Su HR 1064, FMI, G-17 ed elezioni jugoslave

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"Vogliamo essere una colonia aperta [sic] ed una societa' aperta"

Queste le parole di VESELIN VUKOTIC, coordinatore del gruppo di
economisti "G-17" del blocco di opposizione serbo DOS - ai quali si
richiama Kostunica nel suo programma elettorale - intervistato da "The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer", US Public Television, il 14 luglio 1999.

Il 31 agosto successivo Vukotic, che e' anche responsabile governativo
per le privatizzazioni in Montenegro, dichiara a Guido Ruotolo sul
"Manifesto" che le imprese montenegrine non verranno "svendute" al
capitale straniero bensi', piu' semplicemente, "regalate" perche'
altrimenti non sarebbero appetibili. 


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REACTIONS TO THE CONGRESS ACT HR 1064

* Yugoslav 'Opposition' Negotiates Sale of Yugoslavia!
by Michel Chossudovsky and Jared Israel
(original: http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/11.htm )

* Joseph Biden (US congressman): "We, the Congress, are saying to the
people of Serbia that they are our friends, not our enemies. It is their
Government, it is Slobodan Milosevic that is the problem, not the
Serbian people... Should our West European allies choose to embrace a
post-Milosevic, democratically elected, but ultra-nationalistic Serbia,
then I would say to them `good luck'..."

* Washington Votes to  Finance Yugoslav Runoff Election
by Michel Chossudovsky

* Blatant U.S. intervention in Yugoslav elections protested; Group calls
for investigation (IAC)

* Are Washingtonians Helping Milosevic Survive?
by Srdja Trifkovic


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H. R. 1064: AN ACT To authorize a coordinated program to promote the
development of democracy in Serbia and Montenegro.


> http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/1.htm
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The International Monetary Fund And The Yugoslav Elections
by Michel Chossudovsky and Jared Israel (9-28-2000)


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Who Are the G-17?
By Michel Chossudovsky


> http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/217 

IL PROGRAMMA "SEED", RADIO B92 ed il GRUPPO G17


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CHINA: ELECTIONS IN YUGOSLAVIA ARE NOT OVER YET

 PEKING, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - The elections in Yugoslavia have not been
completed yet and it is not known at this time who the president will
be,
Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Sun Yuxi said on Thursday.
Pointing out the results announced by the Yugoslav federal Electoral
Commission, Sun told a regular press conference that these elections are
exclusively an internal affair of Yugoslavia and underscored that China
respects the choice of the Yugoslav people. He said he hoped Yugoslavia
would preserve its political stability and achieve economic and social
growth. Sun expressed hope that Chinese-Yugoslav relations would
continue
to grow and pointed out that China and Yugoslavia have maintained, and
will
continue to maintain, economic and trade cooperation on the grounds of
equality and mutual benefits, cooperation which is in the interests and
beneficial to the peoples of both countries. China has repeatedly
announced
over the past few days that foreign interference in the internal affairs
of
a country, or in the electoral and post-election process in Yugoslavia,
is
unacceptable.

WEST DOES NOT CARE FOR SERBIAN PEOPLE

BEIJING, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - Chinese media carried on Thursday a Yugoslav
Electioral Commission statement that incumbent President Slobodan
Milosevic
and the opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica must undergo a second
round
of elections on Oct 8 as neither won a majority in the first.
 Chinese Worker's Daily said in a commentary on the Yugoslav elections
that
the West does not care for free and fair elections in Yugoslavia or for
the
future of Serbian people, but only for its own interests, as
demonstrated
by its economic, political and even military pressures against
Yugoslavia.
 The daily warns that this is gross interference in the internal affairs
of
Yugoslavia, adding that the chief aim of the West is to use pressure to
overthrow the current government in Belgrade.
 Illustrating the media and other forms of pressure, the daily said that
the western media announced immediately after polling stations closed
Sunday evening that "President Slobodan Milosevic lost the elections".
Pointing to other means of gross interference of the West, the daily
stressed "threats and promises" of the West as regards economy, quoting
some western officials who said that the sanctions against Yugoslavia
would
be strenghtened if the election results were not in conformity to their
will.  Media in Beijing stressed that Russia urged the West against
destabilizing Yugoslavia, quoting Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's
statement that the Yugoslav people have full freedom to express their
will
without internal or external pressure.

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Church's Appeal (STATEMENT TEXT) 

Church's appeal to
Kostunica

The church's Bishop Justin congratulated Mr Kostunica
The text of the Serbian Orthodox Church's
statement to opposition candidate Vojislav
Kostunica calling on him to assume the
duties of Yugoslav president.

Dear Dr Vojislav Kostunica, elected president
of Yugoslavia, 

In a sign of joy that the presidential,
parliamentary and local elections in our
homeland, on 24 September 2000, transpired
peacefully and with dignity, the Holy Synod of
the Serbian Orthodox Church calls on Dr
Vojislav Kostunica and his fellow elected
citizens to assume the administration of the
state, its parliament and municipalities in an
equally peaceful and dignified manner. 

With dignity and on the
basis of the results
received, which are
proof of the trust of
the people to which
they belong. 

With dignity and
responsibility in the
absolute sense of the
word, because we
know that this nation,
which has suffered
frequently, has always
thought about its freedom. 

Therefore, today, when to all intents and
purposes it has achieved the freedom it has
wished for, those it has elected must not,
through their behaviour, allow the tears of
sorrow to flow down a single face. 

Only in that case will the Lord of the Sky and
the Earth in the Holy Trinity - the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit - bless the start of
your daily work and answer the prayers of the
Orthodox Church of Saint Sava, with the
Patriarch at its head. 

Chairman, Holy Synod AEM and Serbian
Patriarch, Pavle. 

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         ELECTION SUPERVISING BOARD: YUGOSLAV POLLING WAS IN LINE WITH
LAW
         BELGRADE, September 29 (Tanjug)  September 24 Yugoslav 
presidential and parliamentary elections and local polls in its republic
of 
Serbia were peaceful and dignified, with full application of the
election 
laws and generally accepted international standards, according to the 
Yugoslav Election Supervising Board on Friday.
         In view of the official election results and the presidential 
runoff called for Oct. 8, the Board appealed to the presidential
candidates 
and the parties that nominated them to exercise their rights in the 
election process in line with the law.
         It also invited all participants in the election process to
carry 
out their electoral activities in accordance with the law and the
existing 
regulations.
         In this way, they would allow the presidential polls to be 
concluded in a climate of tolerance and in conformity with the universal 
democratic principles, the Board said.       It added it would continue
to 
monitor electoral activities and the behaviour of the participants in
the 
election process.

         INSTEAD OF 10,677 POLLING STATIONS, 10,309 OPENED
         BELGRADE, September 30 (Tanjug)  Yugoslav Statistics Institute 
Director and Federal Election Commission member Milovan Zivkovic stated
on 
Friday that the commission had correctly announced that on voters' rolls 
before the elections were registered 7,861,421 voters at 10,677 polling 
stations, but that the commission, because on election day in Kosovo and 
Metohija were not opened 368 polling stations, with 611,590 registered 
voters, announced that 7,249,831 was the total number of registered
voters.
         Because in Kosovo and Metohija those polling stations were not 
opened, from the point of view of statistics, election material could
not 
be processed from 100 percent of polling stations, but from 96.55
percent, 
Zivkovic said in a statement to Tanjug.
         Since those polling stations were not opened, that means that 
611,590 voters registered at those places fictitiously represent part of 
the 7,861,421 voters, registered before the elections, Zivkovic said.
         "That is why we have decided to announced that 7,249,831 voters 
represents the complete number of voters registered from opened polling 
stations, from which voting material has arrived and was processed," 
Zivkovic said.
         The difference that has appeared, he said, represents the
number 
of voters registered at polling stations that were not opened, Zivkovic 
said, "which cannot influence total results."
         "Simply, the commission has concluded that those voters were 
unable to vote, because the polling stations where they are registered
had 
not been opened, so that the number of 7,861,421 voters was no longer 
relevant for total results," Zivkovic said.

YUGOSLAV ARMY REMAINS LOYAL TO PRINCIPLE OF DEPOLITIZATION
         BELGRADE, September 30 (Tanjug)  Yugoslav Army spokesman, Col. 
Svetozar Radisic condemned on Friday the attempts of political parties
to 
drag the Yugoslav Army into party disputes and said that the Yugoslav
Army 
will remain consistent in observing the principle of depolitization.
         In a written statement, Radisic says that in connection with
the 
elections for president and for Yugoslav parliament, held on September
24, 
at party rallies members of the Yugoslav Army are invited to declare
their 
party affiliation and "representatives of some parties aggressively
demand 
from officers to individually express themselves about election results
and 
about the work of the federal election commission."
         "Commands, units and institutions are not operationally linked 
with parties, as they are not an element of the political system, and
that 
is why there will be no meetings with party representatives in army 
commands and headquarters or contacts with party representatives" the 
statement said.


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