Philip H. Gordon: “Absolutely. As I said, these are very serious charges. We have looked at them carefully and came to the view that they…”

We remain strongly committed to backing KFOR and EULEX politically and with the resources they need to combat that lawlessness.

Ukraine has taken some steps in that direction, but on the question of democracy, there has been some backsliding as well and a failure to appropriately reform the electoral code.

NATO is vital to U.S. security.

We have said publicly--I have stated publicly that if those detained on the December 19 crackdown were not released very soon, we would have to conclude that they are now political prisoners.