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[Emperor's Clothes]

ARTICLES ON SREBRENICA (with brief descriptions)
[3 August 2001]

The media is using the - in our opinion -
outrageous conviction of General
Krstic by NATO's Hague 'Tribunal' to
broadcast massive amounts of sheer
misinformation about what happened in
the town of Srebrenica 6 years ago. The
following list of articles about Srebrenica
includes brief descriptions:

1 - MISTREATMENT OF GENERAL KRSTIC. The
following two articles deal with the
brutal mistreatment of General Krstic.
(Abuse of Serbs by The Hague
'Tribunal' is commonplace; the latest
example is the completely unjustified
confinement of President Slobodan Milosevic
in total isolation from other
prisoners, and even from his wife.)
The articles on Krstic are: 'Appeal:
Help Save The Life of Gen. Krstic, Tormented at the Hague' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/citizens.htm
and 'Statement of the Daughter of General Krstic' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/child.htm

2- SINISTER SUGGESTION FROM A SURPRISING SOURCE:
'Refuting the Srebrenica Myth: An Islamist
Perspective' by Konstantin Kilibarda.
Statements from embittered leaders of the
Islamist forces in Srebrenica and
information from the United Nations
suggest that Washington and the
Izetbegovic government in Sarajevo
conspired to fabricate a massacre story
for propaganda purposes. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/islamist.htm

3 - Jared Israel's 'Five Years On & the
Lies Continue' appeared last year as
a full page ad in the 'Sydney Herald'
and the 'New York Post.' The article,
which can be read at http://emperors-
clothes.com/articles/jared/texts.htm ,
argues that it wasn't the Islamists but
ordinary Serbian villagers who were
slaughtered by the terrorists under Nasir
Oric at Srebrenica. The Australian
advertisement led to an intense debate
on Australian Public Radio between
Israel and the 'NY Times' Srebrenica 'expert' David Rohde.
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/texts.htm

3- David Rohde vs. Max Sinclair and Jared Israel

David Rohde wrote the original Srebrenica
massacre story when he was a
'Christian Science Monitor' reporter in
1995. By making loud if unsubstantiated
accusations against the Bosnian Serbs he landed a perch at
the 'NY Times' from which he has been
issuing fanciful Srebrenica updates at
strategic intervals ever since.

The debate between Emperor's Clothes
and Rohde began with the publication of
'Why has the War Crimes Tribunal
suppressed testimony about Srebrenica?' by
Max Sinclair and Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/sinclair/why.htm

David Rohde replied to Sinclair and
Israel in an email which he sent to Prof.
Drasko Jovanovic, with whom he had been
corresponding about Srebrenica. Go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/inaccurate.htm

Jovanovic forwarded Rohde's comments
to Sinclair and Israel who answered
Rohde by email at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/reply.htm

Prof. Jovanovic also sent Emperor's
Clothes a short memoir concerning his
experience as a boy in Nazi occupied
Yugoslavia. which can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/letterj.htm
Here Prof. Jovanovic dealt
with real genocide, as opposed to
the Rohde's unsubstantiated claims.

Rohde then took his dispute with
Emperors Clothes to the pages of the 'NY
Times,' writing an article in which he
omitted nothing but Israel and
Sinclair's actual arguments. Jared
Israel replied to Rohde's 'Times' piece at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/fulltext.htm.

Prof. Jovanovic also replied, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/farewell.htm

4 - George Pumphrey has written perhaps
the two best- documented articles
exposing government and media fabrications
about Srebrenica. The first is
'Srebrenica: 3 Years Later and Still Searching;' it can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/Srebrenica.html'
The more recent piece is 'Scandal in the Hague' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/scandal.htm,
which includes an introduction by Jared Israel
dealing with 'justice' as practiced at the Hague 'Tribunal.'

5 - Ren� Gr�maux and Abe de Vries'
analysis, 'The Construction of a Trauma.'
is ostensibly noncommittal regarding
whether there was in fact a massacre,
but the documentation argues against.
Here you will find firm refutation from
the Dutch -UN command as well as
self-contradictory testimony from supposed
witnesses. Can be read at http://emperors-
clothes.com/analysis/falsely.htm

6 - Sarah Standefer has written a
sharp rebuttal to the Srebrenica argument
which has been revived, as she points
out, to suit NATO's current propaganda
needs. See 'Thoughts On Srebrenica ' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/standefer/hoax.htm

7 - Here are some Useful Articles
on the 'International Criminal Tribunal for
Yugoslavia' (ICTY) also known as The Hague 'Tribunal'

* In 'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal Indictment'
Dr. Hans Koechler, the distinguished philosopher
and social-legal analyst associated with the United
Nations examines the Tribunal and does not
like what he finds. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm

* In 'An Impartial Tribunal? Really?',
Attorney Chris Black examines the
Tribunal's history and methods of operations. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/Impartial.htm

* Dr. Kosta Cavoski, a distinguished
Yugoslav legal scholar, has written a
mind-boggling four-part series.


In 'The War Crimes Tribunal vs. Gen. Djordje Djukic' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-1.htm
and 'The Mistreatment of Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-2.htm
Professor Cavoski deals with the torture and
physical destruction of Serbian 'defendants'.

In Illegal Origins' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-3.htm
Professor Cavoski analyzes the Tribunal's
legal rationale, or lack of same.

In 'Learning from the Inquisition' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm
Professor Cavoski describes the practices of
the Tribunal, which thoroughly violate what we
would consider natural legal guarantees

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[Partial translation; original in German follows.]

DER SPIEGEL (Hamburg), Monday, July 30, 2001

MACEDONIA: THE DOUBLE GAME OF THE AMERICANS

by Renate Flottau, Olaf Ihlau, Susanne Koelbl and
Alexander Szandar

There is growing irritation among the Europeans over
Washington's dubious actions in the Balkans: As
godfather of the UCK it shares responsibility for
the worsening conflict between Albanians and Macedonian
Slavs. [3 paragraphs omitted in translation]

Europe looks at its southeastern back yard with dismay.
Once again the fuse of an ethnic explosion is
smoldering. After the decade of the Yugoslav
succession wars that cost the lives of almost 300,000
people, another bloodbath in the Balkans looms with
the open civil war between two ethnic groups that
could plunge the entire region into chaos. [3
paragraphs omitted in translation]

So as not to appear as the clear villain, before the
new round of talks began the UCK cleared its forward
positions at Tetovo and withdrew to mountain posts, from
which it can easily strike again. But the separatist
Albanians will do the same if they do not obtain by the
political route what they are actually striving for:
First certified equality as an ethnic group through a
constitutional amendment, then the de facto
division of Macedonia, and finally a greater Albanian
fatherland.

There are reasons behind the outcry of Skopje's head of
government Ljubco Georgievski, himself a dedicated Slav
nationalist, over the West's alleged partisanship. In
this sad spectacle over Macedonia's future the UCK is
the main villain and the Americans play the shady part.

The UCK fighters were once schooled by American and
British trainers in Albanian camps for use against
Milosevic's soldiers in Kosovo. No one knows the main
actors, the UCK's commando structure and its financiers
and arms suppliers as well as the CIA, which keeps the
Albanian secret service close to its side as a subsidiary.

When in February UCK irregulars from Kosovo instigated
skirmishes in the West Macedonian border region,
initially the KFOR peacekeeping troops idly
observed. At that time Prime Minister Georgievski
accused Washington, but also Berlin, of having
withheld key information on planned terrorist
actions. The US government knew of at least 300
rebels, he said.

To confidants German defense minister Rudolf Scharping
complained that the "international community," meaning
first of all the Americans, had "not acted consistently"
and thus "shared responsibility" for the current crisis.

In fact, German soldiers in Macedonia are already
standing between the fronts. Last week they hastily
evacuated a depot in Tetovo when the barracks
was caught in a cross-fire between UCK marksmen and
the Macedonian army.

The great oversight of the Alliance is that, under
Washington's influence, after the air war against the
Serbs it treated the UCK independence fighters
as allies. Top Bundeswehr soldiers internally complain
of the constant camaraderie since 1999.

The Kosovo example: It should not have happened that
after the KFOR troops marched in the UCK made thousands
of guns, pistols and mortars disappear.
German soldiers who acted firmly against UCK members
who were carrying weapons despite the ban were reined
in by their superiors. 'That is not in compliance with
the NATO policy' was their commanders' implicit message.

The earlier UCK supreme commander Hashim Thaci, a protege
of then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, put a
few thousand of his fighters in the so-called Kosovo
Defense Corps (KPC for short), a sort of technical
relief organization officially intended to help in
repairing destroyed houses.

German KFOR commander Klaus Reinhardt warned in vain of
new activities by the underground UCK; the Americans
kept flirting with it. Reinhardt later complained that
politicians, diplomats and the NATO supreme commander for
Europe, Wesley Clark, regularly brushed aside warning
cries from the KFOR headquarters in Pristina.

As early as the start of December 1999, when the NATO
peacekeeping force had not yet been in the country for
half a year, KFOR reconnaissance patrols in the Presevo
valley noticed suspicious young Kosovars. The area belongs
to the so-called Ground Safety Zone (GSZ), a demilitarized
buffer zone between the Serbian heartland and Kosovo.

The Americans monitored the main traffic arteries so
loosely that the area quickly became a trading center
for arms runners, drug dealers and traffickers in young
women, controlled by the UCK and mafia. A "Presevo,
Medvedja and Bujanovac Liberation Army" (UCPMB) quickly
occupied villages, drove out Serb residents and called
for annexation to Kosovo.

KFOR leader Reinhardt called in vain on US officers
to act vigorously against illegal border crossers. NATO
supreme commander Clark always merely answered the
warnings about the firebrands in the Presovo valley with
questions about the old enemy: "And where do the Serbs
stand?"

When Serbian security forces moved into the Presevo valley
last March with NATO's consent, many UCK members went over
the land border to Macedonia or back to Kosovo. Scharping
suspiciously asked NATO colleagues how UCK members
were being prevented at checkpoints in the American Kosovo
sector from giving up their weapons but "two kilometers
further are taking up new weapons and continuing on to
Macedonia?" The news tickers gave the answer:
Freshly armed UCK members were again proclaiming "liberated
zones" in Macedonia.

While NATO had long been making plans for the
intervention, including disarming the UCK rebels, in
late June US special units evacuated 400 UCK fighters
from the guerilla stronghold of Aracinovo surrounded
by Macedonian troops, right in front of the gates to
Skopje. Not only UCK fighters found refuge in armored
personnel carriers and buses with KFOR markings, but
also 17 American civilians. They were declared to be
"observers" but instead of dissuading the UCK members
from playing with fire they served them as trainers.

Moreover, thanks to US assistance the UCK's command center
was set up in Aracinovo, with direct satellite phone
connection to the Pentagon. "We have confiscated weapons,"
a police representative said with annoyance in Skopje,
"whose serial numbers clearly indicate NATO resources."
Also videocassettes of Macedonian military positions that
in his opinion had been filmed from KFOR helicopters and
made available to the UCK by the Americans.

A questionable maneuver: In NATO the USA urges the allies
to intervene in Macedonia while at the same time the
Americans are training the UCK, and the Macedonian army
also receives help from Washington as well.

Once again the Germans and the other allies are
irritated at the dual strategy of NATO supremacy.
Reports "of American ex-officers as trainers with the
Macedonian UCK," notes Green Bundestag deputy
Winfried Nachtwei, "once again raise doubts about US
policy in the region." And CDU deputy Willy Wimmer
speculates that the USA is supporting a "greater
Albania well-disposed toward it" in the Balkans,
obviously for strategic reasons.

The suspicion is well-founded. The Berlin government
knows from secret service reports that in Macedonia
the same court clique being pampered by the USA is
stoking the fires of war: Since May the head of the
purportedly civilian Kosovo defense force, Agim Ceku,
has been assembling UCK reservists to prepare them in
Albanian training camps for the new war. The military
supreme command of the Macedonian UCK is under former
Ceku deputy Ramush Haradinaj.

The person procuring the money is a man who already
enjoyed the Americans' trust at the talks in
Rambouillet as a negotiator next to Thaci: Xhavit
Haliti was already collecting donations for the UCK
before the Kosovo war; in recent weeks, the secret
services report, he has collected another 43 million
marks from Albanians in Germany and Switzerland.

The trio of Haliti, Thaci and Haradinaj has not by
any means funded their Kalashnikov policy from
donations alone: "The unrest in Macedonia and the
related instability in the region," a secret service
file states, are "the absolute precondition for their
criminal business" - meaning illicit dealings in
drugs, weapons and young women.

Fed by such facts, the Europeans' pressure on the USA
is clearly beginning to show an impact. In late June
President George W. Bush prohibited 21 UCK leaders
from traveling to the USA and barred US citizens from
money transactions with the extremists. Top people of
the Kosovo Defense Corps were also on the Bush list;
only later were they fired.

Meanwhile, the pathetic praise expressed by Bush for
the American border patrols in a drop-by visit last
week in Kosovo struck Scharping and his military
people as scornful. As Bush said in all seriousness
in his appearance in the fortress-like Camp
Bondsteel, they prevented "weapons from falling into
rebel hands," which is why there is now "hope for
peace" in Macedonia. But Bush also warned the UCK to
keep quiet in neighboring Macedonia: "The Kosovars
should concentrate on Kosovo."

Now the Berlin government is wondering: Is Bush doing
an about-face, or is he once again just lulling the
suspicious NATO partners? After all, at the end of
the day they are the ones to pick up the pieces of
the questionable US policy in Macedonia.

The Americans themselves do not want to send any
combat troops to Macedonia to disarm the UCK. They
feel troops of the European NATO allies should be the
only ones doing the risky dirty work.

But no one knows better than the Americans what the
UCK irregulars are up to. The US force in the Balkans
has low-flying satellites and its own mobile
communication system that enables encrypted telephone
calls. Obviously thus far neither the West European
secret services nor the Russian spy service has
technically succeeded in penetrating and listening in
on this "low-flying satellite-based system."

The UCK, however, can use the Americans' exclusive
communication network with a radio circuit of its
own. As a result, Washington's professional
eavesdroppers are always perfectly well informed when
the Albanian irregulars plan to attack and where they
plan to withdraw.


=======================================================
DER SPIEGEL 31/2001

URL:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,147569,00.html

Mazedonien

Das Doppelspiel der Amerikaner

Unter den Europ�ern w�chst die Irritation �ber das
zwielichtige Agieren Washingtons auf dem Balkan: Als
Paten der U�K sind die USA mitverantwortlich f�r die
Zuspitzung des Konflikts zwischen Albanern und
Slawo-Mazedoniern.

Unsere Regierung hat uns verkauft, der Westen auch",
schimpft der Slawo-Mazedonier Ljubco, 45. Nachts
schl�ft er mit seiner Familie im gro�en Park der
mazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje, tags�ber sitzt er
mit Hunderten Vertriebenen unter gl�hender Sonne vor
dem Parlament. "Ihr habt uns verraten", steht auf
einem Transparent. Bis Anfang vorvergangener Woche
neun Granaten bei seinem Haus einschlugen, hatte
Ljubcos Familie in einem Vorort von Tetovo gewohnt,
der Albaner-Hochburg im Westen der zwei Millionen
Einwohner z�hlenden Mini-Republik. F�nf Monate lang
hatte sie Schie�ereien ertragen, die fast jede Nacht
aus den Bergen herunter-hallten.

Dort oben nisteten Sto�trupps der albanischen
Befreiungsarmee U�K. "Oft haben wir uns gefragt:
Kommen die jetzt und bringen uns um?", berichtet
Ljubco, dem in diesen f�nf Monaten das Vertrauen zu
seinen albanischen Nachbarn abhanden kam, "denn die
hatten sich l�ngst mit der U�K solidarisiert und
wollen Westmazedonien ethnisch von uns s�ubern."

Dann die Granaten, die Panik und Flucht. Wie Ljubco
verlie�en bis Mitte voriger Woche mehrere tausend
Slawo-Mazedonier ver�ngstigt nur mit ein paar
Habseligkeiten ihre D�rfer um Tetovo. Viele, die
keine Verwandten zum Unterschlupf haben, strandeten
in Skopje. Dort kam es zu Protestz�gen,
nationalistischen Gewaltaktionen und antiwestlichen
Demonstrationen, wurden Fahrzeuge internationaler
Organisationen in Brand gesetzt, die Botschaften
Deutschlands, Gro�britanniens und der USA mit
Steinw�rfen attackiert.

Verst�rt blickt Europa in seinen s�d�stlichen
Hinterhof. Erneut glimmt dort die Lunte f�r eine
ethnische Explosion. Nach der Dekade der
jugoslawischen Erbfolgekriege, die nahezu 300 000
Menschenleben forderten, droht nun mit dem offenen
B�rgerkrieg zweier Volksgruppen ein weiteres Blutbad
auf dem Balkan, das die gesamte Region ins Chaos
st�rzen k�nnte.

Mazedonien balanciere "auf des Messers Schneide",
warnte Nato-Generalsekret�r George Robertson.
Gemeinsam mit einer Garde von EU-Vermittlern
versuchte der Brite Ende voriger Woche verbissen in
Verhandlungen, doch noch eine politische �bereinkunft
zwischen den zerstrittenen Volksgruppen
herbeizuf�hren. Denn nur mit �u�erstem
internationalem Druck scheint in Europas historischem
Pulverfass ein weiterer, sich mit erschreckender
Dynamik aufpumpender Konflikt noch abwendbar zu sein.

Und nur bei einer soliden politischen �bereinkunft
sowie einem dauerhaften Waffenstillstand w�re die
Nato bereit, eine Friedenstruppe von 3000 Mann -
darunter wohl auch 500 deutsche Soldaten - ins Land
zu schicken und die Waffen albanischer Freisch�rler
einzusammeln.

Aber ein auf dem Balkan geschlossener Burgfrieden,
das lehrt die historische Erfahrung, ist br�chig.
Drei Granaten, abgefeuert von Extremisten, k�nnen ihn
jederzeit torpedieren. "Das Selbstverst�ndnis der
V�lker ist f�r viele wichtiger als alles andere",
sagt der deutsche Nato-Botschafterin Skopje,
Hans-J�rg Eiff, ein ausgewiesener Balkan-Kenner, und
er meint damit: Symbolische Fragen sind hier
wichtiger als ein paar tausend Tote.

Um nicht als der eindeutige B�sewicht dazustehen,
hatte die U�K vor Beginn der neuen Verhandlungsrunde
ihre vordersten Positionen bei Tetovo ger�umt und
sich auf Bergstellungen zur�ckgezogen. Von denen aus
kann sie ohne Schwierigkeiten erneut zuschlagen. Das
aber werden die separatistischen Albaner auch tun,
wenn sie auf dem politischen Weg nicht kriegen, was
sie in Wahrheit anstreben: zun�chst die durch
Verfassungs�nderung verbriefte Gleichstellung als
Volksgruppe, dann die De-facto-Teilung Mazedoniens
und schlie�lich ein gro�albanisches Vaterland.

Der Aufschrei von Skopjes Regierungschef Ljubco
Georgievski, selbst ein hartleibiger
Slawo-Nationalist, �ber die angebliche Parteinahme
des Westens hat seine Gr�nde. In diesem tr�ben Spiel
um die Zukunft Mazedoniens ist die U�K der
Hauptschurke, und die Amerikaner geben den
zwielichtigen Part.

Die K�mpfer der U�K wurden einst von amerikanischen
und britischen Ausbildern in albanischen Camps f�r
den Einsatz gegen Milosevics Soldaten im Kosovo
trainiert. Keiner kennt die wichtigsten Akteure, die
Kommandostruktur der U�K sowie deren Finanziers und
Waffenlieferanten so gut wie die CIA, die sich den
albanischen Geheimdienst nebenher als Filiale h�lt.

Als im Februar U�K-Freisch�rler vom Kosovo aus
Scharm�tzel in der westmazedonischen Grenzregion
anzettelten, schaute die Kfor-Friedenstruppe zun�chst
tatenlos zu. W�tend warf Premier Georgievski damals
Washington - aber auch Berlin - vor, wesentliche
Informationen �ber geplante terroristische Aktionen
zur�ckgehalten zu haben. Mindestens 300 Rebellen
seien der US-Regierung bekannt gewesen.

Vor Vertrauten schimpfte Bundesverteidigungsminister
Rudolf Scharping, die "internationale Gemeinschaft" -
gemeint sind vor allem die Amerikaner - habe sich
"nicht konsequent verhalten". Sie trage deshalb
"Mitverantwortung" f�r die aktuelle Krise.

Tats�chlich stehen deutsche Soldaten in Mazedonien
bereits jetzt zwischen den Fronten. Vergangene Woche
r�umten sie fluchtartig ein Depot in Tetovo, als die
Kaserne ins Kreuzfeuer von U�K-Sch�tzen und
mazedonischer Armee geriet.

Das gro�e Vers�umnis der Allianz: Unter dem Einfluss
Washingtons verfuhr sie nach dem Luftkrieg gegen die
Serben mit den Unabh�ngigkeitsk�mpfern der U�K wie
mit Verb�ndeten. F�hrende Bundeswehr-Milit�rs
beklagen intern die seit 1999 ungebrochene
Kameraderie.

Beispiel Kosovo: Es h�tte nicht sein m�ssen, dass die
U�K nach dem Einmarsch der Kfor-Truppen Tausende
Gewehre, Pistolen und M�rser verschwinden lie�.
Deutsche Soldaten, die rigoros gegen U�K-Leute
vorgingen, die trotz Verbots Waffen trugen, wurden
von oben zur�ckgepfiffen. Das entspreche nicht der
Nato-Linie, lie�en ihre Kommandeure durchblicken.

Der fr�here U�K-Oberbefehlshaber Hashim Tha�i, ein
Proteg� der damaligen US-Au�enministerin Madeleine
Albright, brachte einige tausend seiner K�mpfer im so
genannten Kosovo-Schutzkorps (K�rzel: KPC) unter -
einer Art technischem Hilfswerk, das offiziell beim
Herrichten zerst�rter H�user behilflich sein soll.

Vergebens warnte der deutsche Kfor-Kommandeur Klaus
Reinhardt vor neuen Umtrieben der Untergrund-U�K. Die
Amerikaner blieben auf Schmusekurs. Politiker,
Diplomaten und der Nato-Oberbefehlshaber f�r Europa,
Wesley Clark, so beschwerte sich Reinhardt sp�ter,
wischten Alarmrufe aus dem Kfor-Hauptquartier in
Pristina regelm��ig beiseite.

Bereits Anfang Dezember 1999, die Nato-Friedenstruppe
war noch kein halbes Jahr im Land, fielen
Kfor-Sp�hern im Presovo-Tal verd�chtige junge
Kosovaren auf. Die Gegend geh�rt zur so genannten
Ground Safety Zone (GSZ), einer entmilitarisierten
Pufferzone zwischen dem serbischen Kernland und dem
Kosovo.

An den Hauptverkehrsadern kontrollierten die
Amerikaner so lax, dass das Gebiet rasch zum
Umschlagplatz f�r Waffenschieber, Drogendealer und
M�dchenh�ndler wurde - beherrscht von U�K und Mafia.
Prompt besetzte eine "Befreiungsarmee Presovo,
Medvedja und Bujanovac" (U�PMB) D�rfer, vertrieb
serbische Bewohner und verlangte den Anschluss an das
Kosovo.

Erfolglos forderte Kfor-Chef Reinhardt US-Offiziere
auf, energisch gegen illegale Grenzg�nger
einzuschreiten. Nato-Oberbefehlshaber Clark
quittierte die Warnungen vor den Brandstiftern im
Presovo-Tal stets nur mit Fragen nach dem alten
Kriegsgegner: "Und wo stehen da die Serben?"

Als serbische Sicherheitskr�fte mit Einverst�ndnis
der Nato vergangenen M�rz in das Presovo-Tal
einr�ckten, gingen viele U�K-Leute �ber die gr�ne
Grenze nach Mazedonien oder zur�ck in das Kosovo.
Argw�hnisch fragte Scharping Nato-Kollegen, wie
verhindert werde, dass U�K-Leute an Kontrollposten im
amerikanischen Kosovo-Sektor ihre Waffen abgeben,
aber "zwei Kilometer weiter neue Waffen aufnehmen und
nach Mazedonien weiterziehen?" Die Antwort lieferten
die Nachrichten-Ticker: Frisch bewaffnete U�K-Leute
riefen in Mazedonien erneut "befreite Zonen" aus.

W�hrend die Nato l�ngst Pl�ne f�r das Eingreifen samt
Entwaffnung der U�K-Rebellen schmiedete, evakuierten
US-Spezialeinheiten Ende Juni 400 U�K-K�mpfer aus der
von mazedonischen Truppen eingeschlossenen
Guerrilla-Hochburg Aracinovo, unmittelbar vor den
Toren Skopjes. Nicht nur U�K-K�mpfer fanden Zuflucht
in Sch�tzenpanzern und Bussen mit Kfor-Bemalung,
sondern auch 17 amerikanische Zivilisten. Die waren
zwar als "Beobachter" deklariert. Aber statt die
U�K-Leute vom Z�ndeln abzubringen, dienten sie
ihnen als Ausbilder.

In Aracinovo soll dank US-Assistenz zudem die
Befehlszentrale der U�K installiert gewesen sein -
mit direkter Satellitentelefonverbindung ins
Pentagon. "Wir haben Waffen beschlagnahmt", �rgert
sich in Skopje ein Polizeivertreter, "deren
Seriennummern eindeutig auf Nato-Ressourcen
hinwiesen." Au�erdem Videokassetten mazedonischer
Milit�rstellungen, die seiner Meinung nach von
Kfor-Hubschraubern aufgenommen und der U�K von den
Amerikanern zur Verf�gung gestellt wurden.

Ein fragw�rdiges Man�ver: In der Nato dr�ngen die USA
die Verb�ndeten zum Eingreifen in Mazedonien,
zugleich trainieren Amerikaner die U�K - und nebenbei
erh�lt auch die mazedonische Armee Hilfe aus
Washington.

Einmal mehr sind die Deutschen und die �brigen
Verb�ndeten �ber die Doppelstrategie der
Nato-Vormacht irritiert. Berichte "�ber amerikanische
Ex-Offiziere als Ausbilder bei der mazedonischen
U�K", urteilt der Gr�nen-Bundestagsabgeordnete
Winfried Nachtwei, "sch�ren erneut Zweifel an der
US-Politik in der Region". Und der CDU-Abgeordnete
Willy Wimmer mutma�t, die USA unterst�tzten
offensichtlich aus strategischen Gr�nden auf dem
Balkan ein "ihnen wohlgesinntes Gro�albanien".

Der Verdacht ist begr�ndet. Aus Geheimdienstberichten
wei� die Berliner Regierung, dass in Mazedonien
wieder die gleiche Kamarilla den Krieg anheizt, die
von den USA geh�tschelt wurde: Der Chef der
vorgeblich zivilen Kosovo-Schutztruppe, Agim �eku,
sammelt demnach seit Mai U�K-Reservisten, um sie in
albanischen Ausbildungscamps f�r den neuen Krieg zu
trainieren. Dem vormaligen �eku-Stellvertreter Ramush
Haradinaj untersteht das milit�rische Oberkommando
der mazedonischen U�K.

Als Geldbeschaffer fungiert ein Mann, der bereits bei
den Gespr�chen in Rambouillet neben Tha�i als
Unterh�ndler das Vertrauen der Amerikaner genoss:
Xhavit Haliti sammelte schon vor dem Kosovo-Krieg
Spenden f�r die U�K; in den vergangenen Wochen,
berichten die Geheimdienste, tribe er bei Albanern in
Deutschland und der Schweiz wieder satte 43 Millionen
Mark f�r die Kriegskasse ein.

Das Trio Haliti, Tha�i und Haradinaj finanziert seine
Politik der Kalaschnikow keineswegs nur aus Spenden:
"Die Unruhen in Mazedonien und die damit verbundene
Instabilit�t in der Region", hei�t es in einem
Geheimdienst-Dossier, seien "absolute Voraussetzung
f�r ihre kriminellen Gesch�fte" - gemeint sind
schmutzige Deals mit Drogen, Waffen und M�dchen.

Gespeist durch solche Fakten, beginnt der Druck der
Europ�er auf die USA offenbar Wirkung zu zeigen. Ende
Juni untersagte Pr�sident George W. Bush 21
U�K-F�hrern, in die USA einzureisen und verbot
US-B�rgern Geldgesch�fte mit den Extremisten. Auf der
Bush-Liste fanden sich auch Topleute des
Kosovo-Schutzkorps. Danach erst wurden sie gefeuert.

Wie Hohn erschien Scharping und seinen Milit�rs indes
das pathetische Lob, das Bush vergangene Woche bei
einer Stippvisite im Kosovo f�r die amerikanischen
Grenzpatrouillen aussprach. Die h�tten verhindert, so
Bush bei seinem Auftritt im festungsartigen Camp
Bondsteel allen Ernstes, "dass Waffen in
Rebellenh�nde fallen" - weshalb es nun eine "Hoffnung
auf Frieden" in Mazedonien gebe. Bush ermahnte aber
auch die U�K, im Nachbarland Mazedonien Ruhe zu
geben: "Die Kosovaren sollten sich auf das Kosovo
konzentrieren."

Nun r�tselt die Berliner Regierung: Leitet Bush eine
Kehrtwende ein, oder geht es wieder einmal nur darum,
die argw�hnischen Nato-Partner einzulullen? Die
sollen ja schlie�lich in Mazedonien die Scherben der
fragw�rdigen US-Politik aufklauben.

Die Amerikaner selbst wollen zur Entwaffnung der U�K
keine Kampftruppen nach Mazedonien schicken. Die
riskante Drecksarbeit sollen Soldaten der
europ�ischen Nato-Verb�ndeten allein leisten.

Niemand aber wei� besser als die Amerikaner, was die
U�K-Freisch�rler im Schilde f�hren. Die US-Truppe auf
dem Balkan verf�gt mit niedrig fliegenden Satelliten
�ber ein eigenes, mobiles Kommunikationssystem. Darin
l�sst sich verschl�sselt telefonieren. Weder
westeurop�ischen Geheimdiensten noch dem russischen
Spionagedienst gelang es bislang offenbar, in dieses
"low-flying satellite based system" technisch als
Mith�rer einzudringen.

Die U�K aber darf das exklusive Kommunikationsnetz
der Amerikaner mit einem eigenen Funkkreis nutzen.
Washingtons professionelle Lauscher sind somit stets
bestens informiert, wann die albanischen Freisch�rler
zur Attacke und wo sie zum R�ckzug blasen.

RENATE FLOTTAU, OLAF IHLAU, SUSANNE KOELBL, ALEXANDER
SZANDAR

� DER SPIEGEL 31/2001
Alle Rechte vorbehalten
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FREE MILOSEVIC, SAYS PINTER

Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Thursday July 26, 2001
Front Page
The Guardian


The playwright Harold Pinter has joined a
campaign to free the former Serb leader Slobodan
Milosevic.

Pinter, who was a fierce opponent of the Nato
bombing of Serbia and once defined US policy to
the former Yugoslavia as "kiss my arse or I'll
kick your head in", said that Mr Milosevic's
extradition to face trial at the war crimes
tribunal in the Hague was illegal.

"I believe his arrest and detention by the
international criminal tribunal is
unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and
international law. They have no right to try
him," he said.

His decision to lend his name to the
International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic, a loose coalition of leftwingers,
human rights activists and Serb sympathisers
formed in March, follows years of criticism of
what he sees as the west's selective morality in
the Balkans and its "persecution" of ordinary
Serbs.

Although he believes that Mr Milosevic was
"ruthless and savage", he has long argued that he
has been unfairly demonised as the "butcher of
the Balkans". He blames his former
vice-president, the ultra-nationalist Vojislav
Seselj, for much of the ethnic cleansing.

Pinter also says that if Mr Milosevic is to be
tried, former US president Bill Clinton should
join him in the dock for dropping millions of
"cluster bombs that cut children to pieces - from
those brave bombers at 15,000ft. And this is an
act which [Tony] Blair, with his moralistic
Christianity, applauds".

He also said the bombing of the Yugoslavian
television station in Belgrade by Nato was
"murder" and made him "ashamed of being British".

Although Pinter - currently working at a festival
of his work in New York - has not given any money
to the Milosevic defence fund, the committee
hopes to start raising cash soon.

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Subject: Fw: Milosevic
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:09:34 -0400
From: "Christopher Black"

A letter the Toronto Star still has refused to
publish even though they pursue me for stories.
The letter was in response to a vicious
propaganda piece against Milosevic and the Serbs
they ran as an editorial.

DEFEND MACEDONIA! STOP THE NATO JACKBOOT!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Black
To: lettertoed@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:32 AM
Subject: Milosevic

The Editor,
Toronto Star

Your piece on Milosevic entitled "No place To
Hide" constitutes nothing less than criminal
journalism. A series of lies from beginning to
end, it attempts to control public opinion about
the truth of events in Yuglosavia in order to
justify the criminal aggression by Canada and the
other Nato countries on the last progressive
country in eastern Europe and cover the war
crimes of Chretien and Arbour and the rest of
gangsters who pretend to control the New World
Order.

Mr. Milosevic was never "undisputed master" of
Yugoslavia. He was duly elected in popular
elections unlike President Bush in the United
States who was installed against the popular
will. He was never a notorious nationalst as you
claim and never seduced his people with dreams of
a greater Serbia. In every speech and in his
actions he did what he could to preserve a
multiethnic state against the Machiavellian
scheming of the United States and Germany which
promoted the Albanian's bloody thirst for a
Greater Albania, a blood soaked ambition fuelled
and directed by the United States and its axis
and which is today destroying Macedonia and
threatens Greece.

It was not Milosevic who delivered ethnic hatred.
It was Nato and its tightly controlled media that
sowed that hatred with every press release and
every article.

It was not Milosevic who brought war and
disintegration, sanctions and ruin. It was the
United States and Germany, Britain and Canada and
the rest of the Nato gangsters who decided to
destroy the last progressive government in the
east for the benefit of their economic elites.
It was not Milosevic who dropped bombs. It was
the cowards in the armed forces of all the Nato
countries who failed in their duty to defy
illegal and immoral orders and instead dropped
cluster bombs on innocent women and children. It
was not Milosevic who destroyed international
law. It was Chretien and the rest of Nato. It was
not Milosevic who has contempt for the rule of
law and democracy. It is every leader of every
governmnent in Nato who never consulted their own
people before attacking a small innocent country,
and who broke their own domestic laws in that
attack.

Where were you when Chretien broke the law in the
National Defence Act which forbids the use of the
Canadian Armed Forces to attack another country
unless attacked first or under UN mandate? Where
were you Chretien lied to the Canadian people
about the reality in the Balkans? Where were you
when Chretien and the rest broke the UN Charter
and threw it in the mud? Where were you when they
destroyed every principle established at
Nurmberg,in the Geneva Conventions and in dozens
of other international protocols.

You talk about the "reformist" government" in
Belgrade when in truth it is a fascist regime
which has shut down the oppositon press, arrested
hundreds of people on political charges and fired
over 40,000 people in a population of only 11
million from jobs in factories, government,
schools, hospitals, unions who had any
progressive or patriotic beliefs.

You praise Louise Arbour whose crass political
indictment of Milosevic on May 27, 1999 occurred
under US instruction at a point at which the Nato
alliance was fracturing and domestic support for
the bombing was waning. Her action justified the
continued violation of international law and
criminal aggression against a sovereign state
whose only crime was to resist the diktats of
Madaleine Albright. You praise a woman who
refused to investigate Chretien and other Nato
leaders for war crimes as lawyers and jurists
around the world insisted, including the group of
Canadian lawyers of whom I was one lead by
Professor Michael Mandel. Far from shattering
Milosevic's credibility, the indictment against
him by Arbour shattered completely the
credibility of the Hague Tribunal viewed around
the world by esteemed jurists as a kangaroo court
partly funded by people like George Soros, who
also just happened to fund the KLA at the same
time.

Milosevic is not a broken man. I visited with
President Milosevic in the Belgrade Central
Prison on June 15 and again on July 12, in The
Hague, as a representative of the International
Committee To Defend Slobadan Milosevic. The
Committee is composed of jurists, writers,
scientists, politicians, professors and other
esteemed citizens from over 20 countries who are
convinced that the charges against Milosevic are
false and a slander against the people of
Yugoslavia and an insult to the intelligence of
the people in the Nato countries. It includes
members such as the great British playwright
Harold Pinter, and the former Attorney general of
the Untied States, Ramsay Clark.

Mr. Milosevic is in good spirits. He is not
suicidal. That is a lie put out to explain in
advance his possible murder at the hands of the
Nato Quislings presently in power in Belgrade
because they know very well that any trial before
the Hague tribunal will be an embarrassment for
Nato because there is no evidence of crimes that
never took place except in the pages of the
western press ever anxious to please the economic
powers that own them and who are linked with the
governments that want to eliminate those, like
Milosevic who have the courage to defy them.

Milosevic told me one thing he wanted the world
to know. He has a clear conscience. He stated to
me, "The only reasons I am in this prison are
because I am a socialist and because I stood up
to Nato. I am a political prisoner." The
corruption charges against him are false. The
Investigative Judge told me that there is no
evidence of any criminal wrongdoing by Mr.
Milosevic at all and that he is detained because
of strong political pressure until he can be
handed over to Carla Del Ponte. A Ministry of
Justice official told me that there is no
evidence against him but that I must understand
that "there are many members of the new regime
who would like to see all the socialists hanged
from lampposts."

The Toronto Star which prides itself on its
liberalism and support of democracy is so blinded
by its subservience to its masters that it openly
supports the decree stating that Milosevic can be
extradited despite the fact that the Yugoslavian
parliament opposed the extradition law that
Kostunica tried to pass and the Djindjic decree
was suspended by the Constituional Court.
Apparently, the Star's support of democracy only
goes so far. When the Yugoslav parliament opposes
the extradition, an unconstitutional decree,
which openly violates the will of the people and
the Yugoslav constitution, is praised as
courageous. When Nato and Chretien violated and
threw under the Nato jackboot every international
law you said nothing. Still you say nothing and
still you want Canadians to believe that
Milosevic's extradition is a shining example of
the benefits of international law. Hypocrisy we
know your name.

Christopher Black, Barrister
Head, Legal Committee
International Committee To Defend Slobodan Milosevic
Toronto, Ontario

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Subject: U.S. CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL: A BAD OMEN
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:37:31 +0200
From: TARGETS <redactie@...>
To: office@...

U.S. CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL: A BAD OMEN

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic threatens U.S.
sovereignty. The fact that this trial can be
carried out, in the name of international
justice, should cause all the Americans to cast a
wary eye on the whole principal of the U.N. War
Crimes Tribunal. The prosecution of Milosevic, a
democratically elected and properly disposed
leader of a sovereign country, could not be
carried out without full U.S. military and
financial support. Since we are the only world
superpower, the U.N. court becomes our court
under our control. But it is naive to believe our
world superpower status will last forever. The
precedence now being set will one day surely come
back to haunt us.

The U.S. today may enjoy dictating policy to
Yugoslavia and elsewhere around the world, but
danger lurks ahead. The administration adamantly
and correctly opposes our membership in the
permanent International Criminal Court because it
would have authority to exercise jurisdiction
over U.S. citizens without the consent of the
U.S. government. But how can we, with a straight
face, support doing the very same thing to a
small country, in opposition to its sovereignty,
courts, and constitution. This blatant
inconsistency and illicit use of force does not
go unnoticed and will sow the seeds of future
terrorist attacks against Americans or even war.
Money, as usual, is behind the Milosevic's
extradition. Bribing Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic, a U.S.-sponsored leader, prompted
strong opposition from Yugoslavian Prime Minister
Zoran Zizic and Yugoslavian President Vojislav
Kostunica.

A Belgrade historian, Aleksa Djilas, was quoted
in The New York Times as saying: "We sold him for
money, and we won't really get very much money
for it. The U.S. is the natural leader of the
world, but how does it lead? This justifies the
worst American instincts, reinforcing this
bullying mentality.''

Milosevic obviously is no saint but neither are
the leader of the Croats, the Albanians or the
KLA. The NATO leaders who vastly expanded the
death and destruction in Yugoslavia with 78 days
of bombing in 1999 are certainly not blameless.
The $1.28 billion promised the puppet Yugoslavian
government is to be used to rebuild the cities
devastated by U.S. bombs. First, the American
people are forced to pay to bomb, to kill
innocent people and destroy cities, and then they
are forced to pay to repair the destruction,
while orchestrating a U.N. kangaroo court to
bring the guilty to justice at the Hague.

For all this to be accepted, the press and
internationalists have had to demonize Milosevic
to distance themselves from the horrors of others
including NATO.

NATO's air strikes assisted the KLA in cleansing
Kosovo of Serbs in the name of assisting Albanian
freedom fighters. No one should be surprised when
that is interpreted to mean tacit approval for
Albanian expansionism in Macedonia. While
terrorist attacks by former members of the KLA
against Serbs are ignored, the trial of the new
millennium, the trial of Milosevic, enjoys daily
support from the NATO-U.S. propaganda machine.
In our effort to stop an independent-minded and
uncooperative with the international community
president of a sovereign country, U.S. policy was
designed to support an equally if not worse
organization, the KLA. One of the conditions for
ending the civil war in Kosovo was the disbanding
of the KLA. But the very same ruthless leaders of
the KLA, now the Liberation Army of Presevo, are
now leading the insurrection in Macedonia without
NATO lifting a finger to stop it. NATO's failed
policy that precipitated the conflict now raging
in Macedonia is ignored. The U.N. War Tribunal
in the Hague should insult the intelligence of
all Americans. This court currently can only
achieve arrest and prosecution of leaders of
poor, small, or defeated nations. There will be
no war criminals brought to the Hague from China,
Russia, Britain, or the United States no matter
what the charges. But some day this approach to
world governing will backfire. The U.S. already
has suffered the humiliation of being kicked off
the U.N. Human Rights Commission and the
Narcotics Control Commission. Our arrogant policy
and attitude of superiority will continue to
elicit a smoldering hatred toward us and out of
sheer frustration will motivate even more
terrorist attacks against us.

Realizing the weakness of the charges against
Milosevic the court has quietly dropped the
charges for committing genocide. In a real trial,
evidence that the British and the United States
actually did business with Milosevic would be
permitted. But almost always, whoever is our
current most hated enemy, has received help and
assistance from us in the past. This was
certainly the case with Noriega and Saddam
Hussein and others, and now it's Milosevic.

Milosevic will be tried not before a jury of his
peers but before a panel of politically appointed
judges, all of whom were approved by the NATO
countries, the same countries which illegally
bombed Yugoslavia for 2 1/2 months. Under both
U.N. and international law the bombing of Serbia
and Kosovo was illegal. This was why NATO pursued
it and it was not done under a U.N. resolution.

Ironically, the mess in which we've been engaged
in Yugoslavia has the international establishment
supporting the side of Kosovo independence rather
than Serbian sovereignty. The principle of
independence and secession of smaller government
entities has been enhanced by the breakdown of
the Soviet system. If there's any hope that any
good could come of the quagmire into which we've
rapidly sunk in the Balkans, it is that small
independent nations are a viable and reasonable
option to conflicts around the world. But the
tragedy today is that no government is allowed to
exist without the blessing of the One World
Government leaders. The disobedience to the one
worlders and true independence is not to be
tolerated. That's what this trial is all about.
"Tow the line or else,'' is the message that is
being sent to the world.

NATO and U.S. leaders insist on playing with
fire, not fully understanding the significance of
the events now transpiring in the Balkans. If
policy is not quickly reversed, events could get
out of control and a major war in the region will
erupt.

We should fear and condemn any effort to escalate
the conflict with troops or money from any
outside sources. Our troops are already involved
and our money calls the shots. Extricating
ourselves will get more difficult every day we
stay. But the sooner we get out the better. We
should be listening more to candidate George
Bush's suggestion during the last campaign for
bringing our troops home from this region.

The Serbs, despite NATO's propaganda, will not
lightly accept the imprisonment of their
democratically elected (and properly disposed)
president no matter how bad he was. It is their
problem to deal with and resentment against us
will surely grow as conditions deteriorate. Mobs
have already attacked the American ambassador to
Macedonia for our inept interference in the
region. Death of American citizens are sure to
come if we persist in this failed policy.

Money and power has permitted the United States
the luxury of dictating terms for Milosevic's
prosecution, but our policy of arbitrary
interventions in the Balkans is sowing the seeds
of tomorrow's war. We cannot have it both ways.
We cannot expect to use the International
Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia when it pleases
us and oppose the permanent International
Criminal Court where the rules would apply to our
own acts of aggression. This cynical and arrogant
approach, whether it's dealing with Milosevic,
Hussein, or Kadafi, undermines peace and presents
a threat to our national security. Meanwhile,
American citizens must suffer the tax burden from
financing the dangerous meddling in European
affairs, while exposing our troops to danger.

A policy of nonintervention, friendship and
neutrality with all nations, engagement in true
free trade (unsubsidized trade with low tariffs)
is the best policy if we truly seek peace around
the world. That used to be the American way.

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R-TEXAS)

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TRE PARTITI LOCALI CHIEDONO L'INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE
DEL "PROBLEMA" DELLA VOJVODINA

THREE LOCAL PARTIES URGE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF "VOJVODINA ISSUE"
NOVI SAD, July 25 (Tanjug) Three regional parties in Vojvodina
Wednesday expressed readiness to seek the internationalization of the
socalled Vojvodina issue if the ruling Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS) kept on postponing the process of granting bigger autonomous
rights to the northern Serbian province.
League of Vojvodina Hungarians President Jozef Kasa said today
after a meeting in Novi Sad with leaders Nenad Canak of the
Socialdemocratic League and Miodrag Isakov of the Vojvodina Reformists,
that by internationalization he meant "seeking help from the
international community to realize our demands using all means except
military."
The leaders of the three leading, socalled authentic Vojvodina
parties, which are within the DOS coalition, agreed to ask the DOS
Presidency immediately to meet in session and open a debate on the
status of Vojvodina.
Moreover, the DOS Presidency is asked to secure in the republican
parliament the adoption of a law amending and abolishing legislature
which prevents the Constitutionally guaranteed autonomy of Vojvodina
before a new Serbian Constitution is adopted.
The three party leaders underscored that these demands did not
imply their exit from DOS.
Today's meeting was marked as the beginning of creating a wide
political front for fighting for the realization of Vojvodina's
autonomy.
All authentic Vojvodina parties will join this front, Isakov said, "but
also some Belgradebased parties which have provincial boards and support
the demands for resolving the problem of Vojvodina."

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IL LEADER DELLA D.O.S. CANAK SOFFIA SULLA "AUTONOMIA"

VOJVODINA CITIZENS WILL DECIDE ABOUT VOJVODINA
BELGRADE, April 17 (Tanjug) The platform on Vojvodina's autonomy
is a legalistic document which should enable an acceptable functioning
of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina until the Constitution is
amended, Vojvodina parliament Speaker and Vojvodina SocialDemocratic
League President Nenad Canak told the Belgrade daily Blic on Tuesday.
The platform has not been met with understanding in Belgrade,
Canak said, warning that "they should pay much greater care and
attention to what is coming from Novi Sad, so that it is not too late
one day."
"Who does not grant autonomy will have to grant republic status,
and who refuses to grant republic status will not be asked anything any
more," Canak said.
Unless we find partners in Serbia who will realize the importance
and complexity of the Vojvodina issue, "then the Vojvodina issue will
become a Vojvodina problem," Canak said.
"If the Vojvodina problem appears, then the Vojvodina parliament
will call a referendum in which Vojvodina citizens will declare
themselves on it," he said.
The plan is that Vojvodina's position will be resolved with a vote
at the Serbian parliament, but this will not pass, since Vojvodina is a
legal entity, Canak said.

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L'AMBASCIATORE STATUNITENSE IN VISITA A NOVI SAD SOSTIENE LA
"PIENA AUTONOMIA"...

US AMBASSADOR VISITS NOVI SAD
NOVI SAD, Jun 4 (Tanjug) The Vojvodina (Serbia's northern
province) parliament Speaker Nenad Canak received Monday in provincial
capital Novi Sad the US Ambassador to Yugoslavia William Montgomery, the
provincial information secretariat said in a statement.
Canak briefed Montgomery of the proposals for amending about a
dozen Serbian laws submitted by the Vojvodina parliament to the Serbian
parliament, and of the lack of understanding with which the proposals
have been met.
Systemrelated changes in Serbia are slow, Canak said, pointing to
the failure to pass important laws, such as a law on privatization.
Canak reiterated Vojvodina's demand that the money from privatization be
reinvested immediately instead of being directed to Serbia's budget.
The talk also focused on redefining relations within the Yugoslav
federation and on Vojvodina's endeavors for determining its status and
for full autonomy.

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DELEGAZIONE OSCE IN VISITA SOSTIENE IL "PROCESSO DI DECENTRAMENTO"...

OSCE DELEGATION VISITS SERBIA'S VOJVODINA PARLIAMENT
NOVI SAD, June 19 (Tanjug) A delegation of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had talks on Tuesday at the
Assembly (parliament) of the Yugoslav federal unit Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province.
The delegation, headed by OSCE Yugoslav Mission Chief Stefano
Sannino, met with Vojvodina Parliament Speaker Nenad Canak. A Vojvodina
government statement quotes them as reviewing the political and economic
situation in Vojvodina and the rest of the country in the light of new
Serbian legislation, and rights acquired by the provincial parliament in
the decentralisation process.

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IL PARLAMENTO UNGHERESE PASSA LA LEGGE PER LA PROTEZIONE
DEGLI UNGHERESI ALL'ESTERO...

LJAJIC: BELGRADE TO MONITOR CONTROVERSIAL HUNGARIAN LAW
BELGRADE, June 20 (Sense/AFP) Yugoslavia said today it would
monitor a controversial law passed by the Hungarian parliament yesterday
offering benefits to some 3.5 million ethnic Hungarians living abroad.
The legislation grants ethnic Hungarians or Magyars living in
neighbouring states the right to work legally for three months in
Hungary, to claim social and health care rights, free university
education, training courses and travel allowances.
"If the purpose of the law is to preserve the identity of ethnic
Hungarians in other countries, including Yugoslavia, we will not look on
it with caution. But we will monitor its implementation and react
accordingly," Yugoslav Minister for Ethnic Minorities Rasim Ljajic
announced.
Yugoslavia has an ethnic Hungarian minority in the north of the
country but has reacted to the bill with less concern than other
neighbouring states - Romania and Slovakia.
Ljajic expressed understanding for their misgivings and insisted
Yugoslavia would be cautious, monitor implementation of the law and act
accordingly.
In many ways the attitude of Hungary's other neighbours differs
from that of Yugoslavia, the minister for ethnic minorities explained,
commenting, "We don't want and are not in a position to open up a new
front towards Hungary."
"There are at least three good reasons for this," he added:
"Hungary is our neighbour, it is our gateway to Europe and we have a
considerable Hungarian minority."

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