>BELGRADE, 24 August 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES YUGOSLAV >PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO SENEGALESE COUNTERPART YUGOSLAV PRIME >MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN >MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COUNTERPART ON NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV DEPUTY >PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES IRAQI HEALTH MINISTER YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ CONDEMN >SANCTIONS YUGOSLAVIA AND ARMENIA HOLD CONSULTATIONS IN YEREVAN URUGUAY FOREIGN >MINISTER RECEIVES YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR YUGOSLAV UN AMBASSADOR CHARGES KFOR, >UNMIK, KOUCHNER WITH COMPLICITY YUGOSLAVIA APPEALS TO UNESCO TO PROTECT >CULTURAL MONUMENTS YUGOSLAV MINISTER VISITS SOUTH AFRICA YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF >ECONOMY RECEIVES CHINESE DELEGATION SERBIAN POWER COMPANY EXECUTIVES RECEIVE >CHINESE DELEGATION YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES IFRC DELEGATION INTERNATIONAL >RED CROSS FEDERATION SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS YUGOSLAV RED CROSS > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PREMIER MEETS NEW MANAGEMENT >OF NIS ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CONSTRUCTION OF 10,000 HOMES UNDERWAY > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY >CONDEMNS TERRORISM IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA MASS CRIMES BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN >TERRORISTS REVEALED TREPCA MANAGER MAKES OFFER TO UN KOSOVO-METOHIJA >ADMINISTRATOR PROTESTING TREPCA WORKERS ENDORSE THEIR MANAGER'S OFFER TO >KOUCHNER > >YUGOSLAVIA - RADIO - PROTEST REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS CONCERNED OVER CLOSURE >OF RADIO YUGOSLAVIA > >* * * YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC SENDS >MESSAGE TO SENEGALESE COUNTERPART BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug).- Yugoslav >President Slobodan Milosevic has addressed a message to his Senegalese >counterpart Abdoulaye Wade. The message was presented by Ambassador Danilo >Milic of the Yugoslav foreign ministry to Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh >Tidiane Gadio in Dakar. The message points to the need for expanding the >traditionally friendly relations between the two countries on the basis of >equality and mutual respect, and for stepping up bilateral cooperation and >joint endeavors in international forums. Gadio accepted the message on behalf >of absent President Wade and underlined that Senegal wishes to enhance the >friendly ties and all-round cooperation with Yugoslavia. The talks also >focused on the forthcoming Millennium Summit in New York and 55th UN General >Assembly. Senegal, one of the leading member-states of the Organization of the >Islamic Conference, advocates Yugoslavia's full reintegration in the UN and >the Nonaligned Movement. > >YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL DAY >BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic has sent a >congratulatory letter to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushtchenko, on the >occasion of Ukraine's National Day. Bulatovic expressed his belief that >bilateral cooperation is a solid foundation for further development of the >overall relations between the two friendly countries. > >YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COUNTERPART ON NATIONAL DAY >BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has >congratulated his Ukrainian counterpart Boris Tarasyuk on the occasion of >August 24, Ukraine's National Day. Expressing best wishes for the prosperity >of the friendly Ukrainian people, Jovanovic stressed the contribution of >Yugoslav-Ukrainian ties to international relations in general, as well as to >stability and peace in Europe and the world, said a government statement on >Thursday. > >YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES IRAQI HEALTH MINISTER BELGRADE, Aug 23 >(Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic received on >Wednesday Iraqi Health Minister Omar Madhat Mubarak, who is on a few days >visit to Yugoslavia heading an Iraqi delegation of leading medical and >pharmacological experts. The two governments give priority to bilateral >cooperation in the health sector, as both countries have been victims of NATO >aggressions and international sanctions, it was said at the meeting. During >the Iraqi delegation's visit to Belgrade, programmes for cooperation between >the two countries concerning mother and child health care, cancer treatment, >production and supply of medicines and professional staff training must be >defined, both sides noted. Yugoslav Minister of Labour, Health and Social >Policy, Miodrag Kovac and Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami Sadun were >present at the meeting, a Yugoslav information ministry statement said. > >YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ CONDEMN SANCTIONS BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug).- Serbian >parliament Speaker Dragan Tomic met Thursday the Iraqi Minister of Health Omar >Madhat Mubarak. Both sides expressed satisfaction with the development of >overall bilateral cooperation based on traditional friendship, understanding >and mutual trust, the parliamentary press service said in a statement. Both >countries abide by the principles of peaceful coexistence, the UN Charter and >international law, and both most strongly condemn the practice of sanctions >which are applied against countries such as Yugoslavia and Iraq by states >whose hegemonistic policies are aimed at creating a unipolar world, it was >noted during the meeting. Yugoslavia and Iraq will continue stepping up their >cooperation in the economic and other fields to mutual benefit, in line with >the stances of Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Saddam Hussein >of Iraq, the statement says. > >YUGOSLAVIA AND ARMENIA HOLD CONSULTATIONS IN YEREVAN BELGRADE, Aug 23 >(Tanjug).- Yugoslav and Armenian foreign ministry officials held consultations >in Yerevan, Yugoslav foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday. >Ambassador Stanislav Stojanovic of the Yugoslav foreign ministry was received >by Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Martirosian. The talk focused on >bilateral relations, the situation in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, and >the forthcoming Millennium Summit and 55th session of the UN General Assembly. >The Armenian side urged for the consistent implementation of the Security >Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija and for the halting of violence and >ethnic cleansing being perpetrated in the province by ethnic Albanian >terrorists in cooperation with international civilian and military missions >UNMIK and KFor against Serbs and other non-Albanians. Both sides reiterated >their commitment to intensify the development of bilateral relations and >bilateral cooperation in international forums in order to democratize >international relations and step up the UN role in maintaining world peace and >stability. Stojanovic presented to Armenian officials a message from Yugoslav >Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic for his Armenian counterpart Vartan >Oskanian. > >URUGUAY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR MONTEVIDEO, Aug 23 >(Tanjug) - Uruguay Foreign Minister Didier Operty officially received on >Tuesday Gojko Celebic, Yugoslav Ambassador to Argentina, also accredited to >Uruguay on non-residential basis. They discussed bilateral cooperation and the >two countries' international activities. > >YUGOSLAV UN AMBASSADOR CHARGES KFOR, UNMIK, KOUCHNER WITH COMPLICITY GENEVA, >Aug 24 (Tanjug).- Head of Yugoslavia's permanent mission at the UN in Geneva >Branko Brankovic addressed Thursday to various international figures a letter >strongly condemning the crimes perpetrated by ethnic Albanian terrorists in >Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, following the recent discovery of a mass >grave containing bodies of Serb victims in the provincial capital Pristina. >The letter was addressed to the Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva >Vladimir Petrovsky, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, head >of the UN Human Rights Commission Mary Robinson. Special Rapporteur on Human >Rights for the former Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier, Special Envoy of the UN >Secretary-General for the Balkans Carl Bildt and others. Recent press reports >said that the international administration in Kosovo-Metohija had long been >aware of the discovery of a mass grave containing bodies of 160 Serbs and >other non-Albanians in a Pristina cemetery. The victims were killed over the >past 14 months, since the arrival of international KFor troops and UN civilian >administration UNMIK and the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces in June 1999. The >following is the official translation of the letter: Excellency, As is >publicly well known, KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner openly assist terrorists >of the so-called KLA to carry out ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other >non-Albanian population in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. KFOR, >UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner go even further. Namely, they are doing their best >to hide crimes committed by Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija. The >latest example testifying to this is the discovery of mass graves with Serbs. >The largest one was discovered in the Dragodan village. More than 160 brutally >killed Serbs were buried in it. These persons were buried under either false >names, or names of living persons, or even with only a number on metal >plaques. KFOR has found the graves several months ago but it is only at the >beginning of August that it called family members to help identify the bodies. >This massacre of Serbs by Albanian terrorists was committed soon after the >arrival in Kosovo and Metohija of KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner. The way >KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner, call, individually and in secrecy, family >members to identify the bodies, indicates that KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard >Kouchner are doing everything to conceal the crime committed by Albanian >terrorists against innocent Serbian civilians. Only close relatives, who were >long ago expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, can identify the killed Serbs. >KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner were duty-bound to inform of the massacre and >discovered graves the relevant authorities of the FR of Yugoslavia, which they >did not do. It means that identification of bodies is being continued without >the assistance of pathologists from the FR of Yugoslavia. KFOR, UNMIK and >Bernard Kouchner neglect on a daily basis the fact that Kosovo and Metohija is >the integral part of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia. >Excellency, The concealing by KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner of crimes >committed by Albanian terrorists against innocent Serbian civilians is, de >facto, as if they themselves committed the said crimes. Consequently, KFOR, >UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner are equally responsible for the massacre of Serbs >as the perpetrators of this crime. The government of the FR of Yugoslavia >expects that you will most energetically publicly condemn these crimes >committed against innocent Serb civilians by Albanian terrorists. At the same >time, it expects that you will condemn the complicity of KFOR, UNMIK and >Bernard Kouchner in these crimes and do your utmost that the UN Security >Council Resolution 1244 (1999) be implemented without delay. In expectation of >your prompt reaction, please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest >consideration. (end of translation) > >YUGOSLAVIA APPEALS TO UNESCO TO PROTECT CULTURAL MONUMENTS PARIS, Aug 23 >(Tanjug).- Head of Yugoslavia's permanent delegation to the UNESCO in Paris, >Ambassador Nada Popovic Perisic, has appealed to the organization to take >measures against the continuing systematic destruction of cultural heritage in >Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province and violence against its population, >particularly children. Instead of securing the conditions for peace, safety of >all inhabitants of the province and inter-ethnic coexistence and equality of >all ethnic communities in line with the Security Council Resolution 1244, the >UN civilian and military missions in Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK and KFor) have >allowed ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists to systematically endanger >the safety and lives of Serbs and other non-Albanians, to perpetrate murders, >abductions and arson and to destroy the rich cultural heritage in order to >annihilate all traces of centuries of Serb presence in the area, >Popovic-Perisic said in a letter to the UNESCO executive council. Children in >Kosovo-Metohija are the most endangered, she said. Ethnic Albanian terrorists >do not refrain even from violence against children at play. In the past few >days only, they threw a bomb at a playground and seriously injured nine Serb >children in Crkvene Vodice village near Obilic and opened fire on a group of >children in Staro Gracko village, who were saved only by chance. The rights of >Serb inhabitants of Kosovo-Metohija to education and information in their own >language are being violated by decisions of UNMIK chiefs, whose task is >precisely to protect such rights, Popovic-Perisic said. Following the closure >of the Pristina paper Jedinstvo and Pristina TV, The Zvecan Radio S which used >to broadcast in the Serb language was also silenced a few days ago, she noted. > > >YUGOSLAV MINISTER VISITS SOUTH AFRICA PRETORIA, Aug 24 (Tanjug).- Yugoslav >Minister and Beogradska Banka President Borka Vucic has during her three-day >visit to South Africa held meetings with many officials, including deputy >Central Bank governor, ministry of mining officials, representatives of >leading banks, chamber of commerce officials and renowned businessmen of >Yugoslav origin. The talks focused on the development of economic, financial >and banking cooperation between Yugoslavia and South Africa, where 60 percent >of Africa's business and 80 percent of its banking transactions are carried >out. Many Yugoslav companies, such as the Bor mining and non-ferrous metal >processing industry, Sartid steel industry, Simpo furniture industry, Sever >electrical appliances industry, Zajecar cable industry, Umka cardboard >industry, Jumko textile industry, Tigar and Trajal rubber industries, all >renowned for the quality of their products, are interested in access to South >Africa's large and competitive market. Yugoslavia's trade with South Africa >and other countries in southern Africa might grow 4- or 5- fold rapidly, >business and financial circles expect. > >YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF ECONOMY RECEIVES CHINESE DELEGATION BELGRADE, Aug 24 >(Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Economy Milan Beko received on Thursday a >delegation of the Chinese Power Company, which is expected to stay in >Yugoslavia for several days, the Yugoslav Information Ministry said. The >capacity of the company's facilities reaches up to 300,000 MW in total. With >1,500,000 employees, it is among the world's 500 biggest firms. The >delegation, headed by the company's Vice-President Lu Yangchang, intends to >assess the possibility of participation in projects of designing, constructing >and equipping electrical power plants in Yugoslavia, the statement said. Both >financially and technically, China is already involved in the reconstruction >of the power plants damaged in last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia >(March-June 1999). The company might participate in the completion of the >Kolubara B power and heating plant at Lazarevac, some 30 kilometres south of >Belgrade. On the other hand, Yugoslav companies might take part in large >development projects in China, especially the ones associated with the >modernization of power infrastructure in China's rural areas, the statement >said. > >SERBIAN POWER COMPANY EXECUTIVES RECEIVE CHINESE DELEGATION BELGRADE, Aug 24 >(Tanjug) - Executives of the Serbian Electric Power Company EPS, headed by >Director Dragan Kostic, received a delegation of the Chinese state electric >power company in Belgrade on Thursday. Development of cooperation between the >Yugoslav republic of Serbia and China in this field could take several >directions, it was noted during in the talks. Good business results received >an initial impact from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's visit to China >and signing of an interstate arrangement in November of 1997, it was added. >The EPS executives briefed the delegation on the extent of devastation of >electric power industry facilities caused by NATO during its aggression on >Yugoslavia last year, and on the reconstruction of power generation and >transmission facilities. The delegation is scheduled to visit the Kolubara B >termo- electric and heating plant, which is under construction, the Nikola >Tesla thermal power plant outside Belgrade, and the Novi Sad III transformer >station in the northern city of Novi Sad. At the end of the tour of EPS >facilities, a protocol is expected to be signed on directions of future >cooperation. The Chinese state electric power company is a huge corporation >managing power generation facilities with a total rated capacity of 298,770 >megawatts. > >YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES IFRC DELEGATION BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug) - >Yugoslav minister for refugee and humanitarian affairs Bratislava Morina >received on Thursday a delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross >and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), headed by Secretary General Didier >Charpitel. The two sides agreed that international humanitarian organizations >operating in Yugoslavia should continue to be neutral and unbiased, and should >objectively evaluate the humanitarian needs of the people, a government >statement said. Morina said that all those in need, especially refugees and >displaced people, of whom there are more than a million in Yugoslavia, are >still in need of assistance. She especially drew attention to the difficult >position of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) >Kosovo-Metohija province. She therefore appealed to the IFRC delegation to >join the efforts of the governments of Yugoslav and its republic of Serbia to >aid the endangered categories in food, fuel and building materials. Charpitel, >for his part, said he highly values cooperation with the Yugoslav Red Cross >Organisation, together with which the IFRC has aided a large number of people >over the past eight years. He explained that the purpose of the visit is for >this cooperation, which is based on solid foundations, to be further promoted >to the well-being of those in need, the statement said. > >INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS FEDERATION SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS YUGOSLAV RED CROSS >BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug) - The International Red Cross and Red Crescent >Federation Secretary General and Europe Department chief visited on Thursday >the Yugoslav Red Cross (JCK) Head Office in Belgrade. The Federation's >Secretary General Didier Charpitel and Europe Department Chief Bjorn Eder >conferred with Yugoslav Red Cross Secretary General Rade Dubajic and his >colleagues, who informed them of JCK's activities, and the overall >humanitarian situation in the country, according to a statement from JCK. >Dubajic stressed the problems Yugoslav Red Cross mission has encountered in >the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija. Charpitel gave high marks to JCK's >great efforts and its achievements in the procuration and distribution of >humanitarian aid for the most underprivileged among the refugees, displaced >persons, and the local population. On behalf of the Federation, he expressed >willingness to support regular JCK humanitarian programmes and the >organization's further development, as well as to continue supplying >humanitarian aid, the JCK statement said. During his five-day stay in >Yugoslavia, Charpitel is expected to visit Mladenovac, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, >Zvecan, Pristina, Pec and Podgorica, where he will have the opportunity to >meet some of more than 1 million beneficiaries of humanitarian aid, as well as >JCK trainees, volunteers, and professional humanitarians, the statement said. > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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