>BELGRADE, 31 August 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES YUGOSLAV >PREMIER SENDS MESSAGE TO LIBYAN COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN >MINISTER RETURNS FROM CUBA YUGOSLAV FM CONGRATULATES LIBYAN COUNTERPART ON >NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES KYRGYZ COUNTERPART ON >NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER SENDS MESSAGE TO UZBEK COLLEAGUE ON >NATIONAL DAY KING OF JORDAN RECEIVES YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR YUGOSLAVIA WILL >ATTEND CHILDREN'S > >CONFERENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA I > >NTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION - USA - YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION >BLASTS U.S. VISA BAN AS UNDEMOCRATIC > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PREMIER MARJANOVIC VISITS >CENTRAL SERBIA SERBIAN DEPUTY PREMIER VISITS COMPANY IN SOUTHERN SERBIA TANJUG >DIRECTOR DIES > >YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL ON RESISTANCE TO >ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISM > >YUGOSLAVIA - ELECTIONS NAMES OF CANDIDATES IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS > >TO BECOME KNOWN ON SEPTEMBER 3 VOTERS' RIGHTS IN MONTENEGRO ARE UNDERMINED - >COMMITTEE > >* * * YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES YUGOSLAV PREMIER SENDS MESSAGE TO >LIBYAN COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL DAY BELGRADE, August 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime >Minister Momir Bulatovic has sent a message of felicitation to his Libyan >counterpart Imbarek Abdullar Al-Samis, on the occasion of Libya's national >holiday, a Yugoslav Government statement said on Thursday. Traditionally good >relations and successful cooperation existing between the two countries are a >guarantee of a further strengthening of friendship and understanding to the >well-being and in the best interests of the Yugoslav and Libyan people, >Bulatovic said. > >YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER RETURNS FROM CUBA BELGRADE, August 30 (Tanjug) - >Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic returned on Wednesday from his >two-day visit to Cuba, during which he held intensive talks with President >Fidel Castro and top state officials. Bilateral talks at all levels and on all >occasions were held in an atmosphere of friendship, closeness and full mutual >trust as part of the endeavors to intensify all forms of cooperation between >the two countries which enjoy traditional friendly ties. Both are members of >the Non-aligned movement and strive for democratic international relations, >Jovanovic told the press on his arrival in Belgrade. During his visit, >Jovanovic was received by President Castro, to whom he conveyed a personal >message from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic regarding bilateral >relations and cooperation in international forums. Castro welcomed the message >and agreed with President Milosevic's ideas on intensifying friendly ties and >all-round bilateral relations and cooperation in international forums, and >expressed his best wishes for Yugoslavia's prosperity, Jovanovic said. Castro >was particularly interested in the results of reconstruction and recovery >endeavors in Yugoslavia and reiterated his solidarity, support and admiration >for the results achieved so far, Jovanovic said. President Castro said that >Yugoslavia was demonstrating in its reconstruction, recovery and economic >modernization endeavors the steadfastness, unity and determination it had >demonstrated in its defense from the military aggression by NATO, Jovanovic >said. The views of Yugoslav and Cuban officials during the talks in Havana >were identical on all issues, as the two countries are symbols of >steadfastness in the fight for democratic and just international relations and >firmly adhere to the principle of free choice of paths for internal >development, free from foreign pressures or interference, Jovanovic said. >Yugoslavia and Cuba have agreed to intensify cooperation within the >Non-aligned Movement and the UN, and Cuba reiterated its principled stance >that Yugoslavia is a founder and continues to be a member of both >organizations, Jovanovic said. Cuba endorses the continuity and full >protection of all Yugoslavia's membership rights in all other international >organizations as well, and unreservedly supports Yugoslavia in its defense of >its integrity and sovereignty, Jovanovic said. Jovanovic expressed hope that >the agreement the two countries reached on cooperation in international forums >would bear fruit at the forthcoming 55th UN General Assembly session, the >Millennium Summit and the activities of the Non-aligned Movement. A special >contribution to the talks on bilateral economic cooperation was made by the >delegation of Yugoslav businessmen, who discussed cooperation prospects in >various fields with Cuban partners, Jovanovic noted. > >YUGOSLAV FM CONGRATULATES LIBYAN COUNTERPART ON NATIONAL DAY BELGRADE, August >31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic addressed to his >Libyan counterpart Abdurrahman Mohammed Salgam a message on congratulations on >Libya's national day - September 1. Jovanovic expressed his conviction that >bilateral relations would continue to develop on the basis of traditional >friendship between the two peoples and of decades of successful cooperation. > >YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES KYRGYZ COUNTERPART ON NATIONAL DAY >BELGRADE, August 30 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has >sent a congratulatory message to his Kyrgyz counterpart Muratbek >Sansizbaevitch Imanliev on the occasion of Kyrgyzstan's national day. >Jovanovic expressed best wishes for the prosperity of Kyrgyzstan, and the >belief that cooperation and good relations between the two countries will >develop successfully in future, as a contribution to the stabilization of >peace worldwide, a Government statement said. > >YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER SENDS MESSAGE TO UZBEK COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL DAY >BELGRADE, August 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic has >sent a message on national day to his counterpart Abdulaziz Hafizovich Kamilov >with the countries for well-being of Uzbek people. He expressed in the message >his conviction that the friendly ties and cooperation between Yugoslavia and >Uzbekistan will develop in the interest of the two countries and will help >promote peace and stability in the world. > >KING OF JORDAN RECEIVES YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR AMMAN, August 31 (Tanjug) - King >Abdullah ibn Ali Hussein II of Jordan has received Yugoslavia's new Ambassador >in Amman Oliver Potezica, who presented his credentials. Potezica conveyed >greetings from President Slobodan Milosevic and assurances of the Yugoslav >leadership's determination to continue to promote traditionally friendly ties >with Jordan and the Arab world as a whole. After the credentials presentation >ceremony, the Jordanian sovereign and Potezica spent some lengthy time in >cordial talks, attended by Marshal of the Court Fayez Tarawne and Foreign >Minister Abdel Ilah Ali Hatib. The two sides noted there are no obstacles to >promoting bilateral relations or to enhancing decades-long contacts and >cooperation between Jordan and Yugoslavia. King Abdullah II stressed the >necessity of reviving and developing all kinds of economic cooperation in line >with mutual interests and abilities. Jordan is interested in continuing >economic cooperation with Yugoslavia, with which it has cooperated highly >successfully in the past and whose companies are highly regarded in Jordan. > >YUGOSLAVIA WILL ATTEND CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA BELGRADE, August >31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia will have a representative at the 13th Congress of >the international society for the prevention of cruelty to children, to be >held in Durban, South Africa, on September 1-6, a Government statement said. >Yugoslavia will be represented by Margit Savovic, who heads the Government >Commission for Cooperation with the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and for the >promotion of the position of women, the statement said. The Congress will >discuss the implementation of the U.N. convention on the rights of the child. >Savovic will present the Government's White Book on child victims of last >year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, photographs, video footage and documents >on NATO's air strikes which killed 81 children, put 3 million others in >jeopardy, and permanently mentally scared about 10 percent of Yugoslavia's >child population. A special section of her discourse will be devoted to the >situation in the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered province of >Kosovo-Metohija. Stress will be laid on the inefficacy and unlawful conduct of >the U.N. forces, which has brought about the expulsion of nearly 350,000 Serbs >and other non-Albanians, mostly women and children, from the province, while >leaving others exposed to daily violence at the hands of ethnic Albanian >terrorists. Savovic will take part also in the work of developing countries' >task force on the subject of children and poverty - a challenge for the 21st >century. > >INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION - USA - YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION >BLASTS U.S. VISA BAN AS UNDEMOCRATIC NEW YORK, August 31 (Tanjug) - The >Interparliamentary Union (IPU) opened session of national parliament speakers >in New York on Wednesday with a letter blasting the U.S. Administration's >refusal to grant visas to parliament speakers from Yugoslavia and Cuba. IPU >President Najma Heptullah of India condemned the U.S. decision as running >counter to the principles of democracy. Heptullah briefed the delegates on the >efforts of the Organising Committee, which held two emergency sessions, to >induce the United States to remove obstacles in the way of visas for national >parliament speakers to attend the New York conference. The U.S. refusal >prompted the IPU delegates to issue the statement deeply deploring the move as >contrary to the spirit and principles of both the IPU and the United Nation, >which coorganised the New York conference, and the principles of parliamentary >work. It is all the more deplorable that the U.S. administration's decision >should come at the time of the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York, the >statement said. The conference has been called in an effort to give support to >the United Nations and reaffirm the principle of dialogue as a basic element >of democracy and cooperation regardless of differences, said the statement, to >thunderous applause from the delegates. Heptullah invited the delegates to >give their views on the unprecedented step taken by the U.S. Administration >and which has greatly disturbed and displeased the conference participants. > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PREMIER MARJANOVIC VISITS >CENTRAL SERBIA KRAGUJEVAC, August 31 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko >Marjanovic on Thursday visited Kragujevac, large industrial center in central >Serbia, where he toured the car industry Zastava and opened a high school. "We >all shared the vision Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had regarding >national reconstruction, and we believed in its success. This was achieved, as >best demonstrated by Zastava", Marjanovic said, noting that Zastava and other >companies in the region have been rebuilt after devastation caused by last >year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. The car industry gives momentum to all >other sectors of the economy in central Serbia, it now has new people and new >projects, Marjanovic said and expressed hope that Zastava would continue >cooperating with foreign partners. The financial aid provided by the Serbian >government has been used by Zastava for its own recovery and was also directed >through Zastava to other industries in Kragujevac - Filip Kljajic, 22. >decembar, Zvezda, Sobavica and others - as development assistance, Marjanovic >said. > >SERBIAN DEPUTY PREMIER VISITS COMPANY IN SOUTHERN SERBIA BELGRADE, August 30 >(Tanjug) - Serbian Deputy Premier Dragan Tomic visited on Wednesday the >Alfa-plam company in Vranje, southern Serbia, and met its executives and >employees. Tomic hailed the company for its successful performance in >manufacturing solid fuel stoves and for its development strategy which is in >line with the Government's economic policy. The company is working at full >capacity and doubled its output in the first semester of 2000 as against the >corresponding period last year. Its exports have also doubled, reaching 6 >million German marks. It is now one of the largest stove manufacturers in the >Balkans. The recently concluded free trade accord with Russia provides an >opportunity for Serbia's economy to use its manufacturing and manpower >resources to a greater degree and to accelerate its long-term development, >Tomic said, recalling that Vranje companies traditionally export their >products to Russia. > >TANJUG DIRECTOR DIES BELGRADE, August 30 (Tanjug) - Director and >Editor-in-Chief of the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, Socialist Party of Serbia >(SPS) main board member and President of the Serbian Association of >Journalists Dusan Djordjevic died on Wednesday in Belgrade after a long >illness. Djordjevic was born in 1945 in Pirot, southeastern Serbia. He >graduated from the College of Economics and worked for Radio Belgrade, the >Privredni Pregled publishing house, Tanjug and the Yugoslav Ministry of >Information. Djordjevic had headed Tanjug since 1998, including the hard >period of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia (March-June 1999). During that >difficult time, Tanjug was the sole agency and publishing house to remain >working 24 hours a day in its own premises. Djordjevic had done much for >Tanjug - expanding the network of its local and foreign correspondents, >modernizing technology, founding Radio Tanjug and reopening the International >Press Center. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic awarded Djordjevic with >the Yugoslav Order of Merit for the Agency's work. Other awards were presented >to Tanjug by the Yugoslav Army, Serbia's Ministry of the Interior, war >veterans' association and other state and social institutions. In 1997, the >Serbian Association of Journalists presented to Djordjevic the Dimitrije >Tucovic award for long-term editorial work, in addition to the awards given to >Radio Belgrade's Program 1 several times. In 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1996, >Djordjevic received the annual awards of the Serbian Radio-Television. Last >year, he received the life achievement award of the Serbian Association of >Journalists. > >YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL ON RESISTANCE TO >ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISM PRISTINA, August 31 (Tanjug) - Vice-President of the >Yugoslav Parliament Chamber of the Republics (upper house) Gorica Gajevic >visited on Wednesday Gracanica, Serb enclave in Serbia's southern province of >Kosovo-Metohija. The delegation accompanying Gajevic comprised the President >of the Yugoslav Committee for Liaison with the UN in the Province Ambassador >Stanimir Vukicevic, SPS Main Board Executive Committee member Dragutin Mijajlo >Milovanovic, President of the Kosovo-Metohija Interim Executive Council Zoran >Andjelkovic and head of the Kosovo district Veljko Odalovic. Gajevic paid >tribute to Serbs in Gracanica, village south of the Provincial capital >Pristina, saying it took great courage to live in the area. Gracanica is a >symbol of resistance to ethnic Albanian terrorism, aided and abetted by the >international force KFor and UN civilian mission UNMIK, and a guarantee that >that disgraceful mission will soon end, Gajevic said. "It will take a lot more >courage and patience, but by remaining united, we shall keep Kosovo-Metohija >within Serbia and Yugoslavia", she said. The most heinous genocide and crimes >are being perpetrated today in Kosovo-Metohija by most notorious thugs and >narcotics dealers, while KFor looks on instead of securing peace and safety >for all in the Province, Gajevic underlined. This mission has disgraced the UN >and its principles, and must therefore leave. They will leave sooner than they >think. Yugoslavia has survived the NATO aggression, it will survive what is >now happening in Kosovo-Metohija, she promised. The Yugoslav Army is ready to >return to the Province to ensure peace, safety and equality of all, regardless >of ethnicity, as it is doing throughout Serbia and as it used to do in >Kosovo-Metohija too prior to the March-June 1999 aggression, Gajevic said. >Referring to the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for >September 24, which will be decisive for the survival of the nation and the >state, Gajevic said the people of Gracanica will be able to cast their votes >on the future of their Province, Serbia and Yugoslavia. The voting by the >people of Gracanica is feared by parties that use Kosovo-Metohija, Serbia and >Yugoslavia for bargaining, the puppet and traitor parties supported by NATO >criminals, who are today spilling the blood of Serb children in the province. >The people of Kosovo-Metohija and Serbia will not be misled by traitors, >Gajevic said. > >YUGOSLAVIA - ELECTIONS NAMES OF CANDIDATES IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS TO >BECOME KNOWN ON SEPTEMBER 3 BELGRADE, August 30 (Tanjug) - September 3 is the >deadline for making public collective electoral lists, ahead of the elections >for both Yugoslav parliamentary chambers, scheduled for September 24. Current >regulations envisage that the electoral commissions of all constituencies in >Yugoslavia must make the collective electoral lists public no later than 20 >days before the elections. According to regulations on federal parliamentary >elections, the collective lists consist of all the verified electoral lists >containing the names of the candidates. Within 48 hours, parties who have >submitted an electoral list are to be granted access to all the other lists >submitted, as well as to the documents proving their legal validity. Fourty >MPs for the Chamber of Republics (upper chamber) of the Yugoslav Parliament >will be elected on September 24, 20 in each of the two Yugoslav Republics. In >these elections, the Yugoslav Republics of Serbia and Montenegro will each >constitute one electoral constituency. Up to now, the MPs for this chamber >were elected by the Parliaments of the two Republics according to party >representation. On the other hand, 138 MPs - 30 in Montenegro and 108 in >Serbia - are to be elected to the Chamber of Citizens, the Lower Chamber of >the Yugoslav Parliament. According to regulations on the elections for the >Lower Chamber, Yugoslavia will be divided into 27 electoral constituencies. >The entire Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro is one constituency, while the >remaining 26, each comprising an approximately identical number of voters, are >in Serbia. > >VOTERS' RIGHTS IN MONTENEGRO ARE UNDERMINED - COMMITTEE BELGRADE, August 30 >(Tanjug) - The Monitoring Committee in charge of conduct of all parties to the >electoral process in this year's elections met on Wednesday at the Yugoslav >Parliament to discuss the pre-election activities underway. Following the >decision of the Montenegrin Information Secretariat to ban the electoral >campaign for federal elections on state media in that Yugoslav Republic, the >Committee said that decision was limiting the constitutional and legal rights >of voters and violating the universal human and civil rights, especially the >right to information and the freedom of speech. The duty of the media is to >inform the public objectively of all facts pertaining to the elections and of >the pre-election activities of political parties and candidates, the >Monitoring Committee said. The Committee warned the media in Montenegro that >they must make public the regulations set by the Monitoring Committee and to >behave accordingly, contributing thereby to creating a democratic and more >tolerant atmosphere. Electronic media in Montenegro must abide by the >agreement on the number and duration of radio and TV programs devoted to equal >representation of candidates, concluded last August 2, the Committee said. >Discussing the reporting on elections by some media, the Committee noted that >some Belgrade papers (Danas, Vreme) had published insinuations on anticipated >irregularity of the forthcoming elections, cast doubts on the honesty of >electoral bodies, or openly sided with a single presidential candidate. The >publishing of such viewpoints or claims constitutes a glaring violation of the >law, the ethics of journalism and the regulations set by the Monitoring >Committee, a statement issued by the committee says. _______________________________________ 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] ________________________________________
