> Yugoslav Daily Survey > >BELGRADE, 22 May 2000 FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV PREMIER >CONGRATULATES NATIONAL HOLIDAY OF YEMEN YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION LED BY >MINISTER MIRKOVIC LEAVES FOR RUSSIA BELGRADE BUILDERS COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF >DANUBE BRIDGE AT NOVI SAD SERBIA - DIASPORA MINISTER JOVANOVIC SAYS SERBS OF >DIASPORA GREATLY HELP COUNTRY'S RECONSTRUCTION FIRST CONGRESS OF SERBIAN >PHYSICIANS, PHYSICIANS OF DIASPORA BEGINS BELARUS - YUGOSLAVIA NON-ALBANIANS >ARE DRIVEN FROM KOSOVO-METOHIJA - YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR SERBIA - ALBANIAN >TERRORISTS LARGE GROUP OF ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SENTENCED KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERB >PRISONERS SERBS HELD IN CUSTODY IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA END THEIR HUNGER STRIKE >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS SET FIRE TO ROMANY >HOUSE IN GNJILANE ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS TORCH TWO FACILITIES NEAR VITINA >SERBS BLOCK ROUTE AT MITROVICA ENRAGED BY TORCHING OF HOUSE IN THEIR VILLAGE >ITALY - KOSMET CONFERENCE IN ANCONA WITHOUT GOOD INTENTIONS O P I N I O N S >MIKLOS TAMAS GASPAR - DISHONOURABLE INTENTIONS OF HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT FROM >FOREIGN PRESS FAILURE OF U.S. POLICY OF BLOCKADE * * * FROM THE FEDERAL >REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONGRATULATES NATIONAL HOLIDAY OF >YEMEN BELGRADE, May 22 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic sent >congratulations to Abdul Karim Al-Irjani, Prime Minister of the Republic of >Yemen, on the occasion of the country's national holiday, with best wishes for >the well-being and prosperity of the Yemeni people, said a statement of the >Yugoslav Information Ministry. YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION LED BY MINISTER >MIRKOVIC LEAVES FOR RUSSIA BELGRADE, May 22 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the >Yugoslav Government, headed by Minister for International Cultural and >Scientific Cooperation Cedomir Mirkovic, has left for Russia at the invitation >by Russian Culture Minister Mikhail Shvidkoy. The delegation is to attend >Russia's Day of Slav Literacy and Culture holiday marked throughout the >country on May 24, said a statement issued by the Yugoslav Information >Ministry. The central event is to be held in Ryazan', an old town that boasts >a large number of cultural and historical monuments. The delegation is also to >participate in an international conference on history and development of Slav >culture. It will also discuss cultural, scientific and educational cooperation >between the two countries in contacts and meetings with competent Russian >officials. BELGRADE BUILDERS COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF DANUBE BRIDGE AT NOVI >SAD NOVI SAD, May 22 (Tanjug) - Workers of Belgrade's Mostogradnja >bridge-construction company completed early Monday the erection of a road and >railway bridge across the Danube in Novi Sad, chief city of the Yugoslav >Republic of Serbia's Vojvodina province. The construction of the 454-m-long >bridge is a true feat because it was completed in less than three and a half >months. The bridge was erected some 70 m up the stream from the site where the >Zezeljev bridge, destroyed in NATO's brutal air strikes last year, had been >located. The railway link between Belgrade and Budapest via Novi Sad was >severed when the bridge was destroyed. SERBIA - DIASPORA MINISTER JOVANOVIC >SAYS SERBS OF DIASPORA GREATLY HELP COUNTRY'S RECONSTRUCTION JAGODINA, May 22 >(Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has described as vital >contribution given by Serbs of the diaspora to the reconstruction and >development of the country. Jovanovic told the Yugoslav Tanjug news agency's >correspondent from Jagodina that this assistance was important from the moral >and political point of view and in particular from the economic point of view, >especially now that the country was under the regime of sanctions and isolated >by those who had launched aggression on it last year and who were doing all >within their power to undermine its economic and political stability. >Jovanovic said that four million Serbs of the diaspora, including the first, >second and third generation of Serbs living abroad, had taken part in the >reconstruction and modernisation of the Yugoslav economy. He said that the >Serbs of the diaspora had helped reconstruct the bridge across the Velika >Morava at Varvarin, the bridge across the Zapadna Morava at Jasika, the bridge >at Trstenik and had helped the construction of a school in Cuprija. FIRST >CONGRESS OF SERBIAN PHYSICIANS, PHYSICIANS OF DIASPORA BEGINS BELGRADE, May 22 >(Tanjug) - The first Congress of Serbian physicians and physicians of the >diaspora and the 14th Congress of Serbia's Association of physicians opened in >Belgrade's Sava Centre late on Sunday. Welcoming participants in the two >Congresses, Serbian Vice-Premier Milovan Bojic said that, exactly a year ago, >health care facilities had been targeted by the NATO aggressors and that even >patients and medical workers had been victims of NATO violence and >terrorising. Bojic said that this had been the most difficult decade in >Serbia's recent history, saying that, in order to deal with problems, the >Serbian Government would have to reform the state's health care system. The >reform is aimed at using in a far more economical and efficient manner funds >for offering health care services, he said explaining that, understandably, >these funds had been considerably reduced. The Congresses, sponsored by the >Serbian Government, are attended by physicians and dentists from 20 countries >as well as more than 1,000 Serbian physicians and dentists. BELARUS - >YUGOSLAVIA NON-ALBANIANS ARE DRIVEN FROM KOSOVO-METOHIJA - YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR >MINSK, May 22 (Tanjug) - In connection with the first anniversary of NATO's >aggression on Yugoslavia, Belarus State Radio has broadcast an interview with >Yugoslav Ambassador in Minsk Nikola Pejakovic. Ambassador Pejakovic said that >NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring had set a precedent in >international relations which might herald more wars waged by the United >States and its allies on other sovereign states. In this instance, NATO >members cared nothing either for international law or for there being no >reason for an armed attack, he said, noting that now the U.N. civilian and >military missions to Kosovo-Metohija ignore U.N. Resolution 1244. He quoted >that 350,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians have moved out of that U.N.-ruled >Serbian (Yugoslav) province, and their homes had by February 1 been usurped by >200,000 Albanians from neighbouring Albania. The U.N. army and police have not >protected the Serbs and the ethnic minorities against terrorism, so that, >between U.N. troops' deployment last June and May 7 this year, ethnic Albanian >terrorists had murdered 1,010 people and wounded 924 others, Pejakovic said. >Also, he added, 786 people have been abducted or have gone missing. U.N. >troops themselves terrorise the Serbs, storming their villages and arresting >people on the pretext of looking for weapons and then indicted the people so >arrested of war crimes and keeping them in prison for months without a trial, >Pejakovic said. SERBIA - ALBANIAN TERRORISTS LARGE GROUP OF ALBANIAN >TERRORISTS SENTENCED NIS, May 22 (Tanjug) - The Large Criminal Council of the >District Court in Pec sentenced in Nis on Monday a large group of Albanian >extremists, of which 143 are KLA members. After conducting an investigation, >49 terrorists were sentenced to 13 years in prison, 51 KLA members to 12 years >each, 11 to nine, ten received seven-year prison terms, and two minors were >sent to juvenile prison for seven years each. The defendants were found >guilty, because as members of the terrorist organization "KLA," in April and >in the first half of May 1999, during the state of war, as members of "KLA" in >the western part of Djakovica they organized and executed a number of >terrorists attacks on the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian police. In those >attacks on the army and police, three persons lost their lives, and 10 were >wounded. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERB PRISONERS SERBS HELD IN CUSTODY IN KOSOVSKA >MITROVICA END THEIR HUNGER STRIKE KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, May 22 (Tanjug) - Serbs >held in custody in the district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica ended their >hunger strike on Sunday after two-hour talks with head of the U.N. Civilian >Mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) Bernard Kouchner. The Serb prisoners >had decided to go on hunger strike on April 10 because of a repeated failure >to try their cases in a court of law. Kouchner pledged in Sunday's talks that >their cases would be tried by international judges instead of by ethnic >Albanian judges. He also promised them fair trials. He said that the only >problem was that there were only two international judges in Kosovska >Mitrovica, in the north of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's southern >province, at this point, saying that five judges were needed to form a panel >of judges. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS SET FIRE TO >ROMANY HOUSE IN GNJILANE GNJILANE, Yugoslavia, May 22 (Tanjug) - The local >human rights committee in Gnjilane, Kosovo and Metohija, said on Monday that >ethnic Albanian extremists had torched a Romany house in the town four days >ago. The house was deserted because its owners are in a refugee camp near >Macedonia's capital Skopje. The house was consumed by the fire because fire >fighters, whose headquarters are located nearby, arrived at the scene too >late. The house was torched following rumours in Gnjilane that its owners plan >to return home. ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS TORCH TWO FACILITIES NEAR VITINA >KOSOVSKA VITINA, May 22 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian extremists set fire late on >Sunday to two facilities in the multi-ethnic village of Mogila at Kosovska >Vitina, in the southeast of Kosovo and Metohija, local radio enthusiasts >reported on Monday. The facilities were burnt to the ground. The radio >enthusiasts also said that the continual torching of property showed that the >U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR tolerated ethnic Albanian terrorist actions in >the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's southern province and that the force >evidently did not want to protect Serb houses and other property. SERBS BLOCK >ROUTE AT MITROVICA ENRAGED BY TORCHING OF HOUSE IN THEIR VILLAGE ZUBIN POTOK, >May 22 (Tanjug) - Serbs in Zupce at Zubin Potok blocked on Sunday afternoon >the route linking Zubin Potok with Kosovska Mitrovica enraged by the torching >of a Serb house in the village by ethnic Albanian terrorists. The villagers >lifted the blockade at 10 p.m. local time after hours-long negotiations with >the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR, submitting a request to the commander of >Denmark's KFOR battalion in Zubin Potok, in the north of the Yugoslav Republic >of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, that security in the village, which >has been repeatedly targeted by ethnic Albanian terrorists over the past few >months, be stepped up. ITALY - KOSMET CONFERENCE IN ANCONA WITHOUT GOOD >INTENTIONS ROME, May 22 (Tanjug) - "We cannot talk about the development of >security in the Balkan region while ignoring the difficult situation in Serbia >and in Kosovo and Metohija caused by NATO's aggression and European Union >sanctions." That is the conclusion made on Sunday in a statement of the >cultural-humanitarian organization Observatorio di Milano, on the occasion of >the two-day international conference on development and security of the region >of the Adriatic and Ionian seas. "Serbia is still making accounts after NATO's >aggression during which were killed more than two thousand people, while six >thousand were wounded," the Observatorio di Milano statement said. Director of >Observatorio du Milano Massimo Todisco pointed out that "thanks to its own >forces Serbia has succeeded to reconstruct a good part of the destroyed >bridges, but unfortunately a large number of industrial facilities has not >resumed production, in part also due to the absurd embargo of European Union >countries which is still in force." He recalled that in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbs >and Roma are terrorized every day and the figures show it. Since the arrival >of KFOR, in the Province have been killed more than a thousand people, while >1,200 have disappeared. That is why non-Albanians keep running to Serbia. >Their number has already exceeded 340,000. "And while Serbs and Roma are >forced to leave Kosovo-Metohija because of ethnic cleansing which has been >continuing unimpeded since the arrival of KFOR, into the Serbian province are >moving citizens of Albania, 250,000 of them. Unfortunately also registered in >Kosovo-Metohija in the past months has been growing crime, including >drug-trafficking and prostitution," Todisco said. "All these arguments were >not discussed at the two-day conference in Ancona whose main topic was >development and security, and main discussion points precisely development and >security of the Balkan region." the Director of Observatorio di Milano said. O >P I N I O N S MIKLOS TAMAS GASPAR - DISHONOURABLE INTENTIONS OF HUNGARIAN >GOVERNMENT BUDAPEST, May 22 (Tanjug) - A famous Hungarian philosopher, Miklos >Tamas Gaspar, strongly criticized the Hungarian Government for wanting to make >a profit from the suffering of the Yugoslav people. In the latest, May issue >of the monthly "Mozgo vilag (World in Movement), the former deputy of the >liberal Alliance of Free Democrats pointed out that the alliance >NATO-USA-EU-OSCE-IMF-WTO first sent missiles against Belgrade, destroyed >bridges on the Danube and by bombing refineries caused an ecological disaster, >and then worked out rebuilding projects. In the job, as manufacturers, and >secondary suppliers, are also included "new democracy" countries, but to a >much lesser extent than they wanted. Tamas Gaspar recalled that official >Budapest wanted to take part in the significant job, or to obtain money from >the West for the rebuilding of Yugoslavia. Tamas Gaspar said that Hungary was >also responsible for the destruction of bridges in Novi Sad, northern Serbia, >and now wants to make a profit from it. FROM FOREIGN PRESS FAILURE OF U.S. >POLICY OF BLOCKADE BEIJING, May 22 (Tanjug) - The Federal Republic of >Yugoslavia, by its diplomatic moves, is successfully breaking through the >blockade of the United States and the West, and is gaining support in the >world, is the most important message from an article run on Monday by the >Chinese daily Renmin Ribao. In that respect, the daily described the recent >visit of Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic to Russia, "a very >significant diplomatic action, after his visit to China, late last year." FR >Yugoslavia, the daily said, "for breaking the blockade of the West and >improving its international position, has undertaken a number of diplomatic >actions." "Yugoslavia puts ahead of everything else the strengthening of its >traditionally friendly ties with Russia and China," the article said, >stressing that Yugoslav principles and demands with respect to >Kosovo-Metohija, "have the support of China and Russia." __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
