http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=200298

Britain to Send 600 Extra Troops to Kosovo during Yugoslav Vote

LONDON, Sep 18, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Britain is to send an extra 600
troops to boost international peacekeeping forces in Kosovo to help secure the
region during next week's Yugoslav presidential and parliamentary elections, the
Ministry of Defense said Sunday.

The troops will stay in the troubled southern Yugoslav province for two months
to cover all eventualities during the election period, in which Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic is running for a second four-year term.

The UN administration in Kosovo has refused to help organize the Yugoslav polls,
calling them a "farce" and a "provocation", but the Belgrade regime has said
Kosovo's Serbs will have the opportunity to cast their ballots.

Polls show Milosevic trailing the opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica by up
to 18 percent a week ahead of the September 24 elections.

The UN has organized its own municipal elections to take place in Kosovo late
October.


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