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----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 5:23 PM
Subject: Troubling Questions About Rambouillet
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
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For Release 5 P.M. Eastern Time -- Friday, April 16, 1999
TROUBLING QUESTIONS ABOUT RAMBOUILLET
The Clinton administration has repeatedly claimed that bombing is necessary
because Milosevic would not agree to negotiations, citing his refusal to
accept the Rambouillet text. But did Rambouillet represent real negotiations
or an ultimatum?
Some have said that the Serbian parliament "voted to be bombed" because it
refused NATO troops as outlined in Rambouillet. But The New York Times has
reported (April 8) that "just before the bombing, when [the Serbian
parliament] rejected NATO troops in Kosovo, it also supported the idea of a
United Nations force to monitor a political settlement there." Did the
administration start bombing because it rejected the idea of a UN force and
insisted on a NATO one? Has that insistence blocked the recent German peace
plan?
The Rambouillet text of Feb. 23, a month before NATO began bombing,
contains provisions that seem to have provided for NATO to occupy the entire
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, not just Kosovo. Excerpts from Appendix (B):
7. NATO personnel shall be immune from any form of arrest,
investigation, or detention by the authorities in the FRY.
8. NATO personnel shall enjoy... free and unrestricted passage and
unimpeded access throughout the FRY including associated airspace and
territorial waters.
11. NATO is granted the use of airports, roads, rails and ports
without payment...
15. [NATO shall have] the right to use all of the electromagnetic
spectrum...
Analysts available to discuss this key matter include:
ROBERT HAYDEN, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh
SETH ACKERMAN, http://www.fair.org
A media analyst with Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting who monitors the
European press
JAN OBERG, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/index.html
Director of the Transnational Foundation (TFF) in Sweden
SAM HUSSEINI, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.accuracy.org/press.htm
Communications Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy
JULIANNE SMITH, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.basicint.org
Senior analyst at BASIC (British American Security Information Council)
ALISTAIR MILLAR, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fourthfreedom.org
Program director of the Fourth Freedom Forum, an independent research
organization
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
