Yugoslav Daily Survey
(Morning edition)
BELGRADE, 13 March 2000
YUGOSLAVIA - CHILE
YUGOSLAV UPPER HOUSE SPEAKER MEETS
WITH CHILE'S NEWLY-ELECTED PRESIDENT
YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
RUSSIA, YUGOSLAVIA MUST REMIND WORLD
OF NATO AGGRESSION - DUMA DELEGATION
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UN
U.N.'S DIENSTBIER SAYS KOSOVO AND
METOHIJA MISSION UNSUCCESSFUL
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS CONTINUE
ATTACKS ON SERBS IN GNJILANE AREA
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STONE SERB
CAR NEAR GNJILANE
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YUGOSLAVIA - CHILE
YUGOSLAV UPPER HOUSE SPEAKER MEETS WITH
CHILE'S NEWLY-ELECTED PRESIDENT
SANTIAGO, March 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Upper House Speaker
Srdja Bozovic met on Sunday with Chile's newly-elected president
Ricardo Lagos.
Bozovic, who is attending ceremonies within Lagos's inauguration in
the capacity of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's special
envoy,
conveyed Milosevic's felicitations and best wishes, voicing
expectation
that the two countries would promote their all-round
cooperation still
further.
Bozovic met also with Ricardo Nunez, senator and leader of Chile's
Socialist Party that is a member of the ruling coalition.
Bozovic and
Nunez discussed developments in Yugoslavia and Chile and ways of
how to promote the two countries' cooperation.
YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
RUSSIA, YUGOSLAVIA MUST REMIND WORLD OF
NATO AGGRESSION - DUMA DELEGATION
MOSCOW, March 13 (Tanjug) - Russia and Yugoslavia must remind
the world about NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 aggression on
Yugoslavia, launched in violation of all norms of international
law, a
delegation of Russia's State Duma (lower house of parliament)
said on
Sunday on arriving in Belgrade.
The delegation intends to review with Yugoslav Government and
Parliament officials preparations for the commemoration of the 1st
anniversary of the NATO aggression.
The delegation, made up of deputy heads of Duma's committee on
international affairs and defence Alexander Shabanov and Gen.
Nikolai
Bezborodov, told Russian reporters that their visit was
primarily aimed
at gaining firsthand information about the ongoing implementation of
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 and the role and position of
Russia's troops participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR in
Kosovo and Metohija.
The delegation's visit has also to do with preparations for a Duma
meeting scheduled for March 17 in which Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
and Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev are expected to take part.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UN
U.N.'S DIENSTBIER SAYS KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
MISSION UNSUCCESSFUL
NIS, March 13 (Tanjug) - The U.N. Human Rights Commission's
Special Rapporteur on former Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier has
said that the
world community is aware that its mission to Kosovo and Metohija has
failed and that a different approach is needed.
Speaking in Nis, in the southeast of the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia,
late on Sunday, Dienstbier said that a vicious circle had been
set in
motion in Kosovo and Metohija because of which it would be very
difficult to find a solution to the issue of Serbia's southern
province.
He said that the situation in the Province could become even more
complicated in the light of the fact that the ethnic Albanian
terrorist
organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and some
ethnic Albanian leaders were openly stating that they were
fighting for
an independent Kosovo and a Greater Albania and against all
trying to
prevent them from achieving their goal.
If international presences in Kosovo and Metohija start to implement
what they have pledged to implement, they could be involved in
the fight
against KLA, he said.
It is evident at this point that the international community is
caught in a
trap of its own making because of mistakes it has been making in the
region for the past ten years, he said.
The international community's goal has been a multi-ethnic
Kosovo and
Metohija, he said adding that its results to date showed that it had
achieved nothing of the sort.
Dienstbier also said that Serbs expelled from the Province wanted to
return to their homes but said it was unclear how to ensure the
safety of
these people because the Province was ethnically mixed and it
was not
possible to secure that each Serb house be guarded by KFOR troops.
He said that pressure was being increasingly exerted on Western
governments no to send their troops to dangerous areas as it had
happened with U.S. KFOR troops who had been sent to intervene in
Kosovska Mitrovica, in the north of the Province, and then had been
withdrawn.
He said that it would not be useful to hold elections in Kosovo and
Metohija at this point, urging again the lifting of the
sanctions against
Yugoslavia. He said that international circles were increasingly
reviewing this possibility.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS CONTINUE
ATTACKS ON SERBS IN GNJILANE AREA
GNJILANE, March 13 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists
torched late
on Saturday a Serb house in the village of Kmetovac at Gnjilane,
Kosovo and Metohija, local radio enthusiasts reported on Sunday.
The house was consumed in the fire despite efforts by troops of the
U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR to extinguish it.
The radio enthusiasts also said that ten ethnic Albanian
extremists had
inflicted serious head injuries on another Serb three days ago.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STONE SERB CAR
NEAR GNJILANE
GNJILANE, March 13 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian extremists on
Sunday afternoon stoned a car belonging to a Serb, on the route
linking
the village of Cernica with the neighbouring village of Partes at
Gnjilane, Kosovo and Metohija, local radio enthusiasts said late on
Sunday.
A mob of ethnic Albanians showered with stones the Ford Escort
car of
this Serb who was returning from Partes to his village of Cernica.
The car was completely destroyed in the attack that occurred in the
section of Cernica populated exclusively by ethnic Albanians.
The Serb was saved by troops of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR.
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