VARIOUS: CONTACT GROUP MEMBERS SAY THEY WILL IMPLEMENT SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA IF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC BLOCKS KOSOVO PEACE EFFORTS

Record ID: 988686

  • Title: VARIOUS: CONTACT GROUP MEMBERS SAY THEY WILL IMPLEMENT SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA IF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC BLOCKS KOSOVO PEACE EFFORTS
  • Date: 25th March 1998
  • Summary: BONN, GERMANY (MARCH 25, 1998)(RTV-ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SV EXTERIOR GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY, SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. WIDE VIEW CONTACT GROUP SEATED FOR MEETING 0.15 3. SV BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK SEATED 0.21 4. SV/SLV U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT SEATED AND TALKING TO GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER KLAUS KINKEL (2 SHOTS) 0.35 5. SV FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER HUBERT VEDRINE SEATED 0.37 6. WS OF MEETING 0.47 BONN, GERMANY (MARCH 25, 1998)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) 7. WS ALBANIAN KOSOVANS DEMONSTRATING 0.54 8. VARIOUS VIEWS DEMONSTRATORS WITH BANNERS CHANTING (2 SHOTS) 1.09 9. SLV BANNER READING "STOP THE SERBIAN TERROR", DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING "KOSOVO REPUBLIC" 1.13 10. SV DEMONSTRATOR 1.19 11. WIDE VIEW DEMONSTRATORS WITH BANNERS, CHANTING 1.24 12. LV/SIDE VIEW ALBRIGHT AND KINKEL WALKING TO PODIUM FOR PRESS CONFERENCE (3 SHOTS) 1.40 13. SV ALBRIGHT SAYING THE ONLY WAY OUT FOR PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC IS FOR MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE WITH THE KOSOVO ALBANIAN COMMUNITY. TODAY THE CONTACT GROUP AGREED THAT PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC HAS NOT DONE ENOUGH TO MEET THE DEMANDS WE MADE IN LONDON. WE DECIDED TO MAINTAIN AND IMPLEMENT THE PUNITIVE MEASURES WE ANNOUNCED THEN AND ALL OF US PLEDGED TO SEEK ADOPTION OF THE ARMS EMBARGO BY THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL (ENGLISH) 2.11 14. WS CUTAWAY PRESS TAKING NOTES 2.16 15. SV ALBRIGHT SAYING I DO NOT HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT IN THE VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES GIVEN BELGRADE'S RECENT ACTIONS WE WOULD BE JUSTIFIED IN IMPOSING EVEN TOUGHER MEASURES BUT I AM SATISFIED THAT THE DECISIONS WE HAVE MADE ARE SUFFICIENT FOR NOW TO MAINTAIN THE CREDIBILITY AND UNITY OF THE CONTACT GROUP (ENGLISH) 2.36 16. WS OF PRESS CONFERENCE 2.40 PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (MARCH 25, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 17. GENRAL VIEW OVER TOWN WITH MOSQUE MINARET 2.45 18. TOP VIEW STREET SCENE 2.49 19. VETON SURROI, OWNER OF INDEPENDENT DAILY "KOHA DITORE" AND MEMBER OF THE 15-MEMBER ALBANIAN TEAM WHO WILL START DIALOGUE WITH SERBIAN SIDE, SAYING THIS FOUR-WEEK PERIOD OF TIME IS A UNNECESSARY SPACE FOR MILOSEVIC TO STILL MANOEUVRE IN TACTICS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN A MASTER IN THE PAST YEARS (ENGLISH) 3.07 20. LV STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST KOSOVO SITUATION 3.12 21. SLV DEMONSTRATORS WITH FLAG 3.16 22. SV DEMONSTRATORS BLOWING WHISTLES 3.20 23. VIEW OVER SQUARE AND GATHERED DEMONSTRATORS (2 SHOTS) 3.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BONN, GERMANY
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA8KPF296AZV20G39ASBJ7OG6XS
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