Lisbon – East Timor resistance spokesman Jose Ramos Horta has announced his support for the NATO military intervention in Yugoslavia and blamed the current situation on the intransigence of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

"When all diplomatic efforts, dialog and other means of pressure such as economic sanctions, are unable to change the behavior of a tyrant, then the use of force becomes inevitable", Ramos Horta stated in a text released Wednesday.

The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate adds that the NATO operation is "one of the few moments since the Second World War that a Western military alliance has decided to fight for a small nation for reasons that are merely humanitarian".