News

Call Number
350-1-1:597/2

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:597/2
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #597 / No. 2
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000597
Original Title
Dnevnik
Date of air
1999-02-02
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
31 min.
Notes
February 2, 3, and 5

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
News in English:
- Report on incidents in Kosovo, terrorists have been intensifying attacks on civilians, police, and the army since OSCE's deployment.
- The Yugoslav ambassador to the UN, Jovanovic, speaks about the alleged massacre in Racak.

03:56.55 – Serbian Television Evening News:
- The Yugoslav ambassador to the UN, Jovanovic, speaks at the UN (cited).
- 24 bodies autopsied by experts – Finnish experts issued no statements. Bodies autopsied at the Institute for Forensic Medicine – Walker's media hoax has not been successful.
- Short news section on new Kosovo incidents: confiscation of weapons manufactured in Western countries – a truckload came from Croatia and BiH.

04:00.00 – News in English:
- Yugoslav govt. holds session: NATO authorization of strikes are an open threat and a violation of UN regulations; other Serbian govt. statements pertaining to NATO threat.
- Jovanovic states that Yugoslavia wants a peaceful solution to the Kosovo crisis.
- Vuk Draskovic meets with the chief of OSCE.
- Russian Duma voices its opposition to the NATO threats.
- Expert teams from Belarus and Yugoslavia find that there was no massacre in Racak; the mutilation was caused by animal bites.

04:05.15 – Serbian Television Evening News:
- Zoran Andjelkovic meets with OSCE's head, Wiemer, who also met with representatives of other ethnic minorities.
- Confiscation of weapons in Kosovo (footage): weapons' manufacturing origin, documents show weapons from Croatia and BiH, weapons are for terrorist needs.
- Report on te Yugoslav delegation in France: Markovic states that negotiations must begin, and expects that the other side wants a peaceful solution too.

04:11.43
- Yugoslav press conference at Yugoslav Cultural Center in Paris: Markovic states that he came to Paris to negotiate, not to win, because it is important that peace wins.
- France will do all in its power to get results at Ramboillet.
- Russian Duma delegation arrives in Belgrade, and hands over the resolution which supports the Yugoslav govt.
- Expert teams from Belarus and Yugoslavia find that there was no massacre in Racak.
- Report from Paris: Markovic arrives to Paris in the interest of peace and peaceful solution (Markovic gives a statement).

04:14.45
- Yugoslav press conference at Yugoslav Cultural Center in Paris: Markovic states that he came to Paris to negotiate, not to win, because it is important that peace wins [this is the same report as above]. Markovic and other representatives issue statements: 208 civilians have been killed (no Albanian civilians mentioned), representatives of Kosovo minorities (Albanian, Turkish, the Gora villagers, Muslims, Romani, Egyptians) issue statements.
- The French govt. states that it will do all in its power to get results at Ramboillet.

04:20.30
- Ibrahim Rugoba's delegation of Kosmet Albanians did not leave for Paris today, there was no official explanation.
- Serbian Renewal Movement states that crimes committed in Kosovo prove that the KLA is a group of murderers and thugs.
- Report on foreign media coverage:
Russian media: supports Serbian parliament's decision to negotiate; French officials: stress they want political solution; British media: decision to negotiate was almost unanimous, Blair expects success at Rambouillet; Italian govt.: there will be no troops deployed until political solution found; Germany: Joschka Fischer approves Serbian government's decision to negotiate; Greek media's reaction; Bulgarian reaction; German media: warns of Great Albanian terrorism; Macedonian media: hail Yugoslav decision to negotiate.

04:25.09
- Albanian terrorists throw another bomb at Pristina cafe.