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National - Ottawa Citizen Online
Saturday 13 January 2001
Serbs win right to sue Canada
Expatriates want $75M for NATO bombing
Tom Blackwell
The Ottawa Citizen
TORONTO -- In what's being hailed as a
precedent-setting ruling, a group of mostly
expatriate Serbs has won the right to sue the
Canadian government over NATO's bombing of
their homeland.
A Superior Court of Ontario judge this week
rejected a request by federal lawyers to toss
the case out before it even gets to trial.
It marks the first time a Canadian court has
given the go-ahead to a suit that deals with
Canada's actions in a foreign land, Emilio
Binavince, lawyer for the Serb nationals and
Serb-Canadians, said yesterday.
A similar lawsuit by relatives of a Somalian
teenager beaten to death by Canadian soldiers
was not allowed to proceed, he noted.
"This is a great victory," Mr. Binavince said
after the judge's ruling.
"For the first time, a wrong committed by the
Canadian government outside the country is the
subject of a suit (that's proceeding to
trial)."
The claim was launched by 50 Canadians of
Serbian origin and seven Serb nationals over
the NATO bombing campaign against the country
in the spring of 1999.
Eighteen Canadian CF-18 Hornet jet fighters
took part in the air strikes, accounting for
about 10 per cent of the 6,700 sorties flown
by war planes of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
The attacks were designed to pressure Slobodan
Milosevic, then president of Serbia, to end
attacks on ethnic Albanians in the district of
Kosovo.
Mr. Milosevic was later indicted as a war
criminal by an international tribunal, and
then overthrown last year in a bloodless
uprising.
But the suit alleges that Canada violated both
international law and the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms by taking part in the campaign.
It demands $75 million in compensation for
deaths, injuries and property damage suffered
by the plaintiffs and their relatives in
Serbia.
Among other things, the federal government had
claimed that individuals cannot sue Canada
over its obligations under international law,
arguing that only other countries can do so.
Justice Gordon Sedgwick of the Superior Court
disagreed.
"They are not seeking to enforce an
international obligation of Canada," Judge
Sedgwick said in his judgment.
"They are asking this court to determine
whether the allegedly 'illegal' actions of
Canadian ministers and civilian and military
officials in participating in the NATO
bombardments of Yugoslavia ... may be
characterized as wrongful acts (for the
purposes of a suit in the courts here). I am
not persuaded that they are prohibited by law
from doing so."
Judge Sedgwick also rejected federal arguments
that Canadian courts can't rule on issues
involving the government's "royal prerogative"
to participate in foreign affairs and
international military actions.
Ed Sojonky, the senior Justice Department
lawyer representing Canada in the case, said
the government will decide within a couple of
weeks whether to appeal, but in the meantime
he wouldn't comment on the ruling.
"Our position has always been that there is no
merit to the claim," he said.
The judgment wasn't all positive for the
Serbs. Judge Sedgwick gave the plaintiffs 60
days to update their statement of claim to
spell out exactly how each of them was
directly affected by the bombing.
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Betreff: Re: Court Decision / Endorcement in
regard to our Lawsuit
COURT FILE NO.: 99-CV-1 1304 DATE: 20010110
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE - ONTARIO
RE: STEVAN ALEKSLC ET AL v. THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL OF CANADA
BEFORE:
COUNSEL:
SEDOWICK J.
Edward R. Sojonky, Q.C. and Elizabeth
Richards, for the defendant (moving party) and
Emilio S. Binavince, for the plaintiffs
(respondents)
ENDORSEMENT
Seduwick J.:
(1] The defendant moves to strike out the
plaintiff's statement of claim in this action
with costs.
[2] The statement of claim was issued on
September 15, 1999. There are 57 plaintiffs.
The ~0 plaintiffs identified as "Part A
Plaintiffs" are citizens or permanent
residents/landed immigrants resident in Canada
of Yugoslav heritage, 5 of them having dual
Canadian/Yugoslav citizenship's. The 7
remaining plaintiff identified as "Part B
Plaintiffs" are Yugoslav citizens resident in
Kosovo/Serbia/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
('Yugoslavia").
[3] The statement of claim alleges that from
March 24 to June 1, 1999, Canada participated
in missile and aerial bombardments and the
military occupation of parts of Yugoslavia by
armed forces of the members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization ('~ATO") in
relation to internal civil strife in Kosovo.
These actions were allegedly carried out by
the Ministers and officials of the Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and
of the Department of National Defense. Their
actions are alleged to be contrary to
customary and Conventional international law
incl6ding the United Nations Charter and the
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928. Their "illegal
acts" are common law torts and infringements
of rights under the Charter of Canadian Rights
and Freedoms (the "Charter').
[4] The Part A Plaintiffs seek general damages
of $50,000,000 together with special damages
and exemplary or punitive damages of
$10,000,000 for tort under S. 3(a) of the
Crown Liability and Proceedings Act "CLPA")
and as a remedy under S. 24(1) of the Charter.
Specific infringements of Charter rights are
alleged in paragraph 15 of the statement of
claim as to 5. 7 of the Charter and in
paragraph 16, as to 5.15 of the Charter It is
alleged that at all material times during the
bombardment period these plaintiffs
"sojourned21 in Yugoslavia or had family or
relatives living there or had contractual
relations with persons living or doing
business there. -2-
[5] The Part B Plaintiffs, all residents of
Yugoslavia, seek general damages of
$15,000,000 together with special damages and
exemplary or punitive damages of $1,000,000
for ton under S. 3(a) of the CLPA.
(6] All p1ainti~ seek interest in accordance
with the CLPA and their costs On a
solicitor/client scale. In the statement of
claim, the plaintiffs also seek an injunction
to restrain the Government of Canada from
using public funds to participate in NATO
military actions directed to aggressive war or
the occupation of any part of Yugoslavia other
than for humanitarian purposes. The claim for
injunctive relief is probably moot and, in
event, was not canvassed to any degree before
me. The gist of this action is the plaintiffs'
claims for damages.
[7] As to the tort claims of all plaintiffs
under S. 3(a) of the CILPA based on the
alleged "illegal acts" of Ministers and
officials of the Government of Canada (see
para. [3] above), damages are claimed for the
common law tons of assault and battery,
intimidation, intentional infliction of
nervous shock, negligence and interference
with contractual arid business interests and
relations with others.
[8] Separate Charter and tort claims are
pleaded for:
(a) unlawful expenditure of public funds for
other than lawfi'1 or constitutionally valid
purposes; (b) unlawful use by NATO armed
forces of weapons with toxic radioactive
components including depleted uranium contrary
to international law; (c) unlawful use by
NATO armed forces of area weapons including
cluster bombs contrary to international law;
and (d) unlawful destruction or damage to
factories, warehouses and other storage
facilities and refineries used to store or
process chemically dangerous toxic or
carcinogenic substances.
[9] The defendant moves to strike out the
statement of claim under Rule 21.01(1)(b) of
the Rules of Civil Procedure on the ground
that it discloses no reasonable cause of
action. The defendant also moves to have this
action dismissed under Rule 21 .01(3)(a) and
(d) on grounds that the court has no
jurisdiction over, the subject matter of the
action and that the action is frivolous and
vexatious or otherwise an abuse of the process
of the court,
[10] The test to be applied to determine
whether the statement of claim in this action
ought to be struck out may be stated in these
terms. Taking the material facts pleaded as
proven, do they disclose a reasonable cause of
action, do they disclose a reasonable cause of
action, that is, one "with some chance of
success"; or is it "plain and obvious that the
action cannot succeed"? Operation Dismantle
Inc. teat V. The Queen (1985] 1 S.C.R. 441 at
486-7 (per Wilson J.), Citing Drummond-Jackyon
v. British Medical Association f1970] I All
E.R. 1084 and Dawson v. Government of Canada
(1981) 37 N.R. 127, 138 (Fed. C.A.) per LeDain
3. A "plain and obvious" case has been
described as one where the court is satisfied
that "the case is beyond doubt'. Canada (A. C)
V. mutt Tapirisar of Canada [1980] 2 S.C.R.
735, 740 (per Estey 3.) citing RQSS ~ Scottish
Union. and National Insurance Co. (1920), 47
O.L.R. 308 (Ont. 3- App Div.). Novelty or
complexity of a cause of action pleaded in a
statement of claim ought not to weigh against
the plaintiff on a motion to strike a
statement of claim. Nor ought such a motion be
allowed on a question of law which has not
been hilly settled in the decided cases.
[11] In applying the test, the court is
"obliged to read the statement of claim as
generously as possible and to accommodate any
inadequacies in the form of the allegations
which are merely the result of drafting
deficiencies". (Operation Dismantle case, op.
cit, 451, per Dickson J.] as he then was.
however, what are to be taken as proven in the
statement of claim are the material facts, not
conclusions of law or allegations of possible
consequences of alleged wrongful acts that are
based only on assumptions or speculations
which by their very nature cannot be proven as
true by adducing evidence. (Operation
Dismantle case, op. cit., 455, per Dickson J.).
[12] In the Operation Dismantle case, the
Supreme Court of Canada considered whether the
appellants'' statement of claim should be
struck out as disclosing no reasonable cause
of action. The appellants alleged that a
decision made by the Canadian government to
allow the United States to test cruise
missiles in Canada violated or threatened to
violate 5.7 of the Charter. Declamatory
relief, an injunction and damages were sought
in the statement of claim. A judge of the
Federal Court, Trial Division dismissed the
motion to strike. The Federal Court of Appeal
reversed his decision, struck the statement of
claim and dismissed the action. A flintier
appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was
dismissed. In dismissing the appeal, however,
the Court affirmed that decisions of the
executive branch of the Canadian government
are reviewable by the courts under 5. 32(l)(a)
of the Charter even though they raise what may
be characterized as "political questions" and
are exercises of the royal prerogative.
[13] The defendant moving party submits that
the statement of claim in this action does not
meet the test outlined in paragraphs [10] and
[11] above, First, the defendant says that the
issues raised in this action are not
justifiable in a Canadian court because they
include issues of international law which are
political in nature involving the exercise of
the royal prerogative in the realms of foreign
affairs and participation in international
military actions. It is submitted that these
are issues which are inherently incapable of
adjudication or review by a court of law, or
if not incapable, at least unsuitable for such
adjudication or review. As a matter of law,
this submission is, in my view, inconsistent
with the Operation Dismantle case; and as a
matter of discretion, I would not strike the
statement of claim on this ground.
[14] Second, the defendant says that the
actions of the Canadian ministers and civilian
and military officials of which the plaintiffs
complain were taken in the exercise of royal
prerogative powers in foreign affairs and the
disposition and control of Canada's armed
forces. It is submitted that the exercise of
prerogative powers in these particular matters
is not subject to review in a Canadian court
although the exercise of some prerogative
powers may be subject to judicial review under
the Charter. As a matter of law, the
submission that any exercise of prerogative
powers is not subject to judicial review is,
in my view, too sweeping and inconsistent with
the Operation Dismantle case; and as a matter
of discretion, I would not strike the
statement of claim on this ground. See also
Hogg v. Monahan: liability of the Crown (3~
Ed), 19. -4
[15] Third, the defendant says that this court
does not have jurisdiction to determine the
legality of actions of Canadian ministers and
civilian and military officials according to
international law. Obligations by a state
under international law are only owed to and
enforceable by other states, not individuals.
In its application to the statement of claim
in this action, this submission is, in my
view, entirely too broad. In their action, the
plaintiffs are not seeking a remedy against
another state. "'hey are not seeking to
enforce an international obligation of Canada.
They are asking this court to determine
whether the allegedly "illegal" actions of
Canadian ministers and civilian and military
officials in participating in the NATO
bombardments of Yugoslavia and the subsequent
deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo may be
characterized as wrongful acts which are
actionable in damages or as violations of the
Charter. At this early stage of the action, I
am not persuaded that they are prohibited by
law from doing so. I would not strike the
statement of claim on this ground.
[16] As to the Charter, the defendant further
submits that the Charter does not apply to the
alleged "illegal' acts of the Canadian
ministers and civilian and military officials
in relation to the decisions and military
action of NATO and tat there are no
infringements of Charter fights in any event.
Allegations of infringements of rights under
ss. 7 and is of the Charter are made in the
statement of claim on behalf of the Part A
Plaintiffs only. It is not alleged that the
Part B Plaintiffs have any rights under the
Charter. As to the cause of action alleged on
behalf of all the plaintiffs in tort, the
defendant submits that it is speculative,
remote and related "to alleged causes of
action not known in tort law on these facts",
a conclusion which is also drawn in the
defendant's factum in relation to alleged
Charter infringements. In view of the decision
of the Supreme Court of Canada in the
Operation Dismantle case para. [12] above) and
the considerations of novelty, complexity and
unsettled law in applying the "plain and
obvious rest (para. [10] above)3 it would, in
my view be premature to strike the statement
of claim on these grounds at this stage of the
action.
[17) Rule 25,06(1) requires that "Every
pleading shall contain a concise statement of
the material facts upon which the party relies
for the claim or defense, ..." (emphasis
added). The statement of claim in this acti6n
is only marginally compliant with this
provision. This is not a class action. Each of
the plaintiffs has a separate and distinct
cause of action. As previously stated, the
gist of this action is the plaintiffs' damages
claim. No material facts are pleaded as to how
the individual plaintiffs were affected by the
actions of the Canadian ministers and
officials. The plaintiffs must plead the
material facts relating to each cause of
action, linking the alleged damages suffered
to the alleged wrongful acts. (Rule 25.06(9)).
This is not a deficiency which, in my view,
may be cured by particulars. This pleading is
now 15 months old and I would anticipate that
the alleged losses suffered by the plaintiffs
as a result of the alleged wrongful acts are
now identifiable. There are other deficiencies
in the statement of claim which I need not
particularize. The statement bf1clairri
requires amendment before this action proceeds
further. The plaintiffs are given leave to
amend their statement of claim 'within 60
days. I [18] The motion by the defendant to
strike the plaintiffs' claim and dismiss their
action is dismissed with cost. If the parties
are unable to agree as to costs the court is
prepared to fix them on a party/party scale
upon receiving the written submissions of
counsel within 30 days.
January 10, 2001
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Betreff: Press Conference, March 5th, 2001,
Ottawa, Canada
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
3662 Albion Rd. South, Gloucester, Ontario,
K1T 1A3, serbian.heritage@...
PRESS CONFERENCE
Time: Monday, March 5, 2001, at 11:00 a.m.
Place: Charles Lynch Room, 130 C Centre
Block, Parliament Building,
Wellington Str., Ottawa
Press Release
A Question of Principle: Citizens Group to
Agree to Government Appeal in Bombing Lawsuit
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- The Serbian Heritage
Society of Ottawa is one of the initiators of
the lawsuit against the Canadian government
regarding the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
Among other demands, this suit seeks to stop
the Canadian government from any further
participation in NATO military actions pending
the determination of the legality of such
actions by the Canadian justice system. Many
of our members were born outside of Canada and
chose to come this country—to work,
live, and raise our children as
Canadians—because we believed in the
noble principles that are not only the
foundation of its constitutional system but
that also represent the core beliefs of its
people and the basis for its culture. These
principles, which include fundamental
convictions about the rule of law, fairness,
tolerance, and the peaceful resolution of
conflict, are the reason why Canada and
Canadians command so much respect throughout
the world. It is, of course, the civic duty of
every Canadian citizen to uphold and guard
these principles. However, for those of us who
understand from personal experience how
difficult they are to establish and how
difficult they are to sustain in today’s
conflict-ridden world, there is a particular
urgency to defend them when they are
threatened. Furthermore, when this threat
comes from very powerful individuals who are
at the very head of our government, this need
is even more compelling. The government is not
above the law. In the course of 78 days,
Canadian planes and Canadian pilots were
ordered to bomb an innocent and helpless
civilian population, to destroy their homes
and property, to poison their environment. The
result is compounded human misery, a
dangerously polluted habitat, expansion of
terrorist activity, and a destabilization of
the entire region. This act of war was
undertaken against a country that was at peace
with its neighbours and that was not
threatening either Canada or any of its
allies. It was done without a mandate from the
United Nations, the Parliament of Canada, or
the Canadian people. There cannot be any
clearer examples of wanton and irresponsible
exercise of power by an arrogant elite who
clearly consider themselves outside the law.
No one should be allowed to get away with
that; it is a threat to our fundamental
democratic rights and civil liberties.
Therefore, the principal issue of this suit is
not about money or personal gain of any kind.
Members of the Society have committed to
donate the bulk of any momentary compensation
that they might receive to charity. It is also
not about politics – our ethnic origin
is immaterial here. It is about principle and
about responsibility: the government is not
above the law. Conseqeuntly, our objective is
to have this crucial issue addressed at the
highest judicial level possible and as soon as
possible. We approach this litigation in good
faith and have instructed our lawyer, Dr.
Emilio Binavince, to agree to the
Government’s appeal for escalating the
case to a higher court. Our objective is
simple but fundamental: the people must
control the actions of the high and the
mighty, the Government is not and must not be
above the law.
This press release is issued by the Serbian
Heritage Society of Ottawa. The society and
its members can be contacted via e-mail at:
serbian.heritage@...
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National - Ottawa Citizen Online
Saturday 13 January 2001
Serbs win right to sue Canada
Expatriates want $75M for NATO bombing
Tom Blackwell
The Ottawa Citizen
TORONTO -- In what's being hailed as a
precedent-setting ruling, a group of mostly
expatriate Serbs has won the right to sue the
Canadian government over NATO's bombing of
their homeland.
A Superior Court of Ontario judge this week
rejected a request by federal lawyers to toss
the case out before it even gets to trial.
It marks the first time a Canadian court has
given the go-ahead to a suit that deals with
Canada's actions in a foreign land, Emilio
Binavince, lawyer for the Serb nationals and
Serb-Canadians, said yesterday.
A similar lawsuit by relatives of a Somalian
teenager beaten to death by Canadian soldiers
was not allowed to proceed, he noted.
"This is a great victory," Mr. Binavince said
after the judge's ruling.
"For the first time, a wrong committed by the
Canadian government outside the country is the
subject of a suit (that's proceeding to
trial)."
The claim was launched by 50 Canadians of
Serbian origin and seven Serb nationals over
the NATO bombing campaign against the country
in the spring of 1999.
Eighteen Canadian CF-18 Hornet jet fighters
took part in the air strikes, accounting for
about 10 per cent of the 6,700 sorties flown
by war planes of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
The attacks were designed to pressure Slobodan
Milosevic, then president of Serbia, to end
attacks on ethnic Albanians in the district of
Kosovo.
Mr. Milosevic was later indicted as a war
criminal by an international tribunal, and
then overthrown last year in a bloodless
uprising.
But the suit alleges that Canada violated both
international law and the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms by taking part in the campaign.
It demands $75 million in compensation for
deaths, injuries and property damage suffered
by the plaintiffs and their relatives in
Serbia.
Among other things, the federal government had
claimed that individuals cannot sue Canada
over its obligations under international law,
arguing that only other countries can do so.
Justice Gordon Sedgwick of the Superior Court
disagreed.
"They are not seeking to enforce an
international obligation of Canada," Judge
Sedgwick said in his judgment.
"They are asking this court to determine
whether the allegedly 'illegal' actions of
Canadian ministers and civilian and military
officials in participating in the NATO
bombardments of Yugoslavia ... may be
characterized as wrongful acts (for the
purposes of a suit in the courts here). I am
not persuaded that they are prohibited by law
from doing so."
Judge Sedgwick also rejected federal arguments
that Canadian courts can't rule on issues
involving the government's "royal prerogative"
to participate in foreign affairs and
international military actions.
Ed Sojonky, the senior Justice Department
lawyer representing Canada in the case, said
the government will decide within a couple of
weeks whether to appeal, but in the meantime
he wouldn't comment on the ruling.
"Our position has always been that there is no
merit to the claim," he said.
The judgment wasn't all positive for the
Serbs. Judge Sedgwick gave the plaintiffs 60
days to update their statement of claim to
spell out exactly how each of them was
directly affected by the bombing.
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Datum: 2001/01/13 Sat AM 05:11:47 CET
An: w.schulz@...
Betreff: Re: Court Decision / Endorcement in
regard to our Lawsuit
COURT FILE NO.: 99-CV-1 1304 DATE: 20010110
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE - ONTARIO
RE: STEVAN ALEKSLC ET AL v. THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL OF CANADA
BEFORE:
COUNSEL:
SEDOWICK J.
Edward R. Sojonky, Q.C. and Elizabeth
Richards, for the defendant (moving party) and
Emilio S. Binavince, for the plaintiffs
(respondents)
ENDORSEMENT
Seduwick J.:
(1] The defendant moves to strike out the
plaintiff's statement of claim in this action
with costs.
[2] The statement of claim was issued on
September 15, 1999. There are 57 plaintiffs.
The ~0 plaintiffs identified as "Part A
Plaintiffs" are citizens or permanent
residents/landed immigrants resident in Canada
of Yugoslav heritage, 5 of them having dual
Canadian/Yugoslav citizenship's. The 7
remaining plaintiff identified as "Part B
Plaintiffs" are Yugoslav citizens resident in
Kosovo/Serbia/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
('Yugoslavia").
[3] The statement of claim alleges that from
March 24 to June 1, 1999, Canada participated
in missile and aerial bombardments and the
military occupation of parts of Yugoslavia by
armed forces of the members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization ('~ATO") in
relation to internal civil strife in Kosovo.
These actions were allegedly carried out by
the Ministers and officials of the Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and
of the Department of National Defense. Their
actions are alleged to be contrary to
customary and Conventional international law
incl6ding the United Nations Charter and the
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928. Their "illegal
acts" are common law torts and infringements
of rights under the Charter of Canadian Rights
and Freedoms (the "Charter').
[4] The Part A Plaintiffs seek general damages
of $50,000,000 together with special damages
and exemplary or punitive damages of
$10,000,000 for tort under S. 3(a) of the
Crown Liability and Proceedings Act "CLPA")
and as a remedy under S. 24(1) of the Charter.
Specific infringements of Charter rights are
alleged in paragraph 15 of the statement of
claim as to 5. 7 of the Charter and in
paragraph 16, as to 5.15 of the Charter It is
alleged that at all material times during the
bombardment period these plaintiffs
"sojourned21 in Yugoslavia or had family or
relatives living there or had contractual
relations with persons living or doing
business there. -2-
[5] The Part B Plaintiffs, all residents of
Yugoslavia, seek general damages of
$15,000,000 together with special damages and
exemplary or punitive damages of $1,000,000
for ton under S. 3(a) of the CLPA.
(6] All p1ainti~ seek interest in accordance
with the CLPA and their costs On a
solicitor/client scale. In the statement of
claim, the plaintiffs also seek an injunction
to restrain the Government of Canada from
using public funds to participate in NATO
military actions directed to aggressive war or
the occupation of any part of Yugoslavia other
than for humanitarian purposes. The claim for
injunctive relief is probably moot and, in
event, was not canvassed to any degree before
me. The gist of this action is the plaintiffs'
claims for damages.
[7] As to the tort claims of all plaintiffs
under S. 3(a) of the CILPA based on the
alleged "illegal acts" of Ministers and
officials of the Government of Canada (see
para. [3] above), damages are claimed for the
common law tons of assault and battery,
intimidation, intentional infliction of
nervous shock, negligence and interference
with contractual arid business interests and
relations with others.
[8] Separate Charter and tort claims are
pleaded for:
(a) unlawful expenditure of public funds for
other than lawfi'1 or constitutionally valid
purposes; (b) unlawful use by NATO armed
forces of weapons with toxic radioactive
components including depleted uranium contrary
to international law; (c) unlawful use by
NATO armed forces of area weapons including
cluster bombs contrary to international law;
and (d) unlawful destruction or damage to
factories, warehouses and other storage
facilities and refineries used to store or
process chemically dangerous toxic or
carcinogenic substances.
[9] The defendant moves to strike out the
statement of claim under Rule 21.01(1)(b) of
the Rules of Civil Procedure on the ground
that it discloses no reasonable cause of
action. The defendant also moves to have this
action dismissed under Rule 21 .01(3)(a) and
(d) on grounds that the court has no
jurisdiction over, the subject matter of the
action and that the action is frivolous and
vexatious or otherwise an abuse of the process
of the court,
[10] The test to be applied to determine
whether the statement of claim in this action
ought to be struck out may be stated in these
terms. Taking the material facts pleaded as
proven, do they disclose a reasonable cause of
action, do they disclose a reasonable cause of
action, that is, one "with some chance of
success"; or is it "plain and obvious that the
action cannot succeed"? Operation Dismantle
Inc. teat V. The Queen (1985] 1 S.C.R. 441 at
486-7 (per Wilson J.), Citing Drummond-Jackyon
v. British Medical Association f1970] I All
E.R. 1084 and Dawson v. Government of Canada
(1981) 37 N.R. 127, 138 (Fed. C.A.) per LeDain
3. A "plain and obvious" case has been
described as one where the court is satisfied
that "the case is beyond doubt'. Canada (A. C)
V. mutt Tapirisar of Canada [1980] 2 S.C.R.
735, 740 (per Estey 3.) citing RQSS ~ Scottish
Union. and National Insurance Co. (1920), 47
O.L.R. 308 (Ont. 3- App Div.). Novelty or
complexity of a cause of action pleaded in a
statement of claim ought not to weigh against
the plaintiff on a motion to strike a
statement of claim. Nor ought such a motion be
allowed on a question of law which has not
been hilly settled in the decided cases.
[11] In applying the test, the court is
"obliged to read the statement of claim as
generously as possible and to accommodate any
inadequacies in the form of the allegations
which are merely the result of drafting
deficiencies". (Operation Dismantle case, op.
cit, 451, per Dickson J.] as he then was.
however, what are to be taken as proven in the
statement of claim are the material facts, not
conclusions of law or allegations of possible
consequences of alleged wrongful acts that are
based only on assumptions or speculations
which by their very nature cannot be proven as
true by adducing evidence. (Operation
Dismantle case, op. cit., 455, per Dickson J.).
[12] In the Operation Dismantle case, the
Supreme Court of Canada considered whether the
appellants'' statement of claim should be
struck out as disclosing no reasonable cause
of action. The appellants alleged that a
decision made by the Canadian government to
allow the United States to test cruise
missiles in Canada violated or threatened to
violate 5.7 of the Charter. Declamatory
relief, an injunction and damages were sought
in the statement of claim. A judge of the
Federal Court, Trial Division dismissed the
motion to strike. The Federal Court of Appeal
reversed his decision, struck the statement of
claim and dismissed the action. A flintier
appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was
dismissed. In dismissing the appeal, however,
the Court affirmed that decisions of the
executive branch of the Canadian government
are reviewable by the courts under 5. 32(l)(a)
of the Charter even though they raise what may
be characterized as "political questions" and
are exercises of the royal prerogative.
[13] The defendant moving party submits that
the statement of claim in this action does not
meet the test outlined in paragraphs [10] and
[11] above, First, the defendant says that the
issues raised in this action are not
justifiable in a Canadian court because they
include issues of international law which are
political in nature involving the exercise of
the royal prerogative in the realms of foreign
affairs and participation in international
military actions. It is submitted that these
are issues which are inherently incapable of
adjudication or review by a court of law, or
if not incapable, at least unsuitable for such
adjudication or review. As a matter of law,
this submission is, in my view, inconsistent
with the Operation Dismantle case; and as a
matter of discretion, I would not strike the
statement of claim on this ground.
[14] Second, the defendant says that the
actions of the Canadian ministers and civilian
and military officials of which the plaintiffs
complain were taken in the exercise of royal
prerogative powers in foreign affairs and the
disposition and control of Canada's armed
forces. It is submitted that the exercise of
prerogative powers in these particular matters
is not subject to review in a Canadian court
although the exercise of some prerogative
powers may be subject to judicial review under
the Charter. As a matter of law, the
submission that any exercise of prerogative
powers is not subject to judicial review is,
in my view, too sweeping and inconsistent with
the Operation Dismantle case; and as a matter
of discretion, I would not strike the
statement of claim on this ground. See also
Hogg v. Monahan: liability of the Crown (3~
Ed), 19. -4
[15] Third, the defendant says that this court
does not have jurisdiction to determine the
legality of actions of Canadian ministers and
civilian and military officials according to
international law. Obligations by a state
under international law are only owed to and
enforceable by other states, not individuals.
In its application to the statement of claim
in this action, this submission is, in my
view, entirely too broad. In their action, the
plaintiffs are not seeking a remedy against
another state. "'hey are not seeking to
enforce an international obligation of Canada.
They are asking this court to determine
whether the allegedly "illegal" actions of
Canadian ministers and civilian and military
officials in participating in the NATO
bombardments of Yugoslavia and the subsequent
deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo may be
characterized as wrongful acts which are
actionable in damages or as violations of the
Charter. At this early stage of the action, I
am not persuaded that they are prohibited by
law from doing so. I would not strike the
statement of claim on this ground.
[16] As to the Charter, the defendant further
submits that the Charter does not apply to the
alleged "illegal' acts of the Canadian
ministers and civilian and military officials
in relation to the decisions and military
action of NATO and tat there are no
infringements of Charter fights in any event.
Allegations of infringements of rights under
ss. 7 and is of the Charter are made in the
statement of claim on behalf of the Part A
Plaintiffs only. It is not alleged that the
Part B Plaintiffs have any rights under the
Charter. As to the cause of action alleged on
behalf of all the plaintiffs in tort, the
defendant submits that it is speculative,
remote and related "to alleged causes of
action not known in tort law on these facts",
a conclusion which is also drawn in the
defendant's factum in relation to alleged
Charter infringements. In view of the decision
of the Supreme Court of Canada in the
Operation Dismantle case para. [12] above) and
the considerations of novelty, complexity and
unsettled law in applying the "plain and
obvious rest (para. [10] above)3 it would, in
my view be premature to strike the statement
of claim on these grounds at this stage of the
action.
[17) Rule 25,06(1) requires that "Every
pleading shall contain a concise statement of
the material facts upon which the party relies
for the claim or defense, ..." (emphasis
added). The statement of claim in this acti6n
is only marginally compliant with this
provision. This is not a class action. Each of
the plaintiffs has a separate and distinct
cause of action. As previously stated, the
gist of this action is the plaintiffs' damages
claim. No material facts are pleaded as to how
the individual plaintiffs were affected by the
actions of the Canadian ministers and
officials. The plaintiffs must plead the
material facts relating to each cause of
action, linking the alleged damages suffered
to the alleged wrongful acts. (Rule 25.06(9)).
This is not a deficiency which, in my view,
may be cured by particulars. This pleading is
now 15 months old and I would anticipate that
the alleged losses suffered by the plaintiffs
as a result of the alleged wrongful acts are
now identifiable. There are other deficiencies
in the statement of claim which I need not
particularize. The statement bf1clairri
requires amendment before this action proceeds
further. The plaintiffs are given leave to
amend their statement of claim 'within 60
days. I [18] The motion by the defendant to
strike the plaintiffs' claim and dismiss their
action is dismissed with cost. If the parties
are unable to agree as to costs the court is
prepared to fix them on a party/party scale
upon receiving the written submissions of
counsel within 30 days.
January 10, 2001
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Betreff: Press Conference, March 5th, 2001,
Ottawa, Canada
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
3662 Albion Rd. South, Gloucester, Ontario,
K1T 1A3, serbian.heritage@...
PRESS CONFERENCE
Time: Monday, March 5, 2001, at 11:00 a.m.
Place: Charles Lynch Room, 130 C Centre
Block, Parliament Building,
Wellington Str., Ottawa
Press Release
A Question of Principle: Citizens Group to
Agree to Government Appeal in Bombing Lawsuit
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- The Serbian Heritage
Society of Ottawa is one of the initiators of
the lawsuit against the Canadian government
regarding the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
Among other demands, this suit seeks to stop
the Canadian government from any further
participation in NATO military actions pending
the determination of the legality of such
actions by the Canadian justice system. Many
of our members were born outside of Canada and
chose to come this country—to work,
live, and raise our children as
Canadians—because we believed in the
noble principles that are not only the
foundation of its constitutional system but
that also represent the core beliefs of its
people and the basis for its culture. These
principles, which include fundamental
convictions about the rule of law, fairness,
tolerance, and the peaceful resolution of
conflict, are the reason why Canada and
Canadians command so much respect throughout
the world. It is, of course, the civic duty of
every Canadian citizen to uphold and guard
these principles. However, for those of us who
understand from personal experience how
difficult they are to establish and how
difficult they are to sustain in today’s
conflict-ridden world, there is a particular
urgency to defend them when they are
threatened. Furthermore, when this threat
comes from very powerful individuals who are
at the very head of our government, this need
is even more compelling. The government is not
above the law. In the course of 78 days,
Canadian planes and Canadian pilots were
ordered to bomb an innocent and helpless
civilian population, to destroy their homes
and property, to poison their environment. The
result is compounded human misery, a
dangerously polluted habitat, expansion of
terrorist activity, and a destabilization of
the entire region. This act of war was
undertaken against a country that was at peace
with its neighbours and that was not
threatening either Canada or any of its
allies. It was done without a mandate from the
United Nations, the Parliament of Canada, or
the Canadian people. There cannot be any
clearer examples of wanton and irresponsible
exercise of power by an arrogant elite who
clearly consider themselves outside the law.
No one should be allowed to get away with
that; it is a threat to our fundamental
democratic rights and civil liberties.
Therefore, the principal issue of this suit is
not about money or personal gain of any kind.
Members of the Society have committed to
donate the bulk of any momentary compensation
that they might receive to charity. It is also
not about politics – our ethnic origin
is immaterial here. It is about principle and
about responsibility: the government is not
above the law. Conseqeuntly, our objective is
to have this crucial issue addressed at the
highest judicial level possible and as soon as
possible. We approach this litigation in good
faith and have instructed our lawyer, Dr.
Emilio Binavince, to agree to the
Government’s appeal for escalating the
case to a higher court. Our objective is
simple but fundamental: the people must
control the actions of the high and the
mighty, the Government is not and must not be
above the law.
This press release is issued by the Serbian
Heritage Society of Ottawa. The society and
its members can be contacted via e-mail at:
serbian.heritage@...
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WAY FROM THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA TO THE POLICY OF
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
REPORT OF PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN WORKERS' PARTY
GYULA TH�RMER
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends, comrades,
We gather here, in Budapest in a sombre time. A time when we are still
shocked and revolted by the barbaric terrorist attacks on the United
States. A time when, for people all over the world, the sense of
safety and security was ripped away. A time when we witness a new
imperialist policy aimed to control our planet and humanity.
NATO Secretary General Robertson said: "The events of September 11
have changed the world." I don't agree. It is not true. It was the
capitalist world, the capitalism to have been changed. It was the
capitalism that has led to a great degree to the tragic events of
September.
I would like to confirm our political position clearly: the Hungarian
Workers' Party reaffirms its condemnation of any form of terrorism. We
support the implementing of all relevant resolutions of the United
Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. At the same time we
declare: terror must not be the answer to terror.
Terrorism is not a political party, not even a state. Terrorism a
philosophy, a method. It can be used by the most different political
forces. Yes, terrorist organisations have changed the character of
their activity. Yes; their destructive power has been enormous. But,
why? What is the real reason?
Terrorism has its roots in the world's global problems. Before, at
those times when terrorism was useful for the capitalist big powers in
their fight against socialism, they supported it, financially,
militarily, politically. But now it is beyond their control and has
turned against them.
The aim of the current US-British military operations is not to arrest
Bin Laden and members of his terrorist organisation. The obvious
priority is a demonstration of force by the USA.
Worldwide US offensive
The NATO war against Yugoslavia was the experimental laboratory for
the large scale capitalist offensive we are witnessing now. The NATO
aggression in 1999 had its clear aims:
To finish the process of capitalist changes in Eastern Europe, to
avoid all possibilities to return to socialism.
To weaken Russia, undermining its international influence.
To strengthen US influence in Europe in a situation when the
European common currency just introduced before seemed to overcome US
dollar.
To elaborate new methods of political, moral, media, and military
war.
Important conclusions were made after the war. Some of these lessons
made the US and NATO to revise basic elements of their policy before
beginning a large-scale new offensive.
It has become quit evident that even the sophisticated US weapons
do mistakes. Remember the bombardments of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade or the so-called undesired attacks against civil persons.
It became clear that there is a gap between military capacities of the
US and their European allies. Just after Yugoslavian war Europe has
begun its new military doctrine and the EU began its tragic way to
turn into an organisation with strong military and security aspect.
Western countries could exclude Russia from Balkan regulation, but
Russia was not weakened. On the contrary during the presidency of
Putin the situation in Russia has been consolidated. Russia finds
newly its voice of super power.
The result of media war astonished deeply Western leaders. It was
very difficult to mobilise public opinion for war-participation. The
public opinion of such countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal, partly
Italy turned against war. Later, especially after Kosovo's occupation
many of the pro-war intellectuals expressed their doubts concerning
imperialist ideological explanations. Nato Secretary General already
in October 1999 warned NATO states to strengthen media work against
NATO-sceptic elements. The concept of so-called human rights, ethnic
cleaning have failed forever and nobody uses them today.
The Balkan peace settlement has turned to into a farce. There is no
stability on the Balkan. In Yugoslavia situation continues to be
serious.
Capitalist forces coming to power last October would like to finish
capitalist political and social changes in all fields of life. The
economic situation in Yugoslavia is catastrophic. New government
cannot solve these problems.
The arrest of Milosevic and his extradition to Hague has broken one of
the pillars of government coalition. Left forces are in deep crisis.
Kosovo is under NATO occupation. The US wants to create a sovereign
Kosovo although they deny it officially. In Macedonia US supports
Alban ethnic forces. The NATO and US will remain for a long time in
this region.
"The events of September 11th have changed many things. They have
reinforced the logic of keeping the peace in the Balkans - because
building stable, multi-ethnic states are our best insurance against
terrorism emerging in the first place."- NATO leaders declared.
The neighbours of Yugoslavia are unsatisfied with the results of the
peace settlement. They expected much more money for their political
and military assistance. Some of them have territorial claims, though
usually non-declared officially. The question of borders is not
closed. Many of these nationalistic forces hope to realise their
dreams about Great Albania, Great Hungary, sovereign Vojvodina and
sovereign Montenegro using this uncertain situation.
One of the aims of the war against Belgrade was to create a strong
corridor against Islamic forces which are playing more and more
important role in the world. It was not enough. The situation in the
Middle East has been worse as result of open Israeli aggression. The
Israeli government tries to overcome its internal crises by escalation
of conflict. The Middle East crisis serves American interests, too.
Bush: new conservative world
The Bush government has greatly changed the US policy and has
influenced very deeply the whole international situation.
First, US leaders are aware of weakening possibilities of USA in
modern world. They have decided to strengthen American hegemony in
world.
Second, US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They
expect from a global political and military offensive a new up come in
economy.
Third, US want to strengthen its leading position in military field.
Fourth, US want to diminish the role of Russia, and in long
perspective change it to a fully capitalist country.
Fifth, US want to stop in foreseeable perspective socialist
development of China and to finish historical revenge of capitalism.
Sixth, US want to create a new conservative world order with clear
American dominancy.
Seventh, The new policy has its clear internal aspects, too. US and
some other Western political forces came to the conclusion that new
challenges, like antiglobalisation movements, strengthening of non
Christian religions etc cannot be handled by classical methods of
bourgeois democracy, parlamentarism etc. There are attempts to
restrict the constitutional freedoms of citizens and persecute
so-called "anti-American" attitudes. Lets remember that US President
now has got the right to decide alone about war and peace, to decide
who is good and who is bad. We witness change to the presidential
ruling in Great Britain, in Italy, and even in Hungary. We see
dangerous movement to fascism.
We should carefully study what these all changes mean for contemporary
capitalism generally. Can we speak about general tendencies, including
fascism?
US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They expect
from a global military and political offensive a new and even long
lasting up rise in economy that has risen only by 2,5% for the first
half of 2001. We can see the first concrete steps. Military industry,
air transport has got such amounts of money they had not even dreamed
about. Under normal circumstances it would have been impossible.
Beside economic aims they want to strengthen their leading position in
military field. New military building up will take place. The new
military program can probably include space armaments, antimissile
defence systems. At the same time military building up will be spread
on traditional armaments, new types of aeroplanes, tanks, and weapon
systems.
The USA is going on with enlargement of NATO. They try to overcome the
opposition of some their allies in EU, and Russia. The Prague summit
can decide to invite to NATO Slovakia, Slovenia. The Baltic States
mean a great question. Experts do not exclude that the Prague summit
will not take final decisions.
The most aggressive forces in NATO now can explain their aim to give a
new role to NATO in world affairs. Remember what Robertson said
recently:
"There is a deep awareness that this is going to be a long
struggle, a struggle in which patience and persistence will be key.
Those who expected US unilateralism have witnessed instead a
masterpiece of multilaterally - rallying the world behind a common
purpose in a way only the US can. This has been coalition building at
its very best. NATO will of course be one of the key pillars of that
coalition"
Or lets take an other fresh literary masterpiece of NATO Secretary
General: "Europe's Security and Defence Identity is still in its early
stages. And the structures and functions of the UN and OSCE are
different and certainly do not mirror the unique composition,
strength, cohesion and speed of delivery of NATO".
Enlargement itself can lose some of its importance. Now it is more
important to give new functions to NATO. It is a permanent coalition,
a unique network with 19 nations and with further 27 in a partnership
relationship.
The 46 nations Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council is getting also new
aspects. It must enable NATO "to mobilise a coalition for the long
haul, tying in countries from Vancouver to Bishkek to make a
difference on real issues such as effective border control in Central
Asia."
EU: own concerns and interests
The EU-countries have their own concerns and interests. The economy of
the EU has braked. Temps of development have been diminished in most
of EU countries. Last year the production of GDP in EU has risen by
3,4%, this year only by 2,6%. The course of euro to dollars has been
falling and only during the last weeks there are some rises. The
EU-countries cut down almost all achievements of welfare state.
Internal political and social tension is increasing.
Germany has a special role. German economy develops slower than other
EU-states. This year GDP production rose by 2,6%.
The German Red-Green government for the first time after WW II decided
to send German soldiers into military action. They are aggravating the
political, social and ecological problems by socially unjust reforms
of the pension and tax systems, by an austerity policy detrimental to
future economic development. They cannot achieve real progress in
overcoming unemployment, whereby they disappointed many voters.
Further integration of East Germany is also a big question.
The conservative forces in Europe hope to return to power after many
years of social democratic government. Their strategic aim is to
establish a new conservative order in Europe. The most pillars of this
new conservative order would be strict commitment to conservative
values, final historical liquidation of all socialist and communist
experiments, full recognition of US strategic concepts.
After the collapse of Soviet Union the conflicts between the USA and
European allies became sharper. US try to share military burdens with
the Europeans. They insist on building up a sovereign European
military force but they want to save control first of all through
NATO.
The EU-enlargement leads to new serious conflicts. The Nice Treaty of
last year clearly demonstrated that large EU states want fully control
the Union. There is serious discussion among the leading countries
about the future of European institutions.
Ireland is the only of the 15 EU member states voting on the Nice
Treaty, which legally can only enter into force if ratified by all.
46.13 per cents were in favour of the Nice Treaty and 53.87 per cent
were against. This is the first time that an EU treaty has been
defeated by a referendum in Ireland.
The negative result of Danish referendum about Euro, the negative
attitude of Irish people expressed during the Irish referendum about
Nice treaty, the rising pro-referendum behaviour in Austria show
clearly that important socials forces have increased their activity.
The EU has been supported the new US policy from the very beginning.
First, the leading European states have realised their common class
interests. They are interested in common fight against threatening
anti-globalisation forces, rebirth of communist forces, for stopping
Chinese offensive.
Secondly, they also realised, that US could play its role without
them. The EU capital does not want to lose the chance to share with US
the economic and political privileges of capitalist militarisation.
Third, they see that the European economies also need serious
additional forces. War and concentration of power can be one of them.
Fourth, the EU political leaders are threatened by the
antiglobalisation fight. It has become cleat that existing
political institutions cannot solve this problem.
Russia: strategic ally or strategic enemy?
US continue considering Russia as one the strategic adversaries, one
of the main obstacles on the way to US World Empire. Western
capitalist forces have not given up their plan to create in Russia
social-political system identical with that in Western countries. They
understand that it can be realised only in the far future.
US would like to press Russia to accept their antimissile defence
plans and other one sided political steps in the world. Russia wants
to make US to recognise its strategic interests in the Baltic States
and Central Asia.
The EU is interested in a larger - than the US - degree of economic
ties with Russia. Europe cannot give up energy import from this
country, but they fight against the new offensive of Russian companies
on Eastern European markets and the natural desire of Russian firms to
get leading position in Eastern Europe and on the Balkan by buying up
local industrial companies
Russia tries to use the conflicts between USA and EU. They have
recently signed French-Russian declaration on strategic issues.
The EU does not want to cooperate with Russia against the USA, but
they are interested in saving strategic balance.
Russia and China have recently signed treaty of friendship and
strategic cooperation. Formally it contains nothing against US but on
practical terms it means serious political, economic and even military
step against US policy.
China is developing its bilateral relation with formal socialist
countries in Europe. The demonstrative state visit of Chinese
President to Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldavia was more than a symbolic
opening to these important countries.
NATO leaders and US understand that Russia does not want to accept
neither the new role of NATO nor its enlargement. They think that in
Russian eyes, Article 5 has been the quintessential demonstration of
NATO's Cold War orientation. Now NATO found a new explanation of
Article 5 in an entirely different context, one to which Russia can
relate. They hope to use the real interest of Russian to stop Islamic
forces in places like Central Asia.
China: principal challenge of the 21 century
China has achieved serious successes in economic and social
development.
Chinese economy is rising every year, people began to live better.
China is right to declare that it is due to the development of
socialism. China played important role in peace efforts on Balkan.
Beijing has got the right to organise Olympic games that clearly
expresses its increasing international respect and influence.
Western leaders try to explain Chinese successes by the fact that
China uses many capitalist methods in economic and even social policy.
Western politicians say that it is nothing more than economic and
social reform that have opened the way before capitalist development
in China, too. It is fare from the truth.
The strategy of Western countries is simple. They try to involve China
in international cooperation by inviting to WTO and other forms of
economic cooperation, and to contribute to the strengthening of
private sector in China.
They use military and diplomatic methods to influence Chinese
leadership make them to understand that only a pro Western political
elite devoted to Western political values and standards can get the
sympathy of West.
During the Bush-administration US-Chinese relationship has become more
tensioned. The incident with American intelligence airplane this
spring was the first serious political affair for a long period.
US-administration has made even some gestures. It did not oppose
publicly the Beijing Olympic Games and said no on Taiwan idea to
create common US-Japanese-Taiwan antimissile defence.
But it is only the surface. The Bush-administration wants to speed up
capitalist changes in China. They try to use internal forces in China,
too. US policy does not want a final worsening of strategic
relationships with China. US are interested in economic ties, and
China is an important actor also in some Pacific and Asian issues.
What to do?
I am convinced: the fight against capitalist globalization is central
to the class struggle today. It touches and affects virtually every
economic, social and political struggle of our parties.
Fidel Castro said the following phrases in Durban on September the 1:
"The capitalist, developed and wealthy countries today participate of
the imperialist system born of capitalism itself and the economic
order imposed to the world based on the philosophy of selfishness and
the brutal competition between men, nations and groups of nations
which in completely indifferent to any feelings of solidarity and
honest international cooperation. They live under the misleading,
irresponsible and hallucinating atmosphere of consumer societies. I
wonder: Will they be able to understand the grave problems of today's
world which in its incoherent and uneven development is ruled by blind
laws, by the huge power and the interests of the ever growing and
increasingly uncontrollable and independent transnational
corporations?
Will they come to understand the impending universal chaos and
rebellion? And, even if they wanted to, could they put an end to
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related issues,
which are precisely the rest of them all?
>From my viewpoint we are on the verge of a huge economic, social and
political global crisis. Let's try to build an awareness about these
realities and the alternatives will come up. History has shown that it
is only from deep crisis that great solutions have emerged. The
peoples' right to life and justice will definitely impose itself under
a thousand different shapes"
Left forces should play definitively more active role in fight against
war, terrorism, for democratic international relations.
We have now better conditions for it than 5-10 years ago. We see some
consolidation in left movement. Left and other progressive forces have
archived serious results in recent period, although there has not been
a dramatic positive change, yet.
The antiglobalisation movement has become a very serious factor. All
of us remember the streets of Seattle, Genoa, Salzburg. Goteborg. And
most of us know what role communists are playing in this movement. We
think we should help to spread the antiglobalisation movement on
Eastern Europe, too.
Antiwar movement plays a very sensitive role on Greece, Italy and in
many other countries, which are important for our parties.
Now we have better conditions to cooperate on the terrorism-war issue
than during the war against Yugoslavia. Many of us remember the
dramatic summit meeting of European communist leaders on Cyprus. No
real result, positions were to far from each other. The European
communist left could not stop the war. Now, the situation is
different. Our positions are very near to each other.
The Hungarian Workers' Party support all efforts to strengthen our
cooperation. The Hungarian Workers' Party proposes to organise
International Summit of Left Forces on War.
Our position is clear. We deny terrorism and do not consider it a
possible form of fight against capitalism. What we left forces want is
safe, peaceful, and democratic world. The road to it is not the
violence. The only possible way to achieve such a world is the
exclusion of violence from the international relations, the peaceful,
by political means, handling of conflicts.
The road to it: establish a society based on social justice.
At the same time we declare: terror must not be the answer on terror.
The recent military action of the US is not a classical war: it is a
sort of mean terrorism raised on the level of state politics.
New weapons systems do not bring security. We should continue
fighting against military programs.
NATO is totally unsuitable for combating terrorism. It arose from
confrontation and its self-image is unchanged. Its new alliance
strategy does not solve any security problems. On the contrary, it
creates new ones. We should not give up our fight against NATO.
We think it is the United Nations who should get its decisive role in
international questions. All measures have to be carried out through
the united efforts of the international community with the United
Nations at the centre and under the control of the UN. For the
elimination of international terrorism, it is vital to create, through
isolation of terrorists by the whole international community, a
situation in which there is no place in the world for the terrorists
to hide. There is no other organization but the United Nations that
can play a central role and has the authority to carry it out.
The international community should enter into a dialogue of cultures;
lead a non-military struggle against poverty, misery and injustice in
the world to remove the hotbeds of terrorism.
We should demand to spend much more money on development aid. We
should demand to spend money not on military adventures in Kosovo and
other places but on help to Afghan refugees and to the Palestinian
Authority as assistance to the suffering civil population. We demand
to finance these operations by a special tax on the assets of the
multi-millionaires.
We should fight for democracy, against the policy of leading
capitalist powers. They misuse the people's fear of war. They use the
wartime psychosis to draw away popular attention from the hardships in
the economy and the society. At the same time, the mass media boycott
the different public statements of left and other antiwar forces
opposing this war. We should fight against violation of freedom of
press and the democratic basic rights of the citizens. We should fight
against right extremism and fascism.
We have our national task, too. We, the Hungarian Workers' Party
condemns the decision of the Hungarian government and the Hungarian
Parliament to support the militarist policy of the US. Hungary has no
kind of military interests, neither on the Balkans, nor in
Afghanistan. What is in the interests of the Hungarian people is not
war, but peace.
The Hungarian Workers' Party demands that Hungary should diminish its
activity in the NATO to the minimum. We oppose that nuclear weapons
and other weapons of mass destruction be deployed on Hungarian soil.
American and all other foreign troops must be withdrawn from Hungary.
No Hungarian soldier must wage a war outside Hungary! Hungarian troops
must be recalled from abroad.
Dear friends,
People fear of war, terror attacks. People think they cannot do
anything against war. We should demonstrate people, young and old,
that they are not alone. We can and should fight against war, and we
will do it. I am optimist.
I am convinced that the international left movement is the political
force which can and will give people the safety of future generations
in an uncertain future.
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WAY FROM THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA TO THE POLICY OF
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
REPORT OF PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN WORKERS' PARTY
GYULA TH�RMER
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends, comrades,
We gather here, in Budapest in a sombre time. A time when we are still
shocked and revolted by the barbaric terrorist attacks on the United
States. A time when, for people all over the world, the sense of
safety and security was ripped away. A time when we witness a new
imperialist policy aimed to control our planet and humanity.
NATO Secretary General Robertson said: "The events of September 11
have changed the world." I don't agree. It is not true. It was the
capitalist world, the capitalism to have been changed. It was the
capitalism that has led to a great degree to the tragic events of
September.
I would like to confirm our political position clearly: the Hungarian
Workers' Party reaffirms its condemnation of any form of terrorism. We
support the implementing of all relevant resolutions of the United
Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. At the same time we
declare: terror must not be the answer to terror.
Terrorism is not a political party, not even a state. Terrorism a
philosophy, a method. It can be used by the most different political
forces. Yes, terrorist organisations have changed the character of
their activity. Yes; their destructive power has been enormous. But,
why? What is the real reason?
Terrorism has its roots in the world's global problems. Before, at
those times when terrorism was useful for the capitalist big powers in
their fight against socialism, they supported it, financially,
militarily, politically. But now it is beyond their control and has
turned against them.
The aim of the current US-British military operations is not to arrest
Bin Laden and members of his terrorist organisation. The obvious
priority is a demonstration of force by the USA.
Worldwide US offensive
The NATO war against Yugoslavia was the experimental laboratory for
the large scale capitalist offensive we are witnessing now. The NATO
aggression in 1999 had its clear aims:
To finish the process of capitalist changes in Eastern Europe, to
avoid all possibilities to return to socialism.
To weaken Russia, undermining its international influence.
To strengthen US influence in Europe in a situation when the
European common currency just introduced before seemed to overcome US
dollar.
To elaborate new methods of political, moral, media, and military
war.
Important conclusions were made after the war. Some of these lessons
made the US and NATO to revise basic elements of their policy before
beginning a large-scale new offensive.
It has become quit evident that even the sophisticated US weapons
do mistakes. Remember the bombardments of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade or the so-called undesired attacks against civil persons.
It became clear that there is a gap between military capacities of the
US and their European allies. Just after Yugoslavian war Europe has
begun its new military doctrine and the EU began its tragic way to
turn into an organisation with strong military and security aspect.
Western countries could exclude Russia from Balkan regulation, but
Russia was not weakened. On the contrary during the presidency of
Putin the situation in Russia has been consolidated. Russia finds
newly its voice of super power.
The result of media war astonished deeply Western leaders. It was
very difficult to mobilise public opinion for war-participation. The
public opinion of such countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal, partly
Italy turned against war. Later, especially after Kosovo's occupation
many of the pro-war intellectuals expressed their doubts concerning
imperialist ideological explanations. Nato Secretary General already
in October 1999 warned NATO states to strengthen media work against
NATO-sceptic elements. The concept of so-called human rights, ethnic
cleaning have failed forever and nobody uses them today.
The Balkan peace settlement has turned to into a farce. There is no
stability on the Balkan. In Yugoslavia situation continues to be
serious.
Capitalist forces coming to power last October would like to finish
capitalist political and social changes in all fields of life. The
economic situation in Yugoslavia is catastrophic. New government
cannot solve these problems.
The arrest of Milosevic and his extradition to Hague has broken one of
the pillars of government coalition. Left forces are in deep crisis.
Kosovo is under NATO occupation. The US wants to create a sovereign
Kosovo although they deny it officially. In Macedonia US supports
Alban ethnic forces. The NATO and US will remain for a long time in
this region.
"The events of September 11th have changed many things. They have
reinforced the logic of keeping the peace in the Balkans - because
building stable, multi-ethnic states are our best insurance against
terrorism emerging in the first place."- NATO leaders declared.
The neighbours of Yugoslavia are unsatisfied with the results of the
peace settlement. They expected much more money for their political
and military assistance. Some of them have territorial claims, though
usually non-declared officially. The question of borders is not
closed. Many of these nationalistic forces hope to realise their
dreams about Great Albania, Great Hungary, sovereign Vojvodina and
sovereign Montenegro using this uncertain situation.
One of the aims of the war against Belgrade was to create a strong
corridor against Islamic forces which are playing more and more
important role in the world. It was not enough. The situation in the
Middle East has been worse as result of open Israeli aggression. The
Israeli government tries to overcome its internal crises by escalation
of conflict. The Middle East crisis serves American interests, too.
Bush: new conservative world
The Bush government has greatly changed the US policy and has
influenced very deeply the whole international situation.
First, US leaders are aware of weakening possibilities of USA in
modern world. They have decided to strengthen American hegemony in
world.
Second, US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They
expect from a global political and military offensive a new up come in
economy.
Third, US want to strengthen its leading position in military field.
Fourth, US want to diminish the role of Russia, and in long
perspective change it to a fully capitalist country.
Fifth, US want to stop in foreseeable perspective socialist
development of China and to finish historical revenge of capitalism.
Sixth, US want to create a new conservative world order with clear
American dominancy.
Seventh, The new policy has its clear internal aspects, too. US and
some other Western political forces came to the conclusion that new
challenges, like antiglobalisation movements, strengthening of non
Christian religions etc cannot be handled by classical methods of
bourgeois democracy, parlamentarism etc. There are attempts to
restrict the constitutional freedoms of citizens and persecute
so-called "anti-American" attitudes. Lets remember that US President
now has got the right to decide alone about war and peace, to decide
who is good and who is bad. We witness change to the presidential
ruling in Great Britain, in Italy, and even in Hungary. We see
dangerous movement to fascism.
We should carefully study what these all changes mean for contemporary
capitalism generally. Can we speak about general tendencies, including
fascism?
US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They expect
from a global military and political offensive a new and even long
lasting up rise in economy that has risen only by 2,5% for the first
half of 2001. We can see the first concrete steps. Military industry,
air transport has got such amounts of money they had not even dreamed
about. Under normal circumstances it would have been impossible.
Beside economic aims they want to strengthen their leading position in
military field. New military building up will take place. The new
military program can probably include space armaments, antimissile
defence systems. At the same time military building up will be spread
on traditional armaments, new types of aeroplanes, tanks, and weapon
systems.
The USA is going on with enlargement of NATO. They try to overcome the
opposition of some their allies in EU, and Russia. The Prague summit
can decide to invite to NATO Slovakia, Slovenia. The Baltic States
mean a great question. Experts do not exclude that the Prague summit
will not take final decisions.
The most aggressive forces in NATO now can explain their aim to give a
new role to NATO in world affairs. Remember what Robertson said
recently:
"There is a deep awareness that this is going to be a long
struggle, a struggle in which patience and persistence will be key.
Those who expected US unilateralism have witnessed instead a
masterpiece of multilaterally - rallying the world behind a common
purpose in a way only the US can. This has been coalition building at
its very best. NATO will of course be one of the key pillars of that
coalition"
Or lets take an other fresh literary masterpiece of NATO Secretary
General: "Europe's Security and Defence Identity is still in its early
stages. And the structures and functions of the UN and OSCE are
different and certainly do not mirror the unique composition,
strength, cohesion and speed of delivery of NATO".
Enlargement itself can lose some of its importance. Now it is more
important to give new functions to NATO. It is a permanent coalition,
a unique network with 19 nations and with further 27 in a partnership
relationship.
The 46 nations Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council is getting also new
aspects. It must enable NATO "to mobilise a coalition for the long
haul, tying in countries from Vancouver to Bishkek to make a
difference on real issues such as effective border control in Central
Asia."
EU: own concerns and interests
The EU-countries have their own concerns and interests. The economy of
the EU has braked. Temps of development have been diminished in most
of EU countries. Last year the production of GDP in EU has risen by
3,4%, this year only by 2,6%. The course of euro to dollars has been
falling and only during the last weeks there are some rises. The
EU-countries cut down almost all achievements of welfare state.
Internal political and social tension is increasing.
Germany has a special role. German economy develops slower than other
EU-states. This year GDP production rose by 2,6%.
The German Red-Green government for the first time after WW II decided
to send German soldiers into military action. They are aggravating the
political, social and ecological problems by socially unjust reforms
of the pension and tax systems, by an austerity policy detrimental to
future economic development. They cannot achieve real progress in
overcoming unemployment, whereby they disappointed many voters.
Further integration of East Germany is also a big question.
The conservative forces in Europe hope to return to power after many
years of social democratic government. Their strategic aim is to
establish a new conservative order in Europe. The most pillars of this
new conservative order would be strict commitment to conservative
values, final historical liquidation of all socialist and communist
experiments, full recognition of US strategic concepts.
After the collapse of Soviet Union the conflicts between the USA and
European allies became sharper. US try to share military burdens with
the Europeans. They insist on building up a sovereign European
military force but they want to save control first of all through
NATO.
The EU-enlargement leads to new serious conflicts. The Nice Treaty of
last year clearly demonstrated that large EU states want fully control
the Union. There is serious discussion among the leading countries
about the future of European institutions.
Ireland is the only of the 15 EU member states voting on the Nice
Treaty, which legally can only enter into force if ratified by all.
46.13 per cents were in favour of the Nice Treaty and 53.87 per cent
were against. This is the first time that an EU treaty has been
defeated by a referendum in Ireland.
The negative result of Danish referendum about Euro, the negative
attitude of Irish people expressed during the Irish referendum about
Nice treaty, the rising pro-referendum behaviour in Austria show
clearly that important socials forces have increased their activity.
The EU has been supported the new US policy from the very beginning.
First, the leading European states have realised their common class
interests. They are interested in common fight against threatening
anti-globalisation forces, rebirth of communist forces, for stopping
Chinese offensive.
Secondly, they also realised, that US could play its role without
them. The EU capital does not want to lose the chance to share with US
the economic and political privileges of capitalist militarisation.
Third, they see that the European economies also need serious
additional forces. War and concentration of power can be one of them.
Fourth, the EU political leaders are threatened by the
antiglobalisation fight. It has become cleat that existing
political institutions cannot solve this problem.
Russia: strategic ally or strategic enemy?
US continue considering Russia as one the strategic adversaries, one
of the main obstacles on the way to US World Empire. Western
capitalist forces have not given up their plan to create in Russia
social-political system identical with that in Western countries. They
understand that it can be realised only in the far future.
US would like to press Russia to accept their antimissile defence
plans and other one sided political steps in the world. Russia wants
to make US to recognise its strategic interests in the Baltic States
and Central Asia.
The EU is interested in a larger - than the US - degree of economic
ties with Russia. Europe cannot give up energy import from this
country, but they fight against the new offensive of Russian companies
on Eastern European markets and the natural desire of Russian firms to
get leading position in Eastern Europe and on the Balkan by buying up
local industrial companies
Russia tries to use the conflicts between USA and EU. They have
recently signed French-Russian declaration on strategic issues.
The EU does not want to cooperate with Russia against the USA, but
they are interested in saving strategic balance.
Russia and China have recently signed treaty of friendship and
strategic cooperation. Formally it contains nothing against US but on
practical terms it means serious political, economic and even military
step against US policy.
China is developing its bilateral relation with formal socialist
countries in Europe. The demonstrative state visit of Chinese
President to Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldavia was more than a symbolic
opening to these important countries.
NATO leaders and US understand that Russia does not want to accept
neither the new role of NATO nor its enlargement. They think that in
Russian eyes, Article 5 has been the quintessential demonstration of
NATO's Cold War orientation. Now NATO found a new explanation of
Article 5 in an entirely different context, one to which Russia can
relate. They hope to use the real interest of Russian to stop Islamic
forces in places like Central Asia.
China: principal challenge of the 21 century
China has achieved serious successes in economic and social
development.
Chinese economy is rising every year, people began to live better.
China is right to declare that it is due to the development of
socialism. China played important role in peace efforts on Balkan.
Beijing has got the right to organise Olympic games that clearly
expresses its increasing international respect and influence.
Western leaders try to explain Chinese successes by the fact that
China uses many capitalist methods in economic and even social policy.
Western politicians say that it is nothing more than economic and
social reform that have opened the way before capitalist development
in China, too. It is fare from the truth.
The strategy of Western countries is simple. They try to involve China
in international cooperation by inviting to WTO and other forms of
economic cooperation, and to contribute to the strengthening of
private sector in China.
They use military and diplomatic methods to influence Chinese
leadership make them to understand that only a pro Western political
elite devoted to Western political values and standards can get the
sympathy of West.
During the Bush-administration US-Chinese relationship has become more
tensioned. The incident with American intelligence airplane this
spring was the first serious political affair for a long period.
US-administration has made even some gestures. It did not oppose
publicly the Beijing Olympic Games and said no on Taiwan idea to
create common US-Japanese-Taiwan antimissile defence.
But it is only the surface. The Bush-administration wants to speed up
capitalist changes in China. They try to use internal forces in China,
too. US policy does not want a final worsening of strategic
relationships with China. US are interested in economic ties, and
China is an important actor also in some Pacific and Asian issues.
What to do?
I am convinced: the fight against capitalist globalization is central
to the class struggle today. It touches and affects virtually every
economic, social and political struggle of our parties.
Fidel Castro said the following phrases in Durban on September the 1:
"The capitalist, developed and wealthy countries today participate of
the imperialist system born of capitalism itself and the economic
order imposed to the world based on the philosophy of selfishness and
the brutal competition between men, nations and groups of nations
which in completely indifferent to any feelings of solidarity and
honest international cooperation. They live under the misleading,
irresponsible and hallucinating atmosphere of consumer societies. I
wonder: Will they be able to understand the grave problems of today's
world which in its incoherent and uneven development is ruled by blind
laws, by the huge power and the interests of the ever growing and
increasingly uncontrollable and independent transnational
corporations?
Will they come to understand the impending universal chaos and
rebellion? And, even if they wanted to, could they put an end to
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related issues,
which are precisely the rest of them all?
>From my viewpoint we are on the verge of a huge economic, social and
political global crisis. Let's try to build an awareness about these
realities and the alternatives will come up. History has shown that it
is only from deep crisis that great solutions have emerged. The
peoples' right to life and justice will definitely impose itself under
a thousand different shapes"
Left forces should play definitively more active role in fight against
war, terrorism, for democratic international relations.
We have now better conditions for it than 5-10 years ago. We see some
consolidation in left movement. Left and other progressive forces have
archived serious results in recent period, although there has not been
a dramatic positive change, yet.
The antiglobalisation movement has become a very serious factor. All
of us remember the streets of Seattle, Genoa, Salzburg. Goteborg. And
most of us know what role communists are playing in this movement. We
think we should help to spread the antiglobalisation movement on
Eastern Europe, too.
Antiwar movement plays a very sensitive role on Greece, Italy and in
many other countries, which are important for our parties.
Now we have better conditions to cooperate on the terrorism-war issue
than during the war against Yugoslavia. Many of us remember the
dramatic summit meeting of European communist leaders on Cyprus. No
real result, positions were to far from each other. The European
communist left could not stop the war. Now, the situation is
different. Our positions are very near to each other.
The Hungarian Workers' Party support all efforts to strengthen our
cooperation. The Hungarian Workers' Party proposes to organise
International Summit of Left Forces on War.
Our position is clear. We deny terrorism and do not consider it a
possible form of fight against capitalism. What we left forces want is
safe, peaceful, and democratic world. The road to it is not the
violence. The only possible way to achieve such a world is the
exclusion of violence from the international relations, the peaceful,
by political means, handling of conflicts.
The road to it: establish a society based on social justice.
At the same time we declare: terror must not be the answer on terror.
The recent military action of the US is not a classical war: it is a
sort of mean terrorism raised on the level of state politics.
New weapons systems do not bring security. We should continue
fighting against military programs.
NATO is totally unsuitable for combating terrorism. It arose from
confrontation and its self-image is unchanged. Its new alliance
strategy does not solve any security problems. On the contrary, it
creates new ones. We should not give up our fight against NATO.
We think it is the United Nations who should get its decisive role in
international questions. All measures have to be carried out through
the united efforts of the international community with the United
Nations at the centre and under the control of the UN. For the
elimination of international terrorism, it is vital to create, through
isolation of terrorists by the whole international community, a
situation in which there is no place in the world for the terrorists
to hide. There is no other organization but the United Nations that
can play a central role and has the authority to carry it out.
The international community should enter into a dialogue of cultures;
lead a non-military struggle against poverty, misery and injustice in
the world to remove the hotbeds of terrorism.
We should demand to spend much more money on development aid. We
should demand to spend money not on military adventures in Kosovo and
other places but on help to Afghan refugees and to the Palestinian
Authority as assistance to the suffering civil population. We demand
to finance these operations by a special tax on the assets of the
multi-millionaires.
We should fight for democracy, against the policy of leading
capitalist powers. They misuse the people's fear of war. They use the
wartime psychosis to draw away popular attention from the hardships in
the economy and the society. At the same time, the mass media boycott
the different public statements of left and other antiwar forces
opposing this war. We should fight against violation of freedom of
press and the democratic basic rights of the citizens. We should fight
against right extremism and fascism.
We have our national task, too. We, the Hungarian Workers' Party
condemns the decision of the Hungarian government and the Hungarian
Parliament to support the militarist policy of the US. Hungary has no
kind of military interests, neither on the Balkans, nor in
Afghanistan. What is in the interests of the Hungarian people is not
war, but peace.
The Hungarian Workers' Party demands that Hungary should diminish its
activity in the NATO to the minimum. We oppose that nuclear weapons
and other weapons of mass destruction be deployed on Hungarian soil.
American and all other foreign troops must be withdrawn from Hungary.
No Hungarian soldier must wage a war outside Hungary! Hungarian troops
must be recalled from abroad.
Dear friends,
People fear of war, terror attacks. People think they cannot do
anything against war. We should demonstrate people, young and old,
that they are not alone. We can and should fight against war, and we
will do it. I am optimist.
I am convinced that the international left movement is the political
force which can and will give people the safety of future generations
in an uncertain future.
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> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2001/avgust/31-01.html
STENOGRAM sa pojavljivanja predsednika Slobodana Milo�evica
pred "Haskim tribunalom", 30. avgusta 2001. godine u Hagu
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2001/avgust/31-03.html
SAOP�TENJE PREDSEDNIKA MILO�EVICA O NELEGALNOSTI HA�KOG TRIBUNALA
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-2.html
Transcript of the second appearance of president Slobodan Milosevic
before the so-called ICTY on 30 August 2001.
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-1.html
Statement that president Milosevic was not allowed to read when he
appeared, August 30, before the "tribunal" in the Hague.
STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE "TRIBUNAL"
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> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/2001.10/24.html
DECLARATION
of the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative"
held in Belgrade, October, 21-22, 2001
We, representatives of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic and nine National Committees have gathered in Belgrade 21 and
22 October 2001 under the auspices of the Yugoslav Committee (Freedom
Association). We express our deepest bitterness over the arrest of
Slobodan Milosevic, the current President of the largest opposition
party in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
President Milosevic is globally renowned for fighting for more than a
decade for the Serbs and all Yugoslav peoples, a struggle that has made
him the adversary of all who wanted to jeopardize that freedom. By the
conjunction of historical circumstances, those powers which wanted to
jeopardize the freedom of the Yugoslav peoples, as well as the freedom
of other nations, were big, powerful and ruthless. The number of their
victims, both peoples and individuals, is continuously growing.
Slobodan Milosevic has been the main target. For a long time he fought
the mightiest powers that joined together, deserting all semblance of
nobility, and even reason.
Leaders of the struggle for national independence in other countries
and for other peoples have replaced one another, thus sharing the wrath
of the violent. But Slobodan Milosevic took upon himself the full
burden of that wrath.
For a whole decade he was subjected to the most brutal attacks in the
U.S.-dominated mass media in an effort to reverse the roles of victim
and culprit and thus to hide NATO�s vicious policy of releasing the
worst terrorist forces to tear apart Yugoslavia. Then President
Milosevic was subjected to legal and political violence by authorities
in his own country, who were acting for foreign powers. He was
illegally jailed in Belgrade. When the new regime could no longer hold
him, they kidnapped him from jail and turned him over to NATO, which
transported him to the Hague so-called Tribunal. Thus he is the first
democratically elected head of state to be jailed in the dungeon of the
New World Order.
What was his crime against this New World Order? Only that he loved his
people and freedom, and fought for both.
What do the new Masters hope to gain by kidnapping him? To use the
false spectacle of a trial to justify the breakup of Yugoslavia,
achieved through lies, threats, bribery and the cruelest violence.
In the attack on Yugoslavia, the United Nations has been degraded into
a tool of U.S./EU neocolonial violence. Now President Milosevic has
been imprisoned in a �UN� court. The function of that court is to give
the appearance of legality to the grossest violations of international
law.
The idea of creating a court that puts on trial the leaders of
resistance to aggression, while whitewashing those who instigated and
waged terrorist-secessionist wars and naked aggression, dismembering
and punishing Yugoslavia, could only be born in the most distorted
minds. The Hague �Tribunal� is a political instrument of genocide and
the satanization of the Serbian people, and not a court of law.
We call upon the peoples of the world and those leaders who care about
truth and justice: let us a take joint stand against the violence that
is threatening us all. Let us resist with the energy and dignity
demonstrated by Slobodan Milosevic during the past decade, and now
before the Hague kangaroo court. With the demand for the release of
Slobodan Milosevic we defend international law, equality among nations,
ethnic fraternity and the right of ordinary people to live in peace
without the fear that their nations will be attacked and decimated by
NATO.
We call upon the United Nations, an organization established to connect
peoples and individuals, to protect the poor and small against the
wrath of the powerful and rich. Abolish this Hague false Tribunal. Free
the Serbian patriots imprisoned in the name of the United Nations. Free
Slobodan Milosevic, symbol of the World�s resistance of this unjust,
New Order.
There is now much consciousness and discussion of the impact of
terrorism. The truth is the attack on Yugoslavia has been and continues
to be waged through the use of terrorist forces and similar fascist
groupings, directed in the most cynical fashion by NATO, under U.S.
government leadership. President Milosevic led the fight against these
forces while maintaining a policy of compassion and fraternity towards
all ethnic groups and social justice for ordinary people. The idea of a
worldwide struggle against terrorism while this hero of resistance
languishes in the Hague dungeon is an outrage.
Free Slobodan Milosevic Now.
ACTION PLAN
Adopted by the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative.
Belgrade, October 21-22, 2001.
Considering the illegal arrest, abduction and attempted trial of
President Slobodan Milosevic before the US-Nato "Tribunal" in The Hague
a further attack on the sovereignty of Yugoslavia, on the freedom of
all countries and peoples and on justice and law in international
relations, and in order to obtain the immediate release of President
Milosevic, we shall concentrate on the following actions and coordinate
our efforts on the implementation of the same:
MOBILISATION
Organise demonstrations, petitions, lectures and other forms of public
pressure on political decision-makers in order to spread the truth
about the threat to the sovereignty of all Nations if the show-trial
against PresidentMilosevic continues, and in order to encourage
concrete actions in the UN to stop the US-Nato-The Hague inquisition as
well as all Ad-Hoc Tribunal inquisitions.
Encourage prominent public figures to support or join Committees to
free Slobodan Milosevic.
Organise locally conferences, seminars, round tables and public
tribunals on the illegality of the The Hague Tribunal and its
proceedings in order to affirm the truth.
Sending mass-petitions and protests to the Yugoslavian and Serbian Nato-
obedient governments and institutions
Pressuring the governments and institutions in our respective countries
by promoting parliamentary actions on the above subjects, demanding of
governments to take political, legal and diplomatic action.
Working with peace and antiglobalisation movements, with alla fora and
organisations that share our objectives and our concept of human
rights, in order to make the fate of President Milosevic and of
Yugoslavia a permanent and centrale issue of these movements.
COMMUNICATION
Expose the double standards in assessing terrorism, as well as the
tragic and injust consequences of such double standards.
Underscore in public and political work the proven links between the
KLA and Al Qaeda, against the background of other US-sponsored
terrorist organisation such as Contras, terrorists in Chechnia,
Kashmir, Algeria, Philippines, etc.
Expose western main-stream media demonisation of President Milosevic
and of the Serbian people, along the lines of what has been done in the
past with regards to other political leaders and peoples fighting for
liberation..
Providing law professors, lawyers and their associations across the
worldwith precise information on the illegality of The Hague "Tribunal"
and itsdetention of President Milosevic, as well as on the that
institution's violation of all principles of Law and international
conventions on human rights.
Assisting President Milosevic in expressing his views on world and
national developments so as to keep and stress his status as a
political leader and a victim of persecution.
Providing, mainly through the work of the Yugoslavian Committee,
factual documentation and historical background on 10 years of assaults
on Yugoslavia and its people, iu order to enable committees across the
worldto rectify misconceptions and false information on these events.
OPERATIONS
Sending a ICDSM & Conference delegation to meet President of Russian
Federation , Vladimir Putin, and President of People's China, Jiang
Zemin
Sending the final Conference Declaration to the UN General Assembly
Chairman, to governments of all UN member countries, to political
parties across the world.
Spreading and strengthening the network of Committees to disband the
illegal The Hague Tribunal and to free Slobodan Milosevic.
Securing support by leaders of Developing Countries for action to
releasePresident Milosevic and disband the illegal Tribunal and forming
an AdvisoryBoard that would include some of these leaders, together
with prominent intellectuals, scientists, politicians, journalists, etc.
Establishing a permanent lawyers-media presence in The Hague.
Denouncing the violations of human rights inflicted by the The Hague
Tribunalon its political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic, as well as on all
other political detainees, with particular regard to the constant
harassing of Milosevic through inhuman detention conditions and by
creating obstacles to his contacts with his legal advisers, his family,
his friends At the same time organising visits by political
personalities and pressing the Tribunal to allow as many as possible of
such visits.
Promoting campaigns of letters, faxes, e-mail messages to pressurise
media to pay attention and report on the above actions.
Establishing constant fund-raising initiatives.
SPS 2001.
---
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/svet/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Potpredsednik SPS-a primio inostrane goste ucesnike konferencije
�Sloboda za Slobodana Milo�evica�
Svet da preispita stav prema albanskom terorizmu
Potpredsednik SPS Zivadin Jovanovic, primio je inostrane goste ucesnike
u radu dvodnevne medunarodne konferencije �Sloboda za Slobodana
Milo�evica � moralni, politicki i pravni imeprativ�, saop�teno je juce
iz Glavnog odbora SPS-a.
Pozdravljajuci ugledne licnosti iz Evrope i drugih delova sveta
profesore, pravnike, publiciste, politicare - Jovanovic je istakao da
se Slobodan Milo�evic borio za ravnopravnost svih naroda na Balkanu i u
medunarodnim odnosima uop�te, da je njegov cilj ocuvanje Jugoslavije
kao zemlje ravnopravnih naroda i njeno ukljucivanje regionalne i
evropske integracije. On se borio protiv albanskog terorizma i
separatizma koji i danas predstavlja osnovnu pretnju miru i stabilnosti
na Balkanu i koji je nosilac organizovanog medunarodnog kriminala.
Borba protiv terorizma iskljucuje dvostruke standarde. Terorizam kao
univerzalno svetsko zlo jednako ugrozava interese malih i velikih
zemalja. Zato svaka zemlja ima legitimno pravo da se bori protiv tog
zla. U svetlosti najnovijih tragicnih iskustava nakon teroristickih
napada u Americi, potrebno je preispitati dosada�nju politiku kljucnih
medunarodnih faktora prema albanskom terorizmu na Balkanu, kao i prema
nosiocima borbe protiv tog terorizma � istakao je, pored ostalog,
Zivadin Jovanovic.
On je upoznao goste iz SAD, Rusije, Holandije, Bugarske, Grcke,
Italije, Jordana, Kanade, Nemacke, Rumunije i drugih zemalja da ce u
Beogradu uskoro biti organizovana medunarodna konferencija o borbi
protiv terorizma kao svetske opasnosti, kaze se u saop�tenju.
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STENOGRAM sa pojavljivanja predsednika Slobodana Milo�evica
pred "Haskim tribunalom", 30. avgusta 2001. godine u Hagu
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2001/avgust/31-03.html
SAOP�TENJE PREDSEDNIKA MILO�EVICA O NELEGALNOSTI HA�KOG TRIBUNALA
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-2.html
Transcript of the second appearance of president Slobodan Milosevic
before the so-called ICTY on 30 August 2001.
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-1.html
Statement that president Milosevic was not allowed to read when he
appeared, August 30, before the "tribunal" in the Hague.
STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE "TRIBUNAL"
---
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/2001.10/24.html
DECLARATION
of the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative"
held in Belgrade, October, 21-22, 2001
We, representatives of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic and nine National Committees have gathered in Belgrade 21 and
22 October 2001 under the auspices of the Yugoslav Committee (Freedom
Association). We express our deepest bitterness over the arrest of
Slobodan Milosevic, the current President of the largest opposition
party in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
President Milosevic is globally renowned for fighting for more than a
decade for the Serbs and all Yugoslav peoples, a struggle that has made
him the adversary of all who wanted to jeopardize that freedom. By the
conjunction of historical circumstances, those powers which wanted to
jeopardize the freedom of the Yugoslav peoples, as well as the freedom
of other nations, were big, powerful and ruthless. The number of their
victims, both peoples and individuals, is continuously growing.
Slobodan Milosevic has been the main target. For a long time he fought
the mightiest powers that joined together, deserting all semblance of
nobility, and even reason.
Leaders of the struggle for national independence in other countries
and for other peoples have replaced one another, thus sharing the wrath
of the violent. But Slobodan Milosevic took upon himself the full
burden of that wrath.
For a whole decade he was subjected to the most brutal attacks in the
U.S.-dominated mass media in an effort to reverse the roles of victim
and culprit and thus to hide NATO�s vicious policy of releasing the
worst terrorist forces to tear apart Yugoslavia. Then President
Milosevic was subjected to legal and political violence by authorities
in his own country, who were acting for foreign powers. He was
illegally jailed in Belgrade. When the new regime could no longer hold
him, they kidnapped him from jail and turned him over to NATO, which
transported him to the Hague so-called Tribunal. Thus he is the first
democratically elected head of state to be jailed in the dungeon of the
New World Order.
What was his crime against this New World Order? Only that he loved his
people and freedom, and fought for both.
What do the new Masters hope to gain by kidnapping him? To use the
false spectacle of a trial to justify the breakup of Yugoslavia,
achieved through lies, threats, bribery and the cruelest violence.
In the attack on Yugoslavia, the United Nations has been degraded into
a tool of U.S./EU neocolonial violence. Now President Milosevic has
been imprisoned in a �UN� court. The function of that court is to give
the appearance of legality to the grossest violations of international
law.
The idea of creating a court that puts on trial the leaders of
resistance to aggression, while whitewashing those who instigated and
waged terrorist-secessionist wars and naked aggression, dismembering
and punishing Yugoslavia, could only be born in the most distorted
minds. The Hague �Tribunal� is a political instrument of genocide and
the satanization of the Serbian people, and not a court of law.
We call upon the peoples of the world and those leaders who care about
truth and justice: let us a take joint stand against the violence that
is threatening us all. Let us resist with the energy and dignity
demonstrated by Slobodan Milosevic during the past decade, and now
before the Hague kangaroo court. With the demand for the release of
Slobodan Milosevic we defend international law, equality among nations,
ethnic fraternity and the right of ordinary people to live in peace
without the fear that their nations will be attacked and decimated by
NATO.
We call upon the United Nations, an organization established to connect
peoples and individuals, to protect the poor and small against the
wrath of the powerful and rich. Abolish this Hague false Tribunal. Free
the Serbian patriots imprisoned in the name of the United Nations. Free
Slobodan Milosevic, symbol of the World�s resistance of this unjust,
New Order.
There is now much consciousness and discussion of the impact of
terrorism. The truth is the attack on Yugoslavia has been and continues
to be waged through the use of terrorist forces and similar fascist
groupings, directed in the most cynical fashion by NATO, under U.S.
government leadership. President Milosevic led the fight against these
forces while maintaining a policy of compassion and fraternity towards
all ethnic groups and social justice for ordinary people. The idea of a
worldwide struggle against terrorism while this hero of resistance
languishes in the Hague dungeon is an outrage.
Free Slobodan Milosevic Now.
ACTION PLAN
Adopted by the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative.
Belgrade, October 21-22, 2001.
Considering the illegal arrest, abduction and attempted trial of
President Slobodan Milosevic before the US-Nato "Tribunal" in The Hague
a further attack on the sovereignty of Yugoslavia, on the freedom of
all countries and peoples and on justice and law in international
relations, and in order to obtain the immediate release of President
Milosevic, we shall concentrate on the following actions and coordinate
our efforts on the implementation of the same:
MOBILISATION
Organise demonstrations, petitions, lectures and other forms of public
pressure on political decision-makers in order to spread the truth
about the threat to the sovereignty of all Nations if the show-trial
against PresidentMilosevic continues, and in order to encourage
concrete actions in the UN to stop the US-Nato-The Hague inquisition as
well as all Ad-Hoc Tribunal inquisitions.
Encourage prominent public figures to support or join Committees to
free Slobodan Milosevic.
Organise locally conferences, seminars, round tables and public
tribunals on the illegality of the The Hague Tribunal and its
proceedings in order to affirm the truth.
Sending mass-petitions and protests to the Yugoslavian and Serbian Nato-
obedient governments and institutions
Pressuring the governments and institutions in our respective countries
by promoting parliamentary actions on the above subjects, demanding of
governments to take political, legal and diplomatic action.
Working with peace and antiglobalisation movements, with alla fora and
organisations that share our objectives and our concept of human
rights, in order to make the fate of President Milosevic and of
Yugoslavia a permanent and centrale issue of these movements.
COMMUNICATION
Expose the double standards in assessing terrorism, as well as the
tragic and injust consequences of such double standards.
Underscore in public and political work the proven links between the
KLA and Al Qaeda, against the background of other US-sponsored
terrorist organisation such as Contras, terrorists in Chechnia,
Kashmir, Algeria, Philippines, etc.
Expose western main-stream media demonisation of President Milosevic
and of the Serbian people, along the lines of what has been done in the
past with regards to other political leaders and peoples fighting for
liberation..
Providing law professors, lawyers and their associations across the
worldwith precise information on the illegality of The Hague "Tribunal"
and itsdetention of President Milosevic, as well as on the that
institution's violation of all principles of Law and international
conventions on human rights.
Assisting President Milosevic in expressing his views on world and
national developments so as to keep and stress his status as a
political leader and a victim of persecution.
Providing, mainly through the work of the Yugoslavian Committee,
factual documentation and historical background on 10 years of assaults
on Yugoslavia and its people, iu order to enable committees across the
worldto rectify misconceptions and false information on these events.
OPERATIONS
Sending a ICDSM & Conference delegation to meet President of Russian
Federation , Vladimir Putin, and President of People's China, Jiang
Zemin
Sending the final Conference Declaration to the UN General Assembly
Chairman, to governments of all UN member countries, to political
parties across the world.
Spreading and strengthening the network of Committees to disband the
illegal The Hague Tribunal and to free Slobodan Milosevic.
Securing support by leaders of Developing Countries for action to
releasePresident Milosevic and disband the illegal Tribunal and forming
an AdvisoryBoard that would include some of these leaders, together
with prominent intellectuals, scientists, politicians, journalists, etc.
Establishing a permanent lawyers-media presence in The Hague.
Denouncing the violations of human rights inflicted by the The Hague
Tribunalon its political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic, as well as on all
other political detainees, with particular regard to the constant
harassing of Milosevic through inhuman detention conditions and by
creating obstacles to his contacts with his legal advisers, his family,
his friends At the same time organising visits by political
personalities and pressing the Tribunal to allow as many as possible of
such visits.
Promoting campaigns of letters, faxes, e-mail messages to pressurise
media to pay attention and report on the above actions.
Establishing constant fund-raising initiatives.
SPS 2001.
---
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/svet/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Potpredsednik SPS-a primio inostrane goste ucesnike konferencije
�Sloboda za Slobodana Milo�evica�
Svet da preispita stav prema albanskom terorizmu
Potpredsednik SPS Zivadin Jovanovic, primio je inostrane goste ucesnike
u radu dvodnevne medunarodne konferencije �Sloboda za Slobodana
Milo�evica � moralni, politicki i pravni imeprativ�, saop�teno je juce
iz Glavnog odbora SPS-a.
Pozdravljajuci ugledne licnosti iz Evrope i drugih delova sveta
profesore, pravnike, publiciste, politicare - Jovanovic je istakao da
se Slobodan Milo�evic borio za ravnopravnost svih naroda na Balkanu i u
medunarodnim odnosima uop�te, da je njegov cilj ocuvanje Jugoslavije
kao zemlje ravnopravnih naroda i njeno ukljucivanje regionalne i
evropske integracije. On se borio protiv albanskog terorizma i
separatizma koji i danas predstavlja osnovnu pretnju miru i stabilnosti
na Balkanu i koji je nosilac organizovanog medunarodnog kriminala.
Borba protiv terorizma iskljucuje dvostruke standarde. Terorizam kao
univerzalno svetsko zlo jednako ugrozava interese malih i velikih
zemalja. Zato svaka zemlja ima legitimno pravo da se bori protiv tog
zla. U svetlosti najnovijih tragicnih iskustava nakon teroristickih
napada u Americi, potrebno je preispitati dosada�nju politiku kljucnih
medunarodnih faktora prema albanskom terorizmu na Balkanu, kao i prema
nosiocima borbe protiv tog terorizma � istakao je, pored ostalog,
Zivadin Jovanovic.
On je upoznao goste iz SAD, Rusije, Holandije, Bugarske, Grcke,
Italije, Jordana, Kanade, Nemacke, Rumunije i drugih zemalja da ce u
Beogradu uskoro biti organizovana medunarodna konferencija o borbi
protiv terorizma kao svetske opasnosti, kaze se u saop�tenju.
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> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011023180532024466.html
SERBIA: MANIFESTAZIONE A BELGRADO CONTRO NUOVA LEGGE LAVORO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 23 OTT - Circa 8.000 manifestanti hanno protestato
oggi davanti alla sede del governo serbo contro il progetto di legge
sul lavoro presentato dall'esecutivo del premier Zoran Djindjic. I
sindacati chiedono la revoca del progetto, giudicato troppo sbilanciato
a favore dei datori di lavoro, e le dimissioni del ministro Dragan
Milovanovic. Il governo serbo considera la legge un nodo cruciale per
le riforme economiche, perche' consentirebbe di snellire gli organici
sovraddimensionati delle grandi imprese statali. I sindacati obiettano
citando l'alto numero di disoccupati in Serbia, il 25% della forza
lavoro secondo le statistiche ufficiali, oltre il 30% stando agli
organizzatori della protesta. (ANSA). OT
23/10/2001 18:05
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/dogadjaji/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Sindikati odrzali svoja obecanja i okupili radnike na masovnom skupu u
Beogradu
Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti je radnicka Srbija
Na Trgu Nikole Pa�ica okupile se desetine hiljada radnika da izraze
svoj protest protiv necivilizacijskog predloga Zakona o radu
Nekoliko desetina hiljada clanova Saveza sindikata Srbije, Ujedinjenih
granskih sindikata �Nezavisnost� i Novog sindikata zdravstva,
nezadovoljni Predlogom zakona o radu, okupilo se juce na Trgu Nikole
Pa�ica u Beogradu. Sindikati smatraju da je predlozeni Zakon o radu
neprihvatljiv za radnike i da treba da bude povucen iz skup�tinske
procedure, a da bi uz po�ten socijalni dijalog bio doraden i pobolj�an.
Predviden je odlazak radnika pred zgradu srpskog parlamenta gde ce biti
predata peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi povlacenje zakona.
Nakon toga planiran je odlazak i do zgrade republicke vlade gde ce
radnici traziti da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic.
Protestni skup nastavljen je ispred republicke vlade, gde je kolona
ucesnika skupa stigla oko 13.30 sati. Spiker sindikata, s kamiona
parkiranog pred zgradom vlade, porucio je: �Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti
je radnicka Srbija�. Prema njegovim recima, to je ucinjeno da
vlada �vidi koliko nas je do�lo�. Ministar kaze: �Okupila se jedna
grupa radnika�, porucio je spiker i dodao da je ministar rada Dragan
Milovanovic izjavio za BK televiziju da se okupilo 2.000
nezadovoljnika�. Na protestnom skupu pred zgradom vlade ucesnici su
cekali da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic, kako bi objasnio za�to je
predlozen ovakav zakon, a da Milovanovic da ostavku. Za �indica i
njegovu vladu pripremljena je peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi
povlacenje zakona.
(Tanjug)
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015190232015962.html
SERBIA: CEMENTIFICI IN VENDITA ENTRO FINE ANNO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Tutti e tre i cementifici appartenenti allo
stato serbo saranno venduti entro la fine dell'anno a dei partner
strategici, ha annunciato il ministro per la ristrutturazione economica
e le privatizzazioni Aleksandar Vlahovic. Fra le imprese straniere
interessate, stando all'agenzia Beta, vi sono Italcementi, Lafarge,
Holderbank, Heidelbergzement e la greca Titan, che ha gia' acquistato
in Bosnia l'impianto di Lukovac. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 19:02
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015185632015952.html
SERBIA: PRIVATIZZAZIONI, NUOVE GARE PER 12 GRANDI AZIENDE
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Il governo serbo ha avviato una campagna di
informazione, pubblicizzata sul 'Financial Times', per la
privatizzazione di 12 grandi aziende del paese. Sono interessate in
particolare il settore agroalimentare (con la 'Hisar' e la 'Juzni
Banat', produttrici di frutta e verdure, la casa vinicola 'Vrsacki
Vinogradi', la 'Mitros', che tratta carni, e l'industria
dolciaria 'Ravanica') e le imprese edili (come 'Polet Ravnaja', 'Jelen-
Do', 'Kolubara Gasbeton', 'Prvi Maj-Lopovo' e 'Partizanski Put'). Le
nuove gare portano a 33 il numero di compagnie statali serbe messe in
vendita, e altre 11 societa' di medie dimensioni seguiranno a breve. Il
paese, ha sottolineato Mirko Cvetovic, funzionario del ministero per la
ristrutturazione economica, dovra' privatizzare 7.000 compagnie, di cui
300 con bando pubblico e il resto tramite aste. Altre 30 grandi
industrie - fra cui la casa automobilistica Zastava di Kragujevac -
necessitano di una seria ristrutturazione prima di trovare eventuali
partner. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 18:56
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SERBIA: MANIFESTAZIONE A BELGRADO CONTRO NUOVA LEGGE LAVORO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 23 OTT - Circa 8.000 manifestanti hanno protestato
oggi davanti alla sede del governo serbo contro il progetto di legge
sul lavoro presentato dall'esecutivo del premier Zoran Djindjic. I
sindacati chiedono la revoca del progetto, giudicato troppo sbilanciato
a favore dei datori di lavoro, e le dimissioni del ministro Dragan
Milovanovic. Il governo serbo considera la legge un nodo cruciale per
le riforme economiche, perche' consentirebbe di snellire gli organici
sovraddimensionati delle grandi imprese statali. I sindacati obiettano
citando l'alto numero di disoccupati in Serbia, il 25% della forza
lavoro secondo le statistiche ufficiali, oltre il 30% stando agli
organizzatori della protesta. (ANSA). OT
23/10/2001 18:05
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/dogadjaji/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Sindikati odrzali svoja obecanja i okupili radnike na masovnom skupu u
Beogradu
Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti je radnicka Srbija
Na Trgu Nikole Pa�ica okupile se desetine hiljada radnika da izraze
svoj protest protiv necivilizacijskog predloga Zakona o radu
Nekoliko desetina hiljada clanova Saveza sindikata Srbije, Ujedinjenih
granskih sindikata �Nezavisnost� i Novog sindikata zdravstva,
nezadovoljni Predlogom zakona o radu, okupilo se juce na Trgu Nikole
Pa�ica u Beogradu. Sindikati smatraju da je predlozeni Zakon o radu
neprihvatljiv za radnike i da treba da bude povucen iz skup�tinske
procedure, a da bi uz po�ten socijalni dijalog bio doraden i pobolj�an.
Predviden je odlazak radnika pred zgradu srpskog parlamenta gde ce biti
predata peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi povlacenje zakona.
Nakon toga planiran je odlazak i do zgrade republicke vlade gde ce
radnici traziti da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic.
Protestni skup nastavljen je ispred republicke vlade, gde je kolona
ucesnika skupa stigla oko 13.30 sati. Spiker sindikata, s kamiona
parkiranog pred zgradom vlade, porucio je: �Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti
je radnicka Srbija�. Prema njegovim recima, to je ucinjeno da
vlada �vidi koliko nas je do�lo�. Ministar kaze: �Okupila se jedna
grupa radnika�, porucio je spiker i dodao da je ministar rada Dragan
Milovanovic izjavio za BK televiziju da se okupilo 2.000
nezadovoljnika�. Na protestnom skupu pred zgradom vlade ucesnici su
cekali da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic, kako bi objasnio za�to je
predlozen ovakav zakon, a da Milovanovic da ostavku. Za �indica i
njegovu vladu pripremljena je peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi
povlacenje zakona.
(Tanjug)
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015190232015962.html
SERBIA: CEMENTIFICI IN VENDITA ENTRO FINE ANNO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Tutti e tre i cementifici appartenenti allo
stato serbo saranno venduti entro la fine dell'anno a dei partner
strategici, ha annunciato il ministro per la ristrutturazione economica
e le privatizzazioni Aleksandar Vlahovic. Fra le imprese straniere
interessate, stando all'agenzia Beta, vi sono Italcementi, Lafarge,
Holderbank, Heidelbergzement e la greca Titan, che ha gia' acquistato
in Bosnia l'impianto di Lukovac. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 19:02
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015185632015952.html
SERBIA: PRIVATIZZAZIONI, NUOVE GARE PER 12 GRANDI AZIENDE
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Il governo serbo ha avviato una campagna di
informazione, pubblicizzata sul 'Financial Times', per la
privatizzazione di 12 grandi aziende del paese. Sono interessate in
particolare il settore agroalimentare (con la 'Hisar' e la 'Juzni
Banat', produttrici di frutta e verdure, la casa vinicola 'Vrsacki
Vinogradi', la 'Mitros', che tratta carni, e l'industria
dolciaria 'Ravanica') e le imprese edili (come 'Polet Ravnaja', 'Jelen-
Do', 'Kolubara Gasbeton', 'Prvi Maj-Lopovo' e 'Partizanski Put'). Le
nuove gare portano a 33 il numero di compagnie statali serbe messe in
vendita, e altre 11 societa' di medie dimensioni seguiranno a breve. Il
paese, ha sottolineato Mirko Cvetovic, funzionario del ministero per la
ristrutturazione economica, dovra' privatizzare 7.000 compagnie, di cui
300 con bando pubblico e il resto tramite aste. Altre 30 grandi
industrie - fra cui la casa automobilistica Zastava di Kragujevac -
necessitano di una seria ristrutturazione prima di trovare eventuali
partner. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 18:56
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