(6 Apr 1999) English/Nat
As NATO airstrikes continue to hit hard in Yugoslavia, and with a threatened intensification of the campaign,
President Bill Clinton has told President Slobodan Milosevic "could end it now" by withdrawing his forces from Kosovo,
He added that the Yugoslav leader would also have to accept the terms of a peace accord and allow hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians to return to their homes.
Furthermore, he told Milosevic to accept the deployment of an international security force to protect all vulnerable people.
The U-S is sending 26-hundred troops into Albania to support attack helicopters, but none are destined for Kosovo.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I want to say again, the United States would never choose force as anything other than a last option, and Mr Milosevic could end it now by withdrawing his military police and paramilitary forces, by accepting the deployment of an international security force to protect the Kosovo Albanians, most of whom, but not all of whom are Muslims, but also the Serbian minority in Kosovo, everybody, we are not for anybody's hate crimes, and by making it possible for all the refugees to return, and to move toward a political framework based on the accords reached in France"
SUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, US President
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