Acknowledging U.S. veterans' sacrifice for freedom, President Clinton compared Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing campaign to the Holocaust and pledged that NATO will not relent until his forces pull back from Kosovo. He reiterated the NATO demands that Milosevic must meet before the airstrikes end. For this to happen, the Serb forces must leave.
Partial withdrawals can only mean continued civil war.
The sacrifice of Americans and allied troops helped to end a nightmare. Shelton would not say how long he thought the Serbs could keep NATO at bay, but he insisted the alliance could continue its intensified bombing for as long as necessary. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Russian President Boris Yeltsin's special envoy for Kosovo, ex-premier Viktor Chernomyrdin, met in Moscow to discuss diplomatic alternatives. After the meeting, both sounded upbeat. Chernomyrdin said the envoys had moved closer to a solution, but Talbott said NATO's strategy on Kosovo had not changed and talks will continue.