The Conflict in Kosovo: Consequences and Lessons (Alexandr Sharapo)

Раздел - "Международные отношения"The article is devoted to the issues connected with the current situation in south-eastern Europe as the result of the military action of NATO against Yugoslavia. The article analyses the changes, which have taken place in this region after the aggression and, shows that the goals proclaimed by the USA and NATO have not been reached (the decline of the Yugoslavian economy, the existence of numerous refugees, exacerbation of the relation between various ethnic groups in Yugoslavia). And as a result of the military aggression there was an aggravation of the general situation not only in this country, but in the whole south-eastern European region. The author proves the fact that it were the USA and NATO, that organized and carried out the aggression with the purpose of reaching their own goals-preservation of their influence in south-eastern Europe and prevention of accomplishing the same goals by Russia and other countries. The article pesents various views on the Yugoslavian problem from the point of v i ew of American-European relations, of the role of Russia and Belarus and the importance of their steps towards the resolution of the Yugoslavian problem; it analyses the short- and medium-term plans of the U SA and the EU in this region and underlines that they pursue only their own objectives, without taking into consideration the opinions of other participants of international relations. The forms of the resolution of the Yugoslavian problem show that the main principles of the new NATO military conception are based on the non-acknowledgement of the basic articles of international law connected with the sovereignty and non-interference