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BELGRADE, Oct 30, 1999 -- (AFP) A Yugoslav minister said Friday that NATO plans to attack Russia after "conquering" Belgrade, comparing the alleged scheme to "Hitler's scenario" for dominating Europe, the Tanjug news agency reported.
The NATO campaign against Yugoslavia this summer "has nothing to do with Kosovo," said Information Minister Goran Matic in an interview to state radio quoted by the news agency.
"Kosovo was used as an excuse and mechanism for attempting to break Yugoslavia," Matic said.
"The goals of NATO and the US administration now are not to take over Kosovo, but Belgrade, to establish a checkpoint there, in a bid to do the same as Hitler did in 1941," Matic said.
He argued that the takeover of Belgrade was part of plan to attack Russia.
"The Russian Federation cannot be attacked without having positions in Belgrade first," said Matic.
"Hitler also had to attack Belgrade in April 1941, to attack the Soviet Union in June 1941. This is the same scenario," he said.
Yugoslavia "has nothing against the United States, but we are absolutely against the current US administration's policy of slavery and colonization," Matic said.
"This administration has been the cause of our problems in the last ten years" since the breakup of Yugoslavia, Matic said, "not only with the aggression on Yugoslavia, but with an organized state crime in neighboring countries through special secret and public agencies."
"Simply, the world has become a field for their secret and public operations, starting from drugs and weaponry trade to overthrowing governments in various countries," the minister said.