20:40
CARLA DEL PONTE PRESSURIZES BELGRADE: SERBIA’S INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MAY FOLLOW MILOSEVIC
The Hague Tribunal’s Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte is arriving today in Belgrade. Her visit is aimed to make the Serbian authorities extradite about a dozen of persons suspected of committing war crimes. Among them are Serbia’s incumbent President and Yugoslavia’s former internal affairs minister Milan Milutinovic, and also three former and incumbent army commanders More detail...

16:28
CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL CARLA DEL PONTE ARRIVING IN BELGRADE
Chief prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague Carla del Ponte during her forthcoming visit to the Yugoslav capital plans to turn over to the Yugoslavian authorities the tribunal's materials about money transfers by the Slobodan Milosevic regime, including numbers of accounts at foreign banks, tribunal spokeswoman Florence Hartmann told Yugoslav journalists on Monday. More detail...

15:01
MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT FIRMLY SURE IT IS NECESSARY TO AMEND COUNTRY'S CONSTITUTION
Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is "firmly sure" it is necessary to introduce amendments to the country's constitution in accordance with the agreements signed by the leaders of the main political parties on August 13, Macedonian presidential counsellor Dinka Boskovic reported to RIA Novosti in a telephone interview . More detail...

14:00
RAYMOND K.KENT: THE BALKANS, BLOWBACK AND BODYBAGS
"Blowback" is the CIA-coined term for an unpleasant reality: foreign mercenaries, trained to fight America's wars so as to minimize or eliminate U.S. casualties, have a tendency to turn against the United States as political situations change. Afghanistan is often cited as the classic example of this reality, and this experience has started to dominate the thinking about the Albanian "bastard army" created by the CIA and the Pentagon for the ground invasion of Serbia under Milosevic. This invasion did not materialize -- the Serb Third Army and police left Kosovo to NATO troops and a United Nations Administration without any real ground combat. More detail...

20:14
5,000 NATO TROOPS PARTICIPATE IN ESSENTIAL HARVEST OPERATION IN MACEDONIA
The total numerical strength of NATO servicemen participating in an operation for collecting arms from Albanian terrorists, Essential Harvest, in Macedonia is 5,000. More detail...

18:13
MACEDONIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES CHANGING CONSTITUTION. RESULTS NOT PREDICTABLE
Today at a special sitting Macedonian Parliament is intending to discuss ratification of peace agreement concluded on August 13 between representatives of main Macedonian ethnic groups and inserting amendments into the new constitution. More detail...

13:30
CURRENCY REVOLUTION IN BALKANS: IN KOSOVO EURO TO BE INTRODUCE INTO PRACTICE
Next year, on January 2, the euro will become an official monetary unit in Kosovo. Official representatives of European Union say, this step will promote Kosovo’s integration in Europe. For Yugoslavia it means an almost final loss of its territory. More detail...

11:37
MACEDONIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSED UN TO RETURN BLUE HELMETS TO THE COUNTRY
Macedonian administration calls for the return of the UN Blue Helmets to the country in order to ensure peace and stability in the state, Macedonian President Boris Trajkovsi was quoted as saying in his address to the Parliament. More detail...

19:48
SAM KORITZ: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF IAN COLLINS
Newspapers from different nations will often report the same story quite differently, as we can see from Reality Macedonia's translation of an article originally published in the Macedonian newspaper, Dnevnik, which offers a perspective on the death of British soldier Ian Collins that can't be found in the British or American press. More detail...

19:04
DEMONSTRATORS DO NOT LET DEPUTIES IN MACEDONIAN PARLIAMENT
The start of the Macedonian parliament's session at which amendments to the country's Constitution are to be made, has been postponed for five hours, because hundreds of Macedonians have been blocking all entrances to Skupstina since morning, thus expressing their negative attitude towards making amendments that extend the rights of Albanian residents. More detail...

16:45
NEBOJSHA MALIC: A DAY TO REMEMBER
Amidst the continuing vivisection of Macedonia, terror in Kosovo and political struggles in Yugoslavia, it was hard this week to remember an important anniversary. Yet it was exactly six years ago, on August 30, 1995, that NATO first entered the Balkans' wars as a combatant More detail...

16:28
SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER CUTS SHORT HIS VISIT TO YUGOSLAVIA
Slovakia's Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda cut short his visit to Yugoslavia on Friday after his motorcade was rammed by a private Mercedes car while moving from Belgrade to Novi Sad in northern Serbia. More detail...

15:49
CITY COURT OF THE HAGUE REJECTS MILOSEVIC'S ACTION
On Friday, the City Court of the Hague rejected ex-Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's action against the Dutch state. The court ruled that it is not authorized to have the ex-president released, since such authority was delegated to the United Nations. More detail...

15:39
HUNDREDS OF MACEDONIANS BLOCK PARLIAMENT
Hundreds of Macedonians blocked all the entrances into the parliamentary building Friday in a bid to thwart the debate on constitutional amendments giving more rights to the country's ethnic Albanians. More detail...

15:30
ESCORT OF SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER GETS IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN YUGOSLAVIA - TWO PEOPLE KILLED
One member of the Slovak delegation headed by Prime Minister Mikolas Dzurinda was killed in a road accident on Belgrade-Novi Sad highway. Another person was killed in the accident with the Prime Minister's escort. Head of the Slovak government was not injured and has already come back to Belgrade. More detail...

13:00
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC MADE A 36-PAGE STATEMENT. “THE WORLD RETURNING TO SUPREMACY OF VIOLENCE”
Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic has asked the secretariat of International Tribunal over former Yugoslavia to deliver to mass media the text of his written statement. On 36 pages, Milosevic proves unlawfulness of “this so-called tribunal” and writes about possible fatal consequences of its activities. More detail...

11:43
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH YUGOSLAVIA SUBMITTED TO PARLIAMENT FOR RATIFICATION
The Russian government has approved and ordered to submit for ratification to the State Duma - lower house of parliament - an agreement between the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on free trade. The agreement had been signed in Belgrade on August 28th, 2000. More detail...

10:37
MACEDONIAN PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ON FRIDAY
A session of Skupstina (Macedonian parliament) has been set for Friday. The parliament will consider amendments in the state Constitution. Macedonian deputies link the commencement of the session with completion of the first stage of the NATO operation: one third of the Albanian terrorists' weapons has been collected. More detail...

19:34
NATO: OBJECTIVES REGARDING USSR AND BALKANS
The attack on Yugoslavia and the kidnapping of Milosevic are not random events. They constitute a new phase of the "anti-Eastern" strategy, which Washington has pursued for more than five decades More detail...

18:54
ESSENTIAL HARVEST’S 1ST PHASE OVER. NATO AWAITS RECIPROCITY FROM MACEDONIA: CHANGING CONSTITUTION
The first phase of the “Essential Harvest” operation - collecting arms from Albanian extremists - is over. The operation has been suspended until the session of the Macedonian parliament, diplomatic sources in Skopje, Macedonia’s capital, report. More detail...

17:08
FIRST STAGE OF ESSENTIAL HARVEST OPERATION OVER
The first stage of NATO's Operation Essential Harvest completed, the weapon-collecting was suspended until the Macedonian parliamentary session, reported NATO spokesman to Macedonia Major Barry Johnson. More detail...

16:48
TWO TERRORIST ACTS IN SKOPJE AND TETOVO
Extremists perpetrated two terrorist acts in Skopje and Tetovo. There are no victims. The nearby buildings were greatly damaged in the explosions. The police are investigating these terrorist acts. More detail...

16:42
CARLA DEL PONTE INTENDS TO ISSUE INDICTMENT AGAINST MILOSEVIC IN OCTOBER
Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, declared that the indictment against Slobodan Milosevic in connection with his crimes in Bosnia and Croatia would be ready in October. More detail...

15:52
MILOSEVIC DEFIES WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL AGAIN
In a second appearance before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic declined to plead his case in the trial proceedings. Speaking at a pre-trial hearing Thursday, he challenged the court's jurisdiction, denouncing it as 'illegal'. More detail...

13:52
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC DAUGHTER JOINED SERBIAN RADICAL PARTY
Marja Milosevic, the daughter of the Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, joined the oppositionist Serbian Radical Party (SRP) led by Vojislav Seselj, the SRP board reported Thursday. More detail...

12:56
ON THE FUTURE OF ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS REFUSING TO HAND OVER WEAPONS
A new special unit of the Macedonian Interior Ministry will combat Albanian extremists who will fail to hand over their weapons during NATO's Operation Essential Harvest, said Macedonian Interior Minister Vlado Buckovski at a press-conference in Skopje. More detail...

12:19
PEACEKEEPERS LIFTED FROM BOSNIA TO MACEDONIA
275 Canadian and Turkish military from the peacekeeping forces in Bosnia are being lifted to Macedonia. They will participate in NATO's Operation Essential Harvest collecting arms from the ethnic Albanian rebels of the so-called National Liberation Army. More detail...

11:55
MI-8 HELICOPTER CRASHED IN WEST SIBERIA; FOUR PEOPLE KILLED
Four people were killed Thursday in the crash of a Mi-8 helicopter in the Khanty-Mansi district (West Siberia). More detail...

20:39
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT: BELGRADE ATTACHES SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO DEVELOPING COOPERATION WITH BELARUS
Yugoslavia will as before do all it can to develop its traditionally good relations with Belarus, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said on Wednesday as he accepted credentials from Belarus' new ambassador to Yugoslavia, Vladimir Matskevich. More detail...

17:06
32 ALBANIANS DETAINED WHEN CROSSING MACEDONIAN-KOSOVO BORDER
In the early hours of August 29, KFOR servicemen detained 32 ethnic Albanians as they tried to get to Kosovo from Macedonia, and delivered them to the American military base Bondsteel in Southern Kosovo, reports the KFOR press-secretary. More detail...