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EC foreign ministers going to Belgrade for negotiations : Many killed in Yugoslav attacks

Slovenia airports, frontiers bombed
***LJUBLJANA, June 28: The President of Slovenia on Friday night agreed to a cease-fire declared by the Yugoslav federal army, reports AP.
BELGRADE. June 28: The Yugoslav army said today it was halting a three-day military blitz against breakaway Slovenia after seizing all frontier posts between the republic and neighbouring countries, report agencies.
Slovenia said today Yugoslav troops and planes were still on the attack in the breakaway republic despite a ceasefire announcement by the federal government.
"I am receiving information that bombing is still oceur-ring." Slovenian Defence Minister Janez Jansa told a
news conference.
He was speaking in the Slovenian capital about three hours after the government in Belgrade said the army had achieved all its objectives in Slovenia and was stopping operations.
Slovene Defence Minister Janez Jansa, speaking on Ljubljana television, said Thursday there were about 100 killed qnd injured on both sides, but there was no independent confirmation of that figure.
Shaken but unbowed.
President Milan Kucan of Slovenia said his government was "open for negotiations" with federal authorities but only "after this horror is ended on Slovene territory".
Federal troops in armoured vehicles were reported fighting fierce battles with some of the republic's 40.000 strong armed defence units which tried to hold positions at border crossings.
Tanjug news agency announced an end to the offensive by federal forces after they pounded the northern republics' airports from the air
and sent tanks and troops to control its last frontier posts.
"The Yugoslav army says it gained control over all border crossings tn Slovenia and therefore ceases further activities’. Tanjug said.
The announcement came after a morning of Intense military pressure by Belgrade's forces on the government of the Alpine territory which proclaimed its Independence last Tuesday
The Ljubljana government said warplanes bombed
columns of civilian cars at frontier crossings and witnesses said seven people were killed when Jets strafed civilian trucks near Treble south of the city.
European Community leaders accused by Slovenia of encouraging the Belgrade federal government by their Inaction, sent three foreign ministers to Yugoslavia for talks to end the conflict.
Some ministers said the Community had agreed in principle to suspend bilateral and EC aid to Yugoslavia, but officials said the freeze might not be introduced if the mis sion by the foreign ministers of Luxembourg. Italy and the Netherlands succeeded.
"It’s unacceptable that today in Europe people are being shot or that suddenly the right of self-determination should no longer play a role," German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told reporters attending a two-day EC summit in Luxembourg.
in Prague Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jiri Dicnstbier said officials of the Conference on Security and Cperation In Europe (CSCE) were likely to hold a first crisis management session next week to discuss the conflict
In Ljubljana police said two Jets pounded Brnik airport outside the city this morning with bursts of cannon or ma chine-gun fire
A hanger, two small aircraft of Slovenia's Air Adria carrier and two other buildings were destroyed. The runway and control tower were not hit and there were no reports of cam al ties.
"It was a sudden shock I blinked and everything was destroyed In a moment." a po liceman at the airport told Reuter.
Slovenian Information Minister Jelko Kacin said war planes bombed the airport at Maribor. a big industrial centre 130 km (80 miles) to the northeast, and strafed the last
major border crossing with Austria still in Slovenian hands, at Sentllj.
Radio Maribor said several people had been killed in the Sentllj attack. This could not be confirmed.
Slovenian Interior Minister Igor Bavcar said army planes had launched bombing attack on columns of civilian cars at border crossings.
Witnesses of the Trebnje attack said air force Jets opened fire on trucks halted by a road lock after swooping tow over the convoy.
The air attacks marked an escalation in federal military pressure on Slovenia, most westernised of Yugoslavia's republics and home to two million people.
The army launched Its offensive after the Belgrade gov eminent outlawed independence declarations made by Slovenia and neighbouring Croatia on Tuesday
The fighting intensified despite a new call overnight for peace by the federal government which Is facing the collapse of the Balkan federation of six republics and two provinces after 72 troubled years
Western officials fear the conflict could degenerate Into ethnic warring awakening old rivalries between the well-to-do Slovenes and Croats on the one hand and the country’s majority Serbs.
Serbs account for more than eight million out of the 23 million population and dominate the army and gov ernment structure
Alert in Croatia
Croatia put Its police force on a state of alert and mobilised its reservists today. Croatian Television reported, quoting an official communique.
The communique, issued by the Presidential Council, which is headed by President Franjo Tudjman. castigated federal Prime Minister Ante
Markovic for his role in the Yugoslav army's intervention this week in the breakaway republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
President Tudjman. fearing an attack from Yugoslavia's army, pledged on Thursday that his republic would defend its bld for independence.
"The authorities of Croatia will respond with dignity and in a civilised manner to any political or military attack on Croatia." Tudjman said In a statement to media tycoon Robert Maxwell, owner of Britain's Mirror Group of newspapers.
"We will try to solve every problem in a democratic way of defending our freedom using every civilised instrument." Tudjman said.
Britain's Independent Television News (ITN) said Croatia s leaders were meeting tn emergency session to con slder a request for help from Slovenia.
Yugoslav army tanks pounded through the Croatian city of Osijek. sparking panic among residents, but reporters said the convoy was heading for the Slovenian border. ITN said.
Tudjman appealed to the international community to support his republic's Independence.
No country has recognised the two republics' declarations of Independence. The United States and Britain have urged them to remain within the 72-year-oki Yugoslav federation.
Croatia had offered to help create a "federation of sovereign states' in Yu^.slavia, Tudjman said.
He said that when Belgrade rejected the proposal Croatia had acted tn the same way that American colonies did In 1777 with their declaration of Inde pendence.
US far dialogue
Earlier the United States called on Yugoslavia to avoid using violence to resolve the
country's civil strife as Slovenian defense forces clashed with federal troops in Ljubljana.
Said State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler, 'Yugoslavia is a powder keg."
'We can support greater autonomy and sovereignty for the republics,' Miss Tutwiler said. 'In other words, a new basis for unity in Yugoslavia, but only through peaceful means such as negotiation and dialogue.'
Miss Tutwiler did not blame the federal army for responding to the strife, but condemned Kucan's call to his people to resist with 'all means available' and his severing of talks with the central Yugoslav government. 'Kucan broke off talks with the federal authorities, something which we strongly urge him to reconsider.' she said.
A high-level US official, who asked not to be named, said the United States did not feel the federal Yugoslav army was acting Irresponsibly But the official said the United States could not back the army publicly because of fear they would Interpret U S support as unconditional.
Earlier Thursday. Fitzwater said the United States may work with Western allies to promote a peaceful end to the crisis.
He said the United States was considering joint action with the Conference on Security and Cooperation tn Europe — Including Europe, the U S and Canada — and the European Community to promote negotiation.
The spokesman said the U S government had no Intention of taking unilateral action In the Yugoslav crisis, underscoring the important rob the European allies could play in the matter
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