> BELGRADE, 12 September 2000 C O N T E N T S : FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
>YUGOSLAVIA - PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC INAUGURATES NEW IRONGATE GENERATOR -
>PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC LAYS WREATH AT WWII MONUMENT IN NEGOTIN
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>YUGOSLAVIA - UN - TERROR CAMPAIGN UNDER U.N. FLAG IN SERBIA'S KOSOVO-METOHIJA
>CONTINUES
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>YUGOSLAVIA-CROATIA-UNHCR - YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, UNHCR DELEGATIONS HOLD TALKS IN
>GENEVA
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>YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA - RUSSIAN STATE DUMA TO SEND OBSERVERS FOR YUGOSLAV
>ELECTIONS - YUGOSLAVIA, RUSSIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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>YUGOSLAVIA - PERU - YUGOSLAV ECONOMIC DELEGATION VISITS PERU
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>KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS - NATO AGGRESSION COMPLICATES
>SITUATION IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
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>SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - U.N. OCCUPATION OF TREPCA MEANT TO
>DRIVE SERBS OUT
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>FROM FOREIGN MEDIA - KOSOVO ALBANIAN MAFIA HAS SPREAD ALL OVER EUROPE - NATO
>BOMBS 'STILL KILLINING'IN KOSOVO - KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN CHEKU INVESTIGATED
>BY WAR CRIMES COURT - KOSOVO-METOHIJA U.N. CHIEF, TROOPS ARE INCAPABLE
>
> a.. * * FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC
>INAUGURATES NEW IRONGATE GENERATOR KLADOVO, Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav
>President Slobodan Milosevic inaugurated on Tuesday the newest, 16th
>generating unit of the Irongate II Hydro-Electric Power and Navigation System
>in the River Danube. Over the 30 years of operation, this biggest Yugoslav
>hydro-electric power plant, which Yugoslavia shares with neighbouring Romania,
>has generated 170 billion kilowatthours (Kwh) of electricity, exceeding the
>plan by a whole four-year output. The inauguration ceremony was attended by
>the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's President Milan Milutinovic and Parliament
>Speaker Dragan Tomic, as well as Yugoslav federal parliament lower house
>Speaker Milomir Minic. Also present were Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
>Secretary-General Gorica Gajevic, and Yugoslav Left (JUL) President Ljubisa
>Ristic, Yugoslav federal and Serbian government officials. Yugoslav Defence
>Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic and Chief of Staff Nebojsa Pavkovic with aides also
>attended.
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> d.. PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC LAYS WREATH AT WWII MONUMENT IN NEGOTIN NEGOTIN,
>Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic laid a wreath at a
>WWII monument to fighters against fascism in the eastern Serbian town of
>Negotin on Tuesday. The wreath, laid on the occasion of the anniversary of the
>liberation of this town on the Danube in WWII, bore the following message: "To
>the offspring of Hajduk Veljko - defenders who gave their lives for the
>freedom of the fatherland." Hajduk Veljko is a figure from Serb history. He
>stepped outside his role of local fighter against the Ottoman occupation of
>Serbia, and became, in the 19th century, one of the figures who created the
>Serb state. After the Yugoslav national anthem "Hey, Slavs" was sounded,
>Milosevic inspected the honourary guard unit of the Yugoslav Army. He then
>took a walk along the central street in the town, accompanied by state
>officials, where he was warmly welcomed by numerous citizens of Negotin.
>Earlier, Milosevic visited nearby Kladovo, where he inaugurated the last,
>16th, aggregate of the hydro-electric power plant "Djerdap" on the Danube and
>addressed a rally of over 100,000 people.
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> h.. YUGOSLAVIA - UN TERROR CAMPAIGN UNDER U.N. FLAG IN SERBIA'S
>KOSOVO-METOHIJA CONTINUES BELGRADE, Sept 11 (Tanjug) - At a meeting of the
>humanitarian task group of the Peace Implementation Council in Geneva,
>Yugoslav Minister for Refugees and Displaced Persons Bratislava Morina has
>dismissed the most recent document on the Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province as
>unacceptable. The document treats the province as an entity outside the
>political, economic, educational, social, legal and health system of Serbia
>and Yugoslavia, which is contrary to the U.N. Resolution 1244, Morina said,
>according to a statement of the Yugoslav government. Morina went on to say
>that, 15 months after the deployment of the Kfor and UNMIK troops, the
>situation in the province was absolutely disastrous. Under the U.N. banner, a
>systematic and comprehensive campaign of terror, genocide, and ethnic
>cleansing, directed against non-Albanians, primarily Serbs and Montenegrins,
>is under way, Morina said. She added that Kfor and UNMIK were doing nothing to
>ensure the return of displaced persons. Morina stressed that Yugoslavia was
>fully participating in the repatriation of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina
>and Croatia, in close cooperation with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
>(UNHCR). Various obstructions, such as murders, arrests, and harassment of
>returners, seriously undermine the repatriation process, Morina said,
>appealing to the UNHCR for immediate assistance on these issues. Morina
>described the reports by Karl Bildt and Bernard Kouchner as quite untrue. The
>reports misrepresent the state of affairs, and are not a contribution to
>stabilization in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, she said. The Yugoslav delegation
>walked out on the meeting, in protest against the reports, the statement said.
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> k.. YUGOSLAVIA-CROATIA-UNHCR YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, UNHCR DELEGATIONS HOLD
>TALKS IN GENEVA BELGRADE, Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav and Croatian delegations
>are holding talks in Geneva on Tuesday with officials of the U.N. High
>Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the repatriation to Croatia of
>refugees sheltered in Yugoslavia. According to a Yugoslav government
>statement, the Yugoslav delegation to the tripartite talks is headed by
>Minister for humanitarian and refugee affairs Bratislava Morina. Morina
>stressed Yugoslavia's firm position that the Protocol on an organised
>repatriation must be honoured. All those who opt to return must be guaranteed
>the necessary conditions for a free, normal and safe life, including property
>rights, full personal safety and security of property. They must also be
>guaranteed equal treatment as that accorded to the other citizens, and general
>amnesty, except in cases of the gravest violations of humanitarian law.
>Yugoslavia has discharged its obligations under the Protocol, while Croatia is
>not only ignoring the Protocol, but trying to change it in its most important
>part, the statement said. This means, according to the statement, that Croatia
>is in violation also of the Yugoslav-Croatian normalisation accord, the 1995
>Zagreb/Erdut Croatian-Serb accord and relevant resolutions of the United
>Nations. Morina condemned in the strongest terms arrests of repatriates and
>the return to Yugoslavia of some whose repatriation had been approved. She
>also stressed it is impermissible that Croatia should be applying a new
>repatriation procedure outside the Protocol, instituting criminal
>investigations and checks of accommodation, and so violating the international
>document, the statement said.
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> m.. YUGOSLAVIA - RUSSIA RUSSIAN STATE DUMA TO SEND OBSERVERS FOR YUGOSLAV
>ELECTIONS MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Russian State Duma MPs will monitor the
>Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections, called for Sept. 24,
>Russian Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov said on Tuesday. He announced that the
>MPs should arrive in Yugoslavia on Sept. 20, adding that each member of the
>delegation represented one Duma faction. The observers will go to Yugoslavia
>at the invitation of the presidents of the Chamber of Republics and the
>Chamber of Citizens of the Yugoslav parliament, Seleznyov said.
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> o.. YUGOSLAVIA, RUSSIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BELGRADE,
>Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Minister for Development, Science and Environment
>Nada Sljapic has received a delegation of the Russian state agency for patents
>and seals Rospatent, said a statement released by the federal Information
>Ministry on Tuesday. The Rospatent delegation included agency Deputy General
>Manager Vladimir Meshcheryakov and Russian Federal Institute for Industrial
>Property Director Alexander Ashekhin, who are in Belgrade as guests of the
>Yugoslav Federal Department for Intellectual Property. During talks which
>preceded the signing of a Yugoslav-Russian Agreement on cooperation in the
>area of intellectual property, it was agreed that the exchange of
>scientific-technical achievements had an important place in the development of
>economic relations between the two countries, the statement said. Sljapic
>underscored that cooperation between institutions which deal with intellectual
>rights is just one of many links in the firmer ties between Yugoslavia and
>Russia. The Rospatent representatives said that the objective of their visit
>was to work out in detail cooperation in the area of intellectual property,
>and expressed readiness to extend help to Yugoslavia in overcoming the
>difficulties with which it is burdened because of the comprehensive blockade,
>the ministry statement said.
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> q.. YUGOSLAVIA - PERU YUGOSLAV ECONOMIC DELEGATION VISITS PERU LIMA, Sept
>12 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav economic delegation, led by Assistant Yugoslav
>Foreign Minister Zoran Jeremic, ended a two-week tour of Latin American
>countries with a visit to Peru. Within the tour, the delegation visited Cuba,
>Venezuela, Chile and Brazil. In contacts with businessmen, the delegation
>conferred on concrete forms of cooperation for renewing and promoting
>bilateral economic cooperation and cooperation in other fields. Upon their
>arrival in Lima, Jeremic and Belgrade Chamber of Commerce President Branislav
>Vujinovic were received by Acting Peruvian Deputy Foreign Minister Alberto
>Montagna. During the talks, the hosts underscored that the arrival of the
>Yugoslav economic delegation to Peru and the demonstrated interest of Peruvian
>businessmen best reflects the mutual wish for the expanding the achieved level
>of openness and confidence in political relations into other areas as well.
>The numerous individual meetings with Peruvian businessmen have shown that
>there is particular interest in cooperation in the area of agriculture, the
>metal industry, agricultural mechanization, and also in the participation of
>Yugoslav firms in the realization of projects in construction and development
>of the railway network of Peru. Talks also covered possible joint ventures on
>third markets.
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> s.. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS NATO AGGRESSION
>COMPLICATES SITUATION IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Russian
>Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is quoted on Tuesday as saying that last year's
>monstrous NATO aggression on Yugoslavia has further complicated the situation
>in the Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija. Moscow media quote
>Ivanov, who is on an official visit to Canada, as saying that one result of
>the NATO aggression has been that all talks about a solution to the conflict
>in Kosovo-Metohija have been stopped. According to him, Russia has three jobs
>to do in the Balkans.First, it must not allow a disintegration of Yugoslavia;
>secondly, it must work for the safe repatriation of all displaced
>non-Albanians; and third, it must work to create conditions for giving wide
>autonomy to Kosovo-Metohija within an undivided Yugoslavia. This is hard to
>achieve, he explained, in view of the fact that the western countries, running
>true to form, are trying to convince the world that the violent solution
>imposed by them on the Balkans is the only possible one.
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> u.. SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA U.N. OCCUPATION OF TREPCA
>MEANT TO DRIVE SERBS OUT ZVECAN, Sept 12 (Tanjug) - The purpose of Aug. 14
>U.N. occupation of the Trepca lead smelter in Zvecan, Kosovo-Metohija, was not
>to restart production, but to drive Serbs out of that U.N.-run Serbian
>(Yugoslav) province, protesters said on Tuesday. If the U.N. mission (UNMIK)
>had meant to restart production, they would have come with money and experts,
>not tanks and helicopters, according to Desimir Timotijevic of the Trepca
>management, addressing protesters. "Their purpose is to drive us out, for the
>Serbs to forget who they are, their history, battles, victories and heroes",
>Timotijevic said, speaking at another daily peaceful workers' protest outside
>the main gate into the complex. "Those who have driven us out of our jobs are
>now offering that we return, telling us stories about modernisation and
>restarting of production. "How can be trust them, when we know what they have
>done in the industrial zone in south Kosovska Mitrovica, setting the zinc
>plant on fire", Timotijevic said.
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> w.. FROM FOREIGN MEDIA KOSOVO ALBANIAN MAFIA HAS SPREAD ALL OVER EUROPE
>NEW YORK, Sept 6, (Reagan Information Interchange) - Interior Minister Spartak
>Poci told the Hungarian Radio that the Kosovo Albanian mafia has spread in all
>Europe, and has spheres of influence even in Albania and Montenegro, Italy's
>La Stampa daily reported on Wednesday. "The mafia of Kosovo is very powerful
>across Europe," Poci said. "It has been helped by the Russian mafia to
>reorganize its spheres of influence in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
>"Albania and Montenegro are interesting to them because of their access to the
>sea." This is the first time when an Albanian official denounces the Kosovo
>Albanian mafia, earlier covered through Albania's role to protect the
>interests of the Albanians who were under the rule of Serbia. But the
>pronouncement of Poci was interpreted as an attempt of the Albanian government
>"to distance itself from the mafia of its brethren." "Albania is worried that
>it has become the haven where Balkan criminal businesses and mafia clans
>clash," La Stampa, a Turin daily, said. The presence of the Kosovar drug and
>weapons trafficking rings had been noted chiefly in Switzerland and Germany,
>as well as prostitution rackets chiefly in eastern Europe. La Stampa quoted
>Italian intelligence sources as confirming an emerging Albania mafia with
>people chiefly originating from the border regions of Kukes and Tropoja, who
>sought to establish relations with Kosovar mafiosi in Italy. The intelligence
>sources quoted by La Stampa also reportedly said that organized groups in the
>region were interested in having a tampon area in the Balkans that would be
>difficult to govern. But the event turned political, as usual. Franco
>Frattini, who leads Italian Parliament's committee of intelligence services
>and is a member of Berlusconi's opposition grouping Forza Italia, said that
>"its warning on the phenomenon has not been considered by the government."
>Frattini criticized the support the United States and the United Kingdom have
>given to the KLA the past two years, which Frattini considered a
>mafia-sponsored force. Albanians from Albania themselves have created a
>worrying mafia presence in Italy, whose features were described by Italian
>investigators: "It is a phenomenon that presents a specific danger because of
>their growth and potential to grow more, but also because it has expanded its
>operations." "It is a mafia that has emigrated from Albania and has strong
>links with mafia groups within Albania. "While they earlier were not
>coordinated and concentrated mainly in prostitution trafficking, now they have
>begun to operate in the international drug trafficking networks," the report
>of Italian drug enforcement agencies, quoted by La Stampa, showed. "Albanians
>trafficked marijuana in the beginning, but now are having a share in the
>heroin and cocaine trafficking in Europe." They have also been involved in
>weapons trafficking after the looting of the army warehouses in Albania in
>1997.
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> y.. NATO BOMBS 'STILL KILLINING'IN KOSOVO LONDON, Sept 6 (Guardian) - The
>Red Cross has called on Nato to stop using cluster bombs after a survey
>revealed that they caused a disproportionate number of civilian casualties
>during and after the conflict in Kosovo. The situation has been amplified by
>the high failure rate of cluster bombs, used exclusively by Nato during
>airstrikes on Kosovo last year, according to the Red Cross report. It shows
>that unexploded bomblets were found up to 1km from their intended targets and
>that their failure rate was higher than stated in public. The report quoted a
>K-For ordnance disposal expert as saying that an average of 15% of cluster
>bombs, rising to 26%, failed to explode completely. Cluster bombs contain
>dozens, or hundreds, of small bomblets which are released and spread over a
>wide area before they hit the ground. The sub-munitions are meant to explode
>on impact. In the year after Nato's bombing campaign ended in June last year ,
>151 people in Kosovo were killed or injured by unexploded bomblets. The Red
>Cross also found that cluster bombs killed or maimed five times more Kosovan
>children than landmines. "This may be due to the fact that such sub-munitions
>are often brightly coloured, lying on the ground and assumed to be 'duds',"
>the report said. It calls for a moratorium on the use of cluster bombs. More
>than a third of peacetime casualties in Kosovo were caused by the munitions,
>the Red Cross said. About 30,000 unexploded bomblets are thought to have been
>left around Kosovo. About 4,000 have been confirmed cleared: a figure which
>does not include disposals that may have been carried out by K-For troops.
>Nato has been accused of failing to provide sufficient information on where
>cluster bombs were dropped. The Red Cross is calling for cluster bombs to be
>ranked alongside incendiary weapons, prohibiting their use in populated areas.
>"Anti-personnel landmines were doing what they were meant to do, but were not
>being used properly. Cluster bombs are causing this problem because they're
>not doing what they were designed to do, so it's a bit more difficult to argue
>on humanitarian grounds," Peter Herby, the head of the Red Cross anti-mines
>unit, said.
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> aa.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA ALBANIAN CHEKU INVESTIGATED BY WAR CRIMES COURT
>BELGRADE, Sept 12 (Tanjug) - Last week's report that the war crimes court for
>the former Yugoslavia has secretly indicted Kosovo-Metohija's ethnic Albanian
>leader Agim Cheku came as no surprise to those acquainted with his "lifework".
>The Sunday Times of London said Cheku, one-time commander of the supposedly
>defunct ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and now commander of the
>Kosovo Protection Corps, has been indicted for anti-Serb crimes committed
>during the Croatian war of secession from Yugoslavia, and in Kosovo-Metohija
>in the summer of 1998. Cheku was born in Pec, in the Yugoslav republic of
>Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province. He graduated from the Military Academy and
>joined the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), from which he deserted in 1991 to
>join the newly created Croatian army. He "won glory" and the rank of general
>from the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman for his involvement in the
>1993 notorious scorched earth operation as chief of staff in the 9th Guards,
>when he helped murder 88 Serb civilians and torch the villages of Divoselo,
>Citluk and Pocitelj in the Medak Pocket. Cheku's involvement in the Medak
>Pocket operations was testified to before the District Court of the then
>Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) in Knin in 1994 by Dutch mercenary Johannes
>Tilder, who was captured by the RSK army and his testimony reported in western
>press. Cheku demonstrated his hatred of the Serbs in the Croatian army's 1995
>Operation Storm, when he helped ethnically cleanse Croatia of more than
>250,000 local Serbs. His next chance to prove himself in liquidating Serbs
>came with the outbreak of clashes between the terrorist KLA and the Yugoslav
>and Serbian security forces in Kosovo-Metohija in 1998. With Croatia's
>support, and even more with the support of his U.S. and NATO friends and
>protectors, Cheku first transacted some arms deals in Brussels and then turned
>up in Kosovo-Metohija to take over the helm of the KLA. These and many other
>facts have long been known to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, so that it
>is a puzzle why the court has only just decided to open a file on this
>hardened terrorist.
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> ac.. KOSOVO-METOHIJA U.N. CHIEF, TROOPS ARE INCAPABLE ATHENS, Sept 12
>(Tanjug) - U.N. Kosovo-Metohija mission (UNMIK) chief Bernard Kouchner is
>incapable, the people are lost, the international force KFor is servile,
>according to a leading Athens newspaper on Monday. Eleftherotypia newspaper
>carried a report from the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's U.N.-administered
>province of Kosovo-Metohija, in which it accused Kouchner of incapacity and
>KFor troops of servility to the ethnic Albanians. According to Eleftherotypia,
>the foreign troops are servants of ethnic Albanians, whose children they drive
>to school and back home again, and they work at directing traffic in the
>province's chief city of Pristina, which is in complete chaos. Also, the paper
>adds, among the foreign troops' humiliating jobs is that of collecting
>garbage. The reporter goes on to add that Kfor's concern for the local Serbs
>is nowhere near their concern for the ethnic Albanians, while there is an
>impression that the Serb houses are different, cleaner, with well-ordered
>gardens. The paper clearly states that Bernard Kouchner is incapable of
>controlling the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and only raises tensions in the
>region. According to the paper, Kouchner will be replaced as U.N. civilian
>mission chief in Kosovo-Metohija by Sweden's Carl Bildt.
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