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Serbia - Kornblum comments on Bosnian elections
The top US official dealing with the Balkans, John Kornblum, said on Thursday (29/8) that the Bosnian Serb entity, known as Republika Sprska, bears the blame for the postponement of municipal elections in Bosnia. Kornblum made his...
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CHINA: BEIJING: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BLAIR KOSOVO CRISIS SPEECH
English/Nat
British Prime Minister, Tony Blair said the fighting has got to stop in Kosovo or the threat of NATO strikes may turn to reality.
Blair warned that unless Serb President Slobodan Milosevic withdrew all his troops - there...
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MACEDONIA: BORDER WITH KOSOVO CLOSED (2)
Albanian/Nat
As time runs out in for peace in Kosovo, large numbers of ethnic Albanian refugees have crossed the border into Macedonia.
On Tuesday, the Macedonian authorities closed border posts stemming the flow of thousands of Kosovo...
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Lawyer on legal moves plus pro-Milosevic delegation
1. Exterior Belgrade Central Prison seen through fence
2. Exterior prison
3. Two security guards outside prison
4. Lawyers for Milosevic walk up
5. Lawyers enter through prison gates
6. Long shot lawyers climb steps to prison main...
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War crimes suspects arrive in The Hague
1. Exterior detention facility
2. Entrance to detention facility
3. Surveillance cameras
4. Various car with indicted Nikola Sainovic and indicted Momcilo Gruban arriving and entering detention centre
5. Prison sign
6. Main doors...
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YUGOSLAVIA: DEAD FROM NATO STRIKE ON TV HQ MOURNED
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Yugoslavs mourned the dead from Friday's strike on Serbian TV headquarters in Belgrade, which authorities said killed 16 and injured 18 people.
NATO called the television centre an arm of Yugoslav President Slobodan...
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USA: NATO AIRSTRIKE ON REFUGEE CONVOY IN KOSOVO LATEST
English/Nat
The United States is casting a sceptical eye over Yugoslav claims that NATO warplanes bombed refugees in a convoy in Kosovo.
The Pentagon suggested that Yugoslav aircraft -- not NATO warplanes -- may have attacked the...
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RUSSIA: YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC MEETS BORIS YELTSIN
Natural Sound
The Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has agreed to negotiate a peace settlement with Kosovo separatists, the Russian President Boris Yeltsin is quoted as telling a Russian news agency.
The two leaders met in Moscow on...
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EU FMs' meeting on Mideast, Balkans, Iran; Kouchner, Steinmeyer sots
1. Wide of exterior of European Council building where Foreign Ministers are meeting
2. Close-up of European Union symbol in hall
3. Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister arriving and greeting media
4. Cutaway of cameraman
5....
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USA: SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT KOSOVO SPEECH
English/Nat
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has told Congress that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is failing to meet most of the U-S demands for peace in the troubled province of Kosovo.
But Albright admitted Milosevic's...
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SERBIA: KRAGUJEVAC: ELECTIONS BACKGROUNDER
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
An industrial city in the heartland of Serbia is one of the few places in which the opposition coalition's win in the November elections has not been annulled by the Serbian regime.
But Kragujevac's success is only...
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YUGOSLAVIA: DEL PONTE MEETS SVILANOVIC
English/Nat
In a new rebuff to the chief U-N war crimes prosecutor, Yugoslavia's foreign minister has
insisted that Slobodan Milosevic and other Serb war crime suspects should stand trial at home instead of being extradited to The...
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KOSOVO: ANGRY CROWD GATHERS FOR RELEASE OF MOTORIST
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
In the Kosovo town of Leposavic, angry crowds gathered on Sunday to demand the release of a Serb motorist arrested for speeding on Saturday by Belgian soldiers of K-FOR.
The arrest triggered a weekend of violence in...
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ALBANIA: BRITISH PREMIER TONY BLAIR VISITS REFUGEE CAMP
Tirana and Elbasan, Albania, 18 May 1999
Tirana (POOL)
1. Blair gets off plane and is greeted by Albanian Prime Minister
Pandeli Majko
2. The two men inspect a guard of honour
Elbasan camp (40 kilometres southeast of Tirana) (APTN)
3....
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RUSSIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: LABOUR DAY: ANTI-NATO PROTESTS
Russian/Nat
Thousands of communists, nationalist and trade union supporters have taken to the streets of Moscow as Russia marked its traditional May 1st public holiday.
Central Moscow was sealed off as demonstrators converged on the...
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YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: ELECTIONS: REACTIONS
Serbo-Croat/Nat
The Serbian opposition was claiming victory over President Slobodan Milosevic on Monday after Sunday's elections in Yugoslavia.
The official count was suspended for the night, without any results being announced.
But on...
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USA: WASHINGTON: POLISH PRIME MINISTER JERZY BUZEK VISIT
English/Nat
Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek says his country is ready to assume the responsibilities of membership in an expanded NATO military alliance.
Speaking in Washington on Thursday, Buzek said Poland wants to serve as a...
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KOSOVO: MITROVICA: K-FOR TROOPS CLASH WITH PROTESTERS
English/Nat
NATO-led peacekeepers chased demonstrators through the streets of Mitrovica city on Thursday as ethnic Albanians rioted near a base used by French soldiers.
German, French and British soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades...
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MONTENEGRO: KOSOVO CRISIS: NATO ATTACKS
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Four large explosions were heard in the Montenegran capital of Podgorice on Thursday evening.
Montenegro, a republic of Yugoslavia, has accused Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday of dragging it into a...
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MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER GEORGIJEVSKI PRESS BRIEFING
Macedonian/Nat
With some 10-thousand NATO rapid reaction troops stationed in the country, Macedonia fears Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could retaliate against the small, landlocked Balkan nation for hosting Western forces....
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Serbia - Protest against government of Milosevic
Ten thousand Serbian demonstrators took to the streets of Belgrade again on Sunday (1/12), in continuing protest against the government of President Slobodan Milosevic.
student crowd in rain,
marching with banners,
students passing by...
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Serbia/Switzerland - Protests continue
Tens of thousands of Serbian demonstrators marched through central Belgrade on Sunday (15/12) to keep up the pressure on President Slobodan Milosevic and force his regime to recognise local election results.
Sunday's rally proceeded in...
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USA: ALBRIGHT GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE ON KOSOVO
English/Nat
NATO intends to keep up the pressure on the Serbs over violence in its troubled province of Kosovo.
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Tuesday the military alliance wanted to make sure that President Slobodan...
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BOSNIA: YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT KOSTUNICA VISIT
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Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has made the first trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina by a Yugoslav head of state since the outbreak of war there eight years ago.
But his visit strained ethnic sensitivities even before it...