>BELGRADE, 5 September 2000 C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF >YUGOSLAVIA -INDICTMENTS FOR NATO AGGRESSION TO BE ADDRESSED TO ACCUSED >-REFUGEES REQUEST BETTER UN TREATMENT OF YUGOSLAVIA > >YUGOSLAVIA - KAZAKHSTAN -YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR MEETS KAZAKH OFFICIALS YUGOSLAVIA >- CHILE -YUGOSLAV BUSINESSMEN VISIT CHILE > >YUGOSLAVIA - MACEDONIA -YUGOSLAVIA IS NOT INTERFERING IN MACEDONIA'S AFFAIRS - >EMBASSY > >YUGOSLAVIA - HUNGARIA -HUNGARIAN PARTY LEADER BLASTS GOVERNMENT FOR ATTITUDE >TOWARDS YUGOSLAVIA > >YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS -DIENSTBIER STRESSES POLITICAL IMPORTANCE >OF YUGOSLAVIA > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA -WAR CRIMES COURT CONFIRMS INQUIRY >INTO KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN KLA -U.N.-SEIZED TREPCA WORKERS PROTEST AGAIN IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM -DESTRUCTION OF SERB HERITAGE SITES IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA > >* * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA INDICTMENTS FOR NATO AGGRESSION >TO BE ADDRESSED TO ACCUSED BELGRADE, Sep 5 (Tanjug).- Indictments drawn up by >the Belgrade district attorney will be addressed to the persons charged with >serious crimes committed during last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the >Belgrade district court decided Tuesday. The Yugoslav foreign ministry has >been entrusted with addressing indictments to the accused through diplomatic >channels. The defendants are: William Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Willian >Cohen, Anthony Blair, Robin Cook, George Robertson, Jacques Chirac, Hubert >Vedrine, Alain Richard, Gerhard Schroeder, Joseph Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, >Javier Solana and Wesley Clark. The indictments were brought in line with the >Yugoslav penal law for incitement to war of aggression, war crimes against >civilians, use of forbidden ordnance, attempt to murder the Yugoslav president >and violation of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and sovereignty. >Investigation into the crimes was initiated immediately after the aggression >ended throughout Serbia before 29 district courts and a military court. On >March 24, 1999, NATO launched a military aggression on Yugoslavia which lasted >11 weeks and during which over 2,000 civilians were killed, in addition to >extensive material damages. The Serbian attorney-general has decided that all >proceedings be carried out jointly before the Belgrade district court. > >REFUGEES REQUEST BETTER UN TREATMENT OF YUGOSLAVIA BELGRADE, Sept 5 (Tanjug) - >The Yugoslav association for aid to displaced persons and refugees addressed >on Tuesday to the UN General Assembly a memorandum requesting Yugoslavia to be >treated as an equal partner in resolving the problem of refugees. Yugoslavia >is hosting the biggest number of refugees in Europe, is one of the founders of >the U.N. and a guarantor for the implementation of the Dayton Accord on peace >in Bosnia, the document says and adds that Yugoslavia had suffered extensive >damages during last year's (March-June) NATO aggression and has been under >international sanctions for a decade. The association points out that >involving Yugoslavia in resolving the problem refugees as an equal partner is >very important for the stabilization of peace, strengthening of democracy and >intensifying of economic and social reforms in the region. The refugees in >Yugoslavia urge the General Assembly to ensure abidance by the resolutions of >all peace conferences on refugees in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo-Metohija, and >to secure the conditions for their safe return home. The 55th session of the >UN General Assembly and the Millennium Summit start on September 6 in New >York. > >YUGOSLAVIA - KAZAKHSTAN YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR MEETS KAZAKH OFFICIALS MOSCOW, >ASTANA Sep 5 (Tanjug).- The Yugoslav Ambassador to the Russian Federation and >Kazakhstan Borislav Milosevic had a series of meetings with Kazakh officials >in capital city Astana Monday and Tuesday. Both countries intend to intensify >bilateral cooperation, it was noted during the meetings. The considerable >reduction of their trade exchange over the past few years was due to objective >reasons such as the difficulties affecting Kazakhstan's economy or last year's >NATO aggression and long-term economic sanctions against Yugoslavia, it was >underlined. Milosevic held separate meetings with the Minister of Energy, >Industry and Trade Vladimir Skolnik, Minister of Agriculture Sawat Minbayev, >Deputy Minister of Defense General Manas Sikhimov and Deputy Minister of the >Economy Sofia Seregbayeva. Cooperation among Yugoslav and Kazakh companies can >be intensified, especially as regards agriculture (corn and other grains, >sugar beet and sunflower growing and supply of seeds), as well as construction >and energy. At the Kazakh parliament, Milosevic met the heads of the party >clubs of the Agrarian and Communist parties Romin Mladinov and Abdildin >Serikbolsin and the Secretary of the parliamentary committee for international >relations, security and defense Murbah Rustemov. > >YUGOSLAVIA - CHILE YUGOSLAV BUSINESSMEN VISIT CHILE SANTIAGO, Sept 5 (Tanjug) >- A Yugoslav business delegation, which arrived in Chile on Monday, opened >contacts in the capital Santiago on Tuesday with government, chamber of >commerce and corporate officials. First informal contacts were made shortly >upon arrival late on Monday, at a reception thrown in honour of the delegation >by Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires Milivoj Sucevic. Chile is one of the most >economically stable and prosperous Latin American countries, which has doubled >its per capita income to an impressive 5,000 dollars over the past ten years >and come close to the developed club. The Yugoslav delegation, headed by >Assistant Foreign Minister Zoran Jeremic and Belgrade Chamber of Commerce >President Branislav Vujinovic, has come to friendly Chile from Cuba and >Venezuela, where it had also paved the way for future economic cooperation. > >YUGOSLAVIA - MACEDONIA YUGOSLAVIA IS NOT INTERFERING IN MACEDONIA'S AFFAIRS - >EMBASSY SKOPLJE, Sep 4 (Tanjug).- The Yugoslav embassy in Skoplje issued >Monday a statement categorically denying allegations by Macedonia's ruling >coalition and the media under its control that Yugoslavia was interfering in >Macedonia's internal affairs and trying to destabilize that country. This >reaction follows a recent visit by the Yugoslav Ambassador to Macedonia Zoran >Janackovic to the VMRO (reformist) party leadership, which was interpreted by >the ruling coalition and its media as interference in Macedonia's affairs. >Such visits are part of the usual communications between foreign diplomats and >Macedonian political parties, the embassy said, noting that Janackovic's visit >was not of a nature requiring an authorization of the party in power and that >it took place in broad daylight in the center of the capital city. Even before >this visit, Yugoslavia was blamed for the creation of the VMRO and decision of >a group of deputies of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE to join the new party. Such >accusations are unfounded and tendentious and are used to cover up the real >situation in Macedonia and the interference of its authorities in Yugoslavia's >internal affairs, the statement says. The Yugoslav embassy rejects the obvious >attempts by Macedonia's ruling coalition to draw Yugoslavia and its diplomatic >representatives into the polemics and disputes on Macedonia's political stage, >the statement says. > >YUGOSLAVIA - HUNGARIA HUNGARIAN PARTY LEADER BLASTS GOVERNMENT FOR ATTITUDE >TOWARDS YUGOSLAVIA BUDAPEST, Sept 4 (Tanjug) - The President of Hungarian >Labour Party (MP) Gyla Thuirmer has again criticized the open interference in >Yugoslav internal affairs by the right-wing government in Budapest. The leader >of the biggest non-parliamentary party in the country said on Monday at a >press conference that the cabinet of Viktor Grban was taking the side of the >opposition in Yugoslavia in an inadmissible way, and had directly violated the >Vienna Convention by agreeing to the opening of an office for Yugoslavia at >the U.S. embassy in Budapest. Foreign diplomats in a country should >exclusively deal with internal affairs, said Thuirmer at the MP meeting >organized following a three-day conference of all European leftist parties in >Stockholm. The representatives of 50 leftist, communist and socialist parties >discussed the situation in the Balkans and unanimously concluded that NATO had >not achieved its goals in its last year's aggression on Yugoslavia, Thuirmer >said. The Yugoslav people have the inalienable right to choose their social >order and state leadership, Thurimer said and added that the MP accepted the >request of several western leftist organizations to mediate between them and >the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Yugoslav Left (JUL). We must not allow >the public opinion in Europe to become a victim of U.S. media, Thuirmer noted. > > >YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS DIENSTBIER STRESSES POLITICAL IMPORTANCE >OF YUGOSLAVIA PRAGUE, Sept 5 (Tanjug) - Special U.N. Human Rights Envoy Jiri >Dienstbier said on Tuesday that Yugoslavia is the key to peace and stability >in southern Europe. In his talks with the Yugoslav ambassador to the Czech >Republic Djoka Stojicic, Dienstbier stressed that last year's (March-June) >NATO aggression on Yugoslavia had not helped the western alliance to achieve >its goals and that this is the main reason why the sanctions against >Yugoslavia are being maintained. Referring to the current situation in >U.N.-run Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija and illegal local elections >scheduled for Oct. 28 by the peace mission UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner, >Stojicic said that Kouchner's decision, taken despite the protests of local >Serbs and the government in Belgrade, was tantamount to legalizing ethnic >cleansing. More than 350,000 non-Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija have been >expelled since June 10, 1999, when the international force KFor and the peace >mission UNMIK took the responsibility for the security of the province. >Stojicic told Dienstbier that he can help in the implementation of the U.N. >Resolution 1244, according to which Kosovo-Metohija is a part of Yugoslavia >and under its sovereignty, as he is a special envoy with indisputable >worldwide authority. Dienstbier said that crime, drug dealing, terrorism and >chaos continue to prevail in Kosovo-Metohija. Stojicic briefed Dienstbier of >the problem between Yugoslavia and Croatia regarding missing persons. He >stressed that Croatia is not fulfilling its obligations concerning this >problem. > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA WAR CRIMES COURT CONFIRMS INQUIRY INTO >KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN KLA BRUSSELS, Sept 5 (Tanjug) - The international war >crimes court for the former Yugoslavia has confirmed plans to investigate some >members of the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), but >only for crimes committed before the U.N. mission's deployment to >Kosovo-Metohija, media in Brussels said on Monday. This, it was noted, means >that the crimes of officials and commanders of NATO, close allies and >protectors of the ethnic Albanian terrorists, will again be left out. NATO and >controversial tycoon George Soros are the main financiers of the Hague-based >ad hoc tribunal, whose chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte has blocked an >investigation into crimes committed by NATO during its aggression on >Yugoslavia last year. A spokesman for the tribunal has said that the present >inquiry will centre on five criminal incidents that occurred in 1998 targeting >non-Albanians. Spokesman Paul Risley refused to say if the inquiry would >involve KLA leaders. The court's investigators will investigate crimes >committed in Kosovo-Metohija's villages of Klecka and Glodjane, and town of >Orahovac, among others. It is to be expected, according to Brussels media, >that there may be an inquiry into individual functionaries of the ethnic >Albanian terrorist KLA, specifically Hashim Thaqi, Ramush Haradinaj and Agim >Cheku. > >U.N.-SEIZED TREPCA WORKERS PROTEST AGAIN IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA ZVECAN, Serbia, >Sept 5 (Tanjug) - Workers of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, >Kosovo-Metohija, rallied outside the plant again early on Tuesday in a >peaceful protest against the brutal seizure of the Trepca complex by the >international forces (Kfor). Some 900 heavily armed Kfor troops stormed the >Zvecan lead smelter at dawn on Aug. 14, depriving a great many people in the >north of the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province of the right >to work and of their sole source of livelihood. In connection with these >events, the management and trade union of the Trepca mining complex have >called a meeting for Tuesday in Bujanovac, just across the Kosovo-Metohija >boundary in Serbia proper. A shareholders' meeting is called for Sept. 8. > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM DESTRUCTION OF SERB HERITAGE SITES IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA CONTINUES KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, Sept 5 (Tanjug) - Ethnic >Albanian terrorists continue destroying Serb monasteries and churches in the >U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija, despite massive >presence of Kfor troops. Saturday's razing of the church of St Nikola in the >Musnikovo village was the latest act of vandalism. Over 100 Serbian Orthodox >monasteries and churches, many of which were invaluable examples of the >world's cultural heritage, have been demolished since the deployment of the >U.N. Mission UNMIK and Kfor peacekeeping mission in Kosovo-Metohija. >Unobstructed by Kfor troops, ethnic Albanian terrorists even go as far as to >blow down the remains of objects they had demolished last summer, in order to >destroy all traces of Serb presence in the region over the centuries. In >mid-August, ethnic Albanian terrorists razed the Vucitrn Holy Trinity church >to the ground, after inflicting heavy damage to it in the summer of 1999. Also >in August, over 200 tombstones at the Serb cemetery in the southern part of >the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica were smashed by terrorists. >Celebrities and public figures, as well as Yugoslav and foreign institutions, >have condemned such acts of vandalism. Nevertheless, UNMIK Chief Bernard >Kouchner's administration has not responded to the protests, despite having >Kfor - a nearly 50,000-strong military force - at its disposal. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
