>BELGRADE, 28 August 2000 C O N T E N T S : YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA -YUGOSLAV >PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVES RUSSIA'S DONDUKOV -YUGOSLAV-RUSSIAN FREE TRADE >ACCORD SHOWS OPENNESS TO COOPERATION > >YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA -YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN CUBA > >YUGOSLAVIA-IRAQ -IRAQI DELEGATION TOURS YUGOSLAV PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY >YUGOSLAVIA-KOSOVO-METOHIJA-TERRORISM > >-TERRORISM AGAINST SERBS IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA RISING SHARPLY -SERB BOY KILLED BY >ETHNIC ALBANIAN DRIVER -KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS MURDER >75-YEAR-OLD SERB > >* * * YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVES RUSSIA'S >DONDUKOV BELGRADE, Aug 28 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic >received on Monday Russian Minister of Industry, Science and Technology >Alexander Dondukov and his host, Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Trade Borislav >Vukovic. Earlier on Monday, Dondukov, who co-chairs the Russian-Yugoslav >intergovernmental committee, and Vukovic signed a free trade accord between >Russia and Yugoslavia, which had been in preparation for months. Milosevic >said on the occasion that the removal of tariff barriers between the two >countries was a huge and radical step in the direction of bringing the two >countries closer together and promoting overall bilateral economic ties. This >is the only trade liberalisation accord between Russia and a country outside >the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Milosevic congratulated the >ministers on the accord which establishes a free trade regimen in bilateral >relations. He stressed this was a huge step in the direction of mutual linkage >which would accelerate the two states' economic development, improve >conditions of life and work and boost employment, and which would certainly >promote economic stability in both countries. Openness and closer economic >ties are in both countries' vital interest and their firm commitment which >reaffirms the friendship and understanding between their nations and their >determination to develop equal relations and cooperation, according to >Milosevic. Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic and Vice Premier Nikola >Sainovic, Premier of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic, Russian >Ambassador in Belgrade Valery Egoshkin and Yugoslav Ambassador in Moscow >Borislav Milosevic attended. > >YUGOSLAV-RUSSIAN FREE TRADE ACCORD SHOWS OPENNESS TO COOPERATION BELGRADE, Aug >28 (Tanjug) - A free trade accord signed between Yugoslavia and Russia on >Monday shows their determination to promote cooperation, according to >Yugoslavia's ambassador to Russia in Belgrade on Monday. Speaking to reporters >after the ceremony, Ambassador Borislav Milosevic said the accord showed the >political good will, determination and commitment of the two countries to >develop, consolidate and diversify cooperation in all areas. According to >Milosevic, the accord is a major step, as Russia has not signed similar >accords with any other country outside the Commonwealth of Independent States >(CIS). He further said Russia was Yugoslavia's strategic partner in the >economy and other areas. > >YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN CUBA HAVANA, Aug 27 >(Tanjug).- Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic arrived in Havana >Sunday for a two-day official visit. He was welcomed by his Cuban counterpart >Felipe Perez Roque. Jovanovic told the press on his arrival that the goal of >his visit was to discuss the expansion of bilateral cooperation and joint >activities in international organizations. Initial talks with Minister Roque >have demonstrated that good conditions and mutual will for such cooperation >exist already, Jovanovic said. Jovanovic is accompanied by a big delegation of >businessmen who will discuss future economic cooperation with Cuban partners. >Jovanovic hailed Cuba's principled condemnation of last year's NATO aggression >on Yugoslavia and pointed to the long tradition of friendly relations and >cooperation. Yugoslavia and Cuba, as nonaligned countries, are united by the >common goals of peace and cooperation among states on equal footing and by >their abidance by the UN Charter, he noted. Roque said he expected the visit >to provide a fresh impetus to bilateral relations through an exchange of views >on issues of common interest and on the international situation in the >expectation of the forthcoming Millennium Summit. The Cuban people are >following with great attention Yugoslavia's reconstruction and recovery >endeavors following the NATO aggression, he said. > >YUGOSLAVIA-IRAQ IRAQI DELEGATION TOURS YUGOSLAV PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY VRSAC, >Serbia, Aug 27 (Tanjug).- The Iraqi health ministry delegation toured Saturday >the Hemofarm pharmaceutical industry in Vrsac, Serbia's northern province of >Vojvodina, where it was hosted By Yugoslav Minister of Health Miodrag Kovac. >The talk focused on expanding bilateral cooperation in the health and >pharmaceutical industry fields. The Iraqi delegation of leading health experts >is headed by Minister of Health Omar Madhat Mubarak. Iraqi Ambassador to >Yugoslavia Sami Saadun, Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Trade Borisa Vukovic and >Hemofarm President Miodrag Babic attended the meeting. Hemofarm has already >had extensive cooperation with the Iraqi health sector through the oil for >food and medicines program. > >YUGOSLAVIA-KOSOVO-METOHIJA-TERRORISM TERRORISM AGAINST SERBS IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA RISING SHARPLY PRISTINA, Aug 27 (Tanjug).- Terrorism against >Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija is rising dramatically, the Yugoslav Committee for >Liaison with the UN mission in Serbia's southern province and the province's >Interim Executive Council said Sunday in a statement, Ethnic Albanian >terrorists are choosing children as targets of their attacks more and more >frequently. A few days only after a bomb attack on a group of children in the >Crkvena Vodica village, whose victims are still undergoing treatment, an >8-year-old Serb boy was killed and four others were seriously injured by a >hit-and-run ethnic Albanian driver in Skulanovo village near Lipljan. This >demonstrates that international police and KFor troops do not want to prevent >ethnic cleansing of Serbs in the province, the committee and council said, >demanding the immediate halting of the tide of violence which is taking >innocent lives every day. If this terror is not halted immediately and its >perpetrators are not taken to justice, the UN Security Council must speedily >suspend its international mission, which is obviously acting as an accomplice >in repeated anti-Serb crimes instead of accomplishing its peacekeeping task, >the statement says. The Yugoslav Army and police must at the same time return >to the province to secure peace and safety for all its inhabitants, the >statement says. > >SERB BOY KILLED BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN DRIVER KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 27 >(Tanjug).- A Serb boy aged 8 was killed Sunday by an ethnic Albanian driver on >the Lipljan - Kosovo Polje road in the Skulanovo village, Serbia's >Kosovo-Metohija province. Four other boys aged 4, 9, 15 and 16 were seriously >injured in the accident and have been taken to the Russian hospital in Kosovo >Polje, the Kosovska Mitrovica Center for Peace and Tolerance said quoting >amateur radio operators. > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS MURDER 75-YEAR-OLD SERB OBILIC, Serbia, >Aug 28 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists murdered a Serb farmer in the >Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija on Sunday, according to amateur >radio operators' reports. The Serb, Pavle Nedeljkovic, aged 75, was killed by >machine-gun fire at dusk as he was tending his cattle outside the village of >Crkvene Vodice, some 30 km north of the U.N.-administered province's chief >city of Pristina. Local Serbs rallied in protest against the outrage, and >against repeated attacks by ethnic Albanian extremists. On Aug. 18, ten Serb >children were wounded in the village when terrorists threw a hand-grenade onto >a basketball court where the children were playing. _______________________________________ 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] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
