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JOVANOVIC: YUGOSLAVIA DEMANDS REALIZATION OF UN RESOLUTION
Yugoslavia's priority is the full and due implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic told CNN on Tuesday.
In an interview to the U.S. television network, Jovanovic spoke about violations of this document, and the bypassing of obligations by the international forces to disarm the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation that calls itself the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and other bands of ethnic Albanians.
The terrorist KLA is practically taken under protection, which is a gross violation of the unequivocal obligation of the international force KFOR and civilian mission UNMIK, Jovanovic said, adding that the international organs also fail to guarantee security for all citizens in Serbia's southern province.
The other clear obligation - acceptance of the return of Yugoslav army and police contingents to Kosovo and Metohija - is also being avoided, Jovanovic said.
Such a stand has resulted in stepped up terrorism following the arrival of the KFOR and UNMIK, greater violence and chaos, and ethnic cleansing, he said.
Speaking about the disarming of the so-called KLA, Jovanovic said the KFOR and UNMIK's behaviour is absolutely unacceptable, as the alleged transformation of the KLA in fact shows a plan to organize the terrorists, give partial legitimacy to their organisation, to preserve it as a destabilisation force in the Balkans, and also to meet the needs and objectives of NATO.
This is a fascist philosophy of an ethnically pure Kosovo and Metohija, which has nothing to do with multi-ethnic Kosovo and Metohija, Jovanovic said.
As a sovereign country, Yugoslavia will never recognise actions or decisions, which are in violation of Resolution 1244, Jovanovic told the CNN.
Jovanovic is in New York for the 54th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
MINISTER JOVANOVIC HOLDS TALKS AT UNITED NATIONS
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, who is in New York to attend a UN General Assembly session, on Tuesday conferred with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa.
The two ministers agreed that relations between the two countries should be promoted in the bilateral and multilateral areas, as well as their communication channels and contacts.
Jovanovic and Moussa also considered activities of the movement of non-aligned countries.
Jovanovic informed Moussa about the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244. He spoke about problems; in particular the tolerant stand of the international forces in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province (KFOR) toward the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, and the ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanians.
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic met in New York on Tuesday with former U.S. secretary of state and prominent public and political figure Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger criticised the U.S. policy and the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia last spring. The Serbian people are a heroic people who have deep roots in European history and civilisation, a people who have throughout history always fought against foreign domination, which is not understood sufficiently in the United States, he said.
Yugoslavia could not have accepted the Rambouillet agreement because it would have meant occupation, Kissinger said. No country in the world could accept such an alleged agreement, he said.
Jovanovic informed Kissinger about the current situation in Kosovo and Metohija and said Yugoslavia had met all its obligations under the relevant UN Security Council resolution and the military-technical agreement ahead of schedule.
Contrary to this, the UN civilian mission and KFOR in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province are not meeting their obligations, which gives reason for concern, Jovanovic said. Disrespect of articles on guaranteed security for all citizens is especially disturbing, as well as the fact that ethnic cleansing is taking place in the presence of the UNMIK and KFOR, he said.
The latest problem is the farce with the so-called disarming and demilitarisation of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation that calls itself the Kosovo Liberation Army, Jovanovic said.
YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL - LEGALISATION OF KLA IS VIOLATION OF UN RESOLUTION
Head of the Yugoslav government committee on co-operation with the UN mission to Kosovo and Metohija, Ambassador Stanimir Vukicevic, said Wednesday that the forming of a 'Kosovo protection corps' was an attempt to legalise through the change of a name the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Vukicevic told Tanjug in Pristina, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province that it was unacceptable to call such one corps 'protection corps' because if the intention was to place it in charge of civilian affairs, then the term 'protection' was unnecessary.
"It is evident that this is some kind of an embryo defence force," he said adding that KLA commander Agim Ceku had been appointed the force's commander.
The UN civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) and the UN protection force KFOR do not honour UN Security Council Resolution 1244, he said adding that this was yet another example of a flagrant violation of the resolution.
"No one should deceive themselves that KLA has been disarmed and I am confident that both KFOR as well as UNMIK are well aware of it despite the document they have signed," he said warning against the fact that KLA is holding in prisons Serbs it has abducted and that the agreement makes no mention of them.
Vukicevic said that those who had set up 'Kosovo protection forces' and had allegedly disarmed KLA must bear responsibility for the abducted Serbs' fate.
YUGOSLAV MINISTER SAYS KOSOVO CORPS WILL SPUR SERB EXODUS
According to Yugoslavia's justice minister on Tuesday, the setting up of an ethnic Albanian "KosovoProtection Corps" will reflect negatively on peace in Kosovo-Metohija and spur on Serbs' exodus from that U.N.-secured province.
Justice Minister Petar Jojic said in a statement that the UN Security Council's Resolution 1244 obligates the United Nations to ensure safety for all in Kosovo-Metohija and maintain law and ordering that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
Also, it provides for the deployment of an international police force, demilitarisation of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and other armed gangs of ethnic Albanians, and for ensuring the return of all displaced people, the minister said.
With this resolution, the statement added, the United Nations, specifically its Security Council, assumed the responsibility to see that the political process continues and talks on autonomy proceed on the basis of full equality of all people and ethnic communities in Kosovo-Metohija within sovereign Yugoslavia.
However, the UN civilian mission (UNMIK) in Kosovo-Metohija has not ensured implementation of the resolution, which has resulted in horrendous crimes being committed against local Serbs, destruction and seizures of their property, harassment and displacement of more than 250,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians.
Also, top UNMIK officials have signed an accord with representatives of KLA terrorist gangs on transforming the terrorist KLA into a "Kosovo Protection Corps."
According to the ministry, there is no justification for the accord under any provision of Resolution 1244.
The accord violates the resolution and attempts to legalise, under UN wing, the operation of KLA terrorist gangs and criminals in Kosovo-Metohija.
Furthermore, by transforming the KLA into a "Kosovo Protection Corps," top UNMIK officials have disrupted Yugoslavia's legal system, thus violating Yugoslavia's sovereignty guaranteed under Resolution 1244.
The statement further said that, in view of all this, the accord would have incalculable negative consequences for peace and security in Kosovo-Metohija, stimulate the displacement of Serbs and further violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia will resist this at all costs and with all means at its disposal, in the teeth of the force and pressure to which it is being exposed, the statement said.
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA WILL REMAIN SERBIA'S INTEGRAL PART - OFFICIAL
Bajram Haliti of Kosovo and Metohija's provisional executive council said Wednesday that UN secretary-general Kofi Annan had strongly rejected ethnic Albanian separatist leaders' illusion about independence for this province stating that the province is an integral part of Serbia and that head of the UN civilian mission (UNMIK) Bernard Kouchner has no mandate to set up an independent state there.
Haliti said that ethnic Albanian separatism was a major cause of problems in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, saying that its aim was to detach Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia.
He said that ethnic Albanian separatism had given rise to terrorism that had nothing in common with the ethnic Albanians' interests because the terrorists did nothing but harmed other ethnic Albanians deceiving them with false promises.
He said that terrorist gangs had committed and were still committing numerous crimes against humanity, abducting Serbs and Montenegrins, torturing, raping and massacring innocent civilians, women and children included, before the very eyes of the UN peacekeeping force KFOR.
Consequently, terrorism must be stamped out in Kosovo and Metohija and perpetrators of crimes brought to justice, he said.
RUSSIA OPPOSES LEGALISATION OF ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS
Russia considers the signing of an accord on the forming of so-called Kosovo protection forces an evident attempt to legalise a part of ethnic Albanian terrorists in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
A special statement issued by the Ministry said that Moscow was concerned about the accord, especially because it made possible for 200 members of a newly-formed structure to keep weapons allegedly for their own protection.
The statement called attention to the fact that it had been repeatedly stressed that maintaining the internal organisation and command structure of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling it Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was dangerous and impermissible.
It went on to say that the document signed ran counter to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 that stipulates that KLA and other ethnic Albanian paramilitary must be demilitarised.
The statement also said that none of the KLA leaders had given up in public the intention of turning KLA units into Kosovo's regular troops.
The statement said that the Ministry considered it vital that the disarming of KLA be brought to an end as soon as possible and that it be complete and final.
IVANOV: DISRESPECT OF UN RESOLUTION ON KOSOVO THREATENS WITH NEW DISASTER
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said at a UN General Assembly session on Tuesday that failure to implement the UN Security Council resolution on Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province could once again bring the world to the brink of disaster.
Addressing the session within a general political debate, Ivanov said the international community had managed through joint efforts to bring back the settling of the situation in Kosovo to the political-legal field of the United Nations.
Pointing out that it was now necessary strictly and consistently to implement Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija, Ivanov warned that the international community should not permit the renewed political process to be undermined once again, as this could turn into a tragedy for all of Europe.
Ivanov said everyone was obliged to draw serious lessons from the recent crises. Illegitimate methods of using force only aggravate problems, he said.
Even in those parts of his speech in which he did not mention the Kosovo crisis, Ivanov aimed the brunt of his criticism at the way in which the United States and NATO had abused the world organisation to impose their own interests in Yugoslavia.
The international community can resort to forcible measures, but it must be done in keeping with the UN Charter and the approval of the Security Council, said Ivanov.
An improvement of the regime of sanctions applied often in the past decades should be put on the agenda, he said, even though this is the last measures that should be used, as it has negative humanitarian consequences.
The world community must resolutely stamp out any awakenings of separatism, and protect the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of states and the inviolability of their borders in a severe and due manner, Ivanov said.
GERMAN OFFICIALS MISTRUST KLA SINCERITY
German Interior Minister Otto Schili has returned to Berlin very dissatisfied by his brief visit to Kosovo-Metohija after concluding that nothing functions there as planned by Bernard Kouchner's UN Civilian Mission (UNMIK), the German media said on Tuesday.
The KFOR command in Pristina and the leaders of the so-called KLA have signed a new, and hopefully, final agreement on the demilitarisation of this extremist organisation, but hardly anyone really believes in KLA's sincerity, the ARD television station said on Monday evening.
"The conflict with KLA is unavoidable," a UNMIK worker in charge of setting up civilian power structures told the DPA news agency in Pristina.
"We are beginning work in total chaos, with paramilitary units trying to establish their own administration," he said explaining that the so-called KLA is now being described as a paramilitary army.
According to DPA, at least one house is torched every night and, since the arrival of KFOR, a total of 295 people (Serbs, Goranci and Gypsies) have been killed, with looting and theft a daily occurrence.
The German Deutsche Welle radio said that since Monday evening "KLA no longer exists, at least officially."
However, the reality is different and the continuing attacks on Serb property clearly speak about the real situation in Kosovo-Metohija.
It is evident to observers that the rebels have hidden and buried a part of their weapons as not all want to participate in the transformation of KLA into a Kosovo Corps, Deutsche Welle said adding that "the conflict about Kosovo's future has not ended."
"The ethnic Albanian fighters aim for the independence of Kosovo or its unification with Albania. This goal can be attained only with the aid of weapons and the core of the rebel KLA is resuming its undercover operations," Deutsche Welle said.
UN ENVOY KOUCHNER ARROGANTLY FLOUTS UN RESOLUTION
Bernard Kouchner, UN mission chief in Kosovo-Metohija, persists in violating and arrogantly misinterpreting UN Resolution 1244, as evident from his Latest regulation of the judicial system, announced on Tuesday.
Kouchner has set up court of appeals and a public prosecutor's office, appointed judges, a public prosecutor and deputy prosecutor, according to a statement released by the UN civilian mission (UNMIK) to that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
Kouchner has also set up two advisory commissions to advise him on matters of technical organisation of the judiciary, appointment of judges and appeals against their work.
Neither UN Resolution 1244 nor the Kumanovo military-technical accord gives the UNMIK chief the right to interfere or change anything in the judicial system.
Once again, Kouchner has exceeded his authority and demonstrated his disrespect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia and Yugoslavia, seeing as the judicial system is a pillar of every state.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS CONTINUE EXPELLING SERBS FROM KOSOVO-METOHIJA
Since the arrival of international KFOR peacekeepers in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province with the task of securing peace and safety for all its inhabitants, ethnic Albanian terrorists have continued expelling Serbs from its capital Pristina.
Not a single shop, cafe or business remains owned by Serbs or Montenegrins in Pristina, as ethnic Albanian terrorists have expelled nearly all non ethnic Albanians and looted their property.
Looting, beatings and abductions of the remaining Serbs, Montenegrins and others are being perpetrated daily, and the Serb language can no longer be heard anywhere in the city.
Many elderly Serbs were brutally beaten just for speaking their own language at marketplaces.
The Pristina-based Centre for Peace and Tolerance has since KFOR's arrival registered over 300 murders and about 450 abductions of Serbs or Montenegrins, and many other cases of persecution or looting.
Non ethnic Albanians face many other problems in Pristine, such as seeing a doctor or a dentist, as the city medical institutions are now staffed only by ethnic Albanians and Serbs dare not set foot inside.
Despite Kofu's and Unmakes attempts to present a rosy picture of safety for all in Kosovo-Metohija to the western public, Serbs, Montenegrins and other non ethnic Albanians find it increasingly hard to survive in the province.
MINE KILLS FOUR CHILDREN IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR
A mine killed four children and wounded two others playing in a field near the village of Mogilab in U.N.-secured Kosovo-Metohija on Monday, according to the international force (Kfor) Press Centre in Pristina on Tuesday.
Also on Monday, 400 grams of explosives blew up in a building with ethnic Albanian and Serb tenants in Kamenica, but there were no casualties, KFor said.
In another incident, also in Kamenica, Russian KFor troops found in a house the body of a murdered 82-year-old Serb woman, the KFor Press Centre added.
It went on to say that one person was arrested in Lipljan on Monday for lobbing a Molotov cocktail into an empty apartment, starting a fire which caused little damage and was quickly put out.
Turkish KFor troops have released a woman in the village of Tuzus, who was abducted on Sept. 17, Kfor said.
It added that an ethnic Albanian, found in possession of a hand grenade, was arrested in Pec on Monday.
KFOR SPOKESMAN SAYS UN FORCE ABOUT 50,000 STRONG AT THIS POINT
Spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force KFOR in Pristina Major Roland Lavoie said Wednesday that the force was about 50,000 strong at this point.
Of the 50,000 KFOR troops, 41,331 are currently deployed in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, Maj. Lavoie told a press conference, saying that, in addition to that, 1,424 KFOR troops were stationed in Albania and 151 in Greece.
He said that the first batch of Sweden's peacekeeping contingent had arrived in Kosovo and Metohija earlier in the day and had been stationed in its zone of responsibility within the Centre multinational brigade's sector.
He said that 80 troops from the 850-strong Swedish contingent had arrived in the province, saying that the contingent was to be completed by late October.
YUGOSLAV MINISTER MORINA RECEIVES UNHCR OFFICE HEAD
Federal Minister for Refugees, Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Aid Bratislava Morina and the head of the office of the UN High Commissariat for Refugees (UNHCR), Eduard Arboledo, met in Belgrade on Tuesday to discuss co-operation and possibilities for providing efficient aid to refugees and internally displaced persons, the Federal Information Ministry said.
Morina underscored the need for sending as soon as possible aid to the non-Albanian population of Kosovo-Metohija, and for providing for the internally displaced persons and refugees sheltered in collective centres. Relief aid, especially food, heating fuel, blankets; bedding, school supplies, and textbooks should be sent to the non-Albanian population, still encircled by KLA.
Morina pointed out the need for adapting facilities for providing collective shelters for internally displaced persons and for signing agreements as soon as possible for the construction of permanent refugee centres.
YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES WHO REPRESENTATIVES
Federal Minister for Labour, Health and Social Policy Miodrag Kovac received on Tuesday the regional representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for humanitarian issues for south-eastern Europe - Dr. Alessandro Rubin, WHO Belgrade office head Dr. Juka Pukila and the head of the newly-opened WHO office in Podgorica - Dr. Maria Christina Profili, the Federal Information Secretariat has said.
Discussed were WHO activities in Yugoslavia following the NATO aggression and the revival of co-operation in the reform of health insurance and the harmonisation of drug and food standards.
Both sides said that the co-ordination of the WHO's overall activities in the entire territory of Yugoslavia should be carried out via the main WHO office in Belgrade and the Federal Labour, Health and Social Policy Ministry. Support for an autonomous policy in all parts of Yugoslavia would be contrary to health standards, including those of the WHO, it was said.
RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN SERBIA'S NORTHERN PROVINCE
About 270 million dinars (1 US dollar- 12 dinars) have been invested so far in the reconstruction of facilities in Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina destroyed or damaged in the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the provincial executive council noted Tuesday at a session chaired by its President Bosko Perosevic.
The reconstruction of a bridge on the Danube at Beska was completed in record time at the cost of 40 million dinars, and a bridge was built on barges in Novi Sad, whose three bridges were destroyed by NATO, at the cost of 52 million.
Reconstruction of a bridge on the Danube at Backa Palanka will start soon at the cost of 5 million, and the construction of underwater pipelines which will bring drinking water and gas to 50,000 people on the right bank of the Danube will be completed in October at the cost of 45 million dinars.
The NATO aggression has also put an end to economic development in Vojvodina and the executive council has consequently asked the Serbian government to accelerate reforms and ownership transformation in order to provide an incentive to employment and production.
YUGOSLAV ECONOMY PRESENTED AT PLOVDIV FAIR
Yugoslav companies will take part in the 55th international fair of techniques and technical products in Bulgaria's second biggest commercial centre Plovdiv.
About 20 companies from Belgrade, Ins, Novi Sad, and other Yugoslav towns have registered their participation so far. The fair, which will take place from Sept 27 until Oct 3, traditionally rallies businessmen of the Balkans, central and western Europe, Russia, countries formed through the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, and Arab world countries.
Yugoslavia Day will be held at the fair on Wednesday, Sept 29. As announced, more than 100 business men from all over the world will meet with representatives of Yugoslavia's chambers of commerce and companies to discuss trade and other forms of business co-operation.
The Plovdiv Chamber of Commerce president has invited representatives of the chambers of commerce of Nis, Zajecar, and Leskovac, with which Plovdiv has traditionally good business relations to visit the fair that day. Representatives of regional chambers of the two countries will discuss strengthening of economic ties in free trade conditions.
FROM WEEK TO WEEK
Aleksandar Djaja
American Defense (and attack) Secretary William Cohen, who is officially visiting Moscow, promised the Russians to help in the fight against terrorism. To avoid misunderstanding, it is the secretary of the same country of America that as the main commander, investor and finally "air support" of ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so-called KLA, brutally attacked Serbia, leaving enormous devastation of its civilian infrastructure, bringing sufferings, wounding and deaths of a great number of innocent people.
Will Americans in the "fight against terrorism" help the Russians in the same way or will they have to "cut the wings" of their ""angel of mercy"?
According to the Russian Foreign Mninister Ivanov, behind the bandits that plant explosives in Moscow and other cities in Russia are forces from abroad. As "abroad" is a wide notion even for Russia, the Russian minister specified that it was "the international terrorist number one", Osama Bin Laden. To avoid misunderstanding, it is the same mister Bin Laden on whose head America posted a wanted circular worth several million dollars - but who is closely related to ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosmet, the main American allies for creating chaos in the Balkans!..
Almost at the same time, at a meeting near Washington, organized and personally chaired by the American Secretary of State, Mrs. Madeleine Albright, Koasmet Albanians headed by Hashim Taqi, formulated a platform for secession from Yugoslavia. By the way, ethnic Albanians greeted Mrs. Albright with standing ovations, which is appropriate to the woman responsible for bombing of Serbia and killing of the Serbs - and "the Snake" by a kiss. To avoid misunderstanding, it is the same Hasim Taqi, nicknamed "the Snake", who, according to his compatriot from Drenica, Beqir Osmani, stole goods from the market, fought in the restaurants in Mitrovica and Srbica and who finally, because of a number of murders and terrorist attacks, was in July 1997, in the County Court in Pristina, sentenced to ten years in prison.
There is something else: it is the same Taqi who almost no ethnic Albanian intellectual supports and who will be ethnic Albanian "leader" only as far as he serves American interests and, of course, Mrs. Albright!
However, militarization-demilitarization of the so-called KLA in Kosovo and Metohija, with the help of USA and impotent UN - is full scale!