In agreement with the following: the first point of 1199 UN Resolution
of October 24, 1998, the October 3, 1998, UN recommendation and the
recommendation of the Group of Contact of October 10, 1998, with
understanding of the article 36 of 1907 Hague Regulations on war law and
behavior, the 1929 and 1949 Geneva Conventions, the conclusions of the
UN Assembly in 1952, and the appeal by the NATO committee, the General
Headquarters of Kosova Liberation Army informs all of the military
powers in Kosova, on October 10, 1998, of the following:
RESTRAINT FROM ALL MILITARY ACTIONS
I. General Headquarters of Kosova Liberation Army have pledged that as
long as the international bodies responsible for international
collective security, such as UN, SC, NATO, Contact Group, and the
American diplomatic mediators actively work toward finding a right
solution for the political status of Republic of Kosova, they will
refrain from taking any military actions against the Serb aggressor and
its forces.
II. This restraint has to do with respecting the first point of the 1199
S.C of UN Resolution and allowing way for a correct solving of the
political status of Republic of Kosova through political means.
III. In agreement with article 20 of the Hague Conventions of 1907,
article 75 of Geneva Conventions of 1929, article 118, 122 and 126 of
the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and the conclusions of the General
Assembly of UN of 1952, General Headquarters of KLA AUTHORIZE Mr. Adem
Demaci , in cooperation with the International Red Cross, to mediate
with the other side the release of all war hostages, wounded, prisoners
and the ones kidnapped for allegedly being members of KLA, and a
permission for a safe return for all of those forced to leave Kosova.
IV. The restraint will be valid as long as the other side refrains from
making any military attacks on the KLA forces or innocent civilians.
The restraint will be strictly obeyed by the members of KLA, respecting
all of the laws and regulations of war, to the point where they have to
act on self-defense.
V. In agreement with Article 40 of Hague regulations, the side that
violates this restraint from any military actions will be considered as
an aggressor.
VI. KLA will consider its resistance finished if there is a solution for
the political status of Kosova found in agreement with the national
expressed desire in the 1991 Referendum.
The General Political Representative of KLA, Mr. Adem Demaci, is
authorized to oversee the restraint and contact the International Red
Cross, as well as the other side, and to inform the Security Council of
UN, UN, NATO, the member countries of the Contact Group, The Hague
Tribune Court and the Kosovar and world masses of this decision.
COMMUNIQUE Nr.2
After a long and serious contemplation of the sincere situation and
goals of the American diplomacy and of the Contact Group, the office of
the General Political Representative of KLA, for the local and
international masses, when considering the latest version of the
Project-Agreement for a solution to Kosova issue:
CONCLUDES
That the presented Project-Agreement has a few substantial weaknesses:
1. The validity of any agreement in the international level disappears
if the act of settling down the belligerent situation between two sides
with an international mediator does not include citations from
international acts for judicial backup and security. The disagreement
in the SC of UN Resolution on the political status of Kosova endangers
peace and security in the region and beyond. As a result of this, in
agreement with Article 35, paragraph 2 of the UN Card, Great Britain has
required from the Security Council of the United Nations (since Serbia
and Kosova are not and have never been a subjective factor in the
international scene or UN)-taking under consideration that the adoption
procedures, for formulation of this of this agreement have been achieved
by both sides-to base this agreement on Article 36, paragraph 2 of the
UN Card, with the Security Council of UN guaranteeing its success.
2. The subjectivity of the Kosovar side is not identified in any
dispositions or ways even though the disagreements have political
character in the issue of the political status. Not recognizing
Republic of Kosova as an equal part of this Project-Agreement, which is
a collusively normative conflict, is a political agreement whose primary
goals are to avoid inter-country conflict, and the elimination of the
necessity for Kosova with its own borders, subjectivity, and elements of
a country and sovereignty.
3. Justification for the agreement that prejudges the political status
of Kosova does not stand because anybody who knows the Serb constitution
and laws, as far as not recognizing Kosova goes and human rights and
liberties (except a few basic ones from the corpus of freedoms and
rights), does not differ with the regional regulation of Nish,
Kragujevac, etc. Therefore, if Kosova is not a figment of imagination
then is just another district in Serbia.
4. If the Project-Agreement does not aim at prejudging a political
status, then how was it able to earlier determine the destiny of
Albanians as an ethnic group? An ethnic group that represents the
defense of national minority by the universal human rights in accordance
with the international right, and other multinational and international
security institutions that does not have a right for independence.
These are also known as Reservations with specific rights - except those
for a political status. Therefore, the Kosova as an autonomous province
within Serbia is pre-assumed from the beginning. The composers of this
Project-Agreement are the same ones from the Dayton Agreement in
December of 1995. They could not find any circumstances under which the
Serbs and Croats in Bosnia would be named as ethnic groups, but they
found enough contingencies and judicial space to form states with
contractual sovereignty.
5. Appointing no judicial security means to carry out this
internationally characterized act and especially not appointing a dead
line for the acceptance of the requests in the Project-Agreement, makes
this agreement worthless.
6. Avoiding the generation of a deadline for this Project-Agreement and
the declaring of the will of Kosova people for the future political
status, in accordance with international mechanisms, it represents a
judicial and political stunt to disallow this possibility and with hopes
that this "temporary solution" will become a permanent one!
7. Considering all these weaknesses and legitimate complaints, KLA,
refuses to accept this Project-Agreement, and does not embrace, in any
way, this temporary solution that with elimination of the borders and
sovereignty of Republic of Kosova directly expunges KLA as a realistic
protective force of sovereignty.
General Political Representative of KLA
Adem Demaci