BELGRADE MEDIA REACT TO CONTACT GROUP AND NATO THREATS

( Editorial: --> 0989 ) BELGRADE, June 13 (Hina) - Electronic media in Belgrade have declined mentioning the possibility of military intervention in Kosovo and saw to preventing panic from spreading among the population following a Contact Group and NATO warning to Serbian authorities to stop with the violence in the south Yugoslav province. The Foreign Ministers of six Contact Group member-countries Friday made a list of measures aimed at stopping the violence in Kosovo. They called on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept and implement the demands by Monday, and announced a ban for Yugoslav flights in their countries. A great stir in the Yugoslav media was caused by the announcement of a visit Milosevic is to make to Moscow Monday. The state media and the pro-government press point out to the importance of Milosevic's meeting with Yeltsin, which will provide an exit from the current crisis and a solution which will prevent a NATO intervention. The president of the Russian parliament Thursday asked a parliamentary conference of Council of Europe member-countries in Stockholm what right NATO had to threaten Yugoslavia with air raids. The pro-government Vecernje Novosti Saturday reported that a NATO attack would be "the most common-place aggression and an unannounced war prohibited according to all currently valid regulations, principles and customs of international law". A former high official of the Yugoslav army and current president of the Social Democratic Party, General Vuk Obradovic, believes an attack on Yugoslavia was quite possible. An "attack from a distance" is possible, as well as air raids on certain military and police targets in Kosovo, Obradovic told Glas Javnosti. He believes the Yugoslav army is capable of responding to the attacks and will do so to make NATO losses equally large. Some Yugoslav military and political commentators on the other hand believe the Yugoslav army has no chance whatsoever in the case of a NATO attack. Neither Albanian nor Serbian sources reported any new conflicts or incidents in Kosovo by Saturday afternoon. Currently no information is available on possible withdrawals by Serbian armed forces which are deployed almost all over Kosovo and have seized several villages and roads in the province. Their withdrawal is one of the international community's chief demands. According to the Saturday issue of Bujku, a Pristina daily in Albanian, the Belgrade authorities have put another economic blockade on Kosovo as of Friday, preventing trucks with food products from reaching the province. (hina) ha jn 131815 MET jun 98