> >Yugoslav Daily Survey May 18 > >BELGRADE, 18 May 2000 C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF >YUGOSLAVIA FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE >FIRMS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL MET WITH GREECE'S PAPOULIAS PRESS RELEASE >OF SERBIAN MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR YUGOSLAVIA - THE DANUBE COMMISSION ADOPTED >PROJECT ON CLEARING DANUBE FOR NAVIGATION SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND >METOHIJA UNMIK OFFICIALS VISITED SERB PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE SERBS >CONTINUE TO RALLY IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL >REACTIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ADOPTED AMENDMENT ON KOSOVO MISSION >RUSSIA'S KVASHNIN SAYS KOSOVO-METOHIJA EFFORT HITS POLITICAL STAGE NATO >AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS ITALIANS POINT TO NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES >OF NATO AGGRESSION * * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FAVOURABLE >CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE FIRMS BELGRADE, May 18 >(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav government, at a session presided over by Prime >Minister Momir Bulatovic, adopted a program for the promotion of conditions >for the development of small and medium size firms. The strategy for >encouraging the development of small and medium size firms involves the >further adapting of Yugoslav and Serbian regulations for the development of >that sector and the adoption of stimulative measures of economic policy. That >would ensure support for the development of small and medium size firms, which >in turn would mean the creation of jobs and increased business efficiency. The >program is based on scientific research and experiences in the European Union >and countries in transition. It provides also for the formation of special >support institutions, and a system of providing credits for small and medium >size firms. YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL MET WITH GREECE'S PAPOULIAS ATHENS, >May 17 (Tanjug) - Milutin Stojkovic, who chairs the Yugoslav Parliament's >Chamber of Citizens (lower house) defence and security committee met in Athens >on Wednesday with Greek parliament foreign policy and defence committee >chairman Karolos Papoulias. The ensuing frank and friendly discussion was >attended by Yugoslav Ambassador to Greece Dragomir Vucicevic. Stojkovic >exhaustively briefed Papoulias on current developments in Yugoslavia, >specifically its Kosovo-Metohija province, and the government's efforts to >eliminate the consequences of NATO's aggression last spring and international >sanctions. Stojkovic said Yugoslavia had lately been exposed to a special war, >in which prominent politician, businessmen and public figures are targeted in >terrorist assassinations. Papoulias, in turn, said Greeks admire the Serbs for >offering resistance to the world's greatest military power, demonstrating that >the world's biggest military organisation is impotent either to impose a >military solution or to attain its political goals. The two countries are >strategic partners, their nations are linked by unbreakable friendship, and >the good relations between Athens and Belgrade are an important factor of >peace and stability in the region, according to Papoulias. This, he >explaining, is why Greece is greatly interested in what is happening in >friendly Yugoslavia. Stojkovic, who is a member of the international >secretariat of the European interparliamentary assembly of Orthodox Christian >nations, will attend the Assembly's session in Athens on Thursday. PRESS >RELEASE OF SERBIAN MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR BELGRADE, May 18 - Last night, >after a football game between "Red Cross" and "Sartid", a larg group of >hooligans, "Red Star" fans, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, attacked >members of police and citizens with stones, bottles and bats. By pushing >garbage container and flower pots, it blocked the traffic in Belgrade in a >part of Srpskih vladara street from Slavia square to "London". On that >occasion, the perpetrators injured four police officers, two of them >seriously, while three shop-windows were broken. By efficient action by the >police, order and peace were restored as well as normal traffic in the city. >Thirty-seven of the most violent perpetrators were remanded in custody and >they will be arraigned. The identification of other perpetrators is under-way >and legal measures will be taken against them. YUGOSLAVIA - THE DANUBE >COMMISSION ADOPTED PROJECT ON CLEARING DANUBE FOR NAVIGATION BELGRADE, May 18 >(Tanjug) - Head of the Yugoslav delegation to the Danube Commission Radisa >Djordjevic said in a statement to Tanjug on Thursday that the commission had >adopted a project at a meeting in Budapest on Wednesday to clear the Danube >for navigation and had accepted the conditions of the European Union which >will finance 85 percent of the project. "Having in mind the sanctions against >Yugoslavia, the European Union has presented to the Danube Commission the >special conditions under which the project will be financed," Djordjevic said, >adding that the conditions specify that Yugoslavia is the user of the >reconstruction program. All Yugoslav companies will be able to take part >equally in a tender for this job, and the firms which are chosen for carrying >out the project will be exempt from the regime of sanctions. The dynamics and >start of administrative-technical preparations for the project will be >regulated by contract on May 25, Djordjevic said. "The European Union has >placed this project among its top priorities," Djordjevic said. Already on May >26, Yugoslavia will present project documentation for making an alternative to >the current pontoon bridge in Novi Sad, he said. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO >AND METOHIJA UNMIK OFFICIALS VISITED SERB PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE KOSOVSKA >MITROVICA, May 17 (Tanjug) - Assistant chief of the U.N. civilian mission to >Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) Marc Chevalier and Silvy Pons of the UNMIK panel >of judges visited Wednesday Serbs in custody in the Kosovska Mitrovica >district prison who have for weeks been on hunger strike for being >discriminated against before the law. Chevalier and Pons discussed with the >Serb prisoners terms under which they would end their hunger strike that >commenced on April 10. Thirty-seven Serbs, who have been joined by five >Romanies in their hunger strike, request that their cases be finally tried in >court because all deadlines by which indictments should have been brought in >against them and dates of trials set have been broken. Four of the prisoners >have been transferred to the town hospital because they are in critical >condition. Some of the persons in custody have been in prison for more than 11 >months. After meeting with the prisoners, the two UNMIK officials told >reporters that a number of Serb prisoners would be released, saying that >trials at the district court in Kosovska Mitrovica would begin on June 6, >while those at the town's municipal court would open on June 25. The >UNMIK-controlled two courts, whose personnel is exclusively ethnic Albanian, >have already launched proceedings against 10 Serbs. SERBS CONTINUE TO RALLY IN >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 18 (Tanjug) - Marching the streets >of Kosovska Mitrovica several thousand Serbs gathered at noon Thursday outside >the district prison in the town, lending support to 37 Serbs and 5 Roma who >are on a hunger strike for the 38th straight day and to their mothers, wives >and sisters who have been on a hunger strike for ten days. Recalling that all >the detained Serbs are innocent because they were arrested only because of >their nationality, the gathered Serbs demanded again today that all the >detained be released pending trial. "We demand that the trials start as soon >as possible, that they be conducted according to Yugoslav and Serbian laws and >that the judges be Serbs," said the president of the Serbian national council >for northern Kosovo-Metohija, Vuk Antonijevic. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - >INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ADOPTED AMENDMENT ON KOSOVO >MISSION NEW YORK, May 18 (Tanjug) - The House of Representatives of the United >States Congress adopted an amendment late Wednesday which envisages that the >U.S. administration must document to Congress by April 1, 2001, that European >allies are meeting all their financial and other obligations regarding >Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, or U.S. troops will be pulled out of >the local international mission. The amendment was tied to the law on the >defense budget. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to influence the >vote, expressing opposition to any limitations on the duration of the mission >or the presence of U.S. troops in Kosovo and Metohija. Albright said any such >moves would mean playing with fire, but failed to mention that the Kosovo >mission was already a total fiasco and had not fulfilled any of its tasks. >Senate members have also proposed a similar amendment on the Kosovo mission, >envisaging that U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Kosovo and Metohija by >July 1, 2001, unless their further engagement is approved by Congress itself. >The Senate has yet to vote on this amendment. The U.S. administration, >however, threatens that the president will veto any such decisions unless the >amendments are toned down. RUSSIA'S KVASHNIN SAYS KOSOVO-METOHIJA EFFORT HITS >POLITICAL STAGE MOSCOW, May 18 (Tanjug) - Russia's chief of staff said in >Moscow on Thursday that the efforts for settling the problem of Kosovo - >Metohija were getting to a political stage, which might bring stability to the >Balkans. According to General Anatoly Kvashnin, the international peace >mission to that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia is stalled and >there is no law enforcement system established there. Kvashnin told Itar-TASS >news agency he had put this position before a recent meeting of the >Russia-NATO Standing Committee in Brussels, where he had urged for raising the >Kosovo-Metohija problem to the political plane. "Strong work of the law >enforcement system is needed in Kosovo, it is not working", he said, stressing >that "the military system alone will not resolve anything". NATO AGGRESSION - >INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS ITALIANS POINT TO NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF NATO >AGGRESSION ROME, May 18 (Tanjug) - In Italy are due to be held as of today >till the end of the month a number of meetings and events, which will point to >the negative consequences of NATO's aggression last year (March-June) on FR >Yugoslavia. Due to open in Ancona is a three-day meeting of trade union >organizations and associations from a number of Balkans states and from Italy, >which under the name "Adriatic, sea, rights," is organized in sign of protest, >at the same time as the meeting on development and security in countries of >the Adriatic and Ionian seas under the aegis of the Italian government. On the >occasion of a meeting of NATO top officials, held in Florence May 23-25, in >the same city will be organized on Monday a seminar on the topic "NATO, >gendarmes of globalization," at which will speak the secretary general of >Italian Reformed Communists Fausto Bertinoti, former senator Raniero Lavale >and others. On Tuesday, May 23, will be organized an evening of solidarity >with workers of the Serbian car-maker "Zastava" in Kragujevac, and on >Wednesday, May 24, will be held a large event "Against NATO and rulers of >planet Earth." __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
