Informazione
* JOHN MCCAIN E LA "DIOGUARDI-UCK CONNECTION" (antiwar.com)
* I REPUBBLICANI ALBANESI SALUTANO MCCAIN (Albanian Daily News, FEB. 2000),
MCCAIN SALUTA LA NOMINA DI DEMACI A "LEADER POLITICO" DELL'UCK (AUG. 1998)
* Ritratti: MR AND MRS DIOGUARDI, CHE BELLA COPPIA! (stopnato@...)
* Flashback: LA LOBBY PAN-ALBANESE NEL CONGRESSO USA (B. Works)
* Per il testo dell'articolo "LA CIA HA SOSTENUTO L'ESERCITO
GUERRIGLIERO DEL KOSOVO", da noi gia' distribuito ieri, si veda pure:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/12/stifgneur02002.html
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JOHN MCCAIN E LA "DIOGUARDI-UCK CONNECTION"
(sullo stesso argomento vedasi anche: TiM GW Bulletin 2000/3-1:
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html )
Antiwar.com
"Behind the headlines" - by Justin Raimondo
February 25, 2000
McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION
George W. Bush has been taken out to the woodshed by
the liberal for appearing on the stage at Bob Jones
University in this day and age, to even appear on a
platform provided by a politically incorrect group
or institution is enough to condemn a candidate to
perdition. And the McCain campaign was quick to
capitalize on it. But why isn't McCain subjected to the
same scrutiny? Please direct your attention to the
photo below [http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/mccain.jpg%5d:
the caption informs us that McCain is speaking at "a
pro-Kosovo, pro-McCain rally across the street from his
New York City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000.
McCain is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night." But who is the man on the right,
with the colorful KLA scarf and his big mouth wide open?
The caption-writer is mute on this point, but to anyone
who knows anything about New York's ethnic politics,
the face is all-too-familiar: it is none other than
former Republican Congressman Joe DioGuardi, now the
loquacious leader of the Albanian-American Civic League
(AACL) a group that not only actively represents the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in America, but whose
leader has become a spokesman for the most radical
fringe elements of the KLA.
"Republican presidential candidate Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to a pro Kosovo, pro
McCain, rally across the street from his New York
City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000. McCain
is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)"
WHO IS JOE DIOGUARDI?
DioGuardi is an extremist who lost his seat in
Congress because his growing preoccupation with
creating a "Greater Albania" did not exactly fit in
with the pothole-fixing skills that must be the first
concern of New York City politicians. Most
Albanian-Americans support independence for Kosovo,
and look with disdain and bewilderment at the US
government's official position that Kosovo is still an
"autonomous" province of Yugoslavia. But DioGuardi
goes one step indeed, several steps further, and
envisions a "Greater Albania." Visitors to AACL's
website ( http://www.aacl.com )are confronted with a
map of this Albanian Empire, which, as Doug Bandow of
the Cato Institute said in his testimony before Congress
( http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-db031099.html ),
illustrates "a breathtaking agenda," including as it
does "Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia (along with
its capital, Skopje), southeastern Montenegro (along
with its capital, Podgorica), northern Greece, and
southern Serbia (north of Kosovo)." Alexander Cockburn's
comment on this outrageous map hit the nail on the head
( http://www.counterpunch.org/jatras.html ):
"When I first saw this map it struck a recollection of
something I had seen before. It occurred to me that it
is quite similar to one I have (printed by the State
Department in 1947) of interim territorial
arrangements during World War II. I can understand
that there is an element of hyperbole in critics'
calling NATO's air campaign "Nazi," but fail to see
what interest the United States has in helping to
restore the Nazi-imposed borders of 1943 or how this
helps preserve European stability."
THE KLA: A SHORT HISTORY
It is well-known that the original straight-arm salute
of the KLA was suppressed, by its CIA and German
intelligence handlers, in favor of a less controversial
American-style greeting. While one wing of the KLA
looks to the old-fashioned Stalinism of Enver Hoxha,
the Albanian Communist dictator who aided the early
student organizations that made up the Albanian
separatist movement, the other looks to the "Skanderberg
Division" of the Nazi SS, Albanians recruited by the
Germans to fight for Hitler's cause, for its political
antecedents. DioGuardi has been a vigorous publicist on
behalf of the KLA political commissar, Adem Demaci, a
militant who spent years in Yugoslav prisons. Demaci
denounced the Rambouillet agreement as a sellout and
(along with DioGuardi) rejected all negotiations on
principle. DioGuardi even wrote a letter
( http://www.bosnet.org/archive/bosnet.w3archive/9808/msg00080.html )
congratulating his fellow extremist when Demaci was
appointed chief of the KLA's political wing.
FOLLOW THAT GENIE!
Demaci, DioGuardi, and the KLA militants are now acting
on their dream of a "Greater Albania": this is the
meaning of recent events in Kosovo
( http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38b4490a4359.htm ).
Madeleine Albright is so frightened by the rising
demands of the pan-Albanians that she made a special
trip to Tirana to denounce the idea as "no more viable
than that of a Greater Serbia." But the genie is already
out of the bottle, and the question is: what will the
next Administration do?
A GREATER ALBANIA
As the KLA conducts its reign of terror in Kosovo,
driving out the Serbs and marching, in tens of
thousands, on the northern city of Mitrovica in an
effort to storm the last Serb bastion, John McCain is
standing alongside a man who is the chief apologist,
organizer, and fundraiser of the KLA in America, a man
who once declared:
"It is unfortunate that misguided European politics,
overly and unfairly influenced by Russia and Greece in
the early part of the twentieth century, resulted in a
partition of the Albanian nation so that more than
half the Albanians in the Balkans live outside the
state of Albania in hostile Slavic regimes, especially
Serbia and Macedonia. . . . With UDBA in Belgrade and
the Sigurimi in Tirana collaborating to buy, trick or
kill those Albanians with democratic aspirations, it
is no wonder that it has been extremely difficult for
seven million. Albanians to organize themselves as a
nation, or even politically within the five
jurisdictions in which they reside. While there is
some cooperation among political parties in certain
areas and across borders, true democratic,
independent-minded Albanian leadership has been
lacking and this has contributed to the divisions,
confusion, and betrayal of the Albanian cause in the
Balkans and in America."
CONSPIRACY THEORY
How's that for a conspiracy theory? According to
DioGuardi, all the nations of Europe conspired to keep
his people disunited. Naturally it is assumed that
every living ethnic Albanian must live in an Albanian
state, since, in the neo-fascist ideology of the KLA,
the State embodies the Race and must defend its
interests irrespective of current national borders.
And, oh yes, that's what we definitely need: more
"cooperation among parties in certain areas and across
borders," so as to spread the rabidly revanchist
ideology of the KLA and set the Balkans aflame.
THE DIOGUARDI-McCAIN CONNECTION
There they are, the two of them, DioGuardi and McCain,
side by side: one who would carve an Albanian empire
in the midst of the blood-soaked Balkans, and the
other who would be President of the United States. It
is a disturbing juxtaposition, to say the very least.
For if we can accuse poor Dubya of endorsing the
anti-Catholic rhetoric of the Bob Jones
fundamentalists simply by speaking at their
auditorium, then what are we to make of would-be
President John McCain appearing with a radical
Albanian nationalist who sees not only Belgrade but
also Skopje and Athens as the enemy? After all, this
is perhaps the wrong signal to the Macedonians, who
have so far enjoyed a fragile peace, and no doubt the
Greeks, our NATO allies, would be less than pleased.
And what of the Montenegrins, whose capital city
DioGuardi and the Albanian lobby covet, and whose
independence we are pledged to defend against the
alleged threat posed by Milosevic? If Bush must be
called to account for supposedly aligning himself with
the forces of intolerance in the US, for the sin of
appearing at Bob Jones U, then should we not call
McCain to account for sharing the platform with a
radical Albanian extremist and endangering the peace
of Europe
TURNING THE TABLES
Although the McCain campaign piously denied it, it has
since come out that they were responsible for phone
calls during the Michigan primary, run ostensibly by a
group called "Catholic Voter Alert," which demanded to
know why Bush had not disavowed the rhetoric of Bob
Jones and his flock about the church being "a Satanic
cult'! This from the campaign McCain piously described
to his followers as "one you can be proud of"! Well,
then, is it not time to turn the tables, and send out
a "Voter Alert" demanding to know why McCain hasn't
repudiated the rhetoric of Joe DioGuardi and his KLA
friends who want to ignite the Balkan tinderbox with
their crazed scheme to create an Albanian empire?
Indeed, this is a lot fairer than the alleged
Bush-Jones connection, because Bush has no history of
anti-Catholicism – the news of his sudden conversion
to the Jonesian doctrine that the Church is "the great
Whore" foretold in the Bible came as a bit of a
surprise. But McCain's apparent conversion to the
cause of pan-Albanian nationalism is far more
credible. For McCain was the most militant and visible
supporter of the Kosovo war, who demanded Clinton pull
out all the stops and send in the ground troops even
going so far as to introduce a Senate resolution that
went down to a well-deserved defeat at the hands of
his Republican colleagues.
THE KLA CANDIDATE
As General Wesley Clark, the US commander of our
troops in Kosovo, calls on NATO and Washington to send
in more troops – and I see, as I write this, that the
Marines are practically on the way the crisis in the
Balkans is approaching critical mass. The NATO-crats
are cranking up the propaganda machine, as the KLA
gets ready to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo
and proceed to the next stage of the ongoing struggle
for a "Greater Albania." Ideologues like Adem Demaci,
in Kosovo, and Joe Dioguardi, in America, want to drag
the US into yet another Balkan war, to "finish the
job" and completely dismember the remnants of
Yugoslavia – using the US and NATO as both their sword
and their shield. With a sympathetic President in the
White House, who remembers how much money and
political support was raised on that trip to New York
at a crucial time in his campaign, DioGuardi and the
KLA may yet see their expansionist dream realized.
With Serbia finally subjugated, Albania would be free
to expand, absorbing not only Kosovo but also
destabilizing Macedonia and threatening Greece.
HOW MUCH?
The last GOP presidential candidate to cash in on the
Albanian connection was Bob Dole: in May 1987, Dole
and DioGuardi attended an Albanian-American
fund-raiser in New York City that raised $1.2 million
for Dole's campaign and $50,000 for DioGuardi's,
according to journalist Diana Johnstone
( http://www.swans.com/library/art5/zig025.html ) and researcher
Benjamin Works. The caption accompanying the above
photo says McCain was in New York doing some
fundraising, and it is fair to ask: how much money did
he get from the Albanian lobby? As the great "reform"
candidate who denounces the influence of "special
interests" and the power of money in politics, McCain
had better tell us exactly how much the Albanian lobby
has thrown his way – and to what effect. Of all the
lobbyists in Washington, it is the "special interests"
represented by the agents of foreign powers that pose
the greatest threat to the integrity of the
Presidency. Joe DioGuardi, rabid Albanian nationalist
and chief American apologist for the drug-connected
totalitarians of the KLA, has spread the money from
his political action committees far and wide
( http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html ),
and no doubt McCain is also the recipient of his largess
but at what price to the American people? The McCain
campaign must immediately release the figures, and
give us some "straight talk" about the KLA-McCain
connection: how much did they get-and in return for
what? The American people have a right to know how
many American soldiers will be put at risk in the
Balkans in the service of paying off President
McCain's political debts.
ALBANIAN PANDERFEST
Republicans are screaming about the panderfest
presided over by the Reverend Al Sharpton, at which Al
Gore and Bill Bradley outdid each other in denouncing
"white skin privilege," but what about McCain's
panderfest with the Albanian warmongers, who want to
drag the US even deeper into the Balkan quagmire? At
least Sharpton isn't demanding the that the lives of
American soldiers be put at risk.
THE BUCHANAN FACTOR
Naturally the American media, which made itself into
the willing instrument of the War Party during the
Kosovo conflict, is reluctant to uncover the fact of
McCain’s connection to Albanian extremists. The
inability or unwillingness of the Bush campaign to
call McCain to account on this question is due in
large part to its own commitment to the Albanian
lobby; their foreign policy advisor, Richard Perle,
was also an advisor to the Bosnian Muslims, who
enthusiastically supported the Kosovo war. The only
major candidate who has made opposition to the Kosovo
war – and opposition to the influence of foreign
lobbyists – a campaign issue has been Patrick J.
Buchanan, the likely Reform Party candidate. Buchanan
is the specter that is haunting this primary season,
with everyone and his brother claiming the mantle of
"reform" – but scurrying away from the vital foreign
policy issue, which only Buchanan has addressed. If
McCain, the would-be conqueror of the Balkans, is the
GOP nominee, then the Republicans, independents, and
Democrats who opposed that war and are horrified by
its frightening results will be driven into the
Reform Party column. Combined with the general
distaste for McCain among conservatives, this is the
one factor that those who prate about the
"electability" of the Warrior Candidate never discuss.
Once again, the Bush people are constrained from
making their best argument against McCain, this time
for fear of breaking the embargo on all discussion of
Buchanan and Reform as viable alternatives. The
impotence of the Bush campaign in the face of the
McCain insurgency is a function not only of the
shortcomings of their candidate, but of the
internationalism of his Establishment foreign policy
advisors and their instinctive fear of the Right. And
that, in the end, will be their undoing.
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Albanian Daily News
Albanian Republicans Salute McCain
TIRANA- Albania's Republican Party salutes American runner for US
President John McCain, a daily "Republika" reported on Thursday.
The results published up to now of the American presidential campaign
show that John McCain lies some 6 points ahead of George W. Bush,
pushing Albanian republicans to declare their sympathy to their American
counterpart.
Referring to recent meetings between Albanian republican leader Mediu
and John McCain in Washington D.C, the party's daily underlined that
bilateral relations between the two parties have experienced further
strengthening and enrichment.
Albania's Republican Party hopes that such relations will create a
positive impact both for the party itself and its voters.
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Kosova Crisis Center News <A
HREF="http://www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html">http:
>//www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html</A>
>________________________________________________________________
>Via AlBanian List
>August 22, 1998
>
> Adem Demaci
> Prishtina
> KOSOVA
>
> Dear Adem:
>
>The Albanian American Civic League is writing to congratulate you on your
>appointment as the leader of the political wing of the Kosova Liberation Army.
> As you said when you met with us in New York City in the spring of 1997, some time still had to pass before it would become clear who had integrity in the Albanian world and who did not, and some time still had to pass for the realization to take root that Albanians could not be liberated by the United States unless we fought on the ground for our freedom......We believe that you have the ability to lead the Albanian resistance in a courageous and uncompromising manner, and we want you to know that the Civic League is ready to support you and work with you in this important undertaking.
>
>As you probably already know, the Albanian American Civic League was the first organization in the Albanian diaspora to publicly support the Kosova
Liberation Army, both morally and financially. Most notably, we
successfully transformed the Congressional hearing on Bosnia last March into a hearing on Kosova--one in which, through our lobbying efforts, Clinton administration Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard was forced to concede that the KLA had not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. This produced an immediate change in the Western media's depiction of the KLA and stopped the attempt to criminalize it.
>
>[...]It has also been apparent to us that Serbia's activities have been aided
and abetted by the failed policies of the passive resistance agenda in Kosova-policies that misled Kosovar Albanians and prevented them from preparing themselves for war.
>
Tragically, these policies have been supported and promoted by Western government officials, such as America's Richard Holbrooke and Germany's
Klaus Kinkel, who by their actions have given the green light to Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of state terrorism.[...]
>
When you visited us more than a year ago now, you agreed that there has to
be coordination on both sides of the Atlantic and that, consequently, serious
groups in Kosova and in the West have to synchronize their work. We want
you to know that we have informed the KLA about our Congressional-based
strategy to stop the war against Albanians, beginning with the introduction of
resolutions by Senator Al D'Amato and Congressman Christopher Smith to
indict Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal in The Hague and with a campaign to stop the confirmation of Richard Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations[...]
>
>Sincerely Yours
>[signature]
>Joseph J. DioGuardi, President
>For the Albanian American Civic League
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Disgusting! I saw a link titled "Indipendent Kosova - Why" and clicked on.
There was no text, just photos of killed Albanians. Many were from the
Racak "massacre".
So these are the arguments for an "indipendent KosovA".
But why not to writeto this scum Joe DioGuardi? Here is his curriculum
vitae with the e-mail at the end:
Born in the Bronx, New York, on September 20, 1940, Joseph J. DioGuardi
moved to Westchester County with his
immigrant parents, brother, and sister
in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham
Preparatory School, and in 1962
he graduated with honors from Fordham
University.
DioGuardi served for twenty-two years,
twelve of them as a tax partner, with
the international accounting firm of Arthur
Andersen & Co., one of the first
public advocates of governmental fiscal
responsibility. In November 1984, he
brought his extensive professional and
volunteer experience to Congress,
when he became the first practicing certified
public accountant ever elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in
sounding the call for truth in federal
budgeting, accounting, and reporting and in
bringing financial accountability
to Capitol Hill. He was the original author
of the Chief Financial Officer's Act,
signed by President George Bush in 1990, which mandated the
assignment of a CFO to each major
department and agency of the U.S. government. Charles Bowsher,
former Comptroller General of the General
Accounting Office, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate that
since the enactment of the bill, "we have
seen important progress in directly confronting serious financial
management weaknesses. "
DioGuardi has distinguished himself by finding bipartisan solutions
to difficult problems. On issues of local
concern, he founded and cochaired the Congressional Long Island
Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which
secured vital increases in federal support for these embattled
waterways. In 1986, with the late Democratic
Congressman Mickey Leland, DioGuardi initiated legislation to confer
Congressional Medals of Honor on
Black World War I and World War II military heroes, thereby
correcting an historic injustice. More recently,
he cofounded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force
for Port, Rail, and Industrial
Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's
manufacturing and transportation industries.
DioGuardi is an advocate for the human rights and self-determination
of oppressed peoples in the Balkans.
Since 1989, he has made fifteen trips to the region. As president of
the Albanian American Civic League, he
and Congressman Tom Lantos made the first official trip to Albania
in fifty years, and he helped open the
doors to democracy in this former Communist dictatorship. In August
1990, DioGuardi persuaded Bob Dole
and six other U.S. senators to visit the two million Albanians in
Kosova under Serbian occupation. In
September 1996, he returned to Albania with Congressman Benjamin
Gilman, chairman of the Committee on
International Relations, to meet with President Sali Berisha to
discuss Albanian national security and
minority rights for the ethnic Greeks in southern Albania. In June
1997, Dio Guardi led a delegation to monitor
the national elections in Albania and in August, 1998 he traveled to
northern Albania to assess the
humanitarian crisis emanating from the war in Kosova, at the request
of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Since leaving Congress in 1989, DioGuardi has established a
nonpartisan foundation, Truth In Government,
through which he continues his crusade for federal fiscal reforms.
The author of Unaccountable Congress: It
Doesn't Add Up, DioGuardi is a frequent speaker on fiscal
responsibility and public accountability. In August
1994, as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American
Accounting Association, DioGuardi
persuaded professors of accounting to play an active role in federal
budgeting and financial management. In
May 1996, he returned to Washington as a keynote speaker on federal
financial management reforms before
the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National
Association of Accountants). In April 1997,
the Texas Society of CPAs published an article by DioGuardi in
Today's CPA on the real magnitude of the
national debt.
DioGuardi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
investiture as a Knight of Malta in 1979,
the International Humanitarian Award The Boys Towns of Italy in
1986, the Outstanding CPA in Government
Award from the New York State Society of CPAs in 1986, the Torch of
Liberty Award from the New York
State Conservative Party in 1987, the Outstanding Public Service
Award from the Westchester County
Republican Committee in 1987, the Westchester Irish Committee's
Dedication to Peace and Justice Award in
1988, the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International in 1988, and the Annual
Achievement Award of the Association of Government Accountants,
Boston Chapter, in 1992.
You can contact Joe DioGuardi by email at jjd@...
Here is DioGuardi's wife c.v.
Shirley Cloyes
Balkan Affairs Adviser
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on October 18, 1950, Shirley
Cloyes was raised in Westfield, New
Jersey, and graduated from Westfield High School, where she was a
member of the National Honor
Society. She holds a a B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, and a Master of Divinity,
specializing in systematic theology and culture, from Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
Between her second and third year of graduate study, she studied the
Indonesian language at the University
of California at Berkeley and then taught for two years at Satya
Wacana University in Central Java, where
she developed and ran an interdisciplinary program on interethnic
relations and development.
In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with
German political theologian Dorothee
Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor.
Following the closure of the house in 1984,
she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and
women's studies at Orbis Books.
In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an
offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as
associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and
African studies, the Middle East,
women's studies, and controversial domestic and international
political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988,
she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995.
Some of the noteworthy titles that she
published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global
Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy,
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With
Malcolm X in Africa, England,
and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery,
and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in
America by H. Bruce Franklin.
In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book
on the causes and far-reaching
consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of
Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian,
and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former
Yugoslavia. That year she became the
Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She
has since written and lectured widely
about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight
trips to the region.
Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian
dimension of the Balkan conflict.
Following the hearing in February 1995, which included
representatives from
all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic
League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled
with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the
invitation of Albanian leaders there to
monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova.
The Macedonian government
attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a
student, wounding hundreds, and jailing
the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana
with DioGuardi and Congressman
Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International
Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul
to make the case for the
the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the
University of Marmara.
Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points
in the life of the Albanian nation. In July
1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the
House Committee on International Relations
and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation
and the Albanian Communists in
attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in
support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean
Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger.
In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes
worked with CNN to gain more
complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and
DioGuardi shifted the focus of a
Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from
Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the
questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of
the KLA as a "terrorist" organization. In
August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S.
foreign policy in the Balkans: "The Agony of
Kosova" and "Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West." Cloyes
is the author of the Civic
League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled "Resolving the
Albanian National Question," which
examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of
creating a free and independent Kosova
and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans.
With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March
1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi
appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV
broadcasts. Since the war ended in June
1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to
Congress on postwar conditions.
Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998.
What a wonderful couple!
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Maria
MR JAVIER BERNAL wrote:
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> http://www.aacl.com
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By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute
Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with
the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew
something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the
story.
Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986
Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying
Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo
--that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully
operational.
Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House
Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee.
I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional
Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long
time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm.
Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then
vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping
some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia.
As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to
think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had
done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts,
pulling
Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s,
bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's
communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well,
pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic
nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo
who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United
States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the
cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while
purporting that "Greater Serbia" was the menace to European security and
not the post-fascist "Greater Croatia" and "Greater Albania."
Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their
work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a
sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s.
DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian
transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several
years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's
Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a
map on his website shows (www.aapac.com). His Political Action Committee
(PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and
individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the
demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its "pizza
connection" distribution ("inherited" from the Gambino crime family) and
money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors
listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big
pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with
American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress.
I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob
Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the
evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative
conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be "bought"
--that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War.
In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from
then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from
Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received
$50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back
further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign. It certainly continued from
1987 through to the present.
As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies
continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy,
Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around
Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush
and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States
Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving
representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the
massive financial "contributions" which have been made to election funds
of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One
Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic
Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the
Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed $50-million." Much
of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian
American businessmen" Many of the campaign contributions have been
recorded legally," the investigator said, "but many are questionable.
But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to
push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia
and Germany-and it has not been
subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian
line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will
be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into
supporting the
Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open
bid for recognition as an independent state." Now, as to individual
contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals,
then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), "Soft Money"
contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the
time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown
paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able
retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988
election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy
Dole's
Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and
contributors.
In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia
and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have
simply been beguiled, others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come
from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or
Senate foreign
relations committees: Joseph Lieberman and Jesse Helms, Benjamin Gillman
and Tom Lantos. These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but
demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where "soft money," individual
declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way
to select candidates.
It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and
Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign
policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have
succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while
their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the
overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the
hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied
down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo, again attempting the kind of nation
building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti.
For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have
loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a
companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin:
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-198 0-98.html and
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html
KLA in the U.S.A.
"These guys [the KLA] have a network that's active on the streets of
this country. The Albanian mob is a scary operation. In fact, the Mafia
relied on Albanian hitmen to carry out a lot of their contracts. They're
the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according
to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."
In the words of a November 1997 statement issued by Interpol, the
international police agency, ``Kosovo Albanians hold the largest share
of the heroin market in Switzerland, in Austria, in Belgium, in Germany,
in Hungary, in the Czech Republic, in Norway and in Sweden.''
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
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* I REPUBBLICANI ALBANESI SALUTANO MCCAIN (Albanian Daily News, FEB. 2000),
MCCAIN SALUTA LA NOMINA DI DEMACI A "LEADER POLITICO" DELL'UCK (AUG. 1998)
* Ritratti: MR AND MRS DIOGUARDI, CHE BELLA COPPIA! (stopnato@...)
* Flashback: LA LOBBY PAN-ALBANESE NEL CONGRESSO USA (B. Works)
* Per il testo dell'articolo "LA CIA HA SOSTENUTO L'ESERCITO
GUERRIGLIERO DEL KOSOVO", da noi gia' distribuito ieri, si veda pure:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/12/stifgneur02002.html
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JOHN MCCAIN E LA "DIOGUARDI-UCK CONNECTION"
(sullo stesso argomento vedasi anche: TiM GW Bulletin 2000/3-1:
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html )
Antiwar.com
"Behind the headlines" - by Justin Raimondo
February 25, 2000
McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION
George W. Bush has been taken out to the woodshed by
the liberal for appearing on the stage at Bob Jones
University in this day and age, to even appear on a
platform provided by a politically incorrect group
or institution is enough to condemn a candidate to
perdition. And the McCain campaign was quick to
capitalize on it. But why isn't McCain subjected to the
same scrutiny? Please direct your attention to the
photo below [http://www.marx2001.org/crj/IM/mccain.jpg%5d:
the caption informs us that McCain is speaking at "a
pro-Kosovo, pro-McCain rally across the street from his
New York City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000.
McCain is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night." But who is the man on the right,
with the colorful KLA scarf and his big mouth wide open?
The caption-writer is mute on this point, but to anyone
who knows anything about New York's ethnic politics,
the face is all-too-familiar: it is none other than
former Republican Congressman Joe DioGuardi, now the
loquacious leader of the Albanian-American Civic League
(AACL) a group that not only actively represents the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in America, but whose
leader has become a spokesman for the most radical
fringe elements of the KLA.
"Republican presidential candidate Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to a pro Kosovo, pro
McCain, rally across the street from his New York
City hotel Friday morning, Feb. 11, 2000. McCain
is in New York for the day to attend fundraisers
and to talk to the press before returning to South
Carolina Friday night. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)"
WHO IS JOE DIOGUARDI?
DioGuardi is an extremist who lost his seat in
Congress because his growing preoccupation with
creating a "Greater Albania" did not exactly fit in
with the pothole-fixing skills that must be the first
concern of New York City politicians. Most
Albanian-Americans support independence for Kosovo,
and look with disdain and bewilderment at the US
government's official position that Kosovo is still an
"autonomous" province of Yugoslavia. But DioGuardi
goes one step indeed, several steps further, and
envisions a "Greater Albania." Visitors to AACL's
website ( http://www.aacl.com )are confronted with a
map of this Albanian Empire, which, as Doug Bandow of
the Cato Institute said in his testimony before Congress
( http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-db031099.html ),
illustrates "a breathtaking agenda," including as it
does "Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia (along with
its capital, Skopje), southeastern Montenegro (along
with its capital, Podgorica), northern Greece, and
southern Serbia (north of Kosovo)." Alexander Cockburn's
comment on this outrageous map hit the nail on the head
( http://www.counterpunch.org/jatras.html ):
"When I first saw this map it struck a recollection of
something I had seen before. It occurred to me that it
is quite similar to one I have (printed by the State
Department in 1947) of interim territorial
arrangements during World War II. I can understand
that there is an element of hyperbole in critics'
calling NATO's air campaign "Nazi," but fail to see
what interest the United States has in helping to
restore the Nazi-imposed borders of 1943 or how this
helps preserve European stability."
THE KLA: A SHORT HISTORY
It is well-known that the original straight-arm salute
of the KLA was suppressed, by its CIA and German
intelligence handlers, in favor of a less controversial
American-style greeting. While one wing of the KLA
looks to the old-fashioned Stalinism of Enver Hoxha,
the Albanian Communist dictator who aided the early
student organizations that made up the Albanian
separatist movement, the other looks to the "Skanderberg
Division" of the Nazi SS, Albanians recruited by the
Germans to fight for Hitler's cause, for its political
antecedents. DioGuardi has been a vigorous publicist on
behalf of the KLA political commissar, Adem Demaci, a
militant who spent years in Yugoslav prisons. Demaci
denounced the Rambouillet agreement as a sellout and
(along with DioGuardi) rejected all negotiations on
principle. DioGuardi even wrote a letter
( http://www.bosnet.org/archive/bosnet.w3archive/9808/msg00080.html )
congratulating his fellow extremist when Demaci was
appointed chief of the KLA's political wing.
FOLLOW THAT GENIE!
Demaci, DioGuardi, and the KLA militants are now acting
on their dream of a "Greater Albania": this is the
meaning of recent events in Kosovo
( http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a38b4490a4359.htm ).
Madeleine Albright is so frightened by the rising
demands of the pan-Albanians that she made a special
trip to Tirana to denounce the idea as "no more viable
than that of a Greater Serbia." But the genie is already
out of the bottle, and the question is: what will the
next Administration do?
A GREATER ALBANIA
As the KLA conducts its reign of terror in Kosovo,
driving out the Serbs and marching, in tens of
thousands, on the northern city of Mitrovica in an
effort to storm the last Serb bastion, John McCain is
standing alongside a man who is the chief apologist,
organizer, and fundraiser of the KLA in America, a man
who once declared:
"It is unfortunate that misguided European politics,
overly and unfairly influenced by Russia and Greece in
the early part of the twentieth century, resulted in a
partition of the Albanian nation so that more than
half the Albanians in the Balkans live outside the
state of Albania in hostile Slavic regimes, especially
Serbia and Macedonia. . . . With UDBA in Belgrade and
the Sigurimi in Tirana collaborating to buy, trick or
kill those Albanians with democratic aspirations, it
is no wonder that it has been extremely difficult for
seven million. Albanians to organize themselves as a
nation, or even politically within the five
jurisdictions in which they reside. While there is
some cooperation among political parties in certain
areas and across borders, true democratic,
independent-minded Albanian leadership has been
lacking and this has contributed to the divisions,
confusion, and betrayal of the Albanian cause in the
Balkans and in America."
CONSPIRACY THEORY
How's that for a conspiracy theory? According to
DioGuardi, all the nations of Europe conspired to keep
his people disunited. Naturally it is assumed that
every living ethnic Albanian must live in an Albanian
state, since, in the neo-fascist ideology of the KLA,
the State embodies the Race and must defend its
interests irrespective of current national borders.
And, oh yes, that's what we definitely need: more
"cooperation among parties in certain areas and across
borders," so as to spread the rabidly revanchist
ideology of the KLA and set the Balkans aflame.
THE DIOGUARDI-McCAIN CONNECTION
There they are, the two of them, DioGuardi and McCain,
side by side: one who would carve an Albanian empire
in the midst of the blood-soaked Balkans, and the
other who would be President of the United States. It
is a disturbing juxtaposition, to say the very least.
For if we can accuse poor Dubya of endorsing the
anti-Catholic rhetoric of the Bob Jones
fundamentalists simply by speaking at their
auditorium, then what are we to make of would-be
President John McCain appearing with a radical
Albanian nationalist who sees not only Belgrade but
also Skopje and Athens as the enemy? After all, this
is perhaps the wrong signal to the Macedonians, who
have so far enjoyed a fragile peace, and no doubt the
Greeks, our NATO allies, would be less than pleased.
And what of the Montenegrins, whose capital city
DioGuardi and the Albanian lobby covet, and whose
independence we are pledged to defend against the
alleged threat posed by Milosevic? If Bush must be
called to account for supposedly aligning himself with
the forces of intolerance in the US, for the sin of
appearing at Bob Jones U, then should we not call
McCain to account for sharing the platform with a
radical Albanian extremist and endangering the peace
of Europe
TURNING THE TABLES
Although the McCain campaign piously denied it, it has
since come out that they were responsible for phone
calls during the Michigan primary, run ostensibly by a
group called "Catholic Voter Alert," which demanded to
know why Bush had not disavowed the rhetoric of Bob
Jones and his flock about the church being "a Satanic
cult'! This from the campaign McCain piously described
to his followers as "one you can be proud of"! Well,
then, is it not time to turn the tables, and send out
a "Voter Alert" demanding to know why McCain hasn't
repudiated the rhetoric of Joe DioGuardi and his KLA
friends who want to ignite the Balkan tinderbox with
their crazed scheme to create an Albanian empire?
Indeed, this is a lot fairer than the alleged
Bush-Jones connection, because Bush has no history of
anti-Catholicism – the news of his sudden conversion
to the Jonesian doctrine that the Church is "the great
Whore" foretold in the Bible came as a bit of a
surprise. But McCain's apparent conversion to the
cause of pan-Albanian nationalism is far more
credible. For McCain was the most militant and visible
supporter of the Kosovo war, who demanded Clinton pull
out all the stops and send in the ground troops even
going so far as to introduce a Senate resolution that
went down to a well-deserved defeat at the hands of
his Republican colleagues.
THE KLA CANDIDATE
As General Wesley Clark, the US commander of our
troops in Kosovo, calls on NATO and Washington to send
in more troops – and I see, as I write this, that the
Marines are practically on the way the crisis in the
Balkans is approaching critical mass. The NATO-crats
are cranking up the propaganda machine, as the KLA
gets ready to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo
and proceed to the next stage of the ongoing struggle
for a "Greater Albania." Ideologues like Adem Demaci,
in Kosovo, and Joe Dioguardi, in America, want to drag
the US into yet another Balkan war, to "finish the
job" and completely dismember the remnants of
Yugoslavia – using the US and NATO as both their sword
and their shield. With a sympathetic President in the
White House, who remembers how much money and
political support was raised on that trip to New York
at a crucial time in his campaign, DioGuardi and the
KLA may yet see their expansionist dream realized.
With Serbia finally subjugated, Albania would be free
to expand, absorbing not only Kosovo but also
destabilizing Macedonia and threatening Greece.
HOW MUCH?
The last GOP presidential candidate to cash in on the
Albanian connection was Bob Dole: in May 1987, Dole
and DioGuardi attended an Albanian-American
fund-raiser in New York City that raised $1.2 million
for Dole's campaign and $50,000 for DioGuardi's,
according to journalist Diana Johnstone
( http://www.swans.com/library/art5/zig025.html ) and researcher
Benjamin Works. The caption accompanying the above
photo says McCain was in New York doing some
fundraising, and it is fair to ask: how much money did
he get from the Albanian lobby? As the great "reform"
candidate who denounces the influence of "special
interests" and the power of money in politics, McCain
had better tell us exactly how much the Albanian lobby
has thrown his way – and to what effect. Of all the
lobbyists in Washington, it is the "special interests"
represented by the agents of foreign powers that pose
the greatest threat to the integrity of the
Presidency. Joe DioGuardi, rabid Albanian nationalist
and chief American apologist for the drug-connected
totalitarians of the KLA, has spread the money from
his political action committees far and wide
( http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html ),
and no doubt McCain is also the recipient of his largess
but at what price to the American people? The McCain
campaign must immediately release the figures, and
give us some "straight talk" about the KLA-McCain
connection: how much did they get-and in return for
what? The American people have a right to know how
many American soldiers will be put at risk in the
Balkans in the service of paying off President
McCain's political debts.
ALBANIAN PANDERFEST
Republicans are screaming about the panderfest
presided over by the Reverend Al Sharpton, at which Al
Gore and Bill Bradley outdid each other in denouncing
"white skin privilege," but what about McCain's
panderfest with the Albanian warmongers, who want to
drag the US even deeper into the Balkan quagmire? At
least Sharpton isn't demanding the that the lives of
American soldiers be put at risk.
THE BUCHANAN FACTOR
Naturally the American media, which made itself into
the willing instrument of the War Party during the
Kosovo conflict, is reluctant to uncover the fact of
McCain’s connection to Albanian extremists. The
inability or unwillingness of the Bush campaign to
call McCain to account on this question is due in
large part to its own commitment to the Albanian
lobby; their foreign policy advisor, Richard Perle,
was also an advisor to the Bosnian Muslims, who
enthusiastically supported the Kosovo war. The only
major candidate who has made opposition to the Kosovo
war – and opposition to the influence of foreign
lobbyists – a campaign issue has been Patrick J.
Buchanan, the likely Reform Party candidate. Buchanan
is the specter that is haunting this primary season,
with everyone and his brother claiming the mantle of
"reform" – but scurrying away from the vital foreign
policy issue, which only Buchanan has addressed. If
McCain, the would-be conqueror of the Balkans, is the
GOP nominee, then the Republicans, independents, and
Democrats who opposed that war and are horrified by
its frightening results will be driven into the
Reform Party column. Combined with the general
distaste for McCain among conservatives, this is the
one factor that those who prate about the
"electability" of the Warrior Candidate never discuss.
Once again, the Bush people are constrained from
making their best argument against McCain, this time
for fear of breaking the embargo on all discussion of
Buchanan and Reform as viable alternatives. The
impotence of the Bush campaign in the face of the
McCain insurgency is a function not only of the
shortcomings of their candidate, but of the
internationalism of his Establishment foreign policy
advisors and their instinctive fear of the Right. And
that, in the end, will be their undoing.
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Albanian Daily News
Albanian Republicans Salute McCain
TIRANA- Albania's Republican Party salutes American runner for US
President John McCain, a daily "Republika" reported on Thursday.
The results published up to now of the American presidential campaign
show that John McCain lies some 6 points ahead of George W. Bush,
pushing Albanian republicans to declare their sympathy to their American
counterpart.
Referring to recent meetings between Albanian republican leader Mediu
and John McCain in Washington D.C, the party's daily underlined that
bilateral relations between the two parties have experienced further
strengthening and enrichment.
Albania's Republican Party hopes that such relations will create a
positive impact both for the party itself and its voters.
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Kosova Crisis Center News <A
HREF="http://www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html">http:
>//www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html</A>
>________________________________________________________________
>Via AlBanian List
>August 22, 1998
>
> Adem Demaci
> Prishtina
> KOSOVA
>
> Dear Adem:
>
>The Albanian American Civic League is writing to congratulate you on your
>appointment as the leader of the political wing of the Kosova Liberation Army.
> As you said when you met with us in New York City in the spring of 1997, some time still had to pass before it would become clear who had integrity in the Albanian world and who did not, and some time still had to pass for the realization to take root that Albanians could not be liberated by the United States unless we fought on the ground for our freedom......We believe that you have the ability to lead the Albanian resistance in a courageous and uncompromising manner, and we want you to know that the Civic League is ready to support you and work with you in this important undertaking.
>
>As you probably already know, the Albanian American Civic League was the first organization in the Albanian diaspora to publicly support the Kosova
Liberation Army, both morally and financially. Most notably, we
successfully transformed the Congressional hearing on Bosnia last March into a hearing on Kosova--one in which, through our lobbying efforts, Clinton administration Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard was forced to concede that the KLA had not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. This produced an immediate change in the Western media's depiction of the KLA and stopped the attempt to criminalize it.
>
>[...]It has also been apparent to us that Serbia's activities have been aided
and abetted by the failed policies of the passive resistance agenda in Kosova-policies that misled Kosovar Albanians and prevented them from preparing themselves for war.
>
Tragically, these policies have been supported and promoted by Western government officials, such as America's Richard Holbrooke and Germany's
Klaus Kinkel, who by their actions have given the green light to Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of state terrorism.[...]
>
When you visited us more than a year ago now, you agreed that there has to
be coordination on both sides of the Atlantic and that, consequently, serious
groups in Kosova and in the West have to synchronize their work. We want
you to know that we have informed the KLA about our Congressional-based
strategy to stop the war against Albanians, beginning with the introduction of
resolutions by Senator Al D'Amato and Congressman Christopher Smith to
indict Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal in The Hague and with a campaign to stop the confirmation of Richard Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations[...]
>
>Sincerely Yours
>[signature]
>Joseph J. DioGuardi, President
>For the Albanian American Civic League
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Disgusting! I saw a link titled "Indipendent Kosova - Why" and clicked on.
There was no text, just photos of killed Albanians. Many were from the
Racak "massacre".
So these are the arguments for an "indipendent KosovA".
But why not to writeto this scum Joe DioGuardi? Here is his curriculum
vitae with the e-mail at the end:
Born in the Bronx, New York, on September 20, 1940, Joseph J. DioGuardi
moved to Westchester County with his
immigrant parents, brother, and sister
in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham
Preparatory School, and in 1962
he graduated with honors from Fordham
University.
DioGuardi served for twenty-two years,
twelve of them as a tax partner, with
the international accounting firm of Arthur
Andersen & Co., one of the first
public advocates of governmental fiscal
responsibility. In November 1984, he
brought his extensive professional and
volunteer experience to Congress,
when he became the first practicing certified
public accountant ever elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in
sounding the call for truth in federal
budgeting, accounting, and reporting and in
bringing financial accountability
to Capitol Hill. He was the original author
of the Chief Financial Officer's Act,
signed by President George Bush in 1990, which mandated the
assignment of a CFO to each major
department and agency of the U.S. government. Charles Bowsher,
former Comptroller General of the General
Accounting Office, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate that
since the enactment of the bill, "we have
seen important progress in directly confronting serious financial
management weaknesses. "
DioGuardi has distinguished himself by finding bipartisan solutions
to difficult problems. On issues of local
concern, he founded and cochaired the Congressional Long Island
Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which
secured vital increases in federal support for these embattled
waterways. In 1986, with the late Democratic
Congressman Mickey Leland, DioGuardi initiated legislation to confer
Congressional Medals of Honor on
Black World War I and World War II military heroes, thereby
correcting an historic injustice. More recently,
he cofounded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force
for Port, Rail, and Industrial
Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's
manufacturing and transportation industries.
DioGuardi is an advocate for the human rights and self-determination
of oppressed peoples in the Balkans.
Since 1989, he has made fifteen trips to the region. As president of
the Albanian American Civic League, he
and Congressman Tom Lantos made the first official trip to Albania
in fifty years, and he helped open the
doors to democracy in this former Communist dictatorship. In August
1990, DioGuardi persuaded Bob Dole
and six other U.S. senators to visit the two million Albanians in
Kosova under Serbian occupation. In
September 1996, he returned to Albania with Congressman Benjamin
Gilman, chairman of the Committee on
International Relations, to meet with President Sali Berisha to
discuss Albanian national security and
minority rights for the ethnic Greeks in southern Albania. In June
1997, Dio Guardi led a delegation to monitor
the national elections in Albania and in August, 1998 he traveled to
northern Albania to assess the
humanitarian crisis emanating from the war in Kosova, at the request
of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Since leaving Congress in 1989, DioGuardi has established a
nonpartisan foundation, Truth In Government,
through which he continues his crusade for federal fiscal reforms.
The author of Unaccountable Congress: It
Doesn't Add Up, DioGuardi is a frequent speaker on fiscal
responsibility and public accountability. In August
1994, as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American
Accounting Association, DioGuardi
persuaded professors of accounting to play an active role in federal
budgeting and financial management. In
May 1996, he returned to Washington as a keynote speaker on federal
financial management reforms before
the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National
Association of Accountants). In April 1997,
the Texas Society of CPAs published an article by DioGuardi in
Today's CPA on the real magnitude of the
national debt.
DioGuardi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
investiture as a Knight of Malta in 1979,
the International Humanitarian Award The Boys Towns of Italy in
1986, the Outstanding CPA in Government
Award from the New York State Society of CPAs in 1986, the Torch of
Liberty Award from the New York
State Conservative Party in 1987, the Outstanding Public Service
Award from the Westchester County
Republican Committee in 1987, the Westchester Irish Committee's
Dedication to Peace and Justice Award in
1988, the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International in 1988, and the Annual
Achievement Award of the Association of Government Accountants,
Boston Chapter, in 1992.
You can contact Joe DioGuardi by email at jjd@...
Here is DioGuardi's wife c.v.
Shirley Cloyes
Balkan Affairs Adviser
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on October 18, 1950, Shirley
Cloyes was raised in Westfield, New
Jersey, and graduated from Westfield High School, where she was a
member of the National Honor
Society. She holds a a B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, and a Master of Divinity,
specializing in systematic theology and culture, from Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
Between her second and third year of graduate study, she studied the
Indonesian language at the University
of California at Berkeley and then taught for two years at Satya
Wacana University in Central Java, where
she developed and ran an interdisciplinary program on interethnic
relations and development.
In 1983, she coauthored a book entitled To Work and To Love with
German political theologian Dorothee
Soelle and joined the staff of The Seabury Press as an editor.
Following the closure of the house in 1984,
she became marketing director and editorial consultant in Black and
women's studies at Orbis Books.
In 1986, she joined the staff of Lawrence Hill & Company, an
offshoot of the breakup of Hill & Wang, as
associate publisher. The press specialized in African American and
African studies, the Middle East,
women's studies, and controversial domestic and international
political issues. When Larry Hill died in 1988,
she took over the house and was its publisher until the end of 1995.
Some of the noteworthy titles that she
published are The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global
Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy,
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Ghosts in Our Blood: With
Malcolm X in Africa, England,
and the Caribbean by Jan Carew, My Friend, the Enemy by Uri Avnery,
and M.I.A. or Mythmaking in
America by H. Bruce Franklin.
In 1995, she published Yugoslavia's Ethnic Nightmare, the first book
on the causes and far-reaching
consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of
Bosnian Muslim, Croatian, Serbian,
and Macedonian journalists who opposed the war inside the former
Yugoslavia. That year she became the
Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League. She
has since written and lectured widely
about the Albanian dimension of the Balkan conflict and made eight
trips to the region.
Cloyes proposed the first Congressional hearing on the Albanian
dimension of the Balkan conflict.
Following the hearing in February 1995, which included
representatives from
all the Albanian lands in the former Yugoslavia, she and Civic
League President Joseph DioGuardi traveled
with Yugoslav dissident Mihaljo Mihaljov to Macedonia at the
invitation of Albanian leaders there to
monitor the reopening of the Albanian-language University of Tetova.
The Macedonian government
attacked the university on the morning of their departure, killing a
student, wounding hundreds, and jailing
the professors. In September of that year, she traveled to Tirana
with DioGuardi and Congressman
Benjamin Gilman, chair of the House Committee on International
Relations, to meet with then President Sali Berisha and to Istanbul
to make the case for the
the independence of Kosova at the National Press center and at the
University of Marmara.
Cloyes has testified before Congress at two historic turning points
in the life of the Albanian nation. In July
1996, she testified on behalf of the State of Albania before the
House Committee on International Relations
and exposed the role of Nicholas Gage of the Panepirotic Federation
and the Albanian Communists in
attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Sali Berisha. In 1998, she testified in
support of U.S. troop deployment in Kosova, following Bob Dole, Jean
Kirkpatrick, and Henry Kissinger.
In February 1998, after the Serbian army attacked Drenice, Cloyes
worked with CNN to gain more
complete coverage of the crisis in Kosova. In March, she and
DioGuardi shifted the focus of a
Congressional hearing with U.S. Balkan envoy Robert Gelbard from
Bosnia to Kosova, and positioned the
questions that forced Gelbard to retract his earlier depiction of
the KLA as a "terrorist" organization. In
August of that year, she published two major articles on U.S.
foreign policy in the Balkans: "The Agony of
Kosova" and "Presiding over Genocide: The Shame of the West." Cloyes
is the author of the Civic
League's October 1999 public declaration, entitled "Resolving the
Albanian National Question," which
examines the internal and external factors that stand in the way of
creating a free and independent Kosova
and bringing a just and lasting peace to the Balkans.
With the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia in March
1999, Cloyes and DioGuardi
appeared separately and together on more than 50 radio and TV
broadcasts. Since the war ended in June
1999, they have made three trips to Kosova to report back to
Congress on postwar conditions.
Cloyes and DioGuardi were married in June 1998.
What a wonderful couple!
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SPECIAL REPORT - Drugs and KLA
FROM BEN WORKS
Jul 5,1999
BUYING AN INTERVENTION: KOSOVO AND ALBANIAN PAC MONEY IN CONGRESS
By Benjamin Works, Director, The Strategic Issues Research Institute
Hack and I, along with a select group of others, have been at war with
the KLA over its heroin and terrorist connections. We also knew
something about how political money bought this war policy. Here's the
story.
Back in 1995, late in the Bosnian war, I got a reference to a 1986
Senate Resolution proposed by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, decrying
Yugoslavian official oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo
--that's 1986, when the Albanian Autonomous government was still fully
operational.
Joseph DioGuardi, a New York Republican, sponsored the companion House
Resolution, both of which never emerged from committee.
I got a copy of that Senate Resolution Nr. 150 from the Congressional
Register of June 19, 1986 and then let it sit in my file for a long
time, while the NATO occupation of Bosnia appeared to keep things calm.
Meanwhile, Bob Dole managed to lose the 1996 Presidential Election, then
vigorously supported Mr. Clinton's year-by-year extensions for keeping
some 6900 US soldiers in Bosnia.
As the KLA insurrection in Kosovo reached civil war levels, I began to
think about that resolution and how it misrepresented history. I had
done considerable reading on the origins of the Yugoslav conflicts,
pulling
Washington Post, New York Times and other reports from the 1980s,
bearing on Kosovo and the collapse of the Federative Republic's
communist government under the pressure of ethnic-nationalism. Well,
pieces fit together showing that all along it has been the ethnic
nationalist fascist losers of World War II in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo
who have been exploiting the political process in Germany and the United
States. Their goal has been to effect the division of Yugoslavia and the
cleansing of Serbian populations from their territories, while
purporting that "Greater Serbia" was the menace to European security and
not the post-fascist "Greater Croatia" and "Greater Albania."
Survivors of the Croat Ustashe movement in southern Germany began their
work in the 1960s, but Joseph DioGuardi must be given credit for a
sustained campaign to influence Congress beginning in the mid-1970s.
DioGuardi, an Albanian American whose ancestors came from an Albanian
transplant community in the heel of Italy, sat in Congress for several
years in the mid-1980s as a Conservative Republican from New York's
Westchester County, but creating a Greater Albania was his agenda as a
map on his website shows (www.aapac.com). His Political Action Committee
(PAC) activities are easy to follow from 1988 on. What makes the PAC and
individual contributions to campaigns more interesting is the
demonstrated connection between the Kosovo Heroin Mafia, its "pizza
connection" distribution ("inherited" from the Gambino crime family) and
money-laundering networks, and the number of pizzaria owner-contributors
listed in DioGuardi's filings. The Croats and Albanians came up with big
pots of laundered money, then spread it around selectively, with
American politicians helping to persuade other members in Congress.
I have indications of a political alliance between DioGuardi and Bob
Dole going as far back as the early 1970s, but have not yet got all the
evidence in hand. What I do have is sufficient to reach tentative
conclusions about how foreign policy, in a democracy, can be "bought"
--that is precisely what happened in the case of the Kosovo Air War.
In early 1987, kicking off his 1988 bid to wrest the GOP nomination from
then-vice president George Bush, Dole received $1.2 million from
Albanian American supporters in New York City, while DioGuardi received
$50,000 at the same dinner. I expect the funding trail goes back
further, at least to Dole's 1976 campaign. It certainly continued from
1987 through to the present.
As the collapse of Yugoslavia loomed, the Croatian and Albanian lobbies
continued their campaign: Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy,
Mar 31, 1993 issue, reported as much as $50 million was larded around
Capitol Hill in a two-year period which saw the defeat of George Bush
and led to Bob Dole's control of the Republican party: The United States
Congress, still reeling from a series of financial scandals involving
representatives and senators, is now bracing for a new problem: the
massive financial "contributions" which have been made to election funds
of politicians by Croatian sources over the past two to three years. One
Congressional investigator told Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic
Policy that the donations and expenditures on Washington lobbying by the
Croatians over the past two years "could well exceed $50-million." Much
of this came directly from Croatian lobbyists, and some from Croatian
American businessmen" Many of the campaign contributions have been
recorded legally," the investigator said, "but many are questionable.
But what is more important is that there has been a pervasive attempt to
push the United States along a line defined by foreign powers-Croatia
and Germany-and it has not been
subtle. Elected officials are being told to either support the Croatian
line or face either a removal of funding or are told that funding will
be given to their opponents. Or they are literally bribed into
supporting the
Croatian line. This was going on long before Croatia even made its open
bid for recognition as an independent state." Now, as to individual
contributions, there are campaign contribution limits on individuals,
then there are Political Action Committees (PACs), "Soft Money"
contributed to the parties and fed back to candidates, and there is the
time-honored custom of passing bundles of hundred dollar bills in brown
paper bags to favored candidates. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
records are on-line (http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/) and I have been able
retrieve records for Joseph DioGuardi's PACs going back to the 1988
election cycle, and have also tested Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign and Liddy
Dole's
Campaign-2000. It is all there in the lists of candidates and
contributors.
In particular, most of the Congressmen speaking loudest against Serbia
and Serbs are those receiving money from DioGuardi's PAC. Some have
simply been beguiled, others may be more disingenuous. Recipients come
from both sides of the aisle but are mostly members of the House or
Senate foreign
relations committees: Joseph Lieberman and Jesse Helms, Benjamin Gillman
and Tom Lantos. These records do not reveal monster sums of money, but
demonstrate the tip of the iceberg, where "soft money," individual
declared contributions and bags full of $100 bills also find their way
to select candidates.
It is clear that Bob Dole and Joe DioGuardi, in league with Croat and
Bosnian fascist emigrees, worked very effectively to set up US foreign
policy to dismantle Yugoslavia and ruin the Serb people. They have
succeeded admirably because they were organized and persistent, while
their opponents were disorganized and, ultimately, outnumbered by the
overwhelming flood of media propaganda. Now, the US taxpayer is on the
hook for Billions of Dollars, while our service personnel will be tied
down for years in Bosnia and Kosovo, again attempting the kind of nation
building that failed so spectacularly in Somalia and Haiti.
For those wishing to inspect the details of these fundraising, I have
loaded the summary lists compiled thus far at my website along with a
companion reading file on the KLA and Heroin:
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-198 0-98.html and
http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Drugs.html
KLA in the U.S.A.
"These guys [the KLA] have a network that's active on the streets of
this country. The Albanian mob is a scary operation. In fact, the Mafia
relied on Albanian hitmen to carry out a lot of their contracts. They're
the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according
to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."
In the words of a November 1997 statement issued by Interpol, the
international police agency, ``Kosovo Albanians hold the largest share
of the heroin market in Switzerland, in Austria, in Belgium, in Germany,
in Hungary, in the Czech Republic, in Norway and in Sweden.''
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"ZA HRVATSKU I KRISTA - PROTIV KOMUNISTA"
Il generale dell'esercito croato Tihomir Blaskic, responsabile delle
violenze a danno dei bosniaco-musulmani soprattutto nella zona di Ahmici
(Bosnia-Erzegovina), immediatamente dopo essere stato messo sotto
inchiesta dal Tribunale dell'Aia fu decorato da Tudjman con una
onoreficenza. Ora, morto Tudjman, Blaskic e' stato condannato a 45 anni
di galera: subito si e' levata in sua difesa la voce della Chiesa
Cattolica Apostolica Romana, nelle persone del Capo dell'Ordinariato
Militare vescovo Jezerinac, del Provinciale dei Francescani della Bosnia
fra Petar Angelinovic, e dello stesso cardinale Vinko Puljic, primate di
Sarajevo (nominato cardinale da questo papa tra un pellegrinaggio e
l'altro alla tomba del nazista Stepinac)
(Fonte: "Il manifesto" 8/3/2000)
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Il generale dell'esercito croato Tihomir Blaskic, responsabile delle
violenze a danno dei bosniaco-musulmani soprattutto nella zona di Ahmici
(Bosnia-Erzegovina), immediatamente dopo essere stato messo sotto
inchiesta dal Tribunale dell'Aia fu decorato da Tudjman con una
onoreficenza. Ora, morto Tudjman, Blaskic e' stato condannato a 45 anni
di galera: subito si e' levata in sua difesa la voce della Chiesa
Cattolica Apostolica Romana, nelle persone del Capo dell'Ordinariato
Militare vescovo Jezerinac, del Provinciale dei Francescani della Bosnia
fra Petar Angelinovic, e dello stesso cardinale Vinko Puljic, primate di
Sarajevo (nominato cardinale da questo papa tra un pellegrinaggio e
l'altro alla tomba del nazista Stepinac)
(Fonte: "Il manifesto" 8/3/2000)
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COSA E' L'"INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP"?
Una delle piu' citate fonti di (dis)informazione sulla crisi nei Balcani
e fino all'Asia Centrale (vadasi ad es. la campagna sulla Cecenia,
ripresa in modo becero da "Il Manifesto" del 26/2/2000) e'
L'International Crisis Group (ICG). In passato abbiamo fatto gia' notare
come questa organizzazione "per la promozione dei diritti umani" in
tutti i paesi che intralciano i piani egemonici del Pentagono non sia
altro che una emanazione diretta del Dipartimento di Stato e di una
serie di Fondazioni USA che fortemente influenzano la politica estera
statunitense.
Riportiamo di seguito un po' di documentazione a riguardo. In alcuni
messaggi successivi tratteremo invece della disinformazione che l'ICG
sta attualmente facendo in merito ai problemi delle miniere del Kosmet.
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http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is a private, multinational
organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of the
international
community to understand and respond to impending crises.
ICG's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political
analysts
based on the ground in countries at risk of crisis, gather information
from
a wide range of sources, assess local conditions and produce regular
analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key
international decision-takers.
The next step is advocacy. ICG reports are distributed widely to
officials
in foreign ministries and international organisations and made available
to
the general public via the organisation's internet site, located at
www.crisisweb.org. The organisation works closely with governments and
the
press to highlight key issues identified in the field and to stimulate
discussion of potential policy responses. The ICG Board - which includes
prominent figures from the fields of politics, diplomacy, business and
the
media - is also involved in helping to bring ICG reports and
recommendations
to the attention of senior policy-makers around the world. The ICG Board
is
chaired by former US Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who
recently
brokered the "Good Friday" Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland.
ICG is headquartered in Brussels with a U.S. branch in Washington DC.
The
organisation currently operates field projects in seven countries world
wide: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, the Federal Republic
of
Yugoslavia, Algeria, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ICG raises funds from the European Union, governments, charitable
foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governments
currently have funding agreements with ICG: Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,
the
Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Private sector donors include the Blaustein Foundation, the Fares
Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation,
the
Open Society Institute, the Smith Richardson Foundation and the U.S.
Institute of Peace.
November 1999
Board of Trustees November 1999
George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute
Senator George J. Mitchell, Chairman Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Morton Abramowitz Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Hon Gareth Evans QC, ICG President Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Gianfranco Dell'Alba Member of the European Parliament
Oscar Arias Sanchez Former President of Costa Rica; Nobel Peace Prize,
1987
Ersin Arioglu Chairman, Yapi Merkezi, Turkey
Christoph Bertram Director, Science and Policy Foundation
Alan Blinken Former US Ambassador to Belgium
Maria Livanos Cattaui Secretary-General, International Chamber of
Commerce
Mong Joon Chung Member of the Korean National Assembly
Alain Destexhe ICG President Emeritus, Member of the Belgian Senate.
Mou-Shih Ding Senior Advisor to the President, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Mark Eyskens Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Issam M Fares Chairman, Wedge International
Malcolm Fraser Former Prime Minister of Australia
HRH El-Hassan bin Talal Prince of Jordan Website:
http://www.princehassan.gov.jo
Marianne Heiberg Special Advisor to Director-General of UNESCO
Max Jakobson Former Ambassador of Finland to the UN
Elliott F. Kulick Chairman, Pegasus International
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Novelist and journalist
Allan J MacEachen Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Graça Machel Vice Chair, ICG Former Minister of Education, Mozambique
Nobuo Matsunaga President, Japan Institute for International Affairs
Barbara McDougall Former Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada
Matthew McHugh Counsellor to the President, The World Bank
Miklós Németh Vice President, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development; Former Prime Minister of Hungary
Olara Otunnu President, International Peace Academy; Former Foreign
Minister
of Uganda
Wayne Owens President, Center for Middle East Peace and Economic
Cooperation
Shimon Peres Former Prime Minister, Israel; Nobel Prize, 1994
David de Pury Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turettini & Co. Ltd.; Former
Swiss
Trade Ambassador
Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy Executive Chairman, New Africa Investments Ltd.,
South Africa
Michel Rocard Former Prime Minister of France
Christian Schwarz-Schilling Member of Bundestag; Former Minister of Post
and
Telecommunications, Germany
William Shawcross Journalist and author
Michael Sohlman Executive Director, Nobel Foundation, Sweden
Stephen Solarz Vice Chair, ICG Former US Congressman
Pär Stenbäck President, Finnish Red Cross; Former Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Finland
Thorvald Stoltenberg Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
William O Taylor Chairman, Globe Newspapers Co.,USA
Leo Tindemans Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Ed Turner Former Executive Vice President, Turner Broadcasting Inc., USA
Eduard van Thijn Former Minister of the Interior, The Netherlands;
Former
Mayor of Amsterdam
Simone Veil Former President of the European Parliament; Former Minister
for
Health, France
Shirley Williams Member of the House of Lords; Former Secretary of State
for
Education and Science, United Kingdom
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intl-crisis-group.org - REPORTS INDEX
· Kosovo Albanians in Serbian Prisons: Kosovo's Unfinished
Business (26 January 2000)
· Starting from Scratch in Kosovo: The Honeymoon is over (10th
December 1999)
· Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth (26th November 1999)
· Violence in Kosovo: Who's Killing Whom in Kososvo (2nd
November 1999)
· Waiting for Unmik: Local Administration in Kosovo (18th
October 1999)
· Macedonia: Gearing up for Presidential Elections (18th October
1999)
· Montenegro Briefing: Calm Before the Storm? (18th August 1999)
· Transforming Serbia: the Key to Long Term Stability (12th
August 1999)
· The Policing Gap: Law and Order in the New Kosovo (6th August
1999)
· ICG Balkans Briefing: Stability Pact Summit (27/07/99)
· Back to the Future: Milosevic Prepares For Life After Kosovo
(28 June 1999)
· Kosovo Briefing: Who Will Lead the Kosovo Albanians Now?:
Making sense of Kosovo's Feuding Factions
(28/06/99)
· The New Kosovo Protectorate (20 June 1999)
· Macedonia Briefing: Macedonian Government Holds Together, Eyes
Fixed on Upcoming Presidential Poll (June 14,
1999)
· Kosovo: ICG voices concern over Kosovo Peace Plan (11/06/99)
Press Release
· Wanted For War Crimes (31/05/99)
· Macedonia: Towards Destabilisation? (May 17, 1999)
· Kosovo: let's learn from Bosnia - Models and methods of
international administration (17/05/99)
· Milosevic's Aims In War And Diplomacy (12/05/99) pdf
· Albania Briefing: Albania - The Refugee Crisis (11/05/99)
· Montenegro Briefing: Milosevic to Move on Montenegro
(23/04/99)
· Milosevic Is Winning; NATO Must Change Course (20/04/99)Press
Release
· Consequences of the Kosovo Conflict and Future Options for
Kosovo and the Region (19/04/99)
· Toward an Endgame for Milosevic (08/04/99) Press Release
· Macedonia Update: Challenges and Choices for the New
Governement (06/04/99)
· The Albanian Refugee Crisis (02/04/99)
· Kosovo: Atrocities In Kosovo Must Be Stopped (29/03/99)
· Kosovo: Urgent Call For Protection Of Kosovo's Civilians
(26/03/99) Press Release
· Kosovo: Nato Ground Force Critical To Civilian Protection In
Kosovo (23/03/99) Press Release
· Kosovo: Nato Should Issue Ultimatum To Milosevic: Sign Kosovo
Peace Agreement Or Face Concerted Military
Action Within 72 Hours (15/03/99) Press Release
· Series of three new ICG reports on Kosovo crisis (15/03/99)
Press Release
· Yugoslavia: Sidelining Slobodan: Getting rid of Europe's last
dictator (15/03/99)
· Kosovo: The Road to Peace (12/03/99)
· Unifying The Kosovar Factions: The Way Forward (12/03/1999)
· Kosovo: Clear And Present Danger (26/02/99) Press Release
· Kosovo: Three Steps to Peace (05/02/99) Press Release
· Fear and Loathing in Belgrade (26/01/99)
· Kosovo: Bite The Bullet (22/01/99)
· Macedonia: New faces in Skopje (08/01/99)
· The State Of Albania (06/01/99)
· Milosevic: Déjà Vu All Over Again? (23/12/98)
· Intermediate Sovereignty as a Basis for Resolving the Kosovo
Crisis (09/11/98)
· Sandzak: Calm for Now (09/11/98)
· Macedonia Briefing: Opposition Wins Parliamentary Elections
(04/11/98)
· State Of The Balkans (04/11/98)
· 1998 Elections in Macedonia (09/10/98)
· Albania Crisis Briefing (01/10/98)
· Mr. President, Milosevic Is The Problem (22/09/98)
· Kosovo's Long Hot Summer: Briefing On Military, Humanitarian
And Political Developments In Kosovo
(02/09/98)
· ICG Briefs on Military, Humanitarian and Political
Developments in Kosovo (02/09/98) Press Release
· Macedonia: The Albanian Question In Macedonia: Implications Of
The Kosovo Conflict For Inter-Ethnic Relations
In Macedonia (11/08/98)
· Macedonia: ICG Publishes Report Examining the Macedonian
Dimension of the Kosovo Conflict (10/08/98) Press
Release
· The View From Tirana: The Albanian Dimension Of The Kosovo
Crisis (10/07/98)
· ICG Publishes Report Examining the Albanian Dimension of the
Kosovo Crisis (10/07/98) Press Release
· Yugoslavia:Inventory Of A Windfall: Milosevic's Gains From The
Kosovo Dialogue (28/05/98)
· Yugoslavia: Slobodan Milosevic's Manipulation of the Kosovo
Dispute (06/05/98)
· Kosovo: "War is on the way" (30/04/98) Press Release
· Kosovo Spring Report (20/03/98)
· Supporting Albania's Long-Haul Recovery (18/03/98)
· World powers' response to Kosovo crisis "doesn't go far
enough" warns ICG (10/03/98) Press Release
· Serbia - The Milosevic Factor, (24/0298)
· Kosovo Briefing, (17/02/98)
· Macedonia Update Report (04/12/97)
· Macedonia: The Politics of Ethnicity and Conflict (21/10/97)
· Preliminary Report From Albania (25/06/97)
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Una delle piu' citate fonti di (dis)informazione sulla crisi nei Balcani
e fino all'Asia Centrale (vadasi ad es. la campagna sulla Cecenia,
ripresa in modo becero da "Il Manifesto" del 26/2/2000) e'
L'International Crisis Group (ICG). In passato abbiamo fatto gia' notare
come questa organizzazione "per la promozione dei diritti umani" in
tutti i paesi che intralciano i piani egemonici del Pentagono non sia
altro che una emanazione diretta del Dipartimento di Stato e di una
serie di Fondazioni USA che fortemente influenzano la politica estera
statunitense.
Riportiamo di seguito un po' di documentazione a riguardo. In alcuni
messaggi successivi tratteremo invece della disinformazione che l'ICG
sta attualmente facendo in merito ai problemi delle miniere del Kosmet.
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http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
The International Crisis Group (ICG) is a private, multinational
organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of the
international
community to understand and respond to impending crises.
ICG's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political
analysts
based on the ground in countries at risk of crisis, gather information
from
a wide range of sources, assess local conditions and produce regular
analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key
international decision-takers.
The next step is advocacy. ICG reports are distributed widely to
officials
in foreign ministries and international organisations and made available
to
the general public via the organisation's internet site, located at
www.crisisweb.org. The organisation works closely with governments and
the
press to highlight key issues identified in the field and to stimulate
discussion of potential policy responses. The ICG Board - which includes
prominent figures from the fields of politics, diplomacy, business and
the
media - is also involved in helping to bring ICG reports and
recommendations
to the attention of senior policy-makers around the world. The ICG Board
is
chaired by former US Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who
recently
brokered the "Good Friday" Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland.
ICG is headquartered in Brussels with a U.S. branch in Washington DC.
The
organisation currently operates field projects in seven countries world
wide: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, the Federal Republic
of
Yugoslavia, Algeria, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ICG raises funds from the European Union, governments, charitable
foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governments
currently have funding agreements with ICG: Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,
the
Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Private sector donors include the Blaustein Foundation, the Fares
Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation,
the
Open Society Institute, the Smith Richardson Foundation and the U.S.
Institute of Peace.
November 1999
Board of Trustees November 1999
George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute
Senator George J. Mitchell, Chairman Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Morton Abramowitz Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Hon Gareth Evans QC, ICG President Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Gianfranco Dell'Alba Member of the European Parliament
Oscar Arias Sanchez Former President of Costa Rica; Nobel Peace Prize,
1987
Ersin Arioglu Chairman, Yapi Merkezi, Turkey
Christoph Bertram Director, Science and Policy Foundation
Alan Blinken Former US Ambassador to Belgium
Maria Livanos Cattaui Secretary-General, International Chamber of
Commerce
Mong Joon Chung Member of the Korean National Assembly
Alain Destexhe ICG President Emeritus, Member of the Belgian Senate.
Mou-Shih Ding Senior Advisor to the President, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Mark Eyskens Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Issam M Fares Chairman, Wedge International
Malcolm Fraser Former Prime Minister of Australia
HRH El-Hassan bin Talal Prince of Jordan Website:
http://www.princehassan.gov.jo
Marianne Heiberg Special Advisor to Director-General of UNESCO
Max Jakobson Former Ambassador of Finland to the UN
Elliott F. Kulick Chairman, Pegasus International
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Novelist and journalist
Allan J MacEachen Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Graça Machel Vice Chair, ICG Former Minister of Education, Mozambique
Nobuo Matsunaga President, Japan Institute for International Affairs
Barbara McDougall Former Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada
Matthew McHugh Counsellor to the President, The World Bank
Miklós Németh Vice President, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development; Former Prime Minister of Hungary
Olara Otunnu President, International Peace Academy; Former Foreign
Minister
of Uganda
Wayne Owens President, Center for Middle East Peace and Economic
Cooperation
Shimon Peres Former Prime Minister, Israel; Nobel Prize, 1994
David de Pury Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turettini & Co. Ltd.; Former
Swiss
Trade Ambassador
Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy Executive Chairman, New Africa Investments Ltd.,
South Africa
Michel Rocard Former Prime Minister of France
Christian Schwarz-Schilling Member of Bundestag; Former Minister of Post
and
Telecommunications, Germany
William Shawcross Journalist and author
Michael Sohlman Executive Director, Nobel Foundation, Sweden
Stephen Solarz Vice Chair, ICG Former US Congressman
Pär Stenbäck President, Finnish Red Cross; Former Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Finland
Thorvald Stoltenberg Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
William O Taylor Chairman, Globe Newspapers Co.,USA
Leo Tindemans Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Ed Turner Former Executive Vice President, Turner Broadcasting Inc., USA
Eduard van Thijn Former Minister of the Interior, The Netherlands;
Former
Mayor of Amsterdam
Simone Veil Former President of the European Parliament; Former Minister
for
Health, France
Shirley Williams Member of the House of Lords; Former Secretary of State
for
Education and Science, United Kingdom
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intl-crisis-group.org - REPORTS INDEX
· Kosovo Albanians in Serbian Prisons: Kosovo's Unfinished
Business (26 January 2000)
· Starting from Scratch in Kosovo: The Honeymoon is over (10th
December 1999)
· Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth (26th November 1999)
· Violence in Kosovo: Who's Killing Whom in Kososvo (2nd
November 1999)
· Waiting for Unmik: Local Administration in Kosovo (18th
October 1999)
· Macedonia: Gearing up for Presidential Elections (18th October
1999)
· Montenegro Briefing: Calm Before the Storm? (18th August 1999)
· Transforming Serbia: the Key to Long Term Stability (12th
August 1999)
· The Policing Gap: Law and Order in the New Kosovo (6th August
1999)
· ICG Balkans Briefing: Stability Pact Summit (27/07/99)
· Back to the Future: Milosevic Prepares For Life After Kosovo
(28 June 1999)
· Kosovo Briefing: Who Will Lead the Kosovo Albanians Now?:
Making sense of Kosovo's Feuding Factions
(28/06/99)
· The New Kosovo Protectorate (20 June 1999)
· Macedonia Briefing: Macedonian Government Holds Together, Eyes
Fixed on Upcoming Presidential Poll (June 14,
1999)
· Kosovo: ICG voices concern over Kosovo Peace Plan (11/06/99)
Press Release
· Wanted For War Crimes (31/05/99)
· Macedonia: Towards Destabilisation? (May 17, 1999)
· Kosovo: let's learn from Bosnia - Models and methods of
international administration (17/05/99)
· Milosevic's Aims In War And Diplomacy (12/05/99) pdf
· Albania Briefing: Albania - The Refugee Crisis (11/05/99)
· Montenegro Briefing: Milosevic to Move on Montenegro
(23/04/99)
· Milosevic Is Winning; NATO Must Change Course (20/04/99)Press
Release
· Consequences of the Kosovo Conflict and Future Options for
Kosovo and the Region (19/04/99)
· Toward an Endgame for Milosevic (08/04/99) Press Release
· Macedonia Update: Challenges and Choices for the New
Governement (06/04/99)
· The Albanian Refugee Crisis (02/04/99)
· Kosovo: Atrocities In Kosovo Must Be Stopped (29/03/99)
· Kosovo: Urgent Call For Protection Of Kosovo's Civilians
(26/03/99) Press Release
· Kosovo: Nato Ground Force Critical To Civilian Protection In
Kosovo (23/03/99) Press Release
· Kosovo: Nato Should Issue Ultimatum To Milosevic: Sign Kosovo
Peace Agreement Or Face Concerted Military
Action Within 72 Hours (15/03/99) Press Release
· Series of three new ICG reports on Kosovo crisis (15/03/99)
Press Release
· Yugoslavia: Sidelining Slobodan: Getting rid of Europe's last
dictator (15/03/99)
· Kosovo: The Road to Peace (12/03/99)
· Unifying The Kosovar Factions: The Way Forward (12/03/1999)
· Kosovo: Clear And Present Danger (26/02/99) Press Release
· Kosovo: Three Steps to Peace (05/02/99) Press Release
· Fear and Loathing in Belgrade (26/01/99)
· Kosovo: Bite The Bullet (22/01/99)
· Macedonia: New faces in Skopje (08/01/99)
· The State Of Albania (06/01/99)
· Milosevic: Déjà Vu All Over Again? (23/12/98)
· Intermediate Sovereignty as a Basis for Resolving the Kosovo
Crisis (09/11/98)
· Sandzak: Calm for Now (09/11/98)
· Macedonia Briefing: Opposition Wins Parliamentary Elections
(04/11/98)
· State Of The Balkans (04/11/98)
· 1998 Elections in Macedonia (09/10/98)
· Albania Crisis Briefing (01/10/98)
· Mr. President, Milosevic Is The Problem (22/09/98)
· Kosovo's Long Hot Summer: Briefing On Military, Humanitarian
And Political Developments In Kosovo
(02/09/98)
· ICG Briefs on Military, Humanitarian and Political
Developments in Kosovo (02/09/98) Press Release
· Macedonia: The Albanian Question In Macedonia: Implications Of
The Kosovo Conflict For Inter-Ethnic Relations
In Macedonia (11/08/98)
· Macedonia: ICG Publishes Report Examining the Macedonian
Dimension of the Kosovo Conflict (10/08/98) Press
Release
· The View From Tirana: The Albanian Dimension Of The Kosovo
Crisis (10/07/98)
· ICG Publishes Report Examining the Albanian Dimension of the
Kosovo Crisis (10/07/98) Press Release
· Yugoslavia:Inventory Of A Windfall: Milosevic's Gains From The
Kosovo Dialogue (28/05/98)
· Yugoslavia: Slobodan Milosevic's Manipulation of the Kosovo
Dispute (06/05/98)
· Kosovo: "War is on the way" (30/04/98) Press Release
· Kosovo Spring Report (20/03/98)
· Supporting Albania's Long-Haul Recovery (18/03/98)
· World powers' response to Kosovo crisis "doesn't go far
enough" warns ICG (10/03/98) Press Release
· Serbia - The Milosevic Factor, (24/0298)
· Kosovo Briefing, (17/02/98)
· Macedonia Update Report (04/12/97)
· Macedonia: The Politics of Ethnicity and Conflict (21/10/97)
· Preliminary Report From Albania (25/06/97)
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IL POPE ARTEMIJE - AMBASCIATORE DI CHI E DI CHE COSA?
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – “This morning (Feb. 25) Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright met with Kosovo Serb leaders Bishop Artemije
Radosavljevic and Father Sava Janjic to discuss the situation of the
Serb community in Kosovo and to continue a process of engagement with
moderate opposition leadership,” a State Department press release
stated.
TiM Ed.: Correction. “Kosovo Serb Leaders?” Neither Bishop Artemije,
nor any other Serb vassal who has ever accompanied him in his visits at
the State Dept., are “Serb leaders” by any stretch of the imagination.
They have been neither elected nor appointed as such, neither in Kosovo
nor anywhere else in Serbia. They may be “Serb leaders,” therefore,
only by a State Department’s effort to assign them a higher rank than
they deserve. Or by their own exaggerated and self-congratulatory
claims.
Take a look at the caption under a photo at the Decani web site
(http://www.decani.yunet.com/ ), maintained by Artemije’s close aide,
Fr. Sava Janjic, who, as you saw from the above State Department
release, was also present at their Feb. 25 meeting with Albright. The
caption reads: “Bishop Artemije - the missionary of peace again in US
to speak on behalf of his people.” The photo was taken in Washington,
DC, Feb/99.
“On behalf of his people?” His Disgrace would be well advised to speak
only on his own behalf. And to remember how “his people,” the Serbs of
Kosovo, jeered him and Albright the last time around when he cavorted
with the enemy during the U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to Kosovo in
July 1999 (see "Albright, Artemije Jeered by Serbs, Cheered by Serbs,
Cheered by Albanians" - S99-131, "Peace" 25, Item 1, July 31). We
understand that the Serb media have also published photos of Artemije
and Albright taken on Feb. 25, though we have not yet been able to
obtain one. For the time being, here’s a photo from an earlier visit by
Artemije et.al. to the State Dept.
As if cavorting with the person whom the London Telegraph dubbed “the
West's most influential anti-Serb hawk” in its Feb. 27 “post mortem” to
the Kosovo war weren’t bad enough, His Disrace also joined Albright in
reaffirming “their strong commitment to a multiethnic, democratic Kosovo
and their rejection of partition,” according to the Feb. 25 State Dept.
release. “The Secretary and Bishop Artemije strongly endorsed Special
Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Bernard Kouchner's Agenda
for Coexistence and agreed that it provided a basis for moving forward
toward participation of the Serb community in Kosovo's democratization.”
Raymond Kent, a former history professor at the Berkeley University in
California, described this French Jew as “France's most vocal and
opinionated Serbophobe,” in a Feb. 18 letter of protest against the
PBS/Jim Lehrer anti-Serbian bias (you can see the full text of his
letter in Item 6 below). Prof. Kent added, “this writer has personally
listened to him on the French TV on a dozen occasions spewing his
anti-Serb venom.
And so, His Grace stumbles from one disgraceful act to another… From
posing with the “the West's most influential anti-Serb hawk,” to
“strongly endorsing” the “France's most vocal and opinionated
Serbophobe.” Both gestures represent another act of Artemije’s
subservience to the New World Order, and another act of disservice to
the Serb people.
In a December 1999 TiM Bulletin, “Cavorting with the Enemy”, we also
condemned similar actions of some pro-western Serb opposition leaders
who traveled to Berlin to kiss up to Albright. Here’s the opening
paragraph:
“Can you imagine a Serb leader posing for reporters with one of Hitler's
top aides - after the Luftwaffe's April 6, 1941 bombing of Belgrade
which killed hundreds of civilians? Not if he hoped to be a Serb leader
for long, right?
Well, on Dec. 17, three would-be Serb leaders - Zoran Djindjic, Milo
Djukanovic and Vuk Draskovic did just that at a Berlin (how
appropriate!) Dec. 17 meeting with an unindicted war criminal, Madeleine
Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State. Or Hate, to be more accurate.
Take a look at the photo posted at our Web site. What are these people
smiling about? The thousands of Serb civilians killed or maimed by the
bombs in, what TIME magazine called, "Madeleine's War?" (see S99-81, Day
55, Item 2, May 17).”
More than 2,000 Serb civilians were killed by NATO under the auspices of
the war criminals, like Albright. Nearly 1,000 other Serb civilians
killed under the watchful eyes of Kouchner. Over 200,000 Serbs who were
driven from their ancestral homes in Kosovo during the NATO/KFOR “peace
farce.” And after all that, Artemije et. al. and the pro-western
vassals among the Serb opposition meet with, and pose for photographs,
with
the NATO war criminals?
[Text Box: Artemije with Clinton (Nov/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava
with Holbrooke (Aug/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava with Thaci (summer
1999)]
Nor are we talking only about Artemije-Albright tête-à-tête sessions.
Take at a look at the Decani web site. It’s full of boastful
photographs of this Serb bishop posing with leading New World Order
criminals. Artemije with Clinton… Artemije with Richard Holbrooke…
Artemije with Hashim Thaci… Artemije at the Council on Foreign Relations
(in New York), etc.
Such a disgraceful behavior by a Serb bishop, [Text Box: Artemije at
the CFR (Feb/99)] especially after the NATO bombing of Serbia, dishonors
all Serb victims of the New World Order crimes. If Artemije plans to
keep on acting as a quisling of the western powers that be, which he is
free to do as an individual, at least he should have enough decency to
take off his clerical robes when he cavorts with the war criminals.
For, his behavior can be also construed by uninitiated or malicious
people as the Serbian Orthodox Church’s endorsement of his shameful
missions. We don’t know who is paying for his trips to Washington and
New York, butas far as TiM is aware, Bishop Artemije only represents
himself, not the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has publicly denounced
Slobodan Milosevic, the NATO bombings, and the KFOR “peace farce.”
Artemije’s recent actions have rightly earned him the epithet – His
Disgrace. May he wear it in shame.
B92 1/3/2000 ------------------
FERITO UN PARA' RUSSO IN KOSMET
Russian paratrooper wounded
PRISTINA, Wednesday - A Russian KFOR paratrooper was wounded in a
firearm incident in Srbica yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defence
announced today. The soldier has undergone surgery following what the
ministry describes as an accident which occurred while he was on guard
duties. His condition is reported to be stable..
IL POPE ARTEMIJE NEGLI USA
Kosovo cleric in US
WASHINGTON, Wednesday - Orthodox Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren
today told the US Congress Helsinki Committee that the status of Kosovo
should remain frozen until violence had been eliminated and democratic
processes begun not only in Kosovo but in the rest of Serbia and
Yugoslavia. Bishop Artemije also called on the international community
to take more resolute action in Kosovo as prescribed by UN Security
Council Resolution 1244. He emphasised that moderate Serbs in Kosovo
needed media access and better communication between their enclaves so
that their voices could be heard by all Kosovo Serbs.
REUTERS 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
QUINDICIMILA IN PIAZZA A SKOPJE CONTRO LA POLITICA
ECONOMICA DEL GOVERNO DI DESTRA
Thousands Attend Macedonian Union Rally
SKOPJE, Mar 1, 2000 -- (Reuters) Around 15,000
Macedonian workers took to streets in the capital
Skopje on Tuesday to protest against high unemployment
and the economic policies of the center-right
government.
The demonstration was organized by the blue-collar
Alliance of Macedonian Unions.
Its president, Zivko Tolevski, called on the
center-right government to start a dialogue with
unions.
He urged it to not accept "blackmail from the
international financial institutions, especially the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund".
"Should we close down all big companies? We are
opposed to that," he told the crowd.
"If they close down the loss-making companies so many
people would be left with no jobs. We are sure that
other solutions could be envisaged," he said.
Tolevski said the former Yugoslav republic, which
became independent in 1991, had one of Europe's
highest unemployment rates, 36 percent.
"We have a right to send a powerful message to the
international community and Europe that Macedonia can
not overcome its economic crisis with all these
barriers and blockades," said Tolevski, referring to
sanctions against its northern neighbour Serbia.
AP 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
SERBI-KOSOVARI INFURIATI CONTRO I SOLDATI USA
http://www.newsday.com/ap/topnews/ap882.htm
Angry Serbs Surround U.S. Soldiers
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A crowd of chanting Serb
civilians surrounded a platoon of U.S. soldiers for
six hours in a small village in eastern Kosovo,
angrily insisting they hand over a Serb suspect
detained in a weapons search, U.S. officials said
Thursday.
The standoff in Gornje Kusce, two miles north of the
town of Gnjilane, ended only after the 15 soldiers
conducting a weapons search sought reinforcements and
the Serbs let them leave, said Maj. Debbie Allen, a
spokeswoman for U.S. forces.
No injuries were reported, but the government-run
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said American troops beat
up three Serbs and arrested one. U.S. officials could
not be reached for comment.
The standoff began Wednesday evening when soldiers
conducting a weapons search detained a Serb man after
finding two AK-47s and several hundred rounds of
ammunition in his home. Some 200 Serbs gathered, and
refused to disperse despite efforts by the soldiers to
negotiate their way out.
After three hours, the troops called for
reinforcements. About 60 soldiers arrived, but could
not extricate the platoon. More reinforcements were
called, but the situation was defused only when the
crowd permitted the soldiers to leave with the
suspect.
About 100 soldiers had converged on the tiny village
by the time the standoff was over.
The village was the site of a massive funeral for a
Serb doctor slain last week.
Tanjug said the standoff occurred because U.S. troops
conducted a ''brutal'' search in the village. Serbs
were especially angered by the appearance of
''uniformed ethnic Albanians together with the
Americans.''
It was unclear who the ''uniformed ethnic Albanians''
were but ethnic Albanian interpreters who accompany
American troops wear green camouflage fatigues and
helmets like the U.S. soldiers.
REUTERS 2/3/2000 --------------------------
MUORE IL PARA' RUSSO IN SEGUITO ALLE FERITE
Russian Kosovo Soldier Dies Of Wounds
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Mar 2, 2000 -- (Reuters) A Russian
soldier serving with the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo died of his
wounds after being shot in an ethnic Albanian town, the French army said
on Thursday.
"The Russian soldier died of internal bleeding overnight," said Major
Philippe Maurin, a spokesman for the French KFOR forces stationed in the
north of the turbulent province.
The Russian soldier, whose name was withheld pending notification of his
family, was shot on Tuesday in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of
Srbica.
The town is about 20 km (12 miles) south of Kosovska Mitrovica, the
mining city which has become the frontline of continuing ethnic tension
between Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and the dwindling Serb minority.
French officials said the incident was under investigation and have
declined to comment on a motive for the shooting.
The soldier, a driver, was hit once in the chest in broad daylight in
the center of Srbica, where he had taken his commanding officer for a
meeting with local officials.
Srbica is just north of the area of Kosovo usually patrolled by Russian
KFOR troops, who are distrusted and feared by ethnic Albanians who see
the Russians as natural allies of their fellow Orthodox co-religionists,
the Serbs
B92 2/3/2000 ------------------
SERBI AFFRONTANO LE TRUPPE KFOR
Serbs harass KFOR troops
PRISTINA, Thursday - The Serbian population of the Kosovo village of
Gornje
Kusce last night held off US troops with pitchforks and hoes, KFOR
spokesman
Hoening Philip told media today. According to Philip the incident
occurred
when the troops arrested a Serb after finding three automatic rifles in
his
house. Amateur radio operators reported that there had been six
Albanians
among the international troops and the Gornje Kusce residents had called
Russian soldiers from Kamenica to determine their identity. The crowd
eventually allowed the troops to leave with the arrested man after an
additional sixty soldiers were called.
LA FINANZA TEDESCA PER IL MONTENEGRO
German finance for Montenegro
BERLIN, Thursday - The German Government has approved a loan of 40
million
Deutsche Marks to Montenegro. The deal, which involves cooperative
projects
with German businesses, was announced after discussions today between
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and German Foreign Minister Joscha
Fischer in Berlin.
PROTESTE SERBE A MITROVICA
Up again down again bridge
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Thursday - Several hundred Serbs gathered today on
the
northern bank of the Ibar river in Kosovska Mitrovica in a protest
against a
pontoon bridge installed this morning by KFOR. The protesters told media
that
they had assembled to oppose KFOR attempts to transport a group of
Albanians
across the river from the southern part of the town into the Serb zone.
KFOR
eventually abandoned the attempt to move the Albanians. KFOR Northern
Centre
Command told Beta agency that the bridge would be open every day from
8.00 am
to 6.00 p.m. for pedestrian passage.
However KFOR troops later this afternoon dismantled the bridge less than
twelve hours after setting it up. The official reason given was "a rise
in
the water level of the river".
B92 3/3/2000 ----------------------------------------------
SCONTRI A MITROVICA IN SEGUITO ALLA PROVOCAZIONE DELLA KFOR
CHE FORZA IL "RIENTRO" DI ALBANESI NEL QUARTIERE
ZEPPO DI PROFUGHI SERBI
Repatriation "invasion" in northern Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday -- Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica today
clashed violently with KFOR troops as international forces returned the
first
contingent of Albanian families to their homes in the Serbian zone of
the
divided town. After a crowd of several hundred Serbs stoned troops
stationed
on the bridge to protect the first group of Albanians, French KFOR
troops
dispersed the protesters with mace cartridges. France Press reports that
at
least six Serbs were hurt during the conflict and several KFOR vehicles
damaged.
The group of 38, mainly elderly Albanians reached the northern zone
shortly
before 4.00 p.m. A convoy of armed vehicles crossed the bridge and set
off
for Bnjaca mahal, the northern area where the Albanians lived.
KFOR confirmed yesterday that it had noted the emergence of a group of
armed
Albanians in Kosovo who were making incursions into the southern
municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in Serbia proper. A
spokesman for KFOR Commander Klaus Reinhardt said today that KFOR had no
jurisdiction to intervene outside Kosovo but was patrolling the
administrative border in order to prevent illegal crossings.
MANOVRE NATO IN VISTA, ARTEMIJE LE APPOGGIA
NATO exercises "no cause for alarm"
BRUSSELS, Friday -- NATO's Dynamic Response 2000 manoeuvres, which are
planned to begin in two weeks in Kosovo, in no way represent a new
threat,
and nor did they celebrate a year from the beginning of the air strikes
against Yugoslavia, Belgrade daily Glas javnosti quotes sources in
NATO's
Brussels headquarters as saying today. An unnamed NATO source said that
the
exercises were only simulations of the supply of strategic support to
KFOR
and SFOR forces in the region. The same source added that the rumours
and
concerns in Yugoslavia that a new round of bombing could occur were
completely unfounded and unjustified, and that such stories were pure
political science fiction.
Bishop Artemije of the Kosovo diocese of Raska and Prizren expressed the
hope
today that the NATO manoeuvres would be the beginning of a more active
engagement of KFOR in protecting the remaining Serb other non-Albanian
population in the province. Bishop Artemije, speaking on his return from
the
US, said that US officials had shown great readiness to work on securing
conditions for the return of non-Albanians to Kosovo.
"WANTED" PER MILOSEVIC, KARADZIC E MLADIC
SECONDO IL MIGLIOR STILE DEL FAR WEST
"Wanted" posters of Milosevic, Kardzic and Mladic in Bosnia
WASHINGTON, Friday -- The US will display about 10,000 "wanted" posters
throughout Bosnia offering a five million dollar reward for information
leading to the capture of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, former
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and wartime Bosnian Serb army
leader
General Ratko Mladic. The US State Department said today that the reward
offer stood also applied to another 27 indicted war crime suspects, but
the
posters would carry photos only of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.
ALBRIGHT, KOUCHNER: FINALMENTE IL KOSOVO E' RIPULITO,
POSSIAMO TENERE DELLE BELLE ELEZIONI DEMOCRATICHE
International community calls for Kosovo elections
LISBON, Friday -- The foreign ministers of the European Union, meeting
with
their Russian and US counterparts in Lisbon today declared that the
prompt
organisation of local elections in Kosovo was necessary as part of
efforts to
re-establish peace in the region. The US Secretary of State, Madeleine
Albright, and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that the
organisation
of elections didn't need an increase in KFOR troops but work on the
preparation of election conditions so that the polls could be fair.
Albright
called on the international community to secure appropriate financial
conditions so that the elections could be held under appropriate
conditions.
Albright said yesterday that the guiding principle in Kosovo could be
respect
for minority rights, rather than the establishment of the multiethnic
society
demanded by Western leaders so far. Speaking to a US Senate
sub-committee,
the secretary for state said that the international community was moving
towards a multi-ethnic ideal in Bosnia, but added that it was difficult
to
use that term in Kosovo because Serbs there were in the minority and so
their
interests were in the respect of minority rights.
Meanwhile, United Nations Kosovo mission chief Bernard Kouchner is on
his way
to New York where he will submit a report on Kosovo the United Nations
Security Council on Monday, a report which pays particular attention to
plans
for the stabilisation of Kosovska Mitrovica. KFOR Commander Klaus
Reinhardt
will accompany Kouchner. Kosovska Mitrovica Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic
said
today that Kouchner would convey to the Security Council the comments of
the
Serb community on his Strategy for Peaceful Co-existence in Mitrovica.
AFP 6/3/2000 ---------------------------------------------
SADDAM HUSSEIN AIUTEREBBE MILITARMENTE LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
Saddam Ready To Send Troops To Aid Serbia
BAGHDAD, Mar 6, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Iraq is prepared to send
troops to Serbia, President Saddam Hussein has told a Serbian envoy,
Monday's official press reported.
"We are against the aggression against you," Saddam told the speaker of
Serbia's parliament, Dragan Tomic.
"Our position is voiced not only in words but by any means you consider
useful, including our presence at your side to fight the aggression," he
told Tomic, who is a senior official of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia.
"We oppose all those who want to divide your country because we are on
the side of good and against evil," Saddam vowed.
He also seized the occasion to predict, once again, the defeat of the
United States.
"The arm used by the United States against Iraq, against Yugoslavia and
which they will probably use against others, will surely tire," the
president told the delegation, which included Yugoslav minister without
portfolio Zoran Vujovic.
"They will weaken more and more and will be defeated."
Saddam branded as "dogs" NATO forces which attacked Serbia last year and
condemned "the Arabs who sided with the dogs against you".
He urged "the people of the whole world to unite in strength to show
America its limits."
"It's the Zionists and not the Christians who set the American policy of
killing Muslims throughout the world," Saddam said.
The Iraqi strongman said he opposed the break up of countries into
ethnic or religious groupings and predicted that the United States,
which he said encouraged the process, would also break up one day.
"One day this will turn against America which is playing the role of
sorcerer's apprentice and I believe all the countries of the world will
rejoice when America breaks up."
Iraq, repeatedly bombed by the United States and Britain since 1991
following Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait, backed Belgrade against NATO.
Links between the two have strengthened in recent months. ((c) 2000
Agence France Presse)
VOICE OF RUSSIA 6/3/2000 -----------------------
DI CHI LA COLPA PER LA PULIZIA ETNICA IN KOSOVO?
Voice of Russia March 6, 2000
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR ETHNIC CLEANSINGS IN KOSOVO?
Exactly one year since the start of NATO's aggression against
Yugoslavia, Petr Iskenderov looks back at where things stood right
before it all happened…
A few days ago, the Albanian separatist leader Hashim Thaqi unveiled
some secret details of KLA operations in the period immediately
preceding last year's allied military operation.
The then KLA leader said that his organization was working flat out
using hit and run tactics against Serbian police officers and the
Yugoslav military with an eye to provoking retaliation from Belgrade.
This, he said, would give the separatists a chance to bring repression
charges against Yugoslavia and appeal for Western interference to end
alleged human rights abuses by Belgrade.
Apparently carried away, Mr. Thaqi also mentioned the tragedy in the
Serbian village of Racak where dozens of dead bodies have recently been
unearthed by OSCE experts who identified them as KLA fighters apparently
killed in action. And still, people at the NATO headquarters in Brussels
put the blame for the killings of peaceful Albanian peasants squarely on
Belgrade. The charge provided a comfortable justification for NATO's
subsequent aggression against Yugoslavia.
Making a clean breast on what really had happened, Mr. Thaqi admitted
that his militants had intentionally killed four Serb police officers at
Racak knowing that the Serbs would not take long retaliating for the
attack. The Serbs retaliated all right, but not against peaceful land
tillers. What they did was a large-scale operation against armed
Albanian paramilitaries who had turned the village into a major
stronghold. It was exactly their dead bodies, which were later found,
something that is now admitted even by the then KLA supremo who has
absolutely no reason to lie.
Which means that NATO launched its unprecedented aggression against a
sovereign state responding to a sheer provocation by the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army. Moreover, none of the other much-trumpeted cases
of allegedly Serb-organized ethnic cleansings of local Albanians has
proved correct even though they have been investigated by experts from
such respected international organizations as the U. N., the OSCE and
even the British parliament. Not 50,000 massacred civilians but just a
few hundred fighters killed in action - that's the unanimous conclusion
made by American, British and Spanish experts, all of whom, as we can
see, come from NATO countries.
To err is human, of course, but when an ill-intentioned provocation
results in 78 days and nights of all out war then the whole thing is
just a perfect case for a military tribunal to mete out equal justice
for Hashim Thaqi, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Xavier Solana and other
"scriptwriters" .
03.06. 2000
REUTERS 6/3/2000 --------------------------------------
APPENA PRESO "SCAPPA" IL QUINDICENNE UCCISORE DEL PARA'
Suspect In Death Of Russian Kosovo Soldier Escapes PRISTINA, Yugoslavia,
Mar 6, 2000 -- (Reuters) A suspect in the killing of a Russian
peacekeeping soldier in Kosovo escaped from prison just two days after
he was arrested, a spokesman for the KFOR peacekeeping force said on
Sunday.
"The 15-year-old who was arrested for the killing of the Russian soldier
escaped," said Major Kristian Kahrs, a spokesman for the peacekeeping
force. He said he had no further details, including the suspect's name
or from which prison he escaped and how he got out. Private Igor
Korshunov, 31, was shot once in the chest in broad daylight by a gunman
in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of Srbica, 40 km (25 miles)
northwest of Pristina, on Tuesday.
French gendarmes in the French-controlled northern zone of Kosovo have
been investigating the incident but have not so far revealed the reason
for the shooting.
Korshunov is the third Russian soldier shot on peacekeeping duties in
Kosovo but the first to die. Russians have not been welcome in ethnic
Albanian areas of the predominantly Albanian province because of their
perceived sympathies for Orthodox co-religionist Serbs.
AFP 7/3/2000 ---------------------------------
AUMENTANO LE CRITICHE DA MOSCA PER LA CONDOTTA
INTERNAZIONALE IN KOSMET
Russian Official Accuses UN Of Failing To Fulfil
Kosovo Mission
MOSCOW, Mar 7, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) A
high-ranking Russian defense official on Monday
accused the United Nations and NATO of failing to
fulfil their obligations in Kosovo.
General Leonid Ivashov, in charge of international
cooperation at the defense ministry, singled out the
head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner,
for criticism.
His "categorical refusal to work with the Yugoslav
government" was one reason for the deterioration of
the situation in Kosovo, Ivashov said in a television
interview.
The NATO forces, in particular the United States want
Kosovo to cede completely from Yugoslavia, regardless
of UN resolutions to keep it within the rump
federation, he added.
The Alliance has taken the role of defending the
Kosovo Liberation Army -- the rebel group which has
been formally disbanded -- he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said last
Thursday that Moscow would re-examine its
participation in KFOR if Yugoslavia's integrity was
not guaranteed. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)
REUTERS 7/3/2000 -----------------------
SCONTRI CON DECINE DI FERITI A MITROVICA
WIRE:03/07/2000 09:31:00 ET
French, Serbs, Albanians Hurt in Kosovo Clash
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - At least seven French
KFOR soldiers, 20 Serbs and three Albanians were injured Tuesday in
the predominantly Serb part of the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica.
A Reuters reporter at the scene said he saw at least six French
soldiers and one captain injured when Albanians threw two explosive
devices at soldiers who had surrounded an Albanian house from which
there had been shooting.
Some of the soldiers were evacuated to a nearby French military
hospital.
Philippe Paco, a spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo,
said he had heard that the incident started with a quarrel between
Albanian and Serb youths.
"One Albanian fired a hunting rifle on a young man and wounded him
and immediately after that Albanians from a courtyard fired two hand
grenades," Paco said.
A doctor at the hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marko Jaksic, said 20
Serbs had been injured.
"Twenty injured Serbs have been received in the hospital for
treatment and two of them are seriously wounded," said Jaksic, head
of the surgical ward of the Mitrovica hospital.
KFOR spokesman Lieutenant Christian Lindmeier said by telephone from
the Kosovo capital Pristina that he could confirm that 10 Serbs and
three Albanians had been wounded and "several" French soldiers had
received grenade injuries.
He said the French were not badly hurt.
The northern Mitrovica district where the firing broke out was
heavily fortified by KFOR last week when it managed to return some
Albanians to their homes there after a two-day standoff with angry
Serbs.
KFOR and the United Nations, anxious to demonstrate their backing for
a multi-ethnic Kosovo, put on a huge show of force to get the
Albanians back home through a gauntlet of Serbs, who said having
Albanians in their part of town was a threat to their safety.
The Albanians had fled to the purely Albanian southern part of the
town, which is divided by the River Ibar, last month after ethnic
violence drove them from their homes.
The shooting later died down. French KFOR spokesman Colonel Patrick
Chanliau said French soldiers were still surrounding the house where
the shooting had started. He also said two cars were burning and that
a child was among the injured.
Troops and U.N. police had reinforced the bridges dividing the town
where Serbs and Albanians had gathered on their respective sides of
the river. The atmosphere remained extremely tense but was quiet
after the shooting finished.
AP 8/3/2000 -------------------------------
SCOMODO "BENVENUTO" ALLA ALBRIGHT IN BOSNIA
New York Times/AP March 8, 2000
Serbs Protest Albright in Bosnia
Filed at 11:18 a.m. EST
By The Associated Press
BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Hundreds of Serbs chanted
``killers´´ as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright drove by today,
marring her visit to a Bosnian city meant to serve as an example of
ethnic harmony for Kosovo´s residents.
Meanwhile, in Kiseljak, about 60 miles to the south, a demonstration by
close to 10,000 Bosnian Croats also turned into an anti-U.S. protest.
Albright, who earlier today concluded a sentimental visit to her Czech
homeland, arrived in Brcko for an announcement formally making the
northern city a multiethnic district.
Brcko already has a multiethnic government approved by the international
officials running the city. Its residents are exempt from the draft, a
symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate the importance of peace.
But as Albright's motorcade drove up to the municipal building where the
announcement and ceremony making the city a district was to take place,
about 300 Serbs began chanting ``killers,´´ ``thieves´´ and
obscenities.
One of the vehicles was hit by an egg, and many protesters waved three
fingers in the air in the traditional Serb salute. Some in the crowd
also chanted, ``Dodik, traitor´´ -- a reference to Milorad Dodik,
the pro-Western premier of the Serb half of Bosnia.
Nationalist Serbs still resent the United States for its support of
Muslims during the Bosnian war, which ended in 1995 after NATO bombing
helped force the Serbs to seek peace.
But Serbs aren't the only ethnic group in Bosnia angry at Americans.
In Kiseljack, protesters accused the West of being anti-Croat because of
the U.N. war crimes tribunal's recent decision to sentence Gen. Tihomir
Blaskic to 45 years in prison for atrocities against Muslims. They
burned a U.S. flag and whistled each time Albright's name was mentioned.
The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo advised Americans to stay away from
Kiseljak, some 25 miles west of Sarajevo, and the southern city of
Mostar, where more demonstrations were expected.
The status of Brcko was the only territorial issue left unresolved in
the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.
Brcko had been under sole control of Bosnian Serbs until last year, when
it was placed under joint administration of the Serb republic and the
Muslim-Croat Federation.
Bosnian Serbs insisted on maintaining control because Brcko is on a
narrow corridor linking Serb-held lands in the east and west of the
country.
But the Muslim-Croat federation wanted access to the river and rail
facilities. The federation also wanted the thousands of mostly Muslim
refugees to be able to return to their homes in Brcko.
International mediators twice postponed a decision on Brcko's future
because of the sensitivity of the issue and the strong claims by both
sides. After the international decision in March 1999 removed it from
exclusive Serb control, hundreds of Bosnian Serbs demonstrated in the
Serb half of the country, refusing to accept its neutrality. The
protests eventually died down.
In a speech Tuesday in the Czech capital, Prague, Albright noted that
critics once feared the Brcko issue could derail the entire peace
process but said ``those predictions were wrong.´´ Albright said
that gives rise to hope that the same level of cooperation can be
reached eventually in Kosovo, especially in the explosive city of
Kosovska Mitrovica, where dozens were injured in ethnic clashes Tuesday.
During her two-day visit here, Albright is to meet with representatives
of all three ethnicities -- Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Upon arriving in Sarajevo from Prague, Albright headed to the U.S.
Embassy for a meeting with Bosnian opposition leaders.
Albright was to return to Sarajevo today for meetings with the national
leaders before traveling to the Bosnian Serb capital, Banja Luka, for
talks with Dodik, the Bosnian Serb prime minister, and other moderate
leaders at odds with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The United States and others accuse Milosevic of continuing to foment
ethnic conflict, not only in Kosovo but in Bosnia through efforts to
undermine pro-Western Bosnian Serb politicians.
YDS 8/3/2000 --------------------------------------
TERMINATA LA VISITA NEL LAOS DEL MINISTRO JUGOSLAVO
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDED VISIT TO LAOS
VIENTIANE, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
Jovanovic
ended on Tuesday his three-day official visit to Laos during which he
had
met with the country's top officials.
Laos President Khamtay Siphandon received Jovanovic on Sunday, on Monday
he was received by Prime Minister Sisavat Keobounphanh, while on Tuesday
he
met with Parliament Speaker Saman Vignaket.
The country's military leadership showed interest in learning the causes
and consequences of NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 aggression on
Yugoslavia.
Jovanovic's meetings with the Laos officials showed that they shared
Yugoslavia's positions on and assessments of the NATO crime.
Vignaket said that the NATO aggression was a warning to all nations and
that the Yugoslav people and leadership's heroic resistance to it served
as
an example to other countries fighting for freedom and independence.
Jovanovic and Vignaket discussed the promotion of all-round cooperation
between the two countries, agreeing to ensure the exchange of visits by
the
two countries' parliamentary delegations and their joint activity within
the Interparliamentary Union.
LA JUGOSLAVIA VUOLE LA VERITA' DALL'ONU
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN
YUGOSLAV U.N. AMBASSADOR URGED TRUTH ABOUT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
NEW YORK, March 7 (Tanjug) - For nine months, the U.N. Security Council
has been in a blockade which prevents it from doing its duty in the
right
way and opening a debate on the true problems such as security in
Kosovo-Metohija and the inefficacy of the international mission there,
according to Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic was making a critical appraisal of
Monday's
closed-door consultations in the Security Council, at which the civilian
and security mission chiefs to the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav)
Kosovo-Metohija province, Bernard Kouchner and Klaus Reinhardt,
submitted
their reports.
Speaking at a news conference, Jovanovic said the Monday debate again
had
completely ignored the burning questions concerning Kosovo-Metohija,
where
he said there was chaos and where ethnic Albanian terrorist operations
were
continuing unabated.
He said the alarming nature of the situation was evident also from
Tuesday's reports about the latest wave of terrorist attacks in Kosovska
Mitrovica, in which a score of people were wounded, including
international
KFor force troops.
Regrettably, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's report, published on
the
eve of the arrival of Kouchner and Reinhardt at U.N. headquarters, had
done
the same as the Council debate - viz., distracted attention from the
true
problems and causes of the chaos in Kosovo-Metohija to quite tangential
ones.
His report, too, avoided pointing the finger at the true culprits for
the
ethnic cleansing of Kosovo-Metohija of its Serbs and other
non-Albanians,
and made no mention of the genocide committed thereby, Jovanovic said.
Although Annan did present some facts objectively, he yet buried the
complete picture and the truth under an avalanche of unimportant details
without making a right and comprehensive statement about the situation
in
Kosovo-Metohija or the true reasons for the difficult situation in the
province, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say that the international mission officials had done
nothing to discharge their mandate.
Turning a blind eye to what the terrorists are doing is the same as
siding
with them, according to Jovanovic, who said this only encouraged the
separatists and fed their belief that one day they might detach
Kosovo-Metohija from the parent state.
If U.N. Resolution 1244 clearly provides for an autonomous status and
self-rule for Kosovo-Metohija, then clearly Kouchner, with decisions
that
are at odds with it, is trying to open scope for wrong interpretations
and
distortions of the Resolution, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say this was the first time that the U.N. flag had been
abused for the purposes of ethnic cleansing.
The truth and only the truth is the way to speak about Kosovo- Metohija,
he stressed.
Facts and only facts must be the language in which to talk about the
situation in that U.N.-administered southern province of the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia and the true competencies of the international
presence
there, he emphasised.
ANNAN IN BILICO TRA FATTI E MENZOGNE
ANNAN BALANCING BETWEEN FACTS AND KOUCHNER'S LIES
NEW YORK, March 8 (Tanjug) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
held a press conference at the U.N. New York headquarters on Tuesday
which
was mostly devoted to Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Reporters linked their questions with two events - Monday's
consultations
of the U.N. Security Council when Annan's special envoy Bernard Kouchner
presented a series of unobjective assessments and excuses for the
failure
of the Kosovo U.N. mission, and, second, Tuesday's press conference by
Yugoslav U.N. mission head Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic and his
evaluation of the failure of the international mission and the Security
Council's inability objectively and comprehensively to discuss Kosovo
and
Metohija.
Annan reiterated his concern over the situation in the southern Serbian
province. He also said that it was not possible to deal with the
situation
in Kosovo separately from the rest of the region. Speaking about the
announced elections in the province, he said it was necessary that the
civilian mission UNMIK cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
The secretary-general tried to make an artificial balance between hard
facts and the lies relentlessly launched by his envoy Kouchner.
Asked to comment Kouchner's countless illegal moves in the province,
Annan
tried to present them as practical measures and steps without which it
would be difficult to manage the administration of the province.
Annan said he was aware that Yugoslavia saw these moves by Kouchner as
preparations for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija, but failed to
mention that other council members, primarily Russia and China, share
this
opinion and the critical evaluations presented by Yugoslavia, and that
they
also warn against Kouchner's dangerous activities.
Asked about Yugoslavia's criticisms of the inefficiency of the
international mission, Annan said he was familiar with these criticisms.
He
then admitted that the international mission faced great problems from
its
very start and that the United Nations had a very difficult mandate from
the very beginning.
KFOR ED UNMIK FATTO IL CONTRARIO DI QUANTO PREVISTO
NELLA RISOLUZIONE DELL'ONU 1244
KFOR, UNMIK FAIL TO IMPLEMENT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA RESOLUTION
VIENNA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav ambassador in Vienna Rados
Smiljkovic said here Tuesday that the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and
the
U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) did not implement
and
even greatly violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
Presenting the Yugoslav government's memorandum on the resolution,
Smiljkovic said that the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
southern province was deteriorating and that violence committed by
ethnic
Albanian extremists had begun spreading outside the province.
Attacks on Serbian authorities and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
are used to conceal the international factor's failure, while elections
in
Kosovo and Metohija are placed in the focus of the world public's
attention, he said.
He said that no elections would be possible as long as the remaining
non-Albanians in the province and loyal ethnic Albanians were killed on
a
daily basis by the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
He said that pressure on Yugoslavia was exerted through open attempts to
trigger a conflict between the country's two federal entities, Serbia
and
Montenegro, to divide and radicalise political forces in Yugoslavia and
to
use them in ousting the country's authorities ahead of the coming local
and
federal elections.
The further tightening of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, instead of
their lifting and the creation of conditions for a speedy economic
development and cooperation in the region, serves the same purpose, he
said.
He said that ethnic Albanian terrorists were used as an instrument to
destabilise not only Kosovo and Metohija but also the entire region in
order to conceal the United Nations' failure and justify NATO's further
presence in the region.
He said that there were indications that the retailoring of Balkan
borders, which had begun in 1991, had not been finished, warning that
another war might break out if certain countries continued to pursue
such a
policy.
Independence for Kosovo and Metohija automatically leads to further
retailoring of borders in the Balkans, he said. He stressed that
Yugoslavia
was doing all within its power to prevent another war, saying, however,
that certain other parties were trying to provoke the country.
"LIBERARE" MITROVICA (DAGLI ULTIMI JUGOSLAVI RIMASTI)
TERRORIST SCENARIO OF "LIBERATING" KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
PRISTINA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav committee for cooperation with
the U.N. mission in Kosovo and Metohija and the provisional executive
council of the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija assessed
Tuesday
evening that the development of that day in Kosovska Mitrovica, in which
scores of civilians were injured, but also KFOR troops, represents a
"planned and precise scenario recently made public" by Albanian
terrorists
on the "liberation" of the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The statement said that "only two days ago the leader of Albanian
terrorists who is favoured by a part of the international community,
Hashim
Tachi, announced when he spoke in the village of Donji Prekaz, 40 km
south-east of Pristina, the "liberation" of the northern part of
Kosovska
Mitrovica that was to be carried out by the "Kosovo Liberation Army,"
non-existent for the West.
Also present in Donji Prekaz, when the new wave of terror was announced,
were representatives of the international community, who did not react
to
the threats of violence, the statement said.
"Western ideologists of crime against Serbs intend to continue in the
same
way, along with the terrorists, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs also from
north Kosovo and Metohija."
Developments in Kosovska Mitrovica have revealed the true face of the
representatives of the international community, of resolve to complete
the
ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, the
statement said among other things.
KOUCHNER NON RISPETTA IL MANDATO ONU
YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL ACCUSED KOUCHNER OF IGNORING U.N. MANDATE
PRISTINA, Serbia, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's official liaising with
the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) said on Tuesday that UNMIK
chief Bernard Kouchner's plan to draw up a provisional constitution for
that Serbian (Yugoslav) province was another instance of a wrong and
biased
policy.
In connection with Kouchner's request to the U.N. Security Council on
Monday to be allowed to draw up a provisional constitution of
Kosovo-Metohija, Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic said the latest request
by
the UNMIK chief was another proof that he is acting outside the mandate
given him by the Security Council. "The U.N. Security Council's
Resolution
1244 envisages for autonomy for Kosovo-Metohija, nothing more,"
Vukicevic,
who chairs the Yugoslav committee liaising with UNMIK, said in Kosovo-
Metohija's city of Pristina.
He warned that, by promulgating a "constitution," Kouchner was seeking
to
endorse all his decisions taken so far, i.e., to sever all
Kosovo-Metohija's ties with Serbia and Yugoslavia.
"We expected Kouchner to put the true problem to the Council, i.e., to
brief the Council members on inadequate security for the Serbs,
Montenegrins and other non-Albanians, not to conceal the truth from them
by
asking for a provisional constitution for Kosovo-Metohija," Vukicevic
said.
He wondered who would vote for such a constitution in a situation where
more than 360,000 people from Kosovo-Metohija are living outside the
province.
"Kouchner is obviously in a hurry to rush through a constitution in
their
absence, a legal document that would seriously upset plans for the
return
of the more than 360,000 people to their homes in Kosovo-Metohija,"
Vukicevic said.
He said he hoped the international community had finally realised that
the
policy being pursued in that U.N.-ruled province of the Yugoslav
republic
of Serbia was not one that would solve the problem but rather one that
would prolong the Kosovo-Metohija crisis.
SUGLI ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI A MITROVICA
IVANOVIC: TERRORIST ATTACK - LARGE SPECTACLE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The terrorist attack on Serbs on
Tuesday is nothing but a large spectacle ahead of the arrival of Wesley
Clark in Kosovska Mitrovica, said a local Serb official.
Oliver Ivanovic, who heads the Serbian National Assembly in Kosovska
Mitrovica, said that Albanian terrorists acted on Tuesday in conformity
with "their doctrine" that prescribes as many wounded Serbs as possible
and
the greatest possible pressure on them.
Such a large number of wounded Serbs has not been registered since
October
12 when Albanian terrorists threw four grenades on Serbs gathered near
the
bridge on Ibar river and when 33 Serbs were wounded, Ivanovic said.
At least 14 French troops were seriously wounded when they intervened
during the afternoon to stop the Albanians who attacked Serbs in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
In the attacks were wounded 22 Serbs, two of them seriously.
Albanians attacked with two grenades the French after troops surrounded
the house of Dzeljalja Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, in the northern
(Serbian)
part of town.
A large number of French, German and Danish troops are patrolling in
armoured cars the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and helicopters
are
overflying the town.
THIRTY-SIX PERSONS WOUNDED IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Twenty-two
Serbs and 14 French peacekeepers, including an officer, were wounded
Tuesday in a series of attacks launched by ethnic Albanian terrorists in
the Bosnjacka district of Kosovska Mitrovica's northern section.
According to head of the town hospital's surgical and orthopaedic
department Marko Jaksic, two Serbs were seriously wounded, while 17
other
Serbs also had to remain in hospital.
Most of the Serbs wounded in the attacks, which began just before noon
and
lasted for two hours, are secondary school pupils. The terrorists used
hand
grenades and opened fire with small arms and heavy weapons in the
attacks.
The violence broke out when Ljuan Muftari, an ethnic Albanian who was
later arrested, approached a group of four Serb youths hitting one of
them
with an iron bar without any reason. After that, an ethnic Albanian came
out of his house with a rifle and opened fire on the Serb youths,
wounding
one them in the thigh.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists threw four hand grenades on another group of
Serbs. All this was happening in the presence of German troops
participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR who did nothing to
prevent the violence.
French KFOR troops arrested Dzeljaj Ademi, an ethnic Albanian from whose
house terrorists opened fire. Ademi, who up to this point worked with
Serbs
in Kosovska Mitrovica's northern, Serb-populated section, threw two hand
grenades on a group of Serbs and a cordon of French KFOR troops.
Around 1.30 p.m. local time, French peacekeepers surrounded the house
ordering the terrorists to surrender. The terrorists responded by
throwing
two hand grenades on them.
Strong KFOR troops guarded all three bridges dividing the town into its
northern and southern, ethnic Albanian-populated section, while the
town's
streets were patrolled by a large number of armoured personnel carriers
with French, German and Danish peacekeepers.
KFOR helicopters flew over the town's northern section for two hours.
Ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks on Serbs ahead of every international
official's visit to Kosovo and Metohija, including Tuesday's visit to
Kosovska Mitrovica by NATO Supreme Commander Europe Wesley Clark, are no
coincidence. They are part of the ethnic Albanian terrorists' plans to
provoke Serbs and pin the blame on them for unrest and clashes.
Tuesday's
terrorist attacks have also greatly resulted from KFOR's inefficiency
because the force has been informed that members of the ethnic Albanian
terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) live
in
the Bosnjacka district.
RAZZIATE LE CASE DEI SERBI DI OBILIC
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STORM SERB HOUSES IN OBILIC
OBILIC, March 8 (Tanjug) - About 1,000 ethnic Albanian extremists
stormed
a block of houses with exclusively Serb tenants in the Kosovo and
Metohija
town of Obilic on Tuesday evening, said the local Committee for
Protection
and Human Rights.
There are no reports yet about possible casualties or damage.
Ethnic Albanians hurled stones at six houses built within the Yugoslav
program for settling Serbs and Montenegrins in the southern Serbian
province. Serbs have lived here in constant fear of terrorist actions by
ethnic Albanians, the sources said.
Almost all windows on the houses were broken, and the attackers also
used
firearms.
Ethnic Albanian extremists also went on a rampage in streets in downtown
Obilic, the committee representatives said.
The rampage went on for almost an hour. The local international force
KFOR
Norwegian contingent reacted only after the height of the violence
abated,
the committee said.
L'ONU PREPARA UN CENSIMENTO-TRUFFA NEL KOSOVO SETTENTRIONALE
UN TRIES TO CONDUCT ILLEGAL CENSUS IN NORTHERN KOSOVO
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The United Nations population
agency UNFPA is secretly distributing forms in northern Kosovo and
Metohija
in an effort to collect data for an illegal census, within the illegal
decisions of U.N. Kosovo and Metohija mission chief Bernard Kouchner,
and
in direct violation of Security Council Resolution 1244.
The distribution of these forms began recently in the Serb-populated
municipalities of Zubin Potok and Leposavic. The questionnaires are
headed
- demographic and socio-economic studies, and allegedly serve
exclusively
for statistical purposes. The U.N. civilian mission UNMIK administrators
in
Zubin Potok, a U.S. citizen, and in Leposavic, a Dane, are behind these
illicit activities.
The local Serb population who were given the questionnaires reacted by
addressing the municipal authorities, which took the united stand that
this
was yet another manipulation and provocation by the international
community, led by Kouchner. The authorities said Serbs should not
respond
to these actions.
TERRORISTI PAN-ALBANESI VIAGGIANO SUI MEZZI STATUNITENSI
Ethnic Albanian terrorists in U.S. personnel carriers
March 08, 2000
Bujanovac, March 7 - That ethnic Albanian terrorists
in Kosovo and Metohija act in close conjunction with members of the
international forces (KFOR) has been confirmed by the action of
separatists who, accompanied by U.S. personnel carriers, arrived on
March 4 in the village of Rejanovac, municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica, and in the hamlet of Borovac opened automatic gun
fire on the defenders of Serbian houses.
This is what foreign reporters in Bujanovac learned
from a Serb who managed to get away from Borovac, a hamlet near Kosovska
Kamenica. He described the event which took place on Saturday, March 4.
In the action took part seven American armored personnel carriers.
While ethnic Albanian terrorists opened fire from the
direction of the village, U.S. KFOR troops were silent observers and
only filmed the scene, the man said. Ethnic Albanian terrorists were
wearing uniforms of U.S.KFOR troops, and came from the direction of
Rejanovac although that terrain is in the zone of responsibility of
Russian units.
From Rejanovac, ethnic Albanian terrorists previously
expelled 50 Roma and six Serbian families, but did not manage to
complete the ethnic cleansing.
When the shooting ceased, the terrorists climbed into
two U.S. personnel carriers, parked in the fields, and then withdrew,
failing to detect Serb defense positions.
The man who managed to get to Bujanovac said that KFOR
helicopters overflew Rejanovac only two meters above house roofs. Masked
terrorists stormed into undefended Serbian houses, grabbing money,
valuables and livestock.
Some twenty days ago, terrorists even dared attack
Russian KFOR troops, who returned fire. The Russians managed to seize
from the terrorists an anti-tank mine and three hand grenades.
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SERBI FERITI IN SCONTRI CON LA KFOR
Serbs injured in clash with KFOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday - Three Serbs were injured yesterday in a
clash
with Danish KFOR troops in the village of Grabovac, near Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Villagers today complained that the Danish soldiers had treated them
roughly
during a search for illegal weapons, smashing furniture and scattering
firewood.
LA SIGNORA DAL PONTE INSABBIA L'INCHIESTA SULLA NATO
MA SARA' "SEVERISSIMA" CONTRO I CRIMINALI DI GUERRA CHE VUOLE LEI
Hague prosecutor wants to make life tough for accused
THE HAGUE, Friday - The Hague Tribunal's chief prosecutor said today
that she
intended to make life difficult for Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic and
others accused of war crimes. Carla del Ponte said that her absolute
priority
was the arrest of remaining suspects, adding that she particularly
sought the
arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and
former
head of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic, whom she considered
responsible
for the worst crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.
IL MONTENEGRO PRONTO ALL'INDIPENDENZA
Montenegro preparing to protect statehood
PODGORICA, Friday - Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic said today
that
Yugoslavia's southern republic was investing maximum effort to prepare
state
bodies and the public to protect statehood and freedom in Montenegro.
Djukanovic, speaking at a joint press conference with EU Foreign Affairs
Commissioner Chris Patten in Podgorica, said that a new crisis in the
Balkans
was not desirable but that if the Belgrade regime began open
destruction,
Montenegro would be prepared.
The Montenegrin President also announced today that local elections
would be
held in Podgorica and Herceg Novi on June 11. The reason for this, he
said,
was that the municipal assemblies in these cities were not functioning
since
the ruling Better Life coalition had lost its majority.
YDS 9/3/2000 ---------------------------------------
JOVANOVIC IN VISITA IN INDONESIA DOPO COREA DEL NORD,
BIRMANIA, LAOS E CINA
TALKS IN JAKARTA
JAKARTA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The foreign ministers of Yugoslavia and of
Indonesia Zivadin Jovanovic and Alwi Abdurrahman Shihab held talks in
Jakarta on Wednesday.
It was mutually assessed in the talks, the first meeting of the two
foreign
ministers after a number of years, that regardless of some oscillations
the
half-a-century long friendship of the two countries had withstood the
test
of time, and that dialogue was maintained even in the most difficult
conditions. The embassies of the two countries worked continuously,
contacts were kept up between the representatives of the two ministries,
and Yugoslavia was visited last year by an Indonesian parliamentary
delegation.
The Yugoslav foreign minister visited Jakarta on his way back to
Belgrade
after official visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
Myanmar
and Laos and a stop-over in China.
The talks between Ministers Jovanovic and Shihab were held in a friendly
atmosphere and with a constructive approach of both sides to the
expansion
of bilateral relations. It was agreed that dialogue be continued and
promoted, and that visits be exchanged by businessmen, delegations of
chambers of commerce and social organizations.
It was agreed that the legal frames of cooperation be analyzed in detail
with a view to streamlining and completing them.
The Ministers talked about the cooperation of the two countries in
international organizations, and about the need to reactivate Yugoslavia
as
a full-fledged member of the U.N. and of the nonaligned movement.
Information was exchanged about the internal development of Yugoslavia,
and
Indonesia, about reform processes and economic-technological
development.
Jovanovic informed his counterpart about the results of renewal and
reconstruction in Yugoslavia and the importance of the Yugoslav economy
for
integration processes in the region, and about the concerning situation
in
Kosovo and Metohija.
He stressed that Yugoslavia insisted on the respect of its sovereignty
and
territorial integrity, on countering separatist and terrorist
activities,
and consistent compliance with Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija.
Yugoslavia is interested in open cooperation on an equal footing, both
with
neighbouring countries and with other countries who accept us as an
equal
partner, Jovanovic said, and invited Shihab to visit Yugoslavia, which
was
accepted by the Indonesia foreign minister with pleasure. Indonesia is
the
largest Islamic country with a population of 214 million and as an
influential member of a number of important international organizations,
it
is considered of key importance in southeastern Asia. As an exporter of
oil
it is an OPEC member and very active in ASEAN and OIC.
Jovanovic gave interviews in Jakarta to the newspaper Indonesia Observer
and to a popular T.V. station, Anteve.
GLI OBIETTIVI DEGLI USA
SECONDO IL MINISTRO DELL'INFORMAZIONE DELLA RFJ
MATIC: U.S. OBJECTIVES - ECONOMIC DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION
BELGRADE, March 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic
said
in a Serbian Radio Television RTS live broadcast late Wednesday that the
so-called new world order presented the aspiration of the U.S.
administration to enforce such an order on the whole world using any
means
possible.
Speaking about media and the new world order on "Open Studio," Matic
said
he agreed with statements by U.S. analysts who said that the United
States
was using its air force to finish what its media could not accomplish in
order to realize its interests through the implementation of the new
world
order.
This situation is not new, Matic said. It has been created repeatedly in
the whole 20th century. The United States always found it necessary to
create new crises in the world in order to realize its imperialist and
economic interests, since the U.S. interests are primarily economic
domination and exploitation, he said.
UNA TORTA IN FACCIA AL BUGIARDO PORTAVOCE DELLA NATO JAMIE SHEA
NATO SPOKESMAN SHEA GETS PIE IN THE FACE FOR SPREADING LIES
BRUSSELS, March 9 (Tanjug) - NATO spokesman Jamie Shea late Wednesday
had
yet another unpleasant encounter because of the lies he spread during
the
alliance's aggression on Yugoslavia last year in an effort to justify
the
bombing of civilians.
This latest incident occurred in the southern Belgian town of Gent,
where a
debate on the role of media during the NATO aggression was organized at
the
local university.
One of the participants in this event hurled a pie at Shea in protest
against the lies launched by the NATO propaganda, the Belgian news
agency
Belga said.
Already on entering the university building, Shea encountered about a
dozen
young people protesting against the NATO propaganda, of which Shea was
the
main mouthpiece.
The protesters chanted anti-NATO slogans and shouted that NATO used lies
and hypocrisy to present air strikes on civilians as some alleged
humanitarian mission.
INTERVISTA AL NUOVO CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE DELLA RFJ
YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF: EFFICACIOUS DEFENCE FORCE BEING BUILT
BELGRADE, March 8 (Tanjug) - Reorganisation of the Yugoslav army will
produce a modern, numerically smaller, mobile army, whose capacitation
and
combat capability will be a deterrent to aggression, the chief of staff
is
quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Speaking for Vojska magazine in an interview due to appear on Thursday,
General Nebojsa Pavkovic said this means the Yugoslav army should have a
powerful and modern air defence and a significant special rapid reaction
strike force.
Also being considered, according to Pavkovic, are ways and means of
hitting
back at aggressors.
Speaking about the command staff's priorities, he said the big tasks
lying
ahead of the army were being complicated by the current military,
political
and security situation in the neighbourhood.
"It is up to us to monitor carefully all that is happening, to
anticipate
events and take the necessary measures," he said, adding the army would
maintain such a level of defence alert as would allow it to carry out
all
tasks set to it.
"The level of combat alert depends on the kind of threat to the country
and
is not set by the army on its own," he said, stressing that work would
continue on modernising and reorganising the army in line with the
country's economic and other capabilities and defence needs.
He said that the job of organising life and work in the new
circumstances
(following NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring) would soon be
completed.
Also, he added, the remaining military infrastructure damaged or
destroyed
in the air strikes and not yet repaired would be rebuilt, first of all
personnel accommodation facilities, and after them the arsenals and
materiel storage facilities.
He stressed that "combat training will remain high on the list of
priorities, with the necessary innovations and the application of the
rich
war experience.
"In light of the results achieved in the armed struggle against the
aggressors, this is the best army in our history, and analyses by
foreign
and domestic authorities confirm its high quality."
He added that the command staff aspires for the army to be a factor of
security and unity of all nations and ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia
and,
as such, a key factor of stability in the troubled region.
He then spoke about the military-political situation in the immediate
neighbourhood, which he described as "extremely complex".
"The western military alliance, spearheaded by the United States, is
striving to achieve global control and to this end seeks to secure
permanent control of the processes in the Balkans, which is a crossroads
of
key strategic importance.
"This is why they are keeping up the pressure on our country," he
explained.
He went on to say that NATO's non-military aggression, which was
constantly
intensifying, was taking all kinds of shapes and forms, among which
efforts
to economically exhaust Yugoslavia by keeping up the sanctions.
Also, he added, they were deepening the crisis and trying to cause
social
unrest, stoking separatism in multiethnic communities, trying to weaken
the
morale and defence capability of the army, giving open support to the
separatists, all with the purpose of dismembering Yugoslavia into a host
of
stateless easy to control.
"The greatest threat to our country, as well as to the whole world,
comes
from the fact that the countries of the new world order have
incorporated
terrorism in their low-intensity strategies and that terrorism is the
first
echelon in the onslaught of the imperialist world.
"This is violence more brutal than classical warfare, which takes no
heed
of ethics or humanism, causing internal unrest in some countries which
grows into internal aggression, which is becoming the rule, with
external
aggression being the exception," he explained.
Pavkovic assessed that the interests for the Yugoslav region never
ceased
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IL POPE ARTEMIJE - AMBASCIATORE DI CHI E DI CHE COSA?
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-3-1.html
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – “This morning (Feb. 25) Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright met with Kosovo Serb leaders Bishop Artemije
Radosavljevic and Father Sava Janjic to discuss the situation of the
Serb community in Kosovo and to continue a process of engagement with
moderate opposition leadership,” a State Department press release
stated.
TiM Ed.: Correction. “Kosovo Serb Leaders?” Neither Bishop Artemije,
nor any other Serb vassal who has ever accompanied him in his visits at
the State Dept., are “Serb leaders” by any stretch of the imagination.
They have been neither elected nor appointed as such, neither in Kosovo
nor anywhere else in Serbia. They may be “Serb leaders,” therefore,
only by a State Department’s effort to assign them a higher rank than
they deserve. Or by their own exaggerated and self-congratulatory
claims.
Take a look at the caption under a photo at the Decani web site
(http://www.decani.yunet.com/ ), maintained by Artemije’s close aide,
Fr. Sava Janjic, who, as you saw from the above State Department
release, was also present at their Feb. 25 meeting with Albright. The
caption reads: “Bishop Artemije - the missionary of peace again in US
to speak on behalf of his people.” The photo was taken in Washington,
DC, Feb/99.
“On behalf of his people?” His Disgrace would be well advised to speak
only on his own behalf. And to remember how “his people,” the Serbs of
Kosovo, jeered him and Albright the last time around when he cavorted
with the enemy during the U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to Kosovo in
July 1999 (see "Albright, Artemije Jeered by Serbs, Cheered by Serbs,
Cheered by Albanians" - S99-131, "Peace" 25, Item 1, July 31). We
understand that the Serb media have also published photos of Artemije
and Albright taken on Feb. 25, though we have not yet been able to
obtain one. For the time being, here’s a photo from an earlier visit by
Artemije et.al. to the State Dept.
As if cavorting with the person whom the London Telegraph dubbed “the
West's most influential anti-Serb hawk” in its Feb. 27 “post mortem” to
the Kosovo war weren’t bad enough, His Disrace also joined Albright in
reaffirming “their strong commitment to a multiethnic, democratic Kosovo
and their rejection of partition,” according to the Feb. 25 State Dept.
release. “The Secretary and Bishop Artemije strongly endorsed Special
Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Bernard Kouchner's Agenda
for Coexistence and agreed that it provided a basis for moving forward
toward participation of the Serb community in Kosovo's democratization.”
Raymond Kent, a former history professor at the Berkeley University in
California, described this French Jew as “France's most vocal and
opinionated Serbophobe,” in a Feb. 18 letter of protest against the
PBS/Jim Lehrer anti-Serbian bias (you can see the full text of his
letter in Item 6 below). Prof. Kent added, “this writer has personally
listened to him on the French TV on a dozen occasions spewing his
anti-Serb venom.
And so, His Grace stumbles from one disgraceful act to another… From
posing with the “the West's most influential anti-Serb hawk,” to
“strongly endorsing” the “France's most vocal and opinionated
Serbophobe.” Both gestures represent another act of Artemije’s
subservience to the New World Order, and another act of disservice to
the Serb people.
In a December 1999 TiM Bulletin, “Cavorting with the Enemy”, we also
condemned similar actions of some pro-western Serb opposition leaders
who traveled to Berlin to kiss up to Albright. Here’s the opening
paragraph:
“Can you imagine a Serb leader posing for reporters with one of Hitler's
top aides - after the Luftwaffe's April 6, 1941 bombing of Belgrade
which killed hundreds of civilians? Not if he hoped to be a Serb leader
for long, right?
Well, on Dec. 17, three would-be Serb leaders - Zoran Djindjic, Milo
Djukanovic and Vuk Draskovic did just that at a Berlin (how
appropriate!) Dec. 17 meeting with an unindicted war criminal, Madeleine
Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State. Or Hate, to be more accurate.
Take a look at the photo posted at our Web site. What are these people
smiling about? The thousands of Serb civilians killed or maimed by the
bombs in, what TIME magazine called, "Madeleine's War?" (see S99-81, Day
55, Item 2, May 17).”
More than 2,000 Serb civilians were killed by NATO under the auspices of
the war criminals, like Albright. Nearly 1,000 other Serb civilians
killed under the watchful eyes of Kouchner. Over 200,000 Serbs who were
driven from their ancestral homes in Kosovo during the NATO/KFOR “peace
farce.” And after all that, Artemije et. al. and the pro-western
vassals among the Serb opposition meet with, and pose for photographs,
with
the NATO war criminals?
[Text Box: Artemije with Clinton (Nov/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava
with Holbrooke (Aug/99)] [Text Box: Artemije, Sava with Thaci (summer
1999)]
Nor are we talking only about Artemije-Albright tête-à-tête sessions.
Take at a look at the Decani web site. It’s full of boastful
photographs of this Serb bishop posing with leading New World Order
criminals. Artemije with Clinton… Artemije with Richard Holbrooke…
Artemije with Hashim Thaci… Artemije at the Council on Foreign Relations
(in New York), etc.
Such a disgraceful behavior by a Serb bishop, [Text Box: Artemije at
the CFR (Feb/99)] especially after the NATO bombing of Serbia, dishonors
all Serb victims of the New World Order crimes. If Artemije plans to
keep on acting as a quisling of the western powers that be, which he is
free to do as an individual, at least he should have enough decency to
take off his clerical robes when he cavorts with the war criminals.
For, his behavior can be also construed by uninitiated or malicious
people as the Serbian Orthodox Church’s endorsement of his shameful
missions. We don’t know who is paying for his trips to Washington and
New York, butas far as TiM is aware, Bishop Artemije only represents
himself, not the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has publicly denounced
Slobodan Milosevic, the NATO bombings, and the KFOR “peace farce.”
Artemije’s recent actions have rightly earned him the epithet – His
Disgrace. May he wear it in shame.
B92 1/3/2000 ------------------
FERITO UN PARA' RUSSO IN KOSMET
Russian paratrooper wounded
PRISTINA, Wednesday - A Russian KFOR paratrooper was wounded in a
firearm incident in Srbica yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defence
announced today. The soldier has undergone surgery following what the
ministry describes as an accident which occurred while he was on guard
duties. His condition is reported to be stable..
IL POPE ARTEMIJE NEGLI USA
Kosovo cleric in US
WASHINGTON, Wednesday - Orthodox Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren
today told the US Congress Helsinki Committee that the status of Kosovo
should remain frozen until violence had been eliminated and democratic
processes begun not only in Kosovo but in the rest of Serbia and
Yugoslavia. Bishop Artemije also called on the international community
to take more resolute action in Kosovo as prescribed by UN Security
Council Resolution 1244. He emphasised that moderate Serbs in Kosovo
needed media access and better communication between their enclaves so
that their voices could be heard by all Kosovo Serbs.
REUTERS 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
QUINDICIMILA IN PIAZZA A SKOPJE CONTRO LA POLITICA
ECONOMICA DEL GOVERNO DI DESTRA
Thousands Attend Macedonian Union Rally
SKOPJE, Mar 1, 2000 -- (Reuters) Around 15,000
Macedonian workers took to streets in the capital
Skopje on Tuesday to protest against high unemployment
and the economic policies of the center-right
government.
The demonstration was organized by the blue-collar
Alliance of Macedonian Unions.
Its president, Zivko Tolevski, called on the
center-right government to start a dialogue with
unions.
He urged it to not accept "blackmail from the
international financial institutions, especially the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund".
"Should we close down all big companies? We are
opposed to that," he told the crowd.
"If they close down the loss-making companies so many
people would be left with no jobs. We are sure that
other solutions could be envisaged," he said.
Tolevski said the former Yugoslav republic, which
became independent in 1991, had one of Europe's
highest unemployment rates, 36 percent.
"We have a right to send a powerful message to the
international community and Europe that Macedonia can
not overcome its economic crisis with all these
barriers and blockades," said Tolevski, referring to
sanctions against its northern neighbour Serbia.
AP 1/3/2000 ---------------------------------
SERBI-KOSOVARI INFURIATI CONTRO I SOLDATI USA
http://www.newsday.com/ap/topnews/ap882.htm
Angry Serbs Surround U.S. Soldiers
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A crowd of chanting Serb
civilians surrounded a platoon of U.S. soldiers for
six hours in a small village in eastern Kosovo,
angrily insisting they hand over a Serb suspect
detained in a weapons search, U.S. officials said
Thursday.
The standoff in Gornje Kusce, two miles north of the
town of Gnjilane, ended only after the 15 soldiers
conducting a weapons search sought reinforcements and
the Serbs let them leave, said Maj. Debbie Allen, a
spokeswoman for U.S. forces.
No injuries were reported, but the government-run
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said American troops beat
up three Serbs and arrested one. U.S. officials could
not be reached for comment.
The standoff began Wednesday evening when soldiers
conducting a weapons search detained a Serb man after
finding two AK-47s and several hundred rounds of
ammunition in his home. Some 200 Serbs gathered, and
refused to disperse despite efforts by the soldiers to
negotiate their way out.
After three hours, the troops called for
reinforcements. About 60 soldiers arrived, but could
not extricate the platoon. More reinforcements were
called, but the situation was defused only when the
crowd permitted the soldiers to leave with the
suspect.
About 100 soldiers had converged on the tiny village
by the time the standoff was over.
The village was the site of a massive funeral for a
Serb doctor slain last week.
Tanjug said the standoff occurred because U.S. troops
conducted a ''brutal'' search in the village. Serbs
were especially angered by the appearance of
''uniformed ethnic Albanians together with the
Americans.''
It was unclear who the ''uniformed ethnic Albanians''
were but ethnic Albanian interpreters who accompany
American troops wear green camouflage fatigues and
helmets like the U.S. soldiers.
REUTERS 2/3/2000 --------------------------
MUORE IL PARA' RUSSO IN SEGUITO ALLE FERITE
Russian Kosovo Soldier Dies Of Wounds
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Mar 2, 2000 -- (Reuters) A Russian
soldier serving with the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo died of his
wounds after being shot in an ethnic Albanian town, the French army said
on Thursday.
"The Russian soldier died of internal bleeding overnight," said Major
Philippe Maurin, a spokesman for the French KFOR forces stationed in the
north of the turbulent province.
The Russian soldier, whose name was withheld pending notification of his
family, was shot on Tuesday in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of
Srbica.
The town is about 20 km (12 miles) south of Kosovska Mitrovica, the
mining city which has become the frontline of continuing ethnic tension
between Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and the dwindling Serb minority.
French officials said the incident was under investigation and have
declined to comment on a motive for the shooting.
The soldier, a driver, was hit once in the chest in broad daylight in
the center of Srbica, where he had taken his commanding officer for a
meeting with local officials.
Srbica is just north of the area of Kosovo usually patrolled by Russian
KFOR troops, who are distrusted and feared by ethnic Albanians who see
the Russians as natural allies of their fellow Orthodox co-religionists,
the Serbs
B92 2/3/2000 ------------------
SERBI AFFRONTANO LE TRUPPE KFOR
Serbs harass KFOR troops
PRISTINA, Thursday - The Serbian population of the Kosovo village of
Gornje
Kusce last night held off US troops with pitchforks and hoes, KFOR
spokesman
Hoening Philip told media today. According to Philip the incident
occurred
when the troops arrested a Serb after finding three automatic rifles in
his
house. Amateur radio operators reported that there had been six
Albanians
among the international troops and the Gornje Kusce residents had called
Russian soldiers from Kamenica to determine their identity. The crowd
eventually allowed the troops to leave with the arrested man after an
additional sixty soldiers were called.
LA FINANZA TEDESCA PER IL MONTENEGRO
German finance for Montenegro
BERLIN, Thursday - The German Government has approved a loan of 40
million
Deutsche Marks to Montenegro. The deal, which involves cooperative
projects
with German businesses, was announced after discussions today between
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and German Foreign Minister Joscha
Fischer in Berlin.
PROTESTE SERBE A MITROVICA
Up again down again bridge
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Thursday - Several hundred Serbs gathered today on
the
northern bank of the Ibar river in Kosovska Mitrovica in a protest
against a
pontoon bridge installed this morning by KFOR. The protesters told media
that
they had assembled to oppose KFOR attempts to transport a group of
Albanians
across the river from the southern part of the town into the Serb zone.
KFOR
eventually abandoned the attempt to move the Albanians. KFOR Northern
Centre
Command told Beta agency that the bridge would be open every day from
8.00 am
to 6.00 p.m. for pedestrian passage.
However KFOR troops later this afternoon dismantled the bridge less than
twelve hours after setting it up. The official reason given was "a rise
in
the water level of the river".
B92 3/3/2000 ----------------------------------------------
SCONTRI A MITROVICA IN SEGUITO ALLA PROVOCAZIONE DELLA KFOR
CHE FORZA IL "RIENTRO" DI ALBANESI NEL QUARTIERE
ZEPPO DI PROFUGHI SERBI
Repatriation "invasion" in northern Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday -- Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica today
clashed violently with KFOR troops as international forces returned the
first
contingent of Albanian families to their homes in the Serbian zone of
the
divided town. After a crowd of several hundred Serbs stoned troops
stationed
on the bridge to protect the first group of Albanians, French KFOR
troops
dispersed the protesters with mace cartridges. France Press reports that
at
least six Serbs were hurt during the conflict and several KFOR vehicles
damaged.
The group of 38, mainly elderly Albanians reached the northern zone
shortly
before 4.00 p.m. A convoy of armed vehicles crossed the bridge and set
off
for Bnjaca mahal, the northern area where the Albanians lived.
KFOR confirmed yesterday that it had noted the emergence of a group of
armed
Albanians in Kosovo who were making incursions into the southern
municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in Serbia proper. A
spokesman for KFOR Commander Klaus Reinhardt said today that KFOR had no
jurisdiction to intervene outside Kosovo but was patrolling the
administrative border in order to prevent illegal crossings.
MANOVRE NATO IN VISTA, ARTEMIJE LE APPOGGIA
NATO exercises "no cause for alarm"
BRUSSELS, Friday -- NATO's Dynamic Response 2000 manoeuvres, which are
planned to begin in two weeks in Kosovo, in no way represent a new
threat,
and nor did they celebrate a year from the beginning of the air strikes
against Yugoslavia, Belgrade daily Glas javnosti quotes sources in
NATO's
Brussels headquarters as saying today. An unnamed NATO source said that
the
exercises were only simulations of the supply of strategic support to
KFOR
and SFOR forces in the region. The same source added that the rumours
and
concerns in Yugoslavia that a new round of bombing could occur were
completely unfounded and unjustified, and that such stories were pure
political science fiction.
Bishop Artemije of the Kosovo diocese of Raska and Prizren expressed the
hope
today that the NATO manoeuvres would be the beginning of a more active
engagement of KFOR in protecting the remaining Serb other non-Albanian
population in the province. Bishop Artemije, speaking on his return from
the
US, said that US officials had shown great readiness to work on securing
conditions for the return of non-Albanians to Kosovo.
"WANTED" PER MILOSEVIC, KARADZIC E MLADIC
SECONDO IL MIGLIOR STILE DEL FAR WEST
"Wanted" posters of Milosevic, Kardzic and Mladic in Bosnia
WASHINGTON, Friday -- The US will display about 10,000 "wanted" posters
throughout Bosnia offering a five million dollar reward for information
leading to the capture of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, former
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and wartime Bosnian Serb army
leader
General Ratko Mladic. The US State Department said today that the reward
offer stood also applied to another 27 indicted war crime suspects, but
the
posters would carry photos only of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.
ALBRIGHT, KOUCHNER: FINALMENTE IL KOSOVO E' RIPULITO,
POSSIAMO TENERE DELLE BELLE ELEZIONI DEMOCRATICHE
International community calls for Kosovo elections
LISBON, Friday -- The foreign ministers of the European Union, meeting
with
their Russian and US counterparts in Lisbon today declared that the
prompt
organisation of local elections in Kosovo was necessary as part of
efforts to
re-establish peace in the region. The US Secretary of State, Madeleine
Albright, and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that the
organisation
of elections didn't need an increase in KFOR troops but work on the
preparation of election conditions so that the polls could be fair.
Albright
called on the international community to secure appropriate financial
conditions so that the elections could be held under appropriate
conditions.
Albright said yesterday that the guiding principle in Kosovo could be
respect
for minority rights, rather than the establishment of the multiethnic
society
demanded by Western leaders so far. Speaking to a US Senate
sub-committee,
the secretary for state said that the international community was moving
towards a multi-ethnic ideal in Bosnia, but added that it was difficult
to
use that term in Kosovo because Serbs there were in the minority and so
their
interests were in the respect of minority rights.
Meanwhile, United Nations Kosovo mission chief Bernard Kouchner is on
his way
to New York where he will submit a report on Kosovo the United Nations
Security Council on Monday, a report which pays particular attention to
plans
for the stabilisation of Kosovska Mitrovica. KFOR Commander Klaus
Reinhardt
will accompany Kouchner. Kosovska Mitrovica Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic
said
today that Kouchner would convey to the Security Council the comments of
the
Serb community on his Strategy for Peaceful Co-existence in Mitrovica.
AFP 6/3/2000 ---------------------------------------------
SADDAM HUSSEIN AIUTEREBBE MILITARMENTE LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
Saddam Ready To Send Troops To Aid Serbia
BAGHDAD, Mar 6, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Iraq is prepared to send
troops to Serbia, President Saddam Hussein has told a Serbian envoy,
Monday's official press reported.
"We are against the aggression against you," Saddam told the speaker of
Serbia's parliament, Dragan Tomic.
"Our position is voiced not only in words but by any means you consider
useful, including our presence at your side to fight the aggression," he
told Tomic, who is a senior official of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia.
"We oppose all those who want to divide your country because we are on
the side of good and against evil," Saddam vowed.
He also seized the occasion to predict, once again, the defeat of the
United States.
"The arm used by the United States against Iraq, against Yugoslavia and
which they will probably use against others, will surely tire," the
president told the delegation, which included Yugoslav minister without
portfolio Zoran Vujovic.
"They will weaken more and more and will be defeated."
Saddam branded as "dogs" NATO forces which attacked Serbia last year and
condemned "the Arabs who sided with the dogs against you".
He urged "the people of the whole world to unite in strength to show
America its limits."
"It's the Zionists and not the Christians who set the American policy of
killing Muslims throughout the world," Saddam said.
The Iraqi strongman said he opposed the break up of countries into
ethnic or religious groupings and predicted that the United States,
which he said encouraged the process, would also break up one day.
"One day this will turn against America which is playing the role of
sorcerer's apprentice and I believe all the countries of the world will
rejoice when America breaks up."
Iraq, repeatedly bombed by the United States and Britain since 1991
following Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait, backed Belgrade against NATO.
Links between the two have strengthened in recent months. ((c) 2000
Agence France Presse)
VOICE OF RUSSIA 6/3/2000 -----------------------
DI CHI LA COLPA PER LA PULIZIA ETNICA IN KOSOVO?
Voice of Russia March 6, 2000
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR ETHNIC CLEANSINGS IN KOSOVO?
Exactly one year since the start of NATO's aggression against
Yugoslavia, Petr Iskenderov looks back at where things stood right
before it all happened…
A few days ago, the Albanian separatist leader Hashim Thaqi unveiled
some secret details of KLA operations in the period immediately
preceding last year's allied military operation.
The then KLA leader said that his organization was working flat out
using hit and run tactics against Serbian police officers and the
Yugoslav military with an eye to provoking retaliation from Belgrade.
This, he said, would give the separatists a chance to bring repression
charges against Yugoslavia and appeal for Western interference to end
alleged human rights abuses by Belgrade.
Apparently carried away, Mr. Thaqi also mentioned the tragedy in the
Serbian village of Racak where dozens of dead bodies have recently been
unearthed by OSCE experts who identified them as KLA fighters apparently
killed in action. And still, people at the NATO headquarters in Brussels
put the blame for the killings of peaceful Albanian peasants squarely on
Belgrade. The charge provided a comfortable justification for NATO's
subsequent aggression against Yugoslavia.
Making a clean breast on what really had happened, Mr. Thaqi admitted
that his militants had intentionally killed four Serb police officers at
Racak knowing that the Serbs would not take long retaliating for the
attack. The Serbs retaliated all right, but not against peaceful land
tillers. What they did was a large-scale operation against armed
Albanian paramilitaries who had turned the village into a major
stronghold. It was exactly their dead bodies, which were later found,
something that is now admitted even by the then KLA supremo who has
absolutely no reason to lie.
Which means that NATO launched its unprecedented aggression against a
sovereign state responding to a sheer provocation by the so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army. Moreover, none of the other much-trumpeted cases
of allegedly Serb-organized ethnic cleansings of local Albanians has
proved correct even though they have been investigated by experts from
such respected international organizations as the U. N., the OSCE and
even the British parliament. Not 50,000 massacred civilians but just a
few hundred fighters killed in action - that's the unanimous conclusion
made by American, British and Spanish experts, all of whom, as we can
see, come from NATO countries.
To err is human, of course, but when an ill-intentioned provocation
results in 78 days and nights of all out war then the whole thing is
just a perfect case for a military tribunal to mete out equal justice
for Hashim Thaqi, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Xavier Solana and other
"scriptwriters" .
03.06. 2000
REUTERS 6/3/2000 --------------------------------------
APPENA PRESO "SCAPPA" IL QUINDICENNE UCCISORE DEL PARA'
Suspect In Death Of Russian Kosovo Soldier Escapes PRISTINA, Yugoslavia,
Mar 6, 2000 -- (Reuters) A suspect in the killing of a Russian
peacekeeping soldier in Kosovo escaped from prison just two days after
he was arrested, a spokesman for the KFOR peacekeeping force said on
Sunday.
"The 15-year-old who was arrested for the killing of the Russian soldier
escaped," said Major Kristian Kahrs, a spokesman for the peacekeeping
force. He said he had no further details, including the suspect's name
or from which prison he escaped and how he got out. Private Igor
Korshunov, 31, was shot once in the chest in broad daylight by a gunman
in the overwhelmingly Albanian town of Srbica, 40 km (25 miles)
northwest of Pristina, on Tuesday.
French gendarmes in the French-controlled northern zone of Kosovo have
been investigating the incident but have not so far revealed the reason
for the shooting.
Korshunov is the third Russian soldier shot on peacekeeping duties in
Kosovo but the first to die. Russians have not been welcome in ethnic
Albanian areas of the predominantly Albanian province because of their
perceived sympathies for Orthodox co-religionist Serbs.
AFP 7/3/2000 ---------------------------------
AUMENTANO LE CRITICHE DA MOSCA PER LA CONDOTTA
INTERNAZIONALE IN KOSMET
Russian Official Accuses UN Of Failing To Fulfil
Kosovo Mission
MOSCOW, Mar 7, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) A
high-ranking Russian defense official on Monday
accused the United Nations and NATO of failing to
fulfil their obligations in Kosovo.
General Leonid Ivashov, in charge of international
cooperation at the defense ministry, singled out the
head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner,
for criticism.
His "categorical refusal to work with the Yugoslav
government" was one reason for the deterioration of
the situation in Kosovo, Ivashov said in a television
interview.
The NATO forces, in particular the United States want
Kosovo to cede completely from Yugoslavia, regardless
of UN resolutions to keep it within the rump
federation, he added.
The Alliance has taken the role of defending the
Kosovo Liberation Army -- the rebel group which has
been formally disbanded -- he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said last
Thursday that Moscow would re-examine its
participation in KFOR if Yugoslavia's integrity was
not guaranteed. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)
REUTERS 7/3/2000 -----------------------
SCONTRI CON DECINE DI FERITI A MITROVICA
WIRE:03/07/2000 09:31:00 ET
French, Serbs, Albanians Hurt in Kosovo Clash
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - At least seven French
KFOR soldiers, 20 Serbs and three Albanians were injured Tuesday in
the predominantly Serb part of the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica.
A Reuters reporter at the scene said he saw at least six French
soldiers and one captain injured when Albanians threw two explosive
devices at soldiers who had surrounded an Albanian house from which
there had been shooting.
Some of the soldiers were evacuated to a nearby French military
hospital.
Philippe Paco, a spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo,
said he had heard that the incident started with a quarrel between
Albanian and Serb youths.
"One Albanian fired a hunting rifle on a young man and wounded him
and immediately after that Albanians from a courtyard fired two hand
grenades," Paco said.
A doctor at the hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marko Jaksic, said 20
Serbs had been injured.
"Twenty injured Serbs have been received in the hospital for
treatment and two of them are seriously wounded," said Jaksic, head
of the surgical ward of the Mitrovica hospital.
KFOR spokesman Lieutenant Christian Lindmeier said by telephone from
the Kosovo capital Pristina that he could confirm that 10 Serbs and
three Albanians had been wounded and "several" French soldiers had
received grenade injuries.
He said the French were not badly hurt.
The northern Mitrovica district where the firing broke out was
heavily fortified by KFOR last week when it managed to return some
Albanians to their homes there after a two-day standoff with angry
Serbs.
KFOR and the United Nations, anxious to demonstrate their backing for
a multi-ethnic Kosovo, put on a huge show of force to get the
Albanians back home through a gauntlet of Serbs, who said having
Albanians in their part of town was a threat to their safety.
The Albanians had fled to the purely Albanian southern part of the
town, which is divided by the River Ibar, last month after ethnic
violence drove them from their homes.
The shooting later died down. French KFOR spokesman Colonel Patrick
Chanliau said French soldiers were still surrounding the house where
the shooting had started. He also said two cars were burning and that
a child was among the injured.
Troops and U.N. police had reinforced the bridges dividing the town
where Serbs and Albanians had gathered on their respective sides of
the river. The atmosphere remained extremely tense but was quiet
after the shooting finished.
AP 8/3/2000 -------------------------------
SCOMODO "BENVENUTO" ALLA ALBRIGHT IN BOSNIA
New York Times/AP March 8, 2000
Serbs Protest Albright in Bosnia
Filed at 11:18 a.m. EST
By The Associated Press
BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Hundreds of Serbs chanted
``killers´´ as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright drove by today,
marring her visit to a Bosnian city meant to serve as an example of
ethnic harmony for Kosovo´s residents.
Meanwhile, in Kiseljak, about 60 miles to the south, a demonstration by
close to 10,000 Bosnian Croats also turned into an anti-U.S. protest.
Albright, who earlier today concluded a sentimental visit to her Czech
homeland, arrived in Brcko for an announcement formally making the
northern city a multiethnic district.
Brcko already has a multiethnic government approved by the international
officials running the city. Its residents are exempt from the draft, a
symbolic gesture meant to demonstrate the importance of peace.
But as Albright's motorcade drove up to the municipal building where the
announcement and ceremony making the city a district was to take place,
about 300 Serbs began chanting ``killers,´´ ``thieves´´ and
obscenities.
One of the vehicles was hit by an egg, and many protesters waved three
fingers in the air in the traditional Serb salute. Some in the crowd
also chanted, ``Dodik, traitor´´ -- a reference to Milorad Dodik,
the pro-Western premier of the Serb half of Bosnia.
Nationalist Serbs still resent the United States for its support of
Muslims during the Bosnian war, which ended in 1995 after NATO bombing
helped force the Serbs to seek peace.
But Serbs aren't the only ethnic group in Bosnia angry at Americans.
In Kiseljack, protesters accused the West of being anti-Croat because of
the U.N. war crimes tribunal's recent decision to sentence Gen. Tihomir
Blaskic to 45 years in prison for atrocities against Muslims. They
burned a U.S. flag and whistled each time Albright's name was mentioned.
The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo advised Americans to stay away from
Kiseljak, some 25 miles west of Sarajevo, and the southern city of
Mostar, where more demonstrations were expected.
The status of Brcko was the only territorial issue left unresolved in
the 1995 Dayton peace agreement.
Brcko had been under sole control of Bosnian Serbs until last year, when
it was placed under joint administration of the Serb republic and the
Muslim-Croat Federation.
Bosnian Serbs insisted on maintaining control because Brcko is on a
narrow corridor linking Serb-held lands in the east and west of the
country.
But the Muslim-Croat federation wanted access to the river and rail
facilities. The federation also wanted the thousands of mostly Muslim
refugees to be able to return to their homes in Brcko.
International mediators twice postponed a decision on Brcko's future
because of the sensitivity of the issue and the strong claims by both
sides. After the international decision in March 1999 removed it from
exclusive Serb control, hundreds of Bosnian Serbs demonstrated in the
Serb half of the country, refusing to accept its neutrality. The
protests eventually died down.
In a speech Tuesday in the Czech capital, Prague, Albright noted that
critics once feared the Brcko issue could derail the entire peace
process but said ``those predictions were wrong.´´ Albright said
that gives rise to hope that the same level of cooperation can be
reached eventually in Kosovo, especially in the explosive city of
Kosovska Mitrovica, where dozens were injured in ethnic clashes Tuesday.
During her two-day visit here, Albright is to meet with representatives
of all three ethnicities -- Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Upon arriving in Sarajevo from Prague, Albright headed to the U.S.
Embassy for a meeting with Bosnian opposition leaders.
Albright was to return to Sarajevo today for meetings with the national
leaders before traveling to the Bosnian Serb capital, Banja Luka, for
talks with Dodik, the Bosnian Serb prime minister, and other moderate
leaders at odds with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The United States and others accuse Milosevic of continuing to foment
ethnic conflict, not only in Kosovo but in Bosnia through efforts to
undermine pro-Western Bosnian Serb politicians.
YDS 8/3/2000 --------------------------------------
TERMINATA LA VISITA NEL LAOS DEL MINISTRO JUGOSLAVO
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDED VISIT TO LAOS
VIENTIANE, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
Jovanovic
ended on Tuesday his three-day official visit to Laos during which he
had
met with the country's top officials.
Laos President Khamtay Siphandon received Jovanovic on Sunday, on Monday
he was received by Prime Minister Sisavat Keobounphanh, while on Tuesday
he
met with Parliament Speaker Saman Vignaket.
The country's military leadership showed interest in learning the causes
and consequences of NATO's March 24-June 10 1999 aggression on
Yugoslavia.
Jovanovic's meetings with the Laos officials showed that they shared
Yugoslavia's positions on and assessments of the NATO crime.
Vignaket said that the NATO aggression was a warning to all nations and
that the Yugoslav people and leadership's heroic resistance to it served
as
an example to other countries fighting for freedom and independence.
Jovanovic and Vignaket discussed the promotion of all-round cooperation
between the two countries, agreeing to ensure the exchange of visits by
the
two countries' parliamentary delegations and their joint activity within
the Interparliamentary Union.
LA JUGOSLAVIA VUOLE LA VERITA' DALL'ONU
F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - UN
YUGOSLAV U.N. AMBASSADOR URGED TRUTH ABOUT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
NEW YORK, March 7 (Tanjug) - For nine months, the U.N. Security Council
has been in a blockade which prevents it from doing its duty in the
right
way and opening a debate on the true problems such as security in
Kosovo-Metohija and the inefficacy of the international mission there,
according to Yugoslavia's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic was making a critical appraisal of
Monday's
closed-door consultations in the Security Council, at which the civilian
and security mission chiefs to the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav)
Kosovo-Metohija province, Bernard Kouchner and Klaus Reinhardt,
submitted
their reports.
Speaking at a news conference, Jovanovic said the Monday debate again
had
completely ignored the burning questions concerning Kosovo-Metohija,
where
he said there was chaos and where ethnic Albanian terrorist operations
were
continuing unabated.
He said the alarming nature of the situation was evident also from
Tuesday's reports about the latest wave of terrorist attacks in Kosovska
Mitrovica, in which a score of people were wounded, including
international
KFor force troops.
Regrettably, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's report, published on
the
eve of the arrival of Kouchner and Reinhardt at U.N. headquarters, had
done
the same as the Council debate - viz., distracted attention from the
true
problems and causes of the chaos in Kosovo-Metohija to quite tangential
ones.
His report, too, avoided pointing the finger at the true culprits for
the
ethnic cleansing of Kosovo-Metohija of its Serbs and other
non-Albanians,
and made no mention of the genocide committed thereby, Jovanovic said.
Although Annan did present some facts objectively, he yet buried the
complete picture and the truth under an avalanche of unimportant details
without making a right and comprehensive statement about the situation
in
Kosovo-Metohija or the true reasons for the difficult situation in the
province, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say that the international mission officials had done
nothing to discharge their mandate.
Turning a blind eye to what the terrorists are doing is the same as
siding
with them, according to Jovanovic, who said this only encouraged the
separatists and fed their belief that one day they might detach
Kosovo-Metohija from the parent state.
If U.N. Resolution 1244 clearly provides for an autonomous status and
self-rule for Kosovo-Metohija, then clearly Kouchner, with decisions
that
are at odds with it, is trying to open scope for wrong interpretations
and
distortions of the Resolution, Jovanovic said.
He went on to say this was the first time that the U.N. flag had been
abused for the purposes of ethnic cleansing.
The truth and only the truth is the way to speak about Kosovo- Metohija,
he stressed.
Facts and only facts must be the language in which to talk about the
situation in that U.N.-administered southern province of the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia and the true competencies of the international
presence
there, he emphasised.
ANNAN IN BILICO TRA FATTI E MENZOGNE
ANNAN BALANCING BETWEEN FACTS AND KOUCHNER'S LIES
NEW YORK, March 8 (Tanjug) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
held a press conference at the U.N. New York headquarters on Tuesday
which
was mostly devoted to Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
Reporters linked their questions with two events - Monday's
consultations
of the U.N. Security Council when Annan's special envoy Bernard Kouchner
presented a series of unobjective assessments and excuses for the
failure
of the Kosovo U.N. mission, and, second, Tuesday's press conference by
Yugoslav U.N. mission head Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic and his
evaluation of the failure of the international mission and the Security
Council's inability objectively and comprehensively to discuss Kosovo
and
Metohija.
Annan reiterated his concern over the situation in the southern Serbian
province. He also said that it was not possible to deal with the
situation
in Kosovo separately from the rest of the region. Speaking about the
announced elections in the province, he said it was necessary that the
civilian mission UNMIK cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
The secretary-general tried to make an artificial balance between hard
facts and the lies relentlessly launched by his envoy Kouchner.
Asked to comment Kouchner's countless illegal moves in the province,
Annan
tried to present them as practical measures and steps without which it
would be difficult to manage the administration of the province.
Annan said he was aware that Yugoslavia saw these moves by Kouchner as
preparations for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija, but failed to
mention that other council members, primarily Russia and China, share
this
opinion and the critical evaluations presented by Yugoslavia, and that
they
also warn against Kouchner's dangerous activities.
Asked about Yugoslavia's criticisms of the inefficiency of the
international mission, Annan said he was familiar with these criticisms.
He
then admitted that the international mission faced great problems from
its
very start and that the United Nations had a very difficult mandate from
the very beginning.
KFOR ED UNMIK FATTO IL CONTRARIO DI QUANTO PREVISTO
NELLA RISOLUZIONE DELL'ONU 1244
KFOR, UNMIK FAIL TO IMPLEMENT KOSOVO AND METOHIJA RESOLUTION
VIENNA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav ambassador in Vienna Rados
Smiljkovic said here Tuesday that the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and
the
U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) did not implement
and
even greatly violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244.
Presenting the Yugoslav government's memorandum on the resolution,
Smiljkovic said that the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's
southern province was deteriorating and that violence committed by
ethnic
Albanian extremists had begun spreading outside the province.
Attacks on Serbian authorities and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
are used to conceal the international factor's failure, while elections
in
Kosovo and Metohija are placed in the focus of the world public's
attention, he said.
He said that no elections would be possible as long as the remaining
non-Albanians in the province and loyal ethnic Albanians were killed on
a
daily basis by the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
He said that pressure on Yugoslavia was exerted through open attempts to
trigger a conflict between the country's two federal entities, Serbia
and
Montenegro, to divide and radicalise political forces in Yugoslavia and
to
use them in ousting the country's authorities ahead of the coming local
and
federal elections.
The further tightening of the sanctions against Yugoslavia, instead of
their lifting and the creation of conditions for a speedy economic
development and cooperation in the region, serves the same purpose, he
said.
He said that ethnic Albanian terrorists were used as an instrument to
destabilise not only Kosovo and Metohija but also the entire region in
order to conceal the United Nations' failure and justify NATO's further
presence in the region.
He said that there were indications that the retailoring of Balkan
borders, which had begun in 1991, had not been finished, warning that
another war might break out if certain countries continued to pursue
such a
policy.
Independence for Kosovo and Metohija automatically leads to further
retailoring of borders in the Balkans, he said. He stressed that
Yugoslavia
was doing all within its power to prevent another war, saying, however,
that certain other parties were trying to provoke the country.
"LIBERARE" MITROVICA (DAGLI ULTIMI JUGOSLAVI RIMASTI)
TERRORIST SCENARIO OF "LIBERATING" KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
PRISTINA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav committee for cooperation with
the U.N. mission in Kosovo and Metohija and the provisional executive
council of the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija assessed
Tuesday
evening that the development of that day in Kosovska Mitrovica, in which
scores of civilians were injured, but also KFOR troops, represents a
"planned and precise scenario recently made public" by Albanian
terrorists
on the "liberation" of the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The statement said that "only two days ago the leader of Albanian
terrorists who is favoured by a part of the international community,
Hashim
Tachi, announced when he spoke in the village of Donji Prekaz, 40 km
south-east of Pristina, the "liberation" of the northern part of
Kosovska
Mitrovica that was to be carried out by the "Kosovo Liberation Army,"
non-existent for the West.
Also present in Donji Prekaz, when the new wave of terror was announced,
were representatives of the international community, who did not react
to
the threats of violence, the statement said.
"Western ideologists of crime against Serbs intend to continue in the
same
way, along with the terrorists, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs also from
north Kosovo and Metohija."
Developments in Kosovska Mitrovica have revealed the true face of the
representatives of the international community, of resolve to complete
the
ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, the
statement said among other things.
KOUCHNER NON RISPETTA IL MANDATO ONU
YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL ACCUSED KOUCHNER OF IGNORING U.N. MANDATE
PRISTINA, Serbia, March 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's official liaising with
the U.N. mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) said on Tuesday that UNMIK
chief Bernard Kouchner's plan to draw up a provisional constitution for
that Serbian (Yugoslav) province was another instance of a wrong and
biased
policy.
In connection with Kouchner's request to the U.N. Security Council on
Monday to be allowed to draw up a provisional constitution of
Kosovo-Metohija, Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic said the latest request
by
the UNMIK chief was another proof that he is acting outside the mandate
given him by the Security Council. "The U.N. Security Council's
Resolution
1244 envisages for autonomy for Kosovo-Metohija, nothing more,"
Vukicevic,
who chairs the Yugoslav committee liaising with UNMIK, said in Kosovo-
Metohija's city of Pristina.
He warned that, by promulgating a "constitution," Kouchner was seeking
to
endorse all his decisions taken so far, i.e., to sever all
Kosovo-Metohija's ties with Serbia and Yugoslavia.
"We expected Kouchner to put the true problem to the Council, i.e., to
brief the Council members on inadequate security for the Serbs,
Montenegrins and other non-Albanians, not to conceal the truth from them
by
asking for a provisional constitution for Kosovo-Metohija," Vukicevic
said.
He wondered who would vote for such a constitution in a situation where
more than 360,000 people from Kosovo-Metohija are living outside the
province.
"Kouchner is obviously in a hurry to rush through a constitution in
their
absence, a legal document that would seriously upset plans for the
return
of the more than 360,000 people to their homes in Kosovo-Metohija,"
Vukicevic said.
He said he hoped the international community had finally realised that
the
policy being pursued in that U.N.-ruled province of the Yugoslav
republic
of Serbia was not one that would solve the problem but rather one that
would prolong the Kosovo-Metohija crisis.
SUGLI ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI A MITROVICA
IVANOVIC: TERRORIST ATTACK - LARGE SPECTACLE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - The terrorist attack on Serbs on
Tuesday is nothing but a large spectacle ahead of the arrival of Wesley
Clark in Kosovska Mitrovica, said a local Serb official.
Oliver Ivanovic, who heads the Serbian National Assembly in Kosovska
Mitrovica, said that Albanian terrorists acted on Tuesday in conformity
with "their doctrine" that prescribes as many wounded Serbs as possible
and
the greatest possible pressure on them.
Such a large number of wounded Serbs has not been registered since
October
12 when Albanian terrorists threw four grenades on Serbs gathered near
the
bridge on Ibar river and when 33 Serbs were wounded, Ivanovic said.
At least 14 French troops were seriously wounded when they intervened
during the afternoon to stop the Albanians who attacked Serbs in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
In the attacks were wounded 22 Serbs, two of them seriously.
Albanians attacked with two grenades the French after troops surrounded
the house of Dzeljalja Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, in the northern
(Serbian)
part of town.
A large number of French, German and Danish troops are patrolling in
armoured cars the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and helicopters
are
overflying the town.
THIRTY-SIX PERSONS WOUNDED IN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 7 (Tanjug) - Twenty-two
Serbs and 14 French peacekeepers, including an officer, were wounded
Tuesday in a series of attacks launched by ethnic Albanian terrorists in
the Bosnjacka district of Kosovska Mitrovica's northern section.
According to head of the town hospital's surgical and orthopaedic
department Marko Jaksic, two Serbs were seriously wounded, while 17
other
Serbs also had to remain in hospital.
Most of the Serbs wounded in the attacks, which began just before noon
and
lasted for two hours, are secondary school pupils. The terrorists used
hand
grenades and opened fire with small arms and heavy weapons in the
attacks.
The violence broke out when Ljuan Muftari, an ethnic Albanian who was
later arrested, approached a group of four Serb youths hitting one of
them
with an iron bar without any reason. After that, an ethnic Albanian came
out of his house with a rifle and opened fire on the Serb youths,
wounding
one them in the thigh.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists threw four hand grenades on another group of
Serbs. All this was happening in the presence of German troops
participating in the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR who did nothing to
prevent the violence.
French KFOR troops arrested Dzeljaj Ademi, an ethnic Albanian from whose
house terrorists opened fire. Ademi, who up to this point worked with
Serbs
in Kosovska Mitrovica's northern, Serb-populated section, threw two hand
grenades on a group of Serbs and a cordon of French KFOR troops.
Around 1.30 p.m. local time, French peacekeepers surrounded the house
ordering the terrorists to surrender. The terrorists responded by
throwing
two hand grenades on them.
Strong KFOR troops guarded all three bridges dividing the town into its
northern and southern, ethnic Albanian-populated section, while the
town's
streets were patrolled by a large number of armoured personnel carriers
with French, German and Danish peacekeepers.
KFOR helicopters flew over the town's northern section for two hours.
Ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks on Serbs ahead of every international
official's visit to Kosovo and Metohija, including Tuesday's visit to
Kosovska Mitrovica by NATO Supreme Commander Europe Wesley Clark, are no
coincidence. They are part of the ethnic Albanian terrorists' plans to
provoke Serbs and pin the blame on them for unrest and clashes.
Tuesday's
terrorist attacks have also greatly resulted from KFOR's inefficiency
because the force has been informed that members of the ethnic Albanian
terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) live
in
the Bosnjacka district.
RAZZIATE LE CASE DEI SERBI DI OBILIC
ETHNIC ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS STORM SERB HOUSES IN OBILIC
OBILIC, March 8 (Tanjug) - About 1,000 ethnic Albanian extremists
stormed
a block of houses with exclusively Serb tenants in the Kosovo and
Metohija
town of Obilic on Tuesday evening, said the local Committee for
Protection
and Human Rights.
There are no reports yet about possible casualties or damage.
Ethnic Albanians hurled stones at six houses built within the Yugoslav
program for settling Serbs and Montenegrins in the southern Serbian
province. Serbs have lived here in constant fear of terrorist actions by
ethnic Albanians, the sources said.
Almost all windows on the houses were broken, and the attackers also
used
firearms.
Ethnic Albanian extremists also went on a rampage in streets in downtown
Obilic, the committee representatives said.
The rampage went on for almost an hour. The local international force
KFOR
Norwegian contingent reacted only after the height of the violence
abated,
the committee said.
L'ONU PREPARA UN CENSIMENTO-TRUFFA NEL KOSOVO SETTENTRIONALE
UN TRIES TO CONDUCT ILLEGAL CENSUS IN NORTHERN KOSOVO
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The United Nations population
agency UNFPA is secretly distributing forms in northern Kosovo and
Metohija
in an effort to collect data for an illegal census, within the illegal
decisions of U.N. Kosovo and Metohija mission chief Bernard Kouchner,
and
in direct violation of Security Council Resolution 1244.
The distribution of these forms began recently in the Serb-populated
municipalities of Zubin Potok and Leposavic. The questionnaires are
headed
- demographic and socio-economic studies, and allegedly serve
exclusively
for statistical purposes. The U.N. civilian mission UNMIK administrators
in
Zubin Potok, a U.S. citizen, and in Leposavic, a Dane, are behind these
illicit activities.
The local Serb population who were given the questionnaires reacted by
addressing the municipal authorities, which took the united stand that
this
was yet another manipulation and provocation by the international
community, led by Kouchner. The authorities said Serbs should not
respond
to these actions.
TERRORISTI PAN-ALBANESI VIAGGIANO SUI MEZZI STATUNITENSI
Ethnic Albanian terrorists in U.S. personnel carriers
March 08, 2000
Bujanovac, March 7 - That ethnic Albanian terrorists
in Kosovo and Metohija act in close conjunction with members of the
international forces (KFOR) has been confirmed by the action of
separatists who, accompanied by U.S. personnel carriers, arrived on
March 4 in the village of Rejanovac, municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica, and in the hamlet of Borovac opened automatic gun
fire on the defenders of Serbian houses.
This is what foreign reporters in Bujanovac learned
from a Serb who managed to get away from Borovac, a hamlet near Kosovska
Kamenica. He described the event which took place on Saturday, March 4.
In the action took part seven American armored personnel carriers.
While ethnic Albanian terrorists opened fire from the
direction of the village, U.S. KFOR troops were silent observers and
only filmed the scene, the man said. Ethnic Albanian terrorists were
wearing uniforms of U.S.KFOR troops, and came from the direction of
Rejanovac although that terrain is in the zone of responsibility of
Russian units.
From Rejanovac, ethnic Albanian terrorists previously
expelled 50 Roma and six Serbian families, but did not manage to
complete the ethnic cleansing.
When the shooting ceased, the terrorists climbed into
two U.S. personnel carriers, parked in the fields, and then withdrew,
failing to detect Serb defense positions.
The man who managed to get to Bujanovac said that KFOR
helicopters overflew Rejanovac only two meters above house roofs. Masked
terrorists stormed into undefended Serbian houses, grabbing money,
valuables and livestock.
Some twenty days ago, terrorists even dared attack
Russian KFOR troops, who returned fire. The Russians managed to seize
from the terrorists an anti-tank mine and three hand grenades.
B92 10/3/2000 ---------------------
SERBI FERITI IN SCONTRI CON LA KFOR
Serbs injured in clash with KFOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Friday - Three Serbs were injured yesterday in a
clash
with Danish KFOR troops in the village of Grabovac, near Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Villagers today complained that the Danish soldiers had treated them
roughly
during a search for illegal weapons, smashing furniture and scattering
firewood.
LA SIGNORA DAL PONTE INSABBIA L'INCHIESTA SULLA NATO
MA SARA' "SEVERISSIMA" CONTRO I CRIMINALI DI GUERRA CHE VUOLE LEI
Hague prosecutor wants to make life tough for accused
THE HAGUE, Friday - The Hague Tribunal's chief prosecutor said today
that she
intended to make life difficult for Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic and
others accused of war crimes. Carla del Ponte said that her absolute
priority
was the arrest of remaining suspects, adding that she particularly
sought the
arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and
former
head of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic, whom she considered
responsible
for the worst crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.
IL MONTENEGRO PRONTO ALL'INDIPENDENZA
Montenegro preparing to protect statehood
PODGORICA, Friday - Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic said today
that
Yugoslavia's southern republic was investing maximum effort to prepare
state
bodies and the public to protect statehood and freedom in Montenegro.
Djukanovic, speaking at a joint press conference with EU Foreign Affairs
Commissioner Chris Patten in Podgorica, said that a new crisis in the
Balkans
was not desirable but that if the Belgrade regime began open
destruction,
Montenegro would be prepared.
The Montenegrin President also announced today that local elections
would be
held in Podgorica and Herceg Novi on June 11. The reason for this, he
said,
was that the municipal assemblies in these cities were not functioning
since
the ruling Better Life coalition had lost its majority.
YDS 9/3/2000 ---------------------------------------
JOVANOVIC IN VISITA IN INDONESIA DOPO COREA DEL NORD,
BIRMANIA, LAOS E CINA
TALKS IN JAKARTA
JAKARTA, March 8 (Tanjug) - The foreign ministers of Yugoslavia and of
Indonesia Zivadin Jovanovic and Alwi Abdurrahman Shihab held talks in
Jakarta on Wednesday.
It was mutually assessed in the talks, the first meeting of the two
foreign
ministers after a number of years, that regardless of some oscillations
the
half-a-century long friendship of the two countries had withstood the
test
of time, and that dialogue was maintained even in the most difficult
conditions. The embassies of the two countries worked continuously,
contacts were kept up between the representatives of the two ministries,
and Yugoslavia was visited last year by an Indonesian parliamentary
delegation.
The Yugoslav foreign minister visited Jakarta on his way back to
Belgrade
after official visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
Myanmar
and Laos and a stop-over in China.
The talks between Ministers Jovanovic and Shihab were held in a friendly
atmosphere and with a constructive approach of both sides to the
expansion
of bilateral relations. It was agreed that dialogue be continued and
promoted, and that visits be exchanged by businessmen, delegations of
chambers of commerce and social organizations.
It was agreed that the legal frames of cooperation be analyzed in detail
with a view to streamlining and completing them.
The Ministers talked about the cooperation of the two countries in
international organizations, and about the need to reactivate Yugoslavia
as
a full-fledged member of the U.N. and of the nonaligned movement.
Information was exchanged about the internal development of Yugoslavia,
and
Indonesia, about reform processes and economic-technological
development.
Jovanovic informed his counterpart about the results of renewal and
reconstruction in Yugoslavia and the importance of the Yugoslav economy
for
integration processes in the region, and about the concerning situation
in
Kosovo and Metohija.
He stressed that Yugoslavia insisted on the respect of its sovereignty
and
territorial integrity, on countering separatist and terrorist
activities,
and consistent compliance with Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija.
Yugoslavia is interested in open cooperation on an equal footing, both
with
neighbouring countries and with other countries who accept us as an
equal
partner, Jovanovic said, and invited Shihab to visit Yugoslavia, which
was
accepted by the Indonesia foreign minister with pleasure. Indonesia is
the
largest Islamic country with a population of 214 million and as an
influential member of a number of important international organizations,
it
is considered of key importance in southeastern Asia. As an exporter of
oil
it is an OPEC member and very active in ASEAN and OIC.
Jovanovic gave interviews in Jakarta to the newspaper Indonesia Observer
and to a popular T.V. station, Anteve.
GLI OBIETTIVI DEGLI USA
SECONDO IL MINISTRO DELL'INFORMAZIONE DELLA RFJ
MATIC: U.S. OBJECTIVES - ECONOMIC DOMINATION AND EXPLOITATION
BELGRADE, March 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic
said
in a Serbian Radio Television RTS live broadcast late Wednesday that the
so-called new world order presented the aspiration of the U.S.
administration to enforce such an order on the whole world using any
means
possible.
Speaking about media and the new world order on "Open Studio," Matic
said
he agreed with statements by U.S. analysts who said that the United
States
was using its air force to finish what its media could not accomplish in
order to realize its interests through the implementation of the new
world
order.
This situation is not new, Matic said. It has been created repeatedly in
the whole 20th century. The United States always found it necessary to
create new crises in the world in order to realize its imperialist and
economic interests, since the U.S. interests are primarily economic
domination and exploitation, he said.
UNA TORTA IN FACCIA AL BUGIARDO PORTAVOCE DELLA NATO JAMIE SHEA
NATO SPOKESMAN SHEA GETS PIE IN THE FACE FOR SPREADING LIES
BRUSSELS, March 9 (Tanjug) - NATO spokesman Jamie Shea late Wednesday
had
yet another unpleasant encounter because of the lies he spread during
the
alliance's aggression on Yugoslavia last year in an effort to justify
the
bombing of civilians.
This latest incident occurred in the southern Belgian town of Gent,
where a
debate on the role of media during the NATO aggression was organized at
the
local university.
One of the participants in this event hurled a pie at Shea in protest
against the lies launched by the NATO propaganda, the Belgian news
agency
Belga said.
Already on entering the university building, Shea encountered about a
dozen
young people protesting against the NATO propaganda, of which Shea was
the
main mouthpiece.
The protesters chanted anti-NATO slogans and shouted that NATO used lies
and hypocrisy to present air strikes on civilians as some alleged
humanitarian mission.
INTERVISTA AL NUOVO CAPO DI STATO MAGGIORE DELLA RFJ
YUGOSLAV ARMY CHIEF: EFFICACIOUS DEFENCE FORCE BEING BUILT
BELGRADE, March 8 (Tanjug) - Reorganisation of the Yugoslav army will
produce a modern, numerically smaller, mobile army, whose capacitation
and
combat capability will be a deterrent to aggression, the chief of staff
is
quoted on Wednesday as saying.
Speaking for Vojska magazine in an interview due to appear on Thursday,
General Nebojsa Pavkovic said this means the Yugoslav army should have a
powerful and modern air defence and a significant special rapid reaction
strike force.
Also being considered, according to Pavkovic, are ways and means of
hitting
back at aggressors.
Speaking about the command staff's priorities, he said the big tasks
lying
ahead of the army were being complicated by the current military,
political
and security situation in the neighbourhood.
"It is up to us to monitor carefully all that is happening, to
anticipate
events and take the necessary measures," he said, adding the army would
maintain such a level of defence alert as would allow it to carry out
all
tasks set to it.
"The level of combat alert depends on the kind of threat to the country
and
is not set by the army on its own," he said, stressing that work would
continue on modernising and reorganising the army in line with the
country's economic and other capabilities and defence needs.
He said that the job of organising life and work in the new
circumstances
(following NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia last spring) would soon be
completed.
Also, he added, the remaining military infrastructure damaged or
destroyed
in the air strikes and not yet repaired would be rebuilt, first of all
personnel accommodation facilities, and after them the arsenals and
materiel storage facilities.
He stressed that "combat training will remain high on the list of
priorities, with the necessary innovations and the application of the
rich
war experience.
"In light of the results achieved in the armed struggle against the
aggressors, this is the best army in our history, and analyses by
foreign
and domestic authorities confirm its high quality."
He added that the command staff aspires for the army to be a factor of
security and unity of all nations and ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia
and,
as such, a key factor of stability in the troubled region.
He then spoke about the military-political situation in the immediate
neighbourhood, which he described as "extremely complex".
"The western military alliance, spearheaded by the United States, is
striving to achieve global control and to this end seeks to secure
permanent control of the processes in the Balkans, which is a crossroads
of
key strategic importance.
"This is why they are keeping up the pressure on our country," he
explained.
He went on to say that NATO's non-military aggression, which was
constantly
intensifying, was taking all kinds of shapes and forms, among which
efforts
to economically exhaust Yugoslavia by keeping up the sanctions.
Also, he added, they were deepening the crisis and trying to cause
social
unrest, stoking separatism in multiethnic communities, trying to weaken
the
morale and defence capability of the army, giving open support to the
separatists, all with the purpose of dismembering Yugoslavia into a host
of
stateless easy to control.
"The greatest threat to our country, as well as to the whole world,
comes
from the fact that the countries of the new world order have
incorporated
terrorism in their low-intensity strategies and that terrorism is the
first
echelon in the onslaught of the imperialist world.
"This is violence more brutal than classical warfare, which takes no
heed
of ethics or humanism, causing internal unrest in some countries which
grows into internal aggression, which is becoming the rule, with
external
aggression being the exception," he explained.
Pavkovic assessed that the interests for the Yugoslav region never
ceased
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