> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > BELGRADE, 5 April 2000 > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > a.. PRIME MINISTER BULATOVIC RECEIVES PAPAL NUNCIO > b.. STUDENT DAY - APRIL 4, MARKED IN BELGRADE > c.. GORICA GAJEVIC RECEIVES CUBAN DELEGATION > NATO AGGRESSION - ANNIVERSARY > > a.. SPANISH ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST ACCUSES NATO OF NEOCOLONIALISM > b.. POLAND'S RAKOWSKI: SERBS STILL DYING IN U.N.-RULED >KOSOVO-METOHIJA > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERBS > > a.. IVANOVIC: KFOR PUNISHES SNV FROM MITROVICA > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR - INCIDENT > > a.. KFOR U.S. TROOPS PROVOKE INCIDENT IN SEVCE VILLAGE > b.. KFOR TROOPS CLASH WITH SERBS IN SOUTH OF KOSOVO AND >METOHIJA > HAGUE TRIBUNAL - KRAJISNIK > > a.. KRAJISNIK TO APPEAR IN COURT ON FRIDAY > b.. RALLY IN BIJELJINA CONDEMNS ARREST OF KRAJISNIK > c.. RUSSIA DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER KRAJISNIK'S ARREST > > > * * * > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > PRIME MINISTER BULATOVIC RECEIVES PAPAL NUNCIO > > BELGRADE, April 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir >Bulatovic received on Wednesday Santos Abril y Castello, the Papal Nuncio in >FR Yugoslavia, who has completed his mission to our country, the Yugoslav >Information Ministry said. > > It was assessed in the talks that the use of force in >international relations represents a failure for mankind and the achievements >of civilization. > > The Yugoslav Prime Minister pointed out that the appeals of the >Holy See and Pope John II sent to NATO countries demanding the cessation of >(last years's, March-June) aggression on Yugoslavia, have remained registered >in the overall efforts of the free and freedom-loving part of the world in >support of peace in Yugoslavia. > > STUDENT DAY - APRIL 4, MARKED IN BELGRADE > > BELGRADE, April 5 (Tanjug) - Student Day - April 4, was marked >late on Tuesday with an event at the Students' Cultural Center of Belgrade, >which was organized by the Belgrade Students' Association. > > Serbian Deputy Premier Milovan Bojic congratulated the students on >behalf of the Republican Government, and wished them much happiness and >success in their life and work. > > "Last year, you spent your holiday amid bombs and brutal >destruction, unrecorded not only in your lifetimes, but even in those of your >ancestors," Bojic said. > > "Many of you at that time joined the fighting ranks to defend the >fatherland from occupation and enslavement. Many of you are today in the >frontlines of the national reconstruction, and many of you will tomorrow >create comprehensive reforms for our whole state and society," Bojic said. > > GORICA GAJEVIC RECEIVES CUBAN DELEGATION > > BELGRADE, April 5 (Tanjug) - Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) >Secretary General received on Wednesday Megalis Arkoya Dominguez, member of >the Federation of Cuban Women Secretariat. > > The guest from Cuba conveyed expressions of solidarity of women >and the entire Cuban people with the citizens of Yugoslavia, pointing out that >Cuba strongly condemned NATO's aggression (last year, March-June) on >Yugoslavia and the hegemonist policy of the United States in its attempt to >impose its interests and goals on freedom-loving peoples of the world. > > Pointing out that Cuba was one of the first victims of U.S. >hegemony, SPS Secretary General pointed out that the wide front of resistance >to violence and tyranny was growing every day in international relations. The >freedom of every individual and the freedom of all states is not an abstract >category, but a real aspiration and essential characteristic of people and a >precondition for development and progress. > > In the talks also took part Omar Medina, Cuban Ambassador in >Yugoslavia and Margit Savovic, President of the Yugoslav Commission for >Cooperation with UNICEF, and for the promotion of the position of women. > > NATO AGGRESSION - ANNIVERSARY > > SPANISH ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST ACCUSES NATO OF NEOCOLONIALISM > > MADRID, April 4 (Tanjug) - NATO's new strategy is aimed at >neocolonisation of the Balkans and the whole world, according to speakers at a >conference in Madrid on Monday. > > The conference was one of many held in Spain lately to mark the >first anniversary of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia, support the sovereignty >and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and condemn the crimes committed by >the United States and NATO. > > The capacity-filled hall was addressed by Pedro Noguerol of the >Anti-War Forum and by Branislav Djordjevic of the Yugoslav-Spanish Friendship >Society (YUESPA). > > Speaking about the current situation in Kosovo-Metohija, Noguerol >said that, despite the presence of the international force KFor and the U.N. >civilian mission (UNMIK), there is terrorism and violence and that Serbian >(Yugoslav) province is being "ethnically cleansed" of its Serbs and other >non-Albanians. > > He stressed that local elections were being planned in a situation >where there is neither security nor laws and UNMIK Chief Bernard Kouchner's >decisions run counter to the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244. > > Furthermore, elections are being planned in a situation where >nearly all non-Albanians have been driven out of the province while more than >200,000 Albanians have been allowed in from neighbouring Albania, Noguerol >added. > > The United States lost this war, and had to agree to the U.N. >presence in Kosovo-Metohija and recognise Yugoslavia's sovereignty and >integrity, he stressed. > > POLAND'S RAKOWSKI: SERBS STILL DYING IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA > > WARSAW, April 5 (Tanjug) - Poland's one-time prime minister on >Wednesday blasted the local press for whole-heartedly supporting NATO's air >strikes on Yugoslavia last spring and continuing a year later to ignore the >disastrous results of the intervention. > > Veteran political and media figure Mieczyslaw Rakowski said that >nearly a whole year had elapsed since the bloody intervention ended and no >peace had come to the region, with Serbs still being killed in the >U.N.-governed Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija. > > Rakowski made his remarks in an article in the Trybuna newspaper, >which according to him is the only Polish paper to have stood apart from the >throng of supporters of the west's allegedly humanitarian armed mission from >the start. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERBS > > IVANOVIC: KFOR PUNISHES SNV FROM MITROVICA > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 5 (Tanjug) - President of the Executive >Council of the Serbian National Council (SNV) of the Kosovska Mitrovica region >Oliver Ivanovic informed on Wednesday reporters that KFOR has rejected the >demand of the Council for providing escort and transportation for the >delegation till Prizren and for a tour of Serbian villages in the Sredacka and >Sirinicka zupa (district) in south Kosovo-Metohija. Ivanovic assessed that the >reason for that was the resolute position of SNV from Mitrovica not to support >the entry of a group of Serbs from Gracanica into the Provisional >Administration Council of Kosovo and Metohija, formed by UNMIK chief Bernard >Kouchner. > > "Behind the typical, unacceptable reaction of arrogant people is >KFOR Commander Gen. Klaus Reinhardt," Ivanovic said, adding that SNV >representatives from Mitrovica will certainly make their tour on Saturday >considering Reinhardt directly responsible for eventual unpleasant >consequences. > > On Tuesday evening, in villages of Sirinicka zupa, KFOR clashed >with Serb villagers, when 20 soldiers and 14 villagers were wounded. > > Ivanovic recalled that the SNV delegation had insisted to also >tour Serbian villages in Vucitrn municipality, south of Mitrovica, because >Serbs there are in an extremly difficult position and because of daily attacks >of Albanian extremists. > > Ivanovic informed journalists that he informed Kouchner's advisers >and representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe >(OSCE) that Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija will not take part in the census >announced by UNMIK for April 17. > > He said that before that it was necessary to fulfil demands for >the return of the expelled, create security conditions for non-Albanians in >the province and that the international community, as he said, shows a >readiness to treat both Albanians and Serbs in conformity with Resolution >1244. > > "Although one day, as part of Serbia and Yugoslavia, we will be >integrated into the new Kosovo society, we do not want by entering Kouchner's >Provisional Administration Coucnil to give legitimacy to what has already been >done for the province of Kosovo and Metohija to develop in the direction of an >independent state," Ivanovic specified. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR - INCIDENT > > KFOR U.S. TROOPS PROVOKE INCIDENT IN SEVCE VILLAGE > > STRPCE, April 5 (Tanjug) - Sixteen villagers and 14 KFOR troops >were injured on Tuesday in an intervention by U.N. civilian mission UNMIK >police and international force KFOR U.S. troops in the Serb village of Sevce, >near Strpce, amateur radio operators said in a report from Serbia's Kosovo and >Metohija province late on Tuesday. > > At about noon, UNMIK police and KFOR U.S. troops started >conducting a search in the village, allegedly looking for furniture and other >items stolen from summer cottages in the municipality of Strpce. As soon as >the first houses were searched, the villagers realized the troops were not >looking for any furniture but for arms. > > The Serbs, who immediately rallied in the village, were further >provoked by the arrest of Zoran Janicevic, and the way the young man was >escorted and treated as a war criminal. > > The indignant villagers then blocked the road along which the >troops had to pass, and about 3,500 Serbs quickly rallied in the area to >demand Janicevic's release. > > Reinforcements soon began to arrive in the form of special assault >units to assist the blocked troops. The special units came with dogs, which >they released at the villagers. However, the Serbs managed to fend off the >police dogs with sticks. > > The KFOR U.S. troops fired at the rallied citizens with rubber >bullets, directly aiming at the people. This inflicted injuries to some >villagers, and others were injured when struck by rifle butts. > > On the side of the KFOR, the injured were marines, the amateur >radio operators said. > > KFOR TROOPS CLASH WITH SERBS IN SOUTH OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > STRPCE, April 5 (Tanjug) - Petar Saric of Kosovo and Metohija's >Serb National Parliament said on Wednesday that a true small war had been >waged between local Serbs in the Sirinicka zupa area, on northern slopes of Mt >Sar separating the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's province from Macedonia, and >over 600 troops of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR late on Tuesday. > > Saric told Yugoslavia's Tanjug news agency that the KFOR troops, >equipped with state-of-the-art materiel, had seized the Serb villages of >Jazince and Sevce, some 30km southwest of Urosevac, in the southeast of the >Province, claiming that they had come to disarm local Serbs. > > Having searched two houses, KFOR arrested a Serb and took him to >Strpce. Local Serbs, however, soon raised the alarm in all 12 villages in the >area, blocking Jazince and Sevce and cutting off the KFOR troops from the >force's other units. > > "All Serbs, including women, children and the elderly, took part >in the action armed with hay-forks, rakes, hoes and stones," Saric said. > > Reinforcements in armoured personnel carriers were sent from the >U.S. base Bondsteel at Urosevac but could not reach the villages by road >because of the blockade. > > Only reinforcements transported by helicopters could reach the >villages and, consequently, something very much resembling an airborne assault >was launched on Sevce resulting in clashes in which scores of KFOR troops and >local Serbs were injured, he said. > > The local Serbs allowed the KFOR troops to go only after the >arrested Serb had returned to the village. > > Saric said that the local Serbs had been singing patriotic songs >urging the U.S. KFOR troops to leave Kosovo and Metohija, saying that Poland's >KFOR troops had responded by applauding them. > > "It would be good for ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija to >know that the U.S. might will be defeated and, if they had realised that on >time, there would not have been a single casualty, neither a Serb nor an >ethnic Albanian, in Kosovo and Metohija," he said. > > HAGUE TRIBUNAL - KRAJISNIK > > KRAJISNIK TO APPEAR IN COURT ON FRIDAY > > ROTTERDAM, April 4 (Tanjug) - Momcilo Krajisnik, former member of >Bosnia's three-man Presidency and R.S. Parliament Speaker who was arrested on >Monday by Bosnia's Stabilisation Force (SFOR), will appear before judges of >the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague on Friday, it was stated in >The Hague. Krajisnik is to say how he pleads on charges of genocide and crimes >against humanity cited in the indictment, brought in against him on February >21. > > The indictment was, however, kept secret until the brutal arrest >of Krajisnik in Pale by French SFOR troops on Monday. > > The charges refer to the period between July 1, 1991, and December >31, 1992. > > RALLY IN BIJELJINA CONDEMNS ARREST OF KRAJISNIK > > BIJELJINA, April 5 (Tanjug) - About 7,000 citizens rallied in >Bijeljina, Republika Srpska, late on Tuesday, to protest against the brutal >SFOR arrest of Momcilo Krajisnik in Pale early on Monday and the existence of >sealed indictments which are not recognized in any legal system. > > The rally was organized by the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), within >its election activities. The general message from the rally is that the arrest >of Krajisnik, one of the founders of Republika Srpska, the first Srpska >Parliament President, a participant in the Dayton Peace Accords, and the first >post-war Srpska member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency, is an assault on >Republika Srpska and all its institutions. > > Speakers at the rally included SDS President Dragan Kalinic, and >SDS Vice-President and Srpska Vice-President Mirko Sarovic. They both stressed >that the international troops SFOR had stepped outside the framework of their >mandate established under the Dayton Accords. > > KRAJISNIK'S ARREST AN OPEN THREAT TO ALL PROMINENT SERBS > > BELGRADE, April 5 (Tanjug) - Political parties, organizations and >associations on Wednesday again most strongly condemned the brutal arrest and >extradition to the Hague of Serb Democratic Party Vice-President and Republika >Srpska former senior official Momcilo Krajisnik. > > The Serbian Writers' Association (UKS) said the demonization and >persecution of the Serb people in this century by the western power centers >had culminated with the arrest of Krajisnik. > > "Without a regular arrest procedure, violating elementary human >rights, including respect of person, they took Momcilo Krajisnik barefoot and >half-dressed to the Hague, in order to humiliate the very Serb nation with >this act," the UKS statement said. > > The vandal arrest of Krajisnik was also condemned by the >association of Serbs from Croatia. The association said the manner, method and >time of his arrest showed how little the Dayton Accords mean to western power >figures, in particular to the United States. > > The Patriotic League of Serbia (PSS) condemned with the deepest >indignation the criminal kidnapping of Krajisnik, one of the most important >figures in the political life of Republika Srpska. > > The mafia-style arrest is proof of disrespect for elementary human >rights, breaches of international law, and violations of the independence and >statehood of Republika Srpska, the PSS said. > > RUSSIA DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER KRAJISNIK'S ARREST > > MOSCOW, April 5 (Tanjug) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on >Wednesday expressed serious concern over the arrest of Momcilo Krajisnik. > > The arrest of one of the leaders of Bosnian Serbs was carried out >in open violation of legal norms and peacekeeper authorities, the statement >said. > > Such steps initiated by the NATO Command undermine the already >fragile situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially in view of the imminent >local elections, the Ministry said. > > The Ministry urged all sides chiefly responsible for the >realization of the Dayton Accords not to take any rash action which would lead >to a destabilization of Bosnia-Herzegovina. > > This will determine the permanence of the achieved results and the >fate of the agreement and inter-ethnic reconciliation, said the Ministry >statement. > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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