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Boshkovich 76<br />

May 31 st , 1999), ‖The air war in Kosovo is justified as establishing the principle that the<br />

international community--or at least NATO--will henceforth punish the transgressions of<br />

governments against their own people. But we did not do so in Algeria, Sudan, Sierra<br />

Leone, Croatia, Rwanda, the Caucasus, the Kurdish areas and many other regions‖. 187<br />

Why is that so? What was the justification for bombing of Yugoslavia? The next<br />

statement is one of the explanations how the international community justified the<br />

bombing: George Kenny from Department of State said that they intentionally raised the<br />

bar too high to make sure that Serbs would not be able to jump over. 188 Eric Suy, former<br />

chief advisor for the law in UN and professor of international law at Catholic <strong>University</strong><br />

in Brussels went so far that he compared the Agreement from <strong>Rambouillet</strong> with Hitler‘s<br />

ultimatum to Czechoslovakia. In both cases he said that excuse was found in protection<br />

of national minority. 189<br />

One more reaction came from British journalist Tim Marshall. He quoted Mr.<br />

Robert Hayden from Pittsburgh <strong>University</strong> who claims that the only purpose of the<br />

Agreement from <strong>Rambouillet</strong> was to justify military intervention against FR Yugoslavia.<br />

He also said that members of western delegation had sketched the map of possible<br />

division of Kosovo, but Albright prevented them to show that to the Serbian delegation, it<br />

was feared that they might accept that. 190<br />

Serbian President Mr. Milutinovic gave an official statement on 23 rd February, at<br />

the end of negotiations. For this occasion it will be present most interesting parts from his<br />

reaction.<br />

187 Newsweek Online, ―New World Disorder,‖ May 31, 1999, http://www.newsweek.com/id/88424/page/5<br />

188 Miodrag Mitic, Kako Nam Se Dogodio Rambuje (Beograd: Filip Visnjic, 2003), 189.<br />

189 International Court of Justice, May 10, 1999, 38-39, http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/114/4491.pdf<br />

190 Miodrag Mitic, Kako Nam Se Dogodio Rambuje (Beograd: Filip Visnjic, 2003), 204.

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