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Peacekeeper killed
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NATO Secretary General George Robertson said yesterday that he was appalled by the shooting of a Russian soldier working with the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR).
The soldier was shot dead on Wednesday as he stepped out of his armoured vehicle which had stopped near the town of Zuja.
"Nato will not tolerate such attacks on KFOR personnel," Robertston said in a statement.
"No one should underestimate our resolve," he added.
"Through the Kosovo air campaign Nato acted to stop ethnic cleansing. It is scandalous and a disgrace" that international peacekeepers should now be targeted, Robertson said in his statement.
"I have spoken with the Russian Foreign Minister (Igor) Ivanov today about this incident to express my condolences and to assure him that I view an attack on one KFOR soldier as an attack on all."
The region where the soldier was killed was close to the five-kilometre demilitarized security zone separating Kosovo from Serbia proper, in which ethnic Albanian guerrillas had been active earlier this year.
Nato has authorised Yugoslav forces to move in to fill the vacuum in parts of the security zone, including the area near Wednesday's attack.(SD-Agencies)
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