Four Serbs released as "act of good will"

20:40 PRISTINA, Tuesday - The Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and
Medvedja released the four Serb civilians who were detained in the buffer
zone as an "act of good will," Liberation Army political wing spokesman
Sacir Saciri said today.

The four Serbs were detained on their way to a village near Kosovska
Kamenica because the Liberation Army suspected they were members of a
paramilitary organisation controlled by Serbian authorities, Saciri said.
The four Serbs did not resist being detained, he added.

Saciri pointed out they had been released without an urge of international
or military mediators, thus demonstrating the willingness of the Liberation
Army to negotiate with the Serbian government. (Beta)
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France will consider Kumanovo agreement changes

19:36 PARIS, Tuesday - The possibility of changes to the Kumanovo Agreement
is being examined, the French Foreign Ministry confirmed today.

"Changes to the Kumanovo Agreement are some of the ideas being examined at
the moment. We want to find a solution for a joint agreement which will
enable the life returning back to normal as soon as possible," French
Foreign Ministry spokesman Francois Rivasseau said.

Diplomatic sources in Paris assess that changes to the Kumanovo
Military-Technical agreement would cause a certain amount of legal and
political confusion.

On one hand, its change would need NATO approval, while on the other hand,
the changes to the document would raise the issue of changes to UN Security
Council Resolution 1244. (FoNet)
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NATO admits context of Kumanovo agreement has changed
19:09 BRUSSELS, Tuesday - Changes to the Kumanovo Agreement, which
establishes the buffer zone along the administrative border between Serbia
proper and Kosovo, might be discussed "one day", but it is too early for
that now, a NATO spokesman said today.

While Slobodan Milosevic was in power, the meaning of the security zone was
to be a buffer between Kosovo and Yugoslav Army, "which was then potentially
hostile," the NATO spokesman said.

Since the context was changed with the election of President Kostunica, the
justification of that zone changed, the spokesman added.

He said that NATO was not officially informed about yesterday's Yugoslav
Supreme Defence Council session demand for the revision of the Kumanovo
agreement.

It is unlikely that the Kumanovo Military-technical Agreement will be
revised without NATO Secretary-General George Robertson's full support, the
NATO spokesman concluded. (FoNet)
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Albanians to attack Yugoslav Army, police and KFOR tomorrow

18:26 BELGRADE, Tuesday - "Terrorists in the buffer zone have threatened to
attack the police and Yugoslav Army forces in southern Serbia, and KFOR
forces in Kosovo on Wednesday," a Yugoslav Army spokesman said this evening.

"Despite control by KFOR, the terrorists are still bringing armament and
equipment into the buffer zone in southern Serbia. Weapons brought in from
Albania are being kept in warehouses near Gnjilane and Kosovska Vitina in
Kosovo," the Army spokesman added.

The Yugoslav Army claimed that British KFOR soldiers withdrew from the
administrative border with Kosovo and returned to their base in Pristina,
fearing the attack of the terrorists. (SRNA)
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No full-scale rebel attack tonight, says commander
16:43 NIS, Tuesday - The commander of the Yugoslav forces in southern Serbia
sought today to quash rumours that the buffer zone rebels are planning a
full-scale attack tonight, the Radio B92 Nis correspondent reports.

Major-General Vladimir Lazarevic, the commander of the Yugoslav Third Army,
said that he did not anticipate action on the part of the armed Albanian
terrorists in the buffer zone this evening. However, he did not rule out the
possibility of "severe provocation and attacks" on the police and army
tonight.

Lazarevic said that the towns of Bujanovac and Vranje were at great risk
because the extremists had modern long-range weaponry. "I am not going to go
into where they got it," he said.

Lazarevic added that he hoped Yugoslavia would be able to claim the right to
deal with the terrorists in its territory after returning to the
international community.

According to him, one of the solutions might be that Yugoslav Army and KFOR
jointly demilitarise the buffer zone.

"We do not accept talks and negotiations with terrorists because they tend
to impose themselves both as a military and a political factor," Lazarevic
said.

Asked how Serbian police could watch terrorists fortifying their positions
and taking over villages in the buffer zone, Lazarevic replied that "he did
not understand it either", but added that the Yugoslav Army did not have any
jurisdiction in the matter.