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YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT RECEIVES DELEGATION OF R.S. OFFICIALS
BELGRADE - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic received on Saturday Republika Srpska representative in Bosnia's three-man presidency Zivko Radisic, R.S. President Nikola Poplasen and R.S. parliament speaker Petar Djokic.
The talks dealt with cooperation between Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska, especially with issues concerning the improvement of conditions vital for boosting economic ties between Yugoslav and R.S. partners and for successful cooperation between Yugoslav and R.S. cultural and other institutions.
Joint commitment was stressed to the consistent implementation of peace accords reached in Dayton in November 1995.
MARJANOVIC PUTS INTO OPERATION ANOTHER OBRENOVAC PLANT TRANSMISSION LINE
OBRENOVAC - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic on Saturday put into operation the third transmission line of the Nikola Tesla A thermal power plant in Obrenovac near Belgrade.
The re-activating of the transmission line has made possible the resumption of operation of the power distribution network between Obrenovac and Novi Sad, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Vojvodina province, following NATO's March 24-June 10 bombing of the country.
Of the plant's five transmission lines that were destroyed during the bombing, two have been put into operation earlier, while the remaining two are to be put into operation by the end of the month.
Accompanied by his aides and top officials of the Serbian Power Industry, Marjanovic also visited the plant's transformer station that NATO aircraft had attacked twice with missiles and twice with short-circuiting graphite bombs.
The re-activating of the transformer station and the transmission line has made it possible to link the plant again with Belgrade's and Novi Sad's power distribution systems.
Dragan Jovanovic, the plant's director, said that the plant was being reconstructed exclusively with domestic digital equipment made at the Mihailo Pupin Institute.
Miodrag Milosevic, director of the Elektroistok company, said that Serbia's entire power distribution system would be restored to its condition before the NATO aggression by the end of the month.
YUGOSLAV MINISTER - KOUCHNER IS WORSE THAN OTTOMAN OCCUPIERS
PANCEVO - Yugoslavia's justice minister said on Sunday that the situation in Kosovo-Metohija had never been worse and that Bernard Kouchner had done more evil to the Serbs than Ottoman occupiers for the 500 years of their rule.
Minister Petar Jojic, who was speaking at a news conference in the northern Serbian (Yugoslav) town of Pancevo, said that Kouchner respects no laws, either international or local, and that, acting without authority, he has set up an allegedly humanitarian "protection corps" which is nothing but an army of ethnic Albanian terrorists armed to the teeth.
Jojic went on to say that the time would soon come when NATO criminals and ethnic Albanian terrorists would be brought to book before Yugoslav courts.
He said he was certain that Kosovo-Metohija would remain Serbia's province, in which there would be no place for the thousands of Albanian terrorists without Yugoslav citizenship.
SERBIAN MINISTER ON YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE'S COOPERATION WITH UNMIK
KRAGUJEVAC - The activity by the Yugoslav committee on cooperation with the U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) through 11 different sub-committees has given certain results, Serbian Minister Slobodan Tomovic has said.
In an interview with the Kragujevac daily Lid, Tomovic said that textbooks and other necessary items had been distributed among primary school pupils in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, saying that a similar action would be launched in the province's secondary schools by mid-October.
He said that pensioners in Kosovo and Metohija received their pensions and that other citizens received money they were entitled to, saying that the health care system covered all living in the province.
He said that residents of Orahovac, Gracanica and Kosovo Polje had received relief aid, saying that relief aid would be delivered also to other localities in the province in the next few days.
Tomovic, one of the committee's three vice-chairmen, listed as the committee's two top priorities the direct resolution of problems the population had been faced with following the pullout of Yugoslav army troops and Serbian police from the province, and activities within the strict implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, specifically its section guaranteeing Serbia's and Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity in Kosovo and Metohija.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORIST CHIEFS INCITE THEIR PEOPLE TO MORE VIOLENCE
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of Serbia's Socialist Party (SPS) board for Kosovo and Metohija Zivorad Igic said Sunday that ethnic Albanian separatist and terrorist leaders were inciting their people to more violence against Serbs, Montenegrins and others living in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province.
The board's press section quoted Igic as saying in talks with local authorities in Kosovska Mitrovica, situated in the north of the province, that ethnic Albanian extremists in the town's southern section were continually trying to enter by force its northern section at whose outskirts about 50,000 Serbs and members of other ethnic groups lived.
Commenting on statements that outgoing commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR Gen. Michael Jackson made at his farewell news conference, Igic said that they reflected all that had happened in the province over the past 120 days and that still served as an encouragement to ethnic Albanian separatists and terrorists.
Referring to Jackson's statement to the effect that Kosovo has undergone major changes since KFOR's deployment to the province and to his attempt to describe this as the force's as well as his personal success, Igic said that Jackson had misunderstood what the force's mission was.
For, the expulsion of some 250,000 people, the ransacking of tens of thousands of their homes, and the killing, wounding or abduction of hundreds of people before KFOR's very eyes can hardly be called a success, he said.
SERBS TARGETTED AGAIN IN KOSOVO POLJE
KOSOVO POLJE - A hand grenade was lobbed into the courtyard of a Serb, one Slobodan Vucinic, in Kosovo Polje during the Saturday-to-Sunday night, but the blast caused no casualties, the local Centre for Peace and Tolerance said on Sunday.
Also during the night, the house of a married couple, Rade and Jelka Vulic, in Kosovo Polje was stoned for the third time. Meanwhile, many ethnic Albanian shop-keepers continue to refuse to do business with non-Albanian customers, according to the Centre.
SERBIAN CHILDREN IN MILWAUKEE, USA, SEND AID TO ALEKSINAC CHILDREN
ALEKSINAC - Children in the central Serbian (Yugoslav) industrial town of Aleksinac received on Saturday relief aid sent by children attending the Serbian school St. Nicholas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
The 2,320-dollar-worth shipment was distributed among 14 children orphaned or maimed in NATO's air strikes earlier this year.
Dragana Sutalovic, who delivered the financial and other aid to the Aleksinac children, said this was the first in a series of shipments planned by Serbs in Milwaukee for the children in Aleksinac.