From: simic@pollux.ccsf.caltech.edu (Petar Simic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: RE: Muslim Government of Bosnia reject to talk
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:59:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena


	Victor Wickerhauser writes:
>> Incidentally, the right to secede issue applies to Yugoslavia, where it was
 also opposed by force of arms.  I see Western support for intact Bosnia but
 dismembered Yugoslavia as a statement that Serbia is a rather irresponsible
 custodian of political power 
<<
		 -------------------------------


	Precisely! And it seems that one might now understand better the feeling
 Serbs have, when they see how their rights for self-determination, in fact
 the right not to be ripped-off their already realised (75 years ago, when
 forming Yugoslavia) self-determination rights, are being held inferiour 
 to the rights of all the other nations making Yugoslavia - Croats, Slovenes,
 and Muslim Slavs.

	But, is it true? - that Western government are not unbiased brokers
 of the peace in Yugoslavia. That they want to enforce solution which 
 coresponds to their idea of political fitness and the temporary political
 situation in Serbia? (Serbia was rather respected parlamentary monarhy and
 democracy once, so to base such a a serious decission with long term
 consequences to the Serbian people on the like or dislike of the temporary
 post-communist government in Serbia seems rather shortsided).


	-------------------------------------------------

V. Wickerhauser: >> In article <1992Jul30.054654.24094@cco.caltech.edu> 
  	simic@pollux.ccsf.caltech.edu (Petar Simic) writes:

>       According to the press reports (not on the first pages), the 
> London meeting between representatives of Croats, Serbs and Muslim 
> Government failed because Bosnian government persisted in rejecting any
> negotiation with the Serbian side. They call representatives of 1,4 milion
> Bosnian Serbs, "terrorists". It is not clear to me how to reconcile

I think it is fair to require a cease-fire and an end to ethnic cleansing as
preconditions for peace talks.  Everyone will be much more calm.	
<<
	----------------------------------------------------------


 	Problem seems to be that for the cease-fire to hold one needs the two
 sides. If one side doesn't want to talk, and if it counts on the ouside 
 military intervention, it seems logical extrapolation to assume that it 
 would also try to break the cease-fire whenever it can (and try to put the
 blaim on the other side), because only then there is a chance to achive 
 its goal - an outside intervention. 

	--------------------------------------------------
V. Wickerhauser: >>The Bosnian Government is secular and multicultural, not
 Muslim: it contains ministers from all three of the major ethnic groups.<<
	------------------------------------------


	In fact it is Muslim and Croat government, while the democratically
 elected representatives of Bosnian Serbs left some time ago, when it became
 clear that the coalition of the two ethnic groups - Muslims and Croats -
 have been formed against the third - Bosnian Serbs. Legality of this 
 government is about the same as the legality of the infamous "incomplete Yu
 government" after Croatian and Slovenian representatives left. The 
 governments of the Western Europe rejected to recognise the incomplete 
 Yugoslav presidency, yet, they fully recognise the incomplete Bosnian
 presidency, while the press trys to smooth-out this and similar 
 inconsistencies by talking about outside agression and similar half-truths.

	Regards,
	Petar S.