Yugoslav Daily Survey May 24

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>Nash, legal counsel Robert Petit and by the president of the executive council
>of the Kosovska Mitrovica district Serbian national forum, Oliver Ivanovic.
>Nash explained to the detained that in the coming days all the cases of
>prisoners from Orahovac and Pristina districts will be transferred to the
>court in Kosovska Mitrovica, where they will stand trial. He underlined that
>of the first seven scheduled trials, for six have been named court councils
>made up of international judges, and that for the seventh trial a court
>council will be formed within 48 hours. MEJDANI COMES IN ILLEGAL VISIT
>PRISTINA, May 24 (Tanjug) - Albania is again violating international norms and
>apparently doing everything to further worsen the situation in
>Kosovo-Metohija. The visit on Wednesday of Albanian President Redzep Mejdani
>can be interpreted only in that way, because Tirana is apparently using every
>opportunity for provocations and supporting separatist aspirations of their
>kinsmen in Kosovo-Metohija. Mejdani is, in fact, on an illegal visit because
>he has entered a sovereign state, with which Albania does not even have
>diplomatic relations since April 14, 1999. Coming from Tirana is information
>that the main goal of Mejdani's illegal visit is talks with Hashim Tachi.
>Apparently, Mejdani wants to "celebrate" the new "transformation" of the
>terrorist so-called KLA into a terrorist so-called Democratic party. Objective
>observers in Pristina assess that Mejdani wants to joint the campaign ahead of
>the upcoming illegal local elections in the province. His announced meeting
>with Tachi clearly shows who is his favourite. The trouble is, however, that
>every such and similar visits from Tirana leaves very difficult consequences.
>Every time after such visits the violence of Albanian terrorists increases,
>raising the number of Serbian victims. No doubt Mejdani is coming to lend
>support to Albanian terrorists. His illegal visit is a provocation, because,
>Albania took an active part in NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia, and became
>itself an aggressor. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ALBANIAN TERRORIST
>ATTACKS RUSSIAN KFOR TROOPS PRISTINA, May 23 (Tanjug) - Former regional
>commander of the terrorists "KLA" Ramush Haradinay provoked on Tuesday a grave
>incident, when he physically attacked a member of the Russian peacekeeping
>forces in Malisevo municipality. According to a KFOR spokesman, the incident
>occurred at a check point in Lozica, about 50 km from Pristina, when
>peacekeeping forces stopped a vehicle occupied by Haradinay and three other
>men. In the vehicle were found a handgun and rifle for which he did not
>possess a permit. Russian KFOR members detained them because of that for some
>time, but Haradinay tried to ran away and attacked a KFOR member. Peacekeepers
>and policemen subdued Haradinay who was slightly injured in the process. FROM
>DOMESTIC PRESS NEW DONATION FOR THE FOUNDATION "SANJA MILENKOVIC" BEOGRAD, May
>24 (Politika) - Mr. Momir Dacic, the member of the Diaspora Council from
>Adelaide, Australia, visited yesterday, on 23 May, "Beogradska banka AD" and
>gave a donation to the Foundation "Sanja Milenkovic". This meeting was hosted
>by Borka Vucic, the chairman of "Beogradska banka AD" and the president of the
>Commission of the Diaspora Council for business cooperation. Mr. Dacic, who
>has been living in Australia for over three decades, is an active member of
>the Diaspora Council and one of the participants of the meeting of the Council
>held on 20 May in Belgrade. He used his stay in the homeland to go to Cacak
>and Novi Sad where he visited facilities that have been reconstructed or are
>in the process of reconstruction, after the NATO bombing. Incidentally,
>"Beogradska banka AD" is the administrator of the Foundation "Sanja
>Milenkovic", founded in memory of a sixteen-year old girl, a talented
>mathematician, a student of the Belgrade Mathematics Gymnasium, who was killed
>on the Morava Bridge, hit during the last year’s aggression. In the press
>release of "Beogradska banka AD", issued in the wake of yesterday’s visit and
>the donation of our fellow countrymen from Australia to this Foundation, it is
>said that the Foundation has been established thanks to the initiative of the
>Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Zivadin Jovanovic, and that the name of
>the talented mathematician Sanja Milenkovic will be remembered by many of
>those equally talented in her generation, who may also become the
>beneficiaries of the Foundation, whose goal is to provide scholarships for
>young talents in the field of mathematics and technical sciences. First
>scholarships have already been granted from the funds of the Foundation,
>established in July last year. In the year 1999, 20 scholarships have been
>given to students most proficient in mathematics, natural and technical
>sciences. The Foundation also grants scholarships for the participation in
>regional, European and world competitions, in which the beneficiaries of the
>Foundation "Sanja Milenkovic" have achieved excellent results. In addition to
>our fellow countrymen all over the world and the Federal and republican
>ministries, companies, institutions and individuals are also among the donors
>of the Foundation. At this moment, there are 250,000 dinars and 115,000
>Deutsch Marks on the account of the Foundation. In the press release of
>"Beogradska banka" it is pointed out that the funds of the Foundation are
>increasing on a daily basis thanks to new donations from the country and from
>abroad. While giving the donation, which is comprised of donations of our
>diaspora from Adelaide and its surroundings, Momir Dacic emphasized their wish
>to help their homeland. FROM FOREIGN PRESS "MONITOR": U.S.- LEADER OR OCCUPIER
>OF THE WORLD SOFIA, May 24 (Tanjug) - NATO's aggression against FR Yugoslavia,
>which during 78 days of incessant bombing killed 2,000 women, children, old
>people and destroyed bridges, roads, hospitals, factories, apartments and
>other civilian facilities, causing damages of over 150 billion dollars, was
>called in Washington or on Broadway a "miracle U.S. show," the Bulgarian daily
>"Monitor" said. In an article headlined U.S - Leader or Occupier of World, the
>Bulgarian daily said that in the West the aggression against Yugoslavia has
>now been reduced to the issue whether U.S.-led NATO was the right hand of
>Kosovo-Metohija Albanian terrorists and separatists of the so-called KLA or
>those Albanian extremists were the "land army" of the Western military
>alliance, which will be remembered by the world for all times by its brutality
>and the use of new weapons banned by all international conventions. In the
>United States, publicist Nikolai Slatinski said, most politicians and
>officials want to "turn NATO into a world policeman to strengthen the unipolar
>model and American leadership in the world." The United States has taken the
>right, the author said, to use its military power whenever it wants to and
>reminded about the bombing of Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia... Since
>1990, the United States has sent 25 times its military forces across the world
>and spent 15 billion dollars on "military operations." Americans, alleged
>"fighters" for "human rights," led by their presidents, belligerent generals
>and political "democrats," are "in fact terrible mass murderers of entire
>peoples." "SPECTACLE DU MONDE": LOST ILLUSIONS ABOUT KOSOVO-METOHIJA PARIS,
>May 24 (Tanjug) - "Lost illusions" is the title of a lengthy report about
>Kosovo-Metohija, published in the May issue of the French monthly "Le
>Spectacle du Monde", one year after NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia. Analyzing
>the chronology of events on the eve of the bombing of Yugoslavia, the various
>manipulations of public opinion used by NATO state officials and by the
>Alliance itself, as well as OSCE reports and of the special envoy for human
>rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier after the
>aggression, the monthly assessed that - with respect to Kosovo-Metohija - "the
>time has come for shedding illusions." The report quotes in the introduction
>Dienstbier's assessment from March this year that the "bombing (of Yugoslavia)
>did not resolve, but multiplied existing problems," that "war has devastated
>not only the Balkans, but also neighbouring countries," that in
>Kosovo-Metohija was underway "ethnic cleansing" of Serbs and other
>non-Albanians and that "KFOR and UNMIK have not achieved anything."


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