Russia's NATO envoy: US military "arming ex-terrorists" in Kosovo
Mar 20, 2008, 13:12 GMT
Moscow/Brussels - Russia's firebrand envoy to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization said Thursday that US military aid to Kosovo amounted to arming
'former terrorists.'
Responding to news of US President George W Bush approval of military aid to
Kosovo, Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin warned that such a move
could lead to 'new terrorist clashes in the Balkans.'
'To give former terrorists weapons for the war against terrorism appears at
least amusing if not worse,' the Interfax news agency quoted Rogozin as
saying from Brussels.
'It is well known that those in power in Kosovo came in as the organizers
and leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which many states recognized as a
terrorist organization,' he said.
The US was among the first nations to recognize Kosovo after it split from
Serbia, despite heavy protest from Russia, which warned that example of the
province's independence would fan the flames of separatist struggles
worldwide.
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