> Yugoslav Daily Survey > >BELGRADE, 21 May 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - EU YUGOSLAVIA SUBMITS MEMORANDUM TO E.U. >OFFICIALS FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAVIA SET TO ERADICATE >TERRORISM IN ORDER TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE COUNCIL OF DIASPORA 99 ASSEMBLY HOLDS >SESSION IN BELGRADE KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR - INCIDENT KFOR TROOPS BEAT UP >THREE SERB CIVILIANS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC >ALBANIAN TERRORISTS OPEN FIRE ON SERB SHEPHERDS, WOUND ONE US - YUGOSLAVIA - >NATO AGGRESSION - INDICTMENT RAMSEY CLARK ADDS YET ANOTHER COUNT TO INDICTMENT >AGAINST NATO * * * YUGOSLAVIA - EU YUGOSLAVIA SUBMITS MEMORANDUM TO E.U. >OFFICIALS BELGRADE, May 21 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry has >submitted to representatives of the E.U. Troika a memorandum blasting the >application of the E.U. sanctions against the country. Following is the >official translation of the memorandum: 1. Lack of legal basis for the >sanctions The sanctions that the European Union imposed on its own on the >Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (ranging from a ban on investments, freezing of >funds held by the FR of Yugoslavia abroad, flights ban, a ban on deliveries of >petroleum and petroleum products, a ban on the movement of people to a ban on >trade and cooperation with individual companies) have no basis whatsoever in >international law and are contrary to its fundamental principles (the right to >a free movement of goods and people, traffic, etc.) as well as contrary to the >purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. The sanctions are in >violation of the basic provisions of the U.N. Charter, in particular its >Chapter VII, in which it was clearly stated (Article 41) that "the Security >Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to >be employed to give effect to its decisions" and it is only the Security >Council which "may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such >measures." "These may include complete or partial interruption of economic >relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic and other means of >communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations." In other words, any >introduction of sanctions against any country must go through the mechanism >of, and be approved by the Security Council. If not, they are a unilateral, >legally unjustified act. Under Article 52 of the Charter, regional >organisations cannot be used to maintain international peace. The European >Union, as a regional organisation, was therefore duty-bound to initiate >sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia through the U.N. Security Council. The >implementation of sanctions by the E.U. against the FR of Yugoslavia violates >the basic principles contained in other international instruments governing >free trade, free flow of goods and capital, free circulation of people, etc. >(of the WTO, OSCE and others). It may be recalled that all E.U. Member States >have supported General Assembly resolution 172 of 17 December 1999 (the Cuban >resolution: human rights and unilateral enforcement measures), which has as >its basis opposition to any pressure and sanctions that are not based on >international law. Enforcement of sanctions is also in contravention of the >provisions and principles of the Council of Europe. 2. Lack of a political >basis for the sanctions Application of sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia >has resulted in the prevention of regional development and integration >processes in South Eastern Europe, which is contrary to all initiatives for >stabilisation and peace in the region and further afield in Europe that the >E.U. itself subscribes to in public. E.U. sanctions against the FR of >Yugoslavia violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. >The latest "enlargement of financial sanctions" discriminates between economic >operators in the FR of Yugoslavia on the basis of anti-democratic, political >criteria which, inter alia, is aimed at internal divisions and represents a >gross interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign Member State of the >United Nations. It also represents a violation of not only the U.N. Charter >but of such human rights as the right to life, to employment and development, >education, the right of association of economic and social factors in a >sovereign country of Europe, etc. Actual exemption of Montenegro from the E.U. >sanctions is a direct attack on the constitutional system of the FR of >Yugoslavia and the unity of the people and leadership of the country. E.U. >sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia as well as the policy of continuing >pressure, whether economic, political, media or at any other level, is along >the lines of continued efforts to destabilise the FR of Yugoslavia. By >implementing the sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia, E.U. Member States >are tying, at the same time, their own hands through an imposed anti-European >policy. 3. Lack of an economic and humanitarian basis for the sanctions >Implementation of E.U. sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia has also >inflicted great losses on the economies and other factors in E.U. Member >States which traditionally have good cooperation with economic operators in >the FR of Yugoslavia. Indeed, many European businesses have seen their >cooperation with Yugoslav companies as a possibility to realise their >interests, which a prolonged application of sanctions by the E.U. has rendered >impossible. Implementation of E.U. sanctions against the FR of Yugoslavia has >also caused huge losses to all neighbouring countries and countries in the >wider region. The E.U., with its prolonged enforcement of sanctions against >the FR of Yugoslavia, has obviously made difficult the offsetting of the >devastating effects of the NATO aggression to prevent the citizens of >Yugoslavia from living in improved conditions and to obstruct the economic and >technological progress of the Yugoslav economy. Despite NATO destruction, long >sanctions and the need to host about a million refugees and displaced persons, >the FR of Yugoslavia has recorded a much more faster economic growth than most >of its neighbours who have been promised hefty assistance as their reward for >various forms of participation in the NATO aggression against the FR of >Yugoslavia. 4. Demand of the FR of Yugoslavia Taking into account that the >maintenance of sanctions by the E.U. has no basis whatsoever and that they are >aggravating the economic and humanitarian situation in the FR of Yugoslavia, >that it contributes to instability in the region that cannot be in the >interest of both the E.U. and Europe as a whole, the FR of Yugoslavia demands >that the E.U. immediately lifts all sanctions imposed by it thus far. The FR >of Yugoslavia reserves the right to take appropriate measures to protect its >interests and to claim material and other damages in a court of law. FROM THE >FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAVIA SET TO ERADICATE TERRORISM IN ORDER >TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE BELGRADE, May 21 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Telecommunications >Minister Ivan Markovic has told China's Jian Ming newspaper that the West >tends to present things in the wrong light and, consequently, to refer to the >fight against terrorism as the violation of human rights. Serbian Radio and >Television quoted Markovic as saying that this was just an excuse for efforts >to dominate the entire world and realise interests of one country only - the >United States. He said that Yugoslavia made maximum efforts to eradicate >terrorism in its territory in order to protect its people and preserve peace. >Markovic also said that Yugoslavia backed a single China and the use of legal >methods in the preservation of such one state. COUNCIL OF DIASPORA 99 ASSEMBLY >HOLDS SESSION IN BELGRADE BELGRADE, May 21 (Tanjug) - The Council of the >Diaspora 99 Assembly reviewed in a session here on Saturday activities to date >in implementing the Assembly's decisions. In the session, chaired by Council >Co-Chairman and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, the Council noted >that intensive activities had been made by Yugoslav expatriates and their >mother country in implementing positions held by and tasks set by the >Assembly, said a statement issued by the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry. Yugoslav >expatriates have massively taken part together with a large number of >Yugoslavia's friends worldwide in the commemoration of the first anniversary >of NATO's aggression on the country. Moreover, they have financed the >reconstruction of a number of bridges, including the bridge across the Velika >Morava at Varvarin and the bridges across the Zapadna Morava at Krusevac and >Trstenik, and have helped rebuild or construct many housing facilities, >schools, health care institutions and other facilities. The Council decided to >hold its next session in Belgrade on August 3-5, 2000. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR >- INCIDENT KFOR TROOPS BEAT UP THREE SERB CIVILIANS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 21 (Tanjug) - A score of U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR >troops beat up soon after midnight on Saturday three Serb civilians standing >in the vicinity of their houses located near a KFOR checkpoint in the >northern, Serb section of Kosovska Mitrovica. The troops started beating up >the three civilians, aged 18-24, when one of them tried to explain why they >were in the street after the curfew that commences in Kosovska Mitrovica at >midnight. The troops transferred the three Serbs to a Moroccan field hospital >in the town's southern, ethnic Albanian-section, when they realised that they >were greatly hurt. The three Serbs, who sustained bruises and cuts and >developed blood suffusions, refused to be treated there stressing that they >only trusted Serb doctors, because of which they were transferred back to the >police station. They were released on Sunday morning and admitted soon after >to the Serb hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC >ALBANIAN TERRORISTS OPEN FIRE ON SERB SHEPHERDS, WOUND ONE BABIN MOST, May 21 >(Tanjug) - Three ethnic Albanian terrorists early on Saturday opened fire with >automatic rifles on nine Serb shepherds on a common near Babin Most, Kosovo >and Metohija, wounding one of them, local radio enthusiasts reported. The >terrorists managed to escape, while troops contributed to the U.N. >peacekeeping force KFOR by the United Arab Emirates transferred the >67-year-old wounded Serb to the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica, in the north >of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's southern province. The condition of the >wounded Serb, who had to undergo a surgery, is stable. US - YUGOSLAVIA - NATO >AGGRESSION - INDICTMENT RAMSEY CLARK ADDS YET ANOTHER COUNT TO INDICTMENT >AGAINST NATO NEW YORK, May 21 (Tanjug) - Ramsey Clark, a leading human rights >champion and former U.S. attorney general, has added yet another count to the >indictment against NATO and protagonists in the alliance's aggression on >Yugoslavia last year and in particular U.S. President Bill Clinton. The count, >the 20th, refers to attacks on facilities vital for the survival of the >Yugoslav population. Sarah Flounders, Director of the International Action >Centre, the biggest U.S. anti-war movement chaired by Clark, told Yugoslavia's >Tanjug news agency that the count confirmed that NATO, led by the U.S. >Administration, had committed an unprecedented war crime, the crime against >humanity, the crime against civilians and the crime against children. She said >that the latest count had been drawn following a report in the U.S. Newsweek >magazine which had revealed that there was a secret NATO report confirming >that, once they had realised that they could not harm significantly the >Yugoslav army and the defence of Yugoslavia, the NATO aggressors had started >brutally bombing civilian targets, leaving devastation behind and killing >civilians. She said that this was the grossest war crime committed by NATO. An >international tribunal formed in New York as a national court is to bring in >the indictment against the NATO aggressors that will contain irrefutable >evidence. Clark said recently that the indictment would serve as legally and >morally irrefutable confirmation and evidence of the crimes committed by the >alliance against Yugoslavia and its people, saying that the alliance would >have to bear the responsibility for them. Flaunders said that these criminals >would not be allowed to write history and that the truth had been brought to >light. She said that they would have to answer for their crimes sooner or >later. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
