> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > BELGRADE,7 May 2000 > > C O N T E N T S : > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > - YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT DECORATES YUGOSLAV ARMY GUARD BRIGADE > > IPU - CONFERENCE > > - YUGOSLAV DELEGATION SCORES POLITICAL POINT > > CHINA - NATO - ANNIVERSARY > > - CHINA REITERATES DEMAND TO WASHINGTON > > - BELGRADE - EMBASSY - COMMEMORATION > > UN - BALKANS - FR YUGOSLAVIA > > - BALKANS CANNOT DEVELOP WITHOUT FR YUGOSLAVIA > > GREECE - BALKANS > > - GREECE CRITICIZES PACT FOR STABILITY IN THE BALKANS > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > - SERB MURDERED IN KOSOVSKA VITINA > > FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > > YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT DECORATES YUGOSLAV ARMY GUARD BRIGADE > > BELGRADE, May 7 (Tanjug) - President of the Republic and Supreme >Commander of the Yugoslav Army Slobodan Milosevic decorated, on the occasion >of May 6 - Day of the guard brigade - with a medal of the war flag of the >first degree the Yugoslav Army Guard brigade - for courage demonstrated in the >defense of the country and supreme combat readiness and heroism that serve as >an example in the defense of sovereignty, the territory and the constitutional >system of FR Yugoslavia. > > The statement of the military cabinet of the president of FR >Yugoslavia said that at the ceremony held on Saturday in that unit, the >decoration was presented to the commander of the Guard brigade Gen. Milivoje >Bojovic by the envoy of the supreme commander Slobodan Milosevic, Gen. >Srboljub Trajkovic, commander of the First Army. > > IPU - CONFERENCE > > YUGOSLAV DELEGATION SCORES POLITICAL POINT > > BELGRADE, May 7 (Tanjug) - Head of the Yugoslav delegation and >president of Yugoslav parliament upper house Srdja Bozovic, following the >Conference of the Interparliamentary Union in Amman, told Radio Television >Serbia that the Yugoslav delegation had scored a full political point both >from the aspect of internal-political circumstances and the aspect of >breakthrough of our policy among parliamentarians, participants in the >conference. > > Bozovic pointed out that the Yugoslav parliamentarian delegation >had made known in Amman the position of the Yugoslav government with respect >to the current Kosovo-Metohija crisis, internal problems of FR Yugoslavia and >the unprincipled and inefficient work of the peacekeeping mission - military >and civilian - in Kosovo and Metohija, which is reflected negatively on peace >and stability mot only in FR Yugoslavia but also in the region. > > An important result of the conference, Bozovic assessed, is that >the participants condemned sanctions as a form of rule of powerful states over >the poor. > > According to Srdja Bozovic, the conference condemned every >collective punishment of states and peoples regardless of where those states >are located and what political system they have. > > In the work of the IPU conference took part 1400 delegates from 35 >states and by the number of participants that has been so far the largest >meeting of parliamentarians of the world. > > CHINA - NATO - ANNIVERSARY > > CHINA REITERATES DEMAND TO WASHINGTON > > BEIJING, May 1 (Tanjug) - China reiterated on Sunday, on the >anniversary of the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, during >NATO's brutal aggression on FR Yugoslavia, its demand to the United States to >"conduct a comprehensive and thorough investigation and to give to the Chinese >government and people a convincing explanation." > > "The U.S. should clearly understand the gravity of the bombing," >Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said, which means that Beijing has >once again made it known that it does not consider the explanations made by >Washington so far as serious or convincing. > > "The Chinese government and people will never accept a single act >that encroaches on the sovereignty of China," Sun said. > > He stressed that China "firmly resists every form of hegemony and >the policy of force." > > BELGRADE - EMBASSY - COMMEMORATION > > BELGRADE, May 7 (Tanjug) - Outside the destroyed building of the >Embassy of PR China in Belgrade was held on Sunday a commemorative gathering >on the anniversary of NATO's bombing of that diplomatic representation, when >three Chinese journalists were killed and 27 Chinese diplomats wounded. > > Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Zoran Novakovic who laid a wreath >on behalf of the Yugoslav Ministry outside the Embassy of PR China said that >the bombing of that embassy was a crime without precedent in the history of >modern civilization. > > Innocent victims, our Chinese friends who died in the bombing of >the Chinese Embassy, will never be forgotten. One year after the crime we can >say that the criminal, violent, morbid foreign policy of the United States has >endured a complete fiasco, Novakovic said. > > Chinese Ambassador to FR Yugoslavia Pan Zhanlin reminded that >Chinese journalists who lost their lives in the criminal bombing of the >Chinese Embassy were killed because they reported objectively about the truth >and about how the Yugoslav people was courageously fighting to preserve their >independence. > > UN - BALKANS - FR YUGOSLAVIA > > BALKANS CANNOT DEVELOP WITHOUT FR YUGOSLAVIA > > NEW YORK, May 7 (Tanjug) - The Balkans cannot develop without FR >Yugoslavia and its inclusion in all development processes, said a report of >the U.N. economic commission on regional development, in which a separate >chapter deals with Southeaster Europe and the Balkans. > > The report presented in the past days at the U.N. commission >headquarters in Geneva pointed to the key need for lifting sanctions against >Yugoslavia, stressing that their keeping in place would only show that they >are counterproductive. > > Clearly pointing to the need to put an end to the current practice >of isolation of FR Yugoslavia, the report reminded about the assessment with >which agree a large majority of U.N. members that the regional program of >development and security cannot yield results, unless it includes FR >Yugoslavia. > > The success of regional development requires "not only the >participation of Yugoslavia in regional cooperation plans, but also the >recovery of the Yugoslav economy," the text said. > > GREECE - BALKANS > > GREECE CRITICIZES PACT FOR STABILITY IN THE BALKANS > > SOFIA, May 7 (Tanjug) - Greek Defense Minister and vice-president >of the ruling PASOK Akis Tschatzopoulos told on Sunday the Sofia daily "Duma" >that the Greek policy towards Kosovo and Metohija "has been and remains >support to peace processes within United Nations." > > He also added that Greece at the same time presses for economic >aid of the European Union "for the reconstruction of Balkan countries affected >by war."He added that the Pact for Stability in the Balkans must be more >active. "Our criticism is that we have been waiting for it too long. The >Balkans need investments, because there is no other solution," Tschatzopoulos >said. > > SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > > SERB MURDERED IN KOSOVSKA VITINA > > KOSOVSKA VITINA, May 7 (Tanjug) - Zivko Stolic (67) from the >village of Klokot, Kosovska Vitina municipality, was murdered on Saturday, and >his body was found around 20.00 hours, radio-amateurs reported. > > Stolic was seen for the last time around 14.00 when he went >fishing, the same source said and added that Stolic was most probably captured >by Albanian terrorists who took him towards Vitina, and then tortured and >killed him. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
