Week in Review

Thursday, October 8
London:  Meeting in London, the Contact Group agreed upon six conditions which Richard Holbrooke would give to Slobodan Milosevic.
Bruxelles.  The NATO Council adopted a detailed plan for step-by-step air strikes in Kosovo, and an operative plan for possible placement of ground forces in the event a cease-fire is reached and negotiations begin on the political resolution to the Kosovo crisis.
Pristina.  Chief of Staff of the illegal KLA announced that they have stopped all “war operations and that they accept the cease-fire.”
Belgrade: The Serbian Governmnet adopted a Decree “on special measures in conditions of NATO armed threats to our country.”
The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) told its members to stop re-emitting foreign media programs in the Serbian language on their airways within the following 48 hours “because of many threats of physical violence, revenge and lynching” received recently.

Friday, October 9
On the streets of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Podgorica, foreign currency street black-market dealers were reselling the German mark for 7 dinars.

Sunday, October 11
Moscow: Because of the “impossibility of further dialogue on the Kosovo crisis” and evident complete decidedness by NATO to use force, Russia is temporarily withdrawing “for consultations” its permanent NATO representatives in Brussels.

Monday, October 12
Brussels.  The NATO Council issued an order on readying its military forces for “limited air strikes and phased air strikes” directed at FRY, which will not be carried out before the 96 hour deadline from the point at which the order was adopted.

Tuesday, October 13
Belgrade: Slobodan Milosevic, in address to the nation, announced that agreement has been reached on a peaceful solution to the Kosovo crisis, and that “the danger of air strikes has been removed.” The agreement will be supervised by 2000 international civilian “verifiers”.  Holbrooke and Milosevic also agreed upon sending to Kosovo “flight missions of non-combat airplanes and an OEBS verifying forces.”
Chief of the Negotiating Team of Kosovo’s Albanians, Fehmi Agani, saluted the agreement reached between Milosevic and Holbrooke.  Agani stated for Belgrade’s Radio B92 that “illusions should not be harbored that the problem has been solved.”
The Assembly of Associations of Roma people of Yugoslavia demanded that the Government Yugoslavia accord Roma the status of a national minority in the nearest future.
Geneva: The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) assessed the agreement as as unacceptable since according to it Kosovo would be guaranteed autonomy within Serbia, stated for Reuters KLA Spokesman Bardill Mahmuti.

Wednesday, October 14
Belgrade: On the basis of a “war decree”, staff offices of the daily newspapers “Danas” and “Dnevni telegraf” have been sealed shut, while today’s issues of these publications have been forbidden.
“Nasa borba” published the Ministry for Information warning issued to that publication which cites that it also stands the possibility of closure on grounds of “spreading fear, panic and defeatism.”
Accompanied by Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic and Chief of General Staff, Momcilo Perisic, Slobodan Milosevic visited areas of Serbia which were struck by earthquakes.

Thursday, October 15
Nasa Borba daily banned.