Subject: YDS 9/6 From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (D.D. Chukurov) 6. SEPTEMBER 1995. YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY CONTENTS: BELGRADE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES - MILOSEVIC - HOLBROOKE HOLD FURTHER TALKS NATO AIR STRIKES - MUSLIM ATTACK FROM SARAJEVO DURING NATO AIR STRIKES ON SERBS BOSNIA - MUSLIMS - SILAJDZIC SAYS HE WILL NOT NEGOTIATE UNLESS NATO BOMBS SERBS CROATIA - KRAJINA - U.N. ON CROATIAN ATROCITIES IN KRAJINA FROM FOREIGN PRESS - DISPUTED EFFECTS OF 'BOMBARDMENT DIPLOMACY' - BRITISH MPS CONDEMN NATO AIR RAIDS AGAINST BOSNIAN SERBS - RUSSIAN RADIO: NATO'S BIAS PROMPTS SERBS' ADVERSARIES TO ACTION BELGRADE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES MILOSEVIC - HOLBROOKE HOLD FURTHER TALKS B e l g r a d e, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic met with U.S. chief negotiator for Former Yugoslavia Richard Holbrooke again on Tuesday. The talks focused on key questions of the military and political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the successful solution of which directly depends a lasting and stable peace in the entire Balkan region, the Serbian Presidential Cabinet said in a statement. The talk emphasised the importance of maintaining and affirming the joint approach coordinated by the international community within the Contact Group in respect of an equal treatment to both entities in the territory of Bosnia- Herzegovina. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been constantly and consistently urging such an approach. Firmly convinced that only such an approach would ensure a way out of the Bosnian civil war, the statement said. The upcoming preliminary meeting of delegations at the level of foreign ministers at Geneva should be used for establishing mutual understanding on an approach and laying the groundwork for a speedy convention of an international conference. It was aid in the talk. Consolations with the U.S. negotiating team to date have been directed primarily towards finding answers that would take into account the existing realities, on the one hand and, on the other - taking and unbiased approach as the point of departure - give equal protection to the legitimate rights and interests of all sides, it was heard during the talk. Yugoslavia shows a readiness to do its utmost to accelerate as much as possible the negotiating process, the statement said. In this context, Yugoslavia upholds the U.S. efforts for the process to be completed as soon as possible. Primarily in the interests of peace and of the fact that an end of the Bosnian civil war means an end of international sanctions against Yugoslavia. NATO AIR STRIKES MUSLIM ATTACK DURING AIR STRIKES B e l g r a d e, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - During the NATO air strikes against Serb positions and settlements outside Sarajevo and on the Romania plateau. Muslims from the so-called Sarajevo safe area launched strong attacks on Serb defense lines in the Sarajevo Grbavica suburb, the Bosnian Serb Army Command has said. The Bosnian Serb Army said that its troops where 'strongly responding to the attacks and firmly holding the defense lines.' The Bosnian Serb Army said that NATO resumed its air strikes 'despite guarantees given by the Bosnian Serb Army, promises by the Bosnian Serb leadership and its readiness to seek ways for a peaceful resolution of the crisis between the Bosnia Serb Army, on one hand, and NATO and U.N. protection force, on the other.' 'The air strikes show that NATO and the world leaders have opted to use force to aid the Muslim occupation of Serb Sarajevo, which is proof of their totally baised stand towards one of the warring sides', the Bosnian Serb Army said. The Bosnian Serb Army said that although the details about the latest bombardment are still not known, 'intensive overflights of NATO aircraft are evident over the Sarajevo region.' Prior to the air strikes on Tuesday, Bosnian Serb Army Commander General Ratko Mladic accused NATO and the U.N. of openly siding with the Muslims and Croats against the Serbs and warned that the Bosnian Serbs would respond to NATO air strikes. Gen. Mladic told Reuters television that the air strikes aim to help the Muslims because they are unable to realize their aims by themselves. Gen. Mladic said that during the three-day air raids, since Wednesday to Friday, NATO air bombs had hit not only military targets but orthodox churches, graveyards and civilian homes as well. Gen. Mladic said: 'all this tension and pressure for us to withdraw our weapons is senseless because the war is not over yet and they ask us to withdraw our weapons that we are defending our people with'. He said that such a withdrawal could only be achieved by negotiations involving all parties to the conflictory otherwise tens of thousands of Serbs would have no protection from Muslim and Croat artillery and the rapid reaction force on mount Igman. In a letter addressed on Monday to U.N. Commander for former Yugoslavia Gen. Bernard Janvier, Gen. Mladic proposed an urgent meeting of the military commanders of the conflicting sides in order to sign an agreement on a total, lasting and unconditional ceasefire. BOSNIA - MUSLIMS SILAJDZIC SAYS HE WILL NOT NEGOTIATE UNLESS NATO BOMBS SERBS L o n d o n, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - Unless the current situation in the region of Sarajevo changes, the Bosnian Muslim authorities will not appear at the talks in Geneva, Bosnian Muslim Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said on Tuesday. Speaking on British SKY television, Silajdzic said that under the changes he means either the withdrawal of the Bosnian Serb weapons or the continued bombardment of the positions of the local Serbs. SKY's reporter said that many in the West are worried that the withdrawal of the Bosnian Serb weaponry could endanger the population of the Serb parts of Sarajevo and asked Silajdzic whether he could guarantee their safety. Silajdzic, however, refused to give such guarantees. CROATIA - KRAJINA U.N. ON CROATIAN ATROCITIES IN KRAJINA B e l g r a d e, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - The killing of Serbs in the Republic of Serb Krajina and the burning and looting of their property still continue. One month after Croatia's aggression on sectors North and South of the Republic of Serb Krajina, a U.N. spokesman said in Zagreb on Tuesday. Christopher Gunness said that U.N. military observers on the ground found on Monday the body of an old man in one village. They found in another village a woman shot twice in the head, he said. The perpetrators of these crimes are unknown. The AFP news agency quoted Gunness as saying. Human rights teams have complained that Croatia has denied them access to certain areas, Gunness said. Serb houses were burnt down on ten localities on Monday. Gunness quoted a report by U.N. observers. Gunness said that an orthodox church in the village of Cetina, in the Southeast of Serb Krajina, had been desecrated and that another orthodox church in the village of Cerovljani had been destroyed. Croatian soldiers have been seen looting houses in the village of Guboronci, the said. According to U.N. estimates in Knin, about 80 percent of Serb villages have been destroyed since the Croatian aggression on the Serb Krajina in Early August, the AFP said. FROM FOREIGN PRESS DISPUTED EFFECTS OF 'BOMBARDMENT DIPLOMACY' B e l g r a d e, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - Prior to the new round of Geneva peace talks Western analysts were becoming increasingly aware that NATO's 'bombardment diplomacy' threatening with new strikes only serves to undermine and not to strengthen chances for peace. In the latest analyses of the BBC, the papers Neues Deutschland, New York Times, Il Manifesto and a number of other prominent media, the policy of brutal imposing of a new military balance of forces in the civil war in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina represented a mere and certified instance of extinguishing fire with gasoline. Neues Deutschland recalled that the 'Serbs have given in before the air strikes (began), and their motive was not fear, but the possibility to sit at the negotiating table as an equal (partner). In a text headlined 'Clinton's Balkan storm', the paper totally rejects the findings about the Serbs' blame for the latest massacre in Sarajevo. The paper said that 'this was a long prepared albeit spontaneous retaliation which came after NATO, previously - on Aug. 10, took over from the United Nations the authority to attack the Serbs according to their own assessment.' This was done, as the New York Times was told by one of Clinton's officials, because the U.S. has in the new stage ran into an impasse, and it had to undertake this action so as not to be forced to send 25,000 men to help out U.N. withdrawal. The BBC analyst believes that the peace talks, encouraged by the bombing of the Serbs, could easily be undermined by Bosnian Muslims. This assessment was also shared by the New York Times, which predicts that the NATO military offensive would not bring about durable peace and that it encouraged the Muslim Sarajevo government army, which was becoming stronger and stronger and more resolved to regain the Serb territories. Il Manifesto sees, in the new circle of political intrigue the Serbs were exposed to through bombing without clear evidence of guilt, 'the invoking of moral principles designed solely to obscure reason and eyes.' 'Bombing would in all likelihood result in the signing of agreement. But this would be something opposite of stable peace and would be a lighted fuse for new conflicts,' claims the Italian paper. BRITISH MPS CONDEMN NATO AIR RAIDS AGAINST SERBS L o n d o n, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - A group of British MPs, members of the Committee for Peace in the Balkans, has strongly condemned NATO's interference in the civil war in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In a letter published by the daily the Guardian on Tuesday, the members of parliament said that nothing could justify the massive bombardments which had certainly caused civilian casualties. The six MPs maintain that the crime over civilians in Sarajevo should be strongly condemned but warned that the international community would lose all of its moral authority if it contributed to atrocities which had already happened. The MPs said that the unilateral NATO intervention was amazing and pointed out that between 150,000 and 200,000 Serbs had been driven away from their homes by Croatia several weeks prior to that. NATO failed to react and stop the greatest ethnic cleansing operation since the beginning of the conflict. On the contrary, the U.S. government described the Croatian offensive as a step towards peace, the British MPs said. The only way to peace in Bosnia is to stop all military actions. That would be a basis for convening comprehensive peace talks, the British politicians said. NATO'S BIAS PROMPTS SERBS' ADVERSARIES TO ACTION B e l g r a d e, Sept. 5 (Tanjug) - The Voice of Russia radio on Monday evening assessed in the programme in the Serbian language that ultimatums and threats would not produce the desirable goal in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The radio set out that the Serbs were not the only party to the conflict and recalled that also taking part in the civil war were Muslims and Croats and that the end of the war in this former Yugoslav republic depended on the readiness of all three communities to such a development. The objectivity requires that the U.N. and NATO display the same approach to all parties to the conflict, something they were not doing. Attacks were launched only against Serb positions, although the other sides had previously violated cease-fire agreements. The language of force and ultimatums is unproductive, the radio said. Experience teaches us that such a language often produces different results than expected. We have no guarantees that in the present very complex situation it will not render the already opened negotiating process more difficult, the Voice of Russia set out. NATO attacks encourage Serbs' adversaries to military action, the radio said and recalled that according to the English press, Muslim units were actively preparing for attacks on Bosnian Serb positions following NATO air strikes. =============================================================== -- I speak for no one and no one speaks for me -- D. D. Chukurov ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com ===============================================================