> Yugoslav Daily Survey > >BELGRADE, 23 May 2000 C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF >YUGOSLAVIA VUJOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA VOWS TO STAMP OUT TERRORISM 211TH ARMOURED >BRIGADE DECORATED AMBASSADOR CURCIC: "STUDIO B" WAS ALWAYS STATE-OWNED >YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAVIA AND RUSSIA STRESS NEED FOR CLOSER CULTURAL TIES >YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA LI PENG TO VISIT SOON YUGOSLAVIA CHINESE BUSINESS >DELEGATION RECEIVED AT YUGOSLAV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE YUGOSLAVIA - ARGENTINA >YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVED ARGENTINEAN AMBASSADOR SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO >AND METOHIJA ALBANIAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF MURDERING A SERB FROM FOREIGN >PRESS MENDUH TACHI THREATENED MACEDONIANS AND "DISOBEDIENT" ALBANIANS * * * >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA VUJOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA VOWS TO STAMP OUT >TERRORISM BELGRADE, May 23 (Tanjug) - Terrorism is a universal evil which all >countries are trying to eradicate, and Yugoslavia will take all legal steps to >stamp it out, according to the assistant foreign minister in Belgrade on >Tuesday. Briefing the press, Nebojsa Vujovic said Yugoslavia has long been >exposed to pressure from the aggressor states, adding that one way this >pressure has found expression has been in the incitement to terrorism. The >plan is to "use terrorism to cause insecurity, disrupt the unity and firmness >of the Yugoslav government and people in the post-NATO-aggression rebuilding >and reaffirmation of Yugoslavia," according to Vujovic. "We shall show that we >are no less efficacious in dealing with terrorism than we were in the defence >against (last spring's NATO) aggression or in rebuilding the country," he >said. 211TH ARMOURED BRIGADE DECORATED NIS, May 23 (Tanjug) - Commander of the >Third Army of the Yugoslav Army, Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic presented on Tuesday >in Nis to the 211th armoured brigade a high decoration - Medal of the war flag >first degree, with which the brigade was decorated by Yugoslav President and >Supreme Commander Slobodan Milosevic. It was pointed out at the ceremony that >the medal was awarded for years of persevering service, for results achieved >in the combat building of commands and units, and particularly for the heroism >demonstrated in the defense of our country from NATO's aggression. AMBASSADOR >CURCIC: "STUDIO B" WAS ALWAYS STATE-OWNED BRATISLAVA, May 23 (Tanjug) - The >decision of the government of Serbia to take control over "Studio B" was based >on its right of founder, in conformity with regulations of the Republic of >Serbia, because that TV station has always had the status of state property, >said the Yugoslav Ambassador to Slovakia Veljko Curcic in a statement to the >Slovak daily "Praca." "In 1996 the Serbian Renewal Movement acting as a >sponsor undertook to transform Studio B into a stock company - which has not >been done to date," Curcic said. He assessed that "lies about the alleged >destruction of independent media, state terrorism and crimes in Serbia were >spread by world power brokers, because they do not want the world to learn the >real truth about the crimes committed during NATO's aggression on FR >Yugoslavia last year, or what is really taking place in Kosovo-Metohija, in >Serbia and in Yugoslavia." Curcic went on to say that media lies trying to >create the image of a strong opposition are actually aimed at overthrowing the >legitimately elected leadership of the country and causing instability and >raise fears of supposed civil war. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAVIA AND RUSSIA >STRESS NEED FOR CLOSER CULTURAL TIES BELGRADE, May 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's >Minister of foreign cultural and scientific cooperation Cedomir Mirkovic has >met with his Russian opposite number Mikhail Shvidkoy to discuss bilateral >cultural cooperation, a Yugoslav government statement said. During the >meeting, which took place in the Russian town of Ryazan', the need was >stressed for constantly upgrading cultural cooperation, the statement said. >Mirkovic is in Ryazan' heading a government delegation to a Days of Slavic >Literacy and Culture event, to be held on May 24. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA LI PENG >TO VISIT SOON YUGOSLAVIA BELGRADE, May 23 (Tanjug) - President of the People's >Congress of China Li Peng is expected soon in Yugoslavia, said at a press >conference in Belgrade on Tuesday, Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Nebojsa >Vujovic. "Yugoslavia attaches great important to the visit and it represents a >continuity of political dialogue at a high level," Vujovic said. CHINESE >BUSINESS DELEGATION RECEIVED AT YUGOSLAV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BELGRADE, May 23 >(Tanjug) - President of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce Mihailo Milojevic >received on Tuesday a delegation of the Shanghai Modern Architectural Design >Group Co. (SMAD) and Beijing's China National Machinery Export-Import Co. >(CMEC). The Chinese delegation, headed by SMAD's William Joung and Du Bin of >CMEC, is in Belgrade to resume talks with Yugoslav partners. Milojevic briefed >the delegation on the Yugoslav economy's potential, which opens wide scope for >export, joint ventures and investment. The meeting was attended by >representatives of Belgrade's Railway Co., Energoprojekt and Beogradska Banka. >The Yugoslav companies' representatives expressed pleasure at their >cooperation with Chinese partners in building a Belgrade railway junction, the >biggest investment project in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. YUGOSLAVIA - >ARGENTINA YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVED ARGENTINEAN AMBASSADOR BELGRADE, May 22 >(Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Agriculture Nedeljko Sipovac received on >Monday Argentina's new Ambassador in Belgrade Carlos Abel Martese to discuss >promoting bilateral cooperation, especially in the economy. Yugoslavia and >Argentina, as countries with highly developed agriculture, have significant >potential for promoting bilateral cooperation, and conditions should be >created to stimulate their businessmen in this direction, it was noted during >the meeting. Yugoslavia is interested in importing soy bean, fish meal, coffee >and some varieties of wheat from Argentina, while that Latin American country >is desirous of buying Yugoslav agricultural machinery and quality grain. It >was agreed that the two countries exchange experts in various fields, and >Sipovac issued an invitation for Argentina's minister of agriculture to visit >Yugoslavia with a view to implementing concrete programmes of cooperation, a >government statement said. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ALBANIAN >ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF MURDERING A SERB GNJILANE, May 23 (tanjug) - The >committee for the protection of human rights in Gnjilane stated on Tuesday >that FKOR officials and UNMIK policemen in that town informed representatives >of the Serbian community that during a raid of the Albanian village of Ugljare >near Gnjilane was arrested an unnamed Albanian suspected of murdering >Alksandar Jovanovic from the neighbouring village of Pasjan. Jovanovic was >murdered in December last year in the woods overlooking Pasjan, where he was >preparing terrain for cutting wood for the needs of the village school. In the >house of the suspected Albanian was found a hunting gun, owned by the killed >Serb. The committee said that was the first arrest of an Albanian suspected of >murder, after about one hundred murders of Serbs in the region of Kosovsko >Pomoravlje, whose perpetrators have not been found. Military and police >officials also said on Monday that in the joint action of raiding the village >of Ugljare, known for the massive grave site of Serbs, was found and seized a >large quantity of weapons and ammunition - one mortar gun, one sniper rifle, >15 kg of explosives, hand grenades and ammunition. In the action were detained >a number of Albanians, in whose houses weapons were found. FROM FOREIGN PRESS >MENDUH TACHI THREATENED MACEDONIANS AND "DISOBEDIENT" ALBANIANS SKOPJE, May 23 >(Tanjug) - Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) vice-president Menduh Tachi is >demanding from Macedonian authorities, in which his party takes part, to >"resist more bravely Macedonian nationalism" whose goal is to establish "a >state terrorism over Albanians." According to a report of the daily "Flaka", >printed in Skopje in Albanian, Tachi, taking part in a panel in Skopje, >threatened his political opponents, pointing out that on the side of Albanians >"are their natural allies the Americans, whether they like it or not." DPA, >whose leader is Arben Jaffari and which is in coalition with VMRO and the >Democratic Alternative, will not, Tachi added, allow the revival of Macedonian >nationalism advocated by the opposition, led by the Social Democratic Alliance >of Macedonia and its leader Brankjo Crvenkovski. Calling Tachi's act >"scandalous and insulting," the Skopje daily "Dnevnik" in a strongly-worded >commentary said it was a threat not only to ethnic Macedonians and state >institutions, but also to local Albanians who do not agree with the >devastating and dangerous DPA policy. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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