>From: "Jon Corlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY BELGRADE, 5 February 2000 No.2877
>TRAFFIC IN WOMEN, CHILDREN SINCE ARRIVAL OF KFOR ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER
>XHAFERI PAID TO RUIN MACEDONIA CIA Gang Throws Hand Grenades Into
>Hospital, Human Rights Protection Building / Etc.
>
>
>TRAFFIC IN WOMEN, CHILDREN SINCE ARRIVAL OF KFOR
>LONDON, February 5 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival of
>the international forces (KFOR) in the Serbian province has been developed
>a wide network of prostitution and traffic in women, the London Times
>warned Saturday.
>
>The London newspaper pointed out that prostitution and traffic in women
>started only after the arrival of KFOR and of the U.N. Civilian Mission
>(UNMIK) in Kosovo and Metohija.
>
>According to the Times, the network of prostitution and traffic in women
>in Kosovo and Metohija is controled by organized crime, mostly Albanians,
>and the business is developed in several phases.
>
>Local girls are persuaded to work for them, but girls are also brought
>from Eastern Europe.
>
>They first go though brothels in Kosovo and Metohija whose main clients
>are members of KFOR and other international organizations.
>
>After that the women are transferred through Albania to Western European
>countries where they are sold to criminals.
>
>The price of one girl is between three and four and a half thousand D marks.
>
>The London newspaper has learnt that kidnapping are an increasingly
>frequent method of the Albanian mafia in Kosovo-Metohija.
>
>Victims of kidnapping are also children, the Times warned, who are later
>sold by Albanian criminals for adoption somewhere in Europe or even for
>human organ transplants.
>
>International humanitarian organizations, whose representatives are
>present in Kosovo and Metohija, claim that the number of kidnapped women
>and children is so high that they do not succeed to help them, while at the
>same time they receive serious threats from the Albanian mafia, the London
>daily said.
>
>
>ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND SERB WOMEN IN HOSPITAL
>PRIZREN, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists on Friday attacked with
>hand grenades one of the hospital buildings in Prizren and wounded several
>Serb women, one of them seriously.
>Tanjug has learnt that ethnic Albanian terrorists had obtained information
>that also receiving treatment in one of the hospital buildings were four
>Serb women.
>Albanian medical personnel only one day earlier did not allow those
>patients to be admitted to hospital.
>International forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR) in Prizren did not
>react at all to the terrorist attack, although in it was also wounded a
>German member of KFOR.
>
>
>REPEATED BOMB ATTACK ON COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION BUILDING
>OBILIC, February 5 (Tanjug) - Albanian terrorists attacked on Thursday
>evening around 20.15 hours, for the second time, with a hand grenade the
>building of the committee for the protection of human rights in the center
>of Obilic, and set fire to the house of Rade Gajic, the committee said,
>radio amateurs from Kosovo and Metohija reported.
>None was hurt, but the damages are considerable.
>Daily attacks on Serbs in Obilic have not ceased, the committee warned,
>pointing out that it was becoming increasingly clear that Albanian
>terrorists, by planned actions and in cooperation with the local command of
>the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), were slowly
>achieving their planned goal of expelling Serbs from the homes of their
>ancestors.
>
>
>
>
>FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
>
>YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
>
>BELGRADE, 5 February 2000 No.2877
>
>C O N T E N T S :
>FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>- EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE
>- YUGOSLAV DEFENCE MINISTER: RUSSIAN TROOPS MAINTAINING BALANCE IN KOSOVO
>AND METOHIJA
>- FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS FINANCE SO-CALLED INDEPENDENT MEDIA
>
>F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN
>- U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD BE BLAMED FOR BALKAN DESTABILISATION
>
>F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION
>- MESSAGE TO DR CONGO MINISTER
>
>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>- UNMIK AND KFOR UNABLE TO PROTECT THE SERBS
>- UNMIK, KFOR CLAMP CURFEW ON DIVIDED KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
>- CLASH BETWEEN FRENCH TROOPS AND ALBANIANS ON BRIDGE
>- WOUNDED IN STABLE CONDITION
>- SERB BEATEN UP
>- REPEATED BOMB ATTACK ON COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION BUILDING
>- SERB MURDERED IN GNJILANE
>- ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND SERB WOMEN IN HOSPITAL
>
>FROM FOREIGN PRESS
>- ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER XHAFERI PAID TO RUIN MACEDONIA
>- TRAFFIC IN WOMEN, CHILDREN SINCE ARRIVAL OF KFOR
>
>
>
>FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
>EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE
>BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) - In the presence of members of the
>diplomatic corps from Arab countries and ranking officials of Serbia and of
>Yugoslavia, on Friday evening in Belgrade was held an evening of solidarity
>with Iraq and with the Iraqi people, who is the victim of a long systematic
>aggression and genocidal sanctions.
>Sympathizing sincerely with the sufferings of the friendly Iraqi people
>and expressing support for its dignified resistance and defense of freedom,
>Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic stressed that systematic
>attacks of the Washington-London axis on Iraq were encountering growing
>condemnation, repulsion and resistance of the freedom-loving world public.
>Frightful UNICEF data about the suffering of the Iraqi people, Jovanovic
>said, testify that as a direct consequence of the sanctions one million two
>hundred fifty thousand Iraqis have died, including several hundred thousand
>children, and that the same reasons were causing more than 200 children
>under five years of age to die every day and an increased mortality rate of
>new-borns and pregnant women.
>"Sanctions are a form of massive violation of basic human rights. Those
>who deprive other people of food, medicines, water, electric power, who
>destroy day care centres and maternity wards, who cooperate with
>separatists and terrorists in order to break peoples and states guarding
>their freedom and dignity, have no right to speak in the name of democracy,
>human rights and the international community. They must be held accountable
>for crimes against peace and humanity and for genocide," Jovanovic said and
>pointed out that for such people the last concern is human rights in Iraq,
>in Kosovo and Metohija or any where else in the world.
>Jovanovic stressed particularly that the successful development of
>traditional friendly relations between Yugoslavia and Arab countries
>repudiated malicious claims, used in the media war against our country,
>aimed at breaking off cooperation on the bilateral and the international
>level that is based on joint interests, activity in the Non-Aligned
>Movement and the struggle for democratic international relations.
>By the joint engagement of our countries, these principles have been
>promoted with a view to creating a more just world, in which developing
>countries would have the opportunity to, without dictate, conditioning or
>limitations on the part of a great power, to reach the level of political
>and economic independence enabling their peoples to live in freedom and in
>peace, Jovanovic said.
>"Relations between Yugoslavia and Iraq have always been characterized by
>diversified cooperation based on mutual respect, noninterference in
>internal relations and on mutual interests, which was at the same time a
>sound and reliable basis of our relations with all Arab countries and
>peoples. Those relations and cooperation were never directed against the
>interests of third countries, nor is that the case today and that is why
>they have good prospects," Jovanovic assessed.
>Warning that the Security Council has a special responsibility to stop
>every form of aggression and to put an end to the genocidal sanctions
>against Iraq, Minister Jovanovic said that Yugoslavia, which itself is a
>victim of hegemonistic and domineering concept of the policy spearheaded by
>the United States, has great respect for the solidarity, support and
>understanding of Iraq and of a large number of Arab countries and the huge
>majority of members of the world organization.
>The ambassador of Iraq to Belgrade, Sami Sadun Al Kinani, warmly thanked
>for the solidarity and support of Yugoslavia, which itself is exposed to
>aggression and sanctions, for his country and stressed that the solidarity
>was the result of the principled policy of the Yugoslav leadership. The
>evening of solidarity with the Iraqi people was attended by Yugoslav and
>Serbian deputy premiers, Nikola Sainovic and Ratko Markovic, and by Serbian
>parliament president Dragan Tomic.
>
>YUGOSLAV DEFENCE MINISTER: RUSSIAN TROOPS MAINTAINING BALANCE IN KOSOVO AND
>METOHIJA
>MOSCOW, February. 4 (Tanjug) - Throughout its history the Balkan region
>has always been very important for Russia because its fate either affirmed
>Russia as a great power or caused it to lose this distinction, Yugoslav
>Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic said in an interview carried by Friday's
>issue of the Russian paper Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
>Speaking about the March 24 - June 10, 1999 NATO aggression on Yugoslavia,
>Bulatovic set out that the resistance to the aggressors was "spontaneous,
>organized and determined" and that established was "the exceptional unity
>of the people, army, police and the state organs."
>"We were also very efficient in downing their planes and missiles,"
>Bulatovic stated recalling that the Yugoslav Army, using the Neva rocket,
>was the first in the world to shoot down the famous U.S. F117A Stealth
>plane.
>Speaking about the strength of the Yugoslav Army, Bulatovic stated that
>"it is better for all not to test it" because the heroism proven in the war
>against NATO has had a specially good effect on morale.
>He underscored, however, that the Yugoslav Army badly needs modern combat
>means whose characteristics would serve as a deterrent to all potential
>aggressors.
>"We expect big support from the Russian Federation in the modernization of
>our army and the entire defence system since we have a traditionally
>extensive cooperation in the defence sphere," Bulatovic noted.
>According to him, this cooperation had, however, been marked by a degree
>of discrepancy.
>"In the previous decade we badly needed sophisticated and efficient
>weapons, which Russia had, as our freedom was constantly being threatened.
>Russia, however, opted for the embargo on arms deliveries to Yugoslavia and
>strictly respected the U.N. embargo," Bulatovic recalled.
>Describing the embargo as unjust and contrary to the principles ruling
>international relations, in view of the elementary right of every country
>to defend itself, Bulatovic pointed out that this same embargo was breached
>by the Western and the Arab countries which constantly armed the enemies of
>the Serb and Montenegrin people.
>Furthermore, Yugoslavia and Russia had signed and ratified numerous
>agreements and contracts which have not been realized.
>"I firmly believe that the time of Russian hesitation and indecision is
>over and that the international security trends and economic conditions
>will influence our military, military-economic and scientific-technical
>cooperation in the sphere of defence to acquire a new quality and
>contents," Bulatovic stated.
>He added that Yugoslavia is monitoring with great hope the developments on
>the military and political scene in China and Russia and the determination
>of these two superpowers to oppose the U.S. and NATO hegemony.
>Concluding that Russia was and remains the factor of the security of the
>Serb and Montenegrin people, Bulatovic recalled the decision of the
>Yugoslav government and the federal parliament to join the Union of Russia
>and Belarus. He added that this union opens up prospects for joint
>solutions on issues of the defence and protection of one's own and the
>joint sovereignty.
>Commenting the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Bulatovic said that U.N.
>Security Council Resolution 1244, which guarantees Yugoslavia's sovereignty
>in Kosovo and Metohija, is not being implemented.
>"We hoped that by protecting the Serbs, Montenegrins and other
>non-Albanian ethnic groups in Kosovo and Metohija, the United Nations would
>defend itself from accusations that it has become the servant of the United
>States and NATO, but it is clear that KFOR and UNMIK were given the task to
>support the aggression and to try to realize all that the NATO warplanes
>failed to do," Bulatovic set out.
>Quoting the stupefying facts about the huge number refugees, murdered and
>kidnapped Serbs since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija,
>Bulatovic stated that all this "represents a clear message to Russia
>regarding Chechnya."
>"The United States has opted to cause crises to break out and to control
>them and it has participated in more than 85 percent of the 215 wars and
>focuses of crises which took place since the end of World War Two,"
>Bulatovic said.
>Regarding the participation of Russian troops within the international
>force, Bulatovic noted that Russia "deserves to be given an important role
>by the United Nations both in view of its contingent and within the command
>structures."
>
>FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS FINANCE SO-CALLED INDEPENDENT MEDIA
>BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) - Serbian Information Minister Aleksandar
>Vucic said on Saturday that for all the crimes committed lately in Kosovo
>and Metohija are directly responsible the U.N. mission and Bernard Kouchner.
>The daily killings of Serbs only because they are Serbs and because they
>do not want to abandon the homes of their ancestors, testifying to the
>criminal nature of the Americans and their endeavors to conceal the truth,
>stifle freedom and human rights allegedly in the name of those same rights,
>is the culmination of hypocrisy and self-righteousness of the so-called
>Western democracy, Vucic said at a news conference.
>We are going though a phase of disintegration of the international legal
>order, Vucic warned, specifying that the United States attempts to
>introduce and put into practice an Orwellian unique, absolute, global truth
>and all those who do not agree with it are enemy and should be destroyed.
>Serbia found itself in the way and that is why they attempt to destroy it
>and obliterate the Serbian people from the face of the earth, Vucic said.
>Noting that in the sphere of the media the United States attempts to
>impose the existence of only one truth, that serves its policy, Vucic said
>that the West, thought its obedient media in our country, is endeavouring
>to abolish all elementary human freedoms, including the right to freedom of
>speech and opinion, while sanctimoniously claiming that they are urging the
>freedom of the press and that their obedient media is threatened.
>Kosovo and Metohija is the very image of democracy in the United States
>and in the West, Vucic said, pointing to the example of the banning of SAS
>television in Pristina which had programs in Serbian, Albanian and in
>English, but which did not suit UNMIK and Western interests.
>Pointing out that the United States is trying to destroy all the pillars
>of democracy, including the electoral system, Vucic cited the example of
>Austria, where the European Union and the United States, as he said,
>reduced to nonsense the legal institution of elections, by not recognizing
>the will of the people, but only of elections at which pro-American forces
>win.
>
>
>F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN
>
>U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD BE BLAMED FOR BALKAN DESTABILISATION
>NEW YORK, February 4 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's permanent representative to
>the United Nations wrote to the U.N. Security Council on Friday requesting
>the body's emergency meeting.
>Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, who heads Yugoslavia's U.N. mission, drew
>the Council's attention to the disastrous consequences that would result
>from its failure to curb the deterioration of the security situation in
>
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