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VIENNA - Yugoslavia's foreign minister is quoted in Vienna on Thursday as sharply criticising NATO and the United States for their attempts to subjugate Yugoslavia.
The Yugoslav government, which is defending the interests of Yugoslavia and its people, upsets NATO's concept by its consistent pursuit of the policy of independence, according to Zivadin Jovanovic, speaking for the Vienna Standard newspaper.
U.S.-led NATO, however, pursues a unilateral system concept, and accepts no equality-based relations, Jovanovic said.
NATO and the United States want subjugation, as evident from their treatment of Yugoslavia's neighbours, but they will not succeed, he vowed.
He further said that NATO and the United States have no right to preach about democracy, after they bombed and demolished Yugoslavia, and now want to instal in power in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia precisely those who had cooperated with NATO during the air strikes.
He went on to say they are attaking the Yugoslav government because they are dissatisfied with the effects of NATO's March 24- June 10 aggression and because Yugoslavia has remained a sovereign country despite efforts to destabilise it with economic sanctions.
Speaking about the Hague-based tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, he said that the tribunal is a mechanism of the aggressors, set up in order to manipulate things so that the victims should appear to be the culprits.
The tribunal is not seeking justice, but trying to demonise the Serbs, working hard but futilely to suppress the lies about Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, he said.
One such lie, he added, was the one about thousands of dead ethnic Albanians, who turned out never to have existed at all, but the Serbs were promptly accused as criminals.
He further said that 250,000 Serbs have been driven out of U.N.-administered Kosovo-Metohija since the international KFor force was deployed, 400 others have been murdered, another 600 wounded, and more than 60 Serbian monasteries and churches destroyed.
Thousands of Albanians without Yugoslav citizenship have crossed into Kosovo-Metohija from Albania in plain view of KFor, Jovanovic said, stressing that obviously there is no political will to protect the province's non-Albanians.