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Yugoslavia opens airspace to NATO in rapprochement
hopes
BELGRADE, Dec 20 (AFP) - Yugoslavia Friday opened its
airspace to NATO missions operating in the region,
saying it hoped this would represent a step towards
rapprochement between Belgrade and the western
alliance.
Tanjug news agency quoted the foreign ministry as
saying: "An exchange of letters between Foreign
Minister Goran Svilanovic and NATO Secretary-General
George Robertson today has opened up air routes over
the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
This would serve the needs of NATO, the NATO-led SFOR
peacekeeping force in the neighbouring former Yugoslav
state of Bosnia and the international peace force in
the UN-administered Yugoslav province of Kosovo, the
statement said.
"The ministry expects this agreement with NATO to be a
major further step towards rapprochement between the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Euro-Atlantic
structure," the statement added.
During the regime of former hardline president
Slobodan Milosevic, NATO bombed Yugoslavia in 1999
after Yugoslav forces moved against the ethnic
Albanian community in Kosovo.
Milosevic was later replaced by a moderate reformist
regime led by President Vojislav Kostunica, seeking
better relations with the West.
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http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cq/Qyugo-nato.R0ZH_CDK.html
Yugoslavia opens airspace to NATO in rapprochement
hopes
BELGRADE, Dec 20 (AFP) - Yugoslavia Friday opened its
airspace to NATO missions operating in the region,
saying it hoped this would represent a step towards
rapprochement between Belgrade and the western
alliance.
Tanjug news agency quoted the foreign ministry as
saying: "An exchange of letters between Foreign
Minister Goran Svilanovic and NATO Secretary-General
George Robertson today has opened up air routes over
the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
This would serve the needs of NATO, the NATO-led SFOR
peacekeeping force in the neighbouring former Yugoslav
state of Bosnia and the international peace force in
the UN-administered Yugoslav province of Kosovo, the
statement said.
"The ministry expects this agreement with NATO to be a
major further step towards rapprochement between the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Euro-Atlantic
structure," the statement added.
During the regime of former hardline president
Slobodan Milosevic, NATO bombed Yugoslavia in 1999
after Yugoslav forces moved against the ethnic
Albanian community in Kosovo.
Milosevic was later replaced by a moderate reformist
regime led by President Vojislav Kostunica, seeking
better relations with the West.
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