said it was prepared to recognize the 'breakaway republics as independent states at such a time as a political solution is found for the problems stemming from the unilateral and illegal manner in which they left Yugoslavia.' Noting that mutual recognition did not mean the same for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and for others, Jovanovic set out that the breakaway republics 'had the need for us to recognize them, while we have no need to recognize them, but they must recognize the same rights to us as those they used - they used the right to leave Yugoslavia, while we pledged our loyalty to Yugoslavia and we remain in it as in a state which has not ceased to exist.' KOZYREV UNDERSCORES YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP'S COMMITMENT TO PEACE B e l g r a d e, Feb. 19 (Tajug) - Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev on Sunday said he was confident of the Yugoslav leadership's commitment to peace. Kozyrev made the statement at Belgrade airport before leaving for Moscow after his talks with Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic over the weekend at Karadjordjevo. 'All recent developments have again pointed up the central role of President Milosevic, Serbia and Yugoslavia as factors of the political process since the decision to accept the plan of the Contact Group for Bosnia was taken,' Kozyrev told journalists. He regretted the fact that 'the Contact Group has reacted inadequately - a resolution on a symbolic suspension of the sanctions (against Yugoslavia) was adopted in September and that was all.' 'I have found out one thing for sure that the Yugoslav leadership is committed to peace and will continue to work in the interest of peace,' Kozyrev said. 'Peace is not an object of trade, it is a principled policy,' he said and added that official Belgrade's efforts would be more effective if the Contact Group was to assist the activities aimed at the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia. Asked whether the key to peace was in Milosevic's hands, as it was often set out, Kozyrev replied, 'it is a very important fact that Belgrade has accepted the peace plan, but the issue is not being resolved here. It depends on the Bosnian Serbs.' 'In order for Belgrade to be able energetically to influence (Bosnian Serbs) to accept a peaceful solution, we must help Belgrade by lifting the sanctions,' the Russian Foreign Minister said. 'If we recognize Milosevic as a key factor, we must help him,' Kozyrev told journalists. Commenting the approach according to which pressure on Belgrade should in fact be stepped up because it is a key factor, Kozyrev said, 'that logic will lead nowhere and it favours those who are against a solution to the crisis.' 'The international community's refusal to follow the path of the easing of sanctions against Belgrade in return for the latter's positive reactions is counter-productive in my opinion,' Kozyrev told the press and said the respective approach did not contribute to peace but weakened peace. Kozyrev said Russia's position that steps needed to be taken to ease the sanctions against Belgrade regrettably met with the opposition of some of Moscow's partners. He said Russia would tell its western partners in the Contact Group what he, himself, had said in Belgrade - that positive reaction to Belgrade's peace policy was necessary. Kozyrev said it was unusual not to lend support to a chief power which urged peace and noted that there was no justification for that. Kozyrev assessed as positive the French initiative for a new international conference on the former Yugoslavia but said that 'the process is somehow starting backwards, i.e. it is talked about the mutual recognition' of Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Russian Foreign Minister said that it was not possible only to make demands in a complex process of a resolution of a crisis but that attention had to be paid to how acceptable those demands were. U.N. SANCTIONS COMMITTEE APPROVES GAS DELIVERIES TO YUGOSLAVIA N e w Y o r k, Feb. 17 (Tanjug) - The U.N. Sanctions Committee, after several delays, late on Friday approved Russian gas exports to Yugoslavia for humanitarian purposes. The Sanctions Committee met Russia's request that monthly deliveries of 132.4 million cubic meters of gas to the Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro should be completed by April 30. Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.N. Dragomir Djokic said that the decision was welcome although it was rather belated, because it would facilitate the grave humanitarian situation in Yugoslavia. Djokic said this was a sign of the Sanctions Committee's more objective approach and was certainly a sign of respect of Yugoslavia peacemaking policy. Gas deliveries to Yugoslavia have been made conditional on unhampered gas deliveries to Sarajevo, to which Yugoslav authorities have not objected since Russia submitted its request. The Sanctions Committee is to consider the functioning of the gas deliveries to Yugoslavia and Sarajevo on a monthly basis and if all sides observe their duties, the permission will automatically be extended. If needs for gas imports have not entirely been met by April 30, the interested parties should submit another request for the extension of the deliveries. The Sanctions Committee decided that gas deliveries to Yugoslavia would be monitored by the WHO and the Italian company ENI, while those to Sarajevo would be monitored by U.N. representatives. YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE REPORTS GOOD COOPERATION WITH U.N. PEACEKEEPERS B e l g r a d e, Feb. 17 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government's Committee for Cooperation with the UNPROFOR said Friday that Yugoslavia had been maintaining good cooperation with UNPROFOR. Yugoslavia has been providing services and various facilities to UNPROFOR which have considerably contributed to UNPROFOR's mission to the former Yugoslavia, it was heard at the session, chaired by Prime Minister Radoje Kontic. A Government statement said the Committee had discussed UNPROFOR's financial obligations to the Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro, and taken steps in connection with renting out office space to UNPROFOR. Special attention was paid to damage to Yugoslav roads by UNPROFOR vehicles and convoys. More than 30,000 UNPROFOR vehicles used Yugoslav roads in the period from UNPROFOR's arrival in Yugoslavia in April 1992 until December 1994. The Committee upheld an initiative by the competent Government bodies for billing UNPROFOR for the damage, in keeping with the practice in other regions where UNPROFOR is stationed. MUSLIMS OPEN FIRE ON U.N. OBSERVERS B e l g r a d e, Feb. 18 (Tanjug) - Muslim snipers opened fire Saturday on U.N. observers in the souther western Sarajevo area. Bosnian Serb Republic news agency SRNA quoted Serb Army sources reporting that Muslims attacked a U.N. observer team from the direction of the allegedly demilitarized zone of Mt Igman, south of Sarajevo. The attack was to discourage U.N. inspection in Sarajevo's Vojkovici section where Muslims earlier killed a Serb civilian and wounded another one. The presence of Muslim units inside the demilitarized zone on Mt Igman was confirmed Saturday by U.N. Spokesman in Sarajevo lt.-col. Gary Coward, who said the U.N. had driven out 7 Muslim soldiers from the demilitarized zone. U.N., NATO SEND REPORT ON TUZLA AIRPORT INCIDENT TO BOUTROS-GHALI B e l g r a d e, Feb. 18 (Tanjug) - U.N. Protection Force Spokesman Alexander Ivanko on Saturday said UNPROFOR and NATO representatives had sent a report on the recent incident at Tuzla airport to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.The Spokesman said in a statement to the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA that the report had been sent after an UNPROFOR-NATO commission had subsequently, on Wednesday and Thursday, carried out an investigation into the landing of aircraft at the airport near the town of Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia. Ivankov said UNPROFOR and NATO had recorded the landing of one transport plane and two fighters but U.N. peacekeepers had been prevented from carrying out an on-the-spot investigation by Muslim troops who had threatened to use their weapons if necessary. MUJAHEDDIN EXPANDING THEIR BASES IN CENTRAL BOSNIA L o n d o n, Feb. 18 (Tanjug) - Mujaheddin from the Middle East and northern African countries were expanding their bases in central Bosnia and continuing to introduce Islamic law, wrote London's Daily Telegraph on Saturday. The mujaheddin fighting on the side of Bosnian Muslims have expanded their base in the central Bosnian town of Zenica to include also the town of Tesanj, the paper said. It went on to say that the 'jihad warriors' conducted training of Bosnian Muslims on the front lines toward the Serbs, but at the same time worked towards introduction of Islamic law in the area. This has caused particular concern to Bosnian Croats, because they were now fully isolated in Tesanj, said the paper and set out that the Muslim Army had absolute control there. U.S. DAILY REPORTS MUJAHEDIN TERRORIZING CROATS IN BOSNIA N e w Y o r k, Feb. 18 (tanjug) - Mujahedin from Islamic countries are terrorizing the Croats in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, forcing them to leave and thus rocking the Muslim-Croat federation. U.S. daily The New York Times said about 800 Croats in Zenica's suburb of Podbrezje were exposed to everyday terror by about 500 mujahedin in the town. The Croats there complain that the mujahedin, fighting on the side of the Muslims in the three-year war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, demanded that all the lights be put out on the Christmas trees, hurling insults at them on the street and coming to their houses with the local extremists inquiring whether their houses were for sale and when they would move out of them. The New York Times said the situation in Zenica borders explosion, as the mujahedeen have no sympathy even for the Turkish U.N. troops patrolling this town section. 'Either the mujahedin... would leave or we will have to leave,' cited The New York Times a Croat, identifying him only as Zeljko, who was quoted as also saying: 'If Zenica is to be entirely Muslim, then Mostar will be entirely Croatian.' The Muslims in Mostar, southern Bosnia-Herzegovina, were virtually surrounded by Croats, as were the Croats in central Bosnia in Muslim encirclement, said the paper. It went on to say that the Muslim-Croat Federation hung in a balance of terror. In the case of Podbrezje, the entire concept of the Muslim-Croat Federation could fall apart and result in wide divisions, said the paper. 'We can no longer accept these mujahedin terrorizing a Croatian neighbourhood,' the daily quoted Jadranko Prlic, the Muslim-Croat Federation Defense Minister as saying. Prlic is also Premier of the Croat state in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Herzeg-Bosnia. The mujahedin 'mainly come from Iran, Egypt, Sudan and the Persian gulf,' the paper said. 'There is no question that President Alija Izetbegovic has turned increasingly to the Islamic world for financial and military support as he has seen that a west military intervention to save Bosnia was not forthcoming,' The New York Times said. ==================================== 21. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY LIFTING OF SANCTIONS MUST COME FIRST by Stevan Cordas B e l g r a d e, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev confirmed after the talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic that the maximum degree of cooperation shown by Belgrade in the quest of a solution to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia had not met with adequate responses in the world. Yugoslavia has upheld all the peace plans proposed by the international community for the resolution of the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina and of the overall crisis in the former Yugoslavia. A fact nobody in the world can deny is that Yugoslavia has upheld the Cutileiro, Vance-Owen, Owen-Stoltenberg, European Union and 'Contact Group' plans for Bosnia-Herzegovina in the given order. Yugoslavia has also upheld the Vance plan for a three-stage solution to the conflict between Krajina and Croatia. The plan calls for the cessation of hostilities, the normalization of economic ties and an accord on a political solution to relations between the Republic of Serb Krajina and Croatia. Nobody can either dispute the fact that Belgrade has met all the set conditions for the lifting of the sanctions introduced against it under U.N. Security Council resolution 757, because of alleged Yugoslav involvement in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. At a time when the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia definitely appeared to be a logical step, a new initiative was launched in an attempt to impose the recognition of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and the acknowledgement of the 'Zagreb four' plan for a solution to Krajina-Croatia relations as additional conditions for the lifting of the sanctions. The reply to the question by world media on the Milosevic-Kozyrev talks - whether Belgrade would accept the proposal on recognition of the breakaway republics - was supplied by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic: 'As far as we are concerned, this question has not been in dispute from the outset of the Yugoslav crisis, because we adopted a clear stand in our constitutional declaration - we harbour no territorial pretensions. We are prepared to recognize the breakaway republics as independent states when a political solution is found for the problems which emerged as a result of the unilateral and illegal manner in which they left Yugoslavia.' The detail which attracts the attention of world media in the context of the talks is the dilemma in whose name did Kozyrev hold talks with Milosevic. At the time of his arrival to Belgrade, it was set out that he would conduct the talks on behalf of the 'Contact Group'. After his statements, which, according to the initial reactions, Washington failed to appreciate, it is now assessed that he conducted the talks in his own name. The talks resolved the key dilemma, which clearly so far existed only in the Contact Group - in what order should the moves be taken so as to find an acceptable solution to both the Bosnia conflict and the conflict between Zagreb and Knin. Belgrade is categorical - first the lifting of sanctions, and then everything else. The lifting of sanctions would restore to it a position of equality with other protagonists in the peace process, because the problem of the Yugoslav crisis cannot be resolved as long as the sanctions are maintained. Judging from Kozyrev's statements before and after the talks with Milosevic, Moscow endorsed such a stand. The Russians also oppose imposing new conditions for the lifting of sanctions. So, whoever indeed wants peace on the territory of the former Yugoslavia must also take this into account. The Russians have practically already taken a stand on this. It is now the remaining four's (U.S., Great Britain, France and Germany) turn. BOSNIAN AND KRAJINA SERBS SET UP JOINT DEFENSE COUNCIL B a nj a l u k a, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Republic and the Republic of Serb Krajina on Monday set up a joint defense council. A decision to that effect was adopted at a meeting of the two delegations headed by Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and Serb Krajina President Milan Martic. The joint defense council will comprise the Bosnian Serb and Serb Krajina Presidents, Parliament Speakers, Prime Ministers, Defense and Interior Ministers and Army Commanders. Karadzic told reporters that 'times are such as to make it necessary to set up such a council,' and that the joint body 'will discuss all aspects of defense activities.' Karadzic said that 'joint Bosnian Serb and Krajina Serb defense is not aimed against anybody, and will serve only to defend and protect the territories of the two states.' Martic said that the setting up of the council was a 'normal process of continued cooperation between the two young Serb states.'Martic said that 'the setting up of the council is not a threat to anybody. On the contrary, we hope that joint defense will contribute to peace, as it will create the necessary balance of power.' 'If the Croats and Muslims have formed a federation at the dictates of the United States and Germany after so much bloodshed in mutual fighting, then we, as one nation, can defend ourselves from the common threat,' said Martic. U.N. CONCERNED OVER MUSLIM VIOLATION OF NO-FLY ZONE B e l g r a d e, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - United Nations officials on Monday expressed concern over Muslim violations of the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina and a belief that the Muslim Government had used some of the flights for transporting troops and equipment. The Reuter news agency quoted UNPROFOR Spokesman Herve Gourmelon as expressing concern on the part of the U.N. over an increased number of flights by Muslim Government aircraft, which constitutes a violation of the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to the UPI news agency, Gourmelon said U.N. observers had registered 17 helicopter sorties and one plane flight in the night between Friday and Saturday in the area of the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla, which is controlled by the Bosnian Muslim Government forces. He said another Mi-8 helicopter had been discovered west of Tuzla on Sunday. At least two helicopters were spotted on Saturday over the Muslim-controlled central Bosnian town of Zenica. Reuters said reports were arriving from Bihac, a Muslim-controlled town in western Bosnia, that helicopters were again bringing in supplies to the fifth corps of the Muslim army loyal to the Government in Sarajevo. MUSLIMS STILL KEEP SERB UNHCR EMPLOYEE IN JAIL B e l g r a d e, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - Svetlana Boskovic, an employee of the UNHCR, is still in a Sarajevo prison waiting for investigation by Muslim authorities, the UNHCR Belgrade office told Tanjug on Monday. The Bosnian Muslims are still refusing to release Boskovic, who was arrested on Feb. 9, and the UNHCR office in Belgrade said the Muslim authorities had offered as an explanation the fact that 'investigation is under way.' Boskovic, who works as a translator for the UNHCR, is accused of spying for the Bosnian Serb Republic. She was arrested while on her way with a Croat colleague to the U.N. hospital in Sarajevo, where she was to undergo medical examination. Their car was stopped by Muslim troops and the two were taken to prison. The Croat colleague was immediately released. CROATIAN PLANES FLY OVER SERB KRAJINA O k u c a n i, Feb. 20 (Tanjug) - Croatian planes on Monday twice flew over the region of western Slavonia in the Republic of Serb Krajina, in a violation of the ceasefire agreement, Serb Krajina sources said. The local Serb Krajina Army Command said the objective of the action was believed to be aerial photographing and reconnaissance inside the Serb-controlled part of the UNPA. ============================================ 22. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY ALL BOSNIA'S WARRING SIDES MANIPULATE TRUTH N e w Y o r k, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - All warring sides in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina manipulate truth and facts, U.N. Spokesman for Peace Operations Fred Eckhard has told Tanjug. Eckhard, who has just returned from Bosnia, listed as one such example an article by the Oslobodjenje newspaper, published in the Muslim-held part of Sarajevo, saying that 47 children have died in the Bihac hospital because of intolerable conditions. A BBC team, which has visited the hospital in this northwestern Bosnian town, has established that it is in quite good condition, although it occasionally has to grapple with shortages of certain medicine, said Eckhard, who during his three-week stay in Bosnia visited Bihac, Sarajevo and Mostar. Referring to Muslim allegations that Bosnian Serbs had destroyed Bihac, Eckhard said considerable damage was visible in villages around Bihac, but said the town itself had not sustained much damage. Relations between Bosnian Muslims and Croats have lately again deteriorated, with tensions becoming increasingly evident, he said. He said he did not believe there was an imminent danger of new Muslim-Croat clashes. Eckhard said a powerful international hand that wanted to salvage the Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia-Herzegovina that was conceived in Washington - was in action. What we have here are strained relations in an unnatural marriage rather than a danger of a forced divorce, he said. UNPROFOR CONFIRMS HELICOPTER FLIGHTS OVER TUZLA AIRPORT B e l g r a d e, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - A helicopter flight over Tuzla airport was sighted on Sunday evening by observers of the U.N. Protection Force, an UNPROFOR Spokesman said on Tuesday. Belgrade-based UNPROFOR Information Department Head Yuri Chizhek said observers had noted the flight of an Mi-8 helicopter above the airport in the Muslim-controlled northern Bosnian town of Tuzla. Chizhek said at a news conference that the army to which the Mi-8 helicopter belongs was not identified. He added that UNPROFOR planned to set up a new observation system at Tuzla airport to facilitate the identifying of 'no-fly' ban violators. UNPROFOR BANNED ACCESS TO PART OF TUZLA AIRFIELD N e w Y o r k, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - U.N. Spokesman for Peace Operations Fred Eckhard confirmed on Tuesday that the UNPROFOR have been banned access to part of Tuzla airfield by Muslim forces for several weeks now. In connection with press reports about landings of cargo planes and helicopters on part of this Muslim-controlled airfield in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eckhard said incidents of violations of the no-fly zone over Bosnia have been stepped up in the recent weeks, but that the U.N. did not have reliable evidence about any arrivals of arms shipments. Reports by agencies and some U.S. papers said sophisticated weaponry was being shipped to Muslims via Tuzla airfield under cover of the night, indicating that an offensive was being prepared on the corridor in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina along the Sava river. SARAJEVO ARCHBISHOP: MUSLIMS ARE KILLING AND EXPELLING CATHOLICS FROM BO SNIA B e l g r a d e, Feb. 21 (tanjug) - Of the 510,000 Catholics in Sarajevo, only one third have managed to survive while the reminder have been exterminated or forced out of their homes by the Muslims, Sarajevo Archbishop Vinko Puljic has told Radio Vatican. Cardinal Puljic said that in Sarajevo three Franciscan priests had disappeared. 'Two were killed by the Muslims, and the third by a 'criminal',' Puljic said. Cardinal Puljic charged the Muslims of 'strongly pressuring Catholics' in Muslim-controlled areas, but also blamed the 'Croats who share the power with them, of neither sincerely nor sufficiently defending the Catholics.' 'Sarajevo is a city-prison where extreme radicalism is practised,' Puljic said in the first version of the program and added that this is why the number of Catholics in the city is dropping. Puljic said an example of this was a Sarajevo Catholic parish where 350 Catholics had been forced out of their homes by Muslims. He said this was 'a typical example of how Catholics are treated.' MARTIC: TALKS WITH CROATIA TO RESUME ONLY IF UNPROFOR STAYS K n i n, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - The Republic of Serb Krajina is prepared to begin political and continue economic negotiations with Zagreb only if the U.N. peacekeepers stay, Krajina President Milan Martic said on Tuesday. 'The very minute we get the guarantees that the peacekeepers are staying in the area, in keeping with the Vance plan, we are ready to open political talks and resume economic negotiations,' Martic told journalists after talks with the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy Yasushi Akashi. UNPROFOR Commander in the former Yugoslavia, gen. Bertrand de Lapresle and the Director of UNPROFOR's civilian component also attended the talks in Knin. Martic repeated Krajina's firm commitment to peaceful settling of disputes with Croatia. He said an extension of UNPROFOR's mandate, together with the competences it currently has, would be a guarantee for that. Martic said Krajina would, in that case, not be opposed to a reduction in the number of peacekeepers, as Akashi suggested. Akashi said he was satisfied with the talks with Krajina leaders and described them as valuable. He said the situation in the region had reached a crucial point. Akashi said he today encountered will and readiness for opening a new phase. He declined to elaborate and said he would have to consult New York and the other concerned party, Croatia. Akashi said the two sides had secured a positive basis for cooperation in the future. Serb Krajina Foreign Minister Milan Babic told reporters that UNPROFOR's departure would create an 'abyss in the peace process' and reverse the situation to the state of affairs four years ago. 'We support and will continue to support all international actions leading to a peaceful settlement of the Krajina-Croatia conflict,' Babic said. REHABILITATION OF FASCISM IN CROATIA by Nikola Stanojevic Z a g r e b, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - The Croatian authorities and media close to them are increasingly frequently reaffirming a fascist creation during the second world war, the so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH), and paying tribute to the then ustashas - Croatian fascists who had committed a genocide of Serbs, Jews and Romanies. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has recently personally conferred a decoration on the ustasha Chief of Staff during the NDH and signatory to the 1941 racist order, Ivo Rojnica, who told the local press: 'I would do again all what I had done in 1941.' In the NDH, the third Reich's puppet state, ustashas had killed about 700,000 Jews, Serbs and Romanies in the Jasenovac concentration camp alone. Mirko Mirkovic, writer and translator, longtime member of the Zagreb-based Jewish Community Council again warned in the latest issue of the independent weekly Feral Tribune that the current Croatian authorities are encouraging fascism. Mirkovic said that Tudjman appointed prominent official in the NDH Government Vinko Nikolic, 'the man with the ustasha heart' who participated in the genocide committed against Jews, Serbs and Romanies to be member of Croatian Parliament's Upper House. Mirkovic recalled that Nikolic wrote in 1941 that literature should help the ustasha movement in 'creating the new man' whose main characteristics must be: 'nationalist soul,' 'ustasha heart,' 'head of state thought,' and 'ustasha creed.' Those who have already paraded on TV screens in Croatia are, first, Danijel Crljan who had said in the days of the NDH: 'Croatia radically resolved the Jewish question,' and, secondly, the warden of Jasenovac concentration camp Dinko Sakic who said he was 'proud of everything' he 'had done for Croatia.' While the 'old ustashas' tell the 'truth' about the NDH, in Croatia today, the Croatian Army units and barracks have been named after NDH war criminals, like Maks Luburic, Rafael Boban and Jure Francetic, commander of the notorious black legions. In addition to the Hrvatski Vijesnik of Vinkovci, the paper known for its slogan 'Serbs damn you - wherever you are', recently emerged the Hrvatski Vitez, the paper whose intention is to 'humiliate the Serbo-chetniks to the utmost.' To forget would mean to kill the victims one more time. We were unable to prevent their first death, and we must not let them be killed again - Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel has warned. NATO IS ARMING BOSNIAN MUSLIMS R o m e, Feb. 21 (Tanjug) - NATO is supplying the Bosnian Muslim Army with large quantities of most sophisticated weapons, the Italian news agency ADN Cronos said Tuesday quoting UNPROFOR sources in Sarajevo. ADN Cronos said that the U.N. ban on arms deliveries to the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia was being violated by the huge U.S. military C-130 cargo planes which, escorted by several fighter planes and under cover of AWACS aircraft, bring war supplies usually under cover of the night to the airport of the Muslim-held town of Tuzla in northern Bosnia. ADN Cronos said that the peacekeepers had several times tried to verify the reports at the airport which they formally control, but had been prevented from doing so by the Muslim Army, which had seized the Tuzla airport and opened fire on them. Analysts believe that only a general agreement between the western allies could have enabled the U.S. mission to be kept under wraps for such a long time. ======================================= 23. FEBRUARY 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY BOSNIAN MUSLIMS EVADE MOBILIZATION, FLEE TO YUGOSLAVIA U z i c e, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslims are fleeing from the eastern Bosnian Muslim enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa to Yugoslavia to avoid forcible mobilization, Muslim refugees confirmed to reporters Wednesday. Bosnian Muslims started to arrive in the Serbian town of Uzice on Feb. 3. there are currently 36 of them in Uzice. They told reporters that they had decided to flee to Yugoslavia following severe food shortages and because of the cruel stand of the local population toward Muslims from elsewhere in Bosnia who had arrived in the enclaves. Sulejman Macanovic, 25, a Muslim from Bratunac, who spent the past two years in Srebrenica, said that the Bosnian Serb Army was not attacking the U.N. 'safe haven' of Srebrenica. He said that Srebrenica, however, had not been demilitarized. Macanovic said that 80% of Srebrenica's current population of about 40,000 were refugees. 'The Muslim Army has no regular units but the population is armed,' he said. He said that men fit for military service were being enlisted in Srebrenica so he had decided to 'run away from the hell there.' Nedzad Nukic, said that humanitarian aid for the U.N. 'safe havens' had been often sold in shops and open markets by wealthy locals and officials in Zepa and Srebrenica. The Muslims in Uzice claim that large numbers of U.N. peacekeepers were also involved in the smuggling. Most of the Muslims said they wanted to leave Yugoslavia for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and then to proceed further to the west. The Muslims crossed the Yugoslav border at the Drina river in groups- in boats, on rafts and inflated inner tubes of automobile tyres. They had to pay several hundreds German marks to fellow Muslims 'organizers' of such trips for services rendered. UNPROFOR EXHIBITION OPENS IN BELGRADE B e l g r a d e, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - UNPROFOR Civil Administration Head Michel Moussolli opened an exhibition of UNPROFOR photographs in Belgrade late Wednesday. Opening the exhibition at Belgrade's Museum of Applied Arts, Moussolli said it was important that it be seen through this exhibition as well what the U.N. was doing to end the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Moussolli said UNPROFOR was successful, although to a limited degree, in establishing ceasefire agreements, mediating in talks, securing humanitarian and medical aid, and aid for refugees and displaced persons. IZETBEGOVIC'S UNITS TERRORIZE MUSLIM POPULATION IN WESTERN BOSNIA D r v a r, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - Military police of the Muslim Army 5th corps loyal to Alija Izetbegovic 'terrorize the people' in western Bosnia border areas, Velika Kladusa Velkaton Radio said Wednesday. The 5th corps military police from Bihac in western Bosnia are forcibly establishing order in Buzim and Cazin, because locals refuse to fight against their own people. This is why people increasingly frequently escape to Velika Kladusa, the headquarters of moderate Muslim politician Fikret Abdic, Izetbegovic's rival. Members of the 5th corps are looting houses of their fellow Muslims and taking to assembly camps all those who refuse to join them, Radio Velkaton reported. The looters especially attack the civilians who have fled war zones, robbing them of foreign currency and personal valuables. 'NEW CROATIAN RIGHT' PROPOSES OPENING OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS Z a g r e b, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - The leader of the New Croatian Right, a Croatian party in formation, on Wednesday proposed that concentration camps be opened for Croatia's enemies, primarily Serbs, but possibly also for Jews. Mladen Svarc, who presides over the founding committee, said at a round-table talk in Zagreb that his followers 'do not plan to open concentration camps for extermination of Jews, Gypsies and Serbs,' but that 'it would not be a bad thing to open some relatively decent concentration camp.' Svarc accused Vice-President of the Serbian People's Party Veselin Pejanovic of pursuing an anti-Croatian policy, adding that 'such an animal should be put in a cultured version of the camp.' He was of the opinion that President of the Independent Serbian Party Milorad Pupovac also belongs to such an institution. In a crowded hall, the leader of the party which rallies Croatian ustasha (fascists) also made some threats against Jews in Croatia. 'If one is constantly feigning to be endangered while there is in fact nothing wrong with him, he may, at one point, really become endangered,' he said. 'The Jews have a passion for fostering their victim-cult... in their view, the Germans are absolutely responsible and, what is even worse, they have accepted the role,' said Svarc. In his opinion, the ultimate result of such 'Jewish necrophilia' is that the environment is putting them off. Svarc said he expected his party to win between 10 and 30% of the vote in the next elections. The strong points of his party, he said, will be its 'combatant youth' and a rehabilitation of the so-called Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state formed under nazi Germany's protection during World War Two. THE WASHINGTON TIMES: BOSNIAN MUSLIMS STAGE-MANAGE MASSACRES W a s h i n g t o n, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Muslim authorities in Sarajevo have been accused by the U.S. daily The Washington Times of killing their own people for the sake of winning world media over to their side. Washington Times Editor Andrew Borowiec said in a report from Geneva, published on Tuesday, that Bosnian Muslims had been accused by a U.N. official of even faking victims. Borowiec's report is based on the book 'Helpless Blue Helmets - What I Have Seen in Bosnia' of a 'mysterious' author who goes under the pen name 'Major Franchet.' 'Major Franchet' said in his book that the bread-queue massacre in Vase Miskin street in Sarajevo on May 27, 1992 had been carefully planned by the Muslim Government - that the streets had been blocked before the incident so that Muslim Government crews could immediately get to the scene of the massacre and film it. Muslim authorities in Sarajevo reported at the time that 17 civilians were killed and 150 wounded. According to the figures of the Bosnian Serb side, 14 civilians were killed and about 70 wounded. Alija Izetbegovic, leader of only a part of the Bosnian Muslims, wrote in the book of condolences in Sarajevo, 'I hope this was not for nothing'. The Washington Times said 'Major Franchet' disclosed in the book that the U.N. had rejected in an unpublished report the claim of the Sarajevo-based Muslim Government that the explosion at the city's Markale open-air market on Feb. 4, 1994 had been caused by a Serb shell. The U.N. report said it was believed that the explosion had been caused by a bomb activated by remote control from Muslim-held territory, according to 'Major Franchet.' Four days later and after a NATO ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy arms from the Sarajevo area, U.N. observers reported that they had seen Muslim snipers opening fire on Muslims near the U.N. Headquarters in Sarajevo, 'Major Franchet' disclosed. Borowiec recalled in the report from Geneva that the French press had quoted a ranking French Intelligence Service official as saying the facts disclosed in 'Major Franchet's' book had been known to his intelligence service but it appeared that nobody was pressing for any further investigation. Borowiec said it was rumoured at the Geneva U.N. Headquarters that the French Defense Ministry was carefully investigating the identity of 'Major Franchet' for violating the rules on classified information. CIA SENT TO CROATIA TO ACT AS NATO ADVANCE PARTY R o m e, Feb. 22 (Tanjug) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has installed a base on the Croatian Adriatic island of Brac with the aim of 'aiding' preparations for the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers from the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The Italian daily La Voce has said that 'the NATO has not come to Croatia, instead CIA has been sent in as an advance party and NATO personnel will be in charge of covering the U.N. pullout.' La Voce said that the withdrawal of the U.N. troops would most certainly mean the renewal of the fighting in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, thus rendering the mission on Brac especially important. The Zagreb Government is silent, but it is believed the operation was agreed during a meeting in April in Zagreb between U.S. Defence Secretary William Perry and his Croatian counterpart Gojko Susak, La Voce said. La Voce quoted Susak as saying at the time that it would be useful for Croatia if NATO used its islands Vis and Lastovo as bases. The new civilian airport on Brac, intended for tourism, has been transformed into a platform for U.S. spy pilotless aircraft, La Voce said. Flying at altitudes of 8,500 metres and remaining in the air up to 48 hours (The Daily Telegraph said last week), these aircraft control the airspace over Bosnia and Serb Krajina and try to penetrate the airspace east of the river Drina (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), all in an attempt to 'prepare' as well as possible something 'which will soon happen.' This 'near future,' the Italian public claims, includes the withdrawal of the UNPROFOR from Croatia and Bosnia, i.e. an 'unnamed' new 'largescale war' in that region. Catholic daily Avenire has warned about CIA's imminent arrival to Croatia's peninsula Istria. The paper said that the remaining Italians and the majority of the other 'traditionally peaceful' and non-nationalistic inhabitants of Istria are specially threatened by forceful mobilization. Avenire said that mobilization was specially being 'thoroughly' conducted in Istria which politically does not support the nationalist regime of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union. Avenire said that the fear of mobilization has over the past three years forced 60,000 people to emigrate from Istria. According to Zagreb's already formulated proposal, these people should be replaced by politically 'inclined' Croats from western Herzegovina. Instead of preparing for the tourist season, the Croats are preparing for war, Avenire said.