>BELGRADE, 11 September 2000 C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
>YUGOSLAVIA -YUGOSLAVIA WILL WIN UPCOMING ELECTIONS - PREMIER -CONSTRUCTION OF
>HOUSING UNDERWAY IN SERBIA IN LINE WITH GOVERNMENT PLANS SERBIAN PROVINCE OF
>KOSOVO AND METOHIJA -
>
>TREPCA WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA -SERB'S HOME STONED IN
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S GNJILANE -ETHNIC ALBANIAN REPORTER KILLED IN KOSOVO AND
>METOHIJA -ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACK SERBS IN VRBOVAC
>
>YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS -ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS BOMBING OF
>YUGOSLAVIA WAS ETHICAL VIOLENCE -YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP MUST BE RESPECTED AND
>HONOURED
>
>CROATIA - SERBS - CRIMES - CROATIA'S SEKS ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING CRIMES * * *
>
>FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA YUGOSLAVIA WILL WIN UPCOMING ELECTIONS
>- PREMIER BUDVA, Yugoslavia, Sept 11 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's prime minister,
>who heads the Montenegrin Socialist People's Party (SNP), said late on Sunday
>the SNP was going from strength to strength in this Yugoslav republic, despite
>all efforts to thwart it. Speaking at an election rally in Petrovac on the
>Adriatic coast, Momir Bulatovic quoted in substantiation that the SNP had
>scored what he described as a brilliant victory in a recent by-election in the
>coastal town of Herceg-Novi. "There we showed what the people truly want and
>what brave people we have in Montenegro, who are under tremendous pressure,
>yet never losing sight of the fact that the worst harm to them would come from
>an internal strife. "That would turn us into a theatre where brother would
>fight brother, to the benefit of those who have never been our friends. "Our
>decision to contest the Yugoslav federal elections on Sept. 24 denotes our
>commitment to the future, and we are facing the elections with a clear heart
>and a clear conscience. "There need be no fear from what the Montenegrian
>regime might do to those who take part in the polls," Bulatovic said.
>
>CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSING UNDERWAY IN SERBIA IN LINE WITH GOVERNMENT PLANS
>BELGRADE, Sep 11 (Tanjug).- Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic and Director of
>the Reconstruction Directorate Milutin Mrkonjic attended Monday the signing of
>contracts for the purchase of apartments under construction in line with the
>government development program. Marjanovic congratulated the young couples who
>have signed the contracts with the Directorate and said others eligible for
>purchasing housing under the program would do so shortly. The program
>envisages the construction of 10,000 apartments this year, of which 8,600 will
>be ready by the end of 2000 and the rest by next June. Many young couples have
>applied for the apartments whose cost is considerably lower that the market
>price. The buyers have to make a down payment of 30 percent and the rest in
>monthly instalments over the next 20 years. Marjanovic said that the program,
>which envisages the construction of 100,000 apartments over the next decade,
>is very important not only for the construction sector, but also for the
>Serbian economy in general, which is registering the highest growth rate in
>Europe today. Endeavors to this end will continue in order to provide housing
>for all as one of the essential factors for improving the standard of living,
>Marjanovic said, and congratulated the construction companies which are doing
>a good job and meeting deadlines.
>
>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA TREPCA WORKERS CONTINUE PROTESTS IN
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA ZVECAN, Serbia, Sept 11 (Tanjug) - Trepca workers held their
>daily protest rally outside the U.N.-seized lead smelter in Zvecan,
>Kosovo-Metohija, again on Monday, beginning a fifth week of protests against
>the smelter's violent takeover on Aug 14. Nebojsa Toskovic, a Trepca
>stock-holder, addressed the assembled multitude, stressing that Trepca is
>owned by its stock-holders and there is no truth in the claim that there
>should be a change in management. Toskovic, executive director of the
>Krusevac-based 14. Oktobar mechanical engineering company, dismissed as untrue
>also the claim that Trepca was polluting the environment and concern for the
>environment evinced by the occupiers. "The occupiers care nothing for the
>environment; their purpose is quite different", Toskovic said. "We are using
>all legitimate weapons under the laws of Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia
>and under international laws to recover our facilities", he added.
>
>SERB'S HOME STONED IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA'S GNJILANE GNJILANE, Serbia, Sept 11
>(Tanjug) - An 80-year-old Serb's home in the U.N.-run Serbian (Yugoslav)
>Kosovo-Metohija province was stoned for the second time late on Sunday. Rocks
>and ripe fruit rained down on the home of Zivko Cuckic at around 10.30 p.m. on
>Sunday, only three days since it was last attacked, according to the Serbian
>Church Council in the province's town of Gnjilane on Monday. An international
>force KFor patrol was on the scene within five minutes, but let the attackers
>slip away. The numerous Cuckic family is besieged by ethnic Albanians with an
>eye to their house.
>
>ETHNIC ALBANIAN REPORTER KILLED IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA PRISTINA, Sept 11
>(Tanjug) - Unknown attackers killed an ethnic Albanian reporter of the
>Pristina Albanian-language daily Rilindia in Vucitrn late Sunday, U.N. Kosovo
>spokesman Susan Manuel said on Monday. Reporter Shefki Popova, 50, was shot
>and then stabbed shortly before midnight outside the Vucitrn Cultural Center.
>Witnesses said they saw two persons flee from the place of the crime. No-one
>has been arrested yet, Manuel said. Popova died en route to the hospital.
>
>ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS ATTACK SERBS IN VRBOVAC KOSOVSKA VITINA, Sept 10
>(Tanjug) - Terrorists from the ethnic Albanian village of Ravniste, Kosovo and
>Metohija municipality of Kosovska Vitina, attacked Serbs who were working in
>their fields near Vrbovac village at about 11 a.m. Sunday, amateur radio
>operators said. The terrorists fired an anti-personnel grenade at the family
>of Bogislav Moskic, who were busy in their field, including the children. The
>shell exploded in a small riverbed, barely 20m from the Moskic family. There
>are no reports of casualties, the sources said.
>
>YUGOSLAVIA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS BOMBING OF
>YUGOSLAVIA WAS ETHICAL VIOLENCE ROME, Sep 11 (Tanjug).- Italian Prime Minister
>Giuliano Amato has described last year's (March-June) NATO bombing of
>Yugoslavia as ethical violence. Underlining that he was not speaking in his
>capacity as prime minister, Amato said at a reception given Sunday evening in
>Ravenna by the coalition UNITA, that he had felt deeply disturbed during the
>intervention in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, as it is immoral to attack
>someone with planes and bombs without facing him on the ground. If war has
>ethics, we have violated it, Amato said to an applauding audience. Massimo
>d'Alema, who was Italy's prime minister at the time of the NATO aggression,
>said on the same occasion that bombing is undeniably unpleasant and that the
>war in Kosovo-Metohija was without any doubt a tragedy that must be considered
>also from an ethical viewpoint, but added that this was a complex issue.
>
>YUGOSLAV LEADERSHIP MUST BE RESPECTED AND HONOURED AMMAN, Sept 10 (Tanjug) -
>China consistently and constantly points out to all international factors that
>the Yugoslav leadership must be respected and honoured, just as Yugoslavia's
>territorial integrity must be respected, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan
>said in an exclusive interview to the high-circulation Jordanian daily Al Arab
>Al Yawm on Sunday. China is resolutely against imposing of sanctions in any
>form on any country, Tang said, and added that, having in mind everything that
>happened in the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the past period, it is
>clear that sanctions are no solution. China urges respect for the rights and
>interests of all Yugoslav peoples, the Chinese minister said.
>
>CROATIA - SERBS - CRIMES CROATIA'S SEKS ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING CRIMES ZAGREB,
>Sept 11 (Tanjug) - Vladimir Seks, who heads the Croatian Democratic Union
>(CDU) club in the national parliament, has been accused by some former and
>present Croatian officials of suppressing crimes against Serbs in the Gospic
>and Pakrac areas. According to Croatian press, at least 120 people, mostly
>Serbs, were killed in Gospic and there are indications that hundreds of others
>were killed in Pakrac at the time of Croatia's war of secession from
>Yugoslavia. Current President Stipe Mesic, who was high up in the CDU
>hierarchy while the party was in power, has raised the matter of the
>accountability of Seks, who also held responsible party and state offices at
>the time. According to Mesic, the new government does not mean to criminate
>the CDU, but only individuals and groups, among whom Seks, for the role he
>played as state prosecutor.
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