I was not a typical international civil servant I confess -- ask the Kosovo Albanians, ask the Serbs,
I was not a typical international civil servant I confess -- ask the Kosovo Albanians, ask the Serbs,
We have plans for a swift and severe air campaign. This will be painful to the Serbs.
We are very close. The behavior of the Serbs' party in the conference in Paris has been really appalling,
We agreed that we need to step up the pace to move ahead, but we also agreed there continue to be a lot of differences between the Serbs and Albanians on this,
I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
We have made clear within NATO, as well as the United States specifically, that the widening of this conflict by the Serbs to the other countries in the region would have serious consequences,
If we had the Kosovo Albanians agreed, that would change the situation fundamentally, because then we would be in a position to use the very real prospect of NATO military action to concentrate the minds of the Serbs.
We have done a lot here even if we have not done enough, ... We will use the next three weeks to convince the Serbs and to convince the Albanians that the agreement is a good bargain for both sides.
If the Serbs fail to sign this agreement and the Kosovar Albanians do and the deadline expires, the Serbs will be subject to NATO air attacks,
The Russian leadership is not at all sure that NATO is going to disarm the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and that could create another humanitarian disaster, this time for the Serbs.
The civil war in Croatia between the Serbs and Croats, as well as the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina between Serbs, Croats and Muslims are the consequences of fanning the flames of national hatred outside the borders of Yugoslavia, ... absurd and false.
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,
NATO is not going to halt Milosevic from pursuing his violent repression by a dialogue in which we endeavor to point out to him the error of his ways, ... He will only abandon his plans to pocket Kosovo for the Serbs if he knows that we are determined to maintain the military campaign and prevail.
Dayton established a state with internal divisions, internal Berlin Walls separating one community from another, because that was the only way to stop the war and to build a tentative and fragile peace, ... Ten years later, these internal walls must now be torn down. The country's people -- the Croats, and the Serbs, and the Muslims -- must be allowed to mix.
I am enormously skeptical that the Serbs are ready to negotiate, or more importantly, the Serbs that we are talking about here are the Serbs of Belgrade. (Bosnian Serb leader Slobodan) Milosevic, we have not heard from because the administration refused to directly negotiate with the Bosnian Serbs.
In order to move forward to military action, it needs to be clear that Serbs are to blame.
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