YUGOSLAVIA: YUGOSLAVIA'S NATIONAL AIRLINE, JAT, RESUMES INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS AFTER TRIAL LIFTING OF U.N. SANCTIONS

Record ID: 646169

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: YUGOSLAVIA'S NATIONAL AIRLINE, JAT, RESUMES INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS AFTER TRIAL LIFTING OF U.N. SANCTIONS
  • Date: 5th October 1994
  • Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (OCTOBER 5 AND 6, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (OCTOBER 6, 1994) 1. GV PASSENGERS CHECKING IN 0.11 2. CU TICKETS BEING CHECKED 0.20 3. GV PASSENGERS BOARDING PLANE 0.27 4. GV AIR STEWARDESSES 0.31 5. GV PASSENGERS ON PLANE 0.37 6. GV PILOT IN COCKPIT (2 SHOTS) 0.42 7. GV PASSENGERS ON PLANE 0.50 8. GV PLANE TAXIES ON RUNWAY 0.53 9. GV JAT EMPLOYEES WAVING AT DEPARTING PLANE 0.56 10. GV PLANE FLIES OFF 1.11 (OCTOBER 5, 1994) 11. GV RUSSIAN ENVOY VITALY CHURKIN SHAKING HANDS WITH SERBIAN PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC / SEATED 1.26 12. SCU MILOSEVIC 1.30 13. GV CHURKIN SURROUNDED BY REPORTERS (NIGHT) 1.34 14. CU CHURKIN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.59 SEQUENCE 14 TRANSCRIPT: CHURKIN :"IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT NEW TURN OF EVENTS WHICH CAME ABOUT TO A VERY LARGE MEASURE THANKS AND DUE TO THE ACTIVITY OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY AND THE CONTACTS WE HAVE HAD WITH BELGRADE LATELY AND THAT THIS OPPORTUNITY MUST BE USED PRUDENTLY BY EVERYBODY IF WE'RE TO HAVE PEACE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND YUGOSLAVIA" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 20th October 1994 13:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVALFYLBLM5ISYS7UOBGQ8KHZ9H
  • Story Text: Yugoslavia's national airline, JAT, grounded by the United Nations (U.N.) in 1992 to punish Belgrade for its part in the Yugoslav civil war, resumed international flights on Thursday (October 6).

    JAT is based at Belgrade's Surcin airport, which has been without normal civilian air traffic for the past 28 months since the ban took effect.

    But Serbia's enhanced blockade of the Bosnian Serbs has been rewarded by the U.N. with an initial 100 day trial lifting of sanctions against it.

    The ban on flights from Belgrade is one of the sanctions dispensed with.

    A Boeing 727-200 took off for Moscow at 0640 GMT on Thursday, signalling the first full day of Surcin's start to a return to normal airline oeprations. JAT officials celebrated the flight by donating money from the sale of tickets to a Belgrade children's hospital.

    The U.N. embargo reduced JAT from 32 world destinations to a few domestic routes in a Yugoslavia split by the secession of four of its six national republics in 1991-92.

    JAT management said the airline has suffered a 100 million United States dollar net loss under sanctions.

    The first flight into Surcin on Wednesday after the lifting of the embargo was an Aeroflot Ilyushin from Moscow. On the plane, Russian envoy to Yugoslavia Vitaly Churkin flew in to meet Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

    Churkin said the reopening of Surcin was a symbol of Belgrade's support for the international community's efforts to end the war in Bosnia, and warned that that support should not be squandered.

    He claimed credit for Russia in persuading the U.N. to lift the sanctions against rump Yugoslavia, and said similar diplomatic negotiations would bring peace to Bosnia.


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