LONDON, Jan 29: Britain and France, along with their NATO partners, are willing to consider all forms of military action `including the dispatch of ground forces' in Kosovo, Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said on Thursday.The statement, released by Blair's office and that of French President Jacques Chirac in Paris while the pair had dinner at Downing Street, came ahead of a Contact Group meeting on Friday.It continued: ``If an early political agreement proves impossible, the two leaders believe that all options will need to be considered.'' A Foreign Office spokesman said later that London was awaiting the outcome of Friday's Contact Group meeting in the capital before taking any decision on sending in ground troops. ``There is no change in our position,'' he said. ``We have to wait until after the Contact Group meeting.'' Later Pleurat Sejdiu, of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), fighting for the independence of the mainly Albanian-populated province from the Serb-dominated Yugoslav government,said the Contact Group was only now concluding ``what we were repeatedly saying from the beginning''. ``That the day will come when NATO has to intervene to push the Serbs on to the Table,'' he told the BBC.``Force must be used and will be used because the Serbian regime will not ever understand some kind of self-government, even the smallest a mount, of Albanians in Kosovo.''He added Belgrade had failed to honour previous agreements on troop withdrawals and ending attacks inside Kosovo, and until they did the KLA would not negotiate. But Milisav Paic, deputy ambassador at the Yugoslav embassy in London, said: ``We think these (NATO) threats are serious. But we believe there cannot be any kind of solution which might be imposed by the use of force.''``The only possible way is negotiations. We are quite willing to start these talks with representatives of the Albanian minority living in Kosovo.'' But he did not include the KLA saying: ``The KLA is a terrorist organisation.''
