BELGRADE, 26 June 2000 FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV PM BULATOVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF RUSSIAN WAR VETERANS AGREEMENT ON CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND GUINEA YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS - ACTIVITIES KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - CENTER OF CHAOS, LAWLESSNESS, CRIME PHOTOEXHIBITION "ONE YEAR AFTER" OPENED IN AACHEN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM SERB MINOR RETURNED HOME WEAPONS FOR ETHNIC ALBANIAN KLA CAME FROM CROATIA KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS WASHINGTON FALLS EVER LOWER IN ITS ANTI-YUGOSLAV CAMPAIGN IRAQ ACCUSES U.S. OF BREAKING UP YUGOSLAVIA THROUGH UNITED NATIONS * * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAV PM BULATOVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF RUSSIAN WAR VETERANS BELGRADE, June 26 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic on Monday received Gen. Vladimir Verevkhin Rahalsky, the deputy president of the Russian Committee of War Veterans, and Association of Veterans of the National Liberation War of Yugoslavia President Milo Markovic and Secretary Miodrag Zecevic. The talks were attended by Yugoslav Defense Minister, Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic and Russian Ambassador to Yugoslavia Valery Yegoshkin, the prime minister's cabinet said. During the talks, respect and admiration were voiced for the joint anti-fascist struggle. It was agreed that this was the best guarantee for the further comprehensive cooperation between Yugoslavia and Russia, and opposition to the dominance of current power-wielders who are trying to impose their interests with force, in violation of the United Nations Charter and norms of international law. AGREEMENT ON CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND GUINEA BELGRADE, June 26 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav government has passed on to parliament a draft law on the ratification of an agreement on cultural and educational cooperation between Yugoslavia and Guinea, which will stimulate promotion of cooperation in culture and education between the two countries. Both counties will stimulate the development of mutual cooperation in education through the establishment and development of direct cooperation between universities and scientific and educational institutions based on direct agreements on cooperation, exchange of scholars, professors, researchers, and experts in the area of education, exchange of publications and data, participation in symposiums, conferences and other forms of cooperation of mutual benefit. Yugoslavia and Guinea will encourage cooperation between academies of sciences and arts in the areas of social sciences, culture and art, studies of language, culture, history, and other aspects of life of one country in the country, as well as exchange visits by writers, painters, musicians, distribution of films, books, magazines and publications, translation and publication of artistic, literary and scientific works, and the organization of cultural events. YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS - ACTIVITIES KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - CENTER OF CHAOS, LAWLESSNESS, CRIME BUCHAREST, June 26 (Tanjug) - Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province is currently the biggest center of chaos, lawlessness and crime, where smuggling of narcotics, weaponry and white slavery thrives, it was heard at a discussion hosted by the Yugoslav Embassy in Bucharest this weekend, which was devoted to the situation in Kosovo and Metohija one year after the arrival of the United Nations mission and the administration of Bernard Kouchner. Participants in the round table were Charge d'Affaires of the Yugoslav Embassy in Bucharest Dragomir Radenkovic, Romanian academician Florin Constantiniu, university professors Virgil Radulian and Dan Zamfirescu, and poet Claudio Iordake. It was heard during the discussion that the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia had been at the same time an aggression on Europe, democracy and international law. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 is systematically violated in the province and ethnic cleansing and genocide against Serbs and other non-Albanians continue under auspices of the international mission, which actually supports ethnic Albanian separatism and terrorism, it was pointed out. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, U.N. Kosovo Administrator Bernard Kouchner, and Hague tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte strictly follow instructions from the United States, but that country will not be able to impose its own will and interests forever, it was agreed at the Round Table. Participants in the debate criticized the position of the Romanian authorities toward Yugoslavia during the aggression and at the present time. Serbs are even more appreciated and respected after the NATO aggression, it was concluded. PHOTOEXHIBITION "ONE YEAR AFTER" OPENED IN AACHEN DUSSELDORF, June 26 (Tanjug) - An exhibition of photographs entitled "One year after" opened in Aachen, Germany, on Sunday, marking a year since the end of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia and showing the extraordinary results achieved in Yugoslavia's reconstruction. The exhibition was opened by Yugoslav Consul General in Dusseldorf Vlado Nadazdin. The opening was attended by countless Yugoslav citizens who live and work in this part of Germany, many Germans, and foreigners who are part of the Aachen Anti-War Forum. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM SERB MINOR RETURNED HOME STRPCE, June 26 (Tanjug) - Jovan Milic, 17, has been returned to his home and family after being kidnapped on Sunday by four armed and uniformed members of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), in Susice village, municipality of Strpce in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province. Milic managed to escape from his captors while they were taking him through a thick forest. He was then kept by international force KFOR Polish members at their base allegedly in order to be taken to the KFOR U.S. Bondsteel base to be shown video tapes of ethnic Albanian terrorists and possibly to recognize his assailants. Several hundred citizens immediately staged protests and blocked the KFOR Polish base, demanding Milic's release. The protest was successful and the boy was released late on Sunday. Meanwhile, nothing is known still about Bozidar Markovic, 60, also of Susice, who was abducted on Friday while tending his cattle. The Committee for Protection and Human Rights of Strpce told "Tanjug" that the situation had somewhat calmed, but that the 12,000 citizens of that Serb enclave were still tense and indignant at the stand of the KFOR and U.N. civilian mission UNMIK, who are doing nothing to protect the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija. WEAPONS FOR ETHNIC ALBANIAN KLA CAME FROM CROATIA KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, June 26 (Tanjug) - U.N.-seized weapons of the ethnic Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had reached Kosovo and Metohija through clandestine channels from Croatia and Macedonia since the so-called peacekeepers' deployment. The weaponry, seized by the international force KFor in that Serbian province last week in the KLA's stronghold of Drenica, had come in under the guise of humanitarian aid deliveries and was paid for by the Albanian drug mafia. KFor and U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) guards at the Djeneral Jakovic border crossing turned a blind eye to the deliveries. According to TANJUG's information, the quantity of weapons and ammunitions seized was far greater than KFor reported. Among others, there were as many as 91 120-mm mortars, 50 105-mm cannon and large numbers of grenades for cannon and for hand-held rocket launchers, which is ten times more than the officially given figure. This was mostly weaponry of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), as evident from the markings on the crates. As the Yugoslav Army pulled out of Kosovo and Metohija last June in line with the Kumanovo military-technical accord, taking its armament away with it, it is clear the seized weapons were illegally supplied to the Albanian mafia by Croatia for huge sums of money. Former KLA commander Agim Cheku, now commander of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps, who as former officer of the JNA in Croatia had committed war crimes against Serbs in Gospic and Divoselo, played a decisive part in obtaining the weaponry. The fact that drugs-sales paid for weapons for the KLA, now the Kosovo Protection Corps, has been known all the time to international representatives in Kosovo and Metohija and to the power-wielders in Washington, Bonn, Paris and Brussels. KFor has said that the seized weaponry will be destroyed, but no evidence of this has been forthcoming to this day. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS WASHINGTON FALLS EVER LOWER IN ITS ANTI-YUGOSLAV CAMPAIGN BELGRADE, June 26 (Tanjug) - The United States is trying, with less and less success, to set precedents in international relations, which have for 50 years been based on the U.N. Charter, and to suit the United Nations organisations and its work to its own purpose. After last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, which violated the U.N. Charter and international law, and after being forced to agree that the Kosovo and Metohija crisis be dealt with in the United Nations, Washington is now trying to channel U.N. actions to its ends. Seeking to block Yugoslavia's participation in the U.N. Security Council's debate on the Balkans, Washington has made its closest allies set another precedent which is at odds with international law and the U.N. Charter, according to European international law authorities' initial estimates. It is noticeable, however, that most Western European nations - members of NATO on Monday ignore the latest U.S.-orchestrated humiliation in the U.N. Security Council. This, in a way, was only to be expected, because it is practically impossible to defend something that has neither rhyme nor reason, nor any legal grounds. There are, of course, exceptions, such as the media in Portugal which, not insignificantly, chairs the European Union, which make no bones about it that behind the entire affair was strong influence exerted by Washington. There was, in fact, strong pressure from Washington, which takes every opportunity to try to justify NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia and continuation of that aggression, and also the growing expense of maintaining the Hague-based tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which is financially and politically under total U.S. control. It is obvious that the Americans are trying to make of the U.N. Security Council what they have made of the Tribunal - viz. turn it into an obedient creature of the United States. IRAQ ACCUSES U.S. OF BREAKING UP YUGOSLAVIA THROUGH UNITED NATIONS BAGHDAD, June 26 (Tanjug) - Iraqi permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Saeed al Moussawi told an open session of the Security Council on June 23, in a debate on the Balkans situation, that the destructive U.S. policy presents yet another dangerous precedent in the work of the Security Council, the Iraqi daily Al-Khadisiya said on Monday. A report entitled "Iraq accuses United States of breaking up Yugoslavia" quoted the ambassador as saying the objective of this destructive policy was the realization of expansionist interests, and not the establishment of peace and security in the Balkans. The ambassador also said that peace could be achieved in the Balkans only by respecting the U.N. Charter, and direct and serious dialogue between all interested sides. The U.S.-led NATO aggression on Yugoslavia was a blow to efforts by the international community to settle the crisis, and to the U.N. Charter and international law. The aggression also damaged the institutions of the Security Council and the United Nations in general, the ambassador said. Ambassador Al Moussawi condemned the fact that the Yugoslav representative was not allowed to speak at the United Nations, to take part in a discussion at an open session. This ban came at the same time when a representative of Congo rebels was allowed to speak at an open Security Council session, he said. __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
