 | Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bülent Gökay - 2001 - 208 pages
...Yugoslavia who for too long have been isolated in Europe because of the policies of their government. Our objective is to prevent more human suffering and...against the civilian population of Kosovo. We must also act to prevent instability spreading in the region. NATO is united behind this course of action.... | |
 | Heike Krieger - 2001 - 652 pages
...he had agreed in October 1998. More fundamentally, the reason advanced by the SecretaryGeneral was to "prevent more human suffering and more repression...violence against the civilian population of Kosovo" (document no. 1 70). Thus, NATO's authorization of air strikes in October l998 and the actual bombing... | |
 | Abass Bundu - 2001 - 324 pages
...this answer on May 6, 1999. On March 23, 1999, Dr. Javier Solana, the Secretary-General of NATO, said: "Our objective is to prevent more human suffering and more repression and violence against the civil population of Kosovo. We must also act to prevent instability spreading in the region We know... | |
 | Neil Colman McCabe - 2002 - 376 pages
...Yugoslavia who for too long have been isolated in Europe because of the policies of their government. Our objective is to prevent more human suffering and...against the civilian population of Kosovo. We must also act to prevent instability spreading in the region. NATO is united behind this course of action.... | |
 | Mari Katayanagi - 2002 - 350 pages
...catastrophe. The Secretary-General emphasised that the NATO was not waging war against Yugoslavia. Our objective is to prevent more human suffering and...repression and violence against the civilian population of Kosovo.50 In addition to this humanitarian objective, there was a security reason as well as NATO member... | |
 | Paul Latawski, Martin A. Smith - 2003 - 244 pages
...these aims, Solana emphasised that NATO's action was intended to 'avert a humanitarian catastrophe' and 'prevent more human suffering and more repression...violence against the civilian population of Kosovo'. This was a point Solana stressed on three occasions in his statement. He also indicated that NATO wanted... | |
 | Michael Evans, Alan Ryan, Russell Parkin - 2004 - 395 pages
...war. In the words of Javier Solana, the Secretary General of NATO, the main objective of the war was 'to prevent more human suffering and more repression and violence against the civilian population of Kosovo'.2 It did no such thing. On the political level, NATO's air war achieved no more than what Milosevic... | |
 | Michael Byers - 2007 - 224 pages
...unilateral humanitarian intervention. NATO Secretary General Javier Solana confined himself to saying, 'We must halt the violence and bring an end to the humanitarian catastrophe now unfolding.' There was thus a remarkable absence of opinio juris to accompany the state practice involved in the... | |
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Our objective is to prevent more human suffering and more repression and violence against the civilian population of Kosovo. 