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VICE PRESIDENT GORE: We abhor the ethnic cleansing that is now occurring
in Kosovo.
What we feared would happen when we saw 40,000 troops deployed in and
around Kosovo -- based on what happened last year in Kosovo and Rachak
earlier this year -- is now happening again in Kosovo on a massive scale.
Ethnic Albanians are being driven from their homes, forced to flee
their country in large numbers, and in many cases are being murdered
in cold blood.
In response to these atrocities, it is vital that NATO maintain its
steadiness and seriousness as it conducts its military campaign. In
this regard, I am pleased that NATO has begun to use airpower to strike
military forces in the field in Kosovo. We must stay the course.
We must make the cost to Milosevic so great that he changes his calculations.
He must see that he cannot pursue with impunity this campaign of ethnic
cleansing -- the likes of which he has launched in Bosnia and also before
in Kosovo.
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