News in English – Belgrade Evening Report:
- Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic publishes a book about economic reform and life under sanctions; Milosevic wrote the preface.
- Military Medical Academy celebrates 155th anniversary.
- Announcer: Nikola Poplasen dismissal is an illegal act, its against Dayton, could jeopardize stability in region.
Serbian Television Evening News:
- Slobodan Milosevic meets German and Austrian ambassadors in Belgrade: discussion of Kosovo crisis and cooperation between Yugoslavia and the EU; the EU should not threaten with bombs, but aid Yugoslavia in fighting terrorism.
- Serbian Radical Party: ancestors paid with blood for Serbia, no foreign troops on Serbian soil, Kosovo must be defended (cited).
- Albanian Democratic Reform Party (Demokratska Reformska Partija Albanaca) speaks out against the KLA: the KLA only hurts Albanian people by giving them false hopes (cited).
March 8:
- Kosovska Mitrovica women protest to OSCE to regain the freedom of a kidnapped Serbian soldier; the soldier's father and uncle were killed on March 3.
- Serbs and Macedonians in Vrbenica, Macedonia rally in support of Milosevic and his policy.
- CNN interviews Yugoslav ambassador to U.S. Nebojsa Vujovic: Serbia to seek peace through the Ten Principles of the Contact Group – amendments added to the Rambouillet agreement which could qualify Kosovo as an independent republic (cited).
- Report on foreign media coverage:
Hungarian Magyar Hirlap: published a letter by Milan Milutinovic and Ratko Markovic – Milutinovic asks the Contact Group to prevent U.S. manipulation; Hungarian Nepszabadsag: Belgrade opposes the option of a Kosovo citizen's referendum after three year moratorium.
- French President Jacques Chirac meets NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana to discuss the Kosovo situation.
- Bosnian Serb parliament votes to reject Robert Owen and Carlos Westendorp's decision regarding the status of Brcko.
- Journalists within Republika Srpska and outside its borders gave international representatives a protest letter against the Brcko situation – status unjust and against Dayton agreement.
Special Program, "On A Direct Line":
- Yugoslav citizens rallied in Malmo, Sweden in support of Yugoslavia and its fight against terrorism.
- Political activism of Yugoslav citizens living in Germany: Yugoslav clubs organize rallies and protests in support of Yugoslavia's policy in Kosovo and against NATO threats.