My client is entitled to a presumption of innocence at this point. |
NATO authorities will have to make a judgment at the end of the week whether there is substantial and serious compliance on the part of President Milosevic, |
No formal charges have been made, but the authorities have advised that he is presently under investigation for violation of Article 276 of the Russian criminal code, which pertains to espionage. |
not a helpful gesture. |
not conclude ... that Dr. Rugova is speaking and acting freely and openly. |
Our focus is on deeds and not so much words and personalities. |
Our position is clear. Milosevic must halt the offensive against the Kosovar Albanians, withdraw his forces and embrace a settlement based on the Rambouillet framework. |
Our understanding is that the Contact Group in New York has agreed to a consensus text of a U.N. Security Council resolution. |
People are dressed rather informally. It does appear that there is a better and more constructive and more pragmatic atmosphere to work on these problems than there had been in the past. |
people in the region would be better off if these kind of activities did not take place. |
People might want to wish away the existence of Serbs. But there are Serbs there. And there have been provocations on both sides in Kosovo. |
Russia has found itself out of the mainstream. |
Saddam Hussein should change his mind and allow the U.N. to do its job. |
Saddam is again pushing the canard that sanctions -- rather than the misrule and the cynical manipulation of his own people that Saddam Hussein propagates -- are responsible for the suffering of the Iraqi people. |
Secretary Albright asked the State Department's senior human rights officer to undertake the mission to further develop the administration's understanding of the dimensions of the conflict in Kosovo and to emphasize U.S. support for proponents of democracy as well as victims of human rights abuse in the region. |