STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [As a citizen of the United States, I don't find Belarus President Lukashenko's statements the least bit "anti-U.S." In fact, they echo my own sentiments, and are the sort of thing anyone who cared about the political and moral well-being of Americans should be telling us.] "Events in the Balkans show that some countries haven't learned lessons drawn fom the Second World War." Belarus President in Anti-U.S. Remarks at National Day Rally MINSK, Jul 4, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko took an indirect swipe at the United States and its "diktat of force and bombs", during a speech Tuesday marking the ex-Soviet republic's national day. "Events in the Balkans show that some countries haven't learned lessons drawn from the Second World War," Lukashenko said in reference to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. "Former allies of the Soviet Union against the Nazis are seeking to drag the world community into a new arms race. Some states are using the diktat of force and bombs to impose their own geo-political interests," he said in a clear allusion to the United States and its proposed anti-missile defense shield. "The international situation forces us to have a very professional and mobile army," he said. July 3 marks both the 1991 independence of the ex-Soviet republic as well as its liberation from German occupation in 1944. Lukashenko, whose authoritarian regime is criticized by the West, last week denounced the transfer of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
