This Week )August 13-August 19)

Thursday, August 13th
Zagreb. The Croatian government has agreed to open a Yugoslav consulate in Vukovar. Under the reciprocity principle, Croatia shall open its consulate in Subotica.
Pristina. Ibrahim Rugova has announced the members of the negotiating team which shall negotiate on Kosovo’s status with the government of Serbia. In the five-member team are Fehmi Agani, Fatmir Sejdiju, Edita Tahiri, Tadej Rodici and Ilijaz Kurtesi. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has offered Adem Demaci, the leader of the Parliamentary Party of Kosovo, to become it’s political representative in the negotiations on Kosovo’s future. Demaci accepted the offer the following day.

Friday, August 14th
Skoplje. The French ambassador in Macedonia, Jacques Untzinger, shall be the international community’s second representative to mediate between Belgrade and Kosovo’s Albanians on establishing a dialogue.
Belgrade. Miodrag Zecevic, the director of the Yugoslav Bank for International Economic Cooperation and the former director of the Franco-Yugoslav Bank in Paris, was arrested on Tuesday in Paris, as reported by the Belgrade Glas Javnosti daily.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Serbia announced that a three-member team of the German TV station ARD has been deported from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, due to the fact that they had, in the region of the Junik village, for the purpose of “media abuse staged a non-existing attack of the police in the village”.

Saturday, August 15th
Belgrade. The editorial office of the Nasa Borba daily published an announcement in which it is stated that “judging by all accounts, the Nasa Borba project has come to an end, and it is now only a question of days when the daily shall stop being published”.
The government of Serbia has adopted a stipulation on special compensation by which the price of cigarettes shall be increased from 50 cents up to two and a half dinars per pack.
According to data of the Yugoslav Army’s (YA) Information Service of Pristina’s corps, YA’s border guards have from April 1 until August 1, killed 435 terrorists while these were attempting to cross the border. Of the 175 prisoners, 80 were wounded. In the same period, 135 incidents were recorded at the border.

Sunday, August 16th
Pristina. Police forces entered the village of Junik.

Monday, August 17th
Nis. The Nis Tobacco Industry increased the price of it’s cigarettes.

Tuesday, August 18th
Belgrade/Zagreb. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia arrived in Croatia where, together with Mate Granic, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, they agreed on the exchange of prisoners under the principle “all for all”, and signed agreements on trade and the protection of investments.
Pristina. The spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Serbia, colonel Vladan Colic, announced that police forces control the entire territory of Kosovo and that all roads are open in this province.
The Kosovo Board of Human Rights has published a report in which it is stated that in the July security forces actions, 201 Kosovo Albanians were killed. The report further adds that 152 Albanians were wounded, that an additional 1.566 Albanians were “maltreated in various ways”, and that around 350.000 abandoned their homes in July.

Wednesday, August 19th
Pristina. Emma Bonino, the European Refugees Commissioner, arrived in Kosovo.
Belgrade. The Nezavisnost trade union of education announced a strike starting from the beginning of the school year.