{"id":81448,"date":"2025-11-17T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=81448"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:18:15","slug":"serbian-attacks-in-kosovo-were-increasing-clark-explains-how-the-intervention-plan-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/serbian-attacks-in-kosovo-were-increasing-clark-explains-how-the-intervention-plan-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSerbian attacks in Kosovo were increasing,\u201d Clark explains how the intervention plan was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark testified on Monday in the case of the former KLA leaders before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>Clark stated that Serbian attacks against the population in Kosovo were increasing and the situation was escalating to the point that the U.S. Secretary of State began discussing the problem directly with the American administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I knew what needed to be done under these circumstances, but according to NATO procedures, we had no authority, no political guidance, and not even a concrete plan. I spoke with the U.S. Secretary of State about this\u2014I did not speak with any other foreign minister on the matter, because the United States instructed me not to speak with anyone else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Clark also recalled that in the spring of 1998 he was asked to prepare a plan, without knowing whether foreign or defense ministries were involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is when the need arose to prepare a plan,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark testified on Monday in the case of the former KLA leaders before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. 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