RE: NATO, Kosovo, Russia

On 25 Mar 99, at 1:50, Malcolm Pratt wrote:
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> > Anyway, lets see what everyone else thinks

I agree with everyone more or less, but the point of sovereignty, very well
presented in point five of Dr. Grimes post, cannot be overstated. No matter
what, not only Yugoslavia, but the whole world is under attack. There is a
widespread sense that no one is sure unless you please the NATO powers. The
threat to the use of force, as well as the use of force, expressly
prohibited by the U.N. Charter against any sovereign country has been
overtly used by NATO powers under the approving gaze of the whole world.
The whole system of international security that resulted from WWII has been
shaken. Intervention by a foreign power is something we Cubans are very
sensitive about. This country was twice under U.S. intervention and could
only get independence passing a Constitution that had an ammendment
approved by the U.S. Congress that said that U.S. could intervene at any
time it wished to guarantee its interests. U.S. intervention in Latin
America and the Caribbean is a common bad word. Too frequent in the near
past to forget at all.

Sergio Jorge Pastrana
Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.