91.   French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Kosovo, warning that diplomacy might soon give way to military action in the Serbian province.

92.   Gjemsat Shehaj and Hajdan Pepaj, both from the western Decani municipality of the southern Serbian province, received a two-year prison term each.

93.   Greece has voiced strong opposition to any military intervention in the Serbian province, where ethnic Albanians are waging a fight for independence.

94.   He also urged local Serb and ethnic Albanians to try to live together peacefully, but acknowledged the difficulties ahead in stabilizing the Serbian province.

95.   He is the highest ranking military officer so far to give firsthand information about contacts with Milosevic over the rebellious Serbian province.

96.   He then headed straight to the southern Serbian province to try to expedite setting up the mostly European force, which is expected to take weeks to organize.

97.   He was referring to Kosovo peace talks which ended Tuesday without substantial agreement on a political road map for the ethnic Albanian majority Serbian province.

98.   Heavy fighting for control of two important roads has broken out in the secessionist Serbian province even as Russian diplomats made a new attempt to calm the conflict.

99.   His main task in the Serbian province was to cultivate Hashim Thaci, political leader of the Kosovo rebels.

100.   However, such negotiations may not be successful because they are boycotted by ethnic Albanian opposition parties and the Kosovo Liberation Army fighting for independence of the Serbian province.