The New York Times

New York, Wednesday, October 14, 1998

MILOSEVIC ACCEPTS KOSOVO MONITORS, AVERTING ATTACK

Serbian Pullback

U.S. Special Envoy Says Election Is Promised in Disputed Region

By Jane PERLEZ

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[...] Mr. Holbrooke acknowledged that he had failed to persuade Mr. Milosevic to comply with a United Nations resolution calling for him to allow the international war crime tribunal in The Hague to have jurisdiction in Kosovo.

Mr. Milosevic's only concession on future operations of the tribunal in Kosovo was to allow freedom of access and a doubling of its operations there. The Tribunal has a representative office in Belgrade staffed by one or two people, Western diplomats said.

The question of jurisdiction of the tribunal is particularly sensitive to Mr. Milosevic because of two widely publicized massacres of ethnic Albanians, apparently by Serbian forces, on Sep. 26, three days after the United Nations resolution demanded that Mr. Milosevic adopt a cease-fire and withdraw his forces.

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