Informazione
PRESIDENTI DEL CONSIGLIO (2)
"...Io penso che la comunita' internazionale sara' in grado di fare un
calcolo soltanto dopo, ma che la valutazione della scomparsa in Kosovo
di un numero di persone fra le 100 e le 200mila si avvicini alle
dimensioni della tragedia che e' stata compiuta... un esercito e gruppi
paramilitari che sono andati casa per casa a scacciare e terrorizzare la
popolazione, a derubare, a uccidere, a violentare"
Massimo D'Alema dinanzi alla Camera dei deputati il 19 maggio 1999
(dagli Atti ufficiali del Parlamento della Repubblica)
"Gli ufficiali della NATO hanno ammesso ieri sera che le loro stime sul
numero dei civili kosovaro-albanesi massacrati dalle forze serbe fatte
in tempo di guerra potrebbero essere state troppo alte... Non si puo'
dimostrare che tutti i cadaveri esumati [meno di tremila] siano stati
vittima di assassinio o esecuzioni..."
(The Guardian, 18/8/2000)
> Figures put on Serb killings too high
> Special report: Kosovo
>
> Jonathan Steele
> Friday August 18, 2000
> The Guardian
>
> Nato officials conceded last night that their wartime
> estimates of the number of Kosovo Albanian civilians
> massacred by Serb forces might have been too high.
> They were reacting to findings by forensic experts for
> the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague who
> are preparing to complete their work in Kosovo after
> exhuming about 3,000 bodies.
>
> Not all of the dead can be proved to be victims of
> murder or execution...
Nota del CRJ: i bombardamenti della NATO hanno causato circa 2000
vittime civili sul momento; altrettante, tra morti ammazzati e "lupara
bianca", sono le vittime del terrorismo degli alleati della NATO (UCK)
dalla occupazione KFOR della provincia serba a tutt'oggi.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
------------------------------------------------------------
"...Io penso che la comunita' internazionale sara' in grado di fare un
calcolo soltanto dopo, ma che la valutazione della scomparsa in Kosovo
di un numero di persone fra le 100 e le 200mila si avvicini alle
dimensioni della tragedia che e' stata compiuta... un esercito e gruppi
paramilitari che sono andati casa per casa a scacciare e terrorizzare la
popolazione, a derubare, a uccidere, a violentare"
Massimo D'Alema dinanzi alla Camera dei deputati il 19 maggio 1999
(dagli Atti ufficiali del Parlamento della Repubblica)
"Gli ufficiali della NATO hanno ammesso ieri sera che le loro stime sul
numero dei civili kosovaro-albanesi massacrati dalle forze serbe fatte
in tempo di guerra potrebbero essere state troppo alte... Non si puo'
dimostrare che tutti i cadaveri esumati [meno di tremila] siano stati
vittima di assassinio o esecuzioni..."
(The Guardian, 18/8/2000)
> Figures put on Serb killings too high
> Special report: Kosovo
>
> Jonathan Steele
> Friday August 18, 2000
> The Guardian
>
> Nato officials conceded last night that their wartime
> estimates of the number of Kosovo Albanian civilians
> massacred by Serb forces might have been too high.
> They were reacting to findings by forensic experts for
> the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague who
> are preparing to complete their work in Kosovo after
> exhuming about 3,000 bodies.
>
> Not all of the dead can be proved to be victims of
> murder or execution...
Nota del CRJ: i bombardamenti della NATO hanno causato circa 2000
vittime civili sul momento; altrettante, tra morti ammazzati e "lupara
bianca", sono le vittime del terrorismo degli alleati della NATO (UCK)
dalla occupazione KFOR della provincia serba a tutt'oggi.
--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
------------------------------------------------------------
VICENZA - TORINO - PERUGIA - PERUGIA-ASSISI - VIENNA - STOCCOLMA
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VICENZA
LUNEDI' 18 SETTEMBRE - ORE 20.30
Sala circoscrizione 6 - Vicenza
(Villa Lattes, vai Thaon di Revel)
"Guerre ed embarghi"
dibattito con:
Fulvio Grimaldi
proiezione video: "Serbi da morire" - effetti della guerra con
attenzione
al disastro ambientale. E' questo video un'ottima documentazione delle
conseguenze economiche, sociali, sanitarie ed ambientali dell'attacco
NATO.
Organizzano: Punto Rosso / Collettivo "Spartakus" / Circolo del Cinema
"Farhenheit 451
Info: tel fax 044 542084
posta el. sparta@...
Contrà Ponton del Luzzo, 10 - 36100 Vicenza
---
TORINO
SOS ZASTAVA
PERCHE' POSSANO ANDARE A SCUOLA
CON IL MATERIALE SCOLASTICO PER POTERE SCRIVERE
I figli dei lavoratori della Zastava di Kragujevac iniziano, anche loro,
l'anno scolastico in questi giorni.
La Zastava e' una fabbrica jugoslava di automobili e di camion che
occupava
piu' di 30.000 dipendenti, oggi in prevalenza ferma perche' gli impianti
sono stati distrutti dai bombardamenti della Nato della primavera
dell'anno
scorso.
La maggioranza dei loro genitori non lavora ed i lavoratori che non
lavorano
percepiscono una indennita' di disoccupazione di 15.000 lire al mese. Lo
Stato non garantisce il materiale scolastico che va comperato se i soldi
in
famiglia ci sono.
Per questi motivi i lavoratori torinesi che hanno deciso di aiutare i
figli
dei lavoratori della Zastava attraverso le adozioni a distanza:
lanciano un appello ai lavoratori torinesi per sostenere con una
SOTTOSCRIZIONE
Allo scopo di poter dare ad ogni ragazzo
· 5 QUADERNI
· 5 MATITE
· 5 PENNE
La raccolta avverra' con i blocchetti di ricevuta
Sara' fatta da un rappresentante sindacale della azienda dove lavorate
Verra' data informazione della avvenuta consegna del materiale e
l'attestato
di ricevimento
Torino 11 settembre 2000, Via Pedrotti 5
Il Comitato Piemontese SOS Zastava
---
PERUGIA
Per il giorno 22 settembre abbiamo organizzato (Assijug, Campo
antimperialista) una cena per la raccolta di fondi per la Jugoslavia.
La cena sarà l'occasione per illustrare ad una vasta (si spera) platea
l'iniziativa della carovana contro l'embargo, raccogliere le relative
adesioni e, eventualmente, elaborare proposte migliorative e nuove
iniziative.
Per chi é interessato l'appuntamento é presso:
La Casa del Popolo in località Casa del Diavolo PG. alle ore 20.30. Per
arrivarci chi viene dalla super strada E45 uscita Ponte Pattoli; per chi
proviene da Sud o dall'autostrada proseguire sulla E45 in direzione
Cesena e poi uscita Ponte Pattoli.
Per contattarci utilizzare i nostri e-mail oppure telefonare allo
0349-8642732 (Marcello)
PS. oltre da bere e mangiare ci sarà musica in abbondanza con musicisti
slavi dal vivo
---
PERUGIA-ASSISI
Comunicato Stampa del Campo Antimperialista
TOGLIAMO I RICCHI PER DARE AI POVERI!
TOGLIAMO LA NATO CHE AMMAZZA I POVERI PER
DIFENDERE I RICCHI!
Si e' svolta stamane a Perugia, alle ore 12,00, presso la sede regionale
di Voce Operaia, la
Conferenza stampa dei responsabili della Campo Antimperialista.
Alla presenza di giornali e TV e viste le infuocate polemiche in corso,
sono state spiegate le
ragioni dell'annullamento della annunciata ³Contro-marcia per la pace²
prevista per lo stesso
giorno di quella tradizionale, il 24 settembre.
All¹interno della Tavola della Pace (la coalizione pacifista che
organizza la Manifestazione
ufficiale) e' alla fine prevalsa la posizione dei pacifisti conseguenti
i quali hanno stigmatizzato
cio' che accadde l¹anno passato quando il Presidente del Consiglio
D¹Alema e il segretario del
principale partito di governo (Veltroni), ebbero la sfrontatezza di
capeggiare la Marcia mentre
avevano accettato di fare dell¹Italia la portaerei della NATO
nell'illegale e infame aggressione alla
Jugoslavia (il piu' gigantesco bombardamento dai tempi della seconda
guerra mondiale).
Dopo colloqui con gli organizzatori pacifisti della Marcia, l¹arco di
forze antagoniste che si
raccoglie nel Campo Antimperialista ha deciso dunque di confluire con
spirito fraterno e unitario in
quella tradizionale, che sara' dunque non solo contro le guerre e gli
eserciti, ma contro la NATO e
gli Embarghi in particolare.
Il 24 settembre dunque, pacifisti e antimperialisti sfileranno tutti
assieme contro il nemico comune,
contro l¹Impero dei ricchi di cui la NATO e' il braccio armato, e contro
l¹ingiustizia internazionale,
di cui Fondo Monetario e Banca mondiale sono gli organi supremi.
Non sara¹ dunque la ³marcia degli estremisti², ma una vera marcia per la
pace, in quanto
³estremisti² sono coloro che hanno le mani macchiate di sangue e che
continuano con l¹embargo a
strangolare i popoli dopo averli massacrati.
Domani stesso chiederemo un incontro a Padre G. Nicola, del Sacro
Convento di Assisi, per
chiedere se corrisponda a verità il fatto che i francescani, abbiano
deciso di disertare la
manifestazione, solo perché i seminatori di morte governativi sono
invitati a restarsene a casa,
pena una sonora conTESTAtazione
Tutti i cittadini, ci comitati in buona fede sono invitati a partecipare
alla Marcia unitaria affinché
abbia pieno successo.
Per adesioni: campo@...
Campo Antimperialista
Assisi 2000
11 settembre 2000
UNA LUNGA MARCIA ....
PER LA PACE E LA GIUSTIZIA!
UNA STAGIONE di lotte e di impegno contro l'imperialismo!
CONTRO LA N.A.T.O.,
PER ABOLIRE L¹EMBARGO ALLA JUGOSLAVIA,
PER TOGLIERE AI RICCHI E DARE AI POVERI!
Il Campo Antimperialista, assieme a tutti i movimenti antagonisti e
anticapitalisti, promuove una grande campagna
d'autunno di conTESTAzione internazionale
- per dire basta alle aggressioni e alle guerre imperiali contro i paesi
che difendono la loro legittima sovranità nazionale,
- per farla finita con la NATO e gli embarghi illegali che affamano i
popoli oppressi e i più deboli,
- per boicottare i vertici del Fondo monetario e della Banca Mondiale
che pianificano il genocidio dei poveri allo scopo di
tutelare l¹opulenza dei paesi più ricchi,
- contro il governo italiano che continua a spendere risorse ingenti per
armi offensive di distruzione e per mantenere,
violando la costituzione, corpi militari oltre frontiera,
- per la solidarietà con le lotte di tutti i popoli oppressi
dall¹imperialismo e dal colonialismo:
venerdì 23 settembre, ore 20
Concerto e festa di solidarietà con musicisti jugoslavi
casa del Popolo di Casa del Diavolo (PG)
Domenica 24 settembre
Marcia per la pace Perugia-Assisi
Martedì 26 settembre
Tutti a Praga per boicottare il vertice del F.M.I. e della banca
Mondiale
Sabato 14 ottobre
Manifestazioni in tutta Italia di solidarietà con la lotta del popolo di
Colombia contro il rischio di
aggressione U.S.A.
Sabato 21 ottobre
nell'anniversario del massacro nazista a Kragujevac
Manifestazioni a Roma e a Milano contro l'emarbo alla Jugoslavia
Primi di dicembre
Tutti a Nizza per boicottare il vertice dell¹Unione Europea
Fine dicembre
Partenza da Bari della Nave contro per violare l¹Embargo alla
Jugoslavia, con tonnellate di
prodotti, farmaceutici, ospedalieri ecc, che la NATO proibisce siano
consegnati a Belgrado
NON CI SARA¹ MAI PACE
SENZA UNA VERA GIUSTIZIA SOCIALE!
---
VIENNA
Einladung
zur
Jahreshauptversammlung
der
Jugoslawisch-Österreichischen Solidaritätsbewegung
'-----------------------------------'
' Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2000, 18 Uhr '
' 15., Meiselstraße 46/4 '
'-----------------------------------'
Liebe Freunde und Mitglieder der JÖSB!
Der Luftkrieg der NATO gegen Jugoslawien ist zwar (vorläufig) vorbei,
doch
die Aggression gegen ein Land, das sich nicht der Neuen Weltordnung
unterzuordnen bereit war und ist, geht weiter: der Kosovo ist besetzt,
die
militärischen Drohungen bleibt aufrecht, die Versuche Montenegro
abzuspalten
sind offensichtlich und vor allem – das mörderische Wirtschaftsembargo
wird
fortgesetzt.
Die JÖSB, gegründet gegen die westliche Aggression und zur Unterstützung
des
jugoslawischen Volkes, hat also nach wie vor mehr als genug zu tun. Mehr
als
ein Jahr sind seit der Gründung verstrichen – es ist nun Zeit Bilanz
über
unsere Aktivitäten, Erfolge und Misserfolge zu ziehen und die Aufgaben
für
das kommende Jahr festzulegen.
Wir laden alle unsere Mitglieder und Freunde, jene die uns unterstützt
haben
und mit uns gegen den Strom des „militärischen Humanitarismus“ zu
schwimmen
bereit sind, ein, an unserer ersten Generalversammlung teilzunehmen.
Vorläufige Tagesordnung:
(1) Bilanz des vergangenen Jahres
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=9627
78603
(2) Kampagne gegen das Embargo
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=9667
18247
(3) Internationaler Aktionstag 21. Oktober
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/cgi-bin/joesb/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=9657
71908
(4) Weitere Aktivitäten
(5) Organisationsbericht
(6) Finanzbericht
(7) Wahl des neuen Vorstands
Mit Anti-NATO-Grüßen
Willi Langthaler
Obmann der JÖSB
Jugoslawisch-Österreichische Solidaritätsbewegung (JÖSB)
PF 217, A-1040 Wien, Österreich
Tel/Fax +43 1 924 31 61
Mobil +43 6991 924 31 61
joesb@...
www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb
Kto-Nr. 9282, RB Schwechat, BLZ 32823
---
STOCCOLMA
Subject: Good deed
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:48:43 +0200
From: TFF Sweden <TFF@...>
To: TFF Special <TFF@...>
Dear friend
Your good deed today could be to sign the Appeal to restore the
Ministry's support for TFF at:
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2000/pf98TFFSuppAppeal.html
ENGLISH
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2000/pf98TFFStodSv.html
SWEDISH
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who have already taken action.
This is our last signature campaign message.
Peace is a comparative advantage. Next, PressInfo #99 will deal with
a series of new initiatives we will launch this autumn - to give you
a comparative advance.
Have a good day
Jan Oberg
--------- 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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VICENZA
LUNEDI' 18 SETTEMBRE - ORE 20.30
Sala circoscrizione 6 - Vicenza
(Villa Lattes, vai Thaon di Revel)
"Guerre ed embarghi"
dibattito con:
Fulvio Grimaldi
proiezione video: "Serbi da morire" - effetti della guerra con
attenzione
al disastro ambientale. E' questo video un'ottima documentazione delle
conseguenze economiche, sociali, sanitarie ed ambientali dell'attacco
NATO.
Organizzano: Punto Rosso / Collettivo "Spartakus" / Circolo del Cinema
"Farhenheit 451
Info: tel fax 044 542084
posta el. sparta@...
Contrà Ponton del Luzzo, 10 - 36100 Vicenza
---
TORINO
SOS ZASTAVA
PERCHE' POSSANO ANDARE A SCUOLA
CON IL MATERIALE SCOLASTICO PER POTERE SCRIVERE
I figli dei lavoratori della Zastava di Kragujevac iniziano, anche loro,
l'anno scolastico in questi giorni.
La Zastava e' una fabbrica jugoslava di automobili e di camion che
occupava
piu' di 30.000 dipendenti, oggi in prevalenza ferma perche' gli impianti
sono stati distrutti dai bombardamenti della Nato della primavera
dell'anno
scorso.
La maggioranza dei loro genitori non lavora ed i lavoratori che non
lavorano
percepiscono una indennita' di disoccupazione di 15.000 lire al mese. Lo
Stato non garantisce il materiale scolastico che va comperato se i soldi
in
famiglia ci sono.
Per questi motivi i lavoratori torinesi che hanno deciso di aiutare i
figli
dei lavoratori della Zastava attraverso le adozioni a distanza:
lanciano un appello ai lavoratori torinesi per sostenere con una
SOTTOSCRIZIONE
Allo scopo di poter dare ad ogni ragazzo
· 5 QUADERNI
· 5 MATITE
· 5 PENNE
La raccolta avverra' con i blocchetti di ricevuta
Sara' fatta da un rappresentante sindacale della azienda dove lavorate
Verra' data informazione della avvenuta consegna del materiale e
l'attestato
di ricevimento
Torino 11 settembre 2000, Via Pedrotti 5
Il Comitato Piemontese SOS Zastava
---
PERUGIA
Per il giorno 22 settembre abbiamo organizzato (Assijug, Campo
antimperialista) una cena per la raccolta di fondi per la Jugoslavia.
La cena sarà l'occasione per illustrare ad una vasta (si spera) platea
l'iniziativa della carovana contro l'embargo, raccogliere le relative
adesioni e, eventualmente, elaborare proposte migliorative e nuove
iniziative.
Per chi é interessato l'appuntamento é presso:
La Casa del Popolo in località Casa del Diavolo PG. alle ore 20.30. Per
arrivarci chi viene dalla super strada E45 uscita Ponte Pattoli; per chi
proviene da Sud o dall'autostrada proseguire sulla E45 in direzione
Cesena e poi uscita Ponte Pattoli.
Per contattarci utilizzare i nostri e-mail oppure telefonare allo
0349-8642732 (Marcello)
PS. oltre da bere e mangiare ci sarà musica in abbondanza con musicisti
slavi dal vivo
---
PERUGIA-ASSISI
Comunicato Stampa del Campo Antimperialista
TOGLIAMO I RICCHI PER DARE AI POVERI!
TOGLIAMO LA NATO CHE AMMAZZA I POVERI PER
DIFENDERE I RICCHI!
Si e' svolta stamane a Perugia, alle ore 12,00, presso la sede regionale
di Voce Operaia, la
Conferenza stampa dei responsabili della Campo Antimperialista.
Alla presenza di giornali e TV e viste le infuocate polemiche in corso,
sono state spiegate le
ragioni dell'annullamento della annunciata ³Contro-marcia per la pace²
prevista per lo stesso
giorno di quella tradizionale, il 24 settembre.
All¹interno della Tavola della Pace (la coalizione pacifista che
organizza la Manifestazione
ufficiale) e' alla fine prevalsa la posizione dei pacifisti conseguenti
i quali hanno stigmatizzato
cio' che accadde l¹anno passato quando il Presidente del Consiglio
D¹Alema e il segretario del
principale partito di governo (Veltroni), ebbero la sfrontatezza di
capeggiare la Marcia mentre
avevano accettato di fare dell¹Italia la portaerei della NATO
nell'illegale e infame aggressione alla
Jugoslavia (il piu' gigantesco bombardamento dai tempi della seconda
guerra mondiale).
Dopo colloqui con gli organizzatori pacifisti della Marcia, l¹arco di
forze antagoniste che si
raccoglie nel Campo Antimperialista ha deciso dunque di confluire con
spirito fraterno e unitario in
quella tradizionale, che sara' dunque non solo contro le guerre e gli
eserciti, ma contro la NATO e
gli Embarghi in particolare.
Il 24 settembre dunque, pacifisti e antimperialisti sfileranno tutti
assieme contro il nemico comune,
contro l¹Impero dei ricchi di cui la NATO e' il braccio armato, e contro
l¹ingiustizia internazionale,
di cui Fondo Monetario e Banca mondiale sono gli organi supremi.
Non sara¹ dunque la ³marcia degli estremisti², ma una vera marcia per la
pace, in quanto
³estremisti² sono coloro che hanno le mani macchiate di sangue e che
continuano con l¹embargo a
strangolare i popoli dopo averli massacrati.
Domani stesso chiederemo un incontro a Padre G. Nicola, del Sacro
Convento di Assisi, per
chiedere se corrisponda a verità il fatto che i francescani, abbiano
deciso di disertare la
manifestazione, solo perché i seminatori di morte governativi sono
invitati a restarsene a casa,
pena una sonora conTESTAtazione
Tutti i cittadini, ci comitati in buona fede sono invitati a partecipare
alla Marcia unitaria affinché
abbia pieno successo.
Per adesioni: campo@...
Campo Antimperialista
Assisi 2000
11 settembre 2000
UNA LUNGA MARCIA ....
PER LA PACE E LA GIUSTIZIA!
UNA STAGIONE di lotte e di impegno contro l'imperialismo!
CONTRO LA N.A.T.O.,
PER ABOLIRE L¹EMBARGO ALLA JUGOSLAVIA,
PER TOGLIERE AI RICCHI E DARE AI POVERI!
Il Campo Antimperialista, assieme a tutti i movimenti antagonisti e
anticapitalisti, promuove una grande campagna
d'autunno di conTESTAzione internazionale
- per dire basta alle aggressioni e alle guerre imperiali contro i paesi
che difendono la loro legittima sovranità nazionale,
- per farla finita con la NATO e gli embarghi illegali che affamano i
popoli oppressi e i più deboli,
- per boicottare i vertici del Fondo monetario e della Banca Mondiale
che pianificano il genocidio dei poveri allo scopo di
tutelare l¹opulenza dei paesi più ricchi,
- contro il governo italiano che continua a spendere risorse ingenti per
armi offensive di distruzione e per mantenere,
violando la costituzione, corpi militari oltre frontiera,
- per la solidarietà con le lotte di tutti i popoli oppressi
dall¹imperialismo e dal colonialismo:
venerdì 23 settembre, ore 20
Concerto e festa di solidarietà con musicisti jugoslavi
casa del Popolo di Casa del Diavolo (PG)
Domenica 24 settembre
Marcia per la pace Perugia-Assisi
Martedì 26 settembre
Tutti a Praga per boicottare il vertice del F.M.I. e della banca
Mondiale
Sabato 14 ottobre
Manifestazioni in tutta Italia di solidarietà con la lotta del popolo di
Colombia contro il rischio di
aggressione U.S.A.
Sabato 21 ottobre
nell'anniversario del massacro nazista a Kragujevac
Manifestazioni a Roma e a Milano contro l'emarbo alla Jugoslavia
Primi di dicembre
Tutti a Nizza per boicottare il vertice dell¹Unione Europea
Fine dicembre
Partenza da Bari della Nave contro per violare l¹Embargo alla
Jugoslavia, con tonnellate di
prodotti, farmaceutici, ospedalieri ecc, che la NATO proibisce siano
consegnati a Belgrado
NON CI SARA¹ MAI PACE
SENZA UNA VERA GIUSTIZIA SOCIALE!
---
VIENNA
Einladung
zur
Jahreshauptversammlung
der
Jugoslawisch-Österreichischen Solidaritätsbewegung
'-----------------------------------'
' Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2000, 18 Uhr '
' 15., Meiselstraße 46/4 '
'-----------------------------------'
Liebe Freunde und Mitglieder der JÖSB!
Der Luftkrieg der NATO gegen Jugoslawien ist zwar (vorläufig) vorbei,
doch
die Aggression gegen ein Land, das sich nicht der Neuen Weltordnung
unterzuordnen bereit war und ist, geht weiter: der Kosovo ist besetzt,
die
militärischen Drohungen bleibt aufrecht, die Versuche Montenegro
abzuspalten
sind offensichtlich und vor allem – das mörderische Wirtschaftsembargo
wird
fortgesetzt.
Die JÖSB, gegründet gegen die westliche Aggression und zur Unterstützung
des
jugoslawischen Volkes, hat also nach wie vor mehr als genug zu tun. Mehr
als
ein Jahr sind seit der Gründung verstrichen – es ist nun Zeit Bilanz
über
unsere Aktivitäten, Erfolge und Misserfolge zu ziehen und die Aufgaben
für
das kommende Jahr festzulegen.
Wir laden alle unsere Mitglieder und Freunde, jene die uns unterstützt
haben
und mit uns gegen den Strom des „militärischen Humanitarismus“ zu
schwimmen
bereit sind, ein, an unserer ersten Generalversammlung teilzunehmen.
Vorläufige Tagesordnung:
(1) Bilanz des vergangenen Jahres
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COME SI FA A DIMINUIRE IL PREZZO DEGLI IDROCARBURI IN UN SISTEMA
ECONOMICO CAPITALISTA?
CON LA GUERRA!
Dopo la Russia, e' la RF di Jugoslavia il paese europeo con il piu'
basso prezzo del carburante: un altro "buon motivo" per aggredirli
entrambi, e per collocare le nostre truppe a presidiare i giacimenti del
Caucaso e del Mar Caspio, nonche' le zone di transito balcanico, dalla
fragile FYROM al docile Montenegro, attraverso il protettorato del
Kosovo.
* Ricette socialiste per arginare la crisi energetica (A. Scargill)
* Il progetto AMBO (Corridoio 8) e la destabilizzazione della FYROM
(Albanian Daily News)
* Stelle e striscie sul Caspio (S. Finardi)
Sull'argomento si veda anche:
Alberto di Fazio: "Le connessioni fra la guerra dei Balcani e la crisi
energetica prossima ventura", dal libro "Imbrogli di guerra"
> http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/libro/
Una considerazione sul caro-petrolio
> http://digilander.iol.it/Yuri/Il%20caro%20Petrolio.htm
===
Subject: Socialist Labour Party Statement On Fuel Crisis
SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY
President: Frank Cave Vice-President: Linda Muir
General Secretary: Arthur Scargill
9 Victoria Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2BB
Answerphone/Fax: 01226-770957
www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk e-mail:
info@...
Press Release
A CRISIS THAT WILL CONTINUE
The current fuel crisis will not vanish with the lifting of blockades.
This
crisis, particularly in respect of oil and petroleum was predicted by
Socialists like myself years ago. It is an inevitable consequence of
the
free market and capitalist system. The long-term, and only, solution is
public ownership and control and the introduction of an integrated
energy
policy which should be implemented immediately, involving the following:
all North Sea oil and gas operations to be taken into public ownership;
all oil refineries and gas distributors to be taken into public
ownership;
all road transport - passengers and freight - including lorries, buses,
trains and waterway transport to be taken into public ownership;
all the revenues generated from creating integrated energy and transport
systems must be utilised for the benefit of the British people:
restoring the income 'link' for pensioners;
an immediate investment of »13 billion into the NHS, at the same time
abolishing private health care;
an immediate investment of »5 billion to be made annually in education;
a housing programme which would build or refurbish one million homes per
year over the next five years.
These are policies which should have emerged as a call from the TUC at
its
Congress this week, with the General Council and trade unions
recognising
that the actions of the oil producers, refineries and hauliers have been
and
are directed towards maintaining or increasing the profits of producers,
refineries and distributors - not protecting the wages, conditions and
jobs
of energy and transport workers, or of consumers.
Arthur Scargill
General Secretary, Socialist Labour Party
Thursday, 14 September, 2000
> Pétrole : une crise qui va continuer
>
> La crise pétrolière actuelle ne s¹arrêtera pas avec la levée des barrages.
> Cette crise avait été prévue depuis de longues années par les Socialistes
> comme moi-même. Elle est une conséquence inéluctable de l¹économie de
marché
> et du système capitaliste. La seule solution de long terme est la
propriété
> publique et l¹introduction sans délai d¹une politique énergétique intégrée
> qui comprendrait les points suivants :
>
> 1. toutes les activités pétrolières et gazières en Mer du Nord sont mises
> sous statut public ;
>
> 2. toutes les raffineries de pétrole et les sociétés de distribution de
gaz
> sont mises sous statut public ;
>
> 3. tous les transports ferroviaires et routiers, de passager et de fret, y
> compris les poids lourds, les cars, les trains et le transport fluvial
sont
> mis sous statut public ;
>
> 4. les revenus engendrés par la création de systèmes énergétiques et de
> transport intégrés doivent être utilisés au profit de la population
> britannique :
>
> - restauration de la liaison des pensions au revenu moyen ;
> - un investissement immédiat de 13 milliards de £ dans le Service National
> de
> Santé (NHS), en même temps que l¹abolition du système de soins de santé
> privé ;
> - un investissement immédiat et annuel de 5 millions de £ dans
> l¹enseignement ;
> - un programme de logement visant à construire ou à rénover un million de
> logements par an au cours de cinq prochaines années.
>
>
> Voilà des revendications qui auraient dû émerger au congrès du TUC la
> semaine dernière. Le Conseil général et les syndicats auraient dû observer
> que les actions des producteurs pétroliers, raffineries et
> patrons-camionneurs sont orientées vers la défense et l¹augmentation des
> profits des producteurs et des distributeurs, et non vers la protection
des
> salaires, emplois et conditions de travail des travailleurs des secteurs
de
> l¹énergie et du transport ou des intérêts des consommateurs.
>
> Arthur Scargill
> Secrétaire général du
> Socialist Labour Party
===
July 1, 2000 - Albanian Daily News
http://www.albaniannews.com
AMBO Corporation to Start Fund Raising Within Days
SOFIA - The New York-registered Albanian, Macedonian and
Bulgarian
Oil Corporation (AMBO Corporation), set up to construct a trans-Balkan
oil
pipeline linking the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Bourgas with Albania's
Adriatic port of Vlora, will start raising funds as of the beginning of
July, the company's vice-president, Gligor Taskovic, has announced.
Leading oil companies such as Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Chevron
and
Texaco have already expressed interest in the project, said AMBO
president
Ted Ferguson, who went to Sofia at the end of May to meet government
representatives. In Ferguson's opinion the pipeline can be completed by
the
end of 2004 or in 2005.
The pipeline will be 900 kilometers long and have an annual
capacity of 35 million tons of oil. According to estimates, the facility
will cost about 1.130 billion dollars, 450 million dollars of which will
be
raised from company shares and 600 million dollars provided through bank
credits.
Talks have already been held with the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Financial
Corporation (IFC), the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
and
EXIM, company sources said.
A Regional Development Ministry export council has considered
AMBO's preliminary survey in order to become acquainted with the basic
facts. The corporation assigned its execution to four consulting
companies
- the major one of which is Brown & Root. The legal analysis was
undertaken
by CS First Boston, while the political one, by Richard Armtrige.
At the time, regional development minister Evgeni Chachev said
that
first a choice must be made between this project and the alternative one
of
a pipeline linking Bourgas with the Greek port of Alexandropoulis. In
Minister Chachev's opinion both projects are important and it is up to
the
investors to decide which will start first.
Recently, the Bourgas-Alexandropoulis project seems to have
been
slightly forgotten. In 1998, Greece received more than two million euros
from the European Union for feasibility studies. Still, only the first
stage of the studies has been carried out while the second phase is
currently under preparation. At the same time, the USA has promised
support
to Baku-Ceyhan as an alternative to the route passing through Russia.
The truth is that the Caspian Oil Pipeline Consortium has not
made
the final choice as to which of the possible routes it would use to
transport oil to the European markets.
The agreement for Baku-Ceyhan is more of a political act and
oil
companies feel nervous about it, being unaccustomed to such strong
pressure, experts commented. Analyses show that this pipeline will cost
about three billion dollars and would render oil supplies more
expensive.
It is convenient for carrying the oil extracted in the Southern Caspian
(especially Azerbaijan) but would prove to be unprofitable for oil
carried
from Kazakhstan. The overall oil deposits in the Caspian Sea are
estimated
at 200 billion barrels.
The construction of an oil pipeline from the Kazakh oil deposit
at
Tengiz to the Russian port of
Novorosiisk must be completed in 2002. Recently, Russian president
Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh
counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, agreed on transporting Caspian oil
through Russia to Novorosiisk.
AMBO's biggest advantage is that 300,000-ton super tankers can enter
Vlora
port, which would make
transport cheaper. The decision as to where the oil would be directed
to
after that is up to the oil companies. Moreover, Vlora is on the way for
tankers going to the oil ports of Trieste and Rijeka, while
Alexandropoulis
is somewhat out of the way.
Another of the AMBO project's advantages is the support it
receives
from the US administration, which has granted funds for the feasibility
studies. If the big oil companies confirm their interest in the project
this would be another big plus.
The idea is for AMBO to become a holding structure with the
participation of several big oil companies operating in the region of
the
Caspian Sea. The holding will register companies in the three countries
under local laws.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:19 AM
>>Subject: [sn-vesti 8202] Macedonia being destabilised
>>
>>
>>EXTRACT
>>
>>NOTE: The Digest is available on-line at
>><http://www.europeanfoundation.org/intelligencedigest.html>www.europeanfou
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>>ation.org/intelligencedigest.html
>>
>>Issue No. 97 16th - 29th June 2000
>>
>>Greek politician says KLA trying to destabilise Macedonia
>>
>>As killings, bombings and the abduction of children for prostitution
>>continue daily under the nose of Nato "peacekeepers" in Kosovo (for
>>daily reports, see <http://www.kforonline.com>www.kforonline.com), a
>>Greek member of the European Parliament, Yiannis Souladakis, has told
>>reporters that groups linked to the Kosovo Liberation Army are
>>involved in attempts to infiltrate and destabilize the Former
>>Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Souladakis said the
>>infiltrators were "involved in drug-trafficking, illegal arms and
>>women trade, while lately...attempting to acquire a political
>>character."
>>
>>Moreover, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported last week that the
>>40-mile border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
>>Kosovo is riddled by smugglers who are tied to armed gangs fomenting
>>rebellion among Macedonia's ethnic Albanians. The newspaper said
>>ethnic Albanians from both sides crisscross the border with large
>>quantities of cigarettes, alcohol, guns and women whom they force
>>into prostitution.
>>
>>Macedonian newspapers have also highlighted an alleged connection
>>between organized smuggling rings and the political leadership of the
>>ethnic Albanians of western Macedonia, centred in the city of Tetovo.
>>The repeated attacks on police targets in ethnic Albanian regions,
>>culminating in the shooting of two border guards at Blace earlier
>>this month, are attributed to the activities of Albanians who, beyond
>>smuggling, are forming the nucleus of an armed movement in Macedonia.
>>The reports say armed groups are forming under the leadership of
>>extremists from the KLA. No proof has been provided, according to the
>>press reports, but the rumours are fuelled by reports by the
>>Macedonian secret service and statements by government officials who
>>say such groups exist and are tied to the military-political
>>leadership of Kosovo.
>>
>>Meanwhile, the Greek government has joined the US in denying a New
>>York Times report that said Greece was involved in efforts to
>>negotiate the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
>>coupled to guarantees for his personal safety and that of his family.
>>A Greek government spokesman said a recent trip by former foreign
>>minister Karolos Papoulias to Belgrade was not related to the alleged
>>scenario outlined in the Times report. [CNS News, 21st June 2000]
>>
>>
>>
>>Greek border guard killed by Albanians
>>
>>A Greek border guard has been shot dead in an encounter with Albanian
>>drug dealers on the Greek-Albanian border. According to reports,
>>Ioannis Pamboukidis, 30, was killed when the Albanians used their
>>Kalashnikovs to open fire on the customs officers who were patrolling
>>a remote rural area. [La Repubblica, 28th June 2000]
>>
>>
>>
>>Balkan pipeline project to start raising funds next month
>>
>>The Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil Corporation LLC (AMBO) of
>>Pound Ridge, New York, has announced that it will start raising funds
>>in early July for a $1.13bn pipeline to ship crude oil from the Black
>>and Caspian seas to the West. The underground pipeline, 913
>>kilometres long, is designed to carry 750,000 barrels a day, or 35m
>>metric tons per year, which will represent 40 percent of the crude
>>oil from newly-developed oilfields to enter the Black Sea in the next
>>five years, or 30 percent of the new oil over the next 10 years. It
>>will pass from Burgas, on the Black Sea coast, to Vlora on the
>>Adriatic coast of Albania, and will ship Russian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh
>>and Turkmenian oil from around the Black Sea to the markets of
>>Western Europe and North America. It will also bypass Turkey's
>>heavily travelled Bosphorus Straits. Big tankers with 300,000 tonnes
>>of crude can anchor at the port of Vlora, which makes the transit
>>journey to the United States economic, while the biggest tankers
>>passing the Bosphorus could carry 150,000 tonnes, AMBO officials
>>said. A holding structure with three separate companies in Bulgaria,
>>Macedonia and Albania will build the pipeline. The company's
>>executive vice-president has added that companies including Texaco,
>>Chevron, Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Total, Elf, Fina, were
>>interested in the pipeline that will become operational in 2005. The
>>trans-Balkan pipeline is also part of the Transport Corridor 8 plan.
>>Corridor 8 will include a highway, railway, oil pipeline and
>>fibre-optic telecommunications line as well as AMBO's oil pipeline.
>>[Albanian Daily News, June 16, 2000]
>>
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
Friday August 18, 2000
Trans-Balkan Oil Line Appears Feasible
The Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian Oil Pipeline Corp.
(AMBO), Pound Ridge, NY, and the governments of
Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania said last week that a
US-sponsored feasibility study of the proposed
Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline project has been completed
and delivered to the contracting parties.
The report provides a “commercially compelling
proposition” to the major oil companies who are
developing their oil fields in the Caspian Sea who
have chosen the Black Sea export route to the
Mediterranean Sea, said Gligor Tashkovich, executive
vice-president of AMBO.
The large, recently-developed oil fields “confirm the
requirement for multiple export routes out of the
Caspian region,” said Tashkovich. “We believe that the
Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline will be one of the more
significant routes to be developed.”
The $1 million study updated and enlarged the
project’s original feasibility study of 1996.
AMBO is developing a $1.1 billion pipeline, which will
carry crude from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of
Burgas to the Albanian Adriatic Sea port of Vlora.
The pipeline has a projected throughput of 750,000 b/d
of oil. (Oil and Gas Journal)
===
Da "Il Manifesto" del 27-04-2000
Stelle e strisce sul Caspio
Per il controllo delle risorse energetiche del Caucaso e dell'Asia
centrale sono scese in
campo le grandi potenze. Gli Stati uniti faranno di tutto per vincere
la
partita
SERGIO FINARDI
Alla fine del marzo 2000, davanti alla platea del Council of Foreign
Relations (Cfr),
organismo che dentro un marasma di affiliazioni di diversa origine vede
rappresentato nei
suoi pi ristretti cerchi il cuore degli interessi imperiali degli Stati
Uniti e dei suoi "valori"
(in dollari ovviamente), il ministro Usa dell'Energia, Bill Richardson,
ha riaffermato un
giudizio gi pi volte espresso dalla leadership statunitense. L'Asia
centrale e la regione
caspico-caucasica sono di importanza strategica per gli Stati uniti, in
particolare per
l'approvigionamento energetico loro e dei loro alleati. Gli Stati
uniti,
ha detto Richardson,
dovranno fare di tutto per assicurare che la regione avanzi verso
scelte
che siano adatte
a promuovere quella libert che "e' mancata per cos tanti anni". Un
obiettivo cos
importante per l'America da meritare l'opera incessante di due esperti,
i
consiglieri molto
speciali del presidente per le questioni caspico-energetiche, Richard
Morningstar e
John Wolf - infaticabili tessitori di accordi tra i paesi dell'area e
di
connessioni tra questi
ultimi e il pi ampio corso delle strategie Usa.
Un pi ampio corso che ben definito in un articolo di qualche tempo fa
("La politica
statunitense verso l'Asia centrale e il Caucaso meridionale") del
generale William E.
Odom, oggi al centro di studi sulla "sicurezza nazionale" dello Hudson
Institute di
Washington ed ex-direttore della National Security Agency: "In altre
parole, la
scomparsa della minaccia sovietica non ha reso obsoleto il sistema di
sicurezza guidato
dagli Stati uniti e creato per contenerla.
Al contrario rimane straordinariamente importante per altri obiettivi
che
non sono sempre
chiaramente valutati. L'idea diffusa che la fine della Guerra fredda
abbia rimosso il
bisogno di una leadership degli Stati uniti nelle tre aree strategiche
[Europa,
Giappone/Corea, Golfo Persico, ndr.] pericolosamente sbagliata. In
certa
misura anzi
essa divenuta anche pi importante proprio per il collasso dell'Unione
sovietica.
Questo certamente vero nel Transcaucaso e nell'Asia Centrale".
Tanto vero che Adrian W. Burke, della Logistica del Corpo dei Marines -
collezionista di
incarichi operativi nei maggiori teatri di impegno Usa - ancora pi
preciso e chiaro nel
sommario conclusivo di un puntuale saggio ("Una strategia regionale
statunitense per il
Bacino caspico"), scritto per l'ultimo numero del 1999 della Strategic
Review, dello U.S.
Strategic Institute di Boston.
"Il presidente - scrive Burke - ha specificato gli indirizzi della
politica nazionale per la
regione del Caspio nel documento 'National Security Strategy' [del 30
ottobre 1998,
ribaditi nei due pi recenti documenti, ndr].L'insieme dei campi
energetici della regione
Asia centrale-Medio oriente contiene la pi grande concentrazione
mondiale
di riserve
di idrocarburi e merita l'attenzione statunitense. Assicurare alle
compagnie statunitensi la
leadership nello sviluppo delle risorse della regione e azzerare
l'influenza russa ed
iraniana sull'esplorazione e sviluppo dei campi energetici, nonch sulle
direttrici delle
pipelines per l'esportazione costituisce la base di quella politica. Al
fine di mantenere la
sua influenza nel bacino del Caspio, gli Stati uniti devono coinvolgere
i
capi di stato
regionali, cooperare con i settori economici americani interessati,
promuovere la
cooperazione militare e rispondere alle sfide complesse poste dai
problemi dell' accesso
e della sicurezza energetica."
Sebbene il termine "azzerare" non compaia ovviamente nel documento
clintoniano
dell'ottobre 1998, Burke ha certamente buone ragioni nell'usarlo per
sintetizzare il senso
delle indicazioni presidenziali e per farne la base delle sette
"raccomandazioni" che
rivolge ai responsabili della politica Usa nell'area, ivi compresi i
comandi militari che
hanno in carico la supervisione della regione e la cooperazione con gli
apparati della
difesa dei paesi ex Urss.
Sintetizzate, le sette raccomandazioni recitano: 1) rapida definizione
della questione
relativa allo stato "legale" del Caspio; 2) pieno supporto alla
realizzazione della condotta
Baku (Azerbaigian)-Ceyan (Turchia sud-orientale) e di una condotta
transcaspica dal
grande campo petrolifero kazako di Tengiz (Caspio nordorientale) verso
occidente,
cosa che avrebbe il pregio secondo Burke di mettere fuori gioco le
possibili vie
controllate da Iran e Russia; 3) "limitare la penetrazione economica
russa nella regione",
ma "permettere" alla Russia una "limitata" esplorazione petrolifera del
Caspio
settentrionale [bont sua, dato che sarebbe anche territorio russo o se
si
vuole
dagestano, ceceno e calmucco], l'esportazione del petrolio kazako e la
cooperazione sul
tema dell'assetto legale del Caspio; 4) gli Stati Uniti "dovrebbero
incoraggiare la Turchia
a diventare un leader regionale (...). la Turchia il migliore alleato
degli Stati uniti e una
punta della difesa statunitense contro Russia ed Iran; 5) "l'influenza
iraniana e le sue
potenzialit devono essere tenute sotto controllo [...ma] continuare a
tenere isolato l'Iran
potrebbe essere controproducente; 6) gli Stati uniti devono tollerare
la
presenza cinese
nella regione, presenza che sembra legata pi a preoccupazioni difensive
che a ritorni
economici; al tempo stesso, date le riserve petrolifere cinesi gi
provate, le compagnie
statunitensi hanno buone opportunit di assistere la Cina nel loro
sfruttamento e
contribuire a rinsaldare i legami tra i due paesi; 7) il Pakistan
dovrebbe essere "coltivato"
come strumento di contenimento dell'influenza regionale iraniana: "il
Pakistan la scelta
migliore come concorrente dell'Iran"; "Il Pakistan pu offrire una via
indiscutibilmente pi
diretta per il petrolio dal Caspio all'Oceano Indiano" che evita fra
l'altro "uno dei pi
sensibili punti di passaggio marittimo del mondo, lo Stretto di
Hormuz".
Infine il territorio
del Pakistan " gi un possibile punto di passaggio per l'esportazione
del
gas kazako e
soprattutto uzbeko".
Le sette raccomandazioni strategiche di Burke si coniugano poi con
alcune
altre pi
squisitamente militari. In primo luogo, Burke nota che i paesi della
regione sono stati
raggruppati incongruamente e in modo differente dai vari ministeri
statunitensi interessati
(Dipartimento di stato, Difesa, Commercio, Energia), cos da creare
approcci e strategie
di contatto differenti. Ad esempio il Dipartimento di stato continua ad
avere un gruppo
unico (regione russa) per tutti i paesi dell'ex-Urss, mentre la Difesa
-
tra il 1998 e il 1999
- ha inserito Azerbaigian, Georgia, Armenia, Ucraina e Bielorussia
nell'area di
responsabilit Eucom (Comando europeo) e Turkmenistan, Kazakistan,
Uzbekistan,
Tagikistan e Kirghizistan nell'area di responsabilit del Centcom
(Comando
centrale) -
con gli ultimi due paesi immessi perch potenziali vie di transito per
le
condotte verso
Pakistan, India e Cina.
Una unificazione degli approcci, ma soprattuto una divisione dei paesi
della regione
secondo reali affinit (soprattutto di carattere culturale e
linguistico)
e secondo le scelte
di campo espresse (sostanzialmente filo-americane o meno), per Burke
la
soluzione
che pu permettere di coordinare meglio la divisione del lavoro
"militare"
nella regione.
L'enfasi sulle caratteristiche "linguistico-culturali" contiene in s gi
tutto un programma,
si tratti dell'area centro-asiatica o di quella balcanica.
In secondo luogo, Burke sostiene che gli Stati Uniti dovrebbero
assumere
come centro
focale della loro strategia militare nella regione un maggior
coinvolgimento nel
Centrasbat (Central Asian Combined Peacekeeping Battalion), considerato
il successo
delle manovre congiunte del 1997 con lo stesso Centrasbat (formato con
contingenti
russi, kazaki, uzbeki e kirghisi).
In terzo luogo, gli Stati Uniti dovrebbero incoraggiare la Russia ad
assumere pi
responsabilit nel Centrasbat, ma non al punto di permetterle di
stabilire
legami con i
leader militari della regione che passino sopra gli Stati Uniti (Burke
vuol forse dire che -
nonostante il proliferare di"consiglieri" come Brzezinski - i "leader
militari della regione"
non sono proprio tutti culo e camicia con i ragazzi della Cia e del
Pentagono e qualcuno
potrebbe aver conservato qualche agendina con i nomi dei vecchi
commilitoni
dell'Armata rossa e del ministero degli Interni sovietico, insieme ai
quali molti di loro si
sono formati e hanno fatto carriera).
Infine, dovrebbe essere promosso un nuovo battaglione simile al
Centrasbat, ma
focalizzato sul Caucaso (Caucbat), "con la leadership della Turchia e
l'inclusione di
Georgia, Armenia e Azerbaigian" e dovrebbero essere incoraggiate
"esercitazioni
combinate turco-americane, con partecipazioni bilaterali o
multilaterali
degli altri paesi
della regione", cosa che aumenterebbe l'interoperabilit e una maggior
"stabilit e
cooperazione" nella regione.
Sulla stessa rivista, un paio di numeri prima e all'indomani del
bombardamento Nato sulla
Yugoslavia, nel saggio "Il ruolo strategico dell'Europa nel Caucaso e
nel
Mar Nero", il
comandante britannico Michael C. Evans (Royal Navy) scriveva: "Caucaso
e
Mar Nero
diventano determinanti principali nell'equazione strategica petrolifera
perch essi hanno
in mano la chiave della distribuzione di petrolio e gas fuori dal
bacino
del Caspio e verso
l'Europa. [...Comunque] anche senza il petrolio, la regione del Caucaso
e
Mar Nero
potenzialmente di enorme importanza.
E' la cerniera tra Est ed Ovest, tra Asia centrale ed Europa, e fa da
divisorio tra l'influenza
della Russia a nord e la potenza regionale emergente della Turchia e
dell'Iran a sud.
Mentre essa in qualche modo geograficamente lontana dal centro
dell'Europa, allo
stesso tempo troppo vicina al centro di gravit degli interessi europei
per essere
ignorata.Allo stesso tempo che i confini dell'Europa si espandono, con
l'Unione Europea
dal punto di vista economico e politico, con la Nato dal punto di vista
militare,
ugualmente si espande l'area che costituisce il suo pi immediato
esterno".
Questo "immediato esterno" sfortunatamente giudicato tale anche dalla
Russia, dalla
Cina e dall'Iran. Dal 1992, ad esempio, una parte consistente degli
strateghi della
sicurezza nazionale russi si sono progressivamente orientati verso una
politica
"post-imperiale", secondo la definizione del suo primo teorico, Sergie
Karaganov (gi
membro del Consiglio presidenziale di Yeltsin), in base alla quale
"l'obiettivo della Russia
deve essere un parziale reintegro dell'ex-Urss dentro un quadro pi o
meno
confederale".
Cos, in questi anni, i paesi della regione sono stati sollecitati a
sottoscrivere, o hanno
loro stesso promosso, i pi diversi e contrastanti accordi, sia di
carattere
politico-militare che di carattere economico. Se negli anni passati si
pu
dire che gli
Stati Uniti abbiano raccolto i frutti di una forte pressione esercitata
su tali paesi, pi
recentemente vi sono stati segni che Russia, Cina ed Iran hanno
riguadagnato posizioni
nell'area. Chi gioca e chi giocato non molto facile, in realt, dirlo,
nonostante la gran
cassa che ogni potenza suona dopo ogni accordo.
Non si pu tuttavia prescindere, come vedremo, dai pesi relativi dei
vari
paesi coinvolti
nella vicenda e dal fatto che per forgiare nuove bilance di potenza
nella
regione sono le
vecchie strategie ad essere ancora le pi utili per le grandi potenze.
Scrive Ying-shih Yu in Commercio ed espansione nella Cina degli Han che
fu Ch'ao
Ts'o nel II sec. a.c. a creare per primo la strategia (accolta
dall'imperatore Wen) d'usare i
"barbari per attaccare i barbari". L'obiettivo? Proprio i "barbari
degli
stati occidentali",
come gli Han chiamavano i popoli delle regioni della Cina occidentale e
dell'Asia
Centrale non ancora entrati nella sfera della "pax sinensis".
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ECONOMICO CAPITALISTA?
CON LA GUERRA!
Dopo la Russia, e' la RF di Jugoslavia il paese europeo con il piu'
basso prezzo del carburante: un altro "buon motivo" per aggredirli
entrambi, e per collocare le nostre truppe a presidiare i giacimenti del
Caucaso e del Mar Caspio, nonche' le zone di transito balcanico, dalla
fragile FYROM al docile Montenegro, attraverso il protettorato del
Kosovo.
* Ricette socialiste per arginare la crisi energetica (A. Scargill)
* Il progetto AMBO (Corridoio 8) e la destabilizzazione della FYROM
(Albanian Daily News)
* Stelle e striscie sul Caspio (S. Finardi)
Sull'argomento si veda anche:
Alberto di Fazio: "Le connessioni fra la guerra dei Balcani e la crisi
energetica prossima ventura", dal libro "Imbrogli di guerra"
> http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/libro/
Una considerazione sul caro-petrolio
> http://digilander.iol.it/Yuri/Il%20caro%20Petrolio.htm
===
Subject: Socialist Labour Party Statement On Fuel Crisis
SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY
President: Frank Cave Vice-President: Linda Muir
General Secretary: Arthur Scargill
9 Victoria Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2BB
Answerphone/Fax: 01226-770957
www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk e-mail:
info@...
Press Release
A CRISIS THAT WILL CONTINUE
The current fuel crisis will not vanish with the lifting of blockades.
This
crisis, particularly in respect of oil and petroleum was predicted by
Socialists like myself years ago. It is an inevitable consequence of
the
free market and capitalist system. The long-term, and only, solution is
public ownership and control and the introduction of an integrated
energy
policy which should be implemented immediately, involving the following:
all North Sea oil and gas operations to be taken into public ownership;
all oil refineries and gas distributors to be taken into public
ownership;
all road transport - passengers and freight - including lorries, buses,
trains and waterway transport to be taken into public ownership;
all the revenues generated from creating integrated energy and transport
systems must be utilised for the benefit of the British people:
restoring the income 'link' for pensioners;
an immediate investment of »13 billion into the NHS, at the same time
abolishing private health care;
an immediate investment of »5 billion to be made annually in education;
a housing programme which would build or refurbish one million homes per
year over the next five years.
These are policies which should have emerged as a call from the TUC at
its
Congress this week, with the General Council and trade unions
recognising
that the actions of the oil producers, refineries and hauliers have been
and
are directed towards maintaining or increasing the profits of producers,
refineries and distributors - not protecting the wages, conditions and
jobs
of energy and transport workers, or of consumers.
Arthur Scargill
General Secretary, Socialist Labour Party
Thursday, 14 September, 2000
> Pétrole : une crise qui va continuer
>
> La crise pétrolière actuelle ne s¹arrêtera pas avec la levée des barrages.
> Cette crise avait été prévue depuis de longues années par les Socialistes
> comme moi-même. Elle est une conséquence inéluctable de l¹économie de
marché
> et du système capitaliste. La seule solution de long terme est la
propriété
> publique et l¹introduction sans délai d¹une politique énergétique intégrée
> qui comprendrait les points suivants :
>
> 1. toutes les activités pétrolières et gazières en Mer du Nord sont mises
> sous statut public ;
>
> 2. toutes les raffineries de pétrole et les sociétés de distribution de
gaz
> sont mises sous statut public ;
>
> 3. tous les transports ferroviaires et routiers, de passager et de fret, y
> compris les poids lourds, les cars, les trains et le transport fluvial
sont
> mis sous statut public ;
>
> 4. les revenus engendrés par la création de systèmes énergétiques et de
> transport intégrés doivent être utilisés au profit de la population
> britannique :
>
> - restauration de la liaison des pensions au revenu moyen ;
> - un investissement immédiat de 13 milliards de £ dans le Service National
> de
> Santé (NHS), en même temps que l¹abolition du système de soins de santé
> privé ;
> - un investissement immédiat et annuel de 5 millions de £ dans
> l¹enseignement ;
> - un programme de logement visant à construire ou à rénover un million de
> logements par an au cours de cinq prochaines années.
>
>
> Voilà des revendications qui auraient dû émerger au congrès du TUC la
> semaine dernière. Le Conseil général et les syndicats auraient dû observer
> que les actions des producteurs pétroliers, raffineries et
> patrons-camionneurs sont orientées vers la défense et l¹augmentation des
> profits des producteurs et des distributeurs, et non vers la protection
des
> salaires, emplois et conditions de travail des travailleurs des secteurs
de
> l¹énergie et du transport ou des intérêts des consommateurs.
>
> Arthur Scargill
> Secrétaire général du
> Socialist Labour Party
===
July 1, 2000 - Albanian Daily News
http://www.albaniannews.com
AMBO Corporation to Start Fund Raising Within Days
SOFIA - The New York-registered Albanian, Macedonian and
Bulgarian
Oil Corporation (AMBO Corporation), set up to construct a trans-Balkan
oil
pipeline linking the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Bourgas with Albania's
Adriatic port of Vlora, will start raising funds as of the beginning of
July, the company's vice-president, Gligor Taskovic, has announced.
Leading oil companies such as Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Chevron
and
Texaco have already expressed interest in the project, said AMBO
president
Ted Ferguson, who went to Sofia at the end of May to meet government
representatives. In Ferguson's opinion the pipeline can be completed by
the
end of 2004 or in 2005.
The pipeline will be 900 kilometers long and have an annual
capacity of 35 million tons of oil. According to estimates, the facility
will cost about 1.130 billion dollars, 450 million dollars of which will
be
raised from company shares and 600 million dollars provided through bank
credits.
Talks have already been held with the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Financial
Corporation (IFC), the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
and
EXIM, company sources said.
A Regional Development Ministry export council has considered
AMBO's preliminary survey in order to become acquainted with the basic
facts. The corporation assigned its execution to four consulting
companies
- the major one of which is Brown & Root. The legal analysis was
undertaken
by CS First Boston, while the political one, by Richard Armtrige.
At the time, regional development minister Evgeni Chachev said
that
first a choice must be made between this project and the alternative one
of
a pipeline linking Bourgas with the Greek port of Alexandropoulis. In
Minister Chachev's opinion both projects are important and it is up to
the
investors to decide which will start first.
Recently, the Bourgas-Alexandropoulis project seems to have
been
slightly forgotten. In 1998, Greece received more than two million euros
from the European Union for feasibility studies. Still, only the first
stage of the studies has been carried out while the second phase is
currently under preparation. At the same time, the USA has promised
support
to Baku-Ceyhan as an alternative to the route passing through Russia.
The truth is that the Caspian Oil Pipeline Consortium has not
made
the final choice as to which of the possible routes it would use to
transport oil to the European markets.
The agreement for Baku-Ceyhan is more of a political act and
oil
companies feel nervous about it, being unaccustomed to such strong
pressure, experts commented. Analyses show that this pipeline will cost
about three billion dollars and would render oil supplies more
expensive.
It is convenient for carrying the oil extracted in the Southern Caspian
(especially Azerbaijan) but would prove to be unprofitable for oil
carried
from Kazakhstan. The overall oil deposits in the Caspian Sea are
estimated
at 200 billion barrels.
The construction of an oil pipeline from the Kazakh oil deposit
at
Tengiz to the Russian port of
Novorosiisk must be completed in 2002. Recently, Russian president
Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh
counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, agreed on transporting Caspian oil
through Russia to Novorosiisk.
AMBO's biggest advantage is that 300,000-ton super tankers can enter
Vlora
port, which would make
transport cheaper. The decision as to where the oil would be directed
to
after that is up to the oil companies. Moreover, Vlora is on the way for
tankers going to the oil ports of Trieste and Rijeka, while
Alexandropoulis
is somewhat out of the way.
Another of the AMBO project's advantages is the support it
receives
from the US administration, which has granted funds for the feasibility
studies. If the big oil companies confirm their interest in the project
this would be another big plus.
The idea is for AMBO to become a holding structure with the
participation of several big oil companies operating in the region of
the
Caspian Sea. The holding will register companies in the three countries
under local laws.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:19 AM
>>Subject: [sn-vesti 8202] Macedonia being destabilised
>>
>>
>>EXTRACT
>>
>>NOTE: The Digest is available on-line at
>><http://www.europeanfoundation.org/intelligencedigest.html>www.europeanfou
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>>ation.org/intelligencedigest.html
>>
>>Issue No. 97 16th - 29th June 2000
>>
>>Greek politician says KLA trying to destabilise Macedonia
>>
>>As killings, bombings and the abduction of children for prostitution
>>continue daily under the nose of Nato "peacekeepers" in Kosovo (for
>>daily reports, see <http://www.kforonline.com>www.kforonline.com), a
>>Greek member of the European Parliament, Yiannis Souladakis, has told
>>reporters that groups linked to the Kosovo Liberation Army are
>>involved in attempts to infiltrate and destabilize the Former
>>Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Souladakis said the
>>infiltrators were "involved in drug-trafficking, illegal arms and
>>women trade, while lately...attempting to acquire a political
>>character."
>>
>>Moreover, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported last week that the
>>40-mile border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
>>Kosovo is riddled by smugglers who are tied to armed gangs fomenting
>>rebellion among Macedonia's ethnic Albanians. The newspaper said
>>ethnic Albanians from both sides crisscross the border with large
>>quantities of cigarettes, alcohol, guns and women whom they force
>>into prostitution.
>>
>>Macedonian newspapers have also highlighted an alleged connection
>>between organized smuggling rings and the political leadership of the
>>ethnic Albanians of western Macedonia, centred in the city of Tetovo.
>>The repeated attacks on police targets in ethnic Albanian regions,
>>culminating in the shooting of two border guards at Blace earlier
>>this month, are attributed to the activities of Albanians who, beyond
>>smuggling, are forming the nucleus of an armed movement in Macedonia.
>>The reports say armed groups are forming under the leadership of
>>extremists from the KLA. No proof has been provided, according to the
>>press reports, but the rumours are fuelled by reports by the
>>Macedonian secret service and statements by government officials who
>>say such groups exist and are tied to the military-political
>>leadership of Kosovo.
>>
>>Meanwhile, the Greek government has joined the US in denying a New
>>York Times report that said Greece was involved in efforts to
>>negotiate the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
>>coupled to guarantees for his personal safety and that of his family.
>>A Greek government spokesman said a recent trip by former foreign
>>minister Karolos Papoulias to Belgrade was not related to the alleged
>>scenario outlined in the Times report. [CNS News, 21st June 2000]
>>
>>
>>
>>Greek border guard killed by Albanians
>>
>>A Greek border guard has been shot dead in an encounter with Albanian
>>drug dealers on the Greek-Albanian border. According to reports,
>>Ioannis Pamboukidis, 30, was killed when the Albanians used their
>>Kalashnikovs to open fire on the customs officers who were patrolling
>>a remote rural area. [La Repubblica, 28th June 2000]
>>
>>
>>
>>Balkan pipeline project to start raising funds next month
>>
>>The Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil Corporation LLC (AMBO) of
>>Pound Ridge, New York, has announced that it will start raising funds
>>in early July for a $1.13bn pipeline to ship crude oil from the Black
>>and Caspian seas to the West. The underground pipeline, 913
>>kilometres long, is designed to carry 750,000 barrels a day, or 35m
>>metric tons per year, which will represent 40 percent of the crude
>>oil from newly-developed oilfields to enter the Black Sea in the next
>>five years, or 30 percent of the new oil over the next 10 years. It
>>will pass from Burgas, on the Black Sea coast, to Vlora on the
>>Adriatic coast of Albania, and will ship Russian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh
>>and Turkmenian oil from around the Black Sea to the markets of
>>Western Europe and North America. It will also bypass Turkey's
>>heavily travelled Bosphorus Straits. Big tankers with 300,000 tonnes
>>of crude can anchor at the port of Vlora, which makes the transit
>>journey to the United States economic, while the biggest tankers
>>passing the Bosphorus could carry 150,000 tonnes, AMBO officials
>>said. A holding structure with three separate companies in Bulgaria,
>>Macedonia and Albania will build the pipeline. The company's
>>executive vice-president has added that companies including Texaco,
>>Chevron, Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Total, Elf, Fina, were
>>interested in the pipeline that will become operational in 2005. The
>>trans-Balkan pipeline is also part of the Transport Corridor 8 plan.
>>Corridor 8 will include a highway, railway, oil pipeline and
>>fibre-optic telecommunications line as well as AMBO's oil pipeline.
>>[Albanian Daily News, June 16, 2000]
>>
http://www.albaniannews.com
Albanian Daily News
Friday August 18, 2000
Trans-Balkan Oil Line Appears Feasible
The Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian Oil Pipeline Corp.
(AMBO), Pound Ridge, NY, and the governments of
Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania said last week that a
US-sponsored feasibility study of the proposed
Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline project has been completed
and delivered to the contracting parties.
The report provides a “commercially compelling
proposition” to the major oil companies who are
developing their oil fields in the Caspian Sea who
have chosen the Black Sea export route to the
Mediterranean Sea, said Gligor Tashkovich, executive
vice-president of AMBO.
The large, recently-developed oil fields “confirm the
requirement for multiple export routes out of the
Caspian region,” said Tashkovich. “We believe that the
Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline will be one of the more
significant routes to be developed.”
The $1 million study updated and enlarged the
project’s original feasibility study of 1996.
AMBO is developing a $1.1 billion pipeline, which will
carry crude from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of
Burgas to the Albanian Adriatic Sea port of Vlora.
The pipeline has a projected throughput of 750,000 b/d
of oil. (Oil and Gas Journal)
===
Da "Il Manifesto" del 27-04-2000
Stelle e strisce sul Caspio
Per il controllo delle risorse energetiche del Caucaso e dell'Asia
centrale sono scese in
campo le grandi potenze. Gli Stati uniti faranno di tutto per vincere
la
partita
SERGIO FINARDI
Alla fine del marzo 2000, davanti alla platea del Council of Foreign
Relations (Cfr),
organismo che dentro un marasma di affiliazioni di diversa origine vede
rappresentato nei
suoi pi ristretti cerchi il cuore degli interessi imperiali degli Stati
Uniti e dei suoi "valori"
(in dollari ovviamente), il ministro Usa dell'Energia, Bill Richardson,
ha riaffermato un
giudizio gi pi volte espresso dalla leadership statunitense. L'Asia
centrale e la regione
caspico-caucasica sono di importanza strategica per gli Stati uniti, in
particolare per
l'approvigionamento energetico loro e dei loro alleati. Gli Stati
uniti,
ha detto Richardson,
dovranno fare di tutto per assicurare che la regione avanzi verso
scelte
che siano adatte
a promuovere quella libert che "e' mancata per cos tanti anni". Un
obiettivo cos
importante per l'America da meritare l'opera incessante di due esperti,
i
consiglieri molto
speciali del presidente per le questioni caspico-energetiche, Richard
Morningstar e
John Wolf - infaticabili tessitori di accordi tra i paesi dell'area e
di
connessioni tra questi
ultimi e il pi ampio corso delle strategie Usa.
Un pi ampio corso che ben definito in un articolo di qualche tempo fa
("La politica
statunitense verso l'Asia centrale e il Caucaso meridionale") del
generale William E.
Odom, oggi al centro di studi sulla "sicurezza nazionale" dello Hudson
Institute di
Washington ed ex-direttore della National Security Agency: "In altre
parole, la
scomparsa della minaccia sovietica non ha reso obsoleto il sistema di
sicurezza guidato
dagli Stati uniti e creato per contenerla.
Al contrario rimane straordinariamente importante per altri obiettivi
che
non sono sempre
chiaramente valutati. L'idea diffusa che la fine della Guerra fredda
abbia rimosso il
bisogno di una leadership degli Stati uniti nelle tre aree strategiche
[Europa,
Giappone/Corea, Golfo Persico, ndr.] pericolosamente sbagliata. In
certa
misura anzi
essa divenuta anche pi importante proprio per il collasso dell'Unione
sovietica.
Questo certamente vero nel Transcaucaso e nell'Asia Centrale".
Tanto vero che Adrian W. Burke, della Logistica del Corpo dei Marines -
collezionista di
incarichi operativi nei maggiori teatri di impegno Usa - ancora pi
preciso e chiaro nel
sommario conclusivo di un puntuale saggio ("Una strategia regionale
statunitense per il
Bacino caspico"), scritto per l'ultimo numero del 1999 della Strategic
Review, dello U.S.
Strategic Institute di Boston.
"Il presidente - scrive Burke - ha specificato gli indirizzi della
politica nazionale per la
regione del Caspio nel documento 'National Security Strategy' [del 30
ottobre 1998,
ribaditi nei due pi recenti documenti, ndr].L'insieme dei campi
energetici della regione
Asia centrale-Medio oriente contiene la pi grande concentrazione
mondiale
di riserve
di idrocarburi e merita l'attenzione statunitense. Assicurare alle
compagnie statunitensi la
leadership nello sviluppo delle risorse della regione e azzerare
l'influenza russa ed
iraniana sull'esplorazione e sviluppo dei campi energetici, nonch sulle
direttrici delle
pipelines per l'esportazione costituisce la base di quella politica. Al
fine di mantenere la
sua influenza nel bacino del Caspio, gli Stati uniti devono coinvolgere
i
capi di stato
regionali, cooperare con i settori economici americani interessati,
promuovere la
cooperazione militare e rispondere alle sfide complesse poste dai
problemi dell' accesso
e della sicurezza energetica."
Sebbene il termine "azzerare" non compaia ovviamente nel documento
clintoniano
dell'ottobre 1998, Burke ha certamente buone ragioni nell'usarlo per
sintetizzare il senso
delle indicazioni presidenziali e per farne la base delle sette
"raccomandazioni" che
rivolge ai responsabili della politica Usa nell'area, ivi compresi i
comandi militari che
hanno in carico la supervisione della regione e la cooperazione con gli
apparati della
difesa dei paesi ex Urss.
Sintetizzate, le sette raccomandazioni recitano: 1) rapida definizione
della questione
relativa allo stato "legale" del Caspio; 2) pieno supporto alla
realizzazione della condotta
Baku (Azerbaigian)-Ceyan (Turchia sud-orientale) e di una condotta
transcaspica dal
grande campo petrolifero kazako di Tengiz (Caspio nordorientale) verso
occidente,
cosa che avrebbe il pregio secondo Burke di mettere fuori gioco le
possibili vie
controllate da Iran e Russia; 3) "limitare la penetrazione economica
russa nella regione",
ma "permettere" alla Russia una "limitata" esplorazione petrolifera del
Caspio
settentrionale [bont sua, dato che sarebbe anche territorio russo o se
si
vuole
dagestano, ceceno e calmucco], l'esportazione del petrolio kazako e la
cooperazione sul
tema dell'assetto legale del Caspio; 4) gli Stati Uniti "dovrebbero
incoraggiare la Turchia
a diventare un leader regionale (...). la Turchia il migliore alleato
degli Stati uniti e una
punta della difesa statunitense contro Russia ed Iran; 5) "l'influenza
iraniana e le sue
potenzialit devono essere tenute sotto controllo [...ma] continuare a
tenere isolato l'Iran
potrebbe essere controproducente; 6) gli Stati uniti devono tollerare
la
presenza cinese
nella regione, presenza che sembra legata pi a preoccupazioni difensive
che a ritorni
economici; al tempo stesso, date le riserve petrolifere cinesi gi
provate, le compagnie
statunitensi hanno buone opportunit di assistere la Cina nel loro
sfruttamento e
contribuire a rinsaldare i legami tra i due paesi; 7) il Pakistan
dovrebbe essere "coltivato"
come strumento di contenimento dell'influenza regionale iraniana: "il
Pakistan la scelta
migliore come concorrente dell'Iran"; "Il Pakistan pu offrire una via
indiscutibilmente pi
diretta per il petrolio dal Caspio all'Oceano Indiano" che evita fra
l'altro "uno dei pi
sensibili punti di passaggio marittimo del mondo, lo Stretto di
Hormuz".
Infine il territorio
del Pakistan " gi un possibile punto di passaggio per l'esportazione
del
gas kazako e
soprattutto uzbeko".
Le sette raccomandazioni strategiche di Burke si coniugano poi con
alcune
altre pi
squisitamente militari. In primo luogo, Burke nota che i paesi della
regione sono stati
raggruppati incongruamente e in modo differente dai vari ministeri
statunitensi interessati
(Dipartimento di stato, Difesa, Commercio, Energia), cos da creare
approcci e strategie
di contatto differenti. Ad esempio il Dipartimento di stato continua ad
avere un gruppo
unico (regione russa) per tutti i paesi dell'ex-Urss, mentre la Difesa
-
tra il 1998 e il 1999
- ha inserito Azerbaigian, Georgia, Armenia, Ucraina e Bielorussia
nell'area di
responsabilit Eucom (Comando europeo) e Turkmenistan, Kazakistan,
Uzbekistan,
Tagikistan e Kirghizistan nell'area di responsabilit del Centcom
(Comando
centrale) -
con gli ultimi due paesi immessi perch potenziali vie di transito per
le
condotte verso
Pakistan, India e Cina.
Una unificazione degli approcci, ma soprattuto una divisione dei paesi
della regione
secondo reali affinit (soprattutto di carattere culturale e
linguistico)
e secondo le scelte
di campo espresse (sostanzialmente filo-americane o meno), per Burke
la
soluzione
che pu permettere di coordinare meglio la divisione del lavoro
"militare"
nella regione.
L'enfasi sulle caratteristiche "linguistico-culturali" contiene in s gi
tutto un programma,
si tratti dell'area centro-asiatica o di quella balcanica.
In secondo luogo, Burke sostiene che gli Stati Uniti dovrebbero
assumere
come centro
focale della loro strategia militare nella regione un maggior
coinvolgimento nel
Centrasbat (Central Asian Combined Peacekeeping Battalion), considerato
il successo
delle manovre congiunte del 1997 con lo stesso Centrasbat (formato con
contingenti
russi, kazaki, uzbeki e kirghisi).
In terzo luogo, gli Stati Uniti dovrebbero incoraggiare la Russia ad
assumere pi
responsabilit nel Centrasbat, ma non al punto di permetterle di
stabilire
legami con i
leader militari della regione che passino sopra gli Stati Uniti (Burke
vuol forse dire che -
nonostante il proliferare di"consiglieri" come Brzezinski - i "leader
militari della regione"
non sono proprio tutti culo e camicia con i ragazzi della Cia e del
Pentagono e qualcuno
potrebbe aver conservato qualche agendina con i nomi dei vecchi
commilitoni
dell'Armata rossa e del ministero degli Interni sovietico, insieme ai
quali molti di loro si
sono formati e hanno fatto carriera).
Infine, dovrebbe essere promosso un nuovo battaglione simile al
Centrasbat, ma
focalizzato sul Caucaso (Caucbat), "con la leadership della Turchia e
l'inclusione di
Georgia, Armenia e Azerbaigian" e dovrebbero essere incoraggiate
"esercitazioni
combinate turco-americane, con partecipazioni bilaterali o
multilaterali
degli altri paesi
della regione", cosa che aumenterebbe l'interoperabilit e una maggior
"stabilit e
cooperazione" nella regione.
Sulla stessa rivista, un paio di numeri prima e all'indomani del
bombardamento Nato sulla
Yugoslavia, nel saggio "Il ruolo strategico dell'Europa nel Caucaso e
nel
Mar Nero", il
comandante britannico Michael C. Evans (Royal Navy) scriveva: "Caucaso
e
Mar Nero
diventano determinanti principali nell'equazione strategica petrolifera
perch essi hanno
in mano la chiave della distribuzione di petrolio e gas fuori dal
bacino
del Caspio e verso
l'Europa. [...Comunque] anche senza il petrolio, la regione del Caucaso
e
Mar Nero
potenzialmente di enorme importanza.
E' la cerniera tra Est ed Ovest, tra Asia centrale ed Europa, e fa da
divisorio tra l'influenza
della Russia a nord e la potenza regionale emergente della Turchia e
dell'Iran a sud.
Mentre essa in qualche modo geograficamente lontana dal centro
dell'Europa, allo
stesso tempo troppo vicina al centro di gravit degli interessi europei
per essere
ignorata.Allo stesso tempo che i confini dell'Europa si espandono, con
l'Unione Europea
dal punto di vista economico e politico, con la Nato dal punto di vista
militare,
ugualmente si espande l'area che costituisce il suo pi immediato
esterno".
Questo "immediato esterno" sfortunatamente giudicato tale anche dalla
Russia, dalla
Cina e dall'Iran. Dal 1992, ad esempio, una parte consistente degli
strateghi della
sicurezza nazionale russi si sono progressivamente orientati verso una
politica
"post-imperiale", secondo la definizione del suo primo teorico, Sergie
Karaganov (gi
membro del Consiglio presidenziale di Yeltsin), in base alla quale
"l'obiettivo della Russia
deve essere un parziale reintegro dell'ex-Urss dentro un quadro pi o
meno
confederale".
Cos, in questi anni, i paesi della regione sono stati sollecitati a
sottoscrivere, o hanno
loro stesso promosso, i pi diversi e contrastanti accordi, sia di
carattere
politico-militare che di carattere economico. Se negli anni passati si
pu
dire che gli
Stati Uniti abbiano raccolto i frutti di una forte pressione esercitata
su tali paesi, pi
recentemente vi sono stati segni che Russia, Cina ed Iran hanno
riguadagnato posizioni
nell'area. Chi gioca e chi giocato non molto facile, in realt, dirlo,
nonostante la gran
cassa che ogni potenza suona dopo ogni accordo.
Non si pu tuttavia prescindere, come vedremo, dai pesi relativi dei
vari
paesi coinvolti
nella vicenda e dal fatto che per forgiare nuove bilance di potenza
nella
regione sono le
vecchie strategie ad essere ancora le pi utili per le grandi potenze.
Scrive Ying-shih Yu in Commercio ed espansione nella Cina degli Han che
fu Ch'ao
Ts'o nel II sec. a.c. a creare per primo la strategia (accolta
dall'imperatore Wen) d'usare i
"barbari per attaccare i barbari". L'obiettivo? Proprio i "barbari
degli
stati occidentali",
come gli Han chiamavano i popoli delle regioni della Cina occidentale e
dell'Asia
Centrale non ancora entrati nella sfera della "pax sinensis".
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YUGOSLAV INFORMATION MINISTER: GLOBALIZATION DESTROYS CULTURES
BELGRADE, Sep 15 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran
Matic Friday opened a meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the
Nonaligned
News Agencies' Pool hosted by Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, which focuses
on
the need for reinforcing mutual ties, exchanging information and
correspondents, and overcoming barriers imposed by the large world
information systems.
Matic welcomed the participants on behalf of the Yugoslav
government. The following is the official translation of his address:
It gives me great pleasure to have the honer to greet, as
Federal
Minister of Information, this important gathering, in the framework of
the
great family of the Pool of News Agencies of the Nonaligned Countries,
on
behalf of the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
My satisfaction is even greater because of the fact that this
special meeting of the members of the Coordination Bureau is devoted to
the
revitalization of the Pool of News Agencies of the NonAligned Countries
is
taking place in the Capital City of my country Yugoslavia, which was,
40
years ago, together with Egypt and India, the founder of the Movement of
the NonAligned, and, in 1961, the host of the First Summit Meeting of
the
Head of States and Governments of the NonAligned Countries.
Next year, as you know, will mark one quarter of a century of
the
existence of the Pool of the News Agencies of NonAligned Countries.
The World at the threshold of the new millennium
The modern world faces new, difficult ordeals, at the threshold
of
the Third Millennium.
Instead of diminishing, the differences between the rich and
poor
countries and peoples are increasing.
The last decade of the XX century will be marked in the history
as
the decade of the efforts of one country to be the master of the entire
world, to establish the new world order. That is, in fact, the cruel,
ruthless, almost always naked, criminal endeavour of the economically
and
technologically most developed country of the world, to establish, under
the mask of globalization, a modern colonization of the enormous
majority
of countries and peoples. Of all those who have natural, human and
market
resources.
Between the two millennia, the paradox of the new colonization
of
the world is even greater, because this century accomplished the closest
links between countries.
The subordination of the world to the moral, economic and
military
interests and principles of one country is accompanied by the hidden,
cruel
struggle against the culturalhistorical and spiritual national values of
ancient countries and peoples.
The globalization tries to destroy the enormous, real, treasury
of
the world its multicivilisational and multicultural values.
The economically developed Europe, blinded by the enormous
number
of instant information, by the consumers' mentality and dependent on the
increase of the capital of the multinational companies, has an
uncritical
attitude towards the globalization of the world, and the present
governments of some Western European countries accept the role of
European
satellites in the modern colonization of the world, in order to satisfy
and
promote their personal interests.
In that way, those Western European governments struck the most
terrible blow to the civilisational achievements, to the tradition and
to
the treasuries of their countries and of their historical peoples which
created the modern world.
Similar tendencies are directed against the countries which
represent the cradle of the civilization, like Egypt, Iran, India and
others.
The protagonists of the modern colonization use all possible
means
to achieve, as soon as possible, their global objective to rule the
world
from one single center. They threaten countries by diplomatic means,
they
impose sanctions, they maintain lowintensity conflicts, and when all
that
does not succeed they intervene with military power. As the
economically,
militarily and technologically strongest country of the world, they
govern
the most important international political, financial, and trade
organizations. They do not respect the international legal system, the
United Nations and all others who hinder the achievement of their
objective to govern, from one place, the movements of commodities, of
people, of ideas and of capital, in order to enrich ruthlessly the small
economic and military elite of the world.
The basic instruments for the achievement of the dominant
globalization are the provoking of regional crisis and of internal
crises
in countries all over the world, the lowintensity conflicts, the
disturbed
security, violence, the fear of terrorism, the armed interference and
the
ruthless interference into the internal affairs of sovereign countries.
That is usually done under the excuse of the prevention of humanitarian
problems and catastrophes, and under the excuse of the alleged defense
of
human rights and liberties.
The policy of globalisation "floats" on the low intensity
conflicts, it provokes poverty, it favours the groups which support the
policy of violence and of modern colonialism and it is against those who
want to preserve the basic national and state interests and liberties.
Opposing that, the enormous majority of the countries, the
countries with the biggest population, want freedom and peace. They
advocate integration and globalisation on equal bases, not on bases of
exploitation.
Because of its original principles in the struggle against
colonialism, the Movement of the NonAligned found itself under the blows
of
the creators of the new world order.
The advocates of the forceful globalisation of the world do not
want talks between equals, they want to preserve the political,
military,
technological and general economic domination over the poor and
developing
countries.
In order to justify the military interventions all over the
world,
the architects of the rule over the world resources try to win for
themselves the world public opinion and the voters in their countries by
financial and mediatic manipulation.
They establish special headquarters for information war and for
mediatic manipulation.
In order to achieve their goals, they use various methods and
the
biggest news agencies of the world, the global radio and TV stations,
the
daily newspapers, periodicals and professional magazines.
The concept of "information domination", according to which it
is
possible to rule over foreign countries by the control of information,
and,
if necessary, combine information with military interventions, imposes
the
need to intensify the activities of the Pool of News Agencies of
NonAligned
Countries.
It is interesting to note that a great number of scientists,
theoreticians and politicians in the NATO countries speaks about the
gradual disappearance of the war as we have known it in the past. They
are
talking about the new way of waging wars, with the emphasis on the
closed
circuit of information and intelligence data about the strategic,
operational and tactical situations. That shows that the promoters of
the
global colonialism do not refrain from violence as a means to achieve
domination; they invest enormous means in the development of new
technologies for new forms of conquest and subordination.
Therefore, the key question is the question of the struggle for
truth and for the conscience about the society in which we live. In
that,
information plays a very important, unavoidable role. The media in the
modern society have the possibility to discover truth, to influence the
reality, and, by destroying illusions and manipulation, to increase
human
knowledge and change people and societies.
If the basic assumption of a society is based on cheating and
instrumentalization of humans as beings, then such a society can not be
democratic, regardless of its selfproclamation; that society wants to
impose its own criteria of democracy to the entire world.
Were that society, in substance, democratic and prosperous, its
principles would be accepted willingly by all, the society would not
need
sanctions, isolation, black lists, bombing, information and media war in
order to impose such principles.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia said a resolute "NO" to the
new
world order, in spite of threats, sanctions, bombing and other numerous
pressures and special war.
We did not yield under the aggressor's attack of the strongest
military power of the world the NATO forces of 19 countries, which
bombed
us, criminally, senselessly, violating all international legal norms,
during 78 days, incessantly.
The global NATO machinery tried to conceal the crimes committed
by
the strongest military power against innocent civilians, against
economic
and communal facilities, against traffic infrastructure.
However, in spite of all these endeavors, in spite of the
censorship without precedent imposed by NATO on the reports about the
bombing of Yugoslavia, the world saw the atrocities done by the Alliance
in
our country.
In spite of that, NATO and the most powerful countries of the
world still do not want to admit the war crimes they committed in The
Mediatic Role of the NonAligned The last decade of the XX century is
marked, in the field of information and communication, as the period of
accelerated development of the media.
Due to the dynamic development of multimedia and of Internet,
and
of the world network of direct and uncontrolled communication, the
original
meaning of the world information got a new significance. Information
became
a first class product devoted to the broadest mass of consumers from
business people to simple consumers.
At present, the political and economic systems are greatly
based
on communication networks and on available information systems. The
establishment of such systems, the manipulation of information and the
elimination of undesirable competitive communication networks,
establishes
a new form of war, new according to its methods, but old according to
its
concept and its goals.
A new kind of war the information war was created and
established.
Therefore, it is extremely important to agree here, at this
meeting, about the revitalization of the pool of News Agencies of
NonAligned Countries. Otherwise, we will continue to be the victims of
the
globalisation, of the designed and dosed information.
The information is conditioned by the laws of the development
of
the human society, and by the need to preserve and link generations,
cultures and creativity. At present, it represents the prerequisite of
good
management of states, of businesses, of family budget.
The mediatic colonization and the terror of the global
information
media, however, try to eliminate the right to one's own views.
Therefore,
the concept of the globalisation of information, which they try to
impose,
could achieve a greater importance, could produce greater effects than
the
classical war or economic domination.
Therefore, the information is heading to the first priority in
the
development of the human society. It becomes the mostly wanted raw
material, although it is not a classical material good.
Unfortunately, the great agencies and other information systems
are dominant and developing. They are the systems which belonged, and
most
of them still belong, to the highly developed, to the economically and
militarily strongest countries. Usually, the dominant news agencies are
the
agencies from the metropola which were until recently the colonizers of
the
present nonaligned and independent countries. That applies especially
the
independent African states. It is easy to assume what are editorial
policies and the propaganda activities of those agencies and of other
information systems of those countries.
The mutual information among the nonaligned and other
developing
countries is still nonadequate. There exist information lacunas in many
nonaligned countries, which represent a fertile soil for the activities
of
the big news agencies of the powerful western countries.
That was best seen recently during the last year's criminal
aggression of NATO against Yugoslavia. And now as well in the
continuation
of the strong economic, diplomatic, political, media, psychological and
military pressures against the independent and sovereign Yugoslavia.
We are witnessing the media manipulation without precedent,
which
tries to bring legitimacy to the NATO aggression against our country,
and
to take off the responsibility of the orderers and executors of war
crimes
against civilian population of Yugoslavia.
These and similar events in other provoked foci in the world,
confirm the necessity of the establishment of the Pool of News Agencies
of
NonAligned Countries in 1976.
Unfortunately, the most recent examples show that there is
still a
lot of space, a lot of necessity for the activities of the Pool, that
the
Pool did not fulfil its task, due to obvious reasons.
Our objective is to establish information without
intermediaries
who deform the information in accordance with their own interests, thus
being harmful to all of us.
The Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned Countries has an
unavoidable, important rule in the strengthening of the prestige and of
the
influence of the Movement of the NonAligned in international relations
and
its adaptation to the new international relations.
The Yugoslav state agency TANJUG is ready to give its maximum
contribution to that objective. By signing, recently, agreements on
cooperation with state agencies and media houses in Iran, Iraq, India
and
other countries, it made a huge step toward the exchange of information
without intermediaries.
The Development of the Telecommunication Infrastructure
In order to establish direct, rapid and timely exchange of
information in the framework of the Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned
Countries, it is indispensable to work on the expansion, development and
strengthening of the telecommunication infrastructure.
The existing network is usually monopolized by strong, powerful
world agencies, which do not hesitate to remodel original true
information
according to their own interests which are most often contrary to the
interests of the nonaligned and developing countries.
The crimes committed by NATO during the last year's aggression
against the FRY are the best illustration of how the independent
information technology and network troubles the developed West.
After destroying 300 radio and TV transmitters, and 19 big
transmitters, and the magnificent architectural work of world
importance the TV tower at the Avala mountain near Belgrade, NATO
committed, on April 23, 1999, the greatest crime in the history of free
press and journalism. On that night, the airplanes of the strongest
military power of the world bombed, without warning, the building of the
Radio and Television Serbia, it the center of Belgrade. 16 journalists
and
other TV creators of the information program of the state electronic
media,
which broadcasted, from that studio, authentic pictures about the war
crimes committed by NATO in Yugoslavia, Serbia, in Kosovo and Metohija,
were killed in the bombing.
By developing their own telecommunication network, the news
agencies of the nonaligned countries will have the necessary conditions
to
exchange, without intermediaries, authentic, true information.
That will also represent a possibility to avoid the pitfalls of
the western variant of the global information society, in which modern
technology is used for the production of enormous quantities of news and
information. The aim is obvious they try, by the quantity of naked
information to imprison the human mind and the human capacity to
understand
data and facts.
The western information society offers enormous, versatile
quantity, using the technological perfection to the detriment of the
needs
and of the liberty of human thinking and understanding.
The quantity of cheap information is the most expensive deceit
of
the modern civilization, of the future of the human mind, of the freedom
of
thought and expression.
Allow me, at the end of my expose, to express once more our
resoluteness to contribute as much as possible to the strengthening of
the
role of the Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned Countries in the spirit
of
the reaffirmation of the original principles of the Movement of the
NonAligned, adapted to the present international relations.
I am deeply convinced that we will mark, in an appropriate way,
next year, the 40th anniversary of the Movement of the NonAligned, and
the
25th anniversary of the Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned Countries.
I am also convinced, that we will succeed, until that time, in
implementing a good part of the agreements we will reach today and
tomorrow
at this meeting.
Distinguished members of the Coordination Bureau of the Pool of
News Agencies of NonAligned Countries,
I wish you a pleasant and successful time in our Capital City
in
Free Belgrade.
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BELGRADE, Sep 15 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran
Matic Friday opened a meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the
Nonaligned
News Agencies' Pool hosted by Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, which focuses
on
the need for reinforcing mutual ties, exchanging information and
correspondents, and overcoming barriers imposed by the large world
information systems.
Matic welcomed the participants on behalf of the Yugoslav
government. The following is the official translation of his address:
It gives me great pleasure to have the honer to greet, as
Federal
Minister of Information, this important gathering, in the framework of
the
great family of the Pool of News Agencies of the Nonaligned Countries,
on
behalf of the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
My satisfaction is even greater because of the fact that this
special meeting of the members of the Coordination Bureau is devoted to
the
revitalization of the Pool of News Agencies of the NonAligned Countries
is
taking place in the Capital City of my country Yugoslavia, which was,
40
years ago, together with Egypt and India, the founder of the Movement of
the NonAligned, and, in 1961, the host of the First Summit Meeting of
the
Head of States and Governments of the NonAligned Countries.
Next year, as you know, will mark one quarter of a century of
the
existence of the Pool of the News Agencies of NonAligned Countries.
The World at the threshold of the new millennium
The modern world faces new, difficult ordeals, at the threshold
of
the Third Millennium.
Instead of diminishing, the differences between the rich and
poor
countries and peoples are increasing.
The last decade of the XX century will be marked in the history
as
the decade of the efforts of one country to be the master of the entire
world, to establish the new world order. That is, in fact, the cruel,
ruthless, almost always naked, criminal endeavour of the economically
and
technologically most developed country of the world, to establish, under
the mask of globalization, a modern colonization of the enormous
majority
of countries and peoples. Of all those who have natural, human and
market
resources.
Between the two millennia, the paradox of the new colonization
of
the world is even greater, because this century accomplished the closest
links between countries.
The subordination of the world to the moral, economic and
military
interests and principles of one country is accompanied by the hidden,
cruel
struggle against the culturalhistorical and spiritual national values of
ancient countries and peoples.
The globalization tries to destroy the enormous, real, treasury
of
the world its multicivilisational and multicultural values.
The economically developed Europe, blinded by the enormous
number
of instant information, by the consumers' mentality and dependent on the
increase of the capital of the multinational companies, has an
uncritical
attitude towards the globalization of the world, and the present
governments of some Western European countries accept the role of
European
satellites in the modern colonization of the world, in order to satisfy
and
promote their personal interests.
In that way, those Western European governments struck the most
terrible blow to the civilisational achievements, to the tradition and
to
the treasuries of their countries and of their historical peoples which
created the modern world.
Similar tendencies are directed against the countries which
represent the cradle of the civilization, like Egypt, Iran, India and
others.
The protagonists of the modern colonization use all possible
means
to achieve, as soon as possible, their global objective to rule the
world
from one single center. They threaten countries by diplomatic means,
they
impose sanctions, they maintain lowintensity conflicts, and when all
that
does not succeed they intervene with military power. As the
economically,
militarily and technologically strongest country of the world, they
govern
the most important international political, financial, and trade
organizations. They do not respect the international legal system, the
United Nations and all others who hinder the achievement of their
objective to govern, from one place, the movements of commodities, of
people, of ideas and of capital, in order to enrich ruthlessly the small
economic and military elite of the world.
The basic instruments for the achievement of the dominant
globalization are the provoking of regional crisis and of internal
crises
in countries all over the world, the lowintensity conflicts, the
disturbed
security, violence, the fear of terrorism, the armed interference and
the
ruthless interference into the internal affairs of sovereign countries.
That is usually done under the excuse of the prevention of humanitarian
problems and catastrophes, and under the excuse of the alleged defense
of
human rights and liberties.
The policy of globalisation "floats" on the low intensity
conflicts, it provokes poverty, it favours the groups which support the
policy of violence and of modern colonialism and it is against those who
want to preserve the basic national and state interests and liberties.
Opposing that, the enormous majority of the countries, the
countries with the biggest population, want freedom and peace. They
advocate integration and globalisation on equal bases, not on bases of
exploitation.
Because of its original principles in the struggle against
colonialism, the Movement of the NonAligned found itself under the blows
of
the creators of the new world order.
The advocates of the forceful globalisation of the world do not
want talks between equals, they want to preserve the political,
military,
technological and general economic domination over the poor and
developing
countries.
In order to justify the military interventions all over the
world,
the architects of the rule over the world resources try to win for
themselves the world public opinion and the voters in their countries by
financial and mediatic manipulation.
They establish special headquarters for information war and for
mediatic manipulation.
In order to achieve their goals, they use various methods and
the
biggest news agencies of the world, the global radio and TV stations,
the
daily newspapers, periodicals and professional magazines.
The concept of "information domination", according to which it
is
possible to rule over foreign countries by the control of information,
and,
if necessary, combine information with military interventions, imposes
the
need to intensify the activities of the Pool of News Agencies of
NonAligned
Countries.
It is interesting to note that a great number of scientists,
theoreticians and politicians in the NATO countries speaks about the
gradual disappearance of the war as we have known it in the past. They
are
talking about the new way of waging wars, with the emphasis on the
closed
circuit of information and intelligence data about the strategic,
operational and tactical situations. That shows that the promoters of
the
global colonialism do not refrain from violence as a means to achieve
domination; they invest enormous means in the development of new
technologies for new forms of conquest and subordination.
Therefore, the key question is the question of the struggle for
truth and for the conscience about the society in which we live. In
that,
information plays a very important, unavoidable role. The media in the
modern society have the possibility to discover truth, to influence the
reality, and, by destroying illusions and manipulation, to increase
human
knowledge and change people and societies.
If the basic assumption of a society is based on cheating and
instrumentalization of humans as beings, then such a society can not be
democratic, regardless of its selfproclamation; that society wants to
impose its own criteria of democracy to the entire world.
Were that society, in substance, democratic and prosperous, its
principles would be accepted willingly by all, the society would not
need
sanctions, isolation, black lists, bombing, information and media war in
order to impose such principles.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia said a resolute "NO" to the
new
world order, in spite of threats, sanctions, bombing and other numerous
pressures and special war.
We did not yield under the aggressor's attack of the strongest
military power of the world the NATO forces of 19 countries, which
bombed
us, criminally, senselessly, violating all international legal norms,
during 78 days, incessantly.
The global NATO machinery tried to conceal the crimes committed
by
the strongest military power against innocent civilians, against
economic
and communal facilities, against traffic infrastructure.
However, in spite of all these endeavors, in spite of the
censorship without precedent imposed by NATO on the reports about the
bombing of Yugoslavia, the world saw the atrocities done by the Alliance
in
our country.
In spite of that, NATO and the most powerful countries of the
world still do not want to admit the war crimes they committed in The
Mediatic Role of the NonAligned The last decade of the XX century is
marked, in the field of information and communication, as the period of
accelerated development of the media.
Due to the dynamic development of multimedia and of Internet,
and
of the world network of direct and uncontrolled communication, the
original
meaning of the world information got a new significance. Information
became
a first class product devoted to the broadest mass of consumers from
business people to simple consumers.
At present, the political and economic systems are greatly
based
on communication networks and on available information systems. The
establishment of such systems, the manipulation of information and the
elimination of undesirable competitive communication networks,
establishes
a new form of war, new according to its methods, but old according to
its
concept and its goals.
A new kind of war the information war was created and
established.
Therefore, it is extremely important to agree here, at this
meeting, about the revitalization of the pool of News Agencies of
NonAligned Countries. Otherwise, we will continue to be the victims of
the
globalisation, of the designed and dosed information.
The information is conditioned by the laws of the development
of
the human society, and by the need to preserve and link generations,
cultures and creativity. At present, it represents the prerequisite of
good
management of states, of businesses, of family budget.
The mediatic colonization and the terror of the global
information
media, however, try to eliminate the right to one's own views.
Therefore,
the concept of the globalisation of information, which they try to
impose,
could achieve a greater importance, could produce greater effects than
the
classical war or economic domination.
Therefore, the information is heading to the first priority in
the
development of the human society. It becomes the mostly wanted raw
material, although it is not a classical material good.
Unfortunately, the great agencies and other information systems
are dominant and developing. They are the systems which belonged, and
most
of them still belong, to the highly developed, to the economically and
militarily strongest countries. Usually, the dominant news agencies are
the
agencies from the metropola which were until recently the colonizers of
the
present nonaligned and independent countries. That applies especially
the
independent African states. It is easy to assume what are editorial
policies and the propaganda activities of those agencies and of other
information systems of those countries.
The mutual information among the nonaligned and other
developing
countries is still nonadequate. There exist information lacunas in many
nonaligned countries, which represent a fertile soil for the activities
of
the big news agencies of the powerful western countries.
That was best seen recently during the last year's criminal
aggression of NATO against Yugoslavia. And now as well in the
continuation
of the strong economic, diplomatic, political, media, psychological and
military pressures against the independent and sovereign Yugoslavia.
We are witnessing the media manipulation without precedent,
which
tries to bring legitimacy to the NATO aggression against our country,
and
to take off the responsibility of the orderers and executors of war
crimes
against civilian population of Yugoslavia.
These and similar events in other provoked foci in the world,
confirm the necessity of the establishment of the Pool of News Agencies
of
NonAligned Countries in 1976.
Unfortunately, the most recent examples show that there is
still a
lot of space, a lot of necessity for the activities of the Pool, that
the
Pool did not fulfil its task, due to obvious reasons.
Our objective is to establish information without
intermediaries
who deform the information in accordance with their own interests, thus
being harmful to all of us.
The Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned Countries has an
unavoidable, important rule in the strengthening of the prestige and of
the
influence of the Movement of the NonAligned in international relations
and
its adaptation to the new international relations.
The Yugoslav state agency TANJUG is ready to give its maximum
contribution to that objective. By signing, recently, agreements on
cooperation with state agencies and media houses in Iran, Iraq, India
and
other countries, it made a huge step toward the exchange of information
without intermediaries.
The Development of the Telecommunication Infrastructure
In order to establish direct, rapid and timely exchange of
information in the framework of the Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned
Countries, it is indispensable to work on the expansion, development and
strengthening of the telecommunication infrastructure.
The existing network is usually monopolized by strong, powerful
world agencies, which do not hesitate to remodel original true
information
according to their own interests which are most often contrary to the
interests of the nonaligned and developing countries.
The crimes committed by NATO during the last year's aggression
against the FRY are the best illustration of how the independent
information technology and network troubles the developed West.
After destroying 300 radio and TV transmitters, and 19 big
transmitters, and the magnificent architectural work of world
importance the TV tower at the Avala mountain near Belgrade, NATO
committed, on April 23, 1999, the greatest crime in the history of free
press and journalism. On that night, the airplanes of the strongest
military power of the world bombed, without warning, the building of the
Radio and Television Serbia, it the center of Belgrade. 16 journalists
and
other TV creators of the information program of the state electronic
media,
which broadcasted, from that studio, authentic pictures about the war
crimes committed by NATO in Yugoslavia, Serbia, in Kosovo and Metohija,
were killed in the bombing.
By developing their own telecommunication network, the news
agencies of the nonaligned countries will have the necessary conditions
to
exchange, without intermediaries, authentic, true information.
That will also represent a possibility to avoid the pitfalls of
the western variant of the global information society, in which modern
technology is used for the production of enormous quantities of news and
information. The aim is obvious they try, by the quantity of naked
information to imprison the human mind and the human capacity to
understand
data and facts.
The western information society offers enormous, versatile
quantity, using the technological perfection to the detriment of the
needs
and of the liberty of human thinking and understanding.
The quantity of cheap information is the most expensive deceit
of
the modern civilization, of the future of the human mind, of the freedom
of
thought and expression.
Allow me, at the end of my expose, to express once more our
resoluteness to contribute as much as possible to the strengthening of
the
role of the Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned Countries in the spirit
of
the reaffirmation of the original principles of the Movement of the
NonAligned, adapted to the present international relations.
I am deeply convinced that we will mark, in an appropriate way,
next year, the 40th anniversary of the Movement of the NonAligned, and
the
25th anniversary of the Pool of News Agencies of NonAligned Countries.
I am also convinced, that we will succeed, until that time, in
implementing a good part of the agreements we will reach today and
tomorrow
at this meeting.
Distinguished members of the Coordination Bureau of the Pool of
News Agencies of NonAligned Countries,
I wish you a pleasant and successful time in our Capital City
in
Free Belgrade.
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KFOR ED UNMIK RESPONSABILI DI UN DISASTRO AMBIENTALE *VERO* NELL'AREA DI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: ACIDO SOLFORICO FUORIESCE IN ABBONDANZA DAGLI
IMPIANTI
U.N. KOSOVOMETOHIJA MISSION ADMITS TO SULPHURIC ACID LEAK
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 14 (Tanjug) Sulphuric acid is still
leaking out of the U.N.held Trepca car battery factory in the ethnic
Albanian part of divided Kosovska Mitrovica and polluting nearby rivers,
according to a U.N. spokesman on Thursday.
U.N. KosovoMetohija Mission (UNMIK) spokesman Mike Keats told
media there had been another leak earlier in the day of sulphuric acid
from
Trepca's storage tanks into the River Sitnica.
According to Keats, 75 litres of the acid is leaking out a
minute,
which is 25 litres less than on Wednesday.
The statement was tantamount to an admission that the
international force KFor and UNMIK are incapable of preventing
environmental pollution, since the leaky facility has been in their
hands
for a year now.
Keats went on to say that, over the past 24 hours, Kfor troops
and
specialised teams have been endeavouring to stop the flow of the toxic
matter into the Sitnica and Ibar rivers, and pumping the acid into
another
tank.
Kfor and UNMIK again warned the local population to steer clear
of
the Sitnica, especially in the vicinity of the Trepca facility.
Local water factories are located in this part of Kosovska
Mitrovica, now populated almost exclusively by ethnic Albanians after
the
Serbs have practicly all been driven out.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KFOR AND UNMIK RESPONSIBLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 13 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Committee
for
Cooperation with the U.N. and local authorities have condemned Kfor's
and
UNMIK's ineptitude in stopping the sulphuric acid spill that started on
Monday at a battery factory at Kosovska Mitrovica, a town in the north
of
the U.N.run Serbian province of KosovoMetohija.
Representatives of the Committee and local authorities have
said
that the spill caused a largescale environmental disaster coming from an
UNMIKrun factory, situated in ethnic Albanianpopulated southern Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Ironically, Kfor had shut down the facilities of the Trepca
metallurgy complex in nearby Zvecan using environmental reasons as a
pretext. Nevertheless, Kfor has proved unable to secure the facilities
it
seized a year ago, Committee representative Ivica Mihajlovic has told
media.
Serbia and Yugoslavia will take all the necessary measures to
neutralize the toxic substance that has reached the Ibar, a river
flowing
towards central Serbia. Experts are trying to prevent the acid from
getting
into the Morava river, Mihajlovic said, adding that the state would take
legal action against Kfor troops, as they had not taken the necessary
measures and had proved incompetent to preserve what they had taken away
from Serbia.
Chief of the Kosovska Mitrovica region Zdravko Trajkovic has
told
the press that a large number of fish died in the Ibar river.
Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Nikola Radevic has said that the
Serbian
environmental inspectorate has declared tap water in the area
bacteriologically unsafe, even for hygiene.
The water processing plants are situated in southern Kosovska
Mitrovica, which is populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, as local Serbs
have been driven out of the area.
SULPHURIC ACID CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 12 (Tanjug) The road connecting
Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina was temporarily blocked early on
Tuesday,
due to a sulphuric acid spill at a battery factory located in the
southern
part of Kosovska Mitrovica, TANJUG learned from the UNMIK seat in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Although the pipes conveying the acid burst on Monday morning,
special Kfor units intervened no earlier than Tuesday, when a large
quantity of the toxic liquid reached the Kosovska MitrovicaPristina
road.
The units attempted to stop the leak with lime, gypsum, and
various chemicals, but the acid is still leaking into the Sitnica river,
some 200 meters from the spot where it flows into the Ibar river.
Throughout the afternoon, a local radio station has been
broadcasting an UNMIK statement warning the population to keep away from
the river, which flows towards central Serbia, and to avoid contact with
the contaminated water.
Reliable Serb sources say that there are huge deposits of
sulphuric acid at the factory.
UNMIK spokesman Mike Keats said that enormous efforts were
being
made to stop the leak, adding that, due to fair weather, there was no
possibility of air pollution in the area around the town of Kosovska
Mitrovica, situated in the north of the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija
province.
ABOUT 600,000 L SULPHURIC ACID SPILLS INTO RIVER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 13 (Tanjug) Around 600,000
litres
of sulphuric acid spilled in the past two days into the Sitnica river
which
joins the Ibar river at Kosovska Mitrovica in the U.N.administered
Serbian
province of Kosovo and Metohija, an UNMIK spokesman said on Wednesday.
The spokesman said efforts to prevent a possible ecological
disaster would continue in the next couple of days.
UNMIK warned people over the local media not to enter the river
or
to fish in it.
Sulphuric acid spilled from pipes leading to the cisterns in an
electric batteries industry in the southern, ethnic Albanian part of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
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INIZIATIVA A PARIGI CONTRO L'EMBARGO ALLA RFJ
MORE THAN 10,000 LEAFLETS AGAINST SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO BE
DISTRIBUTED IN PARIS
PARIS, Sept 15 (Tanjug) The Parisbased Committee for the
Protection of Human Rights has organized the distribution of more than
10,000 leaflets throughout Paris demanding urgent lifting of all
sanctions
imposed against Yugoslavia.
The Committee says that the sanctions have caused great harm to
all people in Yugoslavia, and can have dramatic consequences in
forthcoming
winter. The leaflet also notes that sanctions affect almost one million
refugees and expelled persons from former Yugoslavia, who are hosted by
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
This is the reason why the Committee demands the lifting of the
criminal antiYugoslav sanctions that the U.N. and a part of the
international community have imposed.
INCONTRO A BELGRADO DELLE AGENZIE DI STAMPA DEI PAESI NON-ALLINEATI
NONALIGNED NEWS AGENCIES MEET IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, Sep 15 (Tanjug). Representatives of the Nonaligned
News
Agencies' Pool are holding a meeting in Belgrade, hosted by Tanjug, one
of
the Pool's founding memberagencies.
The meeting will focus on strengthening mutual ties among
participating agencies, exchanging information and correspondents, and
overcoming barriers imposed by large world information systems.
The meeting will be opened by Yugoslav Minister of Information
Goran Matic, who also chairs Tanjug's management board.
UCCISA UNA DONNA SERBA IN KOSMET
SERB WOMAN KILLED IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA SERBS PROTEST
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Sep 14 (Tanjug). About 500 Serbs gathered
Thursday around a local church in Kosovska Kamenica, Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province, in protest against the murder of a Serb woman
Wednesday evening.
Two unidentified killers opened fire from an automatic weapon
from
a distance of 50 meters on Milijana Stojanovic, 46, mother of two, as
she
was rinsing dishes in her own yard. She died on the spot.
UNMIK police arrived at the scene of the crime, but has found
no
trace of the killers, who committed the murder at 10.40 p.m., 20 minutes
before curfew.
LA MISSIONE DELL'ONU HA VIOLATO IL SUO MANDATO, PERCIO' SE NE DEVE
ANDARE
MINISTER MATIC: UN MISSION PROTECTS KOUCHNER'S MAFIA
BELGRADE, Sep 13 (Tanjug). The UN mission in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province is not implementing the Security Council
Resolution
1244 and is doing nothing to protect its population or to ensure the
return
of displaced persons, it is only working to protect (UNMIK chief)
Bernard
Kouchner's mafia and should consequently leave Yugoslavia, Yugoslav
Minister of Information Goran Matic said Wednesday.
After last year's (MarchJune) NATO aggression on Yugoslavia
ended,
international troops KFor and civilian mission UNMIK took over the
responsibility for administering KosovoMetohija in line with the
Security
Council Resolution 1244.
Matic told a press conference, attended also by press attaches
of
several embassies, that the results of the mission's "efforts" are
300,000
expelled nonAlbanians, over 1,000 Serbs killed and 1,400 abducted.
Under the umbrella of the UN mission and within the framework
of
the phantom socalled Kosovo Protection Corps (which is not even
mentioned
in Resolution 1244), Croatian instructors are creating at the Dragas
base
near provincial capital Pristina a special military unit of 3000 ethnic
Albanians wearing NATO uniforms, Matic said.
The UN mission is planning to replace troops from western
countries by ethnic Albanians. The fact that 700 Serbs are being held in
a
concentration camp near Pec, commanded by a brother of Agim Cheku, one
of
known war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, is another proof of
UNMIK's
failure, Matic said.
The reporters were shown unedited, authentic and shocking
footage
showing the mission's troops "from the inside", drunk, disorderly and
halfnaked, having "fun" in their bases in KosovoMetohija with young
women
and even ethnic Albanian children.
Commenting the behaviour of international troops, Matic said
the
mission was compromising the UN. If it is a NATO mission on the other
hand,
it is easy to understand that it is doing what NATO was doing all the
time,
Matic said.
The KosovoMetohija mission is attempting to destabilize
Yugoslavia, develop aggressiveterrorist structures to undermine its
interests, militarize the region and arm paramilitary units that the
mission's task was to disarm, Matic said.
Yugoslavia's fundamental political and state commitment is to
making the Balkans a zone of peace and security, demilitarizing the
region
and reducing tensions to enable its peoples to live in peace and to
cooperate, Matic said, pointing to attempts being made to make the
Balkans
a powder keg in order to realize the geopolitical and strategic
interests
of outside forces.
Underlining that the UN mission has not accomplished any of its
tasks, Matic recalled that Resolution 1244 defined the basic rules for
the
development of multiethnic coexistence in the province, the right of all
refugees and displaced persons to return home safely, and the need for
demilitarizing the "KLA" and other armed groups of ethnic Albanians and
for
the return of Yugoslav forces to KosovoMetohija.
MEMORANDUM DEL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ DISTRIBUITO ALL'ASSEMBLEA GENERALE
DELL'ONU
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES MEMORANDUM TO UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NEW YORK, Sep 14 (Tanjug). Participants in the general debate
of
the 55th regular UN General Assembly session had the opportunity
Wednesday,
second day of the session at the Palace of Nations in New York, to read
a
Memorandum of the Yugoslav government on the difficult situation in the
UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
The latest Yugoslav government document on the implementation
of
the Security Council Resolution 1244 was distributed to the General
Assembly to brief the participants of Yugoslavia's views and of the
analysis of the situation in the province that the Yugoslav government
addressed to the UN on August 21.
The Memorandum points to the continuing worsening of the
situation
in KosovoMetohija since the previous analysis of June 7, and underlines
that the situation has deteriorated dramatically due to acts of
terrorism
being perpetrated by ethnic Albanian separatists aided and abetted by
KFor
and UNMIK chiefs.
KOSTUNICA CONTESTATO DAI SERBO-KOSOVARI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - E' finita male la prima incursione in Kosovo del
maggior rivale di Slobodan Milosevic alle presidenziali del 24
settembre.
Il comizio tenuto dal candidato dell'opposizione democratico, Vojislav
Kostunica nella città divisa di Mitrovica non è neppure iniziato, perchè
al
suo arrivo in auto alcuni serbi lo hanno bersagliato con uova, pietre e
pomodori al grido di "traditore" e "Slobo! Slobo!". Otto i feriti tra
cui
lo stesso Kostunica, che ha riportato un vistoso taglio sotto l'occhio
destro ed escoriazioni a una gamba.
(da "La Repubblica" online del 14/9/00)
PROCESSO AI LEADERS DELLA NATO IN SERBIA
TRIAL OF NATO AGGRESSORS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO START SOON
ARANDJELOVAC, September 13 (Tanjug) Serbian Minister of
Justice
Dragoljub Jankovic said that the trial of Bill Clinton, Madeleine
Albright
and 14 other leading protagonists of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia would start on September 18 at the Belgrade
District Court.
This will be a very complex trial that can be compared to the
Nuremberg trials as regards the rank of the indicted and the seriousness
of
their crimes, Jankovic told a local TV station in Arandjelovac, central
Serbia.
A great part of the world public opinion, mainly
nongovernmental
organizations and popular tribunals, including some from NATO
memberstates,
has condemned the NATO aggression, Jankovic noted. The facts are
known and the evidence is so extensive and serious, that a verdict that
the
defendants deserve can be expected, Jankovic said, adding that
investigation was carried out in 28 locations throughout Serbia and that
NATO criminals would be tried by a panel of five judges from Belgrade,
Nis,
Cacak, Pristina and Novi Sad.
The defendants will be tried in absentia and the court will
appoint defense lawyers in line with Yugoslav law, Jankovic said,
expressing hope that some of the defendants would serve their sentences
one
day, after agreements on extradition are concluded.
INDICTMENTS FOR NATO AGGRESSION TO BE ADDRESSED TO ACCUSED
BELGRADE, Sep 5 (Tanjug). Indictments drawn up by the Belgrade
district attorney will be addressed to the persons charged with serious
crimes committed during last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the
Belgrade district court decided Tuesday.
The Yugoslav foreign ministry has been entrusted with
addressing
indictments to the accused through diplomatic channels. The defendants
are:
William Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Willian Cohen, Anthony Blair, Robin
Cook, George Robertson, Jacques Chirac, Hubert Vedrine, Alain Richard,
Gerhard Schroeder, Joseph Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, Javier Solana and
Wesley Clark.
The indictments were brought in line with the Yugoslav penal
law
for incitement to war of aggression, war crimes against civilians, use
of
forbidden ordnance, attempt to murder the Yugoslav president and
violation
of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Investigation into the crimes was initiated immediately after
the
aggression ended throughout Serbia before 29 district courts and a
military
court.
On March 24, 1999, NATO launched a military aggression on
Yugoslavia which lasted 11 weeks and during which over 2,000 civilians
were
killed, in addition to extensive material damages.
The Serbian attorneygeneral has decided that all proceedings be
carried out jointly before the Belgrade district court.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA: L'ONU VUOLE FARCI ANDARE VIA DAL KOSMET
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
U.N. OCCUPATION OF TREPCA MEANT TO DRIVE SERBS OUT
ZVECAN, Sept 12 (Tanjug) The purpose of Aug. 14 U.N.
occupation
of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, was not to restart
production, but to drive Serbs out of that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province, protesters said on Tuesday.
If the U.N. mission (UNMIK) had meant to restart production,
they
would have come with money and experts, not tanks and helicopters,
according to Desimir Timotijevic of the Trepca management, addressing
protesters.
"Their purpose is to drive us out, for the Serbs to forget who
they are, their history, battles, victories and heroes", Timotijevic
said,
speaking at another daily peaceful workers' protest outside the main
gate
into the complex.
"Those who have driven us out of our jobs are now offering that
we
return, telling us stories about modernisation and restarting of
production.
"How can be trust them, when we know what they have done in the
industrial zone in south Kosovska Mitrovica, setting the zinc plant on
fire", Timotijevic said.
COLLOQUI E ACCUSE RFJ-CROAZIA A GINEVRA SUI RIFUGIATI
YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, UNHCR DELEGATIONS HOLD TALKS IN GENEVA
BELGRADE, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav and Croatian delegations
are
holding talks in Geneva on Tuesday with officials of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the repatriation to Croatia of
refugees sheltered in Yugoslavia.
According to a Yugoslav government statement, the Yugoslav
delegation to the tripartite talks is headed by Minister for
humanitarian
and refugee affairs Bratislava Morina.
Morina stressed Yugoslavia's firm position that the Protocol on
an
organised repatriation must be honoured.
All those who opt to return must be guaranteed the necessary
conditions for a free, normal and safe life, including property rights,
full personal safety and security of property.
They must also be guaranteed equal treatment as that accorded
to
the other citizens, and general amnesty, except in cases of the gravest
violations of humanitarian law.
Yugoslavia has discharged its obligations under the Protocol,
while Croatia is not only ignoring the Protocol, but trying to change it
in
its most important part, the statement said.
This means, according to the statement, that Croatia is in
violation also of the YugoslavCroatian normalisation accord, the 1995
Zagreb/Erdut CroatianSerb accord and relevant resolutions of the United
Nations.
Morina condemned in the strongest terms arrests of repatriates
and
the return to Yugoslavia of some whose repatriation had been approved.
She also stressed it is impermissible that Croatia should be
applying a new repatriation procedure outside the Protocol, instituting
criminal investigations and checks of accommodation, and so violating
the
international document, the statement said.
CONTINUA LA CAMPAGNA TERRORISTICA SOTTO LE BANDIERE DELL'ONU
TERROR CAMPAIGN UNDER U.N. FLAG IN SERBIA'S KOSOVOMETOHIJA CONTINUES
BELGRADE, Sept 11 (Tanjug) At a meeting of the humanitarian
task
group of the Peace Implementation Council in Geneva, Yugoslav Minister
for
Refugees and Displaced Persons Bratislava Morina has dismissed the most
recent document on the Serbian KosovoMetohija province as unacceptable.
The document treats the province as an entity outside the
political, economic, educational, social, legal and health system of
Serbia
and Yugoslavia, which is contrary to the U.N. Resolution 1244, Morina
said,
according to a statement of the Yugoslav government.
Morina went on to say that, 15 months after the deployment of
the
Kfor and UNMIK troops, the situation in the province was absolutely
disastrous.
Under the U.N. banner, a systematic and comprehensive campaign
of
terror, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, directed against nonAlbanians,
primarily Serbs and Montenegrins, is under way, Morina said. She added
that
Kfor and UNMIK were doing nothing to ensure the return of displaced
persons.
Morina stressed that Yugoslavia was fully participating in the
repatriation of refugees from BosniaHerzegovina and Croatia, in close
cooperation with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Various obstructions, such as murders, arrests, and harassment
of
returners, seriously undermine the repatriation process, Morina said,
appealing to the UNHCR for immediate assistance on these issues.
Morina described the reports by Karl Bildt and Bernard Kouchner
as
quite untrue. The reports misrepresent the state of affairs, and are not
a
contribution to stabilization in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, she said.
The Yugoslav delegation walked out on the meeting, in protest
against the reports, the statement said.
INAUGURATA LA NUOVA CENTRALE ELETTRICA ALLA "PORTA DI FERRO" SUL DANUBIO
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC INAUGURATES NEW IRONGATE GENERATOR
KLADOVO, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
inaugurated on Tuesday the newest, 16th generating unit of the Irongate
II
HydroElectric Power and Navigation System in the River Danube.
Over the 30 years of operation, this biggest Yugoslav
hydroelectric power plant, which Yugoslavia shares with neighbouring
Romania, has generated 170 billion kilowatthours (Kwh) of electricity,
exceeding the plan by a whole fouryear output.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Yugoslav republic
of
Serbia's President Milan Milutinovic and Parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic,
as well as Yugoslav federal parliament lower house Speaker Milomir
Minic.
Also present were Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
SecretaryGeneral
Gorica Gajevic, and Yugoslav Left (JUL) President Ljubisa Ristic,
Yugoslav
federal and Serbian government officials.
Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic and Chief of Staff
Nebojsa Pavkovic with aides also attended.
ALTO ESPONENTE DELL'HDZ SOTTO ACCUSA PER LA VIOLENZE CONTRO I SERBI
DELLA CROAZIA
CROATIA - SERBS - CRIMES
CROATIA'S SEKS ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING CRIMES
ZAGREB, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Vladimir Seks, who heads the Croatian
Democratic Union (CDU) club in the national parliament, has been accused
by
some former and present Croatian officials of suppressing crimes against
Serbs in the Gospic and Pakrac areas.
According to Croatian press, at least 120 people, mostly Serbs,
were killed in Gospic and there are indications that hundreds of others
were killed in Pakrac at the time of Croatia's war of secession from
Yugoslavia.
Current President Stipe Mesic, who was high up in the CDU
hierarchy while the party was in power, has raised the matter of the
accountability of Seks, who also held responsible party and state
offices
at the time.
According to Mesic, the new government does not mean to
criminate
the CDU, but only individuals and groups, among whom Seks, for the role
he
played as state prosecutor.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA IN LOTTA CONTRO I COLONIALISTI DELLA KFOR
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
TREPCA WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
ZVECAN, Serbia, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Trepca workers held their
daily
protest rally outside the U.N.seized lead smelter in Zvecan,
KosovoMetohija, again on Monday, beginning a fifth week of protests
against
the smelter's violent takeover on Aug 14.
Nebojsa Toskovic, a Trepca stockholder, addressed the assembled
multitude, stressing that Trepca is owned by its stockholders and there
is
no truth in the claim that there should be a change in management.
Toskovic, executive director of the Krusevacbased 14. Oktobar
mechanical engineering company, dismissed as untrue also the claim that
Trepca was polluting the environment and concern for the environment
evinced by the occupiers.
"The occupiers care nothing for the environment; their purpose
is
quite different", Toskovic said.
"We are using all legitimate weapons under the laws of
Yugoslavia
and its republic of Serbia and under international laws to recover our
facilities", he added.
ANCHE L'ALBANIA NELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE MONDIALE DEL COMMERCIO
Anche l'Albania si e' unita al WTO, diventando il 138esimo membro
dell'organizzazione. Se
andate sul sito del WTO www.wto.org vedrete che sotto questo articolo
sono considerati dati
prettamente economici: esportazioni e importazioni. Come al solito,
nulla su ambiente, diritti dei
lavoratori e condizioni di poverta' della popolazione.
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8 September 2000
Albania joins the WTO
Albania became 138th member of the World Trade Organization today (8th
September). WTO
Director-General Mike Moore greeted the event by saying: "I welcome
Albania into the
multilateral trading system. Membership promises a more prosperous
future and raised living
standards for all Albanian citizens. I also believe that, by encouraging
the trade links between
countries, the WTO can help foster greater peace, stability and
development in south-eastern
Europe. Albania's membership brings this Organization ever closer to
being a truly 'World Trade
Organization'."
Albania has agreed to assume its WTO obligations upon accession. In
addition, it will sign on to
the two plurilateral agreements on government procurement and on trade
in civil aircraft. Albania's
accession package includes market-access commitments on goods and
services.
Within the region, Slovenia is already a member of the WTO and Croatia
will become a member
upon completion of the ratification procedures. Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia are in the process of negotiating their accession
to the WTO.
Albania applied for GATT 1947 membership in 1992. Negotiations on
Albania's terms of
accession to WTO started in earnest in 1998. The WTO General Council
adopted the final results
of these negotiations on 17 July 2000.
During that General Council meeting, Albania's Minister for Economic
Cooperation and Trade,
Ermelinda Meksi, said that WTO membership "presents us with a new role
in the international
community" and would help bring "improvement of the wellbeing and
prosperity of my people."
Overall, 30 governments are currently negotiating to join the WTO:
Algeria, Andorra, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cape
Verde, People's Republic
of China, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakstan, Lao People's
Democratic
Republic, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Oman, Russian Federation,
Samoa, Saudi Arabia,
Seychelles, Sudan, Chinese Taipei, Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,
Vietnam and Yemen.
IL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ BIASIMA L'AUTOPROCLAMATA CHIESA ORTODOSSA
MONTENEGRINA
RELIGIONS MINISTER MILICEVIC ON STATE STAND ON RELIGION
BELGRADE, September 9 (Tanjug) Relations between state organs
and
religious communities in Yugoslavia are good and, in keeping with the
Serbian and Yugoslav constitutions and international conventions, all
religions in Yugoslavia have equal status and all believers the full
right
to practice their confessions, Yugoslav Religions Minister Leposava
Milicevic told a panel hosted by Tanjug on Friday.
Confessions, or the religious communities which exist in
Yugoslavia, will be as dear to the state as they are fond of it, and
they
will get adequate help and support from the state, Milicevic said.
Asked to comment on the fact that the religions minister is a
member of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) and a woman, she said the national
policy
and respect of all nations secured this party legitimacy for such a
post. Serbia and Yugoslavia are defined as states of citizens and
the
Serb people are the most numerous and nationconstructive, and that is
why
Serbs have been targets of specific pressures and aggression in the
recent
years, Milicevic said.
The pressures are primarily within the attempts to topple the
authorities which are absolutely patriotic and which refuse to barter
with
freedom or independence, sovereignty or territorial integrity, she said.
The other method being applied in the efforts to dismember
Yugoslavia is to cause a rift in the Serbian Orthodox Church, the second
mostimportant institution of the Serbian people, she said. A blatant
example of this are the developments in Montenegro, where a socalled
Montenegrin Orthodox Church is trying to be inaugurated. All this is
proceeding with the assistance of western powerwielders, who first set
up
in office their servants in Montenegro, and then struck at the
institution
of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is an unprecedented act, said
Milicevic.
BLOCCATO CARICO DI ARMI DALLA TURCHIA PER I SEPARATISTI
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ILLEGAL SHIPMENT OF RIFLES INTENDED FOR KOSOVO SEIZED IN BULGARIA
SOFIA, September 9 (Tanjug) Bulgarian customs officials
discovered and seized at the Kapetan Andreievo border crossing 115
hunting
rifles and several thousand cartridges being smuggled from Turkey to
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, it was announced in Sofia on
Saturday.
Svilengrad Customs Office spokesman Kalina Petrova said the
Champion and Cobra rifles and 11,250 12caliber cartridges and 1,500
16caliber cartridges had been discovered in a hidden compartment in a
Man
truck travelling from Turkey to Kosovo and Metohija.
BATTELLIERI RUMENI BLOCCANO IL DANUBIO
NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
ROMANIAN SHIPPERS BLOCK NAVIGATION IN DANUBE
BUCHAREST, September 8 (Tanjug) Romanian shippers blocked the
River Danube on Friday after the Bucharest government turned a deaf ear
to
their demands for relief for losses suffered as the result of last
year's
NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
During the 11week air campaign against Yugoslavia, NATO
demolished
several bridges across the Danube, blocking navigation in this important
international waterway.
The Romanian shippers are vowing not to lift the blockade, set
up
at the town of Calarasi, until their demands are met, and are asking to
be
received at once by Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu, demanding that the
government cease observing an antiYugoslav oil ban.
They are seeking compensation for companies that have suffered
losses through the antiYugoslav NATO aggression, tax relief for the
period
from April 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000, and permission to buy oil without
paying excise duties.
Romanian river shipping companies complain that their turnover
is
down 80 percent and that they have lost in excess of 150 million
dollars,
and still continuing to lose around 10 million dollars a month.
The blockade was originally scheduled for Sept. 6, but the
trade
unions deferred the protest pending the government's session in the
hope,
which did not materialise, that their demands might be met.
L'ARMATA JUGOSLAVA E' PRONTA A RIENTRARE IN KOSMET
SECONDO QUANTO PREVISTO DALLA RISOLUZIONE ONU 1244
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
GEN. PAVKOVIC: KOSOVO UNIT READY TO CARRY OUT ITS TASKS
NIS, Sept 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff,
Gen.
Nebojsa Pavkovic said on Wednesday that the Kosovo unit presented to the
home and foreign public last week was absolutely ready to carry out the
special tasks in the southern Serbian province, secure the state border,
and protect cultural goods.
Speaking in a broadcast of the regional program of Serbian
Radio
Television RTS in the central Serbian town of Nis, Gen. Pavkovic said
the
unit comprised highly skilled professional members of the Yugoslav Army
and
the Interior Ministry who will protect and defend the Serb population
from
ethnic Albanian terrorists.
"The unit is not intended for a violent return home," Gen.
Pavkovic emphasized.
"There are other forces for such an alternative. Other Yugoslav
Army units are prepared for such activities, actually. However, we are
duly
implementing in principle the (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1244
and
we do not wish to be the ones who will be blamed for its nonrealization.
That is why we can proudly say that our army is ready to join in the
peace
process and we think it would make a great contribution to that peace
mission because the KFOR and UNMIK have demonstrated that they are
incapable of doing so," Gen. Pavkovic said.
GEN. PAVKOVIC: SPECIAL YUGOSLAV ARMY UNIT READY TO RETURN TO
KOSOVOMETOHIJA
PIROT, Sep 1 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff and special
envoy of Supreme Commander Slobodan Milosevic, General Nebojsa Pavkovic,
accompanied by Third Army Commander Maj.Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic,
inspected
Friday in the vicinity of Pirot, southeastern Serbia, the Third Special
Unit of the Army set up to return to the UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija
province in line with the Security Council Resolution 1244 and the
MilitaryTechnical Accord.
Following an exercise with live ammunition Return 2000,
Pavkovic
said the unit comprised wellequipped army troops and police officers,
armoured vehicles and helicopters, as well trained and equipped as any
foreign unit within international force KFor.
The Third Special Unit is only one of the Yugoslav Army and
Serbian police units that are ready, as regards professional training,
morale and technical capability, to instantly return to KosovoMetohija,
base of the Pristina Corps and indivisible Third Army zone, to carry out
its peaceful mission in line with Resolution 1244 and MilitaryTechnical
Accord, Pavkovic said.
In abidance by the political decision and agreement reached
with
the international community, the Yugoslav Army was withdrawn from a part
of
Yugoslavia's territory only temporarily, to let the UN forces restore
peace
and order in the province and secure coexistence of all its inhabitants
regardless of ethnicity or religion, Pavkovic said.
However, since their arrival in the province on June 10, 1999,
KFor and UNMIK have failed to ensure the implementation of the
Resolution
1244. On the contrary, the situation in KosovoMetohija has become even
more
dramatic and has brought about a real humanitarian catastrophe. The life
of
Serbs, Montenegrins, other nonAlbanians and ethnic Albanians loyal to
Yugoslavia has become unbearable and their very survival is threatened,
Pavkovic said.
More than 5,000 terrorist crimes have been committed in
KosovoMetohija under the eyes of the force whose duty was to prevent
such
acts. More than 1,000 people, mainly Serbs, Montenegrins and Romanies,
have
been killed, about 1,000 have been wounded and as many have been
reported
missing, Pavkovic said.
About 50,000 homes of nonAlbanians have been burned down or
otherwise destroyed, as well as 86 monasteries and about 150 churches,
he
noted.
In the expectation that the Security Council will understand
the
failure of KFor and UNMIK and that it will, hopefully, take as soon as
possible the brave and honourable decision on the return of Yugoslav
Army
and Serbian police units to KosovoMetohija to help all in need there,
the
special unit for a peaceful mission was prepared on time and is now
being
presented to the public, Pavkovic said, presenting the unit's banner to
its
commander Maj.Gen. Momir Vukadinovic on behalf of Supreme Commander
Slobodan Milosevic.
Answering questions by the press whether the army would return
to
KosovoMetohia without a Security Council invitation, Pavkovic said the
Army
would not violate the Resolution 1244, and underlined that Yugoslavia
always abides by its commitments. He added he expected such an
invitation
would be forthcoming soon to enable the special unit to go to the
province
and join international peacekeepers there.
According to Pavkovic, the special unit would patrol the state
borders and border crossings between KosovoMetohija and neighbouring
states, protect Serb cultural monuments and help create conditions for
peaceful living.
The exercise was attended by Yugoslav Defense Minister General
Dragoljub Ojdanic, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic,
Serbian
Minister of the Interior Vlajko Stojiljkovic, President of the
KosovoMetohija Interim Executive Council Zoran Andjelkovic, and military
officials from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Iraq, Italy, Japan,
China, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Russia, and a UN liaison officer.
SE L'UNMIK NON VUOLE/PUO' FERMARE IL TERRORISMO ALLORA SE NE DEVE ANDARE
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
AMBASSADOR JOVANOVIC: U.N. MUST EITHER STOP TERRORISM OR PULL OUT UNMIK
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia urged the U.N. Security
Council on Thursday to take urgent measures to stop the new wave of
ethnic
Albanian terrorism in the U.N.run Serbia's province of KosovoMetohija,
or
to suspend the U.N. mission which is responsible for the catastrophic
situation in that Serbian province.
Head of the Yugoslav mission at the U.N. Ambassador Vladislav
Jovanovic has sent a letter to the Security Council President and the
U.N.
SecretaryGeneral, saying that ethnic Albanian terrorists continue
perpetrating acts of violence, attacking those who are the most
vulnerable children and the elderly, and demolishing symbols of Serb
national heritage such as churches and cemeteries.
Stressing that ethnic Albanian terrorists have intensified
violence with the support of the international force KFor and U.N. peace
mission UNMIK, Jovanovic partially blamed the Security Council for its
passive attitude, too.
He went on to say that Yugoslavia had repeatedly pointed to a
series of inadmissible actions of the U.N. mission, ranging from the
forcing of local elections in KosovoMetohija, through the takeover of
Trepca smelting plant and opening of foreign representation offices
without
the approval of Yugoslav authorities, to KFor's and UNMIK's refusal to
cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
As the U.N. mission is not resolute in halting ethnic Albanian
terrorism and violence, it is in fact collaborating openly with
separatists
and terrorists, Jovanovic said.
It is absolutely clear that the U.N. mission, by flagrantly
violating the Resolution 1244, has failed to achieve the basic
goal multiethnic KosovoMetohija, he noted.
A series of terrorist attacks in recent months, specifically
brutal attacks on children and other crimes, proves that the Yugoslav
government statements are wellfounded.
The U.N. mission reacts inadequately or even cynically to such
crimes. Instead of making an effort to apprehend the culprits, KFor and
UNMIK are arresting Serbs, while UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner cynically
expresses condolences instead of reacting strongly to halt terrorism and
attacks on nonAlbanians, the letter says. Although the Security
Council is aware of all these crimes, it remains silent. If it does not
take measures to stop ethnic Albanian terrorism in KosovoMetohija, it
must
suspend the U.N. mission that has not achieved its goal, the letter
says.
RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ-IRAK
YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM COMMON ENEMY
BELGRADE, Sept 5 (Tanjug) Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami
Sadoun said on Tuesday in an interview to Radio Yugoslavia (RJ) that
Iraq
and Yugoslavia have a common enemy and that the best defense from that
enemy is allround longlasting bilateral cooperation.
Sadoun said that Iraq has oil and experts to offer in exchange
for
food and technology from Yugoslavia.
Sadoun noted that the real goal of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia was an attempt to control this country that
constitutes a link between Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
This would lead Russia to further isolation and lessen its
influence in both the Middle East and western Europe, he stressed.
Quoting Prof. Mira Markovic as saying that America is a country
without history, tradition or civilization, which is why it wants to
destroy all old civilizations, Sadoun said that such behaviour came as
no
surprise from a nation that had grown out of European convicts, who had
destroyed the ancient Indian civilizations more than 200 years ago.
Asked to make a comment on upcoming elections in Yugoslavia,
Sadoun expressed conviction that the Yugoslav people, together with
their
president, would say "no" for the fifth time to those who had been
killing
their children.
POLEMICHE E ATTI DIMOSTRATIVI IN OLANDA
PER LA AGGRESSIONE DEL 1999 CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
Subject: Parliamentary report: Dutch troops to Kosovo: not enough
information
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:22:39 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
To: office@...
Dutch F-16 pilot, interviewed on Dutch TV at Volkel air base, 2
September 2000, when asked
about possibly bombing Kosovo: "Yes ... If you think too much, you
cannot do your job."
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Not just pilots:
The decisions to send Dutch soldiers to Cambodia, Cyprus, Bosnia, and
Kosovo, were based on
insufficient information at "all levels (UN, NATO, Cabinet, Parliament,
civil servants"
[NRC-Handelsblad, 4 September 2000]. This is one of the conclusions,
included in the final 500
pages plus report of the [Parliamentary] Bakker Committee; published on
Monday 4 September.
Various news media published summaries.
The committee, founded to find out about the decision making on sending
Dutch troops on foreign
military missions, says that the Dutch parliament has fallen short in
its task to control these
decisions. "In some cases, like the air raids in ex-Yugoslavia,
Parliament agreed with decisions of
which it did not appear to know the impact then." [NRC-Handelsblad, 4
September 2000]
The decisions turned out to be not really based on the situations in the
areas where the soldiers
went to; but on factors like fears that the military budget would be cut
without high visibility of the
armed forces, or the desire for good public relations for some branch of
the armed forces.
There is also criticism of Prime Minister Kok, and the ministers [of
Defence] De Grave and
Voorhoeve.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: F-16s painted red by peace activists
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:37:28 +0200
In the night of 1-2 September, at Volkel military air base in The
Netherlands, two F-16s and one other military plane were painted red by
peace activists, protesting against militarism.
At Volkel, there are [officially, the government will not confirm it]
NATO
nuclear weapons, each at least six times the strength of the Hiroshima
explosion in 1945. In the spring of 1999, F-16s started from Volkel to
bomb
Yugoslavia.
On 1 October 2000, there will be a demonstration against nuclear weapons
at
Volkel.
See [in Dutch]:
http://www.ddh.nl/vrede/kernwapens
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: ACIDO SOLFORICO FUORIESCE IN ABBONDANZA DAGLI
IMPIANTI
U.N. KOSOVOMETOHIJA MISSION ADMITS TO SULPHURIC ACID LEAK
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 14 (Tanjug) Sulphuric acid is still
leaking out of the U.N.held Trepca car battery factory in the ethnic
Albanian part of divided Kosovska Mitrovica and polluting nearby rivers,
according to a U.N. spokesman on Thursday.
U.N. KosovoMetohija Mission (UNMIK) spokesman Mike Keats told
media there had been another leak earlier in the day of sulphuric acid
from
Trepca's storage tanks into the River Sitnica.
According to Keats, 75 litres of the acid is leaking out a
minute,
which is 25 litres less than on Wednesday.
The statement was tantamount to an admission that the
international force KFor and UNMIK are incapable of preventing
environmental pollution, since the leaky facility has been in their
hands
for a year now.
Keats went on to say that, over the past 24 hours, Kfor troops
and
specialised teams have been endeavouring to stop the flow of the toxic
matter into the Sitnica and Ibar rivers, and pumping the acid into
another
tank.
Kfor and UNMIK again warned the local population to steer clear
of
the Sitnica, especially in the vicinity of the Trepca facility.
Local water factories are located in this part of Kosovska
Mitrovica, now populated almost exclusively by ethnic Albanians after
the
Serbs have practicly all been driven out.
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KFOR AND UNMIK RESPONSIBLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 13 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Committee
for
Cooperation with the U.N. and local authorities have condemned Kfor's
and
UNMIK's ineptitude in stopping the sulphuric acid spill that started on
Monday at a battery factory at Kosovska Mitrovica, a town in the north
of
the U.N.run Serbian province of KosovoMetohija.
Representatives of the Committee and local authorities have
said
that the spill caused a largescale environmental disaster coming from an
UNMIKrun factory, situated in ethnic Albanianpopulated southern Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Ironically, Kfor had shut down the facilities of the Trepca
metallurgy complex in nearby Zvecan using environmental reasons as a
pretext. Nevertheless, Kfor has proved unable to secure the facilities
it
seized a year ago, Committee representative Ivica Mihajlovic has told
media.
Serbia and Yugoslavia will take all the necessary measures to
neutralize the toxic substance that has reached the Ibar, a river
flowing
towards central Serbia. Experts are trying to prevent the acid from
getting
into the Morava river, Mihajlovic said, adding that the state would take
legal action against Kfor troops, as they had not taken the necessary
measures and had proved incompetent to preserve what they had taken away
from Serbia.
Chief of the Kosovska Mitrovica region Zdravko Trajkovic has
told
the press that a large number of fish died in the Ibar river.
Kosovska Mitrovica mayor Nikola Radevic has said that the
Serbian
environmental inspectorate has declared tap water in the area
bacteriologically unsafe, even for hygiene.
The water processing plants are situated in southern Kosovska
Mitrovica, which is populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, as local Serbs
have been driven out of the area.
SULPHURIC ACID CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 12 (Tanjug) The road connecting
Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina was temporarily blocked early on
Tuesday,
due to a sulphuric acid spill at a battery factory located in the
southern
part of Kosovska Mitrovica, TANJUG learned from the UNMIK seat in
Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Although the pipes conveying the acid burst on Monday morning,
special Kfor units intervened no earlier than Tuesday, when a large
quantity of the toxic liquid reached the Kosovska MitrovicaPristina
road.
The units attempted to stop the leak with lime, gypsum, and
various chemicals, but the acid is still leaking into the Sitnica river,
some 200 meters from the spot where it flows into the Ibar river.
Throughout the afternoon, a local radio station has been
broadcasting an UNMIK statement warning the population to keep away from
the river, which flows towards central Serbia, and to avoid contact with
the contaminated water.
Reliable Serb sources say that there are huge deposits of
sulphuric acid at the factory.
UNMIK spokesman Mike Keats said that enormous efforts were
being
made to stop the leak, adding that, due to fair weather, there was no
possibility of air pollution in the area around the town of Kosovska
Mitrovica, situated in the north of the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija
province.
ABOUT 600,000 L SULPHURIC ACID SPILLS INTO RIVER IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 13 (Tanjug) Around 600,000
litres
of sulphuric acid spilled in the past two days into the Sitnica river
which
joins the Ibar river at Kosovska Mitrovica in the U.N.administered
Serbian
province of Kosovo and Metohija, an UNMIK spokesman said on Wednesday.
The spokesman said efforts to prevent a possible ecological
disaster would continue in the next couple of days.
UNMIK warned people over the local media not to enter the river
or
to fish in it.
Sulphuric acid spilled from pipes leading to the cisterns in an
electric batteries industry in the southern, ethnic Albanian part of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
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INIZIATIVA A PARIGI CONTRO L'EMBARGO ALLA RFJ
MORE THAN 10,000 LEAFLETS AGAINST SANCTIONS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO BE
DISTRIBUTED IN PARIS
PARIS, Sept 15 (Tanjug) The Parisbased Committee for the
Protection of Human Rights has organized the distribution of more than
10,000 leaflets throughout Paris demanding urgent lifting of all
sanctions
imposed against Yugoslavia.
The Committee says that the sanctions have caused great harm to
all people in Yugoslavia, and can have dramatic consequences in
forthcoming
winter. The leaflet also notes that sanctions affect almost one million
refugees and expelled persons from former Yugoslavia, who are hosted by
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
This is the reason why the Committee demands the lifting of the
criminal antiYugoslav sanctions that the U.N. and a part of the
international community have imposed.
INCONTRO A BELGRADO DELLE AGENZIE DI STAMPA DEI PAESI NON-ALLINEATI
NONALIGNED NEWS AGENCIES MEET IN BELGRADE
BELGRADE, Sep 15 (Tanjug). Representatives of the Nonaligned
News
Agencies' Pool are holding a meeting in Belgrade, hosted by Tanjug, one
of
the Pool's founding memberagencies.
The meeting will focus on strengthening mutual ties among
participating agencies, exchanging information and correspondents, and
overcoming barriers imposed by large world information systems.
The meeting will be opened by Yugoslav Minister of Information
Goran Matic, who also chairs Tanjug's management board.
UCCISA UNA DONNA SERBA IN KOSMET
SERB WOMAN KILLED IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA SERBS PROTEST
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Sep 14 (Tanjug). About 500 Serbs gathered
Thursday around a local church in Kosovska Kamenica, Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province, in protest against the murder of a Serb woman
Wednesday evening.
Two unidentified killers opened fire from an automatic weapon
from
a distance of 50 meters on Milijana Stojanovic, 46, mother of two, as
she
was rinsing dishes in her own yard. She died on the spot.
UNMIK police arrived at the scene of the crime, but has found
no
trace of the killers, who committed the murder at 10.40 p.m., 20 minutes
before curfew.
LA MISSIONE DELL'ONU HA VIOLATO IL SUO MANDATO, PERCIO' SE NE DEVE
ANDARE
MINISTER MATIC: UN MISSION PROTECTS KOUCHNER'S MAFIA
BELGRADE, Sep 13 (Tanjug). The UN mission in Serbia's
KosovoMetohija province is not implementing the Security Council
Resolution
1244 and is doing nothing to protect its population or to ensure the
return
of displaced persons, it is only working to protect (UNMIK chief)
Bernard
Kouchner's mafia and should consequently leave Yugoslavia, Yugoslav
Minister of Information Goran Matic said Wednesday.
After last year's (MarchJune) NATO aggression on Yugoslavia
ended,
international troops KFor and civilian mission UNMIK took over the
responsibility for administering KosovoMetohija in line with the
Security
Council Resolution 1244.
Matic told a press conference, attended also by press attaches
of
several embassies, that the results of the mission's "efforts" are
300,000
expelled nonAlbanians, over 1,000 Serbs killed and 1,400 abducted.
Under the umbrella of the UN mission and within the framework
of
the phantom socalled Kosovo Protection Corps (which is not even
mentioned
in Resolution 1244), Croatian instructors are creating at the Dragas
base
near provincial capital Pristina a special military unit of 3000 ethnic
Albanians wearing NATO uniforms, Matic said.
The UN mission is planning to replace troops from western
countries by ethnic Albanians. The fact that 700 Serbs are being held in
a
concentration camp near Pec, commanded by a brother of Agim Cheku, one
of
known war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, is another proof of
UNMIK's
failure, Matic said.
The reporters were shown unedited, authentic and shocking
footage
showing the mission's troops "from the inside", drunk, disorderly and
halfnaked, having "fun" in their bases in KosovoMetohija with young
women
and even ethnic Albanian children.
Commenting the behaviour of international troops, Matic said
the
mission was compromising the UN. If it is a NATO mission on the other
hand,
it is easy to understand that it is doing what NATO was doing all the
time,
Matic said.
The KosovoMetohija mission is attempting to destabilize
Yugoslavia, develop aggressiveterrorist structures to undermine its
interests, militarize the region and arm paramilitary units that the
mission's task was to disarm, Matic said.
Yugoslavia's fundamental political and state commitment is to
making the Balkans a zone of peace and security, demilitarizing the
region
and reducing tensions to enable its peoples to live in peace and to
cooperate, Matic said, pointing to attempts being made to make the
Balkans
a powder keg in order to realize the geopolitical and strategic
interests
of outside forces.
Underlining that the UN mission has not accomplished any of its
tasks, Matic recalled that Resolution 1244 defined the basic rules for
the
development of multiethnic coexistence in the province, the right of all
refugees and displaced persons to return home safely, and the need for
demilitarizing the "KLA" and other armed groups of ethnic Albanians and
for
the return of Yugoslav forces to KosovoMetohija.
MEMORANDUM DEL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ DISTRIBUITO ALL'ASSEMBLEA GENERALE
DELL'ONU
YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES MEMORANDUM TO UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NEW YORK, Sep 14 (Tanjug). Participants in the general debate
of
the 55th regular UN General Assembly session had the opportunity
Wednesday,
second day of the session at the Palace of Nations in New York, to read
a
Memorandum of the Yugoslav government on the difficult situation in the
UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija province.
The latest Yugoslav government document on the implementation
of
the Security Council Resolution 1244 was distributed to the General
Assembly to brief the participants of Yugoslavia's views and of the
analysis of the situation in the province that the Yugoslav government
addressed to the UN on August 21.
The Memorandum points to the continuing worsening of the
situation
in KosovoMetohija since the previous analysis of June 7, and underlines
that the situation has deteriorated dramatically due to acts of
terrorism
being perpetrated by ethnic Albanian separatists aided and abetted by
KFor
and UNMIK chiefs.
KOSTUNICA CONTESTATO DAI SERBO-KOSOVARI
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - E' finita male la prima incursione in Kosovo del
maggior rivale di Slobodan Milosevic alle presidenziali del 24
settembre.
Il comizio tenuto dal candidato dell'opposizione democratico, Vojislav
Kostunica nella città divisa di Mitrovica non è neppure iniziato, perchè
al
suo arrivo in auto alcuni serbi lo hanno bersagliato con uova, pietre e
pomodori al grido di "traditore" e "Slobo! Slobo!". Otto i feriti tra
cui
lo stesso Kostunica, che ha riportato un vistoso taglio sotto l'occhio
destro ed escoriazioni a una gamba.
(da "La Repubblica" online del 14/9/00)
PROCESSO AI LEADERS DELLA NATO IN SERBIA
TRIAL OF NATO AGGRESSORS ON YUGOSLAVIA TO START SOON
ARANDJELOVAC, September 13 (Tanjug) Serbian Minister of
Justice
Dragoljub Jankovic said that the trial of Bill Clinton, Madeleine
Albright
and 14 other leading protagonists of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia would start on September 18 at the Belgrade
District Court.
This will be a very complex trial that can be compared to the
Nuremberg trials as regards the rank of the indicted and the seriousness
of
their crimes, Jankovic told a local TV station in Arandjelovac, central
Serbia.
A great part of the world public opinion, mainly
nongovernmental
organizations and popular tribunals, including some from NATO
memberstates,
has condemned the NATO aggression, Jankovic noted. The facts are
known and the evidence is so extensive and serious, that a verdict that
the
defendants deserve can be expected, Jankovic said, adding that
investigation was carried out in 28 locations throughout Serbia and that
NATO criminals would be tried by a panel of five judges from Belgrade,
Nis,
Cacak, Pristina and Novi Sad.
The defendants will be tried in absentia and the court will
appoint defense lawyers in line with Yugoslav law, Jankovic said,
expressing hope that some of the defendants would serve their sentences
one
day, after agreements on extradition are concluded.
INDICTMENTS FOR NATO AGGRESSION TO BE ADDRESSED TO ACCUSED
BELGRADE, Sep 5 (Tanjug). Indictments drawn up by the Belgrade
district attorney will be addressed to the persons charged with serious
crimes committed during last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the
Belgrade district court decided Tuesday.
The Yugoslav foreign ministry has been entrusted with
addressing
indictments to the accused through diplomatic channels. The defendants
are:
William Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Willian Cohen, Anthony Blair, Robin
Cook, George Robertson, Jacques Chirac, Hubert Vedrine, Alain Richard,
Gerhard Schroeder, Joseph Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, Javier Solana and
Wesley Clark.
The indictments were brought in line with the Yugoslav penal
law
for incitement to war of aggression, war crimes against civilians, use
of
forbidden ordnance, attempt to murder the Yugoslav president and
violation
of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Investigation into the crimes was initiated immediately after
the
aggression ended throughout Serbia before 29 district courts and a
military
court.
On March 24, 1999, NATO launched a military aggression on
Yugoslavia which lasted 11 weeks and during which over 2,000 civilians
were
killed, in addition to extensive material damages.
The Serbian attorneygeneral has decided that all proceedings be
carried out jointly before the Belgrade district court.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA: L'ONU VUOLE FARCI ANDARE VIA DAL KOSMET
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
U.N. OCCUPATION OF TREPCA MEANT TO DRIVE SERBS OUT
ZVECAN, Sept 12 (Tanjug) The purpose of Aug. 14 U.N.
occupation
of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, KosovoMetohija, was not to restart
production, but to drive Serbs out of that U.N.run Serbian (Yugoslav)
province, protesters said on Tuesday.
If the U.N. mission (UNMIK) had meant to restart production,
they
would have come with money and experts, not tanks and helicopters,
according to Desimir Timotijevic of the Trepca management, addressing
protesters.
"Their purpose is to drive us out, for the Serbs to forget who
they are, their history, battles, victories and heroes", Timotijevic
said,
speaking at another daily peaceful workers' protest outside the main
gate
into the complex.
"Those who have driven us out of our jobs are now offering that
we
return, telling us stories about modernisation and restarting of
production.
"How can be trust them, when we know what they have done in the
industrial zone in south Kosovska Mitrovica, setting the zinc plant on
fire", Timotijevic said.
COLLOQUI E ACCUSE RFJ-CROAZIA A GINEVRA SUI RIFUGIATI
YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, UNHCR DELEGATIONS HOLD TALKS IN GENEVA
BELGRADE, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav and Croatian delegations
are
holding talks in Geneva on Tuesday with officials of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the repatriation to Croatia of
refugees sheltered in Yugoslavia.
According to a Yugoslav government statement, the Yugoslav
delegation to the tripartite talks is headed by Minister for
humanitarian
and refugee affairs Bratislava Morina.
Morina stressed Yugoslavia's firm position that the Protocol on
an
organised repatriation must be honoured.
All those who opt to return must be guaranteed the necessary
conditions for a free, normal and safe life, including property rights,
full personal safety and security of property.
They must also be guaranteed equal treatment as that accorded
to
the other citizens, and general amnesty, except in cases of the gravest
violations of humanitarian law.
Yugoslavia has discharged its obligations under the Protocol,
while Croatia is not only ignoring the Protocol, but trying to change it
in
its most important part, the statement said.
This means, according to the statement, that Croatia is in
violation also of the YugoslavCroatian normalisation accord, the 1995
Zagreb/Erdut CroatianSerb accord and relevant resolutions of the United
Nations.
Morina condemned in the strongest terms arrests of repatriates
and
the return to Yugoslavia of some whose repatriation had been approved.
She also stressed it is impermissible that Croatia should be
applying a new repatriation procedure outside the Protocol, instituting
criminal investigations and checks of accommodation, and so violating
the
international document, the statement said.
CONTINUA LA CAMPAGNA TERRORISTICA SOTTO LE BANDIERE DELL'ONU
TERROR CAMPAIGN UNDER U.N. FLAG IN SERBIA'S KOSOVOMETOHIJA CONTINUES
BELGRADE, Sept 11 (Tanjug) At a meeting of the humanitarian
task
group of the Peace Implementation Council in Geneva, Yugoslav Minister
for
Refugees and Displaced Persons Bratislava Morina has dismissed the most
recent document on the Serbian KosovoMetohija province as unacceptable.
The document treats the province as an entity outside the
political, economic, educational, social, legal and health system of
Serbia
and Yugoslavia, which is contrary to the U.N. Resolution 1244, Morina
said,
according to a statement of the Yugoslav government.
Morina went on to say that, 15 months after the deployment of
the
Kfor and UNMIK troops, the situation in the province was absolutely
disastrous.
Under the U.N. banner, a systematic and comprehensive campaign
of
terror, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, directed against nonAlbanians,
primarily Serbs and Montenegrins, is under way, Morina said. She added
that
Kfor and UNMIK were doing nothing to ensure the return of displaced
persons.
Morina stressed that Yugoslavia was fully participating in the
repatriation of refugees from BosniaHerzegovina and Croatia, in close
cooperation with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Various obstructions, such as murders, arrests, and harassment
of
returners, seriously undermine the repatriation process, Morina said,
appealing to the UNHCR for immediate assistance on these issues.
Morina described the reports by Karl Bildt and Bernard Kouchner
as
quite untrue. The reports misrepresent the state of affairs, and are not
a
contribution to stabilization in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, she said.
The Yugoslav delegation walked out on the meeting, in protest
against the reports, the statement said.
INAUGURATA LA NUOVA CENTRALE ELETTRICA ALLA "PORTA DI FERRO" SUL DANUBIO
PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC INAUGURATES NEW IRONGATE GENERATOR
KLADOVO, Sept 12 (Tanjug) Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
inaugurated on Tuesday the newest, 16th generating unit of the Irongate
II
HydroElectric Power and Navigation System in the River Danube.
Over the 30 years of operation, this biggest Yugoslav
hydroelectric power plant, which Yugoslavia shares with neighbouring
Romania, has generated 170 billion kilowatthours (Kwh) of electricity,
exceeding the plan by a whole fouryear output.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Yugoslav republic
of
Serbia's President Milan Milutinovic and Parliament Speaker Dragan
Tomic,
as well as Yugoslav federal parliament lower house Speaker Milomir
Minic.
Also present were Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
SecretaryGeneral
Gorica Gajevic, and Yugoslav Left (JUL) President Ljubisa Ristic,
Yugoslav
federal and Serbian government officials.
Yugoslav Defence Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic and Chief of Staff
Nebojsa Pavkovic with aides also attended.
ALTO ESPONENTE DELL'HDZ SOTTO ACCUSA PER LA VIOLENZE CONTRO I SERBI
DELLA CROAZIA
CROATIA - SERBS - CRIMES
CROATIA'S SEKS ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING CRIMES
ZAGREB, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Vladimir Seks, who heads the Croatian
Democratic Union (CDU) club in the national parliament, has been accused
by
some former and present Croatian officials of suppressing crimes against
Serbs in the Gospic and Pakrac areas.
According to Croatian press, at least 120 people, mostly Serbs,
were killed in Gospic and there are indications that hundreds of others
were killed in Pakrac at the time of Croatia's war of secession from
Yugoslavia.
Current President Stipe Mesic, who was high up in the CDU
hierarchy while the party was in power, has raised the matter of the
accountability of Seks, who also held responsible party and state
offices
at the time.
According to Mesic, the new government does not mean to
criminate
the CDU, but only individuals and groups, among whom Seks, for the role
he
played as state prosecutor.
I LAVORATORI DI TREPCA IN LOTTA CONTRO I COLONIALISTI DELLA KFOR
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
TREPCA WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS IN KOSOVOMETOHIJA
ZVECAN, Serbia, Sept 11 (Tanjug) Trepca workers held their
daily
protest rally outside the U.N.seized lead smelter in Zvecan,
KosovoMetohija, again on Monday, beginning a fifth week of protests
against
the smelter's violent takeover on Aug 14.
Nebojsa Toskovic, a Trepca stockholder, addressed the assembled
multitude, stressing that Trepca is owned by its stockholders and there
is
no truth in the claim that there should be a change in management.
Toskovic, executive director of the Krusevacbased 14. Oktobar
mechanical engineering company, dismissed as untrue also the claim that
Trepca was polluting the environment and concern for the environment
evinced by the occupiers.
"The occupiers care nothing for the environment; their purpose
is
quite different", Toskovic said.
"We are using all legitimate weapons under the laws of
Yugoslavia
and its republic of Serbia and under international laws to recover our
facilities", he added.
ANCHE L'ALBANIA NELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE MONDIALE DEL COMMERCIO
Anche l'Albania si e' unita al WTO, diventando il 138esimo membro
dell'organizzazione. Se
andate sul sito del WTO www.wto.org vedrete che sotto questo articolo
sono considerati dati
prettamente economici: esportazioni e importazioni. Come al solito,
nulla su ambiente, diritti dei
lavoratori e condizioni di poverta' della popolazione.
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8 September 2000
Albania joins the WTO
Albania became 138th member of the World Trade Organization today (8th
September). WTO
Director-General Mike Moore greeted the event by saying: "I welcome
Albania into the
multilateral trading system. Membership promises a more prosperous
future and raised living
standards for all Albanian citizens. I also believe that, by encouraging
the trade links between
countries, the WTO can help foster greater peace, stability and
development in south-eastern
Europe. Albania's membership brings this Organization ever closer to
being a truly 'World Trade
Organization'."
Albania has agreed to assume its WTO obligations upon accession. In
addition, it will sign on to
the two plurilateral agreements on government procurement and on trade
in civil aircraft. Albania's
accession package includes market-access commitments on goods and
services.
Within the region, Slovenia is already a member of the WTO and Croatia
will become a member
upon completion of the ratification procedures. Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia are in the process of negotiating their accession
to the WTO.
Albania applied for GATT 1947 membership in 1992. Negotiations on
Albania's terms of
accession to WTO started in earnest in 1998. The WTO General Council
adopted the final results
of these negotiations on 17 July 2000.
During that General Council meeting, Albania's Minister for Economic
Cooperation and Trade,
Ermelinda Meksi, said that WTO membership "presents us with a new role
in the international
community" and would help bring "improvement of the wellbeing and
prosperity of my people."
Overall, 30 governments are currently negotiating to join the WTO:
Algeria, Andorra, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cape
Verde, People's Republic
of China, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakstan, Lao People's
Democratic
Republic, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Oman, Russian Federation,
Samoa, Saudi Arabia,
Seychelles, Sudan, Chinese Taipei, Tonga, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,
Vietnam and Yemen.
IL GOVERNO DELLA RFJ BIASIMA L'AUTOPROCLAMATA CHIESA ORTODOSSA
MONTENEGRINA
RELIGIONS MINISTER MILICEVIC ON STATE STAND ON RELIGION
BELGRADE, September 9 (Tanjug) Relations between state organs
and
religious communities in Yugoslavia are good and, in keeping with the
Serbian and Yugoslav constitutions and international conventions, all
religions in Yugoslavia have equal status and all believers the full
right
to practice their confessions, Yugoslav Religions Minister Leposava
Milicevic told a panel hosted by Tanjug on Friday.
Confessions, or the religious communities which exist in
Yugoslavia, will be as dear to the state as they are fond of it, and
they
will get adequate help and support from the state, Milicevic said.
Asked to comment on the fact that the religions minister is a
member of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) and a woman, she said the national
policy
and respect of all nations secured this party legitimacy for such a
post. Serbia and Yugoslavia are defined as states of citizens and
the
Serb people are the most numerous and nationconstructive, and that is
why
Serbs have been targets of specific pressures and aggression in the
recent
years, Milicevic said.
The pressures are primarily within the attempts to topple the
authorities which are absolutely patriotic and which refuse to barter
with
freedom or independence, sovereignty or territorial integrity, she said.
The other method being applied in the efforts to dismember
Yugoslavia is to cause a rift in the Serbian Orthodox Church, the second
mostimportant institution of the Serbian people, she said. A blatant
example of this are the developments in Montenegro, where a socalled
Montenegrin Orthodox Church is trying to be inaugurated. All this is
proceeding with the assistance of western powerwielders, who first set
up
in office their servants in Montenegro, and then struck at the
institution
of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is an unprecedented act, said
Milicevic.
BLOCCATO CARICO DI ARMI DALLA TURCHIA PER I SEPARATISTI
KOSOVARO-ALBANESI
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
ILLEGAL SHIPMENT OF RIFLES INTENDED FOR KOSOVO SEIZED IN BULGARIA
SOFIA, September 9 (Tanjug) Bulgarian customs officials
discovered and seized at the Kapetan Andreievo border crossing 115
hunting
rifles and several thousand cartridges being smuggled from Turkey to
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, it was announced in Sofia on
Saturday.
Svilengrad Customs Office spokesman Kalina Petrova said the
Champion and Cobra rifles and 11,250 12caliber cartridges and 1,500
16caliber cartridges had been discovered in a hidden compartment in a
Man
truck travelling from Turkey to Kosovo and Metohija.
BATTELLIERI RUMENI BLOCCANO IL DANUBIO
NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
ROMANIAN SHIPPERS BLOCK NAVIGATION IN DANUBE
BUCHAREST, September 8 (Tanjug) Romanian shippers blocked the
River Danube on Friday after the Bucharest government turned a deaf ear
to
their demands for relief for losses suffered as the result of last
year's
NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
During the 11week air campaign against Yugoslavia, NATO
demolished
several bridges across the Danube, blocking navigation in this important
international waterway.
The Romanian shippers are vowing not to lift the blockade, set
up
at the town of Calarasi, until their demands are met, and are asking to
be
received at once by Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu, demanding that the
government cease observing an antiYugoslav oil ban.
They are seeking compensation for companies that have suffered
losses through the antiYugoslav NATO aggression, tax relief for the
period
from April 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000, and permission to buy oil without
paying excise duties.
Romanian river shipping companies complain that their turnover
is
down 80 percent and that they have lost in excess of 150 million
dollars,
and still continuing to lose around 10 million dollars a month.
The blockade was originally scheduled for Sept. 6, but the
trade
unions deferred the protest pending the government's session in the
hope,
which did not materialise, that their demands might be met.
L'ARMATA JUGOSLAVA E' PRONTA A RIENTRARE IN KOSMET
SECONDO QUANTO PREVISTO DALLA RISOLUZIONE ONU 1244
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
GEN. PAVKOVIC: KOSOVO UNIT READY TO CARRY OUT ITS TASKS
NIS, Sept 7 (Tanjug) Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff,
Gen.
Nebojsa Pavkovic said on Wednesday that the Kosovo unit presented to the
home and foreign public last week was absolutely ready to carry out the
special tasks in the southern Serbian province, secure the state border,
and protect cultural goods.
Speaking in a broadcast of the regional program of Serbian
Radio
Television RTS in the central Serbian town of Nis, Gen. Pavkovic said
the
unit comprised highly skilled professional members of the Yugoslav Army
and
the Interior Ministry who will protect and defend the Serb population
from
ethnic Albanian terrorists.
"The unit is not intended for a violent return home," Gen.
Pavkovic emphasized.
"There are other forces for such an alternative. Other Yugoslav
Army units are prepared for such activities, actually. However, we are
duly
implementing in principle the (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1244
and
we do not wish to be the ones who will be blamed for its nonrealization.
That is why we can proudly say that our army is ready to join in the
peace
process and we think it would make a great contribution to that peace
mission because the KFOR and UNMIK have demonstrated that they are
incapable of doing so," Gen. Pavkovic said.
GEN. PAVKOVIC: SPECIAL YUGOSLAV ARMY UNIT READY TO RETURN TO
KOSOVOMETOHIJA
PIROT, Sep 1 (Tanjug). Yugoslav Army Chief of Staff and special
envoy of Supreme Commander Slobodan Milosevic, General Nebojsa Pavkovic,
accompanied by Third Army Commander Maj.Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic,
inspected
Friday in the vicinity of Pirot, southeastern Serbia, the Third Special
Unit of the Army set up to return to the UNrun Serbia's KosovoMetohija
province in line with the Security Council Resolution 1244 and the
MilitaryTechnical Accord.
Following an exercise with live ammunition Return 2000,
Pavkovic
said the unit comprised wellequipped army troops and police officers,
armoured vehicles and helicopters, as well trained and equipped as any
foreign unit within international force KFor.
The Third Special Unit is only one of the Yugoslav Army and
Serbian police units that are ready, as regards professional training,
morale and technical capability, to instantly return to KosovoMetohija,
base of the Pristina Corps and indivisible Third Army zone, to carry out
its peaceful mission in line with Resolution 1244 and MilitaryTechnical
Accord, Pavkovic said.
In abidance by the political decision and agreement reached
with
the international community, the Yugoslav Army was withdrawn from a part
of
Yugoslavia's territory only temporarily, to let the UN forces restore
peace
and order in the province and secure coexistence of all its inhabitants
regardless of ethnicity or religion, Pavkovic said.
However, since their arrival in the province on June 10, 1999,
KFor and UNMIK have failed to ensure the implementation of the
Resolution
1244. On the contrary, the situation in KosovoMetohija has become even
more
dramatic and has brought about a real humanitarian catastrophe. The life
of
Serbs, Montenegrins, other nonAlbanians and ethnic Albanians loyal to
Yugoslavia has become unbearable and their very survival is threatened,
Pavkovic said.
More than 5,000 terrorist crimes have been committed in
KosovoMetohija under the eyes of the force whose duty was to prevent
such
acts. More than 1,000 people, mainly Serbs, Montenegrins and Romanies,
have
been killed, about 1,000 have been wounded and as many have been
reported
missing, Pavkovic said.
About 50,000 homes of nonAlbanians have been burned down or
otherwise destroyed, as well as 86 monasteries and about 150 churches,
he
noted.
In the expectation that the Security Council will understand
the
failure of KFor and UNMIK and that it will, hopefully, take as soon as
possible the brave and honourable decision on the return of Yugoslav
Army
and Serbian police units to KosovoMetohija to help all in need there,
the
special unit for a peaceful mission was prepared on time and is now
being
presented to the public, Pavkovic said, presenting the unit's banner to
its
commander Maj.Gen. Momir Vukadinovic on behalf of Supreme Commander
Slobodan Milosevic.
Answering questions by the press whether the army would return
to
KosovoMetohia without a Security Council invitation, Pavkovic said the
Army
would not violate the Resolution 1244, and underlined that Yugoslavia
always abides by its commitments. He added he expected such an
invitation
would be forthcoming soon to enable the special unit to go to the
province
and join international peacekeepers there.
According to Pavkovic, the special unit would patrol the state
borders and border crossings between KosovoMetohija and neighbouring
states, protect Serb cultural monuments and help create conditions for
peaceful living.
The exercise was attended by Yugoslav Defense Minister General
Dragoljub Ojdanic, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic,
Serbian
Minister of the Interior Vlajko Stojiljkovic, President of the
KosovoMetohija Interim Executive Council Zoran Andjelkovic, and military
officials from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Iraq, Italy, Japan,
China, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Russia, and a UN liaison officer.
SE L'UNMIK NON VUOLE/PUO' FERMARE IL TERRORISMO ALLORA SE NE DEVE ANDARE
SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
AMBASSADOR JOVANOVIC: U.N. MUST EITHER STOP TERRORISM OR PULL OUT UNMIK
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia urged the U.N. Security
Council on Thursday to take urgent measures to stop the new wave of
ethnic
Albanian terrorism in the U.N.run Serbia's province of KosovoMetohija,
or
to suspend the U.N. mission which is responsible for the catastrophic
situation in that Serbian province.
Head of the Yugoslav mission at the U.N. Ambassador Vladislav
Jovanovic has sent a letter to the Security Council President and the
U.N.
SecretaryGeneral, saying that ethnic Albanian terrorists continue
perpetrating acts of violence, attacking those who are the most
vulnerable children and the elderly, and demolishing symbols of Serb
national heritage such as churches and cemeteries.
Stressing that ethnic Albanian terrorists have intensified
violence with the support of the international force KFor and U.N. peace
mission UNMIK, Jovanovic partially blamed the Security Council for its
passive attitude, too.
He went on to say that Yugoslavia had repeatedly pointed to a
series of inadmissible actions of the U.N. mission, ranging from the
forcing of local elections in KosovoMetohija, through the takeover of
Trepca smelting plant and opening of foreign representation offices
without
the approval of Yugoslav authorities, to KFor's and UNMIK's refusal to
cooperate with the Yugoslav government.
As the U.N. mission is not resolute in halting ethnic Albanian
terrorism and violence, it is in fact collaborating openly with
separatists
and terrorists, Jovanovic said.
It is absolutely clear that the U.N. mission, by flagrantly
violating the Resolution 1244, has failed to achieve the basic
goal multiethnic KosovoMetohija, he noted.
A series of terrorist attacks in recent months, specifically
brutal attacks on children and other crimes, proves that the Yugoslav
government statements are wellfounded.
The U.N. mission reacts inadequately or even cynically to such
crimes. Instead of making an effort to apprehend the culprits, KFor and
UNMIK are arresting Serbs, while UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner cynically
expresses condolences instead of reacting strongly to halt terrorism and
attacks on nonAlbanians, the letter says. Although the Security
Council is aware of all these crimes, it remains silent. If it does not
take measures to stop ethnic Albanian terrorism in KosovoMetohija, it
must
suspend the U.N. mission that has not achieved its goal, the letter
says.
RAPPORTI BILATERALI RFJ-IRAK
YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM COMMON ENEMY
BELGRADE, Sept 5 (Tanjug) Iraqi Ambassador to Yugoslavia Sami
Sadoun said on Tuesday in an interview to Radio Yugoslavia (RJ) that
Iraq
and Yugoslavia have a common enemy and that the best defense from that
enemy is allround longlasting bilateral cooperation.
Sadoun said that Iraq has oil and experts to offer in exchange
for
food and technology from Yugoslavia.
Sadoun noted that the real goal of last year's (MarchJune) NATO
aggression on Yugoslavia was an attempt to control this country that
constitutes a link between Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
This would lead Russia to further isolation and lessen its
influence in both the Middle East and western Europe, he stressed.
Quoting Prof. Mira Markovic as saying that America is a country
without history, tradition or civilization, which is why it wants to
destroy all old civilizations, Sadoun said that such behaviour came as
no
surprise from a nation that had grown out of European convicts, who had
destroyed the ancient Indian civilizations more than 200 years ago.
Asked to make a comment on upcoming elections in Yugoslavia,
Sadoun expressed conviction that the Yugoslav people, together with
their
president, would say "no" for the fifth time to those who had been
killing
their children.
POLEMICHE E ATTI DIMOSTRATIVI IN OLANDA
PER LA AGGRESSIONE DEL 1999 CONTRO LA JUGOSLAVIA
Subject: Parliamentary report: Dutch troops to Kosovo: not enough
information
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:22:39 +0200
From: Herman de Tollenaere
To: office@...
Dutch F-16 pilot, interviewed on Dutch TV at Volkel air base, 2
September 2000, when asked
about possibly bombing Kosovo: "Yes ... If you think too much, you
cannot do your job."
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Not just pilots:
The decisions to send Dutch soldiers to Cambodia, Cyprus, Bosnia, and
Kosovo, were based on
insufficient information at "all levels (UN, NATO, Cabinet, Parliament,
civil servants"
[NRC-Handelsblad, 4 September 2000]. This is one of the conclusions,
included in the final 500
pages plus report of the [Parliamentary] Bakker Committee; published on
Monday 4 September.
Various news media published summaries.
The committee, founded to find out about the decision making on sending
Dutch troops on foreign
military missions, says that the Dutch parliament has fallen short in
its task to control these
decisions. "In some cases, like the air raids in ex-Yugoslavia,
Parliament agreed with decisions of
which it did not appear to know the impact then." [NRC-Handelsblad, 4
September 2000]
The decisions turned out to be not really based on the situations in the
areas where the soldiers
went to; but on factors like fears that the military budget would be cut
without high visibility of the
armed forces, or the desire for good public relations for some branch of
the armed forces.
There is also criticism of Prime Minister Kok, and the ministers [of
Defence] De Grave and
Voorhoeve.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
Subject: F-16s painted red by peace activists
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:37:28 +0200
In the night of 1-2 September, at Volkel military air base in The
Netherlands, two F-16s and one other military plane were painted red by
peace activists, protesting against militarism.
At Volkel, there are [officially, the government will not confirm it]
NATO
nuclear weapons, each at least six times the strength of the Hiroshima
explosion in 1945. In the spring of 1999, F-16s started from Volkel to
bomb
Yugoslavia.
On 1 October 2000, there will be a demonstration against nuclear weapons
at
Volkel.
See [in Dutch]:
http://www.ddh.nl/vrede/kernwapens
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
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MEMORANDUM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
IN THE UNITED NATIONS
I The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a Member State of the United
Nations.
1. Yugoslavia is a founding Member of the United Nations in accordance
with
Article 3 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Secretary-General of
the United Nations, as depositary of international treaties, lists it as
an
original Member in his annual reports (Multilateral Treaties Deposited
with
the Secretary-General).
2. Membership of Yugoslavia in the United Nations has not been
interrupted, so that the FR of Yugoslavia is a Member State of the
United
Nations.
3. There is no basis to limit the international legal continuity of the
FR
of Yugoslavia and its membership in the United Nations. All attempts to
do
so lack legal basis, are ill-intentioned and politically harmful and
represent the violation of the Charter of the United Nations. Any
initiatives to directly or indirectly challenge the membership of the
FRY
in the United Nations or challenge its existing membership rights are
aimed at: a) setting a precedent for extremely negative consequences for
the United Nations, principles of the United Nations and international
relations, as well as intimidating Member States; b) weakening the role
and credibility of the United Nations, particularly in the region of
southeastern Europe; c) preventing the stabilization of the situation in
the region of southeastern Europe, the implementation of the
Dayton/Paris agreement and UN SC resolution 1244 (1999); d) slowing
down
integration processes and multilateral cooperation in the Balkans, which
is
possible only with equal participation of the FRY
4. Representatives of the FR of Yugoslavia participated in the work of
the
United Nations General Assembly until 22 September 1992 and in the work
of
the UN Economic and Social Council until 28 April 1993. They continued
to
participate in the work of the UN Security Council and to appear before
the
International Court of Justice even after these dates.
5. United Nations General Assembly considers the FR of Yugoslavia its
Member State This position of the General Assembly was demonstrated
during
the adoption of resolution 49/19B on 23 December 1994 and 52/215 of 22
December 1997. in which it established Scale of assessments for the
apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. In both
resolutions,
adopted by consensus, Yugoslavia was listed as a Member State and not as
a
non- Member like the Vatikan, Nauru, Switzerland and Tonga. Both
resolutions were adopted after resolution 47/1 of 22 September 1992,
when
decision was made not to allow Yugoslavia to participate in the work of
the
General Assembly. They were also adopted after General Assembly
resolution
48/88 (1993) calling upon the Secretariat to end the de facto working
status of the FR of Yugoslavia which did not produce any consequences
since
it was not possible because the FR of Yugoslavia does not have "the de
facto working status" and is a UN Member State.
6. UN General Assembly resolutions 49/19B and 52/215 point to the FR of
Yugoslavia. This is clear since the same resolution determines the scale
of
assessment for the former Yugoslav republics which became independent
States and UN Members - for Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia.
The claim of the representatives of some States to the effect that the
UN
General Assembly in referring to Yugoslavia actually meant the SFRY, is
absurd. All the more so, since the representatives of those States claim
that the FR of Yugoslavia ceased to exist. If that were true, the
membership of that State in the United Nations would also have to end.
It
is clear that the General Assembly in 1994 and 1997 established the
scale
of assessment for all five states from the territory of the SFRY. So
when
it mentions Yugoslavia it can only pertain to the FR of Yugoslavia. It
is
the usual practice of the UN to use the country's shorter name. In these
resolutions, the Republic of Croatia has been referred to only as
Croatia,
the Republic of Slovenia as Slovenia and that is the case with almost
all
other States.
7. The Security Council also considers the FR of Yugoslavia to be a UN
Member State. Resolution 777 (1992) of 19 September 1992 is a result of
a
political compromise. During its adoption, Ambassador Vorontsov,
Permanent
Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said: "... we were
unable to agree with the proposal, put forward by some States, that the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should be excluded, formally or de facto,
from membership in the United Nations... The compromise that has been
reached - that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should not participate
in
the work of the General Assembly - may seem unsatisfactory to some.
Frankly, we would have preferred not to have recourse to such a measure
to
influence the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, because even without this
measure it is already experiencing sufficient pressure from the
international community in the form of economic sanctions... At the same
time, the decision to suspend the participation of the Federal Republic
of
Yugoslavia in the work of the General Assembly will in no way affect the
possibility of participation by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in
the
work of the other organs of the United Nations, in particular the
Security
Council, nor will it affect the issuance of documents to it, the
functioning of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
to the United Nations or the keeping of the nameplate with the name
Yugoslavia in the General Assembly Hall and the rooms in which the
Assembly
s organs meet. In short, since the decision of the Security Council does
not provide for the expulsion of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from
the United Nations, the measures taken with regard to it must remain
strictly within the limits of the decision we are taking today."
(Security
Council, Provisional Record of the 3116th, Meeting S/PV.3116, 19
September
1992, at 2-5).
Ambassador Li Daoyu, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic
of
China to the UN said on that occasion: "the resolution just adopted does
not mean the exclusion of Yugoslavia from the United Nations. The
nameplate
"Yugoslavia" will be kept in the General Assembly Hall. The Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia will continue its participation in the work of
United Nations bodies other than the General Assembly. The Federal
Republic
of Yugoslavia will continue to issue its documentation in the United
Nations." (Security Council, Provisional Record of the 3116th Meeting,
S/PV.3116, 19 September 1992, at 7).
It is clear that the Russian Federation and the PR of China during the
adoption of Security Council resolution 777 (1992) of 19 September 1992
considered that this resolution only made a recommendation to
temporarily
limit some of the membership rights of the FR of Yugoslavia as a UN
Member
State.
8. By adopting a new resolution 821 (1993) of 28 April 1993,
recommending
to the General Assembly to make a decision to the effect that the FR of
Yugoslavia does not take part in the work of the Economic and Social
Council, the Security Council confirmed that it considered the FR of
Yugoslavia a UN Member State. If then, on 28 April 1993, Security
Council
considered that the FR of Yugoslavia was not a UN Member State, it would
not have made a recommendation to the General Assembly to decide that
Yugoslavia does not take part in its work. Never in the UN practice has
Security Council of the United Nations made a recommendation to the
effect
that a non Member be prevented from taking part in the work of the
General
Assembly or Economic and Social Council. That would be totally absurd
and
senseless.
The way in which the Security Council calls the representatives
to
take part in its work does not prejudge its position regarding the
membership of the FR of Yugoslavia in the UN. This has been confirmed by
the Security Council Working Group in its report in regard to the
documents
of the Security Council and other procedural issues of 31 May 1995. This
report confirms that the representative of the FR of Yugoslavia took
part
in the work of the Security Council seating at the table with the
nameplate
of Yugoslavia. The representative of the FR of Yugoslavia, inter alia,
also
took part in the subsequent meetings of the UN Security Council, after
the
adoption of General Assembly resolution 47/1 of 22 September 1992: 16
November 1992; 19 February 1993; 17 April 1993; 20 April 1993; 29 June
1993; 9 August 1993; 14 February 1994; 21 April 1994; 27 April 1994; 23
September 1994; 30 September 1994; 8 November 1994; 12 January 1995; 21
April 1995; 31 March 1998 and 10 June 1999. etc.
9. The International Court of Justice has constantly listed the FR of
Yugoslavia in its annual publications after 1992, as a UN Member State.
10. UN Secretariat considers the FR of Yugoslavia to be a UN Member
State. The Under-Secretary General and the Legal Council of the United
Nations addressed a letter dated 29 September 1992 to the Permanent
Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia to the United
Nations
in response to their letter of 25 September 1992, stating, inter alia,
that
"While the General Assembly has stated unequivocally that the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia ... cannot automatically continue the membership
of
the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the United
Nations
and that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... should apply for
membership
in the United Nations, the only practical consequence that the
resolution
(47/1) draws is that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.... shall not
participate in the work of the General Assembly. It is clear, therefore,
that representatives of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... can no
longer
participate in the work of the General Assembly, its subsidiary organs,
nor
conference and meetings convened by it.
On the other hand, the resolution neither terminates nor suspends
Yugoslavia?s membership in the Organization. Consequently, the seat and
nameplate remain as before, but in Assembly bodies representatives of
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... cannot sit behind the sign
"Yugoslavia".
Yugoslav Missions at United Nations Headquarters and offices may
continue
to function and may receive and circulate documents. At Headquarters,
the
Secretariat will continue to fly the flag of the old Yugoslavia, as it
is
the last flag of Yugoslavia used by the Secretariat. The resolution does
not take away the right of Yugoslavia to participate in the work of
organs
other than Assembly bodies." (A/47/485).
The representatives of some states, advocating the view that the FR
of Yugoslavia has dissolved and ceased to exist, claim that this
opinion
indicates that this is the membership of the SFRY in the United Nations.
This claim proves best that the thesis of discontinuity of the FRY in
the
United Nations is invalid. If the SFRY has dissolved and ceased to
exist,
its membership in international organizations would automatically cease
as
well. They maintain that the membership is not ended because the UN
bodies
did not make a decision to end its membership. However, this is absurd,
because the membership ends ipso jure, as a legal consequence of the
dissolution of a State and no decision to that effect is necessary.
After
the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, the Security Council and
the General Assembly did not make any decision on termination of its
membership in the United Nations nor have they made any decision on
ending
the membership of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the United
Nations.
11. UN Secretary-General regularly invites the FR of Yugoslavia as a
Member
State to fulfil its financial obligations towards the Organization which
Yugoslavia does.
12. In all agreements concluded between the FR of Yugoslavia and the
United
Nations after 1992, it is stated that the FR of Yugoslavia is a UN
Member
State, for example, in the Agreement on the status of the Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights in Belgrade, concluded by the
exchange
eof Notes between the FR of Yugoslavia and the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights on 6 November 1998.
II The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia continues the international
personality of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
13. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has continued the international
legal personality of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.
The
Declaration adopted on 27 April 1992 at a joint session of delegates in
the
Federal Assembly, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and
the
Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro on the occasion of the
promulgation
of the Constitution of the FR of Yugoslavia, inter alia, states: "The
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, continuing the State, international
legal
and political personality of the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia,
shall strictly abide by all the commitments that the SFR of Yugoslavia
assumed internationally" (A/46/915, 7 May 1992).
14. The former Yugoslav Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of
Macedonia and the Republic of Croatia have confirmed the legal fact of
the
continuity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Article 5 of the Agreement on Normalization of Relations
between
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia, signed
at
Belgrade on 23 August 1996, reads as follows:
"Proceeding from the historical fact that Serbia and Montenegro
existed as independent States before the creation of Yugoslavia, and
bearing in mind the fact that Yugoslavia has continued the international
personality of these states, the Republic of Croatia notes the existence
of
the State continuity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"Proceeding from the historical fact of the existence of the
various forms of statal organization of Croatia in the past, the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia notes the existence of the continuity of the
Croatian statehood.
The Contracting Parties are agreed to solve the issue of the
succession of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the basis
or
the rule of international law on succession of States and through
agreement." (The text of the Agreement on Normalization of Relations
between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia,
signed at Belgrade on 23 August 1996, is attached as annex to the letter
of
the Charge d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, dated 29 August 1996,
A/51/318; S/1996/706, 29 August 1996).
There is a substantial difference between the State continuity
of
the FR of Yugoslavia and the continuation of the Croatian statehood. The
State continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia is based on the historical fact
that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent States before the
creation of Yugoslavia and on the fact that the FR of Yugoslavia has
continued the international legal personality of these States. Quite
differently, in the past Croatia enjoyed various forms of statal
organization. It had the status of a Republic - a federal unit in the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, some part of today's Croatia
had
a sort of statal autonomy in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But, before
armed
secession from Yugoslavia, it had no status of an independent State,
status
of a subject of international law. Accordingly, today's Republic of
Croatia can only continue the various forms of statal organization of
the
past but not the international legal personality.
Essentially, the same formula was used in the Joint Declaration
of
Presidents Slobodan Milo{evi} and Alija Izetbegovi}, made in Paris on 3
October 1996. Paragraph IV of the Joint Declaration reads as follows:
"The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will respect the integrity
of
Bosnia and Herzegovina in accordance with the Dayton Agreement which
affirmed the continuity of various forms of statal organization of
Bosnia
and Herzegovina that the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina had during
their
history.
Bosnia and Herzegovina accepts the State continuity of the
Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Both sides agree to resolve issues of succession on the basis
of
the rules of international law on succession of States and by
agreement."
(The Joint Declaration is attached as annex to the letter of the Charge
d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the United
Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, dated 7 October 1996,
A/51/461;
S/1996/830, 7 October 1996).
The text of Article 4 of the Agreement on the regulation of
relations and promotion of cooperation between the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia, signed in Belgrade on 8 April
1996, differs more in terms of terminology than that of substance:
"In the light of the fact that Serbia and Montenegro had
existed
as independent States before the creation of Yugoslavia, and in view of
the
fact that Yugoslavia continued the international legal personality of
these
States, the Republic of Macedonia respects the state continuity of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In the light of the fact that during the National Liberation
war
and at the session of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National
Liberation
of Macedonia, the Macedonian people decided to organize the Republic of
Macedonia as a State and to join the Yugoslav Federation, and in view of
the fact that in the 1991 referendum the Macedonian people decided to
organize the Republic of Macedonia as a sovereign and independent State
and
appreciating the fact that this has been carried out in a peaceful
manner,
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia respects the state continuity of the
Republic of Macedonia.
The Parties agree to resolve their mutual claims on ground of
succession to the former Yugoslavia by agreement." (The Agreement is
published as an annex to the letter of the Permanent Representative of
the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations addressed to
the President of the Security Council, dated 17 April 1996, S/1996/291,
17
April 1996).
In both cases, i.e. Yugoslavia and Macedonia, the Agreement
used
the same term "the state continuity". But, it is quite obvious that the
same terms have not the same meaning. Before its peaceful secession,
Macedonia existed as the Republic of Macedonia - a federal unit of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It did not exist as an
independent state, a subject of international law. For the first time in
history, it became such a subject after peaceful secession.
15. The United States implicitly confirmed the legal fact regarding the
international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia. By its Note No.
C-42 of 5 May 1998, transmitted to the Federal Ministry of Foreign
Affairs,
the Embassy of the United States of America in Belgrade claimed the
extradition of Rifat Fteja, a Yugoslav citizen charged with several
criminal offences committed in the United States. The extradition
request
is based on the Extradition Treaty of 1901. Accordingly, the position of
the US Government is that the Extradition Treaty, concluded between the
Kingdom of Serbia and the United States of America on 12/25 October
1901,
is in force between the Kingdom of Serbia and the United States in 1998.
It
confirmed the international legal continuity of both States. Namely, if
the
FR of Yugoslavia is a new State, it should conclude a separate agreement
with the United States on succession in respect of bilateral treaties.
In
the absence of such an agreement, the United States considers the 1901
Treaty to be in force and, consequently, implicitly confirms the
international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia. The fact of the
international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia was also
confirmed
by exchange of Notes between the FR of Yugoslavia and the United States
(Notes Nos. 10763 and 22, respectively) in 1996 concerning the
establishment of the US Information Service Centre in Pri{tina. The
exchange of Notes shows that both sides consider that the Memorandum of
Understanding, signed between the Federative People's Republic of
Yugoslavia and the United States in Belgrade on 14 June 1961, to be
still
in force.
16. The largest number of other States have explicitly or implicitly
confirmed the international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia.
This
is an obvious proof of the existence of unbroken-off diplomatic
relations
between the FR of Yugoslavia and 160 States with which the SFRY had
maintained diplomatic relations. The majority of States consider that
bilateral agreements entered into with the SFRY are in force also in
their
relations with the FR of Yugoslavia. Some Members States of the European
Union, such as Austria, Greece and the United Kingdom, have also
formally
recognized this fact through exchange of Notes, whereas some other, like
Italy, have done so by making a unilateral declaration. The former
Yugoslav
Republics, upon becoming independent States, have established diplomatic
relations with other States. This was not the case with the FR of
Yugoslavia, since it is not a new State. These States have entered
separately into agreements with third States on succession in respect of
bilateral treaties which existed between these third States and the
SFRY.
In contrast to them, the FR of Yugoslavia has not done so. The former
Yugoslav Republics have requested that they be recognized as independent
States. The FR of Yugoslavia has not made such a request.
17. The basis of the international legal personality of the FR of
Yugoslavia is the fact that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent
States before the creation of Yugoslavia in 1918. Both States were
recognized as independent at the Berlin Congress in 1878. After
Yugoslavia
was created in 1918, all international treaties of the Kingdom of Serbia
remained in force and were valid on the enlarged territory of the
Kingdom
of Yugoslavia (Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1974, vol.
II,
Part One, p. 208). The same applied to diplomatic relations as well.
18. The facts of the Yugoslav crisis cannot be associated with the
notion
of the dissolution of a State as defined under the Vienna Convention on
the
Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts of
8
April 1983. The provisions of this Convention, although not containing
an
explicit definition of dissolution, point to an essential element of
this
notion, namely sequence of events. Dissolution and cessation of a State
come first and then new independent States emerge (Articles 18, 31 and
41
thereof). That was the sequence of events in the case of the Czech and
Slovak Federal Republic. It ceased to exist on 31 December 1992, and as
of
1 January 1993 they emerged as the independent Czech Republic and the
Slovak Republic. In its opinions, the Badinter Commission noted that the
SFR of Yugoslavia ceased to exist on 4 July 1992 (Opinion No. 8,
International Legal Materials, 1993, 1521) and that Croatia and Slovenia
became independent on 8 October 1991, while Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Macedonia gained their independence on 6 March 1992 and 17 November
1991,
respectively, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 27 April 1992
(Opinion No. 11, Ibid., 1587). The above shows the absurdity of findings
of
the Badinter Commission. According to this Commission, all the five
States
first attained their independence and then the SFRY ceased to exist. How
much this fiction is artificial is illustrated by the fact that the date
of
the adoption of the new Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
was taken as the date on which it became independent. It is fairly
uncommon
in international law to quality the change of constitutional
arrangements
in a State as that State becoming independent.
19. The opinions rendered by the Arbitration Commission of the Peace
Conference on the former Yugoslavia, the so-called Badinter Commission,
are
irrelevant. Although it was referred to as the Arbitration Commission,
the
Badinter Commission was not a Court of Arbitration in the international
legal sense, but rather an advisory body of the international conference
charged with the task of finding solutions for a peaceful outcome of the
Yugoslav crisis. The opinions rendered by it are not legally binding.
Taking into account that the majority of members of the Commission were
judges of constitutional courts, and not experts in international law,
these opinions are not based on international law from the strictly
professional point of view.
20. The opinions of the Badinter Commission are politically motivated
and
not grounded in international law. All insistence on an alleged
dissolution
of the SFRY and on the FR of Yugoslavia not being a Member of the United
Nations is politically ill-intentioned and legally unfounded. Membership
of
the FR of Yugoslavia in the United Nations has nothing to do with the
question of the succession of the SFRY. The Badinter Commission points
out
that the request of the FR of Yugoslavia to be the only successor State
is
unacceptable. This is yet another proof of the absurdity of the opinions
rendered by this Commission. The FR of Yugoslavia does not consider
itself
to be the only successor State, nor does it at all consider itself a
successor State. The successor States are the newly-created States, i.e.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Croatia and
the
Republic of Slovenia. The FR of Yugoslavia is not a successor state but
an
old State which now exists on a shrunken territory. The FR of Yugoslavia
does not contest the status of successor States to the newly-created
States
of the former Yugoslavia and it is prepared to settle the question of
succession of the SFRY by an agreement entered into with these States in
accordance with international law. It has formally undertaken to do so
under the bilateral arrangements indicated below. It insists that the
negotiations on the succession of the SFRY that were abrogated following
the aggression of the Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization against Yugoslavia, be resumed within the framework of the
Peace Implementation Council. It sees the latest proposal, as put
forward
by Sir Arthur Watts, as a solid basis for a speedy resolution of this
issue
and has pointed out on several occasions already that it essentially
accepts and welcomes the new approach adopted by the Chief Negotiator in
these negotiations.
21. The Declaration of 27 April 1992 on international legal continuity
of
the FR of Yugoslavia has the legal relevance of a constitutional norm.
Therefore, all Yugoslav legal subjects and Government authorities are
obligated to respect it. All statements and acts of the Yugoslav
authorities contrary to it are null and void. In this respect, the
statement made by the then Prime Minister Milan Pani} in the UN General
Assembly on 22 September 1992 upon the adoption of General Assembly
resolution 47/1, in which he "formally sought membership in the United
Nations on behalf of the new Yugoslavia", is legally without effect.
Even
if the statement made by the Prime Minister had had any legal
significance, it could not have had any legal force since it was beside
the
point. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a Member of the United
Nations
and, consequently, its application for membership in the United Nations
is
pointless.
Belgrade, 1 September 2000
YUGOSLAVIA CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
YUGOSLAVIA
IN THE UNITED NATIONS
I The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a Member State of the United
Nations.
1. Yugoslavia is a founding Member of the United Nations in accordance
with
Article 3 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Secretary-General of
the United Nations, as depositary of international treaties, lists it as
an
original Member in his annual reports (Multilateral Treaties Deposited
with
the Secretary-General).
2. Membership of Yugoslavia in the United Nations has not been
interrupted, so that the FR of Yugoslavia is a Member State of the
United
Nations.
3. There is no basis to limit the international legal continuity of the
FR
of Yugoslavia and its membership in the United Nations. All attempts to
do
so lack legal basis, are ill-intentioned and politically harmful and
represent the violation of the Charter of the United Nations. Any
initiatives to directly or indirectly challenge the membership of the
FRY
in the United Nations or challenge its existing membership rights are
aimed at: a) setting a precedent for extremely negative consequences for
the United Nations, principles of the United Nations and international
relations, as well as intimidating Member States; b) weakening the role
and credibility of the United Nations, particularly in the region of
southeastern Europe; c) preventing the stabilization of the situation in
the region of southeastern Europe, the implementation of the
Dayton/Paris agreement and UN SC resolution 1244 (1999); d) slowing
down
integration processes and multilateral cooperation in the Balkans, which
is
possible only with equal participation of the FRY
4. Representatives of the FR of Yugoslavia participated in the work of
the
United Nations General Assembly until 22 September 1992 and in the work
of
the UN Economic and Social Council until 28 April 1993. They continued
to
participate in the work of the UN Security Council and to appear before
the
International Court of Justice even after these dates.
5. United Nations General Assembly considers the FR of Yugoslavia its
Member State This position of the General Assembly was demonstrated
during
the adoption of resolution 49/19B on 23 December 1994 and 52/215 of 22
December 1997. in which it established Scale of assessments for the
apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. In both
resolutions,
adopted by consensus, Yugoslavia was listed as a Member State and not as
a
non- Member like the Vatikan, Nauru, Switzerland and Tonga. Both
resolutions were adopted after resolution 47/1 of 22 September 1992,
when
decision was made not to allow Yugoslavia to participate in the work of
the
General Assembly. They were also adopted after General Assembly
resolution
48/88 (1993) calling upon the Secretariat to end the de facto working
status of the FR of Yugoslavia which did not produce any consequences
since
it was not possible because the FR of Yugoslavia does not have "the de
facto working status" and is a UN Member State.
6. UN General Assembly resolutions 49/19B and 52/215 point to the FR of
Yugoslavia. This is clear since the same resolution determines the scale
of
assessment for the former Yugoslav republics which became independent
States and UN Members - for Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia.
The claim of the representatives of some States to the effect that the
UN
General Assembly in referring to Yugoslavia actually meant the SFRY, is
absurd. All the more so, since the representatives of those States claim
that the FR of Yugoslavia ceased to exist. If that were true, the
membership of that State in the United Nations would also have to end.
It
is clear that the General Assembly in 1994 and 1997 established the
scale
of assessment for all five states from the territory of the SFRY. So
when
it mentions Yugoslavia it can only pertain to the FR of Yugoslavia. It
is
the usual practice of the UN to use the country's shorter name. In these
resolutions, the Republic of Croatia has been referred to only as
Croatia,
the Republic of Slovenia as Slovenia and that is the case with almost
all
other States.
7. The Security Council also considers the FR of Yugoslavia to be a UN
Member State. Resolution 777 (1992) of 19 September 1992 is a result of
a
political compromise. During its adoption, Ambassador Vorontsov,
Permanent
Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said: "... we were
unable to agree with the proposal, put forward by some States, that the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should be excluded, formally or de facto,
from membership in the United Nations... The compromise that has been
reached - that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should not participate
in
the work of the General Assembly - may seem unsatisfactory to some.
Frankly, we would have preferred not to have recourse to such a measure
to
influence the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, because even without this
measure it is already experiencing sufficient pressure from the
international community in the form of economic sanctions... At the same
time, the decision to suspend the participation of the Federal Republic
of
Yugoslavia in the work of the General Assembly will in no way affect the
possibility of participation by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in
the
work of the other organs of the United Nations, in particular the
Security
Council, nor will it affect the issuance of documents to it, the
functioning of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
to the United Nations or the keeping of the nameplate with the name
Yugoslavia in the General Assembly Hall and the rooms in which the
Assembly
s organs meet. In short, since the decision of the Security Council does
not provide for the expulsion of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from
the United Nations, the measures taken with regard to it must remain
strictly within the limits of the decision we are taking today."
(Security
Council, Provisional Record of the 3116th, Meeting S/PV.3116, 19
September
1992, at 2-5).
Ambassador Li Daoyu, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic
of
China to the UN said on that occasion: "the resolution just adopted does
not mean the exclusion of Yugoslavia from the United Nations. The
nameplate
"Yugoslavia" will be kept in the General Assembly Hall. The Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia will continue its participation in the work of
United Nations bodies other than the General Assembly. The Federal
Republic
of Yugoslavia will continue to issue its documentation in the United
Nations." (Security Council, Provisional Record of the 3116th Meeting,
S/PV.3116, 19 September 1992, at 7).
It is clear that the Russian Federation and the PR of China during the
adoption of Security Council resolution 777 (1992) of 19 September 1992
considered that this resolution only made a recommendation to
temporarily
limit some of the membership rights of the FR of Yugoslavia as a UN
Member
State.
8. By adopting a new resolution 821 (1993) of 28 April 1993,
recommending
to the General Assembly to make a decision to the effect that the FR of
Yugoslavia does not take part in the work of the Economic and Social
Council, the Security Council confirmed that it considered the FR of
Yugoslavia a UN Member State. If then, on 28 April 1993, Security
Council
considered that the FR of Yugoslavia was not a UN Member State, it would
not have made a recommendation to the General Assembly to decide that
Yugoslavia does not take part in its work. Never in the UN practice has
Security Council of the United Nations made a recommendation to the
effect
that a non Member be prevented from taking part in the work of the
General
Assembly or Economic and Social Council. That would be totally absurd
and
senseless.
The way in which the Security Council calls the representatives
to
take part in its work does not prejudge its position regarding the
membership of the FR of Yugoslavia in the UN. This has been confirmed by
the Security Council Working Group in its report in regard to the
documents
of the Security Council and other procedural issues of 31 May 1995. This
report confirms that the representative of the FR of Yugoslavia took
part
in the work of the Security Council seating at the table with the
nameplate
of Yugoslavia. The representative of the FR of Yugoslavia, inter alia,
also
took part in the subsequent meetings of the UN Security Council, after
the
adoption of General Assembly resolution 47/1 of 22 September 1992: 16
November 1992; 19 February 1993; 17 April 1993; 20 April 1993; 29 June
1993; 9 August 1993; 14 February 1994; 21 April 1994; 27 April 1994; 23
September 1994; 30 September 1994; 8 November 1994; 12 January 1995; 21
April 1995; 31 March 1998 and 10 June 1999. etc.
9. The International Court of Justice has constantly listed the FR of
Yugoslavia in its annual publications after 1992, as a UN Member State.
10. UN Secretariat considers the FR of Yugoslavia to be a UN Member
State. The Under-Secretary General and the Legal Council of the United
Nations addressed a letter dated 29 September 1992 to the Permanent
Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia to the United
Nations
in response to their letter of 25 September 1992, stating, inter alia,
that
"While the General Assembly has stated unequivocally that the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia ... cannot automatically continue the membership
of
the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the United
Nations
and that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... should apply for
membership
in the United Nations, the only practical consequence that the
resolution
(47/1) draws is that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.... shall not
participate in the work of the General Assembly. It is clear, therefore,
that representatives of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... can no
longer
participate in the work of the General Assembly, its subsidiary organs,
nor
conference and meetings convened by it.
On the other hand, the resolution neither terminates nor suspends
Yugoslavia?s membership in the Organization. Consequently, the seat and
nameplate remain as before, but in Assembly bodies representatives of
the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia... cannot sit behind the sign
"Yugoslavia".
Yugoslav Missions at United Nations Headquarters and offices may
continue
to function and may receive and circulate documents. At Headquarters,
the
Secretariat will continue to fly the flag of the old Yugoslavia, as it
is
the last flag of Yugoslavia used by the Secretariat. The resolution does
not take away the right of Yugoslavia to participate in the work of
organs
other than Assembly bodies." (A/47/485).
The representatives of some states, advocating the view that the FR
of Yugoslavia has dissolved and ceased to exist, claim that this
opinion
indicates that this is the membership of the SFRY in the United Nations.
This claim proves best that the thesis of discontinuity of the FRY in
the
United Nations is invalid. If the SFRY has dissolved and ceased to
exist,
its membership in international organizations would automatically cease
as
well. They maintain that the membership is not ended because the UN
bodies
did not make a decision to end its membership. However, this is absurd,
because the membership ends ipso jure, as a legal consequence of the
dissolution of a State and no decision to that effect is necessary.
After
the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, the Security Council and
the General Assembly did not make any decision on termination of its
membership in the United Nations nor have they made any decision on
ending
the membership of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the United
Nations.
11. UN Secretary-General regularly invites the FR of Yugoslavia as a
Member
State to fulfil its financial obligations towards the Organization which
Yugoslavia does.
12. In all agreements concluded between the FR of Yugoslavia and the
United
Nations after 1992, it is stated that the FR of Yugoslavia is a UN
Member
State, for example, in the Agreement on the status of the Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights in Belgrade, concluded by the
exchange
eof Notes between the FR of Yugoslavia and the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights on 6 November 1998.
II The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia continues the international
personality of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
13. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has continued the international
legal personality of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.
The
Declaration adopted on 27 April 1992 at a joint session of delegates in
the
Federal Assembly, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and
the
Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro on the occasion of the
promulgation
of the Constitution of the FR of Yugoslavia, inter alia, states: "The
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, continuing the State, international
legal
and political personality of the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia,
shall strictly abide by all the commitments that the SFR of Yugoslavia
assumed internationally" (A/46/915, 7 May 1992).
14. The former Yugoslav Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of
Macedonia and the Republic of Croatia have confirmed the legal fact of
the
continuity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Article 5 of the Agreement on Normalization of Relations
between
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia, signed
at
Belgrade on 23 August 1996, reads as follows:
"Proceeding from the historical fact that Serbia and Montenegro
existed as independent States before the creation of Yugoslavia, and
bearing in mind the fact that Yugoslavia has continued the international
personality of these states, the Republic of Croatia notes the existence
of
the State continuity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
"Proceeding from the historical fact of the existence of the
various forms of statal organization of Croatia in the past, the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia notes the existence of the continuity of the
Croatian statehood.
The Contracting Parties are agreed to solve the issue of the
succession of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the basis
or
the rule of international law on succession of States and through
agreement." (The text of the Agreement on Normalization of Relations
between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Croatia,
signed at Belgrade on 23 August 1996, is attached as annex to the letter
of
the Charge d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, dated 29 August 1996,
A/51/318; S/1996/706, 29 August 1996).
There is a substantial difference between the State continuity
of
the FR of Yugoslavia and the continuation of the Croatian statehood. The
State continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia is based on the historical fact
that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent States before the
creation of Yugoslavia and on the fact that the FR of Yugoslavia has
continued the international legal personality of these States. Quite
differently, in the past Croatia enjoyed various forms of statal
organization. It had the status of a Republic - a federal unit in the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, some part of today's Croatia
had
a sort of statal autonomy in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But, before
armed
secession from Yugoslavia, it had no status of an independent State,
status
of a subject of international law. Accordingly, today's Republic of
Croatia can only continue the various forms of statal organization of
the
past but not the international legal personality.
Essentially, the same formula was used in the Joint Declaration
of
Presidents Slobodan Milo{evi} and Alija Izetbegovi}, made in Paris on 3
October 1996. Paragraph IV of the Joint Declaration reads as follows:
"The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will respect the integrity
of
Bosnia and Herzegovina in accordance with the Dayton Agreement which
affirmed the continuity of various forms of statal organization of
Bosnia
and Herzegovina that the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina had during
their
history.
Bosnia and Herzegovina accepts the State continuity of the
Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Both sides agree to resolve issues of succession on the basis
of
the rules of international law on succession of States and by
agreement."
(The Joint Declaration is attached as annex to the letter of the Charge
d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the United
Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, dated 7 October 1996,
A/51/461;
S/1996/830, 7 October 1996).
The text of Article 4 of the Agreement on the regulation of
relations and promotion of cooperation between the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia, signed in Belgrade on 8 April
1996, differs more in terms of terminology than that of substance:
"In the light of the fact that Serbia and Montenegro had
existed
as independent States before the creation of Yugoslavia, and in view of
the
fact that Yugoslavia continued the international legal personality of
these
States, the Republic of Macedonia respects the state continuity of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In the light of the fact that during the National Liberation
war
and at the session of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National
Liberation
of Macedonia, the Macedonian people decided to organize the Republic of
Macedonia as a State and to join the Yugoslav Federation, and in view of
the fact that in the 1991 referendum the Macedonian people decided to
organize the Republic of Macedonia as a sovereign and independent State
and
appreciating the fact that this has been carried out in a peaceful
manner,
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia respects the state continuity of the
Republic of Macedonia.
The Parties agree to resolve their mutual claims on ground of
succession to the former Yugoslavia by agreement." (The Agreement is
published as an annex to the letter of the Permanent Representative of
the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations addressed to
the President of the Security Council, dated 17 April 1996, S/1996/291,
17
April 1996).
In both cases, i.e. Yugoslavia and Macedonia, the Agreement
used
the same term "the state continuity". But, it is quite obvious that the
same terms have not the same meaning. Before its peaceful secession,
Macedonia existed as the Republic of Macedonia - a federal unit of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It did not exist as an
independent state, a subject of international law. For the first time in
history, it became such a subject after peaceful secession.
15. The United States implicitly confirmed the legal fact regarding the
international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia. By its Note No.
C-42 of 5 May 1998, transmitted to the Federal Ministry of Foreign
Affairs,
the Embassy of the United States of America in Belgrade claimed the
extradition of Rifat Fteja, a Yugoslav citizen charged with several
criminal offences committed in the United States. The extradition
request
is based on the Extradition Treaty of 1901. Accordingly, the position of
the US Government is that the Extradition Treaty, concluded between the
Kingdom of Serbia and the United States of America on 12/25 October
1901,
is in force between the Kingdom of Serbia and the United States in 1998.
It
confirmed the international legal continuity of both States. Namely, if
the
FR of Yugoslavia is a new State, it should conclude a separate agreement
with the United States on succession in respect of bilateral treaties.
In
the absence of such an agreement, the United States considers the 1901
Treaty to be in force and, consequently, implicitly confirms the
international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia. The fact of the
international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia was also
confirmed
by exchange of Notes between the FR of Yugoslavia and the United States
(Notes Nos. 10763 and 22, respectively) in 1996 concerning the
establishment of the US Information Service Centre in Pri{tina. The
exchange of Notes shows that both sides consider that the Memorandum of
Understanding, signed between the Federative People's Republic of
Yugoslavia and the United States in Belgrade on 14 June 1961, to be
still
in force.
16. The largest number of other States have explicitly or implicitly
confirmed the international legal continuity of the FR of Yugoslavia.
This
is an obvious proof of the existence of unbroken-off diplomatic
relations
between the FR of Yugoslavia and 160 States with which the SFRY had
maintained diplomatic relations. The majority of States consider that
bilateral agreements entered into with the SFRY are in force also in
their
relations with the FR of Yugoslavia. Some Members States of the European
Union, such as Austria, Greece and the United Kingdom, have also
formally
recognized this fact through exchange of Notes, whereas some other, like
Italy, have done so by making a unilateral declaration. The former
Yugoslav
Republics, upon becoming independent States, have established diplomatic
relations with other States. This was not the case with the FR of
Yugoslavia, since it is not a new State. These States have entered
separately into agreements with third States on succession in respect of
bilateral treaties which existed between these third States and the
SFRY.
In contrast to them, the FR of Yugoslavia has not done so. The former
Yugoslav Republics have requested that they be recognized as independent
States. The FR of Yugoslavia has not made such a request.
17. The basis of the international legal personality of the FR of
Yugoslavia is the fact that Serbia and Montenegro existed as independent
States before the creation of Yugoslavia in 1918. Both States were
recognized as independent at the Berlin Congress in 1878. After
Yugoslavia
was created in 1918, all international treaties of the Kingdom of Serbia
remained in force and were valid on the enlarged territory of the
Kingdom
of Yugoslavia (Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1974, vol.
II,
Part One, p. 208). The same applied to diplomatic relations as well.
18. The facts of the Yugoslav crisis cannot be associated with the
notion
of the dissolution of a State as defined under the Vienna Convention on
the
Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts of
8
April 1983. The provisions of this Convention, although not containing
an
explicit definition of dissolution, point to an essential element of
this
notion, namely sequence of events. Dissolution and cessation of a State
come first and then new independent States emerge (Articles 18, 31 and
41
thereof). That was the sequence of events in the case of the Czech and
Slovak Federal Republic. It ceased to exist on 31 December 1992, and as
of
1 January 1993 they emerged as the independent Czech Republic and the
Slovak Republic. In its opinions, the Badinter Commission noted that the
SFR of Yugoslavia ceased to exist on 4 July 1992 (Opinion No. 8,
International Legal Materials, 1993, 1521) and that Croatia and Slovenia
became independent on 8 October 1991, while Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Macedonia gained their independence on 6 March 1992 and 17 November
1991,
respectively, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 27 April 1992
(Opinion No. 11, Ibid., 1587). The above shows the absurdity of findings
of
the Badinter Commission. According to this Commission, all the five
States
first attained their independence and then the SFRY ceased to exist. How
much this fiction is artificial is illustrated by the fact that the date
of
the adoption of the new Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
was taken as the date on which it became independent. It is fairly
uncommon
in international law to quality the change of constitutional
arrangements
in a State as that State becoming independent.
19. The opinions rendered by the Arbitration Commission of the Peace
Conference on the former Yugoslavia, the so-called Badinter Commission,
are
irrelevant. Although it was referred to as the Arbitration Commission,
the
Badinter Commission was not a Court of Arbitration in the international
legal sense, but rather an advisory body of the international conference
charged with the task of finding solutions for a peaceful outcome of the
Yugoslav crisis. The opinions rendered by it are not legally binding.
Taking into account that the majority of members of the Commission were
judges of constitutional courts, and not experts in international law,
these opinions are not based on international law from the strictly
professional point of view.
20. The opinions of the Badinter Commission are politically motivated
and
not grounded in international law. All insistence on an alleged
dissolution
of the SFRY and on the FR of Yugoslavia not being a Member of the United
Nations is politically ill-intentioned and legally unfounded. Membership
of
the FR of Yugoslavia in the United Nations has nothing to do with the
question of the succession of the SFRY. The Badinter Commission points
out
that the request of the FR of Yugoslavia to be the only successor State
is
unacceptable. This is yet another proof of the absurdity of the opinions
rendered by this Commission. The FR of Yugoslavia does not consider
itself
to be the only successor State, nor does it at all consider itself a
successor State. The successor States are the newly-created States, i.e.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Croatia and
the
Republic of Slovenia. The FR of Yugoslavia is not a successor state but
an
old State which now exists on a shrunken territory. The FR of Yugoslavia
does not contest the status of successor States to the newly-created
States
of the former Yugoslavia and it is prepared to settle the question of
succession of the SFRY by an agreement entered into with these States in
accordance with international law. It has formally undertaken to do so
under the bilateral arrangements indicated below. It insists that the
negotiations on the succession of the SFRY that were abrogated following
the aggression of the Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization against Yugoslavia, be resumed within the framework of the
Peace Implementation Council. It sees the latest proposal, as put
forward
by Sir Arthur Watts, as a solid basis for a speedy resolution of this
issue
and has pointed out on several occasions already that it essentially
accepts and welcomes the new approach adopted by the Chief Negotiator in
these negotiations.
21. The Declaration of 27 April 1992 on international legal continuity
of
the FR of Yugoslavia has the legal relevance of a constitutional norm.
Therefore, all Yugoslav legal subjects and Government authorities are
obligated to respect it. All statements and acts of the Yugoslav
authorities contrary to it are null and void. In this respect, the
statement made by the then Prime Minister Milan Pani} in the UN General
Assembly on 22 September 1992 upon the adoption of General Assembly
resolution 47/1, in which he "formally sought membership in the United
Nations on behalf of the new Yugoslavia", is legally without effect.
Even
if the statement made by the Prime Minister had had any legal
significance, it could not have had any legal force since it was beside
the
point. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a Member of the United
Nations
and, consequently, its application for membership in the United Nations
is
pointless.
Belgrade, 1 September 2000
...da Tamara, di Torino, appena rientrata dalla Jugoslavia:
> La visita alla Zastava è stata
> bellissima, stanno producendo, e ho anche incontarto alcune famiglie di
> bambini adottati a distanza, tar cui la "mia", era come se ci consocessimo
> da sempre! Sono stata anche tra i profughi serbi dal Kosovo, gli stessi
> dell'anno scorso, e là veramente è triste, e poi ho visto una bellissima
> Belgrado, piena di vita, confusione traffico, sono starordinari e spesso
> abbiamo aprlato con la gente che incontarvo del aftto che priam o poi
> bisogna che si riformi qualche specie di confederazione, non si può stare
> separati, mi è stato difficlie tornare a casa, sai cosa c'è laggiu' di
> straordinario? che pensano ancora, analizzano, fanno funzionare il
> cervello, insomma sono vivi, a volte qui dopo avere visto come la genta
> abbai bevuto al propaganda televisiva mi sembrano tutti morti, oppure sono
> semplicemente in malafede. Sono giuste le osservazioni sul Montenegro, vedo
> già qui tra la gente con cui parlo con cui alvoro che sta venendo fuori
> l'idea che la Jugoslavia stia togliendo l'autonoomia al Montenegro, ma come
> fanno a ri-beversi la stessa menzogna del kosovo? Penso che siano in relatà
> in malafede, e che ormai siamo in un paese profondamente colonialista, mi
> ha detto un anziano professore che gestiva un campo profughi dal Kosovo a
> Kraljevo che l'assalto alla Jugoslavia è stata una grossissima sconfitta
> della classe operaia europea, che non ha ne' saputo ma neppure voluto
> opporsi, capire...
> ...ho parlato con parecchie
> persone , gente qualsiasi e tutti cercavano di capire cosa era successo al
> mondo, e alla Jugoslavia, molti raccontavano le loro idee sulle cause della
> guerra, ci ahnno bommbardato perchè siamo l'unico paese che nello spazio
> dall'occidente alla Cina non vuole entrare nelal NATO, a Rambouillet ci
> hanno chiesto di dare del territorio jugoslavo alla NATO per le basi in
> cambio di un aiuto sulla questione del Kosovo e noi abbiamo rinunciato al
> Kosovo pur di non dare loro le basi, pur di non rinunciare alla nostra
> sovranità, e si sa cosa vuol dire per i Serbi dare il Kosovo, è la culla
> della nostra civiltà, ma la Jugoslavia vale di più, perchè la Jugoslavia è
> la terra della libertà, e noi siamo fatio così, combattiamo sempre per la
> libertà, prima o poi il mondo capirà che cosa ci è stato fatto, e
> soprattutto che ci hanno offesi dipingendoci come il contrario di quello
> che siamo, ci hanno bombardato perchè vogliono far passare il corridoio 8
> per il Kosovo, con il gas dal Caucaso, ci hanno bombardato perchè al
> finanziere Soros interessa la miniera di Trepca, perchè è la più bella
> miiera d'Europa di Piombo e Zinco, la più facile da coltivare, e forse le
> startegie energetiche stanno cambaindo e non sarà più il petrolio la
> materia prima più importante, e poi Soros vuole controllare i Balcani e
> finanzia l'opposizione, e Trepca è il simbolo della ipocrisia occidentale e
> del fatto che l'Europa si stia americanizzando: a Trepca ci hanno scacciato
> con i mitra e la maschere antigas, antiinquinamento, facendo finat che
> stavamo inquinando, proprio loro che hanno provocato con le loro bombe una
> vera e propria catastrofe ambiemntale, la loro ipocrisia è la stessa che
> hanno utilizzato quando hanno giustificato le loro bombe con l'aiuto ai
> profughi albanesi, questo è fascismo di una nuova specie, fascismo
> "umanitario", infido e ipocrita, un fascismo ancora peggiore di quello di
> Hitler e Mussolini, perchè ben nascosto, ma il resto del mondo, e
> soprattutto quei paesi che dovrebbero capire dove sta il loro vero
> interesse, alla fine capiranno che la dignità vale più di un paio di jeans,
> ci bombardano perchè la Jugoslavia è un paese ancora ricco, nonostante
> tutto, di cibo sano, di acqua, e l'acqua e la natura sono la futura
> ricchezza del mondo, ci bombardano per consumare le loro riserve di armi,
> ci bombardano perchè gli americani sanno di non avere cultura alle loro
> origini, ma un genocidio, e sanno che noi invece siamo un paese antico, con
> radici, e loro vorrebbero fare del mondo intero un fast food, e disprezzano
> la bellezza della natura, perchè la Jugoslavia intera, quella di una volta,
> era un paese bellissimo, e ce l'hanno disfatto, ed è anche colpa nostra, di
> tutti noi jugoslavi, ma in fondo l'abbaimo capito e non passerà molto che
> ce la faremo a ritrovarci, perchè siamo lo stesso popolo. Dopo le elezioni
> americane ci ribombarderanno con la scusa del Montenegro, ma questa volta
> saranno solo gli Inglesi e gli Americani (questo è l'unico punto su cui non
> mi trovo d'accordo, credo che non saranno solo gli anglo-americani a
> bombardare, dati gli enormi interessi coloniali di europei ed italiani in
> particolare, del resto la Zastava è stata bombardata proprio dagli Italiani).
> Non so se puoi trarre qualcosa da queste idee, che non sono le mie ma
> quelle di juigoslavi che ho trovato sul terno, in autobus, nelle case dove
> sono stata, è importante ascoltarli, perchè qui siamo messi molto male...
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> La visita alla Zastava è stata
> bellissima, stanno producendo, e ho anche incontarto alcune famiglie di
> bambini adottati a distanza, tar cui la "mia", era come se ci consocessimo
> da sempre! Sono stata anche tra i profughi serbi dal Kosovo, gli stessi
> dell'anno scorso, e là veramente è triste, e poi ho visto una bellissima
> Belgrado, piena di vita, confusione traffico, sono starordinari e spesso
> abbiamo aprlato con la gente che incontarvo del aftto che priam o poi
> bisogna che si riformi qualche specie di confederazione, non si può stare
> separati, mi è stato difficlie tornare a casa, sai cosa c'è laggiu' di
> straordinario? che pensano ancora, analizzano, fanno funzionare il
> cervello, insomma sono vivi, a volte qui dopo avere visto come la genta
> abbai bevuto al propaganda televisiva mi sembrano tutti morti, oppure sono
> semplicemente in malafede. Sono giuste le osservazioni sul Montenegro, vedo
> già qui tra la gente con cui parlo con cui alvoro che sta venendo fuori
> l'idea che la Jugoslavia stia togliendo l'autonoomia al Montenegro, ma come
> fanno a ri-beversi la stessa menzogna del kosovo? Penso che siano in relatà
> in malafede, e che ormai siamo in un paese profondamente colonialista, mi
> ha detto un anziano professore che gestiva un campo profughi dal Kosovo a
> Kraljevo che l'assalto alla Jugoslavia è stata una grossissima sconfitta
> della classe operaia europea, che non ha ne' saputo ma neppure voluto
> opporsi, capire...
> ...ho parlato con parecchie
> persone , gente qualsiasi e tutti cercavano di capire cosa era successo al
> mondo, e alla Jugoslavia, molti raccontavano le loro idee sulle cause della
> guerra, ci ahnno bommbardato perchè siamo l'unico paese che nello spazio
> dall'occidente alla Cina non vuole entrare nelal NATO, a Rambouillet ci
> hanno chiesto di dare del territorio jugoslavo alla NATO per le basi in
> cambio di un aiuto sulla questione del Kosovo e noi abbiamo rinunciato al
> Kosovo pur di non dare loro le basi, pur di non rinunciare alla nostra
> sovranità, e si sa cosa vuol dire per i Serbi dare il Kosovo, è la culla
> della nostra civiltà, ma la Jugoslavia vale di più, perchè la Jugoslavia è
> la terra della libertà, e noi siamo fatio così, combattiamo sempre per la
> libertà, prima o poi il mondo capirà che cosa ci è stato fatto, e
> soprattutto che ci hanno offesi dipingendoci come il contrario di quello
> che siamo, ci hanno bombardato perchè vogliono far passare il corridoio 8
> per il Kosovo, con il gas dal Caucaso, ci hanno bombardato perchè al
> finanziere Soros interessa la miniera di Trepca, perchè è la più bella
> miiera d'Europa di Piombo e Zinco, la più facile da coltivare, e forse le
> startegie energetiche stanno cambaindo e non sarà più il petrolio la
> materia prima più importante, e poi Soros vuole controllare i Balcani e
> finanzia l'opposizione, e Trepca è il simbolo della ipocrisia occidentale e
> del fatto che l'Europa si stia americanizzando: a Trepca ci hanno scacciato
> con i mitra e la maschere antigas, antiinquinamento, facendo finat che
> stavamo inquinando, proprio loro che hanno provocato con le loro bombe una
> vera e propria catastrofe ambiemntale, la loro ipocrisia è la stessa che
> hanno utilizzato quando hanno giustificato le loro bombe con l'aiuto ai
> profughi albanesi, questo è fascismo di una nuova specie, fascismo
> "umanitario", infido e ipocrita, un fascismo ancora peggiore di quello di
> Hitler e Mussolini, perchè ben nascosto, ma il resto del mondo, e
> soprattutto quei paesi che dovrebbero capire dove sta il loro vero
> interesse, alla fine capiranno che la dignità vale più di un paio di jeans,
> ci bombardano perchè la Jugoslavia è un paese ancora ricco, nonostante
> tutto, di cibo sano, di acqua, e l'acqua e la natura sono la futura
> ricchezza del mondo, ci bombardano per consumare le loro riserve di armi,
> ci bombardano perchè gli americani sanno di non avere cultura alle loro
> origini, ma un genocidio, e sanno che noi invece siamo un paese antico, con
> radici, e loro vorrebbero fare del mondo intero un fast food, e disprezzano
> la bellezza della natura, perchè la Jugoslavia intera, quella di una volta,
> era un paese bellissimo, e ce l'hanno disfatto, ed è anche colpa nostra, di
> tutti noi jugoslavi, ma in fondo l'abbaimo capito e non passerà molto che
> ce la faremo a ritrovarci, perchè siamo lo stesso popolo. Dopo le elezioni
> americane ci ribombarderanno con la scusa del Montenegro, ma questa volta
> saranno solo gli Inglesi e gli Americani (questo è l'unico punto su cui non
> mi trovo d'accordo, credo che non saranno solo gli anglo-americani a
> bombardare, dati gli enormi interessi coloniali di europei ed italiani in
> particolare, del resto la Zastava è stata bombardata proprio dagli Italiani).
> Non so se puoi trarre qualcosa da queste idee, che non sono le mie ma
> quelle di juigoslavi che ho trovato sul terno, in autobus, nelle case dove
> sono stata, è importante ascoltarli, perchè qui siamo messi molto male...
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LA SOCIETA' DELLA PROPAGANDA
Concludiamo con questo contributo, apparso sul volume "Imbrogli di
guerra" (Odradek 1999), la carrellata critica sull'atteggiamento servile
e guerrafondaio della gran parte del ceto intellettuale italiano, e non
solo, in occasione della guerra di aggressione della NATO contro la RF
di Jugoslavia nel 1999. I documenti precedenti si trovano alle pagine:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/319
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/322
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/329
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/370
"Imbrogli di guerra" contiene gli Atti del primo incontro del Comitato
Scienziate/i contro la guerra, tenutosi nel giugno 1999. Il volume e'
ormai esaurito nelle librerie, ma tutti i contributi posso finalmente
essere letti sul sito internet del Comitato, in formato PostScript
compresso e PDF. Dalla home page del sito (che e' stata spostata ad un
nuovo indirizzo, http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/) basta cliccare sulla
copertina del libro per accedere ai contributi dei vari autori.
Un caloroso ringraziamento al curatore del libro, Franco Marenco,
per il materiale inviatoci.
Il Comitato Scienziate/i contro la guerra ha tenuto recentemente un
nuovo convegno a Torino, del quale saranno pure pubblicati presto gli
Atti, sempre per le edizioni Odradek.
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SCIENZA E GUERRA "FIN DE SIECLE"
di Andrea Martocchia (1)
In questo intervento si vuole analizzare il problema della scienza nella
contemporanea realtà
bellica da tre punti di vista: dal punto di vista culturale e
sociologico, laddove la scienza è intesa
nell'accezione più vasta, cioè come insieme delle attività di formazione
e trasmissione della
conoscenza; dal punto di vista della ``categoria'' o ``corporazione'' di
chi fa scienza, riferendosi
cioè al lavoro intellettuale ed al mondo della ricerca in senso stretto;
e da quello del progresso
tecnologico, cioè essenzialmente degli armamenti.
I problemi affrontati sono vasti e complessi, e perciò possono soltanto
essere sfiorati in questa
sede. Mi limiterò a suggerire degli spunti di riflessione, soprattutto
sui primi due aspetti,
riguardanti il ruolo del sapere e della conoscenza nella nostra società,
fornendo ove possibile
riferimenti per un approfondimento ulteriore.
Scienza come conoscenza
Incominciamo dallo stretto significato etimologico della parola scienza.
Il concetto di scienza
richiama la conoscenza, il sapere, l'analisi e la ricerca. È un concetto
valido in tutti i tempi ed in
tutte le culture, ma nella sua accezione più stretta con esso si indica
un filone di matrice
prettamente occidentale, di derivazione greca, sostanziatosi con il
Rinascimento e giunto ad una
teorizzazione precisa con la definizione del ``metodo galileiano'' o
``sperimentale''. Da alcuni
decenni, questa più stretta accezione del termine ``scienza'' è stata
sottoposta a svariate critiche
ed il paradigma è entrato in crisi nella nostra cultura. Non provo
nemmeno ad abbozzare un
excursus attraverso la nascita della meccanica quantistica, la
termodinamica, la teoria della
complessità, ecc., poiché la crisi della concezione positivistica, ma
anche popperiana, della
scienza è cosa ben nota.
Quello che intendo sostenere è che negli ultimi anni stiamo assistendo
ad una devastante crisi
della ``scienza'', intesa anche nella sua accezione più larga. Nella
società delle comunicazioni di
massa siamo silenziosamente ma inesorabilmente arrivati ad una crisi dei
criteri e dei fondamenti
della conoscenza, intesa come categoria generale, e quindi della
suddivisione del lavoro
intellettuale. A mio avviso, il problema non è solamente epistemologico,
bensì è diventato un
problema sociale e politico di grave rilevanza. Questa crisi si può
analizzare a vari livelli. Partirò
dal livello più ``esterno'', cioè dal piano della comunicazione sociale.
Informazione e propaganda
Negli anni Sessanta i situazionisti definivano la nostra società -- la
società capitalistica
avanzata, dove la mercificazione permea ogni attività umana
destrutturandone contenuti e
significati -- come ``società dello spettacolo''. Da alcuni anni, in
seguito a quello che è stato
chiamato ``crollo del muro di Berlino'' (l'annessione della DDR da parte
della Repubblica Federale
Tedesca e la crisi generalizzata del socialismo di stato), dalla
``società dello spettacolo'' siamo
precipitati rapidamente nella ``società della propaganda''.
Nella fase attuale, la guerra è all'ordine del giorno: sia come fenomeno
che riguarda le relazioni fra
stati, ovvero fra stati e strutture sovranazionali (Nazioni Unite, Banca
Mondiale, Fondo Monetario
Internazionale, NATO, Unione Europea, ecc.), sia all'interno di ogni
stato nel senso della rottura
del ``contratto sociale''. Questa rinnovata conflittualità tra ceti
sociali, tra culture e tra
popolazioni, tra centri e periferie, tra chi detiene i mezzi di
produzione e chi lavora duramente già a
dodici anni, non rappresenta ovviamente qualcosa di completamente nuovo,
ma caratterizza
nettamente la fase post-1989. Dopo il 1989 non c'è più lo
``spettacolo'', nel senso situazionista, a
rappresentare il conflitto sociale, mistificandolo: c'è viceversa un
bombardamento
propagandistico-pubblicitario che accompagna l'attacco diretto, aperto e
senza infingimenti
contro le conquiste di almeno cent'anni di lotte dei lavoratori (sfascio
dello stato sociale e
neoliberismo), contro le stesse forme istituzionali atte alla mediazione
dei conflitti (dalla nostra
Costituzione alle Nazioni Unite, dai partiti ai sindacati), nonché
l'attacco armato contro popoli e
stati che frappongono ostacoli a quella che viene detta eufemisticamente
``globalizzazione'', cioè
la fase suprema dell'espansione del grande capitale: l'Imperialismo.
In questa fase il conflitto all'interno della società opulenta non si
traveste più con lo
``spettacolo'', ma si palesa nella pura ``propaganda''. Quella
propaganda che in Italia, ad esempio,
sanziona attraverso svariate campagne di stampa la svendita del
patrimonio pubblico, compresa la
cessione all'imprenditoria straniera di settori strategici come le
telecomunicazioni
(privatizzazione di Telecom), la privatizzazione del sistema
pensionistico, il presidenzialismo
bipolarista già teorizzato nel Piano di Rinascita Nazionale della P2, e
così via. Tutti fatti decantati
e celebrati come ``inevitabili'' e ``necessari''.
Ricordo che fino agli anni Ottanta la politica in TV si faceva solo
nelle tribune elettorali, o si
leggeva su certi giornali. Da un certo punto in poi gli uomini politici
hanno preso il posto dei
presentatori televisivi (da Giuliano Ferrara a tutti i conduttori e
partecipanti dei vari talk-show),
mentre i presentatori ed imbonitori televisivi sono diventati uomini
politici (per tacere di
Berlusconi, ricordo ad esempio Sgarbi o personaggi dello spettacolo che
sempre più spesso
diventano candidati alle elezioni). Si è stabilita una commistione tra i
due versanti (spettacolare e
politico), per cui i ragionamenti sulla legge maggioritaria non si fanno
più in Parlamento, né
tantomeno nelle sezioni di partito, ma si fanno, anzi si spacciano sugli
schermi televisivi.
In questo contesto, è assolutamente normale che tutte le fasi delle
operazioni militari che ad
esempio il nostro paese conduce, ormai a ripetizione da anni, contro i
dittatori ed i barbari di turno
(Libano, Iraq, Somalia, Albania, Jugoslavia), siano accompagnate da
operazioni massmediatiche
dal carattere profondamente disinformativo. I nostri giornali non solo
non riportano quasi mai
reportage originali e dettagliati da questo o quel paese, come invece è
d'uso sulla grande stampa
francese o tedesca, pure schieratissima, ma in generale danno per
scontate una serie di
informazioni di base, sulle quali si costruisce poi tutto il
ragionamento
giornalistico-propagandistico.
Per limitarci al caso jugoslavo: i nostri giornali non hanno mai
descritto se e che cosa sia stato
abrogato dell'autonomia del Kosovo nel 1989, ma ripetono ossessivamente
che ``Milosevic ha
tolto l'autonomia al Kosovo''. Il che è da una parte falso, perché non
fu Milosevic ma la
Presidenza collegiale di quella che era la Repubblica Federativa e
Socialista di Jugoslavia,
compresi Sloveni, e Croati, e dall'altro è fuorviante perché l'autonomia
della regione non fu
abrogata tout-court, ma furono tolti soltanto il diritto di veto che
questa aveva rispetto alle
decisioni della Repubblica di Serbia e le altre prerogative di
semi-statualità, mentre fu ad esempio
conservato il bilinguismo.(2) Allo stesso modo, si ripete
incessantemente che sarebbe esistito un
piano di ``pulizia etnica'' da parte della leadership serba, piano che
sarebbe stato formulato in un
Memorandum e declamato da Milosevic nel suo discorso a Campo dei Merli
il 28 giugno del 1989.
Ma il Memorandum non lo ha letto quasi nessuno, poiché solo Limes ne ha
pubblicato degli stralci,
e chi lo ha letto sa che c'è scritto esattamente il contrario; quanto al
discorso di Milosevic, non è
stato mai tradotto in italiano, così come Milosevic non è stato mai
intervistato sui nostri giornali.
Dopodiché si accusa Milosevic perché, all'inizio dei bombardamenti fa
chiudere Radio B52
(scusate, volevo dire B92), finanziata dalla Fondazione Soros, che ha
tra i suoi sponsor anche
Hillary Clinton. E, in nome della libertà di informazione, si bombarda
la televisione serba con i
giornalisti dentro.
Carattere militare della trasmissione di informazioni
In queste circostanze, il meccanismo della disinformazione nei
mass-media è un meccanismo di
carattere militare. Non è dovuto soltanto ad incompetenza o eccesso di
zelo di certi giornalisti, e
fa si che la distinzione tra il vero ed il falso diventi ardua per lo
``spettatore''. Notizie false come
quella del bombardamento di Lubiana (1991), quella degli stupri di massa
in Bosnia (1993), quella
delle fosse comuni di Orahovac in Kosovo (1998) o le notizie delle
stragi di Sarajevo, subito
attribuite ai Serbi nonostante i dubbi ed i successivi rapporti ONU
smentissero queste
attribuzioni, dimostrano che è esistita in questi anni, e continua
adesso per il Kosovo, una
campagna di diffamazione antiserba, mirata evidentemente a creare
tensione per giustificare
l'intervento armato in quei territori. Non a caso il bersaglio di questa
campagna sono i Serbi, in
quanto popolazione maggioritaria di quella che era la Repubblica
Federativa e Socialista di
Jugoslavia, i quali vivendo sparpagliati un po' dappertutto tra le varie
Repubbliche meno di tutti
avevano interesse alla frammentazione ed allo sfascio del proprio paese.
Per questa campagna disinformativa le parti in conflitto (secessionisti
sloveni, croati,
bosniaco-musulmani, albanesi) si sono avvalse del lavoro di agenzie
specializzate come la Ruder
& Finn Public Global Affairs,(3) la quale attraverso lauti finanziamenti
da paesi terzi fa passare solo
``verità'' di comodo. A contribuire a questo colossale travisamento dei
fatti sono impegnate però
anche alcune istituzioni internazionali: il caso più clamoroso è stato
forse quello del capo della
missione OSCE William Walker e della ``strage di Racak''. Vi sono
coinvolte anche molte ONG
ed organizzazioni pseudo-umanitarie assai attive in questi anni, come
pure la potentissima lobby
di Soros.
Chi conosce questi terribili retroscena sa dunque che i nostri
quotidiani sono da prendere tutti
indistintamente cum grano salis, tenendo in mano la matita rossa e blu,
conservando
religiosamente gli articoli che sembrano significativi e facendo
raffronti a giorni e mesi di distanza.
La persona comune, che non si è mai interessata di un certo argomento
che all'improvviso assurge
agli onori delle prime pagine, è sola dinanzi al bombardamento
informativo. Su di lei ricade per
intero la responsabilità di scegliersi le fonti, fra libri, siti
internet, riviste che non seguano una linea
``di massa'', e anche materiali d'archivio e rapporti o ricordi
personali. In questa situazione la
vera informazione è un fai-da-te. La responsabilità della formazione
della conoscenza e del
sapere ricade interamente sul singolo, che dovrà impegnarsi da solo a
raccogliere, valutare e
sperimentare, proprio secondo il metodo sperimentale di Galileo. Non
esiste oggi come oggi
nessuna ``garanzia di affidabilità'' per i mezzi di informazione: siamo
in pieno medioevo. Quanto
sopra vale anche e soprattutto per i quotidiani ``di tradizione
democratica'', a causa del fatto che
molto spesso essi usano meccanicamente i dispacci d'agenzia, senza avere
inviati sul posto, e
soprattutto si avvalgono della collaborazione di elementi influenti di
quel ceto intellettuale che, io
credo, è soggetto oggi ad una terribile crisi di ruolo e di identità.
Gli ``esperti''
Penso in particolare a certi pseudo-esperti, veri azzeccagarbugli, che
in questi anni hanno
certosinamente capovolto i fatti sulla guerra jugoslava. Costoro sono
riusciti, ad esempio, a
sostenere e caldeggiare la frammentazione della Repubblica Federativa e
Socialista di Jugoslavia
con la giustificazione paradossale che le popolazioni devono vivere
insieme e senza odii reciproci !
Secondo loro, la Federazione andava spezzettata per liberare questi o
quegli altri dall'oppressione
centralista, benché in Jugoslavia i diritti delle minoranze fossero
ampiamente riconosciuti: si
trattava della realtà più avanzata a livello mondiale da quel punto di
vista. In nome della
``autodeterminazione dei popoli'', questi commentatori hanno combattuto
aspramente contro
l'autodeterminazione dei Serbi in Croazia e Bosnia, indicandoli come
aggressori... però poi
appoggiano l'autodeterminazione dei kosovari di lingua albanese,
glissando sul carattere
revanscista ed ultranazionalista del movimento grandealbanese, e
sottolineando ad ogni pié
sospinto la differenza ``etnica'' tra questi e quegli altri. Da una
parte dicono che bisogna difendere
il carattere multietnico di questo o quel territorio, e dall'altra si
contraddicono clamorosamente
evidenziando la presunta necessità di spezzettare, creando nuovi
confini.
Laddove le differenze etniche non esistono, questi pseudo-esperti se le
inventano: così ha fatto
la sua comparsa la ``differenza etnica'' tra Serbi, Croati e Musulmani
di Bosnia, mentre è noto che
la differenza fra queste popolazioni è solo di carattere
storico-religioso (come tra tedeschi
cattolici e tedeschi evangelici). La differenza linguistica, ad esempio,
è irrilevante. Tutto questo
non lo fa solamente un intellettuale di destra come Bettiza, ma anche un
Predrag Matvejevic su
tutti i giornali e le riviste di sinistra. Matvejevic è professore di
lingue slave, eppure va in giro a
teorizzare una presunta differenza tra la lingua serba e quella croata,
rendendo un ottimo servizio
alla nuova vulgata dei nazionalismi. Un'altra specialità di questi
``esperti'' è il non dire: ad
esempio Stefano Bianchini, storico, riesce a scrivere centinaia di
articoli sulla guerra in Bosnia,
senza mai dire che questa è scoppiata nell'aprile del 1992 perché i
rappresentanti croati e
musulmani alla Conferenza di Lisbona furono spinti dalla diplomazia USA
a ritirare la loro firma dal
Piano Cutileiro, già sottoscritto, il quale prevedeva la
cantonalizzazione della Bosnia. Questo
piano, se applicato avrebbe evitato tre anni di guerra civile (per non
parlare delle operazioni di
appoggio militare e finanziamento alla leadership bosniaco-musulmana).
Bianchini scrive anche
decine di articoli sul Kosovo senza mai parlare delle miniere e del
problema geopolitico dei
``corridoi''. E rapidamente cadranno nell'oblio le critiche a quella che
è stata definita la
``trappola'' (o diktat) di Rambouillet, in seguito alla quale sono
iniziati i bombardamenti su tutto il
territorio serbo-montenegrino.
Ad altri ``esperti'' e ad altri fatti, spesso più rilevanti di quelli
che vengono ossessivamente
ripetuti, è costantemente negato lo spazio: non c'è stato sui giornali
ed in televisione alcun
approfondimento sui principali antefatti storici della guerra civile nei
Balcani. Una severa censura
copre tutto quello che riguarda il colonialismo italiano nell'area ed i
crimini di guerra commessi
dagli italiani durante le Seconda Guerra Mondiale,(4) compresi i campi
di concentramento sull'isola
di Rab/Arbe ed in Slovenia, nonché l'occupazione militare del Kosovo
annesso alla Grande
Albania fascista. Una ricerca storica rigorosa e documentata come quella
di Marco Aurelio Rivelli
sui crimini del clericonazismo ustascia nella Croazia di Pavelic e
Stepinac è stata pubblicata
fortunosamente solo nella primavera di quest'anno.(5) Questi sono solo
alcuni esempi che
dimostrano la difficoltà estrema della trasmissione delle conoscenze e
delle ricerche storiche in
questo clima di guerra.
Da una parte, quindi, il perverso ruolo degli ``esperti'' sui mezzi di
informazione. Dall'altra una
vera censura, più o meno volontaria, e comunque strutturale: sono gli
aspetti più evidenti della
devastante crisi nella trasmissione della conoscenza tra addetti ai
lavori e pubblico, crisi in atto
nella società in cui viviamo proprio per il modo in cui è strutturata.
Solo a colui al quale viene
attribuito, massmediaticamente, il ruolo di ``esperto'' è affidato il
compito di interpretare e
raccontare, e solo la sua voce conta. Quello che dice l' ``esperto''
viene riprodotto e ripetuto in
maniera praticamente totalitaria, mentre voci diverse ed interpretazioni
divergenti hanno
raramente la possibilità di esprimersi -- attraverso la pubblicazione di
un articolo o di un libro --.
A causa della rigida strutturazione per competenze e per feudi del
lavoro intellettuale, se non sei
``nella parrocchia giusta'' non passi. Questo lo sa chiunque abbia
provato a farsi pubblicare
qualcosa (che fosse un articolo od una raccolta di poesie) senza potersi
giovare della conoscenza
o dell'appoggio di qualche personaggio influente.
Notiamo che, non a caso, nella nostra società mediatica il ruolo della
scienza e dello scienziato è
celebrato continuamente, al punto che alcuni scienziati di fama hanno il
loro posto fisso nei
dibattiti: si pensi a Zichichi, a Hack. La voce dello scienziato, e in
generale la voce dell'esperto o
di colui che assume il ruolo di esperto nel carosello massmediatico,
assume valore in sé e per sé.
Se a costui viene attribuita una sufficiente autorevolezza, può anche
debordare in campi del tutto
diversi da quello di competenza. L'esperto può allora diventare
tuttologo, ed andare a proclamare
che i Serbi sono nazionalisti per natura, anzi per codice genetico,
anche se lui non ha mai parlato
personalmente con un serbo in tutta la sua vita. Questo tipo di ruolo,
praticamente sacrale,
dell'esperto è la negazione stessa del concetto di ``scienza'', intesa
in senso stretto, ed è la
negazione di fatto di quella che dovrebbe essere la funzione sociale
dello scienziato, dell'esperto,
del ricercatore, dell'intellettuale: colui che ricerca, colui che
verifica la fonte, l'informazione o il
fenomeno in oggetto.
Imposture intellettuali
Questa ``garanzia di credibilità'' dell'esperto vale dal mondo delle
scienze naturali nel senso delle
scienze umanistiche (ad esempio Zichichi che parla di Dio) ma anche in
senso inverso, quando il
filosofo e il romanziere assumono il linguaggio delle scienze naturali,
lo manipolano a piacimento,
ed il tutto causa situazioni al limite del paradosso e del ridicolo. Ha
suscitato molto scalpore, per
esempio, la beffa di Alan Sokal. Questo fisico statunitense spedì alcuni
anni fa un complicato
articolo ad una rivista di sociologia, che lo accettò per la
pubblicazione. Dopo alcune settimane
Sokal in un altro articolo smentiva completamente il precedente,
svelando la beffa: aveva usato a
casaccio complicate citazioni di vari autori, filosofi e sociologi di
scuola postmoderna, creando un
pezzo incomprensibile, perché privo di senso, ma affascinante. Ed era
stato preso sul serio ! La
beffa di Sokal ha chiarito in modo incontestabile che la figura dell'
``esperto'', nella nostra società
delle comunicazioni di massa, è un puro specchietto per le allodole: non
solo per il mondo
``profano'', ma anche all'interno dell'ambiente specialistico a causa
del livello estremo di
settorializzazione delle varie discipline.
Recentemente, Sokal ha pubblicato un altro libro insieme ad un collega
belga,(6) nel quale contesta in
maniera organica e rigorosa il linguaggio ed il metodo usati da tutta
un'area di pensiero, quella
appunto postmoderna, popolata da tanti intellettuali francesi eredi
dello strutturalismo, e rivendica
la necessità del metodo razionale, sperimentale e dimostrativo. Il
libro, che si intitola ``Imposture
intellettuali'', è secondo me una pietra miliare di questa fase storica,
in quanto mette a nudo lo
sfascio completo del pensiero analitico contemporaneo. E così si
scoprono gli altarini dei ``finti
esperti'', che nascondono la loro vuotezza sotto ad una cortina fumogena
fatta di parole, il cui solo
valore, nel modo in cui questi le usano, è nel suono che hanno.
L'attacco di Sokal colpisce al cuore un'area di intellettualismo del
tutto speculativo ed
antirazionalista, che ha i suoi capisaldi in Francia. Non a caso la
società francese, che
rappresentava negli anni Sessanta l'osservatorio del movimento
situazionista, e che era da questo
interpretata correttamente come ``società dello spettacolo'', è anche la
società dove più sfrenata
è la mercificazione culturale (si pensi a Parigi, al continuo
supermercato di idee ed avvenimenti
culturali...). Quella francese è la società dove dall'onda lunga del
Sessantotto antiautoritario si è
sviluppata la corrente di pensiero dei ``nuovi filosofi'', nucleo di
elaborazione del ``pensiero
debole'' antirazionalista che ha furoreggiato durante tutto il riflusso
degli anni '80. Non è un
caso che questi ex-nuovi filosofi sessantottini francesi siano oggi in
prima fila nella polemica
antijugoslava: Daniel Cohen-Bendit, Bernard Henry-Levy, André
Glucksmann, e pure quel
Finkielkraut che un giorno appoggia l'ultranazionalismo croato
sentenziando quali siano i popoli
civili e quali i barbari, ed il giorno dopo rivaluta certi personaggi
della Repubblica di Vichy. Una
corrente di pensiero ``differenzialista'', impegnata in tutti questi
anni a cercare ciò che divide
anziché a valorizzare ciò che unisce, non a caso violentemente
partigiana delle secessioni
jugoslave.
Non è un caso che il libro ``Imposture intellettuali'' venga
violentemente attaccato sul Manifesto,
giornale che ha attinto dal ``pensiero debole'', dalla ``complessità'' e
da un certo antirazionalismo
per almeno 15 anni, nell'ambito di un processo di decostruzione ed
abbandono del marxismo (non
solo del leninismo). Questo quotidiano è l'espressione di un'area
intellettuale affascinata dal
pensiero ``differenzialista'' e postmoderno, ma con enormi difficoltà di
comprensione della fase
politica post-1989, e dello squartamento della Jugoslavia in
particolare. Sul Manifesto lo
squartamento della Repubblica Federativa e Socialista di Jugoslavia è
stato visto troppo spesso
come un processo dovuto a pulsioni nazionalistiche congenite, sorvolando
sulle cause strutturali,
strategiche, materiali, internazionali. Non è un caso, dicevo, che il
Manifesto attacchi il libro di
Sokal e Bricmont definendolo addirittura ``un'operazione di `pulizia
epistemologica', di violenza
paragonabile a pulizie balcaniche''.(7) Viceversa, è logico che il
Manifesto si esprima con tale
virulenza, quasi mostrandosi offeso, perché rivendicando l'importanza
del metodo
scientifico-dimostrativo e del linguaggio razionale gli autori del libro
pongono un problema che
travalica il merito delle scienze esatte e delle altre discipline
specialistiche (sociologia, filosofia,
ecc.). Sokal e Bricmont pongono un problema che riguarda tutta la
suddivisione del lavoro
intellettuale nella società in cui viviamo, e che riguarda pure, e
pesantemente, i giornalisti che in
questi anni hanno pubblicato menzogne pensando che la verifica delle
informazioni e delle fonti
fosse un'appendice accessoria di un sistema massmediatico nel quale
quello che conta è ben
altro: anche diffondere menzogne sulle ``pulizie etniche'' e sulle
guerre imperialiste è considerato
lecito perché ``il concetto di verità è fluttuante''; e ``in nome della
libertà di espressione'' due più
due fa quattro ma può fare anche tre o cinque. Izetbegovic è stato in
carcere sei anni nella
Repubblica Federativa e Socialista di Jugoslavia per istigazione
all'odio tra le nazionalità e per
aver scritto la ``Dichiarazione Islamica'', eppure lo si può appoggiare
come difensore di Sarajevo
multietnica.(8)
Un clima decadente
In realtà se l'informazione è il regno dell'arbitrio, e la trasmissione
delle conoscenze è regolata
sempre più da meccanismi perversi e ``blindati'', allora la nostra
società non è democratica né
libera: è decadente, come decadente era il clima intellettuale che aprì
la strada al fascismo. Come
allora, gli intellettuali e gli scienziati non svolgono più il ruolo che
a loro compete, e stanno lì a
creare una cortina fumogena che rende impossibile la conoscenza dei
fatti, rende arduo accedere
a tutti gli elementi per valutare, e rende possibili (e magari
giustificati) la devastazione e il
bombardamento prolungato per 78 giorni di un paese già vittima di un
embargo ingiusto.
Non parlare dell'occupazione fascista del Kosovo durante le Seconda
Guerra Mondiale consente
di rioccuparlo oggi, nell'ambito di un'operazione di carattere
neocoloniale travestita da missione
umanitaria. Non parlare della natura mafiosa dell'UCK e dei suoi
rapporti con il traffico
internazionale di armi e di droga consente di presentarlo come un gruppo
di romantici guerriglieri
che forse faranno degli errori, ma certo non sono assassini per
vocazione, come i Serbi...
Questo clima decadente, sviluppatosi nella Francia post-sessantottina,
regna da anni
incontrastato in tutta Europa. Si tratta di un vero e proprio
totalitarismo, ben descritto ad esempio
da Peter Handke e da Regis Debray. Quest'ultimo in un recente articolo
ha analizzato e
commentato il linciaggio a cui è stato sottoposto a causa delle sue
posizioni critiche nei confronti
dell'aggressione contro la Jugoslavia: ``A quanto pare voi incarnate la
democrazia, lo spirito
d'apertura, la civiltà contro i nuovi barbari. Non è così. Siete il
volto attuale del
fanatismo''.(9) Debray si rivolge all'intellettualità francese di cui
sopra, ma il suo commento lo
possiamo riprendere qui in Italia ed applicare alla lobby dei vari
Sofri, Matvejevic, Dizdarevic, tutti
gli editorialisti dei grandi quotidiani e tutta l'area politica
trasversale centrata sul Partito Radicale
di Bonino-Pannella, vera punta di diamante del moderno fascismo,
razzista-sciovinista e
guerrafondaio.
``Ex-sinistra'' e responsabilità degli intellettuali
Rispetto a tutto questo il ceto intellettuale progressista è complice
consenziente, oppure è
paralizzato in quanto trova spazio solamente unendosi al coro. Un motivo
di questa paralisi
dell'intellettualità di sinistra consiste nel fatto che essa oggi come
oggi è dalla parte del potere:
non dimentichiamo che è il centrosinistra, che sono le socialdemocrazie
ad aver guidato in Europa
la recente aggressione contro la Jugoslavia. È proprio il ceto
intellettuale sedicente progressista la
vera base di appoggio dell'attuale classe di governo del nostro paese,
così come gli ambienti
universitari e della ricerca rappresentano la vera clientela
dell'attuale area di governo, laddove ad
esempio fino a dieci anni fa clientela, o base sociale, del governo
pentapartito era soprattutto il
parastato, tra i lavoratori statali ed i colletti bianchi
dell'industria. Ecco perché, a mio avviso,
l'ambiente universitario e della ricerca è rimasto sostanzialmente muto
negli scorsi mesi; ecco
perché la tradizione antimilitarista di certo mondo scientifico (USPID,
Pugwash, eccetera) è
defunta, come si faceva notare in una assemblea degli studenti di Fisica
di Roma alla ``Sapienza''
nel maggio 1999. Mentre con la guerra del Golfo la maggioranza dei
professori e ricercatori
scuotevano ancora le spalle preoccupati, e solo pochi di essi
pubblicavano articoli per avvalorare
la tesi folle delle ``bombe chirurgiche'', adesso l'opinione diffusa è
che il problema stia tutto nei
Serbi: la guerra è giusta anche se fa male, oppure è ingiusta ma il
problema resta Milosevic, che è
contemporaneamente comunista e fascista, liberista e statalista,
estremista e venduto,
nazionalista serbo e jugoslavista. Se non firma è esaltato, se firma è
doppiogiochista: insomma è
serbo e va annientato.
Il mondo delle baronie universitarie è il vero ``nocciolo duro'' di
questa classe dirigente, e dunque
non può esprimere una vera opposizione alla deriva bellica ed
autoritaria in atto. Per inciso, tutto il
mondo del lavoro è paralizzato dal fatto che, si dice, ``le sinistre
sono al governo'': perciò non
viene indetto nessuno sciopero contro la guerra, e chi indica la
contraddizione è un estremista,
anzi un ``terrorista''.
Veniamo dunque all'aspetto più ``interno'' del problema, cioè
all'atteggiamento del ceto
intellettuale e del mondo della ricerca. A mio parere, una crisi sociale
e morale investe l'ambiente
dei ricercatori, la comunità scientifica nel suo complesso e le
convenzioni ed il linguaggio che essa
usa per la comunicazione al suo interno. A causa della crescente
settorializzazione delle
competenze, tutte le società a capitalismo avanzato si strutturano in
feudi e ghetti, il cui
interscambio conoscitivo è demandato a personaggi, i suddetti
``esperti'', i quali hanno spazio sui
mass-media e nei consessi dove le informazioni si dovrebbero
trasmettere.
Considerando ad esempio il mio campo specifico di ricerca,
l'astrofisica, rimango sempre più
spesso stupefatto dal crescente livello di autoreferenzialità di certe
correnti di ricerca, e dalla
strutturazione profondamente rigida e chiusa di gruppi e comunità.
Sempre più spesso si ascoltano
frasi del tipo ``non chiedetemi spiegazioni su X perché non sono un
esperto'', anche se
l'argomento X del quale non si intende parlare è profondamente connesso
con la propria
competenza e la propria ricerca. C'è un timore quasi religioso rispetto
al rischio di invadere
``campi altrui'', ed una crescente tendenza al solipsismo, accentuata
anche dal tipo di tecnologie
in uso (il fatto di stare inchiodati dinanzi al computer). In un grosso
progetto di ricerca è difficile
che un partecipante sappia con esattezza di cosa si stia occupando un
altro, e questo a causa
della ``complessità'' del problema affrontato e dei mezzi per studiarlo.
Talvolta l'incomunicabilità
non deriva nemmeno dall'effettiva divisione del lavoro, ma da pura e
meschina rivalità e
concorrenzialità tra gruppi, anzi tra parrocchie, cosicché indirizzi di
ricerca innovativi ed
interpretazioni alternative sono presi in considerazione con estrema
difficoltà. Un tipico esempio è
la cosmologia ``standard'', divenuta un enorme pachiderma sia dal punto
di vista teorico che da
quello sperimentale, sulla quale operano tantissimi ricercatori e
gruppi, con una complicata
strutturazione dei progetti e dei finanziamenti: ebbene la cosmologia
``standard'' assomiglia
sempre di più all'universo tolemaico, al quale si vanno aggiungendo
epicicli ed ipotesi ad hoc per
tappare le falle che si aprono sempre più spesso (teorie
dell'inflazione, e via discorrendo). Il
rapporto con linee di pensiero alternative, pure assai sviluppate
(teorie stazionarie, teoria di
Alfven) è inesistente, e le pubblicazioni ed i contributi in quel senso
vengono accolti con una
risatina saccente, quando non vengono semplicemente ignorati. Ma questo
non vale solamente per
la cosmologia: nel campo dell'astrofisica relativistica, stanno uscendo
a ripetizione articoli che
ipotizzano meccanismi alternativi per gli AGN e gli oggetti compatti, ed
ormai esiste addirittura
una letteratura che nega l'esistenza dei buchi neri. Questa letteratura
viene semplicemente
scansata con fastidio.
A cosa serve la scienza ?
È evidente che questo clima interno all'ambiente scientifico e
intellettuale è il riflesso di un clima
culturale più generale, che non esito a definire fascista, clima che ha
accompagnato questi anni nei
quali la guerra è ritornata ``normale''. La guerra è come il pane
quotidiano, e con la Carta
Costituzionale si fanno... aereoplanini. In questo clima, la ``scienza''
e la ``conoscenza'' vengono
certo celebrate ed evocate, ma per stravolgerne il compito ed il
significato, ovvero per
strumentalizzarle. Per il pubblico il ruolo delle scienze naturali e
della tecnologia si riduce alla
sperimentazione di sofisticati sistemi d'arma, alla menzogna
propagandistica della ``guerra
chirurgica'' e delle ``bombe intelligenti'', e all'evocazione misteriosa
dell'impiego di uranio
impoverito, fosforo combinato, sistemi a puntamento laser, e via
discorrendo. Tutto questo
nell'ambito di una sacralizzazione del portato scientifico-tecnologico
che è la precisa negazione
del significato stesso di scienza e di progresso scientifico e di quel
metodo sperimentale che
imporrebbe la verifica sulle affermazioni, e del concetto di avanzamento
tecnologico che dovrebbe
servire ad una più giusta distribuzione dei frutti del lavoro dell'uomo.
Note
(1) Sissa-Isas, Trieste
(2) Meno che mai si chiarisce perché sia stata abrogata la ``autonomia
speciale'' del Kosovo, tacendo su quello che è successo nella zona per
tutta la durata degli anni Ottanta e facendo incominciare la storia dal
1989...
(3) Il problema della disinformazione strategica nel caso jugoslavo fu
posto in termini chiari per la prima volta da Jacques Merlino nel libro
``Le verità jugoslave non sono tutte buone a dirsi'' (ed. Albin Michel,
1993), ancora non tradotto in italiano, nel quale si elencano i legami
tra i settori che conducono la disinformazione, le lobby ebraiche
statunitensi ed i lauti finanziamenti provenienti da certi paesi
islamici.
(4) Si pensi ad esempio alla censura sul documentario della BBC
riguardante questi crimini, la cui versione italiana, curata dal regista
Massimo Sani con il contributo di storici importanti come Claudio
Pavone, è tuttora chiusa a chiave in un cassetto della RAI.
(5) M.A. Rivelli, ``L' Arcivescovo del genocidio'', Ed. Kaos 1999. Si
noti che il protagonista del libro, il vescovo Stepinac
collaborazionista del nazismo croato, è stato beatificato da papa
Wojtyla il 3 ottobre scorso, durante la visita del pontefice in Croazia.
(6) Sokal, Bricmont: Imposture intellettuali, Ed. Garzanti, 1999.
(7) ``La pulizia epistemologica'', di Marco D'Eramo, il Manifesto,
16/6/1999.
(8) Si noti che durante il conflitto nessuno aveva spiegato, nemmeno sul
Manifesto, che alcuni quartieri di Sarajevo erano a maggioranza serba e
semplicemente non volevano entrare a far parte della Bosnia di
Izetbegovic; cosicché in seguito agli accordi di Dayton centinaia
di migliaia di Serbi hanno abbandonato quei quartieri (1996), nella
totale indifferenza degli intellettuali che pure avevano per anni
parlato di ``Sarajevo multietnica''.
(9) ``Una macchina da guerra'', di R. Debray, su Le Monde Diplomatique
del giugno 1999.
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Concludiamo con questo contributo, apparso sul volume "Imbrogli di
guerra" (Odradek 1999), la carrellata critica sull'atteggiamento servile
e guerrafondaio della gran parte del ceto intellettuale italiano, e non
solo, in occasione della guerra di aggressione della NATO contro la RF
di Jugoslavia nel 1999. I documenti precedenti si trovano alle pagine:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/319
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/322
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/329
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/370
"Imbrogli di guerra" contiene gli Atti del primo incontro del Comitato
Scienziate/i contro la guerra, tenutosi nel giugno 1999. Il volume e'
ormai esaurito nelle librerie, ma tutti i contributi posso finalmente
essere letti sul sito internet del Comitato, in formato PostScript
compresso e PDF. Dalla home page del sito (che e' stata spostata ad un
nuovo indirizzo, http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~spweb/) basta cliccare sulla
copertina del libro per accedere ai contributi dei vari autori.
Un caloroso ringraziamento al curatore del libro, Franco Marenco,
per il materiale inviatoci.
Il Comitato Scienziate/i contro la guerra ha tenuto recentemente un
nuovo convegno a Torino, del quale saranno pure pubblicati presto gli
Atti, sempre per le edizioni Odradek.
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SCIENZA E GUERRA "FIN DE SIECLE"
di Andrea Martocchia (1)
In questo intervento si vuole analizzare il problema della scienza nella
contemporanea realtà
bellica da tre punti di vista: dal punto di vista culturale e
sociologico, laddove la scienza è intesa
nell'accezione più vasta, cioè come insieme delle attività di formazione
e trasmissione della
conoscenza; dal punto di vista della ``categoria'' o ``corporazione'' di
chi fa scienza, riferendosi
cioè al lavoro intellettuale ed al mondo della ricerca in senso stretto;
e da quello del progresso
tecnologico, cioè essenzialmente degli armamenti.
I problemi affrontati sono vasti e complessi, e perciò possono soltanto
essere sfiorati in questa
sede. Mi limiterò a suggerire degli spunti di riflessione, soprattutto
sui primi due aspetti,
riguardanti il ruolo del sapere e della conoscenza nella nostra società,
fornendo ove possibile
riferimenti per un approfondimento ulteriore.
Scienza come conoscenza
Incominciamo dallo stretto significato etimologico della parola scienza.
Il concetto di scienza
richiama la conoscenza, il sapere, l'analisi e la ricerca. È un concetto
valido in tutti i tempi ed in
tutte le culture, ma nella sua accezione più stretta con esso si indica
un filone di matrice
prettamente occidentale, di derivazione greca, sostanziatosi con il
Rinascimento e giunto ad una
teorizzazione precisa con la definizione del ``metodo galileiano'' o
``sperimentale''. Da alcuni
decenni, questa più stretta accezione del termine ``scienza'' è stata
sottoposta a svariate critiche
ed il paradigma è entrato in crisi nella nostra cultura. Non provo
nemmeno ad abbozzare un
excursus attraverso la nascita della meccanica quantistica, la
termodinamica, la teoria della
complessità, ecc., poiché la crisi della concezione positivistica, ma
anche popperiana, della
scienza è cosa ben nota.
Quello che intendo sostenere è che negli ultimi anni stiamo assistendo
ad una devastante crisi
della ``scienza'', intesa anche nella sua accezione più larga. Nella
società delle comunicazioni di
massa siamo silenziosamente ma inesorabilmente arrivati ad una crisi dei
criteri e dei fondamenti
della conoscenza, intesa come categoria generale, e quindi della
suddivisione del lavoro
intellettuale. A mio avviso, il problema non è solamente epistemologico,
bensì è diventato un
problema sociale e politico di grave rilevanza. Questa crisi si può
analizzare a vari livelli. Partirò
dal livello più ``esterno'', cioè dal piano della comunicazione sociale.
Informazione e propaganda
Negli anni Sessanta i situazionisti definivano la nostra società -- la
società capitalistica
avanzata, dove la mercificazione permea ogni attività umana
destrutturandone contenuti e
significati -- come ``società dello spettacolo''. Da alcuni anni, in
seguito a quello che è stato
chiamato ``crollo del muro di Berlino'' (l'annessione della DDR da parte
della Repubblica Federale
Tedesca e la crisi generalizzata del socialismo di stato), dalla
``società dello spettacolo'' siamo
precipitati rapidamente nella ``società della propaganda''.
Nella fase attuale, la guerra è all'ordine del giorno: sia come fenomeno
che riguarda le relazioni fra
stati, ovvero fra stati e strutture sovranazionali (Nazioni Unite, Banca
Mondiale, Fondo Monetario
Internazionale, NATO, Unione Europea, ecc.), sia all'interno di ogni
stato nel senso della rottura
del ``contratto sociale''. Questa rinnovata conflittualità tra ceti
sociali, tra culture e tra
popolazioni, tra centri e periferie, tra chi detiene i mezzi di
produzione e chi lavora duramente già a
dodici anni, non rappresenta ovviamente qualcosa di completamente nuovo,
ma caratterizza
nettamente la fase post-1989. Dopo il 1989 non c'è più lo
``spettacolo'', nel senso situazionista, a
rappresentare il conflitto sociale, mistificandolo: c'è viceversa un
bombardamento
propagandistico-pubblicitario che accompagna l'attacco diretto, aperto e
senza infingimenti
contro le conquiste di almeno cent'anni di lotte dei lavoratori (sfascio
dello stato sociale e
neoliberismo), contro le stesse forme istituzionali atte alla mediazione
dei conflitti (dalla nostra
Costituzione alle Nazioni Unite, dai partiti ai sindacati), nonché
l'attacco armato contro popoli e
stati che frappongono ostacoli a quella che viene detta eufemisticamente
``globalizzazione'', cioè
la fase suprema dell'espansione del grande capitale: l'Imperialismo.
In questa fase il conflitto all'interno della società opulenta non si
traveste più con lo
``spettacolo'', ma si palesa nella pura ``propaganda''. Quella
propaganda che in Italia, ad esempio,
sanziona attraverso svariate campagne di stampa la svendita del
patrimonio pubblico, compresa la
cessione all'imprenditoria straniera di settori strategici come le
telecomunicazioni
(privatizzazione di Telecom), la privatizzazione del sistema
pensionistico, il presidenzialismo
bipolarista già teorizzato nel Piano di Rinascita Nazionale della P2, e
così via. Tutti fatti decantati
e celebrati come ``inevitabili'' e ``necessari''.
Ricordo che fino agli anni Ottanta la politica in TV si faceva solo
nelle tribune elettorali, o si
leggeva su certi giornali. Da un certo punto in poi gli uomini politici
hanno preso il posto dei
presentatori televisivi (da Giuliano Ferrara a tutti i conduttori e
partecipanti dei vari talk-show),
mentre i presentatori ed imbonitori televisivi sono diventati uomini
politici (per tacere di
Berlusconi, ricordo ad esempio Sgarbi o personaggi dello spettacolo che
sempre più spesso
diventano candidati alle elezioni). Si è stabilita una commistione tra i
due versanti (spettacolare e
politico), per cui i ragionamenti sulla legge maggioritaria non si fanno
più in Parlamento, né
tantomeno nelle sezioni di partito, ma si fanno, anzi si spacciano sugli
schermi televisivi.
In questo contesto, è assolutamente normale che tutte le fasi delle
operazioni militari che ad
esempio il nostro paese conduce, ormai a ripetizione da anni, contro i
dittatori ed i barbari di turno
(Libano, Iraq, Somalia, Albania, Jugoslavia), siano accompagnate da
operazioni massmediatiche
dal carattere profondamente disinformativo. I nostri giornali non solo
non riportano quasi mai
reportage originali e dettagliati da questo o quel paese, come invece è
d'uso sulla grande stampa
francese o tedesca, pure schieratissima, ma in generale danno per
scontate una serie di
informazioni di base, sulle quali si costruisce poi tutto il
ragionamento
giornalistico-propagandistico.
Per limitarci al caso jugoslavo: i nostri giornali non hanno mai
descritto se e che cosa sia stato
abrogato dell'autonomia del Kosovo nel 1989, ma ripetono ossessivamente
che ``Milosevic ha
tolto l'autonomia al Kosovo''. Il che è da una parte falso, perché non
fu Milosevic ma la
Presidenza collegiale di quella che era la Repubblica Federativa e
Socialista di Jugoslavia,
compresi Sloveni, e Croati, e dall'altro è fuorviante perché l'autonomia
della regione non fu
abrogata tout-court, ma furono tolti soltanto il diritto di veto che
questa aveva rispetto alle
decisioni della Repubblica di Serbia e le altre prerogative di
semi-statualità, mentre fu ad esempio
conservato il bilinguismo.(2) Allo stesso modo, si ripete
incessantemente che sarebbe esistito un
piano di ``pulizia etnica'' da parte della leadership serba, piano che
sarebbe stato formulato in un
Memorandum e declamato da Milosevic nel suo discorso a Campo dei Merli
il 28 giugno del 1989.
Ma il Memorandum non lo ha letto quasi nessuno, poiché solo Limes ne ha
pubblicato degli stralci,
e chi lo ha letto sa che c'è scritto esattamente il contrario; quanto al
discorso di Milosevic, non è
stato mai tradotto in italiano, così come Milosevic non è stato mai
intervistato sui nostri giornali.
Dopodiché si accusa Milosevic perché, all'inizio dei bombardamenti fa
chiudere Radio B52
(scusate, volevo dire B92), finanziata dalla Fondazione Soros, che ha
tra i suoi sponsor anche
Hillary Clinton. E, in nome della libertà di informazione, si bombarda
la televisione serba con i
giornalisti dentro.
Carattere militare della trasmissione di informazioni
In queste circostanze, il meccanismo della disinformazione nei
mass-media è un meccanismo di
carattere militare. Non è dovuto soltanto ad incompetenza o eccesso di
zelo di certi giornalisti, e
fa si che la distinzione tra il vero ed il falso diventi ardua per lo
``spettatore''. Notizie false come
quella del bombardamento di Lubiana (1991), quella degli stupri di massa
in Bosnia (1993), quella
delle fosse comuni di Orahovac in Kosovo (1998) o le notizie delle
stragi di Sarajevo, subito
attribuite ai Serbi nonostante i dubbi ed i successivi rapporti ONU
smentissero queste
attribuzioni, dimostrano che è esistita in questi anni, e continua
adesso per il Kosovo, una
campagna di diffamazione antiserba, mirata evidentemente a creare
tensione per giustificare
l'intervento armato in quei territori. Non a caso il bersaglio di questa
campagna sono i Serbi, in
quanto popolazione maggioritaria di quella che era la Repubblica
Federativa e Socialista di
Jugoslavia, i quali vivendo sparpagliati un po' dappertutto tra le varie
Repubbliche meno di tutti
avevano interesse alla frammentazione ed allo sfascio del proprio paese.
Per questa campagna disinformativa le parti in conflitto (secessionisti
sloveni, croati,
bosniaco-musulmani, albanesi) si sono avvalse del lavoro di agenzie
specializzate come la Ruder
& Finn Public Global Affairs,(3) la quale attraverso lauti finanziamenti
da paesi terzi fa passare solo
``verità'' di comodo. A contribuire a questo colossale travisamento dei
fatti sono impegnate però
anche alcune istituzioni internazionali: il caso più clamoroso è stato
forse quello del capo della
missione OSCE William Walker e della ``strage di Racak''. Vi sono
coinvolte anche molte ONG
ed organizzazioni pseudo-umanitarie assai attive in questi anni, come
pure la potentissima lobby
di Soros.
Chi conosce questi terribili retroscena sa dunque che i nostri
quotidiani sono da prendere tutti
indistintamente cum grano salis, tenendo in mano la matita rossa e blu,
conservando
religiosamente gli articoli che sembrano significativi e facendo
raffronti a giorni e mesi di distanza.
La persona comune, che non si è mai interessata di un certo argomento
che all'improvviso assurge
agli onori delle prime pagine, è sola dinanzi al bombardamento
informativo. Su di lei ricade per
intero la responsabilità di scegliersi le fonti, fra libri, siti
internet, riviste che non seguano una linea
``di massa'', e anche materiali d'archivio e rapporti o ricordi
personali. In questa situazione la
vera informazione è un fai-da-te. La responsabilità della formazione
della conoscenza e del
sapere ricade interamente sul singolo, che dovrà impegnarsi da solo a
raccogliere, valutare e
sperimentare, proprio secondo il metodo sperimentale di Galileo. Non
esiste oggi come oggi
nessuna ``garanzia di affidabilità'' per i mezzi di informazione: siamo
in pieno medioevo. Quanto
sopra vale anche e soprattutto per i quotidiani ``di tradizione
democratica'', a causa del fatto che
molto spesso essi usano meccanicamente i dispacci d'agenzia, senza avere
inviati sul posto, e
soprattutto si avvalgono della collaborazione di elementi influenti di
quel ceto intellettuale che, io
credo, è soggetto oggi ad una terribile crisi di ruolo e di identità.
Gli ``esperti''
Penso in particolare a certi pseudo-esperti, veri azzeccagarbugli, che
in questi anni hanno
certosinamente capovolto i fatti sulla guerra jugoslava. Costoro sono
riusciti, ad esempio, a
sostenere e caldeggiare la frammentazione della Repubblica Federativa e
Socialista di Jugoslavia
con la giustificazione paradossale che le popolazioni devono vivere
insieme e senza odii reciproci !
Secondo loro, la Federazione andava spezzettata per liberare questi o
quegli altri dall'oppressione
centralista, benché in Jugoslavia i diritti delle minoranze fossero
ampiamente riconosciuti: si
trattava della realtà più avanzata a livello mondiale da quel punto di
vista. In nome della
``autodeterminazione dei popoli'', questi commentatori hanno combattuto
aspramente contro
l'autodeterminazione dei Serbi in Croazia e Bosnia, indicandoli come
aggressori... però poi
appoggiano l'autodeterminazione dei kosovari di lingua albanese,
glissando sul carattere
revanscista ed ultranazionalista del movimento grandealbanese, e
sottolineando ad ogni pié
sospinto la differenza ``etnica'' tra questi e quegli altri. Da una
parte dicono che bisogna difendere
il carattere multietnico di questo o quel territorio, e dall'altra si
contraddicono clamorosamente
evidenziando la presunta necessità di spezzettare, creando nuovi
confini.
Laddove le differenze etniche non esistono, questi pseudo-esperti se le
inventano: così ha fatto
la sua comparsa la ``differenza etnica'' tra Serbi, Croati e Musulmani
di Bosnia, mentre è noto che
la differenza fra queste popolazioni è solo di carattere
storico-religioso (come tra tedeschi
cattolici e tedeschi evangelici). La differenza linguistica, ad esempio,
è irrilevante. Tutto questo
non lo fa solamente un intellettuale di destra come Bettiza, ma anche un
Predrag Matvejevic su
tutti i giornali e le riviste di sinistra. Matvejevic è professore di
lingue slave, eppure va in giro a
teorizzare una presunta differenza tra la lingua serba e quella croata,
rendendo un ottimo servizio
alla nuova vulgata dei nazionalismi. Un'altra specialità di questi
``esperti'' è il non dire: ad
esempio Stefano Bianchini, storico, riesce a scrivere centinaia di
articoli sulla guerra in Bosnia,
senza mai dire che questa è scoppiata nell'aprile del 1992 perché i
rappresentanti croati e
musulmani alla Conferenza di Lisbona furono spinti dalla diplomazia USA
a ritirare la loro firma dal
Piano Cutileiro, già sottoscritto, il quale prevedeva la
cantonalizzazione della Bosnia. Questo
piano, se applicato avrebbe evitato tre anni di guerra civile (per non
parlare delle operazioni di
appoggio militare e finanziamento alla leadership bosniaco-musulmana).
Bianchini scrive anche
decine di articoli sul Kosovo senza mai parlare delle miniere e del
problema geopolitico dei
``corridoi''. E rapidamente cadranno nell'oblio le critiche a quella che
è stata definita la
``trappola'' (o diktat) di Rambouillet, in seguito alla quale sono
iniziati i bombardamenti su tutto il
territorio serbo-montenegrino.
Ad altri ``esperti'' e ad altri fatti, spesso più rilevanti di quelli
che vengono ossessivamente
ripetuti, è costantemente negato lo spazio: non c'è stato sui giornali
ed in televisione alcun
approfondimento sui principali antefatti storici della guerra civile nei
Balcani. Una severa censura
copre tutto quello che riguarda il colonialismo italiano nell'area ed i
crimini di guerra commessi
dagli italiani durante le Seconda Guerra Mondiale,(4) compresi i campi
di concentramento sull'isola
di Rab/Arbe ed in Slovenia, nonché l'occupazione militare del Kosovo
annesso alla Grande
Albania fascista. Una ricerca storica rigorosa e documentata come quella
di Marco Aurelio Rivelli
sui crimini del clericonazismo ustascia nella Croazia di Pavelic e
Stepinac è stata pubblicata
fortunosamente solo nella primavera di quest'anno.(5) Questi sono solo
alcuni esempi che
dimostrano la difficoltà estrema della trasmissione delle conoscenze e
delle ricerche storiche in
questo clima di guerra.
Da una parte, quindi, il perverso ruolo degli ``esperti'' sui mezzi di
informazione. Dall'altra una
vera censura, più o meno volontaria, e comunque strutturale: sono gli
aspetti più evidenti della
devastante crisi nella trasmissione della conoscenza tra addetti ai
lavori e pubblico, crisi in atto
nella società in cui viviamo proprio per il modo in cui è strutturata.
Solo a colui al quale viene
attribuito, massmediaticamente, il ruolo di ``esperto'' è affidato il
compito di interpretare e
raccontare, e solo la sua voce conta. Quello che dice l' ``esperto''
viene riprodotto e ripetuto in
maniera praticamente totalitaria, mentre voci diverse ed interpretazioni
divergenti hanno
raramente la possibilità di esprimersi -- attraverso la pubblicazione di
un articolo o di un libro --.
A causa della rigida strutturazione per competenze e per feudi del
lavoro intellettuale, se non sei
``nella parrocchia giusta'' non passi. Questo lo sa chiunque abbia
provato a farsi pubblicare
qualcosa (che fosse un articolo od una raccolta di poesie) senza potersi
giovare della conoscenza
o dell'appoggio di qualche personaggio influente.
Notiamo che, non a caso, nella nostra società mediatica il ruolo della
scienza e dello scienziato è
celebrato continuamente, al punto che alcuni scienziati di fama hanno il
loro posto fisso nei
dibattiti: si pensi a Zichichi, a Hack. La voce dello scienziato, e in
generale la voce dell'esperto o
di colui che assume il ruolo di esperto nel carosello massmediatico,
assume valore in sé e per sé.
Se a costui viene attribuita una sufficiente autorevolezza, può anche
debordare in campi del tutto
diversi da quello di competenza. L'esperto può allora diventare
tuttologo, ed andare a proclamare
che i Serbi sono nazionalisti per natura, anzi per codice genetico,
anche se lui non ha mai parlato
personalmente con un serbo in tutta la sua vita. Questo tipo di ruolo,
praticamente sacrale,
dell'esperto è la negazione stessa del concetto di ``scienza'', intesa
in senso stretto, ed è la
negazione di fatto di quella che dovrebbe essere la funzione sociale
dello scienziato, dell'esperto,
del ricercatore, dell'intellettuale: colui che ricerca, colui che
verifica la fonte, l'informazione o il
fenomeno in oggetto.
Imposture intellettuali
Questa ``garanzia di credibilità'' dell'esperto vale dal mondo delle
scienze naturali nel senso delle
scienze umanistiche (ad esempio Zichichi che parla di Dio) ma anche in
senso inverso, quando il
filosofo e il romanziere assumono il linguaggio delle scienze naturali,
lo manipolano a piacimento,
ed il tutto causa situazioni al limite del paradosso e del ridicolo. Ha
suscitato molto scalpore, per
esempio, la beffa di Alan Sokal. Questo fisico statunitense spedì alcuni
anni fa un complicato
articolo ad una rivista di sociologia, che lo accettò per la
pubblicazione. Dopo alcune settimane
Sokal in un altro articolo smentiva completamente il precedente,
svelando la beffa: aveva usato a
casaccio complicate citazioni di vari autori, filosofi e sociologi di
scuola postmoderna, creando un
pezzo incomprensibile, perché privo di senso, ma affascinante. Ed era
stato preso sul serio ! La
beffa di Sokal ha chiarito in modo incontestabile che la figura dell'
``esperto'', nella nostra società
delle comunicazioni di massa, è un puro specchietto per le allodole: non
solo per il mondo
``profano'', ma anche all'interno dell'ambiente specialistico a causa
del livello estremo di
settorializzazione delle varie discipline.
Recentemente, Sokal ha pubblicato un altro libro insieme ad un collega
belga,(6) nel quale contesta in
maniera organica e rigorosa il linguaggio ed il metodo usati da tutta
un'area di pensiero, quella
appunto postmoderna, popolata da tanti intellettuali francesi eredi
dello strutturalismo, e rivendica
la necessità del metodo razionale, sperimentale e dimostrativo. Il
libro, che si intitola ``Imposture
intellettuali'', è secondo me una pietra miliare di questa fase storica,
in quanto mette a nudo lo
sfascio completo del pensiero analitico contemporaneo. E così si
scoprono gli altarini dei ``finti
esperti'', che nascondono la loro vuotezza sotto ad una cortina fumogena
fatta di parole, il cui solo
valore, nel modo in cui questi le usano, è nel suono che hanno.
L'attacco di Sokal colpisce al cuore un'area di intellettualismo del
tutto speculativo ed
antirazionalista, che ha i suoi capisaldi in Francia. Non a caso la
società francese, che
rappresentava negli anni Sessanta l'osservatorio del movimento
situazionista, e che era da questo
interpretata correttamente come ``società dello spettacolo'', è anche la
società dove più sfrenata
è la mercificazione culturale (si pensi a Parigi, al continuo
supermercato di idee ed avvenimenti
culturali...). Quella francese è la società dove dall'onda lunga del
Sessantotto antiautoritario si è
sviluppata la corrente di pensiero dei ``nuovi filosofi'', nucleo di
elaborazione del ``pensiero
debole'' antirazionalista che ha furoreggiato durante tutto il riflusso
degli anni '80. Non è un
caso che questi ex-nuovi filosofi sessantottini francesi siano oggi in
prima fila nella polemica
antijugoslava: Daniel Cohen-Bendit, Bernard Henry-Levy, André
Glucksmann, e pure quel
Finkielkraut che un giorno appoggia l'ultranazionalismo croato
sentenziando quali siano i popoli
civili e quali i barbari, ed il giorno dopo rivaluta certi personaggi
della Repubblica di Vichy. Una
corrente di pensiero ``differenzialista'', impegnata in tutti questi
anni a cercare ciò che divide
anziché a valorizzare ciò che unisce, non a caso violentemente
partigiana delle secessioni
jugoslave.
Non è un caso che il libro ``Imposture intellettuali'' venga
violentemente attaccato sul Manifesto,
giornale che ha attinto dal ``pensiero debole'', dalla ``complessità'' e
da un certo antirazionalismo
per almeno 15 anni, nell'ambito di un processo di decostruzione ed
abbandono del marxismo (non
solo del leninismo). Questo quotidiano è l'espressione di un'area
intellettuale affascinata dal
pensiero ``differenzialista'' e postmoderno, ma con enormi difficoltà di
comprensione della fase
politica post-1989, e dello squartamento della Jugoslavia in
particolare. Sul Manifesto lo
squartamento della Repubblica Federativa e Socialista di Jugoslavia è
stato visto troppo spesso
come un processo dovuto a pulsioni nazionalistiche congenite, sorvolando
sulle cause strutturali,
strategiche, materiali, internazionali. Non è un caso, dicevo, che il
Manifesto attacchi il libro di
Sokal e Bricmont definendolo addirittura ``un'operazione di `pulizia
epistemologica', di violenza
paragonabile a pulizie balcaniche''.(7) Viceversa, è logico che il
Manifesto si esprima con tale
virulenza, quasi mostrandosi offeso, perché rivendicando l'importanza
del metodo
scientifico-dimostrativo e del linguaggio razionale gli autori del libro
pongono un problema che
travalica il merito delle scienze esatte e delle altre discipline
specialistiche (sociologia, filosofia,
ecc.). Sokal e Bricmont pongono un problema che riguarda tutta la
suddivisione del lavoro
intellettuale nella società in cui viviamo, e che riguarda pure, e
pesantemente, i giornalisti che in
questi anni hanno pubblicato menzogne pensando che la verifica delle
informazioni e delle fonti
fosse un'appendice accessoria di un sistema massmediatico nel quale
quello che conta è ben
altro: anche diffondere menzogne sulle ``pulizie etniche'' e sulle
guerre imperialiste è considerato
lecito perché ``il concetto di verità è fluttuante''; e ``in nome della
libertà di espressione'' due più
due fa quattro ma può fare anche tre o cinque. Izetbegovic è stato in
carcere sei anni nella
Repubblica Federativa e Socialista di Jugoslavia per istigazione
all'odio tra le nazionalità e per
aver scritto la ``Dichiarazione Islamica'', eppure lo si può appoggiare
come difensore di Sarajevo
multietnica.(8)
Un clima decadente
In realtà se l'informazione è il regno dell'arbitrio, e la trasmissione
delle conoscenze è regolata
sempre più da meccanismi perversi e ``blindati'', allora la nostra
società non è democratica né
libera: è decadente, come decadente era il clima intellettuale che aprì
la strada al fascismo. Come
allora, gli intellettuali e gli scienziati non svolgono più il ruolo che
a loro compete, e stanno lì a
creare una cortina fumogena che rende impossibile la conoscenza dei
fatti, rende arduo accedere
a tutti gli elementi per valutare, e rende possibili (e magari
giustificati) la devastazione e il
bombardamento prolungato per 78 giorni di un paese già vittima di un
embargo ingiusto.
Non parlare dell'occupazione fascista del Kosovo durante le Seconda
Guerra Mondiale consente
di rioccuparlo oggi, nell'ambito di un'operazione di carattere
neocoloniale travestita da missione
umanitaria. Non parlare della natura mafiosa dell'UCK e dei suoi
rapporti con il traffico
internazionale di armi e di droga consente di presentarlo come un gruppo
di romantici guerriglieri
che forse faranno degli errori, ma certo non sono assassini per
vocazione, come i Serbi...
Questo clima decadente, sviluppatosi nella Francia post-sessantottina,
regna da anni
incontrastato in tutta Europa. Si tratta di un vero e proprio
totalitarismo, ben descritto ad esempio
da Peter Handke e da Regis Debray. Quest'ultimo in un recente articolo
ha analizzato e
commentato il linciaggio a cui è stato sottoposto a causa delle sue
posizioni critiche nei confronti
dell'aggressione contro la Jugoslavia: ``A quanto pare voi incarnate la
democrazia, lo spirito
d'apertura, la civiltà contro i nuovi barbari. Non è così. Siete il
volto attuale del
fanatismo''.(9) Debray si rivolge all'intellettualità francese di cui
sopra, ma il suo commento lo
possiamo riprendere qui in Italia ed applicare alla lobby dei vari
Sofri, Matvejevic, Dizdarevic, tutti
gli editorialisti dei grandi quotidiani e tutta l'area politica
trasversale centrata sul Partito Radicale
di Bonino-Pannella, vera punta di diamante del moderno fascismo,
razzista-sciovinista e
guerrafondaio.
``Ex-sinistra'' e responsabilità degli intellettuali
Rispetto a tutto questo il ceto intellettuale progressista è complice
consenziente, oppure è
paralizzato in quanto trova spazio solamente unendosi al coro. Un motivo
di questa paralisi
dell'intellettualità di sinistra consiste nel fatto che essa oggi come
oggi è dalla parte del potere:
non dimentichiamo che è il centrosinistra, che sono le socialdemocrazie
ad aver guidato in Europa
la recente aggressione contro la Jugoslavia. È proprio il ceto
intellettuale sedicente progressista la
vera base di appoggio dell'attuale classe di governo del nostro paese,
così come gli ambienti
universitari e della ricerca rappresentano la vera clientela
dell'attuale area di governo, laddove ad
esempio fino a dieci anni fa clientela, o base sociale, del governo
pentapartito era soprattutto il
parastato, tra i lavoratori statali ed i colletti bianchi
dell'industria. Ecco perché, a mio avviso,
l'ambiente universitario e della ricerca è rimasto sostanzialmente muto
negli scorsi mesi; ecco
perché la tradizione antimilitarista di certo mondo scientifico (USPID,
Pugwash, eccetera) è
defunta, come si faceva notare in una assemblea degli studenti di Fisica
di Roma alla ``Sapienza''
nel maggio 1999. Mentre con la guerra del Golfo la maggioranza dei
professori e ricercatori
scuotevano ancora le spalle preoccupati, e solo pochi di essi
pubblicavano articoli per avvalorare
la tesi folle delle ``bombe chirurgiche'', adesso l'opinione diffusa è
che il problema stia tutto nei
Serbi: la guerra è giusta anche se fa male, oppure è ingiusta ma il
problema resta Milosevic, che è
contemporaneamente comunista e fascista, liberista e statalista,
estremista e venduto,
nazionalista serbo e jugoslavista. Se non firma è esaltato, se firma è
doppiogiochista: insomma è
serbo e va annientato.
Il mondo delle baronie universitarie è il vero ``nocciolo duro'' di
questa classe dirigente, e dunque
non può esprimere una vera opposizione alla deriva bellica ed
autoritaria in atto. Per inciso, tutto il
mondo del lavoro è paralizzato dal fatto che, si dice, ``le sinistre
sono al governo'': perciò non
viene indetto nessuno sciopero contro la guerra, e chi indica la
contraddizione è un estremista,
anzi un ``terrorista''.
Veniamo dunque all'aspetto più ``interno'' del problema, cioè
all'atteggiamento del ceto
intellettuale e del mondo della ricerca. A mio parere, una crisi sociale
e morale investe l'ambiente
dei ricercatori, la comunità scientifica nel suo complesso e le
convenzioni ed il linguaggio che essa
usa per la comunicazione al suo interno. A causa della crescente
settorializzazione delle
competenze, tutte le società a capitalismo avanzato si strutturano in
feudi e ghetti, il cui
interscambio conoscitivo è demandato a personaggi, i suddetti
``esperti'', i quali hanno spazio sui
mass-media e nei consessi dove le informazioni si dovrebbero
trasmettere.
Considerando ad esempio il mio campo specifico di ricerca,
l'astrofisica, rimango sempre più
spesso stupefatto dal crescente livello di autoreferenzialità di certe
correnti di ricerca, e dalla
strutturazione profondamente rigida e chiusa di gruppi e comunità.
Sempre più spesso si ascoltano
frasi del tipo ``non chiedetemi spiegazioni su X perché non sono un
esperto'', anche se
l'argomento X del quale non si intende parlare è profondamente connesso
con la propria
competenza e la propria ricerca. C'è un timore quasi religioso rispetto
al rischio di invadere
``campi altrui'', ed una crescente tendenza al solipsismo, accentuata
anche dal tipo di tecnologie
in uso (il fatto di stare inchiodati dinanzi al computer). In un grosso
progetto di ricerca è difficile
che un partecipante sappia con esattezza di cosa si stia occupando un
altro, e questo a causa
della ``complessità'' del problema affrontato e dei mezzi per studiarlo.
Talvolta l'incomunicabilità
non deriva nemmeno dall'effettiva divisione del lavoro, ma da pura e
meschina rivalità e
concorrenzialità tra gruppi, anzi tra parrocchie, cosicché indirizzi di
ricerca innovativi ed
interpretazioni alternative sono presi in considerazione con estrema
difficoltà. Un tipico esempio è
la cosmologia ``standard'', divenuta un enorme pachiderma sia dal punto
di vista teorico che da
quello sperimentale, sulla quale operano tantissimi ricercatori e
gruppi, con una complicata
strutturazione dei progetti e dei finanziamenti: ebbene la cosmologia
``standard'' assomiglia
sempre di più all'universo tolemaico, al quale si vanno aggiungendo
epicicli ed ipotesi ad hoc per
tappare le falle che si aprono sempre più spesso (teorie
dell'inflazione, e via discorrendo). Il
rapporto con linee di pensiero alternative, pure assai sviluppate
(teorie stazionarie, teoria di
Alfven) è inesistente, e le pubblicazioni ed i contributi in quel senso
vengono accolti con una
risatina saccente, quando non vengono semplicemente ignorati. Ma questo
non vale solamente per
la cosmologia: nel campo dell'astrofisica relativistica, stanno uscendo
a ripetizione articoli che
ipotizzano meccanismi alternativi per gli AGN e gli oggetti compatti, ed
ormai esiste addirittura
una letteratura che nega l'esistenza dei buchi neri. Questa letteratura
viene semplicemente
scansata con fastidio.
A cosa serve la scienza ?
È evidente che questo clima interno all'ambiente scientifico e
intellettuale è il riflesso di un clima
culturale più generale, che non esito a definire fascista, clima che ha
accompagnato questi anni nei
quali la guerra è ritornata ``normale''. La guerra è come il pane
quotidiano, e con la Carta
Costituzionale si fanno... aereoplanini. In questo clima, la ``scienza''
e la ``conoscenza'' vengono
certo celebrate ed evocate, ma per stravolgerne il compito ed il
significato, ovvero per
strumentalizzarle. Per il pubblico il ruolo delle scienze naturali e
della tecnologia si riduce alla
sperimentazione di sofisticati sistemi d'arma, alla menzogna
propagandistica della ``guerra
chirurgica'' e delle ``bombe intelligenti'', e all'evocazione misteriosa
dell'impiego di uranio
impoverito, fosforo combinato, sistemi a puntamento laser, e via
discorrendo. Tutto questo
nell'ambito di una sacralizzazione del portato scientifico-tecnologico
che è la precisa negazione
del significato stesso di scienza e di progresso scientifico e di quel
metodo sperimentale che
imporrebbe la verifica sulle affermazioni, e del concetto di avanzamento
tecnologico che dovrebbe
servire ad una più giusta distribuzione dei frutti del lavoro dell'uomo.
Note
(1) Sissa-Isas, Trieste
(2) Meno che mai si chiarisce perché sia stata abrogata la ``autonomia
speciale'' del Kosovo, tacendo su quello che è successo nella zona per
tutta la durata degli anni Ottanta e facendo incominciare la storia dal
1989...
(3) Il problema della disinformazione strategica nel caso jugoslavo fu
posto in termini chiari per la prima volta da Jacques Merlino nel libro
``Le verità jugoslave non sono tutte buone a dirsi'' (ed. Albin Michel,
1993), ancora non tradotto in italiano, nel quale si elencano i legami
tra i settori che conducono la disinformazione, le lobby ebraiche
statunitensi ed i lauti finanziamenti provenienti da certi paesi
islamici.
(4) Si pensi ad esempio alla censura sul documentario della BBC
riguardante questi crimini, la cui versione italiana, curata dal regista
Massimo Sani con il contributo di storici importanti come Claudio
Pavone, è tuttora chiusa a chiave in un cassetto della RAI.
(5) M.A. Rivelli, ``L' Arcivescovo del genocidio'', Ed. Kaos 1999. Si
noti che il protagonista del libro, il vescovo Stepinac
collaborazionista del nazismo croato, è stato beatificato da papa
Wojtyla il 3 ottobre scorso, durante la visita del pontefice in Croazia.
(6) Sokal, Bricmont: Imposture intellettuali, Ed. Garzanti, 1999.
(7) ``La pulizia epistemologica'', di Marco D'Eramo, il Manifesto,
16/6/1999.
(8) Si noti che durante il conflitto nessuno aveva spiegato, nemmeno sul
Manifesto, che alcuni quartieri di Sarajevo erano a maggioranza serba e
semplicemente non volevano entrare a far parte della Bosnia di
Izetbegovic; cosicché in seguito agli accordi di Dayton centinaia
di migliaia di Serbi hanno abbandonato quei quartieri (1996), nella
totale indifferenza degli intellettuali che pure avevano per anni
parlato di ``Sarajevo multietnica''.
(9) ``Una macchina da guerra'', di R. Debray, su Le Monde Diplomatique
del giugno 1999.
---
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RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
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IL PARTITO NEONAZISTA OLANDESE CHIEDE MISURE DRASTICHE CONTRO LA RF DI
JUGOSLAVIA
The Dutch neo-Nazi Party, NNP ["Nederlandse Nationalistische Partij"],
says
on its web site, "Late News" page:
"The NNP wants extreme hard line measures against Yugoslavia. We do not
allow our compatriots to be treated like this by a corrupt country!"
They refer to this:
On 31 July, Dutch TV rebroadcast Serbian TV tapes of four Dutchmen,
arrested in Yugoslavia. On those tapes, they claimed to be an armed
"special unit" with violence and abduction plans.
The NNP "forgets" [like most 'big' media in The Netherlands] these four
are
not just "compatriots", but likely to be the NNP's fellow extreme
Rightists.
For whatever it is worth:
Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad ["NRC-Business Paper"] of Tuesday 1 August
on
one of the arrested, Godfried de Rie:
"According to the Group for Anti-Fascist Research, KAFKA, his name, with
the same initials and place of residence [and also same address, as
confirmed by KAFKA to me], is on the list of members for 1995 of the
extreme Rightist [political party] CP'86. The [Dutch] Ministry of
Defence
confirms that De Rie was a conscript Army lance corporal, of 1989/8."
Today's NNP is a successor organization to the CP'86.
The CP'86 ["Center" Party, founded in 1986] political party was
notorious
for racism, violence, and open propaganda for Nazis like Adolf Hitler
and
Rudolf Hess. 13 year old Afro Caribbean boy Kerwin Duinmeijer, and
teenage
punk rock fan Michel Poyé, died at the hands of Dutch extreme Right
killers. In the 1990s, they sent Dutch mercenaries to Yugoslavia, to
fight
in extreme Right Croat units in Croatia and Bosnia.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
---
VISITA DEL MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI DELLA RFJ A CUBA
JOVANOVIC A COLLOQUIO CON FIDEL CASTRO
>
>Radio Havana Cuba-29 August 2000 20:30
> Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
> Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 29 August 2000 20:30
>
>*CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO MEETS WITH YUGOSLAVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
>
>Havana, August 29 (RHC)-- Cuban President Fidel Castro met with
>visiting Yugoslavian Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic Monday
>evening in the Cuban capital.
>
>Speaking with reporters Tuesday morning, just before wrapping up his
>two-day visit to the island, the Yugoslav foreign minister said that
>it was a privilege to meet with the leader of the Cuban Revolution.
>Jovanovic stated that his personal encounter with Fidel Castro gave
>him another opportunity to express his appreciation for the
>solidarity shown by Cuba during last year's U.S.-led NATO attacks
>against his country. He also thanked the Cuban government and people
>for their continued support of Yugoslavia in international forums
>such as the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement.
>
>The Yugoslav foreign minister arrived in Havana on Sunday and met
>yesterday with his Cuban counterpart, Felipe Perez Roque. During his
>stay, Belgrade's top diplomat signed an agreement for the protection
>and promotion of mutual investments with the Cuban Minister of
>Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas.
>
>Cuba affirmed that the visit of Zivaldin Jovanovic marks a new point
>in relations between Havana and Belgrade and reiterated the island's
>principled position concerning NATO's unjust war of aggression
>against Yugoslavia.
>Subject: Cuba Press release Aug 29
>PRESS RELEASE FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS.
> HAVANA, TUESDAY AUGUST 29 , 2000 RPM
>
>HAVANA.- Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque and
>Yugoslav Foreign Affairs Minister Zivadin Jovanovic ratified in
>Havana how relations between both countries are continuing well.
>"Without a doubt, this visit demonstrates a new moment in the
>deepening and encouragement of links between our peoples", said the
>Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister when meeting his Yugoslav counterpart
>at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Headquarters. Perez Roque also
>reiterated Cuba's solidarity and position during last year's
>air strikes in Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
>(NATO), led by the U.S. In reply to the welcoming speech by the Cuban
>Minister, Jovanovic - who arrived in Havana on Sunday - said he felt
>very flattered by his welcoming. The Yugoslav Foreign Affairs
>Minister explained yesterday that after the Millennium Summit his
>country expects the United Nations to play a stronger role, and more
>democratization of relations.
>YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA YUGOSLAV TALKS IN CUBA STRENGTHEN BILATERAL COOPERATION -
>MINISTER HAVANA, August 29 (Tanjug) - Visiting Yugoslav Foreign Minister
>Zivadin Jovanovic said on Monday the first round of Yugoslav-Cuban talks in
>Havana had been a useful and exhaustive exchange of views on topics of common
>interest. Speaking after meeting with his Cuban opposite number Felipe Perez
>Roque, Jovanovic said they had exchanged views on the current international
>situation, the situation in either country and further enhancement of
>bilateral relations. The Yugoslav Minister stressed the talks were very
>important for the consolidation of traditionally friendly ties between the two
>countries. Yugoslavia and Cuba are linked by shared goals in international
>relations, viz. the struggle for peace and equality of nations and states, and
>for a reaffirmation of the central role of the United Nations in international
>relations, he said. According to Jovanovic, they agreed that the future of
>mankind should be based on the principles of equality and respect for the
>territorial integrity and sovereignty of all countries. According to him, they
>also agreed about the impermissibility of the policy of interference in the
>internal affairs of other states and of the imposition of methods of internal
>development on sovereign states. He went on to say there were good prospects
>for strengthening Yugoslav-Cuban relations in politics, the economy, culture
>and other fields of mutual interest. Jovanovic paid tribute to the Cuban
>leadership, specifically to President Fidel Castro, for their understanding
>and open support for Yugoslavia at the time of last year's NATO aggression.
>*YUGOSLAVIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER IN HAVANA
>
>Havana, August 28 (RHC)-- Visiting Yugoslavian Foreign Minister
>Zivaldin Jovanovic, met Monday morning with his Cuban counterpart,
>Felipe Perez Roque. Speaking with reporters following the meeting,
>Jovanovic said that Cuba and Yugoslavia have a long history of
>solidarity and friendship and that his visit to the island is
>designed to help strengthen those cordial relations even more.
>
>Yugoslavia's top diplomat expressed his deepest appreciation for
>the solidarity shown by Cuba during last year's U.S.-led NATO attacks
>against the European nation. He also thanked the Cuban government and
>people for their continued support in international forums such as
>the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement.
>
>For his part, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque affirmed that
>the visit of Zivaldin Jovanovic marks a new point in relations
>between Havana and Belgrade. And the Cuban foreign minister
>reiterated Cuba's principled position concerning NATO's "unjust war
>of aggression" against Yugoslavia.
>
>Earlier in the morning, the visiting Yugoslav official laid a wreath
>at the foot of the Jose Marti Monument at Havana's Plaza del la
>Revolucion. He also signed an agreement for the protection and
>promotion of mutual investments with the Cuban Minister of Foreign
>Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas.
>
>The Yugoslavian foreign minister arrived in Havana on Sunday and is
>slated to wrap up his visit to the Cuban capital tomorrow, Tuesday.
>
>Subject: Cuba Press release Aug 28, 29
> FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS.
> HAVANA, MONDAY, AUGUST. 28 , 2000 RPM
>
>HAVANA.- Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque welcomed
>his Yugoslav counterpart Zivadin Jovanovic, who arrived yesterday on
>a three day work visit. The visitor is accompanied by a delegation
>of government officials and business people. During his stay in Cuba,
>Jovanovic will hold talks with the Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister and
>Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration Marta
>Lomas. He will also visit places of historic, economic and cultural
>interest.
>YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA CUBA'S CASTRO RECEIVES YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER
>HAVANA, Aug 29 (Tanjug) - Cuban President Fidel Castro received on Monday
>Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, who conveyed greetings and a
>personal message from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The talks were
>held in an open and frank climate and lasted for nearly 7 hours, beginning
>with a formal meeting late on Monday local time, and continuing through dinner
>given by Castro in honour of the Yugoslav guests. The two sides had a broad
>exchange of views on a wide spectrum of subjects of common interest. Castro
>showed an exceptionally good knowledge of the situation in Yugoslavia and
>expressed admiration for Yugoslavia's brave resistance to last year's NATO
>aggression and for the country's swift post-war reconstruction. He went on to
>say that Yugoslavia, by defending its own independence and sovereignty,
>defended other countries as well, which makes this struggle globally relevant.
>Castro also expressed full support for the policy of the Yugoslav government,
>especially its efforts to protect the country's sovereignty and independence,
>as well as its status in the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. The
>two sides fully agreed on matters of further development of bilateral
>relations, on the international situation, and the two countries' cooperation
>in international forums, in particular in the United Nations and the
>Non-Aligned Movement. According to Castro, so far from discharging their
>mission in accordance with U.N. Resolution 1244, the international forces in
>the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province have created chaos
>and complicated the situation. Kosovo-Metohija is an inseparable part of
>Yugoslavia, Castro stressed. He sent his greetings and respects to Milosevic,
>and promised to visit friendly Yugoslavia as soon as possible. Jovanovic, who
>arrived on an official visit to Cuba on Sunday, had earlier on Monday had
>talks with his host, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. After the meeting,
>Jovanovic was optimistic about further development of bilateral relations in
>the political, economic, cultural, and many other fields of mutual interest.
>Before the talks, Jovanovic had laid flowers at the monument commemorating
>Cuba's freedom fighter and poet Jose Marti, and toured the Jose Marti memorial
>complex. He also met with diplomatic mission chiefs accredited in Havana. Late
>on Monday, Jovanovic and Cuban Minister Marta Lomas signed an inter-state
>accord on enhancement of bilateral relations and investment protection.
>Jovanovic ends his visit to Cuba on Tuesday, with talks in Parliament and in
>the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee.
>
>YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS TALKS IN CUBA HAVANA, Aug 29 (Tanjug) -
>Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic met on Tuesday with senior
>officials of the Cuban parliament and the Communist Party of Cuba. Jovanovic's
>partners in talks on the last day of his official visit were Parliament Deputy
>Speaker Jaime Crombet and the party's Central Committee Foreign Relations
>Department head Jose Ramon Baleguer. The officials conveyed the support of the
>Cuban people and government for the Yugoslav people and their leaders, and
>best wishes for further development of comprehensive bilateral relations. The
>media coverage of Jovanovic's visit has been extensive, and the Yugoslav
>minister has been interviewed by leading Cuban media. Later on Tuesday,
>Jovanovic ends his official visit to Cuba, paid at the invitation of his
>counterpart Felipe Perez Roque, with whom he discussed further development of
>bilateral relations and the global political situation. The high-light of
>Jovanovic's intensive diplomatic contacts in Cuba was his reception by Cuban
>President Fidel Castro late on Monday. His talks with Castro reaffirmed
>Yugoslav-Cuban traditional friendship and identical views on bilateral matters
>and cooperation at international level.
---
SUL RAPPORTO TRA LA JUGOSLAVIA ED IL SISTEMA DELLA DIS-INFORMAZIONE
EUROPEO
>
>MATIC: YUGOSLAVIA DID NOT BREAK OFF RELATIONS WITH EUROPEAN MEDIA BELGRADE,
>Aug 30 (Tanjug).- Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran Matic said Wednesday
>he agreed to the proposal of the head of the European Broadcasting Union Tony
>Naets to resume cooperation with the EBU, as soon as the international
>community and the EBU start treating Yugoslavia as a an equal member. Matic
>also demanded that the EBU publicly condemn the war crimes committed by NATO,
>the US and the European Union against Serbia and Yugoslavia during last year's
>(March-June) aggression, and that it demand that the persons responsible be
>taken to justice. Naets's proposal contained in his letter of August 25 was
>motivated by the interest of foreign media in the forthcoming presidential and
>parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia scheduled for September 24. Naets in his
>letter pointed out that Yugoslavia's national broadcaster was one of the
>founding members of the EBU and that they had enjoyed long-standing
>cooperation. This is true, Matic said in his response, and underlined that
>Yugoslavia had done nothing to break off this cooperation. After last year's
>brutal and criminal NATO aggression on this sovereign state, we only refuse to
>cooperate with the countries that had instigated and organized the bombings
>which lasted two and a half months, killing innocent civilians and devastating
>Yugoslavia's infrastructure, Matic said. Sixteen journalists and other
>employees of Serbian Radio-Television (RTS) were killed on April 23, 1999,
>when NATO bombed central Belgrade, Matic recalled. Leaders of NATO, the US,
>Britain, France and Germany had publicly stated that the RTS had been a
>legitimate target, as the RTS had been defending Serbia's and Yugoslavia's
>state policy, Matic noted, underlining that that policy was in fact a policy
>of defending national sovereignty, territorial integrity and national
>identity. The EBU has never clearly condemned that crime committed by NATO,
>nor has it demanded that the organizers and perpetrators of that crime be
>taken to justice for war crimes. It has also not opposed the political
>decision that the RTS satellite broadcasts be taken off the air although the
>RTS had paid all its dues to that effect, Matic said. The goal of that
>decision was to prevent the world from seeing authentic pictures of the NATO
>and US crimes in Serbia and Yugoslavia, and to use media manipulations to get
>the world public opinion to approve the unlawful and criminal aggression on
>this sovereign European state, Matic said.
---
LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA DENUNCIA I PROGETTI DI AMPUTAZIONE DEL KOSMET
>YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA BELGRADE: CHANGE OF INTERNATIONAL BORDER IN
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA IS PLANNED BELGRADE, August 28 (Tanjug) - Preparations are
>being made in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province for de
>facto changing the internationally recognised and guaranteed state border,
>according to a senior Yugoslav Foreign Ministry official on Monday. To this
>end, Kosovo-Metohija is being systematically ethnically cleansed of its
>non-Albanians, with the collaboration of the international force KFor and the
>U.N. mission UNMIK, Assistant Foreign Minister Miroslav Milosevic said,
>briefing foreign diplomats in Belgrade. Milosevic described the situation in
>Kosovo-Metohija as disastrous, saying the violation of U.N. Resolution 1244
>and the Kumanovo Military-Technical Accord by KFor and UNMIK and their
>collusion with ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatists of the so-called
>Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has plunged the Province in chaos, terrorism and
>all kinds of international organised crime. "I am sure it is no longer
>necessary to offer proof that a process of total Albanisation of
>Kosovo-Metohija is in progress under the patronage of or with direct logistic
>and other support from KFor and UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner. "The fact
>that the worst crimes in this region since World War II are being committed
>under the U.N. flag should be a warning that the abuse of the United Nations
>for partial political interests might have incalculable consequences, because
>developments in the Province directly threaten stability in the region of
>southeast Europe and beyond", Milosevic said. He went on to say that the
>deliberate and systematic violation of U.N. Resolution 1244, among other
>things, totally exposes the strategy of individual international factors
>towards Yugoslavia and shows the true reasons for last year's NATO aggression.
>"The Yugoslav Government believes that the U.N. Security Council, from the
>point of view of its obligations under the U.N. Charter and Resolution 1244,
>is responsible for the present situation", he said. He added that the Council
>is also to blame for the constant violation of Yugoslavia's sovereignty and
>territorial integrity by KFor and UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner. According
>to Milosevic, it is a fact that individual U.N. Security Council member-stats
>systematically sabotage its work, but this does not detract from the
>responsibility of all Council members. He went on to list a series of
>disastrous consequences of the violation of the resolution, as well as of the
>irresponsible attitude of the Council to this, especially as concerns the
>threat to the fundamental human right to life. "Over the past month, we have
>been witnessing an unprecedented escalation in crime targeting Serbs,
>Montenegrins, Romanies, Muslims, ethnic Turks, Goranies, ethnic Egyptians and
>other non-Albanians. "The main target of terrorist attacks now are children,
>which monstrous practice serves to intimidate the remaining non-Albanians and
>induce them to move out", Assistant Foreign Minister Milosevic said. He quoted
>that, from the time KFor and UNMIK were deployed to Kosovo-Metohija in June
>1999 until August 16, 2000, there were 5,089 terrorist attacks - 4,776
>targeting Serbs and other non-Albanians. Of the 1,041 murders, 910 victims
>were Serbs and Montenegrins. Milosevic pointed out that, despite opposition
>from much of the international community and many Security Council members,
>Bernard Kouchner has scheduled so-called local elections in Kosovo-Metohija
>for Oct. 28, although clearly not even the most elementary conditions exist
>for the polls to be democratic, free or fair. "The purpose of the elections is
>to give legitimity to a policy of fait accompli, to give common terrorists and
>separatists the semblance of legitimate representatives of all people in
>Kosovo-Metohija, and to complete the process of ethnic cleansing of the
>Province of its Serbs and other non-Albanians", he said. He stressed that
>Yugoslavia and its Republic of Serbia, just like most other U.N. members, will
>not accept the results of these elections, or any other UNMIK decisions that
>are in violation of Resolution 1244 and that do not respect Yugoslavia's
>sovereignty and territorial integrity. Another important feature of the
>present situation in Kosovo- Metohija, according to Milosevic, is an
>escalation of brutal plunder and usurpation of private and state property, in
>which KFor and UNMIK directly take part. He stressed that this gives an added
>impulse to the exodus of the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians, quoting
>that more than 400 public companies and 1,000 private companies have been
>seized and wrested from their rightful owners in the Province. "A drastic
>example of usurpation was the storming of the Trepca lead smelter by strong
>KFor and UNMIK forces in the night of August 13-14. "Threatening massive use
>of force against the employees and peaceful civilians, they seized the
>production facilities that employ more than 2,000 Serbs and other
>non-Albanians. "Kfor and UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner, are trying to
>conceal a total failure of the mission to Kosovo-Metohija, which clearly shows
>that it is not to be expected that they can make any radical changes in their
>behaviour in the direction of a strict implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244
>and the Military-Technical Accord, or that the U.N. Security Council will make
>them do it. "There is no excuse for KFor and UNMIK to stay on in the Province
>any longer", Assistant Foreign Minister Milosevic stressed. He went on to list
>the Yugoslav Federal Government's demands from the Security Council in this
>respect: to condemn and prevent further actions by Bernard Kouchner and KFor
>and UNMIK officials in violation of U.N. Resolution 1244, and establish their
>accountability; to take the necessary steps to indemnify Serbia and Yugoslavia
>for losses caused by UNMIK and KFor, especially to the people, the economy and
>the cultural heritage; to condemn in the strongest terms NATO's continued
>aggression on Yugoslavia through financial, political, media and military
>support for the ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists in Kosovo-Metohija.
>Milosevic especially stressed that, on the U.N. mission's withdrawal, the
>Yugoslav Government is both able and willing to guarantee peace and the rule
>of law, protect the property and safety of all people in Kosovo-Metohija, and
>the full equality of all ethnic communities. The Government, he said, is also
>able and willing to secure an immediate return and redeployment of the
>Yugoslav Army and police in the Province and provide full protection for the
>internationally recognised Yugoslav borders, revive legal bodies of Provincial
>and local administration and the operation of all vital public services, and
>take the necessary steps for a safe and unhampered return of all displaced
>people. "Parallel with the emplacement of peace, law and personal safety for
>the entire population of the Province, the Governments of Yugoslavia and
>Serbia are willing to open a political process for defining 'substantial
>autonomy' under the law and the Constitution for this Serbian province as an
>inseparable part of the constitutional, legal and economic system of the
>Republic of Serbia, directly involving in the process legitimate
>representatives of the state and of all ethnic communities in the Province,
>and with the adequate representation of the U.N. Security Council", he said.
>
---
L'OCCIDENTE CERCA ARTIFICIALMENTE DI ACUIRE IL PROBLEMA DEL MONTENEGRO
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/commentary-200082918740.htm
The Washington Times
August 29, 2000
Mounting anxiety in Montenegro
Nikolaos A. Stavrou
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24 SU 24 LE TRASMISSIONI VIA SATELLITE DALLA JUGOSLAVIA
SERBIAN STATE TELEVISION STARTS 24HOUR SATELLITE BROADCASTS
BELGRADE, August 24 (Tanjug) Serbian state radio and
television
(RTS) as of Friday broadcasts round the clock via satellite for viewers
in
Europe, the RTS World Service director said on Friday.
Miodrag Popovic, also Serbia's Assistant Information Minister,
told a news conference at TANJUG's Press Centre in Belgrade the signal
has
been significantly intensified and has made reception possible even with
a
moderatesized satellite dish. "The signal is in the digital format,
of
excellent quality," which is a major feat for RTS, 90 percent of whose
transmitters were destroyed in last year's NATO aggression on
Yugoslavia,
Popovic said.
The programme is broadcast on Extress 3A Satellite at 11
degrees
west. The frequency is 11.518 GHz, vertical polarization, symbol flow
rate
16 Ms/s.
The signal can now be picked up throughout Europe, North
Africa,
and the Middle East, and the European part of Russia.
---
KFOR ED UNMIK VIOLANO SISTEMATICAMENTE LA RISOLUZIONE 1244,
PERCIO' SE NE DEVONO ANDARE DALLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
KFOR, UNMIK MUST LEAVE KOSOVOMETOHIJA YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR
VIENNA, August 24 (Tanjug) Western pressure on Yugoslavia is
intensifying and tension is mounting, especially in its Kosovo Metohija
province, with the approach of Yugoslav parliamentary and presidential
elections and Serbian local polls, called for Sept. 24, according to
Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Austria on Thursday.
Rados Smiljkovic told a news conference in Vienna that, before
the
polls were called, some western media had claimed that the Yugoslav
Government is afraid of an election, while now they profess a doubt
about
the polls' regularity.
Smiljkovic said pressure from individual foreign factors on
Yugoslavia is more than just verbal.
For instance, it takes the form of brutal terrorist attacks,
like
those that have occurred and dangerously strained the situation in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija in recent
weeks, he explained.
He went on to express doubt about the regularity of elections
which U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief Bernard Kuchner has called in
KosovoMetohija for October 28, although he had no authority to do so
under
the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244.
"The international force in KosovoMetohija (KFor) and UNMIK
have
failed dismally in their mission.
"The fact that local Serbs and other nonAlbanians have no
chance
of taking part in the Kouchner polls is proof positive that Resolution
1244
has been totally betrayed and abandoned by those sent to implement it
and
to restore normal multiethnic life, disrupted when NATO planes began
dropping depleted uranium warheads.
"Because of disastrous results of the international mission and
violation of Resolution 1244 we demand that KFor and UNMIK withdraw from
KosovoMetohija and allow competent Yugoslav and Serbian bodies to do
their
job under the constitution and protect the people.
"We regard as null and void all decisions taken by UNMIK so far
that contravene Resolution 1244 and infringe on the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Serbia and Yugoslavia," Smiljkovic said.
---
SUL SEQUESTRO DA PARTE NATO DEL COMPLESSO METALLURGICO DI TREPCA:
L'INQUINAMENTO E' PEGGIORATO DOPO L'AZIONE DELLA NATO!
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TREPCA BERNARD KOUSHNER - AN ECOLOGICAL POLLUTION OF
KOSOVO
>AND METOHIJA, SERBIAN MINISTRY BELGRADE, August 20 - After a brutal taking
>over of a lead smelting plant, part of the Trepca mining complex, a
collection
>of about 40 mines that produce gold, silver, lead, zinc and cadmium (RMHK
>"Trepca") by the occupiers on Kosovo, with an excuse to do it due to
>ecological problems and ecological pollution, we would like to inform the
>public about the following facts: According to the "Regulations on marginal
>values, emission measuring methods, criterion for establishment of the
>measuring sites and data evidence" ("Sluzbeni Glasnik RS" 54/92) adopted by
>the Government of the Republic of Serbia and done in accordance with the
world
>standards (World Health Organization Recommendation) and regulations, one
of
>the measuring sites is Kosovska Mitrovica. Systematic measuring of basic
>polluting substances (soot, sulphur dioxide, sediment substances used for
>heavy metals determination - lead, cadmium, zinc, mercury, nickel, and
>chromium) were done in two measuring sites. Programme of the air quality in
>this city encompasses also special polluting substances as follows: phenol,
>PAH, ammonia, CS2 and H2S. Also Kosovska Mitrovica among six other cities
in
>the Republic of Serbia was included in monitoring of air quality influence
to
>human health. Measuring is realised by the Institute for Health Protection
in
>Kosovska Mitrovica. Air pollution on Kosovo and Metohija does not and did
not
>exceed allowed marginal values according to the Regulations on marginal
>values, because analyses were permanently carried out. Reasons of the
>occupiers for taking over a lead smelting plant (RMHK Trepca) have a
different
>background, so the story of ecological purposes is an outright lie. The
>greatest pollution existing on Kosovo and Metohija - ecological, mental and
>human is Bernard Koushner himself and the occupiers of Kosovo and Metohija.
>
>TREPCA WORKERS IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA AGAIN PROTEST TAKEOVER ZVECAN,
>August 21 (Tanjug) - Trepca lead smelter workers and residents of Kosovska
>Mitrovica protested again outside the smelting plant early on Monday
against
>the storming of the plant by the international force KFor in U.N.-run
>Kosovo-Metohija a week ago. Tioslav Lazarevic of the Trepca management
>addressed the assembled multitude and read out the demands of the
management
>and the trade unions that none of Trepca's employees must be moved out of
the
>north of that Serbian (Yugoslav) province. Lazarevic strongly condemned the
>seizure of Trepca by KFor and urged the workers to remain united and
continue
>their peaceful protests. Some 900 KFor troops stormed and seized the Trepca
>lead smelter on August. 14, while Trepca's General Manager Novak Bijelic
was
>exiled from Kosovo-Metohija on the orders of U.N. Civilian Mission (UNMIK)
>chief Bernard Kouchner.
FISH FLOAT BELLY UP IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA RIVER NEAR U.N.-SEIZED PLANT
LEPOSAVIC,
>Aug 16 (Tanjug) - Dead fish is carried on the current in the River Ibar in
>U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday afternoon, according to a local
anglers'
>society. The society in Leposavic has told TANJUG that the fish is floating
>belly up in the stretch of the river from Zvecan, near the U.N.-run Serbian
>(Yugoslav) province's chief city of Pristina, to Leposavic. Local
inspectors
>have been notified of the incident, but have not sent a team to the scene.
No
>cause for the environmental disaster has been given, with U.N. mission
UNMIK
>officials silent about the matter. It is indicative, though, that the
disaster
>has occurred in the wake of Monday's storming of the Trepca lead smelter at
>Zvecan, allegedly for environmental reasons, by U.N. troops that patrol the
>seized plant and the banks of the Ibar daily, to keep Serbs away. There are
>also views that the pollution may have been caused by sabotage by ethnic
>Albanian extremists, or by an unskilled handling of the facility, which has
>been placed in ethnic Albanian hands under international force KFor and
UNMIK
>supervision
>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ENVIRONMENT CANNOT BE PROTECTED AT
>ARMS BELGRADE, Aug 16 (Tanjug) - Environmental concerns alleged as the
reason
>for the international force KFor's storming of the Trepca lead smelter in
>Kosovo-Metohija on Monday boggle the mind, according to a Yugoslav minister
on
>Wednesday. One cannot but wonder how such a reason could prompt a brutal
armed
>operation, Minister of development, science and the environment Nada
Sljapic
>said in a statement. The statement was prompted by the violent takeover by
>KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK of the Trepca lead smelter at Zvecan, in
the
>Yugoslav republic of Serbia's U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province. According
to
>Sljapic, UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner's allegation of toxic fumes spewed
into
>the atmosphere by the plant would be funny if it were not cynical,
pathetic,
>unscrupulous and tragic. It is perfectly clear that the operation was
>undertaken in order to complete the takeover of all industrial facilities
in
>Kosovo-Metohija, said the statement, submitted to TANJUG. The use of armed
>force for environmental reasons raises many questions which should be
answered
>by Kouchner and by those who had the arrogance to undertake such an
operation
>against Trepca, Sljapic said. She wondered why the UNMIK chief does not
>publish radiation and toxic contamination levels resulting from last year's
>NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, when civilian targets were shelled with
>depleted uranium bombs and damage to industrial facilities caused huge
leaks
>of harmful and toxic chemicals. Kouchner should also say why he is not
telling
>the U.N. army and police troops what kind of environment they are living in
>and which areas are contaminated with depleted uranium and other toxic
>chemicals with delayed action, she added. Environmental protection requires
>that serious steps be taken in Kosovo-Metohija and other parts of
Yugoslavia
>and the world, but these steps should not be taken with armed force and
>environmental concerns should not be a pretext for occupying and plundering
>property and expelling people, she stressed.
>
>SERBIAN TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN KFOR'S STORMING OF TREPCA BELGRADE, Aug 16
>(Tanjug) - Monday's storming by the international force Kfor of the Trepca
>smelting plant at Zvecan, Kosovo-Metohija, its seizure, expulsion and
>manhandling of its Serb employees violated all democratic principles and
many
>conventions, as well as the constitutions and laws of the countries whose
>troops took part in the operation, a Serbian trade union official said on
>Wednesday. Trade Union Council President Tomislav Banovic was speaking at a
>news conference in Belgrade. Trepca's employees, exposed as they are to
>persecution at the hands of ethnic Albanian extremists, are now being
denied
>by the European Union states at arms the right to work, to life and all
other
>rights guaranteed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), all
designed
>in the final analysis to detach Kosovo-Metohija from its parent Yugoslav
>republic of Serbia, Banovic averred. The Serbian Metal Workers' Union has
>appealed to the International Federation of Metal Workers' Unions for
>protection against discrimination and E.U. sanctions, and for being allowed
to
>prove their professional capacities.
>
>TREPCA MANAGEMENT URGES WORKERS TO IGNORE KFOR AND UNMIK PROVOCATIONS
KOSOVSKA
>MITROVICA, Aug 17 (Tanjug) - The management and the trade union of the
Trepca
>industrial complex in U.N.-ruled Kosovo-Metohija on Thursday urged their
>workers not to rise to provocations hurled by the U.N. force KFor and
mission
>UNMIK. Management and trade union representatives were meeting at Zvecan,
near
>this Serbian (Yugoslav) province's chief city of Pristina. The meeting was
not
>attended by Trepca General Manager Novak Bijelic, whom UNMIK chief Bernard
>Kouchner has ordered out of the province. The meeting discussed the
situation
>created in the wake of Monday's brutal seizure of Trepca's facilities at
>Zvecan and nearby Leposavic by KFor, a statement from the meeting said.
>According to the statement, Trepca's deputy general manager, executives,
and
>trade union leaders have been instructed to be outside the Zvecan plant
gates
>with the workers at 7 every morning, to help direct the workers' efforts to
>regain their rights, primarily the right to work. Only Trepca's general
>manager has the right to take actions to rectify the newly created
situation,
>it was decided at the meeting. Pending his decision, all actions and
decisions
>taken by anybody other than the legitimate management and executive bodies
of
>Trepca will be considered invalid and measures will be taken to block them,
>the statement said. It urged the workers to ignore provocations by Kfor and
>UNMIK, and to refuse to take the money offered them as a palliative, as
that
>would legalize the armed takeover of the facilities at Zvecan and
Leposavic.
>The statement was signed by Deputy General Manager Svetislav Milicevic and
>Trade Union leader Strahimir Vasic.
>
>KFOR'S SEIZURE OF TREPCA LEAVES 6,000 WORKERS JOBLESS BELGRADE, Aug 16
>(Tanjug) - Monday's storming of the Trepca facility at Zvecan,
>Kosovo-Metohija, by U.N. troops was an unprecedented crime that has left
more
>than 6,000 workers jobless, Kosovo-Metohija Chamber of Commerce officials
said
>on Wednesday. At a meeting in Belgrade, the Chamber's Board of Governors
>condemned the outrage and decided to request the international force KFor
and
>the U.N. mission UNMIK to restore the facility to its rightful owners and
let
>the workers restart production. The Board requested the governments of
>Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia to make additional efforts in their
>contacts with U.N. and other international organizations, as well as
states,
>for a speedy restoration of some 400 state-owned companies and over 1,000
>firms owned by Serbs, Montenegrins, and other non-Albanians, to their
rightful
>owners. The Board also encouraged the Serbian and Yugoslav Chambers of
>Commerce to appeal to foreign partners to help Trepca shareholders regain
>control of the seized facilities. The Zvecan lead smelter was seized in an
>unprecedented operation by 3,000 ground troops with helicopter support,
>completing the takeover of all industrial facilities in the Serbian
>Kosovo-Metohija province, Chamber President Obrad Jankovic said. More than
>50,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, and other non-Albanians have been left jobless
in
>that U.N.-administered province so far. Since there were no grounds under
>either Yugoslav or international law for Trepca to be in the competence of
the
>international forces, Kfor and UNMIK eventually had to use force to seize
the
>company, the company's General Manager Novak Bijelic said. Bijelic went on
to
>say that UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner's allegation of a high level of air
>pollution was nothing but a lie, since recent analyses of the air, soil and
>water in the locality have shown permissible pollution levels by European
>standards.
>
>TREPCA WORKERS AND PEOPLE IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA PROTEST ZVECAN, Aug 16
>(Tanjug) - Trepca industrial complex employees and thousands of citizens of
>Kosovska Mitrovica and nearby Zvecan protested early on Wednesday against
U.N.
>troops' seizure on Monday of the Zvecan lead smelter in Kosovo-Metohija.
The
>Zvecan plant was stormed before dawn on Monday by troops of the
international
>force KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK in this U.N.-run province of the
>Yugoslav republic of Serbia, in an unprecedented armed operation mounted
>against a civilian facility. Strong KFor and UNMIK police forces, most of
them
>wearing flak jackets, were concentrated outside the facility, and about
3,000
>armed troops were in Trepca's compounds in Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan
for
>the duration of the protest. Addressing the assembled protesters, Kosovska
>Mitrovica hospital executive Milan Ivanovic said KFor's violent takeover of
>Trepca was part of UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner's strategy to drive Serbs
out
>of the north part of ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica. Ivanovic said
that
>UNMIK's allegation that Trepca was a threat to the environment and spewing
>lead into the atmosphere was a lie, and quoted the hospital's logs to show
>that "not a single case of lead poisoning has been recorded".
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S TREPCA WORKERS UNITED IN OPPOSING KFOR TAKEOVER ZVECAN,
Aug
>16 (Tanjug) - International force Kfor and U.N. mission UNMIK police troops
in
>Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday blocked workers entering the Zvecan lead
smelter
>that was on Monday taken over by KFor at arms. According to Trepca
Assistant
>Director General Svetislav Pavlovic, speaking for TANJUG, the reason given
was
>that the workers had remained firm on their position that they would not
allow
>themselves to be classified as suitable or unsuitable by anybody.
>
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JUGOSLAVIA
The Dutch neo-Nazi Party, NNP ["Nederlandse Nationalistische Partij"],
says
on its web site, "Late News" page:
"The NNP wants extreme hard line measures against Yugoslavia. We do not
allow our compatriots to be treated like this by a corrupt country!"
They refer to this:
On 31 July, Dutch TV rebroadcast Serbian TV tapes of four Dutchmen,
arrested in Yugoslavia. On those tapes, they claimed to be an armed
"special unit" with violence and abduction plans.
The NNP "forgets" [like most 'big' media in The Netherlands] these four
are
not just "compatriots", but likely to be the NNP's fellow extreme
Rightists.
For whatever it is worth:
Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad ["NRC-Business Paper"] of Tuesday 1 August
on
one of the arrested, Godfried de Rie:
"According to the Group for Anti-Fascist Research, KAFKA, his name, with
the same initials and place of residence [and also same address, as
confirmed by KAFKA to me], is on the list of members for 1995 of the
extreme Rightist [political party] CP'86. The [Dutch] Ministry of
Defence
confirms that De Rie was a conscript Army lance corporal, of 1989/8."
Today's NNP is a successor organization to the CP'86.
The CP'86 ["Center" Party, founded in 1986] political party was
notorious
for racism, violence, and open propaganda for Nazis like Adolf Hitler
and
Rudolf Hess. 13 year old Afro Caribbean boy Kerwin Duinmeijer, and
teenage
punk rock fan Michel Poyé, died at the hands of Dutch extreme Right
killers. In the 1990s, they sent Dutch mercenaries to Yugoslavia, to
fight
in extreme Right Croat units in Croatia and Bosnia.
Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes,
Herman de Tollenaere
---
VISITA DEL MINISTRO DEGLI ESTERI DELLA RFJ A CUBA
JOVANOVIC A COLLOQUIO CON FIDEL CASTRO
>
>Radio Havana Cuba-29 August 2000 20:30
> Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
> Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 29 August 2000 20:30
>
>*CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO MEETS WITH YUGOSLAVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
>
>Havana, August 29 (RHC)-- Cuban President Fidel Castro met with
>visiting Yugoslavian Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic Monday
>evening in the Cuban capital.
>
>Speaking with reporters Tuesday morning, just before wrapping up his
>two-day visit to the island, the Yugoslav foreign minister said that
>it was a privilege to meet with the leader of the Cuban Revolution.
>Jovanovic stated that his personal encounter with Fidel Castro gave
>him another opportunity to express his appreciation for the
>solidarity shown by Cuba during last year's U.S.-led NATO attacks
>against his country. He also thanked the Cuban government and people
>for their continued support of Yugoslavia in international forums
>such as the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement.
>
>The Yugoslav foreign minister arrived in Havana on Sunday and met
>yesterday with his Cuban counterpart, Felipe Perez Roque. During his
>stay, Belgrade's top diplomat signed an agreement for the protection
>and promotion of mutual investments with the Cuban Minister of
>Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas.
>
>Cuba affirmed that the visit of Zivaldin Jovanovic marks a new point
>in relations between Havana and Belgrade and reiterated the island's
>principled position concerning NATO's unjust war of aggression
>against Yugoslavia.
>Subject: Cuba Press release Aug 29
>PRESS RELEASE FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS.
> HAVANA, TUESDAY AUGUST 29 , 2000 RPM
>
>HAVANA.- Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque and
>Yugoslav Foreign Affairs Minister Zivadin Jovanovic ratified in
>Havana how relations between both countries are continuing well.
>"Without a doubt, this visit demonstrates a new moment in the
>deepening and encouragement of links between our peoples", said the
>Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister when meeting his Yugoslav counterpart
>at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Headquarters. Perez Roque also
>reiterated Cuba's solidarity and position during last year's
>air strikes in Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
>(NATO), led by the U.S. In reply to the welcoming speech by the Cuban
>Minister, Jovanovic - who arrived in Havana on Sunday - said he felt
>very flattered by his welcoming. The Yugoslav Foreign Affairs
>Minister explained yesterday that after the Millennium Summit his
>country expects the United Nations to play a stronger role, and more
>democratization of relations.
>YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA YUGOSLAV TALKS IN CUBA STRENGTHEN BILATERAL COOPERATION -
>MINISTER HAVANA, August 29 (Tanjug) - Visiting Yugoslav Foreign Minister
>Zivadin Jovanovic said on Monday the first round of Yugoslav-Cuban talks in
>Havana had been a useful and exhaustive exchange of views on topics of common
>interest. Speaking after meeting with his Cuban opposite number Felipe Perez
>Roque, Jovanovic said they had exchanged views on the current international
>situation, the situation in either country and further enhancement of
>bilateral relations. The Yugoslav Minister stressed the talks were very
>important for the consolidation of traditionally friendly ties between the two
>countries. Yugoslavia and Cuba are linked by shared goals in international
>relations, viz. the struggle for peace and equality of nations and states, and
>for a reaffirmation of the central role of the United Nations in international
>relations, he said. According to Jovanovic, they agreed that the future of
>mankind should be based on the principles of equality and respect for the
>territorial integrity and sovereignty of all countries. According to him, they
>also agreed about the impermissibility of the policy of interference in the
>internal affairs of other states and of the imposition of methods of internal
>development on sovereign states. He went on to say there were good prospects
>for strengthening Yugoslav-Cuban relations in politics, the economy, culture
>and other fields of mutual interest. Jovanovic paid tribute to the Cuban
>leadership, specifically to President Fidel Castro, for their understanding
>and open support for Yugoslavia at the time of last year's NATO aggression.
>*YUGOSLAVIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER IN HAVANA
>
>Havana, August 28 (RHC)-- Visiting Yugoslavian Foreign Minister
>Zivaldin Jovanovic, met Monday morning with his Cuban counterpart,
>Felipe Perez Roque. Speaking with reporters following the meeting,
>Jovanovic said that Cuba and Yugoslavia have a long history of
>solidarity and friendship and that his visit to the island is
>designed to help strengthen those cordial relations even more.
>
>Yugoslavia's top diplomat expressed his deepest appreciation for
>the solidarity shown by Cuba during last year's U.S.-led NATO attacks
>against the European nation. He also thanked the Cuban government and
>people for their continued support in international forums such as
>the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement.
>
>For his part, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque affirmed that
>the visit of Zivaldin Jovanovic marks a new point in relations
>between Havana and Belgrade. And the Cuban foreign minister
>reiterated Cuba's principled position concerning NATO's "unjust war
>of aggression" against Yugoslavia.
>
>Earlier in the morning, the visiting Yugoslav official laid a wreath
>at the foot of the Jose Marti Monument at Havana's Plaza del la
>Revolucion. He also signed an agreement for the protection and
>promotion of mutual investments with the Cuban Minister of Foreign
>Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas.
>
>The Yugoslavian foreign minister arrived in Havana on Sunday and is
>slated to wrap up his visit to the Cuban capital tomorrow, Tuesday.
>
>Subject: Cuba Press release Aug 28, 29
> FOR ALL DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS.
> HAVANA, MONDAY, AUGUST. 28 , 2000 RPM
>
>HAVANA.- Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque welcomed
>his Yugoslav counterpart Zivadin Jovanovic, who arrived yesterday on
>a three day work visit. The visitor is accompanied by a delegation
>of government officials and business people. During his stay in Cuba,
>Jovanovic will hold talks with the Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister and
>Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration Marta
>Lomas. He will also visit places of historic, economic and cultural
>interest.
>YUGOSLAVIA - CUBA CUBA'S CASTRO RECEIVES YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER
>HAVANA, Aug 29 (Tanjug) - Cuban President Fidel Castro received on Monday
>Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, who conveyed greetings and a
>personal message from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The talks were
>held in an open and frank climate and lasted for nearly 7 hours, beginning
>with a formal meeting late on Monday local time, and continuing through dinner
>given by Castro in honour of the Yugoslav guests. The two sides had a broad
>exchange of views on a wide spectrum of subjects of common interest. Castro
>showed an exceptionally good knowledge of the situation in Yugoslavia and
>expressed admiration for Yugoslavia's brave resistance to last year's NATO
>aggression and for the country's swift post-war reconstruction. He went on to
>say that Yugoslavia, by defending its own independence and sovereignty,
>defended other countries as well, which makes this struggle globally relevant.
>Castro also expressed full support for the policy of the Yugoslav government,
>especially its efforts to protect the country's sovereignty and independence,
>as well as its status in the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. The
>two sides fully agreed on matters of further development of bilateral
>relations, on the international situation, and the two countries' cooperation
>in international forums, in particular in the United Nations and the
>Non-Aligned Movement. According to Castro, so far from discharging their
>mission in accordance with U.N. Resolution 1244, the international forces in
>the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province have created chaos
>and complicated the situation. Kosovo-Metohija is an inseparable part of
>Yugoslavia, Castro stressed. He sent his greetings and respects to Milosevic,
>and promised to visit friendly Yugoslavia as soon as possible. Jovanovic, who
>arrived on an official visit to Cuba on Sunday, had earlier on Monday had
>talks with his host, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. After the meeting,
>Jovanovic was optimistic about further development of bilateral relations in
>the political, economic, cultural, and many other fields of mutual interest.
>Before the talks, Jovanovic had laid flowers at the monument commemorating
>Cuba's freedom fighter and poet Jose Marti, and toured the Jose Marti memorial
>complex. He also met with diplomatic mission chiefs accredited in Havana. Late
>on Monday, Jovanovic and Cuban Minister Marta Lomas signed an inter-state
>accord on enhancement of bilateral relations and investment protection.
>Jovanovic ends his visit to Cuba on Tuesday, with talks in Parliament and in
>the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee.
>
>YUGOSLAV FOREIGN MINISTER ENDS TALKS IN CUBA HAVANA, Aug 29 (Tanjug) -
>Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic met on Tuesday with senior
>officials of the Cuban parliament and the Communist Party of Cuba. Jovanovic's
>partners in talks on the last day of his official visit were Parliament Deputy
>Speaker Jaime Crombet and the party's Central Committee Foreign Relations
>Department head Jose Ramon Baleguer. The officials conveyed the support of the
>Cuban people and government for the Yugoslav people and their leaders, and
>best wishes for further development of comprehensive bilateral relations. The
>media coverage of Jovanovic's visit has been extensive, and the Yugoslav
>minister has been interviewed by leading Cuban media. Later on Tuesday,
>Jovanovic ends his official visit to Cuba, paid at the invitation of his
>counterpart Felipe Perez Roque, with whom he discussed further development of
>bilateral relations and the global political situation. The high-light of
>Jovanovic's intensive diplomatic contacts in Cuba was his reception by Cuban
>President Fidel Castro late on Monday. His talks with Castro reaffirmed
>Yugoslav-Cuban traditional friendship and identical views on bilateral matters
>and cooperation at international level.
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SUL RAPPORTO TRA LA JUGOSLAVIA ED IL SISTEMA DELLA DIS-INFORMAZIONE
EUROPEO
>
>MATIC: YUGOSLAVIA DID NOT BREAK OFF RELATIONS WITH EUROPEAN MEDIA BELGRADE,
>Aug 30 (Tanjug).- Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran Matic said Wednesday
>he agreed to the proposal of the head of the European Broadcasting Union Tony
>Naets to resume cooperation with the EBU, as soon as the international
>community and the EBU start treating Yugoslavia as a an equal member. Matic
>also demanded that the EBU publicly condemn the war crimes committed by NATO,
>the US and the European Union against Serbia and Yugoslavia during last year's
>(March-June) aggression, and that it demand that the persons responsible be
>taken to justice. Naets's proposal contained in his letter of August 25 was
>motivated by the interest of foreign media in the forthcoming presidential and
>parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia scheduled for September 24. Naets in his
>letter pointed out that Yugoslavia's national broadcaster was one of the
>founding members of the EBU and that they had enjoyed long-standing
>cooperation. This is true, Matic said in his response, and underlined that
>Yugoslavia had done nothing to break off this cooperation. After last year's
>brutal and criminal NATO aggression on this sovereign state, we only refuse to
>cooperate with the countries that had instigated and organized the bombings
>which lasted two and a half months, killing innocent civilians and devastating
>Yugoslavia's infrastructure, Matic said. Sixteen journalists and other
>employees of Serbian Radio-Television (RTS) were killed on April 23, 1999,
>when NATO bombed central Belgrade, Matic recalled. Leaders of NATO, the US,
>Britain, France and Germany had publicly stated that the RTS had been a
>legitimate target, as the RTS had been defending Serbia's and Yugoslavia's
>state policy, Matic noted, underlining that that policy was in fact a policy
>of defending national sovereignty, territorial integrity and national
>identity. The EBU has never clearly condemned that crime committed by NATO,
>nor has it demanded that the organizers and perpetrators of that crime be
>taken to justice for war crimes. It has also not opposed the political
>decision that the RTS satellite broadcasts be taken off the air although the
>RTS had paid all its dues to that effect, Matic said. The goal of that
>decision was to prevent the world from seeing authentic pictures of the NATO
>and US crimes in Serbia and Yugoslavia, and to use media manipulations to get
>the world public opinion to approve the unlawful and criminal aggression on
>this sovereign European state, Matic said.
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LA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA DENUNCIA I PROGETTI DI AMPUTAZIONE DEL KOSMET
>YUGOSLAVIA - KOSOVO-METOHIJA BELGRADE: CHANGE OF INTERNATIONAL BORDER IN
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA IS PLANNED BELGRADE, August 28 (Tanjug) - Preparations are
>being made in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province for de
>facto changing the internationally recognised and guaranteed state border,
>according to a senior Yugoslav Foreign Ministry official on Monday. To this
>end, Kosovo-Metohija is being systematically ethnically cleansed of its
>non-Albanians, with the collaboration of the international force KFor and the
>U.N. mission UNMIK, Assistant Foreign Minister Miroslav Milosevic said,
>briefing foreign diplomats in Belgrade. Milosevic described the situation in
>Kosovo-Metohija as disastrous, saying the violation of U.N. Resolution 1244
>and the Kumanovo Military-Technical Accord by KFor and UNMIK and their
>collusion with ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatists of the so-called
>Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has plunged the Province in chaos, terrorism and
>all kinds of international organised crime. "I am sure it is no longer
>necessary to offer proof that a process of total Albanisation of
>Kosovo-Metohija is in progress under the patronage of or with direct logistic
>and other support from KFor and UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner. "The fact
>that the worst crimes in this region since World War II are being committed
>under the U.N. flag should be a warning that the abuse of the United Nations
>for partial political interests might have incalculable consequences, because
>developments in the Province directly threaten stability in the region of
>southeast Europe and beyond", Milosevic said. He went on to say that the
>deliberate and systematic violation of U.N. Resolution 1244, among other
>things, totally exposes the strategy of individual international factors
>towards Yugoslavia and shows the true reasons for last year's NATO aggression.
>"The Yugoslav Government believes that the U.N. Security Council, from the
>point of view of its obligations under the U.N. Charter and Resolution 1244,
>is responsible for the present situation", he said. He added that the Council
>is also to blame for the constant violation of Yugoslavia's sovereignty and
>territorial integrity by KFor and UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner. According
>to Milosevic, it is a fact that individual U.N. Security Council member-stats
>systematically sabotage its work, but this does not detract from the
>responsibility of all Council members. He went on to list a series of
>disastrous consequences of the violation of the resolution, as well as of the
>irresponsible attitude of the Council to this, especially as concerns the
>threat to the fundamental human right to life. "Over the past month, we have
>been witnessing an unprecedented escalation in crime targeting Serbs,
>Montenegrins, Romanies, Muslims, ethnic Turks, Goranies, ethnic Egyptians and
>other non-Albanians. "The main target of terrorist attacks now are children,
>which monstrous practice serves to intimidate the remaining non-Albanians and
>induce them to move out", Assistant Foreign Minister Milosevic said. He quoted
>that, from the time KFor and UNMIK were deployed to Kosovo-Metohija in June
>1999 until August 16, 2000, there were 5,089 terrorist attacks - 4,776
>targeting Serbs and other non-Albanians. Of the 1,041 murders, 910 victims
>were Serbs and Montenegrins. Milosevic pointed out that, despite opposition
>from much of the international community and many Security Council members,
>Bernard Kouchner has scheduled so-called local elections in Kosovo-Metohija
>for Oct. 28, although clearly not even the most elementary conditions exist
>for the polls to be democratic, free or fair. "The purpose of the elections is
>to give legitimity to a policy of fait accompli, to give common terrorists and
>separatists the semblance of legitimate representatives of all people in
>Kosovo-Metohija, and to complete the process of ethnic cleansing of the
>Province of its Serbs and other non-Albanians", he said. He stressed that
>Yugoslavia and its Republic of Serbia, just like most other U.N. members, will
>not accept the results of these elections, or any other UNMIK decisions that
>are in violation of Resolution 1244 and that do not respect Yugoslavia's
>sovereignty and territorial integrity. Another important feature of the
>present situation in Kosovo- Metohija, according to Milosevic, is an
>escalation of brutal plunder and usurpation of private and state property, in
>which KFor and UNMIK directly take part. He stressed that this gives an added
>impulse to the exodus of the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians, quoting
>that more than 400 public companies and 1,000 private companies have been
>seized and wrested from their rightful owners in the Province. "A drastic
>example of usurpation was the storming of the Trepca lead smelter by strong
>KFor and UNMIK forces in the night of August 13-14. "Threatening massive use
>of force against the employees and peaceful civilians, they seized the
>production facilities that employ more than 2,000 Serbs and other
>non-Albanians. "Kfor and UNMIK, headed by Bernard Kouchner, are trying to
>conceal a total failure of the mission to Kosovo-Metohija, which clearly shows
>that it is not to be expected that they can make any radical changes in their
>behaviour in the direction of a strict implementation of U.N. Resolution 1244
>and the Military-Technical Accord, or that the U.N. Security Council will make
>them do it. "There is no excuse for KFor and UNMIK to stay on in the Province
>any longer", Assistant Foreign Minister Milosevic stressed. He went on to list
>the Yugoslav Federal Government's demands from the Security Council in this
>respect: to condemn and prevent further actions by Bernard Kouchner and KFor
>and UNMIK officials in violation of U.N. Resolution 1244, and establish their
>accountability; to take the necessary steps to indemnify Serbia and Yugoslavia
>for losses caused by UNMIK and KFor, especially to the people, the economy and
>the cultural heritage; to condemn in the strongest terms NATO's continued
>aggression on Yugoslavia through financial, political, media and military
>support for the ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists in Kosovo-Metohija.
>Milosevic especially stressed that, on the U.N. mission's withdrawal, the
>Yugoslav Government is both able and willing to guarantee peace and the rule
>of law, protect the property and safety of all people in Kosovo-Metohija, and
>the full equality of all ethnic communities. The Government, he said, is also
>able and willing to secure an immediate return and redeployment of the
>Yugoslav Army and police in the Province and provide full protection for the
>internationally recognised Yugoslav borders, revive legal bodies of Provincial
>and local administration and the operation of all vital public services, and
>take the necessary steps for a safe and unhampered return of all displaced
>people. "Parallel with the emplacement of peace, law and personal safety for
>the entire population of the Province, the Governments of Yugoslavia and
>Serbia are willing to open a political process for defining 'substantial
>autonomy' under the law and the Constitution for this Serbian province as an
>inseparable part of the constitutional, legal and economic system of the
>Republic of Serbia, directly involving in the process legitimate
>representatives of the state and of all ethnic communities in the Province,
>and with the adequate representation of the U.N. Security Council", he said.
>
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L'OCCIDENTE CERCA ARTIFICIALMENTE DI ACUIRE IL PROBLEMA DEL MONTENEGRO
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/commentary-200082918740.htm
The Washington Times
August 29, 2000
Mounting anxiety in Montenegro
Nikolaos A. Stavrou
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24 SU 24 LE TRASMISSIONI VIA SATELLITE DALLA JUGOSLAVIA
SERBIAN STATE TELEVISION STARTS 24HOUR SATELLITE BROADCASTS
BELGRADE, August 24 (Tanjug) Serbian state radio and
television
(RTS) as of Friday broadcasts round the clock via satellite for viewers
in
Europe, the RTS World Service director said on Friday.
Miodrag Popovic, also Serbia's Assistant Information Minister,
told a news conference at TANJUG's Press Centre in Belgrade the signal
has
been significantly intensified and has made reception possible even with
a
moderatesized satellite dish. "The signal is in the digital format,
of
excellent quality," which is a major feat for RTS, 90 percent of whose
transmitters were destroyed in last year's NATO aggression on
Yugoslavia,
Popovic said.
The programme is broadcast on Extress 3A Satellite at 11
degrees
west. The frequency is 11.518 GHz, vertical polarization, symbol flow
rate
16 Ms/s.
The signal can now be picked up throughout Europe, North
Africa,
and the Middle East, and the European part of Russia.
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KFOR ED UNMIK VIOLANO SISTEMATICAMENTE LA RISOLUZIONE 1244,
PERCIO' SE NE DEVONO ANDARE DALLA RF DI JUGOSLAVIA
KFOR, UNMIK MUST LEAVE KOSOVOMETOHIJA YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR
VIENNA, August 24 (Tanjug) Western pressure on Yugoslavia is
intensifying and tension is mounting, especially in its Kosovo Metohija
province, with the approach of Yugoslav parliamentary and presidential
elections and Serbian local polls, called for Sept. 24, according to
Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Austria on Thursday.
Rados Smiljkovic told a news conference in Vienna that, before
the
polls were called, some western media had claimed that the Yugoslav
Government is afraid of an election, while now they profess a doubt
about
the polls' regularity.
Smiljkovic said pressure from individual foreign factors on
Yugoslavia is more than just verbal.
For instance, it takes the form of brutal terrorist attacks,
like
those that have occurred and dangerously strained the situation in the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's U.N.administered KosovoMetohija in recent
weeks, he explained.
He went on to express doubt about the regularity of elections
which U.N. mission (UNMIK) chief Bernard Kuchner has called in
KosovoMetohija for October 28, although he had no authority to do so
under
the U.N. Security Council's Resolution 1244.
"The international force in KosovoMetohija (KFor) and UNMIK
have
failed dismally in their mission.
"The fact that local Serbs and other nonAlbanians have no
chance
of taking part in the Kouchner polls is proof positive that Resolution
1244
has been totally betrayed and abandoned by those sent to implement it
and
to restore normal multiethnic life, disrupted when NATO planes began
dropping depleted uranium warheads.
"Because of disastrous results of the international mission and
violation of Resolution 1244 we demand that KFor and UNMIK withdraw from
KosovoMetohija and allow competent Yugoslav and Serbian bodies to do
their
job under the constitution and protect the people.
"We regard as null and void all decisions taken by UNMIK so far
that contravene Resolution 1244 and infringe on the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Serbia and Yugoslavia," Smiljkovic said.
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SUL SEQUESTRO DA PARTE NATO DEL COMPLESSO METALLURGICO DI TREPCA:
L'INQUINAMENTO E' PEGGIORATO DOPO L'AZIONE DELLA NATO!
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA - TREPCA BERNARD KOUSHNER - AN ECOLOGICAL POLLUTION OF
KOSOVO
>AND METOHIJA, SERBIAN MINISTRY BELGRADE, August 20 - After a brutal taking
>over of a lead smelting plant, part of the Trepca mining complex, a
collection
>of about 40 mines that produce gold, silver, lead, zinc and cadmium (RMHK
>"Trepca") by the occupiers on Kosovo, with an excuse to do it due to
>ecological problems and ecological pollution, we would like to inform the
>public about the following facts: According to the "Regulations on marginal
>values, emission measuring methods, criterion for establishment of the
>measuring sites and data evidence" ("Sluzbeni Glasnik RS" 54/92) adopted by
>the Government of the Republic of Serbia and done in accordance with the
world
>standards (World Health Organization Recommendation) and regulations, one
of
>the measuring sites is Kosovska Mitrovica. Systematic measuring of basic
>polluting substances (soot, sulphur dioxide, sediment substances used for
>heavy metals determination - lead, cadmium, zinc, mercury, nickel, and
>chromium) were done in two measuring sites. Programme of the air quality in
>this city encompasses also special polluting substances as follows: phenol,
>PAH, ammonia, CS2 and H2S. Also Kosovska Mitrovica among six other cities
in
>the Republic of Serbia was included in monitoring of air quality influence
to
>human health. Measuring is realised by the Institute for Health Protection
in
>Kosovska Mitrovica. Air pollution on Kosovo and Metohija does not and did
not
>exceed allowed marginal values according to the Regulations on marginal
>values, because analyses were permanently carried out. Reasons of the
>occupiers for taking over a lead smelting plant (RMHK Trepca) have a
different
>background, so the story of ecological purposes is an outright lie. The
>greatest pollution existing on Kosovo and Metohija - ecological, mental and
>human is Bernard Koushner himself and the occupiers of Kosovo and Metohija.
>
>TREPCA WORKERS IN U.N.-RUN KOSOVO-METOHIJA AGAIN PROTEST TAKEOVER ZVECAN,
>August 21 (Tanjug) - Trepca lead smelter workers and residents of Kosovska
>Mitrovica protested again outside the smelting plant early on Monday
against
>the storming of the plant by the international force KFor in U.N.-run
>Kosovo-Metohija a week ago. Tioslav Lazarevic of the Trepca management
>addressed the assembled multitude and read out the demands of the
management
>and the trade unions that none of Trepca's employees must be moved out of
the
>north of that Serbian (Yugoslav) province. Lazarevic strongly condemned the
>seizure of Trepca by KFor and urged the workers to remain united and
continue
>their peaceful protests. Some 900 KFor troops stormed and seized the Trepca
>lead smelter on August. 14, while Trepca's General Manager Novak Bijelic
was
>exiled from Kosovo-Metohija on the orders of U.N. Civilian Mission (UNMIK)
>chief Bernard Kouchner.
FISH FLOAT BELLY UP IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA RIVER NEAR U.N.-SEIZED PLANT
LEPOSAVIC,
>Aug 16 (Tanjug) - Dead fish is carried on the current in the River Ibar in
>U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday afternoon, according to a local
anglers'
>society. The society in Leposavic has told TANJUG that the fish is floating
>belly up in the stretch of the river from Zvecan, near the U.N.-run Serbian
>(Yugoslav) province's chief city of Pristina, to Leposavic. Local
inspectors
>have been notified of the incident, but have not sent a team to the scene.
No
>cause for the environmental disaster has been given, with U.N. mission
UNMIK
>officials silent about the matter. It is indicative, though, that the
disaster
>has occurred in the wake of Monday's storming of the Trepca lead smelter at
>Zvecan, allegedly for environmental reasons, by U.N. troops that patrol the
>seized plant and the banks of the Ibar daily, to keep Serbs away. There are
>also views that the pollution may have been caused by sabotage by ethnic
>Albanian extremists, or by an unskilled handling of the facility, which has
>been placed in ethnic Albanian hands under international force KFor and
UNMIK
>supervision
>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA ENVIRONMENT CANNOT BE PROTECTED AT
>ARMS BELGRADE, Aug 16 (Tanjug) - Environmental concerns alleged as the
reason
>for the international force KFor's storming of the Trepca lead smelter in
>Kosovo-Metohija on Monday boggle the mind, according to a Yugoslav minister
on
>Wednesday. One cannot but wonder how such a reason could prompt a brutal
armed
>operation, Minister of development, science and the environment Nada
Sljapic
>said in a statement. The statement was prompted by the violent takeover by
>KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK of the Trepca lead smelter at Zvecan, in
the
>Yugoslav republic of Serbia's U.N.-run Kosovo-Metohija province. According
to
>Sljapic, UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner's allegation of toxic fumes spewed
into
>the atmosphere by the plant would be funny if it were not cynical,
pathetic,
>unscrupulous and tragic. It is perfectly clear that the operation was
>undertaken in order to complete the takeover of all industrial facilities
in
>Kosovo-Metohija, said the statement, submitted to TANJUG. The use of armed
>force for environmental reasons raises many questions which should be
answered
>by Kouchner and by those who had the arrogance to undertake such an
operation
>against Trepca, Sljapic said. She wondered why the UNMIK chief does not
>publish radiation and toxic contamination levels resulting from last year's
>NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, when civilian targets were shelled with
>depleted uranium bombs and damage to industrial facilities caused huge
leaks
>of harmful and toxic chemicals. Kouchner should also say why he is not
telling
>the U.N. army and police troops what kind of environment they are living in
>and which areas are contaminated with depleted uranium and other toxic
>chemicals with delayed action, she added. Environmental protection requires
>that serious steps be taken in Kosovo-Metohija and other parts of
Yugoslavia
>and the world, but these steps should not be taken with armed force and
>environmental concerns should not be a pretext for occupying and plundering
>property and expelling people, she stressed.
>
>SERBIAN TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN KFOR'S STORMING OF TREPCA BELGRADE, Aug 16
>(Tanjug) - Monday's storming by the international force Kfor of the Trepca
>smelting plant at Zvecan, Kosovo-Metohija, its seizure, expulsion and
>manhandling of its Serb employees violated all democratic principles and
many
>conventions, as well as the constitutions and laws of the countries whose
>troops took part in the operation, a Serbian trade union official said on
>Wednesday. Trade Union Council President Tomislav Banovic was speaking at a
>news conference in Belgrade. Trepca's employees, exposed as they are to
>persecution at the hands of ethnic Albanian extremists, are now being
denied
>by the European Union states at arms the right to work, to life and all
other
>rights guaranteed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), all
designed
>in the final analysis to detach Kosovo-Metohija from its parent Yugoslav
>republic of Serbia, Banovic averred. The Serbian Metal Workers' Union has
>appealed to the International Federation of Metal Workers' Unions for
>protection against discrimination and E.U. sanctions, and for being allowed
to
>prove their professional capacities.
>
>TREPCA MANAGEMENT URGES WORKERS TO IGNORE KFOR AND UNMIK PROVOCATIONS
KOSOVSKA
>MITROVICA, Aug 17 (Tanjug) - The management and the trade union of the
Trepca
>industrial complex in U.N.-ruled Kosovo-Metohija on Thursday urged their
>workers not to rise to provocations hurled by the U.N. force KFor and
mission
>UNMIK. Management and trade union representatives were meeting at Zvecan,
near
>this Serbian (Yugoslav) province's chief city of Pristina. The meeting was
not
>attended by Trepca General Manager Novak Bijelic, whom UNMIK chief Bernard
>Kouchner has ordered out of the province. The meeting discussed the
situation
>created in the wake of Monday's brutal seizure of Trepca's facilities at
>Zvecan and nearby Leposavic by KFor, a statement from the meeting said.
>According to the statement, Trepca's deputy general manager, executives,
and
>trade union leaders have been instructed to be outside the Zvecan plant
gates
>with the workers at 7 every morning, to help direct the workers' efforts to
>regain their rights, primarily the right to work. Only Trepca's general
>manager has the right to take actions to rectify the newly created
situation,
>it was decided at the meeting. Pending his decision, all actions and
decisions
>taken by anybody other than the legitimate management and executive bodies
of
>Trepca will be considered invalid and measures will be taken to block them,
>the statement said. It urged the workers to ignore provocations by Kfor and
>UNMIK, and to refuse to take the money offered them as a palliative, as
that
>would legalize the armed takeover of the facilities at Zvecan and
Leposavic.
>The statement was signed by Deputy General Manager Svetislav Milicevic and
>Trade Union leader Strahimir Vasic.
>
>KFOR'S SEIZURE OF TREPCA LEAVES 6,000 WORKERS JOBLESS BELGRADE, Aug 16
>(Tanjug) - Monday's storming of the Trepca facility at Zvecan,
>Kosovo-Metohija, by U.N. troops was an unprecedented crime that has left
more
>than 6,000 workers jobless, Kosovo-Metohija Chamber of Commerce officials
said
>on Wednesday. At a meeting in Belgrade, the Chamber's Board of Governors
>condemned the outrage and decided to request the international force KFor
and
>the U.N. mission UNMIK to restore the facility to its rightful owners and
let
>the workers restart production. The Board requested the governments of
>Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia to make additional efforts in their
>contacts with U.N. and other international organizations, as well as
states,
>for a speedy restoration of some 400 state-owned companies and over 1,000
>firms owned by Serbs, Montenegrins, and other non-Albanians, to their
rightful
>owners. The Board also encouraged the Serbian and Yugoslav Chambers of
>Commerce to appeal to foreign partners to help Trepca shareholders regain
>control of the seized facilities. The Zvecan lead smelter was seized in an
>unprecedented operation by 3,000 ground troops with helicopter support,
>completing the takeover of all industrial facilities in the Serbian
>Kosovo-Metohija province, Chamber President Obrad Jankovic said. More than
>50,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, and other non-Albanians have been left jobless
in
>that U.N.-administered province so far. Since there were no grounds under
>either Yugoslav or international law for Trepca to be in the competence of
the
>international forces, Kfor and UNMIK eventually had to use force to seize
the
>company, the company's General Manager Novak Bijelic said. Bijelic went on
to
>say that UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner's allegation of a high level of air
>pollution was nothing but a lie, since recent analyses of the air, soil and
>water in the locality have shown permissible pollution levels by European
>standards.
>
>TREPCA WORKERS AND PEOPLE IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA PROTEST ZVECAN, Aug 16
>(Tanjug) - Trepca industrial complex employees and thousands of citizens of
>Kosovska Mitrovica and nearby Zvecan protested early on Wednesday against
U.N.
>troops' seizure on Monday of the Zvecan lead smelter in Kosovo-Metohija.
The
>Zvecan plant was stormed before dawn on Monday by troops of the
international
>force KFor and the U.N. mission UNMIK in this U.N.-run province of the
>Yugoslav republic of Serbia, in an unprecedented armed operation mounted
>against a civilian facility. Strong KFor and UNMIK police forces, most of
them
>wearing flak jackets, were concentrated outside the facility, and about
3,000
>armed troops were in Trepca's compounds in Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan
for
>the duration of the protest. Addressing the assembled protesters, Kosovska
>Mitrovica hospital executive Milan Ivanovic said KFor's violent takeover of
>Trepca was part of UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner's strategy to drive Serbs
out
>of the north part of ethnically divided Kosovska Mitrovica. Ivanovic said
that
>UNMIK's allegation that Trepca was a threat to the environment and spewing
>lead into the atmosphere was a lie, and quoted the hospital's logs to show
>that "not a single case of lead poisoning has been recorded".
>
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S TREPCA WORKERS UNITED IN OPPOSING KFOR TAKEOVER ZVECAN,
Aug
>16 (Tanjug) - International force Kfor and U.N. mission UNMIK police troops
in
>Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday blocked workers entering the Zvecan lead
smelter
>that was on Monday taken over by KFor at arms. According to Trepca
Assistant
>Director General Svetislav Pavlovic, speaking for TANJUG, the reason given
was
>that the workers had remained firm on their position that they would not
allow
>themselves to be classified as suitable or unsuitable by anybody.
>
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>-------------------------
>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the Aug. 24, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>-------------------------
>
>U.S. court rules against Serb leader
>
>THE RAPE CHARGE & WASHINGTON'S WAR PROPAGANDA
>
>By Sara Flounders
>
>On Aug. 10, a federal court in New York ruled that Radovan
>Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the civil war in
>Bosnia seven years ago, must pay $745 million in damages for
>the crimes of rape, torture and genocide committed during
>the civil war.
>
>Of course, no money is expected to be recovered. The charge
>was originally filed in 1993 for propaganda purposes at the
>height of the Bosnian civil war. The decision seven years
>later received the full front page and three inside pages of
>coverage in the Aug. 11 edition of Newsday, and wide
>attention in other media.
>
>How could a U.S. federal court in New York even have
>jurisdiction over what happened in another country to people
>who had no connection to the United States?
>
>This "trial" is part of a continuing effort to give the U.S.
>government the basis to charge and convict leaders of any
>country that is the target of CIA destabilization. It
>revived all the charges that were used to justify U.S.
>military intervention and occupation in the Balkans.
>
>Karadzic is not charged with committing any of the crimes
>directly. He is charged as the leader of a government that
>has been a target of continuing demonization.
>
>Karadzic could not travel to New York or present any defense
>in this one-sided trial. He is in hiding in Bosnia after
>being indicted on similar charges at the court established
>at The Hague by U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--
>the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
>Yugoslavia.
>
>Of course, no testimony presented in the U.S. federal court
>in New York or the Tribunal based at The Hague even
>mentioned Washington's role in manufacturing the break-up of
>the Yugoslav Federation, fomenting the civil war and bombing
>civilians in Bosnia and Yugoslavia.
>
>But the criminal role of the United States, Germany and
>other Western governments has been well documented by
>people's tribunals in New York, Berlin, Rome, Athens, Moscow
>and Kiev, Ukraine, over the past year.
>
>NATO BASES THE REAL GOAL
>The charges of genocide and mass rapes in Bosnia were the
>beginning of a massive, well-orchestrated public relations
>campaign to demand U.S./NATO intervention in the Balkans.
>
>Claiming to be a force for peace and stability in a bloody
>civil war, the Pentagon has now established a whole network
>of military bases in Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo,
>Hungary and the Czech Republic.
>
>Serb towns in Bosnia were the targets of more than 4,000
>U.S. bombings in 1994 and 1995. In 1999 the Pentagon and
>NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days.
>
>The charge of rape made against the Serbs shaped the views
>of millions of people who previously had little interest in
>the Balkans.
>
>In late 1992 and early 1993, sensational news reports
>charged that mass rapes were a planned, deliberate strategy
>of the Bosnian Serb leadership.
>
>Women are the first victims in every war. Rape and the
>degrading abuse of women are all too often carried out as a
>stamp of conquest by invading armies imbued with patriarchal
>attitudes.
>
>But the charge of rape has also often been consciously used
>as an essential prop of war propaganda. The supposed defense
>of women is used to mobilize armies and to galvanize blind
>hatred.
>
>A LIE REPEATED BECOMES FACT
>
>Without any examination of the highly biased sources, the
>major Western media gave lurid descriptions of rape camps
>where it was claimed that between 20,000 and 100,000 Muslim
>and Croatian women were raped. This crystallized the public
>view that Serbs were the evil aggressors and Muslims and
>Croatians the helpless victims.
>
>The charge that 30,000 women and girls had been raped
>originated with the foreign minister of Bosnia, Haris
>Silajdzic, in order to stall peace talks in Geneva in late
>1992.
>
>In January 1993 the Warburton Report authorized by the
>European Community estimated that 20,000 Muslim women had
>been raped as part of a Serb strategy of conquest. This
>report was widely cited as an authoritative, independent
>source.
>
>No coverage was given to a dissenting member of the
>investigative team--European Parliament President Simone
>Veil--who revealed that the estimate of 20,000 rapes was
>based on interviews with only four victims, two women and
>two men.
>
>The Croatian Ministry of Health in Zagreb was the main
>source on which the Warburton Report based its estimate of
>20,000 rapes.
>
>Because the charge of systematic Serbian rapes of Muslim and
>Croatian women has been repeated so often, it is now
>accepted as an undisputed fact.
>
>Publications vied with each other for sensationalized
>accounts. USA Today told the story of a 5-month-old baby who
>was supposedly the result of Serbian rape. The New York
>Times carried a photo story with the caption, "Two-month-old
>baby girl born to a teen-age Muslim woman after she was
>raped in a Serbian detention camp." The war was not yet nine
>months old.
>
>Ms. Magazine ran a cover story that accused Bosnian Serb
>forces of raping for the purpose of producing pornographic
>films. No such films were ever found and the charges were
>not supported by the findings of Helsinki Watch or Human
>Rights Watch.
>
>CROATIAN (DIS)INFORMATION CENTER
>
>The woman who was the star witness and main media
>spokesperson in the New York trial and judgment, Jadranka
>Cigelj, is a paid propagandist who worked for the Croatian
>Information Center.
>
>She was well known in radical Croatian nationalist circles.
>She was also the vice-chair of Croatian President Franjo
>Tudjman's fascist HDZ Party.
>
>The HDZ is closely linked to the Ustashe Party that led
>Croatia during the Nazi occupation in World War II.
>
>Perhaps because of her fascist political background, in
>interviews Cigelj always brands the Serbs as "far worse than
>the Nazis."
>
>Cigelj's rape charges are extensively quoted in almost all
>articles and testimony on rapes in Bosnia. However, her
>accounts have changed several times.
>
>Thomas Deichmann, a German researcher and journalist, has
>documented Cigelj's varied testimony and her political
>background in a chapter of the book, "War, Lies and
>Videotape," published by the International Action Center.
>
>In one publication produced by the Croatian Information
>Center, Cigelj charged that a Serbian reserve officer raped
>her. In a later article with Roy Gutman of Newsday, she
>charged that Zeljko Mejakic, the Serbian commander of a
>refugee camp, and two camp guards raped her.
>
>Later, in a German publication, her story changed again. She
>testified in the highly publicized case of another man,
>former Serbian soldier Jezdimir Topic, who faced deportation
>from the United States in 1999.
>
>Cigelj offered to become a key prosecution witness against
>another Serb, Dusan Tadic, at the Hague Tribunal. She was
>rejected because she was seen as an unreliable source.
>
>However, Cigelj has been featured in documentaries, received
>financial awards, and was the main spokesperson of a 25-city
>U.S. tour organized by Amnesty International.
>
>None of the discrepancies in her story or her right-wing
>political activities was reported in the coverage of her
>testimony against Radovan Karadzic.
>
>CAPITALISM PROMOTES SEXUAL SLAVERY
>
>Nowhere in Newsday's three pages of coverage recounting
>charges of Serbian rapes in Bosnia were the conditions women
>face today under NATO occupation even mentioned.
>
>Throughout Eastern and Central Europe, in Russia and the
>former Soviet republics, the chaos and dislocation of the
>capitalist market have eroded the enormous gains women made
>under socialism.
>
>A decade ago these countries guaranteed full employment and
>two years paid maternity leave. Now unemployment of 30-40
>percent is the norm. Health care and child-care services
>have collapsed.
>
>Women's organizations were understandably outraged by the
>lurid reports concerning mass rapes in Bosnia seven years
>ago. They would make a contribution if they focused their
>resources on exposing the conditions for women living under
>U.S. domination today.
>
>U.S. troops and bases do not protect women. They exist to
>protect the extraction of profits for giant capitalist
>institutions. In every U.S. military operation an entire sex
>industry of bars, strip joints and brothels is created
>around the bases.
>
>This experience of Vietnam, Thailand, Korea and the
>Philippines is now the reality around U.S. bases in Tuxla,
>Bosnia, and at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.
>
>At the United Nations Beijing Plus Five Conference of 10,000
>women in June, the worldwide status of women was examined.
>It was estimated that more than half-a-million women from
>Central and Eastern Europe are shipped abroad each year as
>part of the worldwide trafficking in prostitutes. Bosnia was
>cited as one of the worst examples. (New York Times, June
>11)
>
>Flounders is co-director of the International Action Center
>in New York. Background materials for this article appeared
>in two IAC books, "NATO in the Balkans" and "War, Lies and
>Videotape," both available at leftbooks.com.
>
>- END -
>
>(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to
>copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but
>changing it is not allowed. For more information contact
>Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail:
>ww@.... For subscription info send message to:
>info@.... Web: http://www.workers.org)
>
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>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the Aug. 24, 2000
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>-------------------------
>
>U.S. court rules against Serb leader
>
>THE RAPE CHARGE & WASHINGTON'S WAR PROPAGANDA
>
>By Sara Flounders
>
>On Aug. 10, a federal court in New York ruled that Radovan
>Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the civil war in
>Bosnia seven years ago, must pay $745 million in damages for
>the crimes of rape, torture and genocide committed during
>the civil war.
>
>Of course, no money is expected to be recovered. The charge
>was originally filed in 1993 for propaganda purposes at the
>height of the Bosnian civil war. The decision seven years
>later received the full front page and three inside pages of
>coverage in the Aug. 11 edition of Newsday, and wide
>attention in other media.
>
>How could a U.S. federal court in New York even have
>jurisdiction over what happened in another country to people
>who had no connection to the United States?
>
>This "trial" is part of a continuing effort to give the U.S.
>government the basis to charge and convict leaders of any
>country that is the target of CIA destabilization. It
>revived all the charges that were used to justify U.S.
>military intervention and occupation in the Balkans.
>
>Karadzic is not charged with committing any of the crimes
>directly. He is charged as the leader of a government that
>has been a target of continuing demonization.
>
>Karadzic could not travel to New York or present any defense
>in this one-sided trial. He is in hiding in Bosnia after
>being indicted on similar charges at the court established
>at The Hague by U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--
>the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
>Yugoslavia.
>
>Of course, no testimony presented in the U.S. federal court
>in New York or the Tribunal based at The Hague even
>mentioned Washington's role in manufacturing the break-up of
>the Yugoslav Federation, fomenting the civil war and bombing
>civilians in Bosnia and Yugoslavia.
>
>But the criminal role of the United States, Germany and
>other Western governments has been well documented by
>people's tribunals in New York, Berlin, Rome, Athens, Moscow
>and Kiev, Ukraine, over the past year.
>
>NATO BASES THE REAL GOAL
>The charges of genocide and mass rapes in Bosnia were the
>beginning of a massive, well-orchestrated public relations
>campaign to demand U.S./NATO intervention in the Balkans.
>
>Claiming to be a force for peace and stability in a bloody
>civil war, the Pentagon has now established a whole network
>of military bases in Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo,
>Hungary and the Czech Republic.
>
>Serb towns in Bosnia were the targets of more than 4,000
>U.S. bombings in 1994 and 1995. In 1999 the Pentagon and
>NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days.
>
>The charge of rape made against the Serbs shaped the views
>of millions of people who previously had little interest in
>the Balkans.
>
>In late 1992 and early 1993, sensational news reports
>charged that mass rapes were a planned, deliberate strategy
>of the Bosnian Serb leadership.
>
>Women are the first victims in every war. Rape and the
>degrading abuse of women are all too often carried out as a
>stamp of conquest by invading armies imbued with patriarchal
>attitudes.
>
>But the charge of rape has also often been consciously used
>as an essential prop of war propaganda. The supposed defense
>of women is used to mobilize armies and to galvanize blind
>hatred.
>
>A LIE REPEATED BECOMES FACT
>
>Without any examination of the highly biased sources, the
>major Western media gave lurid descriptions of rape camps
>where it was claimed that between 20,000 and 100,000 Muslim
>and Croatian women were raped. This crystallized the public
>view that Serbs were the evil aggressors and Muslims and
>Croatians the helpless victims.
>
>The charge that 30,000 women and girls had been raped
>originated with the foreign minister of Bosnia, Haris
>Silajdzic, in order to stall peace talks in Geneva in late
>1992.
>
>In January 1993 the Warburton Report authorized by the
>European Community estimated that 20,000 Muslim women had
>been raped as part of a Serb strategy of conquest. This
>report was widely cited as an authoritative, independent
>source.
>
>No coverage was given to a dissenting member of the
>investigative team--European Parliament President Simone
>Veil--who revealed that the estimate of 20,000 rapes was
>based on interviews with only four victims, two women and
>two men.
>
>The Croatian Ministry of Health in Zagreb was the main
>source on which the Warburton Report based its estimate of
>20,000 rapes.
>
>Because the charge of systematic Serbian rapes of Muslim and
>Croatian women has been repeated so often, it is now
>accepted as an undisputed fact.
>
>Publications vied with each other for sensationalized
>accounts. USA Today told the story of a 5-month-old baby who
>was supposedly the result of Serbian rape. The New York
>Times carried a photo story with the caption, "Two-month-old
>baby girl born to a teen-age Muslim woman after she was
>raped in a Serbian detention camp." The war was not yet nine
>months old.
>
>Ms. Magazine ran a cover story that accused Bosnian Serb
>forces of raping for the purpose of producing pornographic
>films. No such films were ever found and the charges were
>not supported by the findings of Helsinki Watch or Human
>Rights Watch.
>
>CROATIAN (DIS)INFORMATION CENTER
>
>The woman who was the star witness and main media
>spokesperson in the New York trial and judgment, Jadranka
>Cigelj, is a paid propagandist who worked for the Croatian
>Information Center.
>
>She was well known in radical Croatian nationalist circles.
>She was also the vice-chair of Croatian President Franjo
>Tudjman's fascist HDZ Party.
>
>The HDZ is closely linked to the Ustashe Party that led
>Croatia during the Nazi occupation in World War II.
>
>Perhaps because of her fascist political background, in
>interviews Cigelj always brands the Serbs as "far worse than
>the Nazis."
>
>Cigelj's rape charges are extensively quoted in almost all
>articles and testimony on rapes in Bosnia. However, her
>accounts have changed several times.
>
>Thomas Deichmann, a German researcher and journalist, has
>documented Cigelj's varied testimony and her political
>background in a chapter of the book, "War, Lies and
>Videotape," published by the International Action Center.
>
>In one publication produced by the Croatian Information
>Center, Cigelj charged that a Serbian reserve officer raped
>her. In a later article with Roy Gutman of Newsday, she
>charged that Zeljko Mejakic, the Serbian commander of a
>refugee camp, and two camp guards raped her.
>
>Later, in a German publication, her story changed again. She
>testified in the highly publicized case of another man,
>former Serbian soldier Jezdimir Topic, who faced deportation
>from the United States in 1999.
>
>Cigelj offered to become a key prosecution witness against
>another Serb, Dusan Tadic, at the Hague Tribunal. She was
>rejected because she was seen as an unreliable source.
>
>However, Cigelj has been featured in documentaries, received
>financial awards, and was the main spokesperson of a 25-city
>U.S. tour organized by Amnesty International.
>
>None of the discrepancies in her story or her right-wing
>political activities was reported in the coverage of her
>testimony against Radovan Karadzic.
>
>CAPITALISM PROMOTES SEXUAL SLAVERY
>
>Nowhere in Newsday's three pages of coverage recounting
>charges of Serbian rapes in Bosnia were the conditions women
>face today under NATO occupation even mentioned.
>
>Throughout Eastern and Central Europe, in Russia and the
>former Soviet republics, the chaos and dislocation of the
>capitalist market have eroded the enormous gains women made
>under socialism.
>
>A decade ago these countries guaranteed full employment and
>two years paid maternity leave. Now unemployment of 30-40
>percent is the norm. Health care and child-care services
>have collapsed.
>
>Women's organizations were understandably outraged by the
>lurid reports concerning mass rapes in Bosnia seven years
>ago. They would make a contribution if they focused their
>resources on exposing the conditions for women living under
>U.S. domination today.
>
>U.S. troops and bases do not protect women. They exist to
>protect the extraction of profits for giant capitalist
>institutions. In every U.S. military operation an entire sex
>industry of bars, strip joints and brothels is created
>around the bases.
>
>This experience of Vietnam, Thailand, Korea and the
>Philippines is now the reality around U.S. bases in Tuxla,
>Bosnia, and at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.
>
>At the United Nations Beijing Plus Five Conference of 10,000
>women in June, the worldwide status of women was examined.
>It was estimated that more than half-a-million women from
>Central and Eastern Europe are shipped abroad each year as
>part of the worldwide trafficking in prostitutes. Bosnia was
>cited as one of the worst examples. (New York Times, June
>11)
>
>Flounders is co-director of the International Action Center
>in New York. Background materials for this article appeared
>in two IAC books, "NATO in the Balkans" and "War, Lies and
>Videotape," both available at leftbooks.com.
>
>- END -
>
>(Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to
>copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but
>changing it is not allowed. For more information contact
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>
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FORZA NUOVA VERSO IL SUICIDIO
Attraverso il loro sito internet (http://www.forzanuova.org/) i
militanti della organizzazione neonazista Forza Nuova annunciano che
presto metteranno se stessi "in condizioni di non nuocere". Fra i "Punti
Fermi" del loro programma per la rinascita nazionale infatti scrivono:
"...Vanno inoltre messi in condizione di non nuocere i gruppi la cui
fedeltà a potenze o lobby antiitaliane è chiara e conclamata.
Le potenze straniere resesi responsabili tramite propri agenti o
servizi segreti di omicidi o stragi nel nostro paese devono rispondere
del loro operato".
Il riferimento a Forza Nuova, organizzazione che annovera tra le sue
fila personaggi implicati nelle vicende dello stragismo atlantico in
Italia e che si e' diffusa velocemente grazie agli appoggi del servizio
segreto inglese, e' evidente.
(su FN, lo stragismo ed i rapporti con i servizi segreti stranieri si
veda ad esempio:
http://www.contropiani2000.org/documentazione/13FN/inchiesta_fn.htm
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Attraverso il loro sito internet (http://www.forzanuova.org/) i
militanti della organizzazione neonazista Forza Nuova annunciano che
presto metteranno se stessi "in condizioni di non nuocere". Fra i "Punti
Fermi" del loro programma per la rinascita nazionale infatti scrivono:
"...Vanno inoltre messi in condizione di non nuocere i gruppi la cui
fedeltà a potenze o lobby antiitaliane è chiara e conclamata.
Le potenze straniere resesi responsabili tramite propri agenti o
servizi segreti di omicidi o stragi nel nostro paese devono rispondere
del loro operato".
Il riferimento a Forza Nuova, organizzazione che annovera tra le sue
fila personaggi implicati nelle vicende dello stragismo atlantico in
Italia e che si e' diffusa velocemente grazie agli appoggi del servizio
segreto inglese, e' evidente.
(su FN, lo stragismo ed i rapporti con i servizi segreti stranieri si
veda ad esempio:
http://www.contropiani2000.org/documentazione/13FN/inchiesta_fn.htm
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/401 )
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FUNERALE DE "L'UNITA'" (segue)
Il giornale non esiste piu', ma i soldi girano che e' una bellezza,
grazie a tutte le "Feste" organizzate in giro per l'Italia!
Nostri compagni hanno fatto una visita a Bologna, dove
l'associazione "Skanderbeg" e' presente con il proprio stand alla
kermesse fieristico-culinaria, stand da cui, fra bandiere dell'UCK e
aquilotti vari, diffonde quotidianamente il verbo del Kosova
indipendente.
Sembra tra l'altro che proprio la "Skanderbeg" abbia intascato dalla
vecchia amministrazione felsinea £150.000.000 per un progetto di aiuti
alle giovani prostitute albanesi presenti nel capoluogo, soldi di cui a
tutt'oggi si ignora ancora quale sia stato il vero impiego. D'altronde,
nell'aprile del '99 questi grandi combattenti per la libertà muniti di
bandiere a stelle e strisce manifestavano in Piazza Maggiore a favore
dei bombardamenti Nato alla RFJ. Una nostra amica, che passando di lì
per caso fece timidamente notare a costoro che appariva quantomeno
autolesionista inneggiare proprio a chi li stava bombardando, si senti'
rimbeccare con un "vaffanculo troia!"
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Il giornale non esiste piu', ma i soldi girano che e' una bellezza,
grazie a tutte le "Feste" organizzate in giro per l'Italia!
Nostri compagni hanno fatto una visita a Bologna, dove
l'associazione "Skanderbeg" e' presente con il proprio stand alla
kermesse fieristico-culinaria, stand da cui, fra bandiere dell'UCK e
aquilotti vari, diffonde quotidianamente il verbo del Kosova
indipendente.
Sembra tra l'altro che proprio la "Skanderbeg" abbia intascato dalla
vecchia amministrazione felsinea £150.000.000 per un progetto di aiuti
alle giovani prostitute albanesi presenti nel capoluogo, soldi di cui a
tutt'oggi si ignora ancora quale sia stato il vero impiego. D'altronde,
nell'aprile del '99 questi grandi combattenti per la libertà muniti di
bandiere a stelle e strisce manifestavano in Piazza Maggiore a favore
dei bombardamenti Nato alla RFJ. Una nostra amica, che passando di lì
per caso fece timidamente notare a costoro che appariva quantomeno
autolesionista inneggiare proprio a chi li stava bombardando, si senti'
rimbeccare con un "vaffanculo troia!"
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http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/345 )
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