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Subject: News Dec 12/13 (from Haluk}
Date: 13 Dec 1992 15:42:21 -0600
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 - Greece Accused of Systematic Violations of Sanctions
 - Russian deputy foreign minister warns Belgrade

 Subject: Greece Accused of Systematic Violations of Sanctions

 GREECE ACCUSED OF "SYSTEMATIC VIOLATIONS" OF SANCTIONS. On 8
 December Reuters reported that the European Community Executive
 Commission has told Athens to stop private distributors from
 breaking the UN-imposed sanctions.  One diplomat said that, in
 particular, "the Greeks [are] pouring oil into Serbia by road,
 rail, and sea." Greece alone of the EC countries enjoys close
 relations with Serbia, and there has been widespread speculation
 in the European media that Athens and Belgrade would like to
 partition Macedonia between them. At the EC summit later this week
 Greece is expected to come under pressure to stop blocking EC
 recognition of Macedonia. (Patrick Moore, RFE/RL, Inc.)
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 Subject: Russian deputy foreign minister warns Belgrade

        BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) -- A Russian official warned leaders of the
 Serbian republic Friday their only hope of ending the present
 international isolation of truncated Yugoslavia was to make concrete
 efforts to stop the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        ``There are two ways for Serbia,'' Deputy Foreign Minister Vitaly
 ChurkinChurkin said at a news conference after meeting hard-line Serbian
 President Slobodan Milosevic.
        ``One avenue is the road of confrontation with the international
 community and more victims, which will lead to a catastrophe,'' he said,
 ``while the other road is peace, democracy and negotitations to solve
 the Yugoslav crisis.''
        Churkin said Russia would support the Yugoslavia that chose the
 ``second path.''He added he told Milosevic ``Serbia needed to take
 positive steps toward the future.''
        ``I told him that sometimes in the course of ethnic conflict, some
 extremist decisions can be made which could have disastrous concequences
 for the people,and that we sincerely hope that this will not happen to
 the Serbs in Bosnia,'' Churkin said.
        He added Milosevic listened to him very carefully and made no
 comment.
        Milosevic is widely held responisble for the violent disintegration
 of the former six-republic Yugoslavia and for his regime's political and
 financial support of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        Since the fighting began last spring, Yugoslav army-armed Serbian
 forces have captured nearly 70 percent of Bosnia-Herzegovina -- although
 the 1.4 million Christian Orthodox Serbs constitute only 31 percent of
 the republic's population along with 1.9 million Mulsim Slavs and 750,
 000 Roman Catholic Croats.
        During his visit, Churkin also met federal President Dobrica Cosic
 and Prime Minister Milan Panic of the truncated Yugoslav union of Serbia
 and Montenego.
        Cosic and Panic are two officials cited by Russia as positive
 moderating voices in Serbia.
        ``Many things will become clear after Dec. 20,'' said Churkin,
 referring to an ongoing power struggle between Milosevic and Panic, the
 Belgrade-born naturalized U.S. citizen who promised to stop the war in
 Bosnia-Herzegovina and bring Western-style democracy to the conflict-
 riddled nation.
        Milosevic and Panic are both running for the Serbian presidential
 post in early elections set for Dec. 20.
        Churkin, visiting Belgrade three days before a meeting on former
 Yugoslavia by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, did
 not rule out the posibility of the use of force agianst former
 Yugoslavia if conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina did not stop.
        ``There is a provision in the U.N. charter making it inevitable that
 the issue will come before the U.N. Security Council,'' he said,
 stressing the decision would not be taken lightly.
        ``It is our hope that things will develop in a political rather than
 a military direction,'' he said.
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