Letter: Battle over Kosovo

Deborah Fitzgerald London W6
Wednesday 21 April 1999 23:02 BST
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Sir: So Tony Blair's war aim is to make Kosovo a protectorate. No international law permits him or anyone else to seize and occupy a quarter of sovereign Yugoslav territory and forcibly alter Yugoslavia's international borders.

According to Mr Blair, Kosovo's Albanian majority is entitled to self- determination. If we apply this principle to Kosovo's indigenous long- oppressed Serb minority, then they have a right to remain within a sovereign Serbian state to which Kosovo has belonged for over 800 years.

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