>BELGRADE, 13 September 2000 FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV >PREMIER CONGRATULATES MOROCCAN COLLEAGUE TRIAL OF NATO AGGRESSORS ON >YUGOSLAVIA TO START SOON > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA CHINA HONOURS YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - FRESCOES - EXHIBITION FRESCOES FROM SERB MONASTERIES IN >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA EXHIBITED IN NEW YORK > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA - ECONOMIC COOPERATION YUGOSLAV FOOD AND BEVERAGES >INDUSTRIES EXHIBIT IN MOSCOW CONTRACT SIGNED ON EXCHANGE OF PATENT >DOCUMENTATION > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNHCR MORINA CONFERS WITH OGATA > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA THREE SERB DETAINEES GO ON HUNGER >STRIKE SULPHURIC ACID CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA ABOUT >600,000 L SULPHURIC ACID SPILLS INTO RIVER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA LAST ACT OF >KOUCHNER'S FARCE > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS IVANOV: NO CONDITIONS FOR >ELECTIONS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > >FROM FOREIGN MEDIA ETHNIC ALBANIAN MAFIA RUNS RIOT IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONGRATULATES >MOROCCAN COLLEAGUE BELGRADE, September 13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister >Momir Bulatovic has sent a message of felicitations to his Moroccan colleague >Abdourahmane El-Youssoufi on his re-appointment, a Yugoslav government >statement said on Wednesday. > >TRIAL OF NATO AGGRESSORS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO START SOON ARANDJELOVAC, September >13 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister of Justice Dragoljub Jankovic said that the >trial of Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and 14 other leading protagonists of >last year's (March-June) NATO aggression on Yugoslavia would start on >September 18 at the Belgrade District Court. This will be a very complex trial >that can be compared to the Nuremberg trials as regards the rank of the >indicted and the seriousness of their crimes, Jankovic told a local TV station >in Arandjelovac, central Serbia. A great part of the world public opinion, >mainly non-governmental organizations and popular tribunals, including some >from NATO member-states, has condemned the NATO aggression, Jankovic noted. >The facts are known and the evidence is so extensive and serious, that a >verdict that the defendants deserve can be expected, Jankovic said, adding >that investigation was carried out in 28 locations throughout Serbia and that >NATO criminals would be tried by a panel of five judges from Belgrade, Nis, >Cacak, Pristina and Novi Sad. The defendants will be tried in absentia and the >court will appoint defense lawyers in line with Yugoslav law, Jankovic said, >expressing hope that some of the defendants would serve their sentences one >day, after agreements on extradition are concluded. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA CHINA HONOURS YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR BEIJING, September >13 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's ambassador in Beijing was on Wednesday made >honorary researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute for >Eastern Europe and Central Asia. At a ceremony attended by prominent Chinese >scientists, Institute Director Li Jinjie stressed that Ambassador Slobodan >Unkovic was the first foreign ambassador to win the distinction. Li said the >recognition was a way for the Chinese scientists to show their high respect >for the brave Yugoslav people and their heroic defence of their freedom and >independence. He added they wanted to show their great appreciation of the >research work done by Unkovic and of his contribution to the successful >all-round development of Chinese-Yugoslav relations. > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - FRESCOES - EXHIBITION FRESCOES FROM SERB MONASTERIES IN >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA EXHIBITED IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, September 12 (Tanjug) - >Photographs of frescoes from Serb monasteries and churches in Serbia's Kosovo >and Metohija province are exhibited in New York to present to the US public a >part of the rich heritage of Serb culture, history and religion. The >exhibition is held at the Armenian Church in Manhattan, and its opening Monday >evening was attended by heads of the Russian and North and South Korean UN >missions Sergei Lavrov, Li Hyong Chol and Sun Jun Yang, representative of the >Anglican Church in the US Kenneth Walberg, and representative of the UN >Secretariat Michael Clark. The photographs show frescoes from the medieval >Serb monasteries and churches of Gracanica, Decan, Pec Patriarcate and >Ljeviska Mother of God. Opening the exhibition, head of the Yugoslav mission >at the UN Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic said that Serb monuments, churches >and monasteries, like the Serbs themselves and other non-Albanians in Kosovo >and Metohija, are being subjected to untold terror and vandalism. Recalling >the murders, abductions and atrocities being perpetrated in the province by >ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatists, Jovanovic underlined that all this >was happening in the presence of the UN mission UNMIK and international force >KFor. Since the mission arrived in Kosovo and Metohija 15 months ago, over >10,000 historic and cultural symbols have been destroyed or stolen from Serb >churches or monasteries, he said. The exhibition in New York should be seen as >an appeal to the international community to react to the situation in Kosovo >and Metohija, where terrorists are on the rampage, and to halt the ethnic, >spiritual and cultural genocide against Serbs and non-Albanians in the >province, Jovanovic said. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA - ECONOMIC COOPERATION YUGOSLAV FOOD AND BEVERAGES >INDUSTRIES EXHIBIT IN MOSCOW MOSCOW, September 12 (Tanjug) - President of the >Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce Mihajlo Milojevic opened on Tuesday in Moscow an >exhibition of produce manufactured by about 50 Yugoslav food and beverage >industries and trade companies. Yugoslavia is a big food producer, whose >agricultural potentials, geographic position, climate, know-how and technology >enable it to produce a surplus for exports, Milojevic said. Yugoslavia used to >export to Russia 600 million dollars worth of food in the beginning of the >nineties. These exports have since then dropped, due above all to the >pressures and anti-Yugoslav sanctions imposed by the West. The present >exhibition will provide an opportunity to Yugoslav and Russian partners to >discuss future cooperation, Milojevic noted. Yugoslav Ambassador to Russia >Borislav Milosevic spoke of the prospects for bilateral economic cooperation >and noted that bilateral trade can and should grow as the two countries have >complementary economies and are traditional partners in cooperation. Russian >Minister Vitaly Morozov expressed hope that the exhibition would provide an >opportunity for signing a series of cooperation agreements between Russian and >Yugoslav companies. > >CONTRACT SIGNED ON EXCHANGE OF PATENT DOCUMENTATION BELGRADE, September 13 >(Tanjug) - Yugoslav Department for Intellectual Property Director Ljubinka >Radosavljevic and Russian Institute for Industrial Property Director Alexander >Ashikin signed on Tuesday a contract on the exchange of project documentation >between these two institutions. This documentation is necessary for our >institutions, their work would be impossible without it, said Radosavljevic, >and stressed that it is difficult for Yugoslavia to carry out this kind of >exchange with most countries because of the imposed sanctions. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - UNHCR MORINA CONFERS WITH OGATA BELGRADE, September 12 >(Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for Refugees, Displaced Persons and Humanitarian >Aid Bratislava Morina has met with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako >Ogata at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, the federal Ministry of Information >said in a statement on Tuesday. Morina said the economic situation in >Yugoslavia is grave because the country has been taking care of over 800,000 >refugees and 360,000 internally displaced persons since the 1999 (March-June) >NATO aggression. She dwelled on the issue of the slow return of these persons >to their homes, and indicated there was a lack of security conditions for >this. Morina strongly urged that all Serbs and other non-Albanians, as well as >those ethnic Albanians who wish to vote in the upcoming regular elections in >Yugoslavia on September 24, be enabled to realize this constitutional right. >The Yugoslav minister protested against lack of respect for U.N. Security >Council Resolution 1244 on Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija, and >against the setting of illegitimate elections in the province for October by >UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner. Morina told Ogata about the serious incidents, >expulsions and abuse of Serbs and non-Albanian ethnic communities, and pointed >out that Ogata herself had openly supported the arrival of Albanians in Kosovo >and Metohija from other countries, while at the same time failing to make a >single move to encourage the return of the internally displaced persons to the >territory of Kosovo and Metohija, the ministry statement said. During the >talks, Morina explained that the Yugoslav delegation had walked out on a >meeting of the Working Group for Humanitarian Issues of the Peace >Implementation Council (PIC) on Monday because it had allowed Kouchner to take >the stand, the man under whose orders and with whose tacit approval systematic >ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija is >taking place, and under whose management the southern Serbian province is >becoming a proving ground for acts of terrorism and violence against innocent >non-Albanians, the ministry statement said. > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA THREE SERB DETAINEES GO ON HUNGER >STRIKE KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 12 (Tanjug) - Three Serbs detained at the >Kosovska Mitrovica prison have been on hunger strike for several days now, in >protest against being incarcerated for over a year with no trial scheduled. >The news on the three Serbs was curtly communicated to the media by UNMIK >police spokesman Yvan de Sainte Foy at a news conference held on Tuesday in >the southern, ethnic Albanian-populated part of the divided town of Kosovska >Mitrovica. Relatives of the detainees staged on Tuesday another in a series of >daily protests at the prison gate, attempting to prevent the transfer of the >detainees to other prisons in Kosovo and Metohija province. > >SULPHURIC ACID CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA KOSOVSKA >MITROVICA, September 12 (Tanjug) - The road connecting Kosovska Mitrovica and >Pristina was temporarily blocked early on Tuesday, due to a sulphuric acid >spill at a battery factory located in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, >TANJUG learned from the UNMIK seat in Kosovska Mitrovica. Although the pipes >conveying the acid burst on Monday morning, special Kfor units intervened no >earlier than Tuesday, when a large quantity of the toxic liquid reached the >Kosovska Mitrovica-Pristina road. The units attempted to stop the leak with >lime, gypsum, and various chemicals, but the acid is still leaking into the >Sitnica river, some 200 meters from the spot where it flows into the Ibar >river. Throughout the afternoon, a local radio station has been broadcasting >an UNMIK statement warning the population to keep away from the river, which >flows towards central Serbia, and to avoid contact with the contaminated >water. Reliable Serb sources say that there are huge deposits of sulphuric >acid at the factory. UNMIK spokesman Mike Keats said that enormous efforts >were being made to stop the leak, adding that, due to fair weather, there was >no possibility of air pollution in the area around the town of Kosovska >Mitrovica, situated in the north of the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija province. > >ABOUT 600,000 L SULPHURIC ACID SPILLS INTO RIVER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 13 (Tanjug) - Around 600,000 litres of sulphuric >acid spilled in the past two days into the Sitnica river which joins the Ibar >river at Kosovska Mitrovica in the U.N.-administered Serbian province of >Kosovo and Metohija, an UNMIK spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said >efforts to prevent a possible ecological disaster would continue in the next >couple of days. UNMIK warned people over the local media not to enter the >river or to fish in it. Sulphuric acid spilled from pipes leading to the >cisterns in an electric batteries industry in the southern, ethnic Albanian >part of Kosovska Mitrovica. > >LAST ACT OF KOUCHNER'S FARCE PRISTINA, September 13 (Tanjug) - It is just a >matter of days before the notorious criminals steeped in blood and violence, >ethnic Albanian terrorist monsters Hashim Thaqi and Agim Cheku, whose names >have been on the list of war criminals indicted by the Hague tribunal for over >two years, seemingly amnestied from all responsibility through protection from >the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and U.N. civilian administrator Bernard >Kouchner, will finally be put on trial for the crimes they committed against >Serb people and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija province. There is >no doubt that Thaqi and Cheku will share the dark destiny of the Spanish >terrorist known as Carlos, who was arrested and tried as soon as Washington >had no further need for his services. This would certainly not be the first >time that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which dictates and charts all >the moves of the United States administration in the area of international >affairs, creates, abuses and then mercilessly and even cruelly punishes its >puppets. All ruling political structures have publicly declared themselves >sincere opponents of terrorism, but it is a fact that the United States itself >has engaged terrorists to carry out the most brutal actions throughout the >planet for its interests and at its expense. Analyzing files of ethnic >Albanian extremist secessionists, the CIA scraped the very bottom of the >social pit and pulled out the uneducated, brutal and bloodthirsty criminal and >murderer Hashim Thaqi, 32. In the early 90s, Thaqi was a member of the illegal >terrorist organization "National Front for the Liberation of Kosovo" and then >also of the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army." During the alleged >negotiations in Rambouillet and Paris in February and March 1999, the CIA >proclaimed him informal leader of all ethnic Albanians and presented him as >such to the public. A recent public opinion poll conducted by the KFOR U.S. >command unequivocally shows that this had been a propaganda trick. The poll, >conducted ahead of elections scheduled in the Serbian province of Kosovo and >Metohija by U.N. administrator Kouchner, showed that Thaqi enjoys the support >of hardly 14 percent of Kosovo Albanians. Identical mechanisms were used to >bring former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) lieutenant Agim Cheku, 40, into the >spotlight of the Kosovo Albanian separatist movement. Cheku deserted from the >army of the former Yugoslav federation in 1991 and went on to fight for the >Ustashi army of Franjo Tudjman's Croatia. Now, however, Thaqi and Cheku have >played out their parts. It is time to remove them from the stage once and for >all. > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS IVANOV: NO CONDITIONS FOR >ELECTIONS IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA MOSCOW, September 13 (Tanjug) - Russian >Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was quoted by Moscow media on Wednesday as saying >that there are still no conditions for free and democratic elections in the >U.N.-administered Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. Speaking at length >about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija during a visit to Canada, Ivanov >said in Ottawa that the stands of Russia and western countries differ on this >issue and that this problem would be discussed in more detail during his visit >to New York, where the 55th U.N. General Assembly session is under way. The >Russian foreign minister reiterated that Moscow insists on the full >implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244 and respect of the sovereignty and >territorial integrity of Yugoslavia. He went on to say that now, when the >killing of non-Albanians continues and 200,000 Serbs and Romanies have been >expelled from their homes, it is hypocrisy to talk about the possibility of >free elections in Kosovo and Metohija. Such elections could not be democratic >in any way. Only when the status of Kosovo and Metohija is resolved, with the >support of the government in Belgrade, on the principles of territorial >integrity of Yugoslavia and after the normalization of the situation in this >part of the country, it will be possible to make preparations for elections, >noted Ivanov. > >FROM FOREIGN MEDIA ETHNIC ALBANIAN MAFIA RUNS RIOT IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >LONDON, September 13 (Tanjug) - Organised ethnic Albanian crime in >U.N.-administered Kosovo and Metohija has gotten completely out of hand, with >criminals now targeting even U.N. mission (UNMIK) officials, according to the >media in London on Wednesday. In the forefront of the criminal activities, >according to the Guardian newspaper, are members of the supposedly defunct >ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), who control all the most >lucrative businesses in that U.N.-administered Serbian province. The biggest >deals are with state-owned companies, which ethnic Albanians have taken over >with the help of UNMIK and the international force KFor, and deals involving >development land. Anybody misguided enough to stand in their way is usually >killed off, the Guardian writes, quoting as a case in point the recent murder >of an UNMIK official, ethnic Albanian Rexhep Luci. According to the newspaper, >Luci was murdered by the ethnic Albanian mafia which controls development land >and hotels built without proper authorization. Most leading ethnic Albanian >criminals enjoy the support of the United States and its Central Intelligence >Agency (CIA), Observer magazine avers in its latest issue. The case of a >former KLA commander, Ramush Haradinaj, is quoted in substantiation. The >weekly explains that Haradinaj has been investigated in Kosovo and Metohija, >but the CIA has whisked him off to the United States, and Washington has >instructed UNMIK to close the file on him. The main link between the CIA and >the KLA are drug traffickers, according to the Observer. _______________________________________________________ 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] _______________________________________________________
