BELGRADE, May 14th(Tanjug) - With the latest Memorandum of the government of FR of Yugoslavia on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 for the fifth time Security Council's attention was called to the necessity of strict and consistent respect of Resolution and other decisions of UN on Kosovo and Metohija, where from the arrival of international mission dramatic situation was created.

In the Memorandum evaluations on recent visit of Security Council's mission are also given.

Memorandum text is delivered to the president of Security Council, an ambassador of PR China Wang Yingfan and to Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of UN also, with the demand to include this document in the official documents of Security Council, on the whole says: MEMORANDUM OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999)

I. COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, KFOR, UNMIK AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

1. Persistent warnings to the violations of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999)

Even eleven months since its adoption, no changes whatsoever have taken place concerning the respect of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) as well as of Military Technical Agreement by the international forces, KFOR and UNMIK, in the southern Serb province of Kosovo and Metohija.

Continuous warnings of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia to the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General, KFOR and UNMIK and other relevant international organizations and factors to the flagrant violations of the key provisions of the Resolution, Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin document and the Military Technical Agreement have not been heeded at all. At the same time, the processes in the Province run contrary to the letter and substance of the Resolution and its related documents, threatening the security of the entire region.

- Memorandums of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia: The Federal Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has been forwarding for the fifth time its Memorandum to the United Nations Security Council since its latest, fourth Memorandum of 3 April 2000 (S/2000/293). This Memorandum contains also documentary evidence of direct, flagrant violations of fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations, of the key provisions of the Resolution and its related documents, as well as of all other generally-accepted international standards in the field of human and civil rights in the southern Serbian Province by KFOR and UNMIK. They unambiguously illustrate that the overall situation in the Province has been deteriorating each day.

In spite of substantiated facts and clear demands of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia that the United Nations Security Council, as the primary responsible body, undertake, once and for all, energetic and urgent measures and put an end to dramatic deterioration of the overall situation in the Province, the United Nations Security Council is still avoiding fulfilling its obligations and tolerating the inadmissible conduct of KFOR and UNMIK. Such an approach of the UN Security Council is without a precedent in the practice of the United Nations peace-keeping missions.

- The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia, in more than its 120 direct communications to the Security Council and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, continuously pointed to the drastic examples of non-compliance with or gross violations of the mandate of KFOR and UNMIK, particularly related to the violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia in Kosovo and Metohija. Particularly well substantiated and justified are the warnings to the continuation of terror, ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanian terrorists and separatists against the Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Turks, Goranci and other non-Albanian population in the Province.

- In its direct communications to the head of UNMIK and KFOR commander, through its Committee for Cooperation with the UN Mission in Pristina, the Yugoslav Government has on a daily basis drawn the attention to, and lodged regular protests in connection with, flagrant violations of their authority and failure to implement their mandate, clearly established by UN SC resolution 1244 (1999).

2. Passive attitude of UN SC and other bodies of international community

- In view of the continuous and dramatic deterioration of the situation and drastic violations of fundamental human rights, as well as of destruction of historical and cultural monuments, constituting an integral part of the world cultural heritage, the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has informed timely and in a well-documented way other international organizations engaged in Kosovo and Metohija (UNHCR, UNHCHR, UNESCO, ICRC, OSCE, EU, Council of Europe, etc.). In spite of the demands that they should also fulfil their share of responsibility in accordance with SC Resolution 1244 (1999) and other relevant international legal instruments within their field of activity, there are still no signs of the real readiness to engage in earnest in order to put an end to the present devastating trends in the Province, seriously undermining the authority of the United Nations and weakening the confidence in the genuine readiness of the world Organization to meet its obligations and offer protection to the Member States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

II. SYSTEMATIC VIOLATIONS OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1244 (1999) AND MILITARY TECHNICAL AGREEMENT

1. Systematic violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia and the mandate of UN Security Council

a) UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) unambiguously confirms the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia in Kosovo and Metohija (preambular para 10; subpara 8, Annex 2)

- Decisions of UNMIK and KFOR: Regulations of UN Secretary General Special Representative and head of UNMIK B. Kouchner lack basis in the Resolution and are aimed at severing all ties between Kosovo and Metohija and the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, i.e. totally separating the Province from the constitutional, legal, economic, monetary, financial, banking, customs, visa, administrative and other systems of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia. Regulations and decisions of the UN SG Special Representative for Kosovo and Metohija B. Kouchner, systematically and directly undermine the State sovereignty of the FRY in Kosovo and Metohija as a basic principle guaranteed by SC resolution 1244 (1999) and bring into question the legal basis and prerogatives of statehood of the State of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, in the southern Serb Province, as an integral part of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Serbia and of the FR of Yugoslavia.

Special Representative B. Kouchner continues with his illegal acts aimed at creating prerequisites for the independence of the Province from the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, favoring political and other interests of Albanian separatists and terrorists, which is unprecedented in history of UN missions. Illegally established the so-called Interim Administration Council, de facto Provincial "Government", composed exclusively of Albanians, mostly from the ranks of the terrorist so-called KLA and separatist Albanian political parties, even before the minimum security and living conditions have been created for non-Albanian population, represents an attempt of legalizing ethnic supremacy of Albanians, with a view to creating an ethnically pure Kosovo and Metohija.

Persistent efforts to include the Serbs into this body, mostly for the functions of irrelevant political importance and influence, represent Kouchner's attempts to legalize the status quo to the detriment of the Serbs and other non-Albanian population.

The developments in the Province unambiguously confirmed that the claims of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia to the effect that the UNMIK decision on the transformation of the terrorist KLA in an alleged civilian organization - "Kosovo Protection Corps" are justified, and that the decision is not only illegal as it lacks basis whatsoever in SC resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents, but is also one of the main generators of exacerbating the situation and the crisis in the Province.

The attack of well-armed members of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps on a patrol of the Republican Ministry of the Interior near Bujanovac, outside the administrative area of Kosovo and Metohija, unambiguously confirms that the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps is not any "civilian" structure - its members are re-cycled terrorists of the so-called KLA, whose combat structure and command personnel have been fully kept, creating a core of a future Albanian army in Kosovo and Metohija, as has been publicly pointed out by its "commander", notorious terrorist A. Cheku. -"Kouchner's passports": The regulation of B. Kouchner (No.2000/18 of 29 March 2000) by which UNMIK has usurped the authority with the view of issuing identification documents to Yugoslav citizens from Kosovo and Metohija, represents the culmination of his arbitrary and illegal activities. As an act of the most flagrant violation of the provisions of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and the basic principles of the Charter of the United Nations regarding the respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, this act is legally null and void and politically absolutely unacceptable and harmful because it is feeding the ambitions of the Albanian separatists.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia is most resolutely against any act which is aimed at breaking up a unified regime of identification documents of Yugoslav citizens. Even more so since the competent authorities of both the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia are authorized and ready to issue identification documents to all its citizens irrespective of the place of their residence. The obligation of the UNMIK and KFOR is to ensure appropriate safety, technical and other conditions so that this Constitutional obligation could be fulfilled without any difficulty throughout the Province.

If a State or international organization accepted "Kouchner's passports" as valid, as well as other identification documents which are illegally issued by UNMIK, this would be an act of flagrant violation of the principle of the respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, and there is no doubt that this would be followed by adequate reciprocal measures.

- Functioning of judiciary: Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) provides that the judicial system in Kosovo and Metohija operates in line with the Yugoslav legal system and within the judicial system of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia.

This illegitimate and illegal regulation by B. Kouchner has helped establishment in the Province of judicial bodies which conduct criminal proceedings but disrespect the Yugoslav laws in force and violate the basic principles of criminal law envisaged by international conventions.

The practice of applying double standards to the members of Serbian and Montenegrin nationality with respect to arrest, conduct of investigation, detention pending trial, the right to a defence, the use of their mother tongue etc, is completely unacceptable and for the UN mission utterly inappropriate.

UNMIK is extremely tolerant in relation to the members of the Albanian nationality. The release from custody of even those for whom there is firm evidence that they committed serious criminal acts have become a frequent practice. On the other hand, the members of Serbian, Montenegrin and of other non-Albanian nationalities are deprived of freedom on no valid grounds (false information provided by Albanians, etc.), they are held in police custody for more than six months without being indicted only on the basis of arbitrary reports of Albanians and illegal acts of B. Kouchner, in contradiction with the Yugoslav legal system and international standards in this field.

For example, 43 Serbs who have been arbitrary arrested on no legal grounds have been detained in the prison in Kosovska Mitrovica for ten months already. No investigation or court proceedings have been instituted during that period. On 10 April, 37 detained Serbs staged a hunger strike. The immediate cause of their strike is the release from custody of Ademi Djeljalji, an Albanian, against whom an investigation has been instigated because of the hand grenade attack in which 22 Serbs and 14 French KFOR soldiers were injured. An expert commission of the Medical University School in Pristina, in its last examination of the health of those on hunger strike (on 6 May 2000), established that their health had been rapidly deteriorating and that eleven of them were in critical condition. On 7 May Arsenije Vitosevic, having a chronic heart condition, was taken to local hospital. Due to exhaustion, high blood pressure and heart problems, he was admitted to intensive care unit. He is on infusion and in a very bad frame of mind ("KLA" terrorists kidnapped his son two years ago and he has not heard from him ever since). A college of doctors suggested that another 10 detainees be moved to hospital because of exhaustion and the dramatic state of their health. The commission concluded that UNMIK's judicial and police authorities should do all in they could to put an end to their detention and to have their health improved and stabilized.

Serbs and Montenegrins are arrested even when as witnesses. During detention they are exposed to pressure so that self-incriminating statements could be extracted from them. Furthermore, Serbs and Montenegrins are discriminated against with regard to their right to defend themselves. UNMIK does not ensure the safety of the defendants, of their counsels and witness for the defence.

The fact that not a single trial has been held in the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica which was established on 1 September 1999, because UNMIK police cannot ensure the security, clearly illustrates that the situation in the judiciary is absolutely unacceptable as a direct result of illegal UNMIK decisions and conduct.

- Building of military bases: The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia most energetically opposes the building of KFOR military bases in a part of its sovereign territory, without its approval. It represents the most flagrant violation of its sovereignty and provisions of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999), as well as the existing laws of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia. The building of foreign bases without the approval of the receiving State is contrary to the character and spirit of peace missions under the auspices of the United Nations and represents a dangerous precedent, contrary to the fundamental principles and purposes of the United Nations.

- Military exercises of NATO/KFOR: The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia resolutely opposes military exercises of NATO and KFOR in the Province, under any pretext, which represents the most flagrant violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the FR of Yugoslavia. Sabre-rattling in the Province, which is obviously not in the function of creating security conditions for all its citizens, is just another form of support to the Albanian terrorists in their attempts to cement mono-ethnic structure of the Province, as a basis for its total separation from the constitutional and legal system of the Republic of Serbia and the FRY. Such provocative conduct on the part of KFOR represents a factor of serious destabilization of the region and directly threatens peace and stability in Europe.

Although it is obliged to prevent any act of violation of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) and to eliminate all sources of instability in the region, the Security Council did nothing to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, thereby directly violating not only the key provisions of the Resolution but the fundamental provisions of the Charter of the United Nations as well.

- Representation of some countries: Despite the warnings and protests of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia, UNMIK continues to tolerate the establishment of foreign para-diplomatic missions in the Province, without consultations with and approval of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia, which represents a gross violation of the principle of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia. The attempt of Kouchner to even legalize that (his draft regulation on "immunities and privileges of the liaison offices of foreign Governments in Kosovo") is a direct attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia which grossly violates the principles of the UN Charter, provisions of the Vienna Conventions on diplomatic and consular relations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations as well as prevailing international practice.

- Non-display of State symbols: The fact that the symbols of the State of the FR of Yugoslavia, primarily its flag, are not displayed at its international borders with Albania and Macedonia, as well as that the border stones have been removed, are all in gross violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia reiterates once again that it has never ceded or intends to cede the sovereignty over any part of its territory and resolutely rejects the tactics of manipulating or diverting the attention from the alliance of UNMIK and KFOR with the terrorist so-called KLA. It particularly refuses all moves in line with fait accompli acts.

The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia are inviolable and final: overall conduct, decisions of KFOR and UNMIK particularly of the UN SG Special Representative and head of UNMIK B. Kouchner, including his decision on the establishment of the "Interim Administration Council of Kosovo" disregarding or violating the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, as well as all measures, acting and failing to act, contrary to the UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) or MTA, or represent an attempt at their revision, the FR of Yugoslavia considers null and void and they cannot have any legal effect or be binding on the FR of Yugoslavia or its organs in any way.

2. Massive violations of human rights

Terror and violence1: Albanian terror and violence, ethnic cleansing and genocide against non-Albanian population, above all the Serbs and Montenegrins, but also Roma, Muslims, Turks, Goranci and others, destruction of their homes, usurpation and destruction of private and State-owned property, rampant crime and chaos in the Province, continue despite the presence of several dozen thousand of well armed members of KFOR and more than 2,000 UNMIK policemen. That speaks convincingly that KFOR and UNMIK do not fulfill their basic obligations arising from their mandate, particularly in terms of guaranteeing full personal and property security and safety of all citizens in the Province, above all the Serbs and Montenegrins, who have been exposed to systematic ethnic cleansing, terror, killings and abductions.

- The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia insists that KFOR and UNMIK fulfill without delay all their obligations and create as soon as possible the conditions for a safe return of all expelled persons to Kosovo and Metohija.

-Ethnic cleansing: Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK, more than 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Turks, Goranci and other non-Albanians were forcibly driven out of the Province. This represents two-thirds of all non-Albanian population in the Province.

- Terrorists are increasingly targeting Albanians, loyal citizens of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, who refused to obey the demands of Albanian terrorists and criminals. A drastic example in this respect is the abduction of the Kajtazi brothers, Noa and Nua, two Catholic Albanians, in the village of Zjum (in mid-March 2000). The Albanian terrorists have accused them of being loyal citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia. They demanded 40,000 D-marks as ransom for them; their house was robbed of its possessions and their family members were beaten up. Moreover, the terrorists of the so-called KLA exercise strong pressure on 65,000 Catholic Kosovo Albanians in the Prizren and Djakovica areas, accusing them of "complicity" with the Serbs. In particular, members of the so-called KLA exert very strong pressure on Goranci, in order to albanize them, as well as on the Muslim ethnic community in the municipality of Istok because of their loyalty to the State of the FR of Yugoslavia.

- The fact that the alleged search of the Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica by KFOR was used by Albanian terrorists to expel additional 16,000 Serbs and Montenegrins, should serve as a warning. It is evident that this form of intimidation of the Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica, with direct participation of the members of KFOR, is just another example of the proven policy of bringing pressure to bear on the Serbs, with a view to completing ethnic cleansing of the Province. Apparently, this form of intimidation of Kosovska Mitrovica Serbs with direct participation of KFOR members is yet another example of the proven policy of pressurizing Serbs in order to complete the ethnic cleansing of the Province.

- Terrorism: In the period from 10 June 1999 through 7 May 2000, there was a total of 4,792 terrorist attacks (4,551 against Serbs and Montenegrins); 1010 persons (888 Serbs and Montenegrins) were killed; 924 (867 Serbs and Montenegrins) were wounded, and 936 (860 Serbs and Montenegrins) were abducted. More than 50,000 homes, mostly those belonging to Serbs, Montenegrins and Roma, were destroyed, burned down or severely damaged.

- The latest serious crimes: During the month of March, the crimes committed by Albanian terrorists continued. There were motivated by the desire to scare the remaining Serb and other non-Albanian population into leaving the Province. The manner in which these crimes were committed is yet another proof that Albanian terrorists have neither been disarmed nor demilitarized. The most brutal crimes include: repeated shelling of the village of Gorazdevac (10 March, 25 March and 22 April); murder of Gasi Ezeri in his home in the village of Rogovo, municipality of Djakovica as well as of a minor Roma, whose identity has not been established but who has been killed by members of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps; murders of Bajram Gasi and Halim Salja (30 March); bombing of the flat owned by Franjo Milic, a Croat, in Obilic (3 April); cruel murder of 87-year old Metodije Haljausku of Czech nationality in Pristina by shooting him in the back of the head (3 April 2000); mortar attack on a group of Serbs who played football in a field in the village of Cernice when two persons were injured (5 April 2000); the attack of eight terrorists on Stojan Petronijevic in the yard of his family house in the village of Babin Most, municipality of Obilic (5 April 2000); killing of Dobrivoje Jovanovic in Gnjilane (9 April 2000); mining of the Orthodox Church of Our Lady in Zociste for the third time (18 April 2000); mortar attack on the building in which Serbs and Turks live in downtown Pristina, when two persons were wounded (18 April 2000); murder of Srdjan Markovic from the village of Badovac, who was killed by terrorists as he travelled in his car to visit some friends (21 April); murder of Stojanka Stojanovic, 65, in Gnjilane in mid-April, her body was found on 26 April; a terrorist attack on a bus of Serbs traveling to a liturgy in the local Orthodox church in Kosovska Mitrovica (28 April); vandalization of Serbian graves and destruction of headstones in the village of Glavotina, municipality of Vucitrn (26 April) as well as in the villages of Ajvalija (28 April) and Klobukar, municipality of Novo Brdo (30 April); mining of the 16th-century Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in the village of Grncar, municipality of Vitina (28 April); brutal murder of Milorad Peric, 50, in the village of Pasjane as he worked in his field (29 April); a terrorist bombing of a group of children and villagers in Crkvena Vodica, municipality of Obilic, in which several boys and girls were injured (2 May); bombing of the house of Hadzija Agusi, 74, a Roma, who died of the wounds she suffered (29 April); murder of Zivko Stolic, 67, in Kosovska Vitina, who was first brutally tortured and then killed by terrorists (6 May); an attack on the Serb family Kojic in Kosovska Vitina in the yard of their home, in which incident two adults and two children were hurt.

During the course of April serious crimes against the non-Albanian population have continued in the Province, such as the bombing of the flat owned by Franjo Milic, a Croat, in Obilic (3 April); a brutal murder of an 87-year old Czech, Metodije Haljasku, in Pristina by shooting him through the head simply because he was not Albanian (3 April); an RPG attack against a group of Serbs in the village of Cernica, in which two persons were wounded (5 April); an attack by eight terrorists on Stojan Petronijevic in the yard of his family home in the village of Babin Most, municipality of Obilic (5 April); the killing of Dobrivoje Jovanovic in Gnjilane (9 April); planting of explosive (for the third time) in the Church of Our Lady in Zociste (18 April); mortaring of an apartment building occupied by Serbs and Turks in central Pristina, an incident in which two people were injured (18 April); killing of Srdjan Markovic in the village of Badavac (21 April).

- New forms of ethnic cleansing and other serious crimes against Serbs: Instead of providing full security to Serbs, KFOR resorts to the use of brute force, harassment, physical violence, including causing damage to Serb property, which represents a new form of an inadmissible behaviour of international forces with a clear message to the Serbs.

Particularly drastic incidents occurred in Kosovska Mitrovica (on 20-25 February) as well as in the villages of Mogila (on 25-26 February), in which Serbian houses were searched by using the method of most brutal physical violence, Draganovac (Gnjilane municipality) and Miolice (Leposavic municipality), Mali Zvecan (27 February), Gornje Kusce (1 March) and the Serbian villages of Rudare and Grabovac (1 March). The searches were conducted by KFOR jointly with the terrorists of the so-called KLA, who wore international security forces uniforms, thus proving the strong links between KFOR and Albanian terrorists.

The illegality and brutality of this action as conducted by US and German KFOR contingents were also condemned in the OSCE report of 21 February 2000, saying that in doing so, KFOR violated the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Establishing also that the operation was illegal, the fact was brought to the attention of the head of UNMIK B. Kouchner. - Drastic example of KFOR brutality against Serbs also occurred in the villages of Dobrotin (2 April), Sevce (4 April) and Lepina and Janjine. KFOR members set the dogs on Serbs, who had gathered in protest over their insufferable situation. A larger number of Serb protesters were hurt. KFOR also intervened brutally to disperse a Serb demonstration in Gracanica (7 April), when many people sustained injuries.

- In order to wipe out everything belonging to Serbs and to prevent Serbs and Montenegrins from returning home, Albanian terrorists increasingly resort to the destruction of entire Serb settlements. This is borne out by the razing of 250 houses in the village of Belo Polje near Pec (15 April). Bulldozers were also used to level down Serb houses in the villages of Brecanik and Osojane, while 14 Serb villages in the municipality of Vitina are no more. They have been razed to the ground. In late April, Albanian terrorists announced that they were going to carry out similar organized action aimed at sacking Serb houses, notably in the villages around Istok and Novo Brdo.

The seriousness of these crimes by Albanian terrorists and the responsibility of UNMIK and KFOR are all the greater since at stake are the regions publicly designated by UNMIK as places where, according to UNMIK's "pilot" project, expelled Serbs and Montenegrins should return in larger numbers.

- Instead of the international forces taking all necessary measures to lift several months old blockades of Serbian towns and villages and ensuring full security and normal supply of their inhabitants, the United Nations has openly put itself at the service of Serbs leaving the few remaining enclaves inhabited by them. Thus, UNHCR has put in place an action aimed at moving Serbs out of Orahovac on the pretext of valid humanitarian grounds. Explaining it by the precarious security situation, UNHCR has stopped regular humanitarian convoys between Orahovac and Kosovska Mitrovica so as to prevent the return of Serbs there. In addition, KFOR and UNMIK are tolerant of the flag of the Republic of Albania being flown at the local Clock Tower, the symbol of Serbian existence in that town, thus offending Serbs' national feelings and aiming to intimidate them into departing.

- Terrorists attacks outside the Province: In the belief that the destabilization of the situation on the widest possible territory facilitates the achievement of their separatist goals, Albanian terrorists are seeking to spread terror, chaos and lawlessness outside the Province to other parts of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, which would not have been possible without thesupport and direct assistance by members of KFOR and UNMIK, whose responsibility is to prevent all attempts of violating safety within the administrative territory of the Province. The fact that the members of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps take part in terrorist attacks outside the Province, clearly confirms that Albanian terrorists from the so-called KLA have neither been disarmed nor demilitarized, and least of all, that the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps is an allegedly a civilian structure.

- "Labour camps" and prisons for Serbs: The terrorist so-called KLA detains throughout Kosovo and Metohija 472 abducted Serbian civilians, who have been placed in "labour camps" under the strict control of the so-called KLA. The abductees have been subjected to extremely cruel and inhuman treatment in these "labour camps" located in the village of Maticane, 15 kilometres away from Pristina, as well as in the wider Prizren area (on the Ortokal estate in a facility on the road leading to Djakovica) and in Drenica. Access to these people is strictly forbidden, even by ICRC representatives.

The prisons run by the so-called KLA for Serbs, Montenegrins and others who are not supportive of Albanian terrorists are located in the village of Brod in the municipality of Dragas; on the road to Djakovica in the direction of the village of Junik, Decani municipality; in the villages of Glodjane, Izbica and Strovce in the district of Kosovska Mitrovica; on the premises of "ZTP-Urosevac" in Urosevac.

In the hills above Kacanik, KFOR combing the area came across a camp run by Albanian terrorists. They have, nevertheless, failed to release the Serbs detained there, as they were heavily guarded by a large number of terrorists of the so-called KLA.

Additionally, in the Republic of Albania there are also some 350 persons of Serb nationality, who have been abducted in Kosovo and Metohija. The international forces in Kosovo and Metohija are aware of the existence of such prisons for the abducted Serbs. Despite the fact that it represents the most inhuman violation of individual human rights and freedoms they have done nothing to free the abducted persons.

Other representatives of the international community (UN Secretary-General, the Security Council, the ICRC as well as Mrs S. Ogata, Mr. J. Dienstbier and others) have been fully informed about the lists of abducted Serbs without any major effect as regards the release of those who were not executed in the meantime.

- Attacks on aid convoys: Attacks on aid convoys and prevention of the delivery of basic food staples, medical supplies for hospitals, etc., all intended for the Serb population under several months blockade have become increasingly frequent, which is a special form of genocide against Serbs, calculated at bringing about their physical destruction. In this respect, particularly striking examples are the following: attack on the Serb convoys headed for Strpce, near the village of Radivojce (on 22 and 29 February); attack on the Serb convoy en route to Koretiste, in the village of Dobricane (28 February); attack on the bus transporting Serb children on their way back from school, on the road between Gornje Kusce and Koretiste (29 February); attacks against Serb convoys in the village of Koretin (6 and 20 March); repeated attacks against Serb convoys in Gnjilane (7 and 10 March); an attack on a Serb convoy in the village of Dobrovce (27 March); an attack on a convoy of Serbs on the Bujanovac-Gracanica road (11 April); attack on a convoy of Serbs leaving S[trpce in the village of Pocarenje, municipality of Vitina (18 April).

KFOR has not prevented these attacks by terrorists. Also, it has refused to provide security escorts (Lieutenant Peter Ramstel, KFOR, Kosovska Mitrovica area, banned all KFOR security escorts for buses transporting Serbian schoolchildren and sick persons to Gracanica, 1 March. It is not prepared to escort convoys between Merdare and Kosovo Polje) which is yet another proof that KFOR does not carry out its obligations under the resolution, thereby encouraging Albanian terrorists to freely continue their daily violence against Serbs in order to force them to leave Kosovo Polje and other places.

- Destruction of cultural and historic sites: Destruction oSerbian monuments of culture and the most precious symbols of centuries' old roots of Serbian statehood and spirituality in the region of Kosovo and Metohija has continued. In total, 86 churches and medieval monasteries have been destroyed, burned or seriously damaged.

- Discrimination against Serbs and a cultural and spiritual genocide of Serbs: UNMIK continues to tolerate and encourage through its actions discrimination against Serbs especially in education (the closure of universities, schools), culture and the media in the Serbian language. In doing so the most frequently cited excuse is alleged attempt to preserve the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious structures in the Province. The fact that this is done where the Serbs have managed to live in larger numbers clearly shows that KFOR and UNMIK directly encourage the aspirations of Kosovo Albanian terrorists towards breaking apart the ethnically solid Serbian communities, and that they directly pressurize Serbs into leaving their ancestral homes.

Discrimination against Serbs and Montenegrins is particularly manifest in the judiciary, education, employment, etc.

The policy of double standards and unobjective criteria disfavouring Serbs, applied by UNMIK on the one hand have deprived not only Serbs but also Roma, Muslims, Turks and Goranci of their jobs, doing nothing to ensure their reinstatement to the jobs they were forcibly kicked out of. For instance, in the small town of Kosovo Polje alone 43,000 Serbs have been brutally kicked out of their jobs since KFOR and UNMIK arrived; employees of once multi-ethnic public companies with a ratio of fifty to fifty of Serb and Albanian job holders (Elektrodistribucija, PTT, Telecom, Customs, rail, etc.) are now only Albanians; 1000 undergraduates and 1,500 secondary school students of Serb nationality have been deprived of the right to education; a forced albanization and obliteration of all signs of Serbian being are the order of the day. The streets, settlements and institutions have been forcibly renamed. UNMIK has not only tolerated such practices but has also directly taken part in them. This is evidenced by the town of Zvecan, where the UNMIK's local administrator has insisted, in his contacts with the senior officials in the municipality and with the management of public companies, on all municipal institutions being renamed and containing no word "Serbia" in their new names. This is an inadmissible act in direct violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, and is highly inappropriate for what the world Organization stands for.

On the other hand, they favour Albanians irrespective of the lack of skills on their part, constituting the most flagrant violation of the principle of equality and multi-ethnicity.

- KFOR and UNMIK bear sole responsibility for massive violation of human rights in the Province, for lawlessness, chaos and breaches of the provisions of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), relating to the preservation of the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional and multi-cultural character of the Province, by becoming outright accessory to ethnic cleansing and genocide.

3. Disarming of the terrorist so-called KLA

-Daily terrorization, violence, killings and destruction of Serbian homes and settlements, cafes and other places frequented by Serbs in massive numbers in the remaining Serb enclaves, as well as attacks on civilians and Yugoslav security forces beyond the boundaries of the Province, with the use of heavy ordnance even, all testify to the fact that the terrorists of the so-called KLA have not been disarmed.

Leaders of these terrorist/separatist formations, Hashim Thaqi, Agim Cheku and others, continue to openly advocate the independence of the Province, whereby the so-called KPC, which is nothing but a "transformed" terrorist so-called KLA, would be a core of the future Albanian army.

-The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia recalls once again its position, expressed in the letter of 22 September 1999 to the President of the Security Council, that purported transformation of the terrorist so-called KLA into the so-called "Kosovo Protection Corps" was a sham and a manipulation, so as to avoid the obligation of a genuine demilitarization and disarming of this illegal terrorist organization. This has been clearly proven by the situation in the Province, as is being increasingly openly admitted to even in the biased media and Western political circles.

KFOR and UNMIK, in particular Bernard Kouchner, bear full responsibility that the so-called KLA has not yet been disarmed, and that with their blessing, an illegal Albanian armed formation was created, composed mostly of proven Albanian but also of international terrorists recruited in neighbouring and other States known for sponsoring international terrorism. There is information that Islamic extremists from Chechnya are sheltering in large numbers in Kosovo and Metohija where they enjoy the protection of KFOR and UNMIK.

- Thriving crime in the Province: Direct proof that KFOR and UNMIK have failed to discharge their mandates strictly, notably with respect to securing the international borders of the FR of Yugoslavia with Albania and Macedonia, is their patronizing attitude towards Albanian terrorists and separatists who enter the FR of Yugoslavia without hindrance, which is the main cause for the thriving crime and chaos in the Province.

As a result of an unprotected border, in flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), KFOR and UNMIK have allowed illegal entry into the Province of several hundred thousand criminals and looters from Albania, aimed at spilling over the chaos from Albania into Kosovo and Metohija. Kosovo and Metohija have, thus, been turned into a stronghold of organized international crime, terrorism, narco mafia, illicit arms trafficking, white slavery, juvenile crime and prostitution rackets in Central and Western Europe, with a view to spreading crime and destabilizing Europe and preventing the ongoing integration processes.

According to German federal police, Albanian criminals and terrorists import into the Province 80 per cent of "Europe's" heroin. Annual "profits" from laundering the proceeds of illicit trafficking in drugs and arms through a network of 200 banks and bureaux de change net 1.5 billion dollars. Even the biased West does not conceal the fact that 30-50 per cent of the money spent on arming the terrorist so-called KLA comes from drug sales.

The preparations made by UNMIK to re-admit tens of thousands of Albanian criminals removed from Western Europe (Switzerland, Germany and other countries) is an unreasonable and absolutely unacceptable act in view of the fact that the Province has already become a centre for organized crime in Europe and, in particular, in view of the situation of general chaos, lawlessness and lack of safety for the inhabitants of the Province, especially its Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians. This will, no doubt, be an additional encouragement for the ethnic cleansing of the Province's Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma and other non-Albanian population as well as of those who will not obey the demands of criminals and terrorists.

4. Civil registration and local elections in Kosovo and Metohija

On the basis of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999), UNMIK has no authority to conduct civil registration and issue personal IDs to the citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia from Kosovo and Metohija. In accordance with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, that right has been vested in the competent State authorities of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, in line with the existing legislation.

UNMIK has no authority to conduct local elections in the Province, particularly not without explicit approval and participation of the competent authorities of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, but only to monitor them.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia confirms its commitment towards fair and democratic elections in the Province. However, it warns again that it will be possible to organize such elections only after necessary conditions are created and the structure of local government (substantial autonomy) is established, for which the elections are being held, which should be an outcome of a comprehensive political process, with active and equal participation of the official authorities and institutions of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia as well as representatives of all national communities in Kosovo and Metohija.

Against a background of continuing terror, final stages of the ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population in the Province, absence of conditions for the return of over 350,000 expellees and a presence of a couple of hundred thousand illegal foreign citizens in Kosovo and Metohija, it is evident that there are not even the basic conditions for civil registration in the context of the preparations for the elections to be held in near future. Ignoring these facts and insistence by OSCE and UNMIK to proceed to civil registration in the circumstances described represent an attempt at the policy of fait accompli, i.e. at legalizing local para-Statal institutions set up by the terrorist so-called KLA after the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the territory of the Province, and thereby at encouraging the further destabilization of the Province along the lines of achieving the separatist goals of Albanian extremists.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia strongly rejects any attempt at calling for early elections in the Province until basic conditions are not met, i.e. consolidated peace and stability on the basis of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).

This, first and foremost, implies a free and safe return of all expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population, expulsion of more than 200,000 non-residents of the FR of Yugoslavia who illegally entered the Province since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK, and agreeing, with the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia, basic parameters for the political settlement in Kosovo and Metohija, in line with UN SC resolution 1244 (1999).

5. Parameters of "substantial autonomy" of the Province

All attempts to establish parameters of "substantial autonomy" of the Province outside the constitutional and legal framework of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia, are illegal, particularly without active participation of their competent authorities.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia most resolutely opposes all attempts that the projects on the future status of autonomy and self-government, enable the separation of the Province from the current constitutional and legal system of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia, which has no basis in UN SC resolution 1244 (1999), nor in the existing constitutional order of the FR of Yugoslavia, which is inviolable.

The FR of Yugoslavia will not accept, nor will in any way be bound by any acts of imposition of outside solutions for the Province, no matter where they came from. In line with this, it is absolutely against the Security Council legalizing any document containing parameters of a future status of autonomy in Kosovo and Metohija, in whose formulation the official representatives of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia did not participate directly.

Democratic and fair solution implies a political agreement, with full and equal participation of the representatives of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia and representatives of all national communities in the Province, when all relevant preconditions are fulfilled:

-ensuring full security of all citizens;

- safe return of all expelled and displaced Serbs and other non-Albanian population;

- disarming of all terrorists and eliminating combat structure of the terrorist so-called KLA, i.e. dismantling of illegal Kosovo Protection Corps;

- suspension of all illegal decisions of "Interim Administrator" and local para Statal and para political structures based on them;

- ensuring full respect and application of the Constitution and laws of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia;

- normal functioning of the competent State authorities and institutions;

- ensuring conditions for the establishment of democratic, multi-party structure of the Province, etc.

- The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia recalls that the State delegation of the Republic of Serbia, during negotiations in Paris, on 15 March 1999, signed an agreement with the representatives of all national communities in Kosovo and Metohija on self-government in the Province. This unambiguously confirmed its commitment to have the question of autonomy and self-government in the Province resolved by exclusively political means, on the basis of guaranteeing full equality of all citizens and ethnic communities living in the Province. However, only the representatives of Albanian political parties refused to sign the agreement, those parties whose platform includes separatism and terrorism as an end to it. In doing so, they clearly demonstrated that they were interested only in full "independence" of the Province from "Belgrade", in other words - only in the project that implies the change of the State borders of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia, which is in direct contravention of the Charter of the United Nations, the Helsinki CSCE/OSCE principles and the basic provisions and substance of UN SC resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents.

6. The return of Yugoslav Army (VJ) and police (MUP)

- It is unjustified and absolutely unacceptable to continue to fail to implement clear provisions of the Resolution and Military Technical Agreement (operative para 4, subparas 6 and 10, Annex 2 of the Resolution and para 4 of Military Technical Agreement), on return of members of VJ and MUP to the Province, particularly when KFOR and UNMIK have proved totally inefficient in ensuring security for all citizens, peace, rule of law in the Province and particularly in guaranteeing full safety of persons and property, safe and unimpeded return of all expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population. By such attitude, KFOR and UNMIK directly give in to the interests of Albanian terrorists and separatists and encourage them to continue with their daily terrorization of Serbs and other non-Albanians with the aim at completing the ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the Province.

- The Yugoslav Government insists that this obligation be fulfilled immediately and without any conditions, in the interest of all citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia.

7. Responsibility of the United Nations Security Council

The UN Security Council, as guarantor of its resolution 1244 (1999), is fully responsible for the failure to comply with, and for the flagrant violations of, its key provisions, primarily those reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia on all its territory.

Continued gross violations of the provisions of the Resolution and its related documents by KFOR and UNMIK which brought about an alarming development of the situation in the Province, with potentially far-reaching harmful consequences for the entire region, have not been responded to by adequate measures of the Security Council to put an end to such dangerous developments. This confirms the lack of readiness on the part of the Security Council to fulfil its obligations arising from the Charter, and is therefore to be held directly accountable for the detrimental consequences caused by such conduct as well as for all future developments should the Council continue to be passive.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia insists that the Security Council, in accordance with its obligations, took immediate and urgent measures to implement strictly the resolution and its related documents thud preventing the further undermining of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia.

- In accordance with the primary responsibility of the Security Council for the consistent implementation of the Resolution and its related documents, the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia resolutely rejects all attempts to delegate the competencies of the Security Council in connection with the Resolution in any part, to some narrow groups with interests outside the Security Council, such as G-8, the Contact Group, etc. The decisions of such ad hoc bodies, whose mandate is established outside the competencies and control of broader international community, particularly the Security Council, are absolutely unacceptable and cannot have any binding effect for the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia.

8. Visit of a UN Security Council mission

The visit of a UN Security Council mission to the FR of Yugoslavia and the talks it had in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija (on 27-29 April 2000) have finally helped to realize the initiative taken by the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia ever since international forces under UN auspices deployed in Kosovo and Metohija. The FRY Government welcomes in particular the fact that two members of the mission, i.e. representatives of the Russian Federation and China, visited Belgrade, where they were received by President of the FR of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic and had a thorough-going exchange of views with Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Zivadin Jovanovic and other Yugoslav Government officials.

The Security Council mission had the opportunity to get to know first-hand the serious and dramatic situation in Kosovo and Metohija as well as facts confirming a flagrant and systematic violation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents. The Government of the FRY, however, regrets to conclude that the Report submitted to the Council by this Mission on 29 April (C/2000/363), especially its observations, does not reflect the actual situation on the ground and in part maliciously tries to make allowances for an unacceptable behaviour on the part of UNMIK and KFOR, and B. Kouchner in particular.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia holds extremely dangerous the fact that the inviolability of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia, as one of the most important elements of SC resolution 1244 and an essential precondition for a political settlement in Kosovo and Metohija, has not been reaffirmed.

Also, the chief cause of everything in Kosovo and Metohija, namely the absence of the disarming of the terrorist "KLA" which committed the most serious crimes before and during the NATO aggression and even after it in the presence of at least 50,000-strong international security and police force. The Report back to the Security Council contains not even the basic information on the extent of the crimes committed and the gravity of the situation there. Failure by the KFOR and UNMIK mission to keep the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional and multi-cultural character of Kosovo and Metohija is apparentTherefore, it is completely unfounded and out of place to affirm that significant progress has allegedly been made in the implementation of the Resolution and to express appreciation and support to UNMIK's head B. Kouchner.

It is not acceptable either to make conditional the return of expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population. What is at stake is obviously a policy of double standards aimed at altering the composition of the population of Kosovo and Metohija. The same purpose is also served by the intention to make civil registration and to hold local election in the autumn, even though there exist not even minimum conditions for such election to take place.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia strongly opposes any attempts at revising or annulling, under the pretext of care for missing persons, Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), and it favours an urgent solution for this important humanitarian issue within the framework of existing international institutions in the field. The Government believes that the attempt is aimed at diverting attention from the essence of the problem in Kosovo and Metohija, that of a persistent, deliberate and systematic violation of SC resolution 1244 and its annexes.

The Government holds the view that for all its deficiencies, the Report of the Security Council mission has confirmed the constant warnings sounded by the FR of Yugoslavia that not even ten months after the adoption of resolution 1244 UNMIK and KFOR have not met a single obligation entrusted to them by the Security Council, unlike the FRY and the Republic of Serbia which have met theirs faithfully.

The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia expects that the Mission's Report will serve both as a basis and an encouragement for a more energetic action and a more active stance on the part of the Security Council concerning consistent implementation of its resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents. In this respect, it may continue to count on the full support and co-operation of the FR of Yugoslavia.

III. ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

1. Overall performance of KFOR and UNMIK

The results of the ten-month long international security (KFOR) and civilian (UNMIK) presence in the south Serb Province are devastating. The utterly disturbing situation is characterized by wide-spread crime, chaos and lawlessness, large-scale terror, genocide and ethnic cleansing of Serb and other non-Albanian population, destruction of their private property, looting and usurpation of the property of the State and of private firms, carried out by armed Albanian extremists, members of the terrorist so-called KLA in particular.

- Multiethnic Kosovo and Metohija - hypocrisy of KFOR and UNMIK: Developments in the Province, owing to non-implementation of SC resolution 1244 and its flagrant violation by KFOR and UNMIK have fully revealed that verbal commitment by KFOR and UNMIK for the maintenance of multi-ethnic structures in the Province are mere farce. Total failure of the international mission under the auspices of the United Nations is a serious blow to the reputation and credibility of the world Organization. In particular, it is inadmissible that the KFOR and UNMIK, in a situation when they are doing nothing to ensure the return of more than 350 thousand expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population are trying to impose their commitment for an alleged multi-ethnicity by force only on the remaining Serb enclaves, which is a clear message to the Serbs that they are undesirable.

- Ethnic cleansing of Serbs and Montenegrins in the largest part of the Province has been already accomplished. Concentrated attacks of Albanian terrorists and senseless moves by KFOR and UNMIK towards the remaining Serbian enclaves, above all Kosovska Mitrovica as the largest one, confirm a direct collusion between Albanian terrorists and international forces in Kosovo and Metohija in an ethnic cleansing campaign of the Province of non-Albanian population, primarily Serbs.

The insistence of KFOR and UNMIK on the establishment of multiethnic communities, particularly the so-called security zones, in the remaining Serbian enclaves in particular is both unconvincing and cynical, while at the same time no one is even mentioning for example Pri{tina in which about 40 thousand Serbs and Montenegrins used to live before the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, with hardly hundred of them remaining now. Particularly striking is the fact that of the previous 250,000 Serbian school children and undergraduate students who attended classes in Pristina there are now only 35 of them who attend school outside Pristina (Laplje selo).

At the same time, there is not a word about the re-establishment of multi-ethnic structure in Prizren, Pec, Orahovac, Djakovica, Glogovac and many other towns, villages and areas in Kosovo and Metohija, like Kosovo Pomoravlje, which are also completely ethnically cleansed of Serbs and Montenegrins. Moreover, the most responsible official of the world Organization, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his latest report to the Security Council (C/2000/177 of 3 March 2000) only notes that there are no conditions for the return of expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population, while at the same time he does not even mention that he will undertake measures to create such conditions, although it is an explicit obligation under UN SC resolution 1244 (1999).

The latest "games" by KFOR and UNMIK over Kosovska Mitrovica are but a new confirmation of the proven policy of demonizing Serbs in order to justify true ends, namely finalization of the ethnic cleansing of the Province of all its Serbs and to cover up the fact that the members of the terrorist the so-called KLA have neither been demilitarized nor disarmed. Recent articles in the French press fully expose perfidious tactics of B. Kouchner and those who stand behind him, aimed at fuelling and artificially maintaining at all cost the picture of the Serbs as usual suspects. In doing so, B. Kouchner seeks to conceal that he is directly involved in catering to the interests of a separatist movement of H.Thaqi and A. Cheku, to the detriment of the vital interests of the Serbs and other non-Albanian population, the Republic of Serbia and the FR or Yugoslavia.

- Non-compliance and gross violations of the basic provisions of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents by KFOR and UNMIK, has resulted directly in the dramatic security and general situation in the Province, above all in the continuation of Albanian terrorism, violence and ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population and wide scale crime and lawlessness in the Province. Thus KFOR and UNMIK have become accomplices in the most serious crimes committed against Serbs and other non-Albanian population and they are responsible mostly for the lack of elementary security of Serbs and non-Albanian population in the Province.

However, the tested tactics of deluding the world public and of diverting the attention from the complete fiasco of international mission under the auspices of the United Nations is in place, while the attempts are being made to blame at any rate the remaining Serbs. This is not only a cynicism of its own kind, but also a proof of direct protection of Albanian terrorists and separatists, of organized international crime and of the continuation of a new form of aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia though the alliance of NATO and terrorist so-called KLA. Such activity is obviously aimed at spreading the destabilization over the entire region of southeastern Europe and transforming Kosovo and Metohija into a centre of prolonged destabilization of Europe, and the entire region into a centre for the concentration and spreading of international terrorism throughout Europe in order to jeopardize the processes of integration.

The continuous deterioration of the overall situation in the Province is in line with the efforts to provoke artificially the prolonged destabilization in the region which should justify the existence of NATO and rehabilitate its prestige and authority which have been seriously brought into question by its illegal aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia. Therefore, manipulations with utterly malicious assertions of KFOR and UNMIK officials about an alleged success of the international mission in the Province have continued, as also evidenced in the recent report of the UN Secretary General to the Security Council.

The statements of KFOR and UNMIK representatives of alleged success of the international mission in the Province are absolutely unacceptable since they are not founded on real situation on the ground and consequently this inevitably leads to a conclusion that they are based on the assessment of some other goals which are different from those set up in Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents. The data presented by KFOR and UNMIK concerning the decrease of crimes in the Province are also unacceptable and malicious, because they are the result only of a continuous reduction of the total number of Serbs and other non-Albanian population who are the victims of Albanian terrorists.

Open cooperation of KFOR and UNMIK with Albanian separatists and terrorists in jeopardizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign Member State of the United Nations is without a precedent in the history of the UN peace-keeping missions, whereby the reputation and authority of the United Nations are seriously brought into question. The credibility of the world Organization is particularly eroded by the behaviour of its representative B. Kouchner, which has been recently openly spoken about in France (articles in "Le Point", "Le Canard Enchaine" and other media).

2. Strict implementation of the Resolution and its related documents - an imperative for the normalization of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija

All parameters unambiguously confirm that the developments in the Province are moving towards the further worsening of the overall situation, its dangerous compounding and increased threats to the overall stability of the region.

By the gross violation of the provisions of the Resolution and by their overall conduct, KFOR and UNMIK have unambiguously confirmed that the presence of international forces under the auspices of the United Nations in Kosovo and Metohija so far is a complete fiasco. The United Nations Security Council bear primary responsibility tragic consequences brought about, since it failed to undertake necessary and energetic measures it was bound to under the Resolution, to ensure a strict implementation of the provisions of the Resolution and its related documents.

It is obvious that there is no longer an excuse for further stay of the mission of the so-called international community, since it was not able or did not want to carry out the mandate entrusted to it in UN SC resolution 1244 (1999). It is therefore necessary that this shameful mission be ended as soon as possible and that the competent authorities of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia be enabled to:

- restore order and peace, rule of law and legality;

- ensure personal protection and the protection of the property of all its citizens irrespective of their ethnic origin or religion;

- ensure normal functioning of all commercial entities and local authorities, and

- create all necessary preconditions for launching a political dialogue between the representatives of the State and ethnic communities in Kosovo and Metohija about the parameters of autonomy and self-governance in the Province, within the constitutional system of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia.

Strict compliance with the resolution and its related documents is the fundamental precondition for the normalization of the overall situation in the Province and the obligations of all to respect it unconditionally.

IV. DEMANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA

Proceeding from its sovereign rights, guaranteed by Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin document and Military Technical Agreement, the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia most resolutely reiterates its demand:

- that the Security Council undertake urgently energetic measures to ensure strict respect of all provisions of the Resolution and its relevant documents, above all, those guaranteeing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia on its entire territory;

In this context, the Yugoslav Government insists in particular :

- that UNMIK and KFOR unconditionally and without delay respect and implement the mandate set up in the Resolution and its relevant documents;

- that KFOR and UNMIK strictly respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia and immediately end all acts and behaviour violating them, and restore the situation in the Province to the status quo ante; This, above all, implies:

- full normalization of a uniform customs and border regime, inevitable return of Yugoslav border authorities, customs and passport control to the State border of the FR of Yugoslavia with Albania and Macedonia;

- normalization of public services (PTT, power supply system, railway, banking system) in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia and principles of market-oriented economy in view of restoring the ties of the Province with the Republic of Serbia and the FR of Yugoslavia which have been artificially broken;

- that all regulations and other decisions of UNMIK and KFOR which violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia be rescinded, that the respect for the laws in force of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia be ensured on their entire territory; in that context, it most resolutely opposes the abuse of authority by UN SG Special Representative B. Kouchner in connection with civil registration and local elections in the Province and planned procedure to establish parameters of "substantial autonomy", without direct participation of the competent authorities of the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the existing Yugoslav legislation;

- to undertake energetic measures to put an end to terror, intimidation and ill-treatment of Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and members of other non-Albanian ethnic communities, as well as abuse of force which results in violation of their fundamental human rights and efficiently prevent further ethnic cleansing of the Province of non-Albanian population;

- that all illegally seized and occupied State, public, socially-owned and private property primarily PTT, power supply system, railway, banks, mines, factories, firms, as well as private property of citizens of the Province, be returned to legal owners.

- that a safe environment for all citizens and their full personal safety and safety of their property be immediately ensured;

- that a free and safe return to the Province be ensured without delay to more than 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Goranci, Turks, Egyptians and other inhabitants expelled in a campaign of ethnic cleansing after UNMIK and KFOR came to the Province;

- that several hundred thousand citizens of Albania who have illegally entered the Province by crossing the unprotected Yugoslav State borders, be expelled immediately;

- that without further manipulations and delay, the combat structures of the terrorist so-called KLA be disbanded and all its members disarmed as well as other Albanian armed gangs, that all their weapons be destroyed, which is the main reason for the lack of security in the Province and for overall thriving crime, and in particular to declare null an void the document on the"transformation" of the so-called KLA;

- that, without delay, an unhampered return of the members of VJ and MUP to Kosovo and Metohija be allowed, in compliance with the MTA, in the interest of normalizing security and preventing further massive expulsions of the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanian population from the Province;

- that full freedom of movement on the entire territory of the Province be ensured and that all existing ghettos, detention camps, blockading of towns and villages, such as Kosovska Mitrovica, Orahovac, Gnjilane and others, where the remaining Serbs now live, be removed;

- that an unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance be enabled, particularly to isolated Serbs, as the most vulnerable category of population in the Province;

- that normal functioning of education, respect for the autonomy of university and other educational and cultural institutions and the media, especially those in Serbian language and wherever Serbs are predominant (Kosovska Mitrovica, etc.) be ensured;

- that full and permanent protection of Serbian cultural heritage, monuments, medieval monasteries, churches and cemeteries be ensured and to undertake measures for their restoration;

- that without delay, the leaders of the so-called KLA, H. Thaqi and A. Cheku in the first place, as well as all other instigators of serious crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing and terrorist acts against the non-Albanian population, their property and State and public property, and against cultural and historic sites, educational, health, commercial and other institutions and facilities, be held accountable and punished in an exemplary fashion;

- that a Joint Coordination Commission of the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia and the United Nations (UNMIK) be established as soon as possible and that a comprehensive agreement between the FR of Yugoslavia and the United Nations on regulating the status of the international presence under the auspices of the United Nations in Kosovo and Metohija and on other relevant issues, be concluded without further delay.

Belgrade, 8 May 2000

Overview of terrorist acts and other crimes in Kosovo and Metohija - Annex

In addition to the latest Memorandum on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, with which was pointed to the necessity of strict and constant respect of Resolution, the government of FR Yugoslavia delivered to the president of Security Council and Secretary-General of UN, in the form of annex, special overview of terrorist acts and other crimes in the region from the arrival of international mission.

O V E R V I E W

of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain violations of the Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 in Kosovo and Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia, since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, in the period from 10 June 1999 to 7 May 2000

Number of terrorist attacks: 4,792

4,511 committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 109 against Albanians and 172 against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and members of other ethnic communities.

Number of killed persons: 1,010

888 Serbs and Montenegrins, 75 Albanians and 47 members of other ethnic communities in Kosovo and Metohija.

Number of abducted and missing persons: 936

860 Serbs and Montenegrins, 42 Albanians and 34 members of other ethnic communities.

The fate of 786 persons is still unknown; 95 abducted persons were killed, 7 persons escaped, while 48 were released.

Number of wounded persons: 924

867 Serbs and Montenegrins, 20 Albanians and 37 members of other ethnic communities.

(5) Ethnic cleansing: In the campaign of ethnic cleansing following the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK, two-thirds of the non-Albanian population, i.e. over 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, of whom 270,000 are Serbs.

The following towns and villages have been ethnically cleansed of Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians:

- Pristina (all Serbs have been driven out of its largest suburbs of Ulpijana, Suncani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko Naselje. Of the 40,000 Serbs who used to live in Pristina before KFOR and UNMIK came to Kosovo and Metohija, 25,000 were school and university students.

Today, only 35 Serbian schoolchildren live in Pristina and attend classes in the local school in the village of Laplje;

-Prizren (only 100 Serbian families remain);

- Gnjilane, the situation in this town was alarming in March and April (in this period alone 350 houses of Serbs were sold). The number of remaining Serbs has been halved and today only about 1,500 Serbs remain. KFOR and UNMIK have warned them not to leave their homes.

- Djakovica, Pec, Podujevo, Glogovac, as well as the areas of Kosovska Mitrovica (Vucitrn, Srbica), Lipljan, Kosovo Polje, from which 80 per cent of their Serbian residents have been expelled, i.e. 7,000 Serbs and 4,000 other non-Albanians (their homes have been burned and looted, while shops, cafes and other property are being seized from their owners. In the presence of KFOR, ethnic Albanian terrorists brutalize and harass the Serbs who refuse to sell their homes and leave Kosovo and Metohija);

- the whole area of the municipalities of Istok and Klina including the villages of Dzakovo, Osojane, Tucepom, Kos, Zac, Belica, Krnjine, Maticane, Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka Vrbica and others, where 3,440 Serbian homes were burned down;

- the surroundings of Urosevac, Slivovo, Nedakovac, Nevoljane, Vrpica, Ljestar, Zegra (municipality of Gnjilane), Zitnje, Pozaranje, Grmovo, Drobes; in the village of Talinovac the two last Serbian houses whose owners had been forced to move out were burnt down at the beginning of April;

- the surroundings of Vitina (Kabas, Binac and other villages), the areas of Kosovska Kamenica (villages of Bratilovce, Firiceja and others) and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, as well as the villages of Toplicane, Rujice, Magure, Slovinja, Staro Gracko, Klobukar in the municipality of Novo Brdo. (All Serbian houses have been burned down and all its owners forced to leave.)

Members of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army exert great pressure on ethnic Goranci, the indigenous residents of the region of Gora, who are not allowed to use their maternal Serbian language in schools and in everyday life, in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic group as Albanians.

Expulsion of the members of the Muslim ethnic community, loyal citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia, has intensified particularly in the area of the municipality of Istok.

In the area of Prizren and Djakovica about 65,000 Kosovo Albanian Catholics live in a difficult situation and under great pressure from Albanian terrorists who accuse them of "collaboration with Serbs".

Albanian separatists continue their deliberate actions, aimed at preventing the return of Serbs to Kosovo and Metohija. They raze Serbian houses in a pre-planned and synchronized manner. The most drastic example has been the looting and bulldozing of over 250 Serbian houses in the village of Bijelo Polje. The area of this village was turned into a garbage dump. Serbian houses in the villages of Brezanik and Osojane have also been bulldozed. Fourteen Serbian villages in the municipality of Vitina do not exist any more because all the houses have been destroyed. At the end of April, Albanian terrorists announced that they will carry out similar organized actions of looting and destroying Serbian houses in the villages near Istok and Novo Brdo.

(6) The latest brutal crimes:

shelling of the Serbian village of Gorazdevac (10 March, 25 March, 22 April 2000); killing of Gashi Sheqeri in his house in the village of Rogovo, municipality of Djakovica, and a Roma boy whose identity has not been established. This murder was committed by the members of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corps Bajram Gashi and Hallim Shala (30 March); bomb attack on the apartment of Franjo Milic, a Croat, in Obilic (3 April 2000); cruel murder of 87-year Metodije Haljausku, a Czech, in Pristina, who was shot in the back of the head (3 April 2000); mortar attack on a group of Serbs who played football in a field in the village of Cernice in which two persons were injured (5 April 2000); attack of eight terrorists on Stojan Petronijevic in the courtyard of his family house in the village of Babin Most, municipality of Obilic (5 April 2000); killing of Dobrivoje Jovanovic in Gnjilane (9 April 2000); mining of the Orthodox Church of Our Lady in Zociste for the third time (18 April 2000); mortar attack on an apartment building housing Serbs and Turks in downtown Pristina in which two persons were wounded (18 April 2000); killing of Srdjan Markovic from the village of Badovac, who was killed by terrorists in his car on his way to visit his friends (21 April 2000); murder of Stojanka Stojanovic (65) in Gnjilane, in mid-April, whose body was found on 26 April 2000; terrorist attack on a bus in Kosovska Mitrovica ferrying Serbs to church (28 April 2000); vandal desecration of Serbian cemeteries and tombstones in the village of Glavotina, municipality of Vucitrn (26 April 2000), and in the village of Klobukar, municipality Novo Brdo (30 April 2000); dynamiting the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas from 16th century in the village of Grncar, municipality of Vitina (28 April 2000); brutal murder of Milorad Peric (50) from the village of Pasjane who was working in the fields (29 April 2000); terrorist bomb attack on a group of residents of the village of Crkvena Vodica, municipality of Obilic, in which several children were wounded (2 May 2000); bomb attack on the house belonging to Hadzija Agusi (74), a Roma, who died from the wounds sustained in the attack (29 April 2000); killing of Zivko Stolic (67) in Kosovska Vitina, who was brutally tortured by terrorists and later killed (6 May 2000); attack on a Serbian family in Kosovska Vitina in the courtyard of their house on which occasion two adults and two children were wounded.

(7) New forms of terror against Serbs and other non-Albanians:

In its security actions against Serbian and other non-Albanians, KFOR is increasingly demonstrating force and resorting to harassment and physical violence and causing damage to Serbian property. Drastic incidents occurred in Kosovska Mitrovica (on 20-25 February), in the villages of Mogila (on 25-26 February), in which Serbian houses were searched by in a most brutal way, Draganovac (municipality of Gnjilane) and Miolice (Municipality of Leposavic), Mali Zvecan (27 February), Gornje Kusce (1 March) and the Serbian villages of Rudare and Grabovac (1 March). The searches were conducted by KFOR jointly with the terrorists of the so-called KLA, who wore international security forces uniforms, in an open display of the existence of co-ordination between KFOR and Albanian terrorists. In April violence against Serbs in the so-called security actions of KFOR has assumed dramatic proportions. The most drastic examples were the incidents which took place in the village of Dobrotin on 2 April, in the village of Sevce on 4 April and in the villages of Lepina and Jazine, when KFOR members released dogs on the Serbs who had gathered to protest the difficult situation and when a large number of people were seriously injured. Several persons were also injured in a brutal action of KFOR against Serbian demonstrators in Gracanica on 7 April 2000.

(8) Latest terrorist attacks on Serbian convoys:

Attacks on a Serbian convoys headed for Strpce, near the village of Radivojce (on 22 and 29 February); attack on a Serbian convoy en route to Koretiste, in the village of Dobricane (28 February); attack on a bus ferrying Serbian children home from school on the road between Gornje Kusce and Koretiste (29 February); Lieutenant Peter Ramstell (KFOR, Kosovska Mitrovica area) banned all KFOR security escorts for buses transporting Serbian schoolchildren and sick persons to Gracanica (1 March); attacks against Serbian convoys in the village of Koretin (6 and 20 March); repeated attacks against Serbian convoys in Gnjilane (7, 10 and 31 March); an attack on a Serbian convoy in the village of Dobrovce (27 March); attack on a Serbian convoy on the road between Bujanovac and Gracanica (11 April 2000); attack on a convoy from Strpce in the village of Pozaranje, municipality of Vitina (18 April 2000).

KFOR has not prevented these terrorist attacks. Also, it has refused to provide security escorts to convoys between Merdare and Kosovo Polje. In addition to daily terror against them, this is added pressure on Serbs to leave Kosovo Polje. (9) Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK: 200

Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pristina, Prizren, Sojevo near Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Klokot Banja. They have been arrested without any explanation or charges, only on the ground of information provided by the Albanians, most frequently by the members of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army. 43 Serbs arbitrarily arrested without legal grounds by KFOR and UNMIK have been detained in a prison in Kosovska Mitrovica for almost ten months. In this period no investigation or any court proceedings have been instituted. On 10 April 2000, 37 detained Serbs and 5 Roma went on a hunger strike. The immediate cause was the release of Gjelal Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, against whom an investigation had been instituted because of a hand grenade attack in which 22 Serbs and 14 French soldiers of KFOR were injured. Doctors from the School of Medicine of the University of Pristina found out at the last examination (6 May 2000) that their health condition was rapidly deteriorating and that eleven of them were in critical conditions. On 7 May 2000, Arsenije Vitosevic, suffering from a chronic heart condition, was admitted to the City hospital. Due to exhaustion, high blood pressure and heart condition he has been placed in an intensive care unit. He was given infusion and is in a difficult psychological condition (two years ago KLA terrorists abducted his son and he has not heard from him since). The doctors who examined the strikers requested that 10 detainees be sent to hospital due to exhaustion and deteriorating health condition. They called on the competent judicial and police UNMIK authorities to release the strikers without delay so that they could given proper medical treatment and that their condition stabilized.

(10) Prisons and labour camps run by the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army:

The abducted Serbian civilians, detained by the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, are kept in the labour camps located in the village of Maticane and in the wider area of Prizren ("Ortokal" estate, a building situated on the road to Djakovica) and in Drenica. 472 abducted Serbs are kept in the camps.

KLA prisons for Serbs, Montenegrin and members of other ethnic communities who are not supportive of Albanian terrorists are situated also around the village of Brod, municipality of Dragas, and along the Djakovica road towards the village of Junik, municipality of Decani, as well as in the villages of Glodjane, Izbica and Strovce in the Kosovska Mitrovica district; and in the premises of Railroad Transport Co. in Urosevac.

(11) Situation in Kosovska Mitrovica:

Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija, the security situation has been very serious, particularly in and around Kosovska Mitrovica. Some of the most salient types and instances of atrocities have been:

- looting and the destruction of 2,365 homes belonging to Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians (1,200 in Kosovska Mitrovica; 1,060 in Vucitrn; and 105 in Srbica);

- eviction of 700 Serbian families from their apartments (500 southern Kosovska Mitrovica; 150 in Vucitrn; and 50 in Srbica);

- looting and the destruction of the property of the following companies:

1. In Kosovska Mitrovica: Socially-owned companies "Kosovo-Sirovina", "Betonjerka", "Lux", "AMD", "Kosmet-Prevoz", "Trans-Kosovo", Duvanska, Minel, Zemljoradnicka zadruga (cooperative), Hortikultura, Mitrovcanka, DES, "Ibar-Rozaje" warehouse, water utility company "Vodovod", printing company "Progres", electric power generation company "Elektro-Kosovo", PTT and a large number of bars and cafes owned by non-Albanians.

2. In Vucitrn: Socially-owned companies "Sartid", "Vucitrn-Prevoz", "Ratar", Farm Cooperative, paints and coatings factory "Ekstra", construction company "Kosovo", utilities company "Sitnica", private company "Cicavica", employment bureau, local community center, Town Hall of Vucitrn, Construction Land Fund, local department store, Auditing Office building, Jugobanka, primary and secondary schools, Jugopetrol, Beopetrol, electric power generation company "Elektro-Kosovo", PTT.

3. In Srbica: Hunting munitions factory, plastics factory, socially-owned company "Buducnost", Farm Cooperative, public utilities company, "Dijamant-produkt" Co., local community center, local self-managing community of interest, "Zitopromet" Co. and its silos.

(12) Recent killings and terrorizing of Albanians loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia:

The terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has stepped up the execution of Albanians who do support their policy and goals, particularly in the areas of Pristina, Podujevo and Pec. The most drastic examples are: the murder of Hejdi Sejdiu, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Serbian Socialist Party, in his home town of Urosevac in front of his wife and three children (on 10 February), the killing of Danush Januzi in Vitina (on 10 February); the massacre of Tahir Bekim, abducted and later killed by the terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (parts of his mutilated body were found on 24 February).

The terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army burnt down the house of Sellim Broshi, former head of the Provincial Ministry of the Interior, in the village of Odanovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, on 20 March 2000. They are also looking for Sinan Rexhepi, former employee of the Provincial Ministry of the Interior. They threaten Sadik Hajrulah from Vitina, Ramadan Sermaxhi, employee of the Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane, Minir Krasniqi from Kosovska Kamenica, as well as other former or present ethnic Albanian members of the Provincial Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane. In mid-March, terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army abducted Noa and Nua Kajtazi, catholic Albanians, in the village of Zjum accusing them that they are loyal citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia. They requested a ransom from their family in the amount of DM 40,000. They also searched their houses, looted it and beat the members of their family.

In addition to Serbs, the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army also rounds up Albanians, loyal to the State of the FR of Yugoslavia, and detain them in their prison camps (around the village of Brod, municipality of Dragas).

(13) Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments:

86 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were burned down, demolished or seriously damaged, among them the Church of the Entrance of Our Lady into the Temple at Dolac, monastery of St. Mark at Korisa from 1467, monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zociste from 14th century, the church in Kijevo from the 14th century, the Holy Trinity monastery from the 14th century near Musutiste, monastery Devic built in 1440, Church of St. Paraskeva in Drenik from the 16th century, Church of St. Demetrius near Pec, the Orthodox church at Grmovo near Vitina, Church of St. Elijah at Zegra near Gnjilane, church of Holy Mother in Musutiste from 1315, Church of St. Elijah at Bistrazin, Church of Apostles Peter and Paul in Suva Reka, monastery of St. Uros in Nerodimlje, monastery of St. Archangel Gabriel from the 14th century in Binac, Church of St. Mary from the 16th century in Belo Polje, Church of St. John the Baptist in Pecka Banja, churches in the villages of Naklo, Vucitrn, Petrovac, Urosevac, Podgorce, Djurakovac, Krusevo, Osojane, Samodreza, Dresna near Klina, Rekovac, Petric, monastery Binac near Vitina, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Djakovica, St. Nicholas' Church in Gnjilane.

Monks and other clergy are being terrorized and persecuted. More than 150 parish residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons and other sacral objects, most of which are part of cultural treasures under the special protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed. Medieval frescoes were destroyed in 70 per cent of Orthodox churches and monasteries.

Assaults on members of the Catholic religious community by the terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army have intensified in Prizren and Pec, particularly assaults on clergymen (The homes of two Franciscan priests were burned down.).

The following cultural monuments were damaged or demolished:

- statues of the greatest lexicographer of the Serbian language Vuk Karadzic and the great Montenegrin poet Petar Petrovic Njegos in downtown Pristina;

-memorials to King Uros in Urosevac and King Dusan in Prizren;

- memorial to Prince Lazar in Gnjilane and the memorial to Serbian rulers from the Nemanjic dynasty in the village of Gornje Nerodimlje;

- memorial to Milos Obilic, the symbol of the town of Obilic. KFOR removed the damaged statue to the compounds of the thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B".

- about 400 000 books vanished in the fire set to the Pristina Library.

Many of the destroyed monuments are outstanding examples of the Serbian cultural heritage and are on the list of the monuments of exceptional cultural value under the protection of UNESCO.

(14) Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions:

- Forcible and illegal takeovers of premises and buildings of post offices, banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems, university, elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other local government buildings, local communes, buildings of the Ministry of the Interior and the Army of Yugoslavia, factories, enterprises, cooperatives, etc. in Pristina (premises of the Clinical Centre "Pristina" and the health station whose equipment has been stolen and taken by doctors in private practice, Federal Customs Administration, Public Housing Company, Institute for Urban Planning, water supply company "Vodovod", thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B", depots and petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the shareholding companies "Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", "Energoinvest", "Autopristina", car shock absorbers factory, "Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas, Podujevo, Lipljan, Strpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the assistance of KFOR), Djakovica (with the assistance of KFOR).

- By forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and institutions tens of thousands employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians were sacked and left with no means to support themselves.

- More than 190 major companies were forcibly and illegally seized, whose equipment was looted and most often taken to Albania.

(15) Armed artillery attacks on villages:

Slovinj, Maticane, Orahovac, Konjuh, Berivojce, Gornja Brnjica, the villages around Kosovska Kamenica: Grncar, Magila, Ajvalija, all the villages of the Istok-Klina region, Gorazdevac near Pec, Svinjare, Klokot, Novo Brdo, Zjum, Donja and Gornja Gusterica, Susica, Badavac, Bresje, Vrbovac, Vitina, Cernice, (municipality of Gnjilane), Dobrusa, Veliko Ropotovo (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Partes, Podgradje, Malisevo and Pasjane (municipality of Gnjilane), Ljestar, Budriga, Dobrotin (municipality of Lipljan), Grncar, Binac, Ranilug, Silovo, Odovce, Rajanovce, Bosce, Caglavica, Paravolo, Lebane, Gojbulja, Suvo Grlo and Banje (municipality of Srbica), in the following villages in the area of the municipality of Gora: Brodosavce, Belobrod, Kukavce; frequent attacks on houses of Goranci, Muslims and Albanians, loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia, and in Grabovac (municipality of Zvecan).

All Serbian houses in the villages of Donji Livoc, Kmetova Vrbica, Lipovica and Cernice in the municipality of Gnjilane, and in the villages of Vaganes, Gradjenik and Orahovica in the municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, all forming part of Kosovsko Pomoravlje, were set on fire or destroyed by mortars or explosives.

All this runs counter to assertions by KFOR and UNMIK that the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has been disarmed.

(16) Blockade of towns and villages:

Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika Hoca, Koretin, villages around Gnjilane, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac, Priluzje (the village surrounded by Albanians, with no doctors, shops and phone lines; about 80 per cent of the villagers who worked for the Electric Power Industry of Serbia have remained jobless).

About 3,500 Serbian residents of Orahovac have been living for more than nine months since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the first concentration camp in Europe after the Second World War, besieged by the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.

(17) Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a daily basis against non-Albanians:

Ugljari, Srpski Babus, Stimlje, Novo Selo, Bresje, Obilic, the area around Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (on which an armed attack was recently carried out), the village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian situation), most of the mainly Catholic Croatian population ofn the villages of Letinice, Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Sasare have moved out, Drenovac (50 Serbs massacred), village of Cernice (a series of incidents in which US KFOR soldiers maltreated Serbs), Pozaranje, Gotovusa, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki Alas, Vrelo and Radevo, Plemetin and Slatina (municipality of Vucitrn), Crkolez (municipality of Istok), Ogose - municipality of Kosovska Kamenica (where almost all Roma families have been driven out), Banjska, Gojbulja and Miroce (municipality of Vucitrn), Brezanik (municipality of Pec).

Ruthless terror is used against the remaining Serbs in the village of Obilic: their houses are attacked and set on fire. They cannot call fire emergency services or ask for KFOR and UNMIK assistance since their telephone lines are disconnected, while those belonging to Albanian households are connected. This provides further evidence of against Serb by KFOR and UNMIK who sit idly by.

(18) The looted Serbian villages whose residents were forced out:

Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje, Livadice, Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace, Zociste, Sofalija, Dragoljevac, Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja Sipasnica, Miganovce, Laniste and Zmijarnik (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica).

(19) Serbian settlements set on fire:

Istok, Klina, Donja Lapastica, Obrandza, Velika Reka, Perane, Lause, the villages around Podujevo, Grace, Donja Dubica, Zociste, Orahovac, Naklo, Vitomirice, Belo Polje, Mojlovice, Alos-Toplicane, Krajiste, Rudnik, Donji Strmac, Goles (municipality of Lipljan), Orlovic (municipality of Pristina), Krpimej and Lausa (municipality of Podujevo), Muzicane (all Serbian houses burned down), Zaimovo, Denovac, Lesjane, Gornje and Donje Nerodimlje (all Serbian houses looted and burned down), Sinaje (municipality of Istok), Balovac, Mali Talinovac, Ljubizda, Klobuka and Oraovica (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Zaskok and Novi Miros (municipality of Urosevac).

(20) Registered number of homes burned down: About 50,000 houses of Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians were burned down in Kosovo and Metohija.

(21) Registered number of illegal entries of foreign citizens into the FR of Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Metohija) without the necessary papers (visas and registration of stay with the competent authorities): 811

Over 250,000 foreigners have illegally entered Kosovo and Metohija with approval of UNMIK and KFOR. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has officially requested their deportation on several occasions. These requests went unheeded, although those persons are international terrorists, criminals, narco-mafia members, white slave merchants, organizers of brothels and other forms of international crime.

(22) Registered number of stolen vehicles: over 12,000

As a result of open borders with Macedonia and Albania 250,000 vehicles were brought into Kosovo and Metohija without payment of customs duties. Most of these vehicles were stolen.

UNMIK has extended the period for the registration of vehicles in Kosovo and Metohija until 31 May 2000. It is expected that it will register about 200,000 vehicles thus legalizing crime and theft.

(23) Registered number of cases of violation of the ground security zone by KFOR: 364.