News

Call Number
350-1-1:605/2

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:605/2
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #605 / No. 2
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000605
Date of air
1999-03-22
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
English, Serbian
Duration
38 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
01:49.01 – Special program: Top Stories – Theme of the Day: Zivadin Jovanovic and Ratko Markovic with Foreign Diplomats, ctd.
- Brian Donnelly, Great Britain's Ambassador: Great Britain wants to see a clear signal from Yugoslavia that it is ready to join in negotiations.
- Markovic: two negotiating sides were unequal – one a legitimate country, another terrorists. No compromise could be made because sovereignty was endangered; Jovanovic: the agreement drawn up by the Serbian delegation really is the only legitimate agreement. Pressures and threats cannot change Serbia's policy.

(02:04.25) – Serbian Television Evening News:
- Albanian terrorists killed a policeman during a rocket attack on a police convoy.
- Albanian terrorists bombed a cafe in Pristina; the police have blocked off a part of the city.
- Milosevic meets with British, French and American ambassadors – will not give up on Serbia's policy, the faked negotiations need to be put behind us.

News in English:
- Milosevic responds to Cook and Vedrin's statement: the Rambouillet agreement is not the Rambouillet agreement, what you call the agreement was published in an Albanian paper on Kosovo before talks even began – as far as NATO threats are concerned, you should be ashamed, you have no right to threaten another country. (see previous tape)
- Milosevic meets with Holbrooke – will not give up on Serbia's policy, the faked negotiations need to be put behind us.
- Milutin Milutinovic states in interview given to French La Croix : Serbia and Yugoslavia are for peace, but will defend themselves if need be – no agreement was rejected, because there had been no agreement.
- Milutinovic and Jovanovic meet with foreign ambassadors in Belgrade.
- The Army Headquarters issues statement: Yugoslavia is ready to defend itself, the foreign media wrongfully speculates on the inappropriate use of force by Yugoslav forces and is fabricating a skewed picture of the so-called humanitarian crisis and civilian victims.

02:12.11
- Albanian terrorists attack a police station in Malisevo.

Serbian Television Evening News:
- Milosevic appoints General Geza Farkes as the Yugoslav Army Headquarters Head of Security.
- Serbian Parliament representatives unanimously vote against the presence of foreign troops in Kosovo.
- Milutinovic talks to the Serbian Parliament: the delegation did all it could under the circumstances, and was put under enormous pressure – the agreement was not the goal – only troops, troops, and nothing but troops. Tempting offers were made under the condition that troops were accepted. This would have meant a new verification mission, and there would have been no more Serbia. Holbrooke can not give a reason for airstrikes. "We are the moral victors of the battle we have led so far."

Context

Associated Names
Radio-televizija Srbije (RTS) (Producer)