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Kole, you certainly gave this report the right subject
heading. What 79 days of NATO bombing - confronted by
79 days of popular resistance - couldn't accomplish,
certain "patriotic," "nationalist" quislings have
handed NATO on a silver platter.
If the Milosevic government refused to sign the
Rambouillet Appendix B capitulation accord, Brussels
and Washington have bought someone who will.
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> FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES
>
> Nato asks Serbs for use of bases
> http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/
> Tom Walker
>
> Widow of warlord Arkan seeks British buyer for his
> footballers
> 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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