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To: lorne who wrote (31143)	4/4/1999 6:01:00 AM
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Gorbachev warns that NATO air strikes will reignite arms race Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Reuters News Service • Read Nando's in-depth coverage of The Confrontation Over Kosovo. WASHINGTON (April 3, 1999 7:55 p.m. EST nandotimes.com) - NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia are a mistake that will lead to a new arms race, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Saturday. Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" program that Russia was being humiliated by the strikes, which started March 24. CNN released a transcript of the interview in advance. Countries should step up their efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in Yugoslavia's rebel province of Kosovo and the air strikes should be stopped, he said. "I think NATO has made a mistake and now this mistake must be corrected," Gorbachev said through an interpreter. "Those air strikes were done without authorization from the United Nations ... This has placed the world in a very, very difficult situation." He added: "The position of the U.N. Security Council has been undermined, and now Europe has been shown who is the boss -- and I know this because I hear it from the Europeans. Russia is being humiliated." Russia, traditionally sympathetic to its Orthodox, Slav brethren in Yugoslavia, has spoken out bitterly against the air strikes and sent a reconnaissance ship to the Mediterranean. The Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday that the NATO strikes were "a ruthless war of extermination against the peoples of Yugoslavia." Gorbachev, who presided over a period of rapid political reform in the tightly controlled Soviet Union, warned that the air strikes were increasing the risk of a new arms race. He said Russia and the United States should work together with the U.N. Security Council to resolve the Kosovo problems. "This will push an arms race in every country in the world," he said. "There is a real threat that in many countries there may be an effort to get ... weapons of mass destruction. I believe this will also give impetus to terrorism." NATO has destroyed military facilities, bridges and other key targets in days of mounting air strikes against Yugoslavia. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians have fled Kosovo, and neighboring countries are struggling to cope with the tidal wave of refugees.