President Clinton vociferously denounced Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's slaughter of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a province of Serbia.
Russia has announced that it will veto an American-backed plan to grant independence to Kosovo - once a province of Serbia.
Milosevic denied that his troops have carried out a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
On December 10, the UN-sponsored troika from the US, Russia and Germany is due to present their report on the ongoing UN-sponsored negotiations between the Kosovo Muslims and the Serbian government regarding the future of the restive province of Serbia.
After three months of mounting violence in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, peace talks have at last been arranged between Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia (which encompasses Serbia), and Ibrahim Rugova, the pro-independence leader of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority.
But Mr Milosevic insists that the province is to remain part of Serbia.
Serbia and its former province of Kosovo have reached an EU-brokered accord aimed at normalising relations between the Balkan neighbours.
In Moscow this week, Mr Milosevic was persuaded by Boris Yeltsin that it would be prudent to listen to his critics and at least talk to the people in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo (see article).
Albanian President Berisha is responding to his domestic woes by becoming more reckless in his conduct of foreign affairs -- notably with respect to the Albanian population of Serbia's Kosovo province, a well-honed technique for diverting attention from difficulties at home.
Mr Tadic's party is more liberal, yet over the future of Kosovo, Serbia's secessionist southern province, Mr Tadic has been as hawkish as anyone.
Pavkovic commanded the Yugoslav army in southern Serbia, including the mainly ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo, during the 1999 NATO air strikes which eventually forced Yugoslav forces to withdraw from the region.
More specifically, some Kosovars fear that a post-Milosevic Serbia would compete with their province for a finite pool of international assistance.
Serbia regained control of Kosovo in 1913, and the province was later incorporated into Yugoslavia.
Neighbourly relations are a prerequisite for progress towards the EU. Keen to win candidate status even though (like five of 27 EU members) it does not recognise its former province, Serbia began commission-sponsored talks with Kosovo.
Serbia's government has approved the EU-brokered deal with its former province of Kosovo.
Serbia has rejected a European Union-brokered deal on normalising ties with its breakaway province of Kosovo.
Between 1989 and the beginning of 1997, the vast majority of Albanians claiming asylum in Britain were indeed Kosovars from Serbia's overwhelmingly ethnic-Albanian southern province.
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