13.06.1999

OHR SRT News Summary, 13 June 1999

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Headlines

  • KLA members killed 1 Serb policeman and 2 FRY Army soldiers
  • Serbs are leaving Kosovo
  • SRT correspondent from Pristina reports on 1) victorious reception of FRY soldiers in many towns in Serbia; 2) British KFOR soldiers occupied private petrol station near Pristina
  • SKY reporter from Prizren reports on group of Albanians who attacked Serb civilians while they were leaving the town. When members of FRY Army came to help Serb civilians they got into a fight. Thanks to a German officer a wider conflict was evoided.
  • Talbott received guarantees from Russian officials that Russia would not send its soldiers into Kosovo until Russia and the West had reached an understanding on the Russian role in this conflict.
  • Extensive report on international troop deployment in Kosovo including statement of Wesley Clark who said that NATO would disarm all paramilitary forces in Kosovo including KLA.
  • FBI team of forensic pathologists (25) arrived in Europe in order to investigate war crimes in Kosovo
  • Peter Galbraith in an interview with CNN said that one of the most important tasks for KFOR troops will be the protection of Serbs who stay in Kosovo. Galbraith added that the days of Milosevic’s rule were numbered.

FRY reactions:

  • Momir Bulatovic: UN SC resolution preserves the territorial integrity and sovereignty of FRY. This resolution prevents any kind of terrorism and eliminates the possibility of Kosovo independence. That is why we accepted this plan. It is not NATO that entered Kosovo, but international troops under UN auspices, said Bulatovic in interview for “Dani” (newspapers from Podgorica)
  • Slobodan Vucetic, Justice of the Constitutional Court of Serbia: As far as national integrity and sovereignty are concerned UN SC plan is not much better than the plan offered in Rambouillet, because this plan includes the complete elimination of the FRY Army from Kosovo and it also includes foreign civil administration.
  • Dragoslav Avramovic, former FRY National Bank Governor: The prosperity of the FRY economy will depend on the international position of FRY
  • DS Leader Zoran Djindjic: Djindjic accused FRY authorities of repression.