George Robertson
George Robertson
basis casualties civilian continue critical disagree nato problems russians simply violence
NATO will continue to be critical about what the Russians are doing in Chechnya, not just on the basis of principle, but because we disagree with disproportionate violence and the civilian casualties who are being affected, ... We think that they are simply storing up more problems for the future.
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NATO's air campaign in succeeding in weakening (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic 's repressive capability, and we are exacting a heavy price for his ethnic cleansing activity, ... NATO's resolution remains unshakable.
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NATO nations have assumed their collective responsibilities toward Turkey, a nation at the moment under threat.
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NATO missions mean that the countries in NATO should be involved.
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NATO is prepared to consider such changes if it will not create a vacuum or lead to new fighting, and is part of a settlement to the problems in the region, ... Premature changes, however, carry the risk of only making matters worse.
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Sikirica as camp commander is accused of genocide, violation of laws and custom of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention as well as being criminally responsible for the acts of subordinates in committing murder, torture, inhuman acts and crimes against humanity,
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Let the people of Yugoslavia be quite clear, ... The bombing can end at any time. It's in Milosevic's hands, and he knows our conditions, which are reasonable and sensible, and nothing less than full compliance will do.
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(On) September 11 the world was caught unprepared...and we had no real recipe to deal with it.
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Many of these targets are indeed the brains behind the brutality going on in Kosovo today, part of the apparatus that is driving this ethnic genocide that is going on inside this part of former Yugoslavia,
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Some 300 Tomahawk Cruise missiles have been fired, and around 100 air-launch Cruise missiles have been used, ... Coalition forces have attacked about 100 separate, precise military targets.
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We had a very good and useful meeting and I was very pleased to get the Russian proposal on missile defence,
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When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,
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I see this as turning a page on past disagreements and turning to new chapters of dialogue and cooperation on matters of mutual interest,
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I see this as a kick-starting of the process of cooperation which is vitally important for both East and West in the Euro-Atlantic area just now,