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1 See Georgios Kostakos & Dimitris Bourantonis, `Innovations in Peace-Keeping: The Case of Albania', Security Dialogue , vol. 29, no.1, March 1998, pp. 49-58.
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2 German troops engaged in evacuating EU nationals from the Albanian coast in March 1997 became the first Bundeswehr personnel to return fire with hostile intent. The Bild newspaper rewarded them with the accolade of `heroes'.
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3 Quite apart from the different assessments made in the North Atlantic Council and the EU, consider the doubts regarding the MPF's humanitarian aims raised by an ICRC spokes-person in the Financial Times of 21 April: ` “Not a single person is starving”, she says, “there's a risk of using humanitarian aid for something else.” '
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4 See, for example, Samuele Benzi: `Progetto di intervento italiano' in Albania, Emergenza Italiana , Quaderni Speciali di Limes, Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica , supplement to 1/1997, p.101. Although the scenario advanced does not allow for the total collapse of civil authority nor the multinational composition of the intervention force, many of the planning assumptions used differ scarcely from those affecting the Alba mission.
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5 See, for example, Claudio Gatti, Antonio Satta, Alberto Sisto: `Lemisterie di Echelon', in Il Mondo , 27 March 1998, p.14.
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6 François Heisbourg, for example, drew unpromising conclusions in comparing previous WEU operations in the Gulf with the response to the Albanian crisis, together with the limits apparently reached in CFSP development in Amsterdam in 1997, during an analysis of the current state of French defence and security policies given at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on 18 March 1998.