>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > > >Russian, Chinese diplomats meet with Milosevic > > > >BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (April 26, 2000 6:05 p.m. EDT >http://www.nandotimes.com) - Russian and Chinese >diplomats made a surprise stop in Belgrade and met >with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ahead of a >U.N. Security Council fact-finding mission to Kosovo. > >Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov and deputy Chinese >Ambassador Shen Guofang, who vehemently opposed NATO's >78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia last year, >didn't discuss the mission with reporters. > >They will be joined by the rest of the delegation in >Kosovo on Thursday. > >Kosovo, which is part of Yugoslavia, has been under >control of the United Nations and NATO since last June >12, when Milosevic agreed to withdraw his troops from >the province and allow deployment of international >forces in exchange for the alliance halting the air >attacks. > >NATO launched the air campaign in March 1999 to force >Milosevic to end his yearlong crackdown against >independence-minded ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. > >Russia and China, both permanent members on the U.N. >Security Council, opposed the NATO intervention and >pressured the United States last year to accept >language in the U.N. Security Council resolution that >established Kosovo's peacekeeping mission. > >The two countries are also among the few that still >maintain links with Milosevic, although the U.N. >tribunal indicted him last year for war crimes during >the Kosovo conflict. > >Lavrov and Shen also met Wednesday with Yugoslavia's >deputy premier, Nikola Sainovic, who was indicted >along with Milosevic last year. > >A statement after the meeting said that Sainovic >accused the U.N. administration in Kosovo of being >responsible for the "present grave situation in >Kosovo." > >Serbs and other non-Albanians have faced harassment by >ethnic Albanian extremists since last June. Scores >were killed or went missing, while some 250,000 people >fled the province. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Advertisement: >Workstation with Monitor under $800! >So, you just heard that you need to add how many new workstations by >the end of next week? Check out the bundle below. It includes >everything you need to get everyone up and running quickly. >http://www.listbot.com/links/cdw5 > __________________________________ 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] ___________________________________
