> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > (Morning edition) > > BELGRADE, 14 March 2000 > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > a.. MILOSEVIC RECEIVES YUGOSLAV ARMY COMMANDERS > b.. SERBIAN GOVERNMENT PASSES REGULATION ON WATER QUALITY >CONTROL > c.. THREE YUGOSLAV MINISTERS VISIT SOUTHERN TOWN OF PROKUPLJE > d.. MINISTER VUCIC RECEIVES LONDON ALLIANCE OFFICIAL >GAVRILOVIC > YUGOSLAVIA - JAPAN > > a.. SERBIAN MINISTER RECEIVES JAPANESE UNIVERSITY DELEGATION > YUGOSLAVIA - ROMANIA > > a.. SERBIAN MINISTER BLASTS NEIGHBOUR AS ECOLOGICALLY >IRRESPONSIBLE > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - RUSSIA > > a.. YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL HOLDS TALKS WITH DELEGATION OF RUSSIA'S >DUMA > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > a.. PORTUGUESE PAPER BLAMES E.U. MISTAKES FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA >PLIGHT > b.. BULGARIAN PAPER CRITICISES STATE LEADERS FOR DECISION TO >DECORATE SOLANA > > > * * * > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > MILOSEVIC RECEIVES YUGOSLAV ARMY COMMANDERS > > BELGRADE, March 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President and Supreme >Commander of the Yugoslav Army Slobodan Milosevic on Monday received senior >military officials who have been appointed to new posts, the President's >Military Cabinet said. > > Welcoming the new officials, Milosevic highly praised their work >so far, whose merit he said had resulted in them being entrusted with the most >responsible duties in the Yugoslav Army. > > The results of combat training of units, commands and institutions >of the Yugoslav Army best confirmed the capabilities and qualities of the >officer staff when it was most needed - in defending the country from the NATO >aggressors (March 24-June 10, 1999), when patriotism, moral values and >professional skills were prominent, Milosevic said. > > Yugoslavia has firmly opted for peace and development in freedom >as the greatest national interests, and it is resolved to defend them with any >means available, he said. > > Lt. Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic, Yugoslav 3rd Army Commander, thanked >Milosevic for the entrusted confidence. He said the new officers would >continue duly to perform all given tasks, constantly strengthening the >solidity of national defense as the best guarantee for preserving the >sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Yugoslavia. > > The reception was attended by Yugoslav Defense Minister General of >the Army Dragoljub Ojdanic, Chief of General Staff of the Yugoslav Army Gen. >Nebojsa Pavkovic, and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Svetozar Marjanovic. > > The following officers were appointed to new posts by decree of >President and Supreme Commander Milosevic: > > Lt. Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic - Yugoslav 3rd Army Commander, > > Lt. Gen. Miodrag Simic - Assistant Chief of General Staff for >operations and headquarters, > > Lt. Gen. Ljubisa Stojimirovic - Assistant Chief of General Staff >for the Army, > > Lt. Gen. Branislav Petrovic - Assistant Chief of General Staff for >the Air Force and Air Defense, > > Maj. Gen. Nikola Grujin - Chief of Air Force administration of the >General Staff Department for Air Force and Air Defense, > > Maj. Gen. Grujica Uskokovic - Assistant Chief of General Staff for >Communications, Informatics and Electronic Action, > > Lt. Gen. Stamenko Nikolic - Assistant Chief of General Staff for >Completion, Mobilization and System-related Affairs, > > Maj. Gen. Milan Karajovic - Chief of Personnel of General Staff, > > Maj. Gen. Momir Vukadinovic - Yugoslav 1st Army Chief of Staff, > > Lt. Gen. Negosav Nikolic - Yugoslav 3rd Army Chief of Staff, > > Lt. Gen. Mladen Karanovic - Air Defense Corps Commander of the >Yugoslav Air Force and Air Defense, > > Col. Milivoje Vranic - Chief of Administration of the Artillery of >General Staff, > > Maj. Gen. Bozidar Delic - Yugoslav 1st Army Belgrade Corps >Commander, > > Maj. Gen. Ilija Isak - Yugoslav 1st Army Novi Sad Corps Commander, > > Col. Stojan Markovic - Yugoslav 3rd Army Nis Corps Commander, > > Col. Vladan Marjanovic - Chief of Staff of Command of the Air >Force Corps of the Air Force and Air Defense, > > Col. Milomir Miladinovic - Yugoslav 1st Army Drina Division >Commander. > > SERBIAN GOVERNMENT PASSES REGULATION ON WATER QUALITY CONTROL > > BELGRADE, March 13 (Tanjug) - At Monday's session chaired by >Premier Mirko Marjanovic, the Serbian Government passed a regulation on >systematic water quality control in the year 2000. > > The regulation defines water quality parameters and the extent, >type and frequency of control of the quality of the waters of rivers, springs, >storage lakes and underground water on the territory of this Yugoslav >Republic. > > THREE YUGOSLAV MINISTERS VISIT SOUTHERN TOWN OF PROKUPLJE > > PROKUPLJE, March 13 (Tanjug) - Three Yugoslav Ministers discussed >regional economic development with local politicians and businessmen in the >southern Serbian (Yugoslav) town of Prokuplje on Monday. > > Visiting the Toplica region, where Prokuplje is located, were >Ministers Ivan Markovic (telecommunications), Borka Vucic (foreign financial >cooperation) and Bratislava Morina (refugee affairs). > > "We are today witnessing the whole world - as embodied in the U.S. >Administration - being unable to bring law and order to (the Yugoslav Republic >of Serbia's U.N.-ruled province of) Kosovo- Metohija," Markovic said. "Their >incompetence is quite evident," he stressed, adding that those who call >themselves the opposition work to the orders of foreign invaders who bombed >this country. > > Borka Vucic, in turn, said the future of the country's banking >system lay in creating a big and powerful bank through bank integration. > > Bratislava Morina, for her part, promised to do everything for 400 >refugee families in the worst need to get accommodations as soon as possible. >There are about 17,000 refugees and displaced people from Kosovo- Metohija in >the Toplica region, it was said at the meeting. > > MINISTER VUCIC RECEIVES LONDON ALLIANCE OFFICIAL GAVRILOVIC > > BELGRADE, March 13 (Tanjug) - Serbian Information Minister >Aleksandar Vucic on Monday received Mihailo Gavrilovic, Co-Chairman of the >British-Serbian Alliance of London. > > Gavrilovic informed Vucic about activities by Serb organizations >and individuals in Great Britain aimed at better and more objective informing >of the local public about the effects of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia of >last spring, and the long-term economic sanctions against Yugoslavia and its >population. > > A large number of British organizations which were against the >aggression are now engaged in the media struggle for the truth about the >aggression and the committed crimes, he said. They are also organizing >concrete actions aimed at securing the lifting of the sanctions and helping >remove the consequences of the ravage of Serbia. > > Vucic informed Gavrilovic about the efforts of the Information >Ministry to present to the foreign public the consequences of the NATO >aggression, the situation in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija Province, and the >current pressures by part of the international community on Serbia as a >continuation of this aggression. > > YUGOSLAVIA - JAPAN > > SERBIAN MINISTER RECEIVES JAPANESE UNIVERSITY DELEGATION > > BELGRADE, March 13 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister of Science and >Technology Branislav Ivkovic received on Monday delegations of Japan's Chuo >University of Tokyo, headed by Chancellor Koji Suzuki, and of Belgrade >University, headed by Chancellor Jagos Puric. > > Ivkovic stressed the importance of cooperation between the two >universities, started many years ago. He pledged the Ministry's financial and >personnel support to all joint protects, it being of great importance that the >young generations in the two countries continue and diversify cooperation. > > Suzuki, in turn, also stressed the importance of cooperation >between the young people, who would be the ones to build the new century. > > YUGOSLAVIA - ROMANIA > > SERBIAN MINISTER BLASTS NEIGHBOUR AS ECOLOGICALLY IRRESPONSIBLE >KIKINDA, March 13 (Tanjug) - Serbia's Minister for the Environment said on >Monday that last week's > > new spillage of toxins from a mine in neighbouring Romania into >the river Tisa was not an accident, but irresponsible behaviour on the part of >the neighbour. > > According to Minister Branislav Blazic, the international >community should finally condemn Romania for causing environmental disasters. > > Blasic said the Tisa was carrying towards Yugoslavia 20,000 tonnes >of heavy metal-contaminated sediment from the Romanian mine. He added that, >"if the first time we believed there was an accidental spillage of dangerous >toxins into the Tisa, this time it was clearly not an accident." > > The Tisa was first polluted on January 31, when cyanide was >spilled from a Romanian-Australian gold mine at Baia Mare, permanently and >gravely affecting life-forms in the river. The Tisa flows through Hungary and >Yugoslavia, and in Yugoslavia joins the Danube, whose water and life-forms >were affected, too. > > The international community, which professes to care for the >environment equally in all parts of the globe, should finally raise its voice >and sanction Romania, which increasingly frequently causes environmental >problems, according to Blazic. > > He dismissed as irresponsible Romanian Minister for the >Environment Romika Tomescu's statement that danger from the latest pollution >was low. > > "I suppose it would be treated as a catastrophe if people were >poisoned," he said, pointing out that the international community would >immediately pillory Serbia if anything like this happened here. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - RUSSIA > > YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL HOLDS TALKS WITH DELEGATION OF RUSSIA'S DUMA > > PRISTINA, March 14 (Tanjug) - Head of the Yugoslav Committee on >Cooperation with the U.N. mission to Kosovo and Metohija Ambassador Stanimir >Vukicevic met here on Monday with a delegation of Russia's State Duma (lower >house of parliament). > > Vukicevic informed the delegation, made up of deputy head of the >Duma Foreign Policy Committee Alexander Shabanov and deputy head of its >Defence Committee Gen. Nikolai Bezborodov, of the situation in Kosovo and >Metohija, stressing the critical position of Serbs, Montenegrins and other >non-Albanians as regards their security. > > He said that more than 360,000 people, of whom over 250,000 were >Serbs and Montenegrins, had fled the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's southern >province since the deployment of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR, while over >250,000 Albanians, mainly criminals, had illegally crossed into the Province >because hardly anyone controlled the state border with Albania and Macedonia. > > He criticised the work by the U.N. mission, saying that it did not >do its job within the mandate given it under U.N. Security Council Resolution >1244. > > Decisions taken by the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy >Bernard Kouchner and the activity of the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) and the >OSCE within preparations for the registration of the Province's population >ahead of elections show that the mission has overstepped its mandate, he said. > > > Vukicevic also said that ethnic Albanian terrorists' activities in >the Istok sector, in the northwest of Kosovo and Metohija, were especially >dangerous because they threatened to destabilise the situation in the areas of >Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, all located just outside the Province. > > The two Duma officials agreed with assessments made by Vukicevic, >especially those concerning UNMIK's and its chief Kouchner's activity, saying >that Duma was carefully monitoring developments in Kosovo and Metohija. > > Shabanov said that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija reflected >the continuation of NATO's aggression through different methods, mainly the >political, ethnic and economic. > > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > PORTUGUESE PAPER BLAMES E.U. MISTAKES FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA PLIGHT > > LISBON, March 13 (Tanjug) - The situation in U.N.-ruled Kosovo- >Metohija reflects big mistakes in the foreign policy of the European Union, >according to a leading Lisbon newspaper on Monday. > > In a lengthy commentary by politician and journalist Jose Pereira, >the Publico newspaper traces a connection between the situation in that >province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia and the grave crisis it says >plagues the European "fifteen." > > Pereira says the western military intervention in Yugoslavia last >spring, supported as it was by a large-scale campaign of disinformation and >loud propaganda which is not proper to democracy, was far removed from >reality. > > In the view of the renowned Portuguese analyst, it consisted of a >series of political moves based on total ignorance of the Balkan reality. > > The results are easy to see today, according to Pereira, for many >years deputy to the Portuguese Parliament and now member of the European >Parliament. > > BULGARIAN PAPER CRITICISES STATE LEADERS FOR DECISION TO DECORATE >SOLANA > > SOFIA, March 14 (Tanjug) - Bulgaria's daily Monitor proposed on >Tuesday that the country's leaders and Parliament introduce new decorations of >the highest order after a recent decision to award current decorations of this >kind to former NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana and NATO Supreme Commander >Gen. Wesley Clark who are responsible for the Alliance's aggression on >Yugoslavia last spring. > > The country's leading political daily speculated in a two-page >article as to who would accept these decorations now that President Petar >Stoyanov had awarded one to Solana allegedly for his contribution to peace in >the Balkans. > > The paper called attention to the fact that more than 2,000 >civilians were killed in NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, >saying that the victims mainly included women, children and the elderly. > > The paper also called attention to civilians brutally killed by >alliance bombs in Varvarin, Aleksinac, the Grdelica Gorge, Djakovica and other >localities, carrying a chronology of NATO's 78-day round-the-clock air raids >on peaceful Serbian and Montenegrins towns and villages. > > Monitor quoted figures showing that 1,200 NATO aircraft had taken >part in the bombing, that they had flown 26,280 sorties, fired 10,000 missiles >and dropped 2,900 highly powerful bombs, that in attacks on mainly civilian >targets 21,700 tons of powerful explosive had been dropped, including 152 >containers with 35,450 cluster bombs that are banned under relevant >international conventions. > > In the light of the fact that Yugoslavia has a population of 10.5 >million, it is almost as if 2 kg explosive had been dropped on each of its >citizens, the paper said. > > During the NATO aggression, 2,000 civilians were killed, of whom >610 were children, while 6,000 people were wounded, of whom 2,400 were >children, the paper said. > > In recognition of these 'acts,' from which Bulgaria is supposed to >have benefited, its leadership has decorated the persons responsible for them, >the paper ironically commented. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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