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March 26, 1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana confirmed that a third round of attacks on Serbian military targets in Yugoslavia had begun Friday, and the U.N. Security Council rejected Russian protests against the bombings.

A cruise missile was fired from a U.S. warship in the Adriatic Sea earlier in the day, and Solana told CNN that the alliance was continuing to attack military targets only.

CNN Correspondent Martin Savidge reported that a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile was fired from the USS Philippine Sea around 2:20 p.m. (1320 GMT/8:20 a.m. EST).

A short time later, air raid sirens went off in Belgrade, followed by an explosion at a potential military target on the edge of the Yugoslav capital, witnesses said.

In a diplomatic blow to Russia -- which along with China has strongly criticized the NATO strikes -- the United Nations Security Council failed to pass a resolution Friday on NATO bombings.

The Russian-sponsored resolution called for an immediate end to NATO's action and urged the resumption of negotiations to end the separatist conflict.

Fifty targets hit

British Air Commodore David Wilby, speaking at a NATO news conference in Brussels earlier Friday, said that in the first two waves of NATO bombings, 50 Serbian military targets were hit.

Those included air defense facilities in Novi Sad and Batajnica in Serbia and Podgorica in Montenegro. The republics of Serbia, where Kosovo province is located, and Montenegro are what remain of the former Yugoslavia.

"On the operational front, we continue our attacks on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's air defense system," Wilby said, adding that the missions flown so far had been successful.

NATO to target ground troops

NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said Friday that the alliance so far had only targeted Serb military facilities but would launch air attacks against Yugoslav troops soon, in line with NATO battle plans.

However, Clark declined to elaborate on what exactly that would involve or when it would happen.

If Milosevic does not stop attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, then, "I assume that we will get additional military objectives or we will continue to work," he told CNN.

Clinton addresses Serb people

U.S. President Bill Clinton made a direct appeal to the Serb people on Friday.

In a taped speech sent out via satellite -- and also posted on the Web site of WORLDNET, the U.S. Information Agency's global information network -- Clinton told Serbs that NATO and the United States had "no quarrel" with the people of Serbia.

But he added that Milosevic had "diminished your country's standing in the world."

"I call on all Serbs and all people of good will to join us to seek an end to the needless and avoidable conflict," Clinton said in his address.

Russia expels NATO representatives

NATO member Britain on Friday vowed to stop "Milosevic's murder machine" unless the Serb president ended his crackdown against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

But Russia, which has repeatedly protested any military action over Kosovo, put its foot down Friday. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said NATO representatives in Moscow were told to leave the country.

China -- like Russia a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and also opposed to the strikes -- again called for an immediate end to the NATO airstrikes, as did Greece.

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