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NATO is planning military exercises in Albania and Macedonia to deter further Serbian aggression against Kosovo . Background: Yugoslav President (read: Serbian strongman) Slobodan Milosevic has launched a military assault on ethnic Albanian rebels who seek Kosovar (read: ethnic Albanian) independence from Yugoslavia.
Kosovo update: 1) NATO admitted that one of its planes bombed a caravan of ethnic Albanians.
Following Madeleine Albright's visit to Rambouillet, France, Sunday to inject some momentum into the stalled Kosovo talks, Le Figaro of Paris said Monday that there was a rare unity at the moment among the six members of the "contact group"--the four leading western European powers, Russia, and the United States--despite America's constant temptation to put NATO, "the unchallenged instrument of its politico-military domination of Europe," at the center of the stage, which, in the view of Paris and Moscow, would risk benefiting the Albanians and threatening only the Serbs.
Lukin added that the West should treat Russia as a partner, not a lackey, but he ruled out any clashes between Russian and NATO troops in Kosovo "because the allied commanders realize perfectly well that Russia was right, legally and morally."
In fact, each of these assertions is subject to qualification, as is made clear in Noel Malcolm's masterly (but misnamed) Kosovo: A Short History (my main source along with Hugh Poulton's The Balkans: Minorities and States in Conflict ). The tie of today's Albanian Kosovars to the ancient Illyrians is fairly attenuated.
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