> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE, 23 April 2000 > > > F.R YUGOSLAVIA - GUINEA > > a.. GROWING SOLIDARITY WITH SPS IN WESTERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - MALI > > a.. YUGOSLAV DELEGATION ARRIVED IN MALI > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > a.. GENERAL OJDANIC: FOR PEACE, FREEDOM AND PROGRESS > b.. MONUMENT TO DEFENDERS OF SERB FREEDOM UNVEILED > c.. FIRST INTEGRAL REPORT ON EFFECTS OF NATO AGGRESSION ON >ENVIRONMENT > d.. NATO-RELATED DEATHS OF SERBIAN RADIO TELEVISION WORKERS >COMMEMORATED > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > a.. UNMIK POLICE FOUND BODY OF SLAIN SERB FROM BADOVAC > b.. KOSOVO ALBANIANS FIRE NINE SHELLS AT GORAZDEVAC > c.. GROUP OF KOSOVO ALBANIAN HOOLIGANS ATTACKED SERBS IN >SUSICA WITH BATS > MACEDONIA - PRESS - REACTION > > a.. MACEDONIAN AIR SPACE WAS NOT VIOLATED > > > * * * > > > F.R YUGOSLAVIA - GUINEA > > GROWING SOLIDARITY WITH SPS IN WESTERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES > > CONAKRY, April 23 (Tanjug) - The movement of solidarity with the >Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), which has demonstrated resolve in defending >national independence, is growing in western African countries, among >progressive parties and states of that region, including Guinea, Guinea's >ruling Party of Unity and Progress Secretary-General Abou Baqr Sompare said on >Saturday in talks with Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic. > > Jovanovic, who is on an official visit to Guinea, coffered with >Sompare in the capacity of SPS Main Board Executive Committee member on >cooperation between the two parties. Several members of the innermost >leadership of the Guinean party took part in the talks. > > Sompare said Guinea and his party fully support the SPS policy and >President Slobodan Milosevic, and condemned the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia >in the spring of 1999. > > Jovanovic informed the host about the course and decisions of the >recent SPS congress and underscored the importance of cooperation between the >two parties in keeping with the traditional friendly relations and developed >cooperation between the two states. > > The participants in the talks also considered growing incidents >when small countries have to deal with an aggressive approach by certain >states which hide their imperialist and neocolonial goals behind alleged >concern for human rights. > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - MALI > > YUGOSLAV DELEGATION ARRIVED IN MALI > > BAMAKO, April 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin >Jovanovic arrived in Bamako from Conakry on Sunday, for an official visit to >Mali. > > At the airport, Jovanovic was welcomed by Mali's Foreign Minister >Modibo Sedibe. > > The two-day visit by the Yugoslav delegation and meetings with the >hosts in this Africa country, which is very familiar with Yugoslavia and its >urging for peace and equality in the world, will be devoted to the promotion >of mutual political and economic cooperation. > > Strengthening and giving impetus to ties between state and >political institutions and business companies was also in the focus of >attention during the just ended official visit to Guinea. > > In a statement to reporters at the airport in Conakry, Minister >Jovanovic said he was certain that the talks in Guinea had contributed to >strengthening the traditionally friendly relations and cooperation, and said >the relations had a good future. > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > GENERAL OJDANIC: FOR PEACE, FREEDOM AND PROGRESS > > TAKOVO, April 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan >Milosevic's envoy, federal Defense Minister, General of the Army Dragoljub >Ojdanic said in the central Serbian town of Takovo on Sunday that the state >leadership, Yugoslav citizens and Yugoslav Army members were vitally >interested in peace, freedom and dignified human progress. > > Speaking at the celebration of the 185th anniversary of the 2nd >Serbian Uprising, Gen. Ojdanic said that, perhaps today more than ever, the >strong unity of the people and creative engagement of each individual were >necessary in order to achieve just peace and the realization of the ideals of >freedom. > > "We must nurse the unity born in defense from aggression also in >peacetime, when we continue the momentum of construction in renewing the >destroyed, in building our country and creating conditions for a better and >richer life for all our citizens," Gen. Ojdanic said. > > "That is our obligation to those who bravely laid down their lives >on the altar of freedom and to the present and future generations," he said. > > MONUMENT TO DEFENDERS OF SERB FREEDOM UNVEILED > > GORNJI MILANOVAC, April 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav 1st Army commander, >Gen. Srboljub Trajkovic unveiled a monument to defenders of Serb freedom - >killed in armed conflicts in 1991 and in the brutal NATO aggression in 1999, >in the central Serbian town of Gornji Milanovac on Sunday. > > "We must honour the fallen victims, the goals which we fought for >with them, the results we achieve daily in reconstructing the destroyed, but >also the marking of traces of these crimes, by remaining in concord, united >and unwavering on our path of freedom and refusal to be subjugated," Gen. >Trajkovic said at the rally which was attended by family members of the >victims and many citizens of the areas around Rudnik and Takovo. > > "The unity forged in resistance to the NATO aggression has been >transformed into resolve, perseverance and determination quickly to >reconstruct the country, to give strong impetus to the economy, and the world >an example and a confirmation of our vitality, expertise and capabilities," he >said, stressing there were countless accomplishments in construction sites, >just as there had been on squares, in positions, in trenches. > > The NATO aggressors, dissatisfied with the results of their >rampage and killing, are inventing and carrying out new, more perfidious and >cunning attacks, since, being unable to subjugate Yugoslavia, they are trying >to fabricate a better reason for their past actions, and yet, the more they >are trying to clear themselves, the more evidence they provide for their >crimes and inhumanity, said Gen. Trajkovic. > > There is no reason to continue the sanctions and pressures, and no >justification for the failure of the KFOR mission in Serbia's Kosovo and >Metohija province, he said, concluding that the only reason for this was that >it was backed by the mighty but unreasonable. > > FIRST INTEGRAL REPORT ON EFFECTS OF NATO AGGRESSION ON ENVIRONMENT > > BELGRADE, April 23 (Tanjug) - A report by the federal Ministry for >Development, Science and Environment on the effects of last year's NATO air >strikes on Yugoslavia's environment, including a chapter on NATO's use of >depleted uranium 238 whose use has never been a subject of any international >document, was presented at the Yugoslav government headquarters on Friday. > > Assistant Yugoslav Defense Minister, Gen. Slobodan Petkovic said >Yugoslav Army units during the war found shells with depleted uranium in the >wider regions of Bujanovac and Vranje, southwestern Serbia, and on Lustica >promontory in Boka Kotorska Bay in Montenegro, in a radiological-chemical >examination of regions where A-10A U.S. aircraft were engaged. > > The contaminated soil was examined by the Vinca Institute of >Nuclear Sciences of Belgrade, the Department for Health Protection of Workers >of Nis, and the Belgrade-based Military Medical Academy. Results showed a high >degree of contamination - the specific activity of depleted uranium 238 ranged >up to 235,000 becquerels/kg soil. The highest level of permitted contamination >for this element is 200 becquerels/kg, Gen. Petkovic pointed out. > > It was not possible to make any detailed radiological-chemical >analyses in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, he said, but Yugoslav Army >data show that A-10A U.S. aircraft were engaged in about 100 locations in the >province, especially heavily in the regions of Prizren, Urosevac, Pec, >Djakovica, Decani, and Djurakovac, mostly western Kosovo and Metohija. > > Yugoslav Minister for Development, Science and Environment Nada >Sljapic said these facts made the NATO aggression a "chemical war against the >population and the living world." > > In a planned and preconceived manner, NATO attacked chemical >industry plants, and only immediate actions by domestic experts prevented or >reduced the disastrous effects on the environment, she said. > > NATO-RELATED DEATHS OF SERBIAN RADIO TELEVISION WORKERS >COMMEMORATED > > BELGRADE, April 23 (Tanjug) - On the anniversary of the criminal >NATO attack on the Serbian Radio Television (RTS) building in downtown >Belgrade, when 16 employees were killed, delegations of the RTS, the Socialist >Party of Serbia (SPS) Belgrade Board, and the SPS Palilula Municipal Board, >and family members laid wreaths outside the RTS building on Sunday. > > Wreaths were also laid by a delegation of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) >Belgrade Board and the JUL reporters' section. > > A delegation of the Serbian Reporters' Association also laid a >wreath outside the RTS building. > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM > > UNMIK POLICE FOUND BODY OF SLAIN SERB FROM BADOVAC > > BADOVAC, April 23 (Tanjug) - U.N. civilian mission UNMIK police >found the body of Srdjan Markovic, a Serb from the village of Badovac, >municipality of Gracanica in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, near the >village Mramor by Lake Gracanica on Saturday, amateur radio operators said on >Sunday. > > Markovic on Friday left for the village of Slivovo to visit with >friends. He was alone in his Zastava 101 automobile, when he was intercepted >by ethnic Albanian terrorists and killed, the radio operators quoted relatives >as saying. > > KOSOVO ALBANIANS FIRE NINE SHELLS AT GORAZDEVAC > > PEC, April 23 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanians fired nine shells at the >Serb village of Gorazdevac, municipality of Pec in Serbia's Kosovo and >Metohija province, late on Saturday, from the direction of the ethnic Albanian >village of Grabovac. > > There are no reports of casualties in the attack, said amateur >radio operators. > > The local Serbs believe the attack was an act of revenge in >retaliation for efforts by international force KFOR Italian troops to prevent >constant plundering and destruction of abandoned Serb houses in this village. >The attack was the third major incident in the past week in this part of the >region of Metohija, the report said. > > GROUP OF KOSOVO ALBANIAN HOOLIGANS ATTACKED SERBS IN SUSICA WITH >BATS > > SUSICE, April 23 (Tanjug) - A group of ethnic Albanians attacked >Serbs with bats in the village of Susica near Gracanica late Saturday, amateur >radio operators said on Sunday. > > Before the attack, the ethnic Albanians passed through the >village, provoking local Serbs, who did not react physically. The hooligans >returned by van after half an hour with more ethnic Albanians, all wielding >bats. They rushed out of the vehicle and immediately started hitting Serbs who >were in the street. > > The attacked Serbs fought back, some of them seizing bats. This >discouraged the attackers, who fled and immediately reported the incident to >the international force KFOR and U.N. civilian mission UNMIK police in >Gracanica. > > Susica Serbs have repeatedly complained to the KFOR and UNMIK >police about provocations by ethnic Albanians, but the complaints were never >taken seriously. > > MACEDONIA - PRESS - REACTION > > MACEDONIAN AIR SPACE WAS NOT VIOLATED > > SKOPJE, April 23 (Tanjug) - The Macedonian Defense Ministry on >Saturday denied reports by some Skopje dailies that Yugoslav Air Force MIGs >had violated Macedonian air space. > > The Macedonian air defense has not registered any violations of >air space, state-controlled "Radio Skopje" said, quoting a statement by >ministry spokesman Georg Trendefilov. > > A spokesman for the Skopje KFOR command also said he had no >information about Yugoslav planes violating Macedonian air space. > > Skopje dailies on Saturday published front-page reports alleging >that two Yugoslav MIGs had entered tens of kilometers into Macedonian >territory in the direction of Kumanovo, northern Macedonia, on three occasions >on Wednesday, April 19, and that Macedonian army radars had allegedly recorded >the air space violations. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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