Živadin Jovanović interview

Živadin Jovanović was foreign minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1998-2000, including during the 78 days of NATO’s air war of 1999.
As can be heard, he is both informed and humane, an internationalist in the true sense of the term: someone who values harmony between nations and peoples. Attention is drawn to his notion of a democratic world order, one in which democratic norms obtain between as well as in nations; his stress on the need for peace, security and development in the world; his assertion that the first war in Europe since World War II is not the current one in Ukraine but that waged against his country twenty-three years ago, and that the former is the inevitable result of the latter; that, however, the current phase of European, and in many senses global, violation of international law commenced in furtherance of NATO expansion in 1999 has now assumed a nuclear dimension, particularly with the announcement by Germany that it will increase its military spending by $100 billion including with the purchase of 35 nuclear-capable F-35s. He also warns that unprecedented sanctions leveled against Russia can have consequences both on international trade and finance and on creating starvation in parts of Africa and Asia.

Živadin Jovanović interview