Headlines
- The bombardment of FRY has formally ended, says Solana;
- VJ and FRY Police force withdrew from Kosovo as it was scheduled;
- First columns of Serbs returned to Kosovo;
- Members of “so called” KLA are burning Serb houses in Kosovo;
- K-for officials and “so called” KLA reached an agreement on disarmament of KLA;
- Clinton and Yeltsin signed the document on strategic nuclear weapons in Cologne;
KOSOVO related news
- SRT correspondent from FRY (Draga Grubic) reports on Serbs returning to Kosovo. She has also mentioned the figures of Serbs who have already returned to Kosovo or they are on their way to get there (approximately 1750 people).This item is accompanied by REUTERS footage of refugees. SRT correspondent also carried the news on Kosovo Serbs gathered in the center of Belgrade demanding from KFOR to guarantee their safety as well as the news on 6 KLA members arrested by KFOR in Kosovska Mitrovica while they were plundering Serb houses (carried by AFP).
- Serb houses in village Grace in flame; SRT carried the SKY report (of Keith Graves from village Grace) on three Serb villages burned up by KLA members. The report is accompanied by SKY footage of houses in flame and Serbs leaving Kosovo.
- KFOR press conference in Pristina; Statements of Robin Clifford on : burned Serbian houses in village Grace, future relations between MP and Civil Police, the deadline for VJ to pull out, refugee returns, problems with mine fields;
- Clinton-Yeltsin talks in Cologne followed by official statements of Ivanov and Berger;
- G-8 meeting in Cologne; SRT quoted the parts of G-8 joint statement: Democratization of Serbia is the condition for IC help in reconstruction of FRY, Schroeder statement on goals of Stability Pact, Sandy Berger: US will not help reconstruction of Serbia as long as Milosevic rules the country.
FRY reactions;
SRT carried the statements of SPO, JUL, Social democratic party, DS on the current situation and further steps towards solving the political crisis in FRY;
RS News;
- Co-Chairman of the BiH Council, Svetozar Mihajlovic says that BiH and especially RS suffered a great economic damages due to the FRY crisis. The RS Government assessments are that daily damages are around 2 million DM and that 40 000 workers are out of job due to the FRY crisis.-( SRT carried the quotations from Mihajlovic interview to ONASA)
- SRT delegation led by Andjelko Kozomara delivered cash cheques to the families of RTS workers killed in NATO shelling;
- It is still unknown whether the entry testing for secondary school children will be held or not due to the unpaid salaries to the teachers in Banja Luka;