What Secret Solutions is Brussels Preparing for RS?
Ekstra Magazin - September 24, 2004

Professor Predrag Simic believes the EU would not like to see SCG split since it would open other issues in this part of the Balkans. That includes problems in Kosovo, Macedonia, BiH, but south of Serbia and eastern Montenegro, too. Those parts of Serbia and Montenegro would probably, along with independent Kosovo, join Albania in order to create Great Albania.

He believes Brussels does not support the change of borders. However, he does not exclude such possibility. “There are certain experts in the EU who claim the Balkans will not be stable until ethnically cleansed areas with more than 95% of one nation are created.”, he says.

Except for the connection of the RS issue with the Kosovo issue, Simic sees a great problem in the BiH charges against SCG as well. The problem is not in the financial, but political background. “The final goal of the charges is the abolishment of the Dayton Peace Accord (DPA)”, he says.

The fall of Yugoslavia would have been smooth in the 1990’s if the republics approached the problem reasonably and practically. “Since they approached the problem differently, we had a civil war. However, this fact is being repressed on the behalf of the false construction about the alleged former JNA action in other country’s territory. Powerful political interests were in the background of such construction”, he continued.

The EU officials knew about the existence of Islamic movements’ members in BiH and about weapons being brought to Bosnia from Iran with the help of the US Ambassador to Croatia at the time, Peter Gallbright. They even knew that Belgrade secret services, led by Jovica Stanisic, helped protect IFOR soldiers with his intelligence.

Serbia and the US were associates at the time. American Commander Leighton Smith personally carried out the operation against the Training Center in Fojnica when over 400 people were arrested. Among those 400 people, there were a lot of radical Islamists. “I am only surprised by the fact Milosevic forgot to resolve the issue of the BiH charges against FRY when he was in Dayton”, Simic says. Not Pale, neither Belgrade did remember to regulate that issue directed against Belgrade and RS. Today that is the only foundation for the DPA’s revision.

Source: Ekstra Magazin (Serbian national bi-weekly from Bijeljina), September 24, 2004; Page 8
Translated by: U.S. Army Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Cell, ACofS G2 MNB(N)

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