Word: nato
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...Serbs Thursday rejected a key provision of the peace plan -- a NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo. "If the Serbs stick to that position, NATO may be forced eventually to bomb them into accepting peacekeeping troops," says Calabresi. The threat of force that made the two sides show up in Paris may yet be needed to persuade them to make nice...
...made even showing up difficult for their ethnic-Albanian adversaries. The Serbs stopped four Kosovo Liberation Army delegates from leaving Pristina, insisting the men couldn't travel to the Paris talks without valid passports. "The posturing has begun," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Neither side supports NATO's peace plan, and agreed to the talks only under threat of Western military action. "They're obviously going to try and strengthen their negotiating positions at the outset," says Calabresi...
...rebel movement's political spokesman Adem Demaci on Tuesday recommended a boycott of the negotiations, but hours later rebel HQ announced they would be attending this weekend's talks in France. The confusion reflects suspicion over the Serbs' bona fides as well as concern over the framework outlined by NATO. "The Kosovo autonomy plan may actually allow Milosevic to put NATO to work for him, because the West's opposition to independence for Kosovo makes peacekeeping troops the guarantors of Yugoslav sovereignty," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi...
BELGRADE: Madeleine Albright is nothing if not an optimist. The secretary of state's new peace plan for Kosovo "is more of a wish list than a proposal," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Although it extends NATO's military options to include peacekeeping ground troops, the plan is premised on a hypothetical agreement between the Serb government and ethnic Albanian rebels on autonomy -- but not independence -- for Kosovo. "The possibility of any agreement between the Serbs and the Albanians is very slight," says Anastasijevic. "Most ethnic Albanian parties won't even negotiate about anything short of independence, and Milosevic...
...Albright worked Wednesday to get NATO to issue a tough ultimatum to both sides on Thursday, threatening that failure to accept a compromise could result in air strikes on the Serbs and unspecified restrictions on the KLA guerrillas. But in the hills north of Pristina Wednesday, the two sides continued to let their weapons do the talking...