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> Yugoslav Daily Survey
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> BELGRADE, 15 May 2000
>
> ASSASSINATION OF VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT PEROSEVIC
>
> a.. -PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S WREATH ON PEROSEVIC'S BIER
> b.. -MATIC: PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION AIMED AT DESTABILIZING
>YUGOSLAVIA
> c.. -MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> a.. -HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STARTS
> b.. -JOVANOVIC: FORCES WHICH COMMITTED AGGRESSION STOKE
>TERRORISM AND SEPARATISM
> c.. -BOZOVIC: KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CRADLE OF SERBS' BEING
> d.. -GEN.LAZAREVIC: ARMY IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PEOPLE
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
>
> a.. -MINISTER JOVANOVIC ARRIVED IN MOSCOW
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> a.. -YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION ENDED VISIT TO CHINA
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - AUSTRALIA
>
> a.. -YUGOSLAV SECURITIES COMMISSION DELEGATION VISITED SIDNEY
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> a.. -THOUSANDS SUPPORT DEMANDS OF IMPRISONED SERBS IN KOSOVSKA
>MITROVICA
> b.. -YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT SUBMITS OVERVIEW ON KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>TERRORISM
> * * *
>
> ASSASSINATION OF VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT PEROSEVIC
>
> PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S WREATH ON PEROSEVIC'S BIER
>
> NOVI SAD, May 15 (Tanjug) - On the bier of the tragically deceased
>President of the Vojvodina Executive Council Bosko Perosevic, in the Vojvodina
>executive council building, around 14 hours was laid the wreath of the
>President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic and of his wife Mira Markovic.
>
> In the honourary guard next to the bier of Bosko Perosevic stood
>in turn during the morning members of Vojvodina executive council and his
>colleagues from the Socialist Party of Serbia.
>
> Outside the building of Vojvidina executive council thousands of
>citizens of Novi Sad paid their last respects to the tragically deceased Bosko
>Perosevic.
>
> MATIC: PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION AIMED AT DESTABILIZING YUGOSLAVIA
>
> BELGRADE, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
>Matic said on Sunday that the assassination of Vojvodina Executive Council
>President Bosko Perosevic is a terrorist act of murder of yet another person
>from the list of undesired citizens of Yugoslavia drawn up by the European
>Union and United States.
>
> Speaking at a press conference for home and foreign reporters,
>Matic said this assassination was not an individual act by a maniac, but
>"organized murder which has a deep ideological and political background, aimed
>at the further destabilization of Yugoslavia from outside, by the same mentors
>who carried out the armed aggression and all forms of pressures on our
>country."
>
> Matic said the assassin, Milivoje Gutovic, 50, a sympathizer of
>the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and an activist of the Otpor ("Resistance")
>organization, was found to possess a pamphlet on "Terrorism - a form of
>special warfare and who are the assassins of Aldo Moro" and other documents
>which indicate that this murder was planned.
>
> Asked by reporters whether new arrests could be expected in
>connection with Perosevic's assassination, Matic said an investigation was
>under way and added, quoting an official Interior Ministry statement, that
>persons who are believed to have ordered the killing and instigated this
>action were also being investigated and that Gutovic was not the only person
>arrested so far.
>
> Yugoslavia is today "faced with the concept of an active
>destabilization through terrorism and crime which is infiltrated from
>Republika Srpska and partly from Montenegro, and whose mentors are the very
>ones who loudly speak about democracy and human rights," said Matic. The wave
>of terrorism set off by part of the vasal political opposition in Serbia with
>the creation of the Otpor ("Resistance") organization is extremely reminiscent
>of the political terrorism of the Red Brigades in Italy in the late seventies,
>he said.
>
> "We are today witness in our territory to absolutely the same
>practice which had been present in Italy at that time - murders of prominent
>figures from political and business circles, with the tightening of sanctions
>and all kinds of pressure in order to crush our just struggle," the federal
>information minister said.
>
> "We can openly say that the structures of aggression still remain
>the same. NATO has not dismissed its spokesmen and its headquarters for
>exerting pressure on Yugoslavia. They are still working. Even though the main
>champions of pressuring have not been dismissed, some of them, and those who
>have been proven unsuccessful, have been sacked. However, economic pressure is
>still strong, which is aimed at isolating the country and forcibly changing
>the socio-political system and the legally elected authorities. There is a
>tendency to create such a system in which society will be vulgarized, with
>stoked criminal activities, and the subsistence level brought on by the
>sanctions becoming the regulator of social relations in Yugoslav society,"
>Matic said.
>
> "Countries which lecture us on democracy and freedom are
>black-listing Yugoslav companies, citizens, although it is crystal clear that
>the process and promotion of development and democracy in Yugoslavia is more
>advanced not only than in so-called countries in transition, but even than in
>the very countries which lecture us," Minister Matic said.
>
> MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES
>
> PODGORICA, May 15 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip
>Vujanovic sent a telegram of condolences to the Vojvodina Executive Council on
>Sunday, on the occasion of the tragic death of its President Bosko Perosevic.
>
> Vujanovic asked that his expressions of sympathies and those of
>the Montenegrin government be conveyed also to the family of the deceased.
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STARTS
>
> VRANJE, May 15 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic on
>Monday, at a central ceremony in Vranje, marked the beginning of works on the
>building of 100,000 apartments whose realization starts at the same time in 19
>centers in Serbia.
>
> Accelerated housing construction is an essential development goal
>- every year 10,000 families will solve the most important problem in their
>life, and besides the full employment of construction workers, a chain of
>production will be started in industry, Marjanovic said at a large popular
>rally of tens of thousands of residents of the Pcinj and Jablanica districts.
>
> "The realization of each of these projects will give a new impetus
>to speedy economic growth and the development of the entire country, the
>creation of new jobs for young and educated people, a rise of standard and
>better life for citizens," Marjanovic said.
>
> Pointing out that heroic defense and major results in the
>reconstruction and development of the country are the main reason of the
>growing recognition of Yugoslavia and its just struggle for freedom and
>sovereignty, Marjanovic said that was the reason why the greatest majority of
>countries and all progressive countries of the world demand the lifting of
>illegal sanctions against Serbia, and those who still implement them are aware
>they are meaningless.
>
> "Only different leaders of the so-called opposition parties spread
>illusions that aid will come from those who bombed us," Marjanovic said and
>pointed out that "they, even without any shame, do not conceal they want to
>come to power with the help of power brokers and make direct threats of civil
>war."
>
> "Everything they have done and are doing shows they are traitors,
>mercenaries, murderers and criminals. That is why, their place is not with us
>in a united defense front, reconstruction and development of the country. In
>that great job we, together with the people, are doing our utmost and achieve
>results visible to every citizen," Marjanovic said.
>
> JOVANOVIC: FORCES WHICH COMMITTED AGGRESSION STOKE TERRORISM AND
>SEPARATISM
>
> REKOVAC, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister and
>republican MP Zivadin Jovanovic said in the central Serbian town of Rekovac on
>Sunday that the world is increasingly clearly demonstrating an option for
>democratic relations and respect for the principles of equality, sovereignty
>and territorial integrity, and non-interference in the internal affairs of
>Yugoslavia, regarding the issue of Kosovo and Metohija province.
>
> Jovanovic said it was becoming clear in the world that the
>international military and civilian presence in Kosovo and Metohija has
>severely damaged the renown of the United Nations, the Security Council, by
>working completely contrary to Resolution 1244, actually by systematically
>supporting ethnic Albanian separatism and terrorism.
>
> Europe, the European and world public, a large number of U.N.
>Security Council members, realize that such a stand by the civilian and
>security presence under U.N. auspices us unacceptable, and is not conducive to
>peace and stability, but is a road which leads to destabilization, Jovanovic
>said.
>
> "It is necessary finally to establish control on our state border
>and that hundreds of thousands of those who entered our territory illegally,
>with the permission of these international forces, leave our territory," he
>said.
>
> The world public cannot be deluded with stories about a census,
>stories about elections, even if local, which is an attempt to prevent them
>from seeing that the U.N. Charter is systematically violated on a daily basis
>in Kosovo and Metohija. Such stories cannot cover up the fact that those very
>same forces which carried out the aggression on our country, are continuing
>this aggression by stoking terrorism and separatism in Kosovo, by trying to
>destabilize Serbia, to destabilize Yugoslavia, with subversive activities,
>even by inciting political terrorism, Jovanovic said.
>
> BOZOVIC: KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CRADLE OF SERBS' BEING
>
> AMMAN, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament Upper House Speaker
>Srdja Bozovic has said that there can be no elections in Kosovo and Metohija
>as long as 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians do not return
>to the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province.
>
> In an exclusive interview to Jordan's mass-circulation daily
>Al-Arab al-Yawm, Bozovic, who attended the 103rd conference of the
>Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in Amman last week, said that Kosovo and
>Metohija was the cradle of the Serbian people's being.
>
> He said that Yugoslavia could not allow the United States to form
>a Greater Albania, saying that there could be no doubt whatsoever that the
>province would remain an integral part of Yugoslavia.
>
> He said that Yugoslavia constituted the key factor of stability in
>the Balkans. He said that the country was doing all within its power to
>preserve peace, saying that Belgrade's political commitments were based on the
>responsibility for security in the Balkans and Europe.
>
> GEN.LAZAREVIC: ARMY IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PEOPLE
>
> ZAJECAR, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav 3rd Army commander Lt.-Gen.
>Vladimir Lazarevic said in the eastern Serbian town of Zajecar on Sunday that
>he believed it would not be long before the state of Serbia would return to
>its territories in Kosovo and Metohija, since the world has already realized
>the mistake of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
>
> In a talk with leaders of the Zajecar district, he also said he
>hoped the U.N. Security Council would already in June admit the incompetence
>of the UNMIK and other international forces in Kosovo, which have failed in
>one year to implement a single article of Resolution 1244, and whose presence
>failed to prevent murders and expulsions of many more Serbs and other
>non-Albanians than before and during the NATO aggression.
>
> This would be an admission in practice that the U.S.-led western
>policy toward Yugoslavia had been wrong, one that had openly supported the
>secession of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, Gen. Lazarevic said. This
>would also be a recognition of the right of all state organs to return to
>Kosovo and Metohija and provide protection to all those who wish to live in
>Serbia and Yugoslavia in equal conditions with all those who have lived there
>for centuries, he said.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
>
> MINISTER JOVANOVIC ARRIVED IN MOSCOW
>
> MOSCOW, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
>Jovanovic on Monday arrived in Moscow on a two-day visit to Russia at the
>invitation of his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov.
>
> In a statement at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, Jovanovic said he
>expected the visit further to promote and expand political dialogue and the
>traditionally friendly and close relations between Yugoslavia and Russia.
>
> Immediately on his arrival, Minister Jovanovic gave an interview
>to foreign correspondents in Moscow in which he underscored that western
>countries are deceiving the world public about the situation in Kosovo and
>Metohija.
>
> There is chaos now in this southern Serbian province because of
>lack of respect for U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and
>Metohija, and unless something is urgently done, the international community
>will bear full responsibility for the grave consequences, the Yugoslav
>minister said.
>
> Jovanovic will today visit the State Duma, where he will confer
>with its Speaker Gennady Seleznov.
>
> Jovanovic will also meet with the head of a Duma commission for
>helping Yugoslavia overcome the consequences of the NATO aggression, an MP of
>the lower house of Russian parliament, Nikolai Ryzhkov.
>
> Talks between Jovanovic and his host Ivanov are scheduled for
>tomorrow.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION ENDED VISIT TO CHINA
>
> BEIJING, May 15 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government delegation, led
>by Minister for International Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Cedomir
>Mirkovic, ended Monday its several-day visit to China expected to give a new
>impetus to the successful development of the two countries' cultural as well
>as overall cooperation.
>
> The visit resulted in the signing of a three-year programme of
>cultural and educational cooperation. Moreover, it marked the beginning of the
>Days of Yugoslav Culture in China event.
>
> Consequently, Belgrade's Philharmonic Orchestra and Radmila
>Bakocevic and Jadranka Jovanovic, Yugoslavia's primadonnas of international
>repute, gave performances in China's capital Beijing and the cities of
>Shenyang and Dalian, in the country's northeastern province of Lianoning.
>
> Furthermore, an exhibition of 28 contemporary Yugoslav paintings
>opened in Beijing during the delegation's visit.
>
> In meetings with ranking Chinese Culture Ministry officials at the
>close of the visit, Mirkovic said that the visit had resulted in a series of
>initiatives for the all-round promotion of cultural cooperation.
>
> The programme provides also for the exchange of the two countries'
>artists. Moreover, the Days of Chinese Culture in Yugoslavia event is to be
>held next year.
>
> Mirkovic pointed to friendly ties and good overall
>Yugoslav-Chinese relations as well as outstanding mutual understanding reached
>that would enable successful cooperation between the two countries.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - AUSTRALIA
>
> YUGOSLAV SECURITIES COMMISSION DELEGATION VISITED SIDNEY
>
> SIDNEY, May 15 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Yugoslav Securities
>Commission has arrived in Sidney, Australia, to attend the 25th annual
>conference of the international organisation of securities commissions.
>
> The delegation, led by Milos Jankovic, commission head, met in
>Canberra on Monday with Yugoslav Ambassador to Australia Dragan Dragojlovic.
>
> Dragojlovic informed the delegation about prospects for economic
>and financial cooperation between Yugoslavia and Australia, stressing the need
>for the diversification of financial cooperation that is crucial to overall
>economic cooperation between the two countries.
>
> SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
> THOUSANDS SUPPORT DEMANDS OF IMPRISONED SERBS IN KOSOVSKA
>MITROVICA
>
> KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 15 (Tanjug) - More than 7,000 Serbs from
>Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecane, Zubin Potok and Leposavic gathered again on
>Monday outside the district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica in sign of support to
>the Serbs and Roma who have been imprisoned for 11 months, demanding that they
>be be released on bail and that dates finally be set for the trials.
>
> Stressing that the head of the civilian mission in Kosovo-Metohija
>Bernard Kouchner did not obtain under Security Council Resolution 1244 the
>mandate to annihilate and dislocate Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija and to
>organize a travesty of justice, member of the Yugoslav committee for
>cooperation with UNMIK and Serbian Deputy Justice Minister Zoran Balinovac
>said that the civilian mission in Kosovo-Metohija was systematically violating
>that resolution, because, he added not a single Albanian has been arrested on
>charges of war genocide.
>
> YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT SUBMITS OVERVIEW ON KOSOVO-METOHIJA TERRORISM
>
> BELGRADE, May 15 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government has submitted
>to the president of the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. Secretary General
>an annex to its Saturday's Memorandum on the need for a strict and consistent
>implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244.
>
> The Annex gives an overview of terrorist attacks and other crimes
>committed in Kosovo-Metohija since the international mission was deployed to
>that U.N.-administered province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia in June
>1999.
>
> The full text of the Overview follows (official translation):
>
> O V E R V I E W
>
> of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain violations
>of Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 in Kosovo and
>Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of
>Serbia, since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, in the period from 10 June 1999
>to 7 May 2000
>
> (1) Number of terrorist attacks: 4,792
>
> 4,511 committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 109 against
>Albanians and 172 against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and members of other
>ethnic communities.
>
> (2) Number of killed persons: 1,010
>
> 888 Serbs and Montenegrins, 75 Albanians and 47 members of other
>ethnic communities in Kosovo and Metohija.
>
> (3) Number of abducted and missing persons: 936
>
> 860 Serbs and Montenegrins, 42 Albanians and 34 members of other
>ethnic communities.
>
> The fate of 786 persons is still unknown; 95 abducted persons were
>killed, 7 persons escaped, while 48 were released.
>
> (4) Number of wounded persons: 924
>
> 867 Serbs and Montenegrins, 20 Albanians and 37 members of other
>ethnic communities.
>
> (5) Ethnic cleansing: In the campaign of ethnic cleansing
>following the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK, two-thirds of the non-Albanian
>population, i.e. over 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci,
>Turks and other non-Albanians have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, of
>whom 270,000 are Serbs.
>
> The following towns and villages have been ethnically cleansed of
>Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians:
>
> a.. Pristina (all Serbs have been driven out of its largest
>suburbs of Ulpijana, Suncani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko Naselje. Of the
>40,000 Serbs who used to live in Pristina before KFOR and UNMIK came to Kosovo
>and Metohija, 25,000 were school and university students. Today, only 35
>Serbian schoolchildren live in Pristina and attend classes in the local school
>in the village of Laplje;
> b.. Prizren (only 100 Serbian families remain);
> c.. Gnjilane, the situation in this town was alarming in March
>and April (in this period alone 350 houses of Serbs were sold). The number of
>remaining Serbs has been halved and today only about 1,500 Serbs remain. KFOR
>and UNMIK have warned them not to leave their homes.
> d.. Djakovica, Pec, Podujevo, Glogovac, as well as the areas
>of Kosovska Mitrovica (Vucitrn, Srbica), Lipljan, Kosovo Polje, from which 80
>per cent of their Serbian residents have been expelled, i.e. 7,000 Serbs and
>4,000 other non-Albanians (their homes have been burned and looted, while
>shops, cafes and other property are being seized from their owners. In the
>presence of KFOR, ethnic Albanian terrorists brutalize and harass the Serbs
>who refuse to sell their homes and leave Kosovo and Metohija);
> e.. the whole area of the municipalities of Istok and Klina
>including the villages of Dzakovo, Osojane, Tucepom, Kos, Zac, Belica,
>Krnjine, Maticane, Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka Vrbica and others, where 3,440
>Serbian homes were burned down;
> f.. the surroundings of Urosevac, Slivovo, Nedakovac,
>Nevoljane, Vrpica, Ljestar, Zegra (municipality of Gnjilane), Zitnje,
>Pozaranje, Grmovo, Drobes; in the village of Talinovac the two last Serbian
>houses whose owners had been forced to move out were burnt down at the
>beginning of April;
> g.. the surroundings of Vitina (Kabas, Binac and other
>villages), the areas of Kosovska Kamenica (villages of Bratilovce, Firiceja
>and others) and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, as well as the villages of Toplicane,
>Rujice, Magure, Slovinja, Staro Gracko, Klobukar in the municipality of Novo
>Brdo. (All Serbian houses have been burned down and all its owners forced to
>leave.)
>
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