Serbian state radio and TV news bulletins on Saturday did not mention the talks between Nato and Yugoslav commanders in Blace, on the Macedonia-Kosovo border.

Only Belgrade's semi-independent news agency Beta reported on the meeting and its main objective: "The details of the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo."

All indications are that the pro-Milosevic media is contriving to keep the population from viewing the peace settlement as a capitulation by Belgrade.

Radio focuses on Nato raids

Belgrade radio led its main bulletins throughout Saturday with reports of continuing Nato raids on targets in Vojvodina and Kosovo.

The radio also played up Russia and China's diplomatic efforts to draw up a UN resolution on Kosovo.

"Nato aircraft targeted the village of Lukare near Pristina, in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, and Metohija and Vrsac in the northern province of Vojvodina on Saturday morning," the radio said.

"The aircraft fired three missiles at a tunnel near Lukare.

"The Nato aggressors dropped five cluster bombs on civilian targets on the Prizren-Djakovica road near the village of Pirane at 0735 this morning.

"During the night the Nato warplanes kept flying over the Prizren area."

Missile clear-up

Even the state news agency Tanjug steered clear of reporting the Blace border talks, preferring to report that the Belgrade city authorities are to start destroying unexploded missiles fired by Nato.

"Citizens are asked not to approach sites where these deadly missiles are located," the agency said, adding that the clearance would take place in the Obrenovac district of Baric, near Belgrade.

Marking World Environment Day, Tanjug quoted Yugoslav Environment Minister Jagos Zelenovic as saying that "Nato's aggression on the country has jeopardised people and their environment as well as the basis of the country's overall economic and social development".

"Nato's bombing of chemical and power industry facilities throughout the country has caused a large number of technological, chemical and industrial accidents containing elements of ecological disasters," he said.

He said Nato had caused thousands of tons of oil to spill into the Danube, destroying or jeopardising, over a long period of time, the flora and fauna of Europe's major river and disrupting water supply in a number of countries. He also said that bomb and missile blasts had released extremely dangerous chemical compounds.