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BELGRADE - Yugoslav Information Secretary Goran Matic said in an interview to the Belgrade daily Vecernje novosti on Monday that media pressure on Yugoslavia from abroad was abating and that western media comments about the situaton in Yugoslavia, and the recent brutal NATO aggression, were increasingly objective.
Matic said "the most influential papers such as New York Times, Washington Post, or CNN television, report much more rationally, objectively and responsibly about the situation in Yugoslavia" than certain domestic papers.
Matic underscored that foreign media today speak very cleary and critically about the real situation in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, the lack of implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, and the persecution of Serbs from the province.
This more objective stand is based on the fact that most foreign reporters, and there were as many as 1,500 of them during the NATO aggression, had seen that the air strikes on Yugoslavia had been criminal, Matic said.
According to Matic, the second reason for this are the expected changes in the U.S. policy, as well as the stepped up shifting of reporters from the team of U.S. President Bill Clinton to that of his rival George Bush, Jr.
Matic said there was a very clear division in Yugoslavia into Yugoslav media which defend the honour and dignity of Yugoslavia and inform ctitizens criticaly and objectively, and anti-Yugoslav media which are financed from abroad and whose intention is to dismember Yugoslavia.