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To: lorne who wrote (32650)	4/27/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Respond to of 116774

What? We're no longer considering bombing Russian oil pipelines and attacking Russian ships? Did NATO Supreme General Clark come off his narcotic episode or what?

To: lorne who wrote (32650)	4/27/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116774

This embargo is laughable look at this..:) NATO force won't cut Bosnia Serb oil deliveries 10:53 a.m. Apr 27, 1999 Eastern SARAJEVO, April 27 (Reuters) - The NATO-led peace force in Bosnia on Tuesday said it was not planning action to stop any oil deliveries going via Bosnia's Serb half to neighbouring Yugoslavia, despite a NATO oil embargo. A spokesman for the NATO Stabilisation Force (SFOR) stressed that no major amounts of oil were being shipped to Yugoslavia from Bosnia. Spokesman Dave Scanlon also said any steps to halt oil shipments would only be undertaken under SFOR's mandate to protect Bosnia's peace process. ''We are not concerned that there are significant amounts of oil crossing the border to FRY (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from Bosnia which are being used as war material,'' he told reporters. ''Our concern is in the area of war materials being transported throughout Bosnia, being exported or imported without authorisation,'' he added. Scanlon and a spokeswoman for the Western body overseeing civilian aspects of the Bosnian peace process also said a pipeline in Croatia supplying an oil refinery in Bosnia's Serb republic should remain open. They said SFOR and the Office of the High Representative (OHR) had received assurances from authorities in Bosnia's Serb territory that oil going to the northern Bosanski Brod refinery would be used only for domestic purposes. ''We see no problem in the continuation of this pipeline down to Bosnia,'' Scanlon said. ''We support the position that the pipeline should be open.'' OHR spokeswoman Alexandra Stiglmayer said Croatia's foreign ministry had asked it whether it should close the pipeline because of NATO's embargo, imposed on April 25. ''We said the shipments should go ahead,'' she said. The Sava river town of Bosanski Brod lies some 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Sarajevo. SFOR safeguards peace in post-war Bosnia, which comprises the Serb republic and the Moslem-Croat federation, with some 32,000 ground troops. It insists that it plays no role in the NATO campaign on Yugoslavia. General Klaus Naumann, who commands NATO's Military Committee, said on Monday that NATO had no authority to use force to stop oil shipments to Yugoslavia. ((Nedim Dervisbegovic, Sarajevo newsroom, +387 71 663 864, +387 71 445 727)) Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited