>BELGRADE, 19 September 2000 F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC >CONGRATULATED JIANG NATIONAL HOLIDAY OF CHINA SERBIAN INTERIOR MINISTER >RECEIVED CHINESE DELEGATION CHINESE AND YUGOSLAV WRITERS DISCUSS EXPANDING >COOPERATION > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA MILUTINOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA AND SERBIA >NEED ACTIONS, NOT WORDS SERBIAN PRESIDENT OPENED DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE FACTORY >MILUTINOVIC - LEFTIST PARTIES AS PROTECTION AGAINST ASSAULTS ON OUR UNITY >YUGOSLAVIA WANTS PENTAGON REPORT TO BE CONSIDERED BY SECURITY COUNCIL DEPUTY >FOREIGN MINISTER NOVAKOVIC RECEIVED DELEGATION OF > >LAWYERS FROM BELARUS AND RUSSIA SERBIAN MINISTER OPENS FOUR INTERNATIONAL >SHOWS TRIAL OF NATO LEADERS CONTINUES > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - INDONESIA YUGOSLAV BUSINESS DELEGATION VISITS INDONESIA > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - ELECTIONS RUSSIAN STATE DUMA WILL MONITOR YUGOSLAV POLLS >FLAGRANT INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF YUGOSLAVIA EU COUNCIL ATTEMPTS TO >BUY VOTES OF CITIZENS IN SERBIA > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM HALITI: KOUCHNER OPENS PATHWAY FOR CRIME > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS IVANOV: MILITARY OPERATIONS THAT >BYPASS UN UNDERMINE WORLD STABILITY DOCTORED REPORT ON U.S. TROOPS IN KOSOVO >AND METOHIJA > >FROM FOREIGN MEDIA SITUATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA NEVER MORE DIFFICULT THAN >TODAY > >* * * F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC CONGRATULATED JIANG NATIONAL >HOLIDAY OF CHINA BELGRADE, September 19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan >Milosevic sent cordial congratulations to President of PR China Jiang Zemin on >the occasion of the upcoming national holiday of China. The message of >President Milosevic expressed best wishes for the further successful >development of PR China and the well-being and prosperity of the friendly >Chinese people. "Firm friendship, great mutual understanding, confidence and >solidarity of our peoples represent a lasting basis for the successful >realization of our joint interests, and a strong impetus to our joint >endeavors for the affirmation of peace and stability in the world, for >freedom, independence and the equality of states and peoples, and for progress >in general." "I am confident that the significant cooperation of FR Yugoslavia >and PR China will continue to develop successfully in the service of mutual >progress and free development of our peoples in the world," the >congratulations of President Milosevic said. > >SERBIAN INTERIOR MINISTER RECEIVED CHINESE DELEGATION BELGRADE, September 19 >(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav republic of Serbia's interior minister received on >Tuesday a delegation of senior officials of the Chinese interior ministry, who >are paying a several-day visit to Yugoslavia. Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic >briefed the delegation on the organization, activities and efficacy of the >security service and officials in keeping law and order, crime prevention and >combatting ethnic Albanian terrorism and NATO aggression. Chinese delegation >head Liu Zhefeng said the purpose of the visit was to convey the Chinese >people's friendly sentiments and sympathies for the Yugoslav people, >admiration and support for Yugoslavia's resistance to the NATO aggressors and >especially for its post-war reconstruction and development. > >CHINESE AND YUGOSLAV WRITERS DISCUSS EXPANDING COOPERATION BEIJING, September >19 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's delegation of writers has discussed further >expansion of cooperation with Chinese writers at the Chinese National Writers' >Association in Beijing. The delegation, headed by the Yugoslav republic of >Serbia's Writers Association Vice President Radomir Andric, is paying a >several-day visit to China at the invitation of the Chinese National Writers' >Association. Meetings of this kind are important and should become a >significant cultural and creative event which should help consolidate cultural >ties and expand cooperation, it was pointed out during the meeting. The hosts >accepted with pleasure an invitation to send six writers to an International >writers' convention in Belgrade in October. It was also agreed to make a >selection from Chinese poetry for publication in Belgrade's Savremenik >(Contemporary) magazine, and for the Chinese literary magazine Poetry to carry >a selection from Yugoslav poetry. Gao Chenbo of the Chinese Association >Secretariat, who headed the Chinese delegation to the talks, briefed the >guests from Yugoslavia on last year's protests against and condemnation of >NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia by Chinese writers. Cooperation and exchanges >of visits between Yugoslav and Chinese writers have been greatly boosted by >the associations' Protocol on Cooperation and a 3-year Yugoslav-Chinese >programme on cooperation in culture and education, signed in Beijing in May by >Culture Ministers Cedomir Mirkovic and Sun Jia Dzheng. > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA MILUTINOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA AND SERBIA >NEED ACTIONS, NOT WORDS KRUSEVAC, September 18 (Tanjug) - Serbian President >and member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Main Board Executive >Committee Milan Milutinovic said on Monday in Krusevac, central Serbia, that >all who are for Yugoslavia would at the upcoming elections vote for the >candidates who have demonstrated that they are able to defend the country and >who have a program for its development. They will vote for Slobodan Milosevic, >for a popular administration, for an administration that cares for the people >and their interests, Milutinovic told a rally of 10,000. The upcoming >elections constitute for the SPS, Yugoslav Left (JUL) and all leftist and >progressive parties a wide and mighty understanding with the Serb people and >all ethnic groups in the country on the means of preserving, strengthening and >promoting all that is truly socialist, just and progressive and in the >interest of all inhabitants of Serbia, in line with the aspirations to a >continuing dynamic development, in conditions of market economy and >multi-party system and amidst numerous objective contradictions and foreign >pressures, Milutinovic said. In brief, we shall jointly define a program of >development and reforms that is clear, feasible and can be recognized by all >men as a program of socialists and all leftist, progressive and patriotic >forces, Milutinovic said. The complex and numerous tasks our state and people >are facing can be realized only by firmly organized, disciplined and united >parties, such as the SPS and JUL have been, are and will be in the future, >Milutinovic said. No hopes, even the brutal enemy assaults on that unity, will >find roots or bases in any community in Serbia, nor will they succeed in >undermining the trust of the entire people, of all social classes, in its >leadership headed by Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia and founder >and President of the SPS, Milutinovic said. The true demonstration of that >unity is the joint SPS-JUL list of candidates for federal parliament deputies >and municipal deputies, Milutinovic said. Yugoslav presidential and >parliamentary elections and local elections in Serbia are scheduled for >September 24. The SPS and JUL are great advocates of strengthening multi-party >democracy, contrary to those parties and individuals who are in fact trying to >deny and endanger the multi-party character of the society and the system >through various destructive actions under the pretext of alleged >"democratization of Serbia, Milutinovic said. I hope that the residents of >Krusevac and its region will keep all this in mind when they cast their votes >on September 24. I am certain of this - Krusevac, as a past capital of Serbia >and as a cultural, industrial and agricultural center of Serbia, will not make >a mistake. Its residents will vote, as they have done in past years, for >Slobodan Milosevic and the true representatives of the people, Milutinovic >said. This state has faced great challenges in the last few years, just as >this people had faced in the past when it defended its identity, its right to >freedom and to its own state, and its right to chose who will administer the >state. As a generation, we can look our forefathers and out descendants in the >eyes, Milutinovic said. We have demonstrated the strength and the courage to >rise against NATO's barbaric attempt to take our freedom and our state with >bombs, and this gives us the right to rise against all who do not keep in mind >the overall interests of our people and who want to push us into vassalage now >that freedom is the condition for our survival and a foundation for our >existence, Milutinovic said. Whoever means well to his country and people >knows that Serbia and Yugoslavia are the only party, that freedom, >independence and development are its only program, that all patriots are >members of precisely that party. Divisions founded on impassioned ideological >bases mean a lack of vision of the future and of Serbia's and Yugoslavia's >development needs. Only one who unites and thus multiplies our power to >protect ourselves, to cooperate with others on basis of equality and to >realize development deserves the trust of the people, Milutinovic said. We >need peace, hard work and unity in order to preserve the values on which our >survival depends - freedom, equality, social justice and development geared >for our own interests and needs, Milutinovic said. Our present reconstruction >and development endeavors are not a contest among builders and engineers, but >a field in which we are showing what we can do, what we know, what our >potentials are. This is a message to all who have for the past decade been >attempting to halt development in Serbia, who want to force us to our knees >and subjugate us to their interests, Milutinovic said. Reconstruction and >development are processes of general renaissance, as they consolidate the >belief of the people in their own capabilities, in our economic potentials, in >our professional qualities. This is the best proof we can show to all who want >peace, cooperation and equality in the Balkans, who want to have us as a good, >successful and reliable partner, Milutinovic said. This is the policy in which >we shall persevere. This is the need, the will and the interest of the people >that we shall respect and implement. This is the policy which produces visible >results which are useful to the people. As a free and independent country, our >primary aim is to create a wealthy and just society, Milutinovic said. This is >the policy that is known to the people. The progressive part of the world, >even aggressor countries, take their stands towards our policy according to >this knowledge. This is what distinguishes us from others, especially those >who want to take power by force, without a program and with open support from >the aggressors, Milutinovic said. Those others are now taking part in the >elections in the hope of achieving what the aggressors did not succeed in >doing with their bombs - to make the citizens elect authorities that would >work against state and national interests. From their various nationalist, >separatist and above all quisling positions, they have united in order to >break up the country, Milutinovic said. Yugoslavia and Serbia no not need big >words. Actions suffice - concrete, continuous, visible, great and small. >Actions for the people and for the general good. Whoever favours peace, >development, tolerance and equality works for the good of his family and his >country. He is for Yugoslavia. Whoever is for Yugoslavia will vote for the men >who have demonstrated that they can defend it, that they have a program for >its progress and construction. They will vote for Slobodan Milosevic, for a >popular administration, an administration working for the citizens and their >interests, Milutinovic said in conclusion. Before the central promotion of >candidates of the leftist parties for the upcoming elections, Milutinovic and >his delegation visited the 14. Oktobar machine industry to discuss its >recovery and development programs with its management. > >SERBIAN PRESIDENT OPENED DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE FACTORY PRAHOVO, September 18 >(Tanjug) - Serbian President Milan Milutinovic opened a new plant for the >production of dicalcium phosphate on Tuesday, that marks 40 years of work of >the Prahovo chemical industry. The Prahovo chemical industry has become a >symbol of a developed chemical industry and it is one of the biggest >manufacturers of chemical products in Europe, Milutinovic said, pointing out >that the new plant has been built entirely with domestic equipment, know-how >and technology. The Prahovo industry was best known for its manufacturing of >mineral fertilizers, and today it has grown into a chemical complex for the >production of phosphorous components, washing and cleaning products, water >purification chemicals, phosphorus salts, fluor chemicals, fodder additives, >plant protection products and other products of this kind. > >MILUTINOVIC - LEFTIST PARTIES AS PROTECTION AGAINST ASSAULTS ON OUR UNITY >PRAHOVO, September 19 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Milan Milutinovic said on >Tuesday that at the upcoming elections citizens are to choose between what >they have now - freedom, independence, a country in construction - and the >uncertainty of what "the NATO coalition has to offer, foreigners and a pie in >the sky." The NATO coalition does not have a chance, because the citizens of >Serbia are not naive and know very well what is empty talk and what reality, >Milutinovic said. Stating his belief that citizens will vote for the united >list SPS-JUL-Slobodan Milosevic and for Slobodan Milosevic as president of FR >Yugoslavia, Milutinovic said that the very complex and numerous tasks of >development, reconstruction and rebuilding and preservation of independence of >our country can be carried out only by truly patriotic and progressive forces. >Those forces are a strong protection against the assaults on our unity. They >form a protection against the destructive activity of all those forces and >individuals who attempt to impose on our country models of so-called >"democratizations," and which essentially negate national, cultural and the >real values of the Serbian people and their spiritual being, he said. >Milutinovic told them clearly not to attempt to break-up our state by >secessionism and terrorism and destroy the Serbian national corps and stressed >that Serbia will not surrender or be sold. > >YUGOSLAVIA WANTS PENTAGON REPORT TO BE CONSIDERED BY SECURITY COUNCIL NEW >YORK, September 19 (Tanjug) - The United Nations Security Council should >immediately receive and consider the U.S. military report on abuse and >maltreatment of civilians in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province by U.S. >troops within the international force KFOR, said an appeal sent by the >Yugoslav government to the Security Council president late on Monday. The >letter, sent by Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.N. Vladislav Jovanovic, said the >Council should react to this report by immediately considering the >implementation of the mandate of the international military and civilian >mission in Kosovo and Metohija, take corresponding measures, and bring to >justice those responsible for abuse of civilians. The letter pointed out that >the New York Times and Washington Post had announced they would publish the >Pentagon report. Yugoslavia reiterated that the situation in the southern >Serbian province was constantly deteriorating. Yugoslavia has repeatedly drawn >the attention of the Security Council to the dramatic situation in Kosovo and >Metohija. It singled out the systematic and deliberate violation of Resolution >1244 by KFOR and UNMIK, who are in collusion with ethnic Albanian terrorists >of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on abusing the population of >Kosovo and Metohija, in particular non-Albanians, said the letter. Having in >mind the extremely difficult situation in the province, as well as the dangers >posed by the illegal acts committed by members of international forces, the >Yugoslav government maintains that the Security Council should react >immediately and consider the report on the abuse of civilians in Kosovo and >Metohija by U.S. troops, the letter said. > >DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER NOVAKOVIC RECEIVED DELEGATION OF LAWYERS FROM BELARUS >AND RUSSIA BELGRADE, September 18 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister >Zoran Novakovic received on Monday a delegation of the bar association of >Belarus and Russia, headed by Bojko Vasiljevic, president of the Belarus bar >association, deputy president of the international bar association, president >of the Supreme Court of Belarus and member of the Belarus Security Council, >and Gerasimov Ivanovic, member of the central bar association of Russia, >director of the Institute for enforcing law and the legal order of the General >Prosecution of Russia. Prominent Belarus and Russian lawyers pointed out that >NATO's aggression on FR Yugoslavia last year represents a crime against >humanity and that their visit to Belgrade is an expression of the strong >condemnation of the shameless act and the united support of the lawyers of >Belarus and Russia for the justified struggle of FR Yugoslavia and the >preservation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Yugoslav >Foreign Ministry said. Attending the meeting was also Stanko Bejatovic, >president of the Yugoslav association of criminal law and criminology, Zoran >Stanojevic, president of the Committee for collecting data about crimes >against humanity and international law, Ambassador of Belarus in Belgrade >Valery Brilov, and ambassador in the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry Djordje >Lopicic. > >SERBIAN MINISTER OPENS FOUR INTERNATIONAL SHOWS BELGRADE, September 19 >(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav republic of Serbia's minister of science and >technology on Tuesday opened four international shows in Belgrade's Fair >Grounds. These were the 11th fair of new technologies, Novotech, the 29th >exposition Protection 2000, the 8th fair of plastics and rubber, and the 3rd >fair of computers and communication. Minister Branislav Ivkovic stressed the >exhibitions were an opportunity to present outstanding achievements attained >in fundamental research, which were invaluable to the country's independence. >According to Ivkovic, major headway had been made in the area of applied >science, which would boost economic development. The shows are to close on >September 23. > >TRIAL OF NATO LEADERS CONTINUES BELGRADE, September 19 (Tanjug) - The Belgrade >District Court continued a hearing in connection with the trial of NATO >leaders on Tuesday. U.S. President William Clinton and the leaders of Great >Britain, France, Germany and NATO are accused of inciting aggressive war, war >crimes against civilians, use of banned military resources, attempted murder >of top state officials, and the violation of Yugoslavia's territorial >sovereignty. The presentation of evidence for war crimes against civilians, >which started on Monday, continues at the District Court. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - INDONESIA YUGOSLAV BUSINESS DELEGATION VISITS INDONESIA >BELGRADE, September 19 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav business delegation has had talks >in the Indonesian capital Jakarta at the ministries of foreign affairs, and of >industry and trade, the Chamber of Commerce and the National Export-Import >Agency. The delegation, headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Zoran Jeremic, is >on a working tour of southeast Asia. According to a Yugoslav foreign ministry >statement on Tuesday, the two sides discussed prospects of expanding bilateral >economic cooperation, in which both sides have an interest. In Jakarta, >Jeremic gave an interview to the SCTV television channel, in which he said >Yugoslavia and its businessmen were eager and willing to promote all forms of >cooperation with Indonesia. He went on to stress that Yugoslavia and Indonesia >are linked by historical friendship and by decades of all-round successful >cooperation. > >F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - ELECTIONS RUSSIAN STATE DUMA WILL MONITOR YUGOSLAV POLLS >MOSCOW, September 19 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Russian State Duma (lower >house) will monitor elections in Yugoslavia, according to a Duma official on >Tuesday. The delegation will be a multiparty one, headed by Deputy Chairman of >the Committee on International Affairs Constantine Kosachev, the Committee's >Chairman Dmitry Rogozin said. Kosachov is a member of the All Russia Homeland >party, whose club in the Duma is headed by former Prime Minister Yevgeny >Primakov. Rogozin said the Russian monitors would be touring several regions >in Yugoslavia, but not its republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered Kosovo and >Metohija province, which he explained was simply not safe. He said the Russian >observers would themselves decide where to set up their stations, and >expressed conviction that they would get an objective picture of the polls. >Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as Serbian local >elections, have been called for September 24. > >FLAGRANT INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF YUGOSLAVIA BELGRADE, September 18 >(Tanjug) - Upcoming presidential and legislative elections in Yugoslavia, and >local elections in Serbia, scheduled for September 24 have prompted such an >attention of the world public that it greatly exceeds the size of the country >and its influence on international affairs. No doubt this is yet another >phenomenon in connection with Yugoslavia and its position in Europe and in the >world, but also yet another demonstration of arrogance and pressures on a >sovereign European state and, also, a flagrant violation both of the U.N. >Charter and of UN General Assembly resolutions, concerning elections. The >world is, in fact, divided in its positions with respect to the upcoming >Yugoslav elections. While some point to the principle of non-interference in >the internal affairs of Yugoslavia and confirm the old rule that elections are >exclusively the internal affair of one state, others, who are fortunately few >but unfortunately, who are military, economic and political powers, are doing >everything to impose their will on Yugoslav voters. It is precisely those >power brokers, in the first place the Washington administration, who once >again when Yugoslavia is concerned, violate also the basic principles of the >UN Charter, and also of UN General Assembly Resolution 54/168 that was adopted >only nine months ago, on December 17 last year. That resolution proceeds, >first and foremost, from the basic democratic and civilized rule of observance >of the basic principles of national sovereignty and > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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