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Contents: 1. MILS NEWS (English) 2. MILS VESTI
(Makedonski) ------------------------------------------------- MACEDONIAN
INFORMATION AND LIAISON SERVICE (M. I. L. S.)
SKOPJE NOT UNDER CONSIDERATION AS ONE OF THE CENTERS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF
THE REGION
UNHCR SAYS 29,000 REFUGEES FROM KOSOVO REMAIN IN MACEDONIA
GOVERNMENT PROPOSES PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE
MACEDONIA - WORLD BANK : STRONGER STRUCTURAL REFORM NEEDED
WORLD BANK PRESIDENT WILL PERSONALLY ADVOCATE PRESERVATION OF OHRID LAKE
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH BULGARIA IN SEPTEMBER
SUPREME COURT VOIDS GAMING LICENSE OF "PROMET TUTUN"
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT OFFERS "OKTA" EQUITY TO "MAMIDAKIS"
"MAKAMTRANS" ANNOUNCING PROTESTS
DBK GOES INTO "TEHNOMETAL-VARDAR"
MILS SUPPLEMENT WILL MALA RECHICA UNIVERSITY BE PRIVATE AND SUPPORTED BY EU?
"Dnevnik", July 20 1999
MILS VESTI Skopje, 21 juli 1999
SKOPJE NE E VO KOMBINACIJA ZA EDEN OD CENTRITE ZA REKONSTRUKCIJA NA REGIONOT
Ministrite za nadvoressni raboti na zemjite cclenki na EU zaccera vo Brisel
donele odluka sedissteto na kancelarijata za obnova na Kosovo da bide vo
Solun, a operativniot centar vo Prisstina. Centri na kancelarijata za
rekonstrukcija, kako ssto e resseno vo Brisel, vo idnina mozzno e da bidat
otvoreni i vo Tirana i vo Podgorica. Skopje koje na samiot poccetok na
potragata za sedissteto na agencijata besse favorit na Evropskata komisija,
occeigledno sega ne se spomnuva vo niedna kombinacija. Vo vrska so ova
portparolot na Evropaskata komisija Niko Vektor izjavi deka za prv pat koga
se ragleduval predlogot za sediste na agencijata, na Kosovo vojnata se usste
bila vo tek i postoelo mislenje deka e najzgodno operacijata da zapoccne od
Skopje. `So zavrssuvanjeto na vojnata stanalo jasno deka kje se imaat
povekje mozznosti za rabota dokolku centarot bide vo Prisstina i tokmu toa i
e storeno. Ssto se odnesuva do Komisijata agencijata treba da bide smestena
vo Jugoslavija , najprvo na Kosovo, podocna vo Crna Gora i dokolku e toa
mozzno i vo Srbija. Potoa e mozzno agencijata i da se centralizira, a Skopje
zasega ne e vo nassite planovi', izjavi Vektor za A-1 Televizija.
SPORED UNHCR VO MAKEDONIJA USSTE OKOLU 29.000 BEGALCI OD KOSOVO Kako ssto
soopssti vccera UNHCR, vo Makedonija ima usste okolu 29.000 begalci od
Kosovo, od koi i 3.000 novodojdeni od Pressevo i okolijata. Dosega pak od
zemjava za Kosovo se vratile vkupno 214.000 begalci. Spored UNHCR momentalno
vo begalskite kampovi se naogjaat okolu 8.300 lica, dodeka ostanatite se
zgrizzeni vo semejstva. So programata na UNHCR dosega na Kosovo organizirano
se vratile 3.200 begalci, a preku vozdussniot most od treti zemji preku
Makedonija za pokrainata se vratile 5.800 lica. Kako ssto e soopssteno, vo
Makedonija sega doagjaat novi begalci, Romi od Kosovo, a od niv dosega se
evidentirani 348 lica. Visokiot komesarijat za begalci nema podatoci za
brojot na srpskite begalci od Kosovo koi prestojuvaa vo Makedonija.
Edinstveno e poznat podatokot deka okolu 70.000 Srbi ja napusstile
pokrainata. Na vccerassnata pres konferencija e istaknato i deka UNHCR nema
podatoci za sostojbata vo koja se naogja makedonskoto malcinstvo na Kosovo i
dali vrz niv se vrssi nekakva represija.
VLADATA PREDLAGA PROFESIONALIZACIJA NA FUNKCIJATA PRATENIK Makedonskata
Vlada na vccerasnata sednica gi utvrdi izmenite i dopolnuvanjata na Zakonot
za izbor na pratenici so koi megju drugoto se predviduva voveduvanje na
profesionalnata funkcija - pratenik. Isto taka so ovie izmeni se
dopreciziraat odrededeni izborni rokovi i dejstva i jasno se opredeluvaat
organite ssto postapuvaat po prigovori na izbornite postapki. Megju drugoto
se obezbeduva i pogolema nezavisnost vo rabotenjeto na izbornite organi, a
edna od osnovnite priccini za izmenuvanja i dopolnuvanja e i ressenieto za
sostavot na izbornite komisii, ssto e vo funkcija na zasstita na sudstvoto,
kako nezavisno i depolitizirano vo vremeto na izborite koga postoi golem
politiccki naboj. Vladata vccera predlozzi i izmeni vo Zakonot za
nadvoressno-trgovsko rabotenje, pri sto e predvideno pri uvozot i izvozot na
stoki i uslugi delovnite subjekti da plakjaat zadolzzitelen nadomest vo
iznos od 0,1 nasto od carinskata osnovica. So predlozzenite izmeni vo
Zakonot za osiguruvanje se vrssi zgolemuvanje na limitot za uccestvo na
stransko drusstvo od 49 na 65 nasto vo akciite na drusstvoto za osiguruvanje
so pravo na upravuvanje. So ova se smeta deka kje se ovozmozzi pogolema
zainteresiranost na stranskite investitori za vlozzuvanje vo sferite na
osiguruvanjeto.
MAKEDONIJA-SVETSKA BANKA - NEOPHODNI ZASILENI STRUKTURNI REFORMI Odavajkji i
priznanie na Makedonija za se ssto stori vo tekot na kosovskata kriza,
prviot ccovek na Svetskata banka, Dzejms Vulfenson, vo tekot na vccerassnite
razgovori so makeodnskite vlasti vetil celosna podrsska na Sveytskata banka
za zasilenite reformi ssto makedonskata Vlada kje treba da gi sprovede vo
bankarstvoto, privatniot sektor, obrazvoanieto, zdrastvoto, javnata
administracija i socijalniot sektor. Vulfenson vo razgovorite poraccal deka
vo Makedonija e neophodna i borba protiv korupcijata, kako i efikasen sudski
sistem. Od strana na premierot Ljubcco Georgievski i ministerot za finansi,
Boris Stojmenov, vccera bile dadeni cvrsti garancii deka Makedonija vekje
naesen kje vleze vo zasileni strukturni reformi, so ocenka deka iako nekoi
podatoci za makedonskata ekonomija navistina se mnogu tesski predizvikot
mora da se prifati. Dirketorot na Setskata banka, Dzejms Vulfenson, ccera se
interesiral i za prodazzbata na `OKTA', pri ssto so makedonskite vlasti bil
postignat dogovor Svetskata banka da isprati eksperti koi kje go ispitaat
dogovorot. Vo Skopje vccera besse potpissan dogovor so koj Evropskata banka
i Megjunrodnata finansiska korporacija koja e afilacija na Svetskata banka
(AFC) vlozzuvaat 34 milioni marki vo vid na konvertabilen zaem vo skopskata
fabrika `Alkaloid'. Kako ssto e istaknato so ovie sredstva kje treba da se
izgradi nova sovremena fabrika za lekovi so koja `Alkaloid' kje mozze da se
pojavi na svetskiot pazar. So vtoriot dogovor Evropskata banka za obnova i
razvoj, AFC i Germanskoto drusstvo za investiranje i razvoj kje nasoccat 13
milioni dolari vo investicioniot fond `SEAF' so koi kje se vrssat
akcionerski vlogovi vo mali i sredni pretprijatija. Od ovoj fond kje se
investira vo firmi so potencijal na podem vo sferata na zemjodelieto,
proizodstvoto na hrana, turizmot, lesnata industrija i komunalnite uslugi.
Tretiot dogovor se odnesuva na vekje odobreniot zaem na Svetskata banka od
10 milioni dolari za podrsska na makedonskiot socijalen sektor. Od 1993
godina dosega Svetskata banka inaku na Makedonija i odobri sredstva od okolu
500 milioni dolari.
PRETSEDATELOT NA SVETSKATA BANKA LICCNO KJE SE ZALOZZI ZA ZASSTITA NA
OHRIDSKOTO EZERO Pretsedatelot na Svetskata banka, Dzejms Vulfenson vccera
vo Ohrid imasse sredba so gradonaccalnicite na Ohrid, Struga i Podgradec
(Albanija), pri ssto bil razgledan proektot za zasstita na Ohridskoto ezero
koj e finansiran od Globalniot fond za ekolosska zasstita, a e koordiniran
od Svetskata banka. Vo razgovorite Volfenson istaknal deka liccno kje se
angazzira vo tekot na narednata godina da se organizira vtora donatorska
konferencija ssto kje pridonese za prioritetnite zafati za zasstita na
Ohridskoto ezero. Spored Volfenson ovoj proekt ima golemo znaccenje ne samo
za Makedonija i Albanija, tuku za celiot svet, bidejki Ohridskoto ezero e
edno od dve ili tri ezera vo svetot so vaka visok kvalitet.
DOGOVOROT ZA SLOBODNA TRGOVIJA SO BUGARIJA VO SEPTEMVRI Dogovorot za
slobodna trgovija megju Makedonija i Bugarija kje se potpisse vo septemvri,
a do 2.002 godina kje se liberariziraat 97 nasto od trgovijata so
industriskite proizvodi megju dvete zemji. Ekspertskite grupi na Makedonija
i Bugarija, kako ssto prenesuva `Veccer' vccera vo Skopje ja usoglasile
dinamikata na liberalizacija na trgovijata na industriskite proizvodi.
Postignata e soglasnost 66 nasto od vkupnata trgovija so tie proizvodi da se
liberalizira vednass po potpissuvanjeto na dogovorot, usste 31 nasto do
2.002 godina i usste 3 nasto do 2.005 godina. Od dvete strani e prifaten
principot trgovskata razmena so zemjodelsko- prehrambenite proizvodi da se
odviva so razmena na koncesii vo vid na tarifni kvoti.
VRHOVNIOT SUD GI PONISSTI LICENCITE ZA IGRI NA SREKJA NA `PROMET TUTUN'
Vrhoniot sud na Makedonija gi ponisstil site licenci ssto kompanijata
`Promet tutun' gi imasse dobieno za organiziranje na igri na srekja od
starata makedonska Vlada, a koi bea potvrdeni i od kabinetot na premierot
Georgievski. Odlukata donesena na deveti ovoj mesec Vrhovniot sud ja
obrazlozzi so faktot deka vo vremeto koga Vladata ja donela odlukata
licencite da mu gi dodeli na `Promet tutun' ovaa skopska firma nemala praven
legitimitet, odnosno nejzinata regoistracija ne bila objavena vo Sluzzben
vesnik. Vo `Promet tutun' vo vrska so ova ocenile deka objavuvanjeto deka na
sudskata registracija docnela ne po nivna tuku po vina na sudskite organi i
poradi toa smetaat deka presudata na Vrhovniot sud ne e koneccna i
pravosilna. Isto taka najaveno e deka `Promet tutun' kje prodolzzi da gi
prireduva igrite na srekja dodeka ressenieto na Vrhovniot sud ne stane
zvaniccno i Vladata ne go donese koneccnoto ressenie. Vo `Lotarija na
Makedonija' koja e konkurent na `Promet tutun' vo prireduvanjeto na igri na
srekja izjavile pak deka so ovaa odluka na Vrhovniot sud e stavena toccka na
ovoj sluccaj i deka do dodeluvanje na novite licenci, `Lotarija' kje bide
edinstven postojan prireduvacc na igrite na srekja.Od strana na
rakovodstvoto na `Lotarija' e najaveno e deka do nadlezznite inspekciski
organi kje pobara `Promet tutun' itno da gi zapre site igri na srekja koi gi
prireduva.
MAKEDONSKATA VLADA MU PONUDI NA `MAMIDAKIS AKCII VO `OKTA' Makedonskata
Vlada minatata nedela i ponudila na grcckata firma `Mamidakis' da kupi 18
nasto od slobodniot kaiptal na rafinerijata `OKTA' ccija kupovina od strana
na `Helenik Petroleum' denes treba da ja verifkuva i makedonskiot Parlament.
Od 18-te nasto od akciite na `OKTA' ssto mu se ponudeni na `Mamidakis' inaku
12 nasto se opstestven kapital, a 6 nasto od akciite vo sopstvenost na
Penziskiot fond i se slobodni za prodazzba. Od strana na `Mammidakis' koj
sega vodi spor so makedonskata Vlada okolu raskinuanjeto na dogovorot za
nabaka na surova nafta za rafinerijata `OKTA', najnovata ponuda na Vladata e
oceneta kako tessko prifatliva so ogled na ponudenite uslovi na plakjanje
(vo rok od 30 dena po prevzemanjeto na akciite). Kako ssto neoficijalno se
doznava vo `Mamidakis' ponudata ja protolkuvale i kako igra so koja
makedonskata Vlada se obiduva da ja amortizira agresivnosta so koja ovaa
firma pred Londonskiot sud se obiduva da go regulira statusot na dogovorot
potpissan so `OKTA' za isporaka na surova nafta. Inaku makedonskata Vlada
ccera go prifatila predlogot za donesuvanje po itna postapka na zakonot za
ratifikacija na bilateralniot dogovor megju Makedonija i Grcija za izgradba
i upravuanje so naftovodot Solun-Skopje. So ovoj dogovor voedno kje stapi vo
sila i dogovort za prodazzba na `OKTA' na `Helenik Petroleum'.
I `MAKAMTRANS' NAJAVUVA MASOVNI PROTESTI Guzzvite ssto denovive se prisutni
vo centarot na Skopje poradi sstrajkot na privatnite avtobuski prevoznici,
naskoro bi mozzele da stanat usste pogolemi dokolku se ostvari najavata na
Nezavisiniot sindikat na kamionskite prevoznici `Makamtrans' za organizirani
protesti na kamiondziite. Imeno `Makamtrans' se zzali na odlukata kamionite
koi tranzitiraat niz Makedonija za Kosovo i koi imaat TIR karneti da
podlezzat na carina na terminalot vo Skopje kade se pravat kilometarski
redovi na ccekanje, kako i na trossocite od okolu 600 marki koi moraat da se
plakjaat na skopskiot terminal. Od Carinata pak velat deka makedonskata
carinska sluzzba na granicnciot premin Blace ne e dovolno opremena, pa zatoa
kamionite moraat da se carinat vo Skopje, dodeka trossocite od 600 marki se
ocenuvaat kako redovna procedura koja mora da se plati. Kamiondziite pak se
kategoriccni deka dokolku do krajot na nedelava ovie problemi ne se ressat
kje pominat na organizirani protesti so blokiranje na soobrakjanici.
DBK OD `GRANIT' POMINA VO `TEHNOMETAL-VARDAR' Direkcijata za bezbednost i
kontrarazuznavanje po kontrolata vo edno od najgolemite gradezzni
pretprijatija vo zemjava, `Granit' od Skopje (prethodno vo desetici drugi
firmi vo drzzavava), vccera se najde vo `Tehnometal-Vardar' koj pak e edno
od najgolemite trgovski pretprijatija vo Makedonija. Za razlika od upadot vo
`Granit' koga DBK nemasse nalog za pretres, ovoj pat spored kazzuvanjata na
vrabotenite sluzzbenicite na Direkcijata so sebe go nosele ovoj dokument.
Isto taka se veli deka pripadnicite na DBK vo firmata barale na
razgleduvanje toccno opredeleni dokumenti, kako i deka generalniot direktor
na `Tehnometal- Vardar', Slave Georgievski, ne mozzel da prisustvuva na
kontrolata bidejki e na godissen odmor. Se occekuva finansiskata kontrola vo
ova pretprijatie da trae so denovi poradi obemnata dokumentacija, a zasega
se usste ne e poznato dali kontrolata e sprovedena poradi somnevanje deka e
zataen danok ili pak se raboti za nessto drugo. (kraj) mils vesti 21 juli
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Macedonia: ------------------------------
21.07.99. Today's dailies report on ratification of the agreement on setting
up the oil pipe-line Skopje- Thessaloniki and selling "Okta" refinery. The
front pages also report on the decision of European Union Commission to set
up the Reconstruction Agency Centre in Thessaloniki and Pristina.
"UTRINSKI VESNIK" (INDEPENDENT DAILY) - Reports that Macedonian Parliament
had ratified the agreement on setting up Skopje-Thessaloniki oil pipe-line.
Under headline "Okta will become Greek Company", the front page reports on
selling "Okta" refinery. Based on the comparison analysis results, the deal
terms are not favourable for Republic of Macedonia. Under headline
"Macedonia was once again surpassed", this daily comments the decision of
European Union Foreign Ministers Council to set up the Balkans
Reconstruction Agency in Thessaloniki and Pristina. "We can not understand
how it is possible not to do anything about this country regarding its
higher status, although Macedonia was a centre of the entire world within
last couple of months", this daily comments. Under headline "We are not
engaged in Bulgarisation, we are engaged in de-Serbation", this daily
comments the "ruling ideology unfolding in Macedonia" and the
culture-related situation.
"DNEVNIK" (INDEPENDENT DAILY) - Under headline "Over $38 million will be
provided for Macedonia's economy and social welfare", this daily reports on
the visit of Head of World Bank James Wolfensohn to Macedonia. A total of
DEM 34 million will be provided for Skopje's Pharmaceutical Factory
"Alkaloid" as a loan. Under headline "The issue over Albanian-language
University in Mala Recica has been resolved?", this daily reports that
details will be reviewed in the future. DPA announces political solution,
VMRO-DPMNE sees the outcome in private university financed by the European
Union. "Dnevnik" reports on the campaign for election of new Head of
Macedonian Orthodox Church, pointing out that there are five candidates,
Gospodin Kiril and Gospodin Petar are the most serious candidates for the
Saint Kliment throne.
"MAKEDONIJA DENES" (INDEPENDENT DAILY) -Under headline "Slave Georgievski is
on the beach - DBK is in 'Tehnometal'" this daily continues to report on
police- led investigation in Macedonian enterprises. Next "hosts" of DBK
"guests" are "Papen", "Asiba MG" and "Avtoproges". While the Saints are
flying in the sky, "the bishops are fighting with earth dreams". The Holly
Synod of Macedonian Orthodox Church should eliminate all potential obstacles
regarding the election of new Archbishop, by the authorities, the powerful
persons, the false patriots, This daily recommends.
"NOVA MAKEDONIJA"(PRO-GOVERNMENT DAILY) -Reports on the "Financial
inspection in 'Tehnometal - Vardar". This daily claims that The General
Manager Slave Georgievski and the Finance Director Gordana Utkova have been
suspected for tax evading. Under headline "A blackmailing diplomacy", this
daily comments the decision of E.U. Foreign Ministers Council to set up the
Balkans Reconstruction Agency in Thessaloniki. "Greek diplomatic offensive
was rather fruitful", the columnist estimates.
"VECER"(PRO-GOVERNMENT DAILY) - Under headline "The Head of Syndicates
Alliance Zivko Tolevski in hiding", this daily reports that the main reason
for this is disclosure of his name on the list of privileged savers in "Tat"
savings-bank. "Vecer" raises the question "Why the Syndicate leadership is
silent?" Under headline "Techno-delirium unfolding in Berovo", the front
page reports on the incident in "Malesevo" recreation centre, where the
police had discovered some ten packages of heroin, 55 peals "Extasis",
marihuana... Under headline "The bus owners and directors disagree" this
daily reports on continuation of the strike of Skopje's bus owners. The
Directors have been supporting the strikers' demands, nevertheless, they
presume now it is not an appropriate time for staging protests. /end/
makfaks news agency - skopje tel. ++ (389 91) 11 01 25; fax 11 01 84; modem
11 00 81 mob.tel. 070 226078 DAIMS /diplomatic and international mission
service/ 1
21.07.99. Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov is due to host today the
outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Christopher Hill. The U.S. Ambassador
Christopher Hill was the U.S. special envoy in the diplomatic peace-making
process over Kosovo. The Ambassador Hill is now completing his diplomatic
mission in Macedonia and he is due to departing this country to take up his
new appointment. /end/
Macedonian Parliament is due to hold its 24 session today with a 13-day
delay. Parliament members are to debate the selling of Skopje's refinery
"Okta" to the Greek partner "HellenicPetroleum" along with the agreement on
setting up the oil pipe-line Skopje Thessaloniki. According to the
announcements, Macedonian Parliament is to ratify the inter-state agreement
on setting up the oil pipeline along with the agreement on selling "Okta"
refinery. /end/
The Head of World Bank James Wolfensohn instructed Macedonian government to
get back on the track of economic reforms which have been postponed due to
Kosovo crisis, "Makfax" reports. The Head of World Bank James Wolfensohn has
been holding talks with Macedonian top officials over the economic turmoil
induced by Kosovo crisis as well as on Macedonia's potential role in
economic healing of the region. Wolfensohn and Finance Minister Boris
Stojmenov signed an agreement on World Bank providing a loan totaling $10
million aimed at supporting the social welfare projects. Wolfensohn had also
signed additional two agreements on investment in Macedonian private sector.
The first agreement is a loan intended for modernization of Pharmaceutical
Industry "Alkaloid", the other one is investment through the small
enterprise fund. /end/
Macedonian and Bulgarian expert teams had adjusted the dynamics of
industrial products trade liberalization. These adjustments have been made
over the negotiations on reaching the free trade agreement between Macedonia
and Bulgaria, Macedonian Information Ministry announced. As "Makfax"
transmits, the both sides had agreed on urgent liberalization of 66 percent
of the overall industrial products trade, the other 31 percent will be
completed by year 2002, and the last three percent - by year 2005. Having in
mind that the industrial products of third countries already entered in
free-trade arrangements with Bulgaria will have a free access to Bulgarian
market by year 2002, Macedonian manufacturers will acquire equal conditions
for competitive access to Bulgarian market. /end/
There will be no stability in Southeastern Europe without an integration of
the entire region within European Union, this is the estimation released by
experts of 25 strategical institutions, "Makfax" reports. "There will be no
stability without integration", Ivan Krastev from Bulgarian Center for
Liberal Strategies said at the end of three-day meeting over Balkans
reconstruction following the Kosovo crisis. According to the joint
declaration released by the experts, without a new strategy approach, this
region will stagnate and also the conflicts are very likely to outbreak
again. /end/
European Commission is providing $151.5 million in humanitarian assistance
for the Albanian and Serb refugees. "The current challenge of the
humanitarian community is to provide proper winter shelters in due time",
the E.U. high-ranking representative said for "Reuters". The European
Commission announced that over 650.000 ethnic Albanian refugees had returned
in Kosovo. The European Union undertook to pay particular attention to the
situation in Serbia due to the fact that over 100.000 Serbs and Romas headed
to Serbia fearing of retaliation. /end/
The U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said Serbia has no future as long
as Slobodan Milosevic rules this country, Western agencies reported. "He had
pushed Serbia into a downfall path", Cohen said to the Armed Forces Senate
Committee. As "Makfax" transmits, Cohen had underscored that the United
States are very much interested in Serbia future, nevertheless, this country
could have no future with Slobodam Milosevic. The U.S. Defense Secretary
pointed out the growing discontent of the citizens with the Milosevic's
policy. /end/
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had warned that if the international
community fails to support the water supply and other essential needs of
Yugoslav citizens, the Serb exodus is very likely to take place, Western
agencies had reported. While delivering his speech to the OSCE
representatives, Annan estimated that it would take al least 10 years to
reconstruct the region, in accordance with the new Marshall Plan or the
so-called Balkans Stability Pact. As "Makfax" transmits, Kofi Annan presumes
that Serbs are likely to depart Yugoslavia due to unemployment, disrupted
infrastructure and the upcoming winter. "It is in our interest to do
something in providing minimum conditions for decent life", Annan said.
/end/
The leader of Serb Renewal Movement Vuk Draskovic warned in Belgrade "the
army must not intervene in domestic political clashes", when commenting the
recent statement released by Yugoslav Army Chief - General Dragoljub
Ojdanic. The public had interpreted Ojdanic's statement as a support to the
current authorities. "It seems that General Ojdanic did not read some of the
basic principles of the army he is in charge of", Draskovic said at the
press conference. The leader of Serb Renewal Movement said the army has to
defend its country from foreign aggression, nevertheless, "the army should
not intervene in domestic political clashes and political competitions".
/end/
The leadership of Albanian socialist and the current Albanian Prime Minister
Pandeli Majko had condemned the campaign run by former Socialists leader
Fatos Nano in several Albanian cities, estimating this campaign as a
self-willingness, "Makfax" reports. The accusations against Nano for
fractionating take place prior to Socialist Party Congress scheduled for
October. The former Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano pledged for changes
in Party Statute. Nano intercedes for setting apart the leader position from
Prime Ministerial position. The analysts in Albania presume the discord
among the Socialist Party membership is in favor of opposition democrats
leader Sally Berisha, who has already announced his comeback into the
Albania Parliament. /END ALL/
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:17:57 +0200 From: Slavko Mangovski mango
MAKEDONSKOSONCE.COM Subject: MAKEDONSKO SONCE Media Monitor, 21 July 1999
1. Pristina - A Few Weeks After 2. RFE/RL 3. MPA 4. INTERVIEW-EBRD launches
Balkans recovery plan 5. World Bank head urges Macedonia to speed reforms 6.
Greece Wants Bulgaria EU Entry Talks to Start Soon; Greece Wants Bulgaria
EU Entry Talks to Start Soon 7. For Vjosa, the Conflict Continues 8. U.N.
Drags Feet in Kosovo, Pentagon Leaders Declare 9. Europe's Rights Court
Taking On Increasingly Sensitive Cases By ELIZABETH OLSON 10. Albright to
Discuss Taiwan With Chinese Official
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pristina - A Few Weeks
After
AIM Skopje, 15 July, 1999
Anyone who had visited Kosovo in the first days after entrance of KFOR and
then went there again after few weeks could see the difference. The crowd at
Blace border crossing which is on one side held by Macedonian customs and
police, and on the other by just American soldiers (in both capacities, I
guess), is bigger than ever. All the ones and the others are interested in
is whether those who are crossing the border without standing in long queues
in both directions have KFOR passes (a very important document for speedy
exit from and entrance into Kosovo). The others, especially truck drivers,
are waiting for hours.
In Pristina, changes for the better are more than obvious. There are a lot
of people on the pavements, a lot of cars in the streets and on the roads.
There are much fewer taxi drivers with Macedonian licence plates on their
cars, local taxi drivers, both in duly marked and in cars without "Taxi"
signs, are practically working illegally. Almost all the cafes and
resaurants which have not been set on fire are opened and working at full
steam. Downtown, the cafes that are popular are "Korzo", "23" and
"Brooklyn", the renowned restaurants are "Papillon", "Monako", pizza parlour
"Leo"... Parties everywhere, night life in full swing.
At the market places and the wholesale market there is an abundance of
goods - vegetables from Macedonia (luckily for the vegetable growers there
who have saved their this year's crop by export to Kosovo). Although
production of the famous beer from Pec has begun, canned beer from Prilep
(Macedonia) prevails, there is also beer from Skopje, as well as Heineken
and Amstel, also from Macedonia. It is assumed that a large part of smuggled
cigarettes also arrive from there, because it is an open secret that certain
Macedonian companies have in the meantime become experts in this kind of
activity. A part of the demand for textiles are "covered" by manufacturers
from Sandzak.
Vehicles of KFOR, UNMIK (oops!- if pronounced according to the rules of
Serbo-Croat, it means "enemy" in Albanian!), OSCE, Red Cross, and others,
are still on the move, as if moving is the very sense of their existence.
But the British tanks and patrols are rare. This is supposed to mean that
the situation is kept under control.
And it is under control, at least when KFOR is concerned. But there are
practically no civilian authorities, although you can meet brand new white
jeeps with the sign UN on them practically everywhere. Although at first
sight the team of Sergio de Mello is working at full steam preparing the
ground for Bernard Kouchner whose mandate is establishment of the
administration on all levels. The best examples of how things are getting
"better" is water supply. During the first visit running water in Pristina
was equal to the main prize in lottery. It still is. In the beginning the
telephones worked - the ordinary ones not all the time, mobile ones
perfectly. In the days of our second visit after the telephone company had
been taken over by UNMIK, ordinary phones usually did not work at all and
the mobile ones had "No network" on their displays most of the time. It is
not in the interest of the Karic brothers mobile phone company not to work,
because those who use roaming phones, and they are mostly foreigners, pay 10
German marks for every minute they talk.
And nothing to say about "everyday" problems, such as dying, for instance.
Who establishes that a person is dead, who issues a permit for a funeral,
who performs funeral services - who digs graves, who buries, and similar are
just some of the questions which it is difficult to find an answer to. And
the municipal services - like keeping the city clean and collecting garbage
(which is most frequently burned in containers, and not collected and taken
away)...
The small things life consists of are also open questions, like traffic -
from its regulation (driving permits, vehicle registration...), traffic
accidents (who is in charge of investigation, who establishes who caused
them etc.), crimes and similar. Or, for example, despite allegations of
UNMIK that it controls all socially-owned facilities, state-owned stores
have been seized and kiosks are being put up downtown Pristina, which have
obviously been picked up somewhere else by their new owners who decided to
put them up wherever they pleased.
Media are a special issue. There are practically none. There is no place to
print newspapers - private ones have been destroyed, state Rilindja is in
the hands of UNMIK which has not decided yet what it wants to do with it.
Its building has been ruined to such an extent that it is not safe to work
in it, and at least six months would be necessary for its reconstruction.
The printing works may be operational, but there is the dilemma what would
be the best way to exploit them. Similar is the case with Radio and TV
Pristina. They are held by UNMIK but it does not know how to solve the
problem which is equally valid for other sectors, such as health, education,
"state services"...
It is no secret that all these sectors had been cleansed, that all ethnic
Allbanians had been removed from them, and Serbs employed in their stead.
The problem UNMIK is faced with is how to bring back the former employees
removed for political reasons without doing the same injustice by sacking
all the Serbs from work.
A change is also evident at the promenade where the Serbs still walk but
talk in low voices, in apartment buildings the gates of which are locked, in
houses and facilities which are marked by pieces of paper which say that
they are under protection of KFOR. An indicator is also the fact that the
Albanians put up data on the owners on entrances of their houses and
apartments and in windows of their shops, just as it is no secret that
certain unidentified people control who is living in apartments, whether
homes are vacant and similar.
A few days ago, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presented five phases of the
strategy on Kosovo. The first is defined as "consolidation of the
authorities and the administrative structure, including deployemnt of
civilian police and the plan of economic reconstruction and development". As
matters stand now, it will be a Sisyphean task.
Among the local Albanian politicians, absolutely the most active one is
Hashim Thaci. Foreigners arrive and put photographs with him in their albums
because he is simply "in". Many of the negotiators from Rambouillet are
standing aloof from politics. Some Albanian politicians from Macedonia
believe that it is not alright that Thaci is left all alone, with no
political support of the others. It could be heard in Pristina that the
influence of the Democratic Party of the Albanians (DPA) headed by Arben
Xhaferi on Thaci was big. As evidence his recent stay in Tetovo is offered,
or his meeting with Macedonian prime minister, but also the assistance given
by DPA to Thaci and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the armed
conflicts.
We are going back from Pristina to Skopje in a vehicle with foreign licence
plates and a conspicuous sign of a Macedonian private village radio station
on its doors. The owner and driver has a KFOR press card but he does not
even try to conceal that he is not coming to Kosovo to work as a journalist.
Every day he brings something from Macedonia to sell. This time he brought
150 plastic bottles of table oil. For tomorrow he is planning to bring "some
cigarettes". He needs the KFOR press card just to speed up his way in and
out of Kosovo. Simply for business across borders.
AIM Skopje
#ISO RUSI
RFE/RL
UCK DISARMAMENT ON SCHEDULE... KFOR commander General Sir Mike Jackson
inspected an arms collection site of the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) in
Isnic on 20 July, together with UCK commander Agim Ceku, an RFE/RL
correspondent reported from Prishtina. That day marked the deadline for the
first phase of the UCK's disarmament plan. According to the plan, which
guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci signed and presented to NATO 30 days earlier,
by now the UCK was to have turned in all its heavy weapons and 30 percent of
its small arms. At the storage site are, among other things, heavy machine
guns, anti-tank rockets, a Chinese multi-barreled anti- aircraft gun,
several other arms, and about 2 million rounds of ammunition. Most of the
arms originated from the Yugoslav Army. There are a total of 19 collection
sites throughout Kosova. FS
...BUT VIOLATIONS OF AGREEMENT CONTINUE. KFOR spokesman Louis Garneau said
in Prishtina on 20 July that KFOR soldiers have arrested 13 men in UCK
uniforms in Mihalic and confiscated an unspecified number of arms, an RFE/RL
correspondent reported. Despite these violations of the demilitarization
agreement, UCK commander Ceku told Reuters in Isnic that "I am sure I have
control of the UCK units." FS
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS DENY CAPTURING PRISHTINA AIRPORT TO SEIZE CLASSIFIED
ARMS... Unidentified officials of Russia's Foreign and Defense Ministries
told Interfax on 20 July that Russia did not send its troops into Prishtina
on 10 June, ahead of the arrival of NATO troops, in order to secure
classified weapons (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 24 June 1999). The officials were
reacting to a report in "The Times" on 19 July quoting journalists from
"Jane's Defence Weekly" as saying that Russia's surprise move may have been
designed to withdraw Russian SA-10 surface-to-air missiles and Czech-made
Tamara devices, which are capable of tracking stealth bombers. FS
...BUT RAF OFFICER SAYS RUSSIANS WITHDREW LARGE AMOUNTS OF ARMS. Also on 19
July, "The Times" quoted an RAF officer at Prishtina airport as saying that
during the first few days of Russian control in June, "the stuff [military
equipment] was pouring out of here." He added that the Prishtina airport was
one of the most impressive military facilities he has seen. Already on 24
June, "Komsomolskaya pravda" reported that Russian paratroopers had orders
to stop British forces from accessing a Yugoslav storage area at the airport
that included unspecified "radar devices," missiles, and laser- guided
bombs. FS
[03] MR. KAKLAMANIS WILL INAUGURATE THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER
DEDICATED TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT Minister of Macedonia-Thrace Yiannis
Magriotis characterized the cultural center built in Litochoro at the
initiative of the Pan-Macedonian Association of America-Canada as "the best
vehicle for the promotion of the historical truth on Macedonia". A newly
constructed building will house the international cultural center that will
promote the achievements of Alexander the Great. The inauguration will be
made by Greek parliament speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis and it will take
place on Friday, July 23.
In a press conference, parliament deputy and the institute's executive
secretariat chairman Dimitris Pantermalis as well as, the New York based
"Alexander the Great Institute" president Panagiotis Mitoulis stressed that
the creation of the cultural center was decided in recognition to the
magnificent work of the great Macedon army commander. They also stressed
that the international conferences that will be held there will contribute
to the continuous search for the scientific truth concerning the
achievements of Alexander the Great.
[02] KRANIDIOTIS WILL BE IN THESSALONIKI TO DISCUSS ISSUES CONCERNING THE
ORGANIZATION FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BALKANS Deputy foreign minister
Yiannos Kranidiotis will be in Thessaloniki next Tuesday to discuss with
local authorities the issue concerning the place where the headquarters of
the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Balkans will be housed. The
first stop for Mr. Kranidiotis will be the ministry of Macedonia-Thrace
where he will discuss with minister Yiannis Magriotis the existing options.
Afterwards, the deputy foreign minister will have contacts with local
administration authorities on the same issue.
On the organization's timetable, it is estimated that it will be in
operation by September or in October at the latest, given the fact that the
European parliament has to issue a decision on the matter.
[03] UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM 7 BALKAN STATES WILL VISIT CHALKIDIKI
University students from Greece and Cyprus and from 5 other Balkan states
will be in Chalkidiki, northern Greece on Friday to participate in the 4th
Conference of the South-Eastern Europe Youth Center. In the conference that
is being organized with the support of the National Youth Institute
participate university student associations from Albania, Yugoslavia,
Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria.
During the conference the students will adopt a number of proposals on the
role of the new generation in the effort to bring peace and prosperity to
the Balkans. Those proposals will be sent to the EU member-states, the OSCE
and the United Nations.
INTERVIEW-EBRD launches Balkans recovery plan 11:01 a.m. Jul 21, 1999
Eastern By Elisaveta Konstantinova
SKOPJE, July 21 (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development has launched a special plan to help countries bordering
Yugoslavia recover from losses suffered during the Kosovo crisis, a senior
official said on Wednesday.
Henry Russel, director of the EBRD's Western Balkans department, said in an
interview with Reuters the bank would concentrate on encouraging private
sector investment in the region.
``The Balkan Region Action Plan is EBRD's response to international efforts
which are calling for not just humanitarian aid but also for long-term
direct investment by the private sector,'' Russel said.
``It is important to recognise that private investment and the contact with
international and domestic partners creates linkages that are going to
support stability in the region.''
The plan combines EBRD-backed projects already implemented in Macedonia,
Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which the bank hopes to accelerate, with
new ones, said Russel.
Both Albania and Macedonia, Europe's poorest countries, suffered great
losses from blocked trade and disrupted road links with major trade
partners during the Kosovo crisis.
Their economies were also severely hit by nearly a million ethnic Albanians
which fled violence in Kosovo.
Russel said the EBRD's commitments in Macedonia totalled 168 million euro
($176 million) and the bank was prepared to invest a further 60 million
euro. He did not give a timeframe.
The EBRD's recovery plan for Macedonia includes providing trade guarantee
programmes for three local banks, Stopanska Bank, Kommercialna Bank and
Export Credit Bank, to help foster trade with foreign partners.
In Albania, the EBRD has committed 71 million euro and earmarked a further
30 million.
The bank was also looking for ways to channel donor funds into feasibility
studies in Kosovo, said Russel.
As part of the Action Plan, the EBRD on Tuesday signed two investment
agreements with Macedonia which include an 8.7 million euro loan to local
pharmaceuticals and cosmetics producer Alkaloid AD.
The loan, which includes an option to be converted into equity, would be
used to upgrade Alkaloid's production facilities and enable it to sell its
products abroad.
A Small Enterprise Assistance Fund for Macedonia was also set up on Tuesday
with capital of $13 million. The EBRD has committed $4 million, and the
World Bank's investment arm International Finance Corp (IFC) and a private
German investment company, DEG, provided $2.5 million each.
The fund will invest in growing local private companies in the area of
agribusiness, food processing and tourism.
($1-.9527 Euro)
World Bank head urges Macedonia to speed reforms 03:35 p.m Jul 20, 1999
Eastern By Elisaveta Konstantinova
SKOPJE, July 20 (Reuters) - World Bank President James Wolfensohn pledged
on Tuesday that Macedonia would be compensated for its sacrifices during
the Kosovo crisis, but urged the Balkan country to press on with reforms.
``We expect to be deeply involved in ensuring that the costs of this
(Kosovo) crisis be made up in some way to Macedonia...
``We will do all we can along with the G-7 and other European countries to
ensure that the financing, which is needed to reach the level of the
assessed damage, can be put together in the coming months,'' Wolfensohn
told a news conference in Skopje.
Top government officials and international lenders plan to gather at a
Balkan Stability Pact meeting at the end of July in Sarajevo to draw a
blueprint for Balkan reconstruction, he said.
The G-7 Group of leading industrial nations, along with multilateral donors
have pledged emergency lending of up to $250 million this year to help
Macedonia recover.
Wolfensohn urged the Balkan state to press ahead with reforms and seize new
opportunities.
``Macedonia has unique opportunity for a possible extension of its market
into a regional market...what you need to do is to be organised to face the
future,'' he said.
Needed reforms included establishing a sound legal system and an effective
justice system, fight corruption, introducing a proper financial system,
banking supervision and control of capital markets along with setting up a
social safety net.
A $10 million Social support loan was signed during Wolfensohn's visit to
help deal with more than 40,000 unemployed out of a population of 2.1
million.
During the visit, the World Bank's investment arm the International Finance
Corporation (IFC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD) signed an $17.7 million equity loan agreement with local
pharmaceuticals and cosmetics producer Alkaloid AD. Provision of the loan
is equally split between the two institutions.
A Small Enterprise Assistance Fund for Macedonia was also set up on Tuesday
with capital of $13 million, where the EBRD has committed $4 million, and
the IFC and DEG, a private German Investment and Development company,
provided $2.5 million each.
The World Bank saw Macedonia's economy shrinking by four percent this year
due to the Kosovo crisis, which blocked investment and trade with major
partners abroad. Gross domestic product per capita was estimated at $1,290
in 1998, but has declined since the conflict over the southern Serbian
province which borders Macedonia, a World Bank statement said.
Economic activity was expected to drop sharply as local firms have delayed
debt service payments to local banks in the face of growing liquidity
squeeze, the Bank said.
More than 200,000 ethnic Albanians seeking shelter in Macedonia from
violence in Kosovo during the 11-week crisis had imposed a further burden
on the fragile economy.
World Bank commitments in Macedonia since 1993 amount to $500 million
distributed in 17 projects, which focus on restructuring the economy and
upgrading infrastructure
Greece Wants Bulgaria EU Entry Talks to Start Soon; Greece Wants Bulgaria
EU Entry Talks to Start Soon
Reuters 21-JUL-99
ATHENS, July 21 (Reuters) - Greece said on Tuesday said it wanted its
European Union partners to agree at an EU summit in Helsinki in Decemmber
to start membership negotiations with Bulgaria.
"At the Helsinki summit, Greece will support the position that entry
negotiations for Bulgaria start very soon," Prime Minister Costas Simitis
told reporters after meeting his Bulgarian counterpart, Ivan Kostov.
The EU is already holding formal membership talks with Poland, the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia and Cyprus.
At December's summit EU leaders will have to decide whether to add Latvia,
Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria or Romania to the list.
Greece, the EU's only Balkan member, is keen that Bulgaria and Romania move
up the list quickly to help economic development in the region.
Simitis said Greece's relations with Bulgaria were very good and that with
the EU's screening of Bulgaria already completed, it was now time to
upgrade Bulgaria's relationship with the EU.
Greece also reiterated support for Bulgaria's NATO membership, Simitis
said.
For Vjosa, the Conflict Continues Her Heart Is in France, but Her Soul May
Still Be in ; Young Kosovo Woman Remains Torn Between Love and Family
Fidelity By David Finkel Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 21,
1999; Page A01
MONTPELLIER, France-She has learned some French.
"Je t'aime," Vjosa Maliqi says. I love you.
He has learned some Albanian.
"Te dua," her boyfriend, Gilles, replies, and then he recites some of the
other expressions he's learned in the past month since she came to France
to be with him. The expression for "thank you." For "Albanian girl." For
"I'd like coffee," which doesn't consist of words but of two short coughs,
which is what her father would do every morning, a sound that would send
her mother scurrying off to the kitchen. Laughing, Gilles coughs twice, and
Vjosa laughs too, and she doesn't scurry anywhere because at the moment she
is in the passenger seat of Gilles's black BMW, on the way to the beach --
and is it really only a month since she was in Macedonia, in a refugee
camp, in a tent, waiting for a war to end that had no end in sight, asking
her father, Aziz Maliqi, if they could go to France.
She had fallen in love with Gilles, a French aid worker who had fallen in
love with her, so much so that he helped arrange for the Maliqi family to
be put on a humanitarian evacuation flight from Macedonia to Toulouse.
"No," her father had said, telling her that they would wait in the refugee
camp until they could return home to Kosovo, no matter how long it took.
"If you want to go, go," he also said. So Vjosa, faced with a choice
between staying with a father she had never disobeyed or going to a man she
loved, made a decision: to go, alone, leaving two sisters, a brother, a
mother who was crying and a father who was saying, "She's never going to be
my daughter again."
A month ago, Vjosa's story (her name is pronounced Vee-OH-sa) was the
subject of an article in The Washington Post. Since then:
She has turned 24.
She has fallen deeper in love.
And she has begun a new life in Gilles' house, which has a stereo on which
she plays Albanian music while Gilles is at work, and a dishwasher that she
won't use because in Kosovo she never used such a thing, and a soft bed for
her to sleep in where, the previous night, like most nights so far, she
woke up screaming from a dream.
There was her mother, still crying.
There was her father, still angry at her.
And there she was, suddenly awake, in France, with Gilles trying to comfort
her, telling her that everything was going to be all right.
Vjosa's choice, in other words, is a choice still being made.
Sometimes she is glad to have followed a man to France, and sometimes she
wishes the embrace she is in were her family's. "Sometimes I like this,"
she said, at the beach now, watching Gilles, 33, who is out in the water on
his Jet Ski, who has asked her to marry him, "and sometimes I'm so sad I
think, 'Oh, God, where am I?' "
She had never been to a beach before coming to France. She had never been
on an airplane before coming to France. She had never lived in a place
where no one spoke her language, or where everything that happens to her in
the course of a day evokes a comparison.
Gilles rides around on his Jet Ski, and she thinks of her brother, who
always wanted to ride around on a Jet Ski.
Gilles takes her to the city, and she thinks of Pristina, the capital city
of Kosovo, where she lived.
Gilles comes home from work and touches her hair, and she thinks of when
she was a girl and her father would come home from work, "and he'd put his
hands on my hair, and after five minutes I would sleep."
Gilles asks her what she'd like to do, and she wonders what her family is
doing at that very moment.
She doesn't know that her family left the refugee camp in late June.
She doesn't know that as they walked away from the tent where they had
lived for nearly three months, not one of them looked back. She doesn't
know that, despite how bitter her parting was, one of the things they
packed to take home to Pristina with them was a French dictionary that
Gilles had given her.
She doesn't know that as they waited at the side of a road for a taxi, her
father, who suffered a heart attack the day after Vjosa left and continues
to feel weak, said with more hurt than anger that he had nothing to say to
Vjosa, and she doesn't know that he misses her so much the mention of her
name caused him to weep.
Instead, her family has become a province of her imagination.
"I think my father's thinking of me," she says. "I think he's saying, 'God,
bring Vjosa here.' "
She thinks he is thinking that because that is what she is thinking,
because "when I sleep, when I eat, when I drink, all the time to me in my
mind is my family. But I can't tell Gilles. All the time, in his mind, he
thinks, 'She's going back. She's going back.' He's afraid. He's afraid I'm
going back home. If I cry, all he can do is hold me and say, 'It will be
okay, my love.' "
Here he comes out of the water -- and maybe it is fear on his face, or
maybe it is concern.
"Are you crying again?" he says.
"Many problems. Many, many problems," Gilles says.
Now she is the one out of earshot, and he is saying he wishes to be as
anonymous as possible when talking about Vjosa because his supervisor at
work has told him that to do otherwise could hurt his career. That he was
sent to Macedonia not to fall in love but to render aid. That a
relationship with Vjosa would suggest the kind of poor judgment that could
have repercussions when he comes up for a promotion.
So there is that complication, and there are the difficulties Vjosa is
having adjusting.
"She dreams -- so bad. She screams in the night. If there's even a little
thing bad, she says, 'Why am I in France? Why didn't I listen to my
family?' If I get even a little bit angry, she immediately starts to cry.
She is, how can I say, like a crystal. Fragile. She's a strong woman, but
she's very fragile at the same time."
He looks toward where she is standing at the edge of the water. The beach,
like most in southern France, is a topless beach. She is in shorts and a
shirt, beautiful to him in her modesty, and as she walks back toward him,
his eyes are nowhere else.
"I never met a woman like Vjosa," he says.
"She thinks all the time what I'm thinking. It's not necessary to speak.
She knows all the time what's in my mind. All the time. She sees my eyes
and knows what I have in my mind."
He turns to her.
"I think it's the same for you," he says.
"Yes," she says.
Someday, Gilles says, he hopes Vjosa's father will come to France so he can
see for himself how deeply Vjosa is loved, and how willing Gilles would be
to raise children with the values of an Albanian family, and how good
Vjosa's choice turned out to be.
"But perhaps he doesn't want to see me," he says.
Someday, Vjosa says, she will telephone the house she grew up in and tell
her father what she has learned since leaving, that "I want to die with who
I want to live with who I want to have children with."
She says this and goes back to the water, and Gilles says he thinks Vjosa
will have to see her father, that she'll have to go back to Kosovo, to stop
being a refugee, before she'll be able to marry him. If she does go, he
says, he'll wait for her.
He follows her to the water and soon they are on his Jet Ski, well
offshore, idling. From a distance it appears she is leaning against him,
hugging him tightly.
But the truth, Gilles says later, is that she was crying once again.
He says this as they are driving. And then, inadvertently, perhaps because
of dust in the air, he coughs, and coughs again.
And Vjosa says, "Coffee, my love?"
And now, instead of crying, she is laughing, and so is Gilles, and he
presses down on the gas pedal until the car is going almost 100 mph, and
the sky is blue, and the south of France is beautiful, and there is no
swirling dirt from a refugee camp in the air, only bits of sand.
Vjosa, laughing, says, "It's very good here, but Pristina is the best."
And Gilles says, "Yes, yes, Pristina is the best city in the WORLD."
And he laughs even harder at that, until he notices that Vjosa isn't
laughing, that she is gone, gone, probably, to Pristina, to her next set of
choices, and he reaches toward her and takes her hair in his hand.
"Stay with me," he says.
And Vjosa, looking at him with only tenderness, says nothing at all.
July 21, 1999, The NYT
U.N. Drags Feet in Kosovo, Pentagon Leaders Declare
By ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON -- Opening a new rift between the Pentagon and the United
Nations, Defense Secretary William Cohen and Gen. Henry Shelton, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Tuesday criticized the United
Nations for not moving faster to create a new police force and civil
administration in Kosovo.
"The more we do, the less incentive there is for the U.N. to come in and
assume that burden," Cohen said of NATO's peacekeeping forces, which have
been filling all types of roles as 650,000 ethnic Albanians poured back
into Kosovo. "This is a mission that doesn't belong to NATO forces."
Absent civilian police, judges, prosecutors and civilian administrators,
NATO peacekeeping soldiers have reluctantly filled those roles. NATO's main
task is to provide overall security for Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, but
it has always understood that military commanders would have to serve as de
facto mayors, at least temporarily, until the United Nations could get a
civilian administration up and running.
The U.N. official leading the vast civilian operation, Dr. Bernard
Kouchner, France's health minister, has been on the job less than a week.
Only 150 police officers of a projected 3,110-member international force
are in Kosovo. And most of the public servants who did such jobs as
collecting garbage and running the waterworks were Serbs who have fled.
"The challenge in Kosovo is probably the greatest since the launching of
the concept of peacekeeping at the U.N. more than 50 years ago," Marie
Okabe, a U.N. spokeswoman, said in response to the criticism.
That may be true, but it did not satisfy Cohen and Shelton, who offered
unusually pointed public criticism of the United Nations and other
international agencies in Kosovo during their appearance before the Senate
Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
"We need to put as much pressure as possible on the U.N. to do more to get
in there more quickly to get these institutions up and running," Cohen
said.
Cohen's remarks underscore the ambivalence with which the Pentagon
approaches a growing number of peacekeeping operations in the era after the
cold war. Only the military has the ability to move quickly into a
devastated region like Kosovo, providing food, water, medical care and
basic shelter, as well as having the administrative skills to help govern a
troubled region.
The faster civilian experts arrive, the sooner NATO can reduce its military
force, Cohen said. The United States has committed 7,000 troops to the
mission, and about 5,300 have arrived so far as part of a NATO force that
now totals 33,000 troops.
A speedy transition to civilian political authority is also important to
keep fighters in the Kosovo Liberation Army, now tapped for jobs in an
indigenous police force, from turning against NATO peacekeepers.
"It's important for the U.N. to get involved very early on so there can be
democratic institutions set up, and you don't just have the military
leaders take over and run the country from a military point of view," Cohen
said of the rebel leaders.
At the same time the Pentagon is complaining of additional chores, the
United Nations has shot back that the allies are failing to help pay to
repatriate refugees and rebuild Kosovo.
Earlier this month, the deputy United Nations high commissioner for
refugees complained that his office had received only $140 million of the
$400 million it says it needs to help repatriating refugees rebuild their
homes. Finance ministers from the Group of 7 industrial nations as well as
officials from international lending agencies, who met last week in
Brussels, have yet to agree on who will finance the Balkans reconstruction.
The Pentagon's complaints found a sympathetic audience in the Senate Armed
Services Committee on Tuesday. Many senators chimed in with concerns of
their own.
"The U.S. and allied troops have been called on to fill the void, acting as
mayors, police, judge and jury, as the United Nations moves very slowly to
assume its responsibilities for civil administration," said Sen. John
Warner, R-Va., who heads the Armed Services Committee.
Several senators expressed particular concern about the slow pace of
setting up the international police force, which will consist of volunteers
from around the world, including 450 from the United States.
"They sometimes get high-quality police officers, sometimes low quality,"
said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., who recently visited Kosovo. "If we cannot
establish an effective, tolerant and objective law-enforcement apparatus in
Kosovo, we'll be there a very long time, and we'll be there with lots of
pain and misery."
Shelton concurred, saying, "There is no higher priority right now than to
getting a police force and a justice system established."
Ms. Okabe said the police force would increase by about 100 officers a week
starting next week, and officials are set to begin training an indigenous
police force early next month. A traveling court of judges appointed by the
United Nations has heard 90 cases so far involving 198 people, Ms. Okabe
said.
Again, Cohen said the United Nations could do better. "The U.N. and
associated institutions have been slow off the mark to get the appropriate
trained professional police into both Bosnia and now Kosovo," Cohen said.
July 21, 1999, The NYT
NEWS ANALYSIS The Empty U.S. Seat at Mideast Talks Is a Boon for AllBy JOHN
M. BRODER
WASHINGTON -- One of the enduring images of the late and unlamented period
in American-Israeli relations that ended with Ehud Barak's victory over
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that of a senior State Department
envoy with a tape measure marking off the width of Shuhadah Road in the
West Bank town of Hebron.
Such was the depth of U.S. involvement in relations between Israelis and
Palestinians that an official from Washington was flown in to determine the
exact distance, to the inch, that should separate Jewish settlers from
Palestinians in the divided town of Hebron.
If anything changed as a result of Barak's visit to Washington, which ended
Tuesday, it was this conception of the American role in Israel's dealings
with its neighbors.
No longer, Barak and President Clinton pledged this week, will the United
States serve as full-time intermediary, referee and highway engineer in
relations between Israel and Syria, the Palestinians or other Arabs.
The United States -- at least in the early stages of the renewed peace
negotiations -- is prepared to serve the same function as the father of the
bride at a wedding reception: It will provide the hall, toast the newlyweds
and pick up the tab for the festivities.
Important roles, to be sure, but far different from the parts Clinton and
his aides played last October at the Wye Plantation talks, which ranged
from drafting language for Israeli-Palestinian agreements to providing CIA
officers to enforce the deal.
The new arrangement foresees a more active role for the United States only
if the forthcoming talks break down, as they almost certainly will at some
point, administration officials said this week.
"The United States should not come up with its own decisions how to resolve
these issues," Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday after meeting with
Barak. "In terms of trying to spell out the terms, that is not our role."
There are risks in this approach, which is not new but rather a return to
the style that guided U.S. efforts at Middle East peacemaking during the
government of Yitzhak Rabin, Barak's mentor and Clinton's friend, who was
assassinated in 1995.
There is no guarantee that Israel can make peace on its own with Syria --
with which it has technically been at war for more than 30 years -- or with
the Palestinians, who have very different views from most Israelis on
sovereignty, Jerusalem and refugee issues.
But the rewards of a less intrusive U.S. role are great as well, for Israel
and its negotiating partners, and for Clinton, too.
Barak has indicated a desire to engage directly with President Hafez
al-Assad of Syria and Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, without
day-to-day U.S. intervention. He said he wants Clinton to serve as the
"facilitator" of such talks and not their judge or enforcer.
Clinton, for his part, says he is happy to serve as host and caterer,
providing the peace table at which the parties can dine alone. The catering
bill will run to hundreds of millions of dollars -- to finance the
prospective Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the Golan Heights, to
subsidize improvements in Israel's military capabilities, to build housing,
roads and ports for Palestinians, and perhaps one day to bring Syria into
the 21st-century economy.
But the economic benefits for the United States are considerable, too.
Israel just this week announced its biggest arms deal ever, a $2.5-billion
order for 50 new F-16E fighters and an option to buy 60 more warplanes for
$2 billion more. That will preserve thousands of jobs at Lockheed Martin's
assembly lines and underwrite refinements in U.S. aircraft development at a
time when the Pentagon is cutting back on its fighter purchases.
It is expected that U.S. firms will also participate in the big-dollar
infrastructure improvements in Palestinian territories. In addition, peace
among the hostile parties of the Middle East could lower the U.S. military
costs of monitoring the volatile region, although Iran and Iraq will
continue to pose threats to regional stability.
And that's not to mention Clinton's interest in establishing a legacy as a
peacemaker in his remaining months in office and maybe winning that coveted
Nobel Prize.
Clinton said in an interview last week that "everyone knows what the big
issues are" in Middle East negotiations. Progress stalled under Netanyahu,
Clinton acknowledged, but he said that the election of Barak "gives the
United States the opportunity to facilitate the process, something we've
been trying to do for well over two decades."
But at the same time, he said that any lasting agreement must come freely
from the parties, based on mutual trust and not under the duress of threats
or inducements from an outside power.
A senior administration official who handles Middle East affairs said that
the U.S. role in regional affairs is "evolving" and will depend on Barak's
success in winning the faith of his negotiating partners.
"The key determinant is the amount of trust between the parties, so that we
don't have to do the tedious job of intermediating between the sides," the
official said, seeking the customary anonymity of midlevel aides. "If they
aren't talking, they'll come to us and say, 'We need you.' But our
preference is to encourage them to speak directly, and we are the safety
net, to propose bridging proposals and to provide enormous political,
economic and diplomatic assistance to put the whole process in shape."
As eager as Clinton is for a dramatic peace deal, and as urgently as Barak
appears to be to restart the process, it is unlikely that the coming weeks
or months will yield a garlanded flight of doves.
Barak has said he'll be able to judge the likelihood of success 15 months
from now, just in time for the final lap of the U.S. presidential campaign.
But he cautioned against expectations of a miracle.
A senior Middle East adviser in the administration said, "Forget any notion
of major breakthroughs in the next few months. I don't think people should
be expecting White House signing ceremonies any time soon."
July 21, 1999
Europe's Rights Court Taking On Increasingly Sensitive Cases By ELIZABETH
OLSON
TRASBOURG, France -- Tucked away in an ultramodern building here, European
Court of Human Rights is beginning to take on high profile cases that are
making it more visible to the 800 million people -- from Iceland to
Vladivostok, Russia -- that it is meant to represent.
In recent weeks, the court has ruled, in 15 separate cases, that Turkey
denied its citizens the right to free speech and fair trial, among other
violations. Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe, the 41-nation
human rights watchdog whose members have agreed to abide by the 1950
European Convention on Human Rights.
The treaty requires member nations to guarantee citizens personal liberty
and fair trials, and it bans torture. The tribunal says it is the only
court where an average citizen can file a complaint against a nation for
human rights abuses -- once they have exhausted the legal avenues in their
home countries.
Lawyers for the Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was sentenced
to death in Turkey, have promised to appeal his case to this court if it is
upheld by the country's Parliament and president -- to this court.
This promises to be a major test of the revamped tribunal because Turkey
would be required not to execute Ocalan while the case is under review.
All of this weighs heavily on Luzius Wildhaber, the Swiss jurist who became
the president -- or chief judge -- of the court last November. "These first
cases will be a model for the court's future rulings," said Wildhaber, 61,
of the recent rulings involving Turkey.
A former law professor in Switzerland with a degree from Yale Law School
who was a judge in tiny Liechtenstein for 13 years, Wildhaber joined the
European human rights court in eight years ago.
The tribunal was set up in 1959, but initially cases were filtered through
the European Commission on Human Rights, the judges often worked part-time,
and rulings often took years.
In November 1998, the court was streamlined to cope with a skyrocketing
caseload, which is still growing.
Now the judges -- one from each member nation -- work in screening panels
to decide whether a case falls in the tribunal's jurisdiction. Nearly
10,000 cases are on file.
Among the cases before the court is one filed by the son of Italy's last
king, who asked the court to rule that Italy had erred by barring royal
heirs from his homeland after it ended the monarchy in 1946. He filed the
case after he was denied permission to cross Italy's border with an aid
shipment for Kosovo refugees.
The tribunal will review Britain's ban on homosexuals in the military. It
has agreed to decide whether two young boys convicted of the 1993 killing
of two-year-old James Bulger in England had a fair trial.
The tribunal can impose fines or overturn national legal decisions, but it
has no enforcement powers. "If a nation has no intention of complying, the
court isn't equipped to Insure that it does," said Lars van Troost, of the
Amsterdam office of Amnesty International.
This is particularly sensitive for Turkey, which is smarting under
criticism of the Ocalan trial by the Council of Europe.
Wildhaber said that, in his view, the court must "get rid of nationalistic
feelings and decide what is the European standard."
"It's a constant balancing," he said. "That's what's so fascinating about
it."
July 21, 1999, The NYT
Albright to Discuss Taiwan With Chinese Official By THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday that when
she meets in Singapore this weekend with China's foreign minister, Tang
Jiaxuan, she will make a direct appeal for a peaceful resolution of the
dispute with Taiwan.
"It's very important for this situation to be settled by direct dialogue,"
she said at a news conference.
At the White House, President Clinton told reporters that in a telephone
conversation on Sunday with President Jiang Zemin of China, he had said
Washington would take "very seriously any abridgment of the peaceful
dialogue."
Beijing has reacted to Taiwan's recent assertions that it is a separate
state by reiterating its longstanding vow that it would use military force
to prevent Taiwan from declaring independence.
Albright also said the United States is concerned by reports that Chinese
companies had transferred material to North Korea that could be used as
missile components. The reports were published Tuesday in The Washington
Times.
"We do take all such reports seriously and we investigate them thoroughly,"
she said. "We have raised our concerns with China and we'll continue to do
so."
Administration officials confirmed that the United States had received
intelligence suggesting that equipment including gyroscopes and
accelerometers may have been provided to North Korea by China recently, and
that the material may be useful in making missiles.
June R Harton
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--The General Assembly decided on 8 April 1993 to admit to United Nations
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from: Spirit Of The Real Makedon
(using June's e-mail to communicate to you)!
........The heart of Macedonia was always Greek
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and international mission service/ 1 09 23.07.99. German Chancellor Gerhard
SchrF6der arrived today in his first official visit to Macedonia. As
"Makfax" reports, German Chancellor will be holding talks with Macedonian
President Kiro Gligorov and Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski. Chancellor
SchrF6der visited Prizren earlier today to meet the German soldiers within
KFOR. /end/ /end/
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent a letter to Macedonian President Kiro
Gligorov, expressing his readiness to step up the financial assistance to
all countries and nations encountering the Kosovo crisis- related
consequences. In this respect, the U.N. anticipates formation of Regional
Center over Kosovo crisis-related activities. The United Nations and the
entire international community are firmly determined to provide a secure and
quick return of the Kosovar refugees in their motherland. /end/ /end/
Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov has been invited by the Finnish President
and current E.U. Chairman Martii Ahtisaari as well as by the President of
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ante Jelavic to participate at the Stability Pact
Summit which is to take place by the end of this month in Saraevo. As
"Makfax" reports, the international community is due to demonstrate its
unwavering commitment for peace, stability and prosperity of Southeastern
Europe. The Summit participants as well as the stability pact beneficiaries
are due to adopt a "Joint Declaration", inaugurating the activities and
objectives on economic healing and inclusion of region countries into the
European family. /end/ /end/
Switzerland granted Macedonia military aid totaling 500.000 frances within
the frames of bilateral co-operation of Swiss and Macedonian Defense
Ministries aimed at modernizing Macedonia's army. The military grant
includes 30 "ONC Gauer" vehicles, three medical vehicles, three fuel tanks,
medical equipment and binoculars. Macedonian Defense Ministry Information
announced that the first contingent is due to arriving today at Skopje
airport. /end/ /end/
The U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is due to visit Kosovo on
July 29, the State Department announced. The State Department Spokesman
James Rubin said Albright is to pay a one-day visit to Kosovo for talks with
local administrators and the representatives of international institutions
and organizations set up in this province. As "Makfax" transmits, Albright
will also meet the U.S. soldiers within KFOR. After completing her one-day
visit to Kosovo, The U.S. Secretary of State will join the U.S. President
Bill Clinton in Saraevo at the Summit on Balkans Stability Pact. /end/ /end/
The upcoming autumn in the Balkan will be calmer than the troubled and
unpleasant spring, Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis said at the meeting
with Greek President Costis Stefanopoulos. As "Makfax" transmits, the local
media had reported that Greek Prime Minister expects the decisions taken at
the upcoming Balkans Stability Pact Summit to have a tranquilizing affect on
the region. Prime Minister Simitis underscored that Greece will intercede
for urgent and complete settlement of Balkans problems, in order to prevent
the outbreak of clashes. /end/
Montenegrin Socialist-Democratic Party (DPS) did not put forward any program
on redefining the relations in the Yugoslav Federation, the ruling Serb
Socialist Party (SPS) Spokesman Ivica Dacic said. Dacic said the issue on
electing the Federal Prime Minister is on the agenda of the negotiations
between DPA and SPS, adding that this issue depends on parliamentary
majority in the Federal Parliament, the news agencies reported. Speaking
about the current situation in Serbia, Dacic estimated that President
Milosevic's Socialists are not against pre-term elections, the elections
could take place very soon if the citizens of Yugoslavia presume the voting
is more important than rebuilding their country. According to SPS Spokesman,
those who call for transitional government are actually trying to over-take
the power with no elections. /end/ /end/
Serbs and Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica reached an agreement on protection
of real estate, KFOR representatives announced Thursday in Pristina. As
"Makfax" transmits, this agreement has been reached following several-week
negotiations. The Serbs and Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica had reconfirmed
"their mutual wish for living together, as well as for urgent cessation of
all acts of violence and protection of the real estates and the citizens as
well". The agreement has been signed by representatives of Serb and Albanian
communities of the city of Kosovska Mitrovica, in the presence of UN
Administrator on Northern Kosovo Martin Gerod and the Commander of this
sector - French General Bruno Kouch. /end/ /end/
Dutch military investigators team departed Kosovo along with large number of
evidence on suspected Serb- led atrocities on ethnic Albanians, British
"Reuters" had reported, transmitting the statement released by Head of the
investigators team Dick de Yong. According to Yong, as "Makfax" transmits,
all evidence will be submitted to Hague Tribunal next week. "The Hague
Tribunal Prosecution Office will have to decide about the future steps,"
Yong said. /end/ /end/ European socialists had supported the Serb democratic
opposition in their efforts to remove Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
from power, estimating that it will be a key element of Balkans
reconstruction plans. "Our foremost objective is to support those who raise
their voice against the totalitarian regime", German Chancellor Gerhard
SchrF6der said at Balkans Conference taking place in Vienna. As "Makfax"
reports, Chancellor SchrF6der said Serb opposition "should be supported by
all available means". /end/ /end/
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Assistant Miroslav Milosevic said Yugoslav
government is not going to recognize the decisions taken by KFOR and the UN
Civil Mission if the same are not in line with U.N. Security Council
Resolution on Kosovo and the military-technical agreement, or if they imply
any attempt for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, such decisions are not legitimated. As
"Makfax' reports, Miroslav Milosevic held talks with the Heads of Diplomatic
Mission in Belgrade. Miroslav Milosevic underscored that Yugoslav government
had fully complied with the terms and obligations stipulated in the U.N.
Security Council Resolution over Kosovo. /END ALL/
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:44:15 +0200 From: Slavko Mangovski <mango
MAKEDONSKOSONCE.COM> Subject: MAKEDONSKO SONCE Media Monitor 23 July 1999
1. Public appeal 2. RFE/RL 3. MPA 4. FEATURE - Alexandria rediscovers
fragments of rich history 5. Schroeder pledges support to Macedonia 6.
INTERVIEW-EIB to lend Macedonia 60 mln euros 7. Taiwan's President Declines
to Soften His New Doctrine
PUBLIC APPEAL FOR THE RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES BY 3 MINORITY
DEPUTIES AND 13 MINORITY OR NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ON THE OCCASION
OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY (24 JULY)
To the Speaker of the Greek Parliament and the Party Leaders
23 July 1999
We welcome tomorrow's 25th anniversary of the restoration of democracy in
Greece. We would like to note, however, that, in spite of the
unquestionable improvements in the domain of human rights during the last
25 years, the Republic of Greece has an important weakness: it does not
recognize the existence of national minorities on its territory, regardless
of the fact that many Greek citizens identify themselves nationally as
Turks or Macedonians. The undersigned, who either belong to these
minorities, or defend as non-governmental organizations their rights, call
upon the Greek state:
1. to recognize the existence of a Macedonian and a Turkish minorities
2. to ratify promptly the Framework Convention for the Protection of
National Minorities of the Council of Europe without any conditions for its
implementation
3. to implement the principles of the Convention, as well as of the related
OSCE documents, so that all forms of discrimination or persecution against
members of these minorities cease and, on the contrary, their rights be
respected.
Deputies and Organizations of the Turkish Minority (10) - Birol Akifoglu,
Deputy of New Democracy, Xanthi - Galip S. Galip, Deputy of PASOK, Rhodope -
Mustafa Mustafa, Deputy of the Coalition of the Left, Rhodope - Advisory
Committee of the Turkish Minority of Western Thrace - Cultural and
Educational Minority Association of Chilia - Turkish Union of Xanthi -
Turkish Youth of Komotini - Union of Turkish Teachers of Western Thrace -
Western Thrace Minority Scientists' Association - Western Thrace Minority
Young Academicians' Club
Organizations of the Macedonian Minority (3) - Home of Macedonian Culture -
Macedonian Movement for Human Rights - Rainbow - European Movement
[political party of the national Macedonian minority]
Non-Governmental Organizations (3) - Committee for Human Rights and Against
Racism (Kalamata) - Greek Helsinki Monitor - Minority Rights Group - Greece
NATO: NO MORE UCK IN TWO MONTHS. An unnamed official of the Atlantic
alliance told "The Daily Telegraph" of 23 July that the disarmament of the
Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) is proceeding successfully. The official added
that "in two months there will be no more [UCK]. There will be only one
military force in [Kosova], and that will be NATO." Elsewhere, KFOR
commander General Sir Mike Jackson postponed a meeting with UCK General Agim
Ceku from 23 to 24 July to enable the UCK to "check its tallies" of
armaments before Jackson officially confirms that the guerrillas have met
their disarmament obligations to NATO (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 21 July 1999).
PM
Under the Nation section Demokracija informs on Macedonia's imminent
negotiations with the EU on association membership.
http://www.digsys.bg/bgnews/show_story.html?issue119847927&media152
3776&class2407968&story119848503
[01] SIMITIS: NEED FOR CREATIVE OCCUPATION WITH THE HISTORY OF MACEDONIA
Prime minister Kostas Simitis, in his message on the occasion of the formal
inauguration of the building housing the Alexander the Great Institute that
took place in Litochoro, Pieria, stressed the need for creative occupation
with the history of Macedonia which will contribute to the effort of the
Greeks for greater self- knowledge and deeper understanding of their Balkan
neighbors. The prime minister expressed joy over the fact that the Macedons
living abroad in cooperation with the Greek authorities took the initiative
to open the road for the systematic and continuous study and promotion of
the achievements of Alexander the Great.
Mr. Simitis stressed that Alexander the Great was and still is a model for
leaders around the world and a cherished hero for entire peoples. He added
that at a time when a new era is dawning in which the world economy
dominates and the creation of a world society is close, Alexander the Great
is again the dominating figure as he was the first ever in human history
who was truly interested in all the peoples of the then known world and was
the one who incited the transformation of classical Greece into a way of
thought that affected the people around the world.
[02] MESSAGE OF THE SAE PRESIDENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF
THE ALEXANDER THE GREAT INSTITUTE World Council of Hellenes Abroad, SAE,
president Andrew Athens, in his message on the occasion of the inauguration
of the Alexander the Great Institute, stressed its importance for the
Greeks living abroad, while at the same time he underlined the close ties
of SAE with the Pan-Macedonian Associations. Mr. Athens also stated that
the contribution of the Pan- Macedonian Associations both toward Greece and
the Greeks living abroad is priceless and many-sided.
He said that as the president of SAE he sees the great importance of this
project which is the work of Macedons, as the seat of SAE is also in
Macedonia. Mr. Athens stated that he hopes for close cooperation and wished
for success in every effort, while he congratulated all those who
contributed to the materialization of this great project05] INAUGURATION OF
"ALEXANDER'S CHAMBER" Speaker of the greek parliament, Apostolos Kaklamanis
will inaugurate today "Alexander's Chamber", a foundation to honor
Alexander the Great. It is a majestic and glorious building with was
constructed on the initiative of the Macedonian Association of America and
Canada in Litohoro of Pieria, on the Thessaloniki-Athens national highway,
in order to host an international cultural centre, where the works of the
great Macedonian victorious army commander and civilisator will be
presented.
FEATURE - Alexandria rediscovers fragments of rich history 10:08 p.m. Jul
22, 1999 Eastern By Mahmoud Kassem
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 23 (Reuters) - For more than a thousand years the
ancient heart of Alexandria lay buried.
Since tidal waves and earthquakes sent its famed lighthouse and library to
the bottom of the Mediterranean, the city of antiquity, lived chiefly in
the imagination.
``Alexandria has been neglected for a long time, but I think a renaissance
is blossoming,'' Culture Minister Farouk Hosni told Reuters. ``Look at the
campaigns on land and in water to retrieve all we can of its ancient
culture. Look at the new library.''
The $190 million library, a tilted white cylinder near the seafront, is due
to open next year with a capacity of eight million books. So far it has
acquired just 400,000 volumes, 100,000 less than its ancient inspiration.
In the past decade, archaeologists have been excavating on land and
exploring underwater to uncover tantalising traces of the city where
Cleopatra is said to have gained an audience with Julius Caesar by rolling
herself in a carpet in 47 BC.
``You have to imagine that ancient Alexandria is both underwater and above
water,'' said Gaballah Ali Gaballah, head of the Supreme Council of
Antiquities. ``There are difficulties because modern Alexandria is built
over (the old city).''
Archaeologists lament the way they are often forced to race against the
timetable of modern developers to rescue parts of Alexandria's
long-neglected heritage.
``There are plenty of opportunities for excavations, but they are mainly
being conducted by contractors' bulldozers,'' said Jean-Yves Empereur,
director of the Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines.
MODERN CITY BLOTS OUT PAST GLORY
Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in 323 BC and then ruled by his
general Ptolemy, fell to the Romans in 31 BC.
For the next 300 years Alexandria was relegated to the status of a Roman
imperial province, gradually losing touch with the civilisation of its
Greek past when scientists of the calibre of Euclid and Eratosthenes
studied and taught there.
Grain replaced science as Alexandria's most prized export and successive
sackings ruined its beauty.
Arab influence spread after Moslem general Amr Ibn el Asse invaded Egypt in
AD 641. The once-bustling port fell into decline after its capture by the
Ottomans in 1516, but regained commercial importance when Mohamed Ali
encouraged Italian, Armenian, Jewish and French traders in the 19th
century.
Napoleon sacked it in 1801, the British navy bombarded it ferociously in
1882 and former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser extinguished its
cosmopolitan flame when he seized the property of foreigners in the 1956
Suez crisis, prompting an exodus.
By this time, Alexandria's past glories had almost vanished, evoked only by
a Roman theatre hidden behind a cinema, Pompey's Pillar near the railway
station and the Greco-Roman museum.
The tomb of Alexander, who never saw his town complete, is said to lie
below the sprawling modern city of three million.
RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK
Greek tombs at Kom el Shufaga were discovered in 1900 when a donkey
stumbled into them and Polish archaeologists excavated the Roman theatre,
found in 1959 under a Moslem cemetery at Kom el Dik. A vast Greek
necropolis with more than 240 tomb cavities was discovered in 1996 at
Gabbari, just west of the ancient harbour, during work on the foundations
of a new road bridge.
Empereur was asked to salvage the remains quickly before construction
continued.
``We always have to find compromises between ancient life and modern
life,'' Gaballah said. ``The bridge will be built over the necropolis. This
is important for the economy of Egypt.''
Empereur said robbers had stolen all the jewellery from Gabbari tombs, but
excavations had yielded vases, oil lamps and incense altars, indicating the
funerary customs of the time.
``We had to work very quickly to record and remove all artefacts, because
once resealed it will be lost,'' he said.
SEARCH MOVES TO SEABED
On land, remains of the ancient Greek city are buried far below the
surface. Marine archaeologists are focusing new attention on what lies on
the largely unexplored seabed.
``The submerged remains of the ancient city have lain untouched for a very
long time. It's only in the past decade that we've been able to conduct
salvage operations,'' Empereur said. ``Not since the Egyptian navy pulled
out a statue of Isis in the 1960s has there been such activity.''
In 1994 Empereur's divers located what he says are remains of the
lighthouse that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Destroyed by earthquakes in the 14th century, a Moslem fort was built on
its foundations.
``The lighthouse was a fantastic creation. Not only did it serve an
important practical purpose, but it was a piece of royal propaganda,''
Empereur said. ``It still glows in the modern imagination of the city.''
In 1996, his team winched from the sea a colossal ancient Egyptian male
statue of a Ptolemy represented as a Pharoah, thought to have stood as a
companion to that of Isis.
``Our discoveries really illuminate the extent to which the Ptolemies used
ancient Egyptian artefacts to decorate their city,'' Empereur said.
Colin Clement, spokesman for the Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines, said divers
had located more than 2,110 architectural blocks and 25 sphinxes by
mid-1997, using Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to map them
precisely.
``Several layers of pillars, many weighing up to 70 tonnes each, were
discovered,'' he said.
Working separately from Empereur is another French explorer, Franck Goddio,
head of the Paris-based European Institute of Marine Archaeology, seeking
to match ancient descriptions of the sunken royal quarter with identifiable
underwater features.
According to the Greek geographer Strabo, the palace stood on a ledge
submerged by tidal waves in the fourth century AD.
Goddio's team has mapped an area about one square km (0.4 square miles)
using GPS to fix within 30 cm (one foot) the position of more than 1,000
artefacts and features including sphinxes, columns, and blocks inscribed
with hieroglyphs.
``It's really fascinating to be able to see the city underwater, where
Cleopatra walked and the artefacts she saw during her life,'' Goddio said.
``Archaeological excavations in Alexandria are not just bringing the past
to light but reviving the name of Alexandria, making it more famous than it
once was.''
Schroeder pledges support to Macedonia 02:16 p.m Jul 23, 1999 Eastern
SKOPJE, July 23 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder praised
Macedonia on Friday for its role in the Kosovo crisis and pledged Germany's
support for the small Balkan state.
``Macedonia behaved perfectly during the Kosovo crisis -- it has shown
solidarity and therefore it deserves solidarity. That should be taken into
account when the Balkan stability pact is discussed,'' Schroeder told
reporters.
Speaking after a meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski,
Schroeder pledged to encourage private German investment in Macedonia and
to back Skopje's efforts to join the European Union. Earlier on Friday
Schroeder visited German peacekeeping troops in Kosovo and was given a
rapturous welcome by thousands of people in Prizren, where he met Kosovo
Albanian and Serb political leaders.
During an 11-week NATO air war against Belgrade aimed at stopping
suppression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia was home to thousands
of NATO peacekeeping troops. They entered the Serb province after a
mid-June accord ensured the pullout of Serb troops from Kosovo.
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INTERVIEW-EIB to lend Macedonia 60 mln euros 01:13 p.m Jul 23, 1999 Eastern
By Elisaveta Konstantinova
SKOPJE, July 23 (Reuters) - European Investment Bank (EIB) President Brian
Unwin said on Friday the bank would lend Macedonia 60 million euros to
upgrade major roads as part of a post-Kosovo Balkan reconstruction plan.
``The loan is a concrete action to get the Balkan reconstruction going. We
can start helping to reconstruct the infrastructure of the economy --
roads, railways, bridges, power stations,'' Unwin said in an interview with
Reuters.
The loan, due to be signed on Saturday, aims to improve traffic around the
capital Skopje and upgrade a vital stretch leading to the Greek Port of
Thessaloniki. It is the second tranche of a 150 million euro EIB commitment
to Macedonia signed last year, of which 70 million euro have already been
disbursed.
The loan is for 25 years, with a seven year grace period and two percent
interest.
Unwin was speaking in Skopje on his way to Kosovo, where he would assess
funding needs for future infrastructure projects in the war-ravaged
province.
``In Kosovo we must have an assessment first. The immediate need is to make
sure refugee houses are rebuilt, electricity and water is available and
that the police force works.
``It is important first to restore stability and have functioning
institutions, then we can reconstruct the infrastructure,'' Unwin told
Reuters.
One of the big problems in funding Kosovo's reconstruction is the absence
of administration which would implement the projects, allocate and service
the loans, he said.
The EIB's special task force has accelerated the assessment of project
opportunities in the Balkans, he said.
The bank has secured a 15 billion euro lending facility for the next seven
years for the whole of Central and Eastern Europe including the Balkans,
said Unwin.
He said the bank was prepared to fund reconstruction of Serbia's
infrastructure, which was severely damaged in an 11- week bombing campaign
aimed at stopping Belgrade's repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
``When the political conditions are in place the EIB will start work in
Serbia, where the biggest damage was done,'' he said.
The West has made financial support to Serbia conditional on the toppling
of Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
Unwin's visit to Macedonia and the Serb province of Kosovo is part of a
series of VIP visits to the region ahead of a Balkan reconstruction summit
due to take place at the end of July in Sarajevo.
July 23, 1999, the NYT
Taiwan's President Declines to Soften His New Doctrine By SETH FAISON
AIPEI, Taiwan -- Defying pressure to soften his stance, President Lee
Teng-hui reaffirmed Thursday that Taiwan will only talk to China as a
separate state, and he predicted that China would eventually accept
Taiwan's new position. Lee called his new diplomatic tack "friendly and
positive," and not provocative, as Beijing has termed it.
Lee's remarks appeared to be directed at Washington, as well as at Beijing,
the two governments he most upset by dropping the bombshell on July 9 that
from now on Taiwan will only negotiate with China in a "special
state-to-state relationship."
A special envoy from the United States, Richard Bush, arrived in Taipei
Thursday and is expected to urge Lee to find a way to reopen talks between
Taiwan and China. Yet Lee's stance appears to have scuttled any chance for
a visit by a senior Chinese official, Wang Daohan, that was scheduled for
October.
Thursday morning, as Taiwan's call-in radio shows juggled competing
opinions about the significance of President Clinton's remarks about Taiwan
at a news conference on Wednesday, Lee issued a statement that signaled, in
a gentle way, his unwillingness to back down.
"I know it will not be easy for the Communist Party to accept this view
right away," Lee told visiting legislators from the Philippines, according
to a statement made public by his office. "But if they can remain cool and
think this over, they will understand what I am saying."
Lee's remarks did not seem to allow any room for concessions to China,
which has been angered by what it sees as a betrayal of the earlier
framework for negotiations between Taipei and Beijing. When those talks
began in 1993, Taipei and Beijing essentially agreed that they had separate
governments but were part of the same Chinese country.
Now, as a senior aide to Lee tried to explain, Taiwan's government has
changed its mind because it feels that the previous formula unfairly
favored Beijing. Yet in talking about the issue, the aide had to weave his
way through a semantical jungle that has grown up around the notion of "one
China" -- a relic of a civil war that ended 50 years ago, when Taipei and
Beijing both claimed to be the one legitimate government of all of China.
Washington deferred to this "one China" principle as it normalized
relations with Beijing in the 1970s. In the 1972 Shanghai Communique, the
United States acknowledged that Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait
held that there was only one China, and that Taiwan was part of China. But
after it switched diplomatic relations to Beijing in 1979, the United
States also committed itself to Taiwan's defense, to prevent reunification
by force.
The aide, Su Chi, chairman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, said
Beijing's formula of "one China" exists in the present tense, whereas
Taipei's only exists in the future. Taipei still supports the idea that the
Chinese mainland and Taiwan will reunite some day, he argued, and only then
will there be "one China."
"As a concept, it's all right," said Su in an interview. "Our problem is
that there is no 'one China' right now. There's a divided China."
As a result, Su insisted at one moment that Taiwan was making "a major
step" in its new policy. A moment later, he countered that there is "no
fundamental change," in Taiwan's position, since it has always sought
reunification.
Like other Taiwan officials, Su would not say what seems obvious to any
visitor to Taiwan: that the government is trying to distance itself from
Beijing without going so far as to declare outright independence, a move
that would risk military conflict. China has never renounced the use of
force to achieve reunification.
"It is not that we are moving away, it is that the PRC's policies are so
heavy-handed that they are forcing us away," he said, referring to the
People's Republic of China.
In Beijing, a stream of anti-Lee invective continued.
"Lee Teng-hui is doomed to failure," said a front-page commentary in the
Communist Party newspaper People's Daily. "Those who follow him should
understand they are heading into a blind alley from which there is no
escape."
Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth arrived in Beijing Thursday to
discuss the crisis, and his trip appeared to be timed to coincide with the
special envoy's visit to Taipei. Roth is expected to echo Clinton's
comments that Washington still supports a "one China" policy but would view
any military action with grave concern.
KOFI ANNAN: SKOPJE TO BECOME REGIONAL CENTER OF UN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE
KOSOVO CRISIS President Gligorov received a letter from UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan praising the generosity and courage of Macedonian citizens in
meeting the challenges during the Kosovo crisis, particularly the
accommodation of the enormous number of Kosovo refugees. The head of the
world organization expresses his conviction that his decision to establish a
regional UN center in Skopje for activities related to the Kosovo crisis
would make aid more readily available to all countries and nations suffering
the consequences of the crisis. The entire international community is
determined to secure safe and quick return of the refugees to their homes in
Kosovo, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says in his letter.
KOFI ANAN - SKOPJE REGIONALEN CENTAR ZA AKTIVNOSTITE NA ON VO VRSKA SO
KOSOVSKATA KRIZA Pretsedatelot Gligorov denoive primil pismo i od
generalniot sekretar na ON, Kofi Anan vo koje se istaknuva velikodussnosta i
hrabrosta na makedonskite gragjani vo sooccuanjeto so golemite predizvici za
vreme na kosovskata kriza, osobeno pri zgrizzuvanjeto na ogromniot broj
kosovski begalci. Prviot ccovek na Svetskata organizacija vo pismoto ja
iskazzuva svojata uverenost deka negovata odluka vo Skopje da bide formiran
regonalen centar na aktivnostite na ON vo vrska so kosovskata kriza kje ja
unapredi i kje ja zabrza pomssta za site zemji i narodi koi gi ccuvstvuvaat
posledicite od krixzata. Celata megjunarodna zaednica e cvrsto ressena da
obezbedi siguren i brz povratok na begalcite vo svoite domovi na Kosovo, se
veli vo pismoto na generalniot sekretar na ON, Kofi Anan.
GLIGOROV NA SAMITOT NA PAKTOT ZA STABILNOST VO SARAEVO Pretsedaelot na
Republika Makedonija, Kiro Gligorov, po pokana na finskiot pretsedatel i
aktuelen pretsedavacc na EU, Marti Ahtisari i na pretsedatelot na
kolektivnoto bosansko pretsedatelstoi, Ante Jelavicc, kje uccestvuva na
samitot na drzzavite uccesniccki vo Paktot za stabilnost za Jugoistoccna
Eropa koj na 29 i 30 juli kje bide odrzzan vo Saraevo. Kako ssto se navedua
vo upatenata pokana do pretsedatelot Gligorov, so prifakjanjeto na Paktot za
stabilnost megjunarodnata zaednica ja iskazza svojata nepokolebliva zalozzba
da raboti za mir, stabilnost i prosperitet na Jugoistoccna Evropa i za
vklucuanje na zemjite od regionot vo ostvaruvanje na ovie celi.
SSVAJCARIJA ODOBRI VOENA POMOSS ZA MAKEDONIJA VO IZNOS OD 500.000 FRANCI
Ssajcarija odobri voena pomoss za Armijata na Makedonija vo iznos od
polovina milion ssajcarski freanci, soopssti makedonskoto Ministerstvo za
odbrana. Pomossta se sostoi od 30 vozila Pinc Gauer, tri medicinski vozila
od istata marka, tri cisterni za gorivo, medicinska oprema i kompletna
oprema za planinski edinici. Prvata pratka od pomossta, odnosno 3.300
kilogrami medicinska oprema treba vo zemjava da pristigne deneska, dodeka
dinamikata na isporakata na ostanatiot del kje se utvrdi dopolnitelno.
VO AKCIITE NA POLICIJATA NEMA POLITICCKI PRESMETKI Vo periodot od prvi
dekemvri minatata godina do 21 juli godinava makedonskoto Minisetrstvo za
vnatressni raboti podnelo 126 kriviccni prijavi od oblasta na ekonomskiot
kriminal sprema 105 nositeli na sluzzbeni funkcii, koi storile 183 kriviccni
dela. Vo akciite na Direkcijata za bezbednost i kontrarazuznavanje nema
politiccka presmetka. Policijata vo nidena od ovie akcii ne gi preccekorila
svoite zakonski ovlastuvanja i ne saka da go unissti `Granit' ili bilo koja
druga firma, tuku da go sprecci kriminalot vo niv. Ova, kako ssto prenesuva
Makedonskata Televizija go izjavi vccera zamenik-direktorot na DBK, Ljube
Bosskovski, komentirjakji gi poslednite finansiski kontroli na policijata vo
povekje makedonski firmi. Isto taka toj istakna na vccerassnaat pres
konferencija deka vo akcciite na policijata nemalo nitu eden sluccaj za
naneseni lesni ili tesski povredi pri priveduvanjeto, ssto besse
karakteristiccno za bivissiot rezzim. Za sluccaite koi spored policijata
spagjaat vo organiziran kriminal, zboruvasse Direktorot na direkciajata za
javna bezbednost Pane Velev, koj posocci na presecceniot sindzir na
prostitucija vo oblasta na Struga, na sluccajot na poranessniot direktor na
`Prespateks' Zzivko Eftimovski koj so lazzno pobaruvanje od stranski firmi
steknal akcii vo vrednost od nekolku milioni marki, kako i na sluccajot so
isporacuvanjeto na struja so ssto direktorot na bitiolski `Javor' osstetil
edna romanska firma za 1,8 milioni marki. Ljube Bosskovski inaku
informirasse vccera deka po poslednite proverki na finansiskata
dokumentacija vo `Granit' od Skopje MVR podnelo kriviccni prijavi protiv
generalniot direktor Strasso Milkovski i negoviot zamenik, Dimitar
Mirccevski bidejkji ja osstetile firmata za okolu 3 milioni marki. Spored
prijavata na MVR Milkovski i Miccevski gi dovele vo zabluda vrabotenite da
dadat soglasnsot za hipoteka za obezbeduvanje na pobaruvanjata od
Komercijalna banka vo korist na `ASIBA-MG' od Skopje vo iznos od 3 milioni
marki. MVR isto taka podnelo prijavi i protiv poranessniot direktor na
Javnoto pretprijatie za stopanisuvanje so stanben i deloven prostor, Marko
Gugulovski i sprema bivssiot rakovoditel na Fondot za komunalen razvoj i
patissta na opsstina Delccevo Ilija Jovanovski poradi malverzacija so koja
drzzavata e osstetena za okolu 900.000 marki. Ovi dvajcata potiknati od
generalniot direktor na `Granit' Milkovski napravile cesija so koja na
`Granit' mu isplatile okolu 900.000 marki i so toj iznos go osstetile
sosptvenoto pretprijatie.
PARLAMENT - NA MRTV KJE I SE OTPISSAT OKOLU 4 MILIONI MARKI Makedonskiot
Parlament vccera ja usvoi informacijata za finansiskoto rabotenje na
Makedonskata Radio i Televizija, pri ssto vo zakluccocite se predviduva
otpissuvanje na del od dolgovite na ovaa kukja koi iznesuvaat 12 milioni
marki. Pritoa se predviduva otpissuvanje na okolu 4 milioni marki, odnosno
dolgovi koi vo najgolem del se napraveni sprema javnite pretprijatija vo
zemjava i toa kako ssto e istaknato od strana na poranessnoto rakovodstvo na
MRTV. Sobranieto isto taka ja podrzza intencijata za racionalizacija na
MRTV, a ja zadolzzi Vladata i drugite institucii da prevzemat aktivnosti za
obezbeduvanje na celosna naplata na televiziskata pretplata i za tehniccko
moderniziranje na MRTV. Spored generalniot direktor na MRTV, Ljupcco
Jakimovski, najbolnata toccka vo rabotenjeto na MRTV se tokmu dolgovite koi
iznesuvale 15 milioni marki, kolku ssto e i godissniot budzet na kukjata.
Toj potencirasse i deka odkako e dojden na funkcijaat uspeal po razni osnovi
da otpisse dolg od okolu 3 miloni marki i so izvbrssenata reorganizacija da
gi mobilizira potrebnite kadri vo kukjata. Opozicijata inaku ne go prifati
zakluccokot na Sobranieto vo vrska so MRTV, ocenuvajki deka taa stanala
partiski medium, kako i deka zakluccocite se samo alibi MRTV da dobie
dozvola za nekakva sanacija bez prethodna dozvola na Sobranieto kako
osnivacc.
SDSM PODNESE INTERPELACIJA ZA MINISTRITE ZA OBRAZOVANIE I KULTURA
Pratenicckata grupa na SDSM denoive podense interpelacija za dvajcata
ministri vo makedonskata Vlada, za obrazovanie Nenad Novkovki i za kultura
Dimitar Dimitrov, a za ova Sobraneto se occekuva da rasprava najdocna do
sredina na idniot mesec. Vo obrazlozzenieto na interpelacijata SDSM ocenuva
deka ministerot Novkoski so svoite `neobimisleni ressenija' mu nanel
nenadomestliva ssteta na obrazovanieto vo celina i osobeno na razvojot na
mladite generacii. Rabotata na ministerot Dimitrov pak spored SDSM e
nesoodvetna i rezultira so prepoloveno kulturno tvoresstvo, so
nepoccituvanje na Zakonot za kultura, so potcenuvanje na najznaccajni
kulturni manifestacii vo zemjava i sliccno. Isto taka na ministerot Dimitrov
mu se zabelezzuvaat i lossite kadrovski ressenija vo institucii od osoben
nacionalen interes, kako i negriza za lektoratite na makedonski jazik.
KVOTITE ZA UPIS NA NACIONALNOSTITE NA FAKULTETITE KJE SE UKINAT Partijata za
demokratski prosperitet denovive upati ostar protest bidejkji odreden broj
Makedonci i Srbi deklarirajkji se kako Albanci se zapissuvaat na fakultetite
koristejkji gi kvotite za upis predvideni za Albancite. Spored ministerot za
obrazovnie, Nenad Novkovski vakvo nessto se sluccuva bidejki ne postoi
formalna osnova kako da se utvrdi nacionalnata pripadnost na kandidatite za
upis na fakultetite. Kako ssto prenesuva `Dnevnik' ministerot Nokovski e
kategoriccen deka taa sostojba kje se nadmine so ukinuvanjeto na kvotite,
odnosno so noviot zakon za visoko obrazovanie, koj kje go harmonizira
makedonskoto so evropskoto obrazovanie. Ministerot uste ednass istaknal i
deka donesuvanjeto na zakonot za visoko obrazovanie nema nikakva vrska so
univerzitetot na albanski jazik, nitu toa kje znacci legaliziranje na
ilegalnite fakulteti vo Mala Reccica.
LEKOVITE NAMENETI ZA KOSOVSKITE BEGALCI OSTANUVAAT ZA MAKEDONSKITE PACIENTI
Preostanatata humanitrna pomoss za lekovi nameneta za begalcite od Kosovo,
kje se koristi za lekuvanje na makedonskite pacienti. Ova, kako ssto
prenesuva `Nova Makedonija' e zacrtano vo aneks-dogovorot ssto makedonskoto
Ministerstvo za zdravstvo go potpissa so ccetiri humanitarni organizacii -
proektot `HOUP', `farmavceti bez granici', UNHCR i Svetskata zdravstvena
organizacija. Kako ssto najavi ministerot za zdravstvo, Dragan Danailovski
za potrebite na medicinskite ustanovi vo zemjava od italijansakata Vlada
denovive pristignala pomoss vo lekovi medicinski matrijal vo vrednost od dva
milioni dolari, a najaveni se i povekje drugi donacii za makedonskoto
zdravstvo. Spored Danailovski pomossta kje odigra ogromna uloga vo
nadminuvanjeto na nedostigot na medikamentite i potorssniot materijal
nastanat poradi prilivot na begalcite vo Makedonija, no i poradi
nenamenskoto trossenje na sredstvata od odredeni rakovodni strukturi.
VO PRILEP DVA NOVI SLUCCAI NA MENENGITIS Spored podatocite na Zavodot za
zdravstvena zasstita vo Prilep od zavccera vo Infektivnoto odelenie na
gradskata bolnica vo ovoj grad se hospitalizirani usste dva lica zaboleni od
meningitis. I vo dvata sluccai se raboti za deca i so ovie novi zaboleni
brojot na infektiranite od meningitis vo Prilep se zgolemil na 34 lica.
Lekarite vo vrska so ova zaboluvanje tvrdat deka nema da ostavi nekoi trajni
posledeici po zdravjeto na zabolenite, a kako priccina za zaboluvanjeto se
posoccuva na lossite higienski uslovi vo gradot, ssto osobeno e potencirano
vo uslovi na letnite goresstini.
MINATIOT MESEC INDUSTRISKOTO PROIZVODSTO ZGOLEMENO ZA 5,3 NASTO
Industriskoto proizvodstvo vo juni godinava e zgolemeno za 5,3 nasto vo
odnos na istiot mesec minatata godina, a aktivnostite vo tekovniot mesec
pokazzuvaat deka dinamikata na porast kje prodolzzi. Se occekuva do krajot
na godinava da se ostvarat minatogodissnite rezultati vo proizvodstvoto,
iako ne bi bilo iznenaduvanje dokolku tie bidat nadminati. Ova, kako ssto
prenesuva Makedonskoto Radio e recceno na vccerassnata redovna pres
konferencija vo Vladata na Makedonija. Spored zamenik-ministerot za
stopanstvo, Lambe Arnaudov naporedno so zgolemuvanjeto na fizicckiot obem na
proizdstvoto se ostvaruva i blag porast na vrabotenosta, a se ccuvstuva i
zgolemen interes na stranskite vlozzuvacci za investiranje kaj odredeni
pretprijatija. Vo ovoj konteks so odredeni firmi od Germanija se napraveni
dogovori za zaedniccki nastap na Kosovo. Ssto se odnesuva do zemjodelskoto
proizvodstvom, resorniot minister Marjan Gjorccev informirasse deka po
slabiot start na ranogradinarskoto proizodstvo sega po zavrssuvanjeto na
vojnata na Kosovo se izvezeni okolu 70.000 toni gradinarski proizvodi po
ceni koi gi pokrivaat trosocite. Vo naredniot mesec kje se izvezat i 300
toni jagnessko meso vo Jordan, a negativnata razlika vo cenata koja iznesua
15 milioni denari kje bide pokriena preku predvidenite stiumlacii. Godinava
vo zemjava se occekuva da bidat sobrani 300.000 toni lebno zzito, a vo
silosite se occekuva da se soberat okolu 120.000 toni. Vo zemjava kje se
uvezat usste i 100.000 toni pccenica preku Direkcijata za stokovi rezervi.
Kontroliranata cena na pccenicata kje iznesuva 10,5 denari po kilogram, plus
1,5 denari za manipulativni trossoci, so ssto se occekuva da bidat
zadovoleni baranjata na zemjodelcite.
`OHIS' I GERMANSKIOT `ALFA-PLAM' VLOZZUVAAT 10,5 MILIONI MARKI VO NOVA
FABRIKA Skopskata fabrika "OHIS' so zaedniccko vlozzuvanje so germanskata
firma "Alfa-plam' vo iznos od 10,5 milioni marki kje gradi nov pogon za
proizvodostvo na medicinski preparati, javuva Makedonskata Teleizija. Vo
noivot pogon kje se proizveduvaat rastvori za hemodijaliza, setovi za
dijaliza i dijalizeri, od koi se occekuva godissen prihod od okolu 15,5
milioni marki. Novata fabrika koja kje vraboti 94 rabotnici, spored planot
kje poccne da raboti vo torata polovina od narednata godina.
PRETSTAVNICI NA 14 MAKEDONSKI CRKOVNI OPSSTINI OD AVSTRALIJA BARAAT ZASSTITA
VO SPOROT SO MITROPOLITOT PETAR Pretstavnici na 14 makedonski pravoslavni
opsstini od Avstralija pristignaa denovive vo Skopje so cel od makedonskite
svetovni i duhovni vlasti da pobaraat pomoss okolu razressuvanjeto na sporot
so nadlezzniot arhierej na MPC za Avstralija i Novi Zeland, mitropolitot
Petar. Kako ssto prenesuva `Nova Makedonija' pretstavnicite na ovie opsstini
tvrdat deka od samospostavuvanjeto na mitropolitot Petar za
avstralsiko-novozelandski arhierej bez odluka na crkoviniot sobor, razgoren
e raskolot megju dvaeste registirrani makedonski crkovni opsstini na
Makedoncite vo Avstralija. Mitropolitot Petar navodno barajkji da gi vrati
ovie crkvi pod jurisdikcija na MPC vsussnost saka da upravuva so nivnite
imoti i pari, za ssto povel sporovi pred avstraliskite sudovi, trossejkji
crkovni pari. Toj go koristi avstraliskiot sud kako sredstvo za pritisoci i
uceni vrz makedonskite crkovni zaednici za tie da se soglasat da gi stavat
svoite finansii vo svoi race, velat vo ovaa delegacija na Makedoncite od
Avstralija. Isto taka se tvrdi i deka dosega mitropolitot Petar za sudskite
sporovi protiv ovie makedonski crkovni opsstini potrossil okolu dva milioni
dolari, a nasproti toa sega mu se sprotivstavuaat usste pogolem broj
opsstini od porano. Istaknuvajki deka mitropolitot Petar ponudeniot dijalog
go prenel na sud, pretstavnicite na makedonskute crkovni opsstini od
Avstralija izjavija deka tie vo razgovorite so svetovnite i duhovnite vlasti
vo Makedonija kje ja predoccat vistinata i pobaraat zasstita na svoite prava
bidejki stanuva zbor za susstestveno prassanje od zzivotot na Makedoncite
organizirani vo crkovno-opsstinskite zaednici vo Avstralija. (kraj) mils
vesti 23 juli
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Macedonia: -----------------------------------------------------------
June R Harton
No, you can't have it on.
Go to sleep!
In the morning you will find that you are still
a little Bulgarian like I told you.
Learn to love it!
June R Harton
ALEXANDER TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF AND THE MACEDONIANS
BEING GREEK AND FIGHTING FOR GREECE:
LYNGOS wrote:
Arrian
The Campaigns of Alexander.
Alexander talking to the troops before the battle.
Book 2-7
Penguin Classics.
Page 112.
Translation by Aubrey De Seliucourt.
" ...............There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service --
but how different is theirs cause from ours ! They will be fighting for
pay--- and not much of it at that; we on the contrary shall fight for
Greece, and our hearts will be in it.
As for our foreign troops ---Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians,
Agrianes --- they are the best and stouder soldiers of Europe, and they
will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of
Asia."
ili...@sympatico.ca
June R Harton wrote:
> Official Charter for all groups bearing the exclusive name MACEDONIA as
> adopted by their members.
>
I was born in Aegean Macedonia and I emigrated in 1963. In 1926, the
Greeks changed all the toponyms in Aegean Macedonia from Macedonian into
Greek, including the first and last names of the Macedonian people. Here
in Canada, I changed my last name back to my original. In January 1999 I
went to Aegean Macedonia (Greece) to see my relatives.
At the Greek border they told me that I was not allowed to enter. I
asked why and they said because I had changed my last name. I said the
Greek government changed my first and last names and I put them back to
the original, they said sorry but you have to change your last name back
to Greek if you want to enter Greece. I said my last name is my own
property and I can do whatever I want. I am in charge of my last name,
not the Greek authorities. In the end I was not allowed to enter Aegean
Macedonia, where I was born. European Union, Human Rights where are you?
The Greeks will stay uncivilized for another two centuries. They are
members in the European Union, and they have the worst human rights
violations in the entire world!
Ilinden
ili...@sympatico.ca
Indo-european buffoon!
June R Harton wrote:
> ilinden, get back into bed and turn the light off!
>
> No, you can't have it on.
>
> Go to sleep!
>
> In the morning you will find that you are still
> a little Bulgarian like I told you.
>
> Learn to love it!
>
MASTER OF THE ALBOS
NO YOU DIDN'T ASSWIPE I KNOW I'M YOUR DADDY YOU WERE BORN IN GYPSYLAND FROM
GYPSY MOTHER AND GREEK DADDY>At the Greek border they told me that I was not
allowed to enter
MORON YOU THINK THEY LET ANYBODY ENTER THE GREEK BORDERS ,,DIDN'T YOU READ WHAT
THE SIGN SAYS ''''NO ANIMALS OR GYPSIES ALLOWED'''
>Greek government changed my first and last names
YOU LUCKY THAT ALL THEY CHANGE
>European Union, Human Rights where are you?
ARE YOU ALWAYS THIS STUPID OR TODAY IS A SPECIAL ACCESSION ,IDIOT READ WHAT YOU
WRITE ,,'THE KEY WORD IS HUMANS NOT ANIMALS
FYROM President Kiro Gligorov: "We are Slavs who came to this area in the
sixth century . . . we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians."
(President of FYROMian GYPSIES Ciro-assWIPE Gligorov,
GS
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:49:02 +0200 From: Slavko Mangovski <mango
MAKEDONSKOSONCE.COM> Subject: MAKEDONSKO SONCE Media Monitor 25 July 1999
1. Moslem deputies want Greece to recognise minorities 2. Is Serbia
Threatened by Civil War 3. MPA 4. ANA 5. BBC 6. New `Marshall plan' for
Balkans faces high hurdles 7. Gypsy refugees flee Kosovo for Macedonian
camps 8. Macedonia gets 60 mln euro EIB loan for roads 9. Bulgarian,
Albanian, Macedonian Fms to Meet in Sofia 10. To Spur German Economy,
SchrF6der Offers Veer to Right 11. Asian Group Lends Support to Beijing Over
Taiwan
Moslem deputies want Greece to recognise minorities 05:21 p.m Jul 23, 1999
Eastern By Costas Paris
ATHENS, July 23 (Reuters) - Three Moslem deputies asked Greece's leaders on
Friday to recognise that the country had Turkish and Macedonian minorities,
prompting an angry reaction from across the political spectrum.
``Despite clear improvements in human rights issues in the past 25 years,
Greek democracy has a serious shortfall,'' the deputies said in a letter
sent to the president of parliament and the leaders of all political
parties.
``It does not recognise the existence of national minorities despite the
fact that many Greeks consider themselves as ethnic Turks or Macedonians,''
the letter, which was also signed by a number of minority groups, said.
``We call on the Greek state to recognise the existence of a Turkish and a
Macedonian minority,'' it said.
Greece says it has a 120,000-strong Moslem minority in the northern Thrace
region bordering Turkey, remnants of the Ottoman empire. It says they have
Turkish, Gypsy and Pomac origin and therefore cannot be identified
ethnically but only by religion.
It does not recognise a Macedonian minority, saying the issue was
artificially created by nationalist circles in the former Yugoslav republic
of Macedonia who had territorial ambitions on Greece's own northern
Macedonia region.
``Greece is a democracy respecting human rights and personal liberties. The
Moslem minority is equally treated...unhistoric and unrealistic fabrications
(the existence of ethnic minorities) will not be realised,'' government
spokesman Dimitris Reppas said in a statement.
The main conservative opposition New Democracy party attacked the letter,
saying it would find no support among Greeks regardless of their
religion.''
The letter came on the 25th anniversary of the restoration of democracy
after the collapse of a seven-year dictatorship.
It was the first time that Greece's Moslem parliamentarians, representing
three different parties, had officially asked for ethnic rights.
The question of a Moslem minority is a major issue dividing arch-rivals
Greece and Turkey, also at odds over territorial rights in the Aegean Sea
and the divided island of Cyprus.
Ankara says the minority are ethnic Turks. There have been occasional
incidents in Thrace between minority Moslems and Orthodox Christians who
make up the vast majority of Greeks.
In the run-up to the Kosovo war, Greece expressed concern that demands for
independence by ethnic groups in the Yugoslav province, if encouraged, could
spread throughout the Balkans.
Greek and Turkish officials are due to start talks next week on a series of
relatively non-controversial issues such as tourism and immigration to try
to build better links between Athens and Ankara.
The attempt at dialogue has been already marred by accusations by Athens
that Turkish fighters harassed a Greek plane carrying Transport Minister
Tassos Mandelis from Cyprus to Athens on Wednesday.
On Friday, the Greek Defence Ministry said Turkish fighters had violated
Greece's airspace over the Aegean 10 times and that they had been
intercepted by Greek planes.
*** Is Serbia Threatened by Civil War
** The Summer of Our Discontent
While the regime which is in a critical situation on the one hand and the
opposition which is in a turmoil on the other are feeling each other's pulse
in order to see through each other's force and intentions, a spectre of
spontaneous civil discontent uncontrolled by the current political
protagonists is circling around Serbia
AIM Podgorica, 14 July, 1999 (By AIM correspondent in Belgrade)
A tide of demonstrations is sweeping across Serbia. Reservists of the Army
of Yugoslavia /VJ) are blocking the roads, after the call of television
technician Ivan Novkovic more than ten thousand people gathered at the
central square in Leskovac, opposition coalition League for Changes is
organising one rally after another inside Serbia... Former soldiers demand
to be paid their war daily allowances, citizens of Leskovac demand removal
of the head of Jablanica district Zivojin Stefanovic, and opposition
non-parliamentary parties demand resignation of the president of FR
Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, a transitional government of experts and
early elections. So far the results are as follows: after a few days of
protests the reservists got paid; Novkovic was sentenced to a month in
prison but won nation-wide reputation for citizen's courage; leaders of the
League for Changes deserved to be torn to pieces by state media - for
treason, being fifth columnists, for immorality, foul dealings...
On the other hand, the campaign of "restoration and reconstruction"
continues. The army is constructing the access to the pontoon bridge opened
on 21 June by general of the army Dragoljub Ojdanic, time has finally come
for chairman of the assembly of Serbia Dragan Tomic to lay a corner stone
(in Valjevo, on 9 July), and at the festive but closed opening of "Bambi
park" in Pozarevac on 4 July, Marko Milosevic caught special attention whose
discotheque Madona played the main executive and supervisory role in the
project... The regime is, therefore, not trembling either with nervousness
or panic.
How will it all end?
The current crisis is not the first the regime has faced. Since 1991 there
has been no lack of anti-regime demonstrations, elections, petitions,
opposition unions, and what not. Milosevic has always - out of moments
critical for his power - managed to come as a winner. The winning
combination always consisted of measured repression, absolute control of
"all his men" in politics and the economy, media manipulation, political
clumsiness vanity and lack of vision of the opposition leaders, constantly
opened national issue, and silent support of the international community he
was given as "the only man" in Serbia deals could be made with. If the last
mentioned item is eliminated, Milosevic still has all the tested trump cards
in his hands: the police and the army are loyal to him, there are no signs
of a serious split in the ruling establishment, the media picture - with the
exception of the one during the past war - has never been worse, the
opposition does not make the impression that it has drawn a lesson from the
previous defeats, and there is the question of Montenegro which can be
opened like once the question of the Serbs in Croatia, Bosnia or Kosovo used
to be. Replacement of the post of the "factor of peace and stability" with
that on the indictment of the Hague Tribunal, it is assessed at the moment
in Serbia, does not affect much the personal power of the president of FR
Yugoslavia - memories of NATO bombing are exceptionally fresh.
Nevertheless, postwar Serbia has been seized by great uncertainty. The Hague
indictments against Milosevic, Milan Milutinovic (president of Serbia),
general Ojdanic (head of the General Staff), Vlajko Stojiljkovic (Republican
minister of internal affairs) and Nikola Sainovic (federal deputy prime
minister in charge of Kosovo), and passport restrictions for almost the
entire ruling establishment, produced what one could call operational
incapability of the regime. Or to put it simply - the current authorities
are not able to represent the country and its interests. In a short term,
this problem can be bridged by introducing new persons from the second or
the third echelon, and by finding a foreign tutor, like Russia or China.
But, it can easily be concluded that such a solution could cause a deep
crisis of legitimacy of power. This operational incapability, although at
the moment evident only on the foreign political level, will soon have to be
manifested on the internal, too. Men from the second echelon expected to
discharge duties of those who due to the stated restrictions are not able to
do it will be put in a completely unsustainable situation: if they do not
act as the international community expects them to they will end up in the
same position as their predecessors; if they act according to foreign
requirements, they will not meet the demands of those who have brought them
to the posts. And nobody can say that after deployment of KFOR in Kosovo the
role of the international community is of minor importance in Serbia. On the
contrary, in the context of everything that was happening in the past months
and what is planned in the future, its significance can hardly be
underestimated.
Indictments of the Tribunal and ban of travelling abroad are, of course,
just the tip of an iceberg. Under the surface are frustration because of
lost wars in the past decade, catastrophic situation in the economy,
impossibility of reconstruction of the country without foreign aid,
destruction of institutions on all levels with merely their empty shells
left. In this context, except for self-preservation, the regime has no other
function, which inevitably narrows the manoeuvring political space to the
maximum and opens the most radical options.
Does this corroborate the declaration of president of the Democratic Party
Zoran Djindjic that the League for Changes is not fighting a political
struggle against the regime but just directs enormous discontent of the
nation with the policy of Slobodan Milosevic? It is certain that hardly
anybody in Serbia is content with the way they live, but it is also certain
that except for the standard and verbal appeal on democratic values,
opposition leaders do not offer a specific vision of a way out of the
national Calvary. All these people - those in the opposition and those in
power - are for more than ten years together on the political scene, so it
is impossible to take them at their word and their actions without
reservation. If for no other reason, because of the missed opportunities in
the past.
Actions of the non-parliamentary opposition are assessed as
counter-productive by some people. They say that should the regime estimate
that it is driven into a corner by massive demonstrations, it will not
shrink from anything. At the same time, radical rhetoric increases fear of
voters who used to support the regime, it increases their wavering and
prevents them from crossing to the other side. In such a situation, such
people turn to those who they believe are capable of protecting them and
introducing "order and peace". As an argument in favour of this thesis it is
stated that the Serb Radical Party of Vojislav Seselj directly profiteered
after the 1996/97 citizens' protests. At the time, Seselj kept repeating
that "no mob waves foreign flags in Zemun (where he has the local power)"
and that over there all the workers and children arrive in time where they
had intended to because there were no legendary "walks" of the protesters in
Zemun. The fact that his words did not coincide with reality did not affect
his attractiveness for the public they were addressed to.
There are opinions that even the regime is aware of its operational
incapability, or incapability to resolve it. Those who advocate this thesis
claim that in the foreseeable future the regime might become ready to share
a significant part of its power with political groups with which it is
linked in one way or another, but gradually, with no radical cuts, and with
certain guarantees that its most significant foundations will not be
dismantled. In this context they see the announced negotiations of former
allies and nowadays severe opponents, the Socialist Party of Serbia and the
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, and this greatly explains the
policy of the Serb Revival Movement. This party combines the hardcore verbal
criticism of the regime with a compromising actions through what is called
here the institutions and extremely negative attitude towards the League for
Changes. It need not be stressed that Seselj's Radicals, always ready for
breakneck turns if they estimate that they would work in their interest, are
with extreme zeal watching and waiting for their part of the loot.
In any case, the summer season of discontent has begun in Serbia, in a
specific anarchic atmosphere. The regime is in a crisis, the opposition is
in a turmoil and still searching; they all know what and with whom they do
not want to go, but hardly anybody knows what and with whom they do want to
be; they are criticising and making promises and combinations and waiting;
culprits are counted and the deserving are decorated... And the recipe from
Leskovac - demonstrations outside structures of all current political
protagonists, are like a spectre circling around Serbia.
#Philip Schwarm (AIM)
[01] REPPAS: THE MUSLIM MINORITY ENJOYS EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW Web Posted:
15:55 GMT+2 Athens, 24/07/1999 (MPA) Greek government spokesman Dimitris
Reppas characterized the public appeal for the recognition of "a Turkish
and a Macedonian minority" signed by three Muslim deputies in the Greek
parliament, as ignorant of history and out of touch with reality. Mr. Reppas
stated that all the Greek citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs,
have a duty to contribute to the effort for the prosperity and progress of
the people and stressed that Greece is a democratic society where the
individual rights and freedoms are being respected, adding that the Muslim
minority enjoys equality before the law.
ANA
Moslem minority living well, minister says
National Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos on Saturday rejected calls by
the country's three Moslem members of parliament and 13 non-governmental
organisations for recognition of "a Turkish and a Macedonian minority" in
Greece.
"Such minorities do not exist, however much anyone wants to create them,"
Tsohatzopoulos told reporters.
"Under the Treaty of Lausanne, there is only a Moslem minority in our
country, which lives under the best conditions," he said.
The minister pointed out that a Greek minority in Istanbul had almost
disappeared.
Also on Saturday, key Moslem officials sent an open letter to Greece's
president and political leaders to mark the restoration of democracy 25
years ago.
The letter was signed by the three muftis in Thrace and the presidents and
members of Moslem property management committees in Xanthi, Komotini and
Didymotiho.
It was sent to President Kostis Stephanopoulos, Prime Minister Costas
Simitis, Parliament President Apostolos Kaklamanis and the heads of
political parties.
In the letter, the Moslems welcomed the freedom of speech and respect for
human rights that exist in Greece, especially at a time when neighbouring
countries were undergoing war, repression and autocratic regimes.
They also welcomed the country's entry into Europe and the fact that it was
able to offer third countries humanitarian and development aid.
"We would like to take this opportunity to underline that the minority in
Greece enjoys all the rights and freedoms envisaged in the spirit and
letter of international conventions that Greece has signed. The country has
respected its signature, showing sensitivity and worthiness," the letter
said.
Saturday, July 24, 1999 Published at 15:34 GMT 16:34 UK European loan for
Macedonia
European loan for Macedonia
The European Investment Bank has agreed to lend about sixty million dollars
to Macedonia to help upgrade some of the Balkan nation's major roads.
The loan deal, which was signed today , is part of the bank's plans to
modernise Macedonia's infrastructure. It will be used to build a ring road
around the capital, Skopje, and to upgrade an existing route to the Greek
port of Thessaloniki. The Macedonian prime minister, Ljubco Georgievski,
told a news conference on Saturday that he saw the deal as the real
beginning of international plans to rebuild the Balkans after the upheaval
of the war in Kosovo.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
New `Marshall plan' for Balkans faces high hurdles By Associated Press,
07/25/99 13:01 BONN, Germany (AP) President Clinton and other leaders will
gather in Bosnia's capital Friday seeking to boost a broad strategy for
helping the Balkans rebuild after the Kosovo conflict.
But the West's ambitious plans for kick-starting democracy and prosperity
in the impoverished region face big obstacles, and the leaders must figure
out where to start.
Meeting in a city that suffered daily artillery bombardment just a few
years ago, some 40 leaders from rich nations and most of the Balkan
countries will try to give a push to a German-inspired Stability Pact for
Southeastern Europe.
Signed last month by foreign ministers from 31 nations, the pact pledges
governments in southeastern Europe to Western-style reforms and living
peacefully with their neighbors. It also sets up permanent panels to settle
border conflicts and minority rights disputes and to promote economic
cooperation.
Clinton has likened the aid needed for the Balkans to America's Marshall
Plan aid that sparked western Europe's recovery after World War II. The aim
is to gradually bring into the broader European fold a part of the
continent that has languished during nearly a decade of war in former
Yugoslavia.
''There is no other way to achieve peace,'' German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder said recently.
Yet the effort will have a gaping hole as long as Yugoslavia remains an
international outcast, barred from reconstruction aid by Western countries
trying to bring the downfall of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. He
is not invited to the summit.
While political leaders say no stability is possible with Milosevic in
power, aid officials point out that restoring trade, shipping and trucking
links in Yugoslavia is vital to boosting the economies of the rest of the
Balkans.
''It will be highly desirable that Yugoslavia become an active part of the
economy,'' Johannes Linn, World Bank vice president for Europe and Central
Asia, said recently in Washington.
The dilemma is already playing out among Western powers. In Europe, Germany
and Austria have been less categorical than Clinton in excluding help for
rebuilding Serbia. Austria, in particular, leans toward giving aid to
cities with mayors who oppose Milosevic.
Regardless of the questions swirling around Yugoslavia, bringing the
countries of southeastern Europe up to speed is a daunting task. Largely
rural and poor, the region is saddled with outdated industries from
communist times.
No clear picture of the region's aid needs has emerged. Some estimates have
put the cost of rebuilding Kosovo alone at $3 billion to $5 billion, but
the World Bank said this month that damage there was less than expected.
The 15-nation European Union is talking of putting up $510 million for a
start.
The first detailed discussions of needs are expected at a Wednesday meeting
of donors in Brussels, Belgium.
But what's clear already is the aid will come mostly from western Europe
rather than the United States, as it did in the Marshall Plan.
To brainstorm about projects, leaders of the Balkan nations in the
stability pact Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia,
Hungary, Romania and Slovenia will meet separately on the eve of the
summit. Clinton and leaders from four European powers, Japan, Canada and
Russia will be the headliners at the summit itself.
Western officials say the stability pact aims to boost the regional economy
through trade and cross-border projects such as highways, with rich
countries essentially providing startup money the same idea behind the
Marshall Plan.
But critics say the comparison is off-key, not least because the Balkans
lack the large pool of skilled workers that allowed western Europe to
revive quickly after World War II.
''You can't copy that model,'' said Jens Reuter, a Balkan researcher at the
Southeast Institute in Munich, Germany.
''Take Kosovo, which always was the poorest part of Yugoslavia: You would
have to look for a completely new economic structure bury heavy industry,
see whether farming can be reformed,'' he said.
Germany's Schroeder, trying to make his mark on the world stage in his
first year in office, has staked his prestige on the Balkan plan. In the
European Union, he pushed through the naming of a senior aide as the pact's
coordinator.
One hard-nosed interest behind the initiative is to avoid new waves of
Balkan refugees seeking shelter in Germany.
Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, whose own country launched a
difficult transition to a market economy after communism fell, calls the
project ''the biggest challenge at the close of the 20th century.''
''Sometimes I fear that the West only sees the necessity of a flood of
cash,'' he recently told the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. ''The
main point is that the peoples of this region regain confidence in
themselves.''
Gypsy refugees flee Kosovo for Macedonian camps 10:25 a.m. Jul 25, 1999
Eastern By Elisaveta Konstantinova
DARE BOMBOL, Macedonia, July 25 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Gypsy refugees are
sheltering in Macedonian refugee camps after being forced from their homes
in Kosovo by vengeful ethnic Albanians. The tables have turned for Gypsy
and Serb minorities in Kosovo as 700,000 ethnic Albanians have flooded back
following the retreat of Serb forces.
Accused of collaborating with Serbs in the ``ethnic cleansing'' of
Albanians during NATO bombing, the Gypsies now bring horror stories similar
to those told by their ethnic Albanian compatriots a few months ago.
Zeniel Berisa and his family of nine arrived at the Dare Bombol camp in
mid-July after a group of armed ethnic Albanian men forced his family out
of their house in the Kosovo town of Obilic, looted it and set it on fire.
Before coming to Macedonia, they spent two weeks in a refugee camp in
Kosovo run by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.
``We cannot ever go to back to Kosovo. They said they would kill us if we
return. We have nothing there now. They took everything and burned our
house,'' said Berisa, a 36-year-old technician.
Gypsy families from eight houses in one street of Urosevac, southern
Kosovo, were forced out and beaten, said Skander Alija. His right hand was
in bandages after being gashed with a knife by the attackers.
``They held us at gunpoint to watch how they took away our TV sets,
refrigerators, everything of any value and then they set the houses on
fire,'' said Alija. ``They told us never to return.''
The families hired a bus to reach Macedonia, where aid workers placed them
at Dare Bombol, once a children's summer camp.
None wanted to go back to Kosovo. ``We have no place to go...they will kill
us if we return,'' said Halil Cerini, a mason from Pristina.
At the peak of the Kosovo crisis nearly a million ethnic Albanians fleeing
Kosovo sought refuge in camps and host families in neighbouring Macedonia
and Albania.
An accord in June saw Serb security forces pulling out of Kosovo in return
for an end to 11 weeks of NATO bombing which was aimed at stopping
Belgrade's repression of ethnic Albanians.
The UNHCR has appealed to the international community to invest more in
establishing law and order in Kosovo.
``Protection of minorities in Kosovo is very difficult. It is a big
dilemma,'' UNHCR spokeswoman Maki Shinohara said. ``We hope the situation
would become more stable at least by winter.''
The UNHCR says more Gypsy refugees are on the way. Groups in the Kosovo
towns of Stimlje, Kosovo Polje, Djakovica, Istok and Mitrovica have
requested NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers to transfer them to safer places, said
Shinohara.
Return to Kosovo must be voluntary, according to UNHCR principles. If the
refugees fear for their lives there, the agency will seek ways to integrate
them into the host country or resettle them in a third country, she said.
Some of the Gypsies crowded into Dare Bombol have been moved to
Stankovic-2, a tent camp which until last week sheltered a thousand ethnic
Albanians.
Inside Kosovo itself the UNHCR has set up a second camp in Obilic with a
capacity of up to 5,000, to ease the burden on the a school building used
as a refugee centre in Kosovo Polje. Both camps are protected by KFOR
troops.
Macedonia gets 60 mln euro EIB loan for roads 09:39 a.m. Jul 24, 1999
Eastern SKOPJE, 24 July (Reuters) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) on
Saturday signed a 60 million euro loan agreement with Macedonia to upgrade
major roads as part of EIB plans to modernise the Balkan country's
infrastructure.
``For us this is the real begining of the implementation of the Balkan
Stability Pact in the region,'' Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco
Georgievski told a news conference. He was referring to an international
plan to rebuild the Balkans after the Kosovo war, due to be discussed at a
summit in Sarajevo at the end of July.
``We will start with the project immediately, which means business for our
construction companies and more jobs,'' he said.
The loan, which is for 25 years with a seven-year grace period, is to be
used for building a ring road arround the capital Skopje and upgrade a
vital stretch leading to the Greek port of Thessaloniki.
EIB President Brian Unwin said the bank planned to fund new projects in
Macedonia next year which involved improving the Skopje international
airport and Blace border crossing between Macedonia and the Serb province
of Kosovo. Macedonia would have access to more EIB funds from the beginning
of next year as it will acquire the status of other European Union
associate members.
The EIB has secured a 15 billion euro lending facility for the next seven
years for the whole of Central and Eastern Europe including the Balkans,
said Unwin.
Bulgarian, Albanian, Macedonian Fms to Meet in Sofia.
Itar-Tass 24-JUL-99
SOFIA, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - The Bulgarian, Albanian and Macedonian foreign
ministers will meet on Sunday, July 25, to work out joint measures to
strengthen security and cooperation in the Balkan region, the Bulgarian
Foreign Ministry press service said on Saturday.
The foreign ministers will also discuss the implementation of different
projects in Southeast Europe, the press service said.
It added that the meeting will be held on the initiative of the Macedonian
foreign minister.
According to earlier reports, the finance ministers of Bulgaria, Albania
and Macedonia will also met for consultations in Ohrid, Macedonia, on July
26 to coordinate their positions ahead of a summit meeting to be held in
Sarajevo on July 30. The summit will focus on the realisation of the
stability pact for Southeast Europe.
July 25, 1999, The NYT
To Spur German Economy, SchrF6der Offers Veer to Right
By ROGER COHEN
ERLIN -- After nine months of confused inertia in economic policy,
Chancellor Gerhard SchrF6der has at last set out where his New Middle in
politics lies -- and it is a long way to the right of anything previously
embraced by the German leader's Social Democratic Party.
Abandoning the hesitations that have left Europe's economic engine stalled
with unemployment above 10 percent, SchrF6der's government last week set
out a radical agenda of American-inspired changes aimed at making Germany
more nimble, less regulated, more entrepreneurial and less dependent on the
state.
A glossy Economics Ministry report on the sweeping program of cutbacks in
state spending and plans for tax changes and deregulation quoted the
chairman of the Bertelsmann media company, Dr. Mark Woessner, as saying, "A
piece of America -- without losing the social aspect of our market
economy -- that is the road to greater German prosperity."
Embracing such a message amounts to a big political gamble by SchrF6der,
whose political style has previously been one of sit-on-the-fence prudence
in economic matters and whose party still finds the bedrock of its support
among workers, labor unions, teachers and other state employees who have
little enthusiasm for the wonders of Wall Street.
"As with Kosovo in military questions, the Social Democrats are now trying
to go way beyond what Chancellor Kohl and the Christian Democrats ever
dared in economic matters," said Karsen Voigt, a Social Democrat. "But
there are considerable dangers, because many feel the party's traditions
have been betrayed."
Those dangers include possible defeat in elections in five of the 16 states
in the next few months, including a vote in the capital, Berlin. It remains
far from clear that the Social Democrats, with no Thatcherite legacy to
build on, can follow Tony Blair's Labor Party in veering steeply rightward
without heavy cost.
But with Europe's long-term prospects and its new currency, the euro,
dependent on Germany's economic performance and high unemployment sapping
the country's self-esteem, SchrF6der evidently felt that further hesitation
was unacceptable. Although his reputation was salvaged as the "war
chancellor" in the Kosovo conflict, the Social Democratic leader has seen
his popularity sag since the fighting ended.
His proposed medicine looks dire -- slashing state spending by $16 billion
next year, freezing pensions for two years, ending many subsidies and
cutting the state's share of national income, from 48.8 percent today to 40
percent over the next several years.
In addition, SchrF6der has made clear that he wants to balance the budget,
lower taxes and abandon the collective sector-by-sector wage bargaining
that has been a feature of the social-market economy in favor of wage
negotiations based on productivity gains in individual companies.
The government produced a welter of grim statistics to back the need for
change. The share of long-term unemployed, those out of work for more than
a year, has risen, from 9.6 percent in 1975 to more than 36 percent today.
The state's share of the economy has jumped, from 39 percent in 1970 to
almost 49 today.
Although unemployment in the United States was far higher than in Germany
in 1983, it now stands at less than half the German level. And the share of
wages represented by payments for various social insurance programs has
soared, from 26.5 percent in 1970 to 42.3 percent today.
On that basis, Economic Minister Werner Mueller roundly dismissed
Germany's hugely successful postwar economic model as one "now stumbling
along at the cost of future generations."
Woessner said the chief problem lay in a "leveling of wages" and an
"oversupply of Social Security" that had resulted in a lack of
"performance-related incentive for those willing to work."
Bertelsmann has acquired Random House over the last year, and other big
German companies like banks and automakers have also been investing heavily
overseas, partly to offset their dependence on a sluggish German economy,
which has the highest labor costs in the world.
It is clear that it is the global outlook of such corporations that
SchrF6der, who was on the board of Volkswagen before he became chancellor
last year, is trying to bring to the German economy as a whole. His
sympathies have long stood further to the right than much of his party's,
but he had previously hesitated to discuss them.
In finally doing so, he risks reinforcing a widespread sense in Germany
that tax and other economic policy has tended to favor the wealthy while
penalizing workers on the pretext that they have to adjust to the realities
of global competition.
"The New Middle is full of slogans like responsibility, self-reliance and
new entrepreneurship, but the reality is that most Germans are employees
and workers, and once again they are being asked to make sacrifices," said
Susanne Stumpenhusen, a Social Democrat who is head of the union of
public-sector workers in Berlin.
"For example," Ms. Stumpenhusen said, "we are now told that labor unions
must exercise wage restraint, because tax cuts will more than compensate
for any salary losses. But we have yet to see any of those tax benefits.
Only when the tax money is in our pockets can we discuss this sort of
thing."
Like many union members, she expressed sympathy for the alternative
proposals put forward by Oskar Lafontaine, who was ousted this year as
finance minister. Those centered on raising wages to stimulate demand and
jump-start the economy.
"The economic program is one-sided, a pure expression of neo-liberal
economics," Michael Knoche of the IG Bau construction union said. "Instead
of adopting the view of big companies, Mr. SchrF6der should have focused on
some of Mr. Lafontaine's ideas."
But the fact is that Lafontaine is gone, and SchrF6der knows that he almost
certainly cannot win the elections in 2002 with unemployment at its current
level and Europe's biggest economy stalled.
The essence of his political gamble appears to be that short-term setbacks
are acceptable if a real reform can be pushed through that would restore
Germany's confidence in its ability to find employment for its people.
"SchrF6der has thrown down a gauntlet, declaring that yesterday's ideology
has no place, even if most of his party does not support him," said Lutz
Erbring, a political scientist. "In essence, he is gambling that a majority
of Germans have the common sense to see that he is right."
July 25, 1999, The NYT
Asian Group Lends Support to Beijing Over Taiwan By REUTERS SINGAPORE --
Southeast Asian foreign ministers weighed into the China-Taiwan dispute
Saturday, giving support to Beijing's "one China" policy in a communiquE9
that also warned that rising tensions could harm economic growth.
Tensions between China and Taiwan will be the backdrop for a meeting
between Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and the Chinese Foreign
Minister, Tang Jiaxuan, on Sunday. It will be the highest level diplomatic
meeting between China and the United States since the NATO bombing of
Beijing's embassy in Belgrade in May.
The two will hold talks on the sidelines of the annual meeting of foreign
ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which runs until
Wednesday.
The foreign ministers at the meeting said they hope for a peaceful
resolution to the conflict between China and Taiwan, which was renewed when
President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan said on July 9 that it was ending the "one
China" policy, which had kept the peace in the Taiwan Strait for decades.
Negotiations with China would take place on a state-to-state basis, Lee
said.
China continues to consider Taiwan a renegade province. The notion of "one
China" stems from the civil war that ended in 1949, when Taipei and Beijing
both claimed to be the one legitimate government of all of China.
"We expressed our concern over the tension that arose in the Taiwan Strait
after July, 9, 1999, which could seriously affect regional peace and
stability and prospects for economic recovery," the communiquE9 said.
"We hoped for a quick and peaceful return to normalcy. We reaffirmed our
commitment to our 'One China Policy.' "
The organization includes Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines,
Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and Myanmar.
The communique also included a reference to a code of conduct for the
Spratly Islands, a contested cluster of potentially oil- and gas-rich
islands that are claimed by China, the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan,
Malaysia and Vietnam.
ili...@sympatico.ca
But I think she was born encephalic and therefore cannot read and cannot learn
new things. She/he says that in the FTCOG there are only Greeks or Ftcogians
living there, what happened to the other 9 nationalities including the
Macedonians living there? Junebug is so narrowminded and her/his comments are
ludicrous.
Ilinden the Macedonian
June R Harton
FYROM President Kiro Gligorov: "We are Slavs who came to this area in the
sixth century . . . we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians."
(President of FYROM Ciro Gligorov, from the Foreign Information Service
Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35. )
P Gevgeliev wrote in "Skopje revives macedonian spectre", Free
Bulgaria,pp229-230,
It is true that we have given up the teaching of "Macedonian history", a
high falutin term for the ravings of a handful of maniacs in Skopje who are
so far gone in their nationalistic dementia and mental aberration as to
claim that the present "Macedonian" people are descendants of
Alexander the Great.
These "historians" seem to overlook the fact that the Slav tribes came to
this territory fully a thousand years after the death of Alexander the
Macedon."
June R Harton
Your best bet is to ignore Galina completely. She has an inability
to think coherently, posts false and incomplete information usually;
and has had an impaired education, wherein she cannot discern
the difference between languages and dialects.
She is nothing but the trouble maker that she accuses
others of being.
She is an evil person with neferious intentions and ways.
She is also a rabid liar and in league with Old Nick.
Give her a wide berth. She is NON-Orthodox.
June R Harton
Macedonia-Thrace Yiannis Magriotis reiterated today, in the meeting he had
in his office with the visiting presiding board of the Pan-Macedonian
Association of America, Greece's firm position that the name Macedonia is
non negotiable. In the meeting were raised issues of national importance
that concern the Greek communities in the United States and Canada, as well
as a number of organizational issues, while the minister of
Macedonia-Thrace called on the representatives of the Greeks abroad to
continue their struggle for the promotion of the issues of national
importance within the framework of the national policy set by the Greek
government.
Mr. Magriotis referred to the Alexander the Great Institute characterizing
it as a wonderful initiative of the Pan-Macedonian Associations which
constitutes the most complete Greek initiative for the promotion of the
work of Alexander the Great and the promotion of the historical truth over
Macedonia.
Mr. Magriotis stated that the ministry of Macedonia- Thrace will assist in
every effort of the Greeks abroad and announced that a number of books will
be sent to the New York based Center for Macedonian Studies.
GS
RECONSTRUCTION OF MACEDONIA, BULGARIA AND ALBANIA IN PARALLEL WITH
RECONSTRUCTION OF KOSOVO Finance Ministers of Macedonia, Bulgaria and
Albania - Stojmenov, Radev and Angeli - confirmed the decision of their
colleagues from the respective Ministries of Foreign Affairs for the three
countries to offer joint projects for reconstruction of the region in the
Stability Pact framework. At the meeting held yesterday at St. Naum near
Ohrid, the three Ministers agreed on the necessity of the reconstruction of
their countries to go parallel to the reconstruction of Kosovo without the
need to wait for democratization of Serbia. A1 TV reports the highest
priority in the declaration signed after the talks is given to projects
related to corridor 8 for road, rail, telecommunications and gas-pipeline
connection of the three countries. It was also agreed to jointly request
from the international community compensation of damages from the "war for
which we were least at fault, yet suffered much". The requests would be for
low-interest loans, aid and direct investment covered by political-risk
insurance. The three Ministers conveyed a proposal to the Paris Club of
creditors to allow Macedonia, Bulgaria and Albania to put money that would
go for debt service into a special fund for development projects. Bulgarian
Minister Radev proposed that these funds be established in each country
individually, then grow into a joint fund for financing projects in the
interest of all three states. The money >from the investments would go back
to the fund, and that would create a mini-Marshall Plan that would include
Western countries and wider regional projects. What the Finance Ministers of
Macedonia, Bulgaria and Albania agreed on yesterday will be conveyed in the
form of a protocol to the Conference for implementation of the Stability
Pact that will be held in Sarajevo at the end of this week. The next meeting
of these Ministers will be held in Sofia in September.
OBNOVATA NA MAKEDONIJA, BUGARIJA I ALBANIJA, PARALELNO SO OBNOVATA NA KOSOVO
Ministrite za finansii na Makedonija, Bugarija i Albanija, Stojmenov, Radev
i Angeli, ja potvrdija vccera odlukata na nivnite kolegi od resorot za
nadvoressni raboti, trite zemji zaedniccki da nastapat vo proektite za
obnova na regionot predvideni so Paktot za stabilnost. Na vccerassnata
sredba odrzzana vo Sveti Naum kaj Ohrid trojcata ministri se soglasile deka
e neophodnbo procesot na obnova na nivnite zemji da se odviva paralelno so
obnovata na Kosovo bez ccekanje na demokratizacijata na rezzimot vo Srbija.
Kako ssto prenesuva A-1 Televizijata, vo deklaracijata potpissana po
razgovorite, kako najvisok prioritet za idniot period e posocceno na
proektite od koridorot 8 za avtopatno, zzelezniccko, telekomunikacisko i
gasovodno povrzuvanje na trite zemji. Isto taka bilo dogovoreno od
megjuanrodnata zaednica zaedniccki da se pobara kompenzacija na sstetite od
kako ssto e oceneto `vojnata za koja najmalku bevme vinovni, a od koja mnogu
pretrpevme'. Vo ovaa smisla od zapadnite zemji kje se pobaraat nisko-kamatni
zaemi, pomoss i zasileno direktno investiranje, pokrieno so fondovi za
osiguruvanje od politicckiot rizik. Trojcata ministrite vccera vo Sveti Naum
ispratija predlog do Pariskiot klub na doveriteli namesto da gi vrakjaat
dolgovite kon zapadnite zemji, Makedonija, Bugarija i Albanija ovie sredstva
da gi stavaat vo specijalni fondovi koi pnatamu bi se koristele za razvojni
proekti. Bugarskiot minister Radev pak vo ovoj kontekst predlozzil ovie
fondovi koi prvobitno kje se otvoraat vo sekoaj zemja oddelno podocna da
prerarsnat vo eden zaedniccki fond od koj bi se finansirale proekti od
interes na trite drzzavi. Parite od investiciite, spored Radev potorno bi se
vrakjale vo fondovite so ssto tie bi stanale samo isplatlivi, a taka bi se
sodzal eden mini Marssalov plan vo koj bi se vkluccile i zapadnite zemji vo
proektite ssto se od interes za possirokiot region. Ona ssto vccera go
dogovirija ministrite za finansii na Makeodnija, Bugarija i Albanija vo vid
na protokol kje bide isprateno do Konferencijata za sproveduvanje na Paktot
za stabilnost ssto kje se odrzzi kon krajot na nedelava vo Saraevo, a
slednata sredba na ovie ministri kje se odrzzi vo septemri vo Sofija.
BILL CLINTON WILL LOBBY FOR MACEDONIA AMONG HIS EU COLLEAGUES
MACEDONIA DID NOT FARE WELL ECONOMICALLY IN THE REFUGEE CRISIS
MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES RULES FOR REPATRIATION OF REFUGEES FROM
THIRD COUNTRIES
TRANSPORT OF OIL FROM GREECE TO "OKTA" STOPPED, "HELLENIC PETROLEUM"
ATTORNEYS IN ACTION
NO RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS OVER THE BALKANS, ONLY "GREENHOUSE EFFECT"
APPEAL FROM MACEDONIANS IN GOLO BRDO (ALBANIA) FOR URGENT AID FROM THE
NATIVE COUNTRY
INITIATIVE FOR PRESERVATION OF NUMISMATIC HERITAGE OF MACEDONIA
MILS SUPPLEMENT INCREASE OF EXPORTS AND JOB CREATION "Nova Makedonija", July
26 1999
MILS VESTI Skopje, 27 juli 1999
BIL KLINTON LOBIRA ZA MAKEDONIJA KAJ KOLEGITE OD EU Pretsedatelot na
Republika Makedonija, Kiro Gligorov, primi denovive pismo od amerikanskiot
pretsedatel, Bil Klinton, pred prestojniot samit na Paktot za stabilnost na
Jugoistoccna Evropa ssto treba da se odrzzi vo Saraeo. Kako ssto soopssti
kabinetot na pretsedatelot Gligorov, vo pismoto amerikanskiot pretsedatel
iznesuva svoi razmisli vo vrska so samitot, ocenuvajkji deka toj obezbeduva
vazzna mozznost za unapreduvanje na vizijata za Jugoistoccna Evropa,
bazirana vrz sorabotka i demokratija, a ne vrz nacionalizam i etniccki
konflikti. `Sorabotuvam so Evropskata unija i so drugite kolegi za podrsska
na vasata integracija vo globalniot trgovski sistem i na vassite napori da
sozdadete klima za rabota ssto kje privlecce povisoki formi na stranski
investicii neophodni za znaccitelen porast' istaknuva Klinton vo pismoto
naveduvajki deka na samitot se pokaneti site lideri na regionot osven
jugoslovenskiot pretsedatel Milossevicc. Na krajot Klinton vo pismoto
naveduva; ` Visoko gi cenam Vassite pogledi na site ovie prassanja izneseni
vo tekot na nassite razgovori minatiot mesec. Vassite napori da ja
unapredite regionalnata sorabotka, davaat pottik i nadezz za uspessen ishod
vo Saraevo.
MAKEDONIJA EKONOMSKI POMINA MNOGU LOSSO OD BEGALSKATA KRIZA Ekonomski
gledano Makedonija pomina mnogu losso i kje i treba dolgo vreme da
zakrepnuva od begalskata kriza, izjavi denovive zamenik-ministerot za
nadvoressni raboti na Makedonija, Boris Trajkoski, dodavajkji deka ne e
zadovolen od odnosot na megjuanrodnata zaednica kon problemite vo drzzavata
koja primila nad 360.000 begalci. Spored Trajkovski od najavenata
humanitarna pomoss pogolema od 200 milioni dolari dosega vo zemjava vlegle
pomalku od 70 milioni, od koi do makedonskata Vlada e upaten najmal del. Na
smetka na Vladata kako stranska humanitrna pomoss dosega se uplateni samo
4,7 milioni dolari, dodeka razni stranski nevladini organizacii vo
Makeodnija spored evidencijata na carinskite organi primile pomoss vo
vrednost od 64,7 milioni dolari. Tie pak ponatamu pod kapata na UNHCR ja
delea pomossta na begalcite i na eden del socijalno- zagrozeni deca vo
Makedonija, pri ssto makedonskte vlasti nemaa nikakva kontrtola, istaknuva
Trajkovski. Kako ssto prenesuva `Dnevnik'makedonskiot zamenik-minister za
nadvoressni raboti informiral i deka edna germanska firma vrz osnova na
prethodno izvrsseniot uvid denoive kje treba da napravi procenka kolku pari
se potrosseni za izgradba na devette begalski kampovi vo zemjava. Od toa kje
zavisi dali UNHCR kje i dade usste pari ili kje ostane na dosegassnite 3,7
milioni dolari. Makedonskata Vlada inaku pobarala od UNHCR 7,5 milioni
dolari kako nadomestok za trossocite za izgradba na begalskite kampovi.
MAKEDONSKATA VLADA GI UTVRDI USLOVITE ZA REPARTIJACIJA NA BEGALCITE OD TRETI
ZEMJI Kako ssto prenesuva `Dnevnik' makedonskata Vlada denovive na zemjite
cclenki na EU, kako i na onie koi ssto prifatile begalci od Kosovo preku
Makedonija im ispratila lista so uslovite koi kje treba da se ispolnat za da
okolu 90.000 begalci preku Skopskiot aerodrom se vratat na Kosovo. Taka
begalcite smesteni vo drugi zemji kje mozzat da se vratat na Kosovo preku
Makedonija samo dokolku istovremeno tecce i vrakjanjeto na onie ssto se se
usste na makedonska teritorija. Preku Makedonija kje mozzat da se vratat
samo onie begalci koi i ssto zaminale preku nea. Letovite kje treba da se
najavat deset dena porano, a aerodromskite taksi i angazzmanot na policijata
kje treba da se platat odnapred. Organizatorot kje treba da najde makedonski
prevoznik, a begalcite nema da mozzat da vleguvaat vo aerodromskata zgrada,
tuku direktno so avtobusi kje odat kon granicata. Site begalci od Kosovo koi
na ovoj naccin kje se vrakjaat preku Makedonija kje treba da pokazzat pasoss
so viza. Spored makedonskiot zamenik-minister za nadvoresni raboti, Boris
Trajkovski, vakviot naccin e neophoden bidejkji se usste ne se pokrieni
najgolemiot del od trossocite od organiziraniot transport na begalcite vo
drugi zemji. Od drugi zemji preku Makedonija na Kosovo inaku dosega se
vratile okolu 2.250 begalci i toa so posredstvo na UNHCR i Megjuanrodnata
organizacija za migracii. Nessto pomal broj kosovski begalci se vratile i
vrz osnova na bilateralnite dogovori megju vladite na Makedonija i zemjite
vo koi tie bea smesteni. Makedonskite vlasti , spored 'Dnevnik' occekuvaat
da imaat problemi so vrakjanjeto na neregistriranite begalci od Makedonija,
no kako ssto se naglasuva i tie kje mora da ja napusstat zemjava. Pritoa se
istaknua i deka vo zemjava kje mozzat da ostanat samo begalcite koi vo
megjuvreme skluccile brak so makedonski drzzavjani. Se procenuva deka
brojkata na vakvi sluccai ne e zagrizzuavccka.
TRANSPORTOT NA NAFTA OD GRCIJA ZA `OKTA' PREKINAT, ADOKATITE NA `HELENIK
PETROLEUM' VO AKCIJA Transportot na surovata nafta od Solunskoto
pristanisste za potrebite na skopskata rafinerija `OKTA' od vccera e
prekinat, doznava `Nova Makedonija'. Kako ssto doznava vesnikot od 12 juli
koga poccnal transportot na 50.000 toni nafta skladirani vo rezervoarite na
`Mamidakis Dzetoil' vo Solunskoto pristaniste, dosega za Makedonija se
isporaccani 36.000 toni, dodeka isporakata na ostanatiot del zasega e
blokirana poradi odlukata na Solunskiot sud. Odlukata na Solunskiot sud za
blokiranje na isporakata na nafta za skopskata rafinerija `OKTA' inaku
usledi po sliccnata odluka na Londonskiot sud koj vrz osnova na tuzzbata na
`Mamidakis' privremeno ja blokira isporakata na naftata za `OKTA' do
rasccistuvanje na sudskiot spor. Vo vrska so zabranata donesena od
Solunskiot sud vccera se oglasi kompanijata `Helenik Petroleum' koja ja kupi
rafinerijata `OKTA', najavuvajki deka nejzinite adokati se vo akcija,
odnosno deka naftenoto embargo za `OKTA' nabrgu kje bide simnato. Od
`Helenik Petroleum' e najaveno i deka nedelava advokatite na kompanijata
osven vo Grcija kje nastapat i pred Londonskiot sud, pri ssto so iznesuvanje
na svoite argumenti se occekuva da se rasccistat spornite toccki na
dogovorot vrz osnova na koi `Mamidakis' podnel tuzzba. Ssto se odnesuva do
mozznosta pretsedatelot Gligorov da ne go potpisse ukazot za Zakonot so koj
makedonskiot Parlament go ratifikuva megjudrzzavniot dogovor za
kupoprodazzbata na `OKTA' i izgradbata na naftovodot Solun-Skopje,
izgotvuvaccite na dogovorot velat deka toa nema da ja zapre izgradbata na
naftovodot ssto treba da zapoccne vo septemri. Bidejki dogovorot e potpissan
od cclen na makedonskata Vlada (ministerot za finansii Boris Stojmenov), toj
e pravosilen i nema pravna preccka za izgradbata an naftovodot, izjavil Gale
Galev, profesorot po dogovorno pravo od Skopje koj e eden od izgotvuvaccite
na dogovorot.
NAD BALKANOT NEMA RADIOAKTIVNO ZRACCENJE, TUKU EFEKT NA 'STAKLENA GRADINA'
Site merenja na Republicckiot zavod za zdravstvena zasstita pokazzuvaat deka
radioaktivnoto zraccenje vo Makedonija e pod dozvoleniot maksimum. Vo ovoj
period od godinava e karakteristiccno zgolemeno ultraviolotetovo ili
solarnoto zraccenje ssto go pokazzuvaat aparatite na monitoring sistemot vo
Skopje i Veles, no toa zraccenje vo momentot ne e pogolemo od ona vo istiot
period minatata godina. Ova, kako ssto prenesuva `Nova Makedonija, go
soopssti vccera makedonskoto Ministerstvo za zastita na zzivotna sredina,
demnatirajkji gi pritoa informaciite na nekoi makedonski mediumi (`Utrinski
vesnik') deka vo zemjava bilo zgolemeno radioaktivnoto zraccenje kako
rezultat na voenite dejstva na NATO vrz Jugoslavija. Ssto se odnesuva do
preporakata na `Utrinskiot vesnik' da ne se izleguva nadvor vo periodot od
10 do 18 ccasot (poradi navodnoto zgolemeno radioaktivno zracenje), vo
Ministerstvoto velat deka taa mozze da se tretira edinstveno vo kontekst na
faktot deka jaccinata na ultravioletovite zraci poradi zgolemeniot efekt na
`staklena gradina' nad Balkanot vo ovoj period e so posilen intenzitet, pa
zatoa ne se preporaccuva izleguvanje na sonce koga toa najsilno sveti.
APEL NA MAKEDONCITE OD GOLO BRDO VO ALBANIJA ZA ITNA POMOSS OD TATKOVINATA
Makedoncite od mesnosta Golo Brdo vo Albanija ispratile denovive pismo do
pretsedatelot na Republikata, Kiro Gligorov, pretsedatelot na Sobranieto,
Savo Klimovski i premierot Ljubcco Georgievski, kako i do ministrite vo
makedonskata Vlada vo koje ukazzuvaat na mossne teskata polozzba vo koja se
naogjaat. Okolu 35.000 Makedonci od 19 sela vo krajot Golo Brdo kaj
granicata so Debar i Struga vo Albanija se tretirani kako tugji i zziteli od
vtor red, a pritoa so nissto ne se pomagaat od strana na albanskata Vlada,
se naveduva vo pismoto. `Se naogjame vo mnogu tesska sostojba, site sme bez
hrana i obleka i ne mozzeme da prezziveeme od humanitarnata pomoss.
Makedoncite od Golo Brdo ne sakaat da go menuvaat jazikot od makedonski na
bugarski so ssto gi uslovuva Republika Bugarija za da dobijat pomoss. Svesni
sme deka nikogass ne sme bile Bugari i pod tie uslovi ne sakame nivna
pomoss, tuku barame pomoss od tatkovinata, Republika Makedonija',
istaknuvaat vo pismoto Makedoncite od Golo Brdo. Isto taka se naveduva i
deka Albancite ovie avtotohni Makedonci gi tretiraat kako potccineti, bez
nikakvi ccovekovi prava i bez nikakva egzistencionalna pomoss. Kako ssto
prenesuva A-1 Televizijata, tie vo pismoto apeliraat kolku ssto e mozzno
pbrzo da im se pruzzi pomoss vo hrana, obleka i gradezzen materijal,
bidejkji se naogjat vo navistina tesska polozzba, a pomossta zasega od
nikade ne stignuva. Isto taka Makedoncite od Golo Brdo baraat da im se
ovozmozzi formiranje na osnovni uccilissta kade ssto kje se ucci na
makedonski jazik, voeduvanje na mini radio i televizija, mali fabriki i
stoccna farma, kako i edna pekarnica i pravoslavna crkva. Neophodna e i
pomoss za nabavka na mehanizacija, avtobusi za prevoz, kako i otvoranje na
graniccen premin na mostot Sspilje za Makedoncite, se naveduva vo pismoto.
Od makedonskoto Ministerstvo za informacii inaku vo vrska so ova pismo
pristigna izvestuvanje deka na makedonskiot nacionalen praznik `Ilinden' na
vtori avgust kaj Golo Brdo kje se odrzzi sredba so Makedoncite od Albanija.
INICIJATIVA ZA SPASUVANJE NA NUMIZMATICCKOTO BOGATSTVO NA MAKEDONIJA
Narodnata banka na Makedonija i Muzejot na Makedonija vccera ja promoviraa
kolekcijata i zbirkata od stari moneti. Vo ovaa zbirka ima preku 800 moneti
koi ostavile numizmaticcki dokazi za svoeto postoenje na ovie prostori, od
koi okolu dvaesetina imaat neproceniva istoriska vrednost, istakna vccera
guernerot na NBM, Ljube Trpevski. Inicijativata na NBM, Muzejot na
Makedonija i privatnite kolekcioneri za otvoranje na izlozbata e so cel da
se spasi numizmaticckoto bogatsto na Makedonija, naglasi Trpevski
informirajki deka od poccetokot na godinava se sobrani114 moneti od
geolosskiot lokalitet Stobi, a do krajot na godinava privatniot kolekcioner
Pero Josifoski na NBM kje i podari usste 117 stari moneti koi poteknuvaat od
Stobi. Na vccerasnoto otvoranje na izlozzbata besse istaknato i deka
promocijata na zbirkata na starite moneti kje pokazze i deka Makedonija
odsekogass bila centar na evropskite monetarni tekovi. Za toa zboruvaat
numizmaticckite ostatoci od periodot na Rimskoto vladeenje, na ssto se
nadovrzuva Vizantiskiot pariccen sistem, od koj proizleguvaat i mnogu drugi
pomali megju koi i parite na srednovekovnite makedonski feudalci. Spored
guvernerot Trpevski so izlozbata se prezentiraat numizmaticcki dokazi za
postoenjeto na drevnata makedonska drzzava koja imala razvien monetaren
sistem i Pajonskite pleminja koi megju prvite gi vovele pariccnoto stopansto
vo ovoj del na Balkanot, a nivnite moneti se najbaranite vo svetot voopssto.
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NEWS Skopje, July 28 1999
LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY SUBMITS CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST VASIL TUPURKOVSKI The
executive board of the League for Democracy (Liga za Demokratija) decided to
file criminal charges against DA leader and Director of the Agency for
Reconstruction and Development Vasil Tupurkovski, regarding his statement
that he has received commission on the deal to recognize the Republic of
China - Taiwan. The indictment alleges Tupurkovski had not hidden the fact
that he has obtained commission on that deal, which would be used to build a
new sports center and a new building for the Macedonian Philharmonic. The
exact amount of the commission was not made public. however. The League for
Democracy says these funds can only be considered a personal gift to
Tupurkovski. The problem is that Tupurkovski has not reported this income to
the tax authorities or paid taxes on it. "Dnevnik" reports that the League
for Democracy calls on the Public Prosecutor to examine this case. If it is
shown that "Tupurkovski" has "forgotten" his tax obligations, the Public
Prosecutor will have to file charges against him. The League for Democracy
urged expediency of this procedure, since Tupurkovski intends to run for
President.
GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF UN RESOLUTION
INSTEAD OF KOSOVO ALBANIANS, NOW ROMA AND SERBS FLEE TO MACEDONIA
DPS ANNOUNCES MASS PROTESTS IN MACEDONIA IF TERROR AGAINST SERBIAN PEOPLE IN
KOSOVO CONTINUES
BRITISH COUNCIL TO OPEN OFFICE IN SKOPJE IN SEPTEMBER
ISRAELIS WILL INVEST 50 MILLION USD IN "FENIMAK" AND SUGAR COMPANY OF BITOLA
NO DANGER OF ENERGY CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY FOR THE TIME BEING
GOVERNMENT PROPOSES BORROWING 20 MILLION USD FROM TAIWAN
DRUGS FROM "PLIVA" OF ZAGREB IN PHARMACIES AGAIN
MILS SUPPLEMENT "FAMILIES" WEAVE THE NET OF ORGANIZED CRIME! "Dnevnik", July
26 1999
MILS VESTI Skopje, 28 juli 1999
LIGATA ZA DEMOKRATIJA PODNESE KRIVICCNA PRIJAVA PROTIV VASIL TUPURKOVSKI
Izvrssniot odbor na Ligata za demokratija odlucci da podnese kriviccna
protiv liderot na DA i direktor na Agencijata za obnova i razvoj, Vasil
Tupurkovski, vo vrska so negovata izjava deka dobil provizija za
priznavanjeto na Republika Kina-Tajvan. Kako ssto se naveduva vo prijavata,
Tupurkovski ne krie deka dobil provizija za priznavanjeto na Tajvan koja kje
se upotrebi za izgradba na salata na Makedonska filharomonija i sportska
sala, megjutoa nikade vo javnosta ne e objaveno kolkava e sumata na
provizijata. Spored Ligata za demokratija sredstvata od provizijata ne kje
mozzat poinaku da se okvalifikuvaat osven kako liccen podarok na
Tupurkovski. Megjutoa tuka se pojavuva problemot ssto ovie sredstva
Tupurkovski ne gi prijavil kaj danoccnite organi, nitu pak za niv platil
danok na drzzavata Makedonija. Kako ssto prenesuva `Dnevnik' Ligata za
demokratija vo svoeto soopsstenie go povikuva javniot obvinitel da gi utvrdi
ovie fakti. Dokolku se pokazze deka Tupurkovski `zaboravil' na svoite
obvrski da plati danok kon drzzavata, javniot obvinitel kje treba da podnese
obvinenie sprema nego, se naveduva vo soopsstenieto. Ligata za demokratija
pritoa insistira na itnost vo nastapuvanjeto bidejki spored navestuvanjata
vo sredstvata za informiranje Tupurkovski ima namera da se kandidira za
pretsedatel na Republikava.
VLADATA JA PRIFATI INFORMACIJATA ZA IMPLEMENTACIJATA NA REZOLUCIJATA NA ON
Makedonskata Vlada na vccerassnata sednica ja prifati informacijata za
implementacijata na Rezolucijata 1244 na Sovetot za bezbednost na ON od
strana na Republika Makedonija i potencira deka na toj plan kje prodolzzi so
megjusebnata koordinacija i sorabotka so NATO, OBSE, EU, kako i so drugite
megjunarodni organizacii. Isto taka ukazzano e i na potrebata za
prodolzzuvanje na sorabotkata so UNHCR za organizirano vrakjanje na okolu
20.000 lica od SRJ ssto prestojuvaat vo Makednija. Megju drugoto na
sednicata e preporaccan koordiniran nastap na makedonskite firmi vo
rekonstrukcijata na Kosovo, utvrduvanje na proekti svrzani za Republika
Makeodnija, kako i na proekti od regionalno znaccenje vo duhot na odredbite
na Paktot za stabilnost.
NAMESTO KOSOVSKITE ALBANCI VO MAKEDONIJA SEGA BEGAAT ROMITE I SRBITE
Kosovskite Albanci koi kako begalci prestojuvaa vo Makedonija prodolzuvaat
da se vrakjaat na Kosovo glavno vo svoja rezzija, no na nivno mesto doagjaat
novi begalci od Kosovo, glavno Romi i Srbi. Spored poslednite informacii od
poccetokot na mesecov na graniccniot premin Blace vo Makedonija vlegle okolu
400 Romi od Kosovo i tie se smesteni vo kampot Stenkovec 2, a se procenuva i
deka pogolem broj na Romi se smesteni vo semejstva vo povekje gradovi vo
drzzavava. Pretstavnicite na Crveniot krst na Makedonija velat deka vo
Makedonija vo posledno reme vleguvaat i Srbi od Kosovo, no nivnot broj e mal
i tie se smestuvaat iskluccivo vo semejstva. Romite koi doagjaat vo
Makedonija inaku velat deka begaat od maltretiranjata na Albancite i OVK i
istaknuvaat deka Makedonija zasega za niv e najbezbedno mesto bidejkji vo
kampovite na Kosovo ja nemaat neophodnata zasstita na KFOR, a vo drugite
gradovi niz Srbija ne gi primaat. Poradi ova, spored A-1 Televizijata,
mozzno e vo Makedonija naskoro da pristignat okolu 2.500 Romi koi gi
napusstile svoite domovi i baraat zasstita i smestuvanje. Romite koi se
smesteni vo begalskite kampovi vo Makedonija inaku velat deka i tuka imaat
golemi problemi predizvikani od albanskite begalci smesteni vo kampovite.
DPS NAJAVUVA MASOVNI RPTESTI VO MAKEDONIJA DOKOLKU PRODOLZZI TEROROT RZ
SRPSKIOT NAROD NA KOSOVO Liderot na Demokratskata partija na Srbite vo
Makedonija, Dragissa Mileticc, najavi vccera deka dokolku prodolzzi terorot
vrz srpskiot narod na Kosovo od strana na OVK i NATO, negovata partija kje
organizira masovni protesti niz cela Makedonija. Na vccerassnata pres
konferencija Mileticc istakna deka NATO ne se pridrzzuva kon
voeno-tehnicckiot dogovor potpissan vo Kumanovo so srpskata vojska i namesto
da go implementira mirot na Kosovo, go razoruzza OVK i gi zasstiti site
gragjani vo pokrainata i se pridruzzuva na OVK vo etnicckoto ccistenje na
Srbite. Poradi ova, kako ssto ocenuva DPS, na Kosovo sssto pobrgu treba da
se vrati jugoslovenskata policija i vojskata za da gi zasstiti gragjanite i
drzzavniot integritet i suverenitet na SRJ. Ssto se odnesuva do
demonstarciite vo Srbija i baranjata za ostavka na pretsedatelot
Milossevicc, Mileticc oceni vccera deka deka DPS ne mozze da bide protiv
nieden pretsedatel na svojata maticcna drzzava, no kje ja poccituva voljata
na narodot
VO SEPTEMVRI KANCELARIJA NA BRITANSKIOT SOVET VO SKOPJE Britanskiot sovet
smeta deka po zavrssuvanjeto na vojnata e potrebna obnova na celiot region,
a ne samo na Kosovo. Tokmu zatoa kje gi zgolemime svoite aktivnosti tuka, a
vo septemvri vo Skopje kje bide otvorena kancelarija ccija dejnost ponatramu
kje se prossiri i niz drugite gradovi vo zemjava, izjavi pretsedatelkata na
Bordot na Britanskiot sovet, baronicata Helena Kenedei koja prestojuvasse vo
dodnevna poseta na Makedonija. Baronicata Kenedi najavi i deka Britanskiot
sovet kje prodolzzi so trendot za obuka na biznismenite i lugjeto od
mediumite, odnosno kje nastojuva da gi spojuva lugjeto od Velika Britanija
ssto uccestvuale na menuvanjeto na sistemot tamu, so onie ssto toa treba da
go storat vo Makedonija. Spored baronicata Kenedi posebno e vazzno megju
dvete zemji da se ostari razmena na pravnici i sudii, bidejkji na toj naccin
kje se dejstvuva vo pravec na nezavisnosta na sudstvoto i poccituvanjeto na
covekovite prava. Megju drugoto baronicata Kenedi istakna deka e
impresionirana od naccinot na koj Makedonija ja tretira etnicckata
tolerancija, a za prassanjeto na univerzitetot na albanski jazik oceni i
deka mora da se vodi smetka dali finaliziranjeto na ovoj problem kje vodi
kon razdvojuvanje ili integracija na zemjata. Vo tekot na posetata na
Makedonija, baronicata Kenedi inaku ostvari sredbi so pretsedatelot na
Makeodnija, Kiro Gligorov, premierot Ljubcco Georgievski i ministerot za
kultura Dimitar Dimitrov.
IZRAELCITE KJE INVESTIRAAT 50 MILIONI DOLARI VO `FENIMAK' I `BITOLSKATA
SSEKJERANA' Izraelski biznismeni kje investiraat 50 milioni dolari vo
revitalizacija na `Fenimak' od Kavadarci i vo proizvodstvoto na ssekjer vo
`Bitolskata ssekjerana'. Ova, kako ssto pissuva `Nova Makedonija' e
sodrzzano vo ponudata ssto denovive e dostavena do Vladata na Makedonija.
Spored prdlozzenata konstrukcija na sredstvata, soglasno na predvidenite
nameni vo 'Fenimak' kje se investiraat 37 milioni dolari, a vo fabrikata za
ssekjer 10 do 15 milioni dolari. Planiranite srestva za `Fenimak' dokolku
makedonskata Vlada ja prifati ponudata kje se vlozzat vo rekonstrukcija na
nosecckite postrojki na topilnicata, na instaliranjeto na soodvetna
tenologija za obnova na rudnikot, start na vtorata linija za proizvodstvo na
nikel koja dosega besse zatvorena i doopremuvanje na linijata za dotur na
lignit. So ova se predviduva dvojno zgolemuvanje na produkcijata,
poevtinuvanje na proizvodstvoto i nabavuvanje na surovini od domassni
izvori. Vo proektot za `Bitolskata ssekjerana' pak se predviduva
prerabotuvacckite kapaciteti kompletno da se oobezbedat so neophodna
surovina od domassnoto proizvodstvo. Tuka, spored proektot na Izraelcite se
predviduva da bidat vklucceni domassnite proizvoditeli na ssekjerna repka
ccije proizvodstvo kje bide pod kontrola na izraelski struccnjaci. So
investicijata vo Bitolskata ssekjerana se occekuva celosno ispolnuvanje na
kapaciteti koi sega se koristea poloviccno.
ZASEGA NEMA OPASNOST OD ENERGETSKA KRIZA VO ZEMJAVA Zasega nema opasnost
zemjata da se najde vo energetska kriza, odnosno nedostig na nafta i
naftenite derivati poradi nesoglasuvanjata pomegju `Helemik Petroleum' koj e
noviot sopstvenik na `OKTA' i `Mamidakis Petroleum', soopssti makedonskoto
Ministerstvo za finansii. Kako ssto e poznato po odlukata na Londonskiot sud
i Solunskiot sud ja sprecci isporakata na surova nafta i naftenite deriati
za potrebite na `OKTA' so ssto se postavi prassanjeto do koga skopskata
rafinerija kje ima nafta za prerabotka. Spored Ministerstvoto za finansii,
rezervi na nafta i nafteni derivati vo zemjava ima dovolno, a stopiranjeto
na snabduvanjeto na `OKTA' e problem za koj se pravat napori vo skoro vreme
da bide ressen. Kako ssto prenesuva A-1 Televizijata vo ova Ministerstvo
informirale i deka skopskiot `Makpetrol' pred nekolku dena dobil dozvola za
uvoz na nafteni derivati, no zasega ne e poznato dali dozvolata se koristi,
odnosno dali najgolemiot distributer na naftata i naftenite derivati vo
zemjava kje go iskoristi pravoto za uvoz. Ssto se odnesuva do najavata na
noviot gazda na `OKTA', `Helenik Petroleum' deka negovite advokati se vo
akcija i deka vo Solun e veteno deka zabranata kje bide ukinata vednass,
zasega nema nikakvi novi informacii, osven deka zabranata e seusste na
vazznost. Od strana na `Mamidakis' spored A-1 Televizijata, pak se veli deka
deka odlukata na Solunskiot sud kje tree se dodeka ne se ressi sporot ssto e
pokrenat vo London. Nekoi prethodni procenki vo vrska so ovoj spor pak
govorea deka procedurata bi mozzela da trae i okolu osum meseci. Spored
poslednite informacii od kabinetot na pretsedatelot na Republikata, Gligorov
seusste ima konsultacii so pravnite eksperti okolu dogovorot za
kupopradazzbata na `OKTA' i izgradbata na naftovodot Solun-Skopje i dosega
go nema potpissano ukazot za Zakonot so koj makedonskiot Parlament go
ratifikuva ovoj megjudrzzaven dogovor.
VLADATA PREDLAGA ZAEM OD TAJVAN VO IZNOS OD 20 MILIONI DOLARI Vladata na
Makeodnija usvoi vccera predlog za donesuvanje po itna postapka na zakon za
zadolzzuvanje na Republika Makedonija kaj Megjuanrodnata trgovska banka od
Republika Kina - Tajvan vo iznos od 20 milioni dolari. Zaemot treba da bide
odobren so rok na rakjanje od 13 godini, grejs period od 7 godini i godissna
kamata od 3 posto. Kako ssto e soopssteno zaemot od Tajvan kje bide
iskoristen za pomoss na stopanstoto i nadminuvanje na nedostigot na
finansiski sredstva za ekonomskiot razoj na zemjata. Okolu sorabotkata megju
Makedonija i Tajvan inaku vccera se oglasi i makedonskoto Minisetrstvo za
trgovija koje soopssti deka razgovorite za dogovorot za slobodna trgovija se
odlozzeni za septemvri. Vakvata odluka, spored Ministerstvoto e donesena
bidejki od tajvanska strana denovive pristignalo pismo vo koje stoi deka i
pokraj site napori Tajvan ne e vo mozznost ovoj mesec da gi prodolzzi i
eventualno zavrssi pregovorite za dogovorot za sobodna trgovija so
Makedonija. Vo pismoto e navedeno i deka na Tajvan mu e potrebno vreme za
dopolnitelni analizai i konsultacii okolu potpissuvanjeto na dogovorot.
Inaku kako ssto e poznato za slednava nedela e najaveno deka Makodnija kje
ja poseti pogolema tajvanska delegacija, pri ssto treba oficijalno da bide
otvorena i slobodnata industriska zona kaj Skopje vo koja glavno kje
uccestvuaat tajvanski firmi.
LEKOVITE NA ZAGREBSKA `PLIVA' POVTORNO VO APTEKITE Megju Fondot za
zdravstvo, veledrogerijata `Zegin' od Skopje i `Pliva' od Zagreb vccera e
potpissan dogovor koj kje ovozmozzi nekoi od neophodnite lekovi, posbeno za
lekuvanje na zavisnicite od droga i alkohol i dussevno bolnite povtorno da
se najdat vo aptekite niz Makedonija, javuva A-1 Televizijata. Vo aptekite
niz drzavava imeno vekje tri meseci gi nema lekovite na `Pliva' megju koi e
i metadonot koj eneophoden vo lekuvanjeto na zavisnicite od droga, no so
vccera potpissaniot dogovor ovoj problem e ressen brem vo naredniot period
od pet meseci. Nestassicata inaku bila predizvikana poradi priccinata ssto
Fondot za zdravstvo mu dolzzi golemi sredstva na skopskiot `Alkaloid' koj e
distributer na lekovite na `Pliva'. Poradi ova `Alkaloid' ne vrssesse
isporaka na lekovite na `Pliva' do korisnicite vo Makedonija. Dodeka se
ressavaat smetkite megju Fondot i `Alkaloid', `Zegin' se javuva kako nov
distributer na lekovite na `Pliva' koj kako ssto e dogovoreno kje gi nabavi
lekovite od hrvatskot proizoditel na odlozzeno plakjanje. (kraj) mils vesti
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:05:58 +0200 From: Makfax <makfax UNET.COM.MK>
Subject: daims - 28.07.99
28.07.99. The Executive Committee of the opposition Alliance for Democracy
has decided to issue a charge against the leader of the Democratic
Alternative and general menager of the Governmental Agency for development
Vasil Tupurkovski for tax embezzlement, reported Wednesday the Macedonian
media. In the charge, issued to the State Prosecutor, as was announced in
the press release of the Alliance for Democracy, Tupurkovski was accused for
"his statement to the media that received a provision from Taiwan, which he
never tried to hide, and that he will use the money for new building of
Macedonian Philharmonic orchestra and sports infrastructure". "It is normal
provision to be taken in a bossiness, but in politics... Tupurkovski has
been received a gift form Taiwan, which he was obliged to report to the tax
collectors", said the leader of the Alliance for Democracy Gjordji
Marijanovic in interview for "Utrinski vesnik" ("Morning post". /end/ /end/
The EU Commission has decided officially Monday a financial assistance to be
approved for Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria because of the economic damages
that those three countries suffering with the war in FR Yugoslavia.
Commision, as Makfax reports, proposed for those three Balkan countries to
be approved a financial package of total 380 million Euro, among which 30
million will be loans. The EU Commission has proposed Macedonia to be
granted with 80 million, Romania with 200 million and Bulgaria with 100
million Euro. "The financial support is a reflection of the EU wish to help
the countries hit by the Kosovo conflict and to improve their reforms and
economic stabilization", stated the Commission. Next step for approval the
financial package for these three countries is European Parliament and the
Finance Ministers of the EU, who have to decide whether this decision will
be approved. /end/ /end/
The Pentagon Senior Officials have confirmed that the NATO commander for
Europe, general Wesley Clark has been informed in April, only several months
before the normal ending of his mandate, that he should leave his position.
Western Agencies remaining that the Clark role during the NATO air strikes
to FR Yugoslavia have produced a differences in the White House and tensions
in the Pentagon, claming that the decision Clark to resign has been
announced yesterday. The Pentagon Senior Officials said that decision is
"not a reflection of discontent with the job that General Clark has done,
but that is a part of "normal rotation". The Pentagon Spokesman has
announced in Singapore that General Clark will be replaced with Air force
general Joseph Ralston, deputy Chief of the Joint Stuff of the U.S, Army.
/end/ /end/
The U.S. State Secretary Madeline Albright stated that the NATO campaign on
FR Yugoslavia was launched because the UN could not that, adding that she is
"proud" with the achievements of the campaign, Western Agencies reported.
The top ranking U.S. officials have explained that Albright's commentary
have come as a respond for the announcement of the Chinese Foreign Minister
Tang Yuaxun who said that "the human rights can be used as an excuse
powerful nations to scare the weaker", At the improvised press Conference in
Singapore Albright said that "if the announcement is for the U.S.A, NATO and
Kosovo, than a thousands of hundreds Kosovars should be asked about the
massacres and violence against the humanity". /end/
DAIMS /diplomatic and international mission service/ 2
28.07.99 At the village Cemetery of Staro Gracko Wednesday afternoon should
be a funeral for 14 Serbian farmers who have been murdered last Friday on
the field, near to the village, reported Belgrade News Agency "Fonet". The
autopsy of the bodies has been completed last night. With the religious
ceremony on the Cemetery will conduct the Serbian Orthodox Church leader,
Archbishop Pavle. /end/ /end/
The Russian contingent will join the KFOR forces today after the transfer
from Salonca port and Macedonia, reports Makfax. The Greek media announced
that four military vessels shipped in Salonca Port 220 Russian soldiers,
vehicles and other equipment. The previous five Russian ships that entered
Salonca port were stopped to unload the cargo because of the protests of the
Greek Communist Party members. /end/ /end/
The EU is considering the possibility to invite the leaders of Serbian
opposition at the forthcoming Stability Pact Summit in Sarajevo, reported
Western Agencies, Quoting the anonymous British sources. "We were discussed
that possibility and there is a chances Serbian opposition leaders to be
invited to attend the Summit", said that source, refusing to precise who of
them could be invited. The official invitation fort the Summit must come
from Finland, which has the Presidency with the EU. /end/ /end/
The president of the Democratic Party Zoran Djindjic, who has to face
charges for avoiding the military obligation at the Marshal Court in
Belgrade, said that he hopes that he will be not arrested, because of more
severe antigovernment protests in Serbia. "I do not belie3ve that Milosevic
will risk to provoke more and severe protests through Serbia", said
Djindjic. According to the Serbia law, up to five to 20 years prison could
be judged for avoiding military obligation. /end/ /end/
A delegation of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of Russia and Belorus is
expected to arrive today in Belgrade, reported Belgrade electronic media.
According to these sources, the Parliamentary Commissions of Yugoslavia and
Russia-Belorus Union will discuss in a next four days the ways of the
procedure for joining Yugoslavia in the Union. /end/ /end/
The president of the Peoples Party and Vice- Primeminister of Monte Negro
Novak Kilibarda stated that new federation of Monte Negro and Serbia has to
change its name, because of the "bad memories" that provoke the term
"Yugoslavia". Kilibarda said to the press in Podgorica that the vital
decision should be in a hands of Monte Negro, adding it not mean that a clue
can not be find these two countries to live together. /end/ /end/
The Yugoslavian labor, health and welfare Ministry has warned the citizens
for a negative consequences of the eclipse of the sun for the health of the
people, benches a total eclipse of the sun is expected to happened in
Yugoslavia on 11-th of August. The Ministry has recommended the citizens to
stay their homes for three hours during the period from 11,30 am till 02,30
PM and not to be on the direct exposure to the sun because of the dangerous
infrared lights. /END ALL/
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:19:42 +0200 From: Slavko Mangovski <mango
MAKEDONSKOSONCE.COM> Subject: MAKEDONSKI SONCE Media Monitor, 28 July 1999
1. ICG BALKANS 2. MPA 3. World funds Kosovo ahead of Balkans summit 4.
International donors pledge $2 billion to help Kosovo 5. Albania PM warns
against race for cash at Sarajevo 6. Albright cites slow reconstruction of
Kosovo 7. Taiwan steps up Macedonia projects after Kosovo 8. EU sets
economic aid for Bulgaria,Romania,Macedonia 9. Macedonian Serb Leader Vows
Anti-NATO Protests 10. Team Finds NATO Bombing Left Few Environment Woes
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ICG BALKANS ----------------- In what may mark the long-delayed beginning of
a pan-European foreign policy, EU and other world leaders may attempt to
create a new regional order at the Stability Pact Summit in Sarajevo on 30th
July, by finding comprehensive solutions to Balkan instability. If the
effort is to succeed - argues ICG in its new "Stability Pact Summit
briefing" - the international community must urgently address structural and
security problems, if the vast resources attached to the Pact are to create
a self-sustaining, stable regional economy.
--> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full briefing
WRAPUP-World funds Kosovo ahead of Balkans summit 02:22 p.m Jul 28, 1999
Eastern By Nick Antonovics
BRUSSELS, July 28 (Reuters) - Donors on Wednesday promised $2.1 billion in
aid for Kosovo to prevent another humanitarian disaster this winter and to
begin the process of rebuilding its shattered economy.
On the eve of a wider Balkans summit in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo, the
European Union also pledged 380 million euros ($403 million) in
macroeconomic aid to Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia -- signalling concern
for neighbouring countries affected by the Kosovo conflict which ended last
month.
``(Kosovo's) most immediate urgent requirements which were the objectives
of this meeting have been met,'' Chris Poortman, World Bank coordinator for
South East Europe, said.
``In addition, we found that donors were ready and willing in advance of
the full reconstruction programme to pledge over $2 billion which we expect
will cover a significant part of the full reconstruction programme,'' he
told a news conference.
Officials said the money pledged would cover some $200 million needed by
United Nations agencies working in Kosovo to provide food and shelter and
fill a $45 million ``budget deficit'' identified by Kosovo's UN-backed
administration, UNMIK.
The money would also go some way to addressing immediate reconstruction
needs in 1999, valued at 300 million euros by the EU on the basis of a
report which found damage to 120,000 homes as well as electricity supplies,
roads and bridges.
In a statement, the World Bank and the European Commission, which
co-chaired the meeting, said some of the $2.1 billion was money which had
already been pledged.
Officials declined to be pinned down on how much was new money ahead of a
second donors conference, slated for October, when a clearer picture of
reconstruction costs and burden sharing is expected to emerge.
U.S. Ambassador James Robbins restated the United States' readiness to give
up to $500 million in cash and commodities to help returning refugees and
pay for mine clearance and police.
``Terrible crimes have been and continue to be committed in Kosovo. Support
for the establishment of a functioning police and judicial system is
necessary to make sure such crimes do not go unpunished,'' Dobbins said.
Francois Lamoureux, a Commission official, said the EU would provide a
further 69 million euros in humanitarian aid, adding the EU would spend 145
million euros on reconstruction in 1999.
The Sarajevo summit on Friday is expected to ask the Commission and World
Bank to oversee the wider job of stabilising the Balkans by linking its
countries' economies more closely to the West.
Western leaders at the summit are also expected to ram home the message
that Serbia, while welcome to join the pact process, will not benefit while
President Slobodan Milosevic remains in power.
To underline the point, the EU plans to invite former Yugoslav central bank
governor Dragoslav Avramovic, touted as a possible interim replacement by
opposition democratic parties, along with Milo Djukanovic, leader of
Yugoslavia's pro-Western republic of Montenegro.
Gunter Burghardt, head of the Commission's foreign relations department,
said the world had a clear responsibility to make sure war was struck from
the map in the troubled region.
``In 1999 our task is not only to act like a fire brigade and put the fire
out, but we have to make sure that the arsonists have no chance to cause
further conflict in this region,'' he told the donor meeting.
Albanian Prime Minister Pandeli Majko said on Wednesday he feared the
two-day Sarajevo summit could turn into a contest among Balkan nations
competing for aid, although a senior member of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe said he did not expect any new pledges
of aid.
Outgoing monetary affairs commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy said the new
EU aid to Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia ``demonstrates the EU's
willingness to support at this critical moment the countries affected by
the Kosovo conflict.''
French aid for 1999 to Balkan states affected by the Kosovo crisis will
reach four billion francs ($650 million), Cooperation Minister Charles
Josselin said.
Aides quoted Josselin as telling a cabinet meeting that 2.5 billion francs
were earmarked for Kosovo, including funds for French participation in the
NATO-led KFOR force, for refugee aid, and to set up a new administration.
($1=.9426 Euro)
International donors pledge $2 billion to help Kosovo By Peter James
Spielmann, Associated Press, 07/28/99 13:31 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) More than
60 nations and dozens of international aid agencies pledged $2 billion
Wednesday to help feed and house refugees who have returned to Kosovo.
At a donors' meeting co-sponsored by the European Union and the World Bank,
the United States pledged $500 million, Japan pledged $200 million, Germany
$190 million and Britain $145 million, U.S. Ambassador James Dobbins said.
Other nations and agencies pledged lesser amounts.
The EU will provide about $160 million this year and $532 million next year
through the new European Agency for Reconstruction.
''I think that everybody is inclined to be very generous with Kosovo,''
Dobbins said. ''I think there will be adequate resources.''
Dobbins said that since estimates of the need in Kosovo are being
constantly revised, it is impossible to say exactly how much will
ultimately be required.
This conference will be followed by a Balkan aid summit Friday in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina. It will be attended by President Clinton and other
leaders of the Group of Eight nations: Britain, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan and Russia, as well as the European Union and Balkan nations.
More than 120,000 of the 200,000 homes in Kosovo were damaged and some
40,000 were ruined, according to a study commissioned by the European
Union. The study put the cost of housing repairs alone at more than $1
billion.
Most of the damage to ethnic Albanian housing was inflicted by Yugoslav
Serb security forces or local Serbs during their 16-month drive to purge
Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian majority.
The return since June of about 720,000 of the estimated 1 million ethnic
Albanian refugees who fled Kosovo during the 78-day NATO air campaign has
sharply reduced the cost of caring for refugees.
Albania PM warns against race for cash at Sarajevo 11:32 a.m. Jul 28, 1999
Eastern TIRANA, July 28 (Reuters) - Albanian Prime Minister Pandeli Majko
said on Wednesday he was concerned a Balkan stability summit in Sarajevo
summit could turn into a contest among Balkan countries competing with each
other for pledges of aid.
``I have shared with regional colleagues my personal concern that the
summit should not be turned into a race between regional countries asking
for more and more (money) for themselves,'' Majko told reporters.
``I am convinced any such competition for money from a fund which does not
exist will not be tolerated.''
Majko, at 31 the youngest premier in Europe, and President Rexhep Meidani
will represent Albania at the Sarajevo summit on July 30 aimed at approving
a broad programme for reconstruction of Kosovo and its neighbours under the
Balkans' stability pact.
Before the Kosovo conflict, Albania had lacked any means of communicating
with Kosovo and Montenegro -- due to the isolationist policy of Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and heavily-guarded borders -- but had
cooperated with Greece, Macedonia and Italy on regional projects.
``For Albania, it is absolutely unrealistic not to ask to be the main
bridge to Kosovo for the economic, political and economic cooperation it
will seek with the United States and Europe,'' Majko added.
Majko said he had held fruitful talks with President Milo Djukanovic of
Montenegro, Serbia's partner in the Yugoslav federation, in Vienna last
week.
``With President Djukanovic we agreed that the barriers that prevent
dialogue between Albania and Montenegro should be destroyed as soon as
possible,'' Majko said.
Albright cites slow reconstruction of Kosovo By Tom Raum, Associated Press,
07/28/99 11:25 ROME (AP) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her
Italian counterpart today both expressed regret over the slow pace of
reconstruction operations in Kosovo.
''Clearly, one would wish that this were moving faster,'' Albright said on
the eve of a daylong visit to Pristina, the provincial capital of Kosovo
and other locations.
But Albright said she would not criticize the United Nations or NATO given
the enormity of the process.
''The process of building up is proceeding more slowly than we had
anticipated,'' Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini said at a news
conference with Albright after the two had a working lunch.
Albright flew here from a conference of Asian leaders in Singapore to
prepare for her trip to Kosovo on Thursday and to attend, along with
President Clinton, a conference in Sarajevo on Friday with other world
leaders on Balkans reconstruction.
Recently, both U.S. congressional leaders and Pentagon officials accused
the United Nations of moving too slowly. Defense Secretary William Cohen
and Gen. Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate
hearing recently that NATO was doing too many civilian administration
chores that should be the responsibility of the United Nations.
Some U.S. officials suggested in turn, that NATO was dragging its feet.
The United Nations is supposed to create a civilian administration,
resettle refugees, recruit local police forces and provide basic services.
''While we have said that the process is not moving as rapidly as we would
like, this is not the time to be critical about the United Nations,'' said
Albright, a former U. N. ambassador.
''It is an organization that has huge responsibilities here,'' she said.
''What is remarkable is the rapidity with which the refugees have returned
to Kosovo, '' she added.
Taiwan steps up Macedonia projects after Kosovo 07:51 a.m. Jul 28, 1999
Eastern By Elisaveta Konstantinova
SKOPJE, July 28 (Reuters) - Taiwan plans to build an industrial zone in
Macedonia to encourage investment in the Balkan state after the Kosovo war,
a Taiwanese official said on Wednesday.
The plan is part of a lucrative deal which has angered China and triggered
political argument inside Macedonia.
``Our businessmen have strong interest...in Macedonia but projects were
delayed by the Kosovo conflict,'' Peter Cheng, charge d'affaires at
Taiwan's embassy in Skopje, told Reuters.
Taiwanese Prime Minister Vincent Siew is expected to visit Skopje next
week, with a delegation of about 100 industry leaders, to launch the
construction of the industrial zone in Petrovac near the capital, Cheng
said.
The zone will aim to lure international investors. Macedonia has agreed to
lift taxes on export goods produced there, and reduce taxes on those sold
locally.
Taiwan pledged investments of up to $300 million in cash and up to $1.5
billion in long-term commitments in January when Macedonia agreed to
establish diplomatic relations with Taipei.
The move provoked heated protests from China which considers Taiwan a
renegade province with no right to its own foreign policy. China broke its
diplomatic relations with Macedonia.
Macedonia's relations with Taiwan have also become a highly sensitive issue
among local politicians as they gear up for a presidential election in
October.
The opposition, largely composed of former communists, has condemned the
deal, pledging to restore ties with China and play down relations with
Taipei if their candidate becomes president.
The ruling centre-right coalition, which came to power nine months ago, is
also divided over the issue. Taiwan's strongest supporters are Prime
Minister Ljubco Georgievski and Foreign Minister Alexander Dimitrov who
sealed the deal.
Taiwan's interests in Macedonia range from building a five-star hotel with
golf course to exporting Macedonian timber to Kosovo as part of efforts to
rebuild the war-ravaged Yugoslav province. Other projects include setting
up food-processing plants and supplying Macedonian marble to Asia.
``It is important for us to speed up our projects to show all Macedonian
politicians that we can help this country recover and improve its living
standards,'' Cheng said.
``We hope to export goods produced in Macedonia to other Balkan and
European countries.''
Taiwan has also started a training programme for up to 2,000 Macedonians to
ensure qualified workers for the industrial zone, and at the same time help
the country fight high unemployment
EU sets economic aid for Bulgaria,Romania,Macedonia 06:23 a.m. Jul 28, 1999
Eastern BRUSSELS, July 28 (Reuters) - The European Union executive on
Wednesday formally proposed financial aid for Bulgaria, Romania and
Macedonia to help offset the impact of the Kosovo crisis on their
economies.
In a statement, the European Commission proposed the EU lend Romania 200
million euros ($212.8 million), Bulgaria 100 million euros and provide
Macedonia with 80 million euros, of which 30 million would be in the form
of a grant.
The proposal came as donors met in Brussels to provide essential
humanitarian aid in Kosovo this winter and a day before an EU-sponsored
``stability pact'' for the Balkans is launched at a summit in Sarajevo.
One Commission official said, however, the announcement of the aid was just
a coincidence and was not linked to either meeting.
The EU aid to Bulgaria was pledged at a meeting of donors held in April. A
separate donor meeting on Romania is expected to be held in September.
EU aid to Bulgaria and Romania will be linked to respect of ongoing
economic reform programmes drawn up by the International Monetary Fund.
``This financial assistance demonstrates the EU's willingness to support at
this critical moment the countries affected by the Kosovo conflict in their
economic stabilisation and reform efforts,'' outgoing Monetary Affairs
Commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy said in the statment.
Before any of the EU funds are released, they must be endorsed by the
European Parliament and EU finance ministers.
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Macedonian Serb Leader Vows Anti-NATO Protests - Reuters 28-JUL-99
SKOPJE, Macedonia (Reuters) - A leader of the Serb minority in Macedonia
threatened Wednesday to stage mass demonstrations against NATO facilities
in the country unless the alliance offered more protection to their ethnic
kin in Kosovo.
The head of the Democratic Party of Serbs of Macedonia, Dragisa Miletic,
told Reuters: "We will organize massive and aggressive demonstrations in
Macedonia if the massacre of Serbian people in Kosovo continues, and you
know we can do it."
Miletic was the organizer of violent demonstrations against Western
embassies in the Macedonian capital Skopje on the first day of NATO air
strikes against Yugoslavia aimed at ending the brutal repression of
majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
"After the aggression from the air, the genocide of Serbs continues on the
ground," he added.
His warning came as hundreds of mourners gathered in a Kosovo village to
bury 14 Serb farmers killed in the worst of several incidents thought to be
revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians.
Miletic accused the NATO-led KFOR peace force of cooperating with the
separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the "ethnic cleansing" of
minority Serbs in the province.
"KFOR soldiers watch Serbs being killed and kidnapped, their houses being
burned, Serbian monasteries, sacred places, graves and churches being
violated," said Miletic. "If this continues we will demand that the
Yugoslav army comes back to Kosovo to protect the integrity and sovereignty
of the country."
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR says some 170,000 Kosovo Serbs and other
ethnic minorities have left the province since the end of NATO's
bombardment and the arrival of KFOR troops last month, amid the return of
some 700,000 ethnic Albanians who fled or were driven from the province to
Macedonia and Albania.
A leader of the Serb community in Macedonia said his country's Serbs were
continuing to provide aid for their ethnic kin in Kosovo, adding that a
truck-load of food and hygiene products would head Thursday for the Kosovo
village of Strpce, near the Macedonian border.
July 28, 1999, The NYT
Team Finds NATO Bombing Left Few Environment Woes
By STEVEN ERLANGER BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- A United Nations environmental
team has found no evidence of a major ecological catastrophe in Yugoslavia
as a result of NATO's bombing war, its leader said Tuesday. But he urged
the West to provide immediate aid to help clean up significant "hot spots"
of war-related pollution.
In a news conference to discuss preliminary findings from the 10-day
inspection visit, Pekka Haavisto, a former Finnish environment minister and
chairman of the U.N.'s Balkan Task Force, said: "We talk about chosen hot
spots where immediate action has to take place, but not about a major
ecocide or country-wide catastrophe."
Still, he said, environmental damage in heavily bombed industrial towns
like Pancevo, Kragujevac and Bor needed immediate attention to protect the
health of ordinary citizens, and added, when asked, that the West should
help.
Mercury released by the bombing of industrial targets is contaminating
Pancevo. And in Kragujevac, where the Zastava car factory was bombed, there
are high levels of PCBs. In Bor, the problem is acid rain, which could be
affecting areas beyond Yugoslavia.
One of the most difficult problems the team faced, Haavisto said, was
distinguishing between pre-existing environmental damage in Yugoslavia --
an Eastern European country that has had nine years of economic
sanctions -- and damage caused by the war.
In Pancevo, for instance, where a major petrochemical factory, a refinery
and a fertilizer factory were bombed repeatedly, mercury lies in pools and
should be cleaned up even before any other effort is made at
reconstruction, he said.
When asked if it was safe to eat fish from the Danube, he hesitated, saying
that local officials had lifted a ban on river fish and that they were
honest in their assessments. Still, he said, he would not let fishing
continue in a mile-long channel near Pancevo where effluent from the three
factories enters the river.
"We found very dangerous chemicals there," he said. "But how dangerous it
is to the whole Danube we cannot say."
Existing cleaning mechanisms were overwhelmed by the water used to try to
put out the fires and by the lack of electricity or chemical supplies, he
said.
Haavisto said the original state of environmental pollution in Pancevo was
high, though the bombing had worsened it. The effects of the "black rain"
in Pancevo, when burning factory fires sent pollutants and chemicals into
the air, had now passed, he said.
"We've had some very worrying findings, but in some sites where there was a
lot of worry we found nothing," he said.
He said the initial findings did not show an increased level of
radioactivity from any bombs containing depleted uranium, as was feared.
But he noted there might be other consequences from trace elements that
still need to be examined.
And in Nis, for example, local fears about depleted uranium and the leakage
of PCB's into the ground and ground water proved unfounded, he said.
In Bor, at a copper factory, the problems are worsened by a lack of
electricity to run equipment that would stabilize sulfur or run pumping
stations, and so sulfur dioxide is being emitted into the air, causing acid
rain and likely traveling across borders.
NATO countries are divided on how much and what kind of help to provide
Yugoslavia. The United States has refused to consider any reconstruction
aid while President Slobodan Milosevic is in power, saying it will provide
only relief assistance. The European Union is urging broader aid to repair
the electrical system before the winter. But Washington has begun to
discuss how to get aid to individual cities, especially those run by the
opposition to Milosevic, and Pancevo and Kragujevac both are
opposition-run.
In general, Haavisto danced carefully around the political issues,
stressing that the report of the U.N. team would be given to
Secretary-General Kofi Annan in about a month, after more detailed
laboratory tests and evaluation.
Haavisto said that the Yugoslav authorities were helpful and the team,
which also went to Novi Sad, Kraljevo, and Prahavo, visited any site he
chose except for those in Kosovo where land mines remain.
Predrag S. Polic, a chemistry professor at Belgrade University, praised the
team for its dedication and patience. "There is a lot of anxiety and
emotions because of the war and a lot of fear about health, and I hope
things will improve," he said. "The hot spots are very bad, but large areas
are only temporarily affected."
Given Yugoslavia's climate, with wind, rain, rivers and vegetation,
"self-purification here is good," Polic said. "It's not like Iraq."