>From: "Jon Corlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA >FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS > >YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY > >BELGRADE, 13 February 2000 No. 2891 > >C O N T E N T S : > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >- YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT LETTER TO THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL REGARDING > VIOLATIONS OF RESOLUTION 1244 >- LAZIC: SERBS REMAIN IN VILLAGES OF KOSOVO'S MORAVA RIVER DISTRICT >- ETHNIC ALBANIANS ATTACKED SERB HOUSES >- NEW SECURITY MEASURES IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA >- ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACKED SERBS IN OBILIC >- KFOR FRENCH TROOPS IN CONTROL OF KOSOVSKA MITROVICA > >ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS >- TV SHOW PARTICIPANTS CALL FOR LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS > >THE BALKANS - REGIONAL COOPERATION >- SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN SUMMIT WITHOUT YUGOSLAVIA > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - GREECE >- MINISTER MARKOVIC RECEIVED A GREEK OTE DELEGATION > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHECHNYA >- RUSSIAN SPECIAL TROOPS LIBERATED A YUGOSLAV HELD CAPTIVE IN CHECHNYA > >FROM FOREIGN PRESS >- 'WASHINGTON POST': THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS > ADMITTED ITS FIASCO IN KOSOVO > > > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > >YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT LETTER TO THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL >REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF RESOLUTION 1244 >NEW YORK, February 13 (Tanjug) - The international community is well aware >that the grave situation in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province is a >consequence of the failure of the local United Nations mission, since facts >which indicate this are more than obvious. >Consequently, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has yet again reacted by >pointing out who is violating Resolution 1244, and how. >The latest government letter to the U.N. Security Council lists precisely >and with irrefutable arguments all the resolution points which have been >violated most grossly. >The letter was sent by head of the Yugoslav Permanent Mission to the U.N., >Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, to U.N. Security Council President Arnoldo >Listre and Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday. >It unequivocally states that leading figures of the U.N. mission are >responsible for the chaos in this southern Serbian province, in particular >the Secretary-General's High Representative Bernard Kouchner. >Point by point, the letter shows the disastrous steps taken by the >international community which have led into chaos - from failing to meet >its obligation to disarm the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, to the >complete failure to establish a secure environment for all Kosovo citizens. >"As a result, terrorism in the province has escalated at an unprecedented >pace, so that the number of terrorist attacks since the arrival of KFOR and >UNMIK increased 11-fold. 4,249 terrorist attacks, mainly against Serbs and >other non-Albanians have been committed in the period since June 12, 1999 >to date, in which 889 persons have been killed, 784 wounded and 834 >abducted," said the letter. >The letter gives details and facts about brutal terrorist attacks in the >latest period when they have launched a new wave of terror. >By turning a blind eye to everything the terrorists did and are doing in >Kosovo and Metohija, the international security and civilian missions have >not escaped responsibility. On the contrary, such actions have contributed >to the expulsion of 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies, Muslims, ethnic >Turks, Goranians, and other non-Albanians from the province. >The letter proceeds to give a long list of mistakes made by Kouchner and >descriptions of his unprecedented actions, showing that the mission head is >the most responsible for developments in the province. >The series of so-called regulations which he has imposed are aimed at >separating Kosovo and Metohija from the constitutional, legal, economic, >customs, monetary, and banking systems of Yugoslavia and Serbia. Kouchner >has thus acted contrary to the stand clearly taken by U.N. Security Council >members - to preserve and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity >of Yugoslavia. >By constructing military bases and conducting military exercises in the >sovereign territory of Yugoslavia without the consent of the Yugoslav >government, the KFOR is in flagrant violation of the relevant resolution >and provides support to Kosovo terrorists and separatists, destabilizing in >that way the entire region, the letter said. > >LAZIC: SERBS REMAIN IN VILLAGES OF KOSOVO'S MORAVA RIVER DISTRICT >BELGRADE, February 12 (Tanjug) - Serbs remain in some 50 villages of >Kosovo's Morava River district, in spite of great difficulties with ethnic >Albanian terrorism, thwarted movement, and destruction of Serb property, >Serbian Minister Djuro Lazic told Radio Belgrade on Saturday. >"Fourteen villages in the Vitina municipality, where Serbs used to live, >have been swept, the houses razed, wells filled with earth, so that ethnic >Albanian terrorists are doing everything toward the ethnic cleansing of >these areas, while KFOR and UNMIK members watch silently, not wanting to >take any serious measures to protect these people," Lazic said. >Lazic said Serbs of this district had a strong faith and hope that Serbia >would return to the Serb holy lands in Kosovo and Metohija province and >that the expelled population would return. > >ETHNIC ALBANIANS ATTACKED SERB HOUSES >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 12 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian extremists >attacked Serb houses in northern Kosovska Mitrovica during curfew late on >Friday. > > >Two bombs were thrown at the Milutinovic family home in the Bosnjacka >Mahala district at midnight, and automatic fire riddled their windows. None >of the occupants were injured in this terrorist attack. >Terrorists also showered the house of Serb Dragi Jovanovic with rocks and >stones in another district, near the hospital. >Dragica Jerotijevic, a Serb woman, was stoned at 4.30 p.m. Friday in the >Bosnjacka Mahala district, where only four Serb houses remain. >The perpetrators of these terrorist attacks have not been caught, even >though strong forces of the KFOR and UNMIK police have been protecting the >Bosnjacka Mahala district round the clock, not just during curfew, since it >was introduced on February 4. > >NEW SECURITY MEASURES IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 12 (Tanjug) - UNMIK head Bernard Kouchner has >decided about new security measures in Kosovska Mitrovica which will take >effect next week. >A statement distributed to Serb reporters late on Saturday said that the >number of international police would be doubled. Three hundred new >policemen will be deployed within the six municipalities of this region, >the statement said. >Most policemen will be stationed in Kosovska Mitrovica itself. The first >100 policemen will arrive next week. They will cooperate closely with KFOR >troops, the statement said. >The security zone established on both sides of the bridge over the Ibar >River will be expanded. The established checkpoints on both sides and >mobile police teams will be manned by KFOR troops as well - French, Danish, >German and English. >Among the new measures which should contribute to a calming of the >situation in this town in Kosovo and Metohija province is the proclamation >of a no-demonstrations zone. >The monitoring and control of the administrative border with Serbia proper >will also be stepped up, the statement said. > >ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACKED SERBS IN OBILIC >OBILIC, February 13 (Tanjug) - A Serb-populated district of Obilic was >attacked with automatic firearms late on Friday, but there were no >casualties, radio amateurs reported from this part of Serbia's southern >Kosovo and Metohija province. >The attack went on for 20 minutes, resulting in shattered windows and >riddled walls. International force KFOR troops simply observed the brutal >attack on the remaining Serbs in this district. >The Obilic KFOR command said it was continuing an intense search for the >perpetrators and that it believed, on the grounds of certain intelligence, >that the perpetrators are from the territory of Obilic. > >KFOR FRENCH TROOPS IN CONTROL OF KOSOVSKA MITROVICA >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February 13 (Tanjug) - Fierce clashes between French >troops and ethnic Albanians which broke out in the Bosnjacka Mahala >district of northern Kosovska Mitrovica at 10.30 a.m. Sunday and later >spread to other parts of this town in Kosovo and Metohija province, died >down at about 2 p.m. and KFOR French troops are in control of the entire >town. >The situation is still tense, however, and actions by hidden ethnic >Albanian snipers are feared. People have fled the streets, and only >occasional KFOR armoured personnel carriers drive by. >The unrests were triggered when ethnic Albanians from Bosnjacka Mahala >first stoned an automobile driven by Serbs, then opened fire at it, and >then also at French troops securing a nearby bridge adjacent to the railway >station. >In the ensuing exchange of fire, ethnic Albanian snipers wounded at least >two French troops, one in the arm and another in the stomach. The two men >are not in critical condition, KFOR sources said. Snipers also wounded at >least two Serbs, said sources of the Serb National Council of Kosovska >Mitrovica. >The situation is calm on the main bridge across the Ibar. People are not >rallying on either side, but shots can be heard coming from the southern >side, populated by ethnic Albanians. >Radio KFOR has said curfew would begin already at 6 p.m. because of the >current situation. KFOR commander in chief, Gen. Klaus Reinhardt arrived in >this Kosovo and Metohija town shortly after noon. > > > >ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > >TV SHOW PARTICIPANTS CALL FOR LIFTING OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS >PRAGUE, February 12 (Tanjug) - Participants in a popular Czech TV show, >Kotel (The Cauldron), have urged the soonest possible help for Yugoslav >citizens and the Czech government's contribution to this as a call for the >lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia. >The demand voiced by ruling Social Democrat MP Jaroslav Foldina was >welcomed with loud applause from the audience. >Foldina asked Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan, another guest on the show >of the private TV station Nova, to urge such actions with the government, >since "it is not democratic to bomb someone, starve them, or make them >freeze to death". Yugoslavia and its citizens need immediate help, Foldina >said. > >THE BALKANS - REGIONAL COOPERATION > >SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN SUMMIT WITHOUT YUGOSLAVIA >BUCHAREST, February 12 (Tanjug) - Government representatives of several >southeastern European countries signed a Charter on good-neighborly >relations, regional stability, security and cooperation in Bucharest on >Saturday, showing open awareness that these plans cannot be realized >without the participation of Yugoslavia. >At the third top-level meeting within the process of cooperation of >southeastern European countries, the Yugoslav flag was displayed at the >conference table, but the chairs for a Yugoslav delegation remained vacant. >Opening the meeting, Romanian President Emil Constantinescu said Yugoslav >representatives were absent because of restrictions enforced by the >European Union, practically confirming that he had yielded to the interests >of extra-regional factors, and accepted interference in what are exclusive >affairs of the regional countries. >And yet, Constantinescu had to face reality. He said no concrete >structures could be set up in the region without the participation of the >Serbian people. >Today's one-day meeting was attended by prime ministers Costas Simitis of >Greece, Ivan Kostov of Bulgaria, Ljupco Georgijevski of Macedonia, Bulent >Ecevit of Turkey, Ilir Meta of Albania, and the Romanian head of state. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - GREECE > >MINISTER MARKOVIC RECEIVED A GREEK OTE DELEGATION >BELGRADE, February 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Telecommunications Minister Ivan >Markovic has received representatives of the Greek company OTE, President >Rapanos Vassilios and OTE International Directorate Director and Serbia's >Telekom Board of Managers member Nikakis Panayiotis, the Federal Ministry >of Telecommunications said on Sunday. >The OTE officials said they were taking part in Telekom as stock-holders >not only because of profits, but also because they wished to help >Yugoslavia's reconstruction and development. >Minister Markovic thanked the officials for their understanding and >demonstrated friendship. He especially thanked them for their engagement as >stock-holders of Telekom on the protection of Yugoslavia's interests in >Kosovo and Metohija province. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHECHNYA > >RUSSIAN SPECIAL TROOPS LIBERATED A YUGOSLAV HELD CAPTIVE IN CHECHNYA >MOSCOW, February 13 (Tanjug) - Members of Russian special police units for >fighting organized crime have liberated Yugoslav citizen Stanimir Petrovic >from captivity in Chechnya, it was announced in Moscow on Sunday. >Petrovic worked in Moscow for the German firm Albana Export Import, and >was abducted together with his boss Rudolph Klaus Schmidt on August 2, >1997. They were intercepted at Slepcoski Airport in Ingushetia by armed >attackers and taken in an unknown direction. > > >No details about Petrovic's liberation were revealed, but it is known that >no ransom has been paid and that the action was carried out by special >police units from the northern Caucasus regional administration for >combatting organized crime. > >FROM FOREIGN PRESS > >'WASHINGTON POST': THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS >ADMITTED ITS FIASCO IN KOSOVO >NEW YORK, February 12 (Tanjug) - The international community has admitted >the failure of its mission in Kosovo and Metohija, 'Washington Post' said >on Saturday, pointing out that this was perfectly clear from reports and >statements by two senior officials of the international community in that >Serbian province. >Quoting parts of reports and statements by U.N. official in charge of >humanitarian affairs Dennis MacNamara and OSCE Pristina office head Dan >Everts, the daily said the international community had confirmed its own >fiasco by failing in more than eight months to ensure the necessary >security for ethnic minorities, as Serbs and other non-Albanians are >incorrectly described here. >Most of the victims of ethnically-motivated hatred are Serbs, and the >attackers are mostly ethnic Albanians, 'Washington Post' said. Kosovo is a >Serbian province within Yugoslavia, the Washington daily pointed out, and >the United Nations mission has the role of administrator just temporarily, >the daily said. >That mission, however, is not functioning at all, 'Washington Post' >concluded. > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > >REVOLUTION, COMMUNIST & CONTINUOUS ! ! ! > > http://members.xoom.com/joncorlett/ > > >E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Subscribe or Unsubscribe; Click Reply in E Mail Program, > >enter 'Subscribe' or 'Unsubscribe' on Subject line and Send to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >If wish to receive only certain types of Revolutionary Communist Information >Please Specify. > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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