> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE,24 April 2000 > > > C O N T E N T S : > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > - YUGOSLAVIA'S JOVANOVIC HAS TALKS WITH MALI COUNTERPART SABIDE > > - SERBIAN PREMIER SEES HUGE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL > > - SERBIAN PM MARJANOVIC LEAVES FOR MOSCOW > > - YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF TOURS FLOODED AREAS > > - EXPATRIATE YUGOSLAVS INVITED TO INVEST IN AGRICULTURE > > NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > - CHINESE JOURNALISTS COMMEMORATE NATO'S ANTI-YUGOSLAV AGGRESSION > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > - KFOR TROOPS HARASS LOCAL SERB ACTIVIST IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA > > - DETAINED SERBS, ROMANIES IN 14TH DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE > > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > > YUGOSLAVIA'S JOVANOVIC HAS TALKS WITH MALI COUNTERPART SABIDE > > BAMAKO, April 24 (Tanjug) - It is of great importance that the >United Nations retain its role of safeguard of global peace and security, >according to The Foreign Ministers of Yugoslavia and Mali on Sunday. > > The Ministers, Zivadin Jovanovic of Yugoslavia and Modibo Sadibe >of Mali, agreed that the operation of the United Nations is of great benefit >to all countries, irrespective of their size and power. > > Thanks to its policy of insistence on equality in inter-state >relations, Mali, which is currently a member of the U.N. Security Council, >will continue to insist unwaveringly on respect for the principles set down in >the U.N. Charter, it was noted. Speaking with sincere conviction, Minister >Sadibe said that Yugoslavia and Mali share the same vision of the future and >of equality of nations and justice for all. > > The two ministers discussed a wide spectrum of bilateral issues >and cooperation within the United Nations, the non-aligned movement and other >international forums. > > They exchanged information also about the two countries' internal >development and foreign policy priorities. > > Minister Jovanovic exhaustively briefed his host on the situation >in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province of Kosovo-Metohija. > > Jovanovic stressed the need for the U.N. Security Council to take >resolute action to prevent continued "ethnic cleansing" practised against that >U.N.-administered province's non-Albanians, and for the return of the >displaced people. He briefed his host also on Yugoslavia's achievements in >rebuilding devastation wreaked by NATO in its brutal aggression on Yugoslavia >from March 24 to June 10, 1999. > > > SERBIAN PREMIER SEES HUGE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL > > ALEKSINAC, April 24 (Tanjug) - Serbia's premier toured >NATO-devastated Aleksinac, central Serbia on Monday, and praised the people's >courage in the defence against aggression and solidarity in post-aggression >reconstruction. > > "People who defend their country with so much courage and who >rebuild and develop it with such enthusiasm and solidarity have nothing to >fear, either from external enemies or from domestic traitors," Mirko >Marjanovic said. > > "We are stronger than our enemies, and we have proven it. As for >traitors, they deserve nothing but contempt, anyway," said Marjanovic, who is >also vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). > > He was meeting with businessmen and SPS and Yugoslav Left JUL >officials of the Nisavski District in the industrial town of Aleksinac. > > He said that the national development potential - human, material >and natural - was huge, and the country's friends in the world were getting >more numerous by the day. > > "Many things have changed in the international community because >of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia and (its republic of) Serbia (last spring), >and still more because of our country's brave resistance. > > "The forces of new imperialism today are on the defensive, and the >voice is strengthening of those striving for a world of peace, stability, >equality, where each nation would have a chance to develop its creative >potential and civilisational values. > > "We are addressing these messages to the peace-loving and >progressive world from Aleksinac, a hero-town, a symbol of resistance to the >forces of darkness, and a symbol also of reconstruction, development and new >life," Marjanovic said. > > > SERBIAN PM MARJANOVIC LEAVES FOR MOSCOW > > BELGRADE, April 24 (Tanjug) - Serbian Prime Minister Mirko >Marjanovic left for Moscow on Monday to take part in an international >conference on pathways of economic integration in the new conditions. > > Marjanovic will also attend the 2nd Pan-Russian Congress of goods >manufacturers, the Serbian Ministry of Information said. > > > YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF TOURS FLOODED AREAS > > BELGRADE, April 24 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Chief of Staff Nebojsa >Pavkovic has toured the flooded areas along the northern rivers Tisa and >Tamis, a statement from the army command said on Sunday. > > General Pavkovic visited Secan, Surjan, Kanjiza, Novi Knezevac and >Novi Becej, all in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's northern Vojvodina >province, and inquired about the situation in the affected areas. > > He met with local administration officials and businessmen and >discussed their needs and how the army can help alleviate the consequences of >the disaster. > > He also inspected work done by the army so far in fighting the >flood, saying that the army had always been with the people in their plight >and vowing it would continue to be there for them whenever and wherever >necessary. > > "We have again shown that the army is not only for parades. The >army exists to be there for the people in their hour of need, to defend the >people. > > "This time again the army shall do everything to help the people. >Specific measures have been agreed with the Secanj municipality for easing the >consequences of the floods," Gen. Pavkovic said. > > > EXPATRIATE YUGOSLAVS INVITED TO INVEST IN AGRICULTURE > > BELGRADE, April 24 (Tanjug) - Expatriates' involvement in small >and medium-sized agriculture and food industry investment projects that do not >require huge investments would increase food production for domestic >consumption and export, as well as employment and overall rural development, a >Yugoslav official said on Sunday. > > Borka Vucic, who chairs the Diaspora Council Commission for >business cooperation, was speaking at a meeting in Belgrade's Intercontinental >Hotel with some one hundred Yugoslav-born potential investors from 10 most >highly industrialised states interested in investing in small and medium-sized >agro-industrial companies. > > Saying that the meeting reflects the orientation of the Diaspora >99 Convention held in Belgrade last August, Vucic stressed that potential >investors could choose from among 39 pilot projects offered in a publication >prepared jointly by the Beogradska Banka and Agrobanka banks and the ministry >of agriculture. > > She devoted special attention to a Fund for providing additional >training for young farmers, which has been set up recently and which already >has 100,000 German marks and half a million dinars (one German mark fetches >six dinars) from donations and gifts. > > Minister of Agriculture Nedeljko Sipovac spoke of the importance >of the agro-industrial complex, stressing that this is an industrial branch >where one-half of the population earns and produces more than 50 percent of >the country's domestic product. > > Saying that the agricultural development strategy until the year >2020 marks a complete turn-about to the practice so far, Sipovac said the >structure of the crops would change in favour of cash crops and fodder, while >stock farming would be intensified with a view to securing a 1.4 billion >dollar surplus in foreign trade. > > > NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > > CHINESE JOURNALISTS COMMEMORATE NATO'S ANTI-YUGOSLAV AGGRESSION > > BEIJING, April 24 (Tanjug) - The Journalists' Association in the >Chinese city of Tianjin on Sunday deeply deplored the April 23, 1999 killing >of 16 Serbian television workers at their jobs in the course of NATO's air >strikes on Yugoslavia. > > The Tianjin journalists were meeting with a delegation of the >Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Journalists' Association, headed by Association >President Milorad Komrakov. > > Guo Changja, editor-in-chief of Tianjin's prominent Evening News, >described the bombing of the Serbian television building in Belgrade as a >horrendous crime condemned by all and as an act of barbarism committed by the >Americans out of fear of the truth. > > All through the 78-day aggression, Tianjin journalists had >extensively reported on the Yugoslav plight. The Serbian Journalists' >Association delegation is paying a several-day visit to China at the >invitation of the All China Journalists' Association. > > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > > KFOR TROOPS HARASS LOCAL SERB ACTIVIST IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 24 (Tanjug) - Belgian troops on the >international force (KFor) in Kosovo-Metohija harassed a local Serb activist >in that U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province late on Sunday. > > According to the Serb, Oliver Ivanovic, who chairs the Serb >National Forum for the Kosovska Mitrovica District, he was stopped at a >checkpoint outside the village of Socanica on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic >road, and harassed for more than an hour. > > Ivanovic said the Belgian KFor troops had stopped only his car out >of a long line of cars, checked his papers and searched his car. Although they >had found nothing illegal or suspicious, they asked to take snap-shots of him >from several angles, which he refused. > > Passengers travelling on the route informed local villagers of the >incident and they soon gathered on the scene, so that a clash developed >between some 200 assembled Serbs and the Belgian Kfor troops. > > Ivanovic told reporters after the incident that this had been a >deliberate operation, because he had been kept for an hour and a half, >although he had regular papers and a KFor pass. > > He added that, as far as he could see, several Serbs and one or >two Belgian soldiers were hurt in the clash triggered by his harassment by the >Belgians. > > > DETAINED SERBS, ROMANIES IN 14TH DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 24 (Tanjug) - Some 40 Serbs and Romanies >detained in the prison in Kosovska Mitrovica have been on a hunger strike for >14 days in protest against the double standards of the district court in this >town in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija. > > Mothers, wives, sisters, and children of the prisoners rallied >again outside the prison at noon today, to express solidarity with their kin >and protest against the overstepping of all legal deadlines for raising >indictments and setting trials. > > The Serb women told reporters they would continue one-hour >protests tomorrow as well, and every day after that, until the authorities >meet the demand of the detained Serbs and Romanies for correct legal >proceedings. > > The purely ethnic Albanian court and prison administration show >extreme favouritism for Kosovo Albanians, the prisoners said when they began >their protest. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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