News

Call Number
350-1-1:595/1

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:595/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #595 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000595
Original Title
Dnevnik
Date of air
1999-01-23
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Notes
January 23, 24 and 25

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
Serbian Television Evening News:
- Report on meeting of Yugoslav ambassador to Greece Dragomir Vucicevic, and the Greek Parliament President Karolos Papoulias – main points of discussion regarding Kosovo: Greece supports peaceful solution rather than military intervention. [The end of this report is cut off]
- [The beginning of this report is missing] Report on the forensic investigation of 40 bodies found in the village of Racak: Prof. Dr. Slavisa Dobricanin, director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Medical College in Pristina, claims that the Racak incident was staged by the media, and compares it to the Markale bombing in Sarajevo; footage of medical investigators working on the corpses.
- OSCE's Willi Wiemer states: the KLA is known for its underground tactics of dressing soldiers like civilians; Albania is involved with the KLA in weapons smuggling; the incident at Racak was created to damage Serbia's credibility.
- Report on foreign media coverage, British press: Kosovo-related articles primarily focused on key issues addressed by the Contact Group at their meeting in London – the group's discussion was related to the Kosovo crisis, and possible solutions.
- European diplomats comment on the handling of the Kosovo crisis: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandar Avdeev, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, and Yugoslav Ambassador to Bulgaria Dr. Rado Smiljkovic.
- Report on the meeting between the Delegation of the Yugoslav Federal Assembly (consisting of Tomislav Nikolic and Milutin Stojkovic), and Sergei Baburin, Vice-President of the Russian Duma – discussion focused on the alleged massacre in Racak, which Baburin claimed to be just another fabrication designed to show Serbia in a negative light.

00:06:04 – News in English:
- First report was shown earlier in Serbian.
- OSCE's Willi Wiemer states: the KLA is known for its underground tactics of dressing soldiers like civilians; Albania is involved with the KLA in weapons smuggling; the incident at Racak was created to damage Serbia's credibility.
- Slobodan Daknic, mayor of Vucitrn's statement: he is in contact with the OSCE after finding out that five previously abducted Serbs might be released – the five Serbs were abducted by the KLA in the village of Nevoljani; Daknic: Walker and the Western media are not completely objective.
- The Russian representative at Contact Group's London meeting states: the West needs to deepen its understanding of the Kosovo conflict; small steps towards peace need to be taken into consideration.

09:02:02
- Reports from the village of Nevolje where five Serbian residents had been abducted by the KLA during the night of January 21–22: residents were then returned yesterday; OSCE representatives visited kidnapped residents; statements by the abducted Serbian civilians; statement by Zoran Andjelkovic, President of the Provisional Executive Council of Kosovo; states: OSCE's role should be to protect Serbs and Albanians against any potential danger – OSCE and international community need to condemn such actions if they want to fight terrorism.
- Reaction of Kosovo Serbs in Pristina upon the release of five Serbs from Nevolje; 150 people are still unaccounted for within Kosovo; Head of the Yugoslav medical forensic team finishes the examination of 24 bodies – there are no signs of a massacre: Racak was another example of Albanian separatist scenarios designed to manipulate the Albanian image in the West; reporter quotes Albanian and French newspapers: Koha Ditore and Kosovo Sot criticize French and other journalists doubting the Albanian version of Racak; French Le Mond and Figaro: what happened in Racak was a clash between terrorists and the local police forces.
- The Serbian Radical Party meets: Serbian Radical Party representatives and Yugoslav Minister from Family Welfare discuss Kosovo conflict.
- Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic states in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter: Kosovo crisis could be solved in 20 days if the world community is willing to do so; the UN Security Council needs to pass a resolution denying Kosovo any type of independence of statehood within Yugoslavia.

00:17:02
- Anchorman outlines upcoming reports.
- Report on the activities of the Prizren Yugoslav Army border guard battalion stationed at the Kosovo-Albanian border (near the Gorucup and Vrbnica watchtowers); several incidents of illegal crossing by terrorist gangs were reported and efficiently halted; several soldiers interviewed.
- Discussion panel "On a Direct Line" with Serbian Minister and Deputy Minister of Information: discussion of foreign media coverage of the Kosovo crisis – Racak staged by KLA, compared to Markala and Vase Miskina; bodies were physically manipulated.

Context

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