Post by Novi Pazar on Aug 12, 2008 21:12:00 GMT -5
Russia: We will not take lessons from those who bombed Serbia in 1999
Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said Monday in Brussels that Russia will not be lectured by anyone who bombed Serbia in 1999 killing its people and devastating its civilian infrastructure.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, August 12, 2008
"NATO assessed in 1999 that the (former Serbian president) Slobodan Milosevic had a wrong policy towards Kosovo Albanians, but decided to bomb not only Serbian troops in Kosovo but the entire Serbia, Belgrade, TV stations, bridges, state institutions... Thousands of Serbia's citizens were killed in NATO air raids", Rogozin told a press conference on Russia's military operations in South Ossetia.
"Unlike NATO, Russia has limited its operations to military targets only", he said.
He expressed his "disgust about those who said nothing about thousands of Serb victims in 1999 and now daring to give moral lessons to others. They have no right to do so".
In Moscow, former Russian ambassador to Bolgrade Alexander Alexeyev said that there are many parallels between the developments in South Ossetia and Kosovo.
"Just as in the case of Kosovo, the developments in South Ossetia are accompanied by a powerful propaganda machinery, and many Western media are not reporting on the conflict but constitute an instrument of psychological warfare", he said.
"In both cases there were offensives, in Kosovo by the Kosovo Liberation Army and in South Ossetia by Georgian army, directed largely against civilian population", Alexeyev said.
In Belgrade, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Konuzin said Monday that the "criminal decision of Georgian authorities to launch a military campaign against their own people should be seen in the same light as other violations of international law and the UN Charter, such as the bombing of Serbia in 1999, invasion of Iraq and unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence".
Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said Monday in Brussels that Russia will not be lectured by anyone who bombed Serbia in 1999 killing its people and devastating its civilian infrastructure.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, August 12, 2008
"NATO assessed in 1999 that the (former Serbian president) Slobodan Milosevic had a wrong policy towards Kosovo Albanians, but decided to bomb not only Serbian troops in Kosovo but the entire Serbia, Belgrade, TV stations, bridges, state institutions... Thousands of Serbia's citizens were killed in NATO air raids", Rogozin told a press conference on Russia's military operations in South Ossetia.
"Unlike NATO, Russia has limited its operations to military targets only", he said.
He expressed his "disgust about those who said nothing about thousands of Serb victims in 1999 and now daring to give moral lessons to others. They have no right to do so".
In Moscow, former Russian ambassador to Bolgrade Alexander Alexeyev said that there are many parallels between the developments in South Ossetia and Kosovo.
"Just as in the case of Kosovo, the developments in South Ossetia are accompanied by a powerful propaganda machinery, and many Western media are not reporting on the conflict but constitute an instrument of psychological warfare", he said.
"In both cases there were offensives, in Kosovo by the Kosovo Liberation Army and in South Ossetia by Georgian army, directed largely against civilian population", Alexeyev said.
In Belgrade, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Konuzin said Monday that the "criminal decision of Georgian authorities to launch a military campaign against their own people should be seen in the same light as other violations of international law and the UN Charter, such as the bombing of Serbia in 1999, invasion of Iraq and unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence".