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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Office of Public Information
(212) 684-6950 ext. 202
JEWISH C0UNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS APPLAUDS NATO
ALLIANCE URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT REBUILDING EFFORT
IN KOSOVO
San Francisco, CA -- June 14, 1999-- At the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) quarterly Board of Directors meeting
today, Steven Schwarz, Chair of the New York-based JCPA, issued
the following statement:
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs welcomes agreement approved
by the United Nations Security Council which calls for the removal
of Serbian forces from Kosovo and the safe return of ethnic Albanian
refugees to their homes. We applaud the NATO alliance for standing
up against the policy of "ethnic cleansing" perpetrated by Slobodan
Milocevic and urge Russia to play constructive role in the post-war
period.
The JCPA appeals to the international community to undertake
the massive effort that will be needed to reconstruct the communities
and lives of the more than one million Kosovar refugees. In addition,
we call on NATO to pursue the arrest and prosecution of those
Serb political and military leaders, particularly Slobodan Milocevic,
who are indicted by the international war crimes tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia.
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The Jewish Council for Public Affairs is the public
affairs body of the organized Jewish community and serves as the
national coordinating and advisory body for the 13 national and
122 community agencies which comprise the field of Jewish community
relations.
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