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PARIS -- Director of the Sweden-based Transnational Foundation for Research on Future and Peace Jan Oberg strongly criticized the international community for its actions regarding the crisis in Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province.
The international community comprises about 15 persons who claim that they represent the entire world and that the world agrees with them, Oberg said Monday at the international conference Justice and War in Paris.
Oberg, who had taken part in some 35 reconciliation missions in Kosovo-Metohija before the war and who is an expert in Balkan affairs, accused international KFOR peacekeepers and UN civilian mission of failing to establish peace and safety for all in the province, and especially criticized UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner, wondering whether no-one could be found who knew Kosovo-Metohija better than Kouchner.
Oberg especially spoke of the Rambouillet ultimatum which had led to the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, and of the lost opportunities for avoiding the NATO war against Yugoslavia. Anti-Yugoslav sanctions could have been avoided, he said and added that Europe had earlier failed to provide economic aid to Kosovo-Metohija, one of poorest areas in Europe.