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01 Jan 1999

Montenegro + 1 other
Fighting and Population Movements in Kosovo in 1998

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— Le Monde diplomatique
The fighting that took place from February to December 1998, mainly in the Drenica region in the centre of
 the province, caused tens of thousands to flee to Montenegro and Albania.
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01 Jan 1999

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission Daily Report; 01 Jan.

Report
— US Department of State
Released by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

Compiled by EUR/SCE (202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element of the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission

January 1, 1999

Kosovo remained calm today with no cease-fire infractions reported. KDOM escorted a U.S. Senate staff delegation on visits to Pec, Krivoc, Kijevo, and Malisevo where the delegation members met with KLA, police, and others.

KDOM met with Serbian village leaders

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01 Jan 1999

Serbia + 1 other
IRC Kosovo Program Update

Report
— International Rescue Committee
International Rescue Committee (IRC) teams on site in Kosovo report that bone-chilling rains are signaling the start of a deadly winter for thousands of Albanian refugees who have begun to return to their former homes, many of which are in ruins. Another 30,000 citizens of Kosovo who have taken refuge in Albania are also in desperate circumstances.
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30 Dec 1998

Albania + 2 others
International monitors say Kosovo truce holding

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By Adrian Dascalu

PRISTINA, Serbia, Dec 30 (Reuters) - International monitors said a ceasfire was holding in Kosovo for the third consecutive day on Wednesday after heavy fighting last week in the northern parts of the Serbian province.

"For the third day running we have no reports of incidents in the Podujevo area. This is a very positive development," said Jorgen Grunnet, the spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) verification mission.

On Tuesday, five people were found dead

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30 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Solana says NATO ready to intervene in Kosova

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Javier Solana, who is the secretary-general of the Atlantic alliance, said in a statement in Brussels on 29 December that "NATO is ready to intervene if the situation requires." He noted that the alliance's threat of air strikes against Serbia remains in effect. Solana also called on both sides to respect the cease- fire. Meanwhile in Prishtina, the moderate Democratic League of Kosova urged NATO to take "resolute action to stop the Serbian machinery of terror." PM
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30 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
ICG publishes recommendations for the Madrid PIC meeting

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— International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group (ICG) publishes today a report containing recommendations for the Madrid meeting of the Peace Implementation Council.
The 18-page report, entitled To Build a Peace: Recommendations for the Madrid Peace Implementation Council Meeting, considers the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia) three years after the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) ended the war and measures to make the peace process self-sustaining.
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30 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission Daily Report; 30 Dec.

Report
— US Department of State
Released by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

Compiled by EUR/SCE (202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element of the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission

December 30, 1998

The cease-fire continued unabated without incident today as severe winter weather conditions prevailed throughout Kosovo.

U.S. KDOM escorted Richard Miles, American charge in Belgrade, on an area tour today. He visited U.S. KDOM personnel

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30 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Albania, Greece fear escalation in Kosovo

Report
— Agence France-Presse
TIRANA, Dec 30 (AFP) - Albania and Greece fear an escalation of the confict in Kosovo unless a solution is found soon, their defence ministers Luan Hajdaraga and Akis Tsohatzopoulos said Wednesday.

"Unless a peaceful solution is found between now and spring, the conflict could be aggravated" and spread throughout the Balkans, Tsohatzopoulos warned.

On a visit to Tirana, he called on the international community to seek "new initiatives" to re-establish dialogue as "te only possible solution."

Echoing his Greek counterpart's fears,

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30 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Serbian leader rejects monitor's advice

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Zoran Andjelkovic, who is Belgrade's chief civilian official in Kosova, told the town council in Podujeva on 29 December that the OSCE monitors' "only job is to verify the facts on the ground and inform their superiors of their findings, and the facts clearly show that the criminal gangs [of the UCK] are terrorizing the civilian population." He stressed that the monitors' duties do not include "telling us what to do and how to deal with the terrorists." Andjelkovic assured the province's Serbian minority that "the state will not allow the terrorists
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30 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Violence expected in Montenegro ?

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic said in Podgorica on 29 December that any large-scale public gathering "would be dangerous under the present circumstances," RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. In recent days, spokesmen for the opposition Socialist People's Party of Momir Bulatovic have called for party supporters to go onto the streets for "New Year's Eve celebrations" in keeping with the Julian calendar, namely on 13 January. Bulatovic, who is Yugoslav prime minister and a close ally of Milosevic, used street violence one
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30 Dec 1998

Angola + 7 others
Fears for food security in 1999 rising, WFP executive Dircetor says

Report
— World Food Programme
ROME - An escalation in the causes of food crises in 1998 has sounded the alarm for global food security in the coming year, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme said today.
Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of WFP, noted that 1998 was marked by an unprecedented combination of events driving up world hunger levels: climate catastrophes like Hurricane Mitch, economic collapses in Indonesia and Russia; a resumption of bitter civil wars in Kosovo and Angola; and steady, long-term conflict, as in southern
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29 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Et sur la situation au Kossovo ?

Report
— Government of France
RFY/KOSSOVO

Nous avons déjà réagi dès le 24 décembre. Depuis hier, de meilleures nouvelles nous sont parvenues, selon lesquelles il y aurait une trêve mais qui demeurait ''précaire''. Ces événements tout à fait déplorables, tragiques, intervenus au Kossovo ces derniers jours ne remettent pas en cause pour l'heure, le déploiement de la Mission de vérification de l'OSCE. Ce déploiement se poursuit normalement - un millier de vérificateurs sont déjà sur place à pied d'oeuvre - et nous souhaitons qu'il puisse se poursuivre dans les meilleures conditions, sans changements

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29 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission Daily Report; 29 Dec.

Report
— US Department of State
Released by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

Compiled by EUR/SCE (202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element of the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission

December 29, 1998

U.S. KDOM received a report that 10 policemen in white camouflage uniforms were maneuvering near a mental hospital near Stimlje (NW of Urosevac). According to a KLA representative, they were trying to draw KLA fire on the hospital in order to create a propaganda

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29 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Rugova wants NATO role in Kosova ...

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Shadow-state President Ibrahim Rugova said in Prishtina on 28 December that the "civilian Albanian population is threatened" by the Serbian military and police presence and operations in the Llap region near Podujeva, KIC news agency reported. A stepped-up international, including NATO, engagement is needed to force Belgrade to end its aggressive policy of ethnic cleansing, Rugova added. Meanwhile in the Podujeva area, the latest cease-fire held on 28 and 29 December against a background of fog and freezing temperatures (see "RFE/RL
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28 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Future of Kosovo observers in doubt: OSCE chairman

Report
— Agence France-Presse
VIENNA, Dec 28 (AFP) - The chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Bronislaw Geremek, said Monday the future of the international observer mission in Kosovo may have to be reconsidered after new fighting in the province.

In an official OSCE statement, Geremek, the Polish foreign minister, expressed his "deep concern with the renewed fighting and the breach of the fragile ceasefire in Kosovo in recent days", blaming both sides for the breaches.

"Contrary to the October Agreement

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28 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Renewed ethnic cleansing in Kosova ?

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The UCK said in a series of statements in recent days that it still respects the overall cease-fire but that it will fight in self-defense wherever Serbian forces attack. Also over the long weekend, up to 1,000 Kosovars fled their homes in the Podujeva region in sub-freezing temperatures. The "Guardian" wrote on 28 December that this could be the beginning of a new wave of displaced persons in the province. One of the main goals of the Milosevic-Holbrooke pact was to enable refugees and displaced persons to go home before the onset of
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28 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Future of monitoring in doubt

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
OSCE Chairman Bronislaw Geremek said in a statement in Vienna on 28 December that the "spiral of violence puts in danger the perspective of a peaceful solution to the conflict". If the bloodshed and violence escalate, the OSCE would have to reconsider the forms of its activities [in Kosova] in the context of a broader involvement of the international community in the search for a peaceful solution to the conflict." Some 600 unarmed monitors, known as "verifiers," have arrived in Kosova under the terms of the Milosevic-Holbrooke pact.
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28 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Four days of clashes in Kosova

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Serbian security forces exchanged fire with the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) in the Llap region near Podujeva between 24 and 27 December, leaving at least 12 persons dead. It marked the worst fighting since Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke reached an agreement on 12 October. Serbian spokesmen said that the renewed crackdown was necessary following what the spokesmen claimed were attacks by the UCK on individual Serbs. But observers noted that the Serbs' use of up to 100 tanks was a disproportionate
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28 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
U.S. concerned about Kosovo violence

Report
— US Information Agency
(Condemns breaches of cease-fire) (320)

Washington -- The United States condemned the military action undertaken December 23 by combined forces of the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" Army and internal security police near Podujevo, Kosovo.

"We condemn all breaches of the cease-fire and other violations of applicable UN Security Council resolutions in Kosovo, including provocative attacks committed by elements of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Belgrade's disproportionate and indiscriminate reaction,

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28 Dec 1998

Serbia + 1 other
Aid continues as tensions rise in Kosovo

Report
— MSF
Although recent violations of the cease fire agreement are making conditions increasingly difficult in Kosovo, Doctors Without Borders mobile clinics are still able to reach residents of this Yugoslavian province who lack access to medical care. In the vicinity of the city of Pec, Doctors Without Borders held mobile clinics in Prapacan, Lumbardh, Drenovc, and Drelle, and distributed pharmaceutical supplies to three clinics and one hospital. The Pec team also sent relief trucks to nine villages in Pec and Decan municipalities, distributing a total

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