For now, air operations continue. |
God knows what we're going to find when Kosovo is open again and the international war crimes tribunal is allowed in. |
He has been examined by a doctor. He has been given shelter, food and has access to religious counseling. He has also access to the International Committee of the Red Cross and he will have all the protection and rights accorded by the third Geneva Convention. |
He has no freedom of movement, but has to report to local police several times a day. |
He is getting caught up in the middle of a joint process that is forcing him into a corner. |
I don't believe there are any differences in what people are saying. We all agree that ground troops should not be introduced until Yugoslav forces are retreating. We also all agree that ground troops will not be used for fighting. |
I don't see anything ... which suggests this was a catastrophe. It was not. It was a mistake. And no more than that. |
I don't think many Kosovar Albanians will shed a tear if that prison is not being used because many of them have suffered very badly from their detention there. |
I have always said that Milosevic's future is up to the Serbian people. |
I think everyone would prefer, including NATO diplomats, that we could solve these problems through diplomacy. But I think on the other hand, they understand the situation and the need to put a stop to a humanitarian catastrophe in the heart of Europe. |
I want to make this crystal clear: I have no evidence of this, but there are a number of Kosovar Albanian sources that have spoken about people being taken down from the hills and being concentrated in that particular location. |
I'm quite sure that if President Ahtisaari does go to Belgrade, he will carry a firm message that he's not there to negotiate, that he's there to obtain from Milosevic an unambiguous, clear and verifiable pledge that Belgrade is willing not simply to accept the principles of the G-8 but to put them into practice. |
If it were to be true, it would be alarming indeed, because it is one thing to push refugees over borders where the international community is now increasingly ready to deal with them in a humane way, but it's quite another thing to push them back into a wasteland where there is no food, very little water, no medical supplies, where everything has been looted. |
If Milosevic is pulling them out, there will be plenty of dust on the track. We'll know it when we see it. |
If the Serbs want to talk, they know what number to call. |