BELGRADE, 7 June 2000 C O N T E N T S : YUGOSLAVIA - VIETNAM YUGOSLAVIA END VIETNAM HAVE TIES OF STRONG MUTUAL SUPPORT END TRUST RUSSIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA RUSSIA DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT MOUNTING VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES AMBASSADORS OF MYANMAR, AUSTRALIA YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL SEES KFOR-UNMIK-ALBANIAN TERRORIST COLLUSION KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR - TERRORISM KFOR BECOMES ACCOMPLICE OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN TERRORISTS * * * YUGOSLAVIA - VIETNAM YUGOSLAVIA END VIETNAM HAVE TIES OF STRONG MUTUAL SUPPORT END TRUST HANOI, June 6 (Tanjug) - Vietnam has high respect for the Yugoslav people's unflinching struggle against NATO's aggression and for Yugoslavia's determination to accomplish economic reconstruction and development, Vietnam's top official said on Tuesday. President Tran Duc Luong was meeting in Hanoi with visiting Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic. In reply to greetings from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic conveyed by Jovanovic, Tran said he was sure Milosevic would stand firm with his people and surmount all difficulties, defend the country and rebuild NATO-wreaked devastation. The meeting rounded off Jovanovic's successful contacts with ranking government and communist party officials in this influential Asian country, with a population of 82 million and an impressive annual economic growth rate of 7-8 percent over the past decade. Vietnam firmly supports Yugoslavia and its people, and demands a strict and full implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244, Tran said, adding that Vietnam insists that all bans and sanctions against Yugoslavia be lifted immediately. He went on to say he was sure Jovanovic's visit would be successful and would boost friendly bilateral relations and cooperation, and accepted with pleasure Milosevic's invitation to visit Yugoslavia. Jovanovic, in turn, stressed that President Milosevic, the Yugoslav Government and people highly appreciate the solidarity and support of Vietnam, especially at the time of last year's NATO aggression. He said that Vietnam's support for and solidarity with Yugoslavia were all the more important for coming from a state and nation symbolic of the struggle for freedom and independence in the world. Yugoslavia highly appreciates also Vietnam's support for its reintegration in the United Nations, the non-aligned movement and other international organisations. During the meeting, strong support was given to a further strengthening of bilateral relations and expansion and diversification of cooperation, especially in the economy. RUSSIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA RUSSIA DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT MOUNTING VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA MOSCOW, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Russian foreign ministry on Tuesday expressed deep concern at the escalation of ethnic Albanian violence against non-Albanians in the U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province. There is an "unnaceptably high rate" of crime in Kosovo-Metohija and crimes targetting the province's non-Albanians have lately escalated, according to the statement of the Ministry's Spokesman circulated on Tuesday. More than a dozen terrorist acts have been committed over the past week, in which 8 Serbs were killed and 20 others were wounded, the statement said. These crimes conclusively prove that these outbreaks of violence are ethnically motivated and occur with the connivance of the U.N. mission (UNMIK) and the international force (KFOR), which are not using their full powers under U.N. Resolution 1244 to stabilise the situation in the province, it added. They are fully responsible for the unsatisfactory security of local residents, inter-ethnic clashes and the mounting crime rate, the statement said. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES AMBASSADORS OF MYANMAR, AUSTRALIA BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for cooperation with international financial organisations Borka Vucic received on Tuesday Ambassador of Myanmar in Belgrade Kyar Nyo Chit Pe, a Government statement said. During the ensuing cordial discussion, they examined specific questions of future cooperation between the two traditionally friendly nations. Vucic said Yugoslav businessmen were interested in exporting wagons, high-voltage pylons, transformer stations and electrical industry equipment, and cooperating in mining research. She said she hoped Yugoslav cooperation projects would get a positive response, in view of Yugoslavia's traditionally good business relations with Myanmar and competitiveness of Yugoslav companies. The Ambassador, in turn, showed an interest in cooperation in agriculture and tourism, stressing that the Myanmar economy needs foreign experts in various fields. In another development, Vucic and Australia's Ambassador to Yugoslavia Charles Stuart discussed promotion of bilateral cooperation and ways to promote ties in banking and finance. A Government statement quotes Vucic as briefing Stuart on the current economic situation in Yugoslavia, stressing that the first and second stages of post-NATO-war reconstruction of the infrastructure and facilities had been successfully accomplished. A large expatriate Serb community in Australia is an important element in further developing friendly bilateral relations, it was noted. It was also noted that the reopening of JAT's flights to Australia, too, would help revive economic and other forms of cooperation. YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL SEES KFOR-UNMIK-ALBANIAN TERRORIST COLLUSION PRISTINA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's official liaising with the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) lodged a strong protest with UNMIK and international force (KFor) Commander General Juan Ortuno over Tuesday's outrage in Gracanica. Five Serbs were wounded in the latest outrage, when ethnic Albanian terrorists lobbed two grenades out of a moving car in Gracanica in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province, Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic said. Instead of acting at once and arresting the terrorists, KFor let the car with the terrorists go on its way, and then the same British KFor troops opened fire on unarmed Serbs demanding protection, wounding four. By firing on unarmed Serb civilians, Kfor has placed its weapons in the service of ethnic Albanian terrorists, Vukicevic said, adding this was a deliberate crime synchronised between ethnic Albanian terrorists and British KFor troops. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR - TERRORISM KFOR BECOMES ACCOMPLICE OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN TERRORISTS PRISTINA, June 6 (Tanjug) - International KFor force troops opened fire on unarmed Serbs in Gracanica, U.N.-ruled Kosovo-Metohija, on Tuesday, wounding two. KFor has thus become an accomplice of ethnic Albanian terrorists and shown that it is incapable of discharging the mandate given it under U.N. Resolution 1244 of providing security for all people living in that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. British KFor troops, escorting British General Richard Shirreff, opened fire on Serbs protesting against another in a series of terrorist attacks, which had taken place in Gracanica earlier in the day. At least 10 Serbs were injured in the outrage in central Gracanica, when two grenades were lobbed out of a moving car. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
