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Is U.S.-led NATO becoming a problem for the EU and UN?
EU Backs Annan's Kosovo Plan
By MIKE CORDER
.c The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- European Union leaders are backing a U.N. peace
initiative for Kosovo while still giving their unwavering support to NATO's
bombing campaign to end the Serb offensive in Kosovo.
``There's not going to be a halt to the NATO action until the demands that we
have set out -- which are entirely reasonable, humane, civilized demands --
are met in full,'' British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday after the
15 EU leaders met with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss the
Kosovo crisis.
Billed as a summit to discuss a German peace plan, the leaders instead backed
a similar five-point initiative launched by Annan in Geneva last week.
Annan's formula, which closely resembles NATO's conditions for stopping
airstrikes, calls for:
An immediate end to the Yugoslav campaign of intimidation and expulsion of
civilians.
Ceasing all military and paramilitary activities in Kosovo and withdrawing
these forces.
Accepting unconditionally the return of all refugees and displaced people to
their homes.
Accepting the deployment of an international military force to help in the
return of refugees and delivery of aid.
Permitting the international community to verify compliance.
Annan said he had no plans to go to Belgrade to speak to Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic and there was no indication Milosevic would accept such a
deal.
German chancellor and current EU president, Gerhard Schroeder, said the EU
still supports a political settlement based on the February agreement at
Rambouillet, France -- which the Kosovo Albanians signed and the Serbs
rejected.
He said the EU was prepared to run an interim administration of Kosovo under
such a plan. The Rambouillet plan calls for a NATO-led peacekeeping force, as
opposed to Annan's proposal of international troops.
The leaders also agreed to a future conference to discuss the long-term
stabilization of southeastern Europe.
But before a date can be set for such a conference, Milosevic must end his
force's bloody crackdown in Kosovo, which has forced hundreds of thousands of
ethnic Albanians to flee the province.
``We need great determination to follow the military option until it achieves
its objective,'' said French President Jacques Chirac.
NATO officials say the three weeks of airstrikes have begun to stagger
Milosevic and are hesitant to ease up and give him a chance to recuperate.
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