Jamie Shea
Jamie Shea
Jamie Patrick Sheais Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium...
allied conditions continue force fulfilled operation until
Operation Allied Force will continue until those conditions have been fulfilled and fulfilled in full.
asked change continue current government hit including military nato precaution targeting targets
The military commanders will continue to take every precaution to hit the targets accurately. No government has asked NATO to change its current strategy, including its targeting policy.
number
If the Serbs want to talk, they know what number to call.
head meeting nato obligation quite state
NATO has an obligation to be successful, quite frankly, and every head of state from the meeting I have come from has made that point.
extremely nato obviously
NATO is obviously extremely concerned. That would be an understatement.
again air campaign chance conditions far following reason rethink strategy
As far as the air campaign is concerned, there is no reason to suspend it. Conditions for that have not been met. We're going to keep it up so that (Milosevic) has a chance to rethink again the strategy of not following through on what he has agreed.
certain nato result taking
As a result NATO is taking certain precautionary measures.
anybody carrying everybody force friendly mandate mean oppose sharp speak teeth threaten
This force ... will speak softly, by which I mean that it will be friendly to everybody ... but it will have very sharp teeth as well as very big teeth if anybody should try to oppose it carrying out its mandate or to threaten its personnel.
agree believe forces ground introduced people troops until
I don't believe there are any differences in what people are saying. We all agree that ground troops should not be introduced until Yugoslav forces are retreating. We also all agree that ground troops will not be used for fighting.
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He has been examined by a doctor. He has been given shelter, food and has access to religious counseling. He has also access to the International Committee of the Red Cross and he will have all the protection and rights accorded by the third Geneva Convention.
air decision halt nobody operations seen taken
Air operations continue. Nobody has taken any decision to halt them or suspend them yet, because we haven't yet seen any withdrawal of the Serb forces.
children expelled homes left sent toward women
The women and children are then expelled from their homes and then sent toward the border. After they have left the villages, the homes are looted and then systematically torched.
bad president yesterday
By any standards, yesterday was a bad day for President Milosevic.
kept nato throws until
Milosevic is in the corner, and that's where he's going to be kept by NATO until he throws in the towel.