a minute agoClark recalls the moment NATO had no choice but to bomb Serbs (Video)
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)NATO's ground troops arrived in Kosovo 20 years ago after the alliance expelled Serbian forces in a 78-day air campaign that ended one of Europe's most violent conflicts. NATO has still a peacekeeping mission in the country, but the road to independence for Kosovo has been difficult. Serbia still does not know [...]
NATO has still a peacekeeping mission in the country, but the road to independence for Kosovo has been difficult.
Serbia still does not recognise Kosovo's independence even 20 years after Belgrade lost control of this country.
So begins a writing, the prestigious Euronews medium, in which there are quotes of an interview with former senior commander of the NATO alliance, Wesley Clark, for legalisation of NATO intervention.
The medium in question, sent in the Telegraph, also published the video on which Clark speaks about the events of those days.
“NATO used force as a last resort, in the face of ethnic cleansing, to stop ethnic cleansing and to force a diplomatic solution”, Clark told Euronews from Pristina, Kosovo.
Otherwise, Clark was in Pristina, Kosovo for the 20th anniversary of NATO forces' entry into Kosovo, along with former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
And during the interview, Clark has remembered one of the hardest moments.
“I remember the nightmare of NATO ambassadors when it became clear that there was no choice but to use the force to bring Milosevic to the negotiation table”, Clark continued.
Clark, as Euronews writes, then called the air campaign called the Allied Operational Force, <x0 most successful operation of NATO” and defended NATO's decision to intervene in the conflict without a UN resolution.
He said the nations “technically” were authorised to deal with the refugee crisis and called the use of diplomacy “backed by force”.
Clark said he sees hope for the future of the two countries, claiming that “perhaps in a distant future as memories have faded, more progress can be made diplomaticly”.
But such a thing, Euronews views with suspicion, as, according to this medium, tensions between the two countries increased recently after police in Kosovo arrested Serbs in northern Kosovo as part of an anti-muggle mission.
This medium also recalls the fact that Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq described NATO intervention this week as the “19 most powerful countries attacking a small country dedicated to freedom”, according to AFP.
