Former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark testified on Monday in the case of the former KLA leaders before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
Clark stated that Serbian attacks against the population in Kosovo were increasing and the situation was escalating to the point that the U.S. Secretary of State began discussing the problem directly with the American administration.
“I thought I knew what needed to be done under these circumstances, but according to NATO procedures, we had no authority, no political guidance, and not even a concrete plan. I spoke with the U.S. Secretary of State about this—I did not speak with any other foreign minister on the matter, because the United States instructed me not to speak with anyone else,” he said.
Clark also recalled that in the spring of 1998 he was asked to prepare a plan, without knowing whether foreign or defense ministries were involved.
“That is when the need arose to prepare a plan,” he emphasized.