Senator BIDEN: Could my colleague. for the purpose of the legislative record. spell out the objective? Could my colleague spell out what his understanding Is when we say the President is authorized to conduct military operations? Senator BIDENS response. which I think was a good one. was: My understanding of the objective stated by the President is that his objective is to end the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and the persecution of the Albanian minority population in Kosovo and to maintain security and stability in the Balkans as a consequence of slowing up. stopping. or curtailing the ability of Milosevic and the Serbian VJ and MUP to be able to go in and cause circumstances which provide for the likelihood of a half million refugees to destabilize the region. The objective at the end of the day is. hopefully. that this will bring Milosevic back to the table. Hopefully. he will agree to what all of NATO said they wanted him to agree to. and hopefully that will occur.
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