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> Yugoslav Daily Survey
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> BELGRADE, 13 April 2000
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> a.. PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
> b.. PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR
> c.. POST-NATO-WAR YUGOSLAVIA HAS URANIUM LEVELS 1,000 TIMES
>ABOVE NORMAL
> d.. SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVED BELGRADE AND SRPSKO SARAJEVO
>UNIVERSITY CHIEFS
> e.. YUGOSLAVIA REGISTERED FOREIGN CAPITAL INFLUX OF C. 100
>MILLION GERMAN MARKS
> f.. YUGOSLAVIA COMMEMORATES WW II BATTLE
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - LIBYA
>
> a.. YUGOSLAVIA HAD ITS DAY AT TRIPOLI FAIR
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - SLOVAKIA
>
> a.. THREE SLOVAK DELEGATIONS VISITED BELGRADE
> b.. SLOVAK ENTREPRENEURS OPENED TALKS AT YUGOSLAV CHAMBER OF
>COMMERCE
> c.. SERBIAN SOCIALIST OFFICIAL PERCEVIC RECEIVED SLOVAK
>DELEGATION
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> a.. SERBS IN ORAHOVAC SEVER TIES WITH KFOR AND UNMIK
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
>
> a.. ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS SET SERB HOUSE ON FIRE
> FROM FOREIGN PRESS
>
> a.. AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA AIMED AT PRESERVING NATO
>CREDIBILITY
>
>
> * * *
>
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
>
> BELGRADE, April 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan
>Milosevic received on Thursday Russia's new Ambassador Valery Yegoshkin, who
>presented his credentials.
>
> After a protocolary inspection of the guard, Yegoshkin said Russia
>and Yugoslavia are linked with close ties of centuries of friendship,
>confirmed in their peoples' joint freedom struggle through history.
>
> Russia condemned NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last year, and
>takes the view that the policy of force and hegemony is a great threat to
>mankind in this day and age, he said.
>
> Russia regards Yugoslavia, he added, as a strategic partner,
>sincerely supports its post-NATO-war reconstruction efforts, wishes to develop
>with it fruitful cooperation, constant political dialogue and an open exchange
>of views on all matters of common interest.
>
> Russia strongly supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty
>of Yugoslavia and urges strict respect for U.N. Security Council Resolution
>1244 as the sole binding document on which to base solutions to the existing
>problems.
>
> Accepting the credentials, President Milosevic said Yugoslavia
>attaches great importance to a further strengthening of relations and
>cooperation with Russia.
>
> According to Milosevic, the two countries are linked together with
>ties of tried and proven friendship of long standing between their nations,
>and their joint efforts in just causes.
>
> Also, he added, they share numerous interests in common, the most
>important of them certainly being global peace and stability, equality,
>freedom and independence of nations and states.
>
> "We wish to intensify economic, cultural and other forms of
>bilateral ties on an equal footing, setting an example for the affirmation of
>integration processes conducive to development and progress in the world," he
>said.
>
> After the presentation of credentials, President Milosevic and
>Ambassador Yegoshkin spent some time in cordial discussion, attended by
>Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic.
>
> PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR
>
> BELGRADE, April 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan
>Milosevic received on Thursday Australia's new Ambassador Charles Stewart, who
>presented his credentials.
>
> Ambassador Stewart said Australia wished to promote successful
>cooperation with Yugoslavia and that the large number of Australian citizens
>of Yugoslav origin were a stable and lasting bridge linking the two countries
>and consolidating their shared interests.
>
> Accepting the credentials, President Milosevic said he was sure
>bilateral relations would continue to develop successfully, and that their
>shared interest in forging economic, cultural, sports and other ties would
>continue to be attained.
>
> In this, he added, mutually beneficial experience had been gleaned
>and to this tens of thousands of Yugoslav settlers in Australia were giving
>strong support and a strong impact.
>
> After the presentation of credentials, Milosevic and Stewart had a
>brief cordial talk, which was attended by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
>Jovanovic.
>
> POST-NATO-WAR YUGOSLAVIA HAS URANIUM LEVELS 1,000 TIMES ABOVE
>NORMAL
>
> BELGRADE, April 13 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav government, at
>Thursday's session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, approved a
>report on the effects on the environment of NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia
>last spring, a government statement said.
>
> Evidence collected and analyses made by local institutes have
>shown that the NATO aggressors used ammunition with depleted uranium, among
>others, which is a crime against humanity punishable under the international
>law of war.
>
> Analyses of individual samples showed contamination levels up to a
>thousand times above normal, the government said, noting that the use of
>ammunition with depleted uranium is in violation of the fundamental norms of
>international humanitarian and war law.
>
> The competent bodies and services have investigated and marked
>contaminated areas, and removed radioactive materials from all accessible
>locations, significantly lowering the threat of contamination.
>
> People in high-risk areas have been medically examined, while
>complete decontamination is yet to be done and necessitates huge financial
>outlays.
>
> However, no checks have been made at a hundred or so localities in
>the U.N.-ruled Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija, where the number of
>depleted uranium warheads dropped was ten times higher than elsewhere.
>
> This puts the environment and the local population, including the
>international force and the U.N. civilian mission, particularly at risk from
>radioactive contamination, the statement said.
>
> The government defined specific measures for alleviating the
>consequences as much as possible.
>
> The government also reviewed a report on efforts to prevent
>flooding of the River Tamis.
>
> It noted that, in cooperation with the competent Romanian bodies,
>adequate measures have been taken to reduce the water levels and flow in the
>Romanian sector of the river and to consolidate the dikes and protect the
>people and industry on the Yugoslav side.
>
> The high-risk Secanj municipality has been granted two million
>dinars (1 U.S. dollar fetches roughly 11 dinars) in aid to finance the
>necessary anti-flood operations, the statement said.
>
> SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVED BELGRADE AND SRPSKO SARAJEVO UNIVERSITY
>CHIEFS
>
> BELGRADE, April 12 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic,
>who is also vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, received on
>Wednesday the chancellors of the Universities of Belgrade and Srpsko Sarajevo,
>Jagos Puris and Vojislav Maksimovic.
>
> A Serbian government statement says the meeting upheld the
>Universities' joint initiative that special attention be given to the
>development of the University in the efforts to develop the City of Srpsko
>Sarajevo, to which the governments of Yugoslavia and of its republic of Serbia
>are making a continuous contribution.
>
> "The University in Srpsko Sarajevo, its students and faculties,
>together with the University Council headed by prominent political and state
>official of (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska Momcilo Krajisnik, is a corner
>stone in the development of the Serbian people in these parts and the core
>around which to evolve a body of researchers and experts," the statement said.
>
>
> YUGOSLAVIA REGISTERED FOREIGN CAPITAL INFLUX OF C. 100 MILLION
>GERMAN MARKS
>
> BELGRADE, April 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for Cooperation
>with International Financial Institutions Borka Vucic has said that, in the
>first quarter of this year, the country registered through joint investments a
>foreign capital influx of about 100 million German marks.
>
> Speaking at the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Vucic
>said that foreign partners were interested in concessions as a form of joint
>investment and in the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT).
>
> She said that, despite the fact that the country was under the
>regime of strict international isolation, joint investments with foreign
>partners based on mutual interests were significantly on the rise.
>
> Vucic said that Yugoslavia's 21 priority projects had been backed
>at a recent meeting of prospective investors from all over the world, saying
>that the projects had also been included into a data base.
>
> YUGOSLAVIA COMMEMORATES WW II BATTLE
>
> SID, April 12 (Tanjug) - A memorial service was held with the
>highest military honours at the Sremski Front World War II memorial in Sid, in
>the northern Serbian Vojvodina province on Wednesday.
>
> The service honoured the soldiers who fought in the biggest
>campaign for the liberation of Serbia and Yugoslavia in World War II, fought
>from Oct. 21, 1944 to April 13, 1945.
>
> Withdrawing from Serbia, the German army had opened a front in the
>northern Srem region, 100 km northwest of Belgrade. In pitched battles, the
>Yugoslav National Liberation Army broke the Wehrmaht's resistance and pushed
>the occupiers west to the Austrian border.
>
> "On behalf of all members of the Yugoslav army, I bow before the
>memory of the Srem Front fighters with feelings of immense gratitude and
>respect," Chief of Staff General Nebojsa Pavkovic said.
>
> He went on to pay his respects to his soldiers and
>comrades-in-arms who gave their lives in the defence of the country against
>NATO's aggression last spring.
>
> Numerous delegations laid wreaths at the memorial.
>
> In the Yugoslav government delegation were Vice Premier Jovan
>Zebic and Ministers Velizar Djeric and Miodrag Kovac.
>
> The delegation of the armed forces comprised Chief of Staff
>Pavkovic, First Army Commander General Srboljub Trajkovic and the commander of
>the Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Spasoje Smiljanic.
>
> The delegation of the Socialist Party of Serbia Main Board was
>headed by Board Vice Chairman Mirko Marjanovic.
>
> On behalf of the SPS Board for Belgrade, the wreath was laid by
>Ivica Dacic.
>
> Wreaths were laid also by representatives of Vojvodina province,
>WWII veterans' associations, and the embassies of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
>Macedonia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Italy.
>
> Also, there were wreaths from veterans' organisations from
>Belarus, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and (Bosnian Serb) Republika
>Srpska, as well as tradition promoting organisations.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - LIBYA
>
> YUGOSLAVIA HAD ITS DAY AT TRIPOLI FAIR
>
> TRIPOLI, April 12 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav pavilion at Tripoli's
>International Fair organised on Wednesday a formal function to mark Yugoslav
>Day at the Fair.
>
> The assembled guests, among whom diplomatic representatives from
>31 countries, were addressed by Yugoslav Ambassador to Libya Radomir
>Bogdanovic.
>
> Bogdanovic said Yugoslavia's participation in the Fair and the
>exibits on display, representing the output of over 50 companies, are best
>evidence that Yugoslav industry and agriculture are still able to manufacture
>and market their products in the world despite damage wreaked by NATO in its
>aggression on Yugoslavia last spring.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - SLOVAKIA
>
> THREE SLOVAK DELEGATIONS VISITED BELGRADE
>
> BELGRADE, April 12 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Slovak regional
>chamber of commerce, based in Bratislava, had talks at the Yugoslav Chamber of
>Commerce in Belgrade on Wednesday with Chamber President Mihailo Milojevic.
>
> The delegation, headed by Bratislava Chamber President Igor Junas,
>is paying a visit to the Belgrade chamber of commerce.
>
> Milojevic said that both countries have a considerable interest in
>resuming old and starting new forms of cooperation, to which there are no
>political, ideological or religious barriers, with the national diplomatic
>services supporting the efforts.
>
> Junas, in turn, said this was practically a "Slovak week" in
>Belgrade, with three delegations from that country simultaneously visiting the
>Yugoslav and Serbian capital. These are the Bratislava chamber of commerce
>delegation, a delegation of the Association of Slovak entrepreneurs and a
>banking delegation.
>
> This is an expression of strong feelings of friendship and
>togetherness and of a wish to restore old and forge new ties, according to
>Junas.
>
> SLOVAK ENTREPRENEURS OPENED TALKS AT YUGOSLAV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
>
> BELGRADE, April 13 (Tanjug) - A delegation of Slovakia's
>association of entrepreneurs, headed by Martin Sichta of the association's
>general council, opened at the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce on Thursday talks
>on cooperation with Yugoslav businessmen.
>
> The delegation is made up of 12 representatives of firms and
>institutes in the field of electrical engineering research, production systems
>design, construction, production of medical equipment, air conditioners,
>tools, machinery and plastics, and wood-processing industry and trade.
>
> In 1998, trade between Yugoslavia and Slovakia totalled 77 million
>U.S. dollars, while in the January-February 2000 period it amounted to 10
>million dollars, with Yugoslav exports accounting for 800,000 dollars and
>Yugoslav imports for 9.2 million dollars.
>
> Sichta voiced hope that contacts between Slovak and Yugoslav
>businessmen would help promote cooperation between the two countries and that
>their trade would be raised to a higher level. He said that Slovak businessmen
>were willing to set up any form of cooperation.
>
> The delegation of Slovak entrepreneurs is one of Slovakia's three
>business delegations currently visiting Yugoslavia.
>
> SERBIAN SOCIALIST OFFICIAL PERCEVIC RECEIVED SLOVAK DELEGATION
>
> BELGRADE, April 12 (Tanjug) - A Serbian Socialist Party official
>received on Wednesday a delegation of the Slovak People's Party, an SPS Main
>Board statement said.
>
> Meeting with the delegation, headed by First Vice President
>Jaroslav Paska, SPS Main Board Executive Board member Goran Percevic stressed
>that post-NATO-war reconstruction in Yugoslavia is moving on into a phase of
>national development.
>
> This, according to Percevic, opens scope for economic cooperation,
>especially with historically friendly nations, such as Slovakia.
>
> Paska, in turn, stressed his party's official position that NATO's
>aggression on Yugoslavia last spring was totally unlawful and at odds with
>international law and the U.N. Charter, as well as clashing with the interests
>of the European states.
>
> The Slovak People's Party will continue to work in line with this
>position and is prepared to make a concrete contribution to Yugoslav
>reconstruction and development, first and foremost by stimulating economic
>cooperation, he stressed.
>
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> SERBS IN ORAHOVAC SEVER TIES WITH KFOR AND UNMIK
>
> ORAHOVAC, April 12 (Tanjug) - The Serb Board in Orahovac in the
>U.N.-ruled Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday decided to sever
>ties with international organisations over the latest attacks on Serbs.
>
> Amateur radio operators report that the Board held an emergency
>meeting prompted by the latest ethnic Albanian assaults on Serbs and their
>property and decided to sever ties with international organisations in this
>southern Kosovo-Metohija municipality.
>
> Unidentified ethnic Albanians set fire to a number of Serb homes
>in Orahovac late on Tuesday. The blaze spread to the whole area, gutting four
>Serb houses just 50 metres from an international force checkpoint manned by
>German troops, who calmly looked on.
>
> Despite the Serb side's cooperative attitude, the international
>community shows no interest whatever in solving Serb problems, it was heard at
>the session.
>
> The Board instructed its representative to step down as vice
>president and permanent member of the multiethnic Administrative Board and
>Security Committee, respectively.
>
> The committee liaising with the U.N. High Commissioner for
>Refugees (UNHCR) was instructed to demand that a collective move be organised
>for the remaining Serbs to leave Orahovac.
>
> The Board is quoted by amateur radio operators as saying that "the
>method of work of the international institutions shows that their plan is
>quietly to move all Serbs out these parts, which coincides with the plans of
>the ethnic Albanian extremists."
>
> The Board has severed contacts with the U.N. civilian mission, the
>U.N. police, KFor and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
>
>
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
>
> ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS SET SERB HOUSE ON FIRE
>
> GNJILANE, April 13 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian extremists threw
>late on Wednesday Molotov cocktails at a Serb house in the mixedly-populated
>village of Cernica at Gnjilane, in the east of Kosovo and Metohija, and a car
>parked in front of the house.
>
> The house and the car were soon consumed by the fire but, luckily,
>there were no casualties, local radio enthusiasts reported on Thursday.
>
> The incident occurred as two ethnic Albanian youths threw two
>Molotov cocktails passing by the house, the radio enthusiasts said. One of the
>cocktails went through one of the house's windows, while the other landed on
>the car.
>
> The owner of the house, who was at home at the time of the attack,
>tried in vain to put out the fire.
>
> Troops of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR appeared as late as
>Thursday morning only to state that the fire was set by ethnic Albanian
>extremists.
>
> FROM FOREIGN PRESS
>
> AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA AIMED AT PRESERVING NATO CREDIBILITY
>
> TOKYO, April 13 (Tanjug) - Japan's English-language weekly "The
>Japan Times" has reported that the true goal of NATO's aggression on
>Yugoslavia last year was to preserve the alliance's credibility and justify
>its expansion.
>
> Japan's renowned weekly also said that the ethnic Albanian
>terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army had expelled most
>of the Serbs and other non-Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija.
>
> KLA has ethnically cleansed the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
>southern province of Serbs, Jews have sought shelter in Belgrade, the weekly
>said stressing that ethnic Turks and Catholic ethnic Albanians were also the
>target of the expulsion as well as some ethnic Albanian intellectuals who had
>sought refuge in Belgrade, the only multi-ethnic city in the region, fearing
>that they might be victims of KLA atrocities.
>
>
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