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Yugoslavia Takes NATO to Court<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>By MIKE CORDER Associated Press Writer<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>29 April 1999<\/p>\n

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Yugoslavia\u00a0opened a new front in the Kosovo campaign\u00a0Thursday, filing World Court cases against 10\u00a0NATO allies in a legal bid to end the airstrikes\u00a0<\/span>it contends violate international law.<\/p>\n

Yugoslavia asked the 15-judge court, the United\u00a0Nations’ highest judicial body, to rule that the\u00a036-day-old bombing campaign breaches\u00a0international law and to order an immediate halt\u00a0to NATO’s campaign while the case is being\u00a0considered — a process which can take years.<\/p>\n

But an international law expert described\u00a0Belgrade’s unprecedented action as a publicity\u00a0<\/span>stunt with little chance of success.\u00a0Terry Gill, who teaches international law at\u00a0Utrecht University in the Netherlands, predicted\u00a0the case “will not get past first base.”<\/p>\n

The United States, France and Germany all\u00a0have said they do not recognize the court’s\u00a0<\/span>jurisdiction unless it is identified as the forum\u00a0for solving disputes arising from a specific\u00a0treaty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>“The reason Yugoslavia is doing this is\u00a0obviously to apply diplomatic pressure and\u00a0sow dissension in NATO,” Gill said. “There is\u00a0<\/span>some doubt among NATO states about the\u00a0legality of what they are doing, so something\u00a0like this could cause embarrassment.”<\/p>\n

An emergency hearing was likely to be\u00a0scheduled next week to discuss Belgrade’s\u00a0request for the court to order a halt to the\u00a0airstrikes.<\/p>\n

Three Yugoslav officials filed papers with\u00a0court officials early Thursday. All were\u00a0wearing the lapel pins depicting a target — what\u00a0has become the symbol of Serb defiance to\u00a0NATO airstrikes.<\/p>\n

Neither the court nor Yugoslav officials would\u00a0<\/span>say which allies were named in the action, but\u00a0<\/span>an U.S. Embassy official speaking on condition\u00a0of anonymity said the United States was one of\u00a0<\/span>the 10.<\/p>\n

The World Court, which has no enforcement\u00a0<\/span>powers and relies on states to comply\u00a0voluntarily with its rulings, declined to\u00a0comment on the case, the first time a state has\u00a0<\/span>filed simultaneous cases against 10 other\u00a0countries at the court.\u00a0<\/span>NATO’s airstrikes are aimed at stopping\u00a0Belgrade’s crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Gill said even if the court were to order a halt to airstrikes, Yugoslavia would have to seek a U.N. Security Council resolution ordering compliance if the NATO allies refused to stop their bombing.<\/p>\n

But that move is “not an option,” Gill said, because the United States, Britain and France are all permanent council members.<\/p>\n

“This is just a public relations stunt,” he said. “It has nothing to do with international law.”<\/p>\n

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