War in the Balkans: Briefing: Day 44
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Your support makes all the difference.France gave evidence yesterday to the UN International Criminal Tribunal of possible war crimes committed in Kosovo by Serbian forces. The evidence was handed to the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, by the French Defence Minister, Alain Richard, in Paris.
The Defence Secretary, George Robertson, said Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo's moderate ethnic Albanian leader, could visit London next week. Mr Rugova arrived in Rome on Wednesday after reports he had been under house arrest in Yugoslavia.
Serbia's main opposition leader, Zoran Djindjic, has fled to Yugoslavia's pro-Western republic, Montenegro, sources close to his party said yesterday.
The European Union has finalised plans to tighten sanctions against Yugoslavia. They will be implemented in the next few days, after EU governments have given formal approval.
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said yesterday that plans to transfer up to 60,000 Kosovo refugees from Macedonia to Albania, were being held up by political and logistical problems. Macedonia had said it would allow new Kosovo refugees to enter only at the same rate as those already in the country were evacuated elsewhere.
Ireland will receive its first Kosovo refugees next Monday, the Irish Foreign Ministry said. Around 150 refugees are expected at an airport in the south-western county of Kerry.
A BABY boy born to a Kosovo refugee couple became the first new US citizen of the conflict. Lebibe Karaliju, 21, gave birth to a 7lb 8oz baby within 24 hours of being airlifted to New Jersey. Her husband Naim, 28, said he was considering naming his first child America but his wife would have the final say.
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