Yugoslav Daily Survey -------------------------------------------------------------------- BELGRADE, 8 August 2000 F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - IRAN a.. BELGRADE AND TEHERAN REACHED HIGH DEGREE OF ACCORD FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA a.. FOREIGNERS ARRESTED IN MONTENEGRO TRANSFERRED TO BELGRADE b.. YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL OFFICIAL RECEIVED SWISS CHARGE D'AFFAIRES KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM a.. ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS a.. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: KFOR AND UNMIK DO NOT GUARANTEE SERBS PROTECTION NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS a.. GERMAN REPORTER RETURNED TO WORK FROM FOREIGN MEDIA a.. DIE JUNGE WELT: SOVEREIGNTY OF YUGOSLAVIA MUST BE RESPECTED b.. NATIONAL POST: CANADIAN ARRESTED IN YUGOSLAVIA WORKED WITH THACI * * * F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - IRAN BELGRADE AND TEHERAN REACHED HIGH DEGREE OF ACCORD TEHERAN, August 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's deputy foreign minister on Monday gave high marks to the results of his visit to Iran and the degree of accord reached with Iranian partners in talks on nearly all important bilateral and international matters. Zoran Novakovic was speaking at a news conference at the Yugoslav Embassy in Teheran at the close of his several-day visit. Novakovic said the positions he presented on the situation in Yugoslavia and in the region, Yugoslavia's intention to help promote the activities of the non-aligned movement and on the need for reactivating its full membership in the United Nations and other international forums had all been received with understanding in his contacts, especially those at the foreign ministry. According to Novakovic, Iran supports Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in its internal affairs and a consistent implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244 on the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered Kosovo and Metohija province. He especially stressed the shared view that the period of stagnation in bilateral relations is over and that there are no obstacles to relations between the friendly non-aligned states being speedily promoted and attaining, and even surpassing, the old level. Novakovic had frank and cordial talks with Iranian Central Bank Vice Governor M.J. Modjarad, national IRNA news agency Director F. Verdinadjed and Director of the Institute for Political and International Studies S.K. Sajatpur. With the central bank vice governor it was agreed to revive "frozen" banking cooperation as soon as possible, both between the central banks and between the commercial banks in the two countries, as prerequisite for a successful economic cooperation. Earlier on Monday, Novakovic had met with Deputy Economy and Finance Minister Mehdi Navab and aides. The two sides exchanged views on the prospects of intensifying economic cooperation. Navab said the two economies' complementarity opened scope for their trade in the coming period reaching one billion dollars in value. FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA FOREIGNERS ARRESTED IN MONTENEGRO TRANSFERRED TO BELGRADE BELGRADE, August 8 (Tanjug) - The four foreigners, detained in the Andrijevica region, territory of Montenegro, Yugoslavia, were transferred from Podgorica to Belgrade on Tuesday, a Yugoslav Army spokesman told Tanjug. Colonel Svetozar Radisic explained that further proceedings against the detainees would be taken at the Military Court in Belgrade. In the night between Aug 1-2, 2000, within their activities on securing the state border, Yugoslav Army units arrested Britons Adrian Michael Prangnell and John Connon Bradley, and Canadians Chaun Gerald Going and Liam Patrick Hall. YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL OFFICIAL RECEIVED SWISS CHARGE D'AFFAIRES BELGRADE, August 7 (Tanjug) - Borivoje Vukicevic, who heads the Yugoslav Central Electoral Commission, received on Monday Swiss Charge d'Affaires in Belgrade Gaudenz Ruf, at the latter's request, a statement from the Yugoslav parliament said. Vukicevic exhaustively briefed Ruf on upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia, called for Sept. 24. The Central Electoral Commission is a federal body which, in addition to its duties under the law, has the duty to oversee elections, Vukicevic said, adding that the federal parliament had appointed also a supervisory committee for this year's polls. The public is greatly interested in the Sept. 24 parliamentary and presidential elections, and the Central Electoral Commission's work is transparent and the election campaign is followed by media and by foreign observers, it was noted during the meeting. The meeting was attended by First Counsellor at the Swiss Embassy Jean Daniel Ruh and Central Electoral Commission Secretary Milisav Milenkovic. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERB CONVOY PASJANE, August 8 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists fired shots at Serbs travelling late on Monday in a convoy of cars from the south-Serbian town of Presevo to the village of Pasjane, near the town of Gnjilane, situated in the east of the KFOR-administered Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. Serb Ljubisa Cuparevic from the village of Donje Budrige sustained injuries in the incident that occurred near the permanent checkpoint of the KFOR U.S. contingent, local radio operators said. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: KFOR AND UNMIK DO NOT GUARANTEE SERBS PROTECTION PRISTINA, August 8 (Tanjug) - The United Nations military and civilian missions in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR and UNMIK) are incapable of guaranteeing elementary protection to Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija province, the organization Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Monday. This is why the MSF, and in particular its Belgian section, refuses to continue its activities among groups which live in areas surrounded by the majority population. The MSF is withdrawing its staff from such areas, the MSF statement said. The MSF further explained its decision by listing a series of violent methods used by ethnic Albanian terrorists against Serbs and other non-Albanians. MSF teams daily witness abuse and terrorizing of the Serb population in the towns of Vucitrn and Srbica in this southern Serbian province, the statement said. Analysts described the MSF move as unusual and unclear, since UNMIK Kosovo chief Bernard Kouchner was the very person who founded this organizations. NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS GERMAN REPORTER RETURNED TO WORK BERLIN, August 8 (Tanjug) - Reporter Reinhard Baum of southwestern radio SWR of Germany, who had been suspended for calling the 1999 (March-June) NATO aggression on Yugoslavia by its real name, has been returned to work after the Land Court for Professional relations of Baden-Wurttemberg ruled in his favor. In March 1999, a few days before the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia began, Baum reported from Pristina, Serbia's southern Kosovo and Metohija province, about the effects of western propaganda on politics and the so-called and alleged massacre of ethnic Albanians in Racak village, which later international investigations established had never taken place. The invented massacre was used as the immediate pretext for starting the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia on the evening of March 24. Baum was reprimanded for the report, and criticized of being "unacceptably biased" because he "relied on Serb propaganda." In April 1999, Baum reported: "This week of NATO's war of aggression also begins with massive air strikes." Baum was then suspended for using the word "Angriffskrieg" (war of aggression). The court annulled the suspension, saying that SWR leadership had reacted too harshly and that the punished reporter had said nothing but the truth. FROM FOREIGN MEDIA DIE JUNGE WELT: SOVEREIGNTY OF YUGOSLAVIA MUST BE RESPECTED BERLIN, August 8 (Tanjug) - By arresting two Britons and two Canadians in Montenegro, the Yugoslav government has made it clear to the world community that the sovereignty of Yugoslavia is to be respected. The message to the authorities of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro was that the Yugoslav constitution is valid in the territory of Montenegro as well, reported on Monday Berlin's left-wing daily Die Junge Welt. As in every legal state, the judicial system will decide whether the detainees are spies or not, the daily said. "Regardless of the court's decision, the arrest of the four suspects, carried out by the federal army, is a hard blow to the prestige of Montenegro's government. Supported by the anti-Yugoslav cartel, Podgorica has developed a habit of violating not only the Yugoslav, but the Montenegrin constitution as well," the daily said. NATIONAL POST: CANADIAN ARRESTED IN YUGOSLAVIA WORKED WITH THACI MONTREAL, August 8 (Tanjug) - The Canadian daily National Post said in a report on Monday that one of the two Canadians arrested by the Yugoslav Army recently in northeastern Montenegro had closely collaborated with the terrorist organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army, and its leader Hashim Thaci. Arrested Canadian citizen Chaun Going, a building contractor, lived in Albania for 10 years, and last year gave 60,000 Canadian dollars (40,000 U.S. dlrs) to Thaci's elder brother, said National Post. Going, 40, paid the sum to Gani Thaci in order to get permission for construction in Kosovo and Metohija, where he had moved after the end of the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia (June 10, 1999), National Post said. Early this year, the international civilian mission UNMIK police in Kosovo and Metohija carried out a raid of Gani Thaci's apartment and seized 168,000 U.S. dollars. Thaci told investigators he had got the money from the Meridian Resources company, which is owned by Chaun Going. The daily quoted Going as saying that he had been compelled to do such services in order to do business in Kosovo and Metohija. Going and his nephew Liam Hall, 19, and two British citizens were arrested in the night between Aug 1-2, 2000, in Yugoslav territory, in northeastern Montenegro. The four had been armed with military equipment, wrecking instruments, and other things. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
