. . . . .KOSOVO CRISES HEADLINES. . . . . PART I
The road to a world war. . . .
FEBRUARY 17, 1999
President Boris Yeltsin kicked off an EU-Russia summit in Moscow with a blunt warning to the United States and NATO to stay out of Yugoslavia's troubled province of Kosovo.
MARCH 24, 1999
Russian President Boris Yeltsin warned Wednesday that NATO air strikes against the Serbs in Kosovo could lead to a world war and hinted that only his conscience prevented the Russian president from threatening military retaliation.
MARCH 31, 1999
Russia will send warships to the Mediterranean in response to NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia after Moscow's diplomatic efforts failed to end the bombings,
APRIL 2, 1999
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic asked Russia for military aid Friday during a meeting in Belgrade with Russian and Belorussian parliament members, the official Tanjug agency reported.
Milosevic asked for the aid to "more easily defend" Yugoslavia against NATO attacks, Tanjug said.
Turkish Defence Minister Hikmet Sami Turk on Friday expressed concern over Russia's support for Yugoslavia
APRIL 3, 1999
- The United States Saturday ordered the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and its attack jets into the Adriatic from the Mediterranean to join in NATO bombing and missile strikes against Yugoslavia.
The United States has warned Russia that it would be a grave mistake to give Yugoslavia any kind of military assistance against Nato.
Beijing -- Alarmed by NATO's attacks on Yugoslavia, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji warned yesterday that such intervention could lead to global conflict.
NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia are a mistake that will lead to a new arms race, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Saturday.
APRIL 4, 1999
0036 GMT - According to the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, Ukrainian parliament speaker Alexander Tkachenko has said that Kiev's relations with NATO "will be revised radically" in the wake of Operation Allied Force. The Ukrainian parliament will reportedly adopt a resolution on relations with NATO on April 6, which may impact Ukraine's participation in NATO's "Partnership for Peace" program. |
