Informazione

CROLLO DELLE PRESENZE NEL TURISMO IN CROAZIA

Il giornale istriano "Glas Istre" ha riportato le cifre
relative alla crisi del turismo sulla costa istro-dalmata.
CI si aggira attorno al 25% di presenze in meno rispetto
allo scorso anno. La ragione principale di tale crisi viene
fatta risalire ai prezzi esageratamente alti rispetto
alla qualita' dell'offerta turistica.

+++ Kroatien beklagt Touristenschwund +++
PULA, 19.Juli 2002. Wie das istrische Blatt "Glas Istre" aus
Pula meldet, leidet die kroatische Küste in diesem Jahr
unter einem starken Rückgang der Touristenzahlen. In einigen
Küstenorten Kroatiens halten sich bis zu beinahe 25% weniger
Gäste auf als im Vorjahr. Für die kroatische Wirtschaft
bedeutet dies erhebliche Einbußen, da ein großer Teil des
kroatischen Sozialprodukts durch den Tourismus
erwirtschaftet wird. Seit der Unabhängigkeit Kroatiens hat
die Zahl der Touristen ohnehin nur Bruchteile dessen
erreicht, was in Zeiten des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens erreicht
werden konnte. Hauptgrund für das Fernbleiben der Touristen
ist das in Kroatien herrschende völlig überteuerte
Preisniveau.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM

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http://www.ansa.it/balcani/croazia/20020718165032285164.html

CROAZIA: SLOGAN MCDONDALD'S RICORDA SALUTO 'USTASCIA'
(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 18 LUG - Suscita polemiche in Croazia
uno slogan promozionale usato dai fast-food della McDonald's,
che ricorda molto da vicino il saluto che si scambiavano
durante la guerra gli 'Ustascia', i fascisti croati che
collaboravano con i nazisti. Lo scrive oggi il quotidiano
di Zagabria 'Jutarnji list' dopo la segnalazione di un
lettore. ''Per l'estate pronti!'' recita il motto della
McDonald's, che a tutti croati ricorda ''Per la patria
pronti!'' (''Za dom spremni!''), usato dal governo
filonazista di Ante Pavelic, al potere dal 1941 al '45.
Contattata dal giornale, Deana Knezevic, responsabile
della sezione pubblicita' di McDonald's ha dichiarato
che ''nella scelta della frase non c'era alcuna intenzione
politica''. ''La McDonald's - ha detto - non e'
una'azienda che usa normalmente frasi provocatorie e
con questa pubblicita' non era sua intenzione mandare
un messaggio ambiguo. Era solo un modo per dire che
eravamo pronti anche quest'estate - ha aggiunto - ad
accogliere i turisti. Nessuno si era lamentato finora''.
(ANSA). COR*VD 18/07/2002 16:50

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ASSASSINI E TORTURATORI A PIEDE LIBERO

+++ KROATIEN: MÖRDER UND FOLTERER FREIGELASSEN
SPLIT. Sieben ehemalige kroatische Militärpolizisten, die der
Ermordung und Folterung der Serben in der Adria-Küstenstadt Split
1992-1995 beschuldigt sind, wurden heute nach einem
Gerichtsbeschluss freigelassen. Vorsitzender des Dalmatinischen
Menschenrechtskommittes Tonci Majic nannte diese Entscheidung
skandalös. Er sagte, daß man in Kroatien alles versucht, um die
Ankunft der Zeugen aus Serbien zu verhindern und die Zeugen in
Kroatien einzuschüchtern. Die eingeschüchterten kroatischen
Zeugen behaupten jetzt auf einmal, sie könnten sich an nichts
erinnern. Der Prozess soll am 19. September fortgesetzt werden.
TANJUG +++

http://www.ansa.it/balcani/croazia/20020722170132287738.html

CROAZIA: CRIMINI GUERRA,POLIZIOTTI RILASCIATI A PIEDE LIBERO
(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 22 LUG - Sette ex poliziotti militari
sospettati di aver commesso crimini di guerra e attualmente
sotto processo a Spalato, sono stati rilasciati oggi a
piede libero. Lo hanno riferito i media croati.
Il giudice Slavko Lozina, piu' volte criticato dai media
e dalle organizzazioni non governative per i diritti dell'uomo
per essere troppo condiscendente verso gli imputati, ha
deciso di rilasciare sette degli otto ex poliziotti.
Gli imputati sono sospettati di aver torturato crudelmente
nel 1991 i prigionieri nella prigione militare 'Lora' a
Spalato. Almeno due dei detenuti, tutti dell'esercito popolare
jugoslavo (Jna), sono morti.
La procura di Spalato ha richiesto un mese fa alla Corte
suprema il trasferimento del processo da Spalato proprio per
il comportamento del giudice Lozina durante il processo. La
richiesta della procura, respinta dalla Corte suprema, era
motivata da numerosi incidenti in aula, per gli applausi e
insulti degli amici e parenti degli otto accusati.
Il processo Lora e' ritenuto uno dei test principali per i
tribunali croati per dimostrare di essere capaci di
processare i presunti criminali di guerra di nazionalita'
croata. I portavoci del Tribunale penale internazionale (Tpi)
hanno piu' volte indicato che in caso di gravi irregolarita'
il processo potrebbe trasferirsi all'Aja. (ANSA). COR*VD
22/07/2002 17:01

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ATTACCO DI SKINHEADS CONTRO IL GAY PRIDE A
ZAGABRIA: LE PIAZZE CROATE SONO INTERDETTE
AGLI OMOSESSUALI NELLA CATTOLICISSIMA CROAZIA

IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 350, 12 July, 2002
www.iwpr.net

CROATIA: SKINHEAD VIOLENCE MARS FIRST
GAY MARCH

The mob fury that was unleashed on a
peaceful homosexual parade has
exposed Croatian society's intolerance
of minority groups

By Drago Hedl in Osijek

Croatia's first gay pride event ended
in tear gas and violence last month
after the marchers were attacked by
groups of screaming skinheads, some
giving Nazi salutes.

Police were forced to intervene, making
26 arrests, and ten of the
participants were taken to hospital
suffering from a variety of wounds.

The display of public intolerance -
which was broadcast around the world -
occurred in spite of Interior Minister
Simo Lucin's involvement in the
June 28 procession and his calls for
marchers to "love yourselves and
fight for your rights".

Not all parade-goers were impressed by
this show of solidarity on behalf
of the centre-left government. One
suggested that Lucin and other
officials only showed up when they
found out Juan Pablo Ordonez, head of
the UN human rights office in Croatia,
was going to make an appearance.
"They organised the police cordon to
protect themselves, not us," the
protester said.

Viktor Ivancic, editor of the Feral
Tribune, a left-wing newspaper based
in Split, says the resulting furore
exposed Croatia's self-image as a
caring nation as a sham. "What occurred
during this peaceful march of
homosexuals, who had dared to come out
of the closet after so many
decades, has dispelled the illusion of
a humane nation," he said.

The hostility was not totally
unexpected. In Croatia, same-sex
relationships are generally viewed as
an abnormality if not an outright
perversion, and equal rights are unheard
of. Discreet gatherings organised
in the bars and cafes of Zagreb and
other cities usually become the
targets of skinhead attacks.

Such assaults receive a lot of media
attention, as in one notorious case
when a French homosexual was beaten to
death in Zagreb city centre a few
years ago.

The parade-goers, however, could hardly
be accused of being flamboyant.
While the march was intended to draw
attention to their unequal position
in society, they dressed down so as not
to provoke passers-by.

This did not deter the thugs. After the
march ended, its organisers had to
take shelter in a women's centre and
did not leave until after dark, for
fear of being attacked by skinheads and
other drunks.

Marijo Kovac, who intended to lead the
march, was attacked by three
hooligans who stole his mobile phone.
"I'm sorry that we came to the
attention of the world in this way," he
said.

However, the fact that the event took
place at all is being seen as a
minor victory. "Regardless of
everything that happened, the first
Zagreb Gay Pride parade succeeded," said
Dorino Manzin, head of the Stepping Out
group and one of the event's organisers.
"We succeeded in telling Croatian
society that we exist, that we are part
of the population and that we will
struggle for our rights."

Furio Radin, head of parliament's human
rights committee, said the
marchers had set an example to the rest
of society. "Croatian homosexuals
today gave a lesson to the citizens of
Zagreb and showed they had the
strength of character to publicly
demonstrate for something that unfortunately
is still widely unaccepted.

"Many well-known gay Zagreb citizens
did not have the courage to take part
in the event."

However, many right-wing nationalist
parties condemned the parade. The
extremist Croatian Pure Party of Rights
released a statement describing
the march as "sick", insisting it posed
a danger to public morals and even
the constitution.

The hard line Movement for Life and
Family, which advocates measures to
promote larger families, was equally
dismissive, calling it "a public
presentation of sexual abnormality".

The right-wingers' moral cue usually
comes from the country's powerful
Catholic church, which takes a harsh
line on same-sex relationships. Glas
Koncil, the church's official mouthpiece,
recently described homosexuality
as a "severe perversion", saying it was
"incompatible with Catholic morality".

This intolerance, while widespread, is
causing growing concern within
other sections of society. Ivancic
warns that the gay community has become
the next logical target for hardliners
now that the Serbian minority - the
former "enemy within" - has to all
intents and purposes ceased to exist.

Drago Hedl is a regular IWPR contributor


(Note: IWPR is an anti-Yugoslav, Western-backed news agency which
always supported separatist movements in the Balkans in the last years.
It is funded, among others, by the Soros foundation. I.SLAVO)

<div>SERBS LEAVING SANDZAK <br /> <br /> Departure of Serbs from Sandzak believed to be triggered by policies of <br /> Bosniak nationalists <br /> <br /> By IWPR staff in London <br /> <br /> Serbs are beginning to leave the predominantly Muslim Sandzak region of <br /> south-west Serbia after losing public sector jobs, local Serb <br /> representatives say. <br /> <br /> Some Serbs estimate that around 1,000 members of the community in the <br /> largest town in the region, Novi Pazar, have left over the last couple <br /> of <br /> years.  New For Sale signs appear on Serb homes and land throughout the <br /> region almost daily. <br /> <br /> More departures could have serious implications for the stability of the <br /> country, with some predicting a possible nationalist Serb backlash. <br /> <br /> The exodus is believed to have been prompted by the predominantly Muslim <br /> Party of Democratic Action, SDA, which has dismissed Serb managers in <br /> state companies and local authorities since coming to power two years <br /> ago. <br /> <br /> Federal Minister for National and Ethnic Communities Rasim Ljajic, who <br /> leads the moderate Bosniak Coalition for Sandzak, told IWPR that "the <br /> reasons for Serb departures are economic but one certainly shouldn't <br /> overlook other reasons linked to the actions of the SDA." <br /> <br /> Head of the Serbian Radical Party, SRS, municipal committee Milan <br /> Veselinovic is more blunt, "The extremist statements and actions of the <br /> SDA have resulted in a situation in which over 70 Serb houses in the <br /> very <br /> centre of Novi Pazar have been sold in the past two years.  There the <br /> Serb <br /> proportion of the population has dropped from 22 to around 17 per cent. <br /> " <br /> <br /> <br /> The SDA led by Sulejman Ugljanin has long called for Sandzak to be made <br /> a <br /> republic and in the past prominent party members have also talked of <br /> secession from Serbia and annexation to Bosnia. <br /> <br /> Widely-publicised statements made by Ugljanin in the 1990s include "the <br /> Muslims are well-armed, they just lack tanks" (Globus, October 1992) and <br /> "Sandzak would become a new, Muslim autonomous region in Serbia that <br /> will <br /> even secede" (Novosti, November 1990). <br /> <br /> This was a period when convoys of Bosniaks - which is how local Muslims <br /> describe themselves - were fleeing Sandzak for Sarajevo or Turkey, <br /> fearing <br /> that the war in neighbouring Bosnia would spread and they would be <br /> targeted by the Milosevic regime. <br /> <br /> However, while there is no longer public talk of a republic, Milosevic's <br /> fall in 2000 and a general change in Belgrade's policy direction does <br /> not <br /> appear to have done much to alter SDA thinking. <br /> <br /> In June this year, a public statement from a session of the regional <br /> executive body the Bosniak National Council of Sandzak, which has close <br /> links with the SDA, said, "There are no reasons for us to ingratiate <br /> ourselves either to Belgrade or Podgorica, or the international <br /> community <br /> because Sandzak must be a separate territorial unit". <br /> <br /> Participants at the session also declared that they must not give up on <br /> an <br /> illegal referendum held in 1991, in which a clear majority voted for <br /> autonomy. <br /> <br /> Serb directors in Novi Pazar to lose their jobs include the head of the <br /> town's culture centre Dusan Raicevic; Raco Vuckovic of the Toplane <br /> heating <br /> company; Elektroras director Mile Cvetic; and Miroljub Djokanovic, <br /> director of the firm, Vojin Popovic. <br /> <br /> In turn, appointments to local government at the end of 2000 saw <br /> Ugljanin's personal secretary Vasvija Gusinac become mayor of Sandzak, <br /> his <br /> brother, Sadik, head of the executive committee and driver, Nedzib <br /> Hodzic, <br /> deputy major. <br /> <br /> The only Serb in authority, municipal secretary Milijan Belic "is just <br /> for <br /> decor and the local Serbs do not recognise him as their representative," <br /> said Radenko Jokovic, head of the United Peoples Party, SNS, in the <br /> Raska <br /> district. <br /> <br /> Like Ljajic, the head of the Liberal Bosniak Organisation, Kasim <br /> Zoranic, <br /> said the major motivation behind the Serb withdrawal was economic, "The <br /> price of real-estate in Novi Pazar is three times higher than that in <br /> other parts of Serbia." <br /> <br /> An apartment in Novi Pazar costs approximately 750 euros per square <br /> metre <br /> compared with 400 euros in the central Serbian cities of Kraljevo and <br /> Kragujevac. <br /> <br /> A Serb who had shifted from Novi Pazar to Kragujevac, and who insisted <br /> on <br /> anonymity, agreed that there was a range of motives for Serb departures. <br /> <br /> "There was always some tension felt at work.  There was no open pressure <br /> but one could feel insecurity and some kind of fear in the air.  Maybe <br /> more a feeling of uncertainty of what could happen and what the Novi <br /> Pazar <br /> authorities could do," he said. <br /> <br /> "On the other hand the difference in the price of a flat sold in Novi <br /> Pazar and one bought in Kragujevac is quite alluring especially for <br /> those <br /> who are in a difficult financial situation." <br /> <br /> Whatever lies behind the Serb departures, SDA-ruled local authorities <br /> are <br /> showing no interest. <br /> <br /> Assistant to the head of the Novi Pazar municipal executive committee <br /> Kimeta Ramovic recently told a Sandzak news agency that they had neither <br /> information nor any comment on the migration. <br /> <br /> That local Serbs have lost the backing they enjoyed during Milosevic's <br /> rule has been made clear by the fact that the current Serbian leadership <br /> has not held a single meeting with them since they came to power. <br /> <br /> Such complacency is astonishing as there's a danger that if more Serbs <br /> leave Sandzak, Bosniak nationalists could press for their demands for <br /> autonomy provoking another Balkan crisis. <br /> <br /> IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 353, July 26, 2002 <br /> www.iwpr.net <br /> <br /> (Note: IWPR is an anti-Yugoslav, Western-backed news agency which <br /> always supported separatist movements in the Balkans in the last years.  <br /> It is funded, among others, by the Soros foundation)</div><br />

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Belgrado, 16 luglio 2002

Dichiarazione del Partito Socialista della Serbia in occasione
della giornata nazionale di fratellanza con la Repubblica d'Iraq


Il PSS è contro le pressioni, minacce e sanzioni a cui è sottoposto
quotidianamente il popolo iracheno. Le celebrazioni della giornata
nazionale della libertà e dell'indipendenza irachena sono la migliore
occasione per la conferma della ovvia conclusione che l'attuale ordine
politico mondiale, basato sulla forza e il potere violento, è una
fonte permanente di nuove e sempre più pericolose crisi.
La migliore prova di tale conclusione sono le nuove minacce di guerra
contro la Repubblica d'Iraq, un paese sovrano e membro fondatore
dell'ONU, con accuse completamente infondate e contro le leggi
internazionali.
La Repubblica dell'Iraq non può essere una minaccia per nessuno nel
mondo, in quanto quel grande paese è già è da 11 anni vittima di un
ingiusto embargo e sottoposto a pressioni mortali.

In occasione dellla giornata Nazionale della Repubblica dell'Iraq, il
Partito Socialista di Serbia esprime la sua solidarietà alla fraterna
dirigenza Irachena e al suo coraggioso popolo, vedendo in questo paese
amico una delle fiaccole della libertà nel presente mondo
"globalizzato".
Va ribadito che la presente "globalizzazione", in tutte le sue forme,
non è nient'altro che una nuova forma di dominazione ed egemonia
militare nel mondo. In questo contesto, l'umanità intera è sull'orlo
di un cataclisma e ad un bivio storico. È ovvio che i paesi ricchi
non sono più capaci a mantenere la loro dominazione e stanno
approfondendo l'agonia del mondo generando crisi nuove, perpetrando
nuove minacce e facendo nuove guerre. La storia proverà presto che
un mondo unipolare è impossibile e che il multipolarismo è l'unica
alternativa per l'umanità.

Quali siano le conseguenze del "nuovo ordine mondiale", delle sanzioni
e dei bombardamenti, noi jugoslavi lo sappiamo molto bene. Oggi è
divenuto chiaro quanto imprevidenti fossero quelli che credevano che
cambiamenti e "riforme" innaturali, così come "l'auto-asservimento",
sarebbero stati più utili della libertà e dell'indipendenza. Per una
manciata di promesse essi dimenticarono che gli schiavi non hanno
nessun diritto o futuro.

La celebrazione della giornata Nazionale della Repubblica fraterna
dell'Iraq è un'occasione per tutte le persone che amano la libertà e
l'indipendenza nel mondo, per ribadire fermamente che, difendendo la
sua libertà, indipendenza e dignità, il popolo dell'Iraq, della
Jugoslavia e di altri paesi contribuiscono, in questo modo, al futuro
dell'umanità, a migliori prospettive per la civiltà umana, a una
migliore vita di tutte le persone della nostra Terra, così come a una
coesistenza pacifica ed attiva, al rafforzamento della pace e della
solidarietà internazionale nel mondo contro le nuove forme di
colonizzazione che stanno minacciando di distruggere i pilastri
dell'esistenza e della civiltà umana.

Partito Socialista della Serbia 2002.

Traduzione di Vigna Enrico - Associazione " SOS Yugoslavia", Torino

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Beograd, 16. jul 2002. godine

SAOPSTENJE SOCIJALISTICKE PARTIJE SRBIJE POVODOM
NACIONALNOG PRAZNIKA BRATSKE REPUBLIKE IRAK

SOCIJALISTICKA PARTIJA SRBIJE SE PROTIVI PRITISCIMA,
PRETNJAMA I SANKCIJAMA KOJIMA JE IRACKI NAROD
SVAKODNEVNO IZLOZEN


Proslava Nacionalnog praznika bratske Republike
Irak, zemlje koja voli svoju slobodu i nezavisnost,
predstavlja najbolju priliku da se jos jednom potvrdi
ocigledni zakljucak da sadasnji politicki poredak u
svetu, koji je zasnovan na sili i na ogoljenoj moci,
predstavlja stalni izvor novih i sve opasnijih i kriza.

Ne postoji bolji zakljucak za opravdanost ovih
tvrdnji od sadasnjih novih ratnih pretnji protiv
prijateljske republike Iraka, suverene zemlje i
zemlje koja je medju osnivacima Organizacije
Ujedinjenih nacija, pretnji koje su potpuno
neosnovane i koje su suprotne medjunarodnom pravu.

Republika Irak ne moze predstavljati pretnju ni
za koga u svetu jer je ta zemlja vec jedanaest godina
zrtva nepravednog embarga i smrtonosnih pritisaka.

Povodom Nacionalnog dana Republike Irak,
Socijalisticka Partija Srbije izrazava svoju
solidarnost sa hrabrim irackim narodom i
prijateljskim irackim rukovodstvom, ocenjujuci da je
ova zemlja jedna od baklji slobode u sadasnjem
"globalizovanom" svetu.

Treba podsetiti da sadasnja "globalizacija", u
svim svojim oblicima, ne predstavlja nista drugo nego
novu formu dominacije i vojne hegemonije u svetu. U
tom kontekstu, citavo covecanstvo je dovedeno na samu
ivicu kataklizme i na istorijsku raskrsnicu. Postraje
jasno da bogate zemlje nisu vise u stanju da odrze
svoju dominaciju i da samo produzavaju i produbljuju
agoniju u kojoj se svet nalazi, kroz stvaranje novih
kriza, kroz nove pretnje i kroz nove ratove. Istorija
ce vrlo brzo pokazati da unipolarni svet nije moguc,
kao i da je multipolarizam jedina alternativa za
covecanstvo.

Koje su prave posledice "novog svetskiog
poretka", sankcija i bombardovanja, mi Jugosloveni
veoma dobro znamo. Danas je vise nego ocigledno
koliko su bili kratkovidi oni koji su poverovali da
nepriordne promene i "reforme", kao i ropsko
samo-potcinjavanje mogu biti manje zlo od slobode i
nezavisnosti. Za saku praznih obecanja, oni su
zaboravili da robovi nemaju prava, da nemaju nikakvih
perspektiva.

Proslava nacionalnog dana bratske Republike Irak
predstavlja pravu priliku za sve one ljude u svetu
kojima je stalo do slobode i nezavisnosti da se
ubedljivo podsete da kroz odbranu svoje slobode,
nezavisnosti i dostojanstva, narodi Iraka,
Jugoslavije i drugih zemalja, najbolje doprinose
buducnosti, boljim perspektivama za ljudsku
civilizaciju, boljem zivotu za sve ljude na zemlji,
kao i aktivnoj miroljubivoj koegzistenciji, jacanju
mira i medjunarodne solidarnosti u svetu,
suprostavljajuci se svim oblicima kolonizacije, koji
prete da uniste same temelje covekove egzistencije i
ljudske civilizacije u celini.

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Belgrade, July 16th, 2002

STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA ON THE OCCASION
OF THE NATIONAL DAY OF THE BROTHERLY REPUBLIC OF IRAQ


THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA IS AGAINST PRESSURES, THREATS AND
SANCTIONS THAT IRAQI PEOPLE ARE EXPOSED TO ON DAILY BASIS

The celebration of the National day of the freedom-loving
and independence-loving country, the brotherly Republic of
Iraq, is the best opportunity for the confirmation of the
obvious conclusion that present political order in the world,
which is based on force and nude power, is permanent source of
new, ever more dangerous crises.

Is there better proof for such conclusion then new war
threats against friendly Republic of Iraq, a sovereign country
and founding member of the Organization of United Nations, the
threats that are completely baseless and contrary to the
international law.

The Republic of Iraq can not be threat to anybody in the
world since that very country is already for 11 years a victim
of the unjust embargo and deadly pressures.

On the occasion of the National day of the Republic of
Iraq, the Socialist Party of Serbia expresses its solidarity
with the brotherly Iraqi leadership and brave Iraqi people,
seeing this friendly country as one of the torches of freedom
in the present "globalized" world.

It is to be reminded that present "globalization", in all
its forms, is nothing else but new form of domination and
military hegemony in the world. In that context, the whole
mankind has come to the very edge of cataclysm and historical
crossroad. It is obvious that the rich countries are not able
any more to keep their domination and they are just deepening
the agony of the world by generating new crisis, by making new
threats and by making new wars. The history will soon prove
that the unipolar world is impossible and that multipolarism is
the only alternative for the mankind.

What are true consequences of the "new world order", of the
sanctions and bombardments, we Yugoslavs know very well. Today
it has become clear how short-sighted were those who believed
that unnatural changes and "reforms", as well as "self-slavery"
could be less evil then freedom and independence. For the
handful of promises, they forget that slaves have no rights and
prospects.

The celebration of the National day of the brotherly
Republic of Iraq is the true occasion for all freedom-loving
and independence-loving people in the world to remind
themselves firmly that, by defending its freedom, independence
and dignity, the people of Iraq, of Yugoslavia and of other
countries contribute thus to the future of mankind, to brighter
outlooks of human civilization, to better life of all people on
our Earth, as well as to active peaceful coexistence, to
strengthening of the peace and international solidarity in the
world against new forms of colonization which are threatening
to destroy the very pillars of the human existence and
civilizations.

SPS 2002.

LA CROAZIA IL DALAI L'AMA (LA SLOVENIA PURE)

> http://www.ansa.it/balcani/croazia/20020708193032276095.html

CROAZIA: DALAI LAMA CONCLUDE VISITA TRE GIORNI
(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 08 LUG - Il Dalai lama ha concluso oggi una
visita non ufficiale di tre giorni in Croazia. Lo ha reso noto
l'agenzia di stampa croata Hina. Dopo due giorni di soggiorno a
Spalato, il Dalai Lama, ricevuto oggi dall'arcivescovo di Zagabria
Josip Bozanovic, ha tenuto oggi due conferenze, la prima nella
Facolta' di filosofia dei Gesuiti, la seconda nel palazzetto dello
sport della capitale croata. La visita del Dalai Lama, premio Nobel
per la pace 1989, e' avvenuta su invito di organizzazioni non
governative e non prevedeva incontri con autorita' politiche.
Parlando con i giornalisti, il leader spirituale dei buddhisti
tibetani ha dichiarato che il suo impegno e' mirato ad
un'autonomia del Tibet all'interno dello stato cinese e non
all'indipendenza. La visita del Dalai Lama la scorsa settimana
in Slovenia ha provocato una dura protesta di Pechino. In Slovenia
infatti il Dalai Lama ha incontrato, anche se in forma non ufficiale,
il primo ministro Janez Drnovsek e il capo dello stato Milan Kucan.
(ANSA) COR*VD 08/07/2002 19:30