> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > (Morning edition) > > BELGRADE, 30 March 2000 > > > YUGOSLAVIA - TRIBUNAL - NATO > > a.. YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT SENIOR OFFICIAL RECEIVES >REPRESENTATIVES OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL TRIBUNAL > b.. INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL RULES AGAINST THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR >AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA > c.. KUZNYETSOV - PEOPLES OF NATO COUNTRIES SHOULD DEMAND >PUNISHMENT FOR AGGRESSORS > NATO AGGRESSION - ANNIVERSARY > > a.. EXHIBITION ON NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA OPENS IN >TRIPOLI > b.. SLOVAK PUBLIC FIGURES CONDEMN NATO AGGRESSION ON >YUGOSLAVIA > YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA > > a.. SERBIAN, CHINESE PTT COMPANIES SIGN COOPERATION ACCORD > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > a.. GEN. PAVKOVIC: YUGOSLAV ARMY FEDERAL AND DEPOLITICIZED >INSTITUTION > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > a.. SINCE 1998, 1,200 PERSONS KIDNAPPED IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - OSCE - REGISTRATION > > a.. REGISTRATION OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA POPULATION BY OSCE >ILLEGAL > > > * * * > > > YUGOSLAVIA - TRIBUNAL - NATO > > YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT SENIOR OFFICIAL RECEIVES REPRESENTATIVES OF >INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL TRIBUNAL > > BELGRADE, March 29 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament Chamber of >Citizens President Milomir Minic on Wednesday received participants in the 3rd >session of the International Social Tribunal for Crimes Committed by NATO in >Yugoslavia. The session was held in Belgrade from March 27-29. > > The Tribunal President, prominent Russian professor of law Mikhail >Nikolayevich Kuznetsov, presented to Minic the court verdict which unmasks >crimes committed by NATO leaders in the aggression on Yugoslavia. > > On behalf of the participants, Kuznetsov informed Minic about the >results of the two-day trial. The NATO aggression on Yugoslavia is a crime >against peace, humanity and international law. It was committed by >international criminals, Kuznetsov said. > > The participants in the International Social Tribunal, which >rallies prominent experts on international law and renowned intellectuals, >expressed to Minic their admiration for the heroism of the people and >Yugoslavia and their unity with the state leadership. > > It was underscored that the tribunal is extremely important in > > unmasking NATO crimes in the genocide against Yugoslav citizens. > > INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL RULES AGAINST THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR >AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA > > BELGRADE, March 29 (Tanjug) - The International Social Tribunal >for NATO Crimes in Yugoslavia on Wednesday established the responsibility of >the organizers and executors of last year' NATO aggression on Yugoslavia after >a two-day session in Belgrade on Wednesday. The Tribunal, headed by President >Mikhail Nikolayevich Kuznetsov, found that the group of NATO members, headed >by their leaders, had breached all principles of international law, violated >the existing world order, and subjected it to U.S. dictates. > > The verdict quotes a series of international documents which have >been violated by the aggression, starting from the United Nations Charter, and >warns against the fact that the accused used banned weaponry in the >intervention, in violation of international conventions and protocols. > > The Court further found that the defendants are guilty of >international terrorism because they bombarded about 20 diplomatic or consular >representative offices and attempted the murders of the Yugoslav President and >Government members. > > The Tribunal said that, with the aggression on Yugoslavia, NATO >was fully revealed as a criminal organization. This indicates that it is >necessary to have it disbanded immediately, to proclaim the accused criminals, >and to compensate for the damage incurred to Yugoslavia in the air strikes, he >said. > > The Hague Tribunal is authorized and obliged to put the NATO >criminals on trial, Kuznetsov said, going on to warn that the United States >and NATO are continuing, after June 10 (the date of the end of the NATO air >strikes on Yugoslavia last year), with illegal activities against Yugoslavia >under the guise of a United Nations peace mission in Serbia's Kosovo and >Metohija province. This is also a crime, he said. > > The Moscow Tribunal carried the verdict after court proceedings, >insight into detailed documents of the Yugoslav Committee for Compiling Data >on Crimes Committed against Humanity and International Law, which hosted the >Tribunal in Belgrade, and also testimonies by numerous witnesses. > > The verdict will be presented to the United Nations, the Brussels >NATO Headquarters, The Hague Tribunal, Interpol, and the courts of countries >whose citizens have been found guilty, Kuznetsov said. > > Experts from Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia, Bulgaria, Mexico, >Poland, Afghanistan, and the United States took part in the work of the Moscow >Tribunal. > > At the end of the session, the Tribunal, which worked according to >the principles of the Nuernberg Trials, concluded that all measures had been >taken for the objective course of the trial and that there had been no >objections during the proceedings. The accused were tried in absentia. > > KUZNYETSOV - PEOPLES OF NATO COUNTRIES SHOULD DEMAND PUNISHMENT >FOR AGGRESSORS > > BELGRADE, March 30 (Tanjug) - The Hague-based International >Criminal Tribunal should condemn leaders of countries indicted for crimes >committed during the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia on the strength of >documents and evidence by the Moscow-based international public tribunal for >NATO war crimes, Mikhail Nikolayevich Kuznyetsov, the Public Tribunal's >President, said on Wednesday. > > The Hague Tribunal, however, clearly neither wants nor dares to do >so, Kuznyetsov said at the end of the Tribunal's session in Belgrade. > > Kuznyetsov stressed that the peoples of the NATO member states >should take justice in their hands and demand that their countries punish >those war criminals. > > Kuznyetsov added that the Tribunal's next step was to set up >cooperation with the European Tribunal based in Berlin and to hold a joint >session with the Tribunal founded by Ramsey Clark, former U.S. district >attorney, in Hamburg, Germany, on June 10. > > Those steps will give an additional impetus to the process, he >said adding that, in the meantime, his Tribunal would probably hold its next >session in Belarus. > > NATO AGGRESSION - ANNIVERSARY > > EXHIBITION ON NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA OPENS IN TRIPOLI > > TRIPOLI, March 30 (Tanjug) - An exhibition of photographs of >crimes committed during the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia last year opened on >Wednesday evening in Tripoli's Central National Library. > > Opening the exhibition, Yugoslav Ambassador to Libya Radomir >Bogdanovich stressed that the aggression on Yugoslavia had been launched only >because the country had opposed the dictate and the occupation of its >territory and had refused to cede Kosovo and Metohija, a part of its sovereign >territory, to invaders and ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists. > > SLOVAK PUBLIC FIGURES CONDEMN NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA > > BRATISLAVA, March 30 (Tanjug) - Slovakia's Slav Circle Society has >organised an event to commemorate the first anniversary of the outset of the >U.S.-led NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. > > Leading Slovak journalists, publicists, artists and other public >figures, who took part in the event, condemned this criminal act by the >world's most industrialised nations. > > Head of the Roots non-party society Wiliam Hornacek said that the >Yugoslav peoples had been the victims of unparalleled aggression launched by >the world power wielders on a democratic, independent and free country. > > Hornacek, a painter and sculptor, said that the Standing >Conference of the Slovak Intelligentsia, which is a civic society, had sent >letters of protest to numerous Slovak and foreign institutions during the >aggression calling for an end to the bombing of Yugoslavia and describing it >as a shameful and uncivilisational act launched in violation of all norms of >international law. > > YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA > > SERBIAN, CHINESE PTT COMPANIES SIGN COOPERATION ACCORD > > BEIJING, March 30 (Tanjug) - Serbia's PTT and Telekom companies >signed here on Thursday an accord on cooperation in the sphere of >telecommunications with China's leading ZTE Zhungsing Telecom company. The >accord was signed by President of Serbia's PTT Company Managing Board Radmila >Andjelkovic and ZTE President Xou Weigue in the presence of Yugoslav >Telecommunications Minister Ivan Markovic and China's Informatics Industry >Minister Wu Jichuan. > > ZTE, based in China's special economic zone Shenzhen, is the >country's leading company in the sphere of telecommunications. > > Markovic and Wu hailed the signing of the accord which is to help >speed up the two countries' cooperation in the domain and the signing of >business deals. Readiness was voiced for further promotion and diversification >of Yugoslav-Chinese cooperation in this major area constituting an important >segment of their relations. It was noted that all conditions had been now >created for a successful and dynamic development of cooperation in the domain. > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > GEN. PAVKOVIC: YUGOSLAV ARMY FEDERAL AND DEPOLITICIZED INSTITUTION > > POZAREVAC, March 29 (Tanjug) - Chief of General Staff of the >Yugoslav Army, Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic said in the eastern Serbian town of >Pozarevac on Wednesday that the Yugoslav Army, as a federal institution, is >ready to fulfil all its obligations in keeping with the country's laws and >Constitution, it is depoliticized and does not favour any party. "This is an >army of the people which must secure stability in the state and the resolving >of all issues at the level of the authorities and legal institutions," he >said. > > "The Army, as a federal institution, is the mainstay around which >further unity should be achieved among all those who care for this country. We >are a guarantor for security and a deterrent for any enemy," Gen. Pavkovic >said. > > "We have demonstrated that we can resist any army which is more >superior militarily-technically. We will modernize our military potential and >intensify training, because national defense rests on people, and not only >weapons," he said. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > SINCE 1998, 1,200 PERSONS KIDNAPPED IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > BELGRADE, March 29 (Tanjug) - The Association of Families of >Kidnapped Persons in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province has documents on >1,200 persons kidnapped by members of the ethnic Albanian terrorist >organization, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), from 1998 until the >present, association members told a press conference on Wednesday. > > Many of the association members have themselves been kidnapped or >abused by the KLA. > > "According to our research, 20 percent of all the kidnapped were >abducted before the NATO aggression (March-June, 1999), five percent during >the aggression itself, and as many as 75 percent since the arrival of the U.N. >mission in Kosovo and Metohija in June last year," Association head Ranko >Djinovic said. > > He specified that 472 cases of kidnapping have been completely >processed, with all data and witness statements, many of whom wish to remain >anonymous since "they still live in Kosovo and Metohija and are mostly of >other nationalities." > > "We have solid evidence for the 472 cases that the people are >alive and in camps, which we have determined are of three kinds and divided >according to regions controlled by various groups for private interests, most >often money," Djinovic said. > > The association will present the lists of kidnapped persons to the >international force KFOR and U.N. civilian mission UNMIK and ask them to >conduct investigations at the given locations, he said. The association has >also knowledge that there are mobile camps, but also permanent ones, and that >they are controlled by former members of the KLA, now members of the so-called >Kosovo Protection Corps. > > The Association has teams for cooperation with the International >Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), UNMIK, KFOR, as well as non-governmental >and other organizations, said Djinovic, since the objective is to discover the >fate of the kidnapped, regardless of nationality. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - OSCE - REGISTRATION > > REGISTRATION OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA POPULATION BY OSCE ILLEGAL > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 30 (Tanjug) - Spokesman for the Serb >National Forum for the Kosovska Mitrovica district Nikola Kabasic said on >Wednesday that Serbs would agree to no registration of the population in the >Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's province announced by the OSCE unless all Serbs >expelled from the Province returned to it. > > Kabasic said that the registration of the population at this point >would only reflect the current state of affairs and would legalise all that >ethnic Albanian extremists and the international community had done in the >Province over the past nine months. > > "Two thirds of the Province's Serb population or at least 250,000 >Serbs have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija and we are nevertheless >expected to take part in some registration," he said. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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