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THE HAGUE COURT'S INDICTMENT OF MILOSEVIC UNLAWFUL, FATAL KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Friday he saw no reason for cooperation with the war
crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and dismissed its indictment of
Slobodan Milosevic as unlawful and even fatal.
Speaking for Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), Kostunica
said that, of all the problems and troubles facing Yugoslavia, he hardly
thought that the Haguebased tribunal should come "first on the list" for
consideration.
He opined that the tribunal would within some time and for many
reasons become history, as the result of the way in which it had worked,
and because its existence was being called in question even from inside.
He noted that, some months ago, the question had been broached
whether those responsible for crimes committed in Yugoslavia at the time of
NATO's air strikes could be tried at the Hague.
He explained that an international organisation, Human Rights
Watch, had clearly identified a number of civilian killings in Yugoslavia
"that could be brought home to parts of the NATO structures.
"When War Crimes Court Prosecutor Carla del Ponte tells you that
there is no ground for criminal prosecution in this case, then the
Prosecutor herself calls in question the entire Court", he said,
The added that similar instances of the court itself calling in
question its legitimity were numerous.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT'S CHAMBER OF REPUBLICS BEGINS CONSTITUTIVE SESSION
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The constitutive session of the
Chamber of Republics of the Yugoslav parliament began in Belgrade on
Saturday afternoon with the task of verifying the mandates of the new MPs.
The oldest MP on the new composition, Socialist People's Party
(SNP) of Montenegro deputy Mihailo Cetkovic opened the session, which was
attended by outgoing Chamber President Srdja Bozovic.
The Chamber set up a Verification Committee which should make a
report which will serve as the basis for the Chamber's verification of the
new mandates. The upper house will resume work after a 20minute break.
It is expected that the lower house, the Chamber of Citizens, will
also begin a constitutive session this evening.
After the separate sessions end work, the chambers will hold a
joint session at which newly elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
will be sworn in.
YUGOSLAV ARMY SAYS CONDITIONS MET FOR WORKING WITH NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army Command said late
on Friday the announcement of the final results of Yugoslavia's September
24 presidential election "has created the legal conditions for establishing
functional relations with the new Yugoslav president".
The Yugoslav Constitutional Court announced on October 6 that
Vojislav Kostunica won the September 24 presidential vote, which created
the necessary legal conditions for establishing functional relations with
the new president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
With its action in connection with recognising the new president
of the F.R.Y., the Yugoslav Army has proven that it is consistent on its
publicly proclaimed positions, the Army statement said.
"Members of the Army of Yugoslavia consistently adhere to all
constitutional provisions and laws which regulate the question of military
defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia is united and unwavering in its efforts to
remain a cohesive force in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia respects the will of the people expressed
in the free and democratic elections, and the procedures and solutions
resulting from the specific features of the multiparty system.
"The Army of Yugoslavia defends and shall continue to defend the
interests of the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as
the independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional
system of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia shall not change its attitude to the
institution of president of Yugoslavia in the capacity as supreme commander
of the armed forces, or to any other competent institutions of state
administration.
"The Army of Yugoslavia protects the borders of the federation and
remains a factor of stability and peace on the territory of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia makes no change in its proclaimed
positions, and remains consistent in its efforts to discharge its defence
function.
"After the inauguration of the presidentelect, the military
leadership shall, as before, discharge its constitutional obligations
professionally and honourably, and shall do everything to continue, with
the help of state institutions, the process of its own reorganisation and
modernisation", the statement said.
MONTENEGRIN PREMIER VOWS TO SAFEGUARD STATE, EQUALITY
PODGORICA, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's Premier has said he
believes that Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica will keep his
election promise and work for a democratic accord between the Yugoslav
federal units Serbia and Montenegro.
Filip Vujanovic is quoted by Podgorica's Pobjeda newspaper on
Saturday as saying for BosniaHerzegovina independent television that
Montenegro wants to protect its statehood, the autonomy of the Montenegrin
nation and the equality of its people.
Vujanovic added he expected Kostunica to "carry out in
communication with Montenegro what was agreed at Sveti Stefan (ahead of
Sept. 24 polls) in a meeting between Montenegro's ruling coalition
(Democratic Party of Socialists, National Party, Social Democratic Party)
and the Serbian opposition".
E.U. OFFICIAL: VACANT SEAT ON STABILITY PACT WAITING FOR YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 7 (Tanjug) European Union (E.U.) coordinator for
implementing the Pact on the stabilization of southeastern Europe Bodo
Hombach of Germany arrived on a twoday visit to Macedonia on Saturday and
said in Skopje that he would submit concrete proposals on aid for
Yugoslavia to the E.U. Council of Ministers on Monday.
The sanctions against Yugoslavia will be lifted already on Monday,
Hombach confirmed in a talk with reporters after today's meeting in Skopje
with Prime Minister Ljupco Georgievski.
"A vacant seat is waiting for Yugoslavia at the Pact for
stability," he said, as well as in other European institutions from which
it has been absent for years.
Hombach underscored that democratic Yugoslavia has serious tasks
ahead, but that Europe will help it. This will not be done to the detriment
of other countries of southeastern Europe, he added, which have joined the
Pact for stability and which also need help.
Plans about financial assistance for Serbia already exist, and the
E.U. and financial institutions will join in their realization, Hombach said.
Georgievski confirmed to reporters that the main subject at
today's talks with Hombach had been aid to Yugoslavia and its inclusion in
European integration processes.
Hombach will be received by Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
in Ohrid on Sunday.
YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA, MILOSEVIC MEET
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late of Friday he had met earlier in the day with his
predecessor Slobodan Milosevic.
"The meeting was important from the point of view of normal
relations between the incoming and outgoing presidents", Kostunica told
Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), describing as "positive that the
communication took place".
The meeting shows that the transfer of power will be peaceful,
according to Kostunica, who said he had explained to Milosevic that "power,
once lost, is not lost forever".
He said Milosevic had not congratulated him on his victory, however.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC CONGRATULATES SUCCESSOR KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic said late on Friday he had received official information that
challenger Vojislav Kostunica had won the September 24 presidential
election, and congratulated him on his victory.
The ruling was made by the Yugoslav Constitutional Court, which is
competent under the Constitution to decide on such matters, and the ruling
must be respected, Milosevic said, speaking for YuInfo television.
"I wish to thank all those who placed their trust in me and voted
for me in this election, but I thank also all those who did not vote for
me, because they have lifted from my shoulders a heavy burden of
responsibility that has been weighing me down for ten years.
"As for my party, it will be a very powerful opposition force. I
have always said that a party can never show its strength and its qualities
unless it is in opposition for a while, because the time in opposition
allows it to unburden itself of the opportunists.
"I am sure that the time ahead will be of great use in this
respect both to the Socialist Party of Serbia and to the Yugoslav Left, and
I am sure that it will strengthen them so greatly as to allow them to win
the next election very convincingly.
"Because of the feeling of great relief at the removal of the huge
burden of responsibility that I have carried for a full decade, I plan to
take a short rest, to spend more time with my family, especially with my
grandson Marko.
"Afterwards, I shall continue, first of all, to strengthen my
party so that it should, together with the forces that stand with it, in
the life of Yugoslav society, make a great contribution to the country's
further development, as they had done at the time of national defence, of
postaggression reconstruction and now, in these early development steps,
which have been so successful.
"I congratulate Mr Kostunica on his electoral victory and wish all
people of Yugoslavia success in the term of office of the new president",
Milosevic said.
SERBIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD SESSION MONDAY
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug). Serbian parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic has convened for Monday the first meeting of the second regular
parliament session, the parliamentary press service said.
The agenda includes:
A draft parliamentary statement on the election of Yugoslavia's
president proposed by the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO),
A proposal to create a parliamentary inquiry board to investigate
the death of four high SPO officials on October. 3 last year, presented by
SPO,
A noconfidence motion for Serbian Minister of the Interior Vlajko
Stojiljkovic presented by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS),
A proposal to abrogate the law on public information presented by
SRS,
A bill on Serbia's RadioTelevision proposed by SRS,
A bill on creating a public publishing and broadcasting company
Politika AD presented by SRS,
A bill on privatization presented by SRS.
YUGOSLAV NATIONAL BANK GOVERNOR HALTS
SELLING HARD CURRENCY AND CREDITS FROM PRIMARY ISSUE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslav National Bank (NBJ)
Governor Dusan Vlatkovic sent a letter to Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica on Friday to inform him that he has taken all the necessary
measures to ensure the functioning of NBJ, and that he has halted the
selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose from
primary issue until further notice, a statement issued by the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) said on Friday.
Vlatkovic said in the letter that he has taken all measures in
conformity with his legal and constitutional prerogatives in order to
ensure that NBJ functions are carried out. He added that keeping in mind
the new situation in the country and the NBJ prerogatives, he was halting
the selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose
from primary issue until further notice.
He noted that he would submit a report on the NBJ activities to
the Yugoslav president and parliament, and added that if the NBJ or his own
work were unsatisfactory, he would offer his resignation, the statement says.
The statement was issued after Vlatkovic met Miroljub Labus and
Dusan Mihajlovic, envoys of President Kostunica.
MONTENEGRIN DJUKANOVIC PLEASED, NOT EUPHORIC AT YUGOSLAV POWER CHANGE
NIKSIC, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic
said late on Friday that this Yugoslav republic "is today prepared to
discuss each separate specific solution for surmounting problems" in
relations with the other Yugoslav republic, Serbia.
Djukanovic said in Niksic, central Montenegro, that Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica could be a partner in the talks only as
"a representative of new democratic thought in Serbia", not in his capacity
as Yugoslav president.
Djukanovic went on to comment on Montenegro's attitude to the
Supreme Defence Council and the Army of Yugoslavia. He said Montenegro was
"very much interested in a transitional Defence Council" being constituted
as soon as possible and "the Yugoslav army being placed under civilian
administration as soon as possible, to avoid the possibility of its misuse".
Commenting on the power transfer in Belgrade, he said this was "no
cause for euphoria in Montenegro, but it is a cause for satisfaction,
because this outcome in Serbia has removed the threat of war to Montenegro".
Speaking about Yugoslavia's outgoing Prime Minister Momir
Bulatovic, a Montenegrin, Djukanovic said Montenegro had learned from the
example of Bulatovic that "a traitor must never again hold the helm of
Montenegro."
MILOSEVIC'S PLACE IS NO LONGER IN SERBIA MONTENEGRIN PEOPLE'S PARTY
PODGORICA, October 6 (Tanjug) President of the Montenegrin
People's Party (NSCG), one of the parties in the ruling coalition in
Montenegro, Dragan Soc said Friday that Serbia has shown its true,
historic, face by legalizing the victory of Vojislav Kostunica in the
presidential election. This has paved the way for putting the relations
between Serbia and Montenegro in order in a peaceful, patient and
democratic manner, and for their full integration into a democratic
community, Soc said.
MILOSEVIC INTENDS TO PLAY IMPORTANT POLITICAL ROLE IVANOV
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
said that the outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had told him
he intended to continue playing an important role in Yugoslavia's political
life as the leader of the largest political party in the country.
Asked at a press conference at the Russian embassy in Belgrade
whether Milosevic's statement meant a recognition of Kostunica's victory,
Ivanov said he was only reporting what he had heard and that it was not up
to him to interpret what Milosevic had meant.
The political forces in Yugoslavia are able to resolve the present
difficulties by themselves and need no mediators, Ivanov said.
Ivanov noted that he met Friday with Yugoslav Presidentelect
Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic and Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, and
that he had paid a courtesy visit to Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian
Orthodox Church.
Ivanov did not wish to say where his meeting with Milosevic was held.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN REACTIONS
COUNCIL OF EUROPE MINISTERS SUPPORT YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
ROME, October 7 (Tanjug) The Council of Europe's committee of
foreign ministers on Friday gave full support to Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica.
Committee Chairman Lamberto Dini of Italy said the Committee fully
supported actions being taken by PresidentElect Kostunica.
The committee invited the civilian and military authorities in
Yugoslavia to cooperate in the establishment of the new administration
elected in the polls of September 24, Dini added.
The Council of Europe committee of foreign ministers invited
Yugoslavia to join the European family of nations, and expressed
willingness to consider new prospects of cooperation between the European
Council and that country.
EU TO LIFT OIL EMBARGO AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ON MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The foreign ministers of the
European Union memberstates will, at their Monday session in Luxemburg,
lift the oil embargo against Yugoslavia and definitely lift the ban on
civilian air traffic.
EU spokesman said in Brussels that there were no differences among
the ministers in regard to these two issues and that a decision by
consensus was expected.
The European Commission (EC) will submit to the ministerial
council meeting in Luxemburg an official proposal for the lifting of the
oil embargo, imposed on Yugoslavia last year over the crisis in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province.
If the ministers agree, the embargo will be lifted within a few
days of the official announcement of the decision.
The same procedure applies to the complete lifting of the ban on
civilian flights, which was suspended last April.
As for the lifting of other sanctions the financial embargo and
the ban on granting visas to a number of individuals close to the Slobodan
Milosevic's regime considerable differences exist among EU members. Their
lifting will consequently be postponed until the memberstates reach agreement.
The arms embargo will remain in force, as it is under the
authority of the UN, not the EU.
Contacts with Belgrade will be resumed shortly and an exchange of
highlevel delegations is expected, EU sources said.
The EC has endorsed the proposal that a mission should travel to
Belgrade as soon as possible to assess Serbia's needs of funding, the EC
spokesman said Friday. The mission will comprise representatives of
the EU and several international organizations.
In an earlier decision, the sum of 240 million euros was earmarked
for aid to Yugoslavia from the EU budget. The funds should be released
after the EU and european Parliament take a decision to that effect on the
basis of the mission's report.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAVIA'S NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) British Prime Minister Tony Blair
addressed on Friday a message of congratulations to Yugoslavia's newly
elected president Vojislav Kostunica.
"I welcome the prospect of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
reentering the European mainstream and I will lend my full support to that
goal. As a starting point, I expect the European Union to move quickly to
respond to your call for a lifting of sanctions", Blair said in the message
a copy of which was made available to Tanjug.
SCHUESSEL: WE ARE OBLIGED TO HELP YUGOSLAVIA
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) We are obliged to help Yugoslavia in
normalizing the situation, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said in
Zagreb on Friday, saying he was certain that Slobodan Milosevic was toppled
and that the new Yugoslav president would be sworn in.
After talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan, Schuessel
appealed for restraint from violence in Yugoslavia. He said he hoped
Milosevic would not resort to force in order to stay in power.
Racan said Croatia was interested in its neighbors being
democratic countries and that it supports the creation of a democratic
Serbia. Croatia will confirm this interest through its policy, he said.
During today's visit to Croatia, Schuessel is to meet with
President Stjepan Mesic and parliament President Zlatko Tomcic.
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER: ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
ROME, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union sanctions against
Yugoslavia will be lifted gradually as of Monday, October. 9, Italian Prime
Minister Giuliano Amato said on Friday.
The EU ministers will meet in Luxemburg on Monday and will first
lift the oil embargo. This will be followed by the lifting of the financial
sanctions and by preparations for closer ties and cooperation between
Yugoslavia and Europe, Amato said.
The election of Vojislav Kostunica as president of Yugoslavia has
drastically changed the overall picture and prospects of relations between
the EU and Yugoslavia, Amato said.
MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KOSTUNICA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
said on Friday in Bitolj, south Macedonia, that he congratulates newly
elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, the new government, all the
democratic opposition and the Yugoslav people on their victory.
According to the statement issued in his cabinet in Skopje, the
historical events in Yugoslavia have become obvious and the Yugoslav
people's wish for freedom and democracy was stronger than all attempts at
deceiving the will of the people.
Trajkovski added that he wants a peaceful transition of power in
Yugoslavia and its reintegration into Europe. He also wants to develop
friendly ties between Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
The new realities open vast possibilities for future development
and the improvement of the bilateral friendly relations between the two
states and their peoples, said Trajkovski.
BOSNIAHERZEGOVINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SUPPORTS KOSTUNICA
SARAJEVO, October 6 (Tanjug) The Foreign Ministry of Bosnia and
Herzegovina said in Sarajevo on Friday that the country "fully supports the
newlyelected president of FR Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, and expects
the legal procedure of his appointment satisifed."
"About the authorities in Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina will
judge by their acts and their relationship towards Bosnia and Herzegovina,"
the statement said and also that it expected from the new authorities to
comply with the Dayton peace agreement and the decisions of other
international conferences about the situation in the region and the
organization of relations between BosniaHerzegovina and FR Yugoslavia.
In that respect Bosnia and Herzegovina is ready to immediately
establish diplomatic relations with FR Yugoslavia without any conditions as
provided by the Dayton agreement and the conclusions of the international
conference in Sintra.
The Foreign Ministry also proposed that soon after the formation
of the new government in Belgrade, an exchange of visits takes place
between the two countries on the ministerial level.
In connection with the situation in FR Yugoslavia, the foreign
minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jadranko Prlic, sent on Friday a
message to Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou in which he made the
initiative that in the next few days be organized a meeting of the
representatives of countries neighbouring FR Yugoslavia to extend support
to the new authorities in Belgrade and review the situation that arose
after the elections in that country the statement said.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITIES BEGIN TO CREATE YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Thursday he had taken his first steps with the
creation of a new democratic authority in Serbia, which the people had
voted into power on September 24. Kostunica said on Serbian state Radio and
Television (RTS) he was referring to the constituting of the Yugoslav
federal parliament, whose deputies were assembling, and to the City
Council, which had been constituted and would make sure all municipal
services were functioning properly, to the wellbeing of the Belgraders.
Expressing pleasure that the vision of Serbia he had cherished for
years was coming to pass, he said this was of a normal democratically
organised state, without internal tension, without disputes, with a normal
relationship between the government and opposition.
"The worst of it is that we have for years lived in a country
where there has been no proper communication between those representing the
government and those representing the opposition, as though it had been
easier to talk to the whole world, as though, in the case of Slobodan
Milosevic, it had been easier to negotiate at Dayton, Ohio, to reach
accords with Richard Holbrooke, like the one of October. 13, 1998, as
though it had been easier to agree to the Kumanovo capitulation, consent to
the deployment of foreign troops to Kosovo, while at the same time
demonstrating total incapacity with a section of one's own nation that
thought differently", Kostunica said.
Stressing that he is "president of state, president of all people,
one who must rise above party interests and reconcile all interests,"
Kostnica said there had been none of this in this country and that the
president of Yugoslavia had represented neither all the people, nor both
federal units.
He stressed that democracy must be the foundation of a state,
which was the image that Serbia was beginning to project, and added that
the RTS would be open both to the positions of those who won the elections
and to all other voices in Serbia.
People belonging to the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the
Yugoslav Left (JUL), the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), must be given space
on state television, which must not serve the interests of one party, but
reflect the mood of the people, he said.
He urged a democratic state, without internal tension, with
normalised relations with other states, noting that this would not be easy
because "among those countries there are those that have gravely sinned
against us."
"These are countries that bombed Yugoslavia last year, which is a
crime and destruction that we cannot forgive, but we cannot live out of the
world, we must adjust to it, while placing high value on our national
dignity and national interests", he said.
He said it was to be expected that the European Union, when it
meets on Monday, will lift sanctions against Yugoslavia, because the
country has set out down the road of democracy.
Lifting of the sanctions and resumption of relations with
international financial institutions will make it possible for the money
that has been draining out of the country to start flowing back in, where
the role of the expatriates interested in investing in the homeland will be
important, according to Kostunica.
"The country's recovery after the lifting of the sanctions will be
swift, because the circumstances we have been living in have been very
difficult", he said, adding that Yugoslavia would immediately be
incorporated in the Southeast Europe Stabilisation Pact, as a way for the
NATO states to repay, in one form, some of the damage they have caused.
Kostunica described as positive the reconstruction of
NATOdestroyed facilities, adding, however, that this has not been the
achievement of one party, but of the people.
He announced a more radical, more widespread reconstruction of the
country, whose chief characteristic would be that it would not be the feat
of any one party.
There must be no revanchism, he reiterated, stressing that he had
given his word there would be no retaliation, and that the people must
learn to live with political differences.
He said many details in the work of the Haguebased tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia made it a shameful institution, adding it was a
political rather than a legal institutions, and in fact not a court at all.
This is not an international, but an American court, under the
control of the U.S. Administration, a weapon for achieving its influence in
this region, according to Kostunica.
He said there could be no cooperation with the Hague court in the
matter of extradition of Yugoslav citizens.
He said that Yugoslavia's new premier must be designated in line
with the Constitution, which dictates that, when the president is from one
federal unit, the prime minister must be from the other.
In this case, the post must be offered to the strongest party in
Montenegro, which is the Socialist People's Party (SNP), and to the person
capable of reconciling the two confronted halves of Montenegro, Kostunica
explained.
He said he would work towards calling new free elections for the
federal parliament within a year and a half, and for drawing up very soon a
new Constitution acceptable to both Yugoslav federal units Serbia and
Montenegro.
KOSTUNICA: SERBIA IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE ITS FREEDOM BY ITSELF
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Presidentelect Vojislav
Kostunica told a crowd of several hundred thousand people in central
Belgrade Thursday evening that he was proud to see the people of Serbia
show their trust in him by electing him president of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia.
Kostunica said he won the election thanks to the fundamental
principles of democracy, in which people exercise their free will, even
under very difficult circumstances in which the Sep. 24 elections were held.
He underlined that the claims of the leftist coalition that the
new authorities were a NATO spearhead were entirely false.
"We need neither Moscow nor Washington. Serbia is able to achieve
its freedom by itself, and your presence here in such numbers is proof of
this", he said.
Recalling that he had been saying at all preelection rallies
throughout Serbia that peace must prevail in Serbia and in its relations
with Montenegro, Kostunica promised that Serbia would be ruled by law only
and that there would be no more violence or theft.
"We shall defend Serbia with our own weapons with truth against
their lies, with nonviolence against their use of force", Kostunica said in
reference to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia is the heart and
the shield of Europe, it is the most European part of Europe, but without
Slobodan Milosevic, he stressed.
"There must be no more sanctions against this country", Kostunica
said.
Responding to cries from the crowd calling for a march on Dedinje,
elite residential district of Belgrade where Milosevic has his residence,
Kostunica resolutely said: "We shall not march on Dedinje, it is not our
place. We are here at the parliament, a true system institution where the
people have brought us and where we shall fight our battles".
Kostunica then urged all those present to stay together and
expressed hope that more people would come to the area between the three
parliaments Yugoslav, Serbian and Belgrade to peacefully defend the
election victory.
G17PLUS APPEALS FOR RETURN OF ARMS TAKEN FROM POLICE
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). The independent thinktank G17plus
urged Thursday evening all persons who have taken arms from police stations
to bring them to the Belgrade city council.
G17plus Coordinator Predrag Markovic visited Tanjug in the evening
and asked the agency to carry the appeal, in order to prevent any unwanted
incidents.
Markovic also urged people celebrating in the streets not to loot
shops or damage any other property.
YUGOSLAVIA SERBIA MINERS
SERBIAN COALMINERS END STRIKE
LAZAREVAC, October 5 (Tanjug). The miners of the openpit coal mine
Kolubara will not allow the Obrenovac thermoelectric power plant near
Belgrade to stop, member of the strike committee Radoslav Jovanovic told
Tanjug Thursday evening.
The Obrenovac plant will have enough coal for minimum power
generation tomorrow (Friday) Jovanovic said.
Jovanovic was unable to say when the plant will be able to operate
at full capacity, but noted that the strike committee will meet early
Friday to discuss details on resuming production at full capacity.
Underlining that the only demand of the miners was the recognition
of the voters' will at the Sep. 24 presidential and federal elections,
Jovanovic said that all miners were present at their jobs and that the
equipment stood ready to be used.
The Kolubara miners went on strike one week ago, and power cuts
started throughout Serbia two days later.
YUGOSLAVIA - ARMY, POLICE
YUGOSLAV ARMY CONTINUES REGULAR ACTIVITIES
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army's Combined Chiefs
of Staff ended session early on Friday without releasing a statement, which
sources close to the army command interpret as indicating that the army
will remain committed to its often repeated position that it will act
within its constitutional competence.
TANJUG learns that the army will act only in case of direct
threats to military facilities, personnel and materiel.
According to TANJUG correspondents' reports, no troop movements
have been noticed in any part of the country. According to them, the army
is on Friday morning engaged on its regular duties, training and securing
of the state borders.
BELGRADE POLICE CHIEF SAYS POLICE WILL NOT INTERVENE AGAINST PEOPLE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Belgrade Police Chief Branko Djuric
has offered assurances to the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) that
the police will not intervene against people demonstrating in the streets
of the capital.
According to sources close to DOS, Djuric said the security forces
would intervene only in case of drastic disruptions of public law and order
and threats to property.
E.U.'S SOLANA SAYS ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union will start
lifting sanctions against Yugoslavia as of Monday, when the foreign
ministers of the fifteen E.U. nations are meeting in Luxemburg, according
to E.U. chief foreign policy representative Javier Solana.
Solana told BBC Radio the ministerial meeting was called for
Monday, and the lifting of the sanctions would begin as of that day. He
explained this was a clear signal of a willingness to open new relations
with democratic Yugoslavia, adding the lifting of the sanctions was a
matter of days.
French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, whose country holds the
E.U. rotating presidency, said late Thursday he would be setting in motion
the necessary procedure for the decision to lift the sanctions to be made
on Monday.
FISCHER SUPPORTS FRANCE'S PROPOSAL FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
BERLIN, October 6 (Tanjug) German Foreign Minister Joseph Fischer
said in Berlin on Friday that Germany supports France's proposal that in
Luxembourg on Monday be discussed the speedy lifting of sanctions against
Serbia.
"Serbia must be accepted with wide open hands into the family of
European countries, because its people said so clearly NO to dictatorship,"
Fischer said.
Fischer repeated on Friday he hoped that, just as 11 years ago in
Eastern Germany, the peaceful revolution in Belgrade will also be conducted
without bloodshed.
The German news agency DPA said in that connection it seemed that
will be case, and carried as urgent a statement to Tanjug by an unnamed
source in the Yugoslav Army that the army had no intention to prevent the
implementation of the will of citizens of Yugoslavia.
CROATIA FOLLOWS YUGOSLAV CHANGES WITH APPROVAL
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) Croatia, where Belgrade developments
have received unprecedented publicity, is following with approval the
political changes in Yugoslavia and recognises the victory of Vojislav
Kostunica in September 24 presidential election.
Commenting on the Belgrade developments, Croatian President
Stjepan Mesic said that "the events rocking Serbia, where the people, led
by the opposition, have started dismantling the institutions of the regime,
were to be expected."
Mesic said the Yugoslav situation could resolve itself also in the
worst possible way, and that whether or not the "Romanian scenario" is
acted out would depend, in his view, on the army.
He believes it would be "best for Milosevic to go, and for the
winners of the elections to offer a solution to the Serbian people".
The Croatian government, too, has made itself heard in connection
with the Yugoslav developments, expressing conviction that the developments
signal "the end of the undemocratic regime of Slobodan Milosevic" and the
beginning of a normalisation in Serbia.
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS DEMOCRATIC CHANGES IN YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Democracy won a victory in Yugoslavia
on Thursday, according to Macedonia's foreign minister on Friday.
In a brief statement for state television, Aleksandar Dimitrov
said Macedonia had been urging a democratic settlement of all problems in
Serbia and Yugoslavia, which was what happened on Thursday.
The most important thing now was to keep the peace and avoid
further bloodshed, he added.
According to local media, President Boris Trajkovski has launched
an initiative for heads of state of Southeast Europe to sign a declaration
supporting Kostunica's electoral victory.
Trajkovski explained Macedonia was acting in its capacity as
president of an association of Southeast European nations.
According to sources in Skopje, all Southeast European nations
have upheld Trajkovski's initiative, with the exception of the Romanian
government, which has not responded.
ALBANIA DOES NOT CHANGE POSITION ON SERBIAN KOSOVO PROVINCE
LONDON, October 6 (Tanjug) Albania's foreign minister said on
Friday that Albania would not be changing its position on the Kosovo issue
in the wake of the electoral victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS).
Pascal Milo told the BBC the issue of Kosovo was vitally important
to Albanians, and that Tirana would not be changing its position on it.
Since the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244 provides for
giving Kosovo a wide autonomy, Milo urges that Albanians in the province be
allowed to decide about their status in a referendum.
He went on to say he believed that democratic Serbia would change
its attitude to Kosovo and hoped that Vojislav Kostunica, despite being a
nationalist, would be realistic and understand that Kosovo was a closed
chapter to Serbia now.
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BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Friday he saw no reason for cooperation with the war
crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and dismissed its indictment of
Slobodan Milosevic as unlawful and even fatal.
Speaking for Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), Kostunica
said that, of all the problems and troubles facing Yugoslavia, he hardly
thought that the Haguebased tribunal should come "first on the list" for
consideration.
He opined that the tribunal would within some time and for many
reasons become history, as the result of the way in which it had worked,
and because its existence was being called in question even from inside.
He noted that, some months ago, the question had been broached
whether those responsible for crimes committed in Yugoslavia at the time of
NATO's air strikes could be tried at the Hague.
He explained that an international organisation, Human Rights
Watch, had clearly identified a number of civilian killings in Yugoslavia
"that could be brought home to parts of the NATO structures.
"When War Crimes Court Prosecutor Carla del Ponte tells you that
there is no ground for criminal prosecution in this case, then the
Prosecutor herself calls in question the entire Court", he said,
The added that similar instances of the court itself calling in
question its legitimity were numerous.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT'S CHAMBER OF REPUBLICS BEGINS CONSTITUTIVE SESSION
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The constitutive session of the
Chamber of Republics of the Yugoslav parliament began in Belgrade on
Saturday afternoon with the task of verifying the mandates of the new MPs.
The oldest MP on the new composition, Socialist People's Party
(SNP) of Montenegro deputy Mihailo Cetkovic opened the session, which was
attended by outgoing Chamber President Srdja Bozovic.
The Chamber set up a Verification Committee which should make a
report which will serve as the basis for the Chamber's verification of the
new mandates. The upper house will resume work after a 20minute break.
It is expected that the lower house, the Chamber of Citizens, will
also begin a constitutive session this evening.
After the separate sessions end work, the chambers will hold a
joint session at which newly elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
will be sworn in.
YUGOSLAV ARMY SAYS CONDITIONS MET FOR WORKING WITH NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army Command said late
on Friday the announcement of the final results of Yugoslavia's September
24 presidential election "has created the legal conditions for establishing
functional relations with the new Yugoslav president".
The Yugoslav Constitutional Court announced on October 6 that
Vojislav Kostunica won the September 24 presidential vote, which created
the necessary legal conditions for establishing functional relations with
the new president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
With its action in connection with recognising the new president
of the F.R.Y., the Yugoslav Army has proven that it is consistent on its
publicly proclaimed positions, the Army statement said.
"Members of the Army of Yugoslavia consistently adhere to all
constitutional provisions and laws which regulate the question of military
defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia is united and unwavering in its efforts to
remain a cohesive force in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia respects the will of the people expressed
in the free and democratic elections, and the procedures and solutions
resulting from the specific features of the multiparty system.
"The Army of Yugoslavia defends and shall continue to defend the
interests of the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as
the independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional
system of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia shall not change its attitude to the
institution of president of Yugoslavia in the capacity as supreme commander
of the armed forces, or to any other competent institutions of state
administration.
"The Army of Yugoslavia protects the borders of the federation and
remains a factor of stability and peace on the territory of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia makes no change in its proclaimed
positions, and remains consistent in its efforts to discharge its defence
function.
"After the inauguration of the presidentelect, the military
leadership shall, as before, discharge its constitutional obligations
professionally and honourably, and shall do everything to continue, with
the help of state institutions, the process of its own reorganisation and
modernisation", the statement said.
MONTENEGRIN PREMIER VOWS TO SAFEGUARD STATE, EQUALITY
PODGORICA, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's Premier has said he
believes that Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica will keep his
election promise and work for a democratic accord between the Yugoslav
federal units Serbia and Montenegro.
Filip Vujanovic is quoted by Podgorica's Pobjeda newspaper on
Saturday as saying for BosniaHerzegovina independent television that
Montenegro wants to protect its statehood, the autonomy of the Montenegrin
nation and the equality of its people.
Vujanovic added he expected Kostunica to "carry out in
communication with Montenegro what was agreed at Sveti Stefan (ahead of
Sept. 24 polls) in a meeting between Montenegro's ruling coalition
(Democratic Party of Socialists, National Party, Social Democratic Party)
and the Serbian opposition".
E.U. OFFICIAL: VACANT SEAT ON STABILITY PACT WAITING FOR YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 7 (Tanjug) European Union (E.U.) coordinator for
implementing the Pact on the stabilization of southeastern Europe Bodo
Hombach of Germany arrived on a twoday visit to Macedonia on Saturday and
said in Skopje that he would submit concrete proposals on aid for
Yugoslavia to the E.U. Council of Ministers on Monday.
The sanctions against Yugoslavia will be lifted already on Monday,
Hombach confirmed in a talk with reporters after today's meeting in Skopje
with Prime Minister Ljupco Georgievski.
"A vacant seat is waiting for Yugoslavia at the Pact for
stability," he said, as well as in other European institutions from which
it has been absent for years.
Hombach underscored that democratic Yugoslavia has serious tasks
ahead, but that Europe will help it. This will not be done to the detriment
of other countries of southeastern Europe, he added, which have joined the
Pact for stability and which also need help.
Plans about financial assistance for Serbia already exist, and the
E.U. and financial institutions will join in their realization, Hombach said.
Georgievski confirmed to reporters that the main subject at
today's talks with Hombach had been aid to Yugoslavia and its inclusion in
European integration processes.
Hombach will be received by Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
in Ohrid on Sunday.
YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA, MILOSEVIC MEET
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late of Friday he had met earlier in the day with his
predecessor Slobodan Milosevic.
"The meeting was important from the point of view of normal
relations between the incoming and outgoing presidents", Kostunica told
Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), describing as "positive that the
communication took place".
The meeting shows that the transfer of power will be peaceful,
according to Kostunica, who said he had explained to Milosevic that "power,
once lost, is not lost forever".
He said Milosevic had not congratulated him on his victory, however.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC CONGRATULATES SUCCESSOR KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic said late on Friday he had received official information that
challenger Vojislav Kostunica had won the September 24 presidential
election, and congratulated him on his victory.
The ruling was made by the Yugoslav Constitutional Court, which is
competent under the Constitution to decide on such matters, and the ruling
must be respected, Milosevic said, speaking for YuInfo television.
"I wish to thank all those who placed their trust in me and voted
for me in this election, but I thank also all those who did not vote for
me, because they have lifted from my shoulders a heavy burden of
responsibility that has been weighing me down for ten years.
"As for my party, it will be a very powerful opposition force. I
have always said that a party can never show its strength and its qualities
unless it is in opposition for a while, because the time in opposition
allows it to unburden itself of the opportunists.
"I am sure that the time ahead will be of great use in this
respect both to the Socialist Party of Serbia and to the Yugoslav Left, and
I am sure that it will strengthen them so greatly as to allow them to win
the next election very convincingly.
"Because of the feeling of great relief at the removal of the huge
burden of responsibility that I have carried for a full decade, I plan to
take a short rest, to spend more time with my family, especially with my
grandson Marko.
"Afterwards, I shall continue, first of all, to strengthen my
party so that it should, together with the forces that stand with it, in
the life of Yugoslav society, make a great contribution to the country's
further development, as they had done at the time of national defence, of
postaggression reconstruction and now, in these early development steps,
which have been so successful.
"I congratulate Mr Kostunica on his electoral victory and wish all
people of Yugoslavia success in the term of office of the new president",
Milosevic said.
SERBIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD SESSION MONDAY
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug). Serbian parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic has convened for Monday the first meeting of the second regular
parliament session, the parliamentary press service said.
The agenda includes:
A draft parliamentary statement on the election of Yugoslavia's
president proposed by the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO),
A proposal to create a parliamentary inquiry board to investigate
the death of four high SPO officials on October. 3 last year, presented by
SPO,
A noconfidence motion for Serbian Minister of the Interior Vlajko
Stojiljkovic presented by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS),
A proposal to abrogate the law on public information presented by
SRS,
A bill on Serbia's RadioTelevision proposed by SRS,
A bill on creating a public publishing and broadcasting company
Politika AD presented by SRS,
A bill on privatization presented by SRS.
YUGOSLAV NATIONAL BANK GOVERNOR HALTS
SELLING HARD CURRENCY AND CREDITS FROM PRIMARY ISSUE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslav National Bank (NBJ)
Governor Dusan Vlatkovic sent a letter to Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica on Friday to inform him that he has taken all the necessary
measures to ensure the functioning of NBJ, and that he has halted the
selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose from
primary issue until further notice, a statement issued by the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) said on Friday.
Vlatkovic said in the letter that he has taken all measures in
conformity with his legal and constitutional prerogatives in order to
ensure that NBJ functions are carried out. He added that keeping in mind
the new situation in the country and the NBJ prerogatives, he was halting
the selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose
from primary issue until further notice.
He noted that he would submit a report on the NBJ activities to
the Yugoslav president and parliament, and added that if the NBJ or his own
work were unsatisfactory, he would offer his resignation, the statement says.
The statement was issued after Vlatkovic met Miroljub Labus and
Dusan Mihajlovic, envoys of President Kostunica.
MONTENEGRIN DJUKANOVIC PLEASED, NOT EUPHORIC AT YUGOSLAV POWER CHANGE
NIKSIC, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic
said late on Friday that this Yugoslav republic "is today prepared to
discuss each separate specific solution for surmounting problems" in
relations with the other Yugoslav republic, Serbia.
Djukanovic said in Niksic, central Montenegro, that Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica could be a partner in the talks only as
"a representative of new democratic thought in Serbia", not in his capacity
as Yugoslav president.
Djukanovic went on to comment on Montenegro's attitude to the
Supreme Defence Council and the Army of Yugoslavia. He said Montenegro was
"very much interested in a transitional Defence Council" being constituted
as soon as possible and "the Yugoslav army being placed under civilian
administration as soon as possible, to avoid the possibility of its misuse".
Commenting on the power transfer in Belgrade, he said this was "no
cause for euphoria in Montenegro, but it is a cause for satisfaction,
because this outcome in Serbia has removed the threat of war to Montenegro".
Speaking about Yugoslavia's outgoing Prime Minister Momir
Bulatovic, a Montenegrin, Djukanovic said Montenegro had learned from the
example of Bulatovic that "a traitor must never again hold the helm of
Montenegro."
MILOSEVIC'S PLACE IS NO LONGER IN SERBIA MONTENEGRIN PEOPLE'S PARTY
PODGORICA, October 6 (Tanjug) President of the Montenegrin
People's Party (NSCG), one of the parties in the ruling coalition in
Montenegro, Dragan Soc said Friday that Serbia has shown its true,
historic, face by legalizing the victory of Vojislav Kostunica in the
presidential election. This has paved the way for putting the relations
between Serbia and Montenegro in order in a peaceful, patient and
democratic manner, and for their full integration into a democratic
community, Soc said.
MILOSEVIC INTENDS TO PLAY IMPORTANT POLITICAL ROLE IVANOV
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
said that the outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had told him
he intended to continue playing an important role in Yugoslavia's political
life as the leader of the largest political party in the country.
Asked at a press conference at the Russian embassy in Belgrade
whether Milosevic's statement meant a recognition of Kostunica's victory,
Ivanov said he was only reporting what he had heard and that it was not up
to him to interpret what Milosevic had meant.
The political forces in Yugoslavia are able to resolve the present
difficulties by themselves and need no mediators, Ivanov said.
Ivanov noted that he met Friday with Yugoslav Presidentelect
Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic and Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, and
that he had paid a courtesy visit to Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian
Orthodox Church.
Ivanov did not wish to say where his meeting with Milosevic was held.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN REACTIONS
COUNCIL OF EUROPE MINISTERS SUPPORT YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
ROME, October 7 (Tanjug) The Council of Europe's committee of
foreign ministers on Friday gave full support to Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica.
Committee Chairman Lamberto Dini of Italy said the Committee fully
supported actions being taken by PresidentElect Kostunica.
The committee invited the civilian and military authorities in
Yugoslavia to cooperate in the establishment of the new administration
elected in the polls of September 24, Dini added.
The Council of Europe committee of foreign ministers invited
Yugoslavia to join the European family of nations, and expressed
willingness to consider new prospects of cooperation between the European
Council and that country.
EU TO LIFT OIL EMBARGO AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ON MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The foreign ministers of the
European Union memberstates will, at their Monday session in Luxemburg,
lift the oil embargo against Yugoslavia and definitely lift the ban on
civilian air traffic.
EU spokesman said in Brussels that there were no differences among
the ministers in regard to these two issues and that a decision by
consensus was expected.
The European Commission (EC) will submit to the ministerial
council meeting in Luxemburg an official proposal for the lifting of the
oil embargo, imposed on Yugoslavia last year over the crisis in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province.
If the ministers agree, the embargo will be lifted within a few
days of the official announcement of the decision.
The same procedure applies to the complete lifting of the ban on
civilian flights, which was suspended last April.
As for the lifting of other sanctions the financial embargo and
the ban on granting visas to a number of individuals close to the Slobodan
Milosevic's regime considerable differences exist among EU members. Their
lifting will consequently be postponed until the memberstates reach agreement.
The arms embargo will remain in force, as it is under the
authority of the UN, not the EU.
Contacts with Belgrade will be resumed shortly and an exchange of
highlevel delegations is expected, EU sources said.
The EC has endorsed the proposal that a mission should travel to
Belgrade as soon as possible to assess Serbia's needs of funding, the EC
spokesman said Friday. The mission will comprise representatives of
the EU and several international organizations.
In an earlier decision, the sum of 240 million euros was earmarked
for aid to Yugoslavia from the EU budget. The funds should be released
after the EU and european Parliament take a decision to that effect on the
basis of the mission's report.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAVIA'S NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) British Prime Minister Tony Blair
addressed on Friday a message of congratulations to Yugoslavia's newly
elected president Vojislav Kostunica.
"I welcome the prospect of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
reentering the European mainstream and I will lend my full support to that
goal. As a starting point, I expect the European Union to move quickly to
respond to your call for a lifting of sanctions", Blair said in the message
a copy of which was made available to Tanjug.
SCHUESSEL: WE ARE OBLIGED TO HELP YUGOSLAVIA
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) We are obliged to help Yugoslavia in
normalizing the situation, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said in
Zagreb on Friday, saying he was certain that Slobodan Milosevic was toppled
and that the new Yugoslav president would be sworn in.
After talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan, Schuessel
appealed for restraint from violence in Yugoslavia. He said he hoped
Milosevic would not resort to force in order to stay in power.
Racan said Croatia was interested in its neighbors being
democratic countries and that it supports the creation of a democratic
Serbia. Croatia will confirm this interest through its policy, he said.
During today's visit to Croatia, Schuessel is to meet with
President Stjepan Mesic and parliament President Zlatko Tomcic.
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER: ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
ROME, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union sanctions against
Yugoslavia will be lifted gradually as of Monday, October. 9, Italian Prime
Minister Giuliano Amato said on Friday.
The EU ministers will meet in Luxemburg on Monday and will first
lift the oil embargo. This will be followed by the lifting of the financial
sanctions and by preparations for closer ties and cooperation between
Yugoslavia and Europe, Amato said.
The election of Vojislav Kostunica as president of Yugoslavia has
drastically changed the overall picture and prospects of relations between
the EU and Yugoslavia, Amato said.
MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KOSTUNICA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
said on Friday in Bitolj, south Macedonia, that he congratulates newly
elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, the new government, all the
democratic opposition and the Yugoslav people on their victory.
According to the statement issued in his cabinet in Skopje, the
historical events in Yugoslavia have become obvious and the Yugoslav
people's wish for freedom and democracy was stronger than all attempts at
deceiving the will of the people.
Trajkovski added that he wants a peaceful transition of power in
Yugoslavia and its reintegration into Europe. He also wants to develop
friendly ties between Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
The new realities open vast possibilities for future development
and the improvement of the bilateral friendly relations between the two
states and their peoples, said Trajkovski.
BOSNIAHERZEGOVINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SUPPORTS KOSTUNICA
SARAJEVO, October 6 (Tanjug) The Foreign Ministry of Bosnia and
Herzegovina said in Sarajevo on Friday that the country "fully supports the
newlyelected president of FR Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, and expects
the legal procedure of his appointment satisifed."
"About the authorities in Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina will
judge by their acts and their relationship towards Bosnia and Herzegovina,"
the statement said and also that it expected from the new authorities to
comply with the Dayton peace agreement and the decisions of other
international conferences about the situation in the region and the
organization of relations between BosniaHerzegovina and FR Yugoslavia.
In that respect Bosnia and Herzegovina is ready to immediately
establish diplomatic relations with FR Yugoslavia without any conditions as
provided by the Dayton agreement and the conclusions of the international
conference in Sintra.
The Foreign Ministry also proposed that soon after the formation
of the new government in Belgrade, an exchange of visits takes place
between the two countries on the ministerial level.
In connection with the situation in FR Yugoslavia, the foreign
minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jadranko Prlic, sent on Friday a
message to Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou in which he made the
initiative that in the next few days be organized a meeting of the
representatives of countries neighbouring FR Yugoslavia to extend support
to the new authorities in Belgrade and review the situation that arose
after the elections in that country the statement said.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITIES BEGIN TO CREATE YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Thursday he had taken his first steps with the
creation of a new democratic authority in Serbia, which the people had
voted into power on September 24. Kostunica said on Serbian state Radio and
Television (RTS) he was referring to the constituting of the Yugoslav
federal parliament, whose deputies were assembling, and to the City
Council, which had been constituted and would make sure all municipal
services were functioning properly, to the wellbeing of the Belgraders.
Expressing pleasure that the vision of Serbia he had cherished for
years was coming to pass, he said this was of a normal democratically
organised state, without internal tension, without disputes, with a normal
relationship between the government and opposition.
"The worst of it is that we have for years lived in a country
where there has been no proper communication between those representing the
government and those representing the opposition, as though it had been
easier to talk to the whole world, as though, in the case of Slobodan
Milosevic, it had been easier to negotiate at Dayton, Ohio, to reach
accords with Richard Holbrooke, like the one of October. 13, 1998, as
though it had been easier to agree to the Kumanovo capitulation, consent to
the deployment of foreign troops to Kosovo, while at the same time
demonstrating total incapacity with a section of one's own nation that
thought differently", Kostunica said.
Stressing that he is "president of state, president of all people,
one who must rise above party interests and reconcile all interests,"
Kostnica said there had been none of this in this country and that the
president of Yugoslavia had represented neither all the people, nor both
federal units.
He stressed that democracy must be the foundation of a state,
which was the image that Serbia was beginning to project, and added that
the RTS would be open both to the positions of those who won the elections
and to all other voices in Serbia.
People belonging to the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the
Yugoslav Left (JUL), the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), must be given space
on state television, which must not serve the interests of one party, but
reflect the mood of the people, he said.
He urged a democratic state, without internal tension, with
normalised relations with other states, noting that this would not be easy
because "among those countries there are those that have gravely sinned
against us."
"These are countries that bombed Yugoslavia last year, which is a
crime and destruction that we cannot forgive, but we cannot live out of the
world, we must adjust to it, while placing high value on our national
dignity and national interests", he said.
He said it was to be expected that the European Union, when it
meets on Monday, will lift sanctions against Yugoslavia, because the
country has set out down the road of democracy.
Lifting of the sanctions and resumption of relations with
international financial institutions will make it possible for the money
that has been draining out of the country to start flowing back in, where
the role of the expatriates interested in investing in the homeland will be
important, according to Kostunica.
"The country's recovery after the lifting of the sanctions will be
swift, because the circumstances we have been living in have been very
difficult", he said, adding that Yugoslavia would immediately be
incorporated in the Southeast Europe Stabilisation Pact, as a way for the
NATO states to repay, in one form, some of the damage they have caused.
Kostunica described as positive the reconstruction of
NATOdestroyed facilities, adding, however, that this has not been the
achievement of one party, but of the people.
He announced a more radical, more widespread reconstruction of the
country, whose chief characteristic would be that it would not be the feat
of any one party.
There must be no revanchism, he reiterated, stressing that he had
given his word there would be no retaliation, and that the people must
learn to live with political differences.
He said many details in the work of the Haguebased tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia made it a shameful institution, adding it was a
political rather than a legal institutions, and in fact not a court at all.
This is not an international, but an American court, under the
control of the U.S. Administration, a weapon for achieving its influence in
this region, according to Kostunica.
He said there could be no cooperation with the Hague court in the
matter of extradition of Yugoslav citizens.
He said that Yugoslavia's new premier must be designated in line
with the Constitution, which dictates that, when the president is from one
federal unit, the prime minister must be from the other.
In this case, the post must be offered to the strongest party in
Montenegro, which is the Socialist People's Party (SNP), and to the person
capable of reconciling the two confronted halves of Montenegro, Kostunica
explained.
He said he would work towards calling new free elections for the
federal parliament within a year and a half, and for drawing up very soon a
new Constitution acceptable to both Yugoslav federal units Serbia and
Montenegro.
KOSTUNICA: SERBIA IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE ITS FREEDOM BY ITSELF
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Presidentelect Vojislav
Kostunica told a crowd of several hundred thousand people in central
Belgrade Thursday evening that he was proud to see the people of Serbia
show their trust in him by electing him president of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia.
Kostunica said he won the election thanks to the fundamental
principles of democracy, in which people exercise their free will, even
under very difficult circumstances in which the Sep. 24 elections were held.
He underlined that the claims of the leftist coalition that the
new authorities were a NATO spearhead were entirely false.
"We need neither Moscow nor Washington. Serbia is able to achieve
its freedom by itself, and your presence here in such numbers is proof of
this", he said.
Recalling that he had been saying at all preelection rallies
throughout Serbia that peace must prevail in Serbia and in its relations
with Montenegro, Kostunica promised that Serbia would be ruled by law only
and that there would be no more violence or theft.
"We shall defend Serbia with our own weapons with truth against
their lies, with nonviolence against their use of force", Kostunica said in
reference to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia is the heart and
the shield of Europe, it is the most European part of Europe, but without
Slobodan Milosevic, he stressed.
"There must be no more sanctions against this country", Kostunica
said.
Responding to cries from the crowd calling for a march on Dedinje,
elite residential district of Belgrade where Milosevic has his residence,
Kostunica resolutely said: "We shall not march on Dedinje, it is not our
place. We are here at the parliament, a true system institution where the
people have brought us and where we shall fight our battles".
Kostunica then urged all those present to stay together and
expressed hope that more people would come to the area between the three
parliaments Yugoslav, Serbian and Belgrade to peacefully defend the
election victory.
G17PLUS APPEALS FOR RETURN OF ARMS TAKEN FROM POLICE
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). The independent thinktank G17plus
urged Thursday evening all persons who have taken arms from police stations
to bring them to the Belgrade city council.
G17plus Coordinator Predrag Markovic visited Tanjug in the evening
and asked the agency to carry the appeal, in order to prevent any unwanted
incidents.
Markovic also urged people celebrating in the streets not to loot
shops or damage any other property.
YUGOSLAVIA SERBIA MINERS
SERBIAN COALMINERS END STRIKE
LAZAREVAC, October 5 (Tanjug). The miners of the openpit coal mine
Kolubara will not allow the Obrenovac thermoelectric power plant near
Belgrade to stop, member of the strike committee Radoslav Jovanovic told
Tanjug Thursday evening.
The Obrenovac plant will have enough coal for minimum power
generation tomorrow (Friday) Jovanovic said.
Jovanovic was unable to say when the plant will be able to operate
at full capacity, but noted that the strike committee will meet early
Friday to discuss details on resuming production at full capacity.
Underlining that the only demand of the miners was the recognition
of the voters' will at the Sep. 24 presidential and federal elections,
Jovanovic said that all miners were present at their jobs and that the
equipment stood ready to be used.
The Kolubara miners went on strike one week ago, and power cuts
started throughout Serbia two days later.
YUGOSLAVIA - ARMY, POLICE
YUGOSLAV ARMY CONTINUES REGULAR ACTIVITIES
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army's Combined Chiefs
of Staff ended session early on Friday without releasing a statement, which
sources close to the army command interpret as indicating that the army
will remain committed to its often repeated position that it will act
within its constitutional competence.
TANJUG learns that the army will act only in case of direct
threats to military facilities, personnel and materiel.
According to TANJUG correspondents' reports, no troop movements
have been noticed in any part of the country. According to them, the army
is on Friday morning engaged on its regular duties, training and securing
of the state borders.
BELGRADE POLICE CHIEF SAYS POLICE WILL NOT INTERVENE AGAINST PEOPLE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Belgrade Police Chief Branko Djuric
has offered assurances to the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) that
the police will not intervene against people demonstrating in the streets
of the capital.
According to sources close to DOS, Djuric said the security forces
would intervene only in case of drastic disruptions of public law and order
and threats to property.
E.U.'S SOLANA SAYS ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union will start
lifting sanctions against Yugoslavia as of Monday, when the foreign
ministers of the fifteen E.U. nations are meeting in Luxemburg, according
to E.U. chief foreign policy representative Javier Solana.
Solana told BBC Radio the ministerial meeting was called for
Monday, and the lifting of the sanctions would begin as of that day. He
explained this was a clear signal of a willingness to open new relations
with democratic Yugoslavia, adding the lifting of the sanctions was a
matter of days.
French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, whose country holds the
E.U. rotating presidency, said late Thursday he would be setting in motion
the necessary procedure for the decision to lift the sanctions to be made
on Monday.
FISCHER SUPPORTS FRANCE'S PROPOSAL FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
BERLIN, October 6 (Tanjug) German Foreign Minister Joseph Fischer
said in Berlin on Friday that Germany supports France's proposal that in
Luxembourg on Monday be discussed the speedy lifting of sanctions against
Serbia.
"Serbia must be accepted with wide open hands into the family of
European countries, because its people said so clearly NO to dictatorship,"
Fischer said.
Fischer repeated on Friday he hoped that, just as 11 years ago in
Eastern Germany, the peaceful revolution in Belgrade will also be conducted
without bloodshed.
The German news agency DPA said in that connection it seemed that
will be case, and carried as urgent a statement to Tanjug by an unnamed
source in the Yugoslav Army that the army had no intention to prevent the
implementation of the will of citizens of Yugoslavia.
CROATIA FOLLOWS YUGOSLAV CHANGES WITH APPROVAL
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) Croatia, where Belgrade developments
have received unprecedented publicity, is following with approval the
political changes in Yugoslavia and recognises the victory of Vojislav
Kostunica in September 24 presidential election.
Commenting on the Belgrade developments, Croatian President
Stjepan Mesic said that "the events rocking Serbia, where the people, led
by the opposition, have started dismantling the institutions of the regime,
were to be expected."
Mesic said the Yugoslav situation could resolve itself also in the
worst possible way, and that whether or not the "Romanian scenario" is
acted out would depend, in his view, on the army.
He believes it would be "best for Milosevic to go, and for the
winners of the elections to offer a solution to the Serbian people".
The Croatian government, too, has made itself heard in connection
with the Yugoslav developments, expressing conviction that the developments
signal "the end of the undemocratic regime of Slobodan Milosevic" and the
beginning of a normalisation in Serbia.
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS DEMOCRATIC CHANGES IN YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Democracy won a victory in Yugoslavia
on Thursday, according to Macedonia's foreign minister on Friday.
In a brief statement for state television, Aleksandar Dimitrov
said Macedonia had been urging a democratic settlement of all problems in
Serbia and Yugoslavia, which was what happened on Thursday.
The most important thing now was to keep the peace and avoid
further bloodshed, he added.
According to local media, President Boris Trajkovski has launched
an initiative for heads of state of Southeast Europe to sign a declaration
supporting Kostunica's electoral victory.
Trajkovski explained Macedonia was acting in its capacity as
president of an association of Southeast European nations.
According to sources in Skopje, all Southeast European nations
have upheld Trajkovski's initiative, with the exception of the Romanian
government, which has not responded.
ALBANIA DOES NOT CHANGE POSITION ON SERBIAN KOSOVO PROVINCE
LONDON, October 6 (Tanjug) Albania's foreign minister said on
Friday that Albania would not be changing its position on the Kosovo issue
in the wake of the electoral victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS).
Pascal Milo told the BBC the issue of Kosovo was vitally important
to Albanians, and that Tirana would not be changing its position on it.
Since the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244 provides for
giving Kosovo a wide autonomy, Milo urges that Albanians in the province be
allowed to decide about their status in a referendum.
He went on to say he believed that democratic Serbia would change
its attitude to Kosovo and hoped that Vojislav Kostunica, despite being a
nationalist, would be realistic and understand that Kosovo was a closed
chapter to Serbia now.
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>Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:32:07 +0200
>Subject: evacuazione-evakuacja-evakuierung OK
>From: "Donatella"
>
>Donatella" <donatellaruttar@...>
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> ARTISTI E INTELLETTUALI CARINZIANI LASCIANO L'AUSTRIA PER TOPOLO'
>Martedi' 10 ottobre
>Il 10 ottobre sara' festa grande nella Carinzia di Jorg Haider: il leader
>dell'FPO festeggia l'80=B0 (ottantesimo) anniversario del plebescito che
>sanci' la scelta degli Sloveni carinziani a favore della Repubblica
>Austriaca. La festa avra' un sapore fortemente nazionalistico; per dire il
>loro "no" alla atmosfera che si respira nel loro Land, gli artisti e gli
>intellettuali facenti capo all'UNIKUM, il Centro Culturale Universitario di
>Klagenfurt, hanno deciso di effettuare una clamorosa EVACUAZIONE:
>abbandoneranno il loro paese per 24 ore e si trasferiranno a
>Topolo'-Topolove, piccolo paese in provincia di Udine dove, da sette anni,
>e'in atto un progetto denominato "STAZIONE DI TOPOLO'-POSTAJA TOPOLOVE" che
>ha nell'idea di ospitalita' il suo asse portante.
>La rappresentanza del mondo culturale carinziano sara' composta da circa 80
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>Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:32:07 +0200
>Subject: evacuazione-evakuacja-evakuierung OK
>From: "Donatella"
>
>Donatella" <donatellaruttar@...>
>To: pignoni@...
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>
>
> ARTISTI E INTELLETTUALI CARINZIANI LASCIANO L'AUSTRIA PER TOPOLO'
>Martedi' 10 ottobre
>Il 10 ottobre sara' festa grande nella Carinzia di Jorg Haider: il leader
>dell'FPO festeggia l'80=B0 (ottantesimo) anniversario del plebescito che
>sanci' la scelta degli Sloveni carinziani a favore della Repubblica
>Austriaca. La festa avra' un sapore fortemente nazionalistico; per dire il
>loro "no" alla atmosfera che si respira nel loro Land, gli artisti e gli
>intellettuali facenti capo all'UNIKUM, il Centro Culturale Universitario di
>Klagenfurt, hanno deciso di effettuare una clamorosa EVACUAZIONE:
>abbandoneranno il loro paese per 24 ore e si trasferiranno a
>Topolo'-Topolove, piccolo paese in provincia di Udine dove, da sette anni,
>e'in atto un progetto denominato "STAZIONE DI TOPOLO'-POSTAJA TOPOLOVE" che
>ha nell'idea di ospitalita' il suo asse portante.
>La rappresentanza del mondo culturale carinziano sara' composta da circa 80
>persone; raggiungeranno il sottostante paese di Clodig per trasferirsi, a
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>verranno accolti dal paese con un rinfresco per poi entrare in contatto con
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>Topolove".
>
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GLI ALTI COSTI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA
E' stata dura, ma finalmente la Repubblica Federale di
Jugoslavia si avvia verso la liberta' - che coincide con la
sua dissoluzione, ma questo e' un altro discorso.
Essenziale e' stato per questo lo sforzo degli Stati Uniti d'America, sforzo quantificabile in US$ 77.2 milioni per
l'anno passato (fonte: The Washington Post, September 22,
2000) cui vanno ad aggiungersi US$ 105 milioni in base alla
"Legge sulla democratizzazione della Serbia" promulgata lo
scorso 25 settembre dal Congresso USA (cfr.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/487).
Un conto complessivo che sfiora dunque i 400 miliardi in
lire italiane, interamente devolute alle formazioni ed ai
media della destra nazionalista e liberista, da aggiungersi
ai costi della macchina militare ed a tutti gli altri
esborsi degli anni precedenti. Indovinate un po' chi lo
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E' stata dura, ma finalmente la Repubblica Federale di
Jugoslavia si avvia verso la liberta' - che coincide con la
sua dissoluzione, ma questo e' un altro discorso.
Essenziale e' stato per questo lo sforzo degli Stati Uniti d'America, sforzo quantificabile in US$ 77.2 milioni per
l'anno passato (fonte: The Washington Post, September 22,
2000) cui vanno ad aggiungersi US$ 105 milioni in base alla
"Legge sulla democratizzazione della Serbia" promulgata lo
scorso 25 settembre dal Congresso USA (cfr.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/487).
Un conto complessivo che sfiora dunque i 400 miliardi in
lire italiane, interamente devolute alle formazioni ed ai
media della destra nazionalista e liberista, da aggiungersi
ai costi della macchina militare ed a tutti gli altri
esborsi degli anni precedenti. Indovinate un po' chi lo
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U.S. Coup Aims to Install Puppet Regime in Yugoslavia
by Michel Chossudvosky and Jared Israel
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Yesterday we wrote an article analyzing the situation in Yugoslavia. Before
we could publish it, our analysis has been confirmed by events. We have
confirmed from an unimpeachable source that members of the "democratic"
opposition have been visited Belgrade residents, threatening to murder them
if they voted in the runoff elections. Now there are reports of the burning
of the Yugoslav parliament - where the government has a majority of seats -
and the sacking of sections of Belgrade and murder of citizens who don't
support the opposition. These measure are intended to bring a US puppet
regime to power.
The article follows.
The evidence is mounting that the "Democratic" opposition strategy in
Yugoslavia, worked out under the guidance of Washington and Bonn, is not to
elect Mr. Kostunica President of Yugoslavia.. If it were, why wouldn't they
gladly participate in runoff elections, given that Kostunica has an admitted
10% lead.? One reason they don't want to participate is that most of the
approximately 40% of the electorate which did not vote in round one would
most likely vote against Kostunica in round two.
But apart from that, the main reason is that the president of Yugoslavia has
no power without a parliamentary majority. The elections gave the current
government a clear majority in both houses.
NATO's plan for Yugoslavia is to apply the most severe economic shock
treatment which requires domination of the government. The shock therapy was
admitted by Mr. Dinkic, chief economist for the opposition:
"we are thinking of adopting... a shock therapy in some areas, and mild and
gradual reforms in others," Dinkic told Beta. : Beta news agency, Belgrade,
in Serbo-Croat 1828 gmt 26 Sep 00 posted by BBX Oct. 5, 2000)
The same was stated in law HR1064, passed by the US House of Representatives
a day after the elections. This law granted an additional 105 million to be
shared between the pro-NATO government of Montenegro ($55 million US) and the
leaders of the DOS ($50 million.) That money was released on an emergency
basis - Oct 1. It was immediately wired to the DOS bank accounts in Budapest
and then smuggled across the border in new US bills for immediate use. to
destabilize Yugoslavia.
The law ordered that the most draconian economic "reforms" be imposed on
Yugoslavia, ordered the breakup of Serbia into separate min-states, ordered
the imposition of complete "democratization", that is, adoption all measures
demanded by the US and ordered the hunting down of all people whom NATO
decides to accuse of being war criminals,
The violent economic "adjustment" and political destruction mandated by
HR1064 and outlined in the program of 'democratic" opposition itself are an
attempt to crush Yugoslavia as a force capable of resisting US domination of
the Balkans, to reduce it to an impoverished territory - a colony. .
These measures cannot be implemented unless NATO has full control of the
Yugoslav government including the army and police. (The other alternative,
invading a Yugoslavia run by a hostile government, is politically unfeasible
for NATO) .
Therefore the DOS has used the charge of "election fraud" - endlessly
repeated but never with any evidence - as an excuse to boycott the runoffs.
In contrast, the fraud involved in the US paying hundreds of millions of
dollars to the "democratic" opposition is never mentioned. This bribe money
violates the electoral laws of every country. Using the veneer of protesting
election fraud, the "democrats" are mobilizing all possible forces in an
attempt to seize power by force. These include pro-fascist Croatians and
pro-KLA Albanians who are the hard core supporters of the pro-NATO Djukanovic
government in Montenegro, they include , secessionists from the Serbian
province of Vojvodina and southern Serbia, young people who have never worked
and who are being fed trickles of cash from the several hundred million
dollars the US has pumped into opposition hands, people coerced by superiors
at work or by school headmasters to demonstrate, people bribed by a taste of
the vast sums of money the US has pumped into Yugoslavia especially in the
past two weeks, and people who have been fooled by the massive, US funded
campaign, by "independent" media, public relations firms and election
pollsters, into believing that their falling living standards, caused by
sanctions just as severe as those imposed on Iraq, are the "fault of one man
- Milosevich" and that the US-backed opposition will bring prosperity. In
fact they would bring the prosperity of the grave.
Because the truth is that countries like Bulgaria and Russia which have
swallowed the "democratic " bait are far poorer than Yugoslavia - even though
they are not suffering from sanctions. and were not yet bombed
The scenario is much like what occurred in Chile in 1973.. There was the same
sort of disruption of transportation and essential services including
electricity. There was the same effort to create the appearance of a majority
movement against Chilean Pres. Allende.. Events were staged which a captive
media misdescribed as popular protest, giving ordinary people the impression
that Allende was about to fall. At the same time, the CIA-directed plan
deprived the people of basic necessities, causing real unrest. In Yugoslavia,
the disruption of the supply of essential commodities started before the
election with a US-instigated rise in the price of bread
Under cover of disruption and "popular protest: the CIA overthrew President
Salvador Allende and installed a pro-US military junta headed by General
Augusto Pinochet.
The strikes which crippled transport and food distribution in Chile were
funded by the CIA. The same is being attempted right now in Yugoslavia. Vast
sums of US tax payers money has been poured into opposition coffers in
Serbia. We know of $182 million. But this is only what is officially
admitted. What about CIA money, which the New York Times says is going into
Serbia "in suitcases full of cash"? What about money from the Soros
Foundation and other CIA-connected "charities"? This money is being used to
finance the miners' strike and to lure young people into the Western-created
group Otpor by giving them money and trinkets, like cellular phones. .
Of course, many Yugoslav people are disgruntled. one miner told the 'NY
Times': "I used to make $1500 a month. Now I make $80." Dishonest forces put
the blame for this on the government that is resisting US control. In fact,
the problem started because in 1989 a World Bank plan, overseen by a leading
member of one of the current 'democratic' opposition groups, closed over a
thousand Yugoslav business, devastating the economy. The wars and sanctions,
whose fault lies with the US and Germany, have further hurt the economy. The
Yugoslav government, routinely accused of being dictatorial, has tolerated
the creation of an immense Fifth Column in Serbia by the US government, which
has poured m8llions into the funding and training of what tare falsely called
"civil society" organizations. These organizations, funded through the
National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, the USIA, the CIA and the
Soros Foundation, among others, pay thousands of people in Serbia and
maintain and entire "alternate" media with the latest equipment and high
salaries. This media then uses the problem caused by the US to sow discontent
among anyone who is susceptible.
The US effort to destroy Yugoslavia goes back to 1984. A U.S. National
Security Decision Directive NSDD133 entitled "United States Policy Toward
Yugoslavia. Labeled SECRET Sensitive has recently been de-classified. It is a
prescription for destroying Yugoslavia as an economic and political entity.
Since the elections on 24 September, the Democratic opposition has met with
NATO officials in Sofia, Bulgaria. NATO Assistant Secretary General Paul
Klaiber was in Sofia and Bucharest for high level discussions on security
issues resulting from the elections. Barely reported in the media, an IMF
donors' conference was held behind closed doors, Two leading "democratic"
representatives presented their so-called "Letter of Intent", a plan for
imposing harsh economic measure on Yugoslavia, to their IMF and World Bank
leaders. And on the 4th of October, the Stability Pact for Southeastern
Europe was meeting under its so-called "Title III" which pertains to
"security issues." The elections and "transition" in Yugoslavia were on the
agenda. The press reports do not confirm that the two "democratic:
representatives stayed for these meetings. We suspect they did..
The ploy being employed now is to create chaos while dangling promises of
money and peace, instigate whatever elements - children ignorant of politics
and lured by money, secessionist elements, fascists, people under compulsion
from superiors - along with infiltrators from NATO armed forces disguised as
rebellious youths, to terrorize Yugoslav loyalists and create the impression
of popular revolt. Already we have learned that DOS activists are going
around Belgrade, threatening death to anyone who votes in the Sunday
elections. Further provocation may occur at any time. These "democrats" aim
to provide Washington and NATO with a pretext to intervene as "peacekeepers"
as they did in Bosnia.
In the meantime, not only are NATO war ships in the Adriatic, but foreign
troops are already on Yugoslav soil. British SAS special forces are training
paramilitary police in Montenegro to assassinate Yugoslav army officer,.
Money is being channeled to finance these groups..
What we are witnessing is nothing less than an attempt to install a
fascist-like government in Yugoslavia, to turn all of Yugoslavia into Kosovo.
Yugoslavia has stood up to the biggest bully in history, the US government.
Now it is time for all who oppose the creation of US/German dominated world
empire to stand up for Yugoslavia.
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>
> Les liaisons dangereuses
> de Monsieur Kostunica
>
>
> �Cette fois, j'ai vot� Kostunica, car il est honn�te. Mais je n'aime pas
> les gens autour de lui, et j'esp�re qu'il saura les ma�triser�, m'a dit
> un vieux professeur, ce dimanche 24 septembre, dans un bureau de vote de
> Belgrade, o� j'�tais invit� comme observateur international. Beaucoup
> m'ont dit la m�me chose. Qui donc est derri�re Kostunica?
>
> MICHEL COLLON
>
> Face � Milosevic , incarnant la r�sistance � l'Otan, les dirigeants
> habituels de l'opposition auraient certainement perdu s'ils s'�taient
> pr�sent�s. Car Draskovic avait bais� la main de Madeleine Albright (USA)
> en pleine guerre et Djindjic avait fui en Allemagne. Or, la grande
> majorit� des Yougoslaves reste farouchement attach�e � l'ind�pendance du
> pays.
> L'habilet� de la nouvelle strat�gie a consist� � pr�senter un homme
> 'neuf', Kostunica, qui multiplie les d�clarations 'critiques' � l'�gard
> des Etats-Unis et de l'Otan. Mais son programme est celui du G-17 (voir
> page 2), un groupe d'�conomistes yougoslaves tr�s � droite:
> 1. Introduction du deutsche mark comme monnaie nationale! 2. Forte
> r�duction du budget militaire, ce qui priverait le pays des moyens de se
> d�fendre contre de nouvelles agressions. 3. Alignement sur les recettes
> anti-sociales du Fonds Mon�taire International. Apr�s une ann�e de
> sursis, la partie pauvre de la population serait priv�e du 'filet de
> s�curit� sociale' qui lui a permis de survivre jusqu'� pr�sent. Elle
> devrait acheter les marchandises aux prix r�gnant en Europe occidentale
> tout en disposant d'un pouvoir d'achat actuellement proche de bien des
> pays du tiers monde.
>
> Avec Kostunica, Djindjic et le FMI, la population serait-elle soulag�e?
> Ces m�mes r�formes ont d�j� d�vast� des pays comme la Bulgarie,
> l'Albanie ou la Roumanie. Un observateur roumain m'a confi�: �On nous
> avait promis qu'apr�s la chute de Ceaucescu, le capitalisme sans freins
> apporterait la prosp�rit�. Mais, aujourd'hui, l'�conomie est en ruines.
> Nous avons ramass� dix milliards de dollars de dettes, mais on ne voit
> pas un seul investissement. Les b�timents en cours de construction sous
> Ceaucescu ne sont toujours pas achev�s, on ne cr�e pas de nouveaux
> logements, les jeunes sont forc�s d'attendre que leurs parents meurent
> pour obtenir un appartement. Apr�s avoir c�d� � la mode de la
> consommation Coca Cola, McDonalds et Cie, ils se demandent: �O� vais-je
> trouver du travail pour survivre?� Beaucoup devront �migrer.
> L'Allemagne vient d'offrir dix mille visas pour des jeunes qualifi�s en
> informatique. Cet exode des cerveaux privera encore plus le pays de ses
> moyens de d�veloppement.�
> Beaucoup d'�lecteurs ont esp�r� qu'en changeant de dirigeants, ils
> seraient d�barrass�s des sanctions internationales �tranglant leur pays.
> Mais la victoire de Kostunica leur apportera-t-elle r�ellement le
> soulagement et la stabilit�?
> Sans doute de l'argent occidental irait dans certaines poches de ce
> pays. Le vrai chef de l'opposition, Zoran Djindjic - l'homme qui tire
> les ficelles de Kostunica - a re�u des millions de dollars pour faire le
> travail de Washington. Et une nouvelle classe d'hommes d'affaires
> tr�pigne d'impatience. Avec les multinationales, elle exige toutes
> libert�s de mettre fin aux protections sociales. Pour exploiter � fond
> une main d'ouvre qualifi�e et comp�tente. Elle voudrait imposer une
> concurrence impitoyable entre travailleurs, les soumettre � la peur du
> licenciement et du ch�mage , les obliger � travailler sans respecter la
> s�curit� ni le repos de la nuit ou du week-end.
> Comme dans les pays dits 'avanc�s' o� une grande partie des travailleurs
> se cr�ve au boulot, de plus en plus stress�s tandis que l'autre partie
> d�prime au ch�mage. Voil� le sort qui attendrait le peuple yougoslave.
> Sans compter que la d�r�glementation ch�re au 'G-17' leur permettrait
> s�rement de jouir eux aussi de la maladie de la vache folle, de la
> dioxine ou d'autres pollutions...
>
> Dans le club des voleurs, il n'y a plus de place
> Une grande illusion domine actuellement la jeunesse yougoslave, tromp�e
> par les promesses de l'Ouest. A juste titre, elle souhaite vivre mieux.
> Mais elle croit que si elle accepte les volont�s des multinationales et
> des dirigeants occidentaux, la prosp�rit� suivra.
> Mais d'o� provient cette richesse des multinationales occidentales? Du
> fait qu'elles ne paient pratiquement pas les mati�res premi�res prises
> au tiers-monde. Et que dans tous les pays o� elles vont exploiter des
> travailleurs, elles font tout pour maintenir les salaires au plus bas.
> C'est d'ailleurs une r�gle �conomique impos�e par le syst�me de la
> concurrence capitaliste : seul survit, celui qui exploite le plus fort.
> Partout donc, leur int�r�t est de maintenir au plus bas les salaires et
> le niveau de vie g�n�ral . Sinon, elles partent.
> Bref, si les soci�t�s des pays riches sont riches, c'est qu'elles volent
> les pays pauvres. Aussi quand elles promettent � un pays pauvre qu'en se
> soumettant, il pourra rejoindre le club des pays riches, c'est un
> mensonge. Cette promesse ne pourrait �tre tenue: s'il n'y a plus
> d'exploit�s qui se font voler, il n'y aura plus d'exploiteurs qui
> s'enrichissent. La seule solution est un monde sans exploiteurs et sans
> exploit�s, un monde de r�elle coop�ration internationale bas�e sur la
> solidarit�.
>
> Colonisation ne signifie pas stabilit�
> La colonisation de la Yougoslavie et des Balkans par l'Ouest
> n'apporterait pas la stabilit�. Si les in�galit�s sociales et la mis�re
> augmentent, les peuples prendront conscience qu'ils ont �t� tromp�s, ils
> se r�volteront pour regagner leur ind�pendance. Comme d�j� en Mac�doine
> et en Roumanie o� les �lections devraient voir un retour de la gauche.
> Pour d�tourner les r�voltes, les Etats-Unis et leurs amis essayeraient
> certainement � nouveau d'exciter des affrontements entre nationalit�s.
> Et si �a ne suffit pas, on verra alors que les bases militaires de
> l'Otan ont pour fonction non seulement des objectifs strat�giques �
> l'encontre de la Russie, du p�trole du Caucase et du Moyen-Orient, mais
> aussi le r�le de r�primer les peuples des Balkans. L'Otan a soutenu les
> dictateurs fascistes Franco et Salazar, elle a mis en place la dictature
> des colonels grecs en 1967, puis celle des g�n�raux turcs; elle
> n'h�siterait pas � recommencer. Mieux vaut ne pas introduire le loup
> dans la bergerie.
> La r�sistance est donc la seule voie possible pour assurer la paix et le
> d�veloppement social dans les Balkans. Milosevic a d�clar� : "Si nous
> devenions une colonie, nous ne serions jamais lib�r�s des sanctions
> (l'embargo), car �tre une colonie c'est la pire forme de sanctions. Si
> nous devenions une colonie, nous n'aurions aucune chance de
> d�veloppement, ni � court, ni a long terme."
> Sur ce point en tout cas, on ne peut que lui donner raison.
>
>
>
> --
> Les "Editions Democrite" publient un mensuel en francais :
> > "Les dossiers du BIP" avec des traductions d'articles provenant de la
> > presse communiste(grecque, allemande, anglaise, turque, russe,
> espagnole,
> > portugaise...)sur des evenements qui interessent des lecteurs
> communistes.
> > Editions Democrite, 52, bld Roger Salengro, 93190 LIVRY-GARGAN, FRANCE
>
> > e-mail : democrite@...
>
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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FACING THREATS AND BRIBES: WILL YUGOSLAVIA RESIST
U.S.-BACKED COUNTER-REVOLUTION?
By Sara Flounders
The corporate media would like everyone to believe that an
authentic, national popular movement independent of the U.S.
and NATO is rising up against the Yugoslav government, and
especially President Slobodan Milosevic. But to believe this
would be a serious mistake.
That's because the media leave out that Washington and its
European allies have subsidized this movement's leadership
with huge sums of money, bolstered them with enormous
political support, exhausted the Yugoslav population with
war threats and sanctions, demonized Milosevic by spreading
lies and false charges, and goaded the opposition to
Milosevic to risk civil war.
The U.S. leaders don't just want to remove Milosevic, they
want to smash Yugoslavia with a counter-revolution that
overthrows whatever remains from the 1945 socialist
revolution.
The opposition, though it led the first round of the
presidential election by 49 percent to 39 percent, has as of
Oct. 4 refused to participate in the runoff election
scheduled for Oct. 8. Instead it is trying to force a
confrontation with the government through strikes and
demonstrations.
WASHINGTON TRIES TO BUY ELECTION
The U.S. government has admitted to authorizing $77 dollars
to bankroll the opposition movement. On Sept. 25 the U.S.
House of Representatives voted another $105 million to fund
the "democracy movement" in Yugoslavia.
In comparison George W. Bush has raised $177 million to fund
his presidential bid. Al Gore has raised $126 million.
(Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for
Responsive Politics.)
Yugoslavia is about the size of the state of Ohio, with a
population less than 4 percent of the United States. If you
also account for the difference in average income, this
would be comparable here to a $30 billion donation from a
foreign enemy to a U.S. presidential candidate. And this is
in an economy that has been strangled by U.S.-led sanctions.
As in the U.S. election campaign, there are also lots of
soft money donations. The congressional appropriation is
just the tip of the iceberg. Both the Sept. 20 New York
Times and the Sept. 19 Washington Post describe the
suitcases of money handed over at the border. Advisers,
pollsters, TV, radio and newspapers are all paid for by the
U.S. government.
And this sum omits whatever the Soros Foundation or Germany
and other West European powers pumped in.
Despite all this foreign funding, the opposition candidate
Vojislav Kostunica claims that he is an independent who
would refuse to turn over any government official to the
Hague Tribunal. He promises Serbia will remain intact.
Kostunica counts on the U.S. and European Union's promises
to lift sanctions if Milosevic is no longer president. He
seems to have forgotten that the U.S. also promised
Milosevic that if he signed the 1995 Dayton Accords on
Bosnia, the sanctions would be lifted. Milosevic signed. The
sanctions remained.
WASHINGTON CLARIFIES ITS GOAL: COUNTER-REVOLUTION
A new bill before Congress makes Washington's aims in this
election clear. HR 1064, called the Serbian Democratization
Act of 2000, stipulates that sanctions will remain in place
until Yugoslavia agrees to "cooperate fully with The Hague
and hand over anyone charged." A new government must agree
to detach Kosovo, grant "autonomy to Vojvodina"--the region
in the north of Serbia--and "give up any claim to previously
owned property of the Yugoslav Federation, including its
missions, offices and consulates."
U.S. intervention is hardly limited to funding the
opposition and planning for its administration after the
election. Part of Yugoslavia--Kosovo--is under military
occupation by the very forces funding the opposition. The
Pentagon held joint military maneuvers with Croatia--whose
government is hostile to Yugoslavia--and a landing invasion
exercise on an island off shore in the Adriatic Sea during
the Sept. 24 elections.
Washington's goals go far beyond gross interference in an
election campaign against one man, Milosevic. That's why the
U.S. strategists wanted Kostunica to refuse to participate
in the runoff election. They are not satisfied with an
orderly transfer of some government positions if Milosevic's
Socialist Party-led coalition would still command the
Yugoslavia Parliament, whose control it retained in the
Sept. 24 election.
Strikes and shutdowns organized by the opposition show that
Washington's real aim is fomenting a civil war and the
violent overthrow of the whole government apparatus,
replacing it with a weak government completely compliant to
U.S. demands. The U.S. especially wants to destroy the
Yugoslav Army, which has its roots in the socialist
revolution of 1945.
KOSTUNICA AND G17
Why are all the imperialist forces throwing such enormous
support to Kostunica?
Kostunica is backed by a coalition of 18 parties called the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia. DOS embraces the
reconstruction plan of a group of Yugoslav economists called
the Group of 17-Plus. The mission statement of the G17
openly brags that many of the groups' economists work for
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
For anyone who holds illusions that the NATO countries--the
imperialists--might actually be supporting a "democratic
alternative," it would help to review the economic plan of
the G17 to understand the enthusiasm of U.S. and West
European banks and corporations for Kostunica.
Michel Chossudovsky is a professor of economics at the
University of Ottawa and the author of a well-known book on
IMF policies, "The Globalization of Poverty." Chossudovsky
showed that the G17 is funded by the Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" which is an
affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In an article co-
authored by Jared Israel and available on www.tenc.net, and
developed in depth in the book "NATO in the Balkans,"
Chossudofsky shows the role of the IMF in dismantling
Yugoslavia.
This whole apparatus is directly funded by the National
Endowment for Democracy, which the U.S. Congress created in
order to finance operations that the Central Intelligence
Agency used to fund clandestinely. This is not speculation.
Allen Weinstein, who planned the NED, said, "A lot of what
we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
The G17 is wholly committed to capitalism, free markets and
the dismantling of the public sector. They are committed to
doing away with programs that subsidize food, rent or
transportation, along with free medical care. World Bank and
IMF policies in country after country force businesses, both
public and private, into bankruptcy. Then foreign
corporations buy them out at rock bottom prices. A dependent
colonial economy is the result.
IMF EXPERIMENT LED TO BREAKUP
Yugoslavia went through a wrenching experiment with IMF
privatization in 1989. Professor Veselin Vukotic, now elder
statesman of the G17, was then the minister of privatization
under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.
Vukotic worked on a World Bank plan to privatize Yugoslav
industry. Yugoslav companies were selected for bankruptcy or
liquidation. This plan orchestrated the breakup of 50
percent of Yugoslav industry, wiping out 1,100 industrial
firms. Over 614,000 industrial workers were laid off, out of
2.7 million. Industrial output shrank by 21 percent.
As social programs were unraveling, unemployment
skyrocketing and wages plunging, Yugoslavia as a federation
began to unravel. There were strikes and worker actions. But
the economic chaos also gave rise to separatist tendencies
among the six republics that made up the Socialist
Federation of Yugoslavia.
In the 1991 elections Serbia and Montenegro tried to reject
these disastrous economic policies. The regimes in other
republics cast their lots with the plans of the Western
bankers.
In January 1991 U.S. Foreign Appropriations legislation
ordered a cutoff in trade, loans or aid to any republic that
held elections that the State Department did not approve.
The Foreign Appropriations bill each year legislates all
manner of strangulation against the economy of any country
not moving fast enough toward a capitalist market economy.
For attempting some resistance to the plans of the World
Bank, Serbia was targeted.
In the years of economic strangulation caused by the
sanctions that the West imposed on the two remaining
republics of Yugoslavia, many of these economic plans have
been reversed, increasing public ownership. The G17 promises
that Kostunica's election would mean Yugoslavia would
quickly adapt "free market" policies and privatize the
entire economy.
THE MINERS' STRIKE
Reports in the Western media on the Kolubara miners' strike
indicate that the government has lost at least some of the
support it once had in the working class, and that workers
are dissatisfied with the decline in their living standards.
No one sympathetic to the workers' struggle can be pleased
that police have to be sent in against workers. The world
should remember, however, what happened to the Polish
shipyard workers in Gdansk who led the struggle against the
Polish government. The new neo-liberal regime shut the
shipyard as it was no longer profitable on the world market,
and all the workers lost their jobs. Miners in Russia and
Romania faced the same IMF shutdowns.
It would be foolish to believe that the U.S. government,
which has suppressed democracy and overthrown legally
elected popular governments from Guate mala to Iran to
Greece to Chile to Grenada to Haiti, is interested in
democratic process in Yugoslavia. What it wants is to impose
savage capitalism on Serbia and Montenegro.
Kostunica claims Yugoslavia under his administration will
become a "normal Western government." But what does that
mean when there are only two kinds of status for countries
in Europe today?
Yugoslavia can't join the imperialist powers like Germany,
France or even Austria, which held colonial empires and
whose economies today have a global reach. Its only choice
is to share the fate of Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and
Ukraine.
The economy and the standard of living in these countries is
worse than it is in Yugoslavia, even after 78 days of NATO
bombing and eight years of international sanctions. The
people in these countries are the victims of 10 years of
economic restructuring. Colonial subjugation and the
dismantling of industry have been imposed on them. And
that's the choice Kostunica and his U.S. tutors offer
Yugoslavia.
WHAT TO DO
The International Action Center has issued a call directed
to those in the United States who want to show solidarity
with Yugoslavia and its struggle to resist counter-
revolution and a U.S./NATO takeover.
In response to the U.S. and Western Europe's blatant use of
funds to influence the Yugoslav election, the IAC and its
founder, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have
called for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the full
extent of U.S. intervention in the Yugoslav elections. It is
seeking evidence of this intervention and hopes to expose it
as a crime, just as it did with the war crimes the U.S. and
other NATO forces committed against Yugoslavia in 1999.
Interested readers can contact the IAC at (212) 633-6646 or
e-mail iacenter@.... Information is also available
on the Web site www.iacenter.org.
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DOS IMPLEMENTING SCENARIO WHICH NATO FAILED TO REALIZE, MINISTER MATIC
BELGRADE, October 4 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
Matic said on Wednesday that he expected a good turnout for the second
round of elections for state president on October 8, and that the
electorate will express their will and vote for the candidate of their
choice in a free and democratic manner, without pressures or interference
from outside or within.
Speaking in a broadcast by YUInfo television, Matic said elections
held in Yugoslavia on September 24 "were overexposed in the international
public from the very beginning of the election campaign."
"Practically, they were given importance which elections in other
countries do not have according to the nature of things. It is evident that
a large deposit had been made for these elections," he said.
Through these elections, the countries which committed the
aggression on Yugoslavia had wanted to secure amnesty for the crimes they
committed against the civilian population in Yugoslavia and, generally, for
that entire shameful, uncivilized and illegal aggression for which there
was no basis in any legal act or international document, Matic said.
The Minister singled out as especially interesting that foreign
correspondents of media such as the BBC, Sky News, NTV, ARD, CDF, did not
hide their disappointment that no conflicts had broken out already on the
day of elections, even bloodshed, in the streets of Belgrade and other
places in Yugoslavia, and that the elections had passed in a peaceful and
democratic atmosphere.
"This was a great disappointment for them and they invested
everything to provoke this in other ways," Matic said, illustrating this
with a statement by wellknown British reporter John Simpson who, when asked
from his BBC headquarters to give the actual figures for the first round of
presidential elections, replied that figures were naturally important, but
that the possibility to paralyse the country was far more important.
Returning to the subject of the second round of presidential
elections, Matic asked: "What is the secret behind (DOS presidential
candidate Vojislav) Kostunica's fear to participate in a runoff" if he had
an advantage of 600,000 votes in the first round, in which case the second
round would be a mere formality for him.
"Perhaps the secret is that DOS (Democratic Opposition of Serbia)
stole votes and manipulated the elections by substituting boxes with
presidential candidate ballots. Therefore, let us see who is the actual
forger in these elections, and not believe it when they cry wolf, because
that story is familiar," Matic said.
Speaking about activities by home media in the present situation,
Matic said the papers Vijesti, Glas javnosti, Blic, Danas, and some others
"have become DOS's political pamphlets whose objective is to realize the
scenario which Simpson had clearly announced as the homework of the BBC,
which is a British state company and reflects the positions of Britains's
state policy."
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YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS -
A LESSON IN OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
At the invitation of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Britain's Socialist Labour Party sent a three-person delegation to participate in international monitoring of the Yugoslav elections held on 24 September. We were the only British representatives among 250 observers invited from around the world.
Our delegation travelled extensively throughout the country, was able to talk to officials and voters and visited numerous polling stations, gaining first-hand experience of what was actually taking place during an election which was being misreported in many parts of the world.
From what we saw, the Federal Electoral Commission, an elected all-party body, did everything in its power to ensure that people were able to cast their votes without intimidation and in an orderly manner - and certainly in accordance with procedures which we would expect in a democratic, free election.
In Serbia, we visited the Muslim areas of Kraljevo and Novi Pazar as well as observing polling in the capital, Belgrade.
It was only in Montenegro that we observed the following irregularities:
1. the so-called Democratic Opposition which boycotted the elections in Montenegro nevertheless gathered outside polling stations there in clear violation of election procedures, using intimidating behaviour towards prospective voters;
2. we received many first-hand reports from people who stated they had been threatened with the loss of their jobs if they turned out to vote;
3. we were in no doubt that countless refugees from Kosovo had been deliberately excluded from the electoral lists in Montenegro despite the fact that their identity cards, issued in 1999, gave them the right to vote, and were thus also prevented from voting.
We could only conclude that these tactics of intimidation and disenfranchisement were designed to benefit the so-called Democratic Opposition.
We were also appalled at the blatant outside interference in the procedures from Western governments which are obviously seeking to influence the outcome of these elections by promising economic aid and the lifting of sanctions if the Yugoslav people vote in accordance with the wishes of these governments and the European Union.
Mick Appleyard Liz Screen Ian Johnson
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Press release 22 / 09/ 2000
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CANADIAN OBSERVERS IN YUGOSLAVIA
Marjaleena Repo
BELGRADE. The international observers of the Yugoslavian presidential and
parliamentary elections have arrived in Belgrade - some 200 of them from
(so far) 54 countries. Contrary to the reports that "they have not been
allowed in," there are registered observers from the following Western
European countries. Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Germany, Portugal, Sweden and UK. (The so far single American
observer is an active senior participant in the Gore presidential
campaign.) Among the observers are parlamentarians, delegates from
political parties and organizations, as well as independents like the two
participants from Canada.
The Canadian delegates have attended political rallies of the three major
presidential candidates, in Belgrade and Novi Sad. These events were noisy
and lively affairs, without any observable disturbances and any noticeable
police presence. Literature was freely distributed and received at these
events, in a way no different from political rallies in Canada.
One of us (Marjaleena Repo) has paid particular attention to election
posters as she has been involved in the long-standing and not-yet-finished
fight for the right to poster in Canada - and she can report that posters
are everywhere in the street scene, accompanied by graffiti and the
defacing of each others posters even-steven fashion, it seems. She has seen
posterers at work in downtown Belgrade with posters urging women to vote,
while postering on top of other election messages! She had a chance to
discuss this contradiction with five English-speaking Yugoslavian youth
with their buckets and sponges. Unlike in Canadian cities, the posters
appear not to be scraped down by city workers but live to suffer the
indignities from competeing political parties. In addition, there are huge
billboards advertising the three major presidential candidates all around
the cityscape. All in all, the appearance of democracy in action.
The other Canadian delegate, Professor Dimitri Kitsikis, has a long-time
experience of national elections, having systematically studied and
observed them in many countries, notably in France, Greece and Turkey. His
observations are therefore particularly valid and he has been unshaken by
Western insistence that Yugoslav elections could be rigged. On the
contrary, he is observing that these elections do not differ
from those in any other democratic countries, particularly from France, of
which Dr. Kitsikis is an expert.
The delegates have attended an information session on the electoral process
in Yugoslavia and have been provided with background information and
documentation on how the system works and how it makes an effort to
guarantee an equal, free and transparent voting method leading to reliable
results. Questions
were invited and responded to. We were informed that the delegates will be
able to attend any and all polling stations on voting day, Sept. 24, and
officials at the polls have been instructed to welcome foreign observers
with full access to the actual voting situation, while respecting the
citizens' right to privacy.
While in Belgrade, disturbing news reached the observers. The International
Herald Tribune of Sept. 20 has a front page story, titled "U.S. aids
Milosevic foes: Millions allocated to a democracy program." The article
states that U.S. officials have acknowledged $77 million financial
"contribution" to opposition groups in Yugoslavia, from students to labour,
from so-called independent media to political rock bands, and the newspaper
states that "There is nothing secret or even particularly unusual about the
U.S. democracy-building program in Serbia, which is closely co-ordinated
with European allies and is similar to previous campaigns in pre-democratic
Chile, South Africa and Eastern Europe, among other places."
Washington Post (Sept. 21) further reveals that U.S. officials and
corporations are also "providing a sophisticated opinion survey system,
engaging for the purpose the New York firm that has done the job for Bill
Clinton [Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates]" which explains the many
polls that "prove" that an
opposition candidate is ahead of President Milosevic and suggest vigorously
that Mr. Milosevic will only win by fraud.
While the Canadian and other Western media have alredy declared the
election to be "rigged" (without any evidence, of course), we believe that
the actual evidence for rigging and distorting the Yugoslavian election
results has been found in the pre-democratic countries of U.S. and the
European Union who in an wholly illegal and undemocratic fashion are
interfering in the domestic affairs of a sovereign country. This, of
course, must be condemned by all true democrats, be they individuals,
organizations or nations. - 30-
MARJALEENA REPO is a social justice activist and a long-standing member of
Canada's "democracy movement," with hands-on experience on how Canada's
democracy does and does not work. In April '99, she was a founding member
of The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Canada's Participation in the War Against
Yugoslavia. She lives in Saskatoon, Sask.
DR. DIMITRI KITSIKIS is a professor of International Relations at the
University of Ottawa since 1970 and a fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. He is a specialist of the Balkans and Turkey and has written many
books on the area.
Professor Kitsikis is multi-lingual and can give interviews in French and
Greek as well as in English.
Back in Canada on September 29, Ms. Repo can be reached at (416)466-6533 or
(306)244-9724.
Professor Kitsikis will be back in Ottawa on October 2, and can be reached
at University of Ottawa, tel: (613)562-5735 or at his home tel: (613)834-4634.
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by Michel Chossudvosky and Jared Israel
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[Emperor's Clothes]
Yesterday we wrote an article analyzing the situation in Yugoslavia. Before
we could publish it, our analysis has been confirmed by events. We have
confirmed from an unimpeachable source that members of the "democratic"
opposition have been visited Belgrade residents, threatening to murder them
if they voted in the runoff elections. Now there are reports of the burning
of the Yugoslav parliament - where the government has a majority of seats -
and the sacking of sections of Belgrade and murder of citizens who don't
support the opposition. These measure are intended to bring a US puppet
regime to power.
The article follows.
The evidence is mounting that the "Democratic" opposition strategy in
Yugoslavia, worked out under the guidance of Washington and Bonn, is not to
elect Mr. Kostunica President of Yugoslavia.. If it were, why wouldn't they
gladly participate in runoff elections, given that Kostunica has an admitted
10% lead.? One reason they don't want to participate is that most of the
approximately 40% of the electorate which did not vote in round one would
most likely vote against Kostunica in round two.
But apart from that, the main reason is that the president of Yugoslavia has
no power without a parliamentary majority. The elections gave the current
government a clear majority in both houses.
NATO's plan for Yugoslavia is to apply the most severe economic shock
treatment which requires domination of the government. The shock therapy was
admitted by Mr. Dinkic, chief economist for the opposition:
"we are thinking of adopting... a shock therapy in some areas, and mild and
gradual reforms in others," Dinkic told Beta. : Beta news agency, Belgrade,
in Serbo-Croat 1828 gmt 26 Sep 00 posted by BBX Oct. 5, 2000)
The same was stated in law HR1064, passed by the US House of Representatives
a day after the elections. This law granted an additional 105 million to be
shared between the pro-NATO government of Montenegro ($55 million US) and the
leaders of the DOS ($50 million.) That money was released on an emergency
basis - Oct 1. It was immediately wired to the DOS bank accounts in Budapest
and then smuggled across the border in new US bills for immediate use. to
destabilize Yugoslavia.
The law ordered that the most draconian economic "reforms" be imposed on
Yugoslavia, ordered the breakup of Serbia into separate min-states, ordered
the imposition of complete "democratization", that is, adoption all measures
demanded by the US and ordered the hunting down of all people whom NATO
decides to accuse of being war criminals,
The violent economic "adjustment" and political destruction mandated by
HR1064 and outlined in the program of 'democratic" opposition itself are an
attempt to crush Yugoslavia as a force capable of resisting US domination of
the Balkans, to reduce it to an impoverished territory - a colony. .
These measures cannot be implemented unless NATO has full control of the
Yugoslav government including the army and police. (The other alternative,
invading a Yugoslavia run by a hostile government, is politically unfeasible
for NATO) .
Therefore the DOS has used the charge of "election fraud" - endlessly
repeated but never with any evidence - as an excuse to boycott the runoffs.
In contrast, the fraud involved in the US paying hundreds of millions of
dollars to the "democratic" opposition is never mentioned. This bribe money
violates the electoral laws of every country. Using the veneer of protesting
election fraud, the "democrats" are mobilizing all possible forces in an
attempt to seize power by force. These include pro-fascist Croatians and
pro-KLA Albanians who are the hard core supporters of the pro-NATO Djukanovic
government in Montenegro, they include , secessionists from the Serbian
province of Vojvodina and southern Serbia, young people who have never worked
and who are being fed trickles of cash from the several hundred million
dollars the US has pumped into opposition hands, people coerced by superiors
at work or by school headmasters to demonstrate, people bribed by a taste of
the vast sums of money the US has pumped into Yugoslavia especially in the
past two weeks, and people who have been fooled by the massive, US funded
campaign, by "independent" media, public relations firms and election
pollsters, into believing that their falling living standards, caused by
sanctions just as severe as those imposed on Iraq, are the "fault of one man
- Milosevich" and that the US-backed opposition will bring prosperity. In
fact they would bring the prosperity of the grave.
Because the truth is that countries like Bulgaria and Russia which have
swallowed the "democratic " bait are far poorer than Yugoslavia - even though
they are not suffering from sanctions. and were not yet bombed
The scenario is much like what occurred in Chile in 1973.. There was the same
sort of disruption of transportation and essential services including
electricity. There was the same effort to create the appearance of a majority
movement against Chilean Pres. Allende.. Events were staged which a captive
media misdescribed as popular protest, giving ordinary people the impression
that Allende was about to fall. At the same time, the CIA-directed plan
deprived the people of basic necessities, causing real unrest. In Yugoslavia,
the disruption of the supply of essential commodities started before the
election with a US-instigated rise in the price of bread
Under cover of disruption and "popular protest: the CIA overthrew President
Salvador Allende and installed a pro-US military junta headed by General
Augusto Pinochet.
The strikes which crippled transport and food distribution in Chile were
funded by the CIA. The same is being attempted right now in Yugoslavia. Vast
sums of US tax payers money has been poured into opposition coffers in
Serbia. We know of $182 million. But this is only what is officially
admitted. What about CIA money, which the New York Times says is going into
Serbia "in suitcases full of cash"? What about money from the Soros
Foundation and other CIA-connected "charities"? This money is being used to
finance the miners' strike and to lure young people into the Western-created
group Otpor by giving them money and trinkets, like cellular phones. .
Of course, many Yugoslav people are disgruntled. one miner told the 'NY
Times': "I used to make $1500 a month. Now I make $80." Dishonest forces put
the blame for this on the government that is resisting US control. In fact,
the problem started because in 1989 a World Bank plan, overseen by a leading
member of one of the current 'democratic' opposition groups, closed over a
thousand Yugoslav business, devastating the economy. The wars and sanctions,
whose fault lies with the US and Germany, have further hurt the economy. The
Yugoslav government, routinely accused of being dictatorial, has tolerated
the creation of an immense Fifth Column in Serbia by the US government, which
has poured m8llions into the funding and training of what tare falsely called
"civil society" organizations. These organizations, funded through the
National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, the USIA, the CIA and the
Soros Foundation, among others, pay thousands of people in Serbia and
maintain and entire "alternate" media with the latest equipment and high
salaries. This media then uses the problem caused by the US to sow discontent
among anyone who is susceptible.
The US effort to destroy Yugoslavia goes back to 1984. A U.S. National
Security Decision Directive NSDD133 entitled "United States Policy Toward
Yugoslavia. Labeled SECRET Sensitive has recently been de-classified. It is a
prescription for destroying Yugoslavia as an economic and political entity.
Since the elections on 24 September, the Democratic opposition has met with
NATO officials in Sofia, Bulgaria. NATO Assistant Secretary General Paul
Klaiber was in Sofia and Bucharest for high level discussions on security
issues resulting from the elections. Barely reported in the media, an IMF
donors' conference was held behind closed doors, Two leading "democratic"
representatives presented their so-called "Letter of Intent", a plan for
imposing harsh economic measure on Yugoslavia, to their IMF and World Bank
leaders. And on the 4th of October, the Stability Pact for Southeastern
Europe was meeting under its so-called "Title III" which pertains to
"security issues." The elections and "transition" in Yugoslavia were on the
agenda. The press reports do not confirm that the two "democratic:
representatives stayed for these meetings. We suspect they did..
The ploy being employed now is to create chaos while dangling promises of
money and peace, instigate whatever elements - children ignorant of politics
and lured by money, secessionist elements, fascists, people under compulsion
from superiors - along with infiltrators from NATO armed forces disguised as
rebellious youths, to terrorize Yugoslav loyalists and create the impression
of popular revolt. Already we have learned that DOS activists are going
around Belgrade, threatening death to anyone who votes in the Sunday
elections. Further provocation may occur at any time. These "democrats" aim
to provide Washington and NATO with a pretext to intervene as "peacekeepers"
as they did in Bosnia.
In the meantime, not only are NATO war ships in the Adriatic, but foreign
troops are already on Yugoslav soil. British SAS special forces are training
paramilitary police in Montenegro to assassinate Yugoslav army officer,.
Money is being channeled to finance these groups..
What we are witnessing is nothing less than an attempt to install a
fascist-like government in Yugoslavia, to turn all of Yugoslavia into Kosovo.
Yugoslavia has stood up to the biggest bully in history, the US government.
Now it is time for all who oppose the creation of US/German dominated world
empire to stand up for Yugoslavia.
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[Emperor's Clothes]
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>
> Les liaisons dangereuses
> de Monsieur Kostunica
>
>
> �Cette fois, j'ai vot� Kostunica, car il est honn�te. Mais je n'aime pas
> les gens autour de lui, et j'esp�re qu'il saura les ma�triser�, m'a dit
> un vieux professeur, ce dimanche 24 septembre, dans un bureau de vote de
> Belgrade, o� j'�tais invit� comme observateur international. Beaucoup
> m'ont dit la m�me chose. Qui donc est derri�re Kostunica?
>
> MICHEL COLLON
>
> Face � Milosevic , incarnant la r�sistance � l'Otan, les dirigeants
> habituels de l'opposition auraient certainement perdu s'ils s'�taient
> pr�sent�s. Car Draskovic avait bais� la main de Madeleine Albright (USA)
> en pleine guerre et Djindjic avait fui en Allemagne. Or, la grande
> majorit� des Yougoslaves reste farouchement attach�e � l'ind�pendance du
> pays.
> L'habilet� de la nouvelle strat�gie a consist� � pr�senter un homme
> 'neuf', Kostunica, qui multiplie les d�clarations 'critiques' � l'�gard
> des Etats-Unis et de l'Otan. Mais son programme est celui du G-17 (voir
> page 2), un groupe d'�conomistes yougoslaves tr�s � droite:
> 1. Introduction du deutsche mark comme monnaie nationale! 2. Forte
> r�duction du budget militaire, ce qui priverait le pays des moyens de se
> d�fendre contre de nouvelles agressions. 3. Alignement sur les recettes
> anti-sociales du Fonds Mon�taire International. Apr�s une ann�e de
> sursis, la partie pauvre de la population serait priv�e du 'filet de
> s�curit� sociale' qui lui a permis de survivre jusqu'� pr�sent. Elle
> devrait acheter les marchandises aux prix r�gnant en Europe occidentale
> tout en disposant d'un pouvoir d'achat actuellement proche de bien des
> pays du tiers monde.
>
> Avec Kostunica, Djindjic et le FMI, la population serait-elle soulag�e?
> Ces m�mes r�formes ont d�j� d�vast� des pays comme la Bulgarie,
> l'Albanie ou la Roumanie. Un observateur roumain m'a confi�: �On nous
> avait promis qu'apr�s la chute de Ceaucescu, le capitalisme sans freins
> apporterait la prosp�rit�. Mais, aujourd'hui, l'�conomie est en ruines.
> Nous avons ramass� dix milliards de dollars de dettes, mais on ne voit
> pas un seul investissement. Les b�timents en cours de construction sous
> Ceaucescu ne sont toujours pas achev�s, on ne cr�e pas de nouveaux
> logements, les jeunes sont forc�s d'attendre que leurs parents meurent
> pour obtenir un appartement. Apr�s avoir c�d� � la mode de la
> consommation Coca Cola, McDonalds et Cie, ils se demandent: �O� vais-je
> trouver du travail pour survivre?� Beaucoup devront �migrer.
> L'Allemagne vient d'offrir dix mille visas pour des jeunes qualifi�s en
> informatique. Cet exode des cerveaux privera encore plus le pays de ses
> moyens de d�veloppement.�
> Beaucoup d'�lecteurs ont esp�r� qu'en changeant de dirigeants, ils
> seraient d�barrass�s des sanctions internationales �tranglant leur pays.
> Mais la victoire de Kostunica leur apportera-t-elle r�ellement le
> soulagement et la stabilit�?
> Sans doute de l'argent occidental irait dans certaines poches de ce
> pays. Le vrai chef de l'opposition, Zoran Djindjic - l'homme qui tire
> les ficelles de Kostunica - a re�u des millions de dollars pour faire le
> travail de Washington. Et une nouvelle classe d'hommes d'affaires
> tr�pigne d'impatience. Avec les multinationales, elle exige toutes
> libert�s de mettre fin aux protections sociales. Pour exploiter � fond
> une main d'ouvre qualifi�e et comp�tente. Elle voudrait imposer une
> concurrence impitoyable entre travailleurs, les soumettre � la peur du
> licenciement et du ch�mage , les obliger � travailler sans respecter la
> s�curit� ni le repos de la nuit ou du week-end.
> Comme dans les pays dits 'avanc�s' o� une grande partie des travailleurs
> se cr�ve au boulot, de plus en plus stress�s tandis que l'autre partie
> d�prime au ch�mage. Voil� le sort qui attendrait le peuple yougoslave.
> Sans compter que la d�r�glementation ch�re au 'G-17' leur permettrait
> s�rement de jouir eux aussi de la maladie de la vache folle, de la
> dioxine ou d'autres pollutions...
>
> Dans le club des voleurs, il n'y a plus de place
> Une grande illusion domine actuellement la jeunesse yougoslave, tromp�e
> par les promesses de l'Ouest. A juste titre, elle souhaite vivre mieux.
> Mais elle croit que si elle accepte les volont�s des multinationales et
> des dirigeants occidentaux, la prosp�rit� suivra.
> Mais d'o� provient cette richesse des multinationales occidentales? Du
> fait qu'elles ne paient pratiquement pas les mati�res premi�res prises
> au tiers-monde. Et que dans tous les pays o� elles vont exploiter des
> travailleurs, elles font tout pour maintenir les salaires au plus bas.
> C'est d'ailleurs une r�gle �conomique impos�e par le syst�me de la
> concurrence capitaliste : seul survit, celui qui exploite le plus fort.
> Partout donc, leur int�r�t est de maintenir au plus bas les salaires et
> le niveau de vie g�n�ral . Sinon, elles partent.
> Bref, si les soci�t�s des pays riches sont riches, c'est qu'elles volent
> les pays pauvres. Aussi quand elles promettent � un pays pauvre qu'en se
> soumettant, il pourra rejoindre le club des pays riches, c'est un
> mensonge. Cette promesse ne pourrait �tre tenue: s'il n'y a plus
> d'exploit�s qui se font voler, il n'y aura plus d'exploiteurs qui
> s'enrichissent. La seule solution est un monde sans exploiteurs et sans
> exploit�s, un monde de r�elle coop�ration internationale bas�e sur la
> solidarit�.
>
> Colonisation ne signifie pas stabilit�
> La colonisation de la Yougoslavie et des Balkans par l'Ouest
> n'apporterait pas la stabilit�. Si les in�galit�s sociales et la mis�re
> augmentent, les peuples prendront conscience qu'ils ont �t� tromp�s, ils
> se r�volteront pour regagner leur ind�pendance. Comme d�j� en Mac�doine
> et en Roumanie o� les �lections devraient voir un retour de la gauche.
> Pour d�tourner les r�voltes, les Etats-Unis et leurs amis essayeraient
> certainement � nouveau d'exciter des affrontements entre nationalit�s.
> Et si �a ne suffit pas, on verra alors que les bases militaires de
> l'Otan ont pour fonction non seulement des objectifs strat�giques �
> l'encontre de la Russie, du p�trole du Caucase et du Moyen-Orient, mais
> aussi le r�le de r�primer les peuples des Balkans. L'Otan a soutenu les
> dictateurs fascistes Franco et Salazar, elle a mis en place la dictature
> des colonels grecs en 1967, puis celle des g�n�raux turcs; elle
> n'h�siterait pas � recommencer. Mieux vaut ne pas introduire le loup
> dans la bergerie.
> La r�sistance est donc la seule voie possible pour assurer la paix et le
> d�veloppement social dans les Balkans. Milosevic a d�clar� : "Si nous
> devenions une colonie, nous ne serions jamais lib�r�s des sanctions
> (l'embargo), car �tre une colonie c'est la pire forme de sanctions. Si
> nous devenions une colonie, nous n'aurions aucune chance de
> d�veloppement, ni � court, ni a long terme."
> Sur ce point en tout cas, on ne peut que lui donner raison.
>
>
>
> --
> Les "Editions Democrite" publient un mensuel en francais :
> > "Les dossiers du BIP" avec des traductions d'articles provenant de la
> > presse communiste(grecque, allemande, anglaise, turque, russe,
> espagnole,
> > portugaise...)sur des evenements qui interessent des lecteurs
> communistes.
> > Editions Democrite, 52, bld Roger Salengro, 93190 LIVRY-GARGAN, FRANCE
>
> > e-mail : democrite@...
>
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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FACING THREATS AND BRIBES: WILL YUGOSLAVIA RESIST
U.S.-BACKED COUNTER-REVOLUTION?
By Sara Flounders
The corporate media would like everyone to believe that an
authentic, national popular movement independent of the U.S.
and NATO is rising up against the Yugoslav government, and
especially President Slobodan Milosevic. But to believe this
would be a serious mistake.
That's because the media leave out that Washington and its
European allies have subsidized this movement's leadership
with huge sums of money, bolstered them with enormous
political support, exhausted the Yugoslav population with
war threats and sanctions, demonized Milosevic by spreading
lies and false charges, and goaded the opposition to
Milosevic to risk civil war.
The U.S. leaders don't just want to remove Milosevic, they
want to smash Yugoslavia with a counter-revolution that
overthrows whatever remains from the 1945 socialist
revolution.
The opposition, though it led the first round of the
presidential election by 49 percent to 39 percent, has as of
Oct. 4 refused to participate in the runoff election
scheduled for Oct. 8. Instead it is trying to force a
confrontation with the government through strikes and
demonstrations.
WASHINGTON TRIES TO BUY ELECTION
The U.S. government has admitted to authorizing $77 dollars
to bankroll the opposition movement. On Sept. 25 the U.S.
House of Representatives voted another $105 million to fund
the "democracy movement" in Yugoslavia.
In comparison George W. Bush has raised $177 million to fund
his presidential bid. Al Gore has raised $126 million.
(Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for
Responsive Politics.)
Yugoslavia is about the size of the state of Ohio, with a
population less than 4 percent of the United States. If you
also account for the difference in average income, this
would be comparable here to a $30 billion donation from a
foreign enemy to a U.S. presidential candidate. And this is
in an economy that has been strangled by U.S.-led sanctions.
As in the U.S. election campaign, there are also lots of
soft money donations. The congressional appropriation is
just the tip of the iceberg. Both the Sept. 20 New York
Times and the Sept. 19 Washington Post describe the
suitcases of money handed over at the border. Advisers,
pollsters, TV, radio and newspapers are all paid for by the
U.S. government.
And this sum omits whatever the Soros Foundation or Germany
and other West European powers pumped in.
Despite all this foreign funding, the opposition candidate
Vojislav Kostunica claims that he is an independent who
would refuse to turn over any government official to the
Hague Tribunal. He promises Serbia will remain intact.
Kostunica counts on the U.S. and European Union's promises
to lift sanctions if Milosevic is no longer president. He
seems to have forgotten that the U.S. also promised
Milosevic that if he signed the 1995 Dayton Accords on
Bosnia, the sanctions would be lifted. Milosevic signed. The
sanctions remained.
WASHINGTON CLARIFIES ITS GOAL: COUNTER-REVOLUTION
A new bill before Congress makes Washington's aims in this
election clear. HR 1064, called the Serbian Democratization
Act of 2000, stipulates that sanctions will remain in place
until Yugoslavia agrees to "cooperate fully with The Hague
and hand over anyone charged." A new government must agree
to detach Kosovo, grant "autonomy to Vojvodina"--the region
in the north of Serbia--and "give up any claim to previously
owned property of the Yugoslav Federation, including its
missions, offices and consulates."
U.S. intervention is hardly limited to funding the
opposition and planning for its administration after the
election. Part of Yugoslavia--Kosovo--is under military
occupation by the very forces funding the opposition. The
Pentagon held joint military maneuvers with Croatia--whose
government is hostile to Yugoslavia--and a landing invasion
exercise on an island off shore in the Adriatic Sea during
the Sept. 24 elections.
Washington's goals go far beyond gross interference in an
election campaign against one man, Milosevic. That's why the
U.S. strategists wanted Kostunica to refuse to participate
in the runoff election. They are not satisfied with an
orderly transfer of some government positions if Milosevic's
Socialist Party-led coalition would still command the
Yugoslavia Parliament, whose control it retained in the
Sept. 24 election.
Strikes and shutdowns organized by the opposition show that
Washington's real aim is fomenting a civil war and the
violent overthrow of the whole government apparatus,
replacing it with a weak government completely compliant to
U.S. demands. The U.S. especially wants to destroy the
Yugoslav Army, which has its roots in the socialist
revolution of 1945.
KOSTUNICA AND G17
Why are all the imperialist forces throwing such enormous
support to Kostunica?
Kostunica is backed by a coalition of 18 parties called the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia. DOS embraces the
reconstruction plan of a group of Yugoslav economists called
the Group of 17-Plus. The mission statement of the G17
openly brags that many of the groups' economists work for
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
For anyone who holds illusions that the NATO countries--the
imperialists--might actually be supporting a "democratic
alternative," it would help to review the economic plan of
the G17 to understand the enthusiasm of U.S. and West
European banks and corporations for Kostunica.
Michel Chossudovsky is a professor of economics at the
University of Ottawa and the author of a well-known book on
IMF policies, "The Globalization of Poverty." Chossudovsky
showed that the G17 is funded by the Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" which is an
affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In an article co-
authored by Jared Israel and available on www.tenc.net, and
developed in depth in the book "NATO in the Balkans,"
Chossudofsky shows the role of the IMF in dismantling
Yugoslavia.
This whole apparatus is directly funded by the National
Endowment for Democracy, which the U.S. Congress created in
order to finance operations that the Central Intelligence
Agency used to fund clandestinely. This is not speculation.
Allen Weinstein, who planned the NED, said, "A lot of what
we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
The G17 is wholly committed to capitalism, free markets and
the dismantling of the public sector. They are committed to
doing away with programs that subsidize food, rent or
transportation, along with free medical care. World Bank and
IMF policies in country after country force businesses, both
public and private, into bankruptcy. Then foreign
corporations buy them out at rock bottom prices. A dependent
colonial economy is the result.
IMF EXPERIMENT LED TO BREAKUP
Yugoslavia went through a wrenching experiment with IMF
privatization in 1989. Professor Veselin Vukotic, now elder
statesman of the G17, was then the minister of privatization
under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.
Vukotic worked on a World Bank plan to privatize Yugoslav
industry. Yugoslav companies were selected for bankruptcy or
liquidation. This plan orchestrated the breakup of 50
percent of Yugoslav industry, wiping out 1,100 industrial
firms. Over 614,000 industrial workers were laid off, out of
2.7 million. Industrial output shrank by 21 percent.
As social programs were unraveling, unemployment
skyrocketing and wages plunging, Yugoslavia as a federation
began to unravel. There were strikes and worker actions. But
the economic chaos also gave rise to separatist tendencies
among the six republics that made up the Socialist
Federation of Yugoslavia.
In the 1991 elections Serbia and Montenegro tried to reject
these disastrous economic policies. The regimes in other
republics cast their lots with the plans of the Western
bankers.
In January 1991 U.S. Foreign Appropriations legislation
ordered a cutoff in trade, loans or aid to any republic that
held elections that the State Department did not approve.
The Foreign Appropriations bill each year legislates all
manner of strangulation against the economy of any country
not moving fast enough toward a capitalist market economy.
For attempting some resistance to the plans of the World
Bank, Serbia was targeted.
In the years of economic strangulation caused by the
sanctions that the West imposed on the two remaining
republics of Yugoslavia, many of these economic plans have
been reversed, increasing public ownership. The G17 promises
that Kostunica's election would mean Yugoslavia would
quickly adapt "free market" policies and privatize the
entire economy.
THE MINERS' STRIKE
Reports in the Western media on the Kolubara miners' strike
indicate that the government has lost at least some of the
support it once had in the working class, and that workers
are dissatisfied with the decline in their living standards.
No one sympathetic to the workers' struggle can be pleased
that police have to be sent in against workers. The world
should remember, however, what happened to the Polish
shipyard workers in Gdansk who led the struggle against the
Polish government. The new neo-liberal regime shut the
shipyard as it was no longer profitable on the world market,
and all the workers lost their jobs. Miners in Russia and
Romania faced the same IMF shutdowns.
It would be foolish to believe that the U.S. government,
which has suppressed democracy and overthrown legally
elected popular governments from Guate mala to Iran to
Greece to Chile to Grenada to Haiti, is interested in
democratic process in Yugoslavia. What it wants is to impose
savage capitalism on Serbia and Montenegro.
Kostunica claims Yugoslavia under his administration will
become a "normal Western government." But what does that
mean when there are only two kinds of status for countries
in Europe today?
Yugoslavia can't join the imperialist powers like Germany,
France or even Austria, which held colonial empires and
whose economies today have a global reach. Its only choice
is to share the fate of Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and
Ukraine.
The economy and the standard of living in these countries is
worse than it is in Yugoslavia, even after 78 days of NATO
bombing and eight years of international sanctions. The
people in these countries are the victims of 10 years of
economic restructuring. Colonial subjugation and the
dismantling of industry have been imposed on them. And
that's the choice Kostunica and his U.S. tutors offer
Yugoslavia.
WHAT TO DO
The International Action Center has issued a call directed
to those in the United States who want to show solidarity
with Yugoslavia and its struggle to resist counter-
revolution and a U.S./NATO takeover.
In response to the U.S. and Western Europe's blatant use of
funds to influence the Yugoslav election, the IAC and its
founder, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have
called for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the full
extent of U.S. intervention in the Yugoslav elections. It is
seeking evidence of this intervention and hopes to expose it
as a crime, just as it did with the war crimes the U.S. and
other NATO forces committed against Yugoslavia in 1999.
Interested readers can contact the IAC at (212) 633-6646 or
e-mail iacenter@.... Information is also available
on the Web site www.iacenter.org.
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DOS IMPLEMENTING SCENARIO WHICH NATO FAILED TO REALIZE, MINISTER MATIC
BELGRADE, October 4 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
Matic said on Wednesday that he expected a good turnout for the second
round of elections for state president on October 8, and that the
electorate will express their will and vote for the candidate of their
choice in a free and democratic manner, without pressures or interference
from outside or within.
Speaking in a broadcast by YUInfo television, Matic said elections
held in Yugoslavia on September 24 "were overexposed in the international
public from the very beginning of the election campaign."
"Practically, they were given importance which elections in other
countries do not have according to the nature of things. It is evident that
a large deposit had been made for these elections," he said.
Through these elections, the countries which committed the
aggression on Yugoslavia had wanted to secure amnesty for the crimes they
committed against the civilian population in Yugoslavia and, generally, for
that entire shameful, uncivilized and illegal aggression for which there
was no basis in any legal act or international document, Matic said.
The Minister singled out as especially interesting that foreign
correspondents of media such as the BBC, Sky News, NTV, ARD, CDF, did not
hide their disappointment that no conflicts had broken out already on the
day of elections, even bloodshed, in the streets of Belgrade and other
places in Yugoslavia, and that the elections had passed in a peaceful and
democratic atmosphere.
"This was a great disappointment for them and they invested
everything to provoke this in other ways," Matic said, illustrating this
with a statement by wellknown British reporter John Simpson who, when asked
from his BBC headquarters to give the actual figures for the first round of
presidential elections, replied that figures were naturally important, but
that the possibility to paralyse the country was far more important.
Returning to the subject of the second round of presidential
elections, Matic asked: "What is the secret behind (DOS presidential
candidate Vojislav) Kostunica's fear to participate in a runoff" if he had
an advantage of 600,000 votes in the first round, in which case the second
round would be a mere formality for him.
"Perhaps the secret is that DOS (Democratic Opposition of Serbia)
stole votes and manipulated the elections by substituting boxes with
presidential candidate ballots. Therefore, let us see who is the actual
forger in these elections, and not believe it when they cry wolf, because
that story is familiar," Matic said.
Speaking about activities by home media in the present situation,
Matic said the papers Vijesti, Glas javnosti, Blic, Danas, and some others
"have become DOS's political pamphlets whose objective is to realize the
scenario which Simpson had clearly announced as the homework of the BBC,
which is a British state company and reflects the positions of Britains's
state policy."
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YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS -
A LESSON IN OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
At the invitation of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Britain's Socialist Labour Party sent a three-person delegation to participate in international monitoring of the Yugoslav elections held on 24 September. We were the only British representatives among 250 observers invited from around the world.
Our delegation travelled extensively throughout the country, was able to talk to officials and voters and visited numerous polling stations, gaining first-hand experience of what was actually taking place during an election which was being misreported in many parts of the world.
From what we saw, the Federal Electoral Commission, an elected all-party body, did everything in its power to ensure that people were able to cast their votes without intimidation and in an orderly manner - and certainly in accordance with procedures which we would expect in a democratic, free election.
In Serbia, we visited the Muslim areas of Kraljevo and Novi Pazar as well as observing polling in the capital, Belgrade.
It was only in Montenegro that we observed the following irregularities:
1. the so-called Democratic Opposition which boycotted the elections in Montenegro nevertheless gathered outside polling stations there in clear violation of election procedures, using intimidating behaviour towards prospective voters;
2. we received many first-hand reports from people who stated they had been threatened with the loss of their jobs if they turned out to vote;
3. we were in no doubt that countless refugees from Kosovo had been deliberately excluded from the electoral lists in Montenegro despite the fact that their identity cards, issued in 1999, gave them the right to vote, and were thus also prevented from voting.
We could only conclude that these tactics of intimidation and disenfranchisement were designed to benefit the so-called Democratic Opposition.
We were also appalled at the blatant outside interference in the procedures from Western governments which are obviously seeking to influence the outcome of these elections by promising economic aid and the lifting of sanctions if the Yugoslav people vote in accordance with the wishes of these governments and the European Union.
Mick Appleyard Liz Screen Ian Johnson
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Press release 22 / 09/ 2000
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CANADIAN OBSERVERS IN YUGOSLAVIA
Marjaleena Repo
BELGRADE. The international observers of the Yugoslavian presidential and
parliamentary elections have arrived in Belgrade - some 200 of them from
(so far) 54 countries. Contrary to the reports that "they have not been
allowed in," there are registered observers from the following Western
European countries. Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Germany, Portugal, Sweden and UK. (The so far single American
observer is an active senior participant in the Gore presidential
campaign.) Among the observers are parlamentarians, delegates from
political parties and organizations, as well as independents like the two
participants from Canada.
The Canadian delegates have attended political rallies of the three major
presidential candidates, in Belgrade and Novi Sad. These events were noisy
and lively affairs, without any observable disturbances and any noticeable
police presence. Literature was freely distributed and received at these
events, in a way no different from political rallies in Canada.
One of us (Marjaleena Repo) has paid particular attention to election
posters as she has been involved in the long-standing and not-yet-finished
fight for the right to poster in Canada - and she can report that posters
are everywhere in the street scene, accompanied by graffiti and the
defacing of each others posters even-steven fashion, it seems. She has seen
posterers at work in downtown Belgrade with posters urging women to vote,
while postering on top of other election messages! She had a chance to
discuss this contradiction with five English-speaking Yugoslavian youth
with their buckets and sponges. Unlike in Canadian cities, the posters
appear not to be scraped down by city workers but live to suffer the
indignities from competeing political parties. In addition, there are huge
billboards advertising the three major presidential candidates all around
the cityscape. All in all, the appearance of democracy in action.
The other Canadian delegate, Professor Dimitri Kitsikis, has a long-time
experience of national elections, having systematically studied and
observed them in many countries, notably in France, Greece and Turkey. His
observations are therefore particularly valid and he has been unshaken by
Western insistence that Yugoslav elections could be rigged. On the
contrary, he is observing that these elections do not differ
from those in any other democratic countries, particularly from France, of
which Dr. Kitsikis is an expert.
The delegates have attended an information session on the electoral process
in Yugoslavia and have been provided with background information and
documentation on how the system works and how it makes an effort to
guarantee an equal, free and transparent voting method leading to reliable
results. Questions
were invited and responded to. We were informed that the delegates will be
able to attend any and all polling stations on voting day, Sept. 24, and
officials at the polls have been instructed to welcome foreign observers
with full access to the actual voting situation, while respecting the
citizens' right to privacy.
While in Belgrade, disturbing news reached the observers. The International
Herald Tribune of Sept. 20 has a front page story, titled "U.S. aids
Milosevic foes: Millions allocated to a democracy program." The article
states that U.S. officials have acknowledged $77 million financial
"contribution" to opposition groups in Yugoslavia, from students to labour,
from so-called independent media to political rock bands, and the newspaper
states that "There is nothing secret or even particularly unusual about the
U.S. democracy-building program in Serbia, which is closely co-ordinated
with European allies and is similar to previous campaigns in pre-democratic
Chile, South Africa and Eastern Europe, among other places."
Washington Post (Sept. 21) further reveals that U.S. officials and
corporations are also "providing a sophisticated opinion survey system,
engaging for the purpose the New York firm that has done the job for Bill
Clinton [Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates]" which explains the many
polls that "prove" that an
opposition candidate is ahead of President Milosevic and suggest vigorously
that Mr. Milosevic will only win by fraud.
While the Canadian and other Western media have alredy declared the
election to be "rigged" (without any evidence, of course), we believe that
the actual evidence for rigging and distorting the Yugoslavian election
results has been found in the pre-democratic countries of U.S. and the
European Union who in an wholly illegal and undemocratic fashion are
interfering in the domestic affairs of a sovereign country. This, of
course, must be condemned by all true democrats, be they individuals,
organizations or nations. - 30-
MARJALEENA REPO is a social justice activist and a long-standing member of
Canada's "democracy movement," with hands-on experience on how Canada's
democracy does and does not work. In April '99, she was a founding member
of The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Canada's Participation in the War Against
Yugoslavia. She lives in Saskatoon, Sask.
DR. DIMITRI KITSIKIS is a professor of International Relations at the
University of Ottawa since 1970 and a fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. He is a specialist of the Balkans and Turkey and has written many
books on the area.
Professor Kitsikis is multi-lingual and can give interviews in French and
Greek as well as in English.
Back in Canada on September 29, Ms. Repo can be reached at (416)466-6533 or
(306)244-9724.
Professor Kitsikis will be back in Ottawa on October 2, and can be reached
at University of Ottawa, tel: (613)562-5735 or at his home tel: (613)834-4634.
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