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To: alan w who wrote (521)	10/2/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: SOROS	of 1151

Russian Duma Speaker Warns NATO over Kosovo MOSCOW -- (Reuters) The speaker of Russia's State Duma said on Wednesday the lower house of parliament could try to rescind Moscow's treaty with NATO if the Western alliance used force against Yugoslavia over Kosovo. "I want to issue a warning. If a single missile falls on Yugoslavia...I don't rule out that the Duma will initiate procedures to annul the treaty that Russia has with NATO," Gennady Seleznyov told NTV television. He was referring to the Russia-NATO Founding Act signed in May last year, which was designed to alleviate Russian worries about the eastward expansion of the alliance by giving Moscow some say in how NATO operates. It is not clear whether the Duma, dominated by the opposition Communist Party, could go beyond issuing non-binding resolutions on the matter as it was never given a chance to ratify the Founding Act. A NATO official said earlier that NATO so far had seen "no evidence" to back Belgrade's assertion that its military and police offensive against the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the Serbian province had ended. The official said NATO was "now in full swing" assembling the military assets -- mainly aircraft -- it would need if the allies decided to intervene in Kosovo. Seleznyov warned that a military intervention could lead to a serious war in the region. "A real war could start. The (Yugoslav) army is not one to let itself be bombed," he said. Russia has traditionally had good ties with fellow-Slav, fellow-Orthodox Christian Yugoslavia. It also strongly opposes plans by NATO, its Cold War foe, to expand into Central and Eastern Europe and, in particular, to get involved in a Balkan conflict. The Russian government, led by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov who as foreign minister negotiated the Founding Act, has said repeatedly that it opposes the use of force in Kosovo. ( (c) 1998 Reuters)

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