Word: nato
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Moscow, sidelined and ignored as NATO went to war in the Balkans, is suddenly teeming with Western leaders seeking to negotiate their way out of the Kosovo stalemate. German defense minister Rudolf Scharping discussed Kosovo with top Russian officials Wednesday, following U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott's Tuesday talks with Russia's foreign minister Igor Ivanov and Kosovo envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin. Greek foreign minister Georgios Papandreou and U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan were due to arrive for talks later in the day, while Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy was due to join the diplomatic party on Thursday...
Despite the flurry of talks, peace remains elusive. "Moscow wants to see more concessions from the NATO side in order to be able to broker an agreement," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But NATO won't offer anything until the Russians can show some movement from Milosevic toward meeting NATO's demands, particularly on the nature of a peacekeeping force for Kosovo." Awkward as it may be, the diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated...
...NATO must be on watch for any crisis in the world," he said. "I support the attacks. Ethnic cleansing, genocide and incompatible coexistence cannot be the rules we live...
Aznar said the regime of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic is isolated politically, and the NATO allies are united...
...continued, Spain will be ready to assume more economic and security responsibilities within the EU and NATO...