>BELGRADE, 20 August 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - MALI YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE TO >MALI COLLEAGUE > >YUGOSLAVIA - SWEDEN YUGOSLAVIA AND SWEDEN END POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS SERBIAN >PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > >YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE OFFICE BOMBED IN PRISTINA BOMB IN AIR CONDITIONER CAUSED >THE EXPLOSION IN PRISTINA ETHNIC ALBANIANS BOMB SERB CHILDREN IN U.N.-RUN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA * > >* * YUGOSLAVIA - MALI YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE TO MALI COLLEAGUE >BAMAKO, Aug 18 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has sent a >written message to Mali President Alphe Oumar Konare, and the message was >delivered in the Mali capital Bamako on Friday by Ambassador at the Yugoslav >foreign ministry Danilo Milic. The message stresses the importance that the >Yugoslav government attaches to the promotion of relations, both bilateral and >international, with friendly Mali. On behalf of President Konare, who was >absent, the message was received by presidential secretary general Modibo >Keita, who gave thanks for the message and expressed satisfaction with >steadily strengthening bilateral relations. Keita conveyed President Konare's >greetings for President Milosevic and the friendly Yugoslav people. The two >sides gave high marks to a recent visit to Mali by Yugoslav Foreign Minister >Zivadin Jovanovic and his talks with his opposite number Modibo Sadibe. Keita >reiterated that Mali, as a non-aligned country and member of the U.N. Security >Council, would continue fully to support Yugoslavia in international forums, >especially in the U.N. Security Council and the Non-Aligned Movement. > >YUGOSLAVIA - SWEDEN YUGOSLAVIA AND SWEDEN END POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS >BELGRADE, Aug 20 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia and Sweden have held political >consultations in Stockholm at the level of foreign ministry political >directors, according to a Yugoslav government statement on Saturday. The two >sides exchanged views on bilateral relations, the situation in the >U.N.-administered Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo- Metohija province and other >matters of mutual interest. They also reviewed questions in connection with >the upcoming Millennium Summit and 55th session of the U.N. General Assembly. >The Yugoslav delegation drew attention to a disastrous situation in >Kosovo-Metohija, where the international force KFor and the U.N. civilian >mission UNMIK, in collusion with ethnic Albanian terrorists, systematically >violate U.N. Resolution 1244. This is leading to a further "ethnic cleansing" >of the province of its non-Albanians and a further exacerbation of the >situation with unforeseeable consequences, the delegation said. The Swedish >delegation expressed concern at the violence being practised against local >Serbs, ethnic Turks, Romanies, Goranies, Muslims, ethnic Egyptians and other >non-Albanians in that U.N.-run southern province of the Yugoslav republic of >Serbia. Both sides reaffirmed their interest in continuing dialogue with a >view to further promoting bilateral relations and cooperation on an equal >footing, the statement said. > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE OFFICE BOMBED IN >PRISTINA PRISTINA, Aug 18 (Tanjug) - A powerful blast on Friday rocked the >building that houses the offices of the Yugoslav Committee liaising with the >U.N. mission in Pristina in U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija >province. The terrorist attack caused severe damage, but no serious injuries. >The explosion smashed some of the windows and blew others out of their frames, >and a thick column of smoke was gushing from the building's interior. Windows >on neighbouring buildings were also blown out. Apart from the Committee, set >up under U.N. Resolution 1244, the building houses offices of the Centre for >Peace and Tolerance and some other institutions. According to Kosovo District >Administrator Veljko Odalovic, speaking for TANJUG, this was an attack on the >last two Serbian and Yugoslav institutions still left in the province since >U.N. peacekeepers' deployment in June 1999. > >BOMB IN AIR CONDITIONER CAUSED THE EXPLOSION IN PRISTINA PRISTINA, Aug 20 >(Tanjug) - Friday's blast that rocked the building in Pristina housing the >Yugoslav Committee liaising with the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija was >probably caused by a planted bomb, according to the international force KFor >on Saturday. The building houses offices of the Committee, as well as those of >the Centre for Peace and Tolerance and of some political parties in that >U.N.-administered province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. KFor's >explosives experts believe the bomb was planted in an air conditioner behind >the building, according to KFor spokesman Major Scott Slaten. British KFor >force commander in Pristina Major John Powell had said on Friday that the >blast was probably caused by a rocket. > >ETHNIC ALBANIANS BOMB SERB CHILDREN IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA OBILIC, Aug 20 >(Tanjug) - Eight Serb children were injured on Friday evening when ethnic >Albanians lobbed a powerful grenade out of a passing unmarked car in the >U.N.-secured Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija. The children, >aged between 5 and 15 years, were playing in a playground not far from an >international force KFor checkpoint in the village of Crkvene Vodice near >Obilic, northwest of the chief city of Pristina, local amateur radio operators >report. The heavily injured children were rushed to hospital in Kosovo Polje. >The blast damaged two vehicles of the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK), a KFor >vehicle and three cars owned by ethnic Albanians. After the explosion, UNMIK >police and KFor troops fired warning shots into the air and then turned their >guns on Serb men who happened to be on the scene, according to amateur radio >operators. _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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