KFOR ED UNMIK RESPONSABILI DI UN DISASTRO AMBIENTALE *VERO* NELL'AREA DI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: ACIDO SOLFORICO FUORIESCE IN ABBONDANZA DAGLI
IMPIANTI
U.N. KOSOVOMETOHIJA MISSION ADMITS TO SULPHURIC ACID LEAK
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 14 (Tanjug) Sulphuric acid is still
leaking out of the U.N.held Trepca car battery factory in the ethnic
Albanian part of divided Kosovska Mitrovica and polluting nearby rivers,
according to a U.N. spokesman on Thursday.
U.N. KosovoMetohija Mission (UNMIK) spokesman Mike Keats told
media there had been another leak earlier in the day of sulphuric acid
from
Trepca's storage tanks into the River Sitnica.
According to Keats, 75 litres of the acid is leaking out a
minute,
which is 25 litres less than on Wednesday.
The statement was tantamount to an admission that the
international force KFor and UNMIK are incapable of preventing
environmental pollution, since the leaky facility has been in their
hands
for a year now.
Keats went on to say that, over the past 24 hours, Kfor troops
and
specialised teams have been endeavouring to stop the flow of the toxic
matter into the Sitnica and Ibar rivers, and pumping the acid into
another
tank.
Kfor and UNMIK again warned the local population to steer clear
of
the Sitnica, especially in the vicinity of the Trepca facility.
Local water factories are located in this part of Kosovska
Mitrovica, now populated almost exclusively by ethnic Albanians after
the
Serbs have practicly all been driven out.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KFOR AND UNMIK RESPONSIBLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 13 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Committee
for
Cooperation with the U.N. and local authorities have condemned Kfor's
and
UNMIK's ineptitude in stopping the sulphuric acid spill that started on
Monday at a battery factory at Kosovska Mitrovica, a town in the north
of
the U.N.run Serbian province of KosovoMetohija.
Representatives of the Committee and local authorities have
said
that the spill caused a largescale environmental disaster coming from an
UNMIKrun factory, situated in ethnic Albanianpopulated southern Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Ironically, Kfor had shut down the facilities of the Trepca
metallurgy complex in nearby Zvecan using environmental reasons as a
pretext. Nevertheless, Kfor has proved unable to secure the facilities
it
seized a year ago, Committee representative Ivica Mihajlovic has told
media.
Serbia and Yugoslavia will take all the necessary measures to
neutralize the toxic substance that has reached the Ibar, a river
flowing
towards central Serbia. Experts are trying to prevent the acid from
getting
into the Morava river, Mihajlovic said, adding that the state would take
legal action against Kfor troops, as they had not taken the necessary
measures and had proved incompetent to preserve what they had taken away
from Serbia.
Chief of the Kosovska Mitrovica region Zdravko Trajkovic has
told
the press that a large number of fish died in the Ibar river.
Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Nikola Radevic has said that the
Serbian
environmental inspectorate has declared tap water in the area
bacteriologically unsafe, even for hygiene.
The water processing plants are situated in southern Kosovska
Mitrovica, which is populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, as local Serbs
have been driven out of the area.
SULPHURIC ACID CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 12 (Tanjug) The road connecting
Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina was temporarily blocked early on
Tuesday,
due to a sulphuric acid spill at a battery factory located in the
southern
part of Kosovska Mitrovica, TANJUG learned from the UNMIK seat in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Although the pipes conveying the acid burst on Monday morning,
special Kfor units intervened no earlier than Tuesday, when a large
quantity of the toxic liquid reached the Kosovska MitrovicaPristina
road.
The units attempted to stop the leak with lime, gypsum, and
various chemicals, but the acid is still leaking into the Sitnica river,
some 200 meters from the spot where it flows into the Ibar river.
Throughout the afternoon, a local radio station has been
broadcasting an UNMIK statement warning the population to keep away from
the river, which flows towards central Serbia, and to avoid contact with
the contaminated water.
Reliable Serb sources say that there are huge deposits of
sulphuric acid at the factory.
UNMIK spokesman Mike Keats said that enormous efforts were
being
made to stop the leak, adding that, due to fair weather, there was no
possibility of air pollution in the area around the town of Kosovska
Mitrovica, situated in the north of the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija
province.
ABOUT 600,000 L SULPHURIC ACID SPILLS INTO RIVER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 13 (Tanjug) Around 600,000
litres
of sulphuric acid spilled in the past two days into the Sitnica river
which
joins the Ibar river at Kosovska Mitrovica in the U.N.administered
Serbian
province of Kosovo and Metohija, an UNMIK spokesman said on Wednesday.
The spokesman said efforts to prevent a possible ecological
disaster would continue in the next couple of days.
UNMIK warned people over the local media not to enter the river
or
to fish in it.
Sulphuric acid spilled from pipes leading to the cisterns in an
electric batteries industry in the southern, ethnic Albanian part of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
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INIZIATIVA A PARIGI CONTRO L'EMBARGO ALLA RFJ
MORE THAN 10,000 LEAFLETS AGAINST SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO BE
DISTRIBUTED IN PARIS
PARIS, Sept 15 (Tanjug) The Parisbased Committee for the
Protection of Human Rights has organized the distribution of more than
10,000 leaflets throughout Paris demanding urgent lifting of all
sanctions
imposed against Yugoslavia.
The Committee says that the sanctions have caused great harm to
all people in Yugoslavia, and can have dramatic consequences in
forthcoming
winter. The leaflet also notes that sanctions affect almost one million
refugees and expelled persons from former Yugoslavia, who are hosted by
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
This is the reason why the Committee demands the lifting of the
criminal antiYugoslav sanctions that the U.N. and a part of the
international community have imposed.
INCONTRO A BELGRADO DELLE AGENZIE DI STAMPA DEI PAESI NON-ALLINEATI
NONALIGNED NEWS AGENCIES MEET IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, Sep 15 (Tanjug). Representatives of the Nonaligned
News
Agencies' Pool are holding a meeting in Belgrade, hosted by Tanjug, one
of
the Pool's founding memberagencies.
The meeting will focus on strengthening mutual ties among
participating agencies, exchanging information and correspondents, and
overcoming barriers imposed by large world information systems.
The meeting will be opened by Yugoslav Minister of Information
Goran Matic, who also chairs Tanjug's management board.
UCCISA UNA DONNA SERBA IN KOSMET
SERB WOMAN KILLED IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA SERBS PROTEST
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Sep 14 (Tanjug). About 500 Serbs gathered
Thursday around a local church in Kosovska Kamenica, Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province, in protest against the murder of a Serb woman
Wednesday evening.
Two unidentified killers opened fire from an automatic weapon
from
a distance of 50 meters on Milijana Stojanovic, 46, mother of two, as
she
was rinsing dishes in her own yard. She died on the spot.
UNMIK police arrived at the scene of the crime, but has found
no
trace of the killers, who committed the murder at 10.40 p.m., 20 minutes
before curfew.
LA MISSIONE DELL'ONU HA VIOLATO IL SUO MANDATO, PERCIO' SE NE DEVE
ANDARE
MINISTER MATIC: UN MISSION PROTECTS KOUCHNER'S MAFIA
BELGRADE, Sep 13 (Tanjug). The UN mission in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province is not implementing the Security Council
Resolution
1244 and is doing nothing to protect its population or to ensure the
return
of displaced persons, it is only working to protect (UNMIK chief)
Bernard
Kouchner's mafia and should consequently leave Yugoslavia, Yugoslav
Minister of Information Goran Matic said Wednesday.
After last year's (MarchJune) NATO aggression on Yugoslavia
ended,
international troops KFor and civilian mission UNMIK took over the
responsibility for administering KosovoMetohija in line with the
Security
Council Resolution 1244.
Matic told a press conference, attended also by press attaches
of
several embassies, that the results of the mission's "efforts" are
300,000
expelled nonAlbanians, over 1,000 Serbs killed and 1,400 abducted.
Under the umbrella of the UN mission and within the framework
of
the phantom socalled Kosovo Protection Corps (which is not even
mentioned
in Resolution 1244), Croatian instructors are creating at the Dragas
base
near provincial capital Pristina a special military unit of 3000 ethnic
Albanians wearing NATO uniforms, Matic said.
The UN mission is planning to replace troops from western
countries by ethnic Albanians. The fact that 700 Serbs are being held in
a
concentration camp near Pec, commanded by a brother of Agim Cheku, one
of
known war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, is another proof of
UNMIK's
failure, Matic said.
The reporters were shown unedited, authentic and shocking
footage
showing the mission's troops "from the inside", drunk, disorderly and
halfnaked, having "fun" in their bases in KosovoMetohija with young
women
and even ethnic Albanian children.
Commenting the behaviour of international troops, Matic said
the
mission was compromising the UN. If it is a NATO mission on the other
hand,
it is easy to understand that it is doing what NATO was doing all the
time,
Matic said.
The KosovoMetohija mission is attempting to destabilize
Yugoslavia, develop aggressiveterrorist structures to undermine its
interests, militarize the region and arm paramilitary units that the
mission's task was to disarm, Matic said.
Yugoslavia's fundamental political and state commitment is to
making the Balkans a zone of peace and security, demilitarizing the
region
and reducing tensions to enable its peoples to live in peace and to
cooperate, Matic said, pointing to attempts being made to make the
Balkans
a powder keg in order to realize the geopolitical and strategic
interests
of outside forces.
Underlining that the UN mission has not accomplished any of its
tasks, Matic recalled that Resolution 1244 defined the basic rules for
the
development of multiethnic coexistence in the province, the right of all
refugees and displaced persons to return home safely, and the need for
demilitarizing the "KLA" and other armed groups of ethnic Albanians and
for
the return of Yugoslav forces to KosovoMetohija.
MEMORANDUM DEL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ DISTRIBUITO ALL'ASSEMBLEA GENERALE
DELL'ONU
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES MEMORANDUM TO UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NEW YORK, Sep 14 (Tanjug). Participants in the general debate
of
the 55th regular UN General Assembly session had the opportunity
Wednesday,
second day of the session at the Palace of Nations in New York, to read
a
Memorandum of the Yugoslav government on the difficult situation in the
UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
The latest Yugoslav government document on the implementation
of
the Security Council Resolution 1244 was distributed to the General
Assembly to brief the participants of Yugoslavia's views and of the
analysis of the situation in the province that the Yugoslav government
addressed to the UN on August 21.
The Memorandum points to the continuing worsening of the
situation
in KosovoMetohija since the previous analysis of June 7, and underlines
that the situation has deteriorated dramatically due to acts of
terrorism
being perpetrated by ethnic Albanian separatists aided and abetted by
KFor
and UNMIK chiefs.
KOSTUNICA CONTESTATO DAI SERBO-KOSOVARI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - E' finita male la prima incursione in Kosovo del
maggior rivale di Slobodan Milosevic alle presidenziali del 24
settembre.
Il comizio tenuto dal candidato dell'opposizione democratico, Vojislav
Kostunica nella città divisa di Mitrovica non è neppure iniziato, perchè
al
suo arrivo in auto alcuni serbi lo hanno bersagliato con uova, pietre e
pomodori al grido di "traditore" e "Slobo! Slobo!". Otto i feriti tra
cui
lo stesso Kostunica, che ha riportato un vistoso taglio sotto l'occhio
destro ed escoriazioni a una gamba.
(da "La Repubblica" online del 14/9/00)
PROCESSO AI LEADERS DELLA NATO IN SERBIA
TRIAL OF NATO AGGRESSORS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO START SOON
ARANDJELOVAC, September 13 (Tanjug) Serbian Minister of
Justice
Dragoljub Jankovic said that the trial of Bill Clinton, Madeleine
Albright
and 14 other leading protagonists of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia would start on September 18 at the Belgrade
District Court.
This will be a very complex trial that can be compared to the
Nuremberg trials as regards the rank of the indicted and the seriousness
of
their crimes, Jankovic told a local TV station in Arandjelovac, central
Serbia.
A great part of the world public opinion, mainly
nongovernmental
organizations and popular tribunals, including some from NATO
memberstates,
has condemned the NATO aggression, Jankovic noted. The facts are
known and the evidence is so extensive and serious, that a verdict that
the
defendants deserve can be expected, Jankovic said, adding that
investigation was carried out in 28 locations throughout Serbia and that
NATO criminals would be tried by a panel of five judges from Belgrade,
Nis,
Cacak, Pristina and Novi Sad.
The defendants will be tried in absentia and the court will
appoint defense lawyers in line with Yugoslav law, Jankovic said,
expressing hope that some of the defendants would serve their sentences
one
day, after agreements on extradition are concluded.
INDICTMENTS FOR NATO AGGRESSION TO BE ADDRESSED TO ACCUSED
BELGRADE, Sep 5 (Tanjug). Indictments drawn up by the Belgrade
district attorney will be addressed to the persons charged with serious
crimes committed during last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the
Belgrade district court decided Tuesday.
The Yugoslav foreign ministry has been entrusted with
addressing
indictments to the accused through diplomatic channels. The defendants
are:
William Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Willian Cohen, Anthony Blair, Robin
Cook, George Robertson, Jacques Chirac, Hubert Vedrine, Alain Richard,
Gerhard Schroeder, Joseph Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, Javier Solana and
Wesley Clark.
The indictments were brought in line with the Yugoslav penal
law
for incitement to war of aggression, war crimes against civilians, use
of
forbidden ordnance, attempt to murder the Yugoslav president and
violation
of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Investigation into the crimes was initiated immediately after
the
aggression ended throughout Serbia before 29 district courts and a
military
court.
On March 24, 1999, NATO launched a military aggression on
Yugoslavia which lasted 11 weeks and during which over 2,000 civilians
were
killed, in addition to extensive material damages.
The Serbian attorneygeneral has decided that all proceedings be
carried out jointly before the Belgrade district court.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA: L'ONU VUOLE FARCI ANDARE VIA DAL KOSMET
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
U.N. OCCUPATION OF TREPCA MEANT TO DRIVE SERBS OUT
ZVECAN, Sept 12 (Tanjug) The purpose of Aug. 14 U.N.
occupation
of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, was not to restart
production, but to drive Serbs out of that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province, protesters said on Tuesday.
If the U.N. mission (UNMIK) had meant to restart production,
they
would have come with money and experts, not tanks and helicopters,
according to Desimir Timotijevic of the Trepca management, addressing
protesters.
"Their purpose is to drive us out, for the Serbs to forget who
they are, their history, battles, victories and heroes", Timotijevic
said,
speaking at another daily peaceful workers' protest outside the main
gate
into the complex.
"Those who have driven us out of our jobs are now offering that
we
return, telling us stories about modernisation and restarting of
production.
"How can be trust them, when we know what they have done in the
industrial zone in south Kosovska Mitrovica, setting the zinc plant on
fire", Timotijevic said.
COLLOQUI E ACCUSE RFJ-CROAZIA A GINEVRA SUI RIFUGIATI
YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, UNHCR DELEGATIONS HOLD TALKS IN GENEVA
BELGRADE, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav and Croatian delegations
are
holding talks in Geneva on Tuesday with officials of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the repatriation to Croatia of
refugees sheltered in Yugoslavia.
According to a Yugoslav government statement, the Yugoslav
delegation to the tripartite talks is headed by Minister for
humanitarian
and refugee affairs Bratislava Morina.
Morina stressed Yugoslavia's firm position that the Protocol on
an
organised repatriation must be honoured.
All those who opt to return must be guaranteed the necessary
conditions for a free, normal and safe life, including property rights,
full personal safety and security of property.
They must also be guaranteed equal treatment as that accorded
to
the other citizens, and general amnesty, except in cases of the gravest
violations of humanitarian law.
Yugoslavia has discharged its obligations under the Protocol,
while Croatia is not only ignoring the Protocol, but trying to change it
in
its most important part, the statement said.
This means, according to the statement, that Croatia is in
violation also of the YugoslavCroatian normalisation accord, the 1995
Zagreb/Erdut CroatianSerb accord and relevant resolutions of the United
Nations.
Morina condemned in the strongest terms arrests of repatriates
and
the return to Yugoslavia of some whose repatriation had been approved.
She also stressed it is impermissible that Croatia should be
applying a new repatriation procedure outside the Protocol, instituting
criminal investigations and checks of accommodation, and so violating
the
international document, the statement said.
CONTINUA LA CAMPAGNA TERRORISTICA SOTTO LE BANDIERE DELL'ONU
TERROR CAMPAIGN UNDER U.N. FLAG IN SERBIA'S KOSOVOMETOHIJA CONTINUES
BELGRADE, Sept 11 (Tanjug) At a meeting of the humanitarian
task
group of the Peace Implementation Council in Geneva, Yugoslav Minister
for
Refugees and Displaced Persons Bratislava Morina has dismissed the most
recent document on the Serbian KosovoMetohija province as unacceptable.
The document treats the province as an entity outside the
political, economic, educational, social, legal and health system of
Serbia
and Yugoslavia, which is contrary to the U.N. Resolution 1244, Morina
said,
according to a statement of the Yugoslav government.
Morina went on to say that, 15 months after the deployment of
the
Kfor and UNMIK troops, the situation in the province was absolutely
disastrous.
Under the U.N. banner, a systematic and comprehensive campaign
of
terror, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, directed against nonAlbanians,
primarily Serbs and Montenegrins, is under way, Morina said. She added
that
Kfor and UNMIK were doing nothing to ensure the return of displaced
persons.
Morina stressed that Yugoslavia was fully participating in the
repatriation of refugees from BosniaHerzegovina and Croatia, in close
cooperation with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Various obstructions, such as murders, arrests, and harassment
of
returners, seriously undermine the repatriation process, Morina said,
appealing to the UNHCR for immediate assistance on these issues.
Morina described the reports by Karl Bildt and Bernard Kouchner
as
quite untrue. The reports misrepresent the state of affairs, and are not
a
contribution to stabilization in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, she said.
The Yugoslav delegation walked out on the meeting, in protest
against the reports, the statement said.
INAUGURATA LA NUOVA CENTRALE ELETTRICA ALLA "PORTA DI FERRO" SUL DANUBIO
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC INAUGURATES NEW IRONGATE GENERATOR
KLADOVO, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
inaugurated on Tuesday the newest, 16th generating unit of the Irongate
II
HydroElectric Power and Navigation System in the River Danube.
Over the 30 years of operation, this biggest Yugoslav
hydroelectric power plant, which Yugoslavia shares with neighbouring
Romania, has generated 170 billion kilowatthours (Kwh) of electricity,
exceeding the plan by a whole fouryear output.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Yugoslav republic
of
Serbia's President Milan Milutinovic and Parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic,
as well as Yugoslav federal parliament lower house Speaker Milomir
Minic.
Also present were Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
SecretaryGeneral
Gorica Gajevic, and Yugoslav Left (JUL) President Ljubisa Ristic,
Yugoslav
federal and Serbian government officials.
Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic and Chief of Staff
Nebojsa Pavkovic with aides also attended.
ALTO ESPONENTE DELL'HDZ SOTTO ACCUSA PER LA VIOLENZE CONTRO I SERBI
DELLA CROAZIA
CROATIA - SERBS - CRIMES
CROATIA'S SEKS ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING CRIMES
ZAGREB, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Vladimir Seks, who heads the Croatian
Democratic Union (CDU) club in the national parliament, has been accused
by
some former and present Croatian officials of suppressing crimes against
Serbs in the Gospic and Pakrac areas.
According to Croatian press, at least 120 people, mostly Serbs,
were killed in Gospic and there are indications that hundreds of others
were killed in Pakrac at the time of Croatia's war of secession from
Yugoslavia.
Current President Stipe Mesic, who was high up in the CDU
hierarchy while the party was in power, has raised the matter of the
accountability of Seks, who also held responsible party and state
offices
at the time.
According to Mesic, the new government does not mean to
criminate
the CDU, but only individuals and groups, among whom Seks, for the role
he
played as state prosecutor.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA IN LOTTA CONTRO I COLONIALISTI DELLA KFOR
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
TREPCA WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
ZVECAN, Serbia, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Trepca workers held their
daily
protest rally outside the U.N.seized lead smelter in Zvecan,
KosovoMetohija, again on Monday, beginning a fifth week of protests
against
the smelter's violent takeover on Aug 14.
Nebojsa Toskovic, a Trepca stockholder, addressed the assembled
multitude, stressing that Trepca is owned by its stockholders and there
is
no truth in the claim that there should be a change in management.
Toskovic, executive director of the Krusevacbased 14. Oktobar
mechanical engineering company, dismissed as untrue also the claim that
Trepca was polluting the environment and concern for the environment
evinced by the occupiers.
"The occupiers care nothing for the environment; their purpose
is
quite different", Toskovic said.
"We are using all legitimate weapons under the laws of
Yugoslavia
and its republic of Serbia and under international laws to recover our
facilities", he added.
ANCHE L'ALBANIA NELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE MONDIALE DEL COMMERCIO
Anche l'Albania si e' unita al WTO, diventando il 138esimo membro
dell'organizzazione. Se
andate sul sito del WTO www.wto.org vedrete che sotto questo articolo
sono considerati dati
prettamente economici: esportazioni e importazioni. Come al solito,
nulla su ambiente, diritti dei
lavoratori e condizioni di poverta' della popolazione.
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8 September 2000
Albania joins the WTO
Albania became 138th member of the World Trade Organization today (8th
September). WTO
Director-General Mike Moore greeted the event by saying: "I welcome
Albania into the
multilateral trading system. Membership promises a more prosperous
future and raised living
standards for all Albanian citizens. I also believe that, by encouraging
the trade links between
countries, the WTO can help foster greater peace, stability and
development in south-eastern
Europe. Albania's membership brings this Organization ever closer to
being a truly 'World Trade
Organization'."
Albania has agreed to assume its WTO obligations upon accession. In
addition, it will sign on to
the two plurilateral agreements on government procurement and on trade
in civil aircraft. Albania's
accession package includes market-access commitments on goods and
services.
Within the region, Slovenia is already a member of the WTO and Croatia
will become a member
upon completion of the ratification procedures. Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia are in the process of negotiating their accession
to the WTO.
Albania applied for GATT 1947 membership in 1992. Negotiations on
Albania's terms of
accession to WTO started in earnest in 1998. The WTO General Council
adopted the final results
of these negotiations on 17 July 2000.
During that General Council meeting, Albania's Minister for Economic
Cooperation and Trade,
Ermelinda Meksi, said that WTO membership "presents us with a new role
in the international
community" and would help bring "improvement of the wellbeing and
prosperity of my people."
Overall, 30 governments are currently negotiating to join the WTO:
Algeria, Andorra, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cape
Verde, People's Republic
of China, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakstan, Lao People's
Democratic
Republic, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Oman, Russian Federation,
Samoa, Saudi Arabia,
Seychelles, Sudan, Chinese Taipei, Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,
Vietnam and Yemen.
IL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ BIASIMA L'AUTOPROCLAMATA CHIESA ORTODOSSA
MONTENEGRINA
RELIGIONS MINISTER MILICEVIC ON STATE STAND ON RELIGION
BELGRADE, September 9 (Tanjug) Relations between state organs
and
religious communities in Yugoslavia are good and, in keeping with the
Serbian and Yugoslav constitutions and international conventions, all
religions in Yugoslavia have equal status and all believers the full
right
to practice their confessions, Yugoslav Religions Minister Leposava
Milicevic told a panel hosted by Tanjug on Friday.
Confessions, or the religious communities which exist in
Yugoslavia, will be as dear to the state as they are fond of it, and
they
will get adequate help and support from the state, Milicevic said.
Asked to comment on the fact that the religions minister is a
member of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) and a woman, she said the national
policy
and respect of all nations secured this party legitimacy for such a
post. Serbia and Yugoslavia are defined as states of citizens and
the
Serb people are the most numerous and nationconstructive, and that is
why
Serbs have been targets of specific pressures and aggression in the
recent
years, Milicevic said.
The pressures are primarily within the attempts to topple the
authorities which are absolutely patriotic and which refuse to barter
with
freedom or independence, sovereignty or territorial integrity, she said.
The other method being applied in the efforts to dismember
Yugoslavia is to cause a rift in the Serbian Orthodox Church, the second
mostimportant institution of the Serbian people, she said. A blatant
example of this are the developments in Montenegro, where a socalled
Montenegrin Orthodox Church is trying to be inaugurated. All this is
proceeding with the assistance of western powerwielders, who first set
up
in office their servants in Montenegro, and then struck at the
institution
of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is an unprecedented act, said
Milicevic.
BLOCCATO CARICO DI ARMI DALLA TURCHIA PER I SEPARATISTI
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ILLEGAL SHIPMENT OF RIFLES INTENDED FOR KOSOVO SEIZED IN BULGARIA
SOFIA, September 9 (Tanjug) Bulgarian customs officials
discovered and seized at the Kapetan Andreievo border crossing 115
hunting
rifles and several thousand cartridges being smuggled from Turkey to
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, it was announced in Sofia on
Saturday.
Svilengrad Customs Office spokesman Kalina Petrova said the
Champion and Cobra rifles and 11,250 12caliber cartridges and 1,500
16caliber cartridges had been discovered in a hidden compartment in a
Man
truck travelling from Turkey to Kosovo and Metohija.
BATTELLIERI RUMENI BLOCCANO IL DANUBIO
NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
ROMANIAN SHIPPERS BLOCK NAVIGATION IN DANUBE
BUCHAREST, September 8 (Tanjug) Romanian shippers blocked the
River Danube on Friday after the Bucharest government turned a deaf ear
to
their demands for relief for losses suffered as the result of last
year's
NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
During the 11week air campaign against Yugoslavia, NATO
demolished
several bridges across the Danube, blocking navigation in this important
international waterway.
The Romanian shippers are vowing not to lift the blockade, set
up
at the town of Calarasi, until their demands are met, and are asking to
be
received at once by Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu, demanding that the
government cease observing an antiYugoslav oil ban.
They are seeking compensation for companies that have suffered
losses through the antiYugoslav NATO aggression, tax relief for the
period
from April 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000, and permission to buy oil without
paying excise duties.
Romanian river shipping companies complain that their turnover
is
down 80 percent and that they have lost in excess of 150 million
dollars,
and still continuing to lose around 10 million dollars a month.
The blockade was originally scheduled for Sept. 6, but the
trade
unions deferred the protest pending the government's session in the
hope,
which did not materialise, that their demands might be met.
L'ARMATA JUGOSLAVA E' PRONTA A RIENTRARE IN KOSMET
SECONDO QUANTO PREVISTO DALLA RISOLUZIONE ONU 1244
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
GEN. PAVKOVIC: KOSOVO UNIT READY TO CARRY OUT ITS TASKS
NIS, Sept 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff,
Gen.
Nebojsa Pavkovic said on Wednesday that the Kosovo unit presented to the
home and foreign public last week was absolutely ready to carry out the
special tasks in the southern Serbian province, secure the state border,
and protect cultural goods.
Speaking in a broadcast of the regional program of Serbian
Radio
Television RTS in the central Serbian town of Nis, Gen. Pavkovic said
the
unit comprised highly skilled professional members of the Yugoslav Army
and
the Interior Ministry who will protect and defend the Serb population
from
ethnic Albanian terrorists.
"The unit is not intended for a violent return home," Gen.
Pavkovic emphasized.
"There are other forces for such an alternative. Other Yugoslav
Army units are prepared for such activities, actually. However, we are
duly
implementing in principle the (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1244
and
we do not wish to be the ones who will be blamed for its nonrealization.
That is why we can proudly say that our army is ready to join in the
peace
process and we think it would make a great contribution to that peace
mission because the KFOR and UNMIK have demonstrated that they are
incapable of doing so," Gen. Pavkovic said.
GEN. PAVKOVIC: SPECIAL YUGOSLAV ARMY UNIT READY TO RETURN TO
KOSOVOMETOHIJA
PIROT, Sep 1 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff and special
envoy of Supreme Commander Slobodan Milosevic, General Nebojsa Pavkovic,
accompanied by Third Army Commander Maj.Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic,
inspected
Friday in the vicinity of Pirot, southeastern Serbia, the Third Special
Unit of the Army set up to return to the UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija
province in line with the Security Council Resolution 1244 and the
MilitaryTechnical Accord.
Following an exercise with live ammunition Return 2000,
Pavkovic
said the unit comprised wellequipped army troops and police officers,
armoured vehicles and helicopters, as well trained and equipped as any
foreign unit within international force KFor.
The Third Special Unit is only one of the Yugoslav Army and
Serbian police units that are ready, as regards professional training,
morale and technical capability, to instantly return to KosovoMetohija,
base of the Pristina Corps and indivisible Third Army zone, to carry out
its peaceful mission in line with Resolution 1244 and MilitaryTechnical
Accord, Pavkovic said.
In abidance by the political decision and agreement reached
with
the international community, the Yugoslav Army was withdrawn from a part
of
Yugoslavia's territory only temporarily, to let the UN forces restore
peace
and order in the province and secure coexistence of all its inhabitants
regardless of ethnicity or religion, Pavkovic said.
However, since their arrival in the province on June 10, 1999,
KFor and UNMIK have failed to ensure the implementation of the
Resolution
1244. On the contrary, the situation in KosovoMetohija has become even
more
dramatic and has brought about a real humanitarian catastrophe. The life
of
Serbs, Montenegrins, other nonAlbanians and ethnic Albanians loyal to
Yugoslavia has become unbearable and their very survival is threatened,
Pavkovic said.
More than 5,000 terrorist crimes have been committed in
KosovoMetohija under the eyes of the force whose duty was to prevent
such
acts. More than 1,000 people, mainly Serbs, Montenegrins and Romanies,
have
been killed, about 1,000 have been wounded and as many have been
reported
missing, Pavkovic said.
About 50,000 homes of nonAlbanians have been burned down or
otherwise destroyed, as well as 86 monasteries and about 150 churches,
he
noted.
In the expectation that the Security Council will understand
the
failure of KFor and UNMIK and that it will, hopefully, take as soon as
possible the brave and honourable decision on the return of Yugoslav
Army
and Serbian police units to KosovoMetohija to help all in need there,
the
special unit for a peaceful mission was prepared on time and is now
being
presented to the public, Pavkovic said, presenting the unit's banner to
its
commander Maj.Gen. Momir Vukadinovic on behalf of Supreme Commander
Slobodan Milosevic.
Answering questions by the press whether the army would return
to
KosovoMetohia without a Security Council invitation, Pavkovic said the
Army
would not violate the Resolution 1244, and underlined that Yugoslavia
always abides by its commitments. He added he expected such an
invitation
would be forthcoming soon to enable the special unit to go to the
province
and join international peacekeepers there.
According to Pavkovic, the special unit would patrol the state
borders and border crossings between KosovoMetohija and neighbouring
states, protect Serb cultural monuments and help create conditions for
peaceful living.
The exercise was attended by Yugoslav Defense Minister General
Dragoljub Ojdanic, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic,
Serbian
Minister of the Interior Vlajko Stojiljkovic, President of the
KosovoMetohija Interim Executive Council Zoran Andjelkovic, and military
officials from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Iraq, Italy, Japan,
China, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Russia, and a UN liaison officer.
SE L'UNMIK NON VUOLE/PUO' FERMARE IL TERRORISMO ALLORA SE NE DEVE ANDARE
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
AMBASSADOR JOVANOVIC: U.N. MUST EITHER STOP TERRORISM OR PULL OUT UNMIK
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia urged the U.N. Security
Council on Thursday to take urgent measures to stop the new wave of
ethnic
Albanian terrorism in the U.N.run Serbia's province of KosovoMetohija,
or
to suspend the U.N. mission which is responsible for the catastrophic
situation in that Serbian province.
Head of the Yugoslav mission at the U.N. Ambassador Vladislav
Jovanovic has sent a letter to the Security Council President and the
U.N.
SecretaryGeneral, saying that ethnic Albanian terrorists continue
perpetrating acts of violence, attacking those who are the most
vulnerable children and the elderly, and demolishing symbols of Serb
national heritage such as churches and cemeteries.
Stressing that ethnic Albanian terrorists have intensified
violence with the support of the international force KFor and U.N. peace
mission UNMIK, Jovanovic partially blamed the Security Council for its
passive attitude, too.
He went on to say that Yugoslavia had repeatedly pointed to a
series of inadmissible actions of the U.N. mission, ranging from the
forcing of local elections in KosovoMetohija, through the takeover of
Trepca smelting plant and opening of foreign representation offices
without
the approval of Yugoslav authorities, to KFor's and UNMIK's refusal to
cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
As the U.N. mission is not resolute in halting ethnic Albanian
terrorism and violence, it is in fact collaborating openly with
separatists
and terrorists, Jovanovic said.
It is absolutely clear that the U.N. mission, by flagrantly
violating the Resolution 1244, has failed to achieve the basic
goal multiethnic KosovoMetohija, he noted.
A series of terrorist attacks in recent months, specifically
brutal attacks on children and other crimes, proves that the Yugoslav
government statements are wellfounded.
The U.N. mission reacts inadequately or even cynically to such
crimes. Instead of making an effort to apprehend the culprits, KFor and
UNMIK are arresting Serbs, while UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner cynically
expresses condolences instead of reacting strongly to halt terrorism and
attacks on nonAlbanians, the letter says. Although the Security
Council is aware of all these crimes, it remains silent. If it does not
take measures to stop ethnic Albanian terrorism in KosovoMetohija, it
must
suspend the U.N. mission that has not achieved its goal, the letter
says.
RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ-IRAK
YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM COMMON ENEMY
BELGRADE, Sept 5 (Tanjug) Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami
Sadoun said on Tuesday in an interview to Radio Yugoslavia (RJ) that
Iraq
and Yugoslavia have a common enemy and that the best defense from that
enemy is allround longlasting bilateral cooperation.
Sadoun said that Iraq has oil and experts to offer in exchange
for
food and technology from Yugoslavia.
Sadoun noted that the real goal of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia was an attempt to control this country that
constitutes a link between Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
This would lead Russia to further isolation and lessen its
influence in both the Middle East and western Europe, he stressed.
Quoting Prof. Mira Markovic as saying that America is a country
without history, tradition or civilization, which is why it wants to
destroy all old civilizations, Sadoun said that such behaviour came as
no
surprise from a nation that had grown out of European convicts, who had
destroyed the ancient Indian civilizations more than 200 years ago.
Asked to make a comment on upcoming elections in Yugoslavia,
Sadoun expressed conviction that the Yugoslav people, together with
their
president, would say "no" for the fifth time to those who had been
killing
their children.
POLEMICHE E ATTI DIMOSTRATIVI IN OLANDA
PER LA AGGRESSIONE DEL 1999 CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
Subject: Parliamentary report: Dutch troops to Kosovo: not enough
information
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:22:39 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
To: office@...
Dutch F-16 pilot, interviewed on Dutch TV at Volkel air base, 2
September 2000, when asked
about possibly bombing Kosovo: "Yes ... If you think too much, you
cannot do your job."
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Not just pilots:
The decisions to send Dutch soldiers to Cambodia, Cyprus, Bosnia, and
Kosovo, were based on
insufficient information at "all levels (UN, NATO, Cabinet, Parliament,
civil servants"
[NRC-Handelsblad, 4 September 2000]. This is one of the conclusions,
included in the final 500
pages plus report of the [Parliamentary] Bakker Committee; published on
Monday 4 September.
Various news media published summaries.
The committee, founded to find out about the decision making on sending
Dutch troops on foreign
military missions, says that the Dutch parliament has fallen short in
its task to control these
decisions. "In some cases, like the air raids in ex-Yugoslavia,
Parliament agreed with decisions of
which it did not appear to know the impact then." [NRC-Handelsblad, 4
September 2000]
The decisions turned out to be not really based on the situations in the
areas where the soldiers
went to; but on factors like fears that the military budget would be cut
without high visibility of the
armed forces, or the desire for good public relations for some branch of
the armed forces.
There is also criticism of Prime Minister Kok, and the ministers [of
Defence] De Grave and
Voorhoeve.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: F-16s painted red by peace activists
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:37:28 +0200
In the night of 1-2 September, at Volkel military air base in The
Netherlands, two F-16s and one other military plane were painted red by
peace activists, protesting against militarism.
At Volkel, there are [officially, the government will not confirm it]
NATO
nuclear weapons, each at least six times the strength of the Hiroshima
explosion in 1945. In the spring of 1999, F-16s started from Volkel to
bomb
Yugoslavia.
On 1 October 2000, there will be a demonstration against nuclear weapons
at
Volkel.
See [in Dutch]:
http://www.ddh.nl/vrede/kernwapens
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: ACIDO SOLFORICO FUORIESCE IN ABBONDANZA DAGLI
IMPIANTI
U.N. KOSOVOMETOHIJA MISSION ADMITS TO SULPHURIC ACID LEAK
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 14 (Tanjug) Sulphuric acid is still
leaking out of the U.N.held Trepca car battery factory in the ethnic
Albanian part of divided Kosovska Mitrovica and polluting nearby rivers,
according to a U.N. spokesman on Thursday.
U.N. KosovoMetohija Mission (UNMIK) spokesman Mike Keats told
media there had been another leak earlier in the day of sulphuric acid
from
Trepca's storage tanks into the River Sitnica.
According to Keats, 75 litres of the acid is leaking out a
minute,
which is 25 litres less than on Wednesday.
The statement was tantamount to an admission that the
international force KFor and UNMIK are incapable of preventing
environmental pollution, since the leaky facility has been in their
hands
for a year now.
Keats went on to say that, over the past 24 hours, Kfor troops
and
specialised teams have been endeavouring to stop the flow of the toxic
matter into the Sitnica and Ibar rivers, and pumping the acid into
another
tank.
Kfor and UNMIK again warned the local population to steer clear
of
the Sitnica, especially in the vicinity of the Trepca facility.
Local water factories are located in this part of Kosovska
Mitrovica, now populated almost exclusively by ethnic Albanians after
the
Serbs have practicly all been driven out.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KFOR AND UNMIK RESPONSIBLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 13 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Committee
for
Cooperation with the U.N. and local authorities have condemned Kfor's
and
UNMIK's ineptitude in stopping the sulphuric acid spill that started on
Monday at a battery factory at Kosovska Mitrovica, a town in the north
of
the U.N.run Serbian province of KosovoMetohija.
Representatives of the Committee and local authorities have
said
that the spill caused a largescale environmental disaster coming from an
UNMIKrun factory, situated in ethnic Albanianpopulated southern Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Ironically, Kfor had shut down the facilities of the Trepca
metallurgy complex in nearby Zvecan using environmental reasons as a
pretext. Nevertheless, Kfor has proved unable to secure the facilities
it
seized a year ago, Committee representative Ivica Mihajlovic has told
media.
Serbia and Yugoslavia will take all the necessary measures to
neutralize the toxic substance that has reached the Ibar, a river
flowing
towards central Serbia. Experts are trying to prevent the acid from
getting
into the Morava river, Mihajlovic said, adding that the state would take
legal action against Kfor troops, as they had not taken the necessary
measures and had proved incompetent to preserve what they had taken away
from Serbia.
Chief of the Kosovska Mitrovica region Zdravko Trajkovic has
told
the press that a large number of fish died in the Ibar river.
Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Nikola Radevic has said that the
Serbian
environmental inspectorate has declared tap water in the area
bacteriologically unsafe, even for hygiene.
The water processing plants are situated in southern Kosovska
Mitrovica, which is populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, as local Serbs
have been driven out of the area.
SULPHURIC ACID CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 12 (Tanjug) The road connecting
Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina was temporarily blocked early on
Tuesday,
due to a sulphuric acid spill at a battery factory located in the
southern
part of Kosovska Mitrovica, TANJUG learned from the UNMIK seat in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Although the pipes conveying the acid burst on Monday morning,
special Kfor units intervened no earlier than Tuesday, when a large
quantity of the toxic liquid reached the Kosovska MitrovicaPristina
road.
The units attempted to stop the leak with lime, gypsum, and
various chemicals, but the acid is still leaking into the Sitnica river,
some 200 meters from the spot where it flows into the Ibar river.
Throughout the afternoon, a local radio station has been
broadcasting an UNMIK statement warning the population to keep away from
the river, which flows towards central Serbia, and to avoid contact with
the contaminated water.
Reliable Serb sources say that there are huge deposits of
sulphuric acid at the factory.
UNMIK spokesman Mike Keats said that enormous efforts were
being
made to stop the leak, adding that, due to fair weather, there was no
possibility of air pollution in the area around the town of Kosovska
Mitrovica, situated in the north of the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija
province.
ABOUT 600,000 L SULPHURIC ACID SPILLS INTO RIVER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 13 (Tanjug) Around 600,000
litres
of sulphuric acid spilled in the past two days into the Sitnica river
which
joins the Ibar river at Kosovska Mitrovica in the U.N.administered
Serbian
province of Kosovo and Metohija, an UNMIK spokesman said on Wednesday.
The spokesman said efforts to prevent a possible ecological
disaster would continue in the next couple of days.
UNMIK warned people over the local media not to enter the river
or
to fish in it.
Sulphuric acid spilled from pipes leading to the cisterns in an
electric batteries industry in the southern, ethnic Albanian part of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
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INIZIATIVA A PARIGI CONTRO L'EMBARGO ALLA RFJ
MORE THAN 10,000 LEAFLETS AGAINST SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO BE
DISTRIBUTED IN PARIS
PARIS, Sept 15 (Tanjug) The Parisbased Committee for the
Protection of Human Rights has organized the distribution of more than
10,000 leaflets throughout Paris demanding urgent lifting of all
sanctions
imposed against Yugoslavia.
The Committee says that the sanctions have caused great harm to
all people in Yugoslavia, and can have dramatic consequences in
forthcoming
winter. The leaflet also notes that sanctions affect almost one million
refugees and expelled persons from former Yugoslavia, who are hosted by
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
This is the reason why the Committee demands the lifting of the
criminal antiYugoslav sanctions that the U.N. and a part of the
international community have imposed.
INCONTRO A BELGRADO DELLE AGENZIE DI STAMPA DEI PAESI NON-ALLINEATI
NONALIGNED NEWS AGENCIES MEET IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, Sep 15 (Tanjug). Representatives of the Nonaligned
News
Agencies' Pool are holding a meeting in Belgrade, hosted by Tanjug, one
of
the Pool's founding memberagencies.
The meeting will focus on strengthening mutual ties among
participating agencies, exchanging information and correspondents, and
overcoming barriers imposed by large world information systems.
The meeting will be opened by Yugoslav Minister of Information
Goran Matic, who also chairs Tanjug's management board.
UCCISA UNA DONNA SERBA IN KOSMET
SERB WOMAN KILLED IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA SERBS PROTEST
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Sep 14 (Tanjug). About 500 Serbs gathered
Thursday around a local church in Kosovska Kamenica, Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province, in protest against the murder of a Serb woman
Wednesday evening.
Two unidentified killers opened fire from an automatic weapon
from
a distance of 50 meters on Milijana Stojanovic, 46, mother of two, as
she
was rinsing dishes in her own yard. She died on the spot.
UNMIK police arrived at the scene of the crime, but has found
no
trace of the killers, who committed the murder at 10.40 p.m., 20 minutes
before curfew.
LA MISSIONE DELL'ONU HA VIOLATO IL SUO MANDATO, PERCIO' SE NE DEVE
ANDARE
MINISTER MATIC: UN MISSION PROTECTS KOUCHNER'S MAFIA
BELGRADE, Sep 13 (Tanjug). The UN mission in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province is not implementing the Security Council
Resolution
1244 and is doing nothing to protect its population or to ensure the
return
of displaced persons, it is only working to protect (UNMIK chief)
Bernard
Kouchner's mafia and should consequently leave Yugoslavia, Yugoslav
Minister of Information Goran Matic said Wednesday.
After last year's (MarchJune) NATO aggression on Yugoslavia
ended,
international troops KFor and civilian mission UNMIK took over the
responsibility for administering KosovoMetohija in line with the
Security
Council Resolution 1244.
Matic told a press conference, attended also by press attaches
of
several embassies, that the results of the mission's "efforts" are
300,000
expelled nonAlbanians, over 1,000 Serbs killed and 1,400 abducted.
Under the umbrella of the UN mission and within the framework
of
the phantom socalled Kosovo Protection Corps (which is not even
mentioned
in Resolution 1244), Croatian instructors are creating at the Dragas
base
near provincial capital Pristina a special military unit of 3000 ethnic
Albanians wearing NATO uniforms, Matic said.
The UN mission is planning to replace troops from western
countries by ethnic Albanians. The fact that 700 Serbs are being held in
a
concentration camp near Pec, commanded by a brother of Agim Cheku, one
of
known war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, is another proof of
UNMIK's
failure, Matic said.
The reporters were shown unedited, authentic and shocking
footage
showing the mission's troops "from the inside", drunk, disorderly and
halfnaked, having "fun" in their bases in KosovoMetohija with young
women
and even ethnic Albanian children.
Commenting the behaviour of international troops, Matic said
the
mission was compromising the UN. If it is a NATO mission on the other
hand,
it is easy to understand that it is doing what NATO was doing all the
time,
Matic said.
The KosovoMetohija mission is attempting to destabilize
Yugoslavia, develop aggressiveterrorist structures to undermine its
interests, militarize the region and arm paramilitary units that the
mission's task was to disarm, Matic said.
Yugoslavia's fundamental political and state commitment is to
making the Balkans a zone of peace and security, demilitarizing the
region
and reducing tensions to enable its peoples to live in peace and to
cooperate, Matic said, pointing to attempts being made to make the
Balkans
a powder keg in order to realize the geopolitical and strategic
interests
of outside forces.
Underlining that the UN mission has not accomplished any of its
tasks, Matic recalled that Resolution 1244 defined the basic rules for
the
development of multiethnic coexistence in the province, the right of all
refugees and displaced persons to return home safely, and the need for
demilitarizing the "KLA" and other armed groups of ethnic Albanians and
for
the return of Yugoslav forces to KosovoMetohija.
MEMORANDUM DEL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ DISTRIBUITO ALL'ASSEMBLEA GENERALE
DELL'ONU
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES MEMORANDUM TO UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NEW YORK, Sep 14 (Tanjug). Participants in the general debate
of
the 55th regular UN General Assembly session had the opportunity
Wednesday,
second day of the session at the Palace of Nations in New York, to read
a
Memorandum of the Yugoslav government on the difficult situation in the
UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
The latest Yugoslav government document on the implementation
of
the Security Council Resolution 1244 was distributed to the General
Assembly to brief the participants of Yugoslavia's views and of the
analysis of the situation in the province that the Yugoslav government
addressed to the UN on August 21.
The Memorandum points to the continuing worsening of the
situation
in KosovoMetohija since the previous analysis of June 7, and underlines
that the situation has deteriorated dramatically due to acts of
terrorism
being perpetrated by ethnic Albanian separatists aided and abetted by
KFor
and UNMIK chiefs.
KOSTUNICA CONTESTATO DAI SERBO-KOSOVARI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - E' finita male la prima incursione in Kosovo del
maggior rivale di Slobodan Milosevic alle presidenziali del 24
settembre.
Il comizio tenuto dal candidato dell'opposizione democratico, Vojislav
Kostunica nella città divisa di Mitrovica non è neppure iniziato, perchè
al
suo arrivo in auto alcuni serbi lo hanno bersagliato con uova, pietre e
pomodori al grido di "traditore" e "Slobo! Slobo!". Otto i feriti tra
cui
lo stesso Kostunica, che ha riportato un vistoso taglio sotto l'occhio
destro ed escoriazioni a una gamba.
(da "La Repubblica" online del 14/9/00)
PROCESSO AI LEADERS DELLA NATO IN SERBIA
TRIAL OF NATO AGGRESSORS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO START SOON
ARANDJELOVAC, September 13 (Tanjug) Serbian Minister of
Justice
Dragoljub Jankovic said that the trial of Bill Clinton, Madeleine
Albright
and 14 other leading protagonists of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia would start on September 18 at the Belgrade
District Court.
This will be a very complex trial that can be compared to the
Nuremberg trials as regards the rank of the indicted and the seriousness
of
their crimes, Jankovic told a local TV station in Arandjelovac, central
Serbia.
A great part of the world public opinion, mainly
nongovernmental
organizations and popular tribunals, including some from NATO
memberstates,
has condemned the NATO aggression, Jankovic noted. The facts are
known and the evidence is so extensive and serious, that a verdict that
the
defendants deserve can be expected, Jankovic said, adding that
investigation was carried out in 28 locations throughout Serbia and that
NATO criminals would be tried by a panel of five judges from Belgrade,
Nis,
Cacak, Pristina and Novi Sad.
The defendants will be tried in absentia and the court will
appoint defense lawyers in line with Yugoslav law, Jankovic said,
expressing hope that some of the defendants would serve their sentences
one
day, after agreements on extradition are concluded.
INDICTMENTS FOR NATO AGGRESSION TO BE ADDRESSED TO ACCUSED
BELGRADE, Sep 5 (Tanjug). Indictments drawn up by the Belgrade
district attorney will be addressed to the persons charged with serious
crimes committed during last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the
Belgrade district court decided Tuesday.
The Yugoslav foreign ministry has been entrusted with
addressing
indictments to the accused through diplomatic channels. The defendants
are:
William Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Willian Cohen, Anthony Blair, Robin
Cook, George Robertson, Jacques Chirac, Hubert Vedrine, Alain Richard,
Gerhard Schroeder, Joseph Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, Javier Solana and
Wesley Clark.
The indictments were brought in line with the Yugoslav penal
law
for incitement to war of aggression, war crimes against civilians, use
of
forbidden ordnance, attempt to murder the Yugoslav president and
violation
of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Investigation into the crimes was initiated immediately after
the
aggression ended throughout Serbia before 29 district courts and a
military
court.
On March 24, 1999, NATO launched a military aggression on
Yugoslavia which lasted 11 weeks and during which over 2,000 civilians
were
killed, in addition to extensive material damages.
The Serbian attorneygeneral has decided that all proceedings be
carried out jointly before the Belgrade district court.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA: L'ONU VUOLE FARCI ANDARE VIA DAL KOSMET
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
U.N. OCCUPATION OF TREPCA MEANT TO DRIVE SERBS OUT
ZVECAN, Sept 12 (Tanjug) The purpose of Aug. 14 U.N.
occupation
of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, was not to restart
production, but to drive Serbs out of that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province, protesters said on Tuesday.
If the U.N. mission (UNMIK) had meant to restart production,
they
would have come with money and experts, not tanks and helicopters,
according to Desimir Timotijevic of the Trepca management, addressing
protesters.
"Their purpose is to drive us out, for the Serbs to forget who
they are, their history, battles, victories and heroes", Timotijevic
said,
speaking at another daily peaceful workers' protest outside the main
gate
into the complex.
"Those who have driven us out of our jobs are now offering that
we
return, telling us stories about modernisation and restarting of
production.
"How can be trust them, when we know what they have done in the
industrial zone in south Kosovska Mitrovica, setting the zinc plant on
fire", Timotijevic said.
COLLOQUI E ACCUSE RFJ-CROAZIA A GINEVRA SUI RIFUGIATI
YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, UNHCR DELEGATIONS HOLD TALKS IN GENEVA
BELGRADE, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav and Croatian delegations
are
holding talks in Geneva on Tuesday with officials of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the repatriation to Croatia of
refugees sheltered in Yugoslavia.
According to a Yugoslav government statement, the Yugoslav
delegation to the tripartite talks is headed by Minister for
humanitarian
and refugee affairs Bratislava Morina.
Morina stressed Yugoslavia's firm position that the Protocol on
an
organised repatriation must be honoured.
All those who opt to return must be guaranteed the necessary
conditions for a free, normal and safe life, including property rights,
full personal safety and security of property.
They must also be guaranteed equal treatment as that accorded
to
the other citizens, and general amnesty, except in cases of the gravest
violations of humanitarian law.
Yugoslavia has discharged its obligations under the Protocol,
while Croatia is not only ignoring the Protocol, but trying to change it
in
its most important part, the statement said.
This means, according to the statement, that Croatia is in
violation also of the YugoslavCroatian normalisation accord, the 1995
Zagreb/Erdut CroatianSerb accord and relevant resolutions of the United
Nations.
Morina condemned in the strongest terms arrests of repatriates
and
the return to Yugoslavia of some whose repatriation had been approved.
She also stressed it is impermissible that Croatia should be
applying a new repatriation procedure outside the Protocol, instituting
criminal investigations and checks of accommodation, and so violating
the
international document, the statement said.
CONTINUA LA CAMPAGNA TERRORISTICA SOTTO LE BANDIERE DELL'ONU
TERROR CAMPAIGN UNDER U.N. FLAG IN SERBIA'S KOSOVOMETOHIJA CONTINUES
BELGRADE, Sept 11 (Tanjug) At a meeting of the humanitarian
task
group of the Peace Implementation Council in Geneva, Yugoslav Minister
for
Refugees and Displaced Persons Bratislava Morina has dismissed the most
recent document on the Serbian KosovoMetohija province as unacceptable.
The document treats the province as an entity outside the
political, economic, educational, social, legal and health system of
Serbia
and Yugoslavia, which is contrary to the U.N. Resolution 1244, Morina
said,
according to a statement of the Yugoslav government.
Morina went on to say that, 15 months after the deployment of
the
Kfor and UNMIK troops, the situation in the province was absolutely
disastrous.
Under the U.N. banner, a systematic and comprehensive campaign
of
terror, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, directed against nonAlbanians,
primarily Serbs and Montenegrins, is under way, Morina said. She added
that
Kfor and UNMIK were doing nothing to ensure the return of displaced
persons.
Morina stressed that Yugoslavia was fully participating in the
repatriation of refugees from BosniaHerzegovina and Croatia, in close
cooperation with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Various obstructions, such as murders, arrests, and harassment
of
returners, seriously undermine the repatriation process, Morina said,
appealing to the UNHCR for immediate assistance on these issues.
Morina described the reports by Karl Bildt and Bernard Kouchner
as
quite untrue. The reports misrepresent the state of affairs, and are not
a
contribution to stabilization in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, she said.
The Yugoslav delegation walked out on the meeting, in protest
against the reports, the statement said.
INAUGURATA LA NUOVA CENTRALE ELETTRICA ALLA "PORTA DI FERRO" SUL DANUBIO
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC INAUGURATES NEW IRONGATE GENERATOR
KLADOVO, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
inaugurated on Tuesday the newest, 16th generating unit of the Irongate
II
HydroElectric Power and Navigation System in the River Danube.
Over the 30 years of operation, this biggest Yugoslav
hydroelectric power plant, which Yugoslavia shares with neighbouring
Romania, has generated 170 billion kilowatthours (Kwh) of electricity,
exceeding the plan by a whole fouryear output.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Yugoslav republic
of
Serbia's President Milan Milutinovic and Parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic,
as well as Yugoslav federal parliament lower house Speaker Milomir
Minic.
Also present were Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
SecretaryGeneral
Gorica Gajevic, and Yugoslav Left (JUL) President Ljubisa Ristic,
Yugoslav
federal and Serbian government officials.
Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic and Chief of Staff
Nebojsa Pavkovic with aides also attended.
ALTO ESPONENTE DELL'HDZ SOTTO ACCUSA PER LA VIOLENZE CONTRO I SERBI
DELLA CROAZIA
CROATIA - SERBS - CRIMES
CROATIA'S SEKS ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING CRIMES
ZAGREB, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Vladimir Seks, who heads the Croatian
Democratic Union (CDU) club in the national parliament, has been accused
by
some former and present Croatian officials of suppressing crimes against
Serbs in the Gospic and Pakrac areas.
According to Croatian press, at least 120 people, mostly Serbs,
were killed in Gospic and there are indications that hundreds of others
were killed in Pakrac at the time of Croatia's war of secession from
Yugoslavia.
Current President Stipe Mesic, who was high up in the CDU
hierarchy while the party was in power, has raised the matter of the
accountability of Seks, who also held responsible party and state
offices
at the time.
According to Mesic, the new government does not mean to
criminate
the CDU, but only individuals and groups, among whom Seks, for the role
he
played as state prosecutor.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA IN LOTTA CONTRO I COLONIALISTI DELLA KFOR
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
TREPCA WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
ZVECAN, Serbia, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Trepca workers held their
daily
protest rally outside the U.N.seized lead smelter in Zvecan,
KosovoMetohija, again on Monday, beginning a fifth week of protests
against
the smelter's violent takeover on Aug 14.
Nebojsa Toskovic, a Trepca stockholder, addressed the assembled
multitude, stressing that Trepca is owned by its stockholders and there
is
no truth in the claim that there should be a change in management.
Toskovic, executive director of the Krusevacbased 14. Oktobar
mechanical engineering company, dismissed as untrue also the claim that
Trepca was polluting the environment and concern for the environment
evinced by the occupiers.
"The occupiers care nothing for the environment; their purpose
is
quite different", Toskovic said.
"We are using all legitimate weapons under the laws of
Yugoslavia
and its republic of Serbia and under international laws to recover our
facilities", he added.
ANCHE L'ALBANIA NELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE MONDIALE DEL COMMERCIO
Anche l'Albania si e' unita al WTO, diventando il 138esimo membro
dell'organizzazione. Se
andate sul sito del WTO www.wto.org vedrete che sotto questo articolo
sono considerati dati
prettamente economici: esportazioni e importazioni. Come al solito,
nulla su ambiente, diritti dei
lavoratori e condizioni di poverta' della popolazione.
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8 September 2000
Albania joins the WTO
Albania became 138th member of the World Trade Organization today (8th
September). WTO
Director-General Mike Moore greeted the event by saying: "I welcome
Albania into the
multilateral trading system. Membership promises a more prosperous
future and raised living
standards for all Albanian citizens. I also believe that, by encouraging
the trade links between
countries, the WTO can help foster greater peace, stability and
development in south-eastern
Europe. Albania's membership brings this Organization ever closer to
being a truly 'World Trade
Organization'."
Albania has agreed to assume its WTO obligations upon accession. In
addition, it will sign on to
the two plurilateral agreements on government procurement and on trade
in civil aircraft. Albania's
accession package includes market-access commitments on goods and
services.
Within the region, Slovenia is already a member of the WTO and Croatia
will become a member
upon completion of the ratification procedures. Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia are in the process of negotiating their accession
to the WTO.
Albania applied for GATT 1947 membership in 1992. Negotiations on
Albania's terms of
accession to WTO started in earnest in 1998. The WTO General Council
adopted the final results
of these negotiations on 17 July 2000.
During that General Council meeting, Albania's Minister for Economic
Cooperation and Trade,
Ermelinda Meksi, said that WTO membership "presents us with a new role
in the international
community" and would help bring "improvement of the wellbeing and
prosperity of my people."
Overall, 30 governments are currently negotiating to join the WTO:
Algeria, Andorra, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cape
Verde, People's Republic
of China, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakstan, Lao People's
Democratic
Republic, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Oman, Russian Federation,
Samoa, Saudi Arabia,
Seychelles, Sudan, Chinese Taipei, Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,
Vietnam and Yemen.
IL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ BIASIMA L'AUTOPROCLAMATA CHIESA ORTODOSSA
MONTENEGRINA
RELIGIONS MINISTER MILICEVIC ON STATE STAND ON RELIGION
BELGRADE, September 9 (Tanjug) Relations between state organs
and
religious communities in Yugoslavia are good and, in keeping with the
Serbian and Yugoslav constitutions and international conventions, all
religions in Yugoslavia have equal status and all believers the full
right
to practice their confessions, Yugoslav Religions Minister Leposava
Milicevic told a panel hosted by Tanjug on Friday.
Confessions, or the religious communities which exist in
Yugoslavia, will be as dear to the state as they are fond of it, and
they
will get adequate help and support from the state, Milicevic said.
Asked to comment on the fact that the religions minister is a
member of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) and a woman, she said the national
policy
and respect of all nations secured this party legitimacy for such a
post. Serbia and Yugoslavia are defined as states of citizens and
the
Serb people are the most numerous and nationconstructive, and that is
why
Serbs have been targets of specific pressures and aggression in the
recent
years, Milicevic said.
The pressures are primarily within the attempts to topple the
authorities which are absolutely patriotic and which refuse to barter
with
freedom or independence, sovereignty or territorial integrity, she said.
The other method being applied in the efforts to dismember
Yugoslavia is to cause a rift in the Serbian Orthodox Church, the second
mostimportant institution of the Serbian people, she said. A blatant
example of this are the developments in Montenegro, where a socalled
Montenegrin Orthodox Church is trying to be inaugurated. All this is
proceeding with the assistance of western powerwielders, who first set
up
in office their servants in Montenegro, and then struck at the
institution
of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is an unprecedented act, said
Milicevic.
BLOCCATO CARICO DI ARMI DALLA TURCHIA PER I SEPARATISTI
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ILLEGAL SHIPMENT OF RIFLES INTENDED FOR KOSOVO SEIZED IN BULGARIA
SOFIA, September 9 (Tanjug) Bulgarian customs officials
discovered and seized at the Kapetan Andreievo border crossing 115
hunting
rifles and several thousand cartridges being smuggled from Turkey to
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, it was announced in Sofia on
Saturday.
Svilengrad Customs Office spokesman Kalina Petrova said the
Champion and Cobra rifles and 11,250 12caliber cartridges and 1,500
16caliber cartridges had been discovered in a hidden compartment in a
Man
truck travelling from Turkey to Kosovo and Metohija.
BATTELLIERI RUMENI BLOCCANO IL DANUBIO
NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
ROMANIAN SHIPPERS BLOCK NAVIGATION IN DANUBE
BUCHAREST, September 8 (Tanjug) Romanian shippers blocked the
River Danube on Friday after the Bucharest government turned a deaf ear
to
their demands for relief for losses suffered as the result of last
year's
NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
During the 11week air campaign against Yugoslavia, NATO
demolished
several bridges across the Danube, blocking navigation in this important
international waterway.
The Romanian shippers are vowing not to lift the blockade, set
up
at the town of Calarasi, until their demands are met, and are asking to
be
received at once by Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu, demanding that the
government cease observing an antiYugoslav oil ban.
They are seeking compensation for companies that have suffered
losses through the antiYugoslav NATO aggression, tax relief for the
period
from April 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000, and permission to buy oil without
paying excise duties.
Romanian river shipping companies complain that their turnover
is
down 80 percent and that they have lost in excess of 150 million
dollars,
and still continuing to lose around 10 million dollars a month.
The blockade was originally scheduled for Sept. 6, but the
trade
unions deferred the protest pending the government's session in the
hope,
which did not materialise, that their demands might be met.
L'ARMATA JUGOSLAVA E' PRONTA A RIENTRARE IN KOSMET
SECONDO QUANTO PREVISTO DALLA RISOLUZIONE ONU 1244
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
GEN. PAVKOVIC: KOSOVO UNIT READY TO CARRY OUT ITS TASKS
NIS, Sept 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff,
Gen.
Nebojsa Pavkovic said on Wednesday that the Kosovo unit presented to the
home and foreign public last week was absolutely ready to carry out the
special tasks in the southern Serbian province, secure the state border,
and protect cultural goods.
Speaking in a broadcast of the regional program of Serbian
Radio
Television RTS in the central Serbian town of Nis, Gen. Pavkovic said
the
unit comprised highly skilled professional members of the Yugoslav Army
and
the Interior Ministry who will protect and defend the Serb population
from
ethnic Albanian terrorists.
"The unit is not intended for a violent return home," Gen.
Pavkovic emphasized.
"There are other forces for such an alternative. Other Yugoslav
Army units are prepared for such activities, actually. However, we are
duly
implementing in principle the (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1244
and
we do not wish to be the ones who will be blamed for its nonrealization.
That is why we can proudly say that our army is ready to join in the
peace
process and we think it would make a great contribution to that peace
mission because the KFOR and UNMIK have demonstrated that they are
incapable of doing so," Gen. Pavkovic said.
GEN. PAVKOVIC: SPECIAL YUGOSLAV ARMY UNIT READY TO RETURN TO
KOSOVOMETOHIJA
PIROT, Sep 1 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff and special
envoy of Supreme Commander Slobodan Milosevic, General Nebojsa Pavkovic,
accompanied by Third Army Commander Maj.Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic,
inspected
Friday in the vicinity of Pirot, southeastern Serbia, the Third Special
Unit of the Army set up to return to the UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija
province in line with the Security Council Resolution 1244 and the
MilitaryTechnical Accord.
Following an exercise with live ammunition Return 2000,
Pavkovic
said the unit comprised wellequipped army troops and police officers,
armoured vehicles and helicopters, as well trained and equipped as any
foreign unit within international force KFor.
The Third Special Unit is only one of the Yugoslav Army and
Serbian police units that are ready, as regards professional training,
morale and technical capability, to instantly return to KosovoMetohija,
base of the Pristina Corps and indivisible Third Army zone, to carry out
its peaceful mission in line with Resolution 1244 and MilitaryTechnical
Accord, Pavkovic said.
In abidance by the political decision and agreement reached
with
the international community, the Yugoslav Army was withdrawn from a part
of
Yugoslavia's territory only temporarily, to let the UN forces restore
peace
and order in the province and secure coexistence of all its inhabitants
regardless of ethnicity or religion, Pavkovic said.
However, since their arrival in the province on June 10, 1999,
KFor and UNMIK have failed to ensure the implementation of the
Resolution
1244. On the contrary, the situation in KosovoMetohija has become even
more
dramatic and has brought about a real humanitarian catastrophe. The life
of
Serbs, Montenegrins, other nonAlbanians and ethnic Albanians loyal to
Yugoslavia has become unbearable and their very survival is threatened,
Pavkovic said.
More than 5,000 terrorist crimes have been committed in
KosovoMetohija under the eyes of the force whose duty was to prevent
such
acts. More than 1,000 people, mainly Serbs, Montenegrins and Romanies,
have
been killed, about 1,000 have been wounded and as many have been
reported
missing, Pavkovic said.
About 50,000 homes of nonAlbanians have been burned down or
otherwise destroyed, as well as 86 monasteries and about 150 churches,
he
noted.
In the expectation that the Security Council will understand
the
failure of KFor and UNMIK and that it will, hopefully, take as soon as
possible the brave and honourable decision on the return of Yugoslav
Army
and Serbian police units to KosovoMetohija to help all in need there,
the
special unit for a peaceful mission was prepared on time and is now
being
presented to the public, Pavkovic said, presenting the unit's banner to
its
commander Maj.Gen. Momir Vukadinovic on behalf of Supreme Commander
Slobodan Milosevic.
Answering questions by the press whether the army would return
to
KosovoMetohia without a Security Council invitation, Pavkovic said the
Army
would not violate the Resolution 1244, and underlined that Yugoslavia
always abides by its commitments. He added he expected such an
invitation
would be forthcoming soon to enable the special unit to go to the
province
and join international peacekeepers there.
According to Pavkovic, the special unit would patrol the state
borders and border crossings between KosovoMetohija and neighbouring
states, protect Serb cultural monuments and help create conditions for
peaceful living.
The exercise was attended by Yugoslav Defense Minister General
Dragoljub Ojdanic, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic,
Serbian
Minister of the Interior Vlajko Stojiljkovic, President of the
KosovoMetohija Interim Executive Council Zoran Andjelkovic, and military
officials from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Iraq, Italy, Japan,
China, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Russia, and a UN liaison officer.
SE L'UNMIK NON VUOLE/PUO' FERMARE IL TERRORISMO ALLORA SE NE DEVE ANDARE
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
AMBASSADOR JOVANOVIC: U.N. MUST EITHER STOP TERRORISM OR PULL OUT UNMIK
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia urged the U.N. Security
Council on Thursday to take urgent measures to stop the new wave of
ethnic
Albanian terrorism in the U.N.run Serbia's province of KosovoMetohija,
or
to suspend the U.N. mission which is responsible for the catastrophic
situation in that Serbian province.
Head of the Yugoslav mission at the U.N. Ambassador Vladislav
Jovanovic has sent a letter to the Security Council President and the
U.N.
SecretaryGeneral, saying that ethnic Albanian terrorists continue
perpetrating acts of violence, attacking those who are the most
vulnerable children and the elderly, and demolishing symbols of Serb
national heritage such as churches and cemeteries.
Stressing that ethnic Albanian terrorists have intensified
violence with the support of the international force KFor and U.N. peace
mission UNMIK, Jovanovic partially blamed the Security Council for its
passive attitude, too.
He went on to say that Yugoslavia had repeatedly pointed to a
series of inadmissible actions of the U.N. mission, ranging from the
forcing of local elections in KosovoMetohija, through the takeover of
Trepca smelting plant and opening of foreign representation offices
without
the approval of Yugoslav authorities, to KFor's and UNMIK's refusal to
cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
As the U.N. mission is not resolute in halting ethnic Albanian
terrorism and violence, it is in fact collaborating openly with
separatists
and terrorists, Jovanovic said.
It is absolutely clear that the U.N. mission, by flagrantly
violating the Resolution 1244, has failed to achieve the basic
goal multiethnic KosovoMetohija, he noted.
A series of terrorist attacks in recent months, specifically
brutal attacks on children and other crimes, proves that the Yugoslav
government statements are wellfounded.
The U.N. mission reacts inadequately or even cynically to such
crimes. Instead of making an effort to apprehend the culprits, KFor and
UNMIK are arresting Serbs, while UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner cynically
expresses condolences instead of reacting strongly to halt terrorism and
attacks on nonAlbanians, the letter says. Although the Security
Council is aware of all these crimes, it remains silent. If it does not
take measures to stop ethnic Albanian terrorism in KosovoMetohija, it
must
suspend the U.N. mission that has not achieved its goal, the letter
says.
RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ-IRAK
YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM COMMON ENEMY
BELGRADE, Sept 5 (Tanjug) Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami
Sadoun said on Tuesday in an interview to Radio Yugoslavia (RJ) that
Iraq
and Yugoslavia have a common enemy and that the best defense from that
enemy is allround longlasting bilateral cooperation.
Sadoun said that Iraq has oil and experts to offer in exchange
for
food and technology from Yugoslavia.
Sadoun noted that the real goal of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia was an attempt to control this country that
constitutes a link between Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
This would lead Russia to further isolation and lessen its
influence in both the Middle East and western Europe, he stressed.
Quoting Prof. Mira Markovic as saying that America is a country
without history, tradition or civilization, which is why it wants to
destroy all old civilizations, Sadoun said that such behaviour came as
no
surprise from a nation that had grown out of European convicts, who had
destroyed the ancient Indian civilizations more than 200 years ago.
Asked to make a comment on upcoming elections in Yugoslavia,
Sadoun expressed conviction that the Yugoslav people, together with
their
president, would say "no" for the fifth time to those who had been
killing
their children.
POLEMICHE E ATTI DIMOSTRATIVI IN OLANDA
PER LA AGGRESSIONE DEL 1999 CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
Subject: Parliamentary report: Dutch troops to Kosovo: not enough
information
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:22:39 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
To: office@...
Dutch F-16 pilot, interviewed on Dutch TV at Volkel air base, 2
September 2000, when asked
about possibly bombing Kosovo: "Yes ... If you think too much, you
cannot do your job."
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Not just pilots:
The decisions to send Dutch soldiers to Cambodia, Cyprus, Bosnia, and
Kosovo, were based on
insufficient information at "all levels (UN, NATO, Cabinet, Parliament,
civil servants"
[NRC-Handelsblad, 4 September 2000]. This is one of the conclusions,
included in the final 500
pages plus report of the [Parliamentary] Bakker Committee; published on
Monday 4 September.
Various news media published summaries.
The committee, founded to find out about the decision making on sending
Dutch troops on foreign
military missions, says that the Dutch parliament has fallen short in
its task to control these
decisions. "In some cases, like the air raids in ex-Yugoslavia,
Parliament agreed with decisions of
which it did not appear to know the impact then." [NRC-Handelsblad, 4
September 2000]
The decisions turned out to be not really based on the situations in the
areas where the soldiers
went to; but on factors like fears that the military budget would be cut
without high visibility of the
armed forces, or the desire for good public relations for some branch of
the armed forces.
There is also criticism of Prime Minister Kok, and the ministers [of
Defence] De Grave and
Voorhoeve.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: F-16s painted red by peace activists
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:37:28 +0200
In the night of 1-2 September, at Volkel military air base in The
Netherlands, two F-16s and one other military plane were painted red by
peace activists, protesting against militarism.
At Volkel, there are [officially, the government will not confirm it]
NATO
nuclear weapons, each at least six times the strength of the Hiroshima
explosion in 1945. In the spring of 1999, F-16s started from Volkel to
bomb
Yugoslavia.
On 1 October 2000, there will be a demonstration against nuclear weapons
at
Volkel.
See [in Dutch]:
http://www.ddh.nl/vrede/kernwapens
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
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