USA: U.S. PRESIDENT CLINTON AND U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN EXPRESS CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM AFTER KOSOVO PEACE AGREEMENT.

Record ID: 990591

  • Title: USA: U.S. PRESIDENT CLINTON AND U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN EXPRESS CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM AFTER KOSOVO PEACE AGREEMENT.
  • Date: 4th June 1999
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 4, 1999) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV/MV: U.S. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON SPEAKING AT A FUNDRAISER (2 SHOTS) 0.19 2. CU: SOUNDBITE (English) CLINTON "I hope that the announcement of the last few hours, the last day in Kosovo portends a genuine agreement that will be honestly implemented and will lead to real reversal of the ethnic cleansing there, that the refugees will be able to go home and security and self government , that the international force will be able to go in and that the Serb forces will be withdrawn. I ask you to be both thankful and cautious. I have dealt with the Serbian leader now for over six years. There have been many agreements and the only one that was kept was the one in Bosnia where we had a force on the ground and a specific agreement, It has a lot in common with this and we're hopeful, but we need to see real action here." 1.11 UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK (JUNE 4, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. MV/PAN: KOFI ANNAN ENTERING THE UNITED NATIONS BUILDING 1.22 4. CU: SOUNDBITE (English) KOFI ANNAN "I am optimistic but as I said we still need to see what happened in the meeting tomorrow and I will be speaking to President Ahtisaari this morning. But I think we are definitely moving in the right direction and once a peace agreement is confirmed then the real hard work begins." 1.46 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 4, 1999) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 5. GV/CU: SOUNDBITE (English) JAMES RUBIN , STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN "All of the pain and the suffering that Milosevic caused on the people of Kosovo for which he has been indicted as an international war criminal would not have occurred and all the damage that has been done to Serbia would not have been done, so he fatally miscalculated the intentions of the alliance, he critically miscalculated the determination of the alliance, he critically miscalculated the unity of the alliance." (2 SHOTS) 2.27 6. GV: RUBIN SPEAKING AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT 2.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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