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Subject: Part 2 of 2 - PRESIDENT
MILOSEVIC IN THE HAGUE JAN. 30, 2002 - TRANSCRIPT
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:58:39 EST
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Part 2 of 2 - PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC IN
THE HAGUE JAN. 30, 2002 - TRANSCRIPT
In November 1997, there was a summit
meeting in Crete of all heads of state
and governments of Southeastern Europe.
Back then, we discussed - at our
initiative - the elimination of
barriers, tariffs, integration within
Southeastern Europe and improving our
mutual cooperation. I had a direct
dialog with the Albanian Prime Minister
Fatos Nano. We spoke of normalizing
our relations, eliminating visas and
tariffs, developing transport and trade
links, et cetera. Fatos Nano and I went
before the TV cameras and he then
said, after talking about cooperation
and improving our mutual relations,
that Kosovo was an internal Serbian
matter. This was a promise of peace, of
peaceful solutions to all these problems.
But this was an alarm for all the
powers that continued to act criminally
against my country, trying to
destabilize Yugoslavia and intervene
the way they did. A month or two afterwards,
we received a letter from [German
Foreign Minister] Kinkel and [French
Foreign Minister] Vedrine saying they
were worried about the situation in
Kosovo. For ten years since the time you
claim Serbia "seized" control of its
own territory, there were no murders,
no expulsions, no plunder, no arson, no
arrests in Kosovo. We did not have a
single political prisoner in Yugoslavia
- not one. Kosovo had 20 newspapers
and other publications in Albanian,
which one could buy at every street
corner. Not a single issue, not a
single copy, was ever banned. Albanian
political parties, even separatist
ones, worked freely. Someone here said
we tolerated them. No, our view was that
everything should be permitted - except
violence.
Then the powers behind Yugoslavia's
destruction and occupation rounded up
criminals throughout Western Europe and
sent them to Kosovo to establish a
terrorist organization. They began
terrorist attacks in the spring of 1998.
Then they were crushed. By the fall of
1998, they were completely eliminated,
surrendering by the truckload the
weapons they had smuggled in.
Within that year, they mostly killed
Albanians. I do not have specific
figures with me, since I did not know I
would be given a chance to speak
today. I was notified of my appearance
here only yesterday, and I did not
know what would be discussed. So I do
not have all the specific information,
but I will tell you what I do have. Two
and a half times...
Claude Jorda:
Mr. Milosevic, please allow...
Pres. Milosevic:
... more Albanians than Serbs were
killed by the terrorists in 1998. They
killed Albanian police officers, postal
carriers, forest rangers, even
retirees - only because they received
their retirement checks from the state.
They were attempting to strike terror
in the hearts of Albanians as well as
kill Serbs. We protected our citizens
- both Serbs and Albanians - from
terrorism, and this operation was
completed by the fall of 1998. Then [US
envoy] Holbrooke came to demand a
Verification Mission in order to create
a pretext for attacking Yugoslavia. Let
me tell you....
Claude Jorda:
Mr. Milosevic, allow me just a minute.
Please. Just one minute. I will not
take away your time, I will certainly
give it to you. Even this International
Tribunal whose legality you dispute is
giving you the opportunity to fully
state your case. It seems to me, first
of all, that you are ready to start
with the trial - even today, as it
seems. This goes to your credit. You are
ready. But I have to take you back to
the... Please, try not to completely
lose sight of the issue we are discussing
today. We are not the chamber that
will conduct your trial. We understand
well that your central idea is quite
contrary - that this is a victimization
of your country. It has been heard
and understood.
It would be good for you, Mr.
Milosevic, not to deceive yourself about the
chamber that will try you. You have the
same amount of time as the prosecutor
here. As the chairman of this chamber I
guarantee that. Please, do not lose
sight of the topic we are discussing, then.
You have a thesis you are attempting to
defend, and you have that right - and
will have that right. However, I have
to remind you that this Appeals chamber
is facing an important procedural
question. It may not be important to you,
but it is to us, since we are trying to
safeguard the norms of just and
equitable procedure. What we would like
to know is if you would like your
trial for Kosovo to be separate from
the trial for Bosnia and Croatia, or if
you would prefer them to be combined. I
understand that you might answer this
in a roundabout way. I will, of course,
permit you to speak. You are a
defendant who has good mental health
and clarity of thought. Therefore I ask
you to try and answer this question.
Thank you in advance. You have the floor
again.
Pres. Milosevic:
First of all, this is the only time I
have not been interrupted, the first
time I can say something, and I will
use every opportunity to address the
public regarding the crime that is
being perpetrated against my country. I
do this not because of procedure, since
procedure does not interest me, but in
order to answer the attacks against my
country and my people, and the ongoing
crimes against them. I want the public
to know that after the aggression...
Claude Jorda:
Please wait, Mr. Milosevic. You
understand that you have much time at
your disposal, but you will have more when
the trial starts. This is, of course,
not the subject of today's debate.
You have the right to continue. But you
are now addressing the people outside
this courtroom. Mr. Milosevic, I have
to tell you that you will have the
right to address the public. The
international community created this
trial and I certainly wish that all the
rules that apply to the prosecution, to
you and to the civilization are
respected. Today's debate is about
how the trial would take place in
another chamber. I have no intention of
interrupting you and will subtract the
time I used up by my interruptions. You may
proceed now.
Pres. Milosevic:
I want to emphasize that the crime
against my country has continued. The
most recent Serb murdered in Kosovo that
I've heard of was killed on Christmas
this year. Some 350,000 were expelled
from Kosovo under UN auspices, while
Albanian terrorist activities were
protected by the UN. Since the arrival of
the so-called UN peacekeepers that were
obligated by [UN Security Council]
Resolution 1244 to guarantee the
security of person and property to
every inhabitant of Kosovo, Albanian
terrorists have expelled 350,000 people
and torched tens of thousands of homes.
Sometimes they would burn 50, 60, all
the Serbian houses in a village, in plain
sight of the [UN] troops. These are in
fact occupation troops, who came [to
Kosovo] under the UN banner only to
transform themselves overnight into
occupiers and allies of the terrorists
who killed, who mutilated and butchered
so many, and burned so much, and
continue to do so even today. And they
say they were unaware this was happening.
Can anyone believe that the troops over
there could be unaware that tens of
thousands of homes were being torched?
Can someone damage and destroy...since
the UN troops came, 107 Serbian
churches have been destroyed. Can someone
destroy an entire church and burn it
without the UN troops knowing?
This is a "joint criminal enterprise"
- of the forces who committed crimes
against Yugoslavia with the drug-Mafia
and Albanian terrorists in Kosovo, for
the purpose of crimes not only against
the Serbs but all other non-Albanians,
even Catholic Albanians. Even Albanians
who, in any way - such as cashing
their retirement checks - showed any
loyalty to the Republic of Serbia as
their state.
What is happening over there is
practically the rehabilitation of a policy
led by Hitler and Mussolini. This talk
about "Greater Serbia", this alleged
idea that never really existed, is only
raised to mask the creation of
"Greater Albania" - the very same one
that was made by Hitler and Mussolini
in World War Two. Look at it then, and
look at what is being done now, what
they want to seize from Serbia,
Montenegro, Macedonia - tomorrow maybe from
northern Greece, when Greek-Turkish
relations are strained under orders of
the common master.
This is obviously a crime, and the
thread running through it is obviously
a crime against Yugoslavia. I want to
point out that falsifying historical
facts is not easy, though. It is not
easy even when these facts are only
known to a select group of people, and
downright impossible when millions,
entire nations, know the facts. With
all due respect, the real judges in this
trial - not you who wear the robes
- are those who decided to murder
children in my country, who launched
NATO's aggression and dropped 25
thousand tons of bombs in 78 days,
murdering mostly elderly people,
children and women.
They want to play that role. But they
will not be the judges.
The real judge here is the people -
not just the people of Yugoslavia, but
the peoples of all the countries who
care about liberty and equality. Not for
nothing do we have a saying that the
judgment of the people is the judgment
of God. We all face that judgment, not
just me - who is facing an attempt
here to be made responsible instead of
being given recognition - but also
you, and your employers, especially
those who committed crimes against my
country.
Since you want me to request something
of you, let me demand this: set me
free. I demand to be set free because
you and the entire world should know by
now that I will not run from a fight
for my people and my country. I have no
intention of running. It does not serve
the honor of this institution to keep
me imprisoned here, in disgraceful
conditions, in order to deprive me of
equality in stating my arguments -
even if this institution were legal,
and you know very well that it isn't.
For if you didn't know - and I
don't refer to you in particular, but
to the institution - then you would have
accepted the motion from the amici curiae
to seek advisory opinion from the
International Court of Justice on the
legality of this tribunal. You did not
seek it, because the outcome would be
entirely predictable.
Altogether, I think that such a
criminal approach, an attempt to cast
the victim as the culprit, both in regard
to my country, my people and myself,
has not yet been recorded in history.
With that in mind, I consider it both
logical and just to release me
immediately. I will not flee, and I am
ready to enter any of these debates, since
this is one battle which I certainly
have an obligation to fight.
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MILOSEVIC IN THE HAGUE JAN. 30, 2002 - TRANSCRIPT
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:58:39 EST
From: JaredI@...
To: JaredI@...
Part 2 of 2 - PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC IN
THE HAGUE JAN. 30, 2002 - TRANSCRIPT
In November 1997, there was a summit
meeting in Crete of all heads of state
and governments of Southeastern Europe.
Back then, we discussed - at our
initiative - the elimination of
barriers, tariffs, integration within
Southeastern Europe and improving our
mutual cooperation. I had a direct
dialog with the Albanian Prime Minister
Fatos Nano. We spoke of normalizing
our relations, eliminating visas and
tariffs, developing transport and trade
links, et cetera. Fatos Nano and I went
before the TV cameras and he then
said, after talking about cooperation
and improving our mutual relations,
that Kosovo was an internal Serbian
matter. This was a promise of peace, of
peaceful solutions to all these problems.
But this was an alarm for all the
powers that continued to act criminally
against my country, trying to
destabilize Yugoslavia and intervene
the way they did. A month or two afterwards,
we received a letter from [German
Foreign Minister] Kinkel and [French
Foreign Minister] Vedrine saying they
were worried about the situation in
Kosovo. For ten years since the time you
claim Serbia "seized" control of its
own territory, there were no murders,
no expulsions, no plunder, no arson, no
arrests in Kosovo. We did not have a
single political prisoner in Yugoslavia
- not one. Kosovo had 20 newspapers
and other publications in Albanian,
which one could buy at every street
corner. Not a single issue, not a
single copy, was ever banned. Albanian
political parties, even separatist
ones, worked freely. Someone here said
we tolerated them. No, our view was that
everything should be permitted - except
violence.
Then the powers behind Yugoslavia's
destruction and occupation rounded up
criminals throughout Western Europe and
sent them to Kosovo to establish a
terrorist organization. They began
terrorist attacks in the spring of 1998.
Then they were crushed. By the fall of
1998, they were completely eliminated,
surrendering by the truckload the
weapons they had smuggled in.
Within that year, they mostly killed
Albanians. I do not have specific
figures with me, since I did not know I
would be given a chance to speak
today. I was notified of my appearance
here only yesterday, and I did not
know what would be discussed. So I do
not have all the specific information,
but I will tell you what I do have. Two
and a half times...
Claude Jorda:
Mr. Milosevic, please allow...
Pres. Milosevic:
... more Albanians than Serbs were
killed by the terrorists in 1998. They
killed Albanian police officers, postal
carriers, forest rangers, even
retirees - only because they received
their retirement checks from the state.
They were attempting to strike terror
in the hearts of Albanians as well as
kill Serbs. We protected our citizens
- both Serbs and Albanians - from
terrorism, and this operation was
completed by the fall of 1998. Then [US
envoy] Holbrooke came to demand a
Verification Mission in order to create
a pretext for attacking Yugoslavia. Let
me tell you....
Claude Jorda:
Mr. Milosevic, allow me just a minute.
Please. Just one minute. I will not
take away your time, I will certainly
give it to you. Even this International
Tribunal whose legality you dispute is
giving you the opportunity to fully
state your case. It seems to me, first
of all, that you are ready to start
with the trial - even today, as it
seems. This goes to your credit. You are
ready. But I have to take you back to
the... Please, try not to completely
lose sight of the issue we are discussing
today. We are not the chamber that
will conduct your trial. We understand
well that your central idea is quite
contrary - that this is a victimization
of your country. It has been heard
and understood.
It would be good for you, Mr.
Milosevic, not to deceive yourself about the
chamber that will try you. You have the
same amount of time as the prosecutor
here. As the chairman of this chamber I
guarantee that. Please, do not lose
sight of the topic we are discussing, then.
You have a thesis you are attempting to
defend, and you have that right - and
will have that right. However, I have
to remind you that this Appeals chamber
is facing an important procedural
question. It may not be important to you,
but it is to us, since we are trying to
safeguard the norms of just and
equitable procedure. What we would like
to know is if you would like your
trial for Kosovo to be separate from
the trial for Bosnia and Croatia, or if
you would prefer them to be combined. I
understand that you might answer this
in a roundabout way. I will, of course,
permit you to speak. You are a
defendant who has good mental health
and clarity of thought. Therefore I ask
you to try and answer this question.
Thank you in advance. You have the floor
again.
Pres. Milosevic:
First of all, this is the only time I
have not been interrupted, the first
time I can say something, and I will
use every opportunity to address the
public regarding the crime that is
being perpetrated against my country. I
do this not because of procedure, since
procedure does not interest me, but in
order to answer the attacks against my
country and my people, and the ongoing
crimes against them. I want the public
to know that after the aggression...
Claude Jorda:
Please wait, Mr. Milosevic. You
understand that you have much time at
your disposal, but you will have more when
the trial starts. This is, of course,
not the subject of today's debate.
You have the right to continue. But you
are now addressing the people outside
this courtroom. Mr. Milosevic, I have
to tell you that you will have the
right to address the public. The
international community created this
trial and I certainly wish that all the
rules that apply to the prosecution, to
you and to the civilization are
respected. Today's debate is about
how the trial would take place in
another chamber. I have no intention of
interrupting you and will subtract the
time I used up by my interruptions. You may
proceed now.
Pres. Milosevic:
I want to emphasize that the crime
against my country has continued. The
most recent Serb murdered in Kosovo that
I've heard of was killed on Christmas
this year. Some 350,000 were expelled
from Kosovo under UN auspices, while
Albanian terrorist activities were
protected by the UN. Since the arrival of
the so-called UN peacekeepers that were
obligated by [UN Security Council]
Resolution 1244 to guarantee the
security of person and property to
every inhabitant of Kosovo, Albanian
terrorists have expelled 350,000 people
and torched tens of thousands of homes.
Sometimes they would burn 50, 60, all
the Serbian houses in a village, in plain
sight of the [UN] troops. These are in
fact occupation troops, who came [to
Kosovo] under the UN banner only to
transform themselves overnight into
occupiers and allies of the terrorists
who killed, who mutilated and butchered
so many, and burned so much, and
continue to do so even today. And they
say they were unaware this was happening.
Can anyone believe that the troops over
there could be unaware that tens of
thousands of homes were being torched?
Can someone damage and destroy...since
the UN troops came, 107 Serbian
churches have been destroyed. Can someone
destroy an entire church and burn it
without the UN troops knowing?
This is a "joint criminal enterprise"
- of the forces who committed crimes
against Yugoslavia with the drug-Mafia
and Albanian terrorists in Kosovo, for
the purpose of crimes not only against
the Serbs but all other non-Albanians,
even Catholic Albanians. Even Albanians
who, in any way - such as cashing
their retirement checks - showed any
loyalty to the Republic of Serbia as
their state.
What is happening over there is
practically the rehabilitation of a policy
led by Hitler and Mussolini. This talk
about "Greater Serbia", this alleged
idea that never really existed, is only
raised to mask the creation of
"Greater Albania" - the very same one
that was made by Hitler and Mussolini
in World War Two. Look at it then, and
look at what is being done now, what
they want to seize from Serbia,
Montenegro, Macedonia - tomorrow maybe from
northern Greece, when Greek-Turkish
relations are strained under orders of
the common master.
This is obviously a crime, and the
thread running through it is obviously
a crime against Yugoslavia. I want to
point out that falsifying historical
facts is not easy, though. It is not
easy even when these facts are only
known to a select group of people, and
downright impossible when millions,
entire nations, know the facts. With
all due respect, the real judges in this
trial - not you who wear the robes
- are those who decided to murder
children in my country, who launched
NATO's aggression and dropped 25
thousand tons of bombs in 78 days,
murdering mostly elderly people,
children and women.
They want to play that role. But they
will not be the judges.
The real judge here is the people -
not just the people of Yugoslavia, but
the peoples of all the countries who
care about liberty and equality. Not for
nothing do we have a saying that the
judgment of the people is the judgment
of God. We all face that judgment, not
just me - who is facing an attempt
here to be made responsible instead of
being given recognition - but also
you, and your employers, especially
those who committed crimes against my
country.
Since you want me to request something
of you, let me demand this: set me
free. I demand to be set free because
you and the entire world should know by
now that I will not run from a fight
for my people and my country. I have no
intention of running. It does not serve
the honor of this institution to keep
me imprisoned here, in disgraceful
conditions, in order to deprive me of
equality in stating my arguments -
even if this institution were legal,
and you know very well that it isn't.
For if you didn't know - and I
don't refer to you in particular, but
to the institution - then you would have
accepted the motion from the amici curiae
to seek advisory opinion from the
International Court of Justice on the
legality of this tribunal. You did not
seek it, because the outcome would be
entirely predictable.
Altogether, I think that such a
criminal approach, an attempt to cast
the victim as the culprit, both in regard
to my country, my people and myself,
has not yet been recorded in history.
With that in mind, I consider it both
logical and just to release me
immediately. I will not flee, and I am
ready to enter any of these debates, since
this is one battle which I certainly
have an obligation to fight.
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AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER 31.1.2002
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+++ Ab Freitag wieder Konvois von und nach Strpce +++
STRPCE, 31.Januar 2002. Ab dem morgigen Freitag werden wieder
Konvois in den Ort Strpce in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien
gelangen können. Dies erklärte heute der Ortsvorsitzende der
demokratischen Partei Slavisa Staletovic. Die KFOR besteht nun nicht
mehr darauf, daß die serbische Bevölkerung den von der UNMIK
zwangseingesetzten albanischen Bürgermeister in den Ort lassen, weswegen
der Ort und seine Bevölkerung sowohl von der KFOR abgeriegelt, als auch
von Albanern blockiert worden war.
STIMME KOSOVOS
+++ Albanischer Schütze von Plemetina gefaßt +++
PLEMETINA, 31.Januar 2002. Der Albaner, der gestern in der
Ortschaft Plemetina auf eine Gruppe serbischer Kinder geschossen hat,
konnte heute festgenommen werden. Glücklicherweise wurde bei dem
hinterhältigen Angriff, den der Albaner aus seinem Auto heraus
ausgeführt hatte, keines der Kinder verletzt.
STIMME KOSOVOS
+++ Neue Kommunalwahlen in Kosovo und Metochien? +++
PRISTINA, 31.Januar 2002. Nach den Worten der UNMIK-Sprecherin
Suzan Manuel wird es im September dieses Jahres neue Kommunalwahlen in
der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien geben. Die Wahlen werden
erneut von den UN und der OSZE organisiert werden.
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STRPCE, 31.Januar 2002. Ab dem morgigen Freitag werden wieder
Konvois in den Ort Strpce in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien
gelangen können. Dies erklärte heute der Ortsvorsitzende der
demokratischen Partei Slavisa Staletovic. Die KFOR besteht nun nicht
mehr darauf, daß die serbische Bevölkerung den von der UNMIK
zwangseingesetzten albanischen Bürgermeister in den Ort lassen, weswegen
der Ort und seine Bevölkerung sowohl von der KFOR abgeriegelt, als auch
von Albanern blockiert worden war.
STIMME KOSOVOS
+++ Albanischer Schütze von Plemetina gefaßt +++
PLEMETINA, 31.Januar 2002. Der Albaner, der gestern in der
Ortschaft Plemetina auf eine Gruppe serbischer Kinder geschossen hat,
konnte heute festgenommen werden. Glücklicherweise wurde bei dem
hinterhältigen Angriff, den der Albaner aus seinem Auto heraus
ausgeführt hatte, keines der Kinder verletzt.
STIMME KOSOVOS
+++ Neue Kommunalwahlen in Kosovo und Metochien? +++
PRISTINA, 31.Januar 2002. Nach den Worten der UNMIK-Sprecherin
Suzan Manuel wird es im September dieses Jahres neue Kommunalwahlen in
der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien geben. Die Wahlen werden
erneut von den UN und der OSZE organisiert werden.
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Data:
01/02/2002 15:36
Da:
YugoEmb-Ottawa
A:
Oggetto:
I D S, Feb. 1
sposta nella cartella:
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local legal figures
with Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic in the chair.
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Vojvodina parliament speaker Nenad Canak and
provincial premier Djordje Djukic on Thursday held separate meetings with
Ukraine's Ambassador Anatoly Shostak.
A statement received by the Vojvodina parliament speaker's office said that
Shostak "welcomed a long tradition of observation of national minority
rights in Vojvodina and called for support for a speedier inclusion of
ethnic Ukrainians and Ruthenians in modern social processes."
In his meeting with the Vojvodina premier, Shostak voiced special interest
in cooperation in the field of agriculture, according to a statement issued
by the Vojvodina government
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - In Vojvodina, Serbia's northern province,
privatization has been initiated in 30 firms in keeping with the provisions
of the new law, Vojvodina Executive Council President Djordjc Djukic said
on Thursday.
Djukic said that the Serbian Economy and Privatization Ministry has
initiated privatization, via a public bid, in nine firms, in 15 cases the
firms themselves launched the privatization process, while six firms were
stimulated to start privatization by potential buyers.
The aquisition value of these firms, which employ a total of 13.762
workers, has been estimated at 216.8 million euros, while the capital put
up for sale amounts to 144.6 million euros, Djukic set out.
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BUJANOVAC, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Hundreds of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines
and 221 kg of explosives planted by the terrorist "LIberation Army of
Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja" have been found and destroyed in the
Bujanovac municipality in southern Serbia, the Bujanovac press center said
Thursday.
There were 304 anti-tank and 584 anti-personnel mines, it was noted at a
meeting attended by members of the Yugoslav and Serbian governments'
Coordinating Team Milovan Coguric and Mica Markovic and representatives of
the Yugoslav Army, European Union, UNHCR, UNICEF and Red Cross Regional
Committee.
The danger has, however, not yet been removed, as an estimated 1,000 mines
or explosive devices are still around, Coguric said, adding that the
people, especially children, should be warned of the danger.
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The 30th Belgrade international film festival,
will begin on Feb. 1 at the Sava centre with the screening of the Italian
movie "The Son's Room", directed by Nanni Moretti, 75 movies grouped into
eight programs will be presented.
FEST 2002 organizers did not want to disclose who would open the festival
before the Moretti movie was screened. The movie was awarded the FIPRESCI
prize in Cannes.
The organizers told a press conference that the arrival of 19 guests has
been confirmed up to now, including Danijel Hocevar from Slovenia. Also in
attendance are the producers of the movies "An Ode to Presern" and "Bread
and Milk," as well the directors of the movies, Martin Srebotnjak and Jan
Cvitkovic, the producer of "Apocalypse Now", Kim Auberey, director and the
script writer of "Der Chinesische Markt", Zoran Solomun from Germany, and
the director and script writer of "Firefly Dreams", John Williams, from
Great Britain.
Film premieres will be held in the Sava centre, Dvorana kulturnog centra
(DKC) and Dom Omladine (DOB) and second screenings in the Yugoslav
cinematheque, DKC and DOB.
The vast number are co-productions (24), as well as 11 American, 7 German,
4 French and 4 Japanese, 2 Austrian, 2 Iranian, 2 Italian, 2 Canadian, 2
Slovenian and 2 Swiss movies, and one movie a piece from a further 13
countries.
Serbian distributors secured 20 movies, whilst the remainder were secured
with the help of foreign cultural centers in Belgrade and certain embassies.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
PRISTINA, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - United Nations Kosovo-Metohija administration
UNMIK deputy chief Charles Brayshaw said in Pristina on Thursday that the
arrests of three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) are not
in any way connected with the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC).
The arrested persons have been charged with grave crimes committed during
the period from September 1998 until June 1999. These were personal actions
and a sufficient number of testimonies have been taken from witnesses, so
that it is up to the court to decide whether they are gulty or not,
Brayshaw said during a visit to the KPC.
An international judge in the province yesterday set an additional 30 days
of detention and ordered the opening of an investigation on war crimes for
the three Kosovo Albanians who were arrested in Pristina and Podujevo on
Monday, an UNMIK spokesman said.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested against these arrests in Pristina
and Podujevo these days.
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
BERLIN, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - It is necessary that Brussels deals with the issue
of a long-term political solution for Kosovo and Metohija, which will not
be realized without a European perspective, a source close to new United
Nations envoy in the southern Serbian province
Michael Steiner has said.
The source said on Thursday that it was important for Brussels to do this
in order to quell nationalistic tendencies in the region and to assess
relativistically the issue of the independence of this territory.
The unnamed UN representative said one of Steiner's main tasks would be to
establish stable authorities in the province.
The period until the autonomy of the province is defined cannot be
specified, so that the two-year postponement asked by Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic is unrealistic, the official said.
The international community will not withdraw from the province if Kosovo
is not given a European perspective, the source said.
Steiner will begin his term in office in Pristina in mid-February. He has
completed consultations with European Union foreign policy commissioner
Chris Patten in Brussels.
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) The Democratic Party of Kosovo this evening
accused International civilian and military authorities in the province
that they were endangering safety and the political situation in Kosovo by
arresting former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Party president Hashim Thaqi is a former leader of the Liberation Army,
which was disbanded after the arrival of international peacekeepers in 1999.
The party claimed that by arresting the three, UNMIK and KFOR were
destabilising the situation in Kosovo.
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) More than two thousand Albanian demonstrators have
blocked the centre of Pristina for the second consecutive day protesting at
the arrest of former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
UN police and KFOR troops arrested the three Kosovo Albanians on Tuesday,
charging them with war crimes committed in 1998 and 1999.
They are accused of abductions assaults and murders of Albanians from the
Podujevo area who did not agree with Kosovo Liberation Army policies.
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Members of Kosovo police arrested two Kosovo
Albanians suspected of having fired at pupils of a Serbian school in
Plemetina, KFOR announced on Jan. 31.
It was reported that the school in Plemetina, attended by some 100 Serbian
children, had been fired at on Jan. 31 at around noon, from a car carrying
four passengers.
The incident was probably provoked by a conflict between local Serb and
Albanian children who had thrown stones at each other, reads the KFOR
statement, adding that one of the arrested Albanians was the father of one
of the boys who threw stones. A gun was found in the arrested persons' car.
KFOR added that some 70 Serbs gathered in front of the school afterwards,
but were dispersed by KFOR in a bid to "quell disturbances."
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
STRPCE, Kosovo, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - KFOR will provide an escort only for the
so-called humanitarian convoys going to Strpce, the Serb enclave in Kosovo,
US KFOR Colonel Larry Saul told Tanjug on Thursday.
Since last week, when there were problems, peace was violated and the radio
and television described it as violence, Col. Saul set out adding that KFOR
then halted escorts for some convoys out of security reasons, but would
continue providing the same for humanitarian convoys and medical cases.
Strpce, the biggest Serb enclave in Kosovo with 12,000 Serb inhabitants,
has practically been sealed off from the rest of the world for the past
nine days after regular convoys were halted due to incidents and KFOR
violence.
Serb sources in Strpce confirmed to Tanjug today that on Tuesday KFOR took
Jelica Andjelkovic, 60, to the US Bondsteel base where this elderly woman
was interrogated for three hours, after which she was returned to Strpce.
On Jan 22, during Serb demonstarations in Strpce, Jelica was in the front
lines expressing her pain for the loss of her husband, son and son-in-law,
kidnapped by the ethnic Albanian terrorists two years ago and who were
never seen again.
In Bondsteel, Jelica was interrogated by a woman officer who was very rough
and threatened her not to appear at protests ever again.
The KFOR and UNMIK police photographed all the people in the front ranks of
the Jan 22 protest in Strpce, and now many fear new arrests.
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Zorica Velic was appointed on Jan. 31 as
Pristina municipality vice-president. It is the first time following a two
year boycott that a Serb has beed appointed to a managerial position in the
municipality.
After the appointment, Velic told the press in Pristina "I am happy to
become vice-president of a municipality and a town in which I was born."
In the Pristina municipality, Zorica Velic will represent Serbs who, after
the 1999 war in Kosovo, mostly live in near-by villages. She announced she
would engage in the democratization of civic life in the municipality.
Last year, UNMIK appointed three Serbs for MPs to the Pristina city
council. At the constitutive session, Albanian MPs alleged that Serbian
representative Slavko Trajkovic had committed war crimes in Kosovo, leading
to Serb representatives ending their attendance at sessions.
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C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local
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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local legal figures
with Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic in the chair.
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Vojvodina parliament speaker Nenad Canak and
provincial premier Djordje Djukic on Thursday held separate meetings with
Ukraine's Ambassador Anatoly Shostak.
A statement received by the Vojvodina parliament speaker's office said that
Shostak "welcomed a long tradition of observation of national minority
rights in Vojvodina and called for support for a speedier inclusion of
ethnic Ukrainians and Ruthenians in modern social processes."
In his meeting with the Vojvodina premier, Shostak voiced special interest
in cooperation in the field of agriculture, according to a statement issued
by the Vojvodina government
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
NOVI SAD, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - In Vojvodina, Serbia's northern province,
privatization has been initiated in 30 firms in keeping with the provisions
of the new law, Vojvodina Executive Council President Djordjc Djukic said
on Thursday.
Djukic said that the Serbian Economy and Privatization Ministry has
initiated privatization, via a public bid, in nine firms, in 15 cases the
firms themselves launched the privatization process, while six firms were
stimulated to start privatization by potential buyers.
The aquisition value of these firms, which employ a total of 13.762
workers, has been estimated at 216.8 million euros, while the capital put
up for sale amounts to 144.6 million euros, Djukic set out.
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BUJANOVAC, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Hundreds of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines
and 221 kg of explosives planted by the terrorist "LIberation Army of
Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja" have been found and destroyed in the
Bujanovac municipality in southern Serbia, the Bujanovac press center said
Thursday.
There were 304 anti-tank and 584 anti-personnel mines, it was noted at a
meeting attended by members of the Yugoslav and Serbian governments'
Coordinating Team Milovan Coguric and Mica Markovic and representatives of
the Yugoslav Army, European Union, UNHCR, UNICEF and Red Cross Regional
Committee.
The danger has, however, not yet been removed, as an estimated 1,000 mines
or explosive devices are still around, Coguric said, adding that the
people, especially children, should be warned of the danger.
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The 30th Belgrade international film festival,
will begin on Feb. 1 at the Sava centre with the screening of the Italian
movie "The Son's Room", directed by Nanni Moretti, 75 movies grouped into
eight programs will be presented.
FEST 2002 organizers did not want to disclose who would open the festival
before the Moretti movie was screened. The movie was awarded the FIPRESCI
prize in Cannes.
The organizers told a press conference that the arrival of 19 guests has
been confirmed up to now, including Danijel Hocevar from Slovenia. Also in
attendance are the producers of the movies "An Ode to Presern" and "Bread
and Milk," as well the directors of the movies, Martin Srebotnjak and Jan
Cvitkovic, the producer of "Apocalypse Now", Kim Auberey, director and the
script writer of "Der Chinesische Markt", Zoran Solomun from Germany, and
the director and script writer of "Firefly Dreams", John Williams, from
Great Britain.
Film premieres will be held in the Sava centre, Dvorana kulturnog centra
(DKC) and Dom Omladine (DOB) and second screenings in the Yugoslav
cinematheque, DKC and DOB.
The vast number are co-productions (24), as well as 11 American, 7 German,
4 French and 4 Japanese, 2 Austrian, 2 Iranian, 2 Italian, 2 Canadian, 2
Slovenian and 2 Swiss movies, and one movie a piece from a further 13
countries.
Serbian distributors secured 20 movies, whilst the remainder were secured
with the help of foreign cultural centers in Belgrade and certain embassies.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
PRISTINA, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - United Nations Kosovo-Metohija administration
UNMIK deputy chief Charles Brayshaw said in Pristina on Thursday that the
arrests of three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) are not
in any way connected with the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC).
The arrested persons have been charged with grave crimes committed during
the period from September 1998 until June 1999. These were personal actions
and a sufficient number of testimonies have been taken from witnesses, so
that it is up to the court to decide whether they are gulty or not,
Brayshaw said during a visit to the KPC.
An international judge in the province yesterday set an additional 30 days
of detention and ordered the opening of an investigation on war crimes for
the three Kosovo Albanians who were arrested in Pristina and Podujevo on
Monday, an UNMIK spokesman said.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested against these arrests in Pristina
and Podujevo these days.
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
BERLIN, Feb 1 (Tanjug) - It is necessary that Brussels deals with the issue
of a long-term political solution for Kosovo and Metohija, which will not
be realized without a European perspective, a source close to new United
Nations envoy in the southern Serbian province
Michael Steiner has said.
The source said on Thursday that it was important for Brussels to do this
in order to quell nationalistic tendencies in the region and to assess
relativistically the issue of the independence of this territory.
The unnamed UN representative said one of Steiner's main tasks would be to
establish stable authorities in the province.
The period until the autonomy of the province is defined cannot be
specified, so that the two-year postponement asked by Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Djindjic is unrealistic, the official said.
The international community will not withdraw from the province if Kosovo
is not given a European perspective, the source said.
Steiner will begin his term in office in Pristina in mid-February. He has
completed consultations with European Union foreign policy commissioner
Chris Patten in Brussels.
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) The Democratic Party of Kosovo this evening
accused International civilian and military authorities in the province
that they were endangering safety and the political situation in Kosovo by
arresting former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Party president Hashim Thaqi is a former leader of the Liberation Army,
which was disbanded after the arrival of international peacekeepers in 1999.
The party claimed that by arresting the three, UNMIK and KFOR were
destabilising the situation in Kosovo.
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (B92) More than two thousand Albanian demonstrators have
blocked the centre of Pristina for the second consecutive day protesting at
the arrest of former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
UN police and KFOR troops arrested the three Kosovo Albanians on Tuesday,
charging them with war crimes committed in 1998 and 1999.
They are accused of abductions assaults and murders of Albanians from the
Podujevo area who did not agree with Kosovo Liberation Army policies.
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Members of Kosovo police arrested two Kosovo
Albanians suspected of having fired at pupils of a Serbian school in
Plemetina, KFOR announced on Jan. 31.
It was reported that the school in Plemetina, attended by some 100 Serbian
children, had been fired at on Jan. 31 at around noon, from a car carrying
four passengers.
The incident was probably provoked by a conflict between local Serb and
Albanian children who had thrown stones at each other, reads the KFOR
statement, adding that one of the arrested Albanians was the father of one
of the boys who threw stones. A gun was found in the arrested persons' car.
KFOR added that some 70 Serbs gathered in front of the school afterwards,
but were dispersed by KFOR in a bid to "quell disturbances."
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
STRPCE, Kosovo, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - KFOR will provide an escort only for the
so-called humanitarian convoys going to Strpce, the Serb enclave in Kosovo,
US KFOR Colonel Larry Saul told Tanjug on Thursday.
Since last week, when there were problems, peace was violated and the radio
and television described it as violence, Col. Saul set out adding that KFOR
then halted escorts for some convoys out of security reasons, but would
continue providing the same for humanitarian convoys and medical cases.
Strpce, the biggest Serb enclave in Kosovo with 12,000 Serb inhabitants,
has practically been sealed off from the rest of the world for the past
nine days after regular convoys were halted due to incidents and KFOR
violence.
Serb sources in Strpce confirmed to Tanjug today that on Tuesday KFOR took
Jelica Andjelkovic, 60, to the US Bondsteel base where this elderly woman
was interrogated for three hours, after which she was returned to Strpce.
On Jan 22, during Serb demonstarations in Strpce, Jelica was in the front
lines expressing her pain for the loss of her husband, son and son-in-law,
kidnapped by the ethnic Albanian terrorists two years ago and who were
never seen again.
In Bondsteel, Jelica was interrogated by a woman officer who was very rough
and threatened her not to appear at protests ever again.
The KFOR and UNMIK police photographed all the people in the front ranks of
the Jan 22 protest in Strpce, and now many fear new arrests.
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
PRISTINA, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Zorica Velic was appointed on Jan. 31 as
Pristina municipality vice-president. It is the first time following a two
year boycott that a Serb has beed appointed to a managerial position in the
municipality.
After the appointment, Velic told the press in Pristina "I am happy to
become vice-president of a municipality and a town in which I was born."
In the Pristina municipality, Zorica Velic will represent Serbs who, after
the 1999 war in Kosovo, mostly live in near-by villages. She announced she
would engage in the democratization of civic life in the municipality.
Last year, UNMIK appointed three Serbs for MPs to the Pristina city
council. At the constitutive session, Albanian MPs alleged that Serbian
representative Slavko Trajkovic had committed war crimes in Kosovo, leading
to Serb representatives ending their attendance at sessions.
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Belgrade, 01. 2. 2002. No. 3639
C O N T E N T S :
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
CANAK, DJUKIC RECEIVE UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR
PRIVATIZATION INITIATED IN 30 VOJVODINA FIRMS
HUNDREDS OF MINES DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
BELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL "FEST" BEGINS
KOSOVO-METOHIJA
UN - ARRESTS OF KLA MEMBERS NOT CONNECTED WITH KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS
BRUSSELS SHOULD CONSIDER POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO-METOHIJA
THAQI PARTY WARNS INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES
PROTESTERS BLOCK CENTRAL PRISTINA
ALBANIANS FIRE AT SERBIAN SCHOOL PUPILS
ONLY HUMANITARIAN CONVOYS ABLE TO REACH SERB ENCLAVE IN KOSOVO
AFTER TWO YEARS, SERBIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN PRISTINA MUNICIPALITY
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMF DETERMINED
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (Beta) - The Yugoslav government determined on Jan. 31
the basis for negotiations between the Yugoslav delegation and the IMF
mission on results of the standby arrangement and a new three-year
financial arrangement.
The closing of a new arrangement will enable the realization of the
agreement reached with the Paris Club of creditors on the writing-off of
the majority of the Yugoslav debt. The arrangement will also mean support
to economic and structural reforms, the Federal Information Bureau said in
an announcement.
Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Economic Relations
Miroljub Labus will lead the Yugoslav delegation in talks with the IMF.
The government has also set the basis for negotiations with the
International Association for Development, for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a development loan for the modernization of the Yugolav
customs service , that is, Serbia and Montenegro.
A report on the increase of EU donations to EUR120 million, out of which
EUR75 million have already been used, was also adopted.
YUGOSLAVIA-SPAIN:YUGOSLAVIA BELONGS TO EUROPEAN UNION
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic and
Spanish Ambassador Mariano Jesus Garcia Munoz discussed possibilities for
promoting bilateral political and economic ties and for Spain, which
currently presides the European Union, to speed up Yugoslavia's access to
the European integrations.
"Our strategic foreign policy goal is to join the European Union," Pesic
said and added that in this process Spain could play an important role as
the EU president.
Both sides voiced their interest in bilateral economic cooperation and said
that their respective governments had taken a series of concrete measures
aimed at creating a legislative
infrastructure that would intensify this cooperation. Contacts among
political officials are also stimulating in this context, Pesic said and
invited Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to visit
Yugoslavia.
Spain supports the preservation of the Yugoslav federation, which it
specially stressed in the programme it plans to carry out during its term
as EU president, and an indication of this commitment is the fact that
Yugoslavia is the only country specifically mentioned in the programme.
Ambassador Munoz expects EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to give his
full contribution to this end, the Yugoslav prime minister's office said in
a statement.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES RUSSIAN, BOSNIA, BELORUS AMBASSADORS
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - The speaker of the Yugoslav parliament's lower
house, Dragoljub Micunovic, on Thursday received the ambassador of the
Russian Federation to Yugoslavia, Valery Egoshkin, expressing gratitude for
the results of his mission in Yugoslavia which marked the relations between
the two countries and their peoples.
Micunovic also received on separate visits the newly-appointed ambassadors
of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Belarus in Yugoslavia - Zeljko Komsic and
Vladimir Mackiyevich respectively, to discuss the development of bilateral
and international cooepration.
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO MODERNIZE PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE BORDER WITH
KOSOVO
BELGRADE, Jan 31 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government session, chaired on
Thursday by Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, adopted the project Modernization
and Technical Equipping of Control and Security Systems for the Protection
of the Administrative Border with Kosovo-Metohija.
The project aims to apply modern technical means, with reduced manpower, to
prevent terrorism and render more efficient the struggle against crime and
the illegal transfer of goods and people in this region outside the
designated border crossings, the federal Information Secretariat said in a
statement.
"The system will secure the stability and control of the administrative
border with Kosovo-Metohija in keeping with the prospects and criteria of
the international community for managing the crisis in Southeast Europe,
and contribute to stepping up the security of the entire region," the
statement said.
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
DJINDJIC, DJELIC AND PITIC IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic and Serbian
ministers of finance and foreign economic relations, Bozidar Djelic and
Goran Pitic, flew to New York on Jan. 31 to attend the World Economic
Forum, an annual meeting of world political and economic officials and
representatives of large companies and leading non-governmental organizations.
Serbian government representatives will participate in the formal part of
the gathering entitled "Management in Crucial Times: A Vision of a Common
Future," and hold separate meetings with politicians and influential
businessmen, minister Djelic told BETA.
"It is a traditional meeting on key topics in the world and an
excellent opportunity to meet decision makers," said Djelic.
According to Djelic, the Serbian premier will talk to several prime
ministers and world leaders, including NATO general secretary George Robertson.
He added that government representatives would talk to representatives of
leading companies and potential investors in the Serbian economy, including
the leaders of the Swiss company "Nestle", the Italian Institute for
Industry Reconstruction, presidents of major banks companies for technical
production and cement factories...
Djelic said his collocutors would include the Bulgarian and Polish finance
ministers, as well as the president of the London stock exchange.
FOREIGN CONSULTANTS ON JUDICIAL REFORM BODY
BELGRADE, Jan. 31 (B92) The Serbian Government has appointed a number of
international consultants to a new Council for Reform of the Judiciary.
They include representatives of the OSCE, the American Bar Association
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the Council of Europe, the
European Agency for Reconstruction, the UN and the Fund for an Open Society.
The foreign consultants will join a number of senior local
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Lettre d'information de la Section francophone de
l'ICDSM
Newsletter of the frenchspeaking section of ICDSM
N° 8 ? 1er Février/February 2002
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Webmaster ? Editeur responsable :
Luc MICHEL - email : lucmichelbxl@...
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Dans ce numéro 8 vous pourez lire ?
In this number 8 you could read :
- MEETING OF LONDON : MESSAGE OF SUPORT OF THE
FRENCHSPEAKING SECTION OF THE ICDSM
- MEETING OF LONDON : OPEN LETTER FROM IRELAND
- SUPORT FROM ARGENTINA : « FELICITO A LA LISTA POR LA
DIFUSION DE ESTAS INFORMACIONES »
- "JUDGE IS ENGLISH, PROSECUTOR IS ENGLISH..." :
MILOSEVIC DEFIES HIS NATO JUDGES
- BACK IN YUGOSLAVIA, LAYOFFS AND STRIKES
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MEETING OF LONDON :
MESSAGE OF SUPORT OF THE FRENCHSPEAKING SECTION OF THE
ICDSM
Dear comrades
Many regrets no to be with you this day !
Greatings from our militants of Belgium, France and
Switzerland to all of you, and particularly to
Christopher Black and all the British team of CDSM.
A few words first to remember you the Symposium
organised in next 2 march in Berlin by our comrades of
the Germanspeaking Section of ICDSM, with our
participation.
Since its creation by the NATO, the so-called
?International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia? (ICTY) is a war machine leaded against the
Serbian People and its defenders, in Yugoslavia and in
Republika Srpska (Bosnia). Directly financed by NATO,
the ICTY and his slavish magistrates abiding by the
orders of Washington, is a shame to all the magistracy
and the international judicial world.
The proceedings they use ? secret charging, anonymous
accounts without any proofs, kidnapping of the accused
regardless of the international law, automatic
presumption of guiltiness of the accused,
investigations in accusation and not in defence, and
so on. ? remind us of the sinister inquisition and
would deserve a non-admissibility of the charging in
any independent court of law , starting with those in
the US.
The detention conditions in the ICTY jails are also
outrageous. Especially the medical help brought to the
prisoners , the behaviour of the medical staff of the
ITCY prison is also a shame to all the medical world.
These are instances that are enough as proofs.
The moral loneliness of the Serbian prisoners, victims
of an incessant manhunt, is terrible. Adding to a
detention duration abnormally long and contrary to the
disposals of the European Convention of Human Rights.
It?s why we must, as a duty, help them and support
them.
The president MILOSEVIC is today the first of these
Serbian prisoners.
With the extradition of MILOSEVIC, the pro--American
muppets who govern Yugoslavia and Serbia since the
rampant coup of last October 2000 have just thrown
definitely the mask.
They have exchanged Milosevic against a thick handful
of dollars, as they had already arrest him in April
2000 for the same motives. Thirty coins of Judas for
the Serbian traitors !
The DOS raped the constitution that forbidden the
extradition of the national Yugoslavian while adopting
an unconstitutional decree. The DOS raped the right
while transgressing the decision of the Yugoslavian
supreme constitutional Court that had just suspended
this decree. The DOS raped the formal guarantees of
the Yugoslavian and international right that open ways
of appeal to all menaced person of extradition
(procedures legally hired by Milosevic). The DOS
raped the democratic rules that confide to the
parliament, where the Kollaboses of the DOS are
minority, the voting of a constitutional modification.
Yugoslavia is not anymore a state of right. It is a
?bananas? republic, governed by a junta solded to the
imperialism and the colonialisme of NATO and USA.
Milosevic has not been extradited but removed and
delivered illegally to the TPY, organ of repression of
the NATO.
Today, the president Milosevic is the first resistant
to the New World Order and the dictatorship of the
NATO.
Today, all free men and womlen must mobilize
themselves to defend the Yugoslavian president : WE
ARE ALL OF MILOSEVICS !
Luc MICHEL, President of the
Frenchspeaking Section of ICDSM.
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MEETING OF LONDON :
OPEN LETTER FROM IRELAND
Fraternal greetings from Mullingar, Republic of
Ireland.
On the eve of the Public Meeting 1st February 2002
focussing on NATO
responsibility for war crimes in the Balkans and
NATO's diversionary
tactic of apportioning blame to the victims of their
hi tech barbaric
onslaughts we note that a recent survey in England has
ascertained the fact, if fact
it is in this largely fictionalised world, that vast
numbers of people in
Britain no longer choose to tune in to either radio or
television news
bulletins be those bulletins either of the news in
brief kind or fully extended
bulletins.
This, as can be imagined, is causing serious concerns
amongst the ranks
of the manipulators of public opinion whom we prefer
to define as "the
deceivers." French writer and Director of the Ecole
speciale d'architecture Paul
Virilio is the author of sixteen books on sociological
and political subjects
with these books to include War and Cinema, Open Sky
and Strategy of
Deception. The last named book is a trenchant
denunciation of the perpetration of
the Kosovo war laying bare the lie that the West's
intervention in the
Balkans was founded on ethical and humanitarian
grounds.
Virilio, to quote from notes accompanying Strategy of
Deception, has
discerned a sinister innovation in the methods of
waging war:
territorial space is being replaced by orbital space
in which a system of global
telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of
bombers and
missiles: governments, the military and the media are
becoming part of a seamless
and self justifying process linked by new information
and arms
technologies. The author makes the claim that the
media has a "license to lie." If it
is that the media through its remorseless propagation
of lies and
distortions of the truth eventually allienates more
and more sectors of the
community then the ruling class which is totally
dependent on the media for
proselytising on its behalf and most particularly on
behalf of waging
war for profit will be in very serious trouble indeed.
The need to disseminate alternative information in a
world crying out
for such information has never been greater.
Thank you, whilst on this subject, to the Campaign To
Defend Slobodan
Milosevic and to the PCN-NCP service de presse for
sending us in these
post Strangelovian times and so regularly information
of that very kind.
Good luck for the meeting and we hope there will be a
good attendance.
We hope to make it along to a future meeting.
With our sincere thanks and very best wishes.
June and John Kelly
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SUPORT FROM ARGENTINA :
« FELICITO A LA LISTA POR LA DIFUSION DE ESTAS
INFORMACIONES »
From M. Gorojovsky
En mi carácter de miembro fundador del Comité
Internacional por la Liberación de Slobodan Milosevic,
felicito a la lista por la
difusión de estas informaciones.
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"JUDGE IS ENGLISH, PROSECUTOR IS ENGLISH..." :
MILOSEVIC DEFIES HIS NATO JUDGES
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Jan. 24, 2002
issue of Workers World newspaper
By John Catalinotto
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic continued
his
defiant stand in an appearance before the NATO-backed
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia
(ICTY) in The Hague Jan. 9.
The court reacted as it has in the past. It censored
Milosevic's statements.
The Yugoslav leader has from the beginning refused to
recognize the authority of the ICTY and has said he
will
represent himself during the proceedings.
Under pressure from Washington and other NATO powers,
the
United Nations created the ICTY in 1993. It has
jurisdiction
only over crimes carried out in Yugoslavia by people
from
that region. It refuses to try U.S. or other NATO
officials
for ordering the bombing of civilian targets during
the 1999
war.
The great majority of charges have been brought
against
Serbian people, either those who lived in
Bosnia-Herzegovina
or officials in the Yugoslav or Serbian governments.
The
tribunal barely addresses the many horrific acts
committed
against Serbs during the decade-long civil wars that
fragmented what had been a multinational, socialist
country
based on a federation of six republics. The
dismembering of
Yugoslavia was long a goal of European and U.S.
capital,
which now have the upper hand in the area.
The trial on a set of charges against Milosevic
relating to
Kosovo is scheduled to begin on Feb. 12.
At the Jan. 9 hearing, Judge Richard May restricted
sharply
what Milosevic was allowed to say, repeatedly cutting
him
off.
Milosevic began, "To be precise, concerning what has
been
said today: almost everything we've heard shows that,
in the
guise of having a trial, what is planned here is to
carry
out an operation to reverse scene and culprit. This is
aimed
at producing a fabricated justification for the crimes
committed during the NATO aggression against my
country and
my people.
"Indeed, this 'indictment' itself constitutes one of
the
proofs that what I affirm is true. Because all the
so-called
misdeeds supposedly committed by the armed forces of
Yugoslavia, which I had the honor to command, are,
according
to the 'indictment,' supposed to have occurred during
precisely the time of the NATO aggression against my
country.
"The intention is obviously to portray those who
defended
their families, children, thresholds, homes and
homeland as
villains, criminals, evil people. Whereas those who
traveled
thousands of kilometers to destroy those homes in the
night,
to kill innocent people, to destroy maternity wards,
hospitals, bridges, railways, trains, who collaborated
with
the Albanian terrorists-that those people, responsible
for a
huge number of victims and enormous material damage,
are
good, are correct, and should have the support of
international public opinion.
"To compound this absurdity..."
At this point the court interrupted Milosevic, turning
off
his microphone. Judge May insisted that Milosevic
limit his
comments to trial procedure. In the coverage of the
trial,
however, the big-business media applied their own
twist to
the news, dredging up all the old political charges
against
the Yugoslav leader and the Serbian people.
Milosevic tried to continue. "I want to confirm that
you
have not offered a single argument in response to the
very
clear legal facts I have presented regarding the
illegality
of this 'court,' established by a resolution of a
Security
Council that has no legislative nor judiciary power
and that
could hardly transfer prerogatives it does not have,
since
as lawyers you very well know that a right which one
does
not posses cannot be transferred.
"In any case...." Here the court again turned off his
microphone and Judge May demanded the former president
censor his comments.
President Milosevic tried once more: "Well, if you're
going
to limit the questions I can raise, then regarding the
procedure I would say the following: according to the
natural definition, which applies to any court, it
must be
neutral and impartial. And look at this 'court': the
indictment is based on allegations provided by the
English
intelligence service; the judge is English; the
prosecutor
is English; the Amicus Curiae is English; and I ..."
Here the court again cut off his microphone and
adjourned
the hearing.
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BACK IN YUGOSLAVIA, LAYOFFS AND STRIKES
Back in Yugoslavia, living conditions for the working
class
and for most of the population have continued to
worsen
since the U.S.-manipulated September 2000 election and
the
October 2000 coup that followed pushed Milosevic's
Socialist
Party of Serbia out of office.
Anyone who believed that the new Yugoslav government
would
receive more aid and economic help from the
imperialist
powers if it arrested Milosevic and turned him over to
NATO
has by now been sorely disillusioned. Even the puppet
Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic has complained publicly
that
the Western leaders have reneged on their promises of
aid.
Unemployment is now up above 50 percent. In the first
week
of January, the announcement that four big Yugoslav
banks
would close threatened 8,500 more workers with
layoffs. The
news that Beogradska Banka, Jugobanka, Investbanka and
Beobanka would close provoked workers' protests, with
more
than 1,000 employees locking themselves in the banks'
offices in Belgrade, Krusevac, Nis and Vranje.
Trade unions say that for every 1,000 employees laid
off,
another 5,000 jobs are in jeopardy.
The Yugoslav government forced the closure of the four
banking giants to mark the launch of broad, World
Bank-
sponsored changes to the country's financial sector
that
will allow deeper U.S. and West European penetration
of the
Yugoslav economy.
(Copyright Workers World Service)
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FREE SLOBO !
Lettre d'information de la Section francophone de
l'ICDSM
Newsletter of the frenchspeaking section of ICDSM
N° 8 ? 1er Février/February 2002
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Webmaster ? Editeur responsable :
Luc MICHEL - email : lucmichelbxl@...
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Dans ce numéro 8 vous pourez lire ?
In this number 8 you could read :
- MEETING OF LONDON : MESSAGE OF SUPORT OF THE
FRENCHSPEAKING SECTION OF THE ICDSM
- MEETING OF LONDON : OPEN LETTER FROM IRELAND
- SUPORT FROM ARGENTINA : « FELICITO A LA LISTA POR LA
DIFUSION DE ESTAS INFORMACIONES »
- "JUDGE IS ENGLISH, PROSECUTOR IS ENGLISH..." :
MILOSEVIC DEFIES HIS NATO JUDGES
- BACK IN YUGOSLAVIA, LAYOFFS AND STRIKES
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MEETING OF LONDON :
MESSAGE OF SUPORT OF THE FRENCHSPEAKING SECTION OF THE
ICDSM
Dear comrades
Many regrets no to be with you this day !
Greatings from our militants of Belgium, France and
Switzerland to all of you, and particularly to
Christopher Black and all the British team of CDSM.
A few words first to remember you the Symposium
organised in next 2 march in Berlin by our comrades of
the Germanspeaking Section of ICDSM, with our
participation.
Since its creation by the NATO, the so-called
?International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia? (ICTY) is a war machine leaded against the
Serbian People and its defenders, in Yugoslavia and in
Republika Srpska (Bosnia). Directly financed by NATO,
the ICTY and his slavish magistrates abiding by the
orders of Washington, is a shame to all the magistracy
and the international judicial world.
The proceedings they use ? secret charging, anonymous
accounts without any proofs, kidnapping of the accused
regardless of the international law, automatic
presumption of guiltiness of the accused,
investigations in accusation and not in defence, and
so on. ? remind us of the sinister inquisition and
would deserve a non-admissibility of the charging in
any independent court of law , starting with those in
the US.
The detention conditions in the ICTY jails are also
outrageous. Especially the medical help brought to the
prisoners , the behaviour of the medical staff of the
ITCY prison is also a shame to all the medical world.
These are instances that are enough as proofs.
The moral loneliness of the Serbian prisoners, victims
of an incessant manhunt, is terrible. Adding to a
detention duration abnormally long and contrary to the
disposals of the European Convention of Human Rights.
It?s why we must, as a duty, help them and support
them.
The president MILOSEVIC is today the first of these
Serbian prisoners.
With the extradition of MILOSEVIC, the pro--American
muppets who govern Yugoslavia and Serbia since the
rampant coup of last October 2000 have just thrown
definitely the mask.
They have exchanged Milosevic against a thick handful
of dollars, as they had already arrest him in April
2000 for the same motives. Thirty coins of Judas for
the Serbian traitors !
The DOS raped the constitution that forbidden the
extradition of the national Yugoslavian while adopting
an unconstitutional decree. The DOS raped the right
while transgressing the decision of the Yugoslavian
supreme constitutional Court that had just suspended
this decree. The DOS raped the formal guarantees of
the Yugoslavian and international right that open ways
of appeal to all menaced person of extradition
(procedures legally hired by Milosevic). The DOS
raped the democratic rules that confide to the
parliament, where the Kollaboses of the DOS are
minority, the voting of a constitutional modification.
Yugoslavia is not anymore a state of right. It is a
?bananas? republic, governed by a junta solded to the
imperialism and the colonialisme of NATO and USA.
Milosevic has not been extradited but removed and
delivered illegally to the TPY, organ of repression of
the NATO.
Today, the president Milosevic is the first resistant
to the New World Order and the dictatorship of the
NATO.
Today, all free men and womlen must mobilize
themselves to defend the Yugoslavian president : WE
ARE ALL OF MILOSEVICS !
Luc MICHEL, President of the
Frenchspeaking Section of ICDSM.
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MEETING OF LONDON :
OPEN LETTER FROM IRELAND
Fraternal greetings from Mullingar, Republic of
Ireland.
On the eve of the Public Meeting 1st February 2002
focussing on NATO
responsibility for war crimes in the Balkans and
NATO's diversionary
tactic of apportioning blame to the victims of their
hi tech barbaric
onslaughts we note that a recent survey in England has
ascertained the fact, if fact
it is in this largely fictionalised world, that vast
numbers of people in
Britain no longer choose to tune in to either radio or
television news
bulletins be those bulletins either of the news in
brief kind or fully extended
bulletins.
This, as can be imagined, is causing serious concerns
amongst the ranks
of the manipulators of public opinion whom we prefer
to define as "the
deceivers." French writer and Director of the Ecole
speciale d'architecture Paul
Virilio is the author of sixteen books on sociological
and political subjects
with these books to include War and Cinema, Open Sky
and Strategy of
Deception. The last named book is a trenchant
denunciation of the perpetration of
the Kosovo war laying bare the lie that the West's
intervention in the
Balkans was founded on ethical and humanitarian
grounds.
Virilio, to quote from notes accompanying Strategy of
Deception, has
discerned a sinister innovation in the methods of
waging war:
territorial space is being replaced by orbital space
in which a system of global
telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of
bombers and
missiles: governments, the military and the media are
becoming part of a seamless
and self justifying process linked by new information
and arms
technologies. The author makes the claim that the
media has a "license to lie." If it
is that the media through its remorseless propagation
of lies and
distortions of the truth eventually allienates more
and more sectors of the
community then the ruling class which is totally
dependent on the media for
proselytising on its behalf and most particularly on
behalf of waging
war for profit will be in very serious trouble indeed.
The need to disseminate alternative information in a
world crying out
for such information has never been greater.
Thank you, whilst on this subject, to the Campaign To
Defend Slobodan
Milosevic and to the PCN-NCP service de presse for
sending us in these
post Strangelovian times and so regularly information
of that very kind.
Good luck for the meeting and we hope there will be a
good attendance.
We hope to make it along to a future meeting.
With our sincere thanks and very best wishes.
June and John Kelly
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SUPORT FROM ARGENTINA :
« FELICITO A LA LISTA POR LA DIFUSION DE ESTAS
INFORMACIONES »
From M. Gorojovsky
En mi carácter de miembro fundador del Comité
Internacional por la Liberación de Slobodan Milosevic,
felicito a la lista por la
difusión de estas informaciones.
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"JUDGE IS ENGLISH, PROSECUTOR IS ENGLISH..." :
MILOSEVIC DEFIES HIS NATO JUDGES
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Jan. 24, 2002
issue of Workers World newspaper
By John Catalinotto
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic continued
his
defiant stand in an appearance before the NATO-backed
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia
(ICTY) in The Hague Jan. 9.
The court reacted as it has in the past. It censored
Milosevic's statements.
The Yugoslav leader has from the beginning refused to
recognize the authority of the ICTY and has said he
will
represent himself during the proceedings.
Under pressure from Washington and other NATO powers,
the
United Nations created the ICTY in 1993. It has
jurisdiction
only over crimes carried out in Yugoslavia by people
from
that region. It refuses to try U.S. or other NATO
officials
for ordering the bombing of civilian targets during
the 1999
war.
The great majority of charges have been brought
against
Serbian people, either those who lived in
Bosnia-Herzegovina
or officials in the Yugoslav or Serbian governments.
The
tribunal barely addresses the many horrific acts
committed
against Serbs during the decade-long civil wars that
fragmented what had been a multinational, socialist
country
based on a federation of six republics. The
dismembering of
Yugoslavia was long a goal of European and U.S.
capital,
which now have the upper hand in the area.
The trial on a set of charges against Milosevic
relating to
Kosovo is scheduled to begin on Feb. 12.
At the Jan. 9 hearing, Judge Richard May restricted
sharply
what Milosevic was allowed to say, repeatedly cutting
him
off.
Milosevic began, "To be precise, concerning what has
been
said today: almost everything we've heard shows that,
in the
guise of having a trial, what is planned here is to
carry
out an operation to reverse scene and culprit. This is
aimed
at producing a fabricated justification for the crimes
committed during the NATO aggression against my
country and
my people.
"Indeed, this 'indictment' itself constitutes one of
the
proofs that what I affirm is true. Because all the
so-called
misdeeds supposedly committed by the armed forces of
Yugoslavia, which I had the honor to command, are,
according
to the 'indictment,' supposed to have occurred during
precisely the time of the NATO aggression against my
country.
"The intention is obviously to portray those who
defended
their families, children, thresholds, homes and
homeland as
villains, criminals, evil people. Whereas those who
traveled
thousands of kilometers to destroy those homes in the
night,
to kill innocent people, to destroy maternity wards,
hospitals, bridges, railways, trains, who collaborated
with
the Albanian terrorists-that those people, responsible
for a
huge number of victims and enormous material damage,
are
good, are correct, and should have the support of
international public opinion.
"To compound this absurdity..."
At this point the court interrupted Milosevic, turning
off
his microphone. Judge May insisted that Milosevic
limit his
comments to trial procedure. In the coverage of the
trial,
however, the big-business media applied their own
twist to
the news, dredging up all the old political charges
against
the Yugoslav leader and the Serbian people.
Milosevic tried to continue. "I want to confirm that
you
have not offered a single argument in response to the
very
clear legal facts I have presented regarding the
illegality
of this 'court,' established by a resolution of a
Security
Council that has no legislative nor judiciary power
and that
could hardly transfer prerogatives it does not have,
since
as lawyers you very well know that a right which one
does
not posses cannot be transferred.
"In any case...." Here the court again turned off his
microphone and Judge May demanded the former president
censor his comments.
President Milosevic tried once more: "Well, if you're
going
to limit the questions I can raise, then regarding the
procedure I would say the following: according to the
natural definition, which applies to any court, it
must be
neutral and impartial. And look at this 'court': the
indictment is based on allegations provided by the
English
intelligence service; the judge is English; the
prosecutor
is English; the Amicus Curiae is English; and I ..."
Here the court again cut off his microphone and
adjourned
the hearing.
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BACK IN YUGOSLAVIA, LAYOFFS AND STRIKES
Back in Yugoslavia, living conditions for the working
class
and for most of the population have continued to
worsen
since the U.S.-manipulated September 2000 election and
the
October 2000 coup that followed pushed Milosevic's
Socialist
Party of Serbia out of office.
Anyone who believed that the new Yugoslav government
would
receive more aid and economic help from the
imperialist
powers if it arrested Milosevic and turned him over to
NATO
has by now been sorely disillusioned. Even the puppet
Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic has complained publicly
that
the Western leaders have reneged on their promises of
aid.
Unemployment is now up above 50 percent. In the first
week
of January, the announcement that four big Yugoslav
banks
would close threatened 8,500 more workers with
layoffs. The
news that Beogradska Banka, Jugobanka, Investbanka and
Beobanka would close provoked workers' protests, with
more
than 1,000 employees locking themselves in the banks'
offices in Belgrade, Krusevac, Nis and Vranje.
Trade unions say that for every 1,000 employees laid
off,
another 5,000 jobs are in jeopardy.
The Yugoslav government forced the closure of the four
banking giants to mark the launch of broad, World
Bank-
sponsored changes to the country's financial sector
that
will allow deeper U.S. and West European penetration
of the
Yugoslav economy.
(Copyright Workers World Service)
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