Belgrade - Yugoslavia demanded yesterday that the UN Security Council convene an emergency session to condemn "terrorist" acts by suspected ethnic Albanian extremists after an attack in Kosovo and another just inside Yugoslavia proper left one Serb dead and three missing.
The Yugoslav government demanded those responsible be arrested and warned, in a statement broadcast on state television, that the actions risked "provoking a new war in the region".
Reprisals against Serbs remaining in Kosovo by ethnic Albanians have been a daily occurrence despite protection efforts by the NATO-led peacekeeping force. On Tuesday, Serbian police said they became engaged in a gunbattle launched by ethnic Albanian separatists near the border with Kosovo.
Four police officers were wounded and three others were missing, presumed dead, police said. Then early yesterday, a powerful bomb ripped through the home of Yugoslavia's top representative in Kosovo, killing a 35-year-old Serbian driver. The representative, Mr Stanimir Vukicevic, escaped unscathed.