Yugoslav Daily Survey
BELGRADE, 6 June 2000
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAV MINISTER ACCUSES CIA OF
COMPLICITY IN ZUGIC MURDER
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT CALLS SESSION FOR
JUNE 12
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - ALBANIANS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIANS EXPRESS
SUPPORT FOR MILOSEVIC
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACK IN
KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S GRACANICA
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - AMERICANS
AMERICANS STEAL SERBIAN GOLD IN
U.N.-RULED KOSOVO-METOHIJA
BULGARIA - NATO - CONFERENCE
BULGARIAN CONFERENCE BLASTS WAR CRIMES
TRIBUNAL AS BIASED, USELESS
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FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
YUGOSLAV MINISTER ACCUSES CIA OF COMPLICITY
IN ZUGIC MURDER
BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Minister of Information on
Tuesday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of
complicity
in the recent murder of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro's
presidential security advisor Goran Zugic.
At a news briefing attended by a large number of domestic and
foreign
reporters, Goran Matic ran an audio tape of a conversation held
twenty
minutes after Zugic's murder by Sean Burns of the U.S. State
Department's Balkan task force, who is assistant to Richard
Holbrooke,
with Gabriel Escobar Gabe of the economic task force for Montenegro,
and their conversation of 2 a.m. the next day.
Matic said this was a specific form that the aggression on
Yugoslavia was
taking, which had been in use since October 1999 as the main form of
warfare for destroying Yugoslavia.
"After its political efforts with infiltrated mercenaries and
mercenary
political parties failed, the U.S. Administration, since (last
year's)
aggression on our country, turned last October to subversive
and terrorist
operations on the territory of Yugoslavia in an effort to
attain its interests,
undermine the country's internal stability and show that the
country is
unsafe for its people", Matic said.
This scenario, according to him, is being implemented in both
Serbia and
Montenegro.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT CALLS SESSION FOR JUNE 12
BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Speakers of the Yugoslav
Parliament's Chambers of Citizens (lower house) and Republics (upper
house), Milomir Minic and Srdja Bozovic, have called the first
special
joint session for June 12.
The joint session will be addressed by Li Peng, chairman of the
Chinese
National Congress (Parliament) Standing Committee, who will be
heading
a parliamentary delegation on an official state visit to
Yugoslavia from
June 11-13, a Parliament statement said on Tuesday.
The session has been called on a motion tabled by one-third of
the deputies
to the two chambers, in line with the rules of procedure
regulating the
convention of special sessions, the statement said.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - ALBANIANS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIANS EXPRESS SUPPORT
FOR MILOSEVIC
PRISTINA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Kosovo-Metohija's Albanian Democratic
Reform Party (DRPA) on Tuesday wrote to Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic upholding his policy of togetherness, equality in the
province,
of peace, tolerance and common sense.
The letter, signed by 828 ethnic Albanians from all over that
U.N.-run
Serbian (Yugoslav) province, says local Albanians are not
indifferent to
the terrorising, murders and expulsions of their non-Albanian
neighbours
and friends.
"What has been happening over the past year since the deployment of
KFor (international force) and UNMIK (U.N. civilian mission) in
Kosovo-Metohija - viz. ethnic cleansing - is the worst crime in
human
history", the letter said.
The ethnic Albanians stressed the DRPA was confidence of the
future of
Kosovo-Metohija as the home of all ethnic communities and the
struggle
for the equality of all in Kosovo-Metohija, a policy of peace,
tolerance and
common sense.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACK IN
KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S GRACANICA
GRACANICA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Several Serbs, including a child, were
injured in an ethnic Albanian terrorist attack in the locality
of Gracanica
near Pristina in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija
province early on Tuesday. U.N. police and international KFor force
troops are searching for a car from which two grenades were
lobbed at
around 8:30 a.m. near the Culture Hall in central Gracanica.
Roads into and out of Gracanica have been sealed and
helicopters hover
over the area.
Agence France Press (AFP) quotes a telephone conversation with
a U.N.
official to the effect that six Serbs were wounded in the
outrage, two of
them seriously, while the Associated Press (AP) says that a
child also was
among the injured.
Shortly after the incident, about a thousand Serbs gathered in
town centre
in protest against the impermissibly tolerant attitude of the
international
military and civilian missions to the ethnic cleansing campaign
of ethnic
Albanian terrorists and separatists.
The latest wave of ethnic Albanian terrorism has come hard on
the heels of
an announced intention to repatriate a large number of
displaced Serbs to
Kosovo-Metohija.
Since KFor and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK were deployed last
June 10, more than 1,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians
have been murdered, and more than 300,000 others expelled, which
shows that the U.N. missions have failed to discharge their
mandate under
U.N. Resolution 1244.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - AMERICANS
AMERICANS STEAL SERBIAN GOLD IN U.N.-RULED
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Stari Trg mine
in south Kosovska Mitrovica, which was taken over by the U.N.
mission
(UNMIK) last June, is being secretly mined and the gold ore
transported
through the U.S.-held sector to Albania and Macedonia.
According to Serb sources in the ethnically-divided town, since Serb
miners were barred from entering the mine, which is part of the
Trepca
mining complex, UNMIK has announced that the shafts are flooded and
has engaged ethnic Albanians allegedly to drain them.
About 200 well-paid ethnic Albanians are in fact mining the ore
and, since
the smelting plant is in the north, Serb-populated part of the
town, the ore
is transported to Albania and Macedonia by night.
Reliable sources say that the ore is being mined for an Italian
industrialist
with the knowledge of the new regional UNMIK administrator, William
Nash of the United States.
BULGARIA - NATO - CONFERENCE
BULGARIAN CONFERENCE BLASTS WAR CRIMES
TRIBUNAL AS BIASED, USELESS
SOFIA, June 6 (Tanjug) - An international conference held to
commemorate the 1st anniversary of the end of NATO's aggression on
Yugoslavia unanimously condemned the flouting of U.N. Resolution
1244 on Kosovo-Metohija.
The participants - university professors from Moscow, Belgrade,
Kragujevac and Sofia, authorities on international law and
military matters
and publicists - said flouting of the Resolution had allowed ethnic
Albanian separatists and terrorists over the past year to wage
a war of
genocide on local Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians.
Unheard-of violence has been perpetrated in that U.N.-run Serbian
(Yugoslav) province since the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK,
international police force and peace force KFor were deployed
on June 10
last, it was noted at the conference, which ended in Sofia late
on Monday.
More than 1,000 Serbs have been murdered, 900 others have been
abducted, more than 40,000 Serb homes have been plundered and
torched.
This has forced more than 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies,
ethnic Turks, ethnic Egyptians, ethnic Croats and other
non-Albanians to
flee Kosovo-Metohija, it was noted at the conference.
The assembled experts offered evidence in support of the fact that
Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Yugoslavia and that
Resolution
1244 guarantees the territorial integrity and sovereignty of
Yugoslavia.
They demanded that the biased international war crimes tribunal
for the
former Yugoslavia in the Hague be abolished for throwing out of
court
complaints against NATO, which had perpetrated an aggression against
Yugoslavia in March-June 1999, killing more than 2,000 civilians and
violating the U.N. Charter and international legal norms of 50
years'
standing.
Professor Zakhary Zakhariev of the Bulgarian Slaviani
Foundation, which
organised the conference, announced for October another
conference of
experts from the Balkan countries, as well as from eastern and
western
countries, under UNESCO's auspices.
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