----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: [STOPNATO] EU police force "separate from NATO" planned STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM ============================================== EUROPE PLANNING NEW INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE ============================================== SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA, Portugal, June 19, 2000 (New York Times) European Union leaders, with the failures of Kosovo in mind, discussed plans Monday for an international force of 5,000 specially trained policemen for deployment to hot spots on short notice. Javier Solana, the EU's foreign and security policy chief, reported to the 15 EU leaders that progress in preparing an EU military force separate from NATO to intervene in peacekeeping and humanitarian crises was proceeding well but that more attention must be focused on the civilian side of crisis management. "The shortage of high quality police officers, of judges and prosecutors as well as the overall shortfall in staffing continue to undermine the work of (the United Nations) in key areas," Solana said in his report to the summit on the Balkans. On the new police force, the leaders were expected to agree in their final declaration Tuesday on an objective of readying 5,000 policemen by 2003. "This will require the pre-identification and training of a sufficiently large pool of police staff covering all fields of police work," said a draft document. These police officers could be deployed either in response to a call from the United Nations, or perhaps the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or be part of an autonomous EU operation. The initial goal would be to develop the capability of deploying up to 1,000 policemen within 30 days. ======== THE NEWS ======== Evening news edited by Nikola Stan AIM, Belgrade, June 19, 2000 21:30 http://www.aim.ac.yu/ ===== Join with Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace and others to give "NATO Supreme Commander" General Wesley Clark a special Berkeley welcome in October! Information: http://www.speakerseries.net/speaker.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
