> > Yugoslav Daily Survey > >BELGRADE, 8 May 2000 F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVED RUSSIAN >AMBASSADOR F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA YUGOSLAV AND CHINESE MINISTERS SIGNED >PROGRAMME OF CULTURAL COOPERATION F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - DIASPORA ASSISTANT FOREIGN >MINISTER VEJINOVIC MET WITH BISHOP KONSTANTIN OF CENTRAL EUROPE FROM THE >FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA MINISTER DAMJANOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA HAS MET ALL >U.N. RESOLUTION OBLIGATIONS SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA YUGOSLAV >COMMITTEE OFFICIALS VISITED SERBS AND ROMANIES HELD IN CUSTODY IN MITROVICA >RELATIVES OF ARRESTED ALSO TO GO ON HUNGER STRIKE? IMPRISONED SERB TRANSFERED >TO HOSPITAL SERBS BLOCK ROAD IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - >TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS BLOW UP NEWLY-BUILT SERB HOUSE ETHNIC >ALBANIAN TERRORISTS OPENED FIRE ON SERB CIVILIANS FROM FOREIGN MEDIA WORLD >CHARITIES SPONSOR PROSTITUTION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA * * * F.R. > > > > > >YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVED RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR BELGRADE, May >8 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic received on Monday Russia's new >ambassador in Belgrade Valery Egoshkin, a government statement said. During >the ensuing lengthy and cordial talk, the two sides noted that Yugoslavia and >Russia are linked by historically good and friendly relations, and that it is >in mutual interest to promote bilateral cooperation. Wishing Egoshkin success >in his job, Marjanovic stressed that significant possibilities exist for >expanding cooperation and strengthening ties in culture, science and other >fields between Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia, and Russia. F.R. >YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA YUGOSLAV AND CHINESE MINISTERS SIGNED PROGRAMME OF CULTURAL >COOPERATION BEIJING, May 8 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for International >Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Cedomir Mirkovic and China's Culture >Minister Sun Jia Zheng signed here on Monday a programme of cultural and >educational cooperation in the next three years. The two ministers described >the signing of the programme as a major event in cultural cooperation between >Yugoslavia and China, stressing that it marked a new phase that would include >numerous new initiatives for the diversification of cooperation between their >cultural and educational workers. In talks between the two countries' >delegations, which had preceded the signing of the programme, it had been >noted that the two countries' fruitful and successful cultural cooperation was >based on good overall cooperation and continual promotion of their relations. >The two ministers agreed that culture represented a major link between the two >countries' peoples that contributed to the further promotion of their friendly >ties. Sun underlined the importance of cultural cooperation, saying that the >Chinese people felt that their hearts were linked with the Yugoslavs through >culture. Mirkovic voiced confidence that Yugoslav-Chinese cultural, >educational and scientific cooperation would be on the highest level possible, >because it was based on specific features of the two cultures including their >richness and openness to cooperation. He pointed to authentic specific >features of the Yugoslav and Chinese cultures, built into the two peoples' >spirit and including the principles of the respect for one's own values as >well as those of others. F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - DIASPORA ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER >VEJINOVIC MET WITH BISHOP KONSTANTIN OF CENTRAL EUROPE BERLIN, May 8 (Tanjug) >- Yugoslavia's Assistant Foreign Minister Slavko Vejinovic met in Stuttgart, >Germany, on Sunday with Serbian Orthodox Bishop Konstantin of central Europe. >Vejinovic, who is also chief of the Foreign Ministry's department for ties >with Yugoslav expatriates, and Bishop Konstantin discussed joint efforts in >the promotion of actions aimed at rallying Yugoslav expatriates and >strengthening their ties with their mother country. This all is expected to >contribute to the resolution of major issues concerning the preservation of >the Yugoslav people's cultural, national and spiritual identity. They also >discussed the promotion of education of Yugoslav expatriates in their mother >tongue and assimilation issues facing them. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF >YUGOSLAVIA MINISTER DAMJANOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA HAS MET ALL U.N. RESOLUTION >OBLIGATIONS BELGRADE, May 8 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister without Portfolio >Jovan Damjanovic said on Monday that Yugoslavia had complied with all >obligations it had assumed under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 and >other relevant documents. Damjanovic told Yugoslavia's Tanjug news agency >that, consequently, it was vital that all other factors, primarily the U.N. >civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) and the U.N. peacekeeping >force KFOR, fully and immediately meet their obligations. He said that the >terrorising, ethnic cleansing and genocide of and violence against Kosovo and >Metohija's non-Albanian population, especially Serbs and Montenegrins but also >Romanies, Moslems, ethnic Turks, Goranies and others, on the part of ethnic >Albanian terrorists continued unabated as well as the destruction of their >homes, usurpation and destruction of private and state property and crime in >general, despite the presence of nearly 50,000 armed KFOR troops and several >thousand UNMIK police officers. "This speaks eloquently enough of KFOR's and >UNMIK's failure to meet the basic obligations provided for by their mandate, >especially as regards their guaranteeing full security of all in the province, >primarily Serbs and Montenegrins, and of their property, because they are the >target of systematic ethnic cleansing, terrorising, killings and abductions," >he said. Damjanovic also said that, honouring Yugoslavia's sovereignty and >territorial integrity, the Yugoslav government would recognise no decisions >taken by UNMIK or KFOR that were not in keeping with the resolution. SERBIAN >PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE OFFICIALS VISITED SERBS AND >ROMANIES HELD IN CUSTODY IN MITROVICA KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, May 8 >(Tanjug) - A delegation of the Yugoslav committee on cooperation with the U.N. >mission to Kosovo and Metohija visited on Sunday Serbs and Romanies held in >custody in Kosovska Mitrovica who have been on hunger strike since April 10. >Jovica Jovanovic, a committee member, told reporters that one of the Romany >prisoners had fainted of exhaustion earlier in the day but said that he had >not been transferred to hospital but had received medical assistance in his >prison cell. In the talks with the delegation, 37 Serbs and five Romanies >remanded in custody said they did not intend to end their hunger strike and >that they were especially dissatisfied with a failure by the U.N. civilian >mission (UNMIK) to fulfil the pledges it had made in public ten days ago. >RELATIVES OF ARRESTED ALSO TO GO ON HUNGER STRIKE? KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 8 >(Tanjug) - A group of Serb women - mothers, sisters, daughters, of Serbs >incarcerated in the district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica sent on Monday a >letter to the U.N. Civilian Mission head in Kosovo and Metohija Bernard >Kouchner and to the regional administrators of the civilian mission for the >Kosovo Mitrovica region Willian Nash, informing them that they will go on a >collective hunger strike unless the demands of detained Serbs are fulfilled. >"I believe you are a sensible and humane person and that you will react in >keeping with your authority to stop the agony which is about to turn into a >collective tragedy, said the letter sent to Kouchner. IMPRISONED SERB >TRANSFERED TO HOSPITAL KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 8 (Tanjug) - The district >prison in Kosovska Mitrovica has transferred Serb prisoner Vlastimir Aleksic, >who is on a hunger strike since April 10, to a hospital in the northern part >of Kosovska Mitrovica. Aleksic, along with 62-year-old Arsenije Vitosevic, is >the second Serb prisoner who due to a grave condition has been transfered from >prison to hospital. The hospital in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica is >secured by heavy KFOR forces and the French foreign legion. SERBS BLOCK ROAD >IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA GNJILANE, May 8 (Tanjug) - More than 1,000 Serbs from >the village of Klokot, municipality of Vitina in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija >province, continued a blockade of the regional road Gnjilane-Vitina, at about >10 a.m. Monday, demanding the solving of Saturday's murder of Zivko Stolic, >67, a Serb of this village, the Committee for Protection and Human Rights of >Vitina said. The citizens of Klokot were joined by Serbs from neighbouring >Vrbovac village, where ethnic Albanian criminals late Sunday mined a Serb >house, and from Grncari village, where terrorists destroyed the village church >eight days ago. A series of grave crimes recently committed in the area has >provoked the revolt of Serbs from Klokot and other Serb villages in this >municipality in eastern Kosovo and Metohija. On Sunday afternoon, the >villagers blocked traffic on the road to Vitina. Strong KFOR forces and UNMIK >police are trying to prevent outbreaks of any bigger incidents. KOSOVO AND >METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS BLOW UP NEWLY-BUILT SERB HOUSE >KOSOVSKA VITINA, May 8 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian extremists late on Sunday >blew up by mines a newly-built Serb house in the village of Vrbovce at >Kosovska Vitina, in the southeast of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo >and Metohija province. There were no casualties because the house was still >uninhabited, local radio enthusiasts reported on Monday. The command of U.S. >troops participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR had recently replaced >by wire and two vehicles the checkpoints in the village that it had set up >following massive protest rallies by local Serbs. The ethnic Albanian >extremists left the scene of attack without any difficulties. According to the >radio enthusiasts, a KFOR patrol refused to intervene stating that it had to >wait for reinforcements. KFOR has in this way again shown its hypocrisy >because it has repeatedly claimed that it wants to protect the Serbs although >it has not even set up checkpoints around localities where they live. ETHNIC >ALBANIAN TERRORISTS OPENED FIRE ON SERB CIVILIANS KOSOVSKA VITINA, May 8 >(Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists late on Sunday opened fire with >automatic weapons on Serb civilians in Kosovska Vitina, in the southeast of >Kosovo and Metohija, wounding several persons, local radio enthusiasts said. >Dobri Kojic, 34, was seriously wounded in the attack that occurred when ethnic >Albanian terrorists opened fire on the people who were in Kojic's yard. Kojic >had been recently released from hospital where he had been recovering from >wounds sustained in a bomb attack launched by ethnic Albanian terrorists on a >local shop on January 27 when a dozen Serb civilians had been injured. A woman >and two five-year-old girls were also wounded in Sunday's terrorist attack. >One of the girls sustained leg injuries, while the other was wounded in the >arm. The woman's and the two little girls' condition is stable, while Kojic is >in critical condition. FROM FOREIGN MEDIA WORLD CHARITIES SPONSOR PROSTITUTION >IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BRUSSELS, May 8 (Tanjug) - The ethnic Albanian mafia, >members of various so-called charities, non-governmental organisations and >even of the U.N. missions are running a white slavery and prostitution network >in Kosovo and Metohija, according to reports in Brussels. The information has >been published by the Anti-War Movement and other peace movements in Brussels >and supported by representatives of international organisations speaking on >condition of anonymity, the Belgian press writes. NATO and so-called >"humanitarian" non-governmental organisations are said to be part of Kosovo >and Metohija's corrupt system and partners in crime with the ethnic Albanian >terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and individual members of the U.N. >civilian and military missions - UNMIK and KFor. Since the deployment of the >"peacekeepers", mostly made up of NATO troops, that U.N.-administered province >of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia has become the biggest white slavery centre >in Europe. Thousands of women, young girls and children are deprived of all >rights, denied legal protection and traded as slaves. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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