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9. THE NATO BOMBING
The story of NATO’s military intervention in Kosovo is well known. It is a story of unmitigated disaster. None of its policy objectives were achieved. The long-range consequences of its intervention have seriously damaged the global security structure established since the end of the Second World War. Its intervention was in violation of international law and its own commitment to using only peaceful means of resolving international disputes.
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NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia was done without the involvement of the United Nations. It failed utterly to do serious damage to the Yugoslav military. The bombing has destroyed the infrastructure of Serbia and has caused untold environmental damage to the countries along the Danube river .In the name of humanitarian objectives it caused a humanitarian disaster. NATO took sides in a civil war and became the air force of the KLA to wrest away from a sovereign state an integral part of its territory.
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The President of the Czech Republic, has stated that Kosovo was the only war that was not fought over territory-but in this he was terribly wrong, Kosovo has been taken from Serbia and given to the Albanians
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Many apologists in the west argue that the NATO intervention was to stop ethnic cleansing but NATO bombed Yugoslavia because President Milosevic would not sign the Rambouillet Agreement. The two provisions of that Agreement which made it impossible for any sovereign state to sign were eventually dropped by NATO after seventy odd days of bombing failed to subdue Yugoslavia.
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Ironically, through the good offices of the Russians, NATO agreed not to insist on the occupation of all of Yugoslavia by NATO troops and to forget about insisting on a referendum in Kosovo within three years. These were the two provisions of the Rambouillet Agreement that had caused the bombing in the first place!
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Some have argued that Yugoslavia was from its inception an artificial state and was therefore doomed to eventually break apart. This may or may not be true. What cannot be denied is that western involvement in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia since it became a sovereign nation in 1918 has helped to bring about its dismemberment. Western intervention there has been a history of diplomatic failure.

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