This Week

Thursday, November 5
Belgrade – The daily Danas is back in circulation after three weeks. The daily is now being printed in Montenegro. The first truckload of issues was 3 hours late after being held up at a police checkpoint in Prijepolje.
Pristina – Serbian President Milan Milutinovic and a large group of party officials from Kosovo held a meeting behind closed doors.
Podgorica – The Montenegrin government issues a statement to the effect that it guarantees freedom for foreign media.

Friday, November 6
Pristina – Kosovo information secretary, Bosko Drobnjak, resigns.
The illegal Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) says it has started organizing civilian authorities in the areas under its control.
The representatives of ethnic Albanian parties in Kosovo and the KLA call off talks on forming a Kosovo government after Rexep Chosja, a representative of the United Democratic Alliance, failed to turn up for the meeting.
Nis – Miroslav Zivadinovic, the owner of a private, self-styled distillery, is sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment after 43 people who drank his brew died.

Saturday, November 7
Belgrade - The daily Dnevni Telegraf is back in circulation after three weeks.
Pristina – The pan-Serbian Orthodox Church Assembly adopts a charter on national survival, stating that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is not entitled to negotiate on the behalf of Kosovo’s Serbs.

Sunday, November 8
Belgrade – The daily Dnevni Telegraf is taken to court after Bratislava Morina, the chairwoman of the Yugoslav Women’s League, pressed charges against the daily and one of its editors, Dragan Novakovic, for violating the new law on media. The judge fined the daily and Novakovic with 1.2 million dinars.

Monday, November 9
Belgrade - A team of 20 inspectors confiscated the entire circulation of the daily Dnevni Telegraf. The issues will be sold as excessive paper by the authorities to compensate the 1.2 million-dinar fee.

Tuesday, November 10
Belgrade – Arthur Watts, the international mediator for issues concerning the succession of the former Yugoslavia, says that a fresh round of talks with Yugoslav representatives is a continuation of the negotiations that started two years ago. He added he had fresh ideas about how to resolve non-economic matters concerning the issue.

Wednesday, November 11
Belgrade – The Democratic Party (DS) says that the Supreme Court has called a hearing in a proceeding against the daily Politika after Zoran Djindjic, the DS president, pressed charges against the daily’s acting editor-in-chief Hadzi Dragan Antic for “untruthful allegations violating Djindjic’s personal rights and freedoms”.
Pristina – William Walker, the head of the OSCE verifying mission in Kosovo, arrives in the southern Serbian province. He said it was uncertain when the OSCE verifying mission would start, as the majority of the verifiers still haven’t arrived.