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6. PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATIONAL-FORMATION PROBLEMS
Th e organizational conditions have been provided, and all documentation prepared, for
the formation of the Special Unit Corps (SUC). Th is includes interim SUC command
and unit rosters. In the formation of the Special Unit Corps the SVK is faced with a
pressing problem, the selection and shortage of the required number of professional
soldiers from the Army of Yugoslavia in order to meet the requirements of existing and
newly-formed units because the current defi ciency rate is 23%.
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Since we have planned to include in the SVK SUC all the graduates of VJ military
academies and secondary military schools hailing from the RSK, we must examine
the possibility of speeding up their education in line with the proposal of the SVK
commander.
Moreover, the SRJ Supreme Defence Council needs to consider, as soon as possible, and
resolve positively the questions raised a long time ago, such as the recognition of VJ
offi cer and non-commissioned offi cer status for SVK offi cers and non-commissioned
offi cers graduating from military schools at the Military School Centre of Republika
Srpska (two offi cer school classes and four non-commissioned offi cer school classes,
altogether 250). All these offi cers and non-commissioned offi cers are earmarked for the
SVK Special Unit Corps.
Th e troop manning concept has been prepared and is already being implemented
according to the plan and the respective criteria.
Organizational steps have been taken and plans prepared for assembling RSK servicemen
and transferring them from the SRJ to the RSK.
According to estimates and approximate indicators of the RSK Ministry of Defence,
there are more than 10,000 servicemen from the RSK in Serbia and Montenegro, who
went there aft er 17 August 1990.
We consider the persistent assembling of RSK servicemen, their transfer to the RSK and
integration into SVK units to be extremely important. Th e manning of the Special Units
Corps with younger men of higher quality is particularly important.
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8. DECISION
I have decided that the engagement of the commands and units subordinated to the
SVK General Staff should focus on the formation of the Special Unit Corps. As regards
combat activities, the focus in the commitment of our forces should be operation Spider
intended to knock out the ARBiH 5 th Corps, while part of the 7 th Corps has to be engaged
in the area of Mount Dinara and along the Grahovo - Livno axis in order to seize the area
and the facilities temporarily controlled by the HV and the HVO.
Part of the forces will support, reinforce and cooperate with the VRS in its operation at
Grahovo - Livno. (...)
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