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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We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.
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We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.
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(The) refugees have said time and time again that they will only go back if they see NATO in that peacekeeping force. They need to know that that force is built around that NATO core (and) that that force ... is not going to crumble like a pack of cards at the first sign of a challenge.
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If it were to be true, it would be alarming indeed, because it is one thing to push refugees over borders where the international community is now increasingly ready to deal with them in a humane way, but it's quite another thing to push them back into a wasteland where there is no food, very little water, no medical supplies, where everything has been looted.
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Clearly, we want the refugees to be able to go back quickly. Those NATO governments who have agreed to receive those refugees have made it clear that this is on a temporary basis.
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In fact, some refugees have even reported that Kosovar Albanians have been forced to dig these mass graves and put the bodies in.
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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.
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Based on our experience in Bosnia, where a number of mass graves were uncovered, the form looks quite similar.