Bill Clinton: “Well, keep in mind now, I have not seen the language; I was just informed that the agreement was finally reached. But if…”

“Well, keep in mind now, I have not seen the language; I was just informed that the agreement was finally reached. But if the position presented to NATO this morning is, in fact, what emerges--and I believe it was--then you have the same situation here that we had last August when the first NATO out-of-area action was proposed, which is that the first air strike must be approved by the Secretary-General. He has asked us, by the way, to do this, so that we now have no reason to believe that he would ask NATO to take a meaningless action. In fact, we think he's clearly in sync with us on this. After which all subsequent air strikes would be the result of coordinated decisions by the commander of the United Nations troops on the ground there and the NATO commander in that area, Admiral Boorda, the American admiral.”