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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (15689)6/3/1999 7:53:00 AM
From: Giordano Bruno  Respond to of 99985
 
Serbia OKs Kosovo Peace Deal

Filed at 7:06 a.m. EDT

By The Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Serbia's parliament overwhelmingly approved a Western-backed peace plan for Kosovo designed to end the mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and the NATO bombing campaign on Yugoslavia, parliamentary deputies said today.

No vote totals in the 250-member assembly were released but delegates said members of the second-largest party, the Serb Radical Party, voted against the plan.

''The Serbian parliament adopted conclusions accepting the G-8 principles because they present a basis for achieving peace and an end to the bombing,'' said Zarko Jokanovic of the small New Democracy party.

''They affirmed the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Yugoslavia. The U.N. is getting back the role which rightfully belongs to it. This is a basis for further solving the Kosovo problems.''

He said the only dissenting votes came from the Serbian Radical Party of deputy Premier Vojislav Seselj, which controls 82 seats. It was not know how many delegates attended the session.

Another delegate, Dejan Kovacevic, of a minor regional party from northern Serbia, also said the assembly had agreed to the peace plan.

On March 23, the parliament rejected a Western-dictated peace formula for Kosovo, and NATO began its air campaign the following day.

President Slobodan Milosevic's allies control the assembly. It was widely assumed that Milosevic wanted broader political backing for a decision to accept the plan --which contains elements the government had in the past strongly opposed.