Russia in the region. The situation in the balkans was a litmus test for european integration. As soon as the situation there escalated, contradictions between eu members immediately surfaced. Although historically kosovo is serbian territory, the belgrade authorities paid insufficient attention to the albanian minority, which escalated the situation in the region. Russia, together with the un, have developed a plan for kosovos gradual transition to autonomy. Later, this proposal formed the basis for the work of the first stage of the International Conference with participation. Representative of the Kosovo Albanians in the suburbs of paris, the discussion was difficult, but gradually an acceptable option emerged, to which they were ready to agree in belgrade. Meanwhile , nato formed its own vision of the development of events. Representatives of the bloc announced the need to deploy 30,000 troops to maintain order in kosovo. On march 18, 1999, the albanian american and british delegat
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Have a majority and they were the shareholders in government so you participate sometimes and theyve become oneparty voters. Our system is almost parliamentary today in terms of voting blue and voting red. They used to vote for the name on the back of the jersey. Ow they vote for the jersey. Its the best way to put it so what happens and they come to washington they behave like a Parliament System so instead of the Minority Party or the Opposition Party and to say no to everything and thats got to be broken, so the good news coming out of the elections on tuesday we have three states now that have runoffs with the top two from the primaries. Two democrats, two republicans, california, louisiana, washington state. They tested 21. So there is some movement out there even in the state democratic districts or are some republicans we have to cater to. My plan is that it gets people to vote on occasion instead of having to just stay and be punished in the primary. And until you break that i
Rules of the road for how the navies interact, some of the safety and hotline measures that the u. S. And soviets had in the cold war . Would we be well served by introducing more of those into the u. S. china relationship . Let me answer your last c question first, we started a dialogue. It is relatively routine right now. Periodic, perhaps predictable. I think it follows suit that we have a means to discuss, both continue our deliberate processes, but also when we have these untoward incidents. What are the intentions and how do we manage this growing entity that were going to share the South China Sea and East China Sea . Were going to be there and they acknowledge that. That brings me back to the rebalance if i could ask a couple more questions on that. You itemized some of the specific things youre doing with more destroyer capacity in japan. The four littoral ships going to singapore, submarine to guam, et cetera, a number of specific changes and initiatives but i wanted to ask y