Yugoslav Daily Survey (Morning edition) BELGRADE, 27 March 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSEQUENCES OF NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA ENDS APPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE NATO AGGRESSION YUGOSLAVIA - TRIBUNAL - NATO AGGRESSION TRIBUNAL FOR NATO WAR CRIMES TO MEET IN BELGRADE SOON YUGOSLAVIA - AIRPORT TRAFFIC GREEK, GERMAN, ITALIAN AIRLINES RESUME FLIGHTS TO BELGRADE * * * YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSEQUENCES OF NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA ENDS BELGRADE, March 27 (Tanjug) - An International Conference on the Consequences of NATO's Aggression on Yugoslavia ended here on Sunday after three days of fruitful work during which the far-reaching significance of Yugoslavia's struggle for independence was stressed. More than 90 lectures, excerpts and papers that will be compiled and published by the Belgrade-based Institute for International Politics and Economy that organised the Conference, stressed that Washington's policy, demonstrated in the former Yugoslavia and in particular throug the aggression on Yugoslavia, posed a threat to the entire world. The participants in the Conference including scholars, publicists and other renowned persons from all over the world underlined that, through its military power and by violating all principles and rules of international relations, Washington wanted to impose a new world order that would be in the service of its interests but would be to the detriment of millions of peoples. They noted that it was vital to encourage scholars, intellectuals and media to help shed light on the motives of the NATO aggression until NATO criminals were brought to justice and until Yugoslavia was paid war reparations. Addressing the participants at the close of Conference, professor Blagoje Babic also made a statement to this effect, saying that the awareness that it was vital to place international relations and preservation of peace and security in the world again within the framework of international law and the U.N. Charter was growing. Babic welcomed the fact that none of the participants backed international blockades and sanctions as foreign policy methods, saying that he was confident that the time would soon come for the Yugoslav people to develop normal cooperation, based on the principles of mutual respect and mutual benefit, also through efforts to this end by other peace-loving people in the world. APPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE NATO AGGRESSION BELGRADE (Tanjug) - The International Scientific Conference on the Consequences of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia addressed several appeals and proposals to the United Nations, research fellows and academic communities stated below: I . Dear Colleagues, Our three-day long discussion has inspired us, as scientists, humanitarians, members of the academic community, writers and people with conscience to send an appeal to the Security Council of the United Nations to reaffirm the universal value of the principles of equality of all States and nations, regardless of their size, of the inviolability of their territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as t condemn and to reject the use of force as an inadmissible method to resolve international problems, to reaffirm the UN Charter, the irreplaceable role of this universal world Organization and of the principles it is based upon. We, as world intellectuals and scientists call upon the United Nations not to allow to be marginalized and solution be imposed by illegal means, by use of force, blockade and sanctions. Science will hold responsible all those who have rejected by the aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia, the basic principles of international law, protection and respect of peace, security and cooperation, jeopardizing thereby not only the human right to life and well-being of all Yugoslavs, but have endangered the peace and future for all people on our planet. If we remain silent and passive today faced with aggression and violation of the international legal order, then all, including those who are spared today, will become victims. II. Participants of the International Conference meeting in Belgrade on 26 March 2000, inter alia, pointed out as follows: "1. Note that the information on Yugoslavia were by and large presented in a biased way, without respect for the rules of even-handedness; 2. Express concern over international demonization, whose victim is Yugoslavia, the Serbian people in particular; 3. Call on intellectuals to reject outright the one-sided presentation of the conflict; 4. Voice concern about the spread to other "disobedient" countries of the strategy applied in the break-up of Yugoslavia and forcing it to join NATO; 5. Are concerned that the strategy of the force of US imperialism has caused the world over, and will cause perhaps tomorrow in other regions of Eastern Europe, fresh conflicts that may endanger all mankind in much the same way as did the Axis Powers before World War Two". III. Professor Dr. Svetomir Skari_ of the University of Skopje and Prof. Dr. Elena Guskova, Director of the Centre for Yugoslav Crisis Studies in Moscow, also put forward a number of proposals concerning the future work on shedding more light on the motives and consequences of the NATO war on the FR of Yugoslavia. First, I propose that the work on collecting data concerning motives and carrying out of the NATO aggression against the FRY be continued. It is very important that these data be pooled into certain studies and books. On the basis of these data we should continue our work on a broader clarification of the NATO aggression and exchange among ourselves these data and information. Second, I propose that we gathered here today at this Conference be more engaged in our respective countries in encouraging scientists, intellectuals and media to clarify the motives and consequences of the NATO war at internal and international level. We should be more actively involved on this as long as the International Court of Justice in the Hague does it job rightly in the light of the yesterday statement of Admiral Schmelling. Third, the consequences of the war and search for the solution of the problems should become topical issues in the studies of the international professional associations such as: International Association for Constitutional Law, International Peace Research Association (IPRA), International Political Science Association (IPSA), as well as of all other international associations in the field of social sciences. Four, in our studies of the motives and consequences of the NATO war, and in finding the ultimate solutions for the prevention of future aggressions, we should engage broader scientific mission and public opinion of the Far East, an in particular the scientific thought and peace movement of Japan. As the result of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and particularly as the result of the greater presence of the US troops in the Far East, the scientists of Japan have been working very successfully for already several decades on a global strategy of the world peace. Five, I propose that this Conference continue its work the next year here or in some other country and become a permanent institution which will gather the consciousness of the mankind at scientific and intellectual level. YUGOSLAVIA - TRIBUNAL - NATO AGGRESSION TRIBUNAL FOR NATO WAR CRIMES TO MEET IN BELGRADE SOON BELGRADE, March 27 (Tanjug) - The Moscow-based International Public Tribunal for War Crimes Committed by NATO in Yugoslavia will hold its third session in Belgrade on March 28-29. The session will deal with war crimes committed by the alliance during its last year's aggression on Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Information Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. At the close of its two-day session, the Tribunal, headed by M.N. Kuznyetsov, will pronounce its sentence on the strength of evidence collected in Yugoslavia over the past few months. Under the Yugoslav Government's decision, the committee on gathering evidence of crimes against humanity and international law, chaired by Zoran Stojanovic, will act as the Tribunal's host, the statement said. YUGOSLAVIA - AIRPORT TRAFFIC GREEK, GERMAN, ITALIAN AIRLINES RESUME FLIGHTS TO BELGRADE BELGRADE, March 27 (Tanjug) - Greek airlines Olympic, Germany's Lufthansa and Italy's Alitalia resumed regular flights to Yugoslavia on Sunday. Belgrade Airport Director General Ljubomir Acimovic said that the Greek air carrier would fly from Athens to Belgrade and back three times a week, while Yugoslav airlines JAT would have a direct flight to Athens on Wednesdays and would fly to the Greek capital via Salonika on Thursdays and Sundays. Lufthansa will re-introduce daily Munich-Belgrade flights, while JAT will have three weekly flights to Duesseldorf and four to Frankfurt. Alitalia will re-introduce regular Milan-Belgrade and Rome-Belgrade flights. Acimovic announced also the resumption of regular Vienna-Belgrade flights, saying that the Czech Republic's national airline was expected to re-open the Prague-Belgrade line next week. He said that talks on the resumption of flights to London and Paris would be soon completed. __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________