“We were trying to motivate” -Rubin tells why Albright told Thaci “I hope you become the Gerry Adams of Kosovo”

James Rubin during his testimony was asked why the American secretary of state at the time, Madeleine Albright told Thaci I hope you become the Gerry Adams of Kosovo, writes Periscope. “We did not know Kosovo Albanians very well, we had not met any Kosovo leaders. We with Albright had no knowledge [...]
“We did not know Kosovo Albanians very well, we had not met any Kosovo leaders. We with Albright didn't know much about UCK was not an armed and important force. When we heard that the head of the delegation, those who had chosen him as leader was from W. CK, she was trying to achieve peace in Rambouillet to divide the ongoing war and stop the war should motivate those who have a role in military parts of the equation, against Mr. Rugova, who were fighting for peace but peacefully, Hashim Thaci had been identified with the KLA, so we're encouraging her to try to get her to see this peace conference as an opportunity to transform a small group of people who had arrived at a point where they're using military means to reach the goal, we're trying to persuade her not to do anything, try to make sure she didn't understand the price, but thus gained peace, and we're trying to transform her, but we're not getting used to try to get it.












