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that States shall prevent arming and training for terrorist activities
there.” United Nations Security Council, Press Release Sc/6496,
March 31, 1999, http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1998/
19980331.SC6496.html.
11. U.S. Department of State, “Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
and the Ministers to the Contact Group of Kosovo ‘Press
Conference,’ ” London, UK, March 9, 1998.
12. NATO, “Council statement on the situation in Kosovo,” Press Release
(98)29, March 5, 1998, http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1998/
p98-029e.htm.
13. The one-sentence statement, which was provoked by U.S. intelligence
suggesting a plan of mass ethnic cleaning in Kosovo similar to the one exe-
cuted in 1999, stated, “in the event of conflict in Kosovo caused by
Serbian action, the United States will be prepared to employ military force
against Serbians in Kosovo and in Serbia proper.” Cited in Bellamy, Kosovo
and International Society, 34. Also see R. Jeffrey Smith, “U.S. Envoy
Warns Serbs, Kosovo Rebels,” The Washington Post, March 11, 1998, A21.
14. The U.S. administration of President Clinton was engulfed in the early
stages of the Monica Lewinsky scandal at this time, which limited the
possibility of military intervention, which critics may have interpreted as
an evasion tactic. The concern over this type of speculation, in reality,
had the reverse effect on the chances of intervention, as it decreased the
odds of engagement. Former U.S. senator Robert Dole later referred to
this scenario, calling Kosovo the first casualty of the Lewinsky affair.
Interview with Robert Dole, in Boyer, Kirk, and Young, War in Europe.
15. Smith, “U.S. Envoy Warns Serbs.”
16. Ibid.
17. Interview with Madeleine Albright, in Little, Moral Combat.
18. U.S. Department of State, “Press Briefing at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs,” Rome, Italy, March 7, 1998.
19. Cited in Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 24.
20. White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President
and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Photo Opportunity,”
March 11, 1998.
21. Congressional Record, “Human Rights Violations in Kosovo,” remarks
by House Representative Steny H. Hoyer, 105th Cong., 2nd sess.,
March 10, 1998, 144, H 929.
22. Congressional Record, “Calling for an End to Violent Repression of
Legitimate Rights of People of Kosovo,” remarks by House
Representative Ben A. Gilman, 105th Cong., 2nd sess., March 17,
1998, 144, H 1203.
23. Ibid., remarks by House Representative Eliot L. Engel: H 1202.
24. Congressional Record, “Calling for an End to the Violent Repression
of the People of Kosovo,” remarks by Senator Joseph R. Biden, 105th
Cong., 2nd sess., March 18, 1998, 144, S 2203.