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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES
Nato asks Serbs for use of bases
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/
Tom Walker
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JUST two years after bombing Yugoslavia, Nato is asking the new government in
Belgrade for permission to use its military bases, as fears of a civil war in
Macedonia grow.
In return, the Yugoslav army is looking for a deal with the western alliance
that would allow a limited return of its soldiers to the few remaining
Serbian-majority areas of Kosovo - a provision which was written into the
agreement that ended the war, but which Nato generals have so far resisted.
All-out fighting between ethnic Albanians and Slavs in Macedonia would cut
off Nato's main supply route into Kosovo, which runs from the Greek port of
Thessalonika up through Macedonia. Nato would need to send up to 80 trucks a
day through Yugoslavia, with stop-offs at army bases in Novi Sad in the north
and Nis in the south.
"There are 40,000 guys in Kosovo - and they need feeding, water, tents,
whatever. We've got to look at the alternatives," said a Nato planner who
admitted that the options of going through the Montenegrin mountains or the
bandit-infested north of Albania had been ruled out.
Planners have calculated it would take a year to build a suitable road
through Kukes in northern Albania.
A source close to recent talks in Belgrade between the five leading Nato
countries and Yugoslavia, said America,which is heading the negotiations,
wants relations between the Pentagon and Belgrade to get back to where they
were before Slobodan Milosevic came to power in 1987.
In the new era of detente between the former enemies, Yugoslav officers will
be sent to Westpoint and Fort Lauderdale in America for training.
Details of a Nato supply line through Serbia were discussed at a meeting in
Germany last week between American officers, the Yugoslav foreign minister,
Goran Sviljanovic, and the Serbian deputy prime minister, Nebojsa Covic. The
Yugoslav army is thought to be reluctant to give Nato access to some of its
more secret bases.
For its part, Nato is still wary of allowing any Yugoslav soldiers back into
Kosovo, even in almost wholly Serbian areas such as Kosovo Mitrovica in the
north. "We believe it is still too dangerous," said one officer.
"SANDEJ TAJMS" OBNOVIO PRICU O ZAINTERESOVANOSTI ZAPADNOG VOJNOG SAVEZA ZA
SARADNJU SA SRJ
NATO traži dozvolu za prolaz i korišcenje baza
Svilanovic i Covic prošle nedeljnj u Nemackoj razgovarali s americkim
oficirima o detaljima plana o ruti za snabdevanje trupa na Kosovu i
Makedoniji kroz Srbiju, piše londonski list
London, 5. avgusta (Beta)
Samo dve godine nakon bombardovanja Jugoslavije, NATO od nove vlade u
Beogradu traži dozvolu za korišcenje jugoslovenskih vojnih baza, zbog sve
vecih strahovanja od izbijanja gradanskog rata u Makedoniji, piše danas
londonski "Sandej tajms".
List navodi da u zamenu za to, "Vojska Jugoslavije želi da sa zapadnom
alijansom sklopi sporazum o ogranicenom povratku svojih vojnika u oblasti na
Kosovu naseljene pretežno Srbima".
"Eskalacija sukoba u Makedoniji presekla bi glavne kanale za snabdevanje
Kfora, od Soluna preko Makedonije", navodi "Sandej tajms" i dodaje da bi u
takvoj situaciji, "NATO mirovnim snagama na Kosovu preko Jugoslavije dnevno
upucivao 80 kamiona koji bi usput koristili vojne baze u Novom Sadu i Nišu".
Kako navodi list, zvanicnik NATO-a zadužen za planiranje izjavio je da su
alternative - "prelazak preko crnogorskih planina ili severa Albanije, koji
vrvi od kriminalnih bandi, neprihvatljive".
Strucnjaci NATO-a izracunali su da bi bilo potrebno godinu dana za izgradnju
puta kroz grad Kuks u severnoj Albaniji, piše "Sandej tajms".
Izvor blizak nedavnim pregovorima izmedu pet vodecih clanica NATO-a i
Jugoslavije, navodi da SAD žele da se odnosi izmedu Pentagona i Beograda
vrate na tacku na kojoj su bili pre dolaska Slobodana Miloševica na vlast,
prenosi londonski list.
"Sandej tajms" piše da ce "u novoj eri u odnosima izmedu dva bivša
neprijatelja, jugoslovenski oficiri biti poslati na obuku u Vestpoint i Fort
Loderdejl" u SAD.
Kako tvrdi list, "šef jugoslovenske diplomatije Goran Svilanovic i
potpredsednik Vlade Srbije Nebojša Covic prošle nedelje u Nemackoj
razgovarali su s americkim oficirima o detaljima plana o ruti za snabdevanje
kroz Srbiju".
"Sandej tajms", pri tom, ocenjuje da jugoslovenska vojska nije sasvim spremna
da NATO-u dozvoli pristup nekim od svojih baza, dok, kako navodi list, NATO
sa svoje strane i dalje okleva da dozvoli jugoslovenskim vojnicima da se
vrate u delove Kosova naseljene vecinskim srpskim stanovništvom, kao što je
Kosovska Mitrovica.
"Verujemo da je to još uvek suviše opasno", izjavio je jedan zvanicnik
NATO-a, a prenosi londonski list.
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