> Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE,10 April 2000 > > C O N T E N T S : > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATION > > - JOVANOVIC RETURNS FROM TUNISIA > > - NOVAKOVIC RECEIVES COPIES OF CREDENTIALS OF RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR > > - NOVAKOVIC RECEIVES COPIES OF CREDENTIALS OF AUSTRALIAN >AMBASSADOR > > F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA > > - CHINESE WOMAN GETS HIGH YUGOSLAV DECORATION > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - INTERNATIONA REACTIONS > > - KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S SECESSION WOULD LEAD TO RETAILORING MACEDONIA > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > - ETHNIC ALBANIANS KILL SERB IN HIS HOME IN GNJILANE > > - ETHNIC ALBANIANS WHO LAUNCHED BAZOOKA ATTACK ON SERBS RELEASED > > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > - NEW YORK TIMES: A CIA OFFICIAL DISMISSED > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATION > > JOVANOVIC RETURNS FROM TUNISIA > > BELGRADE, April 10 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav delegation, headed by >Federal Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, returned from Tunisia to Belgrade >late on Sunday after attending the funeral of Habib Burgiba, the founder and >long-term president of that country. > > At the end of the two-day visit, Jovanovic visited the Sidi Salem >dam on Sunday morning, which was constructed by the Belgrade company >Hidrotehnika. > > On Sunday, Jovanovic also conferred with his Tunisian counterpart >Habib Ben Jahi, and also met with leaders of several other delegations that >had attended the funeral. > > NOVAKOVIC RECEIVES COPIES OF CREDENTIALS OF RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR > > BELGRADE, April 10 (Tanjug) - Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister >Zoran Novakovic on Monday received newly appointed, extraordinary and >plenipotentiary Russian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Valery Yagoshkhin, who >presented copies of his credentials. > > The reception was attended by current Charge d'Affaires of the >Russian Federation in Belgrade, Minister-Adviser Yakov Gerasimov, a Federal >Foreign Ministry statement said. > > NOVAKOVIC RECEIVES COPIES OF CREDENTIALS OF AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR > > BELGRADE, April 10 (Tanjug) - Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister >Zoran Novakovic has received newly appointed, extraordinary and >plenipotentiary Australian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Charles Hamilton Stewart, >who presented copies of his credentials, the federal Foreign Ministry said on >Monday. > > F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA > > > CHINESE WOMAN GETS HIGH YUGOSLAV DECORATION > > BEIJING, April 10 (Tanjug) - The might of the aggression could not >break the heroic Yugoslav people who, led by President Slobodan Milosevic, >resolutely resisted and defended themselves against the aggression, according >to a Chinese political activist on Monday. > > Yi Wen, vice president of the Chinese Association for >international understanding, was speaking at the Yugoslav Embassy in Beijing, >where she received a high decoration, Order of the Yugoslav Star, First Class, >conferred by President Milosevic. > > The decoration was presented by Ambassador to China Slobodan >Unkovic. > > Unkovic said it had been conferred in recognition of Yi's special >contribution to the promotion of friendly relations and cooperation between >Yugoslavia and China, and for her bravery and solidarity shown at the time of >NATO's aggression last spring. Also, said Unkovic, it was a symbol of shared >suffering from the NATO aggression. > > Yi Wen gave warm thanks for the distinction shown her by President >Milosevic, stressing she was deeply honoured to be so singled out. > > The reception at the Embassy was attended by prominent Chinese >figures, including Association Vice President Qien Lizhen, who served two >terms on the Communist Party of China Central Committee and was for years >editor-in-chief of the leading Renmin Ribao paper. > > Also present was a delegation of the Yugoslav Left JUL, which is >paying a several-day visit to China at the invitation of the Association. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - INTERNATIONA REACTIONS > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S SECESSION WOULD LEAD TO RETAILORING MACEDONIA > > MINSK, April 10 (Tanjug) - Kosovo-Metohija's secession from Serbia >and Yugoslavia would pose a threat to Macedonia and, due to Greece's >opposition to the Albanian aspirations, lead to a NATO vs. NATO confrontation, >according to a Russian diplomat on Monday. > > In a text in a Belarus magazine entitled "NATO vs NATO", Vladimir >Lukin analyses NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring, the United >Nations' abortive mission to the Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province >and the west's interference in the Balkans, which he believes might touch off >fresh conflicts in the region. > > According to Lukin, there is a specific plan for detaching >Kosovo-Metohija from Yugoslavia and its rapprochement as an independent region >to Albania with a view to uniting with it into one big state. > > The retailoring of the borders would then continue with Macedonia, >in whose western areas the population is 40 percent ethnic Albanian, in which >case Greece would support east Macedonia, he maintains. In that case, he adds, >NATO would be waging war on NATO, while other regional conflicts would be >exacerbated. > > Warning that the situation in Kosovo-Metohija is extremely bad, he >says there is not much reason for the Russian battalion to stay there. > > Learning from the experience of Kosovo-Metohija, it is extremely >important to consolidate the Russian situation, bearing in mind the situation >in Chechnya, insists Lukin. > > Serious and effective measures are necessary in order to secure >the state's territorial unity and consolidate an armed force of sufficient >strength to protect Russia's borders, he says. > > KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > ETHNIC ALBANIANS KILL SERB IN HIS HOME IN GNJILANE > > GNJILANE, April 10 (Tanjug) - Yet another Serb was murdered in >cold blood by ethnic Albanians in Gnjilane on Sunday, showing that the >international community is evidently incapable of protecting the Serb people >in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province. > > An unidentified ethnic Albanian gunned down Dragoljub Stojanovic, >40, in his home. The man called Stojanovic to come to the gate, allegedly to >discuss sales of his house. When Stojanovic took a few steps toward the gate, >accompanied by his wife, the ethnic Albanian fired several shots at him and >proceeded calmly to walk away in the direction of a checkpoint manned by >international police. > > Stojanovic is survived by his wife and two children. > > As during earlier similar cruel executions of Kosovo Serbs by >ethnic Albanians, the international force KFOR merely recorded all the facts. > > ETHNIC ALBANIANS WHO LAUNCHED BAZOOKA ATTACK ON SERBS RELEASED > > GNJILANE/CERNICA, April 10 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanians who >recently fired three shells from a rocket launcher at Serbs who were playing >soccer near their homes in Cernica near Gnjilane, eastern Kosovo and Metohija >province, were released from detention on the very day they were apprehended, >the KFOR U.S. officer in charge of security in this village said on Sunday. > > The men said their only intention had been to scare the Serbs and >that they were playing a joke on them. After their release, they apologized to >the wounded, the U.S. officer said. > > Several persons were injured in the incident, including two >seriously. > > After the attack in this village with a mixed population in >Serbia's > > southern province, representatives of the international force KFOR >and U.N. civilian mission UNMIK searched ethnic Albanian houses, found the >rocket launcher and detained two ethnic Albanians. > > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > NEW YORK TIMES: A CIA OFFICIAL DISMISSED > > NEW YORK, April 10 (Tanjug) - A CIA official of medium standing >has been dismissed because he was found to be allegedly responsible for the >bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the NATO air strikes on >Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. > > Six other CIA officials received verbal reprimands, New York Times >said on Sunday. Some of them also received a written criticism which will bar >them from getting a promotion or salary raise in the next 12 months. The New >York daily said the decision came 11 months after the bombing of the embassy >in which 3 people were killed and 20 injured, all Chinese citizens. > > In addition to this grotesque decision, the CIA also released a >statement in which it indirectly hinted that the number of responsible persons >is far bigger, but insisted on the fabrication that the bombing had been an >unintentional mistake. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
