>From: "Jon Corlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA >FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS > > >YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY > >BELGRADE, 19 April 2000 No. 3007 > C O N T E N T S : > > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA >- YUGOSLAVIA MAKES DEMARCHE TO E.U. OVER SANCTIONS >- YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES MEXICAN, ARGENTINEAN AMBASSADORS >- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR RECEIVES NEW LIBYAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES >- YUGOSLAVIA WRITES TO U.N. COMMISSION ABOUT VIOLATION OF SERB RIGHTS >- YUGOSLAVIA'S VUKICEVIC SAYS KFOR, UNMIK FALL DOWN ON THE JOB >- MACEDONIA'S KLIMOVSKI, MONTENEGRO'S MAROVIC AGREE ON KOSOVO-METOHIJA >- YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DIGNITARY >- YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF INSPECTS 2ND ARMY > >SERBIA - NATO AGGRESSION - INDICTMENT >- NATO-INFLICTED DAMAGE IN SREM DISTRICT ESTIMATED AT OVER 13 MILLION >DOLLARS > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERBS - PROTEST >- KOSOVO POLJE SERB OFFICIAL LASHES OUT AGAINST KFOR, UNMIK > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - JUDICATURE >- KOSOVSKA MITROVICA COURT FAVOURS ETHNIC ALBANIANS, WORKS AGAINST SERBS > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION >- UNMIK CALLS ON NATO TO SUBMIT DATA ON DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - EUROCORPS >- EUROCORPS TAKES COMMAND OF KFOR IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA > >VENEZUELA - YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION >- VENEZUELAN PUBLICIST SAYS KLA MUST ANSWER FOR ITS CRIMES > >CROATIA - SERBS - PRISON >- SERBS CAPTURED IN 1995 CROATIAN ARMY OPERATIONS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE > > > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > >YUGOSLAVIA MAKES DEMARCHE TO E.U. OVER SANCTIONS >BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry on Wednesday >summoned a European Union "troika" and presented a demarche in connection >with E.U. sanctions against Yugoslavia, the Ministry said in a statement. > >YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES MEXICAN, ARGENTINEAN AMBASSADORS >BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Assistant Foreign Minister >Zoran Novakovic received separately on Wednesday the new Ambassadors of >Mexico and Argentina to Yugoslavia, Carlos Alejandro Rodriguez y Quesada >and Carlos Abel Martese, respectively. >The Ambassadors presented copies of their credentials, a Government >statement said. > >YUGOSLAV PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR RECEIVES NEW LIBYAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES >BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Presidential Advisor for Foreign >Economic Relations Zoran Lilic received on Wednesday Mrs Aysha Mokhtar >Trhun, Libya's new Charge d'Affaires in Belgrade, a Government statement >said. >During the ensuing lengthy and friendly discussion, it was noted that the >two countries are linked by long years of friendly relations. >These ties, it was noted, have in recent years been maintained and even >improved, thanks mostly to the great support of Libyan President Muammar >Al-Gaddafi for the Yugoslav people's just struggle in the defence of the >country's territorial integrity. >Views were exchanged also on promoting bilateral relations, with both >sides agreeing there are huge possibilities for this. >It was noted that joint efforts should be made for creating a wide >resistance front, in the best interests of global prosperity and peace, in >order to resist at global level efforts at creating a unipolar world and at >one-power domination, the statement said. > >YUGOSLAVIA WRITES TO U.N. COMMISSION ABOUT VIOLATION OF SERB RIGHTS >GENEVA, April 18 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the U.N. Geneva >office wrote to the U.N. Human Rights Commission chairman on Tuesday >briefing him on Serbs unlawfully imprisoned for 10 months in U.N.-ruled >Kosovo-Metohija and a recent ethnic Albanian outrage. >Ambassador Branko Brankovic asked that the letter about the Serbs >imprisoned in Kosovska Mitrovica and the ethnic Albanian terrorist outrage >in the Serb village of Bijelo Polje near Pec be made an official document >at the current Commission session. >The international force (KFor) and the U.N. mission (UNMIK) have arrested >43 Serbs on the strength of groundless and arbitrary accusations made by >ethnic Albanian terrorists of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the letter >said. >The Serbs have been kept in prison in ethnically divided Kosovska >Mitrovica for nearly ten months now, said the letter, addressed to >Commission Chairman Sambo Ram Simkadi. >In all this time, Brankovic said, neither Kfor nor UNMIK nor UNMIK chief >Bernard Kouchner have done anything to investigate the charges as demanded >by the legal procedure. >Meanwhile, however, they have ordered the court in Kosovska Mitrovica to >release from prison Ademi Djelaj, ethnic Albanian who activated two hand >grenades on March 7, wounding 22 Serbs and 14 French KFor troops in north >Kosovska Mitrovica, the letter said. >The flagrant violation of the imprisoned Serbs' rights necessitates urgent >action, the letter stressed. >The ethnic Albanian terrorist outrage occurred on April 15, when KLA >terrorists torched and bulldozed 250 Serb homes in the village of Bijelo >Polje near Pec, thus preventing the return to the village of Serbs forced >to flee last June, Brankovic said. >Moreover, the incident happened in plain sight of the U.N. military and >civilian missions, showing again that neither KFor nor UNMIK are prepared >to carry out the key obligations under U.N. Resolution 1244 - viz. ensure >safety and protect property. >The Yugoslav Mission to the U.N. Geneva Office has sent copies of the >letter to special U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur for the former Yugoslavia >Jiri Dienstbier and other ranking officials of competent international >organisations. >Also, copies have gone to the members of the Human Rights Commission, >reporters accredited to the United Nations, the press, television and a >number of non-governmental organisations. > >YUGOSLAVIA'S VUKICEVIC SAYS KFOR, UNMIK FALL DOWN ON THE JOB >BELGRADE, April 18 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav official on Tuesday accused the >international force KFor and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) in >Kosovo-Metohija of falling down on the job, as the situation there is still >difficult, especially for non-Albanians. >Stanimir Vukicevic, who chairs the Government Committee liaising with the >U.N. mission, was speaking to a Belgrade state radio reporter by phone from >Pristina, Kosovo-Metohija. >According to Vukicevic, non-Albanians in that U.N.-administered Serbian >(Yugoslav) province encounter restrictions in their freedom of movement, >farm work, education, health protection and other areas. UNMIK in its work >puts a very broad interpretation on U.N. Resolution 1244 and so exceeds its >mandate and authority, Vukicevic said. >"All this does huge political damage, and this state of affairs has >existed for ten months now, with the purpose of severing Kosovo -Metohija's >ties with Serbia, of which it is an integral part, and with Yugoslavia," he >warned. >"Later in April, we expect a visit from a U.N. Security Council >ambassadorial mission, which is to study the current situation in >Kosovo-Metohija. >"We expect the mission to be objective, unbiased, correct, to see the >omissions of the mission to date and make an objective judgement and report >to the Council, from which we hope for positive results," he said. >The Liaison Commission has constantly been drawing the attention of UNMIK >and KFor to the disastrous effects of this policy, to the damage it is >doing and to UNMIK's duty to respect the U.N. Resolution and act in line >with its provisions, Vukicevic said. >Commenting on Tuesday's taking over of the helm of Kfor by the Eurocorps, >he said he hoped the change would lead to the force's efficacy in the >field, in the sense of a stricter respect of its obligations. >He underlined that, under Resolution 1244, the international military >force in Kosovo-Metohija has the duty to provide protection, security, >safety, freedom of movement for all people in that southern province of the >Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. >Vukicevic stressed that the chief duty of UNMIK and KFor is to repatriate >displaced Serbs to Kosovo-Metohija and create conditions for them to stay >there and for their normal life and work. > >MACEDONIA'S KLIMOVSKI, MONTENEGRO'S MAROVIC AGREE ON KOSOVO-METOHIJA >SKOPJE, April 18 (Tanjug) - The Macedonian and Montenegrin Parliament >Speakers agreed in Skopje on Tuesday that peace in Kosovo-Metohija is >possible only by respecting U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244. >Meeting with reporters, Savo Klimovski and Svetozar Marovic said this was >their joint position crystallised in the course of two days of talks in >Ohrid and Skopje, Macedonia. >Marovic added he and Klimovski shared the same views in the matter of >dealing with problems in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of >Kosovo-Metohija, as well as on other open questions in the region. >Kosovo-Metohija cannot be ethnically pure, just as it is unacceptable that >it should become an independent state, said Marovic, who arrived for a >two-day visit to Macedonia on Monday. >Marovic condemned the statement by Kosovo-Metohija's ethnic Albanian >leader Ibrahim Rugova that he opposes a peaceful settlement of >Kosovo-Metohija's problems and wants instead more war, which would be a >disaster for the Province and for the entire Balkans. >Asked if the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro would call a referendum, >Marovic replied that "this rather depends on the political assessment." "We >are not renouncing our right to a referendum, but we do not need it if it >will be a prelude to civil war in Montenegro," he said. >Marovic met on Tuesday also with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and >Prime Minister Ljupco Georgievski. > >YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH DIGNITARY >BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister and head of the Government >Commission on Ties with Religious Communities Zoran Vujovic received on >Tuesday member of the Serbian Orthodox Church Standing Synod, Metropolitan >Jovan of Zagreb, Ljubljana and all Italy, at the dignitary's request. >Metropolitan Jovan informed Vujovic of the Serbian Orthodox Church's >position in Croatia and Slovenia, the rights of Orthodox Serbs in these >states, the position of expelled people, the pace of their repatriation to >their pre-war homes and his talks with top Croatian state officials and >Roman Catholic dignitaries in Zagreb, the Yugoslav Information Ministry >said in a statement. >Vujovic said he hoped that the Serbian Orthodox Church would take a far >more active stance to outstanding results achieved in Yugoslavia's defence >from NATO's aggression last year and the country's subsequent >reconstruction, and the protection of state and national interests. >Metropolitan Jovan said that, being a Standing Synod member, he urged a >more dynamic cooperation between Yugoslavia and the Serbian Orthodox >Church, voicing satisfaction with the Church's cooperation to date with the >Commission on ties with religious communities. >He said that the Serbian Orthodox Church wanted to help reconstruct and >revitalise the country, devastated by NATO's March 24-June 10 bombing. > >YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF INSPECTS 2ND ARMY >PODGORICA, April 18 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Chief of Staff Nebojsa Pavkovic >has paid a regular visit of inspection to some commands and units of the >2nd Army located in the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro, the Command said >in a statement on Tuesday. >While visiting the zone of responsibility of the 2nd Army, General >Pavkovic toured the Air Force and Air Defence units at Golubovci Airport. >He inspected the capacitation and combat preparedness of the pilots and >gave prizes to the crews that performed best in training operations. >Second Army Commander Milorad Obradovic reported on the combat capability, >discharge of the main duties, regular combat training operations of the >units under his command and conditions in which they work. >Pavkovic inspected conditions of and possibilities for implementing the >planned activities and assured himself of the high morale and motivation of >the 2nd Army and the Air Force and Air Defence. >He briefed the professional soldiers in the Podgorica garrison on the >current military security situation in the country and its neighbourhood, >stressing that Yugoslavia and its army are still exposed to an information >and media aggression, the statement said. > >SERBIA - NATO AGGRESSION - INDICTMENT > >NATO-INFLICTED DAMAGE IN SREM DISTRICT ESTIMATED AT OVER 13 MILLION DOLLARS >SREMSKA MITROVICA, April 19 (Tanjug) - A District Public Prosecutor in >Sremska Mitrovica has presented a draft indictment to be brought in against >top U.S., British, French, German and NATO officials responsible for crimes >against civilians in the Srem district during NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 >aggression on the country. Addressing a news conference in Sremska >Mitrovica, about 60km northwest of Belgrade, late on Tuesday, Dusan Simic >said that the 26-page draft contained details about consequences of the >NATO bombing of this part of the country, saying that the direct damage >caused in the district exceeded 13 million U.S. dollars. >Count One of the draft refers to May 2 1999 air raid on buildings in >Sremska Mitrovica and the nearby village of Lacarak when a Serb woman was >killed by shell splinters in the yard of her house. >The draft also cites that, in addition to the damage inflicted on numerous >economic, housing, business and other facilities in NATO air raids on >civilian targets in Srem and in particular Mt Fruska Gora, the Serbian >Orthodox Sisatovac and Ravanica monasteries also sustained severe damage. > > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERBS - PROTEST > >KOSOVO POLJE SERB OFFICIAL LASHES OUT AGAINST KFOR, UNMIK >KOSOVO POLJE, April 19 (Tanjug) - President of the Serb National Assembly >for Kosovo Polje at Pristina Sveto Grujic has sent an open letter to local >U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) administrator Ugo Troiani protesting against >pressure exerted on him to join the Kosovo transitional administrative >council formed by UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner. >Grujic strongly criticised UNMIK's moves, saying that ethnic Albanian >terrorists had murdered 11 Serbs, abducted seven and seriously wounded and >inflicted permanent bodily damage on dozens of them since the mission's >deployment to the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija >province on June 11, 1999. >Explaining why he refused to cooperate with the council, Grujic said that >Serbs were beaten up and harassed. He said that 6,000 Serbs and 4,000 other >non-Albanians had been expelled from the Kosovo Polje municipality, while >more than 100 houses had been torched. >Moreover, a large number of villages in the area have been ethnically >cleansed, churches have been blown up, while the entire Serb property has >been plundered, he said. >He said that Serbs had been sacked from all public companies including the >Power Supply, PTT, customs and railway companies, while over 1,000 students >and 1,500 high-school pupils had been denied the right to education since >the deployment of UNMIK and the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR to Kosovo and >Metohija, provided for by the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244. >Grujic said that, under these conditions, he refused to take part in the >work of the council that should hypocritically prove that everything was >just as it should be in the Kosovo and Metohija run by Kouchner. > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - JUDICATURE > >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA COURT FAVOURS ETHNIC ALBANIANS, WORKS AGAINST SERBS >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 19 (Tanjug) - Dzeljalj Ademi, an ethnic Albanian >who was arrested in early March on the charge of causing a dangerous >situation, is out on pretrial release because the district court in >Kosovska Mitrovica, whose personnel is exclusively ethnic Albanian, >believes that there are no longer reasons for holding him in custody, Court >President Kaplan Baruti told reporters on Tuesday. >Ademi, threw two hand grenades in the northern, Serb-populated section of >Kosovska Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, wounding 22 Serb >civilians and 14 French troops participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force >KFOR. >An international public prosecutor has appealed against the court's >decision, demanding that Ademi be arrested again. The municipal court's >panel of judges has however rejected his appeal. >Unlike Ademi, dozens of Serbs remain still in the town's prison although >charged with smaller offenses like gun possession or piercing tyres of U.N. >civilian mission (UNMIK) vehicles. Among them is a Serb minor, a mentally >retarded person who has been in prison for seven months contrary to all >relevant regulations. >The Court has held no hearing since its setting up. >Serbs in the Kosovska Mitrovica prison have been on hunger strike since >last week because of Ademi's release. >Asked by reporters to comment on these developments, Baruti said he knew >nothing about the hunger strike, saying that the prison manager did not >cooperate with the court. > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION > >UNMIK CALLS ON NATO TO SUBMIT DATA ON DEPLETED-URANIUM AMMUNITION >BERLIN, April 19 (Tanjug) - Tom Koenigs of Germany, head of the U.N. >civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) section for civilian >administration, on Wednesday urged NATO to submit data on depleted-uranium >ammunition it had used during its aggression on Yugoslavia last year. >Koenigs told Hamburg's Greenpeace Magazine that UNMIK urgently needed data >on precise locations where NATO had used radioactive ammunition in order to >be able to take steps to protect the population in the Yugoslav Republic of >Serbia's southern province. >Koenigs referred only to Kosovo and Metohija locations, being of the view >that this ammunition, that could be fatal for the health of civilians and >troops, had only been used in the Province. >The German Defence Ministry said in March that all German troops >participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR would be enabled to come >to Germany for a check-up if they considered to have been exposed to >radioactivity. >NATO admitted as far back as April 1999 that it was using radioactive >ammunition in its aggression on Yugoslavia. >Relevant details were released at a later stage - U.S. troops dropped on >Serbia 31,000 bombs charged with depleted uranium and weighing 10 tons. >They used U.S. A-10 bombers for the purpose. > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - EUROCORPS > >EUROCORPS TAKES COMMAND OF KFOR IN U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA >PRISTINA, April 18 (Tanjug) - The five-nation Eurocorps on Tuesday took >over command of the international force (KFor) in Kosovo-Metohija, with >Eurocorps Commander Juan Ortuno (aged 60) of Spain taking over from >Germany's Klaus Reinhardt. >This is the third change at the helm of the military mission to this >U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province since it was deployed just over ten >months ago. In this time, KFor has not carried out practically a single >task entrusted to it under U.N. Resolution 1244. >On the contrary, Kosovo-Metohija has seen an explosion of crime and >terrorism, the ethnic Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has >not been disarmed, there are no safety guarantees, and more than 350,000 >Serbs and other non-Albanians have been displaced. >Responsibility for this unfavourable state of affairs rests solely with >KFor, which in its short history has been commanded by British General >Michael Jackson, Germany's Reinhardt and, now, by Spain's Ortuno. >The Eurocorps command comprises 350 senior officers from five European >states - Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg - which is roughly >one-third of the headquarters staff, the rest coming from Great Britain, >Italy and the United States. > >VENEZUELA - YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION > >VENEZUELAN PUBLICIST SAYS KLA MUST ANSWER FOR ITS CRIMES >CARACAS, April 19 (Tanjug) - The ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation >calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) must answer for the crimes it >has committed in Kosovo and Metohija, the cradle of the Serbs' being, since >last summer in the presence of the blind, stupid and uninvited world >peacekeepers, Rafael del Naranco, a Venezuelan journalist and publicist, >has said. >In a recent text, the Venezuelan publicist said that there were precise >and confirmed data that, in recent months, the violence committed against >Serbs in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province before the >very eyes of the U.N. peacekeepers began and ended with the KLA >paramilitary's clear tactic. >He said it was enough to list only one case of violence like the torching >of 320 houses in Prizren, in the south of Kosovo and Metohija, to show >KLA's brutality, saying that some of the houses had been occupied at the >time of the torching. He said that there were many cases like this one. >A year after the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the result of U.S. and >European representatives' activity is disastrous because 350,000 Serbs and >other non-Albanians have been expelled from the Province or massacred by >KLA. > >CROATIA - SERBS - PRISON > >SERBS CAPTURED IN 1995 CROATIAN ARMY OPERATIONS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE >BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Serbs from what was formerly the Republic of >Serb Krajina who were captured during the Croatian army's operations in >1995 and are now in the prison in Lepoglava, have been on hunger strike >since April 17, according to the Veritas information and documentation >centre. >Thirty-nine Serbs, captured during the Croatian army's May 1999 Operation >Lightning and its August 1995 Operation Storm, have for years been in the >Lepoglava prison. Only five of them have been charged with conventional >crimes characteristic of war times, while all others have been charged with >war crimes. >The prison authorities have declined comment on the hunger strike. >The imprisoned Serbs told Veritas that they demanded either that their >cases be reviewed again by Croatian courts, or that they be taken over by >the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague or that they be exchanged >on the all-for-all principle in line with an agreement reached between the >Yugoslav and Croatian Foreign Ministries in 1998. >Serbs charged with war-related crimes are serving sentences also in other >Croatian prisons - in Split (16), Osijek (10), Pozega (4), Karlovac (3), >Sisak (2), Vukovar (1) and Zagreb (1). > > > > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > >REVOLUTION, COMMUNIST & CONTINUOUS ! ! ! > > http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/macau/1178 > > >E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Subscribe or Unsubscribe; Click Reply in E Mail Program, > >enter 'Subscribe' or 'Unsubscribe' on Subject line and Send to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >If wish to receive only certain types of Revolutionary Communist Information >Please Specify. > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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