News

Call Number
350-1-1:598/2

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:598/2
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #598 / No. 2
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000598
Original Title
Dnevnik
Date of air
1999-02-11
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
27 min.
Notes
February 11 and 12

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
Serbian Television Evening News:
- Rambouillet talks: Hill, Petritsch and Majorski will talk to both delegations, Yugoslav delegation's request to meet with the Albanian delegation was refused.
- Coverage of French media: Majorski, Hill, and Petritsch refuted speculation that Rambouillet is for motives other than peace in Kosovo; French press publishes statement that Rambouillet is only to find a peaceful solution to the Kosovo crisis
- Vuk Draskovic to be interviewed by French TV; Serbian Patriarch Pavle arrive in Paris tomorrow.
- Report on foreign media coverage:
Russian media: Madeleine Albright and U.S. incompetent in handling the crisis; Belgian: Serbian delegation has more than one ethnic representative, disprove Western media’s assumption of Kosovo being 90% Albanian; London Times: England continues to fail in disarming the IRA, maybe England should threaten Northern Ireland with bombing; Yugoslav Ambassador to Austria: terrorist attacks are deliberately against civilians, against Rambouillet (cited).
- News in brief: Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic and Greek Foreign Minister Teodoros Pangalos (sp) speak to the French media; Vuk Draskovic: problems in Kosovo to be resolved under laws of UN Convention, Yugoslavia victim of Albanian terrorism and open threats from Albania (cited); Teodoros Pangalos (sp): international community will not tolerate change of Yugoslavia’s borders (cited); Willi Wiemer criticizes NATO’s obvious intention to ignore UN: example of going against international law, the U.S. uses NATO and UN to further own interests (cited).

05:13:00 – News in English:
- The beginning of the report is cut off.
- One Serb from Vucitrn, and one from Zvecan disappeared on Saturday (cut off).

Serbian Television Evening News:
- Rambouillet talks: President of Serbia Milan Milutinovic meets with Hebert Vedrin, Robin Cook, Hill, and Mayorski; talks were behind closed doors – Serbian delegation accepted Contact Group's general elements; State Department Spokesman James Rubin arrives in Rambouillet; Serb organizations in France organize meeting for tomorrow in Rambouillet.
- Vuk Draskovic held press conference in Paris' Yugoslav Cultural Center; Vuk Draskovic: Serbian delegation in Rambouillet supports concept of multiethnic and multi-religious society, Albanian delegation wants ethnically-pure Greater Albania, there will be no independent Kosovo (part is cited, part is translated with VO).
- Milan Milutinovic gives talks to Serbian daily Politika after his talks with the Serbian delegation and Contact Group representatives: Yugoslavia stands for peaceful solution (cited).
- Serbian public reaction to ongoing Rambouillet talks.

News in Serbian:
- Serbian President Milan Milutinovic meets with Christopher and Hebert Vedrin; Serbia accepts points drawn up in Rambouillet; Serbs living in Paris will hold a meeting in Rambouillet; two Serbian policemen abducted in Kosovo.

Serbian Television Evening News:
- Milan Milutinovic states at a press conference: Serbian and Albanian delegations have not met together yet; shuttle diplomacy ineffective, by not signing the ten principles the Albanian delegation is halting the talks, why have there not been any direct meetings of the 2 delegations? (part cited, part translated with VO)
- Serbian protests in Rambouillet in support of the Yugoslav delegation.