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> Yugoslav Daily Survey
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> BELGRADE, 10 May 2000
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>
> VICTORY DAY - CELEBRATION
>
> a.. MILOSEVIC: WE WILL DEFEAT THE NEW FASCISM
> YUGOSLAVIA - IRAQ
>
> a.. YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ ARE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDAL SANCTIONS -
>OFFICIALS
> b.. YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER
> YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> a.. DAYS OF CULTURE OF FR YUGOSLAVIA IN CHINA
> YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
>
> a.. SLOVAK PRESIDENT CALLS FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST
>YUGOSLAVIA
> b.. BULGARIAN GENERAL - YUGOSLAV PEOPLES SERVE AS MODEL TO
>WORLD ANTIFASCISTS
> YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>
> a.. CHAOS, LAWLESSNESS REIGN IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA - MINISTER
> b.. MORINA RECEIVES REPRESENTATIVES OF ITALY, UNITED NATIONS
> KOSOVO-METOHIJA - DETAINED SERBS
>
> a.. YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR DRAWS U.N. ATTENTION TO PLIGHT OF SERB
>DETAINEES
> b.. LETTER OF LAWYERS OF DETAINED SERBS
> c.. DETAINED SERB MINOR IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA JAIL RUSHED TO
>HOSPITAL
> d.. PUBLIC SESSION OF SERBIAN DOCTORS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
> e.. FAMILIES OF DETAINED SERBS JOIN THEM ON HUNGER STRIKE
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA-TERRORISM
>
> a.. FIVE SERBS WOUNDED IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORIST ATTACK
>NEAR GNJILANE
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
>
> a.. KFOR CANNOT SIMPLY WITNESS KLA VIOLENCE
> FROM FOREIGN PRESS
>
> a.. NEWSWEEK: THE KOSOVO COVER-UP
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>
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>
> VICTORY DAY - CELEBRATION
>
> MILOSEVIC: WE WILL DEFEAT THE NEW FASCISM
>
> BELGRADE, May 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
>on Tuesday received representatives of veterans of the People's Liberation
>Struggle from all parts of Yugoslavia on the occasion of the defeat of fascism
>in WWII, May 9 - Victory Day.
>
> Milosevic congratulated the veterans on Victory Day and said:
>
> "Dear guests, honoured participants in the great anti-fascist
>Yugoslav struggle, I wish you a hearty welcome and I congratulate you on May 9
>- Victory Day when fascism was defeated in World War II, which is today
>celebrated in the whole world.
>
> "The Yugoslav peoples made one of the biggest contributions, and
>were at the same time one of the biggest victims, when the world defeated
>fascism. Yugoslavia was one of the first countries crossed by the new world
>order of that time when it set forth on its bloody path of enslaving the whole
>world, punishing the disobedient, and exterminating the redundant.
>
> "Yugoslavia is one of the countries which most bravely opposed the
>biggest power of that time in its deranged plan to organize the entire world
>according to its will. In those difficult times, Yugoslavia, in its
>resistance, encouraged much bigger peoples and states, and gave an enormous,
>perhaps the biggest, number of casualties, considering its size and
>population.
>
> "I must say for the sake of truth, that Yugoslav casualties were
>not only the slaves in death camps, but also the fighters on countless fronts
>throughout their fatherland where every foot of land, every man, was defended.
>
>
> "On May 9, 1945, mankind celebrated the biggest victory over evil
>in the 20th century, in the firm belief that this fascist evil was destroyed
>forever and that mankind would have only memories of the struggle and the
>victory. Less than fifty years passed when that evil monster again started
>showing signs of life, being as starved as ever.
>
> "The nineties of the 20th century, unfortunately, were like the
>thirties. Again, one power wants to conquer the whole world. Again, the most
>developed countries are irritated by the undeveloped and small, they are
>trying to make them disappear and to use their territories, cleared of
>redundant nations and peoples, for promoting the precious lives of the
>'superior race.' Again, the brutal system of punishment for anyone who resists
>is being born. Propaganda more efficient than Goebbels', spying agencies more
>powerful than the Gestapo, a Hague more dirty than Auschwitz.
>
> "Again, associates are being recruited, found and bribed in
>countries and among nations to where the conqueror is bound. Again, fear and
>greed produce betrayal. Again, the strongest side of the big occupying power
>is its little servant in the destination country, its bloody ally among the
>people it wants to erase from the face of the earth, or, at least, to bring
>them to their knees.
>
> "Again, these petty servants and bloody allies call their betrayal
>- joining a world process, an effort to understand the spirit of the modern
>world, and, sometimes, they explain their betrayal as patriotic concern and
>patriotic moves which they, the smart ones, express and make in the interest
>of the people who have no chance before the biggest power with which they are
>being drawn into a conflict, one they are bound to lose, by hothead Utopists,
>revolutionaries and dreamers, from the aspect of this patriotism in which
>hotheads must be burned to death in gas chambers, deported to the Hague,
>liquidated in the street, outside their apartments, in cafes, using weapons
>and money made available to their few and clever allies by the occupying
>forces.
>
> "Much in this world is reminiscent of the former world, but,
>naturally, not everything is the same. Before, then, when you were young and
>brave fighters and victors, the world had become aware of the imminent dangers
>on time, it rallied its forces and united in the struggle against the evil it
>thought could be tragic in planetary proportions.
>
> "Today, that awareness of the evil which is bigger, more
>realistic, that awareness is still not present to that extent in which it
>could lead to efficient world resistance to the new fascism, but awareness of
>this evil is present and growing stronger in many countries, among many
>peoples, even in countries and among peoples who are at this time a
>personification of world evil. However, the forces of reason and resistance
>are still not sufficiently linked, they still have not sufficiently expressed
>full mutual solidarity which is the first real barrier to the demon which
>destroys everything in its path, but only when there is no one to offer
>resistance.
>
> "Our people are not only brave and proud, but they also have other
>good characteristics. They are clever and capable of defending the country,
>but also capable of building it and developing it. We have proven this through
>our entire history. However, our people also have another big quality - they
>believe in the triumph of good and they have the capacity to transfer this
>belief onto others, to everyone around them. That belief in good would not be
>of any use in itself to someone whom evil has befallen, but belief in good in
>a nation brave and proud, clever and creative, such as our people, that is the
>reality which makes them superior, victorious regarding the troubles which
>threaten us and the world we live in.
>
> "Victory is always on the side of the better people. Life exists
>thanks to them.
>
> "I wish to you, our dear guests, who have spent your lives as
>these better people, that we be together yet again in difficult and great
>times.
>
> "There was fascism, you defeated it. The world defeated it. We
>will again defeat this new fascism which threatens the world. The world will
>defeat it," said President Milosevic.
>
> After his speech, the president held cordial talks with the
>veterans.
>
> The ceremony at the Palace of the Federation was attended by top
>state and military officials, including the federal parliament's Chamber of
>Citizens President Milomir Minic and Chamber of Republics President Srdja
>Bozovic, Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, Chamber of Republics
>Vice-President Gorica Gajevic, Serbian Parliament President Dragan Tomic,
>Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic, Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff
>Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, and other officials.
>
> YUGOSLAVIA - IRAQ
>
> YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ ARE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDAL SANCTIONS - OFFICIALS
>
> BELGRADE, May 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament Chamber of
>Republics (upper house) Speaker Milomir Minic received on Wednesday visiting
>Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf, a Parliament statement said.
>
> Condemning last spring's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, Al-Sahaf
>conveyed the full support and solidarity of the Iraqi people and government
>for the Yugoslav people and government in the defence of the country's
>sovereignty and territorial integrity.
>
> The two officials agreed that the biggest threat to global peace
>today is the policy of hegemony and gross interference in the internal affairs
>of independent states.
>
> They agreed also that Yugoslavia and Iraq are victims of sanctions
>which are genocidal in nature and which are an instrument that the rich use
>against developing countries in an effort to gain control of their resources.
>
> Both sides showed an interest in promoting cooperation in the
>economy, culture and education, which should be helped along by their highly
>developed inter-parliamentary cooperation and joint actions on the
>international plane.
>
> YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER
>
> BELGRADE, May 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Trade Minister
>Borislav Vukovic received on Wednesday Mohammed Said Al-Sahaf, Iraqi Foreign
>Minister, with whom he discussed possibilities of promotion of traditionally
>friendly relations of the two countries, particularly in the field of the
>economy and trade, the Yugoslav Information Ministry said.
>
> Minister Vukovic stressed that despite the unjustified,
>long-standing sanctions, Yugoslavia and Iraq will devote a lot of attention to
>enhancing mutual economic links, in order to overcome difficulties and enable
>the independent development of the two countries.
>
> Mohammed Said Al-Sahaf said that Iraq was very interested in the
>development of bilateral cooperation, particularly through international and
>regional organizations, in order to secure greater support of developing
>countries to the lifting of sanctions both to Yugoslavia and to Iraq.
>
> YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> DAYS OF CULTURE OF FR YUGOSLAVIA IN CHINA
>
> BEIJING, May 10 (Tanjug) - Days of Culture of FR Yugoslavia in
>China that opened by a concert last evening of the Belgrade Philharmonic in
>Beijing, attracted great attention of the Chinese public.
>
> Central Chinese television reported in news programs about the
>performance of Yugoslav artists, including Yugoslav Opera divas Radmila
>Bakocevic and Jadranka Jovanovic.
>
> The Belgrade Philharmonic performed a collage of compositions of
>famous composers and music from Yugoslavia.
>
> The concert was attened also by a Yugoslav government delegation,
>led by Yugoslav Minister in charge of international cultural and scientific
>cooperation Cedomir Mirkovic, and by eminent figures of Chinese political and
>cultural life and diplomats in Beijing.
>
> On Friday, May 12, Minister Mirkovic will open in Beijing an
>exhibition of modern Yugoslav painting.
>
> The Belgrade Philharmonic started on Wednesday a tour of
>northeastern China.
>
> YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
>
> SLOVAK PRESIDENT CALLS FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
>
> BRATISLAVA, May 10 (Tanjug) - Slovak President Rudolf Schuster has
>urged the lifting of the sanctions against Yugoslavia and the return of Serbs
>to its southern province of Kosovo and Metohija.
>
> Slovak electronic media and the Czech Republic's CTK news agency
>quoted Schuster as telling a news conference in Athens after meeting with his
>Greek counterpart Constantine Stephanopoulos and Prime Minister Costas
>Simitis, that an end should be put to the sanctions against Yugoslavia and
>that it was vital that Serbs who have fled the province return to their homes.
>
>
> He also called for the implementation of the Stability Pact
>project in the Balkans in line with relevant agreements, stressing that it was
>vital to provide funds for the purpose.
>
> In this way, Schuster has shown that he shares views on the matter
>with his Greek hosts.
>
> BULGARIAN GENERAL - YUGOSLAV PEOPLES SERVE AS MODEL TO WORLD
>ANTIFASCISTS
>
> SOFIA, May 10 (Tanjug) - Bulgarian army reserve general Stoyan
>Andreev has said that the Serbs, other Yugoslav peoples and the Yugoslav army
>offered resistance befitting them in the struggle against modern fascist evil,
>managing to defend their country.
>
> Speaking at a function given following an international symposium
>on World War II in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, late Tuesday, Andreev said that
>Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was not only the president of the
>Yugoslav peoples but was also the leader of all antifascists in the world who
>had risen against the domination of the new world order and the new aggressive
>doctrine of U.S.-led NATO.
>
> Andreev criticised opposition parties in Serbia and the rest of
>Yugoslavia saying that they downplayed their people and army's role in the
>resistance offered in the war waged against Yugoslavia by the far more
>superior enemies in terms of strength and technological power - NATO and the
>United States.
>
> YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>
> CHAOS, LAWLESSNESS REIGN IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA - MINISTER
>
> BELGRADE, May 10 (Tanjug) - Serbia's justice minister said on
>Wednesday that chaos and lawlessness were reigning and daily acquiring new
>forms in the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija.
>
> Speaking for TANJUG, Dragoljub Jankovic said the U.N. mission
>(UNMIK) had been totally passive and had taken no steps to trace missing and
>abducted Serbs.
>
> On top of that, dozens of Serbs had been held for a very long time
>now in a prison illegally set up by UNMIK and its chief Bernard Kouchner in
>Kosovska Mitrovica, and no steps were being taken to investigate charges
>against them or bring them to trial.
>
> "In some cases, this kind of thing has been going on for months,
>so the Serbs have decided to go on hunger strike, with potentially fatal
>consequences, to draw attention to their position, demanding that their legal
>status be brought in line with international and Yugoslav regulations on
>prisoners.
>
> "It is therefore necessary that all detained Serbs be brought to
>trial immediately under Yugoslav and Serbian laws, with guarantees of the
>right to legal representation, and that they be given the necessary medical
>help while in prison," Jankovic said.
>
> MORINA RECEIVES REPRESENTATIVES OF ITALY, UNITED NATIONS
>
> BELGRADE, May 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for Refugees,
>Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Aid Bratislava Morina conferred on
>humanitarian cooperation on Tuesday with Italian government representative,
>Ambassador La Francesca, and Steven Allen, the U.N. regional coordinator for
>humanitarian aid, and their associates.
>
> Morina spoke about the importance of the Italian initiative to
>send humanitarian aid, together with the U.N. Development Program and the U.N.
>office for program realization, to towns in Serbia where there are large
>numbers of refugees, internally displaced persons, and needy citizens.
>
> She said one of the most tragic consequences of the NATO
>aggression of the spring of 1999, and in particular of the current KFOR
>mission, was the exodus of Serbs and other non-Albanians from Kosovo and
>Metohija province.
>
> Ambassador La Francesca said the six-million-dollar donation of
>the Italian government to UNDP programs in Yugoslavia would be aimed at
>social-development humanitarian programs of aid to towns in Serbia and the
>realization of deliveries of this aid to the most threatened categories of the
>population, said a statement by the federal Ministry of Information.
>
> KOSOVO-METOHIJA - DETAINED SERBS
>
> YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR DRAWS U.N. ATTENTION TO PLIGHT OF SERB
>DETAINEES
>
> GENEVA, May 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's chief of mission to the
>United Nations Geneva Office again on Wednesday drew the attention of the U.N.
>High Commissioner for Human Rights to the plight of 43 Serbs unlawfully
>detained in U.N.-ruled Kosovo-Metohija.
>
> In a letter to High Commissioner Mary Robinson, Ambassador Branko
>Brankovic said the Serbs had been held in prison in the town of Kosovska
>Mitrovica unlawfully and unjustifiably for nearly 11 months.
>
> The Serb detainees have been on hunger strike for 30 days now,
>demanding that their cases be finally taken into due process, as all deadlines
>have expired.
>
> Brankovic said this was a flagrant example of violation of
>fundamental human rights, for which the international force Kfor, the U.N.
>civilian mission (UNMIK) and UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner are to blame.
>
> Brankovic added that, as different from the case of detained
>Serbs, the High Commissioner had acted very promptly indeed in the matter of
>the rights of Kosovo-Metohija's ethnic Albanians.
>
> LETTER OF LAWYERS OF DETAINED SERBS
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 10 (Tanjug) - The lawyers of Serbs and
>Roma, detained in the prison in Kosovska Mitrovica, sent on Wednesday a letter
>to the special envoy of the U.N. Secretary General and head of the U.N.
>Civilian Mission in Kosovo-Metohija Bernard Kouchner, due to the dramatic
>condition of the detained, who are on a hunger strike.
>
> Addressing Kouchner, in the first place as a doctor and member of
>the Organization Medecins sans Frontiers, for whom professional ethics should
>be to take care of the health of people, the lawyers demanded the urgent
>hospitalization of detained Serbs and Roma whose lives have been endangered
>due to the failure to heed the demand of the defense and of doctors
>commissions for the hospitalization of critical cases.
>
> Lawyers, also, required from Kouchner to take measures for
>speeding up the investigation in all cases, and to immediately set the dates
>for trials where indictments have been issued.
>
> "As you know detained Serbs and Roma are on a hunger strike in the
>prison in Kosovska Mitrovica and are only demanding the urgent conclusion of
>the investigation and the beginning of trials. We consider unacceptable the
>explanation we received that UNMIK and KFOR are unable to provide full
>protection to all trial participants. Also unknown to us is the reason why
>criminal proceedings are being delayed as well as the convening of trials in
>district courts in Pristina and in Prizren," the lawyers said.
>
> The situation has forced the detainees to go on a hunger strike.
>The inactivity and slowness demonstrated by district courts in Pristina,
>Kosovska Mitrovica and Prizren is perplexing, as well as the unjustified
>delaying of setting trial dates in cases where indictments have been issued,
>said the letter of lawyers, defendants of detained Serbs in prisons in
>Kosovo-Metohija, which was sent on Wednesday to Kouchner.
>
> DETAINED SERB MINOR IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA JAIL RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 10 (Tanjug) - A mentally retarded Serb
>minor, detained in prison in Kosovska Mitrovica, was rushed to hospital on
>Wednesday with a nose bleed and psychological problems.
>
> The 17-year-old received medical treatment and was immediately
>returned to jail, where he has been on hunger strike since April 10 with other
>Serb and Romany detainees demanding that their cases be taken into due
>process, as all deadlines have expired.
>
> Two other Serb strikers are in serious condition and have been
>hospitalised.
>
> PUBLIC SESSION OF SERBIAN DOCTORS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 10 (Tanjug) - In sign of protest due to
>inhuman treatment of imprisoned innocent Serbs, at noon Wednesday outside the
>district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica, at the time of the peaceful protest of
>about a thousand citizens, was held the first public session of the Serbian
>Doctors Society for northern Kosovo and Metohija.
>
> President of the Serbian Doctors' Society Dr Selimir Kalicanin
>said that the society requires from Kouchner, UNMIK police, regional
>administrator William Nash and the prison administration to resolve urgently
>the legal status of imprisoned Serbs, that all imprisoned Serbs undergo
>regular medical check-ups, and that those taken ill be transferred to a Serb
>hospital.
>
> The imprisoned Serbs have been on a hunger strike for 30 days
>already, demanding the initiating of judicial proceedings, because all
>deadlines had expired a long time ago.
>
> FAMILIES OF DETAINED SERBS JOIN THEM ON HUNGER STRIKE
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 9 (Tanjug) - About 20 Serb women - wives,
>mothers and daughters of detained Serbs who have been on a hunger strike in
>the Kosovska Mitrovica prison for 29 days - also started a hunger strike out
>of solidarity on Tuesday morning.
>
> The detained Serbs are on a hunger strike demanding legal
>processes in connection with their cases, since all deadlines envisaged under
>such procedures have long expired.
>
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