Jamie Shea
Jamie Shea
Jamie Patrick Sheais Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium...
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Nobody is talking about putting in ground troops into a combat situation. Everybody agrees that the air campaign has to run its course until such time as those Serb forces are degraded, diminished, demoralized and on their way out.
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We will have more or less 1,000 aircraft on stream very soon -- able to maintain a continuous operation to tighten the screw on Serb forces.
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We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.
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All of us at NATO believe Gen. Clark has been outstanding ... winning very decisively the air operation in Kosovo.
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As far as the air campaign is concerned, there is no reason to suspend it. Conditions for that have not been met. We're going to keep it up so that (Milosevic) has a chance to rethink again the strategy of not following through on what he has agreed.
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NATO can now turn its attention away from winning the conflict in the air to winning the peace on the ground.
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Air operations continue. Nobody has taken any decision to halt them or suspend them yet, because we haven't yet seen any withdrawal of the Serb forces.
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We expect the Yugoslav military representatives to accept the terms that will be put to them by Gen. Jackson, and we expect them to have the authority not only to agree but also to order the immediate implementation of what is agreed.
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It would be very pleasant to be there, but we're not there yet.
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The women and children are then expelled from their homes and then sent toward the border. After they have left the villages, the homes are looted and then systematically torched.
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The Russian incident, while colorful, is really a minor one.
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Operation Allied Force will continue until those conditions have been fulfilled and fulfilled in full.
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We are going to demonstrate ... the determination of the allies to see this through to the end no matter how long it takes. Our values and security will suffer if Milosevic is allowed to continue.
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Even though it took 72 days to get to this point, we -- within 72 hours -- are determined to seize the momentum of peace.