> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 9 April 2000 > > YUGOSLAVIA - TUNISIA > > a.. TUNISIA'S BOURGUIBA BURIED > b.. YUGOSLAV MINISTER HAS TALKS IN TUNISIA > YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR > > a.. YUGOSLAVIA CONDEMNS KFOR'S TREATMENT OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA >SERBS > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR > > a.. KFOR BLACKMAILS SERBS IN SOUTH OF U.N.-RULED >KOSOVO-METOHIJA > b.. SERBS TURN DOWN U.S. GENERAL SANCHEZ'S ULTIMATUM > c.. KFOR BLOCKS SERBS' RETURN HOME TO KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S STRPCE > d.. SERB CONVOY FINALLY REACHES U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S >STRPCE > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - MITROVICA - INCIDENT > > a.. SERBS, ETHNIC ALBANIANS CLASH IN DIVIDED KOSOVSKA >MITROVICA > > > * * * > > > YUGOSLAVIA - TUNISIA > > TUNISIA'S BOURGUIBA BURIED > > TUNIS, April 9 (Tanjug) - Tunisia's former president, freedom and >independence fighter, Habib Bourguiba (97), was buried with full state honours >in his native Monastery on Saturday, at a funeral attended by numerous >delegations, including one from Yugoslavia. > > On behalf of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Foreign >Minister Zivadin Jovanovic signed the book of condolences on arriving in >Tunisia late on Friday. > > After the funeral, Jovanovic conveyed the condolences of the >Yugoslav President and people to Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. > > The presence at the funeral of many delegations provided an >opportunity for Jovanovic to meet with ranking foreign officials and >colleagues and briefly exchange views on bilateral relations, especially >economic. On the death of Bourguiba, one of the most influential and renowned >African leaders of the 20th century, Tunisia has declared a week of mourning, >while neighbouring Algeria, whose freedom struggle he greatly aided, is >observing three days of mourning. > > YUGOSLAV MINISTER HAS TALKS IN TUNISIA > > TUNIS, April 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin >Jovanovic, in Tunisia attending the funeral of former President Habib >Bourguiba, met in Monastir on Saturday with Foreign Minister Habib Ben Yahia >to discuss bilateral relations and global trends. > > The two sides agreed that bilateral relations have a solid basis >characterised by long years of friendship and wide cooperation. > > Results of cooperation to date, especially in the economy, were >given positive marks and a willingness was voiced for the relations to be >further promoted on the principles of equality and respect for mutual >interests. > > Jovanovic briefed Yahia on post-NATO-aggression reconstruction in >Yugoslavia and specifically on problems in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) >province of Kosovo-Metohija resulting from non-implementation of U.N. >Resolution 1244. > > He felicitated Yahia on Tunisia's election as a member of the U.N. >Security Council and hoped that, in line with its principled and positive >role, Tunisia would help ensure respect for the U.N. Charter and international >law, and a consistent implementation of Resolution 1244. > > Jovanovic further hoped Tunisia would contribute towards an >affirmation of the role of the U.N. Security Council as an essential factor of >global peace and security. > > He said he hoped Tunisia would work in the Security Council for >protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia, the >equality and security of its people, repatriation of displaced people and for >a peaceful political settlement for Kosovo-Metohija based on the Province's >autonomy within Serbia and Yugoslavia. > > He stressed that Yugoslavia retained unchanged its constructive >policy of cooperation with Arab and other Muslim states, based on equality and >respect for mutual interests. > > Yahia, in turn, thanked the Yugoslav delegation for attending the >funeral of Bourguiba, person who led the Tunisian people to freedom and >independence. > > Jovanovic met in Tunisia also with Palestine President Yasser >Arafat, who sent greetings and best wishes to Yugoslav President Slobodan >Milosevic. > > Jovanovic had talks also with the heads of delegation from the >United Arab Emirates, Canada and Finland and with Moroccan Minister of the >Environment Mohammad Yazghri. > > YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR > > YUGOSLAVIA CONDEMNS KFOR'S TREATMENT OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA SERBS > > BELGRADE, April 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Committee liaising with >the U.N. mission (UNMIK) to Kosovo-Metohija on Saturday condemned in the >strongest terms the international KFor force's treatment of Serbs in the south >of that U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province. > > KFor has stopped relief aid deliveries to the Strpce area in south >Kosovo-Metohija and denied escort to Serb twice-weekly convoys which are the >area's only link to the rest of Serbia (Yugoslavia) and the outside world. > > The Yugoslav Committee demands that the KFor Command investigate >the conduct of the U.S. KFor battalion in the matter of the Strpce Serb convoy >and stop provoking the Serbs and raising tensions, a statement from the >Committee's Saturday session said. > > Apart from injuring unarmed civilians, this kind of behaviour >causes insecurity and intimidates the people, the statement said. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR > > KFOR BLACKMAILS SERBS IN SOUTH OF U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA > > PRISTINA, April 9 (Tanjug) - The international force in >Kosovo-Metohija (KFor) has stopped aid deliveries to Serb villages in the >Strpce area in the south of that U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province >because of their recent clash with U.S. troops. > > Villagers in Sevce clashed on Tuesday with U.S. KFor troops who >had arrested a local man on suspicion of arms possession. The arrested man was >freed in the clash in which 20 villagers and 11 Americans were injured. > > The Command of the U.S. Kfor battalion which controls the zone >then announced reprisals and denied armed escort to twice-weekly Serb convoys >which are the area's only link to the rest of Serbia and the outside world. > > U.S. battalion spokesman Russel Berg has said that services of >civilian nature have been suspended as of Thursday until the Serb community >begins to "cooperate". > > Kfor is demanding that the people in Sevce "cooperate" and allow >the suspect to be arrested, promising in exchange resumption of food and >medicine deliveries and escort for the convoys. > > SERBS TURN DOWN U.S. GENERAL SANCHEZ'S ULTIMATUM > > STRPCE, April 9 (Tanjug) - Serbs in the Strpce area in south >Kosovo-Metohija turned down on Saturday an ultimatum from U.S. General Ricardo >Sanchez for the surrender of Serb Zoran Janicevic in exchange for the >resumption and safe conduct of Serb convoys. > > The Strpce Crisis Command said it was willing to cooperate if the >U.S. KFor Command gives equal treatment to both Serbs and ethnic Albanians, >otherwise all contact with KFor will be at an end. > > Janicevic was arrested on Tuesday in the course of a brutal search >of Serb homes in the village of Sevce, on allegation of arms possession. > > He was freed in subsequent incidents that broke out between local >unarmed Serbs and U.S. KFor troops and in which 20 villagers and 11 Americans >were injured. > > The KFor Command in Sector East then stopped relief aid deliveries >to Serbs in the area and denied escort to their twice-weekly convoys which are >their only link to the rest of Serbia and Yugoslavia. > > KFOR BLOCKS SERBS' RETURN HOME TO KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S STRPCE > > STRPCE, April 9 (Tanjug) - About 200 Serbs returning in a regular >humanitarian convoy to Strpce, south Kosovo-Metohija, from other parts of >Serbia, could not reach their homes on Friday because the international KFor >force refused to give them escort. > > The convoy was carrying women, children and several ill people >returning from treatment outside that U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) >province. There was even the body of a deceased villager in the convoy. > > The convoy, comprising two buses, three lorries and seven >passenger cars, had been escorted out by the British military police. > > On their return, they were stopped by strong U.S. KFor forces >outside the ethnic Albanian village of Radivojce, searched and then turned >back to Kosovo-Metohija's boundary with the rest of Serbia. > > After again being stopped, this time at the ethnic Albanian >village of Dobrcane, the passengers were taken to the boundary and returned to >the south Serbian city of Vranje 24 hours after they had left it. > > The passengers complain with indignation that KFor has not only >stopped them reaching their homes, but has actually expelled them from >Kosovo-Metohija. > > Problems began with an incident in the village of Sevce in the >Strpce area on Tuesday, when the local population clashed with U.S. KFor >troops attempting to arrest a Serb for alleged arms possession. > > Following the clash and the abortive arrest, the KFor Command in >Sector East has denied armed escort to regular twice-weekly Serb convoys and >stopped relief aid deliveries to the Strpce area. > > KFor has given the Serbs an ultimatum to surrender the suspect, >Zoran Janicevic, whom local women practically snatched from U.S. hands during >the clashes. > > The Strpce Crisis Command turned down the ultimatum on Saturday. > > SERB CONVOY FINALLY REACHES U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S STRPCE > > STRPCE, April 9 (Tanjug) - After two days of trouble from the >international force in Kosovo-Metohija (KFor), a convoy carrying 200 Serbs >finally on Sunday reached Strpce in the south of that U.N.- administered >Serbian (Yugoslav) province. > > KFor had refused to escort the convoy of two buses, three lorries >and seven passenger cars carrying mostly women and children and the body of a >dead Strpce villager. > > The convoy had left Vranje, south Serbia, on Friday, bound for >their homes in the Strpce area in Kosovo-Metohija. > > On the road, U.N. Kfor troops first stopped and searched the >convoy, and then forced it back to Kosovo-Metohija's boundary with the rest of >Serbia. The convoy returned to Vranje 24 hours after it had left it. > > The Serbs in Strpce were given an ultimatum by U.S. Brigadier >General Ricardo Sanchez on Saturday to surrender one of their number, Zoran >Janicevic, sought on suspicion of arms possession, or face relief aid and >escort bans. > > In Tuesday's incident that flared up in the village of Sevce in >the Strpce area between the local population and U.S. KFor troops, Janicevic >was first apprehended and then snatched from the hands of the U.S. soldiers. > > Amateur radio operators report from Strpce that the convoy has >reached its destination safely, though the two days of hardships in rain and >cold have told on the health of many of the passengers. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - MITROVICA - INCIDENT > > SERBS, ETHNIC ALBANIANS CLASH IN DIVIDED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 9 (Tanjug) - Six Serbs and one French >international force (KFor) soldier were hurt on Sunday when French KFor troops >fired tear gas and stun grenades on clashing Serbs and ethnic Albanians in >divided Kosovska Mitrovica. > > The injured Serbs were taken to the local hospital. > > The incident flared up at around 2 p.m. on the main bridge >dividing the city along ethnic lines, when a thousand or so ethnic Albanians >tried to force their way into the north, predominantly Serb-populated part of >the city. > > Approximately the same number of Serbs promptly gathered on the >spot to defend their territory. > > In an effort to disperse the mob, whose clash lasted for some >twenty minutes, French KFor troops used weapons, firing some fifty tear-gas >and stun grenades. > > French General Pierre de Saqui de Sannes has visited the scene of >the clash on the Serb side and deplored the fact that the incident had >occurred, promising that French troops would react more efficiently to >incidents in the future. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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