BELGRADE,10 July 200 C O N T E N T S : F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA - MINIC RECEIVES RUSSIAN STATE DUMA DELEGATION - DUMA DELEGATION VISITS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT - DUMA DELEGATION VISITS VOJVODINA PARLIAMENT FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN MILITARY ATTACHES VISIT MILITARY ACADEMY F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RED CROSS - HIGH HUMANITARIAN DELEGATION VISITS YUGOSLAV RED CROSS SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTRA-ETHNIC ALBANIAN CONFLICT BEGINS F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA MINIC RECEIVES RUSSIAN STATE DUMA DELEGATION BELGRADE, July 10 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav parliament's Chamber of Citizens President Milomir Minic received on Sunday a delegation of the International Relations Committee of the Russian Duma, led by Committee President Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, said the Public Relations Office of the Yugoslav parliament on Sunday. The Russian parliamentarians pointed out that the Russian people fully supported the Yugoslavs in the struggle for maintaining their freedom, independence, as well the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia. On behalf of the Russian State Duma, they strongly condemned the Hague Tribunal, as a political instrument of the NATO countries. The Duma MPs called for consistent and full implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, also condemning all kinds of separatism, crime, and ethnic cleansing directed against the non-Albanian population. The Russian Duma urges that any kind of sanctions against Yugoslavia should be lifted, and that Yugoslavia should be allowed to regain the prerogatives regarding its membership in international organizations. In the discussions with the Russian delegation, Minic presented the current political situation in Yugoslavia, as well as the successful reconstruction process after the NATO aggression, and the most recent constitutional changes, the purpose of which is to give the elections for the highest posts a more democratic quality in future, the statement also says. DUMA DELEGATION VISITS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT BELGRADE, July 10 (Tanjug) - Presidents of foreign policy committees of the Yugoslav parliament's Chamber of Citizens and Chamber of Republics Ljubisa Ristic and Tomislav Nikolic, respectively, and their associates, conferred on Sunday with a delegation of the Foreign Policy Committee of the Russian Duma about the topical political situation and the promotion of parliamentary relations between the two countries. It was agreed in the talks that the visit of the four-member Duma delegation, headed by Committee President Dmitri Rogozyn, is further evidence of the very good and successful relations between the Duma and the Yugoslav parliament, and a sign of the support of Russian MPs to Yugoslavia and its struggle for freedom, independence and defense of sovereignty and integrity. The Russian MPs were mostly interested in the Constitution amendments recently adopted by the federal parliament and the current political situation in Yugoslavia. Duma representatives informed Yugoslav MPs about the latest Duma statement which most strongly condemned the one-sidedness and anti-Serb position of The Hague tribunal, which has been transformed into a political instrument of NATO countries. Ristic, an MP of the Yugoslav Left (JUL), informed the Russian MPs about the Constitution amendments. He said they were adopted in the spirit of democratic principles, the further democratization of elections of federal institutions, and the full affirmation of the principles of equality of the citizens of Serbia and Montenegro and the equality of the Yugoslav republics. Nikolic, an MP of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), said the equality of the two republics was guaranteed under the Constitution amendments and that the current Montenegrin regime now cannot block elections for both houses of Yugoslav parliament. DUMA DELEGATION VISITS VOJVODINA PARLIAMENT NOVI SAD, July 10 (Tanjug) - Vojvodina parliament President Zivorad Smiljanic and provincial Executive Committee President Damnjan Radenkovic received a delegation of the Duma Foreign Policy Committee, led by Committee President Dmitri Olegovich Rogozyn, at the provincial parliament in Novi Sad on Sunday. In direct and cordial talks, the Duma MPs were acquainted with the characteristics of Vojvodina province, the devastation there during the 1999 NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, and the process and results of renewal, said a statement by the provincial Information Secretariat. Within the agreed inter-state cooperation, the sides also considered possibilities for cooperation between the northern Serbian province and districts and regions of the Russian Federation. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FOREIGN MILITARY ATTACHES VISIT MILITARY ACADEMY BELGRADE, July 10 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Army's Military Academy Chief, Gen. Momcilo Momcilovic on Monday received military attaches accredited to Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Army Information Service said. Gen. Momcilovic informed the attaches about certain aspects of reorganization of military education, the programs and education conditions for students and professional army members, and the many forms of cooperation between military educational institutions and other academic institutions in the country, the statement said. F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RED CROSS HIGH HUMANITARIAN DELEGATION VISITS YUGOSLAV RED CROSS BELGRADE, July 10 (Tanjug) - A delegation led by Maria Pia Garavaglia, Vice-President of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, also President of the Italian Red Cross, is to begin its four-day visit to the Yugoslav Red Cross, said the Yugoslav Red Cross on Monday. Yugoslav Red Cross Secretary-General Rade Dubajic and Serbian Red Cross Secretary Radmila Cvetkovic, with their colleagues, received the six-member ranking delegation. The issue of their discussions was the realization of the humanitarian programme being carried out by the two national Red Cross organizations in the territories of the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA INTRA-ETHNIC ALBANIAN CONFLICT BEGINS PRISTINA, July 10 (Tanjug) - Ramush Haradinaj, who has been wounded and transfered to a U.S. military hospital in Germany, is the third most important figure in the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, after Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku, and he is the leader of the third-biggest party of Kosovo Albanians. Representatives of the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK in Pristina and the international force KFOR on Monday again failed to give any details about this latest incident, in which Haradinaj was wounded, but the facts are gradually being revealed to the Pristina public. The general conclusion here is that Haradinaj was wounded in a conflict among Kosovo Albanians with a definite political and criminal background. Regarding political reasons, experts on the situation in Pristina and elsewhere in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province claim it is a well-known fact that there is rivalry between Thaci and Haradinaj. Both men are trying to impose themselves as leaders of Kosovo Albanians. It was just a matter of time when their dislike of each other would culminate. The sources said the criminal background was the rivalry between certain bands of Kosovo Albanians not only concerning a division of the spoils from smuggling drugs, weaponry, automobiles and many other things, but also concerning control over smuggling routes into and through this province. Intra-ethnic Albanian conflicts are something new in Kosovo and Metohija, in addition to ethnic Albanian terrorist actions against the KFOR. It is evident that the announced elections are a good opportunity for ethnic Albanian extremists and terrorists to legalize even further their criminal activities in the province. And in all the chaos, everyone is trying to get something for themselves. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
