VARIOUS: REACTIONS TO IMMINENT NATO MILITARY ACTION AGAINST SERBIAN FORCES IN KOSOVO PROVINCE

Record ID: 983653

  • Title: VARIOUS: REACTIONS TO IMMINENT NATO MILITARY ACTION AGAINST SERBIAN FORCES IN KOSOVO PROVINCE
  • Date: 24th March 1999
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (MARCH 23, 1999) (SENATE TV --ACCESS ALL) 1. TV OF U.S. SENATE IN SESSION 0.04 2. SV SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS, REPUBLICAN OF MAINE, SAYING THE SENATE APPROVED THE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING MILITARY ACTION AGAINST FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA BY A VOTE OF 58 TO 41 0.23 3. TV OF SENATE/THE RESULTS OF THE VOTE, 58 TO 41, SHOWN ON SCREEN 0.28 4. MCU (English) REPUBLICAN SENTAOR LARRY CRAIG OF WYOMING SAYING: "This resolution does in now way authorise the commitment of ground troops, and the President certainly --- I thnk this senator believes as many others do --- needs to seek the counsel of the Congress if that day should become necessary." 0.44 5. SV OF REPUBLICAN SENATOR LARRY CRAIG OF WYOMING AND DEMOCRATIC SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN OF DELAWARE ON THE FLOOR OF THE U.S. SENATE 0.47 6. MCU (English) DEMOCRATIC SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN OF DELAWARE SAYING: "No one --- particularly the senator from Delaware --- can tell this Senate where his action is going to lead. It's a very tough call." 0.58 WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES (MARCH 23, 1999) (U.S. POOL - ACCESS ALL) 7. PAN FROM AUDIENCE TO U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 1.07 8. MCU (English) CLINTON SAYING "NATO is now united and ready to carry out its warning. If President Milosevic is not ready to make peace, we are willing to limit his ability to make war on the Kosovars." 1.25 9. SV AUDIENCE CLAPPING 1.28 BERLIN, GERMANY (MARCH 23, 1999) (ITN POOL - ACCES ALL) 10. MCU (English) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR SAYING "There doesn't seem to be any movement at all from President Milosevic and the Serbian government, and the result is that we've made it clear we cannot allow them to continue with these humanitarian atrocities against the Kosovar population, driving people from their homes, the deaths, the brutality. We have to put a stop to it. And if President Milosevic isn't prepared to move, we are going to have to the action as a NATO force." 1.58 11. SLV OF BLAIR SEATED WITH IRISH PRIME MINISTER BERTIE AHERN 2.02 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MARCH 24, 1999) (RTR - NO ACCESS CIS) 12. MCU (RUSSIAN) RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER PRIMAKOV SAYING "During the flight I received a call from Vice President Al Gore, in which there was a hint that during my visit to Washington there will be a strike against Yugoslavia. It is impossible to be in Washington exactly at the time of the strike." 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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