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Athens News Agency - March 30, 1999 American Archbishop calls for Easter truce
Archbishop of North and South American Spyridon has pleaded for an Easter truce to hostilities in the Balkans in letters to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and U.S. President Bill Clinton, an ANA dispatch from Montreal reports. Spyridon called on Milosevic to show his foes that Catholic and Orthodox Easter in early April "can be an opportunity for peace in the region and for the cessation of violence by all warring parties". In a letter personally addressed to Clinton, Spyridon called on the U.S. President to cease NATO's offensive on Yugoslavia during the Easter celebrations. Spyridon asked Clinton to allow the Orthodox people of Serbia and the Catholic minority in Kosovo to "remember the days of the crucifixion and resurrection in peace". The break, he says, could provide an opportunity for dialogue to resume towards a political settlement. [ Athens News Agency - www.ana.gr - March 30, 1999 ]
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