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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (6116)	4/30/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

All possible--- I thought this, from the MSNBC site, might interest you: Despite the increased bombing, the Pentagon's military chief, Gen. Hugh Shelton, stressed the need for a diplomatic solution. "NATO military power is a great hammer, but it is not the only tool in our foreign-policy toolbox," he said. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin met with the Germans and Italians Thursday — shopping a possible peace plan that he'll take to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday. While acknowledging "movement" toward a settlement following talks with the Russian envoy, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder insisted that Milosevic has to withdraw Serb forces from Kosovo before the bombing would be suspended. In Moscow, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who stressed the need for the United Nations to play a major role. "The stakes are now very high, not only for the Balkans and Europe, but for the whole world," Yeltsin said. So far, two major obstacles have prevented progress on the diplomatic track: the number of troops Yugoslavia would have to withdraw from Kosovo, and the composition and size of any peacekeeping force. NATO wants an almost complete Yugoslav withdrawal from Kosovo and agreement from Belgrade for deployment of a large, heavily armed NATO peacekeeping force. Milosevic has rejected both demands. As a sign that Russia is bending toward NATO's conditions, Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, hinted in an interview with NBC News that Russia envisions an armed force in Kosovo. But Russia has proposed the force be commanded by the United Nations and that it be composed of Russian troops, plus neutral states and perhaps some smaller NATO countries that did not take part in the bombing — Greece and Poland, force instance. "What Moscow thinks is important for Moscow, but it's just a part of the question," Ivanov said. "What is important is what kind of agreement will suit everyone." "Without the agreement of Belgrade, the deployment of any operation, including military, is not possible," he said. Yugoslavia's ambassador to Russia, Borislav Milosevic, who is also the Yugoslav leader's brother, said Belgrade would accept a civilian U.N. force with a large Russian component but excluded any NATO participation, Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported