YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY (Morning edition) BELGRADE, 14 September 1999 No. 2605 Large part of Arable Kosovian Land full of Cluster Bombs. Etc.
Jon Corlett
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
YUGOSLAV DAILY SURVEY
(Morning edition)
BELGRADE, 14 September 1999 No. 2605
C O N T E N T S:
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
- SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVES BELGRADE UNIVERSITY DELEGATION
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - EU - TERRORISTS
- E.U. CALLS FOR DEMILITARISATION OF KLA
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - RUSSIA - USA
- SERGEYEV, COHEN DISCUSS KOSOVO-METOHIJA SITUATION
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - POLICE
- DEPLOYMENT OF UNMIK POLICE TO PRISTINA COMPLETED
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR
- KFOR DID ALL IT COULD IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA - JACKSON
FROM FOREIGN PRESS
- NATO'S DEADLY HERITAGE
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
SERBIAN PREMIER RECEIVES BELGRADE UNIVERSITY DELEGATION
BELGRADE, September 13 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic
received on Monday a Belgrade University and Student Centre delegation,
headed by University Chancellor Jagos Puric. A Government statement said
the two sides discussed the living standards of the teaching staff and
students.
The Serbian Government is making every effort to improve the financial
position of the teaching staffs and the living standards of the students at
Serbian universities, it was stressed at the meeting.
The Government of this Yugoslav Republic has defined additional specific
measures for enhancing the situation in the area, the statement said.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - EU - TERRORISTS
E.U. CALLS FOR DEMILITARISATION OF KLA
BRUSSELS, September 14 (Tanjug) - The E.U. Council of Ministers has urged
the consistent implementation of the U.N. Security Council resolution on
Kosovo and Metohija calling on the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation
calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to surrender its weapons by
September 19, as provided for by an agreement reached with the U.N.
peacekeeping force KFOR.
In conclusions adopted in a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the E.U.
Foreign Ministers stressed that it was vital that KLA be fully
demilitarised and its military structure disbanded.
The Ministers, who reviewed the situation in the southeast of Europe and
in particular Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, condemned
all acts of violence and threats in the Province.
They voiced deep concern about the fact that a large number of Serbs and
other non-Albanians are leaving Kosovo and Metohija, calling on all
refugees and displaced persons to return to the Province, in line with the
rights cited in the U.N. resolution.
Decisive efforts must be made to make their return easier, the Ministers
said.
They said that it was vital also to speed up efforts for Kosovo and
Metohija's reconstruction in the light of the coming winter, urging the
European Commission and other relevant bodies to prepare measures to this
end.
The Council also debated the E.U. policy towards Yugoslavia and the role
of sanctions in relations with Belgrade. It confirmed a decision taken at
an earlier date to lift a sports ban on Yugoslavia, stressing that
decisions on other sanctions would be taken in line with the developments
in the country.
The Council stressed its readiness to continue offering humanitarian
assistance to Yugoslavia, welcoming a decision to ensure relief aid worth
40 million euros through the ECHO humanitarian organisation.
The Council called on the Commission and other relevant E.U. bodies to
review the possibility of supplying Yugoslavia with fuel for humanitarian
needs.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - RUSSIA - USA
SERGEYEV, COHEN DISCUSS KOSOVO-METOHIJA SITUATION
MOSCOW, September 13 (Tanjug) - Russia's Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev
said in Moscow on Monday that one of the main topics of his talks with his
U.S. opposite number William Cohen would be the situation in U.N.-secured
Kosovo-Metohija.
Sergeyev was speaking before meeting with Cohen, but nothing has been said
about the results of the talks after they ended.
Among the questions to be settled concerning Kosovo-Metohija, Sergeyev
mentioned disarmament of the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), the need for Yugoslav forces to secure Kosovo-Metohija's
borders and the need to provide security for all.
Settling the situation in that Province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia
is a very serious matter for European security, according to Sergeyev, who
said that Russia's positions on operations in Yugoslavia have not changed.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - UNMIK - POLICE
DEPLOYMENT OF UNMIK POLICE TO PRISTINA COMPLETED
PRISTINA, September 14 (Tanjug) - The deployment of a 500-strong U.N.
civilian mission (UNMIK) police force to Pristina, chief city of the
Yugoslav Republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija Province, was completed
on Monday, according to an UNMIK Spokesman. Between 50 and 80 UNMIK
policemen are stationed at each of several police stations throughout the
city. The police's phone number is 92.
UNMIK's traffic police have also started their work.
The Spokesman said that ensuring security to all living in Pristina and
restoring law and order to the city would be the UNMIK police's priority.
KOSOVO-METOHIJA - KFOR
KFOR DID ALL IT COULD IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA - JACKSON
NEW YORK, September 13 (Tanjug) - The KFor has done all it could to bring
order to that U.N.-secured Province of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia,
according to the outgoing KFor Commander on Monday. Speaking for the New
York Times, British General Michael Jackson, who is soon to relinquish his
command for little explained reasons, said that the rest of the job should
be done by civilian authorities.
Jackson refused to say why he was leaving his post, and avoided giving
details about a clash with NATO Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark of the
United States, whose order to stop Russian troops deploying to Pristina
Airport he had refused to carry out.
There are views that this is the true reason for Brussels' decision that
Jackson be replaced as KFor Commander on October 8 by German General Klaus
Reinhardt.
KFor troops increasingly often act as police, Jackson told the New York
Times, which goes on to quote him as saying that it takes time to put a
stop to daily murders and secure multi-ethnic Kosovo-Metohija, and that
this is not a job for soldiers.
Explaining that KFor troops practically have nothing more to do in
Kosovo-Metohija, he said that the international security mission had two
tasks - to secure the return of refugees and to create conditions for the
UNMIK to do its job.
According to the New York newspaper, Jackson's views and the fact that he
is leaving as KFor Commander are a turning point and a signal for shifting
responsibility from KFor to UNMIK.
Jackson was firm in his defence of a consistent implementation of the
decision about the multi-ethnic composition of the U.N. Mission and
Russia's participation in the KFor force, and praised Russian troops in
Kosovo-Metohija.
Before he leaves on October 8, the British general has one more job to do
- viz., to supervise the disarming of the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA), the newspaper says.
Gen. Jackson said he was sure the job would be carried out, and specified
that the KLA still has about 1,000 pieces of weaponry to surrender.
FROM FOREIGN PRESS
NATO'S DEADLY HERITAGE
LONDON, September 13 (Tanjug) - London's Daily telegraph said on Monday
that most accidents suffered by civilians in Kosovo and Metohija since the
beginning of the international presence in that southern Serbian province
were caused by cluster bombs dropped by NATO aircraft during the spring
aggression on Yugoslavia.
NATO's deadly heritage will cause suffering for years to come, said the
report which specifies that 232 accidents have taken place since mid-June,
or about 80 a month.
It is a known fact that NATO dropped a total of 1,300 containers of
cluster bombs, which means that about 270,000 so-called bomblets are
scattered all over the province. It is estimated that five percent, or
14,000, still have not exploded, and only about 3,500 have been found and
defused so far, the BBC said.
A map drawn out by the international force KFOR shows that western Kosovo
is most affected, so that a large part of the arable land is dangerous for
work. Most of the rural population will therefore for a long time to come
have to rely on humanitarian aid for food, the Daily Telegraph said.
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