News

Call Number
350-1-1:605/1

General information

Call No.:
350-1-1:605/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #605 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00000605
Date of air
1999-03-22
Date
1999
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
Serbo-croatian
Duration
1 hour
Notes
right date air may be 21

Content

Form/Genre
Television program
Contents Summary
Milosevic meets with the Serbian delegation to Rambouillet, Milutinovic, and Foreign Minister Jovanovic, and supports their decisions stating that the organizers should take greatest responsibility for the failure of real debate (cited).
- Robin Cook and Hubert Vedrin's message to the Serbian delegation: accept the agreement.
- Milosevic appears on TV and responds to Cook's and Vedrin's statement: the Rambouillet agreement is not the real Rambouillet agreement, what you call the agreement has been published in an Albanian paper on Kosovo before talks began – as far as NATO threats are concerned, you should be ashamed, you have no right to threaten another country. (translated)

- (00:51.52) Milutin Milutinovic states for French La Croix: Serbia and Yugoslavia are for peace, but will defend themselves if need be – no agreement was rejected, because there was no agreement to begin with.
- Report on Greek media: Milutinovic warns of the danger that NATO might start meddling in other countries besides Serbia.
- Serbian delegation meets in Belgrade and reports on its activities in Rambouillet and Paris to the Serbian government.
- Jovanovic and Markovic meet with representatives of foreign governments in Belgrade. Markovic: invitation to talks was accepted, but there were no real talks because there was no discussion – there is a false assumption that there had been an agreement. Jovanovic: Serbian agreement is a true reflection of wish for ethnic equality in Kosovo, individual countries have no right to make threats or put pressure on Yugoslavia; Jovanovic informs foreign govt. representatives of numerous terrorist attacks.
- Report on Jovanovic's CNN interview comments on NATO threats. (CNN interview footage, only Jovanovic shown, no mention of refugees).

- (01:02.00) The Yugoslav army Headquarters issues a statement on Yugoslavia's readiness to defend itself: the Intelligence Service of the Army Headquarters reports on the threat of military intervention and the presence of 10–20,000 NATO soldiers in Macedonia; 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.

- (01:04.32) Footage of Svrljig protests "For Serbia".
- Public opinion on NATO threats.
- Albanian terrorists shoot at police station in Malisevo – no policemen hurt.
- Serbian Radical Party: demands merciless and aggressive action against Albanian terrorist gangs who kill Serbian police and soldiers.
- The Yugoslav United Left party: condemns NATO threats and supports Milosevic, the greatest national goal should be Kosovo's defense.

Report on foreign media coverage:
- Moscow: Primakov states Russia against threats of military intervention, Contact Group should be an instrument of political solution. Duma's president: NATO attack on Yugoslavia is undermining the UN Security Council's authority. The Russian foreign minister states that talks are the only way of finding a peaceful solution for Kosovo.
- The Belarus Communist Party appeals to people around the world to protest against NATO's threats to Yugoslavia.
- Vietnam believes that Kosovo is Yugoslavia's internal problem.
- Jimmy Carter is against NATO air strikes.

- (01:11.58) Report from U.S. Congress: Senator Nichols against NATO air strikes.
- Slovak government warns that military intervention won't solve anything.
-Most influential Chinese daily: no sovereign country could have accepted Paris agreement; Peking Youth Magazine blames Americans for Paris agreement talks failure; the British press questions military intervention; Bulgarian press, Portuguese press condemn NATO.
- Macedonian foreign minister states that the territory of Macedonia won't be used for attacks on Yugoslavia.

- (01:14.55) Special Program: Top Stories – Theme of the Day: Zivadin Jovanovic and Ratko Markovic with Foreign Diplomats.
- Jovanovic and Markovic report to foreign diplomats on the Paris talks; (speeches transmitted in their entirety – mostly about putting blame for failure of Serbian side to signify the bad organization of the talks); Brian Donnelly, Great Britain's Ambassador, states that Markovic's speech does not reflect the true nature of events as they happened in Paris, Donnelly is interrupted by Jovanovic. Donnelly continues to say that agreement is a compromise, and guarantees Yugoslavia's sovereignty – British govt. thinks that the agreement is fair, and is sorry that the Yugoslav delegation did not give its approval.

01:48.42 END OF TAPE

Context

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