JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: The United States and Britain are supporting a move by the European Union to ease a commercial air travel ban on Yugoslavia, while tightening sanctions against the Belgrade government and its supporters. CNN's Andrea Koppel is at the State Department with details -- Andrea.</s>ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT: Judy, it's a classic case of diplomatic carrots and sticks. On the one hand, hoping to help out the Yugoslav opposition by giving them what they've asked for, on a temporary six-month trial basis easing international travel restrictions to and from Yugoslavia. On the other hand, hoping to further punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and his supporters by preventing them from getting visas to travel to the U.S. and within Europe.</s>MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: We support further expanding the visa ban on travel by the regime's high officials, cronies, and economic supporters, and strengthening enforcement of the ban on financial transactions with any elements of the regime, its surrogates and supporters.</s>ROBIN COOK, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: We want to make sure that the sanctions we take are sanctions that are targeted effectively on the regime and hit Milosevic and his cronies. We do not to want to hit the Serb people who are already hit hard enough by President Milosevic.</s>KOPPEL: U.S. officials say their support for this ban is conditional and probably wouldn't take place for a number of weeks. They say that their support is based on the further enactment of a black list, a travel ban of Serb officials who are already supposed to not be able to get visas to travel within the European community. Reporting live, I'm Andrea Koppel, CNN, at the State Department.</s>BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you, Andrea.
International Community Looks to Apply Diplomatic Pressure to Yugoslav Government