CAMPIONATI EUROPEI DI CALCIO:
IL DANESE SCHMEICHEL CHIEDE IL PASSAPORTO JUGOSLAVO
Subject: [STOPNATO] Danish Soccer Star Wants Yugoslav Passport
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 08:59:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: (Rick Rozoff)
To: stopnato@...
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BREAKING NEWS :
SCHMEICHEL WANTS YUGOSLAV PASSPORT FROM MILOSEVIC.
Rotterdam 16.6.2000
Danish football superstar Peter Boleslaw Schmeichel shocked the world at
today's press-conference after the match with Holland. Disturbed and
disappointed after another humiliating defeat of his team at EURO 2000,
he made a short statement for the press: "I am too ambitious and too
good goalkeeper to play in such a bad team as Denmark. I'm feed up
,therefore, tonight I officially applied at the embassy of The Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, for Yugoslavian passport. Yugoslav football
team is excellent, and it is the only team I would like to play for. I
personally asked president Slobodan Milosevic it grant me Yugoslavian
National Passport, because I highly respect him and his achievements in
the last year War against Nato-agressors."
Schmeichel still didn't get any answer from Yugoslav officials, but
Yugoslav coach Boskov said that Schmeichel is not good enough to play in
the Yugoslav team.
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E' PARTITO IL FINANZIAMENTO PER L'OLEODOTTO SUL CORRIDOIO OTTO
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 16, 2000
Balkan AMBO Pipeline to Start Raising Funds in July
SKOPJE - The Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil
Corporation LLC (AMBO) of Pound Ridge, New York, said
on Thursday it would start raising funds in early July
for a $1.13bn pipeline to ship crude oil from the
Black and Caspian seas to the West.
“The feasibility study gives oil companies operating
in the Caspian region a commercially compelling
proposition to invest in the project. Almost all major
companies in the world can use the pipeline,” AMBO
Executive Vice-President Gligor Taskovic told Reuters
in the Macedonian capital Skopje.
The company’s president, Ted Fergusson, had said
earlier in Sofia AMBO aimed to start work in 2001.
“Project’s sanctions and funding should be established
by the end of this year,” said Fergusson, announcing
conclusions of the project’s updated feasibility
study. An earlier estimate had put the project at
about $850m.
The underground pipeline, 913 kilometres long, is
designed to carry 750,000 barrels a day, or 35m metric
tons per year, which will represent 40 percent of the
crude oil from newly-developed oilfields to enter the
Black Sea in the next five years or 30 percent of the
new oil over the next 10 years, Fergusson said.
It will pass from Burgas, on the Black Sea coast, to
Vlora, to ship Russian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and
Turkmenian oil from around the Black Sea to the
markets of Western Europe and North America. It will
also bypass Turkey’s heavily travelled Bosphorus
Straits.
Big tankers with 300,000 tonnes of crude can anchor at
the port of Vlora, which makes the transit journey to
the United States economic, while the biggest tankers
passing the Bosphorus could carry 150,000 tonnes, AMBO
officials said. A holding structure with three
separate companies in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania
will build the pipeline. Each country can be an equity
holder in the investment.
AMBO has letters of acceptance from the governments of
Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria for the underground
link.
Taskovic said companies including Texaco, Chevron,
Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Total, Elf, Fina, were
interested in the pipeline that will become
operational in 2005.
The project has also interested the US government and
European Commission, but the construction funding will
depend on whether foreign companies will find it
feasible to invest in such countries, where the
political risk is high.
The trans-Balkan pipeline is also part of the
Transport Corridor 8 plan. Corridor 8 will include a
highway, railway, oil pipeline and fibre-optic
telecommunications line as well as AMBO’s oil
pipeline.
“We will begin formal discussions with these companies
in two weeks,” Taskovic said, adding that it would
take time to raise the money needed for the project.
“This will take one or two years. We need to raise
$450m in equity funding. The rest of the money will be
loans from banks. We have talked to the EBRD, MIGA,
IFC, OPIC and EXIM. They are excited. Once we raise
the money, we will need three years for the
construction,” Taskovic said.
He was referring to the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank’s
insurance agency MIGA, its International Finance
Corporation, the US Overseas Prime Investment Corp,
and an export-import bank.
AMBO was confident that another planned pipeline
sending crude from Russia to Greece via Bulgaria would
not threaten its own project as the Caspian region was
expected to yield as much as 110 million tonnes of oil
a year from 2005, he said.
“So much oil will be flowing from the Caspian region
that there will be sufficient crude for all,” Taskovic
said. (Compiled from Reuters dispatch, archives)
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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ-CINA
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From: wolfgang mueller <karovier@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: MLL: Li Peng Delivers Speech in Belgrade
Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of the
National People's Congress, said in Belgrade Monday
that peace cannot be forged out of bombings.
Referring to air strikes against Yugoslavia by a
US-led
NATO force last year, Li said the assault was a
violation of the intent of the United Nations Charter
and universally recognized norms governing
international relations. The air strikes seriously
threatened stability in Europe.
To read more, please look at:
http://web3.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200006/13/eng20000613_42856.html
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http://www.peopledaily.net/english/200006/10/eng20000610_42658.html
People's Daily
Saturday, June 10, 2000, updated at 09:37(GMT+8)
China
China: It's Time for In-depth Reflection on Kosovo
China said Friday that it is time for in-depth
reflection on Kosovo, a Yugoslav province, where the
current situation is very critical as Serbs are
suffering from deportation and persecution.
The statement came as Shen Guofang, the deputy Chinese
permanent representative to the United Nations, took
the floor at an open U.N. Security Council meeting, at
which Bernard Kouchner, head of the U.N. Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), briefed the
15-nation body on the latest developments in the
Serbian province.
"We are of the view that it is time for in-depth
reflection," he said. "The Security Council has the
political responsibility and moral obligation to face
this reality, and it should seriously seek the
resolution to the serious problems faced by Kosovo,
otherwise the credibility of the United Nations will
continue to be impaired."
"First, the international presence should respect the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)," he said."UNMIK should
respect the laws of FRY and seek cooperation with
FRY."
However, "some of the current administrative measures
adopted in Kosovo impair the sovereignty of FRY and it
has created a false impression that Kosovo is going to
independence."
Shen said that "any attempt to lead Kosovo to
independence is dangerous and illegal, it will deprive
the Balkan region of peace and the ultimate victim
will be the people of the Balkan region." "UNMIK can
not afford to make a slightest mistake on this very
important policy of issue," he said.
Secondly, "we are very concerned with the security of
Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo," he said.
"We firmly oppose any forms of ethnic cleansing," he
said. " The flagrant violations of basic human rights
in Kosovo, no matter when it take place and which
ethnic group it target, can not be accepted by the
international community."
"All human rights violations are crimes," he said.
"The crimes, be they big or small, can not be
tolerated."
"In the same way, it is irresponsible to use past
events as excuses to explain the way to the critical
situation," he said. " We are concerned at the ways
UNMIK and the international peacekeepers turn about
the situation."
Apart from that, he said, "What arises our particular
concern is that a large number of non-Kosovo Albanians
have entered Kosovo, and this will change the
demographic composition of Kosovo," which has a
multi-ethnic society since ancient times.
"There should a Kosovo where different ethnic groups
can have peaceful coexistence, and this should be the
target of UNMIK," he said.
"We are opposed to any attempt to create national
division and sabotage national unity," he said.
"Fundamentally, the solution to the Kosovo issue can
only be achieved within the framework of FRY through
substantial autonomy and good ethnic policy."
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YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
CHINESE PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT LI PENG IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, June 11 (Tanjug) - President of the Permanent Committee of the
Pan-Chinese People's Congress Li Peng arrived on Sunday on a three-day
official and friendly visit to Yugoslavia, accompanied by his wife and
aides. "I am very pleased for the opportunity to visit Yugoslavia, given
the traditional friendship between our two countries," said Li Peng upon
arrival at Belgrade airport, adding that he was confident that his trip
will help further develop the friendship between China and Yugoslavia.
The
President of Chinese Parliament was welcomed by the Presidents of both
houses of Yugoslav Parliament - Milomir Minic and Srdja Bozovic. Li Peng
was greeted by Yugoslav Deputy Premier Nikola Sainovic, Yugoslav Foreign
Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, Serbian Parliament President Dragan Tomic,
Yugoslav Parliament Upper House Vice-President Gorica Gajevic, Yugoslav
Army General Staff Chief Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, Yugoslav Parliament
Foreign
Policy Committee chairman Ljubisa Ristic, Yugoslav Ambassador to China
Slobodan Unkovic, and the Ambassador of PR China in Belgrade Pan Zhanlin
with Chinese Embassy personnel. Li Peng, who will stay in Yugoslavia
till
June 13, will address Yugoslav Parliament deputies on Monday, and during
his visit will be received by top Yugoslav officials.
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From: Ning Mao <mao.ning@...>
To: MLL <marxist-leninist-list@...>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 2:35 PM
Subject: MLL: [People's Daily] " Largest Sino-Yugoslav Joint Venture
Operational"
Largest Sino-Yugoslav Joint Venture Operational
The Hemofarm Pharmaceutical Co., the largest Sino-Yugoslav
joint venture in China, went into production Thursday in
this capital of east China's Shandong Province.
The 23-million U.S. dollars company with an annual
production capacity 30 million bottles will produce a dozen
varieties of transfusion medicine in plastic and glass
bottles at the initial stage.
The Yugoslav side covers 70 percent of the investment in
the joint venture equipped with state-of-the-art production
lines imported from Germany, Italy, Sweden and Finland.
It will turn out more varieties of medicine, such as
tablets, and Vitamin pills in the second-phase with an
investment of US$5.2 million.
More than 400 people attended the inauguration ceremony,
including Yugoslav ambassador to China Slobodan Unkovic and
Yugoslavian foreign trade minister Borislav Vukovic.
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INTERVISTA ALLA TANJUG DEL MINISTRO DELLA DIFESA JUGOSLAVO
YUGOSLAV DEFENCE MINISTER OJDANIC GIVES INTERVIEW TO TANJUG
BELGRADE, June 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic
on Wednesday
visited the national news agency TANJUG and gave an interview to
Director
and Editor-in-Chief Dusan Djurdjevic. General Ojdanic stressed that
timely
and true information was more powerful than any weapon, because media
war
was no less important than armed conflict. "During last year's NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia, TANJUG played a very important part in
disseminating the truth and combatting the lies that the aggressors were
spreading about our people and state. "TANJUG has shown the
international
public the true causes and effects of developments in connection with
(the
Yugoslav republic of Serbia's province of) Kosovo-Metohija", Ojdanic
said.
"The military-political situation in the region has drastically
deteriorated since NATO's armed aggression on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia in 1999. "The aggression is not stopping, but is continuing
by
other methods and weapons, with a view to attaining the interests of the
United States both in the Balkans and wider in the world. "Most states
see
a way out as lying in creating a multipolar world, with all its
weaknesses,
to replace the unipolar one," Ojdanic said, adding however that "nearly
all
Balkan countries have embraced the concept and strategy of the so-called
new world order." Stressing that Yugoslavia's security is still in great
jeopardy, he noted that NATO is waging three parallel wars on
Yugoslavia:
one, trying to detach Kosovo-Metohija from Serbia and to create a
Greater
Albania; next, trying to fragment the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
whose
organisation and size are an obstacle in the way of implementing a plan
for
a total subjugation of the Balkans and getting closer to the East; and,
third, waging war on "recalcitrant" Serbia which resists globalism and
global U.S. domination. He went on to speak about the non-implementation
of
U.N. Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija and the Kumanovo
Military-Technical
accord. He said the international force (KFor) and the U.N. civilian
mission (UNMIK) in Kosovo-Metohija had neither disarmed the ethnic
Albanian
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) nor protected the local Serbian and other
non-Albanian populations. "As I see it, a way out of the crisis lies in
the
West reviving cooperation with Yugoslavia, in an appropriate number of
Yugoslav armed and security force troops returning to Kosovo-Metohija,
which necessitates a new accord that would deviate somewhat from the
Kumanovo Military-Technical accord", Ojdanic said. Speaking about
Yugoslavia's military-political experience gleaned during the NATO
aggression, he said that "we already know in a great measure how we
shall
defend ourselves in the future. "We shall formulate final answers and
solutions as we define a new defence doctrine and work out a civil
defence
doctrine", he said. He added that the conceptual phase of the army's
reorganisation had been completed and now a schedule was to be worked
out
and the programme implemented. "A new civil defence doctrine will
specifically define the place, role and job of each defence factor. Such
a
consistent defence system will open scope for reducing the size of the
army", he explained. He went on to say that more than 215 civil defence
centres had operated during the 11-week NATO aggression, and about
32,000
civil defence activists in Serbia alone, whose efforts saved 702 lives
and
who were instrumental in getting 408 people to hospital. The civil
defence
service carried out 626 interventions of clearing away debris and 539
fire-fighting operations, dislocated 1,713 tonnes of dangerous materials
and 56,768 tonnes of oil derivatives. In cooperation with the Yugoslav
army, the civil defence service organised 16 river ferries and
transported
2,145,000 people, and prepared and organised 1,171 bomb shelters for
more
than 200,000 people. Asked about the phenomenon of global terrorism,
Ojdanic said that the greatest terrorist activity was in Europe, 90
percent
of which had lately been in Yugoslavia. "America is spared terrorist
activity and has had no more than a dozen terrorist outrages since 1991,
while Europe has had thousands", Ojdanic said, noting that terrorism had
been imported into Yugoslavia. "The ethnic Albanian terrorist
organisation
had been active before, but never as active as in 1998 and 1999, or
today,
when in plain view of KFor, ethnic Albanian terrorists carry out
terrorist
operations against non-Albanians and often even against other ethnic
Albanians who hold different political opinions." He noted that murders
and
assassinations perpetrated over the past months throughout Yugoslavia
were
text-book terrorist acts instigated and organised by the U.S.
intelligence
service. "We shall have trouble eradicating terrorism, because its roots
are in other countries. But just as any other state, we also shall
combat
terrorism with all weapons at our disposal, on which a special law will
be
passed", he stressed. He went on to speak about the sub-regional arms
control treaty signed at Florence, Italy, by Yugoslavia, Croatia,
(Bosnian
Serb) Republika Srpska and the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation. He said
Yugoslavia had honoured the treaty and had submitted its arms for
inspection and destroyed what it had been instructed to destroy.
"Regrettably, inspection teams that visited our country were collecting
data about military and other targets to be used in NATO's aggression",
he
said. He added that Yugoslavia had responded to its suspension from
various
international activities by freezing all activities in arms control.
"When
they recognise our state and army the way accords explicitly define
them,
then only shall we unfreeze our activities", he said. Commenting on the
attention excited at the Hague-based war crimes tribunal for former
Yugoslavia by his recent visit to Russia, the defence minister said it
was
a crime not to defend one's nation, not the other way around. "As a
soldier, I am bound by all conventions stemming from international
humanitarian and war laws. During the aggression, as chief of staff, I
fought that these conventions be consistently implemented and honoured
at
all levels of command", he said. He noted that the Yugoslav army command
and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had some months
before the aggression organised a seminar in this field at all levels of
command. At the outbreak of the NATO aggression, all army units had
received manuals with excerpts from the regulations, he explained. "In
light of this, I fear no charges and shall go freely wherever I am
invited", Ojdanic stressed, adding that he had already received
invitations
from other friendly countries.
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ANCHE CIPRO OFF-LIMITS PER LA FINANZA JUGOSLAVA
ORA LA RFJ E' COMPLETAMENTE ISOLATA DAL PUNTO DI VISTA BANCARIO
Cyprus revokes Yugoslavian bank's licence-bankers
NICOSIA, June 7 (Reuters) - Cyprus's Central Bank has revoked the
licence of
Beogradska Banka, the largest Serbian commercial bank and one with close
ties
to the Yugoslavian government, senior bankers said on Wednesday.
``The licence was revoked and they (Beogradska) challenged the decision
to
revoke the licence...there will be a court hearing in 10 to 15 days,'' a
senior central bank source told Reuters.
The central bank source, who requested anonymity, declined to say why
the
licence had been revoked. Beogradska Banka officials were not
immediately
available for comment.
Greek Cypriot newspaper Alithia also reported Beogradska's licence had
been
revoked but gave no reason.
Beogradska has had a presence in Cyprus since 1988, operating as an
offshore
bank.
Earlier this year U.S. and European Union officials visited Cyprus for
consultations on sanctions against Yugoslavia.
Greek Cypriots traditionally have close ties with Serbs but Cyprus
authorities have followed the international community in imposing
sanctions
on Belgrade.
12:40 06-07-00
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DUE GUARDIE DI FRONTIERA FERITE AL CONFINE KOSOVARO-MACEDONE
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 7, 2000
Two Macedonian Guards Wounded on Border with Kosovo
SKOPJE - Macedonia said two border guards were wounded
on Monday by a sniper firing from inside the
neighbouring Kosovo.
The incident happened at the Dolmo Blace border post
after a patrol spotted two people who had illegally
crossed some 50 metres (yards) into Macedonian
territory from Kosovo, a defence ministry statement
said.
It said the two had escaped back to Kosovo after being
warned and the Macedonian army sent another patrol of
four soldiers to set up an observation post.
“At 3:15 p.m. (1315 GMT) a sniper shot at the patrol
from the Kosovo side and two guards suffered arm and
leg injuries,” the statement said, adding their
condition was stable and that an investigation was
under way.
Monday’s incident was the second in two months on
Macedonia’s border with Kosovo.
In the previous incident, a group of Kosovo Albanians
kidnapped four Macedonian border guards. The
Macedonian authorities have demanded stricter KFOR
border controls.
The Macedonian Defence Ministry announced earlier this
year that the country’s borders are controlled by a
new border brigade and at the same time the military
readiness of the border brigade has been stepped up.
The number of border guards has been reduced in posts
on the border with Greece and Bulgaria, while their
numbers have been increased on Madedonia’s western
border with Albania and northern borders with Kosovo
and Yugoslavia, the ministry said.
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RELAZIONI BILATERALI RFJ-VIETNAM
Communist Internet
Wednesday 7th May 2000 9.30pm gmt
Vietnam, Yugoslavia Develop Co-operation
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien said that Vietnam has
constantly
consolidated and developed comprehensive co-operation with Yugoslavia
and other
traditional friends.
This was affirmed during the talks between the Vietnamese foreign
minister and his
Yugoslavian counterpart, Zivadin Jovanovic, on June 5 at the Government
Guest House.
Mr Nien expressed his pleasure at new developments in the friendly and
co-operative
relations between the two countries. He also expressed strong support
for the
Yugoslavian
people's cause of protecting national independence, sovereignty and
territorial
integrity as
well as the restoration of Yugoslavia's legal position at the United
Nations and other
international organisations.
Mr Z Jovanovic said he highly appreciated the achievements recorded by
the Vietnamese
people in the implementation of the open-door policy and integration
into the regional
and
world communities. He thanked the Vietnamese government and people for
their support
to Yugoslavia's struggle against the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation's (NATO)
aggression. The foreign minister affirmed that Yugoslavia treasures its
traditional
ties with
Vietnam and wished that the comprehensive co-operation between the two
countries
would be further boosted, particularly in trade and economy.
The two foreign ministers discussed regional and international issues of
mutual
concern,
the situation in both countries and agreed to strengthen co-operation in
all fields.
After the talks, the two ministers signed a visa-exemption agreement for
holders of
diplomatic and official passports and...
http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/vietnamy/vietnamy.html
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YUGOSLAVIA - VIETNAM
YUGOSLAVIA AND VIETNAM HAVE TIES OF STRONG MUTUAL SUPPORT AND TRUST
HANOI, June 6 (Tanjug) - Vietnam has high respect for the
Yugoslav people's unflinching struggle against NATO's aggression and for
Yugoslavia's determination to accomplish economic reconstruction and
development, Vietnam's top official said on Tuesday. President Tran Duc
Luong was meeting in Hanoi with visiting Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Zivadin
Jovanovic. In reply to greetings from Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
conveyed by Jovanovic, Tran said he was sure Milosevic would stand firm
with his people and surmount all difficulties, defend the country and
rebuild NATO-wreaked devastation. The meeting rounded off Jovanovic's
successful contacts with ranking government and communist party
officials
in this influential Asian country, with a population of 82 million and
an
impressive annual economic growth rate of 7-8 percent over the past
decade.
Vietnam firmly supports Yugoslavia and its people, and demands a strict
and
full implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244, Tran said, adding that
Vietnam
insists that all bans and sanctions against Yugoslavia be lifted
immediately. He went on to say he was sure Jovanovic's visit would be
successful and would boost friendly bilateral relations and cooperation,
and accepted with pleasure Milosevic's invitation to visit Yugoslavia.
Jovanovic, in turn, stressed that President Milosevic, the Yugoslav
Government and people highly appreciate the solidarity and support of
Vietnam, especially at the time of last year's NATO aggression. He said
that Vietnam's support for and solidarity with Yugoslavia were all the
more
important for coming from a state and nation symbolic of the struggle
for
freedom and independence in the world. Yugoslavia highly appreciates
also
Vietnam's support for its reintegration in the United Nations, the
non-aligned movement and other international organisations. During the
meeting, strong support was given to a further strengthening of
bilateral
relations and expansion and diversification of cooperation, especially
in
the economy.
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Piu' di 10mila persone a Kumrovec
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REPUBBLICA SERBA DI BOSNIA
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The West's colonial governor of Bosnia Wolfgang Petrisch (an Austrian,
and
head of the OHR) has decided to criticise the recent appointment made by
Bosnia's multi-ethnic presidency because this man happens to be
suggesting
that Bosnia can't rush headlong into privatization. It seems that the
only
thing that the Serbs, Croats and Muslims are united on is to protect the
countries industry from the voracious apetites of the neoliberal
financial
elite! [note that the previous man who held the post was from the
Socialist
Party (SPRS)!]
Top envoy blasts Bosnia authorities over new PM
By Nedim Dervisbegovic
SARAJEVO, June 7 (Reuters) - The West's top envoy in Bosnia on Wednesday
blasted the appointment of a little known Serb professor as the
country's
next prime minister.
Parliament approved Spasoje Tusevljak, reported to have been an
economics
adviser to indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, as rotating chairman
of
the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.
Western envoy Wolfgang Petritsch, who has sweeping powers to implement
Bosnia's peace process, slammed the move.
``I want to express my deep dissatisfaction about the process of
selecting
the most important executive in this country,'' he said after a meeting
with
the three-man presidency that proposed Tusevljak, 48, last month.
``A candidate was selected (who) is virtually unknown in this country,''
he
told reporters, adding that the whole process of selection was
unprofessional.
Tusevljak, without party membership, must return to parliament for a
vote on
the full cabinet of six ministries, one of which will be held by him. No
date
has been set.
The chair rotates among ministers every eight months.
Bosnia, made up of the Moslem-Croat federation and the Serb republic,
has
been without central government since February, when a Constitutional
Court
ruling forced it to dissolve.
The central institutions have only a limited role. The new Council of
Ministers will oversee policy areas including foreign affairs, trade,
human
rights and the state treasury.
The international community, which is sponsoring Bosnia's recovery from
the
1992-95 war with billions of dollars, sees stronger central government
as the
key to economic revival.
Tusevljak was a pre-war resident of Sarajevo but fled to the Serb
territory
and later to Belgrade after war broke out. He now lectures in economics
at
the university in the Serb part of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo media reported last month that he was an economic adviser early
in
the conflict to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Karadzic, who is now in
hiding.
Petritsch said he would keep the presidency and the parliament
accountable
for their decisions. He criticised Tusevljak for saying on Tuesday that
Bosnia should progress slowly, calling his remarks ``simply unacceptable
to
me.''
``We need to speed up the process of the implementation, not to slow it
down,'' he said.
A previous candidate to chair the central government, former Bosnian
Serb
Deputy Prime Minister Tihomir Gligoric, lost the support of the
presidency
after Western officials complained that his Socialist party was too
close to
Belgrade.
14:03 06-07-00
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Bosnian parliament approves Serb PM, envoy unhappy
SARAJEVO, June 6 (Reuters) - Bosnia's parliament on Tuesday approved
Serb
Spasoje Tusevljak as the next rotating chairman of the restructured
central
government but the West's top envoy in the country said he was not the
right
man for the job.
Tusevljak, a relatively unknown economics professor without party
affiliation, passed the confidence motion in the 42-seat lower house
after 19
deputies voted for him, 11 voted against and two abstained. Ten were
absent.
He will return to the lower chamber for the vote on the full cabinet
which
has six ministries, one of which will be held by Tusevljak, but no date
has
been set yet. The chair rotates among ministers every eight months.
A spokeswoman for international High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch
said
after the vote that the envoy did not know ``what qualifies Mr Tusevljak
for
this position.''
``Neither the presidency nor the parliament have lived up to their
responsibility of providing Bosnia with a chair who meets criteria of
being
able to turn the Council of Ministers into an efficient common
institution,''
she said.
The international community sponsoring the Balkan country's peace
process
with billions of dollars sees the strengthening of the joint
institutions as
a cornerstone of future development.
Under the 1995 Dayton peace treaty, Bosnia is divided into a
highly-autonomous Moslem-Croat Federation and Serb Republic, each of
which
has its own military and police.
The all-Bosnian central institutions -- the parliament, the presidency
and
the government -- have a limited role.
The old Council of Ministers ceased to exist in February after the
country's
Constitutional Court ruled that it could not have two co-chairs and a
deputy.
It had three ministers.
The three-man inter-ethnic presidency nominated Tusevljak last month as
a
compromise solution, put forward by Serb member Zivko Radisic.
Previous Bosnian Serb candidate Tihomir Gligoric lost presidency support
after peace officials objected to his nomination, saying his Bosnian
Serb
Socialist Party was too close to the Yugoslav ruling party of President
Slobodan Milosevic.
13:35 06-06-00
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MONTENEGRO
Tuesday, June 6 11:30 AM SGT
Montenegro president's brother accused of wounding militant
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia, June 6 (AFP) -
The brother of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic took part in an
attack
on a militant of the Montenegro Liberal Alliance (LSCG) who was
seriously
injured, an LSCG official told AFP.
The opposition party's number two, Miroslav Vickovic, said Aleksandar
Djukanovic and a friend Pajo Jabucanin attacked Zoran Kljajic late
Sunday
outside a hotel in the centre of Montenegro's capital Podgorica.
Kljajic was pistol-whipped, receiving a double skull fracture and
concussion, Vickovic said. He was hospitalized and operated on early
Monday,
the LSCG official said.
Friends of Kljajic tried to halt the aggression but the president's
brother
and his friend threatened them with pistols, Vickovic said, adding that
Montenegro's deputy interior minister, Vuk Boskovic, was present.
Vickovic called on Interior Minister Vukasin Maras to act according to
the
law.
President Djukanovic's brother is a businessman who is not involved in
politics.
The LSCG, which promotes independence for Montenegro, broke off a local
alliance with the president's "Live Better" coalition in Podgorica and
Herceg Novi, a town on the Adriatic coast.
The split and the LSCG's entry into opposition caused early municipal
elections to be called in the two towns. They are to be held Sunday.
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Montenegro police prepare for conflict-Yugo army
BELGRADE, June 8 (Reuters) - The Yugoslav army on Thursday accused
Montenegro's police of setting the scene for conflict and said the
republic's
authorities had joined a Western campaign against Yugoslavia and its
armed
forces.
The accusations, in an army statement carried by the state news agency
Tanjug, coincided with tensions between the pro-Western coastal republic
and
Serb-dominated federation ahead of local elections in two Montenegro's
towns.
``The Montenegrin leadership, the authorities and police whole-heartedly
joined a Western psychological propaganda and media campaign aimed at
our
country and the Yugoslav army,'' the statement said on Thursday.
But, it added, the Montenegrins, ``aware of the historic moment and
responsibility for the future, will pull their strength together in
order to
recognise who is who in the Yugoslav reality.''
Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic has been at odds with Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic since 1997, pushing for democratic and
economic
reforms in Yugoslavia and threatening a referendum on independence if
Belgrade does not comply.
Djukanovic is facing early local polls in the capital Podgorica and in
the
costal town of Herceg-Novi after the Liberal Alliance party pulled out
of his
local coalitions in order to campaign on a pro-independence ticket.
Pro-Milosevic parties in Montenegro formed a coalition for the polls and
have
been campaigning vigorously, accusing Djukanovic of treason and of
trying to
secede from Serbia.
Last Friday, the Montenegrin Finance Minister said he saw no risk the
army
would try to overthrow his government that has edged away from the
federation
dominated by Milosevic, himself of Montenegrin origin.
``We are fully aware that top officers of the Yugoslav army are
completely
loyal to Mr Milosevic,'' Miroslav Ivanisevic told reporters in Brussels,
but
added he ``would say the Yugoslav army would not be used in Montenegro
for a
coup d'etat.''
The army has also denied it was doing anything else in Montenegro but
its
regular duties stipulated by the federal constitution and said it posed
no
threat to the republic.
But on Thursday, it listed a number of examples of what it called
``measures,
acts and preparations set to provoke incidents, conflicts and clashes
with
members of the army in order to cause the international community
condemnation and reactions.''
The statement said that Montenegrin police were arming and exercising a
reserve in the towns of Cetinje and Herceg-Novi, while in the towns of
Tivat,
Bar and Ulcinj the reserve was made up mostly of ethnic Croats and
Albanians.
``In addition, Montenegro's police have enormous forces in other
security
centres formed on the basis of political and national criteria,'' the
statement said.
15:56 06-08-00
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http://www.antiwar.com/szamuely/sz061500.html
Antiwar.com
June 15, 2000
Bribing Montenegro –- It Didn't Work
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GRANDE RACCOLTA DI LINK SUL MONTENEGRO:
http://www.usip.org/library/regions/montenegro.html
Updated: March 20 2000
United States Institute of Peace Library
Montenegro Web Links
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IL DANESE SCHMEICHEL CHIEDE IL PASSAPORTO JUGOSLAVO
Subject: [STOPNATO] Danish Soccer Star Wants Yugoslav Passport
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 08:59:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: (Rick Rozoff)
To: stopnato@...
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
BREAKING NEWS :
SCHMEICHEL WANTS YUGOSLAV PASSPORT FROM MILOSEVIC.
Rotterdam 16.6.2000
Danish football superstar Peter Boleslaw Schmeichel shocked the world at
today's press-conference after the match with Holland. Disturbed and
disappointed after another humiliating defeat of his team at EURO 2000,
he made a short statement for the press: "I am too ambitious and too
good goalkeeper to play in such a bad team as Denmark. I'm feed up
,therefore, tonight I officially applied at the embassy of The Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, for Yugoslavian passport. Yugoslav football
team is excellent, and it is the only team I would like to play for. I
personally asked president Slobodan Milosevic it grant me Yugoslavian
National Passport, because I highly respect him and his achievements in
the last year War against Nato-agressors."
Schmeichel still didn't get any answer from Yugoslav officials, but
Yugoslav coach Boskov said that Schmeichel is not good enough to play in
the Yugoslav team.
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E' PARTITO IL FINANZIAMENTO PER L'OLEODOTTO SUL CORRIDOIO OTTO
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 16, 2000
Balkan AMBO Pipeline to Start Raising Funds in July
SKOPJE - The Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil
Corporation LLC (AMBO) of Pound Ridge, New York, said
on Thursday it would start raising funds in early July
for a $1.13bn pipeline to ship crude oil from the
Black and Caspian seas to the West.
“The feasibility study gives oil companies operating
in the Caspian region a commercially compelling
proposition to invest in the project. Almost all major
companies in the world can use the pipeline,” AMBO
Executive Vice-President Gligor Taskovic told Reuters
in the Macedonian capital Skopje.
The company’s president, Ted Fergusson, had said
earlier in Sofia AMBO aimed to start work in 2001.
“Project’s sanctions and funding should be established
by the end of this year,” said Fergusson, announcing
conclusions of the project’s updated feasibility
study. An earlier estimate had put the project at
about $850m.
The underground pipeline, 913 kilometres long, is
designed to carry 750,000 barrels a day, or 35m metric
tons per year, which will represent 40 percent of the
crude oil from newly-developed oilfields to enter the
Black Sea in the next five years or 30 percent of the
new oil over the next 10 years, Fergusson said.
It will pass from Burgas, on the Black Sea coast, to
Vlora, to ship Russian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and
Turkmenian oil from around the Black Sea to the
markets of Western Europe and North America. It will
also bypass Turkey’s heavily travelled Bosphorus
Straits.
Big tankers with 300,000 tonnes of crude can anchor at
the port of Vlora, which makes the transit journey to
the United States economic, while the biggest tankers
passing the Bosphorus could carry 150,000 tonnes, AMBO
officials said. A holding structure with three
separate companies in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania
will build the pipeline. Each country can be an equity
holder in the investment.
AMBO has letters of acceptance from the governments of
Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria for the underground
link.
Taskovic said companies including Texaco, Chevron,
Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Total, Elf, Fina, were
interested in the pipeline that will become
operational in 2005.
The project has also interested the US government and
European Commission, but the construction funding will
depend on whether foreign companies will find it
feasible to invest in such countries, where the
political risk is high.
The trans-Balkan pipeline is also part of the
Transport Corridor 8 plan. Corridor 8 will include a
highway, railway, oil pipeline and fibre-optic
telecommunications line as well as AMBO’s oil
pipeline.
“We will begin formal discussions with these companies
in two weeks,” Taskovic said, adding that it would
take time to raise the money needed for the project.
“This will take one or two years. We need to raise
$450m in equity funding. The rest of the money will be
loans from banks. We have talked to the EBRD, MIGA,
IFC, OPIC and EXIM. They are excited. Once we raise
the money, we will need three years for the
construction,” Taskovic said.
He was referring to the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank’s
insurance agency MIGA, its International Finance
Corporation, the US Overseas Prime Investment Corp,
and an export-import bank.
AMBO was confident that another planned pipeline
sending crude from Russia to Greece via Bulgaria would
not threaten its own project as the Caspian region was
expected to yield as much as 110 million tonnes of oil
a year from 2005, he said.
“So much oil will be flowing from the Caspian region
that there will be sufficient crude for all,” Taskovic
said. (Compiled from Reuters dispatch, archives)
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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ-CINA
----- Original Message -----
From: wolfgang mueller <karovier@...>
To: Wolfgang Mueller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: MLL: Li Peng Delivers Speech in Belgrade
Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of the
National People's Congress, said in Belgrade Monday
that peace cannot be forged out of bombings.
Referring to air strikes against Yugoslavia by a
US-led
NATO force last year, Li said the assault was a
violation of the intent of the United Nations Charter
and universally recognized norms governing
international relations. The air strikes seriously
threatened stability in Europe.
To read more, please look at:
http://web3.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200006/13/eng20000613_42856.html
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http://www.peopledaily.net/english/200006/10/eng20000610_42658.html
People's Daily
Saturday, June 10, 2000, updated at 09:37(GMT+8)
China
China: It's Time for In-depth Reflection on Kosovo
China said Friday that it is time for in-depth
reflection on Kosovo, a Yugoslav province, where the
current situation is very critical as Serbs are
suffering from deportation and persecution.
The statement came as Shen Guofang, the deputy Chinese
permanent representative to the United Nations, took
the floor at an open U.N. Security Council meeting, at
which Bernard Kouchner, head of the U.N. Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), briefed the
15-nation body on the latest developments in the
Serbian province.
"We are of the view that it is time for in-depth
reflection," he said. "The Security Council has the
political responsibility and moral obligation to face
this reality, and it should seriously seek the
resolution to the serious problems faced by Kosovo,
otherwise the credibility of the United Nations will
continue to be impaired."
"First, the international presence should respect the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)," he said."UNMIK should
respect the laws of FRY and seek cooperation with
FRY."
However, "some of the current administrative measures
adopted in Kosovo impair the sovereignty of FRY and it
has created a false impression that Kosovo is going to
independence."
Shen said that "any attempt to lead Kosovo to
independence is dangerous and illegal, it will deprive
the Balkan region of peace and the ultimate victim
will be the people of the Balkan region." "UNMIK can
not afford to make a slightest mistake on this very
important policy of issue," he said.
Secondly, "we are very concerned with the security of
Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo," he said.
"We firmly oppose any forms of ethnic cleansing," he
said. " The flagrant violations of basic human rights
in Kosovo, no matter when it take place and which
ethnic group it target, can not be accepted by the
international community."
"All human rights violations are crimes," he said.
"The crimes, be they big or small, can not be
tolerated."
"In the same way, it is irresponsible to use past
events as excuses to explain the way to the critical
situation," he said. " We are concerned at the ways
UNMIK and the international peacekeepers turn about
the situation."
Apart from that, he said, "What arises our particular
concern is that a large number of non-Kosovo Albanians
have entered Kosovo, and this will change the
demographic composition of Kosovo," which has a
multi-ethnic society since ancient times.
"There should a Kosovo where different ethnic groups
can have peaceful coexistence, and this should be the
target of UNMIK," he said.
"We are opposed to any attempt to create national
division and sabotage national unity," he said.
"Fundamentally, the solution to the Kosovo issue can
only be achieved within the framework of FRY through
substantial autonomy and good ethnic policy."
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YUGOSLAVIA - CHINA
CHINESE PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT LI PENG IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, June 11 (Tanjug) - President of the Permanent Committee of the
Pan-Chinese People's Congress Li Peng arrived on Sunday on a three-day
official and friendly visit to Yugoslavia, accompanied by his wife and
aides. "I am very pleased for the opportunity to visit Yugoslavia, given
the traditional friendship between our two countries," said Li Peng upon
arrival at Belgrade airport, adding that he was confident that his trip
will help further develop the friendship between China and Yugoslavia.
The
President of Chinese Parliament was welcomed by the Presidents of both
houses of Yugoslav Parliament - Milomir Minic and Srdja Bozovic. Li Peng
was greeted by Yugoslav Deputy Premier Nikola Sainovic, Yugoslav Foreign
Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, Serbian Parliament President Dragan Tomic,
Yugoslav Parliament Upper House Vice-President Gorica Gajevic, Yugoslav
Army General Staff Chief Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, Yugoslav Parliament
Foreign
Policy Committee chairman Ljubisa Ristic, Yugoslav Ambassador to China
Slobodan Unkovic, and the Ambassador of PR China in Belgrade Pan Zhanlin
with Chinese Embassy personnel. Li Peng, who will stay in Yugoslavia
till
June 13, will address Yugoslav Parliament deputies on Monday, and during
his visit will be received by top Yugoslav officials.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ning Mao <mao.ning@...>
To: MLL <marxist-leninist-list@...>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 2:35 PM
Subject: MLL: [People's Daily] " Largest Sino-Yugoslav Joint Venture
Operational"
Largest Sino-Yugoslav Joint Venture Operational
The Hemofarm Pharmaceutical Co., the largest Sino-Yugoslav
joint venture in China, went into production Thursday in
this capital of east China's Shandong Province.
The 23-million U.S. dollars company with an annual
production capacity 30 million bottles will produce a dozen
varieties of transfusion medicine in plastic and glass
bottles at the initial stage.
The Yugoslav side covers 70 percent of the investment in
the joint venture equipped with state-of-the-art production
lines imported from Germany, Italy, Sweden and Finland.
It will turn out more varieties of medicine, such as
tablets, and Vitamin pills in the second-phase with an
investment of US$5.2 million.
More than 400 people attended the inauguration ceremony,
including Yugoslav ambassador to China Slobodan Unkovic and
Yugoslavian foreign trade minister Borislav Vukovic.
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INTERVISTA ALLA TANJUG DEL MINISTRO DELLA DIFESA JUGOSLAVO
YUGOSLAV DEFENCE MINISTER OJDANIC GIVES INTERVIEW TO TANJUG
BELGRADE, June 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic
on Wednesday
visited the national news agency TANJUG and gave an interview to
Director
and Editor-in-Chief Dusan Djurdjevic. General Ojdanic stressed that
timely
and true information was more powerful than any weapon, because media
war
was no less important than armed conflict. "During last year's NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia, TANJUG played a very important part in
disseminating the truth and combatting the lies that the aggressors were
spreading about our people and state. "TANJUG has shown the
international
public the true causes and effects of developments in connection with
(the
Yugoslav republic of Serbia's province of) Kosovo-Metohija", Ojdanic
said.
"The military-political situation in the region has drastically
deteriorated since NATO's armed aggression on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia in 1999. "The aggression is not stopping, but is continuing
by
other methods and weapons, with a view to attaining the interests of the
United States both in the Balkans and wider in the world. "Most states
see
a way out as lying in creating a multipolar world, with all its
weaknesses,
to replace the unipolar one," Ojdanic said, adding however that "nearly
all
Balkan countries have embraced the concept and strategy of the so-called
new world order." Stressing that Yugoslavia's security is still in great
jeopardy, he noted that NATO is waging three parallel wars on
Yugoslavia:
one, trying to detach Kosovo-Metohija from Serbia and to create a
Greater
Albania; next, trying to fragment the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
whose
organisation and size are an obstacle in the way of implementing a plan
for
a total subjugation of the Balkans and getting closer to the East; and,
third, waging war on "recalcitrant" Serbia which resists globalism and
global U.S. domination. He went on to speak about the non-implementation
of
U.N. Resolution 1244 on Kosovo-Metohija and the Kumanovo
Military-Technical
accord. He said the international force (KFor) and the U.N. civilian
mission (UNMIK) in Kosovo-Metohija had neither disarmed the ethnic
Albanian
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) nor protected the local Serbian and other
non-Albanian populations. "As I see it, a way out of the crisis lies in
the
West reviving cooperation with Yugoslavia, in an appropriate number of
Yugoslav armed and security force troops returning to Kosovo-Metohija,
which necessitates a new accord that would deviate somewhat from the
Kumanovo Military-Technical accord", Ojdanic said. Speaking about
Yugoslavia's military-political experience gleaned during the NATO
aggression, he said that "we already know in a great measure how we
shall
defend ourselves in the future. "We shall formulate final answers and
solutions as we define a new defence doctrine and work out a civil
defence
doctrine", he said. He added that the conceptual phase of the army's
reorganisation had been completed and now a schedule was to be worked
out
and the programme implemented. "A new civil defence doctrine will
specifically define the place, role and job of each defence factor. Such
a
consistent defence system will open scope for reducing the size of the
army", he explained. He went on to say that more than 215 civil defence
centres had operated during the 11-week NATO aggression, and about
32,000
civil defence activists in Serbia alone, whose efforts saved 702 lives
and
who were instrumental in getting 408 people to hospital. The civil
defence
service carried out 626 interventions of clearing away debris and 539
fire-fighting operations, dislocated 1,713 tonnes of dangerous materials
and 56,768 tonnes of oil derivatives. In cooperation with the Yugoslav
army, the civil defence service organised 16 river ferries and
transported
2,145,000 people, and prepared and organised 1,171 bomb shelters for
more
than 200,000 people. Asked about the phenomenon of global terrorism,
Ojdanic said that the greatest terrorist activity was in Europe, 90
percent
of which had lately been in Yugoslavia. "America is spared terrorist
activity and has had no more than a dozen terrorist outrages since 1991,
while Europe has had thousands", Ojdanic said, noting that terrorism had
been imported into Yugoslavia. "The ethnic Albanian terrorist
organisation
had been active before, but never as active as in 1998 and 1999, or
today,
when in plain view of KFor, ethnic Albanian terrorists carry out
terrorist
operations against non-Albanians and often even against other ethnic
Albanians who hold different political opinions." He noted that murders
and
assassinations perpetrated over the past months throughout Yugoslavia
were
text-book terrorist acts instigated and organised by the U.S.
intelligence
service. "We shall have trouble eradicating terrorism, because its roots
are in other countries. But just as any other state, we also shall
combat
terrorism with all weapons at our disposal, on which a special law will
be
passed", he stressed. He went on to speak about the sub-regional arms
control treaty signed at Florence, Italy, by Yugoslavia, Croatia,
(Bosnian
Serb) Republika Srpska and the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation. He said
Yugoslavia had honoured the treaty and had submitted its arms for
inspection and destroyed what it had been instructed to destroy.
"Regrettably, inspection teams that visited our country were collecting
data about military and other targets to be used in NATO's aggression",
he
said. He added that Yugoslavia had responded to its suspension from
various
international activities by freezing all activities in arms control.
"When
they recognise our state and army the way accords explicitly define
them,
then only shall we unfreeze our activities", he said. Commenting on the
attention excited at the Hague-based war crimes tribunal for former
Yugoslavia by his recent visit to Russia, the defence minister said it
was
a crime not to defend one's nation, not the other way around. "As a
soldier, I am bound by all conventions stemming from international
humanitarian and war laws. During the aggression, as chief of staff, I
fought that these conventions be consistently implemented and honoured
at
all levels of command", he said. He noted that the Yugoslav army command
and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had some months
before the aggression organised a seminar in this field at all levels of
command. At the outbreak of the NATO aggression, all army units had
received manuals with excerpts from the regulations, he explained. "In
light of this, I fear no charges and shall go freely wherever I am
invited", Ojdanic stressed, adding that he had already received
invitations
from other friendly countries.
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ANCHE CIPRO OFF-LIMITS PER LA FINANZA JUGOSLAVA
ORA LA RFJ E' COMPLETAMENTE ISOLATA DAL PUNTO DI VISTA BANCARIO
Cyprus revokes Yugoslavian bank's licence-bankers
NICOSIA, June 7 (Reuters) - Cyprus's Central Bank has revoked the
licence of
Beogradska Banka, the largest Serbian commercial bank and one with close
ties
to the Yugoslavian government, senior bankers said on Wednesday.
``The licence was revoked and they (Beogradska) challenged the decision
to
revoke the licence...there will be a court hearing in 10 to 15 days,'' a
senior central bank source told Reuters.
The central bank source, who requested anonymity, declined to say why
the
licence had been revoked. Beogradska Banka officials were not
immediately
available for comment.
Greek Cypriot newspaper Alithia also reported Beogradska's licence had
been
revoked but gave no reason.
Beogradska has had a presence in Cyprus since 1988, operating as an
offshore
bank.
Earlier this year U.S. and European Union officials visited Cyprus for
consultations on sanctions against Yugoslavia.
Greek Cypriots traditionally have close ties with Serbs but Cyprus
authorities have followed the international community in imposing
sanctions
on Belgrade.
12:40 06-07-00
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DUE GUARDIE DI FRONTIERA FERITE AL CONFINE KOSOVARO-MACEDONE
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
June 7, 2000
Two Macedonian Guards Wounded on Border with Kosovo
SKOPJE - Macedonia said two border guards were wounded
on Monday by a sniper firing from inside the
neighbouring Kosovo.
The incident happened at the Dolmo Blace border post
after a patrol spotted two people who had illegally
crossed some 50 metres (yards) into Macedonian
territory from Kosovo, a defence ministry statement
said.
It said the two had escaped back to Kosovo after being
warned and the Macedonian army sent another patrol of
four soldiers to set up an observation post.
“At 3:15 p.m. (1315 GMT) a sniper shot at the patrol
from the Kosovo side and two guards suffered arm and
leg injuries,” the statement said, adding their
condition was stable and that an investigation was
under way.
Monday’s incident was the second in two months on
Macedonia’s border with Kosovo.
In the previous incident, a group of Kosovo Albanians
kidnapped four Macedonian border guards. The
Macedonian authorities have demanded stricter KFOR
border controls.
The Macedonian Defence Ministry announced earlier this
year that the country’s borders are controlled by a
new border brigade and at the same time the military
readiness of the border brigade has been stepped up.
The number of border guards has been reduced in posts
on the border with Greece and Bulgaria, while their
numbers have been increased on Madedonia’s western
border with Albania and northern borders with Kosovo
and Yugoslavia, the ministry said.
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RELAZIONI BILATERALI RFJ-VIETNAM
Communist Internet
Wednesday 7th May 2000 9.30pm gmt
Vietnam, Yugoslavia Develop Co-operation
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien said that Vietnam has
constantly
consolidated and developed comprehensive co-operation with Yugoslavia
and other
traditional friends.
This was affirmed during the talks between the Vietnamese foreign
minister and his
Yugoslavian counterpart, Zivadin Jovanovic, on June 5 at the Government
Guest House.
Mr Nien expressed his pleasure at new developments in the friendly and
co-operative
relations between the two countries. He also expressed strong support
for the
Yugoslavian
people's cause of protecting national independence, sovereignty and
territorial
integrity as
well as the restoration of Yugoslavia's legal position at the United
Nations and other
international organisations.
Mr Z Jovanovic said he highly appreciated the achievements recorded by
the Vietnamese
people in the implementation of the open-door policy and integration
into the regional
and
world communities. He thanked the Vietnamese government and people for
their support
to Yugoslavia's struggle against the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation's (NATO)
aggression. The foreign minister affirmed that Yugoslavia treasures its
traditional
ties with
Vietnam and wished that the comprehensive co-operation between the two
countries
would be further boosted, particularly in trade and economy.
The two foreign ministers discussed regional and international issues of
mutual
concern,
the situation in both countries and agreed to strengthen co-operation in
all fields.
After the talks, the two ministers signed a visa-exemption agreement for
holders of
diplomatic and official passports and...
http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/vietnamy/vietnamy.html
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YUGOSLAVIA - VIETNAM
YUGOSLAVIA AND VIETNAM HAVE TIES OF STRONG MUTUAL SUPPORT AND TRUST
HANOI, June 6 (Tanjug) - Vietnam has high respect for the
Yugoslav people's unflinching struggle against NATO's aggression and for
Yugoslavia's determination to accomplish economic reconstruction and
development, Vietnam's top official said on Tuesday. President Tran Duc
Luong was meeting in Hanoi with visiting Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Zivadin
Jovanovic. In reply to greetings from Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
conveyed by Jovanovic, Tran said he was sure Milosevic would stand firm
with his people and surmount all difficulties, defend the country and
rebuild NATO-wreaked devastation. The meeting rounded off Jovanovic's
successful contacts with ranking government and communist party
officials
in this influential Asian country, with a population of 82 million and
an
impressive annual economic growth rate of 7-8 percent over the past
decade.
Vietnam firmly supports Yugoslavia and its people, and demands a strict
and
full implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244, Tran said, adding that
Vietnam
insists that all bans and sanctions against Yugoslavia be lifted
immediately. He went on to say he was sure Jovanovic's visit would be
successful and would boost friendly bilateral relations and cooperation,
and accepted with pleasure Milosevic's invitation to visit Yugoslavia.
Jovanovic, in turn, stressed that President Milosevic, the Yugoslav
Government and people highly appreciate the solidarity and support of
Vietnam, especially at the time of last year's NATO aggression. He said
that Vietnam's support for and solidarity with Yugoslavia were all the
more
important for coming from a state and nation symbolic of the struggle
for
freedom and independence in the world. Yugoslavia highly appreciates
also
Vietnam's support for its reintegration in the United Nations, the
non-aligned movement and other international organisations. During the
meeting, strong support was given to a further strengthening of
bilateral
relations and expansion and diversification of cooperation, especially
in
the economy.
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The West's colonial governor of Bosnia Wolfgang Petrisch (an Austrian,
and
head of the OHR) has decided to criticise the recent appointment made by
Bosnia's multi-ethnic presidency because this man happens to be
suggesting
that Bosnia can't rush headlong into privatization. It seems that the
only
thing that the Serbs, Croats and Muslims are united on is to protect the
countries industry from the voracious apetites of the neoliberal
financial
elite! [note that the previous man who held the post was from the
Socialist
Party (SPRS)!]
Top envoy blasts Bosnia authorities over new PM
By Nedim Dervisbegovic
SARAJEVO, June 7 (Reuters) - The West's top envoy in Bosnia on Wednesday
blasted the appointment of a little known Serb professor as the
country's
next prime minister.
Parliament approved Spasoje Tusevljak, reported to have been an
economics
adviser to indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, as rotating chairman
of
the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.
Western envoy Wolfgang Petritsch, who has sweeping powers to implement
Bosnia's peace process, slammed the move.
``I want to express my deep dissatisfaction about the process of
selecting
the most important executive in this country,'' he said after a meeting
with
the three-man presidency that proposed Tusevljak, 48, last month.
``A candidate was selected (who) is virtually unknown in this country,''
he
told reporters, adding that the whole process of selection was
unprofessional.
Tusevljak, without party membership, must return to parliament for a
vote on
the full cabinet of six ministries, one of which will be held by him. No
date
has been set.
The chair rotates among ministers every eight months.
Bosnia, made up of the Moslem-Croat federation and the Serb republic,
has
been without central government since February, when a Constitutional
Court
ruling forced it to dissolve.
The central institutions have only a limited role. The new Council of
Ministers will oversee policy areas including foreign affairs, trade,
human
rights and the state treasury.
The international community, which is sponsoring Bosnia's recovery from
the
1992-95 war with billions of dollars, sees stronger central government
as the
key to economic revival.
Tusevljak was a pre-war resident of Sarajevo but fled to the Serb
territory
and later to Belgrade after war broke out. He now lectures in economics
at
the university in the Serb part of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo media reported last month that he was an economic adviser early
in
the conflict to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Karadzic, who is now in
hiding.
Petritsch said he would keep the presidency and the parliament
accountable
for their decisions. He criticised Tusevljak for saying on Tuesday that
Bosnia should progress slowly, calling his remarks ``simply unacceptable
to
me.''
``We need to speed up the process of the implementation, not to slow it
down,'' he said.
A previous candidate to chair the central government, former Bosnian
Serb
Deputy Prime Minister Tihomir Gligoric, lost the support of the
presidency
after Western officials complained that his Socialist party was too
close to
Belgrade.
14:03 06-07-00
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Bosnian parliament approves Serb PM, envoy unhappy
SARAJEVO, June 6 (Reuters) - Bosnia's parliament on Tuesday approved
Serb
Spasoje Tusevljak as the next rotating chairman of the restructured
central
government but the West's top envoy in the country said he was not the
right
man for the job.
Tusevljak, a relatively unknown economics professor without party
affiliation, passed the confidence motion in the 42-seat lower house
after 19
deputies voted for him, 11 voted against and two abstained. Ten were
absent.
He will return to the lower chamber for the vote on the full cabinet
which
has six ministries, one of which will be held by Tusevljak, but no date
has
been set yet. The chair rotates among ministers every eight months.
A spokeswoman for international High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch
said
after the vote that the envoy did not know ``what qualifies Mr Tusevljak
for
this position.''
``Neither the presidency nor the parliament have lived up to their
responsibility of providing Bosnia with a chair who meets criteria of
being
able to turn the Council of Ministers into an efficient common
institution,''
she said.
The international community sponsoring the Balkan country's peace
process
with billions of dollars sees the strengthening of the joint
institutions as
a cornerstone of future development.
Under the 1995 Dayton peace treaty, Bosnia is divided into a
highly-autonomous Moslem-Croat Federation and Serb Republic, each of
which
has its own military and police.
The all-Bosnian central institutions -- the parliament, the presidency
and
the government -- have a limited role.
The old Council of Ministers ceased to exist in February after the
country's
Constitutional Court ruled that it could not have two co-chairs and a
deputy.
It had three ministers.
The three-man inter-ethnic presidency nominated Tusevljak last month as
a
compromise solution, put forward by Serb member Zivko Radisic.
Previous Bosnian Serb candidate Tihomir Gligoric lost presidency support
after peace officials objected to his nomination, saying his Bosnian
Serb
Socialist Party was too close to the Yugoslav ruling party of President
Slobodan Milosevic.
13:35 06-06-00
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MONTENEGRO
Tuesday, June 6 11:30 AM SGT
Montenegro president's brother accused of wounding militant
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia, June 6 (AFP) -
The brother of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic took part in an
attack
on a militant of the Montenegro Liberal Alliance (LSCG) who was
seriously
injured, an LSCG official told AFP.
The opposition party's number two, Miroslav Vickovic, said Aleksandar
Djukanovic and a friend Pajo Jabucanin attacked Zoran Kljajic late
Sunday
outside a hotel in the centre of Montenegro's capital Podgorica.
Kljajic was pistol-whipped, receiving a double skull fracture and
concussion, Vickovic said. He was hospitalized and operated on early
Monday,
the LSCG official said.
Friends of Kljajic tried to halt the aggression but the president's
brother
and his friend threatened them with pistols, Vickovic said, adding that
Montenegro's deputy interior minister, Vuk Boskovic, was present.
Vickovic called on Interior Minister Vukasin Maras to act according to
the
law.
President Djukanovic's brother is a businessman who is not involved in
politics.
The LSCG, which promotes independence for Montenegro, broke off a local
alliance with the president's "Live Better" coalition in Podgorica and
Herceg Novi, a town on the Adriatic coast.
The split and the LSCG's entry into opposition caused early municipal
elections to be called in the two towns. They are to be held Sunday.
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Montenegro police prepare for conflict-Yugo army
BELGRADE, June 8 (Reuters) - The Yugoslav army on Thursday accused
Montenegro's police of setting the scene for conflict and said the
republic's
authorities had joined a Western campaign against Yugoslavia and its
armed
forces.
The accusations, in an army statement carried by the state news agency
Tanjug, coincided with tensions between the pro-Western coastal republic
and
Serb-dominated federation ahead of local elections in two Montenegro's
towns.
``The Montenegrin leadership, the authorities and police whole-heartedly
joined a Western psychological propaganda and media campaign aimed at
our
country and the Yugoslav army,'' the statement said on Thursday.
But, it added, the Montenegrins, ``aware of the historic moment and
responsibility for the future, will pull their strength together in
order to
recognise who is who in the Yugoslav reality.''
Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic has been at odds with Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic since 1997, pushing for democratic and
economic
reforms in Yugoslavia and threatening a referendum on independence if
Belgrade does not comply.
Djukanovic is facing early local polls in the capital Podgorica and in
the
costal town of Herceg-Novi after the Liberal Alliance party pulled out
of his
local coalitions in order to campaign on a pro-independence ticket.
Pro-Milosevic parties in Montenegro formed a coalition for the polls and
have
been campaigning vigorously, accusing Djukanovic of treason and of
trying to
secede from Serbia.
Last Friday, the Montenegrin Finance Minister said he saw no risk the
army
would try to overthrow his government that has edged away from the
federation
dominated by Milosevic, himself of Montenegrin origin.
``We are fully aware that top officers of the Yugoslav army are
completely
loyal to Mr Milosevic,'' Miroslav Ivanisevic told reporters in Brussels,
but
added he ``would say the Yugoslav army would not be used in Montenegro
for a
coup d'etat.''
The army has also denied it was doing anything else in Montenegro but
its
regular duties stipulated by the federal constitution and said it posed
no
threat to the republic.
But on Thursday, it listed a number of examples of what it called
``measures,
acts and preparations set to provoke incidents, conflicts and clashes
with
members of the army in order to cause the international community
condemnation and reactions.''
The statement said that Montenegrin police were arming and exercising a
reserve in the towns of Cetinje and Herceg-Novi, while in the towns of
Tivat,
Bar and Ulcinj the reserve was made up mostly of ethnic Croats and
Albanians.
``In addition, Montenegro's police have enormous forces in other
security
centres formed on the basis of political and national criteria,'' the
statement said.
15:56 06-08-00
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June 15, 2000
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