Jeffrey Sachs: The goal of the NATO bombing in 1999 was to divide Serbia

The United Nations has been deeply wounded, perhaps fatally, by the events currently unfolding. The United States and the European Union are destroying, if not killing, the UN by shamelessly abandoning respect for the UN Charter, stated Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, as reported by Danas.

In an interview for the print edition of the Belgrade daily Politika on June 19, Sachs assessed that “Washington and Brussels are currently, moment by moment,” violating the UN Charter with regard to Iran, and he cited the relevant provision – Article 2, Paragraph 4 – which calls for refraining from the threat or use of force “against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”

When asked what the real goal of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was, Sachs responded:

“The actual goal was to divide Serbia and to show Russia who the ‘real boss’ is. The bombing of Serbia was perhaps, at least in part, the result of a rivalry between Madeleine Albright and Richard Holbrooke, who were competing to become Secretary of State in Al Gore’s administration, as they assumed he would defeat George W. Bush in the 2000 US presidential election. There is talk that Albright wanted a war to undermine Holbrooke’s diplomacy. I am not sure if that is true, but it certainly sounds plausible.”