YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY
	Jan. -April 2000

Jan. 1 - 3 KFOR vehicles damaged when timed landmines destroy 2 houses in Vitina (MNB-E);
Petritsch warns that Bos. needs radical change if it doesn't want to be forgotten by Europe

Jan. 2 - Reinhardt goes on foot patrol w/ KFOR troops to experience work of pks; Kouchner 
says lack of ufnds caused him to postpone elections;
Croatian diaspora votes in parl. elections, 29 polling sites in BiH

Jan. 3 - Croats vote for new parl., Social Democrats, Social Liberals win 71 of 150 
seats in lower house, 4 smaller parties take 24 seats; HDZ gets only 40, 120,000 
Bosnian Croats reported to have voted; election monitors note no serious problems;
30 Bos. border police complete training course in Austria but must now wait for BiH 
parl. to approve mandate

Jan. 4 - French KFOR, UNMIK police disperse crowd of Serbs in Suvi Do (suburb of Mitrovica) 
who protest stone thrown at Serb car, troops then disperse Albanian car in same area, 
Danish pks set up checkpoint nearby; KFOR finds mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, 
ammunition in Pristina, arrest man but later release him, other weapons found in MNB-W;
Croatia's HDZ nominates moderate Foreign Minister Mate Granic as its candidate for 
president in Jan. 24 elections

Jan. 5 - UNMIK says 3 murdered in Kos. over last 2 days including Serb killed in 
Kosovska Kamenica, and 2 ethnic Albanians in Shtime, Peje; Rocket fired into 
Albanian bar in Pristina in early morning hours, no one injured, 4 flee scene; 
Gang of Serbs attack Albanian man on bridge in Mitrovica; Weapons seized in Vrela 
(MNB-W); 14 Chinese, 2 Albanians arrested for false ID documents in Pec;
Yugo. govt. files lawsuit against 8 NATO members for violations of intl. law in 
conducting air campaign (using force against a sovereign state; failing to prevent 
genocide of Serbs by ethnic Albanians in Kos.) Mon. Dep. PM Dragisa Burzan says it is 
impossible to create a joint state w/ Serbia and that ref. on ind. must be held;
Croatian HDZ general assembly chooses FM Granic as pres. candidate and Vladimir Seks 
as acting pres. of party; US pks in Bos. oversee destruction of thousands of weapons 
from dmz of Brcko; Jacques Klein says Kara. not arrested due to lack of political will

Jan. 6 - Zorica Taic-Rabrenovic, of Milo's Socialist People's Party compares Serbs to 
Jesus on Orthodox New Year, says "As he was crucified and tormented so we have been 
crucified and tormented all these years. They couldn't do anything to him. They can't 
do anything to us."; Seselj says fed. auth. should intervene using all available means 
if Mon. tries to secede; Court in Pozarevac releases 4 ethnic Albanians accused of 
attacking police vehicles in '98, dismisses all charges against them, ICRC takes them 
back to Kos.; Army reports that it 524 of its men were killed in conflict, 33 missing


Jan. 7 - Weapons seized in Studenica, Gornji Draghljevic (MNB-W), Malisevo (MNB-S); 
rifle launched grenades, mortar grenades fired near KFOR Finnish battalion (MNB-C) 
and 7 more in direction of Serb houses but cause no damage; 2 more grenades fired in 
Gorazdevac (MNB-W); Croatian PM Racan calls demands that all 4 coalition partners have 
equal say unacceptable

Jan. 8 - SACEUR commander Gen. Wesley Clark, US Sen. John Warner visit Reinhardt, visit 
US troops in Vitina; Alb. again calls for opening of information office in Pristina;
Former pres. of RS, Nikola Poplasen, awards Order of the Republika Srpska to wanted war 
criminals Milan Martic, Seselj, and Mladic; Croatian pres. campaign formally begins; 
HDZ's Granic says he will work to integrate Croatia into NATO, EU, promote good rels. 
w/ neighboring countries, esp. Bos.; Mesic says those responsible for Croatia's 
problems from '90-'00 must be called to account

Jan. 9 - 4 attempt to cross into Kos. From Albania, only 1 gets through

Jan. 10 - KFOR conducts house searches in MNB-C, seizes weapons after random gunfire 
heard previous night; Human Rights Watch criticizes NATO for violating intl. law in 
air campaign; UNMIK turns down offer by shadow state PM Bujar Bukoshi of $5 mil. for 
Alb.-lang. education in Kos.; Greek govt. says it will supply 60% of Kosovo's imported 
electricity; Reps. of 17 opp. parties meet at hq of SPO to develop joint strategy, 
call for end to state terror and repressive laws, agree to coop. in preparing for 
local elections; also call on EU for. ministers, US, Rus., China to implement Res. 
1244 and all Serbian soldiers and police to return to Kos.; Djindjic does not sign 
document but is represented by Veran Batic, due to his refusal to subordinate himself 
to SPO; 18 EU trucks w/ heating oil leave Skopje for Nis, Pirot;
Croatian state TV (HRT) director, Ivica Vrkic (HDZ) says he will resign once transfer 
of power begins

Jan. 11 - NATO reopens Pristina airport to civilian traffic;
Novi Sad auth. say they will begin clearing destroyed bridges from river in 1 month 
despite Milo's refusal to pay for it until NATO agrees to damages;
3 Mac. policemen killed in ethnic Albanian village of Aracinovo (near Skopje) 
while checking for stolen vehicles, Pres. Trajkovski calls for uncompromising approach 
toward crime

Jan. 12 - Vatican says Catholic Kosovars under increasing pressure from Muslim extremists, 
that churches in Peja, Prizren have been desecrated recently; 14 EU heating oil trucks 
reach Nis, 4 in Pirot; Perisic says he didn't sign opp. declaration as it didn't call for 
ousting Milo. by Ausing institutions provided by the pol. system, but that he agrees w/ 
most of the declaration and will work w/ opp.; Mon. Jus. Min. Dragan Soc says Mon. to 
try Veselin Vlahovic for war crimes in Bos., says Hague not interested in trying him;

UN Sec. Coun. unanimously calls on Bos. joint presidency to implement pledges to further 
develop joint institutions, Holbrooke declares considerable annoyance at the delays, 
calls the various local leaders just criminals, crooks, disguising their crookedness 
under the guise of...nationalism; Serb deps. in fed. leg. block creation of multi-ethnic 
border force, Petritsch's office says he is likely to set up force himself; Bos. to send 
multi-ethnic force of 21 civilian police to E. Timor; OSCE says intl. community may 
disqualify HDZ from local elections in 5 districts where it is in control due to its 
failure to remove 5 mayors Petritsch had previously fired; PM-designate Racan says 
2 party coalition, smaller 4 party allied coalition have reached 6 point agreement on 
new govt., decisions to be made by majority vote instead of consensus; Croatian FM 
Granic says that local feuds amongst HDZ harming his race for president, says he could 
have won in 1st round if he had run as ind.

Jan. 13 - Thaci claims UN police attempted to enter his home, office, hq of his party, 
Kouchner, Reinhardt issue statement saying they take appropriate measures if there was 
incorrect behavior Public prosecutor in Leskovac charges 144 former UCK members w/ 
terrorism during '99 war; judge in Pozarevac frees 10 former UCK men due to lack of 
evidence about attacks against Serbian police; Several thousand rally in Podgorica 
for Orthodox New Year, show of support for Milo.; Leader of Herzegovinian HDZ quits 
position in party presidency in support for Croatian FM Granic; Croatian FM Granic 
resigns all HDZ positions; HDZ bans all further party meetings until after elections; 
UN Sec. Coun. extends until July 15 Prevlaka peninsula mandate, says both Croatia, 
Yugo. still violating agreements on peninsula

Jan. 14 - US Under Sec. of Def. Walter Slocombe warns Serbia that interference in 
process of democratization in Mon. would be serious mistake and a very serious danger, 
also says there is no chance Serbian forces will return soon to Kos.;
ICTY ct. sentences 5 Bos. Croats to 6-25 year terms for parts in '93 killings of 
103 Muslims in Ahmici (Lasva Valley), acquits 6th defendant; Euro. Commission Pres. 
Romano Prodi visits Croatia;

Jan. 15 - Indicted war criminal Zeljko Arkan Raznatovic, 2 others assassinated at 
Belgrade Intercontinental Hotel; Milo. supporters hold large demonstration in Mon. 
against independence for republic

Jan. 16 - 3 Serb men returning to Kos. shot and killed in Pasjane area (e. Kos. near 
Serb border), 100-200 Serbs demonstrate in nearby town of Partes in response to 
killings; Studio B TV transmitter (controlled by Draskovic's SPO) damaged, $50,000 
worth of equipment taken, SPO blames it on govt.
Approximately 1,000 Croats in Vitez, BiH, protest Hague sentencing of Croats on Jan. 14

Jan. 17 - Hand grenade thrown at building in Nove-Dakovica (MNB-W); UNMIK admits to having 
overestimated capacity of Kosovo's 2 power stations, and that only about 1/3rd of power 
needs being met; US KFOR commander Gen. Ricardo Sanchez sends message of condolence to 
family of 11-year old Albanian girl raped, killed by US soldier;
EU spokesman says visit by Euro. Commission Pres. Prodi 3 days earlier sign of high hopes 
of a dramatic change in EU-Croatian rel.;

BiH upper house of parl. drafts res. calling lower chamber least effective institution of 
the govt. due to its blocking of legislation; Several Bos. Serb deps. protest decision by 
Petritsch to set up joint border force

Jan. 18 - KFOR says there are now 750 patrols, 550 static guard sites, over 200 
checkpoints at different locations, and 2 of every 3 soldiers conducting sec. ops. 
throughout province; Fre. pks move 56 Roma families out of tent encampment at Zvecan 
to wooden chalets ne of Mitrovica; KFOR, UNMIK gather info. about village populations 
in preparation for voter registration; 2 rifle grenades fired into café in Klina 
(near Pec), no injuries; Still no police report on murder of Arkan; Serb police bring in 
head of opp. League of Social Dems. of Vojvodina, Nenad Canak, for informative discussion 
(interrogation); Croatian pres. candidate Stipe Mesic says if elected he will treat 
BiH as sovereign state and that govt. will no longer seek enemies at home and abroad, 
that president's powers should be limited to prevent abuse; Council of Europe tells 
Bos. it should soon be able to meet conditions for joining but leaders must first show 
they can work together; PMs of Mon., Mac., Alb. meet in Ohrid, Mac. to discuss coop. 
in infrastructure projects

Jan. 19 - Dragoslav Avramovic, Zoran Djindjic of Alliance for Change, others meet 
w/ US, EU reps. in Budva, Mon., discuss 3 key projects including 6-month program to 
deliver heating oil to 23 Serbian towns (cost: $14 mil.), distribution of humanitarian 
aid in 13 municipalities, and payment of $32 every 3 months to pensioners whose monthly 
incomes are less than $26, Yugo. PM Bulatovic says Mon. govt. to meet fate of all puppet 
regimes of foreign powers; 13 opp. reps. hold 2nd meetings in last 10 days to coordinate 
activities; Yugo. For. Min. spokesman Rade Drobac says govt. had nothing to do w/ Arkan's 
death as Arkan was not a political figure, 2,000 mourners show up for service for Arkan in 
Bel.; Police continue to watch Dusan Gavric who is in hospital in Loznica as suspect in 
Arkan shooting; Carla del Ponte, chief Hague prosecutor, calls on NATO to be more 
aggressive in capturing indicted war criminals including Kara.  Final results of 
Croatian parl. elections show 2 party coalition of Social Dems., Social Liberals w/ 
71 seats (151 in lower house), coalition of 4 smaller parties gets 24, HDZ 46, 
right-wing coalition 5, ethnic minorities 5; Acting Pres. Vlatko Pavletic says 
he will ask SD leader Ivica Racan to form govt.;

Jan. 20 - Thousands attend funeral for Arkan, Socialist Party calls him a patriot;
Yugo. govt. calls for UN Sec. Coun. to meet in urgent session to halt genocide of 
non-Albanians in Kos., calls KFOR, UNMIK entirely responsible for the deteriorating 
and dangerous development of the situation in Kos. Croatian PM designate Ivica Racan 
says his 2 party coalition, that of allied 4-party coalition has reached 15-point 
agreement on new govt. w/ Social Dems. holding half of positions, Social Liberals 
to have 25% of positions, rest to go to other 4 parties, agreements to be reached 
by consensus or by 2 coalition parties together;
320 police from all 3 Bos. groups begin work in Brcko; joint Permanent Mil. Comm. 
of BiH approves Bos. forces to be used in intl. pk contingents; Petritsch criticizes 
joint parl. for failing to approve new local elec. law; OSCE disqualifies 9 candidates 
for local elections for failing to vacate apts. that belonged to refs.; Joint Pres. 
member Ante Jelavic charges that ethnic Croats being systematically deprived of equal 
legal status, that efforts being made to take away their rights to connections to Croatia

Jan. 21 - KFOR's Reinhardt swears in 44 commanders of Kosovo Protection Corps in Pristina, 
says they should be proud of their role in fighting oppression but now the future will be 
different.  You will not take care of security of the country.  It's KFOR that will protect 
Kos. and its boundaries; ceremony postponed from Wed. until agreement reached on leaders 
of corps being able to wear insignia denoting seniority but not military rank; UCK Gen. 
Agim Ceku commander of new force, pledges corps to serve all in Kos., protect security 
and life and property; SFOR ends ban on commercial flights over Bos., in effect since 
start of Kos. war, returns upper air space to civilian control;  Serbian police announce 
that they have arrested 3 in murder of Arkan including 2 former policemen;
Slovenian FM, Boris Frlec resigns under pressure for making too many concessions in 
treaty w/ Vatican which gives back some confiscated property to Catholic Church, allows 
religious instruction in public schools

Jan. 22 - Pms of Bulgaria, Albanian, Romania, Macedonia, Hungary, Croatia, and Bosnia, 
EU's for. policy head Solana, and NATO Dep. Sec.-Gen. Sergio Balanzino meet in Hisarya, 
Bulgaria to discuss Balkan stabilization; Silajdzic comments that it is dangerous 
illusion to build dem. on the outcome of genocide; Vojislav Seselj re-elected Serbian 
Radical Party party chair, Tomislav Nikolic dep.; Leaders of 7 states bordering on 
Yugo. meet in Bulgaria, call for more effective sanctions against Yugo. to affect 
Milo., not people; Mon. governing coalition For a Better Life announces they will 
not take part in Yugo. general elections until federal relationship redefined

Jan. 23 - 100 ethnic Albanians demonstrate against closing of factory in Mitrovica; 
3-4,000 ethnic Albanians demonstrate against continued imprisonment of other 
Albanians in Serbia; 1 Serb stabbed, 2 others wounded in fight w/ ethnic Albanian(s?) 
in Obilic, 1 ethnic Alb. man arrested

Jan. 24 - UNMIK swears in 137 judges, prosecutors of eventual total of 400 as part of 
initiative to get judicial process working and combat crime, new members to work in 
Supreme Court, other regional courts in Pristina area; First bank opened in Kos. since 
end of war (Micro Enterprise Bank), funded primarily by Ger., Dutch govts.
RS PM Dodik, governing coalition Sloga calls on Petritsch to remove Silajdzic for 
comments he made on revising the Dayton agreement which he says was based on genocide;
Croatian pres. elec. held, results in runoff w/ Stipe Mesic getting 42%, Drazen Budisa 28%

Jan. 25 - Jakub Krasniqi, spokesman for Dem. Progress Party (Thaci's party) says in 
letters to Reinhardt, Kouchner that some KFOR actions remind us of the time of 
repression due to searches of homes of Thaci's brother, others, and says I still have 
trust in the NATO flag, in Mr. Kouchner and Gen. Reinhardt, but they should control 
their men, also accuses certain forces within KFOR including Russians of receiving 
their orders directly from Bel.; American KFOR troops patrolling Mitrovica w/ Fre., 
UAE troops for past 10 days as part of rotation strategy of rapid reaction capability, 
Greeks to replace them; KFOR arrests 9 Roma, charge them w/ aggravated assault for incident 
in Djakovica on Jan. 23; UN, NATO open info. office in Rahovec to enhance communication w/ 
Serbs, Roma; Serbian opp. leaders express regrets that EU For. Ministers' meeting in 
Brussels does not lift any sanctions against Yugo.; Serbian power company officials 
call on citizens to conserve power, institute 2-hour power cuts in Bel., other towns 
due to severity of winter, Socialist Party blames opp. for lack of services to deal w/ 
winter; Djukanovic visits Blair in London, says it is too early for ref. on ind. for 
Mon.; SFOR pks arrest accused war criminal (under Oct. '98 sealed indictment) and Bos. 
Serb Mitar Vasiljevic for crimes committed between April '92 and Oct. '94 while member 
of White Eagles paramilitary forces in Visegrad area, charges include extermination of 
Bos. Mus. population, murder, torture, and inhumane acts of violence for direct 
involvement in burning deaths of 135; NATO Sec. Gen. says there will be no hiding 
place for anyone accused by the ICT of these horrific crimes; Silajdzic presents 
Memorandum on Changes on revising Dayton

Jan. 26 - UN war crimes tribunal reduces sentence of Dusan Tadic by 5 years saying although 
the criminal conduct underlying the charges...was incontestably heinous, his level in the 
command structure, when compared to that of his peers...was low, says he should serve at 
least 10 years from time of his conviction in '97 but agrees that almost 6 years in Ger. 
prison, Hague jail should be deducted from sentence; Yugo. Con. Ct. calls Mon. use of 
German mark illegal; Serbian Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic visits RS, says 
Milo. is the leader of 250,000 thugs, calls on opp. stop creating idiotic problems and 
shut up, so that we can get on w/ life and hope; UN's Klein calls on Council of Europe 
to admit Bos. even though it hasn't met all of membership criteria;
Acting Croatian Pres. Vlatko Pavletic calls on Gen. Ljubo Cesic-Rojs to resign due to 
his comments that he, other officers would not accept election of pres. contender 
Stipe Mesic; Mac. police arrest 10 ethnic Albanians in connection w/ murder of 3 
policemen in village of Aracinovo

Jan. 27 - Djindjic terms EU a catastrophe as a partner due to their failure to deliver 
on promises, esp. its unwillingness to lift sanctions; Seselj shows up as teacher in 
class at Bel. University's Faculty of Law, hundreds of students jeer;
Branko Lukovac becomes new Mon. FM; Petritsch says RS VP Mirko Sarovic has no right 
to take over president's job even though it was offered to him in March '99, calls 
his comments on this regrettable, unconstitutional, and illegal; SFOR commander Gen. 
Ron Adams orders all ethnic Croatian forces in BiH not to leave their bases or conduct 
training exercises, NATO troops surround them to ensure ban until Croats comply w/ 
demand for unspecified info.; Croatian governing coalition reaches agreement on 
composition of govt, agrees in 1st session to cut minister's salaries; Racan says 
govt. won't ask for rescheduling of for. debt; Meeting of HDZ in Zag. fails to 
determine new leadership of faction in parl.


Jan. 28 - SFOR bans movement of Bos. Croat army when Croats fail to provide info. 
requested by NATO, also suspends training; Serb-American Bosko Radonjich, reported 
mobster and associate of Kara. arrested and held without bail in Miami for role in 
bribing juror in '87 John Gotti trial in NY; Chief bodyguard of Seselj, Petar Panic, 
shot by acquaintances in apt. in Bel. suburb; Croatian FM Tonino Picula says Hague 
has legal right to investigate war crimes committed during Operation Storm

Jan. 29 - RS govt. votes to support PM Dodik's firing of Dep. PM Tihomir Gligoric

Jan. 30 - Yugo. Trade Min. Borislav Vukovic in Baghdad to promote bilateral trade; 
100 tons of heating oil from EU arrives in Pirot;
6 Bos. Muslims injured in grenade blast in Sara. café

Jan. 31 - Deps. of former shadow-state parl. miss UNMIK deadline to disband;
Opp. leader Vladan Batic comments says UN, KFOR have failed to guarantee rights of 
non-Albanians in Kos.; Shadow-state parl. fails to dissolve itself despite promise to 
do so by this date; Bel. police enter offices of AGlas Javnosti to prevent staff from 
publishing, but paper printed elsewhere; Strike by private bus drivers in Bel., 
elementary and secondary school teachers throughout Serbia; Ethnic Alb. party in 
Serbia, Party for Democratic Activity (PDD) calls for UN, OSCE to come to Presevo, 
Bujanovac, Medvedja to witness police harassment; US Undersecretary of State for Pol. 
Affairs Thomas Pickering says we are prepared to stand firm against any military 
actions of Milo's in the region and US backs Djukanovic's efforts to revise Mon. 
place in Yugo. fed. but not ind.; Poll shows that 42% of Montenegrins want ind., 
40% opposed to it; 3 UN vehicles damaged in grenade attack in front of UN police 
station in Pale; Croatian FM Tonino Picula says govt. to carry out obligations toward 
Dayton even if there are certain pol. realities we do not like; Ger. For. Ministry 
extends invitation to PM Racan to visit, announces that it wants to help Croatia 
carry out dem. reforms, improve rels. w/ West

Feb. 1 - Meeting between Kos. leaders over power-sharing arrangement breaks up when 
sides argue over whether shadow-state govt. has really ceased to exist, Thaci accuses 
Rugova of failing to respect deal w/ UN; Fre. DM Alain Richard announces that hq staff 
of 5-nation Eurocorps to take command of NATO's pk force in Kos. in mid-April, says it 
will cut number of personnel from 1,200 to 1,000 w/ 35% coming from Eurocorps; KFOR 
arrests 2 Serbs in Rahovec on suspicion of involvement in atrocities in war;
Serb authorities fire 284 workers at publishing house that prints AGlas Javnosti;
Mon. governing party Dem. Party of Socialists claims that Mon. Milo. supporters have 
increased size of Seventh Battalion, paramilitary unit within Yugo. forces inside Mon.;
Acting Croatian Pres. Pavletic fires 20 former advisors to Tudjman in president's office

Feb. 2 - UN escorted bus carrying 49 Serbs hit by rockets killing 2 elderly Serbs, 
3 wounded, Albright calls attack cowardly, calls on Kos. Albanian leadership to 
condemn it;

Rugova declares govt., the parl., and the presidency of the Republic of Kosovo 
(shadow state), as well as all its pol., eco., administrative, and security 
structures, ceased to exist from Feb. 1" to allow for creation of new administration 
run by UN but including Kosovars, former UCK members; UN 2nd in command in Kos., 
Jock Covey, says Rugova's parl. still operating although Rugova says it only met day 
before to arrange timetable for dissolution and he is ready to discuss handover of 
funds (several million euros) to UN pks; parl. does not take a vote, however; Thaci 
declares his own provisional govt. ceased to exist and will join new admin. gradually; 
Serb National Council (SNV) reject project of co-existence as it is legalizing the 
exodus of the Serbs from the province, spokesman Oliver Ivanovic says main condition 
for talks is return of Serbs who have fled province; Sven Frederiksen, head of UNMIK 
police, calls for more police, says only 1,970 have arrived despite promises of up to 
4,780; Mon. PM Vujanovic says in Wash. that Milo. wants to destabilize Mon. through 
social unrest as pretext for mil. intervention, calls for $65 mil. in aid to help 
monetary reform, says if the West invests in promoting reforms in Mon., it will also 
be investing in preventing further conflicts in the region;
Albright says new Croatian govt. truly represents the will of the people and that 
under the HDZ the veneer of dem. was too long maintained and its soul stifled; Parl. 
elects Zlatko Tomcic of Peasants' Party as pres., also acting pres. until Feb. 
7 pres. elec.; 13 Mus. men and 1 woman graduate from RS police academy in BL;
Bomb explodes near courthouse in Kumanovo (ne of Skopje);

Feb. 3 - 2 ethnic Albanians shot and killed , grenade attack occurs at Serbian café 
within half hour wounding 15, ethnic Alb. woman killed in next half hour, and another 
grenade thrown into 2nd Serb café; angry crowds of Albanians, Serbs (approx. 500) 
confront each other on Ibar bridge; Serbia closes border w/ Mon. for transport of all 
goods; KFOR troops block both bridges to prevent Serbs from crossing over into Albanian 
southern part of Mitrovica; Western diplomats from US, World Bank, and IMF mission heads 
call on Bosnian Mus.-Croat Fed. to speed up delayed privatization by July while there is 
still intl. support; Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje Assoc. files criminal complaint 
in Hague against top UN officials including Boutros-Ghali, Annan, Akashi, Janvier, Smith, 
Stoltenberg, Bildt, Owen, Karremans, and Rose

Feb. 4 - Hundreds of ethnic Albanians stone Fre. mil. vehicles, block paths in Mitrovica 
before being broken by tear gas

Feb. 6 - 10 reported to have died in Mitrovica violence over last several days, 16 pks 
injured; Kouchner returns from Japanese fund-raising trip to deal w/ crisis

Feb. 7 - Yugo. DM since '93, Pavle Bulatovic assassinated while eating at Belgrade 
soccer club, considered Milo. loyalist, but without real power, govt. immediately 
calls it terrorist act; 2 others sitting w/ DM lightly wounded;
Protest rally of Serbs in Mitrovica demands better protection from KFOR; Vuko 
Antonijevic, the president of Serb National Council (SNV) says of those who 
participated in riots over last week you responded in the best way; Oliver Ivanovic, 
exec. head of SNV says we suggest having the VJ (Yugo. army) here, but also says 
extremists are only talking to the crowd and their suggestions for solving Serb sec. 
won't work;

Stipe Mesic, 65, wins 2nd round of Croatian presidential election w/ 56.21% over Drazen 
Budisa who gets 43.79%; Mesic says we want to fulfil our strategic goals as soon as 
possible to enter the European Union and NATO; US State Dept. spokesman James Rubin 
says Mesic election in Croatia will strengthen rels. w/ US, help Croatia become pillar 
of stability; Mesic says Cro. must end border disputes w/ Slovenia, Prevlaka peninsula;
Hague chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte calls for special unit for arrest of war criminals 
in former Yugoslavia and that reason more have not been brought to justice is NATO has 
not made this a priority;

Feb. 8 - Thaci calls for dialogue over Mitrovica, says we will not respond w/ violence 
to the institutional Serb violence and terrorism and that problems should be solved w/ 
intl. community; Kouchner says we are in the middle of a crisis in Kos., and that his is 
the only auth. in province and he will not tolerate parallel structures; says former gov. 
of Kos., Zoran Andjelkovic, may live there but only as an ordinary citizen;
Seselj party spokesman blames death of Bulatovic on US, UK, or French intelligence agents; 
JUL says it is evidence of United States terrorist threat; Mon. PM Vujanovic, Bos. PM 
Bicakcic meet in Sara., agree to Mon. opening commercial info. office there soon, 
improve coop. in other areas; RS parl. passes law regulating customs service, setting 
up ombudsman office as required by CofE

Feb. 9 - UNMIK officers arrest man in Mitrovica for slashing tires of their cars, 
attacking and injuring 1 pk; Kouchner bans activities inciting religious intolerance, 
violence, or hatred; Albright proposes plan to be presented to EU general affairs 
council to strengthen enforcement of ban on banking transfers from Yugo. to Euro. 
capitals, increase by 25% number of Milo. associates who are prevented from traveling 
to US, EU states (currently at 600), but also that ban on flights by EU airlines 
(not JAT) would be lifted for 6 months (at request of Serbian opp.) on condition that 
free and fair elections be held within that period or ban reinstated; Serbian Dep. 
Info. Min. Miodrag Popovic says he suspects US involvement in assassination of DM 
Bulatovic while JUL says US, NATO responsible and trying to compensate for the 
military and moral defeat they suffered in Yugoslavia; Zlatko Aleksovski, released 
in May after being found not guilty of grave breaches of Geneva Convention in relation 
to treatment of prisoners at Kaonik camp, detained by UN War Crimes Tribunal on appeal 
of earlier sentence which held that charge of intl. conflict not proven by prosecution; 
UN war crimes prosecutors to take no action against UN, other officials accused of 
partial responsibility for Srebrenica massacre, say that to suggest that the UN in 
its role as a peacemaker had motives which amount to crimes falling under our 
jurisdiction is unrealistic;
UNPTF conduct weapons raids in Glamoc, Livno;
Mac. Pres. Trajkovski says country expects intl. help for its support of NATO in war

Feb. 10 - 140 Bri. KFOR troops, quantity of Ger. troops take over Ibar River bridge in 
Mitrovica from Fre. due to criticism of Fre. as siding w/ Serbs, Fre. remain in tactical 
command of bridge; Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic says Serbs won't let themselves be chased 
out by the Albanians...w/ the aid of Bri. KFOR soldiers as in Pristina; KFOR reports mass 
grave w/ 8-10 bodies near village of Mires; Opp. leaders including Draskovic advisors say 
they welcome effort to remove flight ban, say it will give them concrete support although 
not help for most people; Seselj says ind. journalists working for for. intelligence 
services are murderers; Teachers' strike in 11th day;

Hague reportedly ready to name Tudj., Bulatovic as accomplices in future indictments, 
but not against them specifically as it does not conduct posthumous legal proceedings; 
Croatian FM Picula visits Bos. on first official foreign visit; Mesic says problems w/ 
Slovenia can be resolved

Feb. 11 - Haris Silajdzic, Mus. co-chair of Bos. govt. says he will leave position due 
to lack of progress on ref. returns, and that govt's decision to eliminate co-chair 
position in favor of chairman w/ 2 co-chairs and 1 dep. (rotated every 8 months) against 
Dayton accord and that this would ensure ethnic division; Yugo. Info. Min. Goran Matic 
claims that Srebrenica massacre was planned by Fre. intelligence in conjunction w/ Mus. 
commander of town, and Bos. Serb units so as to gain support for introduction of NATO 
troops into Bos.; US KFOR soldier wounded in leg while standing guard in Gnjilane

Feb. 12 - Mon. Dep. PM Dragisa Burzan comments in interview that there is no possibility 
for Mon. and Serbia to co-exist in any functioning federation, that pol. parties in rep. 
must reach consensus before ind. vote, does not say when Mon. will push for ind.; also 
says sanctions against Serbia worked to Milo's advantage and hurt ordinary citizens;
Bodo Hombach, coordinator of EU's Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, calls on 
Balkan leaders to match pledges for stability, reforms w/ action to smooth way for 
EU-financed projects;

Feb. 13 - 2 Fre. pks wounded by sniper fire in Mitrovica during 2 hour gun battle on 
north bank of Ibar River, 2 Serbs injured by gunfire, 5 snipers detected by KFOR on 
north side and 1 ethnic Albanian sniper killed by KFOR sharpshooters; KFOR deploys 
tanks, APCs on street corners in city, 6pm to 6am curfew in effect; Fre. report grenade 
attack on ethnic Alb. house on north side earlier in day wounding 6 Albanians, 
SNV's Nikola Kabasic says ethnic Albanians invaded 2 apt. towers on north side and 
began sniping

Feb. 14 - KFOR arrests 39 ethnic Albanians, 1 Serb in Mitrovica in generally calm 
day/night, 300 UNMIK police to be redeployed in area w/ 100 arriving by end of week; 
KFOR stops Albanian ambulance from entering Mitrovica, find it to have 14 rocket 
launchers, over 182 grenades, thousands of rounds of ammo.; Serbian court in Leskovac 
sentences 5 ethnic Albanians to up to 4 years in prison for being members of UCK, 
conspiring against country Yugo. army denies it has set up paramilitary units in Mon., 
says this is effort to discredit army; Izetbegovic takes over rotating presidency 
of BiH for next 8 months, says he will accelerate Bosnia's entry into Europe and 
joining Council of Europe top priority

Feb. 15 - Milo. appoints indicted war criminal and chief of staff Gen. Dragoljub 
Ojdanic as new DM, promotes Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic as new chief of staff;
Mon. officials say selection of Serb Ojdanic to succeed Montenegrin Bulatovic will 
worsen relations, Djukanovic aide says Milo. has violated constitutional procedure 
by not consulting Mon.

Feb. 16 - Reinhardt says his forces can only do so much to bring peace to Mitrovica, 
says restarting economy as important as security measures; UNMIK officials warn that 
weapons are moving back and forth across Ibar and sides are getting ready to fight; 
another 200 UNMIK officers expected within 48 hours to back up current force of 51 
and 300 to be in place by end of month; Kouchner accuses Fre. Int. Min. Jean-Pierre 
Chevenement of holding back Fre. police due to his personal opp. to NATO bombing of 
Yugo.; Bodies of Albanian man and woman found shot to death in car near Pristina, 
Albanian man found shot in garden in village of Kpuz; 3rd body found in abandoned 
car near Gnjilane; 1,000 protest in Istok, 3,000 in Klina; 2 grenades thrown at 
house near Orthodox Church in Gnjilane; Yugo. Transport Min. Dejan Drobnjakovic claims 
illegal NATO air activity caused near-fatal collision off Adriatic forcing closure of 
Tivat airport in Mon. 

Feb. 17 - 2 rocket attacks in Mitrovica area, 1 being fired at Serb home, the other 
landing without damage in field near Suvi Do; NATO's Gen. Clark says US, NATO troops 
should remain in Bos., Kos., and that the key to a peaceful res. and a successful exit 
from the region...is democratization in Yugo. and Milo's appearance at the international 
criminal tribunal in the Hague, calls for more intl. civilian police, although he does 
not criticize Euros for this but instead both sides of Atlantic;
Thousands of Socialist Party of Serbia members bussed into Bel. from across Serbia for 
4th SPS congress where Milo. is reelected nearly unanimously; Milo. says UN should leave 
Kos., calls its presence shameful and a total fiasco; Bosnian Independent Media 
Commission (IMC) closes down hardline Bos. Croat TV station Erotel in Mostar after 
station refused to quit broadcasting following ruling to do so in November; Simon 
Haselock, UN High Rep. for media says planned new federal TV station expected to 
broadcast in 2 months

Feb. 18 - NATO denies Bel. accusations that its aircraft violated Yugo. airspace twice 
in past week putting civilian airliners at risk over Mon., says there were no NATO 
aircraft in area at those times and there were no near misses; Tivat airport in Mon. 
again closed supposedly due to high winds prompting fears that fed. auth. again trying 
to assert control over Mon. airfields

Feb. 19 - Albright visits Tirana, tells parl. it will have to give up old ways of doing 
business if it wants to attract for. help, and that attempts to expand boundaries are an 
invitation to violence, not peace and stability.  The intl. community would no sooner 
accept a Greater Albania than it would a Greater Serbia

Feb. 20 - Crowd of Serbs throw stones at Amer., Ger. pks who are conducting 
house-to-house searches for weapons in Mitrovica, 2 Americans slightly injured, 
3 Serbs; 2,500 troops take part in search on both sides of Ibar, no weapons found 
on Albanian side, but plastic explosives, 22 rifles and 2 handguns, grenades, ammo, 
other weapons confiscated on Serb side; Bos. Serb Socialist party leaves 3-party 
Sloga (Unity) coalition govt. of RS, says it will work independently of other parties, 
coalitions and replace its 5 members in govt., says this is due to not having support 
of other 2 parties (Dodik's Social Dems., Plavsic's Serb National Alliance), blames 
Dodik for problems in Sloga, and firing by him of 2 senior Socialist Party officials 
including govt. minister; Brcko Arbitration Tribunal decision of 3-5-99 comes into 
force, area now known as ABrcko district of Bos. and Her. under exclusive sovereignty 
of rep. of BiH, territory to held in condominium by both RS and Croat-Mus. federation, 
neither side to exercise auth. within boundaries of district, but instead it will be 
governed by Rep. as a whole, governance to be managed by District govt. subject 
to coordination w/ 2 entity govts., responsibility for overall coordination to lie 
w/ Supervisor for Brcko under auth. of Office of High Rep. for Bos.


Feb. 21 - KFOR conducts 2nd day of searches in Mitrovica; 20,000 ethnic Albanians march 
to Mitrovica to protest situation in city, call for peaceful demonstration, and stopping 
in Vucitrn (s. of Mit.); KFOR uses tear gas to turn back 10,000 trying to cross into n. 
side of Mitrovica; Grenade thrown into occupied Serb home in MNB-C; Holbrooke calls 
situation in Mitrovica dangerous and says there is no question who's responsible for 
it.  It's Belgrade; Gen. Clark takes same position in statement; BBC says Serbs used 
mobile phones to control crowd in n. Mit. during protests; NATO says 4 companies of 
Serbian paramilitary police have moved into Presovo region of s. Serbia;
Croatia opens consulate in Kotor, Mon. Bosnian Provisional Election Commission 
(chaired by OSCE) adopts rule to prevent officials elected in April local elections 
from holding positions in firms that are more than 25% state-owned, rule to fight 
corruption, speed up privatization process; Dodik says Socialist Party's departure 
from govt. prompted by Milo., attitudes expressed in Socialist Party Congress in past 
week; Sloga governing coalition to call on Socialist's Petar Djokic to resign as parl. 
speaker; OSCE Provisional Election Commission mandates that  anyone elected to 
municipal councils in April elections cannot remain as director or member of 
governing board of a company in which govt. owns more than 25% of capital

Feb. 22 - US KFOR troops move onto bridge separating sides in Mitrovica; US State Dept. 
spokesman James Rubin says Milo. trying to keep things as tense as possible;
Zivko Radisic, ethnic Serb member of Bos. joint presidency,  says officials from his 
Socialist Party to remain in RS govt.; Mac. Pres. Boris Trajkovski says there will be no 
stability in Mon. or Kos. as long as Milo. remains in power

Feb. 23 - Fre. pledge to send additional 600-700 troops to Kos., Holbrooke accuses Milo. 
of trying to destabilize Kos., Mon. by infiltrating people into region and divide Kos. at 
Mitrovica bridge; NATO announces it will start moving ethnic Albanians back to homes in n. 
Mitrovica, Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic says this will bring crisis to head within 15 days; 
Euro. Commission to provide $5.6 bil. to promote dem., stability in Balkans, most funds to 
go to Kos. and will come from EU's agricultural budget; KFOR, UNMIK continue weapons searches 
in Mitrovica find arms, ammo. on Serb side of Ibar river, 1 ethnic Albanian, 2 Serbs in 
custody; Commander of Yugo. army in s. Serbia, Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic denies no new 
forces sent to s. Serbia, that only increase is in police patrolling Macedonian frontier;
OSCE announces start of campaigning for next month's Bosnian local elections, calls on 
people to follow Croatian example, vote for change; 68 parties, 7 coalitions, and 18 ind. 
candidates to compete for 3,300 offices; Croatian Con. Ct. overturns legislation 
permitting Int. Min. to tap telephones and read correspondence in cases where IM 
declares national sec. risks; OSCE praises plan to resettle 16,500 refs.; parl. 
begins discussions on cutting officials' salaries by 10-20% even though governing 
coalition promised in campaign to cut by 40%; Mac. Def. Min. puts troops on higher 
state of alert, increases number of border patrols due to new concentration of 
Serbian forces (200 new police) in s. Serbia

Feb. 24 - Gen. Clark accuses Milo. admin. of new campaign of covert operations in Kos., 
warns that fighting could spread to Presevo-Bujanovac-Medvedja area of s. Serbia where up 
to 100,000 ethnic Albanians live; Kouchner meets w/ Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic who later 
says he is prepared to meet w/ city's ethnic Alb. leaders;  ICRC says 2,987 still 
unaccounted for in Kos., numbers include 400 Serbs and Roma; New Democracy Party leader 
Dusan Mihajlovic, indicted by Bel. prosecutor for spreading false info.; govt. also fines 
Studio B TV $20,000 due to guest on show criticized police investigation into fatal 
Draskovic car accident; Mon., Alb. FMs sign agreement reopening only border crossing 
between them (Hani I HotitBBozaj); Petritsch holds talks w/ new Croatian Pres. Stipe Mesic, 
later says Muslims, Croats and Serbs must allow return of all refugees, fully implement 
Dayton accord before mapping out their future relations; Mesic says of cantonization 
proposal for BiH, I have nothing against (cantonisation) but we must first implement the 
accords and then build on it. We must return the people, otherwise someone may think that 
ethnic cleansing pays off; Serb leader Zivko Radisic says cantonization would completely 
undermine the Dayton peace concept; Croatian parl. votes to cut govt. salaries by 27%, 
deps. wages now to be 12,700 kuna ($1,630) a month or 4X the national salary, pres. to 
receive $3,000 per month, ministers $2,000

Feb. 25 - Mitrovica reported calm, Yugo. Dep. PM Nikola Sainovic blames West for 
unrest in that city; NATO ambassadors reach no agreement on increasing troop strength 
in Kos.

Feb. 26 - Vojvodinan League of Social Democrats approves document titled Vojvodina-A 
Republic calling for reorganization of Serbia into 6 federal units (Vojvodina, Bel. 
Sumadija, SE Serbia, Sandzak, and Kos.); Mac. police confiscate 145 crates of auto. 
weapons, 2 tons of ammo., 90 kilos of drugs bound for Kos.

Feb. 27 - Serbian politician, Josif Vasic, shot and killed in Gjilan; Unknown gunmen 
(suspected new Albanian paramilitary group) kill Serb police major, wound 3 policemen 
on Gjilan-Bujanovac road inside Serbia (near Konculj), ethnic Albanian gunman also killed;
Dem. Party reelects Djindjic chairman 605-485 over dep. Slobodan Vuksanovic, both later 
call for party unity;  Mon. says Yugo. army increasing manpower, weapons at Tuzi near 
border crossing w/ Alb.; Serbian riot control specialists taking over command of 
military police units in Niksic, Berane, Pljevlja, and Bijelo Polje;
Steering committee of Socialist Party of RS calls on all local party orgs. to comply 
in leaving governing coalition, says all parl. deps. serve at party's pleasure and 
can be removed if they fail to follow party dictates

Feb. 28 - Mine blows up Serbian bus in Mitrovica, no casualties; KFOR troops finish 
building footbridge between ethnic Alb. neighborhood on south side of Mitrovica w/ 3 
high-rise buildings on north side, Serbs protest bridge, Ivanovic calls it indication 
that NATO is helping the Alb. side and doesn't want to do anything for the Serbs; NATO 
announces 2,000 troops to take part in Dynamic Response 2000" exercise from 19 March to 
10 April;
EU Fin., Eco. ministers add another 180 names of Serbian officials to list of 600 who are 
prevented from traveling to Europe, formally lift ban on civilian flights at same time; 
Special UN envoy to Balkans, Carl Bildt, says peace cannot be achieved until Milo. is 
gone and intl. community cannot legally neg. w/ regime headed by indicted war criminals, 
but that there can be no peace without Serbia
Trial of 4 Bos. Serbs for war crimes committed at Omarska, Keraterm, and Trnopolje 
concentration camps in '92 begins in Hague

Feb. 29 - Irish UN Humanitarian affairs worker wounded in gunfire that strafes 
his car near Bujanovac (5 miles from Kos.-Serbia boundary), unformed gunmen 
apologize to him afterward; assailants identified as members of UCMPB (Liberation 
Army for Medujeva, Preshevo, and Bujanovac), new hardline group of former UCK 
members who say they are protecting Albanian homes in southern Serbia-E. Kos. from 
attacks;  Alliance for Change's Batic warns that violence has escalated again in 
Presevo-Bujanovac-Medvedja region and calls for intl. community to stop Albanian 
terrorism and protect innocent victims instead of making threats against the Yugo. 
army, Presevo's ethnic Alb. mayor blames incidents on Serbian paramilitaries;
Yugo. army has completely closed border-crossing at Bozaj between Mon., Alb.; US 
State Dept. expresses concern over closure, calls on Bel. to dismantle the Yugo. 
army checkpoint, praises Mon. auth. for their show of restraint; Yugo. army forces 
later reopen checkpoints while Mon. police staff border post; UN rep. in Bos., Jacques 
Klein, says new Croatian policies represent fundamental shift in Balkans, but that Milo. 
becoming stronger as it gets aid from Rus., China; comments this is a man who has led 
the nation brilliantly back into the 19th century; Fre. Pres. Chirac says at Hague that 
he supports arrests of Karadzic; US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) 
opens office in Zagreb; Croatian Serbian Democratic Forum leader Veljko Dzakula says 
that 16,500 Serbs want to return to their homes but are discouraged by local 
officials in Knin, Gracac, Pakrac areas

March 1 - Rus. paratrooper wounded by unknown assailants in Skenderaj, former 
stronghold of UCK; Crowd of nearly 200 Serbs surrounds 15 US troops conducting 
weapons searches in village of Gornje Kusce (e. Kos.), prevents them from detaining 
1 Serb for possessing assault rifles and ammo. for nearly 5 hours, US reinforcements 
brought in to end stalemate; KFOR arrests 2 ethnic Albanians in Decan for mortar 
shelling of Serbian Orthodox monastery; Serbian Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic, commander 
of Yugo. army in s. Serbia, says NATO planning next phase of breakup of Serbia and 
Yugo.; Serbian police arrest 43 supporters of opp. League of Social Democrats of 
Vojvodina in Novi Sad, release most of them later

March 2 - Crowd of 150 Serbs stone 2 Albanians trying to use new footbridge 
erected by NATO in Mitrovica; Rus. KFOR soldier wounded previous day dies of 
wounds; Residents e. of Gnjilane near border between Kos. and Serbia say they 
have seen armed men w/ insignia from  UCPMB, Irish Times reports that 30 rebels 
control village of Dobrecin (700 metres inside Serbia, across boundary from NATO 
outpost), and that UCPMB was formed in response to Serb police killing 2 brothers 
from village in Jan.; Thaci says he and UCK have had nothing to do w/ armed incidents 
in sw Serbia and that problem is exaggerated in the media; NATO says it try to prevent 
export of violence to area in southern Serbia, US NATO official says NATO would 
intervene in area in event of atrocity, but NATO spokesman Col. Henning Philip refuses 
to answer what this involves; UNHCR says 102 ethnic Albanians recently arrived in 
Gjilan after harassment, beatings, rape threats, extortion in s. Serbia region; Kouchner 
prepares 4-stage plan for reunification of Mitrovica including reestablishing sec., 
allowing dps to return to their homes, setting up unified council and administration, 
submits it to Sec. Council, but Ivanovic rejects it as cosmetic; Serbian govt. announces 
it has decided to merge AVecernje Novosti into Fed. Public Institution ABorba after being 
informed that the state is the majority owner but editor Pero Simic says Bel. court ruled 
in Aug. '99 that the newspaper is 76% privately owned; Hague says new Croatian govt. 
has turned over documents dealing w/ Operation Flash and Storm in '95, also says 
ct.-appointed doctors have pronounced Mladen Tuta Naletilic fit to travel to Hague 
to stand trial; US Amb.-at-large for war crimes issues, David Scheffer announces US 
to put up 10,000 wanted posters in Bos., Serbia to publicize $5 mil. in reward money 
for info. leading to capture of indicted war criminals including Milo., Kara., Mladic; 
OSCE says events in BL show Belgrade wants to move against not just official media but 
also ind. media in RS; Petritsch says Bos. must implement key reforms if it is to 
join the Council of Europe; Former Croatian FM Mate Granic, HDZ VP Vesna Skare-Ozbolt 
announce they are leaving HDZ to form Croatian Dem. Center (HDC), say HDZ has never 
succeeded in transforming into political party based on clear policies, principles, 
but now contains extreme rightists

March 3 - 40 ethnic Albanians escorted back to their homes in northern part of 
Mitrovica, troops have to hold back mob of Serbs to get them to apt. complex 
which is also inhabited by Serbs; Ethnic Albanian, 15, arrested in connection 
of murder of Rus. pk; Serb opp. groups fail to agree on date for mass demonstrations 
against Milo.; Yugo. govt. says it will resume diplomatic rels. w/ Bos. if Sara. drops 
charges it made against it at Hague in '93; 4 members of Socialist Party who refuse to 
leave RS govt. are expelled from party Hague sentences Croatian Gen. Tihomir 
Blaskic to 45 years in prison for crimes against humanity, war crimes, grave 
breaches of Geneva Conventions for actions in Lasva Valley between '92-'94; 
Croatian PM Racan calls sentence very harsh, says it should be reviewed, while 
Social Liberal party's Drazen Budisa calls Blaskic innocent

March 4 - 175 ethnic Albanians flee village of Dobrosin in demilitarized border 
area inside Serbia after shots fired by Serbian police; Serb auth. release 25 
ethnic Albanians accused of belonging to UCK from jail in Pozarevac
 
March 5 - Suspect in death of Rus. pk escapes jail; tens of thousands of ethnic 
Albanians in village of Prekaz to commemorate '98 killing of a UCK founder, Adem 
Jashari, 50 other people; Group of 17 ind. economists releases figures for 
unemployment in Serbia at 27.3% up from 25.2% in '98; 25 ethnic Albanians released 
from prison near Pozarevac; Serbian police stop Yugo. army trucks from transporting 
food for Yugo. troops stationed in Mon.; SFOR troops arrest war crimes suspect 
Dragoljub Prcac near Prijedor, send him to Hague to stand trial for activities as 
dep. commander of Omarska prison camp in '92; 4 members of RS govt. expelled from 
Socialist Party for refusing order to resign from govt.

March 6 - KFOR steps up patrols along border w/ s. Serbia to calm tensions there 
(previously unrestricted); Yugo. Pristina Corps begins regular spring maneuvers 
near (9 kilos.) border w/ Kos.; Kouchner says its time to hold talks on Kosovo's 
pol. future, draft interim constitution, says UN Sec. Coun. needs to define what 
it means by substantial autonomy for region; Serbian police raid opp. TV Studio B, 
2 beaten by police, equipment destroyed; Bel. ct. later fines Studio B, editor Dragan 
Kojadinovic 450,000 dinars ($11,000) for breaking info. law during live broadcast; 
Yugo. Telecommunications Min. orders station to pay $900,000 in outstanding costs 
within 8 days or face closure; Serbian police seal border w/ Mon., only allow coal, 
steel, and aluminum to cross border, Eco. Min. Vojin Djukanovic says this occurred 
after Mon. received $20 mil. credit previous week from Ger.; Croatian PM Racan 
says new files could help convicted Gen. Blaskic by revealing who actually carried 
out crimes in central Bos. during war

March 7 - Street fights between Serbs, Albanians in Mitrovica result in 40 injured 
including 16 Fre. pks, gunfire and grenade explosions heard also; KFOR conducts weapons 
searches , extend curfew; Clark meets w/ Ivanovic to urge calm; KFOR, UNMIK discover 
weapons in searches of Serb homes in Miolice (e. of Lesak), detain Serb man; Ethnic 
Albanian man voluntarily surrenders 68 land mines to KFOR; UN envoy Carl Bildt meets 
in Mos. w/ FM Igor Ivanov who tells him there must be firmness w/ Alb.  extremists and 
separatists; UNHCR says more ethnic Albanians leaving Presevo area of Serbia, 
number may now be 6,000 since last June; Belgrade City Council (SPO controlled) 
says it will pay $850,000 fine levied against Studio-B so it may continue broadcasting;
Serbia blockade of Mon. preventing deliveries of medicine; Izet. criticized by 
Petritsch, Robert Barry (OSCE head in Bos.) for highly inflammatory language at 
last week election rally when he spoke of real enemies of his party being Chetniks 
and Ustashe; Police in Mostar arrest 5 Bos. Croats on suspicion of ethnic cleansing 
including former head of local branch of HDZ, public prosecutor says arrests approved 
by UN ICTY; EU begins talks w/ Mac. on expanding relations, trade

March 8 - Yugo. army contends ethnic Albanians massing weapons on Kos. side of border w/ 
southern Serbia under KFOR protection; Yugo. govt. closes down ind. Boom 93 radio station 
in Pozarevac; NATO spokesman Shea denies Guardian story that Yugo. had spy within NATO 
during bombing campaign; Brcko officially proclaimed multiethnic district to be run 
jointly by all ethnic groups; Albright in Sara., meets w/ joint presidency, declares 
that US, Bos, and Croatia have agreed to make for. mil. assistance more transparent 
for Bos.-Croat Fed. army; Several thousand Bos. Croats demonstrate in Kiseljak, home 
of Gen. Blaskic, against sentence of 45 years given to him at Hague, several thousand 
more protest in Mostar; Protest held outside US emb. in Zag. against Blaskic sentence 
but Mesic says US had nothing to do with the sentence; Croatian premier Racan says  
war crimes trial for Mladen Tuta Naletilic may be held in Croatia; Dep. PM Zeljka 
Antunovic says govt. to undertake some urgent changes at HRT (Croatian State Television) 
due to staff unwillingness to make political changes

March 9 - KFOR seizes weapons at 2 locations near border w/ Serbia including grenades, 
ammo., mil. uniforms from both Alb. and Serb homes; 300 Serb villagers in Grabovac (n. 
of Mitrovica) throw stones at Dan. pks during house search, 3 Serbs injured; Dep. chief 
of UNMIK police in Mitrovica, Bri. John Adams transferred to Pristina after saying Fre. 
pks interfered w/ UNMIK investigation, destroyed evidence relating to March 7 incidents;
Albin Kurti, leader of Ind. Union of Albanian Students (assoc. w/ Demaci) on trial in 
Nis for associating w/ others for hostile activities related to terrorism, but says 
that he is citizen of Republic of Kos. and doesn't recognize Serbian or Yugo. courts; 
Ind. Nemanja Television and Tir radio stations closed down by Yugo. Telecommunications 
Min. which seizes transmitters and radio links, told their broadcasting licenses are not 
in order; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic holds talks w/ Albright in Sara., says West to come to 
Mon. aid if it is attacked by Yugo. forces, says Mon. not in hurry to secede;
Croatian, RS FMs agree in BL to increase repatriation of refs., initiative calls for 
return of up to 2,000 people from each side within 3 months; Albright pledges $7 mil. 
to RS govt. for '00 of which $1 mil. to be used for ref. return; IMF says it will 
postpone until 17th decision on $15 mil. tranche of stand-by loan to Bos. after govt. 
agrees to IMF conditions, IMF rep. says we just could not continue playing this game 
further and had to draw a line; 2 Bos. companies (Teloptik, Agora) acquire 51% stake 
in state-owned Holiday Inn for $7.37 mil., companies required to finance reconstruction 
w/ 4 mil. Bos. marka; EU For. Rels. Commissioner Chris Patten says in Zag. that new 
govt. shares the values of the EU and is committed to a process of pol. and eco. 
reforms; Croatian govt. says Hague has rejected holding trial of Naletilic in Zag.

March 10 - Gen. Reinhardt says NATO mission is within the boundaries of Kos. and doesn't 
include sw Serbia, warns against using Kos. as base against s. Serbia, but Thaci warns that 
Milo. is manipulating conditions in area to destabilize Kos.;
Zagreb City Council falls after 2 members of HDZ join opp. forces against govt. coalition

March 11 - 3 attempts consisting of 9 people trying to cross border from Albania near 
Morina border crossing, all turn back after warning shots fired; KFOR says it has 
returned 93 ethnic Albanians to former homes in n. Mitrovica, but UNHCR says situation 
too unstable to ensure their safety

March 12 - 2 Alb. males shot, killed in village of Dobrosevac near Glogovac (MNB Centre), 
2 arrested; Bri. pks set up watchtower in area n. of Pristina where Serb man shot, killed 
on March 11; US condemns failure of leaders of all aspects of Kos. Albanian life to 
prevent violence and that Milo's govt. is trying to stir up trouble in both Kos. and sw 
Serbia; Former commander of pk forces in Bos., US Gen. William Nash to be appointed head 
of civilian admin. in Mitrovica (6th UN admin. since June '99); Serb police enter ind. 
radio, TV station in Pozega, remove equipment, Telecommunications Min. says station has 
not paid licensing fees, but management shows receipts of bills to reporters;
Sandzak Mus. leader Selejman Ugljanin says in Bel. that both Bel. and Podgorica trying 
to destabilize his region

March 13 - OSCE's Daan Everts announces that Serb refs. do not have to return to Kos. 
to vote in local elections set for Oct., calls on Yugo. auth. to help refs. to participate; 
Opp. leaders call on Bel. citizens to rally in front of city hall to protest shut down of 
Studio B, say they expect govt. to continue in crackdown; 200 tank corps reservists protest 
near Kraljevo against frequent call-ups, opp. says army doing this in areas where opp. is 
strongest, army calls call-ups routine; Milo. names Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic to head 3rd 
Army; Gen. Clark warns Milo. that NATO is watching very closely what's happening in Mon. 
as Milo. tightens the noose; Trial of Bos. Serb Gen. Radislav Krstic on charges of 
genocide at Srebrenica opens at Hague; Socialist Party of RS expels Nebojsa Radmanovic, 
Mirko Nozica from steering committee while Momir Malic, parl's Gen. Sec., says he has 
quit the party; Croatian Serb leader Milorad Pupovac says Croatia could easily return 
to Tudj's nationalism unless it takes steps to help refs. return home and rebuild lives

March 14 - 250 Fre. pks backed up by Ital. MPs take control of bridge between s. and n. 
parts of Mitrovica, 4 Serbian guards leave bridge, 9 Serbs, some pks, journalists injured 
in fighting; Pks erect barbed wire security zone around Little Bos area allowing only 
local residents in; KFOR confiscates number of weapons, ammo. in searches of Albanian 
houses in Orahovac, 5 detained, and Prizren; 9 Albanians detained in Globocica, Krusevo 
for illegally staying in Kos., turned over to UNMIK police, 3 Kos. Albanian men arrested 
for armed assault in Zlokucane; UNMIK officer fires twice in air to disperse crowd in 
Prizren which is attacking 3 other UNMIK officers who responded to assault case and tried 
to arrest suspects; 3 persons try to cross border from Albanian into Kos. but turn back 
after warning shots fired at Morina Border Crossing; US State Dep. Spokesman James Rubin 
warns Albanians in Presovo area that US won't support those who provoke Serbs by killing 
policemen; Bel. city govt. pays Studio-B debts; 2,000 residents of Kraljevo demonstrate 
on behalf of reservists, demands army end call-ups until general mobilization occurs;
Croatian Pres. Mesic says he will soon make public contents of Tudj's safes except for 
those containing mil. secrets

March 15 - NATO begins Exercise Dynamic Response 2000 including troops from Argentinean, 
Polish, Romanian, Dutch, and US troops; KFOR says it won't support any form of mil. 
adventurism in area outside Kos. boundaries, nor allow Kos. to be staging area, begins 
cordon/search operation in villages of Rusta Mahala, Surlane, Slubica, Stublina, Dunavo, 
seize 200 uniforms, various weapons, and arrest 9; KFOR est. confidence zone in Mitrovica 
(controlled ID system for those living or working in area), 300 Serbs throw stones, 
bottles at troops, KFOR uses tear gas, stun grenades to disperse them, 7 injured 
including 3 KFOR, 1 journalist, 2 Serb females, 1 Kos. Alb. interpreter; Milo. says 
UN has not carried out its mandate in Kos. and should leave; Student leader Albin 
Kurti sentenced to 15 years for separatism jeopardizing Yugo's territorial integrity;
Croatian governing parties agree to ask Mirko Galic to head Croatian Radio and 
Television

March 16 - US troops say they have cleared out arms caches, storage areas of Albanian 
extremists along border w/ Serbia, seize more than 200 uniforms, 22 crates of ammo., 
2 mortars, weapons, and detain 9, Albright warns that Albanians are in danger of losing 
our support by provoking Serbs; Serb guards take up position near Mitrovica bridge after 
Fre. pks agree to compromise to calm situation Yugo. Telecommunications Min. removes 
broadcasting equip. from ind. Television Pirot (se. Serbia); Masked assailants beat 
ethnic Alb. lawyer in Zemun, Serbia who was defending other ethnic Albanians in Bel. 
trial; Yugo. 2nd army says in statement that Mon. leadership is working w/ NATO powers 
against army, that charges the mil. is taking on a political role are malicious and 
very dangerous; Gen. Clark says Milo. is setting the stage for moving on to mil. action 
against Mon.; Croatian Pres. Mesic confirms that a direct phone line existed between 
Tudj. and Milo., says investigators to begin listening to tapes that Tudj. make in his office

March 17 - Reinhardt says pks may need to stay in Kos. for up to 10 years;
Nebojsa Ristic, editor in chief of ind. Television Soko, released from prison in 
Zajecar after being held for 1 year for spreading false information;
Croatian DM Jozo Rados says that Herzegovinian Croat leader Ante Jelavic, 112 other 
officers received salaries from Zag. while also being paid by Bos.; OSCE 's Benita 
Ferrero-Waldner says Bos. parl. must pass own law on elections or have intl. community 
impose one, Bos. mission head Robert Barry says OSCE members do not want to continue 
paying for elections indefinitely

March 18 - Kouchner comments in interview that reconciliation between Serbs, ethnic Albanians 
in Kos. is absolutely impossible, says hatred between them extremely strong, compares 
situation to N. Ireland; Serbian police release 7 KFOR Czech pks after they stray into 
Serbia near Podujevo; 1200 more Fre., Ita. troops to be assigned to Mitrovica; US troops 
fire 27 rounds of night illumination munitions over eastern boundary to observe illegal 
movement at border; Molotov cocktail thrown at Serb house in Kos. Polje;
Serb authorities shut down Kraljevo Radio-Television, Telecommunications Min. says it 
did not have valid license, 10,000 people rally in town against this; station editor 
says this was probably in response to 5 days of rallies in support of army reservists in town;

March 19 - Thousands of Serbs rally in Kraljevo for 2nd day in protest against closure of 
Kraljevo Radio-Television; Accused war criminal Mladen Tuta Naletilic says he will 
oppose being extradited to Hague

March 20 - UN special human rights investigator for Balkans, Jiri Dienstbier says Kos. 
is in chaos, says this is the result of a mistaken policy of the intl. community...
bombing Yugo. without knowing what will be next, criticizes Bel. for its crackdown on 
ind. media; Thaci says he will use influence to try to end problem in Presevo Valley;
5,000 rally in Kraljevo against closure of radio-television station; Former commander 
of Srpska Garda paramilitary Branislav Dugi Lainovic shot and killed in Belgrade
Djukanovic says that Milo. is trying to create a civil war from which he can completely 
distance himself and that Mon. to hold ref. on ind. if Bel. does not become democratic 
and free-market oriented; NATO's Robertson comments that alliance is watching Mon.  w/ 
growing concern, calls on Milo. to end the eco. blockade of Mon. which he calls a 
provocation; Solana says EU will not allow Yugo. to cause problem in Mon.;

Trial begins in Hague of 3 Bos. Serbs accused of crimes against humanity, violations 
of rules of war, use of rape as weapon around Foca during war; Kofi Annan says he sees 
steady progress in restructuring police force in Bos. but that country still needs to 
est. single border service; Mesic makes first trip abroad since becoming pres., goes 
to Slovenia to meet w/ Kucan, pledges to make stronger efforts to resolve problems

March 21 - Hand grenade thrown into Roma house's yard causing elderly man to go into shock; 
KFOR Mps arrest man for making threats to Serbs in Cernica; KFOR troops stop Serb man 
carrying grenade, search house, 30 angry Serbs throw stones at them; NATO's Robertson says 
if not for NATO intervention the barbaric policy of Bel. would have succeeded and the 
credibility not only of NATO but of Western democracy and its values would have been 
seriously damaged; also comments that NATO's aim was not to wage war against Yugo. or 
to bring about the fall of Milo. and his regime but to disrupt the viol. against the 
Kosovars and to weaken the Serb mil. capabilities in a carefully controlled way and 
warns that ethnic Albanians must also prove they are committed to multiethnic society; 
Yugo. DM Dragoljub Ojdanice says Serbia should now take over responsibility for Kosovo's 
future, KFOR has failed to fulfill Sec. Coun. res.; 5,000 demonstrate for 4th straight 
day in Kraljevo; Croatia hands over to UN war crimes tribunal Mladen Tuta Naletilic 
despite his claims of poor health; Euro. Commission Pres. Romano Prodi calls for EU to 
develop radical new plans and a heavy-duty commitment to peace in Balkans

March 22 - Fre. pks extend security zone in Mitrovica; Early morning explosion destroys 
railway bridge overpass along Mitrovica-Lesac line in Ravna Gora; KFOR announces new 
measures to control, eliminate illegal activities along borders including closing minor 
crossings, stepped-up patrols and recon., normal civilian traffic to remain open;
Interpol issues call over Internet for arrest of Milo., 4 others on genocide, war 
crimes charges; Main opp. parties agree on protest rally date for April 14

March 23 - Rus. For. Min. says it will not send any police to Kos. due to negative 
tendencies including ensuring sec. of non-Alb. population; Albright expresses Wash. opp. 
to idea of partitioned Mitrovica; Bos. Muslim auth. to relocate Bos., for. Islamic 
fighters located in village of Bocinja Donja w/ foreigners being asked to either 
relocate in spouse's home towns of leave country Croatian Pres. Mesic in Sara. for 
2-day visit, says Croatia will no longer interfere in Bos. internal affairs or 
finance Herceg-Bosna mini-state, calls for its dissolution; Several hundred refs., 
returnees from Slavonia block Zagreb-Lipovac highway to protest insufficient budget 
funding for their return and rebuilding of homes

March 24 - Robertson, Clark visit Kos. to demonstrate the high level of support 
NATO maintains for the KFOR and UN mission 1 year after war began; KFOR puts up 
signs in Serb areas of Mitrovica declaring confidence zone where all may move freely;
Pol. representatives of UCMPB issue statement that they are committed to a pol. solution 
to situation in Presovo area w/ the intl. community; EU issues communique calling for 
eco. assistance for Mon. if its dem. reforms are to succeed and that a democratic, 
cooperative Serbia, living at peace w/ its neighbors, will be welcome to join the Euro. 
family;
Appeals Chamber of ICTY denies appeal of convicted Croatian war criminal Zlatko 
Aleksovski, (convicted on 7 May 1999 for viols. of law/customs of war in running 
camp in Kaonik, BH) finds earlier sentence (2 yrs., 6 months) was manifestly 
inadequate and increases it to 7 years

March 25 - Yugo. tank, APC reportedly entered DMZ buffer zone illegally w/, NATO calls it 
deliberate effort to test NATO's reaction;  Mon. police, Yugo. army say they will set up 
joint checkpoint on Pec-Rozaje road to prevent smuggling, terrorism from Kos.;
Mac. Int. Min. Dosta Dimovska says Milo's secret police responsible for 3 bomb attacks 
on Mac. police stations since Jan. and that they are trying to destroy one of 
Macedonia's foundationsBgood ethnic rels.

March 26 - Hand grenade thrown at Serb house in Stimlje but does not explode; 100-200 
Albanians walk down main street of Kos. Polje, some throw rocks at Serb homes; 5 mortars 
fired at Mus. house in Donj Streoc; KFOR pks search Serb house, find AK-47, Serb mil. 
uniform, arrest 1 Serb man, crowd throws bottles, stones at pks afterward; UNHCR's Sagato 
Ogata calls for KFOR, ethnic Albanians to do more to protect minorities security, says 
western govts. should not try to force all 100,000 Kosovars abroad home as this will 
strain services

March 27 - 4 Alb. men arrested for arson attack on Serb house in Kosovo Polje; 4 Serbs, 
2 Albanians arrested in connection w/ grenade explosion in Little Bos. quarter of n. 
Mitrovica; Yugo. Telecommunications Ministry, city of Kraljevo reach agreement on return 
of transmitter to Kraljevo Radio-Television; Bos. ct. orders release of former Bos. 
Mus. dep. Ibrihim Djedovic, ally of Fikret Abdic who had been sentenced to 10 years 
for war crimes (setting up camps where 6,000 Mus. opponents of Abdic were detained, 
tortured), due to lack of evidence; SDS head, Dragan Kalinic, says his party expects 
to pick up seats in next month's elections

March 28 - The Times reports that planned visits to Mitrovica by Lord Robertson, Gen. 
Clark were cancelled after CIA learned about Serbian forces planning to shoot down their 
helicopter; Explosion in northern part of Mitrovica near Fre. observation point, no 
injuries; Members of UCPMB reported to be still crossing border, wearing uniforms, and 
carrying out training exercises, group's pol. reps. say it will take time before 
militants can be persuaded to go along w/ pledge to conduct just pol. struggle; US 
State Dept. expresses concern about UCPMB refusing to wage just pol. struggle; Contact 
Group meets for first time in year (in Paris), calls for early return to civilian 
administrative structures in Kos.; 2 Bri. officers, 24 soldiers enter DMZ to look for 
tire tracks of tank, APC which entered area illegally 3 days before;
Djukanovic claims that Yugo. 2nd army has set up 1,000 member special police unit loyal 
to Milo. and that over 50% of them have criminal records; Fed. PM Bulatovic claims that 
Djukanovic has 20,000 police, 10,000 more than he should have and that he might try to 
create conflict w/ army; Croatian Pres. Mesic warns that he will call ref. on whether 
to limit or abolish presidential powers if members of govt. in 2 larger coalition 
partner-parties persist in attempting to abolish his powers;
Slovenian PM Janez Drnovsek says he may call for new elections if parl. passes new 
electoral law

March 29 - KFOR reports possible incursion by 2 VJ vehicles into Ground Saftey Zone on 
March 25, KFOR enters GSZ to investigate under terms of Mil. Tech. greement, find no 
conclusive evidence; Bishop Artemije says no solution to Kos. possible as long as Milo. 
and his regime remain in power, says Yugo. army won't return as local Serbs don't 
recognize it as their army, calls on fellow Serbs to admit their mistakes, stop 
blaming others; also claims pro-Milo. Serbs caused provocations against him while 
in London; War Crimes Tribunal finds Bos. Serb Milan Simic and lawyer Branislav 
Avramovic not guilty of charges they tried to bribe witness; RS dep. DM, Slobodan 
Jelicic says Bos. Serb. army (VRS) wants membership in Partnership for Peace but that 
it needs to join as distinct force and not part of larger Bos. army, says Dayton 
agreement clearly recognizes the VRS as a distinct force Regional Funding Conf. of 
intl. aid donors sponsored by World Bank) meets in Brussels, repeat pledge that Serbia 
will get nothing until Milo. is gone

March 30 - Intl. donors at 2-day World Bank/EBRD conference (47 countries, 36 intl. orgs.) 
pledge 2.4 bil. euros ($2.3 bil.) in aid to promote stability in Balkans, money to be 
directed at water programs in Alb., roads in Mon., electricity connections in BH among 
others; total exceeds targeted goal of 1.8 bil. euros; Hand grenade thrown under car at 
bus station in Pristina; US Def. Dept. says 125 special recon. soldiers to be station on 
Kos.-Serbia border to be eyes and ears of NATO, investigate on foot reports of violations 
in DMZ; Bel. ct. begins trials of opp. leaders (SD leader Vuk Obradovic; Milan Protic; 
Goran Svilanovic) for slandering regime leaders during rallies in late '99; Bos. FM 
Jadranko Prlic says he is ready to est. diplomatic rels. w/ Yugo.; IMF increases 
stand-by credit facility for BH by $22.7 mil. and total of $126.7 mil.; UN envoy 
for Bos., Jacques Klein, says Bos. not ready to elect centrist govt. as Croatia did, 
that there is still a lot of sentiment of nationalism, there is still a lot of 
sentiment of fear, but that every election we have is quieter, more constructive; 
UN High Rep's office says there have been more than 30 incidents against returnees 
in RS in March representing escalation of intimidation aimed at obstructing the return 
process (primarily Muslims), situation worst in Prnjavor where 4 incidents occurred in 
March and 1 was killed; Croatian Pres. Mesic says govt. withholding info. from him, 
preventing him from doing his job, says 2-party coalition has not truly accepted his 
election, won't give up power to name head of intelligence services, other key positions;
US to send 14 tanks, 6 artillery pieces to Mac. to deter any mischief that might take 
place along the borders

March 31 - Lord Robertson says mission in Kos. may fail unless more money, other 
resources provided; Croatia's Mesic says in Sara. we want to let it be known that 
meddling in Bos. will be stopped, that statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia should have been 
abolished in '94 but some institutions still remain; Brcko multi-ethnic town council 
consisting of 29 councillors (legislators) from 11 parties in BH appointed by intl. 
supervisor Robert Farrand, meets for 1st time; RS VP Mirko Sarovic says he hasn't 
seen Kara. in 3 years, very few people know where he is although he may be in Serbia;
Mesic holds meeting w/ PM Racan, parl. speaker Zlatko Tomcic, says his rels. w/ PM, 
govt. are idyllic

April 1 - Washington Post reporter says he say Ratko Mladic w/ 8 bodyguards at 
Yugo-Chinese soccer game in Bel. on March 28, Yugo. soccer official says Mladic 
goes to every home game of nat. team

April 2 - KFOR takes unprecedented sec. steps around hq in Pristina, US dip. 
offices after raiding nearby house used by Saudi Joint Relief Committee which 
had been hurriedly vacated; former UCK members reported to have staked out house, 
reported movements there for months and given info. to US officials; 2 Danish KFOR 
soldiers arrested by Serbian police after going into Ground Safety Zone n. of Lesak, 
released that night; Crowds of approx. 200 Albanians, Serbs confront each other near 
Dobrotin (e. of Lipljan) after Serb man and son assaulted there; Elderly Serb man shot 
and wounded in Vrbovac by Albanians in passing car (MNB-SE), Serbs block road in 
response; Exercise Dynamic Response 2000 ends; Reinhardt welcomes return of Serbs 
as observers on Interim Administrative Council, KTC, pro-Milo. Serbs criticize decision;
NATO's Clark says NATO watching Serbian moves toward Mon. and against Djukanovic; 
PM Vujanovic says 3 former Yugo. generals (Dep. Air Force commander Blagoje Grahovac, 
2nd army commander Radoslav Martinovic, Mil. Intel. head Nedeljko Boskovic) appointed 
as advisors to Djukanovic as means of improving communication between Mon., army, 300 
middle-level officers also reported to have applied to join Mon. paramilitary police;
Croatian Pres. Mesic says Milo. is like a bicyclist who can keep going only as long as 
he moves in the direction of war, and that Aviol. can erupt at any time most likely in 
sw. Serbia or Kos.

April 3 - Former Pres. of RS Assembly Momcilo Krajisnik arrested at parents' home in 
Pale by Fre. pks under secret Feb. 21 indictment by WCT for genocide, crimes against 
humanity, violations of laws and customs of war, breaches of Geneva Convention during 
Bos. war (28 publicly indicted war crimes suspects remain at large); Krajisnik family 
claims SFOR used bomb to blow up door in arrest; Holbrooke calls arrest one of most 
significant developments in Balkans in 5 years, Yugo. For. Min. condemns it calling 
it part of NATO genocide against Serbs Hand grenade thrown at Serb house in Obilic 
at night, no injuries

April 4 - Robertson comments that NATO mission in Kos. still on that razor's edge 
between success...or failureBfailure of pol. will, a failure to put in the right resources.  
We have to succeed...because we want to create a model...for what the intl. community can 
do in stopping evil and rebuilding a healthy, ethnic, democratic society;  150 Serb 
civilians, KFOR troops get into confrontation in villages in Sara Nat. Park (Kos.-Mac. 
border area) after pks try to confiscate grenades from Serb home, arrest 1 man 
who then  escapes; Albanian man shot and killed in Dobrosin area of Presovo 
Valley (Serbia) Yugo. army says it communicates directly w/ Mon. civilian auth., 
doesn't need any go-betweens
Haris Salajdzic says Kraj. arrest will have positive impact on the peace process, 
NATO's Robertson calls (again) on war crimes suspects to surrender and face Hague 
rather than the rough justice of the Balkans; Steering Board of the Peace Implementation 
Council (US, Ger., Fra., Tur., Rus., Ita, EU rep.) meets in Sara. w/ Petritsch, calls 
for reforms to prevent Bos. from facing a rapidly escalating eco. crisis; Group of 400 
Muslims return to visit home in SerbBcontrolled Foca over weekend, 50 decide to stay 
in tent settlement, SFOR removes barricades set up by unidentified people to prevent 
refs.' return; Bos. mil. reaches agreement on further 15% reduction of mil. spending 
this year; Petritsch's office removes Int. Min. Anto Barisic in Livno canton (w. Bos.) 
due to misuse of powers; OSCE provisional election commission removes 14 candidates from 
election lists for violating occupancy rights of others; Croatian police arrest Nebojsa 
Jelic for crimes committed in Glina area (torture of 16 Croatian policemen, civilian 
in '91) after he returns from Serbia; Jelic reportedly confesses; Hague prosecutor Del 
Ponte visits Mesic to try to get documents on '95 offensive

April 5 - Explosion in Serb bar in Cernica wounds 3, pks detain 2 for questioning, find 
anti-tank rocket at scene; Seselj's  Radical Party calls for, gets expulsion of ind. 
media (Danas, AGlas javnosti, ABlic, Studio B TV, Beta, Fonet news agencies) from 
session of parl's Culture and Info. Committee; Crowd at election rally in Pale 
cheer Kara. by name (not in attendance), wife Ljiljana cheered as well; Fre. DM 
Alain Richard says Kara. was prime objective for Fre. pks at time of Krajisnik's 
arrest and that arrest of Kara. is a major goal of France; Pres. Jacques Chirac 
comments that detention was in orders he gave; Rus. For. Ministry calls Kraj. 
arrest clear violation of legal norms and the powers of peacekeepers;
Del Ponte says she is very happy about new Croatian govt. attitude, says she got 
lots of documents, also communicated names of those under sealed indictments to 
Justice Min.

April 6 - Yugo. FM Zivadin Jovanovic sends appeal to UN demanding abolition of Hague 
war crimes tribunal as its sole purpose is genocide against the Serbian people; Serbs 
armed w/  pitchforks, axes attack Swe. pks at Gracanica monastery causing pks to 
shoot 1; 150-200 Serbs gather outside Swedish command post later in evening, throw 
stones, attempt to tear down gate, troops fire tear gas; Draskovic, in Moscow, says 
everything that has happened in Kos. in the past 10 months is a disgrace for the intl. 
forces and demands that Serb forces be allowed to return; Fire in Novi Sad offices of 
ind. Radio 021, 2 private TV stations, bureaus of Mon. TV, Danas kills 1, injures 7; 
1,000 protest in Zrenjanin, Voj. over arrest of opp. city council member, firing of 2 
others; Karadzic's wife, Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic appears at SDS rally in Pale for first 
time in years; OSCE removes 14 members of Croat Demo-Christian party from election lists 
for violating provisions of Dayton accord (using inflammatory language in media, calling 
for creation of separate Croat region in Bos. w/ own army, police), OSCE also demands 
party pres. Petar Milic resign by end of day or entire party will be banned from elections; 
US amb. Thomas Miller comments on elections that I'm not interested in recommending to my 
bosses in Wash. that they put any money into areas where Dayton is being obstructed; 
Bos. Croat HDZ leader Ante Jelavic says Croatian govt. trying to destroy power of HDZ 
at urging of intl. community, that they have held up or are threatening to hold up 
pensions of Her. war vets

April 7 -
Bos. Serb Krajisnik pleads not guilty before Hague on charges of genocide, war crimes, 
crimes against humanity, grave breaches of Gen. conventions (extermination, murder, 
willful killing, inhumane acts)

April 8 - 
70% of eligible voters turn out in Bos. municipal/local elections, HDZ said to have 
won in predominantly Croat areas while Kara's SDS wins in largely Serb areas, but Mus. 
voters give Social Dems. control in as many as 20 municipalities including Sara., 
Tuzla, Bihac, Gorazde;
Slovenian PM Janez Drnovsek loses votes of confidence in parl.

April 9 - Kos. Serb, Zoran Janicejevic, who escaped from US troops earlier in 
week turns himself in after US pks strand 200 Serbs in Serbia by not providing 
escorts back to their villages (through Albanian territory), later say escorts 
will resume; US officials admit their troops had been forced to abandon mil. 
vehicles after rock throwing attack; Fre. pks use tear gas to keep 100 Serbs 
from crossing into s. Mitrovica after 3 Alb. employees of OSCE took pictures in 
northern part of town; Ind. Assoc. of Journalists of Serbia calls on Int. Min. to 
release results of investigation into murder of publisher Slavko Curuvija 1 year ago;
Croatian govt. agrees to Hague examination of possible mass grave of Serbs in Gospic 
area; NATO Parl. Assembly chairman Javier Ruperez meets w/ Croatian parl. speaker 
Zlatko Tomcic, tells him Croatia has been admitted to assembly as observer

April 10 - US pk humvee hits anti-personnel mine in e. Kos. near Mac. on infrequently 
traveled road, no injuries; Ital. KFOR troops arrest 2 in possession of 22 landmines 
stolen from field in Ljubenic (5 kilos. from Pec) on April 8; 10,000 demonstrate in Nis 
after ct. fines Narodne novine $7,000 for coverage of increased mil. call-ups; Serbian 
Pres. Milan Milutinovic has heart operation; Croatian Pres. Mesic sends proposal to 
PM Racan, Parl. speaker Zlatko Tomcic on limiting presidential powers; pres. would 
still be commander in chief and have role in for. pol., appoint chiefs of intel. services;

April 11 - Reinhardt meets w/ Yugo. Army Col.-Gen. Svetozar Marjanovic in Kapaonik, 
discuss implementation of Mil. Tech. Agreement and sec. situation along border; KFOR 
denies that they talked about return of Yugo. border guards, police as reported by 
Skopje TV A1; explosion reported at guarded church in Vitina (MNB-SE); Belgrade ct. 
fines Vreme $8,000 for story on firing of director of National Theater by Culture Min.; 
Bomb explodes outside offices of Milo's Socialist Party in Vracar district of Bel., 
party quickly blames it on opp.; Serbian parl. passes law making election to upper 
house based on proportional rather than majority vote Klein says people voting along 
nationalist lines probably did so out of fearWorld Bank tells Mus.-Croat Fed. to fix 
problems w/ privatization plan of 5 state-owned banks (Privredna Banka group) which 
have 258 mil. marks ($127 mil.) of pre-war debt

April 12 - Kouchner says govts. of Australia, western govts. should not force refs. to 
return to Kos. too early as the infrastructure still cannot support them;
Vreme director says  paper doesn't have money to pay fines imposed by govt.
Bos. fed. govt. extends for another 4 months deadline to sell socially-owned apts. 
(original date was March 6); Cro. Justice Min. Stjepan Ivanisevic comes back from 
Hague, says there are no secret indictments against senior Croatian military

April 13 - Hague's del Ponte says of recent arrests that they are not enough, asks 
NATO's Robertson for arrests of all fugitives including Milo., Kara., Mladic;

KFOR conducts cordon and search operation in n. Mitrovica (ABBQ District), confiscate 
large number of weapons, ammo., arrest 5 Albanian men; Span. pks arrest 3 Alb. men for 
attacking pregnant Serb woman in her home; Serbian auth. detain 6 for. journalists, 3 
Spanish trade union officials at Bel. airport before they can attend rally in support 
of early elections; Dep. PM Nikola Sainovic says opp. responsible for rally taking 
place without incidents; Bel. ct. fines SPO $100,000 in 1994 case of slander, party 
spokesman calls it a monstrous witch-hunt; State-run TV to show top Hollywood films 
at same time as rally; 200 Otpor protestors begin walk from Novi Sad to Bel., 
spokesman for org. says message is to say good-bye to both Milo. and to opp. leaders; 
Alliance for Change leaders call on all citizens to attend rally, but fear govt. will 
try to intimidate people not to show up; Prince Aleksandar from London calls on all 
Serbs and citizens of Yugo. (to) come together and est. a broad mass movement for 
dem. and change; Mon., Alb. regional police chiefs meet in Podgorica to coop. on 
fighting crime; Bos. parl. passes law ending system of joint Mus.-Serb Pms after 
Con. Ct. calls it unconstitutional, adds 3 more ministries to current 3 in cabinet, 
each to take 8 month turns as PM; Petritsch's office says they want it implemented 
as soon as possible as cabinet has not met for past 2 months;
Cro. PM Racan says govt. to prepare declaration of coop. w/ Hague

April 14 - Cacak office of United Yugo. Left says it was attacked by arsonists, 
blames it on opp. rally of same day, tries to connect them w/ NATO; Croatian parl. 
passes bill stating policy on coop. w/ Hague; Mac. parl. votes to hand hundreds of 
thousands of acres of land seized from Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish communities in 
1945 back to original owners, property valued at $750 mil.

April 15 - Austrian KFOR troops seize 77 anti-tank mines, 40 grenades, 1,000 ammo. 
rounds, several rifles and machine gun from truck driven by 2 Albanians at 
checkpoint near Gnjilane; 200,000 turn out in central Bel. for opp. rally where 
Draskovic, Djindjic meet publicly; Romanian govt. to lift oil embargo on 7 opp.-
controlled cities in Yugo. (Nis, Pirot, Sombor, Subotica, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, 
Novi Sad) in keeping w/ EU policy; Steering Committee of Mon. branch of Socialist 
People's Party (SNS) votes to form Coalition Yugo.-SNS-Momir Bulatovic w/ 2 hard-line 
Serb parties for upcoming local elections in Herceg Novi, Podgorica

April 16 - 12 detained overnight on suspicions of various crimes; 1 arrested near Alb. 
border for illegally crossing into Kos. near Morina, 2 others for crossing near 
Restelica; Serbian PM Mirko Marjanovic says govt. will not talk w/ traitors in 
reference to opp., Serbian parl. speaker Dragan Tomic says opp. reps. are of the 
blackest fascism; Croatian paper Vecernji list which has been close to HDZ, says 
owners include Croatian car dealership Zubak and Ger. construction firm Montmontaza

April 17 - Lt. Gen. Juan Ortuno of Spain takes over command from Gen. Reinhardt; 2 
explosions at night in Pristina as rockets fired at World Bank area, 2 wounded, car 
stopped and driver arrested; Former UCK commander Besim Mala shot and killed in 
Pristina; Reinhardt leaves post saying that he is concerned about situation in 
Presevo area and that rebels continue to train in village of Dobrosin despite 
pledges not to do so; Delegation of moderate Kos. Serbs headed by Trajkovic, 
Bishop Artemije, visit Mos. on unofficial visit, to hold talks w/ Duma members, 
Patriarchleksii; Vojislav Zivkovic, head of Socialist Party in Kos. and member of 
Rambouillet delegation, reported to have committed suicide in Bel.; Man shot and 
killed in Pristina restaurant, 2nd man wounded; Car w/ 2 Serbs stoned in village of 
Suvi Do, both injured, 3 ethnic Albanians arrested in connection; Mon. parl. speaker 
Svetozar Marovic in Skopje for talks on opening consulates in respective capitals, 
opening transportation corridors through Kos.; Hague spokesman Paul Risley says ct. 
very pleased w/ Croatian coop., reports that it wants to investigate war crimes in 
Gospic area; Mesic says on TV that nobody ever received the right to kill someone's 
children in the name of the Croatian state; also says sale of Vecernji list by HDZ 
was fraud involving top leadership of party, says he doubts that stated owners are 
anything but front men for the politicians who control the paper

April 18 - 2 ethnic Albanians wounded by gunfire, KFOR suspects feud between UCK 
factions; Rocket fired at building in Pristina wounds 2 ethnic Albanians, Bri. 
KFOR troops arrest man found w/ several more in his car, other suspects detained 
for questioning; 5 hand grenades fired at Serb border post near Kos. Mitrovica, 
probably from Dobrosin where UCK splinter group is located; Spanish Gen. Juan Ortuno 
takes over as KFOR commander for 6-month mandate, heads Eurocorps which is not 
integrated part of NATO command; Serbia begins trial of  in Nis of 146 Kos. Albanians 
accused in 3 attacks against Serb forces during air war, defendants referred to as 
Myhedin Zeka and the others by Serb media are charged w/ forming UCK unit in Djakovica 
in April '99; UN Human Rights Comission votes 44-1 to condemn Bel. for repression of 
ind. media, pol. opp., misuse of justice for pol. purposes (Rus. votes against) and 
that in Kos. there was systematic targeting and terrorization of the civilian 
population...by Serbian forces; Serb ct. fines private news agency Beta $6,900 
in libel suit by Yugo. Info. Min. Goran Matic, dismisses suit against Blic as it 
only reprinted Beta story; Mon. branch of Seselj's Radical Party joins Serbian 
People's Party in electoral coalition; Vecernji list says it is soon to be owned by 
Austrian firm Styria, publisher of Die Presse, Croatian PM Racan says recordings of 
conversations of Tudj. aides show they were involved in robbery in sale of the paper; 
Forensics experts discover bones near Gospic, Dep. Justice Min. Ranko Marijan says 
suspects might be tried in Croatia under agreement w/ Hague Pres. of EU parl., 
Nicole Fontaine, says current govt. crisis in Slovenia won't delay its admission to 
EU, that it could be among the countries that will participate in the 2004 election 
to the EU

April 19 - Thaci, Rugova, Zosja, Bakalli join Archbishop Artemije, Father Sava, Rada 
Trajkovic signing appeal to all in Kosova calling for end to hatred, devel. of tolerant 
atmosphere; UN begins registration of citizens in Gjilan, Rahovec to control against 
illegal arrivals from Albania, Serbia; Gen. Clark warns both ethnic Albanians, Milo. 
govt. that NATO will not be drawn into new conflict and that it is aware of Milo's 
efforts to destabilize area; EU External Rels. Commissioner Chris Patten says there 
will be no other donor conferences until there are eco. reforms like a transparent 
privatization process ($5.1 bil. has already been pledged); Croatian Int. Min. 
prepares criminal charges against former FM Mate Granic over illegal transfer of 
$1.75 mil. into for. bank accounts and later back to Granic; Granic calls charges 
revenge-seeking

April 20 - Slobodna Bosna reports Kara. to be moving between several towns in eastern 
Bos. (Rudo, Foca) to avoid arrest, has approx. 80 bodyguards w/ him, Mladic said to 
occasionally come to Han Pijesak where he owns pig farm; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says he 
is willing to travel to Bel. to discuss future of fed., but that he has not otherwise 
been there since early '99; OSCE announces results of April 8 Bos. vote, says Kara's 
SDS won in 49 municipalities, HDZ in 25, Party of Dem. Action in 23 alone and 11 more 
in areas w/ moderate Party for Bos-Her.; Croatian Intelligence head, Ozren Zunec resigns 
position at HIS saying Mesic is interfering w/ his work; April 21 - 100 members of opp. 
including those from Kos., Bos., Croatia, and Mon. meet in Athens under sponsorship of 
Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, agree to form Council of Dem. Forces of Serbia 
under leadership of Aleksandar, Patriarch Pavle; Serb Pres. Milutinovic leaves hospital;
Mon. devalues dinar by 15% against Ger. mark Dragan Nikolic, 42, 1st ever indicted war 
crimes suspect (11-4-94), arrested by NATO forces in northern Bos., charged w/ 4 counts 
of rape, clubbing 2 inmates to death, torturing and beating 4 more, in addition to 
command responsibility for abuse of other prisoners at Susica detention camp in 
Vlasenica (e. Bos.) in '92 (Nikolic is 7th suspect rounded up in last 6 months and 
39th of 94 total); April 22 - Kouchner says Milo. has not responded to offer to let 
Serb refs. vote in local elections; Gunfire aimed at car from Rus. camp in Devic; 9 
explosions in Gorazdevac area, 3 near KFOR checkpoint, others near Roma homes;

April 24 - Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic detained by KFOR for 2 hours due to claim of 
invalid papers, 200 Serbs gather to demand his release but disperse when Bel. pks 
fire warning shot;
Trial opens in Nis of 7 members of Serb Liberation Army (OSA) group arrested in Dec. 
in Krusevac and accused of plotting to kill Milo., begin armed insurrection; also 
charged w/ plotting to kill Yugo. army chief of staff Nebojsa Pavkovic and trying to 
restore monarchy (group has claimed responsibility for attempted assassination of 
Draskovic in October)

April 25 - Ivanovic says he is planning organized return of up to 1,500 Serbs to Kos., 
says he will need UN, KFOR, UNHCR support; Gen. Clark warns Milo. that NATO is watching 
what is going on in Mon. and that he should be aware of NATO's capabilities; Director of 
JAT, member of JUL, and long-time Milo. friend, Zika Petrovic, shot and killed outside his 
home by 2-3 gunmen, police say it is work of terrorists; Croatian Pres. Mesic names Davor 
Biscan to replace Zarko Pesa as head of Sec. Info. Service in effort to retain control 
over key pres. appts. (Mesic wants intel. agencies to be ind. of govt.)

April 26 - 10,000 ethnic Albanians demonstrate in Pristina for release of 2,000 Kosovars 
thought to be held in Serb jails; OSCE says it will set up court in Kos. in June to 
investigate war crimes; Shots fired at guards, tents at KFOR Rus. camp in Brocna, no 
fire returned; molotov cocktail thrown at KFOR checkpoint in Marina; KFOR Rus. vehicle 
stopped, threatened by demonstrators in Pristina; Rus. soldier reported missing found 
dead n. of Glogovac; Disorder in Pristina detention center requires Bri. Fusiliers 
Regiment to assist UNMIK; Bos. presidency nominates Tihomir Gligoric (Serbian Socialist 
Party) to be rotating chairman of new central govt. for next 8 months;
PM candidate in Slovenia, Andrej Bajuk, gets only 43 of 90 votes (46 needed for elec.);

April 27 - Gen. Juan Ortuno says pks will not tolerate attacks on Rus. personnel; 
KFOR continues to stop cars trying to get through checkpoints, find weapons in them; 
70-year old Roma woman wounded in grenade attack in Gnjilane; 2 detained for attempting 
to smuggle counterfeit Deutsche Marks from Alb. into. Kos.; Zoran Uskokovic, possible 
link to death of Arkan, shot and killed in car chase by unidentified gunmen in Bel.;
BH House of Nations passes package of recommendations from EU on pol., eco. reform as 
precondition for another donor conference; RS governing coalition Sloga says it will 
demand resignation of Zivko Radisic as Bos. Serb rep. on presidency after he nominates 
Serb Tihomir Gligoric to head new cabinet without consulting w/ Sloga; World Bank 
announces it will allocate up to $300 mil. for Bos. through mid-2002 but amount to 
depend on reform by authorities in public finances and social services sectors; Govt's 
privatization agency cancels sale by tender of 34 state-owned firms after western 
officials say process lacking in transparency, not advertised in foreign media; Klein 
contends that war would break out in Bos. in 6 months if NATO pks leave country;
Croatian govt. approves bill to amend constitution to list all legally recognized 
minorities and drop references to 2 autonomous districts

April 28 - War crimes suspect Dragan Nikolic pleads not guilty in Hague to 80 counts of war 
crimes; 83 bodies exhumed from mass graves in Bratunac area (e. Bos.), thought to be 
victims of Sreb. massacre; Bos. predominantly Mus. SDA's main board votes no-confidence 
in Mus.-Croat Fed. pres. Ejup Ganic, 3 cantonal governors due to poor election showing; 
SFOR forces find wreckage of Scott O'Grady's F-16 shot down in June '95 near Drvar

April 30 -  
Izet. says that Muslims should apologize to Serbs, Croats for war crimes they committed 
in Kazani and Grabovica during the war; 2,000 delegates to congress of HDZ in Zagreb 
elect Ivo Sanader new party leader;

Key Terms/Names:
Bildt, Carl - former Swedish Prime Minister, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the 
Balkans.
Canak, Nenad - leader of opposition League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.
Council of Europe (CofE) - primary European body acting as watchdog for human rights 
standards.
Covey, James P.  - American appointed as UN Principle Dep. Special Rep. for Kos.
Democratic Progress Party - party formed by Hashim Thaci as political arm of UCK
Economic Policy Advisory Board - body to act in concert w/ KTC, to propose and advise on 
functioning of eco. system, final filter where systemic laws are examined before being 
signed by Kouchner (not binding on SCSR).
Everts, Daan - Dutch diplomat and former Amb. to Albania, UN's Dep. Special Representative 
for Institution Building in Kos., also OSCE head of mission in Kosovo.
Fund of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo - money raised among Kos. Albanian 
residents and members of the diaspora.
Holbrooke, Richard - US Ambassador to the United Nations, former negotiator of the 
Dayton Accords ending the war in Bosnia.
ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia) - formal name for Hague 
investigative bodies regarding crimes falling under authority of Geneva Convention of 1949.
Ivanovic, Oliver - moderate Serb leader of Kos.-based Serbian National Council.
Izetbegovic, Alija - Muslim member of Bosnian collective presidency.
Jackson, Gen. Sir Mike - (British) First commander of KFOR in Kosovo, June-Oct. 12, 1999.
Joint Civil Commission on Education - reviews textbooks to eliminate hate langauge, review 
and produce new curriculum.
Joint Civil Commission on Energy and Public Utilities - chaired by UNMIK, responsible for 
ensuring multi-ethnic work force, overseeing management of utilities in 3 sectors: energy, 
water, and sanitation.
Joint Civilian Commission on Transport - in charge of railways, other transportation issues.
Kalinic, Dragan - head of Serb Democratic Party
Koenigs, Tom - Ger. environmental expert appointed Dep. Special Rep. in Kos. in charge of 
civil admin.
Kosovo Transitional Council - highest level civilian advisory body to UNMIK, composed of 
members of all ethnic groups in province.
Kouchner, Bernard - UN's highest-ranking civilian official in Kos., responsible for 
administration of province
LDK (Democratic League of Kos.) - party of moderate political leader Ibrihim Rugova.
League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina - opposition party in Vojvodina.

Marjanovic, Mirko - Prime Minister of Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia.
Markovic, Mira - wife of Milosevic, leader of United Yugoslav Left (JUL).
Meidani, Rexhep - President of Albania Rexhep Meidani
MNB (Multi-National Brigade) - formal designation for KFOR troop deployments. 5 sectors 
throughout Kosovo: 
    MNB-South - Sector 1, centered on Prizren, primarily German KFOR troops;
    MNB-North - Sector 2, centered on Kosovska Mitrovica, primarily French KFOR troops;
    MNB-West - Sector 3, centered on Pec, primarily Italian KFOR troops;
    MNB-East - Sector 4, centered on Gnjilane, primarily American KFOR troops;
    MNB-Centre - Sector 5, centered on Pristina, primarily British KFOR troops, Russian
            presence at Pristina's Slatina airport
OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 51-state organization 
coordinating civil administration aspect of UN program.
Party of Democratic Action (SDA) - pre-dominantly Muslim party in Bos.
Pesic, Vesna - leader of 1996-97 opposition movement; current high-ranking member 
of opposition.
Petritsch, Wolfgang - UN's High Representative for Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Radisic, Zivko - Serb member of Bosnian collective presidency.
Reinhardt, Gen. Dr. Klaus - Commander of KFOR in Kos. as of Oct. 12, 1999 replacing 
Gen. Sir Mike Jackson.
Resolution #1244 - UN Security Council resolution (June 1999) authorizing KFOR 
deployment.
Robertson, George - NATO Secretary-General (replaced Javier Solana), former British 
Defense Secretary.
Sellimi, Rexhep - Interior Minister of UCK faction.
Serb Democratic Party (SDS) - party founded by Radovan Karadzic in 1990.
Serb National Council (SNV) - group formed to speak on behalf of Kos. Serbs, based in 
Mitrovica.
Serbian Defense Movement (SPO) - group founded by Draskovic movement to fight state 
terrorism (12-7-99).
Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) - nationalist party headed by Vuk Draskovic.
Seventh Battalion - military police unit within Yugo. army stationed within Montenegro, com-
posed primarily of pro-Milo. Montenegrins.
Solana, Javier - NATO Secretary General until Oct. 1999.
Thaci, Hashim - head of the UCK.
UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) - principal resistance movement to Serb power.
UCMPB (Liberation Army for Medujeva, Preshevo, and Bujanovac) - former UCK members 
organized to respond to Serb attacks in S. Serbia-E. Kos.
UNMACC - UN Mine Action Coordination Centre, lead agency responsible for overall mine 
clearance.
United Yugoslav Left (JUL) - revised communist party under leadership of Milosevic's wife, 
Mirjana Markovic.