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
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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.
>
---
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.
---
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.
---
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.
>
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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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