Kushner's project at the General Staff building is a betrayal of the US, the placement of a monument to the NATO aggression is alarming

American General Wesley Clark, who led NATO forces during the bombing of FR Yugoslavia in 1999, stated that the involvement of Jared Kushner's company in building a complex at the site of the General Staff in Belgrade, which would include a memorial to the victims of the NATO aggression, is a betrayal of the United States, reports N1.

Clark told CNN that he believes investing in Serbia is great, but he opposes the construction of a memorial center at the General Staff site.

"First, that building was, as far as we know, empty when we hit it. Second, it wasn't NATO aggression, it was the culmination of long-standing diplomatic efforts to persuade the Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic not to kill his own citizens in a part of Serbia known as Kosovo," Clark said.

A CNN reporter noted that he received a copy of the contract between Jared Kushner's company, Affinity Partners, and the Serbian Government, which does not mention the term "NATO aggression."

After signing the contract, the Serbian Government stated that the investor is obligated to build a Memorial Complex dedicated to all victims of the NATO attacks on FR Yugoslavia in 1999.

"It is naive and alarming to erect a monument to the NATO aggression. That would be a betrayal of the United States, our policies, the brave pilots who participated in that campaign, and diplomatic efforts. It was not aggression, but diplomacy that Milosevic simply rejected to stop killing innocent people," Clark emphasized.

He said that Slobodan Milosevic began with violence in Kosovo in 1998 when 60 members of the Jashari family were killed, including, as he pointed out, women and children.

"We sent Richard Holbrooke to negotiate, Ambassador Christopher Hill was there negotiating, I met with Milosevic three times. The only thing we could come up with was, 'Look, we'll warn you, please don't start again. We've just finished a war in Bosnia, don't start it all over again in Europe' - the Russians came, they said to him don't worry about NATO, and do what you want, kill those people. And so it all started again," Clark said.

He also said that the Serbian side at Rambouillet was firm in its stance not to negotiate, but to solve things in their own way.

"NATO had no choice but to try to stop the ethnic cleansing with a very gradual NATO campaign and of course diplomacy. And we did stop it," Clark said.

He emphasized that the Serbs are "wonderful people," but they have never faced what happened during Milosevic's time.

"He used nationalism against other ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia, and that's the same pattern we see today with Vladimir Putin. We know that Serbia today is a channel for Russian misdeeds in Europe, to disrupt NATO, to disrupt the EU, and making a monument to NATO aggression is part of that Russian disinformation campaign," Clark assessed.

He expressed hope that Jared Kushner's company will not participate in that endeavor.

"Build a hotel, make a memorial to all the people who perished, which mainly includes the citizens of Kosovo killed by the Serbian police, not NATO aggression. There was no NATO aggression," the former Alliance commander emphasized.