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(Via London Weekly Guardian
International News / Turkey resists demands for EU deal with Nato
by Ian Black in Brussels
Turkey resists demands for EU deal with Nato
-Ian Black in Brussels
Turkey refused point blank last week to accept Nato plans for
cooperation with the European Union's new rapid reaction force, after
resisting massive diplomatic pressure to cave in.
As the prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, insisted he could not
compromise on the EU force, Nato ministers meeting in Brussels were
unable to crack stiff Turkish resistance. Despite an appeal from
President Clinton, Mr Ecevit said he would not give fledgling EU
defence bodies automatic access to the resources of the 19-member
alliance - which operates by consensus - without being given a full
role in decision-making.
Turkey - which has a prickly relationship with the EU and little
chance of joining for years - fears that if it has no decisive say,
such resources could be used against its interests, possibly in
disputes with Greece over the Aegean or Cyprus. "We are standing
firm on our position because we may face serious dangers if we are
excluded from the European defence and security iden tity," Mr Ecevit
insisted. "We feel obliged to pursue our position
without compromise."
Talks ended after the United States secretary of state,
Madeleine Albright, led feverish efforts by alliance foreign
ministers to find a way out of the impasse. Turkey's foreign
minister, Ismail Cem, was offered what Nato diplomats described as
"special guarantees". The crisis threatens to delay controversial
plans for a deal that would give the EU "assured access" to Nato
planning resources for missions that the alliance chooses not to
undertake. Diplomats said the guarantee of access was the "keystone"
of the agreement. Some sources believe Turkey is holding out for a
better deal from the new administration of George W Bush.
* Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish rebel leader sentenced to hang by
Turkey, was granted leave to appeal last week by the European Court
of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In a case with profound implications
for Turkey's relations with the EU, Ocalan can now challenge the
death sentence passed last year.
The Guardian Weekly 21-12-2000, page 5
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subject: Milosevic says his conscience is clear
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(Via London - Guardian Weekly)
International news / Milosevic says his conscience is clear
- by Gillian Sandford in Belgrade
Milosevic says his conscience is clear
by Gillian Sandford in Belgrade
The former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, last week gave
his first television interview since being forced from power in
October, and declared that he had a clear conscience about his 13-
year rule. Looking calm and determined, Mr Milosevic said he had no
qualms about what he had done in power - which included four wars
and the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia. "I am able to sleep tight, as
my conscience is completely clear," he said. His appearance was an
attempt to re-enter the political stage before crucial elections for
the Serbian parliament this week.
Asked about the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague,
Mr Milosevic said, looking into the camera: "I do not recognise
that institution. It is a political institution and one of the means
for committing genocide against the Serbs. This has become very
apparent. The institution is completely illegal."
The interview, conducted in the headquarters of Mr Milosevic's
Socialist party of Serbia, was broadcast by the private television
station Palma, whose owner, Miodrag Vujovic, is reputed to be
sympathetic to the former president. Mr Milosevic, in dark suit and
red tie, answered the interviewer's simple questions like a
benevolent uncle. Asked to talk about the man who unseated him,
Vojislav Kostunica, Mr Milosevic said: "I would not comment on that.
It is too early."
He said, however, that life for ordinary Serbs had already
deteriorated. "The people already know that their purchasing power is
miserable. The question is: Doesn't everyone see how much worse it is
now than it was at the end of September?"
In the interview Mr Milosevic said his years as Serbian and
Yugoslav president had been a "struggle to preserve peace", and he
referred to the reformers' victory in October as a "coup". He
suggested that the assassination in January of the warlord Zeljko
Raznatovic, known as Arkan, had been part of a plot against Serbia.
"Arkan was assassinated in the context of this operation that was
under way . . . because they knew . . . he was a patriot," Mr
Milosevic said.
Mr Milosevic defended his family against criticisms, saying his son
Marko, widely viewed in Serbia as a playboy and believed to have
fled the country, had done nothing wrong, and that his accusers were
"below every human dignity . . . If they really believe in God, as
they say they do, they should fear God."
The interview echoed the style adopted by Mr Milosevic when he
conceded power on October 6. Then, he aped the kind of resignation
speech that any Western politician might make, even though 24 hours
before he had sent in the tanks. His Socialist party has splintered
and suffered a rash of resignations since his regime was defeated in
the September elections, when the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS) had a landslide victory at presidential, federal and local
level. Opinion polls show that support for Mr Milosevic's party has
dropped dramatically since then, from 24% in September to 16% now.
Support for DOS has almost doubled from 32% to 61%.
The Guardian Weekly 21-12-2000, page 4 "
(JC .Oh for the days when it was possible for UK/EU corrupted
politicians -including Thatcher- to say "No" to US planning its
takeover of the the UN, Palestine, Cyprus, Belgium's African and
other colonies, Bretton Woods, Turkey, the Hague Court for "Justice",
WTO,IMF,World Bank, NATO and the wording of the Dayton Agreement.
Milosevic then, was in a position of having to defend 'his' Kosovo
territory or be destroyed. US Journalists should not gloat?
He did not know that the US promise to divide the Balkans mainly
between Bosnia and Serbia was another sick US promise, loaded with
lies and casting the shadow of US determination to install a base in
Kosovo and more bases in its allies -Israel, Turkey, Kuwait and also
in unsuspecting Europe. He did not know that Catholic Croatian secret
religious ustazi were determined to wipe out Orthodox religions in
the Balkans, with the aid of US forces and approved by the 'pope'.
"Think not for whom the US bell tolls. It tolls fo thee. Every nation
on the planet has a CIA group of operatives, computing economic,
defence etc statistics. The US signs nothing that would lead itself
into a Court of Justice for Crimes against humanity. The US needs men
in charge like the Bush brothers. It abhors democracy in its true
and complete meaning of the word, but claims to have the right to
accuse others -like gentle Cuba. Only the brutal, the criminal, the
wasteful, the destructive (of ecology, environment, the beauty of the
planet) are welcomed, while ensuring that all its allies use torture
on a large scale and genocide of its indigenous Indian or Black
peoples, for being too poor to buy US food and goods.) " JC
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