>FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA SERBIAN PREMIER MEETS NEW MANAGEMENT >OF NIS ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY BELGRADE, Aug 23 (Tanjug).- Serbian Premier and >Vice-President of the Socialist Party of Serbia Mirko Marjanovic received >Wednesday Gen. Prof. Jugoslav Kodzopeljic, acting general manager, Prof. >Branimir Djordjevic, management board president, and Prof. Branislav Ivkovic, >board member, of the Nis electronics industry (EI), Serbian information >ministry said. Kodzopeljic, who is a renowned telecommunications expert and >Yugoslav assistant defense minister prior to his new appointment, informed >Marjanovic of the preparations underway for the financial consolidation and >restructuring of this industry in southern Serbia. EI has considerable >technical, technological and manpower potentials which, together with the >supportive measures adopted by the Serbian government, should form the basis >for the recovery of this company of strategic interest for Serbia's economy. >Increased production and full use of capacities will provide for full >employment of EI workers and improve their standard of living, it was noted >during the meeting. Approving the new management's plans for consolidation, >Marjanovic said that the government would ensure the full implementation of >measures for the recovery of the company. > >CONSTRUCTION OF 10,000 HOMES UNDERWAY BELGRADE, Aug 23 (Tanjug).- The >coordinating teams of the Serbian government for construction and manufacture >of construction materials held a meeting Wednesday to discuss the >implementation of the program of building 10,000 homes this year and the >supply of construction materials for the purpose over the past three months. >They noted that the construction sites were well provided with the necessary >materials and that the construction works were proceeding according to plan. > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY >CONDEMNS TERRORISM IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA MOSCOW, Aug 23 (Tanjug) - Russian >foreign ministry once again condemned terrorist acts in Kosovo-Metohija on >Wednesday, saying that the leaders of the civilian mission UNMIK and the >international force KFor are fully responsible for inadequate safety >conditions in the province. The statement, carried by Russian Itar-Tass news >agency Wednesday, said that people were injured in the Aug 18 blast that >targeted the building in Pristina housing the Organisation for Security and >Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission and offices of the Yugoslav Committee for >Liaison with the U.N. mission in Kosovo-Metohija and of several political >parties. On Aug 17, another blast demolished the Orthodox church in Velika >Reka village. The day before, eight Serb children from Crkvena Vodica village, >near Obilic, were seriously injured in an ethnic Albanian extremists' bomb >attack. This evidently shows that the leaders of U.N. mission and KFor are >turning a blind eye to the violence against Serbs and ethnic minorities in >Kosovo-Metohija, and are therefore fully responsible for inadequate safety >conditions in the province. Scheduled local elections cannot therefore be >fair, free or democratic, the statement said. UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner >scheduled local elections for Oct. 28 in Kosovo-Metohija, despite the strong >opposition of the local Serbs and the Yugoslav government in Belgrade. This is >the second protest of the Russian Ministry to the same effect in two days. In >the first protest, made public on Tuesday, the ministry described the August >17 UNMIK and KFor declaration on their own status as a glaring violation of >the Security Council resolution 1244 which placed Serbia's southern province >under UN administration last summer. KFor and UNMIK proclaimed their own >status unilaterally, without approval by legitimate Yugoslav authorities, the >ministry said. Claims by KFor and UNMIK that they are empowered to decide >their own status are untrue. Moscow considers this document to be politically >harmful and dangerous, as it violates in form and content the basic provisions >of Resolution 1244 regarding Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial >integrity, the statement says. > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA MASS CRIMES BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN >TERRORISTS REVEALED PRISTINA, Aug 23 (Tanjug).- The two mass graves discovered >in Pristina, capital of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, have once again >revealed the horrible truth about the atrocities committed by ethnic Albanian >terrorists last year, the Pristina Center for Peace and Tolerance said in a >statement Wednesday. Bodies of 160 victims were discovered Monday in a mass >grave in the Pristina district of Dragodan. They are believed to have been >killed by ethnic Albanian terrorists over the past 14 months, since the >arrival of international KFor troops and UN civilian mission UNMIK following >the pullout of Yugoslav security forces from the province. KFor's and UNMIK's >silence so far about the discovery constitutes complicity with the crimes and >an encouragement to the terrorists to commit more murders, abductions or bomb >attacks on innocent children and state institutions, the statement says. The >Center urges representatives of the international community to respond to the >demands of relatives of about 1,000 abducted Serbs and other non-Albanians and >to appeals by humanitarian organization for information regarding the >whereabouts of the bodies of the victims and for autopsy results, the >statement says. It is evident that the international mission in >Kosovo-Metohija is unwilling to face reality, secure peace or provide safety >to all in the province, the Center said. The UN Security Council must >therefore reconsider its decisions and withdraw the military and civilian >missions from Serbia's province in order to entrust the resolving of the >situation there to others who will strive for peace and safety for all >inhabitants, the statement says. > >TREPCA MANAGER MAKES OFFER TO UN KOSOVO-METOHIJA ADMINISTRATOR NOVI PAZAR, Aug >23 (Tanjug).- General Manager of the Trepca mining industry of Serbia's >Kosovo-Metohija province Novak Bjelic addressed Wednesday an open letter to >the head of the UN civilian mission Bernard Kouchner proposing conditions for >resuming production in the Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan plants. KFor and >UNMIK stormed Trepca plants in Mitrovica and Zvecan and its mines in Leposavic >on August 14 at dawn, justifying their action by environmental concerns. >Bjelic addressed his letter from the temporary Trepca management office in >Novi Pazar, southern Serbia, as he is banned from entering Kosovo-Metohija by >Kouchner, who had said that his return would depend on changing his stance >regarding company activities. The letter also points to the need for the >immediate pullout of KFor and UNMIK from Trepca plants and mines. Bjelic >requested tenders for revitalizing the industry and acquiring modern equipment >for production and environment protection, and proposed that Trepca itself >finance environment cleanup activities in Kosovska Mitrovica. Trepca can >overhaul its installations and ensure highest environment protection standards >within six months, Bjelic said. The zinc processing installations could be >made operational within 18 months after revitalization works start, Bjelic >said. Work in Zvecan should be done exclusively by non-Albanians and in the >southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica exclusively by ethnic Albanians in a first >stage, until full conditions for peace and tolerance are ensured throughout >the province, Bjelic said in his letter. > >PROTESTING TREPCA WORKERS ENDORSE THEIR MANAGER'S OFFER TO KOUCHNER ZVECAN, >Aug 24 (Tanjug).- Workers of the Trepca mining industry and Kosovska Mitrovica >residents continued their protest Thursday in Zvecan, Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija >province, over the storming of the Trepca lead smelter by Kfor troops on >August 14. Management member Dragan Vasic read to the protesters a letter >addressed Wednesday by Trepca general manager Novak Bijelic to civilian >mission UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner, proposing a resumption of work provided >some conditions are ensured. The principal condition for resuming production >is a pullout of Kfor and UNMIK forces from the Zvecan plant and the Trepca >mine in Leposavic within three days, Bijelic said in his letter. > >YUGOSLAVIA - RADIO - PROTEST REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS CONCERNED OVER CLOSURE >OF RADIO YUGOSLAVIA SARAJEVO, Aug 24 (Tanjug).- International non-governmental >organization Reporters Without Borders expressed concern Thursday over the >recent closure of the Radio Yugoslavia broadcasting center in Bijeljina, >Republika Srpska. The organization requested clarifications in a letter to the >High Representative of the international community for Bosnia-Herzegovina >Wolfgang Petritsch. Last week-end, Petritch ordered the personnel of Radio >Yugoslavia in Bijeljina to cease broadcasting under threat of force. > > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3612.1706"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"> ><P><IMG height=96 src="Image236.gif" width=288></P> ><P></FONT><I><FONT face=Times>BELGRADE, 24 August 2000 </I></FONT><U><FONT >face=Arial size=2>YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES </FONT><B><FONT >color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2>YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO >SENEGALESE COUNTERPART YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN >COLLEAGUE >ON NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COUNTERPART >ON >NATIONAL DAY YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES IRAQI HEALTH MINISTER >YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ CONDEMN SANCTIONS YUGOSLAVIA AND ARMENIA HOLD >CONSULTATIONS >IN YEREVAN URUGUAY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR YUGOSLAV UN >AMBASSADOR CHARGES KFOR, UNMIK, KOUCHNER WITH COMPLICITY YUGOSLAVIA APPEALS TO >UNESCO TO PROTECT CULTURAL MONUMENTS</B> <B>YUGOSLAV MINISTER VISITS SOUTH >AFRICA YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF ECONOMY RECEIVES CHINESE DELEGATION SERBIAN POWER >COMPANY EXECUTIVES RECEIVE CHINESE DELEGATION YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES IFRC >DELEGATION INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS FEDERATION SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS >YUGOSLAV >RED CROSS </B></U></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></P><U> ><P>FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA </FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff >face=Arial size=2>SERBIAN PREMIER MEETS NEW MANAGEMENT OF NIS ELECTRONICS >INDUSTRY</B> <B>CONSTRUCTION OF 10,000 HOMES UNDERWAY </B></U></FONT><FONT >face=Arial size=2></P><U> ><P>KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS </FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff >face=Arial size=2>RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONDEMNS TERRORISM IN >KOSOVO-METOHIJA ></B></U></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></P><U> ><P>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA </FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff >face=Arial size=2>MASS CRIMES BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS REVEALED TREPCA >MANAGER MAKES OFFER TO UN KOSOVO-METOHIJA ADMINISTRATOR PROTESTING TREPCA >WORKERS ENDORSE THEIR MANAGER'S OFFER TO KOUCHNER </B></U></FONT><FONT >face=Arial size=2></P><U> ><P>YUGOSLAVIA - RADIO - PROTEST </FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial >size=2>REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS CONCERNED OVER CLOSURE OF RADIO YUGOSLAVIA ></B></U></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></P> ><P>* * * <U>YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES </U><B>YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT >MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO SENEGALESE COUNTERPART </B>BELGRADE, Aug 24 >(Tanjug).- Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has addressed a message to >his >Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade. The message was presented by Ambassador >Danilo Milic of the Yugoslav foreign ministry to Senegalese Foreign Minister >Cheikh Tidiane Gadio in Dakar. The message points to the need for expanding >the >traditionally friendly relations between the two countries on the basis of >equality and mutual respect, and for stepping up bilateral cooperation and >joint >endeavors in international forums. Gadio accepted the message on behalf of >absent President Wade and underlined that Senegal wishes to enhance the >friendly >ties and all-round cooperation with Yugoslavia. The talks also focused on the >forthcoming Millennium Summit in New York and 55th UN General Assembly. >Senegal, >one of the leading member-states of the Organization of the Islamic >Conference, >advocates Yugoslavia's full reintegration in the UN and the Nonaligned >Movement. ><B></P> ><P>YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COLLEAGUE ON NATIONAL DAY ></B>BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic has >sent >a congratulatory letter to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushtchenko, on >the >occasion of Ukraine's National Day. Bulatovic expressed his belief that >bilateral cooperation is a solid foundation for further development of the >overall relations between the two friendly countries. </P> ><P><B>YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES UKRAINIAN COUNTERPART </B>ON >NATIONAL DAY BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin >Jovanovic has congratulated his Ukrainian counterpart Boris Tarasyuk on the >occasion of August 24, Ukraine's National Day. Expressing best wishes for the >prosperity of the friendly Ukrainian people, Jovanovic stressed the >contribution >of Yugoslav-Ukrainian ties to international relations in general, as well as >to >stability and peace in Europe and the world, said a government statement on >Thursday. </P><B> ><P>YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES IRAQI HEALTH MINISTER </B>BELGRADE, >Aug 23 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic received on >Wednesday Iraqi Health Minister Omar Madhat Mubarak, who is on a few days >visit >to Yugoslavia heading an Iraqi delegation of leading medical and >pharmacological >experts. The two governments give priority to bilateral cooperation in the >health sector, as both countries have been victims of NATO aggressions and >international sanctions, it was said at the meeting. During the Iraqi >delegation's visit to Belgrade, programmes for cooperation between the two >countries concerning mother and child health care, cancer treatment, >production >and supply of medicines and professional staff training must be defined, both >sides noted. Yugoslav Minister of Labour, Health and Social Policy, Miodrag >Kovac and Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami Sadun were present at the >meeting, >a Yugoslav information ministry statement said. <B></P> ><P>YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ CONDEMN SANCTIONS </B>BELGRADE, Aug 24 (Tanjug).- >Serbian >parliament Speaker Dragan Tomic met Thursday the Iraqi Minister of Health Omar >Madhat Mubarak. Both sides expressed satisfaction with the development of >overall bilateral cooperation based on traditional friendship, understanding >and >mutual trust, the parliamentary press service said in a statement. Both >countries abide by the principles of peaceful coexistence, the UN Charter and >international law, and both most strongly condemn the practice of sanctions >which are applied against countries such as Yugoslavia and Iraq by states >whose >hegemonistic policies are aimed at creating a unipolar world, it was noted >during the meeting. Yugoslavia and Iraq will continue stepping up their >cooperation in the economic and other fields to mutual benefit, in line with >the >stances of Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Saddam Hussein of >Iraq, the statement says. </P><B> ><P>YUGOSLAVIA AND ARMENIA HOLD CONSULTATIONS IN YEREVAN </B>BELGRADE, Aug 23 >(Tanjug).- Yugoslav and Armenian foreign ministry officials held consultations >in Yerevan, Yugoslav foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday. >Ambassador >Stanislav Stojanovic of the Yugoslav foreign ministry was received by Armenian >Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Martirosian. The talk focused on bilateral >relations, the situation in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, and the >forthcoming Millennium Summit and 55th session of the UN General Assembly. The >Armenian side urged for the consistent implementation of the Security Council >Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija and for the halting of violence and ethnic >cleansing being perpetrated in the province by ethnic Albanian terrorists in >cooperation with international civilian and military missions UNMIK and KFor >against Serbs and other non-Albanians. Both sides reiterated their commitment >to >intensify the development of bilateral relations and bilateral cooperation in >international forums in order to democratize international relations and step >up >the UN role in maintaining world peace and stability. Stojanovic presented to >Armenian officials a message from Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic >for his Armenian counterpart Vartan Oskanian. <B></P> ><P>URUGUAY FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR </B>MONTEVIDEO, Aug >23 >(Tanjug) - Uruguay Foreign Minister Didier Operty officially received on >Tuesday >Gojko Celebic, Yugoslav Ambassador to Argentina, also accredited to Uruguay on >non-residential basis. They discussed bilateral cooperation and the two >countries' international activities. <B></P> ><P>YUGOSLAV UN AMBASSADOR CHARGES KFOR, UNMIK, KOUCHNER WITH COMPLICITY ></B>GENEVA, Aug 24 (Tanjug).- Head of Yugoslavia's permanent mission at the UN >in Geneva Branko Brankovic addressed Thursday to various international figures >a >letter strongly condemning the crimes perpetrated by ethnic Albanian >terrorists >in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, following the recent discovery of a mass >grave containing bodies of Serb victims in the provincial capital Pristina. >The >letter was addressed to the Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva >Vladimir >Petrovsky, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, head of the UN >Human Rights Commission Mary Robinson. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for >the former Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier, Special Envoy of the UN >Secretary-General >for the Balkans Carl Bildt and others. Recent press reports said that the >international administration in Kosovo-Metohija had long been aware of the >discovery of a mass grave containing bodies of 160 Serbs and other >non-Albanians >in a Pristina cemetery. The victims were killed over the past 14 months, since >the arrival of international KFor troops and UN civilian administration UNMIK >and the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces in June 1999. The following is the >official translation of the letter: Excellency, As is publicly well known, >KFOR, >UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner openly assist terrorists of the so-called KLA to >carry out ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population in the >Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner go >even further. Namely, they are doing their best to hide crimes committed by >Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija. The latest example testifying to >this is the discovery of mass graves with Serbs. The largest one was >discovered >in the Dragodan village. More than 160 brutally killed Serbs were buried in >it. >These persons were buried under either false names, or names of living >persons, >or even with only a number on metal plaques. KFOR has found the graves several >months ago but it is only at the beginning of August that it called family >members to help identify the bodies. This massacre of Serbs by Albanian >terrorists was committed soon after the arrival in Kosovo and Metohija of >KFOR, >UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner. The way KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner, call, >individually and in secrecy, family members to identify the bodies, indicates >that KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner are doing everything to conceal the >crime > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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