> >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > >Belgrade Says West's Isolation Bid Has Failed > > BELGRADE, Jul 12, 2000 -- (Reuters) >Belgrade's foreign minister said on Friday > the West's bid to isolate Yugoslavia >and strangle its economy had failed and world > support for the government was >growing, state news agency Tanjug reported. > > "Yugoslavia's ties and cooperation >with three-quarters of the world's nations, > which accept it as a valid, reliable >and equal partner, and its achievements in > reconstruction and development both >testify to this," Zivadin Jovanovic said. > > The United States and most Western >nations withdrew diplomats from Belgrade > last year before NATO launched air >strikes on Yugoslavia over its repression of > majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. > > Yugoslav President Slobodan >Milosevic's Socialist-led regime embarked on a > heavily-publicized reconstruction >campaign after the air war damaged much of the > country's infrastructure. > > "We never begged around for help. We >did not waste time hoping for help from > abroad. Our future is not in the >hands of the European Union, NATO or any other > foreign factor, but in our own >hands," Jovanovic said. > > High-ranking delegations from >Brazil, China, Iraq, Myanmar and Russia are among > those that recently visited >Belgrade. > > "If the philosophy of sanctions and >isolation has helped in any way then it is in > raising awareness that nothing >positive can be achieved in southeast Europe > without Yugoslavia's equal >participation as a key economic, political and >security > factor in the region," Jovanovic >said. > > Yugoslavia maintains diplomatic >relations with 166 countries and has other > government offices in 97 countries. >There are 70 foreign embassies in Belgrade. Connectivity: Illuminati Online __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
