----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] TANJUG NEWS STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM IRAQI VICE-PRESIDENT RECEIVES YUGOSLAV MINISTER BAGHDAD - 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. RUSSIAN PATRIARCH VOICES SUPPORT TO SERBIAN PEOPLE MOSCOW - Kosovo and Metohija is a place where genocide is committed not only against the Serbian people, but also against culture and civilization in general, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexei II said in a special TV appearance late Thursday. The patriarch voiced support to the Serbian people in this southern province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, and their struggle for preserving freedom, dignity and independence. In a show broadcast on Russian TV channel 1, Patriarch Alexei II commented on documentary films on destroyed Orthodox churches in Kosovo and Metohija and other barbaric actions by ethnic Albanian terrorists. The patriarch said the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, was chiefly responsible for the evils committed in the province, which he said has become a center of terrorism, crime and drug smuggling. Patriarch Alexei II also underscored that he would use his influence and try to secure that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov take a more determined stand in providing support to Yugoslavia and the Serbian people. RUSSKAYA GAZETA - NATO RESPONSIBLE FOR DISRESPECT OF RESOLUTION 1244 MOSCOW - Violence against Serbs continues in Kosovo and Metohija and the key articles of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 are not respected, the Russian daily Russkaya Gazeta said on Friday. Serbs are killed in the southern Serbian province simply for being Serbs, the daily said. Even U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan himself had to admit there was an organized campaign to expel Serbs from the province, the article said. Russkaya Gazeta said NATO strategists and politicians were responsible for the lack of respect for the relevant Security Council resolution. In order to realize their strategic goals, they allowed ethnic Albanians to do what they are now doing in Kosovo and Metohija, the daily said. No stories about alleged ethnic cleansing or democratization, or a struggle against the Belgrade authorities "can cover up the main objective to which NATO is aspiring - primarily to impose its own will upon a sovereign state, using violence, when it assaults a part of its territory in spite of the stand of its leadership," Russkaya Gazeta said. HAGUE TRIBUNAL - A CORRUPT INSTITUTION WHICH SHOULD BE BOYCOTTED ROME - When The Hague tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte recently addressed the United Nations Security Council, saying she had decided against opening an investigation into NATO's crimes in Yugoslavia, she made it blatantly obvious that the tribunal is a corrupt institution which should be ignored and boycotted by the governments of all democratic and western countries, Canadian lawyer Michael Mandel said in an interview to the Rome daily Il Manifesto. Mandel has filed charges against 68 NATO leaders for the crimes committed in Yugoslavia. Del Ponte's decision not to open an investigation into NATO's evident crimes in Yugoslavia also inflicted severe damage to international affairs, Mandel said. The tribunal decision annuls the value of all norms which regulate actions in war. It annuls the United Nations Charter, it annuls the Geneva Convention. There remains only the validity and legitimacy of the policy of the strong against the weak, the Canadian lawyer said. Mandel said the alleged humanitarian intervention had in fact been anti-humane, and that last year's aggression on Yugoslavia had been provoked by NATO, in order to make the United Nations lose face, and by the United States in order to test new weapons and prove that it can get away with anything. PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVES IRAQI MINISTER SALEH BELGRADE - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday received co-chairman of the Iraqi-Yugoslav Mixed Committee for Economic, Scientific-Technical and Trade Cooperation, Iraqi Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, who is visiting Yugoslavia for the 18th committee session. Economic cooperation between Yugoslavia ad Iraq is developing intensely and, during the Belgrade session, the sides defined directions in which the common interests of partners of the two countries would further be realized, it was concluded. Yugoslavia and Iraq are determined in their struggle against the policy of hegemony, it was heard in talks. SERBIAN MINISTER SAYS STATE RESOLUTE TO ERADICATE TERRORISM VELIKO GRADISTE - Serbia's interior minister said on Thursday efforts are still being made from abroad to cause disturbances and inculcate distrust in the government, but the state is determined to eradicate crime and terrorism. Vlajko Stojiljkovic was visiting Veliko Gradiste in the east of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. "Terrorism in our country is practiced through the terrorist-fascist organisation Otpor (Resistance) and some non-governmental organisations which are in fact western intelligence outfits. "Our response to these attempts is to mobilise and work harder, so as to raise the living standards of the people," Stojiljkovic said. DRAFTS OF PENAL CODE AMENDMENTS, ANTI-TERRORISM LAW WITHDRAWN BELGRADE - Yugoslav government representative Vladan Kutlesic on Friday informed deputies in both chambers of the federal parliament that the government has taken off the agenda of today's session the draft anti-terrorism law and the draft amendments to the penal code. At the beginning of separate sessions of the chambers, Kutlesic explained the move came after consultations between deputy clubs of the political parties which make up the federal government. The deputy clubs, as well as the parliament working bodies, have given their support in principle to the two drafts, but a series of useful suggestions came up in the debates. Changes should be processed quickly and the drafts sent back to parliament in a few days' time, Kutlesic said. YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION UPHOLDS ANTI-TERRORISM BILL BELGRADE - The Legal Commission of the Yugoslav parliament on Thursday upheld the government's anti-terrorism bill. The commission took the view that Yugoslavia has for more than 10 years been exposed to all kinds of aggression and it is high time legal norms were passed to regulate the matters of state and civic security. Justice Minister Petar Jojic said the government had proposed the bill because of great pressure being brought to bear on Yugoslavia and numerous grave terrorist crimes perpetrated on Yugoslav territory over the past years. These directly jeopardised Yugoslavia's constitutional order and territorial integrity, the integrity of the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, the security of the people and all valuable achievements of the state, Jojic said. In proposing the bill, the government had in mind the wave of violence that is spreading and threatening the security and democratic development of Yugoslavia, he explained. He noted that many countries - such as Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United States - have similar laws, much stricter than the one proposed by the Yugoslav government. He went on to say that the proposed regulations do not infringe on the constitutional rights of the people or threaten their rights and liberties. "With this law, we wish to wage war on terrorism", Jojic said, stressing that it must not be allowed that Yugoslavia should be turned into a rifle range for terrorists. YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL INSISTS SERBS IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA STILL VICTIMISED BELGRADE, June 29 (Tanjug) - Security is a major problem in U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija, with murders, abductions and robberies targetting Serbs and other non-Albanians a daily occurrence, according to a Yugoslav official on Thursday. Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic, who chairs the Yugoslav government's committee liaising with the U.N. mission (UNMIK) to that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, was speaking for Belgrade state radio. "KFor (international force) and UNMIK assure us that they will try everyting and take resolute steps to protect the remaining Serbs adequately. We would like to see this happen, but so far it appears that their steps have been less than successful", Vukicevic said. About 130,000 Serbs remain in Kosovo-Metohija, or barely one-third of the original Serb community, while more than two-thirds of the Serb population have fled, according to Vukicevic. He warned that U.N. Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija is not being consistently implemented in the part where it provides for the safety of the people, securing of peace, stability and safety for all in Kosovo-Metohija. He especially drew attention to violations of the Resolution in the section where it calls for respecting Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and largely blamed UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner for this state of affairs. Vukicevic went on to say that Kouchner has signed a number of decrees which are in direct violation of the Resolution in the section where it guarantees Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. He especially stressed that frequent visits to Kosovo-Metohija by officials of international organisations and foreign states without competent Yugoslav and Serbian authorities' approval violate Yugoslavia's sovereignty and the Vienna diplomatic convention. Speaking about future relations between the Yugoslav liaison committee and the U.N. peace mission to Kosovo-Metohija, he said the Committee plans to establish constructive cooperation with UNMIK and KFor and actively work with them to settle the province's problem. "We have recently even offered to UNMIK an accord on setting up a joint body to examine all questions covered by Resolution 1244, and we hope that UNMIK will correctly interpret our intentions", he said. He explained that the text of the accord should be further coordinated, to provide a basic document for future cooperation between the Yugoslav liaison committee and UNMIK. DES TERRORISTES ALBANAIS ONT DETRUIT L'EGLISE ORTHODOXE DE PODGORCE KOSOVSKA VITINA - Des terroristes albanais ont mine vendredi apres-midi l'eglise orthodoxe de la Sainte Parasceve du village de Podgorce de la commune de Kosovska Vitina, ont rapporte des radioamateurs du Kosovo-Metohija (Kosmet). Cette eglise a deja ete en aout 1999 la cible d'une attaque a l'explosif, mais dans cet dernier attentat elle a ete rasee a terre. Le village de Podgorce a ete multiehnique avant l'arrivee de la KFOR, mais tous les habitants serbes l'avaient quitte encore le 25 juin 1999 devant l'afflut massif des Albanais dechaines. KOSOVO ALBANIANS AGAINST KFOR PRISTINA - 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. They carried posters with slogans "KFOR get out of Kosovo" and "The weapons belong to Albanians," he said. RUSSIAN-YUGOSLAV BUSINESSMEN'S ASSOCIATION FORMED MOSCOW - A Protocol was signed in Moscow on Thursday on setting up a Russian-Yugoslav Businessmen's Association. The main task of the Association is to set up direct contacts and launch concrete projects for promoting economic cooperation between the two countries. The Association was founded by the Yugoslav Council for Management and the Russian Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, whose respective presidents Milija Zecevic and Arkadiy Volsky signed the Protocol. PAVLICEVIC - A GOOD YEAR FOR THE ECONOMY JAGODINA - Serbian Chamber of Commerce President Momir Pavlicevic said on Thursday that the republic's economy was successfully realizing its production plans and that results were better than expected in many companies in the first six months of this year. "It can be expected that the positive trends will continue and, if the planned results in agriculture are realized, this will be one of the best years," Pavlicevic told Tanjug. Pavlicevic said there were serious difficulties in economic relations with the world "since foreign trade is not proceeding as planned because of the pressures on our country." "Our answer to the economic, political and military pressures to which Serbia is unjustly exposed is to work more and produce more," Pavlicevic said. "We have enough strength, knowledge and skill for this," he said, which is proven in the renewal of the traffic and power infrastructure, apartment building and reconstruction of companies damaged in last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia (March-June). ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
