Thursday afternoon normal survey. >YUGOSLAVIA - UKRAINE YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN >COUNTERPART BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister of Foreign >Affairs Zivadin Jovanovic has sent a message of congratulations to his >Ukrainian counterpart Anatoly Zlenk on the occasion of his appointment to this >post. He stressed in the message that further improvement of traditionally >friendly ties between Yugoslavia and Ukraine will contribute to the >development of international relations based on equality and to joint >endeavors for peace and stability in the world. > >YUGOSLAVIA - LATIN AMERICA YUGOSLAVIA TO DEVELOP COOPERATION WITH LATIN >AMERICA BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug) - Following a successful visit of a >Yugoslav business delegation to several Latin American countries, a discussion >on business cooperation with Latin America was held Thursday at the Belgrade >Fair premises. Yugoslav Assistant Foreign Minister Zoran Jeremic, who headed >the delegation, said their visit followed the one by Yugoslav Foreign Minister >Zivadin Jovanovic and was aimed at presenting Yugoslav economic potentials to >Latin American partners and negotiating business deals. The delegation met >representatives of local chambers of commerce, state institutions and >potential business partners. The talks demonstrated that a wide range of >prospects for bilateral cooperation exists, Jeremic said. Agreements will be >concluded on investment protection and avoidance of double taxation, and a >business council will be created in Belgrade comprising Yugoslav businessmen, >representatives of chambers of commerce and representatives of Latin American >embassies. Belgrade Fair Director Sinisa Zaric said that the delegation's >visit to Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru was to establish various >forms of economic cooperation, including participation in trade fairs. In >Chile, there are good prospects for participation in agricultural and mining >industry fairs, in Brazil there are prospects for cooperation in tourism and >among small and medium companies, and in Peru, Yugoslav companies could take >part in agricultural machinery, construction, pharmaceutical industry and >other fairs. Delegation members said that they were satisfied with their visit >and that a deal has been concluded on a tractor assembly project. > >CZECH REPUBLIC - YUGOSLAVIA CZECH REPUBLIC IS READY TO PARTICIPATE IN >YUGOSLAVIA'S RECONSTRUCTION PRAGUE, October 4 (Tanjug) - Czech Minister of >Industry and Trade Miroslav Gregr has received Yugoslav Ambassador to Czech >Republic Djoka Stojicic to discuss bilateral economic cooperation. Gregr said >that Czech Republic is ready to do everything it can to help the >reconstruction of Yugoslavia while it is under international sanctions, >Stojcic told TANJUG on Wednesday. He stressed that many Czech firms have >already prepared cooperation projects and are ready to take part in the >reconstruction of Yugoslavia once the sanctions are lifted. The talk also >focused on bilateral trade, and especially on insufficient Yugoslav exports to >the Czech market. He said that Czech firms have a great interest in taking >part in the reconstruction of the facilities that had been destroyed in last >year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, especially those that had caused >environmental damage. Stojicic thanked Gregr for his country's help in the >construction of the thermo electric power plant Kolubara B and urged Czech >firms to participate in the rebuilding of the economic facilities destroyed in >last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. They noted that the Serbian Power >Industry (EPS) and Skoda Plzen will discuss the completion of the Kolubara B >plant and their future cooperation. > >ROMANIA - SERBS DAYS OF SERBIAN CULTURE EVENT HELD IN BUCHAREST, ROMANIA >BUCHAREST, October 5 (Tanjug) - Romania's Serb Society organised their 3rd >Days of Serbian Culture event in Bucharest's National Theatre on Wednesday. >Before an appreciative audience, performances of rich Serbian folklore were >given by the Serb troupes Lale sa Morisa of Canad and St. Sava of Veliki >Senmiklus. The choir of the Bucharest school named after Jovan Ducic, >Yugoslavia's first ambassador to Bucharest, also gave a performance. The >programme was attended by prominent figures in the Romanian capital - >representatives of the Academy, writers' society, Romanian-Serbian Friendship >League, University professors, artists, clergy and representatives of the >media. Also present were a large number of Serbs living in Bucharest, >representatives of the Yugoslav expatriate community and of the Yugoslav >Embassy in Bucharest. Serbian publications and press in Romania were also >presented as part of the Days of Serbian Culture in Romania event. Poet >Slavomir Gvozdenovic, the Serb Society's deputy to the Romanian parliament, >said on the occasion that "the Serbian press here is three centuries old." The >opening of the event was attended also by Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires in >Bucharest Dragomir Radenkovic, who said that "Serbs in Romania are an >important part of the Serbian national body. "Thanks to them, the historical, >national, spiritual and cultural roots of the Serbian nation in these parts >have been preserved." > >KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS SHOOT AT SERBS IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA KLOKOT, October 5 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian terrorists opened >fire on a group of Serb farmers in U.N.-administered Kosovo- Metohija on >Wednesday, but nobody was hurt, according to reports on Thursday. Amateur >radio operators reported that the terrorists had opened fire from an unmarked >car at the Serb farmers who were working on their land in the village of >Klokot near the Klokot-Trpeza road in the Kosovska Vitina area. After the >attack on Milovan and Olga Stevic, Branko, Dragan and Veljko Zdravkovic and >Boban Stojkovic, the car sped away in the direction of the village of Trpeza. >The attack was immediately reported to the international force KFor in this >province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, but their investigation was >unproductive, as usual, the radio operators said. Also on Wednesday, ethnic >Albanian terrorists stoned the car of another Klokot Serb, Trajan Trajkovic, >while he was driving through the Albanian-populated part of the village of >Mogila. According to amateur radio operators, the windows on the car were >smashed and the vehicle was considerably damaged. This attack, too, was >reported to KFor, but an investigation yielded no result. > >KFOR UNCOVERS ANOTHER ARMS CACHE IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN VILLAGE KOSOVSKA >MITROVICA, October 5 (Tanjug) - International force Kfor troops have found >another cache of weapons in an ethnic Albanian-populated village in the >U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province, it was >announced on Thursday. In the cache, found in the village of Morina in the >Srbica area on Tuesday, were two machine guns, thousands of rounds of >ammunition, some military equipment, explosives, and light weaponry, KFor >said. Kfor Spokesman Yves Corvair told the press that the weapons and >equipment were found in and around a house from which shots had been fired at >soldiers of the Russian Kfor battalion. At the news conference, held at U.N. >Kosovo-Metohija Mission (UNMIK) headquarters in the south, ethnic >Albanian-populated part of divided Kosovska Mitrovica, Corvair said no arrests >had been made after a five-hour search. _______________________________________________________ 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] _______________________________________________________
