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SOLIDARIETA' CON LA NATO! E' VITTIMA DI UNA CONGIURA!
Amnesty International ha accusato la NATO di aver bombardato i civili -
E' UNA MENZOGNA! La NATO voleva sono portare la pace e la democrazia ed
ha "scrupolosamente rispettato la legge internazionale".
>>NATO Press Release (2000)060 7 June
2000
>>
>> Statement
>> by Lord Robertson, NATO Secretary General,
>> in response to Amnesty International Report ""Collateral Damage"
>> or Unlawful Killings/Violations of the Laws of War
>> by NATO During Operation Allied Force"
>>
>>The allegations made in the Amnesty International report today that NATO
>>violated the laws of war in its conduct of the Kosovo air campaign last
>>year are baseless and ill-founded.
>>
>>Madame Carla del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor of the UN's International
>>Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, told the UN Security Council
>>last week, "I am very satisfied there was no deliberate targeting of
>>civilians or of unlawful military targets by NATO during the bombing
>>campaign." She stated, "I am now able to announce my conclusion,
following
>>a full consideration of my team's assessment of all complaints and
>>allegations, that there is no basis for opening an investigation into any
>>of those allegations or into other incidents related to the NATO bombing."
>>
>>NATO scrupulously adhered to international law, including the law of war,
>>throughout the conflict and made every effort to minimise civilian
>>casualties. Unfortunately, as we have always acknowledged, among over ten
>>thousand bombing missions, in a few cases mistakes were made, or weapons
>>malfunctioned, leading to civilian deaths or injuries. We deeply regret
>>such incidents. But such incidents must be weighed against the atrocities
>>that NATO's action stopped.
>>
>>NATO's air campaign put an end to the most brutal ethnic violence seen in
>>Europe since World War II. Extensive documentation by the OSCE, Human
>>Rights Watch and the media show that Serbian military and police forces
>>engaged in a deliberate, massive, and prolonged campaign of violence
>>against Kosovar Albanian civilians in gross violation of international law
>>and civilised norms of behaviour. The clear priority now is to bring to
>>justice the war criminals that perpetrated this violence against the
people
>>of Kosovo.
>
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Amnesty International ha accusato la NATO di aver bombardato i civili -
E' UNA MENZOGNA! La NATO voleva sono portare la pace e la democrazia ed
ha "scrupolosamente rispettato la legge internazionale".
>>NATO Press Release (2000)060 7 June
2000
>>
>> Statement
>> by Lord Robertson, NATO Secretary General,
>> in response to Amnesty International Report ""Collateral Damage"
>> or Unlawful Killings/Violations of the Laws of War
>> by NATO During Operation Allied Force"
>>
>>The allegations made in the Amnesty International report today that NATO
>>violated the laws of war in its conduct of the Kosovo air campaign last
>>year are baseless and ill-founded.
>>
>>Madame Carla del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor of the UN's International
>>Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, told the UN Security Council
>>last week, "I am very satisfied there was no deliberate targeting of
>>civilians or of unlawful military targets by NATO during the bombing
>>campaign." She stated, "I am now able to announce my conclusion,
following
>>a full consideration of my team's assessment of all complaints and
>>allegations, that there is no basis for opening an investigation into any
>>of those allegations or into other incidents related to the NATO bombing."
>>
>>NATO scrupulously adhered to international law, including the law of war,
>>throughout the conflict and made every effort to minimise civilian
>>casualties. Unfortunately, as we have always acknowledged, among over ten
>>thousand bombing missions, in a few cases mistakes were made, or weapons
>>malfunctioned, leading to civilian deaths or injuries. We deeply regret
>>such incidents. But such incidents must be weighed against the atrocities
>>that NATO's action stopped.
>>
>>NATO's air campaign put an end to the most brutal ethnic violence seen in
>>Europe since World War II. Extensive documentation by the OSCE, Human
>>Rights Watch and the media show that Serbian military and police forces
>>engaged in a deliberate, massive, and prolonged campaign of violence
>>against Kosovar Albanian civilians in gross violation of international law
>>and civilised norms of behaviour. The clear priority now is to bring to
>>justice the war criminals that perpetrated this violence against the
people
>>of Kosovo.
>
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IL MINISTRO DELL'INFORMAZIONE JUGOSLAVO ACCUSA LA CIA PER L'ASSASSINIO
DI GORAN ZUGIC SULLA BASE DELLE INTERCETTAZIONI DEI COLLOQUI TELEFONICI
TRA FUNZIONARI DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI STATO USA
> YUGOSLAV MINISTER ACCUSES CIA OF COMPLICITY IN ZUGIC MURDER
> BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Minister of Information on
> Tuesday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of complicity in
> the recent murder of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro's presidential
> security advisor Goran Zugic.
> At a news briefing attended by a large number of domestic and foreign
> reporters, Goran Matic ran an audio tape of a conversation held twenty
> minutes after Zugic's murder by Sean Burns of the U.S. State Department's
> Balkan task force, who is assistant to Richard Holbrooke, with Gabriel
> Escobar Gabe of the economic task force for Montenegro, and their
> conversation of 2 a.m. the next day.
> Matic said this was a specific form that the aggression on Yugoslavia was
> taking, which had been in use since October 1999 as the main form of
> warfare for destroying Yugoslavia.
> "After its political efforts with infiltrated mercenaries and mercenary
> political parties failed, the U.S. Administration, since (last year's)
> aggression on our country, turned last October to subversive and terrorist
> operations on the territory of Yugoslavia in an effort to attain its
> interests, undermine the country's internal stability and show that the
> country is unsafe for its people", Matic said.
> This scenario, according to him, is being implemented in both Serbia and
> Montenegro.
IL PARLAMENTO JUGOSLAVO A CAMERE RIUNITE PER LA VISITA DELL'OSPITE
CINESE
> YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT CALLS SESSION FOR JUNE 12
> BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Speakers of the Yugoslav Parliament's
> Chambers of Citizens (lower house) and Republics (upper house), Milomir
> Minic and Srdja Bozovic, have called the first special joint session for
> June 12.
> The joint session will be addressed by Li Peng, chairman of the Chinese
> National Congress (Parliament) Standing Committee, who will be heading a
> parliamentary delegation on an official state visit to Yugoslavia from June
> 11-13, a Parliament statement said on Tuesday.
> The session has been called on a motion tabled by one-third of the
> deputies to the two chambers, in line with the rules of procedure
> regulating the convention of special sessions, the statement said.
LE POSIZIONI DEI KOSOVARO-ALBANESI JUGOSLAVISTI
> KOSOVO-METOHIJA - ALBANIANS
>
> KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIANS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR MILOSEVIC
> PRISTINA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Kosovo-Metohija's Albanian Democratic Reform
> Party (DRPA) on Tuesday wrote to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
> upholding his policy of togetherness, equality in the province, of peace,
> tolerance and common sense.
> The letter, signed by 828 ethnic Albanians from all over that U.N.-run
> Serbian (Yugoslav) province, says local Albanians are not indifferent to
> the terrorising, murders and expulsions of their non-Albanian neighbours
> and friends.
> "What has been happening over the past year since the deployment of KFor
> (international force) and UNMIK (U.N. civilian mission) in Kosovo-Metohija
> - viz. ethnic cleansing - is the worst crime in human history", the letter
> said.
> The ethnic Albanians stressed the DRPA was confidence of the future of
> Kosovo-Metohija as the home of all ethnic communities and the struggle for
> the equality of all in Kosovo-Metohija, a policy of peace, tolerance and
> common sense.
CONFERENZA ANTI-NATO A SOFIA
> BULGARIA - NATO - CONFERENCE
>
> BULGARIAN CONFERENCE BLASTS WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL AS BIASED, USELESS
> SOFIA, June 6 (Tanjug) - An international conference held to commemorate
> the 1st anniversary of the end of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia
> unanimously condemned the flouting of U.N. Resolution 1244 on
> Kosovo-Metohija.
> The participants - university professors from Moscow, Belgrade, Kragujevac
> and Sofia, authorities on international law and military matters and
> publicists - said flouting of the Resolution had allowed ethnic Albanian
> separatists and terrorists over the past year to wage a war of genocide on
> local Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians.
> Unheard-of violence has been perpetrated in that U.N.-run Serbian
> (Yugoslav) province since the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, international
> police force and peace force KFor were deployed on June 10 last, it was
> noted at the conference, which ended in Sofia late on Monday.
> More than 1,000 Serbs have been murdered, 900 others have been abducted,
> more than 40,000 Serb homes have been plundered and torched.
> This has forced more than 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies, ethnic
> Turks, ethnic Egyptians, ethnic Croats and other non-Albanians to flee
> Kosovo-Metohija, it was noted at the conference.
> The assembled experts offered evidence in support of the fact that
> Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Yugoslavia and that Resolution 1244
> guarantees the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Yugoslavia.
> They demanded that the biased international war crimes tribunal for the
> former Yugoslavia in the Hague be abolished for throwing out of court
> complaints against NATO, which had perpetrated an aggression against
> Yugoslavia in March-June 1999, killing more than 2,000 civilians and
> violating the U.N. Charter and international legal norms of 50 years'
> standing.
> Professor Zakhary Zakhariev of the Bulgarian Slaviani Foundation, which
> organised the conference, announced for October another conference of
> experts from the Balkan countries, as well as from eastern and western
> countries, under UNESCO's auspices.
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AEREO SPIA DELLA NATO ATTERRA NELLA FYROM
NATO Spy Plane Lands in Macedonia
The Associated Press
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - A unmanned NATO spy plane lost power on a
mission
over southern Kosovo and was forced to make a parachute landing early
Saturday, a U.S. Army statement said.
The small U.S. plane, called Hunter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, went down
just
after midnight inside Macedonia, within two miles of the Kosovo border,
the
statement said without providing details.
It was unknown if the plane had been damaged. U.S. army officials in the
peacekeeping force in Kosovo were reportedly working with Macedonia's
government to recover the aircraft.
It was the second time in two weeks that an unmanned NATO aircraft was
forced
to make an unscheduled landing in the area. A British ``Phoenix'' was
forced
last week to make a parachute landing in the ground safety zone, which
is the
three mile buffer zone along Kosovo's boundary with Serbia proper,
sources in
the NATO-led mission said.
The border is patrolled by NATO aircraft to give early warning of any
potential intrusions. However, the ``Phoenix'' aircraft was recovered by
Yugoslav forces.
AP-NY-06-03-00 1637EDT
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LA SITUAZIONE POLITICA NELLA REPUBBLICA SERBA DI BOSNIA
Bosnian Serb leader sets up new party
SARAJEVO, June 4 (Reuters) - The former Bosnian Serb President and head
of
the Serb National Alliance (SNS) Biljana Plavsic said she would form a
new
party after the SNS had passed a no-confidence vote against her, Bosnian
radio reported.
The SNS on Saturday passed the no-confidence vote against Plavsic, who
was
blamed for the party's weak perfomrance at Bosnia's municipal elections
in
April.
Plavsic, who last month offered to resign as party leader along with six
SNS
vice presidents, said the new party would be called the Serb National
Alliance - Biljana Plavsic, the radio said on Sunday.
The SNS is a member of the Bosnian Serb ruling Sloga (Unity) coalition
together with the Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) of Prime
Minister Milorad Dodik and the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).
The DSP was formed in April by officials of the Socialist Party (SPRS)
who
continued to support Dodik after the SPRS had left Sloga.
Plavsic's new party will have only one deputy in the Bosnian Serb
parliament
among the total of 11 SNS deputies. It is expected to remain in the
Sloga
coalition.
It is still unclear whether the other party will keep the same name and
also
remain in Sloga.
Post-war Bosnia comprises the Serb republic and the Moslem-Croat
federation.
08:33 06-04-00
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VANDALI NEGLI UFFICI DELLA JUL A BELGRADO
Office of ruling Serbia party in Belgrade wrecked
BELGRADE, June 4 (Reuters) - A Belgrade office of the Yugoslav Left
(JUL), a
partner in Serbia's ruling coalition, was smashed up overnight, the
party
said on Sunday blaming the opposition for the attack.
In a statement carried by state news agency Tanjug, the party said its
offices in Belgrade's Zvezdara municipality were broken into on Saturday
night, technical equipment destroyed and documents scattered, but that
nothing was missing.
``This is the way those who call themselves the democratic opposition
are
trying to teach democracy lessons to JUL with the help of their shock
troops
whom they call Otpor, (Resistance),'' the statement said.
In April, an explosion rocked the offices of a Belgrade branch of the
Socialist Party of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and three days
later provincial offices of its coalition partner JUL, which is
controlled by
his wife Mira Markovic.
The authorities have stepped up their crackdown on the opposition over
the
past two weeks, accusing it and the student-based Otpor movement of
being
behind mysterious assassinations of opposition and underworld figures.
Calling the opposition ``lackeys of the West'' with the aim of
destabilising
the country, authorities have proposed a new law to combat it.
``Like their NATO mentors did a year ago, they are waging their dirty
little
war against our country and our people, targeting those who prove all
the
time how much they care about this people and this country,'' the JUL
statement said.
The opposition has denied any involvement in attacks or murders and said
the
proposed law is designed to intimidate those joining anti-government
protests.
13:14 06-04-00
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LE PRIVATIZZAZIONI IN MACEDONIA
di Neda Popovska - ("Dnevnik", 19 aprile 2000)
[Segue piu' sotto un articolo piu' breve
riguardante specificamente l'imminente
privatizzazione della Telekom macedone]
IL MODELLO DELLE PROPRIETA' IN MACEDONIA
Il premier Ljubco Georgievski ha dichiarato che
entro la fine dell'anno giungera' alla
conclusione la privatizzazione del capitale
pubblico e comincera' pertanto il periodo post-
privatizzazioni. Di 1.600 imprese che,
complessivamente, sono oggetto delle
privatizzazioni, entro la fine dell'anno scorso
ne sono state privatizzate 1.448, nelle quali
lavorano circa 217.000 persone. Il valore
complessivo delle imprese privatizzate e' di
circa 4 miliardi di DM. L'Agenzia per le
privatizzazioni offre in vendita 49 aziende, con
un valore complessivo di circa 195 milioni di
DM. Le privatizzazioni verranno effettuate nel
paese tramite il cosiddetto "acquisto da parte
della gestione", cioe' con l'acquisto da parte
dei dipendenti e con la vendita di una quota di
maggioranza del capitale azionario delle aziende
stesse. Gli investitori sono maggiormente
interessati alle imprese industriali, 415 delle
quali sono state finora privatizzate. Al secondo
posto si trovano le aziende agricole e quelle
commerciali. Il numero minore di aziende
privatizzate, complessivamente 48, lo si ha nel
settore del turismo. Per quanto riguarda le
dimensioni delle aziende, il maggior numero di
quelle privatizzate sono piccole imprese,
complessivamente 977, mentre solo 229 sono
grandi aziende.
L'INIZIO DELLE PRIVATIZZAZIONI IN MACEDONIA
Il processo di privatizzazione e' cominciato nel
paese nel 1989, con la legge dell'allora premier
jugoslavo, Ante Markovic. In base a tale legge,
le azioni delle imprese venivano distribuite ai
rispettivi dipendenti. In tale modo, in
Macedonia circa 600 imprese sono state
trasformate in societa' per azioni. Dopo
l'indipendenza, dichiarata nel 1991, la
Macedonia ha abbandonato la legge Markovic. Due
anni dopo e' stata approvata una nuova Legge
sulla trasformazione del capitale pubblico. Gli
obiettivi principali di tale legge erano:
determinazione del proprietario che deteneva la
quota di controllo del capitale azionario
dell'impresa, ottenimento di investimenti esteri
e sviluppo del mercato dei capitali. Le
privatizzazioni hanno in Macedonia un "approccio
commerciale", vale a dire che la privatizzazione
delle aziende avviene "caso per caso". Il
processo viene diretto dall'Agenzia per le
privatizzazioni, che fa regolarmente rapporto al
Governo e di fronte al Parlamento - spiega
Slobodanka Ristovska, direttrice dell'Agenzia.
LO SCHEMA MACEDONE DELLE PRIVATIZZAZIONI
Del capitale azionario totale di un'impresa
circa il 30 per cento viene offerto ai
dipendenti, sotto forma di azioni ordinarie, con
alcune variazioni di percentuale a seconda del
tipo di privatizzazione. Circa il 15 per cento
del capitale dell'impresa viene trasferito al
Fondo pensioni e previdenza sociale, che puo'
vendere tali azioni in borsa. La rimanente parte
del capitale dell'impresa viene offerto in
vendita a tutti gli investitori locali o esteri
interessati. Il valore del capitale destinato
alla vendita e' di circa 4,6 miliardi di DM, che
rappresenta per la maggior parte imprese il cui
capitale e' stato trasformato. Le altre imprese
sono in corso di privatizzazione. L'Agenzia
vende proprieta' per un valore di 1 miliardo di
DM, mentre il capitale venduto dal Fondo di
previdenza sociale e' di 251 milioni di DM.
PERCHE' E' STATA CAMBIATA LA LEGGE?
La Corte Costituzionale ha emesso l'anno scorso
una sentenza secondo cui devono essere
modificati alcuni articoli della Legge che
regola la privatizzazione del capitale pubblico.
Prima dell'approvazione delle modifica, e' stata
sospesa la privatizzazione di circa 150 imprese
del paese. Con le modifiche, tutte le imprese
che non hanno terminato il processo di
privatizzazione entro la meta' dell'anno scorso
vengono iscritte in un registro commerciale in
base al capitale esistente. La successiva
procedura di vendita delle azioni da parte degli
azionisti della societa' deve proseguire in
bosrsa. La vendita delle quote delle societa' a
responsabilita' limitata, invece, viene
effettuata attraverso un'asta pubblica - come
spiega Ristovska. Con le modifiche della legge,
la vendita del capitale statale delle imprese in
perdita e di quelle per le quali sara' il
Governo a decidere viene effettuata mediante
l'individuazione di un investitore strategico.
I PROBLEMI DELLE PRIVATIZZAZIONI
La comparsa di numerosi sindacati guidati
dall'Alleanza dei Sindacati della Macedonia e
dall'Unione dei Sindacati Indipendenti e' una
testimonianza del fatto che i piu' insoddisfatti
del processo di privatizzazione sono i
lavoratori delle imprese, e in particolare
coloro che sono stati dichiarati "eccedenze
tecnologiche". La maggior parte dei sindacati
delle grande imprese chiede una revisione
completa della privatizzazione delle rispettive
aziende, sostenendo che sono stati compiuti
innumerevoli atti illegali e frodi. Secondo
quanto affermano i lavoratori, un gran numero di
azioni e' stato sottratto loro senza la loro
approvazione e con la minaccia che avrebbero
perso il posto di lavoro se non avessero venduto
le azioni. L'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni, da
parte sua, si lamenta invece del pagamento non
regolare delle azioni con sconti da parte delle
societa' per azioni. Se gli azionisti non pagano
le azioni entro un termine prestabilito,
l'Agenzia le ritira ed e' autorizzata a venderle
in borsa. All'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni e'
stato calcolato che per il mancato rispetto
degli obblighi di pagamento, gli azionisti
rischiano di perdere il diritto a capitale per
149 milioni di DM. Secondo le analisi
dell'Agenzia, gli azionisti hanno gia' perso il
diritto a circa 80 milioni di DM di capitale.
Solo l'anno scorso, all'Agenzia per le
privatizzazioni sono giunte circa 200 richieste
per l'effettuazione di controlli sulle procedure
di privatizzazione. La maggior parte di esse
proviene da persone fisiche e tramite
ingiunzioni di tribunale, mentre solo una parte
ridotta proviene da persone giuridiche. In 114
imprese e' gia' stato effettuato un controllo e
l'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni e' stata resa
parte di 97 procedimenti in tribunale. La
maggior parte delle dispute e' ancora in corso,
e in 22 casi il processo e' terminato a favore
dell'Agenzia.
DOVE VANNO A FINIRE I SOLDI REALIZZATI CON LE
PRIVATIZZAZIONI?
Dei soldi in contanti ottenuti con le
privatizzazioni, l'anno scorso circa 1,8 milioni
di DM sono stati spesi per le spese correnti
dell'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni. Nel
bilancio statale sono stati versati 4,8 milioni
di DM, e 232.000 DM sono stati spesi per le
obbligazioni delle aziende "Staklara"-DOO e
"Zastita". Parte dei fondi ottenuti con le
privatizzazioni vengono utilizzati per il
finanziamento della NEPA nell'ambito del
programma PHARE. In conseguenza dei risultati
ottenuti dalla trasformazione delle aziende, il
budget dell'Agenzia e' aumentato fino a
raggiungere circa 2,9 milioni di GM. La
rimanente parte e' stata utilizzata per
l'aumento delle collocazioni presso le banche.
Nel corso delle privatizzazioni la maggior parte
degli investitori ha pagato attraverso
versamenti su conti, addirittura il 77 per
cento, mentre la minore parte di essi e' ricorsa
a obbligazioni.
LA PRIVATIZZAZIONE DELLA TELEKOM E DELLA ESM
Il FMI ha chiesto al governo di effettuare una
privatizzazione parziale del settore pubblico,
al fine di aumentare la concorrenza tra le
imprese. E' in tale settore che si trovano i
sistemi infrastrutturali piu' grandi, nei quali
sono dominanti le imprese pubbliche: la
distribuzione dell'energia elettrica,
l'amministrazione delle acque, le ferrovie, le
telecomunicazioni, che sono tutti monopoli. Il
capitale statale destinato a essere privatizzato
ha un valore di 227 milioni di DM. La Telekom
verra' messa in vendita entro la fine dell'anno.
Il governo deve decidere quale quota del suo
capitale verra' offerto in vendita a un partner
strategico. Sono in corso preparativi anche per
la privatizzazione dell'impresa pubblica
Elektrostopanstvo na Makedonija [ESM - la
societa' elettrica di stato macedone],
unitamente alla vendita degli alberghi di
proprieta' di tale azienda. La ESM ha annunciato
la vendita anche di una parte delle sue
capacita', come la produzione, la distribuzione
e il trasporto dell'energia elettrica. Parte
dell'opinione pubblica ritiene la vendita della
Telekom macedone come la vendita del "gioiello
di famiglia".
Durante la sua ultima seduta, la Commissione per
le riforme ha proposto alcune misure per una
piu' rapida conclusione delle privatizzazioni.
Queste ultime verranno condotte con l'aiuto dei
manager, con la concessione di capitali in
prestito, nonche' con il rinnovo del Fondo per
la previdenza sociale. Queste misure
riguarderanno un capitale pubblico del valore
complessivo di circa 700 milioni di DM, che
costituiscono solo una parte del capitale
pubblico del paese, pari a 4 miliardi di DM.
LA FRANCESE ALCATEL E LA GRECA OTE IN LIZZA PER
LA TELEKOM MACEDONE
di Diana Mladenovska - ("Dnevnik", 5 maggio 2000)
In contrasto con le voci secondo cui la vendita
della Telekom macedone e' stata concordata in
anticipo a favore della societa' greca OTE,
fonti del governo hanno indicato l'operatore
francese di telefonia mobile Alcatel come uno
dei soggetti piu' seriamente interessati alle
azioni di questa redditizia impresa pubblica.
Tali fonti affermano anche che il pacchetto di
controllo del 51% delle azioni non verra'
venduto a una sola societa', e che invece il
governo intende suddividere in quote uguali tale
percentuale tra due-tre acquirenti. Qui
entrerebbe in gioco anche la conversione in
azioni della societa' dei 50 milioni di dollari
che la International Finance Corporation (IFC) e
la olandese ING Bank hanno versato per il
finanziamento preprivatizzazione della Telekom.
Secondo gli attuali accordi preliminari nel
governo, gli investitori nazionali a quanto
sembra verranno completamente esclusi dalla
privatizzazione, e cio' vuol dire che il 49%
delle azioni non verra' privatizzato, affermano
fonti del governo. Secondo notizie non ufficiali
del governo, per ora ci sono circa 50 societa'
interessate che entro la fine del mese dovranno
dimostrare anche ufficialmente il loro
interesse. Le offerte preliminari andranno
presentate entro luglio. La Telekom macedone
viene considerata come uno degli operatori piu'
avanzati dell'Europa Centrale e Orientale.
Lavora con una rete altamente digitalizzata e
circa 470.000 utenti di linee fisse e 50.000
utenti di telefonia mobile GSM. La societa'
offre una gamma completa di servizi telefonici,
ivi incluso Internet, le trasmissioni via
satellite e i servizi per la trasmissione di
dati. Nell'anno fiscale 1998 la societa' ha
ottenuto redditi per circa 130 milioni di
dollari e generato un utile prima delle imposte,
delle tasse e dell'ammortamento (EBITDA) pari a
63 milioni di dollari. Secondo la bozza del
rapporto di revisione contabile per l'anno
scorso, la societa' ha ottenuto redditi per 177
milioni di dollari e un EBITDA aumentato fino a
111 milioni di dollari.
(Da "I Balcani", http://www.ecn.org/est)
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INCONTRO TRA MILOSEVIC E PAPOULIAS
Kathimerini (Greece)
ATHENS, Saturday, June 3, 2000
Updated: 06/03/2000 13:48 GMT
Papoulias, Milosevic meet in Belgrade
BELGRADE (AFP) - EU governments' "blind obedience" to the Clinton
administration has caused "enormous harm" to Europe and the Balkans,
state news agency Tanjug quoted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as
saying yesterday.
"Blind obedience by the EU governments towards an order of the U.S.
administration has brought harm to the whole of Europe, especially the
Balkans," Milosevic said during a meeting in Belgrade with former
foreign minister Carolos Papoulias, chairman of the Greek Parliament's
foreign policy and defense committee.
"It would be reasonable that the European countries should take account
primarily of the interests of their people, and not the U.S.
administration and its crazy ideas of ruling the whole world," Milosevic
said.
Papoulias expressed the support of the Greek people for Milosevic and
issued congratulations for "the successes that the Yugoslav people have
made in the reconstruction of the country following NATO's aggression"
last year.
He met Serbian President Milan Milutinovic on Thursday.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.canoe.ca/WorldTicker/CANOE-wire.Yugoslavia-Milosevic.html
June 2, 2000
Yugoslav president Milosevic urges Europe to end blind obedience to U.S.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP)
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LA CINA CHIEDE UNA VERIFICA DELLE CONSEGUENZE DEI BOMBARDAMENTI NATO
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200006/03/print20000603_42195.html
Peoples Daily June 3, 2000
China Demands Probe into Impact of NATO Bombing
China has demanded a probe into "the possible severe
violation" of humanitarian law by NATO in its bombing
of Yugoslavia. It says an investigation by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia is necessary.
Chen Xu, representative of the Chinese Mission to the
United Nations, said Friday at a Security Council
meeting that China hopes the tribunal can implement
the law in objective, just way, and not become a
political tool.
This was in response to remarks by Carla del Ponte,
the tribunal' s prosecutor, who said he was very
satisfied that there was no deliberate targeting of
civilian targets by NATO during the bombing campaign.
However, Yugoslav and Western lawyers have produced
numerous complaints and evidence that support the
allegation that NATO forces committed war crimes,
including the bombing of the Serbian television
building in Belgrade.
People's Daily Online ---
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/
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ASSASSINATO IL CONSIGLIERE MILITARE DI DJUKANOVIC
GORAN ZUGIC, ADVISOR TO MILO DJUKANOVIC, SHOT DEAD PODGORICA, June 1
(Tanjug) - Advisor to Montenegrin president for national security Goran
Zugic (39) was killed Wednesday evening in Podgorica. Zugic was killed
outside the apartment building where he lived with his wife and two
children. He, it has been learnt, parked his car and headed for the
entrance to the building when five shots were fired from an automatic
weapon. Zugic was appointed advisor to the Montengerin president for
national security in March 1998. Before that he was security center
chief
in Podgorica and in Herceg Novi. No official statement has been issued
yet
in Podgorica on the murder of Zugic.
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DELEGAZIONE RUSSA E BIELORUSSA A BELGRADO PER DISCUTERE DELLA UNIONE CON
LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
RUSSIA-BELARUS PARLIAMENTARIANS URGE YUGOSLAV ACCESSION TO UNION
BELGRADE,
May 31 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Union
of Russia and Belarus briefed the Yugoslav parliament on Wednesday on
efforts for implementing the treaty setting up the Russia-Belarus Union
state. The Yugoslav parliament's Chamber of Citizens (lower house)
committee on foreign political relations and the Chamber of Republics
(upper house) Committee on foreign political and economic relations were
holding a joint session. The Yugoslav and Union parliamentarians agreed
that the process for Yugoslavia's accession to the Union should be
stepped
up. The Chamber of Republic's Committee Chairman Tomislav Nikolic said
he
hoped Yugoslavia's April 12, 1999 initiative for joining the Union would
be
realised soon, as being in the Union's best interests. Nikolic explained
that "Serbian people must remain Russia's mainstay in this part of
Europe."
Union Parliamentary Assembly delegation head Nikolai Cherginyets, who
co-chairs the Yugoslavia-Union commission, briefed the Yugoslav
parliamentarians on prospects opened for his country, Belarus, by its
union
with Russia. Cherginyets said that the United States and some Western
European countries, which are trying to force the unipolar world model,
are
worried by the setting up of the Union state of Russia and Belarus,
which
might disrupt their plans. He stressed that the majority of people in
Russia and Belarus support the concept of Yugoslavia's accession.
Anatoly
Lukianov of the Assembly's legal commission told the Yugoslav
parliamentarians Russian and Belarus parliamentarians were carefully
reviewing all matters concerning Yugoslavia's accession, especially its
inclusion in economic and political cooperation. Lukianov, who chairs
the
Russian State Duma (lower house) commission for state development,
reiterated unreserved support for Yugoslavia in its self-reliant efforts
to
resist pressure and maintain independence. Russia will always be on the
side of Yugoslavia, he vowed.
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IL SUD AFRICA CONDANNA LE AZIONI DELLA NATO CONTRO LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
http://www.centraleurope.com/features.php3?id=165015
June 1, 2000
Yugoslav, South African Officials Condemn NATO
"Aggression"
During a brief visit to South Africa, Federal Foreign
Minister Zivadin Jovanovic held talks with the
country's vice foreign affairs minister, Aziz Pahad,
in Pretoria.
In a fairly lengthy and friendly meeting, they
exchanged views on international issues and ways of
improving bilateral cooperation. They agreed to speed
up the conclusion of a dozen inter-state agreements,
which will form the framework of future dynamic
political and business relations between Yugoslavia
and South Africa.
Since South Africa is the chairman of the movement,
special attention was devoted to Yugoslavia's
reactivation in the Non-Aligned Movement and to
finding ways to strengthen our country's role in, and
contribution to the Non-Aligned Movement's activities.
They also discussed the situation in both countries.
Minister Jovanovic briefed his hosts on the results of
Yugoslavia's reconstruction after the NATO aggression
last year.
Talking about Kosmet [Kosovo-Metohija], Zivadin
Jovanovic said that Security Council Resolution 1244
was not being implemented and that the "question of
the continuing presence of Kfor [Kosovo Force] and
UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] in
Kosmet is being raised".
Expressing concern about the situation in Kosmet, the
hosts supported the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the FRY and condemned the NATO
aggression.
During the friendly meeting in Pretoria, Zivadin
Jovanovic and his host Aziz Pahad jointly concluded
that the NATO aggression against the FRY had caused
negative consequences in the region, Europe and the
world.
BBC Monitoring/(C) BBC
see also:
http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/2000/news0601
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES QUIET VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG 31 May 2000 Sapa-AP
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SCONTRO TRA GOVERNO E OPPOSIZIONE SUI TRASPORTI PUBBLICI A BELGRADO
Serbia Seizes Transportation Co.
By ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Two weeks after seizing a nongovernment TV
station, Slobodan Milosevic's administration lashed out again Thursday
by
taking over an opposition-run public transport company in the capital.
The decision to take the Belgrade City Transport company from the hands
of
the opposition-run municipal authorities followed a four-day strike by
private carriers which brought public transport in the capital to a
virtual
halt.
``The incapable and irresponsible municipal government in Belgrade has
blocked all vital public services in the capital and created a complete
chaos,'' a government statement on the takeover said.
``The total collapse of public transport in Belgrade has jeopardized
living
and working conditions of all the citizens, as well as functioning of
enterprises, schools, hospitals,'' said the statement carried by the
official
Tanjug news agency.
The takeover was part of a campaign by President Milosevic's government
to
discredit the opposition ahead of municipal elections due by the end of
the
year.
Two weeks ago, the government seized Belgrade's main Studio B television
and
B2-92 radio. The move triggered few days of protests but also revived
traditional differences between Serbia's opposition leaders who could
not
agree on what to do in response.
The mild response to the media takeover obviously encouraged Milosevic
to
move against the transport firm.
In a sign of further rift among Milosevic's opponents, key opposition
leader
Zoran Djindjic admitted Thursday that ``opposition unity so far has been
mostly rhetorical, and even that has been jeopardized.''
Serbia's opposition leaders - formally united in their struggle to oust
Milosevic - have been unable to mount a credible challenge to the
autocratic
president, who has moved to silence critics and independent media.
``The regime is continuing with violence which is destroying the legal
order,'' warned Belgrade's deputy mayor Milan Bozic. ``We fear this
government act could have much more serious consequences then it seems
at
first.''
Announcing the takeover of public transport company, Milosevic's
spokesman
Nikola Sainovic said ``the work (of the transport company) involved a
lot of
criminal deeds.''
The opposition took control over Belgrade and dozens of other Serbian
cities
at municipal elections in 1996. When Milosevic's allies tried to annul
the
opposition victories, they triggered more than three months of street
protests.
In the past four years, Milosevic's government has sought to undermine
the
opposition rule in Belgrade and other cities. The capital's private
carriers
went on strike last Monday after the government refused to allow a rise
in
prices of the transport tickets.
For four days Belgrade residents hitchhiked or competed for available
taxis
to get to work or return home. Shortly after the government session on
Thursday, the private carriers were back in the streets.
Also Thursday, an inspection team was dispatched to the offices of the
Belgrade's own transport company which has been brought to the verge of
bankruptcy after years of Serbia's economic decline and the lack of
funds to
maintain vehicles or import spare parts from abroad.
In Yugoslavia's other republic of Montenegro, a senior official accused
Milosevic's federal government of complicity in the slaying of the
national
security adviser in the republic's pro-independence leadership.
Rifat Rastoder, a deputy speaker of Montenegro's parliament, said the
killing
Wednesday of Goran Zugic was an attempt to create conditions in
Montenegro
that would allow Belgrade to impose a state of emergency.
AP-NY-06-01-00 1507EDT
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Da "Il Manifesto" del 24 Maggio 2000
Haider al palio dell'anello
CROAZIA
L'invito al leader razzista corona l'offensiva di destra
GIACOMO SCOTTI
Continua in Croazia l'offensiva dell'estrema destra che ha
lo scopo dichiarato di seminare il caos nel paese governato
dalla coalizione di centrosinistra. Tutte le occasioni sono
buone. Ieri è stato annunciato che il leader degli
xenofobi-liberali austriaci e governatore della Carinzia
Jorg Haider sarà "ospite d'onore" al 285esimo Palio
dell'Anello: il più celebre torneo cavalleresco della zona
che si corre ogni anno ad agosto dal 1715 nella cittadina
croata di Sinj (retroterra della Dalmazia). La competizione
dei cavalieri in uniformi settecentesche che galoppano
lancia in resta per centrare un anello di ferro ebbe dal
1990 al 1999 per supremo "carambascià" il defunto Franjo
Tudjman. Gli organizzatori, come dimostra l'invito,
accettato, a Haider e da questi accettato sono ancor sempre
estremisti di destra che vorrebbero trasformare l'edizione
2000 in raduno di filonazisti decisi a sferrare un ennesimo
colpo al governo post-tudjmaniano. Il pretesto per invitare
Haider a Sinj è stato trovato nella tradizione popolare
secondo la quale nel villaggio di Pribude, sulle pendici
del monte Svilaja, a una trentina di chilometri da Sinj,
vivono gli Haider croati. Un Haider austriaco, ufficiale
dell'esercito asburgico, dopo la prima guerra mondiale
decise di ritirarsi sul monte dove mise famiglia; i suoi
discendenti stanno ancora lassù.
L'annunciata presenza di Jorge Haider in Croazia è
un'ennesima provocazione, naturalmente, ma preoccupa il
fatto che il governo di Zagabria - condizionato dalla
presenza dei social-liberali di Budisa che non nascondono
la loro parentela con l'Hdz, il loro orientamento
nazionalistico e l'avversione agli antifascisti - lascia
ampi spazio alle sfide dei movimenti estremisti capeggiati
da Anto Djapic, Ivan Gabelica, Mladen Schwartz, Lioyic ed
altri caporioni neonazisti che sono riusciti, anche col
sostegno della destra accadizeta, a mobilitare in più
occasioni parte dei reduci della "guerra patriottica".
Negli ultimi 100 giorni, quasi ogni giorno, i neoustascia
croati, legati alla criminalità organizzata ed a schegge
deviate dei servizi segreti, hanno organizzato provocazioni
fino al tentativo di golpe. Ricordiamone alcune.
A Veljun, nella seconda guerra mondiale gli ustascia
massacrarono 520 civili di etnia serba: lì i neoustascia
hanno impedito agli ex partigiani di deporre corone sul
monumento che ricorda quelle vittime, hanno devastato il
monumento e una donna - fra gli applausi delle camicie nere
- si è calata le mutandine urinando sull'ossario; al
danneggiamento hanno preso parte cinque ufficiali
dell'esercito, ma la polizia ha lasciato fare.
In più comizi, il capo delle camicie nere Djapic ha
minacciato di far scorrere il sangue se i profughi serbi
dovessero tornare alle loro case e pretendessero di
prenderne possesso; il governo non ha reagito. Nella Piazza
dei martiri antifascisti a Zagabria, ribattezzata da
Tudjman "Piazza dei Grandi croati", gli ustascia hanno
aggredito e bastonato gli ex partigiani venuti per
celebrare la Giornata della vittoria sul fascismo; la
polizia ha lasciato fare.
A Bleiburg, in Austria, diverse migliaia di nostalgici
ustascia croati hanno celebrato la "giornata delle vittime"
commemorando con discorsi filonazisti i camerati caduti il
15 maggio '45. A quella manifestazione hanno portato il
saluto e l'adesione del Governo croato, ben tre ministri e
il vicepresidente del Parlamento, tutti social-liberali.
Uno di essi ha detto che "l'esercito partigiano non fu il
nostro esercito", aggiungendo che l'odierna Croazia
indipendente "è nata sulle ossa di questi caduti".
E non si contano le manifestazioni di protesta, organizzate
dai neoustascia, che si susseguono a Gospic, a Spalato, a
Zagabria, a Vukivar a difesa dei criminali di guerra,
contro le "interferenze" del Tribunale internazionale
dell'Aja. Ecco: impedire le indagini sulle stragi in
Croazia, impedire la consegna al tribunale dell'Aja degli
autori di quei crimini; impedire il rientro dei profughi
serbi cacciati dalla Croazia con la pulizia etnica dal 1991
al 1995; impedire la costruzione della democrazia e la
liquidazione delle strutture dell'ex regime; destabilizzare
il paese: questi sono gli obiettivi dei neoustascia e dei
loro alleati in questa sfrenata catena di provocazioni.
Un'esigua minoranza, infiltrata nei più delicati tessuti
dello stato, cerca di gettare la Croazia nel disordine, di
provocare una nuova guerra civile; una minaccia anche per i
paesi vicini dell'aera balcanico-adriatica. L'Europa, e
l'Italia in primo luogo, non può chiudere gli occhi.
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L'UNIONE EUROPEA RICONOSCE IL MONTENEGRO?
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 99, Part II, 23 May 2000
EU HELP FOR MONTENEGRO. EU foreign ministers have
agreed in
Brussels on a $10 million aid package for Montenegro.
The
ministers also pledged unspecified future assistance to
promote democracy, freedom of expression, and
inter-ethnic
relations in the mountainous republic. Meanwhile in
Podgorica, President Milo Djukanovic said that Bodo
Hombach,
who heads the EU's Balkan Stability Pact, recently
promised
him that Montenegro will attend the pact's meeting in
Thessaloniki in July as a full participant, RFE/RL's
South
Slavic Service reported. Montenegro plans to
participate in
some 20 projects that the pact is coordinating,
Djukanovic
added. Montenegro, which under international law is
part of
federal Yugoslavia and not a sovereign state, has
attended
previous meetings of the pact as an observer. PM
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LA CROAZIA INSERITA NELLA "PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE"
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Date: Thursday, May 25, 2000 4:56 AM
Subject: PFP FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT SIGNING CEREMONY WITH CROATIA
>PFP FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT SIGNING CEREMONY
>WITH CROATIA, 25 MAY 2000
>
>Welcoming Remarks by NATO Secretary General
>Lord Robertson
>
>It is a great pleasure for me to welcome Foreign Minister Picula to this
>special meeting of the North Atlantic Council and Croatia. We have
>gathered here today for a historic occasion and are delighted that Croatia
>is about to join the Partnership for Peace and the Euro-Atlantic
>Partnership Council. By accepting the invitation of the North Atlantic
>Council to join PfP and EAPC and by signing the PfP Framework Document
>today, Croatia is about to embark on a new and promising path towards
>enhanced cooperation with like-minded friends and Partners in the
>Euro-Atlantic area.
>
>We have all been impressed by Croatia's landmark changes and the Croatian
>government's commitment to reforms in its domestic and foreign
>policies. Mr. Minister, when I met with you and other officials in Zagreb
>only two months ago, I reaffirmed NATO's willingness to help and encourage
>your country in its ambitious reform programme. At the time, I also
>underscored the wish of the North Atlantic Council to meet your aspirations
>to join PfP at the appropriate time. It is thanks to your personal
>efforts and vision that we are meeting here today and are opening a new
>chapter in NATO-Croatia relations.
>
>In joining PfP, your country is not joining a military alliance. Rather,
>you are taking advantage of the opportunity for practical military and
>defence-related cooperation in a framework flexible enough to accommodate
>countries with widely different security traditions. At the same time, by
>joining PfP and EAPC, you have a unique opportunity to help us shape the
>security environment of South-East Europe, a region still facing many
>challenges. Through her new policies, Croatia is already contributing to
>stability and good-neighbourly relations in her immediate vicinity.
>
> La prochaine étape pour la Croatie sera d'approuver un programme de
>partenariat individuel qui répondra à vos besoins tout en restant en
>harmonie avec les objectifs du Partenariat. Par ailleurs, nous attendons
>avec intérêt les consultations que nous aurons au sein du Conseil de
>partenariat euro-atlantique. Comme vous le savez, le CPEA est devenu un
>précieux forum pour des consultations politiques et une coopération
>pratique d'envergure entre plus de 40 pays de la région euro-atlantique. La
>Croatie sera tout à fait la bienvenue au sein de ce forum.
>
> Nous souhaitons que la nouvelle relation entre l'OTAN et la Croatie
>contribue de façon substantielle à la sécurité et à la stabilité dans
>l'ensemble de la région euro-atlantique.
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DI GORAN ZUGIC SULLA BASE DELLE INTERCETTAZIONI DEI COLLOQUI TELEFONICI
TRA FUNZIONARI DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI STATO USA
> YUGOSLAV MINISTER ACCUSES CIA OF COMPLICITY IN ZUGIC MURDER
> BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Minister of Information on
> Tuesday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of complicity in
> the recent murder of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro's presidential
> security advisor Goran Zugic.
> At a news briefing attended by a large number of domestic and foreign
> reporters, Goran Matic ran an audio tape of a conversation held twenty
> minutes after Zugic's murder by Sean Burns of the U.S. State Department's
> Balkan task force, who is assistant to Richard Holbrooke, with Gabriel
> Escobar Gabe of the economic task force for Montenegro, and their
> conversation of 2 a.m. the next day.
> Matic said this was a specific form that the aggression on Yugoslavia was
> taking, which had been in use since October 1999 as the main form of
> warfare for destroying Yugoslavia.
> "After its political efforts with infiltrated mercenaries and mercenary
> political parties failed, the U.S. Administration, since (last year's)
> aggression on our country, turned last October to subversive and terrorist
> operations on the territory of Yugoslavia in an effort to attain its
> interests, undermine the country's internal stability and show that the
> country is unsafe for its people", Matic said.
> This scenario, according to him, is being implemented in both Serbia and
> Montenegro.
IL PARLAMENTO JUGOSLAVO A CAMERE RIUNITE PER LA VISITA DELL'OSPITE
CINESE
> YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT CALLS SESSION FOR JUNE 12
> BELGRADE, June 6 (Tanjug) - The Speakers of the Yugoslav Parliament's
> Chambers of Citizens (lower house) and Republics (upper house), Milomir
> Minic and Srdja Bozovic, have called the first special joint session for
> June 12.
> The joint session will be addressed by Li Peng, chairman of the Chinese
> National Congress (Parliament) Standing Committee, who will be heading a
> parliamentary delegation on an official state visit to Yugoslavia from June
> 11-13, a Parliament statement said on Tuesday.
> The session has been called on a motion tabled by one-third of the
> deputies to the two chambers, in line with the rules of procedure
> regulating the convention of special sessions, the statement said.
LE POSIZIONI DEI KOSOVARO-ALBANESI JUGOSLAVISTI
> KOSOVO-METOHIJA - ALBANIANS
>
> KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIANS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR MILOSEVIC
> PRISTINA, June 6 (Tanjug) - Kosovo-Metohija's Albanian Democratic Reform
> Party (DRPA) on Tuesday wrote to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
> upholding his policy of togetherness, equality in the province, of peace,
> tolerance and common sense.
> The letter, signed by 828 ethnic Albanians from all over that U.N.-run
> Serbian (Yugoslav) province, says local Albanians are not indifferent to
> the terrorising, murders and expulsions of their non-Albanian neighbours
> and friends.
> "What has been happening over the past year since the deployment of KFor
> (international force) and UNMIK (U.N. civilian mission) in Kosovo-Metohija
> - viz. ethnic cleansing - is the worst crime in human history", the letter
> said.
> The ethnic Albanians stressed the DRPA was confidence of the future of
> Kosovo-Metohija as the home of all ethnic communities and the struggle for
> the equality of all in Kosovo-Metohija, a policy of peace, tolerance and
> common sense.
CONFERENZA ANTI-NATO A SOFIA
> BULGARIA - NATO - CONFERENCE
>
> BULGARIAN CONFERENCE BLASTS WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL AS BIASED, USELESS
> SOFIA, June 6 (Tanjug) - An international conference held to commemorate
> the 1st anniversary of the end of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia
> unanimously condemned the flouting of U.N. Resolution 1244 on
> Kosovo-Metohija.
> The participants - university professors from Moscow, Belgrade, Kragujevac
> and Sofia, authorities on international law and military matters and
> publicists - said flouting of the Resolution had allowed ethnic Albanian
> separatists and terrorists over the past year to wage a war of genocide on
> local Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians.
> Unheard-of violence has been perpetrated in that U.N.-run Serbian
> (Yugoslav) province since the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, international
> police force and peace force KFor were deployed on June 10 last, it was
> noted at the conference, which ended in Sofia late on Monday.
> More than 1,000 Serbs have been murdered, 900 others have been abducted,
> more than 40,000 Serb homes have been plundered and torched.
> This has forced more than 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies, ethnic
> Turks, ethnic Egyptians, ethnic Croats and other non-Albanians to flee
> Kosovo-Metohija, it was noted at the conference.
> The assembled experts offered evidence in support of the fact that
> Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Yugoslavia and that Resolution 1244
> guarantees the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Yugoslavia.
> They demanded that the biased international war crimes tribunal for the
> former Yugoslavia in the Hague be abolished for throwing out of court
> complaints against NATO, which had perpetrated an aggression against
> Yugoslavia in March-June 1999, killing more than 2,000 civilians and
> violating the U.N. Charter and international legal norms of 50 years'
> standing.
> Professor Zakhary Zakhariev of the Bulgarian Slaviani Foundation, which
> organised the conference, announced for October another conference of
> experts from the Balkan countries, as well as from eastern and western
> countries, under UNESCO's auspices.
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AEREO SPIA DELLA NATO ATTERRA NELLA FYROM
NATO Spy Plane Lands in Macedonia
The Associated Press
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - A unmanned NATO spy plane lost power on a
mission
over southern Kosovo and was forced to make a parachute landing early
Saturday, a U.S. Army statement said.
The small U.S. plane, called Hunter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, went down
just
after midnight inside Macedonia, within two miles of the Kosovo border,
the
statement said without providing details.
It was unknown if the plane had been damaged. U.S. army officials in the
peacekeeping force in Kosovo were reportedly working with Macedonia's
government to recover the aircraft.
It was the second time in two weeks that an unmanned NATO aircraft was
forced
to make an unscheduled landing in the area. A British ``Phoenix'' was
forced
last week to make a parachute landing in the ground safety zone, which
is the
three mile buffer zone along Kosovo's boundary with Serbia proper,
sources in
the NATO-led mission said.
The border is patrolled by NATO aircraft to give early warning of any
potential intrusions. However, the ``Phoenix'' aircraft was recovered by
Yugoslav forces.
AP-NY-06-03-00 1637EDT
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LA SITUAZIONE POLITICA NELLA REPUBBLICA SERBA DI BOSNIA
Bosnian Serb leader sets up new party
SARAJEVO, June 4 (Reuters) - The former Bosnian Serb President and head
of
the Serb National Alliance (SNS) Biljana Plavsic said she would form a
new
party after the SNS had passed a no-confidence vote against her, Bosnian
radio reported.
The SNS on Saturday passed the no-confidence vote against Plavsic, who
was
blamed for the party's weak perfomrance at Bosnia's municipal elections
in
April.
Plavsic, who last month offered to resign as party leader along with six
SNS
vice presidents, said the new party would be called the Serb National
Alliance - Biljana Plavsic, the radio said on Sunday.
The SNS is a member of the Bosnian Serb ruling Sloga (Unity) coalition
together with the Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) of Prime
Minister Milorad Dodik and the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).
The DSP was formed in April by officials of the Socialist Party (SPRS)
who
continued to support Dodik after the SPRS had left Sloga.
Plavsic's new party will have only one deputy in the Bosnian Serb
parliament
among the total of 11 SNS deputies. It is expected to remain in the
Sloga
coalition.
It is still unclear whether the other party will keep the same name and
also
remain in Sloga.
Post-war Bosnia comprises the Serb republic and the Moslem-Croat
federation.
08:33 06-04-00
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VANDALI NEGLI UFFICI DELLA JUL A BELGRADO
Office of ruling Serbia party in Belgrade wrecked
BELGRADE, June 4 (Reuters) - A Belgrade office of the Yugoslav Left
(JUL), a
partner in Serbia's ruling coalition, was smashed up overnight, the
party
said on Sunday blaming the opposition for the attack.
In a statement carried by state news agency Tanjug, the party said its
offices in Belgrade's Zvezdara municipality were broken into on Saturday
night, technical equipment destroyed and documents scattered, but that
nothing was missing.
``This is the way those who call themselves the democratic opposition
are
trying to teach democracy lessons to JUL with the help of their shock
troops
whom they call Otpor, (Resistance),'' the statement said.
In April, an explosion rocked the offices of a Belgrade branch of the
Socialist Party of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and three days
later provincial offices of its coalition partner JUL, which is
controlled by
his wife Mira Markovic.
The authorities have stepped up their crackdown on the opposition over
the
past two weeks, accusing it and the student-based Otpor movement of
being
behind mysterious assassinations of opposition and underworld figures.
Calling the opposition ``lackeys of the West'' with the aim of
destabilising
the country, authorities have proposed a new law to combat it.
``Like their NATO mentors did a year ago, they are waging their dirty
little
war against our country and our people, targeting those who prove all
the
time how much they care about this people and this country,'' the JUL
statement said.
The opposition has denied any involvement in attacks or murders and said
the
proposed law is designed to intimidate those joining anti-government
protests.
13:14 06-04-00
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LE PRIVATIZZAZIONI IN MACEDONIA
di Neda Popovska - ("Dnevnik", 19 aprile 2000)
[Segue piu' sotto un articolo piu' breve
riguardante specificamente l'imminente
privatizzazione della Telekom macedone]
IL MODELLO DELLE PROPRIETA' IN MACEDONIA
Il premier Ljubco Georgievski ha dichiarato che
entro la fine dell'anno giungera' alla
conclusione la privatizzazione del capitale
pubblico e comincera' pertanto il periodo post-
privatizzazioni. Di 1.600 imprese che,
complessivamente, sono oggetto delle
privatizzazioni, entro la fine dell'anno scorso
ne sono state privatizzate 1.448, nelle quali
lavorano circa 217.000 persone. Il valore
complessivo delle imprese privatizzate e' di
circa 4 miliardi di DM. L'Agenzia per le
privatizzazioni offre in vendita 49 aziende, con
un valore complessivo di circa 195 milioni di
DM. Le privatizzazioni verranno effettuate nel
paese tramite il cosiddetto "acquisto da parte
della gestione", cioe' con l'acquisto da parte
dei dipendenti e con la vendita di una quota di
maggioranza del capitale azionario delle aziende
stesse. Gli investitori sono maggiormente
interessati alle imprese industriali, 415 delle
quali sono state finora privatizzate. Al secondo
posto si trovano le aziende agricole e quelle
commerciali. Il numero minore di aziende
privatizzate, complessivamente 48, lo si ha nel
settore del turismo. Per quanto riguarda le
dimensioni delle aziende, il maggior numero di
quelle privatizzate sono piccole imprese,
complessivamente 977, mentre solo 229 sono
grandi aziende.
L'INIZIO DELLE PRIVATIZZAZIONI IN MACEDONIA
Il processo di privatizzazione e' cominciato nel
paese nel 1989, con la legge dell'allora premier
jugoslavo, Ante Markovic. In base a tale legge,
le azioni delle imprese venivano distribuite ai
rispettivi dipendenti. In tale modo, in
Macedonia circa 600 imprese sono state
trasformate in societa' per azioni. Dopo
l'indipendenza, dichiarata nel 1991, la
Macedonia ha abbandonato la legge Markovic. Due
anni dopo e' stata approvata una nuova Legge
sulla trasformazione del capitale pubblico. Gli
obiettivi principali di tale legge erano:
determinazione del proprietario che deteneva la
quota di controllo del capitale azionario
dell'impresa, ottenimento di investimenti esteri
e sviluppo del mercato dei capitali. Le
privatizzazioni hanno in Macedonia un "approccio
commerciale", vale a dire che la privatizzazione
delle aziende avviene "caso per caso". Il
processo viene diretto dall'Agenzia per le
privatizzazioni, che fa regolarmente rapporto al
Governo e di fronte al Parlamento - spiega
Slobodanka Ristovska, direttrice dell'Agenzia.
LO SCHEMA MACEDONE DELLE PRIVATIZZAZIONI
Del capitale azionario totale di un'impresa
circa il 30 per cento viene offerto ai
dipendenti, sotto forma di azioni ordinarie, con
alcune variazioni di percentuale a seconda del
tipo di privatizzazione. Circa il 15 per cento
del capitale dell'impresa viene trasferito al
Fondo pensioni e previdenza sociale, che puo'
vendere tali azioni in borsa. La rimanente parte
del capitale dell'impresa viene offerto in
vendita a tutti gli investitori locali o esteri
interessati. Il valore del capitale destinato
alla vendita e' di circa 4,6 miliardi di DM, che
rappresenta per la maggior parte imprese il cui
capitale e' stato trasformato. Le altre imprese
sono in corso di privatizzazione. L'Agenzia
vende proprieta' per un valore di 1 miliardo di
DM, mentre il capitale venduto dal Fondo di
previdenza sociale e' di 251 milioni di DM.
PERCHE' E' STATA CAMBIATA LA LEGGE?
La Corte Costituzionale ha emesso l'anno scorso
una sentenza secondo cui devono essere
modificati alcuni articoli della Legge che
regola la privatizzazione del capitale pubblico.
Prima dell'approvazione delle modifica, e' stata
sospesa la privatizzazione di circa 150 imprese
del paese. Con le modifiche, tutte le imprese
che non hanno terminato il processo di
privatizzazione entro la meta' dell'anno scorso
vengono iscritte in un registro commerciale in
base al capitale esistente. La successiva
procedura di vendita delle azioni da parte degli
azionisti della societa' deve proseguire in
bosrsa. La vendita delle quote delle societa' a
responsabilita' limitata, invece, viene
effettuata attraverso un'asta pubblica - come
spiega Ristovska. Con le modifiche della legge,
la vendita del capitale statale delle imprese in
perdita e di quelle per le quali sara' il
Governo a decidere viene effettuata mediante
l'individuazione di un investitore strategico.
I PROBLEMI DELLE PRIVATIZZAZIONI
La comparsa di numerosi sindacati guidati
dall'Alleanza dei Sindacati della Macedonia e
dall'Unione dei Sindacati Indipendenti e' una
testimonianza del fatto che i piu' insoddisfatti
del processo di privatizzazione sono i
lavoratori delle imprese, e in particolare
coloro che sono stati dichiarati "eccedenze
tecnologiche". La maggior parte dei sindacati
delle grande imprese chiede una revisione
completa della privatizzazione delle rispettive
aziende, sostenendo che sono stati compiuti
innumerevoli atti illegali e frodi. Secondo
quanto affermano i lavoratori, un gran numero di
azioni e' stato sottratto loro senza la loro
approvazione e con la minaccia che avrebbero
perso il posto di lavoro se non avessero venduto
le azioni. L'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni, da
parte sua, si lamenta invece del pagamento non
regolare delle azioni con sconti da parte delle
societa' per azioni. Se gli azionisti non pagano
le azioni entro un termine prestabilito,
l'Agenzia le ritira ed e' autorizzata a venderle
in borsa. All'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni e'
stato calcolato che per il mancato rispetto
degli obblighi di pagamento, gli azionisti
rischiano di perdere il diritto a capitale per
149 milioni di DM. Secondo le analisi
dell'Agenzia, gli azionisti hanno gia' perso il
diritto a circa 80 milioni di DM di capitale.
Solo l'anno scorso, all'Agenzia per le
privatizzazioni sono giunte circa 200 richieste
per l'effettuazione di controlli sulle procedure
di privatizzazione. La maggior parte di esse
proviene da persone fisiche e tramite
ingiunzioni di tribunale, mentre solo una parte
ridotta proviene da persone giuridiche. In 114
imprese e' gia' stato effettuato un controllo e
l'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni e' stata resa
parte di 97 procedimenti in tribunale. La
maggior parte delle dispute e' ancora in corso,
e in 22 casi il processo e' terminato a favore
dell'Agenzia.
DOVE VANNO A FINIRE I SOLDI REALIZZATI CON LE
PRIVATIZZAZIONI?
Dei soldi in contanti ottenuti con le
privatizzazioni, l'anno scorso circa 1,8 milioni
di DM sono stati spesi per le spese correnti
dell'Agenzia per le privatizzazioni. Nel
bilancio statale sono stati versati 4,8 milioni
di DM, e 232.000 DM sono stati spesi per le
obbligazioni delle aziende "Staklara"-DOO e
"Zastita". Parte dei fondi ottenuti con le
privatizzazioni vengono utilizzati per il
finanziamento della NEPA nell'ambito del
programma PHARE. In conseguenza dei risultati
ottenuti dalla trasformazione delle aziende, il
budget dell'Agenzia e' aumentato fino a
raggiungere circa 2,9 milioni di GM. La
rimanente parte e' stata utilizzata per
l'aumento delle collocazioni presso le banche.
Nel corso delle privatizzazioni la maggior parte
degli investitori ha pagato attraverso
versamenti su conti, addirittura il 77 per
cento, mentre la minore parte di essi e' ricorsa
a obbligazioni.
LA PRIVATIZZAZIONE DELLA TELEKOM E DELLA ESM
Il FMI ha chiesto al governo di effettuare una
privatizzazione parziale del settore pubblico,
al fine di aumentare la concorrenza tra le
imprese. E' in tale settore che si trovano i
sistemi infrastrutturali piu' grandi, nei quali
sono dominanti le imprese pubbliche: la
distribuzione dell'energia elettrica,
l'amministrazione delle acque, le ferrovie, le
telecomunicazioni, che sono tutti monopoli. Il
capitale statale destinato a essere privatizzato
ha un valore di 227 milioni di DM. La Telekom
verra' messa in vendita entro la fine dell'anno.
Il governo deve decidere quale quota del suo
capitale verra' offerto in vendita a un partner
strategico. Sono in corso preparativi anche per
la privatizzazione dell'impresa pubblica
Elektrostopanstvo na Makedonija [ESM - la
societa' elettrica di stato macedone],
unitamente alla vendita degli alberghi di
proprieta' di tale azienda. La ESM ha annunciato
la vendita anche di una parte delle sue
capacita', come la produzione, la distribuzione
e il trasporto dell'energia elettrica. Parte
dell'opinione pubblica ritiene la vendita della
Telekom macedone come la vendita del "gioiello
di famiglia".
Durante la sua ultima seduta, la Commissione per
le riforme ha proposto alcune misure per una
piu' rapida conclusione delle privatizzazioni.
Queste ultime verranno condotte con l'aiuto dei
manager, con la concessione di capitali in
prestito, nonche' con il rinnovo del Fondo per
la previdenza sociale. Queste misure
riguarderanno un capitale pubblico del valore
complessivo di circa 700 milioni di DM, che
costituiscono solo una parte del capitale
pubblico del paese, pari a 4 miliardi di DM.
LA FRANCESE ALCATEL E LA GRECA OTE IN LIZZA PER
LA TELEKOM MACEDONE
di Diana Mladenovska - ("Dnevnik", 5 maggio 2000)
In contrasto con le voci secondo cui la vendita
della Telekom macedone e' stata concordata in
anticipo a favore della societa' greca OTE,
fonti del governo hanno indicato l'operatore
francese di telefonia mobile Alcatel come uno
dei soggetti piu' seriamente interessati alle
azioni di questa redditizia impresa pubblica.
Tali fonti affermano anche che il pacchetto di
controllo del 51% delle azioni non verra'
venduto a una sola societa', e che invece il
governo intende suddividere in quote uguali tale
percentuale tra due-tre acquirenti. Qui
entrerebbe in gioco anche la conversione in
azioni della societa' dei 50 milioni di dollari
che la International Finance Corporation (IFC) e
la olandese ING Bank hanno versato per il
finanziamento preprivatizzazione della Telekom.
Secondo gli attuali accordi preliminari nel
governo, gli investitori nazionali a quanto
sembra verranno completamente esclusi dalla
privatizzazione, e cio' vuol dire che il 49%
delle azioni non verra' privatizzato, affermano
fonti del governo. Secondo notizie non ufficiali
del governo, per ora ci sono circa 50 societa'
interessate che entro la fine del mese dovranno
dimostrare anche ufficialmente il loro
interesse. Le offerte preliminari andranno
presentate entro luglio. La Telekom macedone
viene considerata come uno degli operatori piu'
avanzati dell'Europa Centrale e Orientale.
Lavora con una rete altamente digitalizzata e
circa 470.000 utenti di linee fisse e 50.000
utenti di telefonia mobile GSM. La societa'
offre una gamma completa di servizi telefonici,
ivi incluso Internet, le trasmissioni via
satellite e i servizi per la trasmissione di
dati. Nell'anno fiscale 1998 la societa' ha
ottenuto redditi per circa 130 milioni di
dollari e generato un utile prima delle imposte,
delle tasse e dell'ammortamento (EBITDA) pari a
63 milioni di dollari. Secondo la bozza del
rapporto di revisione contabile per l'anno
scorso, la societa' ha ottenuto redditi per 177
milioni di dollari e un EBITDA aumentato fino a
111 milioni di dollari.
(Da "I Balcani", http://www.ecn.org/est)
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INCONTRO TRA MILOSEVIC E PAPOULIAS
Kathimerini (Greece)
ATHENS, Saturday, June 3, 2000
Updated: 06/03/2000 13:48 GMT
Papoulias, Milosevic meet in Belgrade
BELGRADE (AFP) - EU governments' "blind obedience" to the Clinton
administration has caused "enormous harm" to Europe and the Balkans,
state news agency Tanjug quoted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as
saying yesterday.
"Blind obedience by the EU governments towards an order of the U.S.
administration has brought harm to the whole of Europe, especially the
Balkans," Milosevic said during a meeting in Belgrade with former
foreign minister Carolos Papoulias, chairman of the Greek Parliament's
foreign policy and defense committee.
"It would be reasonable that the European countries should take account
primarily of the interests of their people, and not the U.S.
administration and its crazy ideas of ruling the whole world," Milosevic
said.
Papoulias expressed the support of the Greek people for Milosevic and
issued congratulations for "the successes that the Yugoslav people have
made in the reconstruction of the country following NATO's aggression"
last year.
He met Serbian President Milan Milutinovic on Thursday.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.canoe.ca/WorldTicker/CANOE-wire.Yugoslavia-Milosevic.html
June 2, 2000
Yugoslav president Milosevic urges Europe to end blind obedience to U.S.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP)
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LA CINA CHIEDE UNA VERIFICA DELLE CONSEGUENZE DEI BOMBARDAMENTI NATO
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200006/03/print20000603_42195.html
Peoples Daily June 3, 2000
China Demands Probe into Impact of NATO Bombing
China has demanded a probe into "the possible severe
violation" of humanitarian law by NATO in its bombing
of Yugoslavia. It says an investigation by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia is necessary.
Chen Xu, representative of the Chinese Mission to the
United Nations, said Friday at a Security Council
meeting that China hopes the tribunal can implement
the law in objective, just way, and not become a
political tool.
This was in response to remarks by Carla del Ponte,
the tribunal' s prosecutor, who said he was very
satisfied that there was no deliberate targeting of
civilian targets by NATO during the bombing campaign.
However, Yugoslav and Western lawyers have produced
numerous complaints and evidence that support the
allegation that NATO forces committed war crimes,
including the bombing of the Serbian television
building in Belgrade.
People's Daily Online ---
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/
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ASSASSINATO IL CONSIGLIERE MILITARE DI DJUKANOVIC
GORAN ZUGIC, ADVISOR TO MILO DJUKANOVIC, SHOT DEAD PODGORICA, June 1
(Tanjug) - Advisor to Montenegrin president for national security Goran
Zugic (39) was killed Wednesday evening in Podgorica. Zugic was killed
outside the apartment building where he lived with his wife and two
children. He, it has been learnt, parked his car and headed for the
entrance to the building when five shots were fired from an automatic
weapon. Zugic was appointed advisor to the Montengerin president for
national security in March 1998. Before that he was security center
chief
in Podgorica and in Herceg Novi. No official statement has been issued
yet
in Podgorica on the murder of Zugic.
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DELEGAZIONE RUSSA E BIELORUSSA A BELGRADO PER DISCUTERE DELLA UNIONE CON
LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
RUSSIA-BELARUS PARLIAMENTARIANS URGE YUGOSLAV ACCESSION TO UNION
BELGRADE,
May 31 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Union
of Russia and Belarus briefed the Yugoslav parliament on Wednesday on
efforts for implementing the treaty setting up the Russia-Belarus Union
state. The Yugoslav parliament's Chamber of Citizens (lower house)
committee on foreign political relations and the Chamber of Republics
(upper house) Committee on foreign political and economic relations were
holding a joint session. The Yugoslav and Union parliamentarians agreed
that the process for Yugoslavia's accession to the Union should be
stepped
up. The Chamber of Republic's Committee Chairman Tomislav Nikolic said
he
hoped Yugoslavia's April 12, 1999 initiative for joining the Union would
be
realised soon, as being in the Union's best interests. Nikolic explained
that "Serbian people must remain Russia's mainstay in this part of
Europe."
Union Parliamentary Assembly delegation head Nikolai Cherginyets, who
co-chairs the Yugoslavia-Union commission, briefed the Yugoslav
parliamentarians on prospects opened for his country, Belarus, by its
union
with Russia. Cherginyets said that the United States and some Western
European countries, which are trying to force the unipolar world model,
are
worried by the setting up of the Union state of Russia and Belarus,
which
might disrupt their plans. He stressed that the majority of people in
Russia and Belarus support the concept of Yugoslavia's accession.
Anatoly
Lukianov of the Assembly's legal commission told the Yugoslav
parliamentarians Russian and Belarus parliamentarians were carefully
reviewing all matters concerning Yugoslavia's accession, especially its
inclusion in economic and political cooperation. Lukianov, who chairs
the
Russian State Duma (lower house) commission for state development,
reiterated unreserved support for Yugoslavia in its self-reliant efforts
to
resist pressure and maintain independence. Russia will always be on the
side of Yugoslavia, he vowed.
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IL SUD AFRICA CONDANNA LE AZIONI DELLA NATO CONTRO LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
http://www.centraleurope.com/features.php3?id=165015
June 1, 2000
Yugoslav, South African Officials Condemn NATO
"Aggression"
During a brief visit to South Africa, Federal Foreign
Minister Zivadin Jovanovic held talks with the
country's vice foreign affairs minister, Aziz Pahad,
in Pretoria.
In a fairly lengthy and friendly meeting, they
exchanged views on international issues and ways of
improving bilateral cooperation. They agreed to speed
up the conclusion of a dozen inter-state agreements,
which will form the framework of future dynamic
political and business relations between Yugoslavia
and South Africa.
Since South Africa is the chairman of the movement,
special attention was devoted to Yugoslavia's
reactivation in the Non-Aligned Movement and to
finding ways to strengthen our country's role in, and
contribution to the Non-Aligned Movement's activities.
They also discussed the situation in both countries.
Minister Jovanovic briefed his hosts on the results of
Yugoslavia's reconstruction after the NATO aggression
last year.
Talking about Kosmet [Kosovo-Metohija], Zivadin
Jovanovic said that Security Council Resolution 1244
was not being implemented and that the "question of
the continuing presence of Kfor [Kosovo Force] and
UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] in
Kosmet is being raised".
Expressing concern about the situation in Kosmet, the
hosts supported the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the FRY and condemned the NATO
aggression.
During the friendly meeting in Pretoria, Zivadin
Jovanovic and his host Aziz Pahad jointly concluded
that the NATO aggression against the FRY had caused
negative consequences in the region, Europe and the
world.
BBC Monitoring/(C) BBC
see also:
http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/2000/news0601
YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES QUIET VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG 31 May 2000 Sapa-AP
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SCONTRO TRA GOVERNO E OPPOSIZIONE SUI TRASPORTI PUBBLICI A BELGRADO
Serbia Seizes Transportation Co.
By ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Two weeks after seizing a nongovernment TV
station, Slobodan Milosevic's administration lashed out again Thursday
by
taking over an opposition-run public transport company in the capital.
The decision to take the Belgrade City Transport company from the hands
of
the opposition-run municipal authorities followed a four-day strike by
private carriers which brought public transport in the capital to a
virtual
halt.
``The incapable and irresponsible municipal government in Belgrade has
blocked all vital public services in the capital and created a complete
chaos,'' a government statement on the takeover said.
``The total collapse of public transport in Belgrade has jeopardized
living
and working conditions of all the citizens, as well as functioning of
enterprises, schools, hospitals,'' said the statement carried by the
official
Tanjug news agency.
The takeover was part of a campaign by President Milosevic's government
to
discredit the opposition ahead of municipal elections due by the end of
the
year.
Two weeks ago, the government seized Belgrade's main Studio B television
and
B2-92 radio. The move triggered few days of protests but also revived
traditional differences between Serbia's opposition leaders who could
not
agree on what to do in response.
The mild response to the media takeover obviously encouraged Milosevic
to
move against the transport firm.
In a sign of further rift among Milosevic's opponents, key opposition
leader
Zoran Djindjic admitted Thursday that ``opposition unity so far has been
mostly rhetorical, and even that has been jeopardized.''
Serbia's opposition leaders - formally united in their struggle to oust
Milosevic - have been unable to mount a credible challenge to the
autocratic
president, who has moved to silence critics and independent media.
``The regime is continuing with violence which is destroying the legal
order,'' warned Belgrade's deputy mayor Milan Bozic. ``We fear this
government act could have much more serious consequences then it seems
at
first.''
Announcing the takeover of public transport company, Milosevic's
spokesman
Nikola Sainovic said ``the work (of the transport company) involved a
lot of
criminal deeds.''
The opposition took control over Belgrade and dozens of other Serbian
cities
at municipal elections in 1996. When Milosevic's allies tried to annul
the
opposition victories, they triggered more than three months of street
protests.
In the past four years, Milosevic's government has sought to undermine
the
opposition rule in Belgrade and other cities. The capital's private
carriers
went on strike last Monday after the government refused to allow a rise
in
prices of the transport tickets.
For four days Belgrade residents hitchhiked or competed for available
taxis
to get to work or return home. Shortly after the government session on
Thursday, the private carriers were back in the streets.
Also Thursday, an inspection team was dispatched to the offices of the
Belgrade's own transport company which has been brought to the verge of
bankruptcy after years of Serbia's economic decline and the lack of
funds to
maintain vehicles or import spare parts from abroad.
In Yugoslavia's other republic of Montenegro, a senior official accused
Milosevic's federal government of complicity in the slaying of the
national
security adviser in the republic's pro-independence leadership.
Rifat Rastoder, a deputy speaker of Montenegro's parliament, said the
killing
Wednesday of Goran Zugic was an attempt to create conditions in
Montenegro
that would allow Belgrade to impose a state of emergency.
AP-NY-06-01-00 1507EDT
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Da "Il Manifesto" del 24 Maggio 2000
Haider al palio dell'anello
CROAZIA
L'invito al leader razzista corona l'offensiva di destra
GIACOMO SCOTTI
Continua in Croazia l'offensiva dell'estrema destra che ha
lo scopo dichiarato di seminare il caos nel paese governato
dalla coalizione di centrosinistra. Tutte le occasioni sono
buone. Ieri è stato annunciato che il leader degli
xenofobi-liberali austriaci e governatore della Carinzia
Jorg Haider sarà "ospite d'onore" al 285esimo Palio
dell'Anello: il più celebre torneo cavalleresco della zona
che si corre ogni anno ad agosto dal 1715 nella cittadina
croata di Sinj (retroterra della Dalmazia). La competizione
dei cavalieri in uniformi settecentesche che galoppano
lancia in resta per centrare un anello di ferro ebbe dal
1990 al 1999 per supremo "carambascià" il defunto Franjo
Tudjman. Gli organizzatori, come dimostra l'invito,
accettato, a Haider e da questi accettato sono ancor sempre
estremisti di destra che vorrebbero trasformare l'edizione
2000 in raduno di filonazisti decisi a sferrare un ennesimo
colpo al governo post-tudjmaniano. Il pretesto per invitare
Haider a Sinj è stato trovato nella tradizione popolare
secondo la quale nel villaggio di Pribude, sulle pendici
del monte Svilaja, a una trentina di chilometri da Sinj,
vivono gli Haider croati. Un Haider austriaco, ufficiale
dell'esercito asburgico, dopo la prima guerra mondiale
decise di ritirarsi sul monte dove mise famiglia; i suoi
discendenti stanno ancora lassù.
L'annunciata presenza di Jorge Haider in Croazia è
un'ennesima provocazione, naturalmente, ma preoccupa il
fatto che il governo di Zagabria - condizionato dalla
presenza dei social-liberali di Budisa che non nascondono
la loro parentela con l'Hdz, il loro orientamento
nazionalistico e l'avversione agli antifascisti - lascia
ampi spazio alle sfide dei movimenti estremisti capeggiati
da Anto Djapic, Ivan Gabelica, Mladen Schwartz, Lioyic ed
altri caporioni neonazisti che sono riusciti, anche col
sostegno della destra accadizeta, a mobilitare in più
occasioni parte dei reduci della "guerra patriottica".
Negli ultimi 100 giorni, quasi ogni giorno, i neoustascia
croati, legati alla criminalità organizzata ed a schegge
deviate dei servizi segreti, hanno organizzato provocazioni
fino al tentativo di golpe. Ricordiamone alcune.
A Veljun, nella seconda guerra mondiale gli ustascia
massacrarono 520 civili di etnia serba: lì i neoustascia
hanno impedito agli ex partigiani di deporre corone sul
monumento che ricorda quelle vittime, hanno devastato il
monumento e una donna - fra gli applausi delle camicie nere
- si è calata le mutandine urinando sull'ossario; al
danneggiamento hanno preso parte cinque ufficiali
dell'esercito, ma la polizia ha lasciato fare.
In più comizi, il capo delle camicie nere Djapic ha
minacciato di far scorrere il sangue se i profughi serbi
dovessero tornare alle loro case e pretendessero di
prenderne possesso; il governo non ha reagito. Nella Piazza
dei martiri antifascisti a Zagabria, ribattezzata da
Tudjman "Piazza dei Grandi croati", gli ustascia hanno
aggredito e bastonato gli ex partigiani venuti per
celebrare la Giornata della vittoria sul fascismo; la
polizia ha lasciato fare.
A Bleiburg, in Austria, diverse migliaia di nostalgici
ustascia croati hanno celebrato la "giornata delle vittime"
commemorando con discorsi filonazisti i camerati caduti il
15 maggio '45. A quella manifestazione hanno portato il
saluto e l'adesione del Governo croato, ben tre ministri e
il vicepresidente del Parlamento, tutti social-liberali.
Uno di essi ha detto che "l'esercito partigiano non fu il
nostro esercito", aggiungendo che l'odierna Croazia
indipendente "è nata sulle ossa di questi caduti".
E non si contano le manifestazioni di protesta, organizzate
dai neoustascia, che si susseguono a Gospic, a Spalato, a
Zagabria, a Vukivar a difesa dei criminali di guerra,
contro le "interferenze" del Tribunale internazionale
dell'Aja. Ecco: impedire le indagini sulle stragi in
Croazia, impedire la consegna al tribunale dell'Aja degli
autori di quei crimini; impedire il rientro dei profughi
serbi cacciati dalla Croazia con la pulizia etnica dal 1991
al 1995; impedire la costruzione della democrazia e la
liquidazione delle strutture dell'ex regime; destabilizzare
il paese: questi sono gli obiettivi dei neoustascia e dei
loro alleati in questa sfrenata catena di provocazioni.
Un'esigua minoranza, infiltrata nei più delicati tessuti
dello stato, cerca di gettare la Croazia nel disordine, di
provocare una nuova guerra civile; una minaccia anche per i
paesi vicini dell'aera balcanico-adriatica. L'Europa, e
l'Italia in primo luogo, non può chiudere gli occhi.
---
L'UNIONE EUROPEA RICONOSCE IL MONTENEGRO?
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 99, Part II, 23 May 2000
EU HELP FOR MONTENEGRO. EU foreign ministers have
agreed in
Brussels on a $10 million aid package for Montenegro.
The
ministers also pledged unspecified future assistance to
promote democracy, freedom of expression, and
inter-ethnic
relations in the mountainous republic. Meanwhile in
Podgorica, President Milo Djukanovic said that Bodo
Hombach,
who heads the EU's Balkan Stability Pact, recently
promised
him that Montenegro will attend the pact's meeting in
Thessaloniki in July as a full participant, RFE/RL's
South
Slavic Service reported. Montenegro plans to
participate in
some 20 projects that the pact is coordinating,
Djukanovic
added. Montenegro, which under international law is
part of
federal Yugoslavia and not a sovereign state, has
attended
previous meetings of the pact as an observer. PM
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LA CROAZIA INSERITA NELLA "PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE"
-----Original Message-----
From: NATODOC <natodoc@...>
To: NATODATA@...
<NATODATA@...>
Date: Thursday, May 25, 2000 4:56 AM
Subject: PFP FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT SIGNING CEREMONY WITH CROATIA
>PFP FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT SIGNING CEREMONY
>WITH CROATIA, 25 MAY 2000
>
>Welcoming Remarks by NATO Secretary General
>Lord Robertson
>
>It is a great pleasure for me to welcome Foreign Minister Picula to this
>special meeting of the North Atlantic Council and Croatia. We have
>gathered here today for a historic occasion and are delighted that Croatia
>is about to join the Partnership for Peace and the Euro-Atlantic
>Partnership Council. By accepting the invitation of the North Atlantic
>Council to join PfP and EAPC and by signing the PfP Framework Document
>today, Croatia is about to embark on a new and promising path towards
>enhanced cooperation with like-minded friends and Partners in the
>Euro-Atlantic area.
>
>We have all been impressed by Croatia's landmark changes and the Croatian
>government's commitment to reforms in its domestic and foreign
>policies. Mr. Minister, when I met with you and other officials in Zagreb
>only two months ago, I reaffirmed NATO's willingness to help and encourage
>your country in its ambitious reform programme. At the time, I also
>underscored the wish of the North Atlantic Council to meet your aspirations
>to join PfP at the appropriate time. It is thanks to your personal
>efforts and vision that we are meeting here today and are opening a new
>chapter in NATO-Croatia relations.
>
>In joining PfP, your country is not joining a military alliance. Rather,
>you are taking advantage of the opportunity for practical military and
>defence-related cooperation in a framework flexible enough to accommodate
>countries with widely different security traditions. At the same time, by
>joining PfP and EAPC, you have a unique opportunity to help us shape the
>security environment of South-East Europe, a region still facing many
>challenges. Through her new policies, Croatia is already contributing to
>stability and good-neighbourly relations in her immediate vicinity.
>
> La prochaine étape pour la Croatie sera d'approuver un programme de
>partenariat individuel qui répondra à vos besoins tout en restant en
>harmonie avec les objectifs du Partenariat. Par ailleurs, nous attendons
>avec intérêt les consultations que nous aurons au sein du Conseil de
>partenariat euro-atlantique. Comme vous le savez, le CPEA est devenu un
>précieux forum pour des consultations politiques et une coopération
>pratique d'envergure entre plus de 40 pays de la région euro-atlantique. La
>Croatie sera tout à fait la bienvenue au sein de ce forum.
>
> Nous souhaitons que la nouvelle relation entre l'OTAN et la Croatie
>contribue de façon substantielle à la sécurité et à la stabilité dans
>l'ensemble de la région euro-atlantique.
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La Fondazione Transnazionale per la Ricerca sulla Pace ed il Futuro
(TFF), che ha sede in Svezia [ http://www.transnational.org ],
si e' vista tagliare i fondi statali dal Ministero degli esteri svedese
- che pure elargisce cifre consistenti ad organizzazioni non-governative
anche in assenza di adeguata documentazione - e rischia cosi' di dover
interrompere la sua attivita'.
La motivazione e' chiaramente politica, visto che la TFF e' molto attiva
nella analisi e prevenzione dei conflitti nello scenario balcanico, dove
si e' guadagnata un ruolo di primo piano tra le tante organizzazioni
straniere presenti, la maggior parte delle quali dimostrano di avere
solo un ruolo "ancillare" alla penetrazione occidentale nell'area.
Viceversa, la TFF ha avuto il coraggio di vedere e far vedere il ruolo
perverso troppo spesso giocato dalle organizzazioni internazionali
(OSCE, UE, NATO, ecc.), parlandone ad esempio nel recente opuscolo
"Preventing Peace" (Prevenire la pace) nel quale vengono elencati una
sessantina di episodi in cui la "comunita' internazionale" ha
letteralmente cecchinato possibilita' di interruzione dei conflitti
oppure ha aggravato pesantemente la situazione sul campo, fino a
diventare essa stessa parte in conflitto. L'opuscolo, in inglese, si
puo' ordinare seguendo le istruzioni riportate sul sito della TFF.
Alla TFF va tutto il nostro sostegno morale... Quello materiale,
purtroppo, non siamo in grado di offrirlo. I mezzi in tal senso, ahinoi,
ce li ha solo la controparte.
Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia, giugno 2000
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T H E S W E D I S H M I N I S T R Y O F
F O R E I G N A F F A I R S D E P R I V E S T F F O F
I T S A N N U A L O R G A N I S A T I O N A L G R A N T -
A N D D I S T R I B U T E S M I L L I O N S
W I T H O U T D O C U M E N T A T I O N
Lund, Sweden - May 27, 2000
Breaking News
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For the past nine years, TFF has received an annual organisational grant
from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This year, however, the
Ministry has withdrawn this support with immediate effect and without
prior consultation or explanation. The aim seems to be to silence an
independent, critical voice in the field of international conflict
management.
TFF is the only non-governmental centre of peace and security research
in Sweden. It is also the only one in the field of research and
information whose funding has been cut to zero. Since 1991 TFF has
built an internationally respected competence, with particular regard to
the Balkans.
In a period when Sweden's engagement in the Balkans is larger than ever,
with a Swedish battalion in Kosovo/a and considerable aid programs to
that province as well as to Bosnia and the Stability Pact, one would
believe that an organisation such as TFF would have its grant increased
in order to contribute more effectively with comprehensive analyses and
views concerning the fields of peacebuilding and reconciliation.
The organisational support is given to some 15 NGOs in Sweden to secure
continuity and a broad debate about international affairs. No strings
shall be attached. The annual grant TFF has received hitherto is a small
one in the larger scheme of things: a bit more than US$ 30.000. This is
a lot, however, for the foundation; it pays rent, copying,
telecommunication, paper, website maintenance, library, newsletter and
pays helpers on an hourly basis. Some 60 experts and NGO leaders make up
TFF's global network.
All funds raised are used directly for activities. The foundation is
not-for-profit and runs on considerable idealism as no one associated
with it is permanently employed or has a permanent salary. This also
applies to the founders, Christina Spännar and Jan Oberg.
Decision-making minutes postdated, "not public document"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A Preparatory Committee appointed by the Ministry processes the annual
applications and recommends to the minister how to allocate the funds;
it shall that no political considerations influence who gets how much.
But it is the minister/government which finalises the decision. For the
year 2000, some 10 million Swedish kronor (a little more than 1 million
US$) was granted to 15 NGOs, movements, institutes and foundations.
As TFF was dropped, its chairman requested a copy of the minutes from
the Preparatory Committee meeting at which the fatal recommendation was
made. For reply the Ministry sent a "memorandum" (promemoria) dated five
weeks after the meeting took place, informing us that the PrepCom
recommendations were regarded as personal memory notes, not archived and
not considered public documents.
- Indeed, it is a spicy story that the Ministry hands out money without
keeping dated records of the official decision making process. Without
such documentation, it is impossible to maintain and prove that the
PrepCom is independent and that there is no ministerial rule or other
political pressure or lobbying, says TFF director Jan Oberg. One
hypothesis I have after my conversations with various parties is that
someone has told the PrepCom something to the effect: here you have 100
dollars to allocate to 5 organisations, however four shall have 25
dollars each - and TFF is the fifth.
- I have a hard time believing it when high-level ministerial staff tell
me that TFF lost its grant because the ministry has to reduce costs.
Other NGOs got what they had last year, some even more. The Ministry can
convince nobody that the Swedish government which pours out billions of
dollars on military security and other research institutes could not
find this tiny sum, if it had the slightest respect for or appreciated
TFF's work. Punishment for criticism of Sweden's, the European Union's
and NATO's policies?
- The cut is incomprehensible if you take into account that the
foundation works idealistically for the values and principles you find
in analyses and policy papers from the Ministry itself: conflict
analysis, early warning, violence prevention, negotiations, civil
policies and initiatives for civil society, assertion of the rights of
small countries, emphasis on international law and respect for the norms
and the Charter of the UN.
- But, of course, almost 20 TFF associates around the world voiced
criticism of the international community's (and Sweden's) handling of
the Yugoslav-Kosovo conflict last year. TFF's network, website and TFF
PressInfos served as a leading source of information and debate. CNN and
hundreds of media turned to us for comments. We no doubt influenced the
views of quite a few people.
- Currently, the Swedish government is aiming for a systematic
adaptation to and acquiescence with the European Union as well as with
NATO/the US. When many countries are forced to adopt the same foreign
and security policy - which is predominantly decided anyhow by the
larger players - ruling circles presumably find that independent,
alternative analyses and proposals are more or less of a nuisance - also
for Sweden's image abroad.
- Be this as it may, we perceive the Ministry's decision as a proof that
we have a non-negligible impact in Sweden and abroad to such an extent
that the Ministry evidently seeks to stop our activity. That won't
happen. If ruling circles are permitted to step-by-step limit pluralism
in analyses and debates about these extremely important issues, we will
end up in a dangerous silliness called the 'policy of the only way' -
which is incompatible with any concept of democracy. There is never only
one way to go. So, if governments behave like that, it is the duty of
non-governmental organisations to speak up. If they don't they become
near-governmental instead, politically correct and part of the problem,
not the solution.
- In fact, continues Jan Oberg, there is hardly anything strange about
this type of authoritarian rule. If you don't like the message, kill the
messenger! We are for non-violence and peace by peaceful means, so is
the UN and many others whose influence is reduced these years.
Throughout history advocates of nonviolence have been threatened and
some - like Gandhi and Luther King - have been eliminated for that
commitment.
- Hundreds of billions of dollars are allocated worldwide to violence,
to killing and maiming. The sad misproportions between the forces of
peace and those of violence are also upheld by Sweden: its battalion in
Kosovo costs 3 times more than its contribution to the UNHCR as a whole;
it's support for Swedish peace NGOs makes up a 3-4 thousands (0/00) of
its national military defence budget. And its development aid as
percentage of GNP is falling while its per capita arms export remains
very high.
Background to TFF - and a positive end note
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This Lund-based foundation, established in 1986, has become
internationally respected for its work to promote nonviolent
conflict-resolution, particularly for its analyses, mitigation and
mediation and peace education efforts in all part of former Yugoslavia
since 1991.
It has cooperated with governmental and non-governmental organisations
including the UN, the European Council, the Swedish International
Development Authority (SIDA) as well as with dozens of local and
international NGOs and university centres. It has some 60 experts and
NGO leaders in its global network. It's first report about Kosovo was
published in 1992, Preventing War in Kosovo.
In 1996 it published the result of four years of mediation between
Belgrade and Kosovo. Today it works with the Institute for International
Policy and Economics in Belgrade and trains former KLA soldiers in the
Kosovo Protection Corps, a UN/KFOR program operated by the International
Organisation for Migration.
TFF has conducted some 40 missions, interviewed more than 3000 people in
all the conflicts, conducted seminars with ethnically mixed youth, NGO
and women's groups in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and is
supervising a project in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia, initiated by TFF
after the departure of the UN from that region.
Last year it developed a peace and reconciliation training plan for the
Burundian Ministry of Education, to be implemented as soon as Nelson
Mandela has succeeded in mediating a peace agreement.
Over the years it has also conducted analyses in Georgia, Abkhasia and
South Ossetia. Its networkers have published some 60 TFF books and
reports and contributed articles to as many and hundreds of articles,
among them to the UN 50th Anniversary book, to the World Bank, CNN, the
Carter Centre, textbooks, international conferences etc.
- We'll find a way, we have many supporters, says Jan Oberg. We are
going to disappoint those who want TFF to close shop. But it is a bit
hard to face the fact that not only do genuine peace workers have to
struggle hard for peace, we also have to struggle to keep alive and
waste time and energy that could have been devoted to those most in
need. - But let's look at the bright side of life: isn't it encouraging
that idealism, Gandhianism and nonviolent thinking put together in a
shoestring operation like TFF seems to be so frightening in the eyes of
ruling elites?
© TFF 2000
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A C T I O N R E Q U E S T -
S U P P O R T T F F
Lund, Sweden - May 31, 2000
From the founders, Christina Spannar and Jan Oberg:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- We are really moved by all the support letters we have received in
response to PressInfo 94 in which we told you that the Swedish Ministry
of Foreign Affairs has withdrawn its organisational support for the
foundation with no prior consultation, no explanation and no
documentation but with immediate effect.
To those who worry: we will not close down. TFF means too much to too
many.
But the transition period will be tough. We will find ways to fly in the
future...
Most of you ask what you can do to help us now the Ministry of Foreign
has withdrawn its support.
We think the best you can do to help TFF is to:
1. MAKE A DONATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We serve people who want to practise non-violent conflict-resolution. We
help people in conflicts and war.
Our dream has always been to be as people-financed as possible. You can
help us by making a donation.
If 350 people each donate 100 US$ - or 1500 donate 25 US$ - you have
replaced the ministry's grant!
Tell others!
Go straight to: http://www.transnational.org/tff/friendfm.html
or click the cash register on
http://www.transnational.org/sitemap.html.
2. WRITE TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh
E-mail: registrator@...
(write "Attention, the Minister")
Under-secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jan Eliasson
E-mail: jan.eliasson@...
Other relevant individuals and departments:
anders.bjurner@...
sven-olof.petersson@...
lars-hjalmar.wide@...
ud@...
ud-gs@foreign. ministry.se
Postal address, the same for all
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
S - 103 39 Stockholm, Sweden
Fax +46 (0)8-723 11 76
Phone: +46 (0)8-405 54 60 or 405 10 00
E-mail: registrator@...
3. WRITE TO SWEDISH PARLIAMENTARIANS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here is a list of selected MPs in Stockholm who have already been
informed about the situation and may need your support to put pressure
on the government:
Email: carina.hagg@..., lars.ohly@...,
yvonne.ruwaida@..., marianne.andersson@...,
karl-goran.biorsmark@..., holger.gustafsson@...,
birger.schlaug@..., birgitta.ahlqvist@...,
lars.angstrom@..., berndt.ekholm@...
Letters
To the MPs - their names are the ones before the @domain above. Thus,
e.g.:
Carina Hagg
Riksdagen (The Parliament)
100 12 Stockholm, Sweden
4. WRITE TO THE COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
This Committee of the Swedish parliament's is chaired by Ms. Viola
Furubjelke <viola.furubjelke@...>
Postal address: Riksdagen, 100 12 Stockholm
We would appreciate a copy sent to TFF.
5. TELL OTHERS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Circulate this action request, perhaps with excerpts from our PressInfo
- on your website
- in your organisation's Newsletter
- announce it in your e-group and network
- suggest that sympathisers write to the minister
Thank you very very much.
Yours truly
Christina Spannar & Jan Oberg
Founders
© TFF 2000
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- thinkpieces: a selection of the best critical and constructive
materials on global developments;
- a service that SAVES A LOT OF YOUR TIME since we have browsed the
Internet for you.
Latest news & highlights on the site
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ACTION REQUEST - Support TFF
TFF PressInfo # 94
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deprives TFF of Its Annual
Organisational Grant - and Allocates Millions
without Documentation
TFF PressInfo # 94 (in Swedish)
UD slopar stöd till TFF - och fördelar miljoner utan redovisning
Petter Larsson, Arbetets ledaresida 26 maj 2000
Mot en snävare debatt - om TFF och den svenska debatten
Jonathan Power
Clinton WILL miss his historic opportunity at Moscow Summit
Daisaku Ikeda, TFF associate, Pres. Soka Gakkai International
Peace Through Dialogue: A Time to Talk - Thoughts on a Culture of Peace
Sören Sommelius, TFF associate
Oh What a Lovely War!
Evelin G. Lindner, TFF associate
Love, Holocaust, and Humiliation
Ken Coates, TFF associate
Will This Be the Short Millennium? - on the Russian nuclear strategy
Jonathan Power, TFF associate
In Sierra Leone the UN is Battling for Itself
Jonathan Power, TFF associate
Forthcoming Elections in Peru and Mexico Will Not Clarify Latin
America's Direction
Since we don't think we are perfect, you'll see improvements on the site
from one visit to the next!
Yours,
TFF
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Dr. Jan Oberg
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to the Balkans and Georgia
T F F
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Phone +46-46-145909 (0900-1100)
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(TFF), che ha sede in Svezia [ http://www.transnational.org ],
si e' vista tagliare i fondi statali dal Ministero degli esteri svedese
- che pure elargisce cifre consistenti ad organizzazioni non-governative
anche in assenza di adeguata documentazione - e rischia cosi' di dover
interrompere la sua attivita'.
La motivazione e' chiaramente politica, visto che la TFF e' molto attiva
nella analisi e prevenzione dei conflitti nello scenario balcanico, dove
si e' guadagnata un ruolo di primo piano tra le tante organizzazioni
straniere presenti, la maggior parte delle quali dimostrano di avere
solo un ruolo "ancillare" alla penetrazione occidentale nell'area.
Viceversa, la TFF ha avuto il coraggio di vedere e far vedere il ruolo
perverso troppo spesso giocato dalle organizzazioni internazionali
(OSCE, UE, NATO, ecc.), parlandone ad esempio nel recente opuscolo
"Preventing Peace" (Prevenire la pace) nel quale vengono elencati una
sessantina di episodi in cui la "comunita' internazionale" ha
letteralmente cecchinato possibilita' di interruzione dei conflitti
oppure ha aggravato pesantemente la situazione sul campo, fino a
diventare essa stessa parte in conflitto. L'opuscolo, in inglese, si
puo' ordinare seguendo le istruzioni riportate sul sito della TFF.
Alla TFF va tutto il nostro sostegno morale... Quello materiale,
purtroppo, non siamo in grado di offrirlo. I mezzi in tal senso, ahinoi,
ce li ha solo la controparte.
Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia, giugno 2000
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T H E S W E D I S H M I N I S T R Y O F
F O R E I G N A F F A I R S D E P R I V E S T F F O F
I T S A N N U A L O R G A N I S A T I O N A L G R A N T -
A N D D I S T R I B U T E S M I L L I O N S
W I T H O U T D O C U M E N T A T I O N
Lund, Sweden - May 27, 2000
Breaking News
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For the past nine years, TFF has received an annual organisational grant
from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This year, however, the
Ministry has withdrawn this support with immediate effect and without
prior consultation or explanation. The aim seems to be to silence an
independent, critical voice in the field of international conflict
management.
TFF is the only non-governmental centre of peace and security research
in Sweden. It is also the only one in the field of research and
information whose funding has been cut to zero. Since 1991 TFF has
built an internationally respected competence, with particular regard to
the Balkans.
In a period when Sweden's engagement in the Balkans is larger than ever,
with a Swedish battalion in Kosovo/a and considerable aid programs to
that province as well as to Bosnia and the Stability Pact, one would
believe that an organisation such as TFF would have its grant increased
in order to contribute more effectively with comprehensive analyses and
views concerning the fields of peacebuilding and reconciliation.
The organisational support is given to some 15 NGOs in Sweden to secure
continuity and a broad debate about international affairs. No strings
shall be attached. The annual grant TFF has received hitherto is a small
one in the larger scheme of things: a bit more than US$ 30.000. This is
a lot, however, for the foundation; it pays rent, copying,
telecommunication, paper, website maintenance, library, newsletter and
pays helpers on an hourly basis. Some 60 experts and NGO leaders make up
TFF's global network.
All funds raised are used directly for activities. The foundation is
not-for-profit and runs on considerable idealism as no one associated
with it is permanently employed or has a permanent salary. This also
applies to the founders, Christina Spännar and Jan Oberg.
Decision-making minutes postdated, "not public document"
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A Preparatory Committee appointed by the Ministry processes the annual
applications and recommends to the minister how to allocate the funds;
it shall that no political considerations influence who gets how much.
But it is the minister/government which finalises the decision. For the
year 2000, some 10 million Swedish kronor (a little more than 1 million
US$) was granted to 15 NGOs, movements, institutes and foundations.
As TFF was dropped, its chairman requested a copy of the minutes from
the Preparatory Committee meeting at which the fatal recommendation was
made. For reply the Ministry sent a "memorandum" (promemoria) dated five
weeks after the meeting took place, informing us that the PrepCom
recommendations were regarded as personal memory notes, not archived and
not considered public documents.
- Indeed, it is a spicy story that the Ministry hands out money without
keeping dated records of the official decision making process. Without
such documentation, it is impossible to maintain and prove that the
PrepCom is independent and that there is no ministerial rule or other
political pressure or lobbying, says TFF director Jan Oberg. One
hypothesis I have after my conversations with various parties is that
someone has told the PrepCom something to the effect: here you have 100
dollars to allocate to 5 organisations, however four shall have 25
dollars each - and TFF is the fifth.
- I have a hard time believing it when high-level ministerial staff tell
me that TFF lost its grant because the ministry has to reduce costs.
Other NGOs got what they had last year, some even more. The Ministry can
convince nobody that the Swedish government which pours out billions of
dollars on military security and other research institutes could not
find this tiny sum, if it had the slightest respect for or appreciated
TFF's work. Punishment for criticism of Sweden's, the European Union's
and NATO's policies?
- The cut is incomprehensible if you take into account that the
foundation works idealistically for the values and principles you find
in analyses and policy papers from the Ministry itself: conflict
analysis, early warning, violence prevention, negotiations, civil
policies and initiatives for civil society, assertion of the rights of
small countries, emphasis on international law and respect for the norms
and the Charter of the UN.
- But, of course, almost 20 TFF associates around the world voiced
criticism of the international community's (and Sweden's) handling of
the Yugoslav-Kosovo conflict last year. TFF's network, website and TFF
PressInfos served as a leading source of information and debate. CNN and
hundreds of media turned to us for comments. We no doubt influenced the
views of quite a few people.
- Currently, the Swedish government is aiming for a systematic
adaptation to and acquiescence with the European Union as well as with
NATO/the US. When many countries are forced to adopt the same foreign
and security policy - which is predominantly decided anyhow by the
larger players - ruling circles presumably find that independent,
alternative analyses and proposals are more or less of a nuisance - also
for Sweden's image abroad.
- Be this as it may, we perceive the Ministry's decision as a proof that
we have a non-negligible impact in Sweden and abroad to such an extent
that the Ministry evidently seeks to stop our activity. That won't
happen. If ruling circles are permitted to step-by-step limit pluralism
in analyses and debates about these extremely important issues, we will
end up in a dangerous silliness called the 'policy of the only way' -
which is incompatible with any concept of democracy. There is never only
one way to go. So, if governments behave like that, it is the duty of
non-governmental organisations to speak up. If they don't they become
near-governmental instead, politically correct and part of the problem,
not the solution.
- In fact, continues Jan Oberg, there is hardly anything strange about
this type of authoritarian rule. If you don't like the message, kill the
messenger! We are for non-violence and peace by peaceful means, so is
the UN and many others whose influence is reduced these years.
Throughout history advocates of nonviolence have been threatened and
some - like Gandhi and Luther King - have been eliminated for that
commitment.
- Hundreds of billions of dollars are allocated worldwide to violence,
to killing and maiming. The sad misproportions between the forces of
peace and those of violence are also upheld by Sweden: its battalion in
Kosovo costs 3 times more than its contribution to the UNHCR as a whole;
it's support for Swedish peace NGOs makes up a 3-4 thousands (0/00) of
its national military defence budget. And its development aid as
percentage of GNP is falling while its per capita arms export remains
very high.
Background to TFF - and a positive end note
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This Lund-based foundation, established in 1986, has become
internationally respected for its work to promote nonviolent
conflict-resolution, particularly for its analyses, mitigation and
mediation and peace education efforts in all part of former Yugoslavia
since 1991.
It has cooperated with governmental and non-governmental organisations
including the UN, the European Council, the Swedish International
Development Authority (SIDA) as well as with dozens of local and
international NGOs and university centres. It has some 60 experts and
NGO leaders in its global network. It's first report about Kosovo was
published in 1992, Preventing War in Kosovo.
In 1996 it published the result of four years of mediation between
Belgrade and Kosovo. Today it works with the Institute for International
Policy and Economics in Belgrade and trains former KLA soldiers in the
Kosovo Protection Corps, a UN/KFOR program operated by the International
Organisation for Migration.
TFF has conducted some 40 missions, interviewed more than 3000 people in
all the conflicts, conducted seminars with ethnically mixed youth, NGO
and women's groups in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and is
supervising a project in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia, initiated by TFF
after the departure of the UN from that region.
Last year it developed a peace and reconciliation training plan for the
Burundian Ministry of Education, to be implemented as soon as Nelson
Mandela has succeeded in mediating a peace agreement.
Over the years it has also conducted analyses in Georgia, Abkhasia and
South Ossetia. Its networkers have published some 60 TFF books and
reports and contributed articles to as many and hundreds of articles,
among them to the UN 50th Anniversary book, to the World Bank, CNN, the
Carter Centre, textbooks, international conferences etc.
- We'll find a way, we have many supporters, says Jan Oberg. We are
going to disappoint those who want TFF to close shop. But it is a bit
hard to face the fact that not only do genuine peace workers have to
struggle hard for peace, we also have to struggle to keep alive and
waste time and energy that could have been devoted to those most in
need. - But let's look at the bright side of life: isn't it encouraging
that idealism, Gandhianism and nonviolent thinking put together in a
shoestring operation like TFF seems to be so frightening in the eyes of
ruling elites?
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From the founders, Christina Spannar and Jan Oberg:
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- We are really moved by all the support letters we have received in
response to PressInfo 94 in which we told you that the Swedish Ministry
of Foreign Affairs has withdrawn its organisational support for the
foundation with no prior consultation, no explanation and no
documentation but with immediate effect.
To those who worry: we will not close down. TFF means too much to too
many.
But the transition period will be tough. We will find ways to fly in the
future...
Most of you ask what you can do to help us now the Ministry of Foreign
has withdrawn its support.
We think the best you can do to help TFF is to:
1. MAKE A DONATION
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We serve people who want to practise non-violent conflict-resolution. We
help people in conflicts and war.
Our dream has always been to be as people-financed as possible. You can
help us by making a donation.
If 350 people each donate 100 US$ - or 1500 donate 25 US$ - you have
replaced the ministry's grant!
Tell others!
Go straight to: http://www.transnational.org/tff/friendfm.html
or click the cash register on
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2. WRITE TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh
E-mail: registrator@...
(write "Attention, the Minister")
Under-secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Jan Eliasson
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Here is a list of selected MPs in Stockholm who have already been
informed about the situation and may need your support to put pressure
on the government:
Email: carina.hagg@..., lars.ohly@...,
yvonne.ruwaida@..., marianne.andersson@...,
karl-goran.biorsmark@..., holger.gustafsson@...,
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To the MPs - their names are the ones before the @domain above. Thus,
e.g.:
Carina Hagg
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This Committee of the Swedish parliament's is chaired by Ms. Viola
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Postal address: Riksdagen, 100 12 Stockholm
We would appreciate a copy sent to TFF.
5. TELL OTHERS
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Circulate this action request, perhaps with excerpts from our PressInfo
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- announce it in your e-group and network
- suggest that sympathisers write to the minister
Thank you very very much.
Yours truly
Christina Spannar & Jan Oberg
Founders
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* Lettera aperta a Carla del Ponte
* La RF di Jugoslavia chiede all'ONU la abolizione del Tribunale-farsa
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>
> AN OPEN LETTER
>
> 2 June 2000
>
> TO: Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor,
> International Tribunal for Yugoslavia,
> The Hague
>
> FROM: Raymond K. Kent,
> Emeritus
> History Department,
> University of California,
> Berkeley, CA. 94720
> U.S.A.
>
> I am a former secretary to a California-based Citizen’s Committee
> set up to monitor the International Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ITY) since
> its establishment. I resigned in 1997 but you will find me in an article
>
> I had sent to the Tribunal and the Secretary General of the United
> Nations as a reprint from the Paris-based trilingual journal Dialogue
> (no20,1996). It is entitled “Contextualizing Hate—The Hague Tribunal,
> the Clinton Administration and the Serbs.” A copy is enclosed.
> The ITY was set-up, under open indictments, ostensibly to punish all
> those involved in the armed intra-ethnic conflicts who killed innocent
> civilians since 1991. It became obvious by the third year of its
> operation that the Tribunal’s Prosecutor pursued only the Serbs as
> alleged criminals in a tripartite conflict. In one prominent case, two
> high-ranking officers of the Bosnian Serb Army were kidnapped in
> Sarajevo after Dayton and delivered to the Hague without being accused
> of anything. This is the case which led to a change from open to secret
> indictments to pre-empt additional accusations against a Tribunal with
> an anti-Serb bias impossible to mask.
> Although two Chief Prosecutors have followed the one from South
> Africa and although some alleged criminals of Croat and Bosnian Muslim
> background were indicted, there is hardly any doubt that the reality
> emerging in the first three years of ITY’s work is the same. It pursued
>
> mainly Serbs. This is also confirmed by the fact that the alleged Croat
> and Bosnian Muslim criminals have been accused of doing harm to one
> another’s civilian populations but not to Serb civilians. It is only in
>
> the most recent times that the ITY has looked at all at what was done to
>
> the Serb civilians in Western Slavonia (August 1991- March 1992) and
> Krajina (mainly August 1995). This was done only under pressure from a
> variety of complaints.
> Against this background, it is not surprising that you have rejected
>
> international (not only Serb) claims that NATO committed war crimes
> without mentioning the other two areas in ITY indictments, those of
> crimes against humanity and peace. You simply did not have the will and
> courage to bite the hands that feed you as the major NATO players in the
>
> 78 days of bombing are also the major supporters and financial backers
> of your Tribunal. Nor is it surprising that you have claimed to have
> been “stupefied” to “even hear” Russia’s claims that the ITY is
> “politicized” and “biased” against the Serbs. At this point it seems
> salutary to show you just how the Tribunal is really polluted with
> political considerations.
> Tuzla is a major NATO base in Bosnia. One of its Discotheques is
> run by Nasir Oric. He was the Bosnian Muslim Commander at Srebrenica. He
>
> happens to be a self-admitted war criminal of the most bestial kind. For
>
> nearly a year, from the UN-protected Srebrenica, Oric and his “elite
> corps” raided its Serb countryside. They destroyed 48 Serb villages,
> looting, torching and killing about 1,800, including women and children.
>
> The good old Ottoman art of impaling was "enhanced" by roasting the
> victims of the mujehadin alive on the spit. May we send you the
> photographs of [partly carbonized] victims? This is what led to the Serb
>
> capture of Srebrenica, the evacuation of its women and children, and the
>
> flight of the Muslim soldiers under Izetbegovic's orders, to northern
> Bosnia.
> Oric bragged to at least two foreign reporters and showed one of
>
> them a video tape of the mayhem. You do not even have a “secret”
> indictment against him under the bogus claim that he had been” killed.”
> He will not be grabbed by the NATO troops and sent to the Hague out of
> fear that this would alienate and radicalize the Bosnian Muslims against
>
> NATO ground personnel.
> Exactly the same type of fear of alienating NATO's allies concerns
> the case of Agim Ceku, General of the Kosovo Liberation Army. He is now
> a major player in what is happening in Kosovo but you have excluded
> Kosovo’s Albanians from the category of war criminals since the war at
> Kosovo is defined as an internal civil war while Bosnia was
> internationalized in order to get at the Serbs. Actually, you are
> seeking evidence of mass murders of Albanian civilians at Kosovo from
> which to shore-up an indictment against Milosevic (curiously made public
>
> after Judge Arbour’s visit to Madeleine Albright, ITY’s “Mother” in
> Washington), stemming from the Bosnian conflict. Yet, Agim Ceku was a
> general of the Croat Army responsible for the ethnic cleansing of
> Krajina in August 1995, the looting and torching all of the Serb
> properties as well as killing several hundred, probably more, of older
> Serbs who either could not or would not run. Agim Ceku is now saluted by
>
> NATO troops and remains the behind-the-scenes coordinator of the ex-KLA.
>
> To grab him and ship him to the ITY at the Hague could alienate the
> still-extant KLA from NATO and impel some of its more extreme elements
> to cause harm to the NATO and U.N personnel in situ. Clearly, Madame
> Prosecutor, your Tribunal is “politicized” as is documented beyond
> refutation by the two cases. Both Oric and Ceku should have been
> indicted, tried and sentenced long ago if your Tribunal really belonged
> to a civilized judicial system, with the mechanics of a real court of
> law. It is an instrument of an emerging neo-Nazism. What makes it Right
>
> is the Might of NATO and more specifically the U.S. Super-Power. Its
> would be lofty ends justify the dirtiest of means and humiliations of
> Serbs in particular.
> The ITY is a tragi-comic political theater, draped in judicial robes,
>
> engaged in over-blown acting and pompous self-esteem, providing endless
> perqs and high-paying remunerations, a “sweetheart deal” for those
> “pre-selected” to sit on it and most unlikely to oppose any secret
> indictments or pre-conceived verdicts against the Serbs. Let me now
> pass on the components of your rejection.
> You have not denied in any known instance that the accusations against
> NATO indeed fall within the Tribunal’s mandate from the Security
> Council. In fact, one of the key assignments in your Security Council
> mandate demands it. However, you tabled, in the MAmerican sense, for
> the time being these accusations because you were” too busy searching
> for mass graves at Kosovo.” Well, your legal staff acted pretty fast as
> the accusations were multiplying in several European countries and in
> the United States. You are, I am sure, at least aware that Citizens
> Tribunals have been working for some time to indict NATO leaders and
> principal actors as having committed war crimes, crimes against humanity
>
> and against peace. In rejecting the war-crimes charge you are quoted to
> have said that while “accidents” have taken place, you are “ satisfied
>
> that there was no deliberate targeting of civilians.” I am not sure what
>
> evidence you had examined in person but the numbers of churches,
> schools, non-military factories, water purifying facilities, heating oil
>
> depositories and even medical facilities fully or partially destroyed,
> add up to staggering numbers. ALL OF THEM ARE CIVILIAN TARGETS EVEN IF A
>
> SINGLE CIVILIAN WAS NOT DIRECTLY KILLED IN ANY. Targeting all of them
> could not have been an “accident.”
> If you need another proof of NATO war crimes here it is and you can
> look it up. In her 10th May last speech at the University of
> California’s Berkeley Campus, Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright
> admitted: “to have raised the bar” high enough so that “Milosevic could
> NOT jump over it” because “YUGOSLAVIA NEEDED A LITTLE BOMBING.” This is
> a prima facie confession of the “Mother” of your Tribunal. It refers to
> the addition of Appendix B at Rambouillet after the Serbs were ready to
> sign an agreement to restore Autonomy to Kosovo. Appendix B demanded the
>
> occupation of Yugoslavia, including Belgrade, by NATO troops. The intent
>
> is deliberate bombing of a country and not even you can exclude its
> civilian population simply because you do not have the courage to
> practice law instead of politics.
> There is also a memo, which your legal toadies could not somehow
> excavate from the NATO files. It reveals the change from going
> exclusively after military targets into the civilian ones. It is a prima
>
> facie document showing that CIVILIAN TARGETS WERE DELIBERATELY INCLUDED
> after the initial bombings failed to produce Milosevich’s signature to
> the main text and Appendix B of the proposed Rambouillet Accord. I am
> sure that you must be aware how ridiculous is the claim of NATO
> Secretary General Lord Robertson that the “alliance acted entirely in
> accordance with international law.” It is illegal, under extant
> International Law, by international convention, to secure Presidential
> signatures with a pointed gun and the threat to use it. It is further
> illegal under International Law to mount 78 days of bombing a sovereign
> state without a mandate from the Security Council. The U.N. Charter
> demands it but it was shredded instead. As there was not even a formal
> declaration of war, the Constitutions of at least two member-states,
> France and the United States, were violated because they allot that
> power to declare war only to their respective Legislatures. Lord
> Robertson is simply extending ad infinitum the lies and propaganda used
> first to mount the NATO attack and later to whitewash this collective
> crime and its aftermath.
> You cannot negate the physical evidence of destruction from the air
> in Yugoslavia (which still includes in theory Kosovo itself), enshrined
> with pictures, names, dates and targets actually hit. The Yugoslav
> government has published four factual volumes that need no further
> discussion about authenticity. No one can deny that civilian targets
> have been extensively hit. Figures for civilian deaths and for those
> injured more or less seriously do vary. Some 3000 dead have been claimed
>
> at the maximum with three times that number for the maimed. On the
> lowest end about 300 dead and some 2,000 injured are on hand. We even
> have a visually recorded tragedy in the complaints of General Clark that
>
> NATO’s civilian authorities would not allow him to “further extend” the
>
> number of civilian targets, another item of evidence “missed.” Clearly,
> Madame Prosecutor, your entire case for rejection rests only on the
> presumed lack of INTENT to punish the Serb civilians. The intent is
> clearly admitted by the U.S. Secretary of State more than a year after
> the bombs stopped falling on civilian targets in Yugoslavia. The INTENT
> WAS TO ACTUALLY PUNISH YUGOSLAVIA. How much more proof do you need to
> shed your judicial glaucoma and see the real shapes of dead Serbs and
> Albanians from NATO bombs, parachuted mines, cluster bombs (many
> unexploded and killing daily), shells with depleted uranium which will
> be hitting local genes for decades to come since it is a mutant without
> known limits?
> When you were appointed to replace Louise Arbour, a reputation
> preceded you from your native Switzerland. Its criminal elements and its
>
> politicians could not “crack” your judicial integrity. In fact, they
> deflected you because of it, like “The Godfather” of Mario Puzo, with
>
> an offer you could not refuse.
> It is a pity that what ordinary criminals and local politicos could
> not do has been reversed by the heady brew of rendering some sort of
> “international justice”. It is curious that you "missed” a major
> collective crime committed under the open sky -- rockets and cluster
> bombs against Sunday markets, against bridges, passenger trains and
> busses by day, maternity hospitals by night.
>
> Sincerely,
> Raymond K. Kent
>
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
Yugoslavia calls on U.N. to disband war-crimes tribunal
June 4, 2000
Web posted at: 5:28 PM EDT (2128 GMT)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuters) -- Yugoslavia called on the United
Nations on Sunday to disband its war crimes tribunal, saying the body
had become an accomplice of NATO by refusing to probe the alliance over
its air campaign against Yugoslavia last year.
Information Minister Goran Matic urged U.N. Security Council ambassadors
to wind up what he called an "illegal, illegitimate and biased body" and
sack its prosecutor, Carla del Ponte.
"I am astonished by Ms. Del Ponte's statement that during last year's
aggression against Yugoslavia NATO did not deliberately target civilian
facilities and that it did not commit war crimes," Matic said in a
letter to the envoys carried by state news agency Tanjug.
Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the Hague-based tribunal, said Friday she
believed no grounds existed for opening an investigation into NATO's
alleged war crimes, though she said the alliance had made mistakes.
Del Ponte made her decision after studying complaints against NATO from
lawyers acting on behalf of Yugoslavia and a Russian parliamentary
commission.
"With Carla del Ponte's speech in the Security Council the Tribunal has
definitely sided with the aggressor and become an accomplice to NATO
crimes against Yugoslavia," Matic said.
"I propose that (she) be relieved of duty at once and that the Hague
tribunal be immediately disbanded, as an illegal, illegitimate and
demonstrably biased judicial body."
On Saturday, Russia criticized Del Ponte's decision, saying it showed
the court was politically biased.
The Hague tribunal has indicted scores of people for war crimes
committed in former Yugoslavia. A year ago it indicted Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and four other top Yugoslav officials for
alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
NATO waged an 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia last year to
try to prevent repression of ethnic Albanians in Serbia's Kosovo
province.
Matic said NATO had committed a series of crimes during the campaign,
including the killings of 16 people when Serbian state television was
bombed on April 23, 1999.
He also accused the tribunal of silence over crimes committed by ethnic
Albanian extremists against Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo now
administered by international forces.
Last month the Yugoslav justice minister lashed out at the court, saying
Yugoslavia did not recognize it and would not agree to any Yugoslav
citizen being extradited to it.
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* La RF di Jugoslavia chiede all'ONU la abolizione del Tribunale-farsa
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>
> AN OPEN LETTER
>
> 2 June 2000
>
> TO: Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor,
> International Tribunal for Yugoslavia,
> The Hague
>
> FROM: Raymond K. Kent,
> Emeritus
> History Department,
> University of California,
> Berkeley, CA. 94720
> U.S.A.
>
> I am a former secretary to a California-based Citizen’s Committee
> set up to monitor the International Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ITY) since
> its establishment. I resigned in 1997 but you will find me in an article
>
> I had sent to the Tribunal and the Secretary General of the United
> Nations as a reprint from the Paris-based trilingual journal Dialogue
> (no20,1996). It is entitled “Contextualizing Hate—The Hague Tribunal,
> the Clinton Administration and the Serbs.” A copy is enclosed.
> The ITY was set-up, under open indictments, ostensibly to punish all
> those involved in the armed intra-ethnic conflicts who killed innocent
> civilians since 1991. It became obvious by the third year of its
> operation that the Tribunal’s Prosecutor pursued only the Serbs as
> alleged criminals in a tripartite conflict. In one prominent case, two
> high-ranking officers of the Bosnian Serb Army were kidnapped in
> Sarajevo after Dayton and delivered to the Hague without being accused
> of anything. This is the case which led to a change from open to secret
> indictments to pre-empt additional accusations against a Tribunal with
> an anti-Serb bias impossible to mask.
> Although two Chief Prosecutors have followed the one from South
> Africa and although some alleged criminals of Croat and Bosnian Muslim
> background were indicted, there is hardly any doubt that the reality
> emerging in the first three years of ITY’s work is the same. It pursued
>
> mainly Serbs. This is also confirmed by the fact that the alleged Croat
> and Bosnian Muslim criminals have been accused of doing harm to one
> another’s civilian populations but not to Serb civilians. It is only in
>
> the most recent times that the ITY has looked at all at what was done to
>
> the Serb civilians in Western Slavonia (August 1991- March 1992) and
> Krajina (mainly August 1995). This was done only under pressure from a
> variety of complaints.
> Against this background, it is not surprising that you have rejected
>
> international (not only Serb) claims that NATO committed war crimes
> without mentioning the other two areas in ITY indictments, those of
> crimes against humanity and peace. You simply did not have the will and
> courage to bite the hands that feed you as the major NATO players in the
>
> 78 days of bombing are also the major supporters and financial backers
> of your Tribunal. Nor is it surprising that you have claimed to have
> been “stupefied” to “even hear” Russia’s claims that the ITY is
> “politicized” and “biased” against the Serbs. At this point it seems
> salutary to show you just how the Tribunal is really polluted with
> political considerations.
> Tuzla is a major NATO base in Bosnia. One of its Discotheques is
> run by Nasir Oric. He was the Bosnian Muslim Commander at Srebrenica. He
>
> happens to be a self-admitted war criminal of the most bestial kind. For
>
> nearly a year, from the UN-protected Srebrenica, Oric and his “elite
> corps” raided its Serb countryside. They destroyed 48 Serb villages,
> looting, torching and killing about 1,800, including women and children.
>
> The good old Ottoman art of impaling was "enhanced" by roasting the
> victims of the mujehadin alive on the spit. May we send you the
> photographs of [partly carbonized] victims? This is what led to the Serb
>
> capture of Srebrenica, the evacuation of its women and children, and the
>
> flight of the Muslim soldiers under Izetbegovic's orders, to northern
> Bosnia.
> Oric bragged to at least two foreign reporters and showed one of
>
> them a video tape of the mayhem. You do not even have a “secret”
> indictment against him under the bogus claim that he had been” killed.”
> He will not be grabbed by the NATO troops and sent to the Hague out of
> fear that this would alienate and radicalize the Bosnian Muslims against
>
> NATO ground personnel.
> Exactly the same type of fear of alienating NATO's allies concerns
> the case of Agim Ceku, General of the Kosovo Liberation Army. He is now
> a major player in what is happening in Kosovo but you have excluded
> Kosovo’s Albanians from the category of war criminals since the war at
> Kosovo is defined as an internal civil war while Bosnia was
> internationalized in order to get at the Serbs. Actually, you are
> seeking evidence of mass murders of Albanian civilians at Kosovo from
> which to shore-up an indictment against Milosevic (curiously made public
>
> after Judge Arbour’s visit to Madeleine Albright, ITY’s “Mother” in
> Washington), stemming from the Bosnian conflict. Yet, Agim Ceku was a
> general of the Croat Army responsible for the ethnic cleansing of
> Krajina in August 1995, the looting and torching all of the Serb
> properties as well as killing several hundred, probably more, of older
> Serbs who either could not or would not run. Agim Ceku is now saluted by
>
> NATO troops and remains the behind-the-scenes coordinator of the ex-KLA.
>
> To grab him and ship him to the ITY at the Hague could alienate the
> still-extant KLA from NATO and impel some of its more extreme elements
> to cause harm to the NATO and U.N personnel in situ. Clearly, Madame
> Prosecutor, your Tribunal is “politicized” as is documented beyond
> refutation by the two cases. Both Oric and Ceku should have been
> indicted, tried and sentenced long ago if your Tribunal really belonged
> to a civilized judicial system, with the mechanics of a real court of
> law. It is an instrument of an emerging neo-Nazism. What makes it Right
>
> is the Might of NATO and more specifically the U.S. Super-Power. Its
> would be lofty ends justify the dirtiest of means and humiliations of
> Serbs in particular.
> The ITY is a tragi-comic political theater, draped in judicial robes,
>
> engaged in over-blown acting and pompous self-esteem, providing endless
> perqs and high-paying remunerations, a “sweetheart deal” for those
> “pre-selected” to sit on it and most unlikely to oppose any secret
> indictments or pre-conceived verdicts against the Serbs. Let me now
> pass on the components of your rejection.
> You have not denied in any known instance that the accusations against
> NATO indeed fall within the Tribunal’s mandate from the Security
> Council. In fact, one of the key assignments in your Security Council
> mandate demands it. However, you tabled, in the MAmerican sense, for
> the time being these accusations because you were” too busy searching
> for mass graves at Kosovo.” Well, your legal staff acted pretty fast as
> the accusations were multiplying in several European countries and in
> the United States. You are, I am sure, at least aware that Citizens
> Tribunals have been working for some time to indict NATO leaders and
> principal actors as having committed war crimes, crimes against humanity
>
> and against peace. In rejecting the war-crimes charge you are quoted to
> have said that while “accidents” have taken place, you are “ satisfied
>
> that there was no deliberate targeting of civilians.” I am not sure what
>
> evidence you had examined in person but the numbers of churches,
> schools, non-military factories, water purifying facilities, heating oil
>
> depositories and even medical facilities fully or partially destroyed,
> add up to staggering numbers. ALL OF THEM ARE CIVILIAN TARGETS EVEN IF A
>
> SINGLE CIVILIAN WAS NOT DIRECTLY KILLED IN ANY. Targeting all of them
> could not have been an “accident.”
> If you need another proof of NATO war crimes here it is and you can
> look it up. In her 10th May last speech at the University of
> California’s Berkeley Campus, Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright
> admitted: “to have raised the bar” high enough so that “Milosevic could
> NOT jump over it” because “YUGOSLAVIA NEEDED A LITTLE BOMBING.” This is
> a prima facie confession of the “Mother” of your Tribunal. It refers to
> the addition of Appendix B at Rambouillet after the Serbs were ready to
> sign an agreement to restore Autonomy to Kosovo. Appendix B demanded the
>
> occupation of Yugoslavia, including Belgrade, by NATO troops. The intent
>
> is deliberate bombing of a country and not even you can exclude its
> civilian population simply because you do not have the courage to
> practice law instead of politics.
> There is also a memo, which your legal toadies could not somehow
> excavate from the NATO files. It reveals the change from going
> exclusively after military targets into the civilian ones. It is a prima
>
> facie document showing that CIVILIAN TARGETS WERE DELIBERATELY INCLUDED
> after the initial bombings failed to produce Milosevich’s signature to
> the main text and Appendix B of the proposed Rambouillet Accord. I am
> sure that you must be aware how ridiculous is the claim of NATO
> Secretary General Lord Robertson that the “alliance acted entirely in
> accordance with international law.” It is illegal, under extant
> International Law, by international convention, to secure Presidential
> signatures with a pointed gun and the threat to use it. It is further
> illegal under International Law to mount 78 days of bombing a sovereign
> state without a mandate from the Security Council. The U.N. Charter
> demands it but it was shredded instead. As there was not even a formal
> declaration of war, the Constitutions of at least two member-states,
> France and the United States, were violated because they allot that
> power to declare war only to their respective Legislatures. Lord
> Robertson is simply extending ad infinitum the lies and propaganda used
> first to mount the NATO attack and later to whitewash this collective
> crime and its aftermath.
> You cannot negate the physical evidence of destruction from the air
> in Yugoslavia (which still includes in theory Kosovo itself), enshrined
> with pictures, names, dates and targets actually hit. The Yugoslav
> government has published four factual volumes that need no further
> discussion about authenticity. No one can deny that civilian targets
> have been extensively hit. Figures for civilian deaths and for those
> injured more or less seriously do vary. Some 3000 dead have been claimed
>
> at the maximum with three times that number for the maimed. On the
> lowest end about 300 dead and some 2,000 injured are on hand. We even
> have a visually recorded tragedy in the complaints of General Clark that
>
> NATO’s civilian authorities would not allow him to “further extend” the
>
> number of civilian targets, another item of evidence “missed.” Clearly,
> Madame Prosecutor, your entire case for rejection rests only on the
> presumed lack of INTENT to punish the Serb civilians. The intent is
> clearly admitted by the U.S. Secretary of State more than a year after
> the bombs stopped falling on civilian targets in Yugoslavia. The INTENT
> WAS TO ACTUALLY PUNISH YUGOSLAVIA. How much more proof do you need to
> shed your judicial glaucoma and see the real shapes of dead Serbs and
> Albanians from NATO bombs, parachuted mines, cluster bombs (many
> unexploded and killing daily), shells with depleted uranium which will
> be hitting local genes for decades to come since it is a mutant without
> known limits?
> When you were appointed to replace Louise Arbour, a reputation
> preceded you from your native Switzerland. Its criminal elements and its
>
> politicians could not “crack” your judicial integrity. In fact, they
> deflected you because of it, like “The Godfather” of Mario Puzo, with
>
> an offer you could not refuse.
> It is a pity that what ordinary criminals and local politicos could
> not do has been reversed by the heady brew of rendering some sort of
> “international justice”. It is curious that you "missed” a major
> collective crime committed under the open sky -- rockets and cluster
> bombs against Sunday markets, against bridges, passenger trains and
> busses by day, maternity hospitals by night.
>
> Sincerely,
> Raymond K. Kent
>
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Yugoslavia calls on U.N. to disband war-crimes tribunal
June 4, 2000
Web posted at: 5:28 PM EDT (2128 GMT)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuters) -- Yugoslavia called on the United
Nations on Sunday to disband its war crimes tribunal, saying the body
had become an accomplice of NATO by refusing to probe the alliance over
its air campaign against Yugoslavia last year.
Information Minister Goran Matic urged U.N. Security Council ambassadors
to wind up what he called an "illegal, illegitimate and biased body" and
sack its prosecutor, Carla del Ponte.
"I am astonished by Ms. Del Ponte's statement that during last year's
aggression against Yugoslavia NATO did not deliberately target civilian
facilities and that it did not commit war crimes," Matic said in a
letter to the envoys carried by state news agency Tanjug.
Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the Hague-based tribunal, said Friday she
believed no grounds existed for opening an investigation into NATO's
alleged war crimes, though she said the alliance had made mistakes.
Del Ponte made her decision after studying complaints against NATO from
lawyers acting on behalf of Yugoslavia and a Russian parliamentary
commission.
"With Carla del Ponte's speech in the Security Council the Tribunal has
definitely sided with the aggressor and become an accomplice to NATO
crimes against Yugoslavia," Matic said.
"I propose that (she) be relieved of duty at once and that the Hague
tribunal be immediately disbanded, as an illegal, illegitimate and
demonstrably biased judicial body."
On Saturday, Russia criticized Del Ponte's decision, saying it showed
the court was politically biased.
The Hague tribunal has indicted scores of people for war crimes
committed in former Yugoslavia. A year ago it indicted Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and four other top Yugoslav officials for
alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
NATO waged an 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia last year to
try to prevent repression of ethnic Albanians in Serbia's Kosovo
province.
Matic said NATO had committed a series of crimes during the campaign,
including the killings of 16 people when Serbian state television was
bombed on April 23, 1999.
He also accused the tribunal of silence over crimes committed by ethnic
Albanian extremists against Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo now
administered by international forces.
Last month the Yugoslav justice minister lashed out at the court, saying
Yugoslavia did not recognize it and would not agree to any Yugoslav
citizen being extradited to it.
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