TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE
GIVEN BY MR PETER DANIEL AND COLONEL KONRAD FREYTAG
IN BRUSSELS
ON SATURDAY, 1 MAY 1999

PETER DANIEL:
Good Afternoon. For those of you who were not here this morning in our
brief encounter, Jamie's got a day's vacation, at last, and will be back
tomorrow with you. Colonel Freytag and I will try to up-date you on the
military situation. I have a short statement and then we will take your
questions.


Two nights ago we attacked the brains behind the brutality in Belgrade and
yesterday we went after the nervous system that keeps the Milosevic machine
informed and in touch. NATO forces pounded transmission towers and control
buildings of the Yugoslav radio relay network in 7 different locations. In
the same period we attacked 7 bridges that provide key
lines of communication between the Serb forces in the field in Kosovo and
the rest of the Yugoslav military. And as Colonel Freytag will elaborate
for you in a moment, we also attacked a full array of fielded forces in
Kosovo.


Every day Milosevic is less able to stay in touch with his forces and to
keep them supplied. Every day the Serb forces in Kosovo are more isolated
from their commanders in Belgrade. Every day the Belgrade regime is more
isolated from the world. Until Milosevic meets the
demands of the international community, we will continue to keep the
pressure on and turn up the pace.


As most of you know, President Clinton will be here this week, on
Wednesday; he will be here to meet with the Secretary General to assess the
political and military situation. We will have a programme and as soon as
we have it we will make it available to you. I am not promising
that today, so let's not misinterpret what I have said, but as soon as we
do have it we will make it available.


Colonel Freytag will now give you the detailed military briefing and then
we would both be prepared to take your questions.


COLONEL FREYTAG:
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. It is again a pleasure for me to
brief you. I don't know whether it is as pleasant for you, we will see.


NATO airstrikes continue with increased intensity against military and
strategic targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the last 24
hours, command facilities, petroleum plants, several radio relay stations,
lines of communication and military airfields were struck.
Tanks, armoured personnel carriers and other fielded military vehicles were
destroyed in Kosovo.



NATO forces' support for Non Governmental Organisations and governmental
institutions of Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
continue. Their support contributes significantly to the relief efforts in
these countries. In the last 24 hours there were 24 aid flights to the
FYROM and there were 13 aid flights to Albania delivering a widerange of
humanitarian supplies.


I will now cover current Serbian ground operations in Kosovo. The Serb
forces offensive and security operations continue in Kosovo focusing on key
lines of communication. In southern Kosovo Serb forces continued to
conduct operations along the Suboreka and Stimulu corridor, while special
police forces reportedly destroyed homes along the route.
During the on-going operations however special police units encountered
strong resistance from UCK elements near Suboreka. Fighting between the
UCK and Serb forces along the Kosovo Albanian border in the west, resulting
in heavy losses for both sides.


Serb elements appear to be undergoing a gradual process of degradation and
demoralisation. We have received reports of low morale and increased
demoralisations in some of the units in Kosovo and Serbia, including the
252nd Mechanised Brigade. Incidents of desertions are on
the rise and unconfirmed reports have been received of officers warning
their soldiers that they will be shot if they attempt to desert.


UCK forces are also continuing their operation in the following additional
locations highlighted on the slide.


Turning to Serbian Air Force activities, Serb early warning radar were
active. Serb air defence included 2 Sam6 surface to air missile launchers.
Anti-aircraft artillery was also evident. No FRY air defence fighters
opposed our aircraft. There were indications however
that the Serb Air Force were rapidly moving their aircraft around in an
attempt to avoid our air strikes. And once again we had no NATO aircraft
losses.


I will now turn to operations during the past 24 hours. First I will cover
our operations against the fielded forces in Kosovo and southern Serbia.
We continue to place a strong emphasis on this aspect of our operations and
we are scheduling NATO strike aircraft 24 hours a day
towards the task. The targets struck in the past 24 hours included
artillery, tanks, armoured personnel carriers, mortars, command posts and
military vehicles.


Turning to the rest of Serbia. Allied aircraft again attacked the full
range of military targets. We concentrated on the Serbian command and
control network and targeted many key facilities, as depicted on this slide.


The following video is taken from our attack on Thursday, 28 April against
the Serb Ministry of Interior headquarters building in downtown Belgrade.
On the video you could have also seen the simultaneous attack on the FRY
MUP building which was located across the street and as you know both these
attacks were successful.


In the command and control targets set we place particular emphasis on the
radio relay communication facilities. Our air crew targeted 9 radio towers
and control buildings of the radio relay network. This was part of our
ongoing effort to stress the Serb leadership and degrade their tactical
commanders' ability to direct and co-ordinate Serb forces' activities in
Kosovo.


The following cockpit video was taken during an attack against the Avala
radio relay towers located just south of Belgrade, and this video was also
taken during the attacks on Thursday.


Their integrated air defence system was again targeted in our continuing
campaign to repress their capability to reconstruct an integrated air
defence. Airfields at Ponikvia, Sombor and Ovova were struck. Petroleum
storage and production facilities were struck, including the
facilities at Vitanovac, Sombor, Pozega and Karajevo Novi. We also
retargeted the refinery at Novi Sad.


We again struck numerous bridges providing lines of communication in our
campaign to isolate the Serb forces in Kosovo. These included the railroad
bridge at Uce and the highway bridges at Kokinbrod, Treknik, Raska and
Bistrica. The following is an image of the Bistrica bridge after our attack.


Ammunition plants at Valijevo and Barik were struck, the ammunition bunker
at Sombor
were also targeted and totally destroyed. And finally the VJ and MUP
forces and their support facilities were hit including the Belgrade
training centre located south east of the city.


And that concludes my portion of the briefing. Thank you very much.


QUESTION:
Your response to reports coming out of 23 passengers being killed in a bus,
allegedly hit by NATO?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I don't have any evidence of this kind of accident, but we will check that
and I will come back on that tomorrow.


QUESTION:
Have you seen the reports?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
No, I have not seen this report but I have seen two other reports on a
bridge attack and also do not have the evidence of that and I will come
back to you on that tomorrow during my briefing.


QUESTION:
The German news magazine, Der Spiegel, will come out with an interview of
Secretary General Solana this Monday saying that NATO is quite close to an
end of its air campaign and very successful. This contradicts anything we
have heard these last weeks from the US Defence Ministry.


Is it just a different opinion or has NATO split into two different factions?




PETER DANIEL:
I think your interpretation of the Secretary General's remarks, which I
have also seen in English wire reports, as what the Secretary General was
saying is that we are now in the most intensive phase of the air campaign,
that means we are operating 24 hours on 24, 7 days on 7, in all of the
territory of the FRY and that this will continue, it is the most intensive
phase of the campaign and it will continue as long as it takes for Mr
Milosevic to accept the conditions that the international community have
put down for an end to the conflict. There is nothing different in what
the Secretary General said than what we have been saying, other countries
have been saying, and what we said last weekend, just a week ago, in
Washington.


GREG:
Yesterday it was said that in the previous 24 hours there had been around
600 strikes. Was that the case today, you didn't mention any number today?
And can you also tell me whether the weather is continuing to allow that
level of strikes today and tomorrow?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
The weather is much better for our operation right now, we have
improvements in that case. I think we did not say yesterday that we had
600 strikes but we flew 600 sorties, that is something different.


GREG:
Will it be the same level today?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
Yes, it is about the same level today.


QUESTION:
The OSCE is reporting shelling of an Albanian village today. Does that
constitute an attack on Albania and is NATO going to respond? And if not,
does NATO in fact have any means to respond in any other way than NATO is
already doing by airstrikes?


PETER DANIEL:
I heard those reports just as I was coming here into the room, as a matter
of fact it was part of the reason for the delay, we were trying to find out
exactly what was occurring and I have no confirmation or detail of what is
actually happening but there are reports of shelling across the border into
Albania in the Kukes area. There has, as most of you know, been this type
of activity sporadically a couple of weeks ago and it did cease, and I
would just say that if these reports turn out to be what we know up till
now, we would hope that this would stop as
quickly as possible.




QUESTION:
Colonel Freytag, can you give us some appraisal of the situation with the
serving ground forces, how much armour is left, how much has been knocked
out? Also, where is the 252nd Mechanised Brigade located?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
There you hit me. I cannot give you this precise figure but my people
might be able, so you will get an answer where the headquarters of that is.
And I cannot provide you with figures, neither in percentage nor in sheer
numbers, on the amount of tanks we have hit.


JAKE LYNCH, Sky News:
How far have NATO military commanders got in reassessing NATO's plans for a
ground invasion of Kosovo, as they were asked to do by the Washington
summit, and when might that reassessment be ready to be presented as advice
to political leaders?


PETER DANIEL:
There are no plans, and I think this has been said before from this podium
a number of times, for the use of ground troops. We believe that the air
campaign as we are conducting it now, as I think I told you a few moments
ago, is in its most intensive phase and will continue at
that pace for as long as is necessary. We believe that that will bring Mr
Milosevic to his senses, where he will finally look at seriously the
conditions of the international community and respond more positively than
he has up until now.


JAKE LYNCH:
Does that mean that the task given by the Washington summit to military
commanders to, I think the phrase was dust off, the plans that were drawn
up last October and reassess them, has that task been shelved?


PETER DANIEL:
I think you are reading too much into it. Contingency planning is a normal
occupation in this organisation and has been, I was here 20 years ago and I
recall at that time there was contingency planning of one kind or another
and I think you are reading too much into it, you are reading it back to me
as if this is about to be an order that is given and anything could be
further from what is actually happening. There is no plan for ground
troops. We believe the air campaign will be successful in bringing Mr
Milosevic to reality and addressing positively the conditions that we have
put down.


SUNDAY TIMES:
Can you tell us, Peter, what the latest situation on the thinking of the
enforcement of the oil embargo is? There are reports today that the
decision you are coming to is that you will not seek to search any tanker
that does not belong to a nation taking part in the oil embargo.
And Colonel Freytag, you have shown us a lot of videos during this campaign
of airstrikes, you have also said all along that you have been hitting
tanks. We have never seen a video, as far as I am aware, of a tank being
hit. Are you going to make those available? Do they exist? And can you
give any idea of how many tanks you have actually hit in Kosovo?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
How many tanks, I have already answered to your colleague that I am not in
a position to release numbers. But when you were at the meeting 2 days
ago, you can check with the internet, we released a video where we hit tanks.


PETER DANIEL:
On the oil embargo, the search and visitation regime, there is a discussion
among the military authorities that is not yet complete and when that
discussion reaches a decision, as you know decisions here are taken among
all 19 nations, when there is a decision that decision will
be forwarded for consideration in the appropriate political forum. That
has not yet happened. As far as oil goes, the EU, as you know, embargo
went into force, is in force today, and not only are the 15 European Union
countries taking part, but most other European countries are also a part of
that along with the United States and Canada. The embargo is already
biting, this will bite. His fuel reserves I think as you have heard in
various briefings are quite low and refining capacity is non-existent,
operating refining capacity in the FRY is non-existent,
which means that import would involve refined products and the ones that
are the most valuable are of course diesel and gasoline and you can't move
those around in the same way as you move crude oil.


QUESTION:
If refining capacity is non-existent, why do you keep hitting the Novi Sad
refinery?


PETER DANIEL:
I think we have often told you that in this air campaign it is a race
between disruption and reconstruction and that is one way to make sure
there will be no refining capacity in the FRY.


COLONEL FREYTAG:
And may I add to this? I showed you an air picture of Novi Sad refinery,
it is a huge complex and we have done careful strikes to certain parts of
it. That is it.


QUESTION:
One political question, do you have any reaction or is there any reaction
from NATO officially on the meeting between Chernomyrdin and Milosevic?
And from the military point of view, do you have any indication how is the
situation with internally displaced persons in Kosovo?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
The latter is not a military question. Yes we see increasing numbers of
internally displaced persons and we see some convoys going into Kosovo from
humanitarian organisations to help to distribute some food and water. But
that is all I have for you.


PETER DANIEL
On your first question, I think we addressed that last night, and I did
again this morning, that we are of course encouraging any effort to reach a
peaceful settlement, but from the public statements that we have seen, in
particular the 7 point plan that was put forward yesterday from the
Yugoslav side, we have seen nothing that is worthy of consideration, it
does not come anywhere close to meeting the 5 conditions that the
international community has put down for an end to this conflict. But of
course we continue to encourage diplomatic efforts because we would like
nothing better than to have a peaceful solution to this conflict,
but not at any price or on any terms.


QUESTION:
I would like to go back to the question of the ground forces. I think you
sort of danced around that. I understand ground forces are not going to be
sent soon, but the question was, and I would like you to answer that, how
is the contingency planning going? Will you be able to
give something to President Clinton next week on this issue, even if it is
contingency planning?


PETER DANIEL:
I wouldn't think so, and I am not prepared to go into the detail of what
would be involved, that is the particulars, of a contingency plan. But I
can tell you again that there are no plans to introduce ground forces into
this conflict. Where ground forces would be introduced, I think
you are perfectly aware, is under the 5 points that we are asking Mr
Milosevic to consider and to accept and ground forces would be there to
provide security and a peaceful environment for the hundreds of thousands
of people that have been thrown out of the country, and more
of them as we speak.


(QUESTIONS & ANSWERS IN FRENCH)


QUESTION (SPANISH NATIONAL RADIO):
Don't you think that with the petrol embargo on Montenegro and the recent
damage inflicted there the population could turn against Djukanovic in the
way Milosevic wants and then push down from power?


PETER DANIEL:
I can't comment on local politics in a country other than my own and even
there I think I'm limited in my current position but I think you will
appreciate that in the case of Montenegro there have been attacks not in
the last day but previously a couple of days ago and I think we have gone
to great lengths to make it clear that these attacks were strictly on
military targets that allowed the Yugoslav military machine to operate and
to continue and support the kinds of things that they are doing vis-à-vis
the Kosovo population. We have been extremely careful in targeting only
those facilities that are helping fuel the military machine in Kosovo and
as you know, the Yugoslav Army can re-supply itself from various parts of
its territory and that is the reason why we target facilities in Montenegro.


QUESTION:
On the oil embargo, what is NATO's response to the Montenegran pleas to
take into consideration its own needs, are you considering modifying any
plans? General Freytag, you spoke of desertions of Yugoslav soldiers,
can you tell us what kind of evidence you have to back that up and are we
talking about Montenegran soldiers who have made it quite clear that many
of them don't want to serve or do you have evidence of Serb soldiers
deserting too?


PETER DANIEL:
You are assuming that the oil embargo is a decision that we have taken and
I think a few moments ago I told you that that decision had not been taken,
there is still a discussion among the military authorities which will then,
when there is a decision, be forwarded to the appropriate political forum
for discussion so that issue is not something that I can comment on right
now but we as NATO, our countries as members of the European Community and
the others that are non-members which have joined the European Community
action, are involved in that oil embargo which is a matter that has been
directed by the European Community but as to our action, as I told you
there is no decision as yet.


COLONEL FREYTAG:
On the desertions, as I said in my briefing, we have some confirmed and
some non-confirmed reports about desertions. What we see from those
deserters, the first deserters came from Kosovo because there are also
Kosovans in the Serbian Army; then we saw more coming from the Vojvodina
with Hungarian background for instance, but we also have reports of Serbian
soldiers deserting. But as I said with all caution, some reports are
confirmed, some are not. We have our intelligence and that is why I
cannot elaborate too much about that.


But can I add here the answer to the question of where the 52nd Mechanised
Brigade is located. It is operating in southern Kosovo and its mobile
headquarters is at the Subereka (phon) highway area; where it's peace-time
headquarters is I have to find out and I'll have the answer tomorrow.


(QUESTION IN FRENCH)


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I am not ready to answer that in French but when we talk about this missile
incident, the missile was fired over the air space of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and by a technical error it landed in Sofia. There are no
reports about anything in Pancevo but I read that media report and we have
checked it but there is no verification of that.


MR. JONSELL (NORWEGIAN RADIO):
You said something about an increasing amount of convoys with humanitarian
aid inside Kosovo. Could you give us some more information on that, please?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I have only the information that they come from Greece and are a
humanitarian organisation.


MR. JONSELL:
Does NATO have any attitude to this kind of humanitarian aid coming into
the area from Greece, is that a positive action?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I cannot speak here for the NATO position but from the military point of
view we watch this very carefully because we do not want to target those
convoys so we would appreciate any information we can get from the convoy
planners so that we are able to identify them and their routes and talks
about this co-ordination process are ongoing.


PETER DANIEL:
And I would say from our side that we of course would encourage any
humanitarian aid that could reach people in Kosovo. There have been, as
you know, some efforts on the part of some non-governmental organisations
talking to the Yugoslav authorities, trying to see if they cannot arrange
delivery of humanitarian aid to the people in Kosovo but other than this
Greek NGO we are unaware that any other organisation has met with success
in getting permission to make deliveries to the IDPs.


QUESTION:
Colonel Freytag, on the question of tanks, you've represented that you are
not in a position to reveal the numbers on those. The number of aircraft
that have been shot down has been revealed and I wondered if you could
explain to us beyond saying that we don't to give a gift to the enemy what
the rationale is behind that because certainly the Serb forces know what
they've lost and more to the point, they know what they have left so how
does this compromise NATO in any way?


Secondly, regarding the morale of the troops, NATO officials out of the
United States in Washington have represented in a number of reports that
contrary to what NATO has said, the air campaign has unified the Serb
forces and that morale is far from low, in fact it has increased. Could
you square and reconcile those two different versions coming out of the
same organisation?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
If I understood your question correctly, you were quoting American sources
and here we are at NATO so I cannot square that circle, you must square it
but I can give you an answer on a question that was asked yesterday which
was: Why don't you release tank figures while you have released air force
figures? We have not released figures about aircraft.


QUESTION (inaudible but regarding SACEUR releasing the figures)


COLONEL FREYTAG:
No, SACEUR did not release them. I saw the press reports, yes, but we did
not release the figures and I cannot have an answer different to the one I
gave twenty minutes earlier on the tanks.


SAME QUESTIONER:
But the Serbs know what they lost and know what they still have and how
would revealing to us what has been degraded and destroyed in any way aid
the Serbs who know exactly what they have lost and more the point, what
they have left?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I can only say at this moment that I have to live with this unsatisfactory
answer that I have given to you.


QUESTION (NTV TURKEY):
We have reports coming from Kosovo saying that Yugoslav forces are using
Albanian manpower forcibly for mining and some position digging activities.
What does you intelligence say about the extent of that activity in Kosovo?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I don't have any information on this.


PETER DANIEL:
I have seen those same reports that you are referring to and I can tell you
that internally I have seen nothing on that subject up until now.


QUESTION:
Slobodan Milosevic has spent a good deal of time in the last 48 hours or so
talking to a couple of different Western media outlets including UPI and
the Washington Times, in two separate interviews he has said "that his
troops are not angels" and I am wondering what your reaction to that is.
Also that the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo has been caused not only by
NATO bombs but also by rogue paramilitary forces some of whom have been
punished, he says, and finally in his interview with the Washington Times
he said - for the first time I believe - that a lightly-armed force could
be allowed into Kosovo after a political settlement is reached. Your
reaction to those two interviews.


PETER DANIEL:
A lot of the things that I saw basically was Mr. Milosevic acknowledging
that there were some bad people in his operation that had done some bad
things to some other people and I think that probably could qualify Mr.
Milosevic and put him in contention for getting the title for the
understatement in these last days of the millennium.


I have seen nothing on the second matter that you have suggested to us but
certainly will be looking at that, that somehow did not get any prominence
and did not come to our attention so I cannot comment on that but I will
say again there are five conditions that we put down for an end to the
conflict and it starts with stopping the shooting and the killing,
withdrawing the forces, allowing an international military presence on the
territory of Kosovo so that peace and security can be established so that
the refugees now numbered in the hundreds of thousands both outside and
internally-displaced inside, can start going back and rebuilding something
approaching a normal life and of course, the political part has to come
after that condition has been established on the ground.


QUESTION (LOS ANGELES TIMES):
Have any of the Apache helicopters that have been deployed to Albania been
involved in this intensified air attack and if not, what is holding up
their use?


PETER DANIEL:
The answer is a short "No". As to what is holding up their conversion from
deployment to action, they are undergoing a period of training and
familiarisation, establishment of the base and all the things that go with
settling them in and when a satisfactory end to that process is reached,
there will be a decision from the commanders that they are ready to be used.


SAME QUESTIONER:
What do you expect to be the length of time before they are operational?


PETER DANIEL:
I can't give you that answer, I don't know.


QUESTION:
Could we find any example of how refugees in Kosovo have been helped by the
bombing that has been carried out for the last five weeks? Is there
anything, any example that we can say: "Here's a village that wasn't
burned out because we were bombing Belgrade!" or "Here are some people who
didn't starve because we were bombing Valvadina!" ? I don't quite see the
connection here between the bombing we're doing all over and the suffering
of the refugees in Kosovo. Where is the connection?


PETER DANIEL:
If we don't bring this conflict to an end by making Mr. Milosevic realise
that he has to face reality and meet the terms set down by the
international community, nothing is going to happen for the refugees, they
will continue to be pushed out as they were well before bombing began. The
only way to end this conflict and get those people home, get those villages
reconstructed and bring some kind of normality to Kosovo, is for Mr.
Milosevic to start addressing in a positive way the five conditions that
the international community have put down for an end to the conflict and we
hope that happens, the sooner the better.


QUESTION (PORTUGUESE TV):
The Secretary General told us the other day that among the countries in the
area nobody was for a change of borders so Kosovo would remain, as the
European leaders said, as part of Yugoslavia. We know that some members
of NATO have a very close relationship with the UCK. The UCK is not
exactly like Mr. Milosevic said, i.e. angels, the past has been very hard
for this organisation especially in the '80s. Isn't it is a danger for
NATO in the post-crisis to have some members who have such a relationship
with this kind movement that really wants something else than keeping the
borders?


PETER DANIEL:
The UCK is not something natural that just started to grow on a tree one
day. There is a reason for the UCK and I would suggest that that the
person most responsible for the UCK becoming active is Mr. Milosevic
himself and that the sooner he comes back and addresses the conditions that
we put down for an end to this conflict - and as you know, in the
Rambouillet accord the UCK was also a party that had to respect certain
conditions in the aftermath - the sooner we can get to a situation where a
UCK won't be needed because Kosovo will be secure under an international
military presence, the people can return to their homes and there will be
no need for a guerrilla army.




SAME QUESTIONER:
Can you imagine that the UCK will give up the weapons that nowadays they
get from some countries?


PETER DANIEL:
Remove the conditions of where the weapons are needed and then you are
talking about another set of circumstances and I believe that if there is
no need for an opposition that you will see that conditions will return to
normal and only return to normal after the conditions of the international
community are addressed by Mr. Milosevic. We keep repeating this and I
can tell you it's not just some bureaucratic or political fixation. These
conditions respond to reality on the ground, they are logical, they respond
to an objective, an objective to bring back peace and a normal situation in
the province of Kosovo and that these refugees - and I think you have seen
right on this stage yesterday afternoon Mr. Schala - and hundreds of
refugees that have been interviewed in the camps, when they were asked if
they would go back under the conditions that exist they universally said no
and when they are asked what is required they have in various ways
expressed that some international military presence with NATO at its core
and this would be required to encourage these hundreds of thousands of
people to start going home and make that territory, that province, a normal
place to live again for them as it was for many years before Mr. Milosevic
disturbed the balance.


QUESTION:
Colonel, a follow-up to the very first question. In view of the
seriousness of the allegations in these reports out of Yugoslavia, can we
get something on this allegation of the 23 killed in a bus during a NATO
raid on a bridge in Kosovo before tomorrow, before 24 hours?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
I will try my best.


QUESTION:
Could you clarify whether you are able to confirm that a bridge in Kosovo
on the Pristina-Produjeva highway was hit by NATO?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
No. I have conflicting reports on this and that is why I have to go back
to my headquarters to find out what the truth is.


QUESTION:
In your opening statement, Colonel, you mentioned heavy fighting between
the KLA and Serbian forces. Is this the heaviest clash since March 24,
how would you put that in some kind of perspective and how do we know about
that fighting?


COLONEL FREYTAG:
It is heavier than it was the day before and that's why it was worth
mentioning but I cannot qualify it on some days as high, on some days as
low but you might recall that in the early days we had a front where the
UCK could do operations all along and that force was heavily defeated and
then they were doing hit-and-run tactics which shows that they had suffered
severe losses and then they could re-activate and that is what they did and
yesterday during the last 24 hours it was significant and that's why it was
worth mentioning.


May I add here something we owe you from yesterday. You were asking about
the ferro-nickel plant and why did we hit the ferro-nickel plant at
Pristina, it was referring to raw materials. That was not the reason why
we hit this. The ferro-nickel plant at Pristina is a very large facility
at present not functionally producing ferro-nickel products but for that
reason it was a very large staging area for MUP forces and for the Serb
Army and we have exactly struck this part of this facility.


PETER DANIEL:
Jamie will be back tomorrow at his regular times, the small session in the
morning and again at 3 o'clock tomorrow. Thank you!