BELGRADE, 2 July 2000 C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC OFFERS FELICITATIONS TO POLAND'S BARTOSZEWSKI - YUGOSLAV-IRAQI COMMITTEE LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR GREATER COOPERATION F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNITED NATIONS - YUGOSLAV U.N. AMBASSADOR: KFOR AND UNMIK HAVE NOT DONE THEIR JOB F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - DIASPORA - EXPATRIATE SERBS CALL FOR END TO CRIMES IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM - ETHNIC ALBANIANS MURDERED 82-YEAR-OLD SERB FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FOREIGN MINISTER JOVANOVIC OFFERS FELICITATIONS TO POLAND'S BARTOSZEWSKI BELGRADE, July 1 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has sent a message of felicitations to his Polish colleague Wladyslaw Bartoszewski on his appointment to the post. The message expresses conviction that relations between Yugoslavia and Poland will develop to mutual benefit and in the spirit of friendship between the nations. YUGOSLAV-IRAQI COMMITTEE LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR GREATER COOPERATION BELGRADE, July 2 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav-Iraqi Committee on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation held its 18th session in Belgrade on Sunday, signing a protocol laying the groundwork for further intensifying bilateral cooperation. The protocol was signed by the Committee's co-chairmen, Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Trade Borislav Vukovic and Iraqi Minister of Trade Mohammed Mehdi Saleh. Saleh told a news conference after the meeting the Committee had agreed about expanding and deepening cooperation between the two friendly states. He went on to say that special attention was devoted to Iraq's imports from Yugoslavia under the U.N. Security Council's Oil for Food Memorandum. The programme envisages for a wide range of products for feeding the people, medicine, agricultural machinery and equipment and other goods having to do with agricultural production, according to Saleh. He specified that Iraq plans to import from Yugoslavia lorries, freight and food transport vehicles, building materials for residential facilities, water and electricity supply systems, medical and school supplies. Vukovic, in turn, stressed the Committee had defined long-term priorities of cooperation for after the lifting of anti-Iraqi sanctions which, according to him, is soon to be expected. "We are moving in the direction of signing accords within the Oil for Food Programme in order to give a new impact to our economic cooperation already at this time", he said. He explained he was speaking primarily of trade, but that this created conditions for further promoting economic cooperation through building construction projects, technology transfers and joint production in Iraq. F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNITED NATIONS YUGOSLAV U.N. AMBASSADOR: KFOR AND UNMIK HAVE NOT DONE THEIR JOB NEW YORK, July 1 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia has again drawn the U.N. Security Council's attention to the latter's responsibility and blame for the tidal wave of terrorism which is not abating in U.N.-administered Kosovo and Metohija. The violence gives the lie to the picture painted and claims made by the international force (KFor) and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) of their alleged successful operation in that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. The incontrovertible fact that KFor and UNMIK have not done their job under U.N. Resolution 1244 was drawn to the attention of Council President Jean David Levitte of France in Friday's letter from Yugoslavia's U.N. Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic. Jovanovic also again protested being denied the chance to address a recent Security Council session. Appended to the letter was a lengthy list of atrocities committed by ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija over the month beginning May 24 and ending June 26, 2000. A copy of the letter has been sent to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. The integral text of the letter follows: "Excellency, "I have been instructed by my Government to bring to your attention the escalation of terrorism and violence in Kosovo and Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia, as well as pressure and harassment against the Serbs and other non-Albanians, especially in the areas from which a large number of them has already been expelled. Particularly gruesome instances of atrocities have been the killing of people on the doorstep of their homes or in the field during agricultural works, stealing of livestock and attacks on economic establishments, all of them aimed at forcing the Serbs and other non-Albanians to leave their ancestral homes and Kosovo and Metohija altogether. "The Kosovo Force (KFOR) and the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) have failed to create minimum security conditions for Serbs and other non-Albanians. Their freedom of movement is extremely limited in which way they are denied the basic preconditions for the exercise of any other right. Enclaves in which they live, roads within and between them and convoys providing humanitarian aid to the enclaves are increasingly becoming targets of terrorist attacks even though they are supposedly provided security by KFOR and UNMIK. In the past two months, no case of terrorist attack has been solved and no perpetrator apprehended. No instigator or organizer behind those attacks has been discovered, either. Instead, KFOR and UNMIK blockade Serbian and non-Albanian enclaves and disrupt communications between them, arrest Serbs only on false reports of Albanians, often seizing them from hospital beds, and even open fire on frightened and exasperated Serbs protesting their situation. "The symbols of Serbian presence in Kosovo and Metohija, such as Orthodox churches, monasteries and other cultural and religious shrines are also targets of terrorist attacks. About 100 of them have been looted, burned or destroyed. A glaring example of the modern-day vandalism was the mortar attack on the Decani monastery, the treasure of Serbian religion and culture, in the night between 21 and 22 June. "Excellency, "Against the background of these atrocities, reports are being submitted on the alleged successes of the United Nations mission in Kosovo and Metohija. It is claimed that the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has been demilitarised and disarmed at the time when large caches of heavy weapons, like the one in the village of Klecka, are being discovered or when a fierce mortar attack on the Decani monastery is being carried out. It is also claimed that security is being improved as Albanian extremists step up their terrorist activities aimed at completing the ethnic cleansing of the remaining Serbs and non-Albanians. Also, the calls of the leaders of ethnic Albanians to tolerance and co-existence in the circumstances ring very hollow indeed. "The atrocities are taking place at the time when the Security Council is debating and deciding the future of the international presences in Kosovo and Metohija and when measures are being taken to hold local elections despite the absence of the most elementary conditions for such elections. In those conditions and short of a full and consistent implementation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999, the holding of local elections in Kosovo and Metohija is unacceptable for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. "Excellency, "I recall that, upon instructions of my Government, I have written to the Security Council on a number of occasions to bring to its attention the disastrous situation in Kosovo and Metohija and to request a meeting to consider the situation. Yet, I have been denied even a courtesy reply and the Security Council has taken no measure whatsoever to stamp out and reverse the lamentable course of events even though, under the provisions of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its former decisions, it is responsible for the situation in that southern province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia. "In enclosing a short overview of terrorist acts committed by the members of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo and Metohija from 24 May to 26 June 2000, I kindly request your assistance in having it circulated, alongside the present letter, as a document of the Security Council. "Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration." "TERRORIST ACTS COMMITTED BY THE TERRORISTS OF THE SO-CALLED KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA, THE AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE OF THE YUGOSLAV CONSTITUENT REPUBLIC OF SERBIA, BETWEEN 24 MAY AND 26 JUNE 2000 1. Murder of Vladimir Ilic, 50, at his doorstep at Vitina on 24 May; 2. Attack on Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, Municipality of Lipljan, on 26 May, on which occasion 4 Serbs were gravely wounded; 3. Throwing of a hand grenade on a Serbian cafe at Bresje on 26 May, on which occasion 5 Serbs were gravely wounded; 4. Setting a fire in the Trepca complex in southern Kosovska Mitrovica on 26 May which caused enormous material damage; 5. Attack on a group of Serbs in front of a store in the village of Cernica, Municipality of Gnjilane, on 28 May, on which occasion Tihomir Trifunovic, Vojin Vasic and the 5-year Milos Petrovic were killed and two other Serbs were gravely wounded; 6. Armed attacks on a local police patrol in the village of Konculj on 23 and 24 May and a mortar attack on the members of local police in the village of Lucane on 30 May; 7. Attack on Serbs in the village of Klokot, Municipality of Vitina, on 31 May on which occasion Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and another 3 Serbs were gravely wounded; 8. Murder of Milutin Trajkovic, 33, in the village of Babin Most, Municipality of Obilic, on 31 May; 9. Murder of Iso Heta, a retired member of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serba, end of May; 10. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of Djordje Velickovic at Obilic on 1 June, on which occasion Misko Todorovic was gravely wounded; 11. Killing of two Serbs, Sinisa Dimic and Vlastimir Milic, and wounding of three other Serbs, two of them underage children, in an automobile which ran over an anti-tank mine planted by Albanian terrorists the night before on the road between the Serbian villages of Ugljari and Preoce near Pristina on 2 June; 12. Burning a number of Serbian houses in Prizren and Decani on 3 June; 13. Continued arbitrary arrests of Serbs by KFOR and UNMIK of which one of the most drastic examples was the arrest of Nebojsa Stojanovic, 30, at Gracanica on 7 June, who was apprehended while in an intensive care unit following a serious injury sustained after KFOR opened automatic fire at Serbs protesting the terror of the so-called Kosvoo Liberation Army; 14. Brutal attack and wounding of Jovan Cerovic, 55, by 10 terrorists with clubs at Obilic on 8 June; 15. Burning of a number of Serbian houses at Obilic on 9 June; 16. Anduction of Safet Pucurica, 37, from Kosovska Mitrovica, on the road Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica on 10 June; 17. Armed attack on an automobile driven by 4 Goranci near Orcus, Municipality of Gora, on 9 June on which occasion one of them was wounded; 18. Burning of Serbian houses at Obilic and the dynamiting of Roma houses in the village of Novo Rujce, Municipality of Lipljan, on 10 June; 19. Setting a fire in the Serbian restaurant "Lotos" on 10 June; 20. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Orahovac on 12 and 13 June; 21. Mortar attack on Serbian houses at Obilic on 14 June; 22. Abduction of a 14-year girl in Pristina on 14 June; 23. Killing of Zlatibor Denic and Borko Filipovic and the wounding of Dejan Filipovic, who lost his both arms and legs, in an automobile which ran over an anti-tank mine planted by the terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army on the road between the villages of Preoce and Lepina on 15 June; 24. Attack on humanitarian convoys headed to Strpce in the villages of Radivojce and Pozarane on 30 May and 16 June; 25. Mortar attack on the Decani monastery near Pec, built in 1335, which is one of the treasures of Serbian cultural heritage, housing frescoes of great value and a large number of manuscripts and icons in the night between 21 and 22 June; 26. Throwing of a hand grenade on the house of Toma Ivkovic in Gnjilane on 21 June, on which occasion Mr. Ivkovic's mother was wounded; 27. Brutal abduction of Vlada, 80, and Persa, 50, Miletic in the village of Mali Trnovac, Municipality of Bujanovac, on 21 June. Their fate is unknown; 28. Abduction of Bozidar Markovic, 60, in the village of Susice, Municipality of Strpci, on 23 June; 29. Abduction of 14-year Jovica Milic in the village of Susice, Municipality of Stprce, on 24 June, while tending his herd. He managed to escape, sustaining serious injuries and psychological stress; 30. Mortar attack on Serbian houses in the village of Velika Hoca, Municipality of Orahovac, on 24 June; 31. Abduction of Tomislav Markovic on the Podujevo-Pristina road on 24 June; 32. Murder of Kica Milanovic, 50, on his doorstep at Kosovo Polje on 25 June; and 33. Attempt to abduct Milorad Soric in front of his house in Orahovac on 26 June, on which occasion he was seriously injured." F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - DIASPORA EXPATRIATE SERBS CALL FOR END TO CRIMES IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BELGRADE, July 2 (Tanjug) - The expatriate Serbs' Central Council for Germany on Saturday appealed to the people in Germany and the rest of the world to take resolute action to put an end to crimes and to the abortive U.N. missions in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province. This, as stressed in the appeal, would enable the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian police, acting in line with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, to secure Yugoslavia's internationally recognised borders, peace, order, and safety for all in the province. The Council said this would create the necessary conditions for a safe and unimpeded return of all displaced and expelled people. Also, this would make it possible to open a process of political settlement of the autonomous province's problems in a way that would guarantee its multicultural, multiconfessional and multiethnic character and full equality of its people. The Council said it wished to draw the attention of all people of good will in Germany and the world that, a year into their presence in Kosovo and Metohija, the international force (KFor) and the U.N. mission (UNMIK) have shown they are both unable and unwilling to put a stop to daily murders, and restore law, order and safety. The Council said it was speaking on behalf of more than 700,000 Serbs and other Yugoslavs who have been living and working in Germany for decades. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIANS MURDERED 82-YEAR-OLD SERB GNJILANE, Serbia, July 2 (Tanjug) - Four armed ethnic Albanians murdered an 82-year-old Serb as he was tending his cattle in a field outside his village in the Serbian (Yugoslav) U.N.-administered Kosovo and Metohija province on Saturday, according to reports. The Serbian Church Council in nearby Gnjilane said the Serb, Sava Stojkovic, was murdered outside his village of Gornji Livoc, where he was tending his herd with six other Serbs, when they were set upon by four armed ethnic Albanians trying to steal their cattle. His younger companions escaped, but Stojkovic stayed with his cattle and was mown down by a burst from an attacker's automatic weapon and killed on the spot. After the attack, the attackers escaped without taking the cattle. The international force (KFor) inspected the scene of the crime 15 minutes later. The Serbian Church Council quotes unofficial reports to the effect that the attackers have been apprehended and are from the same village as Stojkovic, the latest victim of ethnic Albanian terrorism. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
