Silajdzic: "We shall toast after present fascism is beaten"

Sarajevo, 27 September (ARTA) 2115CET

"We have gathered here today, at a time when Kosova is engulfed with the smell of gunpowder. Houses are being burned, villages are being shelled, women are being raped, old people and children are being massacred, just as, not a long time ago, in Bosnia", said the co-Chairman of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic, at a press conference, held after result of general elections were published.

"Albanians are being killed and exterminated on their door-step. They are being killed, for they are a native people, among the oldest in Europe, and among the most civilized. They are being killed by the same executioners, who kill for a failed policy, denounced by the international community, which as on our case, is reacting languidly, framing the measures of punishment towards the aggressor", Silajdzic said and added: "400 thousand Albanians in Kosova are out in the cold, with no roof over their head".

"Over 100.000 ancestors of the ancient Illyrians, have taken to foreign countries. Over 12.000 have found shelter in this country, in circumstances that we live under. But, no matter the difficulties we have here in Bosnia, we should act with acceptance and solidarity, which is a virtue of Albanians".

"We shall not toast to victory now. We shall leave it to better days when we have beaten the present fascism".

KOSOVA (political parties Prishtina)

Albanian political subject: "Serb document extraordinarily faint, an evidence of poverty of Serb hegemony"

Prishtina, 27 September (ARTA) 1830CET --

The Serb Government's conclusions about Kosova, sent for approval to the Assembly of Serbia, were evaluated by the Kosova Albanian political subjects as "apparent evidence of the creative and intellectual destitution of the Serb hegemony", as a "propagandistic pamphlet" and as a declaration which "gives no indication for a serious dialogue, but on the contrary, it forecasts new Albanian graves".

According to the Chief of the Albanian negotiating group, Fehmi Agani, "The document of the Serb government is an extraordinarily faint document and it is an apparent evidence of the intellectual and creative destitution of the Serbhegemony". He adds further that "The document starts with extolling the violence and the occupation of Kosova, it refers to Kosova as a territory which was occupied once upon a time, and which was re-occupied these days again.

"According to it the solution of the problem relies on these basis", Agani says.

"The document does not see the issue of Kosova as a problem at all, and accordingly it does not provide any solution for it".

In Aganis view the solution which is offered "comes with some verbal concessions which could be made to Albanians, although Serbia is very thrifty even in verbal concessions", says Agani.

"The value of this document is that, it clearly indicates where is the genuine source and the real reason why the dialogue is not being established, and why the peaceful solution of the Kosova problem does not have perspective".

Concerning evaluations that the offer of the Serb Government is similar to the proposal of Ambassador Christopher Hill, Agani claimed that, "These are only mechanical comparisons".

"The largest part of the document has to deal with the military operations and with the occupation of Kosova. It does not have anything in common with the proposal of Mr. OBrian, which is wrongly being interpreted as an American proposal. In fact it (O'Brians document) is an initial idea or working document of one of the participants, in the search for a solution for Kosova", he explained.

Agani claimed that, the document proposed by the Americans is unacceptable both for the members of the commission and for the higher institutions, as well as for the entire Albanian public opinion.

"Mr. O'Brian has comprehended from our first reactions that this document cannot be passed like that, that it is just a working version which needs to be essentially improved. Namely, a new document is requested. This is our attitude and I believe that it will be adopted", claimed Agani.

Mehmet Hajrizi, the General Secretary of the Albanian democratic Movement (LDSH) thinks that, the 15 points of the Serb Government conclusions, about the situation of social and economic insurance in Kosova are "nothing more than a summary of the everyday propaganda of Belgrade regime about Kosova and its issue".

Hajrizi claims that "The policy of the Serb regime which is already well-known about its tragic approach towards Kosova, is carefully kept untouchable in these conclusions" about the solution of Kosova problem.

"The solution of the Kosova problem in those conclusions is settled in conformity with the current Constitution of Serbia,aiming to keep steady or eternally the colonial occupation of Kosova by Belgrade".

"According to these standards, the Kosova Albanian people will be given the right to speak in their language, to keep their tradition, to write in their alphabet, and to cultivate their culture", claimed Hajrizi.

"It seems that, the Serb regime has calculated that it could subjugate and humiliate the Albanian nation after applying the ongoing brutal aggression against it", he evaluates.

"The Kosova Albanians are determined not to accept the Serb occupation and they will continue their attempts to fulfill their legitimate rights and aspirations", claimed at the end the LDSH Secretary General.

"None of the projects which were published or undertaken so far by the Serb side, were serious enough and none of them forecast welfare in the Balkans", claims Afrim Morina the vice president of UNIKOMB (Party of the National Unification).

"This last declaration, which is expected to be approved in the Parliament (and which will be approved for sure in the Serb Parliament), does not give any indication for a serious dialogue, but on the contrary it forecasts more Albanian graves. It provides further slavery for the Albanians and it does not give a damn about the threats of the International Community which seem to be more serious this time compared to the previous ones".

However, according to Morina "The Serbs have found space for such a project, based on the project of the Albanian G-5 group, which asks for a third republic within Serbia This would settled by a referendum. But, its level, nor other points of the referendum are known precisely".

So "they are aware about this, and accordingly, they made a project similar with the one of Mr. Hill. This indicates that Mr. Hill's project was "born" in the Belgrade cabinets, although it is a more moderated project than the Serb one".

According to Morina, when we compare the Albanian and the Serb project, than a "modus vivendi which means an autonomy could be found.

The Albanians will not accept that, because they have decided to fight until the ultimate liberation of the fatherland. They will never accept such projects which imply a coexistence with Belgrade neither if those projects are made by Albanians or Serbs, nor by Hill".

The president of the Union of Kosova Trade Unions, Hajrullah Gorani, estimates that the Serb proposal for an alleged solution of the Kosova problem is just a "propagandistic pamphlet, which does not have any platform and does not lead to any solution".

"This is the worst standpoint which was ever expressed", he claimed adding further that,"this indicates a characteristic, a nationalist obsession, which has overwhelmed all the Serb political parties either ruling or in opposition".