>YUGOSLAVIA - MACEDONIA YUGOSLAVIA URGES WIDER COOPERATION WITH MACEDONIA IN >SCIENCE AND EDUCATION SKOPJE, Sept 7 (Tanjug) - Macedonian Education and >Science Minister Gale Galev has received Yugoslav Ambassador to Macedonia >Zoran Janackovic to discuss bilateral cooperation in science and education, >the Yugoslav embassy said in a statement on Thursday. Ambassador Janackovic, >at whose request the meeting was scheduled, urged for more intensive and more >productive cooperation through annual and short-term plans, aided by specific >regulations, the statement said. Yugoslavia is particularly interested in >cooperation related to the education of pupils and students in Yugoslavia and >Macedonia in their native languages, Janackovic told Galev. During the past 3 >years, the Yugoslav embassy in Skopje has been providing ethnic Serb pupils >receiving education in their native language with books and accessories, >Janackovic said. He inquired about possibilities for organizing >Serbian-language education in Macedonian secondary schools and universities as >well. Galev said that his government was willing to revise the current >Yugoslav-Macedonian accord on cultural and educational cooperation, and adopt >amendments on scientific cooperation. Galev stressed that the attitude of the >Macedonian educational authorities towards all national minorities was equal, >adding that it was defined by fundamental minority rights, not by the >statistical significance of a particular minority group. > >SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA GEN. PAVKOVIC: KOSOVO UNIT READY TO >CARRY OUT ITS TASKS NIS, Sept 7 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Army Chief of General >Staff, Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic said on Wednesday that the Kosovo unit presented >to the home and foreign public last week was absolutely ready to carry out the >special tasks in the southern Serbian province, secure the state border, and >protect cultural goods. Speaking in a broadcast of the regional program of >Serbian Radio Television RTS in the central Serbian town of Nis, Gen. Pavkovic >said the unit comprised highly skilled professional members of the Yugoslav >Army and the Interior Ministry who will protect and defend the Serb population >from ethnic Albanian terrorists. "The unit is not intended for a violent >return home," Gen. Pavkovic emphasized. "There are other forces for such an >alternative. Other Yugoslav Army units are prepared for such activities, >actually. However, we are duly implementing in principle the (U.N. Security >Council) Resolution 1244 and we do not wish to be the ones who will be blamed >for its non-realization. That is why we can proudly say that our army is ready >to join in the peace process and we think it would make a great contribution >to that peace mission because the KFOR and UNMIK have demonstrated that they >are incapable of doing so," Gen. Pavkovic said. > >ETHNIC ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS BLOW UP TWO SERB HOUSES IN EASTERN KOSOVO VITINA, >Sept 7 (Tanjug) - Ethnic Albanian separatists blew up two Serb houses in >Klokot village, eastern Kosovo and Metohija province, late Wednesday. There >have been no reports of casualties. The blasts razed the houses and also >damaged neighbouring objects, Belgrade Radio said. This is the latest in a >series of onslaughts by ethnic Albanian separatists on the Serb population of >Klokot village aimed at expelling them from this area. > >FROM DOMESTIC MEDIA MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT PROTEGE OF SLOVENIAN, CROATIAN >COUNTERPARTS NEW YORK, Sep 6 (Tanjug).- Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic >has arrived in New York to attend the Millennium Summit as a protege of his >Slovenian and Croatian counterparts Milan Kucan and Stjepan Mesic, clearly >showing to both the people of Yugoslavia and the entire world what his >intentions are and with whose aid he plans to realize them. The role played by >Kucan and Mesic and their regimes in violating one of the fundamental >principles contained in the UN Charter - that of respecting the sovereignty of >states - is not surprising. The people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia >can hardly forget where the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia had >started, who was the first to give support to ethnic Albanian separatism in >Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, who had opened fire on troops of the >Yugoslav National Army (army of the former Yugoslav federation), how much >blood was shed for that reason, how many millions of people have lost their >kin and their homes, and who had boasted about all this. Djukanovic's conduct >obviously should come as no surprise either. By accepting Kucan and Mesic as >his sponsors, he has clearly unveiled his true intentions, his moral values >and his political (im)maturity, as well as the falseness of his claims that he >wishes to preserve Yugoslavia. He allegedly dislikes only the central >authority in Belgrade. If so, it is clear why. That authority respects the >will of the majority of the people in both Yugoslav republics to live in a >joint state. What is surprising, though, is the conduct of the UN, which, by >allowing the illegal presence of a representative of one of Yugoslavia's >federal units, most drastically demonstrates its support to separatism in the >heart of Europe, although the problem of separatism is on the Summit's agenda. >Many world analysts have noted just before the Summit that the overall record >of the UN in the past 50 years has been negative, keeping in mind above all >the great errors the world organization has made in the region of the former >Yugoslavia. They have particularly pointed to the incomprehensible error the >UN is making in Kosovo-Metohija, scene of violence and terrorism perpetrated >by ethnic Albanian separatists. By pushing Djukanovic to attend the Millennium >Summit, even under Kucan's and Mesic's sponsorship, the US advocates of that >illegal act have pushed the UN into making a new serious error that brings >into question the good intentions regarding a fundamental reform of the world >organization, demanded practically by the entire world and consequently an >issue on the present Summit's agenda. The world is, however, demanding >precisely such changes that should bring about a fierce fight against >separatism, violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of >sovereign states, terrorism and dominance of the UN by a single power. At the >same time, according to the latest statements by many Summit participants, the >world is demanding the creation within the UN of a mechanism that would >prevent or punish any foreign interference in the internal affairs of any >state. Finally, the theory of limited sovereignty should also be the subject >of a serious discussion, as it is being used today as a justification for >"humanitarian interventions" which have, it has turned out, only fanned the >arms race and have made no contribution to world peace and security. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
