U.S. URGE YUGOSLAVIA TO COOPERATE WITH U.N. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL

BELGRADE, Nov 7 (Hina) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck met in Belgrade on Thursday with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic. Shattuck told reporters that the aim of his visit was to urge Yugoslavia to comply with its commitments towards the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague and to ensure full freedom of the press. I have told President Milosevic that Yugoslavia's access to international financial institutions depends on its fulfilment of these obligations. This is a new element of the US approach to the Yugoslav issue, Shattuck said. Shattuck said his talks with Milutinovic focused on the problem of the southern province of Kosovo, which has a majority ethnic Albanian population. He announced that the issue would be discussed in detail next week when US mediator John Kornblum visited Belgrade. (hina) vm mm 071756 MET nov 96