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> Yugoslav Daily Survey
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> BELGRADE, 20.April 2000.
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> a.. YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT BLASTS E.U. SANCTIONS AS UNLAWFUL
> b.. YUGOSLAV PREMIER RECEIVES RUSSIA'S NEW AMBASSADOR
> c.. JOVANOVIC LEAVES ON OFFICIAL VISITS TO GUINEA, GHANA, MALI
> d.. YUGOSLAV MINISTER INSPECTS NATO-RAVAGED POST OFFICE IN
>UZICE
> e.. SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVES DELEGATION OF KOLUBARA DISTRICT
> f.. MARJANOVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF BELGRADE UNIVERSITY
>STUDENTS
> g.. SERBIAN JUSTICE MINISTER - 195 POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS
>ACTIVE IN SERBIA
> h.. SERBIAN FAITHS MINISTER EXTENDS EASTER FELICITATIONS
> i.. YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF INSPECTS NAVY
> j.. YUGOSLAV STATE IS ESSENTIAL TO KOSOVO-METOHIJA PEACE -
>GENERAL
> YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS
>
> a.. YUGOSLAV, SLOVAK CUSTOMS SIGN COOPERATION ACCORD
> b.. BELGRADE UNIVERSITY FORGES TIES WITH CHINA'S TIANJIN
>UNIVERSITY
> c.. CHINESE, YUGOSLAV UNIVERSITIES TO PROMOTE FRIENDSHIP,
>COOPERATION
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> a.. IMPRISONED SERBS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA ARE IN POOR HEALTH
>- DOCTORS
> b.. MITROVICA PRISON AUTHORITIES REFUSE TO ALLOW DOCTORS TO
>VISIT SERBS
>
>
> * * *
>
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT BLASTS E.U. SANCTIONS AS UNLAWFUL
>
> BELGRADE, April 20 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government on Thursday
>reviewed the European Union's decision imposing financial sanctions on
>Yugoslavia, a Government statement said.
>
> At a session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, the
>Government decided this was a unilateral and unlawful measure totally at odds
>with international law and the European Union's proclaimed policy.
>
> With this decision, it noted, the European Union plays into the
>hands of the international factors that are seeking to destabilise the Balkan
>region and so thwart European integration processes.
>
> The Government expects the European Union to realise the peril of
>its current policy towards Yugoslavia, reconsider the imposition of new
>measures and lift the existing sanctions and restrictions which hamper normal
>relations with Yugoslavia based on mutual respect and equality.
>
> This especially as the new sanctions target directly the Yugoslav
>people, hampering and even totally denying them the exercise of their
>fundamental human rights, viz. the rights to work, to social stability and to
>equal cooperation.
>
> At Thursday's session, the Government also adopted a decision on
>Yugoslavia's accession to the international convention banning the
>development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons, and their
>scrapping.
>
> In this way Yugoslavia, as a country that does not possess
>chemical weaponry and in line with its years-long policy of support for the
>efforts of the international community towards disarmament and consolidation
>of global security, strongly supports a total ban on the use of these weapons,
>and their scrapping.
>
> The Government has submitted the decision to Parliament for
>ratification and, in line with its constitutional powers, has decided that it
>should be implemented as of the date of adoption.
>
> The U.N. Secretary General, in his capacity as depositary of the
>convention, has been informed that Yugoslavia has acceded to the convention.
>
> The Government also reviewed and approved a report on the Chinese
>visit of a Yugoslav delegation headed by Minister of Telecommunications Ivan
>Markovic, assessing the visit as highly successful.
>
> In the course of the visit, an accord was signed on business
>cooperation between Yugoslavia's Srbija Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Co.
>and China's biggest telecommunications company, the ZTE.
>
> This is the first step in the implementation of an inter-state
>treaty on cooperation in telecommunications and postal services, the statement
>said.
>
> YUGOSLAV PREMIER RECEIVES RUSSIA'S NEW AMBASSADOR
>
> BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir
>Bulatovic received on Wednesday Russia's new Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Valery
>Yegoshkin, a Government statement said.
>
> During the ensuing talk, it was noted that the traditional
>friendship and closeness between the two nations and states have found
>expression in the development of inter-state relations in all fields, and
>especially in the economic field.
>
> A number of inter-state accords and specific arrangements are
>being implemented, and both sides have shown an interest in their speedy and
>successful completion so as to open scope for new and more advanced forms of
>cooperation.
>
> The Russian Ambassador conveyed the thanks of President Vladimir
>Putin to President Slobodan Milosevic for the latter's message of
>felicitations and best wishes on Putin's election as President of Russia.
>
> JOVANOVIC LEAVES ON OFFICIAL VISITS TO GUINEA, GHANA, MALI
>
> BELGRADE, April 20 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav delegation, headed by
>Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, left on Thursday on official visits to
>Guinea, Ghana and Mali, at the invitation by the foreign ministers of these
>friendly non-aligned countries. Jovanovic and the delegation will hold talks
>with the three countries' foreign ministers and other ranking officials, the
>Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
>
> The visits reflect Yugoslavia's traditionally friendly relations
>with Guinea, Ghana and Mali and a high level of their solidarity and
>cooperation in all spheres.
>
> The visits are to focus on Yugoslavia's economic cooperation with
>the three countries and the Yugoslav companies' engagement in them, the
>statement said. It went on to say that, consequently, the delegation included
>a large number of leading Yugoslav businessmen.
>
> YUGOSLAV MINISTER INSPECTS NATO-RAVAGED POST OFFICE IN UZICE
>
> UZICE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Telecommunications
>Ivan Markovic inspected on Wednesday telecommunications facilities in the
>west-central Serbian city of Uzice ravaged in NATO's air strikes last spring.
>
> Meeting with Posts and Telecom executives, Markovic said work on
>rebuilding the post office would begin on May 8, the first anniversary of
>NATO's bombing of the facility.
>
> Demolition of the post office building in Uzice, which housed the
>telephone exchange, had cut about 20,000 telephone lines. Telecom Serbia has
>invested some 9 million German marks in the reconstruction of the city's
>telecommunications facilities.
>
> SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVES DELEGATION OF KOLUBARA DISTRICT
>
> BELGRADE, April 20 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic
>received on Wednesday a delegation of local officials and businessmen in the
>Kolubara district and the town of Valjevo.
>
> It was noted that, through the Serbian Government's continual
>support, the consequences of NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 bombing were being
>successfully eliminated and the entire region in the west of this Yugoslav
>republic was being reconstructed and developed, said a statement issued by the
>Serbian Information Ministry.
>
> The delegation informed Marjanovic of the ongoing implementation
>of an economic and social programme for the reconstruction of the Krusik
>corporation in Valjevo, a major company in the area and one of the leading
>companies in Serbia.
>
> Under the programme, significant results have been achieved in the
>reconstruction of the corporation that sustained severe damage during the NATO
>bombing last year.
>
> The steps taken have made it possible for the corporation to renew
>and even increase its production within a short period of time, thus ensuring
>the social security of its employees and their families.
>
> MARJANOVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF BELGRADE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
>
> BELGRADE, April 20 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic
>received on Wednesday a delegation of Belgrade University students, headed by
>their president Zeljko Rakic.
>
> The delegation stressed the students' patriotism, voicing support
>for the policy pursued by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and the state
>leadership in preserving the country's independence, territorial integrity and
>sovereignty, maintaining economic and social stability, and ensuring the
>country's successful reconstruction and development and economic reform, said
>a statement issued by the Serbian Information Ministry.
>
> The delegation said that the students condemned all who had placed
>themselves in the service of the country's enemies and betrayed national
>interests for the sake of their own interests.
>
> The delegation presented Marjanovic with a diploma that the
>Belgrade students had awarded him on Students' Day marked on Apr 4 for his
>contribution to the affirmation of the students' interests and improvement of
>their position.
>
> Marjanovic said that patriotism was one of the main features of
>the young generation, saying that the young had always been the first to
>defend the country's freedom and independence.
>
> SERBIAN JUSTICE MINISTER - 195 POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS ACTIVE IN
>SERBIA
>
> BELGRADE, April 20 (Tanjug) - Serbian Justice Minister Dragoljub
>Jankovic has stated that 195 political organisations registered with the
>Serbian Justice Ministry by March 14.
>
> Under Serbia's law on political organisations, the list containing
>the names of all registered political organisations, the date of their
>registration, their seat and names of their presidents or persons authorised
>to represent their interests will be soon published in Serbia's Official
>Gazette.
>
> The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), based in Belgrade, was
>registered under No. 1 on July 27, 1990, while the last political organisation
>to be registered was the Christian Democratic Party based in Stari Banovci,
>Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina. Over 100 parties are based in
>Belgrade, 13 in Novi Sad, chief city of Vojvodina, eight in Kragujevac,
>central Serbia, six in Novi Pazar, in the southwest of Serbia etc. Most of the
>political organisations - 54 - were registered in 1990 when the law on
>political organisations was adopted. Twenty-seven political organisations were
>registered in 1992 and 25 in 1997.
>
> More than 20 political organisations contain the word 'democracy'
>or 'democratic' in their names, while quite a number of political
>organisations contain the words 'Radical,' 'Communist' and 'Vojvodina.'
>
> Among the registered political organisations there are also those
>of Yugoslavs, Serbs, Romanies, Moslems, Croats, ethnic Bulgarians, ethnic
>Hungarians, ethnic Albanians, ethnic Turks, ethnic Romanians, ethnic
>communities of Catholics in Vojvodina and others.
>
> Moreover, Liberals, Republicans, Monarchists, ecologists and
>others also have their political organisations.
>
> Jankovic also said that a number of political organisations had
>the word 'women' or 'women's' in their names, saying that the Yugoslav Working
>Class Josip Broz Tito party had also been registered as well as The Federation
>of Serbian Families etc.
>
> The Justice Ministry expects more political organisations to
>register with it because of local elections to be held later in the year and
>expects that some of the registered political organisations make some changes.
>
>
> SERBIAN FAITHS MINISTER EXTENDS EASTER FELICITATIONS
>
> BELGRADE, April 20 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister of Faiths Milovan
>Radovanovic on Thursday felicitated Roman Catholic, Slovak Evangelical and
>Christian Reformist Church believers and dignitaries on Easter, major
>Christian holiday.
>
> In his letter of felicitations, Radovanovic said that this year's
>Easter would be celebrated in peace and efforts to reconstruct all that
>destroyed during NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 aggression on Yugoslavia.
>
> He said, however, that,"Those who bombed Yugoslavia now want to
>subjugate it through different means and to hinder the country's and its
>people's development and prosperity."
>
> "The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the symbol of the life's
>triumph over the death, fills us all with hope that justice will triumph over
>injustice, reason over madness and love over hatred," he said.
>
> "Confident that we follow the right course and that our state's
>and people's freedom is something most precious, we, Serbian state bodies,
>will continue our principled policy aimed at strengthening inter-ethnic
>confidence, affirming religious freedoms and promoting cooperation among
>different religions," he said.
>
> YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF INSPECTS NAVY
>
> BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Chief of Staff Nebojsa
>Pavkovic inspected on Wednesday some commands and units of the Navy, a
>statement from the Armed Forces Command said.
>
> Navy Commander Admiral Milan Zec reported on the combat
>capability, performance and basic characteristics of the circumstances in
>which the Navy performs its tasks.
>
> General Pavkovic attended a tactical exercise of the coastal
>rocket unit and was assured of its high combat capability and capacitation.
>
> He visited also the wounded in the Meljine Military Hospital and
>enquired about their treatment and wished them swift recovery, the statement
>said.
>
> YUGOSLAV STATE IS ESSENTIAL TO KOSOVO-METOHIJA PEACE - GENERAL
>
> NIS, April 19 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav general said on Tuesday that
>the Yugoslav state and armed forces are indispensable if there is to be peace
>and safety in Kosovo-Metohija.
>
> "Kosovo-Metohija is in total chaos, with the international force
>and civilian mission having discharged none of their obligations," General
>Vladimir Lazarevic, Commander of the 3rd Army, told Serbian state radio and
>television in Nis, southeast Serbia.
>
> Lazarevic said that Serbs and other non-Albanians, as well as
>ethnic Albanians who do not support the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army
>(KLA), are continually being terrorised in U.N.-ruled Kosovo- Metohija, where
>the situation has been deteriorating for weeks now.
>
> Referring to Tuesday's change at the helm of the international
>KFor force, where Eurocorps Commander Juan Ortuno of Spain replaced Germany's
>Klaus Reinhardt, Lazarevic said "commanders change, but neither headquarters
>staff nor common soldiers pull the strings.
>
> "Obviously, decisions are made far from Kosovo-Metohija."
>
> Noting that the international accord on Kosovo-Metohija involves
>31 states, he warned their governments that they must take responsibility for
>the situation in the province and for a consistent implementation of U.N.
>Resolution 1244.
>
> Speaking about recent KFor exercises in the province, for which
>the force had no mandate, Lazarevic said the idea was to put additional
>pressure on the Serbian population to leave the province, and to support
>ethnic Albanian terrorist operations.
>
> YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS
>
> YUGOSLAV, SLOVAK CUSTOMS SIGN COOPERATION ACCORD
>
> BELGRADE, April 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Customs Administration
>Director Mihalj Kertes has received a Slovak delegation, headed by Customs
>Administration Deputy Director Alexander Vajda, a statement from Kertes's
>Cabinet said on Wednesday.
>
> Kertes stressed the importance of Tuesday's accord on cooperation
>between the two countries' customs services, whose new and modern provisions
>will raise bilateral ties to a higher and more efficacious level, especially
>in fighting narcotics trafficking.
>
> The statement said that, in the course of Tuesday's negotiations
>in Belgrade, the two sides formulated and initialled the joint text of an
>accord between the Yugoslav and Slovak governments on mutual assistance in
>customs matters.
>
> BELGRADE UNIVERSITY FORGES TIES WITH CHINA'S TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
>
> BEIJING, April 19 (Tanjug) - A Belgrade University delegation,
>headed by Chancellor Jagos Puric, signed a cooperation accord with the
>University of Tianjin, China, on Wednesday.
>
> The accord with the renowned institution, one of the oldest
>engineering universities in China, is part of the Belgrade University's
>widening cooperation with Chinese institutions of high education.
>
> The accord envisages for exchanging know-how, teaching staff,
>students and researchers and for joint work on research projects.
>
> The Tianjin engineering university has shown an interest in
>cooperating with the Belgrade University Schools of Civil Engineering and
>Architecture, Organisational Sciences, Physical Education, Electrical and
>Mechanical Engineering.
>
> The Belgrade University has signed cooperation accords also with
>the Beijing University and the University of Foreign Studies in Beijing.
>
> CHINESE, YUGOSLAV UNIVERSITIES TO PROMOTE FRIENDSHIP, COOPERATION
>
> BEIJING, April 20 (Tanjug) - Cooperation between the Belgrade
>University and Chinese universities is a major segment of overall
>Yugoslav-Chinese relations and cooperation, it was noted Thursday in talks
>between Belgrade University Chancellor Jagos Puric and China's Deputy
>Education Minister Wei Yu.
>
> The visiting Belgrade University delegation visited Thursday the
>prestigious Beijing University that had marked its 100th anniversary two years
>ago.
>
> Puric said that the delegation was impressed by scientific and
>educational results achieved at the four universities it had visited including
>Beijing's Renmin and Foreign Studies universities, the Tianjin University and
>Beijing's Beida University.
>
> He said that the delegation had signed a cooperation accord with
>the Tianjin University.
>
> Wei said that the strengthening of ties between Yugoslav and
>Chinese universities would help strengthen the two countries' friendship and
>cooperation, urging frequent contacts between the two countries' universities.
>
>
> She underlined her country's stance on the Yugoslav republic of
>Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, stressing that U.S.-led NATO had under
>the pretext of human rights protection brutally violated Yugoslavia's
>sovereignty and territorial integrity last year.
>
> The delegation held talks also with Beijing University President
>Su Dzihong and other top university officials. The two sides' readiness was
>voiced to strengthen and promote their cooperation still further, as provided
>for by an accord to this effect signed twenty years ago.
>
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> IMPRISONED SERBS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA ARE IN POOR HEALTH -
>DOCTORS
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 19 (Tanjug) - Of the 40 or so Serbs in
>the district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica who have been on hunger strike for
>nine days now, four are in very poor health, according to Pristina doctors
>speaking to reporters on Wednesday. A panel of doctors from the Pristina
>University School of Medicine visited and examined some of the imprisoned
>Serbs earlier on Wednesday.
>
> Vladimir Vucetic, who is under age and mentally retarded, and has
>been in custody for seven months, is in particularly bad shape, the doctors
>said.
>
>
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