Belgrade, December 25th (Tanjug) - The Supreme Defence Council of Yugoslavia demanded on Monday from the U.N. Security Council to support changes in the part of the Military-Technical Agreement which refers to the 5-km-wide land security zone separating KFOR-controlled Kosovo-Metohija from Serbia proper. At a session in Belgrade chaired by Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, the Supreme Defence Council considered the current political and security situation, especially in Kosovo-Metohija and southern Serbia, and came up with concrete conclusions. The proposal for making changes in the agreement was made because the ethnic Albanian terrorists are using the buffer zone, inhabited by a multiethnic population, to jeopardize security both within and outside this region.

The Supreme Defence Council assessed positively the activities of the Serbian Interior Ministry and the Yugoslav Army in preventing further incursions of terrorist forces into the Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja municipalities. The Supreme Defence Council also discussed staff issues within the Yugoslav Army and other issues pertaining to its constitutional powers. The Yugoslav president's military cabinet announced that the council would hold another session soon.