BELGRADE, 7 August 2000 FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS SUPERVISING COMMITTEE HOLDS CONSTITUTIVE SESSION SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ALBANIAN KDI PARTY BLASTS ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS FROM FOREIGN MEDIA BULGARIAN DAILY MONITOR: USA AIDED CROATIA'S ANTI-SERB OFFENSIVE "STORM" * * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS SUPERVISING COMMITTEE HOLDS CONSTITUTIVE SESSION BELGRADE, August 7 (Tanjug) - An elections supervising committee, appointed by the Yugoslav federal parliament on July 25, held its constitutive session on Monday, a parliament statement said. Presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia and local elections in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia have been called for Sept. 24. Chamber of Citizens (lower house) Speaker Milomir Minic said the Committee, composed of figures of high repute and integrity, had been entrusted with supervising the activities of political parties, candidates and media during the election campaign and elections. This completed the setting up of the necessary bodies for holding the polls and created the necessary conditions for a successful, fair and democratic election of a president of state and deputies to both chambers of the Yugoslav federal parliament, Minic said. The committee elected Ivan Radosavljevic, vice dean at the Belgrade University School of Political Sciences, as its chairman. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ALBANIAN KDI PARTY BLASTS ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS PRISTINA, August 7 (Tanjug) - An ethnic Albanian party in Kosovo and Metohija on Monday sharply condemned crimes committed by ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists with the help of the international force KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK. Ethnic Albanian terrorists' attack on Serbian police at the village of Konculj in the Bujanovac municipality on the province's administrative boundary with the rest of Serbia again put human lives at risk and disturbed both local non-Albanians and Albanians. The party, the Kosovo Democratic Initiative (KDI), condemned also the most recent crime, the planting of mines in the village of Donji Alas near Lipljan in this U.N.-administered province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. Five Romanies died in the incident. The KDI urged KFor and UNMIK strictly to respect the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244 or let competent Serbian and Yugoslav authorities deal with the province's problems and put a stop to daily crimes by ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists. "We condemn also all attempts by individual ethnic Albanian extremist leaders to pose as leaders of the entire Albanian nation. "This they are not, because there are other Albanian parties as well, which are working for a multiethnic, multicultural and multireligious Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia and Yugoslavia," the KDI said in its statement. According to the KDI, these individuals are not to be considered as legitimate representatives, and the group of ethnic Albanians and Serbs that recently signed a so-called Declaration on mutual cooperation in Washington falls in this category. FROM FOREIGN MEDIA BULGARIAN DAILY MONITOR: USA AIDED CROATIA'S ANTI-SERB OFFENSIVE "STORM" SOFIA, August 7 (Tanjug) - The USA gave Croatian President Franjo Tudjman the green light for the brutal expulsion of Serbs from the Krajina, a region dominated by Serb population until then, reported on Monday independent Bulgarian daily Monitor, on the 5th anniversary of the Croatian military operation "Storm". With military and political assistance from the USA, 14,000 Serbs were murdered, while 250,000 left their ancestral homes, seeking refuge in FR Yugoslavia, said the daily. Monitor stresses the direct US assistance in the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia. Krajina was a gift for Tudjman for accepting Washington's plan to establish a Muslim-Croat federation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said the daily in a full-page article entitled "Krajina - a Serb Guernica." As early as Nov. 1994, USA and Croatia signed a military accord envisaging the establishment of an US military "operation centre" at the military airbase on the island of Brac. The tactical aspect of the operations was developed there, according to Monitor. Only two months before the Croatian army's crimes in Krajina, the Pentagon signed a contract with a private company of professional military resources, MPRI, on the training of Croatian officers, said the daily, quoting British media reports and statements by the Croatian army. A month before Operation "Storm" (July 1995) US State Secretary Warren Christopher and German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel conferred with Croatian diplomat Miomir Zuzul in London. At this meeting, Croatia was given carte blanche for the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Krajina and Bosnia, Monitor reported. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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