THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release October 12, 2000
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
JAKE SIEWERT
The James S. Brady Briefing Room
6:07 P.M. EDT
Q On Yugoslavia and the sanctions, my understanding is that one
set of sanctions that remains in place is the bar on IMF lending to
Yugoslavia. What would Yugoslavia need to do to get the United States
to remove its objection to renewed IMF lending?
MR. SIEWERT: What we call the outer wall sanctions will remain in
place and we're going to review those sanctions as Serbia makes its
democratic transition and meets its international obligations. We're
not going to make a judgment on lifting those sanctions in the short
term, we'll make them as they finish the transition. And it's going to
depend on a lot -- on an overall judgement of how that transition and
how its effort to address its international obligations are going.
Q Could you explain what factors go into that decision?
MR. SIEWERT: We'll be looking at their cooperation with the War
Crimes Tribunal, and how they handle the Dayton Accords, and how do they
handle some of the issues we have with Kosovo. But we're not creating a
specific test here. We're going to have to take a look at the larger
picture, and make a judgement on whether it makes sense or not to move
on those sections, as well.
Q Jake, one last specific related question. There had been some
suggestion of trying Milosevic in Serbia. Is that thoroughly
objectionable to the United States?
MR. SIEWERT: We would expect a new government to cooperate with
the War Crimes Tribunal and the Hague, and find an acceptable
resolution, not only to question Milosevic, but also the other indicted
war criminals who were in Serbia. And it's not for us to say what's
satisfactory. We'll leave that to the tribunal itself.
END 6:16 P.M. EDT
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