> >STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG > >On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Rick Rozoff wrote: > >> STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG >> >> http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news/php3?id=144778 >> >> >> "The situation in Kosovo is developing quickly in a >> negative way and this could lead to an aggravation in >> the situation not only in the province, but in the >> south of Serbia and in the whole of the Balkans" - >> Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov. >> [Quiz for regular readers: In which paragraph does the >> obligatory - incantatory - phrase 'fellow Slavs, >> Orthodox brethren' occur?] >> > :-)) > > Indeed, they seem to always (or nearly always) leave for the very last >paragraph... Sort of like the "current wave of violence in Kosovo is a >Kosovar ALbanian retribution against the Serbs for a decade-long >oppression of Belgrade" and similar lines. > > They're no more creative than the baseball players giving interviews >("we take one game at a time" and similar usual crap :-))) > > >> ______________________________________________________ >> Russia Wants Special UN Mission In Kosovo >> >> MOSCOW, Mar 22, 2000 -- (Reuters) Russia wants a >> special U.N. Security Council mission to be sent to >> Kosovo because the situation there is worsening >> rapidly, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was quoted as >> saying on Tuesday. >> >> "The situation in Kosovo is developing quickly in a >> negative way and this could lead to an aggravation in >> the situation not only in the province, but also in >> the south of Serbia and in the whole of the Balkans," >> Ivanov told Itar-Tass news agency. >> >> He said Russia had made a proposal to send such a >> mission to the Security Council on Monday. >> >> A United Nations resolution last year authorised the >> presence in Kosovo of a multinational peacekeeping >> force and a U.N. civil administration, known as UNMIK. >> >> Russia's Foreign Ministry, is a separate statement, >> blasted UNMIK's decision to introduce a special Kosovo >> car registration, saying it smacked of recognising >> Kosovo's independence from Yugoslavia, and said >> Belgrade had not been consulted. >> >> UNMIK says the new registration is aimed at >> introducing order amid chaos in Kosovo, a magnet for >> stolen cars from across Europe. >> >> Russia, though it takes part in the peacekeeping >> mission, says the NATO-led KFOR force does not do >> enough to protect Kosovo's Serb minority, many of whom >> have fled to Serbia. >> >> An armed ethnic Albanian group emerged this year in >> the southern Presevo valley region of Serbia, which >> borders Kosovo, saying it aimed to protect local >> Albanians against Serb repression. Many diplomats and >> observers fear the area may explode in violence as >> Kosovo did last year. >> >> Russia has traditionally close ties with fellow >> Orthodox Serbia. Moscow fiercely opposed NATO's air >> strikes against Yugoslavia, which began nearly one >> year ago and drove Serb forces out of Kosovo >> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >> http://im.yahoo.com >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com >> > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >______________________________________________________________________ >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
