It is time to radically modify the coalition's rules of engagement if one does not want the peaceful solution proposed by

It is time to radically modify the coalition's rules of engagement if one does not want the "peaceful solution" proposed by Jacques Chirac to be nothing else than the peace of the cemetery.uSuddeutsche ZeitungGermanyAFTER ALL that has happened, even the Albanians will hardly want to return to the Rambouillet accord and to a promise of autonomy A changed agenda for new negotiations is now conceivable. It could contain words which have so far been unmentioned, such as "independence" for the Albanians and "partition". The Serbs might even get a piece of Kosovo if the West were forced to agree to this in order to prevent an even worse scenario.uHaaretzIsraelTHE EVENTS in recent months in Kosovo are more than a mere internal conflict between the nations of the former Yugoslavia What is occurring there borders on genocide. No country or society may remain indifferent in the face of these horrific actions.

It is the responsibility of Israel's official institutions, the government and the Knesset, to give real expression to their support for the policy of Nato and the United States. They must do so not reluctantly or halfheartedly, but rather by making a clear, resolute stand and by taking the necessary diplomatic steps. This is the responsibility of the entire people of Israel - the children of a nation that has suffered so much persecution - to another persecuted nation.uMoskovskiyKomsomoletsRussiaTHE SERBS are stubborn and ready for sacrifice. They are used to unequal struggle against unquestionably stronger adversaries: Turks, Austrians, Germans. Apart from that, even though Milosevic's fellow clansmen in Kosovo constitute a minuscule minority, the province is still looked on as the cradle of the Serbian nation.

Thus, giving Kosovo away to the Albanians is for them like severing the right hand. That is why nobody can guarantee today that, in the very near future, Belgrade will give in and fall to its knees before Nato.uThe Straits TimesSingaporeTHE QUESTION is what Nato must and can do to ensure that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic does not get away with the programme he has embarked on: to use the cover of the wider war to carry out a pogrom of Kosovo and of its ethnic Albanians by killing them and destroying their property or driving them across the border as refugees to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. If that occasionally means releasing men we know to be guilty, so be it. As I mentioned above, what matters is memory, being able to produce reliable witnesses who can say: "I was there and this is what happened."I am reminded of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova describing a visit to a prison in Leningrad where her son was detained during the years of Stalin's Terror. They were an example of the way the law can be subverted and put to evil use.