Diplomatic moves to stop the fighting in the Yugoslav region of Kosovo are gathering pace, with British and American officials said to be working on a resolution for submission to the United Nations.

The British ambassador Sir John Weston said the Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, could not be allowed to seek a military solution.

The options under discussion include further economic sanctions against Yugoslavia and the deployment of NATO troops to prevent the crisis spilling into neighbouring countries.

More than two-hundred people are reported to have been killed in Kosovo over the past three months in an offensive by Yugoslav security forces against the Kosovo Liberation Army.

At least fifteen-thousand have fled to Albania and Montenegro to escape the fighting.