BELGRADE, 11 June 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA CHINESE PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT LI PENG IN BELGRADE FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PRESIDENT AT GRADUATION CEREMONY OF NEW POLICE OFFICERS MONTENEGRO - ELECTIONS START IN PODGORICA AND HERZEG NOVI SERBIAN EDUCATION MINISTER KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SERBS BLOCK ROADS IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA AMERICAN TRIBUNAL - NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA SENTENCING OF NATO PACT AND ITS LEADERS - GUILTY AS CHARGED EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PEACE IN ATHENS OPENS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PEACE * * * YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA CHINESE PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT LI PENG IN BELGRADE BELGRADE, June 11 (Tanjug) - President of the Permanent Committee of the Pan-Chinese People's Congress Li Peng arrived on Sunday on a three-day official and friendly visit to Yugoslavia, accompanied by his wife and aides. "I am very pleased for the opportunity to visit Yugoslavia, given the traditional friendship between our two countries," said Li Peng upon arrival at Belgrade airport, adding that he was confident that his trip will help further develop the friendship between China and Yugoslavia. The President of Chinese Parliament was welcomed by the Presidents of both houses of Yugoslav Parliament - Milomir Minic and Srdja Bozovic. Li Peng was greeted by Yugoslav Deputy Premier Nikola Sainovic, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, Serbian Parliament President Dragan Tomic, Yugoslav Parliament Upper House Vice-President Gorica Gajevic, Yugoslav Army General Staff Chief Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, Yugoslav Parliament Foreign Policy Committee chairman Ljubisa Ristic, Yugoslav Ambassador to China Slobodan Unkovic, and the Ambassador of PR China in Belgrade Pan Zhanlin with Chinese Embassy personnel. Li Peng, who will stay in Yugoslavia till June 13, will address Yugoslav Parliament deputies on Monday, and during his visit will be received by top Yugoslav officials. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PRESIDENT AT GRADUATION CEREMONY OF NEW POLICE OFFICERS BELGRADE, June 11 (Tanjug) - In the Interior Ministry in Belgrade was held on Sunday a graduation ceremony of the third generation of police officers, who by a decree of Serbian President Milan Milutinovic have been promoted to the rank of second lieutenants. Milutinovic congratulated the graduates of the Police Academy, and recalled that this generation studied in the most difficult period for Serbia and for Yugoslavia. "War in the environment (Croatia, Bosnia), years of sanctions, unprecedented pressures and blackmail, and media lies, culminated in the merciless war by NATO against our freedom-loving people," he said, stressing that Yugoslavia, however, resisted "with defiance, unity and resolve." The Serbian President said that the past year had been marked by the strong process of reconstruction and rebuilding the country. "In the struggle for a better future, the successes we have achieved are a source of strength for us," said Milutinovic pointing out that bridges and roads, hospitals and maternity wards, residential buildings and factories, which were mercilessly destroyed by the aggressor, have been built by our own forces and knowhow. At the ceremony, besides Serbia Interior Ministry officials were also present members of the Serbian government, representatives of the judiciary, public and social life. MONTENEGRO - ELECTIONS START IN PODGORICA AND HERZEG NOVI PODGORICA, 11 June (Tanjug) - In the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica and in the Adriatic holiday resort of Herzeg Novi started on Sunday at 8.00 elections for municipal assembly deputies. Polling stations will be open till 21.00, and the first unofficial results are expected during the night. By noon Monday are expected to be known the first official results, and on Thursday, if there are no objections, the final official results of the elections. In the elections in Podgorica are taking part four coalitions and three political parties, and in Herzeg Novi three coalitions, two political parties and a group of independent candidates. The leading candidates to run up against one another are those of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), headed by pro-Western Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, and the coalition "For Yugoslavia," which with the participation of the Serbian Radical Party and the Yugoslav Left, has been formed along with the Socialist People's Party of Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic. The important local elections in Podgroica and Herzeg Novi are followed by 400 domestic and foreign observers, and covered by about 400 journalists and camera crews. SERBIAN EDUCATION MINISTER KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT VELIKA PLANA, June 11 (Tanjug) - On the highway at Velika Plana, some one hundred kilometres south of Belgrade, on Friday night, was killed in car accident Milivoje Simonovic, education minister in the Serbian government. According to police information from Velika Plana, the tragedy occurred on Friday around 23.00 hours on the Belgrade-Nis highway in the immediate vicinity of Velika Plana. Most probably due to overspeeding, Simonovic lost control of his vehicle, which overturned, broke through the protective barrier and ended up on the other lane of the highway where a passenger vehicle moving from the opposite direction hit it. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SERBS BLOCK ROADS IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, June 11 (Tanjug) - Serbs blocked Saturday evening, 18.00-20.00 hours, regional roads in Kosovo and Metohija, protesting in that way against recent terrorist attacks and noncompliance with UN Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija. The blockade of important roads in the Province passed peacefully and without incidents. Some one hundred barricades were set up by Serbs in northern Kosovo-Metohija in the municipalities of Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic. Also blocked were roads in Serb enclaves in the south - in Strpce and on Mt. Brezovica, the southeastern regional road Gnjilane-Urosevac, and in the central part of Kosovo and Metohija. AMERICAN TRIBUNAL - NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA SENTENCING OF NATO PACT AND ITS LEADERS - GUILTY AS CHARGED NEW YORK, June 11 (Tanjug) - The sentence pronounced upon NATO and its leaders at a public trial organized on Saturday in New York by the International Tribunal for War Crimes of the United States and of NATO committed last year in Yugoslavia, was guilty. The Tribunal was formed during the aggression on Yugoslavia (March-June 1999), at the initiative of former U.S. state prosecutor and now distinguished fighter against U.S. hegemony, Ramsey Clark. The sentence called for the dissolving of NATO, and on the list of condemned are U.S. President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Pentagon chief William Cohen, who were said to be the ringleaders of the aggression. A "guilty" sentence was also pronounced upon British Premier Tony Blair, his Minster Robin Cook, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his aides, key officials in the governments of NATO member countries, former NATO secretary general Javier Solana, and the list of sentenced also includes NATO spokesman Jamey Shey and the governments of Turkey, Hungary, Italy and other countries that allowed the use of bases and their territory for attacks on Yugoslavia. This is an authentic, real Court, the conscience of peoples and peace, as opposed to the subservient tribunal in The Hague and of other instruments of power wielders in Washington, Ramsey Clark said. He pointed out that the New York trial practically represents a continuation of the process of mobilization of people throughout the world and the activation of those forces who know how to fight for truth and support for Yugoslavia, and for defense of the future and peace. Clark's opening and closing speeches received thunderous applause in the Martin Luther King Center, in downtown New York, where the court proceedings were held. Twenty judges from 15 countries presided over the trial at which were heard the testimonies of scores of witnesses and reviewed numerous well-documented analyses. In the presence of hundreds of people attending the trial, the three-member court council said that it passed a guilty as charged sentence to the NATO pact, for committing numerous crimes: crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes against FR Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav people. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PEACE IN ATHENS OPENS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PEACE ATHENS, June 11 (Tanjug) - In Athens on Saturday, in the organization of the Federation of Balkan non-governmental organizations and under the auspices of the Council of Europe, opened the third European conference on peace, democracy and cooperation in the Balkans. In the work of the three-day meeting are taking part representatives from Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Moldavia, Greece and Yugoslavia, representatives of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament, as well as observers from Spain, Italy, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. The Yugoslav delegation comprising 18 members of non-governmental organizations, headed by professor of political science Dragan Simic, includes representatives of the Yugoslav League for Peace, the Alliance of Women of Yugoslavia and the Union of Associations for the U.N. of Yugoslavia, and among conference participants is also Orthodox Bishop Irinej Bulovic. The basic subject matter of the conference is devoted to the Pact for Stability in Southeastern Europe, and immediately at the beginning discussions dealt with breeches of international law and humanitarian intervention, the issues of national minorities and Balkan relations. The talks on Sunday will deal with the reconstruction of the Balkans and economic cooperation. Yugoslav delegation head Dragan Simic also spoke about the problems of the province of Kosovo and Metohija where despite an international military-political presence, not even one year after the cessation of the bombing by NATO (March-June) has been ensured security for all citizens, and especially not for Serbs. "If the most responsible international factors allow the continuation of the process of ethnic cleansing of non-Albanian populations in Kosovo-Metohija, that will open wide the door for a "Greater Albanian," Simic warned. He spoke about the need for the return of Yugoslav border and military units and police to Kosovo-Metohija, in line with UN SB Resolution 1244. More than a hundred participants at the opening of the conference on peace, democracy and cooperation in the Balkans, were greeted by Greek Defense Minister Akis Tscohatzopoulos. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
