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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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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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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I'm quite sure that if President Ahtisaari does go to Belgrade, he will carry a firm message that he's not there to negotiate, that he's there to obtain from Milosevic an unambiguous, clear and verifiable pledge that Belgrade is willing not simply to accept the principles of the G-8 but to put them into practice.
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It's not a place for haggling or equivocation. This is a place for decision and action. We expect the Yugoslav military representatives to accept the terms that will be put to them ... 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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I want to make this crystal clear: I have no evidence of this, but there are a number of Kosovar Albanian sources that have spoken about people being taken down from the hills and being concentrated in that particular location.
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If Milosevic is pulling them out, there will be plenty of dust on the track. We'll know it when we see it.
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At this stage we are not ready to settle for anything less than our objectives.
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At this rate, the Serb security forces would have more or less emptied Kosovo (of ethnic Albanians) in 10 to 20 days from now.
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The military commanders will continue to take every precaution to hit the targets accurately. No government has asked NATO to change its current strategy, including its targeting policy.
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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.