NOTA:
DOPO 9 MESI DI CENSURA HA RIPRESO LE TRASMISSIONI LA TV DEL NEMICO.
Di nuovo captabile via satellite la RTV della Serbia, ogni giorno dalle
16 alle 24.
Dati tecnici: via STACIONAR 12, 40 gradi est sulla frequenza 11530 GHz
con polarizzazione circolare destra (si puo' captare anche con
polarizzazione orizzontale o verticale, ma il segnale sara' inferiore).
SR 4167 megasymbols per second FEC 1/2. (Fonte:
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2000-02/09/17139.html )
REUTERS 9/2/00 ----------------------------------------
IL NUOVO PRESIDENTE CROATO MESIC: LA NATO INNANZI TUTTO
Paris, Weds., Feb. 9, 2000
Croatia President-Elect Says He'll Push Effort To Join EU and NATO
Reuters
ZAGREB, Croatia - Stipe Mesic, the president-elect of Croatia, vowed
Tuesday to push for swift entry into the European Union and NATO and to
battle high unemployment.
''We want to convince the world that Croatia is a part of Europe and
that Europe is in Croatia too,'' Mr. Mesic told cheering supporters
after winning the runoff election Monday, signaling a fresh start after
a decade of nationalist rule under Franjo Tudjman. ''We want to fulfill
our strategic goals as soon as possible to enter the European Union and
NATO.''
In Washington, Richard Holbrooke, the chief U.S. delegate to the United
Nations, heralded Mr. Mesic's election as a major step forward in
Croatia's drive to turn its back on ''the horrible mess'' in the
Balkans.
During the final years of rule under Mr. Tudjman, who died in December,
the West had shunned Croatia for its interference in Bosnia-Herzegovina
and refusal to cooperate with a United Nations war crimes tribunal.
Both Mr. Mesic, and the new center-left government that defeated Mr.
Tudjman's Croatian Democratic Union in a general election Jan. 3, have
vowed to reverse those policies.
With Mr. Mesic preparing for a five-year term, the influential weekly
Nacional underscored the political mood Tuesday with a front-page
headline: ''Croatia returns to the European family.''
The electoral commission said Mr. Mesic, who heads a coalition that is
part of the new governing alliance, had won 56.21 percent of the
second-round vote against 43.79 percent for Drazen Budisa, leader of the
Social Liberal party. In the first round of the presidential election on
Jan. 24, Mr. Mesic won 41.6 percent of the vote in a nine-party field,
while Mr. Budisa won 28 percent.
Croatian financial markets, rising strongly since the Jan. 3
parliamentary elections, were unmoved by the result, which had been
predicted by opinion polls.
''Though more news of rapprochement with Europe will always be rewarded,
from now on, the focus will be on economic rather than political
performance,'' said Hrvoje Fajdetic, trading chief at ZB Brokers in
Zagreb.
The Croatian economy was expected to have contracted by 1 percent to 1.5
percent last year, and unemployment reached a record high 20.8 percent
in December.
Mr. Mesic has said he will work closely with Prime Minister Ivica Racan
on tackling domestic woes. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Mr. Mesic
said, ''I would sum up our problem in three words: employment,
employment and employment.''
But it is not clear what influence Mr. Mesic will have in the daily
running of the country, because the government is committed to stripping
the presidency of the wide-ranging powers that were held by Mr. Tudjman.
Mr. Mesic supports this shift, saying only that he wants to remain
supreme commander of the army and have responsibility for appointing
secret service chiefs.
A former member of the Croatian Democratic Union, Mr. Mesic has held
numerous political offices. He was ejected into the opposition in 1994
after renouncing Mr. Tudjman's policy toward Bosnia.
Despite allegations of murky campaign financing, Mr. Mesic, with his
jovial, down-to-earth style, struck a chord in a nation tired of Mr.
Tudjman's aloofness.
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GLI USA METTONO LE MANI AVANTI RISPETTO ALLA PROSSIMA
DICHIARAZIONE D'INDIPENDENZA DI KOSOVO E MACEDONIA
Independence of Kosovo or Montenegro no answer for Yugoslavia: US
WASHINGTON, Wednesday - The US Administration has came out strongly
against
the independence of either Kosovo or Montenegro as a solution to
Yugoslavia's
problems. According to Deputy Foreign Secretary Thomas Pickering, quoted
in
the US Government Bulletin today, what is needed is the departure of
Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and the flourishing of the democratic
opposition. Pickering goes on to say that the US had stuck to its
principles
and was still prepared to oppose any provocative action such as that
which
had occurred in Kosovo.
The US State Department also today released results of a public opinion
poll
conducted in Serbia. The survey, conducted by the department's research
division, shows that Milosevic's popularity has dropped to its lowest
level
in several years. According to the results sixteen per cent of Serbian
citizens support the Yugoslav President. However, despite a drop of nine
percentage points from October 1998, Milosevic is still the most popular
politician in Serbia. In second place is Alliance for Change leader
Dragoslav
Avramovic with eleven per cent.
The State Department did not identify the agency responsible for
collecting
data in Serbia.
DOMANI I FUNERALI DI BULATOVIC
Bulatovic funeral in Montenegro tomorrow
PODGORICA, Wednesday - The body of murdered Yugoslav Defence Minister
Pavle
Bulatovic is lying in state in a Podgorica cemetery today. A memorial
service
was due to begin in the Montenegrin capital at 6.00 p.m. Bulatovic will
be
buried tomorrow in the village of Gornji Rovci, his birthplace. Yugoslav
Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, who is not related to the slain defence
minister, will deliver a eulogy.
Federal Information Minister Goran Matic said today that the murder of
Bulatovic was part of a series terrorist acts organised abroad. Matic
added
that he had predicted since last October that foreign countries would
plan
subversive terrorist acts in an effort to undermine the trust of
citizens.
Bulatovic had been under investigation by the Hague Tribunal, Deputy
Chief
Prosecutor Graham Blewett said today, adding that it was possible that
he
would be named as an accessory in future indictments.
VERRA' TOLTO L'EMBARGO AEREO?
Air traffic embargo to be lifted?
LONDON, Wednesday - The Yugoslav air traffic embargo will be suspended
for
six months after next Monday's Council of Minister meeting in Brussels,
British Foreign Office spokesman Mark Kent said today. Kent told
Belgrade
daily Blic that that the lifting of the sanctions was part of the
European
Union's agreement with the Serbian opposition. He added that along with
the
probable lifting of sanctions, the EU would step up financial pressure
on the
Belgrade regime and again extend the list of people close to the regime
banned from travelling to EU countries. Blic wrote today that Britain
had
already given its European partners an additional 180 names for the
list.
IL PARTITO SOCIALISTA SERBO DEL KOSOVO PREPARA IL CONGRESSO
Socialists choose deputies in Kosovo
ZVECAN, Wednesday - The ruling Socialist Party of Serbia is today
holding its
fourth election conference in Kosovo. The conference is expected to
elect
members of the Province Committee and delegates for next week's annual
party
congress. Conference delegates from Serbia proper were cleared by German
KFOR
troops at the Lesak checkpoint on the Kosovo administrative border. KFOR
provided escorts for Socialist Party members still living in the
province.
MESIC NON VEDE L'ORA DI ANDARE A TESTIMONIARE CONTRO MILOSEVIC
Mesic seeks to testify against Milosevic
ZAGREB, Wednesday - Croatian President-elect Stipe Mesic said today that
he
wanted to testify against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the
Hague
Tribunal. Mesic said he was doing everything he could to be invited by
the
Hague to give evidence against Milosevic. The newly-elected president
told
Spanish media that only after Milosevic had appeared before the
international
war crimes tribunal could the possibility of change in the Balkans be
discussed.
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ASSASSINATO IL MINISTRO DELLA DIFESA DELLA RFJ
Defence minister murdered
BELGRADE, Tuesday - Federal Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic was
murdered
yesterday in a restaurant in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica. Serbian
police
say that an unknown assailant fired through the window of the Rad
restaurant,
probably with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. The restaurant manager,
Mirko
Knezevic and the director of the YuGarant Bank, Vuk Obradovic, where
slightly
wounded in the attack.
A memorial service was held today at the Federal Government building in
Belgrade, attended by most senior figures of the Serbian and Yugoslav
governments. Deputy Federal Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic, speaking at
the
service, warned that there would be a serious assault on terrorism in
the
country.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic told media today that he
agreed
with the federal government's assessment that the murder of Bulatovic
was a
case of terrorism.
Belgrade daily 'Glas javnosti' writes today that Bulatovic was a cousin
of
Belgrade underworld figure Darko Asanin who was also murdered in a
Belgrade
restaurant eighteen months ago. The paper also claims that restaurateur
Mirko
Knezevic, who was wounded in the attack, was related to the murdered
defence
minister. The other injured man, retired army officer Vuk Obradovic, was
director of YuGarant bank which was established in the transformation of
the
Yugoslav Army in 1997 and had only later begun operating traditional
banking
services.
Deputy Serbian Information Minister Miodrag Popovic told the BBC today
that
the murder could easily be the work of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Other
speculations went further afield, with the Serbian Radical Party
accusing US,
British and French intelligence services of masterminding the murder.
The US
State Department said today that the murder of Bulatovic was new proof
that
the Belgrade regime was maintaining power by spreading fear, crime and
violence. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker told media that only
a
democratic Serbia could relieve its citizens of the evil which
controlled
their destiny.
GRAVE INQUINAMENTO NEI FIUMI PROVENIENTE DALLA ROMANIA
New cyanide leak in Romania
BUDAPEST, Thursday - Another source of deadly cyanide pollution has been
discovered in Romania, according to an announcement from the Hungarian
embassy today. The embassy statement said that levels of up to sixty
times
the legal limit of cyanide had been identified.
The Director of the Federal Water Institute, Caslav Stanojevic, said
today
that the cyanide in the Tisa river which has been approaching Yugoslavia
through Hungary for the past week did not present a threat. Stanojevic
told
Studio B Radio that very diluted cyanide would reach Yugoslavia in
between
seven and ten days, and that all appropriate safety measures had been
taken.
TANJUG 8/2/00 ------------------------------------------------
L'ASSASSINIO DI BULATOVIC: UN ATTO DI TERRORISMO CONTRO LA RFJ
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2000-02/08/17109.html
Yugoslav Defense Minister Bulatovic assassinated
February 08, 2000
Belgrade, February 8th (Tanjug) - An unknown assailant assassinated the
Yugoslav
Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic in the F.C. Rad restaurant in Belgrade
at 6.55 p.m.
Monday, stated the Internal Affairs Secretariat in Belgrade.
Belgrade-based JU Garant Bank Director Vuk Obradovic and Rad restaurant
Manager Mirko Knezevic received minor injuries in the incident.
The assassin fired an automatic firearm through a window facing the
nearby football
stadium.
Belgrade police are taking all necessary measures towards finding the
perpetrator of
this crime, it was said in the statement
Pavle Bulatovic - victim of conventional act
of terrorism
Belgrade, February 8th (Tanjug) - The federal government states with
deep sorrow
and regret that Pavle Bulatovic, the FRY Defense Minister, was
assassinated in
Belgrade on Monday evening.
Minister Bulatovic is the victim of a conventional act of terrorism, it
was stressed in
the statement.
The federal government expresses gratitude and respect for the
contribution made by
Bulatovic to the defense, affirmation and development of FR Yugoslavia,
and
extends its deepest condolences to his family.
The federal government fully supports the authorized state organs in
their
uncompromising struggle against terrorism.
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DINI: PRESTO LEVATO L'EMBARGO AEREO
Dini: Suspension of air embargo imminent
BRUSSELS, Sunday - The air embargo on international flights from
Belgrade is
likely to be suspended at the next meeting of EU Ministers in Brussels
on
14th February, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini said in an
interview
for Belgrade daily "Blic" published today. The daily also writes that
there
are no indications that the European 15 will suspend the oil embargo.
IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA CHIEDE AI CRIMINALI
DELLA NATO DI CATTURARE I RICERCATI
Del Ponte demands NATO intensify search for war criminals
THE HAGUE, Sunday - Hague Tribunal chief prosecutor responsible for war
crimes, Carla Del Ponte has demanded that NATO set up special forces to
catch
war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, writes today's Danish daily
"Politiken". In her interview for "Politiken", Mrs. Del Ponte said that
she
had asked NATO General Secretary George Robertson to be more active in
this
area, expressing her opinion that NATO arrested only those indicted war
criminals which they ran into.
PARLA L'AVVOCATO DI ARKAN
Di Stefano: Arkan did not cooperate with Hague
BELGRADE, Sunday - Zeljko Raznjatovic, Arkan, did not provide the Hague
Tribunal with any documents or statements regarding war criminals,
Arkan's
lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano said in a written statement published in
Belgrade
daily "Glas javnosti" today. Di Stefano, who is currently imprisoned in
Italy
awaiting extradition to Britain, also stated that Arkan had not left
behind
any statements which could be used against senior Yugoslavian officials
in
any eventual war crimes trials.
YDS 5/2/00 ----------------------------------------------------
A BELGRADO UN POMERIGGIO DI SOLIDARIETA' CON IL POPOLO IRACHENO
EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE
BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) - In the presence of members of the
diplomatic corps from Arab countries and ranking officials of Serbia and
of
Yugoslavia, on Friday evening in Belgrade was held an evening of
solidarity
with Iraq and with the Iraqi people, who is the victim of a long
systematic
aggression and genocidal sanctions.
Sympathizing sincerely with the sufferings of the friendly Iraqi people
and expressing support for its dignified resistance and defense of
freedom,
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic stressed that systematic
attacks of the Washington-London axis on Iraq were encountering growing
condemnation, repulsion and resistance of the freedom-loving world
public.
Frightful UNICEF data about the suffering of the Iraqi people, Jovanovic
said, testify that as a direct consequence of the sanctions one million
two
hundred fifty thousand Iraqis have died, including several hundred
thousand
children, and that the same reasons were causing more than 200 children
under five years of age to die every day and an increased mortality rate
of
new-borns and pregnant women.
"Sanctions are a form of massive violation of basic human rights. Those
who deprive other people of food, medicines, water, electric power, who
destroy day care centres and maternity wards, who cooperate with
separatists and terrorists in order to break peoples and states guarding
their freedom and dignity, have no right to speak in the name of
democracy,
human rights and the international community. They must be held
accountable
for crimes against peace and humanity and for genocide," Jovanovic said
and
pointed out that for such people the last concern is human rights in
Iraq,
in Kosovo and Metohija or any where else in the world.
Jovanovic stressed particularly that the successful development of
traditional friendly relations between Yugoslavia and Arab countries
repudiated malicious claims, used in the media war against our country,
aimed at breaking off cooperation on the bilateral and the international
level that is based on joint interests, activity in the Non-Aligned
Movement and the struggle for democratic international relations.
By the joint engagement of our countries, these principles have been
promoted with a view to creating a more just world, in which developing
countries would have the opportunity to, without dictate, conditioning
or
limitations on the part of a great power, to reach the level of
political
and economic independence enabling their peoples to live in freedom and
in
peace, Jovanovic said.
"Relations between Yugoslavia and Iraq have always been characterized by
diversified cooperation based on mutual respect, noninterference in
internal relations and on mutual interests, which was at the same time a
sound and reliable basis of our relations with all Arab countries and
peoples. Those relations and cooperation were never directed against the
interests of third countries, nor is that the case today and that is why
they have good prospects," Jovanovic assessed.
Warning that the Security Council has a special responsibility to stop
every form of aggression and to put an end to the genocidal sanctions
against Iraq, Minister Jovanovic said that Yugoslavia, which itself is a
victim of hegemonistic and domineering concept of the policy spearheaded
by
the United States, has great respect for the solidarity, support and
understanding of Iraq and of a large number of Arab countries and the
huge
majority of members of the world organization.
The ambassador of Iraq to Belgrade, Sami Sadun Al Kinani, warmly thanked
for the solidarity and support of Yugoslavia, which itself is exposed to
aggression and sanctions, for his country and stressed that the
solidarity
was the result of the principled policy of the Yugoslav leadership. The
evening of solidarity with the Iraqi people was attended by Yugoslav and
Serbian deputy premiers, Nikola Sainovic and Ratko Markovic, and by
Serbian
parliament president Dragan Tomic.
IL MINISTRO DELLA DIFESA SUL RUOLO DELLE TRUPPE RUSSE
YUGOSLAV DEFENCE MINISTER: RUSSIAN TROOPS MAINTAINING BALANCE IN KOSOVO
AND
METOHIJA
MOSCOW, February. 4 (Tanjug) - Throughout its history the Balkan region
has always been very important for Russia because its fate either
affirmed
Russia as a great power or caused it to lose this distinction, Yugoslav
Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic said in an interview carried by
Friday's
issue of the Russian paper Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Speaking about the March 24 - June 10, 1999 NATO aggression on
Yugoslavia,
Bulatovic set out that the resistance to the aggressors was
"spontaneous,
organized and determined" and that established was "the exceptional
unity
of the people, army, police and the state organs."
"We were also very efficient in downing their planes and missiles,"
Bulatovic stated recalling that the Yugoslav Army, using the Neva
rocket,
was the first in the world to shoot down the famous U.S. F117A Stealth
plane.
Speaking about the strength of the Yugoslav Army, Bulatovic stated that
"it is better for all not to test it" because the heroism proven in the
war
against NATO has had a specially good effect on morale.
He underscored, however, that the Yugoslav Army badly needs modern
combat
means whose characteristics would serve as a deterrent to all potential
aggressors.
"We expect big support from the Russian Federation in the modernization
of
our army and the entire defence system since we have a traditionally
extensive cooperation in the defence sphere," Bulatovic noted.
According to him, this cooperation had, however, been marked by a degree
of discrepancy.
"In the previous decade we badly needed sophisticated and efficient
weapons, which Russia had, as our freedom was constantly being
threatened.
Russia, however, opted for the embargo on arms deliveries to Yugoslavia
and
strictly respected the U.N. embargo," Bulatovic recalled.
Describing the embargo as unjust and contrary to the principles ruling
international relations, in view of the elementary right of every
country
to defend itself, Bulatovic pointed out that this same embargo was
breached
by the Western and the Arab countries which constantly armed the enemies
of
the Serb and Montenegrin people.
Furthermore, Yugoslavia and Russia had signed and ratified numerous
agreements and contracts which have not been realized.
"I firmly believe that the time of Russian hesitation and indecision is
over and that the international security trends and economic conditions
will influence our military, military-economic and scientific-technical
cooperation in the sphere of defence to acquire a new quality and
contents," Bulatovic stated.
He added that Yugoslavia is monitoring with great hope the developments
on
the military and political scene in China and Russia and the
determination
of these two superpowers to oppose the U.S. and NATO hegemony.
Concluding that Russia was and remains the factor of the security of the
Serb and Montenegrin people, Bulatovic recalled the decision of the
Yugoslav government and the federal parliament to join the Union of
Russia
and Belarus. He added that this union opens up prospects for joint
solutions on issues of the defence and protection of one's own and the
joint sovereignty.
Commenting the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Bulatovic said that
U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1244, which guarantees Yugoslavia's
sovereignty
in Kosovo and Metohija, is not being implemented.
"We hoped that by protecting the Serbs, Montenegrins and other
non-Albanian ethnic groups in Kosovo and Metohija, the United Nations
would
defend itself from accusations that it has become the servant of the
United
States and NATO, but it is clear that KFOR and UNMIK were given the task
to
support the aggression and to try to realize all that the NATO warplanes
failed to do," Bulatovic set out.
Quoting the stupefying facts about the huge number refugees, murdered
and
kidnapped Serbs since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and
Metohija,
Bulatovic stated that all this "represents a clear message to Russia
regarding Chechnya."
"The United States has opted to cause crises to break out and to control
them and it has participated in more than 85 percent of the 215 wars and
focuses of crises which took place since the end of World War Two,"
Bulatovic said.
Regarding the participation of Russian troops within the international
force, Bulatovic noted that Russia "deserves to be given an important
role
by the United Nations both in view of its contingent and within the
command
structures."
SUI FINANZIATORI DEI "MEDIA INDIPENDENTI"
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS FINANCE SO-CALLED INDEPENDENT MEDIA
BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) - Serbian Information Minister Aleksandar
Vucic said on Saturday that for all the crimes committed lately in
Kosovo
and Metohija are directly responsible the U.N. mission and Bernard
Kouchner.
The daily killings of Serbs only because they are Serbs and because they
do not want to abandon the homes of their ancestors, testifying to the
criminal nature of the Americans and their endeavors to conceal the
truth,
stifle freedom and human rights allegedly in the name of those same
rights,
is the culmination of hypocrisy and self-righteousness of the so-called
Western democracy, Vucic said at a news conference.
We are going though a phase of disintegration of the international legal
order, Vucic warned, specifying that the United States attempts to
introduce and put into practice an Orwellian unique, absolute, global
truth
and all those who do not agree with it are enemy and should be
destroyed.
Serbia found itself in the way and that is why they attempt to destroy
it
and obliterate the Serbian people from the face of the earth, Vucic
said.
Noting that in the sphere of the media the United States attempts to
impose the existence of only one truth, that serves its policy, Vucic
said
that the West, thought its obedient media in our country, is
endeavouring
to abolish all elementary human freedoms, including the right to freedom
of
speech and opinion, while sanctimoniously claiming that they are urging
the
freedom of the press and that their obedient media is threatened.
Kosovo and Metohija is the very image of democracy in the United States
and in the West, Vucic said, pointing to the example of the banning of
SAS
television in Pristina which had programs in Serbian, Albanian and in
English, but which did not suit UNMIK and Western interests.
Pointing out that the United States is trying to destroy all the pillars
of democracy, including the electoral system, Vucic cited the example of
Austria, where the European Union and the United States, as he said,
reduced to nonsense the legal institution of elections, by not
recognizing
the will of the people, but only of elections at which pro-American
forces
win.
ENNESIMA RICHIESTA JUGOSLAVA ALL'ONU SULLA SITUAZIONE IN KOSMET
U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD BE BLAMED FOR BALKAN DESTABILISATION
NEW YORK, February 4 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's permanent representative to
the United Nations wrote to the U.N. Security Council on Friday
requesting
the body's emergency meeting.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, who heads Yugoslavia's U.N. mission,
drew
the Council's attention to the disastrous consequences that would result
from its failure to curb the deterioration of the security situation in
Kosovo and Metohija, violation of Yugoslavia's sovereignty and
territorial
integrity, and the ethnic cleansing campaign waged by ethnic Albanian
terrorists against local Serbs and other non-Albanians in that Serbian
(Yugoslav) province.
Failure to do this would directly result in an escalation of terrorism
throughout the region, which would destabilise the Balkans and southeast
Europe, and for which the U.N. Security Council would be directly to
blame,
according to Jovanovic.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija have committed fresh
atrocities, said the letter, addressed to the U.N. Security Council
President for February, Ambassador Arnoldo Listre of Argentina.
Jovanovic drew the attention of the Council members and U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan, who received a copy of the letter, to the two most
recent ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks - shelling with an anti-tank
grenade of a bus transporting Serbs under the escort of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and bombing of a cafe in Kosovska
Mitrovica.
The victims were all Serbs, the letter said, adding that the latest
brutal
operations by the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA),
transformed into the Kosovo Protection Corps, have shown without a
shadow
of doubt that the international force KFor and the U.N. civilian mission
(UNMIK) have not discharged their main obligations under U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1244 of disarming KLA terrorists and providing
security
for all in Kosovo and Metohija.
It is especially disturbing that both terrorist attacks occurred in the
presence of members of the international military and civilian missions.
Yugoslavia has once again, regrettably under tragic circumstances, been
proved right in its warnings that KFor and UNMIK are neither determined
nor
ready of guaranteeing freedom of movement and safety for all.
This kind of behaviour has resulted in the expulsion of 350,000 Serbs,
Montenegrins, Goranies, ethnic Turks and other non-Albanians from Kosovo
and Metohija.
Describing the reaction and statement by Annan as confused, ambiguous
and
mild, the Yugoslav ambassador said Annan's statement does not condemn
the
terrorism whose acceleration is the direct result of an accord reached
with
the ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists by Annan's special envoy
Bernard Kouchner.
IL LEADER NAZIONALISTA ALBANESE-MACEDONE XHAFERRI RICEVE UN MILIARDO
DALLA BROWN & RUTH COMPANY PER SFASCIARE IL SUO PAESE
ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER XHAFERI PAID TO RUIN MACEDONIA
SKOPJE, February 4 (Tanjug) - Leader of the Democratic Party of (ethnic)
Albanians in Macedonia Arben Xhaferi received 1,050,378 German marks
paid into his account late last December, according to a Macedonian
weekly magazine.
Start Magazine of Skopje says the money was paid into Xhaferi's
account with the Alfa Credit Bank of Tirana, Albania, by the American
Houston-based Brown and Ruth Company, which has a branch in Kumanovo,
Macedonia.
The company has close ties with the Pentagon, according to the
magazine.
Seeking an answer to the question what Xhaferi has done to merit the
considerable payment, Start learned of at least two services he has
rendered the Americans.
According to Start, he secured free passage for Brown and Ruth Co.
trucks across the Kosovo AND Metohija section of the Yugoslav-
Macedonian border which he controls on the Macedonian side,
independently of the state police.
Also, says Start, he was paid for his practical support for U.S. policy
at the time of NATO's March 24-June 10, 1999 aggression on Yugoslavia.
Start describes Xhaferi as a former Marxist-Leninist and follower of
(the late Albanian communist dictator) Enver Hoxha, now turned Greater
Albanian advocate and mafioso.
B92 4/2/00 --------------------------
DJINDJIC SEMPRE IN VIAGGIO ALL'ESTERO
Djindjic abroad again
WASHINGTON, Friday - Democratic Party President Zoran Djindjic met US
Balkans
envoy James Dobbins at the US State Department today. A statement issued
by
the Democratic Party after the meeting said the two had discussed aid to
prevent Serbian citizens becoming victims of isolation generated by the
Milosevic regime. The safety of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo
was
also on the agenda.
IL MONTENEGRO INDIPENDENTE AIUTERA' IL TRIBUNALE
DELL'AIA A SFASCIARE ANCHE IL RESTO
Montenegro will cooperate with The Hague: PM
THE HAGUE, Friday - Montenegro would cooperate with the Hague Tribunal
regardless of the official stance of Belgrade, Montenegrin Prime
Minister
Filip Vujanovic said today. Vujanovic told media in The Hague that he
had
assured the tribunal of Montenegro's willingness to hand over anyone
accused
of war crimes, provided their arrest would not lead to internal conflict
and
violence in the republic. Vujanovic, speaking at a joint press
conference
with Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, said that he believed that
it
was not in the international community's interest that arrests in
Montenegro
caused conflict or loss of human lives.
SHEA: LE NOSTRE MANOVRE IN KOSOVO SONO DI ROUTINE
Shea: Nato Kosovo exercises "routine"
BRUSSELS, Friday - NATO military manoeuvres in Kosovo in March would be
routine exercises, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea told Belgrade daily "Blic"
today. NATO headquarters announced this week that the manoeuvres would
be in
preparation for a response to any kind of deterioration of the situation
in
the province. Shea said today that the exercises were similar to those
which
had already taken place in both Bosnia and Kosovo, adding that there was
no
need to seek any kind of secret explanation for them.
B92 3/2/00 -----------------------------------------------------
VUJANOVIC CHIEDE 62 MILIONI DI DOLLARI PER SPACCARE IL SUO PAESE
Montenegro seeks aid for stabilisation
PODGORICA, Thursday - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic today
sought
$62 million from the US as assistance in resisting what he described as
an
attempt by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to destabilise the
southern
republic. Vujanovic told an international conference in Washington today
that
Montenegro's reform efforts had reached a key moment and that financial
aid
was needed rapidly in order to reduce the chances of conflict and ensure
the
republic's survival. Vujanovic was expected to meet US Secretary of
State
Madeleine Albright later today before leaving for The Hague where he
will
meet Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte.
IL MANIFESTO 2/2/00 ------------
7 MILIONI DI DOLLARI A VUJANOVIC
(...)
Prosegue intanto negli Stati Uniti il viaggio del premier montenegrino
Filip Vujanovic, alleato del presidente Djukanovic. L'amministrazione
Usa ha riservato una calda accoglienza all'alleato anti-Milosevic e
l'Agenzia statunitense per lo sviluppo internazionale (Usaid) ha
concesso al governo di Podgorica 7 milioni di dollari per aiutarla a
pagare le pensioni. [sic!]
B92 2/2/00 ----------------------------------------------
VUJANOVIC VA A PRENDERE ACCORDI CON IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA
Montenegrin PM to visit Hague Tribunal
THE HAGUE, Wednesday - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic is to
visit
the Hague Tribunal on Friday. Tribunal spokesman Paul Risley told media
today
that Vujanovic would meet Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte. Risley added
that
the visit had been arranged at Vujanovic's request.
GLI USA DANNO ISTRUZIONI AL MONTENEGRO SULLA SECESSIONE
US warns Montenegro against hasty action
PODGORICA, Wednesday - The US Defence Department has advised the
Montenegrin
government to proceed with caution during the coming months in order to
avoid
giving the Milosevic regime any opportunity to provoke a conflict in the
republic, Podgorica daily "Vijesti" writes today. The paper quotes
sources
from a Montenegrin delegation visiting Washington as saying that Prime
Minister Filip Vujanovic spent much longer than a planned half hour
yesterday
with Deputy US Defence Secretary Walter Slocombe. According to the
report,
Slocombe warned Vujanovic that the US was concerned that Belgrade wanted
a
new war in the Balkans, adding that any hasty move to resolve
Montenegro's
position in the Yugoslav Federation would lead the republic straight
into the
Milosevic machine.
B92 1/2/00 ----------------------------
VERSO IL CONGRESSO DEI SOCIALISTI SERBI
Socialists reshuffle for local elections
BELGRADE, Tuesday - The governing Socialist Party of Serbia is preparing
to
call local government elections immediately after its annual congress on
February 17, Belgrade daily "Vecernje novosti" writes today. The paper
quotes
sources it says is well-informed on SPS matters. "Vecernje novosti" also
claims that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has demanded that
branch
officials be reshuffled in order to put "the best people into senior
positions in the larger cities".
The paper also wrote today that the powerful secretary-general of the
Socialist Party, Gorica Gajevic, could soon be moved to a
vice-presidential
position and that current vice-president Zoran Lilic may be dumped
because of
his reformist views.
VUJANOVIC PROMETTE SEPARATISMO INDIPENDENTEMENTE DA MILOSEVIC
Crisis in federal relations deeper than Milosevic: Montenegrin PM
WASHINGTON, Tuesday - The crisis in federal relations between Serbia and
Montenegro won't be solved by the departure of Yugoslav President
Slobodan
Milosevic, Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic said today.
Vujanovic
told the "Washington Times" that it was necessary to define the
relationship
between Montenegro and Serbia on different constitutional principles,
adding
that Milosevic intended to launch a new crisis by destabilising
Montenegro
and beginning his fifth war in an attempt to maintain power.
RICOSTRUZIONE DI UN PONTE DISTRUTTO A NOVI SAD
Novi Sad begins its own bridge reconstruction
NOVI SAD, Tuesday - Work began today on rebuilding one of the three
Danube
bridges in Novi Sad destroyed in last year's NATO bombing campaign. The
mayor
of the Vojvodina capital, Stevan Vrbaski told media today that the
reconstruction was being financed by the city and the Institute for
Reconstruction of Novi Sad. In a reference to the Serbian Reconstruction
and
Renewal authority's strong objections to Novi Sad's initiative, Vrbaski
said
that the city would complete the bridge within twelve months, despite
attempts to deny it the right to do so.
SCIOPERO DEGLI INSEGNANTI IN SERBIA PER L'AUMENTO DEL SALARIO
School strike continues
BELGRADE, Tuesday - Teachers in Serbia's four largest education unions
today
continued to work reduced hours as part of their campaign for salary
increases and payment of salary arrears. Members of the four unions have
reduced class times from 45 to 30 minutes. Full time graduate secondary
teachers in Serbia currently receive a monthly salary of approximately
1,700
dinars or about 80 Deutschmarks.
SCIOPERO DEI FERROVIERI IN UNGHERIA
Hungarian railways strike again
BUDAPEST, Tuesday - Hungarian rail workers are on strike for the second
time
in a month, disrupting rail traffic in central and eastern Europe. The
workers say they will not return to work until their demands are met.
The
earlier action was limited to sixty hours. All passenger and freight
services
between Hungary and Yugoslavia have been suspended by the strike.
B92 30/1/2000 ------------------------------------------------
IL PRIMO MINISTRO MONTENEGRINO IN "VISITA DI LAVORO" NEGLI USA
Montenegrin Prime Minister on working visit to America
MONTENEGRO, Sunday - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic left for
America today on a working visit which will last for several days, his
cabinet stated today. During his visit, Vujanovic will take part in a
Balkan
conference on 2nd February and will meet with representatives from the
State
department, Congress, US Aid and other American political
establishments.
SENSE news agency reported today that the USA budget for 2000 will
provide
Montenegro with fifty five million dollars as part of the American
programme
to promote world democracy.
CP 28/1/00 -------------------------------------------------
EX AMBASCIATORE CANADESE A BELGRADO DIVENTA PERSONA SGRADITA
NELL'AMBASCIATA CANADESE A BELGRADO PER LE SUE IDEE
Last updated: Friday 28 January 2000 NATIONAL NEWS
Ex Canadian ambassador not welcome at his former embassy in Belgrade
TORONTO (CP) - A former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia says he was
not allowed to visit Canada's embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, probably
because of his outspoken criticism of NATO's Kosovo bombing campaign.
James Bissett, who was in the Yugoslavian capital to speak to a Serbian
writers conference, told CBC Radio's As It Happens that an embassy
official told him neither the Canadian nor local staff were allowed to
speak with him, on orders from Ottawa.
Bissett said Thursday his first reaction was that the snub was a petty
act as payback for his public criticism of NATO's military campaign
against the Yugoslavian government of Slobodan Milosevic. He later came
to feel it was a more serious effort to squelch opposition to the
Canadian government's policies.
Foreign Affairs Department spokesman Jim Wright told CBC Radio that
officials in Ottawa had instructed the Belgrade embassy staff not to
spend any time talking with Bissett. Wright said the embassy staff was
busy with a humanitarian mission that was visiting Belgrade at the same
time.
Wright also said Bissett's public comments had been used by the
Milosevic government for propaganda and his visit to the embassy could
also be used by the Yugoslavian government, which Wright described as a
"pariah regime."
An opinion article by Bissett, published by the Globe and Mail on Jan.
10, accuses NATO of misleading the public about the reasons and
consequences of the bombing campaign.
He wrote there were approximately 2,000 casualties in Kosovo up to the
NATO bombing - but that NATO bombing killed more than 2,000 Yugoslavian
civilians.
Bissett also said more than 800,000 ethnic Albanians fled Kosovo after
NATO bombing started, compared with 200,000 who were displaced prior to
the military campaign.
Bissett was Canada's ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1990 until 1992,
before the current Liberal government came to power.
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DOPO 9 MESI DI CENSURA HA RIPRESO LE TRASMISSIONI LA TV DEL NEMICO.
Di nuovo captabile via satellite la RTV della Serbia, ogni giorno dalle
16 alle 24.
Dati tecnici: via STACIONAR 12, 40 gradi est sulla frequenza 11530 GHz
con polarizzazione circolare destra (si puo' captare anche con
polarizzazione orizzontale o verticale, ma il segnale sara' inferiore).
SR 4167 megasymbols per second FEC 1/2. (Fonte:
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2000-02/09/17139.html )
REUTERS 9/2/00 ----------------------------------------
IL NUOVO PRESIDENTE CROATO MESIC: LA NATO INNANZI TUTTO
Paris, Weds., Feb. 9, 2000
Croatia President-Elect Says He'll Push Effort To Join EU and NATO
Reuters
ZAGREB, Croatia - Stipe Mesic, the president-elect of Croatia, vowed
Tuesday to push for swift entry into the European Union and NATO and to
battle high unemployment.
''We want to convince the world that Croatia is a part of Europe and
that Europe is in Croatia too,'' Mr. Mesic told cheering supporters
after winning the runoff election Monday, signaling a fresh start after
a decade of nationalist rule under Franjo Tudjman. ''We want to fulfill
our strategic goals as soon as possible to enter the European Union and
NATO.''
In Washington, Richard Holbrooke, the chief U.S. delegate to the United
Nations, heralded Mr. Mesic's election as a major step forward in
Croatia's drive to turn its back on ''the horrible mess'' in the
Balkans.
During the final years of rule under Mr. Tudjman, who died in December,
the West had shunned Croatia for its interference in Bosnia-Herzegovina
and refusal to cooperate with a United Nations war crimes tribunal.
Both Mr. Mesic, and the new center-left government that defeated Mr.
Tudjman's Croatian Democratic Union in a general election Jan. 3, have
vowed to reverse those policies.
With Mr. Mesic preparing for a five-year term, the influential weekly
Nacional underscored the political mood Tuesday with a front-page
headline: ''Croatia returns to the European family.''
The electoral commission said Mr. Mesic, who heads a coalition that is
part of the new governing alliance, had won 56.21 percent of the
second-round vote against 43.79 percent for Drazen Budisa, leader of the
Social Liberal party. In the first round of the presidential election on
Jan. 24, Mr. Mesic won 41.6 percent of the vote in a nine-party field,
while Mr. Budisa won 28 percent.
Croatian financial markets, rising strongly since the Jan. 3
parliamentary elections, were unmoved by the result, which had been
predicted by opinion polls.
''Though more news of rapprochement with Europe will always be rewarded,
from now on, the focus will be on economic rather than political
performance,'' said Hrvoje Fajdetic, trading chief at ZB Brokers in
Zagreb.
The Croatian economy was expected to have contracted by 1 percent to 1.5
percent last year, and unemployment reached a record high 20.8 percent
in December.
Mr. Mesic has said he will work closely with Prime Minister Ivica Racan
on tackling domestic woes. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Mr. Mesic
said, ''I would sum up our problem in three words: employment,
employment and employment.''
But it is not clear what influence Mr. Mesic will have in the daily
running of the country, because the government is committed to stripping
the presidency of the wide-ranging powers that were held by Mr. Tudjman.
Mr. Mesic supports this shift, saying only that he wants to remain
supreme commander of the army and have responsibility for appointing
secret service chiefs.
A former member of the Croatian Democratic Union, Mr. Mesic has held
numerous political offices. He was ejected into the opposition in 1994
after renouncing Mr. Tudjman's policy toward Bosnia.
Despite allegations of murky campaign financing, Mr. Mesic, with his
jovial, down-to-earth style, struck a chord in a nation tired of Mr.
Tudjman's aloofness.
B92 9/2/00 ------------------------------------------
GLI USA METTONO LE MANI AVANTI RISPETTO ALLA PROSSIMA
DICHIARAZIONE D'INDIPENDENZA DI KOSOVO E MACEDONIA
Independence of Kosovo or Montenegro no answer for Yugoslavia: US
WASHINGTON, Wednesday - The US Administration has came out strongly
against
the independence of either Kosovo or Montenegro as a solution to
Yugoslavia's
problems. According to Deputy Foreign Secretary Thomas Pickering, quoted
in
the US Government Bulletin today, what is needed is the departure of
Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and the flourishing of the democratic
opposition. Pickering goes on to say that the US had stuck to its
principles
and was still prepared to oppose any provocative action such as that
which
had occurred in Kosovo.
The US State Department also today released results of a public opinion
poll
conducted in Serbia. The survey, conducted by the department's research
division, shows that Milosevic's popularity has dropped to its lowest
level
in several years. According to the results sixteen per cent of Serbian
citizens support the Yugoslav President. However, despite a drop of nine
percentage points from October 1998, Milosevic is still the most popular
politician in Serbia. In second place is Alliance for Change leader
Dragoslav
Avramovic with eleven per cent.
The State Department did not identify the agency responsible for
collecting
data in Serbia.
DOMANI I FUNERALI DI BULATOVIC
Bulatovic funeral in Montenegro tomorrow
PODGORICA, Wednesday - The body of murdered Yugoslav Defence Minister
Pavle
Bulatovic is lying in state in a Podgorica cemetery today. A memorial
service
was due to begin in the Montenegrin capital at 6.00 p.m. Bulatovic will
be
buried tomorrow in the village of Gornji Rovci, his birthplace. Yugoslav
Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic, who is not related to the slain defence
minister, will deliver a eulogy.
Federal Information Minister Goran Matic said today that the murder of
Bulatovic was part of a series terrorist acts organised abroad. Matic
added
that he had predicted since last October that foreign countries would
plan
subversive terrorist acts in an effort to undermine the trust of
citizens.
Bulatovic had been under investigation by the Hague Tribunal, Deputy
Chief
Prosecutor Graham Blewett said today, adding that it was possible that
he
would be named as an accessory in future indictments.
VERRA' TOLTO L'EMBARGO AEREO?
Air traffic embargo to be lifted?
LONDON, Wednesday - The Yugoslav air traffic embargo will be suspended
for
six months after next Monday's Council of Minister meeting in Brussels,
British Foreign Office spokesman Mark Kent said today. Kent told
Belgrade
daily Blic that that the lifting of the sanctions was part of the
European
Union's agreement with the Serbian opposition. He added that along with
the
probable lifting of sanctions, the EU would step up financial pressure
on the
Belgrade regime and again extend the list of people close to the regime
banned from travelling to EU countries. Blic wrote today that Britain
had
already given its European partners an additional 180 names for the
list.
IL PARTITO SOCIALISTA SERBO DEL KOSOVO PREPARA IL CONGRESSO
Socialists choose deputies in Kosovo
ZVECAN, Wednesday - The ruling Socialist Party of Serbia is today
holding its
fourth election conference in Kosovo. The conference is expected to
elect
members of the Province Committee and delegates for next week's annual
party
congress. Conference delegates from Serbia proper were cleared by German
KFOR
troops at the Lesak checkpoint on the Kosovo administrative border. KFOR
provided escorts for Socialist Party members still living in the
province.
MESIC NON VEDE L'ORA DI ANDARE A TESTIMONIARE CONTRO MILOSEVIC
Mesic seeks to testify against Milosevic
ZAGREB, Wednesday - Croatian President-elect Stipe Mesic said today that
he
wanted to testify against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the
Hague
Tribunal. Mesic said he was doing everything he could to be invited by
the
Hague to give evidence against Milosevic. The newly-elected president
told
Spanish media that only after Milosevic had appeared before the
international
war crimes tribunal could the possibility of change in the Balkans be
discussed.
B92 8/2/00 -----------------------------------
ASSASSINATO IL MINISTRO DELLA DIFESA DELLA RFJ
Defence minister murdered
BELGRADE, Tuesday - Federal Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic was
murdered
yesterday in a restaurant in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica. Serbian
police
say that an unknown assailant fired through the window of the Rad
restaurant,
probably with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. The restaurant manager,
Mirko
Knezevic and the director of the YuGarant Bank, Vuk Obradovic, where
slightly
wounded in the attack.
A memorial service was held today at the Federal Government building in
Belgrade, attended by most senior figures of the Serbian and Yugoslav
governments. Deputy Federal Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic, speaking at
the
service, warned that there would be a serious assault on terrorism in
the
country.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic told media today that he
agreed
with the federal government's assessment that the murder of Bulatovic
was a
case of terrorism.
Belgrade daily 'Glas javnosti' writes today that Bulatovic was a cousin
of
Belgrade underworld figure Darko Asanin who was also murdered in a
Belgrade
restaurant eighteen months ago. The paper also claims that restaurateur
Mirko
Knezevic, who was wounded in the attack, was related to the murdered
defence
minister. The other injured man, retired army officer Vuk Obradovic, was
director of YuGarant bank which was established in the transformation of
the
Yugoslav Army in 1997 and had only later begun operating traditional
banking
services.
Deputy Serbian Information Minister Miodrag Popovic told the BBC today
that
the murder could easily be the work of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Other
speculations went further afield, with the Serbian Radical Party
accusing US,
British and French intelligence services of masterminding the murder.
The US
State Department said today that the murder of Bulatovic was new proof
that
the Belgrade regime was maintaining power by spreading fear, crime and
violence. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker told media that only
a
democratic Serbia could relieve its citizens of the evil which
controlled
their destiny.
GRAVE INQUINAMENTO NEI FIUMI PROVENIENTE DALLA ROMANIA
New cyanide leak in Romania
BUDAPEST, Thursday - Another source of deadly cyanide pollution has been
discovered in Romania, according to an announcement from the Hungarian
embassy today. The embassy statement said that levels of up to sixty
times
the legal limit of cyanide had been identified.
The Director of the Federal Water Institute, Caslav Stanojevic, said
today
that the cyanide in the Tisa river which has been approaching Yugoslavia
through Hungary for the past week did not present a threat. Stanojevic
told
Studio B Radio that very diluted cyanide would reach Yugoslavia in
between
seven and ten days, and that all appropriate safety measures had been
taken.
TANJUG 8/2/00 ------------------------------------------------
L'ASSASSINIO DI BULATOVIC: UN ATTO DI TERRORISMO CONTRO LA RFJ
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2000-02/08/17109.html
Yugoslav Defense Minister Bulatovic assassinated
February 08, 2000
Belgrade, February 8th (Tanjug) - An unknown assailant assassinated the
Yugoslav
Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic in the F.C. Rad restaurant in Belgrade
at 6.55 p.m.
Monday, stated the Internal Affairs Secretariat in Belgrade.
Belgrade-based JU Garant Bank Director Vuk Obradovic and Rad restaurant
Manager Mirko Knezevic received minor injuries in the incident.
The assassin fired an automatic firearm through a window facing the
nearby football
stadium.
Belgrade police are taking all necessary measures towards finding the
perpetrator of
this crime, it was said in the statement
Pavle Bulatovic - victim of conventional act
of terrorism
Belgrade, February 8th (Tanjug) - The federal government states with
deep sorrow
and regret that Pavle Bulatovic, the FRY Defense Minister, was
assassinated in
Belgrade on Monday evening.
Minister Bulatovic is the victim of a conventional act of terrorism, it
was stressed in
the statement.
The federal government expresses gratitude and respect for the
contribution made by
Bulatovic to the defense, affirmation and development of FR Yugoslavia,
and
extends its deepest condolences to his family.
The federal government fully supports the authorized state organs in
their
uncompromising struggle against terrorism.
B92 6/2/00 ------------------------
DINI: PRESTO LEVATO L'EMBARGO AEREO
Dini: Suspension of air embargo imminent
BRUSSELS, Sunday - The air embargo on international flights from
Belgrade is
likely to be suspended at the next meeting of EU Ministers in Brussels
on
14th February, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini said in an
interview
for Belgrade daily "Blic" published today. The daily also writes that
there
are no indications that the European 15 will suspend the oil embargo.
IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA CHIEDE AI CRIMINALI
DELLA NATO DI CATTURARE I RICERCATI
Del Ponte demands NATO intensify search for war criminals
THE HAGUE, Sunday - Hague Tribunal chief prosecutor responsible for war
crimes, Carla Del Ponte has demanded that NATO set up special forces to
catch
war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, writes today's Danish daily
"Politiken". In her interview for "Politiken", Mrs. Del Ponte said that
she
had asked NATO General Secretary George Robertson to be more active in
this
area, expressing her opinion that NATO arrested only those indicted war
criminals which they ran into.
PARLA L'AVVOCATO DI ARKAN
Di Stefano: Arkan did not cooperate with Hague
BELGRADE, Sunday - Zeljko Raznjatovic, Arkan, did not provide the Hague
Tribunal with any documents or statements regarding war criminals,
Arkan's
lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano said in a written statement published in
Belgrade
daily "Glas javnosti" today. Di Stefano, who is currently imprisoned in
Italy
awaiting extradition to Britain, also stated that Arkan had not left
behind
any statements which could be used against senior Yugoslavian officials
in
any eventual war crimes trials.
YDS 5/2/00 ----------------------------------------------------
A BELGRADO UN POMERIGGIO DI SOLIDARIETA' CON IL POPOLO IRACHENO
EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE
BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) - In the presence of members of the
diplomatic corps from Arab countries and ranking officials of Serbia and
of
Yugoslavia, on Friday evening in Belgrade was held an evening of
solidarity
with Iraq and with the Iraqi people, who is the victim of a long
systematic
aggression and genocidal sanctions.
Sympathizing sincerely with the sufferings of the friendly Iraqi people
and expressing support for its dignified resistance and defense of
freedom,
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic stressed that systematic
attacks of the Washington-London axis on Iraq were encountering growing
condemnation, repulsion and resistance of the freedom-loving world
public.
Frightful UNICEF data about the suffering of the Iraqi people, Jovanovic
said, testify that as a direct consequence of the sanctions one million
two
hundred fifty thousand Iraqis have died, including several hundred
thousand
children, and that the same reasons were causing more than 200 children
under five years of age to die every day and an increased mortality rate
of
new-borns and pregnant women.
"Sanctions are a form of massive violation of basic human rights. Those
who deprive other people of food, medicines, water, electric power, who
destroy day care centres and maternity wards, who cooperate with
separatists and terrorists in order to break peoples and states guarding
their freedom and dignity, have no right to speak in the name of
democracy,
human rights and the international community. They must be held
accountable
for crimes against peace and humanity and for genocide," Jovanovic said
and
pointed out that for such people the last concern is human rights in
Iraq,
in Kosovo and Metohija or any where else in the world.
Jovanovic stressed particularly that the successful development of
traditional friendly relations between Yugoslavia and Arab countries
repudiated malicious claims, used in the media war against our country,
aimed at breaking off cooperation on the bilateral and the international
level that is based on joint interests, activity in the Non-Aligned
Movement and the struggle for democratic international relations.
By the joint engagement of our countries, these principles have been
promoted with a view to creating a more just world, in which developing
countries would have the opportunity to, without dictate, conditioning
or
limitations on the part of a great power, to reach the level of
political
and economic independence enabling their peoples to live in freedom and
in
peace, Jovanovic said.
"Relations between Yugoslavia and Iraq have always been characterized by
diversified cooperation based on mutual respect, noninterference in
internal relations and on mutual interests, which was at the same time a
sound and reliable basis of our relations with all Arab countries and
peoples. Those relations and cooperation were never directed against the
interests of third countries, nor is that the case today and that is why
they have good prospects," Jovanovic assessed.
Warning that the Security Council has a special responsibility to stop
every form of aggression and to put an end to the genocidal sanctions
against Iraq, Minister Jovanovic said that Yugoslavia, which itself is a
victim of hegemonistic and domineering concept of the policy spearheaded
by
the United States, has great respect for the solidarity, support and
understanding of Iraq and of a large number of Arab countries and the
huge
majority of members of the world organization.
The ambassador of Iraq to Belgrade, Sami Sadun Al Kinani, warmly thanked
for the solidarity and support of Yugoslavia, which itself is exposed to
aggression and sanctions, for his country and stressed that the
solidarity
was the result of the principled policy of the Yugoslav leadership. The
evening of solidarity with the Iraqi people was attended by Yugoslav and
Serbian deputy premiers, Nikola Sainovic and Ratko Markovic, and by
Serbian
parliament president Dragan Tomic.
IL MINISTRO DELLA DIFESA SUL RUOLO DELLE TRUPPE RUSSE
YUGOSLAV DEFENCE MINISTER: RUSSIAN TROOPS MAINTAINING BALANCE IN KOSOVO
AND
METOHIJA
MOSCOW, February. 4 (Tanjug) - Throughout its history the Balkan region
has always been very important for Russia because its fate either
affirmed
Russia as a great power or caused it to lose this distinction, Yugoslav
Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic said in an interview carried by
Friday's
issue of the Russian paper Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Speaking about the March 24 - June 10, 1999 NATO aggression on
Yugoslavia,
Bulatovic set out that the resistance to the aggressors was
"spontaneous,
organized and determined" and that established was "the exceptional
unity
of the people, army, police and the state organs."
"We were also very efficient in downing their planes and missiles,"
Bulatovic stated recalling that the Yugoslav Army, using the Neva
rocket,
was the first in the world to shoot down the famous U.S. F117A Stealth
plane.
Speaking about the strength of the Yugoslav Army, Bulatovic stated that
"it is better for all not to test it" because the heroism proven in the
war
against NATO has had a specially good effect on morale.
He underscored, however, that the Yugoslav Army badly needs modern
combat
means whose characteristics would serve as a deterrent to all potential
aggressors.
"We expect big support from the Russian Federation in the modernization
of
our army and the entire defence system since we have a traditionally
extensive cooperation in the defence sphere," Bulatovic noted.
According to him, this cooperation had, however, been marked by a degree
of discrepancy.
"In the previous decade we badly needed sophisticated and efficient
weapons, which Russia had, as our freedom was constantly being
threatened.
Russia, however, opted for the embargo on arms deliveries to Yugoslavia
and
strictly respected the U.N. embargo," Bulatovic recalled.
Describing the embargo as unjust and contrary to the principles ruling
international relations, in view of the elementary right of every
country
to defend itself, Bulatovic pointed out that this same embargo was
breached
by the Western and the Arab countries which constantly armed the enemies
of
the Serb and Montenegrin people.
Furthermore, Yugoslavia and Russia had signed and ratified numerous
agreements and contracts which have not been realized.
"I firmly believe that the time of Russian hesitation and indecision is
over and that the international security trends and economic conditions
will influence our military, military-economic and scientific-technical
cooperation in the sphere of defence to acquire a new quality and
contents," Bulatovic stated.
He added that Yugoslavia is monitoring with great hope the developments
on
the military and political scene in China and Russia and the
determination
of these two superpowers to oppose the U.S. and NATO hegemony.
Concluding that Russia was and remains the factor of the security of the
Serb and Montenegrin people, Bulatovic recalled the decision of the
Yugoslav government and the federal parliament to join the Union of
Russia
and Belarus. He added that this union opens up prospects for joint
solutions on issues of the defence and protection of one's own and the
joint sovereignty.
Commenting the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Bulatovic said that
U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1244, which guarantees Yugoslavia's
sovereignty
in Kosovo and Metohija, is not being implemented.
"We hoped that by protecting the Serbs, Montenegrins and other
non-Albanian ethnic groups in Kosovo and Metohija, the United Nations
would
defend itself from accusations that it has become the servant of the
United
States and NATO, but it is clear that KFOR and UNMIK were given the task
to
support the aggression and to try to realize all that the NATO warplanes
failed to do," Bulatovic set out.
Quoting the stupefying facts about the huge number refugees, murdered
and
kidnapped Serbs since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and
Metohija,
Bulatovic stated that all this "represents a clear message to Russia
regarding Chechnya."
"The United States has opted to cause crises to break out and to control
them and it has participated in more than 85 percent of the 215 wars and
focuses of crises which took place since the end of World War Two,"
Bulatovic said.
Regarding the participation of Russian troops within the international
force, Bulatovic noted that Russia "deserves to be given an important
role
by the United Nations both in view of its contingent and within the
command
structures."
SUI FINANZIATORI DEI "MEDIA INDIPENDENTI"
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS FINANCE SO-CALLED INDEPENDENT MEDIA
BELGRADE, February 5 (Tanjug) - Serbian Information Minister Aleksandar
Vucic said on Saturday that for all the crimes committed lately in
Kosovo
and Metohija are directly responsible the U.N. mission and Bernard
Kouchner.
The daily killings of Serbs only because they are Serbs and because they
do not want to abandon the homes of their ancestors, testifying to the
criminal nature of the Americans and their endeavors to conceal the
truth,
stifle freedom and human rights allegedly in the name of those same
rights,
is the culmination of hypocrisy and self-righteousness of the so-called
Western democracy, Vucic said at a news conference.
We are going though a phase of disintegration of the international legal
order, Vucic warned, specifying that the United States attempts to
introduce and put into practice an Orwellian unique, absolute, global
truth
and all those who do not agree with it are enemy and should be
destroyed.
Serbia found itself in the way and that is why they attempt to destroy
it
and obliterate the Serbian people from the face of the earth, Vucic
said.
Noting that in the sphere of the media the United States attempts to
impose the existence of only one truth, that serves its policy, Vucic
said
that the West, thought its obedient media in our country, is
endeavouring
to abolish all elementary human freedoms, including the right to freedom
of
speech and opinion, while sanctimoniously claiming that they are urging
the
freedom of the press and that their obedient media is threatened.
Kosovo and Metohija is the very image of democracy in the United States
and in the West, Vucic said, pointing to the example of the banning of
SAS
television in Pristina which had programs in Serbian, Albanian and in
English, but which did not suit UNMIK and Western interests.
Pointing out that the United States is trying to destroy all the pillars
of democracy, including the electoral system, Vucic cited the example of
Austria, where the European Union and the United States, as he said,
reduced to nonsense the legal institution of elections, by not
recognizing
the will of the people, but only of elections at which pro-American
forces
win.
ENNESIMA RICHIESTA JUGOSLAVA ALL'ONU SULLA SITUAZIONE IN KOSMET
U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD BE BLAMED FOR BALKAN DESTABILISATION
NEW YORK, February 4 (Tanjug) - Yugoslavia's permanent representative to
the United Nations wrote to the U.N. Security Council on Friday
requesting
the body's emergency meeting.
Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic, who heads Yugoslavia's U.N. mission,
drew
the Council's attention to the disastrous consequences that would result
from its failure to curb the deterioration of the security situation in
Kosovo and Metohija, violation of Yugoslavia's sovereignty and
territorial
integrity, and the ethnic cleansing campaign waged by ethnic Albanian
terrorists against local Serbs and other non-Albanians in that Serbian
(Yugoslav) province.
Failure to do this would directly result in an escalation of terrorism
throughout the region, which would destabilise the Balkans and southeast
Europe, and for which the U.N. Security Council would be directly to
blame,
according to Jovanovic.
Ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija have committed fresh
atrocities, said the letter, addressed to the U.N. Security Council
President for February, Ambassador Arnoldo Listre of Argentina.
Jovanovic drew the attention of the Council members and U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan, who received a copy of the letter, to the two most
recent ethnic Albanian terrorist attacks - shelling with an anti-tank
grenade of a bus transporting Serbs under the escort of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and bombing of a cafe in Kosovska
Mitrovica.
The victims were all Serbs, the letter said, adding that the latest
brutal
operations by the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA),
transformed into the Kosovo Protection Corps, have shown without a
shadow
of doubt that the international force KFor and the U.N. civilian mission
(UNMIK) have not discharged their main obligations under U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1244 of disarming KLA terrorists and providing
security
for all in Kosovo and Metohija.
It is especially disturbing that both terrorist attacks occurred in the
presence of members of the international military and civilian missions.
Yugoslavia has once again, regrettably under tragic circumstances, been
proved right in its warnings that KFor and UNMIK are neither determined
nor
ready of guaranteeing freedom of movement and safety for all.
This kind of behaviour has resulted in the expulsion of 350,000 Serbs,
Montenegrins, Goranies, ethnic Turks and other non-Albanians from Kosovo
and Metohija.
Describing the reaction and statement by Annan as confused, ambiguous
and
mild, the Yugoslav ambassador said Annan's statement does not condemn
the
terrorism whose acceleration is the direct result of an accord reached
with
the ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists by Annan's special envoy
Bernard Kouchner.
IL LEADER NAZIONALISTA ALBANESE-MACEDONE XHAFERRI RICEVE UN MILIARDO
DALLA BROWN & RUTH COMPANY PER SFASCIARE IL SUO PAESE
ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER XHAFERI PAID TO RUIN MACEDONIA
SKOPJE, February 4 (Tanjug) - Leader of the Democratic Party of (ethnic)
Albanians in Macedonia Arben Xhaferi received 1,050,378 German marks
paid into his account late last December, according to a Macedonian
weekly magazine.
Start Magazine of Skopje says the money was paid into Xhaferi's
account with the Alfa Credit Bank of Tirana, Albania, by the American
Houston-based Brown and Ruth Company, which has a branch in Kumanovo,
Macedonia.
The company has close ties with the Pentagon, according to the
magazine.
Seeking an answer to the question what Xhaferi has done to merit the
considerable payment, Start learned of at least two services he has
rendered the Americans.
According to Start, he secured free passage for Brown and Ruth Co.
trucks across the Kosovo AND Metohija section of the Yugoslav-
Macedonian border which he controls on the Macedonian side,
independently of the state police.
Also, says Start, he was paid for his practical support for U.S. policy
at the time of NATO's March 24-June 10, 1999 aggression on Yugoslavia.
Start describes Xhaferi as a former Marxist-Leninist and follower of
(the late Albanian communist dictator) Enver Hoxha, now turned Greater
Albanian advocate and mafioso.
B92 4/2/00 --------------------------
DJINDJIC SEMPRE IN VIAGGIO ALL'ESTERO
Djindjic abroad again
WASHINGTON, Friday - Democratic Party President Zoran Djindjic met US
Balkans
envoy James Dobbins at the US State Department today. A statement issued
by
the Democratic Party after the meeting said the two had discussed aid to
prevent Serbian citizens becoming victims of isolation generated by the
Milosevic regime. The safety of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo
was
also on the agenda.
IL MONTENEGRO INDIPENDENTE AIUTERA' IL TRIBUNALE
DELL'AIA A SFASCIARE ANCHE IL RESTO
Montenegro will cooperate with The Hague: PM
THE HAGUE, Friday - Montenegro would cooperate with the Hague Tribunal
regardless of the official stance of Belgrade, Montenegrin Prime
Minister
Filip Vujanovic said today. Vujanovic told media in The Hague that he
had
assured the tribunal of Montenegro's willingness to hand over anyone
accused
of war crimes, provided their arrest would not lead to internal conflict
and
violence in the republic. Vujanovic, speaking at a joint press
conference
with Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, said that he believed that
it
was not in the international community's interest that arrests in
Montenegro
caused conflict or loss of human lives.
SHEA: LE NOSTRE MANOVRE IN KOSOVO SONO DI ROUTINE
Shea: Nato Kosovo exercises "routine"
BRUSSELS, Friday - NATO military manoeuvres in Kosovo in March would be
routine exercises, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea told Belgrade daily "Blic"
today. NATO headquarters announced this week that the manoeuvres would
be in
preparation for a response to any kind of deterioration of the situation
in
the province. Shea said today that the exercises were similar to those
which
had already taken place in both Bosnia and Kosovo, adding that there was
no
need to seek any kind of secret explanation for them.
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VUJANOVIC CHIEDE 62 MILIONI DI DOLLARI PER SPACCARE IL SUO PAESE
Montenegro seeks aid for stabilisation
PODGORICA, Thursday - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic today
sought
$62 million from the US as assistance in resisting what he described as
an
attempt by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to destabilise the
southern
republic. Vujanovic told an international conference in Washington today
that
Montenegro's reform efforts had reached a key moment and that financial
aid
was needed rapidly in order to reduce the chances of conflict and ensure
the
republic's survival. Vujanovic was expected to meet US Secretary of
State
Madeleine Albright later today before leaving for The Hague where he
will
meet Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte.
IL MANIFESTO 2/2/00 ------------
7 MILIONI DI DOLLARI A VUJANOVIC
(...)
Prosegue intanto negli Stati Uniti il viaggio del premier montenegrino
Filip Vujanovic, alleato del presidente Djukanovic. L'amministrazione
Usa ha riservato una calda accoglienza all'alleato anti-Milosevic e
l'Agenzia statunitense per lo sviluppo internazionale (Usaid) ha
concesso al governo di Podgorica 7 milioni di dollari per aiutarla a
pagare le pensioni. [sic!]
B92 2/2/00 ----------------------------------------------
VUJANOVIC VA A PRENDERE ACCORDI CON IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA
Montenegrin PM to visit Hague Tribunal
THE HAGUE, Wednesday - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic is to
visit
the Hague Tribunal on Friday. Tribunal spokesman Paul Risley told media
today
that Vujanovic would meet Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte. Risley added
that
the visit had been arranged at Vujanovic's request.
GLI USA DANNO ISTRUZIONI AL MONTENEGRO SULLA SECESSIONE
US warns Montenegro against hasty action
PODGORICA, Wednesday - The US Defence Department has advised the
Montenegrin
government to proceed with caution during the coming months in order to
avoid
giving the Milosevic regime any opportunity to provoke a conflict in the
republic, Podgorica daily "Vijesti" writes today. The paper quotes
sources
from a Montenegrin delegation visiting Washington as saying that Prime
Minister Filip Vujanovic spent much longer than a planned half hour
yesterday
with Deputy US Defence Secretary Walter Slocombe. According to the
report,
Slocombe warned Vujanovic that the US was concerned that Belgrade wanted
a
new war in the Balkans, adding that any hasty move to resolve
Montenegro's
position in the Yugoslav Federation would lead the republic straight
into the
Milosevic machine.
B92 1/2/00 ----------------------------
VERSO IL CONGRESSO DEI SOCIALISTI SERBI
Socialists reshuffle for local elections
BELGRADE, Tuesday - The governing Socialist Party of Serbia is preparing
to
call local government elections immediately after its annual congress on
February 17, Belgrade daily "Vecernje novosti" writes today. The paper
quotes
sources it says is well-informed on SPS matters. "Vecernje novosti" also
claims that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has demanded that
branch
officials be reshuffled in order to put "the best people into senior
positions in the larger cities".
The paper also wrote today that the powerful secretary-general of the
Socialist Party, Gorica Gajevic, could soon be moved to a
vice-presidential
position and that current vice-president Zoran Lilic may be dumped
because of
his reformist views.
VUJANOVIC PROMETTE SEPARATISMO INDIPENDENTEMENTE DA MILOSEVIC
Crisis in federal relations deeper than Milosevic: Montenegrin PM
WASHINGTON, Tuesday - The crisis in federal relations between Serbia and
Montenegro won't be solved by the departure of Yugoslav President
Slobodan
Milosevic, Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic said today.
Vujanovic
told the "Washington Times" that it was necessary to define the
relationship
between Montenegro and Serbia on different constitutional principles,
adding
that Milosevic intended to launch a new crisis by destabilising
Montenegro
and beginning his fifth war in an attempt to maintain power.
RICOSTRUZIONE DI UN PONTE DISTRUTTO A NOVI SAD
Novi Sad begins its own bridge reconstruction
NOVI SAD, Tuesday - Work began today on rebuilding one of the three
Danube
bridges in Novi Sad destroyed in last year's NATO bombing campaign. The
mayor
of the Vojvodina capital, Stevan Vrbaski told media today that the
reconstruction was being financed by the city and the Institute for
Reconstruction of Novi Sad. In a reference to the Serbian Reconstruction
and
Renewal authority's strong objections to Novi Sad's initiative, Vrbaski
said
that the city would complete the bridge within twelve months, despite
attempts to deny it the right to do so.
SCIOPERO DEGLI INSEGNANTI IN SERBIA PER L'AUMENTO DEL SALARIO
School strike continues
BELGRADE, Tuesday - Teachers in Serbia's four largest education unions
today
continued to work reduced hours as part of their campaign for salary
increases and payment of salary arrears. Members of the four unions have
reduced class times from 45 to 30 minutes. Full time graduate secondary
teachers in Serbia currently receive a monthly salary of approximately
1,700
dinars or about 80 Deutschmarks.
SCIOPERO DEI FERROVIERI IN UNGHERIA
Hungarian railways strike again
BUDAPEST, Tuesday - Hungarian rail workers are on strike for the second
time
in a month, disrupting rail traffic in central and eastern Europe. The
workers say they will not return to work until their demands are met.
The
earlier action was limited to sixty hours. All passenger and freight
services
between Hungary and Yugoslavia have been suspended by the strike.
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IL PRIMO MINISTRO MONTENEGRINO IN "VISITA DI LAVORO" NEGLI USA
Montenegrin Prime Minister on working visit to America
MONTENEGRO, Sunday - Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic left for
America today on a working visit which will last for several days, his
cabinet stated today. During his visit, Vujanovic will take part in a
Balkan
conference on 2nd February and will meet with representatives from the
State
department, Congress, US Aid and other American political
establishments.
SENSE news agency reported today that the USA budget for 2000 will
provide
Montenegro with fifty five million dollars as part of the American
programme
to promote world democracy.
CP 28/1/00 -------------------------------------------------
EX AMBASCIATORE CANADESE A BELGRADO DIVENTA PERSONA SGRADITA
NELL'AMBASCIATA CANADESE A BELGRADO PER LE SUE IDEE
Last updated: Friday 28 January 2000 NATIONAL NEWS
Ex Canadian ambassador not welcome at his former embassy in Belgrade
TORONTO (CP) - A former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia says he was
not allowed to visit Canada's embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, probably
because of his outspoken criticism of NATO's Kosovo bombing campaign.
James Bissett, who was in the Yugoslavian capital to speak to a Serbian
writers conference, told CBC Radio's As It Happens that an embassy
official told him neither the Canadian nor local staff were allowed to
speak with him, on orders from Ottawa.
Bissett said Thursday his first reaction was that the snub was a petty
act as payback for his public criticism of NATO's military campaign
against the Yugoslavian government of Slobodan Milosevic. He later came
to feel it was a more serious effort to squelch opposition to the
Canadian government's policies.
Foreign Affairs Department spokesman Jim Wright told CBC Radio that
officials in Ottawa had instructed the Belgrade embassy staff not to
spend any time talking with Bissett. Wright said the embassy staff was
busy with a humanitarian mission that was visiting Belgrade at the same
time.
Wright also said Bissett's public comments had been used by the
Milosevic government for propaganda and his visit to the embassy could
also be used by the Yugoslavian government, which Wright described as a
"pariah regime."
An opinion article by Bissett, published by the Globe and Mail on Jan.
10, accuses NATO of misleading the public about the reasons and
consequences of the bombing campaign.
He wrote there were approximately 2,000 casualties in Kosovo up to the
NATO bombing - but that NATO bombing killed more than 2,000 Yugoslavian
civilians.
Bissett also said more than 800,000 ethnic Albanians fled Kosovo after
NATO bombing started, compared with 200,000 who were displaced prior to
the military campaign.
Bissett was Canada's ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1990 until 1992,
before the current Liberal government came to power.
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