* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"

* Progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
* Richiesta informazioni sulle elezioni nella RFJ
* LIBRI SEGNALATI in francese ed in tedesco
* PROGRAMMINO ANTI-SPIE

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* Coordinamento Nazionale "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"


L?embargo uccide come le bombe, come l?uranio,
come l?indifferenza

Rompiamo l?embargo contro la Jugoslavia!

Con pretesti vergognosamente definiti ?umanitari? gli USA e la NATO
hanno aggredito la
Jugoslavia, paese sovrano non disposto ad accettare le ricette del Fondo
Monetario
Internazionale, allo scopo di imporre il proprio dominio coloniale sui
Balcani.

La Jugoslavia è stata prima sottoposta, da USA ed Unione Europea, ad 8
anni di sanzioni
economiche ed infine bombardata.

Fabbriche, ponti, centrali elettriche, scuole, ospedali ed abitazioni
civili sono stati distrutti, mentre
a causa dell?inquinamento di aria, acque e terreni agricoli c?è una
crescente diffusione di turbe
psichiche e gravi malattie che colpiscono particolarmente i più deboli,
ad iniziare dai bambini.

La popolazione jugoslava, come quella irachena, oltre ad aver subito gli
effetti di nuove micidiali
armi di distruzione di massa, sta tuttora scontando un infame embargo
che la priva di beni e
strumenti indispensabili alla propria sopravvivenza.

Questo embargo rappresenta un vero e proprio atto di guerra il cui fine
è quello di ottenere la resa
dei cittadini jugoslavi costringendoli a scelte politiche allineate ai
diktat del nuovo ordine mondiale
dell?imperialismo USA-NATO.

Di fronte alla disinformazione strategica, alla criminale partecipazione
del governo italiano all?
aggressione con basi militari, uomini e mezzi per la guerra prima e per
l?occupazione del Kosovo
poi, all?ambiguità di parte della sinistra e dei movimenti pacifisti,
molti comitati contro la guerra ed
associazioni di solidarietà con il popolo jugoslavo si sono costituiti
nel:

Coordinamento Nazionale ?La Jugoslavia vivrà?

Difendiamo l?integrità territoriale e la multietnicità della Repubblica
Federale di Jugoslavia!

Basta con le aggressioni contro gli stati che non si allineano al nuovo
ordine mondiale!

La Jugoslavia vivrà!

-

Il Coordinamento Nazionale invita ad aderire alle seguenti iniziative
per rompere l?embargo

- A partire dall?inizio del mese di settembre, presidi cittadini di
controinformazione e raccolta di materiali (medicinali, viveri, beni
sottoposti a regime di embargo) per la Jugoslavia

- 21/22 ottobre giornate internazionali di lotta contro l?embargo e la
NATO

- inizio novembre partenza della nave di solidarietà contro tutti gli
embarghi dal porto di Bari verso il Montenegro e prosecuzione della
carovana fino a Belgrado

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* PANCEVO CHIAMA ITALIA

Subject: progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia"
Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:14:34 +0200
Resent-From: pck-yugoslavia@...
From: "Abcsolidarieta" <abcsolidarieta@...>


Gentili amici,

Vogliamo informarvi che il progetto "Pancevo chiama Italia" va avanti.
Durante il nostro ultimo viaggio in Serbia per la consegna delle quote
dei
primi quattro mesi dell'anno ai bambini serbi e bosniaci affidati a
distanza, abbiamo incontrato la dott.ssa Mica Saric Tanaskovic,
responsabile
dell'Istituto d'igiene e tutela ambientale del Banato del sud. Siamo
così
riusciti, dopo tre mesi e più di lavoro, aiutati in questo anche da
molti
soci, a definire un elenco preciso di quanto è necessario al laboratorio
di
Pancevo.

Strumenti e materiali di consumo serviranno all'équipe della Tanaskovic
per
capire quello che bambini e genitori debbono fare per non morire di
"inquinamento". Parliamo dei bambini perché sono il nostro interesse
preminente, ma è chiaro che tutti gli abitanti della regione, dai
cittadini
di Pancevo ai contadini che hanno visto i loro terreni resi improduttivi
perché contaminati, ai pescatori che sopravvivevano grazie ai pesci del
fiume Danubio, agli operai delle fabbriche rimasti senza lavoro,
vorrebbero
sapere...

Finora per quest'iniziativa, realizzata in collaborazione con "il
manifesto", sono stati raccolti circa 16 milioni di lire.

In questi giorni abbiamo avviato i primi contatti, che intensificheremo
da
settembre, per "proporre" ad organizzazioni, sindacati, associazioni
professionali, singole persone, ecc. di intervenire a sostegno del
progetto
finanziando l'acquisto, tutto o in parte, di uno strumento o dei
materiali
d'uso necessari. Faremo anche presente a tutti che eventuali donazioni
dovranno riguardare strumenti revisionati (perfettamente funzionanti) e
materiali di consumo ben conservati.

Nelle prossime settimane definiremo l'acquisto, presso la "Camag", unica
distributrice di quel che la dott.sa Mica Saric Tanaskovic ha chiesto
per la
gascromatografia, di uno strumento e di alcuni accessori.

Sul sito di "ABC" è possibile consultare e scaricare l'elenco di tutti
gli
strumenti e dei materiali di consumo richiesti dall'Istituto d'igiene
ambientale del Banato del sud. Desideriamo però far presente che
l'elenco
potrà subire delle variazioni e che ai prezzi indicati sarà applicato
uno
sconto che andrà dal 10 al 20%. Un'ultima informazione: il costo totale
del
progetto è di circa 67.000.000 di lire ai quali si aggiungeranno le
spese di
trasporto e doganali ancora non definite.

Grazie per la Vostra attenzione e cordiali saluti.

p. A,B,C, solidarietà e pace
Franco Della Marra


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* RICHIESTA INFORMAZIONI SULLE ELEZIONI NELLE RFJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Collon"
To: "wpb" <wpb@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: Urgent: Do you have Info abou Yugo elections?


Dear,
I am looking for information about next elections in Yugoslavia,
specially
Kustanovic, Mihailovic and expectations. and the "poll presenting
Kustanovic
as favorite".
Also the questions you might have on this topic.

Thank you very much in advance!

Je recherche des infos sur les candidats de l'opposition,
Kustanovic et Mihailovic,
ainsi que des analyses des élections, y compris le "sondage Kustanovic
est
favori.
Et aussi les questions que vous vous posez à ce sujet.
Merci beaucoup d'avance.

Michel Collon


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* LIBRI SEGNALATI

1.
Alexandre Del Vallee
GUERRES CONTRE L' EUROPE: BOSNIE - KOSOVO - TCHETCHNIE
Editions: "Des Syrtes"
Paris, 2000

2.
Pierre-Henri Bunel, *Crimes de guerre à l’OTAN*,
Paris, Editions 1, $$$ p., 110 FF, parution juin 2000.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377

3.
Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM,
KONKRET-Verlag Hamburg)

-

Jürgen Elsässer
c/o Redaktion KONKRET
Tel. 040/8512530, Fax. 040/8512514
Mobil 0171/1720368
Email: J.Elsasser@...
www.juergen-elsaesser.de


betr. Buch-Neuerscheinung
Veranstaltungsangebot




Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
liebe Freunde aus der Friedensbewegung,



am 15. Oktober erscheint mein neues Buch

Kriegsverbrechen.
Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.
Mit
einem Dossier zu Srebrenica (ca. 200 Seiten, ca. 26 DM, KONKRET-Verlag
Hamburg)

Die Buchpremiere wird am 20. Oktober auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse sein,
der
(von Scharping mittlerweile geschaßte) deutsche OSZE-Offizier Heinz
Loquai
und
der Hamburger Friedensforscher Dieter S. Lutz haben ihre Teilnahme
bereits
zugesagt. Gerne würde ich das Buch auch in Ihrer Stadt vorstellen -
entweder
im
Rahmen einer Lesung oder einer Vortragsveranstaltung oder einer
Podiumsdiskussion mit anderen Teilnehmern.

Über mein letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das
Kosovo
und
die neue deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage
November
1999) schrieb die Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein hervorragender Band, im
Zorn
geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus, Enttäuschung über Linke
und
Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«

Zwar gibt es mittlerweile eine ganze Reihe guter Veröffentlichungen zum
Kosovo-Krieg. Doch mein aktuelles Buch steuert nicht nur zu bereits
behandelten
Themen - Rambouillet, Racak, Hufeisenplan - neues Material bei, das ich
in
Brüssel, Wien und Belgrad recherchiert habe.
Vor allem packt es als erstes heiße Eisen an, die bisher von
Kriegsgegnern
sträflich vernachlässigt wurden:
* Srebrenica, wo die Truppen der bosnischen Serben im Juli 1995 7.000
bis
8.000
Muslime massakriert haben sollen. „Für mich war das die Wende“ (J.
Fischer).
* Die Behauptung von den angeblich 100.000 ermordeten Kosovo-Albaner,
mit
der
während des Krieges - und danach! - die Politik Milosevics als
„genozidal

(Goldhagen) dargestellt wurde.
* Das Kosovo im ersten Jahr nach dem Nato-Einmarsch: Der Durchbruch des
albanischen Faschismus.

Falls Sie an meinem Angebot einer Lesung/Veranstaltung interessiert
sind,
bitte
ich um rechtzeitige Kontaktaufnahme - von Mitte August bis Mitte
September
bin
ich in Übersee und schwer zu erreichen. Die Konditionen würden in etwa
denen
des
letzten Jahres entsprechen.

Rezensionsexemplare des Buches fordern Sie bitte direkt bei KONKRET an
(Marit
Hofmann/Katrin Gremliza, Tel 040/8512531 bzw. Fax 040/8512514)



Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse,
mit freundlichen Grüßen

J. Elsässer



Es folgt: Exposé mit inhaltlichem Profil
Inhaltsübersicht, Kurzbiographie und Bibliographie

-

Exposé

Jürgen Elsässer

Kriegsverbrechen.

Die tödlichen Lügen der Bundesregierung und ihre Opfer im
Kosovo-Konflikt.

Mit einem Dossier zu Srebrenica



»Noch nie haben so wenige so viele so gründlich belogen wie im
Zusammenhang
mit
dem Kosovo-Krieg«, sagt der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Willy Wimmer.
»Dafür
sind
Menschen gestorben.«

Keine Lüge war zu grotesk, das Schlachten in Gang zu bringen und am
Laufen
zu
halten. : Milosevic als Hitler, ein KZ in Pristina, Auschwitz auf dem
Amselfeld.
Während Nato und CNN sich die Mühe machten, Video-Aufnahmen zu fälschen,
beeindruckte der deutsche Verteidigungsminister durch nackte Wortgewalt:
Scharpings Serben, die mit abgeschnittenen Albanerköpfen Fußball spielen
und
Föten grillen, werden in die Geschichte der Psychopathologie eingehen.
Schließlich Wunder von biblischer Dimension: Massakrierte albanische
Intellektuelle, die post mortem Pressekonferenzen in westlichen
Hauptstädten
geben; Geisterzüge, die plötzlich auf wenig befahrenen Brücken
erscheinen
und
sich in Nato-Raketen bohren; Massengräber, die so leer sind wie jenes
von
Jesus
nach der Himmelfahrt.


Was ist daraus geworden? »Neun Monate nach der Stationierung der KFOR im
Kosovo
stützt nichts die Anschuldigung eines ›Völkermordes‹« (Le Monde
Diplomatique,
März 2000). Jürgen Elsässer hat die Rechtfertigungen der Nato im Lichte
neuer
Fakten und bisher unzugänglicher Dokumente geprüft.

Elsässer widerlegt die Behauptung, das erste Opfer im Krieg sei die
Wahrheit.
Die Wahrheit stirbt nämlich bereits lange vor dem Krieg: Mit den Lügen
über
Srebrenica, über Racak, über Rambouillet, über die sogenannte
Apartheidpolitik
im Kosovo wurden Parlamentarier und Bürger in den westlichen Staaten
getäuscht
und in ein blutiges Abenteuer gelockt. Die Nato ließ sich zur "Luftwaffe
im
ethnischen Krieg" (Henry Kissinger) machen und hat der UCK zur Macht
verholfen.
Resultat: Pristina ist judenfrei, die Volksfremden sind vertrieben, auf
den
Straßen wütet der Mob, die UCK-Geheimpolizei ist überall, die wenigen
Überlebenden zittern in Ghettos um ihr Leben. Allerdings: Jetzt spricht
niemand
von "humanitärer Katastrophe", "ethnischer Säuberung" und "Völkermord".
Kein
Wunder: Die Blamage des letzten würde die Vorbereitung des nächsten
Krieges
erschweren.

Darum ist diese vollständige, nüchterne und rücksichtslose Bilanz des
Kosovo-Krieges so wichtig.
Elsässers Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Enzyklopädie für alle, die nach
überprüfbaren Fakten gegen die tödliche Propaganda suchen.






Inhaltsverzeichnis

1) Vor dem Krieg

1a) Die Mutter aller Lügen
Die "Rampe von Srebrenica" als Abschußrampe in den Krieg
*** Schwerpunktkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen

1b) Die verschwiegenen Morde
Der Terror der UCK vor dem Krieg und die Desinformation der westlichen
Öffentlichkeit
Ca. 25.000 Zeichen

1c)Geheimakte Racak
Die bisher geheimen Autopsieprotokolle der 40 Racak-Leichen dementieren
die
Nato-Version von einem serbischen Massaker
Ca. 18.000 Zeichen

1d)Hineingefingert
Die Memoiren des Wiener Diplomaten: Petritsch als deutscher Frontmann in
Rambouillet
Ca. 20.000 Zeichen

1e)Scharpings Hufschmied
"Operation Potkova" - eine stümperhafte Fälschung der
Geheimdienstconnection
Berlin-Wien
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen

2) Im Krieg

2a) Sex, Lügen und Video
Wie man mit manipulierten Fotos und sexuell konnotiertem Horror
Kriegsstimmung
erzeugt
Ca. 14.000 Zeichen

2b) Legal, illegal, kollateral
Legende und Fakten über den Bombenkrieg
Ca. 19.000 Zeichen

2c) Killing Fields und Deadly Lies
Was bleibt von den 100.000 Toten in Massengräbern?
***Schwerpunkkapitel*** Ca. 50.000 Zeichen

3) Nach dem Krieg

3a) Prizren ist serbenfrei
Die Lüge von der sauberen Bundeswehr
Ca. 24.000 Zeichen

3b) Albanischer Faschismus
Das Nato-Märchen von der multiethnischen Zukunft des Kosovo-Protektorats
***Schwerpunktartikel*** Ca. 40.000 Zeichen

4) Nachwort
Faktenmüll im Cyberspace
Die Zerstörung der Vernunft durch die Postmoderne oder: Fragen eines
arbeitenden
Lesers
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen

5) Anhang
5a) Internationale Pressestimmen zur Lage im Kosovo in den 80er Jahren
Ca. 10.000 Zeichen
5b) Milosevics Rede auf dem Amselfeld (ungekürzt)
Ca. 15.000 Zeichen
5c) Überblick über die Lügen des bosnischen Krieges
Ca.50.000 Zeichen







Der Autor

Jürgen Elsässer, Jahrgang 1957, war bis Juni 1997 leitender Redakteur
der
Berliner Tageszeitung „junge Welt“ und wurde im April 1999 Redakteur des
Monatsmagazins KONKRET, seit 1957 die bedeutendste Zeitschrift der
parteiunabhängigen Linken in der Bundesrepublik. Daneben arbeitet er
unregelmäßig unter anderem für die „Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung“,
die
„Süddeutsche Zeitung“, den WDR und das „Kursbuch“.

Im Kosovo-Krieg popularisierte er den Slogan "Kein Blut für Joschka"
(eine
Anspielung auf den Slogan "Kein Blut für Öl", den die Grünen im
Golfkrieg
1991
skandiert hatten) und wurde daraufhin vom SPIEGEL als „Berufszyniker

mit „altlinken Klischees“ geschmäht. Andere urteilten freundlicher: Über
sein
letztjähriges Kosovo-Buch »Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns. Das Kosovo und die
neue
deutsche Geopolitik« (Konkret Verlag Juni 1999; 2. Auflage November
1999)
schrieb die renommierte Tageszeitung Frankfurter Rundschau: »Ein
hervorragender
Band, im Zorn geschrieben und aus tiefer Enttäuschung heraus,
Enttäuschung
über
Linke und Grüne. Aber es ist sorgfältig recherchiert.«



Bibliographie

Jürgen Elsässer/Andrei S. Markovits (Hrsg)
Die Fratze der eigene Geschichte
Von der Goldhagen-Debatte zum Jugoslawienkrieg. Berlin
(Elefantenpress) September 1999, 208 Seiten, 29.90 DM

Jürgen Elsässer (Hrsg.)
Nie wieder Krieg ohne uns
Das Kosovo und die neue deutsche Geopolitik. Hamburg
(Konkret)
Juni
1999, 165 Seiten, 22.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer
Braunbuch DVU
Eine deutsche Arbeiterpartei und ihre Freunde. Hamburk
(Konkret)
September 1998, 152 Seiten, 19.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer/Sahra Wagenknecht
Vorwärts und vergessen?
Ein Streit über Marx, Lenin, Ulbricht und die verzweifelte
Aktualität des Kommunismus. Hamburg (Konkret) Juni 1996, 140
Seiten,
19.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer
Wenn das der Führer hätte erleben dürfen
29 Glückwünsche zum deutschen Sieg über die Alliierten.
Hamburg
(Konkret) Mai 1995, 112 Seiten, 14.80 DM

Jürgen Elsässer
Antisemitismus - das alte Gesicht des neuen Deutschland
Analysen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Berlin (Dietz)
September
1992,
145 Seiten, 19.80 DM



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YUGO ! L'UTILITARIA CHE STA ENTRANDO NELLA LEGGENDA !


> http://www.knowitall.com/people/mag/Graphics/YugoArt/
YUGO ART

> http://www.carsurvey.org/manufacturer_Yugo.html
Reviews of Yugo vehicles by their owners...people either love 'em or
hate 'em...

> http://www.igc.apc.org/balkans/yugocar.html
> http://www.web-cars.com/humor/
Barzellette

> http://www.middlemill.freeserve.co.uk/yugo/index.htm
Another Yugo page


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MILOSEVIC RICEVE I DIPLOMATICI STRANIERI

MILOSEVIC RECEIVES HEADS OF YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES
BELGRADE, August 5 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
on Saturday received a group of heads of Yugoslav diplomatic and
consular
representative offices in several dozen countries and international
organizations.
In the talks, Milosevic stressed that Yugoslavia sets great
importance on the intensive development of equal relations and open
cooperation with all countries of the world, in which the successful
work
of Yugoslav diplomatic consular representative offices has an important
role and responsibility.
Yugoslavia firmly urges the affirmation of the policy of peace
and
stability, and due respect of all fundamental international principles,
which inevitably includes respect of sovereignty, territorial integrity
and
independence of all countries, and noninterference in their internal
affairs. Yugoslavia appears everywhere in the world with such an
approach
and that is why it enjoys great renown and wide international support,
and
why all attempts to isolate Yugoslavia have failed.
Yugoslavia realizes comprehensive bilateral ties with the vast
majority of world countries, ties which are based on longterm
cooperation,
mutual respect and understanding, which presents an example of building
international relations and the best way in which a country's own
interests
should be realized and protected, Milosevic said.
With its heroic defense from the NATO aggression (MarchJune,
1999)
and impressive results in national renewal, Yugoslavia has joined the
frontline in the struggle against the new colonialism, in which the
truth
about Yugoslavia and the defense of its freedom are becoming fully
expressed, awakening the conscience of millions of people who refuse to
be
reconciled and are also resisting the policy of hegemony and dictate.
Milosevic spoke to the Yugoslav diplomats about the most
important
issues of the national home and foreign policies.
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic took part in the
talks.

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CHI HA DISTRUTTO DEVE PAGARE I DANNI

BELGRADE BRIEFS FOREIGN DIPLOMATS ON DAMAGE FROM SANCTIONS, NATO WAR
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) There can be no reconstruction or
development of southeast Europe if Yugoslavia is left out of the
development projects, according to Yugoslavia's Assistant Foreign
Minister
at a briefing on Friday. Zoran Jeremic briefed foreign diplomats in
Belgrade on the damage sustained by Yugoslavia through the application
of
international antiYugoslav sanctions and last year's NATO aggression.
Jeremic was quoting data submitted to U.N. Secretary General
Kofi
Annan on July 31 and published as a U.N. document. Annan has requested
similar information from the other countries in the region.
Jeremic said that experts of the U.N. Economic Commission for
Europe attach great importance to the inclusion of Yugoslavia in the
process of regional reconstruction, believing that it has a central part
to
play in the process.
"As a relatively large economy, located on strategic routes
leading to Western Europe, the Yugoslav economy is important both as a
market for neighbouring countries and as a country of transit.
"In the opinion of the Commission, the FR of Yugoslavia plays a
decisive role in the reconstruction plans for the region and the
prevention
of the FR of Yugoslavia to play that role would threaten the economy and
political stability of entire Europe", he said. He added that, until the
outbreak of the Balkan crisis, Yugoslavia had been in the forefront of
the
transitional economies in economic and social reform.
Overall direct and indirect damage caused by NATO's
antiYugoslav
aggression is estimated at 100 billion dollars plus, according to
Jeremic.

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SPARITI TRE PRIGIONIERI POLITICI SERBI DALL'OSPEDALE DI MITROVICA

SERB PRISONERS GO MISSING FROM KOSOVSKA MITROVICA HOSPITAL
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) Three Serb prisoners
disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run Kosovska Mitrovica during the
night
between Thursday and Friday, Serbs sources in the divided city confirmed
to
TANJUG on Friday.
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peica were
being
treated after a protracted hunger strike in prison in Kosovska
Mitrovica,
where they had been held unlawfully for between 10 and 13 months without
a
trial.
They disappeared overnight while under U.N. mission (UNMIK)
police
guard.

SERBIAN OFFICIAL DOUBTS SERBS ESCAPED FROM KOSOVOMETOHIJA HOSPITAL
BELGRADE, August 4 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's
Deputy Justice Minister on Friday expressed doubt that three Serb
detainees, who disappeared from a hospital in U.N.run divided Kosovska
Mitrovica overnight, escaped of their own accord.
Zoran Bilinovac said that "the confused statement issued by the
UNMIK (U.N. KosovoMetohija mission) police saying that Dragan Jovanovic,
Dragisa Peica, and Vlastimir Aleksic three innocent Serbs whom the
socalled UNMIK justice department has kept in detention for a
year disappeared from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica today, arouses
serious doubts about what really happened to them.
"The three were arrested a year ago on the sayso of the (ethnic
Albanian) socalled Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and during the
investigation have been threatened with being handed over to KLA
terrorists
unless they confessed their alleged crimes.
"In early June this year, (another Serb) Arsenije Vitosevic had
also disappeared from the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital. He was arrested
only
because his name was on a list submitted to (international force) KFor
on
June 18, 1999, by socalled KLA Commander Ismet Tari.
"The suspicion that KFor and UNMIK have handed over the four
Serbs
to their allies should not be entirely ruled out.
"It is, however, more probable that KFor and UNMIK have
stagemanaged events so as to bring additional pressure to bear on Serb
detainees to give up their demands for a swift and fair trial and
release
from detention, or in order to justify the transfer of detained Serbs
from
Kosovska Mitrovica deeper inside KosovoMetohija where they would not be
able to receive visits from relatives or attorneys, thereby making it
difficult for them to prove their innocence," Bilinovac said.

PEACE AND TOLERANCE CENTRE SEEKS EXPLANATION OF SERBS' DISAPPEARANCE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 4 (Tanjug) The Centre for Peace and
Tolerance in divided Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday asked the U.N. mission
UNMIK and the international force KFor to explain how Serb prisoners
disappeared from a local hospital overnight.
The Centre issued a statement to say it "learned today that
three
Serbs, who had been detained in the Kosovska Mitrovica prison,
disappeared
from the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica early this morning. "They are
Dragan Jovanovic, Vlastimir Aleksic and Dragisa Peic.
"Since neither UNMIK nor KFor have given a valid and serious
explanation of what has happened to them, the Centre for Peace and
Tolerance shares the concern of their families and awaits an explanation
of
the circumstances under which the three Serbs disappeared from the
hospital
in Kosovska Mitrovica.
"Concern is all the greater in view of the fact that there has
been no explanation to this day of the recent disappearance from the
same
hospital of Serb detainee Arsenije Vitosevic, of whom nothing is known
at
this time."
The UNMIK office in this city in the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia's
U.N.administered province of KosovoMetohija said on Friday UNMIK was
investigating the disappearance of the three prisoners.

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SLAVO-MACEDONI ABBANDONANO LA FYROM OCCIDENTALE CAUSA NAZIONALISMO
PAN-ALBANESE

MACEDONIANS LEAVING WESTERN MACEDONIA
SKOPJE, August 5 (Tanjug) More and more Macedonians are
permanently leaving the western parts of their country for other parts
or
destinations abroad because ethnic Albanians have long been predominant
in
these parts, the Skopje daily Makedonija Denes warned on Saturday.
In Gostivar alone, Macedonians are currently selling some 400
apartments or houses, the daily said, underscoring that they are now
treated in this western town as secondclass citizens.
The inflow of ethnic Albanians into western Macedonian towns
began
several years ago when they started offering Macedonians large sums of
Dmarks for real estate. As a result of tense interethnic relations, but
also because they had been unable to find employment or become more
successfully engaged in private businesses, Macedonians had decided to
sell
their property and then leave permanently, the daily said.
In addition to houses and apartments, ethnic Albanian
businessmen
have purchased all business premises, department stores and main stores
in
Gostivar and Tetovo which had earlier been social property. The son of
former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has also invested in business
premises in Gostivar, since he has close business ties with ethnic
Albanian
businessmen, Makedonija Denes said.
The Macedonian municipality of Gostivar has a population of
45,000. The majority population were formerly Macedonians, but they have
now dropped to a mere 18 percent. Consequently, Macedonians now make up
the
bulk of the 11,000 unemployed persons in Gostivar, the daily said.

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OLANDESI, CANADESI E BRITANNICI ARRESTATI IN JUGOSLAVIA.
L'ACCUSA E' TERRORISMO

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20000805/361600.html

NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 5, 2000

Yugoslavia facing pressure over 'terrorist' arrests

Canadians held by army: Axworthy blasts treatment of men as unacceptable

Stewart Bell
National Post

As Yugoslavia faced mounting international pressure over its arrest of
two Canadians and their British travel companions, Lloyd Axworthy, the
Foreign Affairs Minister, demanded his envoy be allowed to visit the
men, and called their treatment unacceptable.

A Canadian diplomat dispatched to the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro to
meet the detained Albertans, Shaun Going, 45, and his nephew, Liam Hall,
19, has been refused access to the men, who are being held in the town
of Andrijevica by the Yugoslav military...

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/080400yugo-arrest.html

August 4, 2000
Yugoslavs Hold 4 Westerners in Arms Case
By STEVEN ERLANGER

PRAGUE, Aug. 3 -- The Yugoslav Army said today that it had arrested two
Britons and two
Canadians in Montenegro, accusing them of possessing weapons and
explosives, in what
appeared to be another effort to stimulate fears of Western encirclement
before elections next
month.

It was the second arrest of four foreigners reported this week by
Yugoslav authorities. Four
Dutchmen whose detention was disclosed on Monday were seized last month
on Serbia's border
with Montenegro, reportedly because they were trying to kill President
Slobodan Milosevic.

The army said today that the Britons and Canadians were employees of the
NATO-led forces in
Kosovo and were suspected of training pro-Western secessionists in
Montenegro, Serbia's tiny
sister republic, to commit "terrorist actions." ...

YUGOSLAV ARMY ARRESTS FOUR ARMED FOREIGN NATIONALS
BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army has arrested four
armed foreign nationals carrying military equipment and demolition gear,
the Army Command said on Thursday.
The arrests were made in the border belt beyond the border
crossing in the northeast of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro in the
night between Aug. 1 and 2.
The arrested persons are British nationals Adrian Michael
Prangnel
and John Connon Bredley Yore, and Canadian nationals Shuan Gerald Going
and
Liam Patrick Hall.
They were not authorised by the competent Yugoslav bodies to be
present in the area.
There are indications that the arrested foreign nationals have
been training Montenegrin interior ministry special troops and are
specialists in demolition and terrorist operations.
The competent Yugoslav Army authorities have information that
one
of the arrested is a member of the socalled Kosovo Protection Corps. The
authorities have also voluminous documents which clearly indicate the
true
plans and intentions of the arrested.
Investigation results will be made public in due course, the
army
statement said.

Yugoslavia suspects 4 Britons of spying
The Associated Press

PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (August 3, 2000 7:03 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Yugoslav military has
detained four British citizens on suspicion of spying,
the private Montena-fax news agency reported Thursday.

It said the four unidentified Britons were arrested
Tuesday on Mount Cakor, on the border between
Montenegro and Kosovo. They were tourists, but arms
were allegedly found in their possession, Montena-fax
said.

"They were taken to military barracks under the
suspicion that they were conducting a hostile act of
spying," the Montenegrin news agency said, without
elaborating.

The British Foreign Office said Thursday it had no
reports of the arrests.

Yugoslav authorities said Monday that four Dutchmen
were arrested in July for allegedly plotting to
assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic.

The arrests follow allegations that NATO has hired
mercenaries to snatch fugitive war crimes suspects on
Yugoslav territory, tightening the noose around
indicted Serb leaders.

The Dutch government has demanded access to the
detainees, in accordance with international
conventions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bart Jochems
said Thursday. But he said a Yugoslavia official in
The Hague would not tell details of the charges, where
they were being held or their medical condition.

DUTCH ESPIONAGE TERRORIST GANG ARRESTED IN YUGOSLAVIA - MINISTER
BELGRADE,
July 31 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's Information Minister said on Monday
state
security forces have arrested four Dutch special force troops who have
come
to Yugoslavia with the job of trying to assassinate President Slobodan
Milosevic. Briefing domestic and foreign reporters, Minister Goran Matic
said the espionage and terrorist gang was arrested while attempting to
enter Serbia from the other Yugoslav republic, Montenegro, via Serbia's
U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province. One of the four is a professional
soldier and they have all been trained by the British SAS. State
security
troops have seized some of the weapons and equipment found in the gang's
possession, Matic said, adding that the four, posing as war adventurers
and
weekend soldiers, have been organised and trained for subversive
operations
and assassinations. He went on to say that, by their own admission, the
gang had tried to get in touch with the Dutch KFor (international Force
in
Kosovo-Metohija) battalion and had planned to try to assassinate
Milosevic
or commit acts of terrorism on Yugoslav territory. Matic said the four
had
visited the territory of the former Yugoslavia on several occasions, as
evident from visas for (Bosnian Serb) Republika Srpska, Croatia and
Slovenia stamped on their passports, and prepared terrorist operations.
"Yugoslavia has an organised system of security, which is capable of
providing adequate protection to the people, the state and the political
system of the country. "No hired guns, military adventurers, special
troops
or gangs will ever penetrate our system of security and protection", he
vowed. The reporters were shown video footage of the arrested Dutchmen,
identified as Gotfrides Johannes Antonijus de Ri, Samrordijan Tjetje,
Johannes van Iersel and Ian van Stajk, who spoke about their arrival in
Yugoslavia and their terrorist plans. Asked by reporters who trains the
Montenegrin police, Matic said this is done by Great Britain, and that a
group of Montenegrin police officers has undergone training in U.S.
police
structures. "The truth is that the British provide some of the training
of
Montenegro's special forces, while Montenegro's interior ministry, for
all
the protestations of peace of its officials, has lately been busily
buying
various arms with Croatia's help", he said. "One cannot talk of peace
while
amassing weapons, the way Montenegrin President Djukanovic is doing",
Matic
added.


'This Is Fiction'
U.N. Tribunal, Dutch Govt. Deny Links to Milosevic's Alleged Assassins
The Yugoslav government showed a film of a Dutch citizen who was
arrested in Yugoslavia along with three other Dutchmen. All are accused
of planning to kidnap or kill President Slobodan Milosevic. (Reuters)

A M S T E R D A M, Netherlands, Aug. 1 — The International Criminal
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia today strongly denied links to a group of
Dutchmen being held in Serbia on suspicion of plotting to assassinate
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Yugoslavia said Monday it had arrested four Dutchmen,
allegedly sent by Western intelligence agencies, who were planning to
kidnap Milosevic and other alleged war criminals indicted by The Hague
tribunal.
"I would call it pretty good fiction," said Paul Risley,
spokesman for the tribunal. "This story is fiction and nothing more."
With pictures of the four and their alleged cache of
weapons spread across most Dutch newspapers, the Dutch government raised
the tempo of its own denials and said it was trying to find out more
about the incident.
"We deny any military operation," said a Dutch Foreign
Ministry spokesman. He said Dutch diplomats were trying to make contact
with their Yugoslav counterparts in The Hague and in Belgrade to find
out more about the incident.
Friends and colleagues of one of those detained, Godfried
de Rie, reacted to the news with shock.
"He is a dead honest, hardworking man who never planned to
kidnap President Milosevic," Jaap Havik, the owner of a Mercedes
restoration firm that employed de Rie, told Dutch television. "He's
always working on cars and motorbikes."
A next-door neighbor of de Rie's described him as a
perfectly normal person who once worked as a postman.
'Weekend Warriors'
Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic said the men were posing as
amateur "weekend warriors" but were in fact assassins sent by the West.
He said the men had been caught in Mehov Krs, an isolated
corner of Serbia near Kosovo and Montenegro, about 300 miles south of
Belgrade.
Matic showed a film in which one of the four, identified as
Jeroen van Iersel, told an unidentified questioner that he and his
friends had been looking for people indicted by the U.N. tribunal.
The Dutch spokesman said the Foreign Ministry was
investigating reports that the group was arrested as long as two weeks
ago.
"We will continue our efforts and go to the [Yugoslav]
Foreign Ministry to ask why we were not told earlier of their arrest,"
the spokesman said.
He added that de Rie had done his military service in the
army in 1989. "But he was an administrator, hardly a paratrooper."
The Dutch Foreign Ministry named the others as Bas van
Schaik, Sander Zeitsen and van Iersel. All are aged between 28 and 32.
"We are pretty sure that they are neither military nor
involved in military things," the spokesman said.
The United States has offered a reward of up to $5 million
for information leading to the arrest of Milosevic, former Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who commanded Bosnian Serb
forces during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia.
In the film shown to journalists in Belgrade, van Iersel
said he knew Milosevic and Mladic were among those indicted. He said
that if he met the Yugoslav leader he would have been put in a box on
top of a car and driven out of the country.
'These Are No Pros'
Military specialists appeared in the Dutch media this morning to say it
was extremely unlikely that the four are professional militiamen.
If they were what the Yugoslavs claim they are —
SAS-trained assassins — then they would never have told their plans,
the experts argued. Those same specialists pointed out that Dutch
mercenaries fought in Croatia, mostly on the Croatian side.
Most of them came from extreme right-wing organizations,
they said.
They also pointed out that the $5 million bounty is for
information — not for kidnapping, much less delivering a human head.
One NATO source was reported as dismissing the whole
incident as "bizarre."
The Dutch anti-fascist group Kakfa, which monitors rightist
activity, believes the men could be former members of the ultra-right
CP'86 group, which was ordered dismantled last year by a Dutch court.
Like many other small skinhead groups, CP'86 played survival games on
the weekends.
Like most other European countries, the Netherlands has its
fringe groups of ultra-rightists and neo-Nazis — many of whom are also
hardcore soccer hooligans. They are closely monitored by the
intelligence services.
A Milosevic Stunt?
In Belgrade, the opposition dismissed the arrests as a propaganda stunt.
"Matic is crazy about conspiracy theories," said Bogdan
Grubacic, editor of the independent English language newsletter VIP. He
said the arrests are part of the propaganda war launched by the
Milosevic regime ahead of early elections, scheduled for Sept. 24.
And the alleged location of the arrests, on the border to
Montenegro, could serve the dual purpose of helping Milosevic to fuel
his war of words with the smaller, anti-Milosevic partner in the
Yugoslav federation.
The Milosevic regime says Montenegro is behind repeated
assassinations. Montenegro, in return, regularly accuses Milosevic of
sending his hit-men there.
Montenegro is boycotting the upcoming elections, saying the
laws had been changed by the Yugoslav government to favor the
re-election of Milosevic and his partners.
ABCNEWS.com's Sue Masterman and Reuters contributed to this report.


DATE: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:59:00
From: Herman de Tollenaere <hermantl@...>
To: right-left@...

On 31 July, Dutch TV rebroadcast Serbian TV tapes of four Dutchmen,
arrested in Yugoslavia. On those tapes, they claimed to be an armed
"special unit" with violence and abduction plans.

For whatever it is worth:

Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad ["NRC-Business Paper"] of Tuesday 1 August
on
one of the arrested, Godfried de Rie:

"According to the Group for Anti-Fascist Research, KAFKA, his name, with
the same initials and place of residence, is on the list of members for
1995 of the extreme Rightist [political party] CP'86. The [Dutch]
Ministry
of Defence confirms that De Rie was a conscript Army lance corporal, of
1989/8."

The CP'86 ["Center" Party, founded in 1986] political party was
notorious
for racism, violence, and open propaganda for Nazis like Adolf Hitler
and
Rudolf Hess. In the 1990s, they sent Dutch mercenaries to Yugoslavia, to
fight in extreme Right Croat units in Croatia and Bosnia.

Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,

Herman de Tollenaere



BLIC
English Edition


Goran Matic, the Federal Minister about the arrest of
Holland citizens

They planned assault on Slobodan Milosevic

Belgrade (Beta)- Goran Matic, the Federal Information
Minister said that
Yugoslav police had arrested four Holland citizens who had
planned an
assault on Slobodan Milosevic. Matic added that they had
been arrested on
Mehov Krs, at the Serbia-Montenegro border, just before the
Group of Eight
summit in Japan.

Names of the arrested are Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de
Rij, Samvordian
Tjetje, Johanes Andrianus Kornelius van Irshel and Ian van
Stajk Bastien.
(That's how the names were told to the journalists.)
Journalists could watch videotaped statements of the
arrested. One of them
said that the group's aim was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic
and take him
abroad or to some foreign embassy in order to obtain the
warrant prize. "Our
plan was to kidnap Slobodan Milosevic, to kill him, cut off
his head, put it
in a box and send it," he added.

The arrested said that they had traveled from Slovenia, via
Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Montenegro. They added that they had
planned to go to
Kosovo and join the Holland KFOR battalion. The Holland
KFOR members were to
provide firearms for them.

Gotfrides Johanes Antonius de Rij said that his rank was
"Soldier number
one" and that his identification number was 690816197.

We intended to come to Yugoslavia to see the situation. We
planned to go to
the war zone, to Kosovo. We planned to fight against Serbs
there. We also
planned to visit the Holland battalion in Kosovo," he said.
He added that
they had entered the country through Montenegro, in a car.

"Situation at the check-point was very unusual. They didn't
ask us anything.
We were told that we had to pay car insurance and that
every person was
allowed to take in 5 grams of drug," he added. He mentioned
that they
possessed "special knifes, handcuffs, and a saw". They had
five cameras for
shooting military bases, nature and customs checkpoints.
They also had a dog
that guarded the car.

"Part of the plan was to kidnap an important person. I
cannot say the name,
but we could earn a lot of money with that person," the
arrested said.

Samvordian Tjetje said that they had planned to collect
information about
Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other persons
indicted by The
Hague Tribunal.

Matic said that this group was a part of American
subversive activities
directed against Yugoslavia. Matic accused the Montenegrin
Ministry of Home
Affairs and Montenegrin President of purchasing
anti-aircraft and
anti-helicopter arms with the help of Croatia. He said that
the Montenegrin
police had been trained by members of special British SAS
units and members
of American intelligence service.

"In this case, Croatia is not benign. It's obvious that
there is space for
terrorist acts against Yugoslavia," Matic added.


Holland doesn't have information about arrested Holland
citizens

The Hague (Beta-AFP)- Yesterday, the Holland Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
announced that it didn't possess information about four
Holland citizens,
arrested in Yugoslavia and accused of planning to kidnap
and murder
President Milosevic.

"We don't know anything. We are not sure about their
nationality," spokesman
of the Ministry said for France Press. He added that
Holland authorities
were searching for "Credible information and affirmations".

"We are trying to gain some information through our embassy
in Belgrade. In
this moment, we don't have any information from Yugoslav
authorities," the
spokesman added.

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SUL RIPRISTINO DELLA NAVIGABILITA' DEL DANUBIO BLOCCATA DALLA NATO

YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES STATEMENT ON CLEARING OF DANUBE WATERWAY
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Recent complex talks with the
Danube
Commission on clearing the waterway of debris from NATOdemolished
bridges
has produced results of interest to Yugoslavia and other Danube
Commission
members, the Yugoslav Government said on Thursday.
Navigation in the River Danube through Yugoslavia has been
blocked
by debris of bridges smashed by NATO in its aggression on Yugoslavia
last
year.
At the session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, the
Government reviewed a report on the results of the negotiations, the
Government statement said.
Documents adopted by the Danube Commission incorporated the
positions set down in the Yugoslav Government's Memorandum that the
resumption of international navigation in the Danube through Yugoslavia
must be done with full respect for Yugoslavia's territorial integrity
and
sovereignty, its laws and regulations.
In the first stage of the navigation route rehabilitation, the
project envisages for building a new bridge across the Danube at Novi
Sad,
to replace the pontoon bridge erected after NATO planes had demolished
all
three bridges in this northern city.
The Yugoslav Government recommended that the Commission appoint
Radisa Djordjevic, director of the Yugoslav Institute for the
Maintenance
and Development of Inland Waterways, to head the project.

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VERSO LE ELEZIONI DI SETTEMBRE NELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA

YUGOSLAVIA - GENERAL ELECTIONS

YUGOSLAV PREMIER CONFIDENT MONTENEGRO WILL JOIN IN SEPTEMBER POLLS
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's Prime Minister said
on
Thursday that general elections called for September would be held also
in
Montenegro, because that Republic too is part of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
Elections are a right, not an obligation, Momir Bulatovic told
reporters during a recess at the 2nd Diaspora 2000 convention of
Yugoslav
expatriates, being held in Belgrade. He added he would personally feel
very
happy if all people exercised this right.
Bulatovic noted that Montenegro is a single constituency in the
election of deputies to both chambers of the Yugoslav Federal
Parliament.
He said that the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro,
which he heads and which is in opposition in Montenegro, would contest
the
elections.
On the other hand, the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro,
the
senior partner in Montenegro's ruling coalition, is threatening to
boycott
the polls, called for September 24.
He hoped a way would be found, in cooperation with Montenegro's
Government, to make it possible for the people of Montenegro to vote in
the
polls if they want to, and added this would be a test of the democratic
character of the present regime in Montenegro.

YUGOSLAV MEDIA, PARTIES SIGN ACCORD ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
BELGRADE, August 3 (Tanjug) State radio and television
stations
in Yugoslavia, the Governments of Yugoslavia and its republics of Serbia
and Montenegro, and political parties contesting upcoming elections
agreed
on Wednesday on criteria for the contestants' fair and equal media
presentation during the election campaign. On behalf of the Yugoslav
Government, the accord was signed by Minister of Information Goran
Matic.
Elections for president of state and both houses of the Federal
Parliament have been called for September 24. Serbia will have local
elections on the same day.
Matic said the accord was open to all political parties
planning
to take part in the polls.
The accord determines the number and length of radio and
television appearances by the contestants on state radio and television
channels, according to Matic.
Under the election laws, state electronic media, both at the
federal level and at the level of the republics, are obliged to give
equal
coverage to all candidates in the information programmes during the
election campaign, he said.
The accord was signed on Wednesday by Radio Yugoslavia,
Yugoslav
Television, Serbian Radio and Television and Studio B.
About 30 parties have also signed the accord.

YUGOSLAV ELECTORAL COMMISSION ADOPTS REGULATIONS FOR COMING POLLS
BELGRADE, August 2 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Central Electoral
Commission met on Wednesday and adopted rules and regulations for
activities leading up to federal presidential and parliamentary
elections
scheduled for September 24, a Parliament statement said.
At its second session, held at the Federal Parliament and
chaired
by Commission Chairman Borivoje Vukicevic, the body defined uniform
rules
and standards for the coming elections. The rules are fully in line with
the laws that regulate presidential elections and elections to the
Chambers
of Citizens (lower house) and Republics of the Yugoslav Parliament.
The Commission further adopted rules and regulations for the
attendance of the presidential and parliamentary elections by foreign
observers.
It also appointed chairmen, secretaries and members of local
electoral commissions and their deputies in the constituencies in the
Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, the statement said.

YUGOSLAV MINISTRY OFFERS AGREEMENT ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Information Ministry
on
Tuesday invited state media and parties contesting forthcoming general
elections to come to a consultation about election campaign terms on
Wednesday.
The Ministry said that, under the relevant regulations, the
radio
and television stations whose founders are the Yugoslav Federation or
either of its republics (Serbia, Montenegro), representatives of the
founders and parties taking part in elections should together decide
about
the number and duration of radio and television appearances of the
contestants during the election campaign.
The purpose of such an agreement is to give equal access to the
media to all parties and all candidates, and to give a balanced media
presentation and an equal treatment of the contestants in the election
campaign.
The agreement, to be reached on Wednesday, will be open to all
political parties contesting the elections.
Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections have been
called
for Sept. 24.

ELECTIONS - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
DINI AND ALBRIGHT AGREE OVER MONTENEGRO
ROME, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - The United States and Italy agree that Montenegro
should take part at the Sept 24 elections in Yugoslavia. U.S. Secretary
of
State Madeleine Albright and Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini
reached
agreement on this issue during their meeting in Rome on Tuesday. In a
brief
statement after talks at the Italian Foreign Ministry, Albright said the
main subject at her talks with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in
Rome later today would be preparations for the Yugoslav elections, which
the United States considers of extreme importance. Italy, for its part,
believes it is necessary to urge the Montenegrin authorities not to
boycot
the elections, which Minister Dini also described as very important.


http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/01/montenegro.albright/index.html
Albright to ask Montenegro to reconsider election boycott

August 1, 2000
Web posted at: 4:43 a.m. EDT (0843 GMT)

From staff and wire reports
ROME -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is to ask
Montenegro's president to
reconsider a planned boycott of Yugoslavia's presidential, parliamentary
and municipal elections
scheduled for September....

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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RF JUGOSLAVIA - IRAN

YUGOSLAVIA'S MILOSEVIC SENDS MESSAGE TO IRAN'S KHATAMI
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Tanjug) Deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zoran
Novakovic met in Tehran on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Gharazi to whom he gave a personal message from Yugoslav President
Slobodan
Milosevic for Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Novakovic is paying a severalday official visit to Iran.
During the cordial and frank discussion on the first day, the
two
sides exchanged views on the current situation in bilateral relations
and
supported new initiatives for cooperation, especially in the economy and
information.
Meeting separately with his host, Deputy Foreign Minister
Mortez
Sarmadi, Novakovic expressed pleasure at the attained degree of accord
on
most important international matters and at a mutually declared
readiness
to promote bilateral cooperation in all areas of mutual interest.

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NUOVE MISURE PER IL SISTEMA SANITARIO IN SERBIA

SERBIAN HEALTH MINISTER PRESENTS NEW MEASURES IN HEALTH SERVICE
BELGRADE, Aug 2 (Tanjug) The Serbian Medical Society will play
an
important part in the efforts to enhance health services, especially in
a
consulting capacity, according to the Serbian minister of health on
Wednesday.
Minister Milovan Bojic, who is also vice premier of this
Yugoslav
republic, was meeting with the Society's Executive Board. Bojic
explained
that medical professionals would in the future be given a greater role
to
play in shaping the policy of the health service, especially through
special commissions that are to be set up within the Ministry of Health.
He went on to say that doctors would be given a chance to
supplement their incomes by putting in additional work at state medical
facilities.
He said the government would set aside funds for building at
least
1,000 homes for young doctors, as one of the measures aimed at
preventing a
drain of highly qualified young professionals.
In future, greater attention would be paid to research projects
in
the health department, Bojic said, announcing tighter supervision at
medical institutions to replace the present slackness and even chaos in
some segments of the health protection system.

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IL PIANO DI RICOSTRUZIONE ECONOMICA DELLA SERBIA

SERBIAN PREMIER SAYS GOVERNMENT RESOLUTE TO BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH
KANJIZA, August 1 (Tanjug) Serbia's premier said on Tuesday
the
Government was committed to boosting economic growth and development in
order that this Yugoslav Republic should as soon as possible recover the
lost domestic product and repair the huge damage done by last year's
NATO
aggression.
Visiting the industrial town of Kanjiza in Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province, Premier Mirko Marjanovic inaugurated a new modern
plant
at the Potisje brickyard.
Marjanovic said Serbia was looking ahead to a period of brisk
development, with a twodigit domestic product growth rate.
According to him, the primary strategic project in the year
2000
is to build 10,000 homes at low cost and with all modern amenities as
the
first stage of a project for building 100,000 homes over the next ten
years.
The intensive housing development should boost the construction
industry, which had doubled its performance this year, and should
stimulate
the industry of building materials and other ancillary industries, he
said.
He added that the first half of the year had seen the
attainment
of the key goals of brisk economic growth and maintenance of
macroeconomic
and price stability.
In the period, industrial production had risen by 21.2 percent
over the same period in 1999, in line with the projected economic policy
for the year 2000 of increasing industrial production by 15 percent and
the
domestic product by 14 percent, he said.
The Government was, meanwhile, continuing its policy of firm
budget restrictions, i.e., of financing public spending solely from real
sources, which was the chief factor of price stability, Marjanovic said.
"Sanctions and other forms of outside pressure have not stopped
us
implementing reforms, building modern market institutions and adopting
major systemic laws: on companies, on concessions, on ownership
transformation, on value added tax, and others," he said.
He added the programme was a continuation of a policy that
meant
protecting the country's freedom, independence and integrity, settling
the
problem of KosovoMetohija politically, ending the missions of KFor and
UNMIK and returning that Serbian province under the full jurisdiction of
Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Also, he said, this policy meant a Yugoslavia as a state of
equal
people, nations and republics, economic and cultural development,
constant
growth of production and living standards, free education and medical
services, social security, affirmation of the policy of national unity,
development of democratic institutions, freedom of the media, national
and
religious equality, openness to economic, political and cultural
cooperation with all countries on an equal footing with respect for the
fundamental principles of international relations and international law.
Upcoming general elections, according to Marjanovic, will give
full support to the policy of heroic defence of the country against
aggressors, to reconstruction and the building of development projects,
and
will marginalise those who would like to come to power as exponents of
the
aggressors, betraying their country, sabotaging reconstruction and
justifying the crimes of the aggressors.

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VUCIC: LA SERBIA E' UN AVAMPOSTO DI LIBERTA'

VUCIC: SERBIA BASTION OF FREEDOM
VRANJE, August 2 (Tanjug) Serbian Information Minister and
ranking official of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Aleksandar Vucic
said
in Vranje late on Tuesday that Serbia is a bastion of freedom and the
only
unsubdued country in Europe even though part of its territory is
occupied,
referring to Kosovo and Metohija province which is currently under de
facto
administration of the United Nations.
Speaking in a broadcast by the local TV station in this
southern
Serbian town, Vucic spoke about the upcoming local and federal elections
and the current political situation in Yugoslavia.
He said he believed citizens would decide well and that
patriotic,
nationallyoriented political forces would triumph.
Vucic strongly criticized political parties of prowestern
orientation.
Fifthcolumn activities by opposition parties in Serbia
demonstrate
the senselessness of propaganda activities which urge "the options of
those
who killed our children" in comparison with activists who "never left
the
country and want to preserve the common state of Serbia and Montenegro."
Vucic underscored that Kosovo and Metohija province "is not
lost,
but only temporarily occupied." Serbia is the only unsubdued state in
Europe and a nucleus of freedom, he reiterated.
Commenting on the upcoming elections for Yugoslav president,
Vucic
said opposition parties were proU.S. oriented and that all those who
support the policy of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic advocate
turning Montenegro, and even Yugoslavia, into an ethnic Albanian and
Muslim
country.
It is all the same to the west which opposition figure they
will
appoint "since they are all the same and all servants," Vucic said.

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UCKFOR: KFOR PERQUISISCE LA CASA DI UN TESTIMONE DEI CRIMINI DELL'UCK

KFOR RAIDS HOME OF WITNESS AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIAN MURDER SUSPECT
GNJILANE, August 1 (Tanjug) International force Kfor and
ethnic
Albanian police troops in U.N.run KosovoMetohija have raided the house
of a
Serb witness against an ethnic Albanian murder suspect, amateur radio
operators reported on Tuesday.
The ethnic Albanian, Afrim Zeqiri, is accused of murdering
three
people, including a fouryearold child, and wounding two Serbs in the
multiethnic village of Cernica near Gnjilane, in the east of the
Yugoslav
Republic of Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
Kfor and ethnic Albanian police troops searched the house of
the
Serb, chief witness and one of two survivors of Zeqiri's attack.
The Serb, Zoran Stolic, sustained seven wounds at Zeqiri's
hands
and was hospitalised. After being discharged from hospital, he had gone
to
Smederevo, central Serbia, for further medical treatment and to
recuperate
with relatives.
A day after his departure, Kfor and ethnic Albanian police
troops
broke down the door to his home and turned the place upside down,
smashing
everything in sight.
Stolic returned home on Monday to find the place ransacked and
his
savings of 6,500 German marks gone, according to amateur radio
operators.

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RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ - UCRAINA

UKRAINIAN MP VISITS YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT
BELGRADE, August 1 (Tanjug) A senior Yugoslav Parliament
official
received on Tuesday a visiting Ukrainian parliamentarian who heads his
country's parliamentary working group on cooperation with the Yugoslav
Parliament.
Ljubisa Ristic, who chairs the Foreign Policy Committee of the
Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens (lower house), briefed the
guest
from Ukraine, Sergei Kiashko, on recent amendments to the Yugoslav
constitution.
Ristic said that procedures for electing MPs to the Chamber of
Republics (upper house) and for electing president of state had been
changed.
He explained that the 350,000 Serbs and other nonAlbanians who
have fled KosovoMetohija would be able to vote in forthcoming elections,
as
would the Serbs remaining in that U.N.administered province of the
Yugoslav
republic of Serbia.
The same applies to all other Yugoslav citizens in
KosovoMetohija,
according to Ristic.
"Forces of occupation in KosovoMetohija have carried out a sham
census in an effort to set the stage for unlawful elections without
Serbs,"
said Ristic, adding that such elections would be an attempt to legalize
KosovoMetohija's secession.
He went on to say that foreign observers would be invited to
the
elections, but they would not be from the countries that had launched
last
year's aggression on Yugoslavia.
"We maintain no contacts with the parliaments of these
countries,
as they will not have most of our MPs in their countries," Ristic
explained.

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LA RFJ VERSO LA RATIFICA DELLA CONVENZIONE DI RIO SULLA BIODIVERSITA'

YUGOSLAVIA FOR PRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BELGRADE, Aug 1
(Tanjug) - The Yugoslav Government has prepared for the federal
parliament
a draft law ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity whose
objective is the preserved and balanced use of biological diversity.
This
Convention implies that states have the sovereign right, in keeping with
the United Nations Charter and principles of international law, to
exploit
their own resources according to their own ecological policy, but also
the
responsibility not to cause damage to the environment and biological
diversity of other states or areas which are outside their jurisdiction,
said a statement by the federal government. Having in mind Yugoslavia's
central position in the Balkans, the high degree of biological
diversity,
and the need to follow the long-term effects of last year's (March-June)
NATO aggression on the environment, the draft law is also aimed at
preserving biological diversity in the wider region of the Balkans. The
international Convention on Biological Diversity, of which Yugoslavia is
a
signatory, was drawn up in Rio De Janeiro on June 5, 1992, and it
regulates
the area of the use of biodiversity along with securing conditions for
an
equal division of benefits from genetic resources and development.

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LE CONCLUSIONI DEL CAMPEGGIO INTERNAZIONALE DI SIROGOJNO

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CAMP IN ZLATIBOR INTERNATIONAL CAMP URGES
SOLIDARITY WITH YUGOSLAVIA SIROGOJNO, Yugoslavia, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - An
international friendship camp in Sirogojno on Mt Zlatibor, west-central
Serbia (Yugoslavia), on Tuesday adopted a declaration urging solidarity
with Yugoslavia in its resistance to the new world order. Some sixty
representatives of various organisations from 21 countries have come to
Yugoslavia to analyze the current situation and consequences of last
year's
NATO aggression and sanctions, and have been the extent of the
devastation
at first hand. They also inquired into the situation in the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered province of Kosovo-Metohija.
According to the Declaration, reasons offered by foreign powers
notwithstanding, the March-June 1999 war against Yugoslavia had nothing
to
do with the situation in the country, since the government in Belgrade
had
never tried to expel, let alone commit a genocide of, the ethnic
Albanian
population in Kosovo-Metohija. The conflict between the Yugoslav
government
and the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was the
result of numerous crimes committed by ethnic Albanian separatists, and
was
stoked by the super-powers, which took the side of the KLA and launched
an
aggressive policy towards Yugoslavia, the document says. It goes on to
say
that the pressure culminated at Rambuillet, France, talks in early 1999,
where Yugoslavia was forced to reject an unacceptable ultimatum which,
if
accepted, would have stripped it of its sovereignty. The refusal
furnished
a pretext for NATO's air strikes, which in fact gave air support to the
KLA, the paper avers. The Declaration says that the current situation in
Kosovo- Metohija, which is now administered by the international force
KFor
and the U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, is disastrous. The missions have
done
next to nothing to prevent crimes: 1,100 Serbs, Romanies and other
non-Albanians have been murdered along with 290 ethnic Albanians, 960
people have disappeared, 90 Serbian churches and monasteries have been
damaged or destroyed, it adds. More than 350,000 people have been forced
out of Kosovo-Metohija, the Declaration says. Yugoslavia, it adds, is a
hub
of telecommunications networks, oil pipelines, roads, railways that
transport raw materials, information and labour between the Caucasus,
the
Far East, the Middle East and Western Europe. According to the document,
the true reason for the so-called humanitarian war against Yugoslavia
lay
in its being seen as an obstacle in the way of multinational companies
attaining their objectives and increasing profits. The paper goes on to
call for solidarity with Yugoslavia and for lifting all anti-Yugoslav
sanctions and implementing the U.N. Security Council's Resolution No.
1244
on Kosovo-Metohija. The Friendship Camp participants urge
indemnification
of Yugoslavia for war damages and losses sustained through the
sanctions,
for prosecuting NATO politicians for war crimes, and for putting an end
to
the demonisation of Yugoslavia in western media. They also urge support
for
the forces in Yugoslavia that want dialogue between the ethnic
communities
and that oppose war, urge respect for the country's sovereignty and
international law and the disbanding of NATO.

INITIATIVE FOR LIFTING SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
BELGRADE, July 30 (Tanjug) Prominent Norwegian politicians and
public figures will launch in their country an initiative for lifting
the
international economic sanctions imposed on the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Norwegian author Jo Eggen told Tanjug.
Eggen is taking part in the work of the International camp of
Friendship held in the village of Sirogojno on Mt. Zlatibor, western
Serbia.
Eggen has discussed this action, which is gaining in intensity
in
Norway, with certain members of the Norwegian parliament and government
all
of whom expressed readiness to support the demand for lifting this
inhuman
form of pressure on the people of Yugoslavia.
According to Eggen, the initiative will be joined by many
public
figures in Norway, trade union leaders and senior church dignitaries.

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IN BOSNIA SI PRIVATIZZA QUANTO SI E' COSTRUITO IN 50 ANNI DI SFRJ CON IL
SUDORE E L'IMPEGNO DEI LAVORATORI JUGOSLAVI DI OGNI NAZIONALITA'

Bosnia to sell 51 pct stakes in 86 large firms

SARAJEVO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Bosnia's Moslem-Croat federation will
offer 51
percent stakes in 86 of its largest firms to strategic investors and 49
percent stakes to citizens through public share offerings, an official
said
on Tuesday.

Nedim Lulo, deputy head of the federation privatisation agency, also
said
that a swap of privatisation vouchers for shares in state firms in the
federation would start on September 29 after a three-month delay.

Lulo said that 51 percent share stakes would be offered to strategic
foreign
and local investors via tenders and solely for cash while the remaining
49
percent would be offered to citizens in exchange for privatisation
vouchers.

The list of firms, seen as of strategic importance for the state and
including two federation power and telecommunication companies, was
proposed
by an international group of experts.

In another list of 206 firms proposed by the federation's ten cantonal
privatisation agencies, 10 percent of shares would be offered for cash
with
the remaining 90 percent privatised in exchange for vouchers.

Lulo said that cantonal privatisation bodies should decide next week
whether
the state would keep 51 percent of shares in infrastructure firms, such
as
waterworks and sewage systems, and offer remaining shares via public
share
offerings.

He said that the federation privatisation agency is obliged to publicly
announce the final list of firms to be privatised by the end of August.
He
added that the exchange of vouchers for shares should be complete in 45
days.

The vouchers are granted to citizens as a compensation for war-related
debts,
such as unpaied salaries and pensions and frozen foreign currency bank
accounts. Their total value was estimated at 15 billion Bosnian marka
($7.09
billion).

Post-war Bosnia also comprises the Serb republic, where the distribution
of
vouchers to citizens has only just begun.

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YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
BELGRADE,18 July 2000 No.3112

INTERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN MINISTER ZIVADIN JOVANOVIC
TO THE QATAR TELEVISION AL-DZAZIRA


Announcement: Meeting of the day

What are the effects of embargo imposed by the West on Yugoslavia - it
is
one of the questions that Jumana Tammur asks the Foreign Minister of
Yugoslavia in the "Meeting of the day", which is currently on the air

Meeting of the day

Dear viewers, welcome to our today's show "Meeting of the day". This is
a
meeting with the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Mr. Zivadin Jovanovic. The
topics we shall address will include internal political and economic
situation in Yugoslavia, the attitude towards the opposition and his
views
on the future of Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslavia, Montenegro and the
Balkans in general.

Q: Mr. Jovanovic, welcome to TV Al-Dzazira show. First of all, what are
the
factors that have determined and are determining your Government's
position
concerning the crisis in Kosovo and in the Balkans in general?

A: The Kosovo problem is one of separatism and terrorism. It has been
present for some time, but it has been intensified in the last few
years.
Separatism has been supported from the outside to destabilize the region
and aggravate the situation in the region in pursuit of their own global
interests in Europe, Asia and the world at large. Province of Kosovo and
Metohija has been the birthplace of the statehood of Serbia. Medieval
Serbian State was situated in Kosovo and Metohija. Some cultural
monuments
still testify to that. Separatist movement caused chaos in the region,
endangering international principles and stability.

Q: You say terrorism, separatism but the people there say they want
independence.

A: First of all, people in Kosovo and Metohija are not of one ethnic
national community. Serbs, Albanians, Muslims, Turks, Egyptians,
Goranci,
and members of other nationalities have been living there for centuries.

Q: What about the majority? Can you illustrate that?

A: Majority in Serbia are Serbs and Kosovo has always been in Serbia.
So,
you cannot take a city or a district and say majority in this city are
those and those and claim separation of the city or a district. One
should
not simplify the situation. Kosovo and Metohija is a multi-ethnic,
multi-cultural, multi-religious region of Serbia and Yugoslavia and
solution over there has always been community and tolerance, solidarity
of
all. Albanians make most of the population in Kosovo and Metohija, this
is
true. But they are citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia and there they are
a
national minority. These are international standards. Why would
Albanians
live outside prosperous Serbia and Yugoslavia, which is better than any
other in the region? Who would take Albania as a model anyway and in
what
respect, with chaos, crime and instability over there?

Q: You are giving a nice picture of the situation, while most analysts
say
that you handled roughly the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija?

A: All depends who the analysts are. If you had been in Yugoslavia, in
Kosovo and Metohija you would have seen quite a different picture from
the
one presented in Western media. NATO was no longer necessary in Europe.
With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, as a global
factor NATO remained without a global adversary, without a global
threat.
Linked with military-industrial complex, it had to justify its existence
and even expand to the East although there is no reason for that in the
newly-created conditions. Therefore, it started to openly encourage
separatism and terrorism, to create problems and crises to justify its
expansion to the south and south-east of Europe, towards the Caspian
basin,
central Asia, region of the Middle East, towards the sources of energy,
strategic raw materials and big markets.

Q: Then, you are saying that foreign interference has led to that. But
if
you really think so why did you allow the soldiers to kill civilians? We
saw on TV that women were slaughtered, just like that.

A: Pictures have been falsified on TV. You could see pictures from
Kosovo
and Metohija from the winter while it was spring. Many pictures were not
from Kosovo at all, and cars or vehicles were from other countries. This
is
simply technology they use to prepare and justify the aggression.

Q: But we saw Albanians talking about their relatives, fathers, mothers,
or
daughters and it was confirmed by independent journalists, as seen on
TV.

A: Those pictures appeared after the aggression of NATO and what
happened
happened only after 24 March 1999. There have been no refugees in
Macedonia, Albania or any other country before the aggression but only
after the aggression. Can you blame the people running from NATO bombs,
cruise missiles, cluster bombs, bombs with depleted uranium. Even the
western media now admit that they have been manipulated, and even
subjected
to censorship.

Q: Are you saying that the Albanians ran to Macedonia because they were
afraid of NATO?

A: They were running because and after NATO bombing because Pristina was
a
centre of bombings. Bombs were falling all over Pristina and other towns
in
Kosovo and Metohija. How can you expect the people to stay in towns and
villages with NATO bombs falling and hundreds of civilians getting
killed?

Q: What about massacres that happened before?

A: Which massacres? Where did you get these information?

Q: From agencies.

A: What agencies, whose agencies? News agencies, intelligence, NATO.
There
are a lot of agencies, you will agree. There were no massacres at all in
Kosovo and Metohija. There were provocations by a terrorist organization
calling themselves Kosovo Liberation Army, ambushing and killing Serbian
policemen and people. Police responded in accordance with the law and
their
authority to stop the terror from being spread, to protect the law,
public
peace and order. Fighting terrorists is an obligation, and it is in the
interest of peace and stability, and life in peace of all citizens.

Q: How did they react, the police?

A: Police reacted proportionate to the situation and the danger. Serbia
tried to get rid of the terrorist organization KLA. You have to know
that
this terrorist organization was on a list of terrorist organizations in
Washington but they removed it when they considered that it can be
useful
as a tool for destabilization of the region, they proclaimed it a
liberation organization, although it was all along the same
organization.

Q: You call it terrorist, maybe the Americans used to call it terrorist
but
for Kosovars they are heroes. They are heroes, they are working for
independence, they are working for a better life of Kosovars.

A: No State in the world, including ours, can legitimize terrorist and
separatist objectives, nor should we identify their aims with ordinary
people, citizens. Even today, regardless of NATO foul play and its links
with terrorist "KLA", hundreds of thousands of people of Albanians link
their future with Serbia and Yugoslavia. They understand that terrorism
and
separatism are a disaster for Albanians, that secession is a great
deception of NATO, that they have been manipulated and that they can
have
peace and prosperity only in Serbia and Yugoslavia as equal citizens.

Q: Do you really think that you have the support of the Serbian people?

A: Who is we?

Q: Your Government and your regime, of course.

A: How do you think I became Minister, that I was imposed? You should
come
to Serbia and Yugoslavia and hear what the people have to say, their
opinion on the Government defence, reconstruction, reforms. You should
not
be relying too much on the CNN and the like, they are a part of NATO war
propaganda!

Q: It is not just listening to the news. I saw thousands of people
gathering, saying no to Milosevic, no this Government, they said they
wanted early elections. Why don't you go?

A: We shall have regular elections this year. Why do you think we should
have them couple of months in advance? Who would want that?

Q: Why not? If people like you and people want you. Then you would be
able
to say to the opposition, OK we did it and we came back because people
wanted it.

A: This is what will happen at regular elections. We have no reason to
please minority. We have to care about majority. That is why we were
elected. Majority is with the Government, with the leadership of
President
Milosevic. This is a reality and you can see that for yourself. You
mentioned demonstrations. If they gather and express their views that is
O.K. What about millions who feel differently?

Q: You are saying that they are paid from the outside, that the tell
them
to say that they want a better life.

A: Search on INTERNET you will find that the USA allocates 25 million
dollars for opposition in Belgrade. If Americans are publicly saying
that
they are paying, those who are receiving they are paid, are they not?
And,
do you know how the Western countries react if somebody interferes in
their
elections by payments from outside? They say it is a gross violation of
democratic principles. But how do they dare to pay political parties in
my
country? Everybody knows that they are doing it for their own benefit,
not
for the benefit of Serbia.

Q: Let us talk about the opposition. The opposition in your country
complained bitterly about the censorship and sometimes even harsh
measures
against journalists. What would make your Government more lenient
towards
this opposition?

A: Media in Serbia, in Belgrade, are the most developed in south-eastern
Europe, in terms of quality, in terms of number, circulation and so on.
We
in Serbia have more than 650 radio and TV channels and stations. We also
have more than 3,000 dailies, weeklies and publications. For example, we
have some 15 TV channels.

Q: It is not the number that counts, what about the freedom of speech
and
freedom to act and to move?

A: Listen, 12 TV channels in Belgrade are private, opposition,
independent
and they are responsible only to those who are paying them, as private
owners. There is no censorship. There is no discrimination or dismissals
speaking of the freedom of the press. If you were referring to
transferring
ownership from one TV to the State, the reason is that they were calling
for the uprising in Serbia, liquidation of leadership and so on. Is
there a
responsible Government that considers such activity as a democratic
method
or would tolerate that.

Q: But some observers went as far as accusing your Government of some
complicity in assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic? Why did they
accuse
you of that?

A: Those observers, where do they come from? This question should be
posed
to them, on what basis do they level charges? It is easy to publish
false
information. It is more difficult to, but the only right thing to do to
stick to the facts and rely on analyses not on observers.

Q: Is there anything new concerning assassinations in Yugoslavia?

A: Those were terrorist acts as you know, one of our Ministers was
killed
and a representative from one of the Serb Provinces while he was
attending
an international fair. These were terrorist acts aimed at destabilizing
the
country from the inside.
You should know that the last year's aggression of NATO on
Yugoslavia contributed only to the strengthening of solidarity and
strength
of the people of in defence of its freedom. The aggressors know that
they
did not succeed, so they are continuing by other methods to destabilize
Yugoslavia, seeking to portray Yugoslavia as a problematic country. But
they cannot succeed because the truth is increasingly prevailing.

Q: Let us go back to the accusations against you. Don't you think that
those accusations cast a shadow of distrust against your government?

A: I know that the aim of certain foreign factors is to provoke distrust
against our Government, but I know that the trust in the Government is
strengthened. The Government is reconstructing what NATO had destroyed
and
is building even better. In a short period, it repaired electricity,
roads,
highways, bridges, railways, hospitals, kindergartens. People in
Yugoslavia
and all over the world know that we are not weak, that we are stronger
now.

Q: But you have many economic problems, don't you?

A: What country does not have economic problems? Our problems come from
sanctions which are illegal, totally inhuman. It is inadmissible that
children and people suffer because someone in the world does not like
their
regime. We lost 150 billion dollars. Consequences of NATO aggression
left
Yugoslavia with losses of 100 billion dollars. Sanctions and aggression
in
the amount of 250 billion dollars for a nation of the size and capacity
of
Yugoslavia is too much. Despite of all this, you talk about economic
problems of Yugoslavia. We have 1 million refugees in Yugoslavia now. In
addition, we have no access to the World Bank and IMF.

Q: But thanks to the policy of Milosevic, you have no foreign donor, you
have been denied international financial assistance, because of your
policy.

A: It is true that we conduct an independent policy. It is true that it
does not suit the forces that seek domination. Despite that, Yugoslavia
is
a free and independent country. Yugoslavia has not given in to NATO
despite
enormous force employed to destroy a sovereign country. Our current
problems are not due to a wrong policy but to the NATO aggression and
sanctions.
Despite that, Yugoslavia is economically a leading country in
the
region. In the last five years, we have had an average of 5-6 per cent
of
GNP rise compared to all our neighbours which have only 1.7 per cent.
And
they did not have refugees, sanctions and embargo and other
limitations. This can be done only by the people and the Government
which
are united.

Q: You talked a lot of sanctions. Don't you think that handing over
Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic and cooperation with Montenegro, The Hague
Tribunal might enhance your respect and reputation and will help ease
the
sanctions.

A: We are not ready to deceive our people and State to be patted on the
shoulder. We do not care much compliments from others, especially we
don't
need compliments from aggressors, from NATO countries. As for Karadzic,
he
is not a citizen of Yugoslavia and he is not in Yugoslavia. Let us not
forget that The Hague Tribunal is an extended arm of NATO, and creation
of
NATO, serving its interests and not the interests of justice. The
Amnesty
International in its last report stated that NATO committed war crimes
against humanity against peace in Yugoslavia, particularly by bombing
RTS
television in Belgrade, killing 16 of its employees. Is International
Tribunal to be trusted when in the case of certain personalities it
justified killing journalists, destroying bridges, destroying
international
train in and they say it is legitimate military objective.

Q: But isn't Slobodan Milosevic an instigator or maybe rather
protagonist
in this whole Balkan conflict from the first, and his campaign in
1990ies
it was along purely ethnic lines?

A: Yugoslavia, that is previous Yugoslavia was destroyed because it
represented an obstacle to hegemonism and an obstacle to domination.
This
is the essence. And those who were destroying Yugoslavia were playing on
separatism to disintegrate it into small states and peoples in order to
rule over them. Slobodan Milosevic has always been an advocate of the
Yugoslav federation. He had nothing to do that Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Macedonia decided to go it alone and resort to force. We have
normalized relations with Macedonia, Croatia we are to normalize
relations
with Bosnia and Slovenia. We are an open country. But, attributing to
the
victim responsibility for destruction, responsibility for civil wars in
Bosnia and Croatia, etc, is aimed at diverting the attention from those
who
are responsible. They need a scape goat and they need to divert
attention
from those who are really responsible. They want a scape goat to divert
attention from themselves and from their own people. We filed charges
with
the International Court of Justice in the Hague, we accused them of
crimes
against peace and humanity, for genocide against Yugoslavia and we asked
for compensation. Many peoples from all European countries are accusing
NATO and leaders leading the aggressive the war against. That wave of
protest and clear condemnation is growing.

Q: In the end, Mr. Jovanovic, what is the scenario regarding the future
of
Kosovo, Yugoslavia and Montenegro and the Balkans in general?

A: I see the solution, peace and stability and progress in that part of
Europe under by respecting Yugoslavia as an equal partner and as a key
factor of peace, stability and development in the region. Second, to
abolish and remove all sanctions and measures of isolation which are
illegal from the point of view of international law. The third, to
immediately resume Yugoslavia's full legitimate role in European and
international organizations and institutions, including the United
Nations
and Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. The fourth, to solve Kosovo and
Metohija respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and
Yugoslavia, and that the Serb province be granted autonomy within
Serbia,
based on equality of all national communities and all citizens living
there. The doors to cooperation in the Balkans should be fully opened.
The
Balkan states have a prosperous future only if they are integrated at
the
regional level. In that respect, Yugoslavia is of importance in
promoting
economic, cultural, information, scientific integration and development.
Yugoslavia considers that the future of countries of the size and
history
as is the case is in trans-border links, mutual respect and integration.
On
this basis, the whole of the Balkans would secure modern economic and
technological development and integration with other developed European
countries.


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