Athens, March 22 (Tanjug) - During the bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, apart from claiming numerous civilian casualties, a lasting threat to the Balkans through the use of depleted uranium and the shelling of chemical facilities have been created, it has been stressed at a meeting in Athens, today, dedicated to the consequences of the NATO aggression on our country.

The meeting, on the occasion of March 24 and the second anniversary of the start of the aggression on Yugoslavia, has been organized by Greece's Balkan Friendship Society and Movement for Peace and Human Rights, with the participation of experts from Balkan countries, delegates of Greek political parties and several non-governmental and humanitarian organizations.

The delegates were firmly agreed that the aggression on FRY was a wrong move and that the international community must help alleviate its consequences.

"The NATO carried out an aggression on Yugoslavia without the U.N. approval and committed severe crime using the radioactive ammunition", President of the Balkan Friendship Society Panayotis Mikalakakis said opening debate.

Ivan Cakalov from Bulgaria stressed that "after Chernobyl and the Gulf War, danger of radiation is minimized, but grave consequences have been discovered soon, and although, now, the damage from uranium is being denied under the West and the USA influences - it is an useless effort", Cakalov stressed.

Vladimir Djukic from Medical Faculty in Belgrade, who estimated that indifference of those responsible for the fate of wounded, for their number and suffered consequences was amazing, pointed out to attempts in order to disparage the consequences of the aggression.

Ljiljana Kolar-Anic from Belgrade Faculty of physical chemistry warned about long-term, lethal effect of depleted uranium, but also toxins and heavy metals released during bombing.

Several participants, confirming the existence of danger from uranium projectiles, stressed the fact that states, which claimed that there was no risk, have been sending food and water to their soldiers in Kosovo, and also instructions what they can touch and where to go.

At the beginning of the meeting, which Ambassador's Adviser to the FRY in Athens Mirko Jelic welcomed, expressing gratitude to organizers on the attention, which they paid to this subject, participants condemned the ethnic Albanian extremists' actions in Macedonia, which, as it was stressed, endangere peace in the Balkans.