July 13, 1999.


23:38 A cordon of 50 policemen stopped tonight the convoy of protestors trying to come to the District Prison and visit the employee of the TV Leskovac, Ivan Novkovic, and all other protestors imprisoned there. 2,5000 citizens were in the convoy.

23:36 Russian soldiers arrived to Malisevo today, inspite of the protest of cca 150 Albanians, which ended half an hour before the arrival of the Russians.

23:34 Tonight`s meeting in Jagodina went on without incidents. Zoran Djindjic called the citizens of Jagodina  and other towns of Serbia to "a march on Belgrade", "this time it is necessary to go to the  end, since all questions and dilemmas now are - people or the authorities, Serbia or Slobodan Milosevic.

23:31 At the central square in Valjevo the meeting of the Citizens Resistance of Valjevo has finished, where somewhat more than 1,000 people gathered.

23:25 Around 2,500 citizens gathered tonight in the centre of Zrenjanin, at the protest meeting organized by the Alliance of Democratic Parties (SDP).

23:22 In the report to the UN Security Council Koffi Annan said the "arrival of the civilian police is essentially important if we want to overcome the tendency of disorder existing in certain fields"

23:18 "We are preparing a general strike, together with workers` trade unions, primarily the trade union of metal workers and other independent trade unions", said the president of the Independent Trade Union of Ahricultural workers, Djordje Garabandic, today in Zabalj, adding that "next week we will start blocking the roads, bridges and other economic and processing industry facilities and border crossings in Vojvodina".

23:15 Because of the last night`s attack and attempt of kidnapping of the Pristina Assembly, Zivorad Igic, the work of the Assembly and administration bodies of Pristina has been interrupted today, until further notice.

23:12 Three young men highjacked a city bus on line 16 in Belgrade. Police chase is in process.

23:10 Zrenjanin - A meeting for supporting deposition of the president Slobodan Milosevic was held tonight. 6,000  - 10,000 people were present. Nenad Canak spoke at the meeting. No incidents occured.

22:58 Tonight, 200 citizens fo Pirot signed the petition requesting resignation of FRY President Slobodan Milosevic

22:41 `Why would I support the Alliance for Changes? Let them go their own way. My only political opponent is Slobodan Milosevic"- stated Vuk Draskovic for TV Monte Negro.

22:28 In the KFOR Pristina press centre today it was stated that German KFOR disarmed 20 KLA members last night in Prizren.

22:17 Socialists will go to local elections together with the Serbian Radical Party and JUL, under the same firm "Patriotic block". Authors of the new election and the new electorial law are Ratko Markovic, Vladan Kutlesic
and Vojislav Seselj - said a well informed Belgrade, once close to SPS.

22:10 UN announced they would send a group of 12 experts next week to Serbia, to investigate the damages inflicted upon the environment in the region, caused by NATO air strikes, and try to estimate the impact of the bombing onto water sources and if the depleted uranium was released into the air or into the soil. Members of the mission will arrive to Belgrade Monday, from where one group will go to pristina, one to Pancevo, the town in which an oil refinery and a chemical factory were bombed - reports agency SRNA.

22:07 Monte Negro president, Milo Djukanovic, is starting tomorrow his 3-days visit to Norway, Sweden, Danmark and Finland.

22:02 Vladimir Rahmanjin, at a press conference in Moscow, pointed out that  Russian soldiers in Kosovo are ready to use arms in self-defence, which is allowed by the UN Security Council Resolution for Kosmet.

22:00 If Monte Negro could appoint the new Yugoslav Prime Minister, it would get a nearly impossible task - to make a reform in the totalitarian Milosevic`s regime, believes the vice-president of the Government of Monte Negro, Dragisa Burzan.

21:58 UNHCR spokesman, Ron Redmond, confirmed 2 Serbs were kidnapped yesterday from a hotel in Pristina by 5 men dressed in black, carrying a radio station, according to eyewitnesses.

21:55 First group of 210 German policemen arrived to prizren. They will soon be joined by policemen from ASweden and Holland. UN police contingent in kosovo should have 3,000 policemen in total.

21:42 Pristina parson, Miroslav Popadic, says that the remaining Serbs are afraid to leave their houses, stating he knew "at least 5 Serbian families that never went out of the house during the Albanians` raging behaviour, i.e. more than 20 days. They live on old food stocks".

21:35 According to the statement of Nikola Bozanovic, priest from Prizren, out of the Theological Seminary premises cca 280 Serbian families live, all of them consisting of 2 members at most, and old man and an old woman who could not stand a long trip to the north. About a hundred Serbs are sheltering in the Theological Seminary. As stated, many flats of Serbian Orthodox priests have been robbed in Kosovo and Metohija: in Urosevac, Musutiste, Klina, Curakovac, Vucitrn and many other places".

21:31 National Assembly of Republika Srpska will be holding a session on July 15. The agenda consists of proposals for the law on confirming the provisions the President of the Republic of Serbia introduced during the state of war.

21:23 Company "Delta holding" has decided to build a public clock in the Square of the Republic in Belgrade, which would be counting time to year 2000, later working as a public clock.

21:17 Some NATO members have already announced withdrawal of their troops from Bosnia & Herzegovina and their moving over to Kosovo. NATO is considering a possibility of reducing the number of international forces in B&H from the present 31,000 to a half of that, stated Kenneth Bacon today.

21:10 President of the Association of serbs from Croatia, with the seat in Banja Luka, Petar Dzodan, stated today that the permanent solution for the Serbian question in Croatia i cantonization of the state. Serbs should have 3 cantons in Croatia: Krajina, West Slavonia and East Slavonia.

21:05 Croatian representative in UN, Ivan Simonovic, reacted today to the letter by which FRY claims Prevlaka region is its inalienable territory, stating the only aim of such a stand is "to prolong dishonourable attempts of changing the international borders in southeast Europe".

21:00 Vladislav Jovanovic, sent a letter to the president of the UN Security Council and all member-countries stating the Prevlaka penninsula is an inalienable part of the FRU territory.

20:55 Louse Arbour began today her 2-day visit to Kosovo, where, after the meeting with the british general Michael Jackson, she stated she wanted to see how tho work of the experts is going on.

20:50 Zivko Sokolovic, president of the Managing Board of NIS, stated that "oil refineries damaged in NATO bombing will start working at the beginning of this quartal".

20:45 Yugoslavia and Iraq will raise their diplomatic representatives in Belgrade, i.e. Baghdad, to the level of ambassadors, reports Iraqi press. Yugoslav Embassy will start working in baghdad again on August 1st, the new FRY ambassador in that country will be Srboljub Vasovic, former director of the Group "Zastava".

20:30 Last night an Orthodox graveyard was desecrated in Gnjilane. All monuments in the graveyard were demolished, some bists carried out onto the road near the graveyard.

20:00 Around 300 reservists protested in the centre of Vranje today, for the fourth day in a row, requesting to be paid for the time spent in Kosovo during the war. Commander of the Third YU Army, general Nebojsa Pavkovic was visiting Vraje.

19:10 In today`s issue of "International Herald Tribune` President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, estimates that FRY President Slobodan Milosevic will soon be deposed through a military coup or a citizens` uprising.

19:07 Pravoslavlje Press reports that the nuns from Gorioca monastery found an old woman in Istok, a Serb, whose skull was broken- they took her to the monastery with them.

19:05 Serbian intelligence services are still operating in Kosovo, warned today the president of the interim Kosovo government, Hasim Taci, in the statement given to a private Albanian TV "Klan".

19:04 The International Air Traffic Association asked NATO today to abolish limitations in the air traffic, which were introduced during the war in Kosovo, so millions of travellers in Europe would not be so much late this summer going to their destinations.

19:01 While they were gathering signatures for resignation of the FRY President Slobodan Milosevic, two members of the Democratic Party were beaten today in the centre of Belgrade.

19:00 Community and clerical leaders in Gnjilane reported today that around 3 o`clock last night houses of Vladimir Jankovic, Bozidar Bodric and Voja Gajic were hit from mortars.

18:57 The meeting in Kragujevac is to take place July 15 at 19:00, in Kraljevo on July 16 at 18h.

18:52 Slovenia announced today it would introduce visas for the citizens of the Russian Federation, Romania and Bulgaria, in order to bring the regime of entry into its territory into accordance with the regulations of the European Union.

18:51 Police in Valjevo stated today that 4 policemen were hurt, while 13 persons were apprehended last night in the centre of Valjevo, as stated, at the `unreported gathering of the citizens`.

18:49 American Finance Minister, Laurence Summers, stood for support to the economy of Monte Negro, which was suffering because of the long-term conflicts in the Balkans. "We would like to see a fast progress of Monte Negro", explained Summers before the meeting in Brussels, where ways to help the Blakan states in establishing an economic stability were to be discussed.

18:48 American and British planes bombed, between 10h and 12h, Iraqi intelligence and operative centres southeast from the town of Mosul. Command of US air forces in europe, in Stutgart, stated the bombing started after the planes were shot at from Iraqi anti-aircraft weapons.

18:47 Macedonian conductor Todor Skalovski opened in ohrid the traditional and most significant music-scenic manifestation in Macedonia - "Ohrid`s summer".

18:46 Russian Defence Ministry announced that 70 paratroopers and 20 armoured vehicles BMD-1 would leave Ugljevik by train for the pristina airport Slatina.

18:43 Democratic Party sent a request to the Federal Constitutional Court, asking the Constitutional Court to establish that FRY President Slobodan Milosevic is not able to perform the constitutional authorities in accordance with Article 69 of the FRY Constitution. The reasons for the request is the fact that FRY President, because of the international isolation, is not able any more to represent our state in the world, nor in the whole territory of FRY, which is his principal constitutional duty.

18:42 Reko Muarem from Kosovo was sentenced to 6 years, his father-in-law Tusa Rafiz from Skopje to 3 years of prison because they were preparing terrorist actions in Macedonia to be performed in Kosovo.

18:38 Leader of the League of Sociodemocrats of Vojvodina, Nenad Canak, assessed President of FRY, Slobodan Milosevic, would stay in power 3 to 4 months at the most.

18:35 At the square in Jagodina a meeting of the Alliance for Changes will be held at 19h, where leaders of this opposition block will speak: Zoran Djindjic, Vuk Obradovic and Vladan Batic. All intercity bus lines going to Jagodina have been cancelled today, since the town is practically under a police blockade.

18:30 UNICEF warned that 394 out of 1000 elementary schools in Kosmet are damaged, demolised or robbed, and that mines have still not been removed from the schools.

18:30 According to the President of the World Bank, James Wolfenson, the first donators conference on the reconstruction of Kosovo and the balkan countries will beheld July 28.

18:29 Belgrade police appealed to all those who can help the investigation on the murder of the police chief Dragan Simic to let them know.

18:26 Users of the Yugoslav Diners card can pay for goods and services abroad with this card again, starting from today.

18:24 Yugoslav ambassador in Brussels and Luxembourg, Nikola Cicanovic, made a presentation yesterday in Brussels the `white book` on crimes NATO did during 11 weeks of the aggression on Yugoslavia. President of the Serbian renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, stated today in Belgrade that a draft of the Law on local self-management was secretly made last night.

18:23 Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions invited all trade unions in serbia today to jointly organize a general strike that wold last until FRY President Slobodan Milosevic resigns.

17:30 Bosnian Serb Dragan Kolundzija stated today before the International Tribunal in the hague he did not feel guilty. Kolundzija is indicted for participating in killing of more than a hundred Bosnian Moslems and Croats in 1992.

17:10 International War Crimes Tribunal refused today to comment the news that Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, commander of the Serbian Volunteers Guard, is looking for a way to make contacts with the Tribunal, offering a deal regarding his voluntary giving in.

15:50 German minister Rudolf Scharping has the best prospects to become the new NATO Secretary general. The previous one, Javier Solana, is leaving to a new function - EU High Commissioner for Security.

15:20 President of the Serbian renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, announced that MPs from this party would not participate in the work of the Republican Assembly.

14:45 President of Monte Negro, Milo Djukanovic, refused to receive military honours during laying of wreath onto the monument of soldiers killed during the WWII at Podgorica hill Gorica.

14:20 American delegation is to arrive to peking tomorrow, for the talks regarding the indemnity for the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

14:10 After 2 months spent out of Kosovo, leader of the Democratic League of kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova is returning to the province tomorrow.

14:00 Activists of the Democratic party continued today the action of signing the petition requesting the  resignation of FRY President Slobodan Milosevic at several locations in Belgrade.

13:50 A ship with cca 100 refugees from Albania, some of the Gypsies, arrived early this morning to the Italian port Brindizi.

13:30 At the initiative of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Monte Negro, a series of meetings will be starting tomorrow, at which redefining of relations of the two federal units will be discussed.

13:10 Two Australian humanitarians, sentenced for espionage, were brought before the Court Marshal in Belgrade today again, for reconsideration of the the complaint their lawyers submitted.

12:40 The Supreme Court of Croatia rejected the request for delaying of delivery of Vinko Martinovic-Stela, Bosnian Croat, accused by the International War Crimes Tribunal of 22 war crimes.

12:35 Carlos Westendorp, special enovy for implementation of the peace agreement in Bosnia & Herzegovina, will be replaced by Wolfgang Petric.

12:30 120 Russian KFOR landing troops will move today from pristina airport Slatina to the sector South, under control of German forces.

12:10 German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, will meet today the chief of the UN Interim Administration for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner.

11:40 ANSA- In the Western Bosnia, near Drvar, was uncovered another mass tomb with about hundred moslim bodies, who were allegedly massacred by the Bosnian Serbs during the war 1992-1995.

11:25 American government has announced that it has prepared the plan for returning of, about 10 000 Albanians, who took refuge in the US during the Kosovo crisis.

11:20 NATO's supreme commander for Europe, General Wesley Clark stated that KLA stuck to the disarmament agreement so far. He added, however, that the further development of that process depended on whether Milosevic would stay in power.

11:15 Ministers of finances G-7 are meeting today in Brussels to consider the strategy of financing the reconstruction of Balkans after eight years of war. This meeting will attend the representatives of  WB, IMF and EU.

11:05 Chief Attorney of the International War Crimes Tribunal, Louise Arbour, arrives today in Kosovo, to familiarize herself with the details about collecting evidence of commited crimes.

11:00 Several hundreds of Gipsies from Kosovo were sent with the police escort yesterday afternoon from the plateau near the seaport passangers' terminal in the center of Bar, where they have spent several days outdoors. Gipsies were sent to Ulcinj, Nis, Belgrade, Kragujevac and Krusevac.

10:20 President of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic has announced that his party is going to organize the first post-war rally, but his party will not join in the request for president Milosevic's resignation.

10:10 Secretary - General Kofi Annan gave the report on the situation on Prevlaka in the UN Security Council, yesterday, which says that the UN military observers are not to leave yet. Annan suggested that their mandate should be prolonged for another six months.

09:55 World Bank officials stated yesterday that UN Interim Administration in Kosovo would probably accept soon the usage of Deutch Mark in Kosovo, along with the Yugoslav Dinar.

09:45 Chief of the Ecological Program in UN for Balkans, Pekka Havisto, stated that in the next couple of months UN experts would focus on finding the sources of ecological risk in the certain areas of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, as well as the course of Danube in Bulgaria and Romania.

09:35 The dean of the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Vlada Teodosic, gave notice during the state of war, among others, to the research assistant Jovan Mikulovic, who was mobilised.

09:30 Center for Peace and Tolerance coordinator in Pristina, Jelena Janjic estimated that the international peacekeeping force have reacted timely many times so far, in cases when Serbs and Montenegrins were threatened and pressured by KLA to leave their homes.

09:10 The first registration period for faculties and advanced schools in Serbia for year 1999/2000 started yesterday and will last till July
24th.

09:10 The first enrollment on faculties and colleges in Serbia, for the academic year 1999-2000, began yesterday and will last until July 24.

09:00 The 16th IL-76, carrying Russian KFOR troops, took off for Pristina at 07:30 this morning.

02:20 Names of the candidates for the US Senat and elections for the US President who received money from the Albanian American Political Action Committee ("PACs") and names of Albanians who paid the money. http://www.siri-us.com/backgrounders/Archives_
Kosovo/AlbanianAmericanPac-1980-98.html

02:15 Traditional Petrovdan gathering took place yesterday in Cetinje, organized by the Montenegrin orthodox Church. Bishop Mihailo and priests of the Montenegrin orthodox Church served lithurgy then.

02:08 "Monte Negro is facing times when each contemporary Montenegrin intellectual especially a scientist, an artist or a writer, must ask himself: what has happened to Monte Negro"- said Jevrem Brkovic, talking about the reasons for founding of Dukljani Academy of Science...

01:30 "TIt is true Milosevic has a very acute survival instinct, but Kosovo is the third case his project of Great Serbia results in reducing of the Yugoslav territory. Soon, Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mira will find themselves guarded by soldiers in the garden of their villa, but those will not be NATO soldiers, they will be soldiers of the new borders of Yugoslavia", writes Ana Husarska, political analyst, for the "International Herald Tribune".

01:20 Cca 60 refugees from Krajina (Croatia) are accomodated in the economic school in Pec. According to unofficial info, they will be moved to the village Gorazdevac, under Italian KFOR control.

01:18 British KFOR troops arrested 3 Albanians in Pristina who attacked the Gipsy Sacir Mehmeti.

01:16 Doctors Alanians in the gyneacological clinic of the Pristina Clinical centre refused to accept a mother-to-be, a Gipsy, brought there by her Serbian neighbour, because they addressed them in Serbian language. The neighbour then took her to Kosovo Polje, where, because of the late intervention, she delivered a dead baby.

01:10 Albanians protested yesterday in Kosovska Kamenica against deployment of Russian peacekeepers in that region, by striking at the armoured vehicles and shouting "Russians, go home".

00:59 In the interview to REUTERS yesterday, KLA leader Hasim Taci called upon the representatives of Serbs from Kosovo to change the decision on ending the cooperation with Albanians and representatives of the international community, saying that "such a decision reminded him of the policy of isolation implemented by the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic".

00:42 Vojvodina should be dedicated a special chapter in the Pact on Stability in Southeast Europe and the international community should provide special guarantees for the status of Vojvodina - stated the Hungarian prime Minister Viktor Orban.

00:40 Representatives of 13 political parties agreed today in Subotica upon the action for collecting signatures for resignation of the FRY President Slobodan Milosevic, while the municipal assembly of Vrnjacka Banja refused to put such a declaration on the agenda.

00:38 World association of news editors yesterday appealed to FRY President Slobodan Milosevic to help creating preconditions for peace by cancelling the strict press regulations.

00:32 Radoslav Brdjanin denied today in the Hague accusations for ethnical cleansing of Moslems and Croats in the region of Bosnian Krajina. "I am not guilty", stated Brdjanin after the public reading of the indictement. Radoslav Brdjanin was arrested by SFOR troops on June 6 in Banja Luka. The indictement against him was raised March 14 this year.

00:28 A group of men in civilian clothes attacked yesterday afternoon a high-ranking functionery of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Zivorad Igic and his wife in front of their flat in Dardanija, Pristina. In a telephone statement to agency BETA, Igic said one of the attackers "held a knife on his throat and a gun on his temple", trying to push him into a car. Igic claims the attackers were Albanians who ran away when they saw KFOR soldiers, and then KFOR patrol drove him in a military jeep to the building of the Interim Executive Council of Kosovo.

00:12 At the meeting in Valjevo, artist Bogoljub Arsenijevic Maki said `Serbia had no worse parents since Milosevic and his wife came into power`. The main task of the Citizens` Resistance is "arresting of Milosevic and his wife" Mirjana Markovic, so they could be trialed in the country.

00:04 In a hospital in Valjevo, agency BETA was told in last night`s conflict a policeman got his teeth broken, while two of them were hurt in the legs. At least five citizens were injured during the protest, among them the organizer of the meeting, painter Bogoljub Arsenijevic Maki.