BELGRADE, 12 July 2000 MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY MILOSEVIC EXTENDS FELICITATIONS ON MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY BULATOVIC EXTENDS FELICITATIONS ON MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY GEN. PAVKOVIC EXTENDS CONGRATULATIONS ON MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA MILUTINOVIC INAUGURATES BELGRADE-PANCEVO HIGHWAY SERBIAN PARLIAMENT HOLDS EMERGENCY SESSION YUGOSLAV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT RECEIVES CZECH AMBASSADOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN SLAIN BY COMPATRIOT KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR KFOR TROOPS PREVENT REGULAR BURIAL OF SERB WOMAN FROM FOREIGN PRESS GERMAN MEDIA ON VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA E.U. SANCTIONS ARE A FIASCO MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY MILOSEVIC EXTENDS FELICITATIONS ON MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY BELGRADE, July 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has extended cordial felicitations to Montenegrin citizens on the occasion of July 13 - Uprising Day of the Montenegrin people. "The people of Montenegro rose against fascism on July 13, 1941, and, together with patriots of other Yugoslav people, won a victory over the fascist forces of occupation and their domestic helpers. With massive participation and courage in the ranks of the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, Montenegrin veterans made a great contribution to our country's liberation in the Second World War. "I wish to the Montenegrin people to continue with success to wage the struggle for freedom, national dignity, against fascism, for a common life with Serbia, for a happy life in Yugoslavia," said President Milosevic. BULATOVIC EXTENDS FELICITATIONS ON MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY BELGRADE, July 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic has extended cordial felicitations to Montenegrin citizens on the occasion of July 13 - Uprising Day of the Montenegrin people, on behalf of the federal government and in his own name. The note said: "The uprising of July 13 is a brilliant example of the Montenegrins' ancestral struggle for freedom, and against any force or injustice, no matter how powerful it is at present. The general popular anti-fascist uprising in Montenegro will remain a lasting model for present and future generations in their aspirations toward freedom. "On this occasion, once again, I reiterate best wishes for the successful overall development of the Republic of Montenegro and for a peaceful, richer and happier life of all its citizens, and for the strengthening and prosperity of our common state - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." GEN. PAVKOVIC EXTENDS CONGRATULATIONS ON MONTENEGRIN UPRISING DAY BELGRADE, July 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff, Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic on Wednesday sent a note of congratulations to veteran organization SUBNOR Montenegrin Committee President Bosko Golovic on the occasion of July 13 - Uprising Day of the Montenegrin people in WWII. The note, addressed to veterans of the National Liberation Wars and all citizens, said the Yugoslav Army, as a joint armed force of all Yugoslav citizens, would continue unwaveringly to protect and develop the values selflessly created over centuries by the country's most glorious generations. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA MILUTINOVIC INAUGURATES BELGRADE-PANCEVO HIGHWAY BELGRADE, July 12 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Milan Milutinovic inaugurated on Tuesday the modern section of the Belgrade-Pancevo highway, and the intersection at the Pancevo Bridge on the outskirts of Belgrade, pointing out that this is the first development project to be completed in Serbia. In his address to tens of thousands of people who rallied at the Pancevo Bridge, Milutinovic said that Yugoslavs are now building the foundations of their future, which depends on their performance. The recent constitutional amendments will have a vast influence on the future of Yugoslavia, as they guarantee further stabilization of the country and its democratic development, giving all citizens the ultimate chance to directly elect the highest posts in the federal administration, added Milutinovic. "In short, the people should be able to make all the decisions themselves, and this is the most democratic way of making decisions. Not only do reconstruction and development, but also reforms in all areas, especially in the political one, provide an opportunity for a better future and for the welfare of all our citizens," said Milutinovic. SERBIAN PARLIAMENT HOLDS EMERGENCY SESSION BELGRADE, July 12 (Tanjug) - The Serbian Parliament held its first emergency session on Wednesday to consider a number of bills presented by the Republican Government. The agenda includes a very important draft law on sales of certain state-owned real estate. This act would secure preconditions for the Republic meeting its obligations stemming from hard currency savings accounts of citizens and a Loan for Economic Development. MPs will also discuss a draft law on the first issue of long-term bonds by the Republic of Serbia, and a draft law on public companies and on activities of general interest. The six-item agenda includes draft amendments to the laws on concessions and sales tax, communal taxes and compensation, as well as on animal welfare. During the morning sitting, MPs voted on appointments of several judges of the Serbian Supreme Court, district, municipal and commercial courts, and prosecutors. At the proposal of Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic, Parliament relieved Health Minister Leposava Milicevic of her office, as she has been appointed Federal Religions Minister. Deputy Premier Milovan Bojic has been appointed Health Minister, and Katarina Lazovic new Education Minister to replace Milivoje Simonovic, who was killed in a road accident last month. YUGOSLAV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT RECEIVES CZECH AMBASSADOR BELGRADE, July 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce President Mihailo Milojevic received Czech Ambassador Ivan Busniak in a farewell visit in Belgrade on Wednesday. In lengthy and friendly talks, Milojevic and Busniak analyzed the achieved level of economic cooperation between the two countries in the past five years. Expressing gratitude for his contribution to economic ties between the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia, Milojevic said he hoped Busniak was leaving confident that "Yugoslavia is a serious country which wants open cooperation with everyone on an equal basis." Busniak thanked Milojevic for the role he had personally played in the establishment of economic contacts and relations between the two countries, in particular in the closer linking of the two chambers of commerce. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN SLAIN BY COMPATRIOT GNJILANE, July 12 (Tanjug) - In the ethnic Albanian-populated village of Velekinac near the town of Gnjilane, an ethnic Albanian was murdered by his compatriot, said Gnjilane Committee for Civil Rights and Protection on Tuesday, quoting a KFOR officer. According to his statement, the murderer was caught and detained immediately. The Committee says that instant arrests of ethnic Albanian criminals and murderers who committed offenses against their compatriots have became a quite regular practice for KFOR and the UNMIK police, as opposed to those cases in which Serbs, or other non-Albanians, are the victims. The mentioned officer said on Tuesday that house searches in several villages of the Gnjilane municipality resulted in the seizure of 26 handguns, 31 hand-grenades, 240 other items, and 2,700 pieces of ammunition. He added that those who possessed the weapons were detained. There have been unofficial claims that another ethnic Albanian was killed in a blaze that broke out in a depot situated by the road connecting Gnjilane and Pristina on Monday. Two nearby houses caught fire and collapsed, despite a quick reaction from the fire brigades of Gnjilane and Pristina, says the Committee statement. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR KFOR TROOPS PREVENT REGULAR BURIAL OF SERB WOMAN PRISTINA, July 12 (Tanjug) - Dragica Zivanovic, a Serb woman who died in Besinje village, municipality of Pristina, on Monday, was buried in her back yard because international force KFOR troops refused to provide an escort for the funeral procession to take the body to the nearby Orthodox cemetery, amateur radio operators reported from Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province late on Tuesday. Ethnic Albanian extremists daily provoke and attack Serbs in Besinje. About eight Serb families remain in the village, mostly elderly people who did not want to leave their ancestral homes. The ethnic Albanian terrorists have stolen all agricultural machinery from the Serb families, so that they cannot work their farms. KFOR do not guarantee the Serbs' safety even on special occasions, such as funerals, said the sources. FROM FOREIGN PRESS GERMAN MEDIA ON VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BERLIN, July 12 (Tanjug) - Crime and violence in Kosovo and Metohija cast a very deep shadow on the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which has been officially, but only formally, disbanded, and actually transformed into the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps, a civilian body which should provide help for the population in the event of natural disasters and contribute to the renewal of the southern Serbian province, the Berlin daily Die Welt and Germany's national news agency DPA said on Tuesday in extensive reports from Pristina. Both media reported about concrete cases of violence by members of the KLA, their arbitrariness and terrorism aimed against Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija. KLA members pass sentence on those who think differently by summary procedure, while hiding murderers from among their own ranks, the DPA said in a report about how some 20 ethnic Albanians had prevented U.N. police from arresting an ethnic Albanian terrorist suspected of murder in the town of Decani. The DPA quoted police as saying that terrorists of the KLA manage easily to avoid punishment even when arrested, since judges pass mild sentences, fearing for their own lives. It is a mistake that such a serious and responsible job is given to persons who are unable to do it, an unidentified U.N. diplomat was quoted as commenting on the work of judges in U.N. administered Kosovo and Metohija. E.U. SANCTIONS ARE A FIASCO BRUSSELS, July 12 (Tanjug) - The first E.U. session on Monday, chaired by France, was a confirmation of the great rift between the fifteen countries, over the issue of sanctions against Yugoslavia, say political analysts after the most recent debate on the political situation in western Balkan countries after NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia. Most foreign ministers agree that the sanctions are a fiasco, and reports say, many still consider them totally absurd, urging their lifting. French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, who was Chairman at the Council's session, said that "more and more members of E.U. express considerable scepticism concerning the sanctions against Yugoslavia." Belgium's daily La Libre Belgique says that several ministers had doubts about the efficacy of the sanctions, emphasizing that they are counter-productive, and that they should be reconsidered. The controversial French initiative to organize a summit of the Balkan countries also caused some disagreement among the ministers. The E.U. ministers could not even decide who would attend this summit, or when it would be held. Focusing on the inadequacy of the sanctions, Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowan said that the ordinary people suffered the most. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
