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NATO bombing over Kosovo 'right thing to do': US envoy
5 hours ago
BRUSSELS (AFP) — US Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said Saturday that NATO's air
attack on former Yugoslavia a decade ago was "the right thing to do" and had
improved the lives of Kosovo Albanians and Serbs.
Speaking at the Brussels Forum conference, Holbrooke -- former envoy to the
Balkans -- recalled how 10 years ago this week he had given the final ultimatum
to former strongman Slobodan Milosevic to comply or face air strikes.
"I look back on it and I think that sometimes it's necessary to use force, and
the result was good in the end," the new US representative for Afghanistan and
Pakistan told reporters.
"The people of Kosovo are better off than they were as part of Serbia, and
Serbia is better off facing the future rather than working back to a mythic
past," he said.
"I look back on that extraordinary last meeting with Milosevic, with a feeling
that what we did was necessary and the right thing to do."
NATO launched its bombing campaign in 1999 to halt a violent crackdown on
separatist Kosovo Albanians by forces loyal to Milosevic, who later died in a
prison in the Netherlands before he could be tried for war crimes.
Kosovo proclaimed unilateral independence from Serbia in February 2008.
It is now recognised by 56 countries including the United States and 22 of the
European Union's 27 member states. Serbia is backed by its old ally Russia in
its opposition to the move.
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