Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-10-30

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CONTENTS

[01] MOMIR BULATOVIC RECEIVES RADOSLAV BULAJIC

[02] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA PRESIDENT POPLASEN CONFERS WITH GENERAL CLARK

[03] BULGARIAN JOURNALISTS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH YUGOSLAV COLLEAGUES

[04] HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA STABLE - UNHCR OFFICIAL

[05] ICRC REQUESTS ACCESS TO ABDUCTED TANJUG REPORTERS

[06] STILL NO DEFINITE DECISION ON SECURITY FOR OSCE MISSION

[07] RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ON YUGOSLAVIA'S FULFILMENT OF MOSCOW ACCORDS

[08] TERRORISTS ATTACK POLICE PATROLS IN TWO PLACES

[09] ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS MURDER ANOTHER COMPATRIOT

[10] TERRORISTS KILL ZEF DRENI

[11] SECESSION OF KOSMET UNACCEPTABLE, ANDJELKOVIC SAID

[12] YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR, RUSSIAN ECONOMY MINISTER DISCUSS COOPERATION

[13] ARMY OF YUGOSLAVIA UNITS IN KOSMET CONTINUE WITHDRAWING TO BARRACKS

[01] MOMIR BULATOVIC RECEIVES RADOSLAV BULAJIC

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic has received Radoslav Bulajic, t he newly-appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Ja pan ahead of his departure, the federal prime minister's cabinet said. B ulatovic underscored the need for the active engagement of the Yugoslav E mbassy in the promotion of relations between Yugoslavia and Japan, especi ally in the development of economic cooperation, a statement said.

[02] REPUBLIKA SRPSKA PRESIDENT POPLASEN CONFERS WITH GENERAL CLARK

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Republika Srpska President Nikola Poplasen on Thursday conferred with NA TO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Wesley Clark. General Clark t old the press after the meeting, held behind closed doors, that views wer e adjusted on a further implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Gen eral Clark said that the Dayton Agreement called on all sides to particip ate in its consistent implementation, and said that cooperation would be maintained with the newly elected Republika Srpska authorities in the imp lementation of the peace agreement. After meeting with President Poplasen , Gen. Clark left Banjaluka.

[03] BULGARIAN JOURNALISTS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH YUGOSLAV COLLEAGUES

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Bulgarian journalists on Thursday responded to an appeal by Yugoslav jou rnalists and numerous colleagues from all over the world that the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army" ( KLA), immediately releases Tanjug reporters Nebojsa Radosevic and Vladimi r Dobricic from captivity. A press conference was held today at the Allia nce of Bulgarian Journalists in Sofia on the occasion of the abduction of Tanjug's reporters and the disappearance in August of Pristina Radio rep orter Djuro Slavuj and driver Ranko Drazevic. Tanjug's correspondent in S ofia Dusan Drazic informed the reporters of leading Bulgarian media and t he members of the Club of Foreign Correspondents about the appeal sent by Tanjug director and editor-in-chief, Dusan Djordjevic, to the heads of s tate and prime ministers of the Contact Group countries in which he deman ded the immediate release of Tanjug's reporters.

During an hour-and-a-half-long talks with Tanjug's correspondent and the press attache of the Yugoslav embassy in Bulgaria, Darinka Acimovic, the Bulgarian and foreign journalists expressed solidarity with their Yugosl av colleagues and protested that, even four days after the Tanjug directo r's appeal, foreign statesmen have failed to take any steps for the relea se of Tanjug's reporters. The editor of Bulgaria's national radio, Stoyme n Pavlov, said that the appearance of so many journalists at today's Tanj ug press conference in Sofia testifies about the solidarity of the Bulgar ian journalists with their Serb and Montenegrin colleagues. The joint mes sage of the participants of the press conference is that Tanjug's reporte rs should be released immediately. The press conference was attended by 6 0 journalists from Bulgaria and foreign correspondents, including represe ntatives of the Duma, BTA, National Radio, New Television, Continent, Zem lya, 24 Chasa, 168 Chasa, radio Vitosha, Free Europe, Itar-Tass, Radio Fr ance International. the Dutch news agencies, the Chinese paper The Econom ist, the Turkish news agency Anadolia, the Armenian national television, the Brazilian Il Tempo and others.

[04] HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA STABLE - UNHCR OFFICIAL

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Official of the UNHCR Belgrade Office Maria Teresa Maurosa said here on Thursday that the humanitarian situation in the Yugoslav Republic of Serb ia's Kosovo-Metohija Province was stable, adding that there was no questi on of a humanitarian disaster, the Kosovo-Metohija Red Cross organization said. In a talk with Kosovo-Metohija Red Cross Secretary Snezana Simic, Maurosa voiced interest in the case of abducted Tanjug reporters Vladimir Dobricic and Nebojsa Radosevic and also in other abduction cases. She co nveyed a promise by the International Committee of the Red Cross that the y would do their best to help release the abducts. It was noted during th e talk that more than 100,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid, mostly in foods tuffs and hygienic supplies, had been shipped into the province from othe r parts of Yugoslavia and from abroad. Maurosa is scheduled on Friday to tour one of Kosovo-Metohija's relief aid distribution centres, which have been launched by the Serbian Government.

[05] ICRC REQUESTS ACCESS TO ABDUCTED TANJUG REPORTERS

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Thursday made an off icial request to a political spokesman of the ethnic Albanian self-styled Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) terrorist organization to allow ICRC delega tes to visit abducted Tanjug reporters Nebojsa Radosevic and Vladimir Dob ricic, ICRC Spokesman in Pristina Josue Anselmo told reporters on Thursda y. Anselmo told a news conference that in its letter to KLA's political s pokesman Adem Demaqi, the ICRC had also requested that its delegates be a llowed to take a reply to a letter Radosevic's mother and wife had sent t o him through the ICRC last week. He said Demaqi had reiterated that the reporters were well and were treated correctly. He also said that Demaqi had promised to communicate the ICRC request to the KLA headquarters on t he ground as early as Thursday and that the answer would follow in two da ys' time. Anselmo added that if the answer was not delivered within two d ays, an ICRC delegation would travel to the village of Sedlare in the Yug oslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, where it had talked to a local KLA leader four times already. He said that if the self-styled KLA refused to let the ICRC see the Tanjug reporters, the ICRC would mak e their refusal public. Anselmo said that since the outbreak of ethnic Al banian terrorist operations in Kosovo-Metohija, a total of 119 abductions had been reported to the ICRC, of whom only 37 abducts had so far been r eturned to their families with the ICRC assistance. He said that it was e xtremely difficult for the ICRC to operate in Kosovo-Metohija, because it did not know who the major decision-maker at the KLA was, adding that he believed no one knew that. The ICRC news conference was attended also by the wives of Radio Pristina reporter Djuro Slavuj and driver Ranko Perin ic, who were abducted by ethnic Albanian terrorists on August 25. The two women were there to protest over the fact that their husbands had still been unaccounted for. Slavuj's wife, Sofija, said that although 12 days a fter the abduction Demaqi had told her father that his men did not kill t he unarmed people, she still did not have any information about her husba nd. She urged the ICRC to continue its investigation into the abduction o f Slavuj and Perinic, adding that she was embittered by the fact that fam ilies of hundreds of other abducts still did not know what had happened t o them.

[06] STILL NO DEFINITE DECISION ON SECURITY FOR OSCE MISSION

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

French Defence Ministry Spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau announced on Thur sday that still no definite decision has been reached on measures for sec uring the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur ope (OSCE) in Kosovo and Metohija. According to Bureau, at this stage con sultations are under way and a final decision can be expected "very soon. " Bureau told a regular weekly press conference that France has so far n ot decided if it will participate in the forces which would protect the u narmed OSCE verifiers in Kosmet. "France attaches great importance to the safety of the verification teams," Bureau said and added that France, to gether with its allies and partners "is considering different possible sc enarios for securing the safety of the OSCE mission." The French Foreign Ministry also confirmed today that the securing of the OSCE mission is be ing discussed. "The decision which reflects needs should be made in the n ext few days," the Foreign Ministry Spokeswomen Anne Gazo-Secret said. "T he securing of the verification mission in Kosovo is of fundamental impor tance and should be carried out in a credible and efficient way. In this respect we are actively working with NATO and our European partners," she said.

[07] RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ON YUGOSLAVIA'S FULFILMENT OF MOSCOW ACCORDS

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement saying that the Yugo slav leadership has demonstrated a constructive and responsible approach to the carrying out of obligations set out in the Moscow Agreement and th at Kosovo Albanians should now also take a responsible approach to a furt her resolution of problems. The statement stressed that positive tendenci es had been made in the situation in and around Kosovo owing to the Yugos lav leadership's consistency in carrying out the agreement signed by Pres idents Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia in Ju ne. The Ministry stressed Russia's stand that a resolution in Kosovo coul d be reached only through political means, through talks which would secu re a wide autonomy for the province with a strict respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The situ ation in Kosovo has finally reached the phase of political resolution, wh ich Russia consistently urges, the statement said.

[08] TERRORISTS ATTACK POLICE PATROLS IN TWO PLACES

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Members of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so-called "Ko sovo Liberation Army" (KLA) twice on Wednesday attacked police vehicles i n Kosovo and Metohija, but the Serbian police officers were not injured, police sources in Pristina said Thursday. About 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the terrorists opened automatic gunfire on a police ambulance and hit it seve ral times. According to the Lipljani authorities, there are still remnant s of KLA units in the Lipovica forests who have so far fired several time s on police vehicles. On the Pristina-Leskovac road, near the village of Grastica, automatic gunfire was opened on Wednesday about 4 p.m. from a Merzedes car at a police patrol vehicle which was hit four times. The att ackers are still at large.

[09] ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS MURDER ANOTHER COMPATRIOT

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Ethnic Albanian terrorists in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's troubled Kosovo-Metohija Province killed a compatriot on Thursday afternoon, acco rding to a report of a local authority. The victim, one Nazmi Oluri, a 25 - year-old ethnic Albanian loyal to Serbia, was gunned down near the villa ge of Stimlje at about 3:30 p.m. Investigation is in progress, the Stimlj e municipal authorities said. Just after midnight last night, the terrori sts had killed another ethnic Albanian citizen, Zef Dreni, aged 66, in th e backyard of his home in the village of Firza near Djakovica, Djakovica authorities have said.

[10] TERRORISTS KILL ZEF DRENI

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Ethnic Albanian terrorists killed during on Wednesday night their compat riot Zef Dreni, 66, in his own yard in the village of Friza, near Djakovi ca, the Djakovica authorities said. Members of Dreni's family told the in vestigating bodies that he was shot by four persons in camouflage uniform s bearing the insignia of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so- called "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA). Zef's son Muja was seriously i njured after the terrorists beat him when he ran out of the house to help his father.

[11] SECESSION OF KOSMET UNACCEPTABLE, ANDJELKOVIC SAID

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

The Province of Kosovo and Metohija is a part of Serbia and any secessio n is unacceptable, President of the Provisional Executive Council of Koso vo and Metohija Zoran Andjelkovic said in an interview to the Chinese new s agency Xinhua. Andjelkovic said in the interview, broadcast on Thursday , that the government of Serbia was ready to give a high level of autonom y to Kosovo and Metohija, on the principles of equality of all nationalit ies and national communities.

Referring to the ideas of some leaders of Albanian political parties tha t Kosovo should have in the Federation the same status as Serbia and Mont enegro, Andjelkovic said that the "secession of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia would in fact be the dismembering of Yugoslavia, which is unaccept able," Xinhua said. He said he believed that Serbs and Albanians can live together in peace, and underlined that they have lived together for cent uries. "If Albanians want to declare their state here, then thousands of states could be created in the world." He pointed to the huge efforts of the Government to provide food and shelter for the displaced persons. A t otal of 16 humanitarian centres with 92 distribution points have been set up in Kosmet, Andjelkovic said, adding that the authorities "do not have problems with citizens, but only with terrorists." Andjelkovic assessed that the "interest of western countries for humanitarian issues was only a pretext for interference in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia." He sai d there are 36 nationalities in Serbia, and Serbs never expelled a single citizen because of being non-Serb. The task of the provisional council i s that everything undertaken in the province "is on the principles of equ ality and non-discrimination of some nationality." Andjelkovic criticized the policy of western countries, and pointed out that it was strange tha t they "do not allow the police to preserve peace and order in their own country, while they advocate NATO rockets and airstrike for preserving pe ace in another country," Xinhua said.

[12] YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR, RUSSIAN ECONOMY MINISTER DISCUSS COOPERATION

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Yugoslav Ambassador in Moscow Borislav Milosevic and Russian Economy Mini ster Andrei Shapovalyants discussed here on Thursday ways of how to promo te economic relations between the two countries still further. The talks, held as part of preparations for the coming meeting of the Yugoslav-Russ ian Committee for economic, scientific and technical cooperation, focused on credits between the two countries. Yugoslavia intends to finance proj ects worth between 100 and 150 million dollars with a credit that Russia has granted it earlier. Milosevic and Shapovalyants discussed also trade liberalisation, removal of customs barriers and the issue of Russia's cle aring debt. They agreed that Yugoslav-Russian relations were successfully developing, voicing confidence that the coming meeting of the Yugoslav-R ussian Committee would boost the two countries' ties still further. The m eeting is to be held in Moscow by mid-December.

[13] ARMY OF YUGOSLAVIA UNITS IN KOSMET CONTINUE WITHDRAWING TO BARRACKS

Tanjug, 1998-10-29

Army of Yugoslavia units in Kosovo and Metohija continued withdrawing to the barracks on Thursday, Tanjug was told by representatives of the Army of Yugoslavia Pristina Corps. In the course of the morning, a column of fifteen or so armoured vehicles returned to the Kosovski Junaci barracks in Pristina from the area of Komorane, about twenty kilometres west of Pr istina in the direction of Pec. At the same time, an Army of Yugoslavia u nit which was in the area of Dulje, between Stimalj and Suva Reka, has de parted for the barracks in Urosevac.

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