KOSOVO: DEMACI IS WRONG, THE PROBLEM IS NOT HILL BUT MILOSEBROOKE

Declaration of Olivier Dupuis, Secretary of the Radical Party and MEP

Brussels, 10 December 1998. "The Western approach - the American locomotive and the European wagons - towards Kosova resembles more and more the worst moments of the Sarajevo crises. Like then there are no aggressors or victims. Like then they are more concerned about the survival of the national-communist regime of Belgrade, guarantor of the stability of the region. After the Dayton agreement, which set the partition of Bosnia and the layout of the project of a Greater Serbia. The Milosevic-Holbrooke duo wants to impose to the 2 millions Kosovars (and to the international community) an accord within the legal and political framework of a regime that has not only deprived ethnic Albanians of all their rights for 10 years, a regime that has also carried out a "police operation" causing the death of 1,200 people, the arrest and torture of thousands of others, exile, diseases, and the loss of property for other 300,000 individuals. In this context - the persistence of a national-communist regime in Belgrade - t

o base the solution of the question implying that Kosova is a part of Yugoslavia, is a demonstration of arrogance and political irresponsibility. It also means not to solve the real problems (democracy and freedom for Kosovars and Serbs) but only - as at Dayton - to satisfy the projects and the deliriums of President Milosevic and the egomaniac desires of Holbrooke. Only the overthrowing of the national-communist regime of Belgrade and the establishment of democracy in Yugoslavia can allow Serbs and Kossovars to find a solution that can make them live in the same country. But rebus sic stantibus, Milosebrooke proposals cannot but appear to Kossovars and Serbians as a condemnation to continue to live together under a crazy and bloody regime."

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