> > > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE, 12 April 2000 > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > a.. YUGOSLAV MINISTER SAYS THERE IS NO MEDIA WITCH-HUNT > b.. SERBIAN PARLIAMENT ELECTS DEPUTY SPEAKER, ENDS SESSION > F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RECONSTRUCTION > > a.. MONUMENT TO NATO AIR STRIKES VICTIMS UNVEILED > b.. TOMIC AND MRKONJIC TOURED RECONSTRUCTION SITES > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - UN - OSCE > > a.. UNMIK, OSCE, KFOR BLAST ETHNIC ALBANIAN ANTI-SERB >WARRANTS, CLAIMS > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > a.. SERBS IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN JAIL IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA GO ON >HUNGER STRIKE > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > a.. NEW WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN ORAHOVAC > YUGOSLAVIA - THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL - KRAJISNIK > > a.. YUGOSLAV CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN THE HAGUE VISITS JAILED >KRAJISNIK > NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > a.. BOOK "WHY NATO IS ON TRIAL" PRESENTED IN SKOPJE > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > a.. MONITOR: GERMANY SEEKS WAY TO WITHDRAW FROM KOSOVO AND >METOHIJA > > > * * * > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > YUGOSLAV MINISTER SAYS THERE IS NO MEDIA WITCH-HUNT > > KRAGUJEVAC, April 11 (Tanjug) - All electronic media that have >regular permits and pay their dues for the use of frequencies are broadcasting >without fear of being banned, according to Yugoslavia's Telecommunications >Minister on Tuesday. > > Ivan Markovic told a news conference in Kragujevac that there are >800 media operating in Yugoslavia, which is unrivalled in the world given the >size of the country and population. Of this number, 168 news houses owe 120 >million dinars (1 U.S. dollar fetches roughly 11 dinars), Markovic said. > > Speaking about the current internal situation, he said that, >although a vast majority of people are rebuilding the country after NATO's >devastating aggression last spring, there are also those helping NATO achieve >what it could not achieve with bombs. > > Going on to speak about Yugoslavia's international position, he >said that most states and progressive people support Yugoslavia as a model of >the defence of the country's dignity and sovereignty. > > "The history and tradition of our people have decreed that >betrayal of the country is an evil greater than aggression by an external >enemy," he said. > > SERBIAN PARLIAMENT ELECTS DEPUTY SPEAKER, ENDS SESSION > > BELGRADE, April 11 (Tanjug) - The Serbian Parliament on Tuesday >afternoon elected a new Deputy Speaker and ended the first session of this >year's first regular meeting. > > The new Deputy Speaker is Miladin Zarkov of the Serbian Radical >Party (SRS), an ethnic Bulgarian, and he replaced Istvan Ispanovic of the >Association of Vojvodina's Hungarians, who has recently resigned. > > The session was held in the absence of the deputies of the Serbian >Renewal Movement (SPO). > > Assembly Speaker Dragan Tomic said the body would convene again on >May 3-4 to elect deputies to the Yugoslav Federal Parliament's Chamber of >Republics (upper house) under a new law passed earlier on Tuesday. > > F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RECONSTRUCTION > > MONUMENT TO NATO AIR STRIKES VICTIMS UNVEILED > > GRDELICA GORGE, April 12 (Tanjug) - Serbian parliament Speaker >Dragan Tomic on Wednesday unveiled a monument to the victims of last year's >NATO aggression on Yugoslavia in Grdelica Gorge, near the southern Serbian >town of Leskovac, where 26 people were killed and many more injured when an >international passenger train was bombed on a bridge over the Juzna Morava >river. > > All reconstructed bridges, as a heroic achievement of builders, >are dedicated to the memory of the innocent civilian victims, said Tomic. > > "Their lives have been built into the freedom of the fatherland >and we owe it to them to preserve that freedom for future generations," Tomic >said at a big popular rally held near the bridge, where the monument has been >erected. > > The monument was unveiled at exactly 11.45 a.m., when NATO >aircraft bombed the Belgrade-Saloniki passenger train within the March-June >campaign of aggression. > > "This spring, when we daily remember the victims of last year's >aggression with reverence, when we are paying tribute to them at the >anniversary of their deaths, we are surprised to see that a number of local >political parties are quite openly experiencing NATO's failure to occupy >Serbia as their own defeat," Tomic said. > > Relatives and friends of the victims and a delegation of the >Yugoslav Railways laid flowers and wreaths at the monument in Grdelica Gorge. > > TOMIC AND MRKONJIC TOURED RECONSTRUCTION SITES > > NIS/LESKOVAC, Yugoslavia, April 12 (Tanjug) - Serbia's Parliament >Speaker Dragan Tomic and Reconstruction Directorate chief Milutin Mrkonjic >toured on Wednesday the construction site where a NATO- smashed bridge is >being rebuilt in southeast Serbia (Yugoslavia). > > The bridge on the River Juzna Morava at Trupalske sume forest, >south of Nis, on the Belgrade-Skopje E-75 highway, is to be asphalted, tested >and opened to traffic by April 19. > > Tomic and Mrkonjic toured also the construction site where a >petrol station, bombed by NATO, is being rebuilt at Pukovac on the >Nis-Leskovac highway. > > According to Tomic, work on rebuilding devastation wreaked by NATO >last spring and of developing the country is off to a good start. > > NATO bombed Yugoslavia from March 24 to June 10, 1999, extensively >damaging the infrastructure, industrial and civilian facilities, much of which >has since been rebuilt. > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - UN - OSCE > > UNMIK, OSCE, KFOR BLAST ETHNIC ALBANIAN ANTI-SERB WARRANTS, CLAIMS > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 11 (Tanjug) - International envoys in >the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo- Metohija on Tuesday >unanimously condemned ethnic Albanian media for publishing anti-Serb warrants >for alleged crimes. > > Officials of the U.N. mission (UNMIK) police, the international >force (KFor) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe >(OSCE) were especially critical of the Republican Party of Albanians. > > At a news conference in the UNMIK building in the south part of >ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica, international officials branded >impermissible and undemocratic the posting of the warrants in public places in >that ethnic Albanian-held part of the city. > > There are problems with this party, which has already been making >unsubstantiated charges against people for alleged war crimes while no court >indictments had been brought in against them, according to KFor spokesman >Colonel Patrick Chanliau. > > Col. Chanliau said KFor had demanded that the Republican Party of >Albanians remove all photographs and warrants for Serbs posted in the party's >headquarters in the north, Serb-populated part of the city. > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > SERBS IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN JAIL IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA GO ON HUNGER >STRIKE > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, April 12 (Tanjug) - Serbs held on >remand in the ethnic Albanian district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica went on >hunger strike on Wednesday because of the release of an ethnic Albanian jailed >for bombing attacks. > > Xhejal Ademi was arrested for throwing two hand grenades on a cafe >in the north, Serb-populated part of Kosovska Mitrovica and on the >international force (KFor) securing that ethnically divided city in the >U.N.-ruled Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. > > Twenty-two Serbs and 14 French KFor troops were injured in the >outrage. > > By releasing an ethnic Albanian jailed for a grave crime while >keeping in jail Serbs on lesser charges, U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief >"Kouchner's Albanian justice system segregates the population and conducts >court cases on an ethnic basis," a Serb official said. > > Nikola Kabasic of the Serbian National Council for the Kosovska >Mitrovica District told a news conference that a Serb has been held on remand >for three months now for slashing tires on an UNMIK vehicle. > > Also, Kabasic added, Serbs found in possession of a pistol or a >rifle have been held on remand for six months, and the ethnic Albanian-run >justice department extorts "ransom" of 10,000 German marks. > > According to Serb figures, there were 42 Serbs in the ethnic >Albanian prison as of March 20. > > Kabasic said there was no information if the number has risen, >since the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica and the international community >which appointed the ethnic Albanians to the court are releasing no information >about Serbs under investigation, or about offences they are charged with. > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > NEW WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN ORAHOVAC > > ORAHOVAC, April 12 (Tanjug) - Unidentified ethnic Albanian >arsonists set fire to several Serb houses in Orahovac, and the blaze spread to >an entire district, amateur radio operators in the southern Serbian province >of Kosovo and Metohija said on Wednesday. > > Four Serb houses were burned to the ground and one was partly >damaged in the fire which was planted at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, they said. > > The houses are located just 50 m from a checkpoint manned by >international force KFOR German troops. Eyewitnesses said the troops observed >the fire disinterestedly. > > A large group of Kosovo Albanians rallied in the ethnic Albanian >part of Orahovac to provoke Serbs, and the KFOR again failed to react, the >report said. > > Preparations are under way to move out more Serbs under the >pretext of organizing an alleged humanitarian convoy for the sick and elderly, >the sources said. A bus line from Orahovac to Kosovska Mitrovica was also >recently abolished in order to prevent displaced Serbs from returning to >Orahovac or Velika Hoca, the amateurs said. > > YUGOSLAVIA - THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL - KRAJISNIK > > YUGOSLAV CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN THE HAGUE VISITS JAILED KRAJISNIK > > BELGRADE, April 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Charge d'Affaires in >the Hague Vladimir Novakovic has visited former Bosnian Serb official Momcilo >Krajisnik, jailed by the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia, a >Government statement said on Tuesday. > > Krajisnik, one-time speaker of the (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska >Parliament and member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina three-man presidency, was >brutally arrested by NATO on April 3. > > Novakovic informed Krajisnik about Yugoslavia's severe >condemnation of the NATO outrage and the contents of the letter written by the >Yugoslav Government in this connection to the U.N. Security Council. > > Krajisnik thanked the Yugoslav Government and people for their >support and efforts in his behalf, the statement said. > > NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > BOOK "WHY NATO IS ON TRIAL" PRESENTED IN SKOPJE > > SKOPJE, April 12 (Tanjug) - The book "Why NATO Is on Trial" by >Macedonian authors Zoran Kraljevski and Ivan Stoiljkovic, published by the >Viva Humanitarian Center of Skopje, was presented at the Alexander Palace >Hotel in Skopje on Tuesday. > > In addition to the book, the packed audience also saw a premier >showing of the documentary film "A Shameful Year of Violence" by Zoran >Kraljevski, about the brutal NATO crimes committed during the 78 days of air >strikes on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. > > Addressing the audience, Kraljevski said the book was intended for >those citizens of Macedonia who had had the courage to condemn the NATO >aggression on Yugoslavia, a neighbouring and sovereign country. The many >documents in the book prove that they were right and were not the only ones >who condemned the NATO aggressors. > > Stoiljkovic said Macedonia was not only a witness to the horrific >crimes of the aggressors, but also a victim of the devastating NATO and U.S. >policy. He accused Macedonian officials of having acted contrary to the wishes >of the citizens in giving the aggressors free access to Macedonian territory. > > FROM FOREIGN PRESS > > MONITOR: GERMANY SEEKS WAY TO WITHDRAW FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > SOFIA, April 12 (Tanjug) - The Bulgarian daily "Monitor" said on >Wednesday that Germany was looking for a way to withdraw from Serbia's Kosovo >and Metohija province. > > The fragile consensus in Germany in support of its military >participation in the international forces in the province has begun to topple, >the daily said, quoting the latest research by the independent U.S. >reporting-intelligence agency Stratford of Austin, Texas. > > German statesmen and politicians do not have a clear stand on the >future of this province and thus any serious pressure on the government on >this issue will bring about rapid changes in the German stand on participating >in the entire operation, the daily said. > > Germany will be forced to seek a strategy for a quick withdrawal >from Kosovo and Metohija in order to arrest unfavourable developments both at >home and in international affairs, "Monitor" said. > > "The truce which lasted for one year between the opposition and >the government was broken (in the Bundestag on April 5 this year) when a >Christian Democrat Alliance MP proposed the partition of Kosovo and Metohija. >The proposal was met with protests from deputies and it was found to be >untenable," "Monitor" said. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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