The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, commented on the statement made by retired American General Wesley Clark, who said yesterday that he was happy with the success of NATO’s intervention in 1999 to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
Vučić said that Clark’s statement “says more about him than about us.”
“Wesley Clark is proud of what he did, but the people in Serbia are outraged by what he did. And I don’t see where this great pride reflects, when 19 countries, despite the UN Charter and the decision of the UN Security Council, attacked a small country.”
Vučić attempted to link the events of 1999 to the current situation in Ukraine.
“I don’t know why they didn’t ask him if he wants to tell Ukraine whether different rules apply there,” said Vučić.
Clark, who yesterday was in North Macedonia where he was honored by the local Albanians as an “Honorary Citizen” of Čair, gave an interview to ABC News in which he expressed his happiness with the successful peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. He mentioned that a group of people stood behind this operation because they saw what was happening in Kosovo.
“I am very happy that we were successful in bringing peace and democracy to Kosovo. It wasn’t just me, it was a large group of people, it was Solana, Albright, a number of people who were part of this operation because we saw a great crime and injustice. It was inhumane, and we wanted it to stop so that people in this region could have peace and security, and for that reason, 25 years later, the region has generally been at peace.”
