PRISTINA. Feb 1: Ethnic Albanian rebels are indicating opposition to' international peace talks in France this week, saying that negotiations "organised in a rush" cannot resolve the Kosovo conflict, reports AP.

Meanwhile, violence erupted again Sunday, despite international demands to halt the fighting. Police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said three Serb policemen were wounded late Sunday when ethnic Albanian rebels fired a grenade at their van in the village of Istinic, 70 kilometres southwest of Kosovo’s capital. Pristina.

The victims were returning from the funeral of another officer killed Friday during an attack on the village of Rogovo in which 23 ethnic Albanians also died.

The Serb Media Centre also reported three ethnic Albanians were wounded Sunday when armed gunmen broke into their

home in a village near Stimlje, 30 km southwest of Pristina.

Neither Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic nor the Kosovo Liberation Army1 Ras announced whether they will accept the demand by the United Slates and five Euro-, pean powers to attend a conference this week in France to end the 1 1-month conflict and establish self-rule in this Serbian province.

Both Milosevic and KLA po liticaf representative Adem Deinaei told British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook they would reply to the demand within a few days.

In the rebels' first public statement since the demand was issued last week, a senior KLA official. Jakup Krasniqi. was quoted by Albanian state television Sunday as saying "negotiations organised in a rush do not guarantee success for the solving of the Kosovo problem."