Yugoslav Daily Survey
(Morning edition)
BELGRADE, 27 March 2000
YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
CONSEQUENCES OF
NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA ENDS
APPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE NATO AGGRESSION
YUGOSLAVIA - TRIBUNAL - NATO AGGRESSION
TRIBUNAL FOR NATO WAR CRIMES TO MEET
IN BELGRADE SOON
YUGOSLAVIA - AIRPORT TRAFFIC
GREEK, GERMAN, ITALIAN AIRLINES RESUME
FLIGHTS TO BELGRADE
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YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSEQUENCES
OF
NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA ENDS
BELGRADE, March 27 (Tanjug) - An International Conference on the
Consequences of NATO's Aggression on Yugoslavia ended here on
Sunday after three days of fruitful work during which the
far-reaching significance of Yugoslavia's struggle for independence was
stressed.
More than 90 lectures, excerpts and papers that will be compiled and
published by the Belgrade-based Institute for International
Politics and Economy that organised the Conference, stressed that
Washington's
policy, demonstrated in the former Yugoslavia and in particular
throug the aggression on Yugoslavia, posed a threat to the entire world.
The participants in the Conference including scholars,
publicists and other renowned persons from all over the world underlined
that, through
its military power and by violating all principles and rules of
international relations, Washington wanted to impose a new
world order that would be in the service of its interests but would be to
the detriment of millions of peoples.
They noted that it was vital to encourage scholars,
intellectuals and media to help shed light on the motives of the NATO
aggression until
NATO criminals were brought to justice and until Yugoslavia was paid
war reparations.
Addressing the participants at the close of Conference, professor
Blagoje Babic also made a statement to this effect, saying that the
awareness that it was vital to place international relations and
preservation of peace and security in the world again within the
framework of international law and the U.N. Charter was growing.
Babic welcomed the fact that none of the participants backed
international blockades and sanctions as foreign policy
methods, saying that he was confident that the time would soon come for the
Yugoslav
people to develop normal cooperation, based on the principles
of mutual respect and mutual benefit, also through efforts to this end by
other
peace-loving people in the world.
APPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE NATO AGGRESSION
BELGRADE (Tanjug) - The International Scientific Conference on the
Consequences of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia addressed
several appeals and proposals to the United Nations, research
fellows and academic communities stated below:
I . Dear Colleagues, Our three-day long discussion has inspired
us, as scientists, humanitarians, members of the academic community,
writers
and people with conscience to send an appeal to the Security
Council of the United Nations to reaffirm the universal value of the
principles of
equality of all States and nations, regardless of their size, of the
inviolability of their territorial integrity and sovereignty,
as well as t condemn and to reject the use of force as an inadmissible
method to
resolve international problems, to reaffirm the UN Charter, the
irreplaceable role of this universal world Organization and of the
principles it is based upon. We, as world intellectuals and
scientists call upon the United Nations not to allow to be marginalized and
solution be imposed by illegal means, by use of force, blockade and
sanctions.
Science will hold responsible all those who have rejected by the
aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia, the basic principles of
international law, protection and respect of peace, security and
cooperation, jeopardizing thereby not only the human right to
life and well-being of all Yugoslavs, but have endangered the peace and
future
for all people on our planet. If we remain silent and passive
today faced with aggression and violation of the international legal order,
then all,
including those who are spared today, will become victims.
II. Participants of the International Conference meeting in
Belgrade on 26 March 2000, inter alia, pointed out as follows:
"1. Note that the information on Yugoslavia were by and large
presented in a biased way, without respect for the rules of
even-handedness;
2. Express concern over international demonization, whose victim is
Yugoslavia, the Serbian people in particular;
3. Call on intellectuals to reject outright the one-sided
presentation of the
conflict;
4. Voice concern about the spread to other "disobedient"
countries of the
strategy applied in the break-up of Yugoslavia and forcing it
to join
NATO;
5. Are concerned that the strategy of the force of US
imperialism has
caused the world over, and will cause perhaps tomorrow in other
regions of Eastern Europe, fresh conflicts that may endanger all
mankind in much the same way as did the Axis Powers before World
War Two".
III. Professor Dr. Svetomir Skari_ of the University of Skopje and
Prof. Dr. Elena Guskova, Director of the Centre for Yugoslav Crisis
Studies in Moscow, also put forward a number of proposals concerning
the future work on shedding more light on the motives and
consequences of the NATO war on the FR of Yugoslavia.
First, I propose that the work on collecting data concerning
motives and
carrying out of the NATO aggression against the FRY be
continued. It is
very important that these data be pooled into certain studies
and books.
On the basis of these data we should continue our work on a broader
clarification of the NATO aggression and exchange among ourselves
these data and information.
Second, I propose that we gathered here today at this Conference be
more engaged in our respective countries in encouraging scientists,
intellectuals and media to clarify the motives and consequences
of the
NATO war at internal and international level. We should be more
actively involved on this as long as the International Court of
Justice in
the Hague does it job rightly in the light of the yesterday
statement of
Admiral Schmelling.
Third, the consequences of the war and search for the solution
of the
problems should become topical issues in the studies of the
international
professional associations such as: International Association for
Constitutional Law, International Peace Research Association (IPRA),
International Political Science Association (IPSA), as well as
of all other
international associations in the field of social sciences.
Four, in our studies of the motives and consequences of the
NATO war,
and in finding the ultimate solutions for the prevention of future
aggressions, we should engage broader scientific mission and public
opinion of the Far East, an in particular the scientific
thought and peace
movement of Japan.
As the result of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
particularly as the result of the greater presence of the US
troops in the
Far East, the scientists of Japan have been working very
successfully
for already several decades on a global strategy of the world peace.
Five, I propose that this Conference continue its work the next
year here
or in some other country and become a permanent institution
which will
gather the consciousness of the mankind at scientific and
intellectual
level.
YUGOSLAVIA - TRIBUNAL - NATO AGGRESSION
TRIBUNAL FOR NATO WAR CRIMES TO MEET IN
BELGRADE SOON
BELGRADE, March 27 (Tanjug) - The Moscow-based International
Public Tribunal for War Crimes Committed by NATO in Yugoslavia
will hold its third session in Belgrade on March 28-29. The
session will
deal with war crimes committed by the alliance during its last
year's
aggression on Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Information Ministry
said in a
statement on Sunday. At the close of its two-day session, the
Tribunal,
headed by M.N. Kuznyetsov, will pronounce its sentence on the
strength of evidence collected in Yugoslavia over the past few
months.
Under the Yugoslav Government's decision, the committee on gathering
evidence of crimes against humanity and international law,
chaired by
Zoran Stojanovic, will act as the Tribunal's host, the
statement said.
YUGOSLAVIA - AIRPORT TRAFFIC
GREEK, GERMAN, ITALIAN AIRLINES RESUME
FLIGHTS TO BELGRADE
BELGRADE, March 27 (Tanjug) - Greek airlines Olympic, Germany's
Lufthansa and Italy's Alitalia resumed regular flights to
Yugoslavia on
Sunday.
Belgrade Airport Director General Ljubomir Acimovic said that the
Greek air carrier would fly from Athens to Belgrade and back three
times a week, while Yugoslav airlines JAT would have a direct
flight to
Athens on Wednesdays and would fly to the Greek capital via Salonika
on Thursdays and Sundays. Lufthansa will re-introduce daily
Munich-Belgrade flights, while JAT will have three weekly flights to
Duesseldorf and four to Frankfurt. Alitalia will re-introduce
regular
Milan-Belgrade and Rome-Belgrade flights.
Acimovic announced also the resumption of regular Vienna-Belgrade
flights, saying that the Czech Republic's national airline was
expected to
re-open the Prague-Belgrade line next week. He said that talks
on the
resumption of flights to London and Paris would be soon completed.
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