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NATO: MINISTRO ESTERI JUGOSLAVIA A VERTICE BUDAPEST
(ANSA) - BUDAPEST, 30 MAG - Il ministro
degli esteri jugoslavo Goran Svilanovic
partecipa, oggi a Budapest, ai lavori del
vertice della Nato. In particolare il capo della
diplomazia di Belgrado e' giunto stamani
nella capitale ungherese per prendere parte
alla riunione del Consiglio Euro-atlantico di
Partenariato che raccoglie i 19 Paesi membri dell' Alleanza Atlantica ed
i 27
paesi partner.
La presenza di Svilanovic ha un valore particolare perche' e' la prima
volta
che la Jugoslavia viene invitata a colloqui di questo livello da parte
della
Nato.
Il segretario generale della Nato, George Robertson, ha dato un caloroso
e
pubblico benvenuto a Svilanovic all' inizio della sessione di lavoro del
Consiglio Euro-atlantico di Partneriato, ricordando che Belgrado ha
''rigettato le politiche del passato'' ed che adesso condivide i
''comuni
obiettivi di pace e stabilita' nella regione dei Balcani''. Si tratta di
un altro
''segnale'', ha detto ancora Robertson, sulla strada del completo
rientro di
tutti i Paesi della regione nella comune casa europea. (ANSA). PST
30/05/2001 11:41
PRESSIONI DAL VERTICE NATO PER LA CONSEGNA DI MILOSEVIC
NATO MINISTERS CALL ON YUGOSLAVIA TO COOPERATE WITH ICTY
BUDAPEST, May 29 (Beta) - NATO foreign ministers welcomed the
policy of the new authorities in Yugoslavia, especially in resolving
problems in southern Serbia, but also called on the authorities in
Belgrade
to fully cooperate with the Hague Tribunal.
In a statement issued after the morning session of the two-day
meeting that started on May 29, the ministers positively assessed the
resolving of the crisis in southern Serbia and especially the Yugoslav
security forces' entry into the buffer zone along the administrative
border
between Kosovo and Serbia proper, as well as the first steps in
establishing the multi-ethnic police.
The NATO ministers called on Belgrade and Podgorica to continue
"constructive dialog" in order to find a solution for their future
relations that would be acceptable for both sides and at the same time
condemned all unilateral acts that could be "a threat not only to
Yugoslavia, but to the entire region."
"We express support to a democratic Montenegro in a democratic
Yugoslavia," NATO ministers said.
Estimating that the Yugoslav authorities were "much more
cooperative" in relation to the Hague Tribunal and that positive
measures
have been taken, the NATO foreign ministers said they expected
Yugoslavia
to establish full cooperation with this court, including the adoption of
the corresponding legal framework.
PROMESSE DI CONSEGNA DAL MINISTRO DELL'INTERNO
ZIVKOVIC-EXTRADITION LAW AHEAD OF DONOR'S CONFERENCE
VILNIUS, May 30 (Reuters) Belgrade will sanction extradition to
The Hague before next month's international donor's conference, Federal
Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic predicted yesterday.
"This law will allow the extradition of those who are indicted for
war crimes," Zivkovic told press, in reference to Yugoslavia's expected
law
on cooperation with The Hague Tribunal.
Addressing press on the fringe of a NATO Parliamentary Assembly
meeting in the Lithuanian capital, Zivkovic urged NATO to take similar
cooperative steps with Belgrade by inviting Yugoslavia to join the
"Partnership for Peace program". The Alliance "should recognize their
strategic partner in the Balkan region that is Yugoslavia," the interior
minister said.
CARLA DEL PONTE SARA' DI NUOVO A BELGRADO
DEL PONTE DUE IN BELGRADE IN LATE JUNE
HAGUE, May 29 (Tanjug) Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del
Ponte will visit Belgrade in midJune, before leaving for New York, where
she will attend a U.N. Security Council session, Del Ponte's spokeswoman
Florence Hartmann told Tanjug on Tuesday.
In a phone statement from Arusha, Tanzania, Hartmann said that
Yugoslavia was still violating its commitment to the United Nations, by
refusing cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
Hartmann went on to explain she was not only referring to arrests
and extradition of war crimes indictees, but also to denied access to
archives, documents, witnesses, and other sources.
The nature of the Tribunal's report to the U.N. Security Council
definitely depends on Belgrade's attitude towards the court, according
to
Hartmann.
Asked what the report would be like if Del Ponte were to submit it
now, Hartmann replied that it would be quite negative.
Hartmann said that the time of waiting was over, recalling that
there over six months have passed since the coming to power of the new
Yugoslav authorities. In the meantime, parliamentary elections in Serbia
have been held, and Serbia's government formed, so there are no grounds
for
excuses and noncooperation, she said.
LE PRIORITA' DELLA "NUOVA" JUGOSLAVIA: UE, TPI E NATO
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER EXPLAINS FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Tanjug) Belgrade's foreign policy priorities
are to have Yugoslavia join the European Union, to upgrade regional
cooperation, to establish balanced relations with the eight most highly
developed countries (G8) and to maintain friendly ties with all
countries
in mutual interest, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said
Wednesday in Budapest.
Yugoslavia has successfully reintegrated all most important
international organizations and is considering joining the Partnership
for
Peace, Svilanovic told a session of the EuroAtlantic Partnership Council
(EAPC), held within the framework of the NATOEU ministerial conference
which started Tuesday in the Hungarian capital.
Svilanovic described Yugoslavia's participation in the EAPC work
for the first time as a guest as a result of the democratic changes in
the
country and of the renewed support to its new democratic government.
Although all countries in the region have democratically elected
governments, which contributes to regional stability, there are new
challenges that must be faced immediately. Reinforcing regional
stability
is therefore extremely important and endeavors to that end should be
based
on respecting the sovereignty and integrity of all countries in the
region
in line with the Helsinki Final Act, Svilanovic said.
Svilanovic consequently urged all governments to clearly and
unequivocally condemn violence, extremism and terrorism and to secure
the
respect of human and minority rights.
Referring to the situation in KosovoMetohija, Svilanovic noted
that the Yugoslav government has already informed the head of the UN
Civilian Mission in the province (UNMIK) Hans Haekkerup of its views on
his
Constitutional Framework for Kosovo.
The Yugoslav government believes that the necessary conditions for
holding elections in KosovoMetohija have not been secured, but has
nevertheless decided to support the process of registration of voters
for
the elections scheduled for November 17, expecting at the same time that
several preconditions will be secured before it can agree to the
participation of Serbs, Svilanovic said.
These preconditions include better safety for all inhabitants of
KosovoMetohija, the return of refugees and displaced persons, completion
of
the demobilization process and progress in resolving the issue of
missing
persons, Svilanovic said.
In addition, Yugoslavia insists on a full and consistent
implementation of the Security Council Resolution 1244, including its
provisions on the return of Yugoslav forces to Kosovo and on full
protection of Serbs, other minorities and all honest people living in
the
province. Yugoslavia would also like to sign with KFor and UNMIK
agreements
on status, privileges and immunities. Finally, the arms embargo imposed
by
the Security Council Resolution 1160 should be lifted, Svilanovic said.
Referring to the situation in southern Serbia, Svilanovic said
that Yugoslav forces are successfully executing their reentry into the
Ground Safety Zone Sector B, and that Yugoslav and Serbian authorities
are
ready for dialogue with representatives of the local ethnic Albanian
community.
Demilitarization and multiethnic police have an outstanding
importance for the full implementation of the plan drawn up by Nebojsa
Covic, head of the state coordinating team for southern Serbia,
Svilanovic
said, adding that should a full integration of the ethnic Albanian
community in political and social structures be achieved, one could say
that a step forward has been made.
Yugoslavia supports Macedonia's sovereignty and territorial
integrity and the endeavors of its new government and of the
international
community for stabilizing the situation, Svilanovic said, warning that
KFor
should halt arms trafficking across the borders and boundaries in the
region.
An end must be put to the era of disintegration in the region,
Svilanovic said, and underlined that the Yugoslav government believes
that
a process should be initiated to upgrade regional stability, guarantee
inviolability of present borders, secure the respect of human and
minority
rights and provide a strong impetus to the integration of the region and
its countries with Europe, and that a conference could be held to that
end.
As a start, the basic principles and norms of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which guarantee the
sovereignty
and integrity of all states must be reaffirmed, after which talks can be
held on minority issues and the status of ethnic communities which have
become a key problem in some parts of the region.
This process should secure full protection of minorities and halt
all forms of extremism, intolerance or violence. Simultaneously, the
issue
of minorities can be considered to be a security issue and in some cases
bilateral agreements on minority rights can be concluded. This process
should be accompanied by economic and infrastructure projects and by
confidencebuilding measures, Svilanovic said in conclusion.
SVILANOVIC MEETS IN BUDAPEST WITH ROBERTSON, IVANOV, KUKAN
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Tanjug) At a meeting of the EuroAtlantic
Partnership Council (EAPC) Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
held
brief separate meetings with NATO Secretary General George Robertson,
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Slovakian counterpart Kukan.
In all the talks, Svilanovic told Tanjug, dominated regional topics.
During the meeting with Robertson, who on several occasions
welcomed the Yugoslav delegation to the meeting held under the auspices
of
the Western military alliance, was discussed the situation in Macedonia,
and also the situation in southern Serbia and in Kosovo and Metohija.
Robertson praised the cooperation of the two sides during the
entry of the Yugoslav security forces into sector B in southern Serbia.
In the talks between Svilanovic and Ivanov, who is expected to
arrive June 17 on an official visit to Belgrade, were exchanged opinions
about circumstances in Kosovo and Metohija and about relations between
Serbia and Montenegro.
KosovoMetohija was the main subject of the talks between
Svilanovic and Kukan.
Svilanovic underlined that the meeting in Budapest, besides
lending support to the authorities in Belgrade, also raised the issue of
tighter cooperation of Yugoslavia with The Hague tribunal.
All participants in the meeting from senior officials of NATO and
the European Union to Russia and other countries urged the continuance
of
democratic Montenegro within democratic Yugoslavia, Svilanovic said.
NATO WELCOMES YUGOSLAV READINESS TO JOINT PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Tanjug) Senior NATO officials welcomed in
Budapest Wednesday the readiness of Yugoslavia to join the Partnership
for
Peace, noting that official Belgrade should confirm its intention by
concrete steps.
Positive reactions ensued after Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
at a session of the EuroAtlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), which
rallies
all 19 NATO members and 26 states of Europe and Central Asia, said that
the
Yugoslav government wants the country to join Partnership for Peace.
Representatives of the Western Alliance unofficially welcomed such
an intention of Belgrade, but pointed out that Yugoslavia should confirm
it
by concrete steps and that at this moment NATO was not in position to
give
any kind of response.
Participants in the meeting unanimously supported democratic
changes in Yugoslavia, indicating that in only two years the country has
practically turned from an opponent into a NATO ally and a factor of
stability in the region.
Also welcomed was the announced adoption of a new Yugoslav law
enabling not only tighter cooperation between Yugoslavia and The Hague,
but
also the extradition of war crime suspects.
Underscored finally was the swift improvement of relations between
NATO and Belgrade, which was indicated also on several occasions by NATO
Secretary General George Robertson.
RICATTI E PRESSIONI CRESCENTI CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
DA PARTE DI QUELLI CHE L'HANNO BOMBARDATA
LAW ON COOPERATION WITH ICTY - CONDITION FOR DONORS CONFERENCE.
BRUSSELS, May 30 (Beta) - European Commission officials told BETA
in Brussels, on May 30, that the EU and the World Bank want the donors
conference to be a "complete success" in order to aid the reconstruction
and long-term recovery of Yugoslavia. However, the U.S. and several EU
countries demanded, as a condition for their participation in the
conference, that the Yugoslav parliament adopt a law on cooperation with
the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
European Commission spokesman Gunnar Wiegand, told BETA that the
donors conference is "very important for the long-term perspective of
Yugoslavia's economic development and political stabilization" and that
this is the reason "the EU and the European Commission are closely
watching
all the steps being taken to fulfill Yugoslavia's obligation to
cooperate
fully with the ICTY."
SECONDO DJINDJIC BISOGNA ACCONTENTARLI, ALTRIMENTI IL GOVERNO HA VITA
BREVE
SURVIVAL OF YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DEPENDS ON COOPERATION WITH THE
HAGUE
BELGRADE, May 30 (Tanjug) Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic said
Wednesday that, in the event that the bill on cooperation with The Hague
tribunal is not adopted, the federal state and government would fall
into a
crisis, calling into question the donors conference, as well as the
standby
arrangement and the reprogramming of our debts.
Djindjic told reporters in Serbian parliament that "refusal of
cooperation with The Hague tribunal would greatly deteriorate our
position
in international relations."
"By contrast, the passing of the bill would enable the continuing
of the process of the gradual return of Yugoslavia into international
relations, which would in general reflect on our international
position,"
he said. Djindjic underlined that the main hurdle in the talks between
coalition partners at the federal level the Socialist People's Party
(SNP)
of Montenegro and the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) is the
position at what level should be adopted regulations about concrete
cooperation with The Hague tribunal.
The bill on cooperation with The Hague tribunal would have to
envisage extradition, according to Djindjic.
IN CERCA DI UNA SOLUZIONE PER LA LEGGE SULLA "ESTRADIZIONE"
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM IN SIGHT
BELGRADE, May 31 (Tanjug) After a meeting between the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) and the Socialist National Party (SNP) late
on
Wednesday, there is more ground for optimism and a solution to the
problem
we are facing, not through our fault, is in sight, the Yugoslav
president's
office said in a statement.
After the Executive and Main Boards meetings, SNP representatives
came up with some very constructive proposals, which largely take care
of
national and state reasons, needs of our state and the obligations it
has
as a signatory to the Dayton Accords and a UN member.
They will make additional consultations at their municipal boards,
the statement said and added that there was ground to expect that a
final
agreement on a bill on cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal
would
be reached on Sunday.
FINAL STAND OF SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE ON
JUNE 3.
BELGRADE, May 30 ( Beta) - The Serbian Justice Minister Vladan
Batic stated on May 30 that the talks between the leaders of the
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) and the Socialist People's Party of
Montenegro,
on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, will continue in the evening of
June 3, if the municipal boards and then the Steering Committee of the
Socialist People's Party opt for the adoption of the law on cooperation
with the Tribunal.
After the talks between representatives of DOS and of the
Socialist People's Party in Belgrade, Batic stated that, if their
Montenegrin partners send a positive reply, the draft law on cooperation
with the Hague Tribunal will be discussed by the federal government on
June
4 and, if not, "everyone will bear the consequences".
Batic said he hoped that a delay in the process of adopting this
law would not jeopardize the donors' conference for Yugoslavia.
One of the representatives of the Socialist People's Party Srdja
Bozovic said that the party leadership will decide on this issue by June
3.
"After tonight's meeting with the representatives of the Socialist
People's Party, there is more reason for optimism. The solution to the
problem that we face, which is not through our own doing, is at hand,"
it
was stated by the office of the Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
after
the meeting.
According to the statement, the representatives of the Socialist
People's Party "came to the meeting with very constructive proposals,
which
take care of national and state interests and the needs of our union, as
well as of the obligations which our country is under as a signatory of
the
Dayton agreement and a member of the UN."
"We have many reasons to expect a final agreement on Sunday," it
was concluded in the statement.
DJINDJIC E LABUS PREOCCUPATI: GLI USA DA NOI CHIEDONO UN PO' TROPPO
DJINDJIC COMPLAINS OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS
BELGRADE, May 31 (FoNet) Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic
has lashed out at American expectations of Belgrade describing them as
"highly unrealistic." Djindjic criticised the US demand for the
extradition of Slobodan Milosevic, before Washington will confirm
participation in the international donor's conference for Yugoslavia.
Whilst he conceded it was fair to expect the adoption of the law
on cooperation with The Hague before the June 29 conference, Djindjic
reserved judgement on whether the extradition clause could be used by
that
time.
"It is highly unrealistic for us to specify even the approximate
date for extradition," the prime minister said at Belgrade's
International
Media Centre.
He did not know who would take that decision, nor who would see it
through, Djindjic added.
YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PM: ALL IMPOSED CONDITIONS ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
BELGRADE, June 1 (Tanjug) All imposed conditions are
counterproductive, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus said on
Friday and added that he was not satisfied with the information that
Belgrade had received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"We have already had this pressure phase, which has brought
nothing good to anybody," Labus told a news conference, referring to the
new conditions Belgrade had received from the IMF.
Labus said that Yugoslavia "does not want to be part of a
stickandcarrot system."
The issue of Yugoslavia's cooperation with the Hague war crimes
tribunal will be settled normally, after an adequate legal frame has
been
made, Labus said.
He said that the donors conference would not be delayed, but that
the question was how successful it would be.
Labus said that the "Paris Club meeting may be even more important
for us" than the donors conference and that the scheduling of this
meeting
would depend on the existence of a favourable political climate.
DALL'AIA INSISTONO: NON BISOGNA DARE TREGUA ALLA JUGOSLAVIA
WAR CRIMES COURT PROSECUTOR SEEKS EUROPEAN PRESSURE ON YUGOSLAVIA
BERLIN, June 1 (Tanjug) The international war crimes court's
chief prosecutor is on Friday quoted as urging European countries to put
pressure on the Belgrade government to cooperate with the Haguebased
tribunal.
Carla del Ponte told Germany's Fokus newspaper that European
countries should do something together to make Belgrade more
cooperative.
According to her, there were signals in March that Yugoslavia
would cooperate with the tribunal, but many problems have since come up,
not only about arrests, but about witnesses and documents.
Serbs have probably felt pressure on them diminish after the US
Congress approved financial assistance which had depended on cooperation
in
connection with the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic,
according to del Ponte.
JUGOSLAVIA: INEVITABILE CONSEGNARE MILOSEVIC A TPI, DJINDJIC
(ANSA-AFP) - MADRID, 3 GIU - La Jugoslavia non puo' evitare di
consegnare l'ex presidente Slobodan Miloevic al Tribunale penale
internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi) se vorra' uscire dal suo isolamento. Lo ha
detto il primo ministrop serbo Zoran Djindjic in un'intervista al
giornale
spagnolo 'El Mundo'. ''Non possiamo permetterci il lusso di perdere un
aiuto economico necessario per non aver collaborato con il Tribunale
dell'Aja - ha spiegato il premier serbo - Non possiamo evitare di
consegnare Milosevic se non volgiamo rimanere isolati''. Per Djindjic
Milosevic non deve comunque ''essere inviato come un pacchetto all'Aja''
senza essere prima processato in Jugoslavia. ''Abbiamo un'occasione
unica per far chiarezza sull'ultimo decennio della nostra storia, che
invece
cosi' sarebbe dimenticato'', ha aggiunto Djindjic, secondo il quale
inoltre
la divisione del Kosovo in due entita' (una serba e una albanese), come
proposto dal suo vice Nebojsa Covic, ''e' un'idea realistica''.
(ANSA-AFP). TV
03/06/2001 10:28
JUGOSLAVIA: MILOSEVIC, MONTENEGRINI BLOCCANO LEGGE SU TPI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 4 GIU - Il parlamento federale jugoslavo rischia
una crisi che potrebbe condurre ad elezioni anticipate a causa della
legge
sulla collaborazione con il Tpi, che riguarda anche l'eventuale
estradizione dell'ex presidente Slobodan Milosevic. Dopo giorni e notti
di intense trattative, la coalizione democratica Dos non e' riuscita a
convincere gli alleati del Partito socialista popolare montenegrino
(Snp)
ad includere nel disegno di legge la clausola dell'estradizione. L'Snp,
un
tempo alleato di regime di Milosevic, teme di scontentare i suoi
elettori,
che vedono ancora con simpatia la figura di Slobo, e vorrebbe quindi che
le due repubbliche decidessero separatamente e caso per caso sulla
consegna all'Aja di persone incriminate dal Tpi. Una nuova
tornatanegoziale a Belgrado e' prevista per oggi, ma al momento le
posizioni dei
democratici serbi e dei socialisti montenegrini restano molto distanti.
Il
varo della legge sulla collaborazione con i giudici del tribunale
internazionale e' la condizione posta dagli Stati Uniti per partecipare
a
giugno a una conferenza di donatori per la Jugoslavia. [SI NOTI
L'OPPORTUNA
INSERZIONE DELLA "NOTIZIA" SEGUENTE NEL DISPACCIO ANSA] Affiorano
intanto
nuovi macabri particolari sui crimini della guerra nel Kosovo, per i
quali
Milosevic e' chiamato in causa dal Tpi: secondo la radio B-92, i
cadaveri
di civili kosovari ripescati dal Danubio nell'aprile del 1999 e
successivamente fatti sparire dal regime, sarebbero stati ritrovati in
questi
giorni dalla polizia in un sobborgo di Belgrado. Fra le 86 vittime, vi
sarebbero tre teste prive del corpo. (ANSA). OT
04/06/2001 12:01
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(ANSA) - BUDAPEST, 30 MAG - Il ministro
degli esteri jugoslavo Goran Svilanovic
partecipa, oggi a Budapest, ai lavori del
vertice della Nato. In particolare il capo della
diplomazia di Belgrado e' giunto stamani
nella capitale ungherese per prendere parte
alla riunione del Consiglio Euro-atlantico di
Partenariato che raccoglie i 19 Paesi membri dell' Alleanza Atlantica ed
i 27
paesi partner.
La presenza di Svilanovic ha un valore particolare perche' e' la prima
volta
che la Jugoslavia viene invitata a colloqui di questo livello da parte
della
Nato.
Il segretario generale della Nato, George Robertson, ha dato un caloroso
e
pubblico benvenuto a Svilanovic all' inizio della sessione di lavoro del
Consiglio Euro-atlantico di Partneriato, ricordando che Belgrado ha
''rigettato le politiche del passato'' ed che adesso condivide i
''comuni
obiettivi di pace e stabilita' nella regione dei Balcani''. Si tratta di
un altro
''segnale'', ha detto ancora Robertson, sulla strada del completo
rientro di
tutti i Paesi della regione nella comune casa europea. (ANSA). PST
30/05/2001 11:41
PRESSIONI DAL VERTICE NATO PER LA CONSEGNA DI MILOSEVIC
NATO MINISTERS CALL ON YUGOSLAVIA TO COOPERATE WITH ICTY
BUDAPEST, May 29 (Beta) - NATO foreign ministers welcomed the
policy of the new authorities in Yugoslavia, especially in resolving
problems in southern Serbia, but also called on the authorities in
Belgrade
to fully cooperate with the Hague Tribunal.
In a statement issued after the morning session of the two-day
meeting that started on May 29, the ministers positively assessed the
resolving of the crisis in southern Serbia and especially the Yugoslav
security forces' entry into the buffer zone along the administrative
border
between Kosovo and Serbia proper, as well as the first steps in
establishing the multi-ethnic police.
The NATO ministers called on Belgrade and Podgorica to continue
"constructive dialog" in order to find a solution for their future
relations that would be acceptable for both sides and at the same time
condemned all unilateral acts that could be "a threat not only to
Yugoslavia, but to the entire region."
"We express support to a democratic Montenegro in a democratic
Yugoslavia," NATO ministers said.
Estimating that the Yugoslav authorities were "much more
cooperative" in relation to the Hague Tribunal and that positive
measures
have been taken, the NATO foreign ministers said they expected
Yugoslavia
to establish full cooperation with this court, including the adoption of
the corresponding legal framework.
PROMESSE DI CONSEGNA DAL MINISTRO DELL'INTERNO
ZIVKOVIC-EXTRADITION LAW AHEAD OF DONOR'S CONFERENCE
VILNIUS, May 30 (Reuters) Belgrade will sanction extradition to
The Hague before next month's international donor's conference, Federal
Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic predicted yesterday.
"This law will allow the extradition of those who are indicted for
war crimes," Zivkovic told press, in reference to Yugoslavia's expected
law
on cooperation with The Hague Tribunal.
Addressing press on the fringe of a NATO Parliamentary Assembly
meeting in the Lithuanian capital, Zivkovic urged NATO to take similar
cooperative steps with Belgrade by inviting Yugoslavia to join the
"Partnership for Peace program". The Alliance "should recognize their
strategic partner in the Balkan region that is Yugoslavia," the interior
minister said.
CARLA DEL PONTE SARA' DI NUOVO A BELGRADO
DEL PONTE DUE IN BELGRADE IN LATE JUNE
HAGUE, May 29 (Tanjug) Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del
Ponte will visit Belgrade in midJune, before leaving for New York, where
she will attend a U.N. Security Council session, Del Ponte's spokeswoman
Florence Hartmann told Tanjug on Tuesday.
In a phone statement from Arusha, Tanzania, Hartmann said that
Yugoslavia was still violating its commitment to the United Nations, by
refusing cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
Hartmann went on to explain she was not only referring to arrests
and extradition of war crimes indictees, but also to denied access to
archives, documents, witnesses, and other sources.
The nature of the Tribunal's report to the U.N. Security Council
definitely depends on Belgrade's attitude towards the court, according
to
Hartmann.
Asked what the report would be like if Del Ponte were to submit it
now, Hartmann replied that it would be quite negative.
Hartmann said that the time of waiting was over, recalling that
there over six months have passed since the coming to power of the new
Yugoslav authorities. In the meantime, parliamentary elections in Serbia
have been held, and Serbia's government formed, so there are no grounds
for
excuses and noncooperation, she said.
LE PRIORITA' DELLA "NUOVA" JUGOSLAVIA: UE, TPI E NATO
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER EXPLAINS FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Tanjug) Belgrade's foreign policy priorities
are to have Yugoslavia join the European Union, to upgrade regional
cooperation, to establish balanced relations with the eight most highly
developed countries (G8) and to maintain friendly ties with all
countries
in mutual interest, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said
Wednesday in Budapest.
Yugoslavia has successfully reintegrated all most important
international organizations and is considering joining the Partnership
for
Peace, Svilanovic told a session of the EuroAtlantic Partnership Council
(EAPC), held within the framework of the NATOEU ministerial conference
which started Tuesday in the Hungarian capital.
Svilanovic described Yugoslavia's participation in the EAPC work
for the first time as a guest as a result of the democratic changes in
the
country and of the renewed support to its new democratic government.
Although all countries in the region have democratically elected
governments, which contributes to regional stability, there are new
challenges that must be faced immediately. Reinforcing regional
stability
is therefore extremely important and endeavors to that end should be
based
on respecting the sovereignty and integrity of all countries in the
region
in line with the Helsinki Final Act, Svilanovic said.
Svilanovic consequently urged all governments to clearly and
unequivocally condemn violence, extremism and terrorism and to secure
the
respect of human and minority rights.
Referring to the situation in KosovoMetohija, Svilanovic noted
that the Yugoslav government has already informed the head of the UN
Civilian Mission in the province (UNMIK) Hans Haekkerup of its views on
his
Constitutional Framework for Kosovo.
The Yugoslav government believes that the necessary conditions for
holding elections in KosovoMetohija have not been secured, but has
nevertheless decided to support the process of registration of voters
for
the elections scheduled for November 17, expecting at the same time that
several preconditions will be secured before it can agree to the
participation of Serbs, Svilanovic said.
These preconditions include better safety for all inhabitants of
KosovoMetohija, the return of refugees and displaced persons, completion
of
the demobilization process and progress in resolving the issue of
missing
persons, Svilanovic said.
In addition, Yugoslavia insists on a full and consistent
implementation of the Security Council Resolution 1244, including its
provisions on the return of Yugoslav forces to Kosovo and on full
protection of Serbs, other minorities and all honest people living in
the
province. Yugoslavia would also like to sign with KFor and UNMIK
agreements
on status, privileges and immunities. Finally, the arms embargo imposed
by
the Security Council Resolution 1160 should be lifted, Svilanovic said.
Referring to the situation in southern Serbia, Svilanovic said
that Yugoslav forces are successfully executing their reentry into the
Ground Safety Zone Sector B, and that Yugoslav and Serbian authorities
are
ready for dialogue with representatives of the local ethnic Albanian
community.
Demilitarization and multiethnic police have an outstanding
importance for the full implementation of the plan drawn up by Nebojsa
Covic, head of the state coordinating team for southern Serbia,
Svilanovic
said, adding that should a full integration of the ethnic Albanian
community in political and social structures be achieved, one could say
that a step forward has been made.
Yugoslavia supports Macedonia's sovereignty and territorial
integrity and the endeavors of its new government and of the
international
community for stabilizing the situation, Svilanovic said, warning that
KFor
should halt arms trafficking across the borders and boundaries in the
region.
An end must be put to the era of disintegration in the region,
Svilanovic said, and underlined that the Yugoslav government believes
that
a process should be initiated to upgrade regional stability, guarantee
inviolability of present borders, secure the respect of human and
minority
rights and provide a strong impetus to the integration of the region and
its countries with Europe, and that a conference could be held to that
end.
As a start, the basic principles and norms of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which guarantee the
sovereignty
and integrity of all states must be reaffirmed, after which talks can be
held on minority issues and the status of ethnic communities which have
become a key problem in some parts of the region.
This process should secure full protection of minorities and halt
all forms of extremism, intolerance or violence. Simultaneously, the
issue
of minorities can be considered to be a security issue and in some cases
bilateral agreements on minority rights can be concluded. This process
should be accompanied by economic and infrastructure projects and by
confidencebuilding measures, Svilanovic said in conclusion.
SVILANOVIC MEETS IN BUDAPEST WITH ROBERTSON, IVANOV, KUKAN
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Tanjug) At a meeting of the EuroAtlantic
Partnership Council (EAPC) Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
held
brief separate meetings with NATO Secretary General George Robertson,
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Slovakian counterpart Kukan.
In all the talks, Svilanovic told Tanjug, dominated regional topics.
During the meeting with Robertson, who on several occasions
welcomed the Yugoslav delegation to the meeting held under the auspices
of
the Western military alliance, was discussed the situation in Macedonia,
and also the situation in southern Serbia and in Kosovo and Metohija.
Robertson praised the cooperation of the two sides during the
entry of the Yugoslav security forces into sector B in southern Serbia.
In the talks between Svilanovic and Ivanov, who is expected to
arrive June 17 on an official visit to Belgrade, were exchanged opinions
about circumstances in Kosovo and Metohija and about relations between
Serbia and Montenegro.
KosovoMetohija was the main subject of the talks between
Svilanovic and Kukan.
Svilanovic underlined that the meeting in Budapest, besides
lending support to the authorities in Belgrade, also raised the issue of
tighter cooperation of Yugoslavia with The Hague tribunal.
All participants in the meeting from senior officials of NATO and
the European Union to Russia and other countries urged the continuance
of
democratic Montenegro within democratic Yugoslavia, Svilanovic said.
NATO WELCOMES YUGOSLAV READINESS TO JOINT PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Tanjug) Senior NATO officials welcomed in
Budapest Wednesday the readiness of Yugoslavia to join the Partnership
for
Peace, noting that official Belgrade should confirm its intention by
concrete steps.
Positive reactions ensued after Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
at a session of the EuroAtlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), which
rallies
all 19 NATO members and 26 states of Europe and Central Asia, said that
the
Yugoslav government wants the country to join Partnership for Peace.
Representatives of the Western Alliance unofficially welcomed such
an intention of Belgrade, but pointed out that Yugoslavia should confirm
it
by concrete steps and that at this moment NATO was not in position to
give
any kind of response.
Participants in the meeting unanimously supported democratic
changes in Yugoslavia, indicating that in only two years the country has
practically turned from an opponent into a NATO ally and a factor of
stability in the region.
Also welcomed was the announced adoption of a new Yugoslav law
enabling not only tighter cooperation between Yugoslavia and The Hague,
but
also the extradition of war crime suspects.
Underscored finally was the swift improvement of relations between
NATO and Belgrade, which was indicated also on several occasions by NATO
Secretary General George Robertson.
RICATTI E PRESSIONI CRESCENTI CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
DA PARTE DI QUELLI CHE L'HANNO BOMBARDATA
LAW ON COOPERATION WITH ICTY - CONDITION FOR DONORS CONFERENCE.
BRUSSELS, May 30 (Beta) - European Commission officials told BETA
in Brussels, on May 30, that the EU and the World Bank want the donors
conference to be a "complete success" in order to aid the reconstruction
and long-term recovery of Yugoslavia. However, the U.S. and several EU
countries demanded, as a condition for their participation in the
conference, that the Yugoslav parliament adopt a law on cooperation with
the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
European Commission spokesman Gunnar Wiegand, told BETA that the
donors conference is "very important for the long-term perspective of
Yugoslavia's economic development and political stabilization" and that
this is the reason "the EU and the European Commission are closely
watching
all the steps being taken to fulfill Yugoslavia's obligation to
cooperate
fully with the ICTY."
SECONDO DJINDJIC BISOGNA ACCONTENTARLI, ALTRIMENTI IL GOVERNO HA VITA
BREVE
SURVIVAL OF YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DEPENDS ON COOPERATION WITH THE
HAGUE
BELGRADE, May 30 (Tanjug) Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic said
Wednesday that, in the event that the bill on cooperation with The Hague
tribunal is not adopted, the federal state and government would fall
into a
crisis, calling into question the donors conference, as well as the
standby
arrangement and the reprogramming of our debts.
Djindjic told reporters in Serbian parliament that "refusal of
cooperation with The Hague tribunal would greatly deteriorate our
position
in international relations."
"By contrast, the passing of the bill would enable the continuing
of the process of the gradual return of Yugoslavia into international
relations, which would in general reflect on our international
position,"
he said. Djindjic underlined that the main hurdle in the talks between
coalition partners at the federal level the Socialist People's Party
(SNP)
of Montenegro and the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) is the
position at what level should be adopted regulations about concrete
cooperation with The Hague tribunal.
The bill on cooperation with The Hague tribunal would have to
envisage extradition, according to Djindjic.
IN CERCA DI UNA SOLUZIONE PER LA LEGGE SULLA "ESTRADIZIONE"
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM IN SIGHT
BELGRADE, May 31 (Tanjug) After a meeting between the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) and the Socialist National Party (SNP) late
on
Wednesday, there is more ground for optimism and a solution to the
problem
we are facing, not through our fault, is in sight, the Yugoslav
president's
office said in a statement.
After the Executive and Main Boards meetings, SNP representatives
came up with some very constructive proposals, which largely take care
of
national and state reasons, needs of our state and the obligations it
has
as a signatory to the Dayton Accords and a UN member.
They will make additional consultations at their municipal boards,
the statement said and added that there was ground to expect that a
final
agreement on a bill on cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal
would
be reached on Sunday.
FINAL STAND OF SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY ON COOPERATION WITH HAGUE ON
JUNE 3.
BELGRADE, May 30 ( Beta) - The Serbian Justice Minister Vladan
Batic stated on May 30 that the talks between the leaders of the
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) and the Socialist People's Party of
Montenegro,
on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, will continue in the evening of
June 3, if the municipal boards and then the Steering Committee of the
Socialist People's Party opt for the adoption of the law on cooperation
with the Tribunal.
After the talks between representatives of DOS and of the
Socialist People's Party in Belgrade, Batic stated that, if their
Montenegrin partners send a positive reply, the draft law on cooperation
with the Hague Tribunal will be discussed by the federal government on
June
4 and, if not, "everyone will bear the consequences".
Batic said he hoped that a delay in the process of adopting this
law would not jeopardize the donors' conference for Yugoslavia.
One of the representatives of the Socialist People's Party Srdja
Bozovic said that the party leadership will decide on this issue by June
3.
"After tonight's meeting with the representatives of the Socialist
People's Party, there is more reason for optimism. The solution to the
problem that we face, which is not through our own doing, is at hand,"
it
was stated by the office of the Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
after
the meeting.
According to the statement, the representatives of the Socialist
People's Party "came to the meeting with very constructive proposals,
which
take care of national and state interests and the needs of our union, as
well as of the obligations which our country is under as a signatory of
the
Dayton agreement and a member of the UN."
"We have many reasons to expect a final agreement on Sunday," it
was concluded in the statement.
DJINDJIC E LABUS PREOCCUPATI: GLI USA DA NOI CHIEDONO UN PO' TROPPO
DJINDJIC COMPLAINS OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS
BELGRADE, May 31 (FoNet) Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic
has lashed out at American expectations of Belgrade describing them as
"highly unrealistic." Djindjic criticised the US demand for the
extradition of Slobodan Milosevic, before Washington will confirm
participation in the international donor's conference for Yugoslavia.
Whilst he conceded it was fair to expect the adoption of the law
on cooperation with The Hague before the June 29 conference, Djindjic
reserved judgement on whether the extradition clause could be used by
that
time.
"It is highly unrealistic for us to specify even the approximate
date for extradition," the prime minister said at Belgrade's
International
Media Centre.
He did not know who would take that decision, nor who would see it
through, Djindjic added.
YUGOSLAV DEPUTY PM: ALL IMPOSED CONDITIONS ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
BELGRADE, June 1 (Tanjug) All imposed conditions are
counterproductive, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus said on
Friday and added that he was not satisfied with the information that
Belgrade had received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"We have already had this pressure phase, which has brought
nothing good to anybody," Labus told a news conference, referring to the
new conditions Belgrade had received from the IMF.
Labus said that Yugoslavia "does not want to be part of a
stickandcarrot system."
The issue of Yugoslavia's cooperation with the Hague war crimes
tribunal will be settled normally, after an adequate legal frame has
been
made, Labus said.
He said that the donors conference would not be delayed, but that
the question was how successful it would be.
Labus said that the "Paris Club meeting may be even more important
for us" than the donors conference and that the scheduling of this
meeting
would depend on the existence of a favourable political climate.
DALL'AIA INSISTONO: NON BISOGNA DARE TREGUA ALLA JUGOSLAVIA
WAR CRIMES COURT PROSECUTOR SEEKS EUROPEAN PRESSURE ON YUGOSLAVIA
BERLIN, June 1 (Tanjug) The international war crimes court's
chief prosecutor is on Friday quoted as urging European countries to put
pressure on the Belgrade government to cooperate with the Haguebased
tribunal.
Carla del Ponte told Germany's Fokus newspaper that European
countries should do something together to make Belgrade more
cooperative.
According to her, there were signals in March that Yugoslavia
would cooperate with the tribunal, but many problems have since come up,
not only about arrests, but about witnesses and documents.
Serbs have probably felt pressure on them diminish after the US
Congress approved financial assistance which had depended on cooperation
in
connection with the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic,
according to del Ponte.
JUGOSLAVIA: INEVITABILE CONSEGNARE MILOSEVIC A TPI, DJINDJIC
(ANSA-AFP) - MADRID, 3 GIU - La Jugoslavia non puo' evitare di
consegnare l'ex presidente Slobodan Miloevic al Tribunale penale
internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi) se vorra' uscire dal suo isolamento. Lo ha
detto il primo ministrop serbo Zoran Djindjic in un'intervista al
giornale
spagnolo 'El Mundo'. ''Non possiamo permetterci il lusso di perdere un
aiuto economico necessario per non aver collaborato con il Tribunale
dell'Aja - ha spiegato il premier serbo - Non possiamo evitare di
consegnare Milosevic se non volgiamo rimanere isolati''. Per Djindjic
Milosevic non deve comunque ''essere inviato come un pacchetto all'Aja''
senza essere prima processato in Jugoslavia. ''Abbiamo un'occasione
unica per far chiarezza sull'ultimo decennio della nostra storia, che
invece
cosi' sarebbe dimenticato'', ha aggiunto Djindjic, secondo il quale
inoltre
la divisione del Kosovo in due entita' (una serba e una albanese), come
proposto dal suo vice Nebojsa Covic, ''e' un'idea realistica''.
(ANSA-AFP). TV
03/06/2001 10:28
JUGOSLAVIA: MILOSEVIC, MONTENEGRINI BLOCCANO LEGGE SU TPI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 4 GIU - Il parlamento federale jugoslavo rischia
una crisi che potrebbe condurre ad elezioni anticipate a causa della
legge
sulla collaborazione con il Tpi, che riguarda anche l'eventuale
estradizione dell'ex presidente Slobodan Milosevic. Dopo giorni e notti
di intense trattative, la coalizione democratica Dos non e' riuscita a
convincere gli alleati del Partito socialista popolare montenegrino
(Snp)
ad includere nel disegno di legge la clausola dell'estradizione. L'Snp,
un
tempo alleato di regime di Milosevic, teme di scontentare i suoi
elettori,
che vedono ancora con simpatia la figura di Slobo, e vorrebbe quindi che
le due repubbliche decidessero separatamente e caso per caso sulla
consegna all'Aja di persone incriminate dal Tpi. Una nuova
tornatanegoziale a Belgrado e' prevista per oggi, ma al momento le
posizioni dei
democratici serbi e dei socialisti montenegrini restano molto distanti.
Il
varo della legge sulla collaborazione con i giudici del tribunale
internazionale e' la condizione posta dagli Stati Uniti per partecipare
a
giugno a una conferenza di donatori per la Jugoslavia. [SI NOTI
L'OPPORTUNA
INSERZIONE DELLA "NOTIZIA" SEGUENTE NEL DISPACCIO ANSA] Affiorano
intanto
nuovi macabri particolari sui crimini della guerra nel Kosovo, per i
quali
Milosevic e' chiamato in causa dal Tpi: secondo la radio B-92, i
cadaveri
di civili kosovari ripescati dal Danubio nell'aprile del 1999 e
successivamente fatti sparire dal regime, sarebbero stati ritrovati in
questi
giorni dalla polizia in un sobborgo di Belgrado. Fra le 86 vittime, vi
sarebbero tre teste prive del corpo. (ANSA). OT
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[Emperor's Clothes]
The so-called non-governmental organization 'Human
Rights Watch' has launched a public campaign accusing
Macedonian forces who are fighting terrorists of
rampant abuses. Do we dare ask:
WHY 'HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH' IS GUNNING FOR MACEDONIA
By Jared Israel [2 June 2001]
Followed by Paul Treanor's most revealing examination
of the HRW European Section leadership. They are not
who you thought they were ...
Human Rights Watch has made the news the last few days
with public accusations that Macedonia is racist and
brutal towards Albanians. These charges are
reminiscent of claims made against the Serbian
government during the fall and winter of 1998 and the
winter of 1998-1999. The reports are invariably
anecdotal relying on supposed anonymous, eyewitness
(that is, unconfirmable) accounts of beatings and
other abuses. Names are withheld:
"...because they fear further retaliation from the
Macedonian police, and have in some cases been warned
by their abusers not to discuss their maltreatment.
(HRW Report on Macedonia)
Two problems with this sort of account.
First problem: We have to accept the honesty of HRW on
faith. As we shall prove below, HRW is in essence the
U.S. foreign policy elite. The people who dropped
humanitarian cluster bombs all over Kosovo. Still feel
comfortable trusting them?
How do we know that HRW 'investigators' actually
interviewed the people it claims they interviewed?
If these people were interviewed, how do we know that
HRW has accurately reported what the alleged people
said?
Second problem: since names are withheld, how do we
know who was actually talked to (if anyone) and
whether they told the truth? If these people do exist,
how do we know they are not KLA terrorists (called
'NLA' when they're attacking Macedonia) or their
families, friends or supporters? Any of these people
would have an interest in slandering Macedonian
forces. HRW's reports constitute a public trial for
whomever they attack - in this case, Macedonian
security forces. But unlike a proper trial, in this
one only the witnesses for the prosecution are heard.
The HRW is manifestly biased. Its reports use clever
wording to trick readers into assuming that the guilt
of Macedonian forces has already been proven when this
is the very thing the HRW is supposedly investigating.
For example consider this sentence:
"[They]have in some cases been warned by their abusers
not to discuss their maltreatment."
Very cute. By telling us that "the victims have been
warned to be silent" (a completely unproven and
possibly fabricated accusation) HRW tricks our minds
into assuming that Albanians must in fact be victims.
How can they not be victims if they are being warned?
I call this kind of trickery the "Do you still beat
your wife?" argument and it has been used by HRW as
well as the Western media and an assortment of
experts, including some supposed critics of Western
foreign policy, to 'prove' the guilt of Serbs in
Serbia, of Macedonians, of Mr. Miloshevich, of Bosnian
Serbs, and so on.
(For example, in the case of Slobodan Miloshevich, we
have been hearing for eight months that "investigators
have still not located Miloshevich's stolen money."
The failure to prove guilt (that is, finding no money)
is cleverly worded to make it sound like evidence of
guilt ("still not located"). Still not located takes
for granted that the money is out there somewhere and
we'll find it sooner or later.
The impression created by HRW, that "those poor
Albanians are being abused again by the nasty Slavs,"
undercuts potential public opposition to U.S. policy
in the Balkans. Indeed, it creates a public relations
pressure on Washington to 'help the rebels' or at
least "get the Macedonians to compromise." This is
peachy for Washington since the 'rebels' are in fact
Washington's proxy Army. Washington loves being
pressured to support its children.
Why is HRW effective?
There are several reasons. Let's consider two: First,
its reports are given wide exposure in the mass media;
second the press fosters the impression that HRW is
some kind of issue-oriented activist group, you know,
two dozen dedicated college kids and a starving
attorney ferreting out the facts. They have to be
motivated by idealism; why else would folks go
traipsing around Macedonia in the middle of a war?
Below is Paul Treanor's description of HRW's European
Section Steering Committee. It turns out the HRW
leadership is comprised of America's foreign policy
elite. As Mr. Treanor says:
"It is not a association of "concerned private
citizens". HRW board members include present and past
government employees, and overlapping directorates
link it to the major foreign policy lobbies in the US.
Cynically summarized, it is a joint venture of George
Soros and the State Department."
HRW is a "forward strike force" for U.S. government
intervention. Masquerading behind the appealing title
of 'Human Rights' it launches propaganda forays
against targets chosen to advance the open and/or
hidden goals of U.S. policy. Right now Washington has
covertly sent its KLA terrorists to attack Macedonia
while pretending to support Macedonian independence.
Hence the current HRW focus on Macedonia. HRW precedes
the flag.
Here is Paul Treanor:
WHO IS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Helsinki Steering Committee
By Paul Treanor
This is the Europian section of the Board of HRW,
which is split into sections approximately by
continent. The section was established in 1978 (in the
late 1970's human rights became the main issue in Cold
War propaganda). The unit in the organisation is
called the Europe and Central Asia Division. It is
affiliated with the International Helsinki Federation
for Human Rights, which co-ordinates the "Helsinki
committees". Source: HRW Board of Directors & Advisory
Committees
Jonathan Fanton, Chair
An academic and foundation man. Former Vice President
of the University of Chicago, in 1982 appointed as
President of the New School for Social Research, now
the New School University. He is active in building US
academic contacts with eastern Europe, directed at the
new pro-western elites, see the Transregional Center
for Democratic Studies (TCDS) page.
Alice H. Henkin, Co-Vice Chair
Director of the Justice and Society Program at the
Aspen Institute, an elite think-tank.
Note their report Honoring Human Rights: From Peace to
Justice proposing United Nations mission strategies
later used in Kosovo.
Peter Osnos, Co-Vice Chair
George Soros' publisher. He is Chief Executive of
Public Affairs publishers.
Morton Abramowitz
A link to the US Foreign Policy establishment, one of
several at HRW. Abramowitz was U.S. Ambassador to
Turkey (1989-91) and Assistant Secretary of State for
Intelligence and Research (1985-89), among other
posts: see his personal details at the Council on
Foreign Relations, CFR, where he is a Fellow. The CFR
is the heart of interventionist US policy since 1921
(and hated by the isolationist right).
He directed the CFR Balkan Economic Task Force, which
published a report on "Reconstructing the Balkans".
Barbara Finberg
A donor of HRW, see the list below. A retired vice
president with the Carnegie Corporation of New York,
who donated $1 million to Stanford University.
Felice Gaer
Human rights specialist at the American Jewish
Committee and chair of the Steering Committee for the
50th anniversary of the UN Human Rights Declaration,
see this biography:
"Ms.Gaer is Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute
for the Advancement of Human Rights. Author, speaker,
and activist, she is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the
Andrei Sakharov Foundation, a member of the
International Human Rights Council at the Carter
Center, ...Vice President of the International League
for Human Rights."
According to this JTA report, Gaer praised Madeleine
Albright for her "outstanding human rights record".
Felice Gaer was also a non-governmental member of the
United States delegation to a United Nations Human
Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, where (according
to the Voice of America) she denounced Sudan, saying
the the U.S. "cannot accept those who invoke Islam or
other religions as justification for atrocious human
rights abuses." However, more interesting is this
speech at the Geneva meeting, where she suggested the
UN should no longer investigate prison rapes in the
US: "we would urge the Special Rapporteurs to focus
their attention on countries where the situation is
the most dire and the abuses the most severe."
Michael Gellert
Vice Chairman of the Board at Fanton's New School for
Social Research. Investment manager and Trustee of the
Carnegie Institute.
Gellert is a director of Premier Parks Inc., owner of
the Six Flags and Walibi theme park chains. Also a
director of:
High Speed Access Corp.,
Devon Energy Corporation,
Humana Inc..
Paul Goble
Director of Communications and political commentator
at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Cold War
propaganda transmitters that survived the end of the
Cold War. From their website
"Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as
non-profit, private corporations to broadcast news and
current affairs programs to Eastern European countries
behind the Iron Curtain. The Radio Liberty Committee,
Inc., was created two years later along the same lines
to broadcast to the nations inside the Soviet Union.
Both were funded principally by the U.S. Congress,
through the Central Intelligence Agency, but they also
received some private donations as well. The two
corporations were merged into a single RFE/RL, Inc. in
1975."
It is still funded by the US Government, through
Congressional appropriation.
Bill Green
Former Republican member of Congress, a trustee of the
New School for Social Research (where Fanton is
President), with many other public and business posts:
see the biography at the American Assembly, an
academic/political think-tank.
Stanley Hoffman
A pro-interventionist theorist (of course that means
US intervention, not a Taliban invasion of the US).
Professor at Harvard, see his biography. Note that his
colleagues include Daniel Goldhagen, who openly
advocated occupation of Serbia, to impose a US-style
democracy: see A New Serbia.
Robert James
Also on the Board of Human Rights in China, another
Soros-funded organisation.
Jack Matlock
US Ambassador to the Soviet Union during its collapse,
1987-1991. Author of Autopsy On An Empire: The
American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the
Soviet Union (Random House, 1995).
Member of the large Board of Directors of the Atlantic
Council. The Atlantic Council is more than a pro-NATO
fan club: it supports an expansionist US foreign
policy in general. Note their recent paper (in pdf
format) Beyond Kosovo, a redesign of the Balkans
within the framework of the proposed Stability Pact.
The Atlantic Council list of sponsors is a delight for
corporate-conspiracy theorists. Yes, it is all paid
for by the Rockefeller foundation, the Soros
foundation, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Boeing,
Lockheed, Northrop, Exxon, British Nuclear Fuels, the
US Army and the European Union.
Conspiracy theorists will also be delighted to see
that Matlock attended the 1996 Bilderberg Conference.
Herbert Okun
Career diplomat, former Special Advisor on Yugoslavia
to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Co-Chairman
of the International Conference on the former
Yugoslavia. Member of the Board of the Lawyers
Alliance for World Security (LAWS) and its affiliate
the Committee for National Security (CNS) which gives
this biography:
Ambassador Herbert Okun is the U.S. member and
Vice-President of the International Narcotics Control
Board, and Visiting Lecturer on International Law at
Yale Law School. Previously, he was the Deputy
Chairman on the U.S. delegation at the SALT II
negotiations and led the U.S. delegation in the
trilateral U.S.-U.K.-USSR Talks on the CTBT. From 1991
to 1993 Ambassador Okun was Special Advisor on
Yugoslavia to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Personal
Envoy of the U.N. Secretary General, and Deputy
Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the
former Yugoslavia. He also served as Deputy Permanent
Representative of the United States to the UN from
1985 to 1989 serving on the General Assembly, the
Disarmament Committee and the Committee on Peaceful
Uses of Outer Space. Amb. Okun was also U.S.
Ambassador to the former German Democratic Republic.
He was from 1990-97 Executive Director of the
Financial Services Volunteer Corps, "a non-profit
organization providing voluntary assistance to help
establish free-market financial systems in former
communist countries", see his biography at
International Security Studies at Yale University,
where he is also a board member. This Corps is a de
facto agency of USAID, see how it is listed
country-by-country in their report. Although it is not
relevant to Human Rights Watch, this curriculum vitae
gives a good impression of the kind of international
elite created by such programs.
Okun is also a member emeritus of the board of the
European Institute in Washington, an Atlanticist
lobby. It organises the European-American Policy
Forum, the European-American Congressional Forum, and
the Transatlantic Joint Security Policies Project.
Okun is a special advisor to the Carnegie Commission
on Preventing Deadly Conflict funded by the Carnegie
Corporation. (It links pro-western international elite
figures advocating a formal structure for control of
states by the "international community").
Okun was a member of a Task Force (including Bianca
Jagger and George Soros) on war criminals: see their
report . Although it also demands "UN Sanctions
Against States Harboring Indicted War Criminals" it is
unlikely that the Task Force members meant the man
quoted at the start of their report, President
Clinton.
A curiosity: this human rights supporter is accused of
an attempt to destroy the right to free speech, in his
post at the International Narcotics Control Board: see
A Duty to Censor: U.N. Officials Want to Crack Down on
Drug War Protesters in the libertarian Reason
Magazine.
Jane Olson
Also co-chair of the California section of HRW, see
this biography. One of the few who are simply human
rights activists, although her views are clearly 100%
acceptable to the US Government. She was appointed a
member of the U.S. delegation to the 1991 Conference
on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in
Moscow.
Again note, that US citizens consider it normal to
travel to Europe, to decide on that continents
Security and Cooperation - but there is absolutely no
"Conference on North American Security and
Cooperation", where Europeans arrive to tell Americans
what to do.
She is also a member of the Board of the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation, one of many small globalist groups,
advocating peace and some vague form of world
government.
Barnett Rubin
Academic and Soros-institutes advisor. Director of the
"Center for Preventive Action" at the Council on
Foreign Relations.The center is funded by the US
Government through USIP, and by the Carnegie
Corporation as part of their program Preventing Deadly
Conflict. "Preventive Action" means intervention.
He is a member of the centers South Balkans Working
Group, and edited a 1996 Council on Foreign Relations
study Towards Comprehensive Peace in Southeast Europe:
Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. Rubin is an
Afghanistan specialist, also on the Board of the Asia
division of HRW. He authored and edited several works
on Afghanistan. Rubin apparently has a curious
attitude to the Taliban, seeing them as a bulwark
against Islamic radicalism . See this letter to NPR,
entitled Afghanistan Whitewash:
While the Lyden-Rubin conversation made no mention of
US support for the Taliban, they referred several
times to US "pressure" on the Taliban to now respect
human rights. This is a total white wash which
distorts the historical record beyond recognition.
Rubin is on the Advisory Board of the Soros Foundation
Central Eurasia Project. He is an advisor of the
Forced Migration Project of Soros' Open Society
Institute, and he is also on the Board of the Soros
Humanitarian Fund for Tajikistan. Perhaps most
interesting is that the U.S. Institute of Peace (a de
facto government agency) gave him a grant to research
"formation of a new state system in Central Eurasia".
Barnett Rubin articles on Central Asia
This may be repetitive, but note once again that there
are absolutely no Foundations or Institutes in Central
Asia, which pay people to design "new state systems"
in North America. For people like Rubin "human rights"
mean simply that the US designs the world: at the same
time, the US might accept the Taliban, if it was a
strategic interest. See this article at the Soros
Central Asia site, The Political Economy of War and
Peace in Afghanistan, advocating a de facto colonial
government in Afghanistan financed by oil revenues.
Rubin is also a member of the US State Department
Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. The
Final Report of this Committee also sums up what the
United States can do, when it finds religious freedom
has been infringed. The list begins at "friendly,
persuasive: open an embassy" and ends with "act of
war".
Rubin was also involved in the 1997 New York meeting,
where the United States attempted to create a unified
Yugoslav opposition, with among others Vuk Draskovic.
(The effort failed at the time, and ever since).
Leon Sigal
NOTE: I can find no website matching this info on
"Leon Sigal" to HRW. I assume it is the same person,
although I do not understand why an expert on Asian
issues is on the board for the European division of
HRW.
Consultant to the Social Science Research Council,
member of the Board of Advisors at Globalbeat
Syndicate, part of the New York University Dept of
Journalism. See their article on Lessons From The War
In Kosovo.
From Globalbeat:
He is a former member of the Editorial Board of The
New York Times, where he wrote frequently on nuclear
issues, and is the author of many books and articles
on both international security and media issues.
Sigal authored Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy
with North Korea (Princeton University Press 1998). He
is a Project member of the Committee on Nuclear
Policy.
Malcolm Smith
no information yet
George Soros
From the Public Affairs site, the biography of George
Soros, financier of HRW and of numerous organisations
in eastern Europe with pro-American, pro-market
policies.
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. In
1947 he emigrated to England, where he graduated from
the London School of Economics. While a student in
London, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the
philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence
on his thinking and later on his philanthropic
activities. In 1956 he moved to the United States,
where he began to accumulate a large fortune through
an international investment fund he founded and
managed.
Mr. Soros currently serves as chairman of Soros Fund
Management L.L.C., a private investment management
firm that serves as principal investment advisor to
the Quantum Group of Funds. The Quantum Fund N.V., the
oldest and largest fund within the Quantum Group, is
generally recognized as having the best performance
record of any investment fund in the world in its
twenty-nine-year history.
Mr. Soros established his first foundation, the Open
Society Fund, in New York in 1979 and his first
Eastern European foundation in Hungary in 1984. He now
funds a network of foundations that operate in
thirty-one countries throughout Central and Eastern
Europe, and the former Soviet Union, as well as
southern Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mongolia and the
United States. These foundations are dedicated to
building and maintaining the infrastructure and
institutions of an open society. Mr. Soros has also
founded other major institutions, such as the Central
European University and the International Science
Foundation. In 1994, the foundations in the network
spent a total of approximately $300 million; in 1995,
$350 million; in 1996, $362 million; and in 1997, $428
million. Giving for 1998 is expected to be maintained
at that level.
In addition to many articles on the political and
economic changes in Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union, Mr. Soros is the author of The Alchemy
of Finance, Opening the Soviet System, Underwriting
Democracy, and Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the
Curve.
Mr. Soros has received honorary doctoral degrees from
the New School for Social Research, the University of
Oxford, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale
University. In 1995, the University of Bologna awarded
Mr. Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa,
in recognition of his efforts to promote open
societies throughout the world.
Soros Foundations Network
Open Society Institute Staff Directory
Privatization Project
Open Society Institute Budapest
Donald J. Sutherland
Also on the advisory board of the World Policy
Institute.
Ruti Teitel
Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York Law
School, see his biography. In the last few years he
has specialised in the Constitutions of eastern
European countries, and advised on the new Ukrainian
constitution.
William D. Zabel
George Soros legal advisor, on foundation and charity
law. A estate and family financial lawyer for the rich
at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. His biography lists his
involvement with these Soros Foundations: "Newly
Independent States and the Baltic Republics, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria and Central European University and
Open Society Fund". See this biographical article
originally from the National Law Journal:
When fate knocks, rich ring for Zabel
He is a trustee of Fanton's New School of Social
Research, and member of the Advisory Board of the
World Policy Institute at the New School.
Zabel is a director of the Lawyers Committee for Human
Rights. The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights is one
of the partners in the "Apparel Industry Partnership",
a group set up by the Clinton administration and the
US clothing and footwear industries to defuse
criticism of conditions in their factories. The (not
particularly radical) US trade union federation
refuses to co-operate with it.
Zabel is also on the Board of Doctors of the World,
the USA branch of M�decins du Monde, founded by
Bernard Kouchner in 1980. Kouchner is now the UN
Representative ( the "governor") in Kosovo. Despite
the name, M�decins du Monde is a purely western
organisation, see the affiliate list.
Warren Zimmermann
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia during its break-up,
author of Origins of Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its
Destroyers. A Cold-War career diplomat, long active in
US human rights campaigns against eastern Europe. See
this site for an extreme pro-Bosniac assessment of his
book by Branka Magas, alleging he appeased Milosevic:
"In the event, by pursuing Yugoslavia's unity rather
than supporting Slovenia and Croatia in their demands
for either the country's confederal transformation or
its peaceful dissolution, the United States helped
ensure its violent break-up". (I think it is logically
consistent with US values and interests, that the US
supported one policy around 1990 and another in
Kosovo. The real problem is that so many people in
Europe expect the US to design their states and write
their Constitutions. It is because of this attitude,
that people like Zimmermann, and organisations like
HRW, can flourish) Zimmermann is now a professor of
Diplomacy at Columbia University. If you think the
"amoral diplomat" is a stereotype, look at his
Contemporary Diplomacy course. This is his assignment
for the young future diplomats:
Imagine that you are a member of Secretary Albright's
Policy Planning Staff. She has asked you to write a
strategy paper for one of the following diplomatic
challenges:
--Dealing with NATO expansion and with the countries
affected;
--Crafting a more energetic and assertive US approach
to the Israeli-PLO deadlock;
--Raising the American profile in sub-Saharan Africa;
--Developing a US initiative to improve relations with
Cuba;
--Forging an American approach to Central Asia and its
energy wealth;
--Making better use of the UN and other multilateral
organizations like OSCE;
--Weighing the relative priorities between pursuing
human rights
and keeping open lucrative economic opportunities;
--Increasing interest in, and support for, US foreign
policy among the American people.
With Barnett Rubin, Zimmermann is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Forced Migration Project at
Soros Open Society Institute.
With Felice Gaer, Zimmermann is also on the Board of
the quasi-commercial International Dispute Resolution
Associates. (Peacemaking has become big business, but
IDR is also funded by the US Government through the
USIP).
He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs
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The so-called non-governmental organization 'Human
Rights Watch' has launched a public campaign accusing
Macedonian forces who are fighting terrorists of
rampant abuses. Do we dare ask:
WHY 'HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH' IS GUNNING FOR MACEDONIA
By Jared Israel [2 June 2001]
Followed by Paul Treanor's most revealing examination
of the HRW European Section leadership. They are not
who you thought they were ...
Human Rights Watch has made the news the last few days
with public accusations that Macedonia is racist and
brutal towards Albanians. These charges are
reminiscent of claims made against the Serbian
government during the fall and winter of 1998 and the
winter of 1998-1999. The reports are invariably
anecdotal relying on supposed anonymous, eyewitness
(that is, unconfirmable) accounts of beatings and
other abuses. Names are withheld:
"...because they fear further retaliation from the
Macedonian police, and have in some cases been warned
by their abusers not to discuss their maltreatment.
(HRW Report on Macedonia)
Two problems with this sort of account.
First problem: We have to accept the honesty of HRW on
faith. As we shall prove below, HRW is in essence the
U.S. foreign policy elite. The people who dropped
humanitarian cluster bombs all over Kosovo. Still feel
comfortable trusting them?
How do we know that HRW 'investigators' actually
interviewed the people it claims they interviewed?
If these people were interviewed, how do we know that
HRW has accurately reported what the alleged people
said?
Second problem: since names are withheld, how do we
know who was actually talked to (if anyone) and
whether they told the truth? If these people do exist,
how do we know they are not KLA terrorists (called
'NLA' when they're attacking Macedonia) or their
families, friends or supporters? Any of these people
would have an interest in slandering Macedonian
forces. HRW's reports constitute a public trial for
whomever they attack - in this case, Macedonian
security forces. But unlike a proper trial, in this
one only the witnesses for the prosecution are heard.
The HRW is manifestly biased. Its reports use clever
wording to trick readers into assuming that the guilt
of Macedonian forces has already been proven when this
is the very thing the HRW is supposedly investigating.
For example consider this sentence:
"[They]have in some cases been warned by their abusers
not to discuss their maltreatment."
Very cute. By telling us that "the victims have been
warned to be silent" (a completely unproven and
possibly fabricated accusation) HRW tricks our minds
into assuming that Albanians must in fact be victims.
How can they not be victims if they are being warned?
I call this kind of trickery the "Do you still beat
your wife?" argument and it has been used by HRW as
well as the Western media and an assortment of
experts, including some supposed critics of Western
foreign policy, to 'prove' the guilt of Serbs in
Serbia, of Macedonians, of Mr. Miloshevich, of Bosnian
Serbs, and so on.
(For example, in the case of Slobodan Miloshevich, we
have been hearing for eight months that "investigators
have still not located Miloshevich's stolen money."
The failure to prove guilt (that is, finding no money)
is cleverly worded to make it sound like evidence of
guilt ("still not located"). Still not located takes
for granted that the money is out there somewhere and
we'll find it sooner or later.
The impression created by HRW, that "those poor
Albanians are being abused again by the nasty Slavs,"
undercuts potential public opposition to U.S. policy
in the Balkans. Indeed, it creates a public relations
pressure on Washington to 'help the rebels' or at
least "get the Macedonians to compromise." This is
peachy for Washington since the 'rebels' are in fact
Washington's proxy Army. Washington loves being
pressured to support its children.
Why is HRW effective?
There are several reasons. Let's consider two: First,
its reports are given wide exposure in the mass media;
second the press fosters the impression that HRW is
some kind of issue-oriented activist group, you know,
two dozen dedicated college kids and a starving
attorney ferreting out the facts. They have to be
motivated by idealism; why else would folks go
traipsing around Macedonia in the middle of a war?
Below is Paul Treanor's description of HRW's European
Section Steering Committee. It turns out the HRW
leadership is comprised of America's foreign policy
elite. As Mr. Treanor says:
"It is not a association of "concerned private
citizens". HRW board members include present and past
government employees, and overlapping directorates
link it to the major foreign policy lobbies in the US.
Cynically summarized, it is a joint venture of George
Soros and the State Department."
HRW is a "forward strike force" for U.S. government
intervention. Masquerading behind the appealing title
of 'Human Rights' it launches propaganda forays
against targets chosen to advance the open and/or
hidden goals of U.S. policy. Right now Washington has
covertly sent its KLA terrorists to attack Macedonia
while pretending to support Macedonian independence.
Hence the current HRW focus on Macedonia. HRW precedes
the flag.
Here is Paul Treanor:
WHO IS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Helsinki Steering Committee
By Paul Treanor
This is the Europian section of the Board of HRW,
which is split into sections approximately by
continent. The section was established in 1978 (in the
late 1970's human rights became the main issue in Cold
War propaganda). The unit in the organisation is
called the Europe and Central Asia Division. It is
affiliated with the International Helsinki Federation
for Human Rights, which co-ordinates the "Helsinki
committees". Source: HRW Board of Directors & Advisory
Committees
Jonathan Fanton, Chair
An academic and foundation man. Former Vice President
of the University of Chicago, in 1982 appointed as
President of the New School for Social Research, now
the New School University. He is active in building US
academic contacts with eastern Europe, directed at the
new pro-western elites, see the Transregional Center
for Democratic Studies (TCDS) page.
Alice H. Henkin, Co-Vice Chair
Director of the Justice and Society Program at the
Aspen Institute, an elite think-tank.
Note their report Honoring Human Rights: From Peace to
Justice proposing United Nations mission strategies
later used in Kosovo.
Peter Osnos, Co-Vice Chair
George Soros' publisher. He is Chief Executive of
Public Affairs publishers.
Morton Abramowitz
A link to the US Foreign Policy establishment, one of
several at HRW. Abramowitz was U.S. Ambassador to
Turkey (1989-91) and Assistant Secretary of State for
Intelligence and Research (1985-89), among other
posts: see his personal details at the Council on
Foreign Relations, CFR, where he is a Fellow. The CFR
is the heart of interventionist US policy since 1921
(and hated by the isolationist right).
He directed the CFR Balkan Economic Task Force, which
published a report on "Reconstructing the Balkans".
Barbara Finberg
A donor of HRW, see the list below. A retired vice
president with the Carnegie Corporation of New York,
who donated $1 million to Stanford University.
Felice Gaer
Human rights specialist at the American Jewish
Committee and chair of the Steering Committee for the
50th anniversary of the UN Human Rights Declaration,
see this biography:
"Ms.Gaer is Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute
for the Advancement of Human Rights. Author, speaker,
and activist, she is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the
Andrei Sakharov Foundation, a member of the
International Human Rights Council at the Carter
Center, ...Vice President of the International League
for Human Rights."
According to this JTA report, Gaer praised Madeleine
Albright for her "outstanding human rights record".
Felice Gaer was also a non-governmental member of the
United States delegation to a United Nations Human
Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, where (according
to the Voice of America) she denounced Sudan, saying
the the U.S. "cannot accept those who invoke Islam or
other religions as justification for atrocious human
rights abuses." However, more interesting is this
speech at the Geneva meeting, where she suggested the
UN should no longer investigate prison rapes in the
US: "we would urge the Special Rapporteurs to focus
their attention on countries where the situation is
the most dire and the abuses the most severe."
Michael Gellert
Vice Chairman of the Board at Fanton's New School for
Social Research. Investment manager and Trustee of the
Carnegie Institute.
Gellert is a director of Premier Parks Inc., owner of
the Six Flags and Walibi theme park chains. Also a
director of:
High Speed Access Corp.,
Devon Energy Corporation,
Humana Inc..
Paul Goble
Director of Communications and political commentator
at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Cold War
propaganda transmitters that survived the end of the
Cold War. From their website
"Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as
non-profit, private corporations to broadcast news and
current affairs programs to Eastern European countries
behind the Iron Curtain. The Radio Liberty Committee,
Inc., was created two years later along the same lines
to broadcast to the nations inside the Soviet Union.
Both were funded principally by the U.S. Congress,
through the Central Intelligence Agency, but they also
received some private donations as well. The two
corporations were merged into a single RFE/RL, Inc. in
1975."
It is still funded by the US Government, through
Congressional appropriation.
Bill Green
Former Republican member of Congress, a trustee of the
New School for Social Research (where Fanton is
President), with many other public and business posts:
see the biography at the American Assembly, an
academic/political think-tank.
Stanley Hoffman
A pro-interventionist theorist (of course that means
US intervention, not a Taliban invasion of the US).
Professor at Harvard, see his biography. Note that his
colleagues include Daniel Goldhagen, who openly
advocated occupation of Serbia, to impose a US-style
democracy: see A New Serbia.
Robert James
Also on the Board of Human Rights in China, another
Soros-funded organisation.
Jack Matlock
US Ambassador to the Soviet Union during its collapse,
1987-1991. Author of Autopsy On An Empire: The
American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the
Soviet Union (Random House, 1995).
Member of the large Board of Directors of the Atlantic
Council. The Atlantic Council is more than a pro-NATO
fan club: it supports an expansionist US foreign
policy in general. Note their recent paper (in pdf
format) Beyond Kosovo, a redesign of the Balkans
within the framework of the proposed Stability Pact.
The Atlantic Council list of sponsors is a delight for
corporate-conspiracy theorists. Yes, it is all paid
for by the Rockefeller foundation, the Soros
foundation, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Boeing,
Lockheed, Northrop, Exxon, British Nuclear Fuels, the
US Army and the European Union.
Conspiracy theorists will also be delighted to see
that Matlock attended the 1996 Bilderberg Conference.
Herbert Okun
Career diplomat, former Special Advisor on Yugoslavia
to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Co-Chairman
of the International Conference on the former
Yugoslavia. Member of the Board of the Lawyers
Alliance for World Security (LAWS) and its affiliate
the Committee for National Security (CNS) which gives
this biography:
Ambassador Herbert Okun is the U.S. member and
Vice-President of the International Narcotics Control
Board, and Visiting Lecturer on International Law at
Yale Law School. Previously, he was the Deputy
Chairman on the U.S. delegation at the SALT II
negotiations and led the U.S. delegation in the
trilateral U.S.-U.K.-USSR Talks on the CTBT. From 1991
to 1993 Ambassador Okun was Special Advisor on
Yugoslavia to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Personal
Envoy of the U.N. Secretary General, and Deputy
Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the
former Yugoslavia. He also served as Deputy Permanent
Representative of the United States to the UN from
1985 to 1989 serving on the General Assembly, the
Disarmament Committee and the Committee on Peaceful
Uses of Outer Space. Amb. Okun was also U.S.
Ambassador to the former German Democratic Republic.
He was from 1990-97 Executive Director of the
Financial Services Volunteer Corps, "a non-profit
organization providing voluntary assistance to help
establish free-market financial systems in former
communist countries", see his biography at
International Security Studies at Yale University,
where he is also a board member. This Corps is a de
facto agency of USAID, see how it is listed
country-by-country in their report. Although it is not
relevant to Human Rights Watch, this curriculum vitae
gives a good impression of the kind of international
elite created by such programs.
Okun is also a member emeritus of the board of the
European Institute in Washington, an Atlanticist
lobby. It organises the European-American Policy
Forum, the European-American Congressional Forum, and
the Transatlantic Joint Security Policies Project.
Okun is a special advisor to the Carnegie Commission
on Preventing Deadly Conflict funded by the Carnegie
Corporation. (It links pro-western international elite
figures advocating a formal structure for control of
states by the "international community").
Okun was a member of a Task Force (including Bianca
Jagger and George Soros) on war criminals: see their
report . Although it also demands "UN Sanctions
Against States Harboring Indicted War Criminals" it is
unlikely that the Task Force members meant the man
quoted at the start of their report, President
Clinton.
A curiosity: this human rights supporter is accused of
an attempt to destroy the right to free speech, in his
post at the International Narcotics Control Board: see
A Duty to Censor: U.N. Officials Want to Crack Down on
Drug War Protesters in the libertarian Reason
Magazine.
Jane Olson
Also co-chair of the California section of HRW, see
this biography. One of the few who are simply human
rights activists, although her views are clearly 100%
acceptable to the US Government. She was appointed a
member of the U.S. delegation to the 1991 Conference
on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in
Moscow.
Again note, that US citizens consider it normal to
travel to Europe, to decide on that continents
Security and Cooperation - but there is absolutely no
"Conference on North American Security and
Cooperation", where Europeans arrive to tell Americans
what to do.
She is also a member of the Board of the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation, one of many small globalist groups,
advocating peace and some vague form of world
government.
Barnett Rubin
Academic and Soros-institutes advisor. Director of the
"Center for Preventive Action" at the Council on
Foreign Relations.The center is funded by the US
Government through USIP, and by the Carnegie
Corporation as part of their program Preventing Deadly
Conflict. "Preventive Action" means intervention.
He is a member of the centers South Balkans Working
Group, and edited a 1996 Council on Foreign Relations
study Towards Comprehensive Peace in Southeast Europe:
Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. Rubin is an
Afghanistan specialist, also on the Board of the Asia
division of HRW. He authored and edited several works
on Afghanistan. Rubin apparently has a curious
attitude to the Taliban, seeing them as a bulwark
against Islamic radicalism . See this letter to NPR,
entitled Afghanistan Whitewash:
While the Lyden-Rubin conversation made no mention of
US support for the Taliban, they referred several
times to US "pressure" on the Taliban to now respect
human rights. This is a total white wash which
distorts the historical record beyond recognition.
Rubin is on the Advisory Board of the Soros Foundation
Central Eurasia Project. He is an advisor of the
Forced Migration Project of Soros' Open Society
Institute, and he is also on the Board of the Soros
Humanitarian Fund for Tajikistan. Perhaps most
interesting is that the U.S. Institute of Peace (a de
facto government agency) gave him a grant to research
"formation of a new state system in Central Eurasia".
Barnett Rubin articles on Central Asia
This may be repetitive, but note once again that there
are absolutely no Foundations or Institutes in Central
Asia, which pay people to design "new state systems"
in North America. For people like Rubin "human rights"
mean simply that the US designs the world: at the same
time, the US might accept the Taliban, if it was a
strategic interest. See this article at the Soros
Central Asia site, The Political Economy of War and
Peace in Afghanistan, advocating a de facto colonial
government in Afghanistan financed by oil revenues.
Rubin is also a member of the US State Department
Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. The
Final Report of this Committee also sums up what the
United States can do, when it finds religious freedom
has been infringed. The list begins at "friendly,
persuasive: open an embassy" and ends with "act of
war".
Rubin was also involved in the 1997 New York meeting,
where the United States attempted to create a unified
Yugoslav opposition, with among others Vuk Draskovic.
(The effort failed at the time, and ever since).
Leon Sigal
NOTE: I can find no website matching this info on
"Leon Sigal" to HRW. I assume it is the same person,
although I do not understand why an expert on Asian
issues is on the board for the European division of
HRW.
Consultant to the Social Science Research Council,
member of the Board of Advisors at Globalbeat
Syndicate, part of the New York University Dept of
Journalism. See their article on Lessons From The War
In Kosovo.
From Globalbeat:
He is a former member of the Editorial Board of The
New York Times, where he wrote frequently on nuclear
issues, and is the author of many books and articles
on both international security and media issues.
Sigal authored Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy
with North Korea (Princeton University Press 1998). He
is a Project member of the Committee on Nuclear
Policy.
Malcolm Smith
no information yet
George Soros
From the Public Affairs site, the biography of George
Soros, financier of HRW and of numerous organisations
in eastern Europe with pro-American, pro-market
policies.
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. In
1947 he emigrated to England, where he graduated from
the London School of Economics. While a student in
London, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the
philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence
on his thinking and later on his philanthropic
activities. In 1956 he moved to the United States,
where he began to accumulate a large fortune through
an international investment fund he founded and
managed.
Mr. Soros currently serves as chairman of Soros Fund
Management L.L.C., a private investment management
firm that serves as principal investment advisor to
the Quantum Group of Funds. The Quantum Fund N.V., the
oldest and largest fund within the Quantum Group, is
generally recognized as having the best performance
record of any investment fund in the world in its
twenty-nine-year history.
Mr. Soros established his first foundation, the Open
Society Fund, in New York in 1979 and his first
Eastern European foundation in Hungary in 1984. He now
funds a network of foundations that operate in
thirty-one countries throughout Central and Eastern
Europe, and the former Soviet Union, as well as
southern Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mongolia and the
United States. These foundations are dedicated to
building and maintaining the infrastructure and
institutions of an open society. Mr. Soros has also
founded other major institutions, such as the Central
European University and the International Science
Foundation. In 1994, the foundations in the network
spent a total of approximately $300 million; in 1995,
$350 million; in 1996, $362 million; and in 1997, $428
million. Giving for 1998 is expected to be maintained
at that level.
In addition to many articles on the political and
economic changes in Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union, Mr. Soros is the author of The Alchemy
of Finance, Opening the Soviet System, Underwriting
Democracy, and Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the
Curve.
Mr. Soros has received honorary doctoral degrees from
the New School for Social Research, the University of
Oxford, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale
University. In 1995, the University of Bologna awarded
Mr. Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa,
in recognition of his efforts to promote open
societies throughout the world.
Soros Foundations Network
Open Society Institute Staff Directory
Privatization Project
Open Society Institute Budapest
Donald J. Sutherland
Also on the advisory board of the World Policy
Institute.
Ruti Teitel
Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York Law
School, see his biography. In the last few years he
has specialised in the Constitutions of eastern
European countries, and advised on the new Ukrainian
constitution.
William D. Zabel
George Soros legal advisor, on foundation and charity
law. A estate and family financial lawyer for the rich
at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. His biography lists his
involvement with these Soros Foundations: "Newly
Independent States and the Baltic Republics, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria and Central European University and
Open Society Fund". See this biographical article
originally from the National Law Journal:
When fate knocks, rich ring for Zabel
He is a trustee of Fanton's New School of Social
Research, and member of the Advisory Board of the
World Policy Institute at the New School.
Zabel is a director of the Lawyers Committee for Human
Rights. The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights is one
of the partners in the "Apparel Industry Partnership",
a group set up by the Clinton administration and the
US clothing and footwear industries to defuse
criticism of conditions in their factories. The (not
particularly radical) US trade union federation
refuses to co-operate with it.
Zabel is also on the Board of Doctors of the World,
the USA branch of M�decins du Monde, founded by
Bernard Kouchner in 1980. Kouchner is now the UN
Representative ( the "governor") in Kosovo. Despite
the name, M�decins du Monde is a purely western
organisation, see the affiliate list.
Warren Zimmermann
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia during its break-up,
author of Origins of Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its
Destroyers. A Cold-War career diplomat, long active in
US human rights campaigns against eastern Europe. See
this site for an extreme pro-Bosniac assessment of his
book by Branka Magas, alleging he appeased Milosevic:
"In the event, by pursuing Yugoslavia's unity rather
than supporting Slovenia and Croatia in their demands
for either the country's confederal transformation or
its peaceful dissolution, the United States helped
ensure its violent break-up". (I think it is logically
consistent with US values and interests, that the US
supported one policy around 1990 and another in
Kosovo. The real problem is that so many people in
Europe expect the US to design their states and write
their Constitutions. It is because of this attitude,
that people like Zimmermann, and organisations like
HRW, can flourish) Zimmermann is now a professor of
Diplomacy at Columbia University. If you think the
"amoral diplomat" is a stereotype, look at his
Contemporary Diplomacy course. This is his assignment
for the young future diplomats:
Imagine that you are a member of Secretary Albright's
Policy Planning Staff. She has asked you to write a
strategy paper for one of the following diplomatic
challenges:
--Dealing with NATO expansion and with the countries
affected;
--Crafting a more energetic and assertive US approach
to the Israeli-PLO deadlock;
--Raising the American profile in sub-Saharan Africa;
--Developing a US initiative to improve relations with
Cuba;
--Forging an American approach to Central Asia and its
energy wealth;
--Making better use of the UN and other multilateral
organizations like OSCE;
--Weighing the relative priorities between pursuing
human rights
and keeping open lucrative economic opportunities;
--Increasing interest in, and support for, US foreign
policy among the American people.
With Barnett Rubin, Zimmermann is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Forced Migration Project at
Soros Open Society Institute.
With Felice Gaer, Zimmermann is also on the Board of
the quasi-commercial International Dispute Resolution
Associates. (Peacemaking has become big business, but
IDR is also funded by the US Government through the
USIP).
He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs
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IL MURO DI KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
L'UNMIK si prepara a costruire un bel muro che separi la parte serba
dalla parte albanese di Kosovska Mitrovica. Sara' questo uno dei
risultati piu' eclatanti dello sforzo "umanitario" profuso
dall'Occidente nella regione balcanica. Dopo avere devastato l'area
riconoscendo come soggetti politici tutti i micronazionalismi, l'ONU
sancira' cosi' anche simbolicamente il segregazionismo etnico nella
provincia del Kosmet, dove fino al 1999 le varie nazionalita' autoctone
vivevano mischiate fra di loro.
UNMIK PLANS DIVIDING WALL IN KOSOVO TOWN
PRISTINA, May 31 (FoNet) UNMIK has confirmed plans for a
"dividing wall" in the conflict-ridden Kosovo town of Kosovska
Mitrovica.
UNMIK Spokeswoman Susan Manuel denied today that the wall was intended
to divide the town, commenting, "It won't be a Berlin wall," no matter
how it looks.
K-For Spokesman Roy Brown said that a decision had not yet been
reached but suggested that the initiative could help to diffuse tension
in the town.
Brown explained that the motive behind building a wall was to
enable freedom of movement and allow police to monitor the situation
either side.
Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Faruk Spahija reacted angrily to the plans.
The mayor described the idea as "thoughtless," in a letter to
UNMIK Head Hans Haekkerup, Deputy Head Gerhard Fischer and K-For
Commander Thorstein Skiaker.
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L'UNMIK si prepara a costruire un bel muro che separi la parte serba
dalla parte albanese di Kosovska Mitrovica. Sara' questo uno dei
risultati piu' eclatanti dello sforzo "umanitario" profuso
dall'Occidente nella regione balcanica. Dopo avere devastato l'area
riconoscendo come soggetti politici tutti i micronazionalismi, l'ONU
sancira' cosi' anche simbolicamente il segregazionismo etnico nella
provincia del Kosmet, dove fino al 1999 le varie nazionalita' autoctone
vivevano mischiate fra di loro.
UNMIK PLANS DIVIDING WALL IN KOSOVO TOWN
PRISTINA, May 31 (FoNet) UNMIK has confirmed plans for a
"dividing wall" in the conflict-ridden Kosovo town of Kosovska
Mitrovica.
UNMIK Spokeswoman Susan Manuel denied today that the wall was intended
to divide the town, commenting, "It won't be a Berlin wall," no matter
how it looks.
K-For Spokesman Roy Brown said that a decision had not yet been
reached but suggested that the initiative could help to diffuse tension
in the town.
Brown explained that the motive behind building a wall was to
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Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Faruk Spahija reacted angrily to the plans.
The mayor described the idea as "thoughtless," in a letter to
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COME LA METTIAMO?
Ibrahim Rugova, da piu' di dieci anni beniamino kosovaro dei "pacifisti"
e di tutto lo spettro politico italiano, da Rifondazione alle destre
passando per il Vaticano e per il "Manifesto", ripete tuttora
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ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER INSISTS ON INDEPENDENCE OF KOSOVO
VIENNA, May 25 (Tanjug) Democratic Alliance of Kosovo leader
Ibrahim Rugova again insisted, in an interview to the Vienna daily
Kurier that appeared Friday, on the independence of Kosovo.
"I am insisting that Kosovo be recognized as an independent state
as soon as possible," Rugova said, pointing out that "then the situation
in the entire region would calm down, although the international
community has a different stand."
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return to Kosovo. "That is the past, and what some people in Belgrade
think does not concern me at all," he said.
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in the improvement of the conditions of life of those Serbs who are
already in the province."
RUGOVA REITERATES INDEPENDENCE AMBITIONS
VIENNA, May 31 (B92) Moderate Albanian political leader Ibrahim
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Kosovo is independence."
Rugova was part of a multiethnic delegation of Kosovo's Temporary
Administrative Council invited to address the session by OSCE Mission in
Kosovo head Daan Everts.
Rada Trajkovic, the only Serb member of the delegation said that
Kosovo Serbs had not yet decided whether to participate in the November
elections but confirmed they would register.
Rugova and fellow Albanian representatives Ramush Haradinaj and
Hashim Thaqi said that the elections recently confirmed by UNMIK would
speed up progress towards independence and then EU integration.
Trajkovic told those present that "the process of killing and
ethnic cleansing against Serbs has not yet been stopped," adding that
since the arrival of international peacekeepers, 250,000 Serbs have been
expelled, over 1,000 killed and 1,300 abducted.
In reply, Rugova claimed that prior to the war only 200,000 Serbs
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OSCE Mission in Kosovo head Daan Everts told the council that the
constitutional framework for the province would guarantee all national
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Ibrahim Rugova, da piu' di dieci anni beniamino kosovaro dei "pacifisti"
e di tutto lo spettro politico italiano, da Rifondazione alle destre
passando per il Vaticano e per il "Manifesto", ripete tuttora
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al personale OSCE.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER INSISTS ON INDEPENDENCE OF KOSOVO
VIENNA, May 25 (Tanjug) Democratic Alliance of Kosovo leader
Ibrahim Rugova again insisted, in an interview to the Vienna daily
Kurier that appeared Friday, on the independence of Kosovo.
"I am insisting that Kosovo be recognized as an independent state
as soon as possible," Rugova said, pointing out that "then the situation
in the entire region would calm down, although the international
community has a different stand."
He said he was confident that the Serbian authorities will never
return to Kosovo. "That is the past, and what some people in Belgrade
think does not concern me at all," he said.
The ethnic Albanian leader avoided answering whether Serbian
refugees will be able to return to Kosovo, saying that he "is interested
in the improvement of the conditions of life of those Serbs who are
already in the province."
RUGOVA REITERATES INDEPENDENCE AMBITIONS
VIENNA, May 31 (B92) Moderate Albanian political leader Ibrahim
Rugova told an OSCE Permanent Council Session today, "The future of
Kosovo is independence."
Rugova was part of a multiethnic delegation of Kosovo's Temporary
Administrative Council invited to address the session by OSCE Mission in
Kosovo head Daan Everts.
Rada Trajkovic, the only Serb member of the delegation said that
Kosovo Serbs had not yet decided whether to participate in the November
elections but confirmed they would register.
Rugova and fellow Albanian representatives Ramush Haradinaj and
Hashim Thaqi said that the elections recently confirmed by UNMIK would
speed up progress towards independence and then EU integration.
Trajkovic told those present that "the process of killing and
ethnic cleansing against Serbs has not yet been stopped," adding that
since the arrival of international peacekeepers, 250,000 Serbs have been
expelled, over 1,000 killed and 1,300 abducted.
In reply, Rugova claimed that prior to the war only 200,000 Serbs
lived in the province and the rest were part of the Belgrade
authorities.
OSCE Mission in Kosovo head Daan Everts told the council that the
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