Jamie Shea
Jamie Shea
Jamie Patrick Sheais Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium...
strategy
Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.
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We note the Pentagon stresses this is normal rotation and in any case next summer would have been the normal time.
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I'm quite sure that if President Ahtisaari does go to Belgrade, he will carry a firm message that he's not there to negotiate, that he's there to obtain from Milosevic an unambiguous, clear and verifiable pledge that Belgrade is willing not simply to accept the principles of the G-8 but to put them into practice.
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If Milosevic is pulling them out, there will be plenty of dust on the track. We'll know it when we see it.
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Clearly there have been atrocities going on. Once we have achieved a situation where Yugoslav forces have withdrawn we cannot leave a humanitarian vacuum in Kosovo.
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Clearly, we want the refugees to be able to go back quickly. Those NATO governments who have agreed to receive those refugees have made it clear that this is on a temporary basis.
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In fact, some refugees have even reported that Kosovar Albanians have been forced to dig these mass graves and put the bodies in.
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I don't think many Kosovar Albanians will shed a tear if that prison is not being used because many of them have suffered very badly from their detention there.
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By any standards, yesterday was a bad day for President Milosevic.
I don't see anything ... which suggests this was a catastrophe. It was not. It was a mistake. And no more than that.
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It's probably the most systematic analysis of what has been happening to the people inside Kosovo.
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It's not simply NATO which is isolating President Milosevic. Rarely in history has one state been so isolated, politically, militarily, economically and geographically. This cannot be something the Yugoslav people need or want at this time.
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It's nothing that goes to the heart of NATO or U.S. policy in Kosovo at the moment, so I believe that in our relations with the Kosovar Albanians we will be able to overcome this and move on.
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I want to make this crystal clear: I have no evidence of this, but there are a number of Kosovar Albanian sources that have spoken about people being taken down from the hills and being concentrated in that particular location.