YELTSIN DENOUNCES NATO AIR STRIKES.

In a televised statementAugust 30, Russian president Boris Yeltsin denounced the NATOair strikes against Serbian positions in Bosnia as inappropriateand dangerous, and he and his government called for a UN SecurityCouncil session to consider what to do next. The Russian foreignministry complained that NATO had not consulted Moscow in advanceand said that it was "impermissible to wage a war againstonly one of the parties to the Bosnian conflict" and saidthat "a tit-for-tat tactic is a vicious circle." Meanwhile,the foreign ministries of the three Baltic states, the CentralAsian countries and Ukraine expressed their support for this actionagainst the authors of the Sarajevo atrocities.

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