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Bill Clinton: “Well, I don't know that it's a good will gesture to release a nonviolent leader of a country who never did anything…”

On the recordMay 6, 1999
Well, I don't know that it's a good will gesture to release a nonviolent leader of a country who never did anything wrong in the first place and shouldn't have been, in effect, under house arrest. I think that Mr. Milosevic did this because he thought it was in his interest. And I'm glad Mr. Rugova is free, but I want over one million Kosovars to be able to go home. And I think we should do what is necessary--the most important good will gesture NATO can make, and the European allies, the United States, and Canada can make, is to do whatever is necessary to resolve this as quickly as possible. That's the most humane thing we can do, and that's what I intend to do.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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