>From: "Jon Corlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY (Evening edition) BELGRADE,11 February 2000 >No. 2889 CIA/British/French/Etc. Kapitalist Gangs Steal Workers' >Machinery; Loot & Destroy 80+ Churches; 50,000+ Workers' Homes, 4000+ >Workers in Kosovo; Etc. > > >FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA >FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS > >YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY > >(Evening edition) > >BELGRADE,11 February 2000 No. 2889 > >C O N T E N T S : > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA >- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES OUT-GOING AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR >- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES FEDERAL LEGISLATURE DELEGATION > >F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - NIGERIA - CONDOLENCES >- NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT > >F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - SLOVAKIA >- NATO CONTINUES AGGRESSION IN EFFORT TO BREAK UP YUGOSLAVIA > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS >- PORTUGUESE OPPOSITION M.P. BLASTS NATO, EU OVER KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >- KFOR OVERLOOKS ETHNIC CLEANSING OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >- KOSOVO AND METOHIJA IS PART OF YUGOSLAVIA, MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >- PROTEST RALLY IN ZVECAN >- UNMIK POLICE APPREHEND THREE ARMED ETHNIC ALBANIANS >- FRENCH GENERAL REQUESTS KFOR REINFORCEMENTS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA > >FROM FOREIGN PRESS >- SKOPJE WEEKLY: KFOR'S PERFORMANCE IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA DISASTROUS >- KLA, NOT KFOR, IS IN COMMAND IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA, ITALIAN PANORAMA > >FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA > >YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES OUT-GOING AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR >BELGRADE, February. 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on >Friday received out-going Australian ambassador Christopher Lamb. >During the brief meeting underscored was the joint interest of Yugoslavia >and Australia, which has many citizens of Yugoslav origin, to develop >comprehensive cooperation in the interest of the people of the two >countries and the affirmation of understanding and equality between states >and peoples of the world. >Milosevic wished Lamb success in his future work. >Also present was federal Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic. > >YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES FEDERAL LEGISLATURE DELEGATION >BELGRADE, February. 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic >received on Friday a delegation of the Federal Court and the Federal State >Prosecutor, headed by Court President Borivoje Bukovic and State Prosecutor >Vukasin Jokanovic. >The top Yugoslav institutions are currently marking the 55th anniversary >of their founding. >Milosevic felicitated the anniversary underscoring the huge responsibility >of the judges and prosecutors in the protection of the legality and the >functioning of the legal order. The consistent implementation of laws is an >essential factor for the successful development and strengthening of the >Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, especially at the time of strong pressures >and attempts at undermining the country's stability, which are expressed >through different abuses and illegal occurrences, Milosevic set out. >According to Milosevic, decisive opposition to the attacks on the state, >peace, order, freedom, security and dignity of the citizens, and on their >personal and public property, are the basic duties of the corresponding >state organs which will most certainly persevere in their realization with >the support of the citizens. >The efficient work of the courts and prosecutors is of irreplaceable >importance, and the Federal Court and the Federal State Prosecutor should >give their maximum contribution to the affirmation of the law as a >fundamental orientation of Yugoslavia, Milosevic pointed out. >Also present was federal Justice Minister Petar Jojic. > > >F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - NIGERIA - CONDOLENCES > >NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT >BELGRADE, February 11 (Tanjug) - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has >sent a telegram of condolence to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on >the assassination of Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic. >In the telegram, Obasanjo said that,"I received with shock and sadness the >news of the tragic death of your able, loyal and dedicated federal minister >of defence, honourable Pavle Bulatovic." >"On behalf of myself, my family, and the government and people of the >Federal Republic of Nigeria, I commiserate with you, the family of the late >honourable minister and the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia," >he said. > > >F.R.YUGOSLAVIA - SLOVAKIA > >NATO CONTINUES AGGRESSION IN EFFORT TO BREAK UP YUGOSLAVIA >BRATISLAVA, February. 11 (Tanjug)- Yugoslav ambassador to Slovakia Veljko >Curcic has set out that, although morally defeated, the NATO countries >which had participated in the March-June, 1999 aggression on Yugoslavia >were still trying to achieve their goal -- to break up Yugoslavia -- >through efforts "illegitimately to change the authorities in Yugoslavia." >"The pressures continue in the period of Yugoslavia's reconstruction above >all through the imposition of unjust economic and other sanctions. The >unscrupulous pressures are designed to prevent the reconstruction and >development of Yugoslavia, which they have devastated with their rockets >and bombs," ambassador Curcic said in an interview to the Slovak daily Novy >Den. >When the policy of open aggression failed, aggression continued through >sanctions, blackmail, and the granting of more dollars for continued >efforts to topple the authorities in Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav ambassador >specified. >The Slovak daily said that Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and >Metohija was being ethnically cleansed by ethnic-Albanian terrorists and >separatists under the "patronage" of NATO troops. >It set out that the ethnic cleansing did not imply just the elimination of >Serbs and their expulsion from the "heart" of Yugoslavia but also the >elimination of any trace of Serbs and Christians in general. >Ambassador Curcic said that the expulsion of Serbs, Montenegrins and other >non-Albanians from the province, with the tacit consent of the KFOR and >UNMIK, was organized ethnic cleansing. > > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS > >PORTUGUESE OPPOSITION M.P. BLASTS NATO, EU OVER KOSOVO-METOHIJA >LISBON, February 11 (Tanjug) - A Portuguese opposition M.P. has blasted >the European Union and NATO for the debacle of the western policy toward >Kosovo and Metohija, which he says has made the situation in that Serbian >(Yugoslav) province and the Balkans worse than ever. >NATO's military intervention against Yugoslavia last Spring failed >dismally to reach any of the declared strategic or political targets, >according to Jose Paseco Pereira of the opposition Social Democratic Party. >From March 24 to June 10, 1999, NATO unleashed an aggression on Yugoslavia, >with savage air strikes that murdered more than 2,000 civilians and >devastated a huge number of the country's industrial, housing and >infrastructural facilities. >In a commentary carried by Lisbon's leading daily Publico, Pereira says >that U.N.-ruled Kosovo and Metohija is weighed down with all the problems >that the western intervention was to have prevented. >The territory is ethnically homogenous, with just two or three Serb >enclaves left, surrounded by barbed wire and international KFor force >troops, according to the prominent analyst and publicist. >Speaking about murders of and an escalation of violence against the local >Serbs, he puts the blame on the European Union and on Portugal as its >president, and notes that the European fifteen are deliberately avoiding a >debate on Kosovo-Metohija. >Results of interventions by western Europe and the United States are that >some day, when the foreign troops leave Kosovo and Metohija and (another >Balkan trouble-spot) Bosnia-Herzegovina, things there will go back to what >they were, or be much worse, according to him. > >KFOR OVERLOOKS ETHNIC CLEANSING OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA >BONN, February. 11 (Tanjug)- The Berlin Junge Welt Friday carried an >article written by British Member of Parliament Alice Mahon, a Labourite, >in which she said that Yugoslavia had a genuinely multi-ethnic society, and >a large-scale operation of ethnic cleansing in Serbia's southern province >of Kosovo and Metohija by ethnic-Albanian terrorists and separatists was >being overlooked by the KFOR international peace force. >Mahon, who chairs the British Parliament's Committee for the Balkans, >visited Kosovo and Metohija last autumn as a member of the so-called North >Atlantic Assembly, an institution which is to exercise parliamentary >control of NATO. >Mahon said in the article that it did not take her long to realize what >was happening and subsequent reports of the OSCE and international human >rights organizations, including Amnesty International, had confirmed that >Serbia's southern province was being ethnically cleansed by the KLA while >the U.N. mission (UNMIK) and the KFOR did not show the slightest readiness >to take legal action against them. >The British politician said that Serbs, Slavs of Muslim faith (Goranacs), >Romanies, ethnic Turks and other non-Albanians were victims of daily >harassments, intimidation, abductions and torching. >Mahon cited the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry figures that 350,000 people have >been forced to leave Kosovo and Metohija since the KFOR deployment in June >last year. > > > > >KOSOVO AND METOHIJA IS PART OF YUGOSLAVIA, MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT >SKOPJE, February. 11 (Tanjug)- Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski said >in a meeting with special U.N. envoy for the Balkans Carl Bildt that the >consistent implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on >Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija was the most essential >condition for the stabilization of the region and Macedonia's future >depended on it. >Bildt, himself, said after the meeting with Trajkovski that Kosovo and >Metohija was a part of Yugoslavia and that fact had to be acknowledged. >Bildt also agreed that the future of Macedonia was closely linked to the >resolution of problems in Kosovo and Metohija, and said that Resolution >1244 was a good basis for it. >Macedonian Foreign Minister Aleksandar Dimitrov said that the full >stabilization of the region would be possible only once Yugoslavia was >included in all peace processes and projects. >Dimitrov underscored that Kosovo and Metohija was a part of Yugoslavia and >Resolution 1244 must be respected, for he said no lasting peace in the >Balkans would otherwise be possible. > > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA > >PROTEST RALLY IN ZVECAN >ZVECAN, February. 11 (Tanjug) - Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are the >teachers of patriotism and united they can realize their joint goal - >survival and preservation of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia and Serbia >within its southern province, is the message of several thousand Serbs >gathered at a protest rally on Friday in Zvecan, close to Pristina. >The president of the Serbian National Forum of Zvecan, Dragisa Milovic, >said that Kosovo and Metohija "is a blot in the heart of Europe because is >it rife with chaos, anarchy, violence, arms trading and white slavery >carried out by the masters (UNMIK head Bernard) Kouchner and (Hashim) >Thaqi." >"We only want to live in peace and in dignity and we demand security for >ourselves and our children, the return of the displaced and of our army and >police," Milovic stated. >The speakers at the rally, often interrupted by shouts "Long Live Serbia" >and "Long Live Yugoslavia", called for "all Serbs in these hard times to >form one party." >"We will not allow Kouchner to create another Albanian state based on the >misfortune of the Serb people, nor will a single Serb enter his and Thaqi's >government," the protesters said. >Deputy director of the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica, Dr. Milan Ivanovic, >stated that "the Serbs would prevent Kouchner from carrying out experiments >on them 'in vivo', just those performed by Nazi doctor Mengele." >"Kouchner cannot chose a Serb who is convenient for his government because >we will chose our own representative if the conditions for this arise," >Ivanovic set out. > >UNMIK POLICE APPREHEND THREE ARMED ETHNIC ALBANIANS >KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, February. 11 (Tanjug)- Three armed ethnic Albanians >have been apprehended by the UNMIK police in the southern section of >Kosovska Mitrovica, a spokesman for the UNMIK police told Tanjug on Friday. >Kosovska Mitrovica is divided in half by the Ibar River. Its somewhat >smaller norther section is predominantly populated by Serbs and the >southern by ethnic Albanians. >While checking the car with the three ethnic Albanians in it, the police >found three Kalashnikovs and two rifles. >The police have not given the names of the three arrested ethnic Albanians. >The spokesman said it was quiet in the town on the night of February. >10-11 and the curfew was in effect from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. >The curfew was introduced last week, after a terrorist attack on a >Serbian-owned cafe and attempts by ethnic Albanians to force their way into >the Serbian part of the town. >Several persons were killed in the ethnic clashes. > > > > > >FRENCH GENERAL REQUESTS KFOR REINFORCEMENTS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA >PARIS, February. 11 (Tanjug)- The French Army General Staff Friday said >that the British and German KFOR troops which have arrived in Kosovska >Mitrovica were "temporary reinforcements" requested by the commander of the >northern, multi-national KFOR brigade, French General Pierre de Saqui. >The decision on the temporary reinforcements was taken after a series of >ethnic-Albanian attacks and other crimes, including a rocket attack on an >UNHCR bus carrying 49 Serbs, bomb attacks on Serbian-owned cafes in the >Serbian norther part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and the wounding of a Russian >KFOR soldier, who was escorting Serbian children to school. >The German reinforcements have been deployed in the town's northern >section, and the British around the bridge which links the Serbian and >ethnic-Albanian parts of the town. > > >FROM FOREIGN PRESS > >SKOPJE WEEKLY: KFOR'S PERFORMANCE IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA DISASTROUS >SKOPJE, February 11 (Tanjug) - A high-circulation Skopje magazine quotes >figures in its latest issue to show that the performance of the >international Kosovo and Metohija force (KFor) over the eight months since >deployment has been disastrous. >Start magazine says that, since KFor was deployed on June 12, 1999, some >350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, ethnic Turks, Romanies, Muslims, Goranies and >other non-Albanians have been driven out of the Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo >and Metohija province. >By Jan. 16, 2000, there were 3,688 terrorist attacks, mostly targeting >Serbs, 739 people were murdered, 611 wounded and 688 abducted, quotes Start. >According to its figures, Kosovo and Metohija's ethnic Albanian terrorists >have demolished 80 Serbian churches, torched 50,000 non-Albanian homes and >"ethnically cleansed" Pristina, Prizren, Pec, Djakovica, Srbica, Podujevo, >Klina, Istok and other towns. >Even ethnic Albanians themselves whisper that the situation was better >when Kosovo and Metohija was under Serbian control, and they should be >believed because they, too, are at risk, says the Skopje weekly. >Kosovo and Metohija's ethnic Albanians have now been placed in a position >where they have to protect their wives and daughters against their criminal >and terrorist compatriots, as well as against KFor soldiers, says Start. >Well-to-do ethnic Albanians have sent their children, especially >daughters, abroad, even to Macedonia, says the magazine, adding that a U.S. >sergeant has recently raped and killed an ethnic Albanian girl. >Furthermore, the province's sick are going without treatment, because the >hospitals have been deprived of their best doctors, Serbs, nor can they any >longer avail themselves of the services of Belgrade's comparatively >well-equipped hospitals. >Start writes that Kosovo and Metohija's factories are idle, with equipment >from many of them dismantled on the orders of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo >Liberation Army (KLA) and taken to neighbouring Albania or to private >workshops. >This has left the people no recourse but to make a living from smuggling >drugs and arms, prostitution and racketeering, the magazine explains. >Kosovo and Metohija is now truly threatened by a humanitarian disaster, >since those who were supposed to bring peace have brought unrest and chaos >instead, the weekly says. > >KLA, NOT KFOR, IS IN COMMAND IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA, ITALIAN PANORAMA >ROME, February. 11 (Tanjug)- The so-called ethnic-Albanian KLA is in >command in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia's southern province, despite the >presence of the KFOR international forces, the Italian weekly Panorama said >Friday, commenting the continued violence against the non-Albanian >population in the province. >Citing the OSCE report for December, Panorama said the violence was >organized by militant KLA separatists. >"The doubtful guerrilla movement has been accused also of cooperating with >the Kosovo and Metohija mafia," the Milan weekly set out. >The Human Rights Watch shares the opinion that orders for the violence in >Serbia's southern province come from the militant KLA and KLA members are >the perpetrators of the most brutal crimes there. >"The anti-democratic and violent KLA, which is now unpopular among Kosovo >and Metohija Albanians, themselves, is stronger than ever before," the >weekly Panorama said. > > > > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > >REVOLUTION, COMMUNIST & CONTINUOUS ! ! ! > > http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8805/ > >LENIN & RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PAGES: http://members.xoom.com/joncorlett/ > >RCP SITE: http://www.geocities.com/jcorlett8/ > >CHINA COMREV SITE: http://www.geocities.com/jcorlett3/ > >E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Subscribe or Unsubscribe; Click Reply in E Mail Program, > >enter 'Subscribe' or 'Unsubscribe' on Subject line and Send to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >If wish to receive only certain types of Revolutionary Communist Information >Please Specify. > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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