George Robertson
George Robertson
alliance course developing due plans
The U.S. is still developing its thinking, ... They will come back to the alliance in due course when their plans are crystallized.
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Today we've sent AWACS aircraft and patriot missiles and chem-bio defensive equipment to Turkey, another ally in trouble, under threat, asking for help, ... That's what the alliance of free nations is all about.
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I have absolutely no doubt that the alliance will, as it has promised, stand by its ally Turkey, which happens to be a neighbor of Iraq, ... There is no dispute about that at all.
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We are focusing entirely on the defense of Turkey in the circumstances where that ally believes it is under threat and NATO as a collective security alliance with obligations that go along with that. (But) we're not part of any decision-making process that is tied to the United Nations.
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The ball is now firmly in the court of the Macedonian government to deliver on the political dialogue and the cease fire in order to allow NATO's help to come into effect,
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The NATO nations wanted to help an ally. They wanted to be sure they were standing by one of the NATO allies when there was a threat.
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I have no doubt at all about Germany's commitment to respond to a plea from a NATO member to have protection,
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That said, ... I would urge you to ensure the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's security forces show restraint and fully abide by the military technical agreement provisions.
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The message of NATO and the message of these demonstrators is very clear: Milosevic is a loser
military targets
The military targets ... have been successfully hit,
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The military objective was and remains to disrupt Serb violence and to weaken the military machine that has been the instrument of the genocidal attacks on the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,
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The world is watching and the politicians know they have an obligation that they must fulfil. NATO has delivered -- it is now up to the parliamentarians to deliver again.
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They will certainly not sleep any sounder in their beds as the result of today's action.
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The priority for us is to achieve a common understanding,