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MEMORANDUM ON FOREIGN INTERFERENCE
REGARDING ELECTIONS IN
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
September-October 2000
1. Before as well as during the electoral process conducted so
far, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its citizens have been
incessantly exposed to systematic and brutal pressure by some influential
international factors, primarily the United States Administration and NATO
countries, with an undisguised aim of directly interfering in the electoral
process in the FR of Yugoslavia and of bringing an inadmissible pressure to
bear on the electoral will of its population.
a) Political and psychological pressures and subversive activities:
In the period prior to elections in Yugoslavia, centres for
assisting Yugoslav opposition and destabilization of Yugoslavia were
established in neighbouring countries (Szeged, Hungary; Timisoara, Romania;
Sofia, Bulgaria; Skopje, Macedonia; and Tirana, Albania).
A month before the elections, a US Regional Centre was set up to
co-ordinate the work of centres in individual countries of South Eastern
Europe in order to exert political, psychological, diplomatic and
subversive pressure (on 15 August 2000). The Budapest-based US Centre has
engaged more than 30 experts for intelligence, propaganda, military
intelligence and subversive activities against the FR of Yugoslavia under
the direction of former US Ambassador to Croatia William Montgomery. The
Centre recruits experts from USIS, CIA, USAID, DIA and other similar US
agencies. For this reason, the FR of Yugoslavia lodged an official written
protest with the United Nations Security Council on 18 September 2000 by
qualifying the establishment of this centre as a violation of the Vienna
Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations and international law and
describing it as a gross interference in the internal affairs of the FR of
Yugoslavia (S/2000/880). During the month of August this year, Director of
CIA George Tennet visited the broader region of South Eastern Europe
(Bulgaria, Romania) to step up and co-ordinate pressure in the run-up to
elections in Yugoslavia.
A ring of radio and TV centres was established around the FR of
Yugoslavia to transmit anti-Yugoslav propaganda, the well-known system of
NATO propaganda such as Radio Free Europe, Deutshe Welle, Voice of America
and others. Hundreds of hours of anti-Yugoslav propaganda aimed at
psychological and political pressure on the citizens of the FR of
Yugoslavia, concocted in US and NATO centres of subversion and
destabilization, are being aired via these systems and their transmitters
from the territories of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Romania,
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania, on a daily basis. Many of
these radio and television transmitters operate illegally on the same
frequencies that, according to international conventions, belong to the FR
of Yugoslavia and that are used by Yugoslav radio and television stations.
Also, statements of representatives from NATO countries have been
noted to the effect that Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) concerning
the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija will not be implemented as long
as the opposition in Belgrade is not victorious, which directly represents
continuation of support for separatism, terrorism and international crime
in Kosovo and Metohija and in Montenegro.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, on the very date of
the elections (24 September) said: If opposition comes to power, the United
States will take steps to lift the sanctions, but if President Milosevic
stays in power, it will continue with its policy of sanctions and further
isolation of the Yugoslav Government. This being recognition of the fact
that sanctions have been used to wear down and punish a nation and as a
form of prolonged aggression.
The European Union too sent a "message to the Serbian people" on
18 September, on the eve of the elections, giving overtly support to the
Serbian opposition and promising to lift sanctions against it if it votes
for the opposition. This is evidence of the illegal nature and
unjustifiableness of sanctions as an instrument to violate fundamental
human rights, grossly intervene in internal affairs and bring about the
accomplishment of illegitimate political goals. On this score, an EU
representative was delivered the strongest protest in the Federal Ministry
of Foreign Affairs on 21 September and at EU headquarters in Brussels on 22
September, respectively.
Similar malicious views were publicly expressed every day in the
media by the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, by
the Foreign Ministers of a number of EU countries, the EU High
Representative and Commissioner for External Relations, as well as by the
EU Stability Pact Co-ordinator and the Secretary General of the Council of
Europe, with a view to exercising an organized pressure on the public in
the FRof Yugoslavia and on its electoral bodies and to prejudicing
election results.
b) Opposition funding:
The US Administration, the Governments of NATO countries and
various foundations, such as the Soros foundation, openly finance Yugoslav
opposition and various forms of subversive activity aimed at destabilizing
the FRof Yugoslavia and at overthrowing its legitimate Government. This
funding has been intensified in particular after the announcement
of nation-wide parliamentary, presidential and local elections. Funds have
openly been allocated to opposition political parties and their leaders, to
the so-called independent media, associations and structures of the
so-called civil society and to individuals. Prior to these elections, the
US Administration paid US$ 77.2 million to Yugoslav opposition, a public
fact also confirmed by a daily close to US Administration, The Washington
Post, on 22 September 2000. The same was also confirmed by sources in US
Congress, the Department of State and others.
Only a day after the elections and the first round of Presidential
election in the FR of Yugoslavia,
US Congress passed on 25 September the "Democratization of Serbia Act",
making a series of gross and unsubstantiated allegations against the
legitimate authorities in the FR of Yugoslavia and appropriating additional
financial resources, to the tune of US$ 105 million, to bring them down,
i.e. for the purposes of the Serbian opposition. This document, under the
guise of an alleged concern for human rights, openly supported the
separatism of ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, where
the majority Serbs live in harmony with 25 minorities.
A week before the elections, the Charge d'Affaires of the Royal
Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade handed out cash funds in Deutsche marks to
students and young people in several towns in Serbia, thus directly
promoting the cause of the opposition. The so-called independent media and
the statements made by the Norwegian Charge bear witness to it. Such
conduct by the Norwegian Charge, as an abuse of the hospitality of the
Yugoslav Government , contradicts his diplomatic functions, whereas giving
bribe is punishable by law in all countries of the world. The Charge was
twice officially warned (on 30 August and on 22 September 2000) in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs that such activity is a flagrant interference
in internal affairs and a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations. He was asked not to do so and to channel all
assistance in accordance with the agreements and the normal practice
existing in co-operation among sovereign States, via competent Government
authorities, which the Charge completely ignored.
b) Military pressure:
Prior to the elections, NATO forces began a series of military
exercises in the immediate neighbourhood of the FR of Yugoslavia. Thus,
during the month of September the territory of Romania was used to stage
the military exercises codenamed "Co-operative Key 2000", while during the
course of October the exercises "Aquanaut 2000" are being conducted in the
Romanian waters of the Black Sea, with the participation of British and
Dutch commandos. These exercises have been followed by those carried out
jointly by NATO forces in the Aegean and Black Seas and in Eastern
Mediterranean, with the participation of about 70 warships. The American
Sixth Fleet demonstrated force in the Adriatic close to the Yugoslav coast
on the pretext of staging joint exercises with the Croatian armed forces.
All these have been coupled with threatening statements by senior
military and political officials in US Administration and from other NATO
countries and orchestrated by announcements in the media of another
military campaign against the FR of Yugoslavia "should Milosevic wins".
2. The above facts testify to flagrant foreign interference
in electoral processes by using propaganda, psychological , political and
military pressure aimed at influencing the will of the electorate, which is
contrary to what democracy is about and which constitutes a violation of
all norms of international law, in particular the Charter of the United
Nations*, of UN General Assembly resolution 54/168, on non-interference in
electoral processes**, the Declaration on Principles of International Law
Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance
with the Charter of the United Nations***.
3. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia recalls that following
the interference of foreign factors in its electoral process, it has
already addressed the UN Security Council on 20 September 2000
(S/2000/885). The letter from the Ambassador of the FR of Yugoslavia to the
United Nations, among other things, pointed out that:"The countries that,
in wanton disregard for the Charter of the United Nations and circumventing
the Security Council, carried out an armed aggression against my country
last year, have now taken another step down the shameful road of disrespect
for the basic norms of international law. In doing so, they have publicly
and unscrupulously disparaged and encroached upon the inalienable right of
Yugoslav voters to elect their own legitimate representatives. They have
also violated General Assembly resolution 54/168... (which) was adopted
exactly to prevent such inadmissible acts and practices."
The Yugoslav Government requested on that occasion the Security
Council to address this important and urgent issue and to take measures to
put an end to flagrant interference in our internal affairs and to ensure
respect for international law and decisions of the United Nations.
Considering that the UN Security Council has not yet reacted to this
communication, the Yugoslav Government, presenting once again the above
facts, calls again upon the Security Council to take specific steps to
condemn in the strongest terms interference by the above-mentioned external
factors in the internal affairs of the FR of Yugoslavia, especially
interference in its electoral process and threats of force, so as to ensure
the respect for the Charter of the United Nations, international law and UN
General Assembly documents.
Belgrade, 4 October 2000
________________________________________
(3) Also reaffirms that any activities that attempt, directly or
indirectly, to interfere in the free development of national electoral
processes,... violate the spirit and letter of the principles established
in the Charter and in the Declaration on Principles of International Law
Concerning Friendly Relations...
(5) Strongly appeals to all States to refrain from financing
political parties or groups in other States and taking any other action
that undermines their electoral processes."
*** This principle has been defined in more detail and elaborated in this
Declaration (UNGA resolution 2625(XXV) of 24 October 1970) , which, inter
alia, states as follows:
"No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly
or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever, in the internal or external
affairs of any State..."
"No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or
any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from
it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure
from it advantages of any kind. Also, no State shall organize, assist,
foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed
activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another
State, or interfere in civil strife in another State."
"Every State has an inalienable right to choose its political,
economic, social and cultural systems, without interference in any form by
another State."
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REGARDING ELECTIONS IN
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
September-October 2000
1. Before as well as during the electoral process conducted so
far, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its citizens have been
incessantly exposed to systematic and brutal pressure by some influential
international factors, primarily the United States Administration and NATO
countries, with an undisguised aim of directly interfering in the electoral
process in the FR of Yugoslavia and of bringing an inadmissible pressure to
bear on the electoral will of its population.
a) Political and psychological pressures and subversive activities:
In the period prior to elections in Yugoslavia, centres for
assisting Yugoslav opposition and destabilization of Yugoslavia were
established in neighbouring countries (Szeged, Hungary; Timisoara, Romania;
Sofia, Bulgaria; Skopje, Macedonia; and Tirana, Albania).
A month before the elections, a US Regional Centre was set up to
co-ordinate the work of centres in individual countries of South Eastern
Europe in order to exert political, psychological, diplomatic and
subversive pressure (on 15 August 2000). The Budapest-based US Centre has
engaged more than 30 experts for intelligence, propaganda, military
intelligence and subversive activities against the FR of Yugoslavia under
the direction of former US Ambassador to Croatia William Montgomery. The
Centre recruits experts from USIS, CIA, USAID, DIA and other similar US
agencies. For this reason, the FR of Yugoslavia lodged an official written
protest with the United Nations Security Council on 18 September 2000 by
qualifying the establishment of this centre as a violation of the Vienna
Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations and international law and
describing it as a gross interference in the internal affairs of the FR of
Yugoslavia (S/2000/880). During the month of August this year, Director of
CIA George Tennet visited the broader region of South Eastern Europe
(Bulgaria, Romania) to step up and co-ordinate pressure in the run-up to
elections in Yugoslavia.
A ring of radio and TV centres was established around the FR of
Yugoslavia to transmit anti-Yugoslav propaganda, the well-known system of
NATO propaganda such as Radio Free Europe, Deutshe Welle, Voice of America
and others. Hundreds of hours of anti-Yugoslav propaganda aimed at
psychological and political pressure on the citizens of the FR of
Yugoslavia, concocted in US and NATO centres of subversion and
destabilization, are being aired via these systems and their transmitters
from the territories of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Romania,
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania, on a daily basis. Many of
these radio and television transmitters operate illegally on the same
frequencies that, according to international conventions, belong to the FR
of Yugoslavia and that are used by Yugoslav radio and television stations.
Also, statements of representatives from NATO countries have been
noted to the effect that Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) concerning
the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija will not be implemented as long
as the opposition in Belgrade is not victorious, which directly represents
continuation of support for separatism, terrorism and international crime
in Kosovo and Metohija and in Montenegro.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, on the very date of
the elections (24 September) said: If opposition comes to power, the United
States will take steps to lift the sanctions, but if President Milosevic
stays in power, it will continue with its policy of sanctions and further
isolation of the Yugoslav Government. This being recognition of the fact
that sanctions have been used to wear down and punish a nation and as a
form of prolonged aggression.
The European Union too sent a "message to the Serbian people" on
18 September, on the eve of the elections, giving overtly support to the
Serbian opposition and promising to lift sanctions against it if it votes
for the opposition. This is evidence of the illegal nature and
unjustifiableness of sanctions as an instrument to violate fundamental
human rights, grossly intervene in internal affairs and bring about the
accomplishment of illegitimate political goals. On this score, an EU
representative was delivered the strongest protest in the Federal Ministry
of Foreign Affairs on 21 September and at EU headquarters in Brussels on 22
September, respectively.
Similar malicious views were publicly expressed every day in the
media by the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, by
the Foreign Ministers of a number of EU countries, the EU High
Representative and Commissioner for External Relations, as well as by the
EU Stability Pact Co-ordinator and the Secretary General of the Council of
Europe, with a view to exercising an organized pressure on the public in
the FRof Yugoslavia and on its electoral bodies and to prejudicing
election results.
b) Opposition funding:
The US Administration, the Governments of NATO countries and
various foundations, such as the Soros foundation, openly finance Yugoslav
opposition and various forms of subversive activity aimed at destabilizing
the FRof Yugoslavia and at overthrowing its legitimate Government. This
funding has been intensified in particular after the announcement
of nation-wide parliamentary, presidential and local elections. Funds have
openly been allocated to opposition political parties and their leaders, to
the so-called independent media, associations and structures of the
so-called civil society and to individuals. Prior to these elections, the
US Administration paid US$ 77.2 million to Yugoslav opposition, a public
fact also confirmed by a daily close to US Administration, The Washington
Post, on 22 September 2000. The same was also confirmed by sources in US
Congress, the Department of State and others.
Only a day after the elections and the first round of Presidential
election in the FR of Yugoslavia,
US Congress passed on 25 September the "Democratization of Serbia Act",
making a series of gross and unsubstantiated allegations against the
legitimate authorities in the FR of Yugoslavia and appropriating additional
financial resources, to the tune of US$ 105 million, to bring them down,
i.e. for the purposes of the Serbian opposition. This document, under the
guise of an alleged concern for human rights, openly supported the
separatism of ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, where
the majority Serbs live in harmony with 25 minorities.
A week before the elections, the Charge d'Affaires of the Royal
Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade handed out cash funds in Deutsche marks to
students and young people in several towns in Serbia, thus directly
promoting the cause of the opposition. The so-called independent media and
the statements made by the Norwegian Charge bear witness to it. Such
conduct by the Norwegian Charge, as an abuse of the hospitality of the
Yugoslav Government , contradicts his diplomatic functions, whereas giving
bribe is punishable by law in all countries of the world. The Charge was
twice officially warned (on 30 August and on 22 September 2000) in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs that such activity is a flagrant interference
in internal affairs and a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations. He was asked not to do so and to channel all
assistance in accordance with the agreements and the normal practice
existing in co-operation among sovereign States, via competent Government
authorities, which the Charge completely ignored.
b) Military pressure:
Prior to the elections, NATO forces began a series of military
exercises in the immediate neighbourhood of the FR of Yugoslavia. Thus,
during the month of September the territory of Romania was used to stage
the military exercises codenamed "Co-operative Key 2000", while during the
course of October the exercises "Aquanaut 2000" are being conducted in the
Romanian waters of the Black Sea, with the participation of British and
Dutch commandos. These exercises have been followed by those carried out
jointly by NATO forces in the Aegean and Black Seas and in Eastern
Mediterranean, with the participation of about 70 warships. The American
Sixth Fleet demonstrated force in the Adriatic close to the Yugoslav coast
on the pretext of staging joint exercises with the Croatian armed forces.
All these have been coupled with threatening statements by senior
military and political officials in US Administration and from other NATO
countries and orchestrated by announcements in the media of another
military campaign against the FR of Yugoslavia "should Milosevic wins".
2. The above facts testify to flagrant foreign interference
in electoral processes by using propaganda, psychological , political and
military pressure aimed at influencing the will of the electorate, which is
contrary to what democracy is about and which constitutes a violation of
all norms of international law, in particular the Charter of the United
Nations*, of UN General Assembly resolution 54/168, on non-interference in
electoral processes**, the Declaration on Principles of International Law
Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance
with the Charter of the United Nations***.
3. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia recalls that following
the interference of foreign factors in its electoral process, it has
already addressed the UN Security Council on 20 September 2000
(S/2000/885). The letter from the Ambassador of the FR of Yugoslavia to the
United Nations, among other things, pointed out that:"The countries that,
in wanton disregard for the Charter of the United Nations and circumventing
the Security Council, carried out an armed aggression against my country
last year, have now taken another step down the shameful road of disrespect
for the basic norms of international law. In doing so, they have publicly
and unscrupulously disparaged and encroached upon the inalienable right of
Yugoslav voters to elect their own legitimate representatives. They have
also violated General Assembly resolution 54/168... (which) was adopted
exactly to prevent such inadmissible acts and practices."
The Yugoslav Government requested on that occasion the Security
Council to address this important and urgent issue and to take measures to
put an end to flagrant interference in our internal affairs and to ensure
respect for international law and decisions of the United Nations.
Considering that the UN Security Council has not yet reacted to this
communication, the Yugoslav Government, presenting once again the above
facts, calls again upon the Security Council to take specific steps to
condemn in the strongest terms interference by the above-mentioned external
factors in the internal affairs of the FR of Yugoslavia, especially
interference in its electoral process and threats of force, so as to ensure
the respect for the Charter of the United Nations, international law and UN
General Assembly documents.
Belgrade, 4 October 2000
________________________________________
(3) Also reaffirms that any activities that attempt, directly or
indirectly, to interfere in the free development of national electoral
processes,... violate the spirit and letter of the principles established
in the Charter and in the Declaration on Principles of International Law
Concerning Friendly Relations...
(5) Strongly appeals to all States to refrain from financing
political parties or groups in other States and taking any other action
that undermines their electoral processes."
*** This principle has been defined in more detail and elaborated in this
Declaration (UNGA resolution 2625(XXV) of 24 October 1970) , which, inter
alia, states as follows:
"No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly
or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever, in the internal or external
affairs of any State..."
"No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or
any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from
it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure
from it advantages of any kind. Also, no State shall organize, assist,
foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed
activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another
State, or interfere in civil strife in another State."
"Every State has an inalienable right to choose its political,
economic, social and cultural systems, without interference in any form by
another State."
---
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'NY Times' article with commentary by Jared Israel and Max Sinclair
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> The Sunday Times
> October 1 2000
> EASTERN EUROPE
> SAS trains Montenegrin police
> A HIGHLY secretive SAS mission in Montenegro has spent the past six
> months training the Yugoslav republic's elite special police against
> terrorist threats from Serbia, writes Tom Walker.
> The 1,500-strong commando units of the new Montenegrin force, who
wear
> distinctive black uniforms, are now a common sight near government
> buildings and on Montenegro's borders. The commandos are backed up by
> another 5,000 special police.
> Neither the Montenegrins nor the British government have admitted the
> presence of SAS trainers on Yugslav territory, for fear of provoking
a
> confrontation with the Yugoslav army of President Slobodan Milosevic.
> Diplomats say they believe the trainers, said to have been a squad of
> be-tween four and eight, have now left after concern for their
safety.
> The SAS trainers were experienced Balkan hands. Several had assisted
> Nato's operation in Kosovo last year. "I saw some familiar faces
while I
> was wandering across a park here. They saw me and dived behind a
tree,"
> said one diplomat.
> The British involvement with the Montenegrin police is plain to see.
> More than 150 Land Rovers have been im-ported in the past year. The
> Foreign Office said two ex-port licences had been granted permitting
> civilian use.
> Intelligence sources familiar with the police programme run by the
SAS
> said the trainers were based near Bar, Yugoslavia's main port. The
> police have been given new mountaineering, diving and parachuting
> skills, and some officers are also be-lieved to have been given
training
> in Britain.
> "They've turned the police into a sort of light infantry militia-type
> outfit that can tackle any hijack or hostage crisis, the sort of
thing
> that Serbia might provoke here," said one diplomat. He said most of
the
> police armaments and uniforms came from America. The special police
have
> sub-machineguns, mortars and bazookas, but cannot counter the heavy
> armoury of the Yugoslav army.
>
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE, 2 October 2000 No. 3200
S P E C I A L I S S U E
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC ADDRESSES THE NATION
BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug). Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic addressed on Monday the nation over the Serbian radio and
television.
"Dear citizens,
In the expectation of the second round of the election, I take
the
opportunity to explain to you my views on the electoral and political
situation in our country, especially in Serbia.
As you know, efforts have been underway for a whole decade to
place the entire Balkan peninsula under the control of some western
powers.
A big part of that job was done by establishing puppet governments in
some
countries, by transforming them into countries with limited sovereignty
or
even deprived of any sovereignty at all.
Due to our resistance to such a fate for our country, we were
subjected to all forms of pressure to which people in the contemporary
world can be subjected. The number and intensity of the pressures
multiplied as time went by. All experience the big powers gained in the
second half of the 20th century in overthrowing governments, causing
unrest, instigating civil wars, disparaging or liquidating national
freedom
fighters, bringing states and nations to the brink of poverty all this
was
applied to our country and our people.
The developments organized for our elections are also a part of
the organized persecution of our country and our people, because our
country and our people constitute a barrier to the establishment of full
domination in the Balkan peninsula.
A grouping has for a long time now been present in our midst
which, under the guise of opposition political parties of democratic
orientation, represents the interests of governments which are the
protagonists of pressures against Yugoslavia, and especially against
Serbia. That grouping appeared in these elections under the name
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia. Its true head is not its presidential candidate.
Its
head for many years has been the president of the Democratic Party and
collaborator of the military alliance which waged a war against our
country. He could not even conceal his collaboration with that alliance.
In
fact, our entire public knows of his appeal to NATO to bomb Serbia for
as
many weeks as necessary to break its resistance. The grouping organized
in
this manner for these elections therefore represents the armies and
governments which recently waged war against Yugoslavia.
In representing their interests, the grouping launched messages
to
our public that with them at the head, Yugoslavia would be out of any
danger of war or violence, that economic prosperity would come, the
standard of living would improve visibly and rapidly, that Yugoslavia
would
allegedly reintegrate in international institutions, and so forth.
Distinguished citizens,
It is my duty to warn you publicly and in time that such
promises
are false and that the situation is quite different. It is precisely our
policy which guarantees peace and theirs only lasting conflicts and
violence, and I shall tell you why.
With the establishment of an administration supported or
installed
by a community of countries gathered within NATO, Yugoslavia would
inevitably become a country whose territory would quickly be
dismembered.
These are not only NATO's intentions. These are the preelection promises
of
the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. We have heard from its
representatives
that Sandzak would get the autonomy that a member of its coalition and
leader of a separatist Muslim organization Sulejman Ugljanin has been
advocating for ten years, and which would in fact mean a definite
separation of Sandzak from Serbia. Their promises also include giving to
Vojvodina an autonomy that would not only separate it from Serbia and
Yugoslavia but would in fact make it an integral part of neighbouring
Hungary. In a similar manner other areas would be separated from Serbia
and
some other border areas. Their annexation by neighbouring states has for
a
long time been a hot issue in those states, which keep inciting their
minorities in Yugoslavia to make a contribution to an integration of
parts
of our country with neighbouring states.
Within this policy of dismembering Yugoslavia, Kosovo would be
the
first victim. Its present status would be proclaimed legal and final. It
is
the first part of its territory to which Serbia would have to bid
farewell,
without even voicing hope that this part of its land could once be
returned
to it.
The remaining territory that would bear the name Serbia would
be
occupied by international, US or some third military forces, which would
treat this territory as their military training ground and as their
property to be controlled in line with the interests of the power whose
army is present there.
We have been looking at cases of such control and consequences
thereof for decades, and especially in this decade in many countries
around
the world, unfortunately lately even in Europe, for instance in Kosovo,
Republika Srpska and Macedonia, in our immediate neighbourhood. The
people
of Serbia would know the fate of the Kurds, with a prospect of being
exterminated more speedily than the Kurds since they are less numerous,
and
since their movements would be limited to a much smaller area than the
one
in which Kurds have been present for decades.
As for Montenegro, its fate would be left in the hands of the
mafia, whose rules of the game should be made well known to the
citizens:
any breach of discipline and especially any opposition to mafia
interests
is punishable by death without any right to appeal.
I have presented to you the fate of Yugoslavia in case of
acceptance of the NATO option for our country, in order to warn you
that,
in addition to a loss of land and humiliation of the people, all would
live
under ceaseless violence.
The new owners of former Yugoslavia's state territory and
occupiers of the remaining Serbian territory would, as is the nature of
things, terrorize the population whose territory they will have
occupied.
The Serb people itself would at the same time fight continuously for the
reestablishment of a Serb state in which it could reassemble. They do
not
want peace or prosperity in the Balkans. They want this to be a zone of
permanent conflicts and wars which would provide them with an alibi for
their lasting presence.
"A puppet government therefore guarantees violence, possibly
many
years of war, anything but peace. Only our own administration guarantees
peace.
Moreover, all countries finding themselves with a status of
limited sovereignty and with governments under the influence of foreign
powers, have speedily become impoverished in a manner destroying all
hope
for more just and humane social relations. A great division into a poor
majority and a rich minority - this has been the picture of eastern
Europe
for some years now that we can all see. That picture would also include
us.
We, too, would under the command and control of the owners of our
country
quickly have a tremendous majority of the very poor, whose prospects of
coming out of their poverty would be very, very uncertain and far away.
The
rich minority would be constituted by the black marketeering elite,
which
would be allowed to be rich only on condition that it be fully loyal to
the
command which decides the fate of their country.
Public and social property would quickly be transformed into
private property, but its owners, as demonstrated by the experience of
our
neighbours, would as a rule be foreigners.
Among few exceptions would be only those who would purchase
their
right to ownership by their loyalty and submission, which would lead to
the
elimination of elementary national and human dignity. The greatest
national
assets in such circumstances become the property of foreigners, and the
people who used to manage them would continue to do so in these changed
circumstances but as employees of foreign companies in their own
country.
National humiliation, state fragmentation and social poverty
would
necessarily lead to many forms of social pathology, of which crime would
be
the first. This is not just an assumption, this is the experience of all
countries which have taken the path that we are trying to avoid at any
cost. The centres of European crime are no longer in the west, they were
moved to eastern Europe a decade ago. Our people find it hard to bear
already the present crime incidence, as we lived for a long time from
World War II to the 1990s in a society which hardly knew any crime at
all.
Any large-scale crime, such as cannot be avoided in a society that we
would
become with the loss of sovereignty and a large part of territory, such
large-scale crime would be as dangerous for our small and unused to
crime
people as war is dangerous for the society and its citizens.
One of the essential tasks of a puppet government in any
country,
including ours were we to have such a government, is loss of identity.
Countries under foreign command relatively quickly part with their
history,
their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of
living,
often their own literary language. Invisible at first, but very
efficient
and merciless selection of national identity would reduce it to a few
local
dishes, a few songs and folk dances, the names of national heroes used
as
brand names for food products or cosmetics.
One of the really obvious consequences of the takeover of
territories of countries by the big powers in the 20th century is the
annihilation of the identity of the people of those countries.
Experience
of other countries shows that people can hardly come to terms with the
speed with which they are starting to use a foreign language as their
own,
to identify with foreign historic figures forgetting their own, to be
better acquainted with the literature of their occupiers than their own,
to
glorify the history of others while mocking their own, to resemble
others
instead of themselves. The loss of a national identity is the greatest
defeat a nation can know, which is inevitable in the contemporary form
of
colonization. Besides, that new form of colonization by its very nature
rules out any possibility of free speech or free will, and especially
rules
out any creativity of any kind. Countries which are not free deny to the
people who live in them the right to freely express their opinion, as
that
opinion would be in collision with the absence of freedom. This is why
torture over thought is the most consistent and essential form of
torture
in a country that has lost its freedom. As for exercising free will, it
is,
naturally, out of the question. Free will is allowed only as a farce. It
is
allowed only to the lackeys of foreign masters, whose simulated free
will
is used by the occupiers as a justification for establishing democracy
in
whose name they have taken possession of another people's country. I
would
like to stress particularly because of young people, intellectuals,
scientists, that countries deprived of sovereignty are as a rule
deprived
of the right to creative work, and especially creative work in the field
of
science. Large centers and large powers finance scientific work, control
its attainments and decide about the application of its results.
Dependent
states, if they have scientific laboratories and scientific institutes,
are
not independent ones but operate as branches controlled by one center.
Their attainments must remain within bounds that will not introduce in
occupied countries and occupied peoples the seed of rebellion and
emancipation.
At this moment ahead of the runoff elections, because the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia doubts it can achieve the result it
needs,
leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia with money introduced
into
the country are bribing, blackmailing and harassing citizens and
organizing
strikes, unrest and violence in order to stop production, all work and
every activity. All that, of course, with the aim of stopping life in
Serbia and with the explanation that life can start again and go on
successfully and well, when it is organized by those who represent here
the
intentions, plans and interests of occupiers. Our country is a sovereign
state. It has its laws, its Constitution, its institutions. Serbia is
duty bound, and it deserves to defend itself from invasion which has
been
prepared against it through different forms of subversion.
And the citizens should know, that by participating in
subversion
whose objective is foreign domination over their country or the
occupation
of their country, they bear the historical responsibility of denying to
their country the right to exist and also the responsibility of losing
control over their own lives.
By giving up their country to others, to foreign will they also
surrender to foreign will their own life and the life of their children
and
of many other people.
I considered it my duty, to warn the citizens of our country
about
the consequences of the activities financed and supported by the
governments of NATO countries. Citizens can trust me but they do not
have
to. My wish is only that they do not realize this when it is too late,
that
they do not realize this when it will be difficult to redress mistakes
that
citizens naively, superficially or erroneously made, as those mistakes
will
be difficult to rectify and some will never be rectified.
My motive to express my opinion in this way is not, at all, of
personal nature. I was elected twice President of Serbia and once
President
of Yugoslavia. It should be clear to all, after these ten years, that
they
are not attacking Serbia because of Milosevic, but Milosevic because of
Serbia. My conscience in that respect is absolutely clear. My
conscience,
however, would not at all be clear if I would not tell my people, after
all
these years at their head, what I think about their fate if that fate is
imposed by someone else, even if it means to explain to the people that
they have chosen that fate themselves.
The misjudgment that they are choosing what has been chosen by
someone else, is the most dangerous misjudgment and the main reason of
my
decision to address publicly the citizens of Yugoslavia.
Thank you."
YUGOSLAV ELECTION COMMISSION REJECTS DOS COMPLAINT
BELGRADE, Oct 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav election commission, at
a
session presided over by Borivoje Vukicevic, determined on Saturday the
list of candidates for electing the president of Yugoslavia in a runoff,
said a statement from Yugoslav parliament.
Candidates for president of Yugoslavia are:
1. Vojislav Kostunica, Ph.D. of law, born 1944, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia,
SocialDemocracy, Civil Alliance of Serbia, ChristianDemocratic Party of
Serbia, New Serbia, Movement for Democratic Serbia, Vojvodina League of
SocialDemocrats, Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina, Vojvodina
Coalition, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, Democratic Alternative,
Democratic Center, New Democracy, SocialDemocratic Union, Democratic
Action, League for Sumadija, Serbian Resistance Movement Democratic
Movement.
2. Slobodan Milosevic, B.A. of law, born 1941, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Yugoslav Left and the
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro.
At the same time, the commission made a decision that the
election
councils, which conducted the elections for Yugoslav president in the
first
round, will conduct the elections for Yugoslav president in the runoff,
the
statement said.
The election commission has also made a decision about the
printing of election material for the election of Yugoslav president in
the
runoff. Ballots will be printed in the same number as the number of
voters
in the first round, and that number is 7,861,421. The printing of
ballots
in several languages will start on Sunday, October 1, 2000.
The Yugoslav election commission has rejected the complaint of
DOS
about balloting results for Yugoslav president as unfounded. Also
reviewed
were a number of complaints concerning local elections, said the
statement
of the Yugoslav parliament information section.
BULGARIANATOTRIBUNAL
WESTERN LEADERS, NATO FOUND GUILTY
SOFIA, Oct 1 (Tanjug) Court council of the International
Social
Tribunal based in Moscow found guilty, on Sunday, at the end of the
trial
in Sofia, 14 Western leaders and the NATO alliance of crimes committed
during NATO's aggression last year on FR Yugoslavia.
The verdict, read by tribunal president Mihail Kuznyecov for
war
crimes, crimes against humanity, violation of all international norms
and
regulations and other crimes, found guilty: William Clinton, Madeleine
Albright, Wiliam Cohen, Gerhard Schroeder, Jozef Fischer, Rudolf
Scharping,
Anthony Blair, Robin Cook, George Robertson, Jacque Chirac, Hubert
Vedrine,
Alain Richard, Javier Solana and Wesley Clark.
The verdict was signed by the 14 judges of the council from ten
countries.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
THREE POWER TRANSFORMERS BURNED IN FIRE IN "TREPCA"
ZVECAN, Oct 1 (Tanjug) In a fire that broke out Saturday
evening
around 22.00 in the power plant of Trepca's lead metallurgy plant were
burned down three 35kilowat transformers, that lead to power outages in
Zvecan and surrounding villages.
Tanjug's reporter learnt on the spot that the fire was very
quickly brought under control by fire brigade units from the
northernSerbian part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
According to the first information the fire was caused by a
technical malfunction of a power line that has been submerged under
water
for days. A few Serbs working on the maintenance of the plant, the only
ones to remain at their work posts after the forcible takeover of Trepca
by
KFOR in August this year, have warned KFOR members about that,
apparently
to no avail.
The situation has also stabilized around the plant, and UNMIK
and
KFOR helicopetres are no longer overflying the area since midnight.
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> The Sunday Times
> October 1 2000
> EASTERN EUROPE
> SAS trains Montenegrin police
> A HIGHLY secretive SAS mission in Montenegro has spent the past six
> months training the Yugoslav republic's elite special police against
> terrorist threats from Serbia, writes Tom Walker.
> The 1,500-strong commando units of the new Montenegrin force, who
wear
> distinctive black uniforms, are now a common sight near government
> buildings and on Montenegro's borders. The commandos are backed up by
> another 5,000 special police.
> Neither the Montenegrins nor the British government have admitted the
> presence of SAS trainers on Yugslav territory, for fear of provoking
a
> confrontation with the Yugoslav army of President Slobodan Milosevic.
> Diplomats say they believe the trainers, said to have been a squad of
> be-tween four and eight, have now left after concern for their
safety.
> The SAS trainers were experienced Balkan hands. Several had assisted
> Nato's operation in Kosovo last year. "I saw some familiar faces
while I
> was wandering across a park here. They saw me and dived behind a
tree,"
> said one diplomat.
> The British involvement with the Montenegrin police is plain to see.
> More than 150 Land Rovers have been im-ported in the past year. The
> Foreign Office said two ex-port licences had been granted permitting
> civilian use.
> Intelligence sources familiar with the police programme run by the
SAS
> said the trainers were based near Bar, Yugoslavia's main port. The
> police have been given new mountaineering, diving and parachuting
> skills, and some officers are also be-lieved to have been given
training
> in Britain.
> "They've turned the police into a sort of light infantry militia-type
> outfit that can tackle any hijack or hostage crisis, the sort of
thing
> that Serbia might provoke here," said one diplomat. He said most of
the
> police armaments and uniforms came from America. The special police
have
> sub-machineguns, mortars and bazookas, but cannot counter the heavy
> armoury of the Yugoslav army.
>
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE, 2 October 2000 No. 3200
S P E C I A L I S S U E
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC ADDRESSES THE NATION
BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug). Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic addressed on Monday the nation over the Serbian radio and
television.
"Dear citizens,
In the expectation of the second round of the election, I take
the
opportunity to explain to you my views on the electoral and political
situation in our country, especially in Serbia.
As you know, efforts have been underway for a whole decade to
place the entire Balkan peninsula under the control of some western
powers.
A big part of that job was done by establishing puppet governments in
some
countries, by transforming them into countries with limited sovereignty
or
even deprived of any sovereignty at all.
Due to our resistance to such a fate for our country, we were
subjected to all forms of pressure to which people in the contemporary
world can be subjected. The number and intensity of the pressures
multiplied as time went by. All experience the big powers gained in the
second half of the 20th century in overthrowing governments, causing
unrest, instigating civil wars, disparaging or liquidating national
freedom
fighters, bringing states and nations to the brink of poverty all this
was
applied to our country and our people.
The developments organized for our elections are also a part of
the organized persecution of our country and our people, because our
country and our people constitute a barrier to the establishment of full
domination in the Balkan peninsula.
A grouping has for a long time now been present in our midst
which, under the guise of opposition political parties of democratic
orientation, represents the interests of governments which are the
protagonists of pressures against Yugoslavia, and especially against
Serbia. That grouping appeared in these elections under the name
Democratic
Opposition of Serbia. Its true head is not its presidential candidate.
Its
head for many years has been the president of the Democratic Party and
collaborator of the military alliance which waged a war against our
country. He could not even conceal his collaboration with that alliance.
In
fact, our entire public knows of his appeal to NATO to bomb Serbia for
as
many weeks as necessary to break its resistance. The grouping organized
in
this manner for these elections therefore represents the armies and
governments which recently waged war against Yugoslavia.
In representing their interests, the grouping launched messages
to
our public that with them at the head, Yugoslavia would be out of any
danger of war or violence, that economic prosperity would come, the
standard of living would improve visibly and rapidly, that Yugoslavia
would
allegedly reintegrate in international institutions, and so forth.
Distinguished citizens,
It is my duty to warn you publicly and in time that such
promises
are false and that the situation is quite different. It is precisely our
policy which guarantees peace and theirs only lasting conflicts and
violence, and I shall tell you why.
With the establishment of an administration supported or
installed
by a community of countries gathered within NATO, Yugoslavia would
inevitably become a country whose territory would quickly be
dismembered.
These are not only NATO's intentions. These are the preelection promises
of
the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. We have heard from its
representatives
that Sandzak would get the autonomy that a member of its coalition and
leader of a separatist Muslim organization Sulejman Ugljanin has been
advocating for ten years, and which would in fact mean a definite
separation of Sandzak from Serbia. Their promises also include giving to
Vojvodina an autonomy that would not only separate it from Serbia and
Yugoslavia but would in fact make it an integral part of neighbouring
Hungary. In a similar manner other areas would be separated from Serbia
and
some other border areas. Their annexation by neighbouring states has for
a
long time been a hot issue in those states, which keep inciting their
minorities in Yugoslavia to make a contribution to an integration of
parts
of our country with neighbouring states.
Within this policy of dismembering Yugoslavia, Kosovo would be
the
first victim. Its present status would be proclaimed legal and final. It
is
the first part of its territory to which Serbia would have to bid
farewell,
without even voicing hope that this part of its land could once be
returned
to it.
The remaining territory that would bear the name Serbia would
be
occupied by international, US or some third military forces, which would
treat this territory as their military training ground and as their
property to be controlled in line with the interests of the power whose
army is present there.
We have been looking at cases of such control and consequences
thereof for decades, and especially in this decade in many countries
around
the world, unfortunately lately even in Europe, for instance in Kosovo,
Republika Srpska and Macedonia, in our immediate neighbourhood. The
people
of Serbia would know the fate of the Kurds, with a prospect of being
exterminated more speedily than the Kurds since they are less numerous,
and
since their movements would be limited to a much smaller area than the
one
in which Kurds have been present for decades.
As for Montenegro, its fate would be left in the hands of the
mafia, whose rules of the game should be made well known to the
citizens:
any breach of discipline and especially any opposition to mafia
interests
is punishable by death without any right to appeal.
I have presented to you the fate of Yugoslavia in case of
acceptance of the NATO option for our country, in order to warn you
that,
in addition to a loss of land and humiliation of the people, all would
live
under ceaseless violence.
The new owners of former Yugoslavia's state territory and
occupiers of the remaining Serbian territory would, as is the nature of
things, terrorize the population whose territory they will have
occupied.
The Serb people itself would at the same time fight continuously for the
reestablishment of a Serb state in which it could reassemble. They do
not
want peace or prosperity in the Balkans. They want this to be a zone of
permanent conflicts and wars which would provide them with an alibi for
their lasting presence.
"A puppet government therefore guarantees violence, possibly
many
years of war, anything but peace. Only our own administration guarantees
peace.
Moreover, all countries finding themselves with a status of
limited sovereignty and with governments under the influence of foreign
powers, have speedily become impoverished in a manner destroying all
hope
for more just and humane social relations. A great division into a poor
majority and a rich minority - this has been the picture of eastern
Europe
for some years now that we can all see. That picture would also include
us.
We, too, would under the command and control of the owners of our
country
quickly have a tremendous majority of the very poor, whose prospects of
coming out of their poverty would be very, very uncertain and far away.
The
rich minority would be constituted by the black marketeering elite,
which
would be allowed to be rich only on condition that it be fully loyal to
the
command which decides the fate of their country.
Public and social property would quickly be transformed into
private property, but its owners, as demonstrated by the experience of
our
neighbours, would as a rule be foreigners.
Among few exceptions would be only those who would purchase
their
right to ownership by their loyalty and submission, which would lead to
the
elimination of elementary national and human dignity. The greatest
national
assets in such circumstances become the property of foreigners, and the
people who used to manage them would continue to do so in these changed
circumstances but as employees of foreign companies in their own
country.
National humiliation, state fragmentation and social poverty
would
necessarily lead to many forms of social pathology, of which crime would
be
the first. This is not just an assumption, this is the experience of all
countries which have taken the path that we are trying to avoid at any
cost. The centres of European crime are no longer in the west, they were
moved to eastern Europe a decade ago. Our people find it hard to bear
already the present crime incidence, as we lived for a long time from
World War II to the 1990s in a society which hardly knew any crime at
all.
Any large-scale crime, such as cannot be avoided in a society that we
would
become with the loss of sovereignty and a large part of territory, such
large-scale crime would be as dangerous for our small and unused to
crime
people as war is dangerous for the society and its citizens.
One of the essential tasks of a puppet government in any
country,
including ours were we to have such a government, is loss of identity.
Countries under foreign command relatively quickly part with their
history,
their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of
living,
often their own literary language. Invisible at first, but very
efficient
and merciless selection of national identity would reduce it to a few
local
dishes, a few songs and folk dances, the names of national heroes used
as
brand names for food products or cosmetics.
One of the really obvious consequences of the takeover of
territories of countries by the big powers in the 20th century is the
annihilation of the identity of the people of those countries.
Experience
of other countries shows that people can hardly come to terms with the
speed with which they are starting to use a foreign language as their
own,
to identify with foreign historic figures forgetting their own, to be
better acquainted with the literature of their occupiers than their own,
to
glorify the history of others while mocking their own, to resemble
others
instead of themselves. The loss of a national identity is the greatest
defeat a nation can know, which is inevitable in the contemporary form
of
colonization. Besides, that new form of colonization by its very nature
rules out any possibility of free speech or free will, and especially
rules
out any creativity of any kind. Countries which are not free deny to the
people who live in them the right to freely express their opinion, as
that
opinion would be in collision with the absence of freedom. This is why
torture over thought is the most consistent and essential form of
torture
in a country that has lost its freedom. As for exercising free will, it
is,
naturally, out of the question. Free will is allowed only as a farce. It
is
allowed only to the lackeys of foreign masters, whose simulated free
will
is used by the occupiers as a justification for establishing democracy
in
whose name they have taken possession of another people's country. I
would
like to stress particularly because of young people, intellectuals,
scientists, that countries deprived of sovereignty are as a rule
deprived
of the right to creative work, and especially creative work in the field
of
science. Large centers and large powers finance scientific work, control
its attainments and decide about the application of its results.
Dependent
states, if they have scientific laboratories and scientific institutes,
are
not independent ones but operate as branches controlled by one center.
Their attainments must remain within bounds that will not introduce in
occupied countries and occupied peoples the seed of rebellion and
emancipation.
At this moment ahead of the runoff elections, because the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia doubts it can achieve the result it
needs,
leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia with money introduced
into
the country are bribing, blackmailing and harassing citizens and
organizing
strikes, unrest and violence in order to stop production, all work and
every activity. All that, of course, with the aim of stopping life in
Serbia and with the explanation that life can start again and go on
successfully and well, when it is organized by those who represent here
the
intentions, plans and interests of occupiers. Our country is a sovereign
state. It has its laws, its Constitution, its institutions. Serbia is
duty bound, and it deserves to defend itself from invasion which has
been
prepared against it through different forms of subversion.
And the citizens should know, that by participating in
subversion
whose objective is foreign domination over their country or the
occupation
of their country, they bear the historical responsibility of denying to
their country the right to exist and also the responsibility of losing
control over their own lives.
By giving up their country to others, to foreign will they also
surrender to foreign will their own life and the life of their children
and
of many other people.
I considered it my duty, to warn the citizens of our country
about
the consequences of the activities financed and supported by the
governments of NATO countries. Citizens can trust me but they do not
have
to. My wish is only that they do not realize this when it is too late,
that
they do not realize this when it will be difficult to redress mistakes
that
citizens naively, superficially or erroneously made, as those mistakes
will
be difficult to rectify and some will never be rectified.
My motive to express my opinion in this way is not, at all, of
personal nature. I was elected twice President of Serbia and once
President
of Yugoslavia. It should be clear to all, after these ten years, that
they
are not attacking Serbia because of Milosevic, but Milosevic because of
Serbia. My conscience in that respect is absolutely clear. My
conscience,
however, would not at all be clear if I would not tell my people, after
all
these years at their head, what I think about their fate if that fate is
imposed by someone else, even if it means to explain to the people that
they have chosen that fate themselves.
The misjudgment that they are choosing what has been chosen by
someone else, is the most dangerous misjudgment and the main reason of
my
decision to address publicly the citizens of Yugoslavia.
Thank you."
YUGOSLAV ELECTION COMMISSION REJECTS DOS COMPLAINT
BELGRADE, Oct 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav election commission, at
a
session presided over by Borivoje Vukicevic, determined on Saturday the
list of candidates for electing the president of Yugoslavia in a runoff,
said a statement from Yugoslav parliament.
Candidates for president of Yugoslavia are:
1. Vojislav Kostunica, Ph.D. of law, born 1944, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Democratic Party, Democratic Party of Serbia,
SocialDemocracy, Civil Alliance of Serbia, ChristianDemocratic Party of
Serbia, New Serbia, Movement for Democratic Serbia, Vojvodina League of
SocialDemocrats, Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina, Vojvodina
Coalition, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, Democratic Alternative,
Democratic Center, New Democracy, SocialDemocratic Union, Democratic
Action, League for Sumadija, Serbian Resistance Movement Democratic
Movement.
2. Slobodan Milosevic, B.A. of law, born 1941, from Belgrade,
nominated by the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Yugoslav Left and the
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro.
At the same time, the commission made a decision that the
election
councils, which conducted the elections for Yugoslav president in the
first
round, will conduct the elections for Yugoslav president in the runoff,
the
statement said.
The election commission has also made a decision about the
printing of election material for the election of Yugoslav president in
the
runoff. Ballots will be printed in the same number as the number of
voters
in the first round, and that number is 7,861,421. The printing of
ballots
in several languages will start on Sunday, October 1, 2000.
The Yugoslav election commission has rejected the complaint of
DOS
about balloting results for Yugoslav president as unfounded. Also
reviewed
were a number of complaints concerning local elections, said the
statement
of the Yugoslav parliament information section.
BULGARIANATOTRIBUNAL
WESTERN LEADERS, NATO FOUND GUILTY
SOFIA, Oct 1 (Tanjug) Court council of the International
Social
Tribunal based in Moscow found guilty, on Sunday, at the end of the
trial
in Sofia, 14 Western leaders and the NATO alliance of crimes committed
during NATO's aggression last year on FR Yugoslavia.
The verdict, read by tribunal president Mihail Kuznyecov for
war
crimes, crimes against humanity, violation of all international norms
and
regulations and other crimes, found guilty: William Clinton, Madeleine
Albright, Wiliam Cohen, Gerhard Schroeder, Jozef Fischer, Rudolf
Scharping,
Anthony Blair, Robin Cook, George Robertson, Jacque Chirac, Hubert
Vedrine,
Alain Richard, Javier Solana and Wesley Clark.
The verdict was signed by the 14 judges of the council from ten
countries.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
THREE POWER TRANSFORMERS BURNED IN FIRE IN "TREPCA"
ZVECAN, Oct 1 (Tanjug) In a fire that broke out Saturday
evening
around 22.00 in the power plant of Trepca's lead metallurgy plant were
burned down three 35kilowat transformers, that lead to power outages in
Zvecan and surrounding villages.
Tanjug's reporter learnt on the spot that the fire was very
quickly brought under control by fire brigade units from the
northernSerbian part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
According to the first information the fire was caused by a
technical malfunction of a power line that has been submerged under
water
for days. A few Serbs working on the maintenance of the plant, the only
ones to remain at their work posts after the forcible takeover of Trepca
by
KFOR in August this year, have warned KFOR members about that,
apparently
to no avail.
The situation has also stabilized around the plant, and UNMIK
and
KFOR helicopetres are no longer overflying the area since midnight.
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MINIC ANSWERS KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber
of
Citizens President Milomir Minic on Tuesday sent a letter to Yugoslav
presidential candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS)
Vojislav Kostunica in answer to Kostunica's letter sent to the
presidents
of the two chambers of Yugoslav parliament.
In his answer to Kostunica, Minic said that the federal
parliament, as the country's top legislative organ, acting in keeping
with
the federal election laws, had appointed a Federal Electoral Commission
from among the ranks of bearers of legislative functions and prominent
legal experts, whose task it is to organize, carry out and determine the
results of the elections.
Representatives of all proposers who nominated presidential
candidates, including DOS representatives, took part in the work of the
Federal Electoral Commission.
The entire election process was managed by over 10,000
electoral
committees in whose work more than 180,000 citizens
participated representatives of all parties which took part in the
elections.
All participants in the elections on Sept 24, 2000, agreed that
the elections had been fair and passed in a democratic atmosphere, and
that
they had been realized in keeping with the elections legislature. This
was
confirmed also by 220 observers from 54 countries the world over, Minic
said.
In establishing the results of the vote, the Federal Electoral
Commission was guided strictly by original records from polling
stations.
"In keeping with the law, every representative of proposers who
nominated candidates for Yugoslav president had the right to review the
election material at the Federal Electoral Commission, which a
representative of those who put forward your nomination also did," Minic
said.
In keeping with the election results, it was undeniably
established that the Yugoslav president was not elected in the first
round,
so that the Federal Electoral Commission, in keeping with the law,
decided
that citizens will elect the Yugoslav president in a second round on Oct
8.
"In line with your calling on the understanding of honour,
democracy, and your claims that you are a legalist I urge you to
prevent
manipulations and calls to unrest and violence launched by the DOS
Election
Headquarters, to accept the will of the people and to respect the
decision
of the Federal Electoral Commission. The citizens of the Federal
Republic
of Yugoslavia will choose, of their own will, the Yugoslav president in
the
second round in keeping with the Yugoslav Constitution and the Law on
the
election of Republican president," said Minic in closing in his letter
to
DOS presidential candidate Kostunica.
FEDERAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION: DOS ELECTION STAFF MISINFORMING PUBLIC
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Federal Electoral Commission
on
Monday released a statement in reaction to "misinformation and false
data
constantly released by the Election Headquarters of the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS)."
"The Federal Electoral Commission points out that authorized
persons from the Democratic Opposition of Serbia had had access to all
election material which they had demanded, and that they had been
enabled
insight into these materials in keeping with the Law on the election of
the
president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in the official
premises
and within the prescribed deadline."
The Commission said "the election campaign headquarters of
Vojislav Kostunica announced in public in the past seven days first that
their candidate won 2,783,870 votes on Tuesday, September 26, 2,649,003
on
Wednesday, September 27, 2,424,187 votes on Saturday, September 30, and
today, on Monday, October 2, 2,414,876 votes."
"They bombarded our public with figures that Vojislav Kostunica
won 2,649,003 votes, that this is 52.54 percent of the 5,041,878 votes
cast," the Commission statement said, adding:
"Today, they say that Vojislav Kostunica won 2,414,876 votes
and
that 4,704,685 voters went to the polls.
"In order to maintain a majority in his favour, they reduced
the
number of citizens who had voted by close to 350,000 erasing all
citizens
who voted in Kosovo and Metohija and displaced persons from Kosmet and
all
citizens who voted in Montenegro.
"The Federal Electoral Commission is not obliged by
manipulations
or mistakes in the DOS Election Headquarters.
"It was possible for the DOS Election Headquarters, since they
had
representatives in all polling stations and all records, to be assured
of
the legitimacy of the data released by the Federal Electoral Commission.
"The Federal Electoral Commission has asked the Supervising
Committee to warn the DOS Election Headquarters that spreading lies,
threats to members of the Electoral Commission, calls for lynching, and
provocation of unrest present a form of impermissible pressure and
intimidation of voters.
"The Federal Electoral Commission informs the public that all
preparations for holding the runoff to the election of Yugoslav
president,
set for Oct 8, 2000, are proceeding in keeping with the law," the
Commission statement said.
INTERFERENCE IN YUGOSLAV INTERNAL AFFAIRS IS INADMISSIBLE,
LUKASHENKO SAYS
MOSCOW, October 3 (Tanjug) Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko said on Tuesday that foreign interference in Yugoslav
internal
affairs is inadmissible.
According to Moscow media, Lukashenko said that the Yugoslav
people should express their own free will. The Serbian people are able
to
elect the man who will really represent their interests, said
Lukashenko.
The Belarussian observers who had monitored the first round of
Yugoslav elections think that everything was fair and absolutely
democratic, Lukashenko said.
The friendly ties between the two countries have nothing to do
with the names of current, former or future Russian or Belarussian
presidents, they are the "factual truth", stressed Lukashenko accepting
credentials from new Yugoslav Ambassador to Belarus Milorad Radovic.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES CURRENT SITUATION
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Serbian Government held a
session on Tuesday chaired by Premier Mirko Marjanovic and discussed the
current situation in the republic. It noted that various foreign
agencies
are continuing their special war against Yugoslavia and attempting to
cause
chaos, intimidate the people and prevent normal functioning of state
institutions.
All political subjects have the right, guaranteed by the
Constitution, to engage in political activities, hold public assemblies
and
express freely their political views, but such activities must not
endanger
the rights and freedoms of the citizens, the government said quoted in a
statement by the information ministry.
Any attempt at subversive activities endangering personal
safety
or property of the citizens must therefore be prevented and sanctioned
according to law, the statement says.
The violent behaviour of individuals and groups that threatens
citizens' lives, disrupts normal functioning of traffic, prevents normal
work of industry, schools, institutions and health facilities will be
proscribed by law, the statement says.
Special measures will be taken against the organisers of these
criminal activities. These measures also apply to media that are
financed
from abroad and are breeding lies, untruths and inciting bloodshed, the
statement says.
Due to the attempt at sabotage at the Kolubara mining and power
complex, and in order to maintain stable functioning of the power supply
system, the government adopted a decision on minimum compulsory work in
Serbia's power industry, the statement says.
YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER CONFERS WITH UN OFFICIAL
BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister
Zoran Novakovic has received the special U.N. envoy for human rights in
BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia and Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier, Yugoslav
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Novakovic informed Dienstbier about the dramatic situation in
the
U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) province of KosovoMetohija which is getting
worse daily, especially after UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner had scheduled
elections for October 28 despite the fact that no conditions have been
provided for them.
He stressed that the situation in the southern Serbian province
is
characterized by systematic deliberate violations of Security Council
Resolution 1244, specifically Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and
sovereignty, and by mass violations of the human rights of both Serbs
and
other nonAlbanians.
Novakovic urged Dienstbier to oppose the local elections in
KosovoMetohija because they encourage terrorism and separatism and also
can
endanger peace and stability not only in the province but throughout the
region.
Dienstbier once again stressed that he supports sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and opposes sanctions against the
Yugoslav people.
He was specifically interested in the Yugoslav elections held
on
Sept 24, and expressed his best wishes for their peaceful outcome, the
statement said.
CANCELLATION OF VIENNA CONFERENCE IS GROSS INTERFERENCE IN YUGOSLAV
AFFAIRS
VIENNA, October 3 (Tanjug) The 2nd Conference on the
Implementation of the Subregional Arms Control Accord (Florence Accord)
which is one of the basic elements of DaytonParis accord, was due to be
held on October 4 in Vienna.
All preparations for the Conference have been completed
successfully and on time, organized by the Yugoslav delegation which had
been appointed to chair the conference. The Conference, however, will
not
be held, because delegations from Croatia and BosniaHerzegovina
Federation
refused to participate, justifying their decision by the allegedly
serious
situation in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav delegation chief, Deputy Foreign Minister Miroslav
Milosevic said at the preparatory committee session convened just before
the conference was due to be held, that this pointless politically
motivated act is an attempt at gross interference in internal affairs of
sovereign Yugoslavia. This is one of the most serious blows to the
entire
DaytonParis accord, Milosevic said.
SERBIA'S OPPOSITION ORGANIZES ROAD BLOCKS, STRIKES, PRESSURES
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Democratic Opposition of
Serbia
(DOS) organized again on Tuesday road blocks and protests, preventing
normal daily activities and work in some towns and industries in Serbia.
Belgrade residents were thus again forced to walk to work due
to
traffic stoppages in several city thoroughfares, organized by DOS, the
Otpor organization, the G 17 group and other socalled independent
organizations.
DOS followers erected road blocks around Smederevska Palanka,
preventing access to the Belgrade Nis highway. However, the Gosa
industry
and many other companies in the town are working as usual.
In Paracin, DOS followers blocked the Paracin Bor road at 5
a.m.,
and the road towards Krusevac and other access roads some time later.
This
has prevented the deliveries of cement from the Novi Popovac plant,
where
production has been reduced due to fuel shortage, deputy manager Miodrag
Stefanovic told Tanjug.
The Buducnost cable manufacturing industry in Paracin has also
stopped production as imported raw materials and other inputs cannot
reach
the plant. Employees, however, come to work every day, Buducnost
executive
Dragan Vasic told Tanjug.
Workers at the Paracin glass works are, however, on strike, and
the industry is operating at minimum capacity.
Several thousand DOS followers once again blocked the main road
through Uzice Tuesday morning for they said three hours, allowing only
ambulances through.
Food shops and green markets in Uzice were open only until 10
a.m.
Tuesday, while other shops and restaurants remained closed.
Primary and high schools in the town were closed, but the
teachers' college and the technical college are working normally.
In the Uzice municipality which is administered by DOS parties,
the copper and aluminum processing industry in Sevojno and some other
plants are on strike.
The Uzice power distribution network has started alternating
fourhour power cuts in town districts.
KOSOVOMETOHIJA TERRORISM
KOSOVO ALBANIAN TERRORISTS HURL GRENADE AT SERBS IN PASJANE VILLAGE
GNJILANE, October 3 (Tanjug) Five Serbs were injured in
Pasjane
village near Gnjilane shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday when ethnic
Albanian
extremists hurled a hand grenade at a group of Serbs standing outside a
store.
Zoran Stojanovic, 35, and Ljubisa Maksimovic, 21, were gravely
injured, while Sasa Aksic, 27, Srboljub Stojkovic, 29, and Srdjan
Andjelkovic, 31, sustained minor injuries.
The international force KFOR medical center in the village
administered first aid to the injured Serbs. The seriously injured
casualties will most probably be taken to the U.S. Bondsteel base near
Sojevo for further treatment, amateur radio operators reported from the
U.N.run Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.
The three attackers fled from the scene in a red Golf
automobile
without license plates in the direction of the neighbouring village of
Vlastica, populated by ethnic Albanians.
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> a.. * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA OPPOSITION WANTS TO
>PROVOKE CHAOS, CLASHES, MILUTINOVIC SAYS NOVI SAD, October 1 (Tanjug) -
>Serbian President Milan Milutinovic talked on Sunday in Novi Sad with
>officials in Vojvodina about the political situation and the importance
of the
>run-off elections for Yugoslav president and deputies in the provincial
>assembly. Milutionovic warned that for many, both in the country and
abroad,
>election results are not the primary goal, but provoking chaos, clashes
and
>unrest in the state, and calling for some kind of intervention and
>interference in our internal affairs. "Neither will those conditions be
>created, nor will there be any kind of intervention because our people,
>despite all those attempts, will make a decision in the runoff that
will
>preserve freedom, independence, integrity, equality and peace in the
country,"
>Milutinovic added. That, he said, "can be ensured only by our forces,
headed
>by Slobodan Milosevic." Speaking about the importance of the run-off
elections
>for deputies in the Assembly of Vojvodina, the Serbian President
pointed to
>the danger of candidates of parties with a separatist orientation that
are
>also part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. Their intention,
Milutinovic
>specified, "is to separate Vojvodina first from Serbia, and then, under
the
>mask of regionalization, to divide it into districts in which Serbs
would be a
>minority." "That would be a new tragic tearing apart of the Serbian
national
>corps and the end of the Serbian national being in the territory. At
the same
>time, it would mean the end of economic independence and of Vojvodina
as a
>whole and the end of all its farmers, whether they are Serbs,
Hungarians,
>Romanians, Slovaks or any other," Milutinovic warned. Because of all
that, the
>outcome of the run-off election will decide "whether or not Vojvodina,
Serbia
>and Yugoslavia will remain one whole, free and independent and whether
the
>Serbian national corps will be preserved or further torn apart."
"Serbia and
>Yugoslavia will not lose their state and soul and will not be
colonies,"
>Milutinovic said, affirming his belief that "both in Vojvodina and
throughout
>Serbia the Serbian people will wake up and understand what is going on,
and
>what could happen."
> b..
> c..
> d.. BULATOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA AGAIN WINNING TICKET AT ELECTIONS
PODGORICA,
>October 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister and Socialist People's
Party
>(SNP) of Montenegro President Momir Bulatovic said on Monday that
Yugoslavia
>had made a significant step in its democratic development at the
September 24
>elections, and thus also in the protection of its most important state
>interests. "None of the terrible predictions about a civil war, state
of
>emergency or a new NATO intervention have come to pass," Bulatovic said
in an
>interview to the Podgorica daily Dan. "In spite of unprecedented
pressure from
>outside and brutal torture from within by Djukanovic, Kouchner and
Thaci,
>acting on instructions from the same boss, Yugoslav citizens went to
the polls
>en masse, and expressed their political will peacefully and in a
dignified
>manner," he said. Yugoslavia has again triumphed at these elections,
Bulatovic
>said. "This is especially good for Montenegro, where, in spite of the
>anticivilizational and hooligan behaviour of the Montenegrin
authorities, an
>admirably great number of people had summoned up civil and every other
courage
>to resist intimidation, threats and blackmail," he said. In reaction to
a
>comment that the results of these elections are "controversial, to say
the
>least," Bulatovic said presidential candidate Vojislav Kostunica had
won the
>great confidence of Serbian citizens to become Yugoslav president.
Voters in
>Montenegro overwhelmingly voted for the SNP presidential candidate -
Slobodan
>Milosevic. Both these facts are equally binding for the SNP, Bulatovic
said.
>"We will continue to support our presidential candidate without any
dilemmas
>or calculations," Bulatovic said, adding that the SNP is also ready to
accept
>and respect a majority decision "which need not be in agreement with
our
>determination." "The legal path and legal means to which DOS and
candidate
>Kostunica have resorted should remove any possible dilemma. However,
there is
>no other way or any other legally established pathway for determining
the
>actual will of Yugoslav citizens. We trust the Federal Electoral
Commission
>and other state institutions of Yugoslavia. That is why the SNP is
getting
>ready to take part in the second round of the presidential elections,"
he
>said. Commenting on the political situation in Yugoslavia after the
first
>round of elections, Bulatovic said that, according to what is known so
far,
>the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) have refused to accept the
results
>of the Federal Electoral Commission and have opted for large-scale
civil
>protests. The right to peaceful democratic rallies and manifestation of
one's
>political stand is firmly embedded in our constitutional system and our
state
>practice, he said. "Personally, I am very sorry that this is happening
in our
>country which is at the height of its economic activities and the
process of
>renewing objects destroyed during the NATO aggression," Bulatovic said,
and
>appealed for the preservation of peace, the victory of reason, and,
regardless
>of the strength of individual beliefs, that "we should not work
generally to
>our own detriment." "The SNP was, is and will be devoted to full
coalition
>cooperation with the SPS. The joint list SPS-JUL in Federal Parliament
has
>enough deputies to appoint, together with SNP deputies, presidents of
>municipal councils and to decide about the structure of the new
government,"
>Bulatovic said. Bulatovic said it was the proposal of the SNP, from the
very
>beginning of this election cycle, that he be the federal prime
>minister-designate, Srdja Bozovic the president of the Chamber of
Republics,
>and that this is why neither he, nor other prominent SNP members who
held
>important positions in the Federal Government, were not on the lists of
>candidates for deputies. Colleagues from the coalition leftist bloc are
fully
>in agreement with this proposal, he said. "That is why it could be said
with a
>great dose of certainty that this job has been done. That is why I am
already
>at this time carrying out preliminary consultations about the program
and
>composition of the future federal government," Bulatovic told Dan.
> e..
> f.. MINISTER JOVANOVIC EXTENDS FELICITATIONS TO NIGERIAN FOREIGN
MINISTER
>BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
Jovanovic has
>sent a note of felicitations to Nigerian Foreign Minister Alhadji Sule
Lamidou
>on the occasion of the national holiday of this country. The note said
that
>relations between these two countries will in future also continue to
develop
>in the spirit of confidence, cooperation and the traditional friendship
of the
>two peoples.
> g..
> h.. SERBIAN JUSTICE MINISTER CONFERS WITH UN OFFICIALS BELGRADE,
October 2
>(Tanjug) - Serbian Justice Minister Dragoljub Jankovic received special
U.N.
>envoy for human rights Jiri Dienstbier and U.N. human rights Belgrade
office
>chief Barbara Davis on Monday, said a statement of the Serbian Justice
>Ministry. Dienstbier was specifically interested in the status and
position of
>detained and charged ethnic Albanians in prisons in Serbia. He was also
>interested to learn about the just held elections in Yugoslavia and the
>situation in the country after the elections. Jankovic for his part
said that
>the detained and charged ethnic Albanians who had been displaced from
the
>Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija due to last year's NATO
>aggression on Yugoslavia have the same status and treatment as all
other
>inmates. Their lawyers, family members and International Red Cross
Committee
>members regularly visit ethnic Albanian prisoners. Jovanovic also
briefed the
>visitors on the legal procedure for holding elections in Yugoslavia,
and noted
>that relevant bodies were acting in conformity with it.
STRIKES, ROAD BLOCKADES ORGANIZED BY DOS BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug)
>- The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) organized on Monday in
Belgrade
>and in a number of other towns in Serbia road blockades, and strong
pressure
>is made on schools and schoolchildren who did not heed the calls for
strike.
>Public transportation in Belgrade and in some parts of the city came to
a
>standstill due to the blockade of streets, so that, despite the fact
that this
>morning 534 buses were dispatched, most people had to walk to work. In
Pirot,
>4,700 workers of the "Tigar" factory, the trade union said, will not
halt
>production because that would result in huge losses due to obligations
towards
>foreing partners involving deadlines. However, the first shift in the
textile
>factory "Prvi maj" of Pirot went on strike this morning, while workers
in
>other factories will make decisions during the afternoon. In
Smederevska
>Palanka and in Smederevo, firms are working while DOS organized a
blockade of
>roads, and a number of schools have also stopped working. In
Smederevska
>Palanka, an incident occurred when citizens who gathered at a rally,
started a
>walk through town and while passing by the building housing the SPS
>headquarters threw stones and oranges and broke several windows. State
bodies
>did not intervene, they only warned that roads blockades should be
lifted. In
>Pancevo, due to road blockades, the regular delivery of milk from the
Pancevo
>dairy for the capital city could not be made. Kragujevac was supplied
this
>morning with milk, bread and other products and state-owned stores are
open.
>Most "Zastava" plants were working today, but a smaller number of
workers
>joined the strikers who threaten the further blockade of some state
firms and
>institutions. Class has been organized on a number of faculties.
According to
>the Ministry of Education office chief in Pozarevac Srboljub Cojkic,
>highschools in Brancevski and Podunavski districts had regular class
but
>manipulations with pupils started later. In some schools, pupils were
not
>allowed into schools campuses. Some parents have passed their political
>convictions on to their children, and some professors have openly
called and
>taken pupils to the streets. After a several-hour walk, pupils
dispersed while
>in the afternoon regular class resumed. One of the reasons why pupils
did not
>get to schools on time in the morning was the blockade of roads, but
also the
>strike of a number of bus drivers. Public transportation went back to
normal
>in the afternoon. In the municipalities of these two districts, where
the left
>has won at local elections, there was no response to DOS calls for
civic
>disobedience.
> y.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM SERB HOUSES IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
MOGULA
>VILLAGE RAZED KOSOVSKA VITINA, October 2 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian
extremists
>blasted late on Sunday three Serb-owned houses and a business premises
in the
>multi-ethnic Mogula village (Kosovska Vitina municipality) of Serbia's
>Kosovo-Metohija province, local amateur radio operators said on Monday.
The
>explosion was a very powerful one, inflicting great damage to the
buildings,
>owned by Serb Stanimir Bocic. No one was hurt in the incident.
According to
>the operators, a group of ethnic Albanian terrorists called "Leopard",
is
>responsible for the act. These extremists have been active in the area
for a
>long time, the sources said
> z..
> aa.. FROM DOMESTIC PRESS SERBIAN RADIO TELEVISION: DOS TRYING TO
GET OUT
>OF ITS LIES BELGRADE, October 1 (Tanjug) - It has been shown that the
results
>and figures announced these days by the headquarters of the Democratic
>Opposition of Serbia (DOS) present a blatant lie, and now DOS leaders
are
>trying to get out of these lies, said a commentary by Serbian Radio
Television
>RTS on Saturday. "One such attempt is to substitute theses, in fact to
accuse
>the Federal Electoral Commission that votes have been stolen, and
another to
>object to the results of the elections in Kosmet (Kosovo and Metohija
>province). However, it is immediately evident that DOS in their
objection did
>not complain about or deny the result of Vojislav Kostunica which has
been
>determined by the Federal Electoral Commission and according to which
>Kostunica won 2,474,392 votes. It is incredible, but true, DOS do not
deny the
>results and yet claim their votes have been stolen. After insight into
records
>of the Federal Electoral Commission, DOS did not deny a single vote it
had
>counted in favour of Kostunica. But they lied to the public that they
had not
>had access to the records. Who needs this lie and why? The only thing
they
>deny in their complaint is the number of votes which the presidential
>candidates won in Kosmet. However, this complaint is brimful of
falsehoods.
>DOS claim that the Electoral Commission of the Vranje electoral
precinct has
>annulled elections at a certain number of polling stations for the
election of
>federal deputies but not for the election of president. That is an
absolute
>lie. According to a decision of September 27, the Federal Electoral
Commission
>did this in Vranje. And DOS know this, and yet they delude the public.
DOS
>also complained about the results of elections at 15 polling stations
in
>Prizren. However, none of these polling stations opened, not a single
voter
>cast their votes there, and not a single candidate won a single vote
there.
>The situation is the same also at polling stations in the
municipalities of
>Srbica, Podujevo, Decane, Klina, Istok, Suva Reka, Orahovac, and
Djakovica. It
>is more than absurd that DOS complain of election results at polling
stations
>where elections were not even held, or where, naturally, no candidate
won any
>votes! Over 90 percent of the polling stations about which DOS
complained were
>not even opened. Who needs this lie and why? It is obvious that it is
clear
>even to DOS that the election results determined by the Federal
Electoral
>Commission are absolutely correct, and, since they cannot change them,
DOS are
>trying to cast aspersions on the Federal Electoral Commission and
discredit it
>in every way. DOS want to show that there are no Serbs in Kosmet.
Kouchner is
>doing the same thing. Djindjic wants to show that Serbs do not live in
>Gracanica, Ranilug, Strpce, Kosovsko Pomoravlje, Gorazdevac, and 150
other
>places. That displaced Serbs did not vote, that they, not only have not
been
>expelled from Kosmet, but have even vanished from Serbia. For Djindjic
and
>DOS, Serbs of Kosmet do not exist. That is DOS's revenge to Kosmet
Serbs for
>the way they welcomed Kostunica in Kosovska Mitrovica. Everything DOS
leaders
>said and announced over the past days is bursting with lies and
falsehoods.
>That clearly indicates that the elections are not an issue here. It is
clear
>even to them that the results of the Federal Electoral Commission are
correct
>and cannot be different by one single vote. The issue here is Zoran
Djindjic's
>plan to use manipulations and lies to bring citizens into the streets
and try
>to topple the state and cause chaos. That is something Zoran Djindjic
has been
>working on for the past 30 years," the RTS commentary said.
> ab..
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*** QUESTO SERVIZIO E' ANCORA IN FASE SPERIMENTALE ***
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber
of
Citizens President Milomir Minic on Tuesday sent a letter to Yugoslav
presidential candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS)
Vojislav Kostunica in answer to Kostunica's letter sent to the
presidents
of the two chambers of Yugoslav parliament.
In his answer to Kostunica, Minic said that the federal
parliament, as the country's top legislative organ, acting in keeping
with
the federal election laws, had appointed a Federal Electoral Commission
from among the ranks of bearers of legislative functions and prominent
legal experts, whose task it is to organize, carry out and determine the
results of the elections.
Representatives of all proposers who nominated presidential
candidates, including DOS representatives, took part in the work of the
Federal Electoral Commission.
The entire election process was managed by over 10,000
electoral
committees in whose work more than 180,000 citizens
participated representatives of all parties which took part in the
elections.
All participants in the elections on Sept 24, 2000, agreed that
the elections had been fair and passed in a democratic atmosphere, and
that
they had been realized in keeping with the elections legislature. This
was
confirmed also by 220 observers from 54 countries the world over, Minic
said.
In establishing the results of the vote, the Federal Electoral
Commission was guided strictly by original records from polling
stations.
"In keeping with the law, every representative of proposers who
nominated candidates for Yugoslav president had the right to review the
election material at the Federal Electoral Commission, which a
representative of those who put forward your nomination also did," Minic
said.
In keeping with the election results, it was undeniably
established that the Yugoslav president was not elected in the first
round,
so that the Federal Electoral Commission, in keeping with the law,
decided
that citizens will elect the Yugoslav president in a second round on Oct
8.
"In line with your calling on the understanding of honour,
democracy, and your claims that you are a legalist I urge you to
prevent
manipulations and calls to unrest and violence launched by the DOS
Election
Headquarters, to accept the will of the people and to respect the
decision
of the Federal Electoral Commission. The citizens of the Federal
Republic
of Yugoslavia will choose, of their own will, the Yugoslav president in
the
second round in keeping with the Yugoslav Constitution and the Law on
the
election of Republican president," said Minic in closing in his letter
to
DOS presidential candidate Kostunica.
FEDERAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION: DOS ELECTION STAFF MISINFORMING PUBLIC
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Federal Electoral Commission
on
Monday released a statement in reaction to "misinformation and false
data
constantly released by the Election Headquarters of the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS)."
"The Federal Electoral Commission points out that authorized
persons from the Democratic Opposition of Serbia had had access to all
election material which they had demanded, and that they had been
enabled
insight into these materials in keeping with the Law on the election of
the
president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in the official
premises
and within the prescribed deadline."
The Commission said "the election campaign headquarters of
Vojislav Kostunica announced in public in the past seven days first that
their candidate won 2,783,870 votes on Tuesday, September 26, 2,649,003
on
Wednesday, September 27, 2,424,187 votes on Saturday, September 30, and
today, on Monday, October 2, 2,414,876 votes."
"They bombarded our public with figures that Vojislav Kostunica
won 2,649,003 votes, that this is 52.54 percent of the 5,041,878 votes
cast," the Commission statement said, adding:
"Today, they say that Vojislav Kostunica won 2,414,876 votes
and
that 4,704,685 voters went to the polls.
"In order to maintain a majority in his favour, they reduced
the
number of citizens who had voted by close to 350,000 erasing all
citizens
who voted in Kosovo and Metohija and displaced persons from Kosmet and
all
citizens who voted in Montenegro.
"The Federal Electoral Commission is not obliged by
manipulations
or mistakes in the DOS Election Headquarters.
"It was possible for the DOS Election Headquarters, since they
had
representatives in all polling stations and all records, to be assured
of
the legitimacy of the data released by the Federal Electoral Commission.
"The Federal Electoral Commission has asked the Supervising
Committee to warn the DOS Election Headquarters that spreading lies,
threats to members of the Electoral Commission, calls for lynching, and
provocation of unrest present a form of impermissible pressure and
intimidation of voters.
"The Federal Electoral Commission informs the public that all
preparations for holding the runoff to the election of Yugoslav
president,
set for Oct 8, 2000, are proceeding in keeping with the law," the
Commission statement said.
INTERFERENCE IN YUGOSLAV INTERNAL AFFAIRS IS INADMISSIBLE,
LUKASHENKO SAYS
MOSCOW, October 3 (Tanjug) Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko said on Tuesday that foreign interference in Yugoslav
internal
affairs is inadmissible.
According to Moscow media, Lukashenko said that the Yugoslav
people should express their own free will. The Serbian people are able
to
elect the man who will really represent their interests, said
Lukashenko.
The Belarussian observers who had monitored the first round of
Yugoslav elections think that everything was fair and absolutely
democratic, Lukashenko said.
The friendly ties between the two countries have nothing to do
with the names of current, former or future Russian or Belarussian
presidents, they are the "factual truth", stressed Lukashenko accepting
credentials from new Yugoslav Ambassador to Belarus Milorad Radovic.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES CURRENT SITUATION
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Serbian Government held a
session on Tuesday chaired by Premier Mirko Marjanovic and discussed the
current situation in the republic. It noted that various foreign
agencies
are continuing their special war against Yugoslavia and attempting to
cause
chaos, intimidate the people and prevent normal functioning of state
institutions.
All political subjects have the right, guaranteed by the
Constitution, to engage in political activities, hold public assemblies
and
express freely their political views, but such activities must not
endanger
the rights and freedoms of the citizens, the government said quoted in a
statement by the information ministry.
Any attempt at subversive activities endangering personal
safety
or property of the citizens must therefore be prevented and sanctioned
according to law, the statement says.
The violent behaviour of individuals and groups that threatens
citizens' lives, disrupts normal functioning of traffic, prevents normal
work of industry, schools, institutions and health facilities will be
proscribed by law, the statement says.
Special measures will be taken against the organisers of these
criminal activities. These measures also apply to media that are
financed
from abroad and are breeding lies, untruths and inciting bloodshed, the
statement says.
Due to the attempt at sabotage at the Kolubara mining and power
complex, and in order to maintain stable functioning of the power supply
system, the government adopted a decision on minimum compulsory work in
Serbia's power industry, the statement says.
YUGOSLAV DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER CONFERS WITH UN OFFICIAL
BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister
Zoran Novakovic has received the special U.N. envoy for human rights in
BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia and Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier, Yugoslav
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Novakovic informed Dienstbier about the dramatic situation in
the
U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav) province of KosovoMetohija which is getting
worse daily, especially after UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner had scheduled
elections for October 28 despite the fact that no conditions have been
provided for them.
He stressed that the situation in the southern Serbian province
is
characterized by systematic deliberate violations of Security Council
Resolution 1244, specifically Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and
sovereignty, and by mass violations of the human rights of both Serbs
and
other nonAlbanians.
Novakovic urged Dienstbier to oppose the local elections in
KosovoMetohija because they encourage terrorism and separatism and also
can
endanger peace and stability not only in the province but throughout the
region.
Dienstbier once again stressed that he supports sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and opposes sanctions against the
Yugoslav people.
He was specifically interested in the Yugoslav elections held
on
Sept 24, and expressed his best wishes for their peaceful outcome, the
statement said.
CANCELLATION OF VIENNA CONFERENCE IS GROSS INTERFERENCE IN YUGOSLAV
AFFAIRS
VIENNA, October 3 (Tanjug) The 2nd Conference on the
Implementation of the Subregional Arms Control Accord (Florence Accord)
which is one of the basic elements of DaytonParis accord, was due to be
held on October 4 in Vienna.
All preparations for the Conference have been completed
successfully and on time, organized by the Yugoslav delegation which had
been appointed to chair the conference. The Conference, however, will
not
be held, because delegations from Croatia and BosniaHerzegovina
Federation
refused to participate, justifying their decision by the allegedly
serious
situation in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav delegation chief, Deputy Foreign Minister Miroslav
Milosevic said at the preparatory committee session convened just before
the conference was due to be held, that this pointless politically
motivated act is an attempt at gross interference in internal affairs of
sovereign Yugoslavia. This is one of the most serious blows to the
entire
DaytonParis accord, Milosevic said.
SERBIA'S OPPOSITION ORGANIZES ROAD BLOCKS, STRIKES, PRESSURES
BELGRADE, October 3 (Tanjug) The Democratic Opposition of
Serbia
(DOS) organized again on Tuesday road blocks and protests, preventing
normal daily activities and work in some towns and industries in Serbia.
Belgrade residents were thus again forced to walk to work due
to
traffic stoppages in several city thoroughfares, organized by DOS, the
Otpor organization, the G 17 group and other socalled independent
organizations.
DOS followers erected road blocks around Smederevska Palanka,
preventing access to the Belgrade Nis highway. However, the Gosa
industry
and many other companies in the town are working as usual.
In Paracin, DOS followers blocked the Paracin Bor road at 5
a.m.,
and the road towards Krusevac and other access roads some time later.
This
has prevented the deliveries of cement from the Novi Popovac plant,
where
production has been reduced due to fuel shortage, deputy manager Miodrag
Stefanovic told Tanjug.
The Buducnost cable manufacturing industry in Paracin has also
stopped production as imported raw materials and other inputs cannot
reach
the plant. Employees, however, come to work every day, Buducnost
executive
Dragan Vasic told Tanjug.
Workers at the Paracin glass works are, however, on strike, and
the industry is operating at minimum capacity.
Several thousand DOS followers once again blocked the main road
through Uzice Tuesday morning for they said three hours, allowing only
ambulances through.
Food shops and green markets in Uzice were open only until 10
a.m.
Tuesday, while other shops and restaurants remained closed.
Primary and high schools in the town were closed, but the
teachers' college and the technical college are working normally.
In the Uzice municipality which is administered by DOS parties,
the copper and aluminum processing industry in Sevojno and some other
plants are on strike.
The Uzice power distribution network has started alternating
fourhour power cuts in town districts.
KOSOVOMETOHIJA TERRORISM
KOSOVO ALBANIAN TERRORISTS HURL GRENADE AT SERBS IN PASJANE VILLAGE
GNJILANE, October 3 (Tanjug) Five Serbs were injured in
Pasjane
village near Gnjilane shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday when ethnic
Albanian
extremists hurled a hand grenade at a group of Serbs standing outside a
store.
Zoran Stojanovic, 35, and Ljubisa Maksimovic, 21, were gravely
injured, while Sasa Aksic, 27, Srboljub Stojkovic, 29, and Srdjan
Andjelkovic, 31, sustained minor injuries.
The international force KFOR medical center in the village
administered first aid to the injured Serbs. The seriously injured
casualties will most probably be taken to the U.S. Bondsteel base near
Sojevo for further treatment, amateur radio operators reported from the
U.N.run Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.
The three attackers fled from the scene in a red Golf
automobile
without license plates in the direction of the neighbouring village of
Vlastica, populated by ethnic Albanians.
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> a.. * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA OPPOSITION WANTS TO
>PROVOKE CHAOS, CLASHES, MILUTINOVIC SAYS NOVI SAD, October 1 (Tanjug) -
>Serbian President Milan Milutinovic talked on Sunday in Novi Sad with
>officials in Vojvodina about the political situation and the importance
of the
>run-off elections for Yugoslav president and deputies in the provincial
>assembly. Milutionovic warned that for many, both in the country and
abroad,
>election results are not the primary goal, but provoking chaos, clashes
and
>unrest in the state, and calling for some kind of intervention and
>interference in our internal affairs. "Neither will those conditions be
>created, nor will there be any kind of intervention because our people,
>despite all those attempts, will make a decision in the runoff that
will
>preserve freedom, independence, integrity, equality and peace in the
country,"
>Milutinovic added. That, he said, "can be ensured only by our forces,
headed
>by Slobodan Milosevic." Speaking about the importance of the run-off
elections
>for deputies in the Assembly of Vojvodina, the Serbian President
pointed to
>the danger of candidates of parties with a separatist orientation that
are
>also part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia. Their intention,
Milutinovic
>specified, "is to separate Vojvodina first from Serbia, and then, under
the
>mask of regionalization, to divide it into districts in which Serbs
would be a
>minority." "That would be a new tragic tearing apart of the Serbian
national
>corps and the end of the Serbian national being in the territory. At
the same
>time, it would mean the end of economic independence and of Vojvodina
as a
>whole and the end of all its farmers, whether they are Serbs,
Hungarians,
>Romanians, Slovaks or any other," Milutinovic warned. Because of all
that, the
>outcome of the run-off election will decide "whether or not Vojvodina,
Serbia
>and Yugoslavia will remain one whole, free and independent and whether
the
>Serbian national corps will be preserved or further torn apart."
"Serbia and
>Yugoslavia will not lose their state and soul and will not be
colonies,"
>Milutinovic said, affirming his belief that "both in Vojvodina and
throughout
>Serbia the Serbian people will wake up and understand what is going on,
and
>what could happen."
> b..
> c..
> d.. BULATOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA AGAIN WINNING TICKET AT ELECTIONS
PODGORICA,
>October 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister and Socialist People's
Party
>(SNP) of Montenegro President Momir Bulatovic said on Monday that
Yugoslavia
>had made a significant step in its democratic development at the
September 24
>elections, and thus also in the protection of its most important state
>interests. "None of the terrible predictions about a civil war, state
of
>emergency or a new NATO intervention have come to pass," Bulatovic said
in an
>interview to the Podgorica daily Dan. "In spite of unprecedented
pressure from
>outside and brutal torture from within by Djukanovic, Kouchner and
Thaci,
>acting on instructions from the same boss, Yugoslav citizens went to
the polls
>en masse, and expressed their political will peacefully and in a
dignified
>manner," he said. Yugoslavia has again triumphed at these elections,
Bulatovic
>said. "This is especially good for Montenegro, where, in spite of the
>anticivilizational and hooligan behaviour of the Montenegrin
authorities, an
>admirably great number of people had summoned up civil and every other
courage
>to resist intimidation, threats and blackmail," he said. In reaction to
a
>comment that the results of these elections are "controversial, to say
the
>least," Bulatovic said presidential candidate Vojislav Kostunica had
won the
>great confidence of Serbian citizens to become Yugoslav president.
Voters in
>Montenegro overwhelmingly voted for the SNP presidential candidate -
Slobodan
>Milosevic. Both these facts are equally binding for the SNP, Bulatovic
said.
>"We will continue to support our presidential candidate without any
dilemmas
>or calculations," Bulatovic said, adding that the SNP is also ready to
accept
>and respect a majority decision "which need not be in agreement with
our
>determination." "The legal path and legal means to which DOS and
candidate
>Kostunica have resorted should remove any possible dilemma. However,
there is
>no other way or any other legally established pathway for determining
the
>actual will of Yugoslav citizens. We trust the Federal Electoral
Commission
>and other state institutions of Yugoslavia. That is why the SNP is
getting
>ready to take part in the second round of the presidential elections,"
he
>said. Commenting on the political situation in Yugoslavia after the
first
>round of elections, Bulatovic said that, according to what is known so
far,
>the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) have refused to accept the
results
>of the Federal Electoral Commission and have opted for large-scale
civil
>protests. The right to peaceful democratic rallies and manifestation of
one's
>political stand is firmly embedded in our constitutional system and our
state
>practice, he said. "Personally, I am very sorry that this is happening
in our
>country which is at the height of its economic activities and the
process of
>renewing objects destroyed during the NATO aggression," Bulatovic said,
and
>appealed for the preservation of peace, the victory of reason, and,
regardless
>of the strength of individual beliefs, that "we should not work
generally to
>our own detriment." "The SNP was, is and will be devoted to full
coalition
>cooperation with the SPS. The joint list SPS-JUL in Federal Parliament
has
>enough deputies to appoint, together with SNP deputies, presidents of
>municipal councils and to decide about the structure of the new
government,"
>Bulatovic said. Bulatovic said it was the proposal of the SNP, from the
very
>beginning of this election cycle, that he be the federal prime
>minister-designate, Srdja Bozovic the president of the Chamber of
Republics,
>and that this is why neither he, nor other prominent SNP members who
held
>important positions in the Federal Government, were not on the lists of
>candidates for deputies. Colleagues from the coalition leftist bloc are
fully
>in agreement with this proposal, he said. "That is why it could be said
with a
>great dose of certainty that this job has been done. That is why I am
already
>at this time carrying out preliminary consultations about the program
and
>composition of the future federal government," Bulatovic told Dan.
> e..
> f.. MINISTER JOVANOVIC EXTENDS FELICITATIONS TO NIGERIAN FOREIGN
MINISTER
>BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
Jovanovic has
>sent a note of felicitations to Nigerian Foreign Minister Alhadji Sule
Lamidou
>on the occasion of the national holiday of this country. The note said
that
>relations between these two countries will in future also continue to
develop
>in the spirit of confidence, cooperation and the traditional friendship
of the
>two peoples.
> g..
> h.. SERBIAN JUSTICE MINISTER CONFERS WITH UN OFFICIALS BELGRADE,
October 2
>(Tanjug) - Serbian Justice Minister Dragoljub Jankovic received special
U.N.
>envoy for human rights Jiri Dienstbier and U.N. human rights Belgrade
office
>chief Barbara Davis on Monday, said a statement of the Serbian Justice
>Ministry. Dienstbier was specifically interested in the status and
position of
>detained and charged ethnic Albanians in prisons in Serbia. He was also
>interested to learn about the just held elections in Yugoslavia and the
>situation in the country after the elections. Jankovic for his part
said that
>the detained and charged ethnic Albanians who had been displaced from
the
>Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija due to last year's NATO
>aggression on Yugoslavia have the same status and treatment as all
other
>inmates. Their lawyers, family members and International Red Cross
Committee
>members regularly visit ethnic Albanian prisoners. Jovanovic also
briefed the
>visitors on the legal procedure for holding elections in Yugoslavia,
and noted
>that relevant bodies were acting in conformity with it.
STRIKES, ROAD BLOCKADES ORGANIZED BY DOS BELGRADE, October 2 (Tanjug)
>- The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) organized on Monday in
Belgrade
>and in a number of other towns in Serbia road blockades, and strong
pressure
>is made on schools and schoolchildren who did not heed the calls for
strike.
>Public transportation in Belgrade and in some parts of the city came to
a
>standstill due to the blockade of streets, so that, despite the fact
that this
>morning 534 buses were dispatched, most people had to walk to work. In
Pirot,
>4,700 workers of the "Tigar" factory, the trade union said, will not
halt
>production because that would result in huge losses due to obligations
towards
>foreing partners involving deadlines. However, the first shift in the
textile
>factory "Prvi maj" of Pirot went on strike this morning, while workers
in
>other factories will make decisions during the afternoon. In
Smederevska
>Palanka and in Smederevo, firms are working while DOS organized a
blockade of
>roads, and a number of schools have also stopped working. In
Smederevska
>Palanka, an incident occurred when citizens who gathered at a rally,
started a
>walk through town and while passing by the building housing the SPS
>headquarters threw stones and oranges and broke several windows. State
bodies
>did not intervene, they only warned that roads blockades should be
lifted. In
>Pancevo, due to road blockades, the regular delivery of milk from the
Pancevo
>dairy for the capital city could not be made. Kragujevac was supplied
this
>morning with milk, bread and other products and state-owned stores are
open.
>Most "Zastava" plants were working today, but a smaller number of
workers
>joined the strikers who threaten the further blockade of some state
firms and
>institutions. Class has been organized on a number of faculties.
According to
>the Ministry of Education office chief in Pozarevac Srboljub Cojkic,
>highschools in Brancevski and Podunavski districts had regular class
but
>manipulations with pupils started later. In some schools, pupils were
not
>allowed into schools campuses. Some parents have passed their political
>convictions on to their children, and some professors have openly
called and
>taken pupils to the streets. After a several-hour walk, pupils
dispersed while
>in the afternoon regular class resumed. One of the reasons why pupils
did not
>get to schools on time in the morning was the blockade of roads, but
also the
>strike of a number of bus drivers. Public transportation went back to
normal
>in the afternoon. In the municipalities of these two districts, where
the left
>has won at local elections, there was no response to DOS calls for
civic
>disobedience.
> y.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TERRORISM SERB HOUSES IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
MOGULA
>VILLAGE RAZED KOSOVSKA VITINA, October 2 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian
extremists
>blasted late on Sunday three Serb-owned houses and a business premises
in the
>multi-ethnic Mogula village (Kosovska Vitina municipality) of Serbia's
>Kosovo-Metohija province, local amateur radio operators said on Monday.
The
>explosion was a very powerful one, inflicting great damage to the
buildings,
>owned by Serb Stanimir Bocic. No one was hurt in the incident.
According to
>the operators, a group of ethnic Albanian terrorists called "Leopard",
is
>responsible for the act. These extremists have been active in the area
for a
>long time, the sources said
> z..
> aa.. FROM DOMESTIC PRESS SERBIAN RADIO TELEVISION: DOS TRYING TO
GET OUT
>OF ITS LIES BELGRADE, October 1 (Tanjug) - It has been shown that the
results
>and figures announced these days by the headquarters of the Democratic
>Opposition of Serbia (DOS) present a blatant lie, and now DOS leaders
are
>trying to get out of these lies, said a commentary by Serbian Radio
Television
>RTS on Saturday. "One such attempt is to substitute theses, in fact to
accuse
>the Federal Electoral Commission that votes have been stolen, and
another to
>object to the results of the elections in Kosmet (Kosovo and Metohija
>province). However, it is immediately evident that DOS in their
objection did
>not complain about or deny the result of Vojislav Kostunica which has
been
>determined by the Federal Electoral Commission and according to which
>Kostunica won 2,474,392 votes. It is incredible, but true, DOS do not
deny the
>results and yet claim their votes have been stolen. After insight into
records
>of the Federal Electoral Commission, DOS did not deny a single vote it
had
>counted in favour of Kostunica. But they lied to the public that they
had not
>had access to the records. Who needs this lie and why? The only thing
they
>deny in their complaint is the number of votes which the presidential
>candidates won in Kosmet. However, this complaint is brimful of
falsehoods.
>DOS claim that the Electoral Commission of the Vranje electoral
precinct has
>annulled elections at a certain number of polling stations for the
election of
>federal deputies but not for the election of president. That is an
absolute
>lie. According to a decision of September 27, the Federal Electoral
Commission
>did this in Vranje. And DOS know this, and yet they delude the public.
DOS
>also complained about the results of elections at 15 polling stations
in
>Prizren. However, none of these polling stations opened, not a single
voter
>cast their votes there, and not a single candidate won a single vote
there.
>The situation is the same also at polling stations in the
municipalities of
>Srbica, Podujevo, Decane, Klina, Istok, Suva Reka, Orahovac, and
Djakovica. It
>is more than absurd that DOS complain of election results at polling
stations
>where elections were not even held, or where, naturally, no candidate
won any
>votes! Over 90 percent of the polling stations about which DOS
complained were
>not even opened. Who needs this lie and why? It is obvious that it is
clear
>even to DOS that the election results determined by the Federal
Electoral
>Commission are absolutely correct, and, since they cannot change them,
DOS are
>trying to cast aspersions on the Federal Electoral Commission and
discredit it
>in every way. DOS want to show that there are no Serbs in Kosmet.
Kouchner is
>doing the same thing. Djindjic wants to show that Serbs do not live in
>Gracanica, Ranilug, Strpce, Kosovsko Pomoravlje, Gorazdevac, and 150
other
>places. That displaced Serbs did not vote, that they, not only have not
been
>expelled from Kosmet, but have even vanished from Serbia. For Djindjic
and
>DOS, Serbs of Kosmet do not exist. That is DOS's revenge to Kosmet
Serbs for
>the way they welcomed Kostunica in Kosovska Mitrovica. Everything DOS
leaders
>said and announced over the past days is bursting with lies and
falsehoods.
>That clearly indicates that the elections are not an issue here. It is
clear
>even to them that the results of the Federal Electoral Commission are
correct
>and cannot be different by one single vote. The issue here is Zoran
Djindjic's
>plan to use manipulations and lies to bring citizens into the streets
and try
>to topple the state and cause chaos. That is something Zoran Djindjic
has been
>working on for the past 30 years," the RTS commentary said.
> ab..
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opinioni delle realta' che compongono il Coordinamento, ma vengono
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GIOVEDI' 5 OTTOBRE 2000
alle ore 18
riprendono le trasmissioni di
NORDSUD - resistere alla globalizzazione
su RADIO ONDA ROSSA - 87.9 MHz a Roma e nel Lazio
Argomento della trasmissione:
le elezioni nella Repubblica Federale Jugoslava
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giovedi 12 OTTOBRE,
ore 21,00, a Foligno,
nell'Auditorium si S. Domenico, la
sala piu' prestigiosa della citta',
avremo l'incontro con Fulvio Grimaldi
contro gli Embarghi!
Voce Operaia
---
*** J�SB-Zeitung "Target" Nr. 3 erschienen
Mit der Schlagzeile
"Internationale Solidarit�tskampagne:
Ein Boot durchbricht das Embargo gegen Jugoslawien!"
ist die dritte Ausgabe der Zeitung der Jugoslawisch-�sterreichischen
Solidarit�tsbewegung (J�SB) erschienen. Wie der Titel bereits darauf
hinweist besch�ftigt sie sich schwerpunktm��ig mit dem internationalen
Kampf
gegen die menschenverachtende Blockade gegen Jugoslawien.
Hier eine Darstellung der Kampagne gegen das Embargo:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id
�9990281
Weiters zum immer offeneren Kurs der �sterreichischen Regierung auf
einen
flagranten Verfassungsbruch durch die Missachtung der Neutralit�t, die
Teilnahme an europ�ischen Militarismus und vor allem die Ann�herung an
die
Nato:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id
�9990029
Deutscher General Loquai entlarvt Hufeisenplan als L�ge und F�lschung:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id
�9989411
Weiters befindet sich ein ausf�hrlicher Bericht sowie eine reiche
Debatte
�ber die Nato-Okkupation des Kosovo in dieser Ausgabe, die allgemein
unter
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb abgerufen werden kann.
*** Malte Olschewski stellt sein neues Buch vor
Von den Karawanken bis zum Kosovo -
die geheime Geschichte der Kriege in Jugoslawien
erschienen im Braunm�ller-Verlag (seit 1783)
anschlie�end Diskussion mit dem Autor
Vorstadtzentrum XV
15., Meiselstra�e 46/4
Donnerstag, 12. Oktober, 19 Uhr
Achtung: diese Veranstaltung wurde im Target Nr. 3 f�r So, 8.10.
angek�ndigt, doch musste sie auf den 12.10. verschoben werden.
***Jugoslawisch-�sterreichische Solidarit�tsbewegung (J�SB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, �sterreich
Tel/Fax +43 1 924 31 61
Mobil +43 6991 924 31 61
joesb@...
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
Kto-Nr. 9282, RB Schwechat, BLZ 32823
---
Bollettino di controinformazione del
Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'"
> http://digilander.iol.it/lajugoslaviavivra
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente le
opinioni delle realta' che compongono il Coordinamento, ma vengono
fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al solo scopo di
segnalazione e commento ("for fair use only")
Per contributi e segnalazioni: jugocoord@...
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GIOVEDI' 5 OTTOBRE 2000
alle ore 18
riprendono le trasmissioni di
NORDSUD - resistere alla globalizzazione
su RADIO ONDA ROSSA - 87.9 MHz a Roma e nel Lazio
Argomento della trasmissione:
le elezioni nella Repubblica Federale Jugoslava
---
giovedi 12 OTTOBRE,
ore 21,00, a Foligno,
nell'Auditorium si S. Domenico, la
sala piu' prestigiosa della citta',
avremo l'incontro con Fulvio Grimaldi
contro gli Embarghi!
Voce Operaia
---
*** J�SB-Zeitung "Target" Nr. 3 erschienen
Mit der Schlagzeile
"Internationale Solidarit�tskampagne:
Ein Boot durchbricht das Embargo gegen Jugoslawien!"
ist die dritte Ausgabe der Zeitung der Jugoslawisch-�sterreichischen
Solidarit�tsbewegung (J�SB) erschienen. Wie der Titel bereits darauf
hinweist besch�ftigt sie sich schwerpunktm��ig mit dem internationalen
Kampf
gegen die menschenverachtende Blockade gegen Jugoslawien.
Hier eine Darstellung der Kampagne gegen das Embargo:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id
�9990281
Weiters zum immer offeneren Kurs der �sterreichischen Regierung auf
einen
flagranten Verfassungsbruch durch die Missachtung der Neutralit�t, die
Teilnahme an europ�ischen Militarismus und vor allem die Ann�herung an
die
Nato:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id
�9990029
Deutscher General Loquai entlarvt Hufeisenplan als L�ge und F�lschung:
http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id
�9989411
Weiters befindet sich ein ausf�hrlicher Bericht sowie eine reiche
Debatte
�ber die Nato-Okkupation des Kosovo in dieser Ausgabe, die allgemein
unter
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb abgerufen werden kann.
*** Malte Olschewski stellt sein neues Buch vor
Von den Karawanken bis zum Kosovo -
die geheime Geschichte der Kriege in Jugoslawien
erschienen im Braunm�ller-Verlag (seit 1783)
anschlie�end Diskussion mit dem Autor
Vorstadtzentrum XV
15., Meiselstra�e 46/4
Donnerstag, 12. Oktober, 19 Uhr
Achtung: diese Veranstaltung wurde im Target Nr. 3 f�r So, 8.10.
angek�ndigt, doch musste sie auf den 12.10. verschoben werden.
***Jugoslawisch-�sterreichische Solidarit�tsbewegung (J�SB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, �sterreich
Tel/Fax +43 1 924 31 61
Mobil +43 6991 924 31 61
joesb@...
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
Kto-Nr. 9282, RB Schwechat, BLZ 32823
---
Bollettino di controinformazione del
Coordinamento Nazionale "La Jugoslavia Vivra'"
> http://digilander.iol.it/lajugoslaviavivra
I documenti distribuiti non rispecchiano necessariamente le
opinioni delle realta' che compongono il Coordinamento, ma vengono
fatti circolare per il loro contenuto informativo al solo scopo di
segnalazione e commento ("for fair use only")
Per contributi e segnalazioni: jugocoord@...
*** QUESTO SERVIZIO E' ANCORA IN FASE SPERIMENTALE ***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
eCircle ti offre una nuova opportunit�:
la tua agenda sul web - per te e per i tuoi amici
Organizza on line i tuoi appuntamenti .
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