Latest from Oroavica plus EU delegation in Skopje

Описание: (16 May 2001)

Oraovica
1. Close-shot of sign for village Oraovica
2. Wide-shot of Serbian tank on roadside
3. Old woman walking
4. Wide-shot of tank driving along road
5. Mid-shot of group of villagers walking back to their houses after the fighting
6. Mid-shot of Serbian policeman
7. Villagers walking along road
8. Old man walking past trench in the backyard of his house
9. Various close-shots of trench and sandbags
10. Wide-shot of trench
11. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Voxpop, villager
"They came and started digging the trenches, I said the yard is mine. They answered what is yours is ours.They were very rude."
12. Various of villagers lifting sandbags
13. Car driving past wreckage of checkpoint on road
14. Close-shot of wreckage
15. Mid-shot of Serbian police standing on road
16. Close-shot of Serbian policeman
17. Wide-shot of Serbian police
18. Two elderly Albanians on tractor, driving along road

Skopje
19. Exterior of Macedonian parliament
20. Street scene
21. Close-shot of flag on parliament and zoom out from building
22. Mid-shot of Macedonian president, Boris Trajkovski
23. Wide-shot of meeting
24. Mid-shot of EU delegation (from left to right) Belgian state secretary Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten and Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh
25. Mid-shot of Macedonian government officials
26. Various shots of meeting
27. Close-shot of guards outside meeting
28. Wide-shot of guards

STORYLINE:

The commander of Yugoslav forces that pushed ethnic Albanian rebels out of a contested southern village near Kosovo said on Wednesday that 14 insurgents were killed and eight wounded in the fighting.

Government troops entered the village of Oraovica late Tuesday, forcing ethnic Albanian militants to abandon it after four days of clashes.

The army's recapture of the village came after house-to-house fighting.

On Wednesday, many of the villagers who had fled the fighting, returned.

Oraovica lies just east of a 5-kilometer-wide (3-mile-wide) buffer zone separating Kosovo, a Serb province under NATO and U.N. control, from the rest of Serbia, the dominant Yugoslav republic.

The town had been recently seized by ethnic Albanian insurgents operating out of the zone.

Meanwhile, an EU delegation led by Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh arrived in Macedonia as part of a two-day trip to encourage European integration.

The delegation will also visit Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In the Macedonian capital of Skopje, the European Union representatives met with members of a broad-based coalition government that was formed last week amid clashes between ethnic Albanian rebels and government forces.

The new government faces the difficult task of bridging deep differences sparked by distrust between the majority Slavs and the ethnic Albanian minority.

The Swedish Foreign Minister said Tuesday that the delegation planned to "stress the importance of reforms that will divert (Macedonia) away from ethnic conflicts towards European integration."

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