NATO vows to aid
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sum
f mit-ending show of solidarity, NATO
leaders promised military protection
and economic aid to Yugoslavia’s neigh
bors for standing with the West against
Slobodan Milosevic. “If Mr. Milosevic
threatens them for helping us, we will
respond,” President Clinton promised.
Before winding up the three-day
meeting with his allies in the military
operation against the Serbs in
Yugoslavia, Clinton telephoned Boris
Yeltsin on Sunday and urged the
Russian leader to press Milosevic to
accept a peaceful solution to the crisis.
The 19 NATO leaders agreed in
their 50th anniversary summit to move
toward an oil embargo to hinder
Milosevic despite Russian objections
and French misgivings over forcibly
searching ships at sea.
Defense Secretary William Cohen
said the allies agreed it was important to
cut down the supply of fuel going to
Yugoslavia’s “war machine.” He said
the NATO leaders expected recommen
dations from their military officials “in
a very short period of time” on the exact
steps that might be taken.
The NATO leaders agreed to inten
sify air attacks against Yugoslavia. But
there was no agreement of the possibili
ty of introducing ground forces.
But in Russia - one of NATO’s non
member “partners” - Prime Minister
Yevgeny Primakov said, “We will have
to pay more attention to defense” if a
ground war is launched.
Clinton said the world one day
would see this as a historic a summit
during which the leaders agreed to
expand NATO’s shield.
In one of their final acts, NATO’s
leaders sat down with the representa
tives of the “frontline states” -
Yugoslavia’s seven neighbors, all feel
ing the fallout from the combat in
Kosovo - and promised to stand by
them.
French President Jacques Chirac, a
sometimes reluctant ally, took the
opportunity to issue his own warning to
Milosevic, telling him not to use force
against Montenegro, which along with
Serbia constitutes Yugoslavia.
Albania and Macedonia have been
particularly hard hit, taking in nearly
500,000 Kosovar Albanian refugees
fleeing from Yugoslav military action.
The other neighboring countries are
Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and
Slovenia.
“They need help and we are giving
it to them,” NATO spokesman Jamie
Shea said. “We will not tolerate threats
against them or attacks on them by
Belgrade.”
Clinton and Yeltsin talked for nearly
an hour by phone. Russia has expressed
outrage about NATO’s airstrikes in
Yugoslavia and has threatened to ignore
a Western oil embargo.
Clinton believes Russia is very seri
ous about trying to resolve the Kosovo
crisis, National Security Adviser Sandy
Berger said. Clinton urged Yeltsin to
continue peacemaking and said the two
leaders would stay in touch. Berger said
Russia would not be exempt from the
embargo.
The 19 allies met in a summit finale
with leaders of two dozen other Central
and Eastern European countries that
have banded in partnership with the
alliance. Russia stayed away.£
Anxious about inflamirfff tensions
with Moscow further, the allies said .
they were trying to avoid a confronta- •
tion at sea over blockading oil supplies
to Serbia. Foreign ministers of the
European Union will gather Monday in
Luxembourg to ratify their oil embargo
against Yugoslavia.
Meeting here to commemorate
NATO’s 50th anniversary, summit lead
ers sent a message of unity and resolve
demanding that Milosevic to back
down.
The summit concluded on day 33 of
NATO airstrikes. . , . |
Neo-Nazi group bombs
U.K neighborhoods
LONDON (AP) - Britain’s ethnic
minorities may be facing a wave of
racially motivated violence, police
said Sunday, a day after a neo-Nazi
group claimed responsibility for a
nail bomb that injured seven people.
The bombing in an area of
London heavily populated by immi
grants was the second of two attacks
in eight days that have injured a total
of 46 people, prompting fears of a
systematic campaign to terrorize
minorities.
“We retain very serious fears that
this could be a continuing series of
vicious attacks,” said David Vaness of
the Metropolitan police force. “We
cannot in any way rule out the fact
that those attacks might be taken to
locations outside the London area.”
A neo-Nazi organization,
Combat 18, claimed responsibility
for Saturday’s afternoon explosion on
a busy street in Brick Lane, home to a
large Bangladeshi community.
Authorities said the blast was caused
by a nail bomb planted in a parked
car.
The group was also among four
self-styled far-right organizations that
claimed to have planted a nail bomb
that exploded April 17, injuring 39
people in Brixton, a racially mixed
south London neighborhood.
In addition, several black law
makers reported receiving threaten
ing letters signed by “White Wolves”
- the same signature that appeared on
a document detailing a bombing
campaign that was faxed to a radio
station a week before the Brixton
attack, a newspaper reported.
London’s Sunday Telegraph quot
ed the document as stating that all
“non-whites and Jews” still in Britain
by the end of the year would be exter
minated. The newspaper, quoting
unidentified sources, said police dis
missed the document as a prank.
Police Commissioner Sir Paul
Condon said the Brixton and Brick
Lane attacks - both with crude nail
bombs placed in large bags -
appeared linked.
“Clearly, this is a racial crime,”
Condon said.
The victims from Saturday’s
bombing - all but one of them
Bangladeshis - suffered slight
injuries, police said.
Britain’s Commission for Racial
Equality said the bombings were an
apparent reaction to an official
inquiry into the bungled police inves
tigation of the fatal stabbing of a
black London teen in 1993. The
report said the London police force
was riddled with racism.
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