KOSOVO BOMBING PROMPTED BY US DIPLOMAT

KOSOVO BOMBING PROMPTED BY US DIPLOMAT'S DECEPTION
Onasa - January 26, 2004

BELGRADE, Jan 26 (ONASA/B92) - The head of Belgrade's Kosovo Coordination Centre, Nebojsa Covic, said Sunday that the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was prompted by the "deception" of US diplomat William Walker. The state and its citizens were bombed because of Walker and his trickery," said Covic, in a reference to the killings in the village of Racak, which Walker described as a massacre by Serb security forces, a description which international investigators have since described as rash. "If Milosevic must answer for all the things he did, then so should Walker answer for his deception, instead of showing off in Kosovo," he said. The deputy Serbian prime minister's comments came in the context of his criticism of the province's UN governor, Harri Holkeri. "If the special representative of the international community trusts the representatives of the Albanian ethnic community, why has he surrounded himself with a great wall in Pristina? Who does he fear?" asked Covic. "Does he have a mandate to be afraid or to solve problems, or to feel repentant after two years, as some now feel repentant about the deception they practised in Racak," said Covic.

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