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> BELGRADE, 11 May 2000
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> C O N T E N T S :
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> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
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> a.. - YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADOPTED POSITIONS ON U.N. MISSION'S
>VISIT
> b.. - MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC WILL VISIT MOSCOW
> c.. - FIVE BRIDGES OPENED FOR TRAFFIC IN TOPLICA REGION
> d.. - CONFIRMATION COMING EVEN FROM U.S. ABOUT YUGOSLAV ARMY
>EFFICIENCY
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION
>
> e.. - FRY - IRAQ: YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER RECEIVED IRAQI
>DELEGATION
> f.. - TOMIC AND SAHAF CONDEMNED SANCTIONS AND AGGRESSION
> g.. - IRAQI MINISTER VISITED RECONSTRUCTION DIRECTORATE IN
>BELGRADE
> h.. - FRY - CHINA: AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN CHINA AND
>YUGOSLAVIA
> i.. - FRY - INDIA: SESELJ RECEIVED INDIAN AMBASSADOR
> j.. - FRY - SWITZERLAND: CORRECT REGISTRATION OF INTERNALLY
>DISPLACED PERSONS FROM KOSOVO-METOHIJA
> k.. - FRY - AUSTRALIA: YUGOSLAV DELEGATION AT CONFERENCE IN SIDNEY
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> l.. -ITALIAN GENERAL TO HEAD KFOR AS OF OCTOBER
> m.. -MITROVICA RESIDENTS RESUMED PROTEST RALLY IN FRONT OF LOCAL
>PRISON
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
>
> n.. -SERBIAN HOUSE BLOWN UP IN GRNCAR VILLAGE
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
>
> o.. -IVASHOV ABOUT U.S. DOMINATION AND CRISIS IN THE BALKANS
> p.. -RUSSIA THREATENS TO WITHDRAW ITS PEACEKEEPERS FROM KOSOVO AND
>METOHIJA
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> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
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> YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADOPTED POSITIONS ON U.N. MISSION'S VISIT
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - At Thursday's session chaired by Prime
>Minister Momir Bulatovic, the Yugoslav government adopted positions on a
>recent visit to Yugoslavia by a mission of the U.N. Security Council, a
>government statement said.
>
> The government noted that the visit was important in that it was
>the first effort by the Council to learn at first hand about the dramatic
>situation in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija
>which is the result of systematic violations of U.N. Resolution 1244 and the
>Kumanovo Military-Technical Accord.
>
> The government applauded the fact that the mission members from
>Russia and China visited Belgrade, where they were received by Yugoslav
>President Slobodan Milosevic and had an exhaustive exchange of views with
>government officials.
>
> The government further said the mission had an opportunity to
>learn about facts which prove that Resolution 1244, ancillary documents and
>the Military-Technical Accord are being flagrantly and systematically
>violated.
>
> Despite this, the report filed by the mission does not reflect the
>true state of affairs in the province and in one of its parts it even
>tendentiously tries to divert attention from essential problems, to mask the
>conduct of the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) and the international force
>(KFor) in Kosovo-Metohija, and especially of UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner,
>which clashes with the provisions of Resolution 1244.
>
> The government demands most strongly that the U.N. Security
>Council immediately ensure strict respect for all provisions of the Resolution
>and the ancillary documents, primarily those that guarantee the territorial
>integrity and sovereignty of Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia on the
>entire territory, and an immediate rescinding of all unlawful regulations and
>other decisions passed by UNMIK and KFor in their violation, the statement
>said.
>
> MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC WILL VISIT MOSCOW
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
>Jovanovic at the invitation of Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will pay a
>visit to the Russian Federation May 15-16, 2000.
>
> The talks, which Minister Jovanovic will hold in Moscow with
>representatives of the Russian Federation, will deal will issues related to
>enhancing overall traditional friendly and close relations between FR
>Yugoslavia and the Russian Federation and cooperation between the two
>countries on the bilateral and international level, the Yugoslav Foreign
>Ministry said on Thursday.
>
> FIVE BRIDGES OPENED FOR TRAFFIC IN TOPLICA REGION
>
> KURSUMLIJA, May 10 (Tanjug) - Envoy of Yugoslav president and
>Yugoslav Deputy Premier Nikola Sainovic said on Wednesday, at a large rally
>near Kursumlija, in south Serbia, at the opening for traffic of five bridges
>in the Toplica region, that they were devoted to the legendary and heroic
>Third Army of the Yugoslav Army.
>
> Yugoslav Army chief of generalstaff Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic cut the
>ribbons and opened for traffic three road and two railroad bridges and
>unveiled a monument devoted to the Third Army.
>
> "A meeting of the heroes of defense and of the heroes of
>reconstruction is a monument in itself and a symbol of the infinite honours to
>killed soldiers," Sainovic said, expressing the deep respect of the entire
>people for the Yugoslav Army and conviction that they will continue to be a
>"steel shield of our homeland."
>
> CONFIRMATION COMING EVEN FROM U.S. ABOUT YUGOSLAV ARMY EFFICIENCY
>
> BELGRADE, May 10 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Army generalstaff stated
>on Wednesday that there are growing confirmations that the Yugoslav Army in
>resisting NATO's aggression was efficient in the performing of its duties,
>while NATO air strikes were efficient only against the population and in
>bombing civilians targets. The statement said that the U.S. weekly Newsweek,
>citing data from the U.S. army report that was kept secret nine months, made
>public that NATO's aggression on FR Yugoslavia had ended in a fiasco.
>
> According to the document brought to light by the magazine, in the
>78 days of incessant bombing of targets in Yugoslavia, NATO inflicted minimal
>losses to the Yugoslav Army, considering the force and means used.
>
> During the 11-month-long aggression on sovereign Yugoslavia, in
>the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, that bore the brunt of attacks, the
>Yugoslav Army lost 13 tanks, of which 7 from NATO air force fire, 8 artillery
>pieces and 18 air defense guns.
>
> NATO and the Pentagon will finally have to admit the losses they
>sustained during the illegal air strikes in the spring of last year and make
>public the names of all war criminals - politicians and military commanders,
>those who gave orders and those who carried out orders - responsible for the
>killing of more than 2,000 innocent civilians in Yugoslavia.
>
> Although NATO secretary general has admitted that during the
>aggression on Yugoslavia, on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija were fired
>31,000 bombs with depleted uranium, and a large number of cluster and graphite
>bombs that caused serious ecological consequences, they will also have to
>admit to inflicting permanent damage to health and to have seriously
>endangered the lives of their troops, the statement said.
>
> The Yugoslav Army generalstaff said that "NATO and the Pentagon
>will have to explain non-compliance and non-implementation of UN SC Resolution
>1244 and of the military-technical accord, which would have prevented terror
>and criminal acts in Kosovo and Meothija. In the past 11 months in Kosovo and
>Metohija have been committed 4,573 terrorists attacks, of which 1,158 after
>the completion of the alleged demilitarization of the "KLA," nearly 1,000
>people have been killed, 879 wounded and 867 kidnapped."
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - BILATERAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION
>
> FRY - IRAQ: YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER RECEIVED IRAQI DELEGATION
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir
>Bulatovic received on Thursday an Iraqi delegation headed by Foreign Minister
>Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
>
> The talks focused on the further promotion of all-round relations
>between Yugoslavia and Iraq, in which way a new impetus was given to the
>strengthening of cooperation and decades-old friendship between the two
>countries and their peoples.
>
> TOMIC AND SAHAF CONDEMNED SANCTIONS AND AGGRESSION
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - Serbian parliament president Dragan
>Tomic talked on Thursday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Saed Al-Sahaf,
>the Serbian parliament information service said.
>
> In an open and friendly meeting opinions were exchanged about
>current international issues, bilateral relations of Iraq and Yugoslavia, and
>within them of Serbia, and about possibilities for promoting them and
>enhancing parliamentary cooperation.
>
> A joint orientation was stressed for respecting the principle of
>peaceful coexistence, the U.N. Charter and international law. Respect for
>independence, non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states is
>the basis of progress, it was said in the talks.
>
> Condemned most strongly were attempts to establish the practice of
>undertaking aggression and imposing sanctions, to which are exposed Yugoslavia
>and Iraq, and whose goal is to establish hegemony and a unipolar world.
>Peaceful and responsible people in the world must not allow that to happen at
>the beginning of the 21st century.
>
> IRAQI MINISTER VISITED RECONSTRUCTION DIRECTORATE IN BELGRADE
>
> BELGRADE, May 10 (Tanjug) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed
>Al-Sahaf visited the Reconstruction Directorate in Belgrade on Wednesday and
>met with Deputy Director Vlada Ostojic, a Yugoslav foreign ministry statement
>said.
>
> Al-Sahaf is heading a delegation on an official visit to
>Yugoslavia.
>
> The guests were informed about great results achieved in a short
>time in rebuilding devastation wreaked by NATO in its aggression on Yugoslavia
>last spring.
>
> The delegation and the hosts exchanged views on reconstruction
>efforts, since Iraq, too, has sustained heavy damage as a victim of continued
>western aggression.
>
> Al-Sahaf toured also sites in Belgrade damaged in the NATO air
>strikes.
>
> FRY - CHINA: AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION BETWEEN CHINA AND YUGOSLAVIA
>
> BEIJING, May 10 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government delegation to
>China, led by Yugoslav Minister for international cultural and scientific
>cooperation Cedomir Mirkovic, held talks in Shangai on Wednesday with the
>city's leadership about concrete forms of cultural cooperation between
>Yugoslavia and that economic and financial center of China.
>
> Shangai, as one of the largest canters in Asia, is preparing its
>candidacy for the world exhibition EXPO 2010. Talks dealt with concrete
>presentation of Yugoslav cultural achievements, in that city of 18 million
>inhabitants.
>
> The hosts showed an interest for establishing different forms of
>cooperation with our cultural, education and information institutions, as
>Shanghai television for cooperation with Radio-Television Serbia, while
>mass-circulation Shanghai dailies Shanghai Daily and Jiefang Ribao are
>interested in establishing cooperation with the largest Yugoslav newspaper
>Politika.
>
> Shanghai Museum stated its wish to cooperate with the National
>Museum in Belgrade, and for organizing an antique silver exhibition in Serbia.
>
>
> FRY - INDIA: SESELJ RECEIVED INDIAN AMBASSADOR
>
> BELGRADE, May 10 (Tanjug) - Serbian Deputy Premier Vojislav Seselj
>received on Wednesday in a farewell visit the Ambassador of India to
>Yugoslavia Shankar Kumar Mathur, said a statement of the Serbian Information
>Ministry.
>
> Deputy Premier Seselj thanked Mathur in the name of the government
>for the efforts he made during his mission for the promotion of traditionally
>close relations between India and Yugoslavia and the development of friendly
>links between the peoples of the two countries.
>
> Assessing that political relations between India and Yugoslavia
>were always good, the deputy premier said that our country appreciated
>particularly the efforts of India for building a multipolar world and its open
>opposition to the new world order and the domination of one force.
>
> Ambassador Mathur said that the same friendly feelings he was
>surrounded with in Belgrade and in other parts of our country, were nourished
>by Indian people towards Yugoslavia and its people and expressed admiration
>for the courageous defense of the country from NATO's aggression last year.
>
> It was jointly affirmed that there exist huge possibilities for
>the development of economic cooperation which is lagging behind the level of
>political relations between the two countries.
>
> FRY - SWITZERLAND: CORRECT REGISTRATION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED
>PERSONS FROM KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for refugees,
>displaced persons and humanitarian aid Bratislava Morina talked on Thursday
>with Gaudeus Ruff, charge d'affaires of the Swiss Embassy in Belgrade, about
>humanitarian cooperation of the two countries, the Yugoslav Information
>Ministry said.
>
> The Swiss charge d'affaires handed to the Yugoslav minister a
>report about the registration of internally-displaced persons from Kosovo and
>Metohija, pointing out that according to Swiss observers the registration was
>proceeding correctly.
>
> Mr. Ruff stressed that the government of his country will continue
>to support humanitarian aid projects to the most disadvantaged categories of
>the population in Yugoslavia, first and foremost to refugees and socially
>disadvantaged persons.
>
> Bratislava Morina pointed out that our country appreciated greatly
>the humanitarian aid of the Swiss government and nongovernmental organizations
>from that country and that she was confident that cooperation would be
>continued in the future, the statement said.
>
> FRY - AUSTRALIA: YUGOSLAV DELEGATION AT CONFERENCE IN SIDNEY
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav delegation, headed by the
>president of the federal commission for securities and financial markets Milos
>Jankovic, has left for Sidney, to take part in the 25th annual conference of
>the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) May 13-19,
>2000, said on Thursday the federal commission for securities and financial
>markets.
>
> Participation in the international conference will be used to urge
>the entry of the federal commission into IOSCO membership, and for
>establishing direct contacts and initiating bilateral cooperation with
>representatives of securities commissions of friendly countries, the statement
>said.
>
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
>
> ITALIAN GENERAL TO HEAD KFOR AS OF OCTOBER
>
> BRUSSELS, May 11 (Tanjug) - NATO pact military council, at a
>session held Wednesday in Brussels, appointed Italian Gen. Carlo Cabigiosu
>commander of international peacekeeping forces (KFOR) in Kosovo-Metohija, who
>is to take up his duties in October this year.
>
> General Cabigiosu will replace current KFOR commander, Spanish
>General Juan Ortuno who also head Eurocorps.
>
> The Italian general was appointed to the new post within regular
>six-month changes of KFOR commanders, at the proposal of the supreme commander
>of the Western military Alliance for Europe, the NATO pact statement said.
>
> MITROVICA RESIDENTS RESUMED PROTEST RALLY IN FRONT OF LOCAL PRISON
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 11 (Tanjug) - Several hundred residents of
>Kosovska Mitrovica resumed a protest rally in front of the district prison in
>the town at noon on Thursday in solidarity with 37 Serb and five Romany
>prisoners who have been on hunger strike since Apr. 10 demanding to be granted
>the right to fair trial.
>
> Twenty Serb women, who joined the hunger strike four days ago,
>also took part in the rally.
>
> Addressing the protesters, Serbia's Assistant Justice Minister
>Zoran Balinovac said that the judicature of Bernard Kouchner, head of the U.N.
>civilian mission to the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province
>(UNMIK), had nothing to do either with the law or with justice but was set up
>exclusively as a political instrument for exerting further pressure on Serbs.
>
> Balinovac said that such a state of affairs suited both NATO's
>interests because it helped it to justify its bombing of Yugoslavia last year
>as well as ethnic Albanian secessionists because it made it possible for them
>to justify their crimes by filing charges against Serbs for the offenses they
>had not committed.
>
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
>
>
> SERBIAN HOUSE BLOWN UP IN GRNCAR VILLAGE
>
> KOSOVSKA VITINA, May 11 (Tanjug) - In the village Grncar near
>Kosovska Vitina, Kosovo-Metohija, on Wednesday evening was blown up the house
>of Zarko Dejanovic, radio amateurs reported.
>
> The strong explosion rased to the ground the three-storey house,
>but there were no victims, because the newly-built house was empty.
>
> Ethnic Albanians from the neighbouring village of Djelekare, who
>did not want to be identified, informed Serbs that the house belonging to
>Dejanovic would be blown up.
>
> At the time of the explosion, KFOR troops happened to be nearby
>who at a distance of 200 meters watched the explosion. They refused to pursue
>the terrorists, and ran away from the village when Serbs protested.
>
> The Serbs are visibly disturbed and frightened and will most
>probably organize vigilantes in the village, in order to protect from Albanian
>terrorists.
>
> KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
>
> IVASHOV ABOUT U.S. DOMINATION AND CRISIS IN THE BALKANS
>
> BELGRADE, May 11 (Tanjug) - The crisis created by the United
>States in the Balkans, is directed in the first place against Europe, its
>attempt to create a European identity and Europe's efforts to increase its
>role in European affairs, said Gen. Leonid Ivashov, head of international
>military cooperation at the Russian Federation Defense Ministry.
>
> Ivashov said Wednesday evening in an interview aired by
>Radio-Television Serbia that the United States declares all spheres of
>activity of the international community and all regions of the world its zone
>of interest and assessed that global domination, when the time comes, will
>cost it dearly.
>
> Referring to the situation in FR Yugoslavia, Ivashov said that
>Western countries, led by the United States, were forced to accept UN SC
>Resolution 1244, because Yugoslav armed forces and the Yugoslav people put up
>a dignified resistance to the North Atlantic Alliance.
>
> Russia insists that Yugoslav security forces and a part of the
>armed forces return to Kosovo-Metohija, while Belgrade's sovereignty over
>Pristina, proclaimed by the resolution, must be observed.
>
> "There are a number of measures that we will take jointly with the
>Yugoslav Defense Ministry," Ivashov said and noted that the measures will
>certainly be peaceful in nature, but at the same time they will pressure NATO
>into implementing already existing agreements.
>
> Russia, he said, does not intend to withdraw its contingent from
>Kosovo and Metohija, but if needed, to increase the number of its troops in
>the southern Serbian province.
>
> RUSSIA THREATENS TO WITHDRAW ITS PEACEKEEPERS FROM KOSOVO AND
>METOHIJA
>
>
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