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Jovanovic: Immediate end of NATO aggression precondition for crisis solution
April 21, 1999

Vladislav Jovanovic
Vladislav Jovanovic
Bejing, April 21, 1999 (Tanjug - abridged) - The urgent cessation of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia is a precondition for a political solution to problems in Kosovo-Metohija, said Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires to the U.N. in New York Vladislav Jovanovic in an interview for the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

"NATO must stop the aggression on Yugoslavia and that is the precondition for everything," Jovanovic said stressing that Yugoslavia is "open for a political solution" and supports a political solution to problems in Kosovo-Metohija.

"A political solution can only be achieved in direct talks of our government and representatives of Kosovo-Metohija Albanians," Jovanovic said, adding that international representatives "will be invited only as witnesses, but not as mediators, because we have experienced that international mediators want to impose a solution."

"Yugoslavia has rejected ideas about any kind of foreign military or police presence in the Serbian province of Kosovo, and we can talk about a civilian presence," he said.

"Civilian presence excludes NATO member countries, because aggressors cannot build peace," Jovanovic said, adding "China, Russia, India, Latin America and Africa are welcome to send their representatives to help the peace process, when the NATO aggression stops."

"NATO has made a very bad and dangerous precedent in the world, and that is an ominous sign for future development," Vladislav Jovanovic said.




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