The US President, Bill Clinton, has said that NATO would have little option but to stage air strikes against Serbian targets if the government in Belgrade refused to agree a deal to stop fighting in Kosovo. The deal, which was hammered out by the British and French foreign secretaries at peace talks in Paris, provides for greater autonomy for the province's Albanian majority.
The Albanian delegation has accepted the deal, but Serbia's President, Milan Milutinovic, is claiming that nothing's been agreed. Talks on the future of the province restarted in Paris this morning. The meeting comes amid reports of more fighting overnight in the north of the province.
The British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook stressed that both sides had something to gain from the international peace plan. The Serbs are still reluctant to agree to allow a NATO-led force into Kosovo. The deal also calls for the Kosovo Liberation Army to lay down its arms.
