So I have listened with considerable personal interest as one after another of our colleagues have expressed their points of view. I joined with Senator MCCAIN and Senator BIDEN and the others in cosponsoring this resolution as a way to express my personal support. and hopefully on a bipartisan basisand the cosponsors of this resolution are a broad and bipartisan groupto give the Senate an opportunity to express our support for the objectives that NATO has adopted in entering the conflict in the Balkans and that the United States and this administration have. of course. subscribed to. Let me read what those objectives are: That the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (Serbia and Montenegro) ... withdraw Its military. paramilitary and security forces from the province of Kosovo. [that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] allow the return of ethnic Albanian refugees to their homes. and [that Serbia] permit the establishment of a NATOled peacekeeping force in Kosovo. In light of all the blood that has been spilled. in light of the horrific scenes that we have all not just heard about. not just heard rumored. not heard speculated about. but seen with our own eyes on television. heard the eyewitness reports on television. of all the horrors that we have been forced to witness again that have occurred in Kosovowhen we think of all of those objectives of the NATO campaign. the NATO effort. the NATO war in the Balkans. they are extremely reasonable and extremely just. So I joined with my colleagues in offering this resolution as a way to restate clearly and simply what our objectives are here and to say that we want to support the President of the United States.
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