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KFOR EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR DEMILITARIZATION OF SO-CALLED KLA BY 48 H
KFOR representatives said on Monday morning that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had been given a 48-hour extension to comply with the agreement on demilitarization.
Under the agreement, this extremist-terrorist ethnic Albanian organization should have disbanded all its units and surrendered all its arms to the international force in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province by midnight yesterday.
Following negotiations between KLA leaders Hashim Taqi and Agim Ceku and UN Kosovo civilian mission head Bernard Kouchner and KFOR commander Gen. Mike Jackson in Pristina, representatives of the international forces released a statement saying they had agreed to postpone the deadline until Tuesday midnight.
JOVANOVIC LEAVES FOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION
A delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, headed by Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic, left Belgrade on Monday morning for New York to attend the 54th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the ministry said.
During his stay in New York, Minister Jovanovic will meet with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other senior officials, and confer also with foreign ministers of over 40 countries.
VIOLENCE REPORTED TO BE CONTINUING IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
The body of an unidentified man has been found in Donja Srbica, 8km from Kosovo and Metohija's town of Prizren, in Sector South of the UN peacekeeping force KFOR, the KFOR press centre in Pristina said Sunday.
Reporting on the security situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province over the past 24 hours, the press centre said that Germany's KFOR troops had discovered five graves in the village of Malja, 12km west of Prizren on Sept. 17, and the bodies of five persons, whose identity and time of death has not been established, in the village of Planje, 14km west of Prizren.
Russia's KFOR troops offered first aid to an ethnic Albanian who was seriously wounded when his house in Kijevo, 10km north of Malisevo, was blown up, the press centre said. The troops also defused mines discovered in 30 houses in Malisevo, and arrested two men in Urosevac for possessing stolen goods.
The press centre also said that the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had staged a parade in Pec, in the west of the province, during which two men had been arrested for carrying AK-47 automatic rifles, while one man had been beaten up.
A KFOR patrol arrested four men, one of whom was carrying an automatic rifle, near the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Pec, at 2.30 a.m. local time on Sunday, the press centre said.
DECOMPOSING BODIES OF THREE MEN, ONE CHILD UNCOVERED IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
Murders, violence and persecutions carried out by the ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija against Serbs and other non-Albanians continue on a daily basis.
The decomposing bodies of three men and a child were uncovered on Thursday several kilometres north of Djakovica, the KFOR press centre in Pristina has said.
The press centre said that the stoning of a convoy of Serbs, returning to Gorazdevac, east of Pec, injured three men.
Three explosions were heard on Thursday evening in the centre of Lipljan close to Serb apartment buildings, while four more explosions took place close by, KFOR said adding that no one was hurt and that an investigation was underway.
KFOR REPORTS TWO MURDERS, SHOTS FIRED AT RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS
The KFOR international force in Kosovo-Metohija said on Saturday two unidentified men had been found murdered in Pristina during the night, and confirmed reports that Russian troop headquarters at the Serbian Devic monastery had come under fire on Tuesday.
However, the KFOR Press Centre began its report with the statement that the situation in the internationally-protected Sector North in that U.N.-secured province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia had been comparatively quiet in the past 24 hours.
According to the report, nobody was hurt and no damage was caused in the attack on Russian troop headquarters and the incident is being carefully investigated.
KFOR further said that international troops in Sector South were called in late on Friday to the village of Iglarevo to identify a dead body, and that military police is investigating the matter.
Military police mounted a search operation in south Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday, in the course of which it seized six machineguns, two bayonets, two knives and two balaclava helmets.
A search around the flat in which the above items were found revealed a further seven hand grenades, six anti-personnel mines, a gas mask and several ammunition clips.
Also, KFOR reported that six men have been arrested near the village of Magure, when one of them was found to be carrying a hand grenade. Earlier and in connection with a shooting in Pristina, one person was arrested for carrying two handguns.
In Djakovica, a KFOR patrol arrested a member of the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for carrying a rifle, while in Urosevac the police detained and is interrogating two men in connection with a break-in.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS MURDER 2, ABDUCT 14 NON-ALBANIANS IN PRIZREN AREA
Ethnic Albanian extremists in the Prizren area in U.N.-secured Kosovo-Metohija have in the past 5 days murdered 2 people, abducted 14 Serbs, Romanies and ethnic Turks, and raped 1 Serb and 1 Turk woman, a report on Saturday said.
According to the report from the Centre for Peace and Tolerance in Prizren, submitted to TANJUG, one of the murdered people was Adem Beqiri, president of the Prizren branch of the ethnic Albanian Democratic Reform Party.
FRENCH PRISON IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA HAS 30 INMATES, 26 OF THEM SERBS
The French-run remand prison in Kosovska Mitrovica has 30 inmates - 26 Serbs, 3 ethnic Albanians and 1 ethnic Macedonia, according to the district chief justice on Friday.
District Court Chief Justice Kaplan Baruti told a news conference that trials couldn't be held yet because the administration and justice commission of the UN mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) has not selected a jury.
According to the available documentation, the detainees are accused of political crimes, common crimes and unauthorised possession and carrying of arms.
The courts still apply the Penal Code which was in operation in Yugoslavia, its republic of Serbia and Serbia's province of Kosovo-Metohija on March 24, 1999 (the day NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia started), Baruti said.
However, he added, this will soon be replaced by a new Penal Code which is being devised by the commission, set up by UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner.
The Kosovska Mitrovica District Court resumed work on Sept. 1, and has 7 judges - 4 ethnic Albanians, 2 Serbs and 1 Muslim.
The Prosecutor's Office has one ethnic Albanian, while one Serb prosecutor, a woman, has resigned.
Thirteen of the Kosovska Mitrovica prisoners, most of them Serbs, are on hunger strike, because they were arrested on anonymous ethnic Albanian tip-offs and are being held without a court order.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN NATIONALISTS PULL DOWN MONUMENT IN PRISTINA
Ethnic Albanian nationalists pulled down Saturday a monument to Dositej Obradovic, Serbia's philosopher and writer, which had been located in front of the Pristina University chancellor's office.
Obradovic (1742-1811), author of a large number of works written in Serbian and other languages, established cultural and educational links between the Balkans and Europe, creating a basis for the Serbs' modern literature.
The ethnic Albanian nationalists pulled down the monument together with its base, leaving it to lie in the chancellor office's compound.
Ethnic Albanian extremists have also pulled down monuments raised in Pristina, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, in memory of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, Serbia's 19th-century language reformer, and Petar Petrovic Njegos, Montnegro's 19th-century ruler, poet and bishop, since the deployment of the UN peacekeeping force KFOR to the province.
They have also destroyed a monument to Emperor Dusan who ruled Serbia in the 13th century, in Prizren, and a monument in Gnjilane dedicated to Emperor Lazar who died in the battle of Kosovo in 1389 making it impossible for the Turkish army to continue its advance towards Europe.
UN KOSOVO-METOHIJA MISSION TO SET UP RADIO-TELEVISION STATION
The UN civilian mission to Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) said on Friday that a Kosovo Radio and Television station would begin broadcasting out of Pristina on Sunday, Sept. 19.
The station will broadcast the mission's programmes in the Serbian and Albanian languages, according to UNMIK.
The first two hours of the programme will encompass local and foreign news and other information programmes, UNMIK said.
Technical support for the project has been provided by the European Union, and an international team, headed by Acting Director General Richard Deal, will be in charge of training the local personnel.
At first, the programme will be available only via satellite, but a second stage will focus on expanding the programme, rehabilitating regional centres and establishing ground transmission systems.
During its March 24-June 10 aggression on Yugoslavia, NATO targeted relays and even the Belgrade headquarters of Serbian Radio and Television, killing 16 workers at their jobs.
The international KFOR force in Kosovo-Metohija has this summer demolished the relay on Mt Mokra Gora, blocking the signal of Serbian Radio and Television in that U.N.-secured province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
Most ethnic Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija tune in to radio and television programmes broadcast out of Tirana, Albania.
ETHNICALLY CLEAN CEMETERIES IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
The ethnic Albanian separatists have become so bold that not only are they persecuting and killing Serbs, Montenegrins, Turks and Romanies, but are also focusing on their dead, desecrating orthodox cemeteries throughout Kosovo-Metohija before the eyes of the United Nations mission.
Over the past few days, KLA members have been destroying everything Serb in order to eradicate all Serb traces in Serbia's southern province, even those in cemeteries that are sacred in all civilized nations.
Christian cemeteries have been desecrated in Pristina, Orahovac, Pec and numerous other cities and villages in Kosovo-Metohija.
About 50 Serbs, who visited the orthodox cemetery in southern Kosovska Mitrovica under KFOR escort, were horrified to uncover that destroyed or damaged were more than 200 tombstones and a fence stolen.
The Serbs protested strongly with the UN Civilian Mission (UNMIK) in Kosovska Mitrovica demanding to be allowed to visit the cemeteries and to continue burying their dead there.
Since the arrival of KFOR three months ago, not a single Serb has been buried at the Kosovska Mitrovica cemetery.
MORE THAN 200 SERBIAN GRAVES IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA DESECRATED
Ethnic Albanian terrorists have desecrated more than 200 Serbian graves in the past three days in south Kosovska Mitrovica, whence they have first driven out all Serbs and Romanies, according to reports on Saturday.
Terrorists have smashed more than 200 headstones, dozens of crosses and more than 20 metres of fencing, so that cattle graze among the graves, the Serbian National Council for the Kosovskomitrovacki District told TANJUG.
The Council has protested over the vandalism with District Administrator Martin Garrod, and Serbs in north Kosovska Mitrovica will visit the graveyard in the south part of the town on Sunday morning, with international KFOR force escort.
For two months now, Serbs in north Kosovska Mitrovica have not been burying their dead in the south part of the town because of threats and out of fear of attack on funeral processions.
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH URGES END TO PLIGHT OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA POPULATION
The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church voiced regret Saturday about all innocent civilians killed in Serbia and in particular its southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, regardless of their ethnic or religious origin.
In a statement issued at its emergency session held in Belgrade on September 13-18, the Synod said that it expected and urged the UN peacekeeping force KFOR in Kosovo and Metohija to prevent the further plight of the Church, Serbs and other non-Albanians and to do everything to ensure the return of refugees and expellees.
The Synod called on the international community to honour also in the case of the Serbian people the basic principles of human rights and freedoms which it professed to support and whose respect it ensured in its countries.
"In order to stop the ethnic cleansing of Serbs and some other ethnic groups in Kosovo and Metohija...the Synod has sent a protest letter to the United Nations and has appealed to UNESCO immediately to help put an end to further devastation of Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija and destruction of the remaining spiritual and cultural shrines that do not only represent the Serbs' heritage but also that of Europe and the world," the statement said.
The session, chaired by Patriarch Pavle, was attended by all Serbian Orthodox bishops.
ETHNIC ALBANIAN KLA MUST NOT BE TRANSFORMED
A Yugoslav army commander blasted on Friday as illegitimate and unacceptable the efforts to transform the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rather than disarm it by Sept. 19 under UN Resolution 1244.
The international community and the United Nations have undertaken to disarm the KLA "and we expect them to do their job," Third Army Commander General Nebojsa Pavkovic, said addressing the new class of soldiers giving the solemn oath to their country and their people.
Speaking in Nis, Gen. Pavkovic stressed that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with the decisiveness of resoluteness of the Army to defend its country from the aggressor by all available forces, stepped into the first ranks of fighters for freedom of the world, for the freedom from attempts of enslaving by the creators of the New World Order.
"Statements by some KFOR (international force) officials in Kosovo-Metohija show that they are determined to see the UN resolution implemented. "In case this should not happen, KFOR will be responsible for all that might follow, and I am sure that, in case the obligation is not fulfilled, our state will intervene resolutely," Pavkovic said.
He went on to say that the security situation in U.N.-administered Kosovo-Metohija is unstable, with KFOR failing from day one to ensure safety for the people or to secure the borders, "which has resulted in chaos in the region."
He went on to say that conditions have not been created for returning a number of Yugoslav army and police to that Serbian province, pursuant to the military-technical accord.
Gen. Milorad Obradovic, who commands the Second Army, said in the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro's city of Podgorica that the Yugoslav army will respect all government decisions, monitor developments and maintain the necessary level of combat capability.
Congratulating the new soldiers he said:"The Yugoslav army does not want war, but its members are determined to defend their homeland, if necessary, with all their strength and all weapons at their disposal, because we do not have an alternative homeland.
He said that, "in line with this orientation, the reorganisation of some units and commands of the Yugoslav army and their adjustment to the new and modern conditions will continue.
"There will be reshaping and setting up of units capacitated and equipped to counter all kinds of operations by the enemy and those serving him."
ETHNIC ALBANIAN PARTY CONDEMNS MURDER OF ITS MEMBER BY TERRORISTS
The main board of the ethnic Albanians' Democratic Reformist Party on Saturday strongly condemned the murder of head of the party's board for Prizren, Professor Adem Beciri, by ethnic Albanian terrorists on Sept. 13.
A statement issued at the party's meeting, said that the murder of Beciri was a heinous crime by ethnic Albanian gangs that continue to terrorise innocent civilians, enjoying the support by the international community and in particular the United States.
Beciri urged equality of all ethnic communities in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, regardless of their ethnic or religious affiliation, the statement said.
The statement quoted the party's leader Sokolj Cuse as telling the meeting that, in addition to Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians, ethnic Albanian terrorists had started targetting members of their own people that refused to join the ranks of bloodthirsty murderers.
The party calls for the immediate disarming and elimination of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the return of all who have fled the province before the ethnic Albanian extremists' reign of terror and the expulsion of all who have illegally entered the province from Albania and other countries, the statement said.
RUSSIA'S IVANOV, CANADA'S AXWORTHY DISCUSS KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and his Canadian counterpart Lloyd Axworthy discussed in Ottawa on Saturday a wide range of international issues, focusing on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija and cooperation in reconstructing the Yugoslav economy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Ivanov and Axworthy stressed the need for the active promotion of the peaceful resolution of the issue of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, based on the strict respect for principles cited in UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and all-round cooperation in the reconstruction of Yugoslavia's economy, the Ministry said in a statement.
Russian media quoted Sunday Ivanov as saying in a joint news conference after the talks that the talks had been held in an atmosphere of openness.
Ivanov said that disagreements over some issues, like the one concerning the assessment of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, were disagreements between partners rather than opponents, saying that this was of major importance.
JAMMING OF YUGOSLAV TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS
The federal Telecommunications Ministry said on Friday that control measurements have determined that the broadcasts of Yugoslav TV and radio stations are being jammed from the neighbouring countries and from various ships and aircraft.
The ministry said that the jamming of Yugoslav radio frequencies and TV channels is contrary to the constitution and convention of the International Union for Telecommunications, a UN specialized organization.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia respects all the provisions of the Union's major documents, the ministry said adding that it has demanded from the Union and the corresponding government bodies of the countries whose territory is used for jamming purposes, to respect the international order and the determined standards because the jamming of Yugoslav programs represents the violation of the sovereign right of a country to determine its own telecommunications.
YUGOSLAV DELEGATION RETURNS FROM LIBYA
Yugoslavia's delegation has returned from a trip to Libya well pleased with the results of the visit and contacts with the country's leaders.
The visited was paid on the invitation of the top Libyan leadership to attend celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Libyan revolution.
The delegation's contacts with Libyan government and economic institutions' officials promise to boost bilateral economic cooperation, Zoran Lilic, who headed the delegation, has told TANJUG.
According to Lilic, the "Libyan friends have been invited to participate in the reconstruction of (NATO-devastated) Yugoslavia and to enter into joint ventures with Yugoslav companies."
He went on to express pleasure at "the impression made by the products and production programmes of more than 40 Yugoslav companies displayed at the Tripoli fair."
YUGOSLAV BUSINESS DELEGATION TO CHINA HOPES TO STEP UP, EXPAND TIES
The current visit of a Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce delegation to China is meant to help promote and accelerate bilateral economic cooperation, it was noted in Beijing on Sunday.
The delegation, headed by Chamber President Mihajlo Milojevic and comprising executives from a score of companies, was meeting with Yugoslav Ambassador to China Slobodan Unkovic and heads of permanent Yugoslav economic representations in Beijing.
On Monday, the delegation will open talks with Chinese company executives and competent state officials about specific forms that economic cooperation should take.
A cooperation agreement is to be signed with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which should facilitate the devising of concrete forms of linkage between the economies.
Milojevic said that the Yugoslav economy wishes to contribute to the two countries' friendship and cooperation by as many specific contracts and deals as possible.
He stressed that Yugoslav businessmen should find scope in economically strong China's accelerated development for an enhanced volume of trade and other forms of economic cooperation.
The Yugoslav economy should make a place for itself on the Chinese market and increase trade, he said, adding that joint ventures in either country and on third markets should be especially stimulated.
He further stressed that the meetings with Chinese partners would be used for exploring interests in expanding cooperation and for presenting the Yugoslav economy's export and import potential.
DRACULA NIGHTS IN KOSOVO
Members of the Albanian internal affairs intelligence service come to Pristina to organize the formation of a secret police for Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province from the ranks of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), secret police who should secure for this extremist ethnic Albanian organization a victory at the future elections, the Bulgarian weekly 168 casa said in its latest number.
In an exclusive report published as an editorial entitled "Dracula Nights in Kosovo," the weekly said citizens of the elite district of Pristina, of which Hashim Taqi is also a resident, testify to frequent visits by Albanian secret police.
Violent death and abuse will become daily occurrences among ethnic Albanians, the Bulgarian reporter said. He said Taqi's rival and Democratic Alliance of Kosovo (LDK) leader Ibrahim Rugova and Pristina reporter Veton Suroi had already experienced this. Suroi said in his paper Koha Ditore that a fascist state was being formed in Kosovo and Metohija, and the very same day Taqi vehemently denied this. The following day, however, Suroi met with a fatal accident, the Bulgarian weekly said.
Rugova's LDK, believed by many to be a sure winner at the announced elections, is isolated by all organs of civilian authority and its representatives are not allowed access to television, radio, or papers. Furthermore, the so-called KLA does not allow members of Rugova's illegal "interim government" to return to Pristina from Italy.
Representatives of over 200 foreign non-government organizations are already present in Pristina, the weekly said, including a foundation for Kosovo's reconstruction owned by the Swiss firm Mabatex of Badzet Pacolli, who is said to have provided credit to Russian President Yeltsin's daughter. The Bulgarian weekly wrote about the atmosphere in Pristina and concluded that there was evident discrimination regarding language - Serbian must not be spoken.
The weekly said that 467 Serbs, mostly women and children, disappeared without trace in Kosovo and Metohija from June 13 until the beginning of September.
"A pure Albanian state is being formed," said the weekly, underscoring that nothing is any longer multiethnic in Kosovo and Metohija, and that reality is quite the opposite of what is stated in the UN Security Council resolution.
DER SPIEGEL ON TERROR SPREAD BY KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY
The Hamburg weekly Der Spiegel reported from Pristina on Monday that terrorists of the ethnic Albanian extremist organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), not only persecute and kill members of non-Albanian ethnic communities, but even sow terror and panic among democratically-oriented ethnic Albanians, stifle freedom of the press, and forbid freedom of expressing opinions.
Der Spiegel described an attempt at lynching a Gorany whose only sin was that his native language is Serbian. When the Albanian-language Pristina daily Koha Ditore published an editorial condemning incidents of brutal and chauvinist violence, editor-in-chief Baton Haxhiu had a near fatal accident.
Persecutions and lynching are spearheaded by KLA activists, Der Spiegel said, reporting also about the great pressure on western reporters, photo journalists, and television cameramen.
"Gorillas are rampant in Kosovo" said Haxhiu at one time, and Der Spiegel commented that such statements had brought his life in danger on repeated occasions.
Der Spiegel also said western diplomats increasingly frequently spoke about the "evil character" of KLA leader Hashim Taqi.
Whenever Koha Ditore, owned by moderate politician Veton Suroi, publishes something that is not to his liking, Taqi sends his bodyguards to its offices to teach the editors a lesson, Der Spiegel said.
BELGIAN PRESS ON WHY KLA FAILED TO SURRENDER IT'S ARMS
Brussels media reported from Pristina on Monday that the deadline for the demilitarization of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), had been extended by 48 hours after international force KFOR and KLA representatives failed to agree on the future role of KLA members after its disbanding.
Under a June agreement, the KLA was to have been completely disarmed by the midnight of Sep 19, and leaders of this extremist organization had claimed at one time that they would meet this obligation even ahead of schedule.
A report published in the Brussels daily La Libre Belgique, however, could explain why this did not happen. The daily carried a statement by Bryan Johnson, assistant commander of the KFOR Irish contingent in Pristina, who said there were ethnic Albanian groups for forcing Serbs to leave Kosovo and Metohija province. These are members of the KLA which he said has ambitions to become some kind of police service, the daily said.
Terrorist KLA units for "hunting" Serbs are active even after the arrival of peacekeepers in this southern Serbian province, and after the signing of the agreement on so-called demobilization, said media reports which are backed by testimonies of "authentic participants."
A KLA member, who presented himself as the commander of Urosevac, a town in eastern Kosovo, also confirmed that there are groups whose task is to threaten Serbs, La Libre Belgique said. The man did not wish to give any details, but he said ethnic Albanians who help Serbs are also being punished, said the daily.
VOL. II OF YUGOSLAVIA'S WHITE BOOK ON NATO CRIMES PRESENTED AT UN
Volume II of Yugoslavia's White Book on crimes that NATO committed during its March 24-June 10 aggression on the country was presented at the United Nations' New York headquarters on Friday.
Speaking of the book at a news conference, head of Yugoslavia's UN mission Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic said that it contained irrefutable evidence that NATO and U.S. leaders had committed mass war crimes in Yugoslavia as well as crimes against peace and humanity and genocide.
Briefing reporters about Yugoslavia's activity in demanding the protection of its rights before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Jovanovic said that the perpetrators of these crimes would be eventually brought to justice.
He called attention also to indictments brought in against NATO by Ramsey Clark, a U.S. lawyer, champion of justice and president of the leading U.S. anti-war movement International Action Centre who opposes his country's interventionist policy, and by others.
Asked to comment on the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, Jovanovic said that a failure to comply with or selective compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which guarantees Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, was yet another form of aggression on the country.
Referring to the demilitarisation of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Jovanovic said that an attempt was being made "through a farce" to legalise the terrorist organisation that is evidently massing weapons in Albania, Macedonia as well as Kosovo and Metohija.
U.S. LIKELY TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON CROATIA
The United States will impose sanctions on Croatia already late next week if Zagreb fails to confirm by Tuesday a decision on handing over Mladen Naletilic known as 'Tuta' to the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, the Zagreb daily Jutarnji List said Saturday.
The tribunal has indicted Naletilic for war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Moslem-Croat hostilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The paper said that Croatia's council for cooperation with the tribunal had reviewed Washington's request in a meeting on Friday, saying that the majority of the council members had agreed that Naletilic should be handed over to the court.
The radical faction from Herzegovina is against the move and has, consequently, urged Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to oppose the request.
Jutarnji List said that the U.S. administration had been disappointed to learn that Naletilic's lawyer has appealed against an earlier decision to hand him over to the tribunal.
Washington's stand is that Croatian authorities are only using the country's legal proceedings as an excuse to put off the matter.
The paper quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the imposition of sanctions on Croatia could be easily placed on the agenda of a UN Security Council meeting, saying all that had to be done was that a Security Council member state calls for a debate on the issue.
The State Department signalled two weeks ago that it might apply in the case of Croatia the U.S. constitutional amendment banning economic cooperation with countries harbouring war criminals and refusing to cooperate with the Hague tribunal.