>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:58:27 EDT > > >TANJUG - September 25th, 2000 Stories: Vote tallies by SPS/JUL coalition and >Serbian Radical Party (SRS); Voting irregularities cited in Montenegro due to >DOS manipulations; Socialist People's Party (SNP) takes legal action against >Djukanovic regime for intimiding of workers during elections; Yugoslav >elections one of the best covered by foreign media - transparency reigns in >republic; Chief of Russian State Duma gives seal of approval to elections; >Macedonia's pro-NATO gov't, imposed after electoral frauds, seeks to heighten >anti-Yugoslav sentiment; Yugoslav jurist presents case against NATO in >Brazil, forum condemns USA; ethnic cleansing continues in Kosovo and >Metohija; Sport - Yugoslavia CRUSHES USA in waterpolo. > > YUGOSLAVIA > >SAINOVIC - LEFTIST CANDIDATE WILL WIN IN FIRST ROUND > >BELGRADE - SPS main board executive council member Nikola Sainovic said >Monday morning that the presidential candidate of leftist parties, Slobodan >Milosevic, continues to be in the lead, and that he was confident of a >victory in the first round. > >Sainovic, at the third press conference since the closing of polling >stations, specified that, on the basis of results processed so far, which >continue to arrive at the election headquarters, so far have been processed >2,478 polling stations at which have voted 940,453 voters. > >According to preliminary results of elections for president of Yugoslavia, >candidate Miodrag Vidojkovic has won 7,416 or 0.7 percent of votes, Vojislav >Kostunica 414,999 votes or 41 percent, Slobodan Milosevic 442,606 votes or 44 >percent, Vojislav Mihailovic 29,123 or three percenet, Tomislav Nikolic >46,309 or 4.8 percent of votes. > >RESULTS FROM 1,729 POLLING STATIONS > >BELGRADE - According to the latest results that arrived at the headquarters >of the Serbian Radical Party from 1,729 polling stations and after the >counting of 635,941 ballots, Slobodan Milosevic has won 257,170 votes or >40.44 percent. > >Vojislav Kostunica has won 315,080 votes or 49.55 percent, Tomislav Nikolic >39,587 votes or 6.22 percent, Vojislav Mihailovic 21,156 votes or 3.33 >percent, and Miodrag Vidojkovic 5,732 votes or 0.9 percent. > >For the Chamber of Republics of Yugoslav parliament, from 1,734 polling >stations have been counted 616,056 ballots. > >Candidates on the SPS-JUL ticket-Slobodan Milosevic have won 227,429 votes or >36.92 percent. > >Candidates of DOS have won 259,169 votes or 42.07 percent, the Serbian >Radical Party 64,364 votes or 10.45 percent, the Serbian Renewal Party 39.839 >votes or 6.47 percent, the Radical Party of the Left "Nikola Pasic" 13,769 >votes or 2.24 percent, and the list of the Party of Natural Law 13,100 votes >or 2.13 percent. > >POLLING IN MONTENEGRO PROCEEDED MAINLY IN ORDERLY FASHION > >PODGORICA - Voting in Yugoslavia's presidential and parliamentary elections >in the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro was proceeding in an orderly fashion >on the whole. > >Montenegrin Electoral Commission Chairman Neven Gosovic has told TANJUG that >the Commission has received no reports of a polling station remaining closed. > >Gosovic said there "are certain problems" at polling stations "concerning >solely members of the election staff for presidential candidate Vojislav >Kostunica". > >According to Gosovic, "they are bringing along their own electoral registers, >in violation of the law and order at the polling stations and of the >electoral law". > >Also, he added, "unidentified persons" were hanging at and around polling >stations, keeping tabs on the voters. > >MONTENEGRO'S SNP PRESSES CHARGES OVER VOTING RIGHTS INFRINGEMENT > >PODGORICA - The Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro has filed >charges against four prominent officials for hampering elections by >threatening workers with losing their jobs if they voted. > >The opposition SNP, as different from the Democratic Party of Socialists >(DPS) which is the ruling party in this Yugoslav republic, is not boycotting >Sunday's elections for Yugoslavia's president and parliament. > >The charges against Montenegro's vice premier and three directors of >state-owned companies have been filed with the state prosecutor's office. > >FOREIGN REPORTERS SHOW GREAT INTEREST IN YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS > >BELGRADE - Yugoslavia's elections are being followed by hundreds of foreign >correspondents, in addition to a large number of domesic reporters, according >to Dragan Zivadinovic, secretary at the Yugoslav information ministry, on >Sunday. > >Responding to untrue and maliciuos reports by some foreign media that certain >foreign correspondents in Yugoslavia are being hampered in covering the >polls, Zivadinovic said the ministry had given every facility to all those >who wished to cover the election process. > >He explained that foreign reporters had evinced a great interest in covering >Yugoslavia's presidential and parliamentary elections and local polls in the >Yugoslav republic of Serbia. > >Allegations by individual world media that foreign correspondents were being >prevented from reporting on the Yugoslav elections were another instance of >pressure being brought to bear on the country, he said. > >He added that, so far from preventing foreign correspondent from covering the >polls, Yugoslavia had accredited a large number of special correspondents for >the purpose. > >Sunday's elections were being covered by world news agencies such as Reuters, >the Agence France Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), Germany's DPA, the >Press Trust of India (PTI), and Russian news agencies, Zivadinovic said. > >Also, he added, there were numerous television crews from all over the world, >from the former Yugoslav republics, as well as teams sent by leading world >newspapers, political magazines and other media. > >All technical facilities had been provided for their work, he stressed. > > YUGOSLAVIA AND THE WORLD > >CHIEF RUSSIAN STATE DUMA MONITOR SAYS YUGOSLAV POLLS WERE NORMAL > >MOSCOW - The chief Russian State Duma (lower house) monitor at Sunday's >presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia has said the polls >were normal and conformed to standards prevalent in highly developed >democracies. > >Speaking in prime-time Vremya news programme on Russian state television, >Constantine Kosachov said he had visited 15 polling stations in four >electoral districts during the day, and nowhere had there been any problems. > >He specified this was true both of the technical organisation of the voting >and of the attendance at the polling stations of representatives of all >interested parties. > >Kosachov described the situation in Belgrade as absolutely normal. > >In his Sunday evening report from Belgrade, Russian state television's >special correspondent also said the elections had been held in a normal >atmosphere, without any particular problems at the polling stations. > >YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR ABOUT ANTI-YUGOSLAV CAMPAIGN IN MACEODNIA > >SKOPJE - Yugoslav Ambassador in Skopje Zoran Janackovic assessed on Saturday >that some participants in the anti-Yugoslav campaign in Macedonia attempt in >that way to cover-up the participation of that state in NATO's aggression >last year on Yugoslavia. > >In a statement to Skopje television Sitel, after the Macedonian government >announced the intensified monitoring of the activities of all diplomats in >Macedonia, suspected of provoking tension in that state, Janackovic said that >the mentioning of his name in that connection was a mere insinuation and >accusation that he rejects with indignation. > >"Such allegations are unfounded, incorrect, immoral and untenable, and are >not new," Janackovic said, pointing out that the same thing happened during >NATO's aggression, which some anti-Yugoslav campaigners supported, and >accused Yugoslavia, the victim of aggression, that it allegedly tried to >destabilize Macedonia. > >YUGOSLAV STATE PROSECUTOR ATTENDS CONGRESS IN BRAZIL > >SAO PAULO, Brazil - Yugoslavia's state prosecutor has addressed the 1st world >congress of prosecutors in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on the subject of war crimes >and crimes against humanity that have rocked the world. > >Vukasin Jokanovic spoke about the causes and effects of last year's brutal >NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, which he said violated all norms of >international law and all principles of humanity and morality. > >Jokanovic quoted horrendous crimes committed by NATO against civilians, its >use of banned weapons - depleted uranium warheads, graphite and cluster bombs >- with far-reaching consequences for health and the environment. > >He stressed that NATO-inflicted damaged is roughly estimated at 100 billion >U.S. dollars plus, and that the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia was the most >drastic armed operation since World War II in terms of intensity, military >power involved and consequences. > >He went on to speak about the history of the Kosovo crisis and decades of >ethnic Albanian separatism designed to detach the province from Serbia and >its parent Yugoslavia and form a "Greater Albania" from parts of Serbia, >Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece. > >He said that, under the Constitution, the Albanian ethnic community in >Kosovo-Metohija had always enjoyed all political, cultural and human rights >according to the highest world standards. > >According to him, the U.N. Kosovo-Metohija mission (UNMIK) has failed >absolutely and totally, not having carried out its most important mandate - >to provide equal security for Serbs and other non-Albanians. > >The situation in Kosovo-Metohija is more dramatic now than before June 1999, >when the international force KFor and UNMIK were deployed, he explained. > >He said the Yugoslav army and police are being unlawfully kept out of >Kosovo-Metohija, and quoted that more than 50,000 homes, mostly Serb, have >been destroyed, torched or heavily damaged, and more than 350,000 people, >mostly Serbs, expelled from the province. > >"KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA" ABOUT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA > >MOSCOW - Western peacemakers have helped Albanians from Kosovo-Metohija expel >from that Serbian province at least 200,000 Serbs, said on Saturday Moscow >daily Komsomolskaya Pravda. > >The daily specified that the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Serbian >population was performed in only 11 months since the arrival of UN and KFOR >in Kosovo-Metohija, while in the same period from Albania have illegally >moved into the province 300,000 Albanian citizens. > >The key person with whose support all that was carried out, the Russian daily >said, is the head of the UN Civilian Mission in Kosovo-Metohija, Bernard >Kouchner. He is practically responsible for the failure of the UN mission in >Kosovo-Metohija and now he is in a hurry to organize local election in the >Serbian province so as to put the blame on others for future developments. > >The Russian daily, analyzing the situation around Kosovo-Metohija, assessed >that the United States is making efforts to build an oil pipeline from the >Caspian sea, among other countries, also through Macedonia, Kosovo-Metohija >and Albania, and that is why it wants to break away a part of Yugoslav >territory. > >The efforts of the United States to set up in Kosovo-Metohija one of the >largest Muslim centers is very dangerous for Russia, Komsomolskaya Pravda >said, because if that scenario becomes reality, into Russia could start >flowing in from Kosovo-Metohija in the near future, arms and narcotics, and >worst of all, religious intolerence. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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