Issue 84 - May 3, 1993

A nation which is turning into a camp of rooters needs to be as large as possible. Members of many nations in the territory of the former Yugoslavia are vying in stories on who has not been properly counted, their numbers, who "dominates", and who has the right to more sunshine

It seems that there are no differences in the assessments made by the economists from the University and the institutes, some of whom even attend the sessions of the Economic Council of the Serbian Government: the "imitation of life" under the current sanctions can last a half a year or a year at most; the collapse of the national economy in this time period is inevitable

Serbs on the left side of the Drina River will have to listen to Serbs on the right side, because they depend on them. They will not refuse and secede. The majority will easily and quickly come to their senses, regardless of their bellicose statements. General Mladic did not attend the Bijeljina Assembly, as he probably wished to avoid humiliation - appearing in the role of a leading peacemaker. The war must be brought to an end by those who fought it, and this bestial war cannot be finished honorably or elegantly

The stubborn Yugoslav top economic officials - yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic and Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic - met, already on April 27, to determine the "necessary measures and to organize adequately all the factors and forces in the country in order to ensure the functioning of the economy and the society as a whole, that is, to ease the consequences of the sanctions"

Radovan Karadzic's first forays into politics did not indicate in any way that in just a few years this psychiatrist from Sarajevo and dishevelled poet, would take center stage on the world political scene. While some consider him a candidate for sainthood, others view him as an ordinary henchman who has made all Serbs hostages of his unreasonable policy

The Bijeljina event had, apparently, taken place in the head of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, much earlier. A Serb and an opposition leader, who had an opportunity to meet Karadzic on his last visit to New York, has said, "He was convinced that everything was over, that foreign troops would enter Bosnia and impose their solution, and, then, he said - it is better not to sign the plan, we won't be remembered as traitors at least."

Four International Law experts for VREME on preconditions and the mechanisms to lift the UN sanctions

Whatever side tries the military escalation the political damage will be far greater than the tactical gain