This Week

Thursday, September 17
Belgrade - The Serbian Assembly decides that it will discuss a government report on the Kosovo situation on September 28
Ivica Dacic, the spokesman of the Socialist Party of Serbia, criticizes Germany's foreign policy and qualifies it as "open support for terrorists in Kosovo".
International monitoring organizations report an improvement of the humanitarian situation in the southern Serbian province, but confirm the UNHCR report on 50,000 displaced persons out in the open.

Friday, September 18
Belgrade -The Yugoslav government presents the new draft penal code.
Around 1,000 people stage a rally outside the German embassy to protest against Volker Rie's statements and a possible NATO intervention in Kosovo.

Saturday, September 19
Pristina - The ethnic Albanian negotiating team forwards a temporary solution on Kosovo's status, implying interim self-governing with international guarantees. The proposition is published by the ethnic Albanian newspaper Bujku.
Belgrade - A number of Belgrade citizens, mainly members of non-governmental organizations, stage a rally against war in Kosovo.

Sunday, September 20
Podgorica - The Montenegrin government asks the republic's assembly to draft its own penal code, rather than to hand competency for this over to the federal authorities.
Belgrade - The Yugoslav Army decides that conscripts will serve a compulsory one-year term after the age of 21 as of November 6.

Monday, September 21
Tirana - Ahmet Krasniqi, the "defense minister of the ethnic Albanian exiled Kosovo government", is murdered.
Pristina - Adem Demaqi, the KLA's political representative, steps down at the doctor's request. According to a report, the doctors found Demaqi's diabetes condition to be deteriorating due to "constant tension". Foreign observers say Demaqi stepped down because of a conflict with the KLA's innermost leadership.
Belgrade - Dragutin Gostuski, a prominent composer and art historian, dies at the age of 75.
The Novi Sad lottery says it won't pay the winners because it has no money.
The average August income in Yugoslavia is 1,089 dinars.

Tuesday, September 22
Nis - The municipal court sentences Branko Todorovic, a local tycoon, to one year of imprisonment for tax evasion. Todorovic failed to pay 61,285 dinars.

Wednesday, September 23
Pristina - The Serbian President Milan Milutinovic goes for an unexpected visit to Kosovo. "I saw life return to our southern province", Milutinovic said after visiting the Pec and Pristina regions.
New York - The Contact Group member countries agree on a resolution to be adopted by the UN Security Council. According to diplomatic sources, the draft resolution does not include plans for a military intervention in Kosovo.