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Tanjug, the government-run media service in Yugoslavia, today reported the Serb government believes a U.N.-brokered peace agreement is near. A senior government official quoted in the piece also denounced NATO's continued bombing during the negotiations. |
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Federal Minister Goran Matic informed today local and foreign correspondents about the talks of delegation of FR Yugoslavia and representatives of the United Nations in Kumanovo, who are discussing military-technical details of the future agreement on peaceful and political solution of the crisis in Kosovo.
Matic stressed today at the Yugoslav Army Press Center that these talks are being held in very constructive atmosphere.
Our delegation is present all the time in the region where the talks are going on and it hasn't interrupted it nor left it, as some media reported, said Matic.
He said that our delegation didn't ask for any pause, or halt of talks. We think that the military-technical agreement will be signed in a very short time, because talks are going into right direction.
After this, new terms for the Security Council of the UN are being made in order to define the problem in frame of procedure defined by the UN, and also on the basis of a document given by Martty Ahtisaary and Viktor Chernomyrdin.
Matic reminded that the Yugoslav delegation hasn't changed since the very beginning, lead by General Svetozar Marjanovic, and that representatives of the Federal Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs are in it.
On the journalist's remark about what he thinks of the continuation of bombardment while the talks are going on, Matic answered that the bombardment should have never started, and that there are no reasons for it to be continued.
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