Yugoslav Daily Survey
(Morning edition)
BELGRADE, 10 March 2000
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
D.TOMIC: RECONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT,
REFORMS ARE PRIORITIES
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
NDPA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SEEK
ETHNICALLY PURE KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
UNMIK KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
ADMINISTRATOR TO LEAVE
SERBS PROTEST AGAINST BRUTAL SEARCHES
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UNHCR
S.OGATA TO VISIT YUGOSLAVIA ON MARCH
21-24
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - ROMANIA
ROMANIAN BOOK ON NATO AGGRESSION
PROMOTED IN BUCHAREST
ITALY - POPE - KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
POPE GETS FILES ON KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
FROM FOREIGN PRESS
GREECE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF KOSOVO
RESOLUTION
PRAVO CRITICIZES ALBRIGHT'S VISIT TO
CZECH REPUBLIC
MACEDONIA - TERRORISM
REACTIONS TO NEW TERRORIST ATTACK ON
POLICE STATION
CZECH - DRUGS - ALBANIANS
CZECH CUSTOMS ORGANS CUT ALBANIAN
MAFIA CHAIN FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
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FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
D.TOMIC: RECONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT,
REFORMS ARE PRIORITIES
BUJANOVAC March 9 (Tanjug) - Serbia's government is busy
implementing economic policy, rebuildingNATO-wreaked devastation,
pursuing development and reforms and protecting peace and stability,
according to this Yugoslav republic's vice premier on Thursday.
Dragan Tomic was in Bujanovic, on the boundary with Serbia's
U.N.-ruled Kosovo-Metohija province, meeting with local political
officials and businessmen.
"We are here today to discuss development, specifically what to
do for a
faster development of the area, for keeping the peace, to tell
all that this
is our territory, that Kosovo-Metohija is an inseparable part of our
country.
"We are here to tell them that we shall act in line with
documents signed
at the international level and honour all that the U.N.
Security Council's
Resolution 1244 has set down," Tomic said.
He went on to say that the Serbian government would support projects
that should provide jobs for all in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja,
since the area has a developed infrastructure and significant
natural
resources.
Many big industrial companies have branches in Bujanovac, which
should further stimulate development.
"As part of the overall policy, the Serbian government will
continue to
ensure a balanced regional development, in order that everybody
should
get the chance to close the gap with the developed areas," he said.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
NDPA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SEEK
ETHNICALLY PURE KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
PRISTINA March 9 (Tanjug) - An ethnic Albanian party in Pristina on
Thursday condemned in the strongest terms ethnic Albanian terrorism
against non-Albanians in U.N.-administered Kosovo-Metohija.
The party, the National Democratic Party of Albanians (NDPA),
said the
aim of the ethnic Albanian terrorists was an ethnically pure
Kosovo-Metohija, cleansed of all non-Albanians and all those
opposing
their Independent Kosovo ideology, the party said.
The deployment of the international KFor force and the U.N. civilian
mission (UNMIK) headed by Bernard Kouchner, in conjunction with
ethnic Albanian terrorists headed by Hashim Thaqi, has produced
large-scale killing and expulsions of non-Albanians, the NDPA said.
It stressed that the "NDPA supports the Yugoslav president and
supreme
commander of the armed forces, Slobodan Milosevic, in his efforts to
protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia
and its
republic of Serbia."
UNMIK KOSOVSKA MITROVICA ADMINISTRATOR TO
LEAVE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 9 (Tanjug) - A regional U.N.
mission (UNMIK) spokesman in the Serbian (Yugoslav)
Kosovo-Metohija province said in divided Kosovska Mitrovica on
Thursday that regional U.N. administrator Mario Morcone would be
leaving his post on Friday.
Spokesman Peter Bureau told reporters he had no information who
would be replacing Morcone, and the post would be temporarily filled
by deputy administrator Vahid Vahidalas.
This is the fourth time that regional administrators for Kosovska
Mitrovica have been replaced since the UNMIK police was deployed to
Kosovo-Metohija in June 1999.
Bureau said that regional UNMIK spokesman Philippe Pacot was also
being replaced.
Asked to give the reasons for the frequent replacements, Bureau said
this was in the nature of peace processes.
SERBS PROTEST AGAINST BRUTAL SEARCHES
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 9 (Tanjug) - Hundreds of Serbs
blocked a local road on Thursday protesting against brutal
searches of
their homes by international KFor force troops, begun earlier
in the day.
Serbs from the village of Grabovac, indignant that Danish KFor
troops
had not caught the ethnic Albanian terrorists who had shelled
the village
six days ago, blocked the Zvecan-Leposavic road an hour past noon,
stopping the searches of their homes by the Danes.
Strong KFor and U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) police forces were
present at the protest, with KFor helicopters hovering overhead.
Four months ago, Danish KFor troops had also searched houses in
Serb-populated Grabovac, and had found no weapons.
The Zvecan-Leposavic road was deblocked shortly after 4 p.m., after
the local Serbs and a French KFor lieutenant-colonel agreed that the
Danish troops should stop the searches until the ethnic Albanian
terrorists who had shelled the village were found.
The KFor that searched the Serb homes in Grabovac on Thursday was
the same that had explained after the ethnic Albanian terrorist
attack on
the village on March 3 that it had not gone in pursuit of the
attackers
because it was dark and the terrain was unfriendly.
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UNHCR
S.OGATA TO VISIT YUGOSLAVIA ON MARCH 21-24
BELGRADE, March 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's minister for refugee and
humanitarian affairs received on Thursday the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) coordinator for southeast
Europe, who said UNHCR Sadako Ogata would visit Yugoslavia from
March 21-24.
A government statement quoted Minister Bratislava Morina as saying
that refugees and displaced people in Yugoslavia were in an
extremely
difficult position.
Morina stressed that the problems of these people should be solved
urgently, which will not be possible without substantial help
from the
international community.
UNHCR official Jacques Mousset, for his part, said the UNHCR meant
to support all efforts for giving humanitarian aid to refugees and
displaced people in Yugoslavia, and to step up its distribution
to those in the greatest need. Mousset stressed the UNHCR planned to
begin soon implementing a programme for the repatriation of 16,500
refugees to Croatia.
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - ROMANIA
ROMANIAN BOOK ON NATO AGGRESSION PROMOTED
IN BUCHAREST
BUCHAREST, March 10 (Tanjug) - A two-volume book entitled
"NATO - the 4th Reich. NATO Crimes against Yugoslavia" by
Romanian author Ioan T. Lazar was promoted in Bucharest on Thursday
in the organization of the Yugoslav Embassy.
The book, published by Vitorul Romanesc (Romanian Future), is based
on documents obtained from Yugoslav sources. It contains tragic
testimonies on NATO crimes in Yugoslavia against innocent civilians,
children, pregnant women, life, civilization, culture, history,
against the
entire Serbian nation.
The author begins his book with the suggestive words which go on to
become the motto: "What are we guilty of, Oh Lord, for us Romanians
to have become part of NATO."
Alluding to the Romanian authorities' position toward Yugoslavia
during last spring's NATO aggression, Lazar said in the preface:
"Nineteen countries act as the 4th Reich, and we want to join them.
They might accept us, but what price will we have to pay for that
mistake."
The book was promoted in a cordial and friendly atmosphere at the
Yugoslav Embassy in Bucharest, which was packed with friends of
Serbs, including prominent intellectuals, representatives of
the League
of Romanian-Serb Friendship, politicians, representatives of
the local
media.
In a speech, Lazar said his book was "about death at the end of the
millennium."
Charge d'Affaires of the Yugoslav Embassy Dragomir Radenkovic said
the book was being promoted "in a month in which a year ago, on
March 24, 1999, began the brutal, insane, totally unprovoked NATO
aggression on peaceloving, sovereign and independent Yugoslavia."
Embassy Media Adviser Stanisa Ostojic spoke about the friendly
reactions of the vast majority of Romanians during the
aggression, about
the thousands of phone calls and letters of support, about the
lovely
fresh flowers which people daily left outside the Yugoslav Embassy.
ITALY - POPE - KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
POPE GETS FILES ON KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
ROME, March 9 (Tanjug) - An Italian institute director has
briefed the
Pope on the dramatic situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
U.N.-administered province of Kosovo-Metohija and submitted to the
Pontiff voluminous files on the subject.
The files offer evidence of the unlawful and criminal nature of
NATO's
aggression on Yugoslavia last spring and the terrorism of the ethnic
Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), practised against the local
Serbs with the international KFor force's blessing.
Osservatorio di Milano public opinion research institute Director
Massimo Todisco told Pope John Paul II that ethnic Albanian
terrorists
were continuing the savage job, begun by NATO bombers, of
demolishing Christian churches and monasteries in Kosovo-Metohija.
Todisco urged the Pontiff to study the files carefully and do
all in his
power to curb the anti-Serb terrorism and desecration of
Christian holy
shrines in Kosovo-Metohija and lift the international embargo
against
Serbia.
Todisco stressed that opposition to NATO's anti-Yugoslav aggression
and bombing campaign had written one of the most glorious pages
in the
history of the Holy See.
He asked the Pope to remain faithful to this position and
publicly to
denounce the criminal policy towards Kosovo-Metohija and the embargo
against Serbia, and show solidarity with the Serbian people.
FROM FOREIGN PRESS
GREECE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF KOSOVO
RESOLUTION
ATHENS, March 10 (Tanjug) - The Greek government is deeply
concerned with the repeated aggravation of the situation in Serbia's
Kosovo and Metohija province and urges the due implementation of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and a multi-ethnic
nature of the province within the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, it was
announced in Athens on Thursday.
In that sense, the international community should do everything
toward
the realization of the resolution decisions. This would isolate
the extreme
elements which have lately again raised tensions in the region
with their
activities and are initiating new conflicts, said a government
statement
carried by the Athens daily Eleftherotypia.
The statement said Greece was duly working on finding solutions for
the issue of Kosovo and Metohija which would secure a safe
environment for all citizens. Since the very outbreak of the Kosovo
crisis, the Greek government has urged respect of human rights
of all
citizens, regardless of nationality or religion, the statement
said.
Within the planned NATO military exercise in Kosovo and Metohija,
which is to be held from March 19 until April 10, foreign
troops should
pass through Salonika on their way to bases in Skopje and on to the
Serbian province. There are many opponents in Greece of foreign
troops
again arriving in the Greek port, and they have been
increasingly loud in
their protests lately.
The protests in Salonika, with burning of American flags, are led by
young members of the Greek Communist Party. Protesters demand that
no more Greek troops go to Kosovo and Metohija to join the local
international forces KFOR.
Many organizations from northern Greece have voiced support to the
Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija.
PRAVO CRITICIZES ALBRIGHT'S VISIT TO CZECH
REPUBLIC
PRAGUE, March 10 (Tanjug) - The Prague daily Pravo said in a
commentary entitled "Messy Celebration" that the visit of U.S.
Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright to the Czech Republic had marred the
important celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of first
Czechoslovakian president, Garrig Masaryk.
Pravo warned that anarchists who threw eggs at Albright with
such lack
of precision could not have impaired her dignity as much as she
herself
did, with a contribution from her Czech partner, President Vaclaw
Havel.
Albright placed Havel on the same spiritual line as Masaryk and
emotionally called him a fantastic president, the daily said.
"With the most sickening Czech servility exhibited in the
recent days,
Havel retorted with the words that Albright would make an excellent
president of the Czech Republic," Pravo said.
The daily underscored that Albright had asked Havel during the
visit to
increase the number of Czech policemen in Serbia's Kosovo and
Metohija province. The commentator said this was taking place
at a time
when it is being proven that many prominent media and
politicians had
lied about the situation in the southern Serbian province and
when the
number of alleged ethnic Albanian victims has been cut down from
200,000 to 100,000, and then to 10,000, bringing them down to less
than 1,500 at the present time.
Starting with the word genocide, they quietly came down to the word
massacre, in the end reporting only individual graves
containing victims
of blood feuds and common crimes, Pravo said.
MACEDONIA - TERRORISM
REACTIONS TO NEW TERRORIST ATTACK ON POLICE
STATION
SKOPJE, March 10 (Tanjug) - The latest terrorist attack on a police
station in Tetovo, western Macedonia, has not been solved yet,
but it is
believed the perpetrators are local ethnic Albanians or those from
neigboring Kosovo and Metohija province of the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia, many commentaries in Skopje said on Thursday.
Police on Thursday arrested a person suspected of participation
in the
attack with an unidentified number of accomplices. The
attackers left
behind a rocket launcher and the vehicle from
which they had fired at the police station.
Tetovo's Democratic Party of Macedonia (DPM) leader Tomislav
Stojanovski told a press conference in Skopje on Thursday that
Macedonians, whose numbers in the country's west have been
diminishing in the presence of an ethnic Albanian majority, are
disturbed
after this latest attack.
They are especially apprehensive because state organs do not
function in
western Macedonia. The slopes of Mt. Sar have been turned into
a large
illegal dump where members of the Kosovo Albanian terrorist
organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army, are storing arms and
ammunition, said Stojanovski.
CZECH - DRUGS - ALBANIANS
CZECH CUSTOMS ORGANS CUT ALBANIAN MAFIA
CHAIN FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
PRAGUE, March 10 (Tanjug) - Czech customs officials in the town of
Olomouc managed to cut an important chain of the Albanian mafia
running through Kosovo and Metohija which served to smuggle drugs
through the Czech Republic to Scandinavian countries along the
Balkan
route, the Prague daily Mlada fronta dnes and Czech Television
said on
Thursday.
The officials arrested two chief organizers of the drug
smuggling in the
Czech territory of cental Moravia. The men were found in
possession of
drugs worth about 2.3 million D-marks.
The international operation was named "Balkan Wolf." Czech organs
cooperated with Scandinavian anti-narcotics units. Nine
smugglers have
been arrested in several European countries, and a total of 36
kilos of
drugs seized in the operation so far, the sources said.
Czech customs officers searched the apartments of the arrested
Kosovo
Albanians. They found 20 kilos of amphetamine and ephedrine, a
loaded
Scorpio automatic weapon, a large quantity of ammunition, and
equipment for packaging, smuggling and usage of narcotics.
The Balkan drug route goes from Turkey, through the Balkans and
central Europe, to the west of the continent.
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