This Week (August 6 - Auguest 12)

Thursday, August 6th
Pale - Srdjan Knezevic, the deputy chief of police in Serb Sarajevo is assassinated.
Podgorica - Vukasin Maras, the Montengerin foreign minister, tells the daily Pobjeda that he told Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president, the Montenegrin foreign ministry would do everything in its power to prevent the spilling over of clashes from Kosovo to Montenegro.
Brussels - The European Commissioner for refugees said his office had sent five million ECUs (about 5.5 million US dollars) to the displaced persons in Kosovo.
Geneva - Jirzi Dinstbir, the UN special envoy for human rights affairs in the former Yugoslavia, says the Serb police operations in Kosovo have turned into ethnic cleansing. He qualified the demands and objectives of the Kosovo Liberation Army as unacceptable.
Sofia - Todor Zivkov, the former Bulgarian communist ruler, dies at the age of 86.

Friday, August 7th
Belgrade - Brian Donnelly, the British ambassador to Yugoslavia, hands in the Contact group's message on Kosovo to Nikola Sainovic, the Yugoslav Vice-Premier. Donnelly gave Sainovic a copy of the document for Milan Milutinovic, the Serbian president, and submitted the same letter to leader of the Kosovo Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova.
Pristina - Ibrahim Rugova says the KLA is prepared to join the ethnic Albanian negotiating team for talks with the Belgrade authorities. Rugova said the talks would show whether the Serbian regime was prepared to accept and respect ethnic Albanian institutions in Kosovo.
Paris - The Western European Union (WEU) asks NATO to intervene in Kosovo.
Kragujevac - Branislav Lukovic, a Serbian police officer, is arrested for the murder of three persons, including one Slobodan Miljkovic a.k.a. Lugar (37), a war crimes suspect.

Saturday, August 8
Belgrade - The Gross National Income in Yugoslavia stood at 7.866 billion dinars in May, while the expenditures reached 5.673 billion dinars, said the National Bank of Yugoslavia.

Sunday, August 9th
Athens - The Yugoslav national basketball team won the World Championship after beating Russia 64-62 in the final.
Belgrade - Over 100,000 inhabitants of the Yugoslav capital staged a street party to celebrate the team's victory.

Monday, August 10th
Belgrade - The federal employment bureau reveals that there were 834,482 unemployed persons in Yugoslavia in May.
Sarajevo - Jadranko Prlic, the Bosnian foreign minister, told the Belgrade-based Beta news agency that Yugoslavia had refused to establish diplomatic relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina and exchange ambassadors.
Banja Luka - Milovan Stankovic, the interior minister of the Bosnian Serb Republic, said the ministry would no longer provide regular bodyguards for Momcilo Krajisnik as of August 15th.

Tuesday, August 11th
Pristina - Serb and Albanian sources in Pristina say that 14 police officers and 217 ethnic Albanians have been killed in Kosovo since the latest Serb police offensive against the KLA.
UN food relief convoys reach 43,000 Albanian refugees in Cirez and Klina, says the Reuters news agency.
New York - The UN Security Council appeals for an immediate cease-fire in Kosovo, says Danilo Turk, the Council's president and Slovenia's ambassador to the UN.
Moscow - The Rolling Stones stage their first ever concert in the Russian capitol.

Wednesday, August 12th
Banja Luka - The government of the Bosnian Serb Republic shuts down the SRNA news agency for what it called biased and unobjective reports.
Bioce - A bus taking tourists to Budva hits a rock and plunges into the Moraca river canyon, killing 18 and seriously wounding 19 passengers.