Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-07-28

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CONTENTS

[01] YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES GUINEAN AMBASSADOR

[02] ORF TELEVISION: KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY IS FIGHTING FOR GREATER ALBANIA

[03] WASHINGTON POST: KOSOVO TERRORISTS FINANCED BY NARCO-MAFIA

[04] INVESTIGATION REQUESTED AGAINST TERRORISTS, ACCOMPLICES

[05] SERBS, ETHNIC ALBANIAN CATHOLICS JOIN AGAINST TERRORIST GANGS

[06] SEVEN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS KILLED IN BORDER INCIDENT

[07] ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS KILL YA CAPTAIN, TWO SOLDIERS

[08] POLICE CRUSH TERRORIST GROUPS IN LAPUSNIK

[09] SERBIAN POLICE DEBLOCKS ROAD PRISTINA-PEC

[10] REPORTERS PASS THROUGH PRISTINA-PEC ROAD CLEARED BY POLICE

[11] SERBIAN PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES GERMANY'S EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTY

[12] MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT ADVOCATES DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO

[13] YUGOSLAV CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT RECEIVES GUINEA'S AMBASSADOR

[01] YUGOSLAV MINISTER RECEIVES GUINEAN AMBASSADOR

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Yugoslav Minister Zoran Bingulac on Monday received new Guinean Ambassad or to Yugoslavia Fara Millimono, at the latter's request.

The talks focused on the promotion of overall cooperation between the tw o traditionally friendly countries, especially in the field of economy, s ports and religion.

[02] ORF TELEVISION: KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY IS FIGHTING FOR GREATER ALBANIA

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Austria's ORF State Television said on Monday that the ethnic Albanian t errorist organisation that calls itself Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK, 1998) was fighting for the creation of a Greater Albania and not for independ ence for Kosovo and Metohija.

ORF said this was indicated also by the fact that KLA members had sworn an oath on July 23. It said the OVK success in Serbia's southern province would not mean an end to the conflict in the Balkans, saying its goals w ould only trigger the spillover of hostilities to neighbouring countries.

The Television said a large number of foreign mercenaries fought in the KLA ranks both from Islamic countries as well as ethnic Albanians from ne ighbouring contries, saying it was not true that the OVK included local p opulation that were allegedly only defending their homes as the Austrian public had been repeatedly informed.

Numerous documents that have been seized also indicate that the OVK is b eing financed from abroad, it said.

ORF also said that OVK goals and methods had reduced the terrorist organ isation's popularity in the international community whose support it had enjoyed until recently.

[03] WASHINGTON POST: KOSOVO TERRORISTS FINANCED BY NARCO-MAFIA

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Terrorists in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija Province are being financed b y narco-mafia and arms smuggling channels abroad, the Washington Post sai d in Monday's editions.

Quoting figures from German intelligence sources, which follows developm ents among Albanian immigrants, the daily said most probably as much as o ne million dollars was sent from Berlin every month to militant separatis ts in Kosovo and Metohija.

Most of the funds are collected through so-called donations, exacted of all Albanian workers in Germany.

Authorities in Switzerland have linked the influx of money into Kosovo a nd Metohija with narco-mafia and arms smuggling, in which Albanian immigr ants are heavily involved, the daily said.

It quotes head of the narcotics department in Lausanne Pierre Dacques to the effect that as much as 90 percent of the heroin trade in Switzerland is controlled by Albanian trafficking circles.

Of the 2,000 Albanians in jail for convictions on illicit narcotics traf ficking or selling, most are from Kosovo and Metohija, the official said.

Dacques said Swiss police had recently traced smuggling operations by Ko sovo clans that sold heroin and bought arms illegally.

The drug flow from Turkey and Albania into western Europe has increased dramatically over the past few months, suggesting an increase in arms smu ggling in the reverse direction, the daily said.

Washington Post said the funds enabled the so-called Kosovo Liberation A rmy to include heavy weapons in its arsenal.

[04] INVESTIGATION REQUESTED AGAINST TERRORISTS, ACCOMPLICES

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

The Pec Public Prosecutor has called on the district court to launch an investigation against five ethnic Albanians from the municipalities of Pe c and Decani, who are suspected of crimes of terrorism, plotting against the state and being accessories after the fact.

The suspects are Dzevit Musabanaj, 31, of Pec, Fljorim Zukaj, 27, and Dr iton Zukaj, 22, of the village of Beleg in the Decani municipality, and A rbnor Djemajlji, 21, and Nedzat Djemajlji, 49, of Pec.

All suspects, except Nedzat Djemajlji, joined the terrorist organisation , the so-called Liberation Army of Kosovo, in June, purchased arms and am munition for terrorists and participated in terrorist attacks against Ser bian Interior Ministry organs.

In mid-July, they became part of a group that was to attack a police sta tion and other major facilities in the town of Pec.

Nedzat Djemajlji assisted them in transporting terrorist and arms to the town. All suspects are detained.

A demand for investigation was also filed against Jakup Dinaj, 48, of Pe c, who is suspected of plotting against the state.

As a member of a sabotage and terrorist group within the terrorist organ isation, the so-called Liberation Army of Kosovo, he took an automatic ri fle and transported terrorists injured in clashes with the police for tre atment in his house in the village of Rausic near Pec. Dinaj is also det ained.

[05] SERBS, ETHNIC ALBANIAN CATHOLICS JOIN AGAINST TERRORIST GANGS

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Inhabitants of the Serb village of Novak, near Prizren in Serbia's south ern Province of Kosovo-Metohija, mount regular night watches in fear of a ttacks by separatist gangs from surrounding ethnic Albanian villages.

Ethnic Albanian catholics from neighboring villages of Smac and Penadija have promised they would fight along with the Serbs against terrorist ga ngs.

"We, ethnic Albanian catholics do not wish to be involved in terrorist a cts against the Republic of Serbia, which is our homeland. We have lived in peace with the Serbs for centuries as neighbors, and we wish to contin ue so. We do not recognize ethnic Albanian terrorist gangs calling themse lves Kosovo Liberation Army, as our safety is ensured by the Yugoslav Ar my and Serbian police. We have said so to representatives of the Army and of the Ministry of Internal Affairs when they visited our villages," Sma c and Penadija villagers said.

Serbs and ethnic Albanians from Novak, Smac and Penadija regularly visit and help each other in farming and invite each other to weddings and rel igious celebrations, and intend to continue living that way, Novak villag er Branko Gligorijevic said and added that fear had not made them leave t heir homes.

[06] SEVEN ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS KILLED IN BORDER INCIDENT

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Seven ethnic Albanian terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with Yugoslav border guards a few km west of the Kosovo and Metohija town of Junik, early on Monday as they tried to cross illegally into Albania, the Pristina-based Media Centre said.

The terrorists, members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, are bel ieved to have tried to escape to Albania from Junik where several hundred armed extremists have been surrounded by strong police forces for two da ys.

The police blocked all routes leading to the town. No shooting was repor ted in the town area early on Monday.

The police unblocked most of the route linking the Province's capital of Pristina with the town of Pec after the routing of a large group of terr orists at the village of Lapusnik on Sunday.

Local authorities in Klina confirmed that the police had regained contro l over the section of the route linking Klina and Kijevo. Over the past t wo days, the police have removed dozens of barricades placed by the terro rists across this section as well as barricades from the section linking Komoran and Lapusnik.

The Pristina-Pec route is expected to be safe for traffic in a few days.

[07] ETHNIC ALBANIAN TERRORISTS KILL YA CAPTAIN, TWO SOLDIERS

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Several terrorist attacks were perpetrated on July 25 and 26 in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo-Metohija on Yugoslav Army troops and facilit ies, the Third Army Press Service said on Monday evening in a statement.

The targets of terrorist attacks were border posts, supply convoys and b arracks, the statement says.

Captain Vladan Mikicevic, b. 1978, posted in Prizren, was killed by snip er fire on July 25 on the Orahovac-Malisevo road, Kosovo-Metohija.

Soldiers Zoran Popovic, b. 1978, Goran Misic, b. 1976, and Tibor Keleman , b. 1974, were wounded the same day. They are receiving medical treatmen t and their lives are not in danger.

Soldiers Zoran Jankovic, b. 1977, and Ivan Dimitrijevic, b. 1977, were k illed in a terrorist attack on July 26 in the Blace village area, Stimlje municipality, Kosovo-Metohija. Soldier Marjan Peternel, b. 1977, and sec ond lieutenant Petar Pancic, b. 1972, were wounded in the attack and are receiving medical treatment.

Due to the terrorist attacks on Yugoslav Army, additional security measu res have been taken, the statement says.

[08] POLICE CRUSH TERRORIST GROUPS IN LAPUSNIK

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

After two days of fighting, Serbian police on Sunday crushed terrorist g roups around the village of Lapusnik and unblocked another section of the Pristina-Pec road, the Pristina-based Media Centre has said.

Lapusnik was one of the major strongholds of the so-called Liberation Ar my of Kosovo and terrorists had built fortifications throughout the area.

There were no casualties among the Serbian Interior Ministry members and the number of terrorists' casualties is still unknown.

[09] SERBIAN POLICE DEBLOCKS ROAD PRISTINA-PEC

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Serbian police on Monday completely deblocked the road Pristina-Pec in K osovo and Metohija (Kosmet, 1998) Province and pushed back ethnic Albania n terrorists also from the village of Kijevo, which is on this road. Traf fic on this road will proceed without any limitations as soon as technica l teams have checked the tarmac and roadsides. Security forces are in ful l control of the route.

Kijevo has long been a target of attacks by ethnic Albanian terrorists, members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army. Police are now successfu lly neutralizing the terrorists in a wide area around this village.

[10] REPORTERS PASS THROUGH PRISTINA-PEC ROAD CLEARED BY POLICE

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

About 30 reporters passed through the major Pristina-Pec road in Kosovo and Metohija cleared by police on Monday after being blocked by terrorist s for two months.

The reporters arrived only three hours after the final clash between pol ice and members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK, 1998), on a section of the road between Lapusnik and Kijevo.

Traces of the fierce combat were visible along the road on the route fro m Komorane to Kijevo (about 30 km, 1998), where the terrorists attacked a police station and military column.

The terrorists were driven back to the areas of Malisevo and Drenica.

The convoy, on its way from Kijevo back to Pristina, with the reporters and diplomatic observers, came under sniper fire. Police responded immedi ately.

The inhabitants of Kijevo and police forces in a controlling station tha t had also been blocked, emerged triumphant after the two-month siege.

Heavy police forces have been deployed in Kijevo, and along the road tow ard Pristina and Klina.

Serbian Interior Ministry Spokesman for Kosovo and Metohija Bozidar Fili c showed the reporters a network of OVK trenches, earthworks, dugouts, an d artillery nests on the Gradina hill over the valley between the village s of Komorane and Lapusnik.

Filic said the operation ended without any civilian casualties, adding t hat police suffered no injuries or deaths in today's fighting.

[11] SERBIAN PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL RECEIVES GERMANY'S EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTY

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

Head of the Serbian Parliament Freign Relations Committee Ratomir Vico r eceived on Monday German Deputy to the European Parliament Edith Mueller.

Vico informed Mueller about the ongoing implementation of an agreement o n the normalisation of education in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, stressing the importance of implementing the agreement full y.

Mueller voiced content with the European Union's efforts to help build a nd reconstruct university facilities in Kosovo and Metohija.

[12] MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT ADVOCATES DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

The little opportunity that still remains must be used to seek a diploma tic solution for the crisis in Kosovo-Metohija in order to keep peace in this part of the Balkans, Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov told Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita.

In the interview carried on Monday by Skoplje daily Nova Makedonija, Gli gorov said that repeated postponements of dialogue in Serbia's southern P rovince could lead to an escalation of the conflict which would then cert ainly spread to neighboring countries.

It is essential to avoid the spreading of the Kosovo-Metohija conflict t o Macedonia as its population comprises 23 percent ethnic Albanians, most ly concentrated along the border with Kosovo-Metohija, Gligorov said.

Any expansion of the conflict in Kosovo-Metohija could lead to a flow of refugees to Macedonia, which would change its ethnic composition, Gligor ov said and added this would be a great risk for his country.

[13] YUGOSLAV CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT RECEIVES GUINEA'S AMBASSADOR

Tanjug, 1998-07-27

President of the Yugoslav Constitutional Court Milomir Jakovljevic on Mo nday received Guinea's newly-appointed Ambassador in Belgrade Fara Millim ono. The talks dealt with cooperation between the two countries' Constitu tional Courts that has been successfully renewed and Millimono's contribu tion to it. Millimono showed great interest in the Yugoslav Constitutiona l Court's powers in the country's legal system and court organisation.

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