----- Original Message ----- From: wolfgang mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wolfgang Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 3:57 PM Subject: MLL: ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC IN RUSSIAN DUMA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC IN RUSSIAN DUMA MOSCOW - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic held talks in Moscow on Monday with the president of the Russian State Duma, Gennady Sleznyov, and with the president of that house's comittee for cooperation with Yugoslavia, Nikolai Rizhkov. In the talks was fully confirmed the mutual readiness for further enhancing and upgrading political dialogue and the traditional friendship and close relations and cooperation between Yugoslavia and Russian in all spheres. Greeting the Yugoslav minister, Seleznyov expressed to him gratitude for coming to the Russian State Duma, which after the change of deputies in new session firmly decided, just as it has done so far, to lend all-out support to Yugoslavia and its people in the fight for preserving sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence, and to the reconstruction of the country. Seleznyov said he was confident that the Russian government would soon formulate its clear policy towards Yugoslavia. He agreed entirely with Jovanovic's assessment that the West and NATO were deceiving the world public about the situation in Kosovo-Meothija and was critical about their intention to call elections in that Serbian province, assessing that NATO's policy in Kosovo-Meothija runs counter integrationist processes in Europe. If the integrity of Yugoslavia is not preserved, that will put in jeopardy the entire process of integration which, apparently, is a hindrance to the West and NATO for realizing their plans, Seleznyov said. Jovanovic pointed out that NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia was continuing, by others, but not les dangerous means than military. That is in the first place reflected in the support to separtism and terrorism in Kosovo-Meothija, which has been turned into a center for organized crime and terrorism and where there is the largest concentration of lawlessness in Europe, Jovanovic said, underlining parlitcularly the non-implementation of Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija. Yugoslavia is opposing all that by increased efforts in the reconstuction and building of the country and has already, after rebuilding basic infrastructure, turned to the modernization of technology and production, Jovanovic said. Speaking about the growing support to Yugoslavia in the world, he noted that since the beginning of the year he had visited already 15 countries that support the Yugoslav government in its policy of open cooperation with all those that accept it as an equal partner. The minister underlined the strategic commitment to include Yugoslavia into European integration processes, as another response to pressures and the aggression. During the talks about ways of speeding up and enhancing the process of integration of Yugoslavia with the Union of Russia and Belarus, Seleznyov informed Jovanovic about the intention that at the upcoming session of the parliamentary assembly of the union be made concrete steps for speeding up the Russian-Belarus integration. >From the development of that process depends also the process of integration of other countries in the union, the Duma president said. Chairman of the committee for cooperation with Yugoslavia Nikolai Rizhkov informed Jovanovic that a delegation of that body would visit Yugoslavia on May 24 and asked the Yugoslav leadership to make possible also a visit to Kosovo and Metohija. The guest from Yugoslavia, before talks in the Duma, visited the memorial center in Poklona Gora on the occassion of the 50th anniversary of the victory over fascism and visited the church built there, in which a mass service is held every day for those killed in WW II. In all the activities of the minister today also took part the Yugoslav Ambassador in Moscow Borislav Milosevic, who hosted a reception in the evening in honor of Minister Jovanovic. Foreign Minister Jovanovic will hold talks on Tuesday with Economy Minister Andrei Shapovalyants, and then with his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov. A press conference is expected to be held following the talks. tanjug, 16.05.2000
