STOP NATO: O PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [As some third of a million civilians - Serbs, Roma, Goranci, Egyptians, Turks, Jews and others have been forcibly dispossessed - all under the Argus eye of NATO occupation troops - and thousands have been murdered in cold blood or 'disappeared,' Lord Robertson has deigned that it's time for 'multi-ethnic democracry,' which, given the circumstances, would raise an admiring nod from Josef Goebbels. As Lord Chamberlain Djindjic enthusiastically agrees to meet with Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku - the A.H. and B. M. of the sequel - "on neutral grounds," perhaps a certain city in Bavaria would be an apt location for the love-fest in mind.] Wednesday July 18 8:48 AM ET NATO Urges Serbia to Encourage Voters in Kosovo BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Serbs in enclaves of Albanian-dominated Kosovo must be encouraged to take part in general elections due in four months if multi-ethnic democracy is to be established there, NATO said on Wednesday. Alliance Secretary-General George Robertson said getting out the Serb vote, and organizing the safe return of Serbs who fled Kosovo as Yugoslav forces left two years ago to make way for NATO peacekeepers, were key objectives in building a stable society. He was speaking at NATO headquarters after talks with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic, which he described as ''constructive and highly professional.'' The U.N.-administered election for a legislative assembly is due in November. ``We do not want to be part of the problem any more,创 Covic told reporters. ``We want to participate constructively.创 Covic said Serbia was interested in playing a role not only in the northern Serb enclave of Mitrovica but in the southern and western districts of Prizren and Pec, abandoned by almost all Serbs in the chaos of mid-June 1999. He denied suggestions Belgrade was proposing the partition of Kosovo, and acknowledged the time was not right for the return of a limited number of Serbian security personnel, as foreseen in U.N. Resolution 1244 on Kosovo. Robertson said that move was ``not for the moment,创 but added they were working hard on the return of displaced people. Covic said: ``We obviously wish that the armed forces and the police go back there. But desire is one thing and reality something else.创 He was referring to the opposition any such move would be likely to meet from the ethnic Albanian majority. About 180,000 Serbs fled Kosovo after NATO-led troops took control of the province following three months of air strikes in 1999 to halt Belgrade's repression of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority. Some 100,000 Serbs remain in Kosovo, many of them living in enclaves heavily guarded by the NATO-led peacekeeping force. Covic also mentioned the need to trace Serbs still missing and unaccounted for in Kosovo. The Belgrade newspaper Politika said on Wednesday that Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic would meet Kosovo Albanian leaders Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku ''on neutral ground'' to discuss this issue. Covic said he wanted to ``make a showcase创 of the Presevo Valley region of southern Serbia, where 6,500 out of 12,000 local Albanians were back in their homes following peaceful disbandment of an Albanian rebel force this year, organized in cooperation with NATO. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
