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| Name | MACEDONIA: BRITISH TROOPS PREPARE FOR KOSOVO |
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| Video Discription | (23 Feb 1999) English/Nat The pressure is mounting on the Kosovo peace talks at Rambouillet, France. U-S and European officials are urging both sides to sign a peace accord before Tuesday's deadline of 3 p-m (1400 GMT) or face possible air strikes. With just hours to go, British troops are continuing exercises at their base at Skopje, Macedonia. They say they are prepared to evacuate K-V-M (Kosovo Verification Mission) monitors in the run-up to any NATO attack. SUGGESTED VOICE-OVER: Peace appears elusive as the deadline for Kosovo peace talks is set to expire. Weary Western diplomats are pushing ethnic Albanians to sign a peace deal. And they're again warning stubborn Serbs to accept a NATO peacekeeping force under the threat of air strikes. Officials hope Kosovo Albanians will sign an accord, paving the way for NATO to make stronger its threat of air strikes against the defiant Serbs. U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has said NATO would not carry out bombings if the ethnic Albanians continued to object to provisions of the agreement. As the world watches and waits, NATO forces are gathering in Macedonia in preparation for military intervention. An 18-hundred member NATO force is on hand if the two belligerent sides fail to find peaceful resolution to the conflict. If NATO decides to launch airstrikes, the first sign of that decision is likely to be the departure of the K-V-M monitors. British troops say they are ready to move, [SOUNDBITE: (English) "To be honest we have been ready since the fifteenth of January and our mission has been since the fifteenth of January to be prepared to extract KVM (Kosovo Verification Mission) verifiers and to that end we are ready to be able to move with six hours notice. Since then we have been training intensively for the worst case scenario,should it happen God forbid it and hopefully that won't actually come about. But yes we are ready to go." SUPER CAPTION: Captain Wayne Hennessy-Barrett] As last ditch attempts at a peace deal continue, NATO commander General Wesley Clark met the political director of the Kosovo Liberation Army Hashim Thaci. Clark told the ethnic Albanians that a NATO peacekeeping force would ensure their security if an accord was reached. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/460a48f26815a36909bc766c9ac82c3c [miPS40xvWHg] |
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