NATO hands over to Serbia list of location hit by cluster munition in 1999
NATO handed over to Serbia on Tuesday a consolidated list with target coordinates and numbers of units of cluster munitions used during the 1999 bombings against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The list of target data includes about 218 sets of coordinates of which some 155 are within Kosovo. About 1080 cluster munitions were used during the campaign.
"While supporting the survey to locate the unexploded cluster ordnance in Serbia, neither NATO nor individual Allies take any potential responsibility or liability with respect to the survey and to incidents or accidents that might have occurred or could occur in future in relation to unexploded ordnance", the Alliance said in a statement.
Serbia asked for the list in February, with the aim of helping the Serbian Center for demining locate and destroy the unexploded devices.
The Alliance said that Kfor helped clean the infected locations in Kosovo.
NATO said the list completes the previously released data, including the list of 95 targets which were targeted by ammunition containing depleted uranium.
Cluster bombs killed dozens of civilians in 1999, during attacks against Nis and many other locations, in particular in Kosovo.
The danger with cluster bombs is that a number of them do not explode in first contact, but can explode years later.
They are particularly dangerous for children who mistakenly take them for toys.
