PRISHTINA, 30 SEPTEMBER 1993

SPECULATIONS ON NEW TERRITORIAL ARRANGEMENT OF KOSOVA

The Montenegrian opposition party, Liberal Party, announced these days that Belgrade has for some time been drafting a new constitution of the self-proclaimed Yugoslavia, Belgrade-based daily Borba reported yesterday. Liberals say the constitution envisages five provinces: Serbia, Montenegro, Kosova, Vojvodina and Sandjak. Serbian daily Politika has partially confirmed these speculations but has reported a different composition of this newly arranged self-styled Yugoslavia. Politika reports today that following would be the five provinces: Serbia, Montenegro, Vojvodina, and two provinces out of present Kosova. The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences several months ago launched proposals for a rearrangement of the territory of present-day Kosova, by partitioning it into two provinces. The Serbian government has likewise endorsed such an idea and has tried to realize by the establishment of the so-called districts/prefectures, thus fragmentarizing the territorial integrity of Kosova and incorporating it into

Serbia. Some of the municipalities of Kosova, inhabited overwhelmingly by Albanians, are now run by centers outside Kosova. Kosova has for a long time now had territorial, constitutional and ethnic identity. It had such an identity within the now desintegrated former Yugoslavia. The goal of the Serbian authorities is clear: to abolish such an identity and territorial integrity, in order to eventually subjugate Kosova and Serbianize it.

DETAINED AFTER MEETING WITH BRITISH EMBASSY OFFICIALS

Serbian police arrested yesterday (Wednesday) at his place Ymer Muhaxheri, chairman of the LDK branch in Peja. It has also been reported that Muhamet Shukriu, an activist with the Prizren-based Association for the Return of Albainan Emigre, was arrested on Wednesday in his home town. Both Mr.Muhaxheri and Mr.Shukriu met on Tuesday in Peja and Prizren with British Embassy officials in Belgrade, Mr.Clifton and Mr.Dawbarn. Ymer Muhaxheri was reported released later in the day yesterday, whereas Muhamet Shukriu is still being kept in custody.

SERB STUDENTS AND SERB REFUGEES IN KOSOVA DISPUTE OVER THE STUDENTS DORMITORIES

Serbian media and press have been reporting lately about a dispute of Serb students and Serb refugees in Kosova over the students dormitory in Prishtina. Belgrade-based Politika reported on Wednesday that around 150 Serb refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia who have been settled in Kosova by the Serbian authorities in view of "changing the ethnic picture of Kosova", have for some time been housed at the students dormitories in Prishtina. The Serb students have now started complaining about it. They have reportedly filed a petition asking for the removal of the Serb refugees. The now Serb-run University of Prishtina has supported the students' demands. Serbian press, although very outspoken on the plight of Serbian refugees in Kosova, does not offer any clues as to the way this dispute is going to be solved. Serbian local daily Jedinstvo quotes a senior member of the Neo-Fascist Serbian Radical Party of Seselj, Ranko Babic, as saying that 200 apartments "which have been allegally used" be emptied to make

room for the Serb refugees who are to evacuate the students dormitories. He was apparently referring to dispossessing Albanians of their apartments, a practice of the Serbian authorities. The students dormitories in Prishtina have for over two years now been run by the Serbian-installed management, as is the case with the University of Prishtina. The Prishtina-based secondary students' dormitories have been only recently taken over by the Serbian authorities. All this aiming at "changing the ethnic picture of Kosova", as Politika said yesterday.

SERBIAN OFFICIAL ACCUSES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OVER ENGAGEMENT ON KOSOVA

Milos Simovic, Serbian-installed mayor of the self-styled Prishtina District, who has in fact been playing the role of a Serbian governor in Kosova, has accused the international community for backing what he calls "unreasonable demands of the Kosova Albanians", Serbian daily Jedinstvo reports. Mr.Simovic is quoted to have told the British Embassy officials that the duty of "foreign missions was to bring the representatives of the Albanian minority to the negotiating table with the Serbian officials".

METAL FROM FERRO-NICKEL SHIPPED TO HONG-KONG

In an article published in today's Bujku, entitled 'Sanctions Breached - Metals Reaching Hong-Kong', it said that despite Macedonian vouches that it would strictly respect UN sanctions against Serbia, amounts of nickel from the Ferro-nickel plant of Gllogovc have been transported through Macedonia as far as to Hong-Kong. Quoting representatives of the Independent Trade Unions at the Plant, Serbian-installed management of Ferro-nickel are being engaged to pull out amounts of metal for shipment during the night. According to the article, the payments from the shipments are being deposited at Rumanian and Cypriot banks. The Ferro-nickel plant in Gllogovc has stopped production since the emergency management took over, firing most of Albanian employees. The metals being shipped out are taken from the ready made stocks during previous production.

FIVE SUSPECTS OVER THE KILLING OF A SPS MEMBER OF ALBANIAN NATIONALITY

The Serbian local daily Jedinstvo reports today, referring to the Serbian Interior Ministry sources, that five persons are in custody who are suspected to have shot dead Kole Nikollbibaj, member of the Socialist Party of Serbia, and deputy to the Serbian-run municipal assembly in Gjakova. Nikollbibaj was shot dead in the night between 21 and 22 September. Jedinstvo quotes the wife of Nikollbibaj as saying that several people were involved in the killing of her husband. "There is no doubt, however, that the killing of Kole Nikollbibaj is a premeditated act of the Albanian [Jedinstov says 'Siptarski', a derogatory term for Albanians] nationalists and separatists. The Brekovc village has, though, a very active LDK (Democratic League of Kosova) organization, which has in the recent days distributed foreign literature on the direct involvement in the accomplishment of the idea of a Greater Albania", the Serbian daily Jedinstvo concludes. Serbian press has fervently outspoken Serbian official charges of Albanian p

olitical parties as inclined to terrorism, charges which have never been substantiated.

ARRESTS OF FORMER ALBANIAN MILITARY OFFICERS CONTINUE

The Serbian police has continued to arrest the former Albanian army officers and employees of what was Territorial Defense system. As reported, Haxhi Ferati, Master of the Military Sciences and a former officer with the Yugoslav Army (JNA) was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) in Prizren. The police also arrested yesterday in LLuka of Decan Rrustem Tetaj, a captain of the former Yugoslav army.

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