BELGIUM: ALBANIAN PROTESTERS MARCH ON NATO'S HEADQUARTERS AS THE ALLIANCE'S COUNCIL OPENS ITS SESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA
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BELGIUM: ALBANIAN PROTESTERS MARCH ON NATO'S HEADQUARTERS AS THE ALLIANCE'S COUNCIL OPENS ITS SESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA
- Title: BELGIUM: ALBANIAN PROTESTERS MARCH ON NATO'S HEADQUARTERS AS THE ALLIANCE'S COUNCIL OPENS ITS SESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA
- Date: 27th January 1999
- Summary: BELGIUM, BRUSSELS (JANUARY 27, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN FROM NATO HEADQUARTERS TO PROTESTERS 0.10 2. SV ALBANIAN PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF NATO HEADQUARTERS HOLDING BANNER READING: 'NATO WHERE ARE YOU?' 0.15 3. SV/SLV OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS AND HOLDING BANNERS (4 SHOTS) 0.39 4. MCU (French) MARCH ORGANISER JANI AZEMI: 'The barbaric killings in Kosovo, barbaric acts against children and the elderly, barbaric acts taking place at the end of the century, must be stopped. NATO and UN must take action, we are demanding that action is undertaken.' 0.55 5. SLV POSTER DEPICTING CARICATURE OF YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC WITH HANDS DRENCHED IN BLOOD 0.58 6. SV BANNER READING 'NATO - AIR - JUST DO IT' 1.02 7. SV PROTESTERS SHOUTING SLOGANS 1.08 8. MCU (English) ETHNIC ALBANIAN KOSOVO STUDENT VALOM HALIMI: ' Milosevic, and everybody knows that, not only Albanians but the whole world knows it, Milosevic is the reason for everything that is happening now and I think that we do not have to look in Kosovo for people who made criminal acts, or war criminals - I think Milosevic is the one. He is the war criminal because he gives orders for everything that is happening in Kosovo, in Bosnia and everywhere around Yugoslavia. I think Milosevic should be sent to the court in the Hague as a war criminal" 1.40 9. LV DEMONSTRATORS SHOUTING 'MILOSEVIC - ASSASSIN' 1.46 10. LAS OF SECURITY 1.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 11th February 1999 12:00
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- Location: BELGIUM, BRUSSELS
- Country: Belgium
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- Story Text: Albanian protesters have marched on NATO's Brussels
headquarters as Javier Solana, the alliance's
Secretary-General arrived for a crucial meeting where, it is
expected, the allies will issue a fresh warning to Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic.
Albanian protesters gathered outside NATO's (North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation) headquarters in Brussels on
Wednesday (January 27) as the alliance's Council opened its
session expected to produce a fresh warning to Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and clearing the way for a
meeting of the six-nation Contact Group later this week.
The protesters, waving banners and shouting anti-Milosevic
slogans demanded urgent action from NATO and the United
Nations.
'The barbaric killings in Kosovo, barbaric acts against
children and the elderly, barbaric acts taking place at the
end of the century, must be stopped.NATO and UN must take
action' Jani Azemi, one of the organizers of the protest said.
Key countries, at a meeting scheduled for Friday (January
29), are expected to challenge leaders of Yugoslavia and of
ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province to open talks within
10 days.
Foreign ministers of the six-nation Contact Group would
meet in Paris to issue a virtual summons to negotiate on a
plan for interim self-rule in Kosovo.
Western diplomats said their aim was to hold continuous
face-to-face negotiations, probably in Vienna, mediated by
U.S.envoy Christopher Hill, European Union Kosovo emissary
Wolfgang
Petritsch and possibly Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Alexander Avdeyev.
U.S.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, visiting
Moscow, said members of the Contact Group -- the United
States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia -- were
considering "a wide range of options" to bring about a
settlement in Kosovo.
A senior NATO general said the alliance had completed its
military planning for possible action in Kosovo and was in a
position to intervene there if necessary.
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