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To: lorne who wrote (35161)	6/11/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Alex	Respond to of 116759

Russian troop movements alarm Nato Russian troop movements alarm Nato Russia deployed a column of troops and military vehicles in Serbia on Friday, causing alarm at Nato headquarters. The vehicles were marked with K-For, the insignia of the international intervention force in Kosovo. By the middle of Friday it was unclear whether the column would remain in Serbia, or cross the border into Kosovo. Nato forces, which make up the bulk of K-For, have been on standby waiting to enter Kosovo from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. But British troops have now been told there will be no move into the province until at least Saturday, according to sources quoted by Reuters. The deployment of the small Russian force came shortly after Moscow threatened to bypass Nato and establish its own peacekeeping sector in Kosovo in conjunction with Belgrade. US Vice President Al Gore said Washington had received assurances that the Russians would not enter Kosovo. BBC Defence Correspondent Mark Laity says Russia is playing a high-stakes game of brinkmanship in Yugoslavia, after the US refusal in Moscow to accept Russian modification to the peace plan. After US and Russian military delegations met in Moscow on Friday morning, the head of the Russian side said consultations were being adjourned "indefinitely". At the same time, US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who had been meeting Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, left Moscow without reaching any agreement. Correspondents say Mr Talbott had "played hard ball" with the Russians, refusing any modification to the UN-backed formula for peacekeeping in Kosovo. The Americans insist on a Nato-led structure which would place all peacekeeping forces in Kosovo under their command. Russia is demanding independent control of their soldiers in a separate sector. After leaving Moscow, Mr Talbott was summoned back and is expected to hold further negotiations with Mr Ivanov. Delay in Macedonia The first units of the Nato contingent had been expected to cross into Kosovo from Macedonia at about 4am local time on Friday, but some troop-contributing countries were reported to have requested more time to assemble their forces. Nato denies the deployment has been delayed, saying everything is going smoothly. However a BBC correspondent at Nato headquarters in Brussels says it is understood that there was a delay - caused by Greece's refusal to allow US forces on their way to Macedonia to come ashore in Greece until the last moment. Fighting continues The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has accused Serb forces of burning houses as they withdraw from Kosovo. <Picture: Talking Point><Picture>The rebels said the Serbs had set fire to homes in the southern town of Kacanik and a BBC correspondent in the hills overlooking the town said he could see plumes of smoke rising from it. Our correspondent also reported a number of very loud explosions from the valley, which appeared to be mines going off, and the sound of automatic fire as trucks carrying Serbian police drove away. He said this could have been an exchange of fire with guerrilla forces or the Serbs shooting as they left. Diplomatic moves <Picture: [ image: width=150]> The United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of K-For on Thursday, after Nato announced an end to its bombing campaign. The Security Council vote came after Nato verified that Yugoslav troops were beginning to withdraw from Kosovo. China abstained and the official press on Friday said Beijing had serious reservations about the peace plan. But a commentary in the People's Daily said it was Chinese pressure which had forced Nato countries to accept an amendment stressing the principles of the UN charter. Clinton declares victory US President Bill Clinton has urged the Serbian people to overthrow Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. In a televised address from the Oval Office, he said Serbia would get no aid for reconstruction while it was "ruled by an indicted war criminal". But he said the US would be happy to help when the Yugoslav Government represented "tolerance and freedom, not repression and terror". On the differences with Russia over its role in peacekeeping in Kosovo, the president also urged Moscow to contribute. But he said he was pleased the US partnership with Russia had been preserved, despite disagreement over Nato's use of force in the conflict. And Mr Clinton told the American people that the air campaign against Yugoslavia had "achieved a victory for a safer world, for our democratic values and for a stronger America". news.bbc.co.uk

To: lorne who wrote (35161)	6/11/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116759

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