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> BELGRADE, 15 May 2000
>
> ASSASSINATION OF VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
PEROSEVIC
>
> a.. -PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S WREATH ON PEROSEVIC'S BIER
> b.. -MATIC: PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION AIMED AT
DESTABILIZING
>YUGOSLAVIA
> c.. -MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> a.. -HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STARTS
> b.. -JOVANOVIC: FORCES WHICH COMMITTED AGGRESSION STOKE
>TERRORISM AND SEPARATISM
> c.. -BOZOVIC: KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CRADLE OF SERBS' BEING
> d.. -GEN.LAZAREVIC: ARMY IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PEOPLE
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
>
> a.. -MINISTER JOVANOVIC ARRIVED IN MOSCOW
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> a.. -YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION ENDED VISIT TO CHINA
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - AUSTRALIA
>
> a.. -YUGOSLAV SECURITIES COMMISSION DELEGATION VISITED
SIDNEY
> * * *
>
> ASSASSINATION OF VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
PEROSEVIC
>
> PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S WREATH ON PEROSEVIC'S BIER
>
> NOVI SAD, May 15 (Tanjug) - On the bier of the tragically
deceased
>President of the Vojvodina Executive Council Bosko Perosevic, in the
Vojvodina
>executive council building, around 14 hours was laid the wreath of the
>President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic and of his wife Mira Markovic.
>
> In the honourary guard next to the bier of Bosko Perosevic
stood
>in turn during the morning members of Vojvodina executive council and his
>colleagues from the Socialist Party of Serbia.
>
> Outside the building of Vojvidina executive council thousands
of
>citizens of Novi Sad paid their last respects to the tragically deceased
Bosko
>Perosevic.
>
> MATIC: PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION AIMED AT DESTABILIZING
YUGOSLAVIA
>
> BELGRADE, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
>Matic said on Sunday that the assassination of Vojvodina Executive Council
>President Bosko Perosevic is a terrorist act of murder of yet another
person
>from the list of undesired citizens of Yugoslavia drawn up by the European
>Union and United States.
>
> Speaking at a press conference for home and foreign reporters,
>Matic said this assassination was not an individual act by a maniac, but
>"organized murder which has a deep ideological and political background,
aimed
>at the further destabilization of Yugoslavia from outside, by the same
mentors
>who carried out the armed aggression and all forms of pressures on our
>country."
>
> Matic said the assassin, Milivoje Gutovic, 50, a sympathizer of
>the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and an activist of the Otpor
("Resistance")
>organization, was found to possess a pamphlet on "Terrorism - a form of
>special warfare and who are the assassins of Aldo Moro" and other documents
>which indicate that this murder was planned.
>
> Asked by reporters whether new arrests could be expected in
>connection with Perosevic's assassination, Matic said an investigation was
>under way and added, quoting an official Interior Ministry statement, that
>persons who are believed to have ordered the killing and instigated this
>action were also being investigated and that Gutovic was not the only
person
>arrested so far.
>
> Yugoslavia is today "faced with the concept of an active
>destabilization through terrorism and crime which is infiltrated from
>Republika Srpska and partly from Montenegro, and whose mentors are the very
>ones who loudly speak about democracy and human rights," said Matic. The
wave
>of terrorism set off by part of the vasal political opposition in Serbia
with
>the creation of the Otpor ("Resistance") organization is extremely
reminiscent
>of the political terrorism of the Red Brigades in Italy in the late
seventies,
>he said.
>
> "We are today witness in our territory to absolutely the same
>practice which had been present in Italy at that time - murders of
prominent
>figures from political and business circles, with the tightening of
sanctions
>and all kinds of pressure in order to crush our just struggle," the federal
>information minister said.
>
> "We can openly say that the structures of aggression still
remain
>the same. NATO has not dismissed its spokesmen and its headquarters for
>exerting pressure on Yugoslavia. They are still working. Even though the
main
>champions of pressuring have not been dismissed, some of them, and those
who
>have been proven unsuccessful, have been sacked. However, economic pressure
is
>still strong, which is aimed at isolating the country and forcibly changing
>the socio-political system and the legally elected authorities. There is a
>tendency to create such a system in which society will be vulgarized, with
>stoked criminal activities, and the subsistence level brought on by the
>sanctions becoming the regulator of social relations in Yugoslav society,"
>Matic said.
>
> "Countries which lecture us on democracy and freedom are
>black-listing Yugoslav companies, citizens, although it is crystal clear
that
>the process and promotion of development and democracy in Yugoslavia is
more
>advanced not only than in so-called countries in transition, but even than
in
>the very countries which lecture us," Minister Matic said.
>
> MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES
>
> PODGORICA, May 15 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip
>Vujanovic sent a telegram of condolences to the Vojvodina Executive Council
on
>Sunday, on the occasion of the tragic death of its President Bosko
Perosevic.
>
> Vujanovic asked that his expressions of sympathies and those of
>the Montenegrin government be conveyed also to the family of the deceased.
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STARTS
>
> VRANJE, May 15 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic on
>Monday, at a central ceremony in Vranje, marked the beginning of works on
the
>building of 100,000 apartments whose realization starts at the same time in
19
>centers in Serbia.
>
> Accelerated housing construction is an essential development
goal
>- every year 10,000 families will solve the most important problem in their
>life, and besides the full employment of construction workers, a chain of
>production will be started in industry, Marjanovic said at a large popular
>rally of tens of thousands of residents of the Pcinj and Jablanica
districts.
>
> "The realization of each of these projects will give a new
impetus
>to speedy economic growth and the development of the entire country, the
>creation of new jobs for young and educated people, a rise of standard and
>better life for citizens," Marjanovic said.
>
> Pointing out that heroic defense and major results in the
>reconstruction and development of the country are the main reason of the
>growing recognition of Yugoslavia and its just struggle for freedom and
>sovereignty, Marjanovic said that was the reason why the greatest majority
of
>countries and all progressive countries of the world demand the lifting of
>illegal sanctions against Serbia, and those who still implement them are
aware
>they are meaningless.
>
> "Only different leaders of the so-called opposition parties
spread
>illusions that aid will come from those who bombed us," Marjanovic said and
>pointed out that "they, even without any shame, do not conceal they want to
>come to power with the help of power brokers and make direct threats of
civil
>war."
>
> "Everything they have done and are doing shows they are
traitors,
>mercenaries, murderers and criminals. That is why, their place is not with
us
>in a united defense front, reconstruction and development of the country.
In
>that great job we, together with the people, are doing our utmost and
achieve
>results visible to every citizen," Marjanovic said.
>
> JOVANOVIC: FORCES WHICH COMMITTED AGGRESSION STOKE TERRORISM
AND
>SEPARATISM
>
> REKOVAC, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister and
>republican MP Zivadin Jovanovic said in the central Serbian town of Rekovac
on
>Sunday that the world is increasingly clearly demonstrating an option for
>democratic relations and respect for the principles of equality,
sovereignty
>and territorial integrity, and non-interference in the internal affairs of
>Yugoslavia, regarding the issue of Kosovo and Metohija province.
>
> Jovanovic said it was becoming clear in the world that the
>international military and civilian presence in Kosovo and Metohija has
>severely damaged the renown of the United Nations, the Security Council, by
>working completely contrary to Resolution 1244, actually by systematically
>supporting ethnic Albanian separatism and terrorism.
>
> Europe, the European and world public, a large number of U.N.
>Security Council members, realize that such a stand by the civilian and
>security presence under U.N. auspices us unacceptable, and is not conducive
to
>peace and stability, but is a road which leads to destabilization,
Jovanovic
>said.
>
> "It is necessary finally to establish control on our state
border
>and that hundreds of thousands of those who entered our territory
illegally,
>with the permission of these international forces, leave our territory," he
>said.
>
> The world public cannot be deluded with stories about a census,
>stories about elections, even if local, which is an attempt to prevent them
>from seeing that the U.N. Charter is systematically violated on a daily
basis
>in Kosovo and Metohija. Such stories cannot cover up the fact that those
very
>same forces which carried out the aggression on our country, are continuing
>this aggression by stoking terrorism and separatism in Kosovo, by trying to
>destabilize Serbia, to destabilize Yugoslavia, with subversive activities,
>even by inciting political terrorism, Jovanovic said.
>
> BOZOVIC: KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CRADLE OF SERBS' BEING
>
> AMMAN, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament Upper House
Speaker
>Srdja Bozovic has said that there can be no elections in Kosovo and
Metohija
>as long as 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians do not
return
>to the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province.
>
> In an exclusive interview to Jordan's mass-circulation daily
>Al-Arab al-Yawm, Bozovic, who attended the 103rd conference of the
>Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in Amman last week, said that Kosovo and
>Metohija was the cradle of the Serbian people's being.
>
> He said that Yugoslavia could not allow the United States to
form
>a Greater Albania, saying that there could be no doubt whatsoever that the
>province would remain an integral part of Yugoslavia.
>
> He said that Yugoslavia constituted the key factor of stability
in
>the Balkans. He said that the country was doing all within its power to
>preserve peace, saying that Belgrade's political commitments were based on
the
>responsibility for security in the Balkans and Europe.
>
> GEN.LAZAREVIC: ARMY IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PEOPLE
>
> ZAJECAR, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav 3rd Army commander Lt.-Gen.
>Vladimir Lazarevic said in the eastern Serbian town of Zajecar on Sunday
that
>he believed it would not be long before the state of Serbia would return to
>its territories in Kosovo and Metohija, since the world has already
realized
>the mistake of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
>
> In a talk with leaders of the Zajecar district, he also said he
>hoped the U.N. Security Council would already in June admit the
incompetence
>of the UNMIK and other international forces in Kosovo, which have failed in
>one year to implement a single article of Resolution 1244, and whose
presence
>failed to prevent murders and expulsions of many more Serbs and other
>non-Albanians than before and during the NATO aggression.
>
> This would be an admission in practice that the U.S.-led
western
>policy toward Yugoslavia had been wrong, one that had openly supported the
>secession of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, Gen. Lazarevic said.
This
>would also be a recognition of the right of all state organs to return to
>Kosovo and Metohija and provide protection to all those who wish to live in
>Serbia and Yugoslavia in equal conditions with all those who have lived
there
>for centuries, he said.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
>
> MINISTER JOVANOVIC ARRIVED IN MOSCOW
>
> MOSCOW, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
>Jovanovic on Monday arrived in Moscow on a two-day visit to Russia at the
>invitation of his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov.
>
> In a statement at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, Jovanovic said
he
>expected the visit further to promote and expand political dialogue and the
>traditionally friendly and close relations between Yugoslavia and Russia.
>
> Immediately on his arrival, Minister Jovanovic gave an
interview
>to foreign correspondents in Moscow in which he underscored that western
>countries are deceiving the world public about the situation in Kosovo and
>Metohija.
>
> There is chaos now in this southern Serbian province because of
>lack of respect for U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and
>Metohija, and unless something is urgently done, the international
community
>will bear full responsibility for the grave consequences, the Yugoslav
>minister said.
>
> Jovanovic will today visit the State Duma, where he will confer
>with its Speaker Gennady Seleznov.
>
> Jovanovic will also meet with the head of a Duma commission for
>helping Yugoslavia overcome the consequences of the NATO aggression, an MP
of
>the lower house of Russian parliament, Nikolai Ryzhkov.
>
> Talks between Jovanovic and his host Ivanov are scheduled for
>tomorrow.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION ENDED VISIT TO CHINA
>
> BEIJING, May 15 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government delegation,
led
>by Minister for International Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Cedomir
>Mirkovic, ended Monday its several-day visit to China expected to give a
new
>impetus to the successful development of the two countries' cultural as
well
>as overall cooperation.
>
> The visit resulted in the signing of a three-year programme of
>cultural and educational cooperation. Moreover, it marked the beginning of
the
>Days of Yugoslav Culture in China event.
>
> Consequently, Belgrade's Philharmonic Orchestra and Radmila
>Bakocevic and Jadranka Jovanovic, Yugoslavia's primadonnas of international
>repute, gave performances in China's capital Beijing and the cities of
>Shenyang and Dalian, in the country's northeastern province of Lianoning.
>
> Furthermore, an exhibition of 28 contemporary Yugoslav
paintings
>opened in Beijing during the delegation's visit.
>
> In meetings with ranking Chinese Culture Ministry officials at
the
>close of the visit, Mirkovic said that the visit had resulted in a series
of
>initiatives for the all-round promotion of cultural cooperation.
>
> The programme provides also for the exchange of the two
countries'
>artists. Moreover, the Days of Chinese Culture in Yugoslavia event is to be
>held next year.
>
> Mirkovic pointed to friendly ties and good overall
>Yugoslav-Chinese relations as well as outstanding mutual understanding
reached
>that would enable successful cooperation between the two countries.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - AUSTRALIA
>
> YUGOSLAV SECURITIES COMMISSION DELEGATION VISITED SIDNEY
>
> SIDNEY, May 15 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Yugoslav
Securities
>Commission has arrived in Sidney, Australia, to attend the 25th annual
>conference of the international organisation of securities commissions.
>
> The delegation, led by Milos Jankovic, commission head, met in
>Canberra on Monday with Yugoslav Ambassador to Australia Dragan
Dragojlovic.
>
> Dragojlovic informed the delegation about prospects for
economic
>and financial cooperation between Yugoslavia and Australia, stressing the
need
>for the diversification of financial cooperation that is crucial to overall
>economic cooperation between the two countries.
>
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>
> BELGRADE, 15 May 2000
>
> ASSASSINATION OF VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
PEROSEVIC
>
> a.. -PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S WREATH ON PEROSEVIC'S BIER
> b.. -MATIC: PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION AIMED AT
DESTABILIZING
>YUGOSLAVIA
> c.. -MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> a.. -HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STARTS
> b.. -JOVANOVIC: FORCES WHICH COMMITTED AGGRESSION STOKE
>TERRORISM AND SEPARATISM
> c.. -BOZOVIC: KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CRADLE OF SERBS' BEING
> d.. -GEN.LAZAREVIC: ARMY IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PEOPLE
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
>
> a.. -MINISTER JOVANOVIC ARRIVED IN MOSCOW
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> a.. -YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION ENDED VISIT TO CHINA
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - AUSTRALIA
>
> a.. -YUGOSLAV SECURITIES COMMISSION DELEGATION VISITED
SIDNEY
> * * *
>
> ASSASSINATION OF VOJVODINA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT
PEROSEVIC
>
> PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S WREATH ON PEROSEVIC'S BIER
>
> NOVI SAD, May 15 (Tanjug) - On the bier of the tragically
deceased
>President of the Vojvodina Executive Council Bosko Perosevic, in the
Vojvodina
>executive council building, around 14 hours was laid the wreath of the
>President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic and of his wife Mira Markovic.
>
> In the honourary guard next to the bier of Bosko Perosevic
stood
>in turn during the morning members of Vojvodina executive council and his
>colleagues from the Socialist Party of Serbia.
>
> Outside the building of Vojvidina executive council thousands
of
>citizens of Novi Sad paid their last respects to the tragically deceased
Bosko
>Perosevic.
>
> MATIC: PEROSEVIC'S ASSASSINATION AIMED AT DESTABILIZING
YUGOSLAVIA
>
> BELGRADE, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
>Matic said on Sunday that the assassination of Vojvodina Executive Council
>President Bosko Perosevic is a terrorist act of murder of yet another
person
>from the list of undesired citizens of Yugoslavia drawn up by the European
>Union and United States.
>
> Speaking at a press conference for home and foreign reporters,
>Matic said this assassination was not an individual act by a maniac, but
>"organized murder which has a deep ideological and political background,
aimed
>at the further destabilization of Yugoslavia from outside, by the same
mentors
>who carried out the armed aggression and all forms of pressures on our
>country."
>
> Matic said the assassin, Milivoje Gutovic, 50, a sympathizer of
>the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and an activist of the Otpor
("Resistance")
>organization, was found to possess a pamphlet on "Terrorism - a form of
>special warfare and who are the assassins of Aldo Moro" and other documents
>which indicate that this murder was planned.
>
> Asked by reporters whether new arrests could be expected in
>connection with Perosevic's assassination, Matic said an investigation was
>under way and added, quoting an official Interior Ministry statement, that
>persons who are believed to have ordered the killing and instigated this
>action were also being investigated and that Gutovic was not the only
person
>arrested so far.
>
> Yugoslavia is today "faced with the concept of an active
>destabilization through terrorism and crime which is infiltrated from
>Republika Srpska and partly from Montenegro, and whose mentors are the very
>ones who loudly speak about democracy and human rights," said Matic. The
wave
>of terrorism set off by part of the vasal political opposition in Serbia
with
>the creation of the Otpor ("Resistance") organization is extremely
reminiscent
>of the political terrorism of the Red Brigades in Italy in the late
seventies,
>he said.
>
> "We are today witness in our territory to absolutely the same
>practice which had been present in Italy at that time - murders of
prominent
>figures from political and business circles, with the tightening of
sanctions
>and all kinds of pressure in order to crush our just struggle," the federal
>information minister said.
>
> "We can openly say that the structures of aggression still
remain
>the same. NATO has not dismissed its spokesmen and its headquarters for
>exerting pressure on Yugoslavia. They are still working. Even though the
main
>champions of pressuring have not been dismissed, some of them, and those
who
>have been proven unsuccessful, have been sacked. However, economic pressure
is
>still strong, which is aimed at isolating the country and forcibly changing
>the socio-political system and the legally elected authorities. There is a
>tendency to create such a system in which society will be vulgarized, with
>stoked criminal activities, and the subsistence level brought on by the
>sanctions becoming the regulator of social relations in Yugoslav society,"
>Matic said.
>
> "Countries which lecture us on democracy and freedom are
>black-listing Yugoslav companies, citizens, although it is crystal clear
that
>the process and promotion of development and democracy in Yugoslavia is
more
>advanced not only than in so-called countries in transition, but even than
in
>the very countries which lecture us," Minister Matic said.
>
> MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES
>
> PODGORICA, May 15 (Tanjug) - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip
>Vujanovic sent a telegram of condolences to the Vojvodina Executive Council
on
>Sunday, on the occasion of the tragic death of its President Bosko
Perosevic.
>
> Vujanovic asked that his expressions of sympathies and those of
>the Montenegrin government be conveyed also to the family of the deceased.
>
> FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
> HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STARTS
>
> VRANJE, May 15 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic on
>Monday, at a central ceremony in Vranje, marked the beginning of works on
the
>building of 100,000 apartments whose realization starts at the same time in
19
>centers in Serbia.
>
> Accelerated housing construction is an essential development
goal
>- every year 10,000 families will solve the most important problem in their
>life, and besides the full employment of construction workers, a chain of
>production will be started in industry, Marjanovic said at a large popular
>rally of tens of thousands of residents of the Pcinj and Jablanica
districts.
>
> "The realization of each of these projects will give a new
impetus
>to speedy economic growth and the development of the entire country, the
>creation of new jobs for young and educated people, a rise of standard and
>better life for citizens," Marjanovic said.
>
> Pointing out that heroic defense and major results in the
>reconstruction and development of the country are the main reason of the
>growing recognition of Yugoslavia and its just struggle for freedom and
>sovereignty, Marjanovic said that was the reason why the greatest majority
of
>countries and all progressive countries of the world demand the lifting of
>illegal sanctions against Serbia, and those who still implement them are
aware
>they are meaningless.
>
> "Only different leaders of the so-called opposition parties
spread
>illusions that aid will come from those who bombed us," Marjanovic said and
>pointed out that "they, even without any shame, do not conceal they want to
>come to power with the help of power brokers and make direct threats of
civil
>war."
>
> "Everything they have done and are doing shows they are
traitors,
>mercenaries, murderers and criminals. That is why, their place is not with
us
>in a united defense front, reconstruction and development of the country.
In
>that great job we, together with the people, are doing our utmost and
achieve
>results visible to every citizen," Marjanovic said.
>
> JOVANOVIC: FORCES WHICH COMMITTED AGGRESSION STOKE TERRORISM
AND
>SEPARATISM
>
> REKOVAC, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister and
>republican MP Zivadin Jovanovic said in the central Serbian town of Rekovac
on
>Sunday that the world is increasingly clearly demonstrating an option for
>democratic relations and respect for the principles of equality,
sovereignty
>and territorial integrity, and non-interference in the internal affairs of
>Yugoslavia, regarding the issue of Kosovo and Metohija province.
>
> Jovanovic said it was becoming clear in the world that the
>international military and civilian presence in Kosovo and Metohija has
>severely damaged the renown of the United Nations, the Security Council, by
>working completely contrary to Resolution 1244, actually by systematically
>supporting ethnic Albanian separatism and terrorism.
>
> Europe, the European and world public, a large number of U.N.
>Security Council members, realize that such a stand by the civilian and
>security presence under U.N. auspices us unacceptable, and is not conducive
to
>peace and stability, but is a road which leads to destabilization,
Jovanovic
>said.
>
> "It is necessary finally to establish control on our state
border
>and that hundreds of thousands of those who entered our territory
illegally,
>with the permission of these international forces, leave our territory," he
>said.
>
> The world public cannot be deluded with stories about a census,
>stories about elections, even if local, which is an attempt to prevent them
>from seeing that the U.N. Charter is systematically violated on a daily
basis
>in Kosovo and Metohija. Such stories cannot cover up the fact that those
very
>same forces which carried out the aggression on our country, are continuing
>this aggression by stoking terrorism and separatism in Kosovo, by trying to
>destabilize Serbia, to destabilize Yugoslavia, with subversive activities,
>even by inciting political terrorism, Jovanovic said.
>
> BOZOVIC: KOSOVO AND METOHIJA CRADLE OF SERBS' BEING
>
> AMMAN, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Parliament Upper House
Speaker
>Srdja Bozovic has said that there can be no elections in Kosovo and
Metohija
>as long as 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians do not
return
>to the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province.
>
> In an exclusive interview to Jordan's mass-circulation daily
>Al-Arab al-Yawm, Bozovic, who attended the 103rd conference of the
>Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in Amman last week, said that Kosovo and
>Metohija was the cradle of the Serbian people's being.
>
> He said that Yugoslavia could not allow the United States to
form
>a Greater Albania, saying that there could be no doubt whatsoever that the
>province would remain an integral part of Yugoslavia.
>
> He said that Yugoslavia constituted the key factor of stability
in
>the Balkans. He said that the country was doing all within its power to
>preserve peace, saying that Belgrade's political commitments were based on
the
>responsibility for security in the Balkans and Europe.
>
> GEN.LAZAREVIC: ARMY IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PEOPLE
>
> ZAJECAR, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav 3rd Army commander Lt.-Gen.
>Vladimir Lazarevic said in the eastern Serbian town of Zajecar on Sunday
that
>he believed it would not be long before the state of Serbia would return to
>its territories in Kosovo and Metohija, since the world has already
realized
>the mistake of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
>
> In a talk with leaders of the Zajecar district, he also said he
>hoped the U.N. Security Council would already in June admit the
incompetence
>of the UNMIK and other international forces in Kosovo, which have failed in
>one year to implement a single article of Resolution 1244, and whose
presence
>failed to prevent murders and expulsions of many more Serbs and other
>non-Albanians than before and during the NATO aggression.
>
> This would be an admission in practice that the U.S.-led
western
>policy toward Yugoslavia had been wrong, one that had openly supported the
>secession of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, Gen. Lazarevic said.
This
>would also be a recognition of the right of all state organs to return to
>Kosovo and Metohija and provide protection to all those who wish to live in
>Serbia and Yugoslavia in equal conditions with all those who have lived
there
>for centuries, he said.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA
>
> MINISTER JOVANOVIC ARRIVED IN MOSCOW
>
> MOSCOW, May 15 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
>Jovanovic on Monday arrived in Moscow on a two-day visit to Russia at the
>invitation of his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov.
>
> In a statement at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, Jovanovic said
he
>expected the visit further to promote and expand political dialogue and the
>traditionally friendly and close relations between Yugoslavia and Russia.
>
> Immediately on his arrival, Minister Jovanovic gave an
interview
>to foreign correspondents in Moscow in which he underscored that western
>countries are deceiving the world public about the situation in Kosovo and
>Metohija.
>
> There is chaos now in this southern Serbian province because of
>lack of respect for U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and
>Metohija, and unless something is urgently done, the international
community
>will bear full responsibility for the grave consequences, the Yugoslav
>minister said.
>
> Jovanovic will today visit the State Duma, where he will confer
>with its Speaker Gennady Seleznov.
>
> Jovanovic will also meet with the head of a Duma commission for
>helping Yugoslavia overcome the consequences of the NATO aggression, an MP
of
>the lower house of Russian parliament, Nikolai Ryzhkov.
>
> Talks between Jovanovic and his host Ivanov are scheduled for
>tomorrow.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
>
> YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION ENDED VISIT TO CHINA
>
> BEIJING, May 15 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav government delegation,
led
>by Minister for International Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Cedomir
>Mirkovic, ended Monday its several-day visit to China expected to give a
new
>impetus to the successful development of the two countries' cultural as
well
>as overall cooperation.
>
> The visit resulted in the signing of a three-year programme of
>cultural and educational cooperation. Moreover, it marked the beginning of
the
>Days of Yugoslav Culture in China event.
>
> Consequently, Belgrade's Philharmonic Orchestra and Radmila
>Bakocevic and Jadranka Jovanovic, Yugoslavia's primadonnas of international
>repute, gave performances in China's capital Beijing and the cities of
>Shenyang and Dalian, in the country's northeastern province of Lianoning.
>
> Furthermore, an exhibition of 28 contemporary Yugoslav
paintings
>opened in Beijing during the delegation's visit.
>
> In meetings with ranking Chinese Culture Ministry officials at
the
>close of the visit, Mirkovic said that the visit had resulted in a series
of
>initiatives for the all-round promotion of cultural cooperation.
>
> The programme provides also for the exchange of the two
countries'
>artists. Moreover, the Days of Chinese Culture in Yugoslavia event is to be
>held next year.
>
> Mirkovic pointed to friendly ties and good overall
>Yugoslav-Chinese relations as well as outstanding mutual understanding
reached
>that would enable successful cooperation between the two countries.
>
> F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - AUSTRALIA
>
> YUGOSLAV SECURITIES COMMISSION DELEGATION VISITED SIDNEY
>
> SIDNEY, May 15 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Yugoslav
Securities
>Commission has arrived in Sidney, Australia, to attend the 25th annual
>conference of the international organisation of securities commissions.
>
> The delegation, led by Milos Jankovic, commission head, met in
>Canberra on Monday with Yugoslav Ambassador to Australia Dragan
Dragojlovic.
>
> Dragojlovic informed the delegation about prospects for
economic
>and financial cooperation between Yugoslavia and Australia, stressing the
need
>for the diversification of financial cooperation that is crucial to overall
>economic cooperation between the two countries.
>
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Della miseria della opposizione di destra in Serbia
Seconda parte:
IL PROGRAMMA "SEED", RADIO B92 ed il GRUPPO G17
===
>The Washington Post
>LETTERS
>
>Yugoslavia's 'Propaganda'
>Tuesday, March 21, 2000; Page A24
>
>With so many aspects of Slobodan Milosevic's regime worthy of reproach, it
is
>difficult to see why the March 14 editorial "Repressing the Press" attacked
>one of
>the few areas that is less clear-cut.
>
>The editorial dismissed Yugoslavia's allegation that the opposition media
is
>under
>the financial control of the West. In fact, through the Support for Eastern
>European
>Democracy (SEED) program, the United States poured nearly $25 million into
>Yugoslavia in 1999, much of which bankrolled pro-Western media. It also is
>important to note that Studio B, the station addressed in the editorial, is
>operated by
>the opposition Serb Renewal Party and shares its studio and broadcasting
>frequency with station B2-92. This latter station, formerly known as B-92,
>has been a
>primary recipient of U.S. SEED funding since 1998. And U.S. aid is not
>limited to
>radio--the U.S. Agency for International Development says it was the
"motivating
>donor" in launching the ANEM television network.
>
>Given that so much Western money is going to "independent" media sources,
>Yugoslavia's claim sounds a lot less like propaganda.
>
>ALEXANDER RONEY
>
>Cincinnati
>
> Љ Copyright 2000 The Washington Post Company
>
===
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:10:12 +0300 From: P.Treanor@... [Add
to Address Book] Subject: B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund To:
thrace@...
B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund
The new FreeB92 website carries an appeal for funds in
solidarity.
http://www.freeb92.net/donations/index.html
------
It asks for money to be sent to a New York Bank account
of the Media
Development Loan Fund. It is a US Foundation, part of
the network of Soros'
Open Society Institute, and listed as such at their
main site:
http://www.soros.org/minidir.html
-----
Here is the main MDLF site
http://www.mdlf.org/about.html
Its activities are described as
"MDLF was founded in late 1995 to meet the financial
needs of the new
independent news organizations that had taken root in
the former communist
states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. While these
news organizations were politically independent and
practiced responsible
journalism, they lacked access to affordable capital
and often were
inexperienced in the art of commerce. As a result, they
could not subsist and
develop with only their own revenues.....From its
inception in December 1995
through April 1999, MDLF has made or committed to make
low interest loans and
other financings totaling approximately US $10.6
million to media institutions
in 11 countries.
Staff are listed at
http://www.mdlf.org/contact.html
the Board at
http://www.mdlf.org/board.html
---
The Media Development Loan Fund is therefore a main
channel for Soros funding
of media in eastern Europe. However, as with many of
Soros' projects, it has
other sources of funds:
http://www.mdlf.org/donors.html
- Eurasia Foundation (http://www.eurasia.org)
- J.M. Kaplan Fund
- Knight Foundation (www.knightfdn.org)
- MacArthur Foundation (www.macfdn.org)
- Open Society Institute (www.soros.org)
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
(SIDA) (www.sida.se)
-----
It works closely with the Swedish Helsinki Committee,
which in turn acts as a
channel for funds from the Swedish government. Their
site says this about its
cooperation with the MDLF
http://www.ihf-hr.org/shc/current%20projects%20shc.htm#Other
Activities
"Co-operation with the Media Development Loan Fund
(MDLF), a Soros institution
in Prague, was established during 1997 and will be
further developed this
year. The aim of this co-operation is to support media
organisations in the
region of the former Yugoslavia, through loans on
favourable terms. The
co-operation with MDLF and SHC is based on funds
provided by the Swedish
International Development Co-operation
Agency, Sida, and Open Society Institute (New York
foundation)."
---
According to the site of the International Center For
Journalists MDLF started
in 1995, and now works with the USAID agency on the
Media Viability Fund,
indirectly controlling newspapers in Russia and the
Ukraine.
http://www.internews.ru/ICFJ/27/fund.html
"Money loaned would be provided by the Prague-based
Media Development Loan
Fund, an independent, non-profit agency established in
1995 by the Soros Foundation."
---
Sasa (Sasha) Vucinic is according to the IWPR site
http://www.iwpr.net/iwpr/about.htm
"executive director of the Media Development Loan
Fund (Prague and New York) and former director of Radio
B-92
in Belgrade"
Vucinic is also an IWPR Trustee.
----
The MDLF in Praha (Prague) also runs the Center for
Advanced Media Prague:
http://www.mdlf-camp.net/about.html
"established in early fall 1998 with the aim of
introducing new media concepts
and solutions to independent media and non-governmental
organizations in
Eastern Europe"
----
Now, the question is, why should anyone send money to
George Soros? I think
that he has enough already. No doubt the other funds
financing the MDLF also
have a lot of money already. So has USAID, a US
government agency.
It seems bizarre to send these wealthy organisations
money, so that they can
control the media in eastern Europe. Probably, the idea
is to create the
impression of political solidarity with B92 rather than
collect money. The
Soros funds and other financiers of the so-called
"independent media" in
eastern Europe have been very successful in presenting
their campaigns as
grassroots solidarity actions, making good use of the
Internet. But it is
certainly an extraordinary hypocrisy to deceive people
into thinking they are
sending their 10-dollar donation to a struggling
"radical" radio station -
when in fact it is going to the Foundations of one of
the worlds richest men.
------
Paul Treanor
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
--
On Thu, 18 May 2000 20:40:09 Andrej Tisma wrote:
>STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
>I don't understand how can anybody have an illusion that media paid by
>NATO (U. S. A. State Department) can be "independent" and "free". Those
>media are just instruments in the proved NATO hegemonism,
>interventionism, fabrication of conflicts. One of the first things NATO
>did for "democratization" of media in Yugoslavia was bombing of state TV
>and radio stations and transmitters, while the Western media were all
>visible in the "totalitarian" Yugoslavia.
>
>The Yugoslav "independent" and "free" media are openly sponsored by NATO
>and just transmitted the NATO propaganda before and during the bombing
>of Yugoslavia. They broadcasted uncritically the Jamie Shea type of
>lies, disinformation and propaganda, the same lies we could see in CNN,
>BBC, Sky News, Free Europe etc. They shamelessly broadcasted NATO
>threats before the bombing aiming to induce panic in our people and
>Army. Also during the bombing they gave false numbers of casualties and
>effects of bombing. Do you still remember the "free", "independent" and
>"truthful" information about 100.000 killed Albanian civilians, about
>"Racak massacre", about 200 destroyed Serb tanks, etc.? Doing so the
>"free" Yugoslav media took part in the NATO aggression. But they were
>still left in existence by the Yugoslav "authoritarian" regime till now.
>
>Now when those media started to call Yugoslav people for "uprising",
>"armed resistance", killing of democratically elected state leaders and
>violent change of political system, they had to be shut down. Everything
>is clear if we know that Studio B was led by Serbian Renewal Movement
>and its leader Vuk Draskovic, who after the criminal and disastrous
>bombing of Yugoslavia kissed bloody hands of Madeleine Albright.
>NATO couldn't conquer Serbia militarily, and it wants now to destroy it
>from inside, trough such instrumental mercenaries. It is obvious that
>call for uprising by Draskovic and Studio B is the continuation of NATO
>aggression on Serbia and its system, and that Studio B and other likely
>"free" media were just NATO's instruments to provoke inner conflicts and
>civil war in Serbia. That is why they had to be shut down. They were
>shut down according to Yugoslav Constitution, where nobody has right to
>call publicly for violence and civil war, and no media can transmit that
>call uncritically and repeatedly from day to day, as Studio B did.
>
>
===
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The Group of 17 represent the Serbian oppositions ECONOMIC PROGRAM, you
can read their material at
(www.g17.org.yu).
Some examples of their stuff (as you will see there is NOTHING
democratic, but a whole lot TECHNOCRATIC about
THEIR PROGRAM!):
Ministries of a Transitional Expert Government [NOTE: Campaign slogans,
and programs added :-) ]
1.Prime minister [Hi I'm a puppet dictator!]
2.Deputy prime minister for reconstruction and economic
reform [....]
3.Deputy prime minister for national and cultural renewal
[resistance is futile, servility is good...resistance is futile,
servility is good...liberty is a hollow dream, bow to your new
masters...liberty is a hollow dream, bow to your new
masters...]
4.Justice [there isn't any...]
5.Finance [the West's occupation of your country!]
6.Internal affairs [Ah, yah know...we just crush ah few bones here
and there, beat some strikers!]
7.Foreign affairs ["At your service Missah Clinton!"]
8.Industry, mining and energy [High ho! High Ho! Off to work we go!
To toil and slave, for a dollar a day, High Ho!,
High Ho!]
9.Agriculture, forestry, water management and ecology [Let's pretend
these things matter!]
10.Transport and communication [forward deployment and survaillance
bases for NATO?]
11.Trade and tourism ["And here children is where Chief
Mi-Lah-Shevich, used to hold pow-wows with his fellow
Serbs..."]
12.Privatization [Bye, bye independent automotive and airospace
industries!]
13.Construction [of bases, ports, and bordellos for your friendly
neighborhood NATO soldier!]
14.Science and education ["Hmmm...Joschka", "Yes, Gehrhard!",
"Joschka, I was wondering why we just don't use this
dusty German curriculum that's been lying around the Reichstag since the
1940s?", "Which one was that again?", "Oh, you
know Joschka, the one that says: "Children shall be taught to respect
their German masters. [insert ethnic group of
choice] children shall only learn the requisite amount of German
necessary to fulfill tasks as good and obedient
workers"", "Oh, yessss Gerhard! That would just be perrrrrrrrrrrrrfect
for our new slaves,...um, I mean Slavs in the
Balkans!"]
15.Culture [CONSUME! CONSUME! CONSUME!]
16.Health [You try drinking cyanide and being poisoned by DU for a
few millenia and see how you hold out!]
17.Labor [upon whose blood and sweat we will grease our colonies],
social welfare [must be destroyed] and war veterans
[who can shrivel up and die for having resisted US]
[The rest of the text is unaltered...(its scarrier that way!) :-(
]
Chief Tasks of a Serbian Expert
Government
Within a one-year transitional period, the chief tasks of a Serbian
Expert Government will be the following:
I Reconstruction and Economic Reform
1. Reconstruction of the demolished infrastructure, so as to
secure a normal life to the population during the next winter:
reconstruction of the electric and energy infrastructure
reconstruction of the public heating system and fuel supply
(gas, crude oil)
reconstruction of the demolished housing fund
initiation of the transport infrastructure reconstruction and
its modernization (bridges, roads, gas and oil pipelines)
2. Inclusion of Serbia and Yugoslavia in the international
community and all relevant international institutions, securing the
following:
immediate lifting of all sanctions, together with a so-called
"outer wall of sanctions"
immediate inclusion of Serbia in the Stability Pact for
South-East Europe and all accompanying financial
arrangements
renewal of membership in the key international financial
institutions (IMF and WB) till the end of 1999; Serbia will
thus obtain a free approach to the world capital market and
fulfil the conditions for solemn foreign investments essential
for economic reconstruction of the country
swift solution to the problem of succession with formerly
Yugoslav republics
start up of negotiations on a "newly associated member" of
the European Union, as of January 1st, 2000
inclusion in all relevant regional integrations and free trade
with South-East European countries.
3. Radical economic reforms
introduction of a stable currency (consisting of three phases:
introduction of a dual currency monetary system; issuing of
a new domestic convertible currency through the institution
of a currency board; a full "euroization" as of January 1st,
2003, presuming a complete integration in the European
Union monetary system
renewal of confidence in the financial system (full integration
of the banking system in the international financial system,
reform of the domestic banks and free inflow of the foreign
banks of high reputation; initiation of payment of the foreign
debt towards the population, renewal of domestic savings,
crediting of the economy and the population)
equilibrium of the government budget and beginning of the
fiscal reform (substantial reduction of tax rates, radical and
immediate simplifying of the tax system so as to be based on
a few tax rates, increase of the public revenues through
legalization of the turnover in the shadow economy,
reduction and gradual elimination of delays in tax payments
through the increase of the fiscal discipline and motivation
of tax payers to adhere to their duties in time, introduction
of the elements of an integrated information system by
providing the electric cash registers, etc.)
foreign trade liberalization (abolishment of all export and
import quotas/except for agriculture/and their replacement
by appropriate tariffs; substantial tariff reduction with
securing relevant budget compensations by the European
Union; export preferentials to the European Union;
abolishment of all trade limits with the neighboring
countries; immediate annulment of exit tax)
relatively swift, binding and transparent privatization,
stimulation to the capital market development; privatization
will be conducted combining the direct sale and voucher
privatization
social and health security for the most vulnerable categories
of citizens (refugees, unemployed, retired, employed in the
public sector) through a special fund to overcome budgetary
difficulties; such a fund will be partially formed from the
domestic capital, while foreign donations will constitute its
major portion; without such a fund at the very beginning, the
economic reform has no chances to succeed.
II Reform of the legislature and solution to all issues
in the federation of Serbia and Montenegro [NOTE their adoption of
State Department POLICY not to refer to
Yugoslavia by name]
agreement with the Government of Montenegro on
jurisdiction and composition of a Federal Transitional
Government
irrevocable affirmation of the rule of law
preparation and enforcement of the several key laws
The Law on University
The Law on Judiciary and Judges Appointment
The Law on Local Self-Governance
upon a proposal by the Expert Government, relevant laws in
the monetary area, foreign currency rate and foreign trade
can also be brought, if the Federal bodies do not perform
their duties in the interest of Serbia and in compliance with a
concept of the economic reforms conducted in it.
III Preparation of Free Elections at all Levels
free media and information, a new Law on public information
electoral laws:
Law on Deputies and Councilmen Election
Law on Political Parties
Law on Political Parties Financing
control of the electoral process in compliance with the
OSCE principles.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
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------------------------------------------------------------
Seconda parte:
IL PROGRAMMA "SEED", RADIO B92 ed il GRUPPO G17
===
>The Washington Post
>LETTERS
>
>Yugoslavia's 'Propaganda'
>Tuesday, March 21, 2000; Page A24
>
>With so many aspects of Slobodan Milosevic's regime worthy of reproach, it
is
>difficult to see why the March 14 editorial "Repressing the Press" attacked
>one of
>the few areas that is less clear-cut.
>
>The editorial dismissed Yugoslavia's allegation that the opposition media
is
>under
>the financial control of the West. In fact, through the Support for Eastern
>European
>Democracy (SEED) program, the United States poured nearly $25 million into
>Yugoslavia in 1999, much of which bankrolled pro-Western media. It also is
>important to note that Studio B, the station addressed in the editorial, is
>operated by
>the opposition Serb Renewal Party and shares its studio and broadcasting
>frequency with station B2-92. This latter station, formerly known as B-92,
>has been a
>primary recipient of U.S. SEED funding since 1998. And U.S. aid is not
>limited to
>radio--the U.S. Agency for International Development says it was the
"motivating
>donor" in launching the ANEM television network.
>
>Given that so much Western money is going to "independent" media sources,
>Yugoslavia's claim sounds a lot less like propaganda.
>
>ALEXANDER RONEY
>
>Cincinnati
>
> Љ Copyright 2000 The Washington Post Company
>
===
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:10:12 +0300 From: P.Treanor@... [Add
to Address Book] Subject: B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund To:
thrace@...
B92 "solidarity" money goes to Soros Fund
The new FreeB92 website carries an appeal for funds in
solidarity.
http://www.freeb92.net/donations/index.html
------
It asks for money to be sent to a New York Bank account
of the Media
Development Loan Fund. It is a US Foundation, part of
the network of Soros'
Open Society Institute, and listed as such at their
main site:
http://www.soros.org/minidir.html
-----
Here is the main MDLF site
http://www.mdlf.org/about.html
Its activities are described as
"MDLF was founded in late 1995 to meet the financial
needs of the new
independent news organizations that had taken root in
the former communist
states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. While these
news organizations were politically independent and
practiced responsible
journalism, they lacked access to affordable capital
and often were
inexperienced in the art of commerce. As a result, they
could not subsist and
develop with only their own revenues.....From its
inception in December 1995
through April 1999, MDLF has made or committed to make
low interest loans and
other financings totaling approximately US $10.6
million to media institutions
in 11 countries.
Staff are listed at
http://www.mdlf.org/contact.html
the Board at
http://www.mdlf.org/board.html
---
The Media Development Loan Fund is therefore a main
channel for Soros funding
of media in eastern Europe. However, as with many of
Soros' projects, it has
other sources of funds:
http://www.mdlf.org/donors.html
- Eurasia Foundation (http://www.eurasia.org)
- J.M. Kaplan Fund
- Knight Foundation (www.knightfdn.org)
- MacArthur Foundation (www.macfdn.org)
- Open Society Institute (www.soros.org)
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
(SIDA) (www.sida.se)
-----
It works closely with the Swedish Helsinki Committee,
which in turn acts as a
channel for funds from the Swedish government. Their
site says this about its
cooperation with the MDLF
http://www.ihf-hr.org/shc/current%20projects%20shc.htm#Other
Activities
"Co-operation with the Media Development Loan Fund
(MDLF), a Soros institution
in Prague, was established during 1997 and will be
further developed this
year. The aim of this co-operation is to support media
organisations in the
region of the former Yugoslavia, through loans on
favourable terms. The
co-operation with MDLF and SHC is based on funds
provided by the Swedish
International Development Co-operation
Agency, Sida, and Open Society Institute (New York
foundation)."
---
According to the site of the International Center For
Journalists MDLF started
in 1995, and now works with the USAID agency on the
Media Viability Fund,
indirectly controlling newspapers in Russia and the
Ukraine.
http://www.internews.ru/ICFJ/27/fund.html
"Money loaned would be provided by the Prague-based
Media Development Loan
Fund, an independent, non-profit agency established in
1995 by the Soros Foundation."
---
Sasa (Sasha) Vucinic is according to the IWPR site
http://www.iwpr.net/iwpr/about.htm
"executive director of the Media Development Loan
Fund (Prague and New York) and former director of Radio
B-92
in Belgrade"
Vucinic is also an IWPR Trustee.
----
The MDLF in Praha (Prague) also runs the Center for
Advanced Media Prague:
http://www.mdlf-camp.net/about.html
"established in early fall 1998 with the aim of
introducing new media concepts
and solutions to independent media and non-governmental
organizations in
Eastern Europe"
----
Now, the question is, why should anyone send money to
George Soros? I think
that he has enough already. No doubt the other funds
financing the MDLF also
have a lot of money already. So has USAID, a US
government agency.
It seems bizarre to send these wealthy organisations
money, so that they can
control the media in eastern Europe. Probably, the idea
is to create the
impression of political solidarity with B92 rather than
collect money. The
Soros funds and other financiers of the so-called
"independent media" in
eastern Europe have been very successful in presenting
their campaigns as
grassroots solidarity actions, making good use of the
Internet. But it is
certainly an extraordinary hypocrisy to deceive people
into thinking they are
sending their 10-dollar donation to a struggling
"radical" radio station -
when in fact it is going to the Foundations of one of
the worlds richest men.
------
Paul Treanor
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
--
On Thu, 18 May 2000 20:40:09 Andrej Tisma wrote:
>STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
>I don't understand how can anybody have an illusion that media paid by
>NATO (U. S. A. State Department) can be "independent" and "free". Those
>media are just instruments in the proved NATO hegemonism,
>interventionism, fabrication of conflicts. One of the first things NATO
>did for "democratization" of media in Yugoslavia was bombing of state TV
>and radio stations and transmitters, while the Western media were all
>visible in the "totalitarian" Yugoslavia.
>
>The Yugoslav "independent" and "free" media are openly sponsored by NATO
>and just transmitted the NATO propaganda before and during the bombing
>of Yugoslavia. They broadcasted uncritically the Jamie Shea type of
>lies, disinformation and propaganda, the same lies we could see in CNN,
>BBC, Sky News, Free Europe etc. They shamelessly broadcasted NATO
>threats before the bombing aiming to induce panic in our people and
>Army. Also during the bombing they gave false numbers of casualties and
>effects of bombing. Do you still remember the "free", "independent" and
>"truthful" information about 100.000 killed Albanian civilians, about
>"Racak massacre", about 200 destroyed Serb tanks, etc.? Doing so the
>"free" Yugoslav media took part in the NATO aggression. But they were
>still left in existence by the Yugoslav "authoritarian" regime till now.
>
>Now when those media started to call Yugoslav people for "uprising",
>"armed resistance", killing of democratically elected state leaders and
>violent change of political system, they had to be shut down. Everything
>is clear if we know that Studio B was led by Serbian Renewal Movement
>and its leader Vuk Draskovic, who after the criminal and disastrous
>bombing of Yugoslavia kissed bloody hands of Madeleine Albright.
>NATO couldn't conquer Serbia militarily, and it wants now to destroy it
>from inside, trough such instrumental mercenaries. It is obvious that
>call for uprising by Draskovic and Studio B is the continuation of NATO
>aggression on Serbia and its system, and that Studio B and other likely
>"free" media were just NATO's instruments to provoke inner conflicts and
>civil war in Serbia. That is why they had to be shut down. They were
>shut down according to Yugoslav Constitution, where nobody has right to
>call publicly for violence and civil war, and no media can transmit that
>call uncritically and repeatedly from day to day, as Studio B did.
>
>
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The Group of 17 represent the Serbian oppositions ECONOMIC PROGRAM, you
can read their material at
(www.g17.org.yu).
Some examples of their stuff (as you will see there is NOTHING
democratic, but a whole lot TECHNOCRATIC about
THEIR PROGRAM!):
Ministries of a Transitional Expert Government [NOTE: Campaign slogans,
and programs added :-) ]
1.Prime minister [Hi I'm a puppet dictator!]
2.Deputy prime minister for reconstruction and economic
reform [....]
3.Deputy prime minister for national and cultural renewal
[resistance is futile, servility is good...resistance is futile,
servility is good...liberty is a hollow dream, bow to your new
masters...liberty is a hollow dream, bow to your new
masters...]
4.Justice [there isn't any...]
5.Finance [the West's occupation of your country!]
6.Internal affairs [Ah, yah know...we just crush ah few bones here
and there, beat some strikers!]
7.Foreign affairs ["At your service Missah Clinton!"]
8.Industry, mining and energy [High ho! High Ho! Off to work we go!
To toil and slave, for a dollar a day, High Ho!,
High Ho!]
9.Agriculture, forestry, water management and ecology [Let's pretend
these things matter!]
10.Transport and communication [forward deployment and survaillance
bases for NATO?]
11.Trade and tourism ["And here children is where Chief
Mi-Lah-Shevich, used to hold pow-wows with his fellow
Serbs..."]
12.Privatization [Bye, bye independent automotive and airospace
industries!]
13.Construction [of bases, ports, and bordellos for your friendly
neighborhood NATO soldier!]
14.Science and education ["Hmmm...Joschka", "Yes, Gehrhard!",
"Joschka, I was wondering why we just don't use this
dusty German curriculum that's been lying around the Reichstag since the
1940s?", "Which one was that again?", "Oh, you
know Joschka, the one that says: "Children shall be taught to respect
their German masters. [insert ethnic group of
choice] children shall only learn the requisite amount of German
necessary to fulfill tasks as good and obedient
workers"", "Oh, yessss Gerhard! That would just be perrrrrrrrrrrrrfect
for our new slaves,...um, I mean Slavs in the
Balkans!"]
15.Culture [CONSUME! CONSUME! CONSUME!]
16.Health [You try drinking cyanide and being poisoned by DU for a
few millenia and see how you hold out!]
17.Labor [upon whose blood and sweat we will grease our colonies],
social welfare [must be destroyed] and war veterans
[who can shrivel up and die for having resisted US]
[The rest of the text is unaltered...(its scarrier that way!) :-(
]
Chief Tasks of a Serbian Expert
Government
Within a one-year transitional period, the chief tasks of a Serbian
Expert Government will be the following:
I Reconstruction and Economic Reform
1. Reconstruction of the demolished infrastructure, so as to
secure a normal life to the population during the next winter:
reconstruction of the electric and energy infrastructure
reconstruction of the public heating system and fuel supply
(gas, crude oil)
reconstruction of the demolished housing fund
initiation of the transport infrastructure reconstruction and
its modernization (bridges, roads, gas and oil pipelines)
2. Inclusion of Serbia and Yugoslavia in the international
community and all relevant international institutions, securing the
following:
immediate lifting of all sanctions, together with a so-called
"outer wall of sanctions"
immediate inclusion of Serbia in the Stability Pact for
South-East Europe and all accompanying financial
arrangements
renewal of membership in the key international financial
institutions (IMF and WB) till the end of 1999; Serbia will
thus obtain a free approach to the world capital market and
fulfil the conditions for solemn foreign investments essential
for economic reconstruction of the country
swift solution to the problem of succession with formerly
Yugoslav republics
start up of negotiations on a "newly associated member" of
the European Union, as of January 1st, 2000
inclusion in all relevant regional integrations and free trade
with South-East European countries.
3. Radical economic reforms
introduction of a stable currency (consisting of three phases:
introduction of a dual currency monetary system; issuing of
a new domestic convertible currency through the institution
of a currency board; a full "euroization" as of January 1st,
2003, presuming a complete integration in the European
Union monetary system
renewal of confidence in the financial system (full integration
of the banking system in the international financial system,
reform of the domestic banks and free inflow of the foreign
banks of high reputation; initiation of payment of the foreign
debt towards the population, renewal of domestic savings,
crediting of the economy and the population)
equilibrium of the government budget and beginning of the
fiscal reform (substantial reduction of tax rates, radical and
immediate simplifying of the tax system so as to be based on
a few tax rates, increase of the public revenues through
legalization of the turnover in the shadow economy,
reduction and gradual elimination of delays in tax payments
through the increase of the fiscal discipline and motivation
of tax payers to adhere to their duties in time, introduction
of the elements of an integrated information system by
providing the electric cash registers, etc.)
foreign trade liberalization (abolishment of all export and
import quotas/except for agriculture/and their replacement
by appropriate tariffs; substantial tariff reduction with
securing relevant budget compensations by the European
Union; export preferentials to the European Union;
abolishment of all trade limits with the neighboring
countries; immediate annulment of exit tax)
relatively swift, binding and transparent privatization,
stimulation to the capital market development; privatization
will be conducted combining the direct sale and voucher
privatization
social and health security for the most vulnerable categories
of citizens (refugees, unemployed, retired, employed in the
public sector) through a special fund to overcome budgetary
difficulties; such a fund will be partially formed from the
domestic capital, while foreign donations will constitute its
major portion; without such a fund at the very beginning, the
economic reform has no chances to succeed.
II Reform of the legislature and solution to all issues
in the federation of Serbia and Montenegro [NOTE their adoption of
State Department POLICY not to refer to
Yugoslavia by name]
agreement with the Government of Montenegro on
jurisdiction and composition of a Federal Transitional
Government
irrevocable affirmation of the rule of law
preparation and enforcement of the several key laws
The Law on University
The Law on Judiciary and Judges Appointment
The Law on Local Self-Governance
upon a proposal by the Expert Government, relevant laws in
the monetary area, foreign currency rate and foreign trade
can also be brought, if the Federal bodies do not perform
their duties in the interest of Serbia and in compliance with a
concept of the economic reforms conducted in it.
III Preparation of Free Elections at all Levels
free media and information, a new Law on public information
electoral laws:
Law on Deputies and Councilmen Election
Law on Political Parties
Law on Political Parties Financing
control of the electoral process in compliance with the
OSCE principles.
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LE INCREDIBILI AVVENTURE DEL SIGNOR KOUCHNER (1)
Il capo della missione civile dell'ONU (UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard
Kouchner ha dichiarato a Gnjilane lo scorso dicembre che "Il Kosovo non
appartiene a nessun altro che non ai kosovari", intendendo con questo
termine soltanto quelli di etnia albanese, convenuti in gran numero per
l'occasione ad ascoltare le parole del loro protettore. "Io mi sento
molto vicino al popolo albanese", ha proseguito Kouchner. "Io amo tutti
i popoli, ma certi li amo piu' degli altri, e questo e' il vostro caso!"
(fonte: "The ironic justice of Kosovo", di David Binder, MSNBC
CONTRIBUTOR, WASHINGTON, March 17;
http://www.msnbc.com/news/382058.asp?0m=O11M )
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Il capo della missione civile dell'ONU (UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard
Kouchner ha dichiarato a Gnjilane lo scorso dicembre che "Il Kosovo non
appartiene a nessun altro che non ai kosovari", intendendo con questo
termine soltanto quelli di etnia albanese, convenuti in gran numero per
l'occasione ad ascoltare le parole del loro protettore. "Io mi sento
molto vicino al popolo albanese", ha proseguito Kouchner. "Io amo tutti
i popoli, ma certi li amo piu' degli altri, e questo e' il vostro caso!"
(fonte: "The ironic justice of Kosovo", di David Binder, MSNBC
CONTRIBUTOR, WASHINGTON, March 17;
http://www.msnbc.com/news/382058.asp?0m=O11M )
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LE INCREDIBILI AVVENTURE DEL SIGNOR KOUCHNER (2)
Il capo della missione civile dell'ONU (UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard
Kouchner ha condannato l'uccisione del suo interprete, il serbo Petar
Topoljski, ritrovato cadavere a otto chilometri da Pristina lo scorso
16/5, in fondo ad un pozzo, dopo alcuni giorni dalla sua scomparsa.
"E' un fatto terribile - ha dichiarato Kouchner - non solo per la
famiglia e gli amici di Topoljski ma per l'intero staff dell'UNMIK. Io
condanno fermamente questo crimine che ha coinvolto il nostro personale,
ed in particolare un membro serbo che si era dedicato al lavoro a
dispetto delle minacce e dell'isolamento che qui i serbi devono
sopportare" (a causa della connivenza e della complicita' dell'UNMIK e
della KFOR).
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Il capo della missione civile dell'ONU (UNMIK) in Kosmet Bernard
Kouchner ha condannato l'uccisione del suo interprete, il serbo Petar
Topoljski, ritrovato cadavere a otto chilometri da Pristina lo scorso
16/5, in fondo ad un pozzo, dopo alcuni giorni dalla sua scomparsa.
"E' un fatto terribile - ha dichiarato Kouchner - non solo per la
famiglia e gli amici di Topoljski ma per l'intero staff dell'UNMIK. Io
condanno fermamente questo crimine che ha coinvolto il nostro personale,
ed in particolare un membro serbo che si era dedicato al lavoro a
dispetto delle minacce e dell'isolamento che qui i serbi devono
sopportare" (a causa della connivenza e della complicita' dell'UNMIK e
della KFOR).
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