reported an unusually high rate of leukemia and other cancers in the european veterans who had served in kossovo talian french spanish and others the term balkan syndrome was coined several organizations began to call for a ban on the us. nato had to call a meeting of the atlantic council to appease its allies once again the message was contradictory they had knowledge the risks but downplayed them. we're confident that there is little risk for the you munitions but we refuse to be complacent. the existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from defeated uranium is both very limited and limited to very specific circumstances but nature was doing everything it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available they will have encountered on experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome you have just pledged most need to authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the so

our un study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo in the places where d'you minissha is were used. in the world health organization has also concluded that the risk posed by g. weapons to the health of troops and civilians is relatively low but both reports concluded that more research was needed and that proportionally measures should be taken when using these weapons these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears if it was a matter that this was confined to the military and those people in a conflict that would be a different matter but the point is that this material is likely to affect this because uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith laumer such as a british scientist specializing in radiation and the environment he was advisor to the world health organization that a stark wrote a report highly critical of dehumanisation the w.h.o. rejected his findings and barbara starr claims they caved in under political pressure there's a geneva convention which says that all weapons of war must not adversely affect the heal