Prague - The former US Secretary of State, Mr Henry Kissinger, yesterday questioned the value of Western military action over Kosovo unless it was part of a wider solution to the conflict in the region. Mr Kissinger, in Prague for a conference called Forum 2000, said NATO was able to impose its will in Kosovo but the question remained to what end.
"I confess I don't see an end today in the deployment of B52s," said Mr Kissinger, who was President Richard Nixon's national security adviser in the early 1970s. "It is beyond my comprehension what they are supposed to do in an ethnic conflict at the edge of the Balkans."