Word: kosovo
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Well, the bombs are paid for again. The Senate dropped the Kosovo emergency funding bill on the President's desk Friday after passing the measure by a 64-36 vote on Thursday evening -- and the President signed it later in the day. The bill, which started as a $6 billion request from Clinton, quickly swelled to $15 billion in the House after Republicans indulged in $6 billion worth of one-upsmanship (not soft on defense, they!), some long-delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska...
With ground troops off the table as an option, NATO's Kosovo exit strategy now rests squarely on the diplomatic corps -- and the growing involvement of Finland's president suggests that a breakthrough on that front may be on the horizon. President Martti Ahtisaari met for two days with Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Helsinki before Chernomyrdin left for Belgrade Wednesday and Talbott departed for NATO headquarters. Ahtisaari, an accomplished peacemaker with extensive European and U.N. credentials, has been tapped by European NATO members to represent them as a mediator...
...still face the challenge of choreographing the sequence of agreements, troop withdrawals and bombing halts that will define the peace process. G8 envoys met in Bonn Wednesday to finesse the peace plan and draft a U.N. resolution authorizing it. The big losers in any diplomatic solution may be the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had enjoyed something of an informal alliance with NATO during the past eight weeks. The G8 principles call for them to be disarmed, while guaranteeing a political autonomy that falls short of their demand for independence from Yugoslavia. The insurgents are unlikely to accept those terms...
...angry, perhaps hurt, recycling your pain," Jackson says he told the Serbian leader, adding, "Champions have to play through their pain. You have to see the power of a diplomatic bridge, not a bloody war." He insists that he stressed that Milosevic must withdraw his forces from Kosovo and agree to an international peacekeeping force and repatriation of refugees, as NATO demands...
...that NATO and Milosevic are equally responsible for the carnage in the Balkans. But at times he seems to be trying to have it both ways. On the CNN show Crossfire, he maintained that NATO's bombing campaign "corresponds with the kind of ethnic-cleansing violence you see in Kosovo." But two days later he told me that he thinks NATO's bombing has served "our moral mission of stopping the ethnic cleansing." He adds, "But it's not stopping the ethnic cleansing. We must be seen to be as willing to negotiate as we are to bomb...