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	FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
	FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
	DIRECTORATE FOR INFORMATION

	YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
	
	BELGRADE, 27 April 1999 	 No. 2279     
 

C O N T E N T S:


F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CONSTITUTION DAY
- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LAYS A WREATH AT THE UNKNOWN HERO'S TOMB  
- YELTSIN CONGRATULATES MILOSEVIC ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY 
- CHINESE AND BELARUS PARLIAMENTS SEND FELICITATIONS 
- ANDJELKOVIC SENDS A MESSAGE OF FELICITATIONS TO YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT 

F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION
- YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES A STATEMENT 
- ICRC PROVIDES EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN AID TO YUGOSLAVIA 
- "VOJSKA": NATO AIR FORCES DECIMATED 
- YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT STRASBOURG 

NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
- CHERNOMYRDIN-TALBOTT TALKS END 
- SERGEYEV: WITHOUT PEACE FOR YUGOSLAVIA, WORLD WILL CHANGE 
- RS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA 
- DEMAND FOR STOPPING THE AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA 
- KRAUS: NATO AGGRESSION IS AIMED AT RETAILORING BALKANS 
- GENERAL MACKENZIE: RAMBOUILLET AGREEMENT IS DEAD 
- PEACE CONVOY PARTICIPANTS WILL GUARD BRIDGES IN GERMANY 

KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM
- TERRORISM IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA 

FROM FOREIGN PRESS
- NATO AGAINST FREEDOM OF MEDIA 
- CHINESE DAILY: EUROPE WILL BE THE FIRST VICTIM OF US HEGEMONISM 



	F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - CONSTITUTION DAY

	YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LAYS A WREATH AT THE UNKNOWN HERO'S TOMB  
	Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday laid a wreath at the
Unknown Hero's Tomb on mount Avala near Belgrade, on the occasion of
Constitution Day marked on April 27. 
	Milosevic wrote down in the monument's memorial book, "In honour of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its heroic defence from the aggression. 
	"In honour of the heroic people of Yugoslavia and struggle for freedom."
(Tanjug, Belgrade, April 27) 

	YELTSIN CONGRATULATES MILOSEVIC ON NATIONAL HOLIDAY 
	Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday congratulated Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic on Yugoslav Republic Statehood Day wishing
"all citizens of the friendly Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the renewal
of peace in the suffering Yugoslav land". 
	"Consistently supporting the state sovereignty and territorial unity of FR
of Yugoslavia, the Russian leadership is doing its best for the regulation
of the crisis in Kosmet and around it," said the message announced by the
Russian President's Press Service. 
	The citizens of Russia "are monitoring the developments in your country
with deep concern and deeply feel for the fraternal people of Yugoslavia
suffering under the NATO bombs," it was said. 
	"Of course, joint efforts by all sides, statesman-like wisdom and goodwill
can change the situation and return it to the political sphere," Yeltsin
said in his message. (Tanjug, Moscow, April 27) 

	CHINESE AND BELARUS PARLIAMENTS SEND FELICITATIONS 
	The head of the Permanent Committee of the Pan Chinese People's Congress,
Li Peng, has sent to the speakers of both chambers of the Yugoslav
Parliament - Milomir Minic and Srdja Bozovic - best wishes for Yugoslav
Republic Statehood Day. 
	The message said that the Chinese people admire the brave struggle of the
Yugoslav people who are defending their country against the aggression, and
that the People's Republic of China will continue its efforts for reaching
a speedy resolution to the Kosovo crisis in a peaceful way. 
	Li Peng also expressed the wish for the further development of friendly
relations and cooperation between the two countries and their parliaments. 
	On the occasion of the Yugoslav national holiday, the President of the
Republic Council of the Belaus National Parliament, Pavel Shipuk,
congratulated the speaker of the Chamber of Republics of the Federal
Parliament, Srdja Bozovic. 
	Shipuk expressed support to the Yugoslav people and belief that the
country's sovereignty would be preserved in this hard period and a solution
reached through the continuation of political talks. (Tanjug, Belgrade,
April 27) 

	ANDJELKOVIC SENDS A MESSAGE OF FELICITATIONS TO YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT 
	The President of the Provisional Executive Council of Kosovo and Metohija,
Zoran Andjelkovic, on Tuesday sent a message to Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic felicitating him on the Day of Yugoslavia. 
	In the message Andjelkovic expressed the determination of the people of
Yugoslavia "to preserve the country's unity and territorial integrity.
Today, when our country has been brutally attacked, the people, with you at
their head, are fighting a heroic battle for their survival and the
preservation of our territorial integrity". 
	The Provisional Executive Council, whose members are the representatives
of all ethnic communities living in this region, decisively support your
defence policy and through their daily activities contribute to the efforts
for the problems in Kosovo and Metohija to be resolved through peaceful
means and for good interethnic relations to be established, Andjelkovic
said. (Tanjug, Pristina, April 27) 

	F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - NATO AGGRESSION

	YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT ISSUES A STATEMENT 
	The Yugoslav Government on Tuesday, on Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Statehood Day, extended cordial felicitations to all Yugoslavs, voiced
admiration for and paid recognition to their contribution to the country's
heroic defense against criminal NATO aggression. 
	A statement issued on the session, chaired by Prime Minister Momir
Bulatovic, said that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a reflection of
the historical interests of Serbia and Montenegro, their centuries-old
statehood and the fact that they belonged to European and wider world
civilizational processes. 	The defense of our state is a further
contribution our peoples are making to the creation and development of a
world based on respect for the equal rights of all states, all peoples and
all national communities, the statement set out. 
	The Yugoslav Government noted that it was why this year's anniversary was
more than a usual Statehood Day. 
	The Yugoslav Government approved a report on the consequences of NATO
aggression for the human environment in Yugoslavia. 
	It said that the international community had been informed through the
Yugoslav diplomacy that aggressor NATO, who was attacking civilian
facilities, had violated a series of international regulations, according
to which, in wartime conditions, facilities whose destruction may produce
ecological consequences for a whole region, Europe and the planet Earth as
a whole were banned. 
	The Yugoslav Government was informed that many international organizations
and a very large number of influential individuals from throughout the
world had strongly backed the Yugoslav Government appeal and urged an end
to the NATO air strikes. 
	The Yugoslav Government established that all Yugoslav authorities in
charge were carefully and with utmost responsibility following the
consequences of NATO aggression for the human environment and human health
and working to eliminate all negative consequences to date. (Tanjug,
Belgrade, April 27)

	YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT STRASBOURG 
	A Yugoslav parliamentary delegation held several meetings in Strasbourg
with officials and deputies of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
to inform them of the criminal NATO aggression on Yugoslavia in which many
people have been killed and tremendous devastation has been caused to the
economy and the environment. 
	The delegation, headed by the Lower House Foreign Policy Committee
President Ljubisa Ristic and comprising member of the Upper House Foreign
Policy Committee Milan Bozic, is visiting Strasbourg at the invitation of
the European united Left. 
	Representatives of the European Left, such as the head of the Ukrainian
parliamentary delegation Boris Oleynik, condemned the aggression and
expressed their support to the heroic resistance of the people and state
authorities of Yugoslavia. Under the pretext of an alleged humanitarian
disaster, NATO is perpetrating genocide against the people of a sovereign
European state, they said. 
	President of the Russian Communist Party and deputy to the Parliamentary
Assembly Gennady Zyuganov strongly condemned the bombing of Yugoslavia,
demanded its immediate halting and the initiation of a political process
for resolving the crisis, adding he would advocate this at the Assembly
debate. 
	The Yugoslav delegation also met the head of the international relations
department of the Council of Europe Secretariat Johannes de Jong, who said
the exclusion of the Council from the process of resolving the crisis in
Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province was inadmissible. (Tanjug,
Strasbourg, April 27)

	ICRC PROVIDES EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN AID TO YUGOSLAVIA 
	The International Committee of the Red Cross has delivered to the Yugoslav
Red Cross since the outset of the NATO aggression emergency humanitarian
aid for 60,000 people, and aid for the cities worst hit by the airstrikes -
Nis, Aleksinac, Vranje, Kursumlija, Novi Sad and Belgrade, the Belgrade
ICRC office said. 
	The ICRC and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies have requested 50 million Swiss francs for aid to Yugoslavia this
year. 
	The program comprises aid for 500,000 refugees from Bosnia and Croatia, an
increase in the number of meals served by soup kitchens to 50,000, and
financial aid for 5,000 families whose homes were damaged in NATO airstrikes. 
	The ICRC also plans to provide medical equipment for 20,000 wounded or
injured, equipment for water supply to 100,000 users, psychological help to
people suffering stress due to bombing, and technical and other equipment
for the Yugoslav Red Cross. (Tanjug, Belgrade, April 27) 



	"VOJSKA": NATO AIR FORCES DECIMATED 
	Such a powerful war machinery, as is NATO, has never struck against a
small country, as is Yugoslavia. But, the aggressor forces, although many
times more powerful and with a greater war-industrial potential, have
suffered unexpectedly heavy losses, the Army of Yugoslavia magazine
"Vojska" (Army) said in its latest issue in the article headlined "NATO Air
Forces Decimated." 
	The article set out that the enemy had suffered great losses because the
number of its aircraft had been decimated, so that it said the Western
Alliance planned to engage 300 more planes, with a view to improving the
effects of its bombardments. 
	Vojska recalled that the air strikes against Yugoslavia had initially been
launched with 400 aircraft, but said their number had risen to 700 in the
more recent days. 
	All attempts to neutralize the Yugoslav defense, especially the air
defense, have failed. After the initial estimates that the Army of
Yugoslavia would be brought to its knees in 24 to 48 hours, the officials
at the NATO headquarters have realized that they face a strong and tough
enemy, the newspaper pointed out. 
	Apart from the aircraft, NATO has engaged 20 warships in the Southern
Adriatic in aggression on Yugoslavia. About 600 cruise missiles were fired
from those vessels and the territories of Croatia and Hungary in the first
ten days of aggression, "Vojska" said. 
	The Yugoslav Air Defense has so far succeeded in destroying one out of six
Tomahawks, according to the Army of Yugoslavia weekly. 
	The 19 member-countries of the criminal Western Alliance and just as many
of their satellites have so far launched on our country bombs and missiles
equivalent to five bombs dropped on Hiroshima. 
	Various types or guided and unguided bombs, MK-82, MK-84, GBU-12, GBU-10,
and GBU-16, have been used in air strikes against Yugoslavia, as well as
guided Maverick missiles, the CBU cluster bombs and also a new type of a
guided bomb, GBU-28, with over 2,000 kilograms of explosives, which has
been tested on Yugoslav territory, "Vojska" stressed. 
	Aggressor aircraft had roughly 9,500 sorties by April 20, meaning on the
average 300 a day, "Vojska" set out. (Tanjug, Belgrade, April 27)

	NATO AGGRESSION - INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS

	CHERNOMYRDIN-TALBOTT TALKS END 
	Special Russian presidential envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy
Secretary of State Strobe Talbott on Tuesday spent over two and a half
hours discussing possibilities for a solution to the crisis brought about
by NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. 
	Right after the meeting, Chernomyrdin went to inform Russian President
Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov about the results of the
talk, and did not make any statement. 
	Talbott, for his part, said that Chernomyrdin and he had understood each
other well, and that the talk had been held in a constructive spirit, whose
tone he specified had been set on Sunday by the telephone conversation
between U.S. President Bill Clinton and President Yeltsin. 
	Talbott assessed as positive the talk he had previously had with Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, but did not make any further comments. 
	Addressing a news conference on Tuesday, Minister Ivanov was very reserved
in his statements about the results of the meeting with Talbott, and only
said that the meeting had been "important, substantive and useful." 
	Judging by sources close to the Russian negotiators, it seems that much
time was devoted in both meetings to the NATO plans to impose an embargo on
oil deliveries to Yugoslavia. 
	Before meeting with Talbott, Chernomyrdin had said that the planned NATO
measure did not at all suit Russia, and Minister Ivanov repeated at the
Tuesday news conference the Russian position that "decisions on the
imposition of sanctions and an embargo can be taken only by the U.N.
Security Council," as well as that such NATO decisions "have no
international legal validity for Russia" and Russia would act accordingly. 
	It is seriously warned in Moscow that any attempt on the part of NATO
warships to stop a Russian tanker headed for Yugoslavia would be equal to a
declaration of war. The fact that such an incident precisely constituted
such an act under international law was confirmed on Monday by French
President Jacques Chirac. (Tanjug, Moscow, April 27)


	SERGEYEV: WITHOUT PEACE FOR YUGOSLAVIA, WORLD WILL CHANGE 
	If no peaceful solution is found for the situation in Yugoslavia, the
world will be greatly changed, Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said
on Tuesday. 
	The aggression on Yugoslavia and the new NATO strategic concept adopted at
the Washington summit will force Russia to re-examine many aspects of its
own military security, Sergeyev told the press, adding he was not referring
only to the Russian strategic deterrent forces but also its conventional
troops. 
	The possible admission of the Baltic states by NATO, which was discussed
in Washington, would constitute a serious military threat to Russia that
Moscow cannot accept, the minister said. 
	Russia will draw up and implement appropriate measures to reduce to a
minimum the dangers it is expecting in case the Baltic states (Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania) join NATO, Sergeyev said. (Tanjug, Moscow, April 27)

	RS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS NATO AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA 
	The Republika Srpska National Assembly on Tuesday adopted a Declaration in
which it condemned brutal NATO aggression on sovereign Yugoslavia. 
	This act of unprecedented devastation and destruction of human lives
cannot be in any way justified, the Declaration said and set out that it
was incomprehensible that a people and a state which had in this century
alone twice been on the side of those countries which had fought against
fascism and foreign invaders and for their own freedom and the freedom of
other peoples were now being destroyed. 
	The RS National Assembly supports the legitimate right of Yugoslavia to
defend its territory and its citizens against NATO or any other aggression,
the Declaration stressed. 
	The RS National Assembly maintains that the attack on Yugoslavia has
undermined the Charter of the U.N., an organization whose co-founder
Yugoslavia is, it set out. 
	The RS Assembly called on the U.N. Security Council to protect Yugoslavia
against further attacks, and show to the world that there do exist
institutions and organizations which can protect and defend unjustly
attacked and threatened countries and peoples. 
	The RS National Assembly drew attention to the fact that, following the
launching of NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, major disruptions had taken
place in Republika Srpska in the political and economic sense, effecting a
destabilization of RS territory and threatening the further implementation
of the Dayton peace agreement. (Tanjug, Banjaluka, April 27)

	DEMAND FOR STOPPING THE AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA 
	Representatives of left-wing parliamentary parties, movements and
nongovernmental organizations from the entire world sent this week in
Athens a categoric demand for ending the brutal aggression of the United
States and NATO on a neighbouring European state, FR Yugoslavia, said in
Sofia on Tuesday a senior official of the opposition parliamentary
Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Rumen Ovcharov. 
	On return from the capital city of Greece from the just concluded forum,
attended by representatives of parties and movement from the entire world,
Ovcharov said that the united conclusion of forum participants was "to stop
violence and perishing of people and that a peaceful political solution to
the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija be found at negotiations." (Tanjug,
Sofia, April 27) 

	KRAUS: NATO AGGRESSION IS AIMED AT RETAILORING BALKANS 
	Hungarian leading historian Tamas Krausz has said that the goal of NATO's
aggression on Yugoslavia is a new division of zones of interest in the
Balkans rather than the alleged protection of the interests of ethnic
Albanians in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province. 
	In an article published on Tuesday by the Budapest daily "Nepszabadsag",
Krausz, member of Hungary's Socialist Party, said war had been imposed on
Yugoslavia, saying that the war would not solve anything but would only
spark new conflicts. 
	Krausz speculated as to why a sovereign U.N. member had been attacked and
how it was possible for the great powers, ruled by Social Democrats, to
trample on basic norms of international law, saying that the reason for it
could only be the third division of zones of interests in the Balkans in
this century. 
	Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the bipolar world has
disappeared and all generally-accepted rules of behaviour in relations
among states have been put out of force, he said. A new world order, which
will be dominated by the most powerful countries spearheaded by the United
States, is being created, he said. (Tanjug, Budapest, April 27) 

	GENERAL MACKENZIE: RAMBOUILLET AGREEMENT IS DEAD 
	The Rambouillet agreement is dead, although NATO keeps insisting on it in
vain, Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie wrote in an article published by
"The Ottawa Citizen" daily. 
	MacKenzie, former commander of UN peace forces in Bosnia, said that the
talks he had held with Yugoslav officials during his recent three-week
visit to Belgrade had focused on ceasefire and peace proposals, and that
there were some encouraging ideas on how to end the war and initiate
reconstruction. 
	The NATO demand that Yugoslav forces withdraw from Kosovo and Metohija is
ridiculous, MacKenzie said, adding he did not believe the alliance was
serious, as no one would concentrate forces in Kosovo and Metohija only to
withdraw them northwards while the NATO aircraft continue flying and
seeking targets. 
	The goal of the "Kosovo Liberation Army" terrorists is to unite ethnic
Albanians from Macedonia and Kosovo and Metohija to create a "greater
Albania" MacKenzie said. (Tanjug, Ottawa, April 27)

	PEACE CONVOY PARTICIPANTS WILL GUARD BRIDGES IN GERMANY 
	Participants of the German peace convoy who visited Belgrade at the end of
last week have decided to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of
Belgrade and Serbia by organizing symbolic watches on bridges across the
Danube and Elbe. 
	The German bridges will be guarded every Monday from 4 to 11 p.m. until
the insane bombing of Serbian cities ends, convoy representatives told
Tanjug. (Tanjug, Bonn, April 27) 

	KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - TERRORISM

	TERRORISM IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA 
	The Albanian nationalist and separatist movement in Kosovo and Metohija
has used terrorism since the very beginning as a means for realizing their
strategic goal - the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and Yugoslavia, its
unification with Albania and the creation of a Greater Albania at the
expense of territories of neighbouring countries - Yugoslavia, Macedonia
and Greece. 
	Terrorism of ethnic Albanian separatists has enjoyed the support of all
the governments in Albania. From the Albanian territory are infiltrated
sabotage and terrorist groups trained in special camps in the territory of
Albania. Camps and bases in northern Albania serve as the main terrorist
bases. Terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija intensified sharply in 1989 -
culminating in different forms of violence and torture against Serbs and
Montenegrins and members of other national minorities, attacks on military
facilities, the police, enterprises, the destruction of state and private
property etc. 
	Albanian terrorist gangs calling themselves the liberation army of Kosovo
forcibly mobilize peasants and citizens of Albanian nationality, arm them
and force them to take part in terrorist actions. Those who refuse are
eliminated. 
	Large quantities of arms in the possession of ethnic Albanian terrorists
come from Albania. It has been determined that ethnic Albanian terrorists
use medical material coming from NATO pact reserves and from the aid sent
by humanitarian organizations. Significant funds from drug-trafficking are
used by Albanian terrorists for acquiring arms and equipment and the
Albanian drug mafia is one of the strongest in the world. For financing the
terrorist KLA are used also funds collected from the 3 percent income tax
paid by all Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija working abroad. 
	Terrorists from Kosovo and Metohija have tight links with radical Islamic
countries and in Albania there are a large number of members of Islamic and
other international terrorist organizations. A part of them are involved in
the terrorist Kosovo liberation army. 
	The actions of Albanian terrorist gangs in Kosovo and Metohija escalated
at the beginning of the NATO pact aggression on Yugoslavia as well as
organized intrusions of terrorist groups from Albania. For their actions
terrorists use the logistic support of NATO. The beginning of terrorist
attacks are synchronized with NATO air force attacks. 
	Terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija are dealt with in the same way as in all
sovereign countries faced with terrorism on their own territory. We have to
bear in mind that in Western Europe there is trend of realizing separatist
aspirations by way of terrorism - IRA in Great Britain, ETA in Spain,
Corsican terrorists. It is realistic to expect that they can all be
encouraged by the political and military support extended by the
international community and particularly the United States to Albanian
terrorists. (Tanjug, Belgrade, April 27) 



	FROM FOREIGN PRESS

	NATO AGAINST FREEDOM OF MEDIA 
	NATO marked its 50th anniversary by declaring civilian facilities as
"legitimate targets" in its air raids on Yugoslavia, the "China Daily" said
on Tuesday in a sharp criticism of the bombardment of the Serbian state
television RTS building. 
	The missile fired on the RTS building "aimed to silence the voice of the
people, determined to defend their country," the paper said. 
	The "China Daily" said that the NATO bombing and murder of people at their
workplaces has numerous far-reaching and dangerous consequences which are a
part of the western alliance's future policy of force. 
	Shortly after NATO destroyed the RTS building, its leaders announced a
"new strategic concept of the alliance with the intention of changing the
rules of the international community," the "China Daily" warned. 	"It was
astonishing to hear NATO describe the bombing of a media as legitimate,"
the "China Daily" said underscoring that NATO ignored the fact that
innocent civilians were killed in the RTS building. (Tanjug, Peking, April 27)

	CHINESE DAILY: EUROPE WILL BE THE FIRST VICTIM OF US HEGEMONISM 
	Europe will be the first victim of the new NATO strategic concept
proclaimed at the Washington summit, leading Chinese daily "Renmin Ribao"
wrote on Tuesday. 
	Analyzing the NATO summit, the daily notes that the "new strategy" is
nothing but an expression of the US overall plans for dominating the world. 
	NATO will be used as a US instrument for spreading its hegemony, and
Europe will be its first victim despite its hopes for becoming one of the
poles in a future multi-polar world, the daily writes. 
	Pointing to the aggression on Yugoslavia as an example, the daily writes
that the NATO has set the Balkans on fire, thus endangering Europe's
stability. The flow of refugees has exacerbated the ethnic and social
disparities in Macedonia and Albania, and Macedonia might become another
Kosovo, the daily writes. 
	The NATO aggression on Yugoslavia has also weakened the euro since the
outset of the bombings, as the confidence of investors has been undermined,
the daily writes. 
	Considerable differences have appeared at the Washington summit between
the US and some of European states, both as regards Kosovo and Metohija and
the new strategic concept, the daily notes. (Tanjug, Beijing, April 27)