Mr Lloyd visits Belgrade to explain firm Contact Group message to Milutinovic and Jovanovic. Informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Edinburgh appoints OSCE envoy Gonzalez as EU Special Envoy for Kosovo. On behalf of EU, Foreign Secretary delivers message to Rugova urging flexibility in talks with Serbian Government representatives. Mass demonstrations by Kosovars in Pristina and other towns. Contact Group Foreign Ministers meeting, Bonn.
Group calls for an end to violence and start to dialogue.
Meeting agrees to support an SCR imposing an arms embargo. Foreign Secretary chairs meeting in Bonn of Contact Group Ministers with Foreign Ministers of regional states and the EU Troika to brief on work of Contact Group and hear concerns of regional states over Kosovo. March 1998 UK Political Director Jeremy Greenstock and US envoy Robert Gelbard hold talks in Belgrade with Milutinovic and Jovanovic to convey message of 25 March Contact Group of urgent need for dialogue. The two envoys also meet Rugova and other Kosovar representatives in Pristina to press for early dialogue and rejection of violence. Russia votes in favour.