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To: Yaacov who wrote (4205)	4/17/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

200 denounce NATO at Bucharest rally 08:19 a.m. Apr 17, 1999 Eastern BUCHAREST, April 17 (Reuters) - About 200 demonstrators, including many ethnic Serbs, massed in a downpour in the Romanian capital on Saturday to denounce NATO air strikes against neighbouring Yugoslavia. The protesters wore armbands marked ''Next target'' in English and denounced NATO as ''criminals,'' while a handful of riot police looked on. ''Killing babies and innocent people -- is this collateral damage?'' read one banner. Romanians are uneasy about the conflict raging more than 600 km (375 miles) from Bucharest, but demonstrations against the NATO action have been relatively small. Many are attended by members of the 35,000-strong ethnic Serb community, who live mostly near the border town of Timisoara. Romania has been put in an uncomfortable position -- it has had centuries of good relations with Serbs, but has made entry into NATO and the European Union its main foreign policy goal. President Emil Constantinescu, in a televised address on Friday, assured Romanians the conflict would not spill over the border and pledged to press on with the bid for NATO membership. He said Romania was actively engaged in finding a solution to the crisis over Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been forced from their homes en masse by Serb forces. Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu, quoted by the independent Mediafax news agency, said the bombing of a column of refugees this week ''was yet another reason for concern over the prolongation of the conflict.'' NATO has admitted that one of its planes dropped a bomb on the column in error but is not accepting blame for carnage shown to reporters in Yugoslavia. Plesu called for a quick return of all sides to negotiations and said ''any proposed solution, be it German, Russian or American'' was welcome if it had a realistic chance of success. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.