Weapons handed in by Albanians

Описание: (22 May 2001)

Muhovc, near Konculj
1. Checkpoint manned by Russian/US K-FOR troops
2. Vehicle driving away after being checked
3. Close up soldier with sound of announcement through loudspeaker calling on guerillas to surrender
4. Tank
5. Checkpoint

Kamenica, near Konculj
6. Exterior building where weapons surrendered by the guerrillas are displayed
7. Tilt down Russian soldier guarding weapons
8. Various of ammunition, rifles, machine guns, mines
9. Pile of gas masks and clothing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Kamena, Deputy US K-FOR Commander "In which 13 members of the UCPMB (Liberation Army for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac) turned themselves in to the Russian checkpoint 89."
11. Cutaway
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Kamena, Deputy US K-FOR Commander "To date more than 300 members of the UCPMB have come forward, put down their weapons and accepted the amnesty offered by K-FOR."
13. More of the weapons
14. Kamena checking machine guns

STORYLINE:

After 16 months of sporadic fighting and ambushes, a group of ethnic Albanian guerrillas, who are members of a group based in the Presevo Valley area of southern Serbia, surrendered their weapons to K-FOR soldiers after their leaders signed an agreement to demilitarise.

International officials and leaders of the Liberation Army for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB) guerrilla group signed the declaration at a meeting in the village of Konculj on Monday.

According to the agreement, the demilitarisation of the U-C-P-M-B should take place between May 24 and May 31.

Yugoslav security forces are due to move into a section of the buffer zone next to the border with Kosovo, where the guerrillas currently have their base, on Thursday.

The guerrillas' decision came after a NATO-brokered deal.

The pledge to dissolve by the end of the month was made by Shefket Musliu, commander of the U-C-P-M-B guerrillas in the Presevo Valley, next to the Kosovo border and immediately north of the scene of Macedonia's conflict.

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