> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE, 2 April 2000 > > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION > > a.. BOZOVIC SEEKS DUE IMPLEMENTATION OF U.N. RESOLUTION 1244 > b.. DACIC: DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF AGGRESSION AND SANCTIONS >AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA > c.. MINISTER MARKOVIC: QUICKLY INTO REALIZATION OF BUSINESS >DEALS AND PROJECTS > d.. MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT TRAJKOVSKI RECEIVED YUGOSLAV STATE >PROSECUTOR JOKANOVIC > e.. EXHIBITION OF FRESCOES OF SERB MONASTERIES OPENED IN >VENICE > f.. LENARD'S ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ, JORDAN AND EGYPT > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > a.. HALITI: NOT EVEN ELEMENTARY CONDITIONS EXIST FOR A CENSUS >IN KOSOVO > b.. ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUNDED A SERB > c.. EXPELLED KOSOVO EGYPTIANS STAGED A PROTEST IN BERLIN > NATO AGGRESSION - ANNIVERSARY > > a.. COMMEMORATION FOR NATO VICTIMS HELD IN SALONIKA > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > a.. 'THE SUNDAY TIMES': LIES ABOUT "OPERATION HORSESHOE" REACH >BRITAIN > > > * * * > > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION > > BOZOVIC SEEKS DUE IMPLEMENTATION OF U.N. RESOLUTION 1244 > > PARIS, April 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament Chamber of Republics >President and head of the Yugoslav group of the Interparliamentary Union Srdja >Bozovic, who heads the Yugoslav parliamentary delegation to the 3rd >Interparliamentary Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean >underway in Marseilles, on Saturday urged participants to voice unconditional >support for the due implementation of United Nations Security Council >Resolution 1244. > > In a speech at the plenary session, Bozovic underscored that the >conference was underway at the time of the anniversary of the onset of the >NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. This was an anticivilizational act, >unprecedented in modern European history, he said. > > Yugoslavia was the victim of a brutal experiment whose main >objective was to legalize a new doctrine of interventionism, the violation of >principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of states and the rights >of citizens and peoples to live in a state according to their own ideas and >interests, he said. > > The misfortune which Yugoslavia suffered could tomorrow be thrust >upon some other nation or state in the Mediterranean or in some other corner >of the world, he said. > > Can one speak of the Mediterranean as an oasis of peace and >security when foreign military troops and the so-called civilian mission are >grossly violating U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija >in the territory of that Serbian province in the state of Yugoslavia, a member >of the United Nations and the Interparliamentary Union, Bozovic asked. > > DACIC: DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF AGGRESSION AND SANCTIONS AGAINST >YUGOSLAVIA > > PARIS, April 2 (Tanjug) - Federal Parliament MP Ivica Dacic, a >member of the Yugoslav parliamentary delegation to the 3rd Interparliamentary >Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean underway in >Marseilles, in a report on Saturday condemned the enforcing of a model of >globalization of international relations and warned against the devastating >consequences of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia and the maintaining of >sanctions against Yugoslavia. > > The enforcing of a model of globalization of international >relations, the method of sanctions and restrictions, and the isolation of >certain countries, all lead to inequality and present a special form of >violation of elementary rights and the realization of civil freedoms, Dacic >warned in his speech at the plenary session. > > Yugoslavia is a blatant example of a victim of such a policy, >which has been holding that country and its people under a regime of >discriminatory sanctions for almost 10 years, he said. > > The maintaining of the sanctions prevents a stable and dynamic >development of Yugoslavia's economy and inflicts severe damage to >economic-social life, he said. > > The conference will close on Monday. It is attended by MP's from >24 countries of the Mediterranean, representatives of interparliamentary >associations, and parliaments of other countries as associate members or >observers. > > MINISTER MARKOVIC: QUICKLY INTO REALIZATION OF BUSINESS DEALS AND >PROJECTS > > BEIJING, April 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Telecommunications Minister >Ivan Markovic said in Beijing on Sunday at the end of his four-day working >visit to China, that the Yugoslav citizens and leadership have sincere and >true friends in the Chinese people and leadership. > > During the visit, the companies JP PTT Srbija and Telekom Srbija >signed an Agreement on business cooperation in all areas of telecommunications >with the leading Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Zhungsin Telecom, >whose realization has already begun. > > In a statement to the Tanjug correspondent in Beijing, Markovic >said he was especially happy that, in his meetings in Beijing, the Yugoslav >initiative for the union of all freedom-loving peoples of the world and the >idea to set up a forum of freedom-loving parties and movements had been >accepted entirely and without reservations. > > The movement of freedom-loving countries should rally countries, >at the level of heads of state or government, to urge a multipolar world and >the preservation of the United Nations, which should become a democratic >parliament of equal states, said Minister Markovic. > > The forum is expected to be set up in Belgrade in October. It >should be attended by over 100 parties, movements and prominent individuals >from the whole world, he said. > > Markovic said cooperation between Yugoslavia and China in the area >of telecommunications, as part of the successful overall cooperation between >the two countries, has very good prospects. He expressed satisfaction with the >speed with which business deals have been realized so far. > > MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT TRAJKOVSKI RECEIVED YUGOSLAV STATE PROSECUTOR >JOKANOVIC SKOPJE, April 2 (Tanjug) - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski >received Yugoslav State > > Prosecutor Vukasin Jokanovic in Skopje on Saturday. > > Jokanovic arrived in Macedonia on the occasion of the 55th >anniversary of the forming of the public prosecutor's office of this republic. > > > After the meeting, Jokanovic said Trajkovski had urged the >promotion of cooperation between the two countries, underscoring that all >necessary conditions for this existed. > > The meeting was attended also by public prosecutors of Macedonia, >Bulgaria and Albania, who are participants in the ceremony which will mark >this anniversary at Skopje's Alexander Palace Hotel. > > During the visit to Macedonia, Jokanovic also held talks with >public prosecutors of neighbouring countries. In these contacts, participants >confirmed the resolve of Balkan countries jointly to fight crime which, >Jokanovic said, does not recognize boundaries. This cooperation was recently >confirmed in a document which was signed by representatives of prosecutor's >offices of Balkan countries at a meeting in Ohrid, Macedonia. > > Prosecutor's offices and judicial bodies of Balkan countries >cooperate successfully, respecting the Ohrid document, Jokanovic said, >underscoring that there was particularly good cooperation between judicial >bodies of Yugoslavia and Macedonia. > > EXHIBITION OF FRESCOES OF SERB MONASTERIES OPENED IN VENICE > > VENICE, April 2 (Tanjug) - A representative exhibition of copies >of frescoes from 13th century Serb monasteries opened at the Doge's Palace in >Venice on Saturday. > > The exhibition was organized by the Yugoslav Department for >International Scientific, Educational, Cultural, and Technical Cooperation and >the National Museum of Belgrade, in cooperation with the Venice Directorate >for Cultural Goods. > > The symbolic title of the exhibition is "Between the two Adriatic >coastlines, art in 13th century Serbia and Italy". The exhibition presents 25 >copies of the most prominent frescoes of the monasteries Sopocani, Gradac, St. >Apostles, Studenica, Moraca, Milesevo, and Arilje, all from the collection of >frescoes of the National Museum, made by the best Yugoslav artists. > > Opening speeches were delivered by art historians Emanuela Socceta >and Lionella Puppi, and architect Franca Marina Fressa, and the opening was >attended by Yugoslav Consul in Trieste Vladislav Radulovic. > > Within the opening of this exhibition, a round table was also held >on Saturday on the topic "War and Cultural Heritage". Darko Tanaskovic, a >professor at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade presented >a noted report. > > LENARD'S ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ, JORDAN AND EGYPT > > BELGRADE, April 2 (Tanjug) - Parties of the left and progressive >orientation in Arab countries urge a multipolar world and the reaffirming of >principles of international law which should be based on respect for >sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in the internal >affairs of other states, and equality of people, nations and states. > > This is the basic message from talks held by Tatjana Lenard, the >president of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) Directorate Committee for International >Cooperation, with leading figures and representatives of the Baath party of >Iraq and Jordan, the United Left of Jordan and the Progressive Unionist Party >of Egypt, said a statement by the Directorate committee on Sunday. > > In the meetings that Lenard held in Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, >participants condemned the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia and all other >pressures, and paid tribute to the heroic resistance of the Yugoslav people >and their leadership in war and peace against any form of blackmail or >dictate. > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > HALITI: NOT EVEN ELEMENTARY CONDITIONS EXIST FOR A CENSUS IN >KOSOVO > > PRISTINA, April 2 (Tanjug) - Kosovo and Metohija Provisional >Executive Council member Bajram Haliti told Tanjug on Sunday that it is >evident that not even elementary conditions exist for a census within >preparations for the upcoming elections in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija >province, given the constant terrorism, the ethnic cleansing of non-Albanians, >the lack of conditions for the return of 350,000 expelled persons, and the >illegal presence of hundreds of thousands of foreign citizens in the province. > > > Haliti urged Romanies, who had numbered 150,000 in the province >before the arrival of the international force KFOR in June 1999, to boycott >any attempts at urging imminent elections in the province until elementary >conditions for this are set - solid peace and stability based on United >Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. > > Haliti said Romanies had no reason to be interested in a census, >as they had been proclaimed ethnic Albanians during the 1971 and 1981 >censuses, along with ethnic Turks and Muslims, through unprecedented pressure >and manipulations by ethnic Albanian secessionists in order to provide alleged >evidence of their large numbers. > > ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUNDED A SERB > > KOSOVSKA VITINA/VRBOVAC, April 2 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian >terrorists wounded Serb Apostol Rakic, 65, in an armed attack on the local >road Mogila-Vrbovac at about 8 p.m. on Saturday, amateur radio operators >reported from Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province on Sunday. > > After the attack, the terrorists fled in their automobile in the >direction of the ethnic Albanian-populated village of Djelekare. > > Rakic was wounded in the arm. He was treated for the wound at the >U.S. Bondsteel base near Urosevac, and was admitted to the hospital for >further treatment. > > Serbs from this area of the province link the frequent ethnic >Albanian terrorist attacks with the presence of notorious terrorist Sadam >Fayza of Mogila, who was recently released from prison. > > As soon as they heard about the incident, Serbs went into the >streets of Vrbovac and blocked all roads through the village, protesting >against ethnic Albanian terrorists, but also against the international force >KFOR which is deliberately lenient in securing and controlling checkpoints, >thus enabling ethnic Albanian terrorists to launch attacks on Serbs and >subsequently to escape, the radio amateurs' report said. > > EXPELLED KOSOVO EGYPTIANS STAGED A PROTEST IN BERLIN > > BERLIN, April 2 (Tanjug) - The Balkan Union of Egyptians in the >West, presided by Robertina Arifi Asouri, organized a rally in Berlin on >Saturday in protest against the expulsion of ethnic Egyptians and other >non-Albanians from Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province. > > The protest was attended by about 2,000 people. > > Kosovo Egyptians sent telegrams from the rally to the United >Nations Security Council, special rapporteur on human rights Jiri Dienstbier, >and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, warning against the >dangers of the humanitarian disaster in Kosovo and Metohija. > > It was pointed out to governments of European Union countries that >ethnic Albanians have expelled a large number of members of the national >community of Egyptians from Kosovo and Metohija. The European Union was asked >not to repatriate expelled Kosovo Egyptians before security conditions are met >for their return to the southern Serbian province. > > NATO AGGRESSION - ANNIVERSARY > > COMMEMORATION FOR NATO VICTIMS HELD IN SALONIKA > > ATHENS, April 2 (Tanjug) - A commemoration for victims of the NATO >aggression on Yugoslavia was held at the church of St. Constantine and Helen >in Salonika on Sunday morning. > > Prayers for all those killed in Yugoslavia in NATO air strikes >last spring were attended by more than 2,000 citizens of Salonika, including >Yugoslavs who live in this town, representatives of local authorities, public >and political figures, as well as Yugoslav Consul in Salonika Borko Dujakovic >and his associates. > > The commemoration, one in a series of events with which Salonika >is marking the anniversary of the onset of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, >was organized by the Yugoslav diaspora and the Society of Greek-Serb >Friendship St. Sava of Salonika, and with great support and help from the >Salonika bishopric of Neapoli-Stavropoli. > > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > 'THE SUNDAY TIMES': LIES ABOUT "OPERATION HORSESHOE" REACH BRITAIN > > LONDON, April 2 (Tanjug) - German lies about ethnic cleansing of >local Albanians from Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province according to a >operation dubbed "horseshoe" have reached Great Britain, but they are an >absolute fabrication, 'The Sunday Times' said in an article on Sunday about >these allegations. > > The story about alleged "operation horseshoe" was launched when >the dissatisfaction of the public over the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia >reached a critical point, especially in Germany, 'The Sunday Times' said. > > The fabrications were launched by German Foreign Minister Joschka >Fischer, but the real author was Defense Minister Rudolph Scharping. The story >somewhat pacified the public uproar, the weekly said. > > Retired German general Heinz Loquai, however, has now proven that >the story had been a fabricated and deliberate lie. The principal source of >the story is believed to have been a Bulgarian intelligence service report, >but that was forged also in Germany, 'The Sunday Times' said. > > Originally, the Bulgarian intelligence report spoke about plans of >the Yugoslav Army and police to break up the ethnic Albanian terrorist >organization, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and not about >alleged ethnic cleansing, the weekly said. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
