GELBARD ARRIVES IN PRISTINA - POLICE WON'T LET DOCTORS TO DRENICA

( Editorial: --> 8499 ) PRISTINA, Mar 10 (Hina) - The United States special envoy for the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Robert Gelbard, Tuesday arrived in Pristina at the head of a US delegation. Upon arrival, Gelbard began talks with Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova. Today police prevented representatives of the Kosovo human rights and freedoms committee and a group of doctors from visiting Drenica to attend the burial of 56 Albanians killed by Serbian police. Among the doctors were pathologists who wanted to examine the bodies of the victims. Hina learned that several reporters were also stopped on their way to Drenica. The burial will be attended by a ten-member delegation of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo, which arrived in Drenica earlier today. (hina) ha jn 101338 MET mar 98