Posted on 09/10/2001 8:38:17 AM PDT by konijn
Monday, September 10 11:07 PM SGT
UN Security Council lifts Yugoslavia sanctions
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10 (AFP) -
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Monday to lift the arms embargo it slapped on Yugoslavia in March 1998 to halt the repression in Kosovo.
The lifting of the ban -- the last remaining UN sanction against Yugoslavia -- was made possible by the government's decision to transfer former president Slobodan Milosevic to the UN warcrimes tribunal in The Hague on June 28.
It will permit the re-equipment of the Yugoslav armed forces, which have for the past six months been cooperating with NATO in patrolling a buffer zone between Kosovo and the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
The Security Council resolution lifting the embargo emphasised that the NATO-led force in Kosovo (KFOR) would continue to "restrict and strictly control the flow of arms into, within and out of Kosovo."
When I read a piece like your's I can't help remembering the Lenin was also a "Journalist".
It will permit the re-equipment of the Yugoslav armed forces, which have for the past six months been cooperating with NATO in patrolling a buffer zone between Kosovo and the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
Your propaganda effort, to hide the fact that Kosovo is as much a part of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia as is Belgrade, has not gone unnoticed!
You are now in the running for this year's Lenin "Peace" Prize!
Now Serbs are free to buy leftover F-16s that both Bulgarians and Hungarians didn't want to buy. Maybe at least they'll come for a half a price.
I am sick of "Serb-led Yugoslav Army", "Serb-dominated Yugoslavia", etc. It will be "Serb-dominated Serbia" where such designation will be rendered absurd and thus dropped altogether.
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