Jamie Shea
Jamie Shea
Jamie Patrick Sheais Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium...
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All of us at NATO believe Gen. Clark has been outstanding ... winning very decisively the air operation in Kosovo.
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It's like an alcoholic blaming a whiskey company for his problem.
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At this stage we are not ready to settle for anything less than our objectives.
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At this rate, the Serb security forces would have more or less emptied Kosovo (of ethnic Albanians) in 10 to 20 days from now.
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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.
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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.
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It could be a mass grave but obviously it will be up to the International Tribunal in the Hague, once it's able to go into Kosovo to conduct a thorough investigation.
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Last night, NATO had a night of relative restraint. We were mindful of the Orthodox Easter celebration. At the same time, the Yugoslav armed forces continued to demonstrate signs of wear and tear.
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The point we made last night is that we will go for the head as much as the feet in this operation.
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The pilot released the weapon, and only after he released the weapon did the bus come on the bridge. We will continue to do everything we can to try and avoid those kinds of incidents. We can't eliminate them altogether.
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If you have already destroyed or severely damaged the Ministry of Defense or (special police) headquarters in Belgrade, you don't have to hit it again.
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If you do a mathematical computation, you're talking about a fraction of one percent. So we continue to be accurate.
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It's a very useful and necessary effort to begin reflection on how we are going to handle the diplomacy of the endgame.
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It's not a place for haggling or equivocation. This is a place for decision and action. We expect the Yugoslav military representatives to accept the terms that will be put to them ... and we expect them to have the authority not only to agree but also to order the immediate implementation of what is agreed.