	YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY
	September-December, 2000


Sept. 1 - Close to 1,000 Yugo. soldiers, tanks, helicopters hold exercises in se. 
Serbia, declare they are ready to return to Kos.;Vojislav Kostunica, candidate of 
Dem. Opposition of Serbia bloc, begins campaign for presidency, says he opposes 
any form of revenge, even against Milo., and that he will change Serbia in 
accordance w/ the laws of God and humankind; pledges to bring country back into 
OSCE, regain membership in UN and intl. financial institutions; Serbian human 
rights group says it has registered 90 cases of discrimination against Roma between 
Oct. '99 and July '00; Petritsch visits Serb-dominated Doboj, says he is impressed 
by determination of Muslims to return despite lack of aid, calls for more intl. 
assistance

Sept. 2 - 15 Kos. Serbs, 3 charged w/ genocide, 4 for mass murder,4 for other 
war crimes, 1 for murder, 1 for arson and theft, overpower guards, escape from 
prison in Mitrovica, 5th prison break this year, 2 recaptured; Ivanovic says he 
has reports that 4 have fled to Serbia, says Serbian Nat. Council will not help 
recapture them as it says UN justice system unfair; Kouchner orders immediate 
investigation of prison security; all 13 had been held for nearly a year, but 
only 5 had been formally indicted, none had been tried; Poll by Institute for 
Social Sciences finds 52% supporting Kostunica to 31% for Milo; 70-75 bodies, 
all thought to be Muslims, exhumed from pit in Paklenik pit near Serb-controlled 
Sokolac (30 miles e. of Sara.); Bos. Croat party says Croat officials to withdraw 
from federal Int. Min. in protest at arrest of Dominik Ilijasevic, Bos. Croat, 
who was arrested by Mus. IM officials on war crimes indictment by ct. in Zenica;
Mesic, Racan say they have received death threats

Sept. 3 - US rep. for elections in Balkans, Robert Frowick, says Kos. Serbs should have 
some way of voting in Serbian elections; Hundreds of ethnic Albanians attend reburial in 
Makovc of 67 killed by Serbs during war; Socialist Party submits to parl. list of 1.5 
mil. signatures in support of Milo., Djindjic comments that names were probably taken 
from the phone book or voting lists; Fre. FM Vedrine says EU to radically change 
policy toward Serbia if Kostunica wins;

Sept. 4 - UN won't help organize Yugo. elections in Kos., but will allow them to take 
place and offer security for those voting; 300-500 Serbs demonstrate at n. Mitrovica 
detention center to block UNMIK efforts to move prisoners to more secure location 
after 13 escaped earlier in week, transfer postponed; Kouchner removes head of prison, 
US police officer Vincent Ducellier; 75-year old woman assaulted by 2 men after she 
throws rocks at passing vehicles; 1 man killed, 1 wounded (both Albanian) in drive-by 
shooting in village of Ajvalija; 15 detained in Prizren for curfew violations; Serb 
house burned in Orahovac; Milo. tells former Mac. Pres. Gligorov that he is not behind 
recent disappearance of Ivan Stambolic, blames family for not reporting disappearance 
for 7 hours, says delay gave kidnappers time to leave country; Police raid Otpor 
offices in Bel., take computers, elec. materials; RS Def. Min. compiles list of 74 
Bosnians they believe are on Hague's list of sealed war crimes indictments including 
70 Bos. Serbs and towns where 64 are thought to be in hiding; Croatian mil. police 
find 70 of 151 high-ranking army officers who have claimed invalid status from '91 
war faked injuries to get higher pensions; Hundreds of farmers in Pakrac region block 
highway w/ tractors in protest over govt. failure to pay for wheat supplies

Sept. 5 - Kouchner says he won't allow Yugo. elections to be organized in public 
buildings in Kos.; 100 gather for demonstration in front of Zvecan factory (MNB-N), 
crowd disperses peacefully; 12 detained for curfew violations in Prizren, 6 others 
arrested for illegally crossing from Alb. into Kos.; Bri. forces including tanks, 
sniper teams, armored infantry make rapid deployment to within yards of Kos.-Serbia 
boundary in response to Yugo. army claim that they are ready to return, Bri. 
spokesman says Ait's an operation primarily to deter aggression from across the 
border; Poll by Bel. Center for Policy Studies finds that Kostunica has 43% support 
to Milo's 21%; Kostunica calls Milo's Hague indictment Aas pointless as last year's 
NATO bombing of Yugo.; Socialist Party official Milomir Minic says Milo. to certainly
make a campaign stop in Kos.; 2 Bri., 2 Canadians being held on terrorism charges 
moved out of solitary confinement; Yugo. PM Bulatovic says there would be a bloody 
civil war if Mon. secedes, only ref. will be allowed in granting ind. for Mon.

Sept. 6 - Search in Kosovo Polje results in large number of weapons, grenades, ammo. 
seized from both Serb, Albanian homes; Roma man discovers grenade rigged to fence used 
by himself, elderly Serb woman; 6 detained in Prizren for curfew violations; 10-15 
illegal woodcutters in village of Pones fire auto. weapon at UNMIK officers, flee 
area; Explosion in village of Pozaranje damages Kos. Alb.-owned restaurant; 2 
explosions in village of Klokot damage 2 Kos. Serb owned houses, destroy barn; Fre. 
KFOR troops detain pres. candidate of Serbian Radical Party Tomislav Nikolic while he 
campaigns in Zvecan; Otpor activists in Bel. trick police by announcing they are getting 
more campaign material, police confiscate empty boxes, crowd watching laughs and 
applauds as police take away boxes; Greek FM Papandreou visits Skopje, then Bel. 
as part of Balkan tour, meets w/ Patriarch Pavle;  Bos. FM Jadranko Prlic, co-founder 
of HDZ, says he is leaving party due to leadership disputes; Croatian police arrest 
2 Bos. Croats, Tomislav Vlajic and Ante Sliskovic for taking part in massacre of 
Muslims in Ahmici (Lasva Valley), BH in '93, police hunting for 2 other suspects; 
Racan says of arrests they raise the rule of law in Croatia to a new level; Int. 
Min. begins investigation of Tudjman daughter Nevenka on suspicion of accepting 
$300,000 in bribes, she calls investigation Athe product of a sick imagination

Sept. 7 - OSCE's Everts calls Serb arguments for not participating in Oct. elections 
are hollow and hypocritical, calls their decision Aself-imposed isolation; Pro, 
anti-Milo. supporters fight in Mitrovica, Ivanovic says it was started by pro-Milo. 
forces and was very organized, UNMIK police break up fights in 2 locations;
Former Yugo. Pres. Zoran Lilic reported to have resigned from Socialist party 
exec. board and as Milo. advisor on for. eco. rels.; Papandreou tells Milo. that 
elections must be Afree and democratic, Milo. thanks him for support during war but 
says Serbs future in Euro. will be Aonly under conditions of free development 
and...coop.; Papandreou also meets w/ Kostunica; 4 Otpor members forced to leave 
reception at Greek amb., detained for 2 hours until Papandreou issues demarche 
about it; Albright has breakfast meeting w/ Djukanovic, warns Milo. that US is 
very much at work despite US elections and that it is watching what is going on in 
Mon.; also confirms that US to hold naval exercises off Mon. coast as part of NATO's 
Partnership for Peace and including Croatia; Bel. says Podgorica pressuring people 
not to vote in elections AOslobodjenje reports that Kara. seen over last weekend 
in bar in Sara. suburb Lukavica without heavy security and may be living around 
area, but moving constantly and may have been in Sara. itself; RS parl. passes 
by 43-1-2 no-confidence motion in Dodik's govt., Dodik says he accepts decision 
and will continue to work until new elections on Nov. 11; IMF, World Bank say they 
are deeply worried about Mus-Croat parl's failure to pass law regulating indebted 
state pension sector

Sept. 8 - Papandreou visits Kos., rejects idea of ind., calling instead of multi-cultural 
society and rejection of ethnically-cleansed society; Yugo. Dep. PM Sainovic denies that 
Lilic has quit, says it was a misunderstanding due to govt. employee who had upset Lilic, 
but Lilic says he has resigned; 20,000 turn out to hear Kostunica in Cacak (w. Serbia), 
site of 1st anti-govt. rally in July '99; Police detain, then beat Otpor members in 
Vladicin Han, several hundred protest at police station causing police to release them, 
7 hospitalized; Dem. Opp. of Serbia says its elec. experts have been refused permission 
to inspect reputed 1.5 mil. signatures for Milo. candidacy, says this proves they are 
phony; Radical Party pres. candidate Tomislav Nikolic says he won't support Milo. in 
2nd round of voting but party will instead support opp. candidate, says govt. planning 
to fix the elections Izet. in hospital in New York w/ pneumonia; Forensic experts say they 
have found 50 Muslims' bodies at Ivan Polje, site of local dump (8 km. from Sokolac), 
bodies thought to be have come from Novoseoci, Rogatica villages in '92; Petritsch's 
office fires 15 Bos. officials for obstructing return of refs. and seized property
Croatian delegaiton presents new evidence in case of Gen. Blakic found in Tudj's 
archives

Sept. 9 - Caller tells Stambolic's wife that he is being held in Belgrade's central 
prison, police say they don't know about this; Kostunica meets w/ Mon. parl. speaker 
Svetozar Marovic in Sveti Stefan; Papandreou says of recent visit that initial 
messages are Anot encouraging for free and fair elections;

Sept. 10 - Journalist Shefki Popova murdered in Vushtrri by unknown killers;
Opp. campaign goes to Pozarevac (Milo's hometown), addresses crowd of 300 urging them 
to vote; Former Yugo. Pres. Dobrica Cosic calls Kostunica Aa man who deserves the 
people's confidence; Local elections in Mac. disrupted in western part of country by 
ethnic Alb. parties fighting each other

Sept. 11 - Rexhep Luci, head of Kos. reconstruction and development agency killed in 
his apt. building by unknown assailants; NATO to send additional 4 battalions (Fre., 
Greek, Bri., Ita.) of pks to Kos. in advance of elections; Djukanovic says govt won't 
take part in Yugo. elections since Bel. auth. have violated constitution, denies that 
his govt. is doing this because it fears losing, says opp. victory will not lead to 
dem. in Serbia since basis for vote is flawed; Approx. 50 drunken Serbian soldiers 
jump on café tables in Danilovgrad shouting AThis is Serbia, cause disturbance;
Group of Bos. Croats block road in Mostar to protest arrest of man on terrorism 
charges; Police from Mus-Croat Fed. arrest Bos. Serb Goran Vlajic for involvement 
in terrorist activities; Cro. PM Racan says his govt. to complete program for 
rebuilding homes destroyed, damaged in war by 2003; AReporter names 35 Bosniaks 
including Ejup Ganic and Rasim Delic as under investigation by Hague for crimes 
committed against Serbs in camps

Sept. 12 - Milo. makes 1st campaign appearance, travels to hydro-electric power 
plant near border w/ Romania, met by 10,000 Socialist Party supporters brought in 
for event, says Athis is the answer to violence and injustice; State TV claims 
100,000 in attendance; Djindjic rally in Nis attended by 15,000, says opp. won't 
recognize votes from Kos. where opp. monitors are not present; Fre. FM Vedrine says 
that Serbs know that they have their place in the Euro. family; RS parl. passes 
no-confidence vote in Dodik's govt., votes to increase its control of govts' 
day-to-day work which will prevent govt. from adopting decrees and proposing 
legislation without first consulting govt.; Dodik says govt. to continue to 
work in the full legal capacity based on the Constitution and that it is not 
limited in any way; Petritsch condemns parl. action saying it is highly 
irresponsible and Athese actions destabilize the RS and damage the interests 
of its citizens; Hague Dep. Prosecutor Graham Blewitt says in interview that 
AKara. may be arrested before elections in Nov.  It is very possible.;
Croatian police arrest dozen people including Gen. Ivan Andabak (former member 
of Bos. Croat Convicts Battalion headed by Mladen ATuta Naletilic) and Maj.-Gen. 
Ignac Kostroman (aide to former indicted Bos. Croat Dario Kordic) at request of 
Hague, both suspects in crimes against Bos. Muslims during '93-'94; 10 others 
arrested in connection w/ murder of man who was cooperating w/ Hague investigation 
into massacres of Serbs in Gospic; police also issue intl. arrest warrants for Bos. 
Croats Pasko Ljubicic, Vlado Cosic for murder of Muslims in Ahmici; Izet. released 
from hospital, still in poor condition; EU-Balkan Stability Pact meeting opens in Zagreb

Sept. 13 - NATO's Gen. Ralston visits Kos., says he has positive impression of KFOR 
preparations for municipal, local elections; Crowd of 4,500 demonstrates in support 
of PDK in Pristina; Explosion in Lipljan nearly hits UNMIK vehicle w/ 3 UNMIK and 2 
KPS officers, hand grenade suspected; 2 detained for curfew viols. in Prizren; Kos. 
Serb woman shot, killed in village of Berivojce (near Kamenica); Robertson says pks 
will arrest Milo., send him to Hague if he tries to campaign in Kos.; Kos. Serb leader 
Ivanovic says he will vote for Kostunica in Yugo. elections Abecause we are fully 
members of the united opposition; Ivanovic supporters clash w/ group from Seselj's 
party; Seselj says he won't recognize elections results if they include votes from Kos.;
Shots fired at Mac. border post, KFOR Rear HQ in Skopje requests KFOR troops to search 
village of Debelde, Kos.; Bos. Croat Zoran Soldo, suspect in war crimes against Muslims 
in Mostar and member of AMostar Five, surrenders to regional ct., calls on remaining 3 
members to turn themselves in

Sept. 14 - Milo. supporters attack Kostunica at campaign rally in Mitrovica, 
slightly injuring him, disrupt rally while crowd of 1,000 shouting at each other; 
Elderly Alb. man and former policeman killed in Pristina; Contact Group issues 
statement saying they Alook forward to a dem. Yugo., so that it can be reintegrated 
in the intl. community, Rus. objects to inclusion of word Ademocratic;
Djukanovic says Mon. Aparticipation in UN summit marks beginning of its legitimacy in the 
UN system; Bos. Serb police detain 12 Iranian immigrants as they try to cross Sava into 
Croatia; EU says it will est. free trade zone for industrial, agricultural goods from 
Alb., BH, Cro., and Mac.; Slovenian parl. passes laws making country's legal system in 
line w/ EU's

Sept. 15 - 7 Albanian-lang. dailies do not appear in protest against violence against 
journalists; KFOR pks prevent Mihailovic (Serbian Renewal Movement) from campaigning in 
Kos., also stop at border Socialist Party officials who want to go to Mitrovica, KFOR 
says security is deciding factor; KFOR officials also say that Mira Markovic is 
personal non grata in Kos.; Kouchner comments that Ait's no secret that the most 
radical Albanians are hoping for a Milo. victory, because they think it is the 
quickest route to ind. Evictions of foreign mujahideen in village of Bocinja continues 
w/ 6 of 65 fighters and families having been evicted, thought to be resettling in 
majority Mus. towns or in Sara.; Mayor says local municipal auth. have evicted 87 
of total of some 95 mujahideen from Bocinja over past 45 days; Saudi Prince Selman 
Bin Abdul Aziz on 5 day visit to Bos. to inaugurate Saudi-financed projects including;
Mesic warns that no one should try to bring violence to streets as result of recent 
arrests of suspected war criminals, Racan says auth. won't allow anyone to threaten 
democracy

Sept. 16 - Chief of Gen. Staff, Gen. Pavkovic, says election day is D-day and army 
will not allow anyone to Atake power by using force on the streets, calls Milo. 
brave, decisive, and especially visionary; Kostunica tells rally of 30,000 in Novi 
Sad that election is for Asurvival of the people and the state and that mil. fought 
honorably in its wars but that Milo. Acapitulated dishonorably to West and that his 
policies have caused for. troops to be stationed in Bos., Kos.; Forensic experts 
uncover 20 bodies in pit 28 miles sw of BL, thought to be Muslims killed by Serb 
troops in '92, along w/ mines and explosives at bottom of pit; Govt. commission 
says it has now uncovered 6,050 bodies from 182 mass graves, 2,000 more in single 
graves; del Ponte says she is losing patience at failure of NATO to arrest Kara., 
beginning to doubt that western powers are serious about it

Sept. 17 - US Army investigation finds that US pks in Kos. used excessive force, 
beat civilians, grope women in searches, 9 officers and enlisted men from 82nd 
Airborne Div. disciplined as result of investigation ordered after Jan. rape and 
murder of 11-year old Kos. girl; Grenade explosion kills Kos. Serb man in Gnjilane, 
2nd grenade thrown into home of Serb in same town; 14 year old boy throws Molotov 
cocktail near Serb home in Gnjilane, says he was paid to throw it; Shooting between 
Albanians, Roma in village of Firaja kills 1 Roma, injures 3 including 1 Alb.man; 
Approx. 30 Serbs demonstrate outside Mitrovica detention facility to protest 
conditions there; 8 detained for curfew viols. in Prizren;

Yugo. PM Bulatovic says at election rally in Mon. that Djukanovic wants to set 
up state of Asmugglers and criminals guarded by policy under the protection of NATO;
Mus.-Croat Fed. police arrest driver of assassinated Dep. Int. Min. Jozo Leutar

Sept. 18 - EU FMs agree to lift sanctions against Serbia if opp. wins against Milo.;
Croatian Int. Min. Sime Lucin says that arrests of war crimes suspects has ended, 
says 62 are being held in jails on war crimes charges

Sept. 19 - KFOR discovers arms, bomb-making equipment in search of Serb homes in 
Gracanica, arrest 6 who they say are Yugo. army officers, Kouchner calls this an 
obvious attempt to destabilize Kos., Gen. Ortuno says Serbs inteded to use explosives 
to create fear and intimidate the people of Kos.; Serb man injured by grenade thrown 
at his home in Kos. Polje; Kouchner issues rules for printed media to prevent 
encouragement of criminal activities and violence; Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle 
issues statement calling on Yugo. auth. to allow voters to make up their own minds 
free from undue pressure, distances itself from Bishop Filaret of Mileseva who said 
earlier in week that Milo. is only possibility for pres. as Ahe is the one who kept 
us on our soil; Kostunica hit w/ paint by crowd in Pirot, calls Milo. coward 
afterward, later tells crowd of 20,000 in Nis that Serbia Awill return to Europe 
after elections, Djindjic says he hopes Serbs Awill react in a suitable manner if 
Milo. steals elections; Draskovic says elections will be a Acatastrophe as opp. 
does not have the slightest chance of winning and Milo. will falsify election results, 
use army and police to intimidate opp.; Serb Pres. Milutinovic says opp. tools of NATO, 
says Milo. is a Atrue def. against the destruction [of Serbia] by all those forces 
who want to impose so-called democratization on Yugo.; Djukanovic also says Milo. 
will use violence to stay in power, but Mon. won't be frightened; UN envoy Jacques 
Klein says arrested Croatian Gen. Ivan Abdabak also suspect in assassination of of 
Mus.-Croat Fed. Dep. Int. Min. Jozo Leutar in March '99; RS parl. passes law 
indexing payments to pensioners, invalids to salaries of workers even though govt. 
has rejected this strategy; Croatian Pres. Mesic, FM Tonino Picula meet w/ Vojvodina 
Croats to discuss issues including poverty in Serbia, lack of human rights;
Mac. govt. announces new measures to increase security along border after recent 
violent incidents; Slovenian PM Andrej Bajuk says it won't sign EU declaration in 
support of Serbian opp., although it agrees w/ it, FM Lojze Peterle explains it as 
effort to prevent complication of rels. w/ Serbia, other successor states on 
division of assets of former Yugo.

Sept. 20 - 1st war crimes trial held in Kos. (in Gniljane w/ Fre., Alb. judges) 
sentences Serb Milos Jokic to 20 years for killing 2 Albanians, raping and beating 
woman, and heading paramilitary force that expelled 2,500 from homes in '99; Skender 
Gashi, regional commander of KPC and former UCK member found murdered;
Kostunica cheered by crowd of 150,000 in Bel., crowd chants Ahe is finished about 
Milo.; Rally in support of Milo. in Novi Beograd draws only 10,000, Milo. accuses 
opp. of spreading lies and defeatism, provoking crime and terrorism, and inciting 
chauvinism; UCPMB says 3 of its members died in clash w/ Serbian police in Dobrosin, 
Serbia, NATO says it is watching situation; 
Milo. makes first trip to Mon. since '97, speaks in Berane (ne. near Kos. border) to 
crowd of 15,000, calls Mon. leadership Arats and hyenas; Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic says 
in Podgorica that army will accept Kostunica if he wins election and we will not 
provoke any conflict unless someone attacks us from outside

Sept. 21 - Yugo. PM Bulatovic says Milo. was elected pres. for 4-year term and can 
stay in office until mid-2001 even if he loses election, says term Acannot be cut short; 
30,000 attend final rally of opp. in Novi Sad; Opp. leaders call on supporters to hold 
large public rallies in Bel., other cities on night of elections to await results; 
Dep. PM Sainovic says opp. wants to Asteal the elections w/ the help of NATO; Gen. 
Staff Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic says on Mon. TV that army prepared to face any foreign 
intervention; Seselj accuses Milo. and wife Mira of politicizing the army;
Djukanovic says he thinks Milo. will falsify election results, use force to stay in 
power; Milo. supporter shoots and kills Mon. policeman in restaurant after they quarrel;
RS PM Dodik calls on Milo. to resign, says that war, hyper-inflation, loss of Kos., 
are the monuments of your (Milo.) life; Dutch govt. pledges $25 mil. to help Bos. 
refs. return to pre-war homes, govt. says it wants to prevent slowdown of their 
return before winter; Croatian Pres. Mesic tells army officers that they must be 
prepared as AMilo. has not given up the idea of a Greater Serbia

Sept. 22 - 150 gather in front of Zvecan factory for rally; 300 attend commemoration 
in Vaganica for UCK fighters killed in war, 50 KPC members in uniform take part; 2,000 
more attend commemoration in Gladno Selo in honor of former UCK commander Femi 
Lladrovci, 200 KPC members attend in uniform; 500 attend rally for 20 PDK candidates 
in village of Stimlje; PDK also holds rally at Pristina civic center, 350 attend; 
AAK rally at Nat. Theater attended by 800; Robertson warns Milo. that he should not 
miscalculate as he has miscalculated in the past and says NATO troops on alert in Kos. 
and Bos. Ain case any problems in Serbia might spill over...we will be keeping our 
vigilance up;  25 European parl. mps denied visas to observe elections;
Slovenia advises citizens to avoid travel to Yugo., tells them to avoid border areas, 
army bases

Sept. 23 - Shots reported in village of Morina in early morning; Early morning fire 
in office of LDK in Stimlje; Mesic calls for intl. help in finding former Serb pres. 
Stambolic

Sept. 24 - KFOR arrests occupants of car carrying 7 Roma children on suspicion of 
kidnapping, children returned to parents in Djakovica; Grenade explodes in parking 
lot of Serbia Hotel in Kosovo Polje; 40 AAK supporters hold political rally in front 
of MNB-W hq in Pec; LDK rally draws 300 in Donje Novo Selo, another held w/ 30 people 
in Gornj Streoc; Kouchner says only 45,000 of eligible 100,000 Kos. Serb voters cast 
ballots; Both sides in Mac. voting claim victory in runoff elections, at least 25 acts 
of violence reported Sept. 25 - Estimated 6,000 attend rally of PDK in stadium in 
Srbica; LDK rally held in Lipljan attended by 350, approx. 100 PDK supporters try 
to disrupt it by throwing eggs, other actions; Grenade attack on store in Ajvalija; 
19 detained in Prizren for curfew violations;

Kostunica claims victory, Dem. Opp. of Serbia says he has 55.31% of vote to Milo's 
34.19%, demands State Election Commission release official vote tally; Socialist 
Party gen.-sec. Gorica Gajevic claims that w/ 37% of vote counted Milo. is ahead 
w/ 45% to Kostunica's 40%; Djindjic says opp. should not allow a runoff; EU says 
any attempt for Milo. to declare himself winner would be fraudulent; Bulatovic 
submits resignation for not delivering 100,000 votes from Mon.; Crown Prince 
Aleksandar congratulates Kostunica, says Milo. should immediately and without 
delay hand over the presidency, calls for Serbia and Mon. to put aside their 
differences and unite for the good of the nation Only 24.44% of registered voters 
do so in Mon.; RS PM Dodik says Milo's defeat is a defeat of the forces of the past, 
conflict, and isolation; Croatian For. Min. advises against travel to Serbia or Mon., 
Mesic says Milo. wants to remain in power as this is the only way for him to 
literally stay alive, says Kostunica Ais no angel (he backed Kara.)...but he 
[respects the rule of law] and therefore his nationalism is less dangerous than Milo's

Sept. 26 - 2 Kos. Alb. men found shot to death in Slivovo Valley; PDK holds rally in 
Orahovac, 300 attend; Serbian opp. claim Kostunica took 55% of vote, say 2nd round 
not necessary and calls it Ainsult to the voters; Draskovic admits he was wrong in 
not joining w/ opp. after candidate Vojislav Mihajlovic wins only 3%; Milo., wife 
Mira, close advisors meet at former royal residence of Beli Dvor, decide to hold 
2nd round; Election Commission publishes preliminary results showing Kostunica got 
more votes than Milo. but give him only 48% to Milo's 40%, Djindjic demands opp. be 
allowed to examine voting lists; Opp. calls for rally to demand 1st-round results be 
respected; Fre. FM Vedrine calls for lifting sanctions against Yugo.; US Con. 
approves $500 mil. aid package for Serbia; Milo's wife and head of JUL Mirjana 
Markovic wins first elective office in parl. elections, to represent eastern region 
around Pozarevac; Former RS Pres. Plavsic calls for Milo. to resign as opp. has 
obviously won; Bos. FM spokesman says opp. victory in Serbia could mean opening 
diplomatic rels. w/ Yugo.; US, Croatian naval forces hold military exercises in 
Adriatic; Int. Min. Sime Lucin says 100 police have been fired over past 6 months 
for crime, corruption, another 500 under investigation; Mac. State Election 
Commission says PM Georgievski's coalition won 30 of 40 district run-offs, 
says opp. to blame for violence during elections

Sept. 27 - Thaci says Aattempts to bring back the Serbian army and police to 
Kos...that would re-ignite the conflict in Kos.; Grenade explodes near KFOR 
checkpoint in Banja, grenade thrown at Kos. Alb. home in Mitrovica, grenade 
thrown at Roma home in village of Stimlje, and grenade thrown at Kos.-Alb. 
owned restaurant in Stimlje; Serb home in Kosovo Polje destroyed in fire; 
Gunshots heard near village of Vaganica; PDK holds rally in Klina, 2,000 show 
up, shots fired in air; LDK holds rally in Pristina, 5,000 estimated to be there; 
PDK rally in Vitina draws 1,000; Crowd of 1,200 supporters of both LDK, PDK shouts 
at each other in Vitina;  200,000 rally in central Belgrade to back Kostunica who 
says he rejects plan for 2nd round of voting, Kostunica says Awe won despite the 
lies and the vil. of Slobodan Milosevic and Awe won despite some democrats in Serbia 
and Mon. who turned their backs on us; also says Athe EU and Rus. are w/ us; Djindjic 
says opp. will avoid any conflict as Awe are the winners and we do not need conflicts; 
50,000 rally in Novi Sad, others in Nis, Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Leskovac; Otpor 
activists say police confiscated 4,000 of their t-shirts, plan to stir up trouble 
while wearing them; Euro. Commission Pres. Prodi congratulates Kostunica on victory, 
both Schroeder, Chirac call on Milo. to respect vote result, Cook says 2nd round 
would be a waste of everybody's time, EU says it will aid country if Milo. quits; 
Holbrooke says US to call for lifting of sanctions once Kostunica takes office, 
return of Yugo. voting rights in UN

Sept. 28 - 15,000 LDK supporters turn out in Pristina to hear Rugova call for struggle 
for a free and democratic Kos., Rugova promises to guarantee rights of minorities 
in Kos.; Djindjic says there will be call for general strike; Holy Synod of Serbian 
Orthodox Church calls on Kostunica as Aelected president of Yugo. to transition 
peacefully and in a dignified way; Clinton says as soon as there is dem. govt. 
in Bel. the sanctions should be lifted; Ital. FM Lamberto Dini says Milo. should 
acknowledge opp. victory, Bri. For. Office issues statement saying Milo. lost and 
should stand aside; 12 Croatian generals send letter to Hina criticizing arrests 
of war-crimes suspects calling them politically motivated to discredit war of ind.; 
Dep. PM Granic rejects charges, says generals on active duty should not make pol. 
statements in public

Sept. 29 - Fre. pks search 6 Alb. houses in Rudnik, find weapons and arrest 2, crowd 
of 150 Kos. Albanians try, fail to prevent their leaving; 200 PDK supporters set up 
roadblock on main road between Pristina-Pec, pks clear area; Kouchner refutes Milo. 
admin. claim that it received 140,000 votes in Kos., calls this Aa lie and says only 
45,000 people voted in province Thousands of students stage walk-outs in Nis, Gornji 
Milanovic, other cities, strike call brings out citizens in Cacak; Greek FM George 
Papandreou calls Kostunica, urges him to consider participating in 2nd round of 
voting; Yugo. Info. Min. expels BBC correspondent for Atwisting the words of 
interviewed Serbs; World Bank warns Bos. that delaying of pension reforms will cost 
country $435 mil. in intl. support; Petritsch calls on voters to take advantage of 
Nov. elections to choose politicians who will make difficult decisions for country 
and says intl. community is definitely running out of patience and understanding for 
the problems that the politicians of this country pose to the people of BiH, calls 
failure to pass pension reform Asheer and utter irresponsibility and says intl. 
community may leave country; Mesic fires 7 of 12 generals for letter they sent 
to Hina criticizing govt. policy, says army must be depoliticized 

Sept. 30 - 50 Serbs throw rocks at fire-fighters in Zvecan; KFOR finds body of KPC 
membere Sadri Berish in Novo Selo Zaimovo; Milo. tells army officers that internal 
enemies ready to Acall on foreign armies; also claims that annual growth rate is 
20% and highest in the world; Putin, Schroeder speak on phone agree that Kostunica 
has won election; Putin offers to send FM Igor Ivanov to Bel. Afor consultations 
w/ all participants in the pol. process; Opp. in Cacak, Krusevac accuse Milo. 
admin., police of dumping pre-marked ballots after elections; Hague reported to 
have brought 20 more secret indictments against suspected war criminals according 
to senior Hague legal advisor Gavin Ruxton; Slovenian DM Janez Jansa returns from 
Wash., says NATO hasn't determined precisely when it will admit Slov. but expects 
it will be after summit in 2002

Oct. 1 - 2 explosions n. of Vitina destroy 1 house, damages 2 others owned by Kos. 
Serb who was going to sell them to Kos. Alb.; Shots fired at truck leaving Kos.; 2 
detained for curfew violations in Prizren; Rus. diplomats arrive in Bel. as part of 
Putin mediation offer; Milo's wife, son make appearances in Pozarevac to rally 
supporters, Markovic says coalition won absolute majority in parl. which will 
allow them to form govt. Mesic meets w/ DM Jozo Rados for 2 hours in wake of 
generals' firings, reportedly admits it would have been better to consult w/ 
DM before firings

Oct. 2 - Explosion at house under construction in Prizren, 2nd exp. wounds 4 KFOR 
soldiers during investigation, 2 local women injured; More weapons, ordinance 
discovered in searches throughout province; 5 Kos. Serb men injured in grenade 
attack from passing car in Pasjane, 300-400 Serbs gather near site in protest, 
but leave peacefully; Bus carrying 36 Kos. Serbs robbed by 3 other Kos. Serb men 
near Banja, fire shots through bus windows; 10 detained for curfew violations in Prizren;
Protestors block roads w/ buses before special police drive them off; 4,500 coal 
miners stage sit-ins at Kostolac state-controlled mine, 4,000 on strike at 
Kolubara (largest coal mine in Serbia) causing power station in Obrenovac to shut 
3 of 6 generators, Kostunica addresses them as Athe ones who ignited the flame of 
dem. change in Serbia; Farmers in Pozarevac block roads, schools closed there; 
Thousands gather in central Belgrade at start of protest; Milo. addresses nation, 
says AYugo. would inevitably break up if opp. takes power, says they are using 
bribery, blackmail to organize strikes; DOS spokesman Cedimir Jovankovic says 
blockade to continue round the clock if Athe electoral will of the people is 
not recognized; 8 local radio stations in country say they have stopped broadcasting 
official programming, 50 editorial staffers at pro-Milo. AVecernje Novosti demand 
of mgnt. they be allowed to Apublish the truth about what is going on in our country; 
Kostunica accuses Moscow of being Aindecisive and reluctant after Putin says he will 
mediate between Milo. and Kostunica as candidates in 2nd round of elections; 
Kostunica also says US policy Aactually supports Milo. as it calls for his trial 
as war criminal making issue one of life or death for Milo.; Kostunica says he 
will appoint Predrag Bulatovic of Mon. SNP as PM when he become pres.; Milo. 
reported to have fired head of state security in Serbian Int. Min., Rade Markovic, 
replaces him w/ Zoran Janackovic, amb. to Mac. and former intelligence officer; 
Milo. appears on TV, says opp. trying to Abreak up Yugo., submit country to 
foreign occupation, says he intends to win run-off election;
del Ponte in Sara. for 4-day visit to discuss implementation of Dayton Accords

Oct. 3 - Gen. Pavkovic appeals to miners at Kolubara coal mine to end strike, 
threatens them w/ compulsory work orders, miners refuse to return; mil. police 
arrive near mine; miners block army vehicles from entering area, entire management 
of shaft resigns and goes over to workers; 50,000 protest in Kragujevac, listen to 
Kostunica say Awe will rid Serbia of all the evil that Milo. brought w/ him but 
first we must rid Serbia of him; Factories across country on strike; Opp. leader 
Mladjan Dinkic (G-17 group of economists) says unidentified person from Yugo. 
Statistics Office threw computer disk w/ polling results through window to opp. 
members

Oct. 4 - Body of child discovered in well in town of Oblic; Car drives up to 
Kos.-Serb boundary near Dubnica, opens fire at Serbian side causing Serbs to 
fire back, KFOR arrests 3 Albanians in connection w/ incident; 3 detained for 
curfew viols. in Prizren; Kos. Serb crowd of 150 demonstrates against grenade 
attack earlier in week in village of Pasjane, some violence causes KFOR to seal 
off access roads into town; Abandoned Serb home in Zitinje destroyed by blast, 
2nd explosion 50 meters from the first one as KFOR investigates Police arrest 
striking miners in coal pits, 25,000 protesters arrive at mines to support strikers, 
force some police to back off; Opp. reps. appear before Con. Ct. to make case that 
auth. systematically rigged elections, present computer program as evidence; Con. Ct. 
annuls part of election but doesn't explain what part; 40,000 protest in Novi Sad, 
blocked at new Danube bridge by 100 police; opp. negotiates w/ police who then allow 
4 opp. leaders to formally open bridge instead of Milo.; Thousands on streets in 
Belgrade's Banovo Brdo district again in evening; Staff members at Radio Yugo., 
Radio-Television Novi Sad, other media outlets call on mgnt. to stop working for 
regime, present news objectively; UN's Kofi Annan says he is Asurprised to learn 
that Jiri Dienstbier has suggested dropping indictment against Milo. if he leaves 
power, and that auth. for such a decision lies w/ Hague tribunal and prosecutor; 
del Ponte comments that Amy task is to bring Milo. to trial in the Hague, dep. to 
del Ponte says Milo. being investigated for crimes in Bos. and Croatia and that new 
indictments are highly likely next year; Rus. State Duma recognizes results of Yugo. 
elections, also calls on West to stop pressuring Yugo., lift sanctions against it, 
take measures to end its intl. isolation; Croatian Pres. Mesic says pol. enemies 
in mil. are small, isolated group, says army is loyal to state and its leadership, 
again says govt. to reduce size of army, number of generals, and depoliticize armed 
forces

Oct. 5 - Kouchner says he is in touch w/ new Yugo. auth. and will start 
meaningful dialogue w/ them to resolve Kos. crisis; Grenade thrown at home in 
Stimlje occupied by Kos. Alb. family; Kos. Alb. man killed, 1 wounded by unknown 
assailants in suburb of Pec; Explosion in se. Mitrovica; 11 detained for curfew 
violations in Prizren Opp. gives Milo. until Oct. 7 to accept election results as 
crowd of 100,000 gathers in central Belgrade for Afinal showdown, police fire tear 
gas prompting crowd to chase them into, and storm Yugo. parl. building; fires set in 
building, windows broken after police flee; Crowd chants ASlobodan, Slobodan, save 
Serbia and kill yourself; Kostunica proclaimed pres. as result; State TV in hands of 
opp. which begins showing footage of wars in former Yugo.; Kostunica later says in 
interview that he has vision of Serbia as Aa country without inner tensions, 
speaks of friendly peoples of Europe, the Greeks, the French, the Norwegians but 
says Hague an instrument for maintaining American influence and a NATO presence 
in the Balkans; Kostunica taken secretly to meet w/ Milo., wife Mira at Dedinje 
by Gen. Pavkovic, Milo. reportedly tells him he is only interested in protecting 
himself, family; RS leaders welcome change in leadership in Serbia; UN announces 
that 4th class for police academy in BL to have 95 Muslims among 130 recruits, 
largest group to date; SFOR raids police, postal, and public prosecutors' offices 
in Vitez (predominantly Croat), explosives used to force way in injure guard at 
post office, documents seized; del Ponte asks RS auth. to run trials of low-ranking 
war crimes suspects, Dodik responds that Athis is for us really a sign of trust, 
says he expects RS parl. to pass laws on cooperation w/ ICTY

Oct. 6 -  

Milo. meets for 2 hours w/ Kostunica, thanks him for Arelieving me of this burden of 
office, makes television address to country, says he wants to rest and then re-involve 
himself w/ politics through Socialist Party; Con. Ct. rules that Kostunica elected in 
first round of voting; Rus. FM Ivanov meets Kostunica in pres. office, offers 
congratulations on behalf of Putin, later goes to talk to Milo.; Rus. PM Kasyanov 
says question of Milo. getting asylum in Russia has not been raised; Yugo. army 
leadership meets in Belgrade, Beta news agency reports that army won't leave 
barracks to intervene against protestors; 1 Canadian, 2 Britons held by army 
for 2 months released; Cyprus auth. say they will arrest Milo. if he comes there, 
Greece say it Awill not welcome persons seeking political asylum;

Oct. 7 - 
Kostunica calls in speech for political tolerance, cultivation of democratic 
values and practices; High command of mil. says it can work with Kostunica; 
Council of Europe invites Kostunica to next meeting in November; Marko Milosevic 
flies w/ wife, child to Moscow

Oct. 8 - Lt. Gen. Carlo Cabigiosu takes command of KFOR from Gen. Juan Ortuno;
Kostunica meets w/ top military commanders, expresses concern about unconstitutional 
actions taken in post-election period; Milo's Socialist Party of Serbia takes just 1 
seat in elections in Vojvodina, DOS, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians take most of 
the remaining 118 seats in provincial assembly; Mladjan Dinkic, Kostunica aide, 
says Milo. won't be extradited to Hague but may have to face trial in Belgrade, 
while del Ponte says Aour objective is to indict the fallen dictator by Dec. for 
crimes committed in Bos. and in Croatia...For the first time, Milo. should be 
indicted for the crime of genocide

Oct. 9 - Kostunica says in interview w/ TF1 (Fre.) that Kos. ind. is Aimpossible and 
Mon. secession Anot permitted by constitution; PM Bulatovic resigns along w/ cabinet 
after consultations w/ Kostunica; DOS and Mon. Socialist People's Party agree that 
SNP VP Predrag Bulatovic should replace other Bulatovic as constitution requires PM 
to come from opp.; SNP to accept new govt. of experts as Kostunica supporters want; 
Serbian Int. Min. Vlajko Stojiljkovic resigns under criticism, says he is very proud 
of the work the police have done, and now I'm being attacked by NATO-sponsored 
politicians; Serbian Health Min. Milovan Bojic also resigns; New Serbian parl. 
elections called for Dec. 19; EU for. ministers agree to end ban on commercial 
flights from Yugo. and remove oil embargo, financial restrictions and visa ban 
to be gradually eased, but UN arms embargo still in place; Clinton makes 
congratulatory phone call to Kostunica described as cordial; Kostunica says in 
interview that he doesn't view Serbia as sole legal successor to former Yugo., 
wants to quickly normalize rels. w/ other former republics; Police prevent 1,000 
students from marching past Milo. home, army troops called to area; Seselj leaves 
parl. under protection, bodyguards fire 2 shots in air as crowd tries to get at 
Seselj; Milo's son Marko leaves Mos. for Beijing, but is turned back at airport 
for having improper visa; Izet. says to Mus. army commanders that he doesn't believe 
there is a need for 2 or 3 separate armies, that this was consequence of  the war 
and has to be removed; Croatian govt. spokesperson says future rels. w/ Yugo. 
depends on Serbia breaking w/ Milo's nationalistic policies, aggression; Govt. 
to reopen investigation into killings of ethnic Serb civilians at Pakracka Poljana 
in '91

Oct. 10 - Kostunica tells visiting Fre. FM Hubert Vedrine that release of 700 ethnic 
Albanians held in Serbian prisons contingent on Kos. Albanians clarifying fate of 
1,000 missing Kos. Serbs; NATO announces KFOR to report in 2001 to Allied Forces 
Southern Europe in Naples; Small arms fire, grenade explosion at home of Kos. Serb 
in Kamenica; Gas thieves in Kos. Polje fire on KFOR guards who return fire; KFOR 
Polish and Ukr. troops fired on while accompanying Kos. Serb shepherd near Gornja 
Bitinja; Kos. Serb convoy stoned in Radivojce; 8 detained in Prizren for curfew 
violations; Ortuno announces that over last 6 months 4,500 weapons seized, 800 
patrols conducted daily w/ 1,000 soldiers guarding sensitive sites; Socialist Party, 
Radical Party representatives break off talks w/ Kostunica aides on transfer of 
power, call for end to Alynch mobs where opp. is trying to take over 
state-controlled institutions, businesses, factories; Djindjic charges that 
members of secret police regrouping and resuming wire-tapping of opp. politicians; 
DOS says SPS, Radicals have until Oct. 13th to begin new talks, set date for 
elections, offers them joint control of 4 important ministries and says there 
will be no big personnel changes prior to elections; UN's Annan sends letter to 
Kostunica saying UN Ais eager to be at your side in the efforts to resolve the 
problems of your country and the region on the basis of universal principles of 
peace, justice, and human rights; Rom. FM Roman in Belgrade for talks w/ Kostunica; 
Kostunica denies that Kouchner has been invited to Bel.; Canadian Shaun Going 
released from mil. prison after 2 months, allowed to return home; Crown Prince 
Aleksandar Karadjordjevic to travel to Bel. on Oct. 15 to congratulate Kostunica, 
stress the need for unity of all dem. parties; Mil. ct. in Nis frees journalist 
Miroslav Filipovic, calls for new trial due to Airregularities;
SFOR says it has seized documents indicating Bos. Croat forces were conducting 
activities aimed against it and intl. community in Bos., illegal offices of Bos. 
Croat intelligence service, illegal weapons in post office during Vitez raid 
previous week; Croatian prosecutor's office charges Josip Nekic of Zadar branch 
of Agency for the Protection of the Constitutional Order, other army man, w/ 
giving aid and shelter to 4 former Croatian soldiers involved in Ahmici massacre 
of Muslims in '93

Oct. 11 - Kouchner, in Mac., says Kos. problem should be solved within the 
region as a whole but that it is Atoo early to talk about the solution for 
Kos., rules out idea of ind. Kos., and says AI will go to Bel. to discuss w/ 
Kostunica if he invites me; Explosion at Serb-owned bar in Kosovo Polje; 350 
students demonstrate in front of KFOR Mil. Police station in Pec in support of 
detained Kosovar Albanians in Serbia; 3 grenades explode in garden of Prizren 
waterworks; 2 Kos. Albanians' vehicles fired on by unknown assailants; 7 
detained for curfew violations in Prizren; Branislav Ivkovic of SPS says 
Serbian govt. to remain in office until elections as it is the only legitimate 
govt. in Serbia, and that PM Marjanovic to take direct control of police; Djindjic 
says 1,200 Yugo. soldiers, police to return to Kos. by end of year, says he has 
spoken w/ Kouchner who asked to come to Belgrade to discuss return of police, 
also comments we can see absolutely no reason for any kind of delay; Djindjic 
issues statement saying Kostunica to replace Chief of Gen. Staff Gen. Nebojsa 
Pavkovic w/ former Gen. Momcilo Perisic, army leadership replies that there will 
be negative consequences if opp. continues to discredit mil. leadership; 
Plainclothes police briefly detain Djindjic driver, bodyguard of another opp. 
leader; Serb govt. says Serbian PM Mirko Marjanovic, Milo. supporter, has taken 
over Int. Min.; SPS announces replacement of Sec.-Gen. Gorica Gajevic w/ former 
gov. of Kos., Zoran Andjelkovic, party to hold extraordinary congress on Nov. 25; 
Mon. auth. reported to have greatly increased police presence outside govt. 
buildings; FM Branko Lukovac says govt. to initiate talks w/ Serbia on future 
rels. immediately after Serbian elections and that Milo. is not only Serbian 
official who wants Ato reduce Mon. to the status of a Serbian district

Oct. 12 - Former UCK, current head of KPC Agim Ceku comments that no Serbian 
leader and no Serbian govt., no matter how democratic, can block Kosova's path 
to ind.; Djindjic says Awe insist that a small section of the Yugo. army and the 
Serbian police should be stationed in Kos. in areas populated by Serbs; 3 Kos. 
Serb illegally cutting wood near village of Gadis shot at, 1 wounded; RPG-7 rocket 
fired at house in Mali Alas, no injuries; 10 detained for curfew violations in Prizren; 
Socialist Party leaders renege on agreement for early elections, say that govt. 
which they still control to take back control over police, media; Clinton ends US 
part of oil embargo, flight ban against Yugo., says Wash. has Astrong interest in 
Kostunica's leadership; Clinton special envoy for Balkans, James O'Brien, meets w/ 
Kostunica who says he wants to restore diplomatic rels. w/ Wash, but also have US 
enforce UN Res. 1244; O'Brien says US agreed to reaffirm commitment to 1244 so that 
there will be self-govt. there, although neither side makes specific reference to 
return of Serb forces; IMF says Yugo. may rejoin org. within months; Djindjic 
charges security forces monitoring phones of DOS leaders even more frequently 
than before Oct. 5 and are turning info. over to Milo.;
Kostunica says Aone must respect the will of the Montenegrins if they decide that 
they do not want to remain part of the Fed., but believes most want to remain;
SFOR troops try to arrest (open) indicted war criminal (charges of torture, rape 
of Mus., other women, crimes against humanity) and Bos. Serb Janko Janjic, former 
sub-commander of mil. police, paramilitary leader in Foca, but Janjic blows 
himself up w/ grenade, wounds 4 SFOR soldiers; Petritsch decides to fire 3-man 
state demining commission due to embezzlement, misuse of the office after BiH 
Council of Ministers refuses to do after earlier request, Petritsch says 
demining operations should be transferred to Ministry of Civil Affairs and 
Communications; Forensic experts exhume at town of Slap (near Zepa) remains 
of 40 bodies from mass grave of Muslims thought to have been killed by Serbs 
during war, say they think as many as 150 may be buried there after their 
bodies were pulled out of Drina River; Alija Izetbegovic steps down as Mus. 
member of joint presidency, succeeded by Halid Genjac, also of Izet.'s party;
Croatian govt. says improvement of rels. w/ Bel. require arrest, punishment 
of war criminals in Serbia, and on Serbian position on aggressive policies 
of Milo., among others; 5 Mac. opp. parties walk out of parl., say they won't 
return until governing parties agree to discuss irregularities, violence in 
recent elections; Zarko Korac, Serbian FM-designate meets w/ Slovenian FM Lojze 
Peterle, State Secretary Mitja Drobnic at Mokrice castle in Ljubljana, Peterle 
says he expects rapid progress in devel. rels.;

Oct. 13 - 
Kostunica allies say they have reached agreement w/ Milo. allies on formation of 
new govt., new elections to be held on Dec. 24; Milo. reported to still be in Bel.; 
Kostunica says he will not turn completely toward the West Aand adopt a pro-American 
policy as some other East European states did, wants to Astill have good rels. 
and coop. w/ the Russian Federation, says he will accept invitation to go to Mos. 
at first possible moment;
Clinton envoy James O'Brien meets w/ Djukanovic in Pod., says Awe believe Serbia, 
Mon., and the fed. govt. should enter good faith negs. on maintaining Yugo.  The 
US does not favor ind. for Mon., that idea Adoes not help integration and dem.;
Mac. opp. parties return to parl. after governing coalition agrees to discuss 
election violence

Oct. 14 - 
Serbian Pres. Milan Mulutinovic confirms that accord reached on early elections, 
date set for Dec. 24; UN Special Envoy Carl Bildt visits Belgrade, calls it the 
most corrupt eco. in Europe and says it has become Aa mafia economy which cannot 
become dependent on handouts from the intl. eco.; EU promises 200 euros ($173 mil.) 
in emergency winter assistance, Yugo. economists say $500 mil. needed due to poor 
and inefficient agri. sector; Izetbegovic retires from collective presidency due to 
ill-health, tensions w/ intl. community, says he will continue to remain active in 
his party

Oct. 15 - 2 grenades thrown at Roma house in Stimlje, no injuries; KFOR arrests 2 
trying to enter KFOR compound illegally, 3 others flee the scene; Kostunica says he 
is legally obligated to work w/ SNP in Mon. as it was only major party to take part 
in elections, says he has no legal option as constitution requires Serbian pres. to 
have Mon. PM; SNP VP Zoran Zizic says party cannot accept govt. of experts as it 
might extradite Milo. to Hague; Crown Prince Aleksandar arrives in Bel. for visit, 
is met by Kostunica; SFOR commander says troops ready to arrest Milo. if he tries to 
escape Yugo. through Bos.; Liberal Democrats win Slovenian elections, Janez Drnovsek 
expected to be PM again

Oct. 16 - KFOR conducts weapons searches throughout province; Shots fired at KFOR 
patrol near village of Zulfaj; Ger. Fed. Intellgence Service says in report Criminal 
Involvement of the Milo. Regime that Milo., wife Mira, son Marko, brother Borislav, 
and 11 Yugo. businessmen are part of organized crime structure which has engaged in 
drug dealing, money laundering, other criminal acts and have $100 mil. in assets in 
Rus., China, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, and South Africa; DOS, SPS officials agree on 
composition of new govt. until elections, SPS to name PM, DOS and SPO to both have 
dep. PM positions, decisions to be reached in consensus; Justice, Interior, Finance, 
and Info. Ministries to be formed on same principle; SPS to have 11, DOS 5, SPO 5 
ministries each; Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic accepts Kostunica as supreme commander of 
army, but says he is opposed to changing personnel based on political background; 
EU, Kostunica meet in France where he is promised $175 mil. before end of year;
Talks between DOS and Mon. SNP break down as SNP demands at least 1 govt. position; 
Djindjic arrives in Mon. for talks; Mon. PM Vujanovic says Mon. to continue on the 
road of ind. statehood if agreement w/ Serbia not reached; Bos. Serb Janko Janjic 
buried in Miljevina (10 km. w. of Foca), orator says evil people took his life;
Croatian Pres. Mesic tells Her. Croat leader Ante Jelavic that Croats in BiH 
should solve their problems within their own country, not turn to Croatia

oct. 17 - 
Milo. reportedly chairs meeting of Socialist Party, after which Borisav Jovic, 
Zoran Lilic, Mihailo Markovic, other senior members of SPS call on Milo. to 
quit as party chairman; Beogradska Banka (largest in Serbia) chairman, Borka 
Vucic voted out by shareholders, replaced by Petar Cvorovic on temp. basis;
Kostunica travels to Mon. for talks w/ Djukanovic, Djukanovic says his party 
won't take part in new fed. govt., Kostunica given reception Aon a very low 
level of protocol; Kostunica says Supreme Defense Council won't be meeting soon 
as Djukanovic won't attend; Bosnian Commission for Missing Persons says 69 bodies 
of Mus. found in mass grave in Grbavci, part of group of 750 from Zvornik killed 
in village oif Karakaj in '92, later buried in Grbavci, rest thought to be in 
Pliica; Fed. legislature rejects pension reform leg. for 3rd time; Businessman and 
ally of Tudj., Miroslav Kutle, 12 others' on trial for embezzlement of $5.5 mil. 
from Tisak publishing company; Justice Min. Stjepan Ivanisevic announces formation 
of anti-mafi prosecutor's office

Oct. 18 - Grenade thrown at house of Kos. Roma in Stimlje, woman and child injured; 
OSCE issues report critical of justice system in Kos., says UNMIK is biased against 
Serbs, and there is Aclear and compelling evidence of pro-Albanian bias; Serb Pres. 
Milan Milutinovic (SPS) says his party wants next PM to be from Mon. SNP; Bosnian 
For. Min. protests plan by Kostunica to visit RS for reburial of Bos. Serb poet 
Jovan Ducic at invitation of SDS, says invitation contravenes diplomatic procedure 
and MFA is only Bos. institution through which contacts w/ for. states can be 
conducted; Bos. Serb students among crowd of 2,000 throw tomatoes at Petritsch 
dep. Gerhard Sontheim when he tries to speak to them in Brcko; protests continue 
for 3rd day over sharing of educ. facilities w/ Mus. students, photographer beaten 
by crowd, has equipment taken away; US Amb. Miller implies in interview that if 
anti-Dayton leaders win in RS elections Awe (US) will draw our own conclusions;
Mac. Pres. Boris Trajkovski says Balkan heads of state, govt. to meet w/ Kostunica 
in Skopje, discuss changes in region on Oct. 25

Oct. 19 - Rugova says Aind. is the only solution for Kos., says Bel. should 
recognize this as intl. community will at some point declare Kosovo's ind.;
Kostunica meets w/ Pavkovic, Milutinovic, and Sec. head Rade Markovic, says 
they concluded that the army and police must fully meet all legal obligations; 
Predrag Bulatovic says SNP no longer insists SPS be included in govt. 
immediately, but instead in early 2001; Youth org. of SPO calls on Draskovic 
to resign; OSCE chair Austrian FM Benita Ferrero-Waldner writes to Kostunica 
saying that OSCE hopes to welcome Yugo. back into org. soon, encourages it to 
apply as new member Aas one of the successor states; Opp. leaders say that 
country's emergency food warehouses, oil reserves, and bank accounts all empty; 
inflation up dramatically since Milo. gone w/ bread doubling in price, cooking 
oil tripling; Italy offers $45 mil. in reconstruction, development aid for Serbia; 
Libyan envoy gives Kostunica check for $800,000 for humanitarian aid;
US SFOR troops man road block outside of Brcko after 3rd day of demonstrations 
over shared curriculum for schools

Oct. 20 - Sylvie Pantz, co-chair of justice dept. at UNMIK says OSCE report on 
justice in Kos. Atoo ambitious, in some points unrealistic, academic and luxurious 
for Kos.; Kostunica coalition says Socialist Party nominees for transition govt. 
are same people who supported Milo. for so long, accuses them of trying to sneak 
into the transition govt. figures such as head of Bel. branch of Socialists Ivica 
Dacic and Branislav Ivkovic; Dacic calls for reforms within party, says new 
leadership may be chosen at Nov. congress; Momcilo Perisic calls for resignation 
of army leadership including Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic; Islamic Devel. Bnak, Dubai 
Islamic Bnak, and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank get permission to est. bank in Bos. w/ 
capital of $22 mil., expected to increase to $60 mil. by end of year

Oct. 21 - Kostunica calls on Justice Ministry to begin proceedings to pardon, 
free ethnic Alb. human rights activist Flora Brovina from prison;
Bush fp advisor Condoleeza Rice says gov. wants Europe to take over pk 
responsibilities in Balkans, develop a Anew division of labor in NATO; 
VP Gore says without US participation in pk missions we could no longer be able 
to continue US leadership of NATO;

Oct. 22 - Grenade thrown at LDK candidate Fahri Morina's house in Djakovica, 
head of local LDK says 3 other members of party have had grenades thrown at 
their homes, another LDK candidate in Glogovac receives letter threatening his 
life; KFOR conducts weapons searches in MNB-N near village of Okovic;
DOS [resemts SPS w/ list of Milo. supporters it wants out of office including 
Sec. chief Markovic, SPS leadear Branislav Ivkovic; Kostunica talks w/ Mon. SNP 
leader Zoran Zizic on formation of new govt.
Kostunica visits Trebinje, Bos. for reburial of Serb poet Jovan Ducic, 
later meets w/ Bos. govt. officials to placate their concerns

Oct. 23 - Ind. intl. commission headed by former WCT judge Richard Goldstone 
delivers report to Kofi Annan which finds air war against Yugo. was technically 
illegal as it did not have Sec. Coun. consent, but legitimate from political and 
moral view; Goldstone concludes Athat it is not realistic or justifiable to 
expect the Albanians in Kos. to accept rule from Belgrade, calls for conditional 
independence based on Agood faith negs. w/ neighbors, open borders for pol. 
and eco. viability, Aan acceptably dem. constitution, sufficient assurances for 
Serbs and Roma; Anti-tank rocket fired at Serb apt. complex in Pristina, KFOR 
sets up cordon around building; Shots fired in village of Kalicane causing KFOR 
to conduct searches, discover weapons; Serbian Parl. accepts resignation of PM 
and Milo. ally Mirko Marjanovic; Radicals stage filibuster in parl. to prevent 
est. of transitional govt. and new elections in Dec.; Kostunica meets w/ Kos. 
Serb National Council delegation headed by Oliver Ivanovic; EU Stability Pact 
coordinator Bodo Hombach says Yugo. to be admitted at meeting in Bucharest in days;
Bos. HDZ, other Croat parties call OSCE ruling on elections to parl. 
unconstitutional, deprives Croats of legal rights, say OSCE should reverse its 
ruling, make election procedures uniform throughout country; Joint presidency 
authorizes For. Min. to prepare agenda for discussions w/ Serbia on opening 
diplomatic rels.; Brcko district assembly passes leg. on ethnic hatred 
providing for prison terms of up to 5 years, 3 years for publicly attacking 
legal status of Bosnia or Brcko; Petritsch issues ruling on operations of fed., 
public TV and radio; Mesic spokeswoman says he won't attend Balkan summit in 
Skopje due to previous meeting scheduled in Germany

Oct. 24 - Unoccupied Roma house in Orahovac burned; Kostunica says in (60 Minutes) 
interview that army and police committed crimes in Kos. and Athe people that have 
been killed are victims but also that Athere are a lot of crimes on the other side 
and the Serbs have been killed; also says AI am ready to...accept the guilt for all 
those people who have been killed and takes responsibility for what Milo. did, says 
Milo. among those responsible for crimes against humanity and will stand trial 
somewhere for these; Holbrooke says intl. community should prepare Kos. for early 
general elections in Kos. if local elections prove free and fair, says long-term 
status should also be dealt with; Rugova says AWe're de facto ind.  We just have to 
work so that it's achieved formally as well; Radicals stage walk-out of parl. session 
leaving parl. without quorum of 126 deps. to make decisions; Head of SRS parl. 
faction, Stevo Dragisic says AThe SRS will take no further part in the parliament's 
work.  We will let our former coalition partners finish what they've started; DOS 
says Radicals are Adeliberately provoking chaos; Serbian parl. then approves 
power-sharing govt., early elections for Dec. 23 w/ Milomir Minic of SPS as PM, 
1 dep. from DOS, 1 from SPO; parties to share control of Int., Jus., Info., and 
Fin. ministries; Cro. Dep. PM Goran Granic says he fears OSCE changes in election 
rules for Bos. will endanger equal status for Croats in BiH, says his govt. wants 
to show it supports Dayton and Croats in Bos.; Slovenian election officials release 
final vote figures showing PM Drnovsek's Lib. Dems. holding 34 seats, Janez Jansa's 
(conservative) Social Dems. w/ 14, former Communists w/ 11, 2 Christian Dem. parties 
getting 9 ; New Slovenia 8, nationalist and youth parties get 4 each 1 seat to Hun., 
Ital. minorities; 70% turnout

Oct. 25 - 500 KFOR troops in MNB-C conduct search operation nw of Glogovac; 
Grenade thrown at abandoned house s. of Vitina, another thrown at Kos. Serb 
house in Binac; Holbrooke attends meeting of 5 largest Kos. Alb. parties, all 
pledge themselves to honoring election results; Holbrooke later meets w/ Serb 
leaders from Mitrovica who call on him to clarify fates of all missing persons;
Kostunica, Holbrooke talk at Balkan summit, Kostunica later says he presented 
Serbia as contributor to regional stability, and that it no longer poses threat 
to regional peace; Kostunica says new govt. working on issue of Kosovars held in 
Serbian prisons; Serbian parl. dissolves itself; Djindjic says new govt. to have 
only 14 posts instead of previous 30, 60% to go to DOS, 40% to Mon. Socialist 
People's Party; Petritsch rules that memorial for reburial of Muslim victims at 
Srebrenica to be build at Potocari because survivors favored site, says 700 bodies 
ready for reburial in spring and Ait will enable the families to regain a sense of 
belonging to Sreb.  If we do not start tackling this problem, we will never be able 
to reach a state where reconciliation can set in; Serb auth. oppose site, saying it 
will disturb Serb families living there; Balkan summit begins in Skopje w/ leaders 
from Alb., Bos., Bul., Cro., Gre., Rom., Yugo. in attendance

Oct. 26 - Thaci tells crowd of 30,000 in Pristina that Serbian forces coming back 
to Kos. is unacceptable and we did not fight to make changes in Bel.  Kos. has 
its own identity...and will be ind.; Kos. Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic says they 
have requested local elections for just the Serbs, calls upcoming vote divisive
DOS agrees to Citizens' Alliance leader Goran Svilanovic as new Yugo. FM, Momcilo 
Grubac, professor from Novi Sad as Justice Min., and Zoran Zivkovic, mayor of Nis, 
as Int. Min.; Yugo. admitted as full member of EU-sponsored Balkan Stability Pact; 
Kostunica office says 60 Minutes comments taken out of context and involved words 
the pres. did not use; Andrija Hebrang says he, other intellectuals from HDZ to run 
in spring 2001 elections as part of an Aind. list as their views have been rejected 
by HDZ leadership; Ger. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder tells Mesic that aid to Yugo. 
won't be at expense of other regional states, EC President Prodi tells Mesic same 
thing in phone conversation;

Oct. 27 - 
Kostunica comments that he shares Solzhenitsyn disillusionment w/ totalitarian 
societies Aboth the Soviet and American ones, and Awe shall expand and deepen 
our rels. both w/ the East and the West on the basis of mutual advantage; EU 
approves 200 mil. euro ($166 mil.) aid package for Serbia, largely for the 
purchase of fuel during winter; Holbrookes wants more than the total 94 
indictments in Bos. war; Mesic in Berlin says Zag. wants to swiftly improve 
rels. w/ EU, wants associate status in Nov. summit in Zagreb

Oct. 28 - 
Bos. FM Jadranko Prlic says he expects est. of dip. ties w/ Bel. by end of 
year and talks can start as soon as new govt. in Bel. is established; Croatian 
People's Convention founded w/ HDZ leader Ante Jelavic as pres., HDZ and other 
Bos. Croat parties call for ref. on rights of Croats in Bos. to be held at same 
time as elections on Nov. 11; Bos. Catholic Archbishop Vinko Puljic attends 
meeting; Bos. Serb auth. begin burial of remains of 450 unidentified Serbs from 
war that have been in BL factory hall for 5 years

Oct. 29 - Rugova says LDK won 60% of votes in elections, says results will be 
those of ind.; Yugo. govt. says it will amnesty all pol. prisoners, draft evaders 
once new amnesty law approved by Yugo. parl.

Oct. 30 - OSCE says LDK won election w/ approx. 58% of vote to Thaci's PDK which 
got 27%, Alliance for the Future of Kos. which got 8%; LKD to control 21 
municipalities, PDK 6, 3 undecided; OSCE says election occurred without fraud and 
incidents; Thaci says his party accepts the results; Tanjug says Yugo. govt. 
formally rejects outcome as Aunacceptable since so many Serbs had fled province 
and departments of local auth. will be without Serb reps. leading Ato the 
legalization of a mono-ethnic society; NATO's Robertson commends elections 
as stark contrast w/ events of '99; US State Dept. spokesman Boucher says 
Rugova's call for ind. had to wait as status of province under UNCD Res. 
1244 requires that Kos. Adevelops democratic institutions in the interim 
period; Shooting in early morning in Prizren leave Alb. man wounded; Kos. 
Alb. wedding party tries to drive through Pasjane waving Alb. flags, local 
Serbs try to remove flags bringing confrontation and KFOR intervention;
Vladan Batic of DOS says new govt. agreed on, to be confirmed by parl. on Nov. 3; 
Tomislav Nikolic, Milo's dep. PM says Yugo. application for new membership 
unauthorized since govt., not pres. in charge of foreign policy; UN Sec. Coun. 
recommends admission of Yugo. as new member;
Bos. Mus-Croat fed. begins delayed sale of large companies, offers to exchange 
shares in 550 firms worth total of $1.29 bil. for privatization vouchers, citizens 
can swap these in exchange for compensation for debt gained during war; Bos. 
police raid club in Sara., find at least dozen women from Moldovo, Ukr. held captive; 

Oct. 31 - Kostunica says he will meet w/ Rugova, other leaders, but says ind. 
could be very dangerous for Balkans; Adem Demaci says Serbs must recognize Kos. ind.;
Socialist PM Milomir Minic says State Security head Rade Markovic won't leave 
office as this is not part of power-sharing agreement, DOS, SPO reps. walk out 
of transitional govt. meeting, say they won't come back until he resigns and that 
Minic has gone back on promise; 2 Serbian Supreme Ct. members resign as demanded by DOS;
Djukanovic says union of Serbia, Mon. as 2 internationally recognized and ind. 
states best solution, says they have Ahistorical right to ind., and that no one 
consulted Mon. when Yugo. applied for UN membership;
Bos. Croat HDZ, other nationalists say they will hold referendum despite OSCE's 
ruling against it; Mus.-Croat Fed. begin elimination of govt.-controlled payment 
bureaus; Bos. Serb and convicted war criminal Dusko Tadic transferred to Ger. to 
serve remainder of original 20-year sentence, reduced to 10; Hague prosecutors 
seeking 2 Bos. Serbs, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, secretly indicted in Oct. '98 for 
crimes against humanity for persecution, murder of 135 Muslims in Visegrad 
between '92 and '94, both thought to be living in Serbia; Bos. Serb Gen. 
Radislav Krstic says at Hague trial he was trying to capture Zepa at time of 
Sreb. massacre, did not take control of Drina Corps until 10 days after fall of 
Sreb., and that Mladic was in charge of that operation

Nov. 1 - Kostunica orders release from prison of Kosovar activist Flora Brovina, 
11 others; Kouchner calls for release of all other ethnic Alb. pol. prisoners; 
KFOR troops finds weapons cache, explosives, ammo., Yugo. army and Serb police 
uniforms in Caglavica, other Serb village, link them to Sept. find in Gracanica, 
2 arrested; UN Gen. Assembly admits Yugo. as new member, res. sponsored by Bos., 
Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, members of Sec. Council, others; Kostunica's special 
envoy, Goran Svilanovic seated in Assembly; New Yugo. flag flown over embassy later 
in day; Djindjic says agreement reached on new relationship between Serbia and Mon. 
to operate as Aa single govt.; Yugo. Supreme Def. Council meets in Podgorica, 
Kostunica chairs meeting, Djukanovic attends, Serb Pres. Milutinovic does not 
attend for health reasons (under indictment); Mon. parl. votes 37-7 to create 
central bank for republic, but law does not have absolute majority as opp. deps. 
don't take part; Hague prosecutors play tape of phone conversation of Gen. Krstic 
giving order to kill each and every one (Muslim men)...do not leave a single one 
alive, tape intercepted by Bos. govt. on Aug. 2, '95

Nov. 2 - KFOR, UNMIK catch 17 Kos. Albanian men trying to leave Kos. illegally near 
Morina S. border crossing; Drunk Kos. Alb. man arrested after making threats against 
KFOR troops in Mogila;
DOS members of govt. continue boycott over SPS refusal to dismiss Secret Service 
head Rade Markovic, Djindjic accuses Service of still operating a dept. for 
Internal Enemies; PM-designate Zoran Zizic presents list of cabinet members to 
his Socialist People's Party meeting in Podgorica including 16 ministers; Goran 
Svilanovic to be FM, Miroljub Labus dep. PM for foreign eco. affairs, Nis Mayor 
Zoran Zivkovic to be IM, Dragisa Pesic Fin. Min., Slobodan Krapovic to be DM;
Mon. govt. announces that it will hold ref. on status within Yugo. by June 2001; 
PM Vukanovic says dual use of Ger. mark, Yugo. dinar to continue despite creation 
of Mon. Central Bank; Sulejman Tihic, dep. pres. of SDA, accuses intl. officials in 
Bos. of influencing media to support multi-ethnic Social Democratic Party; Bos. FM 
and ethnic Croat Jadranko Prlic says Awe welcome this decision (re-admission of 
Yugo. to UN) as do all other UN members, For. Min. says that next step for Bos. 
should be the unconditional establishment of diplomatic rels. w/ the FRY; EBRD 
announces loan of 50 mil. euros ($42.99 mil.) to improve country's electrical grid, 
reconnect it w/ main Euro. power network; International Crisis Group reports that 
75 suspected Bos. Serb war criminals still occupy powerful positions in BiH, and 
that intl. officials running country know who they are and meet w/ many of them, 
blames much of this on ASFOR's reluctance to give priority to making arrests which 
has needlessly prolonged the intl. community presence;
Croatian police charge Tudjman's daughter Nevenka w/ corruption for her rel. w/ 
Alcatel telephone deal; Swiss FM Joseph Deiss tells Mesic that his govt. to help 
Croatia find govt. money embezzled over last decade, and that govt. may freeze 
accounts of Croats suspected of eco. crimes

Nov. 3 - KFOR conducts weapons searches in Drenica valley area and around Glogovac in 
response to recent attacks against minorities in Stimlje area;
Senior Mon. eco. official, Dmitrije Vesovic, contradicts PM Vujanovic, says Mon. to 
stop using Yugo. dinar in next several weeks; Holbrooke says Petritsch has refused 
to ban SDS from upcoming elections, that it is a criminal org. and that it should 
be dismissed; Serbian Culture Min. Milan Komnenic says Serbia to return 7,966 works 
of art taken from Croatia during war as one condition in normalizing relations

Nov. 4 - Rugova says Bel. should not have any say in Kosovo's future following the 
terrible war, says KFOR will Aalways be in Kos. Abecause we will become part of NATO 
one day; Yugo. parl. meets in Serbian parl. building, approves new fed. govt., 
136-19, after 8 hours of negotiations, new PM Zoran Zizic tells parl. that goals 
include securing for. eco. and humanitarian aid, improving rels. between Serbia and 
Mon., implementing social, eco., and legal reforms, but also says coop. w/ Hague 
not a priority, and that UN Res. 1244 provision that Kos. is part of Yugo. should 
be strictly observed, says Athe current situation and the behavior of UNMIK and 
KFOR are in complete contradiction w/ this resolution; Kostunica opposes hasty 
replacement of police or army chiefs as this would threaten dem. change, lead to 
instability; Djindjic says DOS also calling for removal of army chief Pavkovic, 
but Kostunica says AI demand from the army and police [that they] faithfully 
serve their people and country, and they are doing so

Nov. 5 - Explosion on main road west of Prizren caused by hand grenade on 
truck flatbed; New Yugo. FM Svilanovic says his country should est. 
truth commissions regarding war crimes and that ICTY should be allowed 
to reopen offices in Bel., trials could be held in Yugo., dip. rels. w/ 
west European countries to be re-established within days; Riot breaks out 
in prison in Sremska Mitrovica, prisoners demand amnesty, better conditions

Nov. 6 - KFOR commander Lt.-Gen. Carlo Cabigiosu says organized return of 
Serbs to Kos. to begin in early 2001, says his troops preparing for their 
repatriation; OSCE chairwoman Benita Ferrero-Waldner meets w/ Kostunica, says 
Yugo. has accepted conditions for lifting suspended membership, says he has 
agreed to allow OSCE to observe Dec. 23 elections, and OSCE mission to be 
reopened in Bel.; also says Kostunica promised amnesty bill soon which will 
free Albanian prisoners in Serbian jails; TANJUG reports that Milo. won't 
stand for re-election as head of SPS; EU announces that it will begin sending 
$172 mil. in emergency aid to Serbia later in month; Riots in Serbian jails 
continue spreading to prison in Nis, jail near Pozarevac

Nov. 7 - KFOR discovers weapons hidden in cave near Dac Mala, entrance 
booby-trapped w/ mines, cache includes:
*       3 Claymore Mines
*       2 VS-50-2 Anti-Personnel Mines
*       1 PMA-1 Anti-Personnel Mine
*       1 PRONE 1-M-1 Anti-Personnel Mine
*       1 PMA-2 Anti-Personnel Mine
*       2 PMA-3 Anti-Personnel Mines
*       1 TMA-4 Anti-Tank Mine
*       3 TMA-1 Anti-Tank Mines
*       6 TMRP Mines
*       3 TMA-3 Anti-Tank Mines
*       8 TMA Mines (Type Unconfirmed)
*       16 other Mines
*       78 81-mm Mortar Rounds
*       75 Mortar Fuses
*       57 RPG-2 Rocket Propelled Grenades
*       37 RPG-7 Rocket Propelled Grenades
*       82 Explosive Charges
*       1 Gas Mask For A Horse
*       1 Regular Gas Mask
*       25 NBC Decontamination Kits
*       13 Pineapple Grenades
*       5 Pear-Shaped Hand Grenades
*       2 Cylinder-Shaped Hand Grenades
*       9 Cans Of Grenade Fuses (10 Fuses Each)
*       1 Plastic Can Of Grenade Fuses (10 Fuses Each)
*       12 Loose Grenade Fuses
*       381 Blasting Caps
*       1 Fuse for Mortar Shell
*       2 Fuses for Unknown Type of Munitions
*       41 MAH-2 Fuses
*       1 M2A Fuse
*       1 Nickel-Plated Fuse For Unknown Munition
*       1 Anti-Tank Rocket

*       310 Blocks (Of Various Sizes) Of TNT
*       6 76-mm Rounds
*       6 Cases Of 76-mm Ammunition, 100 Rounds Per Box
*       1 12.7-mm Heavy Machine Gun With Tripod
*       1 7.62-mm General Purpose Machine Gun With Tripod
*       2 7.62-mm Ammunition Drum Magazines
*       5 RPG-7 Rocket Launchers
*       1 RPG-2 Rocket Launcher
*       720 12.7-mm Rounds Of Ammunition
*       40,000 Rounds Of 7.62-mm Ammunition
KFOR patrol finds 26 grenades, 11 detonators near vehicle in s. Mitrovica, 
arrest Kos. Alb. man; OSCE's Election Appeals Sub-Commission bans HDZ's main 
campaign posters which say ASelf-determination or extermination for promoting 
ethnic hatred, also ban several HDZ candidates from running; Kouchner approves 
results of Kos. elections giving LDK victory w/ 58% of votes, 504 seats in 27 
municipalities, Thaci's Democratic Party of Kos. 27.3% and 267 seats, Alliance 
for Future of Kos. 7.7% , says turnout 79% of registered voters;
Ger. FM Fischer meets w/ Yugo. FM Svilanovic, says Ger. to grant Bel. $25 mil. 
in emergency aid, tells PM Zoran Zizic that Ger. is ready to restore dip. rels.;
Yugo. reported ready to disband army's 7th Mil. Police Battalion stationed in Mon.; 
Mon. FM Branko Lukovac says during meeting w/ Croatian FM Tonino Picula that 
Prevlaka dispute won't hurt rels. w/ Croatia, also calls for Mon. being allowed 
to attend EU Zag. summit independently of Serbia; Bos. FM Jadranko Prlic (Croat) 
says voters should reject nationalist candidates and says if they win ABos... 
will remain far from Europe, far from the CofE, the EU, and any possible coop. 
w/ [NATO]; also says he has spoken w/ new Yugo. FM Svilanovic and that dip. rels. 
to be established with Yugo. soon; OSCE bans nationalist posters, 4 candidates of 
HDZ from Nov. 11 elections in town of Odzak for Aimproper influence over the local 
election commission; Croatian court acquits Josip Nekic, Zeljko Stipic on charges 
of complicity in war crimes

Nov. 8 - Kostunica says calls for Kos. independence unacceptable;
Serbian IM files charges against secret service head Rade Markovic for 
endangering Serbian security, jeopardizing public safety, making personnel 
threats; France appts. new amb. effectively restoring rels. w/ Belgrade;
Petritsch's office criticizes previous day's firings of 2 financial police 
inspectors in Mus-Croat Fed. over Financial Police's forgiveness of 330 mil. 
Bos. marka ($145 mil.) in tax debts owed by 
Bos. firms;
Croatian police arrest 4 Croatians on charges of trafficking in illegal Chinese, 
Turkish immigrants; Slovenian State Secretary Boris Sustar arrested for accepting 
$100,000 bribe

Nov. 9 - 4 Roma men murdered 2 days after they return to homes in village of Dosevac;
Council of Europe tells Yugo. that it will be admitted once it establishes democratic 
institutions, observes human rights; Prison revolt comes to end as auth. release 
14 Serbs, 1 ethnic Albanian from Pozarevac prison;
Bos. Croat joint presidency rep. Ante Jelavic calls OSCE rule on elections 
genocidal election formula which would reduce Croat participation in joint 
institutions, says Bos. Croats to boycott upcoming elections and hold their 
own if West sticks by ruling; Survey by US-based Nat. Democratic Institute 
for Intl. Affairs shows that Social Dems. will be largest party in country;
Report by Bos. govt. Min. for Human Rights and Refugees says that at least 
100,000 Bosnians have left Bos. since end of war in '95 in search of work, 
more secure future, counts only those who registered w/ UN's IOM, estimates 
unemployment in country at 50%, and that up to 625,850 Bos. living as refs. 
in 40 different countries including 225,000 in Yugo., 85,000 in Croatia;
Croatian parl. votes 106-35 to reduce powers of president, enhance Con. Ct., 
govt. to be accountable only to parl.; Slovenian office for Euro. Affairs says 
it will be ready to join EU by 2002

Nov. 10 - EU's Solana pledges eco. aid for Balkans, says Balkan summit in Zagreb 
has become even more important since Milo's fall, says talks to begin on 
institutional rels. between Balkan states and EU, and expects that they 
(Balkans) will have to work together in future; OSCE Permanent Council 
unanimously decides to restore Yugo. membership; Mon. Monetary Council says that 
Ger. mark the only currency for republic as of Nov. 13 until 2002 when euro goes 
into circulation; Djukanovic says there will be ref. on secession unless union w/ 
Serbia is radically changed, calls for a Aunion of 2 internationally-recognized states;
4 Slovenian center-left parties w/ 58 of 90 seats in parl. reach coalition agreement

Nov. 11 - General elections held throughout Bosnia, run by OSCE

Nov. 12 - Stones thrown at KFOR-operated train running from Kosovo Polje to Zvecan;
Kostunica rules out purge of army, police, says it is not the Awill of the people to 
replace officials just because they were members of SPS, also says in interview that 
return of displaced Serbs to Kos. his top goal; Hague's del Ponte says she believes 
that Milo. will be arrested on war crimes in near future;
Bos. holds general elections, organized by OSCE, Bos. Croat leader Jelavic claims 
that 70% of Bos. Croats have voted in favor of ref. which OSCE declared illegal; 
Petritsch introduces Bos.-wide state court, pension reforms, EU standardization, 
says he decided to impose the laws after months of inaction and obstruction by all 
sides; SDS leader Dragan Kalinic issues statement that party expects to 
re-establish Afull coop. w/ Yugo. and that new rels. to be based on Dayton

Nov. 13 - Lt.-Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic, commander of troops in southern Serbia 
says sec. in Presevo area worsening as ethnic Albanian attacks increase, 
says 5 killed, more injured in 30 Aarmed terrorist incidents;
Western officials, businessmen, investors arrive in Belgrade for 2-day 
meeting of EU's Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe; 5 members of Spider 
Group found not guilty by Belgrade ct. on charges of killing 2 ethnic Albanians, 
spying for France, but found guilty of extortion, weapons possession, sentenced 
to year in jail, but release immediately for time served; IPTF says it found 
large number of illegal weapons (more than 250 assault rifles, machine guns, 
and other weapons) on Friday in Bosnian police stations, cantonal Interior 
Ministry building in Croat-controlled towns of Glamoc, Kupres, Livno, and 
Tomislavgrad (western Livno canton), areas; SDS pres. candidate Mirko Sarovic 
says Kara. no longer controls party, rejects criticism of Intl. Crisis Group 
which says he does have impact; ICG's James Lyon comments on elections after 
5 years and 5 bil. dollars we've achieved nothing.  We're back at the start.

Mesic says normalization of rels. w/ Bel. only possible after Serbian war criminals 
brought to justice, FM Picula calls for Kostunica, others coming to Zagreb summit to 
apologize for war; Picula says of Bos. that ACroatia has a constitutional obligation 
to monitor events in Bos., look out for Bos. Croat interests, but unlike previous 
govt. we do not want to abuse that

Nov. 14 - Momcilo Trajkovic of Dem. Opp. of Serbia (Kos.) says Dec. Serbian 
elections to also be held in Kos.; Clinton envoy James O'Brien arrives in Bel. 
for talks on restoring dip. rels.;
US expresses disappointment in continuing influence of nationalist parties in Bos.; 
UN Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno says Bos. Croat 
leader Jelavic pronouncing Astatements of defiance against the intl. community;
Croatia's Mesic says his country will not support Bos. Croat leaders who want to 
recreate Herzeg-Bosna, says BiH must remain united;
Slovenian Pres. Kucan names Janez Drnovsek PM

Nov. 15 - Serbian co-Min. of Justice Dragan Subasic arrives in Pristina for talks 
w/ Kouchner about ethnic Alb. prisoners in Serbia, Kos. Alb. leaders refuse to meet 
w/ him; LDK member and councillor Shkelzen Hyseni shot in Pec apt. by 2 masked gunmen;
Yugo. army says border situation w/ Kos. getting worse, number of ethnic 
Albanian guerrillas there have tripled, mortar attacks have intensified, 
Serb police suffer casualties and Athat is linked to the policies of 
Albanian parties after the municipal elections in the province; NATO rejects 
contention that number of guerrillas have tripled, but agrees there has been 
increase in attacks w/ mines being laid in local roads; EU lifts travel ban 
against Yugo. Army chief of staff Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, Secret Service head 
Rade Markovic, Milo. aide Gorica Gajevic, 181 others previously banned, but 
Djindjic claims list shows sympathies to members of Milo. regime, calls it 
Manipulation; Kostunica in speech to Eur. Parl. in Strasbourg says Yugo. major 
foreign policy goal to join EU; US envoy James O'Brien says Wash. to require 
coop. w/ Hague for Yugo. to receive US financial assistance;
Holbrooke calls for unification of 3 Bos. armies;
OSCE report critical of Croatian progress on minority rights, reforms in media 
and judiciary; Mac. FM Aleksandar Dimitrov meets in Bel. w/ Yugo. FM Svilanovic, 
discusses issue of common, and non-demarcated, border

Nov. 16 - UNHCR says at least 1,000 Kos. Serbs have returned in recent months; 
Kouchner calls for parl. elections to be held in Kos. in spring, but also warns 
that haste in trying to settle Kos. issue Acould very quickly lead to another 
conflict; Yugo. govt. to restore dip. rels. w/ US, Fra., UK, Ger., Kostunica says 
rels. to focus on Eur., Rus., but will include all other parts of world; FM 
Svilanovic announces that Hague personnel will be given visas to reopen office 
in Bel.; Transitional govt. meets for first time after DOS ends boycott over 
Security Service head Rade Markovic; OSCE removes 10 Bos. HDZ candidates from 
regional assemblies due to HDZ holding ref. on election day since ref. was 
considered campaigning (forbidden on day of election), bans 3 others for 
obstructing OSCE audit, HDZ says it will boycott all Bos. institutions 
unless OSCE reverses decisions; Petritsch orders reinstatement of 2 financial 
police inspectors in Mus.-Croat Fed. who were dismissed while in midst of 
corruption probe; 1,000 Croatian and Serbian businessmen meet in Bel. to 
re-establish eco. rels.

Nov. 17 - 300 KFOR troops, UNMIK police raid bars in Kosovo Polje owned by both 
Serbs, Albanians in crackdown on prostitution rings, 7 arrested, 12 Moldovan 
women put into custody; UNMIK says Serbs and Albanians were working together to 
control prostitution trade; Petritsch warns Bos. leaders that A5 years after Dayton, 
taxpayers in our countries are running out of patience...that is the reason why I am 
pushing, cajoling, threatening, and dismissing public officials; Slovenian parl. 
approves, 61-5, Drnovsek as PM again, Social Dems. and New Slovenia Party abstain 
in protest over committee assignments

Nov. 18 - Rugova in Dayton for 5th anniv. of accords, calls on NATO, UN to remain 
in Kos. Aforever to guarantee regional stability, says he considers NATO presence a 
precondition for independence; Rugova and Thaci both call for freeing of at least 
700 Kos. Albanians in Serb jails, say new govt's policies no different from those 
of Milo., both say they want ind.; Dayton conf. calls for extradition of Milo. to 
Hague condition for future support for Yugo., Serbian membership in intl. orgs., 
also call for strengthening of central pol., eco. institutions in Bos., extradition 
of Kara., Mladic to Hague; Several thousand take part in commemoration in Vukovar 
on anniv. of town's fall

Nov. 19 - UN vehicle damaged by bomb planted under it in Brcko;
Croatia's Mesic says at Dayton conf. that Hague should begin war crimes proceedings 
against Yugo. Gens. Veljko Kadijevic, Blagoje Adzic for actions in Croatia in '91, 
says Bel. should distance itself from Bos. Serb nationalists even as Croatia has 
done w/ Bos. Croats

Nov. 20 - Milo. appears on TV during meeting of Socialist Party of Serbia; Kostunica 
tells DOS it has permission to use his name on election lists in Dec. provided that 
all coalition members support continuation of fed. between Serbia and Mon., 
coalition members agree that pol. changes must come about only by legal means, 
and he has approval over candidate for PM; Djindjic says his party won't participate 
unless coalition first agrees Awithin 7 or 8 days on who will form new govt.; 
Former Milo. ally Zoran Lilic calls for Milo. to retire from politics; Govt. says 
it has decided to est. diplomatic rels. w/ Slovenia; Petritsch tells OSCE 
Permanent Council that arrest of war criminals like Kara., Mladic needed as 
their presence contributing to a climate of fear; also says HDZ boycott of future 
govt. not acceptable; ICRC issues list of 20,484 people still missing from Bos. 
war including 16,979 Mus., 719 Croats, 2,537 Serbs, 249 others

Nov. 21 - 3 Serb policemen killed in clash w/ UCPMB near village of Konculj 
(s. Serbia); KFOR refutes claim of UCPMB that it had repelled Serb armed incursion 
into Ground Safety Zone near Dobrosin, says there was no observation of such 
activity; del Ponte comments that Awhatever Kostunica may say, the surrender of 
Milo. is a priority; US reopens emb. in Bel.; Mon. dem. Party of Socialists, 
Social Dem. Party reject Kostunica demand that  fed. govt. have role in talks 
between Serbia, Mon., Miodrag Vukovic calls demand a  provocation;

Yugo. FM Goran Svilanovic says he wants to open diplomatic rels. w/ Bos., 
work w/ Albania to ease situation in Kos., says Yugo. will respect regional 
boundaries and Awe want the new govt. of Yugo. to be a guarantor of the territorial 
integrity of our neighbors; OSCE releases final vote count for Bos. elections: 
Social Dems win 27.3% of vote in joint parl., SDA 27.1%, HDZ 19.3%, Party for Bos. 
and Her. (Silajdzic) 15.6%; in RS SDS wins 39.5%, Party of Dem. Progress (Ivanic) 
15.3%, Ind. Social Dems. (Dodik) 10.7%; OSCE spokesman says SDA, SDS, and HDZ 
won't be able to form majority govts.; RS pres. race has Mirko Sarovic winning 
49.8% of vote w/ Dodik coming in 2nd at 25.8%, Ivanic 3rd w/ 8.6;
Mesic says he will make official visit to Belgrade only if Milo. first goes to 
Hague, and that Kostunica should apologize for aggressive policies, war crimes; 
Int. Min. bans demonstrations during EU summit in Zagreb which Mesic says some 
want to disrupt to damage Croatia's reputation

Nov. 22 - 1 killed, 2 injured after bomb blast at Pristina home of Stanimir 
Vukicevic, liaison for Yugo. govt. committee w/ UNMIK, Kouchner calls attack 
well-prepared and very carefully executed...a professional job and says it 
indicates the extremists are now ready to step up their targeting of the Serb 
community;Yugo. FM Svilanovic says at present Yugo. govt. won't extradite Milo.; 
KFOR stops group of 10 wearing black uniforms, carrying radios as they try to 
evade checkpoint at border village of Dobrosin; KFOR stops truck loaded w/ 5,000 
rounds of ammo., anti-personnel mines, mortars, RPGs, heavy machine guns also 
headed toward Dobrosin; Bos. Serb Helsinki Committee for Human Rights issues 
statement saying persons justifiably suspected of taking part in mass violations 
of human rights during the war were elected in recent poll; Yugo. FM Goran 
Svilanovic meets w/ Serb chairman of joint presidency, Zivko Radisic, says 
his govt. to make decision on reestablishing ties w/ Bos. soon;

Nov. 23 - EU, Balkan leaders arrive in Zag. for beginning of conf. on 
regional stability; 5 Bos. Croats go on trial in Mostar on war crimes charges 
perpetrated against Muslims in '93- '94; Rugova advisor and co-founder of LDK, 
Xhemajl Mustafa, shot dead outside his apt. in Pristina in middle of day;
UN Sec. Coun. calls for investigation into killings of 3 Serb policemen in 
Presevo area, punishment of those involved; Djindjic warns that tensions in 
area could lead to Areal war; Serbian Int. Min. calls on NATO to end 
infiltration of UCPMB members into sw. Serbia by Nov. 27, says police will 
enter buffer zone if not;

Nov. 24 - One-day summit on Balkan stability held in Zagreb, stabilization and 
association agreement signed w/ Mac., EU reps. tells participants that its doors 
are open to them; EU also announces that it will admit up to 95% of agri., ind. 
products duty free, give 839 mil. euros ($705 mil.) to western Balkans in 2001 
as part of 6-year 4.65 bil. euro program for stabilizing region; Serbia to get 
240 mil. euros in 2001; EU leaders demand Agood neighborliness, demilitarization 
of the region, development of regional infrastructure, eco. coop. and coop. in 
fighting org. crime as conditions; Kostunica tells summit that  Europe should 
take lead in Balkans affairs, not an Aoutside power; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says 
at summit that for all practical purposes Mon. is ind. country and that his govt. 
to hold referendum on ind. within first 6 months of 2001, calls united Yugo. a 
fiction; RS Pres-elect Sarovic says he supports Dayton agreements, believes 
finishing touches are needed, however, particularly the right of return of refs. 
to return to pre-'92 homes and property

Nov. 25 - Yugo. govt. demands that KFOR do more to prevent rebel incursions from 
Kos. into Presovo area of Serbia; Bomb found planted at gate of Roma house in 
village of Mali Alas; UNMIK reports another bomb threat made against Gnjilane 
Information Center prompting evacuation of building; Kostunica calls on Rugova to 
enter into talks on future of Kos.; Milo. delivers harsh speech at 5th Special 
Congress of SPS in Bel., calls events of Oct. 5 a Acoup, calls new leaders 
traitors who want to hand over Anational heroes to the new Gestapo at the 
Hague; congress re-elects Milo. chairman

Nov. 26 - Approx. 1,200 ethnic Albanians flee Presevo area into Kos. due to 
buildup of Serbian police forces; Kostunica says it is necessary for Serbian 
officials to preserve human life in Presevo region, avoid provocations; also 
says Serbia must hold dialogue w/ intl. community, KFOR, UNMIK, moderate Kos. 
Alb. leaders; Co-Int. Min. Zoran Zivkovic calls for charges to be filed 
against Milo. for spreading false news and for slander

Nov. 27 - Kostunica sends letters to NATO's Robertson, UN's Annan calling on 
them to stop Albanian rebels in Presevo region from Aethnically cleansing area, 
says it is crystal clear that KFOR and UNMIK have failed to do their part of the 
job properly; Ethnic Albanians in 3-5 kilo. security zone say they have agreed to 
US request for limited cease-fire until Friday, KFOR says Awe are encouraged by 
the restraint of both sides; OSCE formally re-admits Yugo., Kostunica addresses 
OSCE meeting in Vienna, calls Kos. Europe's most critical issue and it would 
easily set the whole region ablaze; later tells crowd in Bujanovac that there 
will not be a war and Awe have shown that we are for peace because we respect 
all intl. documents on Kos.; Yugo. FM Svilanovic tells Albright in Vienna that 
Serbia wants KFOR to seal border at zone but not to enter the zone itself; Chief 
of Yugo. Gen. Staff, Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, says if intl. community does not deal 
w/ situation peacefully military AYugo. will decide to clean all Alb. terrorist 
forces out of the entire zone; Serbian Int. Min. warns that police to use all 
means to intervene if gunmen do not withdraw immediately, state TV says police 
deploying heavy artillery in range of Aterrorist outposts in 4 Presevo villages; 
1 Albanian killed, several wounded when their tractor hits land mine in Presevo area

Nov. 28 - Gas station destroyed by 2 explosions in Djakovica from M80 rocket launcher; 
KFOR finds 2 UCPMB uniforms, weapons in car search near village of Rekalije; UN says 
3,000 ethnic Albanians have fled into Kos. over past 4 days; KFOR reports that Serb 
authorities, UCPMB have reached agreement on indefinite cease-fire along border and 
that NATO Afacilitated the talks; Serb Dep. PM Nebojsa Covic denies that a cf has 
been agreed to and that his govt. does not neg. w/ terrorists; Yugo. Third Army 
reported to have placed tanks, artillery along area of DMZ, Gen. Vladimir Lazarevic 
says Serbian police are inside the zone Ain full force; Yugo. Fed. parl. votes to 
name leader of G-17 group, Mladjan Dinkic, to head the National Bank;
Reps. from 18 parties of DOS sign agreement stating that they will be united in 
Dec. elections; Zlatko Lagumdzia, leader of Bos. Social Dem. party, says he 
believes he can form moderate coalition without nationalist parties, but Mladen 
Ivanic of RS's Party of Dem. Progress says it is Anot realistic to exclude SDS 
from new govt.; Outgoing RS govt. reaches agreement w/ pensioners on payment of 
arrears, future pensions; Banja Luka city auth. give approval to reconstruction 
of Ferhadija mosque destroyed in '93; Bri. Def. Sec. Geoff Hoon says Bos. should 
take advantage of mood for reform before frustration grows in US, Britain; OSCE 
warns that Bos. will stagnate on path to reform due to corruption, unemployment, 
lack of foreign investment potential; Dept. for urban planning in BL issues permit 
for construction of mosque on site of previous Frerhadija mosque;
Mesic calls on Kostunica to extradite Milo. to Hague after Dec. 23 elections; 
Croatian govt. approves payment of less than $5000 to city of Mostar to help 
rebuild bridge over Neretva; Mac. border service says 500 ethnic Albanians have 
crossed into Mac. over last 4 days also

Nov. 29 - UCPMB, Serb cease-fire extended indefinitely at KFOR request, UCPMB 
spokesman Shaqir Shaqiri says occupation of village of Lucane by Serb police 
violation of cf agreement, says guerillas will defend their positions; KFOR 
says UCPMB have not abandoned their positions within the zone, Gen. Pavkovic 
claims that 200 UCPMB fighters have infiltrated zone; NATO's Robertson condemns 
terrorist activity in Presevo Valley, says it has conducted joint inspections w/ 
Serbian local police in Ground Safety Zone and will do if necessary in future, says 
it will deter and disrupt identified illegal or terrorist related activity within 
Kos. near border; Robertson proposes 6-pt. program for region including 1) info. 
campaign to point out pol. problems posed by Aextremist activitiy in sw Serbia; 2) 
mobilizing Kosovar politicians to create moderate influence; 3) NATO to help 
facilitate contacts between Albanians, Serbs in Presevo; 4) KFOR to work closely w/ 
Serb police; 5) pks to increase surveillance along border; 6) KFOR to deter and 
disrupt identified illegal or terrorist-related activity in Kos. near boundary; 
Yugo. FM Svilanovic says Yugo. to coop. w/ Hague but will not extradite Milo. to it, 
but may try him internally; Bri. Liberal party leader Paddy Ashdown tells Kofi 
Annan that he does not want to succeed Kouchner; Djindjic says there is no 
constitutional provision for Serbia, Mon. to recognize each other, Serbia 
has offered proposals to Podgorica within the framework of the constitution 
but that if Mon. leaders want something else this is their problem; Mon. PM 
Vujanovic Classes resume in 2 Brcko high schools; Head of RS General Staff says 
he will continue w/ 15% cuts in forces ordered by joint presidency, by end of year 
to be 10,185 soldiers, non-coms, and officers, but says jobs must be found for 
decommissioned soldiers

Nov. 30 - NATO commander says UCPMB guerillas being detained before entering 
Serbia from Kos., weapons being confiscated; 2 companies of Bri. troops to be 
deployed to US sector; Robertson calls for isolating, condemning extremists, 
says intl. community won't accept extremists' actions due to changes underway 
in Serbia; Serbia PM Minic calls for armed Albanian fighters to leave area as 
first step to re-establishing peace, says foreign forces bear responsibility for 
guerillas entering sw. Serbia; Kostunica asks how it is possible how 1,000 
guerillas have crossed through American sector, Seselj says US has organized 
the intrusion to separate region from Serbia;

Serbian Justice Min. Sead Spahovic says Hague only court w/ enough resources, 
competence to try Milo., says Hague is not Aanti-Serb monster, it is a 
legitimate, legal court; Yugo. PM Zizic of SNP , Djindjic both warn Gov. of 
Yugo. National Bank, Mladjan Dinkic that he will bear consequences of rejecting 
appt. of SNP's Vuk Ognjanovic as dep.; Gazprom says it has cut daily gas 
shipments to Yugo. from 4.2 mil. to 3 mil. cubic meters as Yugo. hasn't said 
how it will pay for gas;  Klein rejects charges of improper behavior by UN police 
officials against 6 IPTF members who were suspended after raids on night clubs to 
free women from forced prostitution; Croatian emb. in Ljubljana rejects Slovenian 
protest over Croatian ct. summons to man living in 1 of 2 contested villages along 
Dragonja River (on border), man contends he lives in Slovenia; Croatian govt. 
decides to cut 2001 budget by $300 mil. due to revenue shortfall;
Mac. PM Georgievski forms parl. majority w/ 66 deps. after Dem. Alliance leaves govt. 
previous week;

Dec. 1 - Serbian Int. Min. Zoran Zivkovic, in Athens, calls for talks on Presevo, says 
what happened to the ethnic Albanians over the last 3 or 4 years is horrendous.  But 
that does not give them the right to blame a whole nation or change borders; Rugova at 
same conference refuses to appear to appear w/ Zivkovic; Kos. publisher Veton Surroi 
says even if Serbia elects Mother Theresa as its president, the Kosovars won't accept 
Serbia as their state; Yugo. FM Svilanovic calls for AEuropean monitors to be sent into 
buffer zone to help reduce tensions; UNMIK says it will provide protection for 
moderate Kosovar leaders after series of recent attacks; Yugo. National Bank gov. 
Dinkic says he will make dinar internally convertible by Dec. 15 , says there will 
be floating rate after Jan. 1; Mon. FM Branko Lukovac says Mon. to open 5 diplomatic 
missions in Mac., Croatia, Ger., UK, and Fra., later in US, Bos., and EU;

Dec. 2 - Croatian PM Ivica Racan re-elected head of Social Democratic Party, says 
there can be no normalization of rels. until Bel. apologizes for war against Croatia

Dec. 3 - Kostunica calls for restraint over Presevo valley, calls it dangerous and 
irresponsible to respond to one extremism w/ another and Awe count on the intl. 
community to uphold its obligations; Djindjic in Presevo calls area a top priority 
for us.  Serbia has the right and the strength to defend its territory.  We should 
react as soon as possible...one day after the elections; Bri. companies take up 
positions in US sector near village of Dobercan to monitor guerrilla activity; 4 
mortar shells fired at Serb police patrol in buffer zone

Dec. 4 - Djindjic says Atime is working against us and Awe have to act w/ 
determination and swiftly, and US should try to persuade guerrillas to get out 
of area or Serbian forces should go into the buffer zone and clear out the terrorists; 
Leader of UCPMB, Sami Azemi, says cf should be respected or guerrillas will fight;
Kostunica says any declaration of ind. by Kos. Albanian leaders will lead to new war; 
Rus. Fin. Min. Alexei Kudrin says his govt. to extend $30 mil. credit to Bel. to help 
it pay for gas

Dec. 5 - Serb police in Vranje say Alb. fighters have fired on army position 
previous night, on Serbian policeman this morning from inside buffer zone; 15 
UCPMB fighters armed w/ rocket launchers enter town of Lucane near Serb police 
base in evening for brief period before withdrawing, police under orders not to 
provoke confrontation; EU pledges $750,000 to support ind. media, NGOs prior to 
elections, another $1 mil. for long-term work of Serbian, Mon. NGOs to develop civil 
society; Amnesty Intl. calls on Kostunica to order arrest of indicted war crimes 
suspects including Milo. and send them to the Hague; Yugo. Nat. Bank formally 
acknowledges exchange rate of 30 dinars to the Ger. mark (previous rate 20-1), 
calls on illegal traders to make their businesses legal exchanges; Power cuts 
announced in Serbia due to low gas pressures due to Rus. gas cuts; UNMIK issues 
new guidelines for keeping weapons, guerillas out of DMZ: suspects of violent behavior 
may be banned from given area for 30 days, face 2 months imprisonment for violations; 
Clinton admin's advisor on Balkans, James O'Brien calls for elections in Kos. 
sooner rather than later to give Alegitimacy to Kos. leaders who may be engaged in 
talks on future of province, Yugo. FM Svilanovic says Bel. wants preliminary talks 
first as elections would Apredefine Kosovo's status; OSCE fines Pristina paper ABota 
Sot $22,000 for spreading Areligious and ethnic intolerance Forensic experts say 
mass grave in Drina River bed (near Visegrad) could hold as many as 40 bodies of 
Muslims killed by Serbs in '92; Croatian police arrest Ninoslav Pavic, publisher of 
Jutarnji list, 6 associates arrested on suspicion of involvement in illegal media cartel

Dec. 6 - Albanian PM Ilir Meta visits Kos., tells Kos. Transitional Council that 
problems in Presevo area must be solved by Adialogue and democratic means;
Yugo. PM Zoran Zizic says Serbian forces could Aeliminate in one or two days 
guerillas in Presevo area, and that Awe will not spend the entire winter under 
such a serious (UCPMB) threat if diplomacy does not succeed; Kostunica pardons 3 
members of Serbian Liberation Army convicted in April of trying to carry out 
hostile activities and assassinations; DOS leadership agrees on 5 dep. PMs in govt. 
if they win elections, each from one of major parties in coalition;
Bos. Dep. FM Husein Zivalj says he doesn't expect that Bos., Yugo. to est. dip. ties 
before end of year due to Belgrade demands that Bos. drop war crimes charges against 
Yugo.; Croatian police release  Ninoslav Pavic due to lack of evidence

Dec. 7 - UNMIK police conduct raid in Mitrovica, confiscate large number of weapons 
including assault rifles, grenades, anti-tank rockets, ammo., crowd of 150 Serbs stop 
UNMIK police car, beat officer and take away his female Serbian interpreter; Rugova, 
Thaci say they are opposed to Serbian parl. elections being held in Kos., but KFOR 
Gen. Carlo Cabigiosu says voting to take place in Serbian enclaves; Yugo. PM Zizic 
tells parl. that he hopes Kos. Albanians take part in pol. life in Yugo., says he 
expects intl. community to remove threat of guerillas from Presevo, says we won't 
allow a single bit of our land to be taken away; Yugo. DM Slobodan Krapovic tells 
upper chamber of parl. that there may be as many as 1,500 guerillas in DMZ area
Bosnia introduces visas for Iranians in effort to curb illegal immigration; Joint 
presidency says it will est. diplomatic rels. w/ Yugo. but only after revising 
conditions in text of protocol announced by Yugo. FM Svilanovic; Petritsch says Bos. 
closer to freedom now than at any time since war ended, but feels intl. community 
may lose interest by focusing assistance on Serbia and Kos. to exclusion of Bos.

Dec. 8 - Kostunica says rels. w/ US have improved, and hopes change in 
administration in Wash. to bring about new personnel;
Bos. Croat officials say Croat part of Mus.-Croat Fed. army has to restructure, 
cut strength due to Croatia drastically cutting subsidies, deny that up to 75% of 
force to be eliminated; IMF says it is concerned over formation of new authorities 
after general elections, rep. in Bosnia, Bruno de Schaetzen, says World Bank, EU 
need IMF move before they will release their own funds, says conditions include 
improvement in tax, revenue collection, passing of laws, adoption of firm commitment 
from govts., parties to draft 2001 budgets; Several thousand public sector workers 
across Croatia stage 1-day strike demanding wage hike and Christmas bonuses; Mesic 
says Kostunica must distance himself politically from Bos. Serbs even as Croatia has 
done same to Bos. Croats; Police in recent days find 3 bodies of people purportedly 
killed by Serbian rebel in Sisak area over last 4 years;
Yugo. FM Svilanovic establishes dip. rels. w/ Slovenia;

Dec. 10 - Grenade thrown at bar in n. Mitrovica, shots fired nearby, Serbs, Kosovar 
Albanians get in fight near bar causing 1 Alb. to be injured; 50 Kos. Serbs throw 
stones at Alb. man working on west bridge in Mitrovica; KFOR detains 13 ethnic 
Albanians trying to enter border zone of Serbia; Several hundred Serbs stage protest 
in border village of Merdare near Kos., demand right to return to homes across border, 
some attempt to cross over but stopped by KFOR; Kostunica calls for media to be 
financially ind., says Athis means that media cannot be funded by the state or by 
foreign countries; 10,000 mark anniversary of Tudjman's death at gravesite;
Greek DM Akis Tsochatzopoulos signs bilateral sec. agreement in Skopje w/ Mac. DM 
Ljuben Paunovski

Dec. 11 - Tractor hits mine n. of Suvo Grlo, kills 1 Kos. Serb, wounds 2 others; 
area previously reported to have been clear of mines but regularly traveled by Kos. 
Serbs; 100 Kos. Serbs gather for protest on west bridge in Mitrovica, unsuccessfully 
attempt to prevent group of Kos. Alb. residents from returning to their homes in 
northern part of town, crowd throws stones at KFOR Fre. convoy crossing bridge; 
crowd grows to 500 before dispersing; Kostunica says he wants to negotiate w/ moderate 
Albanians on future of Kos., travels to Rome to meet w/ Pres. Ciampi, PM Amato, and 
Pope John Paul II; Rugova says Kos. is de facto ind., that it is only matter of time 
before intl. community recognizes it, rules out autonomy discussions w/ Serbs;
OSCE mission head in Bosnia Robert Barry says 2 armies need to dismiss another 15,000 
soldiers as Bosnia can't afford to maintain such a large military;
Croatian PM Racan, cabinet meet to discuss problems in rel. w/ Hague, agrees on 
13-point set of demands to tribunal including it showing an even-handed approach, 
respecting Croatian law, and working w/ Croatian auth. and courts

Dec. 12 - UNMIK investigating reports that Kos. Alb. women had their sons illegally 
forced to become part of UCPMB, demanded money, org. denies responsibility; Hans 
Haekkerup, Danish DM, reported to be successor to Kouchner; Milo. says in interview 
that he has a clean conscience and that Hague is illegal and part of a mechanism for 
the destruction of the Serbian nation; Mira Markovic begins 1-year unpaid sabbatical 
from teaching post at Belgrade University; Serbian police detain former head of 
customs service and Milo.-ally Mihalj Kertes, hold him for questioning; Belgrade 
court indicts 6 Serbian election officials on charges of fraud in Sept. pres. 
elections, but also rules that there is no evidence to link Milo. directly to any fraud;

OSCE spokesman Luke Zahner responds to SDS demands for cabinet seats in RS govt.,  
says RS needs to appoint apolitical govt. of experts if it wants to survive serious 
eco. crisis, says donor help could be withdrawn if new govt. were thought incapable 
of dealing w/ problems; US Amb. to Bos., Thomas Miller, says US to cut funds to RS 
if SDS joins govt.; Jacques Klein tells UN Sec. Coun. that UN must invest more money 
in Bos. mission if it wants to complete work there by 2002, says intl. community not 
tough enough in implementing Dayton Accords; Hague Dep. Prosecutor Graham Blewitt 
says Croatian cabinet demands are unacceptable and that indictments to be issued 
against unnamed Croatian generals for crimes during '95 campaign

Dec. 13  - Grenade explodes outside house in Gnjilane; shots reported n. of 
Brekovac; KFOR detains Kos. Alb. man at Gnjilane checkpoint on suspicion of 
being UCPMB member; Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic moves to Serbia from UK, 
says he wants to help create jobs, attract foreign investments; Several thousand 
Serbs block highway connecting Nis to Skopje in protest over presence of armed ethnic 
Albanians in buffer zone w/ Kos.; UN Sec. Coun. condemns Aacts of violence by armed 
groups in southern Serbia, calls for immediate end to violence; Kostunica calls on 
Coun. to fulfill its obilgations to promote peace, security; Kostunica also says auth. 
to propose leg. to clarify rights and est. provisions for regional and local autonomy, 
tells OSCE's Max van der Stoel that previous efforts at assimilation and discrimination 
to stop; Petritsch rules old Bosnian entity-identifiable passports to continue being 
used until new single national passport becomes available; Amb. to UN Muhamed 
Sacirbey resigns; OSCE says state, entity authorities may be formed without HDZ 
participation; Pensioners in Fed. say on Dec. 20 they will protest reduction of 
pensions mandated by pension law set up by Petritsch; Bos. Serb Stevan Todorovic 
pleads guilty to 1 charge of crimes against humanity, 26 other charges against him 
dropped at Hague in exchange for dropping his own charges that NATO pks arrested him 
illegally in June; Bos. SDS leaders agree at meeting w/ Petritsch to fully endorse the 
Dayton peace accords; Intl. mediator for Bos., Christian Schwarz-Schilling, says 
participation of SDS in govt. is now Aacceptable provided it respects democratic 
principles and Dayton; Croatia's Mesic says auth. must cooperate w/ Hague and not 
repeat mistakes of Tudjman govt.

Dec. 14 - 2nd day of protests by Serbs on Nis-Skopje road; KFOR detains 5 ethnic 
Albanians on suspicion of being members of UCPMB; KFOR's Gen. Hardy warns Serbian 
police that it (NATO) will not let them take control of security zone, that Kos. 
Albanians will retaliate against local Serbs if this happens; Kos. Supreme Court 
begins 1st day of work w/ 14 local, 2 foreign judges; Kouchner says UN will not 
organize or monitor Serbian elections in Kos.; Yugo. army ct. sentences 9 Serbian mil. 
policemen, 1 lawyer for total of 7 years for extorting money from Kos. prisoners, 5 
get suspended sentences; 2 main ethnic Albanian parties (Party for Dem. Work, United 
Dem. Party of the Albanians) say they will not take part in Serbian parl. elections 
as they cannot win necessary 5% to get into parl.; Yugo. Nat. Bank Gov. Mladjan 
Dinkic says dinar now fully convertible; PM Zoran Zizic to head new civilian Council 
on Def. and Sec., also recalls 17 ambassadors including Milo's brother in Moscow;
SDS adds its 31 deps. to form majority coalition of 49 (including Party of Dem. 
Progress, Socialist Party of RS, Dem. Nat. Alliance) in RS parl. (83 seats);
Croatian forensic experts find 11 bodies of what are thought to be Croatian Serbs 
executed in '91 in mass grave at Debelo Brdo (c. Cro.)

Dec. 15 - Mirjana Markovic holds news conference, calls Hague Athe Gestapo of the 
late 20th century and its cells are a concentration camp, gas chambers, denies that 
her family got rich, says Awe are a family without a developed sense for material values;
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) admits Yugo., Yugo. needs 
donor nation to pay $15 mil. membership fee; Yugo. FM Svilanovic, Bos. FM Jadranko 
Prlic est. diplomatic rels. between their countries, Bos. says it won't give up on 
war crimes charges before the Hague; Mass grave w/ 18 bodies found in Debelo Brdo, 
Croatia, possibly Serb civilians killed in '91

Dec. 16 - OSCE's Kos. Police Service School graduates 312 in 11th class of cadets 
bringing total who have gone through 8-week program to 2,851 (eventual goa.l, 4,000); 
cadets must now go through 19 weeks of in-service training w/ UNMIK, 80 more hours of 
OSCE classroom experience; Yugo., Serb govt. officials hold Asymbolic joint session in 
Bujanovac (border region), approve document on ADeclaration on the Def. of the Nat. and 
State Interest of the Fed. Rep. of Yugo. and calls KFOR, UN Adirectly responsible for 
UCPMB threat, calls for UN Sec. Coun. to take action on removing AAlbanian terrorists 
from region; Kostunica says that he expects new US admin. to reduce presence in 
Balkans, says he thinks that Yugo. would not have been attacked if Republicans had 
been in the White House; Mon. govt. says Nat. Bank of Yugo. doesn't have right to 
open currency exchange offices in Mon.; Mirko Sarovic (SDS) sworn in as new pres. in 
RS, Dragan Kalinic (SDS) elected speaker of parl.

Dec. 17 - Joint US-Rus. KFOR patrol fired on by suspected UCPMB guerillas after 
pks stop group from taking arms into Serbia; 200 Serbs in Leposaviq set fire to 
police station, stone cars, briefly hold 7 Belgian pks hostage after Serb arrested 
in his car, 2 Serbs die, 1 wounded in attack; Kostunica comments that latest violence 
is no coincidence events occurring before elections; Yugo. FM Svilanovic calls 
for 5 UN Sec. Coun. members, Albania, Bos., Bul., Greece, and Mac. to hold series 
of conferences on pol. status of Kos., says ind. would Adestabilize region

Dec. 18 - KFOR commander Gen. Cabigiosu deploys operational reserve of 150 Bri. 
troops to MNB-East to show that NATO will not allow armed Albanians to operate in 
GSZ, or let Kos. be used as staging ground for attacks into Serbia; Explosion at 
house in Obilic;
Djindjic says situation in Presevo area Ahas the potential to become a new Balkan 
war; Opp. leader Vladan Batic says if Sec. Coun. does not take action Bel. to 
take things into its own hands and clean out the terrorists from every inch of 
its territory; Croatian PM Racan says he objects to Hague summons for Gen. Petar 
Stipetic of Gen. Staff, suggests that del Ponte come to Zagreb to discuss his 
objections

Dec. 19 - Kos. Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic claims Belgian pks killed Serb civilian 
in Leposaviq riot by shooting him in the back; UNMIK begins issuing ID cards to 
34,000 ethnic Albanians who don't have documentation;

Kostunica reportedly says he wants to revise MTA, cut size of zone from 5 to 1-2 
kilometers, says groups in US are supplying Asecret aid to AAlbanian terrorists in 
Presevo area, and that Aany change of intl. borders would eventually lead to others; 
Yugo. mil. ct. in Nis sentences 2 soldiers, 1 officer to total of nearly 14 years 
for killing of elderly Albanian couple in March '99 (ct. reportedly worked w/ UNMIK);
Petritsch's office denounces attacks on Bos. Muslims returning to Serb-controlled areas

Dec. 20 - KFOR Gen. Cabigiosu meets w/ Serbian Dep. PM Nebojsa Covic in 
Bujanovac to discusshow to deal w/ UCPMB guerillas in GSZ (1st meeting between 
NATO, Serbs in Serbia proper); UCPMB spokesman Shaqir Shaqiri says he is 
irritated at meeting, calls instead for direct negotiations; del Ponte says 
Milo., other war crimes suspects must stand trial at Hague, not in Yugo., 
says she is angry that Serbs are treating Milo's crimes as primarily against other 
Serbs; IMF readmits Yugo. after 8 year suspension; Intl. Crisis Group issues report
 saying that Bos. cannot survive as self-sufficient country, calls Bos. politics 
a paradoxical combination of flawed democracy and a semi-intl. protectorate in 
which the intl. community often appears reluctant to use its powers effectively; 
report also calls for Aa more radical approach designed to change the environment 
in which future elections will be held; Petritsch comments that Bos. has not taken 
control of its fate and future by allowing democracy to take hold; Lord Robertson 
warns that Bos. Acannot expect to receive the level of aid and handouts that it has 
in the past without reforms; Zagreb city council restores name of Square of the 
Victims of Fascism from Square of Croatian Heroes

Dec. 21 - 2 Kos. Bosniaks report that 3 Kos. Albanians assaulted their families 
in their home in Orasje beating a woman; Gen. Cabigiosu says that it may soon be 
possible to revise Kumanovo agreements; also comments that KFOR may soon crack 
down on Serbian extremists in n. Kos., and calls for Alb. guerillas to disarm in 
GSZ and go home; Serbian Election Commission says it will open 250 polling 
stations in Peja, central Kos., and Mitrovica; Robertson says NATO taking effective 
action to stop guerillas from infiltrating into Serbia, and that ammo., explosives 
were stopped from being shipped into buffer zone on previous night; Kostunica tells 
Fre. Pres. Chirac that arresting Milo. Anot a priority for him;
Petritsch's office says new laws on eco. reforms will create a consistent legal 
framework based on market economy criteria and European practice (that) will send 
a positive signal to potential investors; Petritsch comments that next year 
building a single Bosnian state will be office's main goal; Croatian Justice Min. 
Stjepan Ivanisevic says govt. not to allow Gen. Petar Stipetic to testify before 
Hague reps. in Zagreb until they make it clear whether he is a witness or suspect

Dec. 22 - UCPMB commander Muhamet Xhemaili says guerillas will fight Serb 
forces building up in Presevo area, and NATO troops if they are sent in without 
prior agreement w/ UCPMB; Yugo. officials, foreign diplomats tour Presevo valley, 
US Amb. William Montgomery commends Athe non-violent position of the Yugo. govt.;
Bos. office of UNHCR says number of Mus., Serb, Croat refs. has declined 
significantly since '95 from 845,000 to 518,252; Zagrebacka Banka buys 95% of 
Bosnia's Universal Banka;
Mac. police expel 108 prostitutes from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Serbia

Dec. 23 - Shots fired in air by unknown gunmen when KFOR patrol investigates 
barn fires in village of Banja; DOS reportedly wins 65% of vote in elections 
 9see Dec. 27), Djindjic becomes  PM-designate, to name govt. by Jan. 10;
Mladen Ivanic, moderate economics professor and member of Party of Dem. 
Progress, nominated to be PM for RS

Dec. 24 - Explosion in front of Kos. Albanian shop in Prizren;
Yugo. forces take control of St. Ilija hilltop in Presevo valley

Dec. 25 - Djindjic announces that new govt. to begin investigation that could lead 
to arrest of Milo. for crimes in Yugo.; Yugo. Supreme Def. Council calls on UN Sec. 
Council to set deadline for guerillas to leave GSZ, says if it fails to do so, it 
will act itself; 4 Serbs reported missing in area;
RS PM-designate Mladen Ivanic says he is sure West will back his govt.

Dec. 26 - Yugo. Supreme Def. Council fires Col.-Gen. Milorad Obradovic, Admiral Milan 
Zec, Col. Luka Kastrovic who are all serving in Mon.; Sporadic protests around Serbia 
over power shortages, outages;
Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says he will resign if ref. on independence fails

Dec. 27 - Kos. Serb man injured when bomb thrown into bar in Lipjan;
Serbian Electoral Commission reports final elections results: DOS received 64.08% for 
176 seats, Milo's SPS got 13.76% for 37 seats, Radicals 8.5% for 23 seats, Arkan's 
Party of Serbian Unity 5.33% for 14 seats; JUL, SPO fail to reach 5% threshold; 
Kostunica says he sees as more important need to Acreate the institutional conditions 
to put questions of responsibility on a legal basis, rather than using rev. justice 
against Milo.; tells Rus. State Duma chairman Gennadii Seleznev that Yugo., Rus. 
should expand ties; Germany announces immediate 50 bil. mark ($23.7 mil.) aid 
package;  Govt. to no longer impose restrictions on foreign journalists' admission, 
accreditation; Yugo. govt. announces that it expects GDP growth in 2001 to be up 
10%, Central Bank announces that it will abandon fixed exchange rate on dinar in 
favor of managed fluctuating rate, govt. to cut spending on military, increase 
tax collection

Dec. 28 - Yugo. parl. passes resolution demanding UN remove guerillas from GSZ, 
rest of Yugo., says Yugo. has right to act on its own; Shooting and shelling 
reported near Bujanovac; Yugo. PM Zizic says Bel. wants to reestablish diplomatic 
ties w/ Albania; Industrial production in Mus.-Croat Fed. fails to reach 
double-digits for first time since end of war, hitting just 9%, lowest point 
since it reached 51.4% in '97; Agricultural production falls 8% due to drought;
Bos. Croat leader Jelavic calls for dual citizenship for Bos. Croats (w/ Croatia), 
says Bos. Croats do not want to participate in Croatian elections;
HDZ parl. leader Vladimir Seks says party to try to impeach Pres. Mesic for harming 
Croatian national interests by cooperating w/ Hague

Dec. 29 - Rocket-propelled grenade fired at house in Cernica;
Bos. state parliament elects first speaker from multi-ethnic party since 
end of war, Sead Avdic of Social Democratic Party; also elects moderate Serb 
as deputy

Dec. 30 - Kostunica fires 13 Milo. loyalists in army including former DM 
Dragoljub Ojdanic, Admiral Milan Zec, Gen. Geza Farkas, promotes Gen. Vladimir 
Lazarevic, 3rd Army commander; Gen. Pavkovic announces that firings of mil. leaders 
during Milo. era to be re-examined by mil. courts

Dec. 31 - UCPMB takse 6 Serbs hostage in GSZ; 2 KFOR soldiers enter Serbian 
territory  to defuse tensions in village of Veliki Trnovac after Albanians raise 
Albanian flag there; Djindjic, Gen. Pavkovic tour s. Serbia area; 
15 Kos. Serbs surround NGO car in N. Mitrovica, KFOR has to clear way for car to 
escape; UNMIK policeman threatened by crowd in Skenderaj while trying to arrest 
man, has radio and pistol stolen, KFOR intervenes to protect him but suspect escapes;
Kostunica says in New Year's address that Mon. is govt's key problem and that we 
can preserve and constitutionally redefine our country, while building dem. 
institutions; Djukanovic says in his own address that Awe want to run our state,
but Kostunica also wants to run our state, says Belgrade Apatronizing Mon.;
Petritsch says honeymoon between Bos. and intl. community over and unless changes 
are made Bos. to find itself Aon the outskirts, but not part of Euro. wealth and 
prosperity; says main priorities for year are carrying out eco. reforms, building 
state institutions, return of refugees, and implementation of property legislation;
Sadako Ogata resigns as head of UNHCR



Key Terms/Names:

Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) - coalition of 4 small pro-ind., centrist 
parties (People's Movement for Kosovo,  LPK; National Movement for the Liberation of 
Kosovo, LKCK; Albanian Unification Party, UNIKOMB; Parliamentary Party of Kosovo, PPK).
Avramovic, Dragoslav - former head of (Serbian) National Bank, ind. economist, 
considered potential successor to Milosevic.
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 League of Kosovo (LDK, Lidhja Demodratike te Kosove) - party of moderate 
political leader Ibrihim Rugova.
Dienstbier, Jiri - UN human rights investigator.
Djindjic, Zoran - leader of Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), appointed Yugo. 
Prime Minister after Dec. 2000 elections.
Djukanovic, Milo - President of Montenegro.
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).

Election Appeals Sub-Commission (EASC) - OSCE body in charge of 
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.
Genjac, Halid - Muslim member of Bosnian collective presidency, replaced Izet., 10-12-00.
Ground Security Zone (GSZ) - 3-5 km. security zone on Serbian size of border w/ Kosovo 
established by UN Res. 1244.
Hajradinaj, Ramush - former UCK commander (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit area), head of Alliance 
for the Future of Kosova.
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.
Interim Administrative Council (IAC) - highest level civilian advisory body to UNMIK, 
composed of members of all ethnic groups in province (formerly Kosovo Transitional Council).
International Military Education and Training (IMET) - US govt. program to fund 
training of Bos. Croat members of Mus.-Croat federation military.
Ivanovic, Oliver - moderate Serb leader of Kos.-based Serbian National Council.
Izetbegovic, Alija - Muslim member of Bosnian collective presidency ('95-'
00).
Jackson, Gen. Sir Mike - (British) First commander of KFOR in Kosovo, June-Oct. 12, 1999.
Joint Advisory Council on Legislative Matters - Council advising UNMIK on identifying
areas needing legal reform, identifying discriminatory laws with a need for immediate 
suspension, and areas where new legislation needed.
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.
Karadjordjevic, Prince Aleksandar - heir to Serbian throne, living in London.
Kelmendi, Nebike - co-head of Judiciary Dept. in Kos.
Koenigs, Tom - Ger. environmental expert appointed Dep. Special Rep. in Kos. in charge 
of civil admin.
Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK, Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosove) - armed resistance movement 
to Serb power, 1997-99, now technically disbanded.
Kouchner, Bernard - UN's highest-ranking civilian official in Kos., responsible for 
administration of province.
League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina - opposition party in Vojvodina.
Liberal Center Party of Kosova (PQLK) - party split off from Thaci's PDK, considered 
moderate alternative to both AAK, PDK.
Maloku, Naim - leader of Liberal Center Party in Kosovo.
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
Military Professional Resources, Inc. (MPRI) - US firm working on contract basis to 
train and advise Croatian, Bosnian forces.
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.
Otpor (Resistance) - student opposition movement in Yugoslavia.
Party of Democratic Action (   ) - primarily Muslim party in Bosnia.
Party of Democratic Progress of Kosova (PDK) - party formed by Hashim Thaci as 
political arm of UCK.
Pesic, Vesna - leader of 1996-97 opposition movement; current high-ranking member 
of opposition.
Petritsch, Wolfgang - UN's High Representative for Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Reinhardt, Gen. Dr. Klaus - Commander of KFOR in Kos. as of Oct. 12, 1999 replacing 
Gen. Sir Mike Jackson.
Radisic, Zivko - Serb member of Bosnian collective presidency.
Resolution #1244 - UN Security Council resolution (June 1999) authorizing KFOR deployment.
Robertson, George - NATO Secretary-General (replaced Javier Solana), former British 
Defense Secretary.
Rohan, Albert - OSCE chief Balkan envoy.
Sarovic, Mirko - Pres. of Republika Srpska, member of SDS, elected Nov. 2000.
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 Radical Party (SRS) - right-wing party of paramilitary leader Vojislav Seselj.
Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) - nationalist party headed by Vuk Draskovic.
Seselj, Vojislav - leader of right-wing Serbian Radical Party, former leader of 
paramilitary group AChetniks responsible for ethnic cleansing in Croatian, Bosnian war, 
and Yugo. dep. prime minister.
Silajdzic, Haris -  head of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, former PM during war.
Skiader, Lt. Gen. Thorsten - Norwegian army, named KFOR commander beginning in Spring 2001.
Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - party led by Slobodan Milosevic, governing party in 
Serbia until Oct. 2000 revolution.
Solana, Javier - NATO Secretary General until Oct. 1999; EU spokesman for foreign and

security policy.
Thaci, Hashim - former head of the UCK, now head of Party for the Democratic 
Progress of Kosova.
Tusevljak, Spasoje - Bosnian Serb elected Prime Minister of central government 6-22-00.
UCPMB (Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja, 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.
UNMIK - UN Mission in Kosovo, administration of province, under direction of Dr. 
Bernard Kouchner.
United Yugoslav Left (JUL) - revised communist party under leadership of Milosevic's 
wife, Mirjana Markovic.
Vujanovic, Filip - Prime Minister in Montenegro, ally of Pres. Djukanovic.
Zizic, Zoran - Yugo. Prime Minister, Milosevic ally.