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April 26, 1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Yugoslavia's deputy prime minister, in remarks that differed from recent statements by President Slobodan Milosevic, said Monday that his country is too small to challenge the powerful NATO forces and must be willing to compromise over Kosovo.

"Our role is very often ruled by the law of power instead of the power of law," Vuk Draskovic said on CNN. "We are too small to change things. We must be very brave to approach compromise." ( 640 K/38 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

Yugoslavia must be prepared to "accept a U.N. mission under the flag of U.N. international forces here for the establishing and protecting the peace in Kosovo," Draskovic said."

Draskovic avoided the question of whether or not his statements were in agreement Milosevic, except to say that he was "not an advocate of Milosevic." Milosevic has repeatedly rejected a plan calling for U.N. peacekeepers in his country.( 704 K/44 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

His party, the deputy prime minister said, sought democratic reforms in Yugoslavia, striving to change "misunderstandings with Europeans and Americans into understandings, all disagreements into agreements." ( 832 K/56 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

But, he said, the "aggression against my state must stop." He held NATO responsible for "the consequences of aggression and for the aggression."

The latest raid in NATO's month-long bombing campaign took out the last of three bridges connecting Novi Sad -- Yugoslavia's second largest city -- with the Serb heartland in the south, NATO said Monday. NATO airstrikes are targeting the Serbs' ability to communicate and resupply.

"My country Serbia looks very close to Hiroshima," Draskovic said. "Very soon all Serbia will look like Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Why, why this collective punishment against one small and innocent nation?" ( 384 K/16 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

Draskovic denied saying on Serb TV Sunday that Milosevic was lying to the country.

"I didn't mention Mr. Milosevic as a man lying to our people," he said. "I just protested against the fact that some leaders in our country are not ready to face every moment, every day our nation to send them the truth -- the truth about casualties of NATO aggression, the crimes against our poor innocent nation."( 704 K/45 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

While NATO's air campaign continued to rain bombs on Yugoslavia, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it had been allowed to meet with three U.S. servicemen captured more than three weeks ago by the Yugoslav army.

"I had the occasion to see them and shake their hands and I had a short talk with all three," ICRC President Cornelio Sommaruga said. "It was not possible to have a full-fledged ICRC visit in accord with the provisions of the Geneva Convention."

The Red Cross has been promised a longer visit with the servicemen on Tuesday.

Yugoslavia had pledged to abide by the Geneva Conventions rules about treatment of prisoners of war, but previously had not allowed a visit from the ICRC, one of the conventions' requirements.

Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone, Staff Sgt. Andrew Ramirez and Spc. Steven Gonzales were captured, reportedly while on a routine patrol as part of the peacekeeping mission in Macedonia.

The last remaining bridge over the Danube River at Novi Sad has been destroyed

The bombing campaign targets included sites in Pricevic, Valjevo and Smederevo, according to Internet reports, as well as the bridge at Novi Sad.

"In spite of continuing poor weather in the operational area, NATO continued with its air campaign," British chief of defense staff Gen. Charles Guthrie said. "A number of targets in Serbia were attacked, including destroying the third and last remaining bridge over the Danube in Novi Sad."

NATO had struck all three spans before, rendering two of them unusable, before wrecking the final span, the Zezeljev Bridge, Sunday night.

Yugoslav anti-aircraft batteries were said to have responded to the attack, but NATO said all its planes returned safely from the mission.

NATO also confirmed an attack on a fuel depot at Pricevic. Attacks took place at Smederevo, according to Internet reports, while Serb TV reported attacks at Sombor near the Hungarian border and the Slatina airport outside Pristina.

CNN's Daryn Kagan and Sonia Ruseler contributed to this report.

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