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(24 Nov 2000) Serbo-Croat/Nat
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Tensions were still running high in the demilitarized zone between the Kosovo province and the rest of Serbia on Friday.

Sniper fire was heard during the day in the buffer zone near Bujanovac where ethnic Albanians had seized position from the Serb police in an offensive.

Police did not respond and there were no reports of injuries.

Angry Serbs from villages near Gnjilane in Kosovo blocked the main Serbian highway near Bujanovac by setting the car tyres on fire.

They stopped the traffic on the main road linking Serbia and Macedonia, protesting for not being able to return to their homes.

A top Serbian official gave NATO's troops in Kosovo a 72-hour deadline to end an ethnic Albanian offensive in the demilitarized zone between the province and the rest of Serbia.

SOUNDBITE: (Serb-Croat)
"The police have given the 72-hour deadline for the attacks to stop. We have received firm assurances that KFOR will prevent any incursions (from Kosovo) and disarm and arrest the terrorists who have come from Kosovo. The countdown starts Friday at 7.00 p.m. local time (1700GMT). After that the police will return to the territory of the republic of Serbia (in the buffer zone) with the means that are available,"
SUPERCAPTION: Bozo Pelevic, Serbian Interior Minister

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