Nachricht Nummer : 360 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 46 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 29 December, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 01.01.1994 20:58:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 29 December, 1993 Dobar dan, The whole week already, from Monday till now and it looks a few days more, the Croatian parliament (Sabor) is in session. It are special sessions, since there seems to be some kind of little panic, they were planned, like most parliament, to have holidays (nice films who were planned but cancelled). Somebody told me that their some problems in HDZ, Tudjman seems to want to change the leader in Herceg-Bosne, Mate Boban, it seems that he think that Gojko Susak (who also comes from Hercegovina and is now Minister of Defence) seems to be the better man for the job. And Susak seems to have refused for the honour. It is a rumour of course, but it would explain that there is a bit of a crisis. From the direct reports of the sabor I could only follow that they were discussing the future of the economy in Croatia, in the past months they more or less stabilised the economy, at least the HDR, by being very limited with the amount of money in the country, it is still hard to find a bank which has enough HDR to change more than 100 DEM and even that is some times already too much. In Beograd the simular talks seems to go on, they realised that it is hard to build a government after the last elections. Milosevic lost his majority and need to work together with somebody, but with whom. In the last month they seems to have 30.000 % inflation and in the whole year it seems to be around 1.000.000 %. Some times in the last year I had that feeling that the Milosevic government weren't feeling so sorry about the inflation, even helped a bit to make in worst, still something like 75% of the state budget is going to the army, it seems (in Croatia that is at least 40% less (officially)). I never have been in favour of the boycott, but somehow the world hang it selves up to it. They all agree on the boycott and that the boycott would be the way to stop the fighting in BiH, some economical prophets said that this last autumn would have been the turning point, and it seems that some thing has change, at least the line up from the parliament in Serbia. But the war in BiH is continuing and not alone by the Muslims (and the Croats), and also convoy from Serbia are still not going all the way free to all the cities in BiH. We have brought ourselves in a nice conflict. If you could say, imaginary, that the person who voted for Depos are against the war in BiH (which can leads to wild discussions), there are at least 20% or more percent people in Serbia who are under a boycott since their government is doing something from which they make clear that they are against. So should we lifted the boycott for all the Depos voters now ? Or for all those who didn't went to vote. And who in the hell is going to control that, their are already too less UNPROFOR troops to open f.e. the airstrip in Tuzla. Nothing really has changed you may say, so we shouldn't lifted the embargo since than Milosevic gets a kind of peace price, which he maybe not really deserves. Maybe we, as International community, can offer the Serbs an other solution, closing up the border between BiH and Serbia and securing it that only Humanitarian aid can go in and now supplies for the army and troops. And the same at the other border, the UN protectorate idea. Or something like that. There must be more ideas. In the same time I had a discussion today that Croatia (and the other states of course) starts to become more and more a kind of colony of the International community. The UN has an other status in this country than the "locals". We, those from the UN family, can travel relative freely through the whole area and the others can't. If the politics are not willing to do precisely what the International politics are deciding the threat with boycott's. Tudjman may think he is in the driver seat, but it some times seems that he is more a playball between different interests, the interests of radical Croatian lobby groups (who in the past (and still) are financially an important factor) and the International community with all their loan's and possible economical aid. According to Reuter however there is another factor coming up in Croatian politics, even part of the state owned media are giving time for opposition to the governments policy. In the case it was especially aimed at the policy around BiH. Reuter said and that I saw that also Vjesnik have given space for reactions to this policy. They say that most of the opposition in Croatia (still not more than about 22 % or so, HDZ has the rest of the seats) are against it, but that they are still not strong enough to form a real political factor. I see that however as a proof that something is changing here in Croatia, it is if a lot of people are waking up out of a dream. Slowly they start to realise what really happened and that we have to go on one way or another. Last but not least I am still ill, but as said I am not the only one, today one of the generals or whatever of HV announced on television that there was some kind of a problem, too many soldiers were laying sick on their bed to secure the safety of the country, maybe not that strong, but it looked like it at least. You nearly think that those illnesses come from somewhere (from the UN aeroplanes ?), but no!, don't be paranoid. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, Wam P.S. Can somebody in the states give us addresses of private funds, which maybe could support peace and social reconstruction work in this area. ------------------------------------------------------ "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.comlink.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. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. Lylette, Postbox 780, 6130 AN Sittard, Netherlands, tel:. +31-46-524803 and fax: +31-46-516460 or to Zagrebacka Banka, Zagreb, accountnr.: 2440291594, to Kat, Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik, Brace Domany 6 6fl nr3 (postbox 33), 41000 Zagreb. Please notify me if you send or have send any donations. 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