Yugoslav Daily Survey -------------------------------------------------------------------- BELGRADE, 14 May C O N T E N T S : PEROSEVIC - ASSASSINATION - PEROSEVIC DIED IN SPITE OF DOCTORS' EFFORTS - YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILUTINOVIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - YUGOSLAV DEFENSE MINISTER GEN. OJDANIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - SERBIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TOMIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - SERBIAN PM MARJANOVIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES - VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL HOLDS EMERGENCY SESSION - COMMEMORATION ON OCCASION OF PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC: WE WILL RETURN TO KOSOVO AND METOHIJA F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNITED NATIONS - YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT PRESENTED MEMORANDUM TO SECURITY COUNCIL AND ANNAN - YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM TO UNITED NATIONS * * * PEROSEVIC - ASSASSINATION PEROSEVIC DIED IN SPITE OF DOCTORS' EFFORTS BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - President of the provincial Vojvodina Executive Council Bosko Perosevic died on Saturday shortly after 4 p.m. of wounds inflicted in an assassination attempt which was carried out at 12.15, Novi Sad Clinic Center Director Djordje Janjic told Tanjug. Perosevic was shot from behind by Milivoje Gutovic, receiving severe head injuries, while he was touring the just opened 67th International Agriculture Fair. Gutovic was arrested on the spot. Perosevic died in spite of all the efforts by the Clinic Center doctors to save his life. YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, a telegram of condolences was sent to his family by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILUTINOVIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, Serbian President Milan Milutinovic on Saturday sent a telegram of condolences to his family, the parliament and the Executive Council of Vojvodina. YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic on Sunday sent a telegram of the deepest condolences to his family, on behalf of the federal government and in his own name. The assassination of Bosko Perosevic is an attack on Serbia and Yugoslavia and the peace, security and dignity of all citizens in multi-ethnic Vojvodina, Serbia and Yugoslavia, the telegram said. YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Main Board Executive Committee and the president of the SPS Novi Sad City Board, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic on Saturday sent telegrams expressing the deepest condolences to the Perosevic family and the SPS Vojvodina Provincial Board. Perosevic, as a long-term prominent social and political worker and businessmen, has made an invaluable contribution to the development of Vojvodina as an integral and indivisible part of Serbia and to the preservation of freedom, peace and the renown of the country, Jovanovic said. YUGOSLAV DEFENSE MINISTER GEN. OJDANIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Main Board Executive Committee and the president of the SPS Novi Sad City Board, Yugoslav Defense Minister Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic on Saturday sent telegrams expressing the deepest condolences in his own name and on behalf of the federal Defense Ministry to the Perosevic family, the Vojvodina Executive Council, and the president of the Vojvodina parliament. SERBIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TOMIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - Serbian parliament Speaker Dragan Tomic on Saturday sent expressions of the deepest condolences, on the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, to his family and the Executive Council and parliament of Vojvodina, the Information Service of the Serbian parliament said late Saturday. SERBIAN PM MARJANOVIC EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, the president of the Novi Sad City Board of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and a member of the SPS Main Board Executive Committee, Serbian Prime Minister and SPS Vice-President Mirko Marjanovic on Saturday sent a telegram expressing the deepest condolences to Perosevic's family, on behalf of the Serbian government and in his own name. YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the tragic death of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Main Board Executive Committee and the president of the SPS Novi Sad City Board, Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic on Saturday sent telegrams expressing the deepest condolences in his own name and on behalf of Yugoslav Army members to the Perosevic family, the Vojvodina Executive Council, and Vojvodina parliament Speaker Zivorad Smiljanic. VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL HOLDS EMERGENCY SESSION BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - On the occasion of the heinous murder of Bosko Perosevic, the president of the Vojvodina Executive Council, the Executive Council met in emergency session late Saturday and condemned this monstrous and criminal act, the provincial Information Secretariat said. Perosevic was shot in the head while touring the International Agriculture Fair in Novi Sad at 12.15 hrs on Saturday. He was taken to the Novi Sad Clinic Center, but died shortly after 4 p.m. in spite of great efforts by medical teams to save his life. Perosevic was a successful president of the Vojvodina Executive Council for the eighth consecutive year. He made an immeasurable contribution to the stability of political, economic and general social life in Vojvodina, in particular to preserving good inter-ethnic relations, said the Vojvodina government statement. The Vojvodina Executive Council expressed the deepest condolences to the Perosevic family and urged authorized state organs most energetically and as soon as possible to solve this brutal and monstrous assassination. Novi Sad Fair Director General Miodrag Koprivica expressed condolences to the Perosevic family and most strongly condemned the insane crime in which Vojvodina Executive Council President Perosevic lost his life at the opening of the International Agriculture Fair. The assassin has been identified as Milivoje Gutovic, 50, an assistant technical worker-doorman at the Novi Sad Fair. He was not in possession of an official weapon and he was not on duty at the time of the killing. Police arrested the assassin on the spot and an investigation as to his motives is under way. COMMEMORATION ON OCCASION OF PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - A joint commemorative session was held at the Palace of the Federation in Belgrade on Sunday by organs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Republic of Serbia, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and the Main Board of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), on the occasion of the assassination of Vojvodina Executive Council President Bosko Perosevic, a member of the SPS Main Board Executive Committee and the president of the Novi Sad socialists, and a federal MP. The commemoration was opened by Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic. The session was attended by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, his wife and Yugoslav left (JUL) Directorate President Mira Markovic, Yugoslav and Serbian state and party officials, Perosevic's wife Marina and daughters Jelena and Jovana, and relatives of the brutally murdered Perosevic. A minute of silence was observed in tribute to Perosevic, an exceptional patriot, a respected, hard-working and modest man. Expressing condolences to the family and paying tribute to Perosevic, SPS Secretary-General Gorica Gajevic said his life had been taken by terrorism - one of the biggest evils of the present times. "The shot fired at Bosko Perosevic is a shot at all of us," she said, underscoring that this terrorist act was aimed against the people and the state, against all those who oppose hegemony, fascism, treachery, and chaos. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC: WE WILL RETURN TO KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KRAGUJEVAC, May 14 (Tanjug) - There are two solutions to the Kosovo crisis - to respect the reached agreement or to have the international forces leave the province and to allow Yugoslav army and police to restore law and order, Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Main Board Executive Committee member and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic said in the industrial town of Kragujevac, central Serbia, late Saturday. The problem in the southern Serbian province is not that international forces are powerless to protect non-Albanians from persecution, plunder, murder, and abductions, but their lack of will to do so, he said. Pointing out the conditions under which last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia had ended, which included guarantees for state sovereignty and integrity, set borders as unchangeable and the province's autonomy within Serbia, Jovanovic said Yugoslavia would continue to insist on this, even though "there is a limit to our patience." During the period of the U.N.-led administration, since June 1999, over 350,000 local citizens have been expelled and 250,000 criminals from neighbouring countries moved in, Jovanovic said, commenting that this was practically an extension of the aggression on Yugoslavia. Jovanovic also visited Arandjelovac, where he spoke about relations in the world and said Yugoslavia's position had been strengthened and that there were daily talks at high and top levels with representatives of many friendly countries on reconstruction, development and expansion of all forms of cooperation. This enables businessmen to take an assertive approach in the foreign market, which can be used much more fully for our internal development, he said. Jovanovic spoke about the wide possibilities for economic cooperation with Russia, China, Ukraine, countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and most other markets in the world. "The expansion of cooperation with partners who do not set any preconditions or obstacles will facilitate awareness of the pointlessness of the sanctions imposed by part of the European bureaucrats and governments against our country and people," Jovanovic said. Jovanovic underscored that there was ever growing criticism of sanctions and a realization of their true purpose, just like the NATO aggression is becoming recognized for its true objectives. F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNITED NATIONS YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT PRESENTED MEMORANDUM TO SECURITY COUNCIL AND ANNAN NEW YORK, May 14 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav government on Saturday presented to U.N. Security Council President, Chinese Ambassador Wang Yingfan and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan the latest Memorandum on the implementation of Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija, which comprehensively presents facts and solid data on the grave situation present in this southern Serbian province since the arrival of the U.N. military and civilian missions. In addition to the Memorandum, in which the Yugoslav government is addressing the world organization for the fifth time to point out the dramatic situation in Kosovo and Metohija, evaluations are also given on the recent visit of a Security Council delegation to the southern Serbian province. Meanwhile, U.N. leading officials were presented an extensive letter by the head of the Yugoslav mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, late Saturday. In the letter, the Yugoslav ambassador spoke about the Report on the recent visit of the Security Council delegation to Kosovo and Metohija (May 27-29), presenting many critical remarks about its contents, which he had not been enabled to present in person at the open council session on Thursday, May 11, when the Report was considered. Jovanovic said certain parts of the Report did not reflect the situation in the province, and even partly diverted attention from essential problems, adding cosmetic touches to the policy and behaviour of UNMIK, KFOR, and in particular the secretary-general's special representative Bernard Kouchner. Since the arrival of the U.N. mission in June 1999, Kosovo and Metohija has been turned into a base for training terrorists and a haven for international criminals, the drug mafia, trade in white slavery, money laundering, Jovanovic said, criticizing the work of Kouchner as UNMIK chief and pointing out impermissible contradictions and omissions in the report on the visit of the U.N. delegation. Yugoslavia urged the Security Council to determine in concrete terms whether all factors in Kosovo and Metohija have fulfilled their obligations, said the letter sent together with the Memorandum and the government Positions on the U.N. delegation report. YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM TO UNITED NATIONS BELGRADE, May 14 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav government has sent to the U.N. Security Council President and the U.N. secretary-general another Memorandum on the implementation of Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija. 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