-Caveat Lector- >From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty <<So, now it's one faction WITH the KLA fighting the Serbs and another WITH the Serbs fighting the UCK ? A<>E<>R >> > Yugoslavia: Russia Calls For UCK To Be Disarmed > > Helsinki, 16 June 1999 (RFE/RL) - Russia today demanded that the > Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) immediately disarm, while NATO offered > assurances that its peacekeeping force in Kosovo will soon seek a > formal agreement on the handover of UCK weapons. Russian Foreign > Minister Igor Ivanov called for disarmament of the UCK, and Russian > Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said the continued activity of the UCK > in Kosovo threatens to wreck the peace settlement with Yugloslavia. In > London, British Defense Secretary George Robertson said the head of > NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo, British General Sir Michael Jackson, will > seek a formal agreement with the UCK, specifying exactly when the > rebel ethnic Albanians should lay down their weapons. > > Some UCK commanders have said they plan to disarm only when the last > Serbian troops leave Kosovo, and Robertson reminded them that will be > next Monday night. However, Pleurat Sejdiu, a UCK spokesman in London, > said the UCK will not disarm in northern Kosovo until Russia agrees to > place its troops there under a unified command with NATO forces. > > Russia and NATO are at a standoff over the presence of several hundred > Russian troops at Pristina airport. Russia does not want to put them > under NATO command, and NATO refuses to give Russia its own sector in > Kosovo to patrol. > > Ivanov said today that Russia is ready for compromise but could not be > assigned a secondary role in Kosovo. He is in Helsinki ahead of talks > tomorrow with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. U.S. Defense > Secretary William Cohen is meeting his Russian counterpart, Sergeyev, > today on the same issue. > > Meanwhile, in Brussels, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea says the deployment > of alliance troops in Kosovo is proceeding well, with peacekeepers > about to move into the central region of the province. Shea said all > units have deployed to their alloted zones in southern Kosovo and are > poised to move forward. > > He also said Serbian forces had basically completed their withdrawal > from southern Kosovo, although there had been delays due to traffic > congestion and a shortage of heavy armor transport. Earlier, NATO > extended a deadline for Serbian forces to quit the south by 24 hours, > saying it's confident they were making genuine efforts. > > Shea again urged ethnic Albanian refugees to remain in their camps and > not to begin a risky journey home. He said there had been deaths and > injuries among refugees because of exploding mines. In Paris, the > French Defense Ministry said French troops had discovered human > remains in the ruins of a house in the village of Vlastion. The French > are now guarding the site. Reuter reports the presence of other bodies > thrown into wells in an unnamed village in the Drenica region. > > Meanwhile, a nine-vehicle Russian military supply convoy has arrived > at Pristina airport, where 200 Russian soldiers have been in control > in a standoff with NATO troops for the past several days. 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