George Robertson
George Robertson
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an offer of assistance in response to President Boris Trajkovski's request to NATO to contribute to the protection of the international monitors who will oversee implementation of the peace plan in Macedonia.
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President Trajkovski has asked us officially if we will help with that process,
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If there were to be clear and unambiguous evidence that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic was meeting the conditions, and that he seemed to be doing so, then we would consider a bombing pause to allow an orderly withdrawal of his forces,
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NATO's air campaign in succeeding in weakening (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic 's repressive capability, and we are exacting a heavy price for his ethnic cleansing activity, ... NATO's resolution remains unshakable.
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We will go away when he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) complies with the Security Council resolutions,
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What will come out of today's summit will be the united resolve of European countries and all the NATO countries that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic is going to be defeated,
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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
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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.