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GENEVA -- Head of the Yugoslav U.N. mission in Geneva, ambassador Branko Brankovic has sent to UNCTAD Secretary-General Rubens Ricupero a letter in which he raised objections to the assessments presented in Ricupero's recent report about global cooperation and a single world market, in the section devoted to the situation in Yugoslavia and Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija.
Ambassador Brankovic said that the UNCTAD Secretary-General had presented unfounded political qualifications of Yugoslavia and Kosovo and Metohija under the influence of the day-to-day politics of a number of the most influential countries and a CNN campaign aimed at imposing the so-called truth, which Brankovic set out was nothing but a farce.
The Yugoslav ambassador underscored that there had been no civil war, genocide or ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and Metohija before the NATO aggression, but that those were NATO fabrications used to justify aggression on Yugoslavia.
Ambassador Brankovic stressed that the NATO operation did not have the approval of the U.N. Security Council and was therefore a violation of the U.N. Charter and international law.
He set out that UNCTAD Secretary-General Ricupero had not at all mentioned in his report the serious consequences inflicted on the Yugoslav economy in the NATO air strikes, due to which ambassador Brankovic said Yugoslavia would be unable to join the global development and economy for a longer period.