KOSTUNICA BUSSA A TUTTE LE PORTE

Nel corso del suo piu' recente viaggio a Washington, dove
ha partecipato ad un ulteriore banchetto con l'Imperatore,
il presidente jugoslavo Vojslav Kostunica ha "bussato a
tutte le porte" implorando che il suo paese non venga
ulteriormente diviso - stavolta tra Serbia e Montenegro.
Allo scopo, Kostunica si e' detto disposto a tutto: in
particolare, disposto ad abbracciare la causa del Tribunale
"ad hoc" dell'Aia.
Il suo grido di dolore ha sicuramente fatto breccia nel
cuore dell'establishment statunitense,etablishment che e'
gia' entrato a pieno titolo nei libri di Storia per i
grandi sforzi compiuti in favore dello... squartamento
della Jugoslavia, e per il massacro dei suoi abitanti.
(I. Slavo)

KOSTUNICA TRAVELS TO WASHINGTON
BELGRADE, Feb 5 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica travels Tuesday evening to Washington, where
he will attend the traditional prayers breakfast, with
US President George Bush.
During a two-day visit to the United States, the Yugoslav
president will have a number of meetings with US congressmen
- members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate
- and give a lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center on the
prospects of federalism in the Balkans.
The prayers breakfast, traditionally hosted by members of
Congress for the domestic political elite and guests from
the whole world, will also attend Yugoslav lower house
president Dragoljub Micunovic, who is already on a visit
to the United States at the invitation of a Congress
committee.

KOSTUNICA IN WASHINGTON: BELGRADE TRYING TO FIND WAY TO
PRESERVE YUGOSLAVIA
WASHINGTON,Feb6 (Beta)-Yugoslav president Vojislav
Kostunica said in Washington on Feb.6 that Belgrade
was trying to work out a new model for the federal
state, which will serve as the basis for a fourth
sustainable Yugoslavia.
At a talk on federalism at the Wilson Center, Kostunica
said that due to a "federal order that was either unsound
or was not implemented consistently enough" the first and
second Yugoslavias collapsed, and that the present, third
Yugoslavia has not found an adequate solution to this
problem.
"We are therefore doing our best to work out a viable,
in many ways completely new solution for the federal state,
which might serve as the foundation of a fourth, sustainable
Yugoslavia - the newly preserved or, if you will, newly
reordered joint state of Serbia and Montenegro," the
Yugoslav President said.
Kostunica arrived in Washington to attend the traditional
prayer breakfast on Feb. 7. A press release from President
Kostunica's office said he was scheduled to meet with
congressmen and senators.

PRESIDENT KOSTUNICA ATTENDS WASHINGTON PRAYER BREAKFAST
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 ( Beta) Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica attended on Feb. 7 the traditional Prayer-
Breakfast in Washington, organized by Congress and the
U.S. president.
After the breakfast, attended by some 30 heads of states
from around the globe, Kostunica met with U.S. senator
George Vojnovic.
BETA learned at the Yugoslav embassy in Washington that
Kostunica had separate meetings in Congress and the Senate
during the day.
Kostunica told Voice of America on Feb. 7 that there were
many doors to knock on in Washington and that the he would
attempt to raise support in the U.S. for the preservation
of Yugoslavia.
"When I ran in elections in September 2000, I said in a
public address, which many still remember well, that there
was not a door that I would not knock on. There are many
doors here to be knocked on for the sake of the our country,
the stability of Yugoslavia, the preservation of the
Yugoslav federation," Kostunica said.

KOSTUNICA SAYS VISIT AIMED AT GETTING GREATER SUPPORT
TO FEDERATION
WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica has said that one of the goals of his visit to
the United States is to step up support to the survival
and reorganization of the Yugoslav federation, which has
already been received from the European Union.
Kostunica said that for him the visit to the United States
was an opportunity to meet a large number of congressmen
and to address US media.
Kostunica said that over the past few years, "our country
occasionally had more problems with individuals at the
Congress, than with the Administration, president or his
authorities" and voiced satisfaction with the fact he
would have the opportunity to meet many of them during
his two-day visit to Washington.
As for cooperation with the White House, the Yugoslav
president said that the stands on Yugoslavia's cooperation
with the Hague war crimes tribunal had in no way changed
since his meeting with US President George Bush last year.
"I think that at this moment we will get back to something
I stressed in talks with President Bush and State Secretary
Collin Powel a year ago," Kostunica said and added that
"we have to get closer to a solution in which the interest
of the state and state's relations will simply be formulated
through a special law on cooperation with the Hague tribunal."

YUGOSLAVIA MUST COOPERATE WITH WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica said in Washington on Wednesday that Yugoslavia
had to cooperate with the international war crimes tribunal,
but that this cooperation had to be put on a legal basis.
Kostunica was responding to questions asked by the audience
at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, after a lecture on the future
of federalism in Yugoslavia.
Asked whether he would support the extradition to the
tribunal of former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic
and Ratko Mladic if they are in Yugoslavia, Kostunica
said that as far as he knew Mladic was not in Yugoslavia.
As for Karadzic, his name was never mentioned in this
context - international authorities and international
troops controlling Bosnia-Herzegovina have no idea
about his whereabouts, Kostunica said.