BELGRADE, 10 August 2000 FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED ABUBAKAR PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC: PROGRAM OF FLAT CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE EXPANDED YUGOSLAV PREMIER SENT MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCES TO RUSSIAN COUNTERPART YUGOSLAV PM BULATOVIC CONGRATULATED CHAD COUNTERPART ON REPUBLIC DAY YUGOSLAVIA SUPPORTS CHINA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL COMMISSION WRITES TO MONTENEGRIN TOWN COUNCILS * * * KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STONED SERB CONVOY * * * KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS EUROPOL: NATO ACTS AS ACCOMPLICE IN CRIMINAL ACTS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BRITAIN TO SEND BATTALION FOR KFOR REINFORCEMENTS * * * FROM FOREIGN MEDIA PORTUGUESE MEDIA ON NATO'S FALLEN MORALS THE FINANCIAL TIMES: NEW MODEL OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV E.U. SANCTIONS IS ALL WRONG * * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVED ABUBAKAR BELGRADE, August 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday received Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, the supreme commander of the armed forces and until recently president of Nigeria, who is on a visit to Yugoslavia. It was underscored in cordial talks that Yugoslavia and Nigeria maintain lasting friendly cooperation and that the two countries are linked by important common interests in the areas of economy, science-technology, culture and international affairs, in particular within the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslavia highly appreciates the principled support of Nigeria to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in its defense from the NATO aggression, in which the concurrence of the two countries' stands was fully expressed, countries which urge the development of equal relations among states and peoples, respect of their sovereignty and integrity, and non-interference in their internal affairs, and are against the policy of hegemony. It is especially important that the two sides jointly condemned separatism and terrorism, national, religious, racial, and every other form of extremism, whose stoking was agreed to present an instrument of the policy of new colonialism which Yugoslavia and Nigeria are determinedly fighting. It was heard in the talks that economic partners of the two countries had realized important deals in Nigeria, which are of great importance for mutual economic progress. Among these, a prominent place is held by the long-term successful presence of Energoprojekt, JAT and other Yugoslav companies in Nigeria. It was concluded that prospects were being opened for the engagement of Yugoslav companies in joint deals with partners from this big friendly country, which presents, with its 120 million citizens and vast resources, an important factor in the development of the entire continent of Africa. President Milosevic availed himself of the opportunity to convey through Gen. Abubakar sincere greetings and best wishes for the welfare of the Nigerian people to President Olusegun Obasanjo. The meeting was attended by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic and Nigerian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Mohammed Buba Ahmed. PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC: PROGRAM OF FLAT CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE EXPANDED BELGRADE, August 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic received on Wednesday Serbian Premier and Directorate for National Renewal Executive Committee President Mirko Marjanovic and Directorate Director Milutin Mrkonjic, who informed the president on the Directorate's reconstruction programme which is speedily developing according to plans. The guests told President Milosevic that the bridge across the Danube in Novi Sad would be finished by mid-September, a month before the deadline, and that the construction of 10,000 flats within this year's development programme, was in full swing. All residents will be able to move in this year, and the first flats are expected to be finished already September. The construction of 100,000 flats should be carried out even more quickly, as it boosts the country's economic development, initiating production in a range of industries, Milosevic said. He added that possibilities for more ambitious construction projects should be opened in future. Milosevic expressed satisfaction with the fact that this crucial development plan will be completed before the deadline, and especially with the prospects of its expansion, as it is progressing more and more quickly. Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic was also present at the meeting. YUGOSLAV PREMIER SENT MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCES TO RUSSIAN COUNTERPART BELGRADE, August 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic has sent a telegram of condolences to his Russian colleague Mikhail Kasyanov over Tuesday's bomb blast in Moscow which killed eight people and injured nearly a hundred others. A Yugoslav government statement quotes the telegram as saying the government received with profound sorrow and the strongest condemnation the report of the terrorist outrage in downtown Moscow, in which a large number of innocent people were killed and injured. The latest crime shows that terrorism is a universal evil in the contemporary world, threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states and dictating a need for the closest international cooperation for its eradication, the telegram said. YUGOSLAV PM BULATOVIC CONGRATULATED CHAD COUNTERPART ON REPUBLIC DAY BELGRADE, August 10 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic has sent most sincere felicitations to Hagom Yamasom, the prime minister of Chad, on the occasion of the national holiday of that country. In the note, Bulatovic said he is confident the friendly relations and cooperation between Yugoslavia and Chad would develop in the interests of the two counties and peoples, said a statement released on Thursday by the federal Ministry of Information. YUGOSLAVIA SUPPORTS CHINA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY BELGRADE, August 10 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav foreign ministry said on Thursday the Yugoslav government fully supports China's legitimate demands for consistent respect for its sovereignty, territorial integrity and status in the United Nations. The statement was made in connection with the latest manipulations and efforts to broach in the United Nations the issue of China's territorial integrity and sovereignty over Taiwan. On the basis of the U.N. Charter and its fundamental principles, and the fundamental principles regulating contemporary international relations, Yugoslavia considers as unacceptable any attempt to give to parts of sovereign states the status in the United Nations that belongs only to sovereign states. The Yugoslav government reiterated its well-known principled position that China is the sole legitimate representative of the Chinese people and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory. YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL COMMISSION WRITES TO MONTENEGRIN TOWN COUNCILS BELGRADE, August 10 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Central Electoral Commission chairman on Thursday requested municipal council chairmen in the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro to report on their preparations for upcoming general elections. Commission Chairman Borivoje Vukicevic wrote to the council chairmen asking that they furnish information on what the local administrations are doing to create the necessary conditions for the people to vote at the usual polling stations. Vukicevic listed the obligations that the local administrations have for organising and implementing federal parliamentary polls, and especially for keeping, updating and verifying voters' registers and submitting lists of voters in individual constituencies. The Central Electoral Commission expects local administrations to reply by August. 15, a federal parliament statement said. Presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia have been called for Sept. 24. Vukicevic further said that federal electoral laws, electoral laws of the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, and documents adopted by the Central Electoral Commission define the obligations of the local administrations for implementing elections. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STONED SERB CONVOY LIPLJAN, August 10 (Tanjug) - A group of ethnic Albanians on Tuesday stoned a Serb convoy which left Staro Gracko village, south of Pristina, for Gracanica. Local amateur radio operators said young ethnic Albanian men hurled stones, bottles and heavy pieces of metal at the automobiles, damaging several. There are no reports of casualties. Another group of young ethnic Albanian extremists and hooligans meanwhile attacked two Serbs with wooden and metal batons on Wednesday afternoon, sources reported from Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija. The two men, Slavisa Jovanovic, 33, and Mileta Lazic, are from Radevo village of the municipality of Lipljan. An investigation is under way, the radio operators said. In a third incident, ethnic Albanians set fire to the house of Stojanka Djuric, 60, a Serb woman who lives alone with her two mentally and physically retarded children in the ethnically mixed village of Binac near Kosovska Vitina, amateur radio operators reported from eastern Kosovo and Metohija. The planted fire destroyed a barn, and a cow and a horse, cattle fodder, and a tractor, perished in the flames. Ethnic Albanian extremists had repeatedly threatened this woman, demanding that she leave the village. International force KFOR U.S. troops have not solved a single case of arson or murder which are quite frequent in this area. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS EUROPOL: NATO ACTS AS ACCOMPLICE IN CRIMINAL ACTS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BRUSSELS, August 10 (Tanjug) - NATO troops in Kosovo and Metohija are accomplices in the rampant crime in the Balkans which brings 400 million USD a year through weapons and drugs smuggling, according to sources of the European Police (EuroPol), an E.U. institution based in Luxembourg. Kosovo and Metohija has become the chief stepping-stone for transporting heroin from Afghanistan to Western Europe, and some of the main protagonists in this chain are members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Belgian media said. The "Balkans route" has been virtually legalized by the arrival of the "peacekeepers", who are not even trying to stop the crime, since NATO and KLA are allies. Every month, the Albanian mafia transports between 3 and 6 tons of drugs from Taliban-run plantations in Afghanistan, using the route leading to Western Europe across Turkey, said EuroPol. Ethnic Albanians dominate the "Balkans route", along which 80 percent of the total amount of heroin is transported into Europe. Around 14 percent of those arrested for drug trafficking in Europe are either ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija, or Albanians, according to Interpol. This is a high percentage, since they account for only 1 percent of the European population. BRITAIN TO SEND BATTALION FOR KFOR REINFORCEMENTS LONDON, August 10 (Tanjug) - Only Great Britain has responded to a NATO command call to member-states to send three battalions to reinforce the international force KFOR in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, it was announced in London on Wednesday. NATO believes the additional forces will remain in Kosovo and Metohija up to two months at the longest, since they are necessary because of expected problem during the local elections which U.N. civilian mission UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner plans to hold in spite of justified opposition from the Serb population. Diplomatic circles in London suspect that the local elections are just a pretext, and that the main reason behind the requested reinforcements is the increasingly difficult situation in the province. Great Britain will send a battalion of 540 troops which will be deployed in Podujevo, northern Kosovo and Metohija, in September and October. In late August, Britain will replace its battalion of Royal Fusiliers with a unit of marines. This is taken as an indication that the KFOR might in future comprise special and better-trained troops. FROM FOREIGN MEDIA PORTUGUESE MEDIA ON NATO'S FALLEN MORALS LISBON, August 10 (Tanjug) - The renowned Portuguese TV company SIK late on Tuesday broadcast a documentary composed of authentic material of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the 1999 NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. Initial reports by Portuguese media said the film is a specific "chronicle of a dishonourable intervention" by NATO and testifies to the great moral responsibility of NATO and official Washington in the attack on a European country in the name of alleged protection of humanitarian rights. Even before this, Portuguese media and the local public were shocked and confused at the manner in which the North Atlantic Treaty Organization carried out a military operation under the transparent slogan of "protecting the security of the continent of Europe" without the approval of the United Nations Security Council and in violation of the U.N. charter. THE FINANCIAL TIMES: NEW MODEL OF ANTI-YUGOSLAV E.U. SANCTIONS IS ALL WRONG LONDON, August 10 (Tanjug) - The new model of the European Union's sanctions against Yugoslavia, going under the name of black and white lists, is all wrong, according to an influential London newspaper quoting a Western diplomat on Thursday. The European Commission has decided to permit European firms to cooperate with just a hundred or so Yugoslav companies put on a white list and deemed not supportive of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. As a rule, these are either branch offices of foreign companies or joint-stock companies with majority foreign capital. The new model of sanctions, according to the newspaper, the Financial Times, has hit also many companies in the European Union, which are now exploring new avenues of cooperation with Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia, or cutting down on the business. Basically, the Financial Times explains, the anti-Yugoslav sanctions detract from the reputation of the European Union. The prevalent opinion in most E.U. countries, according to diplomats in London, is that the sanctions should be lifted immediately. This, however, is opposed by the United States, which has strong support in the Union from Great Britain. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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