BELGRADE, 29 June 2000 F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - IRAQ FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC RECEIVED IRAQ'S SALEH YUGOSLAV-IRAQI COMMITTEE OPENED SESSION IRAQI VICE-PRESIDENT RECEIVED YUGOSLAV MINISTER FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC: U.N. RESOLUTION 1244 TRAMPLED IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA MINISTER MORINA RECEIVED ICRC'S STOCKER LEPOSAVA MILICEVIC APPOINTED YUGOSLAV MINISTER FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SERB POLICE IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA'S STRPCE RESIGN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND KFOR SOLDIER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KOSOVO ALBANIANS AGAINST KFOR NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS RUSSIAN STATE DUMA URGES CLOSER TIES WITH YUGOSLAVIA DUTCH PEACE FOUNDATION CALLS TO TASK THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR NATO CRIMES CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE FOR THE YUGOSLAV PEOPLE LAUNCHED IN BRITAIN FROM DOMESTIC PRESS "POLITIKA": WHOSE ORDERS IS FOLLOWING CARLA DEL PONTE * * * F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - IRAQ FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC RECEIVED IRAQ'S SALEH BELGRADE, June 29 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has received visiting Iraqi Minister of Trade Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, a government statement said on Thursday. Mohammed Mehdi Saleh is in Belgrade for the 18th session of the Yugoslav-Iraqi committee on economic, scientific, technical, cultural and educational cooperation, which he co-chairs. The two sides agreed that bilateral cooperation is based on mutual interest, respect and traditional friendship, and has a good prospect of developing further in all fields. The Committee's session will give a new impact to the cooperation, it was noted. The two sides further noted that resistance is strengthening in the world to the policy of dictate, hegemony and neocolonialism which NATO, headed by the U.S. administration, is pursuing in violation of all norms of international law. A vast majority of states condemns the policy of interventionism, the fanning of separatism and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, and demands the lifting of sanctions as the most massive form of human rights violation, the statement said. The meeting was attended by Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami Sadoun Gatie Al-Kinani. YUGOSLAV-IRAQI COMMITTEE OPENED SESSION BELGRADE, June 28 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav-Iraqi committee on economic and technical cooperation opened its 18th regular session in Belgrade on Wednesday, a Yugoslav government statement said. The heads of delegation, Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Trade Borislav Vukovic and Iraqi Minister of Trade Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, agreed that the session is conducive to further promotion of bilateral economic cooperation and traditionally friendly relations. Saleh stressed Iraq's great interest in cooperation with Yugoslavia despite the pressure of international sanctions and blockades and despite open aggression to which both countries have been exposed. Both countries are facing the same challenges and the same enemy, persistently opposing hegemony and neocolonialism in order to protect their vital national interests - viz. freedom and independence, Saleh said. Vukovic, in turn, stressed Belgrade's openness to and long-term orientation for strengthening all-round relations with Baghdad, despite unjustified sanctions clamped on both countries. He hoped that cooperation would intensify to its full extent after the lifting of the anti-Iraqi economic blockade. He said the countries' governments and businessmen should put to the best use the existing possibilities for increasing foreign trade through the United Nations' oil for food programme. Yugoslav companies will continue to make offers within the programme, despite great difficulties with their approval by the U.N. Security Council's anti-Iraq Sanctions Committee, Vukovic said. Yugoslav companies have competed for contracts in the second stage of the oil for food programme since 1997, and their tenders were mostly for medicine, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food products, the statement said. IRAQI VICE-PRESIDENT RECEIVED YUGOSLAV MINISTER BAGHDAD, June 29 (Tanjug) - Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan received Serbian Minister of Science and Technology Branislav Ivkovic in Baghdad on Thursday. Ivkovic spoke in detail about the successes in Yugoslavia's renewal and reconstruction in the past year, since the NATO aggression. Ramadan praised Yugoslav successes in reconstruction and drew a parallel with similar actions in Iraq after the aggression on that country. He said freedom-loving Yugoslavia and Iraq thus carried off victories in their decisive battles to preserve national identity and sovereignty. The talks also covered the role of science and technological development, which had in both countries been placed under an embargo with which the common enemy is trying to deny the peoples of Yugoslavia and Iraq the right to free and unhindered development. In spite of these unfavorable circumstances, the sectors of science and technology in these two countries managed to keep up with current developments in this area in the world, and the sides agreed the planned mutual cooperation would create conditions for the two countries' further development. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC: U.N. RESOLUTION 1244 TRAMPLED IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CUPRIJA, June 28 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that "the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244 is being systematically violated and sabotaged in Kosovo-Meothija". Zivadin Jovanovic was speaking in a meeting of Pomoravski district mayors and local Serbian Socialist Party (SPS) officials in Cuprija, central Serbia. Jovanovic said this state of affairs in the Serbian province directly supports ethnic Albanian separatism and terrorism with a view to destabilising Yugoslavia and southeast Europe and so allowing the sole global power to keep its chokehold on Europe. "The behaviour, tactic and policy that support the separatists and terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija are a threat to peace and stability in Europe", he warned. "Europe and the world are becoming increasingly aware that the solution for Kosovo and Metohija that is being urged by our government and our leadership is a condition of and prerequisite for peace and stability in Europe", he stressed. "We shall not allow any political solution to the imposed in the form of a fait accompli", he vowed. "We did not defend our country and our freedom against NATO's military intervention only for us to now give a fraction of our territory or our sovereignty to anybody", he said. "Our people, our government which is the expression of the will of the people, will accept nothing that runs counter to Resolution 1244, to the legitimate interests of Serbia and Yugoslavia or to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity", he added. MINISTER MORINA RECEIVED ICRC'S STOCKER BELGRADE, June 29 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav minister for refugee and humanitarian affairs Bratislava Morina on Thursday received Peter G. Stocker, who heads the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Belgrade office. They discussed the position of refugees and internally displaced people in Yugoslavia and ways and means of their repatriation, a government statement said. Morina stressed the importance of the ICRC's role in creating conditions for the repatriation of refugees to Croatia, adding that 300,000 internally displaced people, too, are entitled to return to their homes. She said that the international force KFor and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) in the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija province have so far been silent observers of the suffering of the Serbs. KFor and UNMIK are expected to respect Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity as clearly defined in U.N. Resolution 1244, and secure safety for all in Kosovo and Metohija, she said. Stocker, for his part, offered assurances that the world family of Red Cross societies would show solidarity and help all refugees who return to Croatia. Conditions for their return, according to Stocker, are now more favourable than before, and there is a great interest among Red Cross societies, especially in the Nordic countries, in providing more concrete and regular aid. Speaking about people displaced from Kosovo and Metohija, Stocker said the ICRC was aware that the way to help them is not just to give them relief aid, but to open prospects for them of a future and life in dignity by return them to their homes. LEPOSAVA MILICEVIC APPOINTED YUGOSLAV MINISTER FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS BELGRADE, June 28 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic on Wednesday appointed Leposava Milicevic, outgoing minister of health of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, to be Yugoslavia's minister for religious affairs. The appointment shows the Yugoslav government's resolution to promote cooperation with the church and religious communities, a government statement said. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SERB POLICE IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA'S STRPCE RESIGN STRPCE, June 28 (Tanjug) - Twenty-four Serb policemen on the Kosovo and Metohija force in the U.N.-administered enclave of Strpce resigned on Wednesday and turned in their weapons. To local U.N. Administrator Georges Foyer they gave as their reason that they were unwilling to participate in the farce that is being enacted at the expense of the Serbs, stage-managed by the international community. According to local amateur radio operators' reports, the move was prompted by the recent statement of an international force KFor officer that abducted Serb Bozidar Markocevic had been found alive and was safe at the U.S. Bondsteel base near Urosevac. Markocevic was abducted by ethnic Albanian extremists on June 23, and his mutilated body was found on the slopes of a mountain overlooking Strpce on Tuesday. KFor troops had ignored the request of the Serbs in Strpce to use helicopters in the search for Markocevic's kidnappers and murderers. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS WOUND KFOR SOLDIER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA GNJILANE, June 28 (Tanjug) - An international force KFor soldier in the Serbian U.N.-administered Kosovo and Metohija province was wounded in an ethnic Albanian terrorist bombing in Gnjilane late on Tuesday, according to reports on Wednesday. The terrorists threw a grenade in the street between the homes of the prominent Serb families Djordjevic and Maksimovic in Gnjilane, east Kosovo and Metohija, and the KFor soldier happened to be near the place of the explosion. Amateur radio operators said shell fragments of the fragmentation bomb hit the solder in an arm and a leg, inflicting slight injuries, while dozens of deadly fragments embedded themselves in his flak jacket, which saved him from certain death. The bomb was thrown minutes before a curfew, when there was nobody but KFor troops in the streets. The perpetrators managed to escape, and an investigation is in progress. The purpose of the attack seems to be to intensify pressure on prominent Serbs. In an earlier attack, an elder member of the Maksimovic family was killed. About a fortnight ago, U.S. KFor troops resumed round-the-clock manning of a checkpoint near the homes of the Djordjevic and Maksimovic families, after two nearby Serb homes were torched. KOSOVO ALBANIANS AGAINST KFOR PRISTINA, June 29 (Tanjug) - For the first time since the arrival of international forces KFOR in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province (June 10, 1999), ethnic Albanians protested against this foreign presence, although they had enthusiastically welcomed the foreign troops on their arrival. The protest was in reaction to a KFOR action in mid-June in the central area of Drenica, when large quantities of concealed arms were discovered. The ensuing investigation showed that the weapons had belonged to the allegedly disbanded ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). KFOR spokesman Rune Haarstad said about 1,000 demonstrators blocked the road Glogovac-Pec near Lapusnica with trucks late Tuesday. They carried posters with slogans "KFOR get out of Kosovo" and "The weapons belong to Albanians," he said. NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS RUSSIAN STATE DUMA URGES CLOSER TIES WITH YUGOSLAVIA MOSCOW, June 28 (Tanjug) - The Russian State Duma (lower house) on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution asking the parliaments of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) states to help lift anti-Yugoslav economic sanctions. The document "On measures for consolidating relations between the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" notes that Yugoslavia has been experiencing an economic catastrophe as the result of last year's NATO aggression and the sanctions. It adds it is deplorable that a number of North American and Western European countries have clamped economic sanctions on Yugoslavia with the purpose of ousting its legitimately elected government. The Duma deputies ask the head of state to implement consistently a policy conducive to promoting Russian-Yugoslav cooperation in all fields and help activate the process of rapprochement between the Russia-Belarus Union and Yugoslavia. Recalling that Russia openly condemned the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the deputies note with regret that the situation in the Serbian U.N.-administered Kosovo and Metohija province and around Yugoslavia remains abnormal since the end of the air strikes. They especially note that, despite U.N. decisions, efforts to detach Kosovo and Metohija from Yugoslavia are continuing, and in this context demand a consistent implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244 which guarantees Yugoslavia's territorial integrity. DUTCH PEACE FOUNDATION CALLS TO TASK THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR NATO CRIMES BELGRADE, June 29 (Tanjug) - Dutch peace foundation for international cooperation Global Reflexion President Nico Varkevisser said on Wednesday in a talk with Tanjug Director and Editor-in-Chief Dusan Djordjevic that this foundation demands the immediate lifting of sanctions against Yugoslavia in contacts with different figures and political organizations. Another foundation activity is calling to task the Netherlands government and army for their participation in the crimes committed by NATO in Yugoslav territory last year. A process is under way at an Amsterdam court, filed by a group of lawyers against the Dutch prime minister, defense minister and the Dutch Army. The verdict is expected on July 6, Varkevisser said. Charges include the bombing of the Serbian Radio Television RTS building, since the Dutch prime minister had personally urged this operation on national television, he said. The charges brought by the foundation also pertain to the Dutch Army and are based on testimonies by citizens of Orahovac, Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, and their objections to the behaviour of international force KFOR Dutch troops, which they qualified as racist. The troops are keeping Serbs in a ghetto in this town, and have not provided any protection for them, contrary to promises, Varkevisser said. The aggression against Yugoslavia was not only a crime against the Yugoslav people, but also a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter, the creation of a lawless European jungle through such massive propaganda that reporters all over the world became aware of this, Varkevisser said. It has become clear today at symposiums and conferences on the position of media in the world that the reporting profession is in a crisis, since it had been possible to see the extent of the domination of the propaganda of NATO's strategy for the 21st century in the case of the aggression on Yugoslavia, he said. CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE FOR THE YUGOSLAV PEOPLE LAUNCHED IN BRITAIN LONDON, June 29 (Tanjug) - Three British humanitarian organizations on Wednesday launched a campaign for justice for the people of Yugoslavia, which demands the lifting of all sanctions against Yugoslavia and bringing to court all those who led the 1999 NATO aggression on that country. It was announced at a press conference at the House of Lords yesterday that the campaign is waged by the humanitarian organizations Christians Against NATO Aggression (CANA), Justin, and Planning for Peace. In addition to the immediate lifting of all sanctions against Yugoslavia, the organizations demand that the western leaders who led the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia be brought to court, CANA founder and Director William Spring said. All those who had a crucial influence on the aggression should also be tried, he said. This especially pertains to William Walker, the former head of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, who is said to have been the CIA brain behind the aggression, he said. The humanitarian organizations will also file individual charges in order to attract the attention of the British public since the British press is persistently ignoring the tragic consequences of the NATO aggression. FROM DOMESTIC PRESS "POLITIKA": WHOSE ORDERS IS FOLLOWING CARLA DEL PONTE BELGRADE - In the beginning her duty was to regularly water the flowers in the office and then, unusually quickly, she was promoted to the post of the first woman Public Prosecutor, much more powerful than her predecessor Venery Kwadry. The Swiss weekly magazine "Ebdo" underlined this fact in its 29 issue published on 20 July 1995 by presenting her to its readers as an "Iron Lady" of the Swiss Administration of Justice, underlining this fact even in the subtitle. Carla del Ponte is now Chief Prosecutor of The Hague Tribunal, a Swiss replacing Luiz Arbour of Canada last year. Even before she was appointed The Hague Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte was well-known in her country and forced to face the challenges which naturally follow public and overexposed personalities. According to the Swiss press she is a divorcee, with a son, who invested all energies and time to her work, efficiently and swiftly, not sparing either herself or others. Was this really the case? An answer to this question is negative and the least the lady in question deserves is an attribute of "Iron Lady" since it turns out that she is very principally unprincipled, which is demonstrated best, as it seems, in an Article published in weekly "Ebdo", six years ago on 30 June. In an extensive article entitled "Confusing Silence" the weekly reported and described in detail the situation when the Swiss Public Prosecutor Carla del Ponte was a guest on a TV program "Rundschau" and had to answer some unpleasant questions about her professional work, posed by famous Swiss reporter Frank Garbelli. Focusing on some suspicious moves, to say the least, that Carla del Ponte made as a Public Prosecutor concerning the affairs of a colossal, international and even planetary proportions, which resulted, one would say, in "Managed pacification", in his show Frank Garbelli nevertheless managed to cut her to her real size i.e. he managed to make her portray herself as a flexible lawyer rather than one of firm convictions. In any case, iron is out of the question. The journalist made his guest ill at ease by asking her questions about the three big affairs, i.e. three investigations that Carla del Ponte participated in and dropped unobtrusively, leaving behind just a - great suspicion. "Fimo" is a great Swiss financial institution with its headquarters in Chiasso which was, in February 1991, involved in the affair of confiscation of ship "Big John", on which the Palermo police found six hundred kiloes of cocaine. Investigation was conducted in Italy, Belgium, France and SAD and resulted, inter alia, in the arrest of the top official of internationally famous "Schneider" company, owned by Didier-Pinault Valenciennes. One of the crucial personalities connected to the affair was Giuseppe Lotizzi who, mostly in Switzerland, managed in a very short time to "launder" a few million dollars proving in the investigation pursued by the Swiss its connections with mafia and 600 kiloes of cocaine seized on the "Big John". For his proven involvement in a drug smuggling attempt Lotizzi was convicted to twenty years imprisonment by the Palermo Court. Although Lotizzi presented evidence to the Public Prosecutor Carla del Ponte on the involvement of the Swiss company "Fimo" in drug confiscation on the ship "Big John", all top personalities from the Swiss financial institution, according to the Decision of Carla del Ponte, were acquitted. Earlier, the Chairman of "Fimo" company was Venerio Kvadri whom Carla del Ponte replaced. To the direct question of Frank Garbelli to the effect why she suddenly gave up the investigation and thus took "Fimo" off the hook, Carla del Ponte, until then self-assured, became according to "Ebdo", insecure and confused". " There was no evidence and since nothing could be proved the investigation should have been closed", said Mrs del Ponte. "Nevertheless", Garbelli was very persistent, "Giussepe Lotizzi was seriously punished in Palermo on the basis of documents which you yourself presented. Why was then the investigation against "Fima" dropped? Carla del Ponte's answer to this question was: "I wish I could answer your question but I can't since my function implies that privileged information may not be disclosed". Carla del Ponte did not feel comfortable either when journalist Garbelli reminded her of her role, uncleared so far, concerning the fate of a Swiss police officer Faust Kataneo. Kataneo was considered one of the most capable persons in his country, since he managed to infiltrate his men in mafia network from the Colombian cartel and that thanks to that he enabled the arrest of Magarian brothers, as well as of a son of notorious Colombian mobster Pablo Escobar. This Swiss police officer won the confidence of the Colombian narco cartel and as such, was tasked by his "friends# to personally "launder " their money and also take part in the shipment of five tonnes of cocaine to Europe. This was a huge operation of the Swiss police, but according to "Ebdo" it was way too big for tiny Switzerland. Therefore, at the initiative of police officer Faust Kataneo, in Bern, he organized a secret meeting of specialized police officers from Great Britain, France, Italy and Brazil. Then, to the astonishment of many present there, the Swiss discovered that in the job prepared by the Colombian cartel also directly involved were some French and Brazilian police officers, who according to Kataneo were at the pay role of Colombians. Annoyed, the French immediately discarded the allegations of the Swiss police officer, accusing him at the same tine of corruption. The Swiss immediately suspended him and as a result, nothing came out from the disclosure of a great mafia connection concerning the forthcoming "great shipment" of drugs. Although some MPs from the ranks of Carla del Ponte's Socialist Party of Switzerland in this connection asked for an explanation, she never gave one. Syndicalist and an MP of the Socialist Party Giuseppe Sergi, who according to weekly "Ebdo" asked for extensive investigation concerning abandoning persecution of the Colombian mafia men and their partners in Europe. He accused, first of all, the State prosecutor of that. "Just for doing what she was, Carla del Ponte prevented an investigation which would otherwise enable the identification of people of Silvio Berslusconi to whom was one portion of the drugs intended." The third sin, according to journalist Franco Garbelli, burdening the soul of Carla del Ponte is known as "Tognioli" case. This is yet again mafia affair, involving drugs and money laundering. In talks with the above journalist, one Italian judge directly, without second thoughts, accused Carla del Ponte that as a State Prosecutor, she cut a deal with a mobster Olivier Tognioli, enabling him to immediately, after leaving the Swiss jail, get away, although Italy issued an APB for him. Asked to comment whether that was true, Carla del Ponte responded: "I never cut deals with the indicted"." According to weekly "Ebdo" Italy is still looking for the mobster who was allegedly enabled to escape from Switzerland thanks to Carla del Ponte. "The investigation carried out by journalist Frank Garbelli", "Ebdo" says "pushes to the forefront the issues that cannot be answered". The weekly, then concluded its assessment of TV show "Rundschau", indicating the "dark zones" hovering around Carla del Ponte. These are, according to the weekly, sudden disruption of an important investigation and freeing without investigation the people from the financial institution "Fimo", stopping of another investigation which could have ended in identification and arrest of many mobsters and their accomplices and ultimately, by sudden disappearance of a mobster looked after in Italy. "There is too many confusing questions for a woman at such a high post", ends the text of weekly "Ebdo": __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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