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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:58:36 EDT
From: klasber@...
Who is Vojislav Kostunica?
Kostunica is a political personality who not until the presidential
election campaign was introduced by the Western media and who, according to
the reports, previously had played only a subordinate
role in Serbia and Yugoslavia. He is the chairman of a "Democratic Party of
Serbia". For a short time now he has been the presidential candidate of the
"Democratic Opposition of Serbia", a coalition of
several parties in which apparently Zoran Djindic calls the shots, acting
as Kostunicas campaign manager.This union actually already tells essentials
about Kostunica, because among the "opposition" politicians who since long
have been built up by the West, Djindic is the one who during the NATO
terror bombings went so far as to demand to give up the independence of the
country and to have it formally incorporated into the realm dominated by
the aggressors. Since then, of course, he cannot dare any longer to run for
a public office in Serbia, and it seems reasonable to suspect that
Kostunica is serving as a fig leaf for Djindic's direction, for enabling it
to anyway take part in the election campaign and for pushing the West's
objectives nearer to their fulfillment in spite of all of this.
In fact all the signs are that Kostunica is acting as the still relatively
guiltless and unsuspected one who helps Djindic come to power - a Trojan
horse of the US- and NATO-dependent opposition.
Kostunica appears as someone who objects NATO, who condemns the aggression
against his country and the separation of Kosovo, and who also drops
critical remarks about the US' interference into Yugoslavia's domestic
affairs.
It is worthwhile, however, to have a closer look at Kostunica's statements
What, for example, should one think about the following explanations in a
speech by Kostunica of April 14, 2000:
(http://www.bbnet.org.yu/bdnet/elections/eng/0414kostunica.htm)
1. "There is one more thing Serbia desperately needs today -
national reconciliation. First of all, the living Serbs are to
bury the hatchet and allow the dead to make up and bring about
that historic reconciliation. The first step to reconciliation
is to abolish the existing division into patriots and traitors.
After all, the present-day rulers of Serbia, who decreed
themselves patriots, have demonstrated their patriotism to all
but the Serbs. They have built other people� s countries and
demolished their own. They did many a good turn, but caused
their own people to grieve. Slobodan Milosevic has committed a
mortal sin against his own people and his own state.
Accordingly, he has to leave."
Here Kostunica accuses Milosevic who so far has been trying, within the
bounds of his possibilities, to defend Serbia's and Yugoslavia's
independence, of being a non-patriot, whereas he wants figures like Djindic
who definitely represent nothing but serfdom towards the West, to be freed
of the treason accusation.
In the same speech Kostunica continues:
2. "It is my duty to say one more thing. There is another sort
of violence that befell our misfortunate people - external
violence spearheaded by power-wielders in Washington and
Brussels. The forms of the external violence are the long-
standing sanctions, last year� s bombs and support to Albanian
terrorists in Kosovo. Whatever the source, violence is always
violence, despite occasional attempts at presenting it as
humane. It is hard to believe that people are killed, exhausted
and starved by sanctions, and that their environment poisoned
for their own benefit. First and foremost, we have to trample
the domestic violence underfoot. In order to survive as a
people, we have to normalise our relations with the world, but
we must neither disregard nor forget the foreign violence
conceived by the United States and NATO. More importantly, we
must never elevate it in our esteem or present it as anything
else but violence. Otherwise we will forget who and what we
are."
These sentences deserve a more detailed commentary.
Here "the external violence" is criticized, and a critical attitude is at
first taken towards NATO, towards the US and the EU. If however this is at
the same time subordinated to a maxim like "whatever the source - violence
is always violence", this criticism immediately evaporates into cheap talk.
For it is by no means unimportant from which sources violence originates
and which objectives it serves. Violence motivated by neocolonialism, as
exerted by NATO's latest war, by the economic sanctions and the
starvation strategy against the Serbian people, has to be objected and
fought against exactly because of its political goals, whereas military
violence for repelling this aggression is necessary and
must be supported. More generally, the resistance against these objectives
of the West cannot be denied the right to apply force if necessary.
Even more clearly Kostunica speaks in the following when he goes so far as
to declare the "domestic violence" to be the main enemy. This means in
other words: we regret to be the victims of violent
acts by the NATO countries, but it is not our main task to do away with
that but instead with the domestic violence. Having the situation in mind
one has to understand by this "domestic violence"
repressive acts by the Milosevic government, and in the first place such
against the so-called opposition of the Djindic and Draskovic type.
Kostunica here apparently chooses expressions by which the most miserable
forces can be vindicated. He avoids the concrete articulation of just
demands from the people against the bureaucratic apparatus, although he
likes to allude vaguely to the struggle against corruption, but on the
other hand he puts possible justified measures by the government against
treason, or corresponding acts by the people, on the same level as the
suppression of democracy.
Here Kostunica's adaptation to the West's strategy becomes already very clear.
Now a passage from an interview with the magazine
Vreme:(www.freespeech.org/ex-yupress/vreme/vreme79.html)
3."I also believed that we have to distance ourselves from
declarative, conterproductive support coming from the present,
departing, American administration which has proved to be
absolutely useless for the opposition and democratic forces in
Serbia. And that support can cause a lot of harm in the
election campaign. It is common knowledge how they can help the
population in Serbia. It seems that some European states are
far more aware of that, and they have over some small but
important projects, such as energy for democracy, established
some cooperation and assistance and led to a quiet and gradual
abolishment of sanctions."
To publicly play the distance from the US is absolutely necessary for
somebody who wants to act as an opponent of the Milosevic government - this
Kostunica is admitting here. If the connection with the US is all too
clear, if somebody like Djindic appears in Ms. Albright's office for
receiving her orders, if the US from their part are too openly sponsoring,
financing and media-supporting this "opposition", this cannot be but
"counterproductive", therefore its image has to be changed. The substance
of NATO's policy however is what this Kostunica identifies himself with.
The program "energy for democracy" is
nothing but a part, an element of the war and its continuation by different
means. After the bombs had destroyed power plants, refineries and transport
routes and an import blockade had been erected, NATO offered delivery of
oil and food to those regional rulers in Yugoslavia who would associate
themselves with NATO against Milosevic It is a prime example of the
"democracy" of Western capitalism which even after decades will be able to
claim a prominent place in the list of its self-exposures: 'you dance to
our tune and acknowledge the government we selected for you, or
else we look after your dying a wretched death.'
One more clear example for Kostunica's bootlicking of this kind of
"democracy" (from the same interview):
4. "VREME: In first news about your presidential campaign,
foreign news agencies mostly described you as a 'moderate
nationalist, inclined to democratic changes', and 'a fierce
critic of the American administration'.
Would you add anything to or take away from this news agency
portrait of Vojislav Kostunica?
KOSTUNICA: I would add a few things. Above all, there is a
radical dedication to the struggle against corruption,
regardless of its source. That has characterized my political
struggle so far. As far as the fierce criticism of the current
American administration is concerned, it does not at all imply
an anti-western attitude. On the contrary. That criticism is in
a way balanced with a different attitude with respect to
Europe. That criticism is pro-western rather than anti-western.
In as much as it advocates the return of the West to its
original democratic and liberal values."
The European governments which represent this dog's muck of an "energy and
food for democracy" program, are for Kostunica relatively close to the
"original democratic and liberal values" of the West. Enjoy your meal!
Apart from the toadying, Kostunica's analysis completely misses the heart
of the matter. In fact, the EU countries made war against Yugoslavia
shoulder to shoulder with the US, and exactly they in fact are the ones
which continue to exert massive pressure against Serbia and Yugoslavia by
their extortionist policy. Basically they are only subordinates of the US.
Concerning this one more statement by Kostunica. In a "Statement by
Democratic Oppostion of Serbia (DOS) Presidential Candidate
Vojislav Kostunica 18.9.2000" he says:
5. "In what they called a message to the Serbian people, EU
foreign ministers unequivocally pledged to lift the sanctions
against Yugoslavia if the September 24 election results led to
a democratic change, thus furnishing compelling evidence that
Europe� s policy towards Yugoslavia has changed for the better.
Of course, it would have been much more useful for Serbia� s
democracy hadn� t the ministers made the lifting of
international sanctions conditional, but this gesture of
goodwill will no doubt mean a lot to the Serbs, particularly
given the fact that we have already fulfilled their sole
condition - readiness for democracy. This is also yet another
opportunity to pay full respect to France� s diplomacy and
Hubert Vedrine, a man at its helm."
The shameless extortion from the part of the EU which ties the abolition of
the embargo to the installation of a government according to the wishes of
the US and the EU, for him really is "a
change for the better", "a gesture of goodwill".
We don't to withhold from the Serbian people what a special sort of friend
Mr. Kostunica chose for it in the person of Hubert Vedrine, the French
foreign minister. In an interview with the US paper "International Herald
Tribune" of April 20, 1999, Vedrine came to the fore:
(Q.) "The air strikes seem to put the Serbian population
strongly in tune with their leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Is a
harsher Western military blow needed to bring home to people
the consequences of what they've done, perhaps shock them to
their senses after living in denial about the outside world
for several years?
(Answer Vedrine:)
"For 10 years, in fact, ever since Mr. Milosevic seized on the
Kosovo issue to propagate the backward-looking nationalistic
delusions that have done so much harm to the country he runs.
Someday the people of Serbia will have a place in Europe, but
right now they have developed a mood of paranoia - which
existed before the air strikes but has worsened.
After a decade in which Serbian leaders have misled their
people so badly, Western governments can't operate in terms of
collective guilt, we can't make war on a people. We did not
intervene to change the regime in Serbia; we intervened
because the Kosovo situation was intolerable. Now we have to
work for solutions, not think about punishment. It's going to
take the Serbs a long time to recover and we're somehow going
to have to manage for them - until they are again ready to
take responsibility for themselves."
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wg / Editorial staff of Neue Einheit Oct.2, 2000
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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:58:45 EDT
From: klasber@...
THE YUGOSLAVIAN ELECTIONS AND THE WEST
The 1999 war against Yugoslavia, if you look at how the West behaved, how
self-righteously an aggression and a terror bombing against a country were
justified, and afterwards the making up the minds for somebody else and the
threatening were sold as "democratic policy", is truly singular in history.
Such a bold and unconcealed posture was second not even to the most
arrogant gestures of a Hitler. The late Breshnew's theories about limited
sovereignty are just peanuts as compared with how the West of today treats
the whole world and presumes to determine election outcomes in several
countries in advance. It has already become a standard formula if Ms.
Albright, US secretary of state, declares towards the leader of a country
that there "will be trouble" if the election doesn't produce the result
that suits the US. Interference like that would have lead to outcries in
the past; every other country would have been utterly condemned.
All of that is being outdone by what is presently done with Yugoslavia
The present government has without doubt its weaknesses and provides
targets. But indubitably it has kept up the banner of Serbian independence
since 1995 and attempts to assert itself also against the great powers. In
a time when almost all statesmen, especially in Europe, excel by incredible
toadyism and bootlicking in front of US imperialism, this must be regarded
as something exceptional and valuable.
Already before the elections there were warnings that all results which
would not lead to Kostunica's absolute majority would be regarded as
falsifications. And when the counting still was on, the Western media and
statesmen for their part without further ado declared Kostunica the winner,
although besides their own projections no figures were available yet, and
even Kostunica's followers had not yet given figures. There are no
considerable figures yet but Gerhard Schroeder already announces that an
election victory by the so-called opposition is crystallizing itself
clearer and clearer. Where does the chancellor Schroeder know this from?
Still some weeks ago even the men behind this so-called opposition in the
Foreign Office in Washington or in Josef Fischer's office or elsewhere were
very sceptical about the fragmented movement and doubted if it really would
be able to gain ground in the elections.
Several times already there were attempts from the West to build an
opposition in Serbia, in 1997 and later on again, and always this was a
failure. During the war in 1999 probably 95% of the Serbian people backed
the government and condemned NATO's terror attacks.
The main figures of this so-called opposition like Zoran Djinjic are
infamous and discredited in Serbia. Because of their despicable behavior
and their direct partisanship for those who threw bombs on Yugoslavia they
had lost almost any credibility. The discreditation is also valid for the
highly dubious figure of Vuk Draskovic who on the one hand makes deals with
the West, too, and on the other represents an extreme Serbian chauvinism,
in particular also during the time when the Serbian name by the acts of
Serbian chauvinists in Bosnia but also in some other areas of conflict was
deeply connected to wrongdoing - what is to be the pretext in 1999 and 2000.
It is very significant in this context that one of the figures who bear a
good deal of responsibility for certain Serbian forces' latest inglorious
tradition, Seselj - a radical rightist and in the war until 1995
intermediary of the Bosnian Serbs - stabs Milosevic into the back in the
present situation and is working into the hands of the so-called
opposition. And this is actually cherished by the West. Also the infamous
butcher Arkan who not long ago lost his life by an attack, had connections
into the US. And didn't their and German government's most compliant tool
in Serbia, their "model democrat" Djinjic,
demonstratively travel to Pale still in 1995, when the official Serbia
already had more and more distanced herself from Karadzic, and showed
solidarity with Karadzic who is known to bear the responsibility for
innumerable war crimes from the part of certain Bosnian Serbs? Which
standards are employed here? And the same people claim the moral right for
themselves to pass judgement over Serbia, to cover her with terror
bombings, and in face of the present elections they even pretend to
represent the interests of the Serbian people!
Kostunicas nomination as presidential candidate is the attempt to seemingly
show a way out for Serbia with a new figure, in order to actually open the
portal for those who want to get Serbia completely in their clutches; it is
a trick in order to complete the dictate over Serbia by these forces from
the US in coalition with other capitalists in Europe.
Who is that Vojislav Kostunica who bestowed to this so-called opposition at
least a relative success in the elections?
>From all what has become known Kostunica is a relatively unknown quantity,
having so far kept himself more in the background. He is not stigmatized by
open partisanship with NATO as it is the case with Djinjic. He appears as a
patriot, recognizes Kosovo as part of Serbia and has condemned the bombings
by the US and the NATO. There are however several recent interviews in
which he unmasks himself as a fundamental admirer of the US and the EU,
criticizing the US only because of his all too open support for the
so-called opposition which would discredit it completely in front of the
Serbian people. He even goes so far to support the EU 's extortionist
policy to lift the embargo only for
cities which are run by the so-called opposition, and to supply oil and
food to them. [See also "Who is Vojislav Kostunica" at
<http://www.neue-einheit.com/is/is2000-23e.htm> ]
It cannot be called just interference what the West is doing regarding the
elections in Yugoslavia. This would be a gross understatement. From the
outset it is dominated by extortion. Already in July 1999, after the war
was in the main over, Clinton declared that there would be economic aid for
the country destroyed by NATO bombs only if Milosevic would disappear. (See
note) It is impossible to conceive of a more direct interference. And the
same people who talk like this are now posturing
and declare their resolve to look after correctness in the elections.
If the elections were rigged we cannot decide from here. If the
administration or parts of it should have committed something like this it
certainly must be investigated in detail, evaluated and lead to the
corresponding consequences. But also this has to be regarded in relationto
the general situation. One thing however is for certain: to flatten the
economic fundaments of life with bombs, openly declaring that this is for
creating need and hunger, in order to force the people to accept the
government chosen by the West so that they can get oil and food, is the
harshest variant of vote rigging which can be imagined.
Whatever the present government may be reproached of in detail: there is no
right whatsoever for the West, for these terror bombers, these rogue
politicians to raise such moral accusations. Their whole cause is extortion
and interference from the beginning to the end. Serbia would even have the
right to put every politician who sides with the West, and this is also in
fact the case with Kostunica, on the ground of illegality in Serbia,
because a country has the right to act against traitors.
Those who bombed and extorted Serbia now put forward the kind of logic that
Belgrade has to acknowledge "the Serbian people's will" - and they have the
nerve to define that will - in order to prevent "an escalation of violence".
We hope that the Serbian people will prick up their ears here, and that as
much of this extortion as possible is also publicly clarified and denounced.
But even if now those should come to power who make deals with these
criminals and blackmailers and are in cahoots with them, there will be no
democracy at all in Serbia, notwithstanding the election mechanisms which
might be installed. Then the unconcealed and brutal dictatorship of
international capitalism in Yugoslavia will be the consequence, so that any
movement of national independence and autonomy - and this is the
precondition for democracy in Serbia and Yugoslavia - will be impossible
from the start.
We still want to say some words about the hopes which, as it seems from
here, are stirred by the so-called opposition's propaganda. The Yugoslavian
people are promised opening and modernizing of the society, participation
in the international progressive developments, probably also better and
more interesting job opportunities etc. We see such wishes justified,
actually much new has to happen in this respect, not only in Serbia and
Yugoslavia. But to tie such hopes to a change of government towards the
opposition built up by the West must be questioned. Russia also was
promised the opening by the West, what became reality under the government
of the forces supported and
controlled by the West is such a disaster that many millions of Russians,
up to 40 or 50 millions, have left the country.
In particular the integration into the EU as promised by people like
Kostunica will be translated into reality only under the condition that
Serbia makes the total inner kowtow in front of the Western political order
of today, going as far as to self-denial. The European countries' inner
development not only shows positive signals. A doubtful extinction of great
parts of the production basis, the discarding of parts of the own
population, and the extinction of own identity are leading to considerable
social problems which already begin to show and which will show with all of
their consequences in the future.
As a negative example you can take Germany with a development of the own
nation's population towards self-eradication, with its destruction of the
will for independence and for future going to a dangerous limit, a
development which took place in particular during the last 25 years. A lot
is being just a fa�ade here and actually the EU itself is in a deep state
of crisis.
Because of all of these points named here we are not at all able to
sympathize with the so-called opposition which actually is easily
boughtfrom top to bottom, or even hedge the slightest wish that it be
victorious. Very certainly there are social conflicts and problems in
Serbia which must be solved. These however the Serbian and Yugoslavian
people have to settle within their own framework, without any foreign
interference. Here, though, forces are active who work for the complete
occupation of
Serbia by the NATO, the US, France, Great Britain and the Federal Republic
of Germany, and who in order to divert from this fact chose somebody who
speaks of nation, of national independence etc. but who shall only serve
for bringing these forces, with Zoran Djinjic in the first place, to power.
We can afford a prognosis: even if these forces should be successful - the
US and the other NATO countries do not have a solution. How do they intend
to solve the Kosovo question according to their wishes if their allies of
yesterday, the Albanians, urge the total separation? The new government
will have to save face. For that, civil war-like occurrences might be the
consequence in Kosovo. The contradictions which today exist in Serbia won't
be solved by the West by means of this kind of lackeys. Many of their
promises will vanish into thin air. Capitalism does not make such attempts
to corrupt without reason.
If the forces who stand for Serbia's national independence really want to
grasp a chance yet, then they will have to attack the miserable essence of
this so-called opposition to the full extent, and in the future they
certainly will have to fight decidedly against privileges, mismanagement,
corruption and other things within the bureaucratic state apparatus. This
will be a precondition. A renewal of the state is needed but how and under
which preconditions it will take place, this will be the decisive factor.
We want to express the hope that the Serbian people will resist the
infiltrative methods as it resisted the war and the military threatening.
The whole of Europa is required to lift the sanctions against Yugoslavia
immediately!
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Note:
In this year's June, concrete sums for the "post-Milosevic Serbia" were
named by the US and the EU to the participating members of the so-
called opposition, at a meeting of the so-called "Balkans stability pact":
$ 4 billions.
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4.10.2000
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From: Warren Smith
To: marxist-leninist-list@...
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: [MLL]Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding
Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding
While the western mass media is whipping up a tremendous campaign
against Yugoslavia's President Milosevic, the same media has absolutely
nothing to say about the election results for the upper and lower houses of
Yugoslavia's parliament. Yugoslavia has a parliamentary system with two
national leaders. First there is a ceremonial President with no real power.
Second there is a Prime Minister chosen by Parliament.
The real question in the Yugoslav election was always whether the
opposition could muster the votes to gain a parliamentary majority.
As a result of last week's election there is no chance that they can
govern, not even as part of a coalition.
For the first time, Milosevic's Socialist Party and its allies have won an
absolute majority of seats in both the upper and lower houses of
Parliament.
The results of the Presidential vote are being subjected to much (ill-
informed) debate. But nobody contests the parliamentary results.
In Yugoslavia, prior to this latest election, the Government had only 64
seats out of 138 in the lower house. Now they have added eight in the Lower
House to gain a three-vote majority: 72 out of 138 seats.
Up until now the Government had to forge a coalition with one of the minor
parties if it wanted to pass a law. With its new majority in the Lower
House, the Government no longer has to rely on a shaky coalition to pass
much-needed legislation.
The Government scored a bigger victory in the Yugoslav Senate race, the
upper house. They won seven out of 20 senate seats in Serbia and 19 of 20
senate seats in Montenegro. The Opposition won just 10 of 40 senate seats.
The Government is just short of a 2/3 majority.
Milosevic's governing party won a tremendous victory by gaining a majority
in both the upper and lower houses of Parliament.
It is this result that the western powers are out to undo at any cost, even
to the point of attempting to spark a civil war or by cooking up a
provocation to justify an invasion of Yugoslavia.
They are creating an extremely dangerous situation. But first of all, the
West must hoodwink the people into believing that Milosevic lost the
election and has fraudulently rigged the results.
The parliamentary election results explain why the opposition forces are
desperately against any run-off for the Presidency and why the West is
attempting to railroad their chosen representative into the President's
shoes.
* * *
Acknowledgement to Max Sinclair writing for Emperor's Clothes
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/sinclair/governin.htm
for some of the material in this article.
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Subject:
We do not celebrate
Date:
Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:20:57 +0200
From:
"ILC" <ilc@...>
To:
<ilc@...>
Clinton and his European satraps are celebrating because they think that
with Milosevic leaving the scene they have taken Belgrade and thus paved the
way for their rule over the Balkans.
They are wrong! It is not enough to oust Milosevic in order to take
Belgrade. Therefore the surrender of the Serb people, the destruction of the
federal army, the smashing of the state apparatus as well as their
substitution with servants of Western interests would be necessary.
Therefore that what happened is definitely not enough. It necessitates that
Nato finds a kind of KLA in Yugoslavia, a people that is ready to be
enslaved.
The latest events only close a phase of the Balkanic turbulences. But they
do not bring the turbulences as such to an end. Those are defined by the
imperialist politics that by trying to destroy all obstacles for its
supremacy are doomed to create new and ever more destructive crisis.
The analysis must be carried out from two different points of view, the
geopolitical and the class viewpoint. Even if they are interlinked it is
useful to regard them separately.
Geopolitically speaking we doubt that Yugoslavia under Serb hegemony could
ever become a protectorate of Nato as the other �republics� of the Balkans.
History teaches that this is highly unlikely. Even Kostunica had to
demarcate himself from the tutelage offered to him by Nato in order to win
the consensus of the masses.
The regime of Milosevic refused the capitulation of Yugoslavia to Nato.
Therefore, and only therefore, the serious anti-imperialist and
revolutionary forces throughout the world did support him. Actually they
never endorsed his domestic politics that � although never becoming
neo-liberal � did neither follow socialist principles nor strived for the
active defence of the interests of the working class and the poorest strata
of the population.
This is the reason for the collapse of the regime facing the waves of the
mass movement led by Kostunica. If the regime is not able to defend the
parliament and the TV station being set on fire by the revolt that means
nothing else than that it has lost the social consensus it used to have.
Already since a certain time this rule has rested on sand and was secured
mainly by the monopoly of force.
The conception that the attack of imperialism, the starvation caused by it,
the sanctions and the embargo could by put down solely by resorting to
nationalist and anti-Western sentiments has been proved to be a catastrophic
illusion.
In order to destroy the magic it was enough that Kostunica by his turn
raised the patriotic banner. Nationalism is an important factor, but not the
decisive one. Such as all feelings it vanishes facing the daily struggle for
bread. In order to secure the social consensus resolute politics for social
justice and intransigent defence of the interests and rights of the workers
and peasants would have been indispensable. Contrary to that Milosevic had
been accepting privatisations and had been demanding unprecedented
sacrifices from the workers, while at the same time he let the mafia
bourgeoisie enrich itself at the black market. While the people had been
starving and had to send its sons to Kosovo to defend the country, the
nomenclature increased corruption and hold its protecting hands over its
sons in order to save them from serving in arms.
>From this point of view we warn the youth that seems to have delivered the
final blow to the SPS JUL regime that the Serb people could fall out of the
frying-pan into the fire. Even if we would assume that Kostunica is the
brave and proper man as which he likes it to present himself we will not be
able to block the bourgeois forces that rally behind him in order to inflict
savage neo-liberal capitalism on the people. They hope for lucrative
business with the reconstruction and thirst for the money being promised by
the West with nice words. If the workers and the Serb people is not vigilant
the �Red mafia� will be substituted by a even more unscrupulous �democratic
Camorra�.
We therefore refuse to participate at the hypocritical chorus of those who
celebrate an alleged �democratic revolution�. There never have been
communists who celebrate political events together with their worst enemies.
We still remember certain �anti-capitalists� who welcomed the collapse of
the USSR between 1989 and 1991 whose result was the creation of several
statelets that serve the Western interests. They claimed that we were facing
revolutions because some movements rallied masses behind them. But the
decisive criteria to evaluate events is not mainly that the masses get into
movement, but in what direction they move. The direction is determined by
the international relationship of forces as well as by the political groups
that take the leadership.
Finally we want to re-iterate that our tenacious support for the resistance
of the Yugoslav people and the Yugoslav army against the Nato aggression was
not erroneous. Certain seeds only carry fruits after a long period. The
current flood, the �democratic� drunkenness will neither eradicate the deep
socialist tradition among the Serb people nor the traces of the tremendous
anti-imperialist solidarity delivered to it mainly in the last year.
The Serb proletarians and among them the genuine communists will need our
help and fraternity.
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Who is Vojislav Kostunica?
Kostunica is a political personality who not until the presidential
election campaign was introduced by the Western media and who, according to
the reports, previously had played only a subordinate
role in Serbia and Yugoslavia. He is the chairman of a "Democratic Party of
Serbia". For a short time now he has been the presidential candidate of the
"Democratic Opposition of Serbia", a coalition of
several parties in which apparently Zoran Djindic calls the shots, acting
as Kostunicas campaign manager.This union actually already tells essentials
about Kostunica, because among the "opposition" politicians who since long
have been built up by the West, Djindic is the one who during the NATO
terror bombings went so far as to demand to give up the independence of the
country and to have it formally incorporated into the realm dominated by
the aggressors. Since then, of course, he cannot dare any longer to run for
a public office in Serbia, and it seems reasonable to suspect that
Kostunica is serving as a fig leaf for Djindic's direction, for enabling it
to anyway take part in the election campaign and for pushing the West's
objectives nearer to their fulfillment in spite of all of this.
In fact all the signs are that Kostunica is acting as the still relatively
guiltless and unsuspected one who helps Djindic come to power - a Trojan
horse of the US- and NATO-dependent opposition.
Kostunica appears as someone who objects NATO, who condemns the aggression
against his country and the separation of Kosovo, and who also drops
critical remarks about the US' interference into Yugoslavia's domestic
affairs.
It is worthwhile, however, to have a closer look at Kostunica's statements
What, for example, should one think about the following explanations in a
speech by Kostunica of April 14, 2000:
(http://www.bbnet.org.yu/bdnet/elections/eng/0414kostunica.htm)
1. "There is one more thing Serbia desperately needs today -
national reconciliation. First of all, the living Serbs are to
bury the hatchet and allow the dead to make up and bring about
that historic reconciliation. The first step to reconciliation
is to abolish the existing division into patriots and traitors.
After all, the present-day rulers of Serbia, who decreed
themselves patriots, have demonstrated their patriotism to all
but the Serbs. They have built other people� s countries and
demolished their own. They did many a good turn, but caused
their own people to grieve. Slobodan Milosevic has committed a
mortal sin against his own people and his own state.
Accordingly, he has to leave."
Here Kostunica accuses Milosevic who so far has been trying, within the
bounds of his possibilities, to defend Serbia's and Yugoslavia's
independence, of being a non-patriot, whereas he wants figures like Djindic
who definitely represent nothing but serfdom towards the West, to be freed
of the treason accusation.
In the same speech Kostunica continues:
2. "It is my duty to say one more thing. There is another sort
of violence that befell our misfortunate people - external
violence spearheaded by power-wielders in Washington and
Brussels. The forms of the external violence are the long-
standing sanctions, last year� s bombs and support to Albanian
terrorists in Kosovo. Whatever the source, violence is always
violence, despite occasional attempts at presenting it as
humane. It is hard to believe that people are killed, exhausted
and starved by sanctions, and that their environment poisoned
for their own benefit. First and foremost, we have to trample
the domestic violence underfoot. In order to survive as a
people, we have to normalise our relations with the world, but
we must neither disregard nor forget the foreign violence
conceived by the United States and NATO. More importantly, we
must never elevate it in our esteem or present it as anything
else but violence. Otherwise we will forget who and what we
are."
These sentences deserve a more detailed commentary.
Here "the external violence" is criticized, and a critical attitude is at
first taken towards NATO, towards the US and the EU. If however this is at
the same time subordinated to a maxim like "whatever the source - violence
is always violence", this criticism immediately evaporates into cheap talk.
For it is by no means unimportant from which sources violence originates
and which objectives it serves. Violence motivated by neocolonialism, as
exerted by NATO's latest war, by the economic sanctions and the
starvation strategy against the Serbian people, has to be objected and
fought against exactly because of its political goals, whereas military
violence for repelling this aggression is necessary and
must be supported. More generally, the resistance against these objectives
of the West cannot be denied the right to apply force if necessary.
Even more clearly Kostunica speaks in the following when he goes so far as
to declare the "domestic violence" to be the main enemy. This means in
other words: we regret to be the victims of violent
acts by the NATO countries, but it is not our main task to do away with
that but instead with the domestic violence. Having the situation in mind
one has to understand by this "domestic violence"
repressive acts by the Milosevic government, and in the first place such
against the so-called opposition of the Djindic and Draskovic type.
Kostunica here apparently chooses expressions by which the most miserable
forces can be vindicated. He avoids the concrete articulation of just
demands from the people against the bureaucratic apparatus, although he
likes to allude vaguely to the struggle against corruption, but on the
other hand he puts possible justified measures by the government against
treason, or corresponding acts by the people, on the same level as the
suppression of democracy.
Here Kostunica's adaptation to the West's strategy becomes already very clear.
Now a passage from an interview with the magazine
Vreme:(www.freespeech.org/ex-yupress/vreme/vreme79.html)
3."I also believed that we have to distance ourselves from
declarative, conterproductive support coming from the present,
departing, American administration which has proved to be
absolutely useless for the opposition and democratic forces in
Serbia. And that support can cause a lot of harm in the
election campaign. It is common knowledge how they can help the
population in Serbia. It seems that some European states are
far more aware of that, and they have over some small but
important projects, such as energy for democracy, established
some cooperation and assistance and led to a quiet and gradual
abolishment of sanctions."
To publicly play the distance from the US is absolutely necessary for
somebody who wants to act as an opponent of the Milosevic government - this
Kostunica is admitting here. If the connection with the US is all too
clear, if somebody like Djindic appears in Ms. Albright's office for
receiving her orders, if the US from their part are too openly sponsoring,
financing and media-supporting this "opposition", this cannot be but
"counterproductive", therefore its image has to be changed. The substance
of NATO's policy however is what this Kostunica identifies himself with.
The program "energy for democracy" is
nothing but a part, an element of the war and its continuation by different
means. After the bombs had destroyed power plants, refineries and transport
routes and an import blockade had been erected, NATO offered delivery of
oil and food to those regional rulers in Yugoslavia who would associate
themselves with NATO against Milosevic It is a prime example of the
"democracy" of Western capitalism which even after decades will be able to
claim a prominent place in the list of its self-exposures: 'you dance to
our tune and acknowledge the government we selected for you, or
else we look after your dying a wretched death.'
One more clear example for Kostunica's bootlicking of this kind of
"democracy" (from the same interview):
4. "VREME: In first news about your presidential campaign,
foreign news agencies mostly described you as a 'moderate
nationalist, inclined to democratic changes', and 'a fierce
critic of the American administration'.
Would you add anything to or take away from this news agency
portrait of Vojislav Kostunica?
KOSTUNICA: I would add a few things. Above all, there is a
radical dedication to the struggle against corruption,
regardless of its source. That has characterized my political
struggle so far. As far as the fierce criticism of the current
American administration is concerned, it does not at all imply
an anti-western attitude. On the contrary. That criticism is in
a way balanced with a different attitude with respect to
Europe. That criticism is pro-western rather than anti-western.
In as much as it advocates the return of the West to its
original democratic and liberal values."
The European governments which represent this dog's muck of an "energy and
food for democracy" program, are for Kostunica relatively close to the
"original democratic and liberal values" of the West. Enjoy your meal!
Apart from the toadying, Kostunica's analysis completely misses the heart
of the matter. In fact, the EU countries made war against Yugoslavia
shoulder to shoulder with the US, and exactly they in fact are the ones
which continue to exert massive pressure against Serbia and Yugoslavia by
their extortionist policy. Basically they are only subordinates of the US.
Concerning this one more statement by Kostunica. In a "Statement by
Democratic Oppostion of Serbia (DOS) Presidential Candidate
Vojislav Kostunica 18.9.2000" he says:
5. "In what they called a message to the Serbian people, EU
foreign ministers unequivocally pledged to lift the sanctions
against Yugoslavia if the September 24 election results led to
a democratic change, thus furnishing compelling evidence that
Europe� s policy towards Yugoslavia has changed for the better.
Of course, it would have been much more useful for Serbia� s
democracy hadn� t the ministers made the lifting of
international sanctions conditional, but this gesture of
goodwill will no doubt mean a lot to the Serbs, particularly
given the fact that we have already fulfilled their sole
condition - readiness for democracy. This is also yet another
opportunity to pay full respect to France� s diplomacy and
Hubert Vedrine, a man at its helm."
The shameless extortion from the part of the EU which ties the abolition of
the embargo to the installation of a government according to the wishes of
the US and the EU, for him really is "a
change for the better", "a gesture of goodwill".
We don't to withhold from the Serbian people what a special sort of friend
Mr. Kostunica chose for it in the person of Hubert Vedrine, the French
foreign minister. In an interview with the US paper "International Herald
Tribune" of April 20, 1999, Vedrine came to the fore:
(Q.) "The air strikes seem to put the Serbian population
strongly in tune with their leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Is a
harsher Western military blow needed to bring home to people
the consequences of what they've done, perhaps shock them to
their senses after living in denial about the outside world
for several years?
(Answer Vedrine:)
"For 10 years, in fact, ever since Mr. Milosevic seized on the
Kosovo issue to propagate the backward-looking nationalistic
delusions that have done so much harm to the country he runs.
Someday the people of Serbia will have a place in Europe, but
right now they have developed a mood of paranoia - which
existed before the air strikes but has worsened.
After a decade in which Serbian leaders have misled their
people so badly, Western governments can't operate in terms of
collective guilt, we can't make war on a people. We did not
intervene to change the regime in Serbia; we intervened
because the Kosovo situation was intolerable. Now we have to
work for solutions, not think about punishment. It's going to
take the Serbs a long time to recover and we're somehow going
to have to manage for them - until they are again ready to
take responsibility for themselves."
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:58:45 EDT
From: klasber@...
THE YUGOSLAVIAN ELECTIONS AND THE WEST
The 1999 war against Yugoslavia, if you look at how the West behaved, how
self-righteously an aggression and a terror bombing against a country were
justified, and afterwards the making up the minds for somebody else and the
threatening were sold as "democratic policy", is truly singular in history.
Such a bold and unconcealed posture was second not even to the most
arrogant gestures of a Hitler. The late Breshnew's theories about limited
sovereignty are just peanuts as compared with how the West of today treats
the whole world and presumes to determine election outcomes in several
countries in advance. It has already become a standard formula if Ms.
Albright, US secretary of state, declares towards the leader of a country
that there "will be trouble" if the election doesn't produce the result
that suits the US. Interference like that would have lead to outcries in
the past; every other country would have been utterly condemned.
All of that is being outdone by what is presently done with Yugoslavia
The present government has without doubt its weaknesses and provides
targets. But indubitably it has kept up the banner of Serbian independence
since 1995 and attempts to assert itself also against the great powers. In
a time when almost all statesmen, especially in Europe, excel by incredible
toadyism and bootlicking in front of US imperialism, this must be regarded
as something exceptional and valuable.
Already before the elections there were warnings that all results which
would not lead to Kostunica's absolute majority would be regarded as
falsifications. And when the counting still was on, the Western media and
statesmen for their part without further ado declared Kostunica the winner,
although besides their own projections no figures were available yet, and
even Kostunica's followers had not yet given figures. There are no
considerable figures yet but Gerhard Schroeder already announces that an
election victory by the so-called opposition is crystallizing itself
clearer and clearer. Where does the chancellor Schroeder know this from?
Still some weeks ago even the men behind this so-called opposition in the
Foreign Office in Washington or in Josef Fischer's office or elsewhere were
very sceptical about the fragmented movement and doubted if it really would
be able to gain ground in the elections.
Several times already there were attempts from the West to build an
opposition in Serbia, in 1997 and later on again, and always this was a
failure. During the war in 1999 probably 95% of the Serbian people backed
the government and condemned NATO's terror attacks.
The main figures of this so-called opposition like Zoran Djinjic are
infamous and discredited in Serbia. Because of their despicable behavior
and their direct partisanship for those who threw bombs on Yugoslavia they
had lost almost any credibility. The discreditation is also valid for the
highly dubious figure of Vuk Draskovic who on the one hand makes deals with
the West, too, and on the other represents an extreme Serbian chauvinism,
in particular also during the time when the Serbian name by the acts of
Serbian chauvinists in Bosnia but also in some other areas of conflict was
deeply connected to wrongdoing - what is to be the pretext in 1999 and 2000.
It is very significant in this context that one of the figures who bear a
good deal of responsibility for certain Serbian forces' latest inglorious
tradition, Seselj - a radical rightist and in the war until 1995
intermediary of the Bosnian Serbs - stabs Milosevic into the back in the
present situation and is working into the hands of the so-called
opposition. And this is actually cherished by the West. Also the infamous
butcher Arkan who not long ago lost his life by an attack, had connections
into the US. And didn't their and German government's most compliant tool
in Serbia, their "model democrat" Djinjic,
demonstratively travel to Pale still in 1995, when the official Serbia
already had more and more distanced herself from Karadzic, and showed
solidarity with Karadzic who is known to bear the responsibility for
innumerable war crimes from the part of certain Bosnian Serbs? Which
standards are employed here? And the same people claim the moral right for
themselves to pass judgement over Serbia, to cover her with terror
bombings, and in face of the present elections they even pretend to
represent the interests of the Serbian people!
Kostunicas nomination as presidential candidate is the attempt to seemingly
show a way out for Serbia with a new figure, in order to actually open the
portal for those who want to get Serbia completely in their clutches; it is
a trick in order to complete the dictate over Serbia by these forces from
the US in coalition with other capitalists in Europe.
Who is that Vojislav Kostunica who bestowed to this so-called opposition at
least a relative success in the elections?
>From all what has become known Kostunica is a relatively unknown quantity,
having so far kept himself more in the background. He is not stigmatized by
open partisanship with NATO as it is the case with Djinjic. He appears as a
patriot, recognizes Kosovo as part of Serbia and has condemned the bombings
by the US and the NATO. There are however several recent interviews in
which he unmasks himself as a fundamental admirer of the US and the EU,
criticizing the US only because of his all too open support for the
so-called opposition which would discredit it completely in front of the
Serbian people. He even goes so far to support the EU 's extortionist
policy to lift the embargo only for
cities which are run by the so-called opposition, and to supply oil and
food to them. [See also "Who is Vojislav Kostunica" at
<http://www.neue-einheit.com/is/is2000-23e.htm> ]
It cannot be called just interference what the West is doing regarding the
elections in Yugoslavia. This would be a gross understatement. From the
outset it is dominated by extortion. Already in July 1999, after the war
was in the main over, Clinton declared that there would be economic aid for
the country destroyed by NATO bombs only if Milosevic would disappear. (See
note) It is impossible to conceive of a more direct interference. And the
same people who talk like this are now posturing
and declare their resolve to look after correctness in the elections.
If the elections were rigged we cannot decide from here. If the
administration or parts of it should have committed something like this it
certainly must be investigated in detail, evaluated and lead to the
corresponding consequences. But also this has to be regarded in relationto
the general situation. One thing however is for certain: to flatten the
economic fundaments of life with bombs, openly declaring that this is for
creating need and hunger, in order to force the people to accept the
government chosen by the West so that they can get oil and food, is the
harshest variant of vote rigging which can be imagined.
Whatever the present government may be reproached of in detail: there is no
right whatsoever for the West, for these terror bombers, these rogue
politicians to raise such moral accusations. Their whole cause is extortion
and interference from the beginning to the end. Serbia would even have the
right to put every politician who sides with the West, and this is also in
fact the case with Kostunica, on the ground of illegality in Serbia,
because a country has the right to act against traitors.
Those who bombed and extorted Serbia now put forward the kind of logic that
Belgrade has to acknowledge "the Serbian people's will" - and they have the
nerve to define that will - in order to prevent "an escalation of violence".
We hope that the Serbian people will prick up their ears here, and that as
much of this extortion as possible is also publicly clarified and denounced.
But even if now those should come to power who make deals with these
criminals and blackmailers and are in cahoots with them, there will be no
democracy at all in Serbia, notwithstanding the election mechanisms which
might be installed. Then the unconcealed and brutal dictatorship of
international capitalism in Yugoslavia will be the consequence, so that any
movement of national independence and autonomy - and this is the
precondition for democracy in Serbia and Yugoslavia - will be impossible
from the start.
We still want to say some words about the hopes which, as it seems from
here, are stirred by the so-called opposition's propaganda. The Yugoslavian
people are promised opening and modernizing of the society, participation
in the international progressive developments, probably also better and
more interesting job opportunities etc. We see such wishes justified,
actually much new has to happen in this respect, not only in Serbia and
Yugoslavia. But to tie such hopes to a change of government towards the
opposition built up by the West must be questioned. Russia also was
promised the opening by the West, what became reality under the government
of the forces supported and
controlled by the West is such a disaster that many millions of Russians,
up to 40 or 50 millions, have left the country.
In particular the integration into the EU as promised by people like
Kostunica will be translated into reality only under the condition that
Serbia makes the total inner kowtow in front of the Western political order
of today, going as far as to self-denial. The European countries' inner
development not only shows positive signals. A doubtful extinction of great
parts of the production basis, the discarding of parts of the own
population, and the extinction of own identity are leading to considerable
social problems which already begin to show and which will show with all of
their consequences in the future.
As a negative example you can take Germany with a development of the own
nation's population towards self-eradication, with its destruction of the
will for independence and for future going to a dangerous limit, a
development which took place in particular during the last 25 years. A lot
is being just a fa�ade here and actually the EU itself is in a deep state
of crisis.
Because of all of these points named here we are not at all able to
sympathize with the so-called opposition which actually is easily
boughtfrom top to bottom, or even hedge the slightest wish that it be
victorious. Very certainly there are social conflicts and problems in
Serbia which must be solved. These however the Serbian and Yugoslavian
people have to settle within their own framework, without any foreign
interference. Here, though, forces are active who work for the complete
occupation of
Serbia by the NATO, the US, France, Great Britain and the Federal Republic
of Germany, and who in order to divert from this fact chose somebody who
speaks of nation, of national independence etc. but who shall only serve
for bringing these forces, with Zoran Djinjic in the first place, to power.
We can afford a prognosis: even if these forces should be successful - the
US and the other NATO countries do not have a solution. How do they intend
to solve the Kosovo question according to their wishes if their allies of
yesterday, the Albanians, urge the total separation? The new government
will have to save face. For that, civil war-like occurrences might be the
consequence in Kosovo. The contradictions which today exist in Serbia won't
be solved by the West by means of this kind of lackeys. Many of their
promises will vanish into thin air. Capitalism does not make such attempts
to corrupt without reason.
If the forces who stand for Serbia's national independence really want to
grasp a chance yet, then they will have to attack the miserable essence of
this so-called opposition to the full extent, and in the future they
certainly will have to fight decidedly against privileges, mismanagement,
corruption and other things within the bureaucratic state apparatus. This
will be a precondition. A renewal of the state is needed but how and under
which preconditions it will take place, this will be the decisive factor.
We want to express the hope that the Serbian people will resist the
infiltrative methods as it resisted the war and the military threatening.
The whole of Europa is required to lift the sanctions against Yugoslavia
immediately!
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Note:
In this year's June, concrete sums for the "post-Milosevic Serbia" were
named by the US and the EU to the participating members of the so-
called opposition, at a meeting of the so-called "Balkans stability pact":
$ 4 billions.
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From: Warren Smith
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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: [MLL]Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding
Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding
While the western mass media is whipping up a tremendous campaign
against Yugoslavia's President Milosevic, the same media has absolutely
nothing to say about the election results for the upper and lower houses of
Yugoslavia's parliament. Yugoslavia has a parliamentary system with two
national leaders. First there is a ceremonial President with no real power.
Second there is a Prime Minister chosen by Parliament.
The real question in the Yugoslav election was always whether the
opposition could muster the votes to gain a parliamentary majority.
As a result of last week's election there is no chance that they can
govern, not even as part of a coalition.
For the first time, Milosevic's Socialist Party and its allies have won an
absolute majority of seats in both the upper and lower houses of
Parliament.
The results of the Presidential vote are being subjected to much (ill-
informed) debate. But nobody contests the parliamentary results.
In Yugoslavia, prior to this latest election, the Government had only 64
seats out of 138 in the lower house. Now they have added eight in the Lower
House to gain a three-vote majority: 72 out of 138 seats.
Up until now the Government had to forge a coalition with one of the minor
parties if it wanted to pass a law. With its new majority in the Lower
House, the Government no longer has to rely on a shaky coalition to pass
much-needed legislation.
The Government scored a bigger victory in the Yugoslav Senate race, the
upper house. They won seven out of 20 senate seats in Serbia and 19 of 20
senate seats in Montenegro. The Opposition won just 10 of 40 senate seats.
The Government is just short of a 2/3 majority.
Milosevic's governing party won a tremendous victory by gaining a majority
in both the upper and lower houses of Parliament.
It is this result that the western powers are out to undo at any cost, even
to the point of attempting to spark a civil war or by cooking up a
provocation to justify an invasion of Yugoslavia.
They are creating an extremely dangerous situation. But first of all, the
West must hoodwink the people into believing that Milosevic lost the
election and has fraudulently rigged the results.
The parliamentary election results explain why the opposition forces are
desperately against any run-off for the Presidency and why the West is
attempting to railroad their chosen representative into the President's
shoes.
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Acknowledgement to Max Sinclair writing for Emperor's Clothes
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/sinclair/governin.htm
for some of the material in this article.
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Subject:
We do not celebrate
Date:
Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:20:57 +0200
From:
"ILC" <ilc@...>
To:
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Clinton and his European satraps are celebrating because they think that
with Milosevic leaving the scene they have taken Belgrade and thus paved the
way for their rule over the Balkans.
They are wrong! It is not enough to oust Milosevic in order to take
Belgrade. Therefore the surrender of the Serb people, the destruction of the
federal army, the smashing of the state apparatus as well as their
substitution with servants of Western interests would be necessary.
Therefore that what happened is definitely not enough. It necessitates that
Nato finds a kind of KLA in Yugoslavia, a people that is ready to be
enslaved.
The latest events only close a phase of the Balkanic turbulences. But they
do not bring the turbulences as such to an end. Those are defined by the
imperialist politics that by trying to destroy all obstacles for its
supremacy are doomed to create new and ever more destructive crisis.
The analysis must be carried out from two different points of view, the
geopolitical and the class viewpoint. Even if they are interlinked it is
useful to regard them separately.
Geopolitically speaking we doubt that Yugoslavia under Serb hegemony could
ever become a protectorate of Nato as the other �republics� of the Balkans.
History teaches that this is highly unlikely. Even Kostunica had to
demarcate himself from the tutelage offered to him by Nato in order to win
the consensus of the masses.
The regime of Milosevic refused the capitulation of Yugoslavia to Nato.
Therefore, and only therefore, the serious anti-imperialist and
revolutionary forces throughout the world did support him. Actually they
never endorsed his domestic politics that � although never becoming
neo-liberal � did neither follow socialist principles nor strived for the
active defence of the interests of the working class and the poorest strata
of the population.
This is the reason for the collapse of the regime facing the waves of the
mass movement led by Kostunica. If the regime is not able to defend the
parliament and the TV station being set on fire by the revolt that means
nothing else than that it has lost the social consensus it used to have.
Already since a certain time this rule has rested on sand and was secured
mainly by the monopoly of force.
The conception that the attack of imperialism, the starvation caused by it,
the sanctions and the embargo could by put down solely by resorting to
nationalist and anti-Western sentiments has been proved to be a catastrophic
illusion.
In order to destroy the magic it was enough that Kostunica by his turn
raised the patriotic banner. Nationalism is an important factor, but not the
decisive one. Such as all feelings it vanishes facing the daily struggle for
bread. In order to secure the social consensus resolute politics for social
justice and intransigent defence of the interests and rights of the workers
and peasants would have been indispensable. Contrary to that Milosevic had
been accepting privatisations and had been demanding unprecedented
sacrifices from the workers, while at the same time he let the mafia
bourgeoisie enrich itself at the black market. While the people had been
starving and had to send its sons to Kosovo to defend the country, the
nomenclature increased corruption and hold its protecting hands over its
sons in order to save them from serving in arms.
>From this point of view we warn the youth that seems to have delivered the
final blow to the SPS JUL regime that the Serb people could fall out of the
frying-pan into the fire. Even if we would assume that Kostunica is the
brave and proper man as which he likes it to present himself we will not be
able to block the bourgeois forces that rally behind him in order to inflict
savage neo-liberal capitalism on the people. They hope for lucrative
business with the reconstruction and thirst for the money being promised by
the West with nice words. If the workers and the Serb people is not vigilant
the �Red mafia� will be substituted by a even more unscrupulous �democratic
Camorra�.
We therefore refuse to participate at the hypocritical chorus of those who
celebrate an alleged �democratic revolution�. There never have been
communists who celebrate political events together with their worst enemies.
We still remember certain �anti-capitalists� who welcomed the collapse of
the USSR between 1989 and 1991 whose result was the creation of several
statelets that serve the Western interests. They claimed that we were facing
revolutions because some movements rallied masses behind them. But the
decisive criteria to evaluate events is not mainly that the masses get into
movement, but in what direction they move. The direction is determined by
the international relationship of forces as well as by the political groups
that take the leadership.
Finally we want to re-iterate that our tenacious support for the resistance
of the Yugoslav people and the Yugoslav army against the Nato aggression was
not erroneous. Certain seeds only carry fruits after a long period. The
current flood, the �democratic� drunkenness will neither eradicate the deep
socialist tradition among the Serb people nor the traces of the tremendous
anti-imperialist solidarity delivered to it mainly in the last year.
The Serb proletarians and among them the genuine communists will need our
help and fraternity.
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5th October, 2000
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THE HAGUE COURT'S INDICTMENT OF MILOSEVIC UNLAWFUL, FATAL KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Friday he saw no reason for cooperation with the war
crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and dismissed its indictment of
Slobodan Milosevic as unlawful and even fatal.
Speaking for Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), Kostunica
said that, of all the problems and troubles facing Yugoslavia, he hardly
thought that the Haguebased tribunal should come "first on the list" for
consideration.
He opined that the tribunal would within some time and for many
reasons become history, as the result of the way in which it had worked,
and because its existence was being called in question even from inside.
He noted that, some months ago, the question had been broached
whether those responsible for crimes committed in Yugoslavia at the time of
NATO's air strikes could be tried at the Hague.
He explained that an international organisation, Human Rights
Watch, had clearly identified a number of civilian killings in Yugoslavia
"that could be brought home to parts of the NATO structures.
"When War Crimes Court Prosecutor Carla del Ponte tells you that
there is no ground for criminal prosecution in this case, then the
Prosecutor herself calls in question the entire Court", he said,
The added that similar instances of the court itself calling in
question its legitimity were numerous.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT'S CHAMBER OF REPUBLICS BEGINS CONSTITUTIVE SESSION
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The constitutive session of the
Chamber of Republics of the Yugoslav parliament began in Belgrade on
Saturday afternoon with the task of verifying the mandates of the new MPs.
The oldest MP on the new composition, Socialist People's Party
(SNP) of Montenegro deputy Mihailo Cetkovic opened the session, which was
attended by outgoing Chamber President Srdja Bozovic.
The Chamber set up a Verification Committee which should make a
report which will serve as the basis for the Chamber's verification of the
new mandates. The upper house will resume work after a 20minute break.
It is expected that the lower house, the Chamber of Citizens, will
also begin a constitutive session this evening.
After the separate sessions end work, the chambers will hold a
joint session at which newly elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
will be sworn in.
YUGOSLAV ARMY SAYS CONDITIONS MET FOR WORKING WITH NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army Command said late
on Friday the announcement of the final results of Yugoslavia's September
24 presidential election "has created the legal conditions for establishing
functional relations with the new Yugoslav president".
The Yugoslav Constitutional Court announced on October 6 that
Vojislav Kostunica won the September 24 presidential vote, which created
the necessary legal conditions for establishing functional relations with
the new president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
With its action in connection with recognising the new president
of the F.R.Y., the Yugoslav Army has proven that it is consistent on its
publicly proclaimed positions, the Army statement said.
"Members of the Army of Yugoslavia consistently adhere to all
constitutional provisions and laws which regulate the question of military
defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia is united and unwavering in its efforts to
remain a cohesive force in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia respects the will of the people expressed
in the free and democratic elections, and the procedures and solutions
resulting from the specific features of the multiparty system.
"The Army of Yugoslavia defends and shall continue to defend the
interests of the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as
the independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional
system of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia shall not change its attitude to the
institution of president of Yugoslavia in the capacity as supreme commander
of the armed forces, or to any other competent institutions of state
administration.
"The Army of Yugoslavia protects the borders of the federation and
remains a factor of stability and peace on the territory of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia makes no change in its proclaimed
positions, and remains consistent in its efforts to discharge its defence
function.
"After the inauguration of the presidentelect, the military
leadership shall, as before, discharge its constitutional obligations
professionally and honourably, and shall do everything to continue, with
the help of state institutions, the process of its own reorganisation and
modernisation", the statement said.
MONTENEGRIN PREMIER VOWS TO SAFEGUARD STATE, EQUALITY
PODGORICA, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's Premier has said he
believes that Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica will keep his
election promise and work for a democratic accord between the Yugoslav
federal units Serbia and Montenegro.
Filip Vujanovic is quoted by Podgorica's Pobjeda newspaper on
Saturday as saying for BosniaHerzegovina independent television that
Montenegro wants to protect its statehood, the autonomy of the Montenegrin
nation and the equality of its people.
Vujanovic added he expected Kostunica to "carry out in
communication with Montenegro what was agreed at Sveti Stefan (ahead of
Sept. 24 polls) in a meeting between Montenegro's ruling coalition
(Democratic Party of Socialists, National Party, Social Democratic Party)
and the Serbian opposition".
E.U. OFFICIAL: VACANT SEAT ON STABILITY PACT WAITING FOR YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 7 (Tanjug) European Union (E.U.) coordinator for
implementing the Pact on the stabilization of southeastern Europe Bodo
Hombach of Germany arrived on a twoday visit to Macedonia on Saturday and
said in Skopje that he would submit concrete proposals on aid for
Yugoslavia to the E.U. Council of Ministers on Monday.
The sanctions against Yugoslavia will be lifted already on Monday,
Hombach confirmed in a talk with reporters after today's meeting in Skopje
with Prime Minister Ljupco Georgievski.
"A vacant seat is waiting for Yugoslavia at the Pact for
stability," he said, as well as in other European institutions from which
it has been absent for years.
Hombach underscored that democratic Yugoslavia has serious tasks
ahead, but that Europe will help it. This will not be done to the detriment
of other countries of southeastern Europe, he added, which have joined the
Pact for stability and which also need help.
Plans about financial assistance for Serbia already exist, and the
E.U. and financial institutions will join in their realization, Hombach said.
Georgievski confirmed to reporters that the main subject at
today's talks with Hombach had been aid to Yugoslavia and its inclusion in
European integration processes.
Hombach will be received by Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
in Ohrid on Sunday.
YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA, MILOSEVIC MEET
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late of Friday he had met earlier in the day with his
predecessor Slobodan Milosevic.
"The meeting was important from the point of view of normal
relations between the incoming and outgoing presidents", Kostunica told
Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), describing as "positive that the
communication took place".
The meeting shows that the transfer of power will be peaceful,
according to Kostunica, who said he had explained to Milosevic that "power,
once lost, is not lost forever".
He said Milosevic had not congratulated him on his victory, however.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC CONGRATULATES SUCCESSOR KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic said late on Friday he had received official information that
challenger Vojislav Kostunica had won the September 24 presidential
election, and congratulated him on his victory.
The ruling was made by the Yugoslav Constitutional Court, which is
competent under the Constitution to decide on such matters, and the ruling
must be respected, Milosevic said, speaking for YuInfo television.
"I wish to thank all those who placed their trust in me and voted
for me in this election, but I thank also all those who did not vote for
me, because they have lifted from my shoulders a heavy burden of
responsibility that has been weighing me down for ten years.
"As for my party, it will be a very powerful opposition force. I
have always said that a party can never show its strength and its qualities
unless it is in opposition for a while, because the time in opposition
allows it to unburden itself of the opportunists.
"I am sure that the time ahead will be of great use in this
respect both to the Socialist Party of Serbia and to the Yugoslav Left, and
I am sure that it will strengthen them so greatly as to allow them to win
the next election very convincingly.
"Because of the feeling of great relief at the removal of the huge
burden of responsibility that I have carried for a full decade, I plan to
take a short rest, to spend more time with my family, especially with my
grandson Marko.
"Afterwards, I shall continue, first of all, to strengthen my
party so that it should, together with the forces that stand with it, in
the life of Yugoslav society, make a great contribution to the country's
further development, as they had done at the time of national defence, of
postaggression reconstruction and now, in these early development steps,
which have been so successful.
"I congratulate Mr Kostunica on his electoral victory and wish all
people of Yugoslavia success in the term of office of the new president",
Milosevic said.
SERBIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD SESSION MONDAY
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug). Serbian parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic has convened for Monday the first meeting of the second regular
parliament session, the parliamentary press service said.
The agenda includes:
A draft parliamentary statement on the election of Yugoslavia's
president proposed by the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO),
A proposal to create a parliamentary inquiry board to investigate
the death of four high SPO officials on October. 3 last year, presented by
SPO,
A noconfidence motion for Serbian Minister of the Interior Vlajko
Stojiljkovic presented by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS),
A proposal to abrogate the law on public information presented by
SRS,
A bill on Serbia's RadioTelevision proposed by SRS,
A bill on creating a public publishing and broadcasting company
Politika AD presented by SRS,
A bill on privatization presented by SRS.
YUGOSLAV NATIONAL BANK GOVERNOR HALTS
SELLING HARD CURRENCY AND CREDITS FROM PRIMARY ISSUE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslav National Bank (NBJ)
Governor Dusan Vlatkovic sent a letter to Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica on Friday to inform him that he has taken all the necessary
measures to ensure the functioning of NBJ, and that he has halted the
selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose from
primary issue until further notice, a statement issued by the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) said on Friday.
Vlatkovic said in the letter that he has taken all measures in
conformity with his legal and constitutional prerogatives in order to
ensure that NBJ functions are carried out. He added that keeping in mind
the new situation in the country and the NBJ prerogatives, he was halting
the selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose
from primary issue until further notice.
He noted that he would submit a report on the NBJ activities to
the Yugoslav president and parliament, and added that if the NBJ or his own
work were unsatisfactory, he would offer his resignation, the statement says.
The statement was issued after Vlatkovic met Miroljub Labus and
Dusan Mihajlovic, envoys of President Kostunica.
MONTENEGRIN DJUKANOVIC PLEASED, NOT EUPHORIC AT YUGOSLAV POWER CHANGE
NIKSIC, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic
said late on Friday that this Yugoslav republic "is today prepared to
discuss each separate specific solution for surmounting problems" in
relations with the other Yugoslav republic, Serbia.
Djukanovic said in Niksic, central Montenegro, that Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica could be a partner in the talks only as
"a representative of new democratic thought in Serbia", not in his capacity
as Yugoslav president.
Djukanovic went on to comment on Montenegro's attitude to the
Supreme Defence Council and the Army of Yugoslavia. He said Montenegro was
"very much interested in a transitional Defence Council" being constituted
as soon as possible and "the Yugoslav army being placed under civilian
administration as soon as possible, to avoid the possibility of its misuse".
Commenting on the power transfer in Belgrade, he said this was "no
cause for euphoria in Montenegro, but it is a cause for satisfaction,
because this outcome in Serbia has removed the threat of war to Montenegro".
Speaking about Yugoslavia's outgoing Prime Minister Momir
Bulatovic, a Montenegrin, Djukanovic said Montenegro had learned from the
example of Bulatovic that "a traitor must never again hold the helm of
Montenegro."
MILOSEVIC'S PLACE IS NO LONGER IN SERBIA MONTENEGRIN PEOPLE'S PARTY
PODGORICA, October 6 (Tanjug) President of the Montenegrin
People's Party (NSCG), one of the parties in the ruling coalition in
Montenegro, Dragan Soc said Friday that Serbia has shown its true,
historic, face by legalizing the victory of Vojislav Kostunica in the
presidential election. This has paved the way for putting the relations
between Serbia and Montenegro in order in a peaceful, patient and
democratic manner, and for their full integration into a democratic
community, Soc said.
MILOSEVIC INTENDS TO PLAY IMPORTANT POLITICAL ROLE IVANOV
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
said that the outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had told him
he intended to continue playing an important role in Yugoslavia's political
life as the leader of the largest political party in the country.
Asked at a press conference at the Russian embassy in Belgrade
whether Milosevic's statement meant a recognition of Kostunica's victory,
Ivanov said he was only reporting what he had heard and that it was not up
to him to interpret what Milosevic had meant.
The political forces in Yugoslavia are able to resolve the present
difficulties by themselves and need no mediators, Ivanov said.
Ivanov noted that he met Friday with Yugoslav Presidentelect
Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic and Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, and
that he had paid a courtesy visit to Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian
Orthodox Church.
Ivanov did not wish to say where his meeting with Milosevic was held.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN REACTIONS
COUNCIL OF EUROPE MINISTERS SUPPORT YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
ROME, October 7 (Tanjug) The Council of Europe's committee of
foreign ministers on Friday gave full support to Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica.
Committee Chairman Lamberto Dini of Italy said the Committee fully
supported actions being taken by PresidentElect Kostunica.
The committee invited the civilian and military authorities in
Yugoslavia to cooperate in the establishment of the new administration
elected in the polls of September 24, Dini added.
The Council of Europe committee of foreign ministers invited
Yugoslavia to join the European family of nations, and expressed
willingness to consider new prospects of cooperation between the European
Council and that country.
EU TO LIFT OIL EMBARGO AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ON MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The foreign ministers of the
European Union memberstates will, at their Monday session in Luxemburg,
lift the oil embargo against Yugoslavia and definitely lift the ban on
civilian air traffic.
EU spokesman said in Brussels that there were no differences among
the ministers in regard to these two issues and that a decision by
consensus was expected.
The European Commission (EC) will submit to the ministerial
council meeting in Luxemburg an official proposal for the lifting of the
oil embargo, imposed on Yugoslavia last year over the crisis in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province.
If the ministers agree, the embargo will be lifted within a few
days of the official announcement of the decision.
The same procedure applies to the complete lifting of the ban on
civilian flights, which was suspended last April.
As for the lifting of other sanctions the financial embargo and
the ban on granting visas to a number of individuals close to the Slobodan
Milosevic's regime considerable differences exist among EU members. Their
lifting will consequently be postponed until the memberstates reach agreement.
The arms embargo will remain in force, as it is under the
authority of the UN, not the EU.
Contacts with Belgrade will be resumed shortly and an exchange of
highlevel delegations is expected, EU sources said.
The EC has endorsed the proposal that a mission should travel to
Belgrade as soon as possible to assess Serbia's needs of funding, the EC
spokesman said Friday. The mission will comprise representatives of
the EU and several international organizations.
In an earlier decision, the sum of 240 million euros was earmarked
for aid to Yugoslavia from the EU budget. The funds should be released
after the EU and european Parliament take a decision to that effect on the
basis of the mission's report.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAVIA'S NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) British Prime Minister Tony Blair
addressed on Friday a message of congratulations to Yugoslavia's newly
elected president Vojislav Kostunica.
"I welcome the prospect of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
reentering the European mainstream and I will lend my full support to that
goal. As a starting point, I expect the European Union to move quickly to
respond to your call for a lifting of sanctions", Blair said in the message
a copy of which was made available to Tanjug.
SCHUESSEL: WE ARE OBLIGED TO HELP YUGOSLAVIA
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) We are obliged to help Yugoslavia in
normalizing the situation, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said in
Zagreb on Friday, saying he was certain that Slobodan Milosevic was toppled
and that the new Yugoslav president would be sworn in.
After talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan, Schuessel
appealed for restraint from violence in Yugoslavia. He said he hoped
Milosevic would not resort to force in order to stay in power.
Racan said Croatia was interested in its neighbors being
democratic countries and that it supports the creation of a democratic
Serbia. Croatia will confirm this interest through its policy, he said.
During today's visit to Croatia, Schuessel is to meet with
President Stjepan Mesic and parliament President Zlatko Tomcic.
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER: ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
ROME, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union sanctions against
Yugoslavia will be lifted gradually as of Monday, October. 9, Italian Prime
Minister Giuliano Amato said on Friday.
The EU ministers will meet in Luxemburg on Monday and will first
lift the oil embargo. This will be followed by the lifting of the financial
sanctions and by preparations for closer ties and cooperation between
Yugoslavia and Europe, Amato said.
The election of Vojislav Kostunica as president of Yugoslavia has
drastically changed the overall picture and prospects of relations between
the EU and Yugoslavia, Amato said.
MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KOSTUNICA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
said on Friday in Bitolj, south Macedonia, that he congratulates newly
elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, the new government, all the
democratic opposition and the Yugoslav people on their victory.
According to the statement issued in his cabinet in Skopje, the
historical events in Yugoslavia have become obvious and the Yugoslav
people's wish for freedom and democracy was stronger than all attempts at
deceiving the will of the people.
Trajkovski added that he wants a peaceful transition of power in
Yugoslavia and its reintegration into Europe. He also wants to develop
friendly ties between Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
The new realities open vast possibilities for future development
and the improvement of the bilateral friendly relations between the two
states and their peoples, said Trajkovski.
BOSNIAHERZEGOVINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SUPPORTS KOSTUNICA
SARAJEVO, October 6 (Tanjug) The Foreign Ministry of Bosnia and
Herzegovina said in Sarajevo on Friday that the country "fully supports the
newlyelected president of FR Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, and expects
the legal procedure of his appointment satisifed."
"About the authorities in Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina will
judge by their acts and their relationship towards Bosnia and Herzegovina,"
the statement said and also that it expected from the new authorities to
comply with the Dayton peace agreement and the decisions of other
international conferences about the situation in the region and the
organization of relations between BosniaHerzegovina and FR Yugoslavia.
In that respect Bosnia and Herzegovina is ready to immediately
establish diplomatic relations with FR Yugoslavia without any conditions as
provided by the Dayton agreement and the conclusions of the international
conference in Sintra.
The Foreign Ministry also proposed that soon after the formation
of the new government in Belgrade, an exchange of visits takes place
between the two countries on the ministerial level.
In connection with the situation in FR Yugoslavia, the foreign
minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jadranko Prlic, sent on Friday a
message to Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou in which he made the
initiative that in the next few days be organized a meeting of the
representatives of countries neighbouring FR Yugoslavia to extend support
to the new authorities in Belgrade and review the situation that arose
after the elections in that country the statement said.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITIES BEGIN TO CREATE YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Thursday he had taken his first steps with the
creation of a new democratic authority in Serbia, which the people had
voted into power on September 24. Kostunica said on Serbian state Radio and
Television (RTS) he was referring to the constituting of the Yugoslav
federal parliament, whose deputies were assembling, and to the City
Council, which had been constituted and would make sure all municipal
services were functioning properly, to the wellbeing of the Belgraders.
Expressing pleasure that the vision of Serbia he had cherished for
years was coming to pass, he said this was of a normal democratically
organised state, without internal tension, without disputes, with a normal
relationship between the government and opposition.
"The worst of it is that we have for years lived in a country
where there has been no proper communication between those representing the
government and those representing the opposition, as though it had been
easier to talk to the whole world, as though, in the case of Slobodan
Milosevic, it had been easier to negotiate at Dayton, Ohio, to reach
accords with Richard Holbrooke, like the one of October. 13, 1998, as
though it had been easier to agree to the Kumanovo capitulation, consent to
the deployment of foreign troops to Kosovo, while at the same time
demonstrating total incapacity with a section of one's own nation that
thought differently", Kostunica said.
Stressing that he is "president of state, president of all people,
one who must rise above party interests and reconcile all interests,"
Kostnica said there had been none of this in this country and that the
president of Yugoslavia had represented neither all the people, nor both
federal units.
He stressed that democracy must be the foundation of a state,
which was the image that Serbia was beginning to project, and added that
the RTS would be open both to the positions of those who won the elections
and to all other voices in Serbia.
People belonging to the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the
Yugoslav Left (JUL), the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), must be given space
on state television, which must not serve the interests of one party, but
reflect the mood of the people, he said.
He urged a democratic state, without internal tension, with
normalised relations with other states, noting that this would not be easy
because "among those countries there are those that have gravely sinned
against us."
"These are countries that bombed Yugoslavia last year, which is a
crime and destruction that we cannot forgive, but we cannot live out of the
world, we must adjust to it, while placing high value on our national
dignity and national interests", he said.
He said it was to be expected that the European Union, when it
meets on Monday, will lift sanctions against Yugoslavia, because the
country has set out down the road of democracy.
Lifting of the sanctions and resumption of relations with
international financial institutions will make it possible for the money
that has been draining out of the country to start flowing back in, where
the role of the expatriates interested in investing in the homeland will be
important, according to Kostunica.
"The country's recovery after the lifting of the sanctions will be
swift, because the circumstances we have been living in have been very
difficult", he said, adding that Yugoslavia would immediately be
incorporated in the Southeast Europe Stabilisation Pact, as a way for the
NATO states to repay, in one form, some of the damage they have caused.
Kostunica described as positive the reconstruction of
NATOdestroyed facilities, adding, however, that this has not been the
achievement of one party, but of the people.
He announced a more radical, more widespread reconstruction of the
country, whose chief characteristic would be that it would not be the feat
of any one party.
There must be no revanchism, he reiterated, stressing that he had
given his word there would be no retaliation, and that the people must
learn to live with political differences.
He said many details in the work of the Haguebased tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia made it a shameful institution, adding it was a
political rather than a legal institutions, and in fact not a court at all.
This is not an international, but an American court, under the
control of the U.S. Administration, a weapon for achieving its influence in
this region, according to Kostunica.
He said there could be no cooperation with the Hague court in the
matter of extradition of Yugoslav citizens.
He said that Yugoslavia's new premier must be designated in line
with the Constitution, which dictates that, when the president is from one
federal unit, the prime minister must be from the other.
In this case, the post must be offered to the strongest party in
Montenegro, which is the Socialist People's Party (SNP), and to the person
capable of reconciling the two confronted halves of Montenegro, Kostunica
explained.
He said he would work towards calling new free elections for the
federal parliament within a year and a half, and for drawing up very soon a
new Constitution acceptable to both Yugoslav federal units Serbia and
Montenegro.
KOSTUNICA: SERBIA IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE ITS FREEDOM BY ITSELF
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Presidentelect Vojislav
Kostunica told a crowd of several hundred thousand people in central
Belgrade Thursday evening that he was proud to see the people of Serbia
show their trust in him by electing him president of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia.
Kostunica said he won the election thanks to the fundamental
principles of democracy, in which people exercise their free will, even
under very difficult circumstances in which the Sep. 24 elections were held.
He underlined that the claims of the leftist coalition that the
new authorities were a NATO spearhead were entirely false.
"We need neither Moscow nor Washington. Serbia is able to achieve
its freedom by itself, and your presence here in such numbers is proof of
this", he said.
Recalling that he had been saying at all preelection rallies
throughout Serbia that peace must prevail in Serbia and in its relations
with Montenegro, Kostunica promised that Serbia would be ruled by law only
and that there would be no more violence or theft.
"We shall defend Serbia with our own weapons with truth against
their lies, with nonviolence against their use of force", Kostunica said in
reference to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia is the heart and
the shield of Europe, it is the most European part of Europe, but without
Slobodan Milosevic, he stressed.
"There must be no more sanctions against this country", Kostunica
said.
Responding to cries from the crowd calling for a march on Dedinje,
elite residential district of Belgrade where Milosevic has his residence,
Kostunica resolutely said: "We shall not march on Dedinje, it is not our
place. We are here at the parliament, a true system institution where the
people have brought us and where we shall fight our battles".
Kostunica then urged all those present to stay together and
expressed hope that more people would come to the area between the three
parliaments Yugoslav, Serbian and Belgrade to peacefully defend the
election victory.
G17PLUS APPEALS FOR RETURN OF ARMS TAKEN FROM POLICE
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). The independent thinktank G17plus
urged Thursday evening all persons who have taken arms from police stations
to bring them to the Belgrade city council.
G17plus Coordinator Predrag Markovic visited Tanjug in the evening
and asked the agency to carry the appeal, in order to prevent any unwanted
incidents.
Markovic also urged people celebrating in the streets not to loot
shops or damage any other property.
YUGOSLAVIA SERBIA MINERS
SERBIAN COALMINERS END STRIKE
LAZAREVAC, October 5 (Tanjug). The miners of the openpit coal mine
Kolubara will not allow the Obrenovac thermoelectric power plant near
Belgrade to stop, member of the strike committee Radoslav Jovanovic told
Tanjug Thursday evening.
The Obrenovac plant will have enough coal for minimum power
generation tomorrow (Friday) Jovanovic said.
Jovanovic was unable to say when the plant will be able to operate
at full capacity, but noted that the strike committee will meet early
Friday to discuss details on resuming production at full capacity.
Underlining that the only demand of the miners was the recognition
of the voters' will at the Sep. 24 presidential and federal elections,
Jovanovic said that all miners were present at their jobs and that the
equipment stood ready to be used.
The Kolubara miners went on strike one week ago, and power cuts
started throughout Serbia two days later.
YUGOSLAVIA - ARMY, POLICE
YUGOSLAV ARMY CONTINUES REGULAR ACTIVITIES
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army's Combined Chiefs
of Staff ended session early on Friday without releasing a statement, which
sources close to the army command interpret as indicating that the army
will remain committed to its often repeated position that it will act
within its constitutional competence.
TANJUG learns that the army will act only in case of direct
threats to military facilities, personnel and materiel.
According to TANJUG correspondents' reports, no troop movements
have been noticed in any part of the country. According to them, the army
is on Friday morning engaged on its regular duties, training and securing
of the state borders.
BELGRADE POLICE CHIEF SAYS POLICE WILL NOT INTERVENE AGAINST PEOPLE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Belgrade Police Chief Branko Djuric
has offered assurances to the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) that
the police will not intervene against people demonstrating in the streets
of the capital.
According to sources close to DOS, Djuric said the security forces
would intervene only in case of drastic disruptions of public law and order
and threats to property.
E.U.'S SOLANA SAYS ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union will start
lifting sanctions against Yugoslavia as of Monday, when the foreign
ministers of the fifteen E.U. nations are meeting in Luxemburg, according
to E.U. chief foreign policy representative Javier Solana.
Solana told BBC Radio the ministerial meeting was called for
Monday, and the lifting of the sanctions would begin as of that day. He
explained this was a clear signal of a willingness to open new relations
with democratic Yugoslavia, adding the lifting of the sanctions was a
matter of days.
French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, whose country holds the
E.U. rotating presidency, said late Thursday he would be setting in motion
the necessary procedure for the decision to lift the sanctions to be made
on Monday.
FISCHER SUPPORTS FRANCE'S PROPOSAL FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
BERLIN, October 6 (Tanjug) German Foreign Minister Joseph Fischer
said in Berlin on Friday that Germany supports France's proposal that in
Luxembourg on Monday be discussed the speedy lifting of sanctions against
Serbia.
"Serbia must be accepted with wide open hands into the family of
European countries, because its people said so clearly NO to dictatorship,"
Fischer said.
Fischer repeated on Friday he hoped that, just as 11 years ago in
Eastern Germany, the peaceful revolution in Belgrade will also be conducted
without bloodshed.
The German news agency DPA said in that connection it seemed that
will be case, and carried as urgent a statement to Tanjug by an unnamed
source in the Yugoslav Army that the army had no intention to prevent the
implementation of the will of citizens of Yugoslavia.
CROATIA FOLLOWS YUGOSLAV CHANGES WITH APPROVAL
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) Croatia, where Belgrade developments
have received unprecedented publicity, is following with approval the
political changes in Yugoslavia and recognises the victory of Vojislav
Kostunica in September 24 presidential election.
Commenting on the Belgrade developments, Croatian President
Stjepan Mesic said that "the events rocking Serbia, where the people, led
by the opposition, have started dismantling the institutions of the regime,
were to be expected."
Mesic said the Yugoslav situation could resolve itself also in the
worst possible way, and that whether or not the "Romanian scenario" is
acted out would depend, in his view, on the army.
He believes it would be "best for Milosevic to go, and for the
winners of the elections to offer a solution to the Serbian people".
The Croatian government, too, has made itself heard in connection
with the Yugoslav developments, expressing conviction that the developments
signal "the end of the undemocratic regime of Slobodan Milosevic" and the
beginning of a normalisation in Serbia.
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS DEMOCRATIC CHANGES IN YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Democracy won a victory in Yugoslavia
on Thursday, according to Macedonia's foreign minister on Friday.
In a brief statement for state television, Aleksandar Dimitrov
said Macedonia had been urging a democratic settlement of all problems in
Serbia and Yugoslavia, which was what happened on Thursday.
The most important thing now was to keep the peace and avoid
further bloodshed, he added.
According to local media, President Boris Trajkovski has launched
an initiative for heads of state of Southeast Europe to sign a declaration
supporting Kostunica's electoral victory.
Trajkovski explained Macedonia was acting in its capacity as
president of an association of Southeast European nations.
According to sources in Skopje, all Southeast European nations
have upheld Trajkovski's initiative, with the exception of the Romanian
government, which has not responded.
ALBANIA DOES NOT CHANGE POSITION ON SERBIAN KOSOVO PROVINCE
LONDON, October 6 (Tanjug) Albania's foreign minister said on
Friday that Albania would not be changing its position on the Kosovo issue
in the wake of the electoral victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS).
Pascal Milo told the BBC the issue of Kosovo was vitally important
to Albanians, and that Tirana would not be changing its position on it.
Since the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244 provides for
giving Kosovo a wide autonomy, Milo urges that Albanians in the province be
allowed to decide about their status in a referendum.
He went on to say he believed that democratic Serbia would change
its attitude to Kosovo and hoped that Vojislav Kostunica, despite being a
nationalist, would be realistic and understand that Kosovo was a closed
chapter to Serbia now.
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BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Friday he saw no reason for cooperation with the war
crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and dismissed its indictment of
Slobodan Milosevic as unlawful and even fatal.
Speaking for Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), Kostunica
said that, of all the problems and troubles facing Yugoslavia, he hardly
thought that the Haguebased tribunal should come "first on the list" for
consideration.
He opined that the tribunal would within some time and for many
reasons become history, as the result of the way in which it had worked,
and because its existence was being called in question even from inside.
He noted that, some months ago, the question had been broached
whether those responsible for crimes committed in Yugoslavia at the time of
NATO's air strikes could be tried at the Hague.
He explained that an international organisation, Human Rights
Watch, had clearly identified a number of civilian killings in Yugoslavia
"that could be brought home to parts of the NATO structures.
"When War Crimes Court Prosecutor Carla del Ponte tells you that
there is no ground for criminal prosecution in this case, then the
Prosecutor herself calls in question the entire Court", he said,
The added that similar instances of the court itself calling in
question its legitimity were numerous.
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT'S CHAMBER OF REPUBLICS BEGINS CONSTITUTIVE SESSION
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The constitutive session of the
Chamber of Republics of the Yugoslav parliament began in Belgrade on
Saturday afternoon with the task of verifying the mandates of the new MPs.
The oldest MP on the new composition, Socialist People's Party
(SNP) of Montenegro deputy Mihailo Cetkovic opened the session, which was
attended by outgoing Chamber President Srdja Bozovic.
The Chamber set up a Verification Committee which should make a
report which will serve as the basis for the Chamber's verification of the
new mandates. The upper house will resume work after a 20minute break.
It is expected that the lower house, the Chamber of Citizens, will
also begin a constitutive session this evening.
After the separate sessions end work, the chambers will hold a
joint session at which newly elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
will be sworn in.
YUGOSLAV ARMY SAYS CONDITIONS MET FOR WORKING WITH NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army Command said late
on Friday the announcement of the final results of Yugoslavia's September
24 presidential election "has created the legal conditions for establishing
functional relations with the new Yugoslav president".
The Yugoslav Constitutional Court announced on October 6 that
Vojislav Kostunica won the September 24 presidential vote, which created
the necessary legal conditions for establishing functional relations with
the new president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
With its action in connection with recognising the new president
of the F.R.Y., the Yugoslav Army has proven that it is consistent on its
publicly proclaimed positions, the Army statement said.
"Members of the Army of Yugoslavia consistently adhere to all
constitutional provisions and laws which regulate the question of military
defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia is united and unwavering in its efforts to
remain a cohesive force in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia respects the will of the people expressed
in the free and democratic elections, and the procedures and solutions
resulting from the specific features of the multiparty system.
"The Army of Yugoslavia defends and shall continue to defend the
interests of the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as
the independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional
system of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia shall not change its attitude to the
institution of president of Yugoslavia in the capacity as supreme commander
of the armed forces, or to any other competent institutions of state
administration.
"The Army of Yugoslavia protects the borders of the federation and
remains a factor of stability and peace on the territory of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
"The Army of Yugoslavia makes no change in its proclaimed
positions, and remains consistent in its efforts to discharge its defence
function.
"After the inauguration of the presidentelect, the military
leadership shall, as before, discharge its constitutional obligations
professionally and honourably, and shall do everything to continue, with
the help of state institutions, the process of its own reorganisation and
modernisation", the statement said.
MONTENEGRIN PREMIER VOWS TO SAFEGUARD STATE, EQUALITY
PODGORICA, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's Premier has said he
believes that Yugoslav PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica will keep his
election promise and work for a democratic accord between the Yugoslav
federal units Serbia and Montenegro.
Filip Vujanovic is quoted by Podgorica's Pobjeda newspaper on
Saturday as saying for BosniaHerzegovina independent television that
Montenegro wants to protect its statehood, the autonomy of the Montenegrin
nation and the equality of its people.
Vujanovic added he expected Kostunica to "carry out in
communication with Montenegro what was agreed at Sveti Stefan (ahead of
Sept. 24 polls) in a meeting between Montenegro's ruling coalition
(Democratic Party of Socialists, National Party, Social Democratic Party)
and the Serbian opposition".
E.U. OFFICIAL: VACANT SEAT ON STABILITY PACT WAITING FOR YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 7 (Tanjug) European Union (E.U.) coordinator for
implementing the Pact on the stabilization of southeastern Europe Bodo
Hombach of Germany arrived on a twoday visit to Macedonia on Saturday and
said in Skopje that he would submit concrete proposals on aid for
Yugoslavia to the E.U. Council of Ministers on Monday.
The sanctions against Yugoslavia will be lifted already on Monday,
Hombach confirmed in a talk with reporters after today's meeting in Skopje
with Prime Minister Ljupco Georgievski.
"A vacant seat is waiting for Yugoslavia at the Pact for
stability," he said, as well as in other European institutions from which
it has been absent for years.
Hombach underscored that democratic Yugoslavia has serious tasks
ahead, but that Europe will help it. This will not be done to the detriment
of other countries of southeastern Europe, he added, which have joined the
Pact for stability and which also need help.
Plans about financial assistance for Serbia already exist, and the
E.U. and financial institutions will join in their realization, Hombach said.
Georgievski confirmed to reporters that the main subject at
today's talks with Hombach had been aid to Yugoslavia and its inclusion in
European integration processes.
Hombach will be received by Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
in Ohrid on Sunday.
YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA, MILOSEVIC MEET
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late of Friday he had met earlier in the day with his
predecessor Slobodan Milosevic.
"The meeting was important from the point of view of normal
relations between the incoming and outgoing presidents", Kostunica told
Serbian state Radio and Television (RTS), describing as "positive that the
communication took place".
The meeting shows that the transfer of power will be peaceful,
according to Kostunica, who said he had explained to Milosevic that "power,
once lost, is not lost forever".
He said Milosevic had not congratulated him on his victory, however.
OUTGOING PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC CONGRATULATES SUCCESSOR KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 7 (Tanjug) Outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic said late on Friday he had received official information that
challenger Vojislav Kostunica had won the September 24 presidential
election, and congratulated him on his victory.
The ruling was made by the Yugoslav Constitutional Court, which is
competent under the Constitution to decide on such matters, and the ruling
must be respected, Milosevic said, speaking for YuInfo television.
"I wish to thank all those who placed their trust in me and voted
for me in this election, but I thank also all those who did not vote for
me, because they have lifted from my shoulders a heavy burden of
responsibility that has been weighing me down for ten years.
"As for my party, it will be a very powerful opposition force. I
have always said that a party can never show its strength and its qualities
unless it is in opposition for a while, because the time in opposition
allows it to unburden itself of the opportunists.
"I am sure that the time ahead will be of great use in this
respect both to the Socialist Party of Serbia and to the Yugoslav Left, and
I am sure that it will strengthen them so greatly as to allow them to win
the next election very convincingly.
"Because of the feeling of great relief at the removal of the huge
burden of responsibility that I have carried for a full decade, I plan to
take a short rest, to spend more time with my family, especially with my
grandson Marko.
"Afterwards, I shall continue, first of all, to strengthen my
party so that it should, together with the forces that stand with it, in
the life of Yugoslav society, make a great contribution to the country's
further development, as they had done at the time of national defence, of
postaggression reconstruction and now, in these early development steps,
which have been so successful.
"I congratulate Mr Kostunica on his electoral victory and wish all
people of Yugoslavia success in the term of office of the new president",
Milosevic said.
SERBIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD SESSION MONDAY
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug). Serbian parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic has convened for Monday the first meeting of the second regular
parliament session, the parliamentary press service said.
The agenda includes:
A draft parliamentary statement on the election of Yugoslavia's
president proposed by the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO),
A proposal to create a parliamentary inquiry board to investigate
the death of four high SPO officials on October. 3 last year, presented by
SPO,
A noconfidence motion for Serbian Minister of the Interior Vlajko
Stojiljkovic presented by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS),
A proposal to abrogate the law on public information presented by
SRS,
A bill on Serbia's RadioTelevision proposed by SRS,
A bill on creating a public publishing and broadcasting company
Politika AD presented by SRS,
A bill on privatization presented by SRS.
YUGOSLAV NATIONAL BANK GOVERNOR HALTS
SELLING HARD CURRENCY AND CREDITS FROM PRIMARY ISSUE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslav National Bank (NBJ)
Governor Dusan Vlatkovic sent a letter to Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica on Friday to inform him that he has taken all the necessary
measures to ensure the functioning of NBJ, and that he has halted the
selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose from
primary issue until further notice, a statement issued by the Democratic
Opposition of Serbia (DOS) said on Friday.
Vlatkovic said in the letter that he has taken all measures in
conformity with his legal and constitutional prerogatives in order to
ensure that NBJ functions are carried out. He added that keeping in mind
the new situation in the country and the NBJ prerogatives, he was halting
the selling of hard currency and the granting of credits for any purpose
from primary issue until further notice.
He noted that he would submit a report on the NBJ activities to
the Yugoslav president and parliament, and added that if the NBJ or his own
work were unsatisfactory, he would offer his resignation, the statement says.
The statement was issued after Vlatkovic met Miroljub Labus and
Dusan Mihajlovic, envoys of President Kostunica.
MONTENEGRIN DJUKANOVIC PLEASED, NOT EUPHORIC AT YUGOSLAV POWER CHANGE
NIKSIC, October 7 (Tanjug) Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic
said late on Friday that this Yugoslav republic "is today prepared to
discuss each separate specific solution for surmounting problems" in
relations with the other Yugoslav republic, Serbia.
Djukanovic said in Niksic, central Montenegro, that Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica could be a partner in the talks only as
"a representative of new democratic thought in Serbia", not in his capacity
as Yugoslav president.
Djukanovic went on to comment on Montenegro's attitude to the
Supreme Defence Council and the Army of Yugoslavia. He said Montenegro was
"very much interested in a transitional Defence Council" being constituted
as soon as possible and "the Yugoslav army being placed under civilian
administration as soon as possible, to avoid the possibility of its misuse".
Commenting on the power transfer in Belgrade, he said this was "no
cause for euphoria in Montenegro, but it is a cause for satisfaction,
because this outcome in Serbia has removed the threat of war to Montenegro".
Speaking about Yugoslavia's outgoing Prime Minister Momir
Bulatovic, a Montenegrin, Djukanovic said Montenegro had learned from the
example of Bulatovic that "a traitor must never again hold the helm of
Montenegro."
MILOSEVIC'S PLACE IS NO LONGER IN SERBIA MONTENEGRIN PEOPLE'S PARTY
PODGORICA, October 6 (Tanjug) President of the Montenegrin
People's Party (NSCG), one of the parties in the ruling coalition in
Montenegro, Dragan Soc said Friday that Serbia has shown its true,
historic, face by legalizing the victory of Vojislav Kostunica in the
presidential election. This has paved the way for putting the relations
between Serbia and Montenegro in order in a peaceful, patient and
democratic manner, and for their full integration into a democratic
community, Soc said.
MILOSEVIC INTENDS TO PLAY IMPORTANT POLITICAL ROLE IVANOV
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
said that the outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had told him
he intended to continue playing an important role in Yugoslavia's political
life as the leader of the largest political party in the country.
Asked at a press conference at the Russian embassy in Belgrade
whether Milosevic's statement meant a recognition of Kostunica's victory,
Ivanov said he was only reporting what he had heard and that it was not up
to him to interpret what Milosevic had meant.
The political forces in Yugoslavia are able to resolve the present
difficulties by themselves and need no mediators, Ivanov said.
Ivanov noted that he met Friday with Yugoslav Presidentelect
Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic and Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, and
that he had paid a courtesy visit to Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian
Orthodox Church.
Ivanov did not wish to say where his meeting with Milosevic was held.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - FOREIGN REACTIONS
COUNCIL OF EUROPE MINISTERS SUPPORT YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
ROME, October 7 (Tanjug) The Council of Europe's committee of
foreign ministers on Friday gave full support to Yugoslavia's
PresidentElect Vojislav Kostunica.
Committee Chairman Lamberto Dini of Italy said the Committee fully
supported actions being taken by PresidentElect Kostunica.
The committee invited the civilian and military authorities in
Yugoslavia to cooperate in the establishment of the new administration
elected in the polls of September 24, Dini added.
The Council of Europe committee of foreign ministers invited
Yugoslavia to join the European family of nations, and expressed
willingness to consider new prospects of cooperation between the European
Council and that country.
EU TO LIFT OIL EMBARGO AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA ON MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The foreign ministers of the
European Union memberstates will, at their Monday session in Luxemburg,
lift the oil embargo against Yugoslavia and definitely lift the ban on
civilian air traffic.
EU spokesman said in Brussels that there were no differences among
the ministers in regard to these two issues and that a decision by
consensus was expected.
The European Commission (EC) will submit to the ministerial
council meeting in Luxemburg an official proposal for the lifting of the
oil embargo, imposed on Yugoslavia last year over the crisis in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province.
If the ministers agree, the embargo will be lifted within a few
days of the official announcement of the decision.
The same procedure applies to the complete lifting of the ban on
civilian flights, which was suspended last April.
As for the lifting of other sanctions the financial embargo and
the ban on granting visas to a number of individuals close to the Slobodan
Milosevic's regime considerable differences exist among EU members. Their
lifting will consequently be postponed until the memberstates reach agreement.
The arms embargo will remain in force, as it is under the
authority of the UN, not the EU.
Contacts with Belgrade will be resumed shortly and an exchange of
highlevel delegations is expected, EU sources said.
The EC has endorsed the proposal that a mission should travel to
Belgrade as soon as possible to assess Serbia's needs of funding, the EC
spokesman said Friday. The mission will comprise representatives of
the EU and several international organizations.
In an earlier decision, the sum of 240 million euros was earmarked
for aid to Yugoslavia from the EU budget. The funds should be released
after the EU and european Parliament take a decision to that effect on the
basis of the mission's report.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES YUGOSLAVIA'S NEW PRESIDENT
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) British Prime Minister Tony Blair
addressed on Friday a message of congratulations to Yugoslavia's newly
elected president Vojislav Kostunica.
"I welcome the prospect of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
reentering the European mainstream and I will lend my full support to that
goal. As a starting point, I expect the European Union to move quickly to
respond to your call for a lifting of sanctions", Blair said in the message
a copy of which was made available to Tanjug.
SCHUESSEL: WE ARE OBLIGED TO HELP YUGOSLAVIA
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) We are obliged to help Yugoslavia in
normalizing the situation, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said in
Zagreb on Friday, saying he was certain that Slobodan Milosevic was toppled
and that the new Yugoslav president would be sworn in.
After talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan, Schuessel
appealed for restraint from violence in Yugoslavia. He said he hoped
Milosevic would not resort to force in order to stay in power.
Racan said Croatia was interested in its neighbors being
democratic countries and that it supports the creation of a democratic
Serbia. Croatia will confirm this interest through its policy, he said.
During today's visit to Croatia, Schuessel is to meet with
President Stjepan Mesic and parliament President Zlatko Tomcic.
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER: ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
ROME, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union sanctions against
Yugoslavia will be lifted gradually as of Monday, October. 9, Italian Prime
Minister Giuliano Amato said on Friday.
The EU ministers will meet in Luxemburg on Monday and will first
lift the oil embargo. This will be followed by the lifting of the financial
sanctions and by preparations for closer ties and cooperation between
Yugoslavia and Europe, Amato said.
The election of Vojislav Kostunica as president of Yugoslavia has
drastically changed the overall picture and prospects of relations between
the EU and Yugoslavia, Amato said.
MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KOSTUNICA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski
said on Friday in Bitolj, south Macedonia, that he congratulates newly
elected Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, the new government, all the
democratic opposition and the Yugoslav people on their victory.
According to the statement issued in his cabinet in Skopje, the
historical events in Yugoslavia have become obvious and the Yugoslav
people's wish for freedom and democracy was stronger than all attempts at
deceiving the will of the people.
Trajkovski added that he wants a peaceful transition of power in
Yugoslavia and its reintegration into Europe. He also wants to develop
friendly ties between Macedonia and Yugoslavia.
The new realities open vast possibilities for future development
and the improvement of the bilateral friendly relations between the two
states and their peoples, said Trajkovski.
BOSNIAHERZEGOVINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SUPPORTS KOSTUNICA
SARAJEVO, October 6 (Tanjug) The Foreign Ministry of Bosnia and
Herzegovina said in Sarajevo on Friday that the country "fully supports the
newlyelected president of FR Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, and expects
the legal procedure of his appointment satisifed."
"About the authorities in Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina will
judge by their acts and their relationship towards Bosnia and Herzegovina,"
the statement said and also that it expected from the new authorities to
comply with the Dayton peace agreement and the decisions of other
international conferences about the situation in the region and the
organization of relations between BosniaHerzegovina and FR Yugoslavia.
In that respect Bosnia and Herzegovina is ready to immediately
establish diplomatic relations with FR Yugoslavia without any conditions as
provided by the Dayton agreement and the conclusions of the international
conference in Sintra.
The Foreign Ministry also proposed that soon after the formation
of the new government in Belgrade, an exchange of visits takes place
between the two countries on the ministerial level.
In connection with the situation in FR Yugoslavia, the foreign
minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jadranko Prlic, sent on Friday a
message to Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou in which he made the
initiative that in the next few days be organized a meeting of the
representatives of countries neighbouring FR Yugoslavia to extend support
to the new authorities in Belgrade and review the situation that arose
after the elections in that country the statement said.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITIES BEGIN TO CREATE YUGOSLAVIA'S KOSTUNICA
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia's PresidentElect Vojislav
Kostunica said late on Thursday he had taken his first steps with the
creation of a new democratic authority in Serbia, which the people had
voted into power on September 24. Kostunica said on Serbian state Radio and
Television (RTS) he was referring to the constituting of the Yugoslav
federal parliament, whose deputies were assembling, and to the City
Council, which had been constituted and would make sure all municipal
services were functioning properly, to the wellbeing of the Belgraders.
Expressing pleasure that the vision of Serbia he had cherished for
years was coming to pass, he said this was of a normal democratically
organised state, without internal tension, without disputes, with a normal
relationship between the government and opposition.
"The worst of it is that we have for years lived in a country
where there has been no proper communication between those representing the
government and those representing the opposition, as though it had been
easier to talk to the whole world, as though, in the case of Slobodan
Milosevic, it had been easier to negotiate at Dayton, Ohio, to reach
accords with Richard Holbrooke, like the one of October. 13, 1998, as
though it had been easier to agree to the Kumanovo capitulation, consent to
the deployment of foreign troops to Kosovo, while at the same time
demonstrating total incapacity with a section of one's own nation that
thought differently", Kostunica said.
Stressing that he is "president of state, president of all people,
one who must rise above party interests and reconcile all interests,"
Kostnica said there had been none of this in this country and that the
president of Yugoslavia had represented neither all the people, nor both
federal units.
He stressed that democracy must be the foundation of a state,
which was the image that Serbia was beginning to project, and added that
the RTS would be open both to the positions of those who won the elections
and to all other voices in Serbia.
People belonging to the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the
Yugoslav Left (JUL), the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), must be given space
on state television, which must not serve the interests of one party, but
reflect the mood of the people, he said.
He urged a democratic state, without internal tension, with
normalised relations with other states, noting that this would not be easy
because "among those countries there are those that have gravely sinned
against us."
"These are countries that bombed Yugoslavia last year, which is a
crime and destruction that we cannot forgive, but we cannot live out of the
world, we must adjust to it, while placing high value on our national
dignity and national interests", he said.
He said it was to be expected that the European Union, when it
meets on Monday, will lift sanctions against Yugoslavia, because the
country has set out down the road of democracy.
Lifting of the sanctions and resumption of relations with
international financial institutions will make it possible for the money
that has been draining out of the country to start flowing back in, where
the role of the expatriates interested in investing in the homeland will be
important, according to Kostunica.
"The country's recovery after the lifting of the sanctions will be
swift, because the circumstances we have been living in have been very
difficult", he said, adding that Yugoslavia would immediately be
incorporated in the Southeast Europe Stabilisation Pact, as a way for the
NATO states to repay, in one form, some of the damage they have caused.
Kostunica described as positive the reconstruction of
NATOdestroyed facilities, adding, however, that this has not been the
achievement of one party, but of the people.
He announced a more radical, more widespread reconstruction of the
country, whose chief characteristic would be that it would not be the feat
of any one party.
There must be no revanchism, he reiterated, stressing that he had
given his word there would be no retaliation, and that the people must
learn to live with political differences.
He said many details in the work of the Haguebased tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia made it a shameful institution, adding it was a
political rather than a legal institutions, and in fact not a court at all.
This is not an international, but an American court, under the
control of the U.S. Administration, a weapon for achieving its influence in
this region, according to Kostunica.
He said there could be no cooperation with the Hague court in the
matter of extradition of Yugoslav citizens.
He said that Yugoslavia's new premier must be designated in line
with the Constitution, which dictates that, when the president is from one
federal unit, the prime minister must be from the other.
In this case, the post must be offered to the strongest party in
Montenegro, which is the Socialist People's Party (SNP), and to the person
capable of reconciling the two confronted halves of Montenegro, Kostunica
explained.
He said he would work towards calling new free elections for the
federal parliament within a year and a half, and for drawing up very soon a
new Constitution acceptable to both Yugoslav federal units Serbia and
Montenegro.
KOSTUNICA: SERBIA IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE ITS FREEDOM BY ITSELF
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Presidentelect Vojislav
Kostunica told a crowd of several hundred thousand people in central
Belgrade Thursday evening that he was proud to see the people of Serbia
show their trust in him by electing him president of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia.
Kostunica said he won the election thanks to the fundamental
principles of democracy, in which people exercise their free will, even
under very difficult circumstances in which the Sep. 24 elections were held.
He underlined that the claims of the leftist coalition that the
new authorities were a NATO spearhead were entirely false.
"We need neither Moscow nor Washington. Serbia is able to achieve
its freedom by itself, and your presence here in such numbers is proof of
this", he said.
Recalling that he had been saying at all preelection rallies
throughout Serbia that peace must prevail in Serbia and in its relations
with Montenegro, Kostunica promised that Serbia would be ruled by law only
and that there would be no more violence or theft.
"We shall defend Serbia with our own weapons with truth against
their lies, with nonviolence against their use of force", Kostunica said in
reference to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia is the heart and
the shield of Europe, it is the most European part of Europe, but without
Slobodan Milosevic, he stressed.
"There must be no more sanctions against this country", Kostunica
said.
Responding to cries from the crowd calling for a march on Dedinje,
elite residential district of Belgrade where Milosevic has his residence,
Kostunica resolutely said: "We shall not march on Dedinje, it is not our
place. We are here at the parliament, a true system institution where the
people have brought us and where we shall fight our battles".
Kostunica then urged all those present to stay together and
expressed hope that more people would come to the area between the three
parliaments Yugoslav, Serbian and Belgrade to peacefully defend the
election victory.
G17PLUS APPEALS FOR RETURN OF ARMS TAKEN FROM POLICE
BELGRADE, October 5 (Tanjug). The independent thinktank G17plus
urged Thursday evening all persons who have taken arms from police stations
to bring them to the Belgrade city council.
G17plus Coordinator Predrag Markovic visited Tanjug in the evening
and asked the agency to carry the appeal, in order to prevent any unwanted
incidents.
Markovic also urged people celebrating in the streets not to loot
shops or damage any other property.
YUGOSLAVIA SERBIA MINERS
SERBIAN COALMINERS END STRIKE
LAZAREVAC, October 5 (Tanjug). The miners of the openpit coal mine
Kolubara will not allow the Obrenovac thermoelectric power plant near
Belgrade to stop, member of the strike committee Radoslav Jovanovic told
Tanjug Thursday evening.
The Obrenovac plant will have enough coal for minimum power
generation tomorrow (Friday) Jovanovic said.
Jovanovic was unable to say when the plant will be able to operate
at full capacity, but noted that the strike committee will meet early
Friday to discuss details on resuming production at full capacity.
Underlining that the only demand of the miners was the recognition
of the voters' will at the Sep. 24 presidential and federal elections,
Jovanovic said that all miners were present at their jobs and that the
equipment stood ready to be used.
The Kolubara miners went on strike one week ago, and power cuts
started throughout Serbia two days later.
YUGOSLAVIA - ARMY, POLICE
YUGOSLAV ARMY CONTINUES REGULAR ACTIVITIES
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Army's Combined Chiefs
of Staff ended session early on Friday without releasing a statement, which
sources close to the army command interpret as indicating that the army
will remain committed to its often repeated position that it will act
within its constitutional competence.
TANJUG learns that the army will act only in case of direct
threats to military facilities, personnel and materiel.
According to TANJUG correspondents' reports, no troop movements
have been noticed in any part of the country. According to them, the army
is on Friday morning engaged on its regular duties, training and securing
of the state borders.
BELGRADE POLICE CHIEF SAYS POLICE WILL NOT INTERVENE AGAINST PEOPLE
BELGRADE, October 6 (Tanjug) Belgrade Police Chief Branko Djuric
has offered assurances to the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) that
the police will not intervene against people demonstrating in the streets
of the capital.
According to sources close to DOS, Djuric said the security forces
would intervene only in case of drastic disruptions of public law and order
and threats to property.
E.U.'S SOLANA SAYS ANTIYUGOSLAV SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED AS OF MONDAY
BRUSSELS, October 6 (Tanjug) The European Union will start
lifting sanctions against Yugoslavia as of Monday, when the foreign
ministers of the fifteen E.U. nations are meeting in Luxemburg, according
to E.U. chief foreign policy representative Javier Solana.
Solana told BBC Radio the ministerial meeting was called for
Monday, and the lifting of the sanctions would begin as of that day. He
explained this was a clear signal of a willingness to open new relations
with democratic Yugoslavia, adding the lifting of the sanctions was a
matter of days.
French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, whose country holds the
E.U. rotating presidency, said late Thursday he would be setting in motion
the necessary procedure for the decision to lift the sanctions to be made
on Monday.
FISCHER SUPPORTS FRANCE'S PROPOSAL FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
BERLIN, October 6 (Tanjug) German Foreign Minister Joseph Fischer
said in Berlin on Friday that Germany supports France's proposal that in
Luxembourg on Monday be discussed the speedy lifting of sanctions against
Serbia.
"Serbia must be accepted with wide open hands into the family of
European countries, because its people said so clearly NO to dictatorship,"
Fischer said.
Fischer repeated on Friday he hoped that, just as 11 years ago in
Eastern Germany, the peaceful revolution in Belgrade will also be conducted
without bloodshed.
The German news agency DPA said in that connection it seemed that
will be case, and carried as urgent a statement to Tanjug by an unnamed
source in the Yugoslav Army that the army had no intention to prevent the
implementation of the will of citizens of Yugoslavia.
CROATIA FOLLOWS YUGOSLAV CHANGES WITH APPROVAL
ZAGREB, October 6 (Tanjug) Croatia, where Belgrade developments
have received unprecedented publicity, is following with approval the
political changes in Yugoslavia and recognises the victory of Vojislav
Kostunica in September 24 presidential election.
Commenting on the Belgrade developments, Croatian President
Stjepan Mesic said that "the events rocking Serbia, where the people, led
by the opposition, have started dismantling the institutions of the regime,
were to be expected."
Mesic said the Yugoslav situation could resolve itself also in the
worst possible way, and that whether or not the "Romanian scenario" is
acted out would depend, in his view, on the army.
He believes it would be "best for Milosevic to go, and for the
winners of the elections to offer a solution to the Serbian people".
The Croatian government, too, has made itself heard in connection
with the Yugoslav developments, expressing conviction that the developments
signal "the end of the undemocratic regime of Slobodan Milosevic" and the
beginning of a normalisation in Serbia.
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS DEMOCRATIC CHANGES IN YUGOSLAVIA
SKOPJE, October 6 (Tanjug) Democracy won a victory in Yugoslavia
on Thursday, according to Macedonia's foreign minister on Friday.
In a brief statement for state television, Aleksandar Dimitrov
said Macedonia had been urging a democratic settlement of all problems in
Serbia and Yugoslavia, which was what happened on Thursday.
The most important thing now was to keep the peace and avoid
further bloodshed, he added.
According to local media, President Boris Trajkovski has launched
an initiative for heads of state of Southeast Europe to sign a declaration
supporting Kostunica's electoral victory.
Trajkovski explained Macedonia was acting in its capacity as
president of an association of Southeast European nations.
According to sources in Skopje, all Southeast European nations
have upheld Trajkovski's initiative, with the exception of the Romanian
government, which has not responded.
ALBANIA DOES NOT CHANGE POSITION ON SERBIAN KOSOVO PROVINCE
LONDON, October 6 (Tanjug) Albania's foreign minister said on
Friday that Albania would not be changing its position on the Kosovo issue
in the wake of the electoral victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS).
Pascal Milo told the BBC the issue of Kosovo was vitally important
to Albanians, and that Tirana would not be changing its position on it.
Since the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244 provides for
giving Kosovo a wide autonomy, Milo urges that Albanians in the province be
allowed to decide about their status in a referendum.
He went on to say he believed that democratic Serbia would change
its attitude to Kosovo and hoped that Vojislav Kostunica, despite being a
nationalist, would be realistic and understand that Kosovo was a closed
chapter to Serbia now.
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>Il 10 ottobre sara' festa grande nella Carinzia di Jorg Haider: il leader
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>From: "Donatella"
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>Donatella" <donatellaruttar@...>
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> ARTISTI E INTELLETTUALI CARINZIANI LASCIANO L'AUSTRIA PER TOPOLO'
>Martedi' 10 ottobre
>Il 10 ottobre sara' festa grande nella Carinzia di Jorg Haider: il leader
>dell'FPO festeggia l'80=B0 (ottantesimo) anniversario del plebescito che
>sanci' la scelta degli Sloveni carinziani a favore della Repubblica
>Austriaca. La festa avra' un sapore fortemente nazionalistico; per dire il
>loro "no" alla atmosfera che si respira nel loro Land, gli artisti e gli
>intellettuali facenti capo all'UNIKUM, il Centro Culturale Universitario di
>Klagenfurt, hanno deciso di effettuare una clamorosa EVACUAZIONE:
>abbandoneranno il loro paese per 24 ore e si trasferiranno a
>Topolo'-Topolove, piccolo paese in provincia di Udine dove, da sette anni,
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>ha nell'idea di ospitalita' il suo asse portante.
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GLI ALTI COSTI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA
E' stata dura, ma finalmente la Repubblica Federale di
Jugoslavia si avvia verso la liberta' - che coincide con la
sua dissoluzione, ma questo e' un altro discorso.
Essenziale e' stato per questo lo sforzo degli Stati Uniti d'America, sforzo quantificabile in US$ 77.2 milioni per
l'anno passato (fonte: The Washington Post, September 22,
2000) cui vanno ad aggiungersi US$ 105 milioni in base alla
"Legge sulla democratizzazione della Serbia" promulgata lo
scorso 25 settembre dal Congresso USA (cfr.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/487).
Un conto complessivo che sfiora dunque i 400 miliardi in
lire italiane, interamente devolute alle formazioni ed ai
media della destra nazionalista e liberista, da aggiungersi
ai costi della macchina militare ed a tutti gli altri
esborsi degli anni precedenti. Indovinate un po' chi lo
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E' stata dura, ma finalmente la Repubblica Federale di
Jugoslavia si avvia verso la liberta' - che coincide con la
sua dissoluzione, ma questo e' un altro discorso.
Essenziale e' stato per questo lo sforzo degli Stati Uniti d'America, sforzo quantificabile in US$ 77.2 milioni per
l'anno passato (fonte: The Washington Post, September 22,
2000) cui vanno ad aggiungersi US$ 105 milioni in base alla
"Legge sulla democratizzazione della Serbia" promulgata lo
scorso 25 settembre dal Congresso USA (cfr.
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/487).
Un conto complessivo che sfiora dunque i 400 miliardi in
lire italiane, interamente devolute alle formazioni ed ai
media della destra nazionalista e liberista, da aggiungersi
ai costi della macchina militare ed a tutti gli altri
esborsi degli anni precedenti. Indovinate un po' chi lo
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U.S. Coup Aims to Install Puppet Regime in Yugoslavia
by Michel Chossudvosky and Jared Israel
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Yesterday we wrote an article analyzing the situation in Yugoslavia. Before
we could publish it, our analysis has been confirmed by events. We have
confirmed from an unimpeachable source that members of the "democratic"
opposition have been visited Belgrade residents, threatening to murder them
if they voted in the runoff elections. Now there are reports of the burning
of the Yugoslav parliament - where the government has a majority of seats -
and the sacking of sections of Belgrade and murder of citizens who don't
support the opposition. These measure are intended to bring a US puppet
regime to power.
The article follows.
The evidence is mounting that the "Democratic" opposition strategy in
Yugoslavia, worked out under the guidance of Washington and Bonn, is not to
elect Mr. Kostunica President of Yugoslavia.. If it were, why wouldn't they
gladly participate in runoff elections, given that Kostunica has an admitted
10% lead.? One reason they don't want to participate is that most of the
approximately 40% of the electorate which did not vote in round one would
most likely vote against Kostunica in round two.
But apart from that, the main reason is that the president of Yugoslavia has
no power without a parliamentary majority. The elections gave the current
government a clear majority in both houses.
NATO's plan for Yugoslavia is to apply the most severe economic shock
treatment which requires domination of the government. The shock therapy was
admitted by Mr. Dinkic, chief economist for the opposition:
"we are thinking of adopting... a shock therapy in some areas, and mild and
gradual reforms in others," Dinkic told Beta. : Beta news agency, Belgrade,
in Serbo-Croat 1828 gmt 26 Sep 00 posted by BBX Oct. 5, 2000)
The same was stated in law HR1064, passed by the US House of Representatives
a day after the elections. This law granted an additional 105 million to be
shared between the pro-NATO government of Montenegro ($55 million US) and the
leaders of the DOS ($50 million.) That money was released on an emergency
basis - Oct 1. It was immediately wired to the DOS bank accounts in Budapest
and then smuggled across the border in new US bills for immediate use. to
destabilize Yugoslavia.
The law ordered that the most draconian economic "reforms" be imposed on
Yugoslavia, ordered the breakup of Serbia into separate min-states, ordered
the imposition of complete "democratization", that is, adoption all measures
demanded by the US and ordered the hunting down of all people whom NATO
decides to accuse of being war criminals,
The violent economic "adjustment" and political destruction mandated by
HR1064 and outlined in the program of 'democratic" opposition itself are an
attempt to crush Yugoslavia as a force capable of resisting US domination of
the Balkans, to reduce it to an impoverished territory - a colony. .
These measures cannot be implemented unless NATO has full control of the
Yugoslav government including the army and police. (The other alternative,
invading a Yugoslavia run by a hostile government, is politically unfeasible
for NATO) .
Therefore the DOS has used the charge of "election fraud" - endlessly
repeated but never with any evidence - as an excuse to boycott the runoffs.
In contrast, the fraud involved in the US paying hundreds of millions of
dollars to the "democratic" opposition is never mentioned. This bribe money
violates the electoral laws of every country. Using the veneer of protesting
election fraud, the "democrats" are mobilizing all possible forces in an
attempt to seize power by force. These include pro-fascist Croatians and
pro-KLA Albanians who are the hard core supporters of the pro-NATO Djukanovic
government in Montenegro, they include , secessionists from the Serbian
province of Vojvodina and southern Serbia, young people who have never worked
and who are being fed trickles of cash from the several hundred million
dollars the US has pumped into opposition hands, people coerced by superiors
at work or by school headmasters to demonstrate, people bribed by a taste of
the vast sums of money the US has pumped into Yugoslavia especially in the
past two weeks, and people who have been fooled by the massive, US funded
campaign, by "independent" media, public relations firms and election
pollsters, into believing that their falling living standards, caused by
sanctions just as severe as those imposed on Iraq, are the "fault of one man
- Milosevich" and that the US-backed opposition will bring prosperity. In
fact they would bring the prosperity of the grave.
Because the truth is that countries like Bulgaria and Russia which have
swallowed the "democratic " bait are far poorer than Yugoslavia - even though
they are not suffering from sanctions. and were not yet bombed
The scenario is much like what occurred in Chile in 1973.. There was the same
sort of disruption of transportation and essential services including
electricity. There was the same effort to create the appearance of a majority
movement against Chilean Pres. Allende.. Events were staged which a captive
media misdescribed as popular protest, giving ordinary people the impression
that Allende was about to fall. At the same time, the CIA-directed plan
deprived the people of basic necessities, causing real unrest. In Yugoslavia,
the disruption of the supply of essential commodities started before the
election with a US-instigated rise in the price of bread
Under cover of disruption and "popular protest: the CIA overthrew President
Salvador Allende and installed a pro-US military junta headed by General
Augusto Pinochet.
The strikes which crippled transport and food distribution in Chile were
funded by the CIA. The same is being attempted right now in Yugoslavia. Vast
sums of US tax payers money has been poured into opposition coffers in
Serbia. We know of $182 million. But this is only what is officially
admitted. What about CIA money, which the New York Times says is going into
Serbia "in suitcases full of cash"? What about money from the Soros
Foundation and other CIA-connected "charities"? This money is being used to
finance the miners' strike and to lure young people into the Western-created
group Otpor by giving them money and trinkets, like cellular phones. .
Of course, many Yugoslav people are disgruntled. one miner told the 'NY
Times': "I used to make $1500 a month. Now I make $80." Dishonest forces put
the blame for this on the government that is resisting US control. In fact,
the problem started because in 1989 a World Bank plan, overseen by a leading
member of one of the current 'democratic' opposition groups, closed over a
thousand Yugoslav business, devastating the economy. The wars and sanctions,
whose fault lies with the US and Germany, have further hurt the economy. The
Yugoslav government, routinely accused of being dictatorial, has tolerated
the creation of an immense Fifth Column in Serbia by the US government, which
has poured m8llions into the funding and training of what tare falsely called
"civil society" organizations. These organizations, funded through the
National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, the USIA, the CIA and the
Soros Foundation, among others, pay thousands of people in Serbia and
maintain and entire "alternate" media with the latest equipment and high
salaries. This media then uses the problem caused by the US to sow discontent
among anyone who is susceptible.
The US effort to destroy Yugoslavia goes back to 1984. A U.S. National
Security Decision Directive NSDD133 entitled "United States Policy Toward
Yugoslavia. Labeled SECRET Sensitive has recently been de-classified. It is a
prescription for destroying Yugoslavia as an economic and political entity.
Since the elections on 24 September, the Democratic opposition has met with
NATO officials in Sofia, Bulgaria. NATO Assistant Secretary General Paul
Klaiber was in Sofia and Bucharest for high level discussions on security
issues resulting from the elections. Barely reported in the media, an IMF
donors' conference was held behind closed doors, Two leading "democratic"
representatives presented their so-called "Letter of Intent", a plan for
imposing harsh economic measure on Yugoslavia, to their IMF and World Bank
leaders. And on the 4th of October, the Stability Pact for Southeastern
Europe was meeting under its so-called "Title III" which pertains to
"security issues." The elections and "transition" in Yugoslavia were on the
agenda. The press reports do not confirm that the two "democratic:
representatives stayed for these meetings. We suspect they did..
The ploy being employed now is to create chaos while dangling promises of
money and peace, instigate whatever elements - children ignorant of politics
and lured by money, secessionist elements, fascists, people under compulsion
from superiors - along with infiltrators from NATO armed forces disguised as
rebellious youths, to terrorize Yugoslav loyalists and create the impression
of popular revolt. Already we have learned that DOS activists are going
around Belgrade, threatening death to anyone who votes in the Sunday
elections. Further provocation may occur at any time. These "democrats" aim
to provide Washington and NATO with a pretext to intervene as "peacekeepers"
as they did in Bosnia.
In the meantime, not only are NATO war ships in the Adriatic, but foreign
troops are already on Yugoslav soil. British SAS special forces are training
paramilitary police in Montenegro to assassinate Yugoslav army officer,.
Money is being channeled to finance these groups..
What we are witnessing is nothing less than an attempt to install a
fascist-like government in Yugoslavia, to turn all of Yugoslavia into Kosovo.
Yugoslavia has stood up to the biggest bully in history, the US government.
Now it is time for all who oppose the creation of US/German dominated world
empire to stand up for Yugoslavia.
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>
> Les liaisons dangereuses
> de Monsieur Kostunica
>
>
> �Cette fois, j'ai vot� Kostunica, car il est honn�te. Mais je n'aime pas
> les gens autour de lui, et j'esp�re qu'il saura les ma�triser�, m'a dit
> un vieux professeur, ce dimanche 24 septembre, dans un bureau de vote de
> Belgrade, o� j'�tais invit� comme observateur international. Beaucoup
> m'ont dit la m�me chose. Qui donc est derri�re Kostunica?
>
> MICHEL COLLON
>
> Face � Milosevic , incarnant la r�sistance � l'Otan, les dirigeants
> habituels de l'opposition auraient certainement perdu s'ils s'�taient
> pr�sent�s. Car Draskovic avait bais� la main de Madeleine Albright (USA)
> en pleine guerre et Djindjic avait fui en Allemagne. Or, la grande
> majorit� des Yougoslaves reste farouchement attach�e � l'ind�pendance du
> pays.
> L'habilet� de la nouvelle strat�gie a consist� � pr�senter un homme
> 'neuf', Kostunica, qui multiplie les d�clarations 'critiques' � l'�gard
> des Etats-Unis et de l'Otan. Mais son programme est celui du G-17 (voir
> page 2), un groupe d'�conomistes yougoslaves tr�s � droite:
> 1. Introduction du deutsche mark comme monnaie nationale! 2. Forte
> r�duction du budget militaire, ce qui priverait le pays des moyens de se
> d�fendre contre de nouvelles agressions. 3. Alignement sur les recettes
> anti-sociales du Fonds Mon�taire International. Apr�s une ann�e de
> sursis, la partie pauvre de la population serait priv�e du 'filet de
> s�curit� sociale' qui lui a permis de survivre jusqu'� pr�sent. Elle
> devrait acheter les marchandises aux prix r�gnant en Europe occidentale
> tout en disposant d'un pouvoir d'achat actuellement proche de bien des
> pays du tiers monde.
>
> Avec Kostunica, Djindjic et le FMI, la population serait-elle soulag�e?
> Ces m�mes r�formes ont d�j� d�vast� des pays comme la Bulgarie,
> l'Albanie ou la Roumanie. Un observateur roumain m'a confi�: �On nous
> avait promis qu'apr�s la chute de Ceaucescu, le capitalisme sans freins
> apporterait la prosp�rit�. Mais, aujourd'hui, l'�conomie est en ruines.
> Nous avons ramass� dix milliards de dollars de dettes, mais on ne voit
> pas un seul investissement. Les b�timents en cours de construction sous
> Ceaucescu ne sont toujours pas achev�s, on ne cr�e pas de nouveaux
> logements, les jeunes sont forc�s d'attendre que leurs parents meurent
> pour obtenir un appartement. Apr�s avoir c�d� � la mode de la
> consommation Coca Cola, McDonalds et Cie, ils se demandent: �O� vais-je
> trouver du travail pour survivre?� Beaucoup devront �migrer.
> L'Allemagne vient d'offrir dix mille visas pour des jeunes qualifi�s en
> informatique. Cet exode des cerveaux privera encore plus le pays de ses
> moyens de d�veloppement.�
> Beaucoup d'�lecteurs ont esp�r� qu'en changeant de dirigeants, ils
> seraient d�barrass�s des sanctions internationales �tranglant leur pays.
> Mais la victoire de Kostunica leur apportera-t-elle r�ellement le
> soulagement et la stabilit�?
> Sans doute de l'argent occidental irait dans certaines poches de ce
> pays. Le vrai chef de l'opposition, Zoran Djindjic - l'homme qui tire
> les ficelles de Kostunica - a re�u des millions de dollars pour faire le
> travail de Washington. Et une nouvelle classe d'hommes d'affaires
> tr�pigne d'impatience. Avec les multinationales, elle exige toutes
> libert�s de mettre fin aux protections sociales. Pour exploiter � fond
> une main d'ouvre qualifi�e et comp�tente. Elle voudrait imposer une
> concurrence impitoyable entre travailleurs, les soumettre � la peur du
> licenciement et du ch�mage , les obliger � travailler sans respecter la
> s�curit� ni le repos de la nuit ou du week-end.
> Comme dans les pays dits 'avanc�s' o� une grande partie des travailleurs
> se cr�ve au boulot, de plus en plus stress�s tandis que l'autre partie
> d�prime au ch�mage. Voil� le sort qui attendrait le peuple yougoslave.
> Sans compter que la d�r�glementation ch�re au 'G-17' leur permettrait
> s�rement de jouir eux aussi de la maladie de la vache folle, de la
> dioxine ou d'autres pollutions...
>
> Dans le club des voleurs, il n'y a plus de place
> Une grande illusion domine actuellement la jeunesse yougoslave, tromp�e
> par les promesses de l'Ouest. A juste titre, elle souhaite vivre mieux.
> Mais elle croit que si elle accepte les volont�s des multinationales et
> des dirigeants occidentaux, la prosp�rit� suivra.
> Mais d'o� provient cette richesse des multinationales occidentales? Du
> fait qu'elles ne paient pratiquement pas les mati�res premi�res prises
> au tiers-monde. Et que dans tous les pays o� elles vont exploiter des
> travailleurs, elles font tout pour maintenir les salaires au plus bas.
> C'est d'ailleurs une r�gle �conomique impos�e par le syst�me de la
> concurrence capitaliste : seul survit, celui qui exploite le plus fort.
> Partout donc, leur int�r�t est de maintenir au plus bas les salaires et
> le niveau de vie g�n�ral . Sinon, elles partent.
> Bref, si les soci�t�s des pays riches sont riches, c'est qu'elles volent
> les pays pauvres. Aussi quand elles promettent � un pays pauvre qu'en se
> soumettant, il pourra rejoindre le club des pays riches, c'est un
> mensonge. Cette promesse ne pourrait �tre tenue: s'il n'y a plus
> d'exploit�s qui se font voler, il n'y aura plus d'exploiteurs qui
> s'enrichissent. La seule solution est un monde sans exploiteurs et sans
> exploit�s, un monde de r�elle coop�ration internationale bas�e sur la
> solidarit�.
>
> Colonisation ne signifie pas stabilit�
> La colonisation de la Yougoslavie et des Balkans par l'Ouest
> n'apporterait pas la stabilit�. Si les in�galit�s sociales et la mis�re
> augmentent, les peuples prendront conscience qu'ils ont �t� tromp�s, ils
> se r�volteront pour regagner leur ind�pendance. Comme d�j� en Mac�doine
> et en Roumanie o� les �lections devraient voir un retour de la gauche.
> Pour d�tourner les r�voltes, les Etats-Unis et leurs amis essayeraient
> certainement � nouveau d'exciter des affrontements entre nationalit�s.
> Et si �a ne suffit pas, on verra alors que les bases militaires de
> l'Otan ont pour fonction non seulement des objectifs strat�giques �
> l'encontre de la Russie, du p�trole du Caucase et du Moyen-Orient, mais
> aussi le r�le de r�primer les peuples des Balkans. L'Otan a soutenu les
> dictateurs fascistes Franco et Salazar, elle a mis en place la dictature
> des colonels grecs en 1967, puis celle des g�n�raux turcs; elle
> n'h�siterait pas � recommencer. Mieux vaut ne pas introduire le loup
> dans la bergerie.
> La r�sistance est donc la seule voie possible pour assurer la paix et le
> d�veloppement social dans les Balkans. Milosevic a d�clar� : "Si nous
> devenions une colonie, nous ne serions jamais lib�r�s des sanctions
> (l'embargo), car �tre une colonie c'est la pire forme de sanctions. Si
> nous devenions une colonie, nous n'aurions aucune chance de
> d�veloppement, ni � court, ni a long terme."
> Sur ce point en tout cas, on ne peut que lui donner raison.
>
>
>
> --
> Les "Editions Democrite" publient un mensuel en francais :
> > "Les dossiers du BIP" avec des traductions d'articles provenant de la
> > presse communiste(grecque, allemande, anglaise, turque, russe,
> espagnole,
> > portugaise...)sur des evenements qui interessent des lecteurs
> communistes.
> > Editions Democrite, 52, bld Roger Salengro, 93190 LIVRY-GARGAN, FRANCE
>
> > e-mail : democrite@...
>
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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FACING THREATS AND BRIBES: WILL YUGOSLAVIA RESIST
U.S.-BACKED COUNTER-REVOLUTION?
By Sara Flounders
The corporate media would like everyone to believe that an
authentic, national popular movement independent of the U.S.
and NATO is rising up against the Yugoslav government, and
especially President Slobodan Milosevic. But to believe this
would be a serious mistake.
That's because the media leave out that Washington and its
European allies have subsidized this movement's leadership
with huge sums of money, bolstered them with enormous
political support, exhausted the Yugoslav population with
war threats and sanctions, demonized Milosevic by spreading
lies and false charges, and goaded the opposition to
Milosevic to risk civil war.
The U.S. leaders don't just want to remove Milosevic, they
want to smash Yugoslavia with a counter-revolution that
overthrows whatever remains from the 1945 socialist
revolution.
The opposition, though it led the first round of the
presidential election by 49 percent to 39 percent, has as of
Oct. 4 refused to participate in the runoff election
scheduled for Oct. 8. Instead it is trying to force a
confrontation with the government through strikes and
demonstrations.
WASHINGTON TRIES TO BUY ELECTION
The U.S. government has admitted to authorizing $77 dollars
to bankroll the opposition movement. On Sept. 25 the U.S.
House of Representatives voted another $105 million to fund
the "democracy movement" in Yugoslavia.
In comparison George W. Bush has raised $177 million to fund
his presidential bid. Al Gore has raised $126 million.
(Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for
Responsive Politics.)
Yugoslavia is about the size of the state of Ohio, with a
population less than 4 percent of the United States. If you
also account for the difference in average income, this
would be comparable here to a $30 billion donation from a
foreign enemy to a U.S. presidential candidate. And this is
in an economy that has been strangled by U.S.-led sanctions.
As in the U.S. election campaign, there are also lots of
soft money donations. The congressional appropriation is
just the tip of the iceberg. Both the Sept. 20 New York
Times and the Sept. 19 Washington Post describe the
suitcases of money handed over at the border. Advisers,
pollsters, TV, radio and newspapers are all paid for by the
U.S. government.
And this sum omits whatever the Soros Foundation or Germany
and other West European powers pumped in.
Despite all this foreign funding, the opposition candidate
Vojislav Kostunica claims that he is an independent who
would refuse to turn over any government official to the
Hague Tribunal. He promises Serbia will remain intact.
Kostunica counts on the U.S. and European Union's promises
to lift sanctions if Milosevic is no longer president. He
seems to have forgotten that the U.S. also promised
Milosevic that if he signed the 1995 Dayton Accords on
Bosnia, the sanctions would be lifted. Milosevic signed. The
sanctions remained.
WASHINGTON CLARIFIES ITS GOAL: COUNTER-REVOLUTION
A new bill before Congress makes Washington's aims in this
election clear. HR 1064, called the Serbian Democratization
Act of 2000, stipulates that sanctions will remain in place
until Yugoslavia agrees to "cooperate fully with The Hague
and hand over anyone charged." A new government must agree
to detach Kosovo, grant "autonomy to Vojvodina"--the region
in the north of Serbia--and "give up any claim to previously
owned property of the Yugoslav Federation, including its
missions, offices and consulates."
U.S. intervention is hardly limited to funding the
opposition and planning for its administration after the
election. Part of Yugoslavia--Kosovo--is under military
occupation by the very forces funding the opposition. The
Pentagon held joint military maneuvers with Croatia--whose
government is hostile to Yugoslavia--and a landing invasion
exercise on an island off shore in the Adriatic Sea during
the Sept. 24 elections.
Washington's goals go far beyond gross interference in an
election campaign against one man, Milosevic. That's why the
U.S. strategists wanted Kostunica to refuse to participate
in the runoff election. They are not satisfied with an
orderly transfer of some government positions if Milosevic's
Socialist Party-led coalition would still command the
Yugoslavia Parliament, whose control it retained in the
Sept. 24 election.
Strikes and shutdowns organized by the opposition show that
Washington's real aim is fomenting a civil war and the
violent overthrow of the whole government apparatus,
replacing it with a weak government completely compliant to
U.S. demands. The U.S. especially wants to destroy the
Yugoslav Army, which has its roots in the socialist
revolution of 1945.
KOSTUNICA AND G17
Why are all the imperialist forces throwing such enormous
support to Kostunica?
Kostunica is backed by a coalition of 18 parties called the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia. DOS embraces the
reconstruction plan of a group of Yugoslav economists called
the Group of 17-Plus. The mission statement of the G17
openly brags that many of the groups' economists work for
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
For anyone who holds illusions that the NATO countries--the
imperialists--might actually be supporting a "democratic
alternative," it would help to review the economic plan of
the G17 to understand the enthusiasm of U.S. and West
European banks and corporations for Kostunica.
Michel Chossudovsky is a professor of economics at the
University of Ottawa and the author of a well-known book on
IMF policies, "The Globalization of Poverty." Chossudovsky
showed that the G17 is funded by the Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" which is an
affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In an article co-
authored by Jared Israel and available on www.tenc.net, and
developed in depth in the book "NATO in the Balkans,"
Chossudofsky shows the role of the IMF in dismantling
Yugoslavia.
This whole apparatus is directly funded by the National
Endowment for Democracy, which the U.S. Congress created in
order to finance operations that the Central Intelligence
Agency used to fund clandestinely. This is not speculation.
Allen Weinstein, who planned the NED, said, "A lot of what
we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
The G17 is wholly committed to capitalism, free markets and
the dismantling of the public sector. They are committed to
doing away with programs that subsidize food, rent or
transportation, along with free medical care. World Bank and
IMF policies in country after country force businesses, both
public and private, into bankruptcy. Then foreign
corporations buy them out at rock bottom prices. A dependent
colonial economy is the result.
IMF EXPERIMENT LED TO BREAKUP
Yugoslavia went through a wrenching experiment with IMF
privatization in 1989. Professor Veselin Vukotic, now elder
statesman of the G17, was then the minister of privatization
under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.
Vukotic worked on a World Bank plan to privatize Yugoslav
industry. Yugoslav companies were selected for bankruptcy or
liquidation. This plan orchestrated the breakup of 50
percent of Yugoslav industry, wiping out 1,100 industrial
firms. Over 614,000 industrial workers were laid off, out of
2.7 million. Industrial output shrank by 21 percent.
As social programs were unraveling, unemployment
skyrocketing and wages plunging, Yugoslavia as a federation
began to unravel. There were strikes and worker actions. But
the economic chaos also gave rise to separatist tendencies
among the six republics that made up the Socialist
Federation of Yugoslavia.
In the 1991 elections Serbia and Montenegro tried to reject
these disastrous economic policies. The regimes in other
republics cast their lots with the plans of the Western
bankers.
In January 1991 U.S. Foreign Appropriations legislation
ordered a cutoff in trade, loans or aid to any republic that
held elections that the State Department did not approve.
The Foreign Appropriations bill each year legislates all
manner of strangulation against the economy of any country
not moving fast enough toward a capitalist market economy.
For attempting some resistance to the plans of the World
Bank, Serbia was targeted.
In the years of economic strangulation caused by the
sanctions that the West imposed on the two remaining
republics of Yugoslavia, many of these economic plans have
been reversed, increasing public ownership. The G17 promises
that Kostunica's election would mean Yugoslavia would
quickly adapt "free market" policies and privatize the
entire economy.
THE MINERS' STRIKE
Reports in the Western media on the Kolubara miners' strike
indicate that the government has lost at least some of the
support it once had in the working class, and that workers
are dissatisfied with the decline in their living standards.
No one sympathetic to the workers' struggle can be pleased
that police have to be sent in against workers. The world
should remember, however, what happened to the Polish
shipyard workers in Gdansk who led the struggle against the
Polish government. The new neo-liberal regime shut the
shipyard as it was no longer profitable on the world market,
and all the workers lost their jobs. Miners in Russia and
Romania faced the same IMF shutdowns.
It would be foolish to believe that the U.S. government,
which has suppressed democracy and overthrown legally
elected popular governments from Guate mala to Iran to
Greece to Chile to Grenada to Haiti, is interested in
democratic process in Yugoslavia. What it wants is to impose
savage capitalism on Serbia and Montenegro.
Kostunica claims Yugoslavia under his administration will
become a "normal Western government." But what does that
mean when there are only two kinds of status for countries
in Europe today?
Yugoslavia can't join the imperialist powers like Germany,
France or even Austria, which held colonial empires and
whose economies today have a global reach. Its only choice
is to share the fate of Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and
Ukraine.
The economy and the standard of living in these countries is
worse than it is in Yugoslavia, even after 78 days of NATO
bombing and eight years of international sanctions. The
people in these countries are the victims of 10 years of
economic restructuring. Colonial subjugation and the
dismantling of industry have been imposed on them. And
that's the choice Kostunica and his U.S. tutors offer
Yugoslavia.
WHAT TO DO
The International Action Center has issued a call directed
to those in the United States who want to show solidarity
with Yugoslavia and its struggle to resist counter-
revolution and a U.S./NATO takeover.
In response to the U.S. and Western Europe's blatant use of
funds to influence the Yugoslav election, the IAC and its
founder, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have
called for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the full
extent of U.S. intervention in the Yugoslav elections. It is
seeking evidence of this intervention and hopes to expose it
as a crime, just as it did with the war crimes the U.S. and
other NATO forces committed against Yugoslavia in 1999.
Interested readers can contact the IAC at (212) 633-6646 or
e-mail iacenter@.... Information is also available
on the Web site www.iacenter.org.
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DOS IMPLEMENTING SCENARIO WHICH NATO FAILED TO REALIZE, MINISTER MATIC
BELGRADE, October 4 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
Matic said on Wednesday that he expected a good turnout for the second
round of elections for state president on October 8, and that the
electorate will express their will and vote for the candidate of their
choice in a free and democratic manner, without pressures or interference
from outside or within.
Speaking in a broadcast by YUInfo television, Matic said elections
held in Yugoslavia on September 24 "were overexposed in the international
public from the very beginning of the election campaign."
"Practically, they were given importance which elections in other
countries do not have according to the nature of things. It is evident that
a large deposit had been made for these elections," he said.
Through these elections, the countries which committed the
aggression on Yugoslavia had wanted to secure amnesty for the crimes they
committed against the civilian population in Yugoslavia and, generally, for
that entire shameful, uncivilized and illegal aggression for which there
was no basis in any legal act or international document, Matic said.
The Minister singled out as especially interesting that foreign
correspondents of media such as the BBC, Sky News, NTV, ARD, CDF, did not
hide their disappointment that no conflicts had broken out already on the
day of elections, even bloodshed, in the streets of Belgrade and other
places in Yugoslavia, and that the elections had passed in a peaceful and
democratic atmosphere.
"This was a great disappointment for them and they invested
everything to provoke this in other ways," Matic said, illustrating this
with a statement by wellknown British reporter John Simpson who, when asked
from his BBC headquarters to give the actual figures for the first round of
presidential elections, replied that figures were naturally important, but
that the possibility to paralyse the country was far more important.
Returning to the subject of the second round of presidential
elections, Matic asked: "What is the secret behind (DOS presidential
candidate Vojislav) Kostunica's fear to participate in a runoff" if he had
an advantage of 600,000 votes in the first round, in which case the second
round would be a mere formality for him.
"Perhaps the secret is that DOS (Democratic Opposition of Serbia)
stole votes and manipulated the elections by substituting boxes with
presidential candidate ballots. Therefore, let us see who is the actual
forger in these elections, and not believe it when they cry wolf, because
that story is familiar," Matic said.
Speaking about activities by home media in the present situation,
Matic said the papers Vijesti, Glas javnosti, Blic, Danas, and some others
"have become DOS's political pamphlets whose objective is to realize the
scenario which Simpson had clearly announced as the homework of the BBC,
which is a British state company and reflects the positions of Britains's
state policy."
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YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS -
A LESSON IN OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
At the invitation of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Britain's Socialist Labour Party sent a three-person delegation to participate in international monitoring of the Yugoslav elections held on 24 September. We were the only British representatives among 250 observers invited from around the world.
Our delegation travelled extensively throughout the country, was able to talk to officials and voters and visited numerous polling stations, gaining first-hand experience of what was actually taking place during an election which was being misreported in many parts of the world.
From what we saw, the Federal Electoral Commission, an elected all-party body, did everything in its power to ensure that people were able to cast their votes without intimidation and in an orderly manner - and certainly in accordance with procedures which we would expect in a democratic, free election.
In Serbia, we visited the Muslim areas of Kraljevo and Novi Pazar as well as observing polling in the capital, Belgrade.
It was only in Montenegro that we observed the following irregularities:
1. the so-called Democratic Opposition which boycotted the elections in Montenegro nevertheless gathered outside polling stations there in clear violation of election procedures, using intimidating behaviour towards prospective voters;
2. we received many first-hand reports from people who stated they had been threatened with the loss of their jobs if they turned out to vote;
3. we were in no doubt that countless refugees from Kosovo had been deliberately excluded from the electoral lists in Montenegro despite the fact that their identity cards, issued in 1999, gave them the right to vote, and were thus also prevented from voting.
We could only conclude that these tactics of intimidation and disenfranchisement were designed to benefit the so-called Democratic Opposition.
We were also appalled at the blatant outside interference in the procedures from Western governments which are obviously seeking to influence the outcome of these elections by promising economic aid and the lifting of sanctions if the Yugoslav people vote in accordance with the wishes of these governments and the European Union.
Mick Appleyard Liz Screen Ian Johnson
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Press release 22 / 09/ 2000
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CANADIAN OBSERVERS IN YUGOSLAVIA
Marjaleena Repo
BELGRADE. The international observers of the Yugoslavian presidential and
parliamentary elections have arrived in Belgrade - some 200 of them from
(so far) 54 countries. Contrary to the reports that "they have not been
allowed in," there are registered observers from the following Western
European countries. Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Germany, Portugal, Sweden and UK. (The so far single American
observer is an active senior participant in the Gore presidential
campaign.) Among the observers are parlamentarians, delegates from
political parties and organizations, as well as independents like the two
participants from Canada.
The Canadian delegates have attended political rallies of the three major
presidential candidates, in Belgrade and Novi Sad. These events were noisy
and lively affairs, without any observable disturbances and any noticeable
police presence. Literature was freely distributed and received at these
events, in a way no different from political rallies in Canada.
One of us (Marjaleena Repo) has paid particular attention to election
posters as she has been involved in the long-standing and not-yet-finished
fight for the right to poster in Canada - and she can report that posters
are everywhere in the street scene, accompanied by graffiti and the
defacing of each others posters even-steven fashion, it seems. She has seen
posterers at work in downtown Belgrade with posters urging women to vote,
while postering on top of other election messages! She had a chance to
discuss this contradiction with five English-speaking Yugoslavian youth
with their buckets and sponges. Unlike in Canadian cities, the posters
appear not to be scraped down by city workers but live to suffer the
indignities from competeing political parties. In addition, there are huge
billboards advertising the three major presidential candidates all around
the cityscape. All in all, the appearance of democracy in action.
The other Canadian delegate, Professor Dimitri Kitsikis, has a long-time
experience of national elections, having systematically studied and
observed them in many countries, notably in France, Greece and Turkey. His
observations are therefore particularly valid and he has been unshaken by
Western insistence that Yugoslav elections could be rigged. On the
contrary, he is observing that these elections do not differ
from those in any other democratic countries, particularly from France, of
which Dr. Kitsikis is an expert.
The delegates have attended an information session on the electoral process
in Yugoslavia and have been provided with background information and
documentation on how the system works and how it makes an effort to
guarantee an equal, free and transparent voting method leading to reliable
results. Questions
were invited and responded to. We were informed that the delegates will be
able to attend any and all polling stations on voting day, Sept. 24, and
officials at the polls have been instructed to welcome foreign observers
with full access to the actual voting situation, while respecting the
citizens' right to privacy.
While in Belgrade, disturbing news reached the observers. The International
Herald Tribune of Sept. 20 has a front page story, titled "U.S. aids
Milosevic foes: Millions allocated to a democracy program." The article
states that U.S. officials have acknowledged $77 million financial
"contribution" to opposition groups in Yugoslavia, from students to labour,
from so-called independent media to political rock bands, and the newspaper
states that "There is nothing secret or even particularly unusual about the
U.S. democracy-building program in Serbia, which is closely co-ordinated
with European allies and is similar to previous campaigns in pre-democratic
Chile, South Africa and Eastern Europe, among other places."
Washington Post (Sept. 21) further reveals that U.S. officials and
corporations are also "providing a sophisticated opinion survey system,
engaging for the purpose the New York firm that has done the job for Bill
Clinton [Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates]" which explains the many
polls that "prove" that an
opposition candidate is ahead of President Milosevic and suggest vigorously
that Mr. Milosevic will only win by fraud.
While the Canadian and other Western media have alredy declared the
election to be "rigged" (without any evidence, of course), we believe that
the actual evidence for rigging and distorting the Yugoslavian election
results has been found in the pre-democratic countries of U.S. and the
European Union who in an wholly illegal and undemocratic fashion are
interfering in the domestic affairs of a sovereign country. This, of
course, must be condemned by all true democrats, be they individuals,
organizations or nations. - 30-
MARJALEENA REPO is a social justice activist and a long-standing member of
Canada's "democracy movement," with hands-on experience on how Canada's
democracy does and does not work. In April '99, she was a founding member
of The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Canada's Participation in the War Against
Yugoslavia. She lives in Saskatoon, Sask.
DR. DIMITRI KITSIKIS is a professor of International Relations at the
University of Ottawa since 1970 and a fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. He is a specialist of the Balkans and Turkey and has written many
books on the area.
Professor Kitsikis is multi-lingual and can give interviews in French and
Greek as well as in English.
Back in Canada on September 29, Ms. Repo can be reached at (416)466-6533 or
(306)244-9724.
Professor Kitsikis will be back in Ottawa on October 2, and can be reached
at University of Ottawa, tel: (613)562-5735 or at his home tel: (613)834-4634.
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by Michel Chossudvosky and Jared Israel
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[Emperor's Clothes]
Yesterday we wrote an article analyzing the situation in Yugoslavia. Before
we could publish it, our analysis has been confirmed by events. We have
confirmed from an unimpeachable source that members of the "democratic"
opposition have been visited Belgrade residents, threatening to murder them
if they voted in the runoff elections. Now there are reports of the burning
of the Yugoslav parliament - where the government has a majority of seats -
and the sacking of sections of Belgrade and murder of citizens who don't
support the opposition. These measure are intended to bring a US puppet
regime to power.
The article follows.
The evidence is mounting that the "Democratic" opposition strategy in
Yugoslavia, worked out under the guidance of Washington and Bonn, is not to
elect Mr. Kostunica President of Yugoslavia.. If it were, why wouldn't they
gladly participate in runoff elections, given that Kostunica has an admitted
10% lead.? One reason they don't want to participate is that most of the
approximately 40% of the electorate which did not vote in round one would
most likely vote against Kostunica in round two.
But apart from that, the main reason is that the president of Yugoslavia has
no power without a parliamentary majority. The elections gave the current
government a clear majority in both houses.
NATO's plan for Yugoslavia is to apply the most severe economic shock
treatment which requires domination of the government. The shock therapy was
admitted by Mr. Dinkic, chief economist for the opposition:
"we are thinking of adopting... a shock therapy in some areas, and mild and
gradual reforms in others," Dinkic told Beta. : Beta news agency, Belgrade,
in Serbo-Croat 1828 gmt 26 Sep 00 posted by BBX Oct. 5, 2000)
The same was stated in law HR1064, passed by the US House of Representatives
a day after the elections. This law granted an additional 105 million to be
shared between the pro-NATO government of Montenegro ($55 million US) and the
leaders of the DOS ($50 million.) That money was released on an emergency
basis - Oct 1. It was immediately wired to the DOS bank accounts in Budapest
and then smuggled across the border in new US bills for immediate use. to
destabilize Yugoslavia.
The law ordered that the most draconian economic "reforms" be imposed on
Yugoslavia, ordered the breakup of Serbia into separate min-states, ordered
the imposition of complete "democratization", that is, adoption all measures
demanded by the US and ordered the hunting down of all people whom NATO
decides to accuse of being war criminals,
The violent economic "adjustment" and political destruction mandated by
HR1064 and outlined in the program of 'democratic" opposition itself are an
attempt to crush Yugoslavia as a force capable of resisting US domination of
the Balkans, to reduce it to an impoverished territory - a colony. .
These measures cannot be implemented unless NATO has full control of the
Yugoslav government including the army and police. (The other alternative,
invading a Yugoslavia run by a hostile government, is politically unfeasible
for NATO) .
Therefore the DOS has used the charge of "election fraud" - endlessly
repeated but never with any evidence - as an excuse to boycott the runoffs.
In contrast, the fraud involved in the US paying hundreds of millions of
dollars to the "democratic" opposition is never mentioned. This bribe money
violates the electoral laws of every country. Using the veneer of protesting
election fraud, the "democrats" are mobilizing all possible forces in an
attempt to seize power by force. These include pro-fascist Croatians and
pro-KLA Albanians who are the hard core supporters of the pro-NATO Djukanovic
government in Montenegro, they include , secessionists from the Serbian
province of Vojvodina and southern Serbia, young people who have never worked
and who are being fed trickles of cash from the several hundred million
dollars the US has pumped into opposition hands, people coerced by superiors
at work or by school headmasters to demonstrate, people bribed by a taste of
the vast sums of money the US has pumped into Yugoslavia especially in the
past two weeks, and people who have been fooled by the massive, US funded
campaign, by "independent" media, public relations firms and election
pollsters, into believing that their falling living standards, caused by
sanctions just as severe as those imposed on Iraq, are the "fault of one man
- Milosevich" and that the US-backed opposition will bring prosperity. In
fact they would bring the prosperity of the grave.
Because the truth is that countries like Bulgaria and Russia which have
swallowed the "democratic " bait are far poorer than Yugoslavia - even though
they are not suffering from sanctions. and were not yet bombed
The scenario is much like what occurred in Chile in 1973.. There was the same
sort of disruption of transportation and essential services including
electricity. There was the same effort to create the appearance of a majority
movement against Chilean Pres. Allende.. Events were staged which a captive
media misdescribed as popular protest, giving ordinary people the impression
that Allende was about to fall. At the same time, the CIA-directed plan
deprived the people of basic necessities, causing real unrest. In Yugoslavia,
the disruption of the supply of essential commodities started before the
election with a US-instigated rise in the price of bread
Under cover of disruption and "popular protest: the CIA overthrew President
Salvador Allende and installed a pro-US military junta headed by General
Augusto Pinochet.
The strikes which crippled transport and food distribution in Chile were
funded by the CIA. The same is being attempted right now in Yugoslavia. Vast
sums of US tax payers money has been poured into opposition coffers in
Serbia. We know of $182 million. But this is only what is officially
admitted. What about CIA money, which the New York Times says is going into
Serbia "in suitcases full of cash"? What about money from the Soros
Foundation and other CIA-connected "charities"? This money is being used to
finance the miners' strike and to lure young people into the Western-created
group Otpor by giving them money and trinkets, like cellular phones. .
Of course, many Yugoslav people are disgruntled. one miner told the 'NY
Times': "I used to make $1500 a month. Now I make $80." Dishonest forces put
the blame for this on the government that is resisting US control. In fact,
the problem started because in 1989 a World Bank plan, overseen by a leading
member of one of the current 'democratic' opposition groups, closed over a
thousand Yugoslav business, devastating the economy. The wars and sanctions,
whose fault lies with the US and Germany, have further hurt the economy. The
Yugoslav government, routinely accused of being dictatorial, has tolerated
the creation of an immense Fifth Column in Serbia by the US government, which
has poured m8llions into the funding and training of what tare falsely called
"civil society" organizations. These organizations, funded through the
National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, the USIA, the CIA and the
Soros Foundation, among others, pay thousands of people in Serbia and
maintain and entire "alternate" media with the latest equipment and high
salaries. This media then uses the problem caused by the US to sow discontent
among anyone who is susceptible.
The US effort to destroy Yugoslavia goes back to 1984. A U.S. National
Security Decision Directive NSDD133 entitled "United States Policy Toward
Yugoslavia. Labeled SECRET Sensitive has recently been de-classified. It is a
prescription for destroying Yugoslavia as an economic and political entity.
Since the elections on 24 September, the Democratic opposition has met with
NATO officials in Sofia, Bulgaria. NATO Assistant Secretary General Paul
Klaiber was in Sofia and Bucharest for high level discussions on security
issues resulting from the elections. Barely reported in the media, an IMF
donors' conference was held behind closed doors, Two leading "democratic"
representatives presented their so-called "Letter of Intent", a plan for
imposing harsh economic measure on Yugoslavia, to their IMF and World Bank
leaders. And on the 4th of October, the Stability Pact for Southeastern
Europe was meeting under its so-called "Title III" which pertains to
"security issues." The elections and "transition" in Yugoslavia were on the
agenda. The press reports do not confirm that the two "democratic:
representatives stayed for these meetings. We suspect they did..
The ploy being employed now is to create chaos while dangling promises of
money and peace, instigate whatever elements - children ignorant of politics
and lured by money, secessionist elements, fascists, people under compulsion
from superiors - along with infiltrators from NATO armed forces disguised as
rebellious youths, to terrorize Yugoslav loyalists and create the impression
of popular revolt. Already we have learned that DOS activists are going
around Belgrade, threatening death to anyone who votes in the Sunday
elections. Further provocation may occur at any time. These "democrats" aim
to provide Washington and NATO with a pretext to intervene as "peacekeepers"
as they did in Bosnia.
In the meantime, not only are NATO war ships in the Adriatic, but foreign
troops are already on Yugoslav soil. British SAS special forces are training
paramilitary police in Montenegro to assassinate Yugoslav army officer,.
Money is being channeled to finance these groups..
What we are witnessing is nothing less than an attempt to install a
fascist-like government in Yugoslavia, to turn all of Yugoslavia into Kosovo.
Yugoslavia has stood up to the biggest bully in history, the US government.
Now it is time for all who oppose the creation of US/German dominated world
empire to stand up for Yugoslavia.
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
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>
> Les liaisons dangereuses
> de Monsieur Kostunica
>
>
> �Cette fois, j'ai vot� Kostunica, car il est honn�te. Mais je n'aime pas
> les gens autour de lui, et j'esp�re qu'il saura les ma�triser�, m'a dit
> un vieux professeur, ce dimanche 24 septembre, dans un bureau de vote de
> Belgrade, o� j'�tais invit� comme observateur international. Beaucoup
> m'ont dit la m�me chose. Qui donc est derri�re Kostunica?
>
> MICHEL COLLON
>
> Face � Milosevic , incarnant la r�sistance � l'Otan, les dirigeants
> habituels de l'opposition auraient certainement perdu s'ils s'�taient
> pr�sent�s. Car Draskovic avait bais� la main de Madeleine Albright (USA)
> en pleine guerre et Djindjic avait fui en Allemagne. Or, la grande
> majorit� des Yougoslaves reste farouchement attach�e � l'ind�pendance du
> pays.
> L'habilet� de la nouvelle strat�gie a consist� � pr�senter un homme
> 'neuf', Kostunica, qui multiplie les d�clarations 'critiques' � l'�gard
> des Etats-Unis et de l'Otan. Mais son programme est celui du G-17 (voir
> page 2), un groupe d'�conomistes yougoslaves tr�s � droite:
> 1. Introduction du deutsche mark comme monnaie nationale! 2. Forte
> r�duction du budget militaire, ce qui priverait le pays des moyens de se
> d�fendre contre de nouvelles agressions. 3. Alignement sur les recettes
> anti-sociales du Fonds Mon�taire International. Apr�s une ann�e de
> sursis, la partie pauvre de la population serait priv�e du 'filet de
> s�curit� sociale' qui lui a permis de survivre jusqu'� pr�sent. Elle
> devrait acheter les marchandises aux prix r�gnant en Europe occidentale
> tout en disposant d'un pouvoir d'achat actuellement proche de bien des
> pays du tiers monde.
>
> Avec Kostunica, Djindjic et le FMI, la population serait-elle soulag�e?
> Ces m�mes r�formes ont d�j� d�vast� des pays comme la Bulgarie,
> l'Albanie ou la Roumanie. Un observateur roumain m'a confi�: �On nous
> avait promis qu'apr�s la chute de Ceaucescu, le capitalisme sans freins
> apporterait la prosp�rit�. Mais, aujourd'hui, l'�conomie est en ruines.
> Nous avons ramass� dix milliards de dollars de dettes, mais on ne voit
> pas un seul investissement. Les b�timents en cours de construction sous
> Ceaucescu ne sont toujours pas achev�s, on ne cr�e pas de nouveaux
> logements, les jeunes sont forc�s d'attendre que leurs parents meurent
> pour obtenir un appartement. Apr�s avoir c�d� � la mode de la
> consommation Coca Cola, McDonalds et Cie, ils se demandent: �O� vais-je
> trouver du travail pour survivre?� Beaucoup devront �migrer.
> L'Allemagne vient d'offrir dix mille visas pour des jeunes qualifi�s en
> informatique. Cet exode des cerveaux privera encore plus le pays de ses
> moyens de d�veloppement.�
> Beaucoup d'�lecteurs ont esp�r� qu'en changeant de dirigeants, ils
> seraient d�barrass�s des sanctions internationales �tranglant leur pays.
> Mais la victoire de Kostunica leur apportera-t-elle r�ellement le
> soulagement et la stabilit�?
> Sans doute de l'argent occidental irait dans certaines poches de ce
> pays. Le vrai chef de l'opposition, Zoran Djindjic - l'homme qui tire
> les ficelles de Kostunica - a re�u des millions de dollars pour faire le
> travail de Washington. Et une nouvelle classe d'hommes d'affaires
> tr�pigne d'impatience. Avec les multinationales, elle exige toutes
> libert�s de mettre fin aux protections sociales. Pour exploiter � fond
> une main d'ouvre qualifi�e et comp�tente. Elle voudrait imposer une
> concurrence impitoyable entre travailleurs, les soumettre � la peur du
> licenciement et du ch�mage , les obliger � travailler sans respecter la
> s�curit� ni le repos de la nuit ou du week-end.
> Comme dans les pays dits 'avanc�s' o� une grande partie des travailleurs
> se cr�ve au boulot, de plus en plus stress�s tandis que l'autre partie
> d�prime au ch�mage. Voil� le sort qui attendrait le peuple yougoslave.
> Sans compter que la d�r�glementation ch�re au 'G-17' leur permettrait
> s�rement de jouir eux aussi de la maladie de la vache folle, de la
> dioxine ou d'autres pollutions...
>
> Dans le club des voleurs, il n'y a plus de place
> Une grande illusion domine actuellement la jeunesse yougoslave, tromp�e
> par les promesses de l'Ouest. A juste titre, elle souhaite vivre mieux.
> Mais elle croit que si elle accepte les volont�s des multinationales et
> des dirigeants occidentaux, la prosp�rit� suivra.
> Mais d'o� provient cette richesse des multinationales occidentales? Du
> fait qu'elles ne paient pratiquement pas les mati�res premi�res prises
> au tiers-monde. Et que dans tous les pays o� elles vont exploiter des
> travailleurs, elles font tout pour maintenir les salaires au plus bas.
> C'est d'ailleurs une r�gle �conomique impos�e par le syst�me de la
> concurrence capitaliste : seul survit, celui qui exploite le plus fort.
> Partout donc, leur int�r�t est de maintenir au plus bas les salaires et
> le niveau de vie g�n�ral . Sinon, elles partent.
> Bref, si les soci�t�s des pays riches sont riches, c'est qu'elles volent
> les pays pauvres. Aussi quand elles promettent � un pays pauvre qu'en se
> soumettant, il pourra rejoindre le club des pays riches, c'est un
> mensonge. Cette promesse ne pourrait �tre tenue: s'il n'y a plus
> d'exploit�s qui se font voler, il n'y aura plus d'exploiteurs qui
> s'enrichissent. La seule solution est un monde sans exploiteurs et sans
> exploit�s, un monde de r�elle coop�ration internationale bas�e sur la
> solidarit�.
>
> Colonisation ne signifie pas stabilit�
> La colonisation de la Yougoslavie et des Balkans par l'Ouest
> n'apporterait pas la stabilit�. Si les in�galit�s sociales et la mis�re
> augmentent, les peuples prendront conscience qu'ils ont �t� tromp�s, ils
> se r�volteront pour regagner leur ind�pendance. Comme d�j� en Mac�doine
> et en Roumanie o� les �lections devraient voir un retour de la gauche.
> Pour d�tourner les r�voltes, les Etats-Unis et leurs amis essayeraient
> certainement � nouveau d'exciter des affrontements entre nationalit�s.
> Et si �a ne suffit pas, on verra alors que les bases militaires de
> l'Otan ont pour fonction non seulement des objectifs strat�giques �
> l'encontre de la Russie, du p�trole du Caucase et du Moyen-Orient, mais
> aussi le r�le de r�primer les peuples des Balkans. L'Otan a soutenu les
> dictateurs fascistes Franco et Salazar, elle a mis en place la dictature
> des colonels grecs en 1967, puis celle des g�n�raux turcs; elle
> n'h�siterait pas � recommencer. Mieux vaut ne pas introduire le loup
> dans la bergerie.
> La r�sistance est donc la seule voie possible pour assurer la paix et le
> d�veloppement social dans les Balkans. Milosevic a d�clar� : "Si nous
> devenions une colonie, nous ne serions jamais lib�r�s des sanctions
> (l'embargo), car �tre une colonie c'est la pire forme de sanctions. Si
> nous devenions une colonie, nous n'aurions aucune chance de
> d�veloppement, ni � court, ni a long terme."
> Sur ce point en tout cas, on ne peut que lui donner raison.
>
>
>
> --
> Les "Editions Democrite" publient un mensuel en francais :
> > "Les dossiers du BIP" avec des traductions d'articles provenant de la
> > presse communiste(grecque, allemande, anglaise, turque, russe,
> espagnole,
> > portugaise...)sur des evenements qui interessent des lecteurs
> communistes.
> > Editions Democrite, 52, bld Roger Salengro, 93190 LIVRY-GARGAN, FRANCE
>
> > e-mail : democrite@...
>
---
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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FACING THREATS AND BRIBES: WILL YUGOSLAVIA RESIST
U.S.-BACKED COUNTER-REVOLUTION?
By Sara Flounders
The corporate media would like everyone to believe that an
authentic, national popular movement independent of the U.S.
and NATO is rising up against the Yugoslav government, and
especially President Slobodan Milosevic. But to believe this
would be a serious mistake.
That's because the media leave out that Washington and its
European allies have subsidized this movement's leadership
with huge sums of money, bolstered them with enormous
political support, exhausted the Yugoslav population with
war threats and sanctions, demonized Milosevic by spreading
lies and false charges, and goaded the opposition to
Milosevic to risk civil war.
The U.S. leaders don't just want to remove Milosevic, they
want to smash Yugoslavia with a counter-revolution that
overthrows whatever remains from the 1945 socialist
revolution.
The opposition, though it led the first round of the
presidential election by 49 percent to 39 percent, has as of
Oct. 4 refused to participate in the runoff election
scheduled for Oct. 8. Instead it is trying to force a
confrontation with the government through strikes and
demonstrations.
WASHINGTON TRIES TO BUY ELECTION
The U.S. government has admitted to authorizing $77 dollars
to bankroll the opposition movement. On Sept. 25 the U.S.
House of Representatives voted another $105 million to fund
the "democracy movement" in Yugoslavia.
In comparison George W. Bush has raised $177 million to fund
his presidential bid. Al Gore has raised $126 million.
(Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for
Responsive Politics.)
Yugoslavia is about the size of the state of Ohio, with a
population less than 4 percent of the United States. If you
also account for the difference in average income, this
would be comparable here to a $30 billion donation from a
foreign enemy to a U.S. presidential candidate. And this is
in an economy that has been strangled by U.S.-led sanctions.
As in the U.S. election campaign, there are also lots of
soft money donations. The congressional appropriation is
just the tip of the iceberg. Both the Sept. 20 New York
Times and the Sept. 19 Washington Post describe the
suitcases of money handed over at the border. Advisers,
pollsters, TV, radio and newspapers are all paid for by the
U.S. government.
And this sum omits whatever the Soros Foundation or Germany
and other West European powers pumped in.
Despite all this foreign funding, the opposition candidate
Vojislav Kostunica claims that he is an independent who
would refuse to turn over any government official to the
Hague Tribunal. He promises Serbia will remain intact.
Kostunica counts on the U.S. and European Union's promises
to lift sanctions if Milosevic is no longer president. He
seems to have forgotten that the U.S. also promised
Milosevic that if he signed the 1995 Dayton Accords on
Bosnia, the sanctions would be lifted. Milosevic signed. The
sanctions remained.
WASHINGTON CLARIFIES ITS GOAL: COUNTER-REVOLUTION
A new bill before Congress makes Washington's aims in this
election clear. HR 1064, called the Serbian Democratization
Act of 2000, stipulates that sanctions will remain in place
until Yugoslavia agrees to "cooperate fully with The Hague
and hand over anyone charged." A new government must agree
to detach Kosovo, grant "autonomy to Vojvodina"--the region
in the north of Serbia--and "give up any claim to previously
owned property of the Yugoslav Federation, including its
missions, offices and consulates."
U.S. intervention is hardly limited to funding the
opposition and planning for its administration after the
election. Part of Yugoslavia--Kosovo--is under military
occupation by the very forces funding the opposition. The
Pentagon held joint military maneuvers with Croatia--whose
government is hostile to Yugoslavia--and a landing invasion
exercise on an island off shore in the Adriatic Sea during
the Sept. 24 elections.
Washington's goals go far beyond gross interference in an
election campaign against one man, Milosevic. That's why the
U.S. strategists wanted Kostunica to refuse to participate
in the runoff election. They are not satisfied with an
orderly transfer of some government positions if Milosevic's
Socialist Party-led coalition would still command the
Yugoslavia Parliament, whose control it retained in the
Sept. 24 election.
Strikes and shutdowns organized by the opposition show that
Washington's real aim is fomenting a civil war and the
violent overthrow of the whole government apparatus,
replacing it with a weak government completely compliant to
U.S. demands. The U.S. especially wants to destroy the
Yugoslav Army, which has its roots in the socialist
revolution of 1945.
KOSTUNICA AND G17
Why are all the imperialist forces throwing such enormous
support to Kostunica?
Kostunica is backed by a coalition of 18 parties called the
Democratic Opposition of Serbia. DOS embraces the
reconstruction plan of a group of Yugoslav economists called
the Group of 17-Plus. The mission statement of the G17
openly brags that many of the groups' economists work for
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
For anyone who holds illusions that the NATO countries--the
imperialists--might actually be supporting a "democratic
alternative," it would help to review the economic plan of
the G17 to understand the enthusiasm of U.S. and West
European banks and corporations for Kostunica.
Michel Chossudovsky is a professor of economics at the
University of Ottawa and the author of a well-known book on
IMF policies, "The Globalization of Poverty." Chossudovsky
showed that the G17 is funded by the Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" which is an
affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In an article co-
authored by Jared Israel and available on www.tenc.net, and
developed in depth in the book "NATO in the Balkans,"
Chossudofsky shows the role of the IMF in dismantling
Yugoslavia.
This whole apparatus is directly funded by the National
Endowment for Democracy, which the U.S. Congress created in
order to finance operations that the Central Intelligence
Agency used to fund clandestinely. This is not speculation.
Allen Weinstein, who planned the NED, said, "A lot of what
we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
The G17 is wholly committed to capitalism, free markets and
the dismantling of the public sector. They are committed to
doing away with programs that subsidize food, rent or
transportation, along with free medical care. World Bank and
IMF policies in country after country force businesses, both
public and private, into bankruptcy. Then foreign
corporations buy them out at rock bottom prices. A dependent
colonial economy is the result.
IMF EXPERIMENT LED TO BREAKUP
Yugoslavia went through a wrenching experiment with IMF
privatization in 1989. Professor Veselin Vukotic, now elder
statesman of the G17, was then the minister of privatization
under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.
Vukotic worked on a World Bank plan to privatize Yugoslav
industry. Yugoslav companies were selected for bankruptcy or
liquidation. This plan orchestrated the breakup of 50
percent of Yugoslav industry, wiping out 1,100 industrial
firms. Over 614,000 industrial workers were laid off, out of
2.7 million. Industrial output shrank by 21 percent.
As social programs were unraveling, unemployment
skyrocketing and wages plunging, Yugoslavia as a federation
began to unravel. There were strikes and worker actions. But
the economic chaos also gave rise to separatist tendencies
among the six republics that made up the Socialist
Federation of Yugoslavia.
In the 1991 elections Serbia and Montenegro tried to reject
these disastrous economic policies. The regimes in other
republics cast their lots with the plans of the Western
bankers.
In January 1991 U.S. Foreign Appropriations legislation
ordered a cutoff in trade, loans or aid to any republic that
held elections that the State Department did not approve.
The Foreign Appropriations bill each year legislates all
manner of strangulation against the economy of any country
not moving fast enough toward a capitalist market economy.
For attempting some resistance to the plans of the World
Bank, Serbia was targeted.
In the years of economic strangulation caused by the
sanctions that the West imposed on the two remaining
republics of Yugoslavia, many of these economic plans have
been reversed, increasing public ownership. The G17 promises
that Kostunica's election would mean Yugoslavia would
quickly adapt "free market" policies and privatize the
entire economy.
THE MINERS' STRIKE
Reports in the Western media on the Kolubara miners' strike
indicate that the government has lost at least some of the
support it once had in the working class, and that workers
are dissatisfied with the decline in their living standards.
No one sympathetic to the workers' struggle can be pleased
that police have to be sent in against workers. The world
should remember, however, what happened to the Polish
shipyard workers in Gdansk who led the struggle against the
Polish government. The new neo-liberal regime shut the
shipyard as it was no longer profitable on the world market,
and all the workers lost their jobs. Miners in Russia and
Romania faced the same IMF shutdowns.
It would be foolish to believe that the U.S. government,
which has suppressed democracy and overthrown legally
elected popular governments from Guate mala to Iran to
Greece to Chile to Grenada to Haiti, is interested in
democratic process in Yugoslavia. What it wants is to impose
savage capitalism on Serbia and Montenegro.
Kostunica claims Yugoslavia under his administration will
become a "normal Western government." But what does that
mean when there are only two kinds of status for countries
in Europe today?
Yugoslavia can't join the imperialist powers like Germany,
France or even Austria, which held colonial empires and
whose economies today have a global reach. Its only choice
is to share the fate of Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and
Ukraine.
The economy and the standard of living in these countries is
worse than it is in Yugoslavia, even after 78 days of NATO
bombing and eight years of international sanctions. The
people in these countries are the victims of 10 years of
economic restructuring. Colonial subjugation and the
dismantling of industry have been imposed on them. And
that's the choice Kostunica and his U.S. tutors offer
Yugoslavia.
WHAT TO DO
The International Action Center has issued a call directed
to those in the United States who want to show solidarity
with Yugoslavia and its struggle to resist counter-
revolution and a U.S./NATO takeover.
In response to the U.S. and Western Europe's blatant use of
funds to influence the Yugoslav election, the IAC and its
founder, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have
called for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the full
extent of U.S. intervention in the Yugoslav elections. It is
seeking evidence of this intervention and hopes to expose it
as a crime, just as it did with the war crimes the U.S. and
other NATO forces committed against Yugoslavia in 1999.
Interested readers can contact the IAC at (212) 633-6646 or
e-mail iacenter@.... Information is also available
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DOS IMPLEMENTING SCENARIO WHICH NATO FAILED TO REALIZE, MINISTER MATIC
BELGRADE, October 4 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Information Minister Goran
Matic said on Wednesday that he expected a good turnout for the second
round of elections for state president on October 8, and that the
electorate will express their will and vote for the candidate of their
choice in a free and democratic manner, without pressures or interference
from outside or within.
Speaking in a broadcast by YUInfo television, Matic said elections
held in Yugoslavia on September 24 "were overexposed in the international
public from the very beginning of the election campaign."
"Practically, they were given importance which elections in other
countries do not have according to the nature of things. It is evident that
a large deposit had been made for these elections," he said.
Through these elections, the countries which committed the
aggression on Yugoslavia had wanted to secure amnesty for the crimes they
committed against the civilian population in Yugoslavia and, generally, for
that entire shameful, uncivilized and illegal aggression for which there
was no basis in any legal act or international document, Matic said.
The Minister singled out as especially interesting that foreign
correspondents of media such as the BBC, Sky News, NTV, ARD, CDF, did not
hide their disappointment that no conflicts had broken out already on the
day of elections, even bloodshed, in the streets of Belgrade and other
places in Yugoslavia, and that the elections had passed in a peaceful and
democratic atmosphere.
"This was a great disappointment for them and they invested
everything to provoke this in other ways," Matic said, illustrating this
with a statement by wellknown British reporter John Simpson who, when asked
from his BBC headquarters to give the actual figures for the first round of
presidential elections, replied that figures were naturally important, but
that the possibility to paralyse the country was far more important.
Returning to the subject of the second round of presidential
elections, Matic asked: "What is the secret behind (DOS presidential
candidate Vojislav) Kostunica's fear to participate in a runoff" if he had
an advantage of 600,000 votes in the first round, in which case the second
round would be a mere formality for him.
"Perhaps the secret is that DOS (Democratic Opposition of Serbia)
stole votes and manipulated the elections by substituting boxes with
presidential candidate ballots. Therefore, let us see who is the actual
forger in these elections, and not believe it when they cry wolf, because
that story is familiar," Matic said.
Speaking about activities by home media in the present situation,
Matic said the papers Vijesti, Glas javnosti, Blic, Danas, and some others
"have become DOS's political pamphlets whose objective is to realize the
scenario which Simpson had clearly announced as the homework of the BBC,
which is a British state company and reflects the positions of Britains's
state policy."
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YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS -
A LESSON IN OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
At the invitation of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Britain's Socialist Labour Party sent a three-person delegation to participate in international monitoring of the Yugoslav elections held on 24 September. We were the only British representatives among 250 observers invited from around the world.
Our delegation travelled extensively throughout the country, was able to talk to officials and voters and visited numerous polling stations, gaining first-hand experience of what was actually taking place during an election which was being misreported in many parts of the world.
From what we saw, the Federal Electoral Commission, an elected all-party body, did everything in its power to ensure that people were able to cast their votes without intimidation and in an orderly manner - and certainly in accordance with procedures which we would expect in a democratic, free election.
In Serbia, we visited the Muslim areas of Kraljevo and Novi Pazar as well as observing polling in the capital, Belgrade.
It was only in Montenegro that we observed the following irregularities:
1. the so-called Democratic Opposition which boycotted the elections in Montenegro nevertheless gathered outside polling stations there in clear violation of election procedures, using intimidating behaviour towards prospective voters;
2. we received many first-hand reports from people who stated they had been threatened with the loss of their jobs if they turned out to vote;
3. we were in no doubt that countless refugees from Kosovo had been deliberately excluded from the electoral lists in Montenegro despite the fact that their identity cards, issued in 1999, gave them the right to vote, and were thus also prevented from voting.
We could only conclude that these tactics of intimidation and disenfranchisement were designed to benefit the so-called Democratic Opposition.
We were also appalled at the blatant outside interference in the procedures from Western governments which are obviously seeking to influence the outcome of these elections by promising economic aid and the lifting of sanctions if the Yugoslav people vote in accordance with the wishes of these governments and the European Union.
Mick Appleyard Liz Screen Ian Johnson
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Press release 22 / 09/ 2000
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CANADIAN OBSERVERS IN YUGOSLAVIA
Marjaleena Repo
BELGRADE. The international observers of the Yugoslavian presidential and
parliamentary elections have arrived in Belgrade - some 200 of them from
(so far) 54 countries. Contrary to the reports that "they have not been
allowed in," there are registered observers from the following Western
European countries. Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Germany, Portugal, Sweden and UK. (The so far single American
observer is an active senior participant in the Gore presidential
campaign.) Among the observers are parlamentarians, delegates from
political parties and organizations, as well as independents like the two
participants from Canada.
The Canadian delegates have attended political rallies of the three major
presidential candidates, in Belgrade and Novi Sad. These events were noisy
and lively affairs, without any observable disturbances and any noticeable
police presence. Literature was freely distributed and received at these
events, in a way no different from political rallies in Canada.
One of us (Marjaleena Repo) has paid particular attention to election
posters as she has been involved in the long-standing and not-yet-finished
fight for the right to poster in Canada - and she can report that posters
are everywhere in the street scene, accompanied by graffiti and the
defacing of each others posters even-steven fashion, it seems. She has seen
posterers at work in downtown Belgrade with posters urging women to vote,
while postering on top of other election messages! She had a chance to
discuss this contradiction with five English-speaking Yugoslavian youth
with their buckets and sponges. Unlike in Canadian cities, the posters
appear not to be scraped down by city workers but live to suffer the
indignities from competeing political parties. In addition, there are huge
billboards advertising the three major presidential candidates all around
the cityscape. All in all, the appearance of democracy in action.
The other Canadian delegate, Professor Dimitri Kitsikis, has a long-time
experience of national elections, having systematically studied and
observed them in many countries, notably in France, Greece and Turkey. His
observations are therefore particularly valid and he has been unshaken by
Western insistence that Yugoslav elections could be rigged. On the
contrary, he is observing that these elections do not differ
from those in any other democratic countries, particularly from France, of
which Dr. Kitsikis is an expert.
The delegates have attended an information session on the electoral process
in Yugoslavia and have been provided with background information and
documentation on how the system works and how it makes an effort to
guarantee an equal, free and transparent voting method leading to reliable
results. Questions
were invited and responded to. We were informed that the delegates will be
able to attend any and all polling stations on voting day, Sept. 24, and
officials at the polls have been instructed to welcome foreign observers
with full access to the actual voting situation, while respecting the
citizens' right to privacy.
While in Belgrade, disturbing news reached the observers. The International
Herald Tribune of Sept. 20 has a front page story, titled "U.S. aids
Milosevic foes: Millions allocated to a democracy program." The article
states that U.S. officials have acknowledged $77 million financial
"contribution" to opposition groups in Yugoslavia, from students to labour,
from so-called independent media to political rock bands, and the newspaper
states that "There is nothing secret or even particularly unusual about the
U.S. democracy-building program in Serbia, which is closely co-ordinated
with European allies and is similar to previous campaigns in pre-democratic
Chile, South Africa and Eastern Europe, among other places."
Washington Post (Sept. 21) further reveals that U.S. officials and
corporations are also "providing a sophisticated opinion survey system,
engaging for the purpose the New York firm that has done the job for Bill
Clinton [Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates]" which explains the many
polls that "prove" that an
opposition candidate is ahead of President Milosevic and suggest vigorously
that Mr. Milosevic will only win by fraud.
While the Canadian and other Western media have alredy declared the
election to be "rigged" (without any evidence, of course), we believe that
the actual evidence for rigging and distorting the Yugoslavian election
results has been found in the pre-democratic countries of U.S. and the
European Union who in an wholly illegal and undemocratic fashion are
interfering in the domestic affairs of a sovereign country. This, of
course, must be condemned by all true democrats, be they individuals,
organizations or nations. - 30-
MARJALEENA REPO is a social justice activist and a long-standing member of
Canada's "democracy movement," with hands-on experience on how Canada's
democracy does and does not work. In April '99, she was a founding member
of The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Canada's Participation in the War Against
Yugoslavia. She lives in Saskatoon, Sask.
DR. DIMITRI KITSIKIS is a professor of International Relations at the
University of Ottawa since 1970 and a fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. He is a specialist of the Balkans and Turkey and has written many
books on the area.
Professor Kitsikis is multi-lingual and can give interviews in French and
Greek as well as in English.
Back in Canada on September 29, Ms. Repo can be reached at (416)466-6533 or
(306)244-9724.
Professor Kitsikis will be back in Ottawa on October 2, and can be reached
at University of Ottawa, tel: (613)562-5735 or at his home tel: (613)834-4634.
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JUGOSLAVIA: APPELLO 'IN GINOCCHIO' FRATI ASSISI A MILOSEVIC
(ANSA) - ASSISI (PERUGIA), 4 OTT - Un appello per la pace in Palestina e in
particolare nella ex Jugoslavia e' stato lanciato oggi dal custode del
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e' anche triste per le notizie che ci giungono dalla Palestina e dalla ex
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(ANSA) - ASSISI (PERUGIA), 4 OTT - Un appello per la pace in Palestina e in
particolare nella ex Jugoslavia e' stato lanciato oggi dal custode del
Sacro convento di Assisi, padre Giulio Berrettoni, nel corso della messa
per la festa di S. Francesco, patrono d' Italia. La celebrazione - per la
prima volta dopo il terremoto del settembre 1997 - si tiene nella Basilica
superiore. Presente anche il ministro per i rapporti con il Parlamento,
Patrizia Toia. ''Il nostro cuore gioisce - ha detto padre Berrettoni - ma
e' anche triste per le notizie che ci giungono dalla Palestina e dalla ex
Jugoslavia per una pace ferita''. Riferendosi in particolare a Slobodan
Milosevic, il padre custode gli ha chiesto ''in ginocchio di mettere in
atto un gesto di pace rispettando la volonta' popolare e cosi' assicurare
un cammino pacifico di convivenza''. ''Da parte nostra - ha sottolineato
padre Giulio - la preghiera si fa piu' intensa non solo per queste nazioni,
ma anche per tutte le terre dell' emisfero dove la pace e' minacciata.
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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
---
> 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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Kostunica says some backers "unconsciously work for American imperial
goals"
'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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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.
---
> 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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RISULTATI DEI PARTITI COMUNISTI ED OPERAI ALLE ELEZIONI
PARLAMENTARI DELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA, 24/9/2000
Estratto dei risultati ufficiali pubblicati sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale
della RFJ il 2/10/2000 (vedasi in fondo al messaggio per un quadro piu'
completo; in caso di aggiornamenti, invieremo nuove informazioni
prossimamente. Fonte: contatti personali a Kragujevac ed in Germania)
Numero degli aventi diritto al voto: 7 216 920
*** CAMERA DEI DEPUTATI
Votanti: 5 003 640
DOS 2 005 319 55 seggi
SPS/JUL 1 595 551 46 seggi
SNP 104 198 28 seggi
(...)
NKPJ 35 740 NOVA KOMUNISTICKA PARTIJA JUGOSLAVIJE (B. KITANOVIC)
RP 12 192 RADNICKI POKRET (KRAGUJEVAC)
JK 5 105 JUGOSLAVENSKI KOMUNISTI (D. DRASKOVIC)
SKJ-S 2 278 SAVEZ KOM. JUGOSLAVIJE U SRBIJI - KOMUNISTI SUBOTICE
SKJ-CG 1 946 SAVEZ KOM. JUGOSLAVIJE - KOMUNISTI CRNE GORE
JUL-CG 1 627 JUGOSLAVENSKA UDRUZENA LEVICA ZA CRNU GORU
*** CAMERA DELLE REPUBBLICHE
* SERBIA
Votanti: 5 003 640
DOS 2 097 701 10 seggi
SPS/JUL 1 652 025 7 seggi
(...)
risultati non pervenuti
* MONTENEGRO
Votanti: 123 047
SNP 102 256 19 seggi
(...)
JK 796 JUGOSLAVENSKI KOMUNISTI (D. DRASKOVIC)
JUL-CG 1 925 JUGOSLAVENSKA UDRUZENA LEVICA ZA CRNU GORU
SKJ-CG 1 236 SAVEZ KOM. JUGOSLAVIJE - KOMUNISTI CRNE GORE
---
LA SITUAZIONE A KRAGUJEVAC
Zivorad Jevtic, Radnicki Pokret (Movimento dei Lavoratori), Kragujevac,
ha scritto il 29/9/2000:
> "Nasa organizacija (Radnicki pokret) u subotu drzi sednicu
> Predsednistva u Kraljevu, pa cemo Vam nakon toga dati detaljnije
> informacije. (...)
> Male radnicke i komunisticke partije nisu se ni pojavile na izborima
> izuzev Nove komunisticke partije (Branka Kitanovica), Savez komunista
> Jugoslavije u Srbiji (Miklos Olajos i Stevan Mirkovic) i nase
> organizacije (Radnicki pokret, formiran 1998. kao nezavisna radnicka
> organizacija). Na sutrasnjoj sednici cemo analizirati nase rezultate.
> Sada Vam samo mozemo reci da smo na lokalnim izborima nasi odbornicki
> kandidati dobili izmedju 5% i 9.1%."
Il primo ottobre ha scritto di nuovo, aggiungendo:
> "Kruze glasine da je vecina clanova Savezne izborne komisije podnela
> ostavke.
> Savezna izborna komisija jos uvek nije drzala konferenciju za stampu.
> Sta je tacno ne znamo upravo zbog nepojavljivanja Komisije u javnosti.
> Nastojimo da dobijemo podatke iz pojedinih gradova kako bismo stekli
> pravu sliku.
> U subotu je opoziciona stampa objavila faksimil "Sluzbenog lista" sa
> rezultatima izbora u kojima sa pojavljuje jedna nelogicnost: da je
> broj primljenih glasackih listica veci od broja biraca. O cemu se radi
> videcemo u ponedeljak kada dobijemo "Sluzbeni list".
>
> Price o radnicima "Zastave" su glupost. Glasanje je bilo tajno.
> Niko ne zna kako su drugi glasali. Znamo da su u gradu Kragujevcu za
> Milosevica glasali 36.641 gradjanin, za Kostunicu 62.947, a za ostale
> kandidate 10.815.
> U izbornoj jedinici 16 (Kragujevac i 5 susednih manjih gradova) za
> Miloseveca je glasalo oko 66.000, a za Kostunicu oko 108.000 gradjana.
>
> U Kraljevu nasi kandidati za savezne poslanike dobili su nesto preko
> 3.000 glasova, a u Krusevcu preko 8.000. Toliko za sada znamo.
>
> Radnici "Zastave" su u petak radili normalno. Od oko 30.000 radnika
> angazovano na radu je oko 30%. Ostali su na placenom odsustvu zbog
> nedostatka posla. Primaju oko 10 DEM mesecno. Socijalna situacija je
> katastrofalna.
> Radnici nisu glasali za Kostunicu - glasali su protiv svoje mizerije.
> Kako ce se situacija razvijati u ponedeljak 02.10.2000. videcemo.
> Jedno je sigurno: gradjanskog rata nece biti. Za gradjanski rat je
> potrebno raspolozenje naroda za rat i oruzje na obe strana. Mi
> smatramo da narod nije za rat, a oruzje ima samo vlast.
>
> Umesanost americkog imperijalizma nije sporna, finansijska podrska
> opoziciji je ocigledna. Ali, to nije od presudnog znacaja. Presudno je
> nezadovoljstvo naroda ekonomskom situacijom."
TRADUZIONE:
"La nostra organizzazione (Movimento dei Lavoratori) sabato terra' la
Direzione a Kraljevo, dopodiche' potremo darvi informazioni piu'
dettagliate... I piccoli partiti operai e comunisti non si sono
presentati alle elezioni, a parte il Nuovo Partito Comunista di
Jugoslavia (di Branko Kitanovic), La Lega dei Comunisti di Jugoslavia in
Serbia (di Miklos Olajos e Stevan Mirkovic) e la nostra organizzazione
(Movimento dei Lavoratori, formato nel 1998 come organizzazione operaia
indipendente). La prossima settimana analizzeremo i nostri risultati.
Adesso vi possiamo dire solamente che alle elezioni locali i nostri
candidati hanno raccolto tra il 5 ed il 9.1%"
"Le voci di corridoio dicono che la maggioranza dei
membri della Commissione Elettorale Federale si e'
dimessa. La Commissione Elettorale Federale non ha tenuto
ancora una conferenza stampa. Non sappiamo quale sia
la verita' perche' la Commissione non e' si fatta viva
in pubblico. Proviamo a raccogliere le informazioni
da alcune citta' per ottenere un quadro completo.
Sabato la stampa di opposizione ha pubblicato dei fac-
simile della Gazzetta Ufficiale con i risultati
elettorali, dai quali emerge qualcosa di illogico: e
cioe' che il numero delle schede elettorali raccolte
e' superiore al numero degli elettori. Vedremo lunedi
di cosa si tratta, quando riceveremo la Gazzetta
Ufficiale.
Le storie sugli operai della Zastava sono stupidaggini.
La votazione era segreta, percio' nessuno sa come hanno
votato gli altri. Sappiamo che nella citta' di Kragujevac
per Milosevic hanno votato in 36641 contro 62947 che
hanno votato per Kostunica e 10815 che hanno votato
per gli altri candidati. Nella circoscrizione elettorale
numero 16 (Kragujevac piu' altre 5 piccole citta')
per Milosevic hanno votato 66mila e per Kostunica
circa 108mila elettori. A Kraljevo i nostri candidati
al Parlamento federale hanno ottenuto piu' di tremila
voti e a Krusevac piu' di ottomila. Questo e' quanto
sappiamo per adesso.
Gli operai della Zastava hanno lavorato normalmente
venerdi. Su circa 30mila operai vanno a lavorare piu'
o meno il 30 per cento, gli altri sono assenti
retribuiti per la mancanza di lavoro. Prendono sulle
10mila lire al mese. La situazione sociale e'
catastrofica, Gli operai non hanno votato per Kostunica,
hanno votato contro la loro miseria. Come si evolvera'
la situazione lunedi 2 ottobre 2000 lo vedremo.
L'unica cosa sicura e' che la guerra civile non avra'
luogo. Per la guerra civile e' necessario che la
popolazione voglia la guerra, e che entrambe le
parti abbiano le armi. Noi pensiamo che il popolo
non ha intentione di fare la guerra, e le armi ce le
ha soltanto il potere. Le interferenze dell'imperialismo
americano sono evidenti, come anche l'appoggio
finanziario all'opposizione, ma questo non e' di
importanza primaria, primaria e' l'insoddisfazione
del popolo rispetto alla situazione economica."
---
IL 2 OTTOBRE, CI HANNO SCRITTO DALLA GERMANIA:
Postovani prijatelji i drugari !
Citao sam da do subote jos niste imali rezultati izbora.
Zato molim Vas da dozvolite meni obsirenje nekih izbornih rezultata:
Vece gradjana savezne skupstuine:
Broj biraca: 7 216 920
broj biraca koji su glasali: 5 003 640
brojevi glasova:
DOS 2 005 319 55 mandati
SPS/JUL 1 595 551 46 mandati
SRS 406 770 4 mandati
SPO 234 317
SNP 104 198 28 mandati
Savez Vojvodjanskih madjara
47 768 1 mandat
...
NKPJ 35 740
DSVM 35 582
Radikalna Stranka Levice "Nikola Pasic"
32 503
Savez za mir - Sokol Djuse 1 mandat
23 829
...
Stranka srpskog jedinstva 1 mandat
16 231
Radnicki pokret (Kragujevac)
12 192
Srpska narodna stranka
8 048 2 mandata
... ... ... ...
Jugoslovenski komunisti (prof. dr. Dragomir Draskovic)
5 105
Koalicija "Vojvodina za Jugoslaviju"
4 614
...
Savez za mir (KDI i RPA, Faik Jasari)
3 237
... ...
SKJ u Srbiji - Komunisti Subotice
2 278
...
SKJ - Komunist Crne Gore
1 946
JUL za Crnu Goru
1 627
... ... ...
ukupno: 138 mandati
Vece republika savezne skupstine:
Srbija:
broj vazecih glasackih listica: 4 720 278
brojevi glasova:
DOS 2 097 701 10 mandati
...
SRS 481 976 2 mandata
Radikalna stranka levice "Nikola Pasic"
100 368
SPS/JUL 1 652 025 7 mandati
SPO 284 186 1 mandat
ukupno: 20
Crna Gora:
broj vazecih glasackih listica: 123 047
brojevi glasova:
SRS 5 544
SNP CG 102 256 19 mandati
...
Jugoslovenski Komunisti
796
JUL za Crnu Goru
1 925
SKJ - Komunisti Crne Gore
1 236
Srpska narodna stranka 1 mandat
9 303
...
ukupno: 20
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PARLAMENTARI DELLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA, 24/9/2000
Estratto dei risultati ufficiali pubblicati sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale
della RFJ il 2/10/2000 (vedasi in fondo al messaggio per un quadro piu'
completo; in caso di aggiornamenti, invieremo nuove informazioni
prossimamente. Fonte: contatti personali a Kragujevac ed in Germania)
Numero degli aventi diritto al voto: 7 216 920
*** CAMERA DEI DEPUTATI
Votanti: 5 003 640
DOS 2 005 319 55 seggi
SPS/JUL 1 595 551 46 seggi
SNP 104 198 28 seggi
(...)
NKPJ 35 740 NOVA KOMUNISTICKA PARTIJA JUGOSLAVIJE (B. KITANOVIC)
RP 12 192 RADNICKI POKRET (KRAGUJEVAC)
JK 5 105 JUGOSLAVENSKI KOMUNISTI (D. DRASKOVIC)
SKJ-S 2 278 SAVEZ KOM. JUGOSLAVIJE U SRBIJI - KOMUNISTI SUBOTICE
SKJ-CG 1 946 SAVEZ KOM. JUGOSLAVIJE - KOMUNISTI CRNE GORE
JUL-CG 1 627 JUGOSLAVENSKA UDRUZENA LEVICA ZA CRNU GORU
*** CAMERA DELLE REPUBBLICHE
* SERBIA
Votanti: 5 003 640
DOS 2 097 701 10 seggi
SPS/JUL 1 652 025 7 seggi
(...)
risultati non pervenuti
* MONTENEGRO
Votanti: 123 047
SNP 102 256 19 seggi
(...)
JK 796 JUGOSLAVENSKI KOMUNISTI (D. DRASKOVIC)
JUL-CG 1 925 JUGOSLAVENSKA UDRUZENA LEVICA ZA CRNU GORU
SKJ-CG 1 236 SAVEZ KOM. JUGOSLAVIJE - KOMUNISTI CRNE GORE
---
LA SITUAZIONE A KRAGUJEVAC
Zivorad Jevtic, Radnicki Pokret (Movimento dei Lavoratori), Kragujevac,
ha scritto il 29/9/2000:
> "Nasa organizacija (Radnicki pokret) u subotu drzi sednicu
> Predsednistva u Kraljevu, pa cemo Vam nakon toga dati detaljnije
> informacije. (...)
> Male radnicke i komunisticke partije nisu se ni pojavile na izborima
> izuzev Nove komunisticke partije (Branka Kitanovica), Savez komunista
> Jugoslavije u Srbiji (Miklos Olajos i Stevan Mirkovic) i nase
> organizacije (Radnicki pokret, formiran 1998. kao nezavisna radnicka
> organizacija). Na sutrasnjoj sednici cemo analizirati nase rezultate.
> Sada Vam samo mozemo reci da smo na lokalnim izborima nasi odbornicki
> kandidati dobili izmedju 5% i 9.1%."
Il primo ottobre ha scritto di nuovo, aggiungendo:
> "Kruze glasine da je vecina clanova Savezne izborne komisije podnela
> ostavke.
> Savezna izborna komisija jos uvek nije drzala konferenciju za stampu.
> Sta je tacno ne znamo upravo zbog nepojavljivanja Komisije u javnosti.
> Nastojimo da dobijemo podatke iz pojedinih gradova kako bismo stekli
> pravu sliku.
> U subotu je opoziciona stampa objavila faksimil "Sluzbenog lista" sa
> rezultatima izbora u kojima sa pojavljuje jedna nelogicnost: da je
> broj primljenih glasackih listica veci od broja biraca. O cemu se radi
> videcemo u ponedeljak kada dobijemo "Sluzbeni list".
>
> Price o radnicima "Zastave" su glupost. Glasanje je bilo tajno.
> Niko ne zna kako su drugi glasali. Znamo da su u gradu Kragujevcu za
> Milosevica glasali 36.641 gradjanin, za Kostunicu 62.947, a za ostale
> kandidate 10.815.
> U izbornoj jedinici 16 (Kragujevac i 5 susednih manjih gradova) za
> Miloseveca je glasalo oko 66.000, a za Kostunicu oko 108.000 gradjana.
>
> U Kraljevu nasi kandidati za savezne poslanike dobili su nesto preko
> 3.000 glasova, a u Krusevcu preko 8.000. Toliko za sada znamo.
>
> Radnici "Zastave" su u petak radili normalno. Od oko 30.000 radnika
> angazovano na radu je oko 30%. Ostali su na placenom odsustvu zbog
> nedostatka posla. Primaju oko 10 DEM mesecno. Socijalna situacija je
> katastrofalna.
> Radnici nisu glasali za Kostunicu - glasali su protiv svoje mizerije.
> Kako ce se situacija razvijati u ponedeljak 02.10.2000. videcemo.
> Jedno je sigurno: gradjanskog rata nece biti. Za gradjanski rat je
> potrebno raspolozenje naroda za rat i oruzje na obe strana. Mi
> smatramo da narod nije za rat, a oruzje ima samo vlast.
>
> Umesanost americkog imperijalizma nije sporna, finansijska podrska
> opoziciji je ocigledna. Ali, to nije od presudnog znacaja. Presudno je
> nezadovoljstvo naroda ekonomskom situacijom."
TRADUZIONE:
"La nostra organizzazione (Movimento dei Lavoratori) sabato terra' la
Direzione a Kraljevo, dopodiche' potremo darvi informazioni piu'
dettagliate... I piccoli partiti operai e comunisti non si sono
presentati alle elezioni, a parte il Nuovo Partito Comunista di
Jugoslavia (di Branko Kitanovic), La Lega dei Comunisti di Jugoslavia in
Serbia (di Miklos Olajos e Stevan Mirkovic) e la nostra organizzazione
(Movimento dei Lavoratori, formato nel 1998 come organizzazione operaia
indipendente). La prossima settimana analizzeremo i nostri risultati.
Adesso vi possiamo dire solamente che alle elezioni locali i nostri
candidati hanno raccolto tra il 5 ed il 9.1%"
"Le voci di corridoio dicono che la maggioranza dei
membri della Commissione Elettorale Federale si e'
dimessa. La Commissione Elettorale Federale non ha tenuto
ancora una conferenza stampa. Non sappiamo quale sia
la verita' perche' la Commissione non e' si fatta viva
in pubblico. Proviamo a raccogliere le informazioni
da alcune citta' per ottenere un quadro completo.
Sabato la stampa di opposizione ha pubblicato dei fac-
simile della Gazzetta Ufficiale con i risultati
elettorali, dai quali emerge qualcosa di illogico: e
cioe' che il numero delle schede elettorali raccolte
e' superiore al numero degli elettori. Vedremo lunedi
di cosa si tratta, quando riceveremo la Gazzetta
Ufficiale.
Le storie sugli operai della Zastava sono stupidaggini.
La votazione era segreta, percio' nessuno sa come hanno
votato gli altri. Sappiamo che nella citta' di Kragujevac
per Milosevic hanno votato in 36641 contro 62947 che
hanno votato per Kostunica e 10815 che hanno votato
per gli altri candidati. Nella circoscrizione elettorale
numero 16 (Kragujevac piu' altre 5 piccole citta')
per Milosevic hanno votato 66mila e per Kostunica
circa 108mila elettori. A Kraljevo i nostri candidati
al Parlamento federale hanno ottenuto piu' di tremila
voti e a Krusevac piu' di ottomila. Questo e' quanto
sappiamo per adesso.
Gli operai della Zastava hanno lavorato normalmente
venerdi. Su circa 30mila operai vanno a lavorare piu'
o meno il 30 per cento, gli altri sono assenti
retribuiti per la mancanza di lavoro. Prendono sulle
10mila lire al mese. La situazione sociale e'
catastrofica, Gli operai non hanno votato per Kostunica,
hanno votato contro la loro miseria. Come si evolvera'
la situazione lunedi 2 ottobre 2000 lo vedremo.
L'unica cosa sicura e' che la guerra civile non avra'
luogo. Per la guerra civile e' necessario che la
popolazione voglia la guerra, e che entrambe le
parti abbiano le armi. Noi pensiamo che il popolo
non ha intentione di fare la guerra, e le armi ce le
ha soltanto il potere. Le interferenze dell'imperialismo
americano sono evidenti, come anche l'appoggio
finanziario all'opposizione, ma questo non e' di
importanza primaria, primaria e' l'insoddisfazione
del popolo rispetto alla situazione economica."
---
IL 2 OTTOBRE, CI HANNO SCRITTO DALLA GERMANIA:
Postovani prijatelji i drugari !
Citao sam da do subote jos niste imali rezultati izbora.
Zato molim Vas da dozvolite meni obsirenje nekih izbornih rezultata:
Vece gradjana savezne skupstuine:
Broj biraca: 7 216 920
broj biraca koji su glasali: 5 003 640
brojevi glasova:
DOS 2 005 319 55 mandati
SPS/JUL 1 595 551 46 mandati
SRS 406 770 4 mandati
SPO 234 317
SNP 104 198 28 mandati
Savez Vojvodjanskih madjara
47 768 1 mandat
...
NKPJ 35 740
DSVM 35 582
Radikalna Stranka Levice "Nikola Pasic"
32 503
Savez za mir - Sokol Djuse 1 mandat
23 829
...
Stranka srpskog jedinstva 1 mandat
16 231
Radnicki pokret (Kragujevac)
12 192
Srpska narodna stranka
8 048 2 mandata
... ... ... ...
Jugoslovenski komunisti (prof. dr. Dragomir Draskovic)
5 105
Koalicija "Vojvodina za Jugoslaviju"
4 614
...
Savez za mir (KDI i RPA, Faik Jasari)
3 237
... ...
SKJ u Srbiji - Komunisti Subotice
2 278
...
SKJ - Komunist Crne Gore
1 946
JUL za Crnu Goru
1 627
... ... ...
ukupno: 138 mandati
Vece republika savezne skupstine:
Srbija:
broj vazecih glasackih listica: 4 720 278
brojevi glasova:
DOS 2 097 701 10 mandati
...
SRS 481 976 2 mandata
Radikalna stranka levice "Nikola Pasic"
100 368
SPS/JUL 1 652 025 7 mandati
SPO 284 186 1 mandat
ukupno: 20
Crna Gora:
broj vazecih glasackih listica: 123 047
brojevi glasova:
SRS 5 544
SNP CG 102 256 19 mandati
...
Jugoslovenski Komunisti
796
JUL za Crnu Goru
1 925
SKJ - Komunisti Crne Gore
1 236
Srpska narodna stranka 1 mandat
9 303
...
ukupno: 20
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
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la Jugoslavia si chiude. Il nostro lavoro tuttavia prosegue, in
collaborazione con le realta' attive nella solidarieta' alla Jugoslavia
sparse su tutto il territorio italiano, attraverso la creazione di un
notiziario del COORDINAMENTO NAZIONALE "LA JUGOSLAVIA VIVRA'"
> jugoinfo@...
Tutti gli indirizzi iscritti al bollettino vecchio saranno
automaticamente iscritti in quello nuovo.
Smrt fasizmu - sloboda narodu!
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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