Russian officials condemn NATO bombing

The 1999 NATO bombing was the start of a dangerous experiment, says the Russian ambassador to Serbia.

Izvor: Tanjug

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The 1999 NATO bombing was the start of a dangerous experiment, says the Russian ambassador to Serbia. Alexander Alexeyev said that its resumption could be seen through the unilateral declaration of Kosovo independence. Russian officials condemn NATO bombing Russia opposes the province’s unilateral independence because that decision represents a security threat not just to Europe, but to the world at large, Alexeyev said during a lecture on European security given yesterday at the Headquarters of the Serbian Army. On the question of Kosovo, in his opinion, “it’s not just a matter of a section of territory, because the game is much more serious.” “The use of armed force against Yugoslavia [in 1999] was the beginning of a big experiment whose resumption we’re now seeing. What’s going on in Kosovo now was once proposed to Russia with regards to Chechnya,” said Alexeyev. In Moscow, Head of the Duma’s Foreign Policy Committee Konstantin Kosachov said that nine years after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the events that followed, it was clear that the Alliance’s policy in the Balkans was ineffective. “Today is one of the most tragic dates in post-war contemporary Europe’s history—nine years since the start of the NATO bombing,” Kosachov told the Russian Interfaks agency. At the time, Kosachov had accompanied then Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov at talks in Belgrade with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. “As a direct participant in those events, I clearly remember that NATO’s decision to bomb had been preordained, regardless of the outcome of the talks [between Primakov and Milosevic] and was part of the global plan to weaken and maybe topple the Milosevic regime,” he recalled. For NATO, the Kosovo problem was at the time “one of the instruments of pressure on the Milosevic regime,” surmised the Russian deputy.

Russian officials condemn NATO bombing

Russia opposes the province’s unilateral independence because that decision represents a security threat not just to Europe, but to the world at large, Alexeyev said during a lecture on European security given yesterday at the Headquarters of the Serbian Army.

On the question of Kosovo, in his opinion, “it’s not just a matter of a section of territory, because the game is much more serious.”

“The use of armed force against Yugoslavia [in 1999] was the beginning of a big experiment whose resumption we’re now seeing. What’s going on in Kosovo now was once proposed to Russia with regards to Chechnya,” said Alexeyev.

In Moscow, Head of the Duma’s Foreign Policy Committee Konstantin Kosachov said that nine years after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the events that followed, it was clear that the Alliance’s policy in the Balkans was ineffective.

“Today is one of the most tragic dates in post-war contemporary Europe’s history—nine years since the start of the NATO bombing,” Kosachov told the Russian Interfaks agency.

At the time, Kosachov had accompanied then Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov at talks in Belgrade with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević.

“As a direct participant in those events, I clearly remember that NATO’s decision to bomb had been preordained, regardless of the outcome of the talks [between Primakov and Milošević] and was part of the global plan to weaken and maybe topple the Milošević regime,” he recalled.

For NATO, the Kosovo problem was at the time “one of the instruments of pressure on the Milosević regime,” surmised the Russian deputy.

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