Postpone issue of Kosovo's final status: Svilanovic
November 29, 2000
Source: B92
12:27 VIENNA, Wednesday - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
warned of the danger from the radical groups in Kosovo and called for
retaining the province within Yugoslav borders, Beta reports.
"Hundreds of armed Albanians have violated the five kilomtre-wide
buffer zone at the administrative border of central Serbia with Kosovo.
They have provoked violence," Svilanovic said in an interview to
today's Vienna Die Presse.
He said that Yugoslav army and police would "close in the buffer
zone", but "not violate it".
"We expect from KFOR to do their job," Yugoslav foreign
minister emphasised.
Asked about the background of the violence in southern Serbia, he
assessed that "radical groups" in Kosovo felt that their
relevance had been threatened by the positive outcome of the federal
elections in Yugoslavia, and local elections in Kosovo |