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Threatens Sanctions in Aftermath of
Killing Spree in Albanian Province
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States warned Serbia Thursday that an "outer wall" of sanctions would remain in place until the situation markedly improved in its mainly Albanian Kosovo province, where violence has risen recently. U.S. officials also said Secretary of State Warren Christopher had given orders to go ahead as quickly as possible with a plan to station a U.S. diplomat in the Kosovo capital of Pristina. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said Christopher expressed concern over the rising violence in Kosovo during a 45-minute meeting Wednesday with Albanian Foreign Minister Alfred Serreqi.

A 12-year-old Albanian boy was killed and three other people were injured in a bomb blast in Kosovo last month. That followed a spate of shootings in which five Serbs were killed dead and five otherian student. "The secretary said that the government in Belgrade would have to show substantial progress on Kosovo before the so-called outer wall of sanctions would be removed, at least by the United States," Burns told a news briefing.

Most of the U.N. sanctions imposed on Serbia for its role in fomenting the Bosnia war were removed after last November's Dayton peace agreement. But an "outer wall" ½ relating to renewal of Belgrade's membership in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ½ remains in place.

Burns said Christopher wanted to proceed rapidly with a plan agreed in February with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to place an officer of the United States Information Agency in Pristina. "We have identified an officer and now need to move that officer and his personal effects to Pristina to take up residence there," Burns said.

"The secretary on Monday said in a meeting we had here he wanted that person to be on the ground as soon as possible ... because of the concern we have for the situation there," he said.


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