> Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE,12 March 2000 > > C O N T E N T S : > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > - PEOPLE OF MONTENEGRO FOR PRESERVATION OF YUGOSLAV STATE > > - DIPLOMACY PAVED THE WAY FOR ECONOMY > > F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN > > - J.DIENSTBIER VISITED VRANJE > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > - MANILOV: CORRECTIONS OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATION NEEDED > > - ALLIANCE FIGHTS TO PRESERVE COHESION > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > - ALBANIANS FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA: WE DO NOT WANT INDEPENDENT >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > - NEW DEADLY ATTACK ON SERBS > > - NEW ALBANIAN ATTACKS ON SERBIAN HOUSES IN ORAHOVAC > > * * * > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > PEOPLE OF MONTENEGRO FOR PRESERVATION OF YUGOSLAV STATE > > BELGRADE, March 12 (Tanjug) - The greatest majority of the >constituent people of Montenegro who consider FR Yugoslavia (FRY) to be their >homeland is determined to live in a federation and together with Serbia, and >is against all secessionist aspirations of the current Montenegrin regime, >said Yugoslav Deputy Premier Danilo Vuksanovic. > > Vuksanovic, in an interview to editor in chief of Tanjug Dusan >Djordjevic, said that the Montenegrin regime, which has renegade >characteristics, was preventing the implementation of the Constitution of >Yugoslavia and of Yugoslav laws in the territory of that republic and, with >the strong support of world centres of power, primarily America, is working on >the breakup of the federal state. > > The federal government, according to Vuksanovic, believes it is >possible to resolve problems with the Montenegrin regime in a democratic >manner, and that it will not be obliged to impose its constitutional powers by >force. > > Stressing that the huge majority of Montenegrins will never accept >to live outside Yugoslavia, their natural economic, historical, spiritual and >ethnic environment, he said that option in Montenegro was not supported only >by ethnic Albanians and Muslims, and several percent of those who are pressing >for an independent Montenegro. > > "At the referndum from 1992 almost all voters who turned out were >for a joint state," Vuksanovic recalled , specifying that the creator of the >current splits was the hegemony of America and of other powers, that broke up >the former Yugoslavia, for the sake of realizing their own interests through >small states and their puppet governments. > > "That has not succeeded in Serbia, and it is the only country in >Europe which has its own statehood, does not submit to foreign influence, >wants independence and relations on an equal footing with other countries," >Vuksanovic said. > > He said that the U.S. administration had found in Milo Djukanovic >a favourable personality for the realization of its interests, just as is the >case with opposition leaders in Serbia, Zoran Djindjic, Vladan Batic and Vuk >Draskovic, or Milorad Dodik in Republika Srpska, with whom they can >manipulate. > > Vuksanovic said that "nowhere in the world is there less democracy >than in Montenegro, which is most visible, in the first place in the media, >and in the police, whose number has increased from 2,500 to nearly 20,000." > > "The economic situation is catastrophic, and although salaries are >somewhat higher in that republic, some prices are even two times higher," he >said. > > Pointing out that in Montenegro the only exports are those of the >aluminium complex of Podgorica, of forestry and of the tobacco industry, >Vuksanovic said that the payment of salaries and pensions, in D marks, for 80 >000 pensioners, 20 000 policemen, some 20 000 medical and education staff and >for all the others, is not possible without foreign sponsorship. > > "The Montegerin reality and the payment of pensions and salaries >is dependent on smuggling and foreign aid, for the renegade regime to >survive," Vuksanovic said, commenting last year's introduction of a parallel >currency system in Montenegro. > > Stating the firm conviction that the people of Montenegro is for a >joint state with Serbia, against secessionism and the imposition of the >political will from abroad, Vuksanovic said that was best evidenced by the >patriotic and non-party popular - tribal gatherings. > > He recalled that in the summer of last year it became clear that >at the time of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia (March-June) "the authorities >and the media in Montenegro were a service of the NATO pact," and "the people >started to rally, and formed the Council of popular assemblies. > > In the monastery Moraca, the representatives of 25 traditionally >related tribes formally pledged that they will not observe a single >treasonable decision of the Montenegrin regime or allow the secession of >Montenegro from Serbia, the Yugoslav deputy premier said. > > DIPLOMACY PAVED THE WAY FOR ECONOMY > > BELGRADE, March 12 (Tanjug) - Many times since taking office >Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has stressed that one of the most >important tasks of diplomacy was to pave the way for the Yugoslav economy and >secure markets for our products, construction firms. > > That important job was also evident during the recent visit of the >Yugoslav foreign minister to Asian countries. > > Jovanovic paid official visits to the Democratic People's Republic >of Korea, the Myanmar Union (former Burma) and to the People's Democratic >Republic of Laos, with stop-overs in Beijing and in Jakarta, when economic >links were among the central topics of discussions with his hosts. > > The talks in Pyongyang, Yangun and Vientiane were an opportunity >to get to know better the economic development of the three countries. > > Just as Yugoslavia, in the rebuilding of the country after NATO's >aggression (March-June 1999), the three countries also rely primarily on their >own forces, but are ready to cooperate will everyone in the world who accept >them as equal partners. > > "I expect that contacts and talks of relevant bodies and >businessmen will follow that will give concrete form to our agreements," >Jovanovic said upon return to Belgrade. > > Diplomacy has done its part, the rest is up to businessmen. >Myanmar registers a growth rate of 7-8 percent and has 14 free industrial >zones. It is one of rare developing countries that also exports food. > > The president of the state council for peace and development of >the Myanmar Union Gen. Tan Shwe stressed in talks with Minister Jovanovic that >his state "wishes to use in its development Yugoslav technology." > > Yugoslav products have been present on the market of Burma for 30 >years already, and there are now new opportunities for business for the >factory of railway carriages, of Kraljevo, the factory of cables of Jagodina, >for the firm Minel, the machine and appliances industries and the >ship-building industry. > > Laos, also, has had a continuous annual growth rate of four >percent. It possesses a huge untapped mineral wealth and water potentials and >it exports electric power, since industry is not sufficiently developed and 85 >percent of the population lives in the countryside. > > The president of Laos, Kamtay Siphandone, said that the visit of >the Yugoslav diplomat will be the beginning of a new phase in the relations of >the two countries and of cooperation that will enable the putting into full >use of the potentials of Laos. > > In DPR of Korea, the Yugoslav delegation was able to see the >construction potentials of that country. The subway of the capital of >Pyongyang, 100 meters under ground, with two lines 45 kilometres long, >transports every day 700,000 people. > > In all those countries, a part of the talks was devoted to >creating or updating the legal frameworks for facilitating mutual economic >cooperation. > > Such initiatives of the Yugoslav side have met with approval, >because with all these countries there is a traditional friendship, trust, >years of joint activities in the U.N. and in the nonaligned movement, to what >the current visits have given a new impetus. > > It was with sincere respect that admiration and support was >expressed, as the hosts said, for the heroism of Yugoslavs in the defense of >freedom and independence. All these countries have had since the beginning of >the crisis in the territory of the former SFRY a consistent and principled >stand and they share the position of Yugoslavia about the double standards of >the West in relation to separatism, about the unacceptable abuse of human >rights in order to impose someone else's interests and the importance of >preserving the principles of the sovereignty of states. > > F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN > > J.DIENSTBIER VISITED VRANJE > > VRANJE, March 12 (Tanjug) - Special rapporteur of the U.N. human >rights commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Yugoslavia, Jiri >Dienstbier and head of mission of the U.N. High Commissioner for human rights >Barbara Davis visited on Sunday Vranje, in south Serbia. > > The guests were informed about the situation in that part of >Serbia by Pcinj district chief Caslav Ristic, and the mayors of Vranje and >Bujanovac, Stojadin Stankovic and Stojanca Arsic. > > Speaking about the mixed ethnic structure in the municipalities of >Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo, Ristic said that in the past thirty years in >that region there had been no problems in relations between Serbs and ethnic >Albanians, while lately there have arose, following the intrusions of Albanian >separatists from Kosovo-Metohija, as a result of non-compliance with the U.N. >Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija. > > Since the arrival of the multinational forces in Kosovo and >Metohija (June 1999), to the district have moved 16,780 expelled persons, but >as of recently also present is a feeling of concern, amid attempts of >extremists from Kosovo-Metohija to provoke in that region inter-ethnic >divisions. > > The municipalities of Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo are located on >the administrative boundary with the province of Kosovo and Metohija, where >KFOR and UNMIK are responsible for security. In the past five months, in the >municipality of Bujanovac, Albanian terrorists from Kosovo-Metohija have >carried out 14 armed attacks with explosive devices, mostly within the >five-kilometre protection zone, but also in Bujanovac. > > Diensbier recalled that he personally was against sanctions and >the bombing of Yugoslavia and the overall behaviour of the international >community in Kosovo-Metohija. > > The goal of the international community was multiethnic >Kosovo-Metohija, "and now the result is visible," Diensbier said, critically >speaking about the idea of creating a "Greater Albania." > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > MANILOV: CORRECTIONS OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATION NEEDED > > MOSCOW, March 12 (Tanjug) - Russia considers that corrections need >to be introduced into the peacekeeping operation in Kosovo and Metohija, and >if that does not happen, it will review the issue of its further participation >in the operation, said in Moscow on Saturday the deputy chief of general staff >of the Russian army, Gen. Valery Manilov. > > "That is a very serious issue," he said at a press conference, and >assessed that it was "possible" that the Russian contingent will be withdrawn >from Kosovo and Metohija in case of non-implementation of UN SC Resolution >1244. > > Manilov stressed that Russia "will fight to the end" and use all >political and diplomatic means for the situation in Kosovo and Metohija to >improve. He stressed that Russia's stand had a "quite strong" support of other >members of KFOR. > > "However, if we convince ourselves that all our efforts will >remain without results, if we see that things are moving towards the >dismembering of Yugoslavia "under the flag" of KFOR, we will not take part in >that," the general said. > > Speaking about Russia's relation to NATO, Manilov said that the >military leadership still considered that the plans for NATO's eastward >expansion represent a threat to the national security of Russia. > > "We have been and we remain opposed to the expansion of NATO and >will act against that threat with all means and methods, in conformity with >our national policy and our possibilities, Manilov said. > > ALLIANCE FIGHTS TO PRESERVE COHESION > > BRUSSELS, March 3 (Tanjug) - The principal demand of U.S. >Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who ended her visit Friday evening to >the NATO headquarters in Brussels, was, as the media reported, directed to the >allies to increase the number of troops and policemen in Kosovo and Metohija >and to support the U.N Civilian Mission, which is facing huge difficulties. > > In the talks between Albright and NATO officials it was said that >in the past few months the Western military alliance had withdrawn some troops >from Kosovo and Metohija, so that their number now is about 37,000 troops, ten >thousand less than last fall. > > Many countries started reducing the number of troops and replacing >them slower, and only France has offered to send 700 more troops. > > Albright, however, stressed that all countries have to attain the >number of troops they had pledged for KFOR. > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > ALBANIANS FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA: WE DO NOT WANT INDEPENDENT > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > BELGRADE, March 12 (Tanjug) - Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija >sent on Sunday to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic a letter of support >saying that they will "fight with their Serb neighbours side by side, to prove >to gangs and terrorists that life together is possible." > > Signing their letter with 433 names, Albanians from Kosovo and >Metohija pointed out in the message to President Milosevic that they cannot >watch quietly the "dirty doings" of their fellowmen, who have betrayed both >themselves and their people." > > None has the right to speak in the name of ethnic Albanians who >want to go on living with the Serbs, said the signatories of the message to >the Yugoslav head of state, stressing that they will not allow that they be >"rallied and deceived by Western pawns, whose goal is an independent Kosovo >and Metohija." > > "We clearly say, we do not want an independent Kosovo and >Metohija, we want a community of all ethnic communities, of Serbs and >Montengrins and Turks and others," said the letter, expressing confidence to >the Democratic Reform Party of Albanians that urges the stopping of violence, >crime and anarchy, and the development of Kosovo and Metohija within the >Republic of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia. > > After eleven weeks of bombing of military and civilian targets in >Yugoslavia, during MATO's aggression (March-June 1999), the multinational >troops of KFOR and the civilian administration UNMIK have taken upon >themselves responsibility for security in Kosovo and Metohija. After the >withdrawal of the Yugoslav army and police, in keeping with the provisions of >UN Resolution 1244, the terrorism of the organization of extremist Kosovo and >Metohija Albanians, KLA, fighting with violence for an independent state, has >forced more than 300,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians to leave the province. > > NEW DEADLY ATTACK ON SERBS > > OBILIC, March 12 (Tanjug) - On Saturday afternoon, in the vicinity >of Obilic, nearby Pristina, in Kosovo and Metohija was killed a Serb, Srdjan >Peric (26) from the village of Donja Brnica, whom Albanian terrorists first >shot and wounded, and then killed with an axe. > > Peric was in the fields with three other villagers. Albanian >terrorists opened fire from the village of Mazgit, 3 km away from Obilic. The >crime took place near a motel and only 500 meters from the regional road. > > The other Serbs managed to get away. > > NEW ALBANIAN ATTACKS ON SERBIAN HOUSES IN ORAHOVAC > > ORAHOVAC, March 12 (Tanjug) - Albanian extremists, in two separate >attacks in the night between Saturday and Sunday, threw hand grenades at >Serbian houses in Orahovac, in southeast Kosovo and Metohija, local radio >amateurs reported on Sunday. > > Fortunatly there were no victims. > > The attacks were carried out on the closest Serbian houses in the >so-called separation zone between the Serbian and the Albanian sectors in the >town. > > During the night, an explosion was heard from the direction of a >Roma settlement, but no reports are available about possible victims or >damages. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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