> >BELGRADE, 23 August 2000 FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN >GOVERNMENT APPROVES TAX RELIEF DUE TO DROUGHT SERBIAN GOVERNMENT AID FOR >RECOVERY OF NIS ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY DISPLACED PERSONS FROM KOSOVO TO VOTE AT >SPECIAL POLLING STATIONS > > > >YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR MEETS RUSSIAN INDUSTRY MINISTER IN >MOSCOW YUGOSLAV, RUSSIAN BUSINESSMEN DISCUSS COOPERATION YUGOSLAV MINISTER >CONDOLES WITH RUSSIAN SERGEYEV ON SUBMARINE DEATHS YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF >EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO RUSSIAN COUNTERPART > >YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA YUGOSLAVIA, CHINA TO HOLD DIPLOMATIC CONSULTATIONS > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ATTACKS ON SERB CHILDREN IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA PART >OF ETHNIC CLEANSING > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TREPCA WORKERS OF U.N.-SEIZED TREPCA IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA KEEP >UP PROTESTS > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - NON-ALBANIAN MASS GRAVE U.N. KOSOVO-METOHIJA ENVOY >KOUCHNER IGNORES NON-ALBANIAN MASS GRAVE > > a.. * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN GOVERNMENT >APPROVES TAX RELIEF DUE TO DROUGHT BELGRADE, August 22 (Tanjug).- The Serbian >Government approved at a session on Tuesday chaired by Premier Mirko >Marjanovic the granting of tax relief for the agricultural sector due to >drought and other natural disasters in 2000, the Information Ministry said in >a statement. Tax relief will be granted to farmers and agricultural companies >to alleviate the devastating effects of drought and provide help to the >agricultural sector as a priority branch of the economy. The Government >decided to suspend the present management of the Nis electronics industry and >to appoint a new board and acting manager, and approved a program for its >financial consolidation and restructuring that should pave the way for >increased production and better performance. It also decided to invest 400 >million dinars in the first stage of the program. The Government also adopted >a program for the utilization of the special 3 percent sales and services tax >in force in Belgrade, which is used to finance the capital city infrastructure >and utilities, earmarking the funds for the construction of the city railway >network, the consolidation of public utilities companies and payment for >heating gas. > b.. > c.. SERBIAN GOVERNMENT AID FOR RECOVERY OF NIS ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY >BELGRADE, August 22 (Tanjug)- The Serbian Government will provide funds for >the recovery of the Nis electronics industry (EI) through the introduction of >new technology and a market-based production program, Serbian Minister of >Science and Technology Branislav Ivkovic said on Tuesday. By suspending the >old management and appointing a new board headed by Prof. Branimir Djordjevic >and Gen. Jugoslav Kodzopeljic as new general manager, the Government endorsed >a program of financial consolidation of the company, which will also help its >workers retain their jobs, Ivkovic said. EI is a giant industry whose products >are used by various public companies and services and whose capacities exceed >the needs of the Yugoslav market, which is why it must be provided with >government support, Ivkovic said. The EI business plans are in line with >Serbia's strategic goals, but modernization has been neglected and it has been >unable to adapt to changing market conditions, he said. The Government >therefore expects that its aid to the company development will ensure the >return of its investment in the future, he noted. > d.. > e.. DISPLACED PERSONS FROM KOSOVO TO VOTE AT SPECIAL POLLING STATIONS >BELGRADE, August 23 (Tanjug) - The Federal Electoral Commission held its fifth >session on Wednesday at the Yugoslav Parliament to discuss several issues, the >Commission press service said. The Commission decided to enable persons >expelled from Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province to vote elsewhere in Serbia >and thus exercise their civil rights. Special polling stations will be >established for them in the constituencies where they are accommodated >temporarily. Special polling stations will be created in all municipalities >hosting over 100 displaced persons from Kosovo-Metohija. If less than 100 such >persons are registered in any municipality, they will be enabled to vote at >polling stations in the nearest municipality. As local authorities in >Montenegro are refusing to deliver certificates on election rights and places >of residence of candidates, the Commission has empowered the Electoral >Commission for Montenegro in charge of elections for deputies to the Chamber >of the Republics (upper house) of the Federal Parliament, and the Central >Electoral Commission in charge of elections for deputies to the Chamber of >Citizens (lower house), to deliver such certificates. > f.. > g.. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR MEETS RUSSIAN INDUSTRY >MINISTER IN MOSCOW MOSCOW, August 22 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Ambassador to Moscow >Borislav Milosevic met on Tuesday in Moscow the Russian Minister of Industry, >Science and Technology Alexander Bondukov, who was recently appointed >president of the Russian side of the joint Yugoslav-Russian Intergovernmental >Committee for Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. They >discussed future economic cooperation, with a special emphasis on the delivery >of Russian natural gas to Yugoslavia, agreements on free trade, inter-state >credit and other issues of mutual concern. Minister Bondukov will visit >Yugoslavia at the end of August for talks with Federal Government officials. > h.. > i.. YUGOSLAV, RUSSIAN BUSINESSMEN DISCUSS COOPERATION BELGRADE, August 22 >(Tanjug) - A Russian business delegation comprising representatives of the >Volgograd steel wire and rope industry and of the Moscow-based FAB company >visited on Tuesday the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce. Russian and Yugoslav >businessmen pointed to the good prospects for intensifying cooperation and >concluding business deals. Many industries in Russia and Yugoslavia are >complementary and ties that have been broken should therefore be resumed and >Yugoslav businessmen should be presented with new cooperation programs based >on the economic interests of both sides, head of the Russian delegation >Nikolai Borisov said. Russian businessmen expressed their readiness for >long-term cooperation with Yugoslav companies that can offer raw materials for >the metal processing industry, conductors for the power industry and metal >products for the construction industry, in exchange for transport lines, tyres >and technical goods. During its three-day visit to Yugoslavia, the Russian >delegation will visit several relevant companies for talks on future >cooperation. > j.. > k.. YUGOSLAV MINISTER CONDOLES WITH RUSSIAN SERGEYEV ON SUBMARINE DEATHS >BELGRADE, August 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic has >sent a telegram of condolences to his Russian colleague Igor Sergeyev on the >tragic loss of life on board Russia's nuclear submarine which sank in the >Barents Sea. Ojdanic expressed bitterness at the attempts on the part of >certain factors in leading western countries and their media to politicise the >Kursk submarine disaster for anti-Russian purposes. > l.. > m.. YUGOSLAV CHIEF OF STAFF EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO RUSSIAN COUNTERPART >BELGRADE, August 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Chief of Staff General Nebojsa >Pavkovic has sent a message of condolences to Russian Chief of Staff Anatoly >Vasilevic Kvasnin following the tragic death of 118 crew members of Russian >nuclear submarine Kursk that sank under unknown circumstances a week ago. > n.. > o.. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA YUGOSLAVIA, CHINA TO HOLD DIPLOMATIC CONSULTATIONS >BELGRADE, August 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav and Chinese Foreign Ministry officials >will hold consultations on bilateral and international relations on August 24 >and 25 in Belgrade. The Chinese delegation, which is expected in Belgrade on >Thursday, will be headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Guchang, and the >Yugoslav delegation will be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Zoran Novakovic. >The talks will also focus on the Millennium Summit on the UN role in the next >century, terrorism, separatism and sanctions, scheduled for September 6 to 8 >in New York, and on the situation in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, with a >special emphasis on the violations of the Security Council Resolution 1244 and >on the need for withdrawing KFor and UNMIK from the Province as they are not >carrying out their mission there and are themselves violating the Resolution. > p.. > q.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ATTACKS ON SERB CHILDREN IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA PART OF ETHNIC CLEANSING PRISTINA, August 22 (Tanjug) - The >Pristina-based Center for Peace and Tolerance has urged UNICEF to protest >against the recent terrorist attacks by ethnic Albanian extremists on Serb >children in Crkvene Vodice and Staro Gradsko villages in Serbia's >Kosovo-Metohija province. In Crkvene Vodice, extremists threw a bomb at a >playground, and in Staro Gradsko they opened machine-gun fire on Serb >children. Quoting the International Convention on the protection of the rights >of children in its statement Tuesday, the Center noted that the attacks on >innocent children were planned as part of the ethnic cleansing of the Province >of its Serb population in the presence of international security forces. >Another goal of such attacks is to frighten off displaced Serbs and other >non-Albanians who might be planning to return to their homes in the province, >the statement says. The Center consequently appealed to all UNICEF >member-states which had endorsed the creation of the Kosovo-Metohija >international force to urge their governments to demand explanations why the >situation in Serbia's province is not improving and why the international >force KFor and civilian mission UNMIK cannot provide elementary safety >conditions for Serbs or put an end to atrocities by ethnic Albanian >extremists. Those states must demand that the Security Council withdraw the UN >mission from Kosovo-Metohija, the statement says. > r.. > s.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TREPCA WORKERS OF U.N.-SEIZED TREPCA IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA KEEP UP PROTESTS ZVECAN, Serbia, August 23 (Tanjug) - People >in Kosovska Mitrovica and employees of the Trepca lead smelter on Wednesday >staged another protest outside the gates of the plant, seized by the KFor >international force in Kosovo-Metohija early last week. Dragan Milenkovic of >the Trepca management, addressing the protesters, said they were gathering >daily outside the gates and not in the compound because the plant is under >military occupation on the orders of U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief Bernard >Kouchner. Milenkovic said the peaceful protests were the way for the workers >to win back their jobs and their livelihood. The Trepca lead smelter was >stormed by 900 heavily armed KFor troops on August 14, while General Manager >Novak Bijelic has been banned from Kosovo-Metohija by Kouchner, the U.N. >administrator of that province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. > t.. > u.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - NON-ALBANIAN MASS GRAVE U.N. KOSOVO-METOHIJA >ENVOY KOUCHNER IGNORES NON-ALBANIAN MASS GRAVE PRISTINA, August 23 (Tanjug) - >A mass grave of non-Albanian victims of ethnic Albanian separatists, recently >discovered in Pristina, Kosovo-Metohija, has been completely ignored by the >U.N. mission (UNMIK) to that province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. The >discovery proves what has long been known: UNMIK does not even bother to hide >its bias in favour of ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatists and so >ignores even mass graves filled with bodies of murdered Serbs, Montenegrins, >Romanies and other non-Albanians. The mass grave, uncovered in Pristina's >Dragodan district, contains 159 bodies, some of them of persons previously >listed as missing. The latest discovery fuels fears that have been kept at bay >with difficulty so far - viz., that all the 1,100 missing non-Albanians who >have disappeared without trace over the past 14 months since the deployment of >UNMIK and the KFor international force may be dead. All the action that UNMIK >and KFor have taken on discovering the mass grave has been to invite family >members of abducted Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies and others to help identify >the bodies. But, when it comes to an official confirmation of the finding of a >mass grave with non-Albanian dead, the "peace mission" is silent as the >(proverbial) tomb. It is hardly a consolation that there have been no denials >of the press reports about the find, either. In the plane flying to Pristina >last year on the wings of Washington's unalloyed support, former French >Minister Bernard Kouchner lost no time in accusing Serbs of a genocide in >Kosovo- Metohija and mass graves with up to 20,000 ethnic Albanian bodies. >Having voiced his unsupported claim, the UNMIK chief then, as time went on, >kept whittling down the number of the alleged victims. As a journalist has >written, Kouchner will go down in history as a mass grave hunter. But they >have to be ethnic Albanian mass graves. No others count. Now, when a mass >grave has actually been discovered at long last, Kouchner has nothing to say, >because this mass grave does not fit in with his ideas and plans. If he >admitted the obvious, he would have to call to task his ethnic Albanian ally >Hashim Thaqi, who headed the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) when it >liquidated Serbs, Montenegrins and Romanies and dumped them together in the >Dragodan grave. And this opens up another unpleasant question - viz., could >the mass grave have been made when Kfor has been guarding the Dragodan >cemetery night and day. Once this is known, it is easy to understand why UNMIK >and KFor have not condemned, either, a recent drive-by bombing of Serb >children in a village basketball court, in which 10 children were injured. The >people heading the "peace mission" to Kosovo-Metohija no longer even pretend >to conceal their duplicity; they have openly sided with ethnic Albanians, >though not all ethnic Albanians, but only those who wish to create an >independent Kosovo. And so, as evident from the latest discovery, violence >against other ethnic groups has become the standard of normalcy, to be ignored >by those brought to Kosovo-Metohija to keep the peace. _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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