The Chamber,

considering that

it is necessary to acknowledge that, according to all parameters of international and domestic law, the Yugoslav federal institutions have lost any foundation of legality;

it is necessary to denounce the falsehood according to which the conflict under way in Croatia is a civil war, and not an international conflict triggered by an aggression;

it is necessary to draw all due consequences from the statement of the President of the Federal Republic and of the federal Prime Minister, according to whom the army is operating outside of and in contrast with the orders of the legitimate authorities, and that therefore the military operations under way are to be considered in all respects as crimes;

it is necessary to denounce the decision of part of the federal Presidency to assume the powers of Parliament and to proclaim the state of emergency as a de facto coup d'état;

it is necessary to denounce the systematic and bloody oppression of the Albanian population and the occupation of Kosovo, and the complete violation of the constitutional norms that grant political and administrative independence to that region;

it is necessary to denounce the irresponsible blindness of the international community generally and of the E.C. particularly as regards the war of aggression under way in Croatia and the persecution of the population of Kosovo;

it is necessary to immediately recognize the independent republics and regions of ex Yugoslavia as subjects of international law, as the necessary premise for an effective peace initiative in the region, in cases ratified by democratic and constitutional procedures;

it is necessary for the U.N. Security Council to take immediate steps regarding the aggression of the Republic of Croatia and of the occupation of its territory, with the same urgency and determination used for the Gulf War;

binds the government to adopt all appropriate initiatives

a) to urge the recognition of the republics of ex Yugoslavia which have democratically proclaimed their independence, and to ensure the possibility for the the other independent regions to do the same, and the reinstatement of legality in Kosovo;

b) to urge the E.C. member states to keep faith to the commitments taken and therefore immediately establish the deadline by which they will recall their ambassadors from Belgrade, will enact embargo measures against Serbia and interdict Serbia from the Croatian and Slovenian air space if the assailing army does not withdraw from Croatia;

c) to urge the U.N. Security Council to take steps, in conformity with articles 41 and 42 of the Charter, as regards the serious threat to security and peace represented by the aggression under way in Croatia and by the persecution and oppression of the population of Kosovo;

d) to urge the E.C., also on the basis of association agreements with the independent republics and regions of ex Yugoslavia, to offer a supranational guarantee for the rights of the national, ethnic and religious minorities within each of these.

Roberto Cicciomessere

Emma Bonino

Giuseppe Calderisi

Giovanni Negri

Alessandro Tessari

Bruno Zevi