51.   There were no reports of fresh fighting in the separatist province by late Monday.

52.   Thousands of Kosovo Serbs on Wednesday grieved and protested the slayings of six young Serbs which have dangerously inflamed already-high tensions in the separatist province.

53.   Thousands of Kosovo Serbs on Wednesday mourned six slain Serbs whose deaths have dangerously inflamed already-high tensions in the separatist province.

54.   Violence occurs daily in Kosovo, the separatist southern Serbian province which the government rules with heavy military and police power.

55.   Yugoslav authorities agreed to end their crackdown against ethnic Albanians in the separatist Serbian province under the threat of NATO airstrikes last October.

56.   Shevardnadze has further promised to cooperate with Russian efforts to repatriate Chechen refugees to the separatist province and arrest the suspected rebels among them.

57.   The agreement, however, did not resolve some of the outstanding political questions, including constitutional issues and the legal status of the separatist province.