RUSSIA: RUSSIAN MINISTER KOZYREV SAYS THAT NATO AIR STRIKES AGAINST SERBS SHOULD NOT BECOME A REGULAR OCCURRENCE

Record ID: 342130

  • Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN MINISTER KOZYREV SAYS THAT NATO AIR STRIKES AGAINST SERBS SHOULD NOT BECOME A REGULAR OCCURRENCE
  • Date: 22nd November 1994
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 22, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/ZOOM-IN/SV RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI KOZYREV SEATED WITH GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER KAROLOS PAPOULIAS (3 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SV CAMERA MAN 0.13 3. MCU KOZYREV SAYS RUSSIA WILL HAVE TO WITHDRAW ITS FORCES IF FIGHTING ESCALATES (IN BOSNIA) AND METHODS OF RESOLVING CONFLICT CHANGE FROM DIPLOMATIC TO MILITARY. SAYS WILL NOT RISK ITS PEOPLE (RUSSIAN) 0.48 3. SV JOURNALISTS LISTENING 0.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 7th December 1994 12:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7LTGW6DEWVR3C03NPIUICHW8A
  • Story Text: Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said on Tuesday (November 22) that NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ) air strikes against Serbs should not become a regular occurrence, making it clear this might prompt Moscow to withdraw its peacekeepers from Bosnia.

    "If the situation (in former Yugoslavia) develops...towards military measures, such as...massive air strikes, we will not risk the lives of our people," he told reporters.

    "They were deployed there as peacekeepers, not on a military mission," he added.

    Kozyrev was speaking in Moscow before holding talks with his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias.


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