Voters in Serbia have massively rejected accepting international mediation to help resolve the conflict in the mainly-Albanian province of Kosovo.
The electoral commission said that nearly ninety-five per cent of those who took part in Thursday's referendum opposed letting Western-led organizations, like the six-nation Contact Group, intercede in the province.
Meanwhile, the Yugoslav army has confirmed that its troops killed sixteen ethnic Albanians in the latest fighting in Kosovo.
The army said the sixteen were armed infiltrators who'd been undergoing training in Albania.
Yugoslavia has accused Albania of smuggling arms across the border and supporting armed separatists in Kosovo.
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