Milisevic8217;s letter: US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has a letter from Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to deliver to President Bill Clinton back in Washington containing a new peace proposal, CNN reported today. Milosevic is seeking a meeting with the US president and believes that four points covered in his letter will address the demands NATO has made regarding prerequisites to an end to its bombing. Jackson, in a televised interview on CNN, called for NATO to respond with a positive diplomatic gesture. quot;I hope that President Clinton, when he receives this letter today from Milosevic will weigh the worth of that initiative, including the request for a meeting with him,quot; Jackson said. However, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea, speaking shortly after the news that Jackson had a peace proposal from Milosevic, said the alliance8217;s stance would not change and the bombing would continue, according to CNN.
NATO jet crash: A US F-16 jet crashed early on Sunday in Serbia and its pilot wasrescued after ejecting, a senior Clinton administration official said. It was the second US war plane to crash in Yugoslavia since NATO began its air strikes against Serb forces on March 24. On March 27, a US stealth F-17 aircraft was shot down near Belgrade and its pilot rescued within hours. Belgrade Studio B radio quoted unofficial sources as saying the aircraft had been shot down, but US defence department officials said the cause of the crash was not immediately known. News channel MSNBC, citing chief Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon, said the plane went down near the border of Croatia and Serbia and that the pilot was safe at an undisclosed NATO base.
Air raid: At least one person was killed and 30 were injured in a NATO air raid on Sunday on a police station in Kosovska Mitrovica north-west of Pristina, an AFP journalist at the scene said. The body of a woman was pulled from the debris of an apartment building near the police station that was destroyed in the attack at 1210 IST, police said.Thirty people were hospitalised after the raid, they added. Predrag Spiric said that his pregnant wife Radenka was hospitalised in intensive care. The Spiric family lived in the apartment building some 30 meters from the police station.Witnesses said four or five missiles hit the building, situated in the center of the town.
Kosovo aid: Russia, Switzerland and Greece are joining forces in a joint effort to get aid to the victims of the war in Yugoslavia, Itar-tass news agency reports from Moscow. The three countries are working on establishing a mechanism for quick and effective distribution of aid throughout Yugoslavia, including Kosovo province, Itar-tass said, citing the Russian disaster relief ministry. The aid cooperation brings together Russia, neutral Switzerland and a NATO member country 8211; Greece. Two working groups are to coordinate efforts, one of them in Berne and one in Belgrade. They are to work to set up transport corridors for aid goods in Yugoslavia, according to the Itar-tassreport.
Greek officials confirmed the cooperation. 8220;We are already coordinating our movements with the Russians and Swiss,8221; the Greek foreign ministry spokesman, Panagiotis Beglitis, said in Athens. Beglitis said the joint humanitarian effort had been approved by both NATO and Yugoslavia.
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