ABSTRACT: There is a barely hidden plan of the chancelleries of the Europe of the Twelve that tends to charge the armies with the task of restoring "order" in the countries of the former communist block. Hence the attitude of "neutrality" and therefore of fundamental complicity held by the "E.C. Europe", first with the authors of the Soviet coup and then faced to the invasion of the Croatian Republic on the part of the federal army ordered by Serbia. It is time for Italy to acknowledge the dissolution of Yugoslavia, also from a formal point of view, and as a consequence to recognize the Republics of Croatia and Slovenia at once, as Denmark unhesitatingly did with the three Baltic republics, and recall the ambassadors accredited in Belgrade.

(IL GIORNO, Saturday 28 September 1991)

For those who want to interpret them, the events of Rumania are clear: a plan is under way to make the army intervene and "guarantee" democracy. It is the same, barely hidden plan of the chancelleries of the so-called Europe of the Twelve, which is carrying out an irresponsible, sclerotic and anti-E.C. foreign policy in all parts of the world. With such complicity and such support, "order" can reign once again in those parts of the world in which the collapse of communism has caused a more or less democratic "disorder". The events of "Yugoslavia" are equally self-explanatory. Thanks also to a massive and urgent (official) support on the part of Moscow, the Yugoslav army has been able to successfully carry out a "coup", formally denounced both by the President of the federal Republic and by the Premier Markovic, and has occupied over one fourth of the Republic of Croatia on behalf of Serbia, and is preparing to continue and extend the war and the fascist-communist oppression of the Albanian population of Koso

vo.

The "E.C. Europe", whose policies are a constant source of shame, has held the same attitude of "neutrality" vis-à-vis Yugoslavia, of respect of an accomplished fact, which it had been only too anxious to proclaim in Rome, Paris and Brussels in favour of the authors of the Soviet coup last August.

The neutrality which seems to animate the European position at the peace conference of The Hague presided by Tory Lord Carrington (and in the European Parliament it is precisely among the British Tories and palaeocommunists that the pro-Serbia lobby was able to act in the open, whereas the Socialist International does it with the bureaucratic and apolitical style and nature which are typical of it) is a "neutrality" between assailant and assailed part, between Milosevic's fascism-Bolshevism and the democratic reality and policy of Slovenia and Croatia.

It is in the name of a "political cooperation" in the E.C. that Italy states it cannot "as yet" recognize reality, that is, the independence of Slovenia and Croatia, and the constitutional, formal and factual end of Yugoslavia.

If, therefore, the E.C. does not recognize the republics, neither does Italy. This proclaimed "political cooperation" is nothing but the alibi for a vile policy, which is increasingly attentive and respectful of the winning side, of those who detain the power and guarantee that order which can no longer be ensured by the Soviet Union. It is an Italian alibi, because "political cooperation" no longer exists except as a subordination to the palaeonational policies of the three "leaders" of Paris, London and Berlin.

If the three republics have been recognized, as they are today by everyone, it is because Denmark first recognized them, alone and disregarding any "political cooperation" and on the contrary acting against it. With the result that on the following day the rest of the "Twelve", including London, Paris, Bonn and Rome, contributed to the final solution of the affair with the USSR. Conforming to the European public opinion and not just to the Italian one - which is treated anti-democratically, for torbid and often unavowed reasons, just as the European parliament is by the other E.C. institutions and by most national Governments - Italy should immediately recognize the two democratic and European Republics by choice and by Constitution well before October 7.

Moreover, it is necessary to acknowledge that the oppression of the Albanian population of Kosovo, the expansionist war under way, the anticonstitutional coup which has been carried out (it is with the heads of the army of the coup that Croatia and Slovenia should negotiate with today), the proclaimed independence of the other republics make Yugoslavia into a dead reality, also from a formal point of view. Our ambassadors should therefore be recalled, unless we want to accredit them to the Serbian Republic, whereas the problem of the "Yugoslav" seat should be immediately submitted to the U.N. This is necessary also for the freedom of the Serbians, who are the greatest victims of oppression, reduced as they are to obedience, silence or to being considered traitors of their country and race.

The destinies of Rumania and of the USSR will also be decided in Belgrade - and here in Europe and in Rome. It is a sort of general rehearsal of that which Shevardnaze continues to fear for Moscow.

This is why the Radical Party, through its parliamentarians in the European and Italian Parliament, in the parliaments of the USSR and of several of its republics, of Czechoslovakia and Rumania, will submit a formal request in these hours, for the immediate recognition of the new republics of ex-Yugoslavia.

This is also why, after many years, I am once again carrying out a fast, as I am more and more firmly convinced that nonviolence and democracy versus violence and party power represent fundamental conditions for the right to life and the life of rights.