SERB OFFICIALS ACCUSE OSCE VERIFIERS IN KOSOVO

PRISTINA, Jan 17 (Hina) - Three Yugoslav Deputy Premiers and the president of the Kosovo Temporary Executive Council on Sunday resolutely refuted accusations that Serbian forces were responsible for the recent massacre of 45 Kosovo Albanian civilians. The four officials also accused the CIA of trying to provoke a NATO intervention in Yugoslavia through the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Verification Mission in Kosovo, William Walker. Deputy Premiers Ratko Markovic, Vojislav Seselj, and Milovan Bojic, and Kosovo Temporary Executive Council president Zoran Andjelkovic are visiting the south Yugoslav province since Friday, when the massacre in the village of Racak took place. Andjelkovic told reporters The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia "has no jurisdiction over events in Kosovo, where Serbia is engaged in conflicts with terrorists. Seselj said that "despite all pressure on Serbia, nobody, not even OSCE verifiers will prevent the state from using all forces to get even with the terrorists, who must be entirely destroyed." Markovic accused the OSCE verifiers of a "unilateral change of their mandate." He said Ambassador Walker "behaves as sovereign authority in Kosovo" by prohibiting "competent bodies, the court and the police from performing their duties." (hina) ha