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JOVANOVIC - VISIT TO MOSCOW STRONG IMPETUS TO POMOTION OF RELATIONS BELGRADE - The talks we held and the agreements we reached during the two-day visit to Moscow will be of great importance for the further development of bilateral relations between Yugoslavia and Russia, just as for the strengthening of the international position of FR Yugoslavia, said on Tuesday in Belgrade Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, on return from a two-day visit to Moscow at the invitation of Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. At Belgrade airport, Jovanovic also told reporters that the talks he held with Russian officials and with his host were "very meaningful, open and constructive" and that they were conducted in a an atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding. Minister Jovanovic said he was confident that the talks "represent a strong impetus to the promotion of overall relations, stronger links and broader cooperation between our two countries on the bilateral and on the wider international level." During the visit to Moscow, besides talks with Minister Ivanov, the Yugsolav foreign minister also talked with the president of the Russian State Duma, Gennady Selznyov, with the chairman of the committee of that house of parliament in charge of cooperation with Yugoslavia, Nikolai Ryzhkov, and with a minister in the government of the Russian Federation, Andrei Shapovlyanc, who is at the same time co-chairman of the mixed committee for economic cooperation with Yugoslavia-Russia. "We have agreed that our relations and cooperation have a strategic importance for both countries" and "reviewed ideas and concrete proposals for expanding, promoting and upgrading political dialogue, for expanding and intensifying cooperation of the two Foreign Ministries," Jovanovic said. He said that the talks in Moscow were also an opportunity to inform the Russian side about the process of recovery and reconstruction of our country from the consequences of NATO's aggression. "We reviewed concrete modalities and possibilities of including the Russian economy, Russian businessmen in the process," Jovanovic said. Special attention in the talks in Moscow was devoted to the situation in Kosovo and Metohija and "we agreed that the processes in the province are not going on as they should as provided by UN SC Resolution 1244 and the Military-Technical accord and that greater efforts were absolutely necessary to ensure the cinsistent and full implementation of the Resolution, while fully respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia and of Yugoslavia," Jovanovic said. The Yugoslav foreign minister said that it was also agreed that of special importance for the further process and for the implementation of Resolu1tion 1244 had the creation of conditions for the the complete security of all citizens, in order to make possible the free and safe return of all those expelled in the ethnic cleansing campaign conducted by the terrorist "KLA." "We have also agreed that it is absolutely necessary that all other elements and commitments from the SC Resolution are consistently fulfilled. A political solution in Kosovo and Metohija is possible only with the realization of goals and tasks from SC Resolution 1244 and the creation of all those pre-conditions that are inevitable and unavoidable for such a solution which in its form will be an autonomy within Serbia, but in essence the equality of all citizens and all national communities," Jovanovic said.
