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Bill Clinton: We want to see--we want to have a militarily verifiable withdrawal of the troops and an agreement about the introduction…

On the recordJune 4, 1999
We want to see--we want to have a militarily verifiable withdrawal of the troops and an agreement about the introduction of the international force. That should come--or could come quite soon. The paper that Mr. Ahtisaari gave to the Serbs provided for military-to-military contacts. Those contacts are to occur very soon, in the next several hours, probably early tomorrow, their time. And then we could proceed pretty quickly. So, believe me, I'm anxious to end the bombing, but I want to know that our objectives have been achieved. War Crimes Mr. Gibson. A couple of very quick questions. Were war crimes--the war crimes against Mr. Milosevic discussed at all in the talks?
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Bill Clinton
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