Nachricht Nummer : 562 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 1 December 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR Erstellungsdatum : 02.12.1994 19:57:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary, 1 December, 1994 Dobar Dan, Big mistake, big mistake. Ofcourse the agreement between Croatia and the USA about defence is not in practice yet. It is only, as minister Susak said at returning from Washington today, a memorandum which comes into practice whenever the arms embargo towards Croatia is lifted. The memorandum is in every parties best interest Susak told after his arrival. The fights are still continue. New attacks are reported on Kupres, BSA has started their counter attacks yesterday and it get heavier today. The fronts south of Bihac seems to be stable, but according Bihac radio 22 people have been killed over the last two days. The obvious involvement of as they now called Croatian Serbs is given UNPROFOR more and more thinking problems. They came to the conclusion that some of those heavy weapons which have been rolling from UNPA north into BiH probebly should have been in UNPROFOR compounds at this moment. In fact they think they recognised two T-55 which were as the UNPROFOR spokesman said removed from UNPROFOR compounds in Sector North. We have in Dutch a saying that you should not start taken away the water when the flood is still going on, this taking storage from weapons by UNPROFOR so that they can't by used for fighting reminds me on it a bit. Nearly two years ago it was already shown how simple it was in sector North and South to reclaim and get their weapons back for the Krajina forces after Croatian army started their attack near Zadar, but the statement of today more or less turns the whole thing into a kind of gambling game. As far as I always understood every heavy weapon within the UNPA (Knin or Zagreb controlled) should have been handed over to UNPROFOR and kept by UNPROFOR in double locked warehouses. In my simple mind that means that every piece of artillery in that area which is NOT in the UNPROFOR warehouses illegal, as long as it don't belong to UNPROFOR itself. So any piece of weaponry which UNPROFOR sees rolling from the UNPA into BiH to fight is illegal, they don't have to think that Serbs from the UNPA's use "illegal" weapons in BiH (beside from being according UN terms illegal in BiH, but that is another point), but they can say that they know sure if they have seen any weapon going that way, if they have seen any weapon at all outside their compounds for that matter. In Sector west the only link between the Knin controlled part of the sector and Bosna is a bridge over the Sava, controlled by UNPROFOR from Nepal, besides a bridge which shortly was constructed by the Serbs, but is removed in the main time. Without UNPROFOR knowledge it is next to impossible to move heavy weapons, between Sector North and South and Bosna the border seems to be harder to control (mountains and so). And part of this "illegal" probably stood in the so-called pink zones, outside the real UNPA zone, in the Zadar region and mostly where probably used for regular grenade attack on the Zadar hinterland in the last years. Partly the are part of those weapons which the "UNPA Serbs" reclaimed in Jan. '93 from UNPROFOR (see above). I don't accuse UNPROFOR for not doing there job, maybe it is even impossible to do the job, I react because I was surprised with the remark that maybe "illegal" weapons from the UNPA's were used. I don't know why they use those half half statements. Maybe I am wrong but I am having this discussions very often at the moment. It is if we living in an area where the reality is changing all the time, if logical understatement are not always as logic as they may seem. Croatia is claiming that Croatia is all within the border which are recognised by the International community in Jan. '92. So BiH is within the border of the area recognised by that same council in the summer of '92. And each peace proposal what is been discussed at the moment more or less start with the point that BiH has to be carved up in pieces. Even some countries are considering if the "Serbian" piece of BiH would be allowed to join with Serbia. Some how those two things are puzzling me a bit. I wrote it some days ago, and promptly was accused being a worker for the Croatian government but today Zagreb became a real capital, at least HPT has decided that from today Zagreb don't as any longer 041 as telephone code but 01 (from outside Croatia only 1). But at the last moment yesterday evening in the television news people were informed that the 041 is still value for the coming six months. Such a change of telephone numbers maybe a very simple thing, but it shows how the information to the civilians is limited. Those who have telephone got the message in form of a small piece of paper some two weeks ago and the others heard or yesterday evening or via a small announcement in the papers. But always at the last moment. Although nobody expected it the parliament of Knin has yesterday agreed on the agreements which were made by their representatives and those from Zagreb a few weeks ago on the airport in Zagreb. After the attack on the airfield it looked for a while that all those talks would have been spoiled time. But surprisingly Knin agreed yesterday. Mir za somewhere in or around Hrvatska, Wam PS the Albanian embassy is opened today in Zagreb. The Albanian Prime Minister came to do it. PSS The planned meeting between Boutros Boutros Ghali and Karadzic was cancelled yesterday, Karadzic was invited to meet Boutros Boutros Ghali at the airport in Sarajevo, but he refused to come their and invited Boutros Boutros Ghali to come to Pale, and that Boutros Boutros Ghali refused. The distance between the airport and Pale is maybe 30 Km at the most, after flying in from New York. But Pale ofcourse is really under BSA control and the airport more or less under UNPROFOR control. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zagreb Diary can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to WAM@ZAMIR- ZG.ztn.zer.de. Zagreb Diary is dedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there father have been doing all that time in Zagreb. ## CrossPoint v3.02 ##