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NATO strikes Yugoslavia as U.N. delegation prepares visit

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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- As a U.N. delegation was set to begin a humanitarian visit to Yugoslavia on Sunday, officials reported that NATO aircraft struck Serb forces in southern Kosovo.

NATO hit six tanks and armored vehicles, as well as electrical power transformers supplying the Smederevo iron and steel plant and Bor copper smelter and refinery.

Other strategic targets included military radio relay sites, highway bridges at Kosmaca and Kursumilija. Army barracks and a command post at Pristina were also struck.

The humanitarian officials, who plan a 10-day tour of Serbia, including parts of Kosovo, will be the first U.N. representatives to visit Yugoslavia since NATO began airstrikes almost two months ago.

U.N. relief coordinator Sergio Vierira de Mello heads the group of officials from the High Commissioner for Refugees and the Children's Emergency Fund -- both U.N. agencies -- as well as the World Health Organization.

Vierira de Mello said the delegation has been assured it can move freely in Yugoslavia.

More questions about civilian deaths

During news briefings Saturday, NATO officials continued to answer questions regarding an airstrike that Yugoslav officials say killed 87 ethnic Albanians Thursday night in Korisa, a town in southern Kosovo.

Alliance officials said a military storage facility in Korisa was targeted and suggested that Yugoslav troops forced refugees there at the time of the bombings.

"We know there is a real threat of human shields all the way through Kosovo," Clark said at Rinas airport in Albania, where he visited the U.S. Army's Apache helicopter attack force.

Yugoslav officials, who said no military units were in the area, called the allegation "crazy," according to Serb media.

Macedonia receives military aid

Korisa aftermath
NATO officials say they were targeting a military storage facility in Korisa  

Defense officials in Skopje said Saturday that military aid from Bulgaria has begun to arrive in Macedonia.

The country has had virtually no national defenses since it broke away from Yugoslavia. The deliveries mark the first time Macedonia has owned major military hardware since 1991.

The equipment includes 94 Soviet-built T-55A tanks and 108 howitzer cannons with 40 tons of ammunition.

Macedonia, an impoverished Balkan nation straining to support one-third of the 780,000 ethnic Albanians that have fled the fighting in Kosovo, recently received a pledge from the United States for $21 million in economic aid for the refugees.

In other developments:

  • Yugoslav forces blocked Montenegro's border with Albania on Saturday and seized up to 25 ethnic Albanian refugees trying to enter Montenegro, the republic's deputy prime minister said.

  • Albanian television reported Saturday that Serb forces had murdered 12 youths in the Kosovo village of Izbice as revenge for the killing of a Yugoslav soldier.

  • A Serb official called pictures of a reported Serb massacre of 127 ethnic Albanians a hoax. He claimed that pro-NATO forces dragged the bodies from separate morgues and staged the attack.

  • The U.N. Security Council issued a statement expressing "deep distress and concern" over the NATO bombing that killed three people in the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade a week ago. China, which with Russia abstained from the Saturday vote, had pushed for a stronger statement that condemned the attack.

    Correspondents Walter Rodgers, Tom Fenton and Brent Sadler contributed to this report.


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    RELATED SITES:
    Extensive list of Kosovo-related sites:
      • Kosovo

    Yugoslavia:
      • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia official site
          • Kesovo and Metohija facts
      • Serbia Ministry of Information
      • Serbia Now! News

    Kosovo:
      • Kosova Crisis Center
      • Kosova Liberation Peace Movement
      • Kosovo - from Albanian.com

    Military:
      • F-117s arrive at Aviano to support possible NATO operations
      • NATO official site
      • BosniaLINK - U.S. Dept. of Defense
      • U.S. Navy images from Operation Allied Force
      • U.K. Ministry of Defence - Kosovo news
      • U.K. Royal Air Force - Kosovo news
      • Jane's Defence - Kosovo Crisis


    Relief:
      • Doctors Without Borders
      • U.S. Agency for International Development (Kosovo aid)
      • Doctors of the World
      • The IOM Migration Web
      • InterAction
      • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
      • International Committee of the Red Cross
      • Kosovo Humanitarian Disaster Forces Hundreds of Thousands from their Homes
      • Catholic Relief Services
      • Kosovo Relief
      • ReliefWeb: Home page
      • The Jewish Agency for Israel
      • Mercy International


    Media:
      • Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
      • Independent Yugoslav radio stations B92
      • Institute for War and Peace Reporting
      • United States Information Agency - Kosovo Crisis


    Other:
      • Expanded list of related sites on Kosovo
      • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Tribune
      • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of P.R.China
      • 1997 view of Kosovo from space - Eurimage
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