Posted on 03/20/2008 2:09:46 PM PDT by kronos77
(Adds Rogozin, government official quotes, details, background)
MOSCOW, March 20 (Reuters) - Russia has requested an emergency meeting of the Russia-NATO council to discuss U.S. authorisation for arms supplies to Kosovo, Itar-Tass news agency quoted Russia's envoy to NATO as saying on Thursday.
U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday authorised arms supplies to Kosovo, saying it would "strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace", according to a document on the White House Web site.
"I have addressed NATO's secretary-general with a proposal to hold an emergency informal meeting of the Russia-NATO council to discuss U.S. plans to supply weapons to Kosovo," Tass quoted Russian envoy Dmitry Rogozin as saying in Brussels.
"They (Washington) say the weapons will help fight terrorism. At the same time, it is namely former terrorists who are in power in Kosovo right now," Rogozin said. "How can you fight terrorism, supplying weapons to former terrorists?"
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So selling arms to the KLA, and that is what it still is, will “strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.”??? This is like something out of the novel 1984. The US State Department must be emulating the Ministry of Truth.
Once again now I regret voting for Bush (would 4 years of J. Kerry have been so bad?). EVEN the Russians (in many cases with their leaders former Communists/KGB) are making more sense than our supposedly “conservative” President these days..?
Whatever happened to the “Bush Doctine” of no quarter for terrorists (and terror sponsoring states?). That woul include Kosovo against Christians (Serbs)!
Who said anything about "selling"? These arms will be given to them.
Kerry would have done the same thing!
The clinton administration had already devised the plan!
Ah yes, even worse then. They can be supplied along with the US financial aid that will have to be provided to prop up a non functional economy. The US has created a terrorist client state in Europe, divided the EU, and driven Serbia into the arms of Russia. What more could the US hope to achieve?
we gave over 3 billion in arms to pakistan...and there is a 20 billion + deal in the works for the wahabbi Saudis-—now to the KKKLA terrorists...right is wrong and wrong is right...in our state dept these days.
Yeah, but . . .
You have to laugh at Russia’s quote. “They said the weapons will be used in the fight against terrorism. At the same time, the current Kosovo authorities are former terrorists. How do you fight terrorism by sending arms to former terrorists”
Well, technically, Russia’s doing the exact same thing in Chechnya and elsewhere.
I’m not defending the US policy on Kosovo here. The quote *is* appropriate. I just wish the Russians would take their own advice.
Russia arms the islamofascist terrorist Ahmadinejad and is selling him enriched uranium to wipe Israel off the map.
So, according to you Americans are no better than Russians?
The Russians are trying to sucker the Serbs, and the Serbs are too angry to think.
Who would expect anything less from the Honorary Saudi Prince George Bush, but to arm his islamic brothers./sarcasm
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