Press Release PR (2001) 047 12 April 2001

Statement by the NATO Secretary General I am appalled at the shooting of KFOR personnel in Kosovo. KFOR soldiers are in Kosovo to keep the peace. NATO will not tolerate such attacks on KFOR personnel. No one should underestimate our resolve. Through the Kosovo air campaign NATO acted to stop ethnic cleansing. It is scandalous and a disgrace that international peacekeepers should now be targeted. I have spoken with the Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov today about this incident to express my condolences and to assure him that I view an attack on one KFOR soldier as an attack on all.

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