>BELGRADE, 21 August 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - MALI YUGOSLAVIA, MALI PLAN TO INTENSIFY
>COOPERATION
>
>YUGOSLAVIA - UN - BOMBING OF YUGOSLAV OFFICES IN PRISTINA YUGOSLAVIA FILES
>PROTEST WITH U.N. OVER PRISTINA OFFICE BOMBING YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE BLASTS
>PRISTINA BOMBING AS HEINOUS TERRORIST ACT
>
>RUSSIA - BOMBING OF YUGOSLAV OFFICES IN PRISTINA RUSSIA CONDEMNS ATTACK ON
>YUGOSLAV OFFICES IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TREPCA BERNARD KOUSHNER - AN ECOLOGICAL POLLUTION OF KOSOVO
>AND METOHIJA, SERBIAN MINISTRY TREPCA WORKERS IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>AGAIN PROTEST TAKEOVER
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ARSON AT SERB CEMETERY IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERBS SERBS IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA PROTEST YOUTHS'
>ABDUCTION SERBS ACCUSE KFOR, UNMIK OF WORKING WITH ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS
>
>BOSNIA - YUGOSLAVIA - RADIO BAN BOSNIAN INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR ORDERS
>RADIO YUGOSLAVIA OUT YUGOSLAV MINISTER BLASTS BAN OF RADIO YUGOSLAVIA IN
>BOSNIAN TOWN
>
>* * * YUGOSLAVIA - MALI YUGOSLAVIA, MALI PLAN TO INTENSIFY COOPERATION
>BELGRADE, August 21 (Tanjug) - Ambassador at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry
>Danilo Milic, who has presented a written message from Yugoslav President
>Slobodan Milosevic for his Malian counterpart Alphe Oumar Konore to Malian
>authorities in Bamako, was received by Malian Foreign Minister Modibo Sidibe.
>The talk focused on the future development of bilateral relations, the
>situation in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, and issues regarding the
>forthcoming Millennium Summit and the 55th UN General Assembly. Both sides
>expressed satisfaction with the successful development of bilateral relations,
>especially in the economic field, and pointed to the need for stepping up
>bilateral cooperation within international organizations, the statement says.
>
>YUGOSLAVIA - UN - BOMBING OF YUGOSLAV OFFICES IN PRISTINA YUGOSLAVIA FILES
>PROTEST WITH U.N. OVER PRISTINA OFFICE BOMBING NEW YORK, August 20 (Tanjug) -
>Yugoslavia has filed a strong protest with the U.N. Security Council over
>Friday's bombing of the Yugoslav U.N. Liaison Office in Pristina, in the
>Serbian (Yugoslav) U.N.-run province of Kosovo-Metohija. The protest note,
>delivered by Yugoslavia's U.N. Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, condemns the
>terrorist attack as a heinous crime and points out that the U.N. Mission to
>Kosovo-Metohija has lost all meaning and should be terminated. The note was
>delivered on Saturday to Security Council President Agam Hasmy with a request
>that it be circulated to all members of the 15-member body and published as an
>official document. It says that the Friday blast was further evidence of
>flagrant violation of U.N. Resolution 1244 and non-implementation of its
>mandate by the international force KFor. The text of the note follows: "I have
>been instructed by my Government to lodge the strongest protest at the
>terrorist attack at the offices of the Committee of the Federal Government of
>the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for Cooperation with the United Nations
>Mission in Kosovo and Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav
>constituent Republic of Serbia, in Pristina, which amounts to a flagrant
>violation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 and the
>non-implementation of the mandate by the Kosovo Force (KFOR). "On 18 August
>2000 at about 9:30 a.m., ethnic Albanian terrorists planted an explosive
>device in the building housing the Committee of the Federal Government of the
>Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for Cooperation with the United Nations Mission
>in Kosovo and Metohija in which, at the time of the attack, there were 20
>Committee employees. The building, housing also the offices of UNMIK and
>allegedly provided security by KFOR round the clock, was severely damaged.
>"The attack represents yet another act of aggression against the Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well
>as a heinous act of terror, the provenance of which is in the deliberate
>campaign of the United States Administration which has put the United Nations
>mission under its tutelage and outside the control of the Security Council. It
>is evident that the overt collaboration of the representatives of the
>international mission with terrorists and separatists continues. "Only four
>days after the armed attack of over 1,000 heavily armed members of KFOR on the
>civilian population of Kosovska Mitrovica and the military occupation of
>"Trepca", as well as the vandal demolition and shutdown of the only remaining
>Serbian-language media in Kosovo and Metohija, the Pristina newspaper
>"Jedinstvo" and the Zvecan Radio "S", the ethnic Albanian terrorists continued
>their reign of terror. There is no doubt that they have understood the
>occupation of "Trepca" by KFOR and UNMIK as their victory and the defeat of
>Serbs and are now attempting to cut off all links of the remaining Serbs with
>the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its constituent Republic of Serbia.
>"This crime provides also eloquent proof of the existence of the concept and
>strategy aimed at systematically violating Security Council resolution 1244
>(1999) and at ethnically cleansing the remaining Serbs, Muslims, Roma,
>Goranci, Turks, Egyptians and other non-Albanians by rendering support to
>separatism and terrorism. I recall that 1,036 persons, primarily Serbs, were
>killed on the KFOR and UNMIK watch, 960 kidnapped and 360,000 expelled. As a
>consequence, the United Nations mission in Kosovo and Metohija has lost its
>purpose, wherefore it is necessary to call off its presence in southern
>Serbian province which is a part of the sovereign territory of the Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia."
>
>YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE BLASTS PRISTINA BOMBING AS HEINOUS TERRORIST ACT PRISTINA,
>August 20 (Tanjug) - Friday's bombing of Yugoslav offices in downtown Pristina
>was a heinous act of terrorism, an attack on Yugoslavia and a continuation of
>ethnic cleansing and genocide in Kosovo-Metohija, a Yugoslav Committee
>statement said. An explosion ripped through the building housing the Yugoslav
>Committee liaising with the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija, the Provisional
>Executive Council and the Centre for Peace and Tolerance in that U.N.-secured
>province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. This was another deliberate
>terrorist outrage designed to drive Serbs out of the Province and was directly
>linked to Monday's brutal storming of the Trepca smelting plant by the
>international force KFor and the U.N. Civilian Mission UNMIK, the statement
>said. Instead of protecting civilians and creating conditions for their
>dignified existence, the international force, in its colonial march, is
>collaborating in daily murders and crimes of intimidation and genocide, the
>Committee added. KFor and UNMIK have not provided security, either, for a
>normal work of the Committee, whose members are directly threatened by ethnic
>Albanian terrorists who run riot under a U.S. strategy for destabilizing
>Yugoslavia, the statement said.
>
>RUSSIA - BOMBING OF YUGOSLAV OFFICES IN PRISTINA RUSSIA CONDEMNS ATTACK ON
>YUGOSLAV OFFICES IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA MOSCOW, August 20 (tanjug) - Russia on
>Saturday condemned Friday's terrorist attack on the Yugoslav U.N. Liaison
>Committee in Pristina, Kosovo-Metohija, as further proof that conditions do
>not exist for holding local polls in that u.N.-Run Serbian (Yugoslav)
>province. U.N. Civilian Mission in Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) Chief Bernard
>Kouchner has called local elections for October 28, Despite strong opposition
>from the local Serbian population and the Government in Belgrade. The Russian
>Foreign Ministry said the blast was obviously meant to bring pressure to bear
>on workers liaising with the international bodies in Kosovo-Metohija and
>further destabilise the shaky situation in the Province. The Ministry stressed
>the explosion was further evidence that not even minimum conditions exist for
>the planned local polls to be truly free, just and democratic. To hold
>elections in the present situation would in no way be conducive to further
>promoting the settlement process in line with U.N. Resolution 1244, the
>Ministry said.
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TREPCA BERNARD KOUSHNER - AN ECOLOGICAL POLLUTION OF KOSOVO
>AND METOHIJA, SERBIAN MINISTRY BELGRADE, August 20 - After a brutal taking
>over of a lead smelting plant, part of the Trepca mining complex, a collection
>of about 40 mines that produce gold, silver, lead, zinc and cadmium (RMHK
>"Trepca") by the occupiers on Kosovo, with an excuse to do it due to
>ecological problems and ecological pollution, we would like to inform the
>public about the following facts: According to the "Regulations on marginal
>values, emission measuring methods, criterion for establishment of the
>measuring sites and data evidence" ("Sluzbeni Glasnik RS" 54/92) adopted by
>the Government of the Republic of Serbia and done in accordance with the world
>standards (World Health Organization Recommendation) and regulations, one of
>the measuring sites is Kosovska Mitrovica. Systematic measuring of basic
>polluting substances (soot, sulphur dioxide, sediment substances used for
>heavy metals determination - lead, cadmium, zinc, mercury, nickel, and
>chromium) were done in two measuring sites. Programme of the air quality in
>this city encompasses also special polluting substances as follows: phenol,
>PAH, ammonia, CS2 and H2S. Also Kosovska Mitrovica among six other cities in
>the Republic of Serbia was included in monitoring of air quality influence to
>human health. Measuring is realised by the Institute for Health Protection in
>Kosovska Mitrovica. Air pollution on Kosovo and Metohija does not and did not
>exceed allowed marginal values according to the Regulations on marginal
>values, because analyses were permanently carried out. Reasons of the
>occupiers for taking over a lead smelting plant (RMHK Trepca) have a different
>background, so the story of ecological purposes is an outright lie. The
>greatest pollution existing on Kosovo and Metohija - ecological, mental and
>human is Bernard Koushner himself and the occupiers of Kosovo and Metohija.
>
>TREPCA WORKERS IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA AGAIN PROTEST TAKEOVER ZVECAN,
>August 21 (Tanjug) - Trepca lead smelter workers and residents of Kosovska
>Mitrovica protested again outside the smelting plant early on Monday against
>the storming of the plant by the international force KFor in U.N.-run
>Kosovo-Metohija a week ago. Tioslav Lazarevic of the Trepca management
>addressed the assembled multitude and read out the demands of the management
>and the trade unions that none of Trepca's employees must be moved out of the
>north of that Serbian (Yugoslav) province. Lazarevic strongly condemned the
>seizure of Trepca by KFor and urged the workers to remain united and continue
>their peaceful protests. Some 900 KFor troops stormed and seized the Trepca
>lead smelter on August. 14, while Trepca's General Manager Novak Bijelic was
>exiled from Kosovo-Metohija on the orders of U.N. Civilian Mission (UNMIK)
>chief Bernard Kouchner.
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ARSON AT SERB CEMETERY IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>GNJILANE, August 21 (Tanjug) - A Serb cemetery in the Gornji Livoc village
>near Gnjilane, Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, was set on fire, the
>Gnjilane Human Rights Committee said Monday. Unidentified arsonists set fire
>to dry vegetation at the cemetery, causing extensive damage. The fire spread
>to a cemetery chapel that local Serbs have been building for five years with
>the intention of transforming it into a church in the future. The chapel was
>saved in time by Kfor troops stationed nearby.
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - SERBS SERBS IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA PROTEST YOUTHS'
>ABDUCTION KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, August 21 (Tanjug) - Serbs in east
>Kosovo-Metohija protested on Sunday the recent abduction of two Serb youths by
>ethnic Albanian extremists and a difficult situation in this part of the
>U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) province. Cousins Goran Stankovic, aged
>19, and Zoran Tomic, 26, were abducted around noon on August 12, after going
>from their native village of Domorovac to a petrol station in the neighbouring
>ethnic Albanian village of Odanovci. Regrettably, Sunday's talks by local
>Serbs with representatives of international organisations have produced no
>news about the fate of the youths, according to amateur radio operators. At
>the protest rally in Domorovac, the Serb National Assembly (SNS) handed
>protest notes over the incident to representatives of the U.N. civilian
>mission UNMIK, the Russian and U.S. battalions of the international force KFor
>deployed in the area and the international police. The notes were delivered by
>SNS President Tomislav Popovic and said the local Serbs' life has been getting
>steadily more difficult since the deployment of the peace mission on June 10,
>1999. More than 100 Serbs have been abducted or murdered, many houses have
>been plundered or torched, while hundreds of thousands of Serbs and other
>non-Albanians have been driven out of Kosovo-Metohija under pressure from
>ethnic Albanian extremists and with the condonation of the international
>peacekeepers, the statement said. The protesters drew attention to the fact
>that basic conditions for a peaceful life for all people in Kosovo-Metohija
>are still not being created. UNMIK, Russian and U.S. KFor battalions and the
>international police have been strongly urged to shed light on the
>disappearance of the two youths, and to find and punish the culprits. The SNS
>innermost leadership held a meeting after the rally, at which it decided to
>keep up the protests until the abducted youths have been found and released.
>The road leading from Domorovac to adjacent ethnic Albanian villages was
>closed to traffic from 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday.
>
>SERBS ACCUSE KFOR, UNMIK OF WORKING WITH ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS PRISTINA,
>August 20 (Tanjug) - The latest wave of ethnic Albanian violence against
>innocent and unprotected Serb civilians in U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija shows that
>the international military and civilian missions are collaborating with the
>terrorists, a local Serb body said on Sunday. Friday's bombing attacks on
>children in the village of Crkvena Vodica and on the Yugoslav U.N. Liaison
>Committee in Pristina, Monday's storming of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan
>and a recent abduction of two Serb youths are cases in point, the Serb
>National Assembly (SNS) for Kosovo-Metohija said. There is no doubt that this
>is all part of a deliberate campaign to ethnically cleanse Kosovo-Metohija of
>its Serbs, which has been in progress for more than a year in the presence of
>international representatives in that province of the Yugoslav republic of
>Serbia, the SNS said. The international force KFor and the U.N. civilian
>mission UNMIK assumed responsibility for the situation in Kosovo-Metohija
>under U.N. Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, after NATO's aggression on
>Yugoslavia was halted and the Yugoslav army pulled out of the province. Since
>then, more than 350,000 non-Albanians, 250,000 of them Serbs, have fled
>Kosovo-Metohija in the face of ethnic Albanian terrorism. The SNS went on to
>say that the displaced Serbs are not allowed to return, on the pretext that
>the international force cannot guarantee their security, while KFor and UNMIK
>have secured the return of more than 600,000 Albanians, among whom some who
>had never lived in Kosovo-Metohija in the first place.
>
>BOSNIA - YUGOSLAVIA - RADIO BAN BOSNIAN INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR ORDERS
>RADIO YUGOSLAVIA OUT BELGRADE, August 20 (Tanjug) - International
>Bosnia-Herzegovina Administrator Wolfgang Petritsch has ordered Radio
>Yugoslavia out of the (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska town of Bijeljina,
>according to the Radio's officials on Friday. "A uniformed representative of
>the Commander of Republika Srpska, Wolfgang Petritsch, delivered an ultimatum
>to the personnel of the Radio Yugoslavia transmission centre in Bijeljina to
>vacate the centre within 48 hours and stop broadcasting on pains of coercion",
>the Radio Yugoslavia Board of Editors said in a statement. The unlawful,
>immoral and violent order came in the wake of repeated threats and constant
>pressure used against the Radio Yugoslavia personnel in Bijeljina ever since
>the emplacement of Republika Srpska's puppet government of Milorad Dodik, the
>statement said. The head office in Belgrade has said that Radio Yugoslavia is
>a Yugoslav state radio which will find a way "to continue broadcasting the
>truth to the world". As of Monday, August 21, Radio Yugoslavia will be
>broadcasting special programmes via the Internet in 14 languages. Internet
>address: www.radioyu.org
>
>YUGOSLAV MINISTER BLASTS BAN OF RADIO YUGOSLAVIA IN BOSNIAN TOWN BELGRADE,
>August 20 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Minister of Information has said he was not
>surprised by International Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgant
>Petritsch's ordering Radio Yugoslavia out of the (Bosnian Serb) Republika
>Srpska town of Bijeljina. The order to stop broadcasting out of the Bijeljina
>centre came as no surprise because Petritsch is a text-book Nazi pursuing an
>anti-Serbian policy much more rabid even than that demanded by Washington,
>Goran Matic said in a statement for Radio Yugoslavia. Petritsch's anti-Serbism
>is evident from his "statement to Vienna's Kurier newspaper that his dog is of
>Serbian nationality", Matic said, going on to criticise also Republika Srpska
>Premier Milorad Dodik. According to Matic, the 1995 Dayton Accord on peace in
>Bosnia- Herzegovina is being constantly and systematically violated. "The
>Dayton Accord and the statehood of Republika Srpska are violated primarily
>because the unlawful and illegitimate government of Republika Srpska make the
>violations possible. "Dodik, (former president) Biljana Plavsic and the like
>pursue a policy against the best interests of the Serbs and all people in
>Republika Srpska, and also against international standards and the documents
>signed at Dayton (Ohio, USA) and Paris", Matic said.
>
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