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'REAL WAR' MAY ERUPT IN KOSOVO
By JULIJANA MOJSILOVIC

Reuters

BELGRADE -- Four policemen were believed killed in clashes with ethnic
Albanian guerrillas who crossed into Serbia from Kosovo, a Serb leader said
on Wednesday. Zoran Djindjic warned that the situation could develop into "a
real war".

A leading ally of new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, Djindjic also
said special Serb police might enter a safety zone between Kosovo and Serbia
proper unless the international community tightens control of the boundary.

Kostunica wrote a letter to NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, linking
Tuesday's clashes with a bomb attack early on Wednesday against the home of
Belgrade's chief representative in the Kosovo capital Pristina. One person
died in that attack.

He said the situation in Kosovo and in the five km security zone inside
Serbia was "deteriorating from day to day" and called on international
forces to stop new violence.

The Yugoslav government held an extraordinary session on the situation and
called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to condemn what it
described as "terrorist actions" and to decide on measures to bring the
perpetrators to justice.

It warned of a new war if the "criminal activities of the ethnic Albanian
terrorists" in Kosovo were not prevented.

Kostunica told Robertson that it was NATO's "obligation to prevent
intrusions of armed persons in the security zone from territory on the other
side of the administrative border with Kosovo," Beta news agency reported.

"I have to note with regret that despite the victory of democratic forces in
Yugoslavia and opening of our country to the world, the international
community is not fulfilling its commitments towards Yugoslavia," he said in
the letter.

A police source told Reuters that the situation in the area had not calmed
down late on Wednesday, but did not elaborate.

Djindjic, coordinator of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia bloc, said one
policeman had been confirmed dead while three others were reported missing
following fighting in southern Serbia on Tuesday which had continued through
the night.

"Yesterday afternoon and overnight there was an intrusion of commandos from
Drenica (in Kosovo) into the area around Bujanovac and Presevo and there
were widescale clashes which could grow into a real war," Djindjic told a
news conference.

He said that according to the latest information 400 "Albanian terrorists"
had entered the security belt on the Kosovo provincial boundary and that
some of them continued up several kilometers beyond the zone.

But press officer Sergeant Pat Mcguire of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in
Kosovo said he did not have information that any forces had crossed the
boundary into Serbia proper.

"We dont believe that it happened, because it is very difficult for 400
people to enter unnoticed," he said.