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>Subject: YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY BELGRADE, 5 February 2000 No.2877
>Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 08:44:11 +0200 (EET)
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> >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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