BELGRADE, 4 July 2000 YUGOSLAVIA - RECONSTRUCTION YUGOSLAV VICE PREMIER BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW TRANSFORMER STATION * * * YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR SPEAKS OF YUGOSLAV SITUATION ON RUSSIAN TV YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TO TRAVEL TO MOSCOW * * * YUGOSLAVIA - MYANMAR MYANMAR MINISTER TO VISIT YUGOSLAVIA ON WEDNESDAY * * * SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN LEADER QUSE SAYS PEOPLE WANT COEXISTENCE * * * YUGOSLAVIA - RECONSTRUCTION YUGOSLAV VICE PREMIER BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW TRANSFORMER STATION BELGRADE, July 4 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Vice Premier Nikola Sainovic broke ground for a new transformer station in the eastern Serbian (Yugoslav) industrial town of Bor on Tuesday. The ceremony completed the cycle of rebuilding electric power industry facilities devastated in last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. "The start of the construction of this facility heralds full power supply security for the Bor mining complex which suffered heavy damage, and the building of an electric power system of the new generation," Sainovic stressed. He paid tribute to the constructors of the Serbian power system and praised "the war heroes in the power industry who, despite round-the-clock NATO air strikes, made sure that Yugoslavia had a steady power supply." YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR SPEAKS OF YUGOSLAV SITUATION ON RUSSIAN TV MOSCOW, July 4 (Tanjug) - Russia's TV Centre channel on Monday aired a programme on the situation being created in the United Nations and the world in connection with Yugoslavia, and Yugoslav Ambassador Borislav Milosevic appeared in the programme as guest. The anchorman said that passions were raging around Yugoslavia, chiefly because the U.S. Administration and NATO, after their fiasco in the Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija province, are trying to shirk responsibility for their crimes and put the blame on the Yugoslav Government. This is why, although the truth about Kosovo-Metohija is known to the whole world, the people in the United States and other western countries have heard none of the evidence of the criminal activity of the U.S. Administration and NATO presented by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. For the same reason, the anchorman said, Yugoslavia's representative was not allowed to speak at a recent session of the U.N. Security Council, prompting Russia's permanent U.N. representative Sergei Lavrov to walk out. Ambassador Milosevic, in turn, said that pressure and attacks on the Yugoslav Government are being applied also through the Hague-based war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia, set up by the U.S. Administration as a tool for concealing its crimes and pressuring the Yugoslav Government and Serbs in Yugoslavia and Bosnia. He went on to quote a number of facts and figures illustrative of what has truly been happening in Kosovo-Metohija and Yugoslavia. He showed that ethnic Albanians began to move out only when the bombs of their "western liberators" started falling last year. He went on to show that, since the deployment of international troops, 360,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians have been forced out of Kosovo-Metohija, while 200,000 Albanians, mostly criminals and terrorists, have since settled in the province. YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TO TRAVEL TO MOSCOW BELGRADE, July 4 (Tanjug) - A delegation of the Yugoslav Ministry of Telecommunications, headed by Minister Ivan Markovic, will be visiting Moscow from July 5 to 7 on the invitation of Minister of Communication and Computerisation Leonid Reiman. Minister Markovic will have talks with his host and other Russian officials. Both sides expect the visit to help promote bilateral cooperation, especially in the area of telecommunications and postal services, the Yugoslav ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. YUGOSLAVIA - MYANMAR MYANMAR MINISTER TO VISIT YUGOSLAVIA ON WEDNESDAY BELGRADE, July 4 (Tanjug) - Myanmar Foreign Minister U Win Aung will be paying an official return visit to Yugoslavia from July 5 to July 9, at the invitation of the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic. The two Foreign Ministers will review results of bilateral cooperation to date and prospects for its improvement and expansion. They will exchange views on internal development, on the current situation in their respective regions, as well as on other international issues of mutual interest and relevance, a Government statement said on Tuesday. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN LEADER QUSE SAYS PEOPLE WANT COEXISTENCE KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, July 3 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian leader in Kosovo-Metohija Sokol Quse said on Monday a fact-finding mission in part of that Serbian (Yugoslav) province had shown Goranies, ethnic Albanians, ethnic Turks and Serbs want coexistence. Quse told a news conference in divided U.N.-ruled Kosovska Mitrovica that a delegation of the Alliance for Peace which he heads had visited the areas of Prizren, Dragas and Strpce and established that the people there are absolutely for coexistence. The Alliance comprises the ethnic Albanian Democratic Reform Party, National Party of Kosovo and Kosovo Democratic Initiative. Its delegation toured the Gorany-populated Dragas municipality, the ethnic Albanian villages of Korisa and Dusanovo in the Prizren district and the villages of Jazince, Sevce, Brezovica and Strpce in the Serb-populated Strpce municipality. "Talks with ethnic Albanian, ethnic Turkish, Serb and Gorany representatives convinced us they want the same things - coexistence in Kosovo-Metohija, return of all displaced people and of the Serbian police and army as sole guarantors of safety", Quse 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] ___________________________________
