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From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org

APRIL 21 1997 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJA LUKA - The members of the Association of fighters /SUBNOR/ in Banja Luka sharply condemned the speech of Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, who yesterday, during laying down the wreaths in Jasenovac, equalized this Serbian site of execution with Bleiburg and Bare Island.

ATHENS - For returning refugees in Republika Srpska and Federation B&H nothing was done yet, although this is one of the most important tasks in assistance of the international community to the former warred factions - claims the Greek "Elephterotipia" stressing that expelled people are nowhere welcomed. "Although the providing the assistance in creating the conditions for faster return of few hundreds of thousand refugees would be the basic task of the international community, nothing was done on this job" - writes "Elephterotipia" and concludes that it is necessary to secure political conditions for returning the refugees in the places where another nation is in majority.

STOCKHOLM - Badly prepared elections in which participated Serbian people in Srem Baranja County show the evil intentions of some people in Croatia which cannot accept the freedom, democracy and legal state - warns the Swedish news "Dages Niheter". While commenting the overall situation on the Balkans, the news stresses that in this region "in power are the wrong forces". On the question what next could be expected in B&H and whether the crisis in Albania will be the last in the region, the news as an answer offers the opinion of the High international Representative Carl Bildt that "there is no much space for optimism".

CLEVELAND - Hitler didn't have more skillful thugs and ardent supporters than Croatian "ustashas" /resurgent/ - writes "New-York Times" and warns that 52 years after Second World War, "'ustashas' are coming back from graves where they had to stay for ever". "For the rehabilitation of 'ustashas' most of all contributed Tudjman, who already for years negate the existence of genocide against Serbs and Jews and who today represents 'ustashas' as Croatian patriots and founders of new Croatia" - highlights the eminent commentator of this news Endrew Rosentall.

HAMBURG - The West, led by Germany, have broken Yugoslavia and raised one new Croatia, which president Franjo Tudjman is giving to old and new 'ustashas' what they need most of all - the overall social recognition, rehabilitation and re-tailoring of the history. The Berlin's daily "Yunge Welt" is one of the rare German news which conveyed this comment, in which is stressed that "Hitler didn't have more passionate and ready bloody executor and faithful ally than Croatian fascists".

AMSTERDAM - The correspondent of the Dutch "Folkstrandt" from Belgrade Burt Reis in the text "Dayton tightened discord and division" brings into doubt the survival of B&H in the present borders and the possibility that in the future the entities would be reunified. "The Dayton agreement is not definitely buried yet, although it is clinically dead, and only the real miracle could save it, because no even the one of its key conditions for implementation - the freedom of movement, returning of refugees and arresting the indicted for war crimes, is not fulfilled still" - explains Reis.

BELGRADE - The president of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic will receive in the Presidency of Serbia in Belgrade the chief of the transitional government of UN for Easter Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem /UNTAES/ Jacques Klein.

BUDAPEST - The president of Croatia Franjo Tudjman arrived in two days visit to Hungary - reports DPA. Tudjman met the Hungarian president Arpad Genz, and has intention to address the members of the Hungarian Parliament in the afternoon. For tomorrow is planned the visits to Croatian school in Budapest and organisations of the Croatian minority in Hungary.

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