> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE, 4 May 2000 > > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNITED NATIONS > > a.. YUGOSLAVIA STRONGLY PROTESTED WITH U.N. OVER ETHNIC >ALBANIAN ATTACK > b.. YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR AGAINST RENEWING U.N. KOSOVO AND >METOHIJA MISSION > CONFERENCE OF THE INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION > > a.. YUGOSLAV MPS IN AMMAN > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA > > a.. YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION IN RUSSIA > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > a.. SERBIAN PARLIAMENT ELECTED DEPUTIES TO YUGOSLAV UPPER >HOUSE > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > a.. U.S. ADMINISTRATION SECRETLY ARMED 3,500 ALBANIAN >TERRORISTS > b.. SERBS PROTEST OUTSIDE KOSOVSKA MITROVICA DISTRICT JAIL > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > a.. CHIZHOV ON CONTACT GROUP MEETING IN BERLIN > b.. AUSTRIA ASKED KOSOVO AND METOHIJA'S ALBANIANS TO CONDEMN >ETHNIC VIOLENCE > > > * * * > > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNITED NATIONS > > YUGOSLAVIA STRONGLY PROTESTED WITH U.N. OVER ETHNIC ALBANIAN >ATTACK > > NEW YORK, May 3 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia has lodged a strong protests >with the U.N. Security Council over the latest ethnic Albanian terrorist >attack in serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, demanding an inquiry and >tough measures to curb the ethnic Albanian violence. > > A letter from Yugoslav U.N. mission chief Vladislav Jovanovic to >Council President Wang Yingfan of China and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan >said ethnic Albanian terrorists threw a hand grenade on a government building >in divided Kosovska Mitrovica on May 1. > > The building houses the Yugoslav government committee liaising >with the U.N. mission to the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, the >Centre for Peace and Tolerance and the Serbian National Assembly. > > There were four people in the building at the time of the attack, >but they fortunately escaped injury, the letter said. > > The attack on the building housing the Yugoslav and Serbian >government institutions and non-governmental organisations shows that the >international force (KFor) and the U.N. mission (UNMIK) are not doing the job >entrusted to them by the U.N. Security Council. > > This is in flagrant violation of their obligation under U.N. >Resolution 1244 of establishing a safe environment for all people in >Kosovo-Metohija. > > Jovanovic asked that the terrorist attack be condemned, an inquiry >instituted and the Yugoslav government informed about its results, and that >the protest letter be published as an official document of the U.N. Security >Council. > > YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR AGAINST RENEWING U.N. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >MISSION > > MEXICO CITY, May 3 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's ambassador to Mexico is >quoted as saying the U.N. mission to the Serbian province of Kosovo and >Metohija should not be renewed, as it has discharged none of its obligations >under U.N. Resolution 1244. > > In a text prompted by Yugoslav National Day, April 27, "El Dia" >newspaper quotes Ambassador Dusan Vasic as saying the international peace >force has done nothing for the return of the displaced people or for emplacing >peace and security in the region. > > According to Vasic, the crime rate in the province has soared >since NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring, which ended in the >deployment of KFor to Kosovo and Metohija. > > The paper quotes the ambassador as saying he hopes that, in these >circumstances, a resolution renewing the mission's mandate will not be passed. > > > Should agreement be reached to renew the mission despite its >disastrous performance, however, then it would continue, Vasic said, but hoped >that Yugoslavia would regain its rights in that part of its territory once the >international presence withdrew. > > The newspaper went on to say that Resolution 1244 also guarantees >the right of the Yugoslav people and government to full sovereignty and the >integrity of state territory. > > CONFERENCE OF THE INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION > > YUGOSLAV MPS IN AMMAN > > AMMAN, May 4 (Tanjug) - Member of the Yugoslav parliament >delegation Zivko Sokolovacki said in his speech at the 103rd Conference of the >Interparliamentary Union in Amman on Thursday that only an international >environment in which everyone will be fully equal and respected can be the >legal framework for civilized and civilizational dialogue which can stimulate >world progress and prosperity. > > "At the beginning of the new millennium, the modern world is faced >with many new challenges which threaten possibly to create a new system based >on anticivilizational, deeply inhuman, and undemocratic values, whose mainstay >is unlimited power - military, political, economic, in media, technological," >said Sokolovacki in a debate on the subject "Dialogue among civilizations and >cultures". > > The developments in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province >following the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia and the arrival of the so-called >international mission under auspices of the United Nations, present an example >of abuse of the multi-ethnic, multi-civilizational and multi-cultural >structure of a community in order to realize partial strategic interests of >certain power centers, said Sokolovacki, who is a deputy in the Chamber of >Citizens of the federal parliament. > > F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA > > YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION IN RUSSIA > > MOSCOW, May 4 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Yugoslav parliament, >headed by Chamber of Citizens Defense and Security Committee President Milutin >Stojkovic, left Moscow late on Wednesday and arrived in the northwestern town >of Nevel, Pskovskaya province, to attend an event marking the 55th anniversary >of victory over fascism on Thursday. > > The event entitled "We defended a great state" will be attended by >deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus, and >a large number of Russian officials. > > The Yugoslav delegation is visiting Russia at the invitation of >the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus. > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > SERBIAN PARLIAMENT ELECTED DEPUTIES TO YUGOSLAV UPPER HOUSE > > BELGRADE, May 3 (Tanjug) - The Assembly of the Yugoslav republic >of Serbia on Wednesday elected its allotted 20 deputies to the Chamber of >Republics (upper house) of the Yugoslav federal parliament. > > The other 20 are to come from the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro. > > The 250-seat Serbian legislature elected nine deputies each from >the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), and >two from the Yugoslav Left (JUL). > > The SPS has 89 seats in the Serbian unicameral parliament and is >entitled to seven seats in the federal parliament's upper house, just as the >SRS, which has 83 seats in the Serbian legislative body. > > JUL has 21 seats in the Serbian parliament and is entitled to two >seats in the federal parliament's upper house. > > The opposition Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) has 45 seats in the >Serbian parliament and was entitled to four seats in the federal upper house, >but nominated no candidates, so that its four seats were distributed between >the SPS and the SRS - two each. > > There were 188 regular votes cast, and four abstentions. > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > U.S. ADMINISTRATION SECRETLY ARMED 3,500 ALBANIAN TERRORISTS > > WASHINGTON, May 4 (Tanjug) - The U.S. administration recently >secretly armed more than 3,500 Albanian extremists who are acting under the >wing of the Kosovo Protection Corps. > > The U.S. government has continually supplied Kosovo Albanian >terrorists with arms since the arrival of the United Nations peace mission in >the southern Serbian province, in spite of public verbal condemnations of >terrorism, and unknown to its allies in the international force KFOR, Tanjug >learned. > > The corps, which was officially formed on Sept 20, 1999, as a >civilian institution for engagement in emergencies, is actually the so-called >Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). > > Since the arrival of the KFOR in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija >province, members of the alleged Kosovo Protection Corps have brutally >liquidated more than 1,000 non-Albanian citizens, mostly Serbs. > > The corps comprises 5,000 men and is under the direct command of >the KFOR, which daily issues instructions for its engagement, in keeping with >the policy and priorities of the U.N. secretary-general's special envoy for >civilian affairs in Kosovo and Metohija, Bernard Kouchner of France. > > The fact that U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently >ordered Hague tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte to strike leader >Hashim Thaci of the officially disbanded terrorist KLA from the list of >persons indicted for war crimes, is perhaps the best confirmation that ethnic >Albanian extremists are in fact favourites and proteges of the U.S. >administration. > > SERBS PROTEST OUTSIDE KOSOVSKA MITROVICA DISTRICT JAIL > > KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 4 (Tanjug) - Thousands of Serbs gathered >at noon on Thursday outside the district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica where >some forty Serb prisoners have been on hunger strike for twenty-five days now. >The peaceful protest outside the jailhouse was held as a sign of encouragement >to the inmates and an expression of dissatisfaction with the double standards >applied by the local court, set up by U.N. administrator Bernard Kouchner with >only ethnic Albanian staff. > > Addressing the assembled multitude, Nikola Kabasic of the Serbian >National Forum for North Kosovo-Metohija said the prisoners were innocent and >were being held only because they were Serbs. > > The hour-long protest was incident-free. > > KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > > CHIZHOV ON CONTACT GROUP MEETING IN BERLIN > > MOSCOW, May 4 (Tanjug) - The tension in Serbia's Kosovo and >Metohija province is a result of the wish of western countries to resolve its >fate behind Belgrade's back, said Vladimir Chizhov, a special representative >of the Russian Foreign Ministry and head of its Department for General >European Cooperation. Such attempts are not only legally untenable but have no >future at all, Chizhov said in a statement to the "Itar-Tass" news agency. > > The situation in Kosovo and Metohija is far from what the >initiators of last year's aggression on Yugoslavia had planned, he said, which >is evident also in the renewed work of the Contact Group. > > Chizhov headed a Russian delegation to the Contact Group meeting >in Berlin on Wednesday. > > It became clear at that meeting that nothing can be done in the >Balkans without Russia, or against its will, he said. > > Russia urged a political settlement of issues in Kosovo and >Metohija and its autonomy which should preclude independence, Chizhov said. > > Failure to do this would result in a hotbed of tensions, extremism >and terrorism, which is contrary to the interests of the Balkans region and >Europe in general, he warned. > > AUSTRIA ASKED KOSOVO AND METOHIJA'S ALBANIANS TO CONDEMN ETHNIC >VIOLENCE > > VIENNA, May 3 (Tanjug) - Austria's foreign ministry official has >urged ethnic Albanian leaders in Kosovo and Metohija to condemn in no >uncertain terms violence in that Serbian province. > > Vienna's "Die Presse" newspaper quotes Foreign Ministry Secretary >General Albert Rohan as saying that the Kosovo and Metohija Albanian leaders' >condemnation of violence against other ethnic communities in the province is >inadequate. > > Rohan sees this as a glaring omission on the ethnic Albanian side. > > He further criticised the international community for the violence >in Kosovo and Metohija, insisting that all displaced Serbs who wish to return >to Kosovo and Metohija must be enabled to do so and the international >community must improve the security situation there. > > Rohan paid a three-day working visit to Kosovo-Metohija last week >in the capacity of personal envoy of the president of the Organisation for >Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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