Xinhua News Agency
March 12, 2022
U.S., NATO expansion root cause of Ukraine crisis, says Serbian expert
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U.S. and NATO military expansion in Eastern Europe is the root cause of the current Ukraine crisis, Zivadin Jovanovic, former minister of foreign affairs of Yugoslavia, has said.
In an interview with Xinhua, Jovanovic who currently presides over the think-tank Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, said that the crisis resulted from “the U.S.-NATO strategy of military expansion to the Russian borders, rejection of the principle of equal and indivisible security.”
Serbia was the first victim of NATO’s expansion strategy, Jovanovic recalled.
In 1999, NATO troops led by the United States blatantly set the UN Security Council aside and carried out a 78-day continuous bombing of Yugoslavia under the guise of “preventing humanitarian disasters,” killing and injuring over 8,000 innocent civilians and uprooting nearly 1 million.
Jovanovic called for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine, “taking into account legitimate security concerns of all countries and peoples involved.”
Jovanovic said that the Ukrainian conflict and all that had preceded it, “calls to end the policy of military expansion, for recognition of legitimate rights of all countries to equal security without undermining the security of others,” as well as for the “global recognition of the new multi-polar world order.”
“We hope that the Ukrainian conflict will be resolved as soon as possible peacefully, through dialogue, taking into account the need for equal security of all countries and peoples. Sanctions, threats, double standards, one-sided approaches…are undermining peace efforts and therefore should cease,” he added.
It as also the root cause of the dismantling of Serbia by the US. And it’s trying the same tactic with Russia.
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And then President Yeltsin’s first foreign minister says that NATO expansion is revisionist history and all wrong.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/russias-ex-foreign-minister-on-his-totalitarian-country/
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Kozyrev, who has been making the rounds in the U.S., was on NBC recently. He was in fact very well-inclined toward NATO while Russia’s foreign minister in the early 1990s. So much so, in fact, that he had it join the bloc’s Partnership for Peace military program which later graduated the 14 new NATO members in Eastern Europe. It’s worth examining the history a little further. He was succeeded as foreign minister in 1996 by Yevgeny Primakov, who became prime minister in 1998. He was on his way to the U.S. in March 1999 when Clinton and NATO began what would prove a 78-day air war against Yugoslavia, and had his plane turned around. That war marked the effective end of Russia’s involvement with the Partnership for Peace. In May of 1999 Yeltsin fired Primakov and replaced him with…Vladmir Putin.
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WE in the Western world have little chance of appreciating this – blanketed as we are , by USA propaganda.
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