MY, IS: Nato air strikes should go on, says Dr Mahathir

[Ian Chai]

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NATO SHOULD CONTINUE
RAIDS ON SERBS, SAYS MAHATHIR

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the Nato airstrikes
on Bosnian Serb military targets should go on until the rebel Serbs
were brought to the negotiating table.

The Prime Minister, however, indicated that "too little had been done
too late" to address the issue.

"Nato should have done this years ago before 200,000 people were
killed and 50,000 raped," he told reporters after opening the National
Seminar for the Malaysian Public Service at a hotel here yesterday.

Dr Mahathir also hit out at Russian President Boris Yeltsin for
condemning the Nato attacks as "unfair" to the Bosnian Serbs.

"When the Serbs attacked Bosnian Muslims he did not make any
representations against the Serbs," he said.

He also reiterated that Malaysian troops in Bosnia would continue to
be deployed there even if the UN asked for their recall.

Foreign Minister Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Organisation of
Islamic Conference contact group would push ahead with a meeting here
next month to discuss a common stand on Bosnia despite the Nato air
strikes.

"We have planned such a meeting and we are not at the moment going to
change our plans," Abdullah said.

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