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- From: amils@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex MILS)
- Subject: M.I.L.S. - NEWS 17/11/92
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- ================ Dnevni Vesti 17/11/92E =====================
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- MILS - NEWS November 17, 1992
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- CATASTROPHE LOOMS IN MACEDONIA
- Skopje. The United Nations' Security Council has imposed even
- stronger sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro--the rump
- Yugoslavia--and it looks like Macedonia will become an unintended
- victim.
- The Undersecretary of the Macedonian Foreign Ministry, Risto
- Nikovski, has appealed to the European Community to unblock the
- Greek port of Salonika, from where land-locked Macedonia gets its
- imports from.
- The UN's tough resolution against Serbo-Yugoslavia means that all
- rail links to Macedonia have been cut off.
- Badly needed oil supplies from the Bulgarian town of Dimitrovgrad
- cannot get through to Macedonia, because the railway line between
- Macedonia and Bulgaria runs through the Serbian town of Nis.
- Transportation of oil by truck could be unaffordable for the
- poverty-stricken republic.
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- MACEDONIA WILL FACE A SEVERE WINTER
- Skopje. The oil shortage means that the republic will have to
- close down electricity generating plants. But in the meantime,
- levels of electricity use have gone up--2 million kilowatts above
- the average--because people have been forced to use electric
- heaters rather than oil heaters.
- There will be enormous problems for the population when the
- weather get colder. One solution is to link up the thermo-
- electric plant "Negotino" to the existing power grid, but 50,000
- tonnes of oil are needed--and that is unlikely to reach Macedonia
- because of the trade embargo.
- The thermo-electric and hydro-electric plants in Bitola,
- Macedonia's second largest city, are hardly working because of
- the oil shortage and because of a low supply of water caused by
- last summer's drought. Authorities have seriously considered
- restricting the use of electricity by 40%.
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- PROPOSED MILITARY ACADEMY FOR MACEDONIA
- Paris. A military academy could be set up in Macedonia by next
- October, according to the Parisian-Macedonian newspaper
- "Makedonski Vesnik."
- One of the prime movers of the project is Vice Admiral Dragoljub
- Bocinov, formerly of the Yugoslav Navy, and now deputy head of
- the Chiefs of Staff of the Macedonian army for officer
- recruitment and training.
- Bocinov has become a well known figure to the Macedonian public
- after he was arrested and tried in a Belgrade military court for
- allegedly refusing to fire upon the Croatian port of Split last
- year. He was found to be innocent of the charges and allowed to
- return to his native Macedonia.
- The Vice Admiral is the author of a proposal paper which outlines
- the establishment of a military academy. The proposal paper needs
- only to be approved by the Chiefs of Staff, the Macedonian
- President, Kiro Gligorov, and the Ministers for Education and
- Defence for the academy to be established.
- Macedonian officer cadets who had their final year of study
- interrupted by Macedonia's withdrawal from the Serbian dominated
- People's Army of Yugoslavia (JNA) will be allowed to finish their
- course by 1992-93. But from October 1993, the new four year
- course at the new Macedonian military academy will commence.
- Cadets will only be accepted if they meet the tough selection
- criteria. The course's curriculum will emphasise the following
- subjects: philosophy, sociology, a foreign language, mathematics,
- information, and theoretical and practical military sciences etc.
- Vice Admiral Bocinov said that it was of major importance that
- this elite school produce top quality officers who were highly
- motivated, confident, and who were willing to defend the
- fatherland--Macedonia.
-
- DE STANDAARD: EC AND GREECE CAUSES MACEDONIA TO SUFFER
- Brussels. An article on 17-11-92 in the well respected Belgian
- broadsheet in the Flemish language, De Standaard, has strongly
- criticised the EC and Greece for its behaviour towards Macedonia.
- De Standaard correspondent, Axel Buyse, who sent a few days in
- Macedonia, wrote that "Athens has been thick-headed in blocking
- EC recognition of Macedonia. On the other hand, Buyse contends,
- the EC has done nothing to break Greece's economic blockade of
- the land-locked republic; in Belgrade there is plenty of oil but
- Macedonia has none, despite not having UN trade sanctions placed
- against it."
- The article also mentioned the enormous difficulties caused by
- the economic blockade on Macedonia, and the recent riot in
- Skopje. Buyse pointed out that the Macedonian people live with
- fear in their hearts, waiting to see whether or not their country
- will be invaded.
-
- BOZINOVSKI JOINS IPSWICH
- London. Australian-Macedonian soccer player, Vlado Bozinovski,
- and Bulgarian international Benco Geuncev, have joined English
- club Ipswich Town for 200,000, according to reports in the BBC.
- Bozinovski and Geuncev both played for Portuguese team, Sporting
- Lisbon.
-
- APPEAL:
-
- THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA FINDS ITSELF IN A
- DIFFICULT PERIOD. THE UN AND EC ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST SERBIA
- AND MONTENEGRO HAVE ALSO ISOLATED MACEDONIA. THE UN'S LATEST
- RESOLUTION AGAINST SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO HAVE LEFT MACEDONIA, ON
- THE THRESHOLD OF WINTER, WITHOUT OIL AND ENERGY, WHICH WILL HAVE
- CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES FOR THE MACEDONIAN POPULATION.
- WE MUST ALL SUPPORT MACEDONIA. WE MUST OPPOSE THIS
- INJUSTICE. WE MUST RAISE OUR VOICE IN PROTEST AGAINST THE
- INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WHO IN THE NAME OF "PRINCIPLES" ARE
- PLAYING AROUND WITH MACEDONIA'S FATE.
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- (end).
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