[PEN-L:6256] (Fwd) ANNAN HITS AT NATO RAIDS, SAYS SOLUTION MUST BE POLITICA

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Agence France Presse 				April 28, 1999

ANNAN HITS AT NATO RAIDS, SAYS SOLUTION MUST BE POLITICAL

BERLIN ? UN chief Kofi Annan on Wednesday implicitly
criticised NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia and warned "a lasting
political solution (to the Kosovo crisis)... cannot be won on the
battlefield."
	In a statement issued towards the end of a three-day visit to
German, the UN secretary general said he had heard "fresh, reliable
reports of the deteriorating humanitarian situation" in Yugoslavia.
	"The civilian death toll is rising, as is the number of displaced.
There is increasing devastation to the country's infrastructure, and
huge damage to the nation's economy," Annan said.
	Since the start of the conflict, the international community had
been "consumed by the tragedy of the Kosovo Albanians," Annan
said.
	But the conflict was escalating and was now claiming lives
throughout Yugoslavia, he said.
	"The human cost of the violence is unacceptably high," Annan
said.
	"We must be bold and imaginative in the search for a lasting
political solution, which cannot be won on the battlefield."