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BULGARIA

British Helsinki Human Rights Group Report. 8 May 1999
While in the neighboring Romania the opposition Socialist Party supports NATO membership, this is not the case with Bulgaria. In addition, the Bulgarian public opinion is against NATO’s bombing campaign; people’s concerns were only heightened when a missile accidentally tore through the roof of a private dwelling in the suburbs of the capital Sofia on 30th April. It was the sixth misguided bomb since 24th March to hit Bulgarian territory.
http://www.bhhrg.org/bulgaria/bulgaria1999/bulgaria1999.htm

Romanian Monitorul On-Line, © AFP, May 18, 1999.
Romanian and Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministers signed a common declaration in Sofia referring to the Yugoslav conflict. Greek Foreign Minister joined them in a declaration requesting the maintenance of the present borders in the Balkan region, AFP (Agence France Presse, the French Press Agency) informs. Nadejda Mihailova, Iorgos Paoanreou and Andrei Plesu favored a substantial self-administration of the Kosovo province, taking into account the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and of all the neighboring countries. Declaration adopted at this meeting says, "We don't accept any form of ethnical purification, but we want a multicultural society without changing the frontiers in this region". 
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3740989d7085.htm

Associated Press, April 29, 1999.
Three NATO missiles have already struck Bulgaria's territory during the five-week air campaign against neighboring Yugoslavia. Sofia is just 30 miles west of the Yugoslav border.
http://www.nando.net/Kosovo/story/general/0,2773,43485-70123-507659-0-nandotimes,00.html
 
 

CROATIA

CROATIA WEEKLY, Zagreb, April 1, 1999
"Taking into consideration the full gravity of the crisis, we believe that NATO's decision to stop the bloodshed in Kosovo by force of arms and ensure the full adoption of a peaceful solution for the Kosovo crisis is absolutely justified and the Republic of Croatia is supporting it in its entirety. Therefore, Croatia hopes that the operation launched by the international community will fulfill its purpose." 
http://www.dalmatia.net/croatia/news/croatia_supports_nato_strikes.htm
Hina (Croatian Press Agency), reporting from Washington, DC, 03/31/99
"During the current Kosovo crisis Croatia has actively confirmed that it shares and accepts values of the democratic worlds and that there is the unequivocal partnership toward the United States and the NATO. In this regard, Croatia has also clear expectations", said Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic upon his arrival in Washington.
http://www.croatiaemb.org/news/current/03-31-1999-granic/H3316371_4ex.html

Feral Tribune, Split, Croatia, By Iva Karabaic, 08/09/99.
Kasum Cana, President of the Roma Party in Zagreb expresses outrage at the Albanian terror over Gypsies in Kosovo, the Croatian torture and murder of Gypsies in the Jasenovac concentration camp during the Second World War, the current trial of Dinko Sakic, and the life in misery for the majority of Gypsies in Croatia.
http://www.cdsp.neu.edu/info/students/marko/feral/feral77.html
 

FRANCE

France Played Skeptic on Kosovo Attacks, By Dana Priest,
© Washington Post, 09/20/1999.
Officials in Washington and London approved the target, but the French were reluctant, noting that the party headquarters also housed Yugoslav television and radio studios. "In some societies, the idea of killing journalists – well, we were very nervous about that," said a French diplomat.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/sept99/airwar20.htm

France’s Role in the Kosovo Crisis – French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 18 August 1999
From the very beginning of the Kosovo crisis, France has consistently pursued:
- a basic objective: the political settlement of the Kosovo issue, through the establishment of a status of substantial autonomy inside the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
- and, equally steadfastly, insisted on a method of achieving it: unity of the Contact Group, particularly including Russia, legitimization of all action by the United Nations Security Council and use of every form of pressure, including military pressure by NATO.
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/actual/dossiers/kossovo/kossovo121.gb.html
 

GERMANY

Deutschland Magazine, 1999.
The war in Kosovo has determined international policy as no other event in recent months. But other far-reaching decisions were also taken by the European Council and the major industrial nations of the G8 at the summit meetings in Berlin and Cologne. 
Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder gives his personal assessment of the German presidency in the EU and G8.
http://www.german-usa.com/magazine/page34.html
Kosovo: How Germany Backed KLA, By Roger Faligot, ©The European, 10/01/1998.
As the exodus of Kosovar refugees continues after the failed guerrilla offensive by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), substantial evidence is corning to light that German secret diplomacy has been instrumental in helping the KLA since its inception in February 1996.
http://www.suc.org/news/world_articles/euro100198.html
 

GREECE

Hellenic Republic – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 1999.
Greece related to the U.S. ambassador in Athens its view that there could be no military solution to the Kosovo crisis, adding that talks should resume for the finding of a political solution.
http://www.mfa.gr/altminister/releaseseng/march99/koseng290399.htm
Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group – Greece, By Panayote Dimitras, © AIM, 04/30/1999.
96% of the Greeks are opposed to NATO strikes against Serbia. 64% have a good opinion of Slobodan Milosevic, 53% of Evgeny Primakov, 5% of Tony Blair, 4% of Bill Clinton and of Havier Solana. 4% are satisfied with EU's attitude towards the Kosovo crisis while 51% who approve their government's handling of it. 
http://www.duth.gr/maillist-archives/thrace/tl54/msg00025.html
 

MACEDONIA

Greece and Macedonia Reject NATO Force Over Kosovo, By Costas Paris, © REUTERS, 06/23/1999.
"The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia said on Tuesday that they opposed NATO military action against Yugoslavia to end the conflict in Kosovo and that they believed diplomacy could still achieve a peaceful solution."
http://www.duth.gr/maillist-archives/thrace/tl43/msg00209.html

The Kosovo conflict risks spilling over into F.Y.R. Macedonia. Indeed, there have been persistent rumors of KLA activities in Macedonia for many months. The only publicized instance of direct KLA activity in Macedonia before August 1998, however, was the alleged death threat against the president of Tetovo University. In addition, there have been a series of car bombs outside police stations in Gostivar, Tetovo, Skopje, Kumanovo and Prilep; the Macedonian-language media initially connected two of the bombs to the KLA, but the police have denied any connections and the KLA has not claimed responsibility.
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/sbalkans/reports/mac03repb.htm

Ethnic Albanians overwhelmingly support their kin in Kosovo. Ethnic Macedonians tend to draw parallels between Kosovo Albanian demands for independence and ethnic Albanian politics in Macedonia, believing that Albanian demands for increased rights in Macedonia undermine the ethnic Macedonian identity and by extension the Macedonian nation and the Macedonian state.
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/sbalkans/reports/mac03repa.htm
 
 

USA

Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright – Opinion, © USA Today, 05/21/1999.
"Let us talk sense. Slobodan Milosevic will not win in Kosovo, either on the ground or at the negotiating table. NATO's air campaign will continue until, one or another, the alliance conditions are met."
http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/1999/990521.html

Arriving in Europe on Sunday for meetings with NATO and Russian officials to shore up support for airstrikes on Yugoslav targets and defuse U.S.-Russian tensions, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright hinted that Yugoslavia could keep armed forces in Kosovo after the conflict ends between Belgrade and the alliance.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/11/us.kosovo.02/

National Catholic Peace Movement Press Release, 03/24/1999.
"Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. In this spirit, we firmly oppose NATO airstrikes in the region of Kosovo. In stating our opposition, Pax Christi USA acknowledges the intransigence of President Slobodan Milosevic in the recent attempts to broker a peace accord."
http://www.nonviolence.org/pcusa/kosovo0399.htm
 
 
 
 

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